skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because Azure is a poor service with mediocre support.

My anecdotal experience: I spent a couple of weeks (!) setting up our environment (Bitbucket, Django, Ubuntu, Dockerized) on Azure App Service and Azure Pipelines. Their documentation was incomplete, out-of-date and MS support staff struggled to help if you didn't have a Windows machine (their RDP software doesn't support Linux, Skype for Business doesn't support Linux and normal Skype for Linux doesn't support screen sharing).

Little things like trying to SSH into any machine so that you can execute commands on your docker container (for, say, database migrations or to check logs) is almost impossible. If it wasn't for the help of a lot of people on #docker in Freenode I would probably still be working on it.

I had to use Google Hangouts with a Microsoft support person's personal gmail account, while he was connected over VPN (since he was based in Shanghai), so I could show my issue. The support person was extremely pleasant to deal with and understanding, though, and he went above and beyond to help get my issue resolved even though it turned out to not be from his department.

However, after getting set up, I noticed I was getting 12 second (!) responses from an API I had written just to retrieve a logged-in user's first name, last name and email in JSON. This API resolves locally in 20ms - including layers of authentication.

This turned out to be a known issue when running a managed "Azure Database for PostgreSQL" service and was common on MS support forums.

After reaching out to Microsoft support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, their response was this, copy-and-pasted:

> As you are currently using Basic Tier (2 vCores, 51200MB), the bad performance is expected.

> When comparing with the performance in your VM, the on-prem is supposed to be better than cloud even within the same hardware environment.

> Please give it a test in higher tier and configure it with a compatible settings compared with your VM. In the meanwhile, you can monitor the slow queries via Query Performance Insight to find out what queries were running at a long time when those API were called.

> Pricing tier information can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/concepts-p... .

...they tried to upsell me on the higher tier database 3 times in that email chain, believing that this level of performance was acceptable for my database tier.

Of course the next tier up from the $60/month that I was on was $160/month, and since we only have maybe two concurrent users at most it didn't make sense to triple our costs just to avoid 12 second database calls.

I moved the entire service to AWS last week. The set up was painless and swift. Using equivalently priced services, the API now resolves in 50ms.

I don't think I'll ever go back. Not even for free.
i think a more productive step in this instance would have been cutting down on the toxic femininity of character assassination and gossip rag bullying
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When anyone can sequence their DNA at home I expect this to change.
Not sure what's up with the downvotes here, since this is objectively correct.

A Chinese friend of mine loves to regale listeners with tales of eating things consider outre even by famously expansive Cantonese standards (live mice etc), but he considers the idea of eating rotten, moldy cow lactations (blue cheese) to be beyond the pale.
"Live or die" as in whether the company survives. They're not talking about clients literally killing them. They're saying the company has survived all these years in the free-market environment because of their high ethical standards.
The US also takes DNA and prints from arrestees and maintains it in a federal database (CODIS for DNA, FBI for prints).
I see a couple take-aways here. The first is that it hardly matters what the "real story" is (about an endeavor/person/etc), it's what the media reports the story as being --- and that's the story that is going to cause the most outrage/grief, and sell the most advertisements. So if the story is outrageous on the face of it, that story is most likely not the "real story".

The other is that if you're going to say/do anything substantial (these days/online), you're going to need very thick skin to withstand the barrage of verbal and textual hate that will be directed at you by "the internet".
Is there any publication of similar things that were brought up during these negotiations?

I started hosting some sites in Canada some time ago, and like what the privacy and similar policies are of this datacenter.

I was about to deploy more sites to the same center when I saw an article about some of the initial negotiations. I realized that in an effort to appease one set of companies or another group of people with whatever agendas, we may see the Canada gov change restrictions in certain ways making privacy and other things less protected.

So I started looking at other places and have yet to see anything about any final details on the agreements and attempted policy changes.

If anyone knows of some good resources to get a grip on this please share.
The logo was translucent and also allowed light in from the back. There was a logo-shaped burn issue but it was caused by ambient light shining through the logo. At least that's how I understood it.

Edit: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3476393
He's absolutely not wrong.
That's an interesting point. I'd be really interested in some advice on how to prevent it. Currently with our project Hot Tips form PMs for PMs https://www.jamlondon.io/tips/ we do manual curation (people submit text, or I reach out to specific experts) and then it goes through approval/editing process. It'd be cool to be able to automate it though.
Cannibals? You might want to edit that.
A lot of fairly dry computer books have touching, emotional, wonderful introductions. Shaw's prefaces are usually longer and more interesting than the plays they precede. G.K. Chesterton wrote a book on Shaw, a close friend, to which this was the entire introduction:

MOST people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him.

G. K. C.

My favourite preface is to Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, which is savagely funny, categorizing the types of critic and introducing art for art's sake to combat the 'utilitarian critic' who complains of art not being useful.
Speaking of Google Maps location tracking, are there alternatives (for iOS) that can let me track myself, without putting all the location data in the cloud?

I want to disable Google's location tracking, but I want to know where I've been so that I can go back and recall. A sort of location diary.

The only app I know about is Life Cycle, which is quite good, but it doesn't quite have the granularity I want.
No it isn't normal. It also isn't common. Gun homicides don't even crack the top 10 causes of death in America, yet the BBC chooses to devote a disproportionate amount of their US front page to it. They certainly front-page shootings more than heart disease, that's the definition of bias.

Right or wrong, noble intentions or not, it's not an accurate portrayal of America as a whole on the part of the BBC. If CNN ran a front page column every time someone in the UK died of alcohol poisoning, would you consider that unbiased coverage of the UK?
Haha it is awesome even using Flask ahaha
The "learn to code" drama is priceless coming from these same journalists who viscously harped the same line to miners and blue-collar workers who lost their jobs in the midwest.

Hope they like the taste of that medicine. It goes down super smooth and just what the doctor ordered!
I totally understand what you’re saying, but at what point does it become “putting money under your mattress” versus using a bank?

Yes a major outage that’s no fault of my own could take down my site - and that isn’t great. On the other hand, wouldn’t you trust them more than yourself? Just like you trust a bank more than yourself to keep your money safe? I’m sure the average major cloud service has far better uptime than the average on prem solution. At what point does it become hubris to spin up your own on prem solution?
With Pcr you’d only need a very small sample to produce enough DNA to smother a crime scene in “evidence”
Founders retired and replaced themselves with a smooth Indian bullshitter. Much like Gundotra, this one will have to go soon.
Overcast is written by one guy - Marco Arment. He was the first developer for Tumbler and was over development for a little while. He went on to create Instapaper and sold it and Overcast was his second major project.

He also has a few podcasts, but my favorite is Accidental Tech Podcast. He cohosts it with John Siracusa - the guy who wrote the book size overviews of the first 10 versions of iOS 10 for Engadget - and Casey Liss.
Looks like "new" Microsoft is not aggressively going after that pie.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-may-relinquishing-b...
Thank you for the link.

Per that document, page 29, there are ~370k jobs in solar, yes. But there are ~160k jobs in coal, ~360k jobs in natural gas, and ~515k jobs in oil. Plus the ~36k jobs in "advanced gas", whatever that is.

Unless you were talking about just the "electric power generation" column?
>I will resist the urge to post that old Benjamin Franklin quote again.

Good, because like everyone else who does, you'd probably misrepresent what he actually meant by it.
I don’t think Lyft is disputing some form of incentive to increase utilization. I think Lyft is asking a fair question: what’s the point of an incentive for utilization?

If the goal is to better society, in this case to better NYC congestion, then wouldn’t it make sense to incentivize companies to meet a single standardized level of utilization that is related to traffic patterns and congestion analysis?

In what way is a custom utilization rate based price good for the city? It would seem to build in a margin advantage to which ever company is already the volume leader, even if that company’s actual utilization in real terms is not at a level that meets society’s goals.

It feels honestly very much like Uber pulled strings for regulatory capture.
I just picked up the latest MacBook Air. I can literally see the display ribbon cables in the hinge area. They do not appear to be under as much tension as the Pro in the iFixit video, but I wonder if my Air will exhibit the same issue at 366 days after purchase...
That is a completely absurd proposition and ignores the sheer amount of work that goes into making tv shows and the like. They have no obligation to do anything for anyone. The copyrights will expire anyway at some point in the future.
Too true. On the other hand, you can start out as an outsider, and end up an insider[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer
If the DNA was gathered for one specific purpose like this and not kept on file, I think that's pretty unobjectionable. As soon as it's on file in a database, though, there's potential for uses further and further removed from those envisioned by the owners when they gave the samples.
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Every time I get a Spanish-language ad on Spotify or YouTube, I take solace in the fact that the algorithms have not yet won.
That's why laws are amended and why regulations and the like exist.

That is parallel to a company deciding to list or not list a tv show in their catalogue.
Man, how is it defensible that they delete forum posts talking about the issue? Same with denying keyboardgate, this firmly puts their products in my do-not-buy list, because they'll even deny being terrible product engineers when their products break and turn your money to paperweight.
May be the non-technical manager thing works for big companies but it might not be the case with the rest.

The problem i have seen with most non-technical managers is that they tend to crave for recognition from the tech people they manage and somehow think they can prove their worth by micro managing.

Better to have a technical manager who has better people management skills.
ANd what better what to obfuscate actual company footing - and real power than to prevent people from looking at, analyzing or even knowing what level of error margins you're capable of floating in a downturn.

What better way to additionally hedge against that than to have a many-billion-dollar contract for hosting with the government.
Which is still completely different from being purged.

Not having access to a private company's catalogue is a different issue altogether.
I don't know if I am addressing your questions, but FWIW I am impatient when I encounter this blindness in other citizens of USA, that our military is only over there trying to stop violent people who do bad things.

I am far more intelligent than such people, and so I am obliged to show them the logical fallscy of their bias.
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yeah, literally as I was writing the first sentence, I realized how it reinforces the very self-serving bias that you seem to be confronting.

Despite gross miscalculation on the part of USA intelligence and military strategists, Soviet leaders did not issue a decapitation strike in late summer of 1983. I am sure they thought our President and military leaders to be crazy to wish for such a thing.

High-school and college students, we felt every bit as confused by all this. Madness. Every teenager must beleive at some point that their elders are completely insane...

A couple of years later, I had two classmates from the USSR, the only two such students in the United States at the time.

Anyway. The bias: "We are the Good Guys!" -- yeah that seems to have gotten worse, if anything. President W Bush asking Sec of State Colin Powell to systematically lie to the UN in order to drag them to war with Iraq, I was in Germany that week, and most people would ask me WTF your country so crazy and I would say actually yes i try to make noise to protest this myself, don't give up on us, it will get better...

And here we are. My kids think this is all normal.
There is one area where Satya is better leadership-wise. The success of Microsoft in the long term ultimately depends on its ability to run a good engineering organization. Everyone at MS knew Ballmer was never an engineer, so he had very little respect from the engineering rank and file. His brash, business oriented personality and the lack of "filter" did not help matters. While it is true that customers largely don't give a shit who runs Microsoft as long as it's run reasonably well, Microsoft employees (and prospective employees) do care, and the ability to attract and retain them is the cornerstone of Microsoft's continued success.

I saw a post in another thread that suggested that former enlisted men do better as officers than people who were never soldiers. The same is true here in terms of people leadership, if not the vision.
What you say is true for the default, but form controls have additional UA styles applied to them that can override the default.

Just like the default border style is "none", but that's not what form controls do.

But even past that point, this is the _ua_ default. A user can always have a user stylesheet that sets whatever colors the user wants (e.g. for accessibility reasons).

And not setting background without setting color and vice versa is standard best-practice web development advice and has been for 2 decades or so now.
High school senior here.

Just wanted to point out that while demonstrated interest is certainly a component in college admissions (like it or not), but varies from institution to institution on its importance.

Quick tip: if you're wondering whether a school actually considers demonstrated interest, you can Google up "[school] common data set" (without quotes). Look for Section C7, which indicates the relative weight of the various admissions factors. Just throwing it out there.
Wow, how have I never come across this site. What's your current strategy to encourage more meaningful conversations? I see in some threads you yourself add the first answer, I imagine to set the tone which I think is a good strategy.

What's the current main problem? Not enough answers, or lack of "quality" answers? How do you quantify/measure quality interaction?

Sorry for this inquisitive interview, it's just a very interesting topic. I'd like to automate my own processes, and haven't spoken to anyone managing a reddit-style forum before (apart form one guy who is creating one, but that's a dev more than a community person ^_^)
The underlying presumption here is that there is business value in establishing the genetic link.

If there's a real link between genetics and bankruptcy, maybe we should figure that shit out (with the idea of doing pleasant, voluntary, educational interventions). If there isn't and banks use the info anyway, someone will make a good business out of ignoring the information.

Which isn't to say I approve of the privacy destroying business model these companies are trying to establish.
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Public libraries still exist. You're referring to a private company's catalogue. Thus, this entire argument is really moot.

You can still go to libraries and obtain things, there is no purge or anything remotely even close happening. It's absurd to expect a private company to always offer content from now until the end of time.
and you know exactly where that organ is suppose to go
I'd say denunciation doesn't really go with commiseration. Denunciation shuts down the heart and commiseration comes from it.

Since you asked what to do instead, here's my take. When a hot, provocative topic flares up, most of us experience rapid reflexive reactions. Those are determined by how we already feel about the topic, i.e. which side we identify with. Discussion at this stage can't be anything new, because there isn't enough time for anything new to develop. All we can do is lash out, or ward off a perceived attack. This is predictable because fight-or-flight isn't about learning anything, it's about quickly dealing with threats. Any creativity at this stage goes into devising ways to hurt or block the other side.

What you can do instead is track those reflexive reactions in yourself and wait until they subside. Once they've subsided, it becomes possible to reflect, i.e. to take in new information, process it, and generate new responses. This is necessary for discussion that isn't predictable. It doesn't mean that you abandon your position, but it puts you in a more flexible place, better able to respond to the specifics of a story—i.e. things you haven't heard before—and better able to take in other views.

If you wait out the reflexive phase and get to the reflective phase, I think you'll find that your feelings get softer and your thoughts subtler. That's better for community. One can still disagree, but in a richer way and without feeling surrounded by enemies. When we do this, we exchange a lot more information, making discussion more interesting.

I've written a bunch about this in the past if anyone wants more:
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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It's the definition of selection bias. Gun homicides don't even crack the top 10 causes of death in the United States. But the BBC sure seems to front-page it more than heart disease.

Of course we all have our personal biases that can never be fully eliminated. But if you wanted to summarize the "current state of America" in one web page, statistically speaking some bastard shooting 3 bystanders in a botched robbery in a high crime area of East St. Louis (made up, but similar to stuff I've seen on the front page before) shouldn't even approach making the list.
Wait, our CEO has a vision?

Google company culture strongly erodes for two reasons:

De-facto retirement of Larry and Sergey and significant deepening of the reporting structure in the last few years (ie endless layers of middle management).

Both of these make consistent vision and values much harder to achieve. Recent Googlegeist just reflects that.
Which countries are you currently not flying into?

I ask because it would help us gauge how worried you are.
Thanks I am going to try this out
Glanced at boxed.com. Is there any way to see what they have without logging in?
Sundar is neither a founder nor has been a practicing Engineer. That's gotta hurt a company like Google which is mostly Engineering driven.

I guess Google at this point just keep churning through systems because Engineers are incentivized to show impact and rarely end up creating new good products.

Adding tons of new engineers is also probably hurting their overall quality and velocity.
This seems not to have been updated since July 2018, do you know what happened there?
If some future hell has us ruining people because of their DNA, it's not gonna be opt in. At least not for very long.
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I don't consider Tesla's autopilot to be "self-driving", but rather a limited driver aid.

Uber's crash is the only fatality I'm aware of in a truly self-driving car.
I mean, I completely agree with you. However, clearly a large part of society does not.

In order to fix this, we first need to address the sweeping issues within our justice system. Until then, the societal stigma game will continue at an unrelenting pace.
The drops in confidence are notable, but no net year-over-year difference in how many say they are leaving soon. That's interesting.
Why are Machine Learning projects so hard to manage?
The CloudFormation docs could definitely use some help. Often the examples they provide for Resources definitions are poor in content. Especially on some lesser known Resource types.
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Does the behaviour of one group somehow excuse the unacceptable behaviour of another? "Two wrongs don't make a right"?

(Not debating the "even-ness of wrongs", as that is a six-year-old's excuse for punching their sibling - "They started it!!")