skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main argument is that preventing a cyber Pearl Harbor is the wrong approach, however it offers little evidence that these styles of attacks have not been thwarted by the US’s approach to security policy.

It’s true that it underestimated social media trolling being a threat, but that’s orthogonal to whether or not effort should have been spent on stopping mass attacks.
Location: Amsterdam, Dublin, Paris, Berlin

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Python (incl. Numpy, Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow), SQL, Matlab/Octave, Prolog/Datalog

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Are those Amazon boxes really that wasteful? The alternative is probably people driving to various brick-and-mortar stores to buy these things. How much carbon emission was avoided by having these people buy from Amazon and have it all delivered on one truck?

Amazon doesn't just sell unnecessary trinkets, they sell everything, including everyday items you'd probably buy at Walmart/Target/the mall/etc.
Surely the paper is being harvested from sustainably managed tree farms? And surely if demand for said paper decreased, to the point where the tree farm wasn't profitable, said tree farm owner would raze the farm.
I was replying to a comment about the performance implications. If you decide on one method over another for performance reasons, I think it's an optimization.

> But is not more readable or even more maintainable.

Both are a matter of opinion and depend on the specific use-case.
Lest we be Russian here...

Собака, Собаки, Собаке, Собаку, Собакой, Собаке.

Собаки, Собак, Собакам, Собак, Собаками, Собаках.

That's, of course, the declension for female dog, which is distinct from male dog (and bitch).
Is it vague? I've always taken it to refer to a Kaldor-Hicks improvement, ie positive-sum, which is very well-defined (though of course, as with everything utility-related difficult to measure). It never even occurred to me that it would mean something else.
> if people don't value decentralization, there's not much need for them to use Bitcoin

Correct. That is the reason why most people don't need and will never need bitcoin.
Why isn't it equally bad for individual car buyers to pay more than the quantity car purchaser?

I fail to see how 25,000-40,000 high paying green jobs has any relevance to a crack hit.
Middle school was hard when I was a kid. Maybe it's harder now, but it wasn't a picnic 20 years ago either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type
Not sure if that's cheating - most of the suggestions on this page go from the original version of something. A kind of 'Ship of Theseus' problem - there's no natural or obvious definition of 'what counts as still the same thing' (except 'all parts exactly the same', I guess).

Wikipedia says grep is from 1974.

Cat, chmod, chown, comp, cp, date, df, du, ed, find, ln, ls, mailx, mkdir, mv, nm, od, pr, rm, rmdir, sort, strip, tty, unlink, wc, who, and write are from Version 1 Unix - Nov 1971!

The page for ed says: "It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed, in August 1969."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_commands
I'll take 2, 1 for each bathroom!
The tax incentives in the Amazon deal were almost entirely general incentives available to any company that invested in building or expanding in that location.
I'm confused who would keep coming back to check the progress meter for something of such little value and entertainment. This can't be a great marketing plan...
I'm generally opposed to tree removal everywhere- I guess that makes me a NIABY?

They cut down huge trees that provided tons of shade, build something new, plant a sapling, and call it even. I swear half the time the tree wasn't even in the way.

Anyway, this process also tends to repeat every twenty years or so as buildings get old, companies die, and style changes. So as soon as the tree is starting to hit it's stride, start all over.
I'm picturing one of the swimming pools shaped like Ultima-Thule where a roller skater can circle around a highpoint in the middle. The high point itself is unstable (like L1 L2 L3) but can be orbited with minor corrections.
I don't know the numbers exactly, but I can look at one in particular. Looks like an average of 7 videos a day at 30-60 minutes each and 60fps/1080p. That's for the last year or two at least, and overall they've been doing this for the last 8-9 years. Oh, and 4 weekly 3 hour vods exported to YouTube for archival, should be approximately the same quality settings.
Yes, they are, and that's why I responded by pointing out that consumers generally don't think about that factor, they only think about initial costs.
Marginally faster.... maybe. A forward pass on our two neural nets is less than 1.5 seconds. Is embarrassingly parallel, and has a much higher accuracy.

In this task accuracy is much much more important than computational efficiency, and given a forward pass is already quick (less than 2 seconds) why wouldn’t you use the superior method that always works?
Distinguishing genetically between the germlines of male monozygotic twins
Man, that gives me a lot of hope :)
I wish you had done that :) But in actuality I agree, I don't think it would have helped. In today's climate, disagreeing with your 'side' signals that you are on the other 'side' and makes you a bit more of a pariah each time.
That's not how it works.

If a new platform or system enables efficiency, then it creates value.

eg. Textile machinery. One machine can replace 100 of workers, (and it maybe a negatives for those 100 workers), but it can increase the output 10x, hence now more people can afford decent and warm clothes and fabric. The society wins on the long term.

If you are a long distance horse-carriage driver on the 19th century, a train being built on your route, it might suck for you as it may put you out of a job, but it is great for other thousands of people that can do the same trip at 1/10 of the time and 1/5th of the cost.

Historically, tractors, cars, trains etc are the same story.... "online" is just another version of it.

Also, I remember most folks here, there are actually countries in the world where these online efficiencies don't exist. (online shopping, and credit cards are not in mass use). Unless your local shop have something you need, you are out of luck, and yes, life is usually worse for everybody in said countries.
What do you mean "nothing inherent." Turnover is high because pay is low, so they need to constantly recruit new drivers via signup bonuses that pad their earnings for the first X months. If they fail to attract drivers then their growth will tank because supply will not keep up with demand. Support needs are naturally high and things go wrong all the time because you're dealing with real people in the physical world - it's not just some bugs here or there on a computer screen.

Companies like Lyft/Uber also have a much higher % of their full time staff in "ops" roles that are driver-facing (support, onboarding, offboarding, marketing, acquisition, etc.)

So long as their business is extracting maximal fees from each fare (thus keeping driver pay low) this cycle will go on as long as it can, and acquisition costs will continue to be high.
There are now attempts to create a "periodic table" for data structures. Such a table would allow you to predict variations of data structures and the behavior of such variants. You can see such an example in page 7 of the PDF below.

https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/files/stratos/files/periodi...
> “Indeed, while the focus of US debate is more frequently on fears of a so-called ‘digital Pearl Harbor’, the more serious problem may actually be a long-term economic ‘death by a thousand cuts’.”

There's so much to unpack here, from parallels with the Cold War and discovery of the uncrossable lines on the path to mutually assured destruction, to plausible deniability and its impact on the ability of democratic states to reasonably react to and apply cyber warfare techniques with sovereign state opponents. We've been wondering how the future of cyberwarfare will play out for so long, and we're just now perhaps realizing that we are the boiling frog.
1. The $27 billion number assumes no other development in the land under consideration, which just makes no sense. Nobody to my knowledge has calculated the opportunity cost, and therefore the net benefit, of this deal.

2. We don't know actual the distribution of salaries

3. Beyond the existing Future Engineer program, there is no specific commitment to training and hiring from within NYC (instead of importing talent), beyond a $5 million promise to do.. something? in the Queensbridge Houses.

4. We don't have any specific commitments to infrastructure development, again, beyond than a rough dollar amount.

5. Absolutely no word on handling externalities and market distortions imposed on housing markets in nearby neighborhoods.
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Location: Boulder / Denver, CO

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes, USA

Technologies: GraphQL, MySQL, C++ , Matlab, Mathematica, Python, Java, LateX, Atmega micro-controllers, Solidworks, Labview, NI Circuit Design Suite, Lathes, Mills, MIG/TIG welding, Pneumatic Tools, Micro Soldering, Nano-Optics, Spanish, Italian

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Even airing on television it was always "cinematic" 16:9 letterboxed to a 4:3 frame. (It really was interestingly ahead of its time on that.) Almost all of the shots were framed for 16:9. The DVDs that we did get releases of are proper 16:9, but because of the compositing for the 4:3 letterbox on TV the final resolution quality (which I call "no-worse-than-SD") on DVD is lower than the "low HD" potential of DVD in 480p/720p (as you might see in a film DVD). If they had the original SFX data they should have been able to simply recomposite at true 720p (or 1080p+ for Blu-Ray), and it is a shame that never happened per the original plan for the show.
That's the very mindset that prevents people from listening to other sides.

I don't think it is, and I have a personal example to "prove" my point.

Personally, I'm a pacifist. The average non-pacifist knows nothing about things like middle eastern geopolitics or nuclear weapons policy. If I want to understand these topics better in ways that challenge my pacifism, I should be reading/listening to experts like David Petraeus or John Bolton, not my mom. My mom shares a wordview with Petraeus and Bolton, but she's simply not as educated or influential as these people and so is unable to give me the best arguments to challenge my beliefs.
Back around 2009 or 2010, my roommates and I put a spare room in our Berkeley place on Airbnb. One night the Airbnb CEO booked the room and came over for the night. Sounds like the company had grown large enough that the co-founders had to move out of their apartment-turned-office. The CEO had not yet gotten his own apartment. He instead would stay each night in a different Airbnb rental and go back to SF in the morning for work.
I replaced a handwritten lexer of a proprietary PDF library with a re2c generated lexer. Besides fixing a bunch of dormant bugs, the resulting lexer was much faster.
Also the state of c++ std regex implementations is pretty sad (at least it was the last time I checked) and if you just need to match with a few compile-time-known regexes, re2c is there for you to solve the problems.
>That's the same reason billion dollar companies rent buildings instead of owning them.

If you've got billions then you can create your own limited liability company, poach a bit of top talent to fill it (overpay a bit if you must) and get a decent operation going. One that will jump when you say jump no matter what.

You can't replace AWS global scale, but for your rental example its definitely possible. Companies rent mostly due to tax & liability reasons from what I can tell.
Is your product available in Europe?
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Having lived through the 80s and 90s, this actually made me feel like today is better than before.
I've done that too. It's obviously easier than running an entire datacenter, but you still need to manage all the underlying services that you deliver to your development team. For example, running things like this on your own:

- storage clusters

- database clusters

- compute clusters

They are often very easy to setup, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong. And welcome to a stressful environment because if you can't figure it out and your people can't, well, your business just sits and burns while you do.

Even when AWS has a system-wide outage, it's nice to know that I don't have to be dealing with those underlying problems anymore and I know they have the best people working on them.

I cannot put into words, after operating MySQL clusters on my own and playing back transactions after failures, how nice it is to use AWS RDS and how it's just been zero problems. Zero. I sleep through automatic updates of our database system with RDS. I would have never done that on our own system.

And in most places, even "managed" leased hardware, you still will need to purchase/lease and run your own hardware firewalls and ddos mitigation. The datacenter might offer that protection "built-in" but you'll soon find the limitations of that offering when you face a substantial attack.
Who wants to bet some of those fantastic future products will be something along the lines of the "courageous" (and certainly bold and unexpected!) phones with no headphone jack?

I'm thinking maybe "no physical ports, wireless charging only" or "display that is not only bezel-less, but seamlessly wraps around the entire front and back surfaces of the phone (incidentally rendering it extremely slippery and completely impossible to service without destroying the screen)"
Ask HN: Broadband ISP friendly to self-hosting?
We have some web services that need to be self-hosted.

Most will be low traffic (hundreds of hits a day), but some (transient) services might see occasional bursts of up to a few hundred requests per minute.

Of course this will be kept totally separate from our main network. We were planning to purchase an LTE Modem which restricts our carrier options somewhat, but we're really open to exploring any carrier.

We're based in the US Southwest.

Has anyone had any positive experiences with an ISP on this front?
Your social links at the bottom don't point to anything.
They typically came with a <sarcasm> really cute and endearing </sarcasm> nick name like... Shorts.

Which you finally got over in college because you told your new friends the story and they laughed with you not at you. You became shorts by your own volition or dropped the moniker by the same means.

Edit: I was thinking high school above, but this story happened in elementary school.

Shit - I just remembered a story where I wore jeans for the first time to school on a day where we didn't have to wear our uniform. Previously I'd been sweats only. One of the girls I thought was cute made fun of my fashion sense and I ran out of the room crying. My grandma brought me some sweats and I went back to class.

I'm so glad there wasn't social media at the time. My memory of the event has faded drastically since then. I don't want to watch a video.

I guess this is kind of a counter argument to my own statement. I think the damage done would have been worse had there been video. I mean, this was obviously something that affected me and I consider myself a fairly well adjusted person. I wonder how a video of this I could have watched over and over and over again would have made me feel. It's hard to say.
I have some friends at AirBnB and I've heard it's much more modest, like $300/yr or something. My experience with these type of "dogfooding" credits is that companies are much more generous when they're smaller, so it could be that older employees get more than newer employees.
Drawing viewers' eyes to lucrative television timeslots for advertisers, selling tickets to local stadiums, and selling merchandise such as jerseys and figures.
You can get "add-on" bidets for ~$20 which just hook up to your existing water line.
Hope that I am not the only one confused about this: what does "decline" mean in the title?
The styling on this site is not very good. Is it that hard to make your mobile design expand outward?
Maybe you've just become more narcissistic :)
I found Robert Zubrin's case against LOP-G and in favor of a polar Moon base quite compelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buLzhqgQbpA

We have twenty years of experience with space stations but no experience with an extra-terrestrial base. Yes, Antarctica or Biosphere come close in some ways, and yes there's still plenty to learn from space habitation outside our magnetosphere, but to me that pales in comparison to the skills we'd learn establishing an actual human outpost on another celestial body!
Ask HN: AWS Instances Performance
Guys, do you check your AWS instances performance? ( cpu memory speeed/ hd speed )?
We are noticing an increase "bad instances" rate, about 8-12%. ( low cpu perfomance, or low disk speed )
We run about 150 new instances daily. ( for an hour )

It started about 10 days ago.

Seems like AWS is trying to reduce costs.
Linux' point is that there is hardly any developer-class ARM machines available, just RaspberryPi-class SBCs that use mobile SOCs with the performance of a 2012 vintage smartphone, nothing with the grunt of a Qualcomm Centriq or Cavium ThunderX.
Sounds like he added some sort of filter on top of regular voice to sound like synthetic. It seems better than any synth I've heard. It's definitely not Amiga's translator library. :)

Kinda weird and annoying.
I was actually playing with OpenBSD while stuck with the flu.

The good:

* ifconfig handling everything is brilliant. Having one tool to do networking, including WiFi(!) is great.

* the documentation is good. `man -k` normally gets you what you need.

* "base builds base" is pretty cool. I managed to rebuild base on a 1GHz single core BeagleBone Black in 48hrs.

the bad:

* Performance. I didn't think this would be a huge issue, however it's much slower than Trisquel, Parabola and GuixSD running GNOME on a x200. WiFi also seemed slow.

* IPv6 seemingly didn't work, even when verifying my ifconfig setup.

* Filesystem. I don't expect them to add ZFS due to code size and license, but still using UFS is laughable. UFS seemed to have I/O deficiencies which exacerbated the performance issue.

* the other documentation. While the manpages are good, information on the internet can be contradictory depending on it's age.

* No lsblk. This is more of a nitpick, but there is seemingly no way to get the right name for a disk without parsing through `dmesg` and guessing with partition number.

* pkg_add. It's extremely slow compared to apt even and separates it's parts out for seemingly no reason. Package management in general is somewhat awful.
I thought it was going to be about the Pixel phone and how it lasts or doesn't
"New deli shops would have opened up, creating more jobs."
I don't know enough to have any opinion on whether it's a good or bad thing but I can tell you new deli's don't open up in these situations. Local businesses close and corporations open up shop. Chipotles and Pret-A-Manger's will take their place. Maybe the deli guy can work for them.
If Lyft and Uber eventually have to raise prices to be similar to a regular taxi or even higher that could hurt them in a lot of markets.
No problem.

If I may suggest something if you have TPM version 2 use sha256 everywhere. And you can expand the PCRs list to cover more stuff. I'm using PCRs 0 to 8 (or 9? Can't check now) so any hardware configuration change is apparent during boot.

Another useful package is sbupdate [0] that not only signs kernel for SecureBoot but additionally makes it possible to boot the kernel directly from UEFI firmware bypassing the need for bootloader (be it grub or systemd boot). Once setup it just works!

[0]: https://github.com/andreyv/sbupdate
Oh god, that's terrifying. Then I'll see "Why haven't you read my message? Why are you ignoring me?" all the time :(.
FYI, Toyota bought a 500m stake in Uber. Some of these car companies just consider the internal combustion engine to be their core competency; then just outsource everything else. Usually to India, Japan or H1B bodyshops.
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Ah, so you like winner-take-all economics where those who are already winning have it easier to keep winning.

Gotcha.
The Finnish seems related to the idea that code is the most compressed form of information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension
Indeed. Which is a shame. Contrast it on the one side to DS9/Voyager as well which weren't even filmed on film and intentionally had no plans to preserve SFX work and will likely never see Blu-Ray releases. Contrast it on the other side to Star Trek TOS and TNG which were shot on film, and had a big enough audience to warrant rebuilding SFX almost from scratch to get a Blu-Ray release. B5 was primed to be right in the middle there and if not for the unfortunate losses of data, could have had a strong Blu-Ray release at a huge fraction of the cost CBS put into TOS and TNG remasters.
This isn't an experiment that can be run both ways, but I find it seems to work. I've been here 13.5 years, starting from about 5 years of prior experience. Increases are irregular, but look to be about 7.3% compounded per year. Note that the earliest years of my career are excluded, which is when you'd expect to see the largest increase.

I've never seen layoffs. A person who regularly moves on is quite undesirable, because they would leave before being useful. It typically takes a year before we can really put somebody to use, and two years isn't uncommon.