skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually using Wasabi as my cloud storage backend for File Ark (https://fileark.launchaco.com/), which is an app I made to interface with it.

It's definitely cheaper for archiving files, but there are some catches like minimum file size and storage duration costs, but still overall cheaper than the other storage solutions I've come across.
The problem is this type of vertical splitting doesn't solve the problem of large tech companies. It's like treating a burst appendix with a kidney transplant.

The problem of Amazon is that it is effectively the only online shopping place, and thus can act as a Monopsony in hiring it's workers for warehouses, splitting AWS out of that doesn't fix that problem. Maybe you could require that distribution centers be owned by separate companies. This might work but locally each Center would still be a Monopsony and thus cause the same problem. Maybe if you capped the size of distribution center you could force lots of smaller ones to be built, but at this point I worry that you are going to end up making shipping slower and more expensive.

The problem of Google is they are very dominate in the Ads space splitting out the Ads portion into another company would not solve that. Facebook's problems is everyone has put their data in Facebook has friends in Facebook and feel compelled to keep using it. I don't see how splitting up the company into, Instagram, What's App, and Facebook solves the network effects of those apps.

Splitting up tech companies is not a punishment to make the CEO feel bad or change their ways. It is a technique to change how we need the market works to benefit the large population. As such we need to think about how to split them, the effects, and most importantly if the effect achieves the intended result.
Philadelphia was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328547
Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337833 and marked it off-topic.
For whatever reason, Orca's are an unusually fascinating subject.

If there is an article about orca's, I'm gonna read it.

The only thing more interesting than an orca, is an orca fighting a great white.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9I_DcSbZjI
5 things we've learned about kids and parental consent flows in apps
Product Vision Is Why Alexa Is 61% Market Share and Siri Is Forgotten
I had an interesting experience a few years back when trying to get voice integration for TrackR. I talked to Apple, Google, and Amazon & saw 3 very different product visions. For me, its no surprise that Amazon is leading the pack - https://medium.com/@cgherb/vision-matters-cfb0ff03db57
>>Lobbying is tracked and google spent over 33% more than Comcast - in your own words - bribing members of Congress.

That's just members of Congress. What about local governments? Keep in mind a lot of states don't have laws that require publicly disclosing lobbying efforts.
Ask HN: Is software engineering a big deal?
Context: I graduated university two years ago and have been working as a dev since then. The work is good, management is good but I just keep feeling that it's no big a deal, anyone can do it and the stuff that matters actually does not require development (e.g. meeting with clients, climbing management ladder etc).

Would love to know what others think.
I was there in May 2016 (and looking forward to heading down again later this year).
> With Comcast (and other ISPs), you have only one choice, and they spend tons of money and effort making sure you only have that one choice, and continue to have only that one choice. Comcast recently spent nearly $1M to prevent Fort Collins from creating a municipal ISP[1]. That is actively anti-competitive and monopolistic by definition.

I'm sure if the U.S. government was proposing to sell public bonds to build a search engine or ride-sharing service, you'd see a lot of lobbying from Silicon Valley. It's not "actively anti-competitive and monopolistic by definition" to oppose government backed and funded competition in your industry.
Oh so that’s what those re-education camps are...
> talking to a fruit fly

I believe it would be very interesting, scientifically, to be able to 'talk' to a fruit fly.
It’s racism.

https://unintendedconsequenc.es/uyghurs-xinjiang-onward-to-t...
School desegregation.
Two questions arise from this.

First - in your homework paragraph, you're associating hard work with merit. It's very common - X deserves more than Y because X worked harder. Why do we consider work to be a virtue?

And second - even if we have a pure measure of merit we could all agree on, how the fruits of everyone's labours are divided is still debatable. How much should the best/average/worst get compared to each other?
This thread has like 4 posts. You're being a bit presumptuous and hostile, no?
It is only a feature, because you have the information about which rotation you provide and relate it to the result. If I just try to classify an image the information about which rotation the image is under might be not there at all.
Just an example. Say there is a drone: The Elmer-2 that takes an image of a sign. Now depending on which angle this picture is taking from it might think it is duck season instead of rabbit season and never look twice.
I’m curious - What would it look like if you were accustomed to remote communication with your doctor(s) and handled most follow ups that way and then suddenly your doctor says, “You should come chat in person” if you know you have some results pending that could lead to a serious diagnosis? My first thought would be that it’s terrible news, and if that were the case I’d rather rip the band-aid off and just hear it via Skype instead of waiting a week to see the doctor in person. Maybe it’s less personal, but for me it would be less anxiety-inducing and give me a chance to start processing immediately.

That being said - I agree that the empathetic and emotional aspects are lost when communicating remotely. Heck, I already feel that even in a work setting. It’s hard to imagine what it would be like when handling a crisis.
> A brief notice from Manning's representatives said that a statement was forthcoming. Manning reportedly told journalists outside the courthouse on Friday that she was ready to go to jail and would only testify in a public setting.

> “These secret proceedings tend to favor the government,” she told reporters, according to the Post. “I’m always willing to explain things publicly.”
Apologies if I'm not recognizing some sort of sarcasm, but saying "he who had eyes to see let him see" and "people are blind to their own advantages" cuts both ways in this debate. Whites are underrepresented at Yale, for example. Is it fair for them to shut down talks about affirmative action because they are underrepresented, and thus they are entitled to dismiss the arguments of others because "he who had eyes to see let him see"?

That statement really rubs me the wrong way. In order to form the concensus that pleases society as much as possible (or put more cynically, the concensus that minimizes social displeasure) we need to hear how every group sees the situation. "He who had eyes let him see" is functionally not much different from saying "those who disagree with me shut up".

Again, apologies if I'm not seeing sarcasm or reductio ad absurdum. It's hard to convey over text comments.
So you want someone to write three paragraphs for what can be said in six words? I prefer the brevity.
> No, it is not "standard procedure" for a country to have secret accusations against someone, for almost a decade, and to lie about it, and pretend like they don't, for all this time.

To the extent that there are secret charges (a sealed indictment) against WikiLeaks, it's irrelevant to this case, because when you already have an indictment you don't need grand jury testimony.

You only need grand jury testimony for a new indictment. And, in any case, secret grand jury proceedings are not only routine but mandatory, and keeping indictments sealed when the target is out of reach of US law enforcement, and/or while related investigations are proceeding, is also routine.

> The whole reason Assange is in the Embassy is because he says the US has secret accusations against him and extradition orders. The government said otherwise.

No, it didn't. Well, it denied that it had requested extradition, which is not a secret process, and the British government denied it has received such a request. The US government has neither denied or confirmed the existence of an indictment charging Assange.
I work in enterprises with 50,000+ employees and billions in annual revenue. I work with older programmers all the time! They're better at programming in Angular than I am. And they are wonderful mentors!

I think what's actually happening is some programmers, who happen to be older, don't keep up with their skills. Then when they interview, they bomb it, or talk about how they could do the same thing in an older stack.

That's great, but the company is really invested in the current / new stack, so it doesn't make sense to hire someone who does not have those skills. So they pass them up and find a candidate who knows the software the company is looking for.

But the older interview candidate, instead of reflecting on themselves and realizing they need to spend time enhancing their skills, they simply say the company was "ageist" and blame it on age discrimination.

Blaming others is generally easier than blaming yourself, I guess.
Are there any federal criminal trials in the US where one of the parties is not a state known to conduct assassinations on foreign soil?
Microsoft Open Sourced the Windows Calculator
Old people don't get useless, they have much needed experience that have to be harvested. Just because you use the latest fad does not mean you don't dig the same pit or just a slightly different pit. The young that realise this will stay ahead.
Austin traffic isn't the worst there is on an absolute scale. But it's frustrating because it's so much worse than it should be for a city of this size.

The people in charge of it seem to be kind of checked out and ineffectual. They don't always even try to solve problems, and when they do, they do stuff that doesn't seem to be thought out very well.

A well-known example is I-35. It is a huge pain point and has been for decades. A few years back, they started talking about doing something to solve that, and rather than trying to improve I-35 itself, the idea of building a parallel toll road really far outside of town was pitched as the solution. The toll road (SH 130) was built, but surprise, nobody wants to drive on a road in the middle of nowhere. The toll road was used so little it went through bankruptcy, but more importantly, all this didn't help fix I-35.
parent comment was deleted. the tldr was "how rude of them to do the licensing flag" thing
When can we all agree that nothing connected to the internet is secure. Ever.

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ForwardCom: Proposal for forward compatible instruction set architecture (2018)
Giordano Bruno’s Memory System
Fair. Maybe a better description is that the differences between urban and suburban were manufactured by public policy.

The forms of housing were manufactured by zoning law, home owners associations, and master plans for communities of houses with big lawns.

The forms of transportation were manufactured more or less as a direct result of the housing forms above. Walking, biking, and transit aren't as viable in the land of suburban sprawl (and during the decades of expansion of the suburb, public transportation money mostly aimed at motorist-friendly projects like expressways)

The cultural (and socio-economic) differences were manufactured by horrifying, now-illegal, 20th century policies, namely redlining and racial covenants. The OP's description that suburban and urban are "blurring" is a result of several decades of recovery from these policies.

By superficial what I meant is that without these forces manufacturing a false dichotomy of "urban" vs "suburban", we would likely have a much more blurred spectrum of housing & neighborhoods.
Theres always so many views on this idea (whether its worth it to go to college if you work in tech and the externalities involved) but Tldr: I would have loved to take a 6 figure job without $80k in student loans.

I am a female software engineer and encourage the girls I know to not worry about the fact they are in their mid 20s stuck in retail jobs. I tell them to take udacity etc. Bootcamps. At our company some of our best hires are girls and guys who are doing bootcamps or took udacity courses.

One great benefit to this is

1. From my view they arent tainted in tech. As a female I hated going to a tech school with men and I would have loved to haved skipped the four years of social hell.

Getting hacked keylogged and told I only got accepted into college because im a girl despite having a 4.0 and making perfect SAT scores was the norm and ive confirmed from other tech schools as well including but not limited to MIT.

2. They dont have egos or entitlement associated with having a degree. They only have their relevant work.

3. They have the ability and initiative to be self taught and learn new things without it being handed to them in a curriculum.

4. They often feel inferior because they dont have a college degree which is bad but often as a result they are incredibly humble, open minded, respectful, greatful, eager to learn and grow.

We are currently hiring two great female candidates from bootcamp and honestly they know alot more relevant to my job because the classes are very applied whereas im stuck paying off loans and teaching myaelf everything they learned as well.
The most common reason for holding someone in contempt is for refusing to follow an order to pay money. Ordering them to pay more money isn't going to be effective. There really isn't anything else you can do. You can take their stuff, but if they had assets that could easily be seized, you would do that in the first place.

Corporations can be fined into compliance because making money is generally a corporation's only purpose. The closest equivalent for and individual is removing time from their life--jail time.

A jail cell is basically the last resort to force compliance. It's also what will eventually happen to individuals running a corporation if they keep defying court orders.
This would be perfect. Prevent this horrible business model completely.
>But to someone who possesses all possible knowledge, nothing is random, because everything is predictable

Not according to quantum mechanics.
Apparently not safe enough for democratic Congress members to dain to fly on.
That makes no sense and it's precisely because of double charging. Consumers are paying for the bandwidth and access. It does not matter if they decide to spend their bandwidth on Netflix and Google.
Except that they can't actually force her to testify.
wait wait wait.

You're proposing that the executives don't know what recruiting practices their company is employing to sustain talent for their operations?

Cmon, that's ridiculous. They would be terrible executives if this were true.

Most people I meet agree that recruiting is broken. A huge part of this is regulation. The education system is integrated into the backbone of society which is maintained through regulation.

If you were hired for only a degree then I would be wary of Price's law. https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
>This routine is a result of that experience more than anything else

And I would just like to add everyone's body is a little different. People may have different level / type of deficiencies, and for me that is Vitamin B. So I guess you cant really have meal that works for you and works for everyone else. It is important for everyone trying this to do it themselves and test it out with your body. Not to mention you get to think about how to cook your favourite food.

I personally did something similar for 6 months, but due to different circumstances I can no longer do meal prep. During that time I had an idea about making a web app that help you select your meal prep. You input foods that you like and loath, input regional location so that we know what you can get and and not, and price range, how much it would cost per meal ( Not everyone is rich and well off )
It will hopefully have a List of Meal prep that you may like, along with instructions and where to buy those ingredients.
Breaking up a company certainly harms people, by diminishing the value of the company's stock, which is private property. Not only people like Page and Brin, but more sympathetic characters like workers whose retirement funds contain Google stock.

This may be worth it for society, but it's a little too convenient to say no people will be harmed.
Smart 'unhackable' car alarms open the doors of 3M vehicles to hackers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321074
As someone who made the professional healthcare to tech career crossover, I feel exactly the same way. Email me.

The world has changed. People are tried and sent to prison over video chat, surgeons remotely control surgery.

Telemedicine improves the quality of life for millions of people, allowing them access that they wouldn't have had in the past. It provides decreased morbidity and mortality as a whole.

Quick reminder: everyone is dying. everyone.
> I think these claims that meritocracy is false lack nuance. It's not that meritocracy isn't fair, it's that a pure meritocracy free of bias is too fair: it doesn't attempt to rectify the fact not everyone starts with the same resources and that certain groups have different attitudes towards thinks like education than others.

I'm sorry?

How can you, in the same breath, talk about meritocracy - a pure meritocracy, at that, which should only evaluate people based on their own merits - while describing something that doesn't even addresses "the fact not everyone starts with the same resources"? The resources people start with - their location, their family, their upbringing - are not their own merit.
A real-life attack based on this kind of hole was discussed at https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/ay7aoy/ide... : someone says that an identity thief who knows all their knowledge-based question answers (because they have a copy of a credit report, no doubt) keeps somehow removing the freeze and committing more fraud.
> I also noticed that older programmers tend to not be as up to date in newer technologies or ways of doing things.

I've been doing this a long time and it doesn't matter to me.

The newer stuff is most of the time just a variation on a theme that I've seen turnover three or four times since i've been doing this.

What older coders have that younger ones do not, is experience. This can often halve the workload on some projects. The older I get in this profession, the more results I get out of less and less code.

Also, let's not immediately fetishize the newer stuff. It is often a less well implemented retread of older technology. Seems like people have less patience for learning existing systems, so they just re-write some quick and dirty replacement and call it good.

Perhaps it might be better if younger programmers learned the old stuff instead of just badly reinventing the wheel every few years.
As the physician doesn't get to know the ins and outs (emotionally, not physically) of a person, they have to adopt the approach that they hope helps the most people.
Thank you, I used to get scared looking at those * s and * * s and why are they called args & kwargs which sound like particles in high energy physics :)
I certainly don't want to chime in with a detraction that misses your point, but I do feel there's a slight difference. (for context, I'm 42)

I think the reason older coders don't "keep up" is because you have to lose ground first. If I want to adopt a new technology, I have to first learn how to handle problems I ALREADY KNOW HOW TO SOLVE with my current technologies. The better I am with solving the problems I encounter already, the more I will have to backpedal before I can go forward in a new tech. And while I definitely get better overall from learning a broader base of techs, over time there are definitely diminishing returns. The cost-benefit of learning something new vs spending that time either learning more of what I'm already in, or just solving any of the infinite things I want to get done is a balance that will slide more and more towards not bothering to learn new tech unless there's a real need.

Add in that this is an industry rife with Imposter Syndrome that DEFINITELY bites you in the face during any moment of struggling to "get" a new tech, and there are plenty of incentives against embracing new tech beyond just "I don't like change". (though that is definitely present - I'm a JS dev currently, so I'm well familiar with the dismissive and arrogant attitudes that can be tossed around).
Yes, Indian Banks too check Signatures on anything submitted to them.

I once had to deposit cash in my own account but in different city in India. It was free if I deposited it, but fees for anybody third party. Cashier told me my signature doesn’t match with whats on file and thus either I need to re-sign or need to pay fees.

Here in US I have seen policies in Stores saying we accept check, but we will onetime use the account & routing number on check to pull the amount. I am so confused if by merely giving someone a cheque they are able to “pull” money from just two numbers, and can do it for any amount & any number of times.
SFO has open data on traffic:

https://data.sfgov.org/Transportation/SFO-Gate-and-Stand-Ass...

https://www.flysfo.com/media/facts-statistics/air-traffic-st...

https://data.sfgov.org/Transportation/Air-Traffic-Landings-S...
baseline people skill is necessary. Or necessary training.
Outschool (YC W16) Is Looking for a First Lead Product Designer in SF
I'm thinking Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. Lots of good universities there. I've never been but I have heard good things.
I'm getting up there in age and have always resigned to the fact that I'll probably be making significantly less money in 10 years or less in a low skilled job unless I get lucky. I don't want to go into a full management role in software so it's just something I've accepted.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Sometimes I just feel fortunate for the career I've had. I mostly wonder if I'll miss it or be glad to move on to a new chapter.
Hi. I’m you from ten years in the future. Do not be afraid.

I wanted to pop back in time and say thanks. Yeah you didn’t retire in your late thirties like you thought you would mostly because it’s harder to make FI cash than you thought. The crash of 2020 took a few years to get passed but hey 45 is the new late thirties as they say now.

The reason I’m thanking you is you went ahead and struggled and saved anyway while things got tough and now you are free. Just FYI, I texted my QUIT to the HR bot in the Philippines just before I came back to see you.

Btw quitting is harder than you think. Just to let you know, I don’t blame you. Not quitting at 40 when you could eke bye because they offered you 2x what you’d ever made to stay; yeah the place was thalidomide for your soul but then your wife (I’m not telling) got pretty sick and that cushion was worth it.

Also: take care of your health and sleep more. An extra ten years of long hours at the terminal has left me not as healthy as I’d like.
Also YC seems to have changed in that regard under Sam Altman compared to PG. The old YC did very well with web startups like Airbnb and Reddit but they didn't have the nuclear fusion and supersonic aircraft. It remains to be seem if YC succeeds with the latter stuff but well done to them for trying.