skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like you were using T2 instances which have a low baseline performance and burst credits. I would imagine that you quickly run out of credits on some of the smaller instance types after creation, given how lengthy and costly (in terms of CPU usage) the instance creation and boot process is.
If it were doing a good job of supporting the needs of most people one would question why 90% of people are using something else.

Upgradable/fixable everything is a feature of the $299 desktop machine you find at walmart or the $40 machine from goodwill. It doesn't start at $5000 that only 0.05% of planet earth can afford.

Edit: Holy shit it is much worse than I thought. The actual desktop option is basically a $700-$900 pc that starts out at 3-4K. It looks like they have ignored the mac pro for years but kept the humongous price.

If you actually want a capable machine you have to buy the imac pro option and if you actually select a fast processor its more like 8k for a machine wherein you could probably build an equivalent pc for 2.
Because Chrome had bugs in how it worked, and didn't make it trivial for people to re-enable when they want audio.
Clearbit raises $15M Series A at $250M valuation
Her story is a case-in-point about why you have to be careful about giving advice in the form of "fake it till you make it", "no one knows what they're doing", "all self-doubt is Impostor Syndrome".

She undoubtedly felt what most people feel, she just took the SV advice too seriously and actually believed that no one knows what they're doing and it's all the same, so it's perfectly okay to forge ahead once you realize you're out of your depth and you raised all that funding without justified confidence.

My best version of the point from earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214749
Chinese livestreaming industry is based on donations, so-called 'virtual gifts', and top streamers can make $100,000 a month or more.
Build one near the Equator.
Does ACM ICPC has to do anything with computer science skills? Because that competetion is dominated by Russian and Asian students and US universities come nowhere close.

https://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/results

Google Summer of Code on the other hand is dominated by Indian Students.

TLDR: If it's a level playing field I don't think US students would be in front of other countries.
Email clients, sure.

Word processors? Only if you're requiring something like Markdown.

Video chat seems right out, unless you're permitting a Flash solution, which would be severely cheating.
I agree 100%.

Ruby follows Perl's philosophy of "there is more than one way to do it."

That sounds terrible! When you scale an organization, do you really want everyone doing everything in their own unique way?

Python has a more practical philosophy:

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

While this sounds a little fascist, it enforces consistency. It means that a senior Python programmer will see code from another senior Python programmer and say to themselves "yup, I'd make it exactly this way if I wrote it myself."
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Does this include Netflix? It's been getting really annoying to have random videos your mouse is on, as you scroll, start playing automatically.
Prenatal testosterone linked to long-term effects in females with male twin
It feels to me like there was a lot of social pressure over the last 10 years or so for open source projects to use the most permissive open source license they could. You were cool and "more free" if you used Apache, BSD, or MIT licenses. I wonder if this is coming back to bite us now.
Red Hat built a very successful business selling mostly GPL software. Would things be different for the companies we've been talking about lately (mongo, redis, elastisearch, etc.) if they had gone with a GPL license and a Red Hat-like business model from the start?
I was impressed that they managed to get some big-name actors to make that movie. I suspect they had a lot of fun making it as well.
Godspeed. Make a sign up page.
Why not just block the audio by default?

I don't care about the video, because any hostile website could still generate video by using gifs, or by playing a sequence of image frames using JavaScript.
Right now the FBI's advice for companies that get critical systems crypto locked is to just pay the ransom.

https://securityledger.com/2015/10/fbis-advice-on-cryptolock...
Oh wow, new Twitter is actually usable now.
I mean, the article mentions right away that it's in the Philippines, and the whale's stomach was full of rice bags as sold in local grocery stores. It also says the Philippines is one of the worst plastic polluters in the world. Flagellate yourself as much as you want, but you can't take much blame for this one.
I have found inverting this kind of question helps.

Rate your interest in the following:

Item A
Item B

People tend to express high interest where they want to grow, or have need.
What secret they understand that rest of us don't ? Is it cyclic efficiency ? Residual discharge loss ? Environmental cleanup cost ? Lithium sourcing ? Chance of future tech progress ? Charging time ? What ?
It's statistical, which a lot of people and I mean a LOT of people don't understand or can't comprehend. The prediction is valid to some error and there's a small change the sealevel increase will be 0.25 inches or 10ft. As time goes on (from 2019) the predictions should get more accurate but I've already seen widely different predictions out to 2100.
Ask HN: An engineer with a product idea, what next?
So, I have this simple idea for a product, what should do I do next bar going off and trying to build something with my tech skills.

I mean, getting the execution correct is key obviously, design and marketing etc...
If we just ban cars no one will get in any more wrecks.
Yes, but as far as I can glance from the NES spec, those still run from the same clock (with different dividers, but they're still locked to each other).

I haven't written an emulator for the NES yet, but on machines like the Amstrad CPC or C64, the CPU can reprogram video hardware registers (like color palette entries) at any time, for instance in the middle of a scanline. When this is off by a tick, you get the color palette change a couple of pixels late or early.

If CPU and video chip emulation would run on different threads, they would need to sync with each other a few million times per second, that doesn't sound like a good idea. If synchronization is only needed once per scanline, or even per frame that's an option of course. Often this is good enough to run some games which didn't go too close to the metal (again this is only from my experience with home computer emulators, haven't done NES stuff yet).

Parallelizing through SIMD might be an option though (one can pack a lot of 4- or 8-bit counters into a 512-bit register).
Having them be proper applications would be a huge problem for the security and therefore the computing autonomy of the average person. The fact that you don't generally download unsandboxed, unsigned apps from the internets any more (and don't run shrink-wrapped apps from the local CompUSA that are full of C string parsing vulnerabilities, either) is one of the most meaningful accomplishments in computer security in the last decade. If you want to throw it out, you personally can clean up the Bonzi Buddies on every Windows user's computer. The most malicious JavaScript web page still can't install Bonzi Buddy. We've even gotten to an era where most people don't need to install anti-virus, because moving everything to the web has fixed the fundamental problems with desktop OS design that required a quasi-snake-oil, theoretically-untenable approach to maintain a semblance of integrity.

There's another alternative, which is curated and audited app stores à la iOS, but the fact that you can't use applications unless they're approved by a megacorporation would also be bad for people's computing autonomy.

(Also, what makes you think that the developers of bloated JS apps won't make bloated desktop apps?)
The general public is a larger potential market than computer fetishists. Remember their two or three steps to getting on the Internet with an iMac?

Anyone who believed Apple was for tech hardcores hasn’t been paying attention.

Never quite got the dongle complaints myself.

Why not find ways to reduce the amount of extra crap you have to plug in and (assuming a laptop scenario), haul around in the first place?

Is adding one USB-C to many USB-A ports such a burden when talking about all the other bits n bobs?

IMO anyway, it is not. I get the sentiment though. I too often wish the world was exactly how my feels wish it to be.

This site loves the free market though. Sell your dream to the masses.
Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
> It's just frustrating, I switched the household over to Apple devices when OSX came out, and now there really aren't any systems from Apple that look interesting to me.

It feels like these products are just an afterthought for the company.
Seems like we're really just testing standard of living or per capita income. It'd be surprising if these results were out of line with figures like that.

Not sure we're doing anything better than these other countries other than remaining the world's only superpower.
Apparently, testing revealed that "Freedom Dividend" polled higher with conservatives than "Universal Basic Income". So, in a ham-fisted wide appeal play, he's rebranded UBI as "The Freedom Dividend"

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/

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This brings us to our second point, which is a conjecture that such a move has a sniff of witting or unwitting use as a test candidate, not for serious contention of nomination, but as an indicator of conservative support for such a concept. ("stalking horse")
Thankfully the smelting can apparently be controlled manually. According to this article[0] all Hydro plants are still running 24/7, but now using paper, pencils, and calculators.

0: (In norwegian) https://e24.no/boers-og-finans/norsk-hydro/dataangrepet-lamm...
Can't wait for Firefox to die...pretentious group. After they turned vile on how they treated the older CEO it's been downhill
When we sold our house, it was obvious that our realtor's incentive was to get a deal done. They had no incentive to go for a higher price if it lowered the chances of a deal getting done. If you really want an incentive to get the best price, you should have a base fee and an incentive fee, similar to how hedge funds operate. E.g. 2% of total price, plus 20% of difference of price above some baseline (e.g. assessed value).
Uninstall the distro provided Firefox and use the binary produced by Mozilla. It downloads its own updates in the background and applies the next time you quit and relaunch.

Snap and Flatpak apps I think can do this as well, because they aren't stepping on the running binaries during the update. And you get the updated version when you relaunch.

Firefox isn't special in this regard. 100% of my applications on Windows and macOS expect to be quit before they can be updated, and is enforced either by the application, the OS, or the updater. I suspect that distro package managers don't really have a way to do an out of band update, all they can do is step all over in-use libraries and that inevitably causes the application to go a little crazy.
Proper applications follow OS UI conventions, they appear in the task bar, are launched from the application launcher etc. Proper applications can also be sandboxed, though Spectre makes it a bad idea to run untrusted code anyway.
> when they aren't killing them

Refreshing to see this posted online, instead of the constant "Thanks for protecting our freeedoms!"
Video tends to eat deeply into the metered data plans of many Internet users.
I cant find the story anymore, but I seem to recall that at peak crypto locker there was a 'consulting company' that would fix this for you without you having to pay the attackers. Instead you paid the consultants double the extorted amount, and then they paid on your behalf.
Under what circumstances would webapps not exist in some form or another? It's a system for deploying applications via the web, and JavaScript is primarily the language that they're implemented in.

I will bet you that in 99% of alternative timelines, we'd end up with something incredibly similar to what we've got today, and you'd still be complaining that applications aren't "native" enough, because practically nobody cares that a taskbar or button isn't a native OS component. They care that their application works, and can be quickly deployed and updated.
He's not talking about cancerous in-browser webapps. He's talking about actual clients.
Because breaking sites like Soundcloud and Youtube by default seems like an overreaction to the abuse of auto-playing sound
> Word processors? Only if you're requiring something like Markdown.

You havent heard of LibreOffice?
Networks are thousands of times faster in bandwidth, but they don't have thousands of times less latency. Software is actively working to overcome the limitations of latency, such as with HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and TLS 1.3.
I'm currently experimenting with this directly. Specifically trying to make Open Source sustainable but for a consumer project.

I think Open Source really works for infrastructure projects and it's possible to do really well either working on a system like Kubernetes or Elasticsearch.

Not so well for projects that are more focused on consumers.

My app, Polar, is focused more on consumers and is an app for people to managed their reading and notes. Similar to Evernote but also has spaced repetition support like Anki and we're working on collaboration features too:

https://getpolarized.io/

I wanted Polar to be Open Source but we've had almost zero source code contributions in the last six months.

Most of our contributions from users have been from people suggesting features, filing bugs, suggesting architecture changes or product/market fit issues.

These have been very helpful of course.

However, to date, we've only raised about $500.

To be clear I'm working on Polar full time so I've probably made about $0.15 per hour...

I think there's a lot of reasons for this actually but if I were to narrow it down.

1. Consumers hate paying for software. The plan with Polar is to go with a freemium model so we need 100k or so users.

2. There's a big of a 'tragedy of the commons' here with the donations aren't coming in because everyone assumes someone else will donate.

This is really a bad situation in a lot of ways for the 'self hosting' crowd. They want quality apps but they're not willing to pay for them.

We're polling our users about why they haven't donated and here are the current results:

https://i.imgur.com/cOUy10f.png

I think my next main goal is to do some sort of Kickstarter and try to raise $150k or so.

Either that or focus on raising grants or VC.
Awesome, but:

- Forever free? No limits? Sure?

- Can I plug this into a production app and make millions of API calls per day? For free? Forever?

- No support?

- How often do you update your DB? Moving numbers between carriers is common.
>Now that I have got your attention with a catchy title - let me share with some of my thoughts regarding how AWS shines and how much your experience as a customer matters.

This is the one guaranteed way to turn me off to whatever you're going to talk about in the article.
Patreon ups its revenue cut, but grandfathers in old creators
All future media should be watermarked with immutable metadata linking it back to it's original source to verify authenticity and combat fake news.
IMO, the title isn't really helpful anyway. I did a userChrome.css thing a while back to make it just show favicons in the tab bar with one or two pixels of space and it works great. The tabs don't jump around when you switch tabs and you can fit a bunch more of them in the same space (I keep favicon bookmarks on the right side of the tab bar).
Ask HN: What are the possible future opportunities for developers coding in C++?
As per current trends every other position is either for Python or Java developer.
What are the possible future opportunities where C++ will still be used?
Even with an agent you separately hire a fee-based lawyer, title search, appraisal, and house inspection. The agent helps coordinate things but that's not really a specialized skill.
RedHat's business is not selling GPL software. They probably sell more BSD/MIT/Apache software than GPL software, but they're not in the business of selling software at all.

They're in the business of selling support.
Pinterest is useful for the purpose you describe but what seems to have happened is they are dominating organic search for images in contravention of google's own guidelines.

All things being equal, Pinterest should have been penalised into non-existence by now?
Here's a link to an editable copy of one of those maps to get a feel for how it works (changes won't be saved) -- https://www.plectica.com/maps/embedded/CW8BMJWS3/edit

We've made some tradeoffs between flexibility and constraints/structure here -- any feedback is most welcome!
Real estate agents...selling debt slavery one house at a time to entitled Americans and debt addicts
>Commercial airliners are stable when flying.

The 737 MAX is not. That's why it has the MCAS system in the first place: the engines are too large for the airframe, making the aircraft fundamentally unstable, so they came up with MCAS to try to make it seem stable to the pilots, and then they didn't even bother telling the pilots that this MCAS system even existed.
It's not that people don't do something worthwhile. It's more a question that is it worth paying 60,000 when selling your house? It's not. At $100 an hour, do you get 600 hours out of work of them? No. It's not about market prices, because the cartel (real estate industry) prevents lowering percentages - and they fight to the death any upstart who wants to do it.

It should not be a percentage, it should be a fixed rate. A few thousand dollars. Or hourly.

Until people can set different rates, or you have the option of fixed rates if that is the preference of agent & buyer it won't be honest.
Agreed 100%. Realtors do legitimate work, and deserve to be compensated for sure. But I think the pay is grossly disproportionate to the amount of value provided, and it's propped up by Realtor-sponsored laws and kickbacks. A lot of Realtors won't even deal with non-Realtor(tm) real-estate agents, which promotes their monopoly stranglehold on the real-estate market.

I'm not sure where I fall on what a real-estate agent's cut should be for selling a house. But for the buyer's agent, it's really over-valued IMO. And why should a buyer's agent in San Jose make 4x more than somebody in Des Moines for the exact same value-add?

When I bought my house, my Realtor found some good listings, arranged viewings, did the paperwork, and set everything up for me. All useful services, and worth paying for. But was it worth $12k for less than 40 hours of total work? I don't think so. That's a higher hourly rate than I'd be charged by a good doctor. And my house was a pretty cheap one by modern standards. Those are monopoly prices charged by people who know they've got you over a barrel.
> I use Fedora, so I don't execute 'dnf update' until I'm ready to reboot the system

I haven't rebooted my system in days, and I make updates twice a day...
WinSpd is not a standalone application, but rather a set of libraries and components that allows others to create applications that can do what you want (serve a disk over a network).

The included sample, called rawdisk, memory maps a file and uses it as a disk image file. This could presumably be done over SMB or NFS, although I have not tested the performance.
Well I'm glad to see it got some attention. Usually HN sends me to the OP if it's been submitted, but that didn't happen.
According to a comment on my blog post - it seems that Azure do something similar as well. It would be pretty easy to verify
Who to Blame?
It's an embarrassing mistake, thank you for your reminder, but it seems that it's too late to change the name.
HHV–6 is pointed out as causing the same issue - according to wikipedia HHV-6B is in pretty much every person.
To tak onto that, i trust my real estate lawyer involved in the purchase for those things. Honestly, agents in my buy search didnt do too much i couldnt with my lawyer (which was fee based)

In the sale side tho, id be willing to use an agent to try and push my sale above market price, make them do the leg work. If it takes 100 days of concentrated effort then yea, they earned their 6% imo
I definitely think 3% is a little high, BUT, if I were to sell my house, I'd much prefer to have the expertise on my side.

I'm sure in a healthy housing market, working with a great agent can easily make you more than their commission when it comes to pricing strategy.
You mean games like Diablo weren't very successful?
There is indeed a very thin line between psychosis and intense religious experiences. It is why in some religions, knowing God will literally burn the mind.

I would recommend psychedelics, but like anything, it depends on the person. There are dangers, but those dangers can be controlled quite well. At the population level, it is safer than coffee. At the individual level, it varies, just like anything else.

I will note that after taking ~110 μg of LSD-25 on several occasions, my overall cognition improved dramatically.
Serious question: do you remember the late '90s and early '00s? Have you used Visual Basic, or Qt, or anything? There was an era before web apps existed, and there were tools that made it easy to write and distribute proper applications - are you claiming that that didn't happen, or what?
Google GDC 2019 Gaming Announcement [Live Stream]
Try -static, because that is what Turbo C and SubC do!
Office 365 pauses email sync to force users to use Outlook
Great. Now if only all websites used one or two static images with a known size and nothing else.
Intelligence and Security Doctrine
California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes
Atlassian coming into action. It shows the direction they're picking... not happy with this change for tiny teams
I wish there were browser extension to exchange the lists of allowed scripts for sites between the users. So Noscript could automatically preset this for you and you don't need to tune the list for every site by yourself.
I'm not sure that solution works when you already have a product development model that relies on (literally) tens of thousands of people none of whom trust anyone but you with stewardship of that product.

Plus, given the incredible number of partners Mozilla already has, and has had in the past, it feels like the partnership idea is a passed station.
With a navy.

Environmental protection is a better casus belli than most wars get.
This sounds interesting - do you have a description of the hardware you used to hand?
It being % based means the incentives of the agent are more aligned with the seller than buyer.

If the agent charged a flat fee -- the agent doesn't have incentive to negotiate a higher price.
My $999 Asus from Costco 18 months ago came with a 480GB SSD, 16GB of RAM, and a discrete GPU.

The screen is 1080p, I would've had to pay a couple hundred extra for a 4k screen instead, not worth it when I'm mostly connected to external, and battery life is better with 1080p when I'm mobile.

My desktop is 7 years old now. I've spent ~$1400 in parts over the years. 32GB of RAM, CPU that does its job (Intel i7-whatever), and a GPU that consumes more power but is just as good as a GTX 1050 (A lot less VRAM though!).

I fully expect that machine to last me until the physical components start to give out.

Probably the capacitors. It is always the capacitors.
They somehow feel responsible for hosting russia today channels and anti-vax videos.