skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lock in is far more complete than it ever was in the Microsoft era, with Microsoft of the 90s, you could mostly still choose to just stop buying their crap, and stick with what you had while you migrate, or work out an alternative.

The minute you stop paying a cloud vendor, your entire infrastructure vanishes in a cloud of smoke, and if you relied on their "value add" proprietary services, you are left with basically nothing, not even the ability to run your own code, or in some cases even your data.
This. We need copyleft API licenses, simply because the primary way of "linking" nowadays is using APIs. Heck yeah.
The market for a $2 million house is going to be much smaller than for a $100k house. That big ass house can sit on the market for a lot longer, and have much pickier buyers. Houses like that also get a LOT more marketing. Would you spend 6 months unpaid working for a $3000 commission, or would you rather only list cheap houses that turn around more quickly for the same price?

Besides, if you can afford a $2MM house, please don't tell me you'd also be crying about paying a percentage.
Mui – user interface made of wood
I wish anti-trust was a thing.
Bribes from the oil industry. Hydrogen (in the context of evs) has always been about disposing of money that otherwise would have gone into battery research.
but in many cases I didn't find that to be true.

I wouldn't be so sure. Consider the "opposite" approach in some sense, a person who has only done a rapid training online course in current techniques. I give them a very specific task that matches their training well, they will probably do ok. If something unexpected happens though, they will mostly be unable to address it effectively. If a slightly different problem comes up, they won't know how to address that, either. They will have a shallow sense of "how", and very little sense of "why". Worse, they are ill prepared for adapting new techniques; i'd probably be just as well off finding a newer version to hire, who has had more recent training....

Sure, not all courses are as good as they could be (nor all lecturers) but the core of what they are trying to teach you is nothing as simple as methods. Methods are the easy part, after all.
Is $11/GB a high DRAM price? That's the cost of a standalone stick. Apple DRAM costs 2x, and any other PC vendor's DRAM costs 1.5x-2x but that's vendor lock-in, not collusion.
> They have never stuck with a product which, relative to rest of their products, has smaller but dedicated adoption.

Google Books (14 years old), Google Finance (12), Google Scholar (14), Google Fonts (9), etc.
Interview with a Programmer Who Retired at 34
> The computer scientist in me is giddy with excitement

Why? What part of this is interesting?
Google Fiber wasn't really that inscrutable. It's clearly outside of their core competency, it required collaboration and agreement with local governments, as well as construction projects, and to AT&T's snarkily made point, it's way harder than a typical software project.

This is closer to their existing product portfolio, it doesn't have nearly as a difficult upstart cost relative to Fiber, and the business models are pretty clear. I think a closer analog would be the rumored reductions in their hardware division, but given that they're still making successful hardware + software, it could be more about reorganizing around priorities than it is an indication of their reduced investment
>Unicorn: Scooter companies that rent by the minute lose 2 percent of their fleet per day to damage and theft, and that means customers don’t have a safe scooter available when they want one.

Is this really offering an attractive alternative to Bird, Lime, etc. from a customer perspective? It seems like they're solving more of a scooter company problem than a customer problem. As a customer I can't imagine a case where I'd prefer to rent for weeks at a time vs. single-use or buying my own scooter.
Google is already established as a god awful vendor partner.

It’s reflected in their cloud divisions performance.

Anyone sane is using someone else if they can.
This is so awesome. Makes me really excited for the future of PyTorch—being able to define symbolic deriviatives in a python subset is super cool
humm I'd love to see thinner bezels and also face ID on the iMac.
outside the valley, recruiters aren't really needed (or at least not so much as to warrant the enormous bonuses they get for SF/PA). Recruiters get paid big bucks in Palo Alto and SF precisely because there's no housing there, thus it's much harder to convince people to move there and work there.

companies don't care because it's easier to pay recruiters big bonuses than it is to ask VCs or CEOs to get on an airplane a few times a year.
I'm pretty sure that A/B-testing shows an increase in ad engagement. Clearly, jumpy layouts must put users in a more positive, open mindset!
There are currently 50 development projects in the city of Santa Clara, population ~130,000. Most are residential. Many residential development projects that are active are tearing down light industrial and replacing with apartments and condos. For example, this 347 unit project described as follows:

"Project Description: SummerHill Apartment Communities proposes to demolish three existing light industrial buildings on a 3.06-acre site within the Tasman East Specific Plan area and replace them with one 347-unit apartment building and dedicate 0.4178 acres to be a City of Santa Clara park, which will include a dog park and children's play area. The proposed park also includes walking and bicycling paths which will connect into the broader Tasman East bicycle and pedestrian network. The proposed apartment building will include two stories of above-ground parking, seven stories of residential units with associated building amenities and a community garden. SummerHill proposes a total of 275,000 square feet of new residential area with 396 vehicular parking spaces and 24 bicycle parking spaces. The proposed project will include street and utility improvements and a lot line adjustment and merger to create two new parcels (one for residential and one for city park)."

http://santaclaraca.gov/Home/Components/BusinessDirectory/Bu...

Here is the full list:

http://santaclaraca.gov/businesses/development-projects-stor...
Don't forget the GPS in there as well.
It's stunning, that over 20 years of building the Web, we still do not have the equivalent of cash.

Most creators that make big bucks on Patreon do not use it for donations. They simply use it to sell stuff. Like https://www.patreon.com/PokeGo20 who have 62k "patreons" paying for a "fake my Pokemon Go position" software. Or https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse who make over $100k/month by selling access to their premium content.

Patreon is needed because selling on the net is such a hassle. Nobody wants to fiddle with their credit card unless it is important. Nobody wants to give it to "someone on the internet".

It's funny, because it would be so totally easy to create something like cash on the web. It just needs someone to start a business of selling tokens for $1.10 and buying them back from whoever comes first for $1. Voila - internet cash. Sell sealed tokens in stores (over the counter or via a machine that eats coins) - voila! anonymous internet cash.
Reddit, I can see that.

Would you want a reddit where every embedded video in a thread auto played though?

I'm guessing our disagreement is over who has final say over display of content? I would say the client, you would say the server (or creator)? Is that fair?
Discussion with Peter Thiel and Cornel West
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It's certainly not, but I think the company wants it like that because, largely, working in healthcare sucks. If you had C# experience and were tired of jumping through hoops and constantly having fires because of the demands of the medical industry, you probably wouldn't keep doing it if you could take those skills somewhere else.

That said, I was more referring to the bigger companies noted for how they treat employees well. Having a 20k employee building for, say, google, in one of the more sparsely populated areas of California, Oregon, or Washington would solve at least part of the problem, but then I'm guessing that whatever population lives there now would absolutely hate the company for coming in and taking over everything.
"Lowered priority of setTimeout and setInterval during page load to improve overall page load performance" , how will this improve performane? im askin to learn .
There is a meditation experience called the "Dark Night" where some people are overwhelmed by the dissociative "no self" feelings after meditation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-...
Why is this strange? The majority of lenders repackage and sell off loans that they originate. Of course they are prioritizing short term profit.

As for buyers, also what's not to love? Buying points gets you more cash flow than the reduced principal. There's some math to do, and some financial projection, where you expect to be in 5 years, etc. It's great to have the option.
Love this comment from earlier today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19429388
Emoji domains are supported by a handful of other TLDs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain#Availability_and_...

... but for right now, ICANN has decided not to allow emoji in domains:
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/idn-emojis-domai...
I'm struggling to understand how fewer casual gamers buying consoles would impact indie developers. Could you expand on your point?

Indie developers don't get a cut of console sales, but they do care about how many people buy/play their games, and if this widens the market it seems like it'd be a win for them to me.
It seems like the full story is always less than reputable contractors. Set up fresh accounts yourself, people!
Three million people still use Netflix to rent DVDs.
"Satellite imagery monitored the intensity of night lights in more than 3,300 cities and towns between 2013 and 2016"

I wonder if this accounts for a possible switch to favoring LEDs and better directional control that usually comes with it as a side effect.
One issue I thought of, if you're going to pull yourself away anyway, is to just put up a banner saying essentially:

"This app requires community sponsorship and we're trying to raise $20k in April 2019 or there will be no new releases and we will close the project."

One way to look at it is that if people can't pay or won't pay then they don't deserve it or they don't care.
Url changed from http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5569, which points to this.
I don't know, I worked in the gaming industry as well. Only left last year, but even then I was seeing a growing desire to move to host systems: https://nexus.vert.gg/gaming-on-amazon-s-ec2-83b178f47a34 or https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...

Larry Land even started working on Azure solutions. They were more stable, however, more expensive.

With all that said, there's definitely an interest to be hardware light. So this move into a hosted service should probably be pioneered by the big three hosts: AWS, Azure and Google. They are the biggest consumers of hardware at the moment. And have a hell of a lot more financial backup then Onlive (who only had one product to sell). Xbox has but to partner with their Azure counterparts. Although, I grant you there's probably little incentive due to them being hardware sellers.

All this hardware could have been used for better purposes, of course. Like AI training or Pharma... but like in Stross' Accelerando - it's all going to be used to run economics 2.0 anyway.
People are living longer and longer already, compared to ~50 years ago. Scientific progress doesn't seem to be slowing down, though it has shifted to different fields.
How does it cut the next generation off at the knees?

Building new housing and modifying existing housing costs several orders of magnitude more than it did a half century ago.

Why do you think someone would work 10-12-14 hours a day?

My wife works like that. She's definitely a type A. She's also an immigrant.

They are risk takers. Risk takers and A types are not altruistic.

Calling leaving room for young people to make their way, "altruism?" Arranging society to allow for the next generation is "Altruism!?" Sorry, but that's just good governance. When a society transforms, such that about the only people who can gracefully afford being 20-something newlyweds are 40-something professionals, that society has become truly ossified. In most times and places throughout history, there are places where young lower and working class people can be thrifty and make their way. It's disappearing from a lot of California.

You are asking these immigrants to say YES IN MY BACKYARD? Do you see the irony and/or the humour in that expectation?

My parents are immigrants and my wife is an immigrant. If one cares about the next generation, if one cares about upward social mobility, then "yes in my backyard" is the answer.

We went to a real estate meetup of my wife's alma mater. There was a young man who was with a project building shipping container mother-in-law units, with the goal of increasing density and reducing the cost of housing. Literally, "yes in my backyard" manifested in actual hardware.
Right, which is why I phrased it as a “few restrictions”, I do understand the point you’re making.

I suppose the reason I consider it restrictions is due to things like “in safe code you can not work with raw pointers”. That seems like a restriction to me, but I can see why saying that way is less accurate.
The new final step of company interview processes for Android devs:

Submit a demo app to the Google Play store using your developer account, your offer will be contingent upon app approval.
How to fix the college admissions system. Warning: You might hate this
About the first: Correlation does not imply causation. It's very difficult to be sure if the same communities that makes laws to force abstinence-only education also make other laws like forbidding than teenagers get sexual counseling in hospitals without their parents. (And it's imposible to be sure unless you kidnap all the children and put them in two isolated islands in randomized groups.)

Also, they classify the states according to the legislation about abstinence-only education:

0: no mention of abstinence

1: mention, but no promotion

2: promotion of abstinence

3: stressing abstinence as the fundamental teaching standard

It's very interesting that the pregnancy rates for 0 is very similar than 2. 1 is better, 3 is worse. Perhaps the states that don't mention it apply a strong implicit social pressure?

About the second one: I didn't expect this result.
On Android, whenever I want to copy something I have to wait a few seconds for the menu to fully load. Otherwise I end up tapping on the wrong icon. Quite irritating.
I love the next sentence:

> Shen Yun greeted me silently at the bus stop and loomed over highway exits, following me around on the physical plane of existence the way anything you shop for on the Internet starts to follow you around online.
Once you have your production systems running on a cloud vendor it becomes increasingly difficult to move off it regardless if you're only using OSS components, there's an inherent risk with every migration that grows the more services you use and years you host on it that needs to be offset with any migration and given the major cloud vendors are comparatively priced, there's little incentive to invest their time and energy doing that instead of focusing on their core business.

The small players will always stay niche, a cloud is effectively a network monopoly (like iOS and Android) with most companies only wanting to invest in the cloud that's going to have everything they need when they need it, they'll still offer proprietary services to differentiate against the other 2 cloud vendors and additional way to lock you in and make it harder to migrate away.

You could choose to build out your system to be completely cloud agnostic but that is generally regarded to be economically irresponsible in itself preventing you from leveraging the best features available in each cloud.
> It's been a really long time since I saw that movie, but to my memory only one of them was a scammer.

You really need to watch the movie again. Their entire operation is based on high-pressure sales. True hackers.
I'm curious which field Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens is supposed to apply to and rejected by, because it was part of one art-history class I had in art school. We didn't have to read the book itself though.
Does Tesla really dominate anyone in quality? I thought Yugo has been dead for a while.
The IDCAC extension just has a filter list for cookie popups and removes them the same way that ad blockers do.

In the uBlock Origin settings you can go to the 'Filter lists' tab and enable more filter lists, including ones that delete cookie popups.

Here are a few good ones:

Built In => uBlock filters - I have enabled all except experimental

Ads => Adblock Warning Removal List (messages asking you to disable adblocker)

Annoyances => Fanboy's Cookie, Annoyance, and Social Blocking Lists (social blocking deletes like/share buttons)
The worst part: the plans are fine! It's fine. I understand the need to fund what they do.

But, once again, they spin. From the FAQ: "Why the new plans?[...]The new plans better serve new creators by offering options, including more powerful tools for those that are ready for them. And they allow us to develop new features like Team Accounts and Merch for creators who really want them. We want to be around serving creators for decades to come. These changes set us on a solid path toward that goal, and will fuel investments in core product quality to improve the experience for all creators."

But this is nonsense. None of this is new save for team accounts and merchandise. They keep trying to pretend nothing has changed, but everything has. They want to become a full-service membership site tool while acting like they're still the tip jar/bonus content thing it started as. Just own what you want to be and become it without this corporate spin every time you make a small change in this direction.

Pivot or get off the gimbal.
Now, can I get this to run on my HP 50g...
Google Fiber hadn't truly failed, it just turned out to require more work than they'd hoped, so they just said "never mind" to the cities they'd led along with big promises: https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-...

They lack the ability to commit to a space and cultivate it, casually changing course on a whim and leaving masses of people spinning in their wake. Just look at how they've managed YouTube and its guidelines, bans, etc. Or the Play Store and all of its debacles. Were I a game developer, I would never want to be beholden to a Google gaming platform.

Case in point:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19432702
Twitter is the modern day equivalent of a printing press, they can choose to print whatever they'd like, or not - trying to liken them to a common carrier is in my opinion absurdity.

The man who owns the press, controls the speech.
You are not a commodity
GDPR actually asked for a "right to explanation" in these cases. The actual implementation is different from one country to another.
That's really not my experience. Since I always take notes when watching videos, I find being without my keyboard an absolute pain. I tried once to bring both my laptop and my tablet out on a short trip. I just used the tablet for an hour throughout the whole trip before I decided to just use the laptop for everything. It's much more productive, especially with window managers such as xmonad.

Also when I'm on my tablet browsing news etc., time flies by really quickly without me having got a lot of things done. IMO if you're using an electronic device, you should aim for maximum productivity. Otherwise it's easy to engage yourself in low-quality activities without paying much attention.
Sony launched Playstation Now 5 years ago. This is not a particularly new idea.
Given the number products and services that Google has shuttered over the years and their focus on learning all there is about their users, I am going to sit this one out.

There is definitely some cool work here though: being able to have access to a library of games without lugging around a console or computer is an interesting idea with both pros and cons. The pro that I can think of is not having to be responsible for upgrades. The con is that we continue to move towards a world where we rent more and own less.
Anybody who thinks they can drop $1.5 million+ into an asset without risk needs reality check on how entitlements don't work. Besides the world doesn't owe any one an insurance for stupid ideas.
A world of message-oriented programming languages (2018)
They use the same back end.
Won’t latency be a giant problem?
Really, really depends on the specific house.
Are you entirely sure? I've experienced a small amount of this myself, but its so small, I'm really not sure if it wasn't there all along (and I wasn't looking for it)
> That site that you're about to reload because it isn't doing anything? Suddenly loads just as your finger is depressing the mouse button to reload.

I dont think thats coincidence. More likely, the browser already has downloaded the page itself but is waiting for some resource before rendering it. If you reload, it renders what it has immediately.
Including animal-free "milk" as an infant?
The server will know what frame you were seeing when you pressed your button. So it rewinds it's state machine the appropriate number of frames (hopefully just 1), applies the input, and fast forwards again.

This may result in a visual glitch, but you won't have missed your target.
This hasn't been my experience. My natural sleep cycle is something like 2am-10am, but for a span of 6 months I was able to develop a habit of 9:30pm-5:30am. In the morning I'd immediately go to the gym and then upon return (~7am) start doing work. It was one of the most productive periods of my life.

Unfortunately, despite seeing the benefits of the early-morning schedule, over time I reverted back to my night-owl tendencies.
We used Procyon Common Lisp because it was very nicely integrated with the Macintosh - especially for graphics - and had a great CLOS implementation. I used it to reimplement a clunky VAX-based FORTRAN modelling environment that had been developed in-house into a smooth Macintosh app with a graphical node-graph editor. In all of the system development I've done, this had the biggest 'awesome gosh wow' reaction I've ever received from the users.