skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really bugs me when people make extremely blanket statements like this.

This is a huge success story that I was part of: https://cloud.google.com/customers/gearlaunch/

At our peak, we were processing $500,000 of online orders per day and spending about $5k/month on our entire GPC bill. It was a rounding error compared with our income.

The biggest expenditure was actually on the Postgres database servers that we needed for our analytics, not on AppEngine.
I believe that you are making a mistake when you say "not an opinion" in your (parent) post.

The words "appear to be" in one of the above quotes precisely indicates that this is a statement of opinion, and not a statement of fact. When we say "the wall is blue", we are talking about the color of the wall factually. When we say "the wall appears blue", we are talking about how someone sees the wall, which is a subjective observance; the wall may appear to be a color other than blue to someone else with a different pair of eyes.

At least one word, "is", refers to things as a matter of fact. Other words like "appears", "seems", or the sub-phrase "I think", are indicators that we're probably talking about a statement of opinion. This may be a useful rule to follow when reading news stories. I think it seems relevant here. (SwIdt?)
Running VSCode in Docker
I listen to dance music, with no words. Mostly trance and acid.
Not just modern medicine. Most government programs originate out of first order thinking. Most corporate plans, too, for that matter.
No, but they are cyclists who would benefit from having an easier ride thanks to less car traffic.
I don't think anyone has mentioned Opera yet. Why? It's quite a bit snappier than FF imo, and has extensions like uBlock Origin/HTTPS Everywhere/Privacy Badger available (and the ability to install Chrome extensions).

Edit: I know it's chromium-based, but still wondering!
what.cd was private and invite only though with strict seeding policies.
Seems not, but there is for mod_gzip for example. I'd definitely consider it common.
Oh the nostalgia... Had one.
This went around a little while ago and at that time I could find no other information about a Bell Labs facility in Oakland. Does anyone have any information about that? Where was it?
So your take is that the column shows near constant movements of multiple degrees back and forth practically on a second to second basis, in the grip of someone trying to hold it steady at +10 aft, and who asked several times for help keeping it back enough to keep the nose up, but that that is not in and of itself indication that the force was "high"

okay
> Plenty of people make road trips. Growing up all we did was drive, often times 15 hours, for vacation.

Same here. I also grew up taking long road trips with my family, and took plenty of long trips when I had an ICE vehicle, and now take plenty of long trips in my EV, which is my point. It is eminently possible and practical to do road trips in an EV with access to the super charger network. That is the only point I was trying to make. The parent's comment was that road trips are more conveniently done in a gasoline vehicle than in a modern (Tesla) EV. I've driven the Model 3 up and down the east coast twice now (both by myself and with human/canine accompaniment), and do not feel as though I'm sacrificing any convenience when compared to previously doing so in an ICE.

> This is rather tone deaf. Not surprised. A car designed and priced for rich people, attracts rich people.

Ad hominem, not necessary, and not correct. You have no idea or right to assume my financial situation or what I may have or have not sacrificed to purchase a given vehicle. I'm simply relating my personal experience and it appears it does not agree with your preconceived notions about EV ownership.

I do not think it's that outrageous nor tone deaf to say that if minimizing time spent traveling is the most important thing, you will optimize that equation by paying to fly instead of driving. Some people enjoy spending the time on the road with their family, just enjoy driving, or want to (or need to) save money on airfare, and will drive instead of fly.

> But the value isn't there yet, for me to switch from ICE.

And that's fine. I'm not a sales person, and I'm not trying to convince you to buy a Tesla. We obviously have different value propositions and that's fine (such as the relative importance of "eco-friendliness"). I commented because I genuinely hope for a faster national transition to EVs for the sake of our air quality, energy security, and foreign policy. I become bothered when people who have no hands-on experience with EVs bemoan their shortcomings, so as a driver in a very happy EV-only household, I feel the need to help educate people that there are very few sacrifices to be made by switching. I believe that the vast majority of people don't realize that they could switch to an EV today and it would not significantly impact their daily lives, except they would have to plug their car in at night like their phone, and wouldn't have to go to gas stations ever again.

> gas is cheap anyway

To an individual consumer, yes, but as a society (as evidenced by your exact statement), we haven't even begun to account for the externalities of our fossil fuel-based economy, and I hope (perhaps idealistically) that we will soon.
Lol look how many went back after Trump
Pocket Premium costs $45/yr for a subscription, so they're definitely monetizing it. (I'm a subscriber.)

https://getpocket.com/premium
Let's keep moving the goalpost and changing the topic. :) But I'll indulge you since you need a quick history lesson.

Toyota:
Founded: August 28, 1937

Ford
Founded: June 16, 1903

Tesla Motors:
Founded: July 1, 2003

So what's your point exactly?
I thought this twitter thread by Kelsey Piper was pretty good:

> as I look through her history I am mostly confused why she was chosen in the first place. She doesn't have any background in tech. She doesn't have any prior writing or research related to AI. No background in the other topics that come up - surveillance, data privacy, international security. She's mostly a culture warrior, so no wonder now we're having a culture war.

https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1113544871292182528
Basically moved to my dream tech stack, jealous of the SRE’s over there.
It's frankly bizarre to have a knee-jerk reaction that new technology is worse. New technology is probably better, given that it was created by people who had more context about both problems and solutions than was available when older technology was created. When I hear people talking about doing the same thing for 10 years I wonder what problem they are working on that could be so complex that in 10 years they have not managed lights-out automation for it. My suspicion is that attitudes like yours are not only wrong but also massively destructive of value.
What does Homepagr offer over the browser's native bookmarks and the ever-present bookmark bar? It's not obvious from the website, and there's not even a registration link. I figured out that the "login" input emails me a magic link, but most people wouldn't.

Also, it's not responsive, so works rather poorly on mobile, and doesn't look very appealing.

Despite my critique, I love the idea, but I think it needs more polish and functionality before people are willing to pay for it.
It's related to the incentive structures of big corporations. Profit for investors is the primary goal, and the only real constraint is the legal system (where loopholes are often found or bought). People are viewed through the lense of KPIs.

It's clear why this type of system selects for leaders who do not value ethics, respect the law, or value the individual. I'm not sure what to call these leaders, but sociopath doesn't seem too far off.
I've heard of some professional cyclists years ago who turned their bodies into such efficient biking machines from training + drugs that when they when to sleep, there was a change of them dying in their sleep because their heart rate was so slow. They'd have to get up in the middle of the night and bike just to stay alive. Only anecdotal, but worth considering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8GZlBBv5k
> Why the hell do we need "mail fraud" and "wire fraud"?

Mail fraud and wire fraud are federal crimes where the federal Constitutional power justifying federal law is the postal authority and the interstate commerce clause via the national character of the covered telecommunication networks, respectively.

The US federal government has no Constitutional authority for a general fraud law.

That aside, there are various ways specialized domains create risks of particular conduct that might carry the same general problem as fraud in general, but where the context makes it important to define the prohibited conduct differently than is appropriate for general fraud laws.
The 7nm Pileup
The "cultural freedom of driving" in America means a majority of Americans need a license form the government just to leave their homes and return with a gallon of milk.

It's really a bizarre way to define freedom.
Ahh man I remember GL quake dropping and before the voodoo, or Riva 128 I had the ... Matrox Mystique 4mb!!! Was amazed and also sorely dissatisfied.
Thus began the video card race/upgrade journey.

Voodoo, Riva 128, tnt, voodoo2, lol don’t forget that power VR, what an amazing time to live
Is anybody else a little creeped out by this recent insistence that we refer to everything being done as an "issue"? I never agreed to this. I don't know where it came from, but it's really weird.

Issue implies something is already wrong with what is being built.

How can we be wrong when we haven't even started yet? It's utter madness
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_property
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There are a lot of well-taken comments in this thread. However, in reading the Lion crash report and this one, it strikes me that there is a fundamental difference in the crashes. In this case, it appears that the pilots had very little knowledge about the reasons why the anti-stall system was implemented. And their combined flight time on the MAX is absolutely pitiful. In short, normally one thinks of a stall as a low speed event. In this case, by switching to manual with an improperly trimmed plane, it began a process which could be magnified by an accelerated turn (one of the reasons the MACS exists in the first place.) They began executing a rapid 180 degree turn at >300 knots, which is shown on the attitude graph, headed back to the airport. With a heavily loaded plane, is there any reason to doubt this wouldn't induce a high speed stall? The plane became so unstable, as it was outside of its operating envelope, they could not manually trim it. When they used electric trim it turned the anti-stall system back on, and it nose-dived the plane. The Boeing manual and/or directive says once you turn it off, it stays off. If they were unable to manually trim, is it really much of a surprise given their airspeed and rapid turn? So you ultimately see an electric trim which did little to help them, and assured anti-stall would kick in again. The report shows that neither of the pilots had signifcant experience in the MAX. The CVR is replete with ignored overspeed warnings, and stall warnings. An experienced pilot would know the danger is not a low speed stall, but a high speed stall accelerated by a mismanaged turn. By the time they tried to electrically trim it, it was over. Many planes are not aerodynamically stable without computer assistance. This crash is far different from the Lion crash. And I have not seen a single news outlet state the conclusions (or lack thereof) in the report accurately.
People may get angry about this fact, but it really is the simple reality of an executive's fiduciary obligations. Ideally you run the enterprise in a manner that keeps the discharge of fiduciary duties within your personal moral constraints, but if you're not careful enough, you end up in this guy's shoes. And that's why they pay him the big bucks, because of such risks.

That said, it's also true that Boeing is in a boatload of trouble. This is gonna get ugly. Likely not for the CEO. I'm pretty sure his signature is not on any of the relevant paperwork. But now that this report has been released, it might be prudent for people who do have their signatures on the relevant paperwork just to consult with some legal counsel. I suspect Boeing, as a company, wouldn't hesitate to throw them under the bus.
There is only one solution to this problem. MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE.

These houses would cost less than half this amount in 99% of the country. So long as too many people insist on living in the same zip code, the problem is not solvable.
Going to a closed-source browser owned by a big chinese company because you're worried about Mozilla's open source browser seems like a hard sell.
Where do you draw that line? - I mean no person who understand the addictive power of nicotine would make this kind of statement.
As someone who uses voice software, sometimes to see, sometimes to control... JS is hell.

It can hijack elements after I think I know what they contain.

It can abandon the DOM and use the canvas.

And most of the time if you're rebuilding elements in JS the developer forgets to tag things correctly... So all I know is that there's an img that has appeared out of nowhere.
Neither safe nor affordable are booleans. They are on a scale, and a dependency exists between them.

Anybody may have a different judgement with respect to exactly where on the scale is appropriate, but we cannot just pretend that there's no trade-off to be made. Or that absolute safety is even a possibility.
For Aurora we are on a db.r4.8xlarge, which is ~$3340 per month for the instance alone. Aurora also charges for IOPS against storage, and we pay about $350 per month for those IOPS. Our DB is ~400 GB, so ~$40 per month for that as well.

I am pretty sure we could live comfortably on a db.r4.4xlarge, but we have some bursty analytics applications that sometimes bring our load up for about a minute, and we like the peace of mind of headroom during peak hours (we are in edtech with super predictable traffic throughout US school hours).

Total side note: I just went to the pricing page and it looks like they just released db.r5 instances for Aurora (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/)! It might be time to try those out. I don't see an announcement just yet though...
Seriously. Development phase or iteration is way better. It's also more of a flexible concept. It doesn't need to always be two weeks or whatever. We just decide what to do next and then do that.
Then all business is fraud.
So they emailed you about a new service; shrug. Of all the "spam" you could possibly receive this is by far the most useful.

What is it with all Firefox/Mozilla hating as of late? They don't seem to be able to do anything right in the eyes of some people, and seem to be held to a ridiculously high standard (far higher than anyone else).
This article reminds me of tree searches. One of the results we've found in various AI related investigations into the playing of games is that a good policy selects the action which maximizes the value of a future state. A good value for an action corresponds with where that action would eventually leave the agent. The article points out that a person will get better results by expanding the tree out to a depth beyond one. This is usually true. Interestingly, humans are real time and so we also experience contexts in which this is not true. Expansion takes precious time. Thus, one of the cognitive biases which sometimes steers us away from more optimal answers.
I think you have it wrong. As far as I understand, an operation is idempotent if you can perform it any number of times consecutively (without another operation taking place), and have the resulting state be the same. So for the elevator, you can press it 1 time, or 100 times, and it will have the same result of calling the elevator to your floor, so long as no operation (ex. The elevator arriving at your floor) takes place in between button presses.
> we'll all get a bunch of cool new services

And what if they win out in building a monopoly?
Conversations with Dez – Talking with Josh Goodell – VP Intelligent Edge, AT&T
An excellent quote. The line between the two isn't always clear either, though usually the uncertainty is in only one direction for me, i.e., things I thought were clever at the time turn out to be stupid down the line.
You can buy an orca card for $5 and then add money on it at multiple places.
I'm not sure operators are a good example, they can be idempotent or not depending on the implementation. The operator is a function that takes two values and return a result: result = op(left, right).
The AppEngine Standard Java 8 API is severely limited because it is coupled to the Servlet API, which severely screwed up on the design of its async API. As a Scala developer, this limitation pretty much sinks the platform for me, since the flexible environment is really expensive and has a worse value proposition vs managed Kubernetes.
Every time you change part of a system, even if you claim you're "improving" it, you introduce risk. That is my holistic view of this aircraft: the 737's record is not meaningless but it is also far from the whole picture for the MAX. Any new system introduces the potential for defects that were not present on previous models, and for unanticipated integration issues with existing systems.

Add in the facts that Boeing has been caught red-handed implementing a half-baked engineering solution as a regulatory dodge, and that this solution has to date crashed two aircraft and killed 346 (IIRC) people, and your view starts to look downright naive. You might call these tragedies "working out the kinks"; I call them wholly preventable, and evidence that human lives don't carry the proper weight in Boeing's financial calculus.
As a first step, check your CPU model on ark.intel.com (if it's an Intel):

https://ark.intel.com

In theory (!) for older generation chips like yours and the one in the article, the maximum listed there (if present) will be correct.

For example, for the i5-750 listed in the article it shows 16GB maximum, which the article author was then able to make work:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/42915/i...

If yours shows 16GB as well, you may be in luck. :)
Boston has a proxy to congestion pricing: parking spaces are heavily regulated. Inside Boston proper they are effectively capped. Outside of the Seaport, you cannot build new parking.

The rationale is that if you build more parking, people will drive to reach the parking spots, and it will cause more traffic congestion.

What this translates to is parking being really, really expensive. You can drive downtown any time, and there WILL be a parking spot waiting for you. But will cost you $15 for the first hour at minimum. So nobody does it if they don't need to.

If you're, say, a hotshot surgeon and need a parking spot by your nice apartment, you can buy one. They're called deeded parking spots: plots of land sized for parking, which you can buy and sell. You have to pay property tax on them. The cheapest one in Boston recently sold for $60K. Others have sold for $250K. For 12 feet by 20 feet of land.

We have a road system. It's congested, but not insanely so. And everyone knows not to use it if you can avoid it. But when you do need it, it's there. I would never drive to work, but if I need to go to Mass General Hospital, I can just budget $40 for parking and get in the car.
Conversations with Dez: Talking with Robert Boyanovsky VP Ent. Mobility AT&T
Thank you for sharing this! I’m curious to learn more about your “mixed feelings” regarding built-in kustomize support in 1.14?
People are hedging their answers. I'd go with the Bloomberg terminal and a lot of books.
I remember the Voodoo 2 SLI. I know it stands for something slightly different now but at least its a small remnant of that past.

I wonder if nvidia actually got much ip out of the acquisition.
What if you tally up the amount of delay you should have done, then when it gets to a big enough granularity where a sleep call would actually give you that amount, sleep.

Eg. Don't try to sleep accurately between the simulated cycles. Let things happen "too fast" for longer and do the delays in batches.

Not sure if this would wind up perceivably too bursty. Just an idea based on things I have seen in other domains.

For the record I don't think spinning is too bad of it's a very short duration, shorter than the scheduler will give you when you take your thread off the CPU.
I have never worked in a field more obsessed with talking about how it does its work. Today we're standing on one leg. Tomorrow we're programming in downward dog stance. Next week, we're gonna try the Red Bull diet and see how that goes.

This really doesn't have to be that hard. You talk to people. You figure out what's important. Then you do that stuff. Then you talk to more people again.
Not to be crass but this is a relatable example for many I'm sure- it's no different than finding a Playboy magazine back then, as opposed to extreme, explicit hardcore websites today.

Never mind the pictorials, the depressing thing about finding a Playboy issue from the 1960s era is the sheer literacy of the thing. You really could read it for the articles back then.
> Lol something about living thousands of miles away from most destinations motivates that sort of startup I suppose :D.

Yes definitely. Actually we're slightly worried that we've got too much of an australian centric view on travel. Everything is 12 hours away so we end up only planning big trips instead of many small ones. That said nearby places are often overlooked. Cook Islands and Dili have been appearing quite a few times recently.

> As a quick note I think even the simple version would benefit from 'justification' behind the recommendation

Yes, 100%. The results page has a legend of sorts and it shows red when criteria is not compatible (after you select the destination card).

Dynamic text has been a bit challenging for us. We will revisit it again soon because I agree, people benefit from the explanation. However we want to avoid a scenario where the dynamic text for Results 1-5 are identical (or effectively identical if we just replace words with their synonyms)
Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
The Colors of Our Dreams
My Apache installation with modules takes 4.3MB, and I'm quite sure Apache with modules can do more than Algernon.
Most government agencies are incapable of having a good workforce. There are strict rules for hiring, paying, and firing. These rules involve all sorts of political nonsense unrelated to job performance, such as veteran status and seniority. The high-performing workers will go where they will be appreciated and rewarded, and where they won't be surrounded by useless and awful people.

Absent a politically impossible change to the way the government handles employment, trimming the ranks is the only way to get rid of the harmful parasites that infest the typical government agency.