skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm months away from leaving the 20-something club, and looking back at what I wrote to myself in my journal, it's amazing how much my own views and temperament have changed in even five years. Looking at fresh college grads now, I have moments of realizing "this is how I looked to the senior members of my team."

It's humbling. It's also encouraging to extrapolate that into how much more room there is to grow.
I was responding to this point:

> the whole bitcoin climate change story isn’t true
They have a proportionate control over the EU due to their population. Right now the vote went to the council where it needs a qualified majority (I think). This means that 55% of the member states (16) have to vote for it and 65% of the population has to have voted for it.
I might have missed a product announcement today, but is this Cloud Armor (https://cloud.google.com/armor/)?

If so, no, though we're working on supporting Cloud Armor, CDN, Load Balancing, etc.
> There isn’t a gulf of difference between using Netlify and creating a Dokku droplet

There absolutely is.

There might be one click deployment for tools as DO droplets, but if you're the target user for that kind of thing, you're probably taking on more responsibility than you're even understanding. It might even be that the one click setup has good security defaults and automatic updates set up. It might continue to work without any issue and any intervention for a long time, but by luck/coincidence. On netlify it will continue to work because someone is taking care of the things that need to be taken care of, not because of luck/coincidence.

Another perspective: You're a JS/HTML/CSS developer. Heartbleed happens. On netlify, you don't even need to pay attention. On DO you at the very least need to understand how to check that all your servers are updated.

Another perspective: I've managed linux servers before. I know how to do it. I don't enjoy it.
> I've spend a lot of time in Berlin, and I find it hard to read. Mostly in that sometimes it's relatively annoying to determine what lines will get me from Station A to Station B.

You sound like a person who walked up to me yesterday with a Google maps opened asking me how she would get to her destination in Google maps.

> For example, let's say you're a tourist and you arrive at Hauptbahnhof, and you need to get to get to Alexanderplatz - what lines will get you there?

The smartphone is there not just to listen to podcasts or watch TV
Why can't they just allow the user to whitelist recaptcha?
Same, and the post office photographer even had a great technique for getting an infant to look at the camera and not smile.
If you want to set up HTTPS with CloudFront, it's your certificates in AWS Certificate Manager that must be in us-east-1.

There is no restriction on S3 bucket regions.
Password Reset and Web-Cache Poisoning (and a Little Surprise in RFC-2616)
The other opposite is where companies only believe in '10x' developers at the expense of everyone else.
"In literally everything else, hierarchy is by age."

Hierarchy is by age because ability to lead and make good decisions is heavily correlated with age, because that's heavily correlated with experience, one of the most relevant metrics. It is so heavily correlated with age that many companies and/or unions have in various ways institutionalized that connection and reified it beyond what is justified by the facts.

There are young people who can lead. I suspect in the vast bulk of those cases a lot of that leadership is the wisdom to listen to more experienced people, and adapt it to their local circumstances. There is nothing wrong with that; it legitimately would put them ahead of their peers and bring great value to both them and whoever hires them. I suspect the number of cases of a brilliant young leader who is truly just doing it on their own is so small as to be not something worth worrying yourself about. Probably a lot of young would-be leaders have been hurt by the idea that it is some Platonic aspect of their youth they should be pursing and the fogies should just be ignored if not actively contradicted; that's very rarely a way to get ahead. The cases I can think of where some young founder "showed them" are not cases where they tore up the old rule book and did everything in a fresh new way, but more cases where they identified a particular inefficiency in the old ways and exploited that, because you really can't make progress by simply doing the opposite of whatever worked in the past.

"My feeling is, the ability for young people to be in charge is similar to (but not as impactful as) other historic opening-of-opportunities for people in the workforce."

No, I wouldn't think so. Those other "historic" opportunities all revolve around things that are attributes of people that are immutable. Your age is not such an attribute. Indeed, many wish it were immutable. But it's not. Certainly we want to make sure that young people have a path forward into leadership and management, because society's ongoing existence requires it, but they don't need any sort of special management affirmative action program or anything. Time will take care of your youth, in all senses of the term, whether you like it or not.
> Should a flight from Northern Europe to Tenerife really cost 90€ while blowing enormous amounts of CO2 into the damaged atmosphere?

It's not authoritarianism to simply increase taxes for kerosine to be more in line with car fuels. But the Gores and Schwarzeneggers like flying around the globe to Davos and other places to spread their message.
Qualcomm Reveals “Cloud AI 100” Family of Datacenter AI Inference Accelerators
A state backed supplier is different to a subsidy.

In the past the only way that solar and wind were economical was if the state covering part of the cost of the energy created - so the company could sell at x cents a unit and the govt would pay a proportion of that or a fixed amount per unit, agreed before the plant came online.

The state owning an energy production company is a different thing and is relatively common in Europe.

Also - do you know how much nearly all govt subsidise all engery suppliers? Coal, gas and nuclear? It is huge! I'll find some stats, but nuclear couldn't exist without massive subsidies and without the state picking up the cost of decommissioning. Even gas and coal get major breaks and deals - these are just the price that states pay for power (yes even in the US).

The aluminium company buying energy options again is not that unusual - I agree understanding if there are tax breaks would be good, but I wouldn't assume there are until I saw it documented.
You can find blocklists on github, here is an example:

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
If you paid people a wage that didn't tie them to a place, or if they could get that 20 bucks an hour no matter where they lived, they'd likely relocate to someplace cheaper.

What do we do with all the people who's jobs are automated out of existence? Do we prevent the automation from happening, or do we just pay people for doing nothing? That's the question I'm positing.
> They will not hesitate to put someone on literally the next plane...

Definitely have heard cases of that happening, with large enough accounts.

But also plenty of stories of problems being ignored, same as Google Cloud has a reputation for. :(
The revolution will be optimized.
>Are you generalizing across all "young people"? Or are you assuming what I mean? I was not trying to argue that we as a society, and especially as individuals, shouldn't help the displaced. What I have a problem with is the essentially Communist rhetoric we are using to justify removal from and placement in jobs.

I think we are on the same page. I was just saying that if we are moving towards automation and the corporations are going to push for it, policies should be in place beforehand to help those displaced. Specifically from the profits of that automation. Not even the tax payers. Then as the whole industry shifts, the social services can be used to compensate whole populations. I am not writing policies and I am definitely not an expert. But the conversation of automation and job removal should include compensation for those displaced.

>I think the core issue is a fundamental lack of understanding on the part of the politician/person.

Yes, I agree. And the rush to prove the other side wrong. Which is usually accompanied by extreme examples and unfounded rhetoric.
Big Tech’s ‘dark patterns’ could be outlawed under new Senate bill
I think GCP hasn't cancelled products either? The comparison would have to be to Amazon as a whole. And they must have a graveyard just as big as Google's.

Remember when Amazon used to run a search engine? No? They were really big into it. I even used it for a while, around 2006. Then they cancelled it, with no replacement. Remember the Fire Phone? Unsurprisingly they quickly discontinued it with no successor. (And before you object... By the standards of the "Google kills all products" meme not making a follow-up to a hardware device counts. And this wasn't the Fire Phone riding slowly into the sunset with a deprecation period.)

They had competitors for Paypal, for Yahoo Answers,
Amazon used to have a Paypal competitor too. They killed it with no replacement. How about that Yahoo Answers competitor they had. Guess what? Dead. With no replacement. Amapedia, their "wikipedia for products sold on Amazon" is of course dead. Because it was an Amazon product, and that's what Amazon do. They make products, and then they kill them.

But somehow you're willing to give Amazon a free pass, while thinking that the worn-out joke about Google is a "valid point".
TLL was way ahead of its time, IMHO. Fast forward 10 years and Desert Strike is a hit on the Megadrive! I can vaguely remember proper flightsims on the Speccy (one required a lens-lock! remember those?) :) This is going to bug me now - I'm going to be sat here all evening trying to think up games from back in the day!
Ford CEO Tamps Down Expectations for First Autonomous Vehicles
4G is very patchy in some urban areas and doesn't give quite the speed needed to make it so you don't need Wi-Fi/broadband at home. 5G has a hierarchy of connections at different frequencies to give better coverage.
People seem too simply not know what goes on in the EU. And even if they do they feel powerless about it in smaller countries. I'm in an ex-Soviet country and some of the older people I've talked to about it have said that they think they have as much of a say in the EU as they did in the Soviet Union. (Which is none.)
I like the app, it’s very intuitive, I’m considering making it my go-to weather resource. I think it could be improved by adding an hourly forecast - perhaps consider adding a slider for how the blob will change over the course of the next 24 hours?
Product manager for Cloud Run on GKE here.

Cloud Run on GKE brings a managed experience for Knative/serving and Istio that aligns with Cloud Run. We install and manage the Knative version in your cluster and keep it running for you. Above what you get with base Kubernetes ability to deploy a container, Cloud Run on GKE gives you request-based auto-scaling of container instances, network programming with Istio, and Stackdriver integration for logging, monitoring, and metrics. You also get the Cloud Run UI and CLI to deploy, manage, and update your services.

One of our core goals with Cloud Run is to enable serverless portability; not just for workloads, but tooling and developer experiences. By offering Cloud Run in both a hosted and Kubernetes platform, both enabled by Knative, you can leverage compatible serverless tooling and knowledge across the range of platforms from hosted to GKE to k8s anywhere.
>Raising minimum wage will definitely force low end wages up but my worry is will it also raise prices by the same percentage (within some small timeframe) such that the employees buying power remains the same.

Fortunately the recent increases in minimum wages in several US locales means that there is quite a lot of data available for studies that assess the impact of minimum wage increases on prices.

For example, from "The Effects of Increasing the Minimum Wage on Prices: Analyzing the Incidence of Policy Design and Context (2016)" [0]

>By looking at changes in restaurant food pricing during the period of 1978–2015, MacDonald and Nilsson find that prices rose by just 0.36 percent for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, which is only about half the size reported in previous studies. They also observe that small minimum wage increases do not lead to higher prices and may actually reduce prices.

The interestingly-named page "$15 Minimum Wages Will Substantially Raise Prices" [1] from the Heritage Foundation cites multiple studies showing that a 10 increase in minimum wage will increase prices between 0.2% and 1.8% with most estimates around 1%. (Perhaps their definition of substantial is different from mine?)

>Sarah Lemos of the University of Leicester surveyed roughly 30 studies conducted before 2005 examining minimum-wage price effects. These studies found that minimum-wage increases have relatively small effects on the overall price level. They reported that a 10 percent minimum-wage increase raises overall prices by about 0.2 percent to 0.3 percent.

>Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Department of Agriculture, published a study in 2008 examining how restaurants respond to minimum-wage increases.
They used Consumer Price Index (CPI) data and examined the 1996–1997 federal minimum-wage increase. They found that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage raises overall restaurant prices approximately 0.7 percent. Unsurprisingly, they found larger effects in restaurants that employ more minimum-wage workers. Prices increased twice as much—by approximately 1.5 percent—at fast-food restaurants. In lower-wage regions, fast-food prices rose 1.8 percent.

>In 2010, Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, and Hervé Le Bihan, researchers at the Bank of France, criticized the econometric model that Aaronson and his co-authors used. [...] They concluded that a 10 percent minimum-wage increase raises restaurant prices by approximately 1 percent, although it takes one to three years for price increases to fully materialize

>This survey records the price of a McDonald’s quarter-pounder, a regular Pizza Hut cheese pizza, and Kentucky Fried Chicken fried drumsticks across America. They found that a 10 percent increase in required starting wages raises the price of burgers and pizza by about 1 percent. Curiously they found little effect on KFC chicken prices.

[0] https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/does-increasing-m...

[1] https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/15-minimum-wa...
Text of the act is here: https://www.scribd.com/document/405606873/Detour-Act-Final but I didn't think it was a good submission source, because it takes extensive reading to get to the meat of it.
Unlike other mediums, the number of people who play games has grown exponentially over those 20 years.

I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of people who play games now have never experienced Shenmue even though it was a blockbuster title on the 9 million Dreamcasts that shipped worldwide.

And you're not only spoiling the 20 year old version, you're also spoiling the HD remaster that can be bought right now on PC.
Yeah, that sort of thing is one of the reasons why I dislike HTML5 so much.
DigitalOcean Acquires Nanobox
Ask HN: What CRM system do you use other than Salesforce?
My company needs to move off a legacy (unsupported, but working) system and we're in talks with Salesforce. It's not cheap, but they appear to be the dominant player in this market.

We had a project to move to SugarCRM about 5-7 years ago, but it failed for reasons unrelated to SugarCRM. At the time, I didn't really have a good opinion of it, though, which is why we're looking at Salesforce now.

When I went to SFO a couple of weeks ago I saw billboards for Salesforce competitors, but I couldn't see the company names. They referenced (I think) things like being cheaper and easier to use.

Are there better solutions out there than Salesforce? If so, I'd like to look at them.

Thanks.
Pros and cons of using multiple Kubernetes clusters
Is there a reason you can't/wouldn't want to use Knative? Or what if you can run something like "Cloud Run on GKE on AWS" (where your GKE cluster is managed [updated] by Google but running on AWS)?
> what is non binary

Analog.
The point of democracy is that individuals, or even small groups of individuals have almost no say in governance.

So, yes, you are supposed to attach yourself to larger umbrella movements, to get your opinions heard. It's by design.

One other small difference between the EU, and the USSR, is that T-54 tanks don't start rolling in, when your country decides to hold a little regime change... Or even a general strike.
"How does a deployable web-application know where it is? Creating a trustworthy absolute URI is trickier than it sounds. Developers often resort to the exceedingly untrustworthy HTTP Host header (_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] in PHP)"...
I would argue on the contrary, that this bill is massively helpful and much in line with the EU's focus on reigning in abuse by the tech industry. It'd be far preferable to implement this as-is and fix edge cases if needed than fail to act against these behemoths now.
We're working on adding new regions in the near future, so stay tuned!
> I'd suggest people learn how to do plumbing and electrical work. It's not work that can be easily automated, and plumbers are often charging more than lawyers.

It mostly just that people don't understand what automation is, and especially not many of the self-proclaimed experts. You automate things like electrical work like you "automate" Uber, by making it unskilled. You put all the logic in the terminal, if not the cables, so almost anyone can do it. In a longer time span you might just change the whole wiring to something else, like lower powered dc.

That said there is no need to go crazy. We are undergoing a second industrial revolution with information instead of energy, but overall the same rules apply. If we just make things better for people we will be alright.
>I also question the suggestions that longer published flight times mean more CO2 and there's no incentive for airlines to become more efficient.

>Just the other day I flew out of NYC and it took us 40+ minutes of being in a queue to take off behind 15-20 other planes because reasons.

That anecdote is exactly why the claim that there is no incentive for airlines to increase efficiency is so bogus. The vast majority of scheduling delays occur because of on-the-ground and ATC issues that are the sole responsibility of the airports involved. An airline can't do much to combat the inefficiencies that result from a notoriously incompetent airport and their inability to properly manage traffic so gates clear on time.
I dunno, a lot of people in NYC live above Duane Reade’s, or Best Buy’s or whatever.
Privacy Assistant Jumbo Launches
Fantastic service. We've moved some of our SPA's out of our Heroku infrastructure and into Netlify. The integration with GitHub (and Slack), automated builds and deploys, together with the built-in support for rewrites and a reverse proxy works great and has made our workflow easier and faster.
A whole group of ferrets scurrying around and shouting "business!" is how I picture the inside of every corporate office. — https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7ub8l2/comment/d...
I think it was a myth that the tech was ever the hardest part. Perhaps, it was when you could roll in huge amounts of cash just by offering a digital version of something. It was so easy to market something that the tech looked impossible.
If they're not doing something with some societal value and they're not homesteading how do they provide for themselves?
Hi Mike, this looks great. I took it for a test-drive with some OpenFaaS functions. https://www.openfaas.com/blog/openfaas-cloudrun/
> Luckily, I found https://legacy.python.org/download/releases/src/, which includes source releases as far back as Python 1.0.1, which was released just over 25 years ago on February 15th, 1994.

There's also Python 0.9.1, which I extracted from alt.sources. It's available from https://www.python.org/download/releases/early/ . I had to patch it a bit to compile. It works, but last time I tried it it segfaulted on exit.

FWIW, the Python repository goes back to the original commit, so it's also possible to extract a snapshot from any date.
Too many people are pretending to be rich (2015)
The symbiotic growth of the automobile industry and law enforcement
Fearmongering. They clearly state in the article that there is no evidence that this is a backdoor. There is no new information here compared to the detailed writeup which was already posted here last week.
> When you spend hundreds to thousands of hours mastering a game and immersing yourself in the culture surrounding it, an article on "your" game, unless it's written by someone as keyed-in to the meta as you are, is likely to come off as a series of poorly informed hot takes. In other words, generalist journalists frequently have a hard time developing the level of experience in a particular area necessary to write about it in such a way that's not laughable to the "experts".

An alternate way to say this is that these communities are incredibly insular, and the most active participants work hard to keep them that way by using their status in the group to set themselves up as gatekeepers, policing the bounds of acceptable opinion. Perspectives that differ from that of the in-group threaten their status, so they react against them violently in order to signal to the group that they're still in charge, nothing to see here, move along.

These gatekeepers also often see their "elite" status in the group as a fundamental part of their self-worth, so they interpret challenges to their ideas as attacks on them personally, and respond in kind. And it doesn't help either that gaming communities tend to disproportionately attract teenagers and young adults, who are right at that moment in life when their passions tend to run hottest.
i also appreciate zulu's arm packagings!
The terrifying part was that they stopped maintaining it years before it was cancelled and provided no replacement product.
> are we as a society willing to pay people to not work - not just starvation - but pay them a fair and reasonable wage for doing nothing

This will be exceedingly difficult in the U.S. where there is this deeply ingrained cultural belief that a living is something that must be “earned”. Basic Income and other safety nets that let people survive without working for it would be politically difficult. We are more likely to have government pay 1/2 the people to dig holes and the other 1/2 to fill them in, than have something like Basic Income here.
GCP is scaling up a huge outside sales org (expensive). That means any propsect that's not an enterprise is not worth going after. Easy to weed out the medium and small businesses if you are upfront about a minimum 10k/month commitment.
Schwentker Keybase Proof
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/schwentker; my proof: https://keybase.io/schwentker/sigs/3b0nTBq6_JHmO2YqKB90V2HBWd-cnnPE15kKKI_P6bA ]
Also, 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567399
The Case Method: Better Monitoring for Humans
when you have been around for a while you learn that senior people know something worth paying extra for. Then you start to demand only that until you discover all the senior people retire close to the same time and you don't have any organization depth coming up behind them.

Which is why when my department asked to hire a senior person to replace someone who transferred on leadership made us hire an entry level person to train up (then the next person left and we were allowed to hire a senior person).