skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We're looking to move one of our sites off Akamai mostly for costs reasons. Fastly configuration in Varnish VCL - Senior Engineers from my company highly rate Varnish as a cache software so Fastly was an easy choice.

I believe Akamai have been our CDN from the start. The amount of reconfiguration we'd need to do to get everything off would create a huge number of tickets in our work queue. The primary advantage of Akamai has been the number of datacenters they have to service our traffic. A customer can be in remote Australia and have their packets cached in a datacenter in the nearby telephone exchange. That's the reach of Akamai that AWS and Fastly can't compete with.

Their WAF and Bot detection products are also very good. They are a definitely an enterprise/full service CDN provider. I definitely wouldn't call them 'legacy' by any means but the type of service they provide is so different to a new player like Fastly.
US Wages Finally Get Back to Where They Were in 1973
I find it fascinating that there is a 5 day lag of crypto news to hacker news. I wonder if it’s possible to track this lag across a wide range of industries and information outlets.
Your comments have been falling short of the standard of discourse here. Could you please review the guidelines and then follow them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680957
"Global, monopolistic platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon do not pursue “AI” as a science project. Nor do hospitals, insurance companies, banks, airlines or governments. They do so for specific, strategic purposes, which in corporate settings are aimed at generating new revenue. "

Well, many companies will throw some money willy nilly at AI 'because' HBR said to, or consultants are pushing it, or they 'know it's coming' and need to start somewhere.

It might be rational to do some experimenting, but many companies don't have a clue really, they're throwing money at it. FB and G obviously have a clue, but even they have so much money and talent they can afford to experiment whereupon the ROI might be way, way off.
From the perspective of an IT employee, the market has not shrunk. Because companies need IT staff, MSPs need IT staff, and cloud providers need IT staff. And while they've shifted a lot, I would argue that it's largely been a zero sum change.

I can definitely say last time I was in the job market, the majority of available IT jobs in my area was with MSPs, but there were tons of jobs available.
Show HN: Plugins for file manager nnn
To extend the capabilities of file manager nnn (https://github.com/jarun/nnn), plugins are introduced. Plugins are scripts with which nnn can communicate and trigger. This mechanism fits perfectly with the fundamental design to keep the core file manager lean and fast, by delegating repetitive (but not necessarily filemanager-specific) tasks to the plugins.

Plugins can access:

- all files in the directory

- the currently highlighted file

- the current selection

The plugins repo is here: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/plugins

Please contribute to the nnn plugins to make it a better file manager.
Yes, it sometimes depends on the agent that's interviewing you. I've heard so many stories of this kind. Try again but try not to get interviewed by the the same person.
What did you change to get to your present state?
I agree. Remove the phone will pay dividends. I started leaving my phone in my car after work and already I'm seeing benefits with my afternoon/evening. I'm able to get more done as well as have a full night's sleep.

There's something about the phone that just keeps me distracted. So, I just don't bother with it.
PyPI as a Service
I run on Linux currently and Macbooks previously. I've run into problems almost every time I tried a meeting in Google hangouts (which to be fair has not been often).

Zoom just works across Windows, Mac, and Linux. Problems with meetings are very rare. My previous employer VMware moved from Webex and GotoMeeting to Zoom. It added up to 5 minutes of productive times to calls for engineering teams due the fact that things actually worked and people weren't futzing around with audio, etc.
I don't know much about brew (or MacOS at all) but docker is native linux technology. Docker for Mac runs linux in a VM in the background. The MacOS docker experience is similar to running anything in a VM: slower, memory limits, poor IOPS.
Try a Zoom call and a Meet for 5 minutes back-to-back. The difference in latency and quality is night and day.

I haven't used Zoom rooms but have used the Hangouts / Meet boxes a lot, and it's easy to see how the Zoom experience would translate.
I remember when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s there was all this talk about room-temperature superconductors being right around the corner. Getting to 8 degrees F is a big advance even if it is only tiny amounts.
This should really be labeled "Days since last negative article about Facebook", correct? In particular the 4/16 entry "15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook" doesn't really sound like a scandal actually happened on that day.

Out of curiosity, are these manually entered or scraped with some kind of sentiment analysis? EDIT: I see now that it's maintained on Gitlab.
I agree that saying all VC's are dumb, all the time, is silly. On the other hand, things like Theranos and Ubeam do prove that some investments that some VC's make are spectacularly dumb. One out of every ten still requires basic due diligence, or at least questioning business plans that require setting physics or other basic knowns aside.
Facebook auto-captions for a recent launch video are hilariously bad
Attacking Modern Web Technologies – Frans Rosen
Heavy metal helps for me. Try Iron Maiden, Metallica, Dream Theater, Moonspell, Therion, etc. all this works for me. And stop visiting those websites of course ;-). Make accessing them harder, you could add the problematic domains to /etc/hosts to resolve to 127.0.0.1 or something like that.
It's been a while since I wrote Ocaml, but IIRC the compiler yells at you if your mli files are out-of-date, for whatever that's worth. So keeping them synced isn't really an issue.
sorry to s--t on your profession bro, but it is what it is.

People with money (inherited or won gambling) fall on the same intelligence spectrum as everyone else. There is a shallow end of the pool there.

There are plenty of smart business people who understand exactly what "AI" is and how to exploit it. That is the whole point of this article.
The comparison to the real world is rather flawed, especially in countries like Austria. For instance your not required to show an ID when buying groceries, buying alcohol or entering a bar.

Identification is on demand, not mandatory.
I am currently building a house, and there are large portions of it that have a >25ft drop from rooftop to the ground below. That means the workers on the roof or upper floor need to wear proper fall protection. Depending on the job that can often by a harness system.

I was surprised that because of the height of the potential fall, we needed a "rescue plan". In other words: arresting the fall is only half the job.

The result was quite a bit of extra expense for us (because of the site conditions, we need to keep a hydraulic lift available), but when I read about how quickly suspension trauma becomes an issue, I could understand why the safety regulations are written as they are.
It's not about giving them nukes, the worry is about giving the foundation to a domestic nuclear weapons program.
Does homebrew still download sources and compile them? I thought it moved to only downloading binaries.
I think that's a huge deal, and it's not just German men. Finding a new purpose after having a clear-cut one in the form of a job is something I think can be the difference between a depressed post-work experience or a happy one.
> When I have to enter pin (6 digits) I must press "OK". iPhone unlocks after 6-th digit automatically.

So Apple leaks the length of your password, Android does not. Okay.

> I don't have a single app on iOS with ads.

I don't have a single app on my Android with Ads. I pay for my apps to support the developers, otherwise I could easily add a hosts file or firewall to block ads in apps. I'm not an iOS user, so I don't know if a local hosts/firewall is possible with iOS.

> I spent something like 30 minutes trying to add a second phone number to my own android contact.

PEBKAC. I found it super easy. If I'm reading your comment correctly, you had to create two contacts for yourself just to have two phone numbers for yourself in iOS!?

> To turn off all radios

It's one swipe for Android too...

Your last two issues are just personal preferences.
>AI isn't real and anyone who thinks it is should have their head examined, machine learning is gratuitously overhyped

Whooohaaa! ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is not real, but there is a lot of AI TECHNOLOGY that is real and useful - for example the knowledge graph that Google uses, Bayesian modelling, economic and social simulation and so on.

Both AI and ML are overhyped at the moment, data quality and knowledge engineering are killer problems, but there will be incremental improvements in both of these continually from now on, and this will enable both AI and ML tech to be much more easily applied than now.
Say you are tasked with writing something that can be done 2 different ways. Both have the same end-result.

In one way there's a single step.

In the other way, there's 2 steps and it involves another piece of equipment.

How might you write the documentation on how to do that thing?

Personally, I'd go with two sentences. The first that describes how to do the thing in one step. The latter, how to also do it in two steps and with another piece of equipment. I'm genuinely curious, is there a better way to approach that?
Why do you TRUST the numbers you see on social media sites (including Hacker News!)? They should not be your tools for reasoning about the world (not even a little bit) - there's no way you can know if those numbers were created by the community, bots, the site owners, or "other".

Being influenced at all by numbers where there is no accountability for site owners of their origins seems increasingly like a bad idea.
> EDIT: Will someone explain what this theoretical 'non spec' thing that matters is? The Apple logo?

Mostly the OS. I don't cringe before plugging into an unfamiliar external display. The touchpad isn't so bad it makes me feel like I have to carry a mouse if I plan to use the device for any length of time. The built-in "office" suite of apps are my favorite I've used, anywhere. Preview is indispensable for working with PDFs—I've never even known PDFs to be more than barely tolerable to work with outside Apple's world. It's Unixy, so many of my preferred tools work natively on it. It has lots of built-in stuff that's less convenient or works less well on Linux (modifier key remapping, screen sharing, and more).

I've been around the block with Linux on the desktop. Around and around and around, in fact. I could tolerate Windows—not as a work OS, but for gaming, anyway—all the way from 3.1 to 8, but 10's aggressively unpleasant. Now MacOS is the only desktop OS that doesn't drive me to swear at it multiple times a day while using it. That's worth some money, when I have to use some OS just about 365 days a year.

Touchbar's beyond dumb and into "harms UX" territory, though. The keyboard two generations ago—on the fatter Macbooks that still had disc drives—is noticeably better than either since, and the butterfly keyboards are awful. Unfortunately every other option is so much worse that they can afford to screw up badly for years on end and I still can't bring myself to switch.
Also, the trackpads on Mac just work. I recently made a foray back into Windows a few years ago and was disappointed to learn that PC trackpads have made little progress in the intervening decade. Is it really easier to touchscreenify your entire software stack than to build a sane touchpad?
To elaborate, I think people don't care what medium they have their discussions in as long as it works.

Are you not going to use StackOverflow because it is written in C# using Microsoft servers instead of Go on Linux?

Did you not use Twitter originally because it was built on
Rails?

10 years ago... what CMS was popular in a static typed language? Hell today... what statically typed CMS is popular?

But if that still matters to someone, PHP now supports types!
You can very, very carefully remove them with a credit card.

However, they are VERY easy to damage. And even if you get the key off without breaking it, the problem is the butterfly mechanism is very fragilse and goes 'flat', it's not so much getting dust specks in there.
> "restricts skilled immigration": Funny, since they have also been criticized for allowing more immigration. Ironically from left-leaning people.

Who criticised them for that? The only thing they did was introduce low skilled immigration (eg: fruit pickers, cooks and other people in the tourism industry).

> "reduce social support systems": Well, they mostly retargeted social support. All polls showed that a large majority of the people supported these changes. People thought the old system enforced the wrong incentives.

"retarget" just means to reduce support for foreigners and low income families with many children (which correlates to families of Turkish background). Yes, many people think the system enforces the wrong incentives but none of the proposals to improve the incentives where even considered. For instance Nostandshilfe is not being touched because it's predominantly Austrians that are hanging in it.

> Also let's not forget that they reduced taxes on salaries specifically for working-class families substantially.

Even after the tax cuts Austrians pay more in taxes and social contributions today than they did before. The reason for this is that DG/DZ and social contributions increase automatically every year.

None of your examples demostrate how this party would be in the center. They are significantly more to the right than the population is.

> Are some people so upset that for once the chancellor is not a social-democrat?

No, many people are upset because they worry about the future of the country. I for instance worry a lot because the policies set in place in the last few months are dangerous. We already have a very unstable system in the past with very little transparency into what the government is doing (eg: no freedom of information) but how they are from a central position controlling some of the entities that were at least somewhat impartial (like the central bank, the statistic agency etc.).

I don't care who controls the country, I want that the government is transparent and does not get too much power. They are putting more and more powers in place, they are enacting unconstitutional laws and are overwhealming the courts which are busy shutting these things down but it takes time. They are also completely eroding the public discourse with their framing.

Any hope that Austria would have a path towards social liberties and a more business friendly environment were completely scattered since the last election. It's a coalition that blames everything on foreigners and puts laws in place for large donors of the parties.
State-of-the-art esports arena powers up at the University of Washington
My problem is with the generalization. The article and some comments in this thread paint all VCs and business people as dummies falling for shiny objects.

I don’t think anybody would argue with an article that said some percentage of any population makes stupid decisions for stupid reasons. But then again, nobody would read that article, either.
Sorry, I wrote Slice instead of Span in the original comment... Slice is the method that returns a Span that is the equivalent of this rust concept as far as I can tell.
At some point in the future I’ll need to delve in rust, it’s quite fascinating, but sadly I don’t have much time nowadays :(
Climate Change: The Facts
Remember that the prediction is from the rear view window - on data that has been gathered in the past, and that now you are fixing risk in the future.
Don't need to turn it off for restroom breaks or for anything while they're on-duty because that off-switch will be abused.

And realistically the footage that's of interest isn't going to be those personal moments (or overhearing a call with the officer's family, say) it's the ones where the officer is engaging with a member of the public. And maybe limit viewing access to in-person, by court order, or to credentialed journalists or something.
In the US you have to show your ID much more often compared to other parts of the world. Every bar you enter, or alcohol or drink you buy people ask for identification. This is not the case elsewhere.

So, it wouldn't surprise me, if the current administration would at least attempt such ideas.
As if there is no third option other than a) a well fed huge centrist government + civil bland state TV or b) dictatorship.

How about Thatcher/Friedman/Chicago school/libertarian politics?

Has never been tried anywhere.
Ironically the alchemists were trying to create a human being, known as a homoculus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus
Notre Dame rector: “Computer glitch” possible fire culprit
I’m glad somebody said this. I could list a thousand companies more evil than Facebook just in energy (3 million people a year die from coal!) and healthcare.

While N companies being more evil doesn’t make X company not evil, employing tens of thousands of people while being significantly less evil is definitely relevant.
How does it handle external screens?

I don't know the exact use case for this app, so take my feature request with a grain of salt. I implemented something similar for myself which I used for 2-3 years. At first I took a screenshot plainly, but I found that the context was really hard to figure out. I ended up adding a webcam picture to each screenshot, this helped me place where/why I might have been on that specific website. My use case was mostly novelty though. But I still like looking back at the pictures every now and then. You can see my examples (+ script) here: http://www.jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/15/automating-screensh...
> What if I don't want to test my mouse before coffee? What if I have urgent emails to answer?

Plug it in once a month (when it's at ~50% or so) for an hour or two when you finish your day or go to lunch?
The second example suggests to me that `point` already exists, and we're mutating it by changing the value of its `y` property.
More recently facebook was charged by HUD for allowing people to buy ads and filter out by race, sex, another protected statuses under the fair housing act
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/files/hud_v_faceboo...
Flexgate
You can famously pour water into a Thinkpad keyboard without any damage.

Try that with a Coke or fancy Starbucks drink and you'll have sticky residue that requires you to replace the keyboard or clean it very, very thouroughly.
> giffgaff runs on the O2 network

Eh, no thanks
this is a perverse question
Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?
True, but the overhead is not that bad due to HW virtualization support.

Macos can use the xhyve hypervisor (bhyve port) which again points to “unixy” roots — it runs freebsd for example.

Through the years I spent quite some time hacking about to get bsd running on other hypervisors, and for the longest of time it was just a hassle with abysmal performance (vmware esx, xen/xenserver).

Docker on osx is by the way completely seamless from a UX perspective.

As a mobile/laptop dev experience I still think the new air is great. ;)
It doesn't work in neither IE, Firefox or Chrome.
It'd been extremely stupid to pivot all over the place if they had a plan to do what they do now all along.
Is it though? A dual-core Windows VM with 8 GB of RAM is... 0.037 cents an hour. That works out to 88 cents a day, or $324 per year per VM.

If I have about 20 VMs running on a $10,000 server with a $6,000 Windows Server Datacenter license that has a five year warranty, let's math that out: The VMs cost $32,400. And I can spin up more VMs on that server at zero cost, it's not at capacity.

Obviously there's plenty of other little dollars and cents you can factor into an equation like this, but I'd argue Azure Reserved Pricing still has it's profit margin well defined.
Check out Mozilla Labs: https://labs.mozilla.org/. They’re working on all kinds of things.
> Well, the conservatives and the right are not going to implement left politics. Austria was certainly NOT converted into a "dystopian place".

A country with that much power given to the government with so little oversight, no transparency is a problem. Austria is a country of immigration and the rules in place for immigrants are awful (from both access to citizenship and rights). What is currently being done has the chance to erode the social fabric more than any other government did before.

> Like it or not: Some time ago, a left-leaning newspaper (Standard) wrote that the current government has the best polls recorded so far.

Obviously I don't like it, and it worries me a lot. I'm not sure any if this is the country I want my children to grow up in.
I’ve seen multiple large companies swap out their video conferencing system to whatever was the vc system du jour. (Vidyo, Highfive, Bluejeans, WebEx, Zoom) I can’t comment on how expensive it is, but it is a thing that happens fairly regularly.
You also asked a question with a lot of editorializing in it. I wouldn't call downvotes censorship.
It's all good, on both counts! We'll still be around when you find the time :)
I think it does get happier (but a different type of happiness nonetheless) but it comes at a cost. My 30's taught me to care more for fewer and fewer things and focus on what I really want. I think we become wiser as we learn from our mistakes in our 20s and 30s. The cost I'd say is less energy levels.
Updated my answer: these are middle managers such as division or site managers not the top managers of the billion dollar corporations (who might well have great visions but it’s not on them to implement it.). As I clarified, these projcects are always vague initiatives such as “use more ai in our process” or downright marketing stupidity such as “joe, I need you to work AI into the description of our latest hammer model”. Again this is old, traditional industry.
Household current is AC, the transformer will pass it through.
Great for Ruby (OP was arguably the most important compiler dev behind Martin Odersky on the Dotty/Scala 3 project), types for the win.
Tips for Conducting Code Reviews
Eh, it depends. They're pretty random when it comes to taking down fan works, though it's nowhere near as common an occurrence as the media would have you believe (as people have mentioned, sites like SMW Central and Mario Fan Games Galaxy have been going for years with no issues).

The general rule from what I've noticed is that a game tends to be taken down if most of these boxes are checked:

1. The game is a direct remake of a Nintendo title
2. It's of a certain professional quality that it can be confused with a Nintendo title
3. Said project has received heavy marketing/lots of press online
4. Money is involved in distributing the game
5. It's in direct competition with a Nintendo product coming out around this time
6. It's being distributed in a format that makes a takedown not legally risky for the company

The fact this is a direct clone of Super Mario Bros 1 and has received some free press probably won't help it much though.
I've personally seen several companies get into deep trouble for being split 50/50. Initial equity split is probably one of the most basic, yet most impactful things for a company. And 50/50 is maybe the worst split of all.
I don't understand why people so seldomly go straight for the knowledge. It seems pretty obvious by now that knowledge is the key itself. Though subjective sciences like Kabbalah help.