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> You can buy cheaper houses in neighborhods, or rent, or have roommates. Many things can be done to mitigate the cost of housing, just like with transportation.

Housing prices both renting/buying are usually fixed based on similar houses in the area. You arent going to see a $2500 a month house next to a $600 a month house. So the idea that you can just buy drastically cheaper houses in the same neighborhood is not true. Roommates are an option for singles. But not feasible for families
> There's no way the US government gets a say on what is allowed or what isn't allowed content wise with the first amendment as it is interpreted in the US.

The US government already has a say over that [0].

That's exactly what Senate hearings about "terrorist propaganda" and "election interference" on social media are all about [1], applying soft-power to send the message "You deal with this, or we will force you to deal with it", thus nudging these companies into self-regulation.

[0] http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-cleaners/

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/5/17823280/facebook-twitter-...
The parakernel does not multiplex resources that are partitioned to allow applications to maximize the performance obtained from the underlying hardware. For multiplexed resources it looks much the same to me.
I'm also curious about this - I've not put much in place on AWS for SNS or SQS failover. I found the following Stack Overflow post [0] that has given me some ideas about how to make our services do a pseudo-failover for SQS

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39395654/6650640
It's just my guess, but I think that most people are so uncomfortable with their own thoughts and feelings that they have to continually drown them out with idle chatter. The problem is that they select those others very carefully so as to avoid any ideas that may impinge upon their established worldview.

Perhaps it comes down to that there are just very few genuinely curious and intellectually honest people in the world, the result being that the majority (i.e. the others) self-select their environments and then either ignore others or, worse yet, attack them.
Excellent answer - thank you. I did some googling, and if you have any specific resources I would love to read more (I was just reading https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/planner-optimizer.html)

A question - if the planner knows its joining to the TOAST table, and it has some predicate to evaulate, how does it know all the widths of all the rows so it doesnt over-grant(or are memory grants not a thing?)

Generally with statistics/histograms you get a sample and a max width (or something like that) - so I am just confused how it can be precise.

Thanks!
Do Your Own ETL
These are things that are bad about YouTube, but not why Pornhub is #2 ... Facebook/Instagram/Twitter definitely have a better shot.
I very rarely run into this in Chrome, they licensed Foxit and made it open source https://opensource.google.com/projects/pdfium its native and fast.

Firefox I think still uses https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js which was not bad last time I used it, but it all javascript so performance isn't up to par with native. Also printing is not great and I don't think they have implemented a SVG backend yet for better printing. On the plus side you can embed it in your web app if you want and have more control over the viewer.
Sounds like we are on the same plan.
They nearly-erased the page in the last few minutes..

Here's the original from time of submission: https://web.archive.org/web/20190503141604/https://success.d...

Now as of my comment the entire body of the page is:

Docker Hub Maintenance - May 2019

In early May, 2019, Docker Inc. will perform maintenace on the Docker Hub.

This article details actions to be taken, timeline, and any current status/issues/recommendations.
Yes the economics of this industry are really puzzling to an outsider. As someone who has tried running ads on these properties it’s hard for me to imagine how anyone is making money in this business. And yet...
How to do your own ETL
I agree, I just don't think it's the best positioned to compete with YouTube
>The problem is that a private corporation has corrupted the federal government to such an absurd extreme, that it has abdicated it's responsibility to it's own citizens.

I think you're being a little hysterical on this point. It isn't that big of a deal. No human rights have been infringed on.

>The government is not inefficient.In fact, the government is so hyper-efficient at solving this problem, that private companies had to draft legislation outlawing the government from solving this problem, just to protect their inefficient lazy duopoly.

The government is SO efficient that they are able to be corrupted by a tax company. And not just any government, a superpower with a $20 trillion economy!!

Here's the thing - to you this is an outlier, to me this is a intrinsic property of every government. That is, the fact that governments will draft policies that aren't the most efficient, or may not be in the best interest of the largest number of people is normal (and not necessarily a bad thing)!! That is what makes government inefficient - because being a gatekeeper, they are very susceptible to attempts of corruption - so all kinds of interest groups, from corps, to unions, to activists, will attempt to skew it towards their positions.
None of those app are difficult to navigate...
Unfortunately it normally takes them >30 minutes to start reporting issues on their status page, so it's hard to know if it's just us or if it's widespread.
Mark probably mix up the cultural differences between China and rest of the world.
I know and I agree. And a software engineer is much different than a mechanical engineer or a civil engineer. I guess I should’ve mentioned that the term financial engineer gives me context or a reference point where I can see that they are behaving like engineers. My comment was more focused on their behavioral mechanisms.
It could maybe expand into other "not safe for work" media like explicit music, gun videos, and stuff that generally isn't allowed on Youtube?

PH already has paying premium users, so maybe would be just something to keep them on PH-related websites through the end of their refractory period, hopefully directing them back to PH when they start getting horny again
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More control of when you leave/arrive, storage space to transport things, not dealing with other people, ability to go wherever you want, air conditioning.

There are downsides like traffic, car maintenance, and parking, but in general, cars are probably more comfortable than public transit in the US. I'm also ignoring externalities like pollution and unsustainable suburban sprawl growth. I'd rather take the subway Mon to Fri in NYC, but if the roads are empty, the streets are faster and more comfortable.

Unfortunately, public transit is awesome if everyone has to take it, but if enough people opt out, and we give them an option like a personal car and pave roads over where we could have had public space, then cars become optimal for the individual.
The video embedded in the article plays like a movie trailer or an extended ad for a pharma company. Cool science though.
You seem to be anthropomorphizing the neuron. This work is pretty innovative: We've used this technique to generate similar images of computer neural networks to try to figure out what a given neuron or layer is actually learning: http://yosinski.com/deepvis

Now, we're monitoring a biological neuron with the same technique, and coming up with similar feature selection. That both validates the approach we've been taking with deep neural networks, AND it provides us heretofore-unimaginable access to individual neuronal activation materials.

Exciting stuff!
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I agree this news is pretty sad. The Guardian has no objectivity any more. I wish it were possible for newspapers to survive as non-partisan entities, but it's looking less and less likely that'll ever be true.
It looks to me that they make money by upselling casual porn watchers to paying for live performances, premium stuff, etc.
This is controversial because people run businesses on 20-year old software, and they don't want to run their business into the ground every time some outside developer wants to clean up their code base. People's livelihood is at stake. They prefer software that remains solvent. Natural selection has produced a world where people value backwards compatibility.

And you should always be able to upgrade the software you have without fear of breakage, because maintaining a fork and/or deciding which versions to use is often untenable as it relies on specialized knowledge which may not exist in your organization. If you as a software dev want to maintain a clean code base with no deprecated features, you are free to build one. That's not what this is, and you shouldn't expect anyone else to use it if it were.
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Anything similar for oracle?
Unfortunately not at the moment sorry, the editing and creation capabilities are extremely limited at present.

The library is mainly focused on text extraction but editing is on the road map.
Let me know when browser support the full CSS print spec...no Prince doesn't count.
I had the same thought but with Android. The problem seems to be that VScode was built with Electron which doesn't run on Android.
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Reminder: having shitty ideas is not a protected class, and “free speech” does not mean you get to say whatever batshit crazy thing comes to mind without other people expressing themselves
> Democrats are against outright hostility and blatant marginalization of certain classes

What rock are you living under?
I too have issues with people grasping my language. I think it's a common thing these days. I feel like I have to be overly verbose for anyone to understand me. Else they just think I'm dumb or rude. I try to use winky faces ;) when sarcasm is text only. Perhaps we need a Font Typeface for sarcasm..?
I figured that was possibly what you meant; I was just elaborating.
Who is a founder necessarily hurting when they sell their company to a PE firm?

What I'm hearing you say is that once a founder starts a business and hires a single employee they must operate that company until death. That seems like a ridiculous position to me and perhaps you're missing some fundamental knowledge on life. If that were somehow codified to law, I would've never started a business.
> I find Stephen Wolfram to be a an interesting person. On one hand, he is undeniably exceptional and created an impressive computational system. On the other hand, the "Wolfram language" is really a pretty poor design as far as programming languages go, and would not even be noticed if it wasn't for the giant standard library that gets shipped with it, called Mathematica. I use the "Wolfram language" because I have to, not because I want to.

He is a bona fide genius. But it's difficult to tell if his jarring references to the the 'Wolfram Language' and 'Wolfram Alpha' are simple, cynical selling, or if his vanity has blinded him into thinking the 'Wolfram Language' is a notable accomplishment on par with the other useful work he's done with physics, cellular automata and Mathematica.

In general, I am a conflicted fan. By many accounts he's an unpleasant person, and having read _A New Kind of Science_ his Principle of Computational Equivalance is real hand-wavy and not terribly rigorous.

And yet whenever he's mentioned in an HN story I always need to read it.
>but isn't the big issue here that a private company has been able to successfully lobby to get laws changed to make it illegal for tax filing to be free?

Why would it be a 'big issue'? There is no human right to super easy tax filing. Interest groups, whether they be corps, or unions or activists, will lobby to get laws they like passed. Par for course whether you're in United States or Britain.
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FYI, you can also download Messenger Lite. It's less seamless than messenger but it's much lighter weight.
I can see this being sort of useful so you can listen to news broadcasts while driving.
Isn't the BPF infrastructure an example of this idea?
Perhaps there are some genuinely curious and intellectually honest people who learn from interacting and experiencing with others.

Perhaps more.
There have been a few toy filesystems which have explored this. BeOS back in the late 90s came the closest to broad adoption, even though it didn't fully embrace the paradigm, just aspects of it.

I think there are a few reasons it hasn't happened:

1. Filesystems are hard. Every new filesystem architecture ends up requiring a large pool of talented developers.

2. Nobody wants to break backwards compatibility. Current filesystem design is so integral to all kinds of software that you just can't expect all software in the world to be updated just to work with a new filesystem paradigm.

3. Databases are also hard, so a database-like filesystem is doubly so.

4. Current filesystem architecture is good enough for most stuff. The pain of continuing to use it isn't as great as the pain of changing it.

None of these reasons make a database-like filesystem inherently bad. It's just not practical right now.

I think we're moving in that direction though, with things like object storage.
How do all the commenters here know that the images are eliciting a fear response? The referenced study measures firing rates of visual neurons. It does not discuss ultimate emotional reactions.
On Brexit: it's worth noting that Larry Elliott, the Guardian's economics editor, is a long time Eurosceptic and committed supporter of Brexit. He regularly pens pro-Brexit articles in an otherwise largely Remain-slanted paper (although obviously he's coming from a Lexiteer angle), and this amusingly confuses many Guardian readers in the comments.

On Falsehoods: as far as I know, Luke Harding's scoop on Manafort meeting Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy has not been stood up, and seems to have gone quiet. While not a deliberate falsehood, this is an embarrassing misfire.

But I do agree it's a remarkable paper, one I'm happy to contribute to.
Are you talking about text? No base64 is not an efficient way to store raster images, neither is vector markup.
Hi! I cannot stress enough AKS is ready for production, we have many many MANY customers using it. I am EXTREMELY biased, but I do have some background as I was the first/lead PM on GKE for several years. :)

If there's something we can do to help, please let me know!

Disclosure: I work at Azure on Machine Learning (but not AKS)
If anyone is interested, Wolfram does what he calls “Live CEOing”, and streams his sprints on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WolframResearch
"My problem with this argument is that there is no logical basis for how exactly human intelligence is different."

I can give you a partial answer, which is that human intelligence is somewhat slower, which mitigates the ability to crash the entire economy in 15 seconds. That's why a stock market can crash in 15 seconds nowadays, but "the housing market" can't. This gives people some time to do some things about it with some degree of thought, rather than all the agents in the system suddenly being forced to act in whatever manner they can afford to act with 15 milliseconds of computation to decide.
But we did take a non-incrementalist approach to slavery, and it worked. Sherman smashing through Georgia was not, by any stretch of the imagination, "moderate". And it worked much better than any of the other approaches.

Travel to Asia or Africa, and ask who the leader of the US was when the slaves were freed? Then ask who the leader of the British Empire was when their slaves were freed? Or the leader of Brazil? There's a reason people in Asia revere Lincoln and not the leader of the British Empire, or the leader of Brazil at the time, or the leader of Cuba, or what have you. That reason is because Lincoln is viewed as having done the right thing in the face of enormous risk. We did the right thing in a way that transcended America. It even transcended the slaves to be perfectly frank. What we did has inspired humanity ever since. Whether you are at an elite University in Beijing, Shanghai, or Singapore, Lincoln is a leader all of the most promising students are drawn to.

This is not simply the result of marketing either. For instance, the king of Siam was famously drawn to Lincoln over all of the others as well. The Czar lamented his comparison to Lincoln. Insisting people should instead venerate him, because he had done more for the serfs than Lincoln did for the slaves. And he felt he'd certainly done more than the British or the Portuguese, who he felt had done nothing at all. All of this was long before professional marketing really existed. Even long before the US was really even a power. So our solution to slavery paid us off over a thousandfold in untold influence and soft power alone. Influence and soft power throughout the world. Now, I'll concede that it's influence and soft power that we seem to have squandered, but it's also influence these wishy washy incrementalist approaches never conferred on their proponents.

You say it was a cost, (and presumably a loss?). I think you might believe that because you haven't properly accounted for the many benefits we've enjoyed in your cost-benefit analysis.
Glad people are pointing this out. Its a damaging trend for tech companies to have something like this happen.
My understanding is that GPUs have moved toward what I described: thousands of discrete cores with large amounts of math performance but generally terrible (or even non-existent) branching...
Obviously they have video hosting infrastructure expertise but product-wise there’s not great overlap with YouTube from either the user or advertiser perspective imo. Facebook is probably the best positioned company to create a YouTube competitor if they wanted to.
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Amazon Prime is such a great value in India, where netflix costs like 12$ a month, Prime comes for 12$ a year. And Netflix does not have that big of a catalogue in India, Prime having an almost similar sized catalogue.
In consumer use cases, it is common to see the storage bottleneck be the CPU rather than the SSD. Firing up a video game isn't much faster on an Intel Optane NVMe SSD than on a SATA SSD, because the data on disk has to be decompressed and parsed on the CPU before it is usable. A lot of software is still written under the assumption that the disk is slow, and that capacity is somewhat limited. Taken together, those assumptions usually lead to single-threaded loading and decompressing/parsing on the same thread that makes the system calls for IO.
You just made parent's point perfectly. A total lack of self awareness.
But the French did not have the Athenian safeguards either.
Without some robust general intelligence in the loop, whether that be AGI or human, computers will always have countless strange, unpredictable, and devastating failure modes, especially if given increasing responsibility.

This is the reason why few systems of significant complexity and risk exist today without humans in the loop.
sometimes on HN I get the feeling that anything more than a command line application written in Rust or in C may be called bloated
The increase in costs were most certainly driven in part by the ACA changes. No longer allowed to deny based on pre-existing conditions? Insurers need higher rates to cover those costs. Require a bunch of things be added to mandatory preventive visits? Those have to be paid for as well.

That said, I agree the costs would have continued to go up, but to say there is no evidence that the ACA contributed to it is just ignoring the math.
Well, thought experiment:

John lives in extreme poverty. He's debt free, but is unable to adequately feed himself or his family. Several of his children have died from malnutrition.

Marc lives in a nice suburban home, has 3 square meals a day, so does everyone in his family. However, his debts (including his mortgage, car payments, student loans) exceed his savings.

If our intuition is wrong, then John is winning. He's ahead of Marc financially.

But I can tell you which one of them I'd rather be. It's not John.
Very neat! I've just been thinking about how to bring attention models into classification. (references welcome, if anyone knows existing systems...)
Will this include a state-sanctioned backdoor?
Is it worth it to compete with YouTube though? We've heard about how YouTube didn't make Google money in the past. Now we even had news about how the way they handled YouTube caused the evaluation of the company to drop by $70 billion. So the question is whether it would be worth it to even try.
I find it odd that some executive gets to pick which 401k and health insurance plans you get, and that you must pick from their few choices that allow you to have. I can see why the providers love it, they can target all their advertising, marketing, etc, at a few key people at large employers, but not sure how that benefits the average worker..
Wasn't 1998 the midpoint of one the greatest economic booms in history? Kinda like the one we are currently in? As a 90s kid I remember hearing about how record unemployment and stock records on TV back then. It's amazing that the guardian hasn't had a profit in 20 years.

This just shows that major news companies are not real companies, but state or systematic enterpises. I can see microsoft or google going out of business sometime in the future. But I can't see the guardian or the nytimes or any of the major news companies going out of business. Because they are part of the system though they claim to be the ones keeping an eye on the system.

If I were a betting man, I'd bet that in 100 years, amazon won't exist. But I'd never bet that the nytimes wouldn't exist. Though amazon may be a trillion dollar company, it's still a company. Whiles the nytimes is more than a system. It's part of the power structure.
Yeah, I think it's fair to say that stamp collectors have tend to have more than "necessary" number of postage stamps.
They can threaten but it depends on what it is they pass legally.

That's not the same as law that makes it past a first amendment challenge.
Folks going to the meetup, or anyone who knows: why did IPFS.io select a logo that is so strikingly similar to the one used by IPFS.com?
You're leaving out the most common case: a company which is viable not generating enough profit growth to excite Wall Street. Most of these companies had solid businesses until their assets were sold off and other short-term profit maximization measures started to impact their long-term viability.
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I personally like a hybrid approach. I absolutely hate driving in a city, and trying to find (and pay for) parking. So I drive to a park-n-ride that is outside the city, park for a couple bucks, then take light-weight rail into the city. This does require the physical ability to walk quite a bit once you are in the city, however, which a number of people can't do much of due to physical issues (starting to include myself in that category).
since ISO 32000-2 there is no proprietary technology included[1]

[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/63534.html
>Democrats are against outright hostility and blatant marginalization of certain classes.

Republicans are against outright hostility and blatant marginalization of certain classes.

Not the same classes, perhaps even classes that many don't want recognized, such as the unborn, but the statement is still just as true.