skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two different calculations here. One is, what's the total cost of vehicle ownership amortized per mile? That's what the government and most popular types of accounting use.

The other is, given I'm going to own a car already, what's the difference between a shorter commute and a longer one? That's going to be a lower number per mile. A big chunk of the vehicle's depreciation is a result of years rather than miles, insurance doesn't generally track how many miles you drive and charge extra if you drive more, the registration and tax isn't any different etc.

The second one is how a lot of people end up all the way out in the suburbs. They can't afford to live in the part of the city that makes it viable to not have a car at all, but once you have a car as a sunk cost, another ten or twenty (or thirty or ...) miles in exchange for saving hundreds of thousands of dollars on housing starts to look like a good deal.

Though the huge factor people commonly forget is their own time. If your time is worth $25/hour then a half hour each way on your commute is $6500/year. And that's assuming you're only further away from work and not also further away from whatever you do on weekends.
One of the weird peculiarities of path-style API requests was that it meant CORS headers meant nothing for any bucket pretty much. I wrote a post about this a bit ago [0].

I guess after this change, the cors configuration will finally do something!

On the flip side, anyone who wants to list buckets entirely from the client-side javascript sdk won't be able to anymore unless Amazon also modifies cors headers on the API endpoint further after disabling path-style requests.

[0]: https://euank.com/2018/11/12/s3-cors-pfffff.html
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I would be happy if comments on contentious articles were only open to donating members so they have some skin in the game and are contributing to the cost of moderation. Problem is they become full of drive-by trolls if left fully open.
> It costs $500/night to jail someone in NYC? You could put them in a room at the Four Seasons for less than that.

But then there'd be no-one stopping them from leaving.

Also the minibar and room-service charges would make the Four Seasons stay far more expensive. I'm sure the jail cost includes all meals.
Yes, if the human chooses to be the subject of the test, then yes. Monkeys don't give consent.
Even as a Book format it is klunky, as it has no indexing. Take the text to speech tools and the bigger the book the slower it gets near the end of the book.

I would rather have a plain ole html file with formatting flags than a PDF book.
Kinda nice to see Wang B machines and W machines being mentioned :)
> If being condescending to an entire generation

ahem.
This will be annoying to someone whose struct dumps suddenly stop working.
You're aware of the Taxi lobby and borderline criminal interests and practices surrounding Taxi medallions right?

Not to mention that if you were black or lived in under-resourced areas, good luck getting a Taxi to stop for you or go where you need to go.

> The fact that the only way to improve upon the situation required a series of criminal conspiracies and attempts to obstruct justice that were never properly punished reflects very poorly on the country.

Isn't this an ironic statement given the actual history of how America was founded?
You might have seen his table analogy for abstractions, where the concept of a table was an abstraction defined by a set of nouns and adjectives. Yes, "make everything computational" because we all have not yet come to understand the abstract world that he is foretelling as well as we understand the word table.

For another analogy, just because you frame a house with one material e.g. wood, doesnt mean that its structurally unsound.
Exfiltration protection is pointless. It's a great way to waste money and annoy your employees.
What if you neglect getting your brakes repaired and...?

/I'm not sure this means anything, just a thought...
I could see a politician justifying the $500 a night by saying the money is going back into the local economy and creating jobs at the jail.
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south america follows catholic teachings to a T and they have too many children to support. I think your black book lied to them.
I suppose that's just the nature of a developer's life. But I think many of us long for a "write once, run forever" world.

Well, I think AWS developers are in the same boat right? Here we are.

An architectural decision that many years ago was the approach now needs to be rethought and updated.
"I could demonstrate to you that every single bank robbery, that in every single case practically, the cost of the police was more than the actual money that the robbers took from the bank. Does that mean, 'Oh, you see, there's really no economic interest involved, then. They're not protecting the banks. The police are just doing this because they're on a power trip, or they're macho, or they're control freaks, that's why they do it.' No, of course it's an economic... of course they're defending the banks. Of course, because if they didn't stop that bank robbery, regardless of the cost, this could jeopardize the entire banking system."
-- Michael Parenti

Despite quoting that I'm not a hardcore leftist (anymore). But I think it's an insightful quote, and does at least explain why certain crimes are handled the way they are. That being said, this simply shouldn't be a criminal matter, and should be handled more similarly to overdue parking meters, as some say in the twitter comments.

(Also, that quote is out of context, it is itself serving as an example to explain the (lack of) roi for american interventionism in South America. And yes I used to listen to a lot of Choking Victim)
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then how serious is their hatred?
"There is the bad guy"
> Monbiot ... is as far left as it gets

Not at all. See The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian by former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/28/the-dangerous-cult-o...

> George Monbiot, widely considered to be the Guardian’s most progressive columnist, has used his slot to attack a disparate group on the “left” who also happen to be harsh critics of the Guardian.

Media analysts Media Lens have written a lot on Monbiot too. http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/search-t...
In the past (like around the time most programming languages were invented) memory speeds were faster than processor speeds. So all variable accesses were instantaneous. Languages like C did not have to worry about memory hierarchies.

If memory speed is 100ns then you would notice the memory bottleneck around the time when your processor speed is 10Mhz. This point was reached in the mid 1980s with the 286 processor. Yet through the addition of cache memory this bottleneck was hidden from most software. They continued to operate in a bubble as if they were still running on the hardware of the 1980s.

It’s a bit like life itself...we land mammals carry around bags of water under our skin and our cells are still batched in fluids as if we are still living in the environment of the oceans hundreds of millions of years ago.

Many programming languages have been invented since the 90s but as far as I know none of them explicitly model memory latency and make reference to memory hierarchies. It’s as if they still need to maintain the illusion that they are running on the hardware of the past.

(Note: I once read about a language called Sequioa developed at Stanford that explicitly modelled the memory hierarchy. I don’t know what happened to it).
At work we use Sybase SQLAnywhere, and we added serializable access to one particular table.

Fine if you have a few dozen rows as we did in testing, but after a while in production the DB struggled hard the row count went beyond a hundred k... Turned out the serialized access caused it to issue a lock on every single row (for reasons I still don't understand).

The serialized access was used was to basically implement a fancy autoinc ourselves. I rewrote the code to use a unique constraint and retry-loop instead, which eliminated the speed issue entirely.
Care to elaborate? Do you mean S3 VPC Endpoints? Because this could screw many in-VPC Lambdas that need S3.
Anyone know how to manually build with LTO? How to call lto-wrapper and deal with the temporary objects created by lto1?
In the country where I come from,we've got a very popular online news website. comments are are split into two categories: registered (facebook,google+) and anonymous. Users also have an ability to upvote/downvote or flag comments.It does work pretty well tbh.
There's a bit of censorship that goes on behind the scenes, i'll let you google for specific examples.

Highly recommend watching 'kill the messenger'. Fun movie to watch and it will give you a sense of what i am talking about.
> high school [...] shocking what we don't cover

Financial planning is suggested as another one.

But even with subjects "covered"... Chemistry education research describes pre-college chemistry education content using adjectives like "incoherent". First-tier med school grad students with no idea how big cells are. First-tier astronomy grad students getting the color of the Sun wrong. I don't think we fully appreciate quite how pervasively we're doing poorly. Or the magnitude of potential improvement we're neglecting to pursue.

But AR is coming, providing yet another opportunity for disruption. Modulo patents. :/
"A GitHub search reveals that at least 392 GitHub repositories have been ransomed, so far."

That is a lot of pwned repos.
I wonder why GitHub hasn't sorted this out yet.
The business model, sadly, is to be the Daily Mail of the left.

The number of news reports relative to op-eds continues to shrink, and the op-eds themselves have swung much harder to the left than before.

It's clearly working for them financially, but it's a different beast now altogether.
A similar case can be made for Chinese tech companies, many of whom are actively complicit in human rights violations [1] [2].

Yet EU countries like Italy have no qualms about supporting the geopolitical aims of China, inevitably strengthening the position of the Chinese tech companies. Which should come to no surprise given their close ties to the communist party [3] [4].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/alibaba-b...

[2] https://www.thestar.com/news/huawei/2019/03/27/canadas-partn...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/5d0af3c4-846c-11e8-a29d-73e3d4545...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/tech/china-tech-communist-par...
What happens if somebody doesn't really want to do jury duty?
This line of thinking has two serious problem: it assumes that people

1) Actually intentionally break the law as a choice and
2) Actually think about the consequences of their actions

And to a lesser extent, this ignores the subset of circumstances where people forget to pay, actually do pay but the payment gets lost, or can't afford to pay but need to get places.

This is why 3-strike rules are abject failures (life in prison for stealing a slice of pizza?). Crime and punishment are enormously complicated and the "obvious" solutions almost never actually work.
I'd imagine the cost of arrests and incarceration are sunk costs though.

It's not like we pay the police $2,000 for each arrest, or pay the prison $500/night per inmate.

Does anyone know if these numbers were taken by adding up the costs of running a prison and police department and dividing by the number of arrests and inmates?

If so, it's a little disingenuous to make this argument.

Also, these cases are not about a 1:1 relationship of harm to society vs. cost of justice. If you let the crimes go, you'll have more people doing it because "everybody does it".

60 days in jail does seem pretty excessive though. If imagine tons of young kids or people in a rush would make a silly mistake.
I don't understand the business model. Since git is distributed, I have a copy of the repo in my hard disk. In the shared repos, we all have copies of the repos in our hard disk. So I don't expect that too many people will pay.
Is it moral and right to post these divisive headlines without even the basic context of line item cost breakdown?
And I have patiently explained to multiple teens in great detail how to turn a simple design into a drawing and that into a 3D artifact. 95% of them can't do it.

If this kid figured it all out from YouTube, he's still way ahead of the rest of his peers around the world.

The point for me isn't the syringes. It's the initiative and determination it takes to start with the idea and actually finish it, particularly among this age group.
I would argue that the incentive was implicit and fundamental to the nature of the business, because it provided agents with a method to pick and choose their clients.

By inducing lapses in insurance coverage, insurance companies were able to convert illnesses under active treatment into preexisting conditions.
Data science is probably a better description.
They also choose not get married or not having children or only have one child, which all have negative impact on the society. They think a tiny apartment is good, depending on bike or public transportation is good, only because they don't want raise children.
All of your points except the first one seem more relevant to the debate between single payer vs. multi payer. But I'm specifically asking, assuming single payer (ie. without a loophole that makes it multi payer), why is it necessary to proactively outlaw other plans rather than let them die?

I think your first point kind of gets at the crux of it though: you want providers to only have to support a single payer in order to reap the administrative efficiencies, so you either need to make a law that says that providers must only accept payments from the single national plan, or that insurers can't offer plans that pay separately. Those two options seem equivalent to me, but the first one (forcing providers to only accept payments from the national plan) seems more intuitive than the second to me.
I observed two occasions where house prices in outlying areas of Southern California declined more than any decline at the same time in close-in houses. The first time was the early Nineties. These outlying areas also didn't have decent transportation into the urban areas, especially the first time around. I think Metrolink has expanded in the areas I am commenting on, "Inland Empire" areas like Victorville and Temecula.
I do use Blendle, but my spend has dropped from ~$5/mo when I first signed up to barely a dollar, if that. They really need to get a wider variety of editors to cover topics beyond what would be popular op-eds on the Huff Post.
That means fundamentally changing Facebook's business model, which is unlikely. Ads only account for less than 20% of WeChat's revenue.
but if we didn't arrest all those people we wouldn't need as many police or as much prison space .... they're not sunk, just costs that can go away over time if you don't need to pay them
Hyatt with an ankle bracelet?

/s
To me, a pdf is only a digital version of a paper version. Just to look at, present... nothing more. Data duplication, extraction always had to be done manually. I could never extract text correctly. So I don’t anymore. I just accepted it. As I did with a lot of other things.
Search results don't include private repos.

Wonder how many of those got hit.

Lots of security people will be up tonight reviewing logs.
Increase the penalties for bribes and make them severe enough that representatives won't risk it.
I helped build a POC of this precise idea at a university datacenter ~6-7 years ago.

I broadly agree that it's not super scalable if you try to use it as "all up monitoring" but there were certain instances in which I found it to be very useful.

- We used it among other things to visualize datacenter temperature as volumentric clouds. It let us better diagnose airflow and cooling issues.

- We previously relied on flashing lights on disk controllers to identify the bad slot of a disk that needs to be swapped. But when you have heterogenous SKUs/chassis/disks/backplanes, maintaining that infra is a PITA. AR offered avenues to do this that slightly reduced the complexity needed to provide this feedback.

Basically, even if you "piped your data into a machine" a human still had to eventually interface with systems (the datacenter, the machines within them, networking topologies) that are highly opaque without augmented guidance.

To your final point as well: I see the lighting solutions vs. portable AR as different points on the "AR spectrum" and they offer obvious tradeoffs in portability, extensibility, etc.
Question: What if you had $20 for each of your hitherto unpaid hours of OSS work?

I would be glad.
What? The "public" didn't force you to do anything. The public is just people.
You're part of the public, for Christ's sake. A representative who would act as you propose wouldn't be screwing some mysterious nefarious entity that likes to enslave people, they'd be screwing you.

> You don't get to complain about "fairness" or the "right" way for me to protest, when you are forcing me into slavery.

What about the part of the public who doesn't like this system, doesn't want to force you to do anything, and would like to change the way it works? If you're "sabotaging" the system by voting for "bad policies," you're screwing them over along with everyone else. Can they complain? Because I can guarantee you that they will.

Anyway. Let me put it this way: if 95% of the public supports this system, it doesn't matter how hard you try to sabotage it. It won't do dick. If a significant percentage hates the system, let's say 20%, then 20% of the "enslaved" representatives really want to change the system to work on a voluntary basis. Surely they can bloody negotiate with the remaining 80% to enact a reform, instead of lashing out against the public at large, who can't really do anything about the system because they weren't picked by the lottery.
I can't really say it's an open standard either since proprietary binary data can be embedded that may not be usable by the 'standard' pdf viewer.

Yes, I have had to deal with it on a development slant as well. The open source tools are rare.

Paper records are the reason systems went to databases to store information.

PDF is NOT the swiss army knife of IT-data and never will be.
Despite the recommendation timestamptz is not actually good for timezones. I think it converts to UTC but doesn't actually store the time zone!!!

That's fine for, eg, recording a timestamp, but doesn't work for a scheduled event. What if you want to be able to create a new event for "same time next week"? Impossible without having the time zone.

I had an app where it mattered so we stored the datetime with a timestamp (as UTC) and had a separate column for timezone.

I don't really see the point of timestamptz. In most cases when you're just storing a moment in time, convert it on the frontend and store it as UTC. If the time zone actually matters (scheduled, future events) then timestamptz doesn't cut it, and you need to store the timezone separately anyway, so again might as well just use UTC timestamp again.

Eh, I guess if your programming language doesn't have good time zone support you could lean on postgres for the conversion to UTC, but in most apps you'll have to deal with time and zones on the frontend anyway.
You post too often.
Putting someone in jail for breaking the law isn't about costs.
Besides before you know it nobody pays for their ticket and then what? This is a nice deterrent for any other sad sack who thinks he is above the rules.
Also see theguardian.com: https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust/2015/jul/26/a-hi...
There's no reason to try to draw the distinction you're trying to draw. You're starting with ideology and proceeding to practice, which is a bad idea. There's a tremendous benefit to society in providing clean water, and also in providing medical care, for the same reasons.

Preventive medical care generally has a negative cost to society; treating diabetes from the beginning is cheaper than amputating limbs, transplanting kidneys, etc.
Sorry, but annual physical exams for asymptomatic adults do not reduce mortality or morbidity and certainly do not "clearly reduce risk of complications down the road"

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-the-annual-physical-unne...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/re-thinking-the-annual-phys...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/questioning-the-annual-pelv...

http://www.clinlabnavigator.com/questioning-the-value-of-the...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK82767/

The idea of the "annual physical" in general is a little odd because there's no standard on what an annual physical actually entails. I've been to doctors that order every blood test under the sun and don't touch me AT ALL to doctors who order zero blood tests but feel up all my organs in detail.
Gonna bet it's a user acquisition tactic so we can get the commercial premium financing people confused and involved with the decentralized web.
Man, this is so annoying.
Might as well just not go to an Ivy League college and just create a startup, who cares about your degree credentials if you actually have the skills and connections to succeed.
> Or maybe they just don't want more density.

Which is a fine thing to want -- so go live somewhere that occurs naturally without regulatory restrictions. There are plenty of areas in the US, or even within California, with low and medium density that require no artificial restrictions to keep them that way.
This is not a helpful comment. Could you provide some examples of why it's a waste of money?
My insurance company has asked me to confirm my miles per year on occasion, especially the commuting part.
It seems like the crux of it more so is what the providers accept. If a major driving force is to improve administrative efficiency for providers (which it appears to be from reading this article), then it defeats the purpose if providers are still accepting payments from other insurers. But it seems like you could controller this at the provider rather than insurer level, that is by forcing providers to only take payments from the national plan. Then if any insurers were selling plans, they would be fraudulent because they couldn't actually pay for anything. But I can see that this is more or less equivalent to the law I was asking about, so I suppose I get it now.
I switched to MinIO for anything new. Happy user - https://min.io/
The techcrunch headline is misleading. The drag and drop is the OLD version. What is new is the automl capabilities.

In general the holy grail is an autonomous ML system. with no input from the user but a data set schema.
Maybe next time I will say I get "positively irritated".

The thing is, two statements can be seemingly at odds in sentiment and also simultaneously true. The "aggressive subtitles for foreign accent" phenomenon is real. I wanted to acknowledge I had seen the same in other places. It is irritating when it happens. It is disrespectful where it occurs. But the second paragraph establishes that it is not always the reason. I did not think it was here.
There are some people for whom driving really is something they like. It's not driving per-se but I personally enjoy motorcycling in pretty much any context whether its commuting in heavy traffic (granted, here in California that does mean I get to lane-split through lots of it) or riding for leisure. Maintaining the machine is also an aspect of it, for some people their car or bike fulfills a niche sort of analogous to a pet or a garden. Not being able to have an automobile (car or motorcycle) if frequently a deciding factor in where people choose to live.