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> I've heard of a startup spending many days of contractor time to optimise their database so they didn't have to go from the 4GB Heroku database to the 8GB one.

From Heroku's site, Heroku's 4GB database plan goes for 50$/(instance.month) while Heroku's 8GB plan goes for 200$/(instance.month).

Therefore, it isn't a question of if it makes finantial sense (it does) but how long the startup plans to operate to recover their investment.

> I've heard of a company refusing to purchase an external drive for an employee so they could process a handful of ~50GB datasets on their MacBook Air – instead forcing them to use "the cloud" or constantly download and backup datasets.

I find it rather strange how someone believes that it's a decent idea to conduct a company's data analysis work on what an employee manages to fit on an external HD, as it creates a whole lot of hard problems both legal and technical. I mean, how do you ensure the data's provenance is tracked and other data analysts can access the data? Who in their right mind would put himself on a situation where a minor lapse or misfortune (losing/getting the HD stolen) could put the company at risk?

> Roughly I'd suggest that "fits on my laptop" is <1TB, "fits in memory" is < 1TB, "fits on one computer" is < 10TB, "fits on a small cluster" is <100TB, and "might be worth Hadoop" is >100TB. I could be too low on these though.

That's a rather naive and missinformed take on Hadoop. Hadoop might be conflated with big data but it's actually a distributed system designed to reliably process data shards without having to incur a penalty to move data around. It makes absolutely no sense to base your assertion on data volumes alone. What matters if it the performance increase justifies setting up a hadoop cluster with the resourses available to a company.
This is so true. It's like the old truism about how the way to really truly learn something is to have to explain it to someone else. Literally just going through the process of articulating something, just putting it into words, is an amazing tool for revealing all of the missing pieces and inconsistencies that would otherwise be implicit.

Until you put something into words, one way or another, then it's just a fuzzy blob of assumptions and halfway articulated thoughts. The better someone is at writing, the better they're able to articulate their thoughts, even if it's just to themselves.
>Human beings will always make bad choices. There is nothing wrong with helping them when they do.

You're forcing others to help them by threat of force.
While I think the usage of a gif is awesome, I am a huge fan of actually allowing people to see what is happening. The purpose of the gif was to show how it works, but he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him.
The true test is if the anonymized data can be filtered and cross-referenced in a way to still link back to people[0].

[0]:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-privacy/anonymous-...
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I am always curious of the discretionary spending when these reports come out. And they never seem to talk about it. What percentage of their income is going to things not needed to survive?

I don't want to make rash assumptions, but it sure seems like many people "live paycheck to paycheck" but still buy alcohol, watch Netflix, etc. I realize they've made the choice to be that way - as opposed to being pinched into it. Of course others are truly screwed, and simply must find ways to increase income.
Upvoted for ending with a rhyming couplet.

> Watching a video? Reading a blog?

> Chances are good that Google's involved.
You don't have to be a doctor to rule on an abortion case. Same principle applies here, as it should.
I was curious about the comment about flat modern glass vs the “medieval version” and found a nice writeup that explains in some detail.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-colors-you-s...
What alternatives exist and how do they compare? ( For example, jsinspect finds structurally similar code )
Yarn PnP, npm tink, and pnpm Oh My
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I'm not certain why this viewpoint, a completely valid one, was down-voted. This is simply the other side of the argument.
Or too cheap to steal consumer goods.
>Rebuilding it in concrete would see the French in uproar.

i somehow expect and hope that the French will intentionally rebuild it in some very new, "into the 3rd millenium", style which definitely would put half the country and the world into uproar, yet will become a great cultural icon 50-100 years down the road - ie. a story similar to Eiffel tower.
Don't despair. We still have economic, energy, and material science boundaries to smash.

Just imagine your current phone costing pennies, compostable, and easily chargeable anywhere. Imagine never again worrying about file size or storage capacity.

We've got a long way to go and I'm very excited about what the future holds.
Average income in the Netherlands is 40k USD. If being poor in the US is double that... Maybe the complete lack of healthcare and social housing makes up the difference?
I’m not talking about filtering. I’m talking about succeeding in interviews.
"Modern" is kind of a loaded word, but Mint is both new and has a very polished UX, if that helps. Coming from OSX you should have smooth sailing, besides inherent things like window management button order and switched up yes/no dialogues ;)

For example, the installation is a window where you just click through the settings, not some command line jungle, to give you some kind of feeling of Mint. Under the hood there is of course the full power of Linux.

Personally, the switch brought me to discover i3wm (https://i3wm.org/) which is a fundamental different way of thinking about your screenspace. Not affiliated, but if you currently have an open mind about your workflow, I can highly suggest it for frontend-dev. Basically, windows automatically fill all available screenspace, which is awesome for the plethora of terminals you tend to have sometimes as well as resizing graphics/webpages.

Have fun whatever you do :)
Really, good for them. They recognized the problem in front of them and did something to fix it.

The Bush administration that pushed making student loan debt not dischargeable in bankruptcy has been absolutely ruinous.
> but it has been shown that medical care is male-oriented which negative affects female outcomes

I'm new to this idea. Where has it been shown? What level or aspect is it male-oriented? What negative affects are there?
I've never had a conversation with a person who was broadly anti-abortion and anti-subsidized-birth-control that didn't end with the explicit impression that they feel disgust for people who have sex before marriage or for reasons other than reproduction, and that the primary notion upsetting them is the idea of their taxes going toward those people in any form. It's clearly a notion born out of the popular and too-eagerly-applied idea of "bad" people who "deserve" consequences.
I still don't understand why some people:

a) Release their work on a license that explicitly allows anyone to do anything with it, then feel betrayed when some company does exactly that.

b) Invent new licenses incompatible with anything, when GPL or AGPL would do the job just fine.
Mini/Micro USB also suffers from a superposition rule* much like the A connector: whenever you need a mini or micro cable, your drawer will be completely full of the opposite type.

* https://imgur.com/gallery/kYGTLjc
Then you and I work differently, and I will stand by my claim that if you/OP don't factor in 'irrational' hate, you won't understand people's behavior.

Anyway, the underlying principle is one of morals and ethics, in a sense. The sensations of hate, resentment, or disgust are the outward manifestation of a calculation to determine who to trust. Naturally, someone who repeatedly screws you for personal gain should not be trusted. The result is the feeling of hating them.

But it is not only about raw 'utility'. Someone who does annoying things (Medium), or demonstrating tremendous hubris or arrogance, or just does things that are or should be inappropriate, gets resented also. If you send me lots of unsolicited emails, I can find a way to explain why I hate you in terms of a utility calculation ("you are taking up space in my attention that I don't want to give you"), but that's just hand-waving -- I just hate you (to some mild degree) and I'm working backwards from that.
There's a gap between only the rich reproduce and habitually unemployed/low-wage workers shouldn't have multiple kids at a young age.
Well the hypothetical manager would have no control over the images of people you apparently form for whatever reasons.
Don't write long, rambling, run on sentences, they confuse the reader. As a side note... it is always fun to read pro/con paragraphs for ballot measures and even Congressional legislation... they are masters at expert ambiguity.
I dunno. What do you think is stopping them?

My home state of Minnesota jokes about mosquitoes being our state bird, but I have zero risk of catching malaria from them. That's because malaria isn't carried by our native mosquitoes. So our cost of mitigation is rather lower.
Really? In what way does it differ from Oracle Java SE ?
Some opinions from reading responses:

* Referring to someone in the third person while in their (virtual) presence comes across as rude.

* It is incredibly irresponsible to bring up illegal drug use at all.

* Saying someone has “mental issues” who is describing their choice to withdraw and plan suicide long term is always a poor choice of words. It’s counterproductive at best, and destructive at worst. If you’re going to summarize someone’s problems in this case, perhaps “consciously chosen socially maladaptive behavior” is a better euphemism.

To these opinions, did you think maybe I (or someone in this case like me) just decided long ago that I don’t like getting picked on? Ever think an algorithm can be a far worse bully than a scumbag teenager telling a classmate explicitly to kill themselves? Ever think that people try to hurt others and drive them to suicide intentionally with the intent on getting away with it? Ever see what scumbags on reddit or dark parts of the internet can do to a person behind their back? Ever think that you don’t know shit, and that you’re assuming I haven’t touched the universe long ago with your precious lysergic spiritual dimethyl horse tranquilizer bullshit?

You want to summarize “him” as having “mental issues”, fine. But you have a long way to go towards understanding the truth about the extent to which it’s possible to pick on a person to the point where they are worn down to a little nub, and simply give up.

The only reason I’m disclosing this is to help the species deal with people like me. I’m not seeking your advice or help, as stated. Some people have thick skins or learn to grow one. I never wanted to grow a thick skin. I wanted to die from before age 10 and I gave up then after considering the mechanisms of humanity. Hopefully the decades of data that I’ve generated since then will be a useful towards improving how people treat each other — via responsible use of technology.

Again, I don’t like this species and I don’t like being alive. Take that as you will. All will be revealed to a grand AI sooner or later, largely affected by the extent of non post quantum pcaps being quietly stashed away at an exponentially growing rate.
I wonder if they have a junior person that does/did the writing for them.

Reminds me of a story about fighter pilots from World War 2. Some of the best fighter pilot aces had, at best, average vision. Their coping strategy for this was to find pilots who weren't as good at dogfighting but had excellent vision as wingmen.

Both parties benefited since the better pilot could spot enemy planes earlier and the lesser pilot got to fly with an ace and occasionally get kills they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
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You see this a lot in SE Asia where there's a lot of housing with no useable kitchens. Because eating out becomes a necessity, there's lots of supply and variety and prices are super low. You don't need economies of scale, just for it to become a necessity/staple rather than a luxury.
I'm more on the operational side, but I have the same experience. I easily spend 50% of the time I spend on technical topics documenting my findings.

To us, good, structured documentation and/or well-written tickets are a crucial part of delegating a task. Practically, it is part of my job to figure out and solve hard and architectural problems, around once per problem. Then I can document it properly. After that, the bulk of the team should be able to solve this problem.

And this is producing value for our customers, because well-documented standard tasks are resolved faster. I might be unavailable due to some critical problem. But if it's a documented standard task, one of the four other guys can pick it up and resolve it quickly.
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Soon we will be writing in emojis.
First ever solar eclipse film brought back to life
The mission is minimum of 5 years with maximum 10 years based on the fuel.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#howlong
Ice Lake's Wikipedia page mentions that Intel is adding hardware mitigations to Spectre and Meltdown.
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LS engine all the things...
Define "care"

I assure you kids can and do grow up just fine without an upper middle class amount of resources thrown at them.

I agree with your second paragraph though.
How's that different then a standard definition of survive? Everything listed there is needed to survive.
Poor mice. The scientists should experiment on their body, not on some other body. This is cruel.
this is my understanding as well...

but I wonder how much of that is that they just had more variable cement, and the stuff that wasn't incredibly great turned to dust long ago? Certainly, our modern processes are more repeatable and produce a narrower range of results. What if the existent buildings are outliers of the roman process?
What makes you think the gap is compounding? Is that fact-based, or feelings-based?

I'd recommend reading Factfulness, by Hans Rosling. It'll cause you to rethink some things.

edit: Here's an interesting fact for you. In the late 1990s, the global extreme poverty rate (around $1.80/day in today's dollars) was 29%. Today, it's under 9%. We've wiped out two thirds of the world's extreme poverty in twenty years. https://www.gapminder.org/topics/extreme-poverty-trend/
Most expensive electronics are actually much more durable than smartphones, and you usually not taking them with you wherever you go. I can handle ceramics and crystal glasses just fine, but I don't take them with me when I go hiking.
Oh yeah, that was a separate instance. I did forget about that.
OTOH cable television is an unnecessary, overpriced drain when most people can receive OTA programming.
> that have lasted 100 years so far just fine.

Which isn't terribly impressive, unless you assume zero maintenance conditions (which admittedly hit pretty much everything else harder than concrete)
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It's about emails, but I like this article[0] about how topics are covered in the military (where I imagine clear communication is important). "Military professionals lead their emails with a short, staccato statement known as the BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front). It declares the purpose of the email and action required.". I find this helpful..

[0] https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-write-email-with-military-pre...
Deduplication shouldn’t work on mutations at all! There has got to be something else wrong. If I were to guess, it’s probably an issue with the Apollo React interface.

Also IDs aren’t required for cache updates, only the typename.
You don't need a phone 24/7/265.

As far as cost, looks like land line service is 15-30$ a month with things like caller ID, call waiting and voicemail. That's generally much cheaper than any mobile phone with a data plan and doesn't require a phone that costs hundreds of dollars. Even MVNO solutions like Mint start at 45$ every three months before tax and sim shipping.

You also don't need payphones to be abundant, From 1990 to 1999 (ages 5-14) I used a payphone maybe a dozen times and nearly all of those were to have discussions with friends that I didn't want my parents to hear so I rode my bike 2 blocks to Little Caesars and used the phone in their parking lot. And I don't think a single time after that yet I didn't have a cellphone until 2004. I still rarely talk on the phone, I will go months without using a single minute.

I will listen to voicemails a few times a week but I will either go see the person or if it is a business I need to call back I'll do so at my convenience, not when they want to talk to me.
All of the following is my opinion only.

> I really don't understand the extreme hostility to data collection and data markets.

I can easily explain my extreme hostility to this: that it happens without my consent and that companies put so much work into actively evading the defenses I put up against it.

> No one likes ads

This isn't about ads. This is about data collection. If ads existed without the spying, I wouldn't have an issue.

> What's really great is that it can really help small businesses and startups over large corporations.

No, that's not really great. I'm all for helping small businesses, but not by allowing them to abuse me.

> I can understand the need for treating data carefully and making sure the data is sufficiently scrubbed for personal identification

That's important too, but it doesn't address the issue of consent.

If data is being collected about me or my use of my machines without my informed consent, that's spying, period. I will treat anybody doing that as the attackers that they are.
Carbon credits vs. carbon tax isn't an either/or.

Carbon tax discourages emitting carbon into into the atmosphere. Carbon credit encourages sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. Both are needed.

One advantage to carbon credits is that anybody can pay them, whereas only the government can enforce a carbon tax. And when it comes to the Amazon, this means the Brazilian government...whose leader is a climate denier that wants to bulldoze the Amazon for agriculture.
Good != charity. Good people voluntarily enlisted in war to fight tyrants. Or sacrificed to give decent upbringing to their kids, often against extreme hardships, so that they don't become degenerates or criminals. Etc etc.
> Is it too much to ask to have people use the same term to refer to a project, environment, component, etc? It saves so much time when you don't have to spend effort tracking down what someone means when they say "stage is broken".

I disagree with you, but since I'm shadowbanned, there's no point in explaining why.
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TrueCaller is a privacy nightmare. Note that to search for a number on their site, you need to sign in with a Google/Microsoft account... and "Enhanced Search" is enabled by default which auto-uploads all your contacts.

As a non-user you can unlist here: https://www.truecaller.com/unlisting
>nearly half of Americans simply cannot build any wealth or get out of any debt and likely can't meet the basic standards of education/transportation/food/housing that we used to assume was the birthright of any American

If one takes the median household income in the United States $75,938[0] in 2017, you're asserting that it is literally impossible ("simply cannot") to design a budget to build wealth, get out of debt, and those other items you mention? Some families are certainly in a dire circumstance, but I disagree that the median family can't build wealth and meet those other items if they budget responsibly.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA646N
In many places in the US having kids is actually not a choice but an obligation forced on women by lack of funding for reproductive service clinics by ignorant politicians and repeated attacks on the right to an abortion by right wing extremists. This is a very loaded conversation at the moment, but there are politicians who've said things like, if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant she should accept the gift that god gave her.

The ability to have kids or not is one thing, the right to make the choice is another, and it's constantly being attacked by religious extremists.
Ask HN: Open-source license with special restriction from FAANG using it?
Ask HN: Open source license with special restriction from FAANG using it?
Is it possible to use a standard license like apache 2 but adding restriction to specifically disallow FAANG companies to use it in any way, thus preventing from what happened to some recent big open source projects?
Medium is showing everyone exactly why self hosted WordPress is great.

... “5 minute install” today.
For the mini, the wobbly springy bits are in the device, for the micro the wobbly springy bits are in the cable. The cable is cheaper and easier to replace. The springy bits bend out of shape over time and fail.
Please delete this post. This is a private email I sent to the author. It was not intended to be shared on Twitter.

We just want to move on and focus on the future.
Obviously that's not verification of the factual contents of a review, but it does prevent sockpuppeting and Sybil attacks and the like.

Do you really limit yourself exclusively to corroborated facts when judging things? That seems untenable; you just can't find enough information that meets such a high bar to make everyday judgment calls. They should obviously be given much more weight, but would you really plug your ears and close your eyes to unverified word-of-mouth rumors from the grapevine? This site may actually be more reliable than word-of-mouth rumors, because it can be difficult to know if it's one person with an axe to grind spreading a rumor to many, many people, or actually many people reporting the same thing.
I am not a microbiome expert but I have always wondered how dynamic is the gut microbiome? For example, maybe I travel for a week and consume a bunch of fast food and drink a bunch of alcohol or I contracted food poisoning. Would my gut microbiome be substantially different than if I followed my regular diet of relatively healthy home made foods? and how long would it take to go back to its default state before I travelled (if ever).
My ps3 has to have the controllers cocked at the right angle to charge. Mileage I guess varies.
> And even the good actors

This sounds like snark, but I don't intend it that way. I genuinely want to know.

Who are the good actors? I really can't see any.
If that's the case, you're literally saying that families of 4 in King County earning less than $85,000 are dying. I don't think this is the case.
How exactly does the parent comment violate HN guidelines?
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Add more zoning restrictions then?
Why? After trying Opera many times in the past, now that it's using Chromium and supports the plugins, I am now a die-hard fan.
As I understand it, USB-C is considerably more complex than the first few iterations. The goal of the first few iterations was to become a standard cable and connector, and for that it needed to be simple, to lower the cost of implementation and have a good chance of widespread adoption.