skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Maker" and "taker" are also technical terms from trading markets. The "maker" is the firm who puts a limit order into the order book and waits for someone to accept the trade; the "taker" is the firm who enters a market order (or a limit order that'll fill immediately) and accepts whatever the best bid is in the market.

Not sure if he meant it like that, since the following paragraph seem to go on to say that yes, he did mean "taker" in its pejorative sense. But there's an interesting analogy there: the maker sets the terms of trade, while the taker just offers their consent to the terms that are given. Similarly, in entrepreneurial markets, the "maker" is the one who determines what the world will look like, while the "taker" can merely offer their consent to one possible vision that is offered by an entrepreneur.
Number one and two has a dilemma. Those who inherits the future will be descended from those that deny that "solution". Earth is going to "die" anyway then.

But pricing carbon and other pollution externalities in is well and good solution, and hopefully will be achievable soon.
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Will I be alive to care?
I think it would be nice if they had a demo/preview feature. With the streaming model, they could allow you play X hours of a game per day, or per week, or per month, or whatever, and lock you out or force you to purchase.

Or they could bill you at a slightly higher price per minute, up until you reach a maximum, where you are charged full price for the game.

There's a lot of room to play with pricing models with streaming (if they can get game publishers to agree).
So you've paid $290 (plus the cost of the games) for one year of service, and that's not that bad? I don't know about you, but I have an Xbox One and it's lasted me more than one year for the $300 I paid for it, 4k or not.

I'm not even entirely sure what you're arguing... that it's okay to pay $300/yr for a video game system plus the cost of video games? That if you paid $300 for an Xbox and Microsoft discontinued the system after a year you'd be okay with the price?

Assuming the worst like you have, you paid $300 for a video game system that didn't include any video games and after a year you weren't allowed to play it anymore. That's pretty fucking awful. Even if Microsoft stops making the Xbox One, you still get to keep playing the games you bought.
This is... just such a HN comment.
> like all metaphysical posturing it's almost certainly impossible to ever know

The concept that we can round off infinity and fit it within some tidy scientific experiment shall have seemed quaint by the time we meet the Almighty.

Nevertheless, reverse-engineering reality is our task under the sun, so: best be about it.
That's not true. Not all games on Steam have the DRM requirement.
or make electric cars a lot more interesting (literally lower hanging fruit)
This is a fantastic idea, except I would print some real code rather than a toy project. Unlike natural languages there's no way you'll be able to understand a piece of non-trivial code deeply without also being able to write it. And any developer reads many times more code than they write, if only because they have to re-read every time they want to modify anything.

Just make sure the code is linted and idiomatic unless you want the poor interviewee to be bogged down by a bunch of irrelevant details.
What triggered you to downvote me? Maybe the fact that I used the dirty word 'blockchain'? I just used it because it seems like an obvious application to certify and long-term preserve the originals.
Yes this is also how it's done at other large orgs. But one key to a quick response is for every low-level team to have at least one engineer on call at any given time. This makes it so any SRE team can engage with true "owners" of the offending code ASAP.

Also during an incident, fingers are never publicly/embarrassingly pointed nor are people blamed. It's all about identifying and fixing the issue as fast as possible, fixing it, and going back to sleep/work/home. For better or worse, incidents become routine so everyone knows exactly what do and that as long as the incident is resolved soon, it's not the end of the world, so no histrionics are required.
Not sure about Xbox because I haven't owned it in a while but PS4 lets you copy your system drive to a new drive pretty easily. The function is even built into the OS. I switched out the hard drive to an SSD using this technique.
How did he make his money, in the end? A talented software developer can make enough money to retire as comfortable middle class by 38, by getting a job at a FAANG by age 25.

The thought of going to Burning Man for millionaire-business networking makes me sick, the quintessence of how Silicon Valley tech bros are murdering human culture.
How expensive are a few Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry machines? Surely the FDA can buy a few. Less than a military toilet.
in what sense is this "512 bytes"?...The source code appears to be about 4k

The source .asm file is about 4k, most of which consists of comments.

The rest is assembly language code with things like:

mov ah,al

That assembly language which is 17 bytes including the preceding spaces gets assembled into machine language which is substantially lower. I'm much more familiar with 6510 assembly than I am 8086 assembly but I believe mov ah,al is one byte for the mnemonic and two bytes for the registers for a total of 3 bytes. So the actual machine code is far smaller than the assembly source code.
Shorting our security- Financing the companies that make nuclear weapons
I hope which ever managers that ok'd that particularly insidious strategy at Intuit are shamed and the those staff that said "this is a terrible idea" are rewarded.

I know that will never be the case, but I can hope.

Those lobbyists have got to be so pissed too.
The system is separable after you measure out your ancilla. Imagine a stream of qubits B_1, B_2, ... prepared in +X who interact weakly with qubit A prepared in +X. and are then strongly measured projectively. After the brief interaction, A and a certain B will be entangled. Projectively measuring this B updates our knowledge of A, but due to the weak entanglement, the adjustment is small and incremental. The state of such B qubit is known and thus there is no remaining entanglement between A and B, and thus A and B are separable. After many such Bs, an outside observer privy to all measurement outcomes will understand that A is doing an absorbing random walk to the poles of the Bloch sphere. Throwing away this information and taking an ensemble average, you'd see an exponential decay of coherence.

This is a toy model of a qubit being weakly measured by an incident flying field.
> Debugging the problem was significantly hampered by failure of tools competing over use of the now-congested network.

Man that's got to suck.
Just as a side note here, Google is doing Kubernetes as a commoditize your compliment strategy (https://www.gwern.net/Complement) so they can sell other cloud compute services. This makes it easier for people to migrate their on-prem workloads to Kubernetes, and then to the cloud. This commoditize much of what Amazon was attempting with ECS. Forcing Amazon to fast follow with EKS, arguably a worse and much more complex to deploy product than Google GKE.

It makes it so it's hard to make money off container orchestration, but you can still make money off what Google is good at, or at least thinks they are good at. Selling compute, proprietary databases, and stuff like TPUs.

My point is that yes, Google is advancing the whole industry by releasing Kubernetes as opensource, but it's also a strategy to sell more of GCP and deny some revenue to competitors.

It remains to be seen if it works. GCP is still a distant 3rd in the cloud race and has a long way to go to improve their enterprise support. (Their usability is much nicer though...)
Venus is closer to Earth.
I'm not sure you understand what I'm saying.

Plato wasn't making a case for discerning fact from fiction using obviously fictitious sources (literature, dramas, TV, your friend Rob, etc).

He was illustrating that our own senses and perceptions prohibit us from seeing reality in an objective nature.

He compared the escaped prisoner to an enlightened philosopher, who has learned to use his mind and abstract thinking in order to see what his eyes cannot.

Plato isn't saying, "Don't believe what you read in the newspaper," he is saying, "Don't trust your eyes and ears at all, because your entire reality might be false."

That doesn't very much help a kid understand not to believe what he sees in advertisements or to distrust friendly faces who want to control them.
Do you live anywhere near LA? You mention you surf? If so hit me up at murdock.roy@gmail.com and let's hang out. I'm 26 and still figuring stuff out too...don't worry, everyone is constantly trying to figure it out...
So a startup was getting their hosting entirely for free, their paying customers were Fortune 500 companies, but they didn't have the money to pay for off-site backups.

What the hell was their cost then?
Hi cyberferret. Two quick trys to provide some clarity for you here:

1. On your vendors don't say why they took action point. I think a lot of vendors, us included, worry about the bad actors knowing the _how_ of our algorithms because they will then have intelligence on what to try and work around to avoid detection. It's a constant adversarial chess match we adjust, they adjust.

2. As for the human element being needed for the after effects I totally agree. That said, I looked at our numbers and while many of the nefarious actors simply move to the next thing, a very large percentage of the, "WTF" replies are actually from bad actors hoping that is enough to be re-enabled and to keep going for a while. Our goal is to bring more people into the after effects and give them better information to make decisions and work with customers to avoid this kind of mess in the future.
I appreciate the sympathy. I think you're right about everything being sort of pointless. When I think about the scale of the universe and my place within it, my insecurities are kinda humorous. But even with that realization, my stupid brain is still depressed. Humans just aren't mean to be solitary like I am, I guess.
I agree, setting the correct incentives seems like the obvious fix here. Environmental degradation is an externalized cost. It should be much more expensive to pollute than to not, until it is, things will not change.

One of many examples; single use plastic packaging should be expensive, but it's long term costs are all externalized away.

People do what makes economic sense, don't expect an individual let alone a corporate body to act in any other way. Which means that this is going to require regulation.
Losing 0.00001% per year is not "very wasteful" to me.

There are ideas for putting up a magnetic field based on putting a contraption in whichever L1/L2... point is between Mars and the Sun.
I just tried to turn off one of my droplets and had to click "okay" on a message that said "You will still be billed for Droplets that are turned off because your disk space, CPU, RAM, and IP address will still be reserved."

If you clicked okay without actually reading the message, that is entirely your own fault.
I would imagine that it's going to be a gradient. Just like any other form of exercise, the more effort you put in, the more positive effect. Humans would need to put in much less effort on Mars. Once we are spread across the solar system there will probably new exercise systems for 0 and .3 G environments.
Usually when they break things they break other people, for profit. So having a conscience doesn't help them.
wait, those aren't really memes.
Big companies are offering $400k+ for E5 (mid-senior) engineers. No startup in the world will be able to match that in liquid compensation.
I'm not sure that conventional human mathematics lacking the ability to explain something indicates another abstract level of complexity above what we call "the universe".

Also I don't know that infinite regress is necessarily a problem. Cycles most immediately come to mind, aka "loop quantum gravity".

But really I think think both the concept of God and the universe are a perceptual and a definition problem.

Because of our state of being, we can't speak nor understand much outside of the parameters we know. Which leads us to define ideas in ways that probably aren't very accurate and leads to misunderstanding and miscommunication.

That being said, I see no reason to abstract things more than needed.

I won't say I'm necessarily "atheist" because that presupposes I'd understand and could define what it is I don't believe in. By this same reasoning I most certainly am not a theist either.

"Prime cause" just appears a very fallacious argument to me, I guess that's the point. No offense intended.
You're a wonderful person and you sound like a great parent. I have a good relationship with my parents today, especially my father. He and I are good friends. It's interesting, contrasted against the way he was raised and the relationship that he had with his father. Back then, the idea of a friendship wasn't even on the table.

Anyway, I have nothing to really add here. I just wanted to say... I'm on the cusp of becoming a father, we're expecting our twins this weekend. You've given me a lot to think about with your story in these comments. Thanks for that.
Before I moved to DO I used Linode. My day job is a security consultant, I switched from Linode because of their repeated security incidents.
“To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops.” - DevOps Borat
Do you have some quantitative numbers or some particular expertise in this, or is this just armchair outrage?
I made a lot more money at Google than from various startups I've worked at or founded.

I made a lot more money from equity I got while working at Google than I did in salary. The ratio when I started working at Google was about 3:1:2 salary:bonus:equity; the ratio as it stands 10 years later, after a 7:1 appreciation in the stock price, was about 3:1:20.

This is not inconsistent with "equity is a better way to get rich than working".
Usual not, though. People get stuck on X, or just squandering it on expensive luxury.
There is a bill in the US House of representatives[1] that is _exactly_ the right idea, but it doesn't have nearly enough support at the moment.

1. The state charges a fee to emit greenhouse gases.

2. The proceeds of that fee are divided equally amongst all residents of the nation in the form of a monthly check.

3. The actual bill imposes the fee upstream where the fuel is produced rather than where it is burnt, and imposes border adjustments to prevent outsourcing of emissions to other nations, but I don't want to get into all of that in this post.

4. It's a reasonably short bill[2]. You could probably read and understand every word in an hour.

You can look at this as a two-sided incentive - if you emit less than average, your dividend will be bigger than the fee that you pay and so you get extra spending money. If you emit more than average, then your fee is higher and you come out in the red. Some economic modeling dudes predict this incentive will cause the USA to emit 40% less within 12 years after the policy is implemented, but I honestly have no idea how reliable that prediction is.

However, while that incentive is great and probably exactly what we need, this policy would be the right, just thing to do even if it were not going to move the needle on our emissions rates.

The reason is that, every time [insert your favorite celebrity or business tycoon here] crosses the country in a private jet, they do a little damage to my future and my daughter's. They should reimburse us, and reimburse everyone else they're harming. When I decide to keep my 3000-square-foot house at 70F all through the New England winter, I'm harming your future and those of everyone you love. I should reimburse you.

This policy doesn't place hard limits on any kind of activity or consumption. But any time you're externalizing the cost of your emissions onto society at large, you have to compensate society for the damage.

[1]https://energyinnovationact.org/how-it-works/

[2]https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/763/...
Good points. In this case, I was attempting to refer to he's concerned he'll get hacked, or a trusted associate w/ access to the money would run off with it.
I like your guess.
One (starting a successful large software business) is still much harder than the other (getting an offer at google, which people like me have got). It's a matter of order of magnitudes of difference
If you're saying that moles/m^3 of CO2 might be constant while pmm of CO2 is increasing, that implies that atmospheric pressure at sea level is dropping. And it isn't.
Doesn’t cover larger waist sizes.

Edit: doesn’t seem to handle anything over 49” waist measurements.
Guru / Target: A model for personality cults of control
Man, its a desperate state of affairs when I have to access my terminal on my phone...
Wow, that was a sobering piece.
The issue if you will, is that Google is moving from publishing a variety of perspectives to a single "true" one.

And furthermore the perspective that is crowned the true one, is based on whatever is politically convenient for Google.

If people loudly and angrily demand that Google show a lie as truth, then you will now be in position where Google will only show the lie without any questioning or contrary perspectives.

As the lie becomes established, so policy will made based on it. And it will be very deficient policy. And it will lead to disaster. Afterwards, people will ask? How come no one saw this coming? How come no one raised any objections?

Did you know that during the communist mass starvation, there was a lot of false propaganda about how well big the harvests were. People looking to ingratiate themselves with the elite lied about how well everything was going and flattered the elite with how great their their wisdom was.

They were surrounded by yes men who created a filter bubble. The distorted vision of that was catastrophical. Tens of millions dead.
Apple/Google Maps should let you lock the app's UI in portrait or landscape mode
I think this is a reasonable insight into their business model. Especially if they are able to somehow cheaply spin up long-running processes. Not sure how they might be able to do that, though. Conventional tech is all about short term processes.
Wow, what a dick move...
It could be worse. I semi-regularly use Microsoft Remote Desktop from my phone because my workplace's security policy doesn't allow ssh from off-network....
How do I reset the master user password for my Amazon RDS DB instance?
I hope it will be achievable soon. See my other comment in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20121618) to read about the carbon pricing bill that's in US Congress right now.
You just have to understand how drag scales with speed to know that it’s going to be less fuel efficient per mile, and how capacity typically suffers with high speed designs to know that per passenger will be particularly bad. But if the alternative would’ve been a private jet, I suppose it’s a win.

And if we can get cost competitive carbon neutral fuel creation going (a la Prometheus fuels), I’m generally for this.
The Wikipedia page has some good info to start with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_allocation
for an ice-breaker, dont go with an emotional check-in lol. much easier to say something humorous like 'fukin weights, bastards are gonna kill me rather than make me fit'
Amazon is using video of suspected thieves to help promote its Ring brand
5G, if you want to only use it outside while standing right by a 5G antenna.
Zuckerberg's Hawaii estate: battle's latest turn 'devastates' local family
Gee, thanks. My point was about discoverability and being able to Google for "read csv with Python", not whether experienced programmers can hack things together.
> So... my advice is buy/lease a Tesla and show it around. At the very least you’ll have fun.

If your current cars 20+ years old and on it's last legs then yes, if it's not then you'll create more pollution from manufacturing the Tesla than you'll (potentially) save.
IRC is still the backup communication network at large tech firms - I can personally attest to its use at Amazon and Facebook. Typically there are other, more advanced chat platforms in use for day-to-day (Amazon Chime and WorkChat, respectively), but when shit hits the fan those have deep dependency chains, whereas IRC basically just needs a single box with a network connection...
Valve already promise that in the unlikely event the were to shutdown, they would cancel DRM on their platform game to become DRM free
How do you know that the people he took money from in his illegal monopoly operation wouldn't have saved more lives?
Periscope features for non-SQL users not strong enough. Looker did a great job of enabling the non-SQL analyst types more familiar with a Tableau like UI.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2017/06/23/lavecon-2017/ says :

"Right when Elite:Dangerous was coming out, I had just quit a 3-year stint of playing World of Warcraft ... When Frontier decided to add a feature to the July 2015 release, consisting of a refuelling limpet/probe that could be used to transfer fuel to someone who was out, I had a brain-flash and did a posting announcing that I was starting an organization called “The Fuel Rats” who would undertake to rescue people in-game who ran out of fuel. And, The Fuel Rats were an unexpected success ..."
>> Among other problems, they are being demanded to conform to an increasingly narrow range of acceptable behavior...

Most parents want this.
We have seen what society looks like without a safety net provided by the government. That is the reason why these programs were created in the first place.
I think you're right regarding x86 performance being a huge factor. Also my own experience, admining a number of Solaris systems in those days, I just found it more frustrating to use. The first thing I would do was put GNU userland on there to make a Solaris system more usable.

Later on when I had more say in what systems things ran on, I'd reach for Linux because it was easier. It was good enough. I could easily run it at home too, and it ran on cheap hardware.

I sometimes wonder how much that usability factor played a role...

Though AWS seems to be doing fine as a business, so maybe this theory about usability isn't so great.
Is there a relationship between the timing of this post and the fact he was on the Joe Rogan show this week?
Yep been using IRC for over 10 years now and still love it. Always seem like any gui base chat client required more resources then they should. Also the clients didn't allow for modifications I would want/need. Also at the time getting into desktop chat clients one of the popular ones to make profit turn their client into a massive botnet selling cpu power to business. This lead me to distrust gui clients early on.

I recently had a handful of friends that wanted to get away from IRC mainly because smart phone interaction is not the best. Since we switched to keybase I feel like we talk less. Also the desktop client doesn't close without using kill command which makes me open it less.

I use IRC just for chatting with friends and strangers on internet. Shout out to the #csharp channel on freenode some great people that regularly answer questions and help people out.
the free one is 1080p/30fps, not 60fps.
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Digging new mines was part of debate, there was a path with minor party balance of power where it might have been stopped - but that looks dead now.