skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would argue that the majority of AWS' profits come from inefficiencies of their customers.

Agreed. I've spoken with a few companies that could save quite a bit of money by buying RIs with a few clicks. With a little bit of work they could save a lot more moving large parts of their workload to spot instances. Almost feels like they want to brag about the AWS bill size...
> Do people think they'll be able to change things?

An unpopular chief executive resigned in 2004 to protests half as large [1]. Beijing is at least somewhat constrained with respect to what it can openly do.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_Chee-hwa
> And when we have another 200 million Americans, we just make the roads wider again?

Yes! The takeaway from the OECD report is that we didn't build proper mass transportation 50 years ago, and we still have among the shortest commutes in the OECD. Over the next 50 years the population will grow even less, as the population growth rate now is half of what it was in the 50s and 60s.

(We're having this debate in Maryland now. People are upset that Hogan wants to widen the highways instead of building transit in the counties near D.C. They invoke the same rationale--we'll just have to widen the roads again in 50 years. Except they ignore that population growth in the area has slowed dramatically. Montgomery County tripled in population between 1960 and 2010, but is expected to grow just another 15% by 2045. Prince George's County grew by a factor of 4.5, but will grow only another 10% by 2045.)
I accounted for this, if God exists but he is just watching like a scientists watches ants then for me is not a good/kind god, a father so I can't respect and worship that.

I am thinking at a story in the Bible where God and the Devil discuss about a guy (not sure his english name, it is named Iov in my language) and God agrees to test the guy and kills his children, Iov continues to worship God and at the end God gives him other children, for me children are not like objects, you kill them to test my reactions and if I pass you give me other children or other reward, for me this shows a God that has no empathy or humanity, maybe I am too low level to understand the superior plan but you have Judas that should have seen miracles daily and he lost his faith, how you expect someone that never sees any miracle, that sees the world how unfair it is to believe (considering the most priests still try to convince you that the wold is only 5000 years old and tons of other crap in the Old Testament)
YouTube deletes historical channel for being hatemongers
I doubt that, it's only ever been 40% full, unless I'm measuring wrong.
The "research sponsored by Big $Foo" is also getting a tired meme. By itself, taking in money does not mean research is biased - there needs to be conflict of interest involved. Sometimes it's easy to point it out (e.g. "roundup & cancer" studies with monetary ties to Monsanto), but that doesn't mean every study that was funded by industry is biased. People working there need to get at least some of these things right some of the time; they don't benefit from biasing a study they're using themselves to make sure their product works or meets safety regulations.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

> What you're proposing is that the government does absolutely nothing in the intervening times.

I'm not quite proposing that, but actually you're not far off. I think the government is generally very bad at long-term planning, budgeting, and execution. So if the choice is them doing nothing or them collecting and figuring out how to spend an extra $100 billion, I would go for the former. What I would prefer is that they delegate as much as possible of budgeting and execution to private industry. For example instead of spending tens of billions on BART and Caltrain, what if they offered some fraction of that amount in tax incentives for either multi-family housing developers, or for companies that open offices in areas where most people have to commute out for work? Or even tax incentives for people who have a sub-X mile commute?

What makes me skeptical about government spending are things like the California rail project. It seems like a shit show that is going way over budget, and when it's built it's unlikely to even be competitive with alternative modes of transport.

Things like building restrictions are just hampering the free market. Maybe some developer wants to build a bunch of $2k/mo apartments in SF, and they can make the economics work out for themselves, but the city doesn't allow it, so residents of the city have to pay $3k/mo or commute long distances. Everyone loses.
Thx for f.lux it's great. A little question : would it be possible to implement an Exposure slider in f.lux ? Sometimes you want to have even lower luminosity than the lowest backlight value possible, and sometimes in plain sun one could want to brighten its screen even if it means smashing the colors (saturating the rgb channels). Is there a way to sponsor this feature ? Thanks !
Because anti-IE? I doubt it was the driving motive for much people. People usually switch to something because it's better or at least because it's cool and popular.

I switched to Opera because it was so much better than anything in 2000. Then I tried Firefox because a friend switched to it and I sticked with it occasionally as it was becoming better and better and cool extensions emerged. Then I switched to Chrome because Firefox became so slow it was driving me crazy (yes, I always use obsolete hardware) and Chrome was ok (it lacked functionality I loved in Firefox extensions but I could tolerate this).

Now I actually am increasingly anti-Chrome because I don't want Google's monopolism and dictate so I feel like I want to switch back to Firefox and guide friends to do so but Firefox is still notably more slow than Chrome although not as slow as it used to be. I hope Mozilla guys are going to keep on improving its performance.
I wish we could boil restaurant reviews down to “did you like it?”

I usually use some combination of TripAdvisor, Google Maps, Yelp, and OpenTable to get an idea of what’s going on. TripAdvisor tends to have less millennials which is nice.

Actually, what would be ideal, is filtering out the prolific reviewers in any of these platforms.

Other things to get good data would be more general questions, like “what are some places you like to eat in your neighborhood” or “what places stood out to you on your recent trip to _____”

... and then some incentive to respond or something.
California’s horribly overcrowded prisons were found to be unconstitutional (cruel & unusual punishment), so they were under a court order to fix it. The “solution” was to transfer lots of prisoners to county jails.
Even with that house analogy, I'd argue that you shouldn't store large volumes of other people's sensitive personal data in a house that has the bare minimum security.

The issue is organisations being reckless with our data and then blaming hackers when they lose it. It should be common sense that if you have sensitive information then it needs an appropriate level of security but someone companies have convinced everyone it's not their fault
What happened to "John McAfee Vows to Unmask Satoshi Nakamoto Within Days" from 2 months ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19733915

"John McAfee Vows to Unmask Crypto’s Satoshi Nakamoto, Then Backs Off"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/john-mcaf...
Any place with a high trust society tends to do this. I see farm stands and camp wood stands with honor boxes all over rural New England.
To me its quite.clear there is one right side in this, and it.lies with the people marching.
To some extent you can say a regular multi-bogey train is undergoing deformation by changing the angular configuration between cars via the linkages. This could technically be extended to have the linkages have every few inches along the bogey instead of between 20-foot segments. We just need a way to transfer energy reliably between deformations and change in acceleration.
Foreigners now account for 80% of the prison population in Switzerland:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/08/foreigners-make-...

IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds:

https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-r...

https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html
Their input will be valuable at all the points. Users too, build-measure-learn
The UK is operating at entirely fake levels of employment.

The statistics are based on a Labour Force Survey which counts anyone who works for one hour a week - or more - as employed. And also anyone who labels themselves as self-employed, irrespective of hours worked.

This is explicitly official policy, and not exaggeration or hyperbole.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
Consumers?
This doesn’t exactly shine well on mongo’s development practices. Why go through all of this trouble when you could use something that works well out of the box like CMake? Maybe they like wasting money.
I worked as one of several in-house Blender developers on "Next Gen". In some cases, were able to get fixed builds into our artists' hands in within 24h of a bug report. I have not had such a quick turnaround with any commercial software vendor yet.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80988892
I believe that parent commenter is saying that this guy wrote fake negative reviews against neighboring businesses and those businesses likely wrote them back.
If you're taking money from investors and you're interested in being profitable, then you're going to sacrifice growth for the sake of profitability:

- Let's not hire for this idea because it eats into our burn
- Hmm, let's hold off on launching this feature until we have more data

Investment $ means taking risks (within reason) to maximize shareholder value.

If the company you worked for was profitable, then they could've structured a leveraged debt payoff to the investors to get them off the cap-table. Unless the company took so much money that the investors owned 60%+ and they unanimously do not agree about being profitable, then this is something that can be passed as a board resolution.

It sounds like the founders at your company were just inexperienced.
> Yeah, I wonder why you got fake negative reviews.

Are you saying that neighboring restaurants gave him bad reviews in retribution to the bad reviews he gave them? Or are you saying that Yelp themselves created fake negatives reviews because the owner turned away the Yelp salespeople?
I've always preferred the French nomenclature: carbohydrates are glucides and fats are lipides.
> What percentage of college subjects don’t have readily available high-quality material across the Internet for free? Libgen is free.

I trained in a field that might be classed under "areal studies" more generally for a certain stretch of Eurasia. (And not a "useless" humanities subject, but something that does bring desirable job prospects.) The vast majority of literature in that subject is not available online. More recent publications might be created in PDF format, but for the most part students will need to hit the library shelves, even at the undergraduate level.

Sure, I have scanned and uploaded a great deal to Libgen myself, but I appear to be the only volunteer doing so for this entire field. Most volunteers on LibGen or r/Scholar don’t want to undertake any more effort than downloading already-digitized materials from behind paywalls and then uploading them to Libgen, they don’t want to do the hard work of scanning thousands of pages. I suspect there are a lot of academic fields where it would take decades for the handful of Libgen volunteers to adequately upload the standard publications in that field.
In 25 years, hobbyists will be running quantum emulations of nostalgically contemporary operating systems and cloud servers.
Deep Dive into Pod Security Policies
Some may argue that to remain competitive in today's environment, some tech companies require a diminished amount of customer privacy, otherwise their foreign rivals will be able to do more and be more successful in the long run.

For the EU, if there is a belief that their tech companies can't out-compete against foreign rivals (Think search engine, social media, cyber sec, etc) and that their data could be used against them in the near future, it may seem intuitive to put privacy checkers to get foreign entities in line with your interests.
I would like to ask the question what we are actually trying to achieve with both types and with tests. The answer is to, in case of error, find the error as soon as possible instead of in production when the angry customer calls us. The sooner the error is found the smaller the problem is. If it is found in compilation it says 'you have an error on line 43'. If it is found in automated tested it says 'there is something fishy about functionality such-and-such'. Pushing forward finding the error from compile time to automated test time is a postponement and therefore not an improvement. Also, I really wish I could imagine encountering a production system with a test coverage approaching 100% but I have never been that lucky. In that case your type system is still protecting you but the tests that people failed to write are not doing very much.
Deletable nit: could this be retitled to spell out “3 million?” I expected something about 3M, the industrial conglomerate.
Just adding another hard to fathom quote:

> ... even using a dynamically typed language I don’t have to write the test for nil because I know that nil will never be passed. I don’t need to make states unrepresentable, if I know those states will never be represented.

It would be interesting to actually study and measure how much time even teams doing TDD spend on dealing with these kinds of errors. In my experience, they're pretty common.
You could make the same accusation against any gatekeeper. The linked article quotes a unbiased professor and his peer reviewed study which found no evidence of review tampering by Yelp as a means of extortion. Any accusations at this point are pure speculation.
Brave has it's own ad blocking builtin.
> LDL cholesterol is by far the best established causal risk factor for coronary artery disease.

Is it causal, or is it a risk factor? I'd say at best it is "necessary but not sufficient". CVD risk calculators don't even take LDL-C into account, that's how good of a marker it is.
Tax payers could come under that bracket I suppose? Most uni degrees will help out the US economy (thats all they think about) one way or another.
Welcome to my world right now. I work for a company building a mortgage product and the biggest hold up has been dealing with 3rd party apis. Some mandated, some not. Mostly all using outdated tech and obscure mortgage codes. A product that should have taken a few months has ended up taken days mainly because of delays dealing with 3rd party vendors.
Oh my god… what a shitshow
I want to know what the people who are familiar with type theory but are not proponents of either static or dynamic type systems are up to. Did they move on to management? Switch to physics or painting? Retire?
This is an excellent opportunity for Microsoft to distinguish their Chromium-based Edge from Chrome. Leave the webRequest API intact, ensure that these adblocking extensions are available from their own store, and invite other Chromium-based browsers to use their store instead of Google's.
My wife and I are doing IF (OMAD - One Meal A Day). And obviously don't eat junk food, sugar etc.

For me the biggest surprise was how little food we actually need. I remember myself few years ago eating a breakfast in the morning, then coffee with a muffin or donut first thing at work, then huge lunch, then another snack, then huge dinner at home (of course! just came from work - need to treat myself) and then maybe another snack before going to bed. Can't even imagine how many calories and sugars we were consuming each day. We were literally overeating every single day.

Now we eat only once a day, avoid junk food and sugars, feel awesome, look and feel much better. And it works for us even with quite intensive hiking trips and with gym/exercises.
A Camera Hidden Right Behind the Pixels (2017)
My (not vast) experience with this stuff is that it’ll often get plugged directly into an LTE-Ethernet modem. Or, depending on the vintage of the equipment, the chain looks more like LTE-Ethernet modem connected to a “serial port concentrator” with Ethernet on one side and a bunch of serial ports on the other side. Sometimes the installers will turn on IP Whitelisting on the inbound ports, but sometimes that gets skipped.
The book "Freakonomics" details a similar bagel-selling system, where they would put bagels in the break room of workplaces, and you would pay on the honor system. After years of collecting data, the owner realized he had been doing a real-time, real-life experiment on how honest people are. You don't know WHO took without paying, but you can tell HOW MANY of your bagels were paid for. There's analysis of how it varies by time of year, type of workplace, etc. Fascinating.
Losing printer driver support is going to be a pain. I hope they keep CUPS around!
What makes you think they'd like art history over plumbing? They must have some likeness of their vocation if they decided to go into it.
Therefore 2640 people? That's a lot of people.
Hilarious. Lyft is behaving like cabbies used to. The cycle continues and disruption is shown to become inevitable.
You don't have to have waiters for the restaurant to be good.
That's probably the worst possible way of versioning your home besides, possibly, making a zip of your whole home directory every time you would otherwise to a commit.

Just use a snapshot-enabled filesystem. ZFS works awesomely, BTRFS too (but it's not released as stable and production ready AFAIK) and LVM can have snapshots too (take a look at the snapper project by Red Hat).

Just use ZFS and snapshot the whole filesystem.
The flag is to report reviews that violate a policy, not bad reviews.

I’ve reported reviews in the past that stayed up.
> Source available is useful for debugging at least

how so?
Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined
Well sponsorships are part of conf. revenue in a lot of cases.

I've looked at the sponsor packs for the CNCF conferences, and those higher tiers do not come cheap.

Also don't underestimate smaller individual payments * very large number.

E.g. Kubecon Barcelona, tickets were $900+ each and there were 7700 people, so we're talking almost $7m from ticket sales alone.

Now the venue ain't cheap but that + all the sponsor cash == a fair profit, I'd expect.
Docker is written by a corporation, and so in many senses it is an expression of their will.
Your point seemed to be "west = bad" but you did not make it well. Nor is it an interesting point - we can say communism is western, Hitler is western, "freedom" is western, whatever, good or bad, but it's silly and shortsighted. Ideas have complicated histories and there's no clean separation between good sources of ideas and bad ones.

More interesting is your idea that protesting - being willing to demonstrate disagreement with leadership - is a negative value that governments should resist and supress. You could make that argument in a clearer form, but you would still not convince many people here. (Note that this would be a different argument from "western countries also suppress disagreement sometimes.")
Or better: use chipmixer [1].
Mixing coins through centralized exchanges does not really help as any party which gains access to binance' backend, whether it be successful hacking attempt or some law enforcement, can completely de-anonymize and backtrack the initial transaction through their logs and the blockchain.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.0
Brave is good† and probably if Google tries to close down the Chromium open source project, a lot of resources will just instead go to whoever maintains the biggest open source fork.

† except fine-grained cookie blocking is a bit broken compared to stock Chromium (only works properly if you always allow first-party cookies, which I also want it to ask first about), script blocking is about the same.
I did see an article comparing Australia with NZ.

"[In Australia] there are bundle and package fees, and related 'discounts', to complicate matters.", "And 80% of all Aussie home loans are wrapped up around these opaque bundle arrangements."

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/99862/shifting-competitive-f...
Agree, this is exactly the reason why M. Zuckerberg is not a VP.
114 pages? I'll never be able to read all of that!
Could you clarify what you mean by “building a graph”? Are you combining the 990 data plus other enrichments in a graph database?
It's being buzzworded pretty badly. I hate hearing about non-software things referred to as "open source."
To avoid these complexities, insurance companies use past claims history as an estimate of future claims and hence premiums.

Of course, that apply very well for one-time items like life insurance.
> So give them subsidies.

What do you think they'll do with it? Each pay to have their own communications network installed? It's less efficient to do it your way.
IS "globalization" and "multiculturalism" just euphimisms of "Those damn non-white people!"?
Looks kinda cool. Hope it works!
In the 90’s we had a large rush of new people writing libraries for the first or second time.

One common source of frustration was instability in the exceptions thrown due to bad states, from bad inputs to networking issues to disk permissions.

You’d get a new point version and suddenly have to rewrite your error handling code so the user still got a reasonable message and/or call to action.

Lesson? Errors are part of your public interface. Write at least enough tests to pin the behavior.

It also helps with false positives for tests. Because if you introduce a null pointer exception for negative numbers while trying to add features or improve performance, that’s probably not what you expected. Certainly not what your users expect.

Test your shit. It takes less energy than the mental gymnastics of justifying why you aren’t.
This is just a bitcoin scam.
I've been using btrfs as my primary filesystem on all of my computers (other than my phone) since 2013.

Initially I had performance issues due to the default block size back then (4 KiB rather than 16 KiB; ended up just rebuilding the filesystem). There were some other issues back then regarding rebalancing and scrubbing stability, and sometimes I would have to run "btrfs-zero-log" before mounting, but I haven't had those sorts of issues for a while.

I've had multiple drive failures on my systems, and btrfs seemed to handle them as expected. I use "raid1" for metadata and "single" for data. As far as I can tell, all of the errors were due to bad blocks on physically failing drives, and btrfs was able to indicate which files were affected in all of those cases.

I've also used it to "fix" the Raspberry Pi SD card corruption issue by just running btrfs in "dup" mode—prior to that, the SD card would randomly end up with blocks being zeroed and the system would obviously start to crash, whereas btrfs just fixes the blocks up in place as it accesses the data the next time.