skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't going to click the link but your comment prompted me to.

Wow. It's a fascinating look at what likely makes up a large majority of YouTube content that I would otherwise never come into contact with.

I also love how the creator packaged it up as a though an alien visitor was using YouTube to sample our civilization. This is the 99%.
(Co-author here) It really depends (see Figure 2).

On the question of Lambda vs. EC2, EC2 instances take much longer to start. So depending on the job, to get the performance you can get with a "burst parallel" flock of Lambda workers, you would need to keep a warm cluster of EC2 instances ready to take your job. At which point, the cost comparison depends on how often you have work to execute. EC2 is cheaper if you have a 100% duty cycle (but you probably don't).

The gg tool, though, is mostly agnostic to the backend -- you can take a job that's expressed in gg IR (e.g., "compile this program") and then execute it with any of the gg back-ends. We have one for Lambda and one for a cluster of warm VMs. The performance of gg-to-EC2 is generally better than outsourcing methods that leave your laptop in the driver's seat (e.g. bazel-to-icecc) and give less semantic information about data- and control-flow of the job to the remote execution engine. (E.g. in Figure 9, you can see that gg-on-EC2 is much faster than icecc-on-EC2 for compiling GIMP and Inkscape.)
Here's a good gist describing important loop optimizations that this enables: https://gist.github.com/rygorous/e0f055bfb74e3d5f0af20690759...
I work for a software dev company that uses and advocates for Microsoft’s platform. Many of the solutions we’ve sold and/or suggested to our customers have been based on our internal use of the same platforms and feature levels which we use to dogfood and demo the product we develop.

Some features or solutions we’ve developed for our customers are reliant on our exposure to Microsoft products we would not be able to justify or afford outside the partner program. If the partner program had not been available those solutions would have been based off alternative products, most likely open source.

The most likely jump we would have made already is from SQL Server to Postgres. In that instance alone, the SQL Server licenses our product/solution has led our customers to make far exceeds our IUR usage.

I can’t imagine we’re alone in the scenario. There is no way our small company could justify purchasing the enterprise licenses we routinely suggest our customers purchase.
This. As CEO, one of Steve’s key functions was to serve as chief product officer. Design is an element of great products, and at Apple it has been a key element and key differentiator. As has been oft-noted, Tim is in no way a product person, and so without Steve we have seen design imperatives (thinness) unchecked
> they added the charging port at the bottom of the mouse (facepalm).

I thought this was incredibly stupid until I actually used one. The battery lasts so long and charges so fast that it's not a problem, to the point that I wouldn't pay so much as a dollar to "fix" it by moving the port to the edge.
Ok, that makes sense then. Thanks!
Good call on Inform. It's certainly both novel and useful.
I honestly don't know how the Magic Mouse is meant to be used for extended lengths of time. The touch surface means that not only do your index and middle fingers need to be held hovering above it, but the rest of your fingers also need to claw in from the sides to keep overhangs of skin from triggering stray cursor movements. It is truly painful to use.
For an example, see http://www.blogquail.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/pic-1.jp...

The part circled in red is the strain relief, separate from the cable itself, and from the connector.

Image taken from http://www.blogquail.com/strain-relief/
If withdrawal symptoms were really the main reason addicts continued to use drugs then relapses would be rare. I recommend reading about the Rat Park experiments:

> In another experiment, he forced rats in ordinary lab cages to consume the morphine-laced solution for 57 days without other liquid available to drink. When they moved into Rat Park, they were allowed to choose between the morphine solution and plain water. They drank the plain water. He writes that they did show some signs of dependence. There were "some minor withdrawal signs, twitching, what have you, but there were none of the mythic seizures and sweats you so often hear about ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Also, before you argue that humans are different than rats, the same thing was observed with soldiers in Vietnam. Many were addicted while they served but when they returned to the US, the large majority quit and very few relapsed.
I guess "fundamental" to me spoke of more horse vs donkey differences, not palomino vs dapple vs grey.
I had a Nokia N95 when the iPhone was released. The N95 was far more functional:

* Multitasking was allowed

* Good maps app for navigating

* Rhapsody subscription service for all your music needs

* 3G support

* Built-in SIP client

The iPhone had none of this, but it had the superior UI. It took years for Apple to catch up to the technology of the klunky N95.
> What makes me sad that with a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install, my work Thinkpad can't even do two hours of battery life.

This has everything to do with the unresolved problems of Linux power management. I use Ubuntu on Thinkpads too, and battery life is decent after a bit of configuration. Windows meanwhile gives all day battery life on Thinkpads.
I just bought a Mamiya 645 (they call Mamiya the 'poor man's Hasselblad'). Spend about $800 on gear, looking forward to trying it out. The developing and scanning here is expensive but it's a fun hobby and I'm looking forward to a more considered, tactile kind of shooting.

They're certainly not 'useless' - this camera with good film should resolve a similar amount of detail as my Nikon D810 with a good lens. Obviously given the inflexibility you wouldn't use it for, say, photojournalism or most types of commercial photography, but medium format film is still used a lot in art photography and portraits.
http://www.interpower.com/ic/InfoPower/images/flex-style-02....

http://heyco.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PG-M-Type-N...
Football isn't. We do spend billions paying for stadiums, and the infrastructure to allow people to drive to them.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Vy2liiLaL...
Agriculture is one of the biggest environmental catastrophes humans have perpetrated. Entire ecosystems have to be destroyed. I always find it disturbing when vegetarians think eating plants is a peaceful affair.

One could argue about organic agriculture in balance with the environment, unfortunately it produces on average 20% less than monoculture industrial agriculture[1] and the food demands of the planet are only growing.

[1] https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/12/09/organic-conventional-fa...
Why is it weird? What did having the proofs change?
I gave up using mine as a firewall and just run pihole + samba w/ a couple of drives on it.

I tried to rebuild u-boot from source w/o the network boot code since the latest Linux Kernel has drivers for the Topaz switch now, but no matter what I tried I couldn't get it to boot.

The documentation leaves a lot to be desired....
I’ve listened to many hours of his show, his interviews with far right types like Gavin McInnes and Stephen Molyneux. I had to in order to talk a friend down from some really dark thinking he was encouraged toward through Rogan’s show. But I’m sure that when I heard him denigrating Muslims or talking about how trans women are actually just confused gay men, I just needed to listen more “thoroughly.”
My impression is that most people instinctively assume that to get accurate results from sampling, you need a sample size proportional to the population, and that isn't generally the case.

Maybe for many purposes, 5 won't cut it and you need 100 or 1,000, but you don't need 1%.
what were they thinking!?!?!?!
> [...] eaten and the nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and other minerals are flushed into the rivers and oceans.

What if we didn't though? Sewage could be turned into fertilizer, though probably not safely for growing food crops no matter how we treat it. Still, there must be some other way of putting the nutrients back in the local environment.
It's a pretty big moon. Why not?

Many sci-fi stories describe a sort of exhibit where the landing area has been preserved. Seems to make sense. Some of those feature tours too, where people go out, experience the atmosphere (lack of it), and can identify better with what they saw, how it was that we got there and how important it all was.

These kinds of things are part of our humanity.

Unless there is some serious constraint, I find it hard to see value in letting all that go away.
> but they added the charging port at the bottom of the mouse (facepalm)

Reminds me of the 1968 VW Camper Bus. (My dad had one.) You can always tell the 68's because the gas filler was located on the right rear quarter panel. When you were filling up, and opened the sliding door, it would shear off the gas pump.

In '69 they moved it to the other side.
Nvidia's current service (in beta) does really well. Google's project stream demo went really well for many people. But obviously, one's experience will be contingent upon internet providers, ultimately.

So... Stadia, along with all other current and future streaming services, are going to really suck for a lot of people.

But... they are going to be really amazing for a lot of people too.

Best-case latency should be as low or lower than the latency many play with on their consoles.
Yes in theory, no in practice.

Our public shared tier (Heroku-like offering) is on AWS for now - but we have a few advantages in that we can run reserved spot instances and use far less overhead than we would with virtual machines. We will more than likely move this to dedicated hardware eventually since we use almost nothing AWS has to offer other than compute, network and NVMe. Our free tier is better than AWS's ever will be, because although we might offer fewer resources (CPU/memory), our offer is automatically highly-available out of the box, and you share a server with _much_ better network and diskIO than AWS can offer, which means different but typically similar performance. We also don't up charge for services like Postgres and Redis (they use the same resources as any other "app" or container). Also we have an open API (kubernetes!) you can use on your laptop or dedicated gear!

But the more important "no in practice" is for companies who offer some value add - say for example Intragram wanted to allow you to run some code that manipulated your images server-side (or more realistically, think PagerDuty allowing custom web-hooks from their servers based on code you write on their site). Hopefully one day large companies that need a public cloud but cannot use Amazon for Reasons(tm) also see us as an option as well.

One final "no in practice" is due to our tool's ultimate goal to be to nicely encourage developers to build cloud native apps - and we believe high-available applications are actually "cheaper" than commodity-priced single-point-of-failure applications. See any website you use your credit card on that crashes all the time.

I'd like to think of it as "isn't this just a better Heroku?" instead of a more expensive AWS :P
The Palm/Treo app market was quite strong, I had several good and useful apps on my Treo 650 that integrated nicely with a desktop and made it a properly useful device. The app installation method was a bit primitive but there was absolutely a strong market for 3rd party apps.
Does this respect the 'unlisted' setting for a video? I recently uploaded some videos and set them all to unlisted, and yet some of them received views despite me not viewing them or handing out a link. I meant to dig into that more but forgot after getting distracted. Can unlisted videos be found by a program like this, which I assume is using the API?
I think that’s a really useful breakdown. And I think it lets one attack the problem in a way that’s productive and healthy. If you’re able to be honest with yourself and admit that you are having very human feelings, by feelings that are counter-productive and self-indulgent you’re more likely to be able put on the brakes.

I know that I’m intellectually vain. It’s a personal foible and it can be very unattractive, but I’m always concerned that everyone know how smart I am. But I think being able to admit it, and acknowledging it is a fault, is the first step towards controlling it.
Sorry. You're right, dang, I could have done better.

I was not intending to name-call; to me, the entire comment was wrong and I posted a curt reaction.

I'll provide more info here:

"The level of legitimacy and respect that doctors and hospitals currently have is far too high..."

Ask any young doctor in the US whether their field has a lot of "respect". Medical residents work 80-100 hours per week in windowless, flourescently lit rooms, of which 40-60 hours is often spent doing clerical work at sub-minimum-wage to service private insurance and EMR overlords. Patients regularly tell these same doctors they don't trust them, don't respect them, think they're wrong, want to see the "real" doctor, can prove how wrong they are with WebMD, etc. My spouse is now doing her 13th and 14th year of post-secondary training toward the goal of being a specialized surgeon. She has done hundreds of successful surgeries/procedures already and saved countless lives. Yet, she is burnt out, and often ends her workdays completely destroyed by the humiliation of being a cog in the hospital machine. She is not alone; physician depression and suicide is at all-time highs.

"... and hinges on branding and the exclusivity of becoming a doctor."

Like I said, she is on her 13th and 14th year of post secondary training. Aside from this being a massive time investment, it also cost her dollars she didn't have (no support from parents) on order of $300k in post-secondary education, just in tuition. If becoming a doctor is "exclusive" and confers a "brand", I'd say the exclusivity is "extreme passion for helping humans at great personal sacrifice and cost", and the conferred "brand" is that you are allowed to practice medicine, at all.

"Once all of this data becomes available, it will be obvious how worthless and expensive most medical treatments really are."

Medicine -- and the tireless and ethical work of thousands of well-trained and professional doctors -- saves countless, countless lives every single day. Modern medical treatments are not "worthless" and your comment is honestly insulting to how effective and life-saving many treatments are. I think this part of your comment is what got the rise out of me: spreading this kind of misinformation is the closest thing HN commenting gets to "malpractice".

Society should respect and pay doctors much more for the sacrifice they put toward this profession. Patients should respect doctors a lot more for the benefit they provide society. Hospitals should give doctors a better work environment. Doctors are not perfect, nor is medicine. But to think the root cause of problems in the present medical system is an undeserving respect for doctors and modern medical treatments expresses a profound ignorance of reality.

The original comment is so wrong that it truly stunned me into an uncharacteristically curt ad hominem response, for which I apologize.
Sounds like a 0.1x engineer.
> You're demanding that it doesn't do that

Rather than telling someone what they are demanding, it's often better to ask them --- especially if you are sure that what they are demanding is stupid. Personally, I'd guess that 'jschwartzi' might be fine with a compiler that makes the optimization you refer to, and is instead objecting to a compiler that deletes essential safety checks in other parts of the program on the assumption that all bets are off once "undefined behavior" can be proven to occur. If he's like me, he'd probably also prefer that the compiler issue a warning about the undefined behavior rather than silently making changes to the program. But better to ask him than to guess.
There's usability testing and there's scale testing.

Basic UI/UX will be significantly revealed be small-group testing.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I know that many places have modern incinerators, but that's only 1 of 3. If it was in the US, I'd expect that actually sorting trash effectively would be a big problem, despite having a modern incinerator.
> Skeptical science seems to exist to empower climate change deniers with the illusion of factual reality

It seems like Skeptical Science is "Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism". They are a pro global warming site.
Admit defeat and try something new
That's how it works when different teams within a company have an ideal balance of power. When everything's correctly balanced, the right people make the right decisions, and help to correct each other's wrong decisions.

I bet at most companies though, there isn't an ideal balance of power between teams, or between the different divisions of a company. I don't think that balance happens naturally. It might even become harder to maintain that balance, as a company becomes more successful.

Supposedly Microsoft during the Ballmer years was known for political conflict between the Office and Windows divisions. Sometimes what would be good for one (putting Office on as many platforms as possible) might be bad for the other one (the Windows people might want Office on as few platforms as possible). Conflicts like that are inevitable, but resolving them can be a crap shoot. If there's a lack of executive leadership, or a political power imbalance between the groups, the wrong group can win sometimes.
Is it really that case?

Having maid is pretty common in bay area. They come in once or twice a week to clean your house, and do laundry. There are many people I know had someone come and cook meals for them on weekdays.

I moved from bay area to Ohio for a business. I bought a used Jeep from a dealership out of town. The salesman that sold me the car lives where my hotel is. He would pick up/drop off my car from my business for oil change/regular maintenance. After a couple of times, I told him I will do myself as I started feel different.

Instead of a personal cook, now you use doordash to get food from restaurant. The cook at the restaurant or person delivering food can use the same service. Similarly when we had servants in India, we would eat the same food, and work in the same farms. Living situation were more segregated just like able to afford in Palo Alto vs East Palo Alto.
People also tend to forget that it was incredibly refined already in v1. I remember hooking it up to my car and being super impressed that I could pick whether I wanted sound to go to the car, my phone, or my headphones. Each makes sense in a different context, but other products at the time assumed that as long as there was a BT connection available it should use that. They also clearly did some great usability work on touch targets. I could tap on links in web pages and it would do the right thing. Other phones, even if they had a decent browser (they didn’t), forced me to hunt for the magic touch target.

Blackberries were good at email, but otherwise they lost to Apple badly.
I find it fascinating you got voted down on what it essentially a pretty accurate description of how the system works.
No doubt, I was amazed when I first got my hands on one. The iphone got things right that had never been gotten before. But the fact remains that on the day it launched, there were other smartphones on the market that had more features. When the feature-sets overlapped, iphone was generally the clear winner, but if you tallied it all up, the iphone was clearly lacking a few obvious features that others had, such as the aforementioned third-party software, or even just the simple ability to copy-paste text (which didn't come to iphones until several iterations later as I recall.)
All the designers I've worked with have all put beauty over function. That's just who they are. I suspect that if they emphasized function their career would have been greatly impacted towards the negative.

One big project that comes to mind is The Getty Museum in Los Angeles -at a billion dollar cost. The architecture is beautiful but it lacks function. Getting around the museum as a visitor is like entering a mase. I'm sure you could not convince the architect that he should have changed it. I don't have the know how to know if it could have been designed with an emphasis towards function. But I do know that it's beautiful so in my mind, the architect was a genius.

Ives should get the same consideration.
Be careful to distinguish borrowings and substitutions. They are not the same.

Contemporary Indonesians substitute /ts/ for Arabic /θ/ if they have only so-so Arabic pronunciation. But this is on the basis of the contemporary transliteration of Arabic. Indonesians do not have the English speakers' concept of spelling - only transcription. In English, they're more likely to use /t d/ but sufficiently many people who speak English have learnt proper Arabic in school that they can pronounce the English sounds.

The use of /s/ is not a contemporary substitution, it's a historical borrowing. It's like saying "English substitutes french /s/ with /ʃ/" on the basis of words like "fashion". Yeah, at one point, French had an /s/ sound that sounds like English /ʃ/, but the pronunciations of both has changed and that doesn't happen any more.

The replacement of /ðˤ/ with /l/ in e.g. lohor is likewise a borrowing - but it seems to be ancient. ض is reconstructed as a velarised voiced lateral fricative in Wikipedia. And that borrowing is widespread; Indian Muslims going full Indian on me are surprised that I recognise "Lohor" from Indonesian. For my part, I pronounce it as thoohoo (book), but most native Australian English speaking Muslims seem to use /s z z/ for Arabic /θ ð ðˤ/ - they learnt the Arabic words from their Pakistani/Indian parents - and therefore say "zohaw" (hot). Even in recitation - Arabs seem to ask them to stop leading salah~sholat, but that hasn't happened to me.

Also, it's not actually /dʒ/ but more of a palatal stop. My wife - and even I - can certainly hear my accent in Indonesian. I also can't hear the difference between c and j unless I already recognise the word.
> Making corporations pay for non-recyclable plastic is a market mechanism which fiscal conservatives should applaud.

Citation needed. That sounds like socialist insanity to me. So sure, I applaud it. I just don't see these "conservatives" you are taking about. Even at the level of local politics this tends to be a partisan issue. And you sure sound like a democrat to me...
Of course (my real name is rare) and you're welcome! I've known Mistress Urraca forever!
I think the best observation in the article is the one about "as simple as possible, but no simpler", but Apple under Ives too often forgetting the second part.

I've come to dislike the copycat trends that Apple's stringent design ethos has unleashed. Sure, it's occasionally been brilliant but the article does a good job outlining the significant errors - and other posters here fill in the blanks.

I'm glad the end of the Ives era seems to be sparking some healthy reassessment and introspection in the industry.
Even many phones can capture insane amounts of detail in ideal conditions.

The selling point of bigger sensors now is that they don't need ideal conditions.
It's true. They really have unusable mice. It's strange to have to resort to using Microsoft and Amazon basic mice to get anything done.