skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most companies don't even consider Google, it's a distant third and provides very limited offerings. There is a lot of love for Google on HN, but reality does look different.

Ther is also a common believe that they will just drop support for something whenever they feel like it - which in regards to GCP could be unwarranted but well it is what it is. I would pick AWS first, Azure is becoming a close second and GCPa distant third. I think Digital Ocean looks awesome and might be worth a look before GCP.

Also, GCP is having stability issues recently.
> Who gets to judge the value of content?

The user. That’s the context – the user deciding who gets their money.

> And how can it have "negative value"?

Zero value, plus the time it took to find out that it had zero value.

> Regardless, the action of consuming the content itself means that it has inherent value.

Not really.
Noise Contrastive Estimate and It Is Being Misunderstood by the Public
dang you are right lol
Yes,

This sort of thing intrigues me tremendously and I'm going over the text. At the same time, I always have a certain "what could you really get" feeling about systems that begin with machinery from objects with lots of structure (differentiable manifolds) and generalize and generalize until it is dealing a structure that seems utterly arbitrary. I mean, locally, "almost everywhere" (and similar caveats), the characteristics of a point of a differentiable manifold determine "nearly everything" about the points in its neighborhood. Oppositely, one node of graph no necessary relation to the next node.

So what exactly do we get from our complex machinery? Are the theorem ultimately more about "summation processes on graphs" than graphs?
Blokada on Android + PiHole on wifi. In the really occasional instances where I'm away from wifi and Blokada is down, it's night and day.
I'm sorry what? Open up zillow and you can find plenty of houses with garages pretty much everywhere in the US that the middle class can afford. Here is one in the suburbs of chicago [0].

[0]: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/207-Lafayette-Dr-Bolingbr...
Do you have any concept of how hard it is to fire people in France? Especially for industrial jobs?

Why would any company want to hire a bunch of people that they could not then fire at will?

Companies would rather let those jobs lie fallow for a few decades than be put into that kind of situation.
What I'm saying is that the exponential growth specific numbers matter. The current division doesn't. And also if GCP "only" ends up with 10% then that's a lot.

Amazon could have the best exponent. Could be. Doesn't make the other two losers.
> You still don't get it... 25 years ago, how many people could afford to "find computers" in their late teens?

In the public high school I went to they had a computer program, so I had access to that which helped. There's also the public library too. Although in my case I was able to eventually get a computer at home but it took a lot of saving. Also in the mid / late 1990s computers started to come down a lot in price compared to the early 90s.

But really, nowadays it's a totally different world so my specific situation doesn't matter. You can grab a decent laptop for $350ish. You could work a summer job to afford that while still going to high school, or a part time job for a few months. There's also an endless amount of free (or paid) tutorials on a ton of technical topics.

> So what in your life would have made you afraid to take risks?

I'm not smart enough to answer that question because I can't figure out what you're asking.

But I will leave you with, of course having a base line of family security is helpful. For example if your parent(s) are employed and you are able to have food, clothes and electricity then you have an advantage over someone who lives on the street but the article made it seem like you need "family money, an inheritance, or a pedigree and connections that allow for access to financial stability" to run your own business. To me that's much more than the basics. When I read that, I read that as coming from a family where your parents probably make 350k+ year and there's 5+ million in a low risk trading account or something that can be liquified on demand.

That's a totally different world from a family living paycheck to paycheck but can still save a little bit here and there. That type of family is more in tuned with how I was brought up. It was always a struggle with a lot of sacrifices, but it was never "bad bad".
I believe there's a huge literature on methods to generate pseudo-random numbers. Experts on HN please jump in. One approach, which I thought is quite ingenious, is to observe cosmic radiation and extract randomness from this data.
AI is a means of production. Unless you talk about the sentient, human level kind that managed to become uncontrollable.

All that new technology will accelerate wealth inequality. Markets follow wealth, thus the future R&D, tech & manufacturing will focus less on the median citizen. The danger is this being a positive feedback loop (aka self reinforcing, speeding up towards infinity instead of finding a stable equilibrium). Yes, those system might have always existed, but so far have accelerated slow enough to not become a big problem for us.

Those drastic increases of wealth inequality will come with drastic centralization of power, even in our democracies. The few on top will be less and less dependent on many of their fellow citizens. I don't see this ending in a utopian society, unless there is a miracle making those "good", altruistic individuals. But if we learned anything in the past, then it is that political / power system never work long term if they require a "good" king.
I agree completely. There is absolutely a real need here, but alternative medicine is exploiting it instead of addressing it.
When scrolling on Instagram, 1/5 posts is an advertisement.
The more you scroll it seems to become more frequent and tend to 1/3 posts.

That's a lot of ads.
The trader Joe’s on 4th and market in SF does this, seems to work pretty well! They have too much traffic to handle though—the line snaked through 3 aisles the last time I went on a weekday after work.
do you have the original copy?
I agree entirely. My point, in fact, is that the exponents base is all that matters, and current market share doesn't. All three are able to take the whole cake if they sign the customers, and so it's up to the exponent base to decide how the $1T is split up.

That is, all three have the logistics, infrastructure, and partners in place to scale up if they need to. And they don't have to worry much if DigitalOcean has higher exponent base since DO wouldn't know what to do if they were offered a $10B deal. The big three would.
A tree sequesters a ton of CO2 over its 40 year lifespan. US Citizens have a 20-ton footprint per year. So... plant 20 trees this year, and in 40 years they will have paid for this year's footprint.
Worlds Largest Virtual Reality Park, Is in China
There's a browser extension that does that: https://adnauseam.io
You missed the point. RedHat has replaced the docker command with their own tool that does the same thing. He's just trying the new tools and it's poorly framed as a deliberate migration. It's not a migration and there is no effort involved. Docker is simply gone, the tools he mention are the new de facto standard and he will have to live with them anyway.
> Automatic micropayments with a daily allowance seem like a much superior solution.

How do you ensure some content quality that goes beyond a headline and a catchy teaser paragraph?

Kindle Unlimited had this problem when they started distributing payouts based on pages read, which led to a proliferation of books with catchy first page, instructions to skip to the last page and a bunch of junk in between.
I appreciate your magnanimity, but this is victimhood Olympics you are responding to, even though I recognize the valuable contributions to HN of your parent. I can't imagine complaining that James and Jordan play(ed) basketball too well.
> There's no indication that the intervention is predicated on confessing.

The article basically says that an admission of guilt is required. Otherwise the person would stay a suspect not a participant of the program.

> the perpetrators have done something very serious

And what is "the perpetrators have done something very serious"? By law piracy is very serious, changing a wallpaper can be very serious (there's a nice US case about that, but that's not incredibly relevant).

> Dows that sound like petty adults using nasty manipulation to mess up kid's lives?

It isn't maybe written like that, but it's going to be like that. Especially given the concerns I raised in the original comment, for example the issue of laws criminalizing menial things.
> Why try to hijack my attention (difficult when I'm trying to solve a car problem) when you could instead subtly redirect my attention to an ad for a local mechanic?

If there's only space for one ad, do they show you an ad for tools, exterior mechanic, engine mechanic, or a new car ad? All are valid options for both you and the advertiser.

This is where invasively tracking your online behavior can help you.
I Can Neither Confirm nor Deny – The Glomar Response
> I'm not talking about completely different planes. If you have a Boeing 737 type rating, obtaining a 757/767 type rating is more expedient than it is for someone who has no prior Boeing 737 type rating.

Aren't the 737 and the 757/767 completely different planes? Isn't the difference between a 737 NG and a 737 MAX a lot smaller than the difference between a 737 NG and a 767?

> Further the regulations say whether a type certificate is required, and what goes into it, is up to the administrator. It's not strictly defined. You can in in effect have subtype ratings.

It's not surprising that the regulators have that level of discretion, but that only helps if it's expected they'll use it like that, which seems contrary to what Boeing did expect given their apparent aversion to it.
Our world current emissions are 54 gigatons / year? Yikes. I thought we were at 35-40, my numbers must be out of date.

edit: still can't find evidence for >50. Latest numbers I see are 37.1 from 2018. Can you link a source?
The grandparent was implying that Safari's better battery life justifies their decision to use the declarative API. But that was already the case before they adopted the declarative API, so it's not obvious that the declarative API has anything to do with that success. Maybe it's just a minor improvement, or maybe it isn't an improvement at all.
Interesting use of the phase "the public"
I used it a bit when it first came out but I've since observed masscan is more popular. I am curious whether or not they both perform similar scans.
> I find I think of vectors more often as a set of independent magnitudes for each of the coordinate system axes

Interesting. This is what Hestenes calls the “coordinate virus”, http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/MathViruses.pdf ; very often any specific coordinate system is not inherent but is some arbitrary addition to the space made for convenience in some particular calculation. It is in my opinion a mistake to think of the coordinates as primary.

> operate on vectors, without caring for the exact coordinate system used

This is the opposite of the previous statement.
Sure. I’m just saying that the actual history of the past few decades in the US shows a stark contrast with these two types of regulations in terms of how they worked and the consequences they had.

Regarding measures that appear to improve safety but are actually a net loss because it encourages driving instead, the FAA does evaluate regulations this way. For example, this is why infants aren’t required to be in a child seat and are allowed to just be held by a parent. They determined that this requirement would cause more families to drive due to the extra cost, and the result would be a net loss of life.
That's more of a problem.

In Europe the self-check outs are optional. They're also faster, because there isn't much of a queue and the people with carts all go to cashiers.

I don't feel oppressed when I use them because I appreciate the speed. If that advantage disappeared, I'd be less pleased.
Anecdotal but everyone I know who used to be on Snapchat has now moved to Instagram. This is mostly 18-26 age group I know and a lot of them moved to IG when Snapchat did their Ui change last year I believe.
As others have noted, I'd try to read between the lines here.
More entrepreneurs in Europe, but not on the same scale than in the US. Which seems to be a game of "choose one". Higher taxes = bigger safety net for society = lower scale of business and incentive to invest for money moving globally and mostly caring about nominal return, not local job quality. Add red tape and strong industrial lobbies like in Germany to the mix which - especially in the past - limited upwards potential.

Less taxes, much more business friendly legislation (contracts, labour) and tolerance towards failure = less individual safety but much more dynamics = lower absolute numbers of entrepreneurs but much higher scale aka mega corps.

Add the fact we're living in the time of technology with close to 0 marginal cost of information flows and the power law (80/20) kicks in with full force, allowing digital companies of larger scale to significantly grow further.

Compared to Europe, the US perfected that principle.
Obviously they’d rather the company hire more workers and charge them s little extra.

At least in some parts of the countryside it’s nice to see farmers’ stands with produce and a pay jar where people “self checkout”.

I ack that companies take advantage of people but that does not grant people a right to be dishonest themselves and become that which they bemoan. If you think they’re ripping you off, go to the the market that offers full service.
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, that wouldn't be pseudo-random; cosmic-ray arrival times are random * (in the sense that we don't have a formula for finding their arrival times).

* Unless you can figure out where cosmic rays come from and model their propagation mechanism accurately, in which case you'll solve some long-standing astrophysics questions.
> If advertisers want to advertise to me, that's fine. I understand they need to make money.

I feel sad just reading that. Advertisers are paid to deliver targeted psychological manipulation to you, and yet you feel ashamed for making their work less profitable. It's like observing some kind of digital stockholm syndrome.
> The most elite scientists in the future will be far smarter than anyone who ever lived.

This doesn't necessarily follow. It assumes the variance on IQ will remain the same, but a (potentially large) part of the variance comes from genetic differences.
Reducing emissions and employing sequestration technologies wouldn't solve it unless both were at a sufficient level, and that sufficient level is the hard part. It sounds almost impossible to me.
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One way to do it is to write some kind of "viewer" in Javascript and then make the blog posts be JSON documents.

That would fit with the "progressive webapp" approach where you could build a caching framework to support disconnected operation.

You might be able to pursue simplicity in the back end by having it be some kind of fairly generic document store.
> there are not that many "highly educated" people without family money

I don't buy that. I know lots of PhD's with no family money. In fact, modern complaints are about PhD's deeply in debt from student loans.
I believe that's what I said, but to be clear: yes it should be up the individual, however if you look at most people's actions then their demand and willing consumption of content does not align with what they can or will pay for.

For example, blocking ads (even though most know that is the trade-off for the content) instead of refusing to visit the site. If the content has no value, why visit the site at all? Surely not ever pageview has zero value?
Do you have some code for what you specifically are talking about? Or a formal description?

You have been saying here “this kernel is better than all of the alternatives” but it’s hard to evaluate that kind of claim without knowing precisely what you mean.

“not formal or strictly defined” is not super encouraging.
This is a problem - too many people still refuse to acknowledge the reality of the depth of priviledges of wealth.

Do you get it? Yes. Do I get it? I've been homeless. Does hacker news get it? Eh... Look around at some of the comments, and notice that most of the folks actively engaged are on our level. And this isnt exactly a hot topic.

Having to scroll past this headline while they search for that next investment is healthy for those neo-feudalist deniers among us.

That's what this is about.

So, how are you gonna vote to fix this? That's not exactly a high risk, antisocial behavior. Some people even still consider such your moral duty.

Heck, join or donate to the DSA. Or your local Anarchist/Communist group that puts on a community meal. Teach your skills. Do something, anything other than just complain about how powerless you feel, and how nothing is getting done.

I for one welcome the future days when hacker news keeps up with the IWW - you programmers are about to end up like auto factory workers, and you need to know how to react.

Fuck it - wanna start a co-op VPN?
Try looking at it from the publisher's perspective. If their ad network can't detect fraud then of all the money the network brings in an increasing proportion will go to fraudulent publishers. Honest publishers will make less and less money and eventually give up on the ad network.
I think the article is wrong here. This is the code it says won't work:

struct Base { ... }

struct Derived: Base { foo: i32 }

impl Derived {
fn new() -> Derived {
Derived {
Base::new()..,
foo: 92,
}
}
}

You don't need to allocate memory progressively to support initializers like this. You could allocate the entire Derived struct, copy the return value of Base::new() into the beginning of the allocated struct, then initialize the rest of the fields. If you wanted to avoid the copy (and deal with complications like internal pointers), you could even make Base::new() write its return value directly into the Derived struct's memory (like C++'s "return value optimization" does).
Ecobee Eco+ (demand response) forces users to opt in to third party data sharing
I find it informative to see other points of view and an impressive number of facts that are presented in this Quora answer, rather than just the Western point of view, which arguably could be also called as "propaganda". Let's not go this route.
Thankfully not HN but enough deep links to Reddit and it will join the list methinks.
Apple Music’s Next Era
That’s certainly true. Going on a business trip to the US I was struck by the fact that the hotel room was as large as my entire second floor (in current Tokyo house).

I’ve lived in this 9 square meters space before (in Tokyo as well) and as a single person it is eminently doable. What do you really need from your home besides a place to sleep between work?
> Books? I have a lot but I'm not buying a lot of physical books these days. Video collections? How many DVDs have you bought in the past year?

This is observation is unfortunately woefully irrelevant to Tokyo. CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray are still very much alive and kicking in Japan. Tower Records never closed shop, and Tsutaya (the local equivalent of blockbuster) has stores everywhere. I don't have statistics, but physical books (especially Manga) also seem more popular.
Department of Energy Announces $37M for Materials and Chemistry Research
You have a good point here. What website I'm currently on is a pretty strong indicator for the types of content and services I'm interested in. Content aggregator sites like Facebook where people spend a ton of time thinking about all sort of topics are really the Holy Grail target, though, and that probably explains why the ad delivery model is less about where you are on the internet and more about who they think you are.
"With its promises of assisting everyone with anything and everything, the mistake of the mindfulness movement is to present its impersonal mode of awareness as a superior or universally useful one"

It's difficult for me to imagine a person that would not benefit from taking a break from the non-stop stream of thoughts and the overidentification that comes with it.
Problems with the CSS background-image property
Cheers for a few hours of fun
Show HN: Payment Gateway Calculator
The article does a poor job of explaining how truly incredibly the flight crew of United Airlines Flight 232 performed under crisis; I watched a talk[1] by Nickolas Means recently that goes deeper into the events of that day and the lessons learned. Wikipedia also has a good summary of the NTSB accident report[3].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

3: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
This is cursed since the mods are totally overwhelmed right now but it's super funny
It looks to me like the article doesn't clearly argue that humility is everything, but perhaps a fourth of everything:

> Humility isn’t a byproduct of heroism, it’s a precondition. Modest people achieve miracles under pressure because they’re far more likely to possess four major qualities that pay dividends in a crisis.

Which are enumerated: Expertise, Composure, Collaboration, Confidence.

Of these, the article discusses Collaboration in terms of humility, but not the other three.

For example, why would a ``modest'' person be ``far more likely to possess'' Confidence (``believing something so unequivocally that it becomes contagious'')?
It could be that the thing just had no use, or that it became obsolete. I can imagine prediction of the seasons being useful for agriculture and trade, but people may have figured out how to do that without a calculating machine. Astrological uses would have depended on the particular astrology being in use.
How do you know that information is accurate and matches the individual? For example, for all those situations I described, why is ID required when you can also just provide the information instead? Can you walk into a bank and provide your info without verification?

Requiring ID allows us to measure when fraud is occuring by individuals attempting to submit votes and data that is not theirs. Otherwise, there is no "truth" to compare to. I guess we can always call every single person and verify their vote, but then is that not the same thing as an ID check?
Just another anecdote, and I haven't done this for too long, but I've found that adopting the rule that I don't eat past 7pm has helped me sleep better, and maybe even lose a little weight. I found myself eating more earlier in the day so that I wouldn't be hungry later, but that didn't seem to change the benefits.

The hardest bit is that it can be pretty hard to get an evening meal in before 7 (we do try to cook), and if its after, I pack the dinner for the next day's lunch and sit down with the fam to chat while they eat.
Wow. You are incredible.
I believe the bell is actually for the cash drawer opening so the manager can hear it.
Since at its core it's free software, you can download it from wherever you want.
Grasshopper Invasion of Las Vegas May Last Weeks, Experts Say
Yeah but they hint at the reason

> Certain foods, particularly those rich in sugars and fat, are potent rewards [23] that promote eating (even in the absence of an energetic requirement)

If the subjects are used to carb- and sugar-heavy diet, the hormonal spikes will be very stressful on the body.

They also mention fat-heavy foods, but I suspect they are referring to foods high on both fat+sugars, not a green salad with copious amounts of olive oil.