skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't seen any shops that have bet the farm on GCP the way they do on AWS or Azure.

Your examples sound a bit biased. Based on your argument, using GCP as part of a multi-cloud solution for risk mitigation could also imply that those clients don't trust AWS or Assure to provide a reliable service, thus they are compelled to use GCP for reliability. Using Kubernetes workloads means that GCP is trusted above any other competing offer to provide a fundamental service. Using GCP's PaaS offers means that GCP is able to better fulfill the client's needs with their enticing higher-level services. Your hypothetical claims ring as true as there statements, but your bias points in a different direction.
I cut my monthly bill from $191 down to $79.99 Gigabit/Fios plus $40 for DirectvNow/AT&TTVNOWVIPASAPPLZ. Plus, I converted my mom, Comcast in this case...can't understand why anybody would settle for cable prices...hurts so bad. Well, I'm also the IT helpdesk of the family and get called A LOT more now that I'm expected to fix issues asap.
I think it clearly does.

Personally, if I'm working as part of a team, I'm much happier and substantially more productive if I'm working in the same physical space as the rest of the team.

But I also know people who are exactly the opposite of me on that count.
Ugh, is there a reason your web page doesn't work with my PAGEUP, PAGEDOWN or arrow keys?
Neat! I actually got to lay hands on a Georgi yesterday because one of my online friends I met up with (for non-keyboard-purposes) brought one. Very solid-feeling.
I don't know what's more amazing, that I can't figure out what I'm looking at, or that somebody worked on this extensively, and probably continues working on this. I have no idea what this is though.
I did, no particular topic, just generally a lot (think "my comment history minus biting my tongue"), and a few years ago, after 9 years of using it and 100+ RL friends and plenty RL photos, I could no longer log in and was asked to send a copy of my ID, because I might not be a real person. I didn't, not because I think anything in that scan would be new information to them, but as a matter of principle, out of sheer stubborness and a sense of injustice -- they didn't tell me who reported me as not being a person, and I bet you none of the accusers had to show their ID.

But being "banned" from FB is much better than quitting... I have zero temptation to go back, it requires no discipline at all, so I'm not complaining.
Terrorism is a particularly weak argument for e2ee because terrorists can and do exploit systems WITHOUT e2ee.
When we say "undervalued", you mean compared to competitors?

When the tech bubble bursts, either everyone gets bailed out, and it does become worth 200B. Or we are going to find out much of this tech money was speculation.

What's hard about running a server farm? Does it lend to this valuation?
> Same with mechanical keyboards. The signal there is to people using shitty 20$ dell membrane boards, and who see those beautiful machined aluminum boards and custom caps and feel jealous. The signal is about demonstrating you have more than someone else.

I think the average $20 membrane keyboard user is looking at these things and thinking, hey, that looks funny, assuming they notice them at all. Most people don't know that it's possible to spend $100, let alone $400 on a set of keycaps.
Your parent comments need lambasting too, computer-nerdity isn't supposed to be this super bougie luxury hobby
Everyone knows that encryption master keys will go exactly the same way -- they'll leak eventually (maybe there'll be a newspaper article with a picture of the master key).
Have you ever interacted with Google support as a paying customer?

It's miserable in my experience.
Setting things up in AWS is time consuming, but not as time consuming as debugging.The AWS documentation is huge and seems thorough, and yet never actually helps me solve any problems. There is always some obscure bit of configuration not covered in the tutorials and buried too deep in the docs to find that is needed to get anything past a hello world to work. Meanwhile, the errors in the log are too vague to make the solution googleable, and it takes days to figure out even the simplest things.

I've found the only way to make anything work in AWS is to search for hours and hours looking for the Stack Overflow question that tells you what the docs left out. And yet I stick with AWS because last time I tried Azure everything was broken. It'll be nice when this stuff gets a little more polished.
I have voted in every election I could since I turned 18.

In one of those elections, my preferred candidate won by a mere 129 votes out of 2.8 million votes cast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Washington_gubernatorial_...

If you don't vote, you won't be able to tell if your vote "really mattered" in an election until it's too late to do anything.
You're assuming, first, that attraction is exclusively defined in sexual terms, which is untrue. You're further assuming that identity is exclusively defined by sexuality. Also not true.

There are many aspects of LGBTQ identity and culture which are not related to sex, in the same way that there are many aspects of heterosexual identity and culture unrelated to sex. One may use the keywords mentioned in the article outside of the context of a discussion of sex.

Here are some examples of LGBTQ Youtube content which, you will note, should you watch, are not entirely about sex or sexuality, despite clearly being "LGBTQ content."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTwm4IIBGPI&list=PLmWFOeT2jE...

https://www.youtube.com/user/rantasmo/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/muppetmadness/videos
Oh yes, I 100% agree with you on that. $2000 cables are just stupid. However, you can spend around $100 or so on really nice handmade cables that look and feel better than the stock cables, which seems comparable to spending lots of money on artisinal keycaps, no?
This article shows that we also habe to extremely vigilant with social hacking. When we solved the problem of attacks technically, we will be faced with the next level of attacks - social Information gathering
NYT still ships these oddballs with their newsletters. I saw one where you drink just one cup of some weird substance before bed and you'd loose weight. The image had a coke being poured into some red powder.

Take off your adblocker one day, and see how the ridiculous state of internet advertising hasn't changed at all.
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YMMV. I probably have more books and documents than I will ever read. I use Calibre to manage this collection. It is easier to flip through my collection of books on a computer when deciding what to read next than on my ereader. Being able to download meta data helps me decide what to read next. I use the Calibre storage as my backup for my ebooks. My first ereader was a Kindle which I stupidly trashed while trying to swat a fly (true story). I then bought a Kobo. Calibre converted my books as I loaded them onto Kobo.
Since when is the internet in Microsoft's DNA?

And isn't Azure's main feature the fact that they provide a service invented and developed by Google (kubernetes') and a first-class citizen in GCP?
Yes, and that's a debate we should have as a society. I personally think privacy is more important than government's ability to peek at private conversations, but this is something we should collectively decide.
Still, the ratio of people to cars is striking when visiting from more suburban areas. Many places seem like a sea of cars and pedestrians are very out of place.
I don't follow you. Your suggestion just serves to turn this into a commodity low-margin business. What benefit does google have for doing that?
I don't know about the US (I thought HIPAA was very comprehensive...?) but in the UK you are legally entitled to view personal data about yourself. It wouldn't matter if you paid for the test or not, if it's on file you should be able to access it.
Seeing how many people prioritize fashion over function...in this topic, and life in general, depresses me. Calibre works very well and you have people saying they "can't" use it because it's not pretty enough. It's one guy, does SO much, and it's free. I don't care what it looks like. It's amazing.
I’d argue this is true in general: I once gave a presentation about a (IMO) pretty decent tool but made the mistake of demonstrating it with a UI that was usable but needed work. It got a lot worse of a reaction than an earlier and worse version of the same tool where I ran it from the command line.
I visited SF this spring, after 20 years (that was also the first trip to the US for my children).

I could not recognize the city. We used to walk by night and the city left great memories.

Now I had to almost run from the pier to my hotel nearby. We went to a fast food in the night and it was the worst place I have been in.

At the same time, the guide of the tour we took mentioned rent prices so high that I thought I misunderstood what she was saying.
The objection is they'll lose it, and locks will be useless. See: TSA locks are now useless because the TSA leaked images of the master keys, which anyone can create now.
The court later issued a clarification basically upholding the logic of their ruling but stating that because the chalking was part of valid [regulatory] activities (below) the chalking is okay[0].

> Rather, we hold, based on the pleading stage of this litigation, that two exceptions to the warrant requirement—the “community caretaking” exception and the motor-vehicle exception—do not apply here. Our holding extends no further than this.

From the court's order[1]:

> Because we chalk this practice up to a regulatory exercise, rather than a community-caretaking function, we REVERSE.

[0] https://www.sixthcircuitappellateblog.com/recent-cases/sixth...
[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/17...
> Not sure I follow about the environment variables.

I thought that environment variable passed via the Environment= options might not be correctly set, but it seems they are :-).
This seems like an extremely promising development and the study looks to have done everything right regarding controls.

I'm hoping this isn't just another "works in mice!" story, but it doesn't seem like that is the case, as this is dealing with something very different (specific fungal infection) than most other studies.
Show HN: Browser Extension for easy encryption and decryption across the web
If your HTTP requests are high CPU and your doing standard crud type actions, there's something wrong with your codebase. High CPU tasks should be offloaded from the HTTP request into a queue.
Maybe you and I have different understandings of what a "right" is. I define a "right" as something that cannot be taken away, and there are very few of these. Your story, your thoughts, and your will, are all you have a right to - while you are alive.

Every other nicety in life is due to mutual respect, agreements and the ability to use force should those agreements be broken.

If I am using a restroom, I don't have a "right" to privacy. Tell that to a prisoner who has to take a shit in front of their cellmates... Even in comfort of your own home, someone could kick the door open. The fact that they don't kick in the door, is due to mutual respect for boundaries. This is what I would call a privilege, which has been mutually _agreed upon by_ and _granted to_ all parties involved.

Privileges make up our freedoms. They are the things that we fight for, and should continue to do so.

We should make an effort to not conflate the two, as it tends to blur the lines and give people a false understanding of what they have a right to intrinsically, vs what they must fight for.
How much are their shares of SpaceX worth?
I agree. Wasn't mean to criticizing tho. I definitely think the author is/could be a great engineer judging by the volume of her blog.
Apple users don't wear white ear buds to signal to one another, they do it exclusively to signal to people who don't have it that the apple user can afford product and symbol greatly in excess of the person.

Or, you know, they're not interested in "signaling" anything, they're wearing them because they're the free ear buds that came with their smartphone and they're listening to music or making a phone call.
Roberta's Rules of Order

[5] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787964239
There's more to being in a high-margin business than just putting your prices up and watching the money roll in. It depends (among other things) upon what you're selling. My sense is that what Google overlooked was the opportunity to add value.
Unfortunately it is. One more reason I hate this.
He never said no one buys apple without thinking about status.
In the long term it would cause more harm then good.
Besides all the obvious privacy/freedom reasons, banning things NEVER works. Think about how hard we try to ban physical things (drugs, guns, etc). Now imagine trying to limit encryption.
GitHub has removed their 'This is note the page you're looking for' 404 page
My response to the "I have nothing to hide" argument:

i) do you wear clothes? You are hiding yourself! Why not walk naked down the street? You have something to hide.

ii) do you have curtains on your house? Why? (The answer is almost never "to keep out there light") Most people walk fully clothed in their own house. You have something to hide.

I also liken dragnet surveillance (a major reason on why we need E2EE) to upskirting. People have a basic right to assume some privacy even when in public... Otherwise the objectionable practice of upskirting should be legal too.
With ML this isn't entirely true. Proven by ML models trained to play games, they have strategies that were unknown to their human opponents.
Know assembly in great detail? No. Know what is assembly and which piece it makes in computer system and how it's related to other pieces. Ofc Yes.
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It must be a generational thing. Most boomers I know must absolutely have their deluxe cable plans. A lot of them grew up with TV being a very important part of their routine, and now many of them have lots of free time now that their kids have left the house.
I got you:

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
How do you expect to provide a web service without a domain and an ever-changing IP? This isn't a Mastodon problem.

Use a dynamic dns provider, it'll give you a domain name that changes your IP record as it changes.
Cool idea. I'd want to see how it goes in a course.
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Wow, I can't imagine that going over here in Japan. Nearly the entire population wears masks when sick or when trying to avoid getting sick. They're sold in every convenience store, all different kinds, paper, cloth, foam, with or without various medicinal stuff added.

They are also a problem for anyone who has an iPhone with FaceID
How often does your network disconnect? Sure, it would be great if the backend storage system was better at handling atomic operations, but I don't think this is really a huge problem assuming you're not using a really crappy network.

I run Calibre with the library mounted from a NAS. Works fine for my ~2000 book collection. Not as speedy as local SSD, but it is ok.
Living in survival mode has a severely negative impact on growth and on the brain/thinking. This is why poor people often stay poor and make bad decisions. The brilliant stem cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton describes in chapter 6 of his book “The Biology of Belief” why an organism cannot simultaneously be in a state of growth and protection:

"By now you won’t be surprised to learn that I first became aware of how important growth and protection behaviors are in the laboratory where my observations of single cells have so often led me to insights about the multicellular human body. When I was cloning human endothelial cells, they retreated from toxins that I introduced into the culture dish, just as humans retreat from mountain lions and muggers in dark alleys. They also gravitated to nutrients, just as humans gravitate to breakfast, lunch, dinner and love. These opposing movements define the two basic cellular responses to environmental stimuli. Gravitating to a life-sustaining signal, such as nutrients, characterizes a growth response; moving away from threatening signals, such as toxins, characterizes a protection response. It must also be noted that some environmental stimuli are neutral; they provoke neither a growth nor a protection response.
My research at Stanford showed that these growth/protection behaviors are also essential for the survival of multicellular organisms such as humans. But there is a catch to these opposing survival mechanisms that have evolved over billions of years. It turns out that the mechanisms that support growth and protection cannot operate optimally at the same time. In other words, cells cannot simultaneously move forward and backward. The human blood vessel cells I studied at Stanford exhibited one microscopic anatomy for providing nutrition and a completely different microscopic anatomy for providing a protection response. What they couldn’t do was exhibit both configurations at the same time. [Lipton, et al, 1991)
In a response similar to that displayed by cells, humans unavoidably restrict their growth behaviors when they shift into a protective mode. If you’re running from a mountain lion, it’s not a good idea to expend energy on growth. In order to survive — that is, escape the lion — you summon all your energy for your fight or flight response. Redistributing energy reserves to fuel the protection response inevitably results in a curtailment of growth."

In other words, living in a constant state of survival (as unsteady income might cause), severely restricts a person’s capabilities to grow in a healthy way.
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Right, and a decade of advertisements featuring those status symbols were pointless because no one cares about them.

Alternatively: Or you know, mechanical keyboard users aren't interested in "signalling" anything, they're just using well manufactured accessories featuring high quality processes and materials.
That's also why I gave up pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology and shifted my focus from experiment design to computational analysis & modeling. I failed to replicate a few cornerstone experiments with modern equipment and a more diverse subject group, no matter how hard I tried.

https://slate.com/technology/2013/05/weird-psychology-social...
It goes so well with "how dare you defend yourself" against legally-sanctioned assault and kidnapping, aka obstruction of justice or interference with police business.
Sounds insane. Based on our two experiences it seems like the requirements can change a lot. Hopefully if you apply again in a few years they won't require that anymore, but it's hard to say without knowing what are the factors that pushed them to require that in the first place.
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I think Facebook has clearly changed the world. I don't think we really know if it's for better or worse overall, though.

I can't really come up with other examples, though (although my gut tells me that's due to poor memory). I don't think Airbnb or RC classes qualify.
A friend was and LAPD detective for 35 years. He said it gets a lot more sticky in regards to RVs, because then you can claim is is your home.
Things seem to be getting looser, not tighter.
Facebook have just changed their policies to make it much harder to challenge false advertising by politicians.
This appears to have been done to avoid trouble with Trump.
https://popular.info/p/facebook-says-trump-can-lie-in-his
> what is the German term for that?

"Schutzwaffen", i.e. protective weapons

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzwaffe

This includes the thing boxers put in their mouth to protect their teeth... let that sink in. Carrying something like that to a protest already is a crime, maximum sentence is 1 year.

edit: just saw an earlier comment with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21158544
I buy mechanical keyboards because I prefer them for desktop use. I buy iPhones because I prefer iOS's app ecosystem. These are both subjective but rational choices.
$1100 Iphone - I'm with you on this one, I have a super expensive phone and I don't see the quality over the flagship phones of what seems like yesterday being $600. There's a lot of expensive, cutting edge stuff in my Note9 and my wife's giant iPhone that we probably wouldn't miss if it were cheaper.

That being said I don't think in a world where so many people have iphones we can consider an iphone as that much of a signal for anything.

iWatch - This is a niche genre of cools toys where there's 2 viable options. 1 clearly nicer than the other but it doesn't matter because your phone unfortunately dictates which one you get. Yea its a signal but some people like to be early adopters and play with new toys, I don't think those people are buying them for the wrong reasons.

Apple Ear Buds - Headphone jacks are gone on our expensive phones. For a while there were like 2-3 options, all like $200, and they all have like 2-3 out of 5 star reviews because the tech isn't ready for primetime but apple's a POS and lets their products suffer just to be trendy and Samsung's a POS by racing to copy them. So the end result is people that want ear buds need them or a dongle. I don't really consider this a signal, but maybe that's because all of the wireless earbuds are bad and stupid looking. I bought Jabra but I honestly like the Apple ones though because its one of the only times they ever (in a way) chose function over form. They look far more ridiculous than most wireless earbuds.

I wouldn't pay much more than I already have for a keyboard, but I can provide one example of where someone paid a lot of money for a keyboard where he would not have gotten the same thing or a similar thing if he had paid less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeqnEJpPZVY

This video is considered the holy grail in terms of what a mechanical keyboard can sound like. An Apex Legends pro (Dizzy) asked him to replicate that exact build and at that point the parts were harder to source. Was it worth it? Still subjective, but to many people mechanical keyboards feel good to use because they like the way they sound.
Lower Manhattan is older and European in style. It’s only a grid above Houston (pronounced ‘How-ston’, not ‘Hew-ston’ like the city in Texas.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_1811
In rural New York, US, I had the "pleasure" of dealing with Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum) as pretty much our only provider. We wanted basic TV and internet access, each were priced relatively high on their own but cheap as a "triple play" package when phone was included. I think our overall bill was $70/mo for the first year. After the 12 months, our bill went to just shy of $250/mo (promotion ended). We ended up only really using the internet with streaming services so I called them up to cut back exclusively to their internet dropping phone and TV.

This was the most PAINFUL phone call I've had in a long time that literally resulted in me begging them to remove these services after they made at least a dozen or two "what if we do this..." offers. Since that day we've never thought twice to getting TV again (or phone) and have strictly stuck to internet. I'd say weekly I get a new offer mailed to me but it goes straight into the trash.

It's all to apparent they make their promotional packages sweet enough that most people will sign up for them. Once the promotion ends you're stuck with all the "bells and whistles" at an incredibly high price. I believe they intentionally make their downgrade processes as painful as possible so most people just deal with the payment. For example you can easily increase your channel lineup/internet speeds online but you have to call to downgrade anything...
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