skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on the internal BOA cloud. My team wrote software to procure VM's via a website, versus the older (still current) way of doing it manually.

There are two things worth considering. The BOA cloud is slow. That is to say, it is hard to procure machines to get your projects going. There is a lot of control on who will be paying for them. There is also A LOT of staff to manage it. So those 2 Billion could easily be tweaked downward when you consider the staff and lost of agility.

On the flip side, AWS is hella expensive. To do the things that they do it would cost A LOT of money. Maybe even more than they think. I have seen (and maybe a lot of people here also) small companies with million dollar AWS bills. So this number can also be tweaked up when you consider dozens of teams each having their way (at BOA scale) on the AWS console.
Blizzards decision is completely in line with other international sporting events

Except that Blizzard does make political statements when it thinks it will be profitable.
Or no customers and no shareholders.
Who is to say that $40,000 in shoes is any worse than $100 in shoes constantly used and abused? In that extreme of a case I would say it's most likely worse, but there's something to be said for more expensive and longer-lasting.

In Carrie's case I would say it's worse just because she never struck me as the type to wear them for more than a single fashion season. Love the show, hate the movies.
If we look at union membership (which is different than being covered by collective bargaining agreements), the US (10%) has a lower union density than Switzerland (17%) and about the same than France (8% or 10%).

See https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TUD
I realize this is probably not the point of the preceding two comments, but does nobody here use an ad blocker? uBlock Origin is great, or NewPipe for YouTube specifically.
How many of these VPS providers are actually managing global highly availabile network infrastructure?
> I was a full-time wife and mom.

Thank you.
Keeping track of all the different offerings AWS has is a full time job.
Reading this, I immediately thought: the cost has to go way down with 200TB of volume.

It goes down, but only to $14,131.11!

Nice find. I will file this away if I ever need to do a full remote recovery.
I love that line of argument.

1) China has done >0 bad things

2) Comparison is whataboutism

3) Therefore China is literally Nazi Germany (actual topic of this subthread, not a strawman).
Because if you're able to hear and they're not able to hear, it means they have a disability. They don't want to consider themselves disabled. I was a transcriptionist for a college when they held a deaf conference, and it was definitely this way. They were angry that they had to mark a disability to receive government assistance, because they felt as though they had no disabilities.
I'm not sure I can agree. I'll give a few examples.

"Free clothing" quality has gone up and become more fitted. Instead of 1 gender neutral size, clothes are by gender, and fabric softer. Stitching seems unchanged. I've had to purchase these for groups.

High quality clothing has more accents. Quality of fabric is secondary to aesthetics.
Well at least SoftBank is buying $1B in shares from employees and investors. The reality is that most employees were likely awarded shares at no more than a $20B valuation, so while it's going to lower they will at least get something.
Their security questions are a massive security hole. Credit cards don't require a PIN. I don't see much indication that it is difficult to steal from people.
That's not a comparison of external cloud vs. self hosted though. It is a comparison of different operating models with respect to change control. Either one can exist in both external vs. self-hosted infrastructure.

I've been in places where the engineering team plugs in an old PC under a desk somewhere, gives it a public IP address of there's the production server. That's the self-hosted equivalent of the engineering team having full AWS access and any change is a mouse click away.

I've also experienced places where any change does take a week or two of approvals even though it is hosted on public cloud.

There is a time and place for all approaches. What works best with a three person startup putting up a MVP is quite different from what is best in a very large corporation operating in a regulated environment.
Thanks for the link. It has a link to the article where the 10^-77 comes from. I'm not convinced, but I'll left a detailed reply for another day. [They use as a model a very big protein with approximately 300 amino acids and a very complex folding. It's not a good idea to use this number in the other article about the first proteins, that were probably much shorter and with a straightforward structure.]
I've also hosted a few mattermost instances, highly recommended. It's a YC company too which is cool.

I like that you can choose to use the smartphone app, desktop app or the web app - just like slack except you host it.
This pricing only seems make sense when the two instances are belong to different owners that are billed $0.01/GB both. But still ridiculous: Data transfer in from internet is free, but from another zones/regions cost $0.01. Maybe they just want to make the pricing "look cheaper"?
Mullvad is a great choice, but I'm mildly surprised about TunnelBear as a choice. They log bandwidth and they incentivize social media spam.

Citation: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison
This is not at all a counterpoint. This review basically says "We need more data" and says the reason not to draw conclusions yet is that we don't even know how much exposure we experience in daily life.
healthcare?
Some in the Deaf community feel that even without side effects like that, that Deaf children should not receive them. That Deafness is not a disability, just a difference, and that "curing" it would be killing a culture much as raising Native American children in schools that banned their languages and culture did.

"Should we do the procedure at all" comes before "are the side effects of a specific implementation of the procedure worth it".
The $0.01/GB inter-availability-zone data transfer cost can be a killer for misconfigured workloads. It's a shame AWS doesn't make this more clear on their pricing page. I've seen people run Spark clusters across multiple AZs, incurring a huge costs whenever a shuffle happens.
I work for an e-commerce data analytics. I don't have the exact numbers, but I recall many of the Grocery sellers are using FBA.

Why do you think the booksellers don't use FBA? We see plenty of FBA sellers listing used books as new.
Sorry, it's not a data mining effort. We're taking sign-ups now and will start scheduling calls with people. To best help us, getting some information makes this process move faster.
Since you don't think California is particularly far left, I'd love to know your list of states that are. Where would you rank California?

Perhaps pondering that question will trigger a recalibration.
I took a break from Overwatch because it didn't feel quite right but it I played a few days ago and found much the same. There was significant support in chat and Names for Hong Kong and much criticism of the Blizzard actions.

I am also a gamedev and find I have a complicated standpoint when it comes to boycotting games. In recent months numerous instances of abuse in the game industry have been publicized. This has resulted in some calling for boycotts of certain games, but in many cases, targets of abuse were working on the exact same games as the abusers. Few games are made by a single person. I wonder if boycotting games becomes a form of collective punishment.

At the same time there are businesses that I do boycott because of their behaviour or due to the positions they hold. I'm not sure if the difference in my attitude towards games is because of my proximity. Perhaps it is because games are a creative work, and I never really feel that they 'belong' to the business entity that owns the legal IP.
How would a small business get into something like that (sustainability reporting)? #SustyReporting

Is there like a markdown plaintext document template with headings for like "environment" and "earth" or "what's the story this year"? And maybe like a score between 0 and 1 or 100?
Thinking of it as a disk drive is fallacious
We really need a better industry around re-use of essentially everything.

Let's say I need some X. Last week I bought a base layer because it's getting cold here.

I can order, or buy in a store, a brand new X trivially. I don't actually need a brand new X. A used X would do me just fine.

But the difficulty in doing so is ridiculous in comparison. Cottage industry eBay stuff (that you have to order online) vs. an entire infrastructure built around producing and selling new stuff.
Yeah tried to fool Disney+ and most things failed. Even routing through my own private VPS didn't work. They're definitely getting much better at it.
It doesn't achieve the same thing. Linux on DeX had full driver support because it was running on top of Android. postmarketOS has to play catch up.
While I agree with you that voting is required for filtering, voting alone is not the best way to find engaging content in a discussion focused website and so I think that a post with most comments or replies is what makes it engaging and that's the focus of this website.
The Mystery of the Placebo Effect
This was the approach Anki (which recently shut down) took for robotics. I actually had a similar idea, but whenever I went to the drawing board to make robot toys I could never make anything that was both fun and affordable - using videogames as a benchmark it basically always lost. I think Anki did as close to an admirable job as you could at trying to sell robotic toys while developing more utilitarian robots (they were working on a chore bot but it was woefully inadequate), but they still failed pretty hard. I was always surprised by their ability to continue to raise large sums of money (they raised about a quarter billion in total).

There is a similar approach being taken in the eVTOL space, with Kitty Hawk trying to develop their Heaviside as an obvious toy for the rich (single seater, short range, "quiet"). I think people will refuse to allow so much noise pollution in the skies, not to mention the inherent question of safety as all these designs make serious compromises to flight stability in order to make them so lightweight and take off vertically.

There is merit to this approach though - you could certainly argue hypercars are toys for the super rich and eventually that technology trickles down to cheaper vehicles. But the economics around racing cars are much more complicated, including making an entire sport (and an extremely popular one at that) to justify the development costs. You could also argue Tesla did this, starting with the Roadster, then the Model S, and now the Model 3. Tesla's financials have been a source of great debate for a decade now though.

Whatever the next big thing is, I bet the media hasn't caught onto it yet. I don't think it's VR, AR, self-driving cars, general AI, or anything else that has already been woefully overhyped. It'll be something nobody was looking for and the right person stumbles upon it at the right place and time.
If design patterns don't overlap in a major way with objects then something is very wrong. Re-use of design (concepts and implementation) lie at the heart of both initiatives.
A 9/9/6 working regime is hardly an improvement for a country that claims to be communist.
Any the compounding effect of a high IQ over time

It’s not about the problem at hand, but every day has been experienced differently
You can do without voting. All you need is a way to discern what is popular, in order to display 'popular' and 'new' categories. For example by measuring comments and clicks, maybe the amount of time users spend on the comment page relative to the amount of comments. Not a great idea since it can be gamed, but what can't nowadays.

It would probably favor clickbait, violence, etc like every other system. The only escape from this on a user-submitted site, if there are no subcategories outright banning certain content, is what's already in place, just sorting everything by date.
Enh, that's annoying, but easily fixed by a polite quick-tap on the horn. I've made a conscious decision not to let it stress me out when someone adds all of 5 seconds to my commute.

I'm more annoyed by the people who lay on the horn like a New York cabbie if I'm half a second late off the line (sometimes because of an obstruction they can't see).
I'd say for the same reason Dropbox was a good solution even when people had rsync and scripts to do the same thing. The average consumer expects a more seamless experience that excels at managing a lot of different social interactions, like building groups and sharing different types of content easily.
I consider that to be a feature. Voting systems mean that homogeneity is prized first and foremost, since most people only look at what's highly voted. This leads to a situation where the site will foster users with particular views and biases. Voting systems can also be gamed (like on Reddit), when you can pay some people to bot-upvote your post. Applied to comments, it's even worse. "Echochambers" on places like Reddit aren't formed just from mod bans, but because they attract users who upvote content that appeals to their biases and downvote the rest. That's how they control the discourse.

This is in my view one thing 2channel-style boards get right. Not everything has to be about "quality content", and it does a bit of a disservice to users to say that they have such little control that they can't tell good content from bad. Humans aren't animals, we don't just take what we're given. Sites like Reddit, HN and Twitter destroy that agency within us, and it's a shame.

Here is an essay by Shii, one of the most well known historians of imageboard culture on the value of anonymity: http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/
Makes sense. If you're not properly tagging your resources then it can be very hard to track down if/where it's been used, how often, or when it was used last. You can automate/template as much orchestration as you want with stuff like Terraform to bring up well-defined resources, but there will always be outliers without tagging.
You are either driving too fast or not paying enough attention.
What Trump does with the mainstream media has absolutely nothing to do with so called Russian interference in the election.
$1.5M (maybe 3X that with other costs) is literally a rounding error for the US federal budget: expenditures are $4.4T and revenue is $3.4T (that $1T/yr deficit is maddening btw).
Lots of people move to SF to get rich (and succeed, for some definition of rich) but end up losing their friends, not seeing their families, forgoing having their own families, living with lots of roommates, etc.

If someone just hands you $1 million, then sure, it's great. But if you're sacrificing your mental or physical health to earn that $1 million the hard way, you could definitely come out the other side rich and worse off.
I think the "Thing" in Next Big Thing as this article uses it is rarely a business, more often a technology. WhatsApp has never been considered a toy, but IM as a medium has—WhatsApp's genesis as a valuable business is itself that toy becoming a Big Thing. Netflix was never a toy; streaming video was a toy in 2005, Netflix turned it into a billion dollar business.

Edit: Technology, not product, and Netflix example
I think the carbon scare will prove to be the biggest blemish on science EVER, but I have to admit this is kind of funny :)
I wouldn't.

Me being on the spectrum is what gives me the technical advantage over a lot of my peers, and is the reason I can have a stable, high paying job and do the things that I want to do.

And it is not like I am unhappy or struggling from the effects of being on the spectrum, like connecting with people.

Yes, there are definite downsides, but at the same time, Id argue that there are downsides to being too emotional dependent to the point where someone fails to act on logic and reason to a certain extent. In both cases, me and the other person find a way to be happy within the constraints of our lives, accepting the drawbacks as a necessity.
and C) https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...
I can't take that claim too seriously, because a real Libertarian would welcome a free, and non-coercive association between employees as much as they welcome the free, and completely non-coercive association between an employee, and their employer... (I am, of course, not at all coerced to work under the conditions my employer sets upon me!)

But for some reason, many Libertarians have nothing but contempt for the former. It could be that the ideology has been a bit subverted...
Ahem, football & hockey, anyone?
The World in 2030 Will Be Mostly Rich and Largely Old
This actually is/was really good.

On my note 9 I can open a shell. Or with HDMI get a Ubuntu desktop.

Any ideas what Google changed in Android 10 to break compatibility?
>It seems that they mean free will differently than I do.

No, they mean it the same way you do; they only made it precise.

You probably suppose a scientist doing an experiment can choose between A and B for some setup. If so, then so can particles, because one can make experiments where a physicist can make a choice affecting the outcomes, and the particles in the experiment can choose their behavior in exactly the same manner.

So, since there are experiments that allow you to "choose" freely, and such experiments have particles able to do whatever you are doing, then either your free will implies their free will, or neither has free will.

Follow the links from the wiki page to learn more. It's quite precise, and is exactly the usual concept of free will.
The design tension is this: current welfare recipients get a range of help from the government, each administered separately. In addition, because it cuts out for every dollar earned it creates a very high marginal tax rate, creating a local maximum. However, middle class welfare is a very real thing, and the problem with UBI is it allows the government to entrench itself with even more aspects of a persons life.
IDK where you get the 'wages are a lot lower in Europe' thing. There are lower cost and higher cost places, but people are expensive and talent is mobile.
Well that's definitely what they will tell you!

There are plenty of reasons to choose a point in the space denominated by the axes make/adapt-existing X insource/outsource X proprietary/open . None are zero cost unless you really think your platform is good enough that enough others will write for it without you doing anything.

It's possible that you would chose to write your own because nothing in the market is even close to good. It's possible that you would open source it in the hopes that it becomes standard and that others will add new features that you will benefit from too (this is not a zero-cost option either). It's possible that you would even keep it proprietary because that's cheaper. But given the way Amazon operates it's pretty clear that they offer their own proprietary services to lower the barriers to adoption ("simply offer a better option") and raise the barriers to switching.

I don't see anything wrong with this strategy legally or morally, though I mostly avoid amazon proprietary tools because the risk of locking is one I'm not willing to embrace. There are of course situations where they aren't a problem (e.g. a tool with an anticipated finite lifetime: the cost of lock in in that case is essentially nil).
Wow. This was such a valuable post.

Can you describe some of the insights you learned from the exit interview -- about growing your career and becoming a subject matter expert? I'm new to the field and I feel like that'd be immensely valuable to me and many others.
It's 7.5-8 billion pre-money. Per article:

> The deal values WeWork between $7.5 billion and $8 billion before the infusion, sources familiar with the matter say.
Actively Managed Forests in New Hampshire Are Rich in Carbon
It harms people when there would be a different group of "most talented and skilled people" if they were given the opportunity.
Many people agree with this ideology. If corporations are people then they should be subject to laws that citizens are subjected to. Basically they should get a corporate death penalty. Company is dissolved, no longer allowed to operate and its assets are sold off to provide restitution to the victims of the crime.
> 2. I think the boilerplate is good in making things explicit.

I think Boilerplate is the lack of a more succinct way of expressing your intent. So, boilerplate is never good in making things explicit, it's just the (current) shortest way possible to accurately expose your intent.

For example, in TypeScript, if I delve into making datastructures `algebra-ish`, I always have the boilerplate of defining a `tag` field in my objects, and lengthy switch-constructs to match on the tag field.
It's not good in making things explicit, it's actually just the only way (at the moment).
I don't see why not.

If you define an FPGA as taking a bitstream configuration input, then you'd have to write (in Verilog) an engine to interpret that input and configure some LUTs and routing switches. Routing switches are efficiently implemented in an FPGA, but emulating one might require hundreds of other switches. So it's going to be very inefficient.
Most manufacturers don't care, because they know that a) users aren't able to tell what's secure, and b) they face zero consequences. As a tech user, I know that if an IoT device routes data through vendor's cloud, it's unsafe, period. As evidenced by breach after breach after breach after breach.
Every rung you climb between client-server towards fully distributed increases software difficulty non-linearly.

It seems simple at the outset, but once you actually try to build a complex business/product like this one you realize you have to start with something simple just to get the money to fund something more complex/better.

RE: internet service loss leader model, I think it can be beat with a better product and a better model. But someone is still always going to need to pay to maintain and update software, and it seems fair to profit off of that as long as you allow for competition (& that's where I believe the law should e better protect consumers).
Exactly and that's being achieved by the number of comments on a particular post.
I actually think AR could still be the next big thing, once the integration becomes seamless and the peripheral technology doesn't look ridiculous
probably.. suppose... it seems to me.. I hate it when people try and hedge their opinions.
I'm arguing that the mainstream media made up the Russian story. Not one person has been able to provide any demonstration that the 100k in FB ads that were purchased from Russia (maybe by the government, maybe not) had any impact whatsoever. As someone who's worked in online ads for > 15 years, I will tell you that 100k in ads will not have a national impact. Especially when both other parties are paying hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing.
It does apply to part B and Firefox also has tracking protection.
Asking if a CEO is dodging questions is like asking if your representatives in Congress are lying. The answer is almost always (as in five nines) YES.

You don't need an AI to help determine if a CEO is dodging questions. Only pathologically honest CEOs give honest answers to every question put to them, and such idealists are quickly weeded out because dodging questions is one of the core functions of the CEO.