skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, believe that even making a distinction between "transgender" and "non-transgender" athletes should be done away with. I'm glad that these girls are out there setting amazing new records that for some reason were in place for a long time!!!
> This isn't simply about having fewer staff (although that can reduce internal politics and inefficiencies), but making fewer decisions and more importantly reducing the potential for making the wrong decisions

This is a myth directly from cloud providers marketing campaigns: that using the cloud simplifies infrastructure to the point that you don't need as much and/or as qualified staff.

In reality it is quite the trap: without experienced system administrators AWS and the like are free to dig their hands deeper and deeper into the pockets of their unsuspecting customers.
It is a bad title. The inclusion of "ignoring Amazon" implies that the difference between the using AWS and not using AWS is $2B. Otherwise, it makes as much sense to title it "Bank of America saved $2B per year ignoring shark attacks, building own cloud".
It is hard to tell fads from the real deal these days. There's rarely a Grand New Idea with no downsides or tradeoffs, and those promoting such ideas usually have an agenda. It's rational to let somebody else be the proverbial guinea pig. As our systems become more complex, the tradeoffs are also more complex such that the low-hanging-fruit of obvious benefits are mostly all picked.

A folding (two-screened) phone sounds like a good idea in theory, but whether they can be made reliable and if there is or will be enough useful software for them is still unknown. I'll wait it out...

I waited out the 3D TV fad and am glad I did. My grumpy geezerism paid off there.
I mean, US public spending is already unsustainably high.
> Please understand that Xi does not speak for all Chinese

That may be. But, unfortunately, the vast majority of mainland Chinese are perfectly fine with what the Chinese leadership are doing.

Yes, it may be due to propaganda. Yes, they may not know any better. Yes, they may be being blackmailed.

Tough.

Justification doesn't help much when you are the one receiving pointy end of the stick.
A non-paywalled article on the same issue: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/att-tv-now-streaming-servi...

Do people even watch tv anymore?
As the Electoral College Goes, So Goes the Constitution
There is overlap between a lot of systems, but meta-relationships (insofar as HN comment votes look like Reddit comment votes) aren't relevant to the topic. That being said, I see the overlap. Blizzard is using the "we know what's best for others". This is not a framework, intrinsically.

> a lot of other factions seem to seized the opportunity to use the existing framework to their own gain

Blizzard is not one of those factions and I'll leave it at that.
The savings implies they saved $2B over AWS. I can't read the article since I don't have a BI account, but unless they saved $2B over AWS (rather than $2B over their previous infrastructure) it's definitely misleading.
Godwin is alright:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

But the people refer to his quip are often wrong -- certainly in context of a bona fide totalitarian regime that has been murdering dissidents for 7 decades -- and are using said quip as a cheap way out, while projecting that on those who made the comparison.

"Never again" and "don't even think of comparing anything with the Nazis, not even mass murdering totalitarian regimes" don't go together.
RE: pension funds; that is something that bothers me eternally. How do you find a store of wealth for normal people? Financial managers have opted for shares and bonds and in the process risk economic instability through overvaluation. The French, being the French, instead makes you pay the current people's pension in taxes and in turn promise to do the same when you are a pensioner.

Let's hope they don't do it "the South African way".
Those kids will be paying taxes the rest of their lives which go to fund education. Either directly (through property taxes on their home), or indirectly (the landlord has to pay property taxes, which comes from rent money).

So in a way everybody pays for their own education after the fact.
Ah yeah. That must be why they're on the front page of HN and stuck between a rock and a hard place with having to cancel Blizzcon after Mei became an international pro-HK meme.
It saved 2bn compared to what it spend on its old infrastructure right? Not 2bn compared to the (totally unknown) cost of AWS instead.

Full disclosure, I've had baml as a client and dealt with their desktop support, fix and brokerage tech support and their TRP systems. I wouldn't trust them to point out the window at a cloud let alone build and maintain one. So I'm more than a bit dubious of this story...
Security has never been priority for any of these public VPN providers.
So, one busy process performs a file operation that triggers a system restore checkpoint, and the OS locks the entire drive during this file operation? Sounds strange to me.

Is the problem that the checkpointing critical section has the same duration as the triggering file operation?

I get that there must be some sort of critical section for setting a checkpoint, but I don't understand why it takes so long, and why it would be affected by how busy the userspace process that triggered it is.

I would expect it to have a short barrier-style critical section; drain all outstanding writes, record some checksum or counter from a kernel data structure, and then release all writers again.

In my mind this should be kernel code only, entirely unaffected by userspace, and if designed nicely, quite fast.

So I guess I don't get what is going on here.
>"The chart, which is based on internal AWS sales figures obtained by The Information,"

I'm not sure that "stolen" is the right word but, yes, it certainly appears based on what The Information wrote that either someone at AWS or a third-party with access to the info (probably not too likely) leaked the confidential numbers. Disgruntled former employee or... Who knows.
We live in a world of "terms of conditions" and "disclosures" and "terms of use".

Even this simple purely informational use only website HN has a 10 pages list of "terms & conditions": https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

Any performance car builder should have one too.
China has killed way fewer central asian Muslims than we have.

They imprison their own at 1/4 the rate that we do.

The major difference between you and them is which set of nationalist propaganda you're buying. OUR missteps have context and looked reasonable at the time, THEIRS are clearly monstrous. Or flip it around, if you'd like.
Honestly I think the NBA bungled their immediate response in the hours right after the tweet but has done a good job making up for it. China put direct pressure on the NBA commissioner to fire Morey, but he's refused to punish him at all, even though it will certainly hurt the NBA's bottom line.

Supposedly teams are planning on figuring out how to handle a highly reduced salary cap next year, potentially on the order of 10% less due to lost China revenue
The sophistication of counterfeit goods on Amazon is often impressive: For popular items like controllers for the Playstation 4, there are fakes that look and feel (and work) almost exactly like the real thing. The most sophisticated fake DualShock 4s come in convincing retail packaging, they pair with your console, and the only immediate tells (short of waiting a few months for various cut-rate components to fail, such as the battery) are things like the analog sticks clicking the wrong way or the silkscreening on the accessory port being the wrong opacity.

At this point, if I'm looking for a popular brand-name product, and it doesn't have some impossible-to-fake functionality (like booting iOS), I assume by default that there are fakes commingled into Amazon's inventory.
Peloton's stock declines, even as IPO underwriters cheer it on
I'm still convinced a part of it was trolling. Just straight-up "I don't know about this in any detail and I don't care about it, I just want to start shit" trolling, which took whatever legitimate criticisms there are and wrapped them in a thick shell of bad attitude and loudmouthed idiocy for the pure sake of it. Trolling doesn't mean someone's lying, after all; it just means someone's loud and obnoxious; look up Frankfort's definition of "bullshit" for more.
As a client I can ask for policies, records, 4th party audit reports, etc and choose your vendor based on their ability to answer and the quality of answers.

It's not about contract violations if something like that happens you don't know about, it would have to be willful deception and incompetence of several organizations.

"we could not have known" is an answer you get when what you really mean is "we didn't think to look". If something like this happened and you had done the right things the message would be "vendor X violated their policy, our contracts, and auditors A, B, and C failed due diligence requirements here and here"

"We could not have known" as a response means no one should trust NordVPN because clearly they think they're helpless which means they aren't clever enough to trust my data with.

> you should never have full 100% confidence in someone else's system

Of course.
What would that look like?

“Item not as described / book clearly used / food item out of date, but probably came from a commingled bin so possibly not the result of the seller I purchased from. Full marks, five stars, perfect ten.”?
"If this were available tomorrow, safe for human applications and without any side-effects other than what it says on the tin: would any of you opt for this?"

This is sort of an unrealistic hypothetical that isn't really informative, IMO, for a few reasons mostly attributed to the spectrum of how autism manifests and also that I doubt there is any such thing as "without any side effects".

I think what would be more informative is to ask- if they would be willing to undertake a treatment course for their autism what side effects would they be willing to bear and for how minimal of symptom relief would they be willing to bear for?

EG. Let's say the Cripsr therapy works only on resolving sensory information issues doe to fixing the neurons capacity to process sensory input. In consequence, however, is that the person has a higher likelihood for seizures and, later on, parkinson's. Or, the Crispr therapy works only on resolving neurological pathway issues when it comes to emotional intelligence- the patient will still have to undergo intense occupational therapy in order to learn social skills- worth it? I don't know. I don't have autism. But I think these questions will provide much more insight.
You missed my point: in life, even doing “nothing” is a choice, with it’s own element of risk.
If the price increase is greater (30%) then the customers shed (5-10% I’m estimating), then it’s profitable.
I think this is an over-simplistic view.

Of course work isn't a social club, but it (usually) is a team environment, which means working closely with others to achieve a goal. And if a candidate can't avoid offending one person for one hour (with a strong incentive to do so!), it's a sign that they probably aren't going to be able to work as effectively in that team environment as someone who exhibits at least a baseline of social skills.

In a working environment where each developer can be siloed away to work on an individual module/task, document it, and toss it over the wall, then I'd agree it probably would make sense to go strictly off the performance numbers. But that doesn't look like any working environment that I've encountered (yet).
Ok, I’m going to pretend that I’m a NordVPN customer who is 50, works as a plumber, and has installed a VPN on their phone because they were convinced that it’s very good for privacy. Here goes…

“What is a datacenter? How was it accessed? Like in that Mission Impossible movie? What are server providers? What role do they play in all this? Credentials? That’s like my passwords? What about my browsing activity? All I want to know is if my traffic was spied on.”

How was I?
Also if you're on the spectrum, if there was a drug that could make someone autistic temporarily, would you recommend it to others?
At the moment, it doesn't say much on the tin. So, no.

It may repair typical neuron function, but how does that translate into functional changes in personality and social interaction? Based solely on that article, it looks like we don't really know that even for mice, let alone humans. I, for one, don't care what any treatment might do at the level of neurons--what I would care about is what the expected therapeutic outcomes are, regardless of the biochemical mechanism, and that data is completely missing.
My favorite data structure is the splay tree[1] and one of my favorite algorithms is the Boyer-Moore majority vote algorithm[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree

[2] http://www.cs.rug.nl/~wim/pub/whh348.pdf
while I appreciate it... i realized that it would never be the same. too much time has pasted, we're both different people now. i'm just happy that they are both happy and healthy. divorce doesn't mean you have to hate each other forever.
I like Blizzard, but fundamentally your business is its values. People come and go, markets change, etc., so who you are as a company -- at least in the long run -- is your core set of values.

I think their leadership has to realize they can't have it both ways. They either need to choose their values, or China. There's no middle ground.
I reread our back and forth, and I think my clearest explanation is in the original post where I quote from the author. So I think we might be at the limits of my ability to communicate in this medium.

But even in the instance you are talking about -- let's just abstract away everything else -- we know that the output of a gaussian process over time will be a very wide dispersion.

If you assume stock prices follow some kind of gaussian distribution (yes, I know they don't), and just follow them in time you get this crazy wide distribution.

Its a "stylized fact". And running it as a metaphor for some other process doesn't give me more insight. But I fear this explanation is even more confusing, and not less.
I'm not sure if you're intentionally misrepresenting his argument but he is saying he doesn't want to walk on eggshells around coworkers, not that he wants to like them enough to grab a beer with them.
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Builds New War Chest in Strategy Shift
Really cool report. Looking through the list the Google and FB numbers go up including Waymo, DeepMind, and WhatsApp.

Out of about ~150 graduates at my undergrad, I think 3 went to Amazon (including myself), 1 went to Facebook, 1 went to Microsoft in a support role and the rest went to Cisco, IBM, and consulting companies.

I wonder why CMU only had 6 to Amazon. That seems low! I think trading firms like JS, Two Sigma, Jump and Ansatz had more combined...
There was a time when you paid for available bandwidth. Then network operators realized they could oversell their capacity and not spend the money to upgrade their network.

You still see paying for bandwidth with residential connections, though some operators (like Comcast) are trying to do away with it.
Kotlin Coroutine Flow API: An Efficient Way to Handle Data Stream's
Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit
Both Mozilla and the European Commission have looked into the accusations being made on anonymous websites, and determined that they are false. The EU in particular, has access to records which allow independent verification.

There is also an abundance of public record which demonstrates this is false. The bad faith of those spreading this information is also apparent from the hundreds of fake Twitter accounts used to spread the rumors.

If you are acting in good faith, then we ask that you also take a moment to verify your facts and discover the truth, much of which can be found here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/
Rocket Lab aims to deliver small satellites to the Moon and beyond
Disney+ Currently Won't Work on Linux Systems Due to Tightened DRM
> Almost all of these concepts could easily be learned in a few weeks by a talented engineer with strong fundamentals in software design and computer science.

It's web development, and let's face it, many companies don't want long term talent, they just want someone to finish their current project and move on. Which can make sense in some circumstances. You don't need a software engineer level guy to make a dashboard.

People that are beyond the framework user level end up also moving on from even considering working on those kind of jobs.
If someone hacks a VPN, what are the implications for the users?

As long as you're using HTTPS, you don't have to worry about your passwords or session tokens being stolen, right? Is it just your DNS records and unencrypted HTTP traffic?
> If Bill Gates had been born and raised in Ruanda, you wouldn't know his name today. Same IQ, same hustler. But no parents with connections, no upbringing devoid of war and violence.

Flip that around. There are thousands, if not millions of other kids who grew up with wealthy, connected parents. Why aren't they all billionaires if that's all it takes?
> You are aware US/UK companies by definition cannot be private regardless what they say themselves.

There is a HUGE difference between "we give your information to advertisers (or ourselves, if an advertiser)" and "we give your information to law enforcement when legally required."

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"You are aware US/UK banks by definition cannot be secure regardless of what they say about themselves."

Yes, but it's a far cry from just leaving my cash on my doorstep.

Replace your checking account with Bitcoin if you want, but a bank offers enough security/privacy for most people.

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> If you want privacy use EU companies.

The EU has gone back and forth on wanting to allow/forbid backdoors.
>Blizzard says "don't talk about divisive things using our tournaments and communication channels."

There would probably be less uproar if

a) the rule that he broke was written in a less dumb way or

b) the rule wasn't enforced in an arbitrary and selective fashion

I mentioned this elsewhere, but the guy who said "Free Hong Kong" got a harsher punishment than people who have been caught cheating at Blizzard's tournaments. To me, that says something very sad about Blizzard's priorities. I think if Blizzard had initially given him a more proportionate punishment there would have been much less of an uproar.
Don't need to have competitive pricing if there isn't anyone to really compete against.
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You don't know that though. They could have just worked somewhere else and earned as much. It's not like you're creating money out of thin air.
I've been using Linux on the desktop since 2003. Linux audio support started out as a shit show that you could deal with tolerably well by buying supported sound cards. Pulseaudio seemed to simplify things until it didn't actually work. Until it inexplicably stopped working at intervals until load was such that it ended up out of sync by just a little bit etc. It simultaneously had a degree of complexity and configurability that suggested that maybe just maybe if you fiddled with a knob it would actually work until it didn't again.

If it just solidly didn't work at all it would have been annoying but this sort of kind of but never really consistently almost working is what makes you want to physically throw your computer through the nearest window.

Now it seems to work acceptably well save for the fact that guis still regularly have garbage interfaces and one weird stupid configuration.

Pulse by default remembers which device a particular app was outputting sound so you can switch the default device to headphones while say your browser isn't actually outputting sound via any tab and then you will open a sound producing tab and it "remembers" it was using the speakers and blares at full volume at 2AM. Thanks pulse.

This is configurable but who is going to figure that out?

I believe the relevant line is thus where the relevant part is restore_device=false

load-module module-stream-restore restore_device=false

in /etc/pulse/default.pa

Regarding sound configuration virtually nobody wants different programs to output to different sound producing devices. This might be an important use case for some users but if you have 5 sound producing apps the process of switching from speakers to headphones should not be to move each one with 3 clicks per move. I almost exclusively perform 3 operations I turn the sound up or down and switch to and from headphones whereupon I expect everything including newly created streams to end up on the new device. The first 2 have dedicated buttons the third does not so I had to make it so.

Absent a dedicated button fewer steps would be nice last I looked a few years ago it was complicated in all environments I tried. Having the right answer to get a pleasant environment be write a shell script and fiddle with config files is probably not optimal.
Its kind of a BS question. But I think it holds water, at least a little. You went through a lot of school -- why? What career path were you trying to open that would not otherwise have been available, and how do you see yourself progressing in it? Truly not knowing is a sign that you haven't looked into the career and progression much. It means the hiring manager has less of a signal on if you'll be happy at the company in 1, 3, 5 years, because you can't tell them what you are looking for.

I was asked a similar question when I was applying for Medical School, and told my non-answer was BS. It frustrated me at the time. 10 years after quitting medicine, I can't say that person's viewpoint was wrong.
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> Shouldn't smoke follow the inverse square law as well (in the absence of air currents)?

That's why smoking is allowed outdoors.
But it doesn't hinder that goal either.

If you want China to play by the rules of a free society, it must be freed, not ignored. That requires force, and not symbolic protest of a relatively insignificant company.
It's western values vs. brainless sheeple asian values. I'm sorry but the atrocities of China are condoned by its people.
“Neil Allison Campbell (April 17, 1946 – October 21, 2004) was an American scientist known best for his textbook, Biology, first published in 1987 and repeatedly through many subsequent editions. The title is popular worldwide and has been used by over 700,000 students in both high school and college-level classes.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Campbell_(scientist)
> ...if you wanted to.

I'm well aware of the option. Sacrifice my happiness for how many years in the process?

Making money has never been a primary goal of mine. I'm lucky that my interests are moderately lucrative. I know that "very lucrative" is just around the corner. But so is the liquor store, and I don't drink.
Time Is Precious
The federal government is not opposed to weed control :)
Most pharmacies in the US sell beer/wine. I don't think that is the case for hard liquor, though.
Also Hetzner offers hosting that works sometimes/ maybe. I only consider it a viable option in the earliest days of starting a project.
Hopefully they will add an email service and or integrate iCloud email into DDG as they did with Apple Maps.

I loathe Google!
I didnt mean have your ex back. I meant have someone you appreciate approximately as much, though maybe for different reasons.
I'll second this - Google is starting to hide things that it deems objectionable and I've found myself using DDG now and then for controversial topics.