skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look beyond that, AWS offer layers of services that you might not realize existed.

Cloud DB with no worry about physical hardware (in addition to S3 buckets which is mostly for files). lambdas when you don't want to manage a server, cloudformation when you don't want to manually start your stack by clicking, API gateway for quick ways to create APIs without worrying about stuff. And powerful orchestration layer that connects all of these together.

In fact, a lot of these services are bootstrapped on AWS itself. If you know your way around AWS, you can really find a sweet spot where it's cheap scalable and mostly worry free. The problem is that AWS domain knowledge in itself is _deep_ and not many people know enough about AWS to avoid large amount of pitfall and inefficiencies that a knowledgeable people can quickly spot and fix/alternate.
It always seemed "funny" how come executives with more wealth than some cities get to become sexual aggressors.
As everybody know, kids are a nonstop gravy train /s

But seriously, I’m guessing you don’t have kids?
I don’t get it. If the point is that the text is indistinguishable from real Trump speeches, this is because it says precisely the kinds of things that the actual Donald Trump says. What would be dangerous would be persuading people that he said things that are substantially different to what he really thinks or says.
Yeah, those are the only two peering points in the area. There are tons of other data centers in the area, but these are also exchanges. Fun fact, Markley Group actually owns that whole building and Macy's is a tenant of theirs. I've had a few super weird and interesting conversations with drunk/high people when badging into the building late at night when I had gear in there.
Even the huge-looking bill for Apple is only 6.5% of their total bill. Moving data into AWS is free, so it's not totally surprising that they pay for that by making other stuff more expensive.

I found it more interesting just to see a list of their top ten customers. In particular I didn't realize that Capital One had so much infrastructure.
Talk to my mate at BT (with union regontion) who made £125k tax free on his final sharesave.

And Google Et Al only give "free" food as the IRS doesn't tax it as a benefit in kind - quite why they don't as it would be an easy tax to collect.
A Plex server will reach out even if you don't open the port it wants. It doesn't require you manage storage, just have a bit of space on a HDD. Same with a server; it needs a desktop, which only needs to be on when you want to watch something.
>Going on vacation, several said, meant sitting in a hotel room

You missed the "going on vacation" part I guess, though perhaps you believe people in Norilsk "go on vacation" by booking a hotel room in Norilsk.
Why would you think he was a troll? I've had my google account suspended without explanation.
Sorry, but that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem space. We entered the "IP camera" market in 2010, when all the competitor products booted a 7-year old Linux kernel with busybox and UPnP'd a port to the public internet. Admin/admin, no string escaping, buffer overflows, inadvertently indexable by Google, rooted and/or turned into botnets.

Dropcam v1.0 eliminated all of those security problems.

The only gotcha is that we required cloud storage. However, my plan for v2.0 Dropcam was to go with open-source verified builds + kill the cloud-storage requirement (but offer it optionally with e2e crypto).

If I had required that at v1, the company wouldn't exist today, and worse stuff would have taken its place. Good product engineering requires prioritization and stepwise problem-solving, not ivory tower ethics.
Why is that? I think there are many ways of being rich. For example, being rich but still living a relatively simple life.
I thought this old Slashdot feigned ignorance meme died over ago. “do people still watch TV? I haven’t owned a TV in 20 years”.

A quick Google search of the percent of pay TV subscribers will answer that question for you.
Not to diminish your point, but to add an additional possibility, I imagine the pro LGBT stance may have been singular or small groups of employees inside Blizzard sounding off inside a corporation with different values.
Are you doing this to replace a CDN? There are already 3rd party CDNs like CloudFlare.

If you are doing it as a replacement for traffic within an AWS region and availability zone, it seems like you will be both more expensive and have much higher latency.

Or is the application something else entirely?
I'm not really convinced a true meritocracy would ever be possible. Sure, you can maybe get closer then we are now, but there will always be nepotism, geographical problems, how well someone is parented, etc, even if you somehow equalized wealth.

Additionally, why is a meritocracy even desirable? You don't choose your parents, you don't choose your genetics, you don't choose to be born able-bodied or not, so why should you be rewarded for those things over somebody else? Under a meritocracy, a kid born with a 60 IQ and who's physically disabled would have a pretty bad life compared to an able-bodied person born with an IQ of 150. Since neither choose their lot in life, why reward one over the other?

The only kind of meritocracy that makes sense to me, is to measure how hard a person works, with the understanding that some people will have to work harder to accomplish as much as others. But again, I don't think that's possible to achieve, and likely never will be.
> A lot of comments here are blaming the user for using the same username/password on multiple sites, allowing their account to be compromised. This is missing the point.

I disagree. This is the equivalent of blaming car manufacturers in the 70s for stolen cars when people left the keys in the cars. This is 2019. We've had PINs and passwords for decades. At some point people have to take responsibility for their own lives, their own property, and their own safety and take some things seriously. Nest and other companies can only do so much when the users keep doing stupid things like "password" for their password.

If you leave your front door unlocked when you go on vacation, yes, the crook should be jailed, but you should lock the darn door.
I'm glad that we are at a point where we can point out obvious political bias by Google without being trashed as nutjob conspiracy theorists.
Philosophically I am with you. Though, I do think SO rewards its users in a tangential way. "Karma" is something you can advertise to prospective employers. Not just the score, but you can give examples of how you answer questions for people of different skill levels.

The work I've done on SO, which is frankly insignificant compared to many users, has enhanced my hire-ability as a lead or manager.
Oddly enough, Amazon claims the book isn't available.
Yeah I mean, it really depends on the exact type system features and implementation, but that sounds like a different error than the kind I'm talking about. For example, consider this code, imagining Rust had type signature inference:

fn foo() {
String::new()
}

fn bar() {
foo()
}

fn main() {
let s: String = bar();
}

Imagine you modify foo, and now you're accidentally returning a Vec, not a String:

fn foo() {
Vec::new()
}

fn bar() {
foo()
}

fn main() {
let s: String = bar();
}

You'd get an error like this:

error[E0308]: mismatched types --> src/main.rs:10:21
|
10 | let s: String = bar();
| ^^^^^ expected struct `std::string::String`, found struct `std::vec::Vec`
|
= note: expected type `std::string::String`
found type `std::vec::Vec<i32>`

You changed foo, but the error points to bar, in main. None of this is related to the code you changed. But in Rust today, you'd get

error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> src/main.rs:2:9
|
1 | fn foo() -> String {
| ------ expected `std::string::String` because of return type
2 | Vec::new()
| ^^^^^^^^^^ expected struct `std::string::String`, found struct `std::vec::Vec`
|
= note: expected type `std::string::String`
found type `std::vec::Vec<_>`

This points right to the issue: you're returning a vec, and not a string, in foo.

There are other issues too; global inference and subtyping have problems. While Rust doesn't have subtyping generally, we do in lifetimes...

Beyond all of that though:

> it removes a lot of noise and redundant information while largely leaving the "intent" of the code in place.

Rust's perspective on this is that the type signature is what communicates your intent. It's like a unit test. You write down what you expect, and then the compiler's job is to check that your code does what you said you were going to do. This seems like philosophically at odds with what you expect, which is fine of course, but is probably where a lot of the divergence comes from.
"The Art of UNIX Programming" was certainly one of the most formative personally. It's more holistic than technical, but has changed me in a number of ways for the better.
> In this case BoA are saving money but in exchange retain additional layers of staffing, that require oversight, and ultimately decision makers willing to take risks.

I've been at multiple Fortune 50 companies at multiple levels. Many times these types of infrastructure building are just forms of empire building and an attempt to embed ones' services in the organization at a very deep level. You convert one set of costs (AWS/GCP/Azure bills) for another set of costs (Infrastructure + Payroll). You also convert one set of headaches (CSP overcharging/auditing) for another (prima donna internal infra engineers.)
Thanks for the downvote, Chinese sympathizers.
It could be easily trained with additional fine-tuning to have whatever bias you want him to have that is different from his current biases. What makes it so scary is the volume of realistic text that can be generated. It could be used to make Twitter/social media bots, or any volume of fake news articles, or combined with deepfakes and AI voice cloning to make unlimited volumes of fake video/audio of him saying things, in his style, about any subject with whatever angle/message you wanted.
What's up with Apple's spend? Did they move most of their data out of AWS?
This thread would be much shorter if someone had read this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26151230
Fair enough. Sorry about not reading before commenting.
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.
That's terrifying. I got 70%, but really only because I'm an aficionado of these bonkers quotes and recognised some phrases.

I do think that Trump is kind of an easy target, here, as his speech and writing is fairly incoherent anyway, but it's a scary demo all the same.
If they're watching their employees, ya think they're not going to use those same cameras to collect customer data at very low marginal cost? And if the workers want to make a stink about it to the media or the like, I would suggest that they pound that point until it reached the Earth's core.
Sure, but then you just log into your email and click a link and then you are in. Lots of sites do this and it would prevent this kind of attack in most cases. (assuming the leaked password was not also reused in email, but then you are in for an entirely different level of hurt anyways)
In 2014, 73% of men, 67% of women.

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
What's the benefit of targeting only people who have been part of a high profile layoffs? Seems like a smaller pool on both sides-less people to recruit, and less recruiters who specifically are interested in these types of candidates.

If it's as a proxy to quality of candidate, isn't there a better way to measure that?
I have a wallet with RFID protection. Could we make cell phone cases and/or glass with shielding that blocks 5G signals, limiting exposure in part of the phone that wouldn't be need to be sending and receiving signals? Basically have a naked antenna and shielded everything else. I am not a mobile phone hardware wizard :)
Thank you for saying this. Scholars are still trying to untangle the complex socio-cultural factors that kept the Soviet regime in power. Some of the newer theories concern language and value when trying to understand the relationships between Soviet citizens and the state itself, Soviet citizens among each other, as well as one's inner perception of themselves within the context of the system and the people within it.

It's even harder when we don't have the benefit of hindsight when we have to analyze the present.

>For a nation that is overwhelmingly okay with (often vocally supportive of) our own actual concentration camps, we're weirdly obsessed with the faraway 're-education' camps of our main economic and socio-political rival.

This is the only point I think I disagree with. I haven't met any Americans in favor of the detention camps at the border. The big difference is that, in the Xinjiang province, the Uighur population is being detained and "re-educated" due to their ethnic and religious identity, which to Americans, sounds barbaric and Nazi-like.
Unless you own the company, you don't pick all your managers, coworkers, and clients. It's an exceptionally valuable team skill to be able to work with someone you wouldn't invite out for a beer. Learning to work with different viewpoints and behaviors builds character and makes one more competitive. Effective managers know this.
Non-tech founder, Learned Coding at 30 to build a tool, processes 5M events/Day
I think you read too much into that comment. AWS didn't have to market the fear into the customers. People are naturally afraid of things. AWS does provide value, but it comes at a steep cost.
SPIR-V really is an intermediate representation of a program. There's no way that this can be executed without any further translation. But it stops driver developers from having to write and ship complex compiler front ends that deviate from language specs in subtle ways that the shader writers need to test for and work around.
If you're a user of a VPN service, if you're not worried because you were using HTTPS then why would you be bothering to use a VPN in the first place?
And they'd get Sweden (at risk of egregious violation of EU law) instead of the UK (steadfast US ally, in NATO, Iraq War) to do this, why?
I would be very curious to see what a lawyer would make of that statement. It isn't consistent with what I've heard in the past regarding "scripting".
Traditional forms vs. Conversational forms for lead generation
i find it surprising that none of the threads in this topic mention the very serious threat this breach might have for users in countries like china. the fact that nordvpn neglected to tell its users for months after the breach quite possibly endangered people's lives. unforgivable.
Depends on your taste, and your budget! I love firm chairs, firm sofas, firm beds, etc. When I sit down into a chair or sofa and it feels like I lose my spine, I'll never get comfortable. This is especially true for a reading chair.

Of course, the Eames chair is super expensive, but it's incredibly comfortable (not everyone agrees) and you'll own it forever: https://store.hermanmiller.com/living/lounge-chairs-and-otto...

I also love the Knoll lounge chair. They've got a firm and relaxed option, fabric or leather, ottoman is separate: https://www.knoll.com/product/florence-knoll-relaxed-lounge-...

Also firm, comfortable for long periods, and stylish: https://www.roomandboard.com/catalog/living/chairs/andre-cha...

Here's one that's more plush, something you can sink in to: https://www.roomandboard.com/catalog/living/chairs/hess-leat...

This one is too large and bulky for my taste, but I have friends who own the chair and they love being able to curl up in it: https://www.crateandbarrel.com/lounge-ii-petite-chair-and-a-...
My biggest complain about SO is that with the expansion into other fields that questions that used to be welcome on SO (or get more visibility because of being on SO) are being shunted to SuperUser or ServerFault or other sites under the StackExchange umbrella. [1] I think the drive to keep SO purely about "programming" runs into issues similar to the "No True Scotsman" fallacy [2]. As a developer, sometimes I need answers about Amazon Web Services, Azure, Docker, or the Linux command line, as a consequence of programming, but those sorts of questions are, more modernly, marked off-topic for SO.

1: https://stackexchange.com/sites
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
What decline? Are you talking about your own personal perception or like actual data about the site and the way its used?

Personal anecdote: StackOverflow continues to be one of, if not the, best sources for solving programming problems, and I know of literally 0 alternatives that even come close. Quora? Are you kidding me?
The quotes are not the issue, but rather the curt responses that don't offer any solutions to the criticism, or alternate ways to view the issue.
There are places that rent boxes for XMR if you want a hosting provider who doesn't have your information.
Man dresses up as dog to get pet healthcare
True! Right now telcos loathe being locked in as fixed-price dumb bit-pipes for the content providers, the netflix'es, facebooks & amazon's, who are making all the money.

Thus: 5G.
> Even the huge-looking bill for Apple is only 6.5% of their total bill. Moving data into AWS is free, so it's not totally surprising that they pay for that by making other stuff more expensive

Moving data into any network that is outbound heavy is free because both paid peering and transit is settled based on a peak percentile traffic (unless it is flat rate).

That's why the "gansta" position is to have a balanced in/out for any network as in that case you get to effectively double charge for the same pipes -- your eyeball heavy customers pay for incoming and your web farm customers pay for outgoing.
Is ending the sale of tobacco really that similar as ending the sale of alcohol in terms of values? What shared values do you see in ending the sale of both of these products?
Whenever I feel I'm not getting what I want from DDG (which is rare), I'll re-type my query as "my query !sp" to get startpage results. Between the two, I _never_ need to visit google for search.
Human healthcare sucks – so dogman becomes a thing
It's a long-proved bound paper-tape format.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567672

Also, what do you call people who abuse their power like Harvey Weinstein?
'Abominable' film axed in Malaysia after rebuffing order to cut China map
Hustle and preparation are very important, lucking into wealth vastly outweighs those factors, because a) it provides room to fail and b) it makes it easy to hire the busy and well-prepared.

Try playing multiple games of monopoly with 4 or 5 friends (or run monte carlo simulations if you want a fun machine learning project, since Monopoly is a game that can easily be taught to computers), but randomly assign one player 10x the starting capital and $2000 every time they pass go instead of the normal $200.
So why do you mention Brave if your comment doesn't apply?
Is it within the realm of possibility that the vast majority of Americans are in fact uneducated and misinformed about what daily life in China is like? Or even the broad strokes of history there?

What % of Americans could even tell you the names of the last 3 dynasties?
Which "war [video] games" that are "on the market" are you playing exactly?
This is called karma. People have been using their services to run cyberattacks and NordVPN people do NOTHING to stop them.

This news brings me joy.
the usual luddite garbage.
We're not a recruiting firm, and we'll make this distinction very clear on the website soon.

The primary purpose of the website is to help people bounce back from being laid off. Given this is our primary mission, we don't do the following:

- We don't charge companies a % of a candidate's salary. This feels dirty to us, and it's not in the candidate's best interest.
- We don't prevent companies from discovering people who have been laid off. Profiles on the website will be visible to companies, much like LinkedIn.

Since we're technical, we want to speak with you. Understand your background, technical expertise, and what you're looking to work on.

We are focusing on a niche market and this allows us to focus our energy on actually speaking to each candidate in-depth about their technical experience; we'll be able to represent you and get you that interview quicker.
Isn't that the whole point of having the Powerwall in the system?

You're describing conventional battery-less residential grid-tied solar installations.

I specifically described Tesla Powerwall + solar.
Incorrect analysis can give the correct answer.

There are excpetions to many inverse square laws, they just aren't relevant to the problem at hand.
I think that these corporate responses can only be thought of as "rational" through a _very_ short-term lens due to the nature of _how_ foreign companies are permitted to operate within China.

The CPC explicitly exerts a lot of control over the Chinese market, and they have absolutely no qualms over doing whatever they can to reduce foreign influence and enrich local players (cf. COMAC's C919 development, namely how much of it has been the result of IP theft from foreign partners).

So yeah, you can definitely look at "competing" in China as a way to see quarterly growth, but it feels inevitable that any company that gets _real_ traction would be targeted by the CPC in favor of a domestic company that would more directly enrich them/the country.

While I can understand the financial motivations for wanting to enter this market, I think this is very different from how most other modern nation-states operate and these responses. Blizzard et al.'s responses definitely smack of corporate greed more than they do of rational action, to me.

EDIT: Ah, now that I've posted this I see your comment below where you elucidate a bit on "bounded rationality"; we probably agree, then.

I'll leave this up in case it sparks some more interesting commentary from others :)
I wanted to share this article because, even as a user in the top 0.99%[1], I constantly get railroaded by "power trolls" -- I was extremely active on the site 6 years ago, but I barely answer/ask any questions anymore (maybe once or twice a year).

I have countless examples of some of my old questions or answers (with 100+ upvotes) being closed almost a decade later just so some new moderator can earn a few brownie points. After a while, it just gets old.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/users/243613/david-titarenco
I don't think you can say that they are dangerous more than you can say that for example vegan diets are extreme and dangerous. They CAN be dangerous but there are many who are successfully are eating that way and it is even a treatment against epilepsy seizures for some.

https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epileps....
what is the rationalization for why that quote is so terrible to you?
I've asked and answered a handful of questions ad found the experience generally rewarding. Even if there's no answer to a question, it's comforting to know I'm not alone in my struggle. I do wish versions were included in certain cases, especially for services/frameworks with rapidly changing APIs.
What does "conspiracy theory territory" mean, and why would something as commonplace as a large company investing in small competitors in the same space fit this?
Even if you changed the gene they would still have all the traits that society calls autism.

The traits that society calls autism are development traits that develop in the psyche over long periods of time.

The actual gene mentioned here does not so to say directly cause autism, opposed to for example a bridge pillar that causes a bridge to float above the ground.

There are many steps (under years of personal development) in between the cause (in this case a gene) and the traits that is the diagnosis.
“Right now, the bank estimates its private cloud is 25 to 30% cheaper than public providers, though it also recognizes that probably won't last forever.”