skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That page looks impressive but there is no way to casually verify that what they are talking about actually happens (on a quick check). There is simply so much info there you'd have to spend considerable time trying to track down what is needed to make sure it's actually legit. [1] Of course with 'assume' with AWS it is and it's meaningful but my point is if someone else were doing that people might simply 'check the box' and say 'ok they have this handled'. Might not be the case.

[1] Edit: Story today about Amazon and expired baby formula:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21310697
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I think the title of the link is phrased badly. "We have no reason to believe 5G is safe" makes me want to comment that "we have no reason to believe 5G is unsafe" without even reading it. Maybe the title should be more specific. For example: pointing out that millimeter waves are not present in <=4G.
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Stop quoting people and stating that the opposite of what they say is true. You just did it again, after the parent pointed out that doing so is problematic.

You can state your exact same opinion without it coming across as dismissive just by stopping that one thing.
It seems kind of asshole to say this but Amazon is considered low-tier at CMU so people don't choose it unless they got rejected from everyone else. =/

I am looking at MIT's salary survey and they have similar ratios: https://capd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/about/files/GSS2017...
And as a rough idea how SV's role in this will age:

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curr...

What seems snazzy and modern today, what is presented with smug sophistry and self-righteous downvotes, will be revised or swept under the rug tomorrow.
You're right and I don't disagree with your core thinking, except to say that everyone draws a line beyond which they'll be happy to trade some risk for some time. I understand why someone would run their own VPN, but I also understand why someone wouldn't.
Some would say, non-existent.
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How do you justify the statement that came from their Chinese subsidiary that states "We will firmly protect the pride of the country!"
That depends on how much saturation you can get. Most end users/companies can’t saturate this reliably, or have much spoiler traffic. Only the biggest players can minimise their seasonality enough to get close to this, and doing that is a service that it’s probably worth paying for.
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Cable tv content is expensive. It is extremely high marginal cost. A $60 plan may have $55 in content expense. Internet on the other hand....
I'm going to guess that Cincinnati was (is) a legacy central meeting point for many of the baby bells long distance interconnects, situated between the East Coast/New England, the south, and the midwest.
> "We encourage players and community members to express themselves. However, our tournament coverage is a platform for Blizzard e-sports content only. Any future use of the platform to express personal political opinions on sensitive subject matter without Blizzard's express conscent will be met with punative action."

> Follow that up with a description of what that punative action would look like.

Players already sign contracts stipulating that there will be punitive action for making political statements during tournament streams. I still agree with your broader point that they handled it badly, but I don't think they could have let him off with a warning and had any credibility left.
"Listen, companies have their own cultures..."

Peter Thiel once used "culture fit" to exclude people who liked playing basketball:

"PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job. No PayPal people would ever have used the world “hoops.” Probably no one even knew how to play “hoops.” Basketball would be bad enough. But “hoops?” That guy clearly wouldn’t have fit in. He’d have had to explain to the team why he was going to go play hoops on a Thursday night. And no one would have understood him."

https://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183...

Gee, which racial demographic has an affinity for basketball? If you wanted to discriminate based on race, you can always find a "culture" proxy, like a hobby, fashion, speech pattern, etc. to use as an excuse, without citing race explicitly.

Or gender. Or class. Or "neuro-diversity". Or almost any trait you want to discriminate against.
a $20/mo old server from hetzner gives you unlimited 1Gbps - thats 324TB /mo
Thanks for following up @falcolas and fair point to both of you (falcolas and bsder). Unfortunate that it is indeed the case.
NordVPN _was_ (and certainly still is) using LXC containers. Look at the document linked in the Techcrunch article.
According to that TechCrunch article, AT&T only has 1.3 million subscribers left. So they lost more than half. The math is not making sense to me. (Unless they lose money on every subscriber, and were hoping to make it up with volume! Ha!)
Lots of dev/test, storage, R&D, BI/reporting, and miscellaneous internal business apps most likely.
Maybe someone should extend shepherd.
> as a developer I just want something that works, has decent interfaces and abstracts away so I can care a lot less about it.

As a sysadmin, I want something to be debuggable because I'm the one who gets paged when the failure rates increase.
I was talking about CCP in the original post as the faction. I thought it was obvious.

Blizzard are just an errand boy send by grocery clerks to colletthe bills.
I see. As someone who has practically zero knowledge of networking, I had misconstrued hostnames for something else, which I’m now too embarrassed to mention.

Very educational response though. Thank you.
If their programming costs are getting higher, then raising prices for a smaller number of customers could be the more profitable move. Particularly if the customers they are losing have more support costs (which I think was also an argument of AT&Ts).

But, it's really hard to figure any of this out when talking about ATT. They have 4 (at least) different ways to sell TV service (DirecTV satellite, AT&T TV, AT&T TV Now, and AT&T Watch TV). If those names aren't confusing enough, then I'm sure they still sell U-Verse service somewhere too.

Each of these services was/is losing customers, but at different rates. And the cost for each service varies a lot too, as does the programming available. I actually subscribe to AT&T TV Now, but I'm on a grandfathered programming package that isn't available any longer. Who knows how many other grandfathered packages exist between the varied services.

The price hike reported here is for the AT&T TV Now service, which was their older IP TV offering. It's been a pretty open secret for a while that they have been trying to get as many people off of that service and moved over to the (more expensive) AT&T TV service as possible.
EDIT: I've originally meant example sources to look at. Thanks for the replies though - also interesting :)
Cue the tune "Hotel California". There's a great miniseries in the idea with a taste of West World to it.
How was acid rain a scare?

In areas with low alkalinity bedrock, and soil the acidification of forest, lakes and streams was easily measurable, and had clear effects on aquatic life. It's also nothing that's dealt with its entirety. Today's CO2 levels are already high enough to significantly alter acidity of the Baltic seas, and probably several other waters.
>...assets would have been possible without your labor, so actually your net worth seems ever more justified.

What? No, how is it justified?

Try again.
> You'd have to convince people they were terrible drivers and that driving was super dangerous to get most people to put their kid in a self driving taxi in traffic.

I don't think so. All things equal, who wouldn't want to spend their time doing something more fun than navigating traffic? Whether it can be affordable to everyone is a different question, but you wouldn't have to insult anyone's driving skills to offer incentives for a switch.

Also, "self-flying cars" have about 100x more problems that affect adoption (aside from having virtually nothing in common with self-driving ones). Having to constantly generate 10 m/s² of upwards acceleration is really expensive. You can't go to work in a flying car. People are huge wimps about crashing. Basic stuff like this. I mean, I can't/won't stop you leaving the self-driving car business for the self-flying car business, but it seems incredibly ill-advised to me.
> I loathe Google!

wow..
Friend of mine at a payroll processor you've all heard of was excited to migrate to AWS because it took 4-6 weeks for IT to provision a new VM. On their app team's dedicated hardware!

So much of the Fortune 500 lust for public cloud seems to come down to working around inefficient IT procurement and provisioning processes. They haven't automated, they don't maintain enough excess capacity, they haven't managed vendor relationships to assure fast order turn-around, financial controls are too onerous, etc.

Everything's virtualized but otherwise they're still operating like it's 1995.
Disclaimer: I worked on an AWS service team.

This is, oddly enough, similar to a debate people have about consumers TV or Internet: should pricing be "unlimited" or "a la carte"?

AWS is combining all your networking charges into one lump "outgoing data transfer" fee. So it's heavily marked up in comparison to what they're paying for the outgoing data transfer, and you're not sure how much is profit vs. whether it's going to cover all their other costs.

So it might be fairer if AWS broke out separate line items for internal, incoming and outgoing data transfer, plus all the additional systems a customer uses.

I think AWS's billing is probably already on the falling side of diminishing marginal returns. That is, it's complex enough that more information would tend to hinder customers from getting the best price. Right now, if I plan to reduce my data charges, I have one variable to tinker with. If we expand this, it would mean I'm having to balance incoming / internal and outgoing charges. That sounds simple, but in terms of engineering it can be very complex.

The next claim is that this biases customers not to move. Of course, Azure and GCP have the same arrangement, so while you pay to move out of AWS, you don't pay to move in to Azure or GCP. So all the vendors are attempting to lock you in to their product, and at the same time trying to extricate you from their competitors, overall it's a wash.

So, yes, part of the motivation for egress charges is that ingress is a loss leader. But it's also true that egress is a metric that does, for the vast majority of their customers, directly translate into customer value. If there's a compelling case for doing it differently, someone should do it and see if it works.
We have indeed retained lawyers to look into our options to fight the online defamation, but its hard to take anonymous accusers to court. However, as we have discussed here (https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/) there is already a lot of ironclad legal evidence.

First, were we to lie in our privacy policy, we would be subject to GDPR fines of up to 20 million Euros, since we have both European customers, and a presence in the EU.

Second, there has already been a court case. We were ordered by a Swiss court to hand over logs, and we stated truthfully (under penalty of perjury) that we did not have the logs requested. This case was previously disclosed here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/transparency-report/
When these lists of books threads pop up I always feel ashamed at how few I have read myself. I've only read Perl by Larry Wall and most of Effective C++. I wonder how much I am actually missing out by not digging into the theory more.
Bergamot project will add and improve client-side machine translation in browser
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>Do people even watch tv anymore?

Of course, especially those who didn't grow up in the era of netflix
> Watch a survival documentary. 10 contestants, many battle-hardened. The conclusion after watching 5 seasons of "Alone"

That's a reality TV show, not a documentary.

That aside, the conditions for basic survival in harsh, solitary, conditions are vastly different that those for economic success in first-world society.
Extreme Snows in Greenland Caused Ecosystem’s “Reproductive Collapse”
Even better, recently I started to notice when I have to fallback to Google, that usually brings me nothing new. Still do it out of habit, but that will have to go soon.
So we'll hear about a BoA hack in a few years where the attacker got into the cloud somehow and then had unlimited access to all the other servers? Great. Exactly what I want from a bank. /s
>The fear of buying a computer has made them billions.

Are you saying that AWS service aren't providing value to their customers but it's fear-based marketing?
Bio-circuitry mimics synapses and neurons in a step toward sensory computing
Good. Linux (and Poetterix) has too much corporate crap on it as it is. Keep Disney shit the hell away from Linux.
Perhaps something like Keybase's solution is workable? Where you generally need to access one of your existing Keybase clients to authorize a new Keybase client. Presumably you'd add cameras and the like the same way.

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-new-key-model
There are two separate issues: the commercial exploitation of personal data, and state surveillance.

My understanding is, that while the US has virtually no statutory protection of privacy, DDG has a privacy policy, and deliberately violating it would be fraudulent, contravene COPPA, and make them liable in tort law.

As far as state surveillance goes, the EU is not a haven, the UK, despite being a member, is one of the worst offenders. Some European countries have relatively good surveillance laws, such as Iceland and Switzerland (neither being in the European Union).
It’s in his interest to make the US government believe Facebook needs to be big to counter China.
If you read the last message in the thread, they no longer log IP. At the time the user originally posted his complaint, they did.
They're still wealthy, though, that's the main point. It's not that wealthy parents = billions of dollars, it's that the path to billionaire status overwhelmingly starts with abnormally good starting conditions.
> The third concern is what has dominated the news cycle as of late: Facebook’s decision to not fact-check any posts or ads from politicians. This is largely being framed as aiding President Trump in particular, which is probably both true and also an unsurprising complaint from the Second Estate used to having monopoly control over fact-checking.

> The broader issue is that the third concern and first concern are so clearly in direct opposition to each other. If Facebook has the potential for immense influence on politics, why on earth would anyone want the company policing political speech?

Maybe because they're fact-checking lots of other things to promote themselves as a platform you can find facts on? I don't know, I'd think if there was any ostensible non-partisan shared value in a democracy, it'd be a desire for factual information. Spun and biased, sure, but fundamentally factual. (In reality, I don't think this is true anymore, at least from the head of the executive branch and his sycophants, but this shared value is not irreparably broken nationwide.) If Facebook isn't going to fact-check anything, then that's one thing, but if they're going to fact-check some things, it's far from unreasonable for them to fact-check political ads.
Rwtxt.com for personal stuff. Minimalist, simple, supports markdown, exports data and can be self-hosted with no hassle (it's a go binary, and that can run anywhere, and it uses sqlite, so no complicated db setups). It works for small groups too, though it breaks when two people try to edit aat the same time.
> Listen, companies have their own cultures, and if you're not a fit to that culture, bringing you on runs the risk of ruining the culture they have been building and making their employees quit.

This is the same reasoning that has been used in the past to deny opportunity: to people of colour, to women, to LGBTQ+... to people who didn't attend the "right" university or college...

This kind of active bias is harmful to the candidate, creates liability to the interviewer and the company, and also reinforces monoculture in an industry where being flexible and responsive to change has direct impact on the bottom line.

> These cries of discrimination are getting a bit out of hand.

I have often heard this from people in real life, from the cisgendered/male/caucasian/heteronormative/neuronormative, as if making space for people who aren't exactly like them is going to drive them into some lower social caste.

> You may just be rude in an interview, and that will 100% result in me turning you down.

That's fine, and your prerogative.

> It doesn't matter much to me if you're an "Aspie/ADD" or if you just found out your wife cheated on you, I don't want you around me all the time based off the only data point I have.

Do you and everyone at your organization always present a level-headed, calm, non-confrontational demeanour, or are you or anyone else ever ruffled by anything? Including lack of sleep, lack of caffeine, family crisis, friend crisis, personal crisis, unplanned bill, crashed computer, or anything else big or small? If not, perhaps there are unnecessary risks with making a major judgement based on a single data point.

> I think interviews aren't the best way to find out if someone is a going to be a good engineer, but to be a good team member, you have to have good interactions with the team.

How are you allowing the candidate the best chance to evaluate if you and your team will have perfect interactions with them?
Well your ISP knows more about you than your VPN necessarily does. Your ISP probably has your credit card on file, with your real name, and they have your precise street address too. The VPN may have none of that, except your IP address. If somebody were to purchase your history from your VPN, they would have to also purchase the IP->name/address/etc mapping from your ISP and JOIN the two. That seems marginally better than a one stop shop.

(Of course, some people give their VPN their credit card info, so the above rationale doesn't apply for them.)
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> It seems kind of asshole to say this but Amazon is considered low-tier at CMU so people don't choose it unless they got rejected from everyone else. =

Why is that?

Also, MIT's distribution seems very different. Amazon and Facebook are near equal and GM takes a big chunk, which is not what I would have expected. Oracle is also around the same as my undergrad.
> You hustle and there is never a lucky opportunity. Do you still achieve success? You prepare for a job interview and you never get the opportunity to interview. Do you still achieve success?

You don't achieve success, nor do you experience luck. In this case you describe, are you unlucky, or are you simply bad at "hustling" or whatever work you are putting in?

Hustling on its own doesn't guarantee good luck. Nothing does; it just (if done right, sometimes) increases your odds.
Fair enough. It's taken me a while to understand how he works, and certainly I can see your point. His passion for the project helps the community immensely in many ways and can be spotty in other aspects as a consequence. That's a price I'm willing to pay for using his vision, others may not see it that way though. It's a unique community in that sense for sure.
Why do you want email service to be provided by the same company?
Also, what's wrong with Outlook.com for example. AFAIK they don't sell your data.
The drug addiction may not be yours. I've heard some stories.
Given that it's a spectrum where on the spectrum would it end up? Neurotypical choleric extraversion or something?
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>Good hiring managers will recognize that everyone doesn't have to like everyone. [...] as a drinking buddy,

In every thread where people go through great pains trying to clearly articulate why creating a cordial, amiable, and friendly work environment is important, people don't read that with charity. Instead, it's always twisted into "drinking buddy".

Let me try some different examples as models. Penn & Teller magicians are "not friends" or "drinking buddies".[0] However, they are friendly and cordial in their working relationship.

Another example is Golden State Warriors basketball teammates, Steph Curry & Klay Thompson.[1] They are very friendly with each other as work associates on the basketball court but they are also not drinking buddies. Steph is a family man with 3 small children. In contrast, Klay lives a bachelor lifestyle. Obviously, they don't need to share beers every week to be deadly effective as a team on the court.

It's perfectly acceptable to try and create those levels of employee camaraderie without being drinking buddies. The gp was talking about rejecting "rude people" that disrupt office harmony and that's acceptable to create cohesive teams like Penn & Teller and Steph & Klay.

[0]
https://www.google.com/search?q=penn+%26+teller+not+friends

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/6avmse/ama_w_marcu...
Not autistic, but bipolar: you can achieve a reasonable simulation of euphoric mania, but that's not quite the same as a lifetime of dealing with that.
That wasn't my point. My point is that US/UK companies are known for selling data that they are supposed to protect. Compare that to EU companies.
It is. Especially sports which is one thing that keeps a lot of people on cable (or satellite).

However, I do suspect that as the number of cable TV cord cutters continue to rise, you're left with more and more customers who are less price sensitive and more set in their ways. So it's really not a bad strategy to just give up trying to compete on price and milk an existing customer base for as long as you can.

You're going to lose the people who are ready to move to online streaming and just haven't gotten around to it soon enough anyway.
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I like Euclidean Algorithm. Solves metric crapton of problems in elementary number theory and basic abstract algebra.
"Work is not always only about output and skills, especially in a small company run by 20-something whose only social life is their colleagues. It says nothing about your skills, just that both sides would probably be miserable in case you were hired, so it makes sense to find someone who would fit in the mold, even if less experienced/skillful."

Right, so better not hire any married people, older people, people of the opposite gender of the founders, people of the wrong political party, people of the wrong religious persuasion, the wrong class, or any other characteristics that risk interrupting the frat party...I mean "work environment".
A Google by any other name would operate as evilly.
I think you missed a word in my comment.... "a full cup".
Luckily, all that stuff will be outdated with somewhat proper records https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/282
Because those launchers can query search engines per keyword just like bangs
Then just use a colo center. It's worked for us for close to 20 years.

Last time someone had to perform hardware maintenance was at least 3 months ago. If you're small enough (20-30 servers for us) the things mostly run themselves. Any other overhead we have would be present if we were just using something like EC2.

The bulk of our hardware is 10 years old. We have some servers that are 17 years old and still chugging along.