skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good stuff. I was wondering if maybe a desalination plant could work..
Sure, but those are only weasel words and blatant lies. Talking about "Commercializing Open-Source", when you are in fact closing your source code is dishonest. And I think HN needs honesty. Even with some bluntness.
The coincidence is that on 1971, the west and east Pakistan separated through a bloody war.

Recommended read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War

Disclaimer: I am from Bangladesh (former east Pakistan)
Also without "pushes" every actor should "follow" any other existing actor just to check if there are messages for them. Like my email server having to poll every other email server in the world to discover if I have new messages.
Better yet, you can even define your own combo. Here's how I type it with compose + left-arrow twice:

$ grep ← .XCompose
<Multi_key> <Left> <Left> : "←"

(I use double press to distinguish from compose, ←, → which I bound to ↔. If you don't need that, "<Multi_key> <Left>" alone will probably be enough.)

You might want to change IM module though, as not all of them work with .XCompose reliably.
The code for the AWS billing system must be glorious. There are so many ways to pay for things, changing constantly, with an enormous number of accounts and even a number or ways to get credits back due to outages, customer support, or discount codes. And they have to account for internal Amazon use too. And bugs can really only be caught by people reimplementing parts of the system to make sure they get the same results.
Data Replication and ELT for MS Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Do they exist in any country other than the USA?
Speed limits are generally set too low. Someone driving even slower than the posted limit can often be assumed to be intoxicated or impaired.
I think the idea is that if you refresh the page you get another random excuse.

It is a bit silly but as someone who cares about security, almost everything that helps to bring attention to the widespread problems this industry has with security is good, -even if it is a bit silly.
'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
Does anybody know if (and how) this applies to spot instances? None of the language seems to exclude application to spot prices, though I realize the use-it-or-lose-it nature of these discounts has some tensions with bursty spot workflows.
When I was looking I saw a fair few rental properties advertise that they have solar installed and that you will not have to pay electricity bills for reasonable usage. It was still a minority of properties set up like this but I imagine in the future many more will have solar since it will make them highly desirable.
At that point, isn't it cheaper, safer and easier to turn off the machine? The machine being on has no value, only producing energy being consumed on the grid has value.
Actually Paul Buchheit said it wasn't 20% project [0]

> Gmail is often given as a shining example of the fruits of Google’s 20 percent time, its legendary policy of allowing engineers to divvy off part of their work hours for personal projects. Paul Buchheit, Gmail’s creator, disabused me of this notion. From the very beginning, “it was an official charge,” he says. “I was supposed to build an email thing.”

[0] https://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/
> Just like how many people get a dashcam after a crash, organisations tend to get serious after the breach.

To the degree that they get serious that is. As far as I can see a big part of the joke here is that even that is questionable.
Because it is. Obviously this is a HYIP kind of scam.
This is Strictly a Violation of the TCP Specification
Maybe the fact Amazon is also an e-commerce company helps.

Disclaimer: ex-AWS employee
They're both prominent US allies; they're states with some religious identity fundamental to their existence; they're integrated into American civic society - Saudi money in the US economy, academic partnerships between US and Israeli universities; they disenfranchise their own citizens to varying degrees; they buy American weapons and count on American military support to maintain geopolitical relations.

Oh, and they both use the strength of their relationship with the US to make certain parts of the world unlivable for people they don't like.
> Today you could pick any vehicle almost blindly and not make a purchasing mistake.

Wrong. Cost of ownership varies wildly across brands, and reliability is still not a given.

Beyond the purchase price, which often sucks people into making poor buying decisions, fuel economy, parts and servicing, complexity, durability, tax, and depreciation all make a huge difference to cost of ownership.

Finance deals are structured to make cars seem affordable, but that's only a part of the TCO.

If you're unwary, it's very easy to overstretch yourself and buy a car that ends up owning you (new or used).
Is that simple?
Some kind of real time pricing api would do wonders. I wonder how we would solve the issue of having a bunch of devices waiting for the price to drop under $x and as soon as it does all of these scheduled devices kick in to action causing the price to immediately shoot up. Probably need some way to distribute price cheap times so not everyone gets it at the same hour.
this is coming from someone who has been doing full-stack | frontend JS for the past 3 years. & tired of the hype driven development and instability of that world
I think if you're studying the propagation of wealth distribution, how the wealth is produced matters, because there are threshholds below which it's more difficult for individual actors to start or expand productive economic activity. You see a hint of that in economic data where high-inequality economies show lower growth than more equal economies.

I think of it as something like a phase change, with insufficient energy applied equally enough across enough atoms you can't make it from solid to liquid and have a much lower mix rate in the economy.
> A savings account pays below the real inflation rate here in New Zealand.

That's a market force designed to disincentivize that investment. Nobody's guaranteed a risk-free return, or even retention of value in what's not a long-term store of value. Pick something else to invest it in.

For what it's worth, NZ's inflation rate is tracking at 1.5% per annum and Rabobank offers a 2.4% online savings account.

> The cost of housing has increased hundreds of percent over the last 20 years thanks to central bank monetary policy that artificially manipulate interest rates. A shoebox apartment is now ridiculously unaffordable.

Cost of housing is a total red herring and largely unrelated to this conversation. Cost of housing is overwhelmingly supply-side driven. If you want cheaper houses demand municipalities permit new construction. You can always build up, there's no limit on that. Build enough, the cost will drop substantially. There's plenty of markets that exemplify this effect, like Houston and Tokyo. SF on the other hand routinely forbids totally reasonable construction and the pricing speaks for itself.

The cost of housing roughly boils down to this: the narrative is that housing "should be an investment" and that it "should go up over time" so the directionality is accepted. Homeowners tend to be older, wealthier, have deeper ties to the community and vote. Renters tend to be younger, less affluent, transient and don't vote. As such policies are enacted that benefit homeowners. This includes zoning restrictions, building restrictions and tax deductions benefiting homeowners. Too few new units are built relative to influx of population, and price goes up. It's simple market economics.

Want to solve the problem? Get people to vote to allow more housing.

For what it's worth in the US housing prices on average tend to track inflation. It's certain municipalities like SF and NYC that far exceed due to asinine policy. The monetary policy was the same in all regions of the US so why then would pricing changes be uncorrelated across markets?

> I can put money into savings that loses money after inflation, and funds a system that is fundamentally corrupt, which leaves me worse off overall than if we had a real free market without centralized manipulation of currency and interest rates.

New Zealand ranks routinely as the world's least corrupt government. A system that maintains stability of money and debases it over time slowly and predictably helps keep wealth inequality down, and benefits the less well off by inflating away debts and encourages productive allocation of capital.

> This centralized artificial interference has caused major imbalances in the economy here. It didn't work for the Soviet Union and it's not working in the "capitalist" world either.

This doesn't make sense. The Soviet Union fell for all sorts of reasons that weren't inflation related or even central planning related. Authoritarian states tend to do so in time.

I'd say it's working just fine, inflation is roughly 1-2% per annum and incredibly well controlled. We've got plenty of actual problems (like the cost of housing), though, this isn't one of them.
Ignorant here: why not just use a subset of SQL?

It needs a filter and it definitely needs to be applied to a limited, custom view of the actual underlying data, but… that’s what you have to do anyway with a REST or GraphQL API.

By the time you’re done making your REST/GraphQL API “really flexible” couldn’t you just build an SQL filter?

All the APIs I used to so far are so limited. For example there’s no easy way to query multiple posts at once on GitHub’s GQL while that could have be an extremely simple `SELECT title FROM issues WHERE id IN (13,57)`
I can't tell if the random excuses are completely made up or come for actual breach incidents. If the latter, it would be interesting if the site actually gave an example, or linked to a story, where a company used a similar excuse or reported cause.
Probably the most on-point answer in this subthread, thanks!
IIRC this (or something very similar) has already existed for several years for RDS as an undocumented policy. I forget the exact rules, but you should be able to ask an Amazon employee to change your reservation for you as long as it's the same instance type and you're spending at least as much money.
I still fail to understand why in US the university is so expensive, compared to 99% of universities in Europe.
Not even private universities in Europe are so expensive like there, plus there are countries where university is free (e.g. Germany).

Is the American Dream just the one who wants their kids don't go to university because it's so much expensive?

The boomer generation has really broken it. Imagine now that millennials could not send their kids to colleges because of the high tuition fee, connected to low salaries. It's a system that has its destiny doomed and that a day will collapse badly
It’s definitely not a myth. Random examples in California:

> room can be considered a bedroom if it contains a closet, alcove, indentation or wing wall which creates an area greater than 12 inches in depth.

https://www.sanbruno.ca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?...

> is capable of being used for sleeping quarters that contains a closet, or to which a closet could be added, may also be considered a bedroom.

https://www.belmont.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=12428
In your example "unknown" is implicitly "static". Either way, neither of us have access to Uber's source history to say what exactly went wrong. They do claim to have fixed it though, you're right.
This is equivalent to RI right, so won't apply to spot. Instances now have On-demand, Savings Plan and Spot pricing.
Yes, the underlying operating system needs to support the new OpenType spec 1.8 to support variable fonts in a browser.
Sure, Jung. Sure. Totally the same.
Those people probably have more access to PII than staff engineers - that's who the data is for.
I worked directly with Ahmad at Twitter on the international media team. All I can say is I now understand how the next door neighbor to a serial killer can say "but he always seemed like the nicest guy." He really was very nice to everybody, worked hard, and seemed genuine.

They were definitely tools available to all of us that allowed this type of access to personal data and more. Specifically a lot of the lists that were generated about who to follow suggestions were manually curated at the time and we could put whoever we wanted on the list. We were expected to put people that were relevant in our industry on those lists, but I think Ahmed actually got in trouble for putting himself on that list to build up his Twitter following.

At the time it was certainly a major initiative to rebuild the legacy systems to fix exactly this type of problem. There were strong mandates from the top of the company that were made abundantly clear to us that while they were fixing these things we were all under agreement and NDA to keep all of this data private. The systems were broken no question, but the message was clear. That just makes it even more disappointing to see what he did. He has a very young family at home that is now going to be totally broken.
100k in savings is not FU money, especially with a mortgage and a family...
Ah, so consensus is not a measure of scientific fact. Glad people are catching on to that. Maybe if enough people smarten up, we can dismantle the "97 percent of climate scientists" fairy tale that the climate alarm propaganda is based upon.
This island uses water as a battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG4Q4kXal_U , when there's a lot of wind spinning the wind turbines, they pump up water up a mountain, and when it's less windy they let the water fall through a hydroelectric plant...
One of may favorite quotes about models is (paraphrased): All models are wrong, but some models are useful.

I see it most often attributed to George Box, a statistician, but it's not completely clear he was the originator.
In physics you have a luxury of verifying models at many empiric touchpoints via data collected in controlled or precisely measurable conditions. Comparatively in economics it's difficult to establish you have a useful model because the empiric data is difficult, and with unmeasurable aspects around human choices.
How does your employer handle people with no hands?
I sometimes send emails out of hours but I have absolutely no expectation that they will be replied to soon and I do not check or reply to emails after hours. Sometimes I just have something I need to send before I forget or remember that I forgot to reply to something.
How? Or was that meant ironically?

Desalination plants use a lot of power, but it's not obvious to me how to use it to store power.
I'm not sure how South Australia works, but I think in general you pay for the cost of electricity generated (here going to zero) AND for the infrastructure required to get it to your house.

In part that's why rooftop solar is hazardous for a grid in high amounts- you don't pay the infrastructure price half the time, but the infrastructure still has to be there for you.
The value of the machine being on is precisely that you avoid the costs of turning it off and then turning it back on. Those can be considerable, depending on what machine you're talking about.
> I don't like how the grandparent used the quote so flippantly. Without the supporting context, it's a baseless statement that encourages low-quality discussion.

The context was someone saying they have no problem with users flagging stories, as long as it's not the mods. I disagree, and I might just as well have said "personally, I don't like it either (when some of the hoi polloi take it on them to decide what the rest should discuss, insted of using the "hide" feature)". Instead I said it with a quote.

That doesn't "encourage" ignoring that context, a non-sequitur slogan like "new realities need new quotes", and equating any verbal or written statement, even lies or auto-generated spam, with persons holding an opinion.
Wholesale is only around 30% of what you pay. Distribution takes 40%, and retail (customer support and sending bills) is the other 30%

As for why it's what way... probably regulatory capture
C++ Value Categories
Why is anyone entitled to own a chip fab? Why is some rich daughter entitled to own a chip fab? Because she is in the current system, while anyone else would have to work their whole lives, and convince hundreds of others to work with them, to create a chip fab, if they wanted to own one.
Toki Pona / Self-Referential Contract as Art
Twitter is big enough to pay that cost. Easily.
Curious - if you are a knowledge worker and getting through your tasks in say 4 days, does your boss/company really care how you are spending remaining 1 day?

I often use company time to learn about new things that are related to my work, but not necessarily immediate tasks. For example - While working on a Java app, I will spend some time learning AWS or Kotlin. Not one person in the companies I have worked for ever told me off for doing that, most in fact encouraged it. My personal diary/notes suggests I spend between 25-30 hours/week doing actual tasks or attending meetings and remaining I spend socializing at work to build relationships which will help get things done for me or learning. This of course is average over a year, some weeks are more work heavy (even stretching to more than 40 hours) and some less so.

I have come to prefer it instead of shorter work week, which means same amount of work needs to be done in less number of sleep/break cycles, reducing the quality I produce. When I worked for myself, I used to work only 3-4 days a week and observed that in theory it sounds good, but my personal experience was, I was spending far less time subconsciously and output was not inline with my usual quality.
AMD just had their Q3 and then guided Q4 to be higher than Q3 for the first time in years. That means they are suddenly experiencing revenue growth that is outstripping their typical seasonal pattern and thats a huge deal.
It doesn't need to be 1% of staff, it just needs to be a few dozen people (distributed geographically across the globe) who have root access.
you can develop for web, desktop, mobile in one statically typed language
Like it lots. will share for sure
She is brave. Exposing 'pretend science' gets you backlash. Just see consequences from 'Sokal Squared': https://www.chronicle.com/article/Proceedings-Start-Against/...

BTW, If you like what she is doing, you might like RealPeerReview (https://twitter.com/realpeerreview)
Hi, quant here (in Uni). I have some obligation to respond to (2), because I know something about it and you've mischaracterized it alot.

We have around $1.5T in student debt currently, at its peak in 2008, there was around $12.7T in housing debt (there's more now, interestingly). Like 2008 era mortgages, student debt is securitized and sold in the form of SLABS (Student Loan Backed AssetS; [1]). However, to my knowledge, there are no derivative securities trades on these SLABS, whereas in 2008, nth derivative securities were trades on mortgage-backed securities (MBSs; when I say nth, I mean derivatives were traded on derivative were traded on derivatives, increasing leverage). In Q2 '08, around 4.5% of mortgages were "seriously deliquent" (i.e. were over 90 days past due). This figure jumped to over 21.0% in July '08 [3]. In contrast, serious delinquency for SLABS is around 0.254% [4]. This is different by a full two orders of magnitude (a little less) from the crisis levels.

While I get why you might be led to believe that (2) is possible, the data doesn't back it up at all. Remember that almost everyone takes out a mortgage, but only around 50% of relatively young people take out student loans.

[1]: https://www.salliemae.com/investors/asset-backed-securities/
[2]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2008/200859/200859p... (pages 2 and 3, use ctrl+F and "delinquent")
[3]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2008/200859/200859p... (page 5)
[4]: https://www.salliemae.com/assets/investors/asset-backed-secu... (page 4; I'm taking this security to be representative, sue me)
Okay, but I assume there are thousands of diplomatic cables every day. Does each one deserve its own wikipedia article? What's special about this one? I really feel like I'm missing something here.
This kind of thing gets too much hype. I mean, these people are just sloppy, and catching them out is just a matter of how much effort you want to put in. Generally in any field you get to know quite quickly who isn't trustworthy, and largely ignore their papers. If only journal editors had the same information. What is a bigger problem is papers which seem important but actually reveal nothing due to statistical errors, mistakes you can't ever find without getting the data and redoing the analysis, irrelevant or contrived model systems, inadequate controls, inscrutable analytical methods etc
> that's enough to boil an Olympic-sized swimming pool in about 25 minutes

This is in a country that — as I understand it — could definitely do with more desalinated water. How capital intensive can putting a huge kettle element in the sea with something to catch the vapour be?
I notice many C-suite and founder folks have like 10 things with a “-present” date on them on LinkedIn. Seems fine for them. So fine for me too. Or am I actually more important and doing more work for this company than the CEO? Surely not. That would be silly.
You've got to be kidding me. The sentences are excruciating to read. New Yorker prose is in a different universe. The writing is spare and lucid. You can't evaluate the quality of prose with "wc -w".
The "retail" cost of power is always going to be higher than the "manufacturer wholesale" price, due to the cost of operating the grid.

Also, while I don't know details of the Australian electrical market, if it's anything like most of the world the consumer prices are regulated -- you don't get deep discounts during "cheap electricity" hours, but you also don't pay incredibly high rates during the days when e.g. people are running air conditioning during a heat wave and a couple major power plants had to be taken offline for emergency maintenance work simultaneously.
Jesus, calm down. The parent experienced something that a ton of climbers do. Literally search any climbing forum for this topic. When I’m climbing frequently, I have to reset my iPhone Touch ID about every two weeks. When I’m not climbing, I never have to reset it.
We routinely dump lightning bolts right into the ground and they go well beyond multiple megawatts. They're very brief, but if lightning took ten seconds to strike, it would still provide several dozen megawatts of power. How quickly would we be melting the ground at the multi-MW scale? How many lightning bolts would it take before the ground around my house melted and flowed downhill?
A book by one of the LEVELG Advisors. Grab it for the knowledge
Sure some inaccuracies are just inaccuracies - maybe penalise them. But stories like by Vice is just plain fraud, which to me seems very criminal. But I'm far from lawyer and US.
Python 3 also allows for non-ASCII identifiers.
>It is anti-social

that's why location based experiences (LBE) is the solution. Different monetization route, it's basically a theme park model (invest in cutting edge tech/high value content) and maximize throughput like a VR "ride."

Having gone through a number of the experiences I'd highly recommend them. Better than anything you can get at home, it's a fun outing with your friends, and the content is pretty awesome.