skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I go to peoples houses in the US sometimes. Some of these houses are multimillion dollar homes. The doors are all terrible. The plumbing is crap. The furniture just feels bad. The cheapest studio apartment in Western Europe or Japan ends up with better infrastructure than the $2M duplex in California

I think there’s truth in this, but the factors behind it are tricky. Unlike something like bread, it’s not easy for consumers to actively choose good plumbing over bad plumbing.

Installing new plumbing is something you do very rarely. Most often it’s done by a developer rather than the person who will actually live in a property. And when you’re buying or renting a property, plumbing quality is lower priority than other factors, notably price and location.

So developers go for the cheapest option they can get away with, property owners don’t necessarily like it but don’t push back enough because they have bigger concerns, and the result is that most plumbing is low quality.

Even if you yourself are the developer, it’s hard to ensure decent quality unless you spend a lot of money, do a lot of research, have a lot of time available, or ideally all three.

I’ve learned this to my own cost - on a renovation project, we ended up with some crappy fittings and crappy installation because we didn’t manage it closely enough and the builders don’t care. I would like nice stuff, but how do I get it?

Edit to clarify: I think building standards are driven much more by builders than by homeowners. I’d like to know more about the driving factors - is it purely a matter of cost? I hope not, because that suggests everything everywhere will inevitably become crap.
> we are currently planning to change the rule limit from maximum of 30k rules per extension to a global maximum of 150k rules.

(https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarativ...)
Empyrion has block building and working structural integrity, the settings is in the future so it might not be to everyone taste.
I find it makes things unnatural to read.

> I like top posting.
Don't get me started on ANY German car ... my cars and home appliances are all Korean now.
Japan is not as strict over antibiotics or general conditions in livestock.

Japan has a huge problem with counterfeit fish meat (substituting inferior, sometimes toxin tainted, different species meat).

Japan's non-seaweed vegetables are generally watery and not as nutrient rich as what you can get in Europe (rucola & feldsalat, for example). Their staple "vegetable" tends to be a nasty variety of cabbage, and daikon and pumpkin.

Bread in Japan is blanched wheat flour. In Europe there are dozens of grains to choose from. Even grau brot tastes amazing. Japan's XYZ pan couldn't even compare. Home cooked food in France was a truly magical experience.

Bio (organic) is very popular and very strictly regulated in Europe. In Japan they don't care as much, and in the USA its a joke.

It's relatively easy in Europe to get prepackaged foods (such as canned goods/soups & frozen foods) made strictly from first ingredients (there's nothing in the ingredients list you can't pronounce, or that you wouldn't add yourself if making it from scratch).
Compare the Samsung Galaxy Watch vs. Fitbit Versa 2 vs. Apple Watch 5 Specs
Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack
Well, just glide about 1000 km west and you can still have Amazon :p
Aside from GKE, the chat.google.com and calendar.google.com are acting weird, with hangouts.google.com working just fine here. What's also interesting, the GCP Dashboard shows this issue being few days long now.

EDIT: now the dashboard shows multiple services having issues, across the board.
Yep you buy a WRX for the drivetrain and rally heritage ... the terrible plastic interior was a moot point.
Big Business Is Overcharging You $5k a Year
Could we also look into a roundhouse revival? Having the range in the middle heat the whole house, while grilling steak and baking bread. Perhaps find time for a cask of ale. That was the life...
Thank you, I have been looking for something that could display perf recordings as a swimming lane view for threads.
Yes, Barry, There Is a PythonLabs
> the shop doesn't really use the chip on Id tho

Same for SIM swapping here in Sweden, they check your ID very superficially
A few defence companies have noticed that failed projects tend to lead to them getting given more money to fix the problem.

They now deliberately make their projects useless (but still technically meeting the contractual requirements) simply so they get the followup contract to make things better.

One project I worked on had 10 times we had deliberately gimped the system and the client had come and paid us more money to ungimp it. (For example, we designed an email client, but "@dhs.gov" was hardcoded in the address field so you couldn't send an email to anywhere else from the system. Then it cost millions of taxpayer money to un-hardcode that, despite it being a 1 line code change)
calendar.google.com is down for Google for Business customers. I am wondering how Google will compensate their paying customers?
You can now lock your address using BankID
Isn’t that somewhat standard practice in tech? It’s an industry that experienced exponential growth for decades.
I suspect the issue is with the overall rhythm of the sentence - Japanese has its own conventions for intonation, formal rhyming in Romance languages requires an internal structure that may not be agreeable with that.
The Return of the Night Train
> swipe the address bar to go from tab to tab

I never knew you could do that! How did you discover this feature?
The API is giving "Backend Error" everywhere
There's also the giant shift to mobile. Google and apple would like you to use phones and tablets to the expense of desktops because they can control those platforms better. So they are building their platforms with those in mind, unintentionally-or-not crippling desktops
And now you’re arguing Ad hominem in addition to argument from authority, and still not actually responding. I think we’re done here.
Show HN: Alpine docker image for developing terraform and go with GCP
You could also lay some blame on a race to the bottom; i.e what is the minimum definition of a product that we can get away with making in order to keep those profit margins as wide as possible.

Less profit, though still plenty of it, can be made from high-quality goods. It's not that profit is inherently wrong, rather it's widespread business and corporate attitudes. An obsession with numbers and statistics rather than any pride in work.
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/mapping-roads-through-deep-lear...
Excellent, another paywall article.
How 2 Schools Have Made Free College Work – For Decades
Is this worldwide? Seeing it okay in Australia.
When I worked in Germany people didn't seem to buy much meat or baked goods in Aldi/Lidl, there was always a local butcher or baker. In the UK nearly all the independent bakers and butchers disappeared years ago.
According to an article I read recently[1], they measure quality in rate of defects per car produced. According to this, we can get an idea of the scope of the improvements.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/11/customers-rave-about-mo...
Quickutil: Method for organizing and distributing Common Lisp utilities
Britain was only as eager to renounce slavery because they had no colonies that profited from it after American independence. Also, the rise of fascism in Europe was abated pretty effectively with an independent US anyway.
In my case, by accident...
Considering the eventual hackability of Firewire, maybe the translation was prescient... you’re gonna get burnt by that cable!
billing is down, making almost any operations in GCP dasboard fail :|
Yea, it’s worth remembering in this context that 1949’s Nobel prize in medicine was awarded to the doctor who invented the medical intervention we now call lobotomy.
What US street food ? There is none.

Even in NY, the traditional "American" food carts sell hotdogs, pretzels, ice cream or $1 pizza. All of which are IMO, pretty sub-par for street food. It is only since halal carts became a thing, that NY street food has started becoming alright. There are some other great food carts, but 1 off carts get overshadowed by the dozens of familiar NYC foods.

US's culinary strength lies in the diversity of cuisines. However, most affordable international food places are not opened by aspiring chefs. Rather, it is usually struggling immigrants who use it as a way to survive in the absence of other employable skills. While I respect the hustle, these people can obviously not cook at the same level as ones that run their operations in their country of origin out of more passion driven reasons.

When American born people with a passion for cooking start affordable restaurants in the cuisine of their roots, it is often heavily colored by their American upbringing. (which for me ends up meaning more sugar, more fat and less intense flavors) Not gate keeping, but at the end of the say the experiences of someone fully immersed in a culture will always be richer than those who've vicariously experienced them.

That being said, for every cuisine in every big city in the US, there is a gem. They can be hard to find, are often not the most accessible (non-commercial area, language barrier, sketchy hygiene), but damn are they worth it. The ability to have a gem for each cuisine of the world, is a trait possibly unique to the US metro cities and their biggest strength.
With Google's new API, all ads can still be blocked. There will be a limit for network request blocking rules, but it's very high so that normal users don't reach it. And for those that reach it, only network requests are affected, so adblockers can still use other APIs to hide the ads.
Indeed, I'm not sure whether I would call Lidl in the Netherlands a discount supermarket, food and especially produce like you say is of a high quality, compared to other supermarkets. Usually they don't even have the lowest prices, as other supermarkets also have discount brands which are cheaper, but of lower quality than the cheap products you'd buy in a Lidl.
Interesting.

Here I am 6 years without a phone number and probably make 3 calls a year.

Only thing I have is an Android tablet with a data plan and an old iPhone SE, only a data plan.
I am in Europe and hosting here and I see failed requests on the calendar API.
> Simeon Vincent, a Google Developer Advocate for Chrome Extensions

One has to love and admire the use of Newspeak by big companies... How is this Mr Vincent an "advocate"? He's in charge of destroying extensions!

On his Twitter bio [1] he also says he likes "helping people" and "the open web". The cognitive dissonance must be hard to bear.

[1] https://twitter.com/dotproto
Yes, it isn't completely useless. A lighthearted look at the yes command
Quite right.

I've read a serious attempt at finding out what it might be. All I can say is: Some people eat too damned much meat, but whether they eat 13× or 7× too much is a difficult question.

(EDIT: Sorry about the obscenity. I think the "bacon in milkshakes" got to me.)
What is multi-cloud anyway and why do we use it?
the new structures and content that reward exploration are great! the new mobs, not so much. they don't have a purpose in game that wasn't fulfilled already, and while I appreciate the diversity they give not something new to do, just more of the same. what'd be interesting are additions that open up new things to do, like that parcour level demo that show off the new wax block, but tbh wax and bees scale seems off compared with the rest of the game.

they really don't seem to want to explore too much. so what if they added a block that allowed automating things? what would be having a sky dimension accessible with the elyra wings? that would give new purpose to existing content without altering the game too much. what if furnaces and other production structures added taint to the biome, making it more and more polluted and unfriendly to live in? so many possibilities! luckily there's plenty mods out there, but a well balanced execution would make it so much better.
He who is without funds, may throw the first stone back at regensburg university. Concrete allmost hit the decan too.

Regarding american cuisine, maybe there is a market here, that can be opened up offering free trips abroad. If you can compare, you dont got back.
Yeah, people tend to forget that any equivalent superpower is dramatically more undemocratic than the EU. Electoral college and presidential prerogatives, anyone?
I remember as a kid seeing an representation of Shakespeare's Twelfth's night in French as a kid and the meaning was changed so that the jokes would work in French. Likewise, it was made to rhyme in French. I do believe that even in older works, it makes more sense to translate in a creative way. After all, those works were written to convey comedy or poetry and if a translation fails to convey that, then the translation failed.

Likewise, when Baudelaire translated Edgar Poe, the translation literal as it would have been a failure to convey the poetry of the text.
When I've visited, I've noticed that the fruit in particular look gorgeous in the shops, but taste like damp tissue paper. Weird
Very unlikley GKE is the root cause if Google Calendar is also affected.

Google isn't using GKE internally for much.
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Foreclosed homes are also sold as-is.

The process stinks. In the case of ARM mortgages, the bank often goes through this because a balloon payment comes due. The bank essentially moves from a situation of getting money on their investment to getting nothing simply by forcing people from the home. It’d be better for everyone if the parties involved just renegotiated the deal to keep people in the house and paying their mortgage.
Given the supposed "only the paranoid survive" mantra of Andy Grove, one would have expected them to not be complacent, especially with the Asian silicon fabs eroding their once, core competitive advantage.
It's not so much democracy, but the lack of a rational governmental framework that's the problem. The EU is what you get when you try to integrate a couple dozen countries, but end up making a bunch of dirty compromises and band-aid solutions, and when nobody even agrees on what the end goal of is (The United States of Europe? A loose confederation of independent states?). It's not what you'd get if you were to design a reasonable federal constitution from scratch.
No more two-hour lunch breaks: the slow death of Spain's menú del día
That’s a bit too precise for comfort, if I were you I’d anonymize it a bit more. Civil liability for fraud is a thing.
>I'm originally from Canada, and I'm sad to say that, although some things are better than the USA (like the roads and the trash), it's not by much, and it's still terrible compared to the rest of the first world.

If you're from Canada you probably realize that it's a big place, and impossible to draw sweeping generalizations about. Saying Canadian infrastructure is terrible "compared to the rest of the world" is an ignorant statement.
thank you. this brought a tear to my eye.

it is the antithesis of the social darwinism that coldly dominates our culture.
Where does it say so and how up to date is that source?
I'm also seeing issues with GCE and GCS. Getting permissions errors and timeouts.

GKE cluster API endpoints have high error rates or timeouts too.

"Multiple services reporting issues" on https://status.cloud.google.com/ now. Can we update the title?
in-application DoH will bypass DNS-based adblockers. this will also expand to electron-based apps.
It's not so much a matter of ease or difficulty; rhyming just isn't really a thing in Japanese. I mean, there's a term for it, which I've heard people use when discussing haiku (to refer to internal rhyme or even consonance), but for the most part it's not a thing and people aren't aware of it.

Several times over the years I've had the "hey, were you aware that virtually every English song rhymes from start to finish?" conversation with a number of native JP speakers, and in every case so far they were very surprised. And even when the person is quite fluent in English, although they get the concept intellectually they always have a lot of trouble discerning the rhymes unaided.
That has a lot to do with why I took on learning Rust. My last year Macbook Pro has a 6-core CPU. At this rate, we should have 32-64-core CPUs for consumers in a few years. Not using all the processors means your program only makes use of 3-1.5% of the available power.

My prediction is that, in a few years, lots of programming languages and software developers will simply become obsolete because what the other guys can produce is heaps of performance, security and manageability atop.

But I might be wrong, so make your career decisions carefully.
The last two are chromium-based and thus will likely follow chrome's extension system too.
YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google
https://www.youtube.com/t/terms?preview=20191210#main

> Terminations by YouTube for Service Changes
>
> YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.
> The interviewer asks what the localizer thought about all the weird Japanese dialog and copy in the English version of the game, and he answers to the effect that: a lot of the text would definitely be out of place in a Japanese title, but on the other hand it kind of fit with the game's off-kilter style.

You remind me of something I noticed while reading the Temeraire novels. The protagonist receives a Chinese dragon, and there's a plotline in which they travel to China to argue that he should be allowed to keep his dragon. This introduces enough Chinese dragons that we can get a feel for how they are named -- there is a very regular system.

Each dragon is referred to by a combination of their species and a given name. Temeraire is a celestial dragon, 天龙, and his Chinese name is 龙天翔 (in the book, "Lung Tien Xiang"). "Lung Yu Ping", 龙玉平, is a jade dragon, 玉龙. They're all like that except for 龙李白. (李白 is the name of a historical person who, in the world of the novels, was a dragon instead. I guess it's possible that there's a "plum dragon" variety, but no such species is mentioned - I doubt the author put that much thought into it.)

This bothered me the whole time, since two parts of the system are backwards. First, obviously, the species name gets flipped around in the name of the dragon. Second, normal Chinese practice is to put titles after the name, not before.

But I asked a Chinese friend about this and her response was: yes, it's weird for the species name to be flipped around. However, the style the book uses sounds nice compared to the normal way.

So yes, sometimes random bungling can produce something that natives appreciate for stylistic reasons.
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Sounds like you would find this video very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqECNYmM23A
This is kind of hard to square with the whole "food desert" phenomenon: http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defi...

What I suspect is happening is that the "variance" of America is much higher - the nice neighbourhoods are full of vast houses and plentiful food, while down the road the not-so-nice areas are way below what would attract some sort of social intervention in Europe.

The UK has a smaller version of the same effect, containing some of the poorest (well, lowest GDP) regions in Europe. https://fullfact.org/economy/does-uk-have-poorest-regions-no...
Hangouts was also affected. Seems ok now. Our business is in Europe.
Now it's up. Down for 30 minutes. Between 21:47 and 22:17 AEDT...
I might be reaching a bit (also a tangent), but a lot of US's problems are rooted in their urban design and sprawl.

From my experience, Americans often do grocery once every couple of weeks, because the super market is usually a non-trivial drive away.

I can see how a lot of their foods developed to accommodate that shopping cycle, and forced preservatives that make things last those 2-3 weeks while compromising on freshness and taste.
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Our app is down. I can't even access any pages in Google Cloud Console. Timing out. Sometimes it completes showing all our clusters gone, then a timeout error. This is brutal. This isn't just GKE either...

Edit: Things are working for us now

Edit: Still getting timeouts and service unavailable

Edit: I'm getting 503 (service unavailable) from buckets, but nothing on the status page indicating there's any issue.

Edit: Seems our Cloud SQL instance was restarted as well

Edit: Multiple restarts of our production database

Edit: Dashboard finally updated to reflect growing # of services effected

Edit: This wasn't an "App Engine" incident. It was a very wide-ranging incident. Just change the title to "Google Cloud Incident" and be done with it

Edit: Things have seemed to stabilize for us

Was supposed to have today off with my family (Remembrance Day in Canada), but now I have to deal with support issues all day. Thanks Google!
What's Google's Data Storage Capacity? GB? TB? PB? EB? ZB?
Being rich enables you to return books as late as you want because the fine means little to you, and certainly not whether you can eat or pay the rent.
Latency minimal GC is the right choice for game servers. The most available one is G1, though others like Shenandoah and ZGC are on the way
>I was comparing supermarket breads in Europe and the US

Every major supermarket I've ever been to in the US and Canada has a million styles of bread, including many freshly baked right there at the store.

>but ultimately we're talking about a lower quality product at a higher price

Do you have evidence for lower quality, outside of the roundly debunked "shelf life" argument? Or are these your preferences?
Get a Zojirushi brand bread maker, buy your grains off Amazon, and bake your own bread. It's really the only way in the Americas...

Once you get into the swing of it, you can whittle it down to 10 minutes of preparation in the morning, set it on automatic timer, and have fresh, hot bread waiting for you when you get home from work. Just make sure the yeast is in a pile on top so that it stays dry during the day.
> wipes the floor with anything Intel has to offer

* in synthetic benchmarks that uses down to the last core

edit: my bad I mistook this for a technical audience
Russian had its fair share of funny bad translations. In a pirate version of Starcraft (I think), ‘Overmind’ was translated as ‘надмозг’, which is pretty much ‘above-brain’. So for most of the 2000s, ‘надмозг’ was slang for bad translators.
Also, clothes last longer, so it promotes reuse.
Thanks, seems my original comment is wrong then!
Is it better to send all dns requests to a private company that harbors and protects racists and pedophiles?
Life hack: if you want fresh yeast in the UK go to Tesco’s or Sainsbury’s bakery counters, they’ll sell you it by weight.
Yeah it was bound to go wrong somewhere when you try to find the length of an arbitrary length integer using floating point arithmetic.
Ouch when something as basic as this fails:

11:17 $ gcloud container clusters list
WARNING: The following zones did not respond: us-east1, us-east1-b, us-east1-d, us-east1-c, us-east1-a. List results may be incomplete.

GCP Web Console is also really struggling - e.g. the homepage for our view of 'Cloud Functions' spins for a minute and tells the API is not enabled (it sure is).

Ah there it is... https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-datastore/190...
> why can't they bloody damn sell a property at market rates, cover the debt and leave the rest to the debtor?

That's what my mortgage contracts have specified. I didn't add the clause, it was a standard boilerplate contract.

BTW, buying a house at auction is selling it at market rate - the market rate being what people are willing to pay for it.