skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5B requests/day is ~60k/second, that's big but nothing insane. There are numerous frameworks/setups that can do far more than that on a single machine [1]

popular unmetered options: he.net, ovh, hetzner - You generally lose a lot of the "cloud" capability with these options however.

cloud options: digital ocean egress is $0.01/GB ($0.005/GB if you buy it via droplets), linode is $0.02/GB, vultr is $0.01/GB, etc.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...
I'd like to push back on that somewhat. While it's true that the cost for a lot of basic necessities has gone up there is a lot wrong in American culture when it comes to lifestyles and savings.

The size of the average American home has approximately doubled since the 70s. This has driven up prices, increased energy cost, increased travel distance due to the constraints it imposes on density and so on.

There is no real explanation for why any given American would be worse off by doing away with this kind of consumption. The same is true for say nutrition. American healthcare costs are high, but Americans also live exceptionally unhealthy lives. They commute too much by car, they walk too little, they are too obese.

Americans also appear to love going out to eat much more than people in many other places, buy a new phone frequently, have a lot of subscriptions, and it adds up. Elderly parents are often placed in expensive care rather than taken care off by families, students go to expensive colleges and pay rent instead of living at home and attending a local public university, and so on.

You can talk a long time about the inequality in the American economy and the fruits of labour, which are indeed less evenly distributed than in other places, but this doesn't change the fact that given the standard of income and wealth of the average American household, everyone could live insanely more sustainable and financially secure lives by adopting a different culture.
not really. It would be in Bloomberg's interest to write articles critical of Warren or Sanders than focus on Yang, who is polling so low as to be a threat.
Intelligence is a human property, yes, but also a Platonic one. We didn't need to understand how humans process math in order to get computers to do it.
I agree with that but I suspect there are a lot of people who have their only copy of a lot of things in one cloud service or another. Even I probably don't have a copy of everything that's up on, for example, Google. On the other hand, I do try to remember to do a data download periodically and I doubt anything I'd lose would be too critical.

And sometimes you need to put a level of trust in a service. I've sent things off to be scanned because, realistically, it was never going to happen otherwise and I really wanted to get the materials into digital form.
> Meanwhile, concurrent with those changes, the cost of things that used to be "basics", like health care, higher education, and housing, have skyrocketed,

The economic data simply does not support your argument.

In aggregate healthcare only constitutes 8.1% of US household expenditures. Education only constitutes 2.3%. It's simply infeasible that inflation in segments constituting less than one tenth of household expenses has crippled the majority of US households. Especially given strong deflationary trends in autos, apparel, furniture, appliances, consumer household goods, electronics, phone service, natural gas, toys, and media. Which in aggregate represents over 30% of household expenditures.

Shelter at 19.2% is a major expenditure item. But you're wrong that there's been significant inflation. The median price per square foot of American housing has not increased in real terms since 1992. (HN tends to be grossly misinformed on this since the community is heavily concentrated in the ultra-expensive Bay Area.) And this doesn't even account for mortgage rates falling by 60% since 1990.

It's true that Americans on average spend more on housing. But that's because modern homes are substantially larger than they were a few decades ago. Moreover the price per square foot metric doesn't reflect significant aggregate quality improvements like central A/C, better fire safety, higher capacity electrical circuits, more bathrooms, higher ceilings, better insulation, attached garages, and swimming pools.

Altogether the housing story does not reflect your broader thesis. If Americans were feeling overwhelmed by out-of-control housing prices, they wouldn't keep buying bigger and bigger homes. Other statistics tell similar stories. A record number of people are getting cosmetic surgeries. If healthcare costs were crushing US consumers, we wouldn't expect huge growth in Americans choosing to have elective medical procedures. It'd be like claiming there's an ongoing food shortage, while obesity rates are rising.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cex/2018/combined/age.pdf
[2] https://www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/soldmedavgppsf.pdf
[3] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...
[4] https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/m-nps030719.php
You don't say.

Someone's been reading Motherboard, I see.
Another lottery, in healthcare, is simply how much you know about human biology. Most people are remarkably ignorant, and fall for all sorts of “wellness” schemes, not continuously, but from time. But this peanuts: it supports the scam wellness industry. But what about when you’re really in trouble? Then you’re at the mercy of insurance companies and a particularly small group of doctors (and if hospitalized, nurses) who you may or may not have much of a say in choosing. Medical care anywhere is self-triaged. By that I mean your level of education and relative wealth greatly influence your quality of care, even if you have insurance or Medicare. Sophisticated people can game the system, using knowledge and research, getting superior care than ignorant people with the same nominal coverage get.
In all my reading I've never found a satisfactory distinction between strategy and tactics. Every attempt I've seen either doesn't provide a clear answer or falls on some simple contradiction.

My current thinking is that people tend to think of strategy as higher level than tactics, but that there's never a clear line that tells you which you are looking at. It's more the importance you want to give some decision that determines what you call it.
Re: all the comments that this article doesn't disclose the Bloomberg conflict of interest. It was published before Bloomberg entered the race. Granted, you could make the argument that Bloomberg was shadow directing the publication to attack other fringe Dem nominees, but Noah Smith has been making this argument on twitter for some time now.
Foxconn is refusing to renegotiate deal with Wisconsin officials
The sleight of hand here is the qualifier "in the here and now" (notice that this doesn't make it into the article title). If I've understood Yang's position correctly, it's that we need to develop policy proactively for this likely future.
This article was published prior to Bloomberg's candidacy announcement.
Should we be surprised that Bloomberg's press is writing about one of his political rivals? To me, a UBI approach seems inevitable and perhaps moral. At some point, humanity should reap the rewards of technical innovation so that we enjoy a safety net and peace.
> opentiles mapsets for a tenth of the price

We are! https://stadiamaps.com

But we don't skimp on infrastructure (8 datacenters around the globe), etc. We built all of it from the ground-up to be as effective as possible, and thus are able to pass significant cost savings to our customers.
Political Disinformation Campaign on YouTube Using NLP – Plasticity (YC S17)
Probably because Cisco is a hardware vendor. NSO actually has support staff that will craft exploits to attack certain targets, fix your server so you won't get discovered, write phishing emails, if you need a hand getting off the ground. Big difference.
The actual effect might not correspond to the stated goal.

For instance, it may be applied to "protect the people currently in power in the country" instead of "protect the [people living in the] country".

Business surveillance might be less problematic because laws and government are supposed to make businesses acting for their own interest not be a problem (or be less of a problem), while the same mechanism for governments (constitution and supreme courts) is less restrictive.
“Thanks to Google’s kindness”

The business isn’t kind - it’s practical. This should read “thanks to a positive transaction value Genius was forgiven”
The work I've seen recently from them on multi-agent play seems to indicate this is a problem they're very successfully working on. https://youtu.be/kopoLzvh5jY
What would you tie it to? Bounce rate?
How to tackle the problems of remote working
Steve would not be opposed to the idea. the iPhone has always been pricier than competitors, as are macs in general compared to PCs.
From TFA:

Genius doesn’t have a copyright claim because it doesn’t own the lyrics. Both Genius and Google hold licenses from music publishers to print song lyrics, which makes the lawsuit trickier, focusing more on how Google and its partners got the lyrics to begin with.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20993621/genius-google-la...
Even there, if your goal is to learn to write in that currently preferred style, your odds are much better if you have someone who can point out when you deviate from it.
What makes you think this is new?
With high doses every day you can develop an insane tolerance to amphetamines. 500mg in a day wouldn’t be that unusual.
This is a very well understood and existing market for PR agencies utilizing blackhat SEO. Overrun legitimate but negative stories with shady backlinks to get Google to penalize them. Simultaneously create fake websites, awards, profiles, news etc and flood search results with more positive things. Most people I see selling this do so for 5k to 10k per month.
Law is not really comparable.

Software continues to eat the world. There are so many new sectors and the demand for software is insatiable. Mobile apps, drones, robots, ai, self driving, medical devices, blockchain... so much more... there are so many fields and applications for software still...

And new sectors... an example:
If I were starting in college today. I would major in cs and genetic engineering. Programming living cells...

For context:
Andreessen, why software is eating the world.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

This article asserts that google shielded a lot of higher ups and paid large exit packages in spite of having no obligation to do so.

I need to read this more thoroughly and I’m not claiming it’s the only word on the topic.

Whatever the difference, I think there is a compelling case that google exercised discretion in shield execs who were credibly accused of harassment while making a big public display of throwing damore under the bus for expressing an opinion.
Best platform to create and update internal/product documentation?
Product & support documentation takes a lot of time and it's hard to keep it up to date. This, results in a disconnect & frustrations between teams. Support/Sales don't have the most up to date information - and Product/Eng teams get annoyed on getting the same questions multiple times.

What are some of the tools that really make it easy for Product/Eng teams to create documentation and for Sales/Support teams to find the right information?
Shy people are just ‘differently social‘ and AI can help
How well does it integrate with non-Qt apps in terms of look and feel these days? Stuff like LibreOffice and Firefox, but also really any random Gtk app.
how is letting a tiny company game its algos and get away with it help google's hundred-billion dollar search business
I once read an awesome paper that wrote a lisp compiler as a series of lisp macros that defined more and more of the language in terms of a smaller and smaller set of primitives. Then it started introducing new primitives that were lisp structured representations of assembly language, and rewrote the language in those terms. The final step of the compiler was to remove the parens and you had assembly language. I can't remember the name of this paper, any thoughts?
ctfu at the car images. I made a twitter bot to tweet them out with fake make/model names https://twitter.com/bustletonauto
It is hilarious to me that the thread about this "Dangerous" problem is full of approaches to solving it :)
This looks like an electron app. Is it, and if so can you make Debian/Ubuntu releases? Depending on what you're doing it should be a relatively simple change to your build process.

I'd definitely try this out if it was available for Ubuntu.
The real killer feature is async. Since a modern web request typically spend most of the time waiting for database calls, file system requests or similar, a naively coded server in most languages can handle relatively few requests per thread, so you scale up the number of threads to something like 100 per core, and now the overhead of running and switching between these treads is limiting the performance.

Being used to Node, I was flabbergasted when writing C for Linux* . The file system commands just leave my thread hanging while the result is being generated, if I use it on a network drive it might hang for a minute before timing out, so I have to make a tread for each file system command, solely so that it can stall without bringing down the whole application.

* I have no delusions that Windows is any better, Linux is just what I have first hand experience with.
This is so crazy!!! CNN article https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/tech/youtube-fake-accounts-vi...
The World Bank Told Taiwanese Staff to Get Chinese Passports
I am not in the US. And yes, fibre costs more, even double sometimes. I don't need fibre, I don't want to pay double. Leave my ADSL alone.
I guess the point is that the 1400-strong pw manager is the antithesis of defence in depth. If you get malware'd, better that they nab a few passwords than /all/ of the passwords.
Shame and ostracization only works when the person cares about being accepted by you.
I don't know how many software engineer they got on that team, but considering how much they raised and how much their product is used, $300k seems actually quite cheap for something that people consider here as being an awfully big mistake.
I don't think you can use Cloudfront to serve that kind of traffic. Cloudfront costs are described here: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

So for 10k HTTPS requests, the price is 0.01 $. If you serve 5 billion per day, that is 5000$ a day. With such high traffic I believe it is needed to handle it using performant webservers (Go, Erlang?) to keep costs reasonable, and probably terminating SSL at load balancer is the way to go
I feel like this is some form of Stockholm Syndrome. You shouldn't pay more. You should be getting better speeds for the same or lesser price. Technology is advancing and the carriers are purposely holding us back, for exactly the reason you gave.
What if you are born and raised in Israel and you've watched Hezbollah carry out terrorist attacks for the past 40 years, would you maybe not be motivated to work for an Israeli firm who claims to make software that helps fight terrorism?

I'm not saying that's what everyone's story is at NSO, but I also don't think that company is full of soulless software engineers who skipped out on humanities classes.
There are a couple of good online courses I'd recommend in this context.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-business-pro...

You can try both of these courses for free.
I've found the best way to volunteer is at something complementary to what one does in one's day-to-day, something I'm also interested in but don't get paid for. At the moment, that looks like teaching a free English class to new immigrants. I think working on interests outside of one's professional sphere helps keep the work interesting, and the volunteer engaged.
> As I was the only "CEO" in here which product got criticized I thought it must have been me ;-)

I don't think so.
Edward Bernays
Internet Archive's most recent tax filing (2017) [pdf]
https://outline.com/EW9jbk
so now you can scream in space and they WILL hear you!
I mean, why not? Free speech means unlimited freedom to lie, right? To do otherwise would be surrender to an arbiter of truth.

This is just how it is going to be now. Every search and every set of YouTube recommendations will contain a thousand lies and one truth, and it's your fault if you can't identify the true one.
Thanks so much for the explanation!
This is actually pretty interesting, but still seems like more ceremony than cabs anywhere that is similar to Vegas in that they have designated pickup areas (I don't know where else this may apply).

One of my drivers told me there was some regulation coming down that would allow the cabs to be more competitive price wise with Uber (I think I paid maybe 10-20% more than the Uber on average I think). If that was the case I'm not sure what benefit fiddling with my phone would offer at all.

I guess the one good thing is it potentially keeps cab prices low there.
I thought Bloomberg banned their journalists from discussing the democratic side of the field?

Regardless, any political commentary about any topic coming out of this organization is highly suspect and shouldn't really be linked to while Michael Bloomberg is in the race or in office.
Yes that was the sort of usecase for the AI company I worked at, similar data mining competing with Palantir.
That WSJ article is at http://archive.is/ZC39Y.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to enable IPv6 for docker when you have a dynamic IPv6 prefix (home ISP).
> as cocaine became the focus in the 80’s

Well, we know more about this one now, thanks Reagan and Iran-Contra.
I really appreciate you connecting the struggle of the tech workers in google to those in other industries which don't enjoy a lot of the same freedoms. Understanding of this is severely lacking in tech, and once we develop it I think solidarity will build exponentially. It's high time google workers unionized, and that includes ALL workers -- not just those in the engineering org.
>Genius doesn’t have a copyright claim because it doesn’t own the lyrics. Both Genius and Google hold licenses from music publishers to print song lyrics

Genius makes the lyrics publicly available on the web and there was just a good outcome on web scraping public data. I can't imagine Genius has a case here but IANAL.
Disagree. The GitHub and Docs do a great job of explaining the project. No need to maintain more copy than necessary. The homepage is a jumping off point. I wish more projects did it like this, because that just means there is less potential for stuff to become outdated.
This comment says more about you than it does about Plaid. Their "insane" design met business requirements successfully enough to grow them into a multi-billion dollar company.

Did you consider the likely (and more charitable) explanation that they were aware their design was "bad", but had higher priorities until now?

If I were you, I'd be pulling your comment before it harms your reputation any further. :)
Qt seems to be quite deliberately written in a super/subset of C++ that looks a great deal like Java with smart pointers. Which, coincidentally, also makes it possible to provide language projections without having to manually adapt each and every class.
Really? I can’t imagine the software engineers making better than average. I imagine this is where all the mediocre developers go. A top notch developer could go anywhere; why would they choose ... government surveillance tools?
It seems similar to sitespeed.io (also open source), which logs performance metrics to Graphite and offers dashboarding via Grafana. Any major differences?
> better management of personal financial capital won't be effective in helping people who can't cover an unexpected $400 expense, because those people have no financial capital to begin with

One of the biggest tells for who is on what side of the "the economy is strong! what's the big deal?" debate is whether they have invested capital. The economy being strong only helps people who are literally invested in the economy. This is not the case for a large swath of American citizens because they have no capital to begin investing.

The pundit/technocrat/plutocrat/professorial-managerial classes of people all take it as a given that investment is even a thing. It's the fish-asks-what's-water of armchair economics. If everyone's a shareholder of something, then sure, the economy being great means everyone is benefiting. But if that money is limited to circulating among people with financial instruments working for them (in a literal sense), then obviously there's a large portion of the population who is being left out.
>This is unbelievable, and yet completely believable at the same time.

That's why all the squawking about "The Russians! The Russians!" is so hilarious.

The kind of work Cambridge Analytica and these boiler rooms in Russian are doing isn't very sophisticated, and certainly doesn't require the backing of a foreign State. A couple of savvy tech people can (and do) inflict the same pain for reasonable sums of money.
No, he pretty clearly claims that job loss at the present is from automation. Here is a quote from an oped he wrote:
"It’s easy to cite incomplete statistics that ignore the full picture and the situation on the ground, but I’ve done the math while spending time in struggling communities. Venture for America, the nonprofit I founded, sent me across this country, to Detroit, St. Louis, Birmingham, Ala., and other communities, where we attempted to spur entrepreneurship and create jobs. It was during this time when I spoke with workers who had lost their jobs to automation and couldn’t find more work. My organization was helping to create jobs, but automation was displacing tens of thousands of workers in these states. We were pouring water into a bathtub with a giant hole ripped in the bottom."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/opinion/andrew-yang-jobs....
It doesn't matter if they can't hire good talent. The guys running these businesses believe they're "just making tools for the good guys" (actual interview quote from a psychotic surveillance company I turned down a while back). We want to make sure they can only recruit the dumbest codemonkeys and spaghetti chefs that money can buy so their products go nowhere.
The feature is actually called silos? I thought the hip thing to do was tear down all the silos in a company?
That article illustrates the point I'm making:

> For example, a 2010 demo showed how Palantir Government could be used to chart the flow of weapons throughout the Middle East by importing disparate data sources like equipment lot numbers, manufacturer data, and the locations of Hezbollah training camps.

Government agencies are the ones collecting data. Palantir is building tools to browse it.
> 1. There’s a new watermark. After the first watermark got exposed, Google said they’d investigate, but Genius has caught them again.

After that first watermark, either Google, Lyricfind or both took steps to 'un-watermark' the lyrics (once they knew what to look for), but kept doing it unabated, as Genius showed when they used another watermark that they didn't reveal (pretty sneaky, with Unicode space characters in certain locations only).
"Independent" news orgs do the same thing. Watch out for the next positive article about a person or organization and ask yourself if it was written by a journalist organisation seeking the truth or as a puff piece in collaboration with the subject. There is a pretty blurry line between news and advertising these days to a much greater extent than most realize.
Google Maps shows an old address for Murfie Music where a new 8 story tower was built recently (I work in the new tower next to it). Anyone know where their last known location was?