skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many Americans don't like the idea of a national state-funded propaganda outlet.

Not if you frame it like that, no.
> Can anyone explain why PBS television stations are local rather than nationwide?

Local PBS channels cover local content. It's the same reason local news isn't broadcast nationwide.

PBS itself does nationwide coverage of news along with creating other content, which is syndicated.
Wrong: There is no advanced degree pool. There is a "has a degree from some U.S. tertiary institution" pool. Doesn't matter how many Ph.D.s awarded by top universities in the rest of the world one has.
This is fascinating. I'm hooked.
This sort of thing is unique to the United States as far as the developed world is concerned.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/17/us/north-carolina-student...

Agreed that it would be better if it did not take soldiers standing outside of schools to protect the Jewish community but at the same time doing nothing wasn't an option and there has - as far as I know - so far not been any harm to bystanders on their behalf.
Hah, I love that comic. Here's the full one:
https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
Google hasn't replaced Microsoft. It's joined it.
It certainly is. I watch Newshour almost every day. It's a way better unbiased source of news than reading Twitter all day, that's for damn sure. Skies above CNN, MSNBC, and Fox combined.
>> powers most of the world's corporation's accounting backends today

Not sure how you come up with this. Is this backed with actual data?
You're right, you aren't "forced" to pay, you're merely deprived of the right to participate in temple rituals that are central to the community and teachings if you don't.

And also have to tell your bishop, the most important and powerful member of your local community that you aren't going to pay in a private 1:1 meeting.
Yup, best time to eat at Jack n' the Box is right after the ecoli scare.
Sure, but they are still the children of immigrants.

Addendum to my earlier comment- Leo Varadkar is the son of an Indian immigrant, but even in the '40s Taoiseach Eamon de Valera had a Basque father from Spain. Interestingly enough, Boris Johnson was born in New York, but already in that same era Prime Minister Winston Churchill had an American mother.
Alchemy is secretly fixing blockchain’s node nightmare – Techcrunch
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I’m a fan of BigQuery and by extension GCP. I find it simpler to use than AWS but AWS has more to offer I think. It’s good to have competition in the space.
If used for educational purposes, it would probably fall under fair use.
Surely this is at least in part due to the fact that "Skymind" sounds much too close to "Skynet" for an AI company.
> So it's not about being #1, it's about being profitable.

The problem Google has with the developer community is largely around the fact that Google has a long history of pulling the rug out from our feet. There have been 3 stories on HN in the past couple weeks alone about Google products which have either been dropped or changed significantly such that they are no longer viable for developers to use.

Google has lost a lot of trust in the community and if Google management wants to avoid this kind of reaction, they need to build a reputation for stability. Years of dropping products people rely has eroded much of the good will people used to have for Google.

Amazon doesn't drop products.
Microsoft has spent decades building a reputation for having a long term reliable product road-map.

Google is fickle and doesn't seem to care when they screw people over by changing terms underneath us. As the old saying goes—fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Question for you. The first part...how does he ‘construct a sequence of symbols which is not decidable’ to begin with?
To change the vnet of a VM, you still need to deallocate it and restore it into the new vnet.

Anything they don't offer directly, they offer a pile of canned VMs authored by Bitnami, who adds their own layer of management scripts to them, which (in our case) corrupted the filesystem on restarting from the great Shellshock cloud reboot.

Azure is, in part, an ad-hoc cloud offering made up of services offered by mutually incompatible business units. Adding analytics in the dashboard has a 50% chance of routing you off of Azure to a separate MS monitoring/analytics solution (OMS) requiring its own licence.

Their linux management agents have repeatedly locked up our VMs.

Because of the way Cosmo pricing works, we were billed ~$5,000 over 3 months for 50MBs of data that was basically unused at the time--because you pay for "reserved network units" on a per collection basis (as in a mongo collection), and the floor pricing drove it that high without any utilization.

As parent said, it's a bunch of MVP garbage, to which I'd add: to tick a bunch of checkboxes for Fortune 100s to sign 8-9 figure deals with promises of volume pricing. Operationally it's flea market.
Yeah, sometimes. There's an ATF concept called "constructive possession" which means if you have all the parts, you're in a legal grey area. If the ATF thinks you have the intent to assemble an unlawful weapon, and you have constructive possession, then you might be a criminal.

I think it's unlikely (but possible) a case would be brought against you for just having the grip, and I'm not sure if that's ever actually happened. As opposed to if you had all the parts to make a machine gun, where there could only be one use for those parts.

Also interesting, drilling the extra hole in your AR-15 lower so that it could some day accept an auto-sear is a serious felony, even if you don't own the auto-sear.

I'm fascinated by how insane these rules are after I learned that I can't legally own or operate a firearm because I'm a medical marijuana user. If cannabis ever gets unscheduled, I'd like to build a little arsenal.
Kinda stupid question, but why are people that want to unionize in Google dont? Is there a certain limit, requirements?
It is a freedom of speech issue, at least from a US perspective. Whether newspapers can be held liable for inadvertently publishing false information was the exact issue at hand in New York Times v. Sullivan, a case which is one of the foundations of modern First Amendment jurisprudence. It held that, in almost all circumstances, they cannot.
Currently it is. That can change.
Yep. I just bought a new USB cable for mine myself, and switched to a spare I had.

I find I need to clean my scroll wheel maybe twice a year. It gets more stuck with gunk over time, and it becomes harder and harder to scroll.
I don’t buy this claim that Microsoft has good support for all their products. If my Windows machine is running slow will Microsoft support help me? Why do my family members keep asking me for help with their computers if Microsoft support is so great?

To me, the idea of getting good support on any consumer software is laughable, and has no bearing on Google.
That's normal progression. Hardly anyone at Microsoft used Azure in the beginning either, it takes a few years for teams to move infra and deprecate old stuff.

Same for Amazon, it took them very long also, including dedicated internal projects with focus on moving. But majority of Amazon and Microsoft workloads now run on their respective cloud offerings.

Google is probably still be at least 3-5 years before that would happen be aligned. GCP is quite immature and young, which this leak highlights also. I assume this would mean that also internal teams at Google won't be moving workloads to GCP.
Scaffolding and other cool things for productivity accelerating are in our plans.

Check some of them on our website https://www.saasforge.dev in the "Coming soon" section.
Every country has its own issue but for most people those issue above would not affect their life. I'm neither LGBT nor interested in politics so these are not that relevant so I would rank living in Singapore highly above USA. Perfect blend of eastern and western culture/life.
#1 or #2 seems like such an arbitrary objective.

Besides the notion of Google not investing in cloud seems rather ludicrous to me. They might as well formally announce that they're not competing in tech going forward & just count adtech dollars instead.
I use TFS for source control, but still also use Leif Points (like scheduled backup of the project every day to a local storage) in case of something messed up by the server. So don't underestimate the old guy :)
That won't do anything. If someone can Man-in-the-Middle you, then they can easily forge a 302 redirection to a malicious web page that could be HTTPS.
"Soon everyone in every role/industry will have rudimentary programming skills"

I'm completely baffled as to where all of today's workers in their 20's, 30's and 40's, almost none of whom have any programming skills whatsoever, are going to learn programming skills in this "soon" timeframe.
Welcome to the non-idempotent web.
American exceptionalism is a uniquely American thing. Freedom of speech in the constitution is not. Even Cuba has freedom of speech guaranteed by the constitution.
Globalised surveillance.
Same one mentioned in the other reply. It has an annoying subscription and bind-to-device thing. On the other hand, it's cheap and it works.
>> Fargate, K8s

This is partially because the customers of AWS do not care too much about these solutions. I have seen other solutions used by large customers (still probably classified as a niche) getting improved over time significantly. Fargate and k8s offers very little over a well designed EC2 cluster. This might be another reason.
The invention that inspired a NY tradition
Alt-right who are out to own the libs and [are?] consider[ed] and [a?] weirdo or outsider?

Yeah, all those dreadfully underprivilideged white college boys who want their racism, sexism and anti-sex stances to be acceptable again.
I don't think you're a fluke at all. I've heard lots of "complaints" about how accurate Instagram ads are, because the products being advertised are so appealing. I've experienced it too, the ads I see on Instagram are almost all things I could see myself buying.
All cloud computing put together is less than 10% of total enterprise computings.

Again are they profitable? If the article is to be believed, there own management doesn’t think so and as I posted below, they are distant third at less than 5%.
It's almost like CP/M was completely different than Commodore Basic. Fascinating.
Thanks for the link - pretty interesting.
It's the same store/chain?
Iceland dealing with aftermath of greatest storm to have country in modern times
> You have a contract with your ISP not to collect and monetize your DNS queries to their DNS servers?

You don’t ? Why would you sign up with such an ISP ? My ISP has a very clear privacy policy, and they obviously have to comply with the GDPR as well.
SO I do a little work in Kenya, and it's really hard there. Because you do have rampant resistance, but you also have lack of drug availability - especially in rural parts of Kenya.

We've got some data suggesting there that stewardship is, relatively speaking, less impactful there than decreases in transmission. Because the environment is heavily contaminated, which is itself conducive to the spread of resistance.
US-only, not interested.
We only pick the one that have a structure that is easy to visualize. Which usually looks like headings and sub-headings or a list of things.
> Google needs to work hard to earn customer's trust. That is the basic fundamental of doing business. Microsoft is still working their asses off because of what they have done during IE era.

This. A thousand times this!

Once hero of the 2000's, Google is turning into the villain; meanwhile Microsoft has embarked on their redemption storyline.

Microsoft is a fantastic developer-centric company that has made their platform attractive to even Linux users. Google shuts down all the things you use, prices small shops out of freaking Google Maps, won't pick up the phone, ...

Google should hire Satya Nadella.

Doesn't Google understand that we should love them? That we should think they're a cool company? They've strayed so far from that. They might as well be Oracle.
> Many Americans don't like the idea of a national state-funded propaganda outlet

This exists[1], but it isn't PBS.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
Predecessor may imply "worse" or "outdated" (although may not be the intent of the OP). I want to clarify that is definitely not the case: Kubernetes is a joke compared to Borg when it comes to running Google workloads (on many dimensions, most importantly scale).
Workable link is down: https://opslock.com/company has all the links
How many FTE's worth of savings are you incurring with the enormous overhead of colocated server maintenance?
see the reply above ^
> 3. Click on "Friends" and look at the Followers, if that Veteran has Friends from Nigeria then you know its a scam

I get how to you this is a scam, but to the 200 million Nigerians it's not. And Facebook is both.

> 2. Right click the profile photo and do a google search on the image this will lead to some results taking you to sites that use the same profile picture

And this can be a good attack vector to DDOS someone, make up sites that are fake to take down their legitimate accounts. Facebook gets attacked multiple ways.

It's hard to know if Facebook here just has too much spam to deal with and it's not worth the time for one report compared with taking down 100 accounts through other means.

The fact Nigeria is one of the poorest countries in the world (http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/country/NGA) and has this image of being so Cyberpunk is kinda neat to me.

They cause real actual harm, yes, but then so do rich people. And the harm done in Nigeria having 90 million people on less than $1.9 a day is so large it doesn't even make the news.
The biggest difference for me is that in-toto allows you to define any set of upstream metadata requirements, in a very open format, and Binary Authorization has a set of centrally defined requirements, that teams tend to implement in tranches, to meet minimum requirements. It may sound better to have a freeform format, but in practice, I've found that it makes it harder for people to know what they should actually do.
In Binary Authorization for Borg, services still define service-specific policies, but pick from a previously defined set of potential requirements. See the section on service-specific policies: https://cloud.google.com/security/binary-authorization-for-b...

You can more easily compare Grafeas and Kritis (OSS projects Google developed, which are similar to GCR Vulnerability Scanning and Binary Authorization for GKE), to in-toto. In fact, I gave a talk covering some of the options for this here: https://youtu.be/uDWXKKEO8NU?t=1314

Disclosure: I work at Google and helped write this whitepaper on Binary Authorization for Borg.
At the bare metal layer, most booleans are actually transported around as `int` (or WORD size), so there's no real performance benefit to compressing things down to one bit, other than if you really need to save 7 bits in physical storage.
I think they're just rebutting the claim that they must not have done anything interesting/meaningful if they were able to save so much.
For me it would be a cost, because I have a composting toilet. Every time I poop elsewhere I'm losing valuable nutrients that could go into my garden.
> since the previous (still live) Hangout chat app overshadows all search results

Not for long, as it's been killed and is now moribund.
Assuming this is true 2000rps per CPU core seems pretty reasonable. That would only be a bottleneck when serving static files. Only the most basic apps are going to be able to serve that much traffic per core.
How can they invent Kubernetes and be so clueless about the Cloud from non technical point of view???
Don't forget that there's only one political party.
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Minification is a form of obfuscation, and a lot of libraries and commonly used scripts are purposely completely unreadable. show_ads.js, for example, is nonsense, so it's not unreasonable for a hacker to sneak into ad code, insert some dubious lines of code that does more or less anything they'd want. There are easy was to mitigate this for sure, but it doesn't seem that WASM makes this point worse. Surely you could just as easily spot an AJAX request from a strange URL while utilising WASM too?
Its a very practical decision, but it becoming public totally screws GCP's credibility in the market
It’s not Google’s competitor making this story if you look at previous blog and critical comments from last few years you can see, google has internally been struggling on how to get more profit out of Google’s users. Also google PR is launching active campaign to muzzle voice by downvoting critical comments and blogs. Happened yesterday to my comments on HN and might happen to this comment as well.

Google used search for additional revenue by first make advertisement appear as legitimate search results by using a non prominent and small font text “Ad” in front of ads. But these are on top of search result. So asking users and company to pay to be on top of search results.

Launching new service and then offering free to attract developers and users and if it failed to generate revenue shut them down. [1]

As google is faltering on revenue in cloud, they started using security as pretext to scare the users of gsuite [2] and take away the functionality and force them to toe the google line and soon there will be change in charges and conditions.

Also shut down of gcp is a legitimate concern, google doesn’t care about users, they offer free to gain traction and if can not generate revenue shut down the service without regard for users.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21806595
> But that requirement prevents a hardware vendor from doing something like saying "I'll only boot a signed/verified root filesystem" or "The rootfs is read-only to everything except signed OS updates".

Only if you don't allow the user to decide which signing keys to trust. So GPLv3 doesn't prevent you from improving security, only from bossing around your users.
Great points. Related note: studies show (citation needed, sorry), people consistently perceive wine as better-tasting if they believe it's more expensive.
I still just want one simple place to stream all (most, or half, even, would be great, for that matter) of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and pre-Elmoization Sesame Street for my kids. Anything else would be a welcome bonus but I mostly just want those.
LifeLabs reveals data breach, possibly affecting up to 15M Canadians
I’m not arguing that a PhD is a meaningless credential, rather that the drop-off in employability (for most things that aren’t faculty jobs) from “PhD holder” to “dropped out after quals, but did some research and can code” is much smaller than the drop off between “MD” and “dropped out of med school, but knows some medicine”. So the gap in attrition rates isn’t solely a function of a better or worse experience.

I still think it’s good to try to keep people who get PhDs, especially in areas I think are important, like machine learning research.

But I agree that making a PhD an even more useful credential is unlikely to increase the quality of the PhD experience itself.
> Let's remind that Open Source fundamentally means _no expectations_.

No. Open Source, as defined, is about what the end user is allowed to do with the code they have. That’s it. What you describe is common, but not inherent. There are plenty of exceptions, like if you get Red Hat, you’ll get to have plenty of expectations, and Red Hat is still Open Source.

Please stop the ancient FUD about Open Source means having no support.
Saying that WASM has no reason to exist is going a bit far. Rather than trying to list the reasons, I'm going to refer to the official FAQ: https://webassembly.org/docs/use-cases/

> Better execution for languages and toolkits that are currently cross-compiled to the Web (C/C++, GWT, …).

> Image / video editing.

> Games

> Peer-to-peer applications

> ...

In my view it's trying to create a safe sandbox for things that we previously used unsafe sandboxes (Flash, Java, Silverlight etc.) for. A standard interface for all of these will be much better for everyone.
Does it really? It shouldn't but it could be flawed.
Don’t think so. I’ve used Korean, French, and Canadian cards with no issues in the US at gas stations.

Meanwhile, good luck getting gas or paying tolls in France without a French or other EU card.

French companies are also terrible at accepting non-French SEPA zone accounts. By law, they should accept all IBANs but their websites bork when it’s not French. Infuriating.
Cloud Dataflow is also vastly more expensive than using pyspark and Apache Beam is 10 times slower for most operations than Flink or Spark. I have to try the new flexible scheduling but DataFlow the last time I tried it 2 years ago was a massive rip off.

Also DataPrep was amazing until you run the DataFlow pipeline it produces and a < 1TB dataset cleaning costs $25...

Have had good experiences once the data is in bigquery and bq keeps costs low. But lately Ive been trying to figure out a semi-managed way of doing exactly-once stream processing for cheaper than dataflow. Possibly an architecture around cloud run might work.
Urs, as is typical, responded to the concern prior to the emergency: https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/1187607276988723200?s=19
Meet the engineering managers as well to see if you like them.
I can just see it now:

"Competition is bad, arrest him immediately!"
There's also Radio Free Europe [1], but I don't think that's what the OP had in mind, as neither BoA nor Radio Free Europe broadcast in the US afaik.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...
Indeed! After reliable uncapped/high-capped 50Mbps speeds are available, with decent upload speeds, the speed increases are not as important from a business stance.

However, 24 million Americans do not have "broadband" access as of 2018[0]. Rural USA is 60 million americans[1].

It is _my guess_ that nearly all of these 24 million Americans without broadband are almost entirely rural, since they are the lowest priority for ISPs (too expensive per customer)... and this is 97% of the USA land mass[2] which is why ISPs avoid them (infrastructure too expensive).

So when people say tech startups can be anywhere... in reality, only 3-4% of the US land mass is reliably covered with high speed data, and those people must be happy to live in homes on ~1 acre or less lots (typical maximum for suburbs).

Running a server from home was not the best example, perhaps nowadays "reliable video calls with screen sharing" is a better metric for reliable, consistent, moderate bandwidth service.

[0]: https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/broadband-progr...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_areas_in_the_United_Stat...
[2]: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-210...
In America, at least, there are only one or two high speed ISPs in any area: and so, unless you want to use DSL or satellite or something and deal with latency/speed issues, you basically pick whoever is fastest for the best price
Mattermost CEO here, Zoom plug-in is built in so one click for starting a Zoom meeting. There is also some voice features in our latest hackathon: https://mattermost.com/blog/mattermost-hackathon-2019-highli... (see mobile apps section).

Where either of these what you were interested in?
There are other companies selling Linux systems + hardware. Google, System 67, Asus, Dell, HP, Samsung, ...

Note also that you can't install custom software on a Samsung smartwatch, but you can install Windows on a Mac.
That's ok. They did too.