skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bringing in an Oracle exec to run it seems pretty ill-advised. Oracle is a services company of the past - GCP needs to be a services company of the future as cliche as that is.

The tech is there - but alignment isnt. I dont know if Google is capable of anything outside of search.
On the other hand, many nations are making a concerted effort to undermine America's position as the global financial hegemon (e.g. Europe's INSTEX). What would America's recourse be were she to lose her control over global financial markets?
There's no reason for anyone to preemptively colo their workload now in anticipation of higher prices.

You can't predict the future.

Just build your workloads to be cloud agnostic. If prices ever change, then you can move your workload wherever it makes sense at that time.

Locking yourself into a colo architecture is just as risky as locking yourself into AWS.
Here is a summary of key results by the primary author: https://twitter.com/r_zwetsloot/status/1206989954984894464
Their support is garbage. Their only answer to getting better support is to get a TAM. Which is completely ridiculous. Plus their SLA isn't worth the paper it is written on. They deny any SLA compensation unless your application is FT over 3 or more AZs.

Garbage.
> the totally insubstantiable claim that facebook ads got trump elected

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/22/a...

> the alternative is making facebook the gatekeeper of political truth

This argument is so played out. If it cared enough, or was forced to by regulation, Facebook could deploy enough fact checkers to greatly reduce the problem.
I'm not sure how I feel about Firefox's strategy for DoH. On the one hand, moving DNS out of the hands of ISPs that (at least in the US) have no real incentive to respect user privacy is probably a good thing. On the other hand, circumventing the system DNS will cause problems for anyone who has explicitly configured DNS, such as corporate networks, schools, households that use DNS for security/adblocking/parental controls, etc. I realize firefox has some heuristics to try and detect these cases, but heuristics aren't perfect.
That's my thought, but maybe students in the US struggle to keep a $2k budget?
We've been using Hipchat for years at $work. There's very little is say is "good" about it, it was just the best option at the time as it needed to be self-hosted.

Mattermost is being trialled now, pasting code doesn't seem a lot better, but the overall experience is.

As a place that likes Go/Docker it has potential for us.
Easy to say, hard to do. HIPAA isn't enforced nearly as frequently as it should be.
A Felt Tip Pen Saved the Apollo 11 Crew from Being Stranded on the Moon
This space is downright awful.

20+ years ago corporate IT was concerned about the phone on my desk (how quaint).

They put one there on the back of a PBX.

They put in a system that was LOCAL for local needs and accessed the public network when it needed to.

It worked because it was built on the back of a proven standard (telephone).

We don't have a working chat standard, and it shows and we need to fix it.
I assume every single DNS provider is logging and, if possible, selling my data. Why wouldn't I? This is actually why I use my own DNS server and resolve against the root, like anyone else who cares about privacy ought to be doing.

Still, if your goal is to block your kids' access to things, DNS is a good place to do it. Works across all your devices and doesn't require any install.
> With no competition, companies like Amazon

amazon has only got ~5% of the US retail market. this ongoing meme that they've got no competition is surreal.
Further, any mention of homosexuality is often considered to be inherently and unmistakably morally obscene, such as by the One Million Moms group, or as described by various state GOP platforms. This would include the narratives on whether lesbian or gay parents exist.
I would say this is pretty accurate. The first two generations of iMac G5 for example were beautifully laid out internally and a dream to work on. When did that all go down the toilet? When they decided the iMac needed to be thinner. The third generation of iMac G5 onward were dramatically thinner at the cost of repairability.
Eh, some of these 'prefer' judgements are iffy, especially on heat. Dallas, for instance, requires landlords provide heaters that keep a room at no less than 68 degrees F. Nearby Arlington requires landlords provide heaters that can maintain 70 degrees F. This regulation doesn't apply to those that own their own home, but the fact that the regulation exists at all seems to suggest that considering heating as a mere 'preference' is off-base.
They put the guy that ran ORACLE'S CLOUD STRATEGY in charge of GCP.

ORACLE'S. CLOUD. STRATEGY.

Let's hire Thomas Kurian, bang up job on Fusion and ... oh wait, what do you mean with 'total failure'?

Oracle bought Sun, it had the keys to be the third force against AWS and MSFT - and they totally blew it. Just an amazing fumble, worse than MSFT and smartphones.
> the Chinese version is ~75k words and 300 pages. [1] [2]

Note that link [2] says "guess [of # of words] based on page count". 75k words, 300 pages is one statistic, not two separate statistics. (Estimating words based on page count is likely to be highly reliable, but still.)

> I'm skeptical about the claim that some languages have more meaning per character, and as a result you'll end up storing less text overall.

Your skepticism is unwarranted. From a pure information-theoretic perspective, the claim that some languages have more meaning per character is a slam dunk, and less than a second of examination proves it conclusively.

For example, an entire English novel is unlikely to use more than 256 unique characters. A Chinese novel couldn't use anywhere near that few without sounding incredibly artificial.

Here are some single-character words in modern Mandarin:

高 - high/tall
低 - low
大 - big
小 - small
最 - most (superlative marker)
更 - more (comparative marker)
到 - arrive
走 - leave (go away)
玩 - play (e.g. a game)
看 - look
听 - listen
贵 - expensive
爱 - love (verb)
恨 - hate (verb)
龍 - dragon

For something more representative, here are some song lyrics -- I'll enclose every word of multiple characters. Unenclosed stretches of text are words of one character each:

都怪我不[小心]地
[偷看了]你的[眼睛]
[迷失了][自己]
[不知][为什么][欢喜]
[期待]听你的[声音]
是[那么][甜蜜]

我[拿着][电话]在你家门外
想对你[说出]我[内心]中对你的[期待]
[忽然][感觉][浑身][热血][澎湃]
[今天]我[想要][[鼓起][勇气]][大声][表白]

How many distinct one-character words do you think English could practically support? How many twos? In this verse-and-a-half, there's one word that's always[1] three characters and two that have reached three characters by picking up a verb suffix, for a total of three words that are longer than two characters. (鼓起勇气 is kind of a special case, in that it's a well-known fixed expression, but its meaning is transparent as an ordinary combination of the two words 鼓起 and 勇气, which also see use outside the expression.)

[1] Actually, 什么 ["what"] has the vernacular contraction 啥, and this also applies to 为什么 ["why"], so you could argue that the word is sometimes just two characters.
I have to say the battery on my 2 year old MX Master 2S is excellent, it needs charging about once a month. It has helpful LED battery indicators and a software warning - I've always had enough warning that it's never run flat, even though I give it basically no thought.
The Loss Of Micro-Privacy: How small design changes rewrote rules of messaging
Walmart seems to be heading in that direction... though I do hope they keep the reigns in on third party sellers. On Amazon, I generally only buy if it's sold by Amazon, I could still get a counterfeit or bad item, but at least it's easy enough to return... third party sellers, it's a crap-shoot.
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How is it possible to disagree with the message "You as an employee have a right to engage in protected concerted activity?"

This is just a legal fact.
Russia already has an 80 year history of taking wildly diverse and frankly oddball aircraft designs and turning them into things that actually fly. Anyone who thinks that them partnering with a Chinese company can’t build a widebody isn’t paying attention.

Well that's changing the goalposts just a bit. It's likely that the Chinese can churn out a widebody, but Comac couldn't even pull off a warmed over DC-9. They've got less experience than any of the Russian companies and it's pretty much a given at this point that they won't be successful.
They don't except for cover and move exercises. Then the automatic fire and burst mode features are great for suppression tactics.

But again, what are you going to make illegal about the AR-15 that doesn't also apply to hunting rifles, specifically much big game hunting rifles that are far deadlier (higher velocity rounds, higher caliber).

You're demonizing because of its history and it looks the same but its feature set is identical to that of any other legal civilian use rifle, other than maybe clip size (which clips are probably the easiest part to make yourself), there isn't much about it that you could write a law for that wouldn't apply to every other rifle society finds acceptable or give the "mass shooter" the same advantage. Hence the Humvee vs SUV argument. Its the same as arguing Humvees are made for the military, so the civilian models should be banned even though they removed every feature (like the armor and turrets) that don't exist in any other civilian model SUV that is legal. It's the same rational, if you wanted to ban Humvees cause someone did bad things with them under the argument its a military style vehicle, any thing you "banned" would also lump in the other civilian SUVs with the same features. If you banned the AR-15 someone would just make another rifle tomorrow, that was just different enough with a different model number, the danger would still be there, and as discussed that danger isn't even significant compared the gun violence done with hand guns so people's obsession with it irrational on all fronts because they're hung up on the "looks like a military gun" aspect of it.

We're talking about writing a law here, and setting policy. What's the policy you're going to write that takes away a killer's ability to do anything they couldn't do with another rifle?

If were me, and I don't think it matters, but lets say I had to write a law tomorrow "gun to my head", pun intended. I would make only bolt action rifles available to civilians for the purposes of hunting without any special license, it doesn't do much, but it does create a higher barrier without much practice and training to be effective at harming a high number of individuals in a short window. Then I would make semi-automatic weapons available to civilians who got a permit similar to CCW training, where you have to go through a day or two's worth of safety and legal use training, get a full background check, etc, but once you're licensed you can buy as many semi automatic rifles you desire, you'd be required to secure the weapons under lock when in storage, anyone can fire your rifle as long as they're in the presence of a licensed individual who owns the weapon (so if a friend wants to fire it at the range, that's fine) and the training needs to be affordable and accessible (similar to CCW) so that we're not creating a class of haves and have nots where only the very privileged can own one, simply the ones wanting to put in the time and training. And I don't try to single out an AR-15 as anything silly like a "military style assault weapons" that's not any different from any other semi-automatic rifle available on the market.
True. I was looking at the list of Google projects that were killed off and realized it was a pool of great ideas for startups. In a lot of cases they were ahead of thier time or could have been pivoted slightly into other products/markets.
I'm a dummy I'll have to study your statement.
Mine was an MX510 and mine also broke down after a cable issue... and then the second one after that. I'm not particularly conspiratorial, but that's 3 out of 3 anectoble circumstances.
The resilience also depends on political unity. We are mostly united against anything Russian. Finland does not want or need Russian politics and talking points. That’s why it’s easy to repel pro-Russia propganda.
Kramnik briefly addresses this question in the article:

> Fischer Random is an interesting format, but it has its drawbacks. In particular, the nontraditional starting positions make it difficult for many amateurs to enjoy the game until more familiar positions are achieved. The same is true for world-class players, as many have confessed to me privately. Finally, it also seems to lack an aesthetic quality found in traditional chess, which makes it less appealing for both players and viewers, even if it does occasionally result in an exciting game.

(I have no idea if his view would be persuasive to you.)
Your decently-sized QA department would investigate, case-by-case.

Some examples would probably be controversial and you'd need to escalate to a higher tier of analysis.
The Google Cloud employees should unionize.
It encrypts traffic to prevent others from reading, modifying, or replacing requested responses? What is your security? I don't see a reason that your site wouldn't be vulnerable to a MITM attack.
I'll suggest an alternative theory.

You know how absurd and wrong the Russia/powergrid story is specifically because this is your industry. If this wasn't your industry, you would read it, not have the understanding and experience to critique, and therefore probably believe it.. even if it was later retracted. The same applies to us reading about other fields.

My wife was a Capital Hill reporter in DC. Quite often, she had an hour or two to turn around a story on a hearing that just occurred on a topic she didn't know. Now multiply that by 4, 5, or 10 times each day.

It doesn't take maliciousness, just incompetence and/or ignorance at scale.

Michael Crichton named this:

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them."

Ref: http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
Maybe it's a GDPR cage: I'm in Europe.
Linked version is German subsite. Main page link at
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/128922

Dupe of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813831
It's probably a good thing? US ISPs actively collect data from DNS lookups. They're an actual according-to-Hoyle threat actor in the IETF's supposed threat model.
You knew all that stuff, great. What about the people who didn’t?
Discovering DNS over HTTPS Connections
It really depends on how you split the numbers. It's kind of like saying SQL and Excel are the most popular programming languages... yeah, but they've captured a far different market than most people would consider to be the "programming" field.

A service that only exists in China to serve the Chinese audience may be bigger than worldwide services that serve worldwide audiences, but it's kind of irrelevant if you're not a Chinese company doing business exclusively in China.
This. If the link preview fails to load on the sender's device, it'll never appear for either party. The preview is sent along with the message – the receiving device never generates the preview.

If you're quick enough, you can see it in action:

Paste a link in a WhatsApp message. The preview might take about half a second to load. Hit 'send' before the preview has loaded, and it'll never show for that message.

Paste the same link again, but wait for the preview before hitting send. It'll stay attached to that message.
Try selling it to someone for 5%-10% off.
Hasn't been an issue for me, the cord lives on my desk and I just plug it overnight every couple of days. If I forget, grab a charged AA and swap it out.
If it gets rare enough, it will incentivize space industry in order to mine it from the moon.
OK, if I go bankrupt now because of discovering JetPens, it is your fault!
> Ultimately, the Google executives decided in the spring of 2018 that the cloud computing opportunity was simply too big to give up on.

All of the anecdotes in this article are from early to mid 2018.

So why is someone leaking these stores 18 months later?
A single employee walking away has no power to change the status quo at google. A lot of them, however, do. That's what google and all employers wants to crush before it has a chance to coalesce.
Facebook is so big and so much money is involved there that I think a hacker wouldn't be able to get much out of Facebook. When you steal billions from people then rules sometimes get bent when dealing with you.
I always see google reader talked about on hackernews, but has a comparable product not have been made by someone else yet?
Another thing that happened is GitHub acquired both Gitter and Spectrum. Gitter deprecated its mobile app. Spectrum's founder has been working on other stuff at GitHub. Microsoft has Teams so that might have something to do with it.
Another anecdote, My target.com spend during the holiday season has been +$500 across multiple items since I don't trust amazon for various items now. Also, the customer service is going downhill and I have been pleasantly surprised how much nicer target support is now.
You are making plenty of assumptions here.
So I'm someone who codes for their own use, what I write isn't meant for customers, it's just tools that make the machine do what I need. Programming as a way of using the computer.

However I also used to do some freelance web development back in the day, and sure enough I did learn things. Mostly things about customers, not about programming. They don't know what they want, they don't know what is good and they need help with that. This is called requirements engineering, and IMVHO starting a project that has customers is the literal worst moment to start learning that. Fortunately I had a class about it in uni and I happen to be great at explaining technical things to non-technical people. I also learned that I'm actually really good at what I did (looks great + works well + happy customers), they gave loads of recommendations and I got requests for at least a year after. Too bad about the burnout that happened soon after, for no particular reason, that turned my life upside down.

Either way, yes it was educational but in no way did it make me a better programmer. Maybe a better business person? (And I'm not a very good business person)

All in all, I think I would recommend "a project that has customers" only to people who are young. It has less stakes when you're young and it's chock full of wonderful learning opportunities for young people. If you're older, I think that most of the lessons you would also have gotten through general life experience. Which again demonstrates how little this exercise has to do with programming. But yeah, it can definitely be a valuable experience.
> It's probably a good thing? US ISPs

The world is hella lot bigger than the US.

And Firefox runs in the rest of the world too.
>Locking yourself into a colo architecture is just as risky as locking yourself into AWS

That's the game theoretical predicament: Colo's can take advantage of all this and increase their prices as well.

We just don't know how this whole thing will shake out. Given that uncertainty, I think you're proposing the only reasonable way forward for a little guy.

Be agnostic. Meliorate your market position by differentiating in some key area of your business where you can actually secure a competitive advantage.
As someone who uses both, G502 has a very different form factor and feel in the hand.
I see the word DNA being bandied around here. I wonder if folks here understand the difference between "genotyping" (what 23andme does) and full "sequencing"? [1]

Genotyping only returns variants of interest (SNPs) which are specified up front -- not the full sequence. It's a smaller dataset.

Sequencing gives you the full genome -- which is currently too expensive to do at consumer scale (though prices are falling). 23andme does not do this. This means the type of genetic research that 23andme can do is somewhat limited.

[1] https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904600...
Didn't they just buy the userbase? I don't think they bought the technology - they also made a lot of devs redundant after the purchase?
"Bekk is all about craftmanship and the people crafting it. This year, we're creating 12 calendars, each with daily content, articles and podcasts."

Seems like they are trying to attract developers, shame their main site is Norwegian.
There's so much Amazon bashing it seems to be a bandwagon.

I wish there was more focus on other stores getting what Amazon has done right. The shopping (and return) experience at Amazon is so far superior than any other online or brick and mortar store.

Things that suck:

Payments - What is the point of contactless payments when still I have to put in my PIN, cashback prompt and finally accept the amount?

Online order/store pickup. Why do I have to wait in line and have my ID checked?

Returns are the absolute worst - every experience I've had is at least a 10+ minute wait.
> We don't have a working chat standard, and it shows and we need to fix it.

IRC works pretty well.

The only thing I sometimes miss is history, but... in some ways that's not a bad thing, and could be added without too much trouble.

Slack has history because Slack wants you to live in it. No history emphasizes that chat is ephemeral and something to tune in and out. Use email or something else for more permanent discussions.
Like the Microsoft Azure "German Cloud", assured to be GDPR compliant. We spent quite some time and money to migrate from AWS to that solution in 2017.

Guess what? It has been shut down by the end of 2019.

We're back on AWS now. We were (I guess) not an insignificant customer, paying around 8k €/month, with the prospect of growing significantly (which has happened in the mean time, but on AWS).
they look beautiful but does anyone actually use these maps? seems like something an app can do pretty easily.
seller reputation wouldn't be a terrible idea, but the devil is in the details. Items certainly have their own quality, but people's opinions are fickle. Who gets to say what is counterfeit, unless you have a trusted authenticator looking at every item? If someone is unhappy with an item it could be for any number of reasons, and no seller is perfect, even ones with good intentions and operations.

So from amazon's perspective, they have to spend a ton of time, effort, and money to risk alienating their sellers. So I think you're right - they've thought about it and decided that the risks were not worth the gains.
You don’t have to use multiple clouds day to day, but forcing yourself to design your applications in cloud-agnostic ways makes it worthwhile.
Look at what China is doing with peoples DNA—it’s creepy to imagine what the possible outcomes will be with machine learning etc.

Meanwhile I submitted my DNA to ancestry and learned interesting things about my family.

Anything may be used for good or evil.
> True, but it seems kind of shady to come down harder on an employee based on the content of the interruption

If you hijack the company's PR to inject your own personal opinion I'm pretty sure you'd be fired from any company.
More discussion in sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260