skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tell you what... If it weren't for Route53 being as good as it is and getting all of our domains sucked into it's gaping maw, we would be much more likely to hop to different cloud vendors. It is very nice having the entire enterprise tech stack managed through a single vendor when you are a tiny company like we are.

That said, I am losing patience with how slow the EC2 instances are considering what we pay. I've got management asking increasingly-probing questions about our monotonically-incrementing AWS bill. All of this would be fine if perceived/actual performance weren't also dropping for us over time (I.e. intel spectre mitigations). I can almost feel how the AMZN profit margins are squeezing us at this point... It's almost a weekly conversation now with Azure or even a return to on-prem being brought up. "Do we move now or later? Is the frying pan hot enough yet?"

Our organization is small enough to comfortably fit onto a single 2S 128 core AMD Rome system. Why shouldn't we just lease out a half-rack somewhere local (I.e. near the developers who can care for it) and then stick a few of their systems, a switch, router and management hardware in there? This all began on-prem with us moving to AWS, and after 6 years in the cloud circus it's starting to feel like a safe place to return to. Perhaps we will just move our compute to on-prem and continue to use AWS for backups and DNS. All I know is my TR 2950X workstation can compile our solution ~10x faster than our Jenkins server which is running on a T2.Large. Imagine giving Jenkins 32 Rome cores. This is something we could actually afford if we owned the hardware.

There are also some other compelling factors for us to consider moving back on-prem. Emerging technologies like Blazor create a strong argument for keeping your workers near the datacenter. Very few businesses truly require more than 1 physical datacenter. Yes, you might also have a DR site, but you can arguably run all of the functions for 95%+ of businesses out of a single physical location. Also, having a physical location where you can hook up any arbitrary hardware means we could also pull our iOS build machine in-house and use proper high-end Apple hardware on the same local network as the rest of our infrastructure.
“Fatal bus error” as some call it.

Although around Old Street the buses don’t really go above walking speed.
I'm not saying DoorDash, I'm saying the business model, which is what the poster was rallying against. I've no particular opinion that DoorDash will achieve an economy of scale.
In my experience the only time this matters is when you're doing contracting work and a government entity or company requires X certificate(s) to win a contract. It's amazing how many government contracts require certain, easy to get certificates and you can't work on the contract without them.

Beyond that I have never seen them be useful unless your company has, say, pay raises tied to extended learning (which is a common thing with teaching but that's going to college, not some Google cert).
> The fact that women shoulder the primary economic burden of raising children is structural sexism.

You seem to be making a fairly subtle point here that I think others might be missing. Which is not that women choosing to take on the burden of childcare represents sexism (which is an argument some people make), but rather that the fact that their making this choice impinges upon their personal economic future is sexist. That is maybe a more interesting point than the former, but I don't think it really holds up to scrutiny. Choosing to take on the burden of childcare is choosing to spend less time working. In any other context, if a person chooses to work less, that negatively impacts their earning, and we consider that perfectly reasonable and fair. If I choose to play video games for 8 hours a day and work part time, basically everyone accepts it's reasonable that I make less money.

Now, if women are being pressured or forced into accepting this childcare responsibility at their own economic expense, then yes. That is 100% structural sexism. Also, if society would have treated men making this choice differently than women, then that too would represent structural sexism. But there are men making this choice, and their careers are generally just as negatively impacted as the women who make it.
Especially with how poorly named some projects/libraries are.
>Another way to look at it is that each other state's Elector selection process is their business.

Similarly, the entire election is the business of every citizen. "Their business" has a direct impact on my life, so I should have some say in the matter.

>The Constitution does not provide any assurances that other states will choose their Electors by any particular process,

The Constitution sets up the electoral college. That doesn't make it a good system.
> Digital Ocean is a great company in a brutal, low-margin industry. Based on having run a similar (now mostly defunct) company in the past, I would guess that 80% of their customers are on the $5/mo plan.

Well, to be honest, Vultr has 2.5$ (IPv6 only) and 3.5$ plans. So, if they're getting by, so could DO.

https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/#pricing

I actually migrated from DO to Vultr because at the time DO offered 512 MB RAM for $5, while Vultr offered it for $2.5. And Vultr gave me $50 bonus platform credit on sign up, valid for about 18 months (accounting for possible overage fees).

I'm still on Vultr, 3 years on. No problems at all, other than billing issues (accidentally was assigned Australian VAT despite living in Serbia), I had no support tickets. After some time I started using more instances, and more powerful instances, and more services (block storage, "portable" IPs, object storage, internal networks, etc).

I've had a lot of problems with DO's Object storage which was also one reason to move away from them. Problems were quite catastrophic in nature, i.e. the files were unavailable for a few hours every few weeks.
Except for birth and family planning related complications that are minimized in exactly the time frame where career effects tend to compound (or so the article seems to claim)
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Any chance for a dark version?
It's true that these social pressures exist, and they are certainly sexist. But I think it's important to distinguish that the pressure is what's sexist, not the impact of the choice.
The desire for biological children is pretty ingrained in our psyche.
Bytedance?? OK, I guess... But Lark's home page blurb seems a bit direct: "Hey look, the Chinese government is going to hack into your servers and look at all your corporate secrets sooner or later, why not just make it easy for both of us and use this service now? Sign up here."
The world of certificates is not as black or white as the post suggests. I have a few useless certificates too but if I will ever interview a person with a Java8 OCA exam I will not bother him/her with java tests thats for sure.
AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates
If you care about safety, don't overlook the effects of weight differential. Odysseys are quite safe, partly because they're pretty heavy.
Look up “Ergodicity”...
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The cost of free: Casper pays a price for generous mattress returns
There have been a few interesting arguments about dual-n-back games. They have been shown with very solid evidence to improve cognitive performance. They are interesting in the beginning but get frustrating/difficult very fast, essentially you always play at a frustrating level where you final frequently. It is somewhat exciting but certainly not addicting/motivating in the sense of Civ or other well-developed 'addicting' games.

One of the theories on why they are effective (doubting the main interpretation that they train your working memory/cognitive processing) is that the game trains you to endure frustration and at some point also boredom. Dealing with frustration and boredom are actually important success skills - so if there was a way to get the game more engaging there's a good chance that the positive impact would be reduced.

tl;dr: issue is still under debate, but it might well be that the need to endure boredom/frustration in at least the dual-n-back games might be a feature (that improves impact) rather than a bug.
It’s funny: nobody asks for “cars that don’t require technical skill to build” or “airplanes that don’t require technical skill to build.” Why this need to open up software development to people without development skill? As you point out, people have been banging this drum for decades! Why is it ok for some goods to require specialized skill to build, but for other goods the need for this skill is always seen as a problem that urgently needs solving?
OK but for real though criticizing nuclear energy is dumb
I have about 2K paid out, over 10K pending. My referrals are mostly techies but not necessarily developers.

IMHO referrals work amazing when people you refer mostly want this problem to go away and it's not their primary occupation.
I use Scaleway which does it this way. It was very nice to be able to detach my rootfs when my CPU blew up and just make it the rootfs of another instance.
Since they value privacy, I don't think this request would ever be honored.
There is an unfortunate distinction between those other professions - STEM fields rarely pay even close to what consulting, law and medicine pay. Peers of equivalent talent in those 3 professions are generally making double to triple (if not more) by the time STEM graduates reach the same moment in their personal lives. And that 'moment' is generally delayed in STEM compared to those professions; you start generating your first real paycheck in STEM, with some stability in your career path at your early-mid thirties. Even medicine (which is longer than consulting & law), stability can be reached before that.
There's a process for amending the Constitution. Until that's done, this is the system we have.
Not to be too cheeky, but this is mostly a list of trends dictated by companies started three or more years ago.

Meaning it's actually "VC Compatible Startup Ideas 2017."

Outside of Developer Tools (I'm a fan!) I would say your advice -- it's feasible to start a company outside of these ideas -- is probably exactly where you want to be looking if you're starting a company today. Daniel's an investor, so he's casting a net for startups / founding teams he hasn't heard of yet. Content marketing is dealflow 101. That said, if you're a founder in one of these spaces, he has a fantastic reputation, so you should absolutely reach out. He wouldn't have posted it if he wasn't looking for awesome people!
It should be a class action suit if anything, but I can see there being an argument for it on platforms that meet a certain threshold of popularity.
All? A person can have an incorrect view while still maintaining other correct views.
Cosigned! Personally I’m a big fan of weightlifting, particularly in the evenings when I’m too tired to do anything but my heart is racing because of stress. It tends to tire me out pretty fast and the repetitive motion feels meditative.
At what point do security dumps become 'public' and legal to disseminate?

Is there a framework for determining what is legal to provide to Brian Krebs or Haveibeenpwned.com?

Would it have been illegal of Brian Krebs to pay money to weleakinfo.com for a database that also existed elsewhere?

Basically is it illegal to buy, sell, give away for free to masses, give away for free to vetted individuals/researchers, or illegal to hold privately once you received it?

Would love if anyone could point me towards the path of enlightenment here. US/EU, and other laws all seem relevant.
Unless you're a business that differentiates itself with good customer support, you can just fire expensive customers.
The truth is men are more mathematically inclined. Why we as a society make up all sorts of fantasies is beyond me
A lot of guesswork and generalization, right there.
There is excellent* speech to text now. YouTube uses it for auto cc. I guess it could be used in this case as well.
in 2010 at a business pitch competition in Idaho at my college I pitched "pokemon crossed with geocaching" 6 years later pokemon go came out. I gave up on it because I had no resources or ways to approach making the thing.
> I don't see how substituting "Go" for "Search" improves anything.

You didn't see it in the studies you ran, or are you just thinking about through your perspective instead of that of the low-education, tech-illiterate users?
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Interesting subject matter, but I have to say, "Algorithm That's Faster Than a Supercomputer" is one of the dumbest headlines I've seen in a while
Any feedback, good or bad is appreciated

Was the idea clear?

Does it make sense?
I live in flyover country and have worked many years for companies way less sexy than Google. The environment here is different from the Bay Area's "moving on at 26" mentality. Certain industries (especially insurance, financial services, and healthcare) prefer someone who's been around the block and is more interested in maintainable, well-architected solutions. A lot of the in-joke humor about tech culture that you see on HN would probably go over the heads of most of my coworkers because they just don't care. They want to write great software and leave at 5.
This reminds me of C64 tape loaders or "turboa" that need to load the program to RAM.

https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue57/turbotape.htm...

Also let's not forget Bill Gates's 17 bytes loader

https://hackaday.com/2017/03/24/doing-it-with-fewer-bytes-th...
W3Schools battles css-tricks and mdn for first spot on search results for most of my searches (I'm a front end dev). I agree that their certificates are completely worthless but the site isn't as terrible as it used to be.
I generally believe people should be polite.

But when you open source a project, you are opening yourself up to criticism and critique of your work. You are opening yourself up to that in basically any form the internet wants to take it, and sometimes that really can be shitty.

We have a very promising project making use of a language that has gained popularity largely based on marketing around memory safety, and then that project has unnecessary and flawed use of something that undermines the messaging around rust. This is a risk for Rust - a promising and popular project in a popular space that undermines some of the core rust messaging is a PR problem for the language. The maintainer not being receptive to contributions to resolve this difference is a problem. The maintainer not being receptive to contributions that fix SECURITY ISSUES is a MAJOR problem.

Open source maintainers are, of course, volunteers. I don't think we should hold them responsible for the fact that there are bugs in their code, or even security flaws. People aren't perfect, and no one should be expected to be, especially when contributing something to the open source community. But we SHOULD hold them responsible for not fixing security issues. It's irresponsible to release something to the public that you know puts them at risk.

So is it fair for people to be upset in this situation? I think so. I also think their reaction should be a polite one - but it's totally fair for people to push someone to take responsibility for code they've introduced to the world that has security vulnerabilities in it.
>> I’ve got a big scholarship, and a lot of people supporting me to give me the
best shot at an academic career — a career I dearly want. But, I also want a
family — maybe two or three kids

Oh.

Up to this point I was keeping notes with my criticism of this article, but
this caused me to stop and reconsider.

If I may advise the author, I understand how difficult it is to balance
life decisions that seem to be at odds, but trying to deny the very reason why
those life decisions are hard to combine will not make the choice any easier.

It is stupid and sexist that you have to think of pursuing a PhD and having
two or three kids as an either/or option, when the (probably) man you'll want
to start a family with will not have to do that, even if they are also a PhD
in STEM.

This is part and parcel of the sexism that people complain about. It's not
just inappropriate behaviour by senior male academics. There is no reason why
a woman must put her career on hold to start a family when a man in the same
career does not need to. There is no reason why women are expected to be the
ones most concerned with the business of having and raising children when men
are expected to be the most concerned with advancing their careers. How is
that not sexist? How is that not the sexism that's keeping women from
advancing their careers in STEM academia?
I hope this makes it to the top so ngate can write about it...
Interesting, but couldn't they choose to collaborate? It would seem to me that collaboration would be the path of least resistance, in which case they could largely maintain all their existing infrastructure and just effectively swap half their employee badges for ones with new logos.

Even if they were forced to use a different physical building, they could form a corporate alliance and share customer loyalty.

What makes them choose to compete, when given the choice?
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> Sexism is not merely about personal conduct but also how we structure society.

What does raising children have to do with society? Decision of having and raising a child is a fundamentally personal, not societal decision. Each pair should decide how they want to split responsibilities of raising a child before its conception, based on their preferences, and society should not force them to any model.

Also, it seems to me that society already prioritize child-raising too much compared to other non-work activities. If people would leave STEM/some other field due to work-life balance for some other personal goals than child-raising (say part-time working in a non-profit), would anyone care?
Let's try this: If both sea level and ground level move, what their interaction is locally isn't the same as the difference of the global averages.
If you had discovered Heartbleed, would you have kept that knowledge to yourself so that you could minimize the maintenance burden on the OpenSSL develoopers?

Granted, no one died over Heartbleed but it caused lots of real people harm. We should start worrying about the well being of our fellow human beings long before their lives are at stake.
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> You’re getting this software for free rather than paying for something expensive.

So open source is free as in beer, not free as in speech after all. And the reason a company might choose to use open source is solely because it's free, not because they can see the source code or alter it? Because that is why companies are in it, not because they were cheap for the small cash of a paid version. And they're in it because they can watch and choose those projects that are well maintained.

If the maintainer pulls a tantrum and acts unreliable that kills the project from the point of view of any serious user. Until someone else takes over maintenance or it is forked.

This "it's free so you get what you paid for, and if it's shit don't complain because it was free" really rubs me the wrong way. It's a very capitalist mindset that measures everything in money. If there is no money, there is probably no worth, so don't expect any. Accomplishment, dependability, positive net effect? No money, so don't expect it?
> I'm pretty convinced the Democrats will be toast as a party by 2030 once they get saddled with imploding the economy by no fault of their own other than bad timing.

The effect of federalizing $3 trillion a year of the economy, raising corporate taxes to far above what Sweden has, and 70% marginal personal tax rates probably won’t be “no fault of their own.”
That's what I meant by "foam". And remember that those are ~2D slices. In 3D, there are voids, with thin intervening walls, and stringy stuff where walls intersect.

It's dark matter that probably defines that structure. And so that dark matter could be moving, in coherent patterns at extremely large scales. But there's nothing necessarily supraluminal about it. It could just be moving in the same patterns that it did when it was hugely smaller. But then, I have zero clue about how conservation of angular momentum works during inflation.

If that were the explanation, we wouldn't expect to see perturbations in cosmic scale motion propagating supraluminally.
Linode is a sponsor to my YouTube channel. They have 5.00 plans and have for well over a year now. 10.00 plans too. Linode seems to be doing quite well. They tout themselves as the largest privately held cloud hosting company in the world and keep opening new locations.
Google has the worst customer service I've ever heard of and people get wrongly banned from Google Cloud with no recourse all the time. It's not a real option to do anything vaguely important on.
I think you're making the OPs point for them.

And we have no idea if a similar action by Vultr is imminent (I'm not saying it is -- but we don't know).
I'm not sure I agree at all with the author about the air about the Rust community. Rust is an amazing language but the community has always been totalitarian trash. I try to keep as far away as possible from them as I can.
Mothers--the vast majority of mothers, not the aristocracic ones we model our current family structures off of--have always worked. They'd strap the baby on their back and go to the fields to plow or gather the harvest or cook or weave or chop firewood. Motherhood as as a full-time job is a modern invention; historically, it was a side gig.

I'd love to see a startup tackle this problem: think a benefits platform that allows companies to offer daycare as a benefit, or a Wonderschool-like daycare for working parents. Even an improved work from home policy for new parents would go a long way to plugging the talent "leak" that's prevalent right now.
>no call to action

>not naming any individuals

>talking about a cultural phenomenon, not a specific incident

>no intent to force anyone to change
I didn't make the laws - this is what they are. GP is making the appeal to legality which is wrong in this case.

The law is to prevent employers from extorting all employees into taking political action under threat of termination. Terminating a single employee for their past political actions is different from extorting all employees into action.
Help me understand that “graduate” off sentiment towards Heroku? (Full disclosure: I work on Heroku for Salesforce).
Another ML metaphor is this: don't just start from one point and do gradient descent. Try starting at many different points and working your way through the descent logic. It may be more trial and error and more dead ends, but you might indeed find your global minimum.

To speak like a human: try new things and don't give up on them immediately.

Another ML metaphor: I wonder if the concept of an identity crisis is a way to dislodge yourself from a local minimum? You know something better is out there, but you haven't done enough exploration so eventually you rebel and give up your comfortable little basin.
>However, the power supply uses a more complicated design to provide electrical isolation between the spacecraft and the clock. I'm not sure, though, why isolation was necessary.

I believe this is to maintain a single point ground, usually the chassis on a spacecraft. The chassis of the clock is probably connected to the isolated side's ground, which avoids ground loops when the clock is integrated into the S/C.

More detail on grounding and isolation in S/C is covered here: https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/nasa/nasa-hdbk-4001
If I offer you $2 to deliver a piece of food, have I fucked you over? Where exactly in the pipeline does the "fucking over" happen?