skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really surprised that none of the cool kids here comment about the astronomical ecological cost of such rigs.

Reminder: IT is responsible for nearly 4% of CO2 emissions worldwide [1]. Video streaming represents 60% of that [2].

In a nutshell, cloud gaming is like switching on an oven at full power with the door open. If a majority of people use that kind of solution, the catastrophic effects of global warming will be even worse.

The true problem is that we're not paying the real price of AWS and other cloud services. We're expecting our children to pay for the ecological impact.

[1]: https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Execu...
[2]: https://www.dw.com/en/is-netflix-bad-for-the-environment-how...
Aircraft performance metrics of all sorts are generally U shaped. There will be an optimum altitude and airspeed for a chosen regime and deviating from it in either direction will result in lower performance.

So if you are shooting for miles per pound of fuel, there is a best. You will lose total trip fuel if you throttle up and go faster and you will lose total trip fuel if you throttle down and go slower.
> Reading materials related to Nokia at that time period it was pretty dysfunctional as it was. The only mistake I can accrue for Elop was his "Burning platform" memo - which is basically paraphrazing crisis management 101. So he was clearly out of his depth when running Nokia.

I just did some very superficial reading on the "Burning Platform" memo (the first time I had heard of it).

I'm intrigued by the idea that the memo shows Elop was "out of his depth". Is there something I can read to explain why this was such a terrible management move? What would have been a better response?
you've just described precisely why it is in fact possible to do what they say: there's a company on the market that has both knowledge and appetite to do that. in fact, they might do an unmanned moon landing just to make a point to NASA to simplify their negotiations for a manned one.
I call stealing your customers cpu cycles without permission for marketing purposes malware. If you don't that's ok. We can disagree.
The N9 was so good. Meego was great, the all-swipe, no-buttons interface was way ahead of iOS and Android at the time. The hardware with its subtley curved screen was perfectly designed around it. The phone was the right size.

I might still be using mine if it didn't have an unfortunate bug, which always came back eventually, where SMS messages would show up under the wrong person. Nokia said they'd support it until 2015 but that didn't happen, I think the last update was in 2012. The community made some fixes for other bugs, but not for that one.
“All Programming Languages Are Wrong” – David Moon
Someone should create a service that generates RSS streams of Spotify exclusive podcasts.

It would definitively be illegal, but that could be solved with proper opsec. It would definitively not be immoral.
It was not until I read through the whole article and saw the picture that, finally, my mind was at rest knowing that someone didn't order a 12-foot long balance beam to try to somehow put into their roof.
forget the SLS, it's a jobs program. it might do a mission or two but that's it.
Best Practices Guide for Local Prototyping of Serverless Applications
Ah, you mean all device and radio patents were left with Nokia? Sorry, can't seem to remember the details on a moments notice - but I think you are correct. Hence MS underwrote all of Nokia acquisitions as a complete loss eventually.
> Is Starbucks Free WiFi actually run by Starbucks or is it a malicious router placed in the same vicinity?

Isn't Starbucks "Free" WiFi a joint venture between Starbucks and Google where you have to agree to them collecting your browsing data in order to use their "free" service?
if you put a scientist with a shovel and a lab kit on the surface of mars, he'd do more science in a week than all the robots we've sent there to date.
What's your shipments aggregator of choice?
I'm using shippo.. and I thought it was good, and it reminded me a lot of stripe, but now I'm seeing some glaring holes.

#1 I sent a PR 21 days ago for something simple enough ( using an OAUTH token instead of the API_TOKEN, for making requests on user's behalf ), and no1 has responded to the ticket or PR.

#1.1 orders is not in the API, though it is the main thing in their website interface (this might be even bigger, considering their product is focused around something not in the API).

#2 Their interface is focused around orders and shipments(which the api calls transactions), however the orders api doesn't have half of what is needed. It doesn't accept parcels, which means from the API you cannot generate a way to get rates.. you're supposed to pass through the data from the rate manually.. like remember how much the rate is supposed to cost, and what it's supposed to be.. so when you re-generate it, you know which one to pick... even though a shipment object can be converted into a transaction and paid, so why can't an order do the same?
```shipping_cost
decimal Amount paid by the buyer for shipping. This amount can be different from the price the seller will actually pay for shipping.```

#3 Shipments(basically the 'get rates' part of checkout) aren't able to be converted into an order... but they are able to be converted to a transaction, and the rates therein aren't able to be converted into an order, but they are able to be converted into a transaction.

I mean their order interface first appeared in 2018-02-08... which is 2 years ago.. and there have been no new API's since then.... I heard they had millions of dollars... but have they had no developers in a couple years?

The main feature in their interface was first put into the api 2 years ago. It's still (beta) in the api, and still doesn't work. How can that possibly be? Is anyone a developer there anymore?

I'm a lone guy in Wisconsin and I could probably build a more complete interface + api within a year... solo. So someone please give me millions of dollars and I will make a better program.
Yeah, but generally you want infrastructure to work but also don't want anything taken away from yourself, so you have to balance stealing from others with self-interest. It's a matter of whether eminent domain is encouraged or not.
As a UI architect I've worked on both SPAs and also ROCA-style UI quite a bit. Like everything pros and cons to both.

As a general rule of thumb I find SPAs deliver much faster, but ROCA-style solutions are much more predictable. That is, getting a modest MVP out the door with an SPA terms to be much faster, but almost always reach a critical mass of functionality at which point they become hard to maintain. ROCA-style apps don't suffer with this as much.

I don't think this experience is just down to the architecture however. I just think it asks a lot more of a software engineer to structure and maintain an SPA well. Ultimately an SPA can be a more optimal architecture for many applications because the client-side environment is an increasingly powerful VM in its own right. However, I rarely see the engineering discipline required to do it right.

I tend to prefer ROCA-style because it fits better with the web's distributed integration architecture, but in practice I find building an SPA with a resource-oriented mindset is usually a good compromise.
SaaS metrics delivered to your Slack
Probably not since NFS to my recollection barely support anything resembling transport encryption, but it allows Authentication if you like Kerberos.
Not removing old labels before entering something into (partially) automated systems is just asking for trouble.

A friend of mine once returned an item to amazon but forgot to remove the original shipping label. The shipping company picked it up and promptly shipped it back to him instead of returning it to Amazon.
Gut Bacteria Linked to Personality
The most important thing I did to "ease" my pen grip was to stop using ball-point pens. They require a lot more pressure in order to put ink to paper than, say, a gel pen. My hands thank me!
A friend once brought a breathalyzer to a party - we were all quite disturbed to find how impaired we felt while still under the legal limit.
Reflecting on the first two decades of our foundation
I was just discussing this with my wife as my 6-year old daughter developed an interesting grip (not shown in any of those pictures). With humans being creatures of habit, I'm curious if there is generally a certain age where the grip should be corrected, especially if it looks like a straining one. I remember having a co-worker who held her pen in her fist, like she was writing with a boxing glove on (puts all the strain in the arm, elbow & shoulder).
Returns are super painless now. You just click a few times on a webpage and then go to your local UPS store (or whatever you picked) show them your phone so they can scan the QR code you got sent, and then hand them the item.
Maybe trying to workaround a dependency issue. Not sure what's in rpms, but in deb the manifest may require libsomething version exactly 1.1, will fail if something else requires libsomething >= 1.2.
German here as well - the lack of employer flexibility is why in the last 15 years, I have been working exclusively for companies overseas, remotely. I found it much easier to negotiate remote work with an employer based in San Francisco than one in Berlin or Munich.
> Nobody else in the industry seems to have had that insight back then

Helps to have someone on Apple board, you know
I read "no photo" as "paid not to have their photo included"
Unless a box of boxes costs less than they can sell a box of granola or coasters for, in which case this is the ultimate free money machine.
> One wild card is the SpaceX Starship, which Elon is talking about having some lunar capability for,

“Some lunar capability” is an understatement. If high elliptical orbital refuelling of Starship works it will completely change the game - eliminating the need for a lander & service module.

Instead of delivering a 25-30 ton lander, they’ll land the entire second stage, with 100 tons of cargo (or dozens of passengers), all at a fraction of the cost of the estimate $1 billion SLS launch cost.

Starship is already being prototyped, and will probably fly this year or next, while NASAs crewed lunar lander proposals are all just proposals.
I have never able to hold a pen like I'm "supposed" to, or really how I've seen described. I hold my pen between the pad of my thumb and the side of my index finger in the neighborhood of the first knuckle.
In Japan I believe the (true and only correct) way to hold a pen is taught and emphasized from a young age, while the United States maintains a "do it your way" mentality about it. It may have to do with chopsticks requiring similar precision or that it is difficult to follow the detailed prescriptions for writing Chinese characters otherwise - I'm just speculating here.
This is great. We usually overload the bastion server with NAT duties but SSM + hosted NAT makes bastion servers a thing of the past?
Indeed - its not really a podcast anymore.
> in terms of YouTube / Play being a customers of GCP, themselves

I don't believe that's a true characterization; not any more correct than considering Search to be a GCP customer. Not true technically nor in terms of revenue booked. A more accurate description would be GCP and YouTube both are built on top of common Google infrastructure (Borg, storage, networking, monorepo/dev infra, etc.)

No idea how true is the latter either, Amazon being an AWS customer.
it is the reason openbsd exists
I went all the way to a fountain pen that I put a refillable cartridge into, currently a Cross silver beauty with Blue-Black ink from Japan - Gorgeous color.

Originally I studied and trained as an Architect - A lettering sheet a week to practice my hand lettering skills.

Rather than go into Architecture, I went into IT, eventually being a phone jockey providing tech support for half a decade. While trying to keep up (somewhat) with the conversation, my note taking speed meant my lettering quality went out the window.

So I bought my first fountain pen to force myself to slow down and spend more time lettering better. If I forget, my ink stained hands serve as a reminder. :)

I have only changed pens when I lose the previous (like once to the TSA along with a pocket knife, another time while using a shopping cart as a skateboard back to the market). Hopefully someone found that one and put it to use...

Although I do not like fat pens, the cartridge style cannot get too thin, which also means they are more pleasant to hold in the hand. That turned out to be important to me if significant time is spent using it.

Of course, YMMV.
None of them has revenue comparable to NOKIA before Elop. Look at the unemployment level in Finland right after NOKIA went belly up. They were some of the worst in EU in that period. Now instead of one huge company you have hundreds small ones that combined can't even reach 10% of NOKIA's revenue. That must be felt in taxes.
"Fibers" is a term for manually-scheduled threads that was used in Windows at least since Windows 2000. Niche feature, but it was fully documented and all.
My a & b weren't intended to be ranked though clumsy phrasing did suggest it.
The situation is contested & difficult in Australia, because so much of the data comes from our traffic cops, who are poorly trained in crash investigation by international standards. I don't have refs handy, but I've seen widely disparate stats here - official (police-derived) ones generally put more of the 'blame' on motorcyclists than do university studies. I actually did a course at Queensland uni on traffic accidents many years ago, and it was a minefield of unreliable data and motivated interpretation. I've no idea whether NZ is better or worse in that respect.

In any case, whether car drivers are the cause of the majority or minority of cases, shouldn't they wish to make efforts to avoid killing other road users?
Edit: After watching over twenty videos from Chinese temporary "hospitals" on Wechat I now understand whats going on - there are NO meds at all. They isolate people and feed them once per day thru small holes in the wall.
On the other hand there are people like me - where GIS course at university was basically "setup a postgres DB, load test data, add a feature in qgis" - and in professional work i had to probably re-discover everything.

If someone with proper education in the field would look at my topology checking code, they would die a bit inside.
Does that account for data centers getting built primarily in areas with easy access to renewable energy? I suspect the fuel mix for your average Amazon data center to be considerably greener than running the same power rig out of your home. I don't know if it's enough to offset the cost of the networking equipment between the DC and your house, but it's not so clear cut that this would be worse than buying a gaming rig and running the game yourself.
> Also, talk to a lawyer immediately and make sure you have clear ownership given your employment elsewhere in the same industry.

This has been sorted with HR, and I have written consent for any secondary ventures.
I do the following.

When consulting for clients:

I use an email draft with subject:

<client name> Tasks done for week ending 7/Feb/2020

-- task 1

-- task 1 detail 1

-- task 1 detail 2

...

-- task 2

-- task2 detail 1

..

When working on own projects:

- I use a physical register

- Date (at the top)

- organized notes

...

- random doodling/scribbling

Edit: On a Monday morning, I send that email to myself. So that that week's activities are always searchable by that week ending date. It helps me in my client reporting.
Google is literally the market leader at using personal information to make money. In any sensible business plan, they'd be the ones buying data, except they don't have to, because they're also the best at collecting it!

In general people greatly overestimate the potential gains from selling data relative to collecting your own. Most personal data is fairly general and bland and useless. Gains come from very specific data that caters to your particular use-case. The best way to get that data is usually to collect it yourself, not just because it's so specific, but also because tiny details in collection methods matter, and the only way to make sure it's been done right is to do it yourself.
> It would definitively be illegal

Would it? Just a list of links to episodes in machine readable form? I can't see what issues it raise, unless it ignores a NOROBOTS
Apple requires authorized repair shops to provide customers' phone, addresses
It’s an optional feature. I doubt many people will use it.
Google accused of competition abuse in holiday rentals
It was 10 years ago so I know people might not remember this, but I do and I think it’s relevant. RIM had 10 year development cycles for devices. They had blackberries designed 10 years out and had nothing on the horizon that looked like an iPhone.

Here is a slice of relevant context: http://www.edibleapple.com/2010/12/28/rim-was-in-disbelief-f...

Do not understate how ridiculous the iPhone was when it launched. You had to side load apps on your phone to use them. Remember getjar.com?
Not sure, if you look at how Elop (mis)managed the company piece-by-piece, first by sidelining MeeGo, then one by one closing Indian factories that made NOKIA independent (ask Indians how fun that was), then splitting off Qt to prevent any kind of internal competition to MS' platform, including the sell-off bonus Elop had in the contract, the Hanlon's razor applicability is pretty low. If you want to believe there wasn't some background deal between top management, rendering all NOKIA employees sacrificial lambs for MS, OK.
> So, I just copied the data from WHO sitreps and the total-cases diff of diffs has been increasingly negative for three of the last four days. So it's still getting worse, but the second derivative might be negative.

Could you explain what this means in layman's terms?
Technically yes, but the jet stream blows at high altitude.
thanks, will be googling bit more on these terms and techniques
Kubernetes CKAD Weekly Challenge
Unless they pass on the cost to the sellers...
US 2020: At one Iowa mosque, almost all caucus votes went to Bernie Sanders
MS got licence to all NOKIA patents as well.
Maybe regularly ask your listeners to fill in a voluntary survey, if helps support you. I'm sure many would.

FWIW, Spotify thinks it knows my age and gender, but it really doesn't.
dot/doh is here, pihole is becoming irelevant
There is.

1. Touch the pad of your thumb to the pad of your index finger.

2. Curl your middle finger slightly so that the side of the tip of your middle finger just touches the side of your thumb. There should be no space between your middle and index fingers.

3. If you've done it properly, your hand will feel completely relaxed, and there will be a little triangular-shaped hole created by your thumb, index, and middle fingers. Stick the pen in this hole and hold it just tightly enough to keep it from falling out. It should take almost no muscle tension to hold it in place.

This is very similar to what you've described. You may still get a callus on your middle finger, but your index finger should not be crooked.
I try to change the oil at least every 10,000 miles to prevent automotive death.
I wanted to add to this list but as it turns out, all of the EU's top companies (the top x list starts at around $22B revenue) aren't tech companies; oil and gas, automotive, utilities and financial services are the main ones. Mind you the list is from 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_compa...

Compare to the US (2019 figures), it has Apple in 3rd place, Amazon on 5th, Alphabet on 15th, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_t...
Not really. Let's consider an alternate flexible version that stretches up to 2-3 months outside of emergencies. Versus a non-flexible version that stretches 0 months outside of emergencies.

If you compare the flexible version targeted at June, and the non-flexible version targeted at August, you'll find that they're making almost the exact same compromises.

Nothing ever stops you from using an earlier version if it's more stable. So both schedules get to chose from multiple versions. Maybe flexible chooses from 6 month old to 3 months in the future code, via delaying. But non-flexible can choose from 9 month old to 0 month old code. It works out the same, and the only difference is how you label it.
I use newsboat https://newsboat.org as I like no distractions.

In my "urls" I have things organized like so:

# Blogs

## Software Development Blogs
https://example1s.com/ "blogs/softdev"
https://example2s.com/ "blogs/softdev"
https://example3s.com/ "blogs/softdev"

## Security Blogs
https://example1sec.com/ "blogs/security"
https://example2sec.com/ "blogs/security"
https://example3sec.com/ "blogs/security"

## Networking Blogs
https://example1net.com/ "blogs/networking"
https://example2net.com/ "blogs/networking"
https://example3net.com/ "blogs/networking"

## Web
https://example1.com/ "blogs/web"
https://example2.com/ "blogs/web"
https://example3.com/ "blogs/web"

# Youtube
## Topic
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<example1> "yt/topic"
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<example2> "yt/topic"
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<example3> "yt/topic"

Using the tags feature it groups the feeds together https://i.imgur.com/KrzzaBP.png

When I enter the group I see the blogs in there: https://i.imgur.com/jeXGpIf.png
Vic wasn‘t involved in the decision to build Android and what it‘s going to look like and how. The decision to buy Andy Rubin‘s team happened years earlier.
Advertising works because people have little choice in the matter. It's exploiting that people value "consumption with ads" more than "no consumption at all", and most are not skilled enough to remove the ads themselves.

(It's not like they wouldn't do it if they knew how; remember the popularity of VCRs? Their main use case was that on a recorded show, you could fast-forward through ads.)

People are not OK with metrics; most population has no understanding about the extent to which they're being surveilled or measured. There's also a growing feeling of helplessness, because the more the snooping is becoming known, the more apparent it seems that it's the same as with advertising - unless you're a tech-savvy person, you have no choice at all.

EDIT:

A big part of the problems are the constant lies of omission. I believe much fewer people would be willing to connect their TVs to the Internet if on the box, next to "you can watch Netflix from your couch", there would be text saying "we'll spy on you as much as we can, and this data might wind up at your insurance provider". Or an asterisk next to "Netflix" explaining that "the service will work until we get bored or they change their API, i.e. for about two to three years".
And it doesn't surprise you with something - or some combination of things - that are installed. If you need it, you put it there, otherwise it's not in your way.

I'm on Mac at the moment and frequently pine for Arch. 'What on Earth just happened...', 'What did that...', 'What is this...', 'Well that wouldn't have happened on Arch.'

People claim Mac 'just works' because of out-of-the-box readiness, well I'd say in contrast Arch 'still works' or 'keeps working': it does what you tell it and if you don't tell it to change, it stays working in the same way.
Pihole may be irelevant soon, but not yet. I sit with about 10% blocked.
I followed that curriculum and it sorted me out with regards to algorithms and networking. I recommend it very highly.

The idea is that once you have read these books you have the knowledge needed to identify what kind of problem you have in front of you, what tools are known to solve it, what are their disadvantages, and most importantly what should you search for to find out more about the problem.