skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're saying it wasn't staged, I'd agree that that's obviously true.
You don't need to sue Google enough to completely eat up their profits, you just need to sue them enough that it becomes cheaper for them to staff a better customer service department.
I’m not sure why you’re talking about mental illness like a vague catch all term when talking about someone, nor why you’d dismiss a person with a statement like “mentally ill person says mentally ill things.”

Research and clinical communities can better determine whether some classification occurs frequently with some symptom. Or were your HN comments meant to further those efforts?
I think there is more than one way to generate fraudulent traffic including click farms or Amazon Mechanical Turk.
That the operator is a human does not entail the click is legitimate.
Investor update on quarterly guidance
It's an interesting idea. Buy up any lease you can and sit on it. Probably a risky way to burn through a few billion, and at the risk that new companies pop up anyway and undo all your work.

I would rather they focus on drowning out coal on the supply side, or furthering carbon capture technology.
This looks well packaged, and I can see the argument that it may be easier to use than the competition.

But how do you plan to make money? I’m looking for a model that isn’t “we sell data on our customers”, which I see is prohibited based on the TOS. But what would be the road to profit and what safeguards are in place to prevent you from just selling to a less ethical company down the road?
I run the setup of S3 + Cloudfront and never ran into their index problem because I'm not trying for URLs without document file extensions.

I assume that's the reason for really wanting index redirect in directories. Pretty URLs, I didn't feel the need. There are other valid reasons too I'm sure. But my needs diverged from the article even earlier than SEO penalties.
Most people that can afford space internet live in cities, and of the rural ones almost all live in wealthy countries.

Rural populations in Africa barely have electricity, the idea that they could pay for that Musk space internet that brings salvation is just obscene.
I mean, this kind of comment really only comes from someone who has never used the language in any kind of depth. Whether or not the object triggers twice depends on type of object as you pointed out, ordering of inputs forgetting whether or not two executions is perhaps intended.
Don't use Adsense for revenue.
Every AWS service is shockingly crusty. Even after spending years on AWS calibrating my expectations downwards, it regularly finds ways to surprise me.

I know, I know. For developers it beats obtaining permission every time you want to spend $5/mo on some plumbing and for managers it beats getting fired because you chose Google cloud and they canceled it the next year. Still... ugh.
> highly productive developers (10x or otherwise) are problem-solving at a much higher level

This is a very important point, but calling these highly productive developers "10x" doesn't really make sense. They are more like "infinity times" compared to the average when it comes to getting a difficult task done, since the average developer would just get stuck and never be able to invent good designs and solve the difficult problems. Even worse, some programmers are in the negative on many tasks, adding additional complexity and overhead while making little to no positive contributions, especially when you give them a problem beyond their capabilities.
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> push changes to Github

Or create an organisation on Github and publish this website as a Page. It is simple and it is free.
"I don't think minor cosmetic issues will materially impact public opinion" is exactly the opinion of the Detroit car companies before they started losing market share to the Japanese companies. They've never recovered. The Japanese were widely regarded to be higher quality machines, and the fit/finish was a big part of that perception.
The real oops is that the boundary they are using as a trust boundary is not considered a trust boundary by its developers. Plainly,

> the netback driver runs in dom0 and is fully trusted. It is coded to protect itself against misbehaving client VMs. Netfront, by contrast, assumes that netback is trustworthy. The Xen developers only considers bugs in netback to be security critical.

> What can an attacker do once they’ve exploited FirewallVM’s trusting netfront driver? Presumably they now have complete control of FirewallVM. At this point, they can simply reuse the same exploit to take control of the client VMs, which are running the same trusting netfront code!
What if Burnout is Depression?
> Buy the cheapest most unsustainable VPS ipv4 deal out there.

[...]

> Yearly maintenance required:

Well, presumably, find the new cheapest, most unsustainable VPS ipv4 deal, the previous one not having been sustained.
Thanks! Those are some really interesting numbers.
I agree they exist. The article does too, at the end:

...highly productive developers (10x or otherwise) are problem-solving at a much higher level. Their productivity won’t be apparent from a narrow test, any more than the overall skill of a world-class football player would be apparent from (say) how fast they could run the 100m dash.

The most productive developers are solving big problems, and are bringing judgment and experience to bear on essential design, architecture, and “build vs use existing library” decisions. They’re designing key abstractions that will pay dividends through the life of the project...
Zoom is associated with malware in my mind. Is it the same app/service that was infamous on here for a while?
Can you update the article by holding out a portion of the training set and then using it as an unseen test set?

Otherwise it's impossible to make the comparisons at the end of the article to other results.
I wonder if being a white male is really holding you back. Might be worth it reading up on the legal obligation to identify yourself demographically. If you had an iota of non-white DNA could you call yourself black? If you felt transgender, could you call yourself a woman?

Personally, I doubt demographics are holding you back. Plenty of white men work for the government. I expect it's just hard to get a job because of the inefficiencies of government and the underlying details of job postings. For example, I used to work at a company where, for some reason, whenever we hired someone we had to first list a job posting for some period of time, but the posting was for the position that would be filled by the guy we just decided to hire, so everyone applying to it would be rejected.

Still, if it's legal to take an expansive view of your own demographics, it might be worth it to try. That way you could tell if it's really your white maleness holding you back.
It's a matter of perspective.

I know people living in remote and even not so remote areas for whom cheap and easy internet access would literally be a live changer, and who wouldn't care less about astronomers having their work more difficult as a consequence, because, again, it would be a literal life-changing event for them in terms of personal safety, agriculture, income or education.
I use https://roamresearch.com it is like notion but without a note limit
I'm a pretty libertarian minded guy and I generally think the federal government is too big and bloated, but this is exactly where they are needed. They need to start throwing their weight at Google and telling them if they don't start reigning in this kind of shit, they're going to get regulated to high hell then broken up.

Google has shown time and again they do not care. I don't even know if they employ human support reps, I've never actually spoken to anyone who represents google other than recruiters.
Wasabi is decently inexpensive at $.0059 per GB/month
https://wasabi.com/

I currently use it as my personal cloud backup
Why can't I just keep doing whatever I want and offset my carbon like these kinds of initiatives do?
The problem isn’t time spent on these sites, it’s finding better quality ways to spend the time. That’s the real challenge. Solution needs to be pull to something better not push away from something worse. Not that the push is necessarily bad but it’s not the full answer.
IFTTT is indeed a SaaS but I would also classify it as a general purpose tool like Excel. A jack of all trades. Definitely a master of none. Would you use IFTTT or Pingdom to check your site is up?

If people are setting up IFTTT for business critical things, then potentially there is scope for a dedicated SaaS to some of those things.
It’s incredibly difficult to present a dissenting opinion on certain topics here because of the downvoting system. It used to bother me to see points go down (upon reflection the upvote/downvote system really seems to reward groupthink). I think it would better to just have upvotes.

The way the system is designed today the only people who will present a dissenting opinion on a hot topic are either very inured to social pressure, or intentionally trolling.
You are redefining freedom to mean the freedom to take away others freedom.

If you have laid claim to the number 010101 and on my device a chunk of memory is initialized to 000000 you are defining your freedom as the power to keep me from changing that memory to 010101 this only sounds sane when you use language that presupposed we accept this insanity.
Google isn't moral, they don't see this fine as a mistake to be learned from. It's an operating expense. They won't change their tune

We the community can fix this. Stop inviting Googlers to parties. Don’t go to their talks at conferences. Throw their resumes in the bin. Only when they know their behaviour is unacceptable will they start to get it.
We shouldn't care because it's better that a billionaire chooses where that money goes instead of a democratically elected government?

I'm not poking fun either. That's really what you seem to be saying. Does this still work if he puts this money towards a cause you're not keen of?
I get a different feeling of wasting my time. Not because I expect to not get hired (though I well might not), but because I expect the project to be a complete waste of time. I expect it to be mismanaged to the point of either never being completed, or of being completed but completely useless. I expect to be able to make no meaningful difference, and meaningless in my work is not good for my psyche.

Disclaimer: I have no actual experience with working for the government. I probably read more about a higher proportion fo their disasters than I do their successes.
I see you are using Hugo 0.62.1

https://sanderknape.com

FYI starting with 0.63.0 the speed has about doubled:

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.63.0
so who died and made you king of npm issues?
This says he "commits" 10B to a new initiative named after himself. What do terms like "commits" and "pledges" mean? From the article it looks like all he did was post on Instagram.

Is there more to this than an IG post? Is there anything legally binding, anything that actually moves the money outside of his control? Did his networth just drop 10B?
That sounds like a USDS† position. My understanding is that they do things that way due to unstable budgets, because their pay is out of whack compared to the rest of the government (because pay at an equivalent position outside of the government is much higher).

† https://www.usds.gov/faq
You can have your cake and eat it to-

set $monL DP-1.3
set $monR DP-2

set $ws1L "1L"
set $ws2L "2L"
...
set $ws1R "1R"
set $ws2R "2R"
...

workspace $ws1L output $monL
workspace $ws1R output $monR
workspace $ws2L output $monL
workspace $ws2R output $monR
...

and upidate bindsyms (maybe add a modifier to switch right workspaces..?)

bindsym $mod+1 workspace $ws1L
bindsym $mod+2 workspace $ws2L
...
Again, you're missing the point. Max and pd were developed for composers and musicians to execute live performances of institutionalised academic music (as well as its long history of connections to IRCAM in Paris). It does that perfectly.
Keep in mind that if you use this data often as training data you want to store it close to your GPU. No point in saving money on the data storage and have your expensive GPU idle because you are waiting for data to download from Dropbox...
They just follow the uber/airbnb model -- do it quickly before the regulation catches up and it is too late to fix the damage.
Well, three things.

First of all, I searched and couldn't find he's actually giving $10b. What I mean is that I don't know if the $10b accounts for any Amazon investments / costs.

Second, it's not -$10b if he's getting a tax break for some of this. It's $7.6b as someone else mentioned. I know, still a lot of money! But he's not loosing $10b from his fortune.

Third, in this case you happen to think it's a win for society and the future of humanity. Other billionaires give money for causes they believe, like The Koch family for "advancing liberty and freedom", or Bloomberg advocating for a third term as mayor. The lack of accountability for the influence billionaires have in our society should be a concern. We praise when they give to causes we believe, but the system that allows them to do this has nefarious byproducts. It's like we're watching billionaires shape our society and our culture and think that's alright.
Colorado's Fortitude Ranch Is a Doomsday Timeshare for the Middle Class
Ableton was a max patch once.
$210 billion in cash?
If it winds up in a landfill consider that a success.
> Do we know how much emissions can be attributed to Amazon / AWS?

No, the CDP routinely gives Amazon an F grade because they don't disclose anything:

https://www.cdp.net/en/responses/658?queries%255Bname%255D%3...

The purpose of the CDP is precisely for this kind of public shaming or praising, for keeping track of which companies are reporting what. Amazon is really bad for not disclosing anything.

Compare with Google:

https://www.cdp.net/en/responses?utf8=%E2%9C%93&queries%5Bna...

You can even read Google's reports here (I ignore most of the fluff and go straight to the appendix that has the actual numbers):

https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/google_2019-enviro...
I would be thrilled if that were the case!
Replicator tech. Post scarcity (within a reasonable pocket of the universe where there exists a energy inequilibrium).
I absolutely love gen~. Graham Wakefield's software is all super interesting. His research centre at UoY is also very curious.
That seems like an important question, yes. If the fund aims to keep the biosphere from falling apart by sending some people lots of money, our evaluations should depend pretty heavily on who the people will be.
Spain, and much of southern Europe, has good solar, but not that much renewable at night I think. The setup for wind is better in slightly more northern europe. Iceland has geothermal that never fails, and Norway has hydro.
Probably because it is built on tools that are made to scale arbitrarily and solve a large amount of very general needs. This need is simple, the tool is not built for simple needs though it can meet them.

I dislike the UX of AWS but the complexity here isn't strange to me. I bothered to set up the first bit of this (didn't need sub-dir index files so didn't realize it was a problem) since I wanted a simple storage, simple deploy and good resilience.

My site has been hit by HN a few times now and it hasn't been an issue. Fairly set and forget. But the start is annoying.
Do you really need 60 Hz for writing code?

I've found that on cheap laptops it helps to set the refresh to 40Hz in the name of stability- it makes the recover from suspend process more reliable for some reason.
A sibling post noticed it seems to be an abbreviation related to electrical lights, but it is worth mentioning that Svetlana is just a common name. Like say, Jenny or Stacy. A few my teachers had that name, for example. The shortened version, "Sveta" is also common.

It would be different, for example, if it was an extremely rare name shared with Stalin's daughter.
s3 may be cheaper than you think.

If you're willing to tolerate hr+ delays in accessing your data aws glacier deep archive is 70cents per terabyte month.

that's pretty awesome in my book.

If you need to access the data in under an hr it comes out around $2 per TB/mo
A Forest from the Seeds of Minimalism:An Essay on Postminimal and Totalist Music
As a cuban, I totally understand that theft is the only way to survive in some environments. I wonder if the future might be companies investing in countries to reap the benefits (but that would require thinking beyond the quarter)
If you are looking for a distro with i3 preinstalled, Manjaro i3 edition is another option.

https://manjaro.org/download/#i3
*SMT solvers

STM is either a scanning tunneling microscope or software transactional memory, both of which are pretty interesting, but Z3 is neither.

Also, it occurred to me that I didn't even mention browsers, probably because I myself am so comfortable with them. The big software platforms right now are POSIX, Android, Java, browsers, and whatever Microsoft is doing now — it's enough effort to reuse code written for one environment for another that people often just rewrite it. Browsers have by far the best GUI library — not that the DOM is a great or even acceptable interface, but things like React and D3 are — and the major advantage that if you write stuff in a browser you can immediately show it to many people. The development tools are insane, and HTML5 supports most cellphone peripherals in a cross-platform way.
I've used them for the last 5 years. They are OK. Their network is not redundant (core routers) so you should expect some downtime at least once per year for several hours.
But it's the only complaint I have.
The good part is that you can buy several servers for 100-200 EUR and build a decent HA with fixed monthly cost. Our AWS bill was always hard to predict.
Also, they have a VPS cloud service that is decent and we use it for non-core services.
Who will pay for that big complicated ball of light streaks so that the internet will become cheap?

Is it those rural users currently aren't profitable enough to supply otherwise?
You're right, but also what are we doing in the meantime? What's the point of having that kind of money except to do huge initiatives like this?
Are you unaware of the federal licenses required for these satellites to be deployed, or do you just mean they were granted without taking astronomers' wishes into account?

Edit: This is a sincere question. Several comments on this story indicate people don't believe there's any regulation as to what happens in space.

Edit 2: While I'm editing things, here's the FCC Record for the original Starlink proposal in case you're curious what some of the objections brought up during the original comment period were. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-38A1.pdf Mostly it looks like other satellite operators worried about interference, orbital debris concerns, and there was a note about potential impacts on radio astronomy.
I wonder if it would be possible to model work for the USDS in terms of side projects. I would not want to take a leave of absence from work to serve in the USDS, but I would definitely love to put 10-20 hours a week on the side for a really meaningful side project.

I don't know if that model would be tenable, but I think it would attract many people who already spend that kind of time on side projects.
Why do machine learners use F1 score instead of a proper scoring rule (MSE, log-loss, etc.)?
The last time I tried to maintain a personal VPS I was using it for a Jenkins build server so users could obtain the latest artifacts of some open source programs I work on. That burned me after it got exploited using a Jenkins RCE and a bitcoin miner was installed on the VPS.

Also, the cheapest VPS you can find likely won't ever achieve the level of scale your static website in S3 could achieve. In the rare event you get a lot of web traffic, you're only hosed if AWS is hosed.
the churn of those plastic products and the net cost adds up
If you have Max installed I'm happy to send you incredibly complicated DSP and musical problems solved visually and cleanly. Open your mind for a second and realise that musicians needs are almost entirely different to software engineer's in a language.
;) Maybe given Bezos' character, the endowment and the fleet upgrade is actually, well aside from being more cost effective for a lot of reasons .. also .. his best vehicle for scoring some long term points against the Saudis, since they 'didn't hack his phone, or whatever.
I also get moves confused with the return-value optimization, though my understanding is that RVO appeared earlier.
>The same mechanism that successfully deploys 60 satellites could probably also successfully deploy 60 warheads

We've had missiles that could do that since 1970. They're called MIRVs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta...
Architects have two primary purposes (not roles):

1) Facilitate that architecture and design happens in teams (dev or not)

2) Ensure coherency of architecture

That's it folks!
> I'm not sure why anyone would host a static website on the AWS stack.

Well, I do that, so I guess I'll chime in.

First and foremost is the idea of not tying your site's build process and hosting to a company that could go under. Yes, Amazon could, but if I had to bet Netlify will either cease to exist, be bought out, have its free offering discontinued/changed/etc. long before that.

Second is that sometimes your site's build process is more complicated than what Netlify provides. For example, my site is a static Hugo site, which Netlify supports, but there's one crucial step in the build process where I turn my "resume.html" page into "resume.pdf" -- I have to run a Docker image that starts headless Chrome in order to render the PDF properly. As far as I can tell, that can't be rigged up in Netlify.

Finally, I was able to learn a lot about AWS by hosting my site this way -- setting up a Lambda to listen for GitHub commits, using the AWS API to launch an EC2 instance to build my site, how to configure S3 and CloudFront to serve up content properly, etc. And at the end of the day I get a site that I have complete control over and is approximately free to run.
It's not a trivial problem, but the GHG reporting protocol is widely understood and used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_emissions_reporting#Gre...

If Amazon reported their emissions, we can corroborate their Scope 1 emissions with other companies' Scope 3 emissions and get an indication of just how much Amazon is directly responsible for.

Amazon, however, discloses nothing. This is the kind of thing that regulations are for. In other countries, disclosure is mandatory, and I would say for our survival as a species, absolutely essential. We need data before we can know what direction to take.

When we do our GHG assessment at the company where I work, we estimate our Scope 3 emissions based on what has been leaked about the location of Amazon's data centres and what we know about the electricity grid in those locations. We look at our CPU usage on the AWS console and estimate the energy required with some assumptions of the hardware.

It introduces a lot of uncertainty and we could do better if Amazon disclosed their emissions.
BigQuery with it's $20/TB for active, and half of the price for cold storage, is the best structured (eg: columns or JSON) solution where import and export is free. You even get SQL as the product is a data warehouse.