skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't explain why the pricing isn't consistent. Why is an N1 the same price as an N2, except for sustained-use? Why is an E2 cheaper than an N1/N2D, except for sustained-use?

E2 is just such an amazing idea that feels like it's going to be under-utilized because it isn't cheaper for the sustained-use case. There doesn't seem to be any reason why E2 would be more expensive (to Google) for sustained-use and not for on-demand or committed.

Google Cloud is really nice, but the inconsistent pricing/discounting between the different types seems odd. Like, I'm running something on N1 right now with sustained-use because there's no incentive for me to switch to E2. It feels a bit wasteful since it doesn't get a lot of traffic and would be the perfect VM to steal resources from. However, I'd only get a discount if I did a 1-year commitment. For Google, I'm tying up resources you could put to better use. E2 instances are usually 30% cheaper which would give me a nice incentive to switch to them, but without the sustained-use discount, N2D and N1 instances become the same price. So, I end up tying up hardware that could be used more efficiently.
Probably meant parity
I really do not like Julian Assange as a person, I do not admire his work. He's a fraud, a con-man, and might also be a criminal. But a critical measure of a society is how equal justice is for all, even those hated by society. Tolerance of the abuse of prisoners or torture is a grave moral failure no matter who the perp is. Maybe the docs are all duped by the scammers around Assange, but it looks pretty abusive not to transfer him to a hospital.
As others have said, dehydration is your probably your biggest risk. Access to fresh water can be challenge, especially in summer.

Depending on where you are, exposure would be the next biggest risk (many hikers get into trouble in the Stirling Ranges when they underestimate how cold it can get).

When you are hiking, you generally make enough noise/vibration to warn snakes of your approach. They will usually get out of the way. There is more risk if the temperature is still a bit cool. Snakes will then be sluggish, won't have moved away and may get startled. Wear gaiters it you are concerned and you'll be pretty well protected.

At certain times of the year, male kangaroos can get a bit obstreperous. It is rare though for one to get aggressive unless frightened or provoked. As with hiking trails elsewhere in the world, keep your food well sealed. This is minimise the risk of mice or quolls eating through your pack to get to the food.

If you are interested in hiking the South West of Australia check out the Bibbulmun track:

https://www.bibbulmuntrack.org.au/

Which meanders for ~1000km from Perth (state capital of Western Australia) to Albany. It passes through or close to many towns, so you can resupply relatively often.

There is also a MTB trail, the Munda Biddi, that follows a similar route:

https://www.mundabiddi.org.au/

Both trails have huts placed reasonable distances apart. The huts also have rain water tanks to help with the water access problem.
I don't know that our universe isn't a subspace of some higher-dimensional structure. That has nothing to do with what the specific word "dimension" means and has always meant outside of sci-fi. There has never been a sound reason to use the word "dimension" to describe the other possibilities you mention. If you want to write a technical document about those possibilities and be taken seriously, you need to find a better term. Invent one if necessary.
People don’t sue random Internet commentors for libel.

But imagine a form for them exclusively rich people. They have all taken out and Schoenes that will cover lawsuits of indefinite liability. Millions or billions. And if you find anything suitable on anywhere in the form you are guaranteed by the structure of the club that someone will make good to pay it if you win.

That’s the structure that you were arguing for. It’s a strange structure.

But I am not arguing that only the rich can speak. Regular users don’t face any real risk of libel for Internet comments.

The risk would arise for the private club because it has a target on his back: the money is here.

As a reminder the reason regular people couldn’t speak under your proposal is that in normal cases of form would itself be liable for our comments. So it would be uneconomical to run a forum due to the legal risk
no pricing mentioned

I was surprised to discover the other day that one of my VPSs had been upgraded from 1 old Xeon 26XX core to 2 EPYC cores. other stats unmetered 10Gb/s up/down, low latency A'dam location, 2GB RAM, SSD.. it even outperformed my i7-8700T in a single-core openSSL benchmark. most importantly it costs €3/mo

I really can't see google competing with that
Not sure why you were getting downvoted these are pretty reasonable comments. The database example and use of B-Trees you mentioned is a good one.

It’s definitely possible to create a performant and portable document specification and others have.

I just strongly suspect that the performance issue that libre office and others have is more of a manpower issue and not having equivalent resources and knowledge of the excel formats rather than some shortcoming in ms’ own file formats.
That would be false information- if someone cannot do something, and doctored video is trying to cover for that weakness, then the video is faking it.

Ergo, it is fake.
Overdubbing a person's voice? Questionable.

Making someone look like they're speaking a language they don't know? That's faking it.

Using AI to help out with your fakery? That's deep down the rabbit hole
I've seen this, and it's horrific.

It was 2008, and I worked for a large investment bank (think in the Goldman Sachs echelon). I was on a transition team moving risk analysis for $1bn in synthetic CDO assets from Excel spreadsheets to a formal system.

There was zero documentation. Formulas were not internally consistent. Their version of version control was saving a new copy of the spreadsheet every day. Their version of day-to-day analysis was copying tabs with a specific naming scheme so that the macros would pick up yesterday's data properly.

Have you ever seen a spreadsheet generate XML? Shell out to a command line program? Import the XML that command line program generated? Generate a CSV file? And then FTP that CSV file to a central reporting system?

I have, and it haunts me to this day.
Not to mention my complaint, they sell it with a bunk SSD. Googling around it seems not to be an isolated case.

I like the machine a lot though, it's pretty close to my ideal. I hope that nothing breaks on me again.
Sweet. I just googled everything at the end there and found this, look reasonable?: http://gordon.celesta.me/2018/04/13/raspberry-pi-real-time-f...
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It isn't unconstitutional. Quote the Act that prohibits the Government from taking precautionary measures. We are dealing with a region that has seen countless terror attacks since the Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in the 1990s. For the first time since August 5th there has been peace in the valley with no major terror attacks. If restrictions of communications helps attain peace then so be it. I rather communications be cut than have lives lost needlessly because some deranged lunatic decided to blow himself up in the name of his Religion. And do not forget that the Pulwama Attack is still fresh in the minds of Indians.
We have different definitions of "make sense". It makes sense why they would embed a GIF, because it is easier to do, more broadly compatible, and well-understood.

It's not surprising someone would trade off bandwidth for this.

I also think MP4 is better, it just makes sense to me why someone would use a GIF.
I probably wouldn't personally put my home address online. But if you own a place and are reasonably identifiable, it's pretty trivial for someone to find given public records, etc.
In that case you should Kickstart some media outside India. It's your best bet folks. You have a large talent pool and I'm sure you'll come up with some way of financing it.
I think India is well on its way to becoming hybrid regime in the Democracy Index.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/22/global-d...
You must feel good that you have hours to fix things then. Unlike a large number of people here.
Yeah. Welcome to capitalism!
You have an interesting writing style, describing your experience as if you're watching the weather drift by.
I never understood why employees in America need to vote to join a union. In Australia employees can join/leave unions at will.
It works both ways. In this case the only benefit of leaving the building is that people outside the building get 2.5x the say as people in buildings from an outdated set of laws before the concept of modern buildings even existed.

I'm stretching your analogy to its limits here but both parties can claim to be held hostage to some degree.
I replied about this project before but surprised it hasn't reached more mainstream awareness. Piggydb former and now Cotoami [1]

[1]: https://piggydb.net/2019/03/06/why-its-harder-to-discover-va...
Those are per month costs, right? Considering it took multiple months to calculate the 50T digits of Pi, huge difference in cost.
It depends. Opus as a codec is, but Vorbis or WebM/Matroska as containers are not.

For VoIP applications, this is irrelevant, given that they often use RTP as a container for streaming and can supply their own decoding libraries for bulk files. (WebRTC on Safari also supports Opus natively).

It does matter for podcast feeds and other cases where the content provider does not control the playback app.
And it's not black/white either. It's a spectrum. There are plain HTML documents on one hand, and highly dynamic applications like Figma or Google Sheets on the other hand, but in between are interactive documents and anything you can think of.

So these features are here to stay.
I'm intrigued by the product. The SQL examples on the product page are atrocious though ((((
What Is Chaos? Finding a Horseshoe on the Beaches of Rio [pdf]
That's not how it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_salvage
There's a nice script that will set up a bunch of feeders and run a web interface:

https://github.com/jprochazka/adsb-receiver
Not in the thumbnail versions displayed in the post, no. And you can't even click on them to view the full version. I had to right-click, View Image, then strip a resizing parameter off of the URL to get the full thing.
Dante's Divine Comedy is an even earlier example that’s in the style of self insert fanfiction. With an author avatar talking with famous people of history, myth, and at the time present day.

With early work it’s hard to draw the line between evolution of a story and what we would call fanfiction.
Merge all implementations or have all of their programs use the same implementation? I find the former a little weird since there is, e.g., an MFC implementation and then a Win32 implementation (available as a COM object) and AFAIK those two are completely separate (i think the MFC predates the Win32 one and was made by some external company) and "modern apps" use XAML which is completely different from the MFC/Win32 stuff.
> They've banned VPNs. They'll chuck you in prison if you speak against the government or a politician.

Thank you for sharing this information. How were you, in your comment above, able to safely criticise the government while in India?

(If you are not able to disclose how you did, that's understandable to me. We all know about methods like Tor and obfs4 bridges. I run a Tor bridge to help people in China, hopefully. And now thanks to you, I'm thinking of India too.)
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Its obvious falseness is usually a hint that there are contextual conversational modifiers that are implicit. Conversationally, if your objective is information exchange, it is usually more productive to ask for clarification than to refute one interpretation.
I worked on the recommender and personalization stuff for a midsized fashion retailer. It took me about 2 years to figure out most of the work done by our ML & big data teammates was pure fiction.

I believe, but have no conceivable way to prove, that all of the easy wins have been won by the first movers.

It's weird. I have almost irrational optimism about the unbounded potential for deep learning, ML, big data, and so forth. Amazing, almost magical, stuff like KP figuring out that Vioxx was killing their patients once they had enough data and asked the right questions.

But I'm also completely skeptical about using these techniques for culture and entertainment and advertising. Methinks that ceiling has already been hit and there's nothing on the horizon.

Too bad. I really wanted our internal version of Stitchfix to actually work. Now I'm not sure it's possible. Or that we (or maybe just me) were asking the wrong questions.
It's not clear. He was preparing to make a left turn anyway, so he would have to move left at some point. I think he moved left prematurely, without checking for oncoming traffic. Maybe he was also trying to avoid the other cyclist, I don't know. He should have slowed down and waited for both cyclists to pass.
Absolutely right. It is ridiculous to think that the Government will not restrict communications in a region that has seen nothing but violence and terrorism for the past 30 years since the Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. For the first time in 3 decades the Valley is peaceful. If it comes down to choosing between deaths of innocents by deranged terrorists and cutting communication I would always choose the latter. The Pulwama Attack is still fresh in the mind of Indians and cannot be forgotten or forgiven.
http://stratux.me/

I use a raspberry pi, a couple cheap USB radio receivers, and use it with my tablet to show the weather and nearby traffic in the air. On android, you can link the flight data via wifi (from the pi) to a tablet running Avare (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ds.avare&h...) or some of the other flight tools on a moving map. Super helpful, as when flight following says there is someone somewhere, you stand a chance of being able to find them faster. It also pulls weather information in the air... which with moving map near real time is fantastic.
No, there's an industry that claims to do this, just like there was an industry for global plastic until the Chinese government shut it down because it was essentially a scam.
Reminded me of this: https://twitter.com/billkarwin/status/347561901460447232
Facts are facts. If a government is doing something and evidence shows that, then it is a fact, not an opinion.
Nit: JWTs are leveraged to cover a wide variety of use cases outside sessions.
If you have a specific issue with what GP said, please state it. Vague accusations are impossible to respond to.

If your contribution is "people are biased", that's not too helpful.
Mondragon is an ethnocentric, nationalist organization with strong political orientations. It's not a general example of what anyone would think of as a regular cooperative.

If a small part of Vermont where 'its own country' and constantly under threat of economic annexation from the US or Canada, well, people might organize differently than they do in California.
Most notably Pinterest and Craigslist and most epically MySpace back in the day.
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I mean, Don Quixote had unnoficial 2nd volumes made by fanons just to grab money from the top of the wave, just until Cervantes released the official 2nd part.
There were even internal puns for those unnoficial "doujintsi" made from Cervantes himself in order to throw off all the fake 2nd Don quixote parts.
In years past something like this in an interview would've rattled me. But now that I've been in this biz for 30+ years I think I'd just stand up, look the guy in the eye in a really squinty way and say, "Well, then I think we're done here kid" and walked out. You get to a point where you just won't put up with this kind of bullshit after a while.
"pessimistic way to look at it. Without a union or being a high-skilled worker, you are 100% serving your corporate overlord."

And 'serving a corporate overlord' is not 'pessimistic'?

You have skills, you work with others to make something hopefully productive, you get paid, and that's the deal. The company usually takes on most of the risk and the bigger chunk of the upside. That's the deal, it works well in most cases.
Honestly, stuff like this just debases the word "torture." Waterboarding is clearly torture. Undergoing prolonged periods of solitary confinement while in detention is arguably torture. However, choosing to avoid needed medical care during an attempt to flee law enforcement is definitely in the "not torture" category. It's self-inflicted harm.

Self-inflicted harm doesn't elicit the same kind of moral outrage that true torture does. These efforts seem to me to be an attempt to exploit that moral outrage in order to benefit a particular person. If successful, the lack of clarity that introduces just creates extra doubt in cases of true torture that blunts the outrage.

Here are some similar cases:

After conducting a bunch of bombings, Eric Rudolph fled the FBI by living in a forest for years, feeding himself by gathering acorns and dumpster diving [1]. His choice to do that to himself is similar to what Assange did, and was not torture, either.

Rudolph's brother, bizarrely, decided to cut off his own hand with a saw to protest the FBI's treatment of his brother and its surveillance of his family [2]. If the FBI had done that to him, it'd have been a gruesome case of torture, but since he did it to himself, it's definitely not torture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph

[2] http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9803/09/briefs.pm/rudolph.amputati...
> In one seven-week period Ms. Ozturk sent at least five emails to staff canceling meetings

There are a number of other parts of this article that look bad, but why is this one a big deal? At the more meeting-intensive jobs I've had, it's near the center of the bell curve.
What makes software engineering different?
SAG/AFTRA is a large union that represents actors in TV/film, as well as actors in theater, who generally make diddly squat because not many people watch theater performances in the US.

By way of comparison, the rate for a single background-role (i.e., as an extra) in a commercial at SAG rates is more than 3x the non-SAG rate for the same time. ($630 vs $200). If you live in a city like LA or NY, you could make a living wage working (as a background actor) just 45 days a year.
>someone

Me?
It's not obviously wrong. What has Democracy to do with "majority based decision making". Another way to think of democracy is "distributed decision making".

So why would "distributed decision making" be obviously worse than "command and control" like the way a corporation or tyrannical government is run?
Django doesn't consider itself to use MVC.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/faq/general/#django-ap...
"I don't like it" doesn't mean "it's outdated". Today's heavy differences in population density is exactly why the great compromise was reached. How is it any different from when Virginia and Rhode Island were deciding if they should be part of the same country?

If you don't like Trump, I have sympathy, I also hate the guy. But the Democratic Party used superdelegates to pick a notoriously unelectable candidate who was never going to win over moderates, and employed slogans like "it's not rigged, you just lost". And then they tried to blame the loss on the Great Compromise, which is kind of like superdelegates but not as arbitrary. For that, I'm afraid, I have no sympathy.
Not at all. It isn't the size of the PR that matters, but I generally want contributors to:

- Discuss their changes beforehand (usually on the issue page)

- Use patterns and practices that the rest of the codebase follows

- Listen to comments and feedback

- Write tests

While the work is "free", it should still be treated professionally.
It's practically speaking impossible for consumers to discover and act on this information.

We buy our toothbrushes from a retail store, many transactions removed from the manufacture of the toothbrush, and every organisation in that chain would have to voluntarily agree to honestly report its transportation details. This is unlikely.

Even if it did happen, the onus would then be on consumers to interpret these details, perform a comparison between a number of available brands, and determine the most conscientious choice. And then review this decision periodically, because transportation contracts come and go. This is a substantial amount of work.

Even if consumers were able to do that amount of work, they'd then have to replicate that work for every single product, because everything goes through a similar transportation process. There is absolutely no way that any individual has enough time in their lives to research the transportation details of even a reasonable sampling of products used.

And that's not even considering the transportation issues in the supply chain!

As you observe, individual organisations also cannot act, because doing so makes them less competitive.

This is basically the same reason why individuals can't effectively tackle climate change. There is far too much information that's hidden, and far too much time required to effectively assess information, for individuals to influence anything.

Like with climate change, there is a solution, and it's regulation. The problem would vanish overnight if the EU, the US, and I guess now the UK all refused to allow docking of ships with flags of convenience, or even just ones flying flags from countries that don't ratify the maritime treaties.

And like with climate change, the solution is hampered not because of technical difficulties or cost, it's hampered by lack of will to spend a relatively small amount of money on something that only has a social good and not an economic good.
> I am in Jammu (India) right now and can attest that comments like above are only opinions and not facts.

Just a note that being in India or for that matter being closer to Kashmir (Jammu) doesn't make your comment / opinion / statement any more authoritative.

I hate to be that guy, but some or all may apply:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/special-pleading

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/composition-division

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
I hope personal data collection habits, like "I collect my own data", gets to the point where each of us maintains our own data cache.

Therefore if someone deepfakes you, you'll be able to prove via your cache that you were not doing that at the time of that video's capturing.
However, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
It's reifying Events that attracts me to this model. This would encourage a message-passing style, which has always been a big win for me when I adopt it.

Operations is pretty much a rebranded Controller, here. But it's a good rebranding! I've seen Controllers turn into a "God class" too many times, where you end up with big lumps that do more-or-less everything.

Or, what's closer to the original paradigm, you have one Controller per Model, but that's the thing: a given action will routinely involve two or more models. Do you put a bit of persistence logic in the User Controller or the Session Controller?

Thinking in terms of Operations should encourage small classes that each do one thing, and follow their own logic, not View logic or Model logic.

And having everything communicate through well-defined Events is great, this would make it much easier to add additional sources and sinks by reusing an already-established Event with a new Operation.

The more I think about it the more I like it.
Because redrawing state lines is not a simple thing, nor would it really solve the fact that there will be a mix of different voters and values in every location.