skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are these "practices that identify and resolve subconscious fears, biases, resentments, attachments, etc"?
Ok, since you're familiar with the ET-312...

You know we reversed the ET-312 to the circuit level, right? :)

https://github.com/buttshock/mk312-bt
The things we do to ship desktop software
When you factor in storage, backups, and all the little support costs, things start to get pricey. Just the db can go from 500gb to a tb. Then all of that data came from somewhere and needs to be stored at least for a while.

Never mind the load balancing. And then we need another server for a different client, and another, and a demo server, and test & staging environments. Ugh. I wish this were on-premmable. We could probably hire an employee for the amount we could save. He'd probably be pulling his hair out supporting it tho. lol

My little on-prem HP dev server's got hundred gigs of ram and 8tb of fast storage. We run a bunch of VMs on there. We paid a couple of thousand dollars for it. And I don't even want to think of what it would cost to ship those VMs to the cloud. Nevermind just how poorly they would perform.
Parenthetical Habits: On the use and overuse of parentheses and brackets (2016)
Not sure what you are making but that’s way more advanced than any factory I’ve been to!
I was trying to have a real discussion with it but it downvoted everything I said and then shadowbanned me.
Marketing platform and the product being marketed benefit from effective marketing.

That the user was “sold” to is not inherently positive. Not all products are good. Not all users can afford products they’re buying. Not all users necessarily understand they’re paying in ways they’re unaware of.

Straying away from social media in this example, cigarettes and alcohol feel like good candidates here.
Lol. I don't even know any more. If you have the green icon in your tray, you probably want to go to the windows store and get the other one.
Cost.

We recently moved one rack to the different DC in the same city and used Digitalocean droplets to avoid downtime. Services running on Linux were migrated without high-availability (e.g. no pgsql replication, no redis cluster, single elasticsearch node...) and we just turned off Windows VMs completely due to licensing issues and no need to have them running at night.

The price of this setup was almost 4x higher than what we pay for colo. Our servers are usualy <5 years old Supermicro, we run on Openstack and Ceph (S3, rbd) and provide VPNaaS to our clients.

AWS/GCP/Azure was out of question due to cost. We considered moving Windows servers to Azure with the same result - the cost of running Windows Server (AD, Terminal, Tomcat) + MS SQL was many times higher than the price of colo per month. It is bizarre that you can buy the server running those VMs approximately every 3 months for the Azure expenses (Xeon Platinum, 512GB RAM).
Sure, unless you’re one of those restaurants that wants their own app.
This poem was the catalyst stopping me from purchasing the newest tech every year. New phone, new laptop, new devices....the magic of modern capitalism is that it hides the human cost of manufacturing. That said, perhaps having a job creates a better lifestyle in many parts of the world, but consumerism doesn't need to go at such an accelerated pace (IMHO).
my point is actually agnostic from the positive or negative impact. My point is more "Facebook is doing great, so EVERYTHING Facebook does is great by definition".

So hiring practices, engineering practices etc...

Then you take a step back and realize a good half of whatever they are doing is completely useless and doesn't add anything to the bottom line.

An interesting experiment I've done at a company I used to work at (I'm a product manager) was to take a graph of revenues, and ask the team if they could identify what the fluctuations or changes in slope were due to.

Turns out almost nothing we had done in about a couple years changed a damn thing about our trajectory. We were doing well, not great, and nothing we did made a damn difference (actually something, but not as much as we thought).

Long story short, if you work at Facebook you might think the secret sauce is how good you are at hiring, but considering the cost involved and the outcomes you would be better off just extracting resumes at random from a jar.
It's trendy now to have multiple listings for your browser. See other examples:

Opera (5): https://play.google.com/store/search?q=opera&c=apps&hl=en_US

Chrome (4): https://play.google.com/store/search?q=chrome&c=apps&hl=en_U...
Not sure where this originated, but I learned it from one of my martial arts teachers growing up:

You know what you know.
You know what you don’t know.
You don’t know what you know.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
How do these places get this information in the first place? It seems like it wouldn't be economical to get insiders to do it, and guessing firstname.lastname@company.com seems too unreliable
Imagine you had 1 group of engineers tasked with 40% meetings, 60% programming tasks.

Now, you split that group 40/60 into 2 groups so that one group is allocated 100% to meetings, and the other group 100% to programming. Now replace the latter group with bots.

That is why I mean.
I am still unable to fathom why he thinks inequality is a problem in and of itself. Hunger, famine, war, disease, we all understand are bad because they have negative consequences on real human lives. Jeff Bezos owning 12% of Amazon does not make me any worse off and if he owned 11% instead it would not make my life any better.

Now there are certain things that can that can contribute to people accumulating excessive amounts at another person's expense. Regulatory capture and economic cartels for instance. But those are never brought up by Picketty's breed. Their issues is that someone owns more than someone else. I suppose my advice to Picketty would be that if he is going to commit one of the seven deadly sins, he might choose a funner one than envy.
I suspect that is behind many problems with Google Drive.

Sometimes old versions seems to take precedence over newer ones, for some reason.
You're really getting lost in the weeds.

Glass' is talking about good taste by your own standards, and standards that are higher than you can achieve as a beginner. Whether other people think you have good taste is irrelevant to the quote/advice.

The point is to not let this discourage you from putting in the work.
Hard to find a good psychiatrist in this town. I just blew $300 on a guy that was obsessed with explaining the details of Passover to me. I had to keep bringing him back to discussing my history and he didn't seem overly interested in it.

I'm pretty sure I have some mix of OCD, mild type-II bipolar, and ADHD. It never seemed to get in my way throughout my 20s and 30s, but lately things have gone downhill.
Indeed. He has some great ideals, I think. And he is great at finding brilliant people to work for him, it seems. But is he anymore brilliant than what thousands or millions of other people would be were they giving his shoes? I don’t think so.
Isn't that how the TRP is calculated. IIRC agencies install devices in random houses to find which program is being watched.
South Korea contained the epidemic with massive testing and contact tracing. There is literally no reason why that could not be done here, once we get the number of cases down via lockdown measures. But, it would be foolish to start opening things up until the infrastructure to do that testing and contact tracing is in place.

If the choice is saving capitalism or saving 450,000 lives, I choose lives. I don't give a shit about the fortunes of corporate shareholders, landlords, bankers, etc., when nearly 1 in 700 lives are at stake. How about you?
> SSH key that you have blocked off to the public so you're not too worried about it

How do you "block off to the public" something committed to a public GitHub repository? The OP specifically said this was for public repositories.

If GitHub weren't doing this, I imagine the AWS security people would be crawling GitHub on their own, to cut down on security incidents. This push mechanism just makes it more efficient for both GitHub and AWS.

If Amazon is looking for dirt on you, and you have public repositories, you can bet they'll be looking deeper into your repositories than a quick credential scan.
AWS is one of most expensive options, and far not perfect, I can’t understand why people consider it as default choice...
To compare - dedicated server on hetzner (core i7, 32gb ram, 20tb network) is cheaper than medium VM on AWS.
If the product is growing, cloud cost can quickly become the biggest expense for company. Than it will make sense to spend some time make things run in more cost effective way

I think if you choose cloud hosting that costs about same as renting dedicated server plus settings virtualization by yourself - than it’s a fair choice (can check on https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ or similar)

Another sweet configuration is dedicated servers with kubernetes: good user experience for developers, easy to setup and maintain, easy to scale up/down
I don’t like unsolicited commercial emails, so yes, that’s correct, I only email with mom.
Modern Web App Development in JavaScript
The concept of opportunity cost.
MIDI-JS
“At least I’m not as bad as the Nazis” could justify some pretty unacceptable things.
Deciding what to build, and for how long, indirectly dictates you how things are built.

Deciding which engineers should have a career advancement also influences how the product is built.
You Shouldn’t Use an Intel Xeon Silver Processor for SQL Server
It is a pity East Dakota won’t make jokes like these. Can you imagine cloudflare running on aws? What happens when someone tries to denial of service them while on aws?

On a different note, Netflix still runs “on the cloud”, right? I mean what does it really mean? Dropbox can still have most of its stuff on aws and do the expensive part on premises if cost is a concern?

The truly bizarre stuff happens at hybrid cloud.
I recently started a vanilla js project and I've gotta say I'm pretty happy with it.

Granted, it's sitting on top of an Electron + Webpack stack so I don't have to worry about compatibility, but hey, small victories, and both of those were to solve explicit problems I ran into in the project, not just a choice because I was comfortable with them.
I'll take your word for it, but given how disastrous this feature has turned out, I'm skeptical. Presenting at a conference is unrelated to soliciting actual feedback.

At any rate, what are you doing about it now? Hopefully nixing the appinstaller execution alias?
Big Django user. Isn't it still required that you add the {% csrf_token %} tag to your forms?

That is, the protection will be on. But the way to be allowed in by the gate is not on by default. You have to remember to add the tag.

Which is why I'm so excited to just switch to SameSite once there's enough browser usage...
In a voluntary society, why don’t people who advocate for things like the abolition of private property (the thesis of the linked article) just create this themselves?

Absolutely nothing stops a group from creating a non-profit, electing a board of trustees that appoints managers, and signing lifetime contracts to pledge their income to it. Then the board and it’s managers can divvy up the income among everyone fairly, build communal housing, negotiate to provide health benefits for all at group discounts, provide retirement income, etc. And if people sign on when they are young, then some will become more successful and provide more income for the whole.

This is the same as taxes, except even better because all group members are ideologically aligned and would be happy to give all their income away to an elected group of people who will spend it on everyone fairly. And this way, people who don’t want to participate aren’t forced to do so.
If you have a small hobby project you could use AWS Lightsail[0] which has starting prices of $3.50/mo

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/?opdp1=pricing
The idea that maybe there really is a God after all, and that it's a cop out to assume that, just because it's unlikely for us to know for sure, therefore no breadcrumb trails about God or religion are really worth following.

I'm unable to describe the magnitude of the amazingness of the world I found, simply by wanting to believe that God is real, and then finding out that the Resurrection actually did happen. Anyone who does enough research on this topic and has a good and honest heart will eventually become Catholic.

God how I wish I had looked into this years earlier, but I didn't because I assumed it was just too unlikely to be worth investigating. What an awfully powerful fallacy.
I highly recommend hckrnews.com to bypass the HN frontpage all together. I usually sort by top 20% for a quick digest or simply sort by new. Sorting by new makes it pretty easy to see all the submissions on a single day
I worked for a boss that pretty much demanded that we move to the cloud. I showed them the costs for the then 2 providers (GCP/AWS) and arrived at the exact same conclusion on server hosting alone, as bandwidth wasn't the main driver of our application.
The rationale was that we'd save so much money by not having to manage the servers ourselves, but we honestly spent much, much more time in software deployments than managing hardware migrations and failures.
Personally, I've made mistakes in daily normal tasks and know how it feels to have people make an issue out of little things. If the end result is the same (it goes in my gut and doesn't taste horrible), I'm not going to complain unless it's completely wrong. Paying for a $25 steak and getting chicken nuggets would be too far, but messing up a side won't ruin my day. It’s stressful working in a kitchen and I’d rather the workers not have too much trouble so long as the things I got taste fine.

I'm also unable to eat a certain common ingredient in cooking, and it's one that virtually every person on earth loves. I've found that complaining just results in them doubling that ingredient and I have no clue why. I've even gotten visible spit in my food before. Picking that ingredient out myself instead of mentioning it is usually better. I've grown a bit of tolerance for not getting what I want.

If I get a different package, it's probably not serving the same role, so I'll complain.
> The more I learn, the more I believe cloud is the only competitive solution today, even for sensitive industries like banking or medical. I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise. [emphasis mine]

Most people here seem to point out cost and utilization. I would like to offer another perspective: security.

I worked in both of these industries: finance ("banking", not crypto or PG) and medical (within a major hospital network). The security requirement, both from practical and legal perspectives, cannot be understated. In many situations, the data cannot leave an on-prem air-gapped server network, let alone use a cloud service.

It costed us more to have on-prem servers as we need a dedicated real estate and an engineering team to maintain. Moreover, the initial capital expenditure is high -- designing and implementing a proper server room/data center with climate control, power wiring, and compliant fire extinguishing system are not trivial.
Yes. Cost of GPUs if you want them on regularly and reliably, and you don't need 2000 of them. We run small/mid-sized operations on-demand and the latency of spinning up instances is not competitive and the cost is outrageous to have them on standby.
Filibuster (Military)
Ok, that's a bit of a loaded question, and also a false dichotomy.

Obviously economic stability is more valuable than lives to a certain extent because it generates wealth for generations.

I don't think you grasp the gravity of the economic situation. It's not just "corporite profits" being lost. Tens of thousands of people are losing their jobs, businesses, livelihoods, etc, and that number is growing every day. The vast majority of Americans are not software engineers that can work remotely. A paltry $1000 stimulus check isn't going to help the millions of poor feeling the economic pressure. Many will commit suicide before this is over.
Code for Covid-19 modelling by the Imperial College/Neil Ferguson (main part)
I think the problem I have is that I don't understand how to get good at something that I have good taste in. Of everything that I've been able to learn I've always had some sort of pleasure in the doing. I enjoyed my C++ assignments in college. I've enjoyed learning the basics of woodworking.

I love art and would love to learn to paint or draw but I can't figure out how to enjoy the small victories there. It's not about being objectively good but about enjoying an "ah-ha" moment where you feel like you've gotten better. Any advice for me? I'm very open to anything but I just can't seem to enjoy learning a lot of the activities that I value more than anything.
I can see a difference between paid and free-to-play apps.

If I pay for the service, I can expect that the service is taking nothing more from me than the payments I make. Our contract is explicit.

If it's a free-as-in-beer service, then the user must realize that the business which is offering the service expects to get something for its purposes from the user, such as user's eyeballs and user's computing resources.
Why can't a company just fail any more because it's never made a single cent in profit? And likely never will.

The inside baseball of Uber doesn't really matter does it? Why dont they lay the whole company off?
This links to the first commit, before the MS team cleaned up things. Not sure about the differences, but this should be closer the the real thing.
I don't mean to sound daft, just clarifying my own understanding, but isn't Dropbox eventually consistent (as a system)?
> No it's not. Academia is way behind the industry when it comes to modeling the economy and the real world.

The insurance industry is expected to ask the government for bailouts because none of their models can account for the fallout from this, just like AIG did during the '08 crisis.
Very slow video. Wish it were transcripted.
How far are you from you collocation? Is moving that closer an option?
That's not a perfect analogy but it's easy enough for laymen to understand so I'm stealing it.
I think some in fields conference editors may grumble about this but from what I've seen in CS they don't mind at all. They just ask the authors not to cite the preprint to give it away, and ask the reviewers not to try and figure out who the author is (as always).
"The country" means rural for anyone curious.
Certainly nothing powerful :-) I can get away with t3.nano and t3.micro for what I'm doing at the moment. But the beauty of cloud, is that I can scale up when I eventually need it.

5x t3.nano will be ~$25/mo
5x t3.micro will be ~$50/mo

All of my AMIs are EBS optimized and require a minimum of 8GB for the root drive (Although they only use ~1.6GB. Not bothering to hack around this to save a buck.) So that'll be 40GB EBS block storage. Plus I want ~20GB spread across 3 of the machines.

So EBS should be ~$6/mo.

I only need the volumes of those last 3, the others are good to go with their base AMI or user-data init script. So I only need snapshot backups of ~20GB. Being priced incrementally and having minimal changes, I'll only be charged ~$1/mo for that + off-site another $1/mo

So, currently experimenting with the t3.nano - Cost is ~$36/mo. One of these servers will be used as a personal VPN, and I expect ~75GB/mo coming from my laptop. So bandwidth charges at $9/mo.

Total $45/mo - For what I have planned now, at least.
Thanks! Aware of Lightsail - But I'm experienced with AWS so have no trouble with, and prefer, the full feature set. I would've gone with Digital Ocean, otherwise.
Elon knows that money is something he can always get, because he has gotten them before. Also his family is rich. He knows that worst case is he goes to them and get some millions and back to work again.

Rich people aren’t taking any real risks by using their money. The people taking the real risks are those putting their lives and livelihood on the line every day, doing the dangerous, back breaking, mind numbing work for the rich people with the money, while the rich just look on from a far while their workers are doing the actual work for them using their resources and making them even more rich while the workers doing the actual job have nothing to gain in comparison themselves, often being far closer to personal and financial ruin everyday than the rich ever are.

Elon isn’t risking shit.

That those with money that invest them is taking the risks and thus also deserves the rewards is a myth, is a ruse, but it’s not hard to figure out who would stand to gain from such a myth.
Contrasting 200 years with the 4th industrial revolution(s) seems erroneous.
"sounds like" and "if that's accurate"

Twitter rarely bans people for literally no reason, and it's typically safe to assume something happened to trigger it, even if unintentional.

I agree, I could be totally wrong. Hence my hedging language
Edited for clarity. Didn't think about the ambiguity.
Colocation in SF proper is very spendy, which is how we ended up in San Jose. But waking up to go anywhere at 3 am to swear at gear is no longer on my list of fun activities. And there's no colo that will move the gear along with me when I go on vacation.
i agree, the title and article is mostly hyperbole
I wonder the same, yes--it's just what I found for trying to figure out what they might even mean by quarantined in the first

It wasn't super clear to me (at least, on a quick read) what the recipient would/wouldn't see if they were given permission to admin quarantined mail, if the mail eventually got released from quarantine after someone realized it wasn't crap, etc.
Two notes.

Fiscal year end start or end normally is sufficient to define the fiscal year. Why is both a start and end date needed for the fiscal year here? That's usually an immediate tell that system was designed by programmers not accountants.

Why can't users type in a fiscal year - the date picker is broken, the size of the date picker jumps around for different months, lot's of repeating dates etc.

The system allows datepicker to pick odd fiscal year ends (ie, leap years and mid month dates) are these fiscal years properly supported?

ERPnext looks great though - I look forward to trying it and supporting it - I imagine it's more refined!!
Modern high bypass turbines provide a lot of power for the weight and extreme efficiency. Essentially, they are a gas turbine which then gets to extract extra energy from their exhaust gasses without adding a lot of weight or mechanical complexity.

There are a lot of trade offs involved, but for large 500+ MPH aircraft high bypass turbofans are simply the most cost effective option.
Ugggggggh I have a book chapter waiting to be published on ideas of labor and proxemics in digital intimacy that covers some of this.

So like, remember to check for that in September.
> I agree that the standard assumptions about aliens are vastly negatively biased to the point of absurdity.

could you elaborate?
on-premises not on-premise
Hi everyone,

Please use the oauth-only version for login and strip the facebook SDK garbage from your apps. It seems it's not worth the trouble.
Wow. At almost exactly the time that report was filed ... about 30-40 Minutes, my spotify ios app started crashing. I was listening to a song on my desktop, and wanted to share it on my instagram so I went to the app to do it. everytime I opened up the app it would crash immediately, I restarted my phone, tried it again, and it was fine for about 5 seconds and then crash ... crash ... crash ...

I filed a report with Spotify and by the time they got back to me, the problem had gone away ... I thought it was very odd, until I read this post ...

I guess now I know what happened.