skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I think about it this: not using the cloud is like building your own code editor or IDE after assembling your own laptops and desktops. It may make you happier and it’s a great hobby, but if you’re trying to run a business you need to do a cost benefit analysis.

We currently have double digit petabytes of data stored in our own data centres, but we’re moving it to S3 because we have far better things to do with our engineers that replace drives all day, and engineering plus hardware is more expensive than S3 Deep Archive - but it wasn’t until Deep Archive came out.

We put out hundreds of petabytes of bandwidth, and AWS is horribly expensive at first glance, but if you’re at that scale you negotiate private pricing that brings it to spitting distance of using a COLO or Linode/Hetzner/OVH - the distance is small enough that the advantages of AWS outweigh it, and it allows us to run our business at known and predictable margins.

Besides variability (most of our servers are shut nights, weekends and when not required), op ex vs cap ex, spikes in load (100X to 1000X baseline when tickets open), there’s also the advantage of not needing ops engineers and being to handle infrastructure with code. If you have a lot of ops people and don’t need any of the advantages, and you have lots of money lying around that you can use on cap ex, and you have a predictable load pattern, and you’ve done a clear cost benefit analysis to determine that building your own is cheaper, you should totally do that. Doesn’t matter what others are doing.
That's what I mean. If you forget to include the token on your app, it will fail. You have to remember to call {% csrf_token %} in every template.

Back in the day, the middleware scanned your response and injected it next to each </form> tag. A hack and dirty for sure, but removed that burden.
The ironic thing is that you can actually implement Facebook login in a privacy-respectful manner by using standard oAuth where Facebook is only contacted when the user decides to log in with it (which is mostly fine as they have an account anyway and thus consent to Facebook tracking).
The nation is quite unlikely to radically increase taxes and outlaw private property. Why not create this system yourself among like-minded people?
> Is that "spyware"?
No You know its being used then you install the app. You have a choice. Either don't use Spotify and go to some shitty open source music app or give your data.
My Grandmother once told me:

"If you want to work at a company, dress like the people that work there. Because those are the people that the company hires."

I've used this general philosophy in my life to pass courses at university, win competitions, and get through job interviews. I don't know if my grandmother meant this in a literal sense, or was hinting at the fact that (as Tony Robbins says) success leaves clues. When you understand what people are looking for, the game becomes a lot easier - you simply need to mould yourself and your communication to fit a winning persona.
While I have come to embrace that direction, at least with trackpads, the naming always made me upset and is reminiscent of "patriot act".
No country avoids lockdown. It happens controlled or uncontrolled. When control is back, everyone open up again. Nobody wants these adverse side-effects, and that they may be worse than the virus is nothing new. Our plight as society is find ways to cope with it and prepare better.
Over time techcrunch has become so bloated and that page so full of ads that I stopped going there altogether. On top of that they started hijacking the back button too, I stopped clicking on techcrunch links too. I would rather guess what they said from the comments here than clicking on that link.
It's so upsetting when someone with poor taste is putting in their 10k hours and wondering why they're getting no traction. Time + talent + exposure (luck) are all needed in some sort of formula. Talent is the one variable that you can't grind.
We had this book for our cross-listed(undergrad and grad) Applied Bayesian class. It is a very easy book to read and uses little to no math. Highly recommended if you do not have rigorous training in statistical inference.
Two sets of ideas:

1. Getting Things Done (David Allen) as a system to organize and reorganize my life,
2. How to win friends and influence people (Dale Carnegie), as a way of treating other people
Does the adult filter work in apps? If so this seems like a lovely workaround for the lack of firewall.
If you're spending more than 50k/month on AWS where is the money to move to on-prem? When they got you, they got you.
My favorite way to ask this question is “What did you (dis)like about the movie?”

Makes the question more open ended and encourages the person to dig deep for answers and think critically.
Is this the all in cost? Including lease on land/building, staff, electricity etc...
There is one more article on design patterns I thought are interesting for general learning. A personal challenge for my fellow techies, try applying such design pattern thinking into your life as well, you will discover many interesting insights along the way! Cheers!

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...
It's 2020, and I'm still waiting to see an impressive proof of work out out of a quantum computer that I can easily verify on my traditional computer (two different files with identical SHA-512, for example?).

Maybe a few years from now?
Pro-tip for VSCode: if you have a .venv directory in the root of your project, VSCode will try to activate it when you open the project. A few other tools have adopted that convention, too, and now at my job so have we. Rather than sticking virtualenvs in some odd location, the venv for ~/projects/mystuff is ~/projects/mystuff/.venv, and now it almost always Just Works.
Do you know who supports it?
I always delete my cookies, so that makes three of us.
A few things:

Adults are just winging it. The ones who don't seem like they are pretend the hardest.

The world is only as cruel as you help make it. Be kind.
Sometime back Uber added this $0 delivery for a set of rotating restaurants. In my mind what I figured they were doing was clumping orders together to drive down costs... in practice I don't know what they're doing, but I like that idea.

Maybe when this price war ends normal delivery will be something much higher and they offer some kind of flash or pre-order pricing deals on clumped orders. Like $5 delivery for pre-ordering a pizza for that evening from this one restaurant so only one driver needs to go out there. Uber-Pool for your food if you will. Or you place your order at a higher price and if some more people hop onto the order from the same restaurant they cut your delivery price a bit.
I just finished setting up brid.gy for my blog a week ago. while I havent handle and display the comments or reactions to the posts, it is satisfying to see the response from my friends on twitter or mastodon about my contents.

reading this thread makes me want to finish the reaction displayer design & script :D
Reddit is fantastic for learning a niche skill.

Want to learn how to make Kombucha, lock picking, or 3D printing? Then you probably want Reddit.

But anything approaching the popularity of a moderately successful video game turns into a shit show. One of the free to play games I use to play actually had two subreddits, after a community schism. Bonkers.
The Republic of Facebook
This is called abstraction.
>This very same argument would apply to, say, "5% of the price of my dinner goes towards healthcare for the waitstaff. That's something the company wants, not something I want."

I'm not sure I follow. If you're paying the same amount in either scenario, how are you adversely affected when a portion of your bill is allocated to a healthcare account?

>There are much better argument for it being spyware, e.g., that it spies. It's not a very strong argument that a thing is bad simply because it helps the provider of the thing.

I'm lost here, as well. Your argument is that I haven't made any arguments stronger than "that it spies"? I agree that stating only "that it spies" would be lacking critical thought and analysis, but my arguments have been more specific. The whole "it spies" assertion, generally speaking, is the basis for the more detailed responses I've submitted to this discussion.
Of the companies you named, Foursquare's business model explicitly revolves around paying apps for user location data and selling it.

I doubt (and at least from my experience around SV, haven't seen) that FB/Google are paying apps to include their SDKs.
Me too, because I don't have a GitHub account (I use Fossil).
Doordash seems to have restaurant delivery reasonably well worked out. I've had minor problems with Doordash, and customer service fixes them. You get to see where the delivery person is on a map.

Uber isn't that good when they can't afford to operate at a loss. Their real edge was too much money from Softbank.
Facebook is worse. On Reddit you get insulted by an anonymous account with a novelty name. On Facebook you discover how crazy your former friends and relatives can be.
ya, but limited hardware IIRC. Considered it.
> Yes, absolutely.

I support you in your courageous fight against nuance.
where there's no link you should maybe consider linking to the article here on hn?
I don't really understand all the fear around “the current recession”: so far the countries have been locked down, which means almost freezing the economies for 2 month (in France, more than half of the private sector employees were idle, and paid by the government to stay home). Indeed as a result the 12-month GDP including this period is lower, but that doesn't really mean anything: it's just what you get when you average a normal period with a frozen one.

Of course I'am worried about what's next, because when we are reopening not everything will reopened (tourism, restaurants, and many things are going to stay closed for a looong time) and then we will see long-term damage. But the current figures just sounds like a calculation artifact to me.

Edit: in fact, I'm even worried that the fear around the “artificial recession” is going to create a real one: many countries are currently reopening because they are afraid of the recession, but it's way too early so they won't reopen completely and they may even face a “second wave” which could probably have been avoided if the lockdown was sustained enough to eradicate the disease in the country.
A query argument inside a URL that they can bookmark is one option.
> Everything is temporary.

Therefore, at some point, some thing(s) will be permanent, because otherwise, the axiom "Everything is temporary" would be permanent.

Oh crap. :-D
so I guess my decision to go with Azure for the next project is going to have to go back. Now what.
"All of what follows has been said before. If you are interested enough in writing to be a purchaser of this magazine, you will have either heard or read all (or almost all) of it before. Thousands of writing courses are taught across the United States each year; seminars are convened; guest lecturers talk, then answer questions, then drink as many gin and tonics as their expense-fees will allow, and it all boils down to what follows.

I am going to tell you these things again because often people will only listen – really listen – to someone who makes a lot of money doing the thing he’s talking about. This is sad but true." - Stephen King

https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2015/02/24/stephen-king-eve...
Or if we bring the inflated costs of medical school down.
One would argue the ability to mold yourself, letting go of your ego in the process, is where the challenge lies for many.