skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Our customers run our software on their own machines for security and data-control reasons. As soon as something's running on someone else's hardware, the data is out of your control. Unless you're going to accept the (often massive) cost of homomorphic encryption, AND have a workload amenable to that, it's a simple fact.

2. Everything we do in house is small enough that the costs of running it on our own machines is far less than the costs of working out how to manage it on a cloud service AND deal with the possibility of that cloud service being unavailable. Simply running a program on a hosted or local server is far far simpler than anything I've seen in the cloud domain, and can easily achieve three nines with next to no effort.

Most things which 'really need' cloud hosting seem to be irrelevant bullshit like Facebook (who run their own infrastructure) or vendor-run workflows layered over distributed systems which don't really need a vendor to function (like GitHub/Git or GMail/email).

I'm trying to think of a counterexample which I'd actually miss if it were to collapse, but failing.
The.com Is Hiring a Senior TypeScript Architect (Remote)
Count of Monte Cristo has to be way up there. Compared to the plodding,
sententious pace of his contemporaries, Dumas was the veritable Michael Bay of
nineteenth century writers.
I unfortunately came to this realization as I was graduating college. A decent number of my less-than-stellar high school acquaintances were going to be attending medical school.
Bald Eagle Population – The Benefit(?) Of Landfills
Seattle has in interesting issue. Too many bald eagles. To the point of annoyance.

“The eagle population has exploded in the last five years, and why? Because they have a free lunch at the dump.”

"Up to 200 bald eagles frequent King County’s only landfill..."

At first, surprise. Then, so much sense. Relatively safe, forested area; opportunistic; access to stable food supply.

Note (Wikipedia). "by the 1950s there were only 412 nesting pairs in the 48 contiguous states of the US." "In Washington State, there were only 105 occupied nests in 1980." There are now 200 eagles just at the Seattle dump.
I don't think it matters if data is stored in cookies or local storage in the context of opt in and GDPR though.
Imagine the first internal combustion engine compared to your 2015 Honda Civic though.
Super Bootable 64
> Have you been successful at learning Japanese?

So far I got good at kanji, and I know about 2000 words. It's enough to enjoy reading stuff like "Welcome to the NHK".

> If so, any good suggestion?

You might want to start with learning about Spaced Repetition:

1. https://ncase.me/remember/

2. https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

For further reading see links provided by Gwern. Then, specific to Anki:

1. https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz60qTP2Gx0

Those tools will help to retain what you memorize. Further, see https://massimmersionapproach.com/ for guidance on language learning. It focuses on immersion, that's, reading books, listening to stuff, etc. I got good at English by means of immersion, reading The Way Of Kings and other awesome books like that, and now with the systematic approach from Mass Immersion Approach it goes even better than before.
Bandwidth is the big reason to stay on-prem. Good peering contracts can more than make up for any cloud advantages for bandwidth intensive uses.

Now the hard part is turning those cost advantages into operational improvements instead of deficiencies.
> All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste

Like saying “How bout them Cowboys” at a club in Dallas.

Everybody wants to think they have good taste and everybody wants to be told they have good taste.

Of all the people who read that quote and nod along thinking, “yes this is me” how many are actually right?
I read this before Black Swarm, but Antifragility should have been read later. When I read Antifragility, the idea is cool and convincing, and it did change the way I understand things, especially the essential difference between organic things and engineering systems, but still I always felt like it is a puzzle missing some pieces.

I am almost finishing my Black Swarm read now. It turns out that it is the missing pieces.

I wonder what Taleb will say if someone can present software engineering practices to him.
When I look for the new supplier for my bike shop, if word of mouth doesn't yield one, I'll probably be guided by some form of advertising. Do you really not understand the difference between making information available to interested customers by advertising, and calling people up, annoying 1000 people to get that one sale? Advertising can be a scourge, but it depends on how you do it. There is no way to spam that is not a scourge.
Eh, I wouldn't go that far; they do have their uses. But for a SDK author, it pays to be excessively cautious when putting things on the application startup path. (Something which the Facebook is well aware of, as the dyld session is always full of their company's engineers, and the architecture of their app shows that put effort into meeting launch deadlines…)
More-comparable straight-on image here: https://neoencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Renamon
oh I didn't imply outsourcing, they're in the bay area
Spoken like someone who has never tried to optimize startup time. If network is your blocker, you need to do it as soon as possible
Going on most of the comments, is nearly everyone on this forum a weirdo?
If it’s just using the microwaves to heat the air why not use resistive coils instead?
Genuinely curious here, which apps have you kept and use daily? The number of monetized apps that don't talk to Google/FB (or other install trackers) is likely in a very small minority.
I don't know about the parent comments work place,
but I don't think any non-US bank should use a AWS (or
GCP or Azur).

It's way to risky that changes in local and/or US regulations will require you to move your whole infrastructure to a new provider like in a month or two (which is completely impossible).

Btw. same applies for any bank relying on the infrastructure of a foreign company.

Like e.g. just think about the whole legal mess around CLOUD act.
>The shadow hands of globally sanctioned socialist labor are all around us

what a weird smear. who in their right mind really believes DPRK is the realization of any kind of socialism? i guess the nazis were socialists too then.
that's exactly why I was wondering if they use something else, a better internal shared library for accessing facebook services
For most the evaluations you reported at engagingness (expect Figure 16). Did you also look humanness? I would be especially interested how human your chatbot is compared to real humans (Figure 17). This would be similar to a turning test.
I honestly consider it a virtue to complain in such a situation. It might seem like it has negative consequences, but the reason I went to the restaurant and not another is because of an expectation they'll do their job as advertised. Bringing the wrong food is doing their job wrong, and letting it slide is indicating that that's ok. It isn't a big deal that has any major meaningful consequence usually, but just because its a small thing doesn't mean its ok. However I agree in not being too frustrated. If I got a wrong order and the restaurant refused to correct it, I'd try to enjoy whatever I got and then plan on that being the last time I visit that place.
You missed the other part of the equation. No one said that all VC money was dumb. The conversation is about billions of funding going down the drain like in the case of Uber compared to the paltry sum inflation adjusted raised by the tech behemoths before they went public and became profitable.

Beats by Dre raised less than $1 billion in funding.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/beats-by-dr-dre

WhatsApp raised less than $70 million.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp#section-ove...

From looking at Crunchbase, Instagram didn’t raise any outside funding.

None of the companies you listed raised anywhere near what Uber, Lyft and AirBnb raised.
That may be true, but my comment is about any use of cookies regardless of the data they contain. It’s fully achieved technological obsolescence.
I Don’t Like Python
> will solely benefit Facebook and the software developer.

I mostly agree. But, in some(most) also the user by encouraging the developer to release updates and launch new features.
Cookie Law is a great example of why government shouldn't be allowed to stick its fingers into voluntary interactions.

Good intentions by dumb people do more damage than good.
It is not that simple. Cookies can have attributes such as "HTTPOnly" (don't allow access from JavaScript), "Secure" (only send on TLS-enabled sites), and expiry. While it may seem possible to replicate some of these with JavaScript, there are a few problems:

1. Not everybody has JS enabled (your content site shouldn't require it)

2. If using localStorage, users can write their own data. Depending on how you store data, this ranges from "not a problem at all" to "serious attack vector". At the least, it increases risk if an attacker gets XSS.

3. Data stored in localStorage can't be transmitted upon page load, it has to be transmitted after the initial load, once scripts have executed. For some things, this is fine, for e.g. auth, this is pretty bad.

They are different technologies: localStorage & sessionStorage are not a full replacement for cookies.

That said, tracking is rampant across the web and with it, cookies. Getting rid of them would make some of this harder - but not at all impossible - while breaking other legitimate flows.
This makes me think of a story I like:

> Somewhere in the ocean is a place called the "Dragon Gate". Any fish that swims through the Dragon Gate turns into a dragon.
However the Dragon Gate is invisible.
Also, when a fish swims through it the fish doesn't look any different afterwards.
And finally, after a fish has swum through the gate it doesn't feel any different, it just is a dragon.
> Is that "spyware"?

>> Yes, absolutely.

Much much worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19595478
You are making a MASSIVE assumption that most people dislike Leetcode. I personally don't and neither does anyone I know. It's way better than the interview formats of almost every other profession out there that's 2 parts sucking up, 2 parts connections, and 1 part luck. Show me a better process that can handle 100,000+ candidates a year with a stronger signal and less or equal time invested and I'll change my mind. At the very least, hating the current process shows that you're lazy, stubborn, and unwilling to learn what is necessary to get the job done. Hardly desirable traits in a coworker.
To his defense, a lot of the executives on his list probably buy similar lists to spam a lot more people (endpoint users).
That is exactly what the internet connected Salt master does. It bootstraps enough control that I can get the tunnels and keys properly configured, and the other 95% takes place once it is switched to a protected Salt master.
I found this [0], which is pretty scant on details. It is also scant on details but amusingly it lists the usernames they used. A few seemed somewhat political or related to race issues, including:

1) voteforwest2020

2) weproudto2black

3) aaddictedtoblackk

4) best-usa-today

5) black-to-the-bones

6) blackness-by-your-side

7) blacknproud

8) blacktolive

9) bleepthepolice

10) guns4l1fe

11) sumchckn previously known as: blondeinpolitics, blvckcommunity, classylgbthomie, hwuudoin, politixblondie

12) superblygun

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/tumblr-confirms-84-account...
remove the headphone jack of course
See "Can I post a job ad?" in the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Class consciousness. So so so so much hypocrisy and confusion over seemingly contradictory things people say and do have a remarkably tendency to suddenly make sense when you apply rudimentary class analysis.

You don't even need to know what marxism or socialism are, much less agree with them, but if you haven't gotten the hang of basic class consciousness you're missing a key reality-rubric in life.
If they really had guts, they'd ask programmers to declare their background (years of experience, with that language, with static/dynamic typed languages, ...) and environment (private office / open floorplan / remote, music / silence / white noise, ...), and use this to settle once-and-for-all some basic questions the industry has had.
I am a current Kaiser subscriber. (member?/customer?) Even despite the simplicity for which Kaiser is clearly striving, I had a tough time figuring out how it was supposed to work at first.

I was accustomed to urgent care without a phone call. I tried to apply that experience to Kaiser. I found a Kaiser facility, via their web site, that claimed to offer urgent care during certain hours. I even double checked the definition of "urgent care" on wikipedia. I arrived at listed opening hour. The security guard I found there didn't know anything about it, except that no one else would show up for another hour. Then I wandered around trying to figure out where "urgent care" was, but there was some confusion about it. Eventually, I got to a desk somewhere. I was told to call for an appointment, which I did from there. All in all I spent three or four hours waiting and shuffling around between different desks. It was a very frustrating experience.

Eventually, I found out that everything in Kaiser starts with a phone call. But I don't think I was ever told that. What you're supposed to do, as far as I can tell now, is just call the number on your card any time you want to do anything.
This idea might not have changed my life, but it changed my day :-)
(Within seconds and for the better; what more could you ask for?)
Anki[0] is great for this, and it's free.

[0]: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
No need to squint, just cross your eyes ever-so-slightly
Nah. Remember the Grindr leak?[1] Nothing changed.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/grindr...
Evolved via natural selection perhaps?
We're a small business and hosting costs are killing us. Spending $300+ on a small VM that I can only describe as measly really hurts.
i know he wasn’t involved in the band anymore, but can they use his robot now during live performances?
Bind your caps lock to ctrl+left/esc too. It's so much better than reaching for esc/ctrl all the time.
> Don't sweat the small stuff. And it's almost all small stuff.

The comparable idea I repeat to myself: "There are problems and there are inconveniences. Recognize the difference."
Ask HN: How to Get Started with Agriculture?
At my current location, farming land is plentiful, cheap and quite fertile. How can I make the most out of it?
One of the reason is a legacy systems. Some companies are too tied up to old custom made systems built on old software and hardware virtually not convertible to cloud. You will be surprised but there are big corporation still using AS400 and not planning to switch anytime soon. If you heard in recent news US unemployment system was still built on COBOL... In 2020...
Another reason is a cost. I love AWS! Its fantastic to be able to create and launch servers or the whole farm of servers in the matter of minutes! And ability to convert physical servers to virtual and upload them to the cloud is breathtaking! But my monthly bill started at $300 and grew to $18K per month in less than 3 years. And that was for just a few virtual servers with Windows OS and SQL. My company realized that we can have a state of the art datacenter with WmWare and SAN on premises for the fraction of that price. Put second one on the other coast (one of our other offices) and you have your own cloud with better ping and six digits figure saving a year.
For the last I would name vendor lock. With vSphere its very easy to move your virtual servers between AWS, Azure and Google (assuming you can afford all 3 and licensing cost of WmWare) but have you ever tried to "download" your server back to premise? It's virtually impossible or made so hard by cloud players trying to keep you up they're in the clouds.
With all said I read that Netflix (I believe its Netflix) saving hundreds of millions dollars per year by using Amazon instead of its own servers. I also read somewhere that Dropbox moved away from AWS...
For that same one, I see hints of https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Rouge_the_Bat (to the point where I thought of Rouge before seeing your comment)
Wow, can someone explain to me how they have 9.4 billion parameters in their model? Have I been living a rock and we went from hundreds to billions?
My startup failed, what next? What do I do with my code?
Hey everyone.

I built this project over the last 2 and a half years ago:
https://about.parstar.co

It is an ed-tech SaaS platform aimed to make participation in large lectures easier and more enjoyable.

After a good period of development, my cofounders and I went to market with cold emails. We had a couple users but really struggled to get people to try or use the product. Plus we are still in college and juggling the startup with school was difficult. We have ultimately given up, assuming we did not find product market fit/did not solve the problem correctly.

We have an awesome code base with tons of features and I'd hate to see it go to waste. I have been thinking about open sourcing the entire project, but I feel that I should still consider what would be the best way to go about that.

If you'd like to explore a demo of the app, here is a demo account:
lnegritto@scu.edu
demo123

Any suggestions would be extremely appreciated! Thanks
Network blocking like PiHole can block it, but on Android, I also use Blokada, which traps and logs outbound requests to domains on the block list. I also sometimes use ClassyShark3xodus to scan apks for trackers.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.oF2pks.classyshark3xodus...
Wow, you just jumped from an unexplained drop of ER vists straight to blaming the media for scaring people.

More than 70k have died in the US so far - are we also going to blame the media for not scaring people early enough, or is that too inconvenient?
Fuck, I've been paying for Spotify as an act of charity?
> The platform should be aware of how long it takes to deliver (taking traffic into account, especially for Uber which has access to that data already) and shouldn't risk offering deliveries if they can't reasonably guarantee the food won't be cold

In my experience, the platforms are doing the exact opposite. A lot of times the driver is there, the food is there, and the driver is being told to wait for more orders. I've called and asked before on some of the platforms where you have the phone number.

That said, I've never seen someone bothered by having to put some delivery food in the microwave, though. It's sort of expected. About the only case where I've seen that is for pizza, and pizza places have their own drivers anyway.

So it's probably a good bet for the platform doing what they do. If you can serve twice as many customers this way, and have to ban 1/5 customers who have no microwave, you'd still come out ahead as a business.
There is no cloud, its just someone else’s computer :)
Alternatively, this out-of-work group becomes artisans, creating hand-crafted work with a human touch (think Etsy) that commands a premium over the factory-produced stuff.

Tyler Cowen has some good articles on this.
I expect they are subject to EMTALA and won't triage down in the event an outside customers strolls in.
Rift-S Experiments on Linux
It all depends. Outside of SaaS, If you have a mature data center operating model and truly understand your costs, there won’t be a strong cost savings story for many types of workflows.

If you suck and don’t understand costs, or don’t automate, or spend a lot of time eating steak with your Cisco team, you’ll save money... at first.
Putting more code in a constructor is almost never advised. I would expect that whatever connection the Facebook SDK is making is not a blocker for application launch. (If you have more insight on why this code must unconditionally run this early, I would be glad to hear it.)
Products like this have existed in various forms for a few years now, but this is poised to set a new bar. I wonder at what point a significant number of companies will start issuing their developers lightweight laptops and just having them use a web-based environment for everything. It seems almost inevitable (at least, when developing applications that are sufficiently abstracted from the underlying system).

Edit: it also occurs to me that this could be Microsoft's big end-game from all of their recent dev-focused work and acquisitions (VSCode, NPM, GitHub, TypeScript, WSL, etc.). If they create a world where a significant fraction of developers who currently buy their dev environments from Apple start renting them from MS instead, that's a huge deal. And of course there's lots of potential for synergy with Azure on top of that.
On the internet, everyone assumes bad faith. Like the kid staring at the native american guy, not everything is intended to be malicious (and so he successfully sued CNN for defamation). I think there's a theme of "Person supports X" and every commentator who is predisposed to disliking that person, twists X into the worst possible form.
At least here a drive to McDonalds results in a 15 minute wait in the drive through, so there's more charging going on than just the trip. In n Out is even worse, their line fills up the Costco parking lot...
There are a lot of people from the National Lab super computer world who end up in High Frequency Trading for just the reason you describe.

Specifically, how do you optimize a large cluster of computers to operate at the lowest possible latency. For the National Labs, those computers could be in the lab or with other labs around the world. For the HFT folks, the machines could be in an exchange or spread across multiple exchanges around the world.

Source: I used to be head of Global Latency Monitoring for a HFT.
Actually, we burned ourselves with a friends and family upvote brigade on product hunt (they lopped off a bunch of them suddenly...).

We learned from that and did not do this on HN (Engineering team were then only ones to have the post shared, as they're real HN community).

I think the algorithms to detect voting rings from dud accounts are not hard.
we are not zoomers
>I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise.

Problem is point of failure, many businesses need to be independent and having data stored in the cloud is a bad idea overall. Because it produces point of failure issues. Consider if we ever got a real nasty solar wind and the electric grid goes down, the more we rely on the internet and centralize infrastructure into electric devices, the more it becomes a costly point of failure.

While many see redundancy as "waste" in terms of dollars, notice that our bodies have many billions of redundant cells and that's what makes us resilient as a species, we can take a licking and keep on ticking.

Trusting your data to out-side sources generally is a bad idea any day of the week. You always want to have backups and data available in case of diaster, mishap, etc.

Like no one has learned from this epidemic yet. Notice that our economic philosophy didn't plan for viral infections and has forced our capitalist society to make serious adjustments. Helping people is an anathema to liberals and conservatives / republicans / democrats, so for void to come along and actually force co-operation was a bit tragically humorous.

As a general rule you need redundancy if you want to survive, behaving as if the cloud is almighty is a bad idea, I'm not sold on "software as a service" or any of that nonsense. It's just there to lull you into a false sense of security.

You always need to plan for the worst case scenario for surviveability reasons.