skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few things to consider:

1. Peter Thiel sits on Facebook's board and was one of its first investors.

2. Thiel donated 1.25 million to Trump's campaign right before the election when it looked like he had no chance of winning.

3. Thiel also donated millions of dollars to Mercer's Super PAC which was funding Cambridge Analytica (which Mercer cofounded with Bannon).

4. Thiel is looking to start a conservative news channel with Mercer.

5. Thiel is an author of great pieces like "The Case Against Affirmative Action" and "The Diversity Myth".

6. Mercer has great opinions like: "...Mercer, for his part, has argued that the Civil Rights Act, in 1964, was a major mistake. According to the onetime Renaissance employee, Mercer has asserted repeatedly that African-Americans were better off economically before the civil-rights movement. (Few scholars agree.) He has also said that the problem of racism in America is exaggerated. The source said that, not long ago, he heard Mercer proclaim that there are no white racists in America today, only black racists. "

7. Theil's Founders Fund has great libertarian projects like Palantir, Space X and Anudril, which have picked up billions worth of government contracts over under this administration.

https://www.axios.com/peter-thiel-the-bridge-between-trump-a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/technology/peter-thiel-do...

https://mashable.com/2018/03/22/facebook-peter-thiel-cambrid...

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-case-against-affirmativ...

https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Myth-Multiculturalism-Polit...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/peter-thi...
You sound like a Linux user :)
The pricing is insane, yes and no. They are most definitely not out of their minds.

Networking at scale is complicated and expensive. Of course, at the economies of scale providers like AWS and GCP it does become much cheaper. No one in datacenters pays per gigabyte, but you do in the cloud because you're paying for so much more than just data-go-out.

There is a lot of hardware and glass that goes into you being able to reliably transfer a gigabyte of data in or out of AWS. They peer with hundreds of providers and need to constantly monitor and balance traffic in hundreds of locations. When you buy your own transit, you pay for say 1 gigabit per second with Level 3. What if Level 3 has an issue? Or that fiber is cut? Well now you need to pay for 1gbps with GTT. What if the path to your customers isn't optimal via GTT? Well now you need to pay for 1gbps with Verizon.

Huge transit speeds, combined with huge IP spaces and huge routing tables means hugely expensive routers anywhere they are doing significant amounts of peering (which is hundreds of locations). You as the customer don't care, you just expect your gigabyte to go where you want it, no matter what.

Does all this really cost AWS $0.02/GB? Hell no. They want you in their ecosystem. If it's cheap and easy for you to send your data out (as it is practically free to get your data in), then you'd just leave anytime you wanted.
Popular cartoon 'Paw Patrol' character 'Chase' facing pressure from activists
Ok, maybe this is where our disconnect lies -- I also have friends who consider themselves "sluts" and have a lot of sexual partners, but for most of them it's coming from a very intentional place and brings them a lot of joy.

Note that these same friends also have stable, fulfilling (non-monongamous) relationships in their lives.

I think that's why I bristle when I see people equating slutty behaviour with lack of fulfillment or trauma. I think that sex absolutely can be an unhealthy coping mechanism; but so can alcohol, yet many people manage to use alcohol in a fun and safe way.

I think that presenting commitment and sluttiness as the only two options is harmful, and it keeps people in destructive sexual patterns because they don't think they can have broad sexual exploration at the same time as serious relationships, so they avoid relationships altogether. It takes a lot of work, but you can have both! And I think that the more we become comfortable with that as a society, the healthier we will be.
In spite of all this "garbage" I carry around a $500 machine which fits in my pants pocket and give me directions to anywhere I can think of, a live video call (!) with my friends or family, a vast trove of knowledge about millions of different topics, and a camera that basically matches my $3000 DSLR from six years ago. And these are available whenever and wherever I want, so I can do this video call at 2am on a mountaintop if I want. So... I love this garbage.
I think the way Jetbrains does it is ideal - every chunk of 12 months you pay for with your subscription gives you permanent use of that version.
Thanks. I was struggling to remember the name.
It really is the routers + switches. Most VPC’s are eVPN’s, and you have to have the capacity to burst 10g+ to any of your datacenters in the world. I’m not defending their pricing, but supporting that kind of traffic flow at any time likely leads to a lot of underutilized hardware.
Is there another?
And he seems from replies and subsequent tweets to still be taking shots at the former coworker. I passively wonder if there wasn’t already some history between the two we just aren’t privy to
I must admit, I didn’t know the origin of the phrase when Trump said it. I only learned about it after the fact, and passed on the link here.
I'm not an app developer, but I am equally frustrated as a user on several of Wil Shipley's key points:

1. Ads for competitors. Sure, show me ads. But don't replace my exact match with an ad that takes up the whole screen. As a user who searches for apps, I find this outrageous. If the App Store was solely an advertising network I would understand. But Apple takes a 30% commission! Get out of my way and let me find what I'm looking for, then take your commission.

2. Upgrade pricing. I'm tired of abandoned apps, especially those I paid for initially. I don't expect developers to work for free (nor do I want to have 100+ subscriptions). Let me upgrade to major new versions.

3. Subscriptions for everything. Ugh. Sometimes it makes a lot of sense to buy something outright and use it for its useful life. There are many apps I never use because I don't want yet another subscription, but I would have happily purchased.

4. Trials. Not on Wil Shipley's list, but how on earth do we not get trials? I don't want in-app purchases to "unlock" the app. I just want to try it out for a couple weeks before I buy. I have foregone many possibly great apps because I couldn't be confident they would work for me. And I've wasted money on apps that looked like they would work for me, but didn't.

EDIT: I see trials have been possible for 2 years! I had no idea. I guess I haven't encountered any, which seems odd.

As a user, I feel that Apple has created a race to the bottom and they've made the app ecosystem way less valuable to me. I would be happier if upgrades and trials allowed me to spend more money to get more valuable iOS apps. Instead I regret some purchases, avoid some purchases, can't tell how much apps actually cost, have to find new apps when old ones are abandoned, and don't trust that I'm able to discover and buy the best apps.
@Adam,
Yup. I easily forget visiting my bookmarked websites but try to keep an Inbox Zero :)
I can't even get WiFi working on my Pi 4. I can only resolve IPv6, anything IPv4 fails. I suspect it's a router issue but I have no control over that, so I simply can't use the Pi.
Politics by definition cannot be personal. It's the practice of resolving conflict within society; if you don't interact with society, there is no politics possible.

(Note: this doesn't mean I agree with the behaviour shown in this case - nobody says politics between colleagues must be done over Twitter.)

(edit: sad downvotes without actual logical counterpoint are sad.)
Great! I'm pretty busy over the next few days, but I'll shoot you an email on Sunday.
Notarizations and medallions are not cheap.
Your comment made me curious why ARM architecture was chosen for the Raspberry Pi. The following from Wikipedia explained it:

> Processors that have a RISC architecture typically require fewer transistors than those with a complex instruction set computing (CISC) architecture (such as the x86 processors found in most personal computers), which improves cost, power consumption, and heat dissipation.

> These characteristics are desirable for light, portable, battery-powered devices — including smartphones, laptops and tablet computers, and other embedded systems — but are also useful for servers and desktops to some degree. For supercomputers, which consume large amounts of electricity, ARM is also a power-efficient solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

Power efficiency seems to be one of the big reasons why Macs will have ARM processors.

> Current ARM processors are also often more power-efficient, which helps with battery life. Switching to ARM is expected to let Apple reduce its processor costs by 40 to 60 percent.

https://www.bloomberg.com./news/articles/2020-04-23/apple-ai...
So, too much traffic, the site gets down now?
For those who don't know Wil is behind Delicious Library, and prior to that co-founded and headed The Omni Group in 1991. He's also won 8 design awards!
Seconded. Us non-Americans watching what's going on can't be expected to know something an unremarkable American cop said 50 years ago.

Is it such a well known phrase among Americans or something that most people just learned was a thing?
This is the current state of our SEC.

Regulators asleep at the wheel, while uninformed retail investors are going to be hosed when the bankruptcy finalizes.

If they allow this, the investors who lose their money should be able to sue the SEC for negligence.
It's a public open-source project. Why shouldn't the response of an open-source project toward a current important movement be conducted in public? It seems to me that the fact that both people are Facebook developers is not particularly relevant. If the other person had not been a Facebook employee, should Facebook have fired this person?
>Why should I have to tolerate a 2 hour wait time for a compile-time computation to finish in order for the auto-complete menu to appear on emacs just because I am using a laptop from 2010?

I don't understand. If you aren't willing to wait that amount of time, you're simply not getting working auto-complete at all. Hell, if you can't even compile the project, I don't see how you can meaningfully work on it all.

>Try prolog then (or something similar) and write something of the form sha512(X) = 0 this will initiate a brute-force search that will last essentially forever.

This is literally just another nonsensical party trick. I'm talking about something that someone might actually want to use, not contrived examples that really don't matter at all. I don't care to consider imaginary people that intentionally brick their programs.
Think of it as an ICO on a private blockchain. A more energy efficient way to part suckers from their money.
Here’s how to find out when SpaceX may provide you with satellite internet
They bailed on zfs when oracle bought sun. The semi opensource license sun distributed zfs under wasn’t good enough for Apple, so (I assume) they wanted an explicit license. I assume Oracle tried to milk as much as they could from Apple and apple walked.

From what I understand, a lot of apple engineers were really disappointed about dropping zfs. It’s sucks they can’t talk about it.
Why not just ignore them?
Dunno.

Linux Mint have been my daily driver for over a year and I see much less issues with it then I had with Win8.

I play games in steam, draw stuff, I even have working VR (HTC Vive), everything works just fine or even with less problems then in win (like bluetooth devices, for example)
edit: <nevermind, they changed it back>
The report talks at length about this, but maybe it bears rephrasing!

The ANSI definitions are bad: they allow multiple interpretations with varying results. 25 years ago, Berenson, O'Neil, et al. published a paper showing the ANSI definitions had this ambiguity, and that what the spec meant to define should have been a broader class of anomalies. They literally say that the broad interpretation is the "correct" one, and the research community basically went "oh, yeah, you're right". Adya followed up with generalized isolation level definitions, and pretty much every paper I've read has gone with these versions since. That didn't make its way back into the SQL spec though: it's still ambiguous, which means you can interpret RR as allowing G2-item.

Why prevent G2-item in RR? Because then the difference between repeatable read and serializable is specifically phantoms, rather than phantoms plus... some other hard-to-describe anomalies. If you use the broad/generalized interpretation, you can trust that a program which only accesses data by primary key, running under repeatable read, is actually serializable. That's a powerful, intuitive constraint. If you use the strict interpretation, RR allows Other Weird Behaviors, and it's harder to prove an execution is correct.

For a very thorough discussion of this, see either Berenson or Adya's papers, linked throughout the report.
There are better choices than both of these imho - Appcode and Jetbrains for example.
I'm not sure why your default position is that conservatism is anti-minority. It just seems intellectually lazy. Thiel is a pretty hardcore libertarian, so it makes sense that he looks at the world through a lens of personal responsibility, as opposed to group tribalism. It's merely a question of first principles.

If you disagree, that's fine (and plenty of people do), but accusing him of being racist (or racist-adjacent) is silly. I expect a tad more insight out of HN comments.
Has anyone tried or looked into Carnivore Diet?

https://carnivoremd.com/the-carnivore-diet-start-here/

https://www.carnivorecast.com/podcast
I'm disappointed nobody ever asked me to draw a bicycle from memory during a technical interview. That would be pretty fun.
What do you mean by "specifically targeting an individual front-end engineer at FB?" This seems to be "targeting" the person in control of the website of that open source project, and why wouldn't this communication be targeted at that person? Targeting it at anyone else, or just tweeting into the wind, would be completely ridiculous.

It also doesn't strike me as "harassment" or an "attack" or even particularly hostile. There's no threat, name-calling, or insults. What part of this is looks like harassment or hostility?
I hear occasional rumors, but nobody's published.
Every time Google/Apple/Microsoft/Whatever behave like the revenue-driven megacorp thugs they are, a substantial amount of HN readers act surprised and I'm surprised by the constant surprise. The track records of those companies clearly tell us, time and time again, about their true intentions and loyalties.

> an iota of dignity

That's a bit harsh, man.
Glad you pointed this out. Interestingly, the topic (don't harass your co-workers) was specifically discussed internally last week.
If you've exhausted the works of the Master you might want to try "Jeeves and the King of Clubs" by Ben Schott [0]. The book was authorized by the Wodehouse estate and continues the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster and some other familiar members of the Wodehouse canon.

[0]. https://www.amazon.com/Jeeves-King-Clubs-Homage-Wodehouse/dp...
Not a lawyer, just my thoughts:

Assuming you're in the US, it's my understanding that political affiliation is generally not a protected category. So if it's at-will employment at a private employer, it's probably legal to fire you for your political beliefs / actions (or "no reason" when it's really about political affiliation). If someone is engaging in behavior that bothers you, tell them to stop. If they don't, report them to HR. Make sure everything is in writing. But, be aware that HR might not be on your side; but at that point you really need to reconsider whether you want to work at a place where you are harassed and not supported by the company for not discussing politics.
Fry & Laurie, I guess. You're right, though. The radio show is far, far better than the TV series. I much prefer the books themselves, however :)
Do you belong to that demographics?
If you think that it's not true (that silence is not complicit), then shouldn't you attempt to explain that?
Does not liking affirmative action make you racist?

Isn't affirmative action or equivalent considered illegal in the UK(and perhaps EU in general but I'm not sure)

Is the UK more racist than the US?
The Fry and Laurie shows aren’t bad, neither is the BBC Blandings, but PG Wodehouse is best read. As a comic stylist he’s unsurpassed.
Weird that all the anonymous Pakistani names they chose are Hindu or Sikh. A Hindu judge is rare but possible. Polygamy for Hindus was abolished in India in the 1950s but grandfathered in (the word for co-wife, sotan, still exists but I've never heard Muslims use it), but Pakistan just passed a new Hindu Marriage bill and I don't know the status of polygamy under it.
> As part of "forgiving the debt", the shareholders get the stock set to $0. This is virtually inevitable, it almost always happens.

Not exactly, the current shareholders are getting paid interest to loan out their shares to short sellers.

The longer this gets drawn out, the more interest they collect, and owners could come out ahead of the short-sellers. Even if the shares themselves go to $0 (as everything does in the long-run).

Or doing all that indirectly through options. If you know that the stock will still be worth 12 cents in 4 months, that can earn a fortune.
ah, liberal mental illness.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best: Abandoning Precinct “Was Not My Decision”
Do you have an example of a similar banner that is specific only to the United States?
I think the unfortunate reality is that this isn't about individual people expecting support for certain causes. What you're looking at is fundamentally a social phenomenon - a belief that's been spreading from person to person and community to community that every person in the social group must support the correct causes in the correct ways, that anyone who doesn't go along with this is actively going against the cause and must be shamed and shunned until they do. It's the social spread via peer pressure that gives this its power. This isn't a new thing, it's been spreading amongst the tech community and elsewhere for probably well over a decade at this point.
Published as part of the History of Programming Languages (HOPL) IV proceedings[1], which also include articles about C++, D, Groovy, and JavaScript, and a few other languages.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/toc/pacmpl/2020/4/HOPL
If you read "young hoodlums" and think of certain race maybe it's your own bias shining through. Where I grew up on Ohio the kids I considered "young hoodlums" didn't happen to be any specific race
> Regulators asleep at the wheel, while uninformed retail investors are going to be hosed when the bankruptcy finalizes.

Anyone buying a company stock after it has declared bankruptcy is de facto a speculator.

> If they allow this, the investors who lose their money should be able to sue the SEC for negligence.

On what ground? That their get rich quick scheme didn’t pan out?

I think this is down right genius on the part of Hertz.
I hate this coddling of Robinhooders. There is nothing illegal or immoral about this. This is capitalism at its finest. Retail has flooded into a market thanks to trillions from the Fed, and Hertz is doing exactly as it should: raising capital in the most efficient way possible.

> If they allow this, the investors who lose their money should be able to sue the SEC for negligence.

What?!? How can you justify this at all. People have flooded into a stock like gamblers chasing quick returns. The SEC has a duty to allow this. You believe that Robinhooders should be protected from themselves. This is so wrong.
Don’t see how this is relevant to an employee getting fired for harassment
Yes, but those younger men will become older and a new generation of women will come up. That is how it has been for centuries.
VSCode is the most sluggish app I use on my 2019 Mac, by far. I genuinely don't understand how people can say that it feels responsive and like-native, unless they have much more performant equipment than I.

I use it because it's packed with useful functionality, but …I resent using it– I think I'd adore it if it were native.
That's not mob rule, that's completely and absolutely how the legal US government operates. Overturning the electoral college would require a constitutional amendment, which is no trivial task.

Mob rule is entirely different: it refers to rule imposed from outside the law, possibly by a large group.

Also, the "fewer votes" really only applies to the presidency, not the senate, house, or governors.
Does there have to be?
Extensive discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480918
Almost every day on HN I read that multiple flavors of "FB/Palantir/Google/MS engineers who do nothing while Zuckerberg/USG/China invades more and more of our privacy are complicit in the cog that is Zuckerberg's ambition", but when it comes to race relations, suddenly engineers should be allowed to work in silence.

I understand there's nuance, but I only hope the hivemind considers this nuance the next time they pile on Amazon engineers who decide to build facial recognition databases for the NSA.
IBM Cloud outage caused by BGP hijacking
Yes, Stripe fully recovered as of 23:52 UTC (https://twitter.com/stripestatus/status/1271592337940951041).
Even in the US it wasn't well known - most people just learned it was a thing.
The App Store sharecropping model is bad enough, but it adds insult to injury that app stores (ALL of them!) are so absolutely horrible. The search functionality is terrible. Discovery is terrible. The developer experience is terrible. They're just total amateur hour. For something Apple and others want to push it really seems like they're not putting any resources into making them not suck.
The only way we effect change is by ORGANIZING.

Right now, Apple can do whatever they want because they pick us off one by one, and ignore us. Google does exactly the same thing. If we organize as a large enough group, they have to listen. I firmly believe what Apple does is anti-competitive and they need to be regulated firmly by the government. I also think Google and Facebook need to be firmly regulated by the government as well.

Apple needs to allow other people to create their own App Store or they should be regulated by the government. We need to organize as a group of software developers and sue Apple and lobby our politicians, because that seems to be the only way Apple will listen.

I also agree that subscriptions are NOT the way to go, and having paid upgrades are the best way to go. Driving down the costs such that things are freemium has ruined our industry as far as I'm concerned. I want to pay good money for a good piece of software, but even $0.99 is "expensive" for most people these days. This needs to stop otherwise iOS app development will become the sweatshop of the 2020s.
When you say "never a hint of arrogance" you mean aside from him deciding to run a public company/major social media platform in his spare time? That it'd be fine to give something with 300 million users a half-hearted effort?

Unfortunately my Twitter NDA prevents me from giving details. But happily, I didn't sign the non-disparagement clause, so I don't think I can get in trouble for saying that I am very happy I no longer work at Twitter, and that I'd definitely not return while he was CEO.

I will grant, though, that he's excellent at performing reasonableness. He is particularly good at the humble apology for whatever Twitter's latest failure is, as well as the promise to do better next time. I could even believe he means it. In the moment, anyhow.