skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's the full picture. There are lots of good reasons for small and medium-sized providers of b2c software to prefer SaaS and cloud delivery over on-premises that aren't anything to do with access/info monopolies.

For example as a small provider you'll just kill all your velocity if you try to deliver on-prem to a number of large enterprises. They will all have different upgrade policies, testing and approval policies, different approved hardware etc etc and pretty soon you will suffer a death from 1000 cuts and not be able to deliver anything.

For example, I had a client once say to me that we had to replace postgres in our stack with Oracle because that was their approved database. Even though we had to support the stack. I had a client delay us by 6 months because they decided to order super bleeding-edge network cards (which I repeatedly said we didn't need) then these cards turned out to take ages to deliver, when they arrived they didn't work with the "corporate approved" version of linux they insisted on using for another couple of months etc.

In a saas you don't have to deal with any of those things. You do the one-off (painful) third-party vendor approval process, go through all the infosec audits etc but after that you own the stack and can run it the way you want.

If you want to change the hardware layout and it's on prem you have to go cap-in-hand to the client and get them to stump up cash, wait months while physical boxes get allocated, racked up etc. If you're in-cloud, you make a change to terraform, check it in and it gets pushed out through your CI/CD pipeline.

If you want to roll changes to all your customers that's really easy as a SaaS/cloud offering whereas it's very hard if they're each on-prem.

etc etc

It's easy to be cynical, but there are very significant benefits to the vendor of this model. There can also be benefits to the customer too.

In addition, in my experience when you deal with a big enterprise customer you are contractually committed to providing "transition assistance" when the contract ends (even if your company goes bust) and returning data in mutually-agreed open formats. So vendor lockin doesn't really apply eithre.
Game Dev Examines Tron-Inspired Game
It's not a straw man to belittle you. Next time you respond to someone, try not to prefix it with "right" if you don't want to signal your agreement.
The quantum Hall effect continues to reveal its secrets
We're constantly filling the rooms we occupy with aerosols from our mouths. How will this help?
Ah yes, pesky words, revealing bias and confirming prejudices. I only subscribe to newspapers that print their headlines as formal logical statements.
Google's products are also expensive. The Nest smoke detectors are priced to only be viable for a studio apartment. Beyond that, you're way better off going with a traditional alarm/fire system.

Requirements are 1 in each bedroom and 1 in the hallway outside each bedroom. That adds up quickly.
> first time it wouldn't completely load

Hey! Can't reproduce on vanilla Firefox. Do you have any extensions enabled? Try "Help -> Restart with Add-ons Disabled".

If it works (or if it doesn't even), can you write me at artyom@artyom.me and tell about the results? Perhaps this can be fixed from our side.

About the video — it plays for me, but poorly. Will take a look.
Richard Feynman's Perspective of Life
How is Turkey a danger to the whole world?

And didn't the Turkish people vote in Erdogan?
This feels like "whataboutism". One can be concerned about both the pandemic and tiktok.

I don't appreciate the current administration's responses to the pandemic, but that doesn't mean I expect them to solely focus on the pandemic.
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>He has a wikipedia. Try your best to read it.

Sowell has published over thirty books, but I can find virtually no actual academic research. One of the last papers dates to the 60s, where he debates Marxism, but I think this is actually just a sort of philosophical treatise.

He's repeatedly rejected modelling, mathematics and virtually every other econonmic tool, so to call him an economist is kind of a misnomer.

And actually I do think I've portrayed his position fairly accurately. When you read his stuff it's often hard to tell if you're reading Sowell or Ann Coulter.

Btw I'm not opposed to conservative intellectual work in general. Chesterton is great, Carl Schmitt is probably one of the most intelligent writers of the last century. But Sowell isn't, and American Conservatism is in an intellectual crisis to put it mildly.
The author would've been better served by pointing out the paywalls of research done in universities, funded by people's taxes.

That'd be somewhat close to 'the truth is paywalled'.

Newspapers and truth are a contradiction - truth is boring, newspapers cannot afford to be boring because they compete on entertainment value or illusion of 'being informed', not truth value, therefore every newspaper panders and skews 'the truth' in exchange for entertainment or 'being informed' value, that's their job.

Paywalled or not, newspapers are drug dealers for the junkies addicted to a 'need to be informed'. Twitter is beating them to the punch. On twitter you can be infinitely 'informed' and be an active participant in 'informing' others, which is why journalists and 'intellectuals' can't get enough of it.
Me too which is why I don't go out to a bar or restaurant. In my opinion people at bars and restaurants are okay with the possibility that they will be infected. For me personally it's not worth the risk, I can cook and have drinks at home.
> Once you get users, you have responsibilities, and one of the responsibilities is not to break their code.

That's rich. Figuring out how to use C++ on a large project (where you often depend on existing codebases) is always an exercise in figuring out what subsets of what version of the language to use. Presenting C++ like one language that has maintained backwards compatibility is, at best, a gross oversimplification of what is one of the bigger headaches of using C++.

That being said, I can't remember C++ ever doing something directly destructive and unnecessary like redefine how integer division works like I have seen in certain other languages that also result in hostility towards the user.
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There’s many reasons the S&P is rising, you can’t say it’s from this without evidence.
Code is a medium for communication of concepts and solutions between humans first and for the machine second. Code generation input still requires a specification which is the code you feed into the inference engine even if it's of a higher abstraction than the generated output. In the end you're still stuck with code regardless and someone has to understand how it acomplishes what it does.

Now I can agree that having decent documentation or even literate programming [1][2] contribute in large to understanding but it's never a replacement for clean and maintainable code. It's the same as architecture where if you're sloppy with the designing a bridge it can (and often will) come crashing down resulting in high expenses and lives lost over something that could have been prevented had others been able to understand the design and question the practices. The same applies to code.

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Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway
You need to replace all of your devices, too, in order to take advantage of those new WiFi specs.

Do you buy all new devices when you buy a new WiFi router? I don’t.
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YouTube took it upon themselves to ban any videos that contradicted the WHO statements.
Please get a library card if you wish to read quality (often paywalled) news sources for free. Your tax dollars (going to your city/county) are already paying for access. Best of all, it's digital. Your library card number will grant you huge access to all of this digitally and in near real time (e.g., the databases are updated daily).
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I guess that they have a conflict of interest in supporting it, due to Chromecast.
I haven’t seen any research on this, but is there a chance being introduced to very small viral loads could actually improve your expected future health? We know that larger loads are harder to fight and produce worse symptoms, but what of “mico-loads”? It would seem they should almost act as a semi-vaccine: you get an easy to fight and low symptom load once, then you’ve created antibodies for the future. So long as you continue to be exposed to micro-loads in day to day life, those antibodies shouldn’t go away, and you’ll be safe from any potential “mega-load”.
We don’t use mathematical models because they are correct. We use them because they are more concretely measurable, and thus falsifiable. Without them, it becomes too easy to make vague statements about economics then make ad hoc explanations for why you were right. This is what so-called economists like Sowell do.

>A mathematics-first approach encourages oversimplified assumptions.

Wrong. It makes the oversimplified assumptions more clearly identifiable, instead of concealing them in prose which is not measurable. This is why they are superior, because we can clearly identify why they are wrong, and by how much. This is how science and the positivist framework improve our knowledge.
Also, ADT which has fairly scummy sales tactics and isn't very technologically advanced compared to other competitors and is very old school. Hard to imagine two companies farther apart.
As someone whose introduction to economics was Basic Economics, I don't think the statement reflects poorly on either the book or academia.

The book is a pithy, digestible introduction to a bunch of basic topics in economics. It is also lacking a lot of the detail and mathematical explanation of introductory university courses.

For example, I understood the basic concept of comparative advantage after listening to the book, but when I later revisited the topic using a textbook, the graphs and worked examples gave me a clearer picture and it was better related to adjacent concepts like marginal cost, the production-possibility frontier, etc.

I don't have the impression that academic economics as presented to undergraduates diverges greatly from the book, although it has been years since I heard it and my recollection is fuzzy.
How do the carriers do it, at the technical level? Do they limit the IP TTL?
I was referring to the Empire’s share of world GDP. What you say is interesting, and conveys one of my two points: that even great powers can fall.
My point is that saying "Rust community" implies that this person represents the community in some way or worse, is representative of the community. Neither is true. It's just some random person with no credentials. That person is no more the Rust community than I am the HN community. Imagine how you'd feel if people made assumptions about you based on what nindalf said that one time.
Do you have any evidence of the former example? My understanding was that this would generate soft searches, which should not impact your score.

On the latter example, would you lend vast sums of money to someone who has never demonstrated their ability to manage and repay a loan?
"In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot
be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances
are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it
is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as
“probable” or “presumed.”

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

Now before you say "Well, it's not that many" the truth is, you can't. We don't know. The data collection is sloppy, inconsistent, etc. But if you can find a CDC report that addresses this and breaks it out (read: transparency) then I would like to see that. Please share.

For the second:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...
This is a great company and a great team, I recommend checking them out!
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Creating a graph with only data from 8 weeks ago would be an accurate graph, but it would tell us what we should have been doing 8 weeks ago, not what we should be doing now. Of course, death is already a lagging indicator, so really this would tell us what we should have done 10 weeks ago. It's just not an actionable graph, because it's too delayed.

Of course, using incomplete data may not tell us anything either. It's also not an actionable graph, because there's too much uncertainty.
@leeny i signed up to do peer interviews but i wasn't getting credit for interviewing other with no explanation as to why . Is it a missing feature that will tell interviewers why they aren't getting interview credit or part of your secret sauce?

Either way i bailed after feeling cheated out of time.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
I found Sowell via YouTube while studying economics in college. They were beating us up with witchcraft macro economic formulas that I could easily tell were useless 99% of the time and impossible to determine when the were not useless. I realized they were not teaching us economics so I went looking for other sources. Found Friedman and Sowell and basically threw the college text books in the trash.
It's sad that this comment is down voted to oblivion but it's very true. Just showing up doesn't work for everyone, and I've personally seen it not work at all for black and Latino founders.
If you have a well structured blog, it helps. Think about how you would create a table of contents for a book on the topic your side project covers. Break that out into the structure of your site. The Google bot can get a good idea that your site has good coverage of a topic.

Combined this with technique in the book They Ask You Answer by Marcus Sheridan and you should have a good starting point.
That's basically the premise behind Surety. Except Surety systems are centrally monitored after the DIY install and have tons of customization options.
The issue here is really with AWS. These credit promises are all over every startup perk program - paid or free.

Ultimately it is up to AWS's activate team to approve or deny the credits.

In our experience, we were denied extra credits by the AWS activate team and the perk program we had joined specifically for the credits gave us a full refund.

I don't think anyone is saying to "rely" on free money - but if you have a shot at it then at least send the email.
You're getting downvoted, but you raise a good point. There's an interesting Medium article[1] on it. Basically just a keyboard with an 4 line LCD above it so you can see some context as you type.

[1] - https://onezero.medium.com/this-35-keyboard-for-children-tra...
Show HN: Slime Simulation
I don't 100% agree. Actually we do criticise CCP alot and it's as proliferate and popular as a cultural phenomenon itself (especially the older generation since people in power back then were even worse). It's true no one would raise up a giant placard on the street 'publically' but that's just culture difference. If you must think it's a sign of repression then I can't convince you.
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Abstracting away all of the details underlying the tech is a double edged sword. On one side, you get massively higher adoption due to a lower barrier to entry. On the other, you now have a massive population of folks who don’t understand the the “fundamentals”.

I’m not sure we “need” to improve the general understanding. I mean how many ppl know how to change their own car tires or oil? If anything you just keep creating niches for ppl to make livings in.
The art of the weekly CEO update
I mostly work in a terminal, developing in a text editor, and have my terminal background set to 80% opaque so that I can see my background.

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This is specifically why I choose to support sources that don't have paywalls, but are still trustworthy news sources like Vox, The Guardian, etc. In these particular cases they do have an editorial stance that I happen to agree with but others may not, but the facts are still there and they're largely trustworthy. They're also open about their editorial stance and biases, so if you don't agree you can still get the facts and be skeptical about the editorial stance. But either way, personally I like both these examples so I try to support them instead of organizations that put up a paywall. I'm sure if your worldview is different you can find organizations that are legit but also have different funding models to support, or just learn to separate facts from editorializing or op-eds.
You can't compare niche edutainment channels to the major news outlets. NYT is in the business of credible news, these small content makers aren't credible sources of news.
Most hospitals and nursing homes aren't for-profit?

Do you have a source for that?