skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mezzanine level is expensive and only serves to delay people. It doesn't get more people into more trains. Only more frequent and longer trains can do that, and that is dependent on the length of the platform and how many trains can move through a given tunnel an hour, the mezzanine is extraneous. It makes people not want to take the train by introducing bottlenecks by making you go through another set of stairs or escalator. But I'm sure the expenses associated with the mezzanine lines a bunch of people's pockets, so I wouldn't expect sensible design to come into fold anytime soon in our contractor-graft based country.
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The number of examples within the "tech industry" where users fall for a fallacy is too long to list.

In these cases, deception of the user is a prerequisite for "success".
That salary range seems low for scala engineering or did I miss something. Is it a part time job?
I wonder what a database that supported a moral equivalent of cgroups would look like.

I can't create a record, I can't delete a record, I can't see the email field, but I can change the subscription plan for this user, or change their avatar.

We tend to do table or row level permissions, matrixed with verb. Column level occurs at the application layer, leaving plenty of room underneath for exfiltration.
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I would. It's a racket similar to police unions: upward pressure on $ and benefits because not to do so will result in a collapse of the larger operation (company, society), or so the rhetoric goes.
At about 3:18 into the video you can see what appears to be Serafinowicz playing Sassy as the camera moves behind him. Makes sense that faking would be hard from strange oblique angles, so looks like they just skipped it.

https://youtu.be/9WfZuNceFDM?t=198
You probably don't get on the phone with Dell. There's a large area in between EC2 and racking your own boxes in your own datacenter. You can buy dedicated machines from OVH or similar firms with lead time of a few days, and it's a very rare firm that can't predict their load a week in advance .. even for a fast growing company.

Look at it like this; GitHub mostly ran in their own datacenter using AWS only for spillover capacity. They scaled just fine. Virtually no apps have the problem of runaway growth that they can't handle without instantly provisioned resources.
Or better yet, a built-in trackball like on some IBM/Unicomp keyboards.
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You can export your Google contancts fairly trivially:

https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7199294?co=GENIE....
> It cannot be used to evaluate "risk", without quantifying what you mean by "risk"

Dead bodies laying around on the ground is usually considered a sign that some sort of risk was in play, but I'm clearly not as well versed in the field as you. Your absolutely flawless logic has certainly changed my mind.

I wonder if the relatives of the dead are as as easily convinced as me. What's your intuition on that (if you care enough to bother generating an opinion that is)?
Another issue is people don't understand how powerful modern hardware is. You have modern systems that process less transaction per a second ones from the 1970s.

Just look at the modern SPA. They are slower than ones 10 years ago, and the JavaScript VM is much faster plus all the hardware gains. Why does it make Twitter and Gmail a few seconds to load?
This kind of reporting interleaved with storytelling in a really weird voice is frustrating. Why do journalists write like this? What purpose does this word salad serve?

I can do this myself! "On a bald September day, a man walks into a barber shop, languishes at the occupied seats, and voilà, while sensing upcoming bowel movements, he discovers the next great theory of economics."
Can the mezzanine be used to divert foot traffic during multi-day repairs
>Everyone on the planet believes they're right--the right values, the right religions... I'm not aware of an objective answer to morality.

Moral relativism is the most insidious means to reduce legitimate concerns—whether they be ethical, political, or otherwise—to inconsequential.

It's easy to assuage your own feelings of shame/guilt by pointing out that $repugnant_behaviour occurs else where and that's so much worse.

At some point it's required that people actually take a stand rather than participate in the race to the ethical bottom.
The UI needs a lot of polish. Other than that, good.
Its the frantic rebuilding and updating that makes it complicated. The largest industrial centers in the world (at the time) were built and rebuild countless times, each adding another layer of services. City centers are particularly complex, and everything seems to go through there.

NYC went from 125000 in 1820, to 5.5M in 1920.
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Docker on macOS uses a VM for the kernel. Its much slower than on a Linux host
I have no idea, but given that it's localized by region, probably not? I don't think anyone knows how the new WFH conditions will impact local market conditions.
especially considered the veyron dismantled and crashed in the test run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3LhIjV6aY&list=LLCR_Dw6p0b...
Note that you're really complementing WebKit here: alternative browsers on iDevices are just reskinned Safari.
The biggest anti-Google sentiment on this site is always that they keep shutting down services, but the entire reason they do so is that those services were never popular among "normal" users. Such users also care a lot less about online privacy and data sharing.
Surely this appears quick, but does this Camry maintain ideal orientation all the way to terminal velocity?

Hmmm, one could imagine using the front wheel drive as a flywheel for some attitude control...

Me thinks a drop test is in order.
Show HN: Lullaby, an open source treatment for Tinnitus
I got tinnitus a couple years ago and, after some digging around for a proper specialist I found out that the main valid treatments are Tinnitus Retraining Therapy to help people habituate to their Tinnitus, and Windowed White Noise, which has shown promising results in reducing its volume.

I turned all of that into a pretty simple web app that helps create a custom treatment and guide people through the diagnostic process. And more importantly, all the relevant scientific papers are linked so you can actually validate that it's not snake oil (or at least not intended to be). It's GPL, of course.

The main downside is that it has to be used 3 hours a day (at least based on most studies), which sounds like a bit much but is pretty doable if you use the app while sleeping or doing random busywork during the day.

At least in my particular case the results were pretty impressive (and given the timeframe I don't believe it was merely a placebo), and seemed in line with the papers cited in the site, so I'm hoping this can help other patients deal with this condition.
Yes, 90% of the ads are 'shady crypto-currency things.' I've seen ads from Amazon in Brave though. I click on those (and some others,) not because I need reminders of Amazon's 'deals' and whatnot, but to support Brave.
"Hey Google, make me a 90 minute movie about X where Y also happens but put in some plot twists"
What's difficult in Rust is:

(1) knowing how much memory a particular structure (like a hash table) is using

(2) managing that memory as a single chunk; e.g. to free the whole thing at once so that you can pick up another chunk that you had previously serialized

It's not impossible in rust, it's just that you have to build up all the pieces and none of it will integrate nicely with the rest of the rust code.
Is it for the same reasons health care is so expensive in the US?
Ask HN: How to effectively get feedback from customers?
Getting feedback from customers is crucial but it seems really difficult to get people to answer a survey or get on a call.

I mainly use email to ask for feedback and the response rates are terrible, 2-3%.

Are there any effective ways of getting feedback? Tools or templates?
When you're talking about clients spending more on you as a consultant when they are on AWS... compared to what? Alternatives like GCS? Or actual on-premises hardware? Or what? When you "move clients off AWS every chance you get", you are moving them to what instead?

I'm having trouble following your theory of why having clients stay on AWS ends up leading to more consultant billable hours, I think because I don't understand what alternatives you are comparing it to. I am pretty sure it is not heroku, as in the earlier part of the thread?

Or are you talking about compared to simpler "vps" hosts like, say, linode? Doesn't that require a lot more ops skillset and time to set up and run compared to aws, or you don't think it does?
No. What you say seems true, but this is a comparison. I would expect other nations to also have pipe etc underground for a hundred years too (probably longer).
"Any security researcher" who actually understands how differential privacy works would not.
> Rather than having your traffic logged by your local ISP, bound by the laws of the land and all the privacy regulations in your country

That's only fallacy if you think I'm using VPN because I care about who has my browsing data.

I really couldn't care less. I'm using it because my country blocks certain websites and Netflix doesn't have Arrested Development or West Wing licenses for it.
If you want to self-host, you're welcome to try out PhotoStructure: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
Is your focus area for mere hosting of photos (such as for availability/backup)? Or, are you more interested in being able to share tour photos? Is there a particular feature that is most important for you related to a G Photos alternative? I think if you post that, perhaps viable suggestions might be offered that would be best for you; instead of some general "try XYZ because it is randomly better!" sort of comment.
Is there an alternative for Google Photos other than iCloud?
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Sure but in 1999 you had access to the Internet. You were just using it to download mp3s instead of find out how many people got blown up in a synagogue halfway around the world. Not to single you out because I was doing the same thing. Also there's clearly more information on the internet today, but we also use it differently. Social media did change how we consume information and created feedback loops we didn't (specifically) have in 1999.

I think you have hit on something very important to internalize though. We tend to look at the past, and especially our youth, through rose tinted glasses. It's important to maintain a realistic perspective on history as it relates to the current day, especially because we know more about the past now than we did then.

My mom thinks the 1960s were a wonderful time to be a kid because that's when she was a kid. She might be right, but I struggle to say civilization was better in 1960 than in 1990 or even 2020. It's all a matter of perspective.

To put it another way if we think the world was best in our youth we probably also think it went to hell when we became adults and started looking around.
I think you get part of that now with Processor Trace or Coresight. You get a full control flow trace, every branch. For values (registers, variables, function parameters) it's not there but I've been experimenting with light PTWrite calls and it can help :-)
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Err: fork....
How can you say that and not agree that it is a partisan rag?

A reputable news org shouldn't have a handful of problems, much less "a lot". And certainly not blatantly obvious ideological / bias problems.

Back to SCOTUS, the quote was:

> Those states also want to be able to definitively announce the results of the election on election night, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Emphasis mine. Nowhere did the majority opinion say "certify" the results. States (or to be more precise, the districts within them) absolutely do start reporting their results on election night.
(2018)

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078030
Ha!
Sorry - I hadn’t seen your comment when I started mine. Yeah that engine up front will help I think!
Raspbian 64bit seems recent and still in beta. I think I’ve tried to get Ubuntu and failed to find manual how to get it connect to my wifi with ssh enabled. I don’t have keyboard, monitor and hdmi adapters for this nonsense.
Why? If the primary benefit you're getting from the cloud is VMs, it's valid to compare to hardware. The overhead of bare metal on top of cloud VMs is basically knowing how to handle RAID and set up load balancing.
I had a conversation with someone professionally familiar with the planning process for metro transit in LA and this is pretty much what they told me. The process is so complicated that even if metro themselves wanted to hire labor in house and save due to being able to run things at cost rather than for profit, there wouldn't be any talent available that is able to navigate the regulatory process as those brains have long since been hired by companies like Tutor Perini. Even if metro wanted to do things in house, they wouldn't even know where to start with what is necessary for regulatory approval as that ground has been covered by private contractors for two decades.

It's such a screwed up situation and is perfectly designed to enrich shareholders at the expense of the public purse, just a perfectly oiled machine. Metro doesn't even accept the cheapest bids, they continually turn to Tutor Perini because that is the only contractor with people familiar with the regulatory process. I'm not sure how you ever right the ship in this case. Pretty depressing.
A healthy old-growth forest is maybe 100 trees per acre.

A 'naturally regrowing' forest may be 400 trees per acre. They're scrub trees, none of the ever getting very large, unhealthy and scraggly and broken by every storm.

It takes maybe a century of trees dying, giving one of their cohort a chance to get ahead of the others, then shading them and 'thinning the herd' until you have a stable population. Then, they're still not very healthy because they 'grew from scrub'.

They have to then die of natural causes one at a time and be replaced by a single healthy one. Maybe another 50 years. Finally you have a stable healthy forest.

Or, you can just plant 100 trees per acre in a grid. And mow the volunteers until you have what you want. 20 years maybe.
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I'm mostly not on Google, apart from an occasional web search (DDG still not 100% replacing Google) and Youtube.

There is just no replacement for YouTube for now. 99% of I'd like to watch is there, most of which I can't even find a place to buy.

I guess this is where it's hard: even if an alternative is built to better YouTube on every technical aspect, the contents are just not there.

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Tangentially, I don't believe it's possible to pressure Google to do anything by not using a Google product, as long as the majority of the users, who are not at all technical, don't care.

It's practically quite meaningless, apart from making myself feel better.
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Interesting angle for a funeral service ad..
I only know that it will be written in COBOL. Wait, trike that. Not "will be written"; it's already written. it will only get maintained.
This tech is fucking amazing.

Assuming their marketing is correct and it's actually AI they would be the only company actually using AI in production in the world AFAIK.

They do Ads, Replays, Coaching, better than human ball tracking, they mention betting, not sure what.

https://www.pixellot.tv/

You put up a camera that moves with a 5G card then it's just software eating the world.

As a parent you NEVER have to go to your kids game again. Which since we all love remote working that's the logical next step. We don't need humans in our lives at all.

It's rare on HN you see a tech that might actually work and integrate into our lives.

You could easily see it as a tool to coach your McDonalds staff. This is the future.
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There was a stretch when you had Gateway, eMachines, Dell (et al) in competition that could have resulted in machines that cheap if the market for desktops hadn't died (relatively). But even now Dell's lowest-end desktop is $350, and that's with an i3.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's an engineered price point because lesser hardware at lower prices can't even be shipped and make a profit. And frankly, if I remember back 10-15 years, there were $350 boxes back then, too, so maybe it's a minimum price/rule of thumb that was calculated a long time ago.
I noticed this too, but I actually got a tooltip popup that notes this is something that can be disabled in the calendar settings. The specific checkbox is "Automatically add Google Meet video conferences to events I create"

Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on these products.

Edit: it seems the tooltip only appears the first time you try to add Meet. After that it doesn't appear and you have to go into settings.
Not for fully static, but apart from go programs those are pretty rare, right? For everything-static-but-libc it's still OK.
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Thanks.

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I would LOVE to work in that capacity. Didn't know it was possible. I thought everyone working in academia was either a professor or a PhD candidate, or students working as TAs and RAs.

How does one go about finding that kind of job?
You will be delighted to know that Google is one of the tech giants tasked with contact tracing for Covid.
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> Why do journalists write like this?

The New Yorker is known for that style, it may even be the prime example of it.

People who don't like that style are not the audience. And there are many people who like it.

It's like asking why Linux Weekly News never runs poetry. Because it's not that kind of publication.
Source: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/fastmail-loses-customers-face...
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I think they're describing it as the "Seattle Subway" for the benefit of non-local audiences.

The subway they're referring to is almost certainly the Link light rail, which runs through the bus tunnels, and has other extended stretches underground. It's probably the same light-rail that you're referring to.