skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy this, of course if you run the NYT infrastructure you don't go for Heroku.

Heroku is still the best for smaller projects (and medium sized depending on the type of the workload) and devs that are not fully devops.

Sure, if you have a previous project where you can copy pasta your Terraform and Kubernetes setup from, you can start your infra just as fast, but otherwise heroku app:create and git push heroku master is still way faster to start hustling.

Everyone compares invoices between e.g. AWS and Heroku, but do they ever take into account the cost of the ops team when they switch to AWS? If the bill was 7 figures on Heroku with no devops, how many senior devops does it take to get the same spend with AWS? How about productivity loss if deploying is not as easy as it was before?

I think saying something is dead because it doesn't work in all use cases is not fair.
Minor nit, but I suppose you mean "echo -ne" ?
Recently I ported a suite of 30 year old c/c++ programs, each one was deployable and runable on their own and communicated via sockets, microservices from the early 90's. Likewise FaaS doesn't add much that couldn't be done via apache cgi in the 90's.
It was already too expensive... are they trying to bring the TSLA price down?
Sorry to hear about the issues you're seeing. I've forwarded your comments to our web team. Thanks for bringing it up!
>they use the lead customer in each product segment they care about to help them define the cutting edge for that space.

with that customer naturally describing a faster horse that it wants :)
The dark pattern is the first page pretending it’s a $52/month rate when the actual monthly rate is priced much higher.

If they want to honestly advertise that price then it needs to say “billed monthly with annual contract.”
Philips (NL) is going to have a spectacular financial year outcome, I believe they make a lot of fab line equipment. And anyone else in the space. Europe used to make the things, moved to making the things which make things.

If not philips somebody like philips.
People want the freedom to do exactly what they like doing and the freedom to stop people from doing what they don’t like doing.
Personally, I think they should simply sell the product rather than rent seeking. Perhaps combined with some sort of rent to own option for people who are unable to make a single upfront purchase.
I think they were determined to squeeze as much "value" as possible out of those obsolete tiny monitors, by having someone use them for a few more years. Getting rid of them was not the problem.
>the "emacs virgin" thing

He stopped doing it once people told him that it made others uncomfortable.

>being a creep ('tender embraces')

In the business cards that he gave out to people of any gender. This is not really a creepy thing to do.

>being abusive (https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1174044770546659329)

Miguel de Icaza is not a trustworthy person, especially due to the way that he betrayed the community. I am curious though, did he just sat there being passive-aggressive or did he tell rms to leave? Since nobody seems to have asked him about what actually happened I am going to.

>https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1374460763910201350

I will also ask him about this because I am curious.

>being a jerk ("These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of"),

Does not seem like a jerk thing to do.

>This isn't a 'oh, he said one thing one time about one person' situation, this is instead a lifetime of behavior that for anybody else would have had consequences long ago.

It would be great if the ones organizing harassment campaigns against him also agreed with you. So far they have been focusing on spreading lies about him (such as about epstein, the mattress, or his opinions) rather than actual repeated abuse by him after people expressed their dislike for it.
A fee is acceptable, if the consumer agrees to it, adobe wants people to pay their agreed on contract, but offer people a discount of 50% of their remaining obligation.

This seems pretty fair to me, when you signed up for the contract, those purchases figure into their operations.

Reverse the paradigm, if they cancelled providing you these services, would you expect a refund, or would it be a money grab to expect to get your money back when they violated the terms of the agreement?
Umm, how does block chain solve that? Someone, somewhere still has to physically host the server, and that someone is likely in a jurisdiction covered by some sort of government. Maybe I have an inadequate imagination, but I fail to see how blockchain would solve the problem of someone upset with the content physically unplugging the servers.

Sure, I could see a hosting company that had customers machines encrypted in a way where they were unable to determine what customer is tied to an asset or even who their customers are. However, if this hosting company had customers serving CP (as would surely happen with such a service) then if they were at all related to anywhere the US gov could possibly exert influence I would be willing to bet that the hosting company itself would be shut down at the least. Someone, somewhere physically needs to operate the servers, and some ISP/telco needs to provide interconnect. AWS isn't magical, they've just provided a much better UI over co-location, which has existed approximately forever in internet time.

Think of it this way-it is very strongly recommended that you don't run a TOR exit node from your home connection. Any amount of blockchain/crypto obfuscation doesn't do anything for the end operator of a service hosting objectionable content. And while I disagree with political censorship, I also don't doubt that a fully uncensored hosting service would end up >95% malware, exploitative porn, and the like.
Ask HN: Interviewing with Amazon for an AWS Solution Architect Role
Any thoughts or suggestions on interviewing at AWS for a (Principal / presales) Solution Architect role? How brutal are the behavioral rounds? What does failing look like typically?
Great to see something positive relating to homelessness from my home town.
I started messing with Heroku back when they were trying to be an online Rails editor. When they started getting more seriously into hosting I was relieved to have a company dedicated to making Rails hosting easy. But, every time I tried to host a professional project with them I ended up leaving early on because of slow performance, high pricing, and the fact that their system had limits that there was always some third party around to help solve for a fee. The fees add up. I started rolling my own configurations with Chef. It was painful. Then I tried Ansible, and it was easier to use, but I was still responsible for devops. I've come to realize that I will never be good at devops. I'm spending all of my time in application code. It just isn't what I do. And, most of my professional projects really don't have scale issues. They're mostly apps with small user bases that run great on a couple of servers. There's a sweet spot for Heroku here. Yeah, they're still slow, they still have limitations, they're still expensive... but on the low end of their price scale, it's hard to beat not having to worry about devops. (Saw a reference to https://render.com in the comments. Maybe I'll give them a try.)
Seems like the Theta token is the example that you seems to look for. Cancel culture is a recurring subject recently on HN, between Twitch which that will shutdown channels that infringed outsides of their platform and Youtube which demonetize so many kind of content... This solve both.
Ontario hospitals may have to withhold care as Covid-19 fills ICUs
what are the pros and cons of using privacy.com or similar vs a normal credit card? is it as safe as using your bank's own credit card?
That's a shame. Honestly though, full-disk is just so darn easy, and nearly as secure. I'll probably just stick with that for a good long while.

EDIT: Looks like LUKS is supported now, which is nice:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-homed#LUKS_home...
I did call Apple service. They suggested creating a temporary new user and logging into that account. It shuts down cleanly from that account, means there's some third party software or config that's causing the issue. It's not easy to pinpoint the problematic software.
> Honestly it wouldn't be the worst idea to have a "Net Neutrality" for brokers.

and/or we could tokenize securities onto permissionless and decentralised ledgers and stop feeding the intermediaries

note that a ledger with transaction validation rules which enforce KYC can still be permissionless and decentralised

bitcoin isn't "permissioned" just because you need a valid signature to spend an output
It was, at least somewhat, cruel
... that also doesn’t rely on DNS!
I don't think that's particularly useful as a metric. China could use the Bill of Rights similarly if they wanted to.
FWIW I've found learning Julia (and using it daily) mostly overwhelmingly pleasant, and I perceive MLJ as an unfortunate outlier. Sounds like you had a different experience.
> Auto manufacturers need 380nm production lines.

They "need" chips made on a 28 year old process? I'd really want a source for this. Even if it were true, there are still fabs that can make .35um process chips.
Exactly. A commonly misunderstood aspect of freedom is that things you don't like or agree with may happen. This seems to be invoked (generally validly) when people argue against populism, but generally overlooked for most kinds of freedom.
Unrelated to water heaviness, while not the hardest, NYC tap water always tested sweet to me. I love that taste. It's amazing how used I got to it, to the point that drinking tap water anywhere else feels like some sort of punishment. It really made me realize after living outside of NYC how infrequently New Yorkers actually buy bottled water.

BTW: "New York City department of environmental protection is one of the 5 municipalities in the US that is allowed to supply unfiltered water based on their water quality, and the water is well known for its fresh taste (which is based on the absence of chlorine, a chemical often used for water treatment)."
Legally? It's fraud.
Fair points re: disruptions... but you will have those issues anywhere in factories run by any company. I was responding to the implication that there's anything inherently unpredictable in the chip companies being foreign. My point was that the autos are uniquely screwed vs. many other customers of the chip companies due to their own decisions and actions.

Regarding utilization rates, that's probably where most of my snarkiness was coming from: the autos knew demand was high before they cancelled their orders and they chose to do so anyways. I'm sure they had every right to do what they did (contractual language allowing for cancellations etc), but when you step out of line for whatever reason it should come as no surprise that when you decide that you want to be in line after all that you're going to now be at the back of it. This has nothing to do with an unpredictable supply chain and everything to do with an unpredictable customer who didn't plan properly. Yet the story gets played up as the failure of a brittle supply chain.
"The opposite of jank" - I love it, what a resonant quote.
it clearly says "annual plan, paid monthly" which is what you are signing up for, a year long obligation, with installment payments.

if you click the drop down, it shows you not only your other options but also the prices.

https://i.imgur.com/CZSCvw8.png
That's just begging the question, though, since the comment you replied to was essentially asking whether the promoted SEs are actually unthinking cogs, vs people who've been convinced by their new perspective.
I really recommend Krita over GIMP - it subjectively feels more "normal" - it has better cross-platform support, better tablet support, better brush engine, better vector layers, and it uses single-window layout without needing to be told.
> If you didn't want to agree to pay by the year maybe you shouldn't have signed up for a year of service?

This whole thing sounds a lot like a loan. If Adobe wants to provide a loan then they should be regulated like a bank.

Otherwise a monthly fee isn't a loan, and a monthly fee shouldn't have a cancellation fee.
Exactly this. Elastic search took open source code and turned it into a service to profit from it while making improvements to the code. Amazon is doing the same thing, except they’re keeping their contributions truly open source.
And punk kids would be covering them over with stickers that machine read as something entirely different. :P Not as easy a thing to crack as it could be. You could cryptographically sign them (sign your signs!) and maybe encode approximate GPS coordinates to prevent them from being moved too far from their original position, but that’s a lot of data to encode in a marker.
or CME bitcoin futures
Is there a good up-to-date resource for understanding the current premium that MSTR has over its BTC holdings? The article says: "MicroStrategy said last week it owns around 91,579 bitcoins. Its holdings, worth around $5.5 billion according to a Reuters calculation, are equal to around 80% of its $6.8 billion market capitalisation."

Naively, this would imply a fairly low premium. But among other things, this doesn't account for fact that Microstrategy took on a lot of debt to buy their bitcoins. Essentially, I'd like to see an updated and more complete analysis like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/microstrategy/comments/ltypps/sell_.... Does such a thing exist?
It’s a great solution. Every class only maps to one css property setting, and they are very well named.

Thus not much more difficult to read and remember than css key value pairs.

Why would you typecheck component class names? If so, its all strings, seems pretty easy less error prone than inline styles.
> A like to like would show a much different comparison as the wealthiest parts of New York are outside the city proper.

But do the billionaires live there, or are they in multi-million dollar penthouses in Manhattan? You'd think people like that would concentrate in the most prestigious areas, so trying to adjust the comparison like that may not yield a much different result.
Super nice. Thank you for posting.
^ underrated comment

The attempt to "cleanse the land" of what they have newly labeled as "bigotry", "racism", etc. does have what strongly resembles religious fervor, a clear definition of sin, and a clear promise of a better world and the conditions for getting there.

And there are always those pesky skeptics who make it so difficult... if only everyone would just believe.
How is it deceptive? They don't even need to let you cancel if they don't want. The point of the annual plan is that you're accepting the obligation of paying for a full year.
You know, whenever I read articles focused on the testimony and actions of a single person I wonder what they have to gain from it. What they win by publicizing themselves like this.

Cynically, I believe Zhang has a lot to gain from this, rep-wise, so I will try to take it with a grain of salt. But even so... if any of this is true, Facebook have dropped the ball hard.

I’ve never been so glad I left social media. It’s the catalyst of so much wrong nowadays.
Is this a common rejoinder? I was struck by the other replies stating the same question.

Regardless, people who are black weren't invited until 1990, people with vaginas weren't invited until 2012, and the founder was rather infamously proud of this and loud-spoken about it. This is hardly a 'how many times do you need them to apologize' situation, in all cases they merely quietly began accepting people, after defending their position until then.
The US for sure has limitations on speech, for example credible threats.
1) The CEO compensation, while grotesque, is a drop in the bucket. Would I avoid eBay because they've employed a revolving door of terrible CEOs? No, I avoid them because they're a bum opportunity. The CEOs know this, better ones go elsewhere, yet somehow they still pay top dollar for the leftovers they can get.

Good company, bad company, the CEO compensation won't drive the stock price. It's still grotesque and unnecessary, you could pay half or less and get the same mediocre result in most cases.

2) I lied, I don't avoid eBay. I buy the same index funds as everyone else. Shareholder activism is a myth right now unless you're one of a very few people controlling in actuality a very small % of the market.
I am aware of it. r3856283 and RMS weren't. Is this that bad?
I tried it and it kept bugging me about unread messages that I already read so I removed it, but thanks
We moved into a house in the fall that had an active carpenter ant infestation. We were also getting occasional surges of sugar ants through the winter.

As both colonies were kicking back up in the spring, my oldest started asking a lot of questions about ants.

I shared one story that I was told decades ago and have never had the chance to confirm. Maybe someone here will know of the right resource.

Before ants, the forests were literally starving under the weight of fallen trees. When trees died, there wasn't enough natural rot to remove the wood and leave room for new undergrowth. Then ants evolved, and ant saliva is full of formic acid [0], and that breaks down wood. Suddenly, old dead wood wasn't a hurdle for regrowth, and the forests and nature prospered with new and evolving flora.

[0] I might have the type of acid wrong this many years later.

I've always liked this story, but if you told me it was bunk I wouldn't be shocked. I'd like some confirmation either way!
Can you include me too?! I wish I could automate the hell like they do :P
How difficult or expensive is it to get tickets?

When I was more interested in golf, I used to love watching the Masters on TV. The organizers limit the amount of ads the network can insert so it's much less annoying than regular TV. Very calming and beautiful to look at.
It's probably a shame that I'm Russian and I've never been there. Theoretically I don't even need to wait for covid to be over — life is mostly back to normal already — but going to Moscow just to visit a museum is kinda meh. But I'll visit it the next time I'm in Moscow.
Actually there is a cost.

If a user signs up for a year contract, the business has certainty of future income. The business gives a discount for assurance of that future revenue.

If the user cancels early, the cost is the lose of that future revenue on the balance sheet - and this does influence the business.
Our water is so good! Isn’t that related to our bagel quality too?
Totally agree. My team has the main API made with Rails. Running on Heroku, with 2M active users, on 4 performance dynos. What does it take? Caching, Redis and async processing (Heroku/AWS). No devops. And we can still deploy with a button.
A Starbucks 'Pumpkin Spice Latte' or Plant 50 Trees?
OK, my mistake. But let's review that context - when faced with police officers is an offender going to increase their culpability and add a new culpability into the mix or are they going to seek to keep their punishment exposure to a minimum?

"I ate too" vs "I ain't do"....

The linguist actually has a point here. It is more likely the second option, again, because to assume the first is to imagine a new entity (in this case, a separate rationalisation outside of the context of the interaction).

As to why you might be seeking to dispute such a moot point (as the question of the case isn't whether Floyd was intoxiated)... I leave that as a problem for the reader.
Has there ever been an analysis of why Heroku was (and still is) so DAMN expensive? Just a bad pricing model or something unmagical about their environment?
This is such great work.
Can you use it with Firefox?
This article and the study are pure supposition.

Did people build at Machu Picchu for hypoxia?
Remote Control of Behavior with Rewarding Electrical Stimulation of the Brain
How can I be notified when you post your primer? Keen to read it.
It means what it means in almost ever contract you sign for a subscription service. You agree to purchase a year of service, and pay for that monthly. It is a very common practice across multiple industries.

If they believed that they were signing up for a monthly, they did not read, what they were signing up for, its clearly stated on the sign up screen.

https://i.imgur.com/CZSCvw8.png
A little of both, I think. They do have lots of fab capacity for older process nodes which are ideal of embedded applications. And they do want to boost their PR image, plus they aren't wrong: the industry is kinda effed right now with TWO fires in Japan (most recently Renesas). It's a golden alignment for Intel, and Gelsinger miiiiight be shrewd enough to score a home run. But Intel stock? Eeehhhh.... not a long term hold, they ain't got a play book after this.
You write well
The first screenshot in the comment you're replying to says the price is "$52.99/mo". A reasonable person would look at that and conclude that if they purchased the product for 1 month, they would pay $52.99. But it seems (from the other, subsequent screenshots) that the actual cost Adobe would charge is $635.88. (That $52.99/mo, for a year.)

It is only on subsequent screens that the bait and switch becomes visible. A customer should not have to pay attention at each screen to ensure such a bait and switch does not occur.
I haven't gotten any M&Ms in a while, but I feel like long ago there were two shades of brown and more recently only one.

Also, whatever happened to blonde Oreos with chocolate filling? I know they existed once, but every time I'm the grocery store I check and they're not one of the dozens of flavors.