skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where you can build more $1M houses? Not many, if any. Where houses can cost $1M and there's plenty of room to build more housing? NYC metro for one, and I'd guess other major metro's as well. Though I've noticed plenty of anti-apartment and other anti-development signs here in my NYC-area suburb. We're not the SF bay area yet, but seem to be aiming for that.
I also still use an X200 and only rarely feel the need to upgrade. There are some sites that load a little slow, probably some activities I can't do, but mostly I just get stubborn and paraphrase Office Space: "Why should I change, [this future] is the one that sucks!"

Agree with you on RAM and SSD. My wife had an X200 as well until recently with 4GB, and that was mostly unbearable.
dashundchen:

You might want to double-check your news sources. Sounds like you're in the cnn/msnbc/wapo fake news bubble.

They've retracted most of their major stories.
You can't have it both ways: either you are being censored and silenced for your views, or you are not.
When you walk into Walgreens in Cupertino, which has just about zero violent crime and just about zero homeless, it's still miserable. Or in Mountain View, Los Altos, Saratoga, etc, which are all cities around 60k in population with a similar smell of density and wealth.

It's the same story in San Jose, which has a bigger population than SF but similar size homeless population.

When you walk into Whole Foods, you get what you expect, whether in Maui, Denver, or SF. Supposedly the Whole Foods in Cupertino is among the largest.
They also seem to use the <total amount paid> divided by <total amount of data used> rather than the marginal cost of downloading a single MB. For example, with 3 lines, my family uses 1-2GB of data per month and we pay around $40. That would imply a price of $20/GB using their model, despite the fact that if we were to use 1GB more we'd only pay $5 more.
Exactly. No one's "deplatforming" (:eyeroll:) George Will for being a conservative. The sane, rational conservative voices still have full access to those platforms.

(I'm not a conservative, but I can appreciate that there are still clear heads on the right who have interesting things to say even if I disagree with them.)
I understand what you're saying, but my mom sure will think its frustrating that a company she does business with is going to challenge her beyond the normal experience because apple lets her protect her privacy. After all, she's telling the company who she is by logging in.
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The vast majority of politics is about things reasonable people disagree on. When you have an elections bills that one side considers to expand access to voting, while the other side considers it to enable voting fraud, how would you write a test?
Lol, if your mouth cannot detect the difference in consistency, taste, texture, etc, then you are not qualified to speak on their differences.

Trying to put liquid tabasco in pho would be beyond disgusting. But you go on and think that they're interchangeable.
GDPR covers processing and storage of personal data. Packet routing is neither.
I recommend adding a little trick to ignore existing ~/.sqliterc files, which makes the script more portable:

cat <<EOF | sqlite3 -init <(echo "") "$DBFILE"
...your sql...
EOF

For one-line queries I use:

q() { echo "$@" | sqlite3 -init <(echo "") "$DBFILE"; }
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Past related threads:

The cost of using different sites on mobile networks around the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192503 - April 2017 (90 comments)

What Does My Site Cost? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9187128 - March 2015 (1 comment)
There’ll always be people hearing about a thing for the first time.

Figma is quickly replacing Sketch (which replaced Photoshop and Fireworks) as the preferred tool for web and app design, and they’re just raised a round at a valuation of $10B. So it’s a pretty major player now!
I don't see how calling out the demographics of the designers making the decisions has anything to do with the larger implications of societal impact. There are terrible things done by people of every demographic to millions of people, as well as great things. It's also less and less true (tho probably more so in 2013 when this was created), yet the problems still exist because the incentives are there (the real issue).
Submitted title was "Reddit.com weighs 1.39MB. Here’s what that costs around the globe". Since this has nothing in particular to do with the ever-sensational Reddit, that counts as linkbait. (Also, "Blah blah. Here's what that blah" is a linkbait headline trope in its own right.)

We've reverted the title as the site guidelines ask:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would be nice to set up these Silos in Matrix identity servers so that you can find your friends. This currently works with email and phone but adding facebook, instagram, snapshat, twitter... would be a nice step forward.
Couldn't a social media site implement support for custom blocklists or moderators, and have users opt into them? Facebook can have their own Official TM Facebook Moderation Blocklist, which users can subscribe to and filter out all spam and hate according to Facebook's algorithm. Or users can choose not to and subscribe to someone else's or no blocklist at all. Therefore, there wouldn't be any issue with common carrier status since users can post without being hindered, but other users can tailor their feeds to only see posts they care about.
And here we have one more example of how our world is turning into an utterly dystopian shit hole of total always-on surveillance. But hey! Never mind all that and its implications. Gotta have that convenience, and of course, that sweet, sweet 3-5% cashback thing... So much better than a modicum of privacy in the intimate details of a daily life.

God help us if a truly authoritarian Hitler or Stalinist-type regime creeps into power in a large western country. They won't need to build surveillance structures at all. Everything will already be firmly in place thanks to increments of "convenience".
B.C. becomes first province to introduce a low-carbon hydrogen strategy
It was meant as tongue-in-cheek. Ancient by fast-changing modern standards.
There is no Apple's IP address with Private Relay. Apple is using 3rd part companies as its exit nodes to avoid this "whitelist apple ip addresses" concern.
Why is this written in Idris instead of a normal language?
This. In a long term, company will never do anything against incentives their business model sets up.

Google is the ad company. Don't work for ad conpany.
Amazingly we can say a similar thing about small, advanced, usually university towns in Germany like Freiburg, Heidelberg or Tübingen (among many others).

It‘s like a new version of town vs gown. Cost of living of course skyrockets…
Anything like that would just be silly public posturing. Probably in all parliaments almost all of the actual work happens in committees or in other places outside the chamber. An MP who would attend all the public sessions but do nothing else besides that would be completely useless regardless of how attentive or active he is in the discussions.

And in any case any question being discussed in the given time might be only relevant to a small subset of the people currently present, what's the point to forcing everyone else to pretend that they are listening...
Googe Analytics consultant here (not Google employee).

1. Google Analytics' primary identity signal is a first-party cookie. this is not shared between domains. There is no technical way to link identity between domains with different cookie values.

1a. Google Analytics has built-in library functions to allow site owners to share first-party cookie values between a whitelisted set of domains. This effectively lets one company with multiple sites share a first-party identifier, but still not let anyone (Google or otherwise) link that identity to identities set on other sites.

1b. BUT. But. BUT. Google is rolling out "Google Signals" for Google Analytics, which will use your Google Account as the identity signal instead for users who are logged in to Chrome. This, obviously, lets your identity be correlated across sites.

(Personally, I suspect that the availability of this feature played a part in Google's decision to let Chrome follow the industry towards blocking third-party cookies. But this is a baseless opinion, one step removed from a conspiracy theory.)

2. Google Analytics can link their identifier (the first-party cookie or Google Signals) to your DoubleClick profile via DoubleClick's third-party cookie. The checkbox that does this is unchecked by default. There are many other features of GA that encourage or require you to check this checkbox.

2a. Google's documentation (including legal contracts!) places limits in the data exchanged between the two profiles. Data exchanged does include demographic and interest information from DoubleClick's profile into GA. This is one of the big reasons why people click the checkbox.

To my knowledge, GA data is not used to inform the DoubleClick profile. GA data can be used to build an "audience" in various Google ad platforms, and direct ads to those people specifically, or to use as the basis for a "look-alike audience."

3. Google is a Processor under GDPR for Google Analytics, and a Controller under GDPR for Google Ads. To a first approximation, this means they make the specific legal claim that they do not use GA data for their own purposes. Linking Analytics and Ads data is... complicated and frankly I still haven't gotten an explanation of its legal status that I fully understand.

In my personal opinion, I don't think Google actually uses Google Analytics data. Most Analytics implementations are tire fires, and they can get all the data from other more reliable sources, like Publisher data or Chrome. Given that they have based on their entire GDPR compliance strategy for Analytics on being a Processor, I don't think the risk/reward is there.

(apologies for lack of copy-editing, the thunder's about to take my internet away)
My first new personal laptop! It's funny I was amazed how small it was, but picking it up recently it feels like a giant brick.

I also remember it being a lot faster than it was - some of that might be age, but I suspect we used to just be a lot more patient with the slowness of HDD.
I wonder what the marginal cost would be to build a second one?
You’ve just described why I am so cynical about the magic of free market competition. Often, the competition has absolutely nothing to do with the price, features, and quality of the product being offered. It’s competition on the business side of things that artificially removes a better competitor from the market because they couldn’t keep their supplier contracts locked in.
Agreed. I like having the query in situ during development because it simplifies editing. But there are disadvantages that you and others have identified.
Trite clichés over stock photos, is this parody?
That's exactly the issue that npm-audit seeks to ameliorate. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
Endless nitpicking turns everything into infighting and makes everything suck. Can we have a conversation about substance at some point?
Most rockets these days are pretty reliable. Ariane 5 only had one partial failure in 20 years I believe.
What's stopping you taking a purely transactional approach to using those sites? You can post on FB Marketplace or stay logged into Instagram without ever needing to scroll the feed, give out likes, or engage in pointless arguments. It's not like you get reputation points for engaging in all the toxic behaviors.
Yeah, I can’t for the life of me think of any right that is fundamental when you consider the whole of human history and societies that have existed.

Even breathing — the most basic need — can be argued as not a right but something that the universe requires as a need to live. If breathing and life were “fundamental rights”, then there would be a provision in the laws of nature for them.
Tesla delivers twice as many cars as Porsche.

https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q4-2020-vehicle-pro...

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/company/annual-sustainabilit...

And Porsche is stagnant compared to Tesla:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263854/sales-development...

>With Tesla you have a 600B company and Porsches (which are a rarity on their own) are still more common then them on our roads.

I have seen far more Teslas than Porsches up and down the west coast.
The average prices in the US are a bit inflated though because of older people on plans that are priced like it's 10 years ago.

I agree in general. I have added a 3rd line to my plan and am spending less than 1/3 of what I spent 10 years ago on 2 lines.
Make junk mail and spam e-mail illegal to start with.

Then start doing something about regulating advertising.

In an ideal world intrusive advertising would be banned and we'd have to go looking for ads to find them instead of them constantly demanding that we pay attention to them.

But that'd entirely blow up Google's whole business model.
Using 3 COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) components with 90% reliability can ensure 99.9% redundancy instead of having a Unique very reliable and even costlier 99.9% custom component can really lower costs.
But it can happen only if mass is not a constraint.

From Casey Handmer's blog: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/sls-what-now/

The Perseverance Mars rover cost $2.4 billion, which works out to a few thousand salaries for just under a decade. Thousands of people are needed to build this rover because landing stuff on Mars is so hard that subsystem masses must be tracked to a tenth of a gram, on a system that weighs a tonne. The whole thing is meticulously handcrafted from custom silicon, PCBs, titanium tubes, motors, cameras, and other awe-inspiring instruments. Starship will be able to land 100 of them per flight. Now what? How can NASA feed a team that makes one feather light rover per decade for a billion dollars if the demand just jumped by a factor of a thousand and the unit cost fell by the same amount? Set up a production line? Work out how to make them with a team of ten? Build one every two weeks?
In fairness to the parent commenter, Amazon never had a net profitable year until 2004. Most new non-Silicon Valley retailers can't operate for ten years with yearly losses. Certainly not most smaller retailers.
Started great, but then veered off into attacking the identity of the purported perpetrators. Might be cool at a conference, but in the real world you're losing lots of people.
That depends a lot on the change and is not always a true statement.
That’s hardly true. Some standard libs are smaller, but in most other languages I can think of there isn’t the complete dependency hell. I want to install one package, the 50 dependencies or their ancestors create an audit he’ll (is the package secure, so I trust the developer to not inject malware, abandon the package, or add more dependencies), etc.
Actually, when conducting the firebomb missions, the B-29s flew at low level. Their after action reports clearly mentioned the smell of smoke etc. It was far from impersonal.

"
In January 1945, General Curtis LeMay arrived in the Mariana Islands to take over the problem-plagued B-29 command. For two months, his crews flew similar high-altitude missions over Japan with little more success. His job on the line, General LeMay decided on a risky new strategy: his pilots would fly daring, dangerous bombing missions at altitudes as low as 5,000 feet, low enough to be within range of anti-aircraft weapons. Robert Rodenhouse was shocked:

"We thought they could throw the kitchen sink up there and hit us. Can you imagine flying a big four-engine bomber at 5,000 feet? Why that was just unheard of, absolutely unheard of. And like my crew says, I think those generals lost their marbles. They weren't thinking straight."

The low-altitude bombing runs turned out to be highly successful. The planes carried much larger bomb loads. Crews flew at night to avoid enemy fighters. And flight personnel were kept to a minimum. Most of the gunners were removed to make room for still more bombs -- incendiary bombs."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pacific...
The person at the door is changing one aspect of many and it's not even one that the person may even have any understanding about. They are very clearly saying their name to you.
Could you explain what the common failing is?

To underestimate how technical changes affect real-life usage?

I often see the opposite fallacy: That tech people assume technically optimal solutions to be socially and legally optimal, which they often are not. To transfer this to your example: Perhaps the social and economic landscape of society would be better off if the spectrum belonged to us all. Maybe we would have developed legal and social norms to handle the hub nature?
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Please refrain from personal attacks, it doesn't contribute to the discussion. And it's not consistent with the community guidelines [0].

> ALL databases have tradeoffs

That was exactly my point.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What abuse?
I don’t read a claim that she wrote that code, only that she submitted it somewhere.

I read that as some indication as to the correctness of the claim that this is what was used (a bit like the difference between an email from Linus claiming something about early Linux and a thread on Reddit where X claims his neighbor knows somebody whose nephew worked with Linus, and had this on an old floppy, believing it to apply to early Linux)
Wait until you see what they claimed the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were supposed to cost....
I incorrectly confused this with another book:
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
By Gustave Le Bon in 1896

[PDF] https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/lebon/Cro...
Construing common opposing views as “violence and lies” does not, historically, end well.
Maybe because you can't guarantee that even if an OS has emoji support that it supports the latest version of emojis.

I run into this every time my wife updates her phone. She sends me text messages with "Lookit the cool new emojis!" But since I haven't updated mine, they came through as missing icon glyphs.
Would be nice if package.json had a flag to indicate the runtime would be either Node.js or a browser. So many of these "bugs" have no bearing in a browser context.
I wish. I feel like this is the epitome of a specific type of slide-based presentation. This information could be covered in a single page of text, but ironically no one has the attention span to actually read... so instead we get low-density presentations with memes and cliches.
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please don't blow up and deploy successful in space
Kubernetes is complex ok but I disagree on cloud providers offering better alternatives, especially Azure. Azure is bug ridden and support depends on what type of price tier you are in. The thing with Cloud providers is when their services go down or change you are on the hook for supporting your app, not them. At least Kubernetes (or Nomad) lets you mange your own dumpster fire around which you can build safer deployment workflows.
It certainly should, since https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/07/youtubes-recommender-ai-st... (the submitted URL) does nothing but copy the Mozilla report and sex it up with gaudy language. We've changed it now.

Submitters: please read the site guidelines. Note this one: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The $0.01 number for India is off by at least two orders of magnitude.

I use a telephone plan that gives 1GB/day for 3 months for 8USD. That comes to around $0.0001 cents per MB.
AdGuard with Cloudflare Pls
I would love to see AdGuard + Cloudflare used at the same time on my brother's phone
Nothing is, so that's exactly the approach I take with them! I recommend it! My response is to absolutist positions like "delete your account" and "well it's not a /necessity/ so they should be able to do whatever they want."
@ggreenwald on Tucker Carlson NSA spying claims
Does anyone remember starfighter.io/stockfighter.io that Kalzumeus put up years ago? It was based around coding market making strategies based on the structures presented in this article.

I still kick myself for not completing that when it was up. I'm always hoping that that will make it's way back up one day
Ariane 5 rockets have accumulated 109 launches since 1996, 104 of which were successful, yielding a 95.4% success rate. Between April 2003 and December 2017, Ariane 5 flew 82 consecutive missions without failure, but the rocket suffered a partial failure in January 2018

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5
I take it you’re a tailwind fanboy?
The lack of static typing (in base JS, at least) also makes it hard for tools to automatically spot very basic brokenness in dependencies without (repeatedly) running & testing the code. This makes even "safe" version bumps less trustworthy and harder to audit, and makes it harder for developers to notice if they've accidentally changed an interface on one of their libraries that they marked as a minor patch (i.e. the errors are both harder to check for, and more likely to occur, basically because they're harder to check for), so it's tempting to stick to old versions longer.

Add to that everything else—the fast pace of changes, javascript "culture", the weak standard library, the tendency to patch in what ought to either be basic language features or else avoided in favor of more-vanilla idioms, often in competing and incompatible ways—and all that is how you end up with 20 slightly-different copies of the same damn library in your dependency tree, and then 20 other copies of another library that does the same thing.