skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, one reason property is scarce and prices are sky-high in London & South-East England more generally is restrictions on new development. In other words - the lack of a properly free market rather than free market excess. London, apart from a few flashy skyscrapers in the City and the odd legacy housing tower is a bunch of low-rise flats and terraced houses. Contrast this to Manhattan or São Paulo.
Facebook is not the only organization that has mastered copying bits between users machines.

The technology matters. The brand does not.

Depressed dads can share bird pics with dozens of protocols.

When a technology forum conflates a brand and a technology, one can feel confident their society is a clueless joke.

Adam Smith was right to warn about the extreme division of labor creating humans dumber than the lowliest animal.
I see, so your "you can have all three, you just have to..." is actually unrealistic/bad advice to those who are not self-employed, not to mention those who actually enjoy doing things in the city.
It is clear that various ancient peoples also moved large rock objects wholesale. Egyptians and Ethiopians cut, lifted out, and transported 500-ton obelisks. If you can move the obelisks, 70-ton granite blocks for the king's chamber, or the 100-ton empty boxes in Saqqara, are smaller projects.

Whoever placed the 1000-ton trilithon blocks (before the Romans built temples on top) cut and moved them whole. The Baalbek temple entablature are, to my knowledge, the only example in the whole Roman Empire of handling rocks of more than 300 tons. Even when Rome looted Egyptian obelisks, they had to bust off the bottom third and leave it behind. So, I guess they had local help for Baalbek.

The pre-dynastic Egyptians were cutting rock as hard as corundum (ruby/sapphire aggregate) like butter to make dishware, tens of thousands of which ended up in graves. The method was apparently lost before the pharaohs. It's not hard to understand technology being lost; but how it came to be invented first is a mystery. And, what exactly it was they invented, because we don't know. Archaeologists seem to lack any interest in finding out.
You lost "kilo" when querying. Or, more likely, your source lost it.
What they lied about was the fidelity. They made demo video in 2015 that was a fully prerendered video of what they expected their AR experience to look like. Years later, the top of line headsets are fuzzy and very limited in field of view and have not seen any adoption outside of very niche applications.

https://youtu.be/ctUx3BzuQgQ
There is no need to end encryption in the USA, because the way they collect the data works around the problem entirely.

With secret subpoenas, gag orders and programs like PRISM, they get what they need directly from the source. Either from the services hosting the data, or the devices producing/receiving the data.

The data is never collected while in transit, when it's encrypted. They got the keys for the servers, and back-doors to our devices. They don't care about encryption at all.

Once again, freedom is not a technical problem:

https://xkcd.com/538/
Wow, what a unique phenomenon.
Purifying hydrogel tablet makes river water drinkable within an hour
As a counterpoint, I’ve been able to eliminate my hoarding tendencies now that I know I can get a anything I need cheaply and quickly.

My thought process used to be to never get rid of anything because I might need it one day. My house was filling up with junk.
Yeah. I'm kind of left feeling like I'd rather fly the plane in a better looking simulated environment, with a first-person perspective. It's more flexible and fun than being tied to flying it in the environment around you.

I still haven't seen a compelling use case for AR.
Yeah, at launch Lambda only supported Node.js.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141115183837/http://aws.amazon...
The magic leap os is some funky linux / android thing so I think it loses out to Hololens right there.

The ML seems to scan rooms better and "lock" things in space better but the HL seemed to have a better resolution (_not_ field of view) when using "normal" apps.

They are both competing on field of view now with the next generation of devices but the ML beats the first gen HL hands down on the larger FOV.
Readership remains a side effect of respect for other people's time, which concise writing delivers, in contrast to rambling.
I'm not wasting more time on more bullshit strawmen.

> I remain genuinely interested to hear it, because I still think it's possible you have stuff in mind

I have no interest in corresponding with you further.

> I don't think it's fair to argue from the idea of judging a "commitment to values" that aren't explicitly claimed

(Odd position to take, given how many arguments you've tried to sneak into my mouth.)
It doesn't make any sense. Why do you need to have 600W to power a graphics card? Why do they need an independent power connector?
Yeah the caveats, gotchas, and workarounds you have to do to get something reasonable running on Lambda are just goofy.

At some point we just stopped and wondered why we were punishing ourselves with this stuff. We switched to a traditional webserver on regular EC2 instances and haven't looked back.
It's basically Joe Rogan for smart and sane people. None of the grifters, all of the scientists + academics. Been going on forever, covering a huge range of subjects.
Disappointed. I was hoping for a list of best practices and how their cost can be greater than their value.
all my legitimate, argumented comments, all were flagged

but this insult, is still not flagged

care to explain pro-mossad moderators?
Slightly off topic, but what's the deal with Azure Functions cold start times in the Consumption (i.e. serverless) plan? I get cold start times in the multi seconds range (sometimes huge values, like 20s). Am I doing something wrong? Or is this expected?
No. https://netzpolitik.org/2021/wolf-culture-how-huawei-control...
Coronavirus: Lessons Learned to Date
I thought nodejs/v8 or any javascript runtime would have some kind of startup cost since it has to parse and compile the javascript code first. See a simple hello world execution time comparison:

# a Go hello world
$ time ./hello
hi

real 0m0.002s

$ time echo 'console.log("hello")' | node -
hello

real 0m0.039s

The ~25ms of cold start noted in this article feels acceptable and impressive to me, given what node is doing under the hood.
Site seems to be unresponsive right now (overloaded due to HN?).

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20211012131321/https://conscious...
When social circles are shrinking due to social media, the answer is less social media.
Wasn't it the code name for Vista ?
It's far from hyperbole. Wealth accumulation is a motivation for some. But it's just not central to a great deal of entrepreneurship and innovation. I know one guy who started a billion-dollar company, and his take on profit was entirely utilitarian: "Profit is permission to continue", meaning that it's just an indicator that the business is self-sustaining.
Continuing Education:

Summers are still “off” even if CE is performed then if CE is considered a requirement of the profession not tied to a particular employment agreement. Funding for CE or anything else doesn’t come from magic. It comes from the value generated by a service provider.

An employer “providing” CE funding and/or time is really just skimming money that could be provider paycheck into CE. There may be pragmatic advantages to this such as volume pricing or tax rules.

My guess is that CE is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. Should one expect occupations with higher licensing and CE requirements to have higher salaries than those without? Would the difference in pay be undetectable because it’s within the natural range of variability?

In terms of producer-consumer relations licensing acts as a signal of base quality for products that are difficult for consumers to evaluate. This may not mean that consumers will pay more for it if there is no option of a lower cost unlicensed product compared to a higher cost licensed one. In the absence of alternatives then it would be impossible to know what an unlicensed valuation would be.
Not sure where the stats come from, but €57k is not even that much in EE. Currently making slightly over €100k in Eastern EU state. Magic word "contracting".
One big problem I have with Facebook, is that other than poor mental health which they contribute to--that is documented in their own internal documents (e.g. Instagram)--is that as a for-profit corporation they do not seem to have a value statement and get in bed with companies like Cambridge Analytica which actively spread disinformation and destabilize our society.

It's not even an accountable corporation. FB is owned by Zuckerberg. He has majority control over all the shares.

I'd be completely fine with it if it disappeared tomorrow. I'm not dependent on it for anything except for messaging a few people who seem to refuse to use other systems.

FB is not a utility or a public good.
Walmart's in-store pickup system can be very misleading too. If it's listed for in-store pickup, I expect it to be like Best Buy or Target - I get a notification a few hours later that I can go get my item. With Walmart, if an item is eligible for in-store pickup, that often meets they have to ship that item to the store and it will take 1-2 weeks
So people who "don't have time" and jaywalk = bad, but cyclists who "don't have time" and don't do what is expected of them = good. Hmm.
Making things up. Got it.
5. Nobody else on the team knows the tech, so you are committing everyone to that same learning curve in order not not have a huge bus factor for this product.

I'm not at all opposed to learning new shiny tech on the job. But it has to be a team effort, not one developer just deciding to forge their own path.

FWIW, I work with a team who has greatly modernized their skill sets together over the last few years. But they did so by choosing when to start with a new tech, and putting time in their sprints towards the learning efforts, training, tutorials, etc.
I immediately got a good impression of their service because their home page loads so fast.

I'm a simple man.
an article arguing that reproducible builds are a lot of effort, and the benefits are not that big: https://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2020/07/you-dont-need-reproducibl...
If you start to feel cut off after six hours... there's something very wrong with you.
A friend of mine worked for them several years ago and run away after a couple of years.If you are not Chinese, there is no chance of career improvement, and the Chinese leadership style is very different from the western style.
Thanks! Updated the blog post to include it.
If you build an API and are concerned about cold-starts you could look at Lambda@Edge and "CloudFront Functions".

I could imagine these to perform better.

If you aren't married to AWS, then Cloudflare Workers could also be worth a shot.
As a solo founder, your time is the most precious resource so all your DevOps effort should be minimized to the extent that you can prevent and debug issues. In practice, for me, this meant using tools that I'm already comfortable with (preferably in the same language as my codebase to minimize context switching) and resisting making things overly complicated with too many tools in the chain. For automated deployment, I'm using Fabric (for Python) that allows me to remotely run commands. DB backups are handled by cloud snapshots and rollbacks are ad-hoc based on Git.

This was also how things began at a previous startup I worked at until we grew and we could hire more resources to fix things.
Plant-based meat deceleration signals niche future
that is why the language for cloud native is GO, and languages like Java/C# are dead tech stack, they failed to reinvent themselves to stay relevant
Again, why upgrade to 11 if you don’t want the new UI?
What about the median and other characteristics of the distribution?

Looking at tails seems to me to be more prone fluctions based on outliers or other characteristics. The median might be a better comparison, and would likely be less than 2x. Employer costs/benefits/taxes would also need to looked at, and then compare total comp vs salary.
Low-code concerns just seems to be a rehash of concerns about Microsoft SharePoint or IBM WebSphere. If you were talented and skilled enough to deeply learn one of those platforms to build business apps, then you were entirely capable of learning some Python/Ruby/JS and getting a better paying engineering job.
I find it surprising that NodeJS is showing the worst cold start times. Most likely over 90% of AWS Lambda functions are written NodeJS.
> OP's article makes the "cheaper" claim with (AFAICT) absolutely nothing to back it up, and the fact is that full size aircraft are not cheap.

It's not a full sized aircraft. 1 small autonomous plane is cheaper than 1 small satellite in general - in almost all respects. The article didn't claim anything beyond this:

> The unmanned glider [...] is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than a satellite.

This is fairly obvious and uninteresting, what is interesting is cost per GB/user/km2, in other words the end result, which is hard for anyone to say with much certainty at this point even with a thorough analysis because nether business has reached scale yet.
> I looked into it, mostly by checking other social media sites, and assured them it wasn't on their end

This speaks to how more people need to know about sites alike to "Is It Down Or Just Me".

But that would take using The Google.
> Did you have any instance where you needed to restore the DB / Have you done restoration tests to ensure this is a feasible solution?

Whenever a build is deployed to stage server, it automatically pulls the latest version backup in last 1 hour and restores it on the stage for testing with the latest data. I have config to do the same restore to the prod if needed.

I have been using the same setup for over 2 years to support an internal web app of a company.

> Also, since you are using local postgres DB, do you not run into issues like transaction id wraparound ?

This problem only arises when there is heavy load on the database, specifically high WRITE/UPDATE/DELETE operations. Quantale uses postgres to store only user info and all the other data is stored in Elasticsearch(twitter, reddit, news, SEC, Financial data on over 15000+ stocks). This is intentional because with the scalable server resources, my postgres setup can handle a large number of users before I see that problem. I can always scale up later when needed rather than over-engineering it right now.

>Also, how many days of backup you keep on S3? Considering you create 24 backups a day.

I have 7 days backups on S3 with versioning switched on for 60 days. So at anytime I can access the version backed up in last 60 days.
> System apps on several handsets upload details of user interactions with the apps on the handset (what apps are used and when, what app screens are viewed, when and for how long).

I am too far away from Android development to make any claim about what "app screens" are. Is that android-lingo? Could someone please clarify?
I recommend not doing any devops at all if you're a solo founder and trying to get it off the ground. You want to spend time on your product market fit, not fuck around with linux.

New services like render.com make it really easy to get robust, cheap hosting up. Much cheaper than Heroku.
A pathway to sustainable habitation in LEO
The car is climate controlled, has a stereo, I can have water/food in it without needing a backpack or carrying anything, and it's sitting in a comfortable seat while I'd find a super long walk like that uncomfortable. I could use headphones while walking but something about walking feels like a constant distraction if I'm trying to listen to something. And if I'm in a car, I feel like I can go anywhere I want on a whim, while if I'm walking I'll just want to get it over with and only stop somewhere if it's directly on the way.
Slack3D – Simple 3D graphics engine
I had structured my life so that I could walk to work every day, so the short commute was actually some very welcome exercise.

I miss having lunch with coworkers the most. There's some natural bonding and trust building that happened over lunch, talking about random things, both work and not work related. This is very hard and possibly impossible to replicate with remote work.

With remote work, meetings are scheduled for a reason. Meeting just to "hang out" feels weird. Multi-user meetings with more than a few people also feel off because everyone is interrupting each other, you can't have multiple threads of conversation. Talking on slack, you usually can't tell how the person is feeling. The tone is lost. I've found communication is generally much poorer.
https://baremetrics.com/pricing or rather it offers too many features I don't use. https://mrr.io/ is a cheaper alternative, profitwell is cost-free, so competing just by price is probably not a good idea.
A complete guide to code reviews
The problem is that most of the companies that rely on the Hub aren’t helping it stay afloat.

You are obviously not part of this problem.
You are mentally ill.
Most? Where does the rest go?
‘ Furthermore, the shop was listing the work as having been done, which meant they were generating fraudulent paperwork. This was also not against FAA regulations.’

The FAA is part of the federal government. Are you seriously claiming there aren’t regulations penalizing those who submit false paperwork?
It may be peak articles about peak something.
Magic Leap too?
This is a bad comparison. "White" is about as informative as "European" or "Indian". It conveys a vague notion of melanin levels and little else. Regions such as Europe or India are so diverse that a Finn and a Spaniard have very little in common. Same goes for a "Country" like India.

Someone from BC and someone from Texas actually have a lot in common - both are from immigrant societies and both speak the same language. Can't say that for someone from Kerala, India and Punjab, also in India.
The answer to all of these doomsayer questions that appear when fuel costs spike is always:

No.

Energy is a cyclical market. That’s a healthy thing. Upswings in price trigger market forces to substitute or economize.
Microsoft research has a really nice paper showing that the NTK explanation is very unlikely: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/three-mysterie...
Show HN: Build front-end on Google sheets 10x faster with low-code
I train myself to look things up in the manual quickly. For instance I use four programming languages regularly and sometimes have to use another. Sometimes I forget how I'm supposed to, say, look up the length of an Vector/List/array but it's OK because I can look it up in a few seconds.

When I do cardio at the gym I take my tablet and read technical documentation, frequently over and over again. The goal of that is not so much to memorize facts, but to become familiar with the landscape and to become very quick to look details up when I have to look them up.

I've yet to see a question in a data science interview that can't be answered with: (1) Look it up in the hashtable or (2) Look it up in the literature.
You had to use a throwaway to spread your disinformation.
Show HN: Got rejected by Hotjar, decided to build my own
I'm saying, my name is blocked unless I pay
git checkout abcd1234
./build.sh && ./deploy.sh

I don't see the issue.
Lowes does this as well. They not only point you to the Isle, but they also have indicators that show you where in the Isle it is. Spent 10 minutes looking for an item before I pulled up their website and felt like the biggest idiot.
Tiny houses were built for the poor.
Have you visited Regency style first-floor apartment? They are far from tiny, with up to 4 meters heigh ceilings, very large rooms...
I wonder if Microsoft spent $2.5 billion to develop HoloLens.
Yet, if the developers who successfully mislead their employers into misguided tech choices have notably better careers, on average, it's exactly what we should do. And we shouldn't feel a bit bad about it unless we're in one of those rare roles where lives are on the line.

> Development is meant to complete the business's objective of solving a problem for humans.

Sure, but every layer of management is making decisions constantly, including about what to direct development to do, that are in their own personal interest rather than the business' interest. If they can do that, the peons can (and should) too.
One of the assumptions of vanilla multi-armed bandits is that the underlying reward rates are fixed. It's not valid to assume that in a lot of cases, including e-commerce.

To see how things could go wrong, imagine that you are running this on an website with a control/treatment variant. After a bit you end up sampling the treatment a little more (say 60:40). You now start running a sale - and the conversion rate for BOTH variants goes up equally (say). But since you are sampling from the treatment variant more, its overall conversion rate goes up faster than the control - meaning you start weighting even more towards that variant. This could be happening purely because of the sale and random noise at the start - you could even end up optimising towards the wrong variant. There are more sophisticated MAB approaches that try to remove the identical reward-rate assumption - they have to model a lot more uncertainty, and so optimise more conservatively.
I appreciate the inclusion of tests towards the end of disk and IO failure/recovery.
Why do they have to be monetary but not based on salary or bonuses?
I wouldn't say ordinary people "do not care". To some extent, even ordinary people know that the mega tech empires concentrate too much power and data. Popular media hasn't completely failed to report on stuff like FB fiascos, privacy leaks and so on. Many more people are aware than HNers might imagine. But viable solutions are not there. As you point out, alternatives are workable only to the technically inclined, which means they might as well not exist. To be sure there are alternatives which swap one silo for another, but truly private options are too cumbersome to make inroads into mainstream, and they never will, if they continue to remain so fiddly. Of course the other side of this is legislation and regulations but even here the transnational nature of these corps allow them to work around even progressive national laws, and the latter are rare enough, with most politicians bought off one way or another.
and then you need to upgrade the plan because it is disk/memory hungry and doesn't fit within the 128mb plan, so you'll pay 4x more already

just use GO and be faster while saving money at the same time
> It is amazing and absurd that the supposed patrilineal links to the sun god remain today

The current emperor is (it seems) the last one in the patrilineal lineage.

I expect strangeness when succession becomes a legit topic. Will adopting his daughter’s spouse be enough? Will they move to just blood line rather than only patrilineal blood line? Will they breed an extramarital son somehow?

It will be an interesting time.
> Environmental action, at its heart, is therefore anti-capitalist. Environmentalists, whether directly or indirectly, are calling for the dismantling of an economic system which is mining, fishing and burning the planet to oblivion. They are calling for the end of billionaires, the end of banks, the end of oil companies and the end of consumerism — which is why environmental protest is so dangerous to power and to the wealth that pulls its puppet strings.
To catch a hacker in my home lab
> Emergencies should go through other media.

I wonder how soon, if it has not already happened, that people "report" emergencies through "Insta-Tok-Whats-Book" first and/or instead of dialling 911/999/&c.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUoZh3Hq4