skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of them does, for most of their locations.

Owning real estate simply isn‘t their main business purpose and has many downsides, especially in matters of scalability. The main pro reason for owning them is cost. Owning the buildings makes you less flexible but saves you money in the long-term.

One more point in favor of leasing is: the relevant „neighbors“ are just next door. If you own the real estate, it‘s probably in the middle of nowhere, network-wise, and you end up spending lots on laying fibre. Whereas with leased space, other providers are likely on the same campus and all you need is a few 100 meter or one km of fibre to reach the next building or even just the next room. If you are small enough, these savings on connectivity can even end up making it cheaper to lease.

Might be a surprise to many, but it‘s primarily the budget providers (Hetzner and OVH) that own their own buildings.

Most others just have long-term leases with whoever owns the real estate (usually Equinix or Interxion/Digital Realities, as they more or less own most big DCs around the globe).

Also, I guess many miss-understand what „not own the DC“ really means. These services aren‘t the kind of retail-style colocation offers. Those providers rent entire rooms or even buildings there, run their own infrastructure in them and frequently have their own staff and offices on site too. These lease agreements behave more like a usual office or warehouse lease, not what some here might think.
> seems all too comfortable ignoring the other crashes that happen daily

In your view, what is the MVP for self-driving car safety, in terms of the number of crashes/deaths per day?
Not totally on topic, but it's a shame Blogger is/was a Google thing.

Blogger with RSS, marketed correctly, could have taken the place of everything social media since.
Nepotism where everyone hired is the same race is called racism.
Oftentimes, blind interviewing produces results opposite what people expect: https://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-ma...
Ah ok, I'm familiar with this approach. But never knew it had an actual name. Thanks!
While I do like the idea of HNers having to post their physique in any thread related to nutrition and fitness, the topic of this thread is what's ideal for most people who aren't as serious about lifting. Whether they are right or wrong (I don't think we have a way to know), it's kind of a different point.

Besides, I don't think your body is going to be any different from your clone doing massive reps to failure with the same conviction.
Arch wiki is a real treasure too. I don't even run arch but use their wiki info all the time.
> more water allocated than actually exists

This was true and known even in the 1970s when I lived in Arizona.
Most non-extreme people are just calling for their societies to stop subsidizing your truck and truck-related way of life, but I can definitely see how the very slight degradation of an extraordinarily privileged position would feel like an assault on the core of your being.
When I say Arch is not stable, I don't mean that you can't leave it running for a long period of time. I mean that it changes. Debian is not stable because you can run it for a long time without crashing (You sure can, but you can also run Debian with daily crashes, depending on what you're running). Debian is stable because it doesn't change. You get security updates, but you don't get feature updates, because feature updates introduce change, and the way you thought something was done is not the way to do it anymore. Flags change, output changes, inputs change. None of this is bad, but with Debian you know it won't happen until you're ready to move on to the next version. "Unstable" distros can introduce these changes at any time, making it harder to review what will change.
Did replygirl say they did? To my reading they are talking about using batteries to store and deliver baseline energy from intermittent sources like wind and solar.
If Los Angeles converted to total desalination, would that resolve the crisis?

How much of the water loss is due to Los Angeles?
David Foster Wallace predicted it all in the 90s
AMD Livestream: Zen4, DDR5, and PCIe5 (Aug 29)
https://archive.is/zMwWm
I did the same, got out with only 10k in debt and all sorts of sleep deprivation related issues. I fully support the forgiveness of these debts from fraudulent schools. The people who ran them should all be in prison.
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I haven't tried this in a while, but Windows 10 can too be rsynced between different systems. Fixing the bootloader is a major PITA though, and I had to relearn doing that every time. Of course, it then spends half an hour installing new drivers for everything, but it is expected in that world.
Ask HN: Does anyone here not own a phone?
For the last few years I've slowly been weaning myself off of my phone and social media. I've found that I like not having apps to entertain me every second of the day -- it's nice to be bored while waiting for someone, or to not check my phone in awkward social situations.

Does anyone live without a smartphone? What does that look like? Do you feel isolated from your friends/family, or do you have some other more traditional way of keeping contact? Do you think it's beneficial to you?
Bam, congratulations on your success with your health journey. :)
Missed opportunity to say Janet Jackson had Control.
> How would something like this work?

Very well and very easily. You can do that even with Windows, even with different CPUs: I've ported my master Windows install from a Xeon to a regular Intel CPU on a laptop.

This laptop still feels like downloading Xeon-specific updates time to time, but every system peripheral is recognized in the device manager, and everything has been working great for over a year now.

For my next laptop, I'll do just the same: use bitlocker unlock, clone this Windows install into a larger SSD using Linux NTFS tools, plug the new SSD into the new laptop.
It still amazes me that AWS doesn't provide good local debugging/development support out of the box. I feel like we're slowly going back in time. Iteration cycles are very high, debugging cloud dev is essentially placing a bunch of print statements and trying to trace the code, build times take forever...

Edit: Here's some more conversations I found on the topic of the terrible workflow for cloud dev if anyone is interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855037
Maybe military engine control systems work by sending PGP-encrypted emails to the fuel valves?
Not at those specifically, but another popular one. I worry about this :( Idk why i stay, i guess because interviewing sucks and the pay is alright. My opinion really changed about social media in the last few years. when i joined i was indifferent and mostly excited about scale problems
I think you're being insufficiently pessimistic. If the future contains AGI then whoever controls the AGI will have complete dominion over everything to a degree we've never seen before. Being monitored by VR adtech is much better than being exterminated or enslaved by whatever controls our future AI overlord.
Recency-only algorithms are blind to high-probability patterns
in the same way frequency-only algorithms

A high probability occurrence must be frequent and will stay reasonably recent. Unless it's high probability that just /somehow/ doesn't happen much.

Perhaps you can provide some citations to some of the things you have written here.

the cache replacement algorithm is being
exercised upwards of 10s of millions of times per second

This is database pages not CPU cache lines. It is not that high.
The west has just institutionalized and process-ified the same old "give resources, get favor" process.

It's technically less corrupt but the drag on society is still very much there.
As a utility API it's just... there. Kind of the same way sitemap.xml is there. It's something developers can use.

As something consumer-facing, it's long since dead. The vast majority of consumers don't usually want a chronological list of all stories from a predetermined list of sources -- they want things like Google/Apple News which recommends stories from everywhere using ML according to their revealed preferences. They want extended comment threads whether on Facebook, Reddit, or the news site itself. They want share functionality and upvotes and Twitter reactions.

RSS was a great first step, but no open protocol can deliver all that. The main problem being that even if you were running your ML models for news preferences locally, everything around upvoting and commenting and mass-sharing can't be decentralized without descending into spam madness and upvote gaming.
If you want to learn more about ClearBlade's IoT Core Migration you can find some info here: https://www.clearblade.com/iot-core/

You can reach out or schedule a demo through the website. ClearBlade is working hard to alleviate pain points for all of Google's customers affected by deprecation and will provide a stable route forward for all your IoT needs.
Hmm, where have we heard this argument before and even the facts that prove it wrong?

Ahem, the Airline industry already found out why this not true. Automation always requires more training not less.
To Tesla's credit, it mostly kills its own passengers.
Canonical has seemingly also decided the same thing when they cancelled Unity. And I do not blame them. Has anyone you know actually paid for a Linux desktop, outside of buying some really basic and general enterprise support?
This is cool but why not just use the speakers already inside the car? The driver and passengers get the same vroom-vroom effect without irritating the rest of the world. There seems to be no good reason to go to all that trouble installing speakers facing outside the car.
Yes we are. Here is why:

This is what the free software foundation have tried to stop and have been fighting against for 37 years, but they have ultimately failed since the rise of non-free software is much more prevalent and unstoppable given the tech bros at these FAANG companies continuously distributing closed source spyware as a service to make us fully digitise anything physical if possible and they will put it all on rent to us. The point of 'open-source' has also been hijacked to allow this exploitation of developers by large companies to use their software and hard work for free to advance their spyware.

But let us not hide or attempt to deny it. Nearly everything that has been built by the free software or privacy cypherpunks has basically been another popular road to hell used by the scammers, criminals and hackers to execute their illegal activities. After that, governments crack down on the technology and regulate it until the technology is under their control or has a backdoor phoning home to the authorities. Any tech bro that is using machine / deep learning, ads, or uses any constant tracking software in their app / website or service does not care about your privacy and is helping advance the tyrannical system you speak of and are fighting against.

Blockchain and the Metaverse are the latest dystopias that will make it all worse; and it is too late to stop it entirely, just like the technologies before it: AI, AR, VR, Deep Learning, IoT, etc, none of those technologies have been stopped and are still around for surveillance reasons. Privacy and free software activists have all warned about the dystopian uses of these technologies.

So it is clear that in the future:

You will own nothing and you will be very happy.

EDIT: Why the downvotes?, they are admitting their tyrannical actions right in front of you with the same AI technology that we are building for them. From PRISM, IoT, CBDCs to this. Wake up and see for yourselves: [0] Soon, you will have no say and you will be very happy.

[0] https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/wefs-global-...
I ride my bike a fair bit and can you called it. Any time i am passed dangerously close it is ALWAYS a short-box pickup.

One road I frequent is used by large commercial trucks (dump trucks). These guys are professional, and move way over giving me a LOT of space. oddly enough, the pickup drivers watch the dump trucks do this, and yet refuse to move over even slightly?

i'm not sure what it is about people in pickups, but they need to do a better job educating the drivers as well.

Like seriously, if you watched a dump truck move, why were you unable to do this as well?

it isn't just about "visibility" but there seems to be some attitude problems around pickup truck drivers.

If you see a pickup with some company logo, 90% chance they will be decent and give you space. You see someone in their "pavement princess" all washed and polished, no F'ing way they will move over.
There's a free version of VS which has a full debugger. Am I missing something? Are we talking about debugging the .NET code itself?
HavkerNews likes to appeal to authority and elitism
Do you mean audits? The problem is the incentive to do these things and be honest about them, and not skew metrics to keep the company looking good. Lets say they do these audits will full honesty and find that 50% of the management deserves to be demoted. Do you think that will actually happen and how does this make the company look from a PR perspective?

Third party audits would be the only way to make this work, and again what are the incentives? Security audits are common because the risk is high. Lots of money lost in a lawsuit on behalf of billions/millions of customers. The others not so much, because you would only expect a lawsuit from an individual employee, which your army of corporate lawyers can easily crush.
IT is one of the least casteist sectors within India though.
I recently switched to an arch flavor because the AUR had a lot of little small utilities that make life better on wayland. Also, it's quite easy to install the latest version of golang and rust, etc.

Pros:
Documentation is excellent. Better than even Gentoo or Ubuntu's docs.

Cons:
Arch doesn't have an installer, and seems almost militantly against providing one, or a lot of other little utilities that could improve the user experience. I get the same sort of 'I suffered, therefore you must suffer, learn to RTFM noob' elitism that I saw with slackware 20 years ago. I'm a grizzled vet, I can figure this stuff out, but it doesn't help your average technically literate joe.

Updates seem to break for odd reasons. I had to uninstall nodejs to be able to do a system update. Why? There should be some sort of automated way to address this.
> I ascribe this to the perception of .NET being more corporate.

Seems about right, most of the .Net jobs are very corporate :-)
Where are the prosecutions? Where are civil lawsuits against officers and directors of the ITT? If it was a $4b fraud, who is being held accountable?
I can provide some details regarding the times things did break that I mentioned in the article.

* In September 2014, X broke, and I created an `/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config` file with the lines `allowed_users = anybody` and `needs_root_rights = yes` to get it to work again. I don't remember and don't have notes on why that helped. It sure does sound like a pretty terrible hack. I don't have that Xwrapper.config file anymore, and I also don't know when I deleted it.

* In June 2017, audio stopped working, but all I had to do was add my user to the `audio` group.

* In May 2018, X broke a second time. This time I downgraded the `xorg-server-common` and `xorg-server` packages. A few weeks later, I ran another system upgrade, and this one went fine.

These weren't the only problems, but they were the most disruptive. Generally, things like TrackPoint driver updates changing how the cursor responds or Firefox changing its UI have been far more annoying than Arch Linux issues :)
Container file I/O is very slow. It unpacks the OCI image layers onto the regular host filesystem, then adds overlay filesystems, does copy-on-write, and references files between each layer. For example, doing 10 containerized nodejs app builds simultaneously will swamp the host with iowait. A common hack to is to put the OCI file tree / overlays on a dedicated disk with much higher iops than the boot disk.
Given that Starship hasnt even had its first unmanned orbital test flight yet, getting man rated and ready for commercial flights by the general public within 4-6 years seems unlikely.
> (In many ways, L2 is just about the dumbest imaginable level of automation)

Except that it literally helps 100000s of people make their drives more enjoyable and is perfectly fine in a in many situations.
You are right, local development and debugging is still one of the biggest pains of serverless world. This was our motivation to develop MerLoc
My journey from 0 to $1k MRR with EmailEngine
Yes.
I received a request to build a social credit score solution based on credit card purchases for rewarding ESG-type behavior. And I have received multiple requests to build AI censorship software (I want to say, a half dozen). Since then, both of these ideas have been promoted by the World Economic Forum ... basically confirming to me, personally, this is going to happen.

This is all fine and dandy if it's opt-in or volunteer based, but I can't help to think during COVID I found I was basically a non-person because I did not have a smartphone. Essentially many places required a smartphone app to physically access or purchase an item or service. They will use something like this to force obedience.

And it will be a total disaster..
In other words, running into Amdahl's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Hm, just saw: Something ate the "evil dude slash dudette slash ...".
Tell HN: Fidelity Two-Factor Auth Required on Every Login
I recently noticed that I was having to wait for a 2fa token on every login, regardless of the trusted nature of the device or app. I called Fidelity Electronic Channel Support and they confirmed that all forms of 2fa (sms, totp via symantec vip access only) will now be required at every login and the trusted nature of the device or app will no longer be considered. This seems cumbersome, against typical practices, and designed to almost encourage lower security by causing frustrated customers to disable 2fa. Just wanted to get an opinion from you on whether you agree with Fidelity's position.
Get off HN! (observe pot calling kettle black)

It's hard, honestly, to do work on computers, because they're rife with distractions. When I want to read, I deliberately leave my phone in the other room. When I can, work things out with pen&paper, again, phone and computer in another room -- but it's rare that a problem I'm working on can be approached with pen&paper.
> and this policy is likely to increase racism and result in Indians (and other South Asians) getting singled-out and scrutinized for casteism.

Is it? Do Whites get singled out and scrutinized for anti-black racism? Maybe they do, but if it is I doubt it's a significant phenomenon.
If you like public transportation, then I’m delighted. I hate it and don’t want it forced on me. I think that ultimately autonomous cars are likely to replace much of public transportation, or at least be a large part of such a system.
Burning more Jet-A to get less people around the world faster has got to be the most tone deaf idea this decade. I'm a pilot, I just attended Airventure, and I love the history around SR-71, Concorde and the other incredible high speed planes we've built. But this is an idea that had its time and aviation has moved on to high bypass turbofan engines, reliability, safety, fuel efficiency and reducing our environmental impact.

There is so much opportunity for innovation in areas of aviation where we desperately need to innovate: Getting rid leaded avgas, moving away from fossil fuels altogether which includes fields like energy storage and electric propulsion, developing an efficient trainer to replace the piston lead-gasoline burning C172 that is so ubiquitous and makes up much of the 1500 required hours for an ATP license. So many opportunities.

Aviation is ripe for innovation. This ain't it.
Why do smart founders work on stupid ideas?
I didn't say it was illegal, I said he would have difficulty selling his house due to the electrical work performed by someone who isn't a licensed electrician.

It wouldn't have mattered in the seller's market of the past few years, but it will absolutely be a dealbreaker now that we're entering into a buyer's market.
Alternate tool in the same space: https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite
I found it useful to focus less on reducing time on computers etc. and more on increasing time on the things I really cared about. To use a food analogy: when a person has a great and satisfying meal, they have much less appetite to binge eat a bag of chips.
Not only did it fail to solve a basic problem, it was WILDLY overhyped pre-launch. Nothing short of a $500 consumer-friendly jetpack was going to meet the expectations set.

IME, when you come out of the gate not even remotely hitting the expectations that you yourself set on a product launch it takes a very very long time to recover from that setback. If you at least solve real problems at some kind of palatable price point you can make up some of that loss, but when you have and expensive solution looking for a problem, not so much.

The Segway had many issues, IMO one of the larger ones was that it was not that suitable for use in inclement weather. You would think a company based in NH would get this. They were also cumbersome to move around, and didn't even have a kickstand initially, so the matter of where/how you park the thing when not is use just added to the awkwardness of the whole thing.
A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists (2019)
Segways were just plain too expensive - the $5000 price of a Segway is 10-20x the price of modern e-scooters.

And that was expensive enough that some people interpreted segway ownership as 'conspicuous consumption', which some people don't like.
That’s why we have this Republic, an advanced form of simple democracy, that aims to protect the minorities.

Oppressing any side of free speech is bad, m-Kay.
Since we're sharing anecdotes and that's good enough for this thread, here's my own:

I'm a white guy - pretty much a typical one. My manager is a white guy - possibly even more typical, follow along North American Dude Stereotypes for both of us.

For most of the last 2 years, he had 8 reports - 3 managers, 3 product managers, and 2 principal engineers (me being one of them).

I was the only white guys out of 8 - the rest were all Indian.

Why?

Because the other 6 were the best people for the job. They applied for it (some external, some internal), and we hired them, cuz they were rad (and still are).

Demographically, that just happens sometimes, including all-Indian reports
It takes time to retool factories to move to whatever they are replacing this car with. The article states they are investing 2.8 Billion. Must be a lot of equipment they have to install.
So you’re claiming that the Indo-European migration/invasion of Northern India is “imagined”?
The best thing about the rolling releases is that the OS feels ageless. If I leave a Thinkpad sitting in a corner for 3 years and boot it up again to pacman -Syu, it will have basically the same software as my modern Thinkpad. This just tickles my sense of "this is how the computer _should_ behave".
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