skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much of the services of AWS (Google/azure/etc) are really needed by the majority of customers?

Very many. And none of them are EC2 (or its equivalent). Any service that comes with the consumption based charging (i.e. no 24x7 running costs whether it is used or not) and offers a clearly defined functional feature, has plenty of appeal to cloud customers. Another part of the appeal is the mix and match nature of mature cloud platforms: the customers get substantial freedom to choose from services they can instantly start using, or roll (and maintain) their own albeir at a higher cost.

I.e. if the customer wants a queue, they get a queue, and nothing else. The cloud platform abstracts away and takes care of the underlying platform that «runs» the queue and eliminates the operational overhead that comes with having to look after the message broker that provides the said queue. There are other many examples.
The problem isn't the people, it's the policy.

e.g. https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-...

The only reason this could happen is because of policy that prioritizes self-declared "gender identity" over sex, and over women's dignity and safety. That's the actual problem, not people just quietly living their lives.
200+ points 1 comment ?

What makes this ratio so special
If that 5th grader rhetoric, and lack of any comprehensible policy, didn't resonate with Trump voters, he wouldn't have used it consistently. So the criticism is on point.

We can debate whether Harris' proposed policies would have worked or not, or good for the economy or not, but at least they were comprehensible.
Uh, it can be multi-player. But the single player campaigns were the business, IMO.
The pilot(s) attempted to basically program the aircraft to go around. By the time they finally committed to flying rawdog too much confusion had been created and too much situational loss. The whole "average input" thing kinda kicked them while they were down and that was it.

Yes, they could have saved it with better communication too but the amount of time they spent trying to "manage the airplane" and respond to it's behaviors and its systems behaviors between being told to go around and crashing clearly detracted from their ability to simply fly the thing.
They should look on the bright side: eliminating plastic exposure could be a great wellspring of identity. I mean to really avoid them you’d have to make all your food from raw unprocessed ingredients, and then there’s clothing, all the objects you interact with throughout the day, etc.

Edit: expanding a bit more on the idea. DIYing all the stuff you’d need to avoid plastics is a much bigger identity statement than neurodivergent. Tho saying I’ve been subtly poisoned is far less sexy than saying I’m neurodivergent.
The only way to cut the federal budget 50% is to tank Medicare and Medicaid.
I’m also in tech. I’ve been looking for work for the last several months. Took some time off after my work contract ended last year.

I likely don’t count towards unemployment statistics. I don’t qualify for unemployment since I was a contractor before.

In my current job search, I’ve sent out more applications and had more interviews than the rest of my career. Granted, I found jobs more through connections than cold applying in the past. I’ve been tapping connections in this search too, though. It’s rough out there. I’ve contemplated taking an exit from tech and picking up a trade.

It sure feels surreal to me when I see reports of a strong economy.
Since when is China my enemy?

If there is a major nation on this planet that has never done anything bad to mine in its history I can think of is China.

I can remember American, British, French troops raping and humiliating that country, I can't remember a single time the opposite happened.

While China does not always play fair and there's plenty of despicable things they do I don't like, I just don't see them as my enemy and see no valid reason to do so.
How did the Republicans not run a primary?
More people than "beautiful important" jobs. But there are other, less sexy and better paid, important jobs.
That's from 2023, and it sure as hell isn't how people voted this time: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1535295/presidential-ele...
While you might be forced to if faced with a developer who doesn't know what the hell they are doing, that is not the convention.

Consider the case of (T, error). T should always be useable, regardless of error. At very least, if there is nothing more relevant to provide, the function should return the zero value for T. And we know that in Go the zero value is to be made useful. Go Proverb #5.

In practice, this often means something like (*Type, error), where the zero value for *Type (nil) is returned on failure. In which case the caller can check `if t == nil`. No need to consider the error at all. It is there if your requirements dictate a need for the error (e.g. reporting the failure), but for using the result it is entirely unnecessary.

If you leave the caller in a state where T can be invalid, you screwed up horribly or are purposefully being an asshole. Don't do that. That is Go 101 type stuff.
Interesting, but not what I was thinking.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScBd-71OLQ
People forget - or never realize, if they're new - that the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" refers to startup entrepreneurs "hacking" capitalism. This place used to be called "Startup News," after all.
Command and Conquer:Renegade was a (somewhat)contemporary of bz98 and scratched that BZ itch.
I really enjoy knowledgefight. Although I’m not sure I can continue listening after this week.
> They won't simply concede to having a secure border, with or without comprehensive immigration reform

This simply isn't true at all.
Never mentioning his abnormally pacifist record which is more important?

Because he's nothing of the sort. He's an isolationist (more or less), which is a stance designed to look like pacifism but in fact is very different, and has all kinds of negative side effects, one of which is that it ultimately leads to war, or tolerance of things worse than war (and which is always fake populist stance anyway). See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)

Seriously - remember when he said he would "make Mexico pay" for the wall he wanted to build? Exactly how do you think he would "make" Mexico do that? Is that a "pacifist" stance?

Or is he just making stuff up, to blow smoke in your face and push your buttons?
> The idea of a female's brain in a male's body isn't that far fetched.

How could it possibly be a female brain if it's part of a male body?
Same! I pulled a tendon in my ankle.
...or just permanent state of emergency, and voila. Very common way to do the democracy to dictatorship transition.
"Many such cases"
I believe your example is also anecdotal?

I can say that in the SF Bay Area, since 2000, probably three out of four small venues that used to host live music either have shut down completely, or no longer have live music. Maybe in lower COL areas it's easier to keep these venues going.
Organic + cage free is how I like my photos.
> Biden was utterly incoherent at the debate.

Which was so totally unpredictable?

> and got the party behind her immediately

I remember this quite differently.

> and brought hope back to the Democrats.

I honestly doubt it was anything other than trepidation masquerading as hope. She was the worst performing Democrat in the last open primaries. This hope was not based on anything other than an exigent fear of Trump.

> she did far better than we could have reasonably expected.

The metric, as always, is votes / campaign spend. Are you sure you've evaluated this earnestly?
Lindner was forced to do it. FDP has been under the 5% barrier in polls for months now, down from 11,4%. If they stayed in the coalition until the next regular election, they would most likely not even get into parliament again. At least with this move, they have a better chance.
I especially appreciate this on the assumption that it will be pulled in as input for AI training.
> everyone moves to the largest cities

Anecdotal evidence in support of that:

I have lived for the past twenty-five years in Japan’s second-largest city, Yokohama, in an area convenient for shopping and mass transit. While the neighborhood immediately around my home hasn’t changed much during that time and is still a mix of single-family houses and two- and three-story apartment buildings, along the main streets and waterfront there has been steady construction of high-rise condominiums. The local public elementary school, which my two daughters attended and which my grandson will enter in 2026, is facing a critical shortage of classroom space as families with children move into the area [1]. Parts of Tokyo are facing a similar crisis [2].

I haven’t traveled much outside the major cities since before the pandemic, but the steady depopulation in many areas is said to be equally apparent.

[1] https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kosodate-kyoiku/kyoiku/sesak...

[2] https://digital.asahi.com/articles/ASRDW7QGQRDNOXIE03K.html
> There is no widespread 'trans women competing against biological women'.

It's more common than you may think - see https://www.shewon.org
Canadian users can still access Tiktok and are still subject to Tiktok's algorithms. They're also still subject to Meta's algorithms that, unlike Tiktok, have already helped cause at least one genocide[1].

Tiktok's Canada-based offices must have been up to some other form of skulduggery for them to have been shuttered while leaving Canadian use of the platform completely status quo.

[1]https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
Yep, 100%.
lol. I remember trying to navigate to "aqui" which is a restaurant and it dropped a pin where I was.

(aqui means here in spanish)
I wish I didn't know this, but it could be SunOS4[0] which went out of support in 2003. It's probably the most well-known OS where free(NULL) wasn't supported. I would like to think that people aren't writing new code for it.

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-12/msg001...
Looking forward to Ireland following suit, and then logically following through and also banning Instagram, Youtube, Snapchat, Facebook, Pornhub, Netflix, Disney, Spotify, etc.

For too long these foreign companies have been "shaping public opinion" - to quote a sibling comment here, who I think accurately sums up at least some of the reasoning behind this kind of development.

In case there's some ambiguity here - I am being sarcastic. I hope Ireland doesn't do that. I have strong issues with some of the above platforms and companies, but governments getting involved like this is nothing to be cheered.
Agreed. On the bright side, I was able to migrate managed k8s on DO to managed k8s in GCP with very minimal work since it was managed via pulumi.
>Boomers are slowly dying off while younger people have been overwhelmingly against Trumpism.

No they aren't. Gen Z young men are all voting for Trump.

>America is getting more diverse and more educated

Diverse maybe, educated no. They're getting more college degrees than 50+ years ago I suppose, but they're not worth much compared to college degrees in the past. These days, college just makes up for utterly lousy secondary school education. Educational standards in the US have been in decline for a very long time.
Please explain to us all how tariffs will reduce grocery prices.
In early 2020, Sanders flipped Biden, leading more than Trump lead his rivals for much of the primary, and likely would have gone on to win the nomination, with the momentum he was carrying into the bulk of state contests. Biden's centrist rivals colluded with him and the DNC, suddenly dropping out before Super Tuesday. Buttigieg, one of the dropouts, was awarded with a cabinet appointment that he was completely unqualified for, as exemplified by his gross mishandling of first a rail strike, and then a large accident (caused by conditions the strikers were organizing to rectify) which dumped toxic chemicals into a small town.

That was the one I paid close attention to. If 2016 was anything like it (and I'm sure it was, considering this year's convention tactics were used all the way back in the 1940s to force Truman on us), I have no doubt that this is the DNC's modus operandi. The true steal of the last 3 elections were establishment Democrats' theft of the liberal and leftist vote. And in 2 out of 3 of those cases, they paid in the general.
> vote for a serial sex offender promising to execute his political rivals and purge America of immigrants

> Something is very wrong with the calculus being used by a great number of Americans

I'm sure a lot of people, especially independents who could have swung either way, voted for Trump precisely because they were sick of this attitude.

People are free to make partisan judgments against Trump or any other politician, but they will also suffer electoral consequences if those judgments are for the most part fact-free, as in your case.
Given that Biden dropped out of the race fairly late, what was the option? I agree with you in principal, but there doesn't seem like there was any way to actually implement it in the available time, assuming that the population take adequate time to make an informed choice.
Making a whole generation unfit for qualified work is a serious threat for every nation.

Many of the Tiktok generation live in a world where reading for 3 minutes is a heavy effort they are unwilling to do. All information is supposed to be presented in short entertaining video clips.

In China online time for the youth has been strictly regulated years ago. But harming other nations is only in their interest.
Isn't there some middle ground between microservices and monorepos? For example, a few large clearly defined projects that talk to each other via versioned APIs?
I think Chamath is guilty of this to a degree that far exceeds the others. Chamath regularly states misconceptions about economic data, but with extreme confidence as if he's a macro econ subject matter expert. I think Friedberg should get some credit for often calling him out on what Chamath is confidently mouthing off about. In a recent episode, I think Friedberg just started laughing after he realized breaking through to Chamath would be impossible.
We have foreign born billionaires that own mainstream media outlets in the US so not sure it’s that much different
Not really,

We already hold corporations accountable for discrimination on religion and banning peaceful assembly. Nothing is absolute as one written phrase, that's why the law has references to case rulings and precedent. Armchair lawyers on multiple sides cant agree, but a blog post claims they are the only correct ones.
I've lived in California for 30+ years now and what I've observed is that we spend huge amounts of money on infrastructure and a lot of the spend seems to be absolute waste. For example, there is no realistic reason for high speed rail to cost what it does per mile; I am certain that a very close inspection of the process would uncover huge amounts of waste, padding, and theft. On top of that, people have been able to limit development using enivronmental rules and other legal methods to slow down things that are truly needed.

I'm sure somebody has written a book already about how ostensibly wealthy societies can fail at basic infrastructure that they previously mastered, driven by greed and complacency and other socioeconomic factors. I think this has happened over and over again (Rome, and many other societies).
And rubber dust.
Elon has literally paid billions of dollars in taxes.

Yes, he "avoids" taxes by using every legal strategy available to him, as does every single person who pays taxes. This is called "paying the correct amount of taxes you legally owe".

> Anything that maximizes his personal wealth could very well be hostile to the well being of the country.

Let's look at the things that have maximized his personal wealth:

Paypal - made online payments popular and safe. Enabled millions of people to start online business.

Tesla - made electric cars popular. Reduced C02 emissions. Gave thousands of Americans good jobs. Made many employees and investors rich.

SpaceX - re-ignited space exploration. pioneered re-usable rockets. Dramatically reduced the cost of launching satellites.

Starlink - brought Internet access to rural areas.

Please tell me, which of these personal wealth maximizing activities has been hostile to the US?
> something you (or your very clever coworker) can circumvent by using object.__setattr__()

This fits pretty well with a lot of other stuff in Python (e.g. there’s no real private members in classes). There’s a bunch of escape hatches that you should avoid (but that can still be useful sometimes), and those usually are pretty obvious (e.g. if you see code using object.__setattr__, something is definitely not right).

Can’t tell whether this is good design or not, but personally I like it.
I think many people would see no increase and assume there was some special mechanism needed to enact increases which hadn't happened in that particular year. Whereas a $1 increase clearly says "someone evaluated this and adjusted it up only $1". The analogy of a 10 cent tip vs. not tipping is a good one; the person who doesn't tip for a full meal is being a cheap asshole, but the person who leaves 10 cents is being a mean-spirited cheap asshole.
Because the entirety of the Trumpist response is “nuh-uh.” Watch the videos of people giving explanations of tariffs to attendees of Trump rallies. “That can’t be right, he wouldn’t be doing it then” is essentially all the deeper anyone will go. Almost none of the people who support him don’t think beyond their delusion that he has their interests in mind.
All fair complaints, but are those the standards you want to set for "banning any state-owned media from that country"? We're not enemies but I wouldn't call them our friends?
You're idea is hardly novel. I've had plenty of people tell me this or that chemical caused me to be trans. I've also spent plenty of time researching possible biological causes of transness. I'm personally open to the idea that maybe there's a biological cause but I haven't found a convincing explanation yet.

The problem is that when I have conversations with people about soy turning me trans or social media turning me trans they are often trying to use that as a way to deny me any agency over my own life.
Evolution is the heuristic search for effective neural architectures. It is training data, but for the meta-search for effective architectures, which gets encoded in our DNA.

Then we compile and run that source code and our individual lived experience is the training data for the instantiation of that architecture, e.g. our brain.

It's two different but interrelated training/optimization processes.
Agreed....this case is the lamest of lame and would not have been brought against anyone other than Trump and only because he was running for election.
It is quite obviously a politicization of the justice system to anyone who is not a partisan ideologue.
Dems can try to deny this but it really doesn't matter.
They are just shooting themselves in the foot and losing support as a result.
>But when "getting away from them" actually means belittling them

That's not what I meant by "getting away from them". It's just like Germany in the 1930s: the smart people got out and moved somewhere else before the SHTF. It's the same thing I did: I left the USA. I don't see things getting any better there in my lifetime, and I didn't want to be around the angry MAGA people, so I left.
> Apple has a compelling value proposition.

No. Apple has a proposition that /may/ be better than the current alternatives?
Are you sure you are AWS partner? Cloudfront is not going to "instantly lower multiple times" - it's still $0.060/GB (for US, other countries are even more expensive), so that would be at least $6K monthly bill. Its only few tens of percents reduction.

And sure, Cloudflare does not have all the breath of Amazon services, but I find it hard to justify $60 vs $6000 price difference. Amazon egress is simply incredibly overpriced, and any price-sensitive company should avoid using it.
In what way did what Musk did with Twitter-now-X not work? He bought the platform with the intent to open up the window of allowed discourse to that allowed by the law instead of that demanded by the ideology of the platform owners. This mostly succeeded, the level of censorship on the platform has been radically reduced. You may not like the result because you happened to be ideologically aligned with the previous platform owners but that does not make it invalid, it just means the platform no longer shields you from those who walk different paths.

Does this mean X is a good place to frequent? No, it does not, just like Twitter wasn't a good place to frequent. I only ever used Twitter passively and I only ever use X in the same way. I do not post and I have no interest in doing so, I do however like that X now allows different viewpoints. While I do not like the increased amount of spam, shitposts, crypto scams and other nuisances which came with the opening up of the platform I see this as a temporary problem which can be solved just like spam on email no longer is a problem - I have been self-hosting my mail since the early 90's and saw the rise of spam as well as its current defeat (which may be temporary due to the ascent of generative AI but that is another story for another time) on my own server.

So, yes, X mostly works, at least for me. I only use it by following links in articles, I never use the site directly, only through a self-hosted Nitter [1] instance, I do not log in nor do I respond to anything. Maybe things are different for those who live on the platform but... maybe that is not a good thing to do anyway?

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Lots of things change in China because people make a big stink about it. Probably the most notable are the lockdown protests, but there are countless examples of someone complaining about bad local governance and the national government coming in to fix it.

Chinese social media is pretty vibrant with the exception that you can’t agitate for the fall of the government.
The platforms like that also provide interesting aggregates. Like hidden trends and the political mood... Interesting correlations. And having this information is pretty beneficial for any agent (for ads or to know your population better). There could be a lot of research done based on having platform like tiktok (like what kind of fake news would work the best in the specific situation). Ah, big data.
>So the default is to vote for a person who will run the world into the ground?

The default is not to vote.
Did you vote in this election?
Of course, the increase in manufacturing will be limited. Is there a policy that can increase it without limit?

I also think its disingenuous to call tariff induced price increases inflation. That's like calling a sales tax inflation. Maybe its technically correct, maybe not, but if your going to apply it here, make sure you are also applying it to carbon/gas taxes, environmental regulations (they also increase costs), and capital gains taxes (they lower asset supply).
Depends. There are people who put in the absolute minimum work they can get away with, and there are people who have pride in their profession.

That's independent of pay scale.

Granted, if you pay way below expectations, you'll lose the professionals over time. But if you pay lavishly no matter what, you get the 2021/2022 big tech hiring cycle instead. Neither one is a great outcome.