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So how did they manage to get rid of those hidden costs? Or is the new S3 compatible API more expensive?

> Booting people off of platforms merely reinforces their pre-existing beliefs, and further radicalizes them. > Let the truth fight for itself. We tend to think of humans as very rational beings…

HN is for "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". The discussions around political content, when they are reasonable and civil, can be quite interesting.

Could someone elaborate on "Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points" ?

Unfortunately, The Selfish Gene leaves it an open question of how the brain developed its capacity to represent and model the world, which is the very notion of intelligence. From the book: > The e…

Evolution. How does large scale randomness result in such complicated and intelligent systems, while after decades of research and all the computing power we have today, we still struggle to model and…

I'm also looking for recommendations of back braces if anyone here is using one.

Original title was "Amazon Threatens to Suspend French Deliveries After Court Order", and Bloomberg just changed it. You could have assumed good faith.

I wish there was a book (or even video lectures) that goes more in depth, but with the same style as that video.

The first who tweeted about this seems to be a french mathematician named Martin Andler : https://twitter.com/MartinAndler/status/1249021279660683265 . Also this tweet by the…

I have found this blog post[1] quite informative regarding Python projects packaging. It describes well how all the tools (pyenv, poetry, black, flake8, isort, pre-commit, pytest, coverage, tox) fit t…

Maybe to prevent a rush on surgical masks so that they are kept for health workers who need them the most?

> poorly defined, highly volatile, potentially short lifespan This. This is the reality of software development, especially in a startup. You have to quickly adapt your code to the <not well def…

It feels so satisfying to be able to finally name these colors.

Mirror: http://archive.is/dO21H

> Yes :- ) Do you mean 1) for yourself only, or 2) for all site visitors (so those replies would be collapsed by default, for everyone) ? Rather for myself, but as an account setting so that I don&…

A healthy online community is one that I can learn from, where I can find insightful discussions. That's what attracts me the most to HN. I've learned a ton since discovering it, some things…

Looks great. Does it have multilingual support? A few remarks: - It would be nice to have a button to collapse replies for a given comment, but not the comment itself. - On mobile (andoid), it is bit …

A good start is this article by Jay Kreps (Apache Kafka co-creator and Confluent co-founder) : The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction : htt…

Relatedly, some engineering students from Tunisia created 3D printed protective masks and started supplying hospitals as they have a shortage of those. The prototype is open source : https:/…

Thank you for taking the time to write this.

The article asks some legitimate questions that beg for answers: If we succeed in slowing the spread of coronavirus from torrent to trickle, then when does the society-wide disruption end? When will …

Belief does not necessarily come from provability. Wittgesnstein's On Certainty contains some interesting thoughts in this regard. Quoting a few extracts: "If you tried to doubt everything…

Related discussion: "Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People (2019)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827 …

I'm also curious about the old-wives tale, you are not claiming it's a scientific fact and if it worked for you, it might work for others. There is no reason someone mocks you about it, they…