skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So while it may be cheap it's still a cost. Is there a file size limit? What if I statically host CoolLinuxISOs.com? Surely that could end up costly or is it limited in some not identified way? What about handling major traffic from, say, if my website went to the front page of Reddit.com or any other popular website? Can it scale out and handle traffic spikes or even constant traffic?

I get this is more for small / tiny sites and it's really cool I just want to make sure I understand the costs associated.
Lob (YC S13) is hiring a senior designer
I couldn't upvote your comment fast enough.

This whole idea about avoiding political discussions strikes me as very counter-productive. It reminds me of a quote attributed to a well-known person who once traveled these parts: Those who feel too intelligent to engage in politics will be governed by the less intelligent members of society.

That's not the exact quote, but I think it captures it very well.

More than at any other time, this is the time to be very engaged in political discussions, because our future is being decided right now.

If intelligent people refuse to be part of that discussion, we won't like the result.
> To take this blanket approach of "No talking about politics!" is...

For one week.

> "Forbidden topics" because some people's feelings are getting hurt?

It's about a lot more than that, as I tried to explain in the text above. There are two different kinds of site—intellectually curious and politically combative—and we cannot be both of them.
Yeah if this were true then most modern governments are doomed because they depend on intelligent political discussions happening.
This assumes that humans put rational argument above tribalism; social psychology tells us this is not the case ("morality binds and morality blinds"). Excessive political discourse seems more likely to strengthen bonds within political groups relative to the bonds we have with those from rival political groups. Taking time to realize how much we have in common seems prudent.
It's not possible for HN to have "no political position" on issues such as tech.

As the Amazon Go thread, and this comment from PG demonstrate, the default position - where there is no discussion of race / gender / class / diversity - is for the protections that minority groups enjoy to disappear.

Either because no-one thinks to protect them (as white working classes feel has happened to them) or because SV bigwigs see those protections as an inconvenient fact that should be swept away by technological disruption.

pg: "Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/663456748494127104?lang=en

It's a fallacy to think that HN and hackers can somehow obsolve themselves from that responsibility any more than it thinks it can obsolve itself from responsibility toward homeless in SF.

By all means take the decision you feel you need to to maintain your community - but don't under any circumstances pretend it's a politically neutral one because it just cannot be.
Hacker News is an unfair place for people to speak up about about the lack of racial and gender diversity in tech. I have been downvoted for comments where I felt like I was making uncontroversial critiques of the status quo. I have seen HN users say that black neighborhoods need more policing than other neighborhoods. It's not an easy place to be non-white or non-male.

I believe banning politics is a bad idea even for a week.
Just for curiosity's sake, when exactly do you think it was considered polite to not talk about politics around the dinner table?
Rather than acknowledge some of the criticisms are true the author complains that complainers are the problem. Can't see the forest through the trees.
I think you mean replenish. Replete is an adjective.
Are you still working on thebigpicture?
Are your AC lites hard-lined into the router? And if not do you get speed degradation from the hops?

My house is 17th century bastide in France which was apparently built to repel canon or nuclear blasts -- my walls are a meter thick in some places and average over a half meter of pure stone. Wifi is a challenge and pulling cable is excruciating.
In my opinion Firebug started a revolution in web development, making JS webapps feasible for regular devs for the first time.

Thank you for giving us a lot of the interfaces and tools that live on as "developer tools" in today's browsers.
This is cowardly.
The thread starts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13055016
Theres a distinction between stipends and wages, and while I can find lots of third party sites whose general character and other information suggests general reliability referencing the option to pay a stipend to trainee interns (while also warning of the need to assure they aren't structured as wages), I cant find an authoritative DoL source articulating a standard or test (or giving examples) distinguishing them.
/agree

One benefit of this community is that technical discussion is exclusive. Not everyone is ready to understand why a relational database might be better than a key value store. This hopefully results in discussion that is based on experience earned expertise.

Politics has virtually no barrier to entry. Consequently, the comment quality declines.
> This has been a real timesaver as dealing with S3 static sites was just a pain.

Excuse my ignorance but what's the issue with S3 static sites? I have a couple I was going to put up shortly and was planning on using S3.
Generally in sci-fi, one of:

A): None (catastrophic). People die out, or are wiped out, as advanced machines outcompete them for all resources.

B): The boundary (hopeful). AI capable of creating new ideas is either impossible or just too difficult to invent (hard to prove which way it goes), so people keep pushing it farther.

C): None (utopic). Machines do anything people would have done for society, including the creation of new things to have and/or do. However, machines don't reach the level of autonomy required for them to actively eliminate people, or decide against it because there's plenty of resources for everyone, so people have 100% leisure time (which may happen to resemble what used to be work, if the people in question enjoy the process, but is no longer necessary to society).

D): The boundary (dystopic). Machines end up being more complex than people - to the degree that people are valued less than sufficiently advanced machines, and are put to work rather than manufacturing robots to do the jobs.

A note on D: Generally relatively soft sci-fi that does this, because the stories generally put humanity's role as hard labor, which doesn't make sense. However, I could see a story in "The Thinking Machine of the Future has become so Incredibly Advanced that the Absolute Pinnacle of Human Thought is to them what Plowing Fields is to Us." Humanity as the intellectual equivalent of the plow ox (or the tractor), doing the jobs that the machines (with their much higher potential for more complex thought) find to be beneath them and refuse to subject each other to. Possibly with the assistance of basic nonintelligent machines, the way we wouldn't try to make an ox plow a field without first affixing a plow to it.
> I made an apprenticeship in Germany and for most jobs you have to work 3 years to get it done. 3 years is plenty of time to make money out of the apprentice, even if he/she is underperforming.

Paul Sellers, who is a craftsman for fifty years already, disagrees that it's
plenty of time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O0Q9wJPkBw (the question
starts at 12:55, and two important and relevant points are at 16:10 and at
18:00).

To sum up, an apprentice not only underperforms initially, but also lowers
their master's effectiveness. It takes quite long time for an apprentice to
pick up enough trade to be of any use without dragging down the master, and
this is as true for woodwork as for programming or systems/networks
administration. It's only fair that the apprentice serves somewhat longer than
it takes to just learn the craft.

Though I agree that for IT apprenticeship is probably the most sensible way to
train staff.
From what I've read Alamo Drafthouse has over double the per-screen revenue of Cinemark. Their strict, pro-viewer policies really engender customer loyalty.
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>kapitza 19 days ago [-]

>This is slightly misleading. What we've understood for a century is the thermal forcing due to CO2, which is a logarithmic function of the CO2 concentration (ie, forcing == O(log n) in CO2 concentration).
What we don't understand (unless we decide GCMs are predictive and can be validated) is the impact of a given thermal forcing on planetary temperature. This is the "climate sensitivity." Unfortunately, this is the number we actually care about.
If climate sensitivity is low (negative feedback), Earth is thermally buffered and we have to worry less. If climate sensitivity is high (positive feedback), the opposite.
(Note also that Arrhenius, the discoverer of this effect, and pretty much everyone through the '60s, assumed that global warming was a positive side effect of burning fossil fuel, just from the preindustrial assumption that warm winters and high crop yields are good for humanity.)
The community was asked whether there were specific concerns regarding the timing of the experiment. I expressed a particular, relevant, and time sensitive issue, which yes, happened to deal with a particular individual.

These issues can't be discussed in a vacuum. This is the person who is openly promoting a Muslim registry, and intends to use the technology we have built to do it. There is no ground to be apolitical in that context, particularly when you have just seen first hand evidence of the violence it portends.

I submit that, if people were firing assault rifles into pizza places in your neighborhood because of "politics," you might feel differently.

The controls on the usage of national security programs, as we know, are today largely governed by the discretion of the people in charge, much like your discretion governs comments here.

It's fine if you don't consider that acceptable discourse anymore. It's your sandbox. But if that's the case, I'm taking taking my toys and going home. I know what censorship looks like when I see it.

Worst of all dang, I though I could trust you guys to be better than this...
deepdrive.io creator here - I'm actually not affiliated with the Berkeley project of the same name. There's also a DeepDriving at Princeton plus plenty of other (mostly perception) projects using GTAV, so it can be confusing. I'm hoping the GTAV for self-driving car efforts can start to standardize around the Universe integration though. Having worked on it, I can say firsthand that the Universe architecture is definitely amenable to sending radar, lidar, controlling the camera, bounding boxes, segmentation, and other types of info that the various sub-fields of self-driving are interested in. Super-excited to see how people use it!
I fail to see how encouraging this kind of mentality, even in this small of a dose, doesn't further the historically disastrous mentality that engineering is separate from a social and historical context. There are scenarios now where the digital infrastructure of Google, Facebook, et al are seized upon (even more so) for widely destructive ends that have spiked in their probability. Apple is already showing signs of caving. And given the examples of companies like IBM, I'm not terribly optimistic that there's gonna be some kind of ground swell rebellion against the worse possible outcomes.
> Have at this in the thread

What rule was broken?
:-)

Would love to hear a follow-up at some point, even if just privately by email.

Best.
Only the Northern part of the state has satisfied the drought.

> On Nov. 3, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that about a quarter of California was out of drought conditions, the best outlook the state has had since spring 2013, when 64% of the state was considered in “moderate drought” or worse.

>The picture in Southern California, however, remains bleak. A bark beetle infestation that took hold in the southern and central Sierra Nevada during the drought has killed more than 100 million trees and is moving north, increasing the danger of wildfire.
I think we're still in the early phase of A.I. where things seem more theoretical and thus ethics is not included in the discussion. However, as we near the time when policies will have large scale implications for our society, those consequences will be measured out. This is why I do not think A.I. will be a revolution but rather a gradual process. Already, the automation of cars is subjected to government regulation.
Swift Tuples
First off, I am sorry that it looks like my comments have continued to inflict pain on you and that really wasn't my intention. I agree with your main point: we should be decent to each other, and I apologize if I wasn't.

Second, I think you got burned harder on Babel because it was part of a bunch of starter packs. A lot of non-front-end guys like me started with things like Yeoman and didn't understand what was in the template, just that it worked for a while and then it didn't work.

Unfortunately, these seem like things you couldn't necessarily prevent by reaching out more, which is part of what I was trying to convey. The other party wasn't listening. And that's on us.

Anyway, I hope that people are more decent to you and you recover. We really do appreciate the work you are doing.
This is an interesting experiment. I personally think decreasing the political "tone" of HN is a sensible goal, but I don't expect that this approach will do well for meeting that goal. Specifically, I don't think the people who most want HN to be political will respond well to this.

There is a reason the shadow-ban was invented: when loudmouthed/trollish users are allowed to realize they are unwelcome, they get angry, and express that anger by defacing, defaming, DDoSing, etc. the community that has rejected them.

My personal belief is that the best thing to do is to not disallow this content altogether, but rather to ghettoize it.

Two examples of this:

• How Metafilter treats posts about Metafilter: they're allowed, but they have to go into a special "meta" ghetto, separate from regular content, where only people who want to see that kind of thing will have to see it.

• 4chan frequently makes new boards—new "homes" for certain content types—just to quarantine content it doesn't like. For example, /soc/ was not created because the 4chan moderators think 4chan should have a meetups+dating board, but rather because such threads were incessant on /b/.

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Now, HN already has something quite like these approaches, but IMHO better: the "showdead" system for negative-scored posts, which ghettoizes posts but also individual comment subthreads of posts, in a very granular way.

Here's the experiment I'd like to see done, re-using the "showdead" code:

• Split downvotes into an "irrelevant/Obviously Did Not Read The Article" button and a separate "is political" button (where you can press either or both on any given post.) Track the totals separately.

• If a post's (upvotes - irrelevant) is negative, then it's "dead" as happens now, and you have to have "showdead" on to see it.

• If a post's (upvotes - is_political) is negative, then it's "politics", and you have to have "showpolitics" on to see it.

• If both scores are negative, then you have to have both filters on to see the post.

• Posts would sort/rank according to (upvotes - sqrt(irrelevant^2 + is_political^2)).

I think this alternative would ensure that the people who most want to get into tribal flamewars would "go quietly into the night" (from everyone else's perspective), rather than becoming the sworn nemesis of the community.
Meaningless small talk or an endless discussion about the latest and greatest JS framework. It's like watching TV while the house is burning down.
200% above average is not twice normal, it is 100% + 200%, that is x3
That's really playing with fire. Good RE agent would tell their client so. Even if you're rich and buying in cash, at least inspection contingency is a must, but otherwise unless you have tons of money and don't really care for nasty surprises inspection could uncover - zero contingency is the riskiest bet one can make in one's life. My opinion, if you're on the market where sellers won't accept a contingent offer, it's better to get out of that market. I've bought house in BA recently, and there were plenty of sellers willing to take contingent offers (backed by some solid bank paperwork, maybe, but not just requiring to commit blindly). Of course, BA has many different places and in some market could be so hot sellers can get away with anything. But it's usually not good to get in such place as a buyer.
As someone who created & maintains an open source project (not nearly as important or popular as redis), thank you for your comment. You'd be surprised how few compliments people get on OSS projects (it seems to be roughly one heartfelt, sincere comment per 20,000 users in my case) and they just make you feel amazing. Seriously, the last one I had made my week.
I am so glad about this. The unwashed masses are ruining this site with political drivel.
I'd believe that. This article is about the Northern part of California.
This helps the current drought condition. It does not, as mentioned below, replenish the water table, or other more long term ailments of overpopulation. So both are correct.
200% above the normal rate in a short period considering the rain season isn't over can replenish at least the immediate natural water reservoirs.

The ground has a limit to how much water it can contain if the natural reservoirs are full the water will evaporate.

Effectively smart water management involves draining your water sources to the amount that will be replenished otherwise you waste your rainy season.
Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149B
This article lays out an argument that's clearly intended to be a strawman, but that I find completely reasonable. (Some elements are clearly exaggerated: there's a difference between a website "not working in Sudan" and a website not working on five year old hardware, and modern maximalist websites often don't work properly on the kind of slightly out-of-date hardware that most real users have.)

There's another take on this: that, while the web is being used to implement desktop-application-like behaviors and distribute drm-protected content, web technologies are incredibly ill-suited to performing pretty much every task outside of the display of small static pages, and that every attempt to force the web to perform this kind of trick is the admittedly impressive result of a pile of ugly hacks that waste enormous amounts of resources -- whereas performing these tasks using technologies actually suited to them would be simpler for everyone involved and make this content accessible to people using less powerful hardware or with lower-bandwidth connections. I don't think anyone who has worked both with web technologies & with building native applications can seriously disagree with the idea that using web technologies to perform native application tasks requires a pile of ugly hacks, and I don't think anyone who has used older hardware to access newer sites can seriously deny that this kind of over-reach produces systems that are unusable without expensive new equipment. (We can also make the argument that, because advertising is neither the only revenue model for web-driven content nor the best by any measure, there's little sense in trying to support the huge and mostly crooked ad ecosystem when we can easily avoid it entirely.)

It used to be that people didn't associate the internet solely with the web, and that if people needed to use ssh, they'd use ssh; if they needed to use ftp or gopher, they'd use ftp or gopher. The web later became a catch-all protocol, and people started developing big complicated wrappers to make existing software work via a web browser while simultaneously various organizations started setting up their internal firewalls to whitelist only port 80. This is a mistake: the web was never designed to replace all of computing, and will never be able to do so in an acceptable manner. We should be taking the huge variety of the software ecosystem back, instead of trying to force everything into web tech and ignoring everything that doesn't fit.
I am guessing other pet projects, R&D for Amazon. Clearly not in cancer research or funding of infrastructure or investments in other need base communities.

Last time I heard Amazon is struggling with net positive cash flow because it keeps on re-investing profits into various other side projects with eventual goal of dominating retail space e.g. Amazon Go.
You can't have a discussion about these issues without getting to brass tacks at some point.

Even setting aside how this effectively encourages the status quo: you are functionally telling women and minorities not to relate their own experiences for fear of being branded as "political" and getting flagged for it. That's bad. That's real bad. When somebody like 'tptacek says he's on-board with this because he thinks that 97.99% of politics on HN are alt-right trolling...maybe there's a problem here that isn't "politics".

I generally regard the proprietorship here with good faith even when I disagree 'cause you have always been fair and straight with concerns I've thrown your way, but this is an unmistakably dark message you're sending to your community--a message that works very much to the favor of the white supremacists who are actively pissing in your pool around here.
What etcd does and doesn't support doesn't matter here.

Pods do not access etcd. Nothing that is not fully trusted has access. You don't need ACLs when the only users of etcd are 100% trusted (aka just kubernetes core components).

The kubernetes API provides secrets to pods and can do its own validation (and there's experimental support for that). It can provide its own auditing. That's where it actually matters, not etcd.
I use "kj" for escape, "lkj" for escape-and-save, and ";lkj" for escape-and-save-and-quit since I can roll my fingers faster that way that doing "jk" or "jj"

It also has the advantage of usually being a no-op in visual mode (kj moves up, then moves down). "jk" has the same advantage. Whereas "jj" will move you down.

I also have my caps-lock key mapped to escape.

(EDIT: learning from bilalq https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13101691)

"during insert, kj escapes, `^ is so that the cursor doesn't move
inoremap kj <Esc>`^
"during insert, lkj escapes and saves
inoremap lkj <Esc>`^:w<CR>
"during insert, lkj escapes and saves and QUITS
inoremap ;lkj <Esc>:wq<CR>
Have you ever worked in grocery?

The customers tend to be brand loyal, and the lifetime value of a customer is very high (family with 2.4 kids and a dog is minimum $10k/year in gross sales), so when you start banishing customers for doing things that they may not even realize that they did, they will loudly tell everyone they know what a bunch of assholes you are! The $25 roast will cost you $500.

If I stop shopping at a local grocery that uses a loyalty card for two weeks, they will immediately begin sending coupons worth 10-20% of my average transaction value to get me back. The ROI of giving away $20 at a pretty low margin implies a high value.
WW3 QUOTE THERE SHall BE RIVERS OF BLOOD AS ERDOGAN TO SEND FLOATERS FULL OF
Anecdata/shameless plug: Appcues is an Elixir shop with no Ruby at all. And we're hiring!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080548