skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, N64 and Gamecube were pretty standard. Buttons and joysticks.
A couple of years ago, JC Penney's was on to something. They were moving to stylish affordable clothing and it was starting to take with young people. Investors got nervous and wanted to move back to the inflate prices and have constant fake sales model. They are seriously wasting their real estate and potential.
What I've been doing when debugging is flipping the DAG switch to off, clearing the first task in the DAG so the whole thing re-runs, then back to on.
Very cool explanation - thanks so much for taking the time to write this detailed reply :)
You copied this comment from another thread, where I responded:

Uber isn't the driver's employer. Uber is a vendor to the driver. The driver is complaining that its vendor made commitments, on which the driver depended, and then reneged. The driver might be right or might be wrong, but in no discussion with a vendor in the history of the Fortune 500 has it ever been OK for the vendor to accuse their customer of "not taking responsibility for their own shit".

What the video shows isn't wrong on the level of the Fowler post. It just shows Kalanick as petty and deeply unserious about his role, which is an alarming look for someone whose company is embroiled in scandals about mismanagement.
I think you're over-selling the Wii U. I was originally excited by the Wii U portability, but the range that the gamepad can go from the console is incredibly short.

My office is 20 feet away from the console (through two walls), and I can't use the gamepad reliably. That's hardly portable. It doesn't work anywhere in the house other than in the adjacent room.
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It's this type of thinking that plays right into the hands of a Trump. His message is "America First" and it obviously resonated with enough people.
Sounds interesting but the problem then is that nobody will share it with friends. Since you gain an advantage by keeping it silent and take the low price offer when it resets. But I like the general thinking. Needs to be fleshed out.
Kinda disappointed about the lack of historical data given about the sort of supercomputers used for weather modelling over the years. Mainly because I want to know which era of weather forecasting could conceivably run on my PC, my phone, or the latest Raspberry Pi.
It seems to me that mistakes have become an habit among high ranking staff at Uber, and that that's really hurting the business.
> a real language like C#

While I can agree that C# has tons of language features that make it more powerful than JavaScript, I take issue with the idea that those features are the defining characteristic of a "real" language. I think there are many reasons to choose C# over JS, but there are also a non-trivial of reasons to make the opposite choice.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
Off topic: How much time people spend in public laundry? In post Soviet countries and Russia almost all families, even poorest have washing machines, while public laundry used only for complex cleaning.
I think that statement needs some qualification. If you're sending the VoIP traffic across networks you don't control all bets are off. VoIP across an enterprise's private network or through a leased network where SLA's can be mandated and QoS can be controlled is one thing. "Wild west" VoIP across the Internet, especially through sketchy networks, is another.

Edit: "canbe"
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Riiiiight. That's why you made the argument about React/Reagent/Om when I pressed you about that point. Nice try though!

Anyway, I think I pointed out how wrong you are on just about every other point you made in this thread. Anybody who reads this will certainly see that. So, my work is done here :)

Enjoy that last word if you want!
Personally, I am a fan of the setup. I like the idea of having multiple TV bases so that the switch can be moved between rooms easily. My kids are at the age where they do a lot of family RV trips and we'd be able to get a base for there too.

I'm much more interested in the Switch as a family console than a personal. I grew up an only child and played A LOT of online games by myself. Ever since college I've had a standing rule about not playing games unless it's social - aka in the room.

This perfectly fits my use case.
Things I want to do that I don't have time to do:

1. Take a tour of as many old Western ghost towns as possible (assuming you're in the US). I'd spend a lot of time photographing.

2. Hike the Pacific Crest or Appalachian trail.

3. Make an epic long distance bicycle ride, across the country or something similar.
> I have a Wii U and Nintendo's games insist on using the microphone for stupid gameplay mechanics, like blowing on it to move platforms.

Haha, really? They've done that crap since the Famicom. Didn't make it to the states, but the Japanese controllers had a microphone. Had to blow into it for a couple games (Japanese version of Zelda, for one). They must be really in love with that input method.
What are you talking about? Every uber car has a camera in it in case of disputes or insurance, which are common. There is no expectation of privacy in a car with clear windows and a stranger sitting in front of you.
There are several small differences. I can't find an exhaustive list, but windshield material, bumper height, headlights, and taillights are some that come to mind immediately. Yes, it's the same platform, but the vehicles are "tweaked" for each market safety regulation.

It's not that US is "safer" than EU or vice-versa, it's that the standards are different.

EDIT: http://jalopnik.com/a-simple-explanation-why-america-doesnt-...
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FWIW I thought the same thing. It's an artless word choice by someone without enough experience of real life.
Many [most] of the companies using Airflow are small-ish scale, maybe less than a half a dozen people writing jobs that need to be scheduled. Airflow will bring clarity even to modest efforts, and will allow to scale the processes as needed.

In terms of architecture, it's pretty straightforward to setup Airflow on one box and run all the services there until you have to grow out of it and scale out to having multiple workers.
A lot of variability in weather. Multiple weather systems tending to come together. It's a lot harder to forecast Boston than it is Las Vegas. It also depends what you're trying to forecast. If you live in a very dry area, you're going to be right about precipitation the vast bulk of the time.
Yeah, I believe so!
Should you build custom software?
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CEOs of multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees (or contractors - whatever) are politicians, I think.
Yes, for todays standards.

N64 was a weird trident with a thumb-stick, PSX added these sticks later with the DualShock controller.

GC had this freaky button-layout.
What you've said can and does work for telling time, but from watching a few of their videos it looks like the watch part of this device is a secondary function. It connects to your phone and will display the caller's name or text messages like other smart watches, but in braille. I can't read braille, so don't know how effective that is with the limited space. It would be interesting to hear from a blind person what their current state of electronic connectedness is since this type of device is supposed to improve the parity between blind and non-blind individuals.

One of the cooler things mentioned in one of the videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpl81WmFSo) was that they developed their own magnetic actuators that are a 10th of the cost (if you believe the marketing) of existing ones. I haven't verified any of those claims, but if true does mean their braille tablet could be an affordable reality.
The Moon would be more realistic with modern robotics and remote-control technology, because it's 3 seconds away, for a 6-second round-trip for radio signals. It'd be quite feasible to remote-control a rover there.

Mars is not. It's a minimum of a 1-hour round-trip. So every tiny little rover movement has to be planned in advance, unless you can figure out how to automate it, which only goes so far: you're not going to put an AI with a geologist's education in a rover.

This is not likely to ever change, unless you can 1) figure out how to make FTL communications work (subspace?), or 2) figure out how to make AIs with human-level intelligence (at which point we humans would be completely obsolete and likely slated for extermination). Good luck with either of those. Until then, sending actual humans is the only way to get a lot done in a reasonable amount of time.

The nice photos you talk about from robotic exploration is the result of completely pre-planned missions, with very little possibility of needing to make fast decisions on-site. When you're just flying around the Jupiter system or flying through the Pluto system, that's really not that hard; the planet and moons' locations can be predicted with a very high degree of accuracy, and the data they're gathering is all planned far in advance. It's not like walking around a planet's surface and deciding which rock to investigate, or which rock to ignore, or what a good place to dig would be. You can do all that by remote control, but it's a whole lot slower because you need to have humans verify everything, so what would take you an hour with a human on-site now takes you days.
I have experience with NVIDIA and AMD GPUs on Linux-systems and my experience with AMD was vastly superior. The difference was so significant that I rule out buying a NVIDIA card.
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This has sorta changed since I sometimes use those laundry-cleaning startups, but I definitely don't have a laundry machine in my apartment in Manhattan. There's a laundry room in the basement of my building, but that's been non-functional for about a month, so I sometimes trek a block to the laundromat for my regular laundry.
I'd argue for something programmatic over drag and drop for reasons described in this other article I wrote:
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-rise-of-the-data-enginee...
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The Philippines is such an awesome country, I loved my time there. Beautiful, friendly, great food, cool culture. Downsides: Extreme poverty juxtaposed with extreme wealth, thousands of homeless children in Manila alone, I met some of them and I wished I could take them all home with me.
I use Jackson. I am much more familiar with it and the Jackson Kotlin module works nicely out of the box (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-kotlin). Also Vert.x is using Jackson under the hood so one less critical dependency to think about.

I think Gson is more common on the Android side of things where Kotlin has (I believe) a lot more popularity than on the backend.
Kotlin is the best option for Android apps.

There are many languages for backends and tons of libraries. But there is hardly any substitute of Java in Android(if you don't consider JS solving every problem in this planet). If JetBrains only concentrate on building an ecosystem for android, it can become "the real Swift for android".

I built a dummy app for android in Kotlin. It was great. The same thing I tried in Scala(it didn't go very well).
>Can someone give an actual moral reason why this is bad?

Because the work conditions in other countries are driven by practices we see as immoral.

A developer job in India isn't likely a job that is considered immoral, but what they demand for compensation is largely drive by all the other jobs and the wages for those jobs, many of which are at least illegal in the US (below minimum wage, illegal work conditions, many regulation violations).

For an exact example, the minimum wage in India is a little over 2 dollars per day. If I could hire people in the US for that price, I could definitely lower the price I would need to be compensated to achieve a certain quality of life. But people would argue me hiring people for $2 a day would be immoral.

Yet the developer in India can do that, and as such, commands a lower price. By paying them, these such practices are supported.

(Now to be exact, I don't mean to suggest that every developer has an army of minimum wage workers at their beck and call. Instead, their entire lower cost of liven is driven by many things we consider immoral.)

It is like paying a supplier who is violating both laws and morals to give you a cheaper price for the product. You could try to say that technically you aren't violating the law and just buying the cheapest product, but many would not consider such actions to be moral.
We host a number of our customers' database systems on us-east-1.

What worked well for us (https://aiven.io):

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- Not running everything on just AWS

What did not work so well:

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- Alert spam, need more aggregation

- New failure mode: extremely slow EBS access, some affected VMs were kinda working, but very slowly: need to create a separate alert trigger for this
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The Gamecube, yes. But the N64 analogue stick was the first of its kind, no?
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Not sure about a moral reason, but the political reason is that I cannot walk into the Indian unemployment office and get benefits, or I can't just get off the plane and get a job.

So long as we have countries as political units, this will be the reason. Countries are by and large semi-closed systems in terms of economics, do it would make sense we protect our own economy, just like the majority of big economies do.

It's odd that people complain about US "protectionism" but on the other hand complain about US imperialism while also ignoring how protectionist and nationalist a place like India is.