skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terraform has interested me for a while, and I've been meaning to give it a try, but haven't had a chance just yet.

From what I have seen so far though, there isn't really that much difference/benefit over CloudFormation. We currently have 95% of our resources in AWS with about 4% in Azure, and 1% in Google Cloud. It's great that Terraform is 'mulit-cloud' but it still seems like you have to write .tf's catered to each cloud, you can't just lift and shift to another cloud by copying and pasting a file?

People say the 'plan' feature is one of the advantages over CFN, but as far as I can tell, CFN now offers the same feature... it tells you what's going to change when you upload a new stack.

I sound like a CFN advocate now, but I genuinely don't have that much experience with it, and really do want to give Terraform a chance. Convince me?

Oh, and since CFN started supporing YAML it looks easier to write too
Goto gets a bad rap, and I have seen many programs where an explicit goto, to a label that is descriptive, is way clearer (and less brittle under reorganization) than a 'structured' break or continue - or some spaghetti of booleans (while (!done) ... ).

It's clearly very easy to write bad code in many ways, but (very) judicious use of goto is occasionally far clearer than assuming goto is always bad and building something complex out of bools, break and continue. It seems to be a test of common sense: if goto is clearer than the alternative, use goto.
> We won't be able to quit oil for a long fucking time.

That's true. But if you remove transportation as a consumer of oil, suddenly our oil stocks will for more than 3x the amount of time.

http://www.globalpetrolprices.com/articles/39/

Once you remove transportation from the mix, the affected industries have a lot more time to move themselves from petroleum as a feedstock.
To me the bottom line is I can't be "part of the US". My personal values are not represented at all and I believe their leaders are making all the wrong choices.
It's the first time I heard of #doesNotUnderstand

Despite it looking cool and useful, IMO it's more of a (quite pleasant) sugar than an OOP concept. There's also a try/catch example where you'd get similar behavior.

I feel this is a bit opinionated:

> "but this is clearly rather verbose and it has to be repeated for every call."

I think the example in the link is what try/catch is meant for. Message passing systems in C/C++ handle situations where a disabled/unavailable service receives communication and recovers.

As for C++ and replacing objects:

I feel this is also a language-specific gotcha that doesn't hinder a learner understanding OOP. But C++ has many more gotchas than that.

For instance, there's no pure "interface" keyword. It can still be done (and is), code example: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines..., how Google Style guide defines it: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Interfaces
Isn't it just easier to memorize HTML color names? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#HTML_color_names
I think that all of these are true, and not necessarily contradictory?

1. The Chinese _economy_ has a trade surplus

2. Chinese _people_ have a high personal savings rates

3. The Chinese _government_ has a lot of debt.

4. Chinese companies and firms are trying to diversify their investments by investing outside of the country. Especially when the government is mostly good but has potential for being capricious and totalitarian.
"Citizens of Rome" meaning what? As the traditional meaning is literally the residents of Rome until 90 BCE, then reluctantly Italians. Provincials weren't citizens until 212 AD, and that still left out slaves.
would it be possible to correlate this with any form of authorship of the content being analysed?
Ignoring people's nationalistic/racial biases for a moment, a contradiction is somewhat normal with some economic events. Imagine there is a real estate bubble in some country. We'd expect articles painting a hugely positive picture of growth, and also negative articles about debt and surplus housing. Both sets of articles are valid, if perhaps cherry picking facts. Journalists like to spin things to be more sensationalized.
I'm curious about that as well. I was told by coworkers that Hashicorp added support for DynamoDB which rendered terragrunt redundant but I haven't had time to look into it.
> No person with a debt is entitled to the profits of their work, free or otherwise. The debt here is the cost of their incarceration. I don't propose they pay back the entire portion of their incarceration, but I think they should be responsible for paying back what they can while they're in prison.

This is morally bankrupt. You are locking people up, against their will, taking away years of their productive working life - and then sending them a bill for it.

This is a debtor's prison by another name. (Which are, by the way, widely recognized among the Western world, including in the US, to be immoral, and illegal - in theory.)
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> But how is that any different than Uber?

Because they have a lot more money and will remain standing as an independent entity. Prices will either rise, or Uber will remove costs via autonomous driving (they're hoping to get there before they have to hike prices, because if they get there in time, it becomes a very difficult to overcome moat and they win).

Amazon nearly went bankrupt on their hyper thin margins early on. Had the dotcom bubble popped just a bit sooner, they'd have gone under. They were bleeding red ink trying to get to scale before the easy money ran out. Uber is trying to do a similar thing, fortunately for them the asset bubble party has continued on long enough for them to raise a vast warchest of cash.
WordPress/Automattic transforming Jetpack Plugin into a Bloatware?
Just saw their recent announcement: https://jetpack.com/know/ most probably, they are going to introduce theme directory or something to promote and sell their premium themes in back-end of jetpack.

FYI, they already promotes automattic products/services in jetpack back-end, and bundling & diplomatically forces to keep unused js/css files (comes with jetpack modules) on server.

So, day by day WordPress company or automattic officially making this useful plugin into a bloatware?

What's your thoughts on this?
There were many similar complaints when the Go language itself was announced, there already being a programming language named "Go!"
China is not biggest holder of US debt - that's a title held by the US people who the government owes social security payments to.
I sell a niche desktop application to engineering companies. They self-police themselves pretty well - we're really not concerned with them cracking our software at all.

We built our own stupid-simple licensing system. True, it wasn't that hard, but it would totally be worth $100/mo to have this maintained by somebody else, so we could focus only on our product.

Their competition (FlexLM, etc) is horrific. This looks much better.
You could double up fuel taxes. That would make commutes shorter.
Using 10 convolutional layers seems questionable - the precise values and location of each number is essential for getting the right answer, so it seems like the model design is poorly suited to the task. The obvious approach to me would be to train a neural net to be a heuristic to order exploration in a constraint satisfaction solver, mirroring how AlphaGo combines monte carlo search trees with neural nets. Might net a nice speed up.
If you're fooled by fake news, this man probably wrote it
It's not chattel slavery, but 'conventional slavery' doesn't have to be chattel slavery to be slavery.

Across history, there have been many forms of slavery that were not chattel slavery. This is one of them. They have all been morally repugnant.
How is it a problem to better understand which solutions are more effective than specific others? None are perfect, true. But the first line says there's no magic bullet.

The point of this article, and I guess the book, is not to directly change specific behaviours, rather to educate about system thinking.
Certainly, I had never heard of the Kigali accord and went away (presumably) better informed about the impact of refrigerants on greenhouse gases.

The perfect need not get in the way of the good.
Those Samsung flash drives are nice, I have several. ~22MB/s write, and ~130MB/s read.
If the idea was you could take care of anyone you loved, then I'd agree.

Why does it have to be nuclear family members?

Not everyone has nuclear family members, or defines their family as the father/mother/brother/sister they grew up with.

In my mind, I see this as highly similar to hospitals of the past(and current) not letting members of same-sex couples visit their dying partner, because they aren't direct family or legally married.
I'm 23 and I'd never work more than eight hours a day. I have hobbies, friends, and interests beyond work. I stay at my current job because we respect people's lives.
A teleport will fix this...
> /c/files/documents/private/SUPER TOP PRIVATE/THIS IS PRIVATE STOP/WHAT ARE YOU DOING/WHAT STOP PLEASE/I DID NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION/PRIVATE GET THE HELL OUT/YOUR HURTING ME STOP/HOW HAVE I WRONGED YOU/I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE/PLEASE STOP ITS PRIVATE/I HATE YOU/

fair enough.
10 years?

Unless you are an Indian PhD it's more like 60+ years. Basically becoming impossible.

This coupled with H1B abuse has created a very difficult position for some people who are basically indentured.
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There must be some fundamental difference between the way you and I read, because I feel like I'm wading through a sea of gems when it comes to choosing books. Every once in a while I come upon a dud, but not often at all. And the duds are basically always very specific to my personal taste. For example, you mentioned Anathem as a gem, and I love Neal Stephenson and have read most of his work, but reading Anathem a couple weeks ago I was bored out of my mind.

Google search and Amazon reviews are actually excellent book-finding tools and I don't believe there's much value to be squeezed out of what they leave on the table.
What did they replace the lard with?

Edit: From wikipedia

> In the early 1990s, health concerns prompted Nabisco to replace the lard in the filling with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.[13]

Isn't partially hydrogenated vegetable oil much worse than lard?
This sounds incredibly expensive.

What was the profit motive for this?
China is not the largest holder of American debt. This is a myth that contains not even a sliver of reality.
Ah. The original comment seemed to imply it was the prisons that were a feature of liberal democracies, which seemed a weird leap to take. I agree with you in general. The penal system is just one of many systems that's overly politicized in a national context. It's part of the general problem of the U.S. not being very good at relative comparisons with other countries without reverting to a nationalistic dick-measuring contest.

It's the nasty downside to American Exceptionalism. On one end, it spurs people to attempt to be better because they expect they should be better, on the other it causes people to infer differences between our attributes and those of others that we don't particularly like, even when in practice those differences don't amount to all that much.
Per the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, there is no such rule that "sarcasm is not allowed" on Hacker News. And yes, if someone suggests that sexism is essentially in someones mind in a real life conversation, sarcasm would certainly be appropriate in response to a statement so thoughtless.

> In domains of importance, like law, is is notably absent.

That's not particularly relevant...

> Most of us are able to communicate more effectively and agreeably without sarcasm

The poster who I was responding to was certainly not being agreeable by smugly suggesting that sexism is a "purely subjective" phenomenon. Victims would not find it "agreeable" to have to defend against absurity such as this.

> Those who argue unproductively are silenced in some ways,

In this case, if any mod looked at this thread, the first thing they'd see is: "zzzeek made a comment that people felt was inflammatory, it got -4 downmod". And the conclusion any reasonable mod would draw from that is, "the system worked! the end." If it ended there, I'd be fine with that as well - I posted something too strong for folks, it got downmodded, oh well. I have about 4000 karma to spend so this is certainly anomalous behavior for this poster, no further action to take.

However, for some reason you have the need to jump on top of this comment and continue to lecture and "correct" me on something, and quite frankly it's a bit disturbing. I don't actually need your guidance on why my comment got -4 points. If there is something about my comment that is so disturbing that it warrants prolonged argument and discussion, maybe it shouldn't have been downvoted, but as it was, continuing to browbeat on the poster is definitely a much greater productivity drain than a simple one line, inflammatory comment (in response to another that not everyone thought was so inflammatory) that was downvoted within seconds.
That's a good idea. If you're going to deal with the hardships of living on a rig, you may as well park it somewhere nice.
>The whole theme of the article is 'stop pretending you're not rich', not 'you're rich and should feel guilty about it'.

The "stop pretending" is certainly the title but it's not the whole theme. He covers several themes. The author also wrote:

>The American myth of meritocracy allows them to attribute their position to their brilliance and diligence, rather than to luck or a rigged system. At least posh people in England have the decency to feel guilty.

In other words, if Americans had the right moral sense, they'd feel guilty about it too.

The theme for "pretending" is more about awareness if where six figures fits in the percentiles. Maybe people making $100k don't know or don't admit that such an income is in the top 17%. Yes, it's more than 83% others make so he advises, "don't pretend you're not rich."

The other theme is guilt and morals which the author is trying to convey to readers via claims of "luck", "good fortune", and "myth of meritocracy". This line of argument is orthogonal to the "stop pretending" theme.

At least 2 different themes with 2 different sets of supporting arguments in that blog post.
Not a big fan of "mandate a 20-hour working week", but a carbon tax should be leveraged such that the tax can fund work to offset each unit of CO2 created, which compared to today's taxes, would indeed be crippling.
The problem with any other model is there are secondary superpowers required to make it work: forget what deleting a file means, what does editing it mean when it can appear in multiple places?

Tagging files IMO depends on having a robust deduplication system under the hood.
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This is so weird. You don't drink alcohol, so you can't set foot in a bar? They serve non alcoholic drinks (and food too as often as not) you know. If anyone but yourself makes you feel weird about not drinking alcohol, the problem is with them, not with bars.

It's literally the most inclusive off site activity. Just about anything else excludes somebody (biking for example)

But a bar or restaurant requires nothing of you but sitting around, and possibly drinking or eating, which all humans do.

Maybe you've had bad experiences at specific venues but don't judge them all by it.

(Also I can tell part of your point has to do with an expectation of doing things outside of work hours, and I don't disagree with your view there. But you could go to the pub with coworkers for lunch too or something, within work hours. I just hate how alcohol has gradually become so demonized lately. Like cars, alcohol is an amoral tool that can be used for good, evil, or trivial purposes)
This reminds me of an essential but overlooked truth examined in this paper: "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened". It builds a simple system dynamics model and shows the long-term effects of working smarter versus working harder: http://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.p...
Peak Oil is not about quitting oil entirely; it's the point at which oil extraction stops rising and begins to decline. Yes, there will probably always be a place for oil as a source for chemicals, but without its use as a fuel that becomes a much smaller market.
>Is the idea that you're in international water so you can do what you want?

Pretty much as I understand it, but I don't think they're under the illusion that they don't have to maintain some sort of relationship with land-based nations.

>What stops a navy coming and confiscating your equipment then?

Nothing? Some form of diplomacy?

>They stop drug smugglers and pirates in international waters all the time. And you'll be static!

They never stop them all. I don't think I will be static. I'll be on the beach.
Trivial. Mandate any time >20h/week to be overtime. Mandate overtime rates to be double. For salaried employees, the hourly rate is Annual/1000h. Construct a legal system wherein employees can easily sue employers for wage theft.

Most employers will voluntarily cut their hours.

Will this cause dramatic economic upheaval? Yes, absolutely. The uncomfortable truth is that we can't cut our carbon emissions without drastically changing our way of life. (And putting your wilted kale in the compost bin isn't it.)
Reading a lot of these studies, I get the feel that the researchers aren't really users of the devices, nor have they really consulted any real users of the devices. It's akin to someone who had never seen how a car works being surprised that they are capable of going over 100 MPH. Sure, they can, but usually people don't drive them around that fast. The same goes for e-cigarettes. Sure, if you max out the voltage, keep the coil red hot and dry out the wick you're going to get some bad stuff, but no real user would inhale much of this (at least not more than once) because it would taste terrible.
No but optimizing my queue is satisfying and much faster than actually reading.
It sure sounds like you're talking about restoring from backups. There's nothing in that article that suggests you'd normally be able to sync iMessages to a new device apart from restoring from a backup. And that's expected behavior.

I just noticed that you misquoted me.. I said iMessage syncing has always been maximally private, and drew a distinction between that and backups. The article you cite mentions the tradeoff between strong cryptography (maximal privacy) and user pain (losing your data forever). Apple has made the intentional design choice of enabling the former for syncing but allowing backups to survive an account password reset. I think it's pretty clear that's a good choice for a consumer device. You can always turn off iCloud backups and back up locally via iTunes if you want maximal backup privacy.
I think you're mistaken that passenger cars are the smaller part. I'm struggling to find a clear source but pg 45 of this [1] shows passenger cars as 50% of total transportation energy (including road freight and shipping, I think) and page 35 projects passenger cars as 43%, compared to 8% for shipping, of CO2 emissions in 2050. You might be mixing up CO2 emissions with Sulfur emissions [2]

[1] https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publicatio...
[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-15-biggest-ships-i...
Interesting idea. Yahoo was basically ride-sharing Ali Baba so it's a fit.
Interesting -- there must be a large literature on neural nets and NP-completeness, no?
In San Francisco of all places, neither my home nor my office have IPv6. I wonder at what point the FCC or a similar regulating entity will require IPv6 rollouts (do they even have the power to do that?).

I have Webpass (now owned by Google Fiber) at home and Sonic.net at work.
Yeah, that's the flaw in the drug production plan. They think they can get around it by declaring themselves an independent nation, but nobody's going to recognize them as such. If they're not an independent nation they're just a vessel on the ocean subject to maritime law.

Governments will tolerate seasteading if it's the functional equivalent of parking a big houseboat somewhere. They won't tolerate modern day Tortugas, though.
The sales tax in canada is brutal
Vaporization is a physical state change, whereas combustion (and digestion) is a chemical change.
The difference that I failed to mention was that they covered the employer covered portion of health insurance for the leave period.
Webpass doesn't offer IPv6? I've had native from them for a long time in the past.
I wonder how to get it all working with webpack? Does it use require.ensure?
GPU computing is economically feasible only because the PC and console gaming markets subsidize it. FPGAs are powerful resources for certain I/O-intensive tasks, but -- at least until VR takes over Real Soon Now -- they have no mainstream appeal to game developers.

So we won't see the kind of organic growth in FPGA computing that we've seen from GPUs over the last 10-15 years. If Intel is counting on that, they (and their stockholders) are in for disappointment.
What really ended up helping me was getting a pair of Gunnar glasses. Plus, you may be able to get them through a health savings account if you're in the states. A bunch of colleagues now also use Gunnars (or similar) and all have had an improvement in eye strain/pain.

I also use f.lux as well as using saline eye drops at the beginning and end of the day.
Us Americans are all straw bosses. Lots of these company men types talk a big game until they need accomodation.
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> I mean, first of all, in the US, outside of a few cities like NY, SV, Seattle, Bellevue, you start to see lower pay which gets closer to Canadian pay.

In cities where the pay lowers so does the cost of living. Canada will never get over the exchange rate + availability of goods in America. Canada is an amazing country to live in but America is great too when you have money.
I don't see how that's relevant. Repurposing an old oil rig is a far cry from scuttling it.
OpenBSD[1]:

> time_t is now 64 bits on all platforms.

Linux[2]:

> The vast majority of 64-bit hosts use 64-bit time_t. This
includes GNU/Linux, the BSDs, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, and probably others. There are one or two holdouts (Tru64 comes to mind) but they're a clear minority.

This is little help for older, already deployed systems, of course.

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/55.html

[2]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2004-June/012483.html
If Uber fails to be profitable and autonomous doesnt take off for them they can easily license their software to other companies of all sorts and make a nice chunk of change. Just providing it to cab services alone will make them a lot of money. It'd be considered a unicorn pivot....
Googling shows that they have some deployments but at least as far as I can tell from my network settings (and http://ipv6-test.com) I do not have an IPv6 address. Perhaps they never got around to updating my apartment building.
>The process began, Regenstein recalled, when many of the country's major ice cream companies, most of them operating under kosher standards, wanted to make a product with authentic Oreos.
CloudFormation has a lot of things going for it, but it was unsuitable for us ~18 months ago when I was looking around for a way to "infrastructure as code"-ify our setup, because it can't "adopt" existing resources into your setup, and we have tons of stuff we don't want to bring down/up just to bring under cloudformation.

I used the terraforming gem (either because "terraform import" didnt' exist at the time, or because I just didn't like the way it worked) to bring a lot of things under management by terraform.