skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it limiting the testing in some way? In can't really imagine it was.

Changing working things in a critical phase of the core business without reason does not seem like a good idea.

I agree the setup seems bad and should be addressed, but if there are better things to do maybe do those first.
Building a platform agnostic app (react native and web)
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I wasn't aware there was a free tier. I really appreciate that it's an actual free tier:

"Thanks for signing up for the 12-month free trial.

We've given you $300 in free trial credit to spend. If you run out of credit, don't worry, you won't be billed until you give your permission."

[ed: and as mentioned above there are instances that don't consume any of those 300 credits]
I’m currently reading ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’, the book where these red and blue ocean terms come from and I feel like what he’s describing sort of is blue ocean strategy even though he says it’s not, the Chipotle example is for sure.
Fidelity to the plot isn't paramount, but I'd want fidelity to the essence of the story. Both were violated in the aforementioned episodes.

It's worth pointing out that Dick's stories are dark. Autofac has one of the most apocalyptically pessimistic endings ever written (though his seminal "Second Variety" manages to be even darker). I can't think of many that are in some way uplifting. Most of his best stories — "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "Impostor", "The Electric Ant", "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", "Second Variety", "Explorers We" and "Colony", to name a few — are end on a dark, often depressing note. Of the few classics that aren't, such as "Paycheck" and "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", would probably not lend themselves to Black Mirror-style stories, although I'd love to see faithful adaptations of these. (By the way, if you don't find these stories great or original, I don't know what to tell you. They are masterpieces!)

If the producers didn't want dark stories, it's strange that they would choose Philip K. Dick.
I am recommending the list price be raised, which would get rid of the need for resellers. The resellers are capturing some value from an inefficient system, and the system became efficient there would be no value left to add and therefore no resellers.
This is nice. If we could ssh into it, it would be great! Is that feature coming soon?
Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP
For lightweight stuff, there's vanilla Markdown, but you have no control over formatting. For more serious work using markdown, you can try out Ulysses[0] or Scribus[1].

And, if you feel like spending an obscene amount of money, on the order of $10k, there's Arbortext APP[2]. (I don't know why this even exists?)

[0]: https://ulyssesapp.com/
[1]: https://www.scribus.net/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbortext_Advanced_Print_Publi...
A common solution is to use LaTeX, but to use it indirectly: write in Markdown and convert to PDF using Pandoc [1], which uses LaTeX in the background. This is (part of) the process used in RMarkdown [2], for example. That way, you get all the benefits of TeX and LaTeX but without most of the pain.

[1]: https://pandoc.org/index.html
[2]: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
I think we're violently agreeing and also we have somewhat similar side projects (i.e. helping other devs) ;)
I've worked at some of the FANGs, including Amazon. As far as
their standard workspace equipment goes (e.g. computers, desk, monitors, etc...), they seemed to be more or less at parity with the other companies. The workspaces used to be on the drab side, but they've taken to modernizing them with bright colors and lounge furniture in common areas that looks trendy but is damned uncomfortable. They don't really have any perks like high-quality micro-kitchens (except at subsidiaries and sites where those sorts of perks are standard locally), cafes, gyms, etc...

EDIT: I should mention that I'm pretty easy when it comes to things like computer hardware and desks. I just need a terminal, chair to sit in, plain old desk, and I'll be happy. I might not notice any differentiating factors other people find important...
I go to ARCO pretty much daily and it rarely has the volume on when the pump starts. They also seem to be more about 'news' than advertising though I hardly ever pay attention to the thing since I can't hear it. I do get 'the word of the day' a lot (that I promptly forget) which I guess is educating the motoring public.
Sure, but optimising those components for home replacement forces trade-offs elsewhere. You don’t like those trade-offs. I do. I don’t see why your view merits regulatory intervention while mine doesn’t.
This is pretty wrong.

AWS makes money from usage over consulting, and the stock value multiple on recurring usage revenue is many times the stock value of consulting billings.

AWS is relatively straightforward to developers who know infra or sysadmins who can code. But now AWS is rebalancing the API-first model and prioritizing GUIs because that drives sooner usage from traditional enterprises with ITIL IT guys who don’t want to code.

These are the same enterprises spending money on consultancies (mostly not on AWS consulting, even a decade after launch AWS still has a tiny fraction of the professional services that an IBM or an HP has) to decipher an API-driven infra and make it palatable to the mouse jockeys rather than replace dozens of manual admins with a developer or spend money training their admins to code. (Then the consultants leave and the company has no idea how to use infra-as-code.)

The enterprises are doing it wrong, AWS is accommodating them because otherwise enterprises will mess around for four or five years and never manage to move any significant percentage of workload and AWS won’t have usage revenues.
I just noticed something simmilar to this [0], with three sellers offering a book for $1,499.95 (new), $1,634.06 (used), $3,361.91 (used) (plus shipping, of course).

The book itself has other listings, such as [1] for as low as $14.76 used, or [2] for $37.28 new
[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B015X4RCD0/ref=sr_1_...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/English-Words-Linguistic-Introduction...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/English-Words-Introduction-Heidi-Harl...
With a Black Cab there is a partition between the driver and the back seats, complete with a hole to pass your money and all important tip. This will do for the upsells, it just needs a bar code reader to then add it on to the tab.

Actually just a mobile phone charger in the back of a Black Cab would be progress.
I see it as a TripAdvisor for jobs, why would that be a bad thing?
Well my main complaint with how it's used in practice is that it carries a negative connotation, so if they successfully convince you that every corporation with employees is exploiting by definition then they have a moral argument against capitalism, an ought derived from an is.
So there is the free trial and the free tier.

The free trial is $300 for 12 months that you can spend on pretty much anything (I think there are some limits on GPUs due to abuse).

The free tier is free forever, no dollar limits or time limits. This includes the 24/7 f1-micro, 28 App Engine hours per day, Cloud Datastore, Firebase stuff, some Cloud Functions, etc.
Name-calling point taken. Were I able to edit the post now, I would delete the last line.

I don't think it breaks the "strongest possible interpretation" rule, though. The specific quote I'm responding to isn't ambiguous. It's not taken out of context, either. The balance of article reinforces the argument made in the quote.
If it is the article, rather than PKD, that you are taking issue with, why is the part that you explicitly quoted in order to take issue with it the part that was written by PKD?

It's a quote from his introduction to I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon.
The figures in those sentences are the revenue earned from selling snacks through Cargo, not revenue from the drive itself.
I have a reasonably large computer screen but when I select a project, the dialog is significantly taller than the screen and I have to scroll up to read it top-to-bottom. As I read I scroll down (of course) and then have to scroll back to the top to hit the close button. I suspect the portrait orientation works better on a phone/tablet but this process means that I've lost my place in the main list manipulating the dialog.
You cannot find a better a better sentence than one starting with "Women must also"?

How about: "Some people, regardless of gender, can perpetuate or reinforce gender roles through speech, action or inaction."

"Some people should be willing to give up traditional gender roles."
Nice quote but it is literally survival bias.

You might hear from old people wishing they'd done more, you don't hear from young people who died while climbing mountains, swimming rivers, or ...er ... eating ice cream.

Which is to say: how cautious or not to be at any point in time is actually a very complex judgement. Seizing the day and living in the moment are important, but so is planning ahead, thinking about the future, practicing restraint at the right times and knowing when not to eat ice cream.
I used to have a bedroom with four windows and no blinds in Stockholm. It worked, but after five years I put in some blinds.
I don't think that feature is planned. However, you can get a f1-micro VM for free:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=16248668&goto=item%3Fi...
Huxley and Orwell
MacOS High Sierra Kills Terminal FTP
Righ - I mean it’s 4 full weeks of 7 days, so 28 in total, rather than 4 working weeks of 5 apiece, totalling 20.
Just for fun here is a little web game I made to look like a maths paper using MathJax.

https://angarg12.github.io/TrueExponential/
Or maybe maximum money changing hands isn't always the best proxy for maximum utility.
text to speech or use a hmd with low transparancy
Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset
Beware Scam Market 'Research' (2017)
I apologise for any condescension, but basic economic theory really is important to analysing this.

This really is stuff taught in econ 101, it's not like you need a very advanced framework. All of the terms have a fairly easy to understand Wikipedia page.

Here's the simple definitions of the terms used:

Pareto improvement is a change made that benefits at least some people without making anyone worse off.

Kaldor-Hicks improvement is a change that, if it were combined with a transfer of money, would be a pareto improvement. In other words, the people who gain from the change gain more than the people who lose from it lose.

Externalities are effects of some action that happen to someone else - the classic example is pollution. If something produces externalities, that can be a reason to ban voluntary transactions or actions.
> it's incredibly hard to have a full-time job and also build out a successful side project

I'm not trying to brag but I've done that twice and I have a 3 year old!

> your job is holding you back from the execution that will be required to build your project and get customers

It's true if the fixation is on really complex projects but if you can do a few very important things then anything is possible.

1) Just like creating a tiny abstract function reign in your idea and give it the least amount of surface area possible:

- https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/dont-start-big-start-a-littl...

2) Your enthusiasm half life needs to be long for what you do. That's why it's so much better to focus on something you care about.

- https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/productfounder-fit-your-most...

The third important thing is daily momentum. Never don't do "something" even if it's tiny. You just have to do something every day.

Man I just grab 30 mins or 1 hour and knock out a task any time I can!
I see everything as an antenna.
> Also, where can I get a latte in the back of a cab?

Here in 'merica there's a starbucks drive thru on virtually every corner...

I often wonder (mostly when I see whatever new building is going up is yet another starbucks) how they don't manage to oversaturate the market but they always seem to be busy.
Yes, it is definitely against credibility that an otherwise mostly civilized country would spend more than half their tax income on efforts to torture and kill millions of people.
You seem very sure that reality has a precise definition that everyone agrees on.
Productive use of a gym is often the strength training equipment and specific cardio or other conditioning opportunities, as well as the environment itself.

That is: a gym is a laboratory (workspace) for improving the physical condition and performance of your body.

That's not to say you can't make poor use of a gym (or a laboratory, for that matter). Or that all conditioning must occur at a gym (labs are complemented by fieldwork). But well-used, they're a vital adjunct to a fitness regimen.

That said: if it's possible to get there under your own power (walking, cycling), so much the better.
No, you measure total surplus which is supplier surplus plus consumer surplus.
To me the quoted sentence is pretty well-written:

>Warning: If the sole purpose for which you want to use Google Cloud Platform services has no potential economic benefit you should discontinue your use of the service"

To me this says: "Anything and everything can become a side project at any moment or be used to help support a business and therefore (in my opinion) everything can be thought of as a business or supporting a business. If there is no potential conceivable way to view anything you might ever do on the platform as conceivably pivoting into a startup or supporting a startup or any other business need in the future, or creating any economic (business) benefit then you should discontinue it. Everyone else can just say they might be a side project / pivot or be used as a business in the future, or used to support a business or otherwise produce value, since there is no way to show otherwise."

With this lens it makes perfect sense that if the SOLE purpose has NO potential (potential!!!) economic benefit (i.e. used to at least support a business or create value) then you should discontinue it. This warning applies basically to no one.

It's really an excellent sentence, I like it a lot.
Are you seriously using an example from 150 years ago to prove your point?
Dedicated and physically separated bike lanes, I guess.
Robert Shiller: The stock market today is similar to the stock market in 1928
Hah, I guess this is what is called normalisation. Gawd,in both, where I come from (a ^developing^ country) and where I live (a European ^first world^ country), a gun at a school (let alone a shooting) would qualify for national news.
I've seen some people do org-mode -> TeX -> research paper. It's very impressive. I just wish there was something like that with a more GUI/polished feel.
Even John McAfee recommends you uninstall the McAfee security software.
> The New York Times can graph and identify bots, and other publications / bloggers have been able to identify networks of them.

Because it takes a lot of manpower to do so on a wide scale and almost always raises the question of fairness - the NYT (and others) focus on the egregious examples, but if Twitter would do the same (and kill the followers) their customers (the big celebs) would complain, and when they say "okay, bye Twitter", the normal users who want to follow them would disappear... thus reducing the popularity of Twitter for advertisers. The bots don't count as advertisement recipients, so Twitter doesn't have advertisers complaining about fraud from these fake followers.

In addition, the existing (moderation) manpower is focused on keeping the system being overrun by actual, human-powered Nazi and other troll accounts - fake followers are waaaay on the bottom of the priority list. They don't generate bad press headlines about shitstorms or harassment.
> Perhaps there's correlation between sunlight exposure and being out in "large spaces" where the majority of what you're seeing is farther away than your homes' walls.

This was one of the other leading hypotheses for a long time. More recent data came down pretty decidedly on UV light rather than focal range. See my other comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16248851
Not sure the coverage will do any good anyway. First thing I did after reading the Times piece was to see just how easy it is. Not only is it easy, it's CHEAP! I paid GB £8 for 500 Instagram followers. Within 10 mintes I had just shy of 1,000 new followers. So they under promise and over deliver, all the while playing to people's ego. That buying followers is a thing does not surpise me.

I wonder how many others bought followers in response to this article.
The earlier statement was that the US is "the only society in history to elect a member of, what was very recently, a slave class to its highest political office".

My argument is that Haiti is another example.

I think your objection is that "the same society" means it must still be a racially mixed society, and that an act of genocide makes a different country.

I can understand that objection. What then does it mean to be part of a "society"?

The society which elected Obama contained very few slaveholders or those who profited from domestic slavery, unlike the 1860s US. I'll focus on "to elect a member of". In the 1860s US, blacks, Native Americans, and women could not vote. Are we really the same society?

Why does genocide make a difference?

Consider the interactions between the US and Native Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples... helpfully lists numbers for the Trail of Tears (8,000 Cherokee died) and California Genocide (about 80,000 dead). The Haitian Massacre killed 3,000 to 5,000 whites.

I call these acts of genocide. Others will say "These actions were almost certainly in conformity with the laws of war accepted at the time." (quoting http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7302 ). (To which I question: What were the laws of war at the time concerning a successful slave revolt?)

If what the US did were acts of genocide, then why are we the same society, but Haitians are not?
Assuming, you can afford a law firm.
No Ruby Pre-installed.
Really? Those are the only three options?
Amazon are probably the only large monopolistic tech company that make employees pay for their own lunch.

EDIT: I am mollycoddled and wrong (see below).
Thanks for the summary of Cloud Shell, I was not previously aware of it.

Any idea why Apache and Gradle are installed in the root directory? Normally, these would be in `opt` or some such.
Now I'm curious about church hymns and then again about how UUs can "get away with" changing the words to "others' hymns" and republish as new.
Show HN: A web crawler for image-rich tech news
I knew hatchimals were a popular toy that sometimes had more demand than supply, so I searched for it and went through the results till I found one that was suppressed.

I actually have a database with tens of millions of asins that I have used in the past to generate lists of such items, but I just needed one example so didn't bother using it for this.
If you want to hear the opposite (English speakers making up Italian sounding nonsense), there's always the song "Sun King" by The Beatles.

It actually might be non-specific Romance languages that it's a fake version of, but it sounds like fake Italian to me.
Would a good tip-off be that the higher-priced seller won't have two-day shipping enabled?
"Startup graveyards are full of visionaries without expertise or the proper skills to execute, for no other reason then ideas are not self executing, but are rather made into being by intense engagement by skilled operators."

As an engineer who gets approached to build other people's ideas regularly, I find this trait to be true.
I found glassdoor insanely accurate. It just really reflects the reality most of the time. I observed at least 3 workplaces and it was exactly like the reviews mentioned. Obviously it is harder to know if it applies to the whole company or just your team but if you can do your research it is fairly accurate
Interspecial dating. I like how proud this gentleman is of his discovery. I bet that was incredibly neat to witness.
I used to work at Twitter, so not sure I can get into specific numbers, but they remove hundreds of thousands to millions of accounts every day (literally every day). It's particularly tricky because bots aren't inherently against the ToS (e.g. the earthquake bot cited in the article), so you can't just ban based on "Is this account behaving like a human?".

Many "bots" though are actually giant networks of humans being orchestrated and they share things that are compelling to a subset of real users (e.g. Hillary did this bad thing... lock her up), so now real users are retweeting and muddying any signal that was there to detect a bot network. It's an incredibly challenging problem at scale and you basically only see the < 1% that Twitter missed.

They've got a pretty sizable team that works on it so hopefully in a few years they'll have solved it much like Gmail has mostly solved spam.
> Google Maps report suggests that I walked 100 mi (160 km) in December of 2017.

Just to put some numbers on this, walking 4mph (a mile every 15 mins) is unusually quick. Most people will work up a real sweat. A normal pace for many people is 17 minutes per mile.

If you walked 100 miles at 4mph, that comes to 1500 minutes or 25 hours.

25 hours/month walking is a sizable chunk of time. This is fantastic if you consider it time well spent.
Your argument that NYT is better at finding bots only makes sense if you assume that NYT found all the bots that exist. A more likely explanation is that everyone who goes looking for bots uses a different methodology and finds a different subset of the bots that exist.

Thus NYT can find some bots that Twitter missed, especially by using labor intensive methods that don't scale to all of Twitter, but there are plenty that NYT missed too. Their methods aren't necessarily better than Twitter's, just different (and likely much more expensive). Note also that the NYT people don't have to care about their false positive rate and don't have to adapt their methods to adversaries since this is a one time analysis.
I'm not exactly surprised that as head hunter would dislike a service that makes his job harder by reducing information asymmetry.
I think what you're looking for is a limousine.
How hard for a modern programmer to learn a language from the future?
Suppose somehow, an advanced, popular, widely used language from the future is made available to modern day programmers.

How hard would it be for a modern programmer to learn to program in a language designed and used 100 years in the future?
The above linked study is from 14 years ago. (I linked it because it addressed arctic communities.) It's the more recent work has mostly ruled out the near-work explanation.

> ...for many years there was an assumption that long hours of study indoors, staring closely at books (near work) and never focusing on distant objects, led to myopia. This study belied that error.

http://sunlightinstitute.org/research-shows-sun-exposure-red...

> ...increased load of near work was not significantly associated with odds of myopia when factors including parental myopia, demographics, and outdoor activities were adjusted for.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930282/