skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's absolutely true, but it's not specific to microservices. The pendulum could very well swing back the other way

I've come to view microservices in the context of Conway's Law. If you have a team of developers working on a project who don't like to communicate or work with each other, do not understand version control, and all have different programming styles and technology choices, the only feasible architecture is one service per person.

I have no trouble believing that this is what's really behind Netflix's adoption of microservices. From what I've heard it's a sociopathogenic work culture, and if I worked there I would probably want to just disappear from everybody too.
Do you stay productive when you caught a common cold or flu?
Since I am on sick leave the first day, I am wondering how you deal with a common cold or any other form of temporary sickness. Do you have any special habits? Do you try to stay (at least a little bit) productive? Or do you take any precautions humanly possible to avoid catching a cold/flu in the first place (vitamins, exercise, diet, etc..)
> That's harder scheduling, not easier. With a monolith you just give it all the resources and threads will use resources as is necessary. After that it's a matter of load balancing appropriately.

The key was "with bin packing". If you "just give it all the resources" then you're not bin packing and you're barely scheduling. At that point, your scheduler is only capable of scheduling based on CPU and IO usage, and not (for example) based on RAM. That last one is tricky, because most runtime environments won't return memory to the operating system (e.g. free() won't munmap()), and we're currently in the middle of a RAM shortage. Your machines will almost always have a different shape from your processes, it's just something you have to live with.

A bin packing scheduler is not useful for all companies and all services. It depends on the size of your resource footprint, with very large services benefiting the most.

So, microservices give you better scheduling in the sense that you can use fewer machines to run the same set of services. However, this is not important to everyone.

This stuff is built into e.g. Kubernetes so it is actually quite easy. You just can't do it with monoliths.
On the flip side, for most consumers there are probably several million albums/television series/songs/films a few clicks away. Choosing is still hard.
For that reason we should all be grateful that money doesn't buy happiness.
To compare it to. But for the tested fish verification maybe.

Wait, how do we know they actually took representative samples of fish DNA? Well, obviously we are going to need hashes of video files of the tests. Also on the blockchain. But how do we trust that video corresponds to those tests? Timestamps and GPS stamps on the blockchain? There is no problem can't be solved without enough blockchain see. But I won't be syncing a node!

In all seriousness, for now blind trust and reputation are still important and the rest is just layers designed to produce credibility. Not necessarily verification. And there is a difference. But I am in favor of more objective tools whenever possible so not to bag on blockchain efforts.
What do you mean by "Ethereum standard"? If you're talking about ERC20 token standard, that's exactly what OP said (s)he is not aiming for.
>If an adult or an adolescent routinely requires being engaged on an emotional level before they'll listen to your rational argument, then once you do engage them emotionally they will listen to anything you say, whether it's logic or pseudologic or rhetorical, semantically-null bullshit.

So that's fine. They will listen, then later mull it over and integrate it.

Just because anger arose for them in that moment they were interacting with you does not mean they can't be rational.

But more importantly, by creating a positive interaction you may have started to reduce their tendency to outgroup you and 'your tribe'. This can lead to more productive dialogue in the future.

Also, as to why that person is angry. No one can know what life experiences that person may have had. Happy well adjusted people from happy families usually, don't fly into a blind rage that easily.
I can't make myself outraged about rich people throwing money at each other. If there was no art, they'd find another excuse. It's not like that money would go to saving lives.

I'm also not outraged about few artists making a living from all this money flying around. Artists aren't entitled to rich people's money, it's a side effect of the game.

The only thing I'm outraged about is when the elite starts foisting ugly art on the poor, by putting it in public squares and government museums and textbooks. No matter how advanced your taste is, it's a brute fact that the poor don't enjoy ugly art. So these actions amount to taxing the poor in favor of the elite, which is immoral.
> That being said, Rust is already so obscure that it can easily replace C++

An obtuse syntax is a big downside of C++. Implying that a steep learning curve and the ability to 'show off' helps keep the language where it is grossly misrepresents the vast majority of C++ programmers. Those traits were born out of necessity. In C++98 you simply had to be 'clever' to keep up with modern languages because the language was stagnant for a decade. If the committee can't add things, you do something clever and do it yourself.

C++ was stagnant for the dot-com era, Web 2.0, and the rise of mobile apps, and today it thrives. There's more to that than being entrenched in legacy code bases.

Rust emulating C++s difficulty as a way to cultivate an elitist community, if that's what you're implying, will not work now when C++ is moving in the opposite direction.
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Have an example post? Would like to read for a chuckle. :$
I reacted more to the word 'consumers' than 'competition' as the competition argument comes back around to what's best for consumers anyway.

So I put my consumer hat on and pondered what would I rather have:
- The current situation
- Intervention

And I concluded I quite like the current situation, these companies provide meaningful benefits to me.

If I put my tin foil hat on, it seems quite obvious that 'bad for consumers' is what someone wants you to think, but it isn't entirely true.
This may be true, but FOSS does not magically make it happen. Many FOSS projects are led or dominated by large companies today; the development may happen in the open, but it is as "corporate" as it gets, and no bullshit calling occurs (or if it does, it is quickly silenced with EWONTFIX & co.)
Bear in mind that this guide was written by a professor. Someone who chose to make academia the focus of his life. Such a person may be likely to feel that academic achievement should be the highest priority in one's life, since it was for him.
...because we sure as shit can't."

...because we sure as shit don't want to get into that mess.
I'm honestly surprised that anybody could mistake the Lyrebird generated voices for something real. It's got this weird buzzy noise about it which sticks right out to my ear, and only a little bit of noticeable influence from the author's voice.

Either some people are much worse at perceiving this than I'd expect, or the article is hyping up something which just doesn't deserve that level of hype - yet.
> If the global elite start parking wealth in Bitcoin, then there's literally no ceiling on the price

That's a big if.
wow i'm old
one problem at a time.
This is exactly why we need to be broken from echo chambers. If you think the polar opposite of whatever you believe is conspiracy and idiocy, you are in an echo chamber. There is rational journalism for whatever is the opposite of your beliefs.
> “There’s too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today [ed: because we rely on users to decide what can be trusted],” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, wrote in a post on Friday. “We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective.”

Its a bit tone-deaf, Mark. Remember the "we had no effect on the election" line that everyone laughed at? This year its "user curation is the answer to fake news". Everyone is laughing at you again.

If you want to determine credibility, hire people to judge credibility. Hire a mix of viewpoints. Its not that hard, it just costs money, which you have more than enough of. Maybe give some of that money back to the users who turn over their online lives to you and actually improve their lives, instead of just monetizing them by feeding users garbage that gets them to click and consume while at the same time you go around complaining that users aren't discriminating enough with those clicks and consumption.
low quality education.
I agree. However, people feel comfortable because they are online with billions of other people. They feel less threatened because their information is hidden within the info of the other billion people using the internet.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/05/10/money-doe...

Money does buy happiness. In the US, though, only up to about $75k/yr.
Thanks, that looks interesting.
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> based on real data

Citation? Sounds interesting.
> be wary of snake oil salesmen

Indeed, and maybe it's just the ones I've read, but it seems to me that most "white papers" are written in the marketing department.
As long as it gains 100% over long term it is though.
I find that incredibly unlikely. I used to work in bot fighting on Google. Claims of Russian bots on Twitter and especially claims by academics are invariably riddled with methodological errors that render the "research" useless. I wrote about this problem here:

https://blog.plan99.net/did-russian-bots-impact-brexit-ad66f...

These studies are seeing patterns in noise. That's why the narrative changed over time - it used to be "Russian twitter bots got Trump elected!" and now it's "they're supporting both sides .... to sow division!".

The former claim was extremely implausible but at least it had some sort of inner logic to it, in that Trump was more friendly to Russia than Clinton. The new spin doesn't even make logical sense. However it makes perfect sense if you're just picking random Twitter users and trying to explain their behaviour through the prism of some convoluted conspiracy.
Imagine that you and your friend go to work for company X. You are put in a windowless room with an uncomfortable chair where every half hour a co-worker comes by to ask a brief technical question. Your friend gets a quiet, sunny office and is only interrupted by the meetings he organizes himself. However, management assures you that in light of your less amenable office situation, you will receive an extra 10 points out of 100 on your annual performance review, and your friend will not.

Would you conclude that you are truly "preferred"? Would you rather be in your friend's place? Would you stick around this company at all, even if the work appeals to you?

This is what I mean -- that having an advantage at one step in the process does not necessarily compensate for a negative experience at other steps in the process.
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I like how you two are presenting Bitcoin like some sort of tool for oppressed people under tyrannical regimes.

I'm willing to bet that the majority of Bitcoins out there are somehow involved in money laundering for good ol' fashioned (organized) crime.
The chances of that happening with your typical Dilbertian white male software engineer are vanishingly small.
An MRI scanner is effectively Fourier domain camera - see k-space [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-space_(magnetic_resonance_im...] - with the final spatial images being reconstructed once acquisition is complete. Quite beautiful really.
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For digital movies/music the credits do stack.
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Bitcoin as a secure and stable asset?

Maybe in the far future, but not even remotely now.
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There is existing research on vision therapy and behavioral optometry, e.g. here's a 2002 review paper that covers preceding decades, http://www.familyvisioncare.org/2016/research/02_THE_SCIENTI...

If new business models (including software) for vision therapy emerge, the revenue can fund marketing of existing studies or even new studies. The presence of this (marketing?) article in the NY Times at least raises awareness of the concept, so that people can consult the research or ask a professional about non-lens options.
You also have the case of SJWs and Internet lynch mob’s being a real life threats to your project, your personal privacy and potentially your employment if you don’t show yourself to be “tolerant” enough in your communication.

Calling genuine shit out as such can literally land you in a shitstorm if the person receiving message is of wrong color or sexualual orientation, etc, and decides to make that the point of the story he passes along.
Geez, men are a bunch killers. Why can they be more like women?
Hah, really interesting. I wonder how they do the money-laundering though. Perhaps they never do try to get the cash back into the legal system, but we've heard of people profiting >1m, meaning they've done 10m in cash transactions. At some point you want to use it, and need to account for it. Not sure what it's like in Japan, but typically notaries or even expensive car dealers will not just let you bring a bag of cash to buy an asset.
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I wonder what would happen if you reached through a gap in the products (perhaps one is a big seller and the shelf location is empty) and pulled an item from the back of the next product's location. Like - reaching where the strawberry Pop-Tarts are normally stocked, to remove a box of the cinnamon flavored. (Why would you do this? Normally the older product is on the front of the shelf so it gets sold first)

Your hand would be out of view of the ceiling-mounted cameras so it can't see directly (covered up by the shelf above). Your arm would be in the strawberry opening but you'd pull out a cinnamon. Is it's vision system good enough to tell the difference from the packaging, or does it just go off position when you pull it off the shelf?
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I was under the impression about half the world had zero or negative wealth.

Is this one of those statements where you could also say someone with $1000 net worth also has more than half the world, but they chose the billionaires to be more inflammatory? Or was the 50% line chosen because the 45% of the world has zero/negative wealth, and 8 billionaires happen to have more than than sliver of 5% in between?
Well statically a man should worry whether both a man or a woman would kill him. Because as a whole, men kill men in a higher rate than they kill women. And, women kill men more than they kill women.
Perhaps a (2013) in the title?
Yes, precisely. And the first problem can be eliminating tacit acknowledgement of the legitimacy of oppressive governments.
Don't think it really is. There is a need for a store of value of the digital space and anyone who wants to invest in the digital space in the future will have to be able to access some of the deals through cryptocurrency or token means.

I would rather bet on that, than the US government in the long run.
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You're right, but I think he's actually accomplished two things - one is to create useful publicity outside the mailing list, and one is to minimize drama on the mailing list. I guess I assumed the latter of those two meanings.

Also I interpreted it as a more general claim, not specifically about this fairly unusual instance where nerd talk interacts with stuff that's in the public consciousness.
I believe with your quotes, you may be referring to the phrase "fake news" but fake news has been around as long as humans & probably even longer. I'm glad people are giving this a discussion though.
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I haven't used Go all that much, but arent the interfaces meant to be used as generics, i.e. in your function you need some data X, and you'll do something with that X. The way you need to achieve this is that expect an X that satisifes a given interface, say Exampler. If a particular X does not support it, you write the method(s) on X's type to satisfy the Exampler interface. IIRC Pike said somewhere that you don't need generics because there should be at least a singleton interface that all possible values of a function parameter satisfy.

(Edit: BTW I do not necessarily agree that)
Blockchain should only be used when adhering to a hype driven development paradigm.
Who do long term investments in short terms?

The whole point is that if you get in now you both gain the upside of the value plus the increasing stability.

If you have enough money you can make that bet, hell even if you have less money you can still make that bet.
Thanks. Your understanding is incorrect. The words "resulted in" mean caused something to happen: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/result%20in

To specify causality in the other direction, the article should have used words like "resulted from," "was caused by," or "was a consequence of," for instance.
Like the BitConnect coin?
> There is a need for a store of value of the digital space

Something like 90% of U.S. dollars are held digitally. Most American stock and bonds are held digitally. Cryptocurrencies aren't novel in being digital. They're novel in being de-centralised. They're pitched in being de-centralised away from the very system the global elite have built and profited from.

If the blockchain proves resilient, it will be adopted by central banks. There is no good reason for those banks adopting Bitcoin over something they design.
"Artists that make a killing open galleries and provide for emerging artists to make their mark"

This is not generally the case in art. While there exist informal "artist run spaces" set up by struggling young artists, it is unknown for an artist to become a prestigious commercial gallerist. It doesn't happen. Setting up a gallery primarily requires capital, and only secondarily involves artistic judgement.

Damien Hirst is the only partial exception I can think of, and he was also involved in coordinating group shows in temporary industrial spaces early in his career, so he has always had an interest in staging exhibitions. His London gallery is definitely not about making sales or supporting emerging artists, though. It's a status symbol.

There are a few ways of looking at the art world that explain why artists don't become gallerists. One thing is that gallerists/curators are "cultural intermediaries" rather than creators. It's a different talent. Artists are sometimes asked to curate but they don't get involved in setting up galleries or publishers. It would be like an actor setting up a chain of cinemas.

I guess the phenomenon you perhaps have in mind of movie stars becoming producers differs because producing is still a creative activity.

There's a book called "Art World Prestige" that does a sociological analysis of what goes on -- all the things that are specific to the art world.
The magnitude of the down votes on his comment lend some weight to his criticism.
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Bluth brought Dickens to the 80s. I grew up to his movies (and arcade games!)... I don't think I'm a worse person for it.
Yeah but unless you're just a person who never grows up, or you leave all household responsibilities to your partner, once you have a spouse, family, and a "real job" the parties are a lot fewer.
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I host a gaming club. We're in test for 5 games. They vary from simple card games to collectible sets to party games to complex deck-building board games.

They all have one thing in common: they're social. You play with other people, rather than in the same room as other people.

I've watched some family members play Catan every holiday for years. They sit in virtual silence for 2-4 hours, all looking grim, hardly speaking. When its over, they seem relieved and exhausted. Its depressing.

Our club games have people talking constantly, laughing, chanting, enjoying themselves to the limit. They're fun. And that seems to me to be a critical threshold to deserve inclusion in the category 'game'.
More than 10 percent of $3.7B raised in ICOs has been stolen
If you hadn't pointed it out I wouldn't even have noticed. The CBC is the last place you expect to find Turkish propaganda.
Sign me up for a restaurant that makes ancient recipes. Would you like 2700 year old beer with that 2000 year old bread?
First, bcash is a term invented by bitcoin core to try to confuse people who look in to bitcoin cash and see that it offers transactions at 1/2000th the price of btc.

Second, the lighting network has been promised for multiple years. There are warnings right now that no one should use it for real money because there are multiple very real security and design problems with it.

If block size limits don't change, it will take thousands of transactions on each lightning channel to make transactions as cheap as they already are on bitcoin cash (and many other crypto currencies). Changing the block size is technically trivial, but the core team still thinks they can censor, lie and corrupt their way to making money off of suffocating bitcoin.

It should be obvious to anyone with a drop of critical thinking that 1MB blocks every 10 minutes is absurd. CPU, bandwidth and memory are all trivial even when taking the throughput up by 100x
Highly doubt that, but I probably wouldn't have commented.

It's not about the gender itself, but whether a gender pronoun has been chosen conciously, which likely is the case here.
What is gtag.js and when should I migrate?
I'm just saying that art is not made to be hanged in the walls and maximise good feelings

Would you also accept the corollary that any object specifically made to be hung on wall to maximise good feelings cannot be art?
First of all, good education should come from schools.

Being able to further educate yourself and judge the trustworthiness of sources are direct results of a good primary education.

Many western states have criminally decreased education expanses for decades and the current state of the civilization is in big parts a result of that.

This shit is infectious, too. Many stupid people think their kids don't need a good education, even if there's a chance for them to get one.
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In my experience being aggressive or patronising tends to cause people to become combative which in turn makes them (subconsciously or otherwise) less likely to actually understand the point you're trying to make and more likely to waste time trying to convince you of their point. I find that presenting your case in a calm and relatively neutral way (note not "wrapped to avoid being upsetting in any way ...", that's a false dichotomy in my opinion) tends to be the most effective approach overall.
China has similar, if not worse problems, as the USA. The lab I worked for in Beijing made lots of effort to attract female researchers, and it was still very lopsided.
In degree, yes — Kroger doesn’t have a longstanding separate profile of a big chunk of your online purchases and preferences.