skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this article just resonates with me as a member of an organization in the process of "transforming" itself by migrating to a containers-and-services architecture with the goal of "continuously delivering" components of what has historically been a very monolithic and tightly integrated product. Lets just say it's in the class of products one might consider "big iron", but not strictly. This transformation sounds like an admirable goal on paper and in meetings, but the system we are building today is even more complex than what preceded it, because it has to do all the stuff it did before, and more, but now I have to worry about containers and a half dozen ways to orchestrate them, and whatever some other team has decided to replace their API with because now nobody is supposed to make assumptions about what anybody else is supporting, or we're all supposed have our software spend a bunch of cycles negotiating versions and APIs or something. This is way more complex. I guess the idea is now we can release patches for individual components, instead of having to do roll-up releases or something? But there's really no reason we had to do those anyways - dynamically linking to a library isn't much different conceptually than attaching to a "service API" when it's all happening internally to some box.

People go read about what Amazon, or Netflix, or Facebook are doing and see how successful they've been (in both the financial and technical), and say "we can be like that too if we use the same stuff they're using!". Some manager reads a book which makes broad generalizations about "the right tools and behaviors", and starts building a cargo cult around them. Some kid in the valley whose never worked with a codebase larger than 10,000 SLoC writes a blog post about it, and everyone makes a toast with the koolaid. "More than 10,000 SLoC is an anti-pattern!" you say.

This may be a bit of stretched analogy, but just as communism or other socio-economic ideologies have given some people a framework for uprooting their broken incumbent governments and power culture, technological fads like "DevOps", etc, sometimes just give people the framework to uproot their broken incumbent tools and technology culture. The problem is, most of the time what you needed wasn't communism per-se, or DevOps, but just some framework to mobilize and guide your culture into fixing its fucked up status quo. It would have been better if you looked at your problems, instead of looking at the other guys solutions. The unique pitfall technological transformation encounters in this regard, is often the social framework (i.e. DevOps) gets conflated with the tools (i.e. containers and microservices), and leadership tends to focus on the latter - because changing tools is easier than changing people. What you needed was a better culture, and I think in most cases - a culture of reducing complexity - but what you got instead was microservices and "containers.
Their business and labor practices didn't help either. Of course it didn't help matters that they had flat out lied to me for a week.
I think malls in FL in general are doing ok because of the tourists from Latin America. This is just an anecdotal observation, but The Florida Mall in Orlando is always filled with Brazilian and other Latin American tourists looking to find a deal in the US
Normalizing the use of always-on microphones in previously "private" areas (such as the home) such that people expect that their voice might be recorded and transmitted to a 3rd party removes the warrant requirement for the police to also use that technology. (Kyllo v United States)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16061681
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Speaking of ambiguity:

> (In most cases, The Times stylebook discourages the serial comma, often called the Oxford comma because it was traditionally used by the Oxford University Press.)

Does the Times just not like styling ideas from the Oxford University Press, or is the name "Oxford comma" derived from its traditional use by the Oxford University Press, or both?

What does the Times have against the Oxford University Press, or the Oxford comma, anyways?
Patents and copyright are two different systems, so there's not really a relation between TPB and VLC.
Cool! Speeding up Emacs is always welcome.

I will bring the obligatory guile Emacs rant:

I am very much biased,but guile Emacs is very much a viable option IMO. Guile3.0 will be natively compiled (or at least jitted), and the work Andy Wingo is putting into guile is just amazing. The guile codebase is nice, and most of the hard work integrating it into Emacs is already done.

The elisp runtime has some optimization work left, but it seems to be quite a lot of low hanging fruit.

Guile is a very nice scheme implementation for those who are brave enough to leave the warmth of elisp.
Don't think you can go more than two scrolls in these comments without having it smacked into your face repeatedly, but K-9 Mail is that. It's open-source and by a long shot the most popular open-source client (except maybe the AOSP client, but that one's not exactly good).

https://f-droid.org/app/com.fsck.k9
I don't know about others, but at least Jekyll has themes which you can modify in whatever way you want. See a random theme at https://github.com/chrisbobbe/jekyll-theme-prologue?files=1
Ask HN: Best way to position myself for dev work (with open source)
Hi

Some mental health issues that I've been dealing with over the years have come to a head, leading to me leaving work. My resume is a mess, with far too much job hoping partly to do with me not dealing with this sooner. I came to dev late in life (after a lot of dedication to take my interest in tech further). Previously i job hoped between menial office work. I then got 2 years at my first dev company where i progressed well, a gap of 9 months, and now 2 dev jobs 3 months each. My issues center around social situations in the office, so positioning myself to be able to work remote makes sense. (Though I do want to get this sorted so i don't have to.)

Being out of work, (and perhaps while i have to take another menial work at home job), what open source projects do you think it would be best to get involved in in a serious way to be in the best position to get work again - whether it be freelance in the near term or something that would tilt the balance in my favor when i send my CV to apply for jobs in the longer term? (I have contributed to OSS before and been on the github team for a major project, but that was more by luck / their desperation than anything else.)

My background is full stack .net (C#/Sql Server/Angularjs). I've also worked with php/laravel/vuejs and dabbled with postgres extensions in C. I'm open to learning something entirely new as well.
How was it not an ICO? It was premined, it had a board of advisors, and a tiered structure with early bird discount.

It's not well defined what is an ICO and what is not, but this had all the elements of the modern ICOs. Perhaps not surprising that it has found its use in the whole ICO phenomenon then.
Entirely not true.
Why would that be the case? I don't think you'd be changing page directory very often for mmio
Not always. Sometimes it's about safety (you don't want employees having to drive too many hours).
A war with China would be even more destructive for China than for the US.

The entire Chinese economy is oriented around global trade in the neoliberal system built post-WW2. In the scenario you're outlining, the entire country would face massive food shortages and the resulting riots would quickly force the elite from power.

The big difference between now and pre-WW1 is that back then most countries were still able to be self sufficient at their then-current living standards. Trade was more for domination and luxuries, not basic necessities. It's impossible to maintain current living standards without extensive trade.

Edit: Re capacity for self destruction, we have a far higher (IMO 1,000x) risk of permanently dooming our planet via climate change or chemical pollution than armed warfare. The solution is unprecedented global cooperation, which also lowers the risk of a WW type scenario. So I think we're on the same page wrt that.
makefile + rst2html
I think this sort of works if the operator is familiar with the surroundings, but even then, I can see this being rather annoying for others physically present in the area... Also, I'm not sure what problem this is specifically solving. If the idea is to give you your own point of view, then toy like controls probably won't cut it. They should really look to provide an interface with an AR headset of some kind.
Yes, BLM is pretty obviously a left organization and not a liberal one. Though hard-left of course has no meaning and is nothing but a smear phrase designed to suggest "extremist" when the positions we are discussing are not particularly extreme at all. They endorse a variety of pretty boilerplate left positions: universal healthcare, state funded college, union rights, anti-imperialism, divesting from fossil fuels and taking other concrete climate action, complete overhaul of the police system. This is why BLM hijacked a Hillary Clinton campaign rally to humiliate her on national television. It was not because they are on her side.
> Applications that have high syscall rates include proxies, databases, and others that do lots of tiny I/O. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses.

My team's RDS instances got hit hard with a 40% increase in CPU usage: https://imgur.com/a/khGxU
> It's per account

I think you're mistaken about the first part of your statement:

The FDIC says, "All single accounts owned by the same person at the same bank are added together and insured up to $250,000." (see https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/covered/categories.html )

But you are correct that it can be doubled, tripled, quadrupled, or even greater by opening different account types such as a Retirement Account, a Joint Account, a Revocable Trust Account, etc., at the same bank since each account type seems to get separate treatment (according to the same FDIC link).
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What do you consider to be low? Anecdotally, the Google app on my phone almost perfectly recognised, played over speakers, this fairly rapid dialogue between two people encoded as 6 Kbit/sec Opus.

https://ryanplant.net/love.wav

Its only mistake was missing the "you" in "you want to be."

Codec2 remains fairly clear down to human ears down to 2.4 Kbit/sec but I had no luck getting it recognised, even with much simpler and clearer samples.

This individual anecdote tells you nothing about the state of the art, but I wanted to note it anyway because I was astonished at how well 6 Kbit/sec is handled.
I wrote one a while back. It uses git, webhook to auto publish blog posts.

Here's the git repo https://github.com/snehesht/blog
Well, having had my Nexus 5x die and then the Motorolla I (temporarily...) replaced it with take 5 months to get the Bluetooth vulnerability patch (and still waiting on the KRACK patch), I would have been screwed with respect to the Motorola if it didn't have a headphone jack.

I'm to the point of thinking/feeling that any new "feature" they tout, I don't actually want. A lot of which get connected in the marketing-speak with "thin" and "water-resistant".

Whatever's driving this, it seems pretty clear now it's not consumer demand. (And with our "thin" phones, the first thing many of us have to do is slap a case on them, anyway. And recently all the people with even bulkier and heavier battery cases...)
When you say SA has been complaining about Euro Mosques teaching Extreamism, which definition of Extreamism are you referring to?

The formal one or what Saudis find Extreme? If it is the latter, then Saudis’ complaints would be laughable and ironic since their Human Rights’ record isn’t what anyone would laud them for.
The probabilities of black swan events are often grossly mispriced by the markets. Looks like it paid off big time.
Priests are lucky bastards
Bundles of source code, like CPAN and npm uses. Otherwise you'd have to ship binaries for every platform.
I did indeed mean test automation, apologies, I should have been more clear.
I mean, I don't know about you, but that seems to be the fate of any mail client. "Doesn't make me sad" is the highest rating that any mail client, web-based or not, has ever gotten from me.
I think this is a nice idea, but I'm worried about the, let's be honest, needless single point of failure this adds to my architecture. Nothing this does ought to be more than a 100 line open source project (which is not criticism btw - if you can monetize a tiny codebase, more power to you!). But because it's SaaS, you need to depend on someone else to keep their service up and running.

Because of that simple reason, I'd only use this for optional stuff, but I struggle to think of a use case where notifications are optional.

ps. that said, this is a very attractive service to send SMS to Europe. I know of no service that undercuts $0.10 per SMS to European countries unless you buy in huge bulks.
The idea is to use OpenCV so that later it uses SIFT and Tracking algorithms to make labeling easier. I wanted this tool to give us automatic suggestions for the labels!
May I suggest taking a look at https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/12/07/the-ultimate-guide... - it's the best guide I've ever found on optimal safe withdrawal rates.
It seems to have gone unnoticed, but since a week or so Github requires sign-in for the deepfakes repos (https://github.com/deepfakes). Note that these are public repositories.
I think you're jumping to an awful lot of conclusions there?

The reason I'm targeting automation is that it tends to be done really badly in most companies. At the moment I feel I do it pretty well but always seek to improve. At the moment I don't feel like I'm improving much and want to avoid things staying static for long. Therefore I'm trying to re-evaluate the basics or gain new insight and get back on track
I wonder if it would give more 'presence' by using it from within VR and a stereoscopic 360 cam. You would need a way for the double to present in what direction you are looking at, so perhaps make a cylindrical screen (not sure if these exist) or a led line with one or two 'eyes' like Kit or a Cylon. This would solve the problem of the uncanny valley.
We have the capability to do this, but all people can come up with is an uninspired ipad on wheels.
Yes! There are very cool tutorials on how to train Yolo to detect your own objects:

https://timebutt.github.io/static/how-to-train-yolov2-to-det...
I use Hakyll, which is a Haskell clone of Jekyll. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you are already proficient in Haskell and Haskell is your favorite language, but it does give you total control: write a few markdown files, your own HTML templates, your own CSS, etc.
This will probably forever be too half-baked to "release", but I wrote my own: https://github.com/jakelazaroff/adjective

It's written in Node and features multithreading and incremental builds for fast development.

I host on Netlify, which has continuous integration built in, so it builds and deploys the site every time I push to GitLab.
Operative words being "like that" :) I absolutely believe war is possible, maybe inevitable. My point is it'll be of a veery different kind, so precedent examples may not apply.
Surprised that your comment is being pushed to the bottom. We need to look at the larger picture with any new technology and what it can enable, especially when pursued by multi-billion dollar corporations seeking to monetize it by creating demand. The environmental and ethical angles of our actions need to be gravely considered and not swept under the rug.
Not necessarily, there are lots of phone service providers who except certain websites or services from the data tracking. Some of them Google services already -- Virgin Mobile in Australia excepted YouTube traffic for years.
I use Jekyll, super easy and aesthetic
Haha, that was the first aircraft I thought of too!
i share your hope that a future where technology allows people to fire their boss rather than just allowing bosses to fire their workers is possible, and would be a wonderful outcome, but agrobots can't grow food without land. that's a problem. an even worse problem is that, given that self-reliant people don't kick anything up to anyone, they're vulnerable to the direct application of violence.
Github pages + Bash + Python script. I have a very simple page layout for posts. A drafts directory maintains ASCIIDoc files for posts I'm writing.

After writing I run `post.sh` with the file as the argument. It invokes a Python script which generates the HTML and puts it in a directory for published posts sorted by date/month/year (e.g. published/2018/01/29). The Bash script generates a directory/link listing and an index page for the blog roll, followed by a "git push".
TLDR; 60-70% of players go bankrupt or are under financial stress after they retire. Reasons are (1) they don't follow balanced mix of investments and squander money in opportunities presented by smooth talkers (2) they end up hiring people who are friends of other players as opposed to actual professionals to manage their assets (3) divorce.

The recommended mix of investments for 20+ million assets is apparently "5%to private equity, 7%-12% to real estate, 50%-65% to a mix of public securities(stocks, mutual funds and the like) and the rest to alternatives such as gold and hedge funds.".
For those not familiar, Jeremy Howard (one of the two authors of this paper), is one of the founders of course.fast.ai, an excellent open course teaching machine learning geared toward software engineers and others with and without a strong academic background.

I really enjoy the course and encourage those who haven't yet looked into it to try it out, so long as one has an interest in machine learning.
Even on Intel there should be an evaluation of performance cost vs risk. If you are not running unknown code, you may not want to enable kpti either.
I run https://blog.jeaye.com/ on Github Pages, but I manually build with Jekyll locally, with a publish script, and then force push the built site + assets to the gh-pages branch. This allows me to use all sorts of Jekyll plugins which Github won't whitelist.

I'm currently writing a post detailing how all of this works, for anyone interested.
Improve testability throughout applications by working with their team, setup and maintain test frameworks (hopefully improving them over time), determine what tests should be automated and those that shouldn't, write automated tests, coach team members on writing automated tests and testing in general, add new tools/processes to improve testing, investigate the application in-depth to find risk areas.

I'd be curious if HN think the above includes things that shouldn't be there or is missing a number of items? I'd be curious what the 80/20 for an automation engineer looks like?
everything is net booted, with no HDDs (at least that was the plan, it wasnt my project)

destruction is rather fun actually, after wiping, memory/disk is removed and taken apart manually. lots of magnets to play with.
Parents' primary responsibility is to ensure that the environment in which their kids grow up, the food they eat etc promote healthy development. For many practical purposes, the kids' protein-building machinery including the nucleic acids, can be treated the same way as the environment, the food etc - another critical input to a developing human life.

In this view, it is scarcely surprising that parents would want to give their kids viable genetic information just like they want to give their kids a good home, healthy food and challenging education.

This desire to ensure the good of the kids is a strong force pushing humanity forward and I see no reason to object.

Unequal access to shelter, food, education or genetic techniques is a different matter. But our failure to ensure universal access to the spoils of a new invention does not imply that there is something wrong with the invention. The real problem is more like the lack of compassion for other folks...

So let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I suspect that you're right and possibly because of the following reason: they've had a lifetime of outsize results. They were always the fastest, strongest, got the girl. Now comes along either a normal ETF with average returns, or the promise of outsized ones sold as insider tips between experts. It'd be tempting and in-character to swing for the fences.
not Dublin myself, further up North but I'll get in touch, thank you for the kind offer!
I agree with you, the correct way to write that is with dashes:

To my mother - Ayn Rand - and God.

Or or the parentheses:

To my mother (Ayn Rand) and God.

Then you disambiguate the extra information over the first item in the list. Which makes way more sense then including it in the list and assuming that the reader will disambiguate via their external contextual knowledge.

How any rational and intelligent person could argue for anything else is beyond me. Or maybe I've stumbled upon the dark secret of the humanities?
We should absolutely be dedicating time to personal finance while kids are in school. I especially think a personal finance class would be much more useful as a junior or senior math requirement than stats, trig, or calc in under-served communities where financial skills would be most valuable. Yes, maybe it doesn't make sense to be begin committing serious time to any topics more complicated than saving and spending management until kids are old enough to get jobs. But to argue the topic is too boring for kids to pay attention is pretty lame considering many of my peers in highschool were pretty disinterested in the whole thing to begin with. At the very least, a reintroduction of the topics every year or so would provide kids with some recognition of the topics and a more structured curriculum requiring students to track (preferably) real expenses and create budgets would probably go a long way.
Not a direct answer, but I just wanted to point out how handy it is that you can publish to your public keybase directory, and have it hosted at keybase.pub, something like this:

https://abhi.keybase.pub/2016/02/15/git-and-keybasefs.html

The general gist is that keybase.io is promising that it will only serve data at abhi.keybase.pub that has been signed for by that user.
Is this essentially a dupe of the submission 10 days ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267178

It looks like the arXiv version of the previous submission to me ...