skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that AWS Lambda has been a win for various people but this case study doesn't really mention what they tried to do with scaling. Whilst 0 to 100k sounds good, they also had seemingly chosen just one scaling solution of a big instance - several smaller instances behind a load balancer which scale up/down would surely have served the same outcome?

Lambda has been sold on "saving costs" but what seems to be often neglected is the developer time spent re-jigging into a "serverless" model. Developer resources are far, far more expensive than mere EC2 instances.
So, you call me silly and naive because I want to fight for a rule of law.

And then you call me complacent for not wanting fight against surveillance.

So, do you believe that political fights are worth it or not? Make up your mind and stop bringing bedroom stuff into the discussion.
The RSS dataset that article is based on (other than the storied scientific principle of cherry-picking your end-points to obtain the most favourable trend for your conclusion) turned out to be incorrect, according to RSS, mostly because of failing to fully account for orbital drift:

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0768....
Why is Instagram so messy?
I'm a photography enthusiast. For photo sharing, I use 3 services: Instagram, Flickr, and 500px.

Instagram is the default one. Practically everything goes there (cellphone images included). Flickr and 500px are for "thoughtful" images taken with real cameras (sometimes digital, sometimes film).

My unscientific observation shows that Instagram is the most messy of them. People post virtually everything there: a beautiful Swiss mountainery scene, random people passing by on the street, boring selfies with boyfriend, cute cat photos, workout pics, etc etc. Some people even set up their online shop on Instagram!

Seems like Flickr/500px users have different mindset, that is to publish proper, thoughtful photos. You won't find celebrities post their vacation snaps there.

My question is: why?
Yes, I guess you can do that comparison with Richard Stallman if you are willing to disregard what they stand for ("free as in freedom" vs "glory to Motherland").
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My feed reader uses a massive blacklist to filters headlines. I only click on headlines that appear interesting to me.
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Perhaps you don’t remember back to the days before the browser was used for application front ends. The problem was no one wrote the front end on some “nice cross platform toolkit”. Instead everything was some crappy windows only app and Linux and Mac users were left out in the cold. Give me the browser any day.
I've been reasonably happy with my Surface Pro 4 for math, using OneNote. I do occasionally zoom in when writing something with more than one level of superscript or subscript, but it is responsive enough that zooming in or out is not overly annoying.

I'd be happier with a lighter device, though.
> a random decision by Google

It's not random and that it just might serve security is a side effect.

It is about competitive advantage over other Ad Networks which might not implement HTTPS for AdSense. It is about raising both monetary and technical cost of server setup to make Google Cloud offer look even cheaper. It is very self serving.
Just to mention a third way - I've been happy with a QueryBuilder on recent projects.

The DB access parts of the code look similar to the rest of the codebase, rather than a chunk of text embedded that looks like ransom note (kidding - I know caps aren't mandatory). Enough fine control to closely influence the generated query. No real performance penalty. There's also a good mocking library available for tests.
I do not like this. I host a website on my dads shop which is not TLS-secured. Why? It's just a one page static site with some info about his store.

There is simply no need to encrypt that. I do not store cookies or host any fishy javascript.

Now I basically have to buy a certificate for that small site that has like 60 visitors a week? Not really nice.
Electron what?
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Business and ethics are like fire and water. One kills the other. Not that I like it that way, it's just reality.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's the wild west. Do you think I want to trust my money on Wall Street instead?
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> We reward effort

I don't think so. Capitalism (or human society in general) isn't really consistent in rewarding anything, and as a consequence, it is not automatically moral. (Despite many people, for instance libertarians, making lot of contortions to make it appear moral.)
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Sure but the GP made a much stronger claim that they previous knew that it was the “actual” server terminating HTTPS.

Even still, the difference between this and e2e encryption isn’t something an end user is really equipped to evaluate IMO. The threat model is practically different vs e2e no-encryption.

Cloudflare also supports reencryption over the net which is useful if your hosting provider supports HTTPS but not via a custom domain (e.g. Google clouds GCS (S3))
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> As to giving money away, when someone is still one of the richest persons to ever live their past donations while valuable are no real sacrifice. I respect the effort he has put into being effective with his givings vastly more than the vast quantities of wealth he has donated.

That's the point, though. Just giving away all your earnings and going poor from then on is stupid, not charitable. The way Gates does it, he ensures much more money will be invested (and also money invested won't be squandered as easily) over time than if he just gave it all away in an instant.

I feel that talking about donation size relative to one's remaining wealth often boils down to implicit references to the Parable of Poor Widow's Offering, in which Jesus compared the rich people offering God money they didn't need to a poor widow who offered the last money she had. But then, that parable was about sacrifice and the priority God takes in one's life. It was not a recipe for effective altruism!

(For an effective altruism recipe, the Parable of the Talents is better, IMO.)

(INB4: I make references to the Bible not because I assume everyone is Christian, but because those stories are a big part of the culture almost all of us here grew up and live in.)
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At age three I was diagnosed with the flu in the morning and by dinner time my heart stopped and my dad performed CPR. My heart stopped two other times that day. I had meningitis and my mom keep calling the doctor's office to say I was getting worse. After nine days in coma I actually pulled through. My sister got diagnosed with brain cancer after having a headache that kept getting worse for three days. Our new doctor said he looked at my mom and he knew it was more serious than a headache. He stood by his belief that moms were the best indicator of serious medical problems. I say get a new doctor that can spare the time to listen to a kids lungs and other vital signs.
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Most software is moving data around. All the abstractions you mentioned have a purpose. It makes sense to test each in isolation. For example, a controller whos’ service is a mocked implementation. You can test that your controller and its routes make the correct service calls without ever hitting a database.

About the documentation, maybe you’re the one to take initiative and spin up a wiki? Maybe you’re the person that consolidates logging into a reusable internal library?

Related to the topic, maybe this is not what you should be doing. There is good work out there, but as cliche as it sounds, you have to show passion for them to find you.
Apparently, UK IT salaries are still above those in France, even if there is an (apparent) lack of IT professionals in the current market.

Source (in French): http://bfmbusiness.bfmtv.com/emploi/metiers-du-numerique-les...
My entire point was that the fact that they are not paid enough - including the loss of rights and benefits which translates to labor costs - is a feature not a bug. The core feature. I have no idea why there is this insistence on some kind of "benefit of the doubt" ad infinitum.
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It could also be argued that not even the like buttons add value
I use it in a similar way. I follow ~400 mostly in my fields and fields I am interested in, with a heavy emphasis on accounts who post mostly text (as well as a few exceptional photographers). I unfollow or mute accounts that start posting animated gifs, memes, or clickbait.

One difference, however: I hardly ever use the Twitter Web interface anymore because of its algorithm that seems to emphasize yesterday's news and bury the stuff from people that I want to see. Tweetdeck's home feed is a godsend - just reverse-chron and no ads (yet).

Tangential rant: LinkedIn's feed has become a cesspool of clickbait and low-value "news" articles, as the algorithm prioritizes those posts which link to articles with photos. There are sometimes good text discussions sparked by people like Jason Fried, but 90%+ of the posts in my feed feature stock photography, company logos, and headshots of the titans of industry.
Could do with a (2009)
For a while (Back in ~2011) example.com did redirect to:

http://www.iana.org/domains/example/

LOADS of people got upset (quite rightly) and at some point they reverted it back.

But... it does show that you can't trust any URL to never change in the future, not even neverssl.com or http.rip.
Until DNA, forensics has always been pseudoscience voodoo. Detectives I've known guesstimated the fingerprint error rate to be much higher than 1 in 24--and fingerprints used to be the gold standard.

I've even heard a few judges stress the importance of informing jurors before a trial on how most forensic evidence is nowhere near as solid as crime dramas make it out to be. These were sharp guys though, so that is probably not common practice.
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I've been asked to do the interviews for hiring a software engineering intern. I've done interviews in the past but they have mostly been for mid level roles. Should I have them do some whiteboard coding or is that too much for this level? It's been awhile, but I don't remember doing this for my internships. They tended to be stuff like "how would you find all the phone numbers in this file?" or "how many manhole covers do you think are in New York City?" I don't want to miss any bright candidates who just aren't used to technical interviewing, but I also don't want to sign off on someone who can't write a for loop. Thanks in advance.
In the linked document they go out of the way to specify that the patent grant only applies to "THIS IMPLEMENTATION" of the algorithm. I'm not one hundred percent sure what that means in regards to reimplementing the algorithm.
>> The thing is most research papers are simply not accessible to neophytes

To most neophytes that is. We only need a few of those with recently gained access to turn out to be a dormant Newton or Einstein. Society as a whole gets a better bargain.
This is funny, because of the half dozen or so startups that I tried to get off the ground, the couple of random projects where I actually made some money were 100% toys that I made just for fun with no intention of monetizing at first.
Let's encrypt doesn't really work for all hosting solutions. So a lot of sites still have to purchase an expensive cert.
I take it this isn't really floating around out there. :(
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> investing in new technologies to better the world, like Elon Musk for example

But the thing is, Gates is like Musk, he's investing in new technologies too. The two of them have different priorities, though. Musk is focusing on ensuring humanity's long-term survival, Gates is focusing on saving lives and reducing suffering now. They're much more alike than it would seem if you classify them as "Musk - tech, Gates - welfare".
While I don't like Microsoft, I think Bill Gates is an extremely smart and well-meaning guy.

In public opinion, it is far more important how charismatic you are. IMO Steve Jobs was a terrible person, and this can be seen from his actions in both his decisions in his personal as well as his professional life. However, people worship him as a god because he fits the stereotype of charismatic leader better.

Apparently, people need that.
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It is not. Leaving your door unlocked is not inviting everybody in to take your stuff. You might make it easier for them to break in, but it still is a break in.

Making something available to the public is not the same as going to the google webmaster tools and telling them to index your page.
Could you help me understand scenarios where Let's Encrypt and CloudFlare SSL won't suffice? They have, e.g. added wildcard support now, so that's another angle covered.
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Did you watch the whole thing?

The part where the chap at the end explains the purpose of the video? It's not supposed to make people think it's real.
Fortunately in most of the EU we use a 24h clock, I can see how the AM/PM thing would make this really confusing though :)
They have to appeal to the portion of the masses that are Apple customers and for them, $300 isn't terribly expensive.

It is expensive compared to what Amazon sells and that's why Apple is smart to have focused on the speaker rather than the smart.

When you compare it to their previous speaker system (the HiFi), it's a huge step up for the same amount of money.
> Now, instead of doing more businees or investing in new technologies to better the world, like Elon Musk for example, Bill Gates invests his money and time into wellfare-projects.

I would suggest that the Gates Foundation is doing more to better the world than Musk.
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Doing something over doing nothing is always a big difference. And a potential for failure and all sort of issues.
Oh, no, not that old chestnut: anyone who questions the Stratfordian theory is a snob and therefore wrong!

John Michell's book, "Who wrote Shakespeare?", is a great read: fun and informative. He doesn't argue for a particular answer to the question (which would have made the book much less fun), but the facts that he present do rather tend to support the idea that "Shakespeare" is likely to have been a closely-knit group of writers, with the actor from Avon being their front man and probably also a contributor, though we can hardly hope to ever know what exactly he contributed.

An interesting thing to ponder is why several fairly bad works were published under the "Shakespeare" name. Stratfordians say that those works weren't actually by Shakespeare (though if the contemporary attribution is not to be trusted why should we trust it in the case of the better works?) or that they were early works (even though some of them were first published later than the more famous ones).

It would be great if more people could accept the idea that several people can contribute to the writing of a play, just as several people can contribute to the writing of a novel (as in many well-known cases) or a film (as in almost every case).
Unfortunately, the html inspector in quantum is not as good as it used to be. I don't know why but it often refuses to find the correct element. I use Firefox as my main browser since quantum but for development I have to use Chrome or else I'd go mad.

I'm sure they're going to fix that soon, but until that happens it's very frustrating. For example, if the site is loading there is no way to inspect the elements that are already loaded.
Of course that's going to happen. It's just too dangerous to let someone without the right qualifications do it. I expect it to become a legal requirement to have a licensed technician install networks just like it is with electricity or gas.

The internet is just too important to leave to amateurs, look at how much damage badly configured home networks and computers are causing already. This stuff needs to be secured properly.

You also didn't need a drivers license when cars just became available, but now there are shitloads of cars we have to make sure drivers are capable before letting them drive. Same goes for network-connected equipment.
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It really feels like you're throwing in the towel. The internet is designed specifically to allow federation between forests of hosts. That's what routers do. Browser vendors need to get their heads out of the fucking cloud and stop coercing people into relying solely on global TLS. I think TLS is wildly misunderstood. The whole global certificate thing only works for global communication. Global hosts should be your first point of contact and from there you should be able to leverage global TLS to bootstrap more intimate trust relationships... to make informed decisions about the trust relationships you want to establish. Browsers need to facilitate this not do everything possible to prevent you from owning your trust. If your browser is only able to communicate globally that's not the internet's fault. It's not TLSs fault (TLS is designed to allow clients to choose who they trust). That a failure of your browser to support your diverse use case.
>Everyone in the US will be a lot better off if they just doubled the size of the House.

>This benefits urban residents most clearly.

Yeah it benefits urban residents at the expense of rural residents. There's no way you can claim it would make everyone better off, it reduces rural voting power in presidential elections.
I totally agree. Either have it securely connected to the internet, or not at all. The fact that something is on your LAN is just an implementation detail and shouldn’t be relied upon for security.
Very interesting... I once read a divulgative book by Eric Lerner [1] on alternative cosmologies based on EM - plasma currents and galactic sized dynamos - initially proposed by Hannes Alfvén [2]. It was very convincing but ignored by the mainstream. This article makes a lot of sense in this context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lerner
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cosmology
Isn't health insurance, like, 100-200 month ??? You all acting like it's a big deal. (nl stats, student DE pays 80/month)
If you believe people in any circumstance morally deserve to have their property stolen by threat of bodily harm (or even without) you're a pretty sad excuse for a human being.

I guess it would be better if tourism didn't exist and rural Mexico continued being cripplingly poor?
This suggests Twitter is somewhat antifragile wrt controversy and events, perhaps more so than other media.
Just tested it and it seems really promising. Great work!

I wish it could replace the formatting syntax as you type, like Typora [1] does. The document becomes much cleaner to read while still being efficient to write.

[1] https://typora.io/
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GP replied after you, they definitely mean morally.
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Can you please list some of these deep learning accounts, should be very interesting. Thanks!
I've had two kernel panics since last week, something that has never happened before the update. Don't.
The positives and negatives of a person are not additive in a way that if you add good things and subtract negative things you get some final value.

These all can be true at the same time.

* Gates was an angry office bully - he admits this himself. He was total jerk.

* Gates routinely used dishonest business tactics and monopoly power to crush competition. Microsoft contributed negatively to software development. Microsoft Research was famous for doing good stuff that was absent in MS business.

* After retiring donates his money to charity.

Gates is not alone. John D. Rockefeller and many other business tycoons have done the same.
Google's Transparency Report shows a list of which top sites do modern HTTPS by default, which do it but only if you explicitly request the HTTPS site, and which have crappy (e.g. TLS 1.0 only, or they require 3DES) cryptography, and which have nothing at all.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/top-sites

The last category features many Chinese sites. I could speculate about why that is, maybe the Great Firewall gives citizens no reason to bother trying to achieve security, maybe Chinese culture opposes privacy, maybe everybody in China is running Windows 95 still. But whatever the reason, that's an observable fact.

There's also a whole bunch of crappy British tabloid newspapers there. Given their print editions are specifically printed on the worst quality paper that will take print ink, and they are routinely accused of "gutter" journalism, perhaps it isn't a surprise that defending their reputations through the use of encryption isn't a priority? Or you know, maybe British culture... British great firewall... etcetera. No idea.
This is going to be interesting. I believe instead of pushing everyone to use https this will cause an average user to start ignoring the security warning. I see the security warning as a way to reflect what's insecure and not a catalyst to move to more secure methods.