skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I checked this out as I heard the phrase before.
"Gradually, then suddenly" seems to be originally a quote from Hemmingway in The Sun Also Rises about bankrupcy:

“How did you go bankrupt?" - "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

It is quoted then in the context of depression in the movie Prozac Nation:

"Gradually, then suddenly." That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.
Yes, that's the unfortunate problem. They often bring up issues and questions that won't be discussed anywhere else. Then ruin it by throwing in some heavy conspiracy without any supporting evidence.
How SEO companies lie to us?
Ugh, the "go to church" suggestion.

Yes, I get that a lot too, and it makes me more depressed. If you're someone who's in the process of extricating themselves from a religious upbringing, this isn't a fun thing to deal with in addition to "regular" mental health issues.

What is helping me is:

* removing toxic parts of my life as much as I can.

* proper diagnosis and medication (the revelation of a late ADHD-Inattentive diagnosis is life-changing)

* meditation (Kabat-Zinn style mindfulness, warning that in my experience not being treated or missing your meds for anxiety/depression may make this a frustration engine)

* forgiving myself for not being more proactive (the hardest one)

* focusing on getting my son out to play with other kids (helps meet people with the same time-schedules)

What doesn't help me:

* Not taking my meds.

* Making extravagant plans. (Big things are more intimidating and generate avoidance).

* Cursing the past. (Mistakes were made)

* Going to church. (Attending a ritual gathering as a nonbeliever can be an incredibly isolating experience.)
They simply haven't developed the weapons to destroy the WISPs yet, but unless the political climate in states/cities changes, they will.

Basically, authoritarianism rears its ugly head in the US once again, across corporate, national, state, and local levels. The same general kind of gaming of the system which resulted in interstates dividing white from non-white neighborhoods is now maintaining the media status quo. On one side, it's the corporatism and Crony Capitalism the left traditionally complains about, now wielded by the Far Left as a non-governmental form of censorship. On the other side, it's legal and regulatory blocking of progress to maintain the status quo for old media and to use as leverage against the tech giants.

This is potentially deadly for US society. Until we once again have a healthy 5th estate which can reach the whole of society, the Fox-Newsification and the Gawker-ization of our news media is basically destroying what little actual discourse we have left.
"the best use" is a horrible standard that leads to shaming 99.99% of charities for not being literal perfection.

Solving difficult engineering problems is usually good for the world.
> "You use TypeScript instead of JS for Node? Interesting..."

I'm actually flabbergasted that anyone can write a large, complex Node back-end without TypeScript. Even with fantastic IDE support from WebStorm, jslint/hint, and great discipline, there is just way too much ambiguity, doc-reading, and simple mistakes.
If anything, shooting cars into space makes them spend money they have on people that dont have money and build the car.

Adam Smith directly says vanity is what took down feudalism. We surely dont want our billionaires to not even spend the money they have!
To answer your question, yes, it can. Just put the files in there, it'll pin them.
People also seem to conflate "organic" with "healthy". I had past coworkers who thought it was absurd that an energy drink was labeled as organic.
AcOP fights hackers: Coordinating cloud, edge, and fog computing to protect data
I don't want to pick a side here, but "rural" in the USA and "rural" in Europe are two different things. Once you get away from the coasts, things get very sparse and very big. In many places, if you were 20km from a center of 50,000 people, you would actually be considered to be living in that town of 50,000 people. I personally live about 30km from my city center, I am considered part of that city (including my mailing address), and I don't think anyone around here considers it rural. Rural in America means you might have to drive hours on the weekend just to go shopping. 100s of kms of nothing between you and the next town in some places. And since they are ranching areas on poor soil, there are houses all in between that need to be reached. We are talking about one family on around 400 square kilometers of land. I have family that live in a community like that, and it is not uncommon in many areas.

Consider this, the state of Texas alone is bigger than all of France, and while it has several huge cities in it, it still has less than half the population of France. Montana is more than half the land area of France, and only has 1 million people living in it.

It would be a lot easier to just give up on the 1% that are truly scattered to the winds with little homesteads in the middle of no-where. But hopefully we can get some really good low earth orbit satellite internet and not have to worry about all this.
Even if that is a problem, we provide anyone that is interested with a 30-day evaluation license of Scylla Enterprise.
Peer Connect – A P2P CDN Implementation
No-poaching agreements are very clearly illegal and should have resulted in immediate charges being levied against a metric shit-ton of people as the only way that works with all these franchises is if many people are involved. The DOJ has formally acknowledged these practices are illegal and a serious violation of existing laws:
https://www.justice.gov/atr/file/903511/download
Well...it's been nearly 18 months since that announcement. Why haven't I seen a whole bunch of people get charged with felony antitrust violations, as per the DOJ's own statements about its intent to "proceed criminally against naked wage-fixing or no-poaching agreements"?

Where are the handcuffs?
Do you have any suggestions on reading material?
Forget the Beetle, his plans for his wife's Honda scooter sound way better.
Thanks, how often would you send out an email for this newsletter?
Mothers really keep the family together, even in their old age.
Does that mean you're going to do a rewrite ? If so, how do these costs compare to the total acquisition costs ?
Consequences of the STEMification of higher education
- has anyone run it FB scale? for how long?

- how many experienced scylladb devops are there globally that we can hire?

Those questions asked at BigTechCo before it adopts somebody elses tech.

FB already operates RocksDb and Cassandra so there's way less technical, career, financial risk for just hacking the two together with some aggressive refactoring.
The "prepositions are not things for ending sentences with" point is a distraction.

"Who did you hit?" and even "who hit who" have long been the norm in speech. The _whom_ version of those utterances would not often have passed the lips even of older, more educated English speakers in the last decade of the 20th century.

Here we are, nearly 20 years into this century and news is being published about the demise of a word that had almost entirely fallen out of common usage last century.
A Multi-Player Server-Side GameBoy Emulator Written in .NET Core and Angular
"I would love an example where 'realistic portrayals' of a given subject in movies led to changes in public policy / public perception."

I'm not sure if it's really fair to expect such movies, which are a tiny minority of all movies made, to have such a disproportionate impact on policy, especially considering that they're usually ignored or even actively despised by the media and the powers that be.

I don't know of specific examples in film, but some books have had such impact. The Jungle[1] and Silent Spring[2] come to mind.

Film is a relatively young media, and its full potential is unlikely to be realized for decades if not centuries. Give it some time. I'm optimistic that truly moving and motivating films will arrive.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_jungle#Federal_response

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_spring#Impact
Sheets as ideal forms. Grafts and rendering
The boarding (lodging) house is back. We've come full cycle!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_house
So it seems you mistake reporting what the government is doing with reporting the objective truth.

I dont think you know what actual journalism is.
Whoops, I must be confused. I thought Elm compiled to Javascript, and didn't implement a custom runtime.
This is why I love the How I Built This podcast. It tells the story of a successful founder from childhood to present day. It discusses early successes and failures that ultimately led to that person becoming an "overnight success" decades later. It doesn't try to build this narrative of them being one-hit wonders, it tells the truth. The truth, which isn't nearly as sexy as people would like, is that building a business takes time, hard work, and resilience.
I would spend some time experimenting with Erlang or Elixir. The thing that really made the actor model "click" for me was how each actor in Erlang is just a process (green thread basically). The only way to communicate between processes/actors is message passing, and the way you end up constructing software is by modeling individual tasks and responsibilities of your application in terms of processes. The way processes are constructed in Erlang/Elixir allow you to pattern match on messages to selectively receive or prioritize messages, and discard others. A process can be written in such a way that it changes from one role to another just by being sent a message, or from one state to another (in the case of finite state machines and the like).

A typical example of how it gets applied might be a web server, where each HTTP request is handled by its own process, and potentially delegating multiple tasks concurrently to other processes in the background which handle queuing and executing work associated with that request. You might have pipelines of processes, each responsible for some specific task/transformation before handing off work to the next stage in the pipeline. On top of that Erlang/Elixir provide supervision, where components of the system are started/monitored by a special process type called a supervisor, which will restart its children when failure occurs, and if a set of conditions fail, will itself be restarted by its parent supervisor. So your application ends up structured as a tree of supervisors and worker processes, where components of the application are branches of the tree, and can be isolated from the failure of other components.

Hopefully that helps give you an idea of how the model plays out in practice. I would definitely recommend playing around with either Erlang or Elixir, they are a lot of fun, and it really changes the way you think - at least it did for me.
Interesting, the graphs confirm the rapid increase in income inequality here in America. Amazing how history repeats itself.
Damn! But any movement is promising. Thanks
They described four ends...
If you intend to use GUN for banking or any globally consistent (CP) system, then yes.

However, for everything else, the criticisms no longer apply.

GUN is an CRDT based AP (highly-available, partition tolerant) strongly eventually consistent system, and therefore should not be used for banking-like systems.

I hate the jargon so sorry to reply with it, but it allow for a quick/concise summary of GUN's tradeoffs. Some more resources below:

- Cartoon explainer of academic stuff: https://gun.eco/distributed/matters.html

- CAP Theorem tradeoffs: https://gun.eco/docs/CAP-Theorem

- How to implement the CRDT and how it solves for Split-Brain failures: https://gun.eco/docs/Conflict-Resolution-with-Guns

There are a bunch of other resources, but I'm more than happy to reply/answer any specific questions if you have them. Cheers!
How much disruption has really happened in most of those cases though? And I'm not sure people on here are a reliable sample.

Mind you some of these (e.g. Warby Parker) have had a lot of success. It's just not clear to what degree they've really disrupted the mainstream of their industries.
One of my bosses had a chance to buy 25k in Wal-Mart stock or bonds. He chose the bonds because they were less risky.

He sold his company for ~17m in the late 90s (so he did fine). In the early 2000s he asked me for stock advice since he kept blowing 60k on penny stocks. I said put 10% of your money on Apple. I'm not 100% sure what's going on but it seems to be a pretty good bet.

Wish I'd followed my own advice instead of doing my first self funded startup (2003). I made about 4-5x my investment. Didn't realize how paltry that would look compared to my Apple advice :-)

As someone that's on startup #8 (about to fire my partner). They're never easy, they are fun (and stressful at times).
Almost like they aren't real journalists...
> shifting the attack surface to depend on social engineering

Other than social engineering, there's also SS7 abuse:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/thiev...
Whether vibration is from the camera or the mirror does not matter; both will reduce quality on the image, assuming a slow exposure. But these exposures look very fast. Even so, if the camera can be made stable, then so surely too can a mirror.
Even as an adult, I wouldn't be able to get those images. I've always wondered how are photographers able to get such clarity for subjects that can be extremely blurry/murky/muddy, such as smoke and even water? Every time I take photos of clouds or water, it always looks dull.
I always like the EDS founding story. Ross Perot started EDS with $1,000. They never mention he was a multimillionaire from being a top salesman for IBM. Big deal that he opened a bank account with $1,000.
I'll be honest with you: almost every single "SV success story" I can think of is boring. Advertisement, book shops, groceries, taxis, food delivery, none of this is particularly glamorous.

I don't know where people get this apocryphal wave of "nobody ever talks about boring things". Space X is pretty much the only non-boring "hip" company I can think of!
I appreciate the effort you put into writing your response. You make a very solid case and I wouldn't attempt to talk you out of using SSTs over JWTs given the level of consideration you've put into it.

I would nonetheless offer the following points if you'll excuse the rambling:

- I concede that the following probably exposes a lack of knowledge on my part. I think most, myself included, don't have a 100% lucid understanding of how session cookies are managed throughout the stack. It feels like there is some degree of idiosyncrasy and magic at every level, e.g. client -> reverse proxy -> application backend (-> potentially DB) while JWT feels much more lucid and consistent in this regard. It seems desirable and simpler to want to transparently pass through all the "smart" layers that have explicit knowledge of and opinions about session cookies.

- JWTs come off less "magical" than session cookies and I find them just as easy, if not easier to reason about in certain situations, e.g. in an app rather than in a browser - I'm aware that cookies are mere headers, but I still find that slightly more annoying to manage than JWTs - although I concede that perhaps this is merely due to the availability of libraries that make it so, while also not being too "magical" and hiding key parts of the flow (whereas various platforms e.g. ASP.NET, PHP do weird magical things with session cookies).

But, you know, your post is making me have second thoughts about my position here, and I may yet be won over after thinking about this some more. I think this is often an underrated and unnoticed point - that there is some a priori magicalness about session state, while JWT is simply presented less magically, and so one may be attracted to the initial lucidity of JWTs vs. having to learn session state (because "why haven't I learned how automatic session management works after using it for all these years? It's probably very hard"). And I'm beginning to realize choosing JWTs for this reason may be specious.

- I find, in practice, that a JWT workflow's blacklists are still a lighter level of statefulness than having to propagate user sessions. As you rightly state, this comes in the form of eventualness, and it is indeed a security tradeoff. Here, perhaps my imagination (or experience) is lacking, but I estimate that it would in practice be difficult using SST for 1. To have a token theft; 2. To detect said token theft; 3. To implement security measures; in less than the time of JWT revocation.

- I obviously find that JWTs make more sense than session cookies in RESTish APIs, in which the desired workflow is modeled after HTTP and does not require a session on the backend (so the statelessness is not just for scaling). It's certainly a good thing to have a standard for passing a verifiable proof of authentication inline with every request.
Python, Flask, Google Map VPN Interface
This is one talented young photographer.
Thanks. I upvoted your comment too.
Ron Conway says he’s too busy to get involved in SF’s mayor race
They're talking about eradicating all reservoirs of HPV, akin to what several countries have successfully done with rabies. The headline is perfectly accurate.
And the combustion products include lots of water and hydrogen chloride, which combine to form hydrochloric acid. The gritty aluminum oxide (another combustion product) is probably a pretty good particulate sponge for holding acid as it cools below HCl's condensation point.
You can change concrete types of methods without refactoring variable declarations. For example ,its nice when dealing with collections without referencing them as an interface. You might think "whats so wrong with using the interface as the declared type?" In C# you can run into issues with using interfaces as things like enumerators are objects in the interface but concrete types can use optimized structs.
Tomatoes are picked unripe otherwise they get damaged dzring transport.
My plan is to send it weekly, but with shorter texts than this first one.

The idea is to be more specific, like: "Tips for a good Pull Request description", "Tips for a good feature deploy announcement email", "Tips for a good user story".

What do you think? Any topic you are particularly interested?
Doesn't weather adversely affect these, though?
http://fortune.com/2016/10/21/argentina-tech-sector-boom/

They've been saying this for a long time.
> For the first time, it said, the energy required for coin mining had exceeded that used by Iceland's 340,000 inhabitants to power their homes.

That is a depressing statistic.
I laughed when I read the tools he was using, fvwm and vi. Back in 1993 or so, I wrote a hundred thousand lines of filesystem performance benchmarks using those exact tools. They're surprisingly productive.
life pro-tip: don't add superfluous details to answers that serve no purpose but to upset the questioner.

A: No, thanks.

will go over a lot better.
Apps,trackers,privacy,and regulators:A global study of mobile tracking ecosystem
It's nice to have someone to talk to.
This seems to focus on pre and post tax inequality of outcomes at a specific moment in time.

The more interesting data would measure how fluid are the populations of income deciles between generations or even within a single lifespan.
What do you think about Yelp?
Sounds like you're describing a mailing-list
You are still making the same mistakes propagated by the article in the first place and warned against by myself regarding Egyptian transcription and modern "pronunciation". I suggest you maybe educate yourself better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Ancient_Egy...

"The actual pronunciations reconstructed by such means are used only by a few specialists in the language. For all other purposes, the Egyptological pronunciation is used, but it often bears little resemblance to what is known of how Egyptian was pronounced."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language#Phonology

In this following quote, note the move from /tut/ to /tawat/, due to the transcribed U actually being W, because only consonants were written.

"For example, the name twt-ꜥnḫ-ı͗mn is conventionally pronounced /tuːtən.ˈkɑːmən/ in English, but, in his lifetime, it was likely to be pronounced something like [taˈwaːt ˈʕaːnxu ʔaˈmaːn]."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language#Egyptologica...

The bottom line is that we don't even know whether the Egyptian word for "arm" had an /a/-like sound. The symbol is actually the Egyptian "ayin" (ꜥ), not "A". In the same way, the vulture is "alef" (ꜣ), not "A".

Also, this is all ignoring the tendency in the area to simplify writing systems through acrophony, in which the logographic symbol is converted to a phonetic one via its initial phonology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrophony

> I Imagine a pre historic hominid flapping the arms and screeching "ar ar" to describe a bird, an eagle perhaps.

This is actually an anti-argument for you. This aligns with the same type of argument for "mama"- and "papa"-like sounds throughout the world: That the sound originates from onomatopoeia or a similar link and not through linguistic influence or origin.

> ... disregarding any sound laws which I didn't bother yet to learn because THAT seems implausible, to derive "laws" from hypothesis and being so fixed on them as if they had been actual law...

You're misunderstanding the causality here. We call them laws precisely because they accurately explain the sound changes. Same as we describe physical laws because they explain the physics we witness. Not the other way around.

"[Grimm's law] establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives and the stop consonants of certain other centum Indo-European languages (Grimm used mostly Latin and Greek for illustration)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm's_law

My final statement on this is that, as far as I can tell, this entire thought process is nothing but the pigeon-hole principle as played out in linguistics. There are only so many productive sounds and many languages. Of course there will be some that look similar by sheer coincidence, especially when one takes such a flexible stance on phonetics and meaning when attributing links.
What a blast from the past. I actually worked in the same office park they did. Hearing an afterburner blast when working late one night was quite a suprise! I must say that it made my day to wonder out investigating only to find a Beetle with a jet engine doing afterburner blasts :)
I find some of the comparisons here to be disingenuous and although i understand that cryptos are overhyped, Nouriel fails to point out some of the reasons why a fair no of people would like decentralized services over centralized services like Paypal when comparable in performance
The biggest rub is this - people say we don't put enough effort into initiating/maintaining friendships, I've tried that. Maybe 1 in 10 appreciate the effort, most people just don't care. I guess it is a numbers game.

I don't see any short or long term solution for this. It is only going to get worse, with people spending more and more time to make less and less money and constantly under stress. We should stop worshipping work (especially in the U.S) as if that is the most important thing in life. Any time I see people boasting about the number of hours they put in, it annoys me to no end.