skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would transactions increase but not space per dollar? Has disk technology stopped progressing?
The time it takes to increase by 3 is probably the amount of time disk space will increase by 3 at the same cost.
What content detection systems would the law require to be used anyway? If I run a little unmonetized web forum or video sharing site, is the EU going to provide me with the software I'm supposed to be using for content detection?
Power Company Fined $2.7M for Failing to Comply with Cyber Standards
That's a risk I'm willing to take.

Airtable doesn't have an official, automated local backup system yet. Their forum post indicates it as well https://community.airtable.com/t/offline-local-backup/754/77.

Ideally, airtable should download a copy of all my database files into dropbox at least once/day, but that feature doesn't exist.

It should also have a automatic file downloader backup (e.g. when you upload an image, it goes to their amazonS3 server → that should ideally be backed up locally as well). Doesn't exist either. Just have to use the plugin I wrote for the time being

There is a 3rd party solution for backing up airtables using its API. Its on this forum post. https://community.airtable.com/t/zenbackups-airtable-databas.... Personally, I have not used it.

Another thing from a risk management standpoint. Airtable has only 1 API key, and that key has access to EVERYTHING. If someone knows both your API key + your airtable's base ID, they can do anything with it. Issue GET requests for data, PATCH and update values in your database, etc.
A link directly to content, I presume.
Any plans to have pre-paid credits?
Very cool. I shudder to think of the GPU costs to run these models though. Perhaps they're using TPUs to be as efficient as possible. If you imagine a room occupied in the evening by people for several hours and you have any decent framerate, you're running your pose estimation network on each frame for several hours. And these models are big as far as I have seen. So that pretty much means you have one cloud GPU per camera allocated every evening. I suppose another option is they are running pieces of the network on the device but I think that's unlikely.

Of course these models are getting smaller over time and I'm incredibly impressed that these guys have put together the hardware, computer vision, and cloud setup. I also think they've nailed the MVP - not too easy but not too complicated either assuming they have decent models.

I'm signing up!
What I gathered from this article is that there isn't enough interest in Maine made chocolate to cover decent wages. Ship production to China or Mexico like everyone else. America has become a globalist society, and that means there's no room for lower middle class jobs like the ones explored in this article.
I now see ads following "the result" exactly as predicted so i don't think the downvotes are warranted.
> So do many other groups.

Most of them aren't doing this, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/09/russian-state-...

> Russian state television has warned “traitors” and Kremlin critics that they should not settle in England because of an increased risk of dying in mysterious circumstances.
And if we stuck to horses we could have predict the fastest speed people could travel across the country in 100 years.
Hardbacon for iOS on Product Hunt
I'm going to decompress part of your comment here:

- scaling the function

This is where we've invested most of our effort. We're envisioning a load test demo soon.

- monitoring the function (billing, errors, throughput, latency)

This is something which we will need to invest more in. Great feedback here. We don't have much in the way of monitoring yet, but everything is there and we just need to expose it to the users.

- moving data between two functions, storing data

Traditional solutions like Redis and Postgres seem like a good solution here. You can't host them on Coherence yet, but it's something that we're working on.

- signaling a function, upgrading a function, downgrading a function

Versioning is particularly interesting here. A lot of time we've thought of these functions as ephemeral.

Send me an email (bryan at coherenceapi . com) I'm really interested to talk more about the use cases you're envisioning.
It'd be theoretically possible, however the rate at which the US is aging, puts a very low likelihood on it happening. We'd need an extraordinary burst of immigration, or perhaps to start counting robots as workers and taxing them accordingly (which we may yet do).

This was a big headline the other day:

"People over 65 years old would outnumber children by 2035, a first in U.S. history, according to updated projections released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elderly-in-u-s-are-projected-to...
Except inverted. Left spin on a ball makes it go right by Magnus. Left curl makes a stone curl left.

I curl and play pool, so I've come up with reasons for the difference in my head.

The slower turning side creates more friction because it grabs the ice, the faster side glides over rather than grabbing. This is obvious when you intently watch as the curl picks up at the end of the shot.

QED, dunno why a bunch of non-curlers wrote these articles they should just curl.
That's right, Piccolo is not tied to any console or platform. We're also very excited about opening this up. We think there is potential to build really powerful applications with the information available here. Stay tuned!
Except it's not. Disk space per dollar increases at a rate faster than linear.
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What information from potential users do you ask for?... to setup NoMoRobo on landlines.
Hey, we could do this but I'm curious why you would prefer this? More solid payment expectations?
Politicians and journalists like it because it's fast moving, and tends to reflect (amplify even) recent economic changes. ...I think it does (depending on local "accounting' quirks) tend to reflect how long it takes to find work.

But for that, why not measure that directly, or churn directly.
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Sure, if they don't want to be the winning (read: lowest) bidder. Shit constraints --> shit results.
> language barriers due to the speaker accent (in my case) and the listener ability to understand English without subtitles.

It's usually easier for a non-native English speaker (at least below ILR[1] Level 3 or CEFR[2] Level B) to understand English spoken by another non-native, because the pace is slower, idioms and expressions are not used so regularly, etc. Your accent is much easier for non-natives than a strong Irish accent, for example. So I wouldn't worry about that too much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...
They didn't say it in so many words, but that was basically the terms of the deal. In late 2015 former Hyundai America CEO Krafcik was crowned CEO of Waymo by Larry Page, who saw Krafik as a guy who knew how to talk turkey with car guys.

Krafcik's first order of business was to hammer out a deal with Ford, and by that time Waymo had ceded on many of their initial terms, as they were starting to get nervous, because it does take a good 5-7 years to design a vehicle and tool up a production line, and time is of the essence.

Apparently Ford wanted significant capital investments from Alphabet as part of the deal, and Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said 'no' to that, so the deal fell through and Ford's then CEO Mark Fields was (eventually) fired and replaced by Jim Hackett as a result.

The other thing that happened around the same time was a talent exodus from Waymo. Ford hired ex-Google self driving car project program manager Brian Salesky to lead the formation of Argo.ai, Ford's own robotaxi subsidiary, and Argo seems to be coming along but it's too early to gauge how well they're really doing.
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Not all of the stakeholders lose. The suppliers, employees and vendors of the company lose.

But the entities that write these loans make their money in different ways and may not actually lose as much as you think, or at all!
One of my projects is to serve torrent magnet links as DNS TXT records. Will be interesting to find out what happens.
I really didn't understand this piece. Did anyone else struggle to follow it from sentence to sentence?

Did this article really compare FreshBooks to the payroll needs of the Government of Canada? Whatt??
Chronicles of Ethereum: Part I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Protocol
I have no background in biomedical engineering, and I'll take your (and others') word that it could clearly never work.

However, I have had a related experience that stops me, even in these cases, from immediately shouting "the king has no clothes":

Some 25 years ago I was giving a talk at some point, that mentioned spread spectrum communication to a small crowd of physicists and engineers, none of whom was familiar with the concept. When I drew an energy/frequency graph in which the signal level was below the ambient noise level, I got laughing/mocking/disbelieving response, and I had to actually show (a simplified) version of the math to proceed.

None of those people were stupid. In fact, I believe most if not all of them are way smarter than me; but they've all adopted the "s/n ratio must be large enough at every distinct frequency " as an axiom, which is simply wrong.

Since then, when I see extraordinary claims, I just wait for the extraordinary proof.

> It's like going to the beach, drawing a 5 gallon pail of seawater, looking into it, and then declaring that the beach is shark-free today and it's safe to swim.

If shark shed sharkticles that can easily be detected, and the water mixing speed is sufficient, then -- yes, you might be able to make that claim from a 5 gallon pail of seawater.

But before I believe you can do that, I would want to see the theory and a working demonstration. It's astonishing that wasn't demanded of Theranos by any of the investors.
> Thats neither here nor there

The GP literally mentions protectionism in the context of the 19th century. I think you’re in the wrong thread.
What makes you think you need to store the whole blockchain? Older blocks can be pruned. The whitepaper discussed this. The UXTO set is all that's needed for block validation, and that's quite small (currently ~50M).
Off topic: It's always strange to see my alma mater in the wild (Radford University)
How would you measure that? "Enough to get by on" is very different in different situations (single, family, young, old, etc).
Lots of men complain about the difficulty of getting helpful feedback, too.

Yes, feedback is generally hard to get. But this situation really blew up crazily. It was valued at $10 billion at one time and was a whole lot of hot air.

My argument is that the "Gee, golly, whiz I am talking to a charming, pretty girl!" factor dramatically magnified the problem and allowed it to get blown far out of proportion, more than would have happened with a male CEO. I can't think of any other debacles of this proportion. This is one whale of a debacle. And I think the gender of the CEO is a contributing factor.

That doesn't mean it wouldn't have been a debacle with a guy at the helm. But the essence of my argument is that it would not likely have run on for so very long and hit such crazy big numbers before the bubble burst if the CEO had not been a pretty, charming young woman.
I know a bit about that, as I tried both. Spoiler: We kept using Airtable and Dropbox Paper instead.

Pros Coda:
- As implied above: it is quite good at merging the features of a "word processor" (more like Google Drive, Dropbox Paper) with Airtable like functionality (Spreadsheets that are very easy to use, filter, display differently... I.e. building small pseudo apps. Basically: you can add text above and below your "Airtable"
- Multiple documents inside a document (navigation on the left side). Pretty good for Wiki like things

Pros Airtable:
- Better in displaying data (colors etc), adding attachements, e and other visual benefits that make it accessible to non nerds.
- I know the pricing model. Coda doesn't tell (me) what they will charge. I simply didn't want to become dependent on something I don't know I can afford (many users)
Here is a Javascript program that implements the basics of the git version control system. It is a literate program with a prose explanation in side-by-side format:

http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html

Here is another side-by-side example. It is a Python program that implements a very simple interpreter for the Lisp programming language.

http://khamidou.com/compilers/lisp.py/
If both unemployment were low and job satisfaction, it would seem to follow that opioid abuse would subside due to the fact most people use for escapism. Perhaps unemployment is low but with shit jobs and/or low pay, people are still miserable and going to use. The stat of low unemployment therefore maybe a pyrrhic victory.
Peter Thiel: Europe is cracking down on Silicon Valley out of 'jealousy'
Global American consultancies are paying 25-40k USD annually in post-Communist EU countries. The teams are run as little dictatures by the "directors" who are facing the outside world. What are you expecting to extract from such arrangement? BTW There is no place for IBM in Germany, they have their own three-letter named IT moloch.
Oh, okay ... but everyone having perfect information AND fraud being possible to get away with are fundamentally contradictory assumptions; fraud is based on exploiting some people not having perfect information.
OECD countries compared in the link. You can toggle to participation rate or some other variant.

https://data.oecd.org/emp/employment-rate.htm
Off-topic, but does anyone know how this website was created? It seems too much of a coincidence that it looks nearly identical to https://www.passwordstore.org/.
If I recall correctly, Segwit was a prerequisite to Lightning. A block size increase is not.
For sadomasochism: assembly
That's what I read as implied by the quote from the article.
You may be interested in Rustlings:

> Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code. Includes practice reading and responding to compiler messages!

https://github.com/carols10cents/rustlings
"haven't found work" is such a subjective determination. I don't think a statistic covering that is as useful as you think.

Maybe these people who haven't found work just don't want to make $15 an hr working as a store clerk.
Economists usually use the (local) cost of a "basket of goods" to figure that out. What goes into the basket is a political choice, though.
The actual reason for 25 foot drops is probably to reduce both injury liability (spinning death blades) and the chance of drone theft/destruction.
Interesting. Is this using APIs to fetch jobs or scraping?
Churn goes up as unemployment goes down. People leave for higher paying jobs as employers need to compete on wage for worker.
1. I thought the government included these people in their questionable statistics. I don't doubt what you say though. Those unemployment have always baffled me. If they were rigged, I wouldn't be suprised.

2. My biggest gripe is anyone with eyes knows certain sectors of the economy are doing well, but it's still dismal out there. So many union jobs were just obliterated.

3. That "abled bodied, but not working number" is so high. I believe it's higher than ever? Higher than when women had the luxury of staying home to raise their kids?

4. I constantly remember Janet Yellen commenting on that sticky unemployment number of people who just weren't working. Why? We all knew why.

5. Yes--some gave up, but so many of the jobs being are just aweful. Slick Tech firms getting desperate people to use their vechicle to carry the wealthy around, deliver their toys, and put their food on the doorstep. All Independent Contractors of course. Daddy needs to make his nut, and live like them? Be more foxy than the next guy, but talk a liberal game. And so many really lousy jobs. Jobs that immigrants are passing on.

So good luck America. This is the lovely new economy. The poor catering to the wealthy. Maybe it's always been this way, but in the past, it wasen't so noticeable. There was a time where being the cleverest rat wasen't cool. Now they put them on a stage?

I pity the day the the money runs dry in tech. I guess most of you will have a spare room to retreat to?

Big Head got elected because he said what everyone was seeing with their own eyes, especially in reguards to the horrid economy. Absolutely nothing has changed in 420 days. Nothing. If anything he's just making it worse.

What I find more depressing the wealthy have brainwashed people into thinking this is all just fine, and dandy.

Let's help out those poor people that country. "What you're better than them?" Being a American has always been about denial. That is what use to make living here feel like a dream. The dream is diluted, and their will never be a revolt.

Cheap tech, and a questionable educational system solved that minor worry that used to keep the wealthy boys on edge. "Just put a spin on the abuse. They won't notice. Even if they catch on, what power do they have?"
Simpler than what?
This was the first year I watched the event. I knew "generally" what curling was but not I am hooked. I loved watching it. Going to see if there is a team close by.
>The slower turning side creates more friction because it grabs the ice, the faster side glides over rather than grabbing.

Don't both sides turn at the same speed?
I was wondering about this too but I _assumed_ the users compounded the limit versus divide it. Does anyone know for sure how the limits work with multiple users?
... and the impact of moving them around.

Granted, I'm guilty of printing my ebooks regularly.
Sure, I didn't mean it's not useful.
When i think about VR, i think first about alot of other stuff before i think of gaming.

Alone for remodeling my flat (kitchen, bathroom) or building a house.

I would also like to train on a virtual lathe before using a real one.

I might buy the new htc vive and i will see it as an early adopter beta hype thing because there is still work to do, but in general it feels already really good.

That Valve Portal Demo, wow that frightned me a little bit :)
Sure, that's the thing about political philosophy, it's all so radical. Still though we can bring in shades of these ideas to our world, just small reductions in the power of wealth on healthcare or education are nice.
It's not just IBM: any of the larger enterprise consultancies should, at best, be regarded with suspicion. I well remember the EDS/UK Inland Revenue fiasco of the late nineties/early noughties, and there are plenty of other examples involving other big players.
That site has some serious problems on my OS X Sierra/Chrome. Every time I load the tab it just freezes the whole browser. Great advert for all the claims they're making.
Congrats on shipping!

I see that you worked on .Net at Microsoft, + supported languages at present are Python 2,3 and .Net Core.

So.... How different is this from Azure Functions? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/

Cos I can create a Serverless API using Azure functions also, right? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...
ASP.NET Core + Vue/Ang/React + SQL Server on Azure
Google's definition of hacker is worse than Merriam-Webster's
You'd think Google would get this right.

Merriam-Webster's definition[1]:

3: an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4: a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system

Google's definition[2]:

1. a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
informal
an enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user.

Google declares the original meaning to be informal and subsidiary to its corrupted definition. Surprising!

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=define+hacker
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There is Matt Mullenweg, responsible for powering about a quarter of the internet with Wordpress.
RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018
Same but DotNetNuke
Basic websites? Probably Jekyll with some build tools like gulp. Never needed anything more for that.

Otherwise Rails with PostgreSQL.
I feel like stuff like this is why golang and rust were created.

(edit: Forgot about Rust, sorry!)
For devs, equally familiar in rust and python and ignoring libraries, would you say development speed in both languages is almost the same?
Yes. Most reports placed time-to-available-hardware in the low years (a whole dev cycle). Perhaps those were early sensationalist reports (this article would suggest they were!), but it is a surprise if you only read them.
Big Tech Employees Reveal Discriminatory Hiring Practices
Sounds great. Why haven't we done that yet?

Like I said, the blockchain is currently ~150 GB. Seems to me it's already overdue for a good pruning.
then the people who keep lending to bain backed companies should all be fired.
There are very similar stories from Australia, with IBM being sued for being late on major (billion dollar) government projects and releasing products that just don't work.

IBM produced a $1.2 billion payroll project for Queensland heath that just never worked.
Really good book about Gerstner's turnaround of IBM in the 90's:

https://www.amazon.com/IBM-Redux-Gerstner-Business-Turnaroun...
If you don't mind sharing, how are you right now?
Hey Thanks!

This is the most common question! Other FaaS solutions require your code or your workflow to be structured in some way to fit in with their system, not to mention requiring you to use their tools.

Coherence integrates with the programming language to make it a lot simpler on the developer. Just pass a func and it's getting run. Structure your code however you like and use your favorite tools!

EDIT: One example, it's going to be a lot easier to run your web crawlers on Coherence.

EDIT 2: Yes I worked on .NET Core and am a python enthusiast for over 9 years. This is why they are the first supported languages.
Instead of letting the worst neural networks die, we remove the oldest ones — regardless of how good they are.

This improves robustness to changes in the task being optimized and tends to produce more accurate networks in the end.

One reason for this may be that since we didn't allow weight inheritance, all networks must train from scratch.

Therefore, this form of regularization selects for networks that remain good when they are re-trained.
OP seems to be resentful especially toward the mega fortunes amassed by some folks.

Regarding digital monopolies like facebook and google, those markets didn't even existed 20 years ago. It's them who created them, almost from zero. They created the need in the market. I still can't see any reason why a third party (aka government, in the name of the people) would use force to break them apart. Mostly because they're not monopolies for services related to basic human needs.
Bitcoin's Highly-Anticipated Lightning Network Goes Live as Startup Raises $2.5M
They are barely able to state the outcome of project so expecting them to do the necessary legwork to break projects into logical subprojects is too much to ask.

No disrespect but we have come to a point where IT have started appearing magical to pointy hairy bosses who think juse because it's software everything is infinitely malleable with no impact on quality, cost, or time.
How Rust Implements Tagged Unions
Russian Hackers Attacking U.S. Power Grid and Aviation, FBI Warns