skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-unleashed/

Yes check this out. What you'll have to do is build the aws sdk into a single javascript file that runs as a Web Worker. These are distributed to over a 100 servers worldwide. Then you would want to invoke the Lambda function from the worker, link below.
You could potentially distribute this further by invoking a Lambda function geographically close to that specific worker. But this setup will be very fast already.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/Lamb...
It wasn't about raising money - they had their hand forced by the last round of debt/equity deal that they did:

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/3/16847786/spotify-tpg-tencent...

Not that it is a great article but honestly that looks like a very messy transaction. It also looks like Spotify got the raw end of that deal. The whole thing is just crazy and I'm not sure how anyone can make sense of those numbers.
I think focusing on a geo-location twitter would bring me back for some things. I've just about completely left twitter at this point as it just doesn't provide the same value for me as it once did. I would however like to be able to ask nearby people about an event that is going on, why is the traffic bad, etc.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Learning from Data: https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
Founders tend to be highly opinionated about the future.
Ask HN: What are the best podcast episodes you've listened to?
Episodes as opposed to channels.
Amazing article
If their margins are so high, why are they losing money hand over fist?

People want to buy a Tesla for the same reason many want to buy an Apple or Bose product -- great marketing, not any kind of intrinsic value. And besides, "legacy" automakers (you know, those guys who actually were first to make an electric vehicle, hybrid, fuel cell, hydrogen etc., ones who have driver assistance systems that do not try to actively kill their users, etc. etc.)already have cars people want to buy. Unless you're talking about some edge cases (doesn't Norway tax regular cars so much that Tesla is actually a good value?) making EVs for them isn't currently a very profitable strategy. Not that it were profitable for Tesla either, of course.

It would also be interesting to learn what is it that Tesla actually innovated, apart from marketing (and even there, Apple or Bose has been selling flash over substance for years and years before Tesla)? Batteries? No, they are completely off the shelf. Do they have some magical mystery motors? No... Some exotic body construction maybe? Nope, aluminum cars have been around for quite a while, too. Some incredible self-driving software? No, better not even go there.

It will be interesting to see what happens in a couple of years when VWs electric factory comes online.
I was just about to say the same thing. He postulates everything in the book to be true. With all due respect to Graeber, there are some serious issues with the book. Especially given the liberal bias.
What If Your Blood Was Deadly to Mosquitoes?
Let me guess... it is a 10 years old Elantra?

Let's see... my wife's Hyundai does have adaptive cruise control that actually works and does not try to kill her, it has line assist that works as well, it does not get some buggy and unexpected changes in behavior that make it work worse than before. It can actually drive from San Jose to Vegas non-stop without sitting for a couple of hours in the exciting world of Kettleman City's Supercharger station. It integrates with whatever podcast/streaming app she has on the phone, got integrated Google search with voice control, has a perfectly working AC system (and what the hell is an AI driven climate control anyway? Does that come with little Elon's waving fans around your head or something?).

Oh, did I mention that it does not try to kill her? And cools our butts when it is hot outside? And that the body panels actually fit? All of that in a cheap brand for $40K less than a Tesla. For the kind of money you paid, I expect massaging seats, rear seat recliners, maybe even safety better than that of an old Kia.

Sorry. Not being very impressed here.
ADS-B is not a great solution, the latency/accuracy is such that you might know a drone is in the area, but seeing it and avoiding would be difficult. It's a lot easier to spot a small plane than it is to spot a drone.

As a pilot, I have had to avoid large birds more often than drones. They tend to actively avoid planes, which helps. Some sort of active avoidance, even super-minimal, on the part of the drones is likely to be more effective in reducing accidents.

Just my 2 cents.
I've pretty immense respect for Brad. He's very patient and empathetic in how he interacts with people on email lists, etc.
Nope. It's basically the same design that they already had, just with the clock speeds and TDP's moved around a bit.
I think for iOS you do need an email address to set up an account. But wouldn't an email address be kind of a necessity anyways?

For Android, as far as I know, the app can just be a download from a webpage, so you'd bypass the need to use the app store, and the need for an email address.

One way perhaps to solve the iOS issue (assuming you'd even want to do this for iOS devices) is to do whatever it is that some companies do where apps come pre-installed for new employees. Not sure how that works and what the options are, but that could be a way to avoid the apple app store.
Exactly. A $200k salary will let you buy a palatial home in Omaha, but you're not going to get a programming job paying $200k in Omaha.
Oh wow. Tried to figure that out from my username? Nice. Except I'm actually from Turkey, but I've been living 15 years in Finland. Good try though.

In almost every single case the foreigners are more likely to commit crimes in a country than the native population. This is completely natural due to cultural differences and being unaware of some special laws etc. Also Swedes are significantly overrepresented in Finnish crime statistics (3-4 times more likely to commit crimes than native Finns, Americans 2-3 times).

Now let's stop pretending like we don't know what's this about. Middle-Eastern (including Turkey where I'm from) and African immigrants are clearly the biggest criminal group in almost every single crime type. Especially serious offenses like rape, murder, assault etc. 15-20 times more likely to commit serious crimes. That's what I mean and that's what the statistics and research conclusively show.

Quite irresponsible to try to compare some Finns getting parking tickets to organized crime and terrorism.
they basically work, and on issues like this, the main issue is apathy

People are apathetic because their democracies don't basically work. Elections and occasional referendums are very crude kinds of representation and are easily manipulated by those who have a lot of cash. Legislation is great but the reality is that you're on camera almost all the time in a large city like Londonand no politician is going to lay themselves open to easy attacks by proposing to dismantle that infrastructure.

Bentham's panopticon was a design for a prison, a mill "for grinding rogues honest." Now the whole society is constructed around that idea; you have legal rights but the implicit premise is that people are rogues. You're not free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
It’s annoying, especially when updating a device as a developer whose only reason for existence is “testing”. To get rid of their stupid red “1” icon you have to follow the only option to proceed, then Cancel.

Stop this, Apple.
Apple and Google could, but I doubt Spotify has a few billions around to make any acquisition.
How is densification of any good at all? Why not just develop nearby regions and move more housing and businesses there instead?
I wonder how you'd value Google Play Music alone based on this type of comp. Anyone have an idea of what the number could be like w/ rationale?
Are there any specific artists that you've been able to find on Spotify but not on GPM? I haven't run into this problem yet (except one time when Mick Gordon maybe forgot to renew or something his Wolfestein soundtrack? It was fixed within a week though)
Just ran this through the container on AWS
This is the Elixir Lang repo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl5uuvDK3ao
Good. The cashless drive gives me the creeps.

1 - First, I like cash. It's tactile and gives me a feel for my spending.

2 - Cards are an duopoly, layered onto an oligopoly. Cashless gives this system a 2% tax on all spending (+ fraud, which retailers pay for).

3 - Government control is creepy too. Liberty reasons, privacy reasons, single-point-of failure reasons. Just simple competency reasons.

4 - It advantages big firms relative to small ones who pay lower fees for better service, and continues the trend to bigger firms. How does a cashless lemonade stand work?

Most transactions already are cashless, and all the rules around these are run by the banking-regulator-government complex. They wield tremendous control, and decide a lot about how businesses should run.

Remember paypal confiscating aid money, kickstarters and such... to be released gradually and when paypal was convinced that it should be? They basically decide which transactions should happen. This does not work on an innocent-until-guilty basis.

We've had a lot of financial regulation recently, bleeding way past the financial sectors. AML or whatnot. The lawyers love it because it's lawyerly, and demands lawyers. Governments love it because it because it makes everything auditable, in theory. Tax evasion, funding terrorism, buying grass become impossible. The big financial firms (especially CCs) love it because it entrenches their oligopolies. Big regular firm love it because they are good at bureaucracy and incumbents are not.

The bitcoin failure (I think it is) teaches something. People don't really give each other money. It's kind of illegal. Money is supposed to move between people and companies or companies and companies, not between people. There is no demand for Peter-pays-Paul.

I don't see any upside at all for, dare I say... we the people.
Good point. Depends on the generation you are referring to. Gen X? Child rates have been slowly decreasing since the 70s. I imagine most expect that trend to continue, but I"m not sure that it would be enough to preclude a substantial desire to move into the suburbs.
Communicating in software development
Inside Google, they're roughly the same. You used to refer to them together, they sat next to each other, worked on the same projects as you point out, roughly until Jeff started Brain. Outside of Google, Jeff is more popular probably because he gives all the talks and interviews (plus his legends...). I'm sure Sanjay has presented a few times, but I can't recall any, while Jeff has been everywhere and his slides are linked to all the time, e.g. the latency numbers all engineers should know.
Mozilla recently released containerized tabs[0], I imagine the next logic step is building containerized Private Browsing Mode

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Where did you buy? Did you sell already? The price is going down pretty much since the open...
I think that's compared to loading from a 5400rpm mechanical hard drive. I'll easily believe that optane is 4.7x faster than that.

I also expect most high-end NVME SSDs are going to be in a similar ballpark, maybe "only" 4.5x faster or something.
Didn't record labels complain some time ago that Spotify had supposedly commissioned music for its instrumental playlists (presumably to save money on royalties)?

There's probably a danger that large record labels will threaten to revoke their licensing agreements if they think that Spotify may start competing with them on that front. Not sure if that will be a problem, though, I'm not familiar with the whole streaming market.
Given that the main alternatives (decomposing in a box or being cremated) involve a 0% chance of resuscitation at some future unknown date, cryonics seems like the rational choice to make.

Alcor has so far shown itself to be a fairly reliable cryonics provider and the sums of money are not extreme - neuropreservation being only $80,000, or a life insurance policy of ~$30-$150/month.
For those interested in this stuff, or the "we will preserve your body and resurrect you in some date in the future" technology, I recommend a Don Delillo novel from a couple years ago, title is Zero K.
wget leaks via dns
I didn't claim to "know which UI is superior for all people." If you look closely, you might see that I had included "to me." I did this on purpose to make sure nobody thought I was speaking for them. I am annoyed that you did so anyway.

My comment was an opportunity for people to disagree with me - what about the GPM UI do you find inferior to the Spotify one?
GBPUSD: Vulnerable, Targets Further Weakness
I think it is a interesting question. Before using a payment gateway, what is the cost of using cash? It would be covered by tax. If the whole society is abandoning cash, it is effectively meant raising sales tax by X%, where X is transaction cost of each payment.

A cashless country should just use the tax money on cash printing factories to cover the cost of transaction.
> I find it fun to observe how people become incredibly righteously indignant

> I also find it interesting to interact with people who think they can read minds

Normally, I'd continue discussing this with you. But I've been literally banned when I "return the favor" here on YCombinator. The mods really don't like aggressive discussions in this area. Therefore, this is where the discussion ends.

I've made a personal promise to the mods to not escalate towards personal attacks anymore on this site to keep my account active, and therefore I'm unable to reciprocate your subtle personal attacks against me.
Look, at this rate in ten years we'll be making 10x global GDP! Just have to make sure we keep up on hiring...
Google to banish cryptocurrency mining extensions from official Chrome Web Store
Ask HN: How do you deal with depression being kicked out of your startup
Hi HN,

I have confounded a startup seven years ago when I was still a student at the university. I joined Startup Weekend and met my cofounder there. Fortunately, we have won the pitch and the global startup battle. When we were forming the company, other two co-founders agree that I can work as part-time tech lead until I graduated from university. However, things changed when we are trying to raise series A. They played tricks to remove me from the director board at first, then forced me to sell my share to them at ridiculously cheap price (3k USD for shares that value around 100k USD) by giving me two choices: either sell my shares to them or they will liquidate the company. At last, I sold my shares to them at a very cheap price and I feel angry and regret after this. It is because I am the one who took the idea from shitty prototype to production ready product. A few years later, I still got the same feeling when I come across the company. They erased me from the history of the company, for example, they are the only cofounders who found the company. Therefore, I wonder how do you guys deal with the depression like this?
Brain uploading is a misleading description of what nectome is proposing. We don’t know enough about what needs to be preserved yet to accurately save a snapshot of a brain’s “state”. It’s not theoretically impossible, just much further than this company’s marketing implies.
> On a daily commute for example, if it worked many days in a row, and then fails for some reason (technical, external, whatever), the user will likely fail to notice

Yup. This is why I won't get into a self-driving car until they're fully driverless.

Drivers become less attentive as the system gets better.
It's getting bad. I like guns and if you let that slip in almost any non-gun subreddit I immediately get messages that I'm basically a terrorist and have student blood on my hands as if I like school shootings.
These will be provided by a municipal body in cities from now on, parochial for rural areas.
Getting an MBA Degree with a CS BSC
HEllO!

I just got my bachelor degree in CS and I want to continue and take my MBA degree as I am more interested in the Business side of technology and software. Is there any entry level jobs for Software/technology management position with those degrees.

I would love to hear some feedback from people with the same types of degree or interests.
2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Productivity Boost of Working from Home
Once your datasets go out of the bounds of single reasonable machine, it's time to switch to Apache Spark cluster (or similar).

You can still write your data analysis code in Python, but you get to leverage multiple machines and intelligent compute engine that knows how to distribute your computation across nodes automatically, keeping data linkage and parentage information, so computation is moved closest to where data is located.
Don’t be so sure you know what a lowercase G looks like
> It changed the way I learn any new programming language.

I can say the same and I can offer my reasons: until this course I saw every language like a little island; after this course I understood that programs are just a collection of features: various typing systems, static/dynamic scoping, lazy/eager evaluation, etc. It's a ton easier to learn a new language by identifying these features than by looking at a language as a big blob. This also made me realize that languages are not little disjoint island - they're overlapping a lot instead.

The course was the way I got into racket and other lisps and this allowed me to read SICP. Since then I've been doing all sorts of toy interpreters/transpilers for fun and it allowed me to get an idea of what's happening behind the scenes in real languages. For example, I used to think that closures are magical, but after implementing them as part of the course they were a piece of cake afterwards. You will get a profound satisfaction when you implement call/cc yourself and suddenly you understand how try/catch or generators work.
I thought this as well. I used both for a while and never found instances where spotify had a lead.
My thoughts are after almost a decade of growth, the popular opinion (right or wrong) is we are due for a market correction. I think that these companies want to cash out at the top of the curve.
Others have already talked about Blue Apron. The NPR podcast How I Build This released an episode on April 1 with the Stitch Fix founder, Katrina Lake which was quite interesting.

Stitch Fix has quite a team of data scientists working on their recommendation system. They typically send about 5 items per shipment, so they need to be very confident the 5 will fit, you'll like them, and you'll like the price.

With Spotify or Netflix, the user can browse around and can skip between songs or shows quickly.
If their recommendation engine wasn't phenomenal, it'd still be a viable product. Stitch Fix typically has 1 shot per month to sell you stuff you care about.
> Spotify paid bankers roughly 40 million euros to run this direct listing and did not raise any additional funding in the process (because it's not really an offering). Dropbox paid bankers about the same amount in fees and was able to raise a bunch of capital in the process

Agreed--the comparison is enough to spring a reasonable hypothesis, nothing more. That said, Spotify is a large foreign lister; Dropbox is a small domestic seller.

I'm not advocating the death of underwriters. They're a necessary part of the ecosystem. What we're seeing here is a broadening of the options available to the ecosystem. That's new, and that's good.
There was "Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac" which was x86 emulation for PowerPC but performance was abysmal.
We need a strong leader

That's how you ended up with a surveillance society in the first place, silly.
Show HN: Evolving Corals with Neuroevolution and Novelty Search
Author here, here to answer any questions. This project is part of the output of my sabbatical. I decided to work on something a bit more theoretical, and close to my heart, after spending considerable time on a successful B2B SaaS venture (buy-out by my partner).

As it says on the website: "The aim of the project is to improve the tools for constructing ever-changing computer programs by putting the changes themselves central in the programming experience." The idea is: if something is a large part of the problem domain, we better make it part of the solution as well.

The results are promising, that is: not ready for production yet by a long shot... but the kinds of things that I expected to work well in the "change as a primitive" world actually seem to work well.
How about running the Telegram or WhatsApp mobile apps on your desktop using an Android virtualization layer (e.g. BlueStacks)?
The RHEL6 compute node image I used to maintain just used rpms (maybe via SCL). I'm inclined to think the trades-off win against Spack and Guix, assuming you don't have the world telling you to use proprietary compilers and libraries that can't be handled that way.

The mess I'm used to seeing on HPC systems with combinatorial builds, with everything done through a confusion of environment modules, bothers me and typically confuses users, especially when there's a system package that provides the same thing. (At least look at TACC's Lmod instead of the canonical modules implementation.)
How about wearing huge Sombrero so that your face is invisible for cameras mounted above your head?
Sometimes, a headline is just so good you don't even need to read the article.
Probably like most people on HN, I have no idea how effective permissioned blockchain will end up being.

I took the edX Blockchain for Business class last year, and was sipping the coolaid, but now I am not as optimistic. For small groups of people and organizations, a permissioned blockchain might be over engineering when a distributed and secure shared database would be fine. For very large scale applications like health care records or smart contracts involving many thousands of individuals it makes more sense, but good luck getting off the ground.

I am still experimenting with two frameworks, one written in Rust and the other Haskell, but I am starting to think I am investing too much time.
Hi, I work at Keybase. There actually is some Yubikey support. But it's not relevant here, because chats use per-device keys, not your PGP key.
How do people find your music?
I live in the country remote working like some of the other commenters here after being priced out of NYC (where I'm from) and the Bay Area (where I worked for a few years). That I have great internet and wonderful amenities are two key pieces.

However after having run small businesses and/or freelancing for 10 years I can say that it is not something that everyone is cut out for.

The problem the cities have now is that they are not priced for people who work for a living. They are priced for people with access to intergenerational wealth and/or who don't work and just live off investments. Everything from the cost of property to the tax structure penalizes people who work severely and rewards people who own property and live off capital gains lavishly. Everything in the laws screams out "YOU SHOULD NOT BE WORKING HERE/EARNING A SALARY/STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS -- MOVE OUT, PEASANT."

People included in the "PEASANT" category include people earning low to mid six figure salaries. There is only so much that people will tolerate working hard to make their landlord rich. Other cities in the country that aren't the big offenders that everyone complains about don't really have this problem.

It is a problem that there is a solution for, though: move out, buy property, save money, work less, enjoy life more, get to keep the stuff that you used to give up to your landlord for the privilege of a few square feet in a dirty, stinky city with infrastructure that would humiliate someone from a country that isn't as backwards as the US.