skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that it's a jump. I was around early enough to see what the world was like before the FSF. While my professional career started after that, for much of it I worked with $5000k per seat compilers, libraries and frameworks that didn't include source code and I even accepted jobs (out of need) that forbid me from using anything without a restrictive (to the point of abusive) license.

I've seen both worlds. You don't want to be in that other one, trust me. What I will say is not that free software has made my career possible, more that it has made it possible for me to do my job without going crazy. No more reverse engineering bizarre bugs in my tools. No more building everything from scratch because I can't possibly trust anybody else's code. Not as much struggling to deal with boneheaded vendor lock-in that some executive in the nose-bleed seats commits me to (OK... it still happens... but it's a lot better).

I'll be honest, though. I didn't actually believe that the reality we have today, as flawed as it still is, would come. I'm incredibly grateful.
Can you offer any recent examples of start-ups routinely breaking the law where nearly everyone is in agreement that their law-breaking has no negative social effect?

Again, all rules involve trade-offs. It may be that those trade-offs or preferentially unfairly benefit some special interest group or otherwise aren't worth the cost to society, but it's not up to profit-seeking hucksters to unilaterally make that determination.
Maybe it's time to switch to another distro. In Fedora, trying to install MySQL will install MariaDB, but it is a redirect of sorts, the package is not named MySQL.
RTFM where T means "the" can be mean. RTFM where T means "this" is kind and helpful.
The need is for defaults. I want everyone using end to end encryption by default. If Signal became the default, great.
Noone can dispute that it's important to work on the right things. But are meetings the best way to communicate those? is there more efficient/effective way to do so? Because also no one can dispute that meetings are generally considered overhead.
I just bought one on Amazon.
Sadly, don't works out of the box on Linux, as the driver only works with a old version of the kernel.

PD: I bought as a cheap way to plug a old VGA monitor as a secondary screen, plus allow using it as a SDR transmitter is a nice extra.
Attacking Wade is treating a symptom though. We should be treating the underlying cause.
What really got me is the average revenue per user in US & Canada is $23.59, compared to less than half of that for Europe ($8.12).
Git-annex/ tips/ install on Android in Termux
In addition, his disposition for avoiding ads likely means he is running ad blocking, and thus already minimizing his ad exposure. This presents a less crowded field where any ads he does see may have a larger impact on his buying behavior.
The way I've thought about this is that it's about whether an index is the name or the offset of an element of an array. Indices have a torsor-like structure, where you can subtract indices i and j to get an offset j-i from index i, and there is the relationship a[j] == a[i + (j-i)]. Zero-indexing is the special case that the name is the offset from the first element.

Because of this, I figure any language that supports 1-indexing should also support arbitrary ranges for the indexing, like in Ada. (Basically, what's so special about 1?)
if you can't use kubernetes or containers then I guess Ansible is a fallback?
First paragraph from the article...

"The recent death of Jill Tarlov, a pedestrian killed by a bicyclist in New York’s Central Park —the second such incident in two months—engendered a flurry of commentary and analysis of the dangers of cyclists determined to train for speed in one of the city’s most crowded recreational havens."

It goes on to discuss that most deaths are due to head injuries.
'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else dare mention
>Their bizarre strategy: making those neighborhood streets worse to drive on.

What is bizarre about this? This is the empirical approved solution for this: More and better streets have cause more traffic, fewer and worse have less. If you want less trafic this strategy is as good as it gets. And if people want few trafic that what politics should do. I'd guess a website called "reason.com" would like empirical data, and science, but they seem to care about some anecdotes.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/21/the-science-is-clear-...
Discussed twice earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922476
Drupal Remote Code Execution vulnerability exploited widely
I had an active forum before facebook and twitter. the forum died and was not transferred to facebook. Rather it seems like people’s free time to participate in tb forum got occupied with their time on fb and twitter.

Unfortunatelt neither fb nor twitter are really designed to support forum style interaction. No list of topics and threads
Where do you read you have to provision instances? I have to choose between Basic and Standard. But there‘s no clear indication that i have to select an instance based on my storage requirements. The pricing information does not indicate different instances for the different storage requirements, it could be, but would not really fit how the rest of gcp works.
Author here, thanks for the suggestion!

I just added a note about T2 Unlimited and will see about writing a follow up post explaining the new T2 Unlimited concepts.

EDIT: Added the note and gave a shout out, thanks again :).
>forcing cows into pregnancy

Do you mean artificial insemination or animal husbandry?
You still see this a lot nowadays, specially those that only use gcc and clang, without experience writing actual portable C code.
I always thought it neatly mimicked the way we think of age. When you are born you start at 0. You only turn 1 after you have lived a year.
I don't think it's forced.

Personally, I like to work with people I like. I've had many great relationships come from meeting people at work, finding common interests and sharing them. From simple things like talking about our favourite shows, to board game nights, to going out for drinks and meeting up to take pictures. I can see the value in this.
> Swift was designed for general purpose app development.

Swift is a general-purpose language, but I would say that its first purpose is for mobile development. (Or, at least, that's where it started.)

> Why would you use Swift as your new data science language when Julia was made for that purpose and Swift was not?

The author calls out Swift as being good because (1) TensorFlow is now supported for it specifically and (2) it is optimized for mobile development. The author seems to feel that being able to deploy machine learning applications to mobile devices (and optimized) is a great boon, and Python is not well-suited to this.
The real solution is to build more housing near where people work, so that people don't HAVE to commute.

Oh who am i kidding. Thats politically impossible.
Who really wants to fully customise their system? I'm not interested in spending time and effort customising my OS, I'd rather use that time to do work or use my laptop for entertainment. I'd rather it works proficiently out of the box and I mostly get that from osx/macos, with a few minor customisations I've built up over time.

I'm sure being able to fully customise your system is appealing to some, the rest of us just want to get stuff done.

Ps. Web developer since 1994.
The end to end application building aspect of python is not yet there with swift (swift for servers?). Also if folks keep sticking to tools well tuned for their jobs, maybe something like graalvm may provide enough interoperability and performance eventually ... in the "good enough is the competitor to the best" sense.
Let's talk about something else.
> You will likely find it is difficult or impossible to access the server to take any measures to solve the issue until the CPU credits have accrued.

Only if you don't want to enable t2 unlimited -> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/cli/latest/reference/ec2/m...

But really seems like it would be simple enough to rig something up that would:

1. Trigger CloudWatch Alarm on Insufficient T2 Credits

2. Send SNS notification to SNS topic when triggered

3. have lambda function subscribed to enable t2 unlimited

4. have subscribed email or slack alert to be like "hey something's up, we enabled t2 unlimited for now"

Though CW alarms for this are limited to running every 5 min, so could take a bit to notify, or you might need to set your threshold a bit high at first. I usually prefer to configure a CW event rule for this kind of stuff, but I don't see any support for that out of the box.

At least they explain the math pretty decently for predicting the usage: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/t2-insta...
Thanks, Pucholo. Updating the Profile is one of the feature that we're working on for the next release.

Status of the pending tests takes 2 hours-12 hours depending on the load on the system and the complexity of the test. You can enter additional tests even if you have pending tests. There is no limit on the number of tests that you can setup.
For everybody wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal_snack_pack

Basically french fries/chips covered with kebab meat and liberally doused with various sauces.
WALRUS: The Wirral and Liverpool Regional Urban System
This isn't wikipedia :)
How do you mean?

I'm a big fan of Python, so I'm just curious what you mean here. Swift has a lot of great language features that Python lacks, in my opinion. (My first favorite: native option types. Second favorite: internal and external function parameter names. There are more, but these are my top two.)
If you want to hold America to the same standard as Australia, try finding public transportation between Sydney and Adelaide, Alice Springs, or Darwin. (There isn't any.) In the US you at least can take Amtrak to cross those kinds of distances (even if it's cheaper and faster by orders of magnitude to just take a plane instead). It's fine to point out that America's public transportation is severely lacking (which it very obviously is), but being dismissive and reductive of the pertinent facts and realities isn't a good look, and it isn't helpful to public discourse.
> But none of them matter because people do not want to cycle.

Wrong. Vancouver, for example, built a network of protected bike lanes in a few years, and saw bike rates skyrocket. Bike commute mode share is now 10%, despite having much less than 10% of available road space, making bikes highly land-efficient.

> There are no cases in the world where cycling infrastructure has been successful in having a measurable impact on congestion.

That's because the number of cars increases to fill the amount of road space. But if you look at Amsterdam or Copenhagen, plenty of people are willing to bike when there's good bike lanes and paths for doing so.

In contrast, cities like SF or Seattle have a bare handful of protected bike lanes, a smattering of walk/bike trails, and they hardly connect to each other. It's hardly a surprise that most people don't want to bike in those conditions.

> which is where I believe SF is at after all of the billions they’ve invested in it

If SF had spent "billions" the city would be covered in protected bike lanes. Needless to say, it isn't. This is a made-up figure.
"only peds belong on sidewalks"

It's worth remembering that peds (otherwise known as "people") used to be able to roam the street freely. Can't find the source now (at work) but in the 1920's a judge in New York bemoaned the then-ridiculous idea that cars would mean children could no longer play in the street, which of course they had every right to do.
UT Dallas Researchers Use TACC Supercomputers to Improve Wind Energy Production
I don't think the cost of that is justified in large cities. LA already dedicates more land area to automobile infrastructure than anything else, and the region is still plagued by traffic jams. At the end of the day, a single rail line can bring an amount of people in and out a city equivalent to multiple lanes of traffic. That's a lesson Americans forgot after 1945 for whatever reason, and now we have to re-learn it from the rest of the world now that we've hit the limits of car-oriented development.
Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on the Blockchain
An Instagram Photo Tour of America's Wind Power – Motherboard
I personally feel no-code/low-code platforms are here to stay and will be the future.

The straight-away advantage with these platforms is the readily available development environment. The visual interface helps you to improve the quality and accelerates the development which allows Rapid Application Development (RAD)

These platforms allows you to move towards app modernization in a flexible and incremental approach with out disruptions.

WaveMaker (https://www.wavemaker.com) is Yet another RAD (Rapid Application Development) Platform which also offers continuos Deployment.
You're right that pierogi, and in fact all dumplings, and even pasta, originate from China. However, they are different. The differences may be subtle to someone who is not familiar with them, enjoys generalizations, or lacks taste buds.

The world of dumplings literally spans the globe and is extremely varied!

You can put different things in them. Even if you look at "meat stuffed dumplings", you can use different types of meat, that is prepared and flavored in different ways. The dough can be made of different types of flour and with ingredients in different proportions. They can be boiled, deep fried, pan fried. They can be eaten by themselves, or doused in butter, fried onions, sour cream, bacon bits, or who knows what. The choice of stuffing is tremendous, spanning meat, cheese, potatoes, fruits, and mushrooms! Don't even get started on different shapes, which are also an important part of the meal.

It's like saying "bread is bread" and throwing croissants, sour rye, and cron-bread into the same proverbial basket. Technically true, but does not add much to the conversation.
Bad analogy, but another commenter has already pointed this out. :)

But I do suppose that Linux has a higher chance of having a kernel panic than BEAM having an internal segmentation fault, simply since Linux has more code and thus a larger surface area for bugs.
Will be different, yes, but in the same way any two instances of "real" Redis will be different.

Hardware, networking, routing, load balancing, memory and disk IO, number of instances, backups/failovers etc. are going to be deciding overall performance rather than the Redis binary itself.
schnitzel is austrian, and therefor central european!
I wish it was politically possible to make more dedicated bus lanes. When I see a couple of private cars blocking 3 buses with ~100 people in each I get so angry.

From a utilitarian point of view bus only lanes are a no-brainer, at least in peak.

A visualization: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tfJHpDfakqo/Up_mmjALPtI/AAAAAAABQM...
Yes I realise this, it’s just that you said:

New buildings sequester carbon

Carbon sequestration is usually meant to mean carbon emissions are locked up in something, typically CO2 pumped in to a stable geological formation.

Whereas my point is that new buildings are carbon emissions insensive.
This is an issue that people who aren't learning a language seem to miss. The alphabet or pronunciation is generally the first thing you learn, and unless it's an incredibly different one like the Arabic, Tibetan or Devanagari scripts (or doesn't use an alphabet at all like the Chinese languages) then I suspect after a few days you mostly nailed it to the point that you can entire sentences out loud at reasonable pace even if you can't understand them. I learned the Cyrillic alphabet well enough to slowly sound out any words within a half a day, and the same deal with Korean.

If you're driven enough to even think about learning Kazakh then I imagine that a slightly different alphabet is not going to stop you. If my adventures with the Czech language are at all indicative then learning the rules around grammatical cases and being able to listen and parse the words in speech at "normal" speed are the real hurdles you'll need to overcome.
Anyone have a link to the actual tarball?
The lowest tier says min 1GB. So I guess it starts from $35.77/mo, even if your app doesn’t need the whole 1GB.
What if nobody buys anything at the auction?
> Julia's [was] designed with scientific computing in mind. Swift was designed for general purpose app development.

General purpose always wins. Or should always win. Because in reality nobody has any idea what "the purpose" is in the grand scheme of things.

Python succeeded because it was general-purpose enough. Javascript too. We don't want more narrow purpose languages that force us to change the language every time we change the fragment of the stack we work on.

We need an ultra-general purpose language with good support for both OOP and FP, non-retarded type-system, decent performance, and a good "compile to readable JS" story... to unify this damn mess of "diversity" that forces us to over-specialize in narrow niches and drowns us in complexity.

(No, otoh, I don't think "general purpose" should mean "infinite power" or "maximum expressivity". There's are reason why we're not all using Common Lisp and Scala...)
Are you a vegetarian?
It depends on how much you trust the web service with your data and how much meta data they gather about you, and how much you care about that.

It is not as simple as you are making out because of

1. The vast amount of meta data that can be mined from your browser requests, scripts running on sites, your logging into multiple devices.

2. The scripts that run on other sites when you are not using FB, that know your FB identity or might send data back to FB. Safe to assume it's being shared with 3rd parties. Safe to assume those parties are in different countries with different laws.

3. The amount of computational power FB has, machine learning technology etc.

4. What we learned from Snowden.

It is naive to think of giving information to Facebook as being the same as giving it to a small community site running PHPBB.

There are personal privacy concerns, as well as aggregate ones. I.e. by being on facebook you are helping other's to have less privacy unless you use it in a very restricted way.
> What are the problems with bubbles if investors can be cushioned from their worst effects when they occur?

I don't think both can be mutually exclusive. For a bubble to occur investors have to be irrationally exuberant. If they are more prudent and cushion themselves from the worst effects then we might not have a bubble, ever.
Honest question: isn't python just glue over the well-performamt c++ tensorflow library? I thought it was, but given this article does python do more then? There wouldn't be much to gain by swappinge the wrapper.
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Back when I worked at AWS and t1s were still the big thing, we had a policy of telling customers to never run a production site on a t1.micro . I would say the same about t2s for the most part. AWS needs to do a better job of putting big red warnings all over the docs or console or something. Even though the details really are all there in the docs, it's very easy for people to get lulled into a sense of false security if they're following along with a blog post or just not going over the docs in depth. But really, reading the service docs in depth, does pay off.

Totally agree that it should not be "general computing" categorized though. That category in general is too vague to be useful really. They should clearly demarcate between production service hosts and development-oriented instance types.
Hardware Platform for Efficient Multi-Modal Sensing with Adaptive Approximation
Local tabletop gaming groups have rules set by store that hosts the meetings. It is not members setting rules, but the place setting rules. Professional association have rules set by few companies with others not having realistic chance to change the rules.

In many places, homeowner associations is something you have to be member of, whether you want it or not.
Dense large cities are economically unviable if you try to accommodate car traffic. The tale of them being cheaper is true only if you give up large living spaces and personal transport.
I have a suspicion that bubbles can only exist when media is centralized. Today's media is too decentralized to create the wave of panic that is necessary to burst a bubble. There will always be some people somewhere who didn't get the news and who still believe that x has value and will be happy to buy when they see a price drop...

Also, the fear of missing out among millenials is stronger than their fear of losing everything.
It turns out that people who think they are lactose intolerant often are not. They get discomfort from something in the milk but not necessarily the lactose, hence A2 milk. It will be interesting tot see how it all pans out. http://www.liggins.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/news/news-2017/a2...
A lot of what makes Stallman hard to like is that what he says are inconvenient truths.

It took me a while to realize that.
> The Cyrillic alphabet is a major barrier to learning Russian for Americans.

Is this based on your imagination or do you have some source?

I have seen several complete idiots try (and completely fail) to learn Russian, but they all got the alphabet down perfectly in a few days.

It’s almost completely impossible for me to imagine you thinking this if you have made any serious effort to learn Russian.
Or perhaps for a large enough city, you can't build enough roads, because you'd need like >70% of all area for roads and parking.

The scaling doesn't work.

For another similar example, think of how much percentsge space you need in a 2 story building devoted to elevators (almost none) vs a 200 story building (a significant percentage of the middle core of the building is nothing but elevators). Take that and scale it even worse, and you have roughly the small town vs big city traffic issue.
They don’t exist, and never will, because outside of the feels cities in the world that are suited for cycling, people don’t actually want them. The cynic in me says that car drivers only support cycle way spending because they think it’ll clear up the roads for them. But the reality is that doesn’t happen. In LA less than 50% of the transit budget is spent on roads, despite them being the primary facilitator of transport.

Your position is based entirely upon a utopian fiction, where if only we could tear the whole city down and rebuild it from the ground up, then maybe people would want to bike to work.
I'm not sure it's been studied, but I'd wager that every tax dollar spent on subsidizing public transit (or possibly even making it free) would deliver several dollars of gain. Physical mobility is one of the best predictors of economic mobility[0], and I imagine the poor would be able to find better jobs with fewer economic hurdles put in front of them.

[0] http://www.nascsp.org/data/files/csbg_publications/issue_bri...
The first example that occurs to me is startups selling medical marijuana in states which have already legalized it (yet they're still breaking federal law).