skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rumor at Kubecon (in December, right after re:Invent) was that at the time there were only five people working on EKS, so you shouldn't have expected much. Thus, even if the team grew in the meantime, and it must have, you can't expect a solid product before at least the end of 2018. Waiting one year from announcement before adopting a brand new AWS product seems to be a reasonable rule of thumb.
Yeah they’ve done a great job with the different colors. I hate it when I see those green clouds. I made some of my friends on Android message me via Signal (they refused to use WhatsApp) because I hated the green clouds so much.
If you just need Git repositories, AWS has CodeCommit:

https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/
We should not give them kudos but advocate for changing the law and and mark companies that do stuff like this as assholes.
Yes and I'll detail that in the repo now, and emphasize that these are examples gathered from many teams.

Can you try reloading the repo page and see if it makes better sense now? Thanks for the feedback!
If you're getting a paywall as I am, try accessing via Google—just search for the title. Or if you like it on image format: https://i.imgur.com/BzSEEHkg.jpg (it was originally a higher resolution png).

It seems that the mirror posted here in the comments is somehow incomplete.
My 2014 Macbook Pro still dances circles around my boss's brand new top-spec Dell.
Yes, and the whole of the EU. The Data Protection Act is in the process of being replaced with a new Act that incorporates the GDPR into UK law. The GDPR expands that right further.
Sure it's end-to-end encrypted.. But Facebook doesn't have to get in the middle to look at your messages. Facebook is sitting at both ends, reading the messages after they are decrypted. It is already monetizing these messages and the ads are shown in Facebook instead of Whatsapp. Whether the opt-out functionality for this feature is honored properly by Facebook I'm not sure.
This is HN, assuming you can code, you have the ability to alleviate social problems through coding either through your own startup or side projects. Don't let that fire die inside of you that wants to give back and help push humanity forward, life is too short to be miserable working for someone else (as a programmer that's in demand).
That's why this needs to be illegal. The regular guy doesn't have the money to fight stupid contracts.
I think the second point is the more important one. I have no idea how prevalent it is, but my university lets me keep my original student address forever. You can't rely on even .edu addresses to ensure current academic affiliation.
> Many you named overspend, spread massive hype, and acquired funding with a story that doesn't match their product and its quality.

Sounds a lot like SV to me?
"Oh Monsanto, oh Monsanto. Wherefore art thou Monsanto?"
(yes i realize i clicked the article too). but really this is on the front page?

ps: the cure for hangover is breakfast
The 1950x is 16 cores and 32 threads
I exaggerated in the (dashed) hopes of inspiring some reflection. Even in this goofy fantasy in which no USA military or intelligence asset could have been expected to know who was living in the house down the street from their most cherished institution, because jungle, it would still have been amazing to find UbL living in that house.
enough lorazepam and you're done
The first part was good, then it kind of fell apart when it hit management by objectives, and the "fill in a email we send you with 'achievements this week', 'plans for next week'"

That's kind of nice, but really this should be auto generated - we should be building systems that pop out "Bob closed two sales this week, and needs one more to hit quota" - this is just a sales funnel so it's not hard - it may get fuzzier with "alice wrote the monthly report or alice completed the redesign of the home page" are just formatted git comments ?
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I might be mistaken, so please, forgive me if I’m wrong, but I feel like you may be missing my overall point.
> No, you're getting stuck at 3.0 because you're hitting the deprecation strategy.

I think you’re wrong here. Two reasons.

1. If that would be the case, I would be stuck with GL3.0 regardless on the GPU. In reality, I’m only stuck with GL version < 4.0 on HD2000 and VmWare. On my desktop PC (Maxwell at the time I’ve wrote that demo) OpenGL 4.0 worked just fine in that very project. Even on Intel HD 4000 laptop, OpenGL 4.0 worked just fine with the same code.

2. Please read Intel’s documentation: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000... Specifically, please expand “2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors” section. As you see in that table, Intel says HD Graphics 3000/2000 only support OpenGL 3.1, which is exactly what I’m getting from the GLEW library I’m using in that project.

Also, you can see in that article that no intel GPU supports GL 4.6 mentioned by GP. Even the latest generation UHD Graphics 620/630 only support GL 4.5. Meanwhile, they support the latest DirectX 12 for several years already.
Wow. "core hours" is full time, but there's also mandatory overtime. Anyone not in the boss's timezone has to to work weird hours to satisfy the micromanager's desire for fiefdom face-time.
Work starts before 9am every day, to prep for a 9am dressing-down.

This is not a place where anyone with a choice would want to work.

> * Each workday has a team standup meeting. We choose 9 a.m., because it sets the tone for the day.

> * The workday has core hours when we expect people to be together. We choose core hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in our team's main time zone, because these are typical business hours for typical offices.

> * Beyond the workday core hours, we expect people to do their own schedule
How about a minimal static page with an email address or phone number at the bottom for placing orders? Sounds very custom and high end. Total control over the customer relationship. Even GDPR compliant.
agree. found this article lacking and click-baity. I dunno why it got so many votes
If management nodes run in containers themselves (managed on AWS VMs), I’d assume a lower cost than what it’d cost to run them on VMs in AWS.

Is questioning the cost of a product not a fair question?
I'm not very clear on what you think a job is for. I understand a job as a way to trade your service for money and the point of money is to exchange it for other people's goods and services, like the kinds of goods and services we need to not die starving in the street, and are incredibly inefficient to provide all by ourselves. Or to send our kids to college. Or to pay our taxes so that the government can continue to provide its services. Etc.

I mean if you're a programmer and want a job fighting cancer, maybe pick up some ML skills and find a way into that industry. But short of getting your PhD in medicine or a law degree fighting injustice, we're all just a different sort of coal miner providing the things society needs to keep chugging along. And there's no shame in simply being a productive member of society. As far as societies go, we're better than all that have come before.
They do define non-commercial.

> It should not have paid support or paid contributors.
The feature you're asking for is free hosting and maintenance. It's a totally reasonable business model to supply that either through a paid-plan, or by hosting only the non-libre version of the software.

As you've mentioned, hosting costs time, which is money. It also costs bandwidth and storage. That gets quite expensive when you're at the scale Gitlab is currently at.
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Matt, What is your take on how Journalism might be some sort of Platform Cooperative (https://platform.coop/), where leadership is subject to the user community - either subscribers, journalists, or both. Even non-profits can be a problem in this regard if the board of directors is locked. Should Journalism focus on maximizing investor return?

Would Substack think that perhaps they could get investor "exit" to a community of journalists or subscribers rather than to Google or Facebook buyout? For example, https://www.stocksy.com/ In this model, investors might sell to a cooperative structure and get a note payable from a percentage of net revenue.
I think that is is best to open pull requests to Gitlab instead.

You may object and say that it is a bit lame to re-implement something that is already in the paid version. However, it is best than re-implementing everything from scratch.

Also, I have heard that Gitlab is open to open-sourcing features when you show interest to have it in the free version.

Take a look at this issue for example, which tracks Gnome's wishlist for Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43566.

The guys behind the Gitlab company move the community edition pretty fast too, possibly faster than what we would achieve by duplicating efforts.

However, as I mentioned in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241209), this may change because the new free Ultimate/Gold subscriptions could become excuses to stop open-sourcing features to Gitlab CE.
> ps: the cure for hangover is breakfast

And sleep and plenty of water ;)
Some people you can fool over and over again. It’s not like Microsoft hasn’t pulled any tricks before.
"preferably the kind of updates only possible with a tech giant behind you"

What kinds of these? Its never been the case that 25% more engineers means 25% more progress and github is a mature product made by a company that already employees a signifiant staff.

The logical thing would be not to piss off the existing users and use github to add value to existing Microsoft properties. So some new integration with Microsoft things?
Not the kind of trash I want to see on HN: https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59f7...

> On October 27, Aimee Levitt published a piece in The Chicago Reader with the apt title “Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist asshole—and possible worse.” Taibbi and Mark Ames were co-editors of the the English language gonzo, semi-satirical, semi-muckraking expat newspaper the eXile, where they engaged in sophomoric pranks, non-stop partying, and, if their own words are to believed, constant sexual harassment.
Or pho
salary and benefits of the job?
This looks like e2e push notifications but has warnings against p2p use, so I'm not fully sure what the use case is for this. Apologies for my ignorance - maybe someone can explain this relative to GCM, FireChat, XMPP, or Signal?
As someone who reads a lot of serialized content with a wide range of professionalism, what guards are in place to protect users from an author dropping a serialized work that is supposed to have a clear end prior to that end being reached?

That is, if I'm reading a book in serialized form from Matt Taibbi (as an example) that I feel invested in the outcome (in this case both figuratively and literally), and Matt decides he's got better things to do 80% the way through the book, what's to keep him or any other author from walking away at that point?

As a consumer, it's bad enough when I'm left in this situation when there's been no money exchanged (such as a series cancelled with the plot mostly unresolved). If I've actually been partially responsible for the funding to that point, I will not be a happy person if that happens.

In what says does Substack incentivize authors to complete serialized work like this, or at least leave it in a state that is somewhat appropriate?
"leader" == "manager" is a bright flashing warning light for a toxic work environment with self-important ladder-climbers.
> "You can very easily do the exact same things with raw python files, its just that in the ecosystem you work in, raw text files are treated more maturely."

This is non-sequitur to the whole discussion. You can write bad code in any tool. That has no bearing on this.

Instead we should ask, "what does it require to write good code in a given tool."

In plain source files, we know the answer, with lots of theory of design, decoupling, architectural rules, refactoring etc. As well as mature tools for code review, viewing diffs easily, automated testing.

In notebooks, the answer is that you have to jump through a lot of hoops to write things in a non-notebook-way -- that is, specifically in a way where you factor things out into the text files anyway -- if you want those good patterns.

For example, you mention:

> "I find notebooks very useful as a form of main method. You don't generally go importing your main methods anyway."

I totally agree. Viewed this way, the notebook-based "main" method is just a driver of other code. Meaning, you don't do much work in the notebook at all. You factor things out into other modules, etc., and then put as little as is needed to drive the code into the notebook.

Which is what I have been saying all along. It reveals the notebook to be an anti-pattern (because that driver code doesn't need or benefit from any aspects of the notebook environment that are expressly designed to act like a messy linear script of ad hoc implementation units mixed with ad hoc display units).

I would say your suggested way of using notebooks is exactly an example of what reveals that notebooks aren't very good for the intended use cases (like people defining global variables for experiment parameters at the top, and then "running an experiment" becomes changing those values and re-running the cells of the notebook).

This is among the most commonly advertised and praised ways of using a notebook, so it's not like some extremely rare situation that only arises in a place with bad software practices. It's practically the intended use of notebooks.

That's why I'm saying they are self-defeating. Once you take an approach where you factor things out and leave the notebook to be just a simplistic driver script, it's immediately clear that driver scripts can just be scripts, not notebooks, and don't benefit from all the intended ad-hoc-ery that is a first-class, intended workflow of the notebook design.
"""Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."""

oh ....
A great many things the FDA has approved have been recalled. A great many more things do not have FDA approval at all but have the approval of regulatory agencies in the EU, Canada, and the rest of the world.

My point being we should not rely on government agencies as our source of truth.

Additionally, the misuse (or overuse) of "snake oil" is becoming cliche. This hangover cure may work or it may not. But it certainly isn't snake oil because it has a limited scope of operation. And, until proven otherwise, was created as an honest attempt to alleviate hangover symptoms. Rather than being a callous money grab at the expense of people's health.
> Do you think management nodes are free? ... Google['s management nodes] might be free

Indeed they are. Why do you think that is?

It could be that they're a great big loss-leader for GKE, or that the costs of GKE management nodes are amortized into the per-cluster-node costs. But neither of these seem to be true. (The pricing of GKE management nodes before they made them free was negligible; and GKE nodes don't cost any more than equivalent GCE nodes.)

The real answer, I think, is that K8s management nodes really are just not all that big a deal to run. Certainly not $144/mo of a big deal.
Yep, as long as you're doing it on your own time, own equipment, with none of your employer's trade secrets.
For the longest time ever MacOS was the OS for professional print, professional graphic design, professional sound design and professional sound editing, professional video editing.

When MacOS moved to a BSD-based system, it won over a large portion of software development. Go to almost any IT conference, you'll see people with MacBooks running MacOS (some run *nixes on MacBooks because of hardware).

In the past 4 to 5 years though Apple has let MacOS more or less stagnate.
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Usually people just check if the domain is `.edu` since IIRC you need to be an accredited institution to acquire one.

EDIT: University/Colleges only. Per wikipedia: "Since 2001, new registrants to the domain have been required to be United States-affiliated institutions of higher education;..."

Many places that offer free tiers for 'education' only worry about that level of education and locale, anyway. (Not saying they should limit it to that, but many do.)
Yeah, I'm already seriously creeped out whenever a driver grabs a water bottle and shoves it in my face, and that's free. I always 3-star drivers for that behavior.

If they tried to _sell_ me something, I'd 1-star them and open up a ticket to complain.
> Is he good at standing up for himself and not letting management crush him?

Yes. This. He was very, very good at standing his ground and asserting that his time and effort was being spent well.

Multiple times I witnessed management clashing with him over something. Usually he felt like more time and effort needed to go into a certain part of code. Rather than just "get it done" he took pride in his work and wanted it done RIGHT.

In general he was so good / fast that he could get it done "RIGHT" within management's expectations. But occasionally he would take on a big chunk of work, and management would try and shut him down. 9/10 they failed, he would do the work, and a damn good job of it.
That's a really neat idea!
I'll go against all the other answers and say that I have seen that in practice. I'm even doing that in practice, every day of the week. A half-day task would even be a big task, most of our tickets are a couple hours maximum.

We practice a lean-laced Scrum with 1-week sprints. And yes, it works. And yes, we go fast. So yes, it can work (thought we have several years of refining our methodology and have a big culture of pragmatism and problem-solving).
Isnt this what diaspora and mastodon are doing?
Tesla is sliding ahead of its annual meeting
Does the LA Times prefers to not be available at all in Europe at all than comply with GDPR? Amazing.
To those using Gitlab to escape Microsoft. You might want to check where Gitlab is hosted. I suggest you go the self-hosted route instead.
One factor that seems to have played in his favor is the unlikely pre-launch competitive threat. The fact that no beverage company has emerged in the US as a hangover cure till now gave him time to move deliberately, snake oil or not.

Many other startups (I'm looking at this week's LiDAR fundings) live in a headlong footrace as they try to get to market sooner with a better solution. No time to measure twice.

However, now that the cat's out of the bag....
> FDA approval is actually relatively lax as it is. To pass the FDA, you pretty much have to do better than a placebo.

That's the D part of the FDA. The article specifies that he was advised not to call it either of a "cure" or a "drink".

Drinks fall under the FDA's core F responsibility. But he's ordering this drink from a factory that already produces enormous quantities of the same drink for consumption by Koreans. I'm not really worried that drinking it is unsafe, so the dietary supplement branding seems fair.

As to drug testing, doing better than placebo in a trial the FDA will accept is incredibly expensive regardless of how effective your drug is.
This might also be a feature of your browser. Firefox and chrome both implemented this a little while ago. If you pin the tab, it shouldn't stop playing video when you switch away. I forget which of the browsers, but it really helps people on bad laptops and what not.
This kind of side-hustle is much more exciting to me than the "quit the day job roll the dice" entrepreneur stories. It reminds me of the Shopify features where team members proved the product by creating dropshipping side-hustles.

https://www.shopify.com/blog/75644165-how-i-imported-gaming-...
This is why I'm not a fan of the heavier and heavier online focus in many modern video games. They're becoming more and more reliant on services that'll inevitably be shut down at some point, and take a large portion of the original game with it.

That was bad enough with MMORPGs and other online only titles, but yeah, it's becoming an issue with many more too.