skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't think there is less art in a massively popular song. It's just a different kind of art"

Technically you could say thins, but in reality I would say there is definitely 'less art'.

Katey Perry is a product, not an artist, listening to her reminds me of walking into a nice, clean, new McDonald's.

Sure there is 'art' even in Product Marketing and Segmentation ... but funny enough, most of this music does not last.

I have nothing against great and hyper-specialized production, but it's usually done in an industrial manner.

The same thing is often done with food ingredients: there are people hired by processed food manufacturers to get the 'ingredient mix' just perfect for taste - and this tends to commoditize products across the board.

The article makes a good case for this, i.e. why hyper specialization and product orientation leads to less diversity.

Example from another industry: as films become more 'global' - they have to be more bland and generic, and 'lowest common denominator'. International audiences don't 'get' American cultural cues.

Do you know why the Transformers movies make absolutely no sense? There is basically no plot. Just 2 hours of a long, ridiculous action sequence? Because they are catering to 'everyone' and 'everyone' is borderline illiterate, and doesn't grasp cultural references outside of their little region etc. etc..

Katey Perry to me is the 'Transformers' of Music.
This would be a great way for them to accelerate migration away from Github.
Canadian here: it's just as bad even with universal healthcare.
> On paper, the area should operate very similarly to New York City

I think you're mistaken.

On paper, NYC has a land area of just under 303 square miles. The nine-county SFBA is around 7000 square miles. I'm pretty sure it's also unique as a city in other ways.

The Tri-State Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area at 13000+ square miles is much closer, on paper, and I'm pretty sure it has its share of political challenges.
>"8.7*10^349236 possible configurations"

Are you thinking there is only ~1/8.7e349236 viable solutions? There is no reason to expect you need to exhaust even a tiny fraction of the space to get something reasonable.
it's early monday morning for a good portion of their on call staff.
That's how we define it where I work.

Data engineering cleanse data, manage workflows for ETL, build views, encapsulate rules and logic.

Data science is taking that cleaned up data and testing hypotheses.

Plenty of people can do both, and frankly it's very condescendimg when I run into a data scientist who prefers to outsource the engineering (because they're bad at it) so they can do "real work."

Source: I hire data scientists for Fortune 100 companies.
How often have you seen that idiom after some person's name?
Verex: the Verbal regex builder
There are some regex builders, but verex has more to offer. Take a look here:
https://github.com/MohammadHamdyGhanem/Verex
Mmm.. lifetimes analysis?

I'm no expert in either Ada or Rust, but I _suspect_ that type system is more expressive in Rust, allowing for more precise static constraints.

Ada, of course, has decades of prod experience, though.
Microsoft is one of Linux Foundation biggest donors, which means they have leverage over them. They are invited to discuss new Linux developments, products, etc...
HN is the new cool neighbourhood. I hope it doesn't become mainstream enough to be ruined by gentrification.
If you are talking strictly rentals, my impression is that some places in San Francisco are rent controlled. So some of the cost burden difference figure is likely accounted for by rent control in some places. If you are talking housing burden, California tax laws intentionally advantage long time owners and we're specifically designed to help homeowners stay in their house. This actively harms people new to the area and also tends to freeze people in place.

I lived in Fairfield, California at one time (as a military wife). My husband got a very high COLA for being there. I am well aware that there are many ways to skin this cat.

But none of that in any way suggests to me that $1200-$1500 for a room in a shared house constitutes affordable housing.

Most months, I support a family of three on around $1200-$1600/month income. My income is portable. I left California to get off the street. And it aggravates me when well heeled professionals on HN poo poo the idea that the Bay Area has a housing crisis. There are endless articles about the issue posted to HN about this issue. They vary from articles about the deepening issue of homelessness to the YIMBY movement by well paid young professionals who can't find housing that meets their needs (and more).

Yes, I know all the rebuttals: "Homeless people are just a bunch of crazies and junkies who can't make their life work. Thus homelessness has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the West Coast only has about 30 affordable homes* for every 100 needy families" and "Well, you aren't supposed to be able to buy a house in your twenties. It takes time to ramp up to that, never mind how much young professionals make these days."

I've heard it and I can't believe anyone can see the parade of endless articles about the housing crisis and spout such blatant nonsense. From where I sit, Housing Crisis Denial should be a meme just as much as Climate Change Denial is and should be basically lumped in with Flat Earthers for how utterly illogical it is.

* https://www.geekwire.com/2018/every-100-families-living-pove...

Edited to add this compendium (by me) of stats on homelessness and housing in California:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/california-...
Sorry to say it like this but you’ve been working on your performance problems for years now and you’re still at the same place. I think your problems run much deeper than that.
I've been using this in a VM since forever: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/gitlab
Agreed - I grew up near NYC, and now live in the Bay Area. IMO, the quality of life is much better in the Bay Area, although I don't like the fake niceness you see around sometimes. Around NYC I have to be a lot more vigilant for people acting like tough guys, and I saw/experience & heard of a lot more racism there. Just a few years ago visiting NYC, I almost got run over in Manhattan despite having very clearly the right of way with the would-be assailant yelling "Run you the fuck over" right as he drove behind turning.

Not to say the Bay Area is perfect, but I don't have to be continually fighting issues of life and death as much here compared to some other places in the country. My main gripe is the cost of living, but basically nowhere else in the country marks as many checkboxes for me as the Bay Area (and even cost of living is muted by my drastically increased income compared to anywhere else).
GitHub is a venture backed company with some $350M raised according to Crunchbase[1]. As such, your options are pretty much limited to IPO, being acquired, generating crazy profits and buying out investors to stay private, or go bankrupt. Since it appears they had hard time turning profitable[2], I’m hardly surprised that GH May be ending the way of Microsoft.

I think it’s worthwile question to everyone who is lamenting here about the future fate of GitHub if they put their money where their mouth is? Or through some magical reality expected to forever have a free, really great and well taken care of service? (I’ve had paid private account since forever).

GitLab btw has meger $45M raised[3]. I urge all the ‘let’s move to GItLab or other’ people give that a hard thought and how that will eventually expire.

TANSTAAFL

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/github
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188574
[3] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com
Why assume the market is correct? Most people have no idea about the valuation of securities and patents are even harder to value
> It's the Rails convenience stuff which slows things down massively.

Yeah no kidding.. https://samsaffron.com/archive/2018/06/01/an-analysis-of-mem...
It depends highly on the region and culture. In some areas of the U.S. these expectations are still around (and quite achievable).
I don't know what to say, except that if you're relying on Glassdoor as an indication of L5 compensation at Google, you're making decisions based on bad information. And, yes, equity can be 50% or more of TC at those levels, which have salaries well above 110k.

If there's someone reading this who's interested in working at Google or Facebook but worry the compensation might be too low to live a good lifestyle in the Bay Area, ask actual people who work there for input instead of people who gawk in disbelief at these salaries.
I don't think 95% are lactose intolerant globally. Also, being lactose intolerant from birth is a disorder, and it's extremely rare.

The Wikipedia article on the subject mentions that the number of people who are lactose intolerant as adults is unknown, but goes on to say "One estimate puts the average at 65% of the global population.[8] Rates of lactose intolerance vary between regions, from less than 10% in Northern Europe to as high as 95% in parts of Asia and Africa.[3]"

It goes on to say that evidence suggests that lactase persistence has evolved multiple times independently, so it's not just a one time European mutation.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance
And for purposes of comparing total compensation across regions, including stock appreciation like this is misleading. The value used should be the value of the stock at the time it was granted. that's effectively the intended compensation from the company. stock markets go up and down. especially using the past few years record bull market and including that as if the companies intended to pay that much is not going to help someone trying to compare total comp between regions.
The ggp claim was re: the open source community.
gogs was more of a one-person-in-command project, not sure its status now, gitea is more of a team work. I use gitea, works great all around, perfect for small to middle-size needs, totally resource light when you self host,a $5 VPS will serve well, or a small local VM
No doubt the recent Microsoft takeover news has fueled the spike.

At MS heart is simply money. Nothing else.

When push-comes-to-shove and a decision in the future is between doing the right thing for the open source community, and making an extra buck you can count on MS to go with the latter every time.
AFAIK, youtube-dl will find all videos and download them if fed a playlist URL. I'm curious if this script is a workaround for some obscure brokenness or something.
Admit it. If Google bought them instead, there'd be far less freakout. Google is pretty scary, but you have to admit that we still distrust MS with our free software even less.
Yes yes yes, federation is needed.

People on GitHub is not just to sharing codes, but also to get in touch with each others. GitHub succeed because it's not only just a free online Git repo services, but also a developer + user community where you can put your code on, share it, and 'earn' stars & forks as feedback. And stars + forks can help you stand out in a job interview and many other occasions.

Bitbucket is another Git repo service, but it sort of failed to build it's community. Result? It received less attentions compare GitHub.

So, while GitLab is also trying to be 'yet-another' Git repo + you can host it on your own, the benefits of become community can't be ignored. And federation can help that by connecting all the GitLab instances together to form a bigger and global community.

Even better, the federation protocol itself can be an open-sourced public standard, so all the other Git repo software can implement that in their product. The potential is huge.
Someone has to maintain it.
(shameless plug) I recently built a tool (SIT, https://sit.fyi) that has decentralizes issue tracking and similar workflows, giving full days ownership and independence of storage and transport. Can be (and actively being) used with Git, or other SCMs.
That sounds like something just waiting for copyright abuse and its ensuing enforcement hell. "This GitLab instance has been shut down permanently by the FBI and ICE"
What strikes me (besides NSA apparently meaning 'Non-Secular Americans') is that a lot of these posters don't have the design flair and inspiration of, say, WWII propaganda posters.
If it's Electron it's the reason to not use it.
I've setup gitea for myself. Both a fairly similar, just that gitea doesn't have a single point of failure. Gitea has a feature comparison chat on their site[1] if you wish to compare the two directly. The fork arose from the single maintainer not working to give some control to the community.

[1]: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/
It might just be cleaner to close the github repo and when other projects find a 404 where it used to be, they'll have to use super detective skills (i.e. Google it) to find the project's new home. And if they can't find it that way, then nothing of value was lost. (Yes, yes, I know it's more nuanced than that, but if you wanted permanence, you'd be hosting on your own domain, right?)
Kind of unnerving how a lot of those propaganda posters would be almost ironic to use in today's societal setting; or maybe its more unsettling how most people today don't care about having their rights infringed upon.
Just FYI, I can share how things stand in Shanghai, China now.

An average IT graduate can expect to earn around net RMB150k/year, which is about US$23k. This is about twice the median for junior workers. Shanghai is one of the most expensive cities in China to rent, with average rents at 140-150% of median income, topped only by Beijing. Of course, with the largest subway system in the world, with prices starting from $0.3 per journey, everybody lives on the outskirts where the rent is cheaper, and commute a very manageable (though quite tight) 40-60 minutes to the downtown or numerous IT parks within the city.

The average programmer stays around there with the salary for years, the experience is not that important. But good and exceptional programmers command salaries that are much higher. I'd say from interview experience, 1-3% percent are good or have potential.

IT hubs in the country are centered around Hangzhou (Alibaba), Shenzhen (Tencent, hardware), Shanghai (many Western companies, esp. gaming), and Beijing. In well-financed Chinese IT unicorns, a good engineer can easily get net RMB700k/year (US$105k), and this is the country where you pay $3 for doctor consultation, $20 for tomography, and $15 to rent a car for a day.

In hot industries, it can be even higher. Just a few days ago we interviewed a talented candidate for blockchain startup CTO-level position, and the ask was net RMB2m/year (US$300k), villa-level housing allowance, and a personal driver. We didn't take it, but surely some unicorn will.
Lol. The last thing the homeless need are more consequences. Let able-bodied and able-minded folk suck up their token share of the suffering.
Microsoft is not gonna give a fuck about your shitty little repos or anyones for that matter. What makes you think they are gonna put time and effort into mining people's code?
So you're saying if you buy a house, you will be making incredible gains. If not, then you will be making gains at least as good as everywhere else. Sounds like win-win to me.
https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/1003439258814877697?...

This link is for the monitoring page. The imports are going through.
stfu and leave then
Yeah I wouldn't say a man in his 20's was expected to "provide" for a young family in urban areas. Maybe in the burbs with a rented home or a smaller apartment, but not white picket fence typical Americana. Then again, 10 and 15 year mortgages were the norm back then...
Very nice! Looks cool.

What does your tool offer to make sure I never have to deal with abusive users, server patches, or a split-brain scenario?
Someone can just make `libreatom` and start distributing binaries. The MIT license is nice like that.
If anyone is concerned about migrating to Gitlab for that reason, well, I believe Atlassian is fully bootstrapped and profitable. I personally use Gitlab for my private projects but just thought I'd mention.
> I think it’s worthwile question to everyone who is lamenting here about the future fate of GitHub if they put their money where their mouth is?

I imagine most HN readers are paying customers either directly or indirectly(their company/startup).

As a private customer, I wouldn’t object to an increase in the price if that meant they stay independent. If they get acquired by MS I am definitely stopping my subscription.
Indeed, some popular music wasn't produced for dancing but most of that wasn't considered art.

It's not really some simplistic generality. The larger point is audio reproduction and the increased production of commodities is what allowed the uniqueness of a kind of musician to be their selling point, once a musician was "selling himself/herself" rather than being a paid player.
Check out ctosforgood.org, or head over to idealist.org.
Maybe you should have another look... Microsoft isn't the same company it was 12 years ago.

Everybody keeps repeating that little mantra " Microsoft isn't the same company it was 12 years ago."

I would say they should all (re)-read this classic bit of wisdom:

One day a frog was sitting happily by the side of the river when a scorpion came along. “Oh Mr. Frog,” said the scorpion, “I need to get to the other side of the river to be with my family. Will you please carry me across?”

“But Mr. Scorpion, if I do that, then you will sting me!” replied the frog, somewhat aghast at the request.

“No, I won’t,” said the scorpion, " if I were to sting you, surely I would drown as well."

Okay,” the frog said reluctantly. “Hop on.”

The scorpion climbed on top of the frog’s back and they set off. Halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog. In horror, the frog, unable to continue swimming and with both of them about to drown, finally managed to gasp, “Please, Mr. Scorpion, just tell me one thing before we both go under. Just tell me why, when you promised you would not, why oh why did you sting me?”

“Because it is my nature,” replied the scorpion.
> Git doesn't include better built-in support for issues, wikis, PRs / code reviews, and releases

I feel like a lot of these features could be handled with git-notes[1]. For example git-appraise[2] uses the git-notes feature for a code review system:

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

[2]https://github.com/google/git-appraise
> Which of these synergies is useful for existing GitHub users?

I would say the one that keeps Github alive. That's a pretty major one.
The NSA's existence was still not publicly acknowledged when some of these were commissioned (the versatile initialism then being "No Such Agency"), which may have shrunk the artist pool.
It’s one of the dialects of Spanish they speak there.
I was using GitLab for about a year until a few months ago. The reason was sluggishness and how power-hungry it was. My Gitea server consumes considerably less resources and is faster.

Not to mention, it’s visually customizable.
What's the story with that?
> Bonus) Jupyter notebook on AWS tutorial (when your local computer just won't handle your notebook requirements): http://efavdb.com/deep-learning-with-jupyter-on-aws/

AWS also recently released a product called AWS SageMaker which is a hosted notebook environment [0]. I haven't been able to find any good tutorials on it unfortunately. They claim you can go from data, to notebook, to model, to production all within the AWS ecosystem integrating with tools like AWS ETL/Glue/S3/etc.

All magic.

[0] - https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/
> I urge all the ‘let’s move to GItLab or other’ people give that a hard thought and how that will eventually expire.

Either they eventually fail/become evil, or they don't. If they do, just move somewhere else. If they don't, good.

(Benefits of non-proprietary software and standards like git.)
Why is there so much hatred and distrust of Microsoft?

Because a leopard never changes its spots, a zebra doesn't change its stripes, and the scorpion always stings the frog in the end.

Or to put it another way: because they earned it.
The Pyramids of Giza are near Pizza Hut. What's the problem? Just remember that, thousands of years from now, when empires have risen and fallen, the Pizza Hut will still be here.
Yes, federation would be great for git. I just hope that an open protocol is designed rather than something GitLab specifc. GitLab takes a lot of resources to self-host.
The definition of "behaved" in use in those articles has to do with drug use and unprotected sex.

You don't do drugs and have unprotected sex if you stay home all day. The lack of opportunity to misbehave doesn't make you more "behaved".
EOSIO/eos: An open source smart contract platform
Unless I am married to Dr. Seung or Dr. Lee, I'm not sure why this should matter to me?
Just because someone did it, it doesn’t mean it’s wise and advisable. Just saying.
CRISPR Gene-Editing Pioneers Win Kavli Prize for Nanoscience
Sorry about that. We had to rescale the Grafana instance due to increased traffic and hit a snag. It's being actively worked on.
Is there a plan, or is this just never going to get fixed? The NYC subway reached a crisis point, so the MTA just put together a massive 10 year plan to fix it. Maybe it'll pan out, maybe it won't, but there's a plan and people recognize the problem. I haven't heard of anything like that for the Bay Area housing crisis. A booming economy and not enough housing should call for a massive infrastructure plan. Is there one?
Of course not, but if single ionization events can kill a cell’s ability to reproduce (or worse), there must be some constraints. So where do the numbers land?

I’m obviously missing wide swaths of useful information and understanding. But I’ve looked at this for a little bit and haven’t had the epiphany I need for this to click.
Is that that in the funny dialect they speak? Why do people waste their time with that? After all, they speak the first or second most spoken language in the world, why bother with a dying dialect?
How Instagram’s algorithm works
Another performance issue is Sidekiq leaking memory, which the enterprise edition has a work around for but the community edition does not:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/sidekiq...
No there would be more. Especially from enterprise users. Microsoft understands enterprise. Google doesnt.
Thanks. I believe he's with Oxford (although may have multiple appointments), and that video is from Microsoft Research.
Not the original poster, but although a lot of Emacs users don't use HTML email, it's certainly possible to do it.

I wrote an Emacs package that allowed me to render my emails in that way Outlook does it (comments on top, everything HTML). I write my emails using markup, and then it's all rendered prior to sending.

I had people mention how pretty my emails were.

HTML emails also render fine, with all images as you would expect. Emacs does support online images.