skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this whole idea of pushing "serverless" as a concept to engineers is deceptive at best and damaging at worst when you think about all of the naive new developers entering the industry having to shovel all of this shit into their minds alongside proven technologies and conventional formats.

What does "serverless" framework really tell veterans? Who are you selling to? What are the considerations for adoption?

There's so many questions that pop up before I even look at the software, and once I did, there's more questions which obscure the point. Why should I use your bullshit?

Worse, 5 years in after a company has adopted this junk, some poor sap is going to have to maintain it after being 100k SLOC deep in it, with no vision of how to port out of it alongside meeting existing technical task completions, at which point this will have become completely irrelevant.
"I really agree with this analogy."

I agree that you two don't disagree.
The question is rhetorical--it's quite clear that she already does hate us, and enjoys it.

(Next up, "Why Can't We Hate X?", for other values of X.)
To be fair, there's a disclaimer right in the first paragraph: "But in this blog, we will introduce you a probably not practical but a cool use case using GraalVM." (sic)
FOSS cross-platform 3D car wheel parametric model creator
The correct word would be 'climax' but that's shading increasingly naughty in modern parlance.

I grew up on Hardy Boys novels and they were verbally ejaculating all over the place. You don't see that anymore.
As an European, I don't. How any sensible alternative to Facebook is supposed to out-compete it if Facebook is commonly zero-rated on mobile?
There is a large push to get credit card companies to ban firearm purchases, and Citigroup dropped merchants selling them IIRC.
In my experience, yes, they hold up far better than Micro USB. The Type-C physical connector seems to be the one thing they actually managed to get right.
Ideally it's something simple such that non-technical people can also cast and/or display dashboards.
There is a city here with a six lane freeway running right through the middle of many previous residential areas.. It might seem obvious that a six lane freeway produces constant noise, heavy particulate matter in the air all year, and a constant blanket of heavy matter downwind on every surface, the soil, your clothes, etc..

The benefit of this heavy motorway is that areas far from the city became the new (wealthy) suburbs and shopping malls.

It is a matter of record that some local politicians made speeches about how the new freeway would benefit the original city it runs through. I think they use the phrase "tortured truth" to express how these statements reflect what actually happened. I expect somewhat similar rise in fortunes, and drop in privileges, associated with the new "un-Net".
> ISPs' required disclosures "will allow consumers to make an informed decision about which Internet service provider is best for them

The one that's best for me is literally the only one that's available in my area, so my informed decision is whether to have the internet or not.
The objective is sales.

This is email address harvesting for marketing pushes. It's also corporate PR.
*misandry
The domain name space is huge. Say there are 30,000 common words in english (there are about 171,000 in present use). For a 2 word combo that's 900 million combinations.

This is super useful: http://www.bustaname.com/. Especially "Add Group" and the synonym finder. So you can use "panda" and combine it with "happy or cheerful or sunny".

These are all available:

radiantpanda.com
pleasedpanda.com
lightheartedpanda.com

My opinion, but .co, .net, .app are all very understandable these days and exponentially expand the search space. (Literally :))
I will have to try it, I've been a user of Stetho for a long time and the new network inspection tools from Android studio doesn't completely click for me.
The handling fee for credit cards is crazy high (more than 1%!), I can't believe that handling cash is more expensive.
We've already been there. The 18th and 19th centuries were largely like that. The great wars of colonial Europe were heavily financed by private money.

Corporations held the real power in the US from ~1870 - roughly the beginning of the industrial revolution - until the vast Federal expansion of power and taxation of the WW2 build-up and thereafter.

Rockefeller single handedly stabilized the finances of the US Government by pledging his wealth as a support prop to JP Morgan. That premise is laughable today. The Federal + State governments spend the equivalent of a Jeff Bezos fortune every week. Meanwhile the US military is radically larger and more powerful than it was a century ago, as are all the agencies of the State.

If you think corporations are powerful today, the reality is they're hilariously weak compared to what they were a century ago. Further, back then there were very few regulatory restraints on corporations, while the giants were simultaneously drastically larger in comparison to the Federal Government and as a share of GDP. Most of the state governments barely even existed financially.
I'm on international assignment and the length of my stay dictates that I am not eligible for a personal number. Without the personal number it is still possible to get a Swedish bank account (by law they actually have to give you one in Sweden as long as you know how to properly request for it) but as an someone hinted below they definitely do not make it easy for you to get one if you are American specifically or foreign in general. Even Danes that have come to work in Sweden have stories of how difficult it was for them to get Swedish bank accounts, having to quote the relevant part of the law that states that they must be awarded one upon request.

It also makes my taxes back in the US quite a bit simpler to state that I have no foreign account holdings whatsoever (I am still paid in my US bank account)
At this point, vanilla Vim has async jobs as well, although it's not as clean as NeoVim
No matter how livable you make it here, there will be people like me who will always want to go somewhere else. Like all of those people in Europe who left and came to the New World. Why didn't they stay in Europe and make it more livable?
Idiocracy where everything is sponsored by corporations.
> Online takeaway shops charge for using their payment provider (% of the total order price) but don't make you pay for cash payments.

If I understand the ruling corretl, this has become illegal in the EU recently. JustEat.co.uk for example now charge a £0.50 fee for cash payments.

I’m not sure how I feel about it tbh; I get that merchants were hiding service fees as card processing fees, but on the other hand we now have government mandated subsidising of credit cards by cash users. CC users get lots of benefits, such as, most importantly the power of chargebacks. You don’t get that with cash, but now you have to subsidise it, because the cost of those services is eventually passed on to the merchant, and thus to the customer.
Roads are not public goods. They are certainly excludable, and, beyond a certain level of traffic, definitely rival.

Update: "Public good" is a technical term, see, inter alia, https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-micr...
I agree with tptacek, I was just expounding on one of his views. International labor standards and controlling capital flight are pie in the sky in the current environment in my opinion, but until then a streamlined immigration process as well as removing illegal immigrants and going after businesses that hire them will have to do.

Also, in response to your other reply, I don't see how removing illegal immigrants and dissuading them from coming here is "culling the poor". I illustrated how allowing illegal immigrants to pervade the US actually harms those at the bottom of the income scale, including those immigrants. We should be working to help poorer countries so that they don't need to resort to illegal immigration, but that doesn't mean we should ignore our immigration laws. Either officially endorse open borders for everyone and equalize society, or enforce and/or fix the laws we have now, but the gray area where we look the other way on the illegals that make it through the hoops alive only helps the rich.

Hence my comment that people that endorse letting illegal immigrants stay are being emotional (e.g. father having to leave his kids, kids going back to country they didn't go up in, etc), because in the larger picture, it's just reinforcing the incentives that are causing them to be exploited.
Vim now also supports async jobs since Vim 8 (but with a different API).

IIRC, neovim implementation was first proposed as a vim PR before the fork happened. The mess following it was one of the main reason behind the fork.
Taking this a step further, presumably an honest vendor only need flash a new firmware at the dealer to the ECU with the unused cheating codeblocks removed, while a secretly cheating vendor is suddenly trapped.
LendEDU is a shill site run by a student loan company that (probably) fabricated survey results.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16926859
The make/model matters more than company. An f150 is wayyy better than anything else ford makes. Its really uncomparable. As another note, the Chevy Sonic was designed in Germany and is probably the worst car GM made in recent memory.

But yes, German cars are known to be a pain to own due to problems and the difficulty to fix them.
At the cafeteria at work, on burger days, meat and veggie patties are side-by-side, and it's easy to taste the contrast between them.

I find it interesting that the meat burgers are these dry tasteless umami blobs presumably to try to conform to the "low-fat! low sodium!" narrative of how traditional food should be in order to be "healthy", but the veggie ones are so packed with seasoning that I question whether they are in fact healthy.

I often end up getting one of each to balance things out.
Clipboard seems to work well for me with this config:

set clipboard+=unnamedplus

More details on that here: https://neovim.io/doc/user/provider.html#provider-clipboard

A couple of small things I really like:

:set inccommand=nosplit

... this gives you a live view of substitutions as you type out a replacement e.g :%s/foo/bar/

:term
:vs term://bash

... these gives you a proper embedded terminal window inside vim.

Also, I think vim8 has it as well, but something people might not realise is you can use truecolor gui color schemes (not limited to 256 color) in the terminal with

:set termguicolors

It also has a guicursor option for making the cursor display as a block or bar in the terminal depending on which mode you're in: https://neovim.io/doc/user/options.html#'guicursor'

Other than that, there's a more thorough list of differences here: https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html
I'm sure you can't buy stocks with credit cards either.
The material on those walls absorbs a great deal of that radiation...
This might be to prevent a cash back loophole. Most banks don’t allow getting cash from a credit account.

The cash back loophole works like this: buy crypto on coinbase with credit card, then immediately sell and transfer to checking account.
Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe
Pick up Anathem before trying Seveneves. Anathem might be his strongest novel, and it's the only one that holds up to Snow Crash and Diamond Age in my estimation.

I adore Zodiac as well but am in a decided minority in that regard.
How Often Are Docker Images Updated – Revisited
Organicity in abstract strategy games
I agree -- that's why this will be very interesting to see how it shakes out.
If you want human, you can look at TOML

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml

Its the thing Pipfile uses.

The point is, don't invent file types!
I was talking with my wife (then gf) about putting $1000 into BTC back when it hit $1. I don't let it eat me up though, I'm not a gambler, and it's quite likely that I would have sold at some point.

Though.. if I had my wits, hopefully I'd be selling off chunks. Ie, at $18k/coin I wouldn't sell the whole thing.. though, at only $100/coin it would have been tempting.

Ah, life.
I think everyone gets a piece of the profit rather than going back to customers.

Unions exploiting the company. Sales people getting special favors.

It seems sick.
Oh right, let's go entirely to electronic payments. What could possibly go wrong? Who thought this was a good idea?
My pet favorite: opening a terminal in a vim split.

Having an interactive bash/ipython/repl session where you can use vim keys to navigate and yank lines from your scrollback is pure bliss.

I like to run builds and be able to see, yank, open files from the errors all inside vim.
It's absurdly cheap in the US. Looking at their homepage a carryout large 3 topping pizza for $7.99 (about 6 pounds).
Fiji has you beat with their $7 note commemorating their Rugby Sevens team: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/sevens/91780125/fiji-hon...
So the land that I stand on today, India, was once part of Africa and America's landmass. Crazy!
That’s one of the most frustrating aspects of GDPR in relation to cookies - many businesses that could happily run a site with no cookie opt-in end up implementing one anyway because that irritating pop-up gives the end user a perception of ‘handling privacy well’.

I’d be so keen for the solution to lie in the browser UX- in the same way as we currently request location information - rather than the current mish-mash of badly implemented, often disingenuous site overlays that have become the modern equivalent of the ‘enter site’ splash screen...
Golang is the worst because there is already a very popular game called Go. That's why I always call Golang Golang and not Go.
This is a great effort, but the spot lighting on earth obscures more than the pretty effect is worth.
>

LinkedIn had multiple layers of scraping detection systems deployed, and went to significant efforts to block their data from getting scraped[1].

Last year, they were ordered by a Federal court explicitly to allow scraping of content and remove systems that were designed to impede and block scraping efforts[2].

There's no clear law (in the US) directly aimed at scraping, and repurposing anti-hacking laws brought up the murky definition of what is unauthorized access. If a judge clarifies explicitly that scraping is not unauthorized access (which happened in this case, although needs to stand up to appeal[3]), then entities that are interested in preventing scraping have lost one of their core legal underpinnings. It demonstrates why companies like Crawlera have been able to flaunt the type of serious scraping work they do, because it's hard to bully people with a legal argument that has been debunked and affirmed as debunked on appeal. So it's better to avoid the risk of setting that precedence entirely until you can't avoid it.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/15/linkedin-sues-scrapers/

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling...

[3] https://www.courthousenews.com/linkedin-takes-data-scraping-...
It's also in response to an equally-hypothetical situation, IMO (which in turn is in response to asking about giving entire countries access to some subset of the Internet, especially [and explicitly] when they don't otherwise have Internet access).

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that some large internet companies would subsidize plans like "Facebook-only" to connect more people to the Internet (see: to their service). This in turn, well, connects those people, gives them opportunities and access to knowledge they wouldn't otherwise have, and eventually opens them up to the rest of the Internet. It's a stepping stone: obviously, all internet is better than some internet, but some internet is better than no internet. There's an alternative of just giving them the full internet for free/cheap (which I'd love to see), but is obviously way less likely.

In that sense (and, to bring things back to the comment my parent is responding to), I think that providing a cheap plan that allows access to some subset of the Internet targeted at people who wouldn't otherwise have internet is preferable to those people just not having access at all. Is that wrong of me?
I believe most countries that use polymer bills are actually licensing this "SecureNote" technology from Australia.
This is a great post especially for an up and coming programmer. Thanks for this!
> We're a nonsensical investment

for a standard VC, sure. Maybe there's a venture investment philosophy for non-unicorns. [0]

[0] https://sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-fu...
> Wells Fargo is worried about the risk that nomocrypto will fail to pay back the card. The credit card issuers are not particularly worried about fraudulent "merchant" charges.

Yes, they are different risks. But the issuer is still worried about fraudulent charges initiated by the merchant, in addition to the risk that nomocrypto will fail to pay off the balance.
>>large-scale construction work

>build large barns entirely

Not the same 'large-scale' construction work I had in mind.
Seems like your secret was age-proximal roommates. I've been trying meetups to no avail, but I've heard that roommates are a huge gamble in and of themselves. What are your opinions on both?
> adding some pain to a pleasurable experience at the right time will paradoxically cause people to remember it as being more pleasurable

Even more paradoxical, some kinds of physical pain are actually remembered as pleasurable in and of themselves, like eating spicy food, or running a marathon.
Here's how you can tell someone knows nothing about the economics of the Internet.
Apple bans on-device cryptocurrency mining
If I were you I'd still stick with Python ecosystem, just because you say you're comfortable with Python & Flask. When you come to Ruby right from Python 'it feels the same, but different'.

You won't lose anything if you stay with Python/Django stack without touching Ruby/Rails. I believe the number of jobs available for Django and Rails developers is more or less equal if we talk about that point specifically.

But if your goal is just self-education, then why not give Ruby a try?
Some companies want consumers to use cryptocurrencies to avoid dealing with payment processors. It seems strange to involve credit cards with cryptocurrency. A wire transfer to Gemini is fast and easy.
When I was a teen-ager, I had a bad habit of running into the ocean on a whim. Invariably, I had my wallet on me. I was always amazed that the banknotes never seemed affected, even though I knew they were made of cotton.
I was hoping this was some new tech they had added to their delivery cars to fill potholes as they drove by. Using them to at least log and identify potholes would be a smart move.
Right. If the hub supports Thunderbolt that fixes TB and USB-C will keep working but you’d still lose passyhrough video unless it was designed for that too. And don’t forget power delivery.

Good USB-C hubs that support everything will be quite expensive. They’re basically limited Thunderbolt docks.
NYC's Subway Should Be Full of Hoverboards Instead
Can't answer about copy/paste an NeoVim, but I just switched from vim -> neovim this week, and do feel it's a bit snappier. I also switched from syntastic to ALE for syntax checking and that made a huge difference as well.

For copy/paste in the terminal and vim, I usually have vim in a tmux session, and that has a few helpers to work with system clipboards. Not perfect, but better than vanilla vim's copy/paste.
It's interesting. can you have @js more than once? can you have @app more than once? pretty sure ಠ-ಠ is a valid app name, but ಠ_ಠ isn't.
i also can't quite tell how to say map of maps. i'd guess it's

@this-section-has-a-map
hello-world
name child-map
ಠ-ಠ a
ಠ_ಠ b

but it's hard to tell.
Also, i'm not exactly a fan of { "_comment": "this is a comment" }, but i've run into several situations with yaml where i want to build a tool to rewrite a bunch at once, but since comments have no representation in the parse tree i have to do goofy vim macros to do my edits. since _comment is in the tree, i can add more keys without trashing the existing comments.
Or you sell for what you need, when you need it. Ie, if I had the coin I was debating buying (~1k coins), I wouldn't remotely need to sell them all now. I could retire off a small amount of them, there's no need to sell them all.

I'd sell what gets me retirement now, and hold onto the rest - see where it takes me.
Motion is not required either. There's a reason for a shallow DoF in big photographic lenses/sensors. Bokeh can be represented as a processed depth map.
This isn't a case of JS gun gone wrong. Someone's passing cat inside exec with an arbitrary path instead of using native open&read and path.join. That's a thing possible in almost every modern language.

Stop the nonsense. Seriously. Stop.
>shaming cities into actually funding their road maintenance budgets

This would be what I tell myself is a noble goal while working on this project.

>Is the primary objective sales?

Yes, but indirectly. Primary goal here is likely brand awareness and keeping the brand in the public consciousness for awhile.

They want people who notice that that one nasty pothole on their way to work is fixed thinking "Huh, I wonder if Domino's paid for that to be fixed."
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
Data Summer Conf / Ukraine / Odessa / 21 JULY 2018
The bachelor is usually 3 years in Europe and not every country is following the bachelor/master/phd system.

So you are saying that the amount of bachelor+ in USA is on par with the amount of master+ in Europe. That's my point, Europeans have higher education because it's free.
Pro: You get to build things from scratch, I like this one most.

Con: You find yourself at the end of the work-life balance, which might not be comfortable for everyone.

It's a great initiative, today itself I was thinking if there can a common test to get a job, but then I realized companies do not just test the engineering or field knowledge.

PS: I thought refreshing the page will show an early day picture of dropbox/reddit/stripe/instacart and so on.
Over 42% of Americans live in a household with a gun. Unsure where you are sourcing the 99% statistic from.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/06/22/americas-complex-r...

If you are worried about tyranny - the primary reason for the second amendment was to deter tyrannies of excessive regulation and authoritarian imposition (quartering of troops, etc).
Entirely accurate. At a startup, I expect to make ~$100k/year, have mediocre insurance and work life balance, and underwhelming equity (<1%). At my enterprise job (southeast US), I’m making double the salary, 20% annual bonus, five weeks/vacation a year, great work life balance, and much better health insurance for a family of four than any startup can offer.

Unless you’re a founder, I actively steer colleagues away from working at a startup. The sense of accomplishment, impact, or whatever the feel good term is, isn’t worth shorting yourself on significant comp for years (while founders and funds are getting almost all the upside).

Edit: If you want to compete, pay more and provide more equity with less risk. Throw “hire fast, fire fast” out the door; anyone who isn’t single and in their 20s can’t rely on a job like that. Maybe consider giving preferred shares to early employees as well, so they share in early liquidity events during pre-IPO/acquisition offerings.
YubiKey for SSH and GPG on a Mac, a Missing Manual
Con: with most startups (mostly the vc funded ones) it feels less like a startup and more like a corporate. The hacking ethos and mission driven teams have been replaced by overly nice offices, steve-jobs-wannabe-kid-ceos and mediocre team mates. I’ve lives both worlds and it seems there are few places left that are like the old days.