skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Syncing smaller databases between devices seems to be the best use case of CouchDB.

However, Couch is extremely difficult to manage at scale, especially when managing indexes on top of documents. The index generation was extremely slow and wasn't able to take advantage of beefier hardware at all. Deploying updates to indexes had to be done extremely carefully as it will rebuild the entire index and lock reads from that index in the meantime.

Iterating through GB of documents takes a wildly long amount of time, especially if other operations such as indexing updates are happening.

Furthermore it had scary failure modes. There were many times that a couch instance would die with documents cached in memory but not yet written to disk, even though couch had returned a successful document write. We found that documents we thought existed were lost forever during this blip.
And here I was thinking I was just getting worse eyesight. Lovely.
The editorial model seems to work pretty well for things which aren't controversial, and unlike old-style encyclopedias, you can see the edits made and the discussions behind them. With Britannica, you basically just had to trust them.
But in the real world, should there be account recovery, or wide spread password reuse where hacking random sites gets people's passwords to more important sites.
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The former can be handily taken care of in your CI toolchain. You need a build agent with all of the CLI tools you need for your build. Many support Docker these days. Some can even spin up images on demand.
> Maybe state corporatist capitalism destroys people and places. Try that.

Hierarchies destroy people and places. The alternative is lack of a hierarchy, which is anarchy. Which are you more comfortable with, typing on your $1000 phone’s keyboard?
I think we're making CSS do too much. Next thing you know it will include a full fledged compiled language separate from JavaScript for implementing custom properties. Let's throw in a raytracer, too.
Modern energy is clearly how we are all living like kings. Without it, we would not be able to feed all the people, build sky scrapers, build transport lines, cars and other machines - basically on autopilot - so most people can sit at home and watch memes all day.

Of course losing access to energy would be far more catastrophic than losing access to search and computing. I was only making the point that it would be more than just annoying
One can play around with Opus by exporting audio streams from existing video and audio

ffmpeg -i sample.avi -map a out.wav

and then encoding that wav to opus

opusenc --downmix-mono --bitrate 32 --vbr out.wav cor.opus

to decode

opusdec cor.opus final.wav

and then

play final.wav

brew install opus-tools sox ffmpeg
Hmm... isn't science itself a form of technology? :)
I'd wager that statistically, it's not more or less effective than standing in the subway with a pamphlet in your hand.
Microsoft launches smaller, cheaper Surface Go to rival the iPad
It seems from the article, they have considered that and concluded that since plastic becomes part of the bitumen, and does not exist as plastic particles.
There should be a middle way between this and our current lifestyle. Eschewing all technology also means eschewing the positive things technology provides to us.
Interesting article: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/11/the-caves...
procreate - a painting app, exclusive to iOS is tremendous. There is simply no equivalent on any other platform.
94% of the email addresses were already in the database according to the Twitter account. 6% still represents many millions in this case, but perhaps it's unnecessary to notify the ones already known.
Windows 7 is having beers with XP at retirement home.
Why don't you convince us?

1Password seems to be OK. I use it and pay subscription. Except for frustrating login experiences with some websites, don't have any problems.

Never heard of Bitwarden, doesn't seem particularly compelling compared to 1password.
I took a programming class when I was 15. At that point I knew what I wa doing the rest of my life. 40 years later, I still love it. I do not know if I will ever retire.
As a side note, I have had quite a bit of experience trying to block automated scraping services. And I found that the best way is to quietly attempt to detect scraping. Then, serve up tainted data.

In our case, competitors were scraping pricing data in order to competitively price their products without having to do the work.

So we just randomly start to give them incorrect prices on every few products. Not only would it make the whole data set useless, they had no way of figuring out which data was correct without manually checking and since we didn't do it to everything and started at random intervals, it made it too difficult for them to figure out when their ip had actually be quietly blacklisted.
For encryption and security software, I'd rather trust experts. "The crowd" is useless no matter how big it is are if they don't understand the domain, hence why even FOSS can contain security howlers like Heartbleed or the Debian OpenSSL fiasco.

Which is not to say that FOSS can't be secure, but getting back to my original point, since either way I have to trust experts, I might as well pick the product that wins on functionality and polish.
Which Companies Generate the Highest Revenue per Employee?
That man was a former Thai Navy SEAL, not a US Navy SEAL. Both nations have SEAL teams.
Authoritarianism is inherently right-wing, if you use the original definition of right and left.

According to original definitions (from French revolution), the left objects to power inequality between people and consider citizens should be equals; while the right doesn't have problem with power inequality in society and accepts things like hereditary nobility.

And the fact is, despite propaganda that sometimes equates leftists and bolsheviks, large majority of leftists still identifies with this definition.
Add realtime notification feed to web apps
The video is about the facts, you can dismiss the extra 10% of the video. Unless he's hiding some facts, it seems like a good summary.
but you have to admit humanity has made great progress in reducing extreme poverty over the last 40 years.
I think Sam's comment is important:

>Note it is important to have full perspective on costs here...

All too often I see the "AWS is too expensive" circlejerk devolve into a flat cost argument.

It is absolutely more expensive in that regard.

That being said, I see very few comparisons that take in to account all of the engineering effort saved by some of the AWS feature set.

There are non-trivial things that simply aren't a problem anymore on AWS, and time can be spent on actually interesting/difficult problems.
The effects of 118 years of industrial fishing on UK bottom trawl fisheries
How a container works is that the file system has a series of layers. Like stacked sheets of glass with drawings on them. What you see at the top is the file system that results from what is on each sheet of glass. Things on higher sheets of glass can obscure or shadow things from lower layers.

Your layer, the top most layer, might have only your JAR. Assembling and deploying your container could be very fast -- but docker takes care of that. You could organize your container so that you have a layer with your Tomcat. Another layer with your JVM. Then you can easily swap in / out layers to define different versions of your container.

Whoever deploys your container on a server doesn't know or care what technology you use. Java, Python, etc. They just plug in the container and it runs. (Docker assembles its layers.)
Their revenue of ~$126M in 2017 is very modest compared with its rivals Red Hat (~$3B) or Microsoft (~$90B). My biggest fear is that one of them may take over Canonical and shut down Ubuntu.
1Password is an order of magnitude better regarding the UI and UX.
Twitter Data Science Interview Questions – Acing the AI Interview
Wasn't this discussed yesterday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17490990
That's not a valid reason, again I ask why?

Investing 100 million dollars, likely displacing some home owners and businesses, inconveniencing those residence and business owners for probably years to actually construct the thing and then actually getting people to use it after spending what will probably cost more like 150-200 million dollars after budget overruns from delays just sounds like an epic waste of time and money. All of this so people can go visit an advertisement that's now missing 31% of its letters for a retail development project...
> Basically buying stuff made in poor countries.

Capitalism is also farm subsidies, tax breaks and other corporate handouts given by rich nations that destroy the farming industries in poor countries. Capitalism (as currently practised, or in its purest, unregulated form) is not an untarnished 'good' by itself.

This is without considering how capital is leveraged to the detriment of anything protecting poor people in order to extract more profits (by lobbying, quid-pro-quo deals, or threats to stop investments). See the recent insane row over breastfeeding vs. formula at the UN, and what force was brought to bear on Nicaragua.
> and didn't take too much of their time or resources when visiting

No, why would he. He got what he wanted already.
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It's true about the trees being felled thousands of yours ago; it's believed to be the same in my local countryside, the Peak.

That claim about half of ancient woodland lost since the 1930s : that's true, but it's referring to what ancient woodland still remained in the 1930s compared to what remains now. Both are very small areas, compared to the amount of land which became forested after the last ice age.

A quick reference I've found; wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket_bog) has "In some areas of Europe, the spread of blanket bogs is traced to deforestation by prehistoric cultures.", cited to an article in Nature: Moore, P. D. (1973). The influence of prehistoric cultures upon the initiation and spread of blanket bog in upland Wales. Nature, 241, 350–353.
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Not the OP, but I have Windows Firewall set to block outgoing connections by default, which renders WSL mostly useless due to the way firewall rules work. This is supposed to be fixed in the next major update, so I may move over. There is still something nice about being able to snapshot my Linux VM and reset it after making a mess while hacking on something.
Yeah, the article is a pretty poorly written hit piece clearly written with a lot of emotion behind it. If you do go into the HN thread referenced above it certainly does look pretty sketchy. Even by giving the accused the benefit of the doubt when they say there was no ill intention it at least shows pretty poor judgement to have those kind of ties to a company that is basically the antithesis of what you purport to sell.
> it's now very hard to even talk about any alternative to state corporatist capitalism

Have you suffered persecution from the state for discussing such alternatives? Have you been arrested, beaten, your documents confiscated - all for discussing the pros and cons of "state corporatist capitalism"? Have you spent years in camps for it?

Because that's what was common in the late USSR. Of course, it was much more civilized than early USSR, when you'd be executed for discussing much more minor things, so that's an improvement.
Brutal torture of dissidents and consolidation of wealth played a role for most revolutionary groups, but at the onset of the revolution in 1979 most groups were not looking for a theocracy.

The Tudeh and Fedaian were more important in finishing off the government than theocracy supporters, and even the powerful People's Mujahedin (which was Islamist) did not want a theocracy.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution#Opposition_...
The Painful Wait for a Hangover Pill
I think the facts should precede any statements of ideas in this case. Since the article do not present the facts as a sequence of events, the video I linked seems to be useful.
I suppose you could do a number on your hems, but I’m more worried about feet and calves. I’m thinking about a crash situation specifically. That thing is more of a meat grinder than cogs. Granted, the front chainring is more of a meat cleaver on a traditional bike. I knew a guy who got a nice free tattoo on his right calf. Still gives me the heebies...
Having my Hugo blog up on GitLab, with their CI/CD pipelines hosting and building my site and on every git push, is pretty great. I am only paying for a domain name and nothing else, and not having to worry about a host going away or shutting down is also pretty nice. Even if GitLab went away tomorrow I could have my site back online in minutes.
Two people can hold the same (independently discovered) trade secret. If I slave away and re-discover the Coke recipe, I can keep it and use it as a trade secret. But if I intern at Coke and steal it, I can go to jail for trade secret theft.

A patent incents me to slave away and then requires me to teach the patent in exchange for a limited monopoly. Trade secret law only punishes me for stealing but incents me to keep secrets.

The trouble with trade secrets is that I have to be able to exploit my invention and still keep it a secret. I probably can't do that with the phone. So I wouldn't slave away working on that problem if the best protection I could get is a trade secret.
Brava introduces oven that cooks with light, heats to 500 degrees in seconds
>AWS is not the solution for every task.

For self-hosting/personal stuff? Sure, EC2 is not cost effective. But you've just described a pretty powerful server for self-hosting, and you've left out a decent chunk of context around the considerations that go in to deploying HA, web-facing architecture.
This gives me an appreciation for the "lurkers" on HN. This post has 109 points and 53 comments, right now, and on their stats demo it shows 2,770 unique views from hacker news.
The Neanderthal Correlation – info processing, logic, concentration and math
Twitter allows you to signup using whatever name you wish. So does this site. People who choose to represent a company did under a real name with a link to the company can't cry free speach because they choose to represent something.
Pioneers get killed; settlers prosper.
I think you’re right and my post has the error.

Science->knowledge->technology
Three Approaches to Cloud Native Platforms – StackSense
Airbnb, Udacity Abandon React Native
I'm not sure what they've been left with is a monolith after all. I would say they just have a new service, which is the size of what they should have originally attempted before splitting.

In particular, as to their original problem, the shared library seems to be the main source of pain and that isn't technically solved by a monolith, along with not following the basic rule of services "put together first, split later".

I feel prematurely splitting services like that is bound to have issues unless they have 100 developers for 100 services.

The claim of "1 superstar" is misleading too, this service doesn't include the logic for their API, Admin, Billing, User storage etc etc, it's still a service, one of a few that make up Segment in totality.
Let me rewrite a few of those questions. I wonder how those would change the outcome.

The established authorities generally turn out to be wrong as right, while the extremist on all ends of the political scale are usually just “loud mouths” that ignore facts in favor of political positioning.

In marriage men should have to promise to serve and protect their wife, and women should have to promise to obey their husbands.

Nudist are an recognized minority group and should have their rights protected in the same way as groups that identify based on religion or sexual orientation.

You have to admire those who challenged the law and the majority’s view by protesting for women’s abortion rights, Mens rights to consented parenthood, for animal rights, or to abolish school prayer.

Abolishment of gender roles is good. The days when women and men are identified based on their gender belong strictly in the past.
She wasn't speaking as a representative of the company there. I don't see how you could possibly construe it that way. Here's what she said:

> Today in being a female game dev: "Allow me--a person who does not work with you--explain to you how you do your job."

If you did take that as an official company statement, it would seem to mean that ArenaNet's official position is that ArenaNet is a female developer who is tired of having her job explained to her by men. It's such a tortured and nonsensical interpretation of her comment that I can't see how you'd read it as anything but her personal feelings as a female game developer.
The keyboard aspect isn’t as bad the as storage and RAM limitations imo. Very few people are actually going to be able to do anything with the base 64GB/4GB configuration, even people that don’t know anything about specs. A lot of people that buy this base model are going to be unhappy with it. You’d think Microsoft would prefer to sacrifice some profit or even lose money on this device rather than undermine their brand in this way.
What if he gets sick? Will he refuse modern medicine too and turn to traditional ones? Because if he accepts modern medicine, then he does use modern technology, that is, its results, so he still relies on other people working on technology which modern science uses a lot.

So he enjoys the benefits without sharing the costs.
Porque no los dos? Doing good is doing good. Regardless of the motivation.
It is cheaper, but less flexible.

Any cost effective solutions for dealing with bursty demand for compute and networking that aren't AWS?
Remembering Sega Dreamcast (1998–2001)
I find it depends on how well you understand the problem space. If you are well versed in it than making a simple solution first is possible. Which can be corrected to handle edge cases later.

However if the problem space is new for you. I find I usually have to write more complex code to understand it first. Then I can come back and simplify the complex code.
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I also have no way to audit how UPS handles my packages, how my dentist handles my records, how Papa Johns handles the ingredients that make my pizza, etc.

It's pretty standard to not be able to audit a company, and most of us do business with all of those companies anyways.
Looking for feedback on design, logo, favicon, and functionality. Still a work in progress.
N26 for Web now available with Dark mode
> Using 1Password 5, which was a one time payment.

Version 6 was a free upgrade.
I really try to be tolerant of people's religions and beliefs...but anyone that lets their child die instead of getting medical care because it's 'god's plan' really should be charged for murder. My mom worked in an er when I was young. She had more than one story about children dying after parents refused them blood transfusions or other treatments because of religious beliefs. She seen people die all the time but those ones always got to her she could never understand not doing whatever it took to stop their child from dying.
Just wanted to point out that diving culture as described in 'Shadow Divers' is pretty much as far from professional as it gets. What the book does describe is east coast deep wreck diving community of the early 1990s. In which I suspect it does a good job at. And how they pushed the limits before mixed gas diving / non-open circuit scuba equipment was well understood or widely available outside military and possibly some commercial outfits.

That said, the book is great read. Especially if you're into diving. It's just that it should not be read as a role model for anything but reckless regard of ones life.

Not to drift completely off-topic, here is a link to a long thread about Thailand cave rescue from the cave diving forums[1].

[1] http://www.cavediver.net/forum/showthread.php/35242-Football...
The counterintuitive tricks to asking better questions
64GB of storage means you cannot upgrade to the full OS version. You would immediately run out of space.
> The 95-year-old studio on Monday told city officials it would foot the bill for an aerial tramway to transport visitors to and from the Hollywood sign, starting from a parking structure next to its Burbank lot.

If they’re actually going to pay for the entire project it’s nowhere near as bad as the city building it.

I bet the root of this is a Warner Bros exec that lives at the top of one of the Hollywood hills and wants to eliminate traffic from his own house.
Hope it stays open at night for the incredible night views.
There are various efforts, but none of them is mature/established enough that I'd trust it (and I heard of specific issues with some of them, though I think citrusdb is newer than when I last looked). Maybe this one works, but without an established community around it I'd rather stick to cassandra.
Fair or not I kinda want to blame the lurkers every time I see a post skyrocket quickly that has a flashy title but the content is bad and all the comments point out how bad it is....

Yay lurkers!

Boo lurkers!
HBO's new chief wants increased customer data collection
My best guess is this is a "cover our asses" (literally) template not intended to be read by the recipient.

Maybe their target reader is people who fake their deaths?
More specifically, sounds like the galaxy note. I believe the latest is 8, 9 is on the way.
"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."

Sigh... It's not that hard to comply with GDPR. Just be honest and say "We don't want any stinky Europeans reading us."

This is /sarcasm btw.
In the United States private debt collectors will attempt to get bereaved family members of a recently dead person to begin payment on the deceased person's debt, with social engineering tactics.

When the appropriate legal response is: "NAME is deceased, here is the contact info the for executor of the estate".
I agree there was some capitalism, as there is components of it in every economy. Similarly, every economy has mixtures of other systems in it. The issue is how much of the various systems an economy allows. Certainly Soviet Russia was not considered a capitalist system, whereas most of Western Europe and the US were during that period.

Your link provides a nice graph [1] showing that USSR and many countries that were capitalist had similar GDP per capita in 1913, but diverged wildly over the following years. I suspect academic has such a graph including more countries along with some rating of how the underlying economic system worked. It would be interesting to see that. I am aware of a decent amount of economic literature that does credit capitalism as a major force for pulling billions out of poverty.

Your page seems to back up my point, does it not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Union_USSR_GDP_per...