skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but that just doesn't help much since the missiles are so much faster and able to turn even tighter. And anyway, most aircraft are now destroyed on the ground rather than in the air so it seems questionable to spend a lot of extra money to build stronger airframes for drones to address what's essentially an edge case. Better to focus on low observability to avoid being detected and shot at in the first place; if you're trying to avoid a modern missile coming at you then you've probably already lost.
I ran into what apparently is the same scam, but for shipping: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1009609380877225984 You offer a reasonable price for the item and then charge $1k for shipping or something like that, and apparently Amazon will enforce it.
Ask HN: Are there any downsides of using TypeScript?
I'm looking to hire a front-end engineer for one of my pet projects and thinking about using a TypeScript/React combo. I've never dealt with TS before, so it's hard for me to make a choice. Its type system is what attracts me the most.

Things that I'm specifically interested in:

- Speed of development/heaviness of the language (such as if we'd compare, say, Java vs. Go)
- 3rd party non-TS libraries
- Testing framework

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Edit: formatting]
Thanks for the response! I think the link you provided includes the ");" at the end, leading to an error page. Removing ");" leads to the article I think you wanted to mention. Anyway am I correct in saying this may allow research to analyze bigger and bigger neural networks (the biological ones)? I remember OpenWorm (http://openworm.org/science.html) which was able to recreate virtually the nematode's brain thanks to a few "maps" of its brain. Could this technology (coupled with the improvements that will come in the next years) allow something of the OpenWorm kind with more and more complex organisms?
It's not inconceivable that Amazon's market cap could double over the next 10 years. They still have a long way to grow and they're involved in so many markets...
Twitch isn't just about playing games. There's a growing community of people like myself who use the platform to teach people how to write software. In my case as an opensource maintainer I use it as a way to break down opensource and introduce people to what the role entails.

Follow me at https://twitch.tv/geoffreyhuntley and https://youtube.com/c/geoffreyhuntley and https://twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley
Sure, if your point is that centralized government databases are inherently bad because the government could use them, I can't argue against that because you simply will not risk whatever they could do however low that risk is (if it's even quantifiable).
They are down to nine system calls, perhaps they can "pledge" the rest away after the container bootstraps? I am thinking of what OpenBSD has been designing:

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
It would be terrible to see the military killing its own citizens in defense of a corrupt government that doesn't work for those citizens.
Additional links: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TxFS-Tex... ; https://github.com/ut-osa/txfs
Removing the affiliate link. The main goal of this is to provide insight into the buying holiday for people that are interested. We added the affiliate link so we can track how effective we are at pushing people over there, but we just want to draw attention to Prime Day as it's great for our customers (third party amazon sellers)
Just to add more different explanations, since that'll help.

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...

This one is my favourite, and does it well by example and walking through three different cases, then generalizing.
I occasionally look to see if there are any hardcover copies of The Art of the Metaobject Protocol up for sale, one appeared and is still listed at a little over $11k. I even messaged the seller at one point around 11:30pm about it (I'd buy it if it were a couple orders of magnitude cheaper...) and somewhat surprisingly they got back to me within the hour to inform me that "there is a listing error while pricing the book. However, we already informed our listing team to rectify the mistake as soon as possible." Given the other comment here on how teams clean them up ~once a month, I guess we'll see in August if it's still there and at that price or not...
Call it a different issue, that’s fine. But it’s an issue I want to hear about! I haven’t heard nearly the hand wringing over home grown control as I have over Russia.
You might want to look up the history of for example the Republic Steel Strike in Chicago in the 1930s.
why do i even bother with HN comments?

OP: "gives an anecdote about how the article is wrong or incomplete"

REPLY: "gives an anecdote about how the OP is wrong or incomplete"

REPLY-REPLY: "gives an anecdote about how the REPLY is wrong or incomplete"

repeat adnauseum on every comment chain for ever and ever.
There is this other theory, from what I understand, that Altzheimers is due to the tau protein. I am wondering if that is true in some cases, and is due to some sort of similar mechanism to the one the article is talking about. Or maybe tau is getting dragged along when amyloid wraps around HSV particles.
This made me laugh more than it should have.
oh man, web rings
Page down.
You should compare the monthly price to leasing, which is around $250/month for a decent new car. Using your "other costs" the total goes up to $330/month. (However, I think the other costs would be higher).
It's not the same at all, because trying Walmart again later in the day means literally driving back to the physical store. With Amazon, it means getting your phone back out.

I'm sure there is some impact, but it's nowhere near the inconvenience of being locked out of a physical store.
PDXRust just had a related talk, "Writing Software That's Safe Enough To Drive A Car": https://www.meetup.com/PDXRust/events/252160920/
And you have variance in the industries, location, travel requirements presumably, etc. Sure. But with a project of this size and scope I'd be impressed if they'd be able to find (great) devs wanting to work on it below 65-70k and not quit after a year. IMHO and so on based on way smaller projects.
Same, the search results page keeps refreshing, void of any items.
Ditch That AWS Build Host
Man these 5th gen fighters are unattractive. Even the F-22 being the best looking of the bunch looks blah from several angles.
All Your GPS Are Belong to Us [pdf]
well I'm sorry
> Seems so much like the transition Microsoft made... too much focus on "synergies" and leveraging... not enough on keeping the bilges dry and the engine running.

The companies that just keep the bilges dry and the engine running are the ones that we love, but they’re gone because they got made irrelevant. Or they got absorbed into something larger. Microsoft has a bunch of failed initiatives (Windows Phone, Zune) plus a bunch of successful ones (Azure, Xbox, Office 365).

If you’re up for classic books like Brooks check out The Innovator's Dilemma. You have to try to expand in a hundred different directions because you don’t know which one of those hundred directions will be relevant next decade, and you have to be unafraid of cannibalizing your core business because if you don’t eat yourself then someone else will eat you instead.
You don't need HKTs to implement 'do' notation. A good example is LINQ query syntax from C#! You actually have full blown monadic comprehension that you can use to easily write 'flattened' (ie, no async pyramid of doom) Future/Promise code with.
Rural Republicans are the small town folks whose education does not exceed high school. They mostly work in dead-end, low-skill jobs. They're the ones the Republicans come running to when they need votes in an election year or when they need young, impressionable kids to go fight their wars so they won't have to send their own kids or risk unbearable backlash against a military draft.

The GOP has a name for rural Republicans - useful idiots. It's an insult, but how do you convince them that Republicans simply don't care about them unless they need votes or troops? The Democrats, on the other hand, seem to favor helping illegal immigrants get settled in over helping down-and-out homeless Americans get back on their feet.

While more than half the Americans who voted for Trump now regret it, the Democrats, unfortunately, are too busy bashing Trump to even notice the opportunity for a comeback that awaits them. Will they seize it or will they continue to obsess over an incumbent who may not be in office a year from now?
Good, now try to enforce developers to actually use it on their code and all third party libraries they link to.

Ah, and not passing it around by address or reference, instead of actually moving ownership.

C++17 is a great improvement, but for it to work out in this context, developers need to actually write C++ instead of "C with C++ compiler".
Netflix stock falls despite Q2 earnings beat
Funny enough, we have them downtown. They've flooded a few times due to the monstrous rains we get here (see hurricane harvey).

I think Minneapolis figured this out the best with a downtown connected by skybridges on the 2nd floor connecting tons (most?) of the buildings).
Slightly related, it's amazing how shared space influences well being. With people out of sync, it's hard to do anything deeply. In place where everybody is focused, it gets a lot easier (a library for instance).
Text only cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Bn35blP...
ERG Mining Company Chief Battling Arrest Warrant from Serious Fraud Office
I think the quality of AI necessary really depends on how you structure the force, and what you're fighting. It's not like they'd be out there doing Top Gun style dogfights. They'd most likely take the role of high-altitude bombing and launching missiles from over the horizon, guided by AWACS.
Sure to some extent. But.. Say Bezos buys Fox News to wipe it off the map. Another billionaire or two would just start another version of it. The market is still there.
This was pre-Twitch, but I used to work at a company where the tech team after hours would play Age of Empires for fun. We kind of got into it, we would read strategy guides, blog comments over whether it was best to be Assyrians or Babylonians or Choson etc. Some people (not us) would really get into it and spend hours measuring things like how long it took for a catapult to get from one side of the map to the other, measuring each second and pixel carefully.

I'm sure if Twitch were around and some of the best players broadcast their games with live commentary we would have watched them for pointers. I used to play Quake and remember watching a pre-Twitch video of one of the best Quake players, "Thresh", and observing how one of the best (perhaps the best) Quake players played the game.

In terms of time, it's like people taking golf lessons to get a better swing and get their par down, or people reading chess endgame books to learn how to properly do a bishop and knight checkmate, or what have you. I guess you're right about students and single young professionals, as that is when I had the time to spend on improving my skill at various games.
Surely the public-facing stuff is just the tip of the infrastructure iceberg.
Robert Heinlein “the moon is a harsh mistress”. A 1966 masterpiece about sentient computer, politics and the making of a revolution to create a new free country. I’ve reread this one 3 times in a row, better every time.
Working with JSON in bash using jq
I guess I have two sets of concerns.

The first is regarding DineSafe.org: I don't understand how the model works. I see that people can "report incidents", and I see that businesses can subscribe to get analytics on reports. What I don't see is the link: what incentive do people have to report incidents? What makes the particular types of people who report perceived foodborne illness to your website a trustworthy cohort to sample from?

Regarding "Iwaspoisoned.com" (which: I think get a better name?): it looks like what you're doing is scraping public food inspection reports (Everyblock used to do that too), and then allow people to submit their own reports that run alongside them. If that's what you're doing, it's deeply misleading: food inspections are (1) an authoritative source of information and (2) not usually reports of actual foodborne illness! The net effect is to blur the lines in both directions: to create the belief that restaurants in your area are routinely shut down due to foodborne illness problems, and to present the alimentary concerns of randos as equivalently authoritative.

For what it's worth: my concern wouldn't be that reports would be "malicious" or "inauthentic" (I'm sure there are reports like that, but I also agree that you'd probably be able to keep up with them). Rather: my assumption is that you'll have an even worse version of the Yelp problem, where people write simultaneously authentic and bad, poorly informed reports. Short of "our party of 4 ate at this restaurant and all 4 of us came down with severe GI symptoms" --- which is rare --- I don't understand how you could take any report at face value. Meanwhile: your "iwaspoisoned.com" site runs firsthand reports where people simply take photographs of their food and say in effect "this looks poisonous".
> It started in 1933 with unemployment rate of 25%. Half a decade and many millions of dollars later, unemployment was 19%.

Absolute numbers are important, but the rate of change more so. Were unemployment raising to 25% or already going down? It's the difference between those 19% being a meager improvement and staving off absolute disaster.
Mysterianism Redux
Hey everyone, Zentail (YC S12) is an all-in-one SaaS platform for ecommerce sellers, it's our mission to make ecommerce simple. Our customers are online merchants who sell on a variety of sales channels including Amazon (their third party merchants, think "Shipped and sold by ..").

Amazon has created a great buying holiday in the middle of the summer and we wanted to provide insight into what we are seeing to anyone who might be curious about how much business actually happens on prime day. Happy to answer any questions about our model or company!
Protecting the private property of the state & corporations. Standing rock is a great example.
I think there is some typo in your comment - because otherwise - do you mean that permissionless DLT was obvious (as in anyone who read Foundations of Cryptography by Oded Goldreich could create it) and bitcoin was not a breakthrough?
I would like an extension to hide this and all other click bait.
What happens to people responsible for the crash today (infra, culprit services)? Does Amazon take some kind of "action" since Prime Day is a huge, once-a-year event for Amazon?
Why would you need to tell jokes that victimize anyone? Sounds like a very narrow sense of humor...
You can do better if you have foreknowledge or retroactive foreknowledge of the outcome of the die roll, which is the obvious suggestion of jtolmar's comment. If I know the recorded outcomes of a sequence of die rolls, I can have models that predict those outcomes to any accuracy I want. But they're not doing it by measuring the uncertainty involved in prospectively rolling the die.
You never completely recover an order dip. Believe me :)
Cinematography in User Experience Design
Lest you think this is a new tactic, this was Wal-Mart's MO.

They are also experts in selling one microwave at cost or a slight loss. That's the one that goes on the end-cap and gets advertised in the flyers. The rest of them are the same price (or higher!) than other local retailers.

The important part is building consumer perception that they always have the lowest price. Everyone who buys a slightly better microwave pays $5-$10 more than if they bought it elsewhere but thinks they got the best price.
I wonder how Alibaba Cloud handles similar events [1], where there are bursts of 256k/s transactions and ~1bil packages being shipped out.

Do they just do brute-force massive scale out?

Amazon's US market is big, but my understanding is that number of online users in China (> 400mil) exceeds the population of the US (~325mil), which makes me wonder if the folks there think about data architecture a little differently than we do.

[1] https://qz.com/1127087/singles-day-crazy-stats-from-alibabas...
Animats has been repeatedly told that mixing the labor numbers for low-volume high-end aluminum-bodied cars with some parts insourced with a new high-volume line with kinks to be worked out is meaningless. But don't worry, he will probably be making the same comment next month, and the month after, in rotation with his other usual negative Tesla comments he makes in every Tesla thread.
But:

$ echo "" | wc -m
1

You probably want to add the -n flag to echo. It doesn't change the validity of the statement though.
Donald Trump sent the worst tweet of his presidency this morning
Interestingly, despite not being a dog person, I found the first instance of a dog to be a cute, human-relatable inclusion. On later pages I found it frustrating and annoying.

I'm sure there's a fundamental UX principle or two at work there, but I won't pretend to truly know what they are.
So if I went out to eat and got sick, I might think I'm performing a public-service by reporting it.

Then you come back to me and say "Hey your report was weird, go get some lab-tests done"? That seems like a situation which would deter most reporters.
Didn't this site use to have video game bundles?
The quality is poor. It's mostly gamer streamers trying out something different. They're usually going through a udacity course or hacking a crud web application.

There is lot of blindly looking at the screen, reading tutorials or getting frustrated with compilation errors.

They do not like to be helped.
> (1) drone AI that can out-think a human;

For the specific task of escaping a chase, or chasing and destroying a foe, unmanned fighters (or AI controlled) will be systematically better. (See my comment on that other post : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17480086 )

> (2) perfect communications between drones and an operator on the ground.

Operator could be in the air on another plane, on a ship or even in space. No operator at all, aka full autonomy, would be possible for specific tasks.

> These are unsolved, and very difficult problems.

I believe autonomous cars are a way more difficult problem, given the 2D spaces with many obstacles is generally more difficult than an empty 3D space.

Your other points are valid. I simply think the technology level isn't the reason for the investments in a new manned plane. Imho, other factors such as ethic and politic indeed entered into the decision.
except the mass majority of the bottom three billion live where governments do respect property rights. private wealth only exists where that is true, otherwise all wealth would be concentrated in the hands of politicians as it is in many places; well that and their very select friends most of which they installed over state resources.
>we mould our company into SAP

exactly. People from "unique" camp fail to recognize that SAP isn't just software, it is "best [business] practices" coded into that software, the practices distilled from huge experience during many years with many customers. Granted, for many techies any business practices/processes and related software look disgusting - this is why we're techies, not accountants. At some point in the bright future we'll develop super AI which will take over the world and abolish business processes....
Your province pretty much gets and retains your records because it's paying the bills.
There's little sense in reinventing the proverbial wheel when it already exists. NetBSD can already be paired down to fit on a floppy disk. Userland can be compiled in to a single crunchgen static binary.

tcc is a nice idea to add separately but wouldn't be ideal for making the tiniest kernel and binaries, since space optimization isn't quite as good with tcc.
The grading program may have been written by a librarian.
Show HN: Expose People Problems at Work for Free
>By making compute infrastructure affordable and by making consumer review data available for all products, Bezos is a champion of the little guy. He hasn't gotten rich through government crony capitalism or fraud, he's done the simplest stuff better than anyone else could. He let's people buy products that are reviewed thoroughly by other customers, he has a reasonable return policy, etc. This benefits consumers AND honest merchants selling through the platform.

He didn't do this, his workers did. How many of his workers are making minimum wage, with no health insurance or health insurance they can't afford deductibles for? How many of his warehouses don't have air conditioning? How many people working for Amazon are forced to pee in bottles, pushed beyond their limits?

He's not sitting there shipping all packages, not sitting there soldering amazon echo's, his workers are.

$150 billion shouldn't exist for Bezos and Bezos alone, as the wealth should be spread around the company to the workers who actually do the work. We likely wouldn't be this situation of extreme inequality if this was the case. It's disgusting selfishness that is allowed by our current system.
Well it's full of treason weasels in addition to all the lying, so Germany is just saying out loud what quite a lot of people are thinking. I certainly don't trust anything the White House says.

"Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous." Former D/CIA Brennan
https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1018885971104985093

"We are in trouble." Retired 4-star General Barry McCaffrey
https://twitter.com/mccaffreyr3/status/1018903265084182528

"Today’s press conference in #Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory." Senator John McCain
https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/1018919182904299520

Whether Trump is incompetent, or actively giving cover for Russia in plain site, doesn't matter. The shitstorm is just gonna get worse, and more noisy, until he's out of office.
Thank you for releasing this. I am impressed with Hasura! No knock on postgraphile, I am trying that out too as well as prisma, but this looks very well done and the boundaries are clear (like postgraphile, views are important to make things work). Your UI is going to make people happy.

I have two questions: 1. can I point the hasura cli at my local install? and 2. Can we have UUID fields? I'd like to use them as primary keys.