skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I'm currently working MongoDB into a couple of projects I have going at work (they're not really outward facing except for potentially one generated view).

For these projects it seemed to make a ton of sense given the rest of the stack, the nature of the projects, the deadlines I'm facing, and I've really loved working with it so far.

Why did you end up moving off of it?
I haven't changed my position at all. The transfer does not require trust. Both the transfer and the storage do not require trust.

> I don't trust my bank for precisely that reason

Yes you do, unless you don't have a bank account. The fact that you presumably have a bank account with a non-zero balance is evidence that you trust them not to steal your money.
DBX records.. interesting.

Its hard because once a format is entrenched, unless its backward compatible with the previous media...

The market did try to make a better cassette in the late 1980s/early 1990s.. The "Digital Compact Cassette". they competed with Sony's "DAT" (Digital Audio Tape).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape

You are right though, at this point digital is king. Its weird thinking back to a time when music was physical, took up space and you had to think about what to play next (and have it with you). You were sort of stuck with the music you brought with.
exactly, root comment's point is that 'synthesis' is missing, so there is no forward progress unlike the dialectic!
Intel just paid a $100,000 bounty on HackerOne
Is the end of the kitchen nigh?
DirtyPCBs has never done me wrong, and they offer a cheap laser acrylic service, hmmm!

http://dirtypcbs.com/store/lasercut
Well, it's true that they killed a lot of indians, I'm not convinced that means the settlers, in general, were a bunch of merciless savages.

It's interesting that in each of your examples it mentions that they were attacking along with their "Indian allies"... perhaps that has something to do with it.
Here is a linguistic precedent, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-07-20/features/05071...

”Few words have raised the ire of language purists the way the quotative "like" has in the years since "Clueless." Any tirade about the state of the language is sure to say something about "like" as a plague on the language ... "Older people have always criticized new words and [ways of speaking]," Fought says. "Go back to the 1950s to `scram' and `be cool,' and people were saying, `The youth are ruining the language.' I'm sure if you go back to Shakespeare's time, people were saying, `sooth sounds so bad, you really should say forsooth.'"
Not to mention the endless fun that can be had when one service changes the database schema without telling the others!
Here's a good comparison of Lambda vs Azure Functions performance and scaling up to 400 concurrent requests: https://www.azurefromthetrenches.com/azure-functions-vs-aws-...
myOwnStasi = api.create_list("mutuals").id

What can I say, I LOLed...
music (making) as a gameboy/gameboy advance cartridge: http://www.nanoloop.com/
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I'd venture that's a little too cynical, as it violates the "never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by ineptitude" rule :)

I'm not suggesting that something like resume-padding is never a motivation, just that it seems unlikely to be the sole or even primary motivation.

Now, I may be wrong, but my reasoning behind this is that, for all its purported power as a tool, as potatoyogurt has alluded [1], it's really only the true experts who can wield that power effectively. The ones who merely succeeded at getting on their resume would only be able to use it where its power isn't truly needed (as was the case before).

If the technology falls out of fashion, then those resume-holders will be in a position of needing to deliver the cargo, rather than carved wooden headphones.

As such, I believe their motivation is actually to attempt to learn the true power of the tool (i.e. true resume building, rather than mere padding) and that they're grossly underestimating the costs through ignorance and a desire to learn by doing.

The trouble is, without well-published non-distributed reference implementations and, instead, ultra-popularity of the distributed tools instead, they never end up learning those costs, and we're in a state of perpetuated ignorance and perpetuated over-use.

[1] by saying that the cost trade-offs are well understood by the experts, which strongly implies that the experts have a pretty deep understanding of the actual mechanics of distributed computing in general.
I get your meaning but strong third party apps really help platforms. Reddit Enhancement Suite and Better TwitchTV come to mind.
Twitter had issues with stability but I would say that they were under MUCH heavier than a 'non-trivial' load. I also think that it remains an open question as to whether the old twitter was just simply not well written at first or if it was really a fundamental issue with Rails. There are many very large websites that are claimed to be written in Rails. For example: github, airbnb, kickstarter, basecamp,...These seem to be scaling fine.
Reminds me a bit of Gartner’s “Trough of disillusionment.”
I agree with just about everything you’ve said, I just don’t think capitalism is one of those topics.

“They believe it is, and you can't get them to think about it.”

Not getting someone to think about a topic is a far, far cry from not being able to utter such words for fear of violence against you.
Unless we coin the term "macroservices"...
I don't really understand calling Perl declarative... I would consider the Perl CGI services I used to work on to be quite a bit more imperative than the Rails applications I've worked on. Similar with PHP, though I can see where peppering the imperative code into the declarative HTML could be considered more declarative.
Careful with the innocraft hosted options. I checked it out the other week (looking for a GA alternative) and they were sending out passwords in plain text.

Really looking forward to trying Fathom.
If we believe the cycle model, then the people dropping elixir for go will come back when they're tired of dealing with kubernetes and when they realize that being a dynamic language isn't all that terrible (if done correctly).
This is a rather strange position to take, though I can understand your point, unfortunately it misses any qualitative aspects of life, and instead only focuses on the qualitative ones. You have also conveniently forgotten to mention any of capitalism's evils, including imperialist expansion, which has itself been responsible for a great many deaths. Instead, you have focused on the "by-products" of capitalism, that is to say, enlarging a workforce and giveng them what Marx called "double freedom", but at the same time capitalism has also given people double separation - these workers are separated from the means of production, and the products they make. This is no less true in China and India than it is in Britain (especially during the laws passed in the 16th century in the enclosure of the commons).

For what it's worth, I do my part in criticising capitalism, spreading the works of those who also criticise it, and prompting people to think of alternative modes of production. I think that not only has capitalism saved a great many lives, but it's improved a great many too. That doesn't mean that it should be here to say, nor that its evils can be ignored. To use an analogy, capitalism is the boat one can use to cross the river; you don't carry the boat with you once you've finished.

In another system you refer to capitalism as simply being "freely trading labour and goods". To me, this shows your ignorance of the history of capitalism, and what it is today. Have you read "The Origin of Capitalism"[0] or any contemporary critiques, such as those of the Frankfurt School?

In short, capitalism requires a lot of separation and very strange ideas of liberty, which all rely on quite a neat subjectivist-individualist approach.

[0] https://www.versobooks.com/books/2407-the-origin-of-capitali...
I minored in Art History and have a real love of art. I obviously studied using digitized work and still was able to fall in love and appreciate the majesty of it. But then I was in Florence and went to see David (something I had seen a ton) and wow it took my breath away. It was so much more amazing and awe inspiring.

Nevertheless, I still see such an amazing hope in having these works digitized at least to give people some perspective at the range of many great artists and to allow the art to inhabit a person's life in the way they want which is what the artist would want. And hopefully if they love it enough and it impacts them then they can go see it in person.
Runq – Runc-based runtime to run regular Docker images in KVM/Qemu
I'm getting a servfail when attempting to resolve their domain, according to DomainTools[1] the IP for the site was 185.215.113.235 announced from AS42229.

The ASN was mentioned in the article as being listed by Spamhaus ASN Droplist but wasn't mentioned earlier as one of the targeted ASNs.

Edit: reviewed the ASN more and it is the Ebony Horizon mentioned in the article, and it is only peered to BitCanal's primary AS197426, which is subsequently being de-peered, so I'd say that is the main reason bitcanal.com is down :)
1: http://whois.domaintools.com/bitcanal.com
i guess germany isn't part of the western world in that case?

you've got a choice if you've got an inheritance. You either inherit everything that you're eligible to inherit (this includes any outstanding debts) or nothing.

At least that's my understanding of my local law, but I'm neither a lawyer nor did i ever inherit anything.
Came here to say this. I took art in college but never really 'got it' until I saw Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree in person. There is a depth and a visual intensity that just doesn't come through in a tiny little picture on your screen or in a book. Until you've seen great art in person I don't think you really grasp what it is about art that makes it such an important piece of humanity.
The paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0092-9 The usual sources for bypassing journal paywalls will work.

The lifespan curves in the paper are very nice: same slope, shifted to the right all the way down to 100% cohort mortality. The 36% increase in remaining life span refers to the difference between 140 days and 190 days to 50% cohort mortality in the control and treated group respectively.

Senolytic approaches that clear some fraction of senescent cells are highly reliable when it comes to extending life span and reversing aspects of aging in mice. The drug combination used here, dasatinib and quercetin, is cheap: $100-200/dose if you are shopping carefully. It is being trialed by the non-profit Betterhumans at the moment in a 65+ year old human group. Dasatinib is a generic, so there is absolutely zero interest in anyone taking this into a development program, which is a shame. None of the later pharmaceuticals have yet demonstrated any better results in terms of percentage of senescent cells killed off, but FOXO4-DRI has essentially no side effects.

(If you are interested, dasatinib pharmacokinetics and side-effects are pretty well described. E.g. https://doi.org/10.1124/dmd.107.018267 )

Based on reporting from the self-experimentation community, and first principles arguments, senolytics are something to take once every few years, and don't expect to see noteworthy effects unless you are into high cancer risk years or have something like obesity or early arthritis going on, in which more than the usual count of senescent cells will be in place. Senescent cell contribution to aging most likely scales in the same way as cancer risk and for the same reason, loss of immunosurveillance.

Or you could wait for the human trial results to be published. Those will start to emerge next year for various senolytic candidates.

An interesting thought: compelling evidence for senescent cells to be an important contribution to aging has existed for 30+ years. The research community deliberately avoided engagement with treatment of aging as a medical condition from the 1970s to a decade or so ago. It took a lot of advocacy and people coming in from outside the research community to make that change. If that cultural black hole for development had not happened, how much sooner could simple pharmaceuticals have been discovered that significantly addressed aspects of aging in humans through selective destruction of senescent cells?

Another thought: there has been the usual foaming at the mouth over the past decade among those who decry rejuvenation therapies as the purview of the ultra-wealthy. Dasatinib and quercetin at $100-200/dose, at one dose every two years or so? That is much closer to the future of longevity science that this wild tale of massively expensive approaches hoarded by the rich.
Engineer says that arrogant jerks should be less arrogant and more decent towards their fellow human beings.

What's your dismissive line this time?
Show HN: Five Thousand Novels, Ranked by Vividness
If someone wants to spy on Tesla and steal their secrets having the factory in the US or China or both is not going to make a difference.
The real fun starts when you need to start spinning up a distributed load testing fleet to actually generate enough load. :P
Trump Face Block – Blocking the Face of Donald Trump on the Web Using AI
Fortunately admins are not unreasonable and don't base their decisions on praises but on actual merits, so most servers run Debian rather than Arch (which is an interesting distro for other usage cases).
Ha, JQuery. I just had to look at a legacy JQuery code base...and I shudder the thought of ever going back to that paradigm. Sometimes new patterns/frameworks/architectures do really change the game for good.
The key aging problem is that DNA damage is accumulating over the lifetime. Some cells reach apoptosis, some reach senescence, some reach cancer, some keep on being normal for a while.

Culling senescent cells does not undo the accumulated damage. You are making room both for cancerous and normal cells. Normal cells are still damaged though. I'm guessing the net contribution is still positive, but the specter of cancer is still looming.

On the bright side, I hope that cancer can be managed purely mechanically. Imagine dropping by for your weekly ultra-targeted radiation therapy to kill this week's tumors before going for lunch.
Ask HN: Are there any good tech or science related audio books?
I will be making a 10 hour drive by myself in a few weeks. I've never listened to an audio book before but am thinking this might be a good opportunity to give one (or two?) a try.

Are there any good technology or science related audio books that folks could recommend? I'd be interested in anything from software development to machine learning to mathematics to cosmology. Thanks!
I wrote about this back in 2013 comparing what we were able to encode in DNA at the time with what nature can :) https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2013/3/28/dna-data-...

It was a bit of a task trying to figure out how much a strand of human DNA weighed (turns out about 0.000000001 picograms).
There's nothing declarative about HTML except for its extremely limited use case of rendering text.
The test of time isn't always a good metric. html, css and javascript is a huge hack, yet it has withstood the test of time.

SQL to me is a huge design flaw despite it's ubiquity. On the web bottlenecks happen at IO and algorithmic searches. Databases are essentially the bottlenecks of the web and how do we handle such bottlenecks? SQL; A high level almost functional language that is further away from the metal than a traditional imperative language. A select search over an index is an abstraction that is too high level to be placed over a bottleneck. What algorithm does a select search execute? Why does using select * slow down a query? Different permutations of identical queries causes slow downs or speed ups for no apparent reason in SQL. SQL is a leaky abstraction that has created a whole generation of SQL admins or people who memorize a bunch of SQL hacks rather than understand algorithms.
Here's an article I wrote, describing the idea behind the project, defining the idea of "vividness", and explaining how the linguistic analysis works:

https://blog.shaxpir.com/writing-vivid-prose-33283e861358

You can click around anywhere on the histogram chart, to see the different percentile buckets. And you can click on any of the books, to see detailed linguistics, including a snippet of the most vivid page in the book.
You have to be careful not to cause cancer in the process.

From what I read, a lot of the things the body does, which have aging as a side effect, are intended to block cells from becoming cancerous.

For example a senescent cell - it might be damaged, and if it dived it might become a cancer, so better stop it from dividing. But we still need it, so don't kill it off.

Now you might think - actually, let's kill it and let some other cell divide and replace it. But that creates more cell division, which are more opportunities for cancer.

Basically, it's a delicate balance.

I suspect a different balance is also possible (there are animals without cancer for example), but the hard part is you must change all the parts at once (into the new balance), and simply stopping one part of the process will cause cancer.

This is going to make the research very hand without truly understanding all the moving parts, and joining all the different treatments into a single working whole.

What's needed is a fast-living animal, that ages, and gets cancer, in the same way humans do. Then you can just experiment without understanding.
>The work of doctors is 95% obsolete in the advent of better diagnostic tests and internet health information, with ‘AI’ taking the last scraps of relevance.

This seems like a hugely strong claim. Could you elaborate?
No, not unless you’re somehow able to make the team, the CTO and Tim feel good at the same time. If you figure that part out let me know.
What I'm asking for is pretty much exactly what JetBrains have done in IntelliJ. When they system sees me do something manually that could be done with voice, tell me. For example, if I enter an address into maps then start navigation, the machine could suggest I use Siri next time with the phrase "navigate to 123 main street".

At the very least, it would be nice if I could say "Hey Siri, what voice commands can I use with app X?"
I've tried pretty hard to encourage people not to eat fish, using a variety of approaches (varying in intensity) over the last few years for people in many places. Nothing has ever worked, for anyone. People really seem to like eating fish. :(
good resource, thanks!
I mean, is this new information? I always look at the upvotes on the package to see if it has been tested.
The Role of Manager, Starring: You
Can you think of any good thing about paypal beyond user experience? I am open to suggestions, but I don't know of anything.
Your blog 404s bud
Close, but not quite, since what's available (space in the specific example) isn't being filled.

Alternatively, with the complaint that desktop software feels more sluggish on a modern computer than contemporaneous software did on much older hardware suggests that something is even being overfilled.

My intuition says there's a different phenomenon of psychology at work here.
Senescence is a tool of embryonic development repurposed to wound healing and cancer suppression. Cells need to be suppressed once the finger is done being built at the end and the edges, and senescent cells do that job. Cancerous tissue needs to be suppressed, and senescent cells are there to do that job.

The problem is not that senescent cells exist, it is that there is not 100% coverage of their removal after they do whatever the short-term job at hand happens to be. It is the lingering ones that cause the harm.
They could of course do that without an acquisition, just a business deal with 1Password.
Absolutely. The flat design thing is a pet peeve of mine.
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That's what you got out of reading the post? I didn't think the suggestion that teamwork is important would be controversial in any way.
Question for anti-patent folks. Do you like a system where Chinese companies just copy products listed on Amazon and sell them for less?
AUR repository isn't supported by the core tools and packages. To use it one has to install external scripts. So it's by no means part of the system.
VCRs have also bottomed out and are starting to rise.
thanks for pointing out.
Incidentally there is a workshop this Sunday at ICML about program synthesis https://uclmr.github.io/nampi/
I really doubt that outcome - I feel like whoever is advocating this has never actually used SkipTheDishes. It's neither as good as a restaurant, nor as good as a home cooked meal. And we have cheap clothing because of outsourcing cheap labour and material overseas - that's one mighty fast drone.
But only rarely do these laws come out of nowhere. People already practicing these ideas show that they're viable, and starts giving those ideas mindshare.
Reminds me of the kind of source humor you would see in old Visual Basic projects for AOL "proggies".
> you've got a choice if you've got an inheritance. You either inherit everything that you're eligible to inherit (this includes any outstanding debts) or nothing.

But that's effectively the same situation as in almost any other country. Debts are settled before you are eligible to inherit anything. If debts are more than the estate has, then you don't inherit anything.
>Although I am a big fan of encoding information in DNA, nothing in the arguments for it make sense, economically speaking, compared to more mature industries like hard drives and flash.

The only application I could ever think that would ever remotely make sense would be when genetically engineering things you could use the 'junk DNA' to put information in about what you designed however, with enough time/generations, it would be garbled.
Wow. Lets add some sleep in the compiler also so people will think harder about their code before compiling?
We're talking about a hypothetical electorate made up of mostly enlisted soldiers who were on the shit end of the stick when it comes to war.
well, we can think of the synthesis as returning to monolithic services with the understanding the sufferings of microservices.
> Now that everyone forgot why the new technology was bad, we're free to begin the cycle again.

We can very easily break the cycle by training a deep learning TensorFlow brain in the cloud, that will be fed the daily mouse gestures and key presses of all developers in the world. It's an awesome new technology that can solve any problem.

Pretty soon the global brain will start to see patterns emerging, for example when developers post hype phrases on forums with unsubstantiated claims about the potential of some awesome new technology. As soon as a hype event is detected, a strong electric shock is commanded via the device the developer is using, thereby stopping the hype flow and paralyzing the devellllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Imagine if roads were built like this.

"Buy the mall + metro bundle for discounted access to many convenient routes to your favorite shopping destinations!"
Agreed. I've only seen proper user separation happen when legal gets involved. Usually it's an all-access free-for-all, and after all, why shouldn't it be? It's a lot easier to pull data and logs from adjacent services yourself rather than taking a ticket and hoping the team still exists for a response.
Dragging out the old one-click patent I see. I guess I missed where the development of ecommerce was stymied by this patent.

A patent can promote innovation in at least two ways: (1) rewarding the inventors for their toil and risk taking; and (2) by forcing competitors to try to solve the same problem with a different solution.

People seem to forget about the second one.