skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but slowness only became a bad thing when time became money.

This. After downscaling my expenses and started working at 25-50% it's amazing how much time I got now compared to working full time. We really under value time and have a weird perspective on it and what we can use it for. Walking to the shop can take 45 minutes for me now which seem ridiculous for some when a car ride takes 5-10 minutes. But what is not accounted for is that slowness itself has value, I have time for reflection while walking, I get fresh air and move my body, I don't need to worry about a car and its costs. The same goes for food. I used to do alot of take outs when I worked full time but now I don't hesitate to prepare and cook for 2-3 hours, I get a much more intimate experience with food, I learn things and get to eat food that taste great.
If you have any experience with web development, it's actually very trivial to create your own. I had absolutely no trouble putting together something simple for https://tomjwatson.com/. The code is available here - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/tomjwatson.com
And I'm told it pairs well with shadow (gaming pc in the cloud).
> Very rarely is your data model non-relational and schemaless

This of course completely false - which is why we use filesytems and files, more than we use databases ;-)

But what I think is less clear and obvious - is when is a document database better than files and the file system? This is kind of the question, are maildirs/mbox any good at storing mail - and are they any good at searching mail?
And is sql better at either?

This isn't clear cut - there are things like dbmail[d] that just uses postgres and layer imap on top/in front - while a lot of servers prefer some form of file storage augmented with custom indexing.

[d] http://dbmail.org/
There were fears at the height of the cold war that the US wouldn't launch their nuclear weapons if soviet tanks literally entered Paris because of the resulting mutually assured destruction. This lead to the formation of ideas like the tripwire force [1]. If you're interested in such topics, I can recommend "The Strategy of Conflict" by Thomas C. Schelling.

If there were credibility problems then, when America was on a much more martial and pro-free-europe footing, the situation is hardly any better now. Although there is a lot less fear of Russian tanks entering Paris, certainly!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire_force
I'll copy from Twitter[1]:

@zackbloom @jgrahamc I can't find it in the docs on AWS site, but I've read that AWS Lambda scales CPU linearly until 1.5GB, then gives you 2nd thread/core and again scales linearly until 3GB. If your PBKDF2 was single threaded, Lambda bigger than 1.5GB is wasted.

11:12 AM - 9 Jul 2018

reply by blog post author[2]:

Replying to @ZTarantov @Cloudflare @jgrahamc
I can't think of a way to test that within the Node code. The only option seems to be to update the C++ version (or some other language) to use multiple threads.

5:16 PM - 9 Jul 2018

1 - https://twitter.com/ZTarantov/status/1016384547364229120

2 - https://twitter.com/zackbloom/status/1016476314864312321
He's incorrect. The Daily Mirror was pro-remain and is a tabloid.

And to add to your list above, the Economist (not strictly a newspaper but influential) and the FT were pro-remain, as was the BBC.
I have fantasies of similar lifestyle. And to an extent rebooting technology by using simple tools, simpler ways and materials. Maybe just enough to build optics and radio.

I agree with him that we're at a point where technology is backfiring. 100 years ago anything was pure improvement. Food conservation, mobility, television. But I feel we're hitting a ceiling.
I always kind of wondered if something like this (the way the title describes it not the way it actually went) wasn't theoretically possible using similarities in writing styles. Like I have several different accounts on some social media sites and make posts and comments on each one for different purposes. But I suspect that, if they were each analyzed based on how things were worded and word frequency and a few other things, they could at least be assumed to be linked together.
> The research team argues that it may be time to move away from passwords as a means to secure user data and equipment.

Many people have expressed this sentiment. By all means we should be using two-factor authentication everywhere. But what, besides a password, has the critical property of residing entirely within your mind and not being obtainable without your cooperation (barring issues like this)?

Physical tokens can be stolen. Biometrics can be obtained and forged, or physically coerced. Authenticating via a secondary device (such as a phone) just moves the problem to "how do you authenticate to that device".

On the other hand, if you ever type in your password in a place where someone can record you, someone could figure out your password, or at least get enough information to make it easier to brute-force your password.

Short of a challenge-response scheme that you can compute entirely within your mind without scratch materials, what could we use that would address both problems? Something that can't simply be stolen or used without your cooperation, but that also isn't potentially disclosed in reusable form every time you use it?
Hey, good to see you already running Fathom!

Just wanted to add that you can also use Fathom with MySQL or SQLite if that's more your cup of tea. It supports those 3 database engines right now.
> Durr, what? Yer want to take all mah data?? It ended up easier to just write the scrapers than to explain what we were doing to Neanderthals.

As demeaning and offensive many people would find that statement to be, I still found it to be the sad reality most of the time.

Plus my local community is much smaller and I would not want vengeful businessmen who understand NOTHING from what I am trying to achieve, to actively sabotage me. They can easily call my ISP and deny me service, for example.

So I opted for ethical scraping without asking questions. Seems to be the best working compromise.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Let's bathe in the confirmation bias it dips us in. :D
The question did not mention forcing people to pray or organized prayer. Your last two statements would not be possible if the government "[abolished] school prayer." If that's not what this is about, then they should have written the question more specifically. As it is, they included _all_ forms of prayer -- both organized and voluntary -- in their question. That's the problem I have with this entire survey: it uses language loosely, and does so in a manner that shows bias.

From what you wrote, I think we agree on the definition of authoritarian, and I suspect if you interpreted "abolish school prayer" the way I did (abolishing all prayer at schools), then we might agree on all points :).
>>There should be a middle way between this and our current lifestyle

Exactly. There are countless ways to live. There are outliers and extremes that point the way to a sane middle ground. How else would we know the middle without exploration of the fringes?
Thank you for posting this. I had not heard of the Pamphlet wars.
Children as young as 4 years old are mining cobalt (used in lithium batteries) by hand in the DRC.[1][2]

"More than half the world’s supply of cobalt comes from the DRC, with 20% of cobalt exported coming from artisanal mines in the southern part of the country. In 2012, Unicef estimated that there were 40,000 children working in all the mines across the south, many involved in mining cobalt."

"Adult miners dig up to 600ft below the surface using basic tools, without protective clothing or modern machinery. Sometimes the children are sent down into the narrow makeshift chambers where there is constant danger of collapse.

"Cobalt is such a health hazard that it has a respiratory disease named after it – cobalt lung, a form of pneumonia which causes coughing and leads to permanent incapacity and even death.

"Even simply eating vegetables grown in local soil can cause vomiting and diarrhoea, thyroid damage and fatal lung diseases, while birds and fish cannot survive in the area.

"No one knows quite how many children have died mining cobalt in the Katanga region in the south-east of the country. The UN estimates 80 a year, but many more deaths go unregistered, with the bodies buried in the rubble of collapsed tunnels. Others survive but with chronic diseases which destroy their young lives. Girls as young as ten in the mines are subjected to sexual attacks and many become pregnant.

The cobalt "ends up in smartphones, cars and computers sold to millions across the world, by household brands including Apple, Microsoft and Vodafone"

"Car maker Tesla – the market leader in electric vehicles – plans to produce 500,000 cars per year starting in 2018, and will need 7,800 tons of cobalt to achieve this. Sales are expected to hit 4.4 million by 2021. It means the price of cobalt will soar as the world gears itself up for the electric car revolution, and there is evidence some corporations are cancelling their contracts with regulated mines using industrial technology, and turning increasingly to the cheaper mines using human labour."

[1] - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4764208/Child-miners...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/19/c...
No, of course I wouldn't. I wasn't lamenting net neutrality, I was lamenting that I think he will be confirmed by means of those measured statements. The due process isn't upsetting, the fact the court will likely be regressive is.

With you having made me think about it, I'm pretty sure the supreme court judges are unelected administrators. Our Congress isn't representative, so I don't think their confirmation process is either.
Thank you for the correction. I shouldn't have searched for SIM :)
I wonder if it also works with the self hosted firefox sync server or if they forgot to add a UI to change the URL to the sync server.
> there will be a bad guy from the government

Elon Musk is ahead of you - he has his government villain already:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016684366083190785/phot...
Originality is largely a concept born after 1750.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28an+original...

An 1850 discussion: https://archive.org/stream/mechanicsmagazi48unkngoog#page/n2...
I can't agree.

Simple is important, but it's not the most important thing. The overwhelming evidence is that there's plenty of working software, in use, that isn't simple. Users will shape their behaviour and memorize flows around a complex piece of software if there is sufficient motivation.

My own principles for design state this order:

Functional, Simple, Delightful

Does it do the job? Is it simple to use (nothing more than what's required)? Do people get excited to use it?

The first is non-negotiable and the last is optional. There's a lot of software that is functional, but over-complicated. Lots that is delightful, but doesn't work and everything in-between.

The software I admire most (and use daily) has a balance of all three.
> The survey falsely portrays these disputes as being about “authoritarianism” versus (presumably), “non-authoritarianism.”

You seem to feel that this survey is a definition about individuals? That's not how the survey is intended to be used, and the fist chapter of the book that introduces it is full of caveats that the survey is not intended to be treated as a definition about individuals.

The author of the survey is very explicitly NOT providing a definition of authoritarianism or a litmus test for individuals. He is providing a survey whose scores correlate with right-wing authoritarianism in North America in the late 20th century.

The survey is a tool, the author of the tool is very explicit about what that tool is and is not for. I, for one, don't get angry when my hammers don't work as screw drivers. And also don't get angry at the inventor of the hammer when some random third party messes up my stuff by using a hammer on my screws...

> Take three of the things addressed in the questioning: animal rights, abortion, and LGBT rights

The survey is designed to measure RIGHT-WING Authoritarianism. That is, the conjunct of being both authoritarian and also right-wing in that authoritarianism.

If we asked 20 questions about authoritarianism but never mentioned anything about being right-wing, we might have a good test for authoritarianism but not a good test for RIGHT-WING authoritarianism...
Can someone with more knowledge on this topic speak to whether this is likely to take off, or is it just a research toy?
Technology does not destroys people.

People destroy people!

Technology just sits there doing nothing without someone starts using it.
> how UPS handles my packages

It's pretty obvious when UPS mishandles your packages, it's either missing, damaged, visibly opened (e.g. security tape broken). It's likely very rare that they would 'mishandle' a package in such a way that you would not be able to notice. Companies like 1password can (and likely do) use your information in ways that are impossible for you to detect, so this analogy does not apply.

> how my dentist handles my records

In the US, you have HIPAA, and there are big penalties for mishandling medical records. The same does not exist for businesses like 1password, so this analogy does not apply.

> how Papa Johns handles the ingredients that make my pizza,

There are sanitation and food handling laws (in the US), and food service companies can get shut down for mishandling food. The same does not exist for businesses like 1password, so this analogy does not apply.

Edit: Since HN's commenting system arbitrarily limits the depth of comments:

My point is that your analogies are not similar. In your analogies, there are legal penalties for violation, whereas in the case of 1password, there are 0 legal penalties and very likely 0 financial penalties for malicious behavior when it comes to your information. In case you still don't believe me, see: Equifax. We can all trust their CEO now, right? (wrong)
What's old is new again. The inevitable rewinding of the 2012 architecture "revolution" starts now. I look forward to people in 2026 saying "monoliths are bad, split everything out to services"
It feels he is not really wrong on many of his points, but this ain't a solution that he is proposing.

Technology is not going away, we need to learn to live with it and have it as a tool to better our lives. It feels that today technology has too much control over people lives. The effects of social media are becoming better understood by the day. Maybe it is time to separete better which technologies are really useful from those that are hardly so.

Life is too short to be spent on Instagram (soon deploying it's lite version to many developing countries...)
Sounds like you really don't understand development if you think getting to use React isn't a big deal.

React (and others like it, e.g. Vue) really is a huge win and solves a ton of pain points common to front end development. It still has its own pain points, but it's hard to overstate how much of an improvement it is over other older approaches like jQuery.
Yes, Lambda functions use a second core above 1536MB of memory. Back in the past they had it in their documentation, but removed it at a certain point.
Also see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34135359/whats-the-maxim...
She didn't "talk about one's experience as a female developer", she implied a semi-important figure in the community was interacting in bad faith, when such a conclusion is non-obvious. She colored her view of the interaction with her own prejudices, and responded disrespectfully because of that.

That's unprofessional to do
You've clearly never done that "job". It cannot simply be left behind. It fundamentally changes a person. Especially in SOF.

It is probably true that in countries like Thailand, serving in the military is somewhat thankless. That's hard to imagine from a US perspective where veterans/servicemembers today receive amazing support.
> Reducing it to pixels for instant digestion is a sub-optimal way to experience it.

Sure. But actually seeing a work of art in person requires that you can afford to travel there, and that you can actually watch the work in peace. I am not sure what the best way to view a work like the Mona Lisa (to name an extreme example) is, but being jostled along in a crowd of Chinese surely isn't it.
Think of the transformative works that could come from making these works of art machine-accessible, as they are doing. I agree that viewing the digital version is not the same as seeing art in person. But this does open up new possibilities. In other words, I can agree with your point, but also think that this release need not be related to your point.
I thought the use case for things like Lambda were more along the lines of rarely used web requests that you'd save money on by not running a full box. I do remember them being slow too.
> the sign, which is just an old real estate advert that originally said 'hollywoodland' to encourage development.

Oddly dismissive. It's iconic, and no less so because it was originally a real estate advertisement.
Conclusion in the comments from JefF: "The main piece of advice I have is … don’t do it. Don’t take on a complex, “enterprisey” cloud install unless you have to. It’s extremely expensive for what you get. Compare to a simple monolithic Digital Ocean droplet running our standard Docker image, which can get you a very long way even at the $40 and $80 per month price points."
You are correct in that this does not use propellant, however the Earth would need to be nearby for this to be viable for any sort of space travel. Perhaps maybe keeping a satellite in orbit or doing orbital maneuvers, but even then the amount of thrust is so small that it would likely not be usable. So unless the review team comes back and says they've eliminated magnetic interference then we're probably back to square one.
Isn't this the kind of understandable reaction that is explored in 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"?
I think the economic phrase for it is internalizing negative externalities:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
PayPal _was_ legitimately owed money. I don't think that's at question - when you die with a debt, that doesn't "erase" the debt. The issue here isn't "dying with debt", it's PayPal's phrasing of this - "Hey, being dead is a violation of your agreement". A less insensitive letter that indicated that there was a $3200 balance against the estate wouldn't have raised any eyebrows (unless UK credit laws are very unusual).
The external sync is a feature for me, not a bug. I can use whatever tool I want to sync between my devices (I use Syncthing) and do not need to trust some company with storing my stuff on their servers and not fiddling with them.
This article could be titled ORM considered harmful (2006)

http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...
100's of problem children sounds like a step too far.

A few services > monolith

monolith > 100's of services.

The big trick with any technology is to apply it properly rather than dogmatically and if you are breaking up your monolith into a 100's(!) of microservices you are clearly not in control of your domain. That's a spaghetti of processes and connections between them rather than a spaghetti of code. Just as bad, just in a different way.
I agree with what you're saying, but I struggle with knowing when to look up answers. If I'm supposed to be able to solve any given problem on my own then looking it up won't get me the problem solving practice I need. I don't know the line of "I need to keep at it for more time" and "I can't solve this better to look it up" especially since I get stuck with almost every problem. It seems best case I learn how to do that one particular problem (for as long as I remember the lesson), but then will most likely get stuck on the very next problem I encounter.
>There seems to be a large outspoken group of people who go out of their way to talk about Musk despite their apparent dislike of him

I'm sorry what? Musk constantly gets tons of PR over nothing from news outlets, to reddit, to HN. It's really strange that a reasonable response to constant bombardment of Musk's half-baked ideas and PR stunts is somehow attributable to people's dislike of Musk personally. How is directly providing concrete and factual events to counter a corporate narrative and to dismantle a cult of personality "going out of [their] way" or even evidence of some kind of odd personal hate towards Musk?

The entire response is a really cheap, nonconstructive appeal to motive and is quite frankly full of vague personal attacks.

I would maybe give you the benefit of the doubt here by saying you probably just don't participate in the same media channels I do, but you're blatantly aware of the situation given your hostile apology to the current perspective on all things Musk. This is so strangely reminiscent of when Steve Jobs was around.
(rouge)

They're not that either, but I think you meant rogue.
Woah. In an ML class I took last fall we got to design our own classification challenge problems that the entire class then competed on.

The one our group made used this exact dataset (the museum website)! We called it VANGOGHORNO haha. We basically pulled the images from the collection and mixed them with non-Van Gogh paintings. It was surprisingly a very learnable dataset, the top two teams got around 97% accuracy and many teams got to 90%. We resized the images and included paintings from vaguely similar styles like impressionism so we were surprised people did that well. I think the top team used some kind of transfer learning to identify entities in the paintings and learned from that.
I don't understand how anyone can defend Price here. Her reaction to a polite, innocuous question is so over the top ridiculous it almost reads like satire.

Since we've got a lot of hurt manfeels today

Who even talks like this in real life?
That's Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1.
In my experience if your developers were going to make choices that lead to tight coupling in a monolith, they’re going to make the same choices in a distributed architecture. Only now you’ve injected a bunch of network faults and latency that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.
>is something that should be experienced in person.

I think thats true to a point. But when I first got a digital SLR, I went to MOMA and took pictures of a lot of art. I was able to go back and look through them. I actually really enjoy looking back through art. I often take pictures of the descriptive label at art museums and historic places.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but in the crowded place of the museum with everyone about, I enjoy the art, but I sometimes have a hard time processing everything. I enjoy a little downtime in the evening with my computer reading and re-experiencing.

I do enjoy interactive installation art, and that doesn't lend itself to photos.