skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could be inspired to haul trash. If I knew the system put in place was designed to get people to minimize their actual trash, that organic waste was being reused properly for compost, and that multi-stream recycling was in place, I would feel pretty good about what I was doing. Work in waste management: save the planet.

I don't know how to get established cities to follow such a program, but Taiwan seems to have figured it out. https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwan-the-worlds-geniuses-of-g...
Most scenarios end up like this. By far, the best way is to progressively tax the rich, remove loopholes, create larger trade blocks with unified tax systems (so the rich can't run to avoid taxes) and revert those taxes into services for the whole population.
I work for an international manufacturer. We're deploying Surface Hubs to all locations that have a good enough internet connection. I've only used it a couple times as a glorified whiteboard and had a good experience.

Apparently it has some very good microphones and software running. Regardless of where a person is in the room, it will adjust the microphone level so you can hear them clearly. The people training mentioned their location has had a couple instances where a little side conversation was broadcast to the other side. They made sure to mention that in every training session.
I thought that in Finland you could do other public works (something along the lines of Americorps in the USA) instead of serve in the army if you were a conscientious objector.
Ask HN: Career advice for former actor?
Hey everyone, I have a lot of respect for the users on here but I'll just cut to the chase. Here's the gist of my story. Let me know what kinds of positions you think I should apply to.
-past five years I have been acting/performing/auditioning
-during this time I have been substitute teaching for public schools during the school year full time
-I have a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Villanova
-heres my linkedin if you want a better picture of my background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-justin-1a2b595a/

I have decided this summer to make a career switch to something much more stable. Acting for five years has led to an tough financial situation. I am looking for opportunities/positions that might be a good idea for me to apply to now. I was hoping to get some suggestions of things that might be a good fit for someone whose soft skills feel well developed but have an interest in working within IT.
I had fraudulent Amazon charges once and worked through their support. According to Amazon, someone had added my card to their account and bought stuff. They had already identified the fraud before I called, but hadn't bothered to let me know or initiate a refund (!?).

Their final advice was to initiate a chargeback on the Visa card with my bank (this wasn't an Amazon card) and they wouldn't challenge the chargeback. I confirmed 3 times with Amazon support whether this would be counted against me in any way. They assured me, no, it wouldn't. I don't believe them but did the chargeback anyway. So far, so good, but I'm super hesitant to do returns with Amazon anymore. These giants are really doing a good job training their customers to bend over.
Don’t forget, it’s politically easier to push around end users than businesses. If you ban one-use disposable cups, Starbucks would lose its mind. Much easier to nickel and dime customers in ways that visibly look like you’re trying to solve something.
Actually at least in my experience the people into expensive alcohol tend to like collecting it, which I find odd. I'm into food and I enjoy food with my friends who are also into food (note I said food, it doesn't have to be expensive, just good). My friends who are into expensive alcohol like having huge stocks of expensive alcohol that they rarely or never drink because it's expensive. Doesn't sound like much fun.
4a) said savvy users also have to be willing to write these emotionally persuasive victim-narrative posts and pump them on social media. I think this is the polar opposite of what the average tech-focused person wants to be doing.

Github stole my 4-character username ("mind") to hand over to some machine learning startup-lookalike. Their official justification is it had been inactive for over two years (it had not), and a third party had reported it (to take, obviously). There was also no pre or even post notice, just the next time I logged in it showed up already changed. I could have easily and promptly responded to any notice - the lack of account activity was due to being occupied with the fallout from a significant death in the family.

I tried emailing customer service, but of course there's no need to consider facts when they've got policies.

I thought about trying to raise a social media stink when they were being acquired by Microsoft. But at the end of the day it's just not worth trying to craft a narrative to be received by the "web 2.0 class". I had enjoyed having the short name as Github is obviously a common center for bug reports etc, and I figured I'd eventually mirror repositories there. But at this point any illusion of cromulence they had is gone, and repos need to first be published on a real solution anyway. So whatever.
I tried all sorts of work, from text editing to drawing and music creation. They all kind of work but they are needlessly complicated. On the PC/Mac I can edit a sample in Audacity and just drop it into my DAW, in most cases probably via Drag'n Drop. On iOS I'd have no guarantee if that's even possible for the two apps I'm using.

Copying an edited photo (or drawing in my case) to a flash drive involves an external computer. It's not that it's impossible it*s needlessly complicated and clunky. I don't ant to try hard enough, I want the device to make my work easier.
Are you implying it isn't true? The world is most certainly zero sum in a lot of areas - how many people can make it as famous actors?
The real reason: Chinese tourists buying anything that is "popular" and "good", go to any places in Japan and it's overran and ruined by them.
Lot's of articles on that (google chinese tourist hibiki, plenty of results, including ft.com articles)
I'm not being negative about this, it's a cool setup.

But just to be clear, the pattern (not marketing terms) is doing change data capture (essentially the database transaction log) to a message queue, with message/job processors that can take any action, including writing the messages to other databases.

Kinesis is SQLStream underneath, which is probably why the lifetime of messages is limited - it's not originally intended to be Kafka or a durable message queue.

EDIT: Note above, when SQLStream first came out it didn't seem intended as a long term store. That was like really early on when I saw it at Strata. It looks like they made the storage engine pluggable and Kafka is an option too, so my statement above is likely incorrect.

Lambda is being used as a distributed message/job processor, much like any worker process processing a queue would be scaled up.
> Same thing as happened to our own species tails, they became obsolete.

And no ape had its tail cut in the name of evolution. It happened slowly, as older apes were replaced by newer models.
Many of my lit-savvy friends have never heard of Borges - I had never caught wind of him until about a year or two ago. I was blown away when I read Labyrinths. His writing style strikes a really nice balance between analytical and artistic/philosophical. I found that I got the most out of his stories when I read them in their entirety and reflected upon for a while afterwards.

I would HIGHLY recommend him to other technical-minded people who have interest in the arts. Two stories that I loved were "The Library of Babel" (obviously) and "The South". Two more from a different collection (The Book of Sand) that I think go hand-in-hand with each other conceptually are “The Mirror and the Mask” and “Undr”
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Google Trends has some interesting data on this one, not only did it seemingly come up for almost no interest but it's popular in the "hip" states: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=j...
Funding code-d, the D plugin for Visual Studio Code
Verifying Transactional Consistency with Jepsen and FaunaDB
Why yesterday’s AT&T and Time Warner merger appeal matters
Hacker news is definitely toxic and fairly prone to being unnecessarily down on npm and JavaScript in general. Although HN thinks HN is very intelligent and good at debate, it’s somewhat prone to promoting one opinion and in a very aggressive way. I read it because I like discussions, but they have been getting more and more one sided over time. Unfortunately, most users seem to think that this is reddit in my opinion.
What do you mean by "(a fraud prevention measure to make it hard to cover any wrong doing)"?
> You might decide to cultivate an interest in accounting, but be really bad at numbers since a young age, and will always be at a disadvantage towards someone that is innately good with numbers.

This implies some very linear progression as to working with numbers ability, which is not really how these things work. And it's accounting, you do not need to be a numbers genius.

What you are saying is mostly true for hyper-competitive fields like music, sports, acting, etc.
I brought a bottle back from duty-free in Japan back in 2010. I think it worked out to around $180 (but only 70cl) by then-current exchange rates. Nursed it for probably two years. It was excellent.

If you like the old style, all-sherry-aged Macallan it will be right in your wheelhouse. $250 would be a steal these days. I'd certainly pick up another one if I saw it at that price.
Does GitHub analyze private repositories?
You can think of it as a codegen for C++ in the lines of what Scala is to Java. The author was involved in Barry Jay's language called Fish, which would also be of interest to you.
Shortwave high frequency radio trading, chicago, east coast (part 3)
Why are you so obsessed with working in the same place as your girlfriend? Check with a professional that emotional dependency first.

edit: downvoted for telling the truth, classic problem denial.
For me...

1. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John Murphy

2. Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence G. McMillan

3. [just finished] The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right By Atul Gawande

4. [finished last week] Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik

5. [currently working on] Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software By GOF

6. [currently working on] Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API by Dan Appleman

7. [next on the list] Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben Rich, Leo Janos
Fair point. I think the idea is that there is a due process, and legal recourse if your rights were infringed. The existence of these laws would make public accommodations at least think twice before denying service.

AirBnB is apparently avoiding these laws by putting forced arbitration into its terms of service.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanlebeau/2016/11/02/racial-...
As a Brit with parents who lived through both Fascism (World War Two) and Communism (Cold War), this rings true.
> They swapped a thing that is not recyclable with one that is.

Perhaps that could have been done while keeping the straws.
Yeah, I used Anki a ton in college, and doing things like this was always futile and frustrating. Flashcards are fantastic for learning short bouts of things, but not large structures like many lines of code.

Additionally I'd say even if you succeeded in memorizing it this way, it's not making you a better problem solver, which is what actually matters for that particular subject; you're just (temporarily) better at regurgitating some lines of code.
I'm curious about the economics of this design. Real-time stream consumption implies that the consumer is always running, and if you need to run software 24x7, running it on EC2 instances is likely to be far cheaper than running Lambda functions continuously.
I have to admit, the string and array syntax are the only parts that keep me from using it instead of YAML.

Probably because they are the only two features that need delimiters at start and end. The rest are only one-liners or simply stop if the next of the same type starts.
Type "Hacker News" and {socialism, communism, capitalism, ...} in your favourite search engine, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Just an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15440978 (has 141 points, 144 comments, no one complained)

There are really many others, how is this one any different?

> ideological flamebait

It is not. There are many other submissions similar to this one with actual, rational debates happening without it being devolved to an "ideological flamewar". You appear to be biased, and you seem to assume that HN members are not capable of rational debates regarding political philosophy, and economics. Evidently, this is not the case.

> Generic ideological tangents, and generic discussion generally, is off topic on HN

Yet still submitted quite often, and is followed by fruitful conversations, without any flamewar.

I can't help but wonder: what is the objective measure for generic vs non generic ideological tangents? What is the objective measure/classification for what is signal and what is noise? Stuff that person agrees with vs not? Their use of superfluous language vs the message being delivered? You are clearly trying to be clever but it really is meaningless, and the irony being that obviously, the signal to noise ratio of your message, will be very bad indeed, considering your message basically can be summed up as "I disagree with this and want it censored", which of course, in the greater context of the thread, is just noise as it contributes nothing.
> GDPR

From the article:

> ...have exercised our discretion under our Terms of Service to disable your account(s)

The language here implies that the account still exists in a suspended state, and is not deleted. If you're a european, under the GDPR they must give you all your data if you ask for it. Maybe this would include the reason they banned the account.

Otherwise, you can at least demand that they erase the data they're holding only to your disadvantage.
I used to buy some hibiki 17 at 100€, and Taketsuru 21 at 125€.
Hell, I almost bought some 30y karuizawa 1981 that were at 300€~ a few years ago.
XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables
First, I recognize we're painting with a broad brush here. I wouldn't call it supremacism. But too often I find "progressives" see themselves a moral high ground. Often dismissing nuanced conversation for a "winner" due to morals.

I don't care for discussing actual policies since I'm no law expert. I do like drilling down into first principles with "either side" and seeing what their ideal treatment of individuals in situations would be. It's just... difficult to discuss such things without being seen as insensitive or even prejudicial.

This being said, this article has nothing to do with technology :). And subscribing to view the full article... gross.
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A lot of features and improvements have been made in the last two months and we'd love to get some feedback from web developers on Hacker News.
> Now you're doing something boring, but in service of a cause that is meaningful to you.

Finding your passion is much better advice than doing what you think people want you to be doing with your life. I honestly think that's all it means. Do something that connects to you. People don't like to think about being all alone in the world, but the hard truth of life is one day we might be. You don't want to stick yourself in a panopticon of memories reminding you of choices you didn't choose independently. It's not the worst thing to happen to a person, but it's very similar to the abstract functionality of PTSD. Trying to escape yourself while finding your own value system can be just as imprisoning, especially if your value system actually winds up aligning with whoever chose whatever for you.

I've made these mistakes in life, so, trying to return to a version of myself where I had my own passion. But it just loops back around, and that's...it sucks. Finding stuff to do that resonates as crystal clear true to you is really, really important. Don't knock it because being respected and valued and admired by others is nice to experience. Here in an instant and gone in a flash. And if those things don't connect to you at core, it's really, really hard rebuilding yourself without going completely insane. It breaks you down and you have to build yourself back up again. Over and over. It seems to come at a cost I can't identify entirely. Sort of thing that makes you want to stare for a thousand miles and just wonder 'why'. And if you can't find anything in your life to be joyful and accepting about, it just leads to a silent variant of rage. Strong arguments, prickly, walled off people. This gets compounded if the only things you seem to enjoy may be a bit on the stigmatized side of things, or simply, not in line with current trends. So this cycle, of being broken and having to rebuild yourself, you don't want it to control you. You want to have control over it.

Finding your passion, accepting it. Very important to being happy and being able to improve lives around you.
Python is a Turing complete language that can do anything. Dhall isn't. That lack of power means that a configuration language can still do a lot, but stick to its mission of configuration. It produces a final value (probably a map or list). Your real program reads that value and does the real work. Why complicate your real program with that? Offload it to dhall and you get a consistent configuration for free!

Think of all those places (e.g., Chef and Circle) where people try to encode graphs and processes in YAML. Dhall could do much of the same work of producing a simple spec, but without the fear of infinite loops or nonsensical Bash parameters hitting a function.

Dhall is such a simple language (really just function application and and some built-in datatypes and access principles) that it doesn't seem terribly costly as opposed to, say, embedding a complex graph into YAML (risking structural errors) or Python (risking extremely complex behavior and execute-only configuration). If what you really want is a declarative set of instructions to your real program, Dhall is probably one of the most awesome tools in the open source world for making it.
The push for compostable plastics is a reasonable response to the insane amount of plastic waste that ends up in the oceans and elsewhere, despite the prevalence of recycling programs.

Using more energy is a fair trade even if it's sourced from hydrocarbons initially. It wouldn't be much of a stretch for a compostable plastics company to use "made with 100% renewable energy" as a selling point.
It’s never “fast enough.” PCI-E motherboards are actually out now. In three years we will have either PCI-E 4.0 or 5.0 as a standard.

And you’re right—PCIe 3.0 cards out today have plenty of performance for today’s applications. That why you would get a PCIe 3.0 card today. But it doesn’t matter if it’s fixed because you aren’t going to upgrade it.
HN is relatively easy to optimise though - there are only a few stories with high traffic, so if you have good caching the load on the back end can be very low. It's more difficult to do that with something like github where the users are spread across millions of repos.
The EC was arguably created (in it's existing format) to protect the interests of southern, slave-owning states. At the time, roughly analogous to resisting tyranny of the majority (as the urban north had more people, especially as slaves weren't fully recognized as people), but not exactly.

And we should not forget that the balance of the EC (as it relates to the ratio of Senators and Congressmen to residents) has swung hugely in favor of rural states. As the number of residents per district has grown, with a capped number of Congressmen, states like CA and TX have effectively lost representation. If we adjusted the size of a Congressional district down to match the population of the smallest state, and increased the size of the house accordingly, the large states would pick up quite a few Congressmen, and therefore Electors.
Hint: The interior angles of any four sided shape add up to 360°.
geohot has always been equal parts brains and bombast.
x = lambda x: x*x

It doesn't look that bad in comparison...
The first progressives came out of the eugenics movement. They were all huge racists. Woodrow Wilson, one of the first progressive presidents, was responsible for segregating the military.
Most people I know who insist on straws for everything cite hygiene. You don’t know what contaminants are on that cup rim, bottle, or can opening, but you can reasonably assume the straw (if you unwrap it yourself) is cleaner.
I think most people are just not passion-developers. I know I'm not. There are people who seem to be very single track in some areas. They like one thing and they like that one thing. Often they liked it from a young age. And they don't care that much for various other things around them.

I was never like that, I was never single track. There are a lot of things I find interesting, but there's no particular thing that is so all-consuming it can eclipse everything else.

There is no good advice because building a society is not about giving individuals good advice, it's about building a good society that a variety of individuals can thrive in without following esoteric advice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_socket

Intel seems to change desktop sockets every 2 years now. That includes multiple generations, but 2 years of CPU improvements is not significant in almost all cases. A new motherboard with each new CPU is the likely situation. AMD has supported sockets for longer, and that seems to be continuing.
...or we will end up demonizing the entire industry...

Probably the best thing that could happen for our health?
I completely agree that change detector tests are worse than useless, they often have negative impact.

When designing mutation testing, we have spent most of our time designing suppresion heuristics to avoid generating bad mutants. Some bad mutants fall into the category of change-detector tests, but there are many more categories (see the Appendinx for a taste).

Finally, mutants don't have to be killed, they just point out a potential weakness in the test suite, and it's up to the developers to make that call.
>To truly argue on this point you need to, I think or at least in my opinion, settle on a definition of "smart" and "dumb".

That's exactly what I just did - the level of intelligence necessary to build a technological society. On that scale we only just register above the threshold, as a species.

I'm not saying our intellectual capacity is rubbish or useless, we make the grade to be significant on this scale. Yay us!

I'm just trying to put our intellectual achievements in perspective given that we have no other intelligences on the planet anywhere close to competing with us on this scale. Making a comparative analysis of a single data point is alway difficult, but I think this is a useful way to think about the problem.