skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Play Store Rival Files Antitrust Complaint to EU
This is a very good evaluation. We were running on AWS for 3 years before moving to GCP and have the same experience. To make up for some of the shortages we replaced some parts with the following:
- Monitoring with Datadog
- Container build and deployment with Cloud 66 Skycap and Habitus
- Support: well, I simply wish if Google Support was better or at least they had a more proactive status page update policy.
Where Did This Neutrino Come From?
Self-Driving Startup Pony.ai Raises Another $102M
Sexual reproduction uncorrelates the selective pressures over each gene, and each small set of them (with larger sets being possible the larger a population the species has).

The gene is the unit of selection is perfectly right. It's missing a finer point in that groups of genes are unities of selection too, but it's correct.
Ask HN: Does Kylie Jenner's success invalidate much of the advice on HN?
I notice there are always like mantras and "hacks" touted on HN on how to be successful, Kylie did not do any of them and is now believe to be worth almost $1B (although reading into it, it seems hyped). Regardless, she's at least worth $500M and probably never pulled an all-nighter, sacrificed a meal or had to think any deeper than a fifth grader.
"Never"
Plus we have learned the hard way that concurrency and processes are much saner from safety point of view than threads.
YES!...YES!...YES!..."MBP's with the touch bar" close window Fuck that.
My point is that there is a much larger audience outside of our own "niche". The fact that we see a lot of developers with Macs, does not mean that they are a large audience among all of the Mac users.

My brother works at an Apple shop, and the vast majority of people he has to attend come from all walks of life, they are not developers/enthusiasts.
I thought this would have a way more interesting end:

"On the morning of June 24, the last remnants of the Times Mirror art collection were auctioned off with little fanfare. The five “Imaginary Portraits” lithographs sold after a round of feverish bidding for $16,250, shattering the pre-auction estimate."

It's still an interesting read.
I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know if these interviews are scripted? It feels like their reading their back-and-forth banter to each other. (Nothing wrong with that.)
Hopefully no one is looking at a project and saying "that will take a year". You estimate tasks and that gives you a project timeline. Those tasks get the double and bump.

Or say 2 decades and get all the praise when you come in under time and budget.
To shame the community into doing something, maybe.
sorry what does "bro" culture have anything to do with the puzzle/algorithm heavy interview culture in the valley? That term is tossed around so much, and it doesn't seem to mean anything here
It looks like CPanel does support a letsencrypt plugin, which is really cool: https://blog.cpanel.com/announcing-cpanel-whms-official-lets...

However, I have to wonder how many hosts actually enable it...
Currency has three main uses: as a unit of settlement (medium of exchange), unit of account, and as a store of value.

USD is by far the leading currency for all three use cases, and you can tell it's the de facto world currency because even international transactions between non-USD-using parties use USD by default.

Whenever a Japanese bank and a Chinese bank transact, it's in dollars. Whenever Venezuela and Cuba transact, it's also in dollars. Whenever international business happens, also in dollars.

This pattern repeats to the tune of 95%+ of the nominal value of all world transactions. Many countries also peg their currency to the USD, e.g. HKD is basically the US dollar.

That's clearly not true for any other currency, and certainly not crypto. I mean, at what point would you agree that it's really the world currency — only when every single transaction is actually denominated de jure in dollars?
npm should require all package maintainers to set up 2-Factor Authentication (NOT via sms) and reauthenticate on every update, effective immediately. That's the only fix I can see for this. Libraries are too vulnerable and our current js ecosystem has too many dependencies and too many people in the chain to trust that all of them use secure password practices and none of them have been compromised.
Slavery was kind of a success too.
I don't think we have enough information to know whether or not "millions were affected." Neither class-action lawsuits nor a warranty program nor complaints on Hacker News prove this one way or the other.
For those projects, everybody is over-optimistic in their respective bids (some could say they are basically lying...). But that's part of the game unfortunately.

However sometimes, it can be a calculated risk, for most projects, something is provided by the client, and generally they are also late on their parts. If played correctly it can hide delays on your side.

Also, being over-optimistic in a bid doesn't mean you have to be over-optimistic internally, you could set realistic expectations internally and "manage" properly the delays on the customer front.

Just to be clear, this is a cynic view of things. Every time I see something like that, I cringe inside (and even outside).

However the 2x rule can be quite limited in big projects as it doesn't account for the overhead induced by the size. In a team of hundreds, 30, 40 or 50% of the efforts can be lost due to difficulties in communication, management layers, heterogeneous set of competencies and skills, etc. It's harder to identify what this overhead could be. They can be huge differences between relatively well integrated teams and a complete mess.
I would really really encourage everyone here to watch Alan Kay's recent talks on how poorly we understand systems and why it's critical we get better at managing them.

Some good ones:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1R2jH4PQEo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9c7_8Gp7gI

Some people have strong opinions about Alan Kay's CS / programming work and I'd really encourage them to put them aside and deeply understand his points + context. The programming parts aren't ever the point, he's deeply interested in how as humans we improve our ability to collaboratively manage systems.
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Or just... running stuff that kicks on the GPU? Running development tools (ios stuff, java stuff) would always kick things in to overdrive and send the fans whirring, and killing my battery. Yes, I'm often plugged in, but knowing that, if I need to be mobile, I'm going to get 2-3 hours... was a hard pill to swallow for $3700, when for 30%+ less I'd have a machine that lasted longer, had quieter keyboard, etc.
Wow, that's a great idea. I didn't realize it had support for that.
If you quote a part of your search query, then google only returns pages containing that text.
For me hotsitting, flex-spacing or whatever you call it just quietly whispers: "you do not belong".
> I know I am and I hope I get one of these newer ones next week. 6 cores and 32 gigs of DDR4 make a lot of a difference.

Even if they provide 64 GB, it will never be enough RAM. OSX is dogshit at memory management, with massive memory leaks. On my work laptop (-1 generation), I have 16 GB. Normal workloads (i.e. not even developer workloads/compilation tasks) consume memory to the point where I’m constantly swapping. Until they fix their shit, I’m not going to buy a new one, nor will I ask my company (I am good friends with IT) to refresh.
This is a common misconception. The collection is the unit of replication, but the gene is nonetheless the unit of selection. This argument was laid out in excruciating detail by Dawkins, but the TL;DR is that reproductive fitness can only ever be measured relative to some environment, and all the other genes in a replicative unit are (part of) the environment for a gene and its alleles.
what are the top 5 other things you find yourself doing with the visual debugger?
Yeah that makes perfect sense -- optimizing hyperparameters more efficiently but on the train set.
Even if we're all watching each other, we still all have our own incentives and not so obvious irrationalities.
I recently purchased the British Rail corporate identity manual [1]. It is such a pleasure to browse through but it is basically the same pages that are posted on the doublearrow website.

There is a resurgence in reviving is these so-called "corporate design manuals" and thanks to hard work from people who have contacts, it has made possible to reproduce them.

Does anyone think today's corporate identities just don't have the same rigor and discipline that was given back in the 1960's and 70's? I've gathered stuff from the 1972 Munich Olympics, IBM design manual, CBC identity, NASA, EPA, most things published by Lars Muller publications, etc. The Swiss design has just eroded away and today's identities feel like they are soulless plastic shells compared to stone-line qualities of old stuff.

I've been reading BrandNew blog for more than 10 years[2]. I've noticed that today's design is about chasing trends which trade away the abstract aspect of "Timelessness".

Perhaps the design noise has always existed but the internet has allowed it to breed and spread?

[1] https://britishrailmanual.com/
[2] https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/
I think developers need to be much more deliberate about the packages they use and try to have a very small node_modules where it's possible to provide some oversight.
> Its great for scrubbing through video.

The touchpad is fine for that. No need for duplicating functionality.
I think the open office is not suited for all personalities. We have some people in our small, open office that enjoy it and others that don't. It's not a one size fits all situation, neither are cubicles.
It's not so much about development. Even if I did move over to Mac OS, I would still probably use the same or similar tool set - Visual Studio Code for everything except .Net Core. For .Net Core I would probably use JetBrain's Rider.

It's about deployment. Anytime you use Windows in a cloud hosted environment, you end up spending more on licensing and needing larger instances -- increasing the costs and startup time. I can easily development on Windows and auto deploy on Linux instances when I'm using either Python, C#, or NodeJS. But if I am going to be using Unix like environments anyway for deployment, why not use a Unix environment for development? MacOS gives you the best of both worlds -- a Unix environment for development and polish for everything else.
The increased collaboration angle is most likely bs.

According to this study open offices do reduce face to face communications: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/1753/2017...

The only two rational factors why anyone would choose open office:

1. the floor space really is so expensive you can waste xx% of capital output of labour.

2. You inherit a dysfunctional organization or just a one you cannot trust, and want to "keep an eye" on everyone so they behave. Michael Bloomberg gave this rationale in New York.

3. Bonus round for hotdesking : You expect/have a fairly high churn rate. Why bother assigning people personal spaces since it's so much work to keep track of the facilities. Let the people find their own space. Besides, you might outsource xx% of your operations in near future so it's not like you plan on investing in long term team building.

So, any linear combination 1,2 or 3 should suffice as an explanation. Any serious publication which praises open offices is likely a piece by a consultant who makes a living out of peddling said solutions and are offering political propaganda to make the employees less resistant.

The most common irrational reason: You don't really have an opinion what consitutes a good working space but open offices seem to be trendy ("It's what the big boys are doing") and a consultant made you an offer to redesign your office space, so, why not.
AT&T still dominates telephone service. Most phone companies are renamed Baby Bells.

Facebook has the analytics information and wealth to buy any competitor.

IBM gave itself away to Microsoft when an exec handed Bill Gates a sweetheart deal for DOS.

Microsoft is still the dominant force in its original industry (desktop computing) which is still significant.

The Internet disrupted companies that weren't ready for it. Do you think something new is coming alomg to replace the Internet?

Even so, when one giant replaces another, so what? What problem does that solve? "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."
Guido van Rossum going on a permanent vacation from Python BDFL
I actually like the Touchbar MacBook Pros'. Including the keyboard. I love how small they are and how all the plugs are the "same" :)

I use it as my home-notebook and iOS development.
TIL, xfer means transfer
It is very good, excellent, attractive idea if you are paying for the office space (and even better if you are not also subject to the consequences of poor employee productivity).
You are wording my exact thoughts. mid-2015 13" MBP was good balance.

They've played this thinness and flashy lights game too much too long. My new Lenovo T480S (24GB DDR4, is coming next week :) Sweet Linux with i3 tiled window manager. All the ports & productivity I can ask for.

I'm voting with my wallet and my vote doesn't go to Apple.
They need to take a page from “G4 Cube” and kill this entire product design, not tweak it.

Touch Bar adds cost (both money and battery) for a net negative in functionality and has no external-keyboard equivalent. Wrong design, take it out.

Machine is thin enough to cause unwanted trade-offs in capacity and performance. Wrong design, take it out.

“Improved” keyboard means waiting more years to see if it breaks, whereas “reverted 100% to 2013 keyboard” might have created instant customers. Flaky keyboard frought with risk? Wrong design, take it out.

There is nothing about this design that deserves risking spending so much money on it. They haven’t truly fixed any of the requests (except maybe maximum RAM).
The 10% are the "word of mouthers" (evangelists) that influence the other 90%.

Apple isn't where it is today because of TV advertising. It's where it is because of brand advocates like the people who are now complaining about the new products.
Here are some useful commands you can use to secure your environment in light of this hack: https://gist.github.com/localjo/59bb12b7a4789e01e3782cf8a103...
The word being hard does not justify the success of reality tv, tabloids, lotery, music that is forgotten the next year or smoking.

Who do you think has the most chance to buy a lotery ticket. Somebody with 130 or 90 IQ ?
Doors, Soccer, Design, and Robots
In the case of individual or small group actions that have the capability to seriously fuck things up for everyone else, what other position is rational?
What?

"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
The ISPs and mobile carriers are too powerful. At least Google/Facebook have to innovate, or buy companies like Instagram or Whatsapp that innovate. ISPs get their billions in revenue from monopoly. All they have to do is buy off politicans and put people like Ajit Pai in power. Now that they've started to acquire tech companies like Yahoo, no one can stop them from giving preferential treatment to their content and streaming services eventually threatening the ability for tech startups to compete through innovation.
I don't think the world could function without contracts.

I get into a restaurant, I order some food. That's a contract where I get into the obligation of paying, and they get into the obligation of serving the food.

It's much more likely that the justice system needs a complete rework.
> and there are still some aspects of Windows 10 that annoy me (namely the prevelance of ads)

This is why I won't run Windows 10. It's spyware you pay for. No thanks!
Actually not true - browsers already batch DOM change repaints.
Adversarial and reinforcement learning-based approaches to information retrieval
I've come to see the open-plan office like the Golden Path in the Dune novels, even if accidental. Between large technology companies which have tried to expand to do everything, and endless acquisitions and acqui-hires, we were at risk of too much centralization in the tech world.

Open-plan offices are a pain point which serve to drive everyone with a bit of entrepreneurial spirit to start their own company. They're supposed to be oppressive. We're due for a Scattering.
"Perception is reality"

You can be a negative/realist as long as your perceived value outweighs your "bad" attitude. The problem with this is that people are really bad at placing value on soft skills and all it takes is one clueless manager to sandbag you.

Everything op said above is spot on
Behavioral Economics falls prey to the same kinds of over simplifications it was a reaction to in regular economics. There are useful insights to be gained from both over simplifications but it's also good to remain aware of their flaws. To over simplify myself, traditional economics starts from the assumption that people are rational and then tends to over simplify the way they reason and the models of the world they reason about; behavioral economics questions whether people are rational and 'demonstrates' they are not compared to over simplified models of the world they reason about.

A simple example is the "default choice" effect. The standard explanation is that people are too lazy to check a box. A more sophisticated explanation would be that people infer information from the default they are presented with and allow it to influence their decision based on their assumption that the form creator is well informed and looking out for their interests. There is in general an under appreciation in behavioral economics that people are likely being more rational than the over simplified models they are benchmarking them against. There are lots of examples of this in the most widely known results.
Right now, I'm hoping my maxed out 2015 13" lasts forever.
I don't think opening and closing the menu is a realistic test.

Generally when a user opens the menu they're trying to go to a different page.
window[rot13("riny")]("console.log('hello world')");
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URL imports is a terrible idea. There's a reason we have actually package managers and repositories instead of installing from GitHub.

Properly made and run package managers are more secure and offer a better developer experience than importing by URL.
Article is short on details. Do they take pictures with X-rays at three different wavelengths, and then render the three resulting images as individual color channels?
Microsoft could move jobs abroad because of US immigration policies
We have a lot of posts that talk about avoiding being flagged as spam, such as:

https://sendgrid.com/blog/10-tips-to-keep-email-out-of-the-s...

These kinds of articles will be able to provide better advice than I can in a comment thread. One tip, if it is in the budget, is to have two sending IPs. One for transactional mail and one for newsletters. This will let you keep your transactional mail's IP's reputation higher.
You are funny. I like :D
I feel like the trajectory over the last few years has been to make things worse... I guess if you used Windows 8 a lot it's a bit of an improvement but I still don't feel like it's anywhere near as good as Windows 7 was... I'm not even talking about things like deciding it wants to update and spending half an hour doing that when I'm trying to get work done, it randomly installing Candy Crunch and some other crap automatically one update (again, work machine) or the fact that my start menu stops working surprisingly often (seriously, not sure if this is just my machine but it's damn annoying - it just doesn't do anything when I click on it sometimes)...

But just things like the network settings - they have been making getting to Network and Sharing Centre harder each big update, and the replacement (the new metro-style settings app) is just rubbish in comparison. You can't change an IP address in it, can't easily get to the network status, etc... Network and Sharing Centre wasn't even that good but it would be a big improvement to just can the settings app and go back to the Windows 7 control panel...
Quite small, but important out of proportion to its size. When it comes to computers,

If that were the case, Apple wouldn't be selling tons of iPhone's in their "wall gardens" and DRM'd media content and the "Year of the Linux Desktop" would have come ages ago....
Yep, and I do. Multiple modes, defence in depth.
Millennials are less entrepreneurial and fail more often
then you have to sync your desktop, apps and files between them though
for the sake of adding data points, I prefer not being alone in an office as well

I kind of think being in a group of 4-6 cubicles is pretty ideal
Because during the work day if I have to touch the mouse to do anything that isn't web browsing then I and my operating system have failed.
Foxconn, SAP ? These are good examples aren't they.

Edit: Not nvidia. Realised OP was asking for None-US companies
Based on data or anecdotes?
We love our leaf. Yeah, it's not the sexiest car, but the economics and fun to drive factor make it the goto vehicle for running around town.
It doesn't matter how big a deal it is. It's not work. Even if it's a natural disaster or a war, if it's not work you go watch it in a break room or you take PTO and stay home or you do whatever you need to ensure that it's not disruptive to others. The level of entitlement necessary to believe that your company and everyone in it should accommodate your personal non-work video watching boggles my mind.
Sand is everywhere, it doesn't require you to be at a beach or construction site. In the northeast, they salt/sand the roads every winter and plenty of it ends up inside my house. Not hard to believe that it can transfer to my hands/clothes and eventually my laptop.
Life can be material-constrained instead of energy-constrained (I know there's E=mc^2, but this may not be technologically feasible hence irrelevant). Environmental domination is more fundamental than energy source tapping imo (you can imagine life in systems that don't even have precise energy analogues, like conway's game of life) -- that is, dominating whatever the basic resources are (space, materials, energy, etc).
Edit: I was responding below to the original title of the post, which is was "Civilians have been 'airbrushed' out of reporting by the UK on its drone strikes (dronewars.net)." It has since been changed to match the title of the OP.

The "airbrushed" language seems misleading to me. The connotations are of a coverup or deliberate post-facto erasure (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...). What the OP describes seems to be more like an issue of insufficiently standardized reports. This is clear as the recommendation it gives to address the "airbrushing" is basically a report-writing checkbox:

> In order to improve transparency, it is suggested that each MOD report should include whether or not civilians were present in the vicinity of a strike, or whether it was unknown if civilians were in the area.
Consider “remapping keys” as the digital equivalent of “customizing a tool’s grip to for your hand”. Or maybe “rearranging the workshop to put your most-used tools in easy reach”.

Replacing the top row with the touch bar, in this analogy, is like someone else coming into your workshop and replacing several tools’ grips with big padded things that completely ruins the physical feedback you expect to feel, and never realized you used for fine control until you didn’t have it.