skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like it's just a RAID-in-a-box, not entirely unlike, say, an 8-bay NAS populated with 10TB drives, rather than truly a single device.

Considering how expensive something from Synology is, I wonder if there's a market for this kind of hardware, a no-frills high-bandwidth NAS and/or DAS to be used for off-network bulk data transfer.
Back in 1974 there was a six month spell where the UK worked 3 days a week - to conserve power and coal during a miners strike.

With a 40% reduction in working hours, UK productivity dropped just 4%. (Government's own figures)

I'm not in the least surprised this experiment is a success. I am surprised such things haven't become more common.
The build instructions give a dll and json files, not sure how to use that.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/blob/master/CONTR...
isn't viable and was never actually viable at scale.

And yet the entire global economy somehow works. Maybe viable and scale don’t mean what you think they mean... I mean I run relational databases of 10s of Tb and know people doing 100s. And people with mere Gb tell me they’re doing amazing things with scalability.... lol
I completely disagree. You can find Google's pricing tactic aggressive, but it made me think about the entitlement there.

They complain that Maps at new prices would be more than the cost of their infrastructure, when actually their entire startup revolves around this data, and 5k to be able to use an amazing piece of high tech software that is ahead of the competition is..peanuts.

No matter what other business interests and strategies Google follows, there is no right to using such valuable tech for less than the monthly salary of an engineer. I find this incredible entitled.
As the saying goes, when you work for yourself, while in theory you can "work your own hours", in practise what generally happens (at least initially) is you work all the hours.
> our potential growth and expansion is effectively unlimited

It's still finite. I recommend this famous Asimov story [1]. I don't think that it makes humanity "more meaningful" or something similar if we start interplanetary colonization.

Really, it doesn't matter even if we inhabit the whole observable universe. We will die and it doesn't matter if I die on an exoplanet as a 1500y/o guy in a young body or if I die on earth as a 80y/o. Maybe I will experience more and whatever, but I don't really give a sh*t because life will always be finite (even if you can be billions of years old). And the implications of becoming so old can be seen in the Netflix series "Altered Carbon": You will develop weird sexual fetishes because you're bored af. And if we "overcome humans" and become some other weird sentient being it's still limited and if it's not limited it still doesn't matter from some other angle.

I don't understand why everybody is excited about interplanetary colonization and immortality. There's this quote: "To philosophize is to learn to die" - I think this is more important than trying to increase your life span or do some other stuff to delay death or even become immortal. I think most of those Silicon Valley tycoons who want this, e.g. Peter Thiel, just like the thought of accumulating power over hundreds of years. Sounds hedonistic to me + all that "will to power" ego talk.

[1]: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
The simple existence of competitors in a market segment is not proof that there is no monopoly. We wouldn't say for example that there are realistic copetitors in the web search space or in the desktop OS space - maps is similar to both of these sitations.
(Now I realise that some people like to argue the toss about whether search and desktop OS are monopolies and to that I have no comment)
there are electric sway bars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNHkGq9fDc

bose electromagnetic suspension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOR8eKBLwXQ

student project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ1eKddstxM
You can also prerender the tiles on a powerful machine and host them on a cheap instance (assuming you don't need very large regions). A while ago I created an OSM server (https://github.com/seemk/TileSweep) to do this for me, you can select regions you want to render via a polygon and you get a SQLite database of the tiles. It can also run as an alternative for mod_tile + renderd.

I rendered all of Estonia from zoom levels 0 to 18 (~16.5M tiles) which is around 20GB and host the tiles on a cheap DigitalOcean instance.
The impressive bit here is how network effects and brand recognition can save you from God-awful tech
You're only increasing density to be similar to the city proper. The "preferred density" zone doesn't disappear, it simply moves outwards a bit.
Yeah, at that point the lower rates account for the increased risk of hiring someone without experience. My first software job back in university was at McDonalds rates, but it paid off when, two years later, I was on (what was for the time and location) a decent entry-level professional salary while most of my classmates were unemployed due to the dotcom bust.
Pretty much everyone is doing that, I think it makes sense to find a niche. Not that I support this one.
Thank you, love the series. Nothing wrong with the writing style.

Keep up the good work, it is great to see the console getting gradual improvements!
Publications? Articles? Research?

Opinions don't matter.
Want random people on the internet to buy your SaaS product?
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Dennis: What I object to is you automatically treatin' me like an inferior.
Arthur: Well, I am king.
Dennis: Oh, king, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, then? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress--
Dennis: We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week--
Arthur: Yes.
Dennis: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting--
Arthur: Yes, I see.
Dennis: By a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs--
Arthur: [getting bored] Be quiet.
Dennis: But by a two thirds majority, in the case of more major--
Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Dennis' Mother: Order, eh? Who does he think he is?
Arthur: I am your king!
Dennis' Mother: Well I didn't vote for you.
Arthur: You don't vote for kings!
Dennis' Mother: How'd you become king, then?
Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, [Angel chorus begins singing in background] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [Angel chorus ends] That is why I am your king!
Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Arthur: Shut up! Will you shut up?! [Grabs Dennis and shakes him]
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Thats a ridiculous argument. There were competitors to standard oil too.
There's a sysctl: vm.overcommit_memory=2

What most people don't realize is that you will get more OOMs if you disable overcommit.
Is having 21 contributors for a single static page something worth bragging about?
> They assumed that the device was likely insecure, and kept it in a faraday bag, which blocks all incoming and outgoing wireless signals, to keep it from potentially causing any trouble at their office.

What sort of "trouble" are they talking about here?
Hundreds? That's obscene...

The video worked fine for me using Firefox with uBlock Origin operating in 'hard mode'.
Is killing the boom the key to supersonic air travel?
Shouldn't the doFilter function use query instead of this.state.query?

const doFilter = query => user =>
query === user.name;
How easy is it to insulate the electric motors? My thinking is electric motors in the wheels while crossing a river, opportunity for short circuits.
What a great quote from that article:

"I find it interesting that people are so eager to [ignore credible evidence], but willing to accept the forensics of an anonymous blogger, with no reputation, that no one knows anything about”

Holy 2018.
I just started turning Quick Edit off because I understood it was responsible for that strange bug where the console sometimes gets stuck until you press return. :-( Is that one on the to do list?
Counterpoint: if these startups need a giant subsidized transport infrastructure/global telecomunications network/permissive government/low-cost computer hardware/solid legal system or else they aren't profitable, they weren't ever profitable.
> Maybe cars already have this technology to some extent?

It was banned in F1, that combined with the skirts for downforce meant for insane low ground clearances with grip off the scales. You could see cornering speeds going up seemingly without end.

context: https://www.racefans.net/2007/05/17/banned-active-suspension...
Yup and in the UK because freight is all on tax payer paid roads private rail has become incredibly expensive for normal people travelling.
Exactly, I came here to write about the same comment. I'd optionally keep the named arguments because they self document the code

from("telegraf")
.range(start:-1h)
.filter((r) => r._measurement == "foo")
.exponentialMovingAverage(size:-10s)

No need of writing fn because that's obviously a function.

Maybe it's a tradeoff between ease of implementation and ease of use.
I read e-mail. I'm not yet comfortable with browsing the web through Emacs, but I'm slowly getting to it.

Emacs is a superior environment for anything having to do primarily with text. Mail is mostly text, so it's a natural fit. Most of the actually useful content on the Web is text as well, so a large percentage of browsing can benefit from this environment as well.
Uhhh, they've changed a lot. They actively support competing platforms, releasing products for Android, iOS, Mac OS and Linux. They support Ubuntu on Windows in terminal, they regularly contribute to open source from React Native to Electron. Edge is a huge improvement over IE and it fully embraces web standards. Microsoft has even merged their web docs with Mozilla. They support .NET on all platforms.
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What if they had access to the IP that is currently locked away by the likes of Apple/Google?
What if anyone who wanted to replicate a good design (and improve upon it) were able to do so without restrictions, or fear of lawsuits?
Conversely, what if what we treat as the sacrosanct right to make profits over a one-time invention (as if noone else could ever come up with a similar idea on their own - while history has repeatedly shown otherwise) was applied throughout history? Would even railways / electricity / simple things we take for granted now - have been so widespread? Maybe we would be flying in counterfeit airplanes.
Good lesson, I'd say. My experience designing big production systems - is not to rely on any third-party for your mission-critical core operation, even if it's harder, you have control.

Google is actually devouring Internet as we speak, like a black hole:

- email. Keeping your own server unblocked by Gmail is a loosing battle. I use iCloud, but it still goes through Google for my Gmail and G-Suite peers.

- Search - monopoly. Analytics - monopoly.

- Android. Try make a phone with open source Android without Google apps and licensing.

- Companies and schools move all its people to G Suite (Google).

Ten years later 'Internet' will be replaced by 'Google' in dictionaries, as it happened to 'googling'. GSP = Google Service Provider (former ISP), GETF = Google Engineering Task Force (former IETF) :)
This argument is symmetric, it implies all other map providers (who are competitors of google maps and of each other) also have no competitors.
Hi Oliver

It seems like the best self-driving systems are currently struggling with what seem to be fairly fundamental deficiencies (cant react to stationary objects on highways, dont react well to children and cyclists)

Is this a valid observation? What do you see as the biggest limitations in the current generation of self-driving technology?
Lightnanoseconds are a useful measure in everyday life as well. A lightnanosecond is about 30cm, or 1 foot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ&feature=youtu.be...
All the words in the english language (not to mention place names, words in other languages/transliterations), possible acronyms, etc, and they choose one that already has a Facebook-promoted architectural pattern using it.

Not sure if arrogance or ignorance, perhaps just apathy?
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We have been using GCP for 6 years (and is one of the companies in the linked case studies) and I must say that their customer service is good.

I think I had over 30 touches with their support and key account managers regarding everything from billing, minor issues with services and just asking for advice regarding stuff. They have always delivered.

The expectation from us has been that we pay the $150/mon support package fee.
Looking for MVPs
I was just asked to show a MVP to help explain the compromises necessary to make an MVP (c.f. a finished product such as Dropbox).

While I can think of many examples of MVPs that have gone on to do great things I could not think of a single product that was still at the point of being the minimum viable solutions. I am sure lots of people on HN make and use MVPs.

Please list any MVPs you can think of below (ideally ones that charge something for their product):
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For smaller tezos holders it might be lengthy and tedious to install and setup a Ledger to delegate. So, I wrote this guide featuring TezBox Wallet, an online wallet you can use to delegate. Still, I suggest NEVER KEEP LARGE AMOUNTS ON HOT WALLETS!
https://medium.com/cryptium/how-to-delegate-tezos-xtz-with-tezbox-online-wallet-96592e94e357
I thought that was really funny & kinda true.

I'd call that "The Pyramid of Job Satisfaction" - it's not "just" for Software Devs imo
That seems to make sense indeed. It does cover the load in terms of a thorough investigation so I get why it stuck as a more powerful term than a mere incident report.
Thank you. Moreover, it feels like suburbs (I’m calling the town of Overland Park, Kansas a suburb) can’t or don’t clean sidewalks and crosswalks as quickly (if at all) or worse use the sidewalk as a dumping ground for snow from the road. Even on a normal day, a walk to the post office and back home can easily take half an hour, probably closer to an hour if you’re walking. That being said, it feels cramped to live in a city. There are other reasons to not get a pet (allegedly my fear of commitment) but I hesitate getting a proper desktop computer because it will occupy space. It feels illogical and wasteful (and unhealthy?) of brain cycles to worry about space that much. (What if I have to move... )
This is SO COOL
I think this product would be aimed for children - just like you can buy toy car, toy kitchen or toy furniture, there is toy Apple iPhone for kid to get familiar with what adults are supposed to use.
iPhones has become status symbols, at least in some socio-economic groups. In this sense the functionality is not important - all that matters is the logo on the back and visual appearance of the home screen. If it can make people around you think that you have an iPhone, it's as useful as the real thing.
Convert SVG path string to point shape and draw with Processing
Wrong. In the book they build the bunker stations behind Jupiter but NOT in orbit of jupiter or its moons and even that station keeping takes a tremendous energy.
Its not quite UNIX style - it works like a weird frame selection instead of follow the text LtR like any *nix console I can think of.
It would be super if that could be fixed as well with an option.
None, they are doing it just for the show; understand that they probably did this analysis for free, so in exchange, they get this ad/article where they have to look very professional and methodical.
cmd.exe is not getting any improvements, for better or for worse.

And Powershell Core (Powershell 6) is quite snappy. Try it out. They changed the name to pwsh.exe, you can have them in parallel in your PATH.
Even non-computer aided active suspension was banned. Good readup: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/127638/f1-latest-suspensio...
StreetCred is building a places database marketplace on blockchain
>What if they had access to the IP that is currently locked away by the likes of Apple/Google? What if anyone who wanted to replicate a good design (and improve upon it) were able to do so without restrictions, or fear of lawsuits?

Then nobody would invest any money in releasing stuff and we would still live in the stone age.
According to https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#technology-pl... Windows Desktop or Server takes second place with 35.4% of developers, behind Linux at 48.3%.

Apparently the roles were reversed in 2017, when Windows was a platform for 41% and Linux 32.9%: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-pl...

Of course that could all be biased by the demographic composition of StackOverflow users, but it still seems to indicate that Windows is losing importance.
One of them appears to be a bot: https://github.com/Microsoft/join-dev-design/graphs/contribu...
When I was a child using the internet of the late 90's and early 2000's my extended family of grandparents, aunts, and uncles always repeated to me the mantra "Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

These are the same people that still forward chain emails and now believe outrageous articles merely because a person they know on a social media site has shared it. As if the person doing the sharing has legitimized the source.

Anyway, while not directly influenced by trolls, the kind of content trolls promote still gets to them, and now I feel silly when I try to repeat my childhood mantra back to them. This stuff is really effective.
Just because there are competitors in a field does not mean that one company does not hold a monopoly. There were other oil companies in existence when standard oil was broken up.
Have you tried Graphene? [1] I haven't, but have read its documentation a lot, and it looks quite powerful.

I'm not happy that it introduces yet another data object library, but at least it's possible to build plugins for existing ones -- SQLAlchemy and Django are already there, and it would be nice to add ones for attrs, Schematics and of course the 3.7 native data classes.

Regarding the popularity of REST -- even if it wasn't intended for CRUD originally, it fits perfectly with that paradigm, and I think this is why many people were able to implement it easily when they started using it.

[1] http://graphene-python.org/
it's not only binaries that are patched. Data files, which can be of multiple gbs are patched too. You can either delta patch them, requiring significant cpu time or replace them entirely. Most devs prefer the latter
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AFAIK the main reason is that Japanese whiskeys started getting awards and demand exploded. Even here in Japan they're expensive, to the extent that scotch has a better bang to the buck ratio.
It's probably biased. Your average enterprise or in-house dev is super, super likely to use Windows and he's not the kind of person that will respond to a poll.
> We use PCs, Macs,

Huh, Mac is not a PC?

> We believe in diversity, openness,

We know, with Windows 10 openness of your private data is a core feature

> Send a PR with any improvement to microsoft/join-dev-design

Short of ideas and creative people? Or just want it for free?
Since this is version 1.0,
expect lots of failure in the field then lots of fixes for 2.0
I can understand the feeling though. Even though I don't commute by car any more, I see the same thing in how I treat my mountain bike vs how I treat my commuter bike. My mountain bike is for fun and gets cleaned/maintained etc after I use it in the weekends. My commuter bike is used during the week either first thing in the morning or early evenings before getting home for a meal and seeing my family. It's kinda a necessary evil and resented a bit compared to my mountain bike. I want it to just work and not have to think about it (until it annoyingly doesn't).
Go collaboration!
1000 revellers at Splendour in the Grass have chlamydia,they just don't know yet
No it doesn't. Have you ever used a hobby level 3d printer or cnc? Easy isn't the word I would use to describe the process.

What does harder to stop even mean?
Location is everything. Outside of the US Macs aren't as popular and enterprise or in-house web development rarely happens on Macs or God-forbid!* Linux.

* I'm kidding, but talk to your average IT department head about Linux desktops :)
Both US and USSR experimented with it in 60s. But since "traditional" ICBMs where good enough there was no need for nuclear propulsion. Complicated, radioactive and not ready for use. Even though nuclear propulsion was fairly advanced.
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There isn't a single human being in this world working 40 hours/week being productive for every single hour of their workweek.
we have gradually started moving away from Pycharm to vscode at my workplace and have really been happy.

This feature is super important if they want to build support for running and debugging python applications remotely... or in docker (which is something we want as well).
It's mostly rts can afford that model due the relaxed requirements on input frequency.

Many other games require higher frequency such as driving, shooting and anything that has physical simulations.

They instead use prediction and reconciliation and aim for the highest update frequency

Counter strike has servers at 120hz iirc.

Here’s some pro/cons of the approach http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-server...

edit: try the live demo too http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-live-d...
You mean you don't actually print your output?!? Heathen!
Tiny villages in Mexico have these kinds of options. It's not an amazing achievement.
Almost feels like frontend and backend teams are separate!
Have you heard of C#? ASP.NET? A few of those devs use Windows...
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What part of socal? Inland Empire? San Bernardino?
I guess the government investigating why your wallet is somehow related to a russian spy's wallet may cause quite some trouble in your life.

Maybe they'll accuse you of financing terrorism in the end. It's your right to trust justice to never make mistakes.
Could depends on what country you live in