skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people have tried “serverless” and found it to present more challenges than it solves. How, for example, do you connect to a Postgres database from Lambda/Cloud Functions? As far as I can tell, the answer is: You don’t, you use a different database.

No-worries devops experiences are nothing new. See Heroku.
Automation for non-developers(and developers) using Zapier
how many watts/kg though?
Java will kill your startup. PHP will save it
What dosage do you use( coffee and l-theanine), how do you take them (regularly, at standard times or occasionally)? Do you use any other nootropics?
> Gail Owen is an employee of Unilever, which markets food
products some of which contain L-theanine and caffeine.

It's interesting how many brands Unilever owns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands
This is spot on actually.
First class functions does not a functional language make.
The Kyocera DuraXE is LTE-capable and can broadcast a wifi hotspot.
Lack of connection pooling for database connections means serverless architecture will never be used for serious data heavy apps.
Not too surprising. It's probably been chugging along for decades. There's a lot of old code running the world.
Hey! I’m the author of this post. I’m pretty chuffed to see this here. Happy to answer any questions.
> It's not hard to imagine new conventions evolving in a new environment where proportional fonts are possible and text always stays lined up properly.

This is only one of the reasons why I use a proportional font. The other, and arguably more important reason, is that monospaced fonts make it easier to see if I've made a mistake in repetitive code because it acts like a visual "checksum" of the line.
Yes! I have an idea I want to put through it. Thank you!
As a kid that tinkered with programming/computers before I learned English, this has stuck as something I always misspell.
>but I don't believe we can get to a state where every edge case is encoded by law

Neither can the current system, so any analysis would have to be comparative. I do believe we can approach such a state much quicker and more accurately through formalization.

>nor that mechanical application of such would be a good thing.

Was the formalization transistion from unwritten laws to written laws a good thing in your view? What makes quotability from a written corpus of law not horrible, but further formalization horrible?

With mechanical application I only refer to the end result taken after the verifier (judging algorithm, i.e. MetaMath or other) as a result of either a passing proof of guilt provided by prosecutor, or passing of a proof of innocence provided by defense. There is no imperative algorithm that maps cases to sentences, thats not how the law can work due to combinatorial explosion. The law is like philosophy or mathematics.

The society could unconditionally reward people for detecting inconsistencies in the law before we run into them during a trial after a tragedy thus potentially preventing it (i.e. finding a proof that the law simultaneously guarantees a right for a certain deed, yet also forbids it)

btw I enjoy this discussion, so if you can come up with more criticisms or examples please do!
The coming age of people with no understanding of what running code actually means, no idea how hardware/close to hardware systems behave deep down, is going to be fabulous, and full of wasted computing.
Has anything really changed, though? QuickLisp, I guess, but that feels like about it.
John Oliver gives Facebook's apology ad a harsh makeover[video]
Then you negotiate the cost of acquiring the devices with the person you're doing the work for. Odds are they will either have them available as you are not the first contractor they've hired, or you are, in which case you should be telling them that unless they intend not maintain whatever you make for them, it would be wise to make sure they have the hardware to develop it further.

The 3D printing can be contracted out. Consumer grade 3d printers wouldn't be a wise investment in that case.

You're doing business in VR/AR development. If you are going to be anything over a one-man operation, youshouldalready have multiple VR/AR sets for development and testing purposes.

I appreciate the candidates, and can better appreciatewhere you are coming from. In construction, however, you have already transcended the "consumer grade" level of investment. You're now dealing with industrial grade equipment which is a completely different ballgame.

Several of your examples somewhat contradict the stated intention of the company from my understanding. They were looking to break into the market for consumer grade cutting edge tech, NOT for primarily business level customers.

The article paints a picture of a company not looking at other companies as customers, but the general public.

If they intend to focus on the Enterprise level, your arguments make sense. Not so much for private customers. The niche they are trying to fill is a symptom of a lopsided economy, not a healthy one.
> The reason "NoSQL" dbs got popular are because in my experience Monolithic large relational databases are hard to scale.

I've met a lot of people whomst thought they had to scale that big. Very few handled anything that couldn't run off a beefy postgres installation.

The purpose of a system is what it does. People don't use nosql to scale because they don't need to scale, so what does it do? People use nosql to not write schemas. That's what it's for, for the majority of users.

If I need a key value store, I use a key value store. There's no flashy paradigm there. If I need to put a container up on the interwebs, I do it. What's serverless? Nosql is an "idea", "paradigm", "revolution", or at least the branding of one. Just the same, serverless.

I will continue to ignore nosql and serverless.

The industry sure does change, but do you know how much of that is moving in a real direction and how much is a merry-go-round? Let's brand it "Carousel" and raise 10 million. And in 20 years we can talk about serverless being the new hotness, again.
That's ok if you're living close to the equator with a regular day/night schedule. But if living more towards the poles then you get extremes in winter and summer of how much light/darkness there is.
Well, they call up Minor League players to Major League games all the time, the farm system is a fascinating window into that kind of world if you should ever want to dive into it.

But now that I've had a bit more time to think about it, the gap between inner circle will and the number of candidates has a better solution than mere randomness. Corruption. Decisions on who gets accepted get farmed out to subordinates and allies.
> real typographic fonts

monospaced typefaces are "real", and I would hate to live in a world where someone thought it was a good idea to write software, represented in columns and lines, in anything other than monospaced font
No. No, I think the world would still be there if we didn't question it.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Philip K. Dick)
I think it's due to the fact that the terminology seems intentionally misleading at worst, and like a marketing buzzword at best.

Every technical person understands there's still a server there. So it seems like a marketing tactic intent on misleading clueless CEOs.
This is a great book, but the subject of dealing with mp3s looks painfully dated.
Oh, I don't think it's a bad article, I think it's a bad article/audience fit for HN. In my mind, the reader here maintains a pretty high bar for interesting, since I think of it as a curious, exploratory bunch who have already scratched the surface on a wide array of topics.
Will your project deal with Part 135 flights only or also Part 91? If the latter, how will you avoid Flytenow’s demise[0]?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=flytenow.com
For compatibility, it's feasible to represent elastic tabs with spaces. All we care about is the new behavior. The editor can parse for aligned columns.
This post is literally from yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634079

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/micro...

"Microfilm machines haven’t been mined for their decontextualized parts, and they are not yet truly obsolete. The devices are still in widespread use, and their mechanical simplicity could help them last longer than any of the current electronic technologies."
Nothing is quantified in this article. Define healthiest? The framing of this is a nonsense way of saying get some daily exercise. Maybe "the healthiest people in the world" would be even helathier if they went to the gym too?

There's a fad of prematurely optimizing for what's best (in diet too) when actually what would help most is getting more people to do something active more often. I would be much more supportive of this article if it didn't try to discourage some types of exercise as not being perfect but just explained that walking and biking to work is good for you too.

Just do the exercise you enjoy and can keep doing regularly. Don't worry if it's not going to make you the healthiest person in the world. Just start with doing something regularly be it in the gym, HIT, walking or riding your bike to work.
Agreed! Although would an Amiga owner really have a picture of an Atari ST on the wall?!
If I were getting on a plane and saw the pilot was wearing a parachute, I would get right back off.
> Very interesting point. I wonder why did this happen? I believe the manuals/books with backstory/guides that came with the box, added to the engagement with the game. Why did they go away? Seems like a needless regression :)

I forget the source for this but it boiled down to:

- Apparently lots of people didn't read the manuals

- Game designers started using intro levels to teach the player what to do.

Personally, I LOVED the MicroProse manuals and was always super excited when I unboxed a new game and would spend hours reading all the details and stories (the games were awesome too).
>We've come to accept that money and legacy power provides access and opportunity regardless of merit.

The argument cuts both ways. The reason there is this lawsuit is because many came to accept that merit provides access and opportunity. Both views are extremes.
> But if you only have 3 hours per week to exercise

I think the point is that you don’t have only 3 hours in a week. You can bring physical activity in many other things you’re already doing. One minor example that I’m trying to focus on: I go for a walk when I take any phone calls.
Completely agree about the low-key continuous activity. I go to the gym partly because I feel like I need to balance out my otherwise sedentary day with an hour of intense workout. However I can see why someone who walks or bikes to work and is constantly on their feet might feel different.
Possibly relevant: https://systemswe.love/videos/life-of-an-airline-flight
Yeah 2013. You get goodreads info inside your profile section of the kindle apps.
If you're in NYC or SF apply to foursquare. We're not perfect, but we have a nice culture that is engineer driven and is very egalitarian.
It seems that electric plane will have one big pain point in adoption for larger passenger craft: the time to refuel/recharge the batteries. Gate dwell time is one of the major costs for an airline both in terms of lost revenue and in fees charged by the airport itself.
Thank you. I have found an untapped niche and took a bet. Only companies in this market, that are doing it in an unbiased way (they do not pay responders to answer the surveys) are the ones that charge $2K upwards per survey. There are no providers for SMB's and startups!

And surely not a record, IndieHackers is full of stories like that! Still, I am really proud and happy of how it is going.
I'm reading that book right now. It's very well written and light considering the many complex subjects that it covers.
I disagree. If you build a good enough abstraction, you can give developers a lot for free without needing them to understand. Current serverless platforms are wasteful, but the underlying concept is not inherently wasteful, and I think that cloud providers and serverless software platforms will improve over time.
Not much for you I’m afraid. L1 size likely to not change significantly to maintain access latencies. Frequencies are not going to increase because of power. Core capabilities will not change I’m any significant ways either. The best bet is more LLC.
Downvotes as I expected. As it is not politically correct on HN to critize inclusivity.
How do you all make sure the code review requests get load balanced across the team, as opposed to 2-3 people getting all the PR requests?
> Go ahead and cancel your membership

The upside to the Daily Mail style is that, like a scammer intentionally aiming for the credulous, its total confidence and lack of misgivings helps weed out unintended audiences.
I used to use containers all the time (tab groups per activity/mind state is a thing I've always craved for)
But they're buggy.
Really buggy.
Twice I've lost a trace of all the containers and tabs that were open (over 40).
Seems to help me sleep, anecdotally.
I would pay good money for a phone for my 84-year-old mother-in-law that has photo-based dialing and easy access to a ride service such as Uber or Lyft. That’s all she needs. As you point out, a smart phone is too small and too confusing with too many options.
Against magic: animations slow down interfaces
Firefighters Are Focused on Flames, Not Climate Change
nor would you use a dockerized microservice for that, or would you?

serverless is - as i said before - a dockerized microservice as its heart. It should only be used in in places where you'd do it without the abstraction.

There are a lot of services / applications you can build with this. For example Adapters for external SaaS which should be able to trigger certain actions, or just plain JSON APIs which query a DB and output their results...

but using it to join 2 TB of data and process it afterwards in realtime? yeah, thats not a valid usecase for serverless.
It's easy to get them flipped around. Inside of mind versus the outside.

Axiom of choice, choosing the right thoughts to have versus to speak.

If you don't understand, you don't want to. It's a perpetual type of terror that often has nothing to do with reality, but you can never be sure.
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Feature Policy won't stop scripts embedded in the same browsing context as your page from accessing everything your own first-party scripts can. It's more for restricting iframes and other sandboxed content embedded in your site.

The kind of controls you're describing would difficult to implement, since there are probably dozens of roundabout ways a script could modify the page to trick it into executing code without it being clear that the third-party script is the reason for that code executing. (For example, what if my evil script redefines `console.log`, and then your first-party script calls that?)

The very idea of a sandboxed third-party script running in the same context as first-party code is, IMO, contradictory.
I'd love it if someone did a Sublime Text plugin that implements this ...
Do people who aren’t racist focus on your ethnicity when they’re looking to criticize your professional work?

Do you believe pointing out someone’s ethnicity/religion is a valid rebuttal of their arguments?
Sounds good! I am manning the chat if you have any questions! (I am the owner)
> Sending books to be pulped is always sad, but the truth is that there are just too many books.

Often it's not obsolete books that are destroyed, where there might be 1,000 other copies out there, but one-of-a-kind archival records:

>> The core of the book recounts Baker's attempt, in 1999, to persuade the British Library not to junk more than 2,000 bound volumes of American newspapers - the last remaining copies in the world - including a complete run of the Chicago Tribune from 1888 to 1958 and hundreds of editions of Joseph Pulitzer's ground-breaking colour broadsheet of the 1890s, the New York World.

> A researcher doesn't gain a great deal of benefit from seeing an original paper copy; in most cases, they'd prefer a digital copy. Preserving paper is inherently more expensive than preserving microfiche or digital scans.

Maybe now, but preservation isn't about now, it's about the distant future. Paper is one of the few storage mediums that has proven longevity and also requires no special reading hardware. Microfiche is probably OK (there was an article recently that stated it could lat 500 years), but I'd dispute strongly that "preserving paper is inherently more expensive than preserving ... digital scans." Digital data requires massive amounts of infrastructure to be usable (hardware, software, storage media, and reading hardware), and the rapid pace of change of that infrastructure means that enormous, continuous efforts must be made to keep it readable in the future. Seal a newspaper up in a wall and it'll still be readable in 100 years. If you stop your digital preservation efforts for that long, you've lost everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation
I tried it, several times and at different dosages, but it doesn't work for me. No effect whatsoever. I wonder why ...
How the Need for Growth Failed Our Social Network Experience
> The simple version of that sentence would be of the form, "I am not racist, but [racist statement]."

So regardless of intent, it's conclusively, unequivocally "racist" if the outcome of a selection process doesn't fall perfectly within a normal distribution?
I do not know specifically about Harvard, but generally when you receive a lot of federal money, you have to comply by certain rules. I don't know if there are existing rules that govern this, but if not, I'm sure plenty are trying to create those rules.
I wonder what would be a great replacement topic nowadays. Ruby on Rails era was the blog in 5 minutes. What is "the project" now?
I believe the big difference is that electric engines are wildly more reliable than piston engines. That allows less maintenance and shorter turnaround times, so it spends more time in the air than turboprops can.
For me, Coffee + L-Theanine = Super Focus. 200MG serving.
Which is half of why this is an insoluble problem. There's no solution that doesn't impose some workflow or wetware overhead on introduction.

Installing "Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment" on wetware is probably the best solution in terms of maximizing utility for minimized development/workflow costs. But even that is going present a wetware tax for some developers, and it's not superior in terms of utility to the article's proposal.
What's interesting, ClickHouse works like APL/kdb inside (vectorized processing) but it looks like an SQL database and convenient to use.
It’s still the early days so there are pain points, but Amazon already announced a solution to this: Serverless Aurora. It’ll be some time still until it’s public and Lambda-friendly though. And MySQL comes before Postgres.
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The CSP info is a little off. Specifically, there are some directives of CSP (in this case frame-ancestors, the replacement for X-Frame-Options) that are specifically ignored if specified in a only <meta> tag. The header is the only way to have access the full set of CSP features.
Assuming the data is good and there wasnt bias, the question becomes-Does this frequency between 8-13hz matter for performance?

Is having a 0.3mV2 difference in alpha waves significant?

Ive tried taking lTheanine and it doesnt seem to do much, even if I take many pills.
Hope DigitalOcean works to make this a first-class citizen on their cloud.
The chat bot?

Blockchain in five minutes?
Wish we had used Kurlansky's book for European history: I now have some understanding of the Hanseatic League's origin! Who could have believed a book titled "Salt" could be so enlightening and fascinating:

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
https://amzn.to/2L2DO4N

While this this sounds pedantic (who besides me would get excited about a good explanation the origins of "the Hanseatic League"?) but Kurlansky really makes it fascinatingly rich reading.
Got pay walled. Any other link ?
Why You Shouldn't Use a Web Framework
Flying cars have been around for a while[0]. Of course you need a different license, and they're a bit more expensive on average.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane
>Ok, it's clear you aren't interested in solutions, you're just morality-trolling.

No, I'm not. I'm just pointing out your "solution" isn't. Why do you think it is OK to just insult me?

You're back at the start: I'll just hire a male since they won't take maternity breaks. Or I'll hire a woman and build that risk into her salary by paying her less.

I believe the only way we can get past that is to make the leave mandatory for both parents, but I'm open to (reasonable) alternatives. You're yet to provide any.
Ah, got it. I think you're a little ahead of the curve in terms of your knowledge of salt. I agree that we're an exploratory bunch, hence why I posted it here. But I never really stopped to appreciate the importance of salt, and figured that there were others here in the same boat who would appreciate a high-level synthesis of the main historical themes that I grokked from the book.
Building a data pipeline? Some kind of CV problem? Async chat server?
Don't smaller transistors reduce power consumption?
> historically, the elite schools were for the children of the elite

Based on what I read several years ago, social mobility in the U.S. used to be significantly higher, such as in the 1980s, and I know the U.S. used to define itself on social mobility - the Land of Opportunity and of Liberty, where a person is free to do and accomplish what they can through merit and hard work. I'll add that the U.S. long has been run by children of the working and middle class, such as Clinton, Obama, and LBJ, as well as elites (Trump, Bush, Bush, Kennedy, etc.). (I'm not cherry-picking; I just don't remember the economic backgrounds of Reagan, Carter, Nixon, etc.).

Of course it still was very imperfect, but my point is that we shouldn't think that the way things are is the way they've always been.
Would be appropriate to publish these on a site named wikileaksleaks.org
You connect the same way as you do in a regular app. Which is to say, you open the database connection outside of the request handling method (for example, as a global) and then use it from within the request handling method. When your app wakes up again for another request, the database connection is still open and you just use it.
Many people I know who do part time work DO get leave and health benefits.

But the original post by e12e I was replying to above doesn’t say anything about full time - it was just talking about calculations to extrapolate wages from income: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637626
What is the difference between "B [assuming A]" and "A implies B"? Is the distinction something that was introduced for the purposes of this game, or is it made otherwise as well?
i'm on a conference call right now about this very subject. No one understands how complex scheduling systems are or can become. It's easy to think about but difficult to automate.
7 Python libraries for more maintainable code
Great suggestion. I often make calls if I am walking to get dinner. It's also a better use of time than just walking alone.
Depends on what you mean by "know".
Desert Storm, Bosnia, and Panama IIRC.
I don't know much about her subfield (graphics compression), but she cofounded what appears to be a successful company selling a dev-tool.
We did something similar at a previous position I had, except we set up an amazon lambda function that was triggered on every insert or update to a DynamoDB table. The lambda function flattened the updated record and inserted it into our redshift cluster, which gave us a real-time ETL pipeline for our DynamoDB data. That allowed us to report on our DynamoDB data just like our relational data.