skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of the beam of light in "The City and the Stars" by Arthur C. Clarke - what turned out to be a weapon that fired giant mass heated to plasma state at high velocity.
It's probably exhaust from starships.
Scala community today: fresh complaints of comment policing, Old Boys' Club
No. JSON-LD aims at aiding interpretation of JSON as RDF data (semantic web, description logic). It's terrible IMHO.
great news, I love spinning up Lightsail instances for new projects!! my current running instances are not updated, I suppose I have to recreate them then..

Edit:
It seems they have added new instance types. My current instances are now 3.50$

https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg
Insider trading doesn't "destabilise the whole thing", it actually makes the market converge on correct prices more quickly.

Some people just don't like it because they don't think it's fair.
Talk to some Chinese. Or, even worse, people from Hong Kong. The behavior of the Chinese state is disgusting. Even at a local level constant abuses are the norm, in big cities and small. People are "disappeared". Not 1, not a few per year, but hundreds of thousands per year.

Did you see the size of the Xinjang internment camps they built then tripled in size ? But these disappearances are happening all over China, not just Tibet, Xinjang and Hong Kong. All those regions, by the way, have populations in the tens to hundreds of millions of people.

And there's the steady trickle of stories by people that somehow make it back out of those camps, talking of torture, executions, slave labour, starvation.

Let's just stop mincing words here. China is executing a holocaust on it's own people. That's the truth.
I can't help but think... wouldn't the average Chinese be much better off if the current Taiwanese gov. still ruled China?

I mean, look at Taiwan... it has nothing (no land, no diplomatic ties, etc). Yet it has a lot (decent economy for avg. joe, democracy, etc).

Compare this to the current PRC:

- cultural revolution wiped out most of the smart people

- centries of wrong economic policy (until pretty recent radical change)

- can't vote - if the party loves a corrupt official, then what can you do?

- a lot of human-rights violations: organ-trafficking, tibet, deportation of north korean refugees

- helping north Korea to make a nuke... right next to beijing!
(or is PRC already a hostage?)

And the Wumaos (Chinese-gov-paid people to comment favorably to PRC) will say:

> "Chinese people aren't decent enough to have democracy"

well have a look at Taiwan! it's smaller than China with the same ethnicity but Taiwan packs a punch without shady stuff China does (eg. stealing IPs, trafficking bodyparts, etc)
Sweating would be a lot more effective in a near-vacuum, if we assume you'd wear one of those futuristic mechanical counterpressure space suite.
But what are boot times like now compared to an init-based system after years of development?
It is generally better to use a spaced repetition schedule than cram in 2 months... So, taking say 4h each week or perhaps something even more adaptive would be better.
While on this topic:

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/98u0lv/is_it_true_th...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/98u0lv/is_it_true_th...

On a more positive note, Sam Halliday just published Functional Programming for Mortals with Scalaz

[2] https://leanpub.com/fpmortals
1. Asian country, enterprise project. Pitched a deal to someone middle management. They didn't like it. All kinds of bullshit reasoning. Boss made some changes, pitched again, and the deal succeeded. Boss later told me that the system we proposed is too efficient. If it's too efficient, staff can't ask for bribes to speed it up. In America, I guess they would just upsell it as a "fast lane".

2. Worked on a million+ dollar project. Very small team. Found out it was something undermining democracy. Not illegal, but let's say it violates privacy. Killer moment was talking to someone on the project who was brought in to destroy all evidence in case we failed.

3. Talked to a "consultant" who was giving us information on a certain project. He stopped contacting us after a while, saying that his iPhone broke. Told my boss. Boss said, "You're so naive. He wants an iPhone as a bribe."
Well, take any jazz standard. As you say, scores in jazz are at most a rough guide, not transcription of how the music should be played. Yet, if you take a score and make a MIDI player play it as it is written, any jazz fan will recognize the tune instantly.

For instance, take

http://i17.tinypic.com/4uneoft.jpg

Remove the title, add a mistake or two in the score, and give it to some jazz fan who can read music, he'll recognize the tune instantly, yet nobody ever played it this way, so blandly.
It is a startup -- still small, growing like crazy -- and if self driving cars are cool, then so is this: it's the exact same thing, but at sea. Wouldn't you want to work on self-driving container ships? (You have to start somewhere..)
This is why I was always bemused at the glee with which people reacted to the deaths of all the other smartphone endeavors.

And the tech press played a huge role in this with their blatant bias as well in my opinion.

A healthy platforms war would have ensured that Apple/Google would have had to think twice about some of these practices.
> if the current Taiwanese gov. still ruled China?

Did the current Taiwanese government ever rule China?
Nope, I'm from a small province here in the Philippines.
Can I have everything be as simple as Digital Ocean but still use their Managed Services like RDS?
The app store is such a horrible experience, I'm glad for every single app that circumvents it.
unfortunately, for a very-short-time :(

maybe you can even say it mostly didn't happen
India is going to be buckling under overpopulation, whereas China had already tackled that decades ago. Parts of India will be uninhabitable due to climate change, and there are already major water shortages.

However the Government does seem to be on the right track with their moves to introduce GST (replacing myriad taxes and duties from state to state) and cracking down on illegal cash.
Interesting. While I live in the UK, I had never really thought about the link between wealth and privacy, and the potential for the state to discriminate in this way.

A thought-provoking read. Thanks for sharing
If I may bluntly say: Go with the higher paying job, then continue with your dreams. You'll have much more energy to put into your idea if you don't need to worry about finances so much.

If you are unsure, read Adam Grant's "Originals". Many of the high achievers he documents there we not in fact risk takers, but extremely careful about many things.

You can take risks, but not all out risks. Have a solid basis, and then use that as a foundation to build something new. I.e. be totally conventional and security seeking in everything else except in your dream project. That way you have the capacity to fail and learn for a longer time while working on your idea, hence increasing the likelihood of eventual success.
I would add to this by adding tests gradually during this time. If there is no understanding from management that this is needed, do it guerilla style and do it anyway, maybe at a smaller scale.

In my mind, unit tests is not what you want to start with with a messy legacy codebase. It takes a huge amount of effort testing lots of already working code. Add unit tests for any new code, but try and implement tests for the entire system, functional/integration tests are also easier to argue for in terms for direct benefit for the customer. Unit tests are more for the developer and is harder to argue for.

Adding tests makes it easier to confidently refactor the code later on.
Depends on the details. Restaurant is cheaper because…? The need to take the cheapest is because…?

My dad was really tight with money, to the extent that after he died my mum couldn’t remember him taking her out for even a birthday meal. He was not poor.

If the social norms for a business environment make most labour casual service provision, I’m OK with attitudes like yours. On the other hand, if social norms say “jobs are for life” and blame those who lose their jobs for that loss, then I find it… selfish.

(I wouldn’t say “evil”, but that’s because of too long in philosophy lessons; it is where I imagine a neural net classifier would be bouncing around a lot).
This is what Game Theory calls a Zero-sum Game. The economy isn't a zero sum game though, wealth creation does happen, and it doesn't necessarily come at the cost of someone else.
There is also JSON-schema.org if you don't like RDF/LD.
Why is there only 3 providers there ?
This should probably include others like OVH, Scaleway, Vultr,
The communities around torrent tracker was and is always very active on IRC as having your own IRC network is pretty standard for a tracker. I probably spent the majority of my time during my studies on IRC, and because of timezones it was mostly during the night. I have very fond memories of this time and I'm a bit sad that I don't use it that much any more.

I really can't wrap my head around how communities, especially for programming languages use Slack where all the information gets fed into some silo and is not publicly available. Especially if they don't pay for it, which most open source projects don't do for money reasons and the history gets wiped after a while. If I were to decide what to use in a company I'd probably go for https://www.irccloud.com/ - it's an open protocol but still has the convenience of not having to set up a bouncer and run your own IRC server.
Thailand’s New CBDC Could Face XRP’s Security Issues – CryptoPotato
> (Oddly, I have been stricken lately by how much people hate the extra parens of lisp, but nobody bats an eye at the pointless commas of every other language...)

I just checked an a comma is a grand total of three filled pixels on my coding font in my screen while a parenthese is 12 pixels. Parentheses are freakin visual bloat. Just look at this : https://i.imgur.com/UTGjbI5.png
Founders on Launching AI Startups After PhD
Tourists/visitors might are more valuable to the city than regular citizen. The amount of money you spend per day while traveling is way higher than your daily spending at home. Thus it makes sense to create as many hotel spaces as demand dictates.
Check out espruino
There's not, and there are services like https://www.irccloud.com/ that "slackify" IRC so you don't have to deal with ZNC, making your logs searchable,...
We know that women over 50 may get some small benefit from drinking low amounts of alcohol regularly - about 2 small glasses of wine a week.

We know those advantages don't happen for anyone else.

The evidence is unclear to the general public because a multi-million dollar industry (especially in the UK) keeps pushing inaccurate information to print media who suck at science and health reporting.

> There are much bigger fish to fry than moderate alcohol consumption.

When we ask people how much they drink they all say "not much", and then when we check what they actually drink it's often far more.

Here's a guy who thought he was drinking moderately when he was drinking far more than the recommended maximum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45262469
Superthread, https://superthread.net/ is a web based alternative to IRC. You might want to check it out.
So many fantastic things you won't get to research or even see because you're working half your life for someone or something.
Was a set of testing tools used to build the analysis? It would be nice to be able to reproduce the results.
Note that the KMT did not always do well by it's people either. Note the White Terror. Nevertheless still a far cry from the Great Leap Forward.
Great question. How about we invert that, and you tell me what IP laws justify operating a functioning duplicate of someone else’s entire website, full of copyrighted and trademarked content, for the benefit of your business?

By this logic, I could duplicate any website in the word and operate a copy for my private business. While I am not a lawyer it seems clear that this is not legal (and as if this is the first time the concept occurred to someone!)

I assume archive.org falls under Fair Use. Check these guidelines.

https://tinytake.com/screen-capture-copyright-violation-or-f...

Duplicating your competitors website for analysis to benefit your business fails the first condition. If it were academic research or some sort of public benefit, that’s different than for-profit republishing for your SEO business.
Also https://swagger.io/
FYI: There's a very recent podcast with Manish, the author of DGraph, https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/dgraph-with-manish-ja...
"I just don't get it Mork, why don't the earthlings reply? Our messages couldn't be clearer."
Discounted Shipping Rates in India
"It seems the rest of us should forget as little as possible."

Given the realities of life, I would presume most, by the time they reach middle age are mentally scarred one way or another.

I'm not sure of your life exeriences but as a soon 40 year old I would have enough nightmare stuff to severely mentally handicap me unless I had some way of coping with it. Moving on and not caring too much about ones personal history is sometimes a great strategy.
Would Taiwan have democracy if its government weren't forced to excile?
It appears even NSLs that cannot be disclosed are still counted in the published numbers. IC is Intelligence Community? I would assume google would warn users of phishing attacks by the NSA just as they would warn users of phishing attacks by Iran.
I'm curious. if you occasionally have fatigue in a cycle, consistent with some kind of infection growth life cycle, you should try removing vitamin C and gluthatione for 10 days and see if you feel even better. if you do, you need to go see a doctor to get screened for parasitic infections that cannot be found with just looking at a regular blood test. 99% chance you don't have one, but I am curious.
When the scientific conclusions are rapidly changing like this, I hope our leaders will have the wisdom to change recommendations and policy slowly while this plays out.
DO and Linode are very expensive compared to OVH, Scaleway or Hetzner. So this reads as "Lightsail announces 50% price drop, will still be very expensive"

(From another comment: https://snag.gy/3Q1fL0.jpg) -> $3.50 for 512 MB of RAM is a fucking rip-off compared to this: https://www.scaleway.com/
MineCraft also has incentive: you get meat when you kill animals.
Well. I loved the piece you linked! 22-TET does not sound nearly as dissonant to my ears as 15 does. Thank you for sharing.
Workers are allowed to criticize and push back against poor working conditions. That's how the labor market is supposed to work. If workers are just expected to sit there and take what is given, then capital holds all the cards.
Ask HN: Any good books on system design interviews?
I'm looking for books specifically, as I'm already familiar with plenty of good online resources.

I'm also looking for books specifically centered on interviews for companies such as Google or Amazon.

There are a few good books on the coding interviews, perhaps most notably Cracking the coding interview. But I have yet to come across a book that deals with system design and is also lauded.
Kimsufi has dedicated servers starting at 5$ per month. Yes, it's an atom, but it's yours alone, and is going to beat these on performance, memory and riskspace.
Also hetzner cloud

I dont know about the cores that hetzner provides and how they compare to the competitors, but ~3$ for a somewhat usable VPS is damn competetive

(not affiliated with hetzner in any way, other than I have one of those 3$ instances)
Not really. There sure are some warts and inconsistencies in implementations (and across specs), but the success is because of the limited complexity. It's more "perfection is achieved not when there is nothing to add but when there is nothing left to take away" than "worse is better".
JSON was just a quick shot by Douglas Crockford. No need to spin a genesis myth around it.
I profile a Gin service with pprof and end up finding a stupid mistake I made
This isn't a rapid change. We've known this for years.

The only reason people are unsure about this is the multi-million dollar industry spending huge amounts on bad science and press releases.
OVH provides Cloud Database[1], but only up to 4 GB RAM / 64 GB storage.

[1] https://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/cloud-databases/
What I always thought to be interesting is by analyzing those pre-announcement movements. We all know there are always people trading on insider information so it would be possible to use those pre-announcement movements to your advantage. If you see the stock price dropping before the announcement, then best to unload your shares or vice versa.
I don't think we're going to run out of polluting activities to tax. And even if we did, wouldn't that be nice?
Actions are mistakes only in retrospect.
Technically, no. The ruling DP party was formed locally and never ruled in China. The institution itself also bears little in common with the previous nationalist regime.

Follwing the civil war Taiwan was under three decades of martial law and the government was effectively an autocracy ruled by presidential decrees and led by a minority of migrants from the mainland. Without US support they would not have survived that long to see development and liberalisation.
No alcohol safe to drink, global study confirms
You don't need to collect the "right" kind of friends. This kind of thinking strips the humanity out of the process. It's an understandable conclusion but highly misleading.

The simplest heuristic to use that will get you to a better place - is to maintain/grow the connect with people you care about. What does that mean? Why do you care about certain ppl? How do they make you feel? What needs of yours are they meeting? How well do you understand/misunderstand their needs?And what is involved in maintaining and growing the connect through good and bad times?

The world can be divided into people who think about these questions all the time and those who don't. No guesses to who has more connections and is more comfortable calling in favours.

The good news is you too can spend time on those questions even if you currently don't. The more you do and deeper your answers get the more satisfying your life gets.

A large part of the human brain is devoted to social connection. But you have to learn and exercise it for the best results.
If all you're interested in comparing is price, then yes it is still expensive, but there are other considerations such as network quality, support responsiveness, the actual performance of the VPS.
Wow, tree fiddy.

How is cpu usage on these nodes? Aren't they oversubscribed as hell?
In response to you mentioning saving 1500 USD: You commented in another post that you lived out of your car (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790455). There still seems to be something wrong. Maybe not Amazon, maybe all the companies around there. People with a fulltime job should earn enough not to be living out of a car!
You should do some homework first. https://blog.dgraph.io/post/licensing/

They claim that Dgraph started with the idea that every startup should be able to have the same level of technology as run by big giants. They started with VC funding in 2016 and their goal was always to make money.
That is clearly biggest lie. There is no harm in creating a company for profit but i would appreciate if they were honest.

The only reason Dgraph is open source is to get early adopters and free testers and contribution from community.
And they may solve this problem only emotional point of view.
XML and Scala
They're talking about a small effect across a large population on an uncommon event.

Your small glass of beer most days isn't doing much to you, but across the population it means you have thousands of extra accidents.
No ECC RAM, also their network isn't exactly top tier and many complain about support. You will get what you pay for.
After chmod775's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17825777), I already suspected something into that direction. Thanks for the independent confirmation.
I am not familiar with nuances of Chinese culture, but I was so intrigued by the "guanxi" phenomenon that I immediately and gladly spent half an hour reading about it and watching Youtube videos of the "guanxi" culture in China.[1]

"Guanxi" is nothing other than socially institutionalised networks of non-monetary favours and counter-favours. It happens in every culture actually but the thing that makes "quanxi" uniquely Chinese, in my very recent opinion, is that the folks living there have removed it from their subconscious, their latent and dissonant reality and made it front and center of their everyday thinking and living philosophy. They gave it a name! It seems they've accepted it as part of a means of survival in a world of scarcity and in so doing have collectively abandoned the shame associated with relying on favours. They've removed the shame of accepting that it's not only merit or competency alone that gets you ahead - because there are many competent in a land of 1 billion citizens - but also who you know to get you to ply your skills.

Now it seems meritocracy, as it is explained in Jianan Qian's excellently written article, is about how _competent_ you are with your "guanxi". Next level shit, this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2GBL-IfY3Q
You're trying to impose an arbitrary model on XML.

XML grew from markup languages. It's as if we took some text, parsed it, and then store the resulting syntax tree along with the text. Here elements are non-terminals of the grammar and element attributes are additional augmenting properties of those non-terminals.

The text, of course, does not have to human-readable, it can very well be a sequence of anything, for example, of bits, bytes, words, etc. In XML we'd have to represent these with special elements, something like <byte value="00" /> or <int32 value="12345" />, but once we do this, we can use XML to enclose them into additional non-terminals that tell us what these bytes mean and let us use automated tools to manipulate them.

XML can represent objects, but in its own way: we have to first sort of serialize our object into a sequence and once we have this sequence, we can use XML. The model you seem to be talking about an abstract model of abstract objects in memory. Although memory is technically sequential, we normally ignore this and treat objects as nodes in some graph. This is not the domain of XML; it has to be a sequence to begin with. XML has a concept of IDs and references to IDs and thus can represent graphs reasonably well, but it must be a serialized graph.

So XML is basically a language to express the underlying grammatical structure of an arbitrary sequence. That structure is a tree, but it is based on a sequence nonetheless. It's not quite what abstract objects are in programming; but if you think of files, for example, files are sequences and thus are totally the domain of XML.
Alright, so for decades Steve was called aurora as well, possibly for ages by natives observing it; yet now scientists decided to slap another sticker on it as the original scientific aurora explanation doesn't fit this class of what was traditionally called aurora as well; and we ended up with 'Steve'...
The point being that without net neutrality they can fudge the speed tests by prioritising that bandwidth, and excluding it from throttling.
> It’s easy for JavaScript users, that’s it’s main purpose.

I'm writing Go applications that talk to Python applications with (you guessed it) JSON-over-HTTP. Saying that JSON is only for JS users is like saying the iPhone is only for people that need to make calls.

> For serialised data either at rest or on the wire there are dozens of better formats e.g. HDF5. Or even ASN.1.

A huge advantage of JSON is that it is human-readable and human-writable without extra tooling (although an indenter sure makes things easier on the eye). Also, I recall ASN.1 parsers being a rich well of RCE bugs.