skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any opinion on NiFi or other open source alternatives? I'm evaluating products in this space, but it seems pretty hard to tell without just giving them a try how well they'd integrate into my work.
LaserDisc is the future. Have you ever watched Jurassic Park on it?
is that ok with the instagram's use policies ?
are you a merketing/advertising partner with instagram/Facebook to have access to their (more privileged) APIs ?
How can it have happened before and be record breaking?

Why the unrelated note? Why assume I am an idiot?
> Being "guilted" is not an act others do to you, it's a mind-state you inflict on yourself.

It's also a mind-state inflicted by others on others who vote and build general sentiment towards changing laws that do affect you. General discourse and sentiment matters even if it does not matter to you. This sentiment can be based on what is annoying, what is pervasive, what is elitist, what is ok, etc. The discussion about that matters.
Facebook employees 'attack anyone who opposes left-leaning ideology' reveals emp
It seems strange to me that the LA Times would cut off European users, when they presumably have to comply with the new California Consumer Privacy Act, which is similar, anyway.
Is it possible to have best of both worlds, not having to worry about layout engines. But you can check into version control
I have personally witnessed bogus schemas percolating up into the Django models.py, because of problems related to this. Good to know that Postgres11 fixes that. The fact that PG continues to improve in substantial ways even still, is pretty impressive for such a venerable piece of software. Well done.
I don't understand the point you are trying to make, can you re-phrase?

Google provides you results based on what they think you meant. They 'think' more strongly in directions that suit them (e.g. sites paying them for result priority rankings). I fail to see how this 'recent development' is anything other than a permutation of that.

As another reply suggested, maybe it's just because a certain old man is yelling at clouds again that people are appalled all of a sudden.
It's probably a lot simpler than that. Most of the debt held by banks is probably due to be repaid in <= 30 years. If they'll still make such a loan today then it's reasonable to infer that they don't think property values are likely to go down significantly over that time period.

From their perspective, any kind of government bailout would be great, but certainly can't be counted on. This is especially true of engineering projects, where physical reality puts hard limits on what is and is not possible before even considering costs. Printing money a la quantitative easing is trivial compared to building a giant seawall or what have you.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I think the headline confuses the issue. The community wanted more input and ability to control the release and testing process for Kubernetes. It was a fair question to say "Why can only Google cut a release?". We're still happy to fund it, but to make Kubernetes more fully owned by the community and not Google, this was an important step.

Edit: Fwiw, I think William's blog post (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-cloud-gran...) is more informative, since the TechCrunch article just quotes from it.
I'd be flat out surprised if books didn't have their detractors back in the day.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~~ Albert Einstein
Understanding JavaScript promises by writing your own promise library
It's somewhat more important to me (because I'm experienced) to find the right project vs a random issue in one of many projects... I don't have trouble thinking of open source projects to contribute to, but I work in a big co and not super interested in trying to edit something like firefox because the community is too large.

I would prefer something like who's hiring but for volunteer work where projects say look, I have this kind of side project, or we have this smaller company, we use this stuff, we'd love to have a competent C++ person (sub your language of choice) to fix this (Windows build/annoying bug/move us to an awesomer version of a third party/rewrite the docs), in exchange, we're ready to have a short like 10mn 1:1 over IRC or email or something to help you get started. And then I'd feel like I can really bring something to the table, I suppose.

Most projects say "come hang out in our channel" or "just start with one of the beginner issues"... but it's a little intimidating to go to a new channel and not know what to say and walk in on people being already friendly insiders just to get a task. And I never know if it's socially OK to pick an issue in the tracker and post and say I'll fix it... what if I hit a problem or it turns out to be more than I could chew at this point in time, etc.
Why do people store secrets directly in their codebase? It makes me physically ill seeing this. Environment variables exist for a reason.
THE STRANGEST SECRET IN THE WORLD
I want to introduce you to the secret of wealth creation. this video will change your life as it changed mine. this is the secret to success your teachers never taught you in school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Obo16n43O0
What you are saying is not greatly removed from “well if the world’s gettin’ so dang warm, why’s it so cold right now?”

Climate science is much more complex than isolated data points such as a local temperature or river level, and to counter multivariate studies with anecdotal reductionism is the tool of demagogues.
Google tired of fronting the bill for k8s dev infra, welcomes CNCF to the neighborhood with $9m housewarming gift to maintain.
Agree. Monodraw is fantastic.
>This is often not a good sign, i.e. if the code is so messy no one can understand it. But if it's so technically challenging only him can understand, then that's a great position to be in!

What he built required specialized knowledge of a GUI driven product that had a very convoluted C# SDK for developing custom add-ons. So it was less about messy code and more about there being very few people who could understand all 4 aspects (The product, C#, the SDK, and how the SDK related to the GUI).

>I guess the tldr of your story is to stay away from these big companies and to work directly for your clients?

Yes and No. Sometimes to get paid well as a contractor you need to find other ways to get gigs than finding standard contract recruitment that comes through LinkedIn. In the case of the person I knew, he had basically created an add-on product and was charging hourly for services to maintain and add features.
(Good) Public transport is better than (shared) personal transport which is better than individual car ownership.

But from what I've observed about US culture, public transport is never going to happen :) So if you take that off the list, what's the alternative?
“Record” refers to past data. “Record breaking” means you’ve exceeded the past data, not that you’ve exceeded anything that has ever happened.

For example, regular and reliable temperature records only go back to the late 1800s, so any “record breaking” temperature just means it hasn’t happened since 1888 or whatever.
Google is donating $9 million in Google cloud credits to the CNCF (foundation that runs k8s) for the testing and operational bits. This means the CI and unit testing infra that was manually hosted by google will be in the control of the foundation and not strictly google anymore. The $9 million in cloud credits are expected to be used over the next 3 years.
Federal Flood Insurance has had zero net subsidy from 1968 to 2004. While covering up to 5.5 million homes in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...

Currently it's 25 billion in debt, but that's cheap in terms of federal programs of that magnitude (~15 $ per home per year). Further, the net economic gain from allowing people to build in slightly at risk areas has easily been worth 25 billion over that time period. Consider, without some form of insurance you could not build downstream of major dam's as the low risk of them failing puts huge areas at risk.
you might consider keeping your FT job, and as a side-hustle, subcontracting those "thousands of contract work offers" with third-world professionals acting as an agency.
At this point in time people who deny climate change is occurring are impervious to logic and reason. They are like people who deny evolution or the people who believe the Earth is around 10,000 years old. Nothing is going to convince them they are wrong.

It's too burdensome to ask that all articles about the detrimental effects of climate change present a proof of said claims. At some point in time it's pointless to engage in an endless reproving of claims that most sane people already believe in.
I agree that using or not using social media shouldn't be made into some special thing.

(I'm 28 for context). My experience with most of social media though, is that none of my friends ever seemed interested in actually socializing on there.

All I ever really saw on Facebook, for example, was re-posting memes, often political in nature. No actual conversations though.

So I wonder if that's other people's experience as well?
Airbags have cost too. And big, fancy jets.
I'm aware, but in my opinion there could have been some more detailed observation/research leading to deeper insight than just Ecstasy will make me a nicer person (doubt it).
Pretty weak that even the demo GIF has an error. "e-mail" becomes " - mail"
HN is a special place
yeah quite probably, I never owned a classic mac (only a mac mini but ran headless)

As a teen I despised this gui paradigm, I found it too limited, I actually wanted something like a smalltalk image or an html/js thing where you could extend all the things at will. But with age, I learned that it's rarely necessary.
Why? With this attitude, we'll keep building more vulnerable cities at the coast, effectively subsidizing doomed construction.
>Almost none of the MDMA on the streets is actually MDMA.

That is not really true. At least not in Europe. Real MDMA is incredibly common.
Disclosure: I worked on this grant.

TL;DR is that CNCF owns kubernetes, but until now I could not include non-Google people in the administration of (ostensibly) community owned stuff (google.com security policies in GCP). Now I can.

Google's involvement and commitment is in no way diminished, this is just a bad headline.
how do they say in the trading world ? don't be the last basket ?
Swap DDG Privacy Essentials for uMatrix and you won't get the cookie pop-ups _nor_ the tracker cookies, which is pretty swell in my book.

It breaks some sites, but after saving settings for your more commonly visited ones, you really don't notice it all that much.
There are technical solutions to all of this. I come from a country that has been fighting back the sea for centuries (Netherlands) and that has been exporting it's knowledge to do so for a long time as well. The basic consensus is that we'll need bigger dikes and a few other things over the next decades. Plenty of time to build that. Not a problem. At least not in places that can afford to invest in solutions.

Basically build some dikes, desalination plants, pumping stations, etc. and start planning which areas to protect and which areas to abandon. Problem solved.

All of this requires money of course. Luckily, Miami is still a pretty rich city in a relatively rich state; it can handle this.

If the worst happens, it will be because of ignorance and mismanagement and not because of a lack of solutions or means. It may take a few minor incidents before people figure this out but the smart thing would be to not wait for that.
Would you include these stones as data?
They're certainly a record of low water levels.
Heating in Canada will use ~kW, in the summer I'm not using any device in that order of magnitude, including humans (which are what, 100W?).

If I remember correctly, the energy use of heating/cooling is related to the square of the temperature difference, so if ACs with a low temperature delta use nearly as much energy as heating does in winter, with its higher delta, it indicates that there may be a lot of waste.
Fair point, but in the first sentence the writer uses the word reporter when referring to herself so I kinda missed the opinion thing.
I find the discussions about american lifestyle and how much it matters and how much consumption would be acceptable fascinating, and how countries laws would need to affect birthrates and all that as well; but if dang says its off-topic and dumb, well what can I do.
Remember, in Jaws 2, the people had re-elected the mayor.
From Silence to Sound
Sea walls won’t work for Miami. The ground is too porous, so the water would just seep under.
I wanted to find something debunking the notion that userids at CompuServe were based on the PDP-10s that ran the service, because it seemed improbable that anyone was running a major online service on PDP-10s by the time the Microsoft Chicago betas were circulating, but, nope: that's real.

http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/compuserve.txt
I dont see why it’s sad. They figured out that being nice to people, even when they don’t feel like being nice, makes society run better.
What you're saying is that you want to argue on the internet about something completely unrelated to what I've said.
You can clearly do that without me.
I'm sorry, but I absolutely cannot get behind any of this "spoiled engineer" stuff. Mainly because employers here, not completely in tech but in general in the US are shit, and treat their staff like shit. That "You gave my a job and made it possible to live my life. You invested N years in training me. I'm now responsible for various parts of your business." doesn't apply here, because most employers simply don't do that.
My favorite is watching a chain of cars honk at a red light. Some day, when I become the mayor of New York City, I will install sound-detecting traffic signals. If you honk at a red light, it stays red for an additional 10 seconds. The city will descend into chaos, and I will greatly enjoy watching it.
That's hyperbolic. Part of the announcement is a commitment to re-evaluate the numbers as time goes on.

Google is in No Way stepping back from this.
Compared to cocaine, smoking and the like it is not very probable that anyone becomes psychologically dependent on it because of the way it works:

It releases serotonin stored in your body, and thus depletes those stores. So multiple doses feel less and less good. The body needs several weeks/months to refill those serotonin storages. All you do is risk getting serotonin syndrome [1] which is a whole other story/problem. But becoming "addicted" (physically or psychologically) in the classical sense is not an immediate issue as it is with cocaine, smoking, weed, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin_syndrome
Fair enough. Just to be clear, I'm not saying I trust either of them very much.
I have built a house and a garage. For the garage, I was the GC, but for the house, I hired a GC. The garage was 500 sq ft and easy enough to manage all the subcontractors. The house was a much bigger project; an infill development, 3500 sq ft, two floors with big expansive rooms, which required a lot of steel since we are in an earthquake zone. I was on-site every day reviewing progress and managing up and down the chain. Also, gain a working level of Spanish if you are building in California; it's essential for communicating with the tradespeople.

In both cases, I used an architect to professionalize the basic design and help walk us through the city review, approval, and permit process (edit: this added tremendous value for the house environment and style [1] ). We used an independent, licensed structural engineer for the house, but the city still found issues with the work (the city will often subcontract the review to another, usually an out-of-state engineer) and needed to be convinced the design was correct in some cases and reworked in other cases.

The review process, while often criticized, is for your benefit and safety. If you treat the reviewers as a partner the project will be better for it.

The project itself is hard enough using industry standard conventional building techniques. If you try to do something too original or unorthodox the system has many obstacles in place to force you to prove your project is safe.

If you are serious about this I suggest the following: 0) learn SketchUp or a similar 3d modeling system, 1) choose a location in a rural area to reduce the complexities of building in a crowded area, 2) find a retired GC who is interested in the idea and wants to learn more about it and hire them as a consultant, 3) start small and build test cases (dollhouses, then a shed, then a garage, and finally scale up to a house) to build skill and discover your skill gaps.

Best of luck, it sounds like a fun and challenging project.

[1] https://www.houzz.com/projects/439864/mountain-view-prairie-...
I guess a better question is “what’s the difference between 20 and 200 uses?”
The fact that it hasn't been this bad in 400 years suggests that it's a capital-B Big problem though.
Given that "blockchain" is a generalization of Bitcoin, not formally defined theoretically beforehand, I suspect we would not agree on what a blockchain even is, and would go 'round and 'round in circles.

But I think we can agree that a Merkle chain like this would be sufficient for most of the things people are trying to use blockchains for recently, which certainly says something.
Ah, that's certainly possible. But then one could still argue there's definitely worse experiences than just being lazy on weed though, depending on the definition of 'bad' in this case.
I would say that many things we consider (early) literature today were hand written on scrolls and not typeset on pages.

If handwritten scrolls, newsprint released a few pages every week, and pages printed out of a wordprocessor and bound can all be literature I'm not sure why hypertext on a website can't be (even using links and embedded media, the same way scroll authors added marginalia and early book makers illuminations, of course contemporary book makers also include marginalia (like page numbers and the book/chapter title). Even pseudo-links appear in works like Nabokov's Pale Fire.

My point is that extension and experimentation with form are part of any creative tradition. It's really hard to create a useful and consistent definition of literature that includes everything that's similar to War and Peace and excludes everything that's similar to Breaking Bad. It might be more fun to cast a wide net.
Here's the actual talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_1WlxGGM4
The hypothetical g which IQ tests are trying to find is the extent to which every test of mental abilities that anyone has ever devised plus some things like reflex speed all seem to be fairly strongly correlated with each other and all seem to be correlated via a common factor. You can certainly be more skilled at one test than another. These tests are also fairly noisy when applied to individuals.

For individuals the results of IQ tests probably are oversold as you say given their noisiness. But for public health problems like air pollution where the results are averaged over populations they're probably undervalued if anything.
> There's a bunch of different tools to do the same job

Yup. Almost, too many tools, in fact.

https://s.apache.org/existing-workflow-systems
Thanks, that's a great suggestion!
Worth mentioning Draw.io: https://about.draw.io which can also be run totally "offline".

The types of diagrams you can create is quite extensive: https://about.draw.io/features/examples/

and the diagrams generated are easily integrated into MediaWiki installations, with full editability.

draw.io online is a free-to-license web application for everyone. It is completely free to use for any purpose, there is no premium pay-for functionality, watermarking, or other limitations. You own the content you produce with draw.io and may use it for any purpose, including commercially. We don’t sell your personal information or data. We don’t store your data. You own your data and the application is open source.

Code here: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
> That's an optimistic view to hold. If that was the case we'd pay money for the service.

Yet I think a reasonable view to hold from the perspective of a user. I don't see how that view has anything to do with payment. The monetary value to people is not the same as the purpose something exists or is used by people. The business model of the outlets matters not to many of the users and I'd say it's not out of ignorance, it's out of apathy.

To the rest of your comment, we are basically the same person. We just need to recognize that we are neither objectively right nor are frequent social media users objectively wrong. And most importantly, we don't need to berate users of social media with our perceived righteousness (not saying you are, just concurring w/ the parent in general).
Politics is war by other means. Do you really believe everybody should constantly be at war with those who disagree with them?
Who in the article said they feel superior?

Here's the people from the article:

Mary Amanuel - saw her friend obsessing over likes and thought it to be unhealthy, realized she used social media to put on a false face and stopped.

Isabelle - doesn't like how her friends engage with social media on their phones in lieu of talking to the people in front of them, prefers to spend her free time outdoors, and was disturbed by how Cambridge Analytica used social media.

Emily Sharp - saw cyber bullying and didn't want to have anything to do with it.

Jeremiah Johnson - realized he was competing for the appearance of "happiness" and decided it was unhealthy.

Tyreke Morgan - prefers to make deep connections in person over maintaining lists of hundreds of "friends".

I don't see any of them saying they feel "better" than others. You are projecting.
I have to know ... did you quit? What happened next?
> But higher level data structures like lists, sets, maps etc. are all implemented using those primitives under the hood

In Go you don't have generics as a primitive with which to build those things.

As a result, you don't have the building blocks for anyone to build a usable data structure unless it's baked into the core of the language.
Interesting - you had your fun at the ocean front. Now if you want money for the lost property, you have to buy three streets back?

That's not a bad idea.
If you are HN, you are expected to be able to understand that we all know that macOS is Unix and any reference to Unix/Linux means non-macOS. I contributed the first SCSI driver to Linux 0.12 so I've been around. Calling macOS "window dressing" doesn't suggest deep insight nor working experience with macOS.

The fact is that my professional working experience with daily driving macOS is, in my opinion, a nicer experience that the equivalent Gnome/KDE (though it goes deeper than that). Still I spend a roughly equivalent amount of time there (and some in FreeBSD).
Unfortunately this process helps only with the easiest stuff that is already automated with drag/drop clicky type interfaces. So it doesn't really save any time.

Maybe in the future this will get more advanced and can do other things. But it's likely to turn into a niche layer for a specific industry.

It's a neat idea though, but also not exactly new. (I saw similar things years ago, also didn't go anywhere)
It's a chain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865168
I think drugs should be scientifically researched for all the same reasons we research neuroscience in general.

I disagree that everyone should try (any) drugs. It's hard enough to trust your own mind (and those of everyone around you). Adding drugs to the mix compounds this uncertainty.
Social media exists as a way to facilitate the collection of advertising revenue. All other considerations flow from that.