skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that it's not fair or accurate to call describe it as "highly partisan libertarian-right".

I'm with you on the axe-grindiness of Quillette, and since you mention it, that's probably why I don't read it much anymore.

"Libertarian" can mean all kinds of things these days, but in the comment to which I was replying, the description connotes associations with things like: extreme positions against state welfare and gun control, extreme laissez-faire economic policy, social Darwinism, Ayn Rand, the Tea Party, etc.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, these themes seem to appear quite frequently in Reason Magazine, and they certainly do on Fox News.

They aren't a focus for Quillette, however, which in my experience, generally embraces more moderate/centrist (i.e., classical liberal) positions on economic and social issues.

The axe-grindiness to which you refer would stem from the fact that a big part of its raison d'être is to confront what it sees as the ideological corruption of academia.

I agree it can be quite histrionic in its coverage of this issue, and it doesn't hold much interest for me.

But it still matters to demarcate between "highly partisan libertarian-right" and more moderate, sober ideological positions.
I'm a Product Manager on the Azure Pipelines team and happy to answer any questions.
We're talking past each other. HP isn't going to switch from Intel to TSMC because HP doesn't design CPUs. They make servers. Their vendor is going to be AMD not TSMC or Global Foundaries. You're saying Global Foundaries has fabs that make AMD's chips but I'm looking at it from a business/marketing perspective not who's making the hardware. The customer never sees a "Global Foundaries" label on the CPU, it's going to say AMD or Intel on it.
or 'chimpanzee'!
I agree with OP. My 99% clicks on reddit mobile ad are unintended. It is very annoying, for if I press the back button to early, then the firefox browser will back too the page previous to the page containing the ad I clicked. So generally, I will wait the ad fully loaded then press the back button.
> The materials needed to make his version of a bubble-CPAP ventilator cost a mere $1.25.

One of the situations where a lack of strict health regulations on medical devices is saving lives.
Like I just wrote in another comment: the quoted part of the interview is low on facts and consists mainly of opinion. Yes, the U.S. tapped Merkel's phone. Russia and China spy on Germany as well, though I don't know how good their phone tap capabilities are. That headlines like “Vladimir Putin has listened to cellphone of the German chancellor for ten years” “would lead to revolutionary circumstances in Germany” is total nonsense in my opinion.

I assume Jebsen and Wimmer try to suggest that Germany is not a sovereign state. Points like that are often made in their circles and link to the “Reichsbürgerbewegung”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbürgerbewegung
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"i bet i can make devops more convoluted"

"really? it's not enterprise-y enough?"

"fuck no, watch this!"
Yeah, this suprised me too when I first learned it, but there's a whole research field and plenty of books about Graph Visualization [0].

[0]: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3...
Hmm, I use Redshift every day and I've also used BigQuery.
You can't have a valid benchmark without adding sort keys and dist keys to Redshift. It really isn't meant to work without them.

I understand it's more work that way, which is why BigQuery is so nice. But if you're trying to do lots of queries, BigQuery is also more expensive.
ASK HN: A better way to Async Await with a React component
Thanks for this comment. I said something similar in another thread. Resources should be spent on making sure there are qualified teachers teaching math.
Hehe :) And this is really useful, I hope my message didn't make it sound like the opposite. (Unfortunately our readme is probably full of typos!)
There is a fine line between 'right to be forgotten' and 'ability to be disappeared'.
The funny thing about lies is that they spread. Often, the people who spread them are unaware that they're doing so. Most journalists tend to follow an established narrative, so each fact they report might be true but the sum can still be deeply misleading. The New Yorker fits this mold, but their contribution isn't really even interesting. The more important question is: who made that the dominant narrative when it poorly represents reality, and how? Also, what part do you and I play in the spread of those harmful memes?
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> What are these mysterious enquiries? Why not follow up on those?

I know this is a rhetorical question, but the answer is that the whole "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" angle is a façade. The real reason to implement any of this is to gain more power over the populace by making meaningful resistance of the government harder.
> among nationalist extremists and political conspiracy theorists

Not only from them, other groups are doing it too, but since they are not writing in English, no one cares.
> The financial industry showed its might in other debates, as well. In one example, Republicans in the Senate joined with moderate Democrats in 2009 to defeat a plan to allow judges to set new terms of mortgages, a measure that could have also allowed Americans to get more favorable terms amid the housing crisis.

This is a very important point. Wall Street is getting power and knowledge directly from the source.
Who is defending Main Street needs?

> But the effect of the banks’ influence, according to former lawmakers, was to dilute the legislation.

This is one of the reasons we get so bad legislation. The original ideas and goals were good. But they get lobbied out of existence.

So, I do not know if working for the Wall Street is a bad thing per se to do for legislators once they finish their terms. But the result is an unhealthy economy. And that needs to be addressed.
How to Keep Website Visitors Yearning for More
I absolutely adore Gatsby.

However.

How do you people regard the kilobytes of JS (50—100KB in the very least) that a Gatsby-built website will inevitably require? Big deal? Not a big deal?

(I think Alex Russell would have a fit (https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1029898039903670272).)
Lowering launch costs will dramatically reduce the value of stuff in orbit. It’s the brutal math that hammered the telecom sector through the 90’s and presents a major risk for the next few decades.

Ex: If you pay 1000$/lb to get something into orbit and your competitor waits 5 years to get better stuff into orbit at 500$/lb that means you need to lower prices while still paying back the same loans.
Yep.. the instagram guys sold to early.. Well that being said maybe Facebook would have developed an instagram killer but the separate entity sure helps.
What do you mean by "It takes a while to figure out how to write a post"? With Hugo it is just adding a .md file inside your content folder, write the blog post and generate the blog with `hugo`. Or am I missing something here? The templating issue aside.
‘Oldest nerd of Guatemala’ modernizes industries by typing with his eyes
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From the article:

> By offering applications access to libcurl's own URL parser, we hope to tighten a problematic vulnerable area for applications where the URL parser library would believe one thing and libcurl another. This could and has sometimes lead to security problems. (See for example Exploiting URL Parser in Trending Programming Languages! by Orange Tsai)
As a long time Elastic user:

[1] You don't understand their IP if you think it's Lucene. It really, really isn't.

[2] It's not single purpose anything. I've used it for search engines, event buses and as document stores. It's multi-purpose and more dependable at scale and under duress than Mongo thanks to sitting on top of the JVM.

[3] Stackoverflow stats don't mean anything. What are you trying to imply?
I've noticed this too. Also teaching different ways of solving the same problem - I had to make sure kids didn't go back to solving the way they knew how already.
> Both of which were looked down upon because they were the opposite of work and progress and the greater good. At least to some in power.

Only because their system was so fragile and wasteful that it couldn't be afforded... It's not a product of the 'times' but of the circumstances created by the community/state.
Also the sky is blue.
Except that he is correct and even gave the example of why he is correct.
I'm always amazed at how readable and relevant Orwell remains. This essay is a good example.

It would seem that human beings are not able to describe, nor perhaps to imagine, happiness except in terms of contrast. ...

I wonder if this also works in reverse: humans are incapable of describing or imagining unhappiness except in terms of contrast.

This reminds me of a line that goes something like: revolutions happen not because of poverty but through the process of a society becoming poorer.
Matt Levine looked into these competing theories and came up with more evidence for the view that harsh regulators get hired by banks more than lax regulators:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-06-26/strict-re...
NY Regulator Approves Its First Stablecoins, Pegged to USD
Judging by the list of "Ignorance, war, poverty, dirt, disease, frustration, hunger, fear, overwork, superstition all vanished." it seems many of us are living in a utopia yet we still aren't satisfied.
Cryptographers, mathematicians, and computer scientists should be consulting politicians, who should have a broader view than just their specialty.

Also, money corrupts without prejudice, even cryptographers, mathematicians, and "computer scientists".
Anti-aging medicine is so hot, even this controversial idea has investors
As an academic, ipython notebooks are becoming the lingua franca of reproducible research. I don’t like it or them, but they’re excellent for didactic purposes. Extracting the code from the markdown is very helpful for me, as I prefer working directly with it most of the time.
For every languages and frameworks, there will always be a tipping point where the cost outweighs the benefits and vice versa.

For example you could get your product or services up and running in Ruby Rails with least amount of time, but I doubt it will ever be as efficient as Stack Exchange in resources. [1] and likely will cost a lot more reaching that scale.

[1] https://stackexchange.com/performance
Where exactly?

I know of a few subcultures in the United States that would have felt that way at that point in time.

It wasn't universally true in the US, is there a particular region you are referring to?
Dude. I'm a mathematician. I write papers with reasonable mathematics. Sometimes I write snarky comments here or in blog posts. Neither just gets to be published in the Intelligencer because I want. The Intelligencer is not a public square. It's a paper publication that gets to pick what it wants to print.

Publish it freely on the ArXiV or whatever, but this argument that some publication has to publish because "politics" or "freedom" or whatever... why don't I get to throw a tantrum & get them to publish my stuff (which is actually math!) so I can get a raise? I need a raise.

Admittedly, I'd aim for Advances instead of the Intelligencer!
We've gotten a lot of passionate feedback in this category, and we actually did a comparison with sort and dist keys in the extended version. They don't make as much difference as people think, these charts would be ~15% shifted with sort and dist keys.
How does Azure Pipelines compare to VSTS?
You don’t think there is a system for network providers to identify customers to each other?

How about to law enforcement?
Being able to easily create and pack themes is meta-important. That is, a good set of themes cannot appear by a community effort unless creation of a theme is reasonably easy and well-documented, and themes are self-contained and easy to share.
I have built it myself.
I was inspired by a couple of tutorials I found on the internet.
Most of the components are off the shelf, stepper motors, smooth rods, belt, arduino, etc.
The components that hold everything together are either 3d-printed or laser cut.
The software that is running on the arduino that translates gcode -> stepper motor impulses is slightly modified grbl [0]

I have a (poor) timelapse video of the assembly process - [1]

[0] https://github.com/grbl/grbl

[1] https://framedbyher.com/the-story/
I can't even delete it from my android phone without rooting it
Seems really lightweight and fast!
> you have to get deeper and deeper into niche subreddits to find worthwhile discussions.

Which raises the question wouldn't that be better served with a forum...
>FWIW, I have seen many so called "educated and urban" people also falling for various WhatsApp scams and fake news

How many have you seen beating people into a bloody dead pulp over a rumor?

It was basic savagery in these people that got those poor devils killed, not WhatsApp.
You use the word "therefore", but it is in the connecting logic between your first and second sentences that Damore brings in a lot more than biological differences. For example, he claims that the opinions of staff at Google are clouded by leftist ideology, and that this determines the manner in which it attempts to increase workplace diversity.

Again, I am neither advocating for or against the truth of this. I'm pointing out that Damore did more than simply highlight biological differences. I think that's important because the shallow way it is discussed - e.g. in the linked article - only leads to divisiveness.
I’m already well aware there’s fiber on poles here. The difference is, their network isn’t built to support FTTH, it’s built to support a few larger enterprises that are willing to pay $3,000/m for a circuit. Name one person that doesn’t want fiber internet. Saying there isn’t a big enough market for service when literally every single household and business purchases internet is ridiculous.

We already have 60% of the street we just cut up signed up for service.
Wage theft in the US is measured in billions of dollars per year. Imagine what other abuses that aren't so flagrant and easy to quantify proliferate.
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10 year old accounts get hijacked all the time.
There's a fundamental conflict between conceptual Utopia/Heaven and the law of supply and demand. All literary conceptions of a utopia rely on abundance of some good that is scarce in the author's time. Usually ignoring that its ubiquity makes it tend toward zero value.

Here's my stab at Utopia, but it requires a belief that Knowledge is infinite:

Utopia is a state of unhindered, continual learning at your own chosen pace.
I just want to express how snappy this feels. It really does feel so much faster than other solutions. Good work!
This is fairly common. Most severance payments are settlements, of which the first offer is made by the company.

Employees can refuse the settlement, then sue their former employer under various wrongful dismissal/common law severance heads, but that requires getting a lawyer, and lawyers are generally more expensive than the few extra months of wages you'll get back. The cost of getting justice is used to scalp workers for a month or two of earnings all the time.

... Unless you were sexually assaulted and offered peanuts, or recorded your immediate supervisor threatening you with physical harm or something. Then lawyering up pays off.
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> Could you make this work for gitlab, bitbucket and maybe even just regular old git repos as well?"

Yes totally.
Although we currently think that the best for the community is GitHub improving their GitHub profiles making ghuser.io obsolete.
Right now we'd rather do this with GitHub and not against GitHub.
But we don't know how much GitHub is willing to help us.
(We need changes to the GitHub APIs for ghuser.io to be scalable.)

> private repo

Yea we could do that as well. Give permission to our public key and we're good to go.

> why you would build this if you don't work at github?

Because Aurelien (OP) wanted/needed that so he just built it.

To the both of us it's basically a fun experiment.

Also for me it's cool because we use the web framework Reframe (https://github.com/reframejs/reframe) which I'm currently building.
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> Gatsby is ridiculously fast (React based)

Just wanted to point out that there are at least two kinds of fast: fast to build and fast to load. And while Gatsby-based sites are indeed very fast to load (although I haven't compared a Gatsby site with an optimized Hugo site), they are painfully slow to build.

But it is truly a pleasure to work with; that's for sure!
No Man's Sky is similar. Effectively unlimited procedurally generated planets, with unique flora/fauna/terrain/etc.
C.I.A. Drone Mission, Curtailed by Obama, Is Expanded in Africa Under Trump
> if they control everything and can drop a standard 90ms down to 10ms

10ms, after request processing, ad selection logic, and faster-than-light packet travel? I think that's far too optimistic of an improvement. As the post said, 30ms was the goal. My adserver delivers in 20-40ms. But since ads are routinely loaded asynchronously, is speed concern truly valid? The adserver can usually make a selection and deliver before the content is fully rendered in the browser.

> Talking from the experience of building out a system that handled +1B impressions a day, the actual ad serving isn't challenging at all these days.

If you developed a system that delivers 1BB impressions per day (most large scale ad networks deliver only a modest multiple of that number) and didn't find it challenging, then it's either a very simple system or you're Elon Musk ;) That's 12k requests per second, generally uncached, hitting all sorts of internal services most likely.

I'm just saying that I think Reddit's best bet is to offload the task to a company that works on these problems full time. Or acquire one like AOL and Facebook. Unless the use cases are so unique and key to the company's future plans, avoid building in-house. And if you have to, perhaps it would be a larger effort than a 3 person team developing the thing in a language that the company never used in production before.
MIT machine vision system figures out what it's looking at by itself
Azure Pipelines has all of the same features on VSTS Build and Release but adds an option for defining your CI pipeline in YAML (this feature was previously in preview).
How I built my own Cryptocurrency on FlureeDB
This article focuses on a utopia of worldy pleasures, and goes on to explain why such a place would be a pretty boring place to live. But that’s just human nature: we’re never permently satisfied with what we have. The only way that we feel happiness from these things is if we get more of whatever it is, and that’s kind of impossible in a utopia. However, I still think there’s a way to get satisfaction out of a world like this: through learning. Even if we, at some point, discover everything there is to know, I think it’s still possible to find joy, since there people will be born unaware of this knowledge. Perhaps we might even mark a lifetime by the amount of time it takes to learn everything.
> But what happens when if the DevOps concept turns out to be a fad?

Time to re-rebrand
A bonus payment if you sign an NDA on departure seems pretty common.
Disappointing, but not surprising. Once a company decides that their workers are the enemy rather than an asset or part of the team, this kind of thing creeps in anywhere. Like Musk conspicuously smoking weed while running a factory that drug tests its workers.

Ford at least planned for his workers to be able to buy his cars, but that's clearly going to be further away on the Tesla roadmap than a trip to Mars.
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How is that relevant? Nobody is accusing Tesla of systematically playing games with the books to deny people compensation they are owed (they're accusing Tesla of other unethical practices).

edit:

Never mind. Either I misread or you edited your comment to add the second sentence.
What's so unusual about Muslim countries? or countries with high inequity? They seem to collectively have a pretty big share of human population. Don't fall into the WEIRD trap (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic).
The current fiber requires multiple amplifiers across the ocean. The space fiber may allow to get away from it making it much easier to lay and maintain transocean cables.
Are you? Do you have no worries in the world?
With serverless, you'll probably end up writing a CloudFormation template snippets to provision resources to support the Lambda anyway (it's just in the serverless YAML file).

But it does make deployment easier. A good example is macOS + Python. If you have C extensions (such as LXML or crypto libs, etc.), you'll want to build the dependencies inside a Linux environment. serverless has a plugin that can use docker to build and package dependencies.

For reasons I can't put my finger on, I'm not a huge fan of serverless. Maybe the npm focus? But it seems like the best tool out there for Lambdas. Unless you're use-case is narrower, then something like Zappa might make sense.
Lars here, the guy who gets the honorable mention at the end of the post "for brainstorming Redshift performance" with Austin (the author of the post) :-)

If you care to dig a little deeper into the things we discussed, we've written them up in a longer blog post:

https://www.intermix.io/blog/top-14-performance-tuning-techn...
I miss Joel Spolsky's CityDesk software, it was only viable for a single user but it worked well in that scenario.
Are you sure that their not doing both?
The implication was that management was using a worker's final paycheck as leverage to pressure them into signing an NDA. That's using wage theft as a threat.
The news is that it's not the paper per se that's scandalous. It's the bypassing of the editorial board -- someone trying to get his buddy's stuff published without going through the usual channels.
I thought that's exactly what the accusation was: witholding the last pay packet until the agreement was signed. This isn't the same as the more respectable practice of extra redundancy payments that are conditional on signing a no-sue agreement.
It looks like we both independently came to the same conclusion, though I have a “solution” to the finite knowledge problem :)
I'd have to agree. Here's the thesis of the article:

> The inability of mankind to imagine happiness except in the form of relief, either from effort or pain, presents Socialists with a serious problem. Dickens can describe a poverty-stricken family tucking into a roast goose, and can make them appear happy; on the other hand, the inhabitants of perfect universes seem to have no spontaneous gaiety and are usually somewhat repulsive into the bargain. But clearly we are not aiming at the kind of world Dickens described, nor, probably, at any world he was capable of imagining. The Socialist objective is not a society where everything comes right in the end, because kind old gentlemen give away turkeys. What are we aiming at, if not a society in which ‘charity’ would be unnecessary? We want a world where Scrooge, with his dividends, and Tiny Tim, with his tuberculous leg, would both be unthinkable. But does that mean we are aiming at some painless, effortless Utopia? At the risk of saying something which the editors of Tribune may not endorse, I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood.