skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duktape is just a JS engine. You still need the browser which takes 90% of the space.

The NetSurf browser (https://www.netsurf-browser.org/) uses Duktape itself and might be a good candidate :)
1. AWS saves us money despite the apparent higher costs because our developers spend more time working on our core business than managing infrastructure, and developer time is our most expensive resource.

2. Softlayer completely f'ed us twice now with down time resulting in a substantial dollar loss.
Duktape also runs in 32k (or less), but this is an implementation of the entire node.js API, not just the engine.
I believe this is supposed to happen this year, last I heard was this summer but they haven't finished the analysis yet. The data was collected back in April, petabytes of harddrives flown to a central processing location.
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Do you work in tech? Are you feeling disillusioned, depressed, or like the work you do is dampening your affect?

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>Nice, but I have to complain about bitbucket.. it's so annoying that your html documents do not show up when browsing the bitbucket website. Github has them beat on this one- just rename the htmls to md and it will mostly work.

Yeah it was mostly written before ever coming into contact with Git so wasn't designed for that! Imagine a versioning system that relied on zipping the source code and adding a version number! I'll fix it at some point, but it was more for shelving and sharing.

>I wrote similar things in the past, but for 6809. My equivalent these days is whenever I have to deal with a new microcontroller, I port my personal CLI + task queue schedular to it. Once I have a UART, timer, and CLI with history running, then the actual application is usually a breeze.

Exactly!

One thing I plan to do in the future is run a 8086/8088 VM on something like an Arduino (or whatever is popular at the time). Getting op codes to working fine is easy, getting the BIOS interrupts working is slightly harder.
I really enjoyed this documentary. It's where I learned the term "Zarro Boogs". At one point jwz (Jamie Zawinski) makes a comment which essentially foreshadows net neutrality. I was also blown away by Stuart Parmenter contributing to the code base at age 16!
Wow, keyboard-free programming.

It sounds both incredibly interesting and a little frightening. I'd hate to think of the kinds of metrics that might be applied to professional programmers.
Google tasks?! Never heard of it, thought it was another name for Google keep (which i have used). Irritating that it's not built into the Gmail app.

I'm really going to miss inbox :(
> What matters is whose idea it was to slaughter Jews and other civilians and also who forced who to do what.

Committing genocide is always just an idea, until you leverage the state to make it happen. That takes complicity, not coercion.
Once MoviePass folds, what would be AMC's incentive to keep A-List going?
Reminds me of some of the famous frozen bodies on Mt. Everest.

In an odd way, those who fail in their expedition can have even greater fame. (i.e. 'Green Boots')
Super interesting experiment but not as new/groundbreaking as the article suggests. The paper is from May but I think this researcher has been exploring the topic for decades.
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Why isn't the shockwave a DD? It's has a bore diameter greater than 0.5", and it's not a shotgun (because it's not designed to be fired from the shoulder).
In the case of open source project,

* if the maintainer is no longer able to take the project further, the code is still there an can be used as is, maybe with a few bugfixes. (ala, thunderbird). The code does not disappear overnight. r.

* All the associated data is still yours and available. So no information is lost.

* If it is very critical, you can develop it yourself further

I am not an user of Inbox, but I can understand the outrage. When a service is offered for free by such a mammoth of a company, it gives a false sense of security and permanence. It crushes most competition and development of open source alternatives. Then one fine day, the rug is pulled from under your feet and there is no recourse.

The most ironic aspect is you no longer have access to your pinned emails, bundles and such. Yet, somewhere in google's distributed data storage, it will continue to reside for a long long time. The information asymmetry is outrageous.
Thank you so much for this comment. While the original submission is interesting, these links increase my appreciation of the author greatly.

As an aside, Don Knuth is another example of a world class computing scientist who is also an avowed Christian.
Go is a heavy player in the Kubernetes space.

For those in the 'Enterprise computing' business, learning a little Go won't be harmful.
Going to the movies is just asking for a talker or phone user to ruin it. Most of the major chains have a warning about it, but it continues to happen on a regular basis. You have the options of either risking a fist fight or missing a good 10+ minutes looking for staff.

I want a "movie theater" that is essentially a private room with a TV that me, the spouse, and kids can watch it in. We can also pause for bathroom breaks and get food ordered/delivered. That's often why I just wait for the BluRay release and watch at home, the experience at the big chains is terrible.
>I suspect you didn't have the math so ended up pushed to the programming side, right? If so, how can you judge what math a quant uses?

The compensation was 30% higher.

You're arguing in bad faith here so I'm done.
Eliud Kipchoge Is the Greatest Marathoner, Ever
Developers managing infrastructure is expensive. Get some experienced architects and operations folks who dont let developers use resources because they are there.

Amazes me when I see automation stacks with 5x the hardware you need to run the entire production / dev / stage environments
> This happens all the time in commercial and open source software.

I think it's not the same for Google, or other large companies. Products going away are something that happens a lot - you're right. But in many cases, it's a startup folding because their idea wasn't profitable / worth continuing. In case of a single service, the company will often fight to keep it alive, will try to improve and maybe increase the prices.

It's different for the huge enterprises. They just decide at some point to kill the product - it could be because they're not profitable (but is Gmail profitable?), it could be because of staffing assignment, it could be due to management shift, it could be because of internal conflicts.

It's easier to take "we tried and just can't succeed with this" than "management decision, deal with it".
I think people are overlooking the big picture here. Inbox had a lot of machine learning features that Gmail lacked, like Smart Reply. I think this was just because they really couldn't afford to run Smart Reply on all the incoming email. Now they can, so Gmail has gained Smart Reply and they no longer need to partition that out for cost reasons.

While Gmail still lacks some of the other email intelligence features that I will miss, like the Trips bundle, I have a feeling they will emerge in Gmail shortly.
> There's a word for this but for some reason it eludes me (and apparently eludes google as well).

Beta? Developer Preview?

Google (mis)uses both already. Heck Gmail was in Beta for years (5? Not sure, but that seems the right ballpark).
Moviepass tried to do the same thing ClassPass did. ClassPass launched with a too good to be true business model, grabbed huge market share and is now successfully pivoting to a more sustainable model. The difference is that ClassPass has leverage with the studios, because there are thousands of small, one location gyms out there. Movie pass doesn’t have the same leverage because they are providing access to much larger chains with lots of locations.

Yet another example of reason from first principles :)
What do you consider better than reader was? I'm still looking for something that scratches that itch in the same way so I'd really like to hear your opinion.
I think you've mostly got it. AFAIK, other academics and such in Peterson's field(s) find his work mostly mediocre to laughable, so my best guess is that the person in question falls into the "avid fan" camp.
7867 points. Great game!

I would recommend that in a future version the craft is actually rotated by the "air" too for extra challenge, perhaps having rockets that rotate left and right and make the downward facing rocket more powerful to compensate.
The concept is called Grama and its not universally accepted for these ovens and the like. For the reason you stated, if something is going to happen, just we are not 100% sure exactly when, then some don't consider it grama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grama_(halacha)

Grama really only helps you for rabbinically prohibited actions. (i.e. man made law, man made loophole). Not law that is considered biblical in nature.

Most people who wonder about all the "loopholes" don't realize that its talking about what jews considered rabbinic law.

to make an analogy, congress can't legislate a loophole around the constitution, they can legislate loopholes around their own laws.
Thanks RhodesianHunter.

> 1. AWS saves us money despite the apparent higher costs because our developers spend more time working on our core business than managing infrastructure, and developer time is our most expensive resource.

But in most cases you lose any preserved savings because of the very ease of use and lack of needing to think about the infrastructure management. This is because more often than not problems are solved by just adding another instance, vs actually solving the larger problem.

Also, I would say part of the core business is providing the server, not simply writing the software that is the interface to the service being provided to the end users. E.G. Keeping servers up and and the right number of them in operating is just as important to the core of the business as writing the software / website of the service you are intending on providing. Outsourcing that a 3rd party removes your ability for you to control the entire service that you intend on providing, it is left in the hands of somebody else who may not be aligned to your business needs.

> 2. Softlayer completely f'ed us twice now with down time resulting in a substantial dollar loss.

AWS has f'ed near half the internet before, and probably will do so again.

Service outages are shitty, I get it, but my suggestion for Softlayer was just that, there are others, and my favorite is actually colo with everybody else's cheap EOL servers.

As a anatotal I have seen far to many projects move from bare metal, to AWS or the likes who at a minimum tripple the running cost for less performance. You could say the engineers suck, but I thought they were going to get to spend more time working on core business?

I have ran the numbers many time myself and I can't support AWS for anything other than bootstrapping a well funded startup. After that if you want to lower your cost you are either going to have to jump through hoops and formulate your service to use the cheapest parts all while not focusing on the busness but trying to get that AWS bill down.
I would like to hear what strikes people as so controversial about Peterson? He and Satoshi are poor examples for article. But besides that I cannot understand how he is controversial when he appears to say not very much, though something part of the population in parts wants and needs to hear. I just don't understand why interviewers take shots at him or why YouTubers make obnoxious video clips from his videos.
Again, that's not on my face.
I don't know if Alamo Drafthouse is in your area, but it's a movie theater with a very strict no talking/phones policy. If you violate that policy they promptly kick you out of the theater.

Watching movies there has really made me appreciate the benefits of the big screen again.
That was my first post to this topic. I _have_ posted on other Cowan topics regarding his funding link to the Koch brothers. I think it's relevant as knowing, for instance exactly who funded what political ads in various media channels.

In this topic, it's particularly ironic that an organization within the Koch network would be trying to create some sort of counterflow of capital to the systemic inequality caused by many Koch objectives across our nation and government. This initiative wouldn't be needed nearly as much if all the capital weren't already in very few hands.
> We can't live off of a diet that is 75% field corn and industrial soybeans.

Why not? Beans and rice, potatoes and milk, bread and peanut butter. Those are all nutritionally complete diets, as in you won’t get any deficiency diseases eating nothing else for a year. Feed corn and soybeans has carbs and protein. It might be nutritionally complete by itself. Add cabbage or some other leafy green vegetable and 100g of meat a week and you’ve got a monotonous, bland, healthy diet.

I’m not saying this is pleasant, feed corn tastes pretty awful but you absolutely could live off a diet that was mostly beans and corn.
There is no excuse for the failure of Win 10 it was just a ball of confusion.

As for Google Search, why can't they just offer features for those who want them? I wan't long pages of results, not short, I want inverted colours, don't want search results that don't include a term etc..
Seems I should apologize for being one of those gmail people who never ever tried out Inbox. :) Sorry, everyone.
This is nonsense. Gmail is free. Inbox was free. Google Search is free. You can launch a profitable business on Google Cloud or Firebase in the free tier. They built Kubernetes and Go, for free, and it's very easy to port your Cloud infrastructure anywhere. You can translate text to any language, for free.

What exactly do they owe you?

Not enough people were using Inbox. It was an experiment and now they're moving on.
There's a few perspectives here, not specifically for internships:

http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/09/18/companies-who-give-cand...

I think the company should be very clear about the maximum amount of time you are expected to spend on tasks as part of the application process. There are some cases where companies do this kind of thing to get candidates to do unpaid work.

From your perspective, perhaps the most useful and actionable thing you can do might be to get more offers for internships / work from a range of other companies (easier said than done, of course). Ideally offers not just from startups -- larger orgs, despite their other faults, can have a more professional approach to hiring people.
It is naive in th form that it only looks at RAM. However the performance characteristics of duktape and efficient jit-compiling js engines will be completely different. I don’t think people would appreciate sluggish response times more than less ram usage.
Feels like a line perfectly engineered for media attention.
FWIW, I spent nearly 6 years homeless. About a year after giving up my car, I threw out my glasses. I have no plans to ever wear glasses again.

He and I may be the only two not wearing them, but he won't be alone. If you want to claim "Close enough" I'm going to say you are moving the goal posts and using imprecise language.
> The problem is, at a place like SL, they're not actually your own systems.

You are right, I do prefer colo and EOL hardware for low budget operations. But SL is a step lower than AWS. SL still can give you a punch in the face. But the point I really want is bare metal more than anything.

Also, if you need current gen stuff not owning can be nice because you won't have to repair when they break.

> It can, and usually does provide at least some savings, but it still comes with both the obvious form of vendor lock-in, and a subtler disadvantage, which is that you're limited by SL's specific hardware and engineering (including network) choices.

I advise you never to use vender provided features (that means avoiding AWS features along with depending on SL network topology (which is vlans, nothing special)).

Anybody making a service today should be able to buy a server at any provider, or setup a colo anywhere and join those resources in and get advantage of those resources instantly. All without depending on stacks and software you have no control over.
Services is the thing /e/ is also trying to solve. They plan to make the complete package. For the tech savvy, you'll be able to install those services on your own server.
> no one stopped to wonder why they're giving it away practically free?

Practically free!? Google Apps for domains is either $5 or $10+ a month per user, depending on feature set. That’s roughly the same price as most other commercial email providers. I don’t know for sure, but my guess is they make a profit on every account just on those monthly fees.
Google seems more willing than most to shut down their offerings. While there's nothing wrong with that, it does give users less of a reason to use one of their services, because you never know when it might just go away.
If they're prepared in advance for such an action, that expropriation might be a bunch of bricked farm equipment.
What is the modern, best practice for * quickly * integrating rails with python based ML like scikit learn or keras for an mvp?
Humans are very much equipped to eat grains, we built agriculture, and thus the whole of civilization, on top of cereal grains like rice, wheat, and corn. Grains are the staples of most cultures.

What are you talking about? Some hand-wavy paleo theory that isn't scalable?
What are the advantages to this over pdb or pdb++?
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I reverted back to the previous version (not the HTML one), and it was faster.
Well, except for pausing the movie and if you are okay with the private room being your car...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/america/fif...
If you don’t care about organic discovery and are just using it for hosting, yes, Vimeo is awesome.
Once upon a time similar things have been said about other giants who fell upon hard times, or died, or had to become shells of their former selves. It’s not like Google has made good friends with the business world either. Besides, the core of their business is advertisements, and they should probably pay attention to the slow, but inexorable backlash against advertising. Given that only a minority block ads and protect their privacy today, it may seem like that’s a silly thing to say, it history suggests otherwise. A bit of goodwill earned while on top can make inevitable slides down the mountain less fatal.
The 'bundles' and pinned emails are not lost - they are all just 'labels' under the hood, and they can be found back in gmail as well (except for a couple, I think travel doesn't carry over)
You bring up a good point, it seems as though the answer is to invest more into open source mail clients that can offer more since there truly is value in an improved mail UI.
Eh, some folks sincerely believe that grains need to be consumed as sprouts or (some other mitigating form) because the phytic acid or whatever is hard on the digestive tract.

I wouldn't go so far as to say they're not edible, but criticism of grains doesn't seem like outright crazy talk either.
Unexplained 'Security Issue' Keeps National Solar Observatory Facility Shuttered
Visual snow was a thing years before computer monitor existed.
Previously (~18 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17861224
If they're not making profits off something assume it can and will shut down.
AMC gets concession revenues. It may well be that losing money on tickets is made up for by increased sales of popcorn, drinks, candy, etc.
$5/month per user is a pretty good return and it keeps those users/businesses from an expanded Microsoft footprint. I think (hope?) That G suite will be the exception.
Podcasters tend to bring out this feeling in people as well, like a one-way friendship.
SBIR grants are more for pursuit of regular technology expansions in foreseeable topic areas as seen by various gov't agencies. SBIR funding stages aren't really setup for moon shot funding, more like lighting kindling hoping something catches fire.

The are more fundamental gov't programs for "moon shots" within NASA and DARPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Institute_for_Advanced_Co...
> no personal data should reside un-encrypted in the cloud, and decryption should happen locally in the browse

How do you expect search to work?
Youtube has the benefit of a huge audience, but organic discovery?! Come on. Unless you’re producing clickbait, appealing to tweens, crapping our memes, or pimping rage fuel, their algos will not put you up next. It’s almost comical how bad their recommendation engine is for discovery. Listen to a pop song? Doesn’t matter if it’s the only one you ever watched, now you’re being recmmmemded Ariana Grande until you die. At least that’s sort of comprehensible, but they also make weird connection too. Watch The Jimquisition, and because “games” you get gamergate and alt right trash. Watch a video on the moon landings, and because “moon” you get conspiracy theories.

The algorithmic purpose seems to be, “hey you like X, maybe you’d like an insane or hateful tangent to X? Would that keep you clicking?”

Organic my ass.
Sometimes I think about what kind of yak shaving it takes to put together some menial technical detail, and I just throw the idea out, if it doesn't feel like the implementation is clean enough.

If someone told me that in order to take a picture of some natural landscape, I'd have to throw 7 brand new 8TB hard drives in the garbage, in order to capture a 64 megapixel image, I'd say "not worth it."

It challenges one's natural disinclination towards waste. I think that's a pretty normal gut response. Gifted with an a priori awareness of certainty of return on investment, it makes sense dive in, get knee deep, ignore the intuition that wells up around thoughts of sunk cost fallacies, and push through the hard parts. But when you're not a fortune teller, that risk aversion tends to help, more than harm.

But, you know, maybe that's the kind of thing that separates people like me from true success.
You can only eat fresh corn when it's in season, and only within a week or so after it's been picked. To be a suitable year-round survival food, corn has to be processed into corn meal. This usually entails treating it with lye, drying it, and grinding it. This gets you corn meal, grits, polenta. Or hominy if you skip the grinding step.

We don't have the equipment to do this at the necessary scale. Corn just isn't used as a survival crop this way, so there's never been an economic need to invest in the machinery to do it.

We probably do have the infrastructure to keep producing wheat bread in mass quantities. Do we have the peanut production and processing infrastructure to handle peanut butter becoming our primary protein source? I doubt it.

And of course with soybeans... they would need to be dried or canned, packaged, stored, and shipped. Doable but different from what we are currently set up to do.

And of course there's the psychological impacts of all of that, which again are probably oreferable to starving but wouldn't be good. People fight wars (or gang wars)over this kind of thing.
The show heroes is coming true!
I grew up in Chicago. I've lived in Brooklyn, LA, Seattle, and now I'm back in Chicago.

As far as I'm concerned, there's a ton more "city" in those neighborhoods than those high-rises. Density is only one variable in an incredibly large equasion. Seattle has a good deal of its own as well. Even in neighborhoods as nice as Queen Anne.

That said, I wish most other cities had it as good as Seattle. And I wish Seattle was far more diverse than it is.
Cyber goats and purple zebras
Golang timer for humans
It would seem that the optimal solution is to lie about your age, while still using an age low enough to trigger those legal protections. The best of both worlds...
I think they're going to prevent opting-out past end of september