skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you consistently go to bed at the same time, keep you meal times relatively consistent and keep your stimulant intake (caffeine, etc) consistent as well? I fare a whole lot better when I do.

Regardless, for me:
8:30 alarm, although I'm usually stirring by then. Meditate, coffee, email check (I rarely reply at this time).
~9:30 Gym
~11:15 Work

I drink decaf coffee in the afternoon, and decaf tea in the evening (it's not as good, but cutting the bulk of my caffeine out after my breakfast cup has really helped my sleep). I try to keep some level of routine/discipline, including an hour or so to relax before bed, which is usually around 12:30-1am. I forced myself to get up 'early' for a fair while, but after reading Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-We-Sleep-Science-Dreams/dp/0141...) I just accepted I was more of a night owl and adjusted accordingly.
Ah, so you agree that avoidable deaths from computer controlled systems are viewed as much worse than avoidable deaths from human controlled systems?
Using Kubernetes Pod Metadata to Improve Zipkin Traces
> But privately owned gasoline-guzzlers are an archaic solution to the transportation problem, and they are not effective in today's society.

They pretty clearly weren't effective in the old cities, either, at least in the U.S., since we had to more or less raze them and move everybody to the suburbs to make cars work.
I am not sure you should be driving a car at seventy if you're not able to ride a bike anymore despite a livetime of experience. (and you can get bikes for various disabilities, yes)
I have only 2.8MB on my computer with the adblocker (the website has Google Analytics and a Twitter widget), mostly images. Fonts/Text/CSS: 120KB. And the website works perfectly without Javascript.
Yet those people in other countries manage fine.
Show HN: Threads – Automatically sync your email client with HubSpot
Hi,
We've been creating an internal message hub for a number of years that aggregates all of our digital communications with customers in one place e.g. emails, phone calls as we couldn't find a CRM that didn't cost a fortune or require a lot of bespoke configuration. We also couldn't find a CRM that enabled us to search and find the stuff we needed when we wanted to it. However over time we have realised that our internal tech can be integrated with existing tools to automate a lot of the CRM data entry that people dread. So far we've focussed on integrating with HubSpot we know that one of the major bug bears for new HubSpot users is the inability to migrate their existing email data.
Our landing pages is pretty basic (https://try.threads.cloud/threads-log-email/)and we know the messaging needs a bit of work but any other thoughts would be welcome - especially from any HubSpot users out there.
There are tons of quick site makers.

Wix, Wordpress, Mendix, Microsoft Dynamics, etc
People are focusing too much on the "performance" aspect of the article.

The "Programming is the same mess" section is what really resonates with me, specifically this:

> And dependencies? People easily add overengineered “full package solutions” to solve the simplest problems without considering their costs. And those dependencies bring other dependencies. You end up with a tree that is something in between of horror story (OMG so big and full of conflicts) and comedy (there’s no reason we include these, yet here they are):
Yep. Breaking in the presence of "software blockers" (lol) so that you add reddit to your exception list is an evil feature, not a bug.
sci-fi story scenario:

they install it in babies and never really tell them about what it is and does.

edit: obviously a sleeker version directly integrated into the body.
Getting to 550 consumers sounds impressive. How did you achieve that? Any resources that in retrospect helped you most?
These should have been new timezones:

UTC: UK, Faroese, Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Iceland
UTC+40' (Hamburg time): Corsica, Germany, Switzerland, Italy (Rome and west), Norway
UTC+1h (Görlitz time): Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, Croatia, Italy (east of Rome)
UTC+1h 20' (Krakow time): Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Montenegro, Albania, Sweden
UTC+1h 40' (Braşov time): Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia
UTC+2h: Belarus, Turkey (west of Ankara)
UTC+2h 30': Turkey (Ankara and east), Cyprus, Ukraine

More timezones but not needing daylight saving.
I am sure it is, and I vastly support probably >95% of it, and more than happy to if I am given the information of which university and for what type of research in the event that there is a moral concern of mine, or ethical concern with the university in question.
It's not about speed it is about freedom.
100km with the updated batteries they are planning apparently. I imagine, you could stuff quite a bit more battery in a train at the cost of passenger space.
Russia tried going DST only, they had to switch back to winter time only because people hated summer time in the winter.

May a better idea would be winter time only in Northen Europe and symmer time only when you get further south.
>The irony about all of this is that you can live a perfectly normal life without Amazon, Facebook or Google these days.

What is considered 'Normal'. If I want users to find my website, they use google.

If I want to buy all of my components for a project and get them in 2 days, I use Amazon.

I suppose these are avoidable, I'd lose about 200 users a day + use digikey and spend more on 2 day shipping...

To be competitive I need to use these services.

I cant say the same about Facebook, Apple, and Netflix. I dont use those services.
In a train, you could just swap the battery car. Much like swapping a coal car in the past. Not convenient but not terrible either.

Unlike swapping batteries in cars, the infrastructure exists already.
> 10 years later, I still feel all of those concerns were valid and correct, however these changes did not hurt reddit, and in fact the company grew by leaps and bounds.

I didn't care much for the thumbnails and changed my preferences to disable them. Even though I agree that image macros/memes diminished reddit's quality I must confess to being a party to consuming (and upvoting) these
posts. HN fills this gap well, IMO.

IMO this new redesign is different from that one. That one was much more cosmetic. Impact-wise, this is somewhere between when they added support for comments and that thumbnails change. The pace of the page rendering / reaction is significantly different from the baseline and it changes how we consume reddit.
Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship
How to keep your salespeople occupied?
Uniqueness would be a problem. The sum isn't guaranteed to have unique terms.

2 is (2,0,0) and (1,1,0).
It's like when you go to aka.ms, it redirects you through sftools.trafficmanager.net before dropping you on a Microsoft oAuth screen. Looks super dodgy, even though it's legit.
Nah definitely not confused about the architecture, it's fairly simple to wrap your head around. What I'm advocating for is making the general site semi-dynamic instead of fully dynamic. (Break expensive caches at regular predefined time intervals instead of every time data changes)

The key insight is that reddit still functions as you expect if you are seeing stale data from other people so long as your posts/comments/votes are visible when you navigate.

Shard the databases by subreddit and you will be able to horizontally scale the load. Use JS to post to a separate subdomain for each service. I.E everything under www.reddit.com/r/funny points to funny.reddit.com which can live as its own independent service.

Internally I would treat reddit as a group of individual high traffic sites instead of one massively trafficked site. Then you have another service that queries each site to build the main page.
You can run a small touchscreen with an Arduino. You also don’t need a fast processor for a big touchscreen; just enough RAM and a dedicated video chip
Definitely, and I think that's very likely reddit's goal here. But I also think they have enough sense to not make it mandatory or opt-out anytime soon, since there are so many complaints.
I'm guessing the implication of "indoor" is that is it climate-controlled, and external variations of outdoors are reduced entirely or as much as possible.

I'm yet to learn about fish but I know the binary difference of "outdoor" and "indoor" when it comes to crop farming.
I disagree that Nietzsche is one of the great people of history. I believe he's currently fashionable at the moment because of the West's love affair with narcissistic self-imagining, but the obsession will pass when we grow up and get over it.

Jane Austen made greater contributions to the Western dialectic but we tend to dismiss her as a 'mere' novelist. I submit that we'll have grown up as a society when we start to recognize that Austen, with her emotional maturity and capacity to give her characters real, palpable depth, was the far greater figure.
While those basic strategies are technically good for scaling, I think the other commenters have a very valid point: it seems a lot of folks say, "no, this strategy is not something that appears to be working because the site is slow, buggy, and, oh, did I mention slow."

I think many folks consider scaling and fast a success and scaling and slow/buggy a failure. Who wants to emulate failure?
Ruby is great but its VM is no match for JVM. Still a kid on the block recently started experimenting with JIT. Its a long way to go before YARV can come close to JVM Performance.
We built an app that let people pay for goods and services (in the real world) with their smartphone, we grew fast, raised, built a product our users loved. Then... contactless payment (and later Apple Pay) came along and killed us. Lots of other stuff happened along the way, but with the benefit of a few years' hindsight - this is basically what happened.
Also, none of these webpages mention where to get it and it's not on the really common distributor websites (Digikey, Mouser).
I would most likely elect to donate to the vast majority of them, however, compulsory use of my blood in research without giving me the option to even give my consent, or opt out in the rare occurrence that it is of moral or ethical concern to me, is anti-American, and I disagree on it on two accounts: both principally, and practically. In an age where we give up more and more of our liberties and freedoms for a little more convenience, I believe you have to take stands where you can. If the Red Cross would like to ask me if I would like my blood used for medical research, and would disclose what type of research, I would be more than happy to donate to them again.
Many suburbanites, however, have the entitled attitude that cities should accommodate their car trips to dense areas at the expense of people actually living there. Often their mindset is that cities are strictly where people go instead of where people live. In the US this mentality is exarcebated by the white flight and the decay of inner cities, but does also exist in Europe.
I really like your idea of months long, but I would fear a situation where with so many things in patents if you allowed months long patents, there would quickly be some legislation that turns it into years ;)
Please, go a bit further away from the coastal areas.
I'm no expert, and I might be wrong, but generally I would argue against extracting conclusions (even layman conclusions) from two studies of a different species (!) with a sample size of 2 (!!!)
Driving a 1999 Ford Expedition that got about 12 mpg
The larger org I work for is kind of strange. It's a think tank with cellular teams; team leads are usually big politically connected names (often with hard Ivy PhDs) and they directly manage their small fiefdoms.

I'm changing my original question. I think I have a lot to contribute in a strategic advisor role and I would gladly switch away from a technical career track if I could do it. Analogy: it's the business equivalent of if I had plenty of experience consulting in software architecture but couldn't program because I can't type/match keys to onscreen letters. I think I'd be a great "business architect" and enjoy that work more than my technical work.

But despite having quite some experience in an "architecture" role (something my team lead even encourages), for all visible purposes I'm a "rockstar technical person" type who's awesome at solving problems. My role in pointing out higher-order (market|operations|product) architectural/strategic stuff is much more understated, it comes as a corollary. I'm glad to have the "architectural" influence I have with my team lead, but would love to make it a main career, be able to change orgs and retain this role, etc.
Free calculators for anything: perfect hardboiled eggs to blackhole temperatures
School’s started so these free online tools can be lifesavers:

http://www.wolframalpha.com - Mega knowledge engine. Good for checking work and trying things out. Not free for the step-by-step solutions.

https://www.fxsolver.com - alternative to Wolfram Alpha for solving math and engineering problems quickly. Large library of equations to check, edit, calculate and plot.

https://www.cymath.com - Nice step-by-step solutions. Math-centric.

http://www.symbolab.com - Really good for step-by-step solutions to math problems. Cymath alternative.

https://www.desmos.com - Amazing for plots.

https://www.mathway.com - Cool math solver and chemistry solver. Plotting somewhat similar to Desmos.

https://www.omnicalculator.com - Cool, straightforward calculator for quick results.
I haven't soldered in a while, but back when I did it for a living, I could've soldered that package entirely by hand in under a minute.

Just flux, tack the corners, and then run a blob of solder down the leads. Super easy once you get the hang of it. It's amazing how good you get at tasks when you do them 8 hours a day.
But it doesn't break down and require constant maintenance as the parts it uses become obsolete and need constant updating.

I'm just trying to get from A to B, not fly to Mars.
Taleb himself is pretty awesome.
awesome, what do you think about the programmable features?
My understanding is that some institutions i.e. banks, governments etc. have requirements to leverage multiple public clouds.
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What? People drive on the ice and snow all the time, what are you talking about? Not all countries have mild climate, you know.
FYI, the Huawei Kirin 980 is made with a 7nm process and has an onboard multicore neural processing unit for AI.
I can't seem to consistently wake up at the hours I want.

Protip! Get a kid and have it be your responsibility they get to school on time.
Yeah the story went that he met with the folks at Instagram and there was a discussion that if Instagram joined Facebook it would be worth X% of Facebook... so they used that number.
Same here. I failed for the same reason. I wish I had talked to others about what I was doing earlier. These days when I go to networking events and hear people say "I am in stealth mode", the only thing goes to my mind is "Good Luck, Man".
active hyperlinks:

http://www.wolframalpha.com

https://www.fxsolver.com

https://www.cymath.com

http://www.symbolab.com

https://www.desmos.com

https://www.mathway.com

https://www.omnicalculator.com
Thats Difficult, because DHH is against Java, and he refused to use JRuby. I dont see how people will adapt TruffleRuby when their supreme leader refuses to acknowledge any other ruby but MRI.
Desalinization is expensive compared to pumping water out of the ground, but it's dirt cheap compared to ubiquitous air conditioning and/or depopulating cities.

The coming droughts will affect agriculture, but not the cities.
Actually Jobs may very well have called Bezos in the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a verbal/handshake deal up front between Steve and Jeff with any meetings/legal review involving the relevant staff to formalize and finalize coming after they had already reached an agreement in principle. That's often how deals get done at the executive level esp. if the parties know each other.
I couldn't imagine accepting that. What about having sex? And the cost of drugs? That seems like a ridiculous options. Especially with the "might have"
I don't think they were advocating for using UTC exclusively, just identifying their own timezone relative to UTC when communicating with someone in a different hour. For example: "I always eat breakfast at 08:00 UTC+01, so I prefer to do that Skype call we planned at 09:00 UTC+01 at the earliest. Is that fine with you or do you have plans in the evening?"

If you're not in UTC+01, it's easier to work out what time that would be for you than if I said I wanted to have a tele-meeting at 09:00 CET.
iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr in Apple Watch 4
It takes much more time, effort and labor to secure high profit margins...
Hey, I'm taking my family next year on a 10 day trip through Galicia, and was considering spending some time around Combarro, Pontevedra, etc. Can I get your thoughts and opinions on places to stay, things to do in that area? siegel dot darren at gmail
This has been modeled and studied extensively by the car companies to understand market sizing in a fully autonomous world. Everything points to a rather dramatic reduction (integer factor) in the number of cars on the streets, which needless to say is a dire outlook for those businesses.
Well, that's the problem with the tyranny of the majority. The fact that people want unsustainable living doesn't mean unsustainable living should be encouraged. See also Hume's guillotine [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
I don't own a car in Berlin and I either take public transport or a cargo bike. Any long-john style cargo bike can fit 2 kids at least, most three-wheeled models easily fit up to 4.
Or more simply "We're laying off 10,000 people, that's saving us >$500m USD per annum so we can afford a law suit or two"
The article supports his point. This is a press release for technology that may be many years from appearing in a production vehicle. It uses a sensor that isn’t included in the package of sensors used in other self driving vehicles, a package that’s already too expensive for consumer vehicles. Yet the technology seems to be necessary to handling a fairly common road condition.
despite being unable to disagree with you there still might be a few hardcore hobbyist hackers outside who still want to get such a task done just for the sake of it.
As long as it makes fun, right? You don't always have to achieve useful stuff. Also getting something like this done might not even be useless. It trains a lot of skills nevertheless.

PS: Don't take hackaday articles too serious, there are some really really talented people among that community and it is always great to see if someone gets some really great (over)engineering done.
Show HN: Question Answering with BiDAF and DrQA in PyTorch
>>> 2. Commitment -- everyone involved should have skin in the game

For those who don't get it, this means :
- don't expect anybody to help you more than what he already helped (i.e. past help doesn't imply future help)
- someone not as involved as you can become predatorial (for example, by requesting, after years of super nice cooperation, a share of the profits, of the intelectual property, etc.)

- someone who helps your for nothing may hide some agenda

- someone who helps you may realize that what you do together might hurt some of his othe business (and thus starts to undermine your business, not just leaving it)
Self-driving cars don't deal with either scenario very well yet.
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A related problem: I've been asking for a guide to naming classes/methods for Java, both for myself and for my teammates. I haven't found anything newer than the old Java beans crap. There are lots of little conventions you find in newer libraries that I'd like to see short explanations of.

In principle, naming things is the same in any language, but languages develop their own conventions.
Actually, a lot of fish feed is made from fish meal, arguably even less sustainable than ag. The best solution I've seen is raising insects like black soldier flies on waste.
For many of these small (cheap) chips that aren't at common distributors, you're probably looking here:

https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-allwinner-a13.html
There is an "activation energy" to walkability. If you drop pedestrian-only development into a car-dependent area, nobody is going to visit.

Personal preference is largely a reflection of the status quo, and in the US the status quo heavily sculpted by federal policy that has favoured car-oriented development for 60+ years.
I suspect that there might be undiscovered software differences between iPhones sold in China and those sold in other markets. The Flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is not present on iPhones sold in China. It shows up as a box with a question mark in it.
There ARE some great suggestions in the article, namely underground parking, roundabouts instead of stop lights, and banning street parking. Now, to YOUR points:

"Mass transit": Shared and claustrophobic space with other travelers.
"Biking lanes": Requires exposure to the elements. Depending on where you live this is already a non-starter if you don't want to arrive at your destination drenched in sweat.
"electro-scooters": I've been on one of these in Vietnam. Doesn't carry 2 adults well and has the same weather problems as the peddle-powered version.
"Elevated footpaths": I live in an urban conglomerate in Asia with ~1.1 million people. A typical day of running errands can easily rack up ~50+km of driving because of the distances between either people I know or businesses carrying niche products. There's no way in Hell I'm covering that ground on foot, in 34deg C weather with 90% humidity.

The city in the article is (1) miniscule at ~85,000 people and 15-20km across at its widest and (2) possesses a pretty mild climate. All of the transportation assets you propose as "solutions" are fine....if you live in California or a similar "Mediterranean climate". Most humans don't.

"But privately owned gasoline-guzzlers are an archaic solution to the transportation problem, and they are not effective in today's society."

Why so quick to jump to sweeping, society-altering prognostications based on conclusions which you yourself recognize as applicable to a small-scale and optimal use case?

Your suggested alternative transport means all severely restrict your freedom of movement compared to a private automobile as they come with range and/or comfort compromises. They would shrink the options of citizens for long-distance ground travel as well (say goodbye to road trips).

"Of course this is a very small town and these changes do not scale up as easily as one would like"

Yes, and given that 22% of humanity lives in urban areas of 1 million+ [1] and 40% of humanity in cities over 100,000 [2], it might be premature to call people to political action to hasten the death of the automobile when you don't have a solution that scales well.

[1]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.URB.MCTY.TL.ZS?view=... <br>
[2]http://www.newgeography.com/content/005933-world-urban-areas...
5G Is Just Rolling Out. So What's 6G?
> the distribution is unpredictable so it can be difficult to know what to cache.

Reddit's data is shockingly small[0], cache eviction should be a non-issue as it would be trivial to keep it all in ram.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/65o7py/updated_re...