skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in complete agreement here. Ultimately you want to use the language that the team enjoys working in. Different people have differing experience, aesthetics, and pain points. You want to pick the language that most devs on the team prefer using.
Ok, we've taken that bit out of the title above.
Debugging designs with TLA+
Yes - finding the servers in question from the correct lots.
I have seen companies saying they have a thousand microservices to mean that they have a thousand microservice servers running, but they might have hundreds of application servers in each service pulling from the same queue.
But there's shows on TV where you can watch people use the hardest of drugs. I saw one where I watched a couple shoot up, and under them was a text saying one of them had died within weeks of this event.

How is this different then me turning on a sporting event? After all, most of there revenue comes from advertisements and TV deals.
The PDF that @danielvf posted mentions gyroscopic benefits on page 20.
That kind of integrated approach--with vehicle-to-grid power flow alongside more general coordinated charging--could have clear advantages, especially given the possible growing pains from uncoordinated charging.[0][1] V2G isn't a new subject; it's been around for a while now, and the UK even announced a large research grant on the subject earlier this year.[2] Most of that research looks at V2G in terms of how it can be used to help mitigate the impacts of EV charging in particular and short-term spikes associated with them, rather than say general grid storage. So it's more of a longer-term matter, than the immediate concerns of building out storage capacity.

One of the biggest difficulties is going to be dealing with the economics of battery degradation. You can limit the pull on any given battery to somewhat lessen the impact, but doing so also limits V2G's impact on the grid. Presumably, utilities would pay for battery usage. If so, how does that affect the economics: I can't say either way, but I'd expect the marginal cost of 'renting' EV batteries to be greater than just buying your own for dedicated storage.

0. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabe97/m...

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0074-z

2. https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=133490
My impression is that in the old days more of the money came from the readers, but as the years went on they didn't track inflation and ended up leaning more heavily on advertisers. Then they died out.
In the CJK typography quotes are traditionally as wide as other ideographic characters, with left quotes aligned to the right and right quotes aligned to the left. A Western typographical apostrophe is mapped to a right single quote in Unicode, resulting in a collision. They can only be distinguished by the context.
I've conducted several analyses in which I've looked for trends or patterns across multiple websites or domains. Finding out where discussion / content covering specific topics or keywords is an example, see "Tracking the conversation":

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...

That consisted of querying 100 terms over about 100 sites, and scraping Google's (rather inaccurate) "results found" estimate. About 10k Google queries.

Slowing those queries to the point they don't trip Google's bot detection and request CAPTCHAs is the hard part of this -- given a single IP, the queries stretch over a week or more.

A single source to query that information directly would make these investigations far easier. I've several such projects in mind.
My team both develops and supports the applications that we build in production. When issues are reported, it's often necessary to check the database to resolve it. Being able to check what data the application is pulling during requests is very useful for troubleshooting.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18161289 and marked it off-topic.
Not including employers contribution when comparing countries is just non-sense to me: the only number that matters is the total cost per added employee for a business, and on the other side for the employee the after-tax money that remains after everything is deducted.
And then you can put the services you get for the money (i.e. yes taxes are higher in France for instance, but the state provides also much more).
It probably comes down to how common the alleged problem boards are. If these devices only ended up in a small percentages of boards produced it might be very difficult to find a board that even had it.
Its heartening to know that more and more folks are starting to share the vision of web as Tim Berners Lee by starting such projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Global_Graph

The tag line of this project is similar in fashion to the following projects which I have came across.

https://www.import.io/

https://getdata.io/

https://data-miner.io/

https://www.apify.com/

I am definitely looking forward to seeing more projects like these which will be helpful in transitioning us from Web2.0 to Web3.0

I think the main hurdle we face in transitioning the web we know today to the vision behind all these projects is companies that have already aggregated huge volumes of data. (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Angelist, CrunchBase, Yelp)

They are now doing their best to protect their data to secure their competitive moat. This has the effect of preventing data from being utilized in other ways than was originally intended.

I did write a post about this topic before around 3 months ago as well..

https://medium.com/@garyjob/the-web-is-a-giant-graph-databas...
I was thinking the same thing. If only Notion allowed custom domain mapping - I will be the first person to shift my public content to Notion, having already done so with much of my private content.
This is a good time to shill NoScript. If your browser runs JavaScript automatically, then you are putting your privacy and safety at risk.
> Have you actually seen someone on chemo?

I have. Chemo is horrible. It really wrecks a person. But you know who looks even worse? Someone who died of untreated cancer.
45% is only the (higher bracket) "federal taxes" (France isn't a federal country) that don't include all the welfare contributions which are taken from your salary (22% IIRC) and also the higher employer contributions.

Edit, FYI:
- 14% from 9 964 € to 27 519 €
- 30% from 27 519 € to 73 779 €
- 41% from 73 779 € to 156 244 €
- 45% beyond 156 244 €

And the table here for the social contribution that are taken out of your pay before the taxes above are applied: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotisations_sociales_en_France...
Ah, good point about the air column.
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13291494
The claim is that Bloomberg reporters value Integrity over Money
Kubernetes comes to mind.
He quotes Scott Alexander on "Moloch" (an essay I haven't read yet), "In some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those who don’t take it die out.... The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse."

Is this not a fancy way of describing what's usually called the Tragedy of the Commons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
My point is that it cannot solve the problems a blockchain can. You could not build a digital currency on git.
Looks VERY promising @alhman just what we're after!
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After reading that I still don’t have a clear understanding of why his friends are suicidal, but I suspect it has a lot to do with boredom and over-coddling parents.
I agree, and interestingly I see it in my own Groovy code evolving over time. I look back at old code and it is full of needlessly dynamic types. Then I look at what I write now and I have just gravitated towards typing everything more and more. It's still great to be able to fall back to dynamic typing within local context where there is no loss of clarity from doing so. But putting a "hard shell" around the outside - function definitions, variable declarations, data types etc. makes me feel so much better about the maintainability and interpretability of the code. Sometimes I think I should just use Kotlin, but then I would miss the ability to drop seamlessly into dynamic mode when that makes sense. Especially in the REPL it is super nice.
Why TinyTeX? What is the pain with other LaTeX distributions?
I agree with you here. I think MiniZinc is more like a free/open-source version of the AIMMS modeling language, although AIMMS seems to have better I/O facilities.
Ah, maybe I meant "it's a no brainer from a user perspective". Thanks for the explanation.
WonderVPN: What we log and why (2017)
The Next Big Restaurant Chain May Not Own Any Kitchens
Meal plan at my school (Canada, about a decade ago) was 2800$ Canadian for 19 meals a week, for two semesters (checking, it is now about 3600$CAD). Worked out to somewhere in the range of 4 or 5 dollars a meal - what a bagel and a coffee would cost at a cheap chain place.

That being said, I think you did point out something interesting - the pricing and food quality doesnt vary much between different schools in similar situations (markets/locations). In what I've seen, this is because most of these are run by the same big corporate chains - Sodexo or similar.
Maybe. The deprecated V1 lets you. I'm not sure whether V2 will, at least without paying $12/month.
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It is about the tragedy of the commons and what it implies when self-modification becomes possible, such as genetic engineering in humans and recursive self-improvement in potential future AIs.

That essay is a hell of a piece or writing. It didn't so much change my object-level policy opinions for the here and now, but it ripped the heart out of my Libertarianism. I've always found markets and selection beautiful and fascinating and powerful, which is all true. But I also thought they had a teleology that was humanistic. This is false.

To the extent this seems true now, it is only because humans are the current hardware markets are running on. Fundamentally, they are not our side in the long term.

I have found few pieces of writing more powerful:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Nick Bostrom explores similar themes in The Future of Human Evolution: https://nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution.html
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GP said: "Being profit driven does make things magically better. Countries like India... the market."

Which neglects the superstructure on which the current growth story is based and also neglects the huge human and environmental cost of privatization even when it enables growth as [1] will tell you.

And that's why it's a terrible example to illustrate the value of private prisons in the US since those prisons also prey upon the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in that country.

In other words, GP's main point was to use India as an example for praising the merits of privatization vis-a-vis central planning there and then mapping that to the US to praise the privatization of prisons in comparison to state run prisons.

What, in fact, it shows is the exact opposite, that when it comes to services that need to put human welfare first and where money presents conflicts of interest, it's best done under the state umbrella or with strict supervision.

[1]: https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/a-long-march-of-the-di...
> But then it is not income tax, which is the percentage of what was discussed.

On the contrary, this matches what is "Income tax" in the US.

> If you want to account for everything that is removed from your salary between gross cost for the employer and your net after taxes, it will surely be between 50% and 60% in average. But then we can talk about the benefit of all this.

But that is the discussion, I don't think anyone considered that there are higher taxes in France without any benefit for it.
Unfortunately, unless the Dr prescribing them has taken them, it is very hard to appreciate exactly what they are doing to you. There are very subtle effects that are very important to being a happy human that these drugs remove. The data supporting their effectiveness over the absence of them is dubious as well. That isn't to say they don't work, just that over large enough cohorts, the wins and the losses seem to cancel out.
I understand where you're coming from with the parallel, but for the sake of understanding what's going on here, it's worth bearing in mind that they are not really equivalent.

Potts (at least as far as I can tell from the movies; I haven't read the comics; please let me know if they take a different approach) is personal assistant to the cranky genius; her job is to go with him and help him do his next great project.

Shotwell is operations; her job is to take over the company the cranky genius built, keep it running smoothly and profitably, and let him go off and do his next great project.

Different jobs, both important. (It's a pity Musk doesn't seem to have a Pepper Potts, who might have talked him into giving up his Twitter account.)
Most of the time, a comment can be substituted for a well-named function.

As a trivial example, something like:

(int (* 1000 seconds)) ;; seconds -> milliseconds

Can be replaced with:

(seconds->milliseconds seconds)

Without loss of clarity.

Ideally, comments should mostly be used to explain 'why' rather than 'what'.
Very inspiring and will give your suggestions a try with my own ideas. It’s hard to get motivated when you’re the only one and not seeing instant results.
> also does not have nearly as many programmers to do it.

Nor the underlying infrastructure, such as, for example, physical server hardware that's a fraction of the cost of cloud.
3 very fast ones that will make a large difference

1) Adopt a learning mindset. There are no failures or wins just opportunities to learn. So, learn from them.

2) Make 1, 5, 10 year life plan, follow it and review it. Any plan is better than none.

3) Open a brokerage account and invest monthly in a s&p 500 fund. Never move it or withdraw from it so 40 years from now you'll be very happy you did.

One last one, have fun! Life seems long but in reality, it's very short.
My resume has been in LaTeX (now XeLaTeX) for many years now for my own convenience (separation of format from content) not pretention. Given that I distribute PDFs, I fail to see how its source format is relevant or even visible - not using Computer Modern fonts.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9159557
>personally I'd say wait until profitable or >100 engineers

Personally I'd say delay until you can find an area causing such a performance or scalability issue that it justifies its own repo(s), build pipelines / devops / ops, deployable artifacts, and team to hold the context on it.

Without that, your profitability or engineering team is best invested into extending your offering to better service your customers.
Agreed, I’ve never seen this sort of super redundant comments either in any real production code. I’ve only seen it in a small number of times in a handful of scripts written by interns.
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Well it should be anyway
51 or 52 United States?
> and must be bootstrapped twice of course

Would you mind elaborating?
NO to Needles
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7913183
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This seems to be a pretty common sentiment in the Tesla/SpaceX fan community.
What's your source for the 500 refugees per year? I saw different:

> The country registered 3,500 asylum seekers in 2017, according to the ministry, the lowest number since 2008.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20181004/denmark-refuses-to-take-in-...

As for the rest of your nitpicking, I'm sure you're aware we could do the same with the headlines from any media source. I once saw CNN publish essentially the same story with two opposing headlines: "NFL ratings are down again this season. Is it time to panic yet?", then "Trump says NFL ratings are 'way down.' That's not completely true"
You run that on your client machine to get all the dependencies required to execute the script. From there you will be prompted which cloud provider you want to use, and just follow the prompts.
Do those systems really work? Civil servants always find a way to deny support because you miss X or Z (I am talking mostly about the UK). I learned that it is best to take care yourself of yourself and don't depend on the state. I view the extra tax for the stuff I can't use as a theft.
This would have been useful for me at one point, when I used LaTeX to make formatted pdf output for a program I was writing. (Making a RPG character builder at a time when I had lots of experience with LaTeX, but none with pdfs directly.) I ended up starting with texlive and making my own very stripped down distribution, with only the libraries that were used in the intermediate .tex file.
It's in the subtitle. That's pretty standard for the genre. But we've put her name in the title above.
I've heard various 'arguments' that the US is not a democracy, but not based on the fact that one person-one vote is untrue; what do you mean by this? Is it something to do with the electoral college system, or perhaps the large class of disenfranchised persons?
http://archive.is/F7KnL
Saudi Arabia arrests economist after he criticises Crown Prince's plans
I read the law that you linked, and with all the IANAL disclaimers, deputy registrar does not apply to Vote.org.

Lawyers might have to fight it out, but the SOS position seems to have at least some merit -- whatever Vote will send to the counties is not exactly the original signature, as required. And with filling out the same form on SOS website and then signing/mailing it doesn't exactly take some critical amount of extra effort compared to filling out exact same information (and then sending your signature to... somebody) on Vote.org. I'm still not convinced that this is what voter suppression looks like.

As for voting without ID I can't even begin to comprehend how verifying that a person voting is eligible to vote is "voter suppression". And with TX allowing you to use even an expired ID to vote, this seems to be more about TX voting "wrong" than anything substantial.

Now, I think CA's "permanent absentee voter" (which is what I had there) is a convenient thing, and if anything voting should be done on a non-working day, but this is hardly something one state can be faulted for.
Well, it's countable in the sense that a countable number of humans have existed, with a countable (or at least bounded) number of idiolects per human. That's pretty much the "point in discrete color space" point of view I was getting at on one extreme. That's not a very useful level of granularity for much else other than upper bounding. At the lower bound, maybe we all just speak and sign dialects of some inherent Chomsky-esque universal grammar. In between, there are all sorts of ways you can draw borders on the map to tesselate it into languages, but few of these schemes can be defined without resorting to idiosyncratic decisions.

Language is a social construct. We're colloquial beings, and 99% of the time we all agree on what's what. What irritates me are the folks that think that the remaining 1% can be decided in some kind of objective way. Is Scots its own language? Depends on who you ask, and in what context. There are valid arguments either way. Embrace the ambiguity.
It is sad how any comment with a slight critique of socialism gathers downvotes of an army of champagne socialists... people of different views choose not to speak because they are afraid of being attacked. Shame that hacker news has become such an echo chamber for socialism.
As with most things, it is largely a matter of practice and experience. There was a time when I was fast enough to take lecture notes in LaTeX, in courses where there were many formulas to be typeset. I did get an odd look from a professor one time, where at the end of a one-hour open-everything exam, I turned in a typeset pdf rather than handwritten answers.

Sadly, I am not as proficient with it as I used to be, as it has way too much esoterica in getting the exact layouts you want.
I wonder if this is due to flattenning the UI of KDE 4, but failing to adequately compensate for the space that used to be occupied by the shadows, rounded corners, and embosses now changed to simple lines, etc.
The Magnus effect is pretty cool. I firs came across it when watching this video which shows how effective it is by dropping a ball from a height while spinning it. https://youtu.be/QtP_bh2lMXc
None of whom are identified on the record.
I'd water that most adults in the US know one or more hard-working people who are in financial dire straits due to medical bills. It's reasonable that you don't want a single-payer system in the US but why in Earth would you boast about our current healthcare system?
I'm all for making it easy. Why couldn't Vote.org just do what the official site does, but add the function of printing it out on their end and mailing the pre-filled form to the voter. Maybe even with a stamped envelope included?
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So, in micro-service architecture services don't have to be particularly small. They also don't need to actually be services. Do words not have meaning any more?
Cheap LoRa for SBCs
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
In the article I linked.

> However, Inger Støjberg has broad support for the decision in the Folketing. All parties in the blue block and Social Democracy say no to take 500 quota refugees through the UN system, as it did before.

These are the quota refugees. The ones the article is lambasting. Asylum seekers are different, technically a superset of refugees I guess.

I'm glad you saw two contradictory headlines once (to nitpick: way down != down), I'm not sure how that refutes any of the many things wrong with the two articles I described above, found within 5 clicks on their website frontpage.
Million loc systems are a symptom of cultural disease, they are not something to celebrate. Take a step back and seek the root cause of the problem. The whole point of Java was to let companies throw bodies at a problem and not have the result segfault or get hacked. It succeeded, and now all those bodies are generating all those lines, just as intended. Clojure shows us, I think, a different way. One in which a small team with a small amount of money can out perform a billionaire's body shop.
Neutralinojs can be used as lightweight alternative for electronjs soon
Games are supposed to be fun. A lot of people don't find lying, manipulating, and betraying fun, in any context. That's not a psychological failing, and it certainly doesn't mean you should avoid board games. There's plenty of socially competitive board games, but damn few of them are half as vicious as Diplomacy.

If you and your friends can enjoy Diplomacy, that's great! But I do get tired of all the people insinuating that there's something wrong with me I don't like it.
The professionals in the UK work on a b2b basis because with current salaries and taxes it makes no sense to be an employee. Still you get taxed highly, but it is slightly better. Sadly the Tories are turning left and they look into taxing professionals too. I would be looking into leaving the country if they do.