skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some projects where the continuous-integration-testing with Travis requires a tex installation. More than 50% of the entire test run is spent installing texlive-full (since Travis doesn't seem interested in including latex in their standard environment). Maybe TinyTeX will be able to speed this up?
I've been running Kubuntu 18.04 and so far I like it. It's customizable without plugins. It's closer to GNOME 2 than Unity was and GNOME 3 is. After installing the Nvidia drivers it pretty much just works. I wish there were more themes that were compatible across Qt 4/5 and GTK 2/3. The default theme, Breeze, isn't bad but it wastes whitespace.
Upspin is a monolith, I think?

https://github.com/upspin/upspin

Also, my personal site is a medium-sized monolith:

https://github.com/shurcooL/home
I like Spotify's organizational structure. In addition to product groups and tribes, there are cross concern practices that anyone can join. For example: UX, TDD, and SRE can be engineering disciplines that bring their voice across product groups.

And I totally agree, reliability engineering starts in the beginning with dev. I see this mindset happen more with Elixir/Erlanf devs than Rails devs. (I do both). The whole focus on "developer experience" tends to bias concerns for reliability engineering as if that will magically go away.
One can create an equally long list of problems with micro services.
First SpaceX Mission with Astronauts Set for June 2019
I agree, in the sense that this comes years too late for me and I would guess most other Linux users. It's easy enough on Linux just to install effectively all of the packages from your package manager, and the couple GBs it takes aren't enough to be a real concern (and I've got my root on an SSD!).

However, I can see this being a real benefit to Windows and OSX users, who don't have a native package manager. If you're going to be in the unfortunate position of managing LaTeX packages manually, it would be great to have a low-friction way to do that and a minimal portable distribution to start with.

My one actual criticism is the name: it should be TinyLaTeX. TeX and LaTeX are two different things.
Apple tells Congress it found no signs of hacking attack
> I was taking 500 mg of Nefazadone in the evening

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefazodone

Nefazodone is available as 50 mg, 100 mg, 150 mg, 200 mg, and 250 mg tablets for oral ingestion.

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Why would she take such a big dosage of antidepressants? Could she try to reduce the dosage?
Firefox on android works with Ublock so it doesn't need any other setup.
I don't feel I need to be protected from Breitbart so much as left alone by those who would read that rag. Call it arrogance, but I have better uses for my time than meeting people who afford credibility to Breitbart News.

> Then they demonize anyone who makes a logical argument for freedom of speech.

And what would that argument be? That I should be exposed to Breitbart so I "can see the other side"? Thank you very much. The world is not divided into two sides where we should go see the other. The world is full of shit. And there is no point to dwell on it.
It seems that apart from scaling your concerns boil down to enforcing discipline? Perhaps there are methods of enforcing discipline that don’t involve serializomg and deserializing a bunch of data several times per request.
There are two sides to that idea, though. You can make incremental improvements through data and metrics and objective thinking, but no amount of selective user testing of incremental improvements would have, say, created the iPhone and subsequently turned Apple from an almost fallen star into the biggest company in the world.
So apparently it’s time for someone to make a “blockchain to butt” browser extension.

The train wreck that is American politics is a people problem, applying the latest buzzword isn’t some magic silver bullet.
Yes, it was! The course is called CS 135: Designing Functional Programs [1]. I really enjoyed it, though I think most of the first years hated the course. Most people come to school having experience with imperative languages like Python and Java. When they got to recursion in Racket they really struggled!

I happen to own a copy of HTDP which I bought for the course. It's a suggested textbook but not required at all. I haven't had time to go through it though.

[1] https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs135/
FTA: ”... it's not clear if this is a real photograph or a Bloomberg-made mockup.”
Drastically increasing high-rise housing supply in the center is a much more meaningful step.

What are you going to do with all those extra cars?

Traffic is irrelevant for trains

Not for trolleys!
In a recent interview I had, president of the company said "we're a team, not a family"
There is no autopilot mode for relationships and execution
What script / plugin is that? Looks interesting.
> Other cyclists seem to be more educated about traffic rules than in other places where you often only have two types: the suicidal and the overly cautionous, barly going faster than a pedestrian

We also have those types (the overly cautious ones are generally tourists, often in large groups), but we have a couple of other types to balance things out.

Worst examples of suicidal: a cyclist running a red light on the most dangerous intersection of the city while on the phone and not remotely paying attention to traffic. Or parents teaching their young kids to lane-split against motorised traffic.
> I just want to hear why you think it's true.

Like any political opinion it is based upon thousands of observations and arguments over a period of many years.

Would it convince you the Democrats are pro-war if I provide evidence of Hillary Clinton being a war hawk?

What kind of sources will you trust?

Surely if you follow US politics you are aware of the argument already so why don’t we skip the fluff and get into the details?

> If you're making a claim, the burden of proof rests upon you

Sure - so like I said let’s find our common ground and points of disagreement and we can go from there.
The advantage of microservices is the ability to scale, both in terms of system performance and feature velocity. They are worse at basically everything else.

Any system architecture needs to consider the specific case, there’s no best pattern for everything.
Yes a generalisation of the way wikipedia provides a web site, and a more machine readable for of what they do.

If I get back into blogging, I would be really happy to have my posts structured and indexed in whatever standard way made them easier bots to use.
> I also wonder how long the increase in quality in Havelhöhe can last before some beancounter sweeps in and turns the system on its head again based on some pretext. I hope that this never happens, but reality has a way of throwing a wrench into the works every time.

I would not expect much bean counting here besides scientific studies and their results:

The hospital is part of Charite[1] and as such has the status of a research/university hospital and an anthroposophic[2] orientation in which food arguably plays a role beyond what is scientifically proven.

I also have to say that I did spend quite some time in German hospitals and my rule of thumb: The bigger the hospital, the better the food. Never was it as a bad as the regular in-flight meals in cattle class.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charit%C3%A9

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophic_medicine
It depends on the group attitude. There are a lot of people who keep alliances until the end then call draws. In a lot of ways this is a behavior that earns points for next time someone plays (e.g. That person will keep their word). On the other hand, there are groups that treat it as a winner-take-all game and play to win. It really depends on which group you get in with.

You'll probably know about a group victory in a short period of time (under four hours if you use a turn clock[edit]5 or ten minute turns[edit]), but it will be a long night with the must have a winner group. Most in a concede.

Colonial Diplomacy is faster and really, really brutal.
What is the advantage of having LaTeX in a squashfs if it's taking up space on your home partition anyway? I can't think of any reason to do this unless you want your LaTeX to be read-only for some reason.
The Devil Is in the JSON Details
The market seems to be geared toward self-employed professionals, such as dentists, rather than the typical tech worker.

AFAIK private disability insurance folks love "typical" tech workers because they're less likely to malinger than most self-employed professionals, to a degree which makes getting private long-term disability insurance a bit of a challenge if one e.g. runs a software consultancy or SaaS business.

(FYI for folks who might find themselves in that situation at some point: I got Petersen International Underwriters https://www.piu.org/ to do a policy for me, despite having at the time a "quite complicated" story on the financial front [0]. They don't sell insurance directly to consumers so one has to use a broker; insubuy.com was adequate for the very modest needs of moving information from my emails into their inbox.)

[0] A major risk in underwriting folks for disability insurance is moral hazard; if malingering on insurance is preferable to going to work, some people might be tempted to do so, and since long-term insurance policies might last until current facts about someone's business/career are no longer true, you have to make a best guess on "OK, does it look like their $200k+ income will continue, or will they eventually face the choice 'Shut down business and get a job at Target or leave the workforce and bill us for $10k a month.'"
Bloomberg pays reporters more if their story moves markets:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440
A capsule is irrelevant. To get to 750mph they actually have to get a track that can mitigate all known and unknown physical problems that stop trains nowadays from even going over 350km/h during operation. Showing a mockup does nothing to address hyperloop's baseless promises and simpsons monorail reenactment. To put it in perspective, its as if they showed a supersonic jet when they didn't even recognized the existence of sonic booms.
The other day I saw a resume written in LaTeX. Sorry, that's the height of pretension.
What’s the difference between a nerd and a geek? Are they the same?
Back to the drawing board, sometimes you need a better starting point.

How is your 3D modelling?

If done in 3D and made web possible with ThreeJS then the world is your oyster. You could model the frame, the reflection on the glass, maybe even add a gentle breeze. The strips would be low polygon count squares with the vertex normals set to smooth shading but fully 'cut-able'.

Add some physics engine and you could have the cut pieces of paper behave like confetti.

As for a starting point:

https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_animation_cloth
> I feel like with Clojure, I am expected to understand the code just by reading it.

Yes, you are. Outside of example code, this seems reasonable to me. If you can't understand the code just by reading it and a short docstring, it's a sign the code is too complex. There are cases where such complexity can't be helped, but they're not common.
I think that is backwards. In hot climates, like where the Hoover Dam is, I'd expect that evaporation would have no almost no effect on efficiency. It is cold climates where it might be an issue.

The water flowing into the top reservoir of these systems from higher up in the mountains should be able to make up for free for the water lost to evaporation. (If there is not sufficient flow to allow that, then you are going to have a hard time keeping a full reservoir there in the first place).

Evaporation should only be a problem when a system does not have free water from a higher source. I'd expect the most common reason for that would be in cold climates where for part of the year the water that would run down and replenish evaporation is stuck as snow or ice up the mountain.

When you pump some water back to the higher reservoir from the lower reservoir it will raise the water level in the higher reservoir, but probably won't raise the evaporation rate significantly, for the evaporation rate is a function of the surface area, and if the walls are steep at the water level the surface area won't change much.

The only evaporation that should be counted against the water you pumped up is the extra evaporation due to that minor change in surface area.
It’s reasonably clear that the chip shown in the article is very unlikely to be any kind of microcontroller/semiconductor.

It’s embedded in ceramic. Such devices need to be fired at very high temperatures which a semiconductor wouldn’t be able to withstand.
weak, anyone with half a brain would've typed "curl --help" into their terminal and gotten a better insight.
No one is saying that the US is perfect, it has a huge number of problems, some of them very severe. But that doesn't detract from how incredibly awful the government of the USSR was for many years, especially under Stalin, and it's an enormous mistake to look back on it with nostalgia as some people who feel like capitalism is a bad system seem to be doing.
The tone of this article is incredibly annoying.
it might not be as painful as it sounds. i lost a large amount of blood once (to the point of browning out), and it basically feels like being really, really drunk. you don't really understand what's happening and you're pretty numb to things like pain.
I'm prone to false etymologies, so take this with a pinch of salt. Rauch and riechen, Geruch are probably related, too, only very far back and with lots of different influences in the mean time. I thought that rex, the dog name, could be related to riechen more than roy, king, because that's what they do. I thought so because Egyptian 'fnd' ("fenedj" - nose) does remind a little of 'find'. I'm quite fond of the idea. I reckon, with Egyptian 'rh' ("rekh" - to know), I become somewhat convinced of the idea. It could be from 'r' - mouth, 'hr' - head, top, chief.

Last time someone mentioned a possible connection from Egypt to Europe, it was quickly denounced. I'm not sure why.

There's more: 'rkh' - to burn; 'rh-nswt' - "acquaintance of the king" (nswt or nsw - king, god king; 'sw' - day, also 'hr' - day, if there's a connection from day to sun, sky, this could be analog to 'deus', 'divine', if I say so myself, otherwise 'swt' - sedge [a reed plant?] is considered as symbol of upper Egypt, giving king of the sedge; reeds, especially papyrus is related to writing and knowledge, so ... Ger. 'Gesetz' [law] is probably just from 'setzen' [set]; 'nswt' is not to be confused with German "Naseweiß" [cheeky, smart aleck]; 'rh' as ray is rather attractive, ie. rays of knowledge, rays of the sun figuratively as friends of the king, if connected to 'rkh' [to burn]); 'rht' - royal subjects, humanity [subjects of the king?]; 'rhs' - slaughter [from 'rkh' - to burn?]; 'rhn' - to depend on; 'rk' - time, age, era;

There's a discredited theory by Vennemann that linguistic evidence indicates Phonicians traveled from Spain to the north sea. There are actually finds of DNA that could corroborate something like this https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35179269 - incidentally 'bbr' means babylon, one could think that's related to bereber. 'fnhw' - means and is the root of the word phoenician, but I'm not going to make jokes about anyone's nose, because the theory is that 'fnh' means carpenter. 'fn' means something like misery, by the way, Egypt had problems with Lybian Berbers. They say Jesus was a carpenter. This is getting out of hand, I don't know when to stop.
Blockchain is a good idea. I never doubted that for a moment. What people are currently using blockchain for, for the most part, and especially as a currency, is what I doubt.

A currency is only as good as the faith one has in what backs it, be it gold, or the "full faith and credit of the United States". But even the full-faith-and-credit has a hidden "and the army which supports that faith". Bitcoin and its ilk have no such thing. There is not even a fear of violence backing bitcoin like there is with USD or most any other governmental currency.

If you think of the blockchain as a public triple entry ledger, then you can think of some great use cases for it, especially issues that today require trusting a third party, but it definitely doesn't solve every problem out there, and I have yet to see a decent argument for it supporting a currency.
> No sane entity allows non-citizens to vote.

You have provided no argument why letting resident aliens to vote on matters that effect them is bad. You just said it's bad. Saying something is bad without being able to say why is the mark of someone just parroting propaganda.
Kubernetes always gets brought up but I would argue that while it is large it is not simple and was not architected to be understood by novices to monolith projects. The goal of kubernetes is to be kubernetes, not to be a pristine learning example - and though you can learn from studying it it is probably not the best place to start learning.
After evaluating their work if deemed so declare them a genius. Some would say that’s already happened
This also works the other way around. Once I got my driver's license, I understood the perspective of motorists better, and adjusted my cycling accordingly.
Uno has damaged friendships. We humans tend to take games a bit too seriously. Frankly, I worry about my friends who won't take a shot at winning in the mid-game when its pretty obvious the other side is about to be done. Not being able to separate a game from feelings is a problem for some.

I should point out I separate games from gambling, because money does changes things quite a bit.
I always say if you can't design a monolith then don't bother with microservices. You shouldn't use microservices to cover up for a lack of design skills or a lack of communication between teams.
My angle on building products: Monolith to market.

Break it up and optimise where the sticking points are as customer base and feature set matures.
Jvns does it again. We need more women like her in the industry. Such an awesome engineer and educator.
A one-word Turing Test suggests ‘poop’ is what sets us apart from the machines
Are you comparing CNN to Breitbart? And by what standards?

> I do think Wikipedia should stay out of politics though.

Impossible. What gave you the idea?
Most of the incremental growth in our core markets like the US, UK, and France will have to come from older users who generate higher average revenue per user.

Changing the design language of our product and improving our marketing and communications around Snapchat will help users understand our value

Aging-up our community in core markets will also help the media, advertisers, and Wall Street understand Snapchat.

To be honest, this seems like wishful thinking to me. It's going to very hard for them to regain momentum in their current demographic. It's going to be close to impossible to create a network effect outside of their current demographic.
"No one from Apple ever reached out to the FBI about
anything like this," Apple writes. "We have never heard
from the FBI about an investigation of this kind."

With language like this, it's the very definition of bad faith if they're lying. These are specific assurances that directly contradict the Bloomberg reporters in specific ways, and the companies know that people are likely to rely on them to their detriment.
Just going to say that quite a few GamerGate forums covered the IGN story, praised IGN for getting rid of the guy and basically slammed the hell out of Filip Miucin for copying other people's work.

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/search?q=Filip+Miuci...

The idea that they're quiet on actual ethics issues while making a mountain out of a molehill on localisation ones is false.

As for collusion, well it's questionable whether it occurred, but at least a bit suspicious that many sites suddenly turned out their audience mid controversy. Imagine if someone else did that. Like, an agency dev called their clients morons online, or a retail worker said their customers were malicious/trolls/sociopaths to their face. Would they still have a job?

Probably not. But that happened, it shouldn't have happened, and it's being justified somehow.

It's also worth pointing out that quite a few smaller sites and YouTube channels with GamerGate... tendencies or neutrality are actually pretty damn reliable, and that most aren't exactly Breitbart or fake news esque. Stuff like Techraptor or Niche Gamer or what not isn't exactly unreliable. Stuff like SidAlpha's YouTube channel isn't unreliable.

The issue is that what Wikipedia considers a reliable source is very much tilted in the large corporation/academia direction and misses the point in what reliability actually is. This isn't the 60s/70s/80s/whenever when being reliable only meant being a full time employee for a major newspaper or television network or publishing your work in an academic context. Many smaller blogs and creators (even under pseudonyms or anonymity) have equally good or better records now, and standards should change to accomodate that.
How is this different from Special Relativity, were each event has a (ct, x, y, z) coordinates, and nobody can agree which is the true reference frame and what exactly "now" (aka ct=0) means?
> if you look how credible news organizations work, they need three confirmations from unrelated sources before calling it a fact

If Wikipedia then uses that news organization as a source, isn't it in effect using the same standard?
"The CEO or COO are inconsequential."

That's just absolute BS.
It seems to me that the moment you'd need to do anything interesting with a website, you'd need to crawl a lot of its pages and you'd hit robots.txt limitations very quickly.
Is Kubernetes really a monolith ?

It isn't one codebase and when deployed there are multiple daemons running.
Cool, glad my note was helpful.

BTW, the logical fallacy I was referring to is this version (which is definitely not what you wrote or intended, it just came to mind reading it):

All men are mortal.

Socrates is mortal.

Therefore, Socrates is a man.
Can you please elaborate on the pricing model?
Bingo! Agreed. You’ve summed it up brilliantly. Other than the scaling advantages, micro-services mainly thrive as a method of strictly enforcing separation of concerns. Maybe that’s a good reason to use them. Or maybe there are other ways to do this without incurring the management overhead of micro services. Who knows. Also, I’m not entirely sold on the horizontal scaling advantages either. Are you building a website that’s going to have to scale to millions of requests per second at the click of a button? Probably often not.
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> But I can’t help but point out that I promise you you’ve never heard of the five or so lanaguages he mentioned as an alternative approach

I actually had heard of at least KRC and Miranda even before the first time I've read the paper, but even if I hadn't I would immediately be able to think of several languages with some or all of the additional features over the Lisps he was comparing them to for which he describes them as superior to Lisp for the purpose, including some modern Lisp derivatives.

Pattern matching, mathematical notation, and static typing with use defined types are all features that have become more, not less, common in languages since the paper was written.
As I said, I believe Ames or Hanssen was, but the subject was given a pass because of his credentials.