skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because spending $25-50/month on side projects that may sit for a while before I pick it up again is one thing. Spending hundreds a month is another. DO is significantly faster at any price point than what you get from lightsail or aws-ec2. Beyond that, I'd be more inclined to use Azure's data services simply because I like the interfaces better and far less hassle to get started with. I'd probably use SQL minimally and lean on AWS Tables quite a bit.

For a DO only solution, I'd probably use SQL more and then rely on their blob (s3 compatible) storage for some bits. I have a few small projects that I've been getting anxious to finally work on, and don't want to spend a bunch of money on them in the interim.

In case of modest growth, I also don't want to be hamstrung doing DB operations work for something that isn't actually making me money... I'll split things up to save a bit in the nearer term so long as I can have a migration path.

If I did split with data in azure/aws and the apps in DO, I might go all azure later, or I might go all DO and take on the DB operations side... it depends on if/how things grow.
While I believe the LFL idea originated from an honorable place, we need to do more to support actual libraries and (much more importantly) the staff there who play an important role in public education and assisting patrons in evaluating information:

https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/05/the-case-against-little...

>“As a librarian, my gut reaction to that was, ‘You know what else is a free library? A regular library.’”
> This is way different than the transgender case in that no deep-seated & conflicting beliefs came into play.

What deep-seated and conflicting beliefs come into play here? This doesn't need to be about transgender issues, that's just where it comes up a lot (for obvious reasons).

If I get to say that I want people to use masculine pronouns and correct people when they refer to me as "her" or "she", that seems reasonable to me. And it sounds like it seems reasonable to you too.

That seems like a solid case for saying "people should get to choose their pronouns". I choose masculine ones. Somebody else might make a different choice, but it doesn't become "special treatment" just because they're making a different choice.
I'd argue that it is in our (U.S.) best interest for highly skilled worked to go abroad for a short period of time (2 years?). Being exposed to different ways of living can do wonders for creative thinking.
Could you give us some context? What kind of project is it? How important is it? Are there any hard deadlines?
Lots of people did/do. Smartphones added enough functionality that they became worth carrying around. It's not that they wanted to carry something around but smartphones made it worth it. And, once you have a clock with you at all times, why do you need a watch?

(To be clear, I've always liked having a watch on my wrist but then I grew up with one.)
The twelve truths of systems development it seems. All of this applies to software.
AFAIK there is not yet any evidence showing hormone disruption from lavender in people. There is some recent research showing effects in vitro (including the report you cited), but nothing in actual humans.

The hypothesis is highly questionable to begin with, simply because the chemicals in lavender that show hormone disruption in vitro (almost all of them terpenes in the latest studies) are ubiquitous in nature, being present in hundreds of other widely consumed foods and herbs, often in high concentrations. Nature has surrounded us with these chemicals, and we've evolved in their presence. It would be really odd for lavender to cause problems, and not any of the other plants that contain the same substances.

The 2007 report (by Henley et al) that kicked off the whole panic over lavender and tea tree oil is a textbook case of poor quality pseudo-research that should never have been published. It had a sample size of three. That's right, three. It was neither blinded nor controlled in any way. It was simply a doctor who thought he noticed a decrease in gynecomastia among three kids after they stopped using some products that might have contained lavender or tea tree oil. If you want to know what's wrong with scientific publishing and reporting nowadays, reading about this case is a great place to start [1].

1 - https://roberttisserand.com/2013/02/lavender-oil-is-not-estr...
That is nothing to smile about.
Sounds like something straight out of a J.G. Ballard short story.
I had the same question and ran the numbers in my head, but I don't think that's accurate; there are 253m cars on the road in the US according to the googles, they're nowhere near 1% installed base.

But it's also disingenuous to compare a single electric car from a single carmaker to the entire body of every kind of passenger car for sale in the US. At least compare ALL electric car sales to ALL gas car sales.
Environmental racism
Evercookie's goal is to store data indelibly, regardless of user intention.

IronDB's goal is to store data reliably, e.g. in the face of storage eviction,
but not against user intention. If the user clears all browsing data, that
willful action is respected.

Thank you for your feedback. I'll clarify this in the docs.
I thought it was pretty useful and even-handed.
The only thing this experiment could show is that if the ratings changed, but the writers didn't, then the writers are not responsible. It can't show the reverse.

Everything in the article is just properties of arithmatic averages in sorted sequences.
> Focus on delivering business value and creating the best END-USER experience.

I agree 100%. For most projects clean code comes secondary.

Moreover, what is clean and what is sloppy is extremely subjective. If the code doesn't produce too many bugs and is understandable enough for others to modify, great. That's all you need.

From my experience, the correlation between writing clean code and delivering business value isn't a thing. I would even go so far to say that people who really care about writing clean code often tend to ignore business goals. Additionally, I've worked with a few clean code/TDD enthusiasts whose output very often contained bugs.

NOTE: This is my personal and VERY anecdotal experience from working on mostly small to medium sized projects (up to 100k LOC).
The classical sense is not what most people mean when they use the term "political correctness"

I feel you. I still cringe inwardly when someone says "begs the question" and they're not talking about a circular argument, but at some point you have to move on and accept that words can stray from their original definitions.
So far I've been unable to get a player to play Vp8 content but I'll keep on tinkering.
To be fair, the only advantage a robot vacuum has is that's it's unattended - it's pretty much a worse vacuum in every way than a regular one; limited range/time, poor suction, gets stuck, etc. The idea is that it will do a mediocre job of cleaning often enough that dirt doesn't build up.

Even with the issues, I feel like my Roomba is still a net gain, but it's not a slam-dunk.
Increasing the supply of housing should lower prices, yes. In nearly every neighborhood, single family, detached homes are the most expensive form of housing.

There is an effect where improving the consumption benefits of the city may draw new migration from other parts of the country, but it is generally accepted that this effect is much smaller than the effect of increased competition between landlords and developers.

If you think that housing somehow operates differently from a normal market - increasing supply will not change the price - it is incumbent on you to explain why you think this might be true.
Cron jobs execution monitoring in slack
We are not talking about gender. We are talking about pronouns.
>Also since you can make the hardware quite safe, you can have faster Software Innovation than in cars

Probably not so. If these problems get solved, they will get solved by an intricate dance between hardware, sensing, and software. This is not like a car, where we mostly know what the hardware needs to look like and it's just a matter of nailing the algorithms. For humanoid robot we may need - will probably need - pervasive tactile sensing, and possibly smell, and certainly visible light sensing but maybe also infrared, or lidar, or sonar, or who knows? We're still arguing about inner position loop versus inner torque loop versus series-elastic-based compliance control schemes, for heaven's sake. And we don't know what the right kinematics for the hands will be, and on and on.

One thing I am absolutely certain of is that no currently existing humanoid robot could be placed in a home and successfully clean it, no matter what software it has.
I think the cost problem can at least partially be solved by taking the "sharing economy" approach. Eg, you don't own the robot, you rent it.
Almost there but not out of the woods yet.

Good:

$1.3B cash from ops,
$1B increase in receivables

Bad:

$2B current portion of debt coming due,
$1.2B increase in payables

Still need stellar numbers (and cash) in Q4.
I think GM switched from pouch cells to cylindrical cells between the Volt and Bolt. The Leaf still uses a flat pouch. In the US, the Bolt and Leaf are the only other BEVs with significant sales.
FWIW, Tesla sales are typically engineered to actually receive payment details before the car itself is delivered. They want to either receive a check on delivery or EFT before/by delivery. That said, my bank doesn't play that game; I'm surprised anyone issues a secured loan without collateral. I guess a purchase 'agreement' is good enough, but they're not even a lienholder in most cases! I don't get how that works.

The staff screwed it up badly enough that I don't think they got the money for our car for at least 6-8 weeks after we took delivery. I kept wondering if it would ever fund.

I'm not sure "perfect storm" is quite correct; we've seen these cycles with every model launch and there are a few profitable quarters, but this one is much more so than most, and should last longer than most, BUT you're absolutely correct that they need to ramp up Model Y spend, then Roadster spend, then.. every other model refresh.
I use `entr` for a similar effect, little nicer than watch, though I don't think it's available on all OSes.
No, the situation has been the same for many years, as you can easily tell from looking at old submission histories.
So are all the other words in the headline.
Note that trailers have existed since HTTP 1.1.
Hopefully you got in trouble for your poor citation format, not your sources.
This is great but I wish they would give some more insight into the early access system. Ive been waiting for Kubernetes access for what seems like an eternity.
Ex-Facebook security chief calls out Tim Cook and Apple's practices in China
My advisor used to say that old professors contribute most to science by dying.
"You either don't know what 'social upheaval' means in the minds of nationalists or I wonder why you would judge it as 'rightfully'. There is absolutely nothing rightful about killing people.

"

Just study the rise of the Nazi party or the Russian revolution or even the Iranian revolution. Ordinary citizens started to feel that the country is not working for them anymore and looked for somebody to change that. Maybe they picked the wrong leaders to make those changes but the trigger was dissatisfaction with the current state. So if our current elite focuses on helping other countries while enjoying tax cuts for themselves but decaying infrastructure and wage stagnation at home there will at some point be a movement to change peacefully or forcefully.
You're getting at the root of the problem: teaching in the U.S. is a low-paid, low-status position. Teaching in other countries is a decently-paid, high-status position. This directly translates into job desirability and ability to attract qualified candidates.

I had some good teachers growing up, as well as a number of bad ones. The good ones all fell into one of these categories: 1) they were young and idealistic 2) they were doing a sabbatical or gap-two-years before going back to their day job as a children's book author, radio astronomer, or medical student 3) they were an independently-wealthy trust fund kid on a mission to do good. I also had some Google coworkers that taught CS in elementary school; they also fell into the "independently wealthy and semi-retired" category.

I come from a family of 3 generations of teachers, but when my starting salary as a computer programmer was within $3K of my mom's retirement salary as a teacher and I made more in 7 years of programming than she did in 39 years of teaching, it's very difficult to justify entering the profession.

(My mom also has stories about the cultural differences in how people treat teachers. The parents of her Asian students would bring her gifts, always treat her with respect, and effusively compliment her on the difference she was making in their child's lives. The parents of many - not all - of her native-born students would treat her like a glorified babysitter, yell at her, threaten legal action, and generally take a complete disinterest in their children's lives. You get what you value.)
Oh I see they are FAA certified, hmm still outraged no jealous, someone is lining their pockets with profits from a 1200 per cup.
Having hacked on Roombas[0], one thing which dissatisfies me is open hardware access. That is, let advanced users SSH into the robots and let them read the sensor data and control the robot. Once you have that you could repurpose the robot for your own needs, which for me in [0] was basic object detection (trying to find something resembling human legs in this case). This could be used for either counting people in the room or to give spatial data information for other use-cases. As demonstrated in my later YouTube video[1] the floorplans created with the vacuum cleaner laser can be used to position IoT devices for your own augmented reality stuff, that is, for real-time position tracking in relation to the room in which the robot is standing in, or just simply calibrating a gyroscope of another device which then uses the pre-made floorplans.

Anyhow, one thing which I have been thinking is that given a smart home, do people rather want to talk to an abstract thing like an Alexa, or will they want to have a physical thing to which they talk to, like the vacuum cleaner. I imagine the interaction is a bit different regarding whether you just command Alexa to turn things off, rather than have a vacuum cleaner, which you can call to come to you, and still respond similarly to Alexa. With kids, I guess they'd essentially prefer vacuum cleaners, albeit I haven't really tested their reaction because the toddlers I know do not speak English for which the speech recognition stuff is mature. My peers do not expect my vacuum cleaner to either talk or listen, which it can do both, so it seems like it should also roam the room around (without cleaning objective) for others to interact with it. Given the time and artistic freedom, I'd probably buy plenty of vacuum cleaners and have them scan the campus corridors for stationary people to talk to, to essentially just see what people talk back to the robots.

Sorry if the text is incomprehensible, it is quite late.

[0]: https://youtu.be/mlAEZZ5fPbo
[1]: https://youtu.be/OTlOULeNUUo
Wow, that article is a great way to pour acid on a generous impulse.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you sound illiterate since you clearly don't understand the words I wrote in context "medium" and "exchange". The statement "You can't eat the medium of exchange" implies that it is to be spent.
> Mr. Trump’s aides have repeatedly warned him that his cellphone calls are not secure, and they have told him that Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, as well. But aides say the voluble president, who has been pressured into using his secure White House landline more often these days, has still refused to give up his iPhones.

How is blatant disregard for communication security not an impeachable offense? This behavior is not only destructive for himself, but destructive for the nation. Does he have to send nuclear launch codes over SMS before he gets in any sort of trouble?
HTTP/2 is only necessary if you want to stream, most of gRPC can be implemented over traditional request/response cycles.
Is serialization/deserialization often a service bottleneck?
Personally I don't think that gRPC is a good step forward.

However, if the community at large moves away from REST + JSON to gRPC I'll follow.

Why?

- I don't want to be like the guy who refuses to use anything but XML + SOAP

- I want to be valuable on the job market. Putting gRPC may get you in the door

- Avoid bikeshedding

Anyone who's been in the industry a few years knows that "the way" to do things changes often. Going with the flow and completing the actual job is what matters.
Ah hah! Thanks! Yea the drop-in web server works awesomely. It's been a surprisingly painless experience. Thanks for linking the roadmap!
A friend's family "solved" the problem of cleaning dishes and putting them in the cupboard by having two diswashers, a magnet that said "clean", and a magnet that said "dirty".
Another possibly reasonable option would be to create a (configurable) whitelist of commands that are considered safe, and keep running the pipeline automatically as long as it only contains whitelisted commands. Any time a non-whitelisted command is introduced, stop auto-running and require Ctrl+Enter or something, until the command once again consists of only whitelisted commands.

This would save you, for example, if you had a custom command called "gr" which was short for "get rid of current directory" (obviously chosen as a pathological example since it's a prefix of grep). As you type the word "grep", auto-running is paused because "g", "gr", and "gre" are not whitelisted, and then once "grep" is fully typed, it recognizes that "grep" is on the whitelist and resumes auto-running. And it never ran the dangerous "gr" command.
Ah, cyclists who were monitored break the law only 13% of the time.
$2 Billion? I'm only aware of the $920 Million due in March 2019. Is there another major bond worth discussing?

> $1.2B increase in payables

That's a yearly increase. $500M-ish increase between Q2 -> Q3. I think its reasonable to expect payables to go up as they ramp up from 2000 M3/week to 4000 M3/week, but the number still gives me worry.

I think you're right to worry about these numbers. But its important to worry about the CORRECT numbers.
Why is there this obsession with trying to defeat shorts in the Tesla community? Every negative comment or story about Tesla or Elon is accused of being fake news purpotrated by shorts. It’s really weird, I’ve never seen it in any other community, and it doesn’t seem healthy.
All the other companies combined probably have fewer EVs on the road than Tesla. Building a charger network for 200,000+ Teslas makes sense, but building a similar network for 20,000 BMWs doesn't.
Faster R-CNN and Mask R-CNN in PyTorch 1.0
I can only imagine how expensive Apple branded Memory Stick Dues would be. All the expense of apple mixed with Sony's love for proprietary stuff. Count me out for this one.
For me the robot vacuum was just a fun way to vacuum. I wasn't making any grand calculation of competition or value added, I just thought it'd be fun to have a robot. Also, I'm skeptical of humanoid robots because companies can just pay actual humans dirt wages and get away with it in most countries.
I follow the logic, but it's not supported by data.

> and agree that driving fast is dangerous for many people

For all.
We built an app that get you a hedge fund job in a decentralized way
Yeah. All the usual rules don't apply in dysfunctional workplaces. I hope you're either _really really_ enjoying the game industry, or getting enough runs on the board there and polishing your resume... Good luck there...
I dunno. Its not yet a yearly profit. Its a quarterly profit (which is good for sure!!) but they're -$1.5 Billion from Q1 and Q2 so far. So they're likely going to be very negative on this year.
> (So I guess this is yet another case of government investments resulting directly in privatized profit. Pretty typical - though many seem to want to deny it.)

You mean, like the Internet?

I thought that was one of the justifications for government-funded research. Long-term research that jumpstarts shorter-term private development and productization.
These are all over Germany, many predating the Little Free Library.

Some of them from the 90s: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_%C3%B6ffentlicher_B%C3%B...

I get the feeling they were around for a lot longer than that, but only the recent ones got listed online.
you can send your kids out to mow the lawn. you can't make your kids drive you to work.
One robot shared among a whole block doesn't seem realistic. That just doesn't happen, not in the US. You'd never get everyone together to agree on it and all pay their fair share up front.

Much more likely would be a robot-for-hire service, like existing maid services, with the robot being driven in on a set schedule. The robot would have the digital key to your IoT lock and would let itself in.
You can move the echo to the part you are currently working on.
Google awareness seems to be very strong in Berlin. We visited last year and saw a lot of materials for this campaign.
Hmm...why don't they force Wifi calling? Should be more secure than GSM, no?
I went long at $218 160 and have held on for the ride the entire time. So far it was the right call, I guess we'll really be able to tell in a few more years.
Vacuuming is good when you've waited too long and can really really see the difference it makes (not just a little).
How often is often? It becomes more of an issue when you have more microservices because you might have multiple serialization/deserialization steps if you're calling a service that calls a service that calls a service, or if you're managing larger payloads.
It would be interesting if phone calls ended up becoming end-to-end encrypted because of something like this.
> How is blatant disregard for communication security not an impeachable offense?

Political apathy and cowardice.

> Does he have to send nuclear launch codes over SMS before he gets in any sort of trouble?

As long as Congress decides who gets impeached, even that might not knock him out.
Who is "entitled" to work in America is defined by the law, which disallows replacing American workers with H1B recipients.

Are you suggesting that everyone in the world should have the right to live and work in America?
Mind commenting on what you think would be better?

Personally I'm in love with the idea of protobufs, but I'm not terribly sold on the implementation. The language is great, but the mapping to code languages is not great. Eg, to make great idiomatic Go code, I need to litter my Protobuf with extensions (via Gogoprotobuf) and the readability of the Protobuf sort of goes down the tubes.

So I think the idea behind Protobuf is great, and the syntax itself looks great, but a small tweak to how it handles code generation would be very welcome.

Likewise gRPC feels quite verbose. I use it, but conceptually I massively prefer simplistic implementations like Twirp[1]. However, again Protobuf handles this really nicely in that I can use the same Protobuf file to describe a Twirp or gRPC Service - it's great.

[1]: https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp

So what do you think would be a better step forward?
That is about twice the rate for Superchargers which the going rate in WA is $0.25/kwh.
Yeah. I enjoy cooking a lot too but that doesn't mean I want to do it every night of the week. In practice, I can plan things I can whip up quickly and there are some frozen foods (or leftovers) I can heat up. But it would be nice if I had options when I just want to eat something. (I have essentially no takeout or delivery options where I live.)
Does the white house have wifi? Serious question.