skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyway you put it, the time savings does not provide a good ROI for the rest of the crap which follows a company like Uber flying a fleet of buzzing drones in an urban environment.

compared to a fleet of '95 civics in questionable repair roaming the streets all day, a bunch of small drones doesn't actually sound that bad. drones aren't actually that loud once they're ~100 ft in the air and DJI is making them quieter every year.
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I believe CloudFormation change-sets have more detailed information about "conditional" replacement cases.

I also prefer Terraform. However, both Terraform and CloudFormation are warty in their own ways—this is a space where there's a lot of room for improvement. Fortunately, the as-yet-unreleased Terraform 0.12 [1] looks as though it'll resolve most of my complaints...

[1]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-0-1-2-preview
What it really needs is to slightly change the layout several times over the course of the first 30 seconds of page load, pushing and pulling links all over the place. I love playing whack-a-mole with your site's links.
>there's an inverse correlation between free software contributions and religiosity

I'm curious where this comes from. Seems like there could be a lot of confounding factors. Anecdotally as well, I would speculate that religion among developers as a pool is smaller than it is in the general population (based on the sorts of personalities that tend to gravitate towards religion and those towards software development). However, of that portion I would be surprised if there was an actual inverse correlation.
If you assume faulty charger, you have to figure out a way of dropping at least 5 extra watts of heat somewhere in your phone. That seems practically impossible without significantly compromising on mechanical properties of your device.
You think anything that is an attack should be illegal?
And this is why I appreciate the analysis by aphyr (and kit!) so much... it really shows what's actually happening.

Just sad that it takes so long to do this depth of analysis...
The problem is the existence of these techniques will be used to justify inaction elsewhere. They also do nothing to tackle acidification.

And it’s not as if the world has been standing still over the last decades, huge progress has been made and many technologies are at the borderline of being economical or cheaper than the alternatives, and are continually falling in price. Once we push the boulder over the crest of the hill it will roll down unaided. The economy can change much quicker than we think.
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That would be great for people with face blindness.
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Millions of people depend on the Great Lakes for their supply of fresh water. Water scarcity is already a problem, that would make it worse.
We at DroneSeed are using swarms of unmanned aircraft for mass forest/rangeland restoration projects - monitoring, planting, invasive species mitigation, etc. The mission of the company is to help combat climate change by substantially reducing the cost of afforestation/reforestation.

Happy to talk about it any time: ben at droneseed.com
Good, it shouldn't be for private vehicles.
> The point is, to combine even less powerful elements of each into a package with the functionality Bloomberg describes, it would require amazingly small lithography techniques. I have yet to find someone able to say that adding processing power, signaling interfaces, networking (even a MAC), and memory/ storage onto a package this size is even possible and I have asked folks in the valley that do this at major companies.

Meanwhile at the NSA, in 2008: "Not only can we do that, we'll throw in a high frequency radio as well for beating air gaps, and it will only cost you 10k! Oh, and we'll fit it INSIDE an ethernet port."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog#/media/File:NS...

I'm sure the 2018 series is even smaller and even cheaper...
I really don't care what you have to say, and I don't like you, but I don't particularly hate you. Happy?
You could just "bury it and don't burn it". The US already has a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Assuming that you can recycle something close enough to the original petroleum, you could even process the recycled fuel into durable petroleum products instead of consumable ones (lubricants, plastics, etc.)

Or you could sell it to SpaceX and have them ship it all to Mars, so someone can use it to fuel their Mars rovers and terraform Mars.
I've used CloudFormation to maintain a large-scale web-application on AWS infrastructure since 2016. I've been continuously evaluating Terraform over the years (it is indeed maturing quickly), and my team has stuck with CloudFormation for now though we're considering a potential future migration. A year ago I would have recommended CloudFormation for anyone managing an AWS-exclusive (or mostly-AWS) deployment, but today I would say both are equally good choices (and Terraform wins handily if your use-case includes _anything_ non-AWS.) In addition to being able to manage non-AWS infrastructure, here are some more arguments for TF being the better option for a new infrastructure build today:

- CloudFormation is indeed AWS-supported, but it's also closed-source, which means that you never know exactly what is happening under the hood in resource implementations. I've spent days of back-and-forth communication with AWS support (weeks in one case when working with the AutoScalingRollingUpdate UpdatePolicy) trying to clarify/confirm implementation details for various resource-implementation edge-cases that were too time-consuming and/or risky to exhaustively test myself. With Terraform, I could just read the provider implementation code directly and confidently know exactly what it's going to do.

- CloudFormation has an inconsistent and opaque development roadmap. Though CloudFormation generally has more complete coverage of AWS-service resources than Terraform's AWS provider (at least as of a year ago, I haven't done a more recent comparison), you will still encounter situations where a new service, or new API properties (reflecting new/updated features) on existing services, do not yet have a CloudFormation resource to match. Unlike the AWS SDKs which have super-quick, mostly automated release cycles, CloudFormation resource updates are developed separately and can take months or years until AWS happens to update the resource. Sure, you can deploy a Custom Resource to fill in the gaps with the SDK, but since it's community-supported, Terraform development is both much more responsive to incremental updates to evolving services and since the development is done in an open-source project it's much easier to track and know when to expect upcoming feature support.

- CloudFormation doesn't support importing existing infrastructure. This adds a big extra barrier to evolving a complex system, as it prevents you from being able to incrementally create/modify resources through the console and then 'lock down' existing resources into your state/configuration after the fact. Instead, you need to re-create new resources within the stack and then migrate any dependencies over to the new resource. This migration effort can be substantial when dealing with live production systems- I once spent several weeks carefully migrating several old production CloudFront distributions to CloudFormation-managed resources, and still incurred several minutes of unexpected downtime along the way. This effort is completely eliminated using Terraform's import feature.
What I don't understand is, why are there so many sites that don't remember my previous GDPR response?
Isn't Baikal much larger?
Is your app eventually meant to turn a profit, and if so how? Or, are you doing this on a nonprofit basis and planning to keep it as such?
Sounds like you have a lot of internalized self-hate. You certainly have a lot of guts saying this on an account attached to your name and resume.
> Because revealing that gets the majority of people who aren't straight white males united in opposition against it

Why would that be the case? What would hold all of these very different groups together?

The obvious outcome is a balkanization of the workforce (and maybe broader society).

Why would that scare the mediocre people in the most powerful group?
But the majority of every age group fails both tests :-/
Plenty of Canadian cities have poor infrastructure, see: Montreal bridges.

This common self-hating American idea that only the US is doing it wrong is always funny.
There isn’t. There won’t be. Fair warning, this is a cynical, but honest comment, and it’s not defeatist, but acceptance of our collective nature.

I’ve roughly gauged most of our species moves on climate accurately so far.

I bet that We are going to go full bore on geo engineering. It’s the perfect eco-poli-socio fix, and is a perfect storm to fill a lot of our mental blind spots.

Geo engineering is jobs, and economic spending. It’s great PR, and it’s a BIG moonshot style project, so the optics are stupendous. Which politician wouldn’t like to say “we secured billions in funding for jobs protecting our environment, by creating factories that absorb carbon from the air”

It doesn’t even have to work, for people to sell it.

Create a military industrial complex style system with geo engineering at its root, and soon humanity will be performing biospheric surgery.

There’s a specific vein of cynical realism, that acknowledges both humanities ingenuity and it’s emtrapment to its darker natures.

We will stick to a carbon positive economy, because no one can turn around and tell the world “its over, the good days are gone, and now when we price environmental costs to everything, the markets will tank.”

Too many goods are cheap because externalities aren’t priced in. A price rise in plastic costs will end product lines and packaging.

This will push people to alternatives which are worse (paper takes more water than plastic, and decays causing eventual spoilage and replacement.)
How do you feel about reporting school shootings?
I primarily deal with a weird OpenStack system but also bare metal, AWS, Azure, and whatever someone in authority decides we need to use this week. Terraform works, kinda, which is more than can be said for most of the alternatives.
I think the fake "do you want notifications?" notification kind of gave it away for me.
> 1. Do you want to receive notifications: Business or marketing request

Alright, who actually told them that this was a thing they could do? Own up.
if it has Qualcomm inside, the answer is definitely "yes"
This app lets you take a knee during the anthem in the comfort of your own home
I had no idea any of these existed. And it looks like RPerl recently hit its 4.0 release... kind of looks like Nim.
Hi! I was one of the volunteers on the project. While some of us are based out of state, we're working with a bunch of folks on the ground in Texas, both local hackers and community organizers.

Also the goal of the tool (and all it does) is help register people to vote.
It's how much the carpet will smell after you install it.
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> In effect, every Lyft vehicle in operation today, with a smartphone on the dashboard, could be commandeered to become a “camera” watching, surveying and mapping the roads that those cars drive on, and how humans behave on them, using that to help Lyft’s autonomous vehicle (AV) platform learn more about driving overall.

Another instance of the "more data is better" fallacy. Humans can drive cars safely after only fifteen years of intermittent sensory input. Lyft could collect that "data" within just one year employing ten collectors. That still doesn't give you brains.

Is Techcrunch an outlet for PR pieces? I'm asking because that article reads like one of those.
This isn't Reddit, that's for sure...
Buzz taking on the Troll Posse, now there's a movie!
Not at all. Read and understand what you are clicking. there are popups in windows (and 3rd party software) all the time, and if you click x, things stop working.

thinks akin to "by closing this box or clicking ok, you are enabling autosave."
> He investigates it and reports back, as a proxy for the reader.

And that's enormously valuable.

People are often dismissive of The Economist, since many of the writers in its anonymous collective are young Philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) graduates from Oxford, and what do they know. But they're smart, and by virtue of their association with The Economist and its network have access to world class experts, and they can talk to them on and off the record, and synthesise the gist of some development or controversy in an excellent short article.
Why do you want to buy the land? Raise the money for seedling, get volunteers/robots to plant them. Pay people to maintain trees on land (which should require 0 effort). You can come up with some clever designs to make it a tourist attraction and make some extra cash. Plenty of room for improvements.

Let say you can have 100 000 trees per square km. If 40 trees gives you 1 ton of carbon per year then spending $25 000 gives you $10/ton.
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Coal consumption has already peaked in the USA, France, UK, Canada, (probably) China, and a number of other countries. Emissions intensity and absolute emissions from the electricity sector has already peaked in multiple countries. The cost of electrifying automobiles and generating low-emissions renewable electricity is much lower than a generation ago.

On the other hand, global fossil fuel use has not peaked yet. Global population has not peaked yet. Many countries have worse cost-and-schedule problems with attempted deployments of nuclear reactors than they did 40 years ago. We are barely reaching "maybe starting to flatten out emissions" -- actually trending down toward zero is just a mirage in the distance at present. The opportunity to stabilize the climate just by cutting emissions is now in the past.

I feel like humanity is moving toward making the changes it needs, and has a better toolset for those changes than before, but is changing much slower and later than it should have. We're out of completely safe options and have to try to navigate between various risky options. I can understand the perspective of people who feel like we're acting too late and there is no chance of industrial civilization surviving into the 22nd century, even though I don't share that perspective.
The majority of self-described athiests that I know are global athiests under some variation of the Ockham's Razor argument of section 5 of that.

The particular example of intelligent life in another galaxy is rather odd, since we actually do have reasons to believe such life exists inasmuch as we have pretty good ideas about how life came about on earth and a lot of evidence that similar conditions should exist elsewhere.
That's like asking why atheists are still uncomfortable with religious faith and spirituality.
On mobile, I find reddit's options are:

desktop > mobile > app

I wish they'd just concentrate on one good experience.
Do you mean that I shouldn't express or voice my dislike for things I don't like?
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Sorry but where are my downvote buttons?
It's not a lie if you believe your own bluster.

Pro-coal government action in other countries has managed to delay and diminish coal retirements there, so I wouldn't consider it impossible that it could happen in the USA too. I'm grateful that the economics are so steeply tilted against coal in the USA and that few politicians appear to have the stomach for large direct subsidies to keep coal plants profitable here.
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CloudFormation is worse than Terraform in terms of tooling and simple expressions. We had to use a framework like Sceptre and write a bunch of Python functions, and Lambda functions for custom resources (and seriously, testing custom resources is not a quick turnaround thing if your function / endpoint doesn’t send a reply back with the right JSON because you have to wait about an hour for it to time out now) to get what data providers and some convenience functions are already baked into Terraform. Furthermore, AWS change sets even when using frameworks / wrappers are pretty clunky to use compared to TF style refresh && plan.

Where CloudFormation wins by design is in deployment strategies like B/G deploys, rolling updates, etc. Nothing stops one from using a combination of Terraform for everything besides applications and to use CloudFormation for app-specific deployment resources like ASGs and Target Groups.
NB: the file command tries to identify file types via file sigs (magic numbers) stored in /usr/share/file/magic, for more mysterious file types or partials, you'll need to use one of the other methods.
Also other greenhouse gasses, like methane capture from landfills.
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There is nothing inevitable about America’s over-use of prisons
> JVM based languages; they can have very poor startup times (compared to c++) [2]

Hello world :-)

And is 54.55 ms perceptable?

(310.81 ms should be).
I hate to have to point this out, but Manhatten is not NYC
> I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority. That said, for practical purposes the vast majority of Bitcoin holders didn't mine their own coins either.

I think the key difference is that Bitcoins are mined into existence according to a fixed mathematical law, whereas stablecoins are backed by something which can be printed into existence whenever the central authority pleases.
I would include that in my project if I had one and I am an atheist. I would convert just so I can play this card.
That's a reasonable concern and may even be true for some instances, but in the case of Milo Yiannopoulos for example, he practically just went away. Milo himself says he spent all of his savings and lost his friends. Even his most ardent fans stopped speaking out about him.

Nobody is listening to his ideas enough to give them underserved credibility.
It probably hurts publishers (the entities hosting the ads). If the expectation of fraud renders ad impressions less valuable, then the publishers get a slice of a smaller pie.

That, or they cram even more ads onto their sites to compensate, and users throw up ad blockers or go elsewhere.
This right here.

I'm taking his results with a pound of salt. There's no detail, so the experiment cannot be reproduced by a third party. Where's the scripts and WASM programs used for testing so that others can verify not just the results, but that the WASM and JavaScript programs were actually comparable.
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Agreed. We still need a massive holy shit moment (millions displaced?) vs. bigger CA fires or more heatwaves (which Europe mostly enjoyed this summer) or a few strong hurricanes.
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Re: "It seems like Armstrong just isn't that interesting of a movie character."

He was chosen for the mission in a large part for his lack of emotions: stress didn't seem to phase him when in precarious situations.

Buzz Aldrin was a bit more emotional in comparison, but still a rather mellow person. Buzz was chosen for his MacGyver-like abilities to improvise. He did end up dissecting a ball-point pen to trigger a damaged switch. A fully-inflated space suit ended up bigger than drafted, and they had a hard time getting out of the hatch, brushing up against instrument panels in the process. Good thing they didn't bump the "launch" button :-)
If it's as obnoxious as you imagine, everyone will bitch and it will get banned. Look at all of the noise over powered scooters being inconveniently placed. That was a much more minor annoyance and whole cities couldn't stop talking about it.
and those companies arent just selling that gathered data to online marketers, they are pairing it with offline data and selling it anyone with enough money.
Hey Henry, cool concept for a podcast. I'm also a Christian who started with commercial development and now is pushing more for open source (even got permission to open-source some of my employer's backend tech as a "20% project", which'll be exciting to release when it's ready).

Religiously, growing up in an evangelical setting, I didn't see that as a very effective way of reaching people (as you say, you're not going to convince people via argument), but I do believe in evangelism through actions. My close coworkers know my faith because they've noticed things and asked questions and I explained. And I find I take this stance with open-source as well. Talking about open-source being great is one thing, but actually putting it into practice is something else.

I'll definitely be listening to and sharing your podcast.
Many non-profits are simply corporates who don't pay tax. They often suffer from the same issues of pay disparity paying the executives large salaries while the workers at the bottom are often volunteers.

While most non-profits don't simply exist to fund someone's lifestyle (some do) and do provide benefits to society they should have a greater level of scrutiny to receive tax free status. Same should go for churches - particularly ones who preach "give freely and you will receive back 10 fold".
There's a weird crossover between Amway and other multilevel marketing organisations and the Pentecostals. Not just the mega concert style of their events but the language they use and the attitudes you come across.
You don't even need much of a missile, if you happen to have an air force; back in 1985 the USAF did a test in which the pilot of an F-15 shot down a satellite, from an altitude of 38,000 feet.
Doesn’t the consul backend support this as well?
Honestly interesting sources!
I feel like you shouldn't be downvoted. I don't agree with how you phrased what you wrote but I understand you're just expressing your view. I'm sort of on the side of well atheists are not treated well in society compared to the majority being religious and makes the statistics that way.

My personal experience of myself is contrary to the study. I'm both agnostic & transgender. I suffer daily from my gender dysphoria and how society treated me in life because of my gender dysphoria. I was conditioned growing up in the anti-gay era of time and I wasn't able to transition young. I'm not in the financial situation to really do anything to help myself and approaching my 30s. I've been seeking suicide by the legal process of going to Switzerland & in my birth country Canada (I grew up in the USA). The main drive for suicide has been acknowledging the possibility of how a lot of the bad experiences in my life, maybe influenced by a higher power, is wanting me to die and so my sex can be corrected. Society isn't really getting better for people like me with the trump administration and with the recent news showing to limit people like me further. I sort of come to conclusion the atmosphere now of things are getting better isn't really true but just a moment in time where things were more positive but can easily be reversed. I don't even know what to really trust anymore but the point is that maybe my life has been so poor because I should die because an all loving God would correct my problem; which made me miss out on a lot in life.
Isn't this the same for any coin?

Is making a stable coin as simple as naming it a 'stable' coin ?
Are they really trying to put a GC into wasm? Sounds like a monstrosity.
They don't have to raise prices. Just cut superfluous headcount by 70%. Instant profitability.