skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, his works are on my reading list. Curiously enough, I reckon that the sole reason I've pushed his works down the list is because he's so talked about by the sort of people that like to obfuscate everything in an esoteric language - which I despise.
> would a tool that educates and puts some of the cost back on the "idea person" or stakeholder be a good thing? I think it would.

So would I, as I mentioned in my reply to you. It's easy to propose ideas without regard to cost like a "minor enhancement" that takes 6 person-months.
You could get the flagship product, Intellij IDEA, which gives you Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Rust, Go, JS and all the other languages JetBrains has plugins for.
I recommend to my non-IT friends and family that they should use gmail and chrome because they use Windows and Google's security is fantastic. Sure there is a compromise. Google are using private information for advertising but (1) Google doesn't have a history of sharing PII with third parties and (2) Google are very good at keeping information and passwords secure. Many of my non-tech friends and family use Android phones so they need a gmail account (convenience), and they use Facebook (so their privacy is already compromised to third parties). I strongly recommend against IE and Edge because they are buggy and IE/Edge had 9 critical security flaws in October (implies lots and lots of zero days in the long tail still remain). Firefox is OK but it just isn't as fast, reliable, usable, or secure as Chrome IMHO.

I personally use Chrome because it is secure and fast (and the debugger works far better than Firefox's, Safari's or Edge's). I personally don't use Apple because I don't want to spend x% of my disposable income on iDevices per year, when I can spend 0.x% on Android devices per year. I distrust Microsoft (their security is suspect and their implementations suck: I use outlook for work and the UI is super buggy - I notice unique flaws regularly and have to live with some bugs every day. Like email notifications stopped working the other day - just unbelievable shit). I would love to not use Google, but for the compromises I need to make, it remains the best choice by far for me. Edit: fixed # flaws.
A drug that has some evidence it works for some people is better than no drugs at all.
Hi Ian, I know. :)
if this shocks you or anyone then you dont't know G-world. Remember, it's their world and we just live in it. Anytime you connect to G-world via any of their services, they "own" everything you send over it.

i just dont understand why people go "no way" over this kind of things -- it's google for F sake.
Yes, I agree that renewable construction jobs will remain plentiful for some time. I have some concerns about the nomadic life required for one person to make a long term living with a solar construction job. On the other hand, not growing too anchored to one particular employer in one location may also be good in the long term. Part of the problem with retiring obsolete coal plants is that whole communities became dependent on one big local employer.
Thanks for sharing! If you’re looking for more ways to bootstrap your business I highly recommend The $100 Startup - https://amzn.to/2KkP25a
I was asking if you've found your other skills ignored even when you could explain to the company how they're relevant for them. For example, if you can do accounting, and you're applying to work at a company like Tally that makes accounting software, and you explain to them how your accounting skills are an added reason to hire you, have they, in your experience, still ignored those skills?
This is super timely — looking forward to take a look at this in the evening. Wish this was in an ebook format so I could stick it into my Kindle and read it that way though. You might want to check out Calibre, it's an app that automatically converts to more ebook-friendly formats. Might be worth a shot.

BTW - you might want to just host the PDF on your website behind an email wall and put it behind Cloudflare. I just spent 10 minutes trying to get the PDF, it's that busy on Google Docs.

Edit: I just tried to convert it, it works okay, not super great, since the source is PDF. I'm sure you have the raw text document, you can flawlessly convert from that to EPUB/MOBI if you want.
It’s real but old timey. Unless you’re quite a bit older than the HN average, you probably wouldn’t have heard it. That, of course, doesn’t mean it’s ok.
Hmm. I didn't really think of it that way. I was seeing a site that wanted to warn people of a danger but not touch on the fact about how people can abuse poppy seeds.

I guess my confusion is that I was so unaware of this that I read half the page before I realised that this wasn't some accidental exposure to high concentrations of poppy seed extract.
Strongly agree that the entire remote work concept needs to redfined and couched in different language. The definition right now is vague and confusing and I think clarity would help make the concept more standardized across industries and companies of different sizes.
But gardening is a skilled job requiring a couple of years or more apprenticeship to learn - not much easier than going into tech.

Hence being lucrative.
I was expecting something interesting about the problems of working remote. Just closed the article when I realized the main point of the article was to keep doing what you are doing but call it something else.
I didnt say exact, just not easily done aka intuitive. a concept probably lost on you ages ago
From article -

> low and middle income jobs, such as teachers and firefighters or nannies and cooks, are key to the local economy.

Someone else commented in this thread how all these jobs (meaning every non-tech, middle-class job) will begin to pay more once they're more in demand. The assumption is that programming/tech is highly paid because it's so in demand, and every other job isn't because vice versa.

Let's just take one job that is critical for a local economy - teachers. Some might mention that because of online learning places like Udemy, teachers for middle or high school education could be gotten rid of without too much harm. Even if you think that's true, consider children ages 0-12. Those children, undoubtedly, still need teachers/daycare of some kind. They're simply too young and at this point most adults prefer not to deal with kids, pursuing their careers instead (this is good! More brains in the knowledge economy helps spur innovation).

However, San Francisco is currently experiencing a teacher shortage of several years [1], so that vice versa I mentioned above is simply not true. The city is offering cash bonuses for teachers now, and it introduced some legislature to attempt to incrementally increase their wage, but it's not enough. Fewer people are entering the profession, knowing they need more than a cash bonus but a continually valued job that gets them consistent revenue to be able to afford to buy a house here. Even those that might have been attracted to teaching, they figure - well, I need more money to live than what being a teacher pays. That's simply an unacceptable standard of living for me and my future children.

So yes, those potential teachers can instead come to your non-profit and those individuals will be able to afford to live, fairly comfortably, as full-stack engineers.

But the community as a whole will have an even more drastic lack of teachers. While non-profits like yours help a few individuals, it is certainly not the panacea HN purports it to be.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-offers-rare...
Dual numbers are favorite idea of late. Nilpotence seems under appreciated.
> Only if you can restart your DB.

I'm talking about client-side connection count maximums, not server-side. It's just a setting in connection pools like Rust and Go have.

> Prepared statements themselves work fine. The problem is many ORMs do fragile, non-deterministic things with caching named prepared statements to improve throughput in simple scenarios.

Postgres specifically supports unnamed prepared statements as a feature, and PgBouncer's model cannot do anything to help those. One connection creates this statement, and another tries to execute it. In fact, PgBouncer's docs specifically say that they do not support prepared statements, and not to use them, so your claim is contrary to the docs.

I really don't want to even bother with your Rust and Go comments, since they are just nonsense. Lifetimes are not a problem with function calls involving transactions in Rust. At all. I work with Ruby, Rust, and PostgreSQL professionally at my current full-time job. I've written a lot of queries, and many of those involved transactions.

Go will not execute two seemingly sequential queries in parallel. It will execute them sequentially. When you run a query, it's a synchronous process, unless you specifically launch that query in its own separate goroutine... in which case, it is absolutely not a surprise that it runs in parallel, because you did that. Your slippery slope argument is completely nullified by this property. If you don't set a maximum database connection limit and your web server receives another request that requires a connection, it's no surprise that it tries to open another database connection to help service that web request. From the beginning, it appeared you were making the argument that connection pools should not be used, and therefore each request just handles its own connections... which would also be unbounded just like this. Fortunately, Go and Rust database pools provide an option to limit the upper bound. I worked with Go and MySQL professionally at my previous full-time job.

Then... you're defending PgBouncer?! I thought you hated connection pools? PgBouncer is great at what it does, but what it does is a painful headache to deal with, because it breaks half the features any normal Postgres client expects to work seamlessly. You can't just prop it up in front of a database and expect things to "just work".

You're presenting information like you have all this experience, but my experience clearly indicates that what you're saying is just plainly wrong. I don't see any benefit to either of us in continuing this discussion further. I'm out.
I just read/skimmed consider the lobster, is it supposed to be exemplary? Maybe there's some irony that I'm not appreciating but I'm not impressed.
I've heard from a CPU designer that the CISC nature of x86 lets it punch above it's weight in terms of what you're talking about. There's a lot of instructions that don't reference any architectural registers, but get allocated physical registers (and would have architectural registers allocated when compiled to something RISC). He claimed it was about equivalent to a 32 register RISC for that reason.
Software engineers can trivially solve this.
When Finding Your Passion Isn’t Enough
Cyber group releases tool to track use of email security protocol
Cyber group releases tool to track use of email security protocol https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBPT1hG?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare
Analyze Live Video at Scale with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and SageMaker
They're in different fields. Almond trees are more susceptible to soil moisture and need better drainage. Pest control is different, and having them all together means farmers would have to spray both crops for a problem only one of them has, and a given pesticide may be allowed for almond trees but not for olive trees (e.g. the insecticide phosmet is not allowed in olive trees destined for olive oil; lambda-cyhalothrin applications are limited to two per campaign in olive orchards; many recommend against using glyphosate for weed control in the first years of an almond orchard.)

There are some annuals that might be interesting, such as clover, that help with erosion and nitrogen fixation. Native plants serve as buffers for auxiliary species and some (Brassicaceae) act as a prophylactic against fungal infections (Verticillium). Innoculation with mycorrhizae also helps.

Perennials might be interesting in riparian zones, to help with drainage and unusual surges of flow.
>I see no particular need to support someone’s freedom to express depictions of child sex.

Do you see the particular need to support someone's freedom to make metal music, regular pornography, films with drug use, online roleplayers, teenagers writing fanfiction, etc? What if a few MPs decided they saw no particular need to support your right to comment on HN?

The fact that there are more important battles does not mean this one should be ignored. Matters of justice have little to do with whether you would support the activity, and much more to do with whether you would support the principle. The question I am asking you is whether people should be punished by the state for possession or creation of these drawings, and if so, why? People's lives are literally at risk over these drawings of fictional characters. Going to prison, potentially being put on the register, etc. is no small deal. Suspended sentences are still on your criminal record.

The numbers I was referring to were specifically on drawn fictional non-photorealistic depictions. As such, that included cartoons (like Japanese hentai). Maybe I read the stats incorrectly, though.
Cyber group releases tool to track use of email security protocol – TheHill
It’s not him, it’s you.
On shrinking a cluster: you'll want to use the fdbcli to "exclude" nodes. Should be pretty straight forward (search the docs for the word "exclude").

On write amplification: a factor of 3x is not actually that unusual. The default RocksDB size amplification is 2x, and I've seen performant LSM trees with about 3x write amplification.

On the single threaded bottleneck: this is an inherent issue you have when you put your database over a network connection. LMDB can do 10k/100k+ reads/sec on a single thread since it's just doing syscalls. As soon as you start to need to distribute your database across more than 1 machine you start to need to parallelize you work for high throughput.
Maybe the professionals know their job better than you do? Mere aggregations of facts are generally not copyrightable.
A mate of mine is ex-apple and said they use it for icloud.
Will check out Calibre. Appreciate the feedback!

You can get the PDF downloadable link here: first100.yobenlee.com.

Will work on EPUB/MOBI formats!
No. But I did some research on tree-like hierarchical associative memories. They have branches and all!
I wish Google Search would create an HTML5 subset for documents that would boost rankings if used.

A good majority of search results I am looking for should be simple single page HTML documents that don't use complex HTML5 features that are needed for web apps.

Change ranking, and you give websites the incentive to avoid JavaScript or CSS features that are against the reader's interests.
Nope. Facts are not copyrightable. You cns copy all of Google's factual map data, but you can't copy their artsy rendering of it in a picture.
2018 Engineering Gift Guide
Republic and Democracy are not exclusive. There is no such thing as "being republic or democracy". It's really simple:

Monarchy: yes king

Republic: no king

Democracy: yes votes

Autocracy: no votes

Constitutional: yes constitution

Absolute: no constitution

You can have these in any combination.
Also worth reading his book "Disrupted" - the book is every bit as funny and relevant as Silicon Valley
Never heard of him
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a social class issue, as much as it is a 'branding' issue. The social class that likes Subarus and Volvos, recycling, organic foods, and coffee with foam in it (aka us, the hacker news types) has chosen 'clean energy' as a sort of social purity test.

What he's saying does make sense; take it away from the bozos who brought us ... Facebook, 'Obamacare,' $4000 studio apartments next to a pile of human excrement in San Francisco, and the rest of the disgusting mess that is modern life, and it might be more popular with regular joes.
Personally, that is exactly what made me decide that I actually loved Infinite Jest. I was deeply unsure what I thought about it. But it was indelible, I found it popping back into my thoughts constantly over the next few months, even (or especially) while reading other, less memorable, novels. Still, many years later, there are a bunch of specific scenes and themes that I find myself thinking about. I particularly think its vision of addiction in a broad sense is spot on and was ahead of its time.
To be clear this was the result of mixing a lot of poppy seed tea with Xanax. While it does look like in this sad case it may have been intentional abuse of poppy seeds (to get high), mixing drugs without talking to a doctor can easily cause severe problems.

But it isn’t just poppy seeds.

Some non-abusable substences mixed with other drugs can have severe complications.

If you are taking benzodiazepines then consuming grapefruit is dangerous.

If you’re on MAOIs then turkey, cheese, etc are very very dangerous (anything with tryptophan, but those are just super common causes of problems)
Cloudflare seem to be big backers of http/3 [1].

Having the second-largest traffic analyzer on board would seem like more of a cautionary negative than a positive to me.
Looks awesome, a really clean and clear approach.
Please don't sign your comments. Your username is displayed above your comment.
Well, that's pretty much my problem. The only reasons I can think of would pretty much be the two you've already listed (and explicitly said it's not equivalent for those purposes).

This isn't some gotcha thing, I'm trying to understand these concerns better, because I really don't. I'm not asking for "counter-examples" to anything, I'm just asking for examples. It's not an odd question.
Which group of people do you trust to decide which other groups should be allowed to continue and which should become extinct, without any bias or personal preference?

Eugenics is always political.

> It’s certainly ethically dubious. And I’m not certain it actually has any effect.

Then why are you defending it? I'm confused.
FYI, China is investing in the long run (20 years+).

A couple of points that leads me to think China will dominate the world in the next decades (if it has not started already):

* With the Belt and Road initiative China is building deep relationships with half of the countries of the world.

* Their industry is not slowed down by regulation, so they iterate and learn quickly.
For example, some people think they'll be the first to widely deploy self driving cars. Yes there will be a ton of accidents because their technology will suck at first, but they'll be able to improve faster than any company in the west.
An other example is everything related to medicine (e.g. gene editing).

* Their culture values hard work. If it were not for the quotas MIT would be 70% asian.
If you can find access to a psychedelic like LSD/mushrooms, it is more likely a far more effective treatment for anxiety & depression than any SSRI's available.

Microdoses can be very effective and a regimen only needs to last a handful of doses and stopping would have very little side effects. As long as authenticity of the substance can be proven, generally psychedelics are very safe, especially at microdose levels.

A little googling for psychedelic + depression will provide data. A couple of research/articles below.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/026988111667551...

http://www.biblioteca.cij.gob.mx/Archivos/Materiales_de_cons...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/psyched...
Facebook is on track to post its longest losing streak ever
Not in the US. Google's choice of colors and widths of lines and other layout might be. Not the map data. Possibly in Europe and other countries that aren't the US
CBD is not psychoactive. So generally no. However CBD can have THC alongside it, which could have the anxiety/paranoia effects.
Being more derided by the community doesn't mean it isn't worth playing the game for some.

I personally loathe these types of interviews and don't administer them myself. Nonetheless, it isn't going away anytime soon and I am willing to practice for it if needed.
Well, it's a shell.

PATH is a global namespace. We probably shouldn't just go making ambiguous binary names to be used by a shell.

Granted, that is just a weakness of shell design.
Serious question: how do these experiments come into existence? E.g. the Macbeth effect or the marshmallow test? It always feels like they show very specific effects and are extrapolated to explain broad parts of the human psyche. But since there isn’t really any objective basis for creating hypotheses, I have to imagine people just sit around, think of some idea that sounds cool, and then come up with an experiment that is cheap to execute, kind of zany and memorable, and easy to swing one way or the other.
I'll stick with Office 97 :-)
It's quite unfortunate, but the eventual solution is resistance. Plants have immune responses too? If they are all extremely similar genetically, that is the actual problem.
half the internet is optimized for chrome. we're lucky theres any alternatives at all. MS should buy FF just to fuck the future
What's bewildering?

Published does not mean uncopyrightable. A radio station broadcasts a song; that doesn't remove the song's copyright protection. Receiving a copy is not making a copy.

3Taps settled put of court; there was no decision.
Based on the founding of Compaq
Hank Hill was basically the "stop hwackin' off in muh toolshed" guy from Beavis and Butthead.
Only if you're talking about not killing people. By "destroying lives" I'm not talking exclusively about death. As dangerous as alcohol is, one can still have a highly functional life even when abusing it.
Agree, start with his essays. "Consider the Lobster" is great.

The collection that hooked me is "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". That essay in particular he wrote for Harpers where they sent him on a 7-day cruise in the Caribbean. The title says it all. It's hilarious.

Or there's this, which is free and also great. Wallace writing about talk radio.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/04/host/30...
..without a breaking a lot existing stuff...

That's specifically why and how new standards apear. They accomplish most (though not all) the earlier capbilities, with a masive reduction of complexity. It's a form of risk mitigation and debt reduction.

Compare browsers generally: Netscape -> MSIE -> Mozilla -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox. Each predecessor reached a point of complexity at which, even with massive infusions of IPO, software monopoly, or advertising monopoly cash, they were unsustainable.

The old, dedicated dependencies (frames, ActiveX, RealPlayer, Flash, ...) broke. Simpler designs continued to function.
Comparer le prix des bagues
What Amazon Saw in New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2
Re-posting a dead comment that I don't think should be dead. I totally disagree - I loved Infinite Jest when I read it a bunch of years ago, and think I still would now - but it's not an invalid perspective. It's true that the problems and angst of privileged largely vapid mostly young people are not as bad as those experienced by many (most?) people in the world. But Infinite Jest also captures a certain experience of life that rings true. That's what makes a novel great for me, regardless of how much I relate to the experiences of the characters.

"Infinite Jest was infinitely boring, a lot of the "edginess" feels dated and the problems the characters deal with feel juvenile. Its also devoid of emotions that feels like the isolation of the American suburbs.
I liked many hard to read books, Joyce for example, as well as postmodernism, but I can't recommend this collection of superficial rants and emotional sterility.
Curiously, the people that liked this book had the same kind of emotional sterility I despise. Mostly, whiny, stuck up English majors from the suburbs. Often with few life experiences."
Like Cornholio fits in a t-shirt.
It worked wonders for smoking cigarettes. Stigmatizing tobacco played a huge part in lowering the number of people using it.