skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I wish I could give you more upvotes for this sentiment. Making the decision to put the livelihood of a company on any platform is not to be taken lightly. As an SRE I feel like I have to take a slightly conservative approach to new technologies.
Yes. This book ^
I look at it as a guide for power to not be used against you. This book has greatly improved my life.
Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?
HSBC cooperated with cartels to launder money, apparently they even opened special counters for them to deposit cash at.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Mexico#Money_laundering
AI Lip Synchronization
they literally can not be heavier without being larger....
well, not the op, but i googled 'kindly pls to fix a kubernetes software on the RHEL servers' and I got this in a forum post:

$ sudo apt-get install fix-muh-k8s && sudo fix-muh-k8s || reboot

so I think i'm good to go, thankyouverymuch.
Nobody shares your genome.

Promethease though allows for gvcfs and other formats so that you can upload more comprehensive sequencing data with full coverage.
First off, put it into your head that people skills are critical, for both professional and personal lives. Make it a goal for yourself to develop them.

Below are a few things that I had found helpful:

1. Book "Human Relationships" by Steve Duck [1]. The author of the book says that his students were suffering from the same people/relationship issues as everyone else in spite of the relevant education in psychology. So he reasoned something is all wrong about the way social psychology is taught, and wrote this book for helping people as oppose to teaching them. One impact on me was learning that the percentage of people feeling shy about initiating a conversation at some point in their lives was nearing half of them. In other words, the person in the front of you could also be just waiting to talk to you. I had read the first edition of the book which had very natural tone to it. The fourth edition [1] seems much refined for rigor, which seems impacting the basic premise of the book! So consider buying an older edition.

2. The challenge for me wasn't just difficulty in talking, but a limitation of interest and knowledge outside of the STEM fields. This then becomes a vicious cycle since you would not talk to people and not even learn about topics outside of work. Build some common interests outside of work, may be just by reading some books in isolation. Read a lot of news, as a lot of conversations build on it.

3. Early on, I used to be the silent one in many conversations because of #2 above. I started participating in the conversations simply by asking questions on what I did not understand. Asking too many questions annoys people, so need to be balanced. Read about the discussed topics offline afterwards as needed. Over the time, you get to understand those conversations, will start participating, and also, those people would start accommodating you while calibrating themselves for you with the skill level you have.

4. The people around would accommodate you, as far as they do not see it as your lacking interest in them. It's better to be seen as a person lacking people skills rather than as one lacking interest in them. Try not to miss lunches and dinners opportunities at work, even if you are not talking much there.

5. One-to-one conversations are easier. Break the ice with those. Soon you would be comfortable in a group setting where you are comfortable with say half of the people.

6. Join social media and make connections with all those people. Being behind a keyboard instead of face-to-face helps because you get more time to think how to respond. Do genuinely participate, click Likes, etc. This will not only develop connections with those people, but also slowly make you better for live verbal conversations.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Human-Relationships-Steve-Duck/dp/141...
@dang Might want to take a look at this subthread.
People use what works for them. For prototyping it works fine. Not my cup of tea. I'm not a systems programmer, I only write tools in Python, Bash, and still awk. Since I work in a primarily *nix-based environment, I use mainly Kate as a poor-man's IDE and the shell, usually Bash.

I've got friends telling me I should switch over to VS now that it runs on Linux, but I'm too stuck in my ways to change, and I like my workflow minimalist as possible. Most of the time, I rapidly prototype something on a development server and then once I know the idea is feasible, I'll move over to Kate and write it more cleanly, since Kate has Konsole built in. I can make changes and run them immediately.
The problem with this hypothesis is that step 9 kept having a higher and higher Bitcoin market cap, until it hit a ~$300 billion in January (and cryptocoins in general hit $800 billion market cap). It is like subprime mortgages or dot-bomb stocks or tulip bulbs or what have you, at some point it becomes significantly large enough for people like Charlie Munger to have to contemplate it and deem Bitcoin "rat poison". Then its $300 billion market cap falls to $80 billion, which is its current market cap. IMHO, Bitcoin's market cap will be near $0 eventually, as it is worthless. So there is still air to deflate that balloon. Unless investors want to pour $220 billion back into Bitcoin to reinflate it.
Nope.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin...
Or: Don't expect people to read your mind or go searching for why you might be great.

To understand why, ask yourself 'When's the last time I went out of my way to discover if someone else did well?'
Another interesting bit of data, ngram of "child pornography":

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=child+pornogra...

Or you can compare that with the unqualified term:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=child+pornogra...

A detailed assessment of what is or isn't obscene:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ccQf_RJ4eXUC&pg=PA5&dq="ch...
A silent meeting is worth a thousand words
Brazilian Termite Mounds Are Visible from Space
How to Manage Replication Failover Processes for MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL
Why Shared Vibrations May Be the Root of All Consciousness
This is also the case in software "engineering". Don't assume a code monkey who's 22 and can produce a piece of software with heaps worth of technical debt is a master of anything. The best software engineers in the world are generally mid-career (40-50) and have gone through lots of large projects in several different roles.

Just because our industry doesn't want to acknowledge that, doesn't make it less true.
Whenever you want to say, "no", just substitute "it will cost more to do it that way, because....<endless technobabble>"

You will get interrupted somewhere in your explanation. When asked for a less costly alternative, pitch anything you would be interested in doing, and make that explanation more opaque to outsiders than the original technobabble. They don't really care to hear what you have to say; they just need to know that there is a technical cover (that only the tech employees can really understand) for choosing the status quo.

Nothing sells quite like an excuse to never change.
Does Amazon Cuomo's '$9 to $1' Sales Pitch Make Sense?
Frankly I'm surprised Tether hasn't gone nuclear already.
> It would be very interesting to know how many of those users has JetBrains actually managed to monetize on.

> developer tools, a very niche market

Overall yes, but on GNU/Linux, most users are still some kind of a developer.

I don't have numbers, but JetBrains did say that most users of their products use the paid version and that their Linux business is a healthy one. I am on Linux and subscribe to all their products and have colleagues and friends that do too, so we do exist.

I also paid for Githost.io when I was using GitLab.
Every single container, crate, item and slab of raw material at work has a QR code attached.

They are fantastic for that use case as with high levels of error correction you can read them in a rain storm when one corner is missing.

That and every UPC scanner in existence seems to read them no problems.
As much as I agree with the fact that for 95% of the cases k8s is not needed, the problem most likely lies in the overengineerin around it. Take a managed k8s solution setup a deployment that serves through an ingress controller. Done.
My recollection was in error. A little searching confirms your information.
Can you give specific recommendations?
This seems mostly like a Silicon Valley filter bubble talk.

All the great places I worked with valued:

- People's time. Any extra red tape was aggressively and actively hunted and killed on the spot.

- Self-sustainable business model. No venture capitalists, no investors of any kind. They walked before they ran.

- Not hiring more that they can pay for in a year.

- Less people doing more in exchange for hefty salaries and job security. As business needs grow, the company's leadership turns inwards and people seriously discuss how can they optimize people's time and efforts better without burning them out. I've seen 5 juniors replaced with 1 senior a number of times.

- Respect and appreciation. Be it a few days off after a lot of work, or 20-50% extra salary that month, or just a collective thank you from several people -- all of these go a VERY long way towards loyalty and sense of camaraderie that make people stick around for 10 years.

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Open-sourcing your code serves a number of goals:

- Shows that you are open to be vulnerable and that you are ready to do better. However, sometimes it's just a PR stunt and no pull requests or comments are ever addressed.

- Serves to attract young and enthusiastic programmers which is often times not such a good thing -- the company might need people who they can guilt-trip into 17-hour coding sessions to get N projects off the ground in a short time frame. Sometimes they actually need the fresh perspective though. So 50/50 here.

- Shows that you care about your ecosystem even if you don't actually open-source your own product but a number of libraries that you managed to extract from your monolith over time.

...and a few others. But open-sourcing stuff in a corporate setting is mostly a PR move.

So really, this article is not at all valuable nor does it even give an interesting side perspective.
What the United States looked like in the 1960s to an Italian photographer
Ask HN: HN API to submit a comment?
I'm aware of API to list/view items from HN (https://github.com/HackerNews/API). Is there an API to submit comments or posts in HN?
Since it would be impossible for us to know given information can only be transmitted at the speed of light, I think it's fair to say it hasn't happened yet, as far as we're concerned.
Facebook used for bidding in child bride auction
Is it too late to save Facebook
Yep, if we haven't observed it, it is effectively not happened.

Same as finally observing some of the first galaxies created after the big bang. Speed of light ~= speed of information. If we haven't seen indication of it directly or indirectly, its at best an inference.
> Are there still any people like that in physics? Legendary scientists/engineers who run there own lab and just make cool stuff?

That's pretty much what I've been going for. Got my PhD in Chemical Engineering and an MBA, and now I'm starting my lab - or "startup", here - in pursuit of my research, basically into strong AI.

Bootstrapping is an interesting process. I mean, I have to keep the lights on somehow, though there's an inherent conflict-of-interests between keeping the lights on and doing the core work that the lights are there for.

Still, what can one do beyond keeping at it?
Hm, I always thought IP based solutions were worse, given my terrible experience with IPTV (Actual IPTV, over DSL on a different VPI/VCI number)... + they can track your viewing habits...
> There is nothing "obviously wrong" about the standard Copenhagen interpretation

Can you tell me how to calculate whether a system of particles will cause another system of particles to collapse or not?

Can you tell me under what circumstances a system of particles will evolve unitarily or not?

Can you shade the region of the spacetime diagram of EPR where the wavefunction is collapsed? How about in a delayed choice quantum eraser experiment?

If you tell me "you're not allowed to ask those questions" (or "hm, I never thought of that!"), then you're directly illustrating the complaint here about physics!

The common narrative is that Copenhagen, many worlds, and the other interpretations of QM are all equivalent, but they are not. Copenhagen adds an extra physical event-- collapse-- where the wavefunction is suddenly nonunitary. The burden is on Copenhagen to tell me how and when this happens, and in fact to prove that it happens at all. Many worlds, on the other hand, predicts the same phenomenon-- the apparent collapse of a wavefunction to an eigenstate-- without adding unitarity violation, or any other phenomena at all beyond the normal, extremely well-verified mechanics of multi-particle system scattering; it merely treats the environment is a multi-particle quantum system.

Many worlds is the null hypothesis (no, the extra worlds are not extra suppositions, they are predictions of known physical laws), and the burden is on Copenhagen to show that unitarity violation exists, and the burden is extremely high (possibly insurmountable?) for EPR and eraser experiments.

When Copenhagen was devised, most believed that there was some "underlying state" in QM, and that measurement told you something about what the underlying state was. Bell's theorem should have sent a shockwave through the community which forced everyone to reevaluate fundamental assumptions and self-correct wrong ideas. But by accident of history, John Bell was too shy to publish in a major journal, and no one even read his result for four years. The implications of Bell's theorem were slow to diffuse through the community, and so the disruptive moment of reckoning that should have happened never came. By the time it was well-accepted, the narrative in physics had become "you're not allowed to ask about what quantum mechanics means, just shut up and calculate", and so the cognitive dissonance was cast aside. Annealing this attitude and this misstep away is taking excruciating decades.

EDIT: I also don't mean to imply that there aren't deep and beautiful things in modern physics. There are! But physics is concertedly avoiding asking deep questions in areas where (I strongly believe) it is most important. The claim that "the meaning of QM is outside the scope of science" is exemplary, I think, of that attitude.
I have your exact problem. I've been diagnosed as autism type I as well (equivalent to asperger's).

There are lots of good tips here, and often people suggest reading books and whatnot. Personally, it looks a bit overwhelming. I'll give you my advice just to add to the torrent, and hopefully you'll read it. I hope it's a bit gentler.

I'm not currently employed (still in university) and so this little problem of mine has not affected me as much as it may have affected you, but I recognize it will likely become a problem in the future, so I've been taking steps to remedy the thing.

1) The first thing I did this semester was start a conversation with the guy sitting next to me in class. He asked that I save his seat. When he came back, I asked what program he was in and etc. and got his Facebook contact info. Now, I've gone to great lengths to avoid him outside of class, but we talk in the ten minutes before the lecture starts, and I have found it's a good balance of pain vs gain. Take home: 5-10 min of meaningless conversation is better than nothing.

2) Someone else came up to me this semester in another class, asking about the homework. In time, I found that sitting next to him and chatting idly was actually relaxing. He is the kind of guy we all need in our life-- he simply doesn't have judgments to doll out to you, and will happily converse about whatever comes up, and happily sit silent if there's nothing to talk about. I make sure to ask how he is on occasion if I don't see him around. Take home: When you find someone that doesn't make you want to jump out of your skin, attempt to maintain your relationship.

3) Maintaining relationships: If you don't like social obligations but still want to maintain relationships to the degree that you're not treated as a robot in the office, the best thing to do is ask questions of the other person, the answers to which, of course, you are personally and genuinely interested in. I ask people about their day to start, and then I ask questions about their future: what do they want and why. This helps me understand their motivations and puts me at ease because the knowledge allows me to predict their behavior more accurately. Another thing is to just ask about people's days whenever you see them. When people give you a genuine response to the question, then you know you're on their good side. You can get on their good side by acting interested in them and asking about their day!

4) Don't push yourself to take on too many relationships or to get close to a lot of people. Keep it as simple as possible. Maintain as much distance as you want while at the same time edging slowly out of your comfort zone. Say hi or smile at people you pass in the office. If someone comes to your desk to give you a task, ask them how their day is going, SMILE. It's these little tiny actions that accumulate in the other person's mind to form a picture of you. You don't need to do anything huge.
There's no way we can reach these idiotic parents or help their unfortunate kids.

For those of us with sense, how can we find out if we happen to be in one of those "strongholds" and make sure our school district doesn't go that way? Are exemption% publicly listed?

I may not be able to stop someone endangering their kids and others nearby, but if I can stop it happening near me (or move away in worst case), I want to know.
Containers and container orchestration are wildly different, though. A container is a pretty handy way to distribute an app to a production environment. Container orchestration is a bad application of the bin packing problem. Pretty different things.
So you merge the schemas on every cloud function?
Multiple women per man is usually referred to as 'polyandry'.
Background:

The scientific community has developed a significant amount of code over the past decades to perform quantum mechanical calculations. However, compared to main stream codes for other purposes such as graphics, music, games, etc. scientific codes are hard to use and integrate with. This is certainly partially due to the difficulty of the topic itself, but a main contributing factor is the lack of attention that has been paid to data structures.

Without the creation of standards such as HTML, Direct X, MP3, etc. it would have been difficult to create most of the applications we use every day. TBTK aims to help create similar structure in the computational quantum mechanics community by providing data structures tailored for quantum mechanics. Particular focus is put on providing data structures that capture the general structure of quantum mechanical problems without inducing expensive memory or execution overhead.

The aim is to provide building blocks that allow developers to work at the appropriate level of abstraction. To give method developers detailed control over the performance of their algorithms, while at the same time giving physicists interested in particular physical questions the ability to work at a higher level of abstraction. A level of abstraction that allows their attention to be focused on the physical question rather than numerical details. The aim is also to enable seamless integration and reuse of code in the physics community, as well as make the algorithms useful to people outside the physics community, such as for example engineers that are interested in transport calculations without necessarily having the adequate quantum mechanics background.

If this sounds interesting to you, don't hesitate to reach out to me here or over mail.
what are the criteria for aggregating your models?
A few things:

1. No one considers you "that odd guy"

2. No one is that worried that you don't hang out at work place events

Your manager and coworkers should see that you get stuff done. For the most part, people don't care that much to evaluate you for being the odd guy or how social you are. People will judge you if your outward behavior are standard deviations off or if you're difficult to work with.

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Your interaction with the marketing team shows that you need to learn some confidence about speaking up on things that aren't very clear. It's going to take practice to fix that. Escalate higher up to get guidence on that.
To that, this is a service I offer: improving the socialbility and softskills of developers and teams.

There's some decent advice in this thread. And no matter what you do it'll take work and change. But if anyone wants to improve on their softskills, i'd be happy to work with you! r.softskilldevs@ruru.name
> The actual debate among physicians is about the ethics of denying patients care to which they have a right. There is no law or legal fiat that forces physicians to do things they object to.

I agree that is the status quo. The linked article is not necessarily talking about what the medical field currently looks like, but what it may look like over the coming decades. The author is concerned that law may one day override an individual doctor's conscientious objections.

I should also note that author lives and practiced in the U.K. and so if you are writing from an American context (as I am) then it may be that the state of medical ethics is somewhat different over there.
Looks awesome - great job. Just a heads up that the "View pull requests" buttons in your Trusted By section all 404 at the moment
I use Alipay on a daily basis, all scanning QR codes.
Kubernetes isn't the only thing around. Kubernetes and Mesos are kinda the heavyweight solutions, but there are smaller things around like Hashicorps Nomad and Swarm, and probably a lot more I don't know.

We're currently evaluating nomad, and it's surprisingly pleasant. Nomad doesn't solve every problem every application in every situation might have. Nomad schedules containers, VMs or whatever else on hosts. This reduces complexity a lot.

It took us like 1 - 2 man-weeks to have an almost arbitrarily scalable nomad setup which allows you to submit a bunch of jobs and mark some public ports for a loadbalancer, be it mysql, http, whatever. And it's easy to understand and operate. There's 3 nodes of consul, 3 nodes of nomad-server and 2 hosts of nomad-client, some certs in the middle, consul-template + haproxy with a config almost from a blogpost. That's it. It has very few moving parts and it's easy to understand and troubleshoot with 2-3 main guys in our ops team. (EDIT: this doesn't read clear. We have 2-3 guys on our ops team. They are not working on nomad alone. Nomad atm is a low-maintenance system and we're mostly dealing with other crap /EDIT)

And now we're just going with it for now. Our CI needs resources for on-demand test-systems, so let's figure out how to make that happen. Our self-service test system for demos / manual acceptance testing needs resources for systems so let's figure that out. We might need to use gluster or something for persistent storage if we want to migrate internal tooling to this. A sister company might want to tinker around with windows VMs scheduled by nomad, or windows containers, so why not?

But the good thing: It took us 2 weeks to start delivering business value. That's a relatively small up-front payment for an established company, even a small one. Now we can leave it alone for some time, or we can invest some more well defined packages of time to make it better in concrete, requested ways. That's easy to schedule and prioritize.