skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like those database abstractions that get made under the premise that someday at some point you'll switch DB's. But yet, 10 years later you are still chugging along on the same database you started with. You would have been far better off to just completely "move in" with the DB you decided to use in the first place and leverage all it has to offer.

The problem with these kinds of abstractions is in order to avoid "vendor lock in" they are forced into a "lowest common denominator" deal where you don't get to leverage any vendor-specific awesomeness. For example, in DB land you would avoid certain kinds of database fields (Postgres's structured datatypes like JSON, for example). Instead of leveraging the DB to do certain kinds of JSON queries you now have to write the infrastructure your self "just in case we switch DB's".

The irony is, in my experience to avoid the dreaded vendor lock in "problem", teams and organizations wind up locking themselves into their own homebrew nightmare that does nothing but recreate (often poorly) what they could have gotten by allowing themselves to get locked in to a third party. It goes without saying that in almost all cases, this homebrew nightmare has zero to do with the actual value generating functions of the business. Storing and querying on structured JSON in a database has nothing to do with the core values of 99.999% of all organizations--these things should be locked into third parties.

My point is, most teams should embrace all their cloud providers can offer. Settling for the lowest common denominator shared between cloud providers leaves money on the table and runs a very high risk of what is, in my experience, a worse form of vendor lock in--getting locked into your own stinking pile of rubble.

I could go on and on about the "vendor lock in" boogyman--it is one of the biggest, most annoying anti-patterns I see. It creates huge political and technical hurdles as the business grows. I believe it stems from a poor understanding of actual business risks, not understanding the true lifetime costs of inhouse engineering projects, resume-driven design, and a very healthy dose of premature optimization. (also toss in some Stallmanesque mistrust of proprietary systems for good measure)
If "Raoul's only makes 12 burgers a night." can fly, it seems like _something_ can be done here too. That said, it sounds like the guy has some complicating life circumstances, and maybe we should just all get out of his way and let him take a few months or a few years to straighten things out before he parlays this enormous PR win into a new venture.
Sure! My position is definitely not "ML is useless"! I've written plenty of ML and particularly think the current focus on DL is missing a lot of opportunities for augmented human intelligence (and risk mitigation of systematized bias) with explainable models.

As for showing stakeholders they're keeping up with trends: yeah I'd definitely categorize that as regrettable :-)
A Little Architecture (2016)
I think that's shortsighted, and we already have real-world counterexamples, like ChromeOS.

Definition games are ones nobody usually wins.
OK. I realize tap water composition vary.

I normally use distilled water, but if I'm traveling and don't have it handy, I'm not losing sleep over using tap water 1-2 nights.
Do you enjoy storytelling games?

For me, there are a few different kinds of games that I enjoy for different reasons:

There’s the pick-up-and-play games that don’t try to be anything other than a fun activity. Usually they’re somewhat abstract and have simple gameplay with a lot of replayability. The Tetrises of the world. This sounds largely like what you’re referring to.

Then there’s the games that try to challenge you to hone your skills. This could be multiplayer games that could be seen as digital sports in some ways or it could be single player games that are all about challenging you to master the game (eg Dark Souls if you ignore the pvp like I mostly do). Racing games could also fall into this category.

Then there’s the sandbox style games. They give you a few gameplay systems to play with and let you loose in a large play pen. This are the typical open world games or otherwise open ended games.

Finally, there’s interactive storytelling. Some are more virtaul reality simulation than others and some have deep gameplay while others have very shallow gameplay. These games are more about the storytelling though, so it doesn’t always matter. In recent years, I personally think that (some) games have actually surpassed movies in storytelling ability.

Of course, many games are some combination of these and some pull it off better than others.

You can have deep or shallow versions of all of these too.

I guess what I’m wondering is: do you have any interest in the other three types of games I mentioned and if not, how come? (I know, again, its not an easy question to answer)

Also, do modern indie games tick your boxes?
Wow and this is from the quite conservative very free market University of Chicago (Milton Friedman’s group).

Amazon is like an army undergoing the pincer movement and getting closed in from both sides...
Yes but ... you have to track the target by other means then. There’s not much beyond tracking this particular attack is useful for so if you have to track them anyway what’s the point!
Sure, but then the inundation goes away and the locals won't come back because they got burned already by the long lines and then the price hike. There's no guarantee that plan works.
> I hate package managers as an application installation paradigm

Flatpak has you covered, or at least, it's getting there pretty fast. You'll still need to manage debs for base system stuff but you can install most gui apps as flatpaks now.
Check plotnine, which is a decent reimplementation of ggplot2 in python:
https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
much deserved, been following this project for sometime and have continued to be impressed.
The franco-prussian war was just a few decades prior and had a lot of lessons for those who were willing to learn. Sounds like the biggest lessons learned were more at the strategic / organizational level. I'd argue that the Germans learned those lessons VERY well and came within a hairs-breadth of winning WW1 in the first month or two. Largely on the basis of their impeccably planned and well-prepared invasion of france.

Even closer in time was the russo-japanese war. The fighting around port arthur and Liaoyang should have showed the european forces what modern infantry assaults were and were not capable of doing.

Actually - I suspect the lessons of the naval fighting in the russo-japanese war WERE learned. In that war, the eastern russian fleet was sunk at anchor in a suprise attack, and the reinforcing fleet, assembled at incredible cost, was sunk and destroyed in a single battle. I wouldn't be surprised if those stories had a lot to do with the German fleet staying bottled up so tightly for the majority of the war.

That said - I do agree with you that no one really knows what a great power war would look like in 2019, and that the wars we have been fighting don't shed much light, either on the tactical or strategic scale.

How long would the US fleet last once they get within cruise missile range of the Chinese coast? A day? Indefinitely?
Are you implying that a particle accelerator can be weaponized?
You're confusing platform and community. It's extremely rare that those aren't distinct, HN is one of the only examples that comes to mind.
This is almost certainly the result of how popular articles/books by Malcolm Gladwell, etc. have been, which goes back a long ways (The Tipping Point was published in 2000), rather than a prevalence of journalists who were creative writing majors.

The tactic, though effective, has unfortunately become annoyingly common.
I assume the message you’re replying to was a joke...

But, while the original comment got flagged, there is a legitimate question behind the “wat” because its not at all unclear what they were referring to here, for the reasons you state.
I'm proud, I think I have pissed off two persons arguing in a room!
Yugabyte is trying to do it but by using the storage-api (and not a proxy)
You are confused, arguments about the benefits or lack thereof of metric are based on internal consistency, not standards and metrology.

Nobody is arguing against more precise definition of standard values, which is why Imperial units these days are themselves defined in terms of SI units. So if the meter were to change, for example, so would the US foot.
If you add more v's, you get more info :)
As for those asking what will be the catalyst for such an event:

Likely some poor sap of a country becomes the “testing ground” for a new kind of a war, a show of force to other countries that cyber power can be the air power of the 21st century (we will see).

Russia invading the Baltic countries (who actually have pretty decent cybersecurity) might be a good example. Or perhaps China invading Nothern Vietnam, where they lost a war in 1979.
JSDoc != Typescript type checking features.

Not by a long shot.
Would love to see a refutation from a downvoter.
Especially if it is at a threshold amount, there even a small hike will scare away customers. While not reasonable, it is a psychological effect. Take the jump from 5€ to 6€. I witnessed the same on myself with a normal dish of fried rice from a take away place. 4,5€ is cheap, 5€ expected, 5,5€ makes no difference, but 6€??

No matter how stupid, the jump by 50cent to 6€ gets me every time. It makes no sense, but I start to calculate what I could get instead on the cheap end. Breakfast to go is the same with 3€ to 3,5€ to 4€. I mean could get a portion of fried rice for 4€! Same goes for pizza or any number of take away items.

It doesnt help that most shop owners arent stupid and optimized for those thresholds.
I guess it means that we are fixing the value of the Planck constant and deriving measure of kilogram from it. Given the measure of second and metre, a kilogram is the mass so that the value of plank constant is observed to be exactly 6.626x10^−34.
Foot is defined as 0.3048 meters, you can't get away from the SI definitions.
Stoichiometry.

We need a means of converting mass to number of atoms so that we can predict how much mass of a specific product will be formed, what the limiting reägent will be, &c.

It also helps to define concentrations based on number of moles in a L of solvent (Molarity vs g/L) for the same reason.
Airbnb made more than $1B in revenue last quarter
Are you referring to the Ricci notation when you are saying it uses a different representation of the tensors?
Do you also plan to add non-differentiable functions like relu?
For a small startup, yes. I could totally be wrong here, but I doubt that GCP will operate on that model.
I like that. I think I may have to use that.
There are many. I should really document my findings in some sort of analysis. I've pointed this out to some friends who have payed closer attention and now agree with me after observing it for the last year or so themselves and comparing articles on the same topic between the WaPo and other sources.

I personally am strongly anti-Trump but also broadly dislike both major parties, so citing a WaPo article that is unfair to Trump sounds to many people like I must be a rabid Trump supporter. But in reality I'm just someone who wants journalism to be journalism and focus on facts and strives to do analysis that would be respected by people on all sides of an issue politically.

The decline in quality and shift to partisan and sloppy reporting is the most dire consequence of the Trump era. It's impacted the big newspapers the most. I think part of it is that they feel responsible for getting him elected, but part of it is that their new way of thinking about their KPIs rewards them for writing anti-Trump clickbait.

So they are at once reinforcing Trump's ability to control the news cycle and make whatever story he wants front page news, while writing coverage in a way that loses the trust and respect of anyone whose goal of reading news is non-partisan or even partisan from the other major party perspective. Sadly this allows Trump and orgs like Fox to be viewed by some as the only form of true news. It's really horrible.

No political party or news org benefits from any common ground or shared truth, they all benefit from loyal fans who pay them a monthly subscription fee for content that is mostly entertainment. This is the Fox News model, but it's now been adopted by the WaPo and NYT in their own way. They still do produce some very solid journalism, but it took the NYT several years to write the story on Trump's inherited wealth (which was excellent) while in the meantime it published a LOT of garbage stories every day that fanned the partisan flames and generated revenue while providing zero journalistic value.
I would not trust anything that man or his person physician claims about him.
The only way towards a better elections system without violent overthrow/succession is voting in representatives who don't align with the current two-party system.
I like that copy as well.

Having class sizes is a great idea. I'll have to look into adding that.
> but it would invite a secondary market for these cards

There are already markets for fake IDs, so unless you're suggesting that small local restaurants purchase scanners to confirm the authenticity of each ID, it would be relatively easy to circumvent this check too. (Some states require IDs to be scanned for selling alcohol, but many, e.g. in Oregon, do not, and the only check is some employee looking at a card in their hands for a couple of seconds)

> Plus having special cards feels corporate

Not at all. Plenty of local restaurants in my are (Portland, OR) have rewards cards, where you get stamps and a free meal after some amount of stamps.
I'd say go with higher framerate over 4K for now.
My preference would be to have everything statically linked. The extra storage cost is worth the complexity trade off.

But afaik, this usually isn't an option in the Linux world. Unless, again, I'm compiling stuff myself.
I went to that donut place that is a brand in itself. Kind of over hyped. Wish I spent the hour plus waiting in line at the technical branch of that Valhalla of book stores.
Sure thing, send me over some links of things you think frame the 2008 Financial crisis in a better light.

I pasted a quote from an article, provided the source and gave my opinion of JPMorgan, staring with the words... "I guess..." If that is spin to you, I don't know what to say.

The funny thing is that I gather you didn't read the article. The last paragraph actually talks about how Dimon was spinning the whole thing all along:

Dimon had harsh words, of course, for the Obama administration over his belief that his bank was treated unfairly by the Department of Justice in the $13 billion settlement. Instead of penalizing the bank for its bad behavior, Dimon argued, it should be celebrated for helping to save the financial system from its further free fall. That may be true to some degree, but Wagner’s 92-page draft complaint puts the wood to Dimon’s spin machine and shows that he and his colleagues at the bank were no different than the rest of the Wall Street banksters who received big bonuses for packaging up mortgages they knew would not be repaid into securities that they could sell to investors for big fees. Dimon’s pay package for 2013, the year of the big government settlement, was $20 million—a raise of 74 percent from the year before.

So, sure, enlighten me friend.
The bad news is that LTSB is only available for enterprise customers.

The good news is that if Microsoft refuses to let me buy it as an individual, then I have no moral/ethical qualms with not buying it per se.
The Designer’s Designer
My employer uses Windows Enterprise and it also had Candy Crush and other crapware preinstalled. IIRC one of my coworkers wrote a script to remove the bundled applications.
VW is really good at hyping up its theoretical progress in EVs. I guess its PR team got some rough first-hand experience dealing with the emissions scandal and came out of it battle-tested.

But I've yet to see a decent EV competitor to Tesla's cars, and I don't think one will come for at least another few years (and it remains to see how competitive that will be).
Yes & no; some of us are rubberneckers, some of us are not.
Pfizer to Raise Prices on 41 Drugs in January
I don't live in a poor country, but as a college student every time I've had a class that relied heavily on technology it's been miserable. The math classes where homework was done on paper, from a math book were pleasant.

I also always like to think about Dijkstra and his opinion on technology vs paper for teaching. He seemed to avoid it's use when it replaced a more personal teaching style but he also seems to be a pioneer in distance learning[1]. I think a lot of people could learn a lot from him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3URhx6i2E
This could also be titled: “the foundational truths in a field are more consequential than subsequent findings”.
trying to use kg instead of moles when calculating a chemical reaction would be like trying to set up a speed dating event by taking the weights of all the men and women instead of matching them up pairwise. Sometimes it is much easier to calculate based on scalar quantity than it is to calculate based on mass.
I'm going to keep running it until the SSD it's installed on melts, and burns a hole in my desk! Win10 is a monstrosity and I loathe having to support all my customers who use it.
I think this is a good idea. I've thought about doing something like this for books as well. I haven't yet thought about doing this for programming languages or frameworks, but maybe I should.
Interesting, I interpreted this in a completely different manner. I read the part about abortion as urging people to be receptive to changing social norms since many things we consider to be just were considered unethical not so long ago. The latter part I saw as urging caution against accepting the mandates of authority and conformity, because there's no guarantee that the authority or concensus is right (like society's past views on abortion).

Of course, I didn't really know the background of the platform, so who knows what the author really intended. Likely, this is an instance of writing phrased in such a way that the reader can project their own views into it.
> I have 15 years of programming on 8but micros where that assumption/declaration is crazy. :)

Right, but that's the point here - we're discussing how to describe a stricter variant of C, which make exactly the kinds of guarantees that preclude exotic architecture targets. Ultra-portability isn't a goal for many codebases.
Plotnine is quite nice. Its api is very similar to R's ggplot so it gives you the same level of expressiveness and flexibility while being able to stay the Python ecosystem to use numpy, pandas, etc..
> I'm hoping we can solve this in my lifetime with everyone knowing one standard language through education as a child

It seems like this is rapidly becoming the case in the Western world, and that that language is English.
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In other words, I can get what I want, which is very simple on Windows and Mac, in Linux by compiling things from source or otherwise jumping through a bunch of containerization hoops.

No thanks.
Also means piracy won't be dying anytime soon.
What kind of work are you referring to when you say higher-order SGD may _now_ be feasible for deep learning?
I only find results that try to approximate second order information.
They shouldn’t be able to access AWS if they don’t know what they are doing.

Alternatively, the admins should set up of a simple CloudTrail rule to alert them.

Being “in the cloud” doesn’t abrogate your responsible for security governance and monitoring.
How did this get here? Clear self promotion from a brand new account?
Duckduckgo does not. Hacker News does not. There are many examples. Ads on blogs such as Daring Fireball and Coding Horror do not. I gladly whitelist these sites.
This is an article about the work of Danielle Bunten Berry (nee Dan Bunten) who created several of the most influential games of the 8-bit era, including Seven Cities of Gold and M.U.L.E. I remember playing both of those on my Commodore 64 as a child and absolutely loving them.

She was a remarkable visionary in terms of multiplayer games. It's really sad that she died just as the Internet was taking off. Over the ten years since her death in 1998 we've seen multiplayer games played over the Internet go from a small niche thing to completely dominating the industry, but she was trying to do this stuff in the 80s and early 90s!
For go code to be as fast as C it would necessarily not look like go code as you’d have to avoid anything that would involve non-deterministic allocation or garbage collection. Sure, it’s possible. But it doesn’t make sense.
Agreed! That's where Java 10 landed with var. Only local variables can have their types inferred but Fucntion signatures and fields need explicit types.
Counterpoint: there is no objectively perfect opinion (except this one :D).

When it comes to anything, there will always be people who care at 100%, and people who care at 0%, and when it comes to art or cuisine or web design best practices there's going to be disagreements on it.

And that's fine. It's not dismissive in a morally bad way. It's just food (full disclosure: I was a chef for over 10 years, I have a LOT of opinions on anything related to it). Some guy on the internet saying that the greatest ramen in the world isn't a substantial improvement over the most average ramen in the world doesn't ruin anything. It's just like, your opinion man.
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Automated E2e Tests with Selenium and Aspnet Core on Azure Devops
The biggest problem is they are going to drive away their most influential customers with these policies.
I work at Stripe and happened to see this thread a few minutes after we had started an incident response to resolve the underlying bug.

So, long story short: We did a deploy yesterday for a thing which is not obviously related to the Dashboard's product SKU editing screen. There was an unplanned interaction between some work done for that deploy and the Dashboard product SKU editing interface; this resulted in some users having partially degraded HTML shipped to them (without the fields for editing SKU inventory quantity and SKU active/inactive status).

After we became aware that this happened due to Dan's comments, we opened an incident, diagnosed the regression, put a temporary fix in place, and started working on a more permanent fix.

I'm sorry we dropped the ball with respect to the support inquiry about this; our representative came to the conclusion that this was a planned change in functionality, even though this particular interaction was not planned. We'll look into how that happened and correct it.
I would really hate to see anything bad happen to GCP after the changes in leadership.

Based on my own experience as the CTO: After being an Azure shop for a year we've migrated ~50-100 VMs to GCP and I love the GCP products.

GCP is:

- Simpler to use

- More tailored to people with Linux environment

- Leader in K8S

- Has good support

- So much cheaper (in our case we saved ~60%)

- Has great UI and understandable primitives.

My only pet peeve is the fact that exporing your spend is practically impossible unless you're a BQ guy that can work directly with report exports.

PS: We're building our future infra on K8S to allow us to migrate more easily to a different could if something goes awry with GCP, I really hope there won't be a need to migrate back to Azure and its arcane and high pricing, strange UI, worse tooling...
Sslice: Sorted Slice for Golang
The authors also provide a reimplementation of dplyr in Python that integrates well with plotnine:
https://github.com/has2k1/plydata
Toggling Firefox reader view on and off worked for me