skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with the last paragraph but would point out that as a front-end software engineer exposed to all aspects of business-critical systems front-to-back and troubleshooting them alongside folks whose job it was to fix things (but maybe couldn’t...) I’ve been trying since mid-2014 to follow a certain amount of network infrastructure best practices through the PacketPushers podcasts—-what started with trying to learn more about the buzzword of Software Defined Networking led to independent study by doing my own research into things like FD.io, virtual machine networking, and the various networking solutions and benefits that Kubernetes and cloud providers can offer and the important role of usually-centralized control plane abstractions in distributed systems like networking — be it serverless or self-serve, efficient routing, or troubleshooting/monitoring. I’ve found that if you don’t have an experienced cloud-native software engineering resource to learn from, you’ll have to follow many different sources (and source code!) in order to pick up how some of this works. In the end, I’m left both with a greater appreciation for the sysadmin skills required, but also for the disruption new technologies can bring. And I’ll leave looking up the details on my next implementation to, as noted above, looking up best practices in a just-in-time sort of way. (One of my favourite methods to pick up SRE tidbits is to search recent HN comments for advice from the trenches, I really appreciate these mentions and resources...)

That said, every time I use terms that aren’t directly related to code or software architecture, I feel imposter syndrome creeping up on me—as in writing much of this post. (I’d welcome comments or additional learning resources!)

Also, I’m not sure AWS is the best example, their network terms and best practices seem far more oddly named and unique to AWS than what I’ve heard from Google’s recent conference presentations for enterprise adoption of Google Cloud.
This sounds exactly like a narrative used to justify an ongoing conflict of interest.

For any piece of real estate, there's basically a price at which it would sell itself. People hire a real estate agent because they believe the agent will work to sell for more than that base price.

In my experience, both real estate agents represent the buyer as it is the buyer who is supplying the money. Your closing attorney is the professional more likely to represent your interests.
I don't think drafting women, for example, is going to be a net win for society. But nobody prevents you from campaigning to repeal or amend those laws to remove gender. But while we still have such laws there has to be a legal definition of gender, it seems pretty obvious.
I have had mixed results with AirPods on a 2015 MacBook Pro. The earbuds themselves are great, the case is great, but they just don't know how to bluetooth with the laptop of the same company. Every time I put them on, the hunt for a BT connection starts. Sometimes I have to reboot my computer to make them work. It's such a shame that a behemoth like Apple can't make BT work between two of their products. In fact, it's deplorable. How could they ship such a shitty wireless thing?
> Anecdotally, dropping the headphone jack (and similarly adding the Touch Bar) has negatively impacted 0% of non-developers I’ve talked to about both.

How does removing the headphone benefit users? Also how does being a developer affect how one would listen to music on a phone?
> Tesla’s stated mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy appeals to many of its 45,000 workers, some of whom are willing to work 100-hour weeks and eschew the common perks of tech companies, such as free food. Instead, some employees say, they run on adrenaline, stock options and a shared passion with the company’s leader to change the world.

> Kiran Karunakaran says he was making $80,000 a year at a Philadelphia electronics company when Tesla offered him $95,000 and stock options to become an engineer in 2015. Though Apple made him a $115,000 offer around the same time, he says, the 29-year-old Mr. Karunakaran took the Tesla job. He said the decision was a no-brainer.

> Other Tesla employees said they have turned down offers from companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and Uber Technologies Inc. that were 20% to 50% above their Tesla salaries.

> “What really attracts young people to Tesla is instant gratification,” Mr. Karunakaran said. “You see these incredible things you’ve worked on come to fruition, on the road, in months,” he said. Mr. Karunakaran left Tesla in May after three years—one year shy of the full vesting of his stock options—to follow his wife to Seattle for her job.

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> Anusha Atluri, a second-year M.B.A. student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, spent the summer as an intern on Tesla’s Model 3 assembly line in Fremont. Partway through the summer, Ms. Atluri spotted a way to tweak a step in the manufacturing line that she thought might speed up production. She put together a PowerPoint presentation for the rest of the team and, encouraged by the response, she suggested following up the next week with management to discuss implementing the change.

> “They were like, why not just try it tomorrow?” she said. The process changed the next day, and within a week the line was running more efficiently, she said.
True, most server ARM processors that come to mind are custom (or at least semi-custom): Ampere, Centriq, ThunderX2. Trying to map them to A72/73/75/76 is perhaps short sighted since those are primarily smartphone cores - we'll have to wait and see how they perform in real world tests.
Could they have build the iPhone XS with a jack? Because if they couldn’t, I’d argue that everyone who owns one benefits from it not having a jack.

The real annoyance for me isn’t the lack of the jack, it’s that they haven’t also replaced the jack on the MacBook line yet.
Rebecca Black’s “Friday” Has a New Bitcoin-Youth-Centric Parody
“Friday” is one of the most popular songs of an American YouTuber, Rebecca Black, with over 127 million views mostly garnered from the youth audience.
You can thank the US government for that. :/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
I also despised having systemd for some time, but it's not giving big headaches in our installations. So I adapted and got used to it.

Besides being a multi-role-somewhat-messy-blob, what are the grief points of systemd in 2018?

Edit: carified the question.
Not nation wide technically speaking - in 10 oblasts(regions) out of 24
I haven't heard of that. Any good?
Kata Containers is a lot of infrastructure for running containers and it uses QEMU to run the actual VMs. Firecracker just replaces the QEMU part and we're eager to work with folks like the Kata community.

I love QEMU, it's an amazing project, but it does a ton and it's very oriented towards running disk images and full operating systems. We wanted to explore something really focused on serverless. So far, I'm really happy with the results and I hope others find it interesting too.
Appealing to "willpower" to cut off further inquiry is basically the equivalent of saying that disease is caused by evil spirits.

Until you can explain the mechanism that causes some people to comply with a diet plan and some people to not comply with the same diet plan, or that causes a person to comply with one diet plan but not another diet plan, you don't actually understand the phenomenon.
Microsoft briefly surpassed Apple as world's most valuable company
> Paul Graham insists that it is surely worth it, but unfortunately, he does not show convincing examples [of the usefulness of macros].

Seriously? Are you suggesting On Lisp contains no convincing examples? It's what the whole book is about.
This is probably the most beautiful thing I've read on HN.

> Sometimes I feel that it can be a lucrative trap to become invested in a single person, and then accumulate expectations that far outweigh the responsible obligations of any friendship.

It's taken me a long time to realise that relationships are not symmetrical, and that they aren't supposed to be.

There are people who I feel very strongly towards (not necessarily romantically) who don't feel the same way back to me, and I'm certain that there are people who feel the same way towards me.

Relationships are also not permanent. People come in to your life, and sometimes fade from your life. This isn't a bad thing either, but just a reality. There are a lot of people who I was good friends with who I'm not really in contact with any more (generally because I moved to a different city/country or they did). We all have our own journey in life which intersects with others. Sometimes we run straight past each other and sometimes we run parallel for a while.

The quality of a relationship isn't measured in time. Some of the most genuine and meaningful interactions I've had have been with people I met only for a few days or even a few hours.
But the person you're waiting for may never come. Life isn't some romance movie where you're destined to meet "the one".

I've learned to embrace that and have taken solace in living in the moment with the people around me instead of wondering what else could be out there and what I might be missing out on.
The optimistic outlook is that 'Detroit' (Ford, GM, etc.) will either become a collection of new software companies or go extinct within ~10-20 years. That is, the first wave of autonomous vehicles (whenever that will occur) will be green-friendly in design.
I don’t use wired headphones, but I imagine that I would just leave the adapter on them 24/7?
I use the walkie talkie function with my mom quite a bit. Luckily, she doesn't initiate with me much but I think she enjoys it when I randomly pop in to ask to see how shes doing.
What do girls secretly find attractive about men?
OK, since I like to write, have more so lately, have started a newsletter before and was planning to start a similar one soon, I'll bite. Except if Poe's law comes bite me and it wasn't in earnest (checked your comment history and you don't seem to make trashy comments like me), what'd you like to read about in this style? Technology, technological change, society, languages, editors, open source? What periodicity would work for you? Also I'll go finally read Snow Crash already (started once.)
Hey man where you heading ? :) I can never get enough of their song Lesbian Eskimo left-handed midget albino.
Haven’t read full article because of paywall, but I get a gist.

A mate in a city I used to live, a mental health expert himself, mentioned that when mental health experts are first responders they have a tendency to shoot fewer people, and get shot at less often.

Recently I’ve been advocating that police attendances should also require at least one public legal expert / mental health expert to attend.

Police are trained to respond with escalating force. Fair enough, someone in society has to be delegated that responsibly. But it should be tempered by the attendance of those who are trained in public health, safety, and legal advocacy.
I was expecting a firearm based processor
Amazon-made CPUs now available in EC2 instances? I hope someone at Intel is paying attention....
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You might have a different opinion if your fuel costs priced in the negative externalities of that 20% additional fuel consumption. It might not seem like much at $2.25/gal. What about at $4? I'm paying about $4.25 USD/gal now in Canada and that's still lower than many European countries. At $5/gal you might start asking whether you actually need AWD or how many times you've actually needed higher ground clearance driving on developed-country quality roads.
I'm not talking about leadership, I'm talking about culture, morals, and personal accountability. People are making the wrong choice, and it's selfish. There's a middle ground between being one with nature and driving a 4x4 between the suburb and the city.

Much of the other things you describe as necessities to be happy with your leadership are also big problems. Overconsumption of clothes, meat, gadgets, too big houses, etc. Overshoot day took place on August 1 this year. Hurry up and consume as much as you can, hopefully we'll both be dead before famine strikes the rich parts of the world, but at least we got ours.

https://www.overshootday.org/
The hard part for me is finding the time to do it all myself—even if I can learn it all, it simply doesn’t scale to wait for me to do all the work, and somehow fix my own bugs/problems with my ideas. But knowing something about everything does make it easier to work with others and defer to their expertise while also offering suggestions or doing an extra bit of code review. My personal preference is to look up best practices as I need to, just-in-time, or just get it done if I’ve done something similar recently. It’s really important to work with others though, especially when they’ve specialized knowledge and experience to share. Building it yourself or as a generalist alone often means a lot of learning-it-the-hard-way. But it’s always possible, if you can accept the tradeoffs or build a smaller subset of a system.
Discontinuing the Bolt is a shame or are they shifting full production to South Korea?
That's assuming you're willing to run winter tires on your summer wheels, which you probably aren't given the trend of big wheels, narrow sidewalls. You're probably going to want a set of smaller steel wheels for the winter.

AWD is usually a <$1500 option which makes it really competitive against a second set of wheels and tires.
RHA TrueConnect is the best AirPods alternative I've seen. Fits different ear sizes (this was my problem w/ AirPods -- RHA's come with many sizes of covering, including one that you can shrink and expands inside your ear like earplugs), good audio quality (RHA is good at it), look sleek and have a great case, use Bluetooth 5. Just wish I could use AAC and aptX with it for lower latency (I know they say they don't support it -- I tried just for kicks and it removed the latency but added weird artifacts -- only noticed latency originally w/ macOS btw, not on iOS).
It's not mining, it's stealing people's wallet credentials (even worse). This package is included in a lot of things, some of which you may be using (like Visual Studio Code, although according to someone on reddit VS hasn't updated to an affected version yet)
This is really cool!

I believe this uses IEEE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754? An additional cool feature would be the ability to toggle between this, and other standards such as DEC64 and UNUM.
Were they advocating for "tiny little cars" or just suggesting something more appropriately sized for a subset of people?

Ideally, people would have easier access to a certain type of car when they needed it, rather than buying that type of car for all activities so they felt prepared.
This comment is bound to age poorly ;)

Unless 3.5mm headphone jacks will be around in 50 years who knows.
Tangential, but I love when non-fiction writers have a strong writing style. I was about three sentences in when I thought “boy, this sounds like Matt Levine”, and so it was.
IANAL but I see two issues here. First, you still have to show that he had the duty to act, which is quite problematic given that there was no relationship between the parties beyond an open source license which expressly disclaims any liability. There's no relationship between the end users and the library maintainer and for any specific instance of the harm, it's difficult to argue that the end user, whose connection to the library is merely that whoever wrote the software happened to use the library, is owed some duty by the library maintainer. Likewise, the idea that the library maintainer should have foreseen this harm, given that the library maintainer likely has no idea how the library is being used, seems far-fetched.

Second, since software engineering is not a licensed profession, for any related conduct to be seen as negligent, it has to be something that a reasonable person should be able to avoid and foresee that could cause specific harm. Even a relatively gross act of incompetence by any reasonable engineering standards likely does not meet this bar, given that there's no license required for someone to be in this situation and that it takes a lot of expertise to understand how specific bad practices could cause harm.
Housing prices go down: with these interest rates it's becoming even more unaffordable!
Userlytics – Analytics tells you what, Userlytics tells you why
I though this was basically the main business plan on flippa, like an open secret. And I have even heard that some books on "new york times best seller list" are just books moving between warehouses to generate invoices.
Why would you even have a buyer's agent? In Australia, the seller has an agent (often on commission) to arrange ads and conduct opens. Buyers visit and then make an offer if they wish. A buyer's agent would be quite rare - maybe only for very, very expensive properties.

Does the buyer's agent in the US handle the role of a conveyancer in sorting paperwork of the final sale?
You made my day :)
others have destroyed your flight of fancy by detailing how expensive it is to drill a well, etc, but let me add one.

the cost of commuter rail service, never mind anything approaching high speed, utterly destroys your argument. it cannot be done.
Another missing piece in addition to the billing aspect mentioned elsewhere, is all the existing event based integrations lambda provides. E.g. react to kinesis, sqs, sns etc. events. having aws manage the event plumbing in addition to start/pause/stop is really nice.
>I pay my buddy $10 million to buy a million e-widgets from me.

>My buddy pays me $10 million for a million e-widgets.

How does this part work? Is this real money changing bank accounts or just promissory notes/credit?
I'm curious to see how much things soften after people do their 2018 taxes next year and realize the magnitude of the impact of not being able to deduct property taxes anymore. (In CA, the $10k cap is eaten up by state income taxes, at least for anyone who has enough money to purchase a home.)
Deep Learning Inference in Facebook Data Centers
Not being able to expunge education debt is what makes education lending possible.

Otherwise, there’d be a line to file strategic bankruptcy after the last tuition payment was due...
The most annoying thing about the missing headphone jack, is the missing headphone jack on other people's phones. The people who ride public transport blaring bad music without headphones. Because Bluetooth headsets are a pain and the overlap between a) the type of person willing to annoy an entire carful of passengers and b) the type of person unable to manage the planning of wireless headphone charing ahead of time is nearly 100%.

And now that the cultural prohibition against making unnecessary noise is broken, it won't be coming back easily.

Thanks Apple. Thanks...
Mortgage rates in the US have (AFAIK) usually a variable interest rate.

That means that it's sufficient for the lower income tiers (relative to the house value) to have a few months of high interest rates (in a time frame of 15-25 years) in order to lose the house.

Buying at the current rates is risky, while the risk of rising rates in 1988 was much lower. Factoring that in should change your conclusion.
The earpiece and speaker distort the sound so much it doesn't really matter what DAC you drive them through. ARM microcontrollers tend to have built-in DACs that are probably good enough for that kind of use.

But when you have your high-quality headphones on, you can certainly tell the difference between a $0.10 DAC and a $5 DAC, just as you could tell the difference between 8-bit and 16-bit samples or 22kHz and 44kHz sample rate.

To get good sound quality, you need good DAC and audio amplifier chips and well-balanced circuitry around them. That takes space.
Only a fraction of rav4's sold last were hybrids, about 11%.
There's some interesting videos on YouTube from people who used satellite dishes to grab unencrypted transmissions that weren't intended for the public (although I don't know if that was the case here). Things like reporters talking shit about guests during a commercial break (since commercials were spliced in later on), Bill Clinton getting his makeup done, etc. There's an interesting documentary/compilation at [1] although in my opinion it's a little overly dramatic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdXtIJNNVZM
This is the rational approach, but it is not in accordance with human nature.

Human nature is fanboys. Picture sports supporters. They will perceive a relationship that you may have never intended. They will wave your flag and they will sing your praise and they will cheer you on. And they will expect you to live up to the grandiose image they have of you, and will punish you when you "betray" them.

I think people are certainly taking note of these "entitled" comments when they decide what to get emotionally invested in. If I know ahead of time you "wont be my bitch" maybe I'll save myself some grief and not get started with your series.

Bitcoin is an interesting case. It has very deliberately rewarded it's early adopters and fanboys, and that strategy paid of very well.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make some kind of joke. An empty string is a bad error message, but you would have to go out of your way to make this happen in Go, you would have to do something obviously wrong like

return errors.New("")

You have control over whether the error messages are good or bad, you just have to insert the right annotations where the critical pieces of context are known.

Stack traces are not like this, you can't really control whether they are good or bad, at least not well. If you want to make your stack traces more informative what do you do? You can't really change them, they just reflect your call graph.

Golang optimizes for the case where you get good error messages. Exceptions optimize for the case where you don't care about adding context to the error and just want to bubble it upwards. On the balance of things, I prefer Golang's approach because most of the time, I don't want to see the stack trace.
Have you seen the current size of the ports tree? It's on the scale of a distribution the size of Debian.

While there is certainly some Linux-specific software which doesn't work on FreeBSD (and vice versa to a smaller extent), this is a tiny fraction of the total amount of portable free software packaged for both.
Same with my iPhone SE.
Very much so, and an easy read.

Unfortunately so much development is "build it and they will come" rather than analysing and improving a system or solving a specific issue - which may or may not involve coding.