skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said something far more alarming and also flat out wrong - that's what I'm refuting. This 2 or 10 or whatever tiny amount of birds at a time thing you are claiming to experience...doesn't match my experience whatsoever. I can provide more photographs if you don't believe me.

I can't speak to the pacific northwest 30 years ago so I'll take your word for it that there were more birds on the coast then.
I would say that a successful male has more choice in women to reproduce with. Presumably whoever is chosen has above average genetic material as well. So it’s not so surprising that one can still see an effect of this. Moreover success in high society requires a different set of skills than success as a peasant.
That's fine, but they're pushing the technology when it's not mature enough. You have to start somewhere, but the worst thing you can do is to start before you are ready, and from everything I'm reading here, and everything I've experienced myself, the technology is not ready yet.
Publicly calling out your employer is bold anywhere. Perhaps less so in countries like the US where that sort of speech is protected, and in sectors like tech where the speakers are likely to be well-off and not fungible, but doing this sort of thing publicly always puts you at risk of losing your job (for "unrelated performance reasons") and of being quietly blacklisted by future employers (for "poor culture fit" or any other easy excuse).
Not worth it overall over TLC SATA SSDs. QLC SSDs should be at least 50% cheaper than equivalent TLC competitors.
> keep your mouth shut (since somebody's going to do it whether you do it or not)

How do you know?
> You now can request your website from any ipfs gateway, like https://ipfs.io/ipfs/, https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/ or https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/ + your hash.

That is significantly more work than posting a torrent to a tracker, with significantly less discoverability.

Is that hash at least decoupled from the content?

Edit: clarification
>>The use of herbicides and pesticides is completely unregulated.

In my country(India) this is already a very big problem. Apart from the impact on insects, pests etc. Its also a big problem for Humans ourselves. There have been villages full of people with cancer. In fact there are even trains going from villages to cities, name like cancer trains.

Apparently this all had to be done, to tackle India's growing population problem.

One more thing that no body is talking about in this case. Over population of earth, and effects it's causing on resources we humans consume. That's beyond all that Carbon we venting it in the air.

How long before we see some big problems(famines, food shortages) showing up?
Meanwhile Overstock.com is selling their retail business and going into blockchain. There is still some hysteria going on.
That was in a wealthier neighborhood in Vero Beach. Everybody had perfect lawns and was spraying them a lot. Nobody let their children on the lawn either.
Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Intent to Merge Update
Forbes [1] has relatively neutral coverage. It is surprising that they didn't get a .gov for this -- it makes the whole thing look kind of phishy.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/11/26/ohi...
I thought DejaVu Sans was pretty descent, especially as a terminal font.
You can think of R as a wrapper around Fortran, in much the same way that Python is a wrapper around C.

Not only does building R itself require a Fortran compiler, common packages do as well. If you look inside your R package tarballs, particularly of solvers, you will see Fortran.

(Scientific computing libraries in Python also wrap Fortran, but CPython doesn't depend on it. Base R depends on Fortran.)
> people are free to marry whoever they please

Yes, as of 2015. What about before then? For all those years, "free to marry whoever" was not the law

> Marijuana is legal in the majority of states

Only 11 states actually have marijuana legal for recreational use. See http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/state-marij...
Git histories absolutely are something in the blockchain family of data structures, yes, but they’re not a blockchain proper: the defining chacteristic of such data structures is that they use hashes instead of pointers as references to elements. Merkle trees and blockchains are analogous to trees and singly linked lists, respectively, while git histories are DAGs.

Where things got murky was that the cryptocurrency crowd started to talk about the blockchain that backs Bitcoin in terms where the consensus layer was left implicit (our own Linux vs GNU/Linux story if you want to see it that way), then people less knowledgeable about cryptography started pouring in, they learned a bunch of new terminology, and along the way missed the nuance about the consensus layer being left implicit, so in their minds (and the world at large, eventually) blockchain means the combined data structure and consensus layer — It’s fairly obvious that git doesn’t meet the requirements for this definition of “blockchain”.
Summarizing an element of the documents, Collins said that "an engineer at Facebook notified the company in October 2014 that entities with Russian IP addresses had been using a Pinterest API key to pull over 3 billion data points a day through the Ordered Friends API."
Great story dude. We can't pretend more people don't think like this. People working in and around corporations can make a difference by talking about it with other people. Thanks for sharing!
Because there are lots of climates and many of them require constant watering to have a green lawn? Sprinkling systems are a huge business.
I know of Goldschmied, Silberschmied,
Kupferschmied,
Feinschmied,
Grobschmied,
Messerschmied, and Stahlschmied ({gold, silver, copper, fine, coarse, blade, steel} smith), all of which are either current trades or preserved as last names.
Of note, the site attempts to run malicious javascript by some organization known as "Centify" that interferes with the User Agent. It attempts to block reading of the text based on the User Agent acting on behalf of the user by removing extraneous images and scripts.
Tether launches trading platform only for the rich
That's like weirdly sweet in a way
The value of brand is rising which increases the prices paid by consumers for commodities. This makes people buy less of the underlying commodity and more of the overarching brand.

Think about coffee. It’s a commodity. But more people are spending $4-5 on a single cup instead of $4-$5 on a pound of grounds. Spending power does not match price change.

A good historical case study is Standard Oil. In an effort to stabilize prices and reduce peaks, Standard oil established last mile delivery for refined oil. People bought Standard Oil at the grocery store. Standard didn’t start buying oil wells until 20 years into the company after they had pressured prices down to the bottom.
I was specifically addressing the Budapest Memorandum. It often gets brought up under the mistaken belief that it requires the signatories to defend Ukraine, and thus that the other signatories are in violation for not defending Ukraine against Russia.
I think that the USA is definitely a proponent of free speech, and actually that it takes it to extremes.

Pretty much the only speech outlawed is child pornography and that which a reasonable person would see as inciting imminent violence. That's a pretty high bar, higher than any other country I've ever heard of.
Blockchains are pointless for "enterprise security" because "enterprise" already implies a trusted authority.
I know you can offer subscriptions and purchases in the app. I just don't understand how anyone thinks Netflix, Amazon, etc are forced to, because they aren't.
The vast bulk of that 20 grams is packaging, the die is probably less than 1 gram.
Both are good. I'm sure Google carefully tracks why candidates decline jobs at Google, and if enough of them say "I can't work with you because you're doing specific evil thing X," then it becomes more and more worth it not to do X.

Similarly, if internal morale is in decline and reports come back saying that it's because of X, that also has a real (and quite possibly quantifiable) cost.
> A believer that software engineers are cogs and can just be “replaced” without training and learning of code bases.

In other words, every single person who is not a software developer, especially anybody in any form of "management"?
So basically... Batteries are heavy which leads to heat issues that are easier addressed on the ground than in the air?
Why All JavaScript Developers Should Learn TypeScript
And then you need to pay taxes on the bitcoin used to pay the taxes!

Well, only if you bought it a while back, in the early stages of the pyramid.
We're already doing this, but unfortunately this doesn't work well when you are expecting lots of parallel calls, and various times.

The obvious solution would be to just merge microservices into the same lambda, but then we'd rather switch to EKS or smth, and actually be able to utilize microservice architecture fully.

To give a little more context, we have a bunch of microservices exposing GraphQL endpoints/schemas. We then have a Gateway which stitches these together, and exposes a public GraphQL schema. Because of the flexibility (by design) of GraphQL, we can easily end up invoking multiple parallel calls to several microservices, when the schema gets transformed in the Gateway.

This works really well, and gives a lot of flexibility in designing our APIs, especially utilizing microservices to the full extent. It also works really well when the lambdas are already warm, but when we then get one cold start, amongst them all, suddenly we go from responses in ms, to responses in seconds, which I don't think is acceptable.

We've been shaving off things here and there, but we are at the mercy of cold starts more of less. So our current plan is to migrate to an EKS setup, we just need to get a fully automated deployment story going, to replace our current CI/CD setup, which heavily uses the serverless framework.
> On the official Ohio Treasurer’s website, they explain why they are adopting crypto payments:

> Cryptocurrencies cannot be transferred to third parties without user initiation, thereby practically eliminating fraud;

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/07/1-point-1b-in-cryptocurrency...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/steve-wozniak-had-70000-in...

http://fortune.com/2018/02/14/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-blockch...
I like reading slower personable stories, but I generally get that from fiction or from an article that's _about_ a person's experience. I get really frustrated when scientific articles get too bogged down in stuff like that.
sometimes you don't really want a blockchain, you actually want a "Distributed Ledger".

It's similar in that a DLC also requires consensus.
It's different in that a DLC need not be a "chain of blocks". i.e. a linked-list as it's core data structure.

The Difference Between Blockchains & Distributed Ledger Technology
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-difference-between-blockc...
> Why dont western companies band together and threaten a boycott

Isn't companies banding together and agreeing to restrict business in a market a combination in restraint of trade, which is explicitly illegal?
Then again, when you look at the rest of the economy it would seem that people only have a two year memory for really bad ideas, at best.
>Like nails, or hinges, or gates, or locks, or tools for other workers.

Most of these would have been luxuries to most, the exception being the tools which would have still been rare belonging to tradesmen.

Nails in the late 1400's a 6 penny nail would have been about 1 USD a piece, a 16 penny nail about 2.60 USD a piece, nails were largely used for nice furniture/chests/affixing hardware which again would have been mostly for those in higher stations in life.

Gates, ha, outside of castles gates were wood or movable stones used to block openings in rock walls (this is what the original Húsafell stone, of Strongman fame, was). Same for hinges, you wouldn't have seen too many doors outside of castles and businesses as you needed skilled tradesmen to even attempt to build structures that had remotely square corners.

For locks, the Medievalist has a good article about them (it's a great site/publication in general) http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/medieval-padlocks-an-int... the article is actually linked on that page as a PDF after a brief introduction. Didn't want to direct link the PDF for those with bandwidth limitations.
Great point, turn over is expensive.
Inb4 a phisher makes OHlOCRYPTO.ORG.
Yes, I used to think stocks were a good investment, but then that one year they all crashed and I realized stocks are all hype.
It's nice to get in the car and drive to a park, arboretum, nature trail or beach, but if you have a to-do list for the day (or have just come home from work, or are about to leave for work), then the only practical way to enjoy the outdoors is if you can fire up the grill in a small piece of it that you maintain for yourself. It is also a lot better to host social events on private land, because you will not contradict with anybody else's events, and you have the resources of your house.
I wouldn't know. I disable all custom typefaces.
One issue that was talked about some years ago and has sort of fallen off the news cycle was overcapacity for maritime transport. That could have contributed to it, or maybe it's another symptom of the underlying cause.

https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersion...
This is one of those things that always gets repeated, but I have some strong doubts about how successful it could be. You are deliberately slowing your revenue stream by limiting your throughput, and losing customers due to the long line deterrence. Popularity may get you in the news, but it doesn't pay the bills by itself...you need to actually sell stuff to do that.

I have doubts that it would even work as a way to get your name on the map. If you have a new restaurant, your arrivals are going to be so slow that if you even tried to limit your speed to the point where you build a line out the door, your customers are going to see right through it. Initial 1-star reviews for things like taking too long to get your food to the customers would be far more damaging to your business than the benefit of having a line out the door as some sort of quality signal.

If it were possible to know the opportunity costs of the strategy, it would make for an interesting optimization problem. As it stands, I can't help but think it's purely a losing strategy. The restaurant industry is counterintuitive for almost everybody...shitty restaurants can stick around forever, and extremely popular restaurants regularly go out of business. Cash flow is King. If you are sacrificing cash flow in exchange for popularity, you may succeed in becoming popular, but good luck sticking around and making money.
Yes, but the article makes clear that the content is spread across many different .TLDs (possible reasons for this are offered in the article) which combine for 100 million monthly page-views.
You need to have paid taxes on the USD you use to pay taxes, too. Just saying.
Precision neuroengineering produces brain-like functions in vitro
Mox fuel based nuclear reactors never really took off. Thus producing mox fuel by reprocessing used nuclear fuel rods never turned out to address a big market.

Cleaning this up is probably a similar challenge compared the Hanford plutonium reprocessing plant in the US. I hope they do a much better job this time around.
Some of these miss the mark, e.g. depending on what you're doing with PII storing hashes or symmetric encryptions would work fine. Similarly, updates can be accomplished by writing new entries, which is how Bitcoin works; you read all blocks ever and steadily build up a (local) database of all the unspent transactions, and update those as new blocks come in. Namecoin works similarly but for DNS entries. It's no different than replaying a transaction log in a standard DB (once) to reconstruct the current state.

Where >99% of blockchain proposals fall down, though, is that they don't actually need the "anyone can commit" property. Businesses sure as hell wouldn't allow random strangers to commit to their internal blockchain, so they don't really need one at all. They would only allow some small number of vetted, authenticated external parties to do so, in which case normal account mechanisms work fine.
I stopped reading when it implies software engineers are not real engineers.
Canada needs to just go ahead and buy the US’s milk.
No, but the apps are. Spotify comes in at 98MB, and Kindle at 113MB. That is a lot of bandwidth. Since Amazon don't offer IAP, they get that for free, Spotify do offer IAP, so contribute that way.
Now 91, > 0.1%.

I'd be curious to hear what people think a reasonable target is, 1%?
It seems clear to me that the role of genetics is to prepare you to survive/thrive in your parents' (and grandparents') environment. I would assume that as the environment changes over time, that the genetic makeup of their children would change (over generations), due to varying demands and "marrying up." Maybe environmental changes are limited to epigenetic changes, and "marrying up" produces the real genome variation, but still, the story is more complicated.

A short-sighted focus on "keeping people where their genes fit" ignores our tendency to improve our communities by conscious effort, up to and (by collaboration) beyond our innate capabilities.

I really dislike the focus on the individual and the "sorting problem", as distinct from the focus on community.
>if anyone is keeping Lambdas warm at more than n=1 capacity

There are various ways to do it, but I feel that it's a very suboptimal solution, and it still won't guarentee no cold starts happen.

I've personally come to the conclusion, that lambda is very nice for anything non-latency sensitive. We are still using it to great effect for e.g. processing incoming IoT data samples, which can vary quite a lot, but only happens in the backend, and nobody will care if it's 1-2 seconds delayed.
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If you're developing something dealing with sensitive info (like, say, something processing cryptocurrencies) and you can't audit your codebase then you shouldn't be doing it in the first place frankly.

Of course in this case this is made worse by the fact that Javascript is so under-featured by default that you have to pull a ridiculous amount of dependencies to do anything which makes it a lot harder to audit everything. Besides since the language is so dynamic it's easy to write a very small, very powerful "shellcode" that can hook itself up anywhere in the software stack.
So much for that $12 billion in farm aid. Who’s actually getting that money? Big ag?
> All men are created equal.

- U.S. Declaration of Independence

The above statement is false. That's more clear than ever and geno-economics contributes to that clarity. If you live your life by this assumption you will get many important things wrong.

Yet this clearly wrong statement, as applied to the operation of the rule of law, is also one of the most brilliant, important and useful concepts invented by civilization. As a proposition for how to engineer law to support a flourishing society, it is true and right.

I think that's the right way to deal with this controversy. Acknowledge that people have significant and important differences that are beyond their control, while also acknowledging that such difference can be overwhelmed by the effects of their nurturing and other controllable differences, such that it's better to judge them holistically and personally when that data is available.
We run an auto-scaled pool of C5 instances that host stateless containerized services. T* instances don’t make sense since we run them pretty warm all the time. If we need less capacity, we scale down. The appeal for this type of workload is purely compute per dollar spent. They are substantially cheaper than the x86 options.
I use namecheap too, been a customer for several years, find the pricing good and haven't looked elsewhere because it's met all my needs.
You will still want stripping (raid 0) if you truly require more performance and more unified storage (single storage pool as opposed to 6 individual drives).

Usually each NVMe drive has own pcie lanes, so having two drives raided gains performance over having one drive. AMD is now really pushing into having bonus lanes, so for threadripper they published reports on 6x raid0 of nvme ssds, where they got 21gigabytes/s reads out of storage.

https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2017/10/02/n...

Please note, it is now important to check motherboard information regarding pci lanes availability, and ensure that between GPU and M2 there are plenty pcie lanes. Some early motherboards had 4 m2 slots, but only first 3 slots guarantees pcie lanes, while utilizing 4th would force sharing of pcie lanes and be slower than first 3.
I don't remember the transition from serial cables to USB being as bad. Yes, you needed adapters or new hardware, but USB has always "just worked". There are corner cases and limitations to it, of course, but USB was never (at least in my experience) anywhere near the headache that Bluetooth was... and still often is.

I use Bluetooth, and in most cases I even like it, but it's still way more of a hassle than it should be, especially for something that's been around as long as it has. I didn't realize it was around as long as you described.
Mentors, partners, humans that know you and your situation well.
The homeowner's association has a lot of power in the US, so it is inevitable that it will be misused and used incompetently. However only in the most close-minded and controlling of suburbs can you not plant a vegetable garden.
> Only director or vice president level are restricted and even those only during certain timeframes around quarterly earning announcements.

I realize that high-level employees are the ones that jump through these hoops. But according to https://www.investopedia.com/articles/03/100803.asp it looks like any insider with material non-public information could be subject to insider trading violations by the SEC.

So if I'm a low-level coder and discover a critical flaw that would materially affect the stock price once made public, shouldn't it be wrong for me to sell my shares at that point?
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Are there not open source fonts? Seems like this ecosystem would be very large, since so many designers want to enhance their portfolio. Basically any font should be a commodity.

What am I missing?
I wonder how much of that is changing tastes away from dairy and towards things such milk replacements such as almond milk.
Indeed. I'm not quite sure how that was misread.
Yeah, I guess blacks must hate record low unemployment. [1]
Lowest unemployment for the whole country since 1969 at 3.7% [2] 3.5-4.2 percent GDP growth [3] which Obama claimed Trump couldn't do, lacking a magic wand [4]

But I guess if you're interested in virtue signaling, checking boxes and waxing poetic about what could have been...rather than looking at actual quality of life stats for Americans...I guess the U.S. might look like a lost cause.

Oh and if you want to understand the electoral college, read The Federalist Papers [5]. It's far more resilient to corruption than a nationwide popular vote.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/news/economy/black-unemploy...
[2] https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/410081-kudlow-says-latest-...
[3] https://www.bea.gov/news/glance
[4] https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/281936-oba...
[5] http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1786-1800/the-federalist...
They specifically said that it wasn't that way for their region. Which could be useful info...if this is occurring at different rates in different areas, we might be able to more easily pinpoint the causes.