skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not crazy, and it's what makes this proposal even more appropriate than other languages. "int" is already a magic type.
Fair point. My comment about Ebay had more to do with the weird split they had between "Bid Now" and "Buy it Now", and the confusion I faced when searching for a product and having to look at both the price AND shipping.

This was because Ebay took their cut off the sale price, not the shipping cost. So sellers would reduce the sale price and jack up the shipping rate, which is where they made their margins.

Haven't bought anything on Ebay in years, so I don't know if they cracked down on that practice.
1 Bed apartment in city center Dublin 2K a month.
Thats 24K a year.
For the sake of simplicity, that means you earn 48K to pay for that 24k (Tax)
The landlord gets 24K into their pocket.
They pay the government 12K in tax (50% threshold assumed again)

Landlord spends that 12k on fun activities. They pay 23% VAT

The government is making an absolute fortune with this absurd rental market.

Let's not even get into the high cost of mortgages because the government has a non trivial share in banks after they went bust 10 years ago.
Yeah, stimulant therapy works extraordinarily well for ADHD. Like, it's basically the best psychiatric intervention known. It doesn't work for everyone, but it's the first line treatment for a reason.
I did that as well; I threw all the images afterwards up on a S3 bucket and set up Cloudfront in front and it's relatively easy / cheap to host.
Everyone is focusing on the Maginot Line metaphor, and possible historical inaccuracies in what the author wrote. However, the important word from the title is not "Maginot", it's "Digital".

In reading the author's assessments of a wide range of topics, including free speech, digital militarization, and more, I found that there was actually quite a lot of valuable takeaways from their perspective, even for the reader that doesn't agree with 100% of the content.

However, if you are finding yourself roadblocked by the comparison to the Maginot Line, I encourage you to disregard this portion of the text and skip past it; the loss of the metaphor is not fatal to the rest of the content.
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Out of curiosity: What is the response time on cold starts?
You could hurt other people's scores though right? Like if you and one other competitor traded wins on different days, but you had a second account that you posted the same solution to, your competitor would get third place on your winning days (and thus fewer points).

(Please don't do this!)
Problem with that line of thinking is that it doesn't seem to lead to anywhere. Or am I missing something?
They were sued by BeOS for antitrust reasons.

Mysteriously computers with Linux preinstalled cost the same as Windows computers.
People have traditionally wanted to use the maximum sized type that can fit in a register.
I thought we'd abandoned the practice of writing articles that start by bragging about the author's "Apple fanboy" cred, followed by comparing Apple to a religion. I can't possibly take any article seriously that still does that.
I moved continents twice, starting 18 years ago. I feel your pain.
He’s helping Haunted by telling her the unvarnished truth. She can still do something positive with her life but many doors are now closed for her.
Yes, it uses delve under the hood and acts much the same way as VS.
You'll note the description of my proposed return reason includes the photos as part of the description (not sure if that's currently implied) as well as requiring actual product manufacturer and model numbers.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaand today they announced support!
Why would taking down the C&C for one week kill the botnet? Or for that matter even a few months. I assume the bots can just keep trying to find the C&C until it finally gets through.
Smaller subreddits (like the one you linked) are typically against shitposting as well.
The legacy of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories
> Being compassionate is an act of resistance; it is different from being caring, or passive. Compassion, literally meaning ‘to suffer with’, is rooted in our loving desire to be alongside one another in our common struggle for a better spiritual and social reality. Compassion is an act of resistance because the compassionate cannot rest until all suffering has ended. Compassion is the recognition that none of us are free until we are all free.

-- Keith Hebden

For me it's also a way to expand my own life beyond my own life. That is, to take joy in the wellbeing of others, even though I can't feel their wellbeing as they do, still multiplies the joy I can have in life immensely. Compassion can bring sadness, sure, but I think it's more than made up for by the satisfaction it can bring, too. You might say I try to not always be selfish for purely selfish reasons.

In a rather free and bad translation, couldn't find it in English:

> Humans keep themselves in a passable height above hellish depths towards which they gravitate only by using all their powers and helping each other lovingly. Among each other they are connected by strong ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around a person get loose and they sink a little lower than the rest into the empty void, and it's horrible when the ropes around a person break and they fall. This is why one should stick with others. I suspect that girls keep us up high because they are so light, that is why we should love the girls and they should love us.

-- Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak, 20th December 1903

It's from 1903, so I hope it's possible to enjoy the wisdom and cuteness without getting up on the last sentence :) Also "stick with others" is particularly badly translated and sounds weird, but keep the "lovingly help each other" bit in mind, don't hold my translation against Kafka.
I mean, that's very person-specific. I wouldn't take a job that was mostly work-at-home.
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Curated list of framework component libraries for UI styles/design
1GB ... I mean, take a J2EE service including the runtime and see what that package winds up at. That's about as big as it will likely need to get.
I'm using Passenger for serving up apps, which supports Python, Node, and Ruby. Got some basic Node support right now, but have plans to add Python soon. I haven't used Python deeply for quite a few years, so I've got a lot to catch up on to figure out what'd be best for that.

Shoot me an email and we should chat about Python support! chris @ gorails com
Read the early versions, that's exactly what I am doing too!

I read Bitcoin 0.1.5 [1], which only has 15,000LOC and is the first tagged version on Github. Compared with the current Bitcoin codebase with 320,000LOC, it's much less daunting!

[1]: https://github.com/CodeReaderMe/awesome-code-reading/issues/...
Careful. I posted about the insane amount of Amazon spam yesterday and the Amazon employees who post all of this stuff downvoted me hard.
I doubt that they would have surrendered in couple of months in a way that would have not exposed Americans to risk of losing their lives.
Yes, Rust is my other option I'm leaning towards. In process of learning it by building a ray tracer, so doing Advent of Code would be another way to get more familiar with it.
> I know almost no one reads EULAs, but mortgages?! That's just depressing.

One of the scary things about moving abroad, is that I signed mortgage papers in a language I couldn't read. Sure there were helpful tables summerizing the rates, and an amortisation table, etc. But the finer details? I had to trust that they were "typical".

(I did have my local-wife read everything, but even so it was a scary moment, which didn't get any easier the second time I bought a place.)
Ultimately this is probably the real solution: Less work, more remote.
I'm an active hatchbox user as well. It just makes deploying so much easier (and the ssl + backups is nice too).
Curious how you guys feel about the article.

It takes a pretty strong stance, but - for those of us working on teams - it's easy to get caught up in a Code Review and come out with a sour experience.

Have any of you stopped advocating for Code Reviews because of a negative experience?
Cold starts for the VM are only part of the problem. If you're on a JITed runtime, a cold start also means compilation and optimization. It would be nice if they had ways to cache the JITed machine code so they could start back up with it already compiled and optimized.
I certainly agree older folk yelling at younger whippersnappers is a constant, but turn it on it's head for a moment: when it happens the other way around, no one questions it. "It's the Boomer's fault!" Millennial's proclaim, and every culture mag now runs a similar story.

There is something to be said for the wisdom of elders. Yes we should discard the grumpy old complaining because of change, but are we to really say all the complaints are invalid just because "it's always been done?"

I think of other societies, primarily Asian, that have deep respect for the thoughts and opinions of their elders. I think of how almost every faith, including the three major abrahamic religions explicity command followers to honor thy mother and thy father (which is generalized to honor your elders). Yet in this country, and most western countries, the fad is to kick the old out as soon as you can! "Out with the old, in with the new! Pay no mind to old people's grumbling! Their wisdom is invalided! Their opinions on culture and where society is headed is invalid!" -- And one can only wonder, is this why history is doomed to repeat itself over and over again?

We blow off what the "geezers" are telling us "Psh! Get with the times old man, things are different now!"

In my opinion, humanity hasn't changed much in the past couple thousand years. We would do better to listen to some more grumblings of the geezers. Maybe getting off a lawn or two wouldn't be so bad after all.
We are closer than you might think, as I am too in Northland.

For me it is hiking and sometimes kayaking.
Fargate tasks can now be initiated by CloudWatch Events as well[1]. Lambda will always be at the extreme end of "serverless", but over time I expect the lines to blur more especially since Fargate will now be based on Firecraker[2] which has 125ms startup times for container workloads.

1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-farga...

2. https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
what was your motivation for choosing NZ? I think NZ could be a very lonely place for a newcomer without an ethnic immigrant community. Your best bet is picking up a trade. You'll not find a large enough white collar economy in NZ.
Have you tried go modules since 1.11? It's significantly simpler now than it was before.
Why wouldn't Docker layers work the same way? More work but possible by stacking base images.
Thanks for the Ruby links.

With the native ruby support[3], I wonder how hard it would be to implement a Lambda ActiveJob handler..
On the flip side, the previous office in the suburbs with 90% car ridership probably forced everyone to own a car and drive in. The other stat didn't show how many people wanted to drive in, either. This seems like an apples to apples comparison to me.
I want an invitation code!
Whatever little you have, whatever unexciting life you've lived, whoever you've become, it has to be enough.
Where do you live? I bought a car that was <2 years old with <30k miles for just under 8 grand. You can easily find good cars for less than $15k. In fact, 15k is nearly enough for a brand new nissan sentra.
And with a median home price of $200k, $15k is nearly half of a down payment if you want to avoid mortgage insurance, and is plenty if youre willing to take on mortgage insurance.
You could take Pokémon, while technically a GB/C title, as a solid 8-bit example of some of this.

Yet another reason why perhaps NES isn’t the best title.
Ha, I figured that.

It rocketed to the front page without any relation to HN's usual topics. And it looked like something that the manosphere/traditionalist/right-wing-droning-youtubers would see as a vindication of their ideas. e.g. https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/974377252212346880

It is a little strange to have to take one person's letter to an advice columnist and use it as grist for which gender has it worse, but, that's their obsession I guess.
I actually just recently took a shot at something very similar to this for my undergrad thesis! [0]

I used genetic algorithms to generate 4 measure melodies, using a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to determine the fitness of melodies. I trained the LSTM on snippets of music by J.S. Bach. It was able to distinguish between random noise notes and actual music quite well, and to a somewhat lesser degree between Bach and other composers.

The melodies it produced were...mixed in quality. I really liked some of them, but quite often it would get stuck at some local maxima of the fitness and couldn't mutate its way to something better.

[0] https://github.com/ThomasMatlak/is-software/tree/master/gene...
Asana raises $50M at a $1.5B valuation
They may start young, but that doesn't make them authors (published).
Hi! This is super common feedback and something the team is definitely thinking about! What would you want to see it increased to? (Chris Munns from Serverless @ AWS)
That doesn’t address the point about people driving to the transit station. If someone is willing to tolerate driving their car one hour, adding a transit leg will just allow them to drive one hour while living slightly further from their office, which in isolation doesn’t help the environment.
>Public utilities are regulated as such because of the high capital costs to deliver to everyone and the need to gain the right of way to serve people.

In other words, they're natural monopolies which we regulate because market dynamics don't work when you have a natural monopoly. The same reason we highly regulated and then broke up Bell Telephone and Standard Oil before it.

App stores and online infrastructure are also natural monopolies, but they become so due to agglomeration and network effects. Regardless of the route, the end result is the same.

>So now an iPhone is a “necessary tool”?

A smartphone and its associated app ecosystem is, yes. Google's system isn't much better. And there doesn't seem to be much room for many other players.

Again, regular home telephones were deemed necessary enough to regulate and break up. So was oil refining and finance.
> why do CPU's still have JUMP instructions you could counter-argue

Machine code is linear and executed one instruction at a time. It does not have the concept of blocks, so there is no way to have structured programming. Jumps are the only way to create a loop or conditional.
Once C++ modules support comes out it will become a lot more interesting, removing the need for makefiles hopefully.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html
> Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren't yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

> Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup – they all die. So do we.

> And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and the sane living.

> Think of what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes.

-- Robert Fulghum, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"
Lambda seems pretty reasonably priced, but Step Function transitions seem absurdly expensive to me. Who is actually using Step Functions?
I want someone to 3D print hollow parts inside of a vacuum chamber. It seems like an easy way to bring down the weight of a part even further.
That's great, I'm so happy for you.
I don't like Go either, but I'm making my entire product on it. The reason is that I need multiple services, with a small memory foot print, which compiles to binary, all of which runs for web with either HTML or REST. As far as I can see there is no alternative. Java, which I've used for 15 years, requires a JVM, the currenct Alpine Docker for Java only go to 8, and require too much memory. Dlang looks interesting, but I can't find any modern resources on how to program it. The book I have says I have to pick between two competing collection libraries that are not interchangeable. C++ is not a good choice for what I'm doing. For the same reasons C# and Erlang/Elixer are out. As a result it does this better than mainstream languages.
I think to a large extent it's about personal preferences. I greatly prefer living in a (medium sized, ~1.5m people) city and being able to walk most places and take public transport to the remainder.
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What if at 55 she realizes she wasted her time reading folklore of non-existent super beings, time she could have used to advance her art or volunteer for actual charities and impact the world?
That study was in C. elegans. Has anything similar been done in mammals?
Docker isn't a runtime, its a packaging technology. The Runtime API is a simple standard interface that will allow you to run even Docker containers if you so desired.
> If you haven't read Ecclesiastes, I suggest you do. It was written by some old, powerful man (no one really knows who), basically reflecting on his life and imparting wisdom.

No one knows that it was written by an old, powerful man, either. The tradition is that it was written by King Solomon and contains his parables, and that the framing device of a third-person narrator reflecting on someone else's parable is a rhetorical device, but there are certainly interpretations that, whoever the subject is, the (primary, there are some parts that are generally accepted to come from a different author than the main body) author is (as the framing suggests) a third person narrator, relating wisdom sayings that came from, or at least are attributed to, another source.
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California’s housing shortage has companies carving up apartments to lower rent
The main "fear porn" here that I think relates, and it's more of a tangent than any direct connection, is the propaganda associated with the War On Drugs, just as a comparison to the realities of the opioid epidemic. Some of the issues that were associated with various illegal drug epidemics were legitimate (particularly addictive substances that had the potential to destroy your health like heroin and cocaine), but the propaganda ended up being a moral panic implemented for sometimes questionable (possibly tribalism oriented) reasons, where a few substances (some of them, like cannabis, being relatively harmless) ended up getting demonized, a way-too-high amount of Americans got arrested for trifles as a result, and so forth. Ironically a large portion of the drugs in this epidemic were not in this much demonized category.

Back on topic, the "messaging" here that directly relates, as far as the opioid epidemic goes, is the opposite: the lax regulation of the marketing for prescription drugs. Purdue Pharmaceutical was allowed to engage in a lot of aggressive marketing courting physicians with plenty of symposiums and swag. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/) The marketing hugely downplayed the addiction potential of Oxycontin, over-promoting the use cases and underplaying risk. (Along the way you get some IMHO absurd swag like an Oxycontin-sponsored 50s swing music compilation -- https://www.reddit.com/r/SwingDancing/comments/593xof/til_th... -- I mean, what?) This helped contribute to the opioid over-prescription problem.

Sober, fact based analysis -- present in neither of the above scenarios -- unfortunately is in short supply these days.

Personally, I haven't seen the sort of aggressive marketing you see in America for prescription drugs in any other country -- at least, I don't recall seeing the sort of direct-to-consumer prescription ads anywhere else, (I was able to find articles that said DTCA is quite restricted in Europe --https://www.pharmafield.co.uk/in_depth/pharmaceutical-direct...). I think pharmacy-to-physician marketing is still allowed in most places, but the above shows that work needs to be done to ensure that this marketing also is sober and fact based. Even physicians can be persuaded by "marketing swag". (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5623540/)
It’s politically incorrect, but I feel like feminism has sold a massive lie to women like this.

Admittedly much of what she describes could apply to either gender, but it’s women who are hit hardest by fading looks and declining fertility.

It used to be accepted cultural knowledge that if a woman desired marriage and children, she should probably spend her ‘best years’ looking for and committing to a husband. Now you’d be labelled a misogynist for even suggesting that.

Women have been indoctrinated to think that they can spend their 20s and early 30s being ‘the poster child for serial monogamy’, and then have a husband fall into their lap when they’re ready for it. I’m sure it works out for many of them, but I feel sorry for the ones for whom it doesn’t.
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Can lab-grown human brains think?
Display a “Stop it” message to users who resize your site too frequently
On the, um, third hand, if the alternatives are to impose restocking fees across the board, or to resell returns as new, these policies seem reasonable.
> to create something that outlives them

It's part of the human condition.
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Yes, it's strange they didn't do this. Azure and GCP are headed that way, and there are smaller vendors doing the same thing.

Per-event invocation of a docker container instead of a specific bundle of code seems much more flexible, especially with the Firecracker tech they announced.
When it works, it's great, and in spite of so-called "statistics" to the contrary, it works pretty reliably for me during rush hour.
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Yes! We are definitely looking forward to championing awesome projects to build languages for the Runtime API. Take a look at the Rust and C++ examples as they show you a bit of how it all works. (Chris from AWS Serverless team)
If your home and work are right near BART stations, then that's really not bad. The killer is when you have to do "last mile" commuting, and the commute becomes multimodal. I'm doing that now and I absolutely hate it.
It is wrong, because it does not help with loneliness nor with feeling like your existence is pointless.

It amounts to demand to not talk about it openly, because it would be not nice (or rude) to tell someone else that she/he is lonely etc.
A few reasons off the top of my head:

* Simplifies refactoring tools.

* Encourages a consistent style in the ecosystem from the beginning.

* Not needing specialized tooling to grep for an identifier in a codebase.

* Being able to Google a particular function name.

* Consistency in identifier naming when looking at a stacktrace.