skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardfloor are masters of the 303. In addition to Acperience, check out their semi-recent track the Art of Acid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OvWMAzhdOQ
Seems like this could be a great remote storage backend for Prometheus.
Including megabytes of unrelated .gifs in the blog post kind of undermines the point here...
I am looking forward to the day when the pairing will be fixed ...
So it seems this is in competition with the IBM Hyperledger offering. Does anybody know if the enterprise users of hyperledger prefer IBM's on-premise solution or are hyperledger deployments mostly happening in the cloud already anyways?
God that's awful. Where are you from?
Military crack down on sextortion ring targeting service members
Yeah, hate is a strong word. Then again helping people build generic crappy apps - which seems like is most of the user base - is probably disheartening.

I worked for a SEO company for about a year making SaaS tools to help "analyze keywords", "supply backlinks", "generate content" and other woo woo magic. Waking up and walking to work was fun for only the first month :/

Most of the users made crappy copy-paste websites and did whatever they could to get a better rank on search engines.
> As a black employee I'm very plugged in the EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP
re: assaulting his ex-wife: no allegedly. He pleaded no contest for that.

Also, and it's quite minor given the other stuff discussed here, it seems like he expected not to pay his staff for a couple weeks and have them hang out and wait for him. Or maybe the employees liked their manager / his ex-wife.
What do you mean by "the same item" ? You cannot really "edit" things other people drew. You can delete something as someone else is drawing it. Then it doesn't really matter if the other person continues drawing, the item will eventually be deleted.
A famous Zen story says a very similar thing:

There was once a general who asked the Zen master Hakuin:"Are there really such things as Heaven and Hell?"

"What do you do for a living?" Hakuin asked him.

"I'm a general."

"Ha, ha, ha! What idiot asked you to be his general? You look more like a butcher to me", the Zen master teased the general.

"I'll cut you to pieces!" the general angrily pulled his sword.

"Here lie the gates of Hell!" said the master.

"Excuse me...Please forgive my insolence.”

And Hakuin said:"Here lie the gates of Heaven."

Heaven and Hell aren't places that suddenly appear after death. They exist here and now. Good and evil involve just a single instant of thought, and the gates of Heaven and Hell are ready to open for you at any time. (From Zen Stories: The Staff and Shout of the Venerable Ones)
Dude should read Candid.
the plutonium in the vial had undergone an unanticipated transformation overnight. Some of the liquid had been converted into gas and was pushing against the walls of the bottle. Other molecules were tunneling into the sides of the glass itself.

Unaware of the small bomb he was holding, Mastick snapped the slender neck of the vial. It made a small, popping sound in the quiet laboratory. Instantly the material spewed out of the bottle and onto the wall in front of him. Some of the solution ricocheted back into his mouth, flooding his lips and tongue with a metallic taste.

[...]

He had just swallowed a significant amount of the world's supply of plutonium.

[...]

When the mouth washings finally were finished, Hempelmann ordered the young man to lie down on a cot. Then he pumped out his stomach several times. Carefully he transferred the stomach liquids into a tall beaker.

[...]

Hempelmann gave the young chemist a couple of breakfast waffles for his empty stomach and some Sippy alkaline powders to be taken during the day. Then he turned and handed him the four-liter beaker of murky liquid.

Go, he said, retrieve the plutonium.
There are at least 7 Amazon-related stories on the HN front page right now, what’s going on?
Holy moly, no! Leaving work at work is the only way to stay sane for me! Except the occasional outing with the select few coworkers I can call friends, of course. I can't pretend to be something I'm not, and I'm not friends with 99% of the people I work with. It would only end badly if I pretended to be.
Most of the job positions all of FAANG have posted have been open for months, some for over a year. They are really hiring and have no problem paying market rate. That's a counterexample.
A Eulogy for a Cow: How commodified animals die
Evidence-oriented programming language
That's almost exactly my terms. In my case, not so much as a harsh word between us--ex just decided she deserved it, and that's the way the law works. My current gross doesn't even cover alimony. (And alimony isn't deductible while you're unemployed, nor can you make qualified withdrawals from retirement accounts to pay for it.)

Still pretty happy to be rid of her. Be careful out there...
Not sure what you mean by 'consequences' for the unprotected classes in this context, but the age discrimination case would only be valid if both the Over-40 candidate and Under-40 candidate were equally qualified, and the Over-40 candidate was rejected solely because they are too close to retirement age.

Note that due to the letter of the EEO law, there is NOT actionable age discrimination if all candidates were over 40, and for example, the 60 year old was rejected in favor of a 41 year old for the same reason as above.

edit: I should also mention IANAL
Huge props to AWS for being honest and not blockchain-washing.
Great idea! I'd love a way to filter by TLD
> Also I want to point out some basic math, if the traits are independent, the odds of finding a person who is more of each of those traits than average i.e. > 5 / 10 on each is 1/2^8

If by “average” you mean ”median”, sure (the median is an average, by not the only or most common one), but it's pretty obvious that they aren't independent. Curious, creative, and sees the big picture are clearly correlated, as are communicates well, humble, and teaches others, as are honest and brave. There may even be correlations between the three groups.
I wish people of my color, gender, or belief were allowed to make a club, or join yours. It sounds great. Maybe something like this is why whites commit suicide so much more than blacks in America (per CDC [1]). Blacks suffer in many ways but at least they're allowed to make a community just about themselves, and that's valuable.

[1] https://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2013/04/05/us_...!
The pricing page is available at https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/on-demand/ , but it looks like it's not yet updated with the per-request rates. The blog post mentions rates in us-east-1: "in the US East (N. Virginia) region, you are charged $1.25 per million write requests units and $0.25 per million read request units, plus the usual data storage costs."
So this is a centralized immutable database though Amazon?

This is old tech, but repackaged and marketed to people who 'want the blockchain'.

I think the only reason alt-coins exploded is that people had little understanding of how common databases were but lots of understanding of the explosion in Bitcoin Price.
I can't hear in such places without these: https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/hearing-protection/er20xs-...
They don't improve the signal, obviously, but your ears just don't get tired in the same way, so you can make out what people are saying - just about.
sorry to disagree, but i'm preety sure you can get help for alcoholism without needing to strangle your wife and end up in jail first..
Simplifies a lot of tedious, manual, and error prone work for businesses on AWS.
Gym, everyday, at 7:00 a.m. The benefits of working out help me stay calm and focused throughout the day, and the everyday routine gives me something to do every morning while still on autopilot.
fair enough. I may still not agree with the policy, however.
WTF?

That said, why does the OS allow installing a CA cert without requiring explicit confirmation from the user?
This is not a story of NIMBYs, this is a story of how LA can't make decisions for the greater good because anything that affects a useful part of the metro area requires independent agreement from multiple cities with very different demographics. A lot of people don't realize that, unlike NYC, LA isn't one city - it's a bunch of cities clustered together. Right now, there's no good way to force all the communities to agree on something.

Some communities might have a NIMBY attitude, but just saying that this is California NIMBYism is oversimplifying.
Why I've been attracted to azure table storage and google firestore.

Capacity planning is hard.
> I never got this working from a coffee shop thing.

This is an old tradition.

Cafes, bars, tea houses, etc have served as social hubs and placed to read or work on documents (now computers) for literally thousands of years, everywhere on the planet. There's simply a social need for a space like that, because it's a more efficient usage of space to have people work on a revolving basis in a shared space than everyone have a private space of their own or not be able to work.

It's only with the modern invention of corporate coffee shops that misvalue social fabric that we see the churn happening. (PS -- those corporate stores are wrong about the short term boost from churn improving their long term fortunes, at least from what I've heard from the big ones.)

I also find it interesting you approve of one "office-like" usage -- having a chat or meeting -- but disapprove of another -- working on documents.
This is from 2017
Ha. You know, all it takes sometimes is to make a fuss - noticed a reply from DropBox already - can only imagine someone working there who saw this on the front page of HN and was smart enough to make a very quick reaction.

It’s always the strangest when you’d like to give a company more money and they go out of their way to make sure it doesn’t happen.
"Is 10$/GB a reasonable price in the US? It seems completely out of whack to me."

I basically travel non-stop. And wherever I land, I receive a message.

"Welcome to India we got you covered"

"Welcome to Russia we got you covered"

"Welcome to China we got you covered"

"Welcome to France we got you covered"

"Welcome to Uganda we got you covered"

I can live with 10 US$/GB
> The pricing appears to undercut a notion promoted by FDA officials that approving more generics can help relieve the pocketbook pressure many Americans feel over the cost of their medicines.

I'm surprised the author is making the arugment that more competitiion doesn't drive down prices - despite the large body of evidence to the contrary.

It's accepted belief that when competition fails to drive down pricing among pharmaceuticals, it's usually due to regulatory decisions. There are several studies that have been done on this exact topic, one even finds that price regulation actually leads to higher prices by discouraging market forces [1].

1. https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/kilde/hod/hdk...
Simplies a lot of manual, tedious, and error-prone work for businesses on AWS.
> Please don't Godwin already-flameprone threads. That's trolling, whether you intended to or not.

If you weren't aware: Godwin has repealed "Godwin's law":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/12/14/...:

> If you’re thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler or Nazis when you talk about Trump. Or any other politician.

Or any other regime.

My comment was not hyperbolic, as WWII is pretty much the perfect real-world example of the political ramifications of scientific and technological advancement. Far from "benefit[ing] all of mankind even if the benefits are initially felt closer to where they're conducted," if the Nazi's had invented the atom bomb before the allies, mankind would have suffered more than it has.
Used that on my first Ajax app. It was authenticated so we pruned the JS on the login page like crazy and added a script that injected the main bundle into the page after page ready.

Worked great for everybody not using a password manager...
Much more gross to have assaulted his ex-wife (choked her in front of their child), reneged on his divorce agreement, violated probation, etc.
I'm not sure it would be 1000x the work. Just need a command line tool to parse ics which I can point at my nextcloud calendar, and then wrap it in another bash script called "atworktoday" or something, so I can do something like:

50 7 * * 1-5 atworktoday && blanket on for 5 minutes

Would be nice if there was a tool which would allow me to do something like:

curl -s https://link-to-my-ics | \
ics --start $(date +%Y%m%dT000000Z) \
--end $(date +%Y%m%dT235959Z) \
--filter-summary 'annual leave'

There must be loads of use cases for a tool which allows you to parse and filter ics. Even a tool which just converts ics to json would be pretty useful as we could then filter results with the excellent "jq" application:

ANNUAL_LEAVE=$(curl -s https://link-to-my-ics \
| ics2json --start $(date +%Y%m%dT000000Z) \
--end $(date +%Y%m%dT235959Z) \
| jq 'map(select(.summary|ascii_downcase|contains("annual leave")))|length')
if [[ "$ANNUAL_LEAVE" == "0" ]]; then
echo "At work today"
else
echo "On holiday, wahoo!"
fi

Somebody write this ;)
Amazon Elastic Inference – Add GPU Acceleration to EC2
Alphabet never was “only Google” even on day 1. Google was long a conglomerate containing Google and “Other Bets”, other companies such as Nest etc before the alphabet shuffle.

Google was more or less just as much a holding company for a diverse range of other companies such as this Verily then as Alphabet is now, which is why the distinction between the two is considered so artificial by many here, an idea further compounded by the fact Google stock was converted to Alphabet stock and still uses Google’s ticker symbols.
Amazon Elastic Inference – GPU-Powered Deep Learning Inference Acceleration
I think the problem with tptacek's explanation is that it does not address the larger context of how certain topics have become sacred in academia [5], and how breaking or criticising these sacred ideas leads to an outsized reaction. Do you think the reaction was focusing on merits and that it was not an outsized reaction due to someone violating something sacred?

Lets dig more into evidence of suppression of biological research:

How would you then explain the reactions to anyone stating the biological fact that human gender is overwhelmingly bimodal with almost everyone being male/female [1], suppression of research into intelligence [2], or the diversity pledges some candidates now have to write before becoming professors [3].

The grievance studies hoax proved how grievance studies is acting like ideological whitewashing of extreme political ideas that would be unacceptable otherwise [4]. These ideas are used to justify political actions in universities and in culture to suppress sacrilegious ideas [5], and it is a concept of sacred only a small very loud minority of progressives believe in and these comprise 8% of the population [6].

Personally I find the radical leftist explanation of these two incidences unconvincing:

- it seems like the opposition to McKinnon’s paper was argued primarily from a moral angle due to his violation of some progressive sacred principles, and other explanation does not seem to explain the size of the response

- The reaction to the grievance studies hoax was that peer review is flawed and them still claiming that it is fair to use favored political views as a valid criteria of what should be publishing of papers of very poor scholarship. This does not engage with the real very disturbing conclusions of this study, and the fact that their hoax papers in addition to winning prices within grievance studies are also indistinguishable from other scholarship regularly published there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6phePAZueQw
[2] https://jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/douglas-murray/
[3] https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-to-require-diversity-pled...
[4] https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8
[6] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...
>“Blockchain makes it possible to build applications where multiple parties can execute transactions without the need for a trusted, central authority.“

Except in this case when it’s run by a central authority
Yet it happens, ALL THE TIME, even for candidates that are 40-ish and higher. It is always trivial to find another reason to not hire an older worker.
> It the past, resilience was a key attitude to me. Nowadays I see acceptance as being more important.

I am starting to understand this, too. Very well said.
One should be hesitant to proclaim knowledge of the optimal strategy without knowing all the details. Whether or not the default strategy is to cooperate or betray is sensitive to the precise weights of the rewards for each combination of decisions, as well as the number of times the game is played. For example, in the simple version of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, the optimal strategy is tit-for-tat: the default is to cooperate, and only betray in exchange for being betrayed.
Operating a restaurant is expensive. Rent is by the square foot, so you taking up a certain amount of space with your 1 tea per hour (max 2 teas?) won't pay their bills.
As a college graduate + white collar developer who's never been married before, your actuarial chances of divorce are around 20%.
or the billion-ish people around the world living with food insecurity, many in india. privilege tends to be blind, but yes, he seems to be just talking to his peers and not the whole world.

i applaud the guy for his entrepreneurship, especially from his roots in small-town india.
STACK – Check whether a parenthesis filled string is balanced
That's ridiculous that Dropbox has never thought that someone might need an upgrade to their account before their next "open-enrollment" style system. Just off the cuff thinking would suggest applying whatever money has already been paid for the existing account, prorating it for what has been already used, and then subtract that from the fee to be collected for the upgrade. Then flip the switch in the database. Sure, it might be out-of-bounds for normal workflow.

To the credit of which ever Dropbox person responded, it sounds like they might have realized how dumb it would be not to take a longer look at the situation. Shows that most corps' pay less attention to the actual support requests coming in than how worried that negative PR would be for having bad support in the first place. Seems like the cart is leading the horse
..artistic licence. People speak figuratively.
And the rest of the sky. ;-)
I read the parent differently - just don't censor political speech. Regardless of whether we agree with it.

And that sounds reasonable. I hate FUD-spreading around e.g. immigration, but I don't support any censorship around it. Just debunk the FUD, hiding it won't solve anything, and might hurt a lot when some people get "redpilled" by discovering censored opinions.
As a consultant I've seen the code quality produced by developers at several companies, and there is absolutely a difference. I've worked with experienced 3rd party developers on offshore teams who seemed unfamiliar with basic architecture patterns such as reusing code. Their productivity was incredible but they were incurring a lot of tech debt.
I doubt it as well as a similar story about AppyGen didn't surface too long ago on the front page (couple of months at most).

That said, I do think app generators in general are a fun and cool idea. It's his target market more than anything else that makes it a spam machine.
That is a surprisingly good fit the article discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543546 ..
Might not be dead: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13597/just-when-you-thought-i...
Japan doesn't renovate. It's probably the only country in the world where "used homes" are considered something to be ashamed of. People buy homes only to knock them down and start over, even if they're only a year or two old.

EDIT: You can read about it here: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/03/15/w...
Provoke uncontrolled cellular growth and build weird living structures
I use them with my laptop too. I have had only one ‘pairing seems a bit broken’ issue since buying them as soon as they came out - and an iPhone restart was the fix. That’s about 2.5 minutes of hassle in several thousand hours of use.

If they were a pain, I would stop using them, but they are much less hassle than the many pairs of corded headphones I have. This said, other Bluetooth headphones are much more hassle.
Amazon QuickSight adds support for dashboard embedding and APIs
Honest question: when dealing with time-series data, do you actually need every data point? Is that level of granularity really necessary?

IMO, it makes way more sense to decide the aggregations you want ahead of time (e.g. "SELECT customer, sum(value) FROM purchases GROUP BY customer"). That way, you deal with substantially less data and everything becomes a whole lot simpler.
That would have to be the worst job in the world - keeping Lustre going as an Amazon service, with management that utterly lacks understanding and sympathy.
If centralized, why not just restrict the API to make history immutable? Lol
Where did you see that he was certifiably an alcoholic?

I would agree that the humanity here is lost in the weeds of bureaucracy... but if alcohol was at all a factor in the physical altercation with his ex wife, then I can't see it being that unreasonable a request. This is of course problematic since he's 70 and lots of his friends and family are probably starting to pass away and who can really blame someone for having a few drinks too many at one too many wakes?

There is also the problem of unmarried older single men without a source of human affection having a much higher mortality and crime risk, which was brought into the equation. This man probably has almost no emotional support system at this point, which just exacerbates the overdrinking risk. The impending stress of work if he reopens can't be making that any easier, either.

EDIT: Before someone accuses me of sympathizing with a felon, have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory_(crimin... ; the antiquated idea that a person's behavior is due in some significant part to their intrinsic nature in some fashion instead of their circumstances/environment is not only the well-studied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error , it should be put to rest ASAP. We need to get to work fixing situations AS WELL AS the people inhabiting them.
Given that most of these are at the POC stage still, I think AWS is generally a win (easy to spin up demos, do POCs, etc.), even if on-prem ends up being how you'd eventually want to deploy it.

I was more amused that the on-stage dude spent several minutes generally shitting on blockchain before announcing Managed Blockchain. (I tend to agree that non-currency non-subversive non-smartcontract apps generally don't require or benefit from blockchains.)
And usually coffee shops are in spaces with higher rents than co-working spaces (retail level costs more, and restaurants have a higher startup cost).
Those are the most frustrating reasons. You wonder why people hate finding a job, its because of people like you doing this type of nonsense. Figure out what you want and need before wasting people's time.
My main point is not about aggregate accuracy, it's about comparing confidence across classes of datasets.

Edit: the entire point of bayesian approach is that you can make decisions on a loss function where you can make a tradeoff on the (business) cost of making a wrong decision and (business) regret of not making a decision. For real world applications, accuracy is a useless metric. What matters is the net (business) benefit or loss.