skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I count 7 separate Amazon posts on the front of HN. Is this some conspiracy? #NotAmused #ShouldBeBundled
What's Holding You Back? Not Being As Interesting As Casey Neistat.
Usually it's about cultural or other shared affiliations. My dad was a big member of the "Emerald Society" at his employer, which was a group of Irish immigrants and mostly first-generation US born children.

A great, non third-rail example of why this is relevant can be seen in the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". There's a shared cultural, religious and other heritage and story that holds the characters together.

As a white guy, I would find a white-guy club really weird. I could see something like a dad group, baseball team or fan group, engineering society, a catholic religious/service group or something similar as something that I would potentially identify with. Maybe some sort of Irish heritage thing, but I don't know if that would be relevant to me, as there isn't really a shared experience there.
> I see business opportunity here.

Genuinly curious: do you see one without the annoying aspects you described? How would you monetize it?
If the wife makes more money, absolutely.
> It appears some states are already legally recognizing smart contracts

That's good to see.

FWIW I don't like the idea of a future where we need special solidity lawyers to verify some code matches its legal obligations. Which is why the Ricardian format is so appealing. It should be accesible to all

Btw thanks, that harvard link is a good read!
Yes [0]. I haven't had time to fully look into the details. But from looking at the existing integration -- it would be fantastically convenient to have something cloud native [1].

[0] https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/storage/#remote...

[1] https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en...
How can a public company not be ready to upgrade a customer?
I recently signed up for the New Yorker and issues started coming in the next week. Was this a long time ago?
> everyone can go fork it and create their own version of a data store

And with cryptocurrencies, everyone can go fork it and create their own ledger. That not many do it is unrelated to the datastructure.

> In the case of something like a cryptocurrency, letting everyone create their own version of a ledger and get to decide which one is "correct", would be a complete and total failure of the system.

Yes, as a system.

> In my opinion, that should be part of what differentiates a merkle tree based VCS from a blockchain.

A "merkle tree based VCS" is a system. A cryptocurrency is a system. A blockchain is just a datastructure.

> The point of a blockchain is a singular, decentralized, "immutable" data store.

Which git is.

> Unlike git, version control is not what everything revolves around

In git, version control is not what everything revolves around. Git was designed for version control, and a merkle-tree of objects and dirtrees and metadata and commits was chosen to implement it on, which is what everything revolves around.

Just like how Bitcoin was designed for payment, and a blockchain of transactions was chosen to implement it on.

> I just don't see the point in defining blockchains so vaguely that even git counts.

This sounds a bit like you're trying to come up with a definition of "blockchain" with an express purpose of excluding git from it.

> In practice, these are different systems [emphasis mine] that deserve different terminology.

And this, is the heart of our disagreement. You're comparing the systems git and cryptocurrencies, only you call the latter "blockchains". I'm comparing datastructures, and I distinguish between the terms "cryptocurrency" (which I consider a system) and "blockchain" (which I consider a datastructure).
> build ecommerce site

> have an inventory list and supply chain

> want good audits of what happened when built into your database
AI AI AI AI.
Cloudfall – A design perspective on the decentralized internet
Technically true. But in reality, perspective alone is useless. What matters is (perspective * ability to make meaningful use of it). For most people, that function peaks somewhere no later than 60s (unless they have grandkids that actually listen to what they have to say).
Have some crowdsourcing experience with gamification and competition: Biggest lesson learned is that mostly only works on men and not on women!
Overworked South Koreans are finding solace by going to fake prison
Adobe used 125 MongoDB servers, moved to 48 Cassandra, and now 3 Neo4j servers
It's entirely possible you miss the point of it being a PoC network which is why it only has "one client" and the fact that it helped real people.
Amazon Forecast – Time Series Forecasting
Amazon Forecast – Time series forecasting made easy
Immersion can be very valuable once you learn the language to a serviceable extent.

I learnt German formally till the A2 level, and used to be able to speak in grammatically correct sentences, albeit with a limited vocabulary, no nuance and an obvious accent. (I'd say at 6 year old native speakers level)

Since then however, I haven't been around anyone familiar with the language, and now I am back to knowing nearly nothing (5 years since)

It becomes very easy to get learning new words, when 80% of the words in most sentences are familiar. You can piece the rest together.
Also, people are willing to tolerate having conversation with you in the language, if they speak it natively and the conversation is short + simple. Reception and billing counter interactions are perfect for this.

Immersion can also be very valuable when languages are closely related. I have learnt other Indian languages through immersion, because they closely resembled my native language. Again, because the grammatical structure and vocabulary had major overlaps.

I do however, fully agree with hiring a personal tutor, at least for the initial few months. Duolingo can help you with only so much.
Also worth noting: If you set up a group on Fi, the cost cap increases, but the per user cost goes down.

https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6201699?hl=en&ref_topic...

At the top end (6 group members) the max per user cost (if splitting evenly and not proportioned based on individual usage) is $50, compared to $80 for one user.
I read once, can't remember where, that once the sound in a room with people talking reaches a certain level, it will get increasingly loud. The reason being, if sound is below a certain level, we can hear each other while we speak at normal volumes and the other person near us will be able to understand us.

However, once volume reaches a certain background level, we have to raise our voices to be understood over the background noise which increases the overall background level which causes others to have to raise their voices over the new background level ever increasing.
There's also a tendency to conflate the price paid by the customer with the price paid by the customer+insurer.
I see your _thousands_ of pieces of hardware that don't work and raise you all the hardware written for old versions of Windows whose drivers no longer work on new versions yet still work _perfectly_ on Linux.

See: professional audio and video gear, perfectly good network cards.
Why not? InfluxDB does not have these capabilities.
I'm considering using this for our staging tables since 90% of the time, we'd want to scale to 0 instead of 1. Doesn't do much for cost savings, but it does make it easier to manage.
Am I right in believing this looks like a competitor to Datomic?
I heard a podcast this weekend which explains the distinction between hell and the condition of being dead ("in Hades"). "The Descent of Jesus into Hades" by Eastern Orthodox Christian Fr. Thomas Hopko (32:25, transcript available)

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/hopko/the_descent_of_j...

Here's a quote:

> So we determine whether we are in hell or not by our own belief or unbelief, by our love of love, and our love of light, and our love of truth, and our love of glory, or by our hatred of it. That has nothing to do with Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, who died for us. When He descended into Sheol and Hades, it means simply that He died, and through death, trampled down death and raised the dead, all the dead, there is no one left in the tomb, as it says. In St. John Chrysostom’s sermon on Paschal night, he said, “No one is left in the tomb. Christ is risen and life reigns.” But if you hate that life, it is hell. If you love it, it is Paradise.
When you've grown up facing a particular set of hardships that most of the people around you aren't familiar with, it's important for your mental health to be able to spend time with folks who get it. It doesn't mean you spend all your time together chatting about oppression, but it's easier to relax and let your guard down with someone when you know they won't lecture you for being nervous around police, or try to smother their dismay when you mention your boyfriend, or whatever. It's more of a support group than a hobby meetup.

As a white male you haven't experienced any of that, which is fine! But you should try to put yourself in the shoes of people who weren't so lucky.

EDIT: I was addressing the poster directly. As a white guy with autism, I'm well aware that white males in general can experience lifelong hardship for any number of traits. But anyone who says "I don't really understand why all these groups are around race, sexuality or gender" presumably hasn't experienced that, or they'd immediately understand why someone would want to associate with folks who've been through the same shit.

(Or maybe I'm still giving him too much credit. But I try assume ignorance rather than malice.)
Perhaps before flinging the first roll of toilet paper, one should put up a sign with the name of the software used to create the toilet.
The conspiracy is called re:Invent
The Make School Vision: Building a blueprint for a new model of higher ed
Some advertisers don't like to trust hits if they can't verify the hit came from a real, live browser. Like the difference between the original recaptcha (read the letters in this image) and the new ones (mouse, keyboard, and browser behaviour looks like a human browsing on a real browser).
I had trouble laat year in a couple of remote places using Google Fi. They use Sprint and T-Mobile towers. I believe e.g. if you have a contract with Sprint, you can roam on Verizon's towers. However, I was visiting an area (central NC) and I had zero service the whole time, even in town. I switched back to Verizon.

Google Fi also automatically connects you to known WiFi spots and sends your data over their VPN. The switching between antennas will kill your battery as well.
The point is, with the NFA approach, there are no regexes that exhibit catastrophic backtracking.

So you can't shoot your foot with expressions that seem fine but send your cpu off into la-la land when asked to match certain input data.
Amazon launch automated labeling service of its SageMaker machine learning tool
Probably lead time on printing. 1) It's a physical product, not a service, 2) it has a short shelf life, after which it dramatically drops in value, so 3) and every overprinted copy becomes hamster cage liner.

My guess is that they grant instant access to the paywalled articles on the site, though. If they don't, they're being stupid, trying to keep people from getting three months of minuscule bandwidth per subscription for free and also being unwilling to price it in at however much they value it.
The average software company is already a white men club. Even more so finance companies.
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn)
Only a property in Detroit in the deserted areas could mean frequent meetings with muggings, violence, etc.

In Japan it will just be a regular house.
Given how high and continuing the popularity of the "simple" conversion
of regular PDF forms/tables -- even for the technically-sophisticated HN audience [0] -- if Amazon can deliver on OCR-to-data, that feels like a huge achievement. Not as sexy (or creepy) as Rekognition, perhaps, but almost certainly more day-to-day useful to the many, many professionals who work with documents and legacy data entry systems.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pdf%20convert&sort=byPopularit...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199708

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5487530
> holding the door open for women

I hold the door open for everyone. Male, female, and other. This is common courtesy.

> The idea of "ladies first".

I've never really encountered this.

> The custom of men being required to message first on dating services.

My wife messaged me first when we met on OkCupid.

> Men paying for dinner

Similarly, on our first date my wife offered to do half/half, but I insisted on paying largely because she was still a college student at that point, and I was not.

> I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't see women jumping to embrace this kind of equality.

Well, one of us is the more rare case. I'm not sure which one.
It actually is a completely viable option in 2018 for advanced user wanting to do average things (with uMatrix for example), and it is a nice experience. Agree about average users though.
I find JavaScript (especially React) to be an awesome template framework for non-SPA websites. I've used it in situations where I'm just creating server side template components. The JavaScript ecosystem can be extremely enjoyable for fast development.
QuasarDB employee chiming in - we’re not actually worried, our clients are typically operating at a scale that would make costs very prohibitive for this AWS product.

Having said that, I can definitely see this be an interesting product for people doing less than 10k inserts per second.
Just last year I told Ikea that they use a phishing like url in my country. Something like makeyourhomegreat.com (I can't remember the exact URL). They actually stopped using that URL but I'm not sure it was because of me or some other reason.
It's nice to have SMS and Call integration with Hangouts, so I can just as easily text message or make and receive calls on the PC.

As far as I know you can still do this with Google Voice + any cell carrier for free though.
> coding can be an art but you need a special context (interesting problem, good tools, good colleagues [or your own sel]).

I'm a self motivated coder TBH. My day job is HPC cluster administration (the team is also fun), and I'm interested in high performance algorithms personally. I've also completed my MSc. and PhD, and developed projects which needs high performance algorithms and methods. I currently work on problems and projects of my own and write research papers occasionally, so I'm a happy camper.

> the other art idea is interesting, because no matter the field, the sensitivity required to feel good and do good is about the same, just through different senses (finger, ear, etc).

Far east practices help someone to build some enormous power, however this power needs to be controlled. Otherwise, it's nearly impossible to put it to good use. Other arts help developing this control via extreme concentration and with the requirement of fine and refined results.

>Drumming can be as minute as painting or clockwork...

There's no doubt about that. We (the double basses and tubas) always relied on drummers consistency as a backup metronome in the orchestra. Funnily there's a triple redundancy in that part of the orchestra. Double basses, tubas and drums all listen to each other to regulate their tempo. And there's the conductor, who acts as the authoritative metronome.
That doesn't make the statement not nonsense, just nonsense for different reasons.
Corruption is a bottom up process.

It only works if everyone goes along.

Be brave and stand up for yourself, what do you have to lose?
Yeah...you just make people wait in line...and often times that just increases demand. There's a BBQ joint in Austin with that situation. Franklin's always has a wait. But I hear it's damn good BBQ.
Do you know if the QLDB write API is more like an event store or more like a relational database? It sounds like the read API provides both models (read the journal, or read the snapshot).
Maybe your use case didn't involve X, but BSDs do make a decent (graphical) desktop.
Magnus Carlsen beats Caruana in tie-breakers to retain World Chess crown
I'm guessing #1 but based on a secondhand story that happened to an older relative.
“Human Sacrifices” in Greece
What’s new in Kubernetes 1.13?
I find a good majority of people hold the door open for everyone. The rule is usually, the first person to the door holds it open for the people behind. That certainly crosses gender lines.

I think most feminists don't think men should pay for dinner each time on a date, and don't think "ladies first" is a rule we should keep.

I don't know what you mean by "I don't see women jumping to embrace this kind of equality". Do you mean you don't see women protesting trying to get these equalities? That is incredibly disingenuous to claim that women not fighting for these equalities means they think they should persist. They don't fight for those equalities because those aren't the ones they need to fight for. They need to fight for the ones that are holding them back. Those other ones can follow.
If a company is really hiring and paying market rate, what's the situation leading to positions open for over a year? Unicorn-hunting?

I've been part of a hiring process that took a couple months (and by the end had management breathing down our necks to just hire -someone-), but that was because we were hiring into an out-of-the-way location that generally lacked the skills locally that we were looking for. Neither of which would apply to FAANG.
With the AP, it depends heavily on the thing they're covering. Often times they try to give every side and are indeed pretty good, but then I noticed that i.e. when it comes to Palestine, they often run headlines like "Palestinians dead in Gaza", which implies that some Palestinians just dropped dead, while in reality the headline should have been "Israel shoots Palestinians in Gaza" or similar.

They even did this when their own reporter, who was clearly marked PRESS was shot.

Here's the story as reported by the AP[1], notice the headline: "AP cameraman shot during Gaza protest", no mention of Israel and might even give the impression that Gazans shot him.

The vast majority of people only skim the headlines and AP knows this, so this is hardly an accident.

1 - https://www.apnews.com/65bd5c31690342b886ab5b8f72b37e53
SPA's tend to come with build systems, but that is just a side effect of their complexity. You can have a front-end build system independent of SPA/MPA architecture. In fact, you should, at least for minification and whatnot. That system can add a content hash or some other strategy to force invalidation at build time for deployed artifacts. Barring that, whatever is serving the asset should handle it's caching/TTL stuff correctly, but config of that can be hard (in complexity or domain knowledge.) Build hashes have been the most resilient approach that I've found so far. Mostly because it is easily automated in artifact generation.
These relationship tend to be lost when people switch jobs.
> make costs very prohibitive for this AWS product.

Competing with AWS on just cost sounds worrying to me.
You're shifting the goalposts, so I'm not going to discuss it further. You asked where it was indicated, I told you.
Networking and Administration+Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE)
This is an excellent, truthful appeal to secularists. One should note further that demons literally exist and are actively roaming the Earth, putting us in warfare for our souls we are growing increasingly ill-equipped to handle.

Learn more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_Catholicism
I doubt that it makes a big difference. Someone's going to post these no matter what, and it's the upvotes that put them on the front page.

For me the issue is, of the dozen+ announcements, which are actually the interesting ones? I have no idea, but we're not going to leave a dozen of them on the front page to find out.
Well, it's a probability of the output given the fixed, fitted model parameters. This is the likelihood. This is not the probability of getting that output, since we don't know what the parameters should really be. See the inverse probability fallacy [0]. This confusion is literally the main reason behind the replication crisis of scientific research.

In ML, you typically have a model f(w;u), and you are trying to fit the parameters w to some data, given some hyperparameters u that represent some kind of prior information. In frequentist techniques, these could be regularization parameters.

In frequentist techniques, the hyperparameters the fitted parameters are assumed fixed, and not random. In contrast, Bayesian methods assume it is random as well. This extra uncertainty is neglected by the predictions of frequentist techniques.

Nonetheless, the uncertainty is real.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse
Getting clicks take precedence over all things
Amazon Personalize
Google’s cellular service gets rebranded, offers support for iPhones
Hate like that is learned. I'm not sure a study and article at that length is required.

Also there is no hard science to being a racist pos.
Top 3 Reasons the Crypto Crash Is Good News for the Industry
You connect to people in other departments, not direct managers/employees.
>Police say Best was found "unresponsive" near the garage door exit of an apartment building

A non-conspiracy possibility is he used the garage door to commit suicide, and the bouncing door is what caused the blunt force injuries
Common Knowledge Attacks on Democracy- Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier
Yea, this is pretty much what they do in Japan, hence the article.
> Format the text with Courier New to have fixed width.

This succinctly captures a common problem with the MS ecosystem of products, from ages ago: the belief that "everybody uses MS". Yes, Courier New may be a fixed-width font, but I don't want to force the recipients of my emails to have Courier New, nor do I want the content I'm writing to show up in Courier New and Courier New alone, on someone else's computer. I want it to show in whatever font they have set as their monospace font. Same goes for when I view my own mails on my own computer.
Am I reading this right, you think a plausible reason for suicide among whites is that they're not allowed to form white affinity groups?
Dreamcast had a native web browser; you could buy a full-size keyboard as well as a mouse for it; you could run NetBSD on it.
Don’t assume parent is making this decision on their own, or even at all (inspite of using the proverbial “we”). Most of us are just caught up in the system with little recourse to go against it.

Of course, if you are using a proverbial “you”, my comment doesn’t apply.