skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Firebase (and at Google) I have done a _ton_ of work at making our "how docs" consistently correct with limited maintenance time.

Consider a page like this:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/add-d...

It has 12 "how" sections of code snippets, each with 12 language options. That means 144 code snippets need to be correct for this page to be 100% correct! And we don't auto-generate any of these snippets, since auto-generating idiomatic code is a rabbit hole that's consumed many a good developer.

So we, like Etsy, have come up with a separation of concerns between How and Why that works for us. The text on the page is maintained by a tech writer. The code on the page is a series of blocks that look like this:

{% includecode snippet="android_firestore_write_doc" %}

We have a system that resolves these, at publish time, to match snippets on GitHub. For example:
https://github.com/firebase/snippets-android/blob/5f94890d7b...

These snippets can be maintained with all the wonderful tools that exist in the world for maintaining code! We don't need to think of them as just docs. So that "snippets-android" repo has continuous build, a robot that updates dependencies, PRs/Issues for third-party contributions, etc.

What we've found is that this system allows us to maintain many thousands of code snippets with only a handful of people watching over them.
Can’t they just enclose it so it uses up all the oxygen? Or detonate charges?
Yeah I think that was the idea. Although..

If the package had a cell network connection it could check that its tracking number has been delivered, then "arm" itself.

Or, the package could be programmed to wait for the homeowner's WiFi SSID to appear, then wait for the accelerometer to settle when the package is put down.
It depends on your goals. If you're planning on just setting up a couple of servers then it's all much the same. However for scaling and maintenance I prefer AWS with a tool like Terraform to manage infrastructure. It forces you to think of situations like replacing servers, as you'll have to replace them at some point.

I think Google's AppEngine is easier for starting, but AWS Lambda + API Gateway is pretty close IMO.
Nutrient requirements don't increase nearly as much as caloric requirements under high activity. Additionally, vegan diets with enough nutrients tend to be calorie heavy.

So flipping that around, my point is that it's difficult to have a healthy vegan diet that gives you enough nutrients, without an extremely high activity level.
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And actually c02 concentration has a measurable effect on intelligence.
Seems like a lot of overhead and more things to maintain. On top of that it doesn't teach people how to use the tool. Kinda like 600 hours of coding saved me 30 hours of documentation.
The ink-dot and mirror "self-awareness" always sounded ridiculous to me. Isn't it obvious that a self-aware creature does not necessarily has to care about their appearance and can ignore the dot and that a creature driven by instincts and reflexes only can be programmed to maintain their skin color pattern (as the species has developed the pattern for a reason)? I would rather believe it might be self-aware if the same creature would remove the dot some times, would do it later every now and then and would ignore it occasionally.

In fact I even doubt every human is consciously self-aware, a huge number of people probably live their lives the way we see dreams. So many people have no doubts their bare feelings and judgments are the reality e.g. believing the fact they're upset means a counterpart has done something really wrong and/or hates them while in fact they might just have not slept well or followed a bad diet...
> What about network throughput variance? On AWS, the variance is only 0.006 GB/sec. This means that the GCP network throughput is 81x more variable when compared to AWS.

What would cause this particular effect? It's very interesting.

Is it, perhaps, that with GCP you're hitting the capacity of the network, while with AWS you're being artificially capped at that speed on a network that could theoretically go faster?

Or maybe it's just different strategies for bandwidth-limiting instances employed by AWS's SDN layer vs. GCP's? Probabilistic packet-drop (to force TCP window scaling) vs. artificially-induced nanosecond-scale egress latencies?
Neither calculus nor Epp's book require any prereqs beyond high school algebra. Studying algorithms would definitely be easier if you'd gotten through Epp first.

For linear algebra, it depends heavily on your choice of book. To read Hefferon or (even more so) Axler, you'll want to have seen a fair amount of mathematical formalism, and read through some proofs. Knop is probably a good place to learn mathematical formalism; if you approach it with limited background it will be slow going but you'll learn a lot.
That's quite a bit more work than adding a reacmoji to 100 chars which were typed into Slack anyway. We all want better tools with fantastically helpful interfaces, but we also want functioning MVPs yesterday. I like the Etsy approach because it fits into our existing JIT dev/doc workflow.
I don't think the AWS side of your test is a good example.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolum...

You will never get more than ~3,000 iops on a 256GB gp2 disk because the IOP cap for gp2 type disks of this size is 768 or 3,000 iops. Yes, "or". If you ran the test above for longer, you'd find that the iops will eventually drop to the baseline of 768 (which is the size of your disk multiplied times 3). Or, if you test a much larger gp2 volume you'll see higher numbers as well. Check out the description of the "burst bucket" in the link above.
It is very unlikely that google needs to buy computers from amazon.
The ISS? It's above the atmosphere so there is no air resistance to slow it down. The velocity is constant after the initial boost into orbit.

Actually that's not quite correct, I believe it is not quite out of the atmosphere completely and as such there is a (very) small amount of air resistance and they have to fire engines to boost back into the appropriate orbit every once in a while.
Good for them!
> This is why the EU has laws against this kind of race to the bottom between nations

No, it doesn't.

Every country in EU sets it's own corporate, sales & income tax rates. as well as _EVERY_ other rate.

Every country in the EU can & does offer incentives & future tax payment agreements to companies who meet certain conditions. These are not inter-EU agreements nor do they need prior approval by any EU establishment.
No you're not. Snowden wasn't allowed to denounce the government either.
Let see how they can survive first recall. Like VW diesel scandal, Toyota breaks and Ford Failure to Park.

Even if they are somehow successful, valuation is just not realistic. I also do not get why everyone is so excited. Tesla is just a small car manufacturer that sold few premium cars with a heavy subsidy of US.
Plaguing what? Bar the 2008 crisis, the UK economy has been pretty healthy since the ‘90s at least. It’s the reason it attracts a high number of economic migrants from the rest of the EU, it holds a lot of European and global HQs and so on.

Of course, manufacturing is what it is; but Brexit won’t magically make China disappear.
we're talking about slightly different concepts.

i'm referring to the federal reserve creating currency (which is a type of debt)--in theory, the fed was created to print precisely enough money to account for the value generated by our cumulative labor, so that we have that well-accepted paper medium to exchange with each other rather than having to barter for everything.

you're talking about consumer debt, which still represents labor, but it's borrowed from others (or from the future). of course when you borrow to buy depreciating assets, that lowers your personal wealth (you're basically throwing away value).

its interest that creates value from capital rather than labor, ostensibly as a reward for risk-taking, but also to account for the time value of money (and its cousin, inflation). this is why the wealthy care so much about interest rates.
>Most fruit and vegetables you eat have some element of manual labour.

And that is relevant how?

>Try growing tomato.

You try. Literally nothing you said except 45-60 days is correct. And literally none of it is relevant to the discussion. What on earth does tomatoes taking 60 days to start producing fruit have to do with no-till or weeds? Pro-tip: my garden is full of tomatoes. It is not tilled, plowed, weeded, fertilized, irrigated, or sprayed with anything. Pruning tomatoes lowers the yield per plant, it only increases the yield per sq foot, which is why only greenhouse producers do it.

>Compared to tomato production tilling is a low effort.

So because you have a garden and you waste lots of time gardening poorly, that means it makes sense to waste even more time doing more unnecessary labor to lower your yields? Tilling is labor, saying "I do lots of even dumber things" doesn't change this.

>In Europe only like 4% farmland is zero-till.

So those 4% are magic and defying the laws of physics? Or those 96% are dumbasses?

>Zero-till can only be used for very specific crops.

Nonsense. Name a single crop that you think can not be grown no-till and I will show you someone growing it no-till.
Smart guy. It's interesting to see him on HN. I highly recommend his captivating book on music, How music works [1]. It's part an anthropological study and part an autobiography and but he goes into how music has evolved with regards to technology and the music industry in general. He's been touring a lot lately.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Works-David-Byrne/dp/193636...
Their methods are absolutely wrong. But with that said, I don't necessarily disagree with all the sentiments expressed by these people. I don't want a company pervading every minute of my daily life. I can at least put down and turn off a phone, these things will be omnipresent. I've gone out of my way to avoid or disable every "always listening" or "always watching" thing I can, but this one can't be controlled.

Tech companies used to be about, "this is the future; buy it from us." Now, it's "this is the future; we will ram it down your throat until you accept it." This includes scooters dumped on the sidewalks, pushing into healthcare, facial recognition, amazon echos, and more.

This has got to stop. I hope nobody buys any more of this garbage. I understand existing doctrine of "expectations of privacy", but nobody expected constant monitoring by a private entity. Past that, nobody expected constant monitoring by a public entity, which is what is coming next and is most worrisome of all. If y'all thought the patriot act was bad, just wait: it's going to get a whole lot worse. Wait 100 years (maybe less), and we'll end up like Xinjiang or 1984.

There's a joke I've seen on the internet. It talks about how people in the sixties used to say things like, "I'd better not say that or the government will wiretap my house." Today, people say things like, "Hey wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?"
The issue was handled in their SAFT with a provision that states they would return the funds if they failed to deliver a product. Regulations on new technologies aren't a fixed thing, they were optimistic (someone has to be).

Another theory could be that the regulation issue is a pretext. Those big investors that bet heavily on crypto and are now in the red could have insisted to get their money back.
Given how low the sentiment about crypto presently is, these investors are in a far better position to make lucrative plays now, than keeping their money in a project that raised near the top of the bubble.
What percentage of ships had fires in their coal holds on the day the titanic launched, by your estimation? I'm struggling to understand how rare a persistent coal fire was during that era. Would they in deed be forced to burn the coal, would this also force a high speed? If I'm to believe what LEO has me, speed is an enormous factor in all accidents, one of the most impactful variables, reduce it to 0 and you get the authors point.
On the other hand, If you have any used motor oil or hazardous waste to dispose of, you can place it in an Amazon box and leave it on your doorstep.
Having lived in the US all my life, service typically goes as follows:

Host seats you

Waiter delivers menus, asks if you want drinks

Waiter returns with drinks, asks if you're ready to order, and if not, comes back 5 min later

Waiter delivers food

Waiter comes back in 5 minutes to make sure it's to your liking

Waiter comes back to ask if you want dessert, and if not, hands you the bill.

If you've taken a long time to eat, they may return once or twice to keep your drinks topped off.

That's it. It's formulaic and quite standard. In my decades of living in various states, I've never had an experience like I see EU folk on here complain about.
OP might be referring to recent news about current administration separating children from illegal immigrants and having them (the children) defend themselves in immigration courts. Not sure about auction part.
The "other datasets" section starting at 5:04 is very interesting. Aside from the disruptive effects of facial recognition, this tech seems destined to become a go-to tool for automotive design.
I often wondered what's the point of that. I received the delivery email, I am still not at home, what would a picture do that the email doesn't?
It could also be spoiled teens raised by lousy parents.

/snark
>I was going to be able to eat this week, but after having spent the past 14 years of my life getting a bachelor’s degree in English, getting a master’s degree in creative writing

This has nothing to do with the color of her skin, and actually this entire article seems part of a growing trend in American society wherein negative life outcomes are handwaved away with excuses of racism and sexism, as opposed to critical self introspection.

Good on you for dedicating 14 years of your life to subjects you were passionate about. Now welcome to the real world where certain skills are simply not in high demand.

This is stereotypical millennial entitlement, irrationally justified by false victimhood. Par for the course with Slate.
That would certainly demonstrate that the keys were brought geographically near each other for some amount of time, which is interesting, but of what use would it be? It can't usefully test where I am, just my key. I can rent a cloud machine anywhere in the world for 15 minutes and put my key there temporarily.
This is evil. But, perhaps also inevitable. "Would you mind providing a DNA sample"? You can always find some "liability" within the multitudes of potential markers.

See Gattaca for a vision of this possible future ;)
Not to make you feel bad, but at $150k/year salary (average in SV) one should be able to save $100k within 5 years, with little impact on quality of life.
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft
That said, hosting providers who historically ran services on only their own hardware could certainly be load-balancing to cloud hosting providers. This is certainly not what the comment you responded to implies. However, it is something I'd expect people to get confused about..
Taylor Swift used facial recognition software to detect stalkers at LA concert
Fair questions, let me (Dor) answer:

1. Scylla works within different AZs too
We are topology aware and can have as good and even
better HA than DynamoDB. Our design is based on C*

2. We were surprised with getting small utilization too.
As I wrote in the article, I think Dynamo had a hard
time reaching to 1TB that quick. The population started
fine and deeper in the the population it failed. Only a
decrease in the rate solved it.

3. 1.1kb
The is the default table setup by YCSB. It isn't optimal for Dynamo but that's life.. think about if you store a blob of 1kb - together with the key it will be more than 1kb. We were upfront about it and you can make your own calculation. Scylla will still be better.

The only use case where Dynamo is better in price is when you store lots of data but with a tiny IOPS reservation. We'll address this case over time too.
Cheers!
I'm a broken record, but a price on things that emit carbon dioxide and NOX is better. Because when people/companies buy a fossil fueled machines they've made a irrevocable decision to emit a fixed amount of CO2/NOX. That's the decision point where you need to force peoples hand.

Example: I bought a used 2012 Prius in 2015. The moment that car was built an extra 50 tons of CO2 was slated to be emitted over the next 15 years. You can raise the gas tax as much as politically possible and that won't change the amount of CO2 the car will emit.
As a rule, bureaucrats are not concerned with public opinion. The comments are there for a technical analysis of merit, it is very common for a political process to not take very obvious and large flaws into account, and the public comments are there for fixing this.

That said, wether there was some crime or not is an orthogonal issue.
it's ring, not amazon. no other consumer hardware iOt company is providing facial recognition id search to police via products camera. Their employees are given shirts that say 'fuck crime' but the only victim in amazon package theft crime is amazon, customers are refunded.
Fun idea if you have a lot of money - buy 20 houses in a relatively small area. Sell 3 to your Uncle Larry for 40% more than you bought them for, then sell the next 17, ratcheting each up about 5% for every 4-5 houses sold. Boom, you've now created a housing bubble and get to walk away with all the profits. If you do this over 2-3 years you might be able to get a 40% annual return, unless of course the market crashes before you can get out.

I would not be surprised if this was what was happening just on a spread out and wide scale. All home sellers want the price to go up, so if the only way to make them go up is to sell at a higher price, you can prime the pump.
Yeah, I show dead so I saw and I'm replying to my own comment since I cannot to yours. That sucks.

Maybe try emailing them with an apology since you have 15000 karma.

Sorry, that sucks
Never had that experience, but I presume to prove it was delivered?
That's an entirely valid use of the term. "Algorithm" comes from "al-Khwarizmi", a Persian mathematician from 700-800s. "Euclid's algorithm" is from 300 BC.

In its original conception, "algorithm" just referred to any series of steps one could follow mechanically to reach a solution to a problem. Delegating those mechanical steps to a computer (another word that used to refer to a person!) came much later.
Yes, like most bills passed in the technology space in Australia, the politicians have no idea what they're asking for and its implications, and neither do the ones voting on it.

In application, it may be half-assed anyway. The worst part is that it set precedent for the world to follow.
We both recognize the difficulty but OP doesn't seem willing to accept the self sacrifice necessary to get to the end goal, which is what I was attempting to emphasize.

As long as MS know that people aren't willing to make sacrifices (and we're using the term loosely) like that they will have no reason to change and the cycle will continue.
If Computers Thought Like Fruit Flies, They Could Do More
I think Google does much better in terms of UX / DevX. Particular features that I appreciate are the cloud console shell and their API explorer/fiddler. Still, they do not have as many services, and the services they have do not have the same features so actually getting things done may still be easier on AWS.
Love david byrne but kesha? Give me a break
When you visit the Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center, you notice a common trend between the astronauts: most of them were scouts. This is terrible news for the children of our generation.
> here's why

Slightly OT, but 2018 seems to the year that "here's why" became the go-to clickbait hook.

It's interesting how clickbait terms have a shelf-life. When overused, saturation sets in and the terms fall out of favor, new ones emerge to take their place.

"Here's why" is of course redundant. If you remove it from the title, nothing changes. It's already well understood that an article will explore the reasons behind any statements made in the title.

And that concludes my comment, apart from this last sentence explaining the conclusion.
Pretty much guaranteeing improper disposal. I highly doubt anyone who steals packages off doorsteps is going to bother to dispose of substances like that correctly.
The Time to Talk About the Ethics of Quantum Computing Is Now [pdf]
Can you name one with the appropriate morals for Western sensibilities?
The drawer could use some polish on mobile
Ask HN: Best Places to Buy Server Components?
I looking to build a server with a large amount of RAM (6 TB). Where are the best places to shop for these components?
Example copying and pasting paywalled article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675496
Sometimes they hide the package for you, and they send you a picture so you can find it.
To be honest, I've been a landlord of an underwater property I couldn't rent, and decided to be nice to a low-income person in need. Within short order her alcoholic boyfriend moved in and triggered her latent alcoholism and the parties started happening and ultimately the place was left worse off than when they had arrived. Luckily they did not create the aforementioned meth lab or cause any structural damage. But these days I'm much more sympathetic to property owners letting their vacant property lay fallow, rather than incur the liability (financial and/or legal) of helping someone out. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.
If you have no experience with cloud providers and are set on one of the two: Google. UI/UX and documentation are so much better. Also I can't really agree with the articles findings, maybe my personal benchmarks are too specific to my workload.
Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor
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So did you get the job?
Hey mazatta, please send through your details to jobs@dialpad.com and i'll look into your application and get back with an update!
Ohh I like that, I bet you could program an ESP32 to do that pretty simply (watch for the SSID to vanish.)

Or, I could turn it into an SDR project. Send a Zigbee 'disarm' signal once every 10 seconds or so, if the package got out of range of my SDR it would go off.
You are right, a good example might be Heroku. Heroku is a hosting platform that is hosted on AWS (maybe parts or all; I'm not sure).

"Heroku’s physical infrastructure is hosted and managed within Amazon’s secure data centers and utilize the Amazon Web Service (AWS) technology. Amazon continually manages risk and undergoes recurring assessments to ensure compliance with industry standards." See https://www.heroku.com/policy/security.

This is the type of disclose I was talking about.
There are a few recent forum posts indicating that they're still working on it at least, but it seems to be going extremely slowly.

5 years ago it had already been in development for 10 years and there was supposed to be silicon shipping in 2-3 years. 2 years ago they were talking about an FPGA prototype that has yet to show up.
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