skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've just added support for the new region in our Aiven DBaaS platform. You can launch managed Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL & other clusters in AWS Stockholm at https://aiven.io/

Our services utilize T3, M5, R5 and I3 instance types, so we offer e.g. 4GB RAM PostgreSQL service which isn't available in RDS, but right now we don't have instances smaller than that in AWS.
I admit I did not read that far. I'm remedying that right now.
You hit on a good point. Some companies effectively have a caste system, and I have worked in a couple of those situations. - “You can work with us in our fields, but can’t dine with us.”
2 factors I think:

* the CTO title is the new project manager. It seems as soon as someone is in a position to choose whether to use Postgre or MySql they break out the CTO moniker. You can now be the CTO of just about any organizational unit, no matter how small.

* CTO != CISO (quite the contrary usually). Being tech-savy doesn't mean you grok security, especially its operational, wetware/social aspects. Obligatory xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/538/

I would tend to go with the second explanation in this case. When I read the quote "It is almost impossible to imagine a scenario in which an external hacker is able to gain access to the primary encryption keys", I thought it pointed to a lack of imagination (and probably a bit of Dunning-Kruger syndrome) rather than security expertise.
I was short this in a simple buy the rumor sell the news strategy

The pound had become overvalued in a rally leading up to the vote, so I shorted it on the vote being done with

I was at a company dinner with some now defunct startup and someone said “wow the pound is down 10%”

I yelled YES! And the founders asked me if I just quit
There's also this:

https://math.mit.edu/~gs/learningfromdata/

Also, a colleague did her graphics/vision MSc at UCL which also did/does a machine learning MSc.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-d...

This was a while ago. One book which seemed fierce was this

https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9780387310732

Singular Value Decomposition was mentioned.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. It's obvious that some people simply prefer to live in areas of relatively sparse population. What is in question are the benefits of imposing cumbersome governance structures on situations that don't require them. In a rural USA context, basic health and safety minimums are adequately enforced by the county. In some locations there might be a sewer & water district with part-time local administration. Other areas get by fine with private wells and septic tanks. Neither situation requires a city hall, police chief, etc.

On its face, a fiber district also doesn't require a city hall, but maybe that's what it takes to fend off predators like Comcast. Of course you're right that some areas would like to attract any provider at all, but that's FCC's fault for the constant delays and roadblocks it imposes on WISPs.
not exactly charity but something similar happened between Microsoft and Apple: https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0806/ (Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued — by Microsoft)
Workers are ghosting their employers like bad dates
The large groups of contractors at tech firms like Google are usually doing work the company has identified as not their core business. Where companies used to have janitorial staff, or cooks, or other administrators, they now put all those relationships onto contracting firms so they don't have to provide the same quality of benefits as they do to their FTEs and also have a much easier time firing them en masse then they would if they were legal employees of the tech firm.

As such, most of these people would be getting paid less than the software engineers if they were legal employees anyway, but they do lose out on benefits unless the contracting firm provides benefits on par with Google
Colorful Text for Everyday Programming
Your product landing page looks very cool. I would add call to action at the bottom of it though, not just at the beginning.

I would remove clipart-like images from the blogpost. I had a feeling this is a software from the 90s reading the blogpost.
Not all these people can even get into a state school, and some of the degrees they are getting are sub standard.

You don't need 50K+ in loans to become a nursing assistant or culinary arts, and based on your job prospects you will have a great deal of difficulty generating enough income to pay off the loan.

Many of these private schools are scams specifically designed to exploit the higher education financial aid system.
If you install Windows 2016 RTM without changing a single option, you will end up without GUI. You have to choose "desktop experience" during install to get the traditional desktop installed.
Polling companies have an incentive already to create inaccurate polls by structuring the questions cleverly. Regulation will never do away with that.
Wal-Mart Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot
It’s simple. Pointer sizes being twice as big consume twice as much cache, thus you’re effectively cutting your cache size in half (worst case, if the cache line were stuffed end to end with pointers). I imagine the idea that cutting the cache size by up to 50% causes a severe performance impact doesn’t require much explanation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661061 trended.
The abstraction doesn't fit. Where the civil engineers would be expected to build a bridge that doesn't collapse when the wind is Just Right (key word: Tacoma Narrows Bridge), software makers are expected to build a lock that doesn't open when someone whistles Just Right (key word: SQL injection).
You can share a link, comment and even collaborate in real time (with 2 cursors, each person working on a separate part of the file) with Figma.
Isn't the hierarchy of command specifically made to avoid that. "I thought someone else was in charge" doesn't seem possible on a plane/ship, and certainly not a military one.
+1 on Master Algorithm

Like OP said, not a tutorial. It talks about different thought processes and techniques. Extremely good stuff to know. Take notes on it. It's dense in things you should probably research more in depth.
I hear this argument all the time, but I don't really see it. What value is the ISP providing here? They sell you service on physical infrastructure that you the taxpayer already paid for? Peering? It seems like it would be much more efficient for a municipality to just negotiate citywide peering agreements for everyone.

Some people try to push the "value adds" line, like IPTV and phone service, but I don't see any reason those should be tied to your base internet service. Those arguments smell like the old cable company days, when everything had to be a "bundle".
To add to the "did it come first list", search from the
Netherlands:

1st is EN wikipedia with "Duck"

2nd is DuckDuckGo

3rd and on is several restaurants with "duck" in the name.

So it probably is location/language related to some extend.
Yes. It bugged me too.
Google+ to shut down early after data from 52M users exposed
Elements of Information Theory by Cover and Thomas. Very accessible overview of the field.
“10 Predictions for Electronic Music Making in the Next Decade” from 12/30/2010
> I'm nervous about how thoughtlessly we're embracing public ISP ownership.

Don't worry-- states like North Carolina have actually outlawed municipal broadband.

> Local governments are notoriously corrupt, in both politics and police.

There was municipal wireless in my town after the FCC overruled these state broadband bans, and before the the court ruled against the FCC. Symmetric speeds. Prices prorated according to what the actual speed was instead of the advertised speed. Pretty decent support.

I witnessed these symmetric speeds directly. I also talked directly to the town manager about the program as it was being implemented. The plan was public and presented at a town board meeting. If there was notorious corruption going on it still hasn't affect speed, pricing, or support response for their service.

Very curious to read your references about notorious corruption of local governments.

> But subpoenas, et cetera would be served to the private operator.

Which is exactly what my town has done to be in compliance with the court ruling allowing state-wide municipal broadban bans.

Same speeds. Same prices. Same support. Possibly even some of the same people, but I'd have to look it up to make sure.

What is the point you are trying to make?

Edit: Keep in mind I wrote "pretty decent support" against a baseline of what I think support ought to be in a first world country. If I measured against Comcast I'd call it "support so amazing it may make you cry."
GoDaddy manages to seem even more of a cheesy web 1.0 company than they are because of the name. It's like a TV ad company for the whole family, not something a programmer would find pleasing to behold.
I actually click on sponsored links just to help DDG.
> I always made sure to log out of Google to avoid this issue

Does this work? I was under the impression that had little to no impact on their tracking/suggestions for "personalization" purposes
No problem. Thanks for clarifying :)
I can't wait to start saying "Go Duck yourself", and have it meant to be a request / complement to search your own name.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Surprised at the amount of wisdom about life succinctly communicated on so many of the pages. Recommended.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami.
I hadn't heard that one -- it says it perfectly!

I'd only heard a similar one, that General Motors is (was) a massive health care and pension bureaucracy with a car-making division.
>"Local governments are notoriously corrupt, in both politics and police."

And yet on the whole they are probably still far less corrupt and corrosive than monopolistic ISPs such Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner(or whatever their calling themselves these days.)

I would argue they are more accessible and accountable as well.
Just an anecdote, from my experience of water-only intermittent fasting for 5 days.
First time I did it, from around day 3, I will start feeling dizzy, if I suddenly standup from either lying down or sitting in a relaxed posture. Later I read that it was caused because of low blood pressure due to no salt intake. The next time I did intermittent fasting, I took some salt with my water, and the dizziness problem was not there.
Intel 3D chip stacking could get you to buy a new PC
you are right that "There is no serverless without (managed) services" https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1072742649700872192 You have to supply the Kubernetes cluster. The Kubernetes cluster can be something like GKE, which is a managed service. So while every serverless function does have to run on someones server you don't have to manage that server.
Makes me wonder how many modems are still sitting in some company's closet, forgotten but still hooked up and able to be used if you know the right tricks.
I don't see what's so nice about this if all they were doing was squatting on the domain. It's good that they stopped squatting, let's leave it at that.
Neuromancer is always at the top of scifi lists but I found it to be astonishingly strange and dull. I'm surprised I was even able to finish the read.
That’s nice of Google to not be a duck.
How to Take Advantage of the New Partitioning Features in PostgreSQL 11
That just seems like choosing the worst of both theoretical worlds you described. The local gov't still has final control over your infrastructure but you also have private industry skimming profits off something you already paid for with taxes.
On one hand I kind of agree. It's a special syntax, which is one of the reasons why I personally dislike Vue and Angular, etc.

However, pragmatically, it's minimal and all the guts will be in Elixir - where the people probably most interested in LiveView will be spending most of their time anyway. So it's a net win imho.
In the end, feature de-creep turned out to be a bigger safety problem than feature creep. The early STS design proposals called for a titanium airframe which could have withstood reentry temperatures. But to reduce costs and speed up manufacturing they switched to an aluminum airframe covered with ceramic tiles. Those tiles were fragile, leading to one crash and several near misses (like this article).

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/ch8.htm

Also the performance of spy satellites is dictated by optics. In order to get sharper images you need larger lenses. That's just physics. Smaller will always be worse.
I’m feeling ducky
Duck.com would have been worth $500K+ on the open market.
Good job working on Selenium and thanks for your work on it, I use it a bunch. As for the rest of your post I've no idea what you're on about or how it relates to my reply, sorry.
The last mile infrastructure isn't maintenance free and doesn't last forever, so it has to be paid for somehow be it taxes or commercially. Users (in the above situation) paying an ISP are essentially agreeing to a "maintenance contract".
There are some tools that basically don't support this. GitLab is the biggest offender:

1) default view is all commits in a MR squashed together

2) messages beyond the title hidden under a click on some micro expand icon

3) going through a MR commit by commit means clicking on an individual commit, waiting for the damn thing to load it's view for 10 seconds, then when you're done you have to go backwards and do it all again
"Ducking" is also a term used in audio mixing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducking
Yea, the book "The Prince" is different than the pop-culture ideas of it. I blame English literature snobs for making mountains out of mole hills from this one.
That paper is about rear lights on snowmobiles, in snow (in upstate New York). My daughter doesn't have blinking lights on the back of her snowmobile. It barely even snows here. If it snows, the roads can be dangerous for bicyclists due to weather conditions. I'd rather bring her to school myself in such a situation, or buy her public transport instead.

Blinking lights in traffic serve to warn us about danger. Bicyclists are just normal cyclists; so the other users of traffic get warning fatigue via your method. A reflector (legally required to be on a bicycle on the back) is going to adequately help them. As a runner, I also wear clothes which contain reflections.
I digress. In India, my local ISP owns the last mile and I pay approximately 14 USD each for two lines of symmetric and unlimited 100 Mbps.

ISPs can own the last mile. All you need is extensive competiton.

I went from paying $100(4M/250GB) to $50(20M/500G) to $30(50M/UL) to the current $15 (100M/UL). The prices decreased as more players entered the market. Of course, India doesn’t have excellent internet infrastructure available nationally but you really don’t need public ownership of last mile to make a difference. Just don’t let the ISPs form any kind of a cartel.
- Homo Deus (and Sapiens, of course)
- Enlightenment Now
- Superintelligence (SUPER dense, but thorough overview on the topic if AI)
My phone's autocorrect would love this. :D
Read this too: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-23/health-data-shared-wi...
>Fukuoka also used wild carrots and daikon to bring up nutrients from lower down (source: My friend studied with him).

Not according to him he didn't. Read his books, he was very clear about everything he did. He grew vegetables to eat, in a completely different area, it had nothing to do with the grain field.

>Also white clover to fix nitrogen

Nitrogen is a non-issue precisely because you can pull it out of the air for free. You said you want a variety of plants to pull nutrients from the ground. Clover pulling nitrogen from the air is not support for that idea.

>Rice is a summer crop and in most places in Japan you can have a winter crop as well, which you use for nutrient migration.

But he didn't do that, he used it for a crop. He did rice and wheat, like I said. Both were crops, he sold the harvests. He did it for decades without any decline in yields. The idea that you need a "diverse polyculture" of plants as the current fad calls it is completely unsupported by evidence. They just need a healthy ecosystem to grow in, not necessarily different plants.

>Fukuoka's techniques work very well around where I like (my friend's fields are fantastic), but apparently don't work very well in more temperate climes

The techniques and ideas work fine, but you can't blindly copy his setup as it was. You don't have the season for two crops, so you don't do rice and wheat. You just do wheat. Marc Bonfils has grown winter wheat every year in the same field for over a decade with no inputs, no rotation, and yields increased each year as the soil was restored. If you are in a cold enough climate it might even make sense to compost your straw in the spring in order to warm your soil up earlier, but I am not sure about that yet, I'll be testing it this spring.
So if anyone asks you something you don't know, you just say "Let me duck that!"
Ow Jason Rohrer made $670K over the past 8 years with 100% Open Source games
My commits are the exact opposite of that comic. My initial commits are unfocused since it's the start of the project and there's a lot going on. As the project stabilizes and changes are smaller and on point, the commit messages become more focused as well.
Isn't it too hard to type using it? I tried using something improvised to mimic (I used the high desk as you say) but it was too hard for me to type consistently.
California Tax Proposal Would Charge Fee for Sending Text Messages
Most doctors recommend changing diet to aleviate symptoms. Its just that most people don't do it.

When you say "nutrition was more effective in treatment/prevention than anything prescribed and stating 1 focused on that" I call bullshit. Its just a known fact that diet changes can alleviate issues so its pretty much a given but its not going to alleviate the issues right away (in most instances) which is the doctors primary concern. So they often prescribed medicine to do just this.

If you need a doctor to explicitly mention to you that good nutrition will improve your health, then I'd suggest being a little more perceptive. But case in point, every doctor I've met has recommended diet changes to alleviate my symptoms.
Is this Italy’s smallest library?
This really isn't that outrageous, at most of the F500 companies I've consulted at they all have massive contractor workforces (including consultants) that don't have the same benefits as anyone else and are generally treated like second-class citizens. News like this that directs outrage at a specific company is just clickbait bullshit written by an amateur who doesn't understand how the broader workforce operates.
There is some documentation about the Loki search syntax in the Grafana docs:

http://docs.grafana.org/features/explore/#logs-integration-l...
>If you can't be competitive and ensure your employees have a livable wage, die.

This livable wage argument is insane. If you think the livable wage argument is $19/hr, vote to change the minimum wage (and please don't do it nationally, San Francisco hardly has the same cost of living as anywhere in West Virginia for example). Stop trying to shame companies into it, that's not how capitalism works. Capitalism ensures people get paid market rate. If you don't like that rate, change the minimum wage.
How to Install Redis on a Raspberry Pi Using Docker
Intel Ramps Up Neuromorphic Computing Effort with New Research Partners
> it would be much more efficient for a municipality to just negotiate citywide peering agreements for everyone

Negotiating peering, providing customer support, buying routers and modems, maintaining equipment, et cetera isn't a core competency of most municipalities. If municipal broadband scales, we'll likely replace the ISPs with broadband servicing companies. Explicitly privatizing those operations makes it more transparent, while releasing every single municipality from having to acquire a niche skillset.
To be fair, their demands seem a little beyond dignity or basic workplace rights. These aren’t factory workers in the 1800s.
In my ideal world we would be talking about the public utility of having network cables (of some baseline quality) running to every building in a municipality that any number of ISPs can provide the actual service for.
China’s Uighurs told to share beds, meals with party members
I don't understand this hatred of Javascript. The only websites I've felt were actually bloated are news sites with a lot of ads, but that's not a problem with Javascript as much as it is a problem with excessive ads.

What counts as information-centric? A lot of basic things (commenting, searching, liking a post) require Javascript. If you want to use pretty animations, there's a high probability you need Javascript.

Making information-centric sites only use HTML/CSS would significantly decrease the capabsilities and attractiveness of the sites.
i allways thought of it as a play on duck duck goose(which has some interesting connotations and in this context). it is good they got duck.com and makes sense in recognition and a simple and easy name is good to if thats there intent.
You can do the same with geany or micro over sshfs if you so choose.
Thonny: The Beginner-Friendly Python Editor
Yeah, I mostly titled the article due to younger engineers not being aware of how configurable Ubuntu can be (or them possibly being intimidated by Ubuntu). I didn't anticipate so many compiz greybeards would check it out, haha.
Seems quite the timely strategic PR move from Google; this might alleviate some of the bad press it's been battling lately (public leak of DragonFly project, workers' protest and public petition against it, etc). Good for DDG, though.
Ads. Just not tracking-based ads, only keyword-based ads.
There are memes out there about people using it to search for porn and I've seen it referenced in forums, so there's at least one use case. Although why anybody has to actively /search/ for porn is beyond me.
-The Broken Earth Trilogy: wow! Really fun to read and it packed an emotional sociopolitical message into an entertaining story with great characters.

-2312: interesting world, meh story.

-Artemis: fun, good read.

-Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy: Awesome science, mind blowing ending!
There are a few VCs that handle indie businesses, such as www.indie.vc, www.earnestcapital.com, etc.
According to the founder’s AMA, they weren’t thinking.

He had acquired the name Duck Duck Go before deciding to create a search engine. So when he started he just used that name for his next project and it stayed.

It’s clearly due for some rebranding. Duck alone works great for that. It’s got some relavance to their current name, it’s short, there will never be a shortage of puns and word play.
It could still work really well as the systems environment and language for a personal computing device. One needs to build the proper abstractions and DSLs on top of it, of course, but it would be a much more conducive environment to "literate computing," if that's the goal (and I think it should be).
Google facing anti-trust investigations is inevitable at this point. When the hearings and inquiries come, holding onto domain(s) directly connected to the trademarks of would-be competitors is going to be a liability. It might not be unlawful in any way whatsoever, but having to answer why you're holding onto these properties in a way that doesn't demonstrate a promotion of anti-competitive values is going to be, at best, challenging.
Please also note that you don't have to install GitLab itself on Kubernetes in order to add a Kubernetes cluster to your projects or groups. We updated the docs yesterday to prevent confusion about this https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab/merge_requests/599/diffs

We had multiple ways of installing on Kubernetes before but we reduced it to one canonical helm chart https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.h...