skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree on everything you said, except for two points, which imo are a personal choice.

Look at waitbutwhy.com and julian.com they don't write about stuff they find on google trends and don't post regularly, yet they're among the best blogs out there
AHHA! My brother in arms! I also have a gron-like ML called 'KVIN'[0]. It'd be like this:

root.left[0] = 1
.left[1] = 1.4
.left[2] = 2
root.left[3] = 2.88
..right[0] = "a"
.right[1] = "b"

[0] https://github.com/jaroslov/kvin
+1 on that. It takes 80% of the work to build the product and 80% to sale it. MongoDB was really good at the later, creating and riding the hype wave.
I still don't get it. Why do they need an incentive to not toss it in the garbage?
Yes, an ORM, not SQL itself.
Cobra effect seems to be brewing here.
There is unrestricted movement in the Schengen area, which is a subset of 21+ states of EU for the past 10 years, with current population of 420 million people.

(8+ state for the past 21 years, those 8 states having population of 291 million today)

source wikipedia
The Effect of Trataka on Anxiety Among Adolescents [pdf]
If he is guilty of theft then Amazon was accepting fenced goods.

I don't see what is controversial about these definitions. If peons are going to be charged with serious crimes over dark patterns used for free advertising that eat up civic resources then follow through on the rest of the law..

He is guilty of violating ToS or fraud, (to whatever extent Amazon could believe he (regularly?) found 18 undelivered packages!?) but if this is theft then Amazon was encouraging and abetting theft.

The DA should really start the process of investigating this Amazon program to see if Amazon is benefiting materialy from returned packages not being claimed, etc, etc.
Indeed, indeed. This reporter also spent time in a midwestern town, his report painted a better picture: https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2016/nov/16/how-trump...

The caricature in everyone's mind is also dangerous, a lot of Trump "haters" probably just think the average Trump voter is a racist, gun-toting hillbilly. They don't want to further consider e.g. why people who voted for Obama would switch to vote for Trump.

And how many people's image of "Muslim refugee" is immediately "ISIS fighter"?

The same thing is happening with the rise of the populist right in Europe, these are people feeling economically insecure about the future (thanks to, among other things, Merkel's austerity policies as the de-facto leader of Europe), they're confused, the right is exploiting this fear to get them mad, and the left don't bother listening to them and dismiss them as racists, and think the answer is posters promoting tolerance...
No, that's not correct:
Initial json support in PG was added in early 2012
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...
whereas mongodb was made public in 2009, according to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB

I don't see how Mongo was built based on Postgres, either?
Try a private hospital in London[1] — it's £7,585. This is presumably high-end; it's a place princesses and sheiks' wives go to give birth.

It says "Additional charges are made if you require critical care. If your baby requires transitional or specialist care, this is free if they are entitled to NHS care and is chargeable if they are not."

[1] https://imperialprivatehealthcare.co.uk/prices/
Same in startups. Everything is on AWS and gotta be in a VPC.
Houston, We’ve Had a Problem NASA Data Breach
For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
That .. still doesn't make a lot of sense. Does Amazon require signatures for some of their package deliveries? (Honestly asking, I stopped buying things from Amazon a few years ago).
There is a fair amount of ongoing contact between Google teams (like dlor's) and the folks working on/around Cloud Native Buildpacks at Pivotal and Heroku (including me). We are continuing to compare notes.

I think these images will fold up neatly into CNBs without much fuss, if they are packaged as stacks.
> how did illegal unskilled immigrants come into the picture?

The magic of politicians: it seems they introduced a new law that allows the rejected asylum seekers to stay in Germany if they prove that they are "still learning."

That's the background story behind the following sentences of the article:

"Mathias Middelberg, the interior affairs spokesman for the parliamentary group of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, said the acceptance of rejected asylum seekers into the workplace “sends the wrong signal”."

Now, why is the background not explained, don't ask me. But always try to find the reliable sources when you have the impression that the story misses something.

On another side, it doesn't sound too bad, if the following is really true:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-cabinet-approves-skilled-labor-...

"the new law would allow asylum seekers to stay in Germany for 30 months as long as they have enough work to secure their living and are considered "well integrated.""

The devil is still in the details: is "enough work" really a criterion, or is just the proof that there's some education attempt enough, etc.

> The law is to let in skilled non EU labour.

That's what you'd think only if you just read the name of one law. By the way, the U.S. politicians used similar tricks, many times, and my favorite example is: the "Patriot Act" was not about the "patriots" but was made to allow the spies to spy more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act and the name should have suggested "if you are against that then you're being unpatriotic."
How a Fictional Racist Plot Made the Headlines and Revealed an American Truth
If you think MongoDB isn't doing well, just look at their financials and stock price, they're on fire: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MDB?p=MDB

Anecdotes like this are just that, anecdotes, there are no numbers in this article to show a trend away from Mongo, Mongo is actually continuing to gain adoption. See https://db-engines.com/en/ranking
> Are they on felony probation?

So that's what they call "Taking care of an elderly relative" these days!
Exactly! This work builds on top of the Debian team's work on reproducible package builds, providing a way to combine all of these packages into a reproducible container image.

This is difficult with Docker directly today because timestamps appear all over the place. We designed and built a custom set of bazel rules to make this possible.
Precisely this. People continually underestimate the sheer power of ideology in perpetuating these social structures within capitalism. What's a shame is that Althusser and others in the 70s warned us about them and explained their functioning rather clearly. Talk about the ideological function of capitalism has been quietly pushed to the edges of the discourse (e.g Slavoj Zizek) while everyone scrambles to think of a solution compatible with ever-expanding capital (driven by profit at any cost) and "saving the planet", in democracies controlled by anyone but the demos.

Even the mention of a critique of capitalism rather than a particular "implementation" or set of policies within a capitalist instance is enough to rile people up and turn them off what you're saying. Thankfully, in (some) academic circles there is much less of this kind of uncritical backlash against challenging orthodoxies.

When Marx wrote,

>Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome. As to prejudices of so-called public opinion, to which I have never made concessions, now as aforetime the maxim of the great Florentine is mine: “Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. [Follow your own course, and let people talk – paraphrased from Dante]

Little did he know, these prejudices of public opinion would get us to the catastrophe we're heading towards now, both culturally (Adorno et al.), ecologically (Bookchin, Patrick Murray) and socially (Marx, Marcuse, Althusser etc.)
Libertarianism is a subset of Republicanism in the US. Both serve the rich. Both always stand for the greed and selfishness of the individual over any greater good. Both want to be unconstrained by the will of the people as it interferes with their greed. Both always want more money. Both hate the commons and want it seized, given away, or sold off, for the interests of the wealthy.
> Cold coffee is just not the same as a hot cup of joe.

Agreed. It tastes different for sure. But I actually prefer cold brew's taste. YMMV, since everyone has different tastes.

Cold Coffee's main advantage is that I can gulp it without waiting. K-Cups are so hot that I usually have to wait and blow on the coffee before drinking. Cold Brew is more convenient for my personal life-style. But I 100% recognize this is a taste / lifestyle choice.

If you're purely in it for the heat, you can simply microwave the coffee once you pull it out of the fridge. 90-seconds is sufficient to heat a cup of coffee from 40F (refrigerator storage) to 140+F. Cold brew tastes slightly different however, so this is purely a convenience play.

> Also that still sounds like a lot of prep the night before.

No. Its a once-a-week prep. Cold Brew Coffee tastes fresh for more than a week. I dunno how long its shelf-life is (I always finish it within a week), but... its definitely got huge shelf life. I wouldn't be surprised if it could last roughly a month. As long as your container is airtight, the coffee has always tasted fresh in my experience.

As such, you should do this in large batches. 2-quart jars are my personal batch size (yielding roughly 1.7 quarts of cold brew coffee), since that's sufficient for my drinking habits.

> What if I forget?

What if you forget to buy more K-Cups?

Again, this is a once-a-week prep situation. I honestly go to the grocery store more often than I make cold-brew coffee (or tea. Actually, I usually make tea).

I wouldn't be surprised if this method scaled to higher amounts: like to gallon-sizes or more. 1.7 Quarts (out of a 2-quart mason jar) is sufficient for a once-a-week prep style in my life.
Let not use this horrible fake news rag as a source. Here is a snippet from Die Welt:

"Like academics today, they can then get a residence permit for six months to look for an employer. This applies to all trainees - not just those from shortage occupations. Condition is a small knowledge of German and securing their livelihood."

Which basically opens the gates for anybody. The "skill" can be just anything like peeling potatoes.
They also have the "punishment" factor, where the news feed completely refreshes if your phone's screen goes off; like a brutal pimp.
Indeed, it does not. The verb used would mean that in Spain, but in Argentina it means something a lot closer to "to mess with".
So if I'm fit but I smoke they'll balance each other out, right?
One could argue that returning a package to Amazon that had not been picked up would allow Amazon to avoid losses. But the dark pattern, of offering delivery personnel to return to "you" undelivered packages for a $5 bounty would be one way of using the delivery driver as a cutout.

So like you, I'm really curious about this alleged Amazon program.
On the point to multipoint problem, I think we thoroughly licked that last year (and in openwrt 17.01) and later, with:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-h...

I look forward to seeing some more field results from that.
>But, it's also important to note that we don't have to answer the "how" question in order to identify halting oracles as a viable explanation. We often identify new phenomena and anomalies without being able to explain them, so the identification is a first step.

I don't think it constitutes an explanation at all, let alone a viable one, if all it does is beg the same question.

The problem was already identified: "how does human cognition work?" You've renamed it: "how does this supposed halting oracle work?" That might be an interesting framing but it is not a viable explanation of anything until you've proved that such oracles exist or in other words, solved the halting problem.
Beijing Says It Suspended Guangdong Economic Indicator Over Paperwork
Proposed test of quantum superposition measures 'quantum revivals'
Whatsmore, Cortex is push based...
Please read above as to why free market fails for emergency services
> I think a primary problem with the modules workflow is that you can't switch to it until all Go projects you work on switch to it

It seems this gets fixed in Go 1.12 though. AIUI you'll be able to set GOMODULES=on, unset GOPATH and just continue working as before.
A lot of the safety-related weight is non-negotiable, at least in the US. Every new car sold has a lot of airbags, and while they aren't mandatory, it's impossible to earn a good safety rating (from the NHTSA, a government agency) without them. So you could say the added "safety weight" (and drag, since the airbags make the car bigger on the outside to preserve cabin space) has been partially regulated into existence.

At some point in the future, I hope the NHTSA takes in "probability of crash" into their safety ratings for self-driving vehicles. Otherwise the safety bloat in modern cars will stick around. The equivalent of wearing a motorcycle full-face helmet while riding a bicycle.
I find this specially troubling just like abandoning the Edge browser development. Steering away from Mongo just for the sole reason it's not in AWS sounds like a bad advice in general. Also it sounds like a false dichotomy. Implies there are no other options but it didn't even mention MongoDB Atlas for example.
CSV is just a serialisation format like JSON or XML. CST appears to put the emphasis on readability (not a bad thing!).

I've taken to using XSV to pretty-print CSV data in bug reports or feature requests for coworkers who give me CSV or spreadsheets to work with. The data doesn't need to go any further, it's already been processed, it just needs to be clearer to understand than raw CSV/JSON/XML:

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

(link has examples of pretty-printed CSV)
Agreed. This is completely bizarre.
This is really cool! But the ad is annoying
> privatized ambulance services (which are outrageously expensive, on the order of $12,000 for the ride

What state? In Washington (and many, though definitely not all), ambulance prices are regulated, for this reason. When I worked private ambulance a couple of years ago it was $680 + $8/mi.
Right, but that's not paid for by the end customer (at the point of use), is it? There could be single payer with private doctors they'll just get paid with public money, which is entirely different to Joe paying his doctor.
No prior records. ... This sucks. His ability to get work will be greatly diminished because he thought he could game some poorly structured Amazon system.

I mean, I know it's still his fault. Still, I wish people would take time to think about these kinds of decisions though.
This is pretty much how all Guardian articles are formatted. Some of their regular pieces could be called "blog posts" - Felicity Cloake's cooking series comes to mind.

Guess it makes sense to reuse the platform that already has the templates than use another platform and reimplement the design.
Sidestepping the conspiracy questions, these images are built reproducibly, from sources available on GitHub. You can clone the repo, audit the build tools and inputs, and build the image yourself. You'll get the exact same sha256 as the one on our registry.
I recently opened a PR to add support for pushing metrics to Cortex from Telegraf, so you don't need Prometheus as the agent: https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/5003

NB I'm the main author of Cortex...
> Basically before go 1.11, it was impossible to just do

That's not true. It was always perfectly possible to do that, the code you build just couldn't import any libraries not installed in GOPATH. AIUI that is exactly the same as in other languages.
The blue background is a big rip off from one of my favourite blogs: http://tonsky.me/
Quite often, actually. This is why we pad our estimates.

It's inescapable, in that providing a description of the problem that is precise enough to generate a perfectly accurate estimate is very close to actually just being the solution. As you do the work, the estimated time to do the work approaches the time already spent doing it.

But a lot of customers want essentially the same thing--probably a glorified CRUD app with pretty management dashboards, and a workflow that exactly parallels the all-paper workflow first designed in 1965. If you do that sort of thing often enough, eventually you get a feel for how much it costs, even with the variation across customers.

Medicine has a great advantage over software in that decades of hyper-detailed hospital billing--set up in an effort to maximize the yield of patient cash-ectomies in the face of insurer pushback--can now be subjected to statistical analysis. All those diagnosis and billing codes can be plugged back in to the billing databases to discover the median cost for the care to treat a particular ailment. It isn't so hard to then say that I am willing to pay the median actual cost, plus an X% margin for the hospital, even if the actual cost is less, provided that the hospital also eats the difference if the cost is actually more. On average, if everyone did this, the hospital still makes enough money to stay in business.

Some diagnoses in particular, such as the one every woman on the planet is likely to get an average of 2 times during her lifetime, probably while between the ages of 16 and 50, are particularly amenable to cost averaging. If you can't quote the cost of a hospital childbirth to a patient with months of lead time, including the possibility of emergency surgery, you deserve what happens to you when every actuary can crank out an answer using a pocket calculator within 15 minutes of being asked to do so. You know how much it costs. You just don't want to say, because that takes away your leverage to charge more.

But ethically, the care provider should probably not have that leverage, because if they haggle, people can die. If you cure a disease that affects 3 people in 100000, we can talk about the size of your bonus. But if you (the hospital) are on your 3rd laparoscopic gallbladder removal in the same week, and still don't know how much it costs, I want the power to set the price taken away from you.
Writing a Twitch IRC Bot in Pony from Scratch
Cada vez que intento usar un sitio de traducción para traducir más de un párrafo (Facebook o Google), sale un lío confuso - no significa que algunas oraciones sean aparentemente claras y significativas. Lo importante es que se atraganta con los modismos, no entendiéndolos, no dejándolos como están, sino adivinando algún significado claramente erróneo. Ocasionalmente encuentro que las publicaciones de una sola oración en Facebook aparentemente traducen sorprendentemente bien, en el sentido de que son en inglés y parecen reflejar el significado original. Pero mi francés o español es bastante duro, así que traducir podría haber pasado por alto algo grande, como sé que sucede cuando se trata de textos más largos.

I'm a native and it seems almost good to me. "algunas oraciones no sean", OK. And "duro" should be "rudimentario", also "de qué son" lacks the accent. But the rest is acceptable and it's possible to get a decent translation, only modifying those bits.

http://www.DeepL.com/Translator
...because even if you end up at a hospital where your coverage is great, they often have doctors or providers that won't accept your insurance, and there's just about no way to know this beforehand.
This happened a couple blocks from me. There's been a ton of packages going missing around here. Luckily I live on a small off street that doesn't really attract criminals.

Also should add, I've had pretty bad luck with amazons hired drivers actually delivering packages on time or at all. When I lived in the city they'd often call me up asking me to meet them down on the street since they couldn't figure out how an apartment building worked.
Stating something more times doesn't make it true. Everything you've written is pure speculation, and alarmist at that. There's no proof that AGI is even possible, and if it is possible there's no proof that it will end humanity.
For at least the last ten years I've been convinced "stop the ships" and so on is simply not going to happen; and that instead of dreaming up ways to keep the shit from hitting the fan, we should be inventing shit-proof suits. But really, as a technological challenge, not just "dual citizenship for my New Zealand bunker" solutions.

Of course, not everyone will be able to afford the shit-proof suits. And we'll most likely re-learn something about Humanity that we last confronted... maybe during the Black Death?[0]

On the positive side, people do tend to get a lot more creative when they're staring at personal ruin / the fall of civilization. I would be very happy to be wrong.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
That's a stretch. There are still a lot of private clinics operating in Canada for various grey-area medical needs. Also, Canadian (really, provincial) healthcare doesn't typically cover dental, and there's a massive grey area in rehab and injury recovery where private clinics abound.

Certainly it is true, I agree, that emergency hospitals and ambulances are public-option only.
I wonder if this means startup funding will be a bit plusher in the coming years.
That's pretty clever, and appears to be already in use even for 4G.
Apple did firmware updates as part of their OS updates [edit: on Mac], and they did fairly well although I seem to remember one update that did something nasty to one set of machines.
Such an agreement would likely be illegal under federal law, creating the risk for regulatory and civil sanctions for the employer.
Given that it was Yann himself who wrote that sentence, I think that's a needlessly uncharitable interpretation. Maybe a better wording would have been "Two years ago, we released Zstandard v1.0, an open source ...". But I don't think we anticipated anyone would read that much into it.
We've built systems to fleece the sick and dying and put children into prisons, why the hell not?
> You seem to be assuming a single tunnel per direction. Assume 20 instead.

I think this is the really important part. Think of it like a computer bus - do you want a single channel able to move a lot of data at once but with potential bottlenecks as various systems fight to talk to each other, or lots of channels able to move medium amounts of data without bottlenecking one component while favouring another?

When one channel is at capacity you move to the next, with further redundancy to spare.
you are right. in this case the guy is the chairman of the committee. for the next few days anyway
> In my mind, firmware is the low-level software that's embedded in a device, and is both hard to change and unlikely to need to change

That may be a model suitable for a single machine. Once you get to hundreds, you get intimately familiar with how to update everything and how common firmware bugs are.
AFAICT (from googling), it's actually for returning undeliverable packages (no access, etc), and it sounds like resorting to this regularly it will reflect negatively on your job status.
I'm not 100% sure. Before I turned of analytics I was getting somewhere between around 16k-20k uniques per month. I don't know the accuracy on that, one was Google analytics, one as server based but filtering out the bots, so perhaps caught a few blocking the trackers (like I do TBH).

That was nearly 7 months ago I guess? Looking in Webmaster search console it says I had 15.5k clicks and 237k impressions last 28 days (compared to 17k/297k 7 months ago), so maybe there are less visitors now. Not sure.

I might turn the analytics back on at some point to find out!