skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The turtle choking to a Keurig cup in the Pacific doesn't really care that the cup had an additional tax on it.

In general, we should stop making waste just for the sake of appearing more sophisticated. Keurig has very successfully targeted the same people who insist on bottled water, even though tap water is higher quality and cheaper.

I don't know what's wrong with the basic human wiring, but we really seem to have a glitch that makes us equate excessive consumption with higher socioeconomic class. See also: giant SUVs, etc, etc.
> They don't even know the alternatives exist.

Of course they do.

I think the coffee pod idea took off because people use them at work (it's a pretty good setup for offices), liked the convenience, and end up buying a machine for home.

I have an E61 based espresso machine at home with a flat burr grinder and if it either part were to break today, I'd probably replace it with a Nespresso machine.
Human rights body calls on US school to ban electric shocks on children
I'm not sure why a database is required at all. Surely the main advantage is to support tables and joins. If you just want a key-value store surely S3 or similar would be simplest. Do they search the data? Surely Cassandra is designed for this. Any ideas?
Most vape liquids I've seen come in 0-24 mg/ml (in 6mg increments, except for 3).
Why Stormzy’s success should spook the music industry
nespresso tastes better than keurig but it still has an artificial taste that turns me off. thus i buy espresso drinks at the local cafes but make coffee at home in a clever dripper using freshly ground beans (in a burr grinder) and a dedicated electric kettle.

it takes a 5-7 minutes total but i've developed a routine where i do other things (feed pets, make breakfast, etc) during the wait times so the marginal cost is really only an extra minute or two. cleanup is just rinsing out the dripper (and washed once a week). even this drip coffee tastes better to me than nespresso and only takes a few extra seconds.
Powder could help cut CO2 emissions
One of the unusual and desirable things about this is your customers for the dev board will largely be very experienced... you acknowledge it in the letter you sent out.

What surprised me is until it's fixed, there's no certainty what the problem is. Eg, dsi lanes mixed up, polarity of dsi lane wired wrong, some semidocumented reset signal on the panel got forced to 0V or forced inactive but panel requires it strobed, psu to panel must come up in specific order, psu level or quality or wiring mismatch... there are many possible ways just from having no video it can be a hw rework issue to solve it. Of course dsi is also complex, it can easy be a sw-only config issue, or some combination.

It's not up to me as your paying customer to go ask on a 'support channel' why, it's up to you to explain the reasoning why you believe that's a software-only issue.
Do we have any reason to believe anything this company says about anything anymore?

It's like they know they're in a very deep hole - yet with every press release they just keep digging themselves in deeper.
Why the insane code complexity? Yes there can be a lot of complexity in storing the events but using Kafka or similar event stores which provide libraries for handling the connection details should remove most of that complexity. Then your code can essentially be written as a map-reduce. Add a stream filter and it can easily be transformed to/from a Redux event system to a business one. Perhaps if your codebase didn’t build on a streaming architecture it would necessitate a lot of advocacy code.
I've noticed that, too. There's an interesting ping-pong effect where a fair number people have flipped from strong typing at the database layer & dynamic typing at the view layer to the reverse — it seems like someone could write an interesting group psychology paper about how that cycle has repeated over the years.
Another example is about Boston's Big Dig.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
$6 billions with 15 years for 1.5 miles tunnel. What a horrible project!
Have you been to Portugal?

The stigma of a heroin user is strong there.

You know why? Because we don't want heroin users.

I'm a libertarian. 100% in favor of allowing people to own their own body (i.e. they can put in whatever they want)

Being fat isn't a crime.

There is no war on fatness.

There is simply a stigma.

A stigma to dissuade people. It works. It worked for me. I know other people who got their shit in gear because they were tired of not getting the respect they felt they deserve. I come from a hard background.

The Healthy while Fat is just an excuse to want to gain acceptance of unhealthy behavior.

No it won't work.

Sure, cigarette smokers come from shitty backgrounds (I was one). But getting looked down on was a major reason for me to quit.

Are there weak people who will forever smoke and feel bad?

Yes.

I have no answer for them.

But I know we can't start accpeting cigarette smokers. Or more people will smoke.

That is a totally different thing than using VIOLENCE to make it so someone can't access their vice.

I 100% support people engaging in vices.

I also think we should as a society be more accepting of vices.

Because they have good and bad. Some of the best chefs I've known are fat. Some of my favorite music was made on heroin.
This was actually posted a bit further down in the post. It's a good one though :P
Fantastic write up article.

A few things stood out at me. In no particular order:

- Going with Mongo in the first place cost them dearly. CMS are a weird application for schemaless. Not necessarily wrong, but definitely weird. I wonder if they would benefit from moving to more structured schema and I'm willing to bet a lot of the migration complexity comes from that in the first place.

- God damn that is a long migration. Holy shit. I know tech isn't their core competency but they do seem to have very competent staff. I've worked in places this glacially slow and I get how it can get this bad but it really strikes me as having no right to be. 10 months to migrate .... from the point where they were ready, until they were done. And somehow integration tests got overlooked during all that.

- Close call with dynamodb. Bit of a wtf on waiting for the feature to be implemented for nine months though. I'm sure they have an account manager with aws... I definitely think blocking an internal process on such a fragile externality as a closed process upstream publishing a feature is the wrong move and a red flag. Their migration path would have probably been harder with dynamodb too.

- I feel the pain of their troubleshooting issues on the load testing step. I can completely see how this can happen. That said it also raises a few red flags to me. Letting something as simple as the load testing step get complex enough to require weeks of engineering is ... Eh.

Have more thoughts but I hate typing on mobile. This is a fantastic write up, I love when non-tech companies publish this sort of stuff. And hurrah for postgres.
Indianapolis approved and is constructing the Red Line, which is a traffic segregated bus lane that connects the downtown core to some of the outer burbs [1]

It makes a ton of sense for medium/large cities with sprawl (versus super-large cities like New York). That traffic segregated lane can also be used by emergency services, and buses can leave it if they have to for parts of their route.

[1] https://www.indygored.com/project-overview/project-info/
Unless you are 10x engineer, bay area.
Intel VISA: Through the Rabbit Hole
It is possible this random person on HN was using PGP, so I don't think it's fair to use "every single" verbiage as it is clearly hyperbole.
Phoenix has interesting geography. I struggled to describe it, so I checked Wikipedia, which has this succinct description:

"Other than the mountains in and around the city, the topography of Phoenix is generally flat, allowing the city's main streets to run on a precise grid with wide, open-spaced roadways."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona#Geography
I didn't see the part where I said anything about stimulus or investing.

WWII is what enabled the US to adopt this position, and its memory, rapidly fading into history, are why the US chose involvement and leadership of the world instead of isolation. Before WWII the US was (relatively) isolationist. You can claim that it would have been better off staying that way, but given the way things spiraled into WWII, the conclusion of US leaders was a reasonable one: we must lead, or else things will spiral into conflict once again, and we will not be able to contain, control, or ignore it.

How could they come to any other conclusion? They had already tried the "let's try to avoid picking sides and please can't we all just get along" option in WWI and it turned out, shall we say, badly.

None of this excuses the absolute folly of the US' many military misadventures, and likely huge amounts of waste (in terms of people and treasure) in pursuing them. I am merely pointing out that the idea that we could abolish most military spend because somehow the world will just get along by itself, or even that we can just ignore what happens elsewhere, is just not the case and hasn't been for a long time.
Creating a legal framework for all recreational substances could be another solution.
Making data count
2018 was great professionally, maybe not so great personally. I made more money this year than I have in the last 4 or 5 combined but my mental health has struggled.

I'll be taking the next few weeks off to TRY to relax, reflect, and gather my thoughts on the plan for 2019.
3 strikes is a lie as a policy though. You can get in trouble once and use up all three strikes if they do separate charges. Don't fall for it.
Their architectural choices are puzzling to me:

1) Why use Scala to write (a relatively simple) internal CMS?

2) Why use a clustered database for 2 million records?

3) Why write your own proxy? (in Akka, none the less)

4) Why would you migrate articles from Mongo to Postgres using a script that runs overnight in screen?

The Guardian is, prima facie, a Wordpress blog. A simpler architecture would be:

1) Any CRUD web framework to build the CMS for reporters to draft their articles (Django, Rails, etc). Any basic RDBMS with read replication will do. Or, ditch the webapp entirely and just make a simple Markdown editor that commits to a git repo, a la Prose or Netlify.

2) When a reporter "publishes" an article, generate HTML for it and push to the CDN network. (I can't easily tell by looking at their HTTP headers, but I assume they're doing this already)

Okay, I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek. It's probably not that simple. But, one has to wonder, when you're serving up 100 million static HTML pages a day, if it really has to be this complicated.
What do you suggest in place?
I use an Aeropress daily and have a Moka. The biggest downsides to the Moka are time to heat up (on my gas stove), and pretty much needing to wait for it to cool down before cleaning it.

It might be a little faster with an electric stove, but the cleaning would still be a big hassle. I prefer to clean up my coffee making stuff in the morning after making coffee, before heading out the door for work.
Some nice quotes, but sorry does that last one mean that those who take the time to learn things want to be centre of attention? Or that they deserve attention for their efforts?
The problem is when non-technical people write articles or respond to posts about Deepmind. They think all AIs are the same and that one specific AI achievement means the Matrix is coming.

People lack nuance and critical thinking.
I wondered about that, yeah. That's just Not That Much Data; too, they're clearly able to sustain multiple-minute downtimes (the blog asserts as much). The original design reeks of over-engineering.

Great blogpost, though; well written, which is always a surprise.
The thing is, sites cannot use IP geolocation to decide if their users are EU residents or not. I think in the end it’s more expensive to try to manage this than to let everyone do the export and deletion.
Good to see that he's putting his money where his mouth is and giving away the money he earned from his invention to a good cause.

Oh wait...
Adorable Bird in VRChat Flies from Korea to Meet Fellow Avatar in Canada
Needed to create a new account to post this?
How Instagram has been good for independent bookstores
> To be clear: none of these partnerships or features gave companies access to information without people’s permission, nor did they violate our 2012 settlement with the FTC.

Always take note of the defense, "It was legal." It is the last defense of an opponent who knows they have lost the moral battle.
The choir already understands all that. You lost everyone else at the words "lambda calculus".

Go into a random PHP shop, and I would be surprised if a single person would know what lambda calculus is.

I'm not complaining about the message, I'm complaining about the language you are using. If you want to evangelize for Haskell, you need to use words that someone who failed out of differential calculus will recognize and understand.
The cop is going to make a split second decision on your story and that will forever colour future interactions with cops. They will all see the note on the file. If your story sounds like a hollywood movie its not too surprising the first cop will be suspicious.

First impressions matter a lot when it comes to bureaucracy.
Interesting, thank you. I haven't made any priority lists based on what I want to learn, great idea.
RSA with one shared prime
I don't think the Kochs have an ulterior agenda, but I also don't think they are being entirely altruistic in their motives. They have built a vast political influence machine to push their agenda of de-regulation and tax cuts, so using some of that influence to push for modest criminal justice reforms is a convenient way of demonstrating 'bipartisanship', while not really sacrificing much in the way of core values[1]. The fact that this bill is getting pushed through in the lame duck session in the waning days of total Republican control is also a signal as to how much of a priority it was. Also, the Kochs have faced criminal investigations in the past, so they probably hold some personal animosity towards our justice system.

[1] My very limited understanding of this bill, is that it will reduce spending overall (i.e. smaller government), and the only increase in spending is going to private institutions.
Here’s what I don’t get about people from the “personal responsibility” camp: food companies spend billions of dollars on marketing research and ads to sell their products. The products they seem to be most easy at selling are any form of junk food. The easiest to target are the poor and people who don’t know better.

I think they have a huge responsibility for unhealthiness and fat shaming doesn’t address that cause. Saying “oh people just need to make better choices” seems pretty shallow.
Whoops! Updated :)

Thanks!
Client privacy issues should not preclude the use of MongoDB Atlas... Atlas offers encryption of data at rest as well as the ability to manage your own keys.
Ah, the people are getting tired of the Colombian cartel screwing even more with Rosario.
Too bad most key people in the govt are in one way or another in cahoots with them.
No wonder why Rosario is the death capital of the country.

To anyone thinking about visiting Argentina I humbly encourage to visit r/argentina and look for threads on the subject or just ask right away.
>so why bother giving them access? //

Doing things for "exposure" is somewhat of a meme nowadays, but it can work. That's why people let Google past their paywalls. Mileage varies a lot of course.

One issue for a large media outlet is maintaining standing, cutting off all access to those who won't/can't pay means you're no longer the go to place for news (or whatever), that can have wider consequences.
> Physical waste is not a real issue. A landfill 10 miles square and 250 ft deep could hold all of the US's waste for the next hundred years. Twenty of these (Which could fit without people taking notice in any rural area) can hold the whole world's garbage for next 100 years.

Physical waste isn't an issue. But the high-nitrogen of coffee grounds makes it a shame to throw it away. Generally speaking, carbon-based compost material is easy to find (sticks, paper, etc. etc.). Good sources of nitrogen however is more difficult.

Its kind of a shame to throw away coffee grounds, because of how good they are for compost. Its like Aluminum: we have so much Aluminum it isn't really a big deal to put it into landfills. However, Aluminum recycles very easily, so its just a shame to throw it away.
If you dry out the used pods and their contents, couldn't they be burned for energy?
Asked Michael DeHaan on Twitter today about the "Why?" https://twitter.com/ElijahLynn/status/1075446656533811200:

"Efficiency in both operation (speed) and development of plugins is a big one."
Add also the 11th hour acquisitions.
It actually says don't f*ck with the mafia... for those who care.
Righto (author here)! It's a lot more relaxed (IMHO) than some. Most methods are raw python. The "set_foo" methods are just methods that get called when the objects are constructed to populate certain fields. You can just pass those in and leave them off if you want.
This is a set of statistical tools that are being made available to staff in English NHS trusts to help them understand their data and to make better use of that data.

I'm submitting it because I thought some HN readers would be interested to see how stats are being taught to people who may not have much familiarity with them, and because I thought people may be interested in the tools.
Internet-Draft: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 3 (HTTP/3)
Your architectural choices are puzzling to me - Rails/Django -- I've rescued more bad Django apps than I can count.
I'm not arguing against the CST format, but I don't think redundancy is necessarily bad or hard to work with.

It can be good because each line is now an independent idea and doesn't require the indentation context, the items can be sorted or moved easily.

As for hard to work with... a lot of editors have multi-cursor support these days, which makes editing these things in bulk pretty straight forward for smaller sizes and then there's always sed and awk. ;)

Given all that, CST seems like it might be cool for building some quick trees like the given UIs you present.

I'd probably keep to to rows for longer storage though.
“The whole problem with nicotine is that it happens to be
found in cigarettes,” she told me. “People can’t
disassociate the two in their mind, nicotine and smoking.
It’s not the general public that annoys me, it’s the
scientists. When I tell them about the studies, they should
say, ‘Wow.’ But they say, ‘Oh well, that might be true, but
I don’t see the point.’ It’s not even ignorance. It’s their
preconceived ideas and inflexibility.”

...

“To my knowledge, nicotine is the most reliable cognitive
enhancer that we currently have, bizarrely,” said Jennifer
Rusted, professor of experimental psychology at Sussex
University in Britain when we spoke. “The cognitive
enhancing effects of nicotine in a normal population are
more robust than you get with any other agent. With
Provigil, for instance, the evidence for cognitive benefits
is nowhere near as strong as it is for nicotine.”

From https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-a-nicotine-p...

I've never smoked (though I tried and failed to be pick up vaping 10 years ago), but I think it should be abundantly clear that for centuries many smokers have been effectively self-medicating, either to blunt some mental disorder (Schizophrenia, etc) or for what today we might call a cognitive enhancer. It's just that the addictiveness of smoking has masked that phenomenon. Vaping is unmasking it because nicotine alone is not nearly as addictive as smoking. (Seems unclear if vaping is as non-addictive as, e.g, nicotine patches or gum. Probably not, but we'll see.)
I'm on my phone... Hope this link works. Around 9:30 there's a question about planet 9 and the NASA scientist says Pluto is Planet 9.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=257826325089507&...
> K-cups are recyclable, it's just that no one does it because it's a pain in the ass to do at scale. You have to awkwardly peel back the top foil, dump the grounds, and then recycle the cup. Who at the office wants to sit there and do that for 20 cups in a row whenever the cup catcher fills up?

I do believe this is a myth.

K-Cups plastic falls into plastic-resin code #7: "Other plastic". Which means its the hardest kind of plastic to recycle.

IIRC, #1 Plastic (PETE) is easiest to recycle, but sucks at high temperatures. #5 Plastic (PP aka Polypropylene) is also easy to recycle, but I'm not sure if it'd stand boiling-point of water.

Most recycling plants IIRC will throw away Resin code #6 or #7, due to their difficulty to recycle. Some plants can recycle #6 or #7, but its not something you can count on.
I am not sure why you think that Rails or Django or any bloated web frameworks are necessary. The most trivial way to implement a website for high traffic is simple static content generator (like Jekyll) and use a CDN. There is incredible amount of CPU wasted on rendering the same exact content for every request. The content of the articles never (or very rarely) changes so you can put it in a CDN. CRUD, DMS, RDBMS are all wrong to be used here.
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...or mandate that single use items must decompose within some sane time frame.
It's more that 3 strikes can happen all at once. The justice system isn't fair by a long shot. Hardly anyone is charged with a single crime, so usually the 3 strikes happen through a single instance.
> When was the last time you saw a Postgres rep at a college tech event?

Is a Postgres rep a thing?
Optional Notes and Exact Pitches in Chord
There is no evidence, just innuendo, raw emotion, and pure discounting of personal responsibility. Many seem to want all the perceived benefits of FB, but none of the costs. Just to be clear, I don't use, nor like FB.
We definitely need to give Swiffer an honorable mention. Dust in your house? Why not clean it up and create an enormous pile of trash at the same time!!!
Azure PowerShell ‘Az’ Module Version 1.0
Exactly, I have moved companies from random web framework + random database to static site generators + CDN with high rate of success too. No point of using Rails/Django like stuff unless you have an extremely good case to, which is certainly not the Guardian use case.
Ok, so Fabric did exist even way back in 2012 when I did ansible.

The common pattern of the day was to use Puppet to do OS config management and then Fabric to push out the apps.

Fabric lacked declarative resources to describe the desired state of the end system, which is where Ansible came in.

Ansible differed because it still allowed direct control over multi-machine orderings, which is (IMHO) easiest in push modes, so it was kind of (IMHO) the best of both worlds access models.

OpsMop has the same kind of push model, still keeping the declarative resources, it's just all Python.

However, on the remote end, it uses mitogen, so very efficient RPC ops (1 per role + files) - https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2018-12-18-mitogen-opsmop.html - versus the multiple of SSH operations ansible did per task.
How many people spend a significant percentage of their time right next to a fog machine breathing in highly concentrated amounts?
> genuinely believe that no one wanted iPhones to be harder to service vs other phones.

Unfortunately this hasn’t resulted in a repairable iphone. Yet again corporate incentives and lack of moral ownership work against consumer interests.