skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blackbox infrastructure vs. Developer-Aware infrastructure
Have you ever had to deploy a web application to cloud? Did it take a lot of time and learning?

Thanks to IaaS providers like AWS for making infrastructure accessible. But creating and managing infrastructure is time consuming, which is why you will find a lot of small businesses trying to automate infrastructure; a nicer interface to speed up the time to get to cloud. But at the end of the day, you still have to be aware of what is created, how it is created, and what to do if something goes wrong.

But I think (or maybe this already exists) that it would be a lot easier if developer doesn't have control over any infrastructure. They just upload the code, and an appropriate infrastructure is automatically calculated, created, and managed on its own.

What this is, is basically "blackbox infrastructure" vs the traditional "developer-aware" infrastructure. Since you are not even aware of where or how your code is running, you no longer bear its burden.

This is actually possible now that various technologies like AWS and Docker have matured so much. All Node, PHP, Python, etc applications are pretty much setup the same way. They all need CICD, autoscaling, load balancer, HTTPS, etc. This is true at least for simple web applications like a JSON formatter, or a word art creator, or a calculator.

I have created a working implementation of blackbox infrastructure - Plugins by Quadnix. It offers a marketplace where you can upload a basic web application (like a node application). Within a minute or so your infrastructure will be ready, and a shareable link will be generated.

I would love to have your feedback, and if possible create your own plugin and experience the easiness.

Demo @ https://youtu.be/-8jaCIbZ2Is Home @ https://plugins.quadnix.com/home Learn more @ https://plugins.quadnix.com/docs#introduction
This is a fantastic example of all the important steps you have to go through before you get to the final visualization. Many explanations jump over these instructive details.
Is It True Can AI Build Apps?
> Those are all in China

You're probably right. America shouldn't aim to achieve speeds of high speed rail in ~2025 that China achieved in ~2015. That's aiming too high.

Best to aim lower so we don't disappoint anyone.
Or they just want more people in the partner program and don't care about their reputation.
>(Read in 2018)

* Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215758.Shake_Hands_with_...

Still reading it every few weeks and its hanging over my head to finally finish it. Not something you want to read, but a book like few i have read before.
The point is not that there were necessarily multiple movements that merged into one; rather, it is that there is no reason to rule it out. It is entirely possible that Jesus is a legendary figure based on various Jewish religious leaders with similar messages. The teachings attributed to Jesus are for the most part variations on Jewish precepts and religious themes; even the baptism, which scholars seem to insist was historical, is just a variation on Jewish bathing rituals (mikvah). So we have a man with a relatively generic Jewish name (i.e. Joshua, which in Aramaic is Yeshua or Yeshu, which in Greek is Jesus), who led one of a large number of Jewish cults based on variants of common Jewish religious themes, engaged in common Jewish practices, and was executed by an oppressive occupying force known for its cruel executions of Jewish leaders (see e.g. the "ten martyrs" of the Talmud). Why are we assuming that is a story about specific and real person?

Tacitus makes a vague reference to a "cristus" that could have referred to any messianic claimant (as "christ" is just a Greek word for "messiah"), and Josephus makes a similarly vague reference to people with very common Jewish names (Joshua i.e. Jesus, Jacob i.e. James). In both cases there are reasons to doubt that the references refer to the specific Jesus in the biblical or quranic accounts (the latter unquestionably having been written centuries after Jesus supposedly lived). In both cases the claims are not based on the authors' first-hand knowledge and the authors based their writings on what the earliest Christians had told them, something that may have already been merely a legend.

Again, it is possible that Jesus was really a person who led a religious movement two thousand years ago. I am only saying that other explanations cannot be ruled out because there is almost no evidence at all. At best all we can say is that the earliest Christians lived about two thousand years ago and by that point believed some version of the Jesus narrative. Beyond that I am not seeing the evidence for a historical Jesus.
Your viewpoint is valid.

But so is the viewpoint that one of the major problems with C++ culture is the misconception that developer experience and high quality tooling are afterthoughts and orthogonal to "quality". In this viewpoint, readability in a editor or IDE at least as important as readability in a browser or email.
I have a raspberry pi running a fairly simple application. What can I do something which might be useful using tf lite on my pi?
Does this product contain glitter? https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-djINoSKP6FQ/T_2q9sPNqZI/AAAAAAAAA...
I doubt it will get there anytime soon. UIKit still has APIs designed back when iPhone was clearly underpowered (for example, UITableViews still deque cells), so it really performs well on new hardware.
Those Holiday Pounds You Gain Don't Go Away (2016)
If you like “Why We Sleep” I recommend “The Sleep Solution” as a companion. Why We Sleep is heavy on interesting sleep science but light on practical tips for improving sleep (The Sleep Solution is the opposite...)
I've been fascinated with how the countenance of Christ has been a tool for racial (and racist) propaganda. As a Jew from the Middle East, He certainly wasn't the fair-skinned, blue eyed, blond hair rock star depicted by some Christian denominations. I also doubt He was black, although some Rastafarians believe He was because it says so in Jeremiah 8:21.

I discussed "Black Jesus" and the Rastafari on my podcast : https://soundcloud.com/jesusinbooks/black_jesus_rastafarian_... and for those who want to deep-dive into the topic, I highly recommend The Color of Christ by Paul Harvey and Edward J. Blum. It's a knockout book.
I presume this was heavily downvoted because of the Rand. While I'm not a fan of her either, that's unfair: 1. Dreaming in Code and The Book of Why are excellent (I haven't read the other two), and 2. Rand makes some points that some people need to learn, even if I don't buy her whole worldview.
You're right to push back on this. My wife works in the California system. As with anything, fraud does exist throughout it -- including employers, doctors, and law firms...not just applicants. However if you looked at the legitimately injured who were poorly treated and compared it with the rare ones who faked it, you would probably be astonished.

But no I have not data.
Querying a GraphQL API from React
The US has optimised its rail network for freight.

By modal share, the US ships 44% of its freight by rail.

France, the subject of this article, ships only 15%

I would argue that rail is better optimised for freight than passengers. Building rail to send huge amounts of heavy freight at relatively slow speeds is very cheap, and removes a lot of trucks. Building HSR is very expensive, and the network would need to be duplicated since none of the existing tracks could be used.

People who comment on these articles base their opinion on ideals, rather than facts. I'd suggest that few people have even travelled in Europe by rail, where actually most passengers will go on slower trains which are less expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...

Hub-to-hub transport is dying out. Airlines have recognised this, Uber has recognised this, Escooters have recognised this. Spending billions on HSR is a waste of money. Better to invest in autonomous busses and cars, so that for the same number of vehicles on our roads, we can carry 2x the number of passengers, immediately solving congestion with minimal additional infrastructure spend.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scale-Universal-Organisms-Cities-Co...
this is amazing talk - thanx for sharing
It's referring to this, from earlier in the article:

> A December 1942 article in The Times — possibly the first mention in this newspaper of the stuff — advised New York City residents that pitchers of evergreen boughs, placed in their windows for the winter holidays, would offer “additional scintillation” if “sprinkled with dime-store ‘glitter’ or mica.” The pitchers were to replace Christmas candles, which the wartime Army had banned after sunset — along with neon signs in Times Square and the light from the Statue of Liberty’s torch — after determining that the nighttime glow threw offshore Allied vessels into silhouette, transforming them into floating U-boat targets.
Really enjoyed:

- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy - Hamilton Helmer

- American Wolf - Nate Blakeslee

- Atomic Habits - James Clear

- But What If We're Wrong - Chuck Klosterman

- Conspiracy - Ryan Holiday

- The Courage To Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi

- Elements of Fiction: Characters & Viewpoint - Orson Scott Card

- The Elephant In The Brain - Robin Hanson & Kevin Simler

- Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

- Gridiron Genius - Michael Lombardi

- The Longevity Diet - Valter Longo

- Open - Andre Agassi

- Warriors & Worriers - Joyce Benenson

- Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker

- World After Capital - Albert Wenger
Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content
Doesn't chaff work by being an aerial? And so it needs to be a certain length?

http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/sites/default/fil...

> Chaff consists of aluminum-coated glass fibers (also referred to as dipoles) ranging in lengths from 0.8 to 0.75 cm.

> Figure 1. Radio frequency chaff cartridges (Air Force version RR-188/AL, top; Navy version RR-144/AL, bottom) and chaff fibers (right). Fibers of different lengths can be seen in the Navy operational version (clear cylinder). These lengths correspond to the frequency modes of the radar spectrum
And juul is safer than inhaling the combustion products of smoke, correct?
Most professions have already changed the world. Air conditioning for example dramacily changed how and where people work and play. Plumbing has dramatically reduced the spread of disease. The older professions are so integral to society it’s hard to thing of a world before agriculture or fishing.

Give it 200 years and programming will probably be thought of as accounting. Well paid and nessisarily, but hardly revolutionary.

PS: Salaries have generally stagnated over the last 10 years suggesting supply and demand are well matched. Their is a lot of stratification, but most programmers make well under six figures.
Extraterm. A cross platform terminal enumlator
The parent said "teach," so you are out of luck. ;)
Learn to memorize the order of a shuffled deck of cards
This is a thing that interest me much (I'm building a relational lang in rust), I haven't found enough info or help (I have asked like a dozen times already!) in how do it with compiled languages (the answer is always "do read this large codebase that solve it)".

If I understand you well, this demand the compiler to be a JIT? And be responsible to emit and understand assembler?

Is possible to make a generalized solution, that for example, could work for a transpiler?

Is viable for a compiled language in multiple platforms or arches without a huge codebase?

What could be a minimal example that could work?
I agree that C++ is a big mess.

Complaining about an external third party library that is trying to fix the issues for its compile time and how fast it loads IDE is very obtuse and unfair. Boost is a bandaid. Don't complain about the bandaid, complain about what causes the wound. Overall, I agree with you that C++ has poor user-experience - don't blame Boost for it!
Quote from
https://svpow.com/2016/05/22/elseviers-increasing-control-ov...

"it’s simply unrealistic to imagine that Elsevier, in controlling Mendeley and SSRN, will do anything other than what is best for Elsevier."
Thanks for the recommendation. I agree, I wish the author had gone a bit more into practical tips and cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. I'll check out The Sleep Solution.
I agree with that, but I don't understand why such a big focus is on Amazon. It's not like they are the only ones with this type of working conditions.
There's actually an affordable housing crisis all across the country. It's particularly bad in the larger job markets which are where people are moving to get decent jobs.
I tend to think that the economic value of porn would have plummeted in the past decade or so even if there were no copyright infringement. Good cameras keep getting more affordable. Today's smartphones have better video capabilities than professional video gear had at the end of the 1990s. It only takes a tiny percentage of people with exhibitionist tendencies to produce and share more new porn than anybody can watch. Most of these performers don't care about getting paid. And in this niche, true professionals have little if any quality advantage over enthusiastic amateurs.
The reason why I push back against claims like this is usually because the evidence is either all anecdotal or the data proves the opposite

For example, there are claims that welfare fraud is widespread, yet the data seems to prove the opposite from what I've read. We should not be making policy nor allow companies to invade our privacy over unsubstantial amounts of fraudulent behavior. All that does is encourage companies to go deeper and deeper into paranoid behavior.
>There is a very strong argument of what is better for a society -- restrictions on fewer people so that a larger group of people have more freedom, or more freedem for fewer people so that a larger group have less freedom?

This isn't a good rule either. Enslaving all black people in the US would give a minority less freedom, but a majority more freedom (presumably anyway, given the economic potential). It's still horribly unethical. My point here is that you can't just make these sweeping generalizations about freedoms. Each freedom has to be compared with the ones it affects carefully. "My freedom makes more people freer" is not a sound argument. Why is that freedom better, and why is it better to society as a whole than the alternatives (and of course questions of whether or not utilitarianism is even a valid ethical system under which to analyze these problems).

>How do you explain the prevalence of free software under the GPL for the past 30 years? If the GPL couldn't work, then we wouldn't be living in the world we have today.

The question is not "would GPL software still exist under the GPL" its "would non-GPL software exist under the GPL". It's not "GPL can't work for anything" but "can GPL work for all of the things that are currently Apache/MIT/BSD"? And would those things (and all of their derivatives exist under the GPL?)

Because then you are making a value judgement on software that does exist. Would your chromium (and v8 and node) or your llvm or your apache anything (spark, hadoop, beam, etc. which are used in all kinds of proprietary work) be as successful if companies couldn't keep their proprietary bits proprietary?

The opportunity cost of the GPL is, potentially, things like those. You're discounting them because "we can't know the value of software that doesn't exist" or whatever nonsense, but we know of a lot of non-GPL OSS, and its extraordinarily valuable.

So the biggest question is: would the increase in end user freedom be worth the loss of all currently nonfree software? If not, what percentage of a loss is "acceptable"? Would losing LLVM but not Chromium be acceptable? If Apache never existed, would that be Ok as long as all of Google's open source work was GPL'd instead? Would the world be a better place if it was exactly the same except that all machine learning work was proprietary?

None of those sound like wins, and the ability to use Chromium or Tensorflow or Beam or LLVM all sound like net increases in freedom to me. And net improvements to the average person's life.
My entire reason for reading Capitalism was because people hate on the world view so much, I felt obliged to at least try to understand why.

As I said in my other comment I got in a few good conversations on my commute about it too, it almost felt like a dead time debating society ;)
Tax credits are cash. That's why they don't distort markets. If you give everyone extra money they can only use for education, education costs go up. If you give them extra money they can only use for housing, housing costs go up. Up compared to everything else -- like wages. Which is a problem.

If you give them the money as cash, nothing is disproportionately affected because the money can be used for anything. There is no inherent reason it would even have to cause inflation, since general inflation is affected by multiple other independent factors, like interest rates, that can be set independently of any tax credits.

The problems in France are caused by just the opposite -- they have many rules that collectively make it very risky and expensive to hire employees, resulting in employers who are wary to hire and a high unemployment rate. Which erodes the tax base, reducing the resources the government has for social programs while inducing demand for them from all of the unemployed people and lower income working people paying high ratios of taxes to benefits to compensate for those unable to find work, leading to widespread discontent and protests.

They would do well to abandon the inefficient collage of price controls and subsidies in favor of direct cash transfer payments from the rich to the poor.
Some Hershey’s Kisses Are Missing Tips and Bakers Want to Know Why
But more dangerous than not inhaling anything.

If people were swapping cigarettes for Juul I'd see your point, but as the article states, they is not.
As others as alluded to, long term success requires more than deep technical excellence. Winter break could be a great time to learn about another field, get experience talking to others (volunteering maybe), broaden your horizon of thought with books you may not normally read, or, if your passion truly is technology, work on a higher risk project that will likely fail but you could learn a lot from.
Why would a local government be secretive about what they put in roads?
Maybe the legends developed over multiple generations before the first century. The first "Christians" would have just looked like another Jewish messianic cult, and would have looked more like the earlier messianic cults the existed before Jesus supposedly led his disciples than anything we think of as "Christian."
I hate juul. I support traditional vape. Juul just seems like a horrible company with horrible intentions.
If you were to read the book, you might find it more about
the times than about the man. The context of the time and
the place and the various social and religious movements
in the few decades before, during, and after the life
of Christ informs the reader, and is worth a reading.
Do your part in the 9 year old army!
Usually not required by law, but mandated by the joint agreements between the employee unions and the labor unions. I.e. it might not be legally mandatory, but de facto it is.
Also, an electric shock should be emitted via the USB port whenever the compiler detects that a programmer has written 'for', 'if', and 'while' without a space, making them difficult to distinguish at a glance from function calls.
Correct. Literally thousands of times less deadly.
The comments on the article are fascinating.
I mean, that must have to be the case, right?

And yet this article says more than once that vaping has “wiped out” progress of getting teens to stop smoking. It only makes sense to say this if you think the two are basically the same from a public health standpoint. And I just don’t see how that could be true.

The panic over vaping strikes me as rather puritanical. Smoking is obviously terrible for one’s health, but decades of anti-smoking messaging seems to have warped people into thinking that anything even resembling it must be a personal moral failing.
Drucker's Lost Art of Management [1] contains some amazing foundational material (as opposed to quick-fix 'techniques' you get in other leadership books) on how to build an effective organizational culture. It shows that for Drucker, the modern corporation is an integral part of civilizational fabric (just like family and other social institutions), and that it too should be governed by moral values and that those values are the glue that holds it together as a community.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Druckers-Lost-Art-Management-Organiza...
Wow. I had no idea that a single company had such an effect. I'll stick to my occasional pipe loaded with organic tobacco, and enjoy my continued lung health and lack of nicotine addiction.

EDIT: Yes, I know about mouth cancer risks, and I also know that occasional pipe smoking puts one at approximately the same risk for various cancers as drinking hard liquor does. If you don't mix the two activities, you aren't raising your risk of anything, and you are lowering your blood pressure and stress levels, so much so that pipe smokers are estimated to live about 3.8 years longer, on average.
I refuse to get used to that kind of stuff.
I'll just leave this here to try to help explain the complexities on medical technology. These systems are all the complexity of medicine (and medicine is hard) with the difficulties of a large enterprise system.

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/how-technology-led-a-hospital-...
The Lazy List
I understand what you are saying, and I agree that it's true in principle.

But, if C++ did not provide me predictable optimizations - it would be worthless to me. I know scientific computing is only one domain of computing. But without this level of intuition for code -> asm. My day becomes filled with reading objdump outputs, I don't want that.
This would be great...if all Juul users wee former smokers. I am sure that you are a smart person who knows otherwise, so why lead the discussion in an erroneous direction like that, buddy?
> Masters of Doom

No likable "characters" in that one. Fun reading about the era though.
Gotta look after yourself first. I’d suggest not making any immediate lifestyle changes or flashy purchases to minimize morale impact. Furthermore if you’re still putting in the effort that will be obvious to employees.
On the article’s comments, some people discuss whether vaping is as unhealthy as normal cigarettes.

Curious to hear an opinion if any expert is reading this.
Michael Pollan: How to Change Your Mind [1]

Not just about an utterly fascinating topic (psychadelic drugs), in terms of history (LSD turning from a scientific wonder drug to illegal), his personal experiences, and the neuroscience behind it, but also just extremely well-written -- a real page-turner. A crazy potent combination of science, spirituality (from a skeptic), and narrative. I expect his book will be a significant part of why psychadelic drugs will be legalized in the near future specifically for therapeutic purposes.

Also +1 for 2017's Why We Sleep [2]. After reading it, I couldn't believe how shockingly ignorant I'd been of how I spend a full third of my life, and how much it affects the other two-thirds -- and the degree to which a lack of sleep prevents us from perceiving the effects of lack of sleep, in a kind of vicious cycle.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transc...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
Right, because tobacco never hurt anyone. On top of that, it's organic! Probably good for you really.