skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easiest solution, which is quite easy, at least for Aurora Serverless/Lambda: Cron a warming function that calls something in the cold service every 5 minutes.

This should add literally pennies, if that, to the total cost and is relatively effective. Of course, it isn't "scale to zero", its just never letting it go to zero. But the practical and financial difference is almost nothing.
Inaccuracies that could have been corrected by watching freely available CppCon videos:

- Papers "written in a way that's deliberately inaccessible"

- "I'd be marginalized for not using template metaprogramming" - a major topic is how to get the benefits of template metaprogramming techniques without the ugly syntax that everyone dislikes.

- "I'd be marginalized for ... not knowing the new hotness by heart" - a major purpose of CppCon talks is to explain the new hotness.

- "it's led by academics who think the concerns of working programmers like me are beneath them" - the majority of speakers at CppCon and members of the standards committee are working programmers, not academics and none of them show any evidence of thinking the concerns of working programmers are beneath them, quite the opposite in fact.

And unicode is still insanely complex.
Please change my mind if you believe otherwise but I feel like this is all a consequence of YouTube completely screwing creators over when it comes to copyright and ad-revenue. The site's been going downhill since YouTube's refusal to actually fight for its content creators and decision to run with big name corporations as their preferred content producers. While corporate channels are gaining incredible amounts of promotion, immunity and power, others had their incomes completely gutted.

Some people have seen something like this ahead of many others, people like LinusTechTips, who, for years now worked on partnerships with companies to gain relevant sponsors but many others didn't and were hit hard by all this. YouTube even removed their abilities to link their Patreon as part of their videos, if I remember correctly.

Realistically speaking, I'm unsure what the real solution to this would be, other than YouTube doing its best to provide its creators a stable source of income..

(And on a small side-note: ads on YouTube itself have become quite dodgy, here in Eastern Europe. I keep seeing video and image ads for shoddy gambling sites, Russian singles sites (not even kidding!) and weird Jesus-cults. I am having very real flashbacks to the early 2000s Warez-internet.)
Found some data for you:
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2016/f...

These are traffic deaths per 100 million vehicle miles by functional system type. There is not a single road type on this list, including the lowest (urban freeways), with lower fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles than Tesla Autopilot (which is 1/3 fatalities per 100 million VMT).
> I've never really understood why there are brackets in the first place, can't we just write a function to calculate your taxes based off your total income?

You could use a function with a smooth derivative, and since a table is used in application it would have no effect on practical complexity of tax prep, though it would make intuitive grasp even harder (and it's already bad.)
Perhaps offer cloud based backups/syncing of notes across devices. You could use git to track history of changes over time on the server. Charge a monthly fee for this feature to cover hosting + profit.
I want to go back. I'm not enjoying the change (or at least my company's implementation of management). It's not even that the feedback loop's length is different, it's just that there isn't any. If my team performs better, the expectations are just upped and we're still "needing improvement". Other managers here have said the same thing.

I feel like I am not a leader; I am not positively impacting people's careers or lives. I feel like I'm asking people to update their tickets and telling PMs we "can't just" add something else.

I'm not happy, and I'm getting to the point at the job where when I wake up, I linger in bed for a bit, thinking/negotiating on whether I should go in.
You have explained why this information isn't useful for you. That's fine—your self assessment seems reasonable. By all means, delete all weather apps from your phone!

However I think I've also explained why I find the information incredibly useful, for different reasons than you. It's an incredibly valuable service to me and most of my immediate peers.

When I neglect to check the weather in the morning, I do things like wear a long sleeved shirt that becomes overly hot in the middle of the day, because the weather had felt slightly chilly that morning. I work in an indoor office, but I go out to get lunch, and it's nice to not be overly hot or cold.

I will say that I find weather forecasts more useful in Spring and Fall than Summer or Winter. Right now, the answer to "what should I wear?" is almost always "thick clothes and a coat!" But then, there are also exceptions, and using the weather forecast to spot them is great.

(Actually, speaking of temperature, something I didn't mention—my apartment is always hot, so even with the window open, it's often hard to judge the current outdoor temperature without an app.)

Edit: Also, whatever your complexion: if the UV Index is 0, you don't need sunscreen. And if the UV Index is 12+, you absolutely should have sunscreen even if you're inside most of the day. It's worth checking!
Why regionally?

In the UK, most move away from home to study, and then move away from their University to work.

Anecdotally I don't know a single person who studied at University and works near their hometown.

For many it's the main reason they study. To get out.
Wow, a venti is up to 340mg caffeine. Anecdotal sample size of one, anything more than 300mg in one serving crosses the threshold from 'super alert and productive' to 'jittery, nervous and feeling uncomfortable'.
I felt he was full of shit also but since I was just reading for pleasure instead of being assigned the book, I stopped really early.
Safely using destructors in Python (2009)
I work on a polyrepo. The code in repo A has a dependency on the code in repo B. When I update B, I sometimes need to update A.

In a monorepo that's already done when I finish working on the modules in B.

That I am unable to release from A until it has been synced with the module in B is not "a cosmetic notion". It's being unable to release. I consider releasability at all times to be the most important invariant to be sought by the combination of tests, CI and version control.
You end up getting a class of people who's social value is inheritable. They typically serve ceremonial and liturgical roles. This is all generalization, of course, but I would consider this to be the rule, not the exception. Cultures stratify.
Now's probably the time to get into Hadoop. The hype train is gone, but all the companies that follow the hype train now have lots of Hadoop infrastructure that needs maintaining.
> I remember some time ago there was another popular youtube channel that was basically a case study on the root cause of Complex PTSD: the father would consistently gaslight one of his kids, under the guise of horseplay, in order to broadcast his kid's reaction to such bullying to a wider audience. Presumably because the parents were making bank from it.

You're thinking of DaddyOFive.

They lost custody of two of their kids (the ones they treated the worst) and eventually got banned from YouTube. Now they have a website, FamilyOFive (he numbers still work because 7 - 2 = 5), where they offer paid content.

I can't begin to understand what it takes, mentally, to lose two of your kids, and then come back to the internet asking for more eyeballs. They have a "Meet The Family" page on their site that omits two of the children, who are no longer part of their family as a result of their behavior. I would have probably had suicidal thoughts just writing that page, and I'm not making a joke or hyperbole here. Sure, who am I to say what sort of punishment they deserve? But good god, you lose two of your kids, you should either be angry or depressed or both, not going straight back to the life you had that led you there. I feel bad for these people.
Fighter jets can already do that should there ever be a need.
> too complicated

More specifically, the difficulty is in developing computationally efficient models (i.e. algorithms that could be used on today's computers) - vs. just using computational methods of quantum mechanics, which in theory should be able to model anything that consists of atoms but in practice turns out to be too computationally intensive.
As much as I dislike the supermajority tax rule in CA, it actually hasn't been that much of a practical problem (the supermajority budget rule was, but that was dumped.)

Of course, it's not an actual block on tax increases, and there's a straight-to-the-ballot bypass available.
Tim Wu on the Curse of Bigness
But the content in question was not on Patreon or even linked via Patreon. The ban was for comments made on an unrelated third party recording.
An industry analyst estimated that it costs about $400M to develop a subsonic light business jet. A supersonic aircraft would cost more due to greater technical risk.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honda-jet/honda-faces-lon...

But $100M might suffice to build a scale model experimental technology demonstrator.
Thanks. What kind of effort? What did you learn?

I put a small amount effort into this; digging around in the source of a few sites, reading event traces, trying to work out the relationships between elements and so on. I'm not really a front end guy so I'm not sure if i'm failing due to ineptitude, things being generated and deployed in a way that makes them hard to read, or if they're deliberately obfuscated. Sounds like you believe the latter. Securing video start metrics from user interference must be... ahem, pretty highly incentivized.

EDIT: Firefox will add a permission popup, which is already in nightly. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay
Thanks to Heavy Taxes and Regulations,CA’s Legal Cannabis Sales Fell
Interesting insight! Where do you work?
Patents. There is generic insulin available (Walmart sells it for $25/vial) but it's not the fancy stuff. It works much slower than the insulin most people take but not slow enough to replace long-lasting insulin.
This is pretty unsavory, most visits are billed at 3.
> I.e., you want something like NT IO completion ports, introduced in 1994.

Yes, that's why I mentioned Windows.
> How do you arbitrarily determine which is which?

It's not arbitrary. If the primary purpose of an entity or transaction is to avoid tax, then its employment is likely to constitute illegal tax avoidance or evasion (the terms have distinct legal meanings but those are not very interesting here). Purpose is determined primarily by contemporaneous documentation.

Is there some interpretation involved? Yes, because just about any legal decision involves some interpretation and these matters tend to be exceedingly complex. By their nature, they usually involve some sort of subterfuge or concealment. But it's not arbitrary. There are laws and precedents that attempt to define exactly where the line is.

Here are some references that might help clarify further.

http://taxexecutive.org/tax-avoidance-vs-tax-evasion/
https://www.lowtax.net/blogs/The-Basics-of-Tax-Evasion-Tax-A...
Please explain how you can have anonimity if it can be lifted by law enforcement.

The selling point of cryptocurrencies is not being beholden to the whims of a government.
You sincerely believe that tax revenue would be lost to waste and graft with no benefit to the poor? Higher taxes sting me as much as the next USAer, but I think you're being obtuse.
Do you always think in black and white?
Of course, this is not in question. It is very typical that bond yields are inversely correlated with risk. Higher the rating, lower yield. Lower rating, higher yield, but increased risk of default.
"> Taxing capital gains means that everything you ever own will also be taken from you in the form of taxes on inflated dollars.

How? You're taxing gains so by definition, what you already own cannot be taken."

His point is that you are taxing nominal gains, not real gains. Let's say you bought a house for $1mm in 2000, and sold it for approx. $1.5mm in 2017, owing $100k in capital gains (20% of the $500k nominal gain).

You are now left with $1.4mm. But the inflation calculator I'm looking at says $1mm in 2000 dollars is $1.45mm in 2017 dollars, so even though the government claims they are taxing gains, the real value of your dollars has declined.
Google makes a ton more money off of web search than their app store and they keep releasing new features that allow you to access your devices sensors so I doubt that for google.
Verily, Alphabet life science company, raises $1 billion in new round
I was skinny-fat. It did plateau when I lost the excess.
> “In a monorepo that's already done when I finish working on the modules in B.”

This is not usually true in monorepos or polyrepos, and is quite a dangerous practice that nobody should use and hasn’t got much at all to do with what type of repo you use.

I worked in a monorepo for a long time where you still had to deploy versioned artifacts. So when you makes changes to B, you still have to bump version IDs, pass deployment requirements and upload the new version of B to internal pypi or internal maven or internal artifactory, etc.

Then consumer app A needs to update its version of B, test out that it works and that, from app A’s point of view, it is ready and satisfied to opt-in to B’s new changes, and do build + deploy of its own to deploy A with upgraded B.

Doing this in a way where a successful merge to master (or equivalent notion) of a change for B is suddenly a de facto upgrade for all the consumers of B is insanely bad for so many reasons that I’m not even going to try to list them all. Monorepo or not, nobody should be doing that, that is bonkers, crazy town bad. It’s a similar order of magnitude of bad as naively checking credentials into version control.
This seems like one of the times when ed would be a legit editor of choice, rather than the other examples here which seem more like editors of last resort.

ed was built for this kind of system where limited I/O was a requirement for reasonable performance. If transferring a file is too expensive, you can't wait for the system to redraw the entire screen of 25 lines and 80 columns because you scrolled past the bottom of the screen, either.
The rate of business travelers who fly business class is not 100%, but it's very high for most airlines.

For US and European carriers, it's around 75%. Since the cost is 4 - 7x higher than commercial, most people aren't paying for this expensive personally. Not sure about other industries, but for consulting and tech, the standard is to allow a business upgrade on international flights and not domestic.
Indeed. Business customers aren't representative of the greater public because they tend to take their issues directly to IT support, they get it sorted, and don't think about it again. Your every day average user doesn't have an IT support department to which to go. They do, however, have the App Store/Play Store.
I’ve tried many diets. Including, ofc, just what some people would call a “balanced diet” whatever that even means. I’ve been experimenting with diets for fun for about 12y now.
Anyone who is thinking of doing this should consider how loud and annoying 1RU sized servers and switches are. They're not designed to be used in the same room as people for any extended amount of time. If you have a whole room in your house that you can dedicate to this, or a corner of a garage, sure. But don't buy a used Dell R610 1U server off eBay and expect to put it comfortably in your home office.
> So even confiscating all the wealth of the top couple thousand richest people in the world (not just US) would only fund the US government for 2-3 years. And that would be a one-time event.

Why? What do you think happens to money after the government spends it? It vanishes?
It's likely the same reason that most businesses are willing to pay for software: service and support, as well as many vendors likely being willing to implement custom features.

On top of that, none of those agencies are likely to be willing to download some pirated crack for whatever piece of software they need, so that means if they want it for free they have to crack it themselves. Which requires them to divert people who could otherwise be doing things that are actually relevant to their missions. There is plenty of funding in these agencies to buy software and there's little to be gained from stealing it.
I was confused by this comment but I think what you're trying to criticize is this: "Mariott didn’t take enough precautions to pretend being victim of a hacker."

I agree with that criticism. It's not a crime to be a victim, but being a victim also doesn't mean you're not guilty.

Marriott might, however, still be liable for some damages due to not following common security practices for sensitive personal information. Anyone from California, for example, would have § 1798.81.5 [1] and § 1798.91.04 [2] which would backup their right to have their data handled properly. The FTC might also get involved with their fairly broad powers to protect users privacy (though that agency has been limited in this administration).

[1] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...
[2] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x...
I tend to believe that one of the most powerful things about Dynamo is the streaming capabilities. It means that you can cleanly use Dynamo as the source of truth for your data, reap all of the performance benefits it has, and automatically ship that data to another database for more advanced BI querying. Moreover, you can do this offline; queue up every mutation that hits Dynamo, then process them at a rate that your data warehouse can ingest without worrying about overprovisioning for spikes.

I've worked on a team of 8 engineers that spent 6 months building a streaming replication system from MySQL to Redshift. Its crazy how simple this would have been had the originating database been Dynamo; its very possible one engineer could have done it in a fraction of the time. It also seems likely to me that an open source solution might already exist.
Catcher in the Rye was substantially the most important book I've read in my life. It put in words the exact things I was feeling, and became a bible to me.

As I read the book several times as I got older, I remembered how I felt about compromise as a teenager, and yet understood what the teacher was trying to tell Holden. Things aren't as cut-and-dry to an adult as they are to a 16 year old.

That said, I believe this article is largely hogwash. Salinger wrote one phenomenal book. His other books, I felt, were boring and didn't have any of the same effects as Catcher in the Rye did. He's the literally equivalent of a one hit wonder.

And there's nothing wrong with it. I won't ever do what he did. But to romanticize Salinger's life as having some greater caller or meeting is a bit ridiculous. He wrote one good book and that's it, and he was a bit of a kook. End of story.
And how many billionaires have filled a city's water with lead?

"Look at this problem a government caused that those nasty rich people haven't fixed!" is not a fantastic argument for making them give more money to the government.
> myself who support fundamental rights would be rightly pissed that a hard-to-avoid service such as the Visa network was making a decision on what I can or cannot do with my money.

But that is exactly what is happening. Visa is saying to Patreon - don't let people give money to XYZ persons via your platform.
> ... I can't help but feel bitter towards the proponents of AA who insist on it being a monopoly... especially those in positions of power in the criminal justice or public health systems ....

Not an alcoholic, but I had extended discussions with a number of AA members some years ago. And I found that many of them also felt pretty negatively about the involvement of the justice system with AA. What happens (they said) is that people are forced to attend AA meetings as part of sentencing, but these people generally are not interested in recovery. The result is a lot of wasted time and the diversion of resources away from people who could be helped.
Valve Data Shows PC VR Headsets Roughly Doubled in 2018
Since I don't live in the UK and nobody was really mentioning that place, I'm not sure what, if anything, to take away from your response.
No, it has not fallen flat. Something being common knowledge, and yet still held to be irrelevant was exactly my point. You are free to peruse information about Louis Auguste if you'd like

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

> Though officially regarded as the daughter of King Christian VII, it is widely accepted that her biological father was Johann Friedrich Struensee, the king’s royal physician and de facto regent of the country at the time of her birth.[1] She was referred to sometimes as "la petite Struensee"; this did not, however, have any effect on her position.[2]
That is an example of excellent critical thinking skills.
My experience has been they insist on paying their GSA schedule price, which generally is below list.
>Looks like 3-4 Linux-cannot-be-worse-than-NT-in-any-way apologists here to deny facts.

Your first comment would've benefitted from containing the information from your second comment, rather than a content-free dismissal.
(I work in a climate R&D group)

Just wanted to weigh in here a bit...

You are correct that increased emissions are definitely bad, but you may have missed how a carbon tax scheme would work in practice.

From a climate perspective, there is not much difference between being zero carbon versus carbon neutral. In other words, adding 1kg of CO2 in one place, and removing it elsewhere is effectively the same as being zero carbon.

So, while a carbon tax does create an economic incentive to avoid emitting carbon, what it really creates is a market to offset carbon. No one would pay a $10,000/ton tax when they can pay someone else $100/ton to offset the same amount of carbon from the air. The smooth ramp-up of any carbon tax allows offset price discovery without significant disruption.

Anyway, net result of a carbon tax would make having a plane be effectively carbon free, and current air travel would thus not be unsustainable.

In the airplane case, what would likely happen is that biofuels, which are inherently carbon neutral, would come to dominate (easier to let plants capture carbon and then turn them into fuel than to sequester CO2 directly from the air). However, that is irrelevant from a consumer perspective, and we'll just see an x% increase in cost as the offset market price gets baked in.
Always start with a website and only build an app when the limitations of a website hinder growth and/or experience.

If you only want an app to be listed in the App Store, send push notifications or get a tile on users' home screens then use something like https://appwraps.co/
Hmm that gives me something to think about. The acquirer is in a related line of business and is aggressively expanding into that niche of said line of business.

The buyer company is publicly traded. Money isn't my main motivator but it does seem to be the slight upside in what seems to be a negative situation.
Trading app Robinhood is stealthily recruiting ahead of planned UK launch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates%27s_house

Bill Gates lives in a $147 million home. He spends far more than ten times as much as the average person.
Please forgive my ignorance -- is this some sort of decomplier? Something more?