skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that is not super clear from the blog post, and which may be a surpsise to some, is that Cloud Functions will require you to upload your source code. The compilation happens not on your end but on Google servers.

This is probably not a surprise for folks who have been using Python or Node for cloud functions, but it is something to think about.

I've been thinking of using this approach for a golang MMO game SaaS which is really an aggregation of a bunch of FaaS lambdas tied to an account. What upload allows you to do, is to do a syntactic scan of all of the code, particularly the package imports and function calls. All of the above can be whitelisted, which adds security. Also, you can munge the function calls against a generated munged version of the available libraries, which also adds security. (In addition to using containers under the covers.)
LokiJS – In Memory JavaScript Datastore with Persistence
> What's the evidence they presented to support the idea that it didn't stop nomadic invasions?

Seems to me the most obvious evidence is the Yuan Dynasty.
That’s more-or-less how I feel about Python, it’s a solid language, first one I learned and only one used outside some C++ for school, for several years. But, after branching off into other languages, I’m just really not that interested in Python. Maybe it’s because I’m not particularly interested in ML or data science, which outside of it almost being the ubiquitous intro language, is really the big draw to it these days. I just don’t find Python sexy, which isn’t a bad thing, it’s just not as fun to use, which can also be a good thing as it can prevent some shitty hacks just because I wanted to code golf/try some obscure language features.

Though, I’m a bit of a language junky, I love playing with new languages that largely break away from the classic C Style. My daily languages I use, and actually deeply enjoy working with are Ruby, JS/TS (mostly TS now-a-days), and Elixir. Likely Haskell is the next language I’ll try to seriously learn, as it’s one I just want to check off my list. But, I’ve also dabbled around with rust, tried to drink the lisp koolaid, but couldn’t get past the (((())))))) - I hope one day to try again to see what the hype is about, and I occasionally check up on Idris, but I’m going to let that one mature a bit more/at least get Haskell under my belt before I give it a serious effort.

With all that said, Python is solid, but with all the other options out there, it just seems terribly boring. Maybe that’s largely due to my lack of meaningful work with it in the past few years, but I’m not at all interested in using it anymore. Also, the whole white space thing is a huge turn off, Which is one of the things I actually used to really like about it.
Considering the number of lives devastated by OxyContin abuse, I'm surprised there hasn't been even one (successful?) attempt on the alleged perpetrators' lives.
Pastore had another famous exchange with Fred Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9uIJ-o2yqQ
Headline is (now?) "What People Actually Say Before They Die", which is way more descriptive.
can't your security params be read out of the binary in any case? i'm not sure how binaries offer more security.
Brands were Mitsubishi, Subaru and then Kia (most recent). I had driven a Mitsubishi before, but never driven a Subaru or Kia before buying them.
Agents make at least 60% from day one. It is easy to find a brokerage who will offer 70-80% day one. So in that respect I don't think it is a pyramid scheme at all. Also, there are plenty of brokers who work in a larger organization without being the broker of record. But as you noted, advertising is not free. It is extremely expensive to market as a real estate agent, and that marketing cost is why most agents fail. It is just too expensive to start. In my area, I would allot at least 30,000 a year to get going as an agent for the first year, and more each year after that.

Source: On the fence about dropping my license right now.
The stomach is capable of stretching and contracting, and eating large meals will tend to increase the expanding capacity of the stomach. Fasting or reducing your intake will tend to quite literally lead to a reduction in total capacity as a result of increased contracture and a sort of “resetting” of your sensitivity to hunger signaling. It’s not really a matter of stretching or shrinking, but altering muscle tone and how your gut reacts to a meal.

Of course you can get the same result by just eating less, but fasting is quicker and more dramatic, not to mention that total abstinence for a short period is easier for some than fine control over a longer period.
The trouble is, your incentives are all wrong.

If the house would not sell at $900000, would sell in 15 months at $800000, or would sell in 3 months at $700000, or would sell in 2 weeks at $600000, what do you do?

You try to sell it for $600000. You tell the owner that that is what the home is worth, even if the owner is not in a hurry. Getting your share of the 6% (likely 1.5%) of $600000 in 2 weeks is better than any of the other alternatives FOR YOU.

A better way to align the incentives would be to give the seller's agent a percentage of the amount by which the sale price exceeds the price determined by an independent appraiser. The buyer's agent gets the opposite, getting paid only if the price is lower than the appraisal, and you don't get to be both agents at the same time.
That’s a ridiculous anti-competitive poison pill that discourages value added services.
I of course know the answer

You will then, of course, share that answer with us, in detail, with the same kind of scientific proof that you are asking for.
PNAS is not a well regarded journal by some people https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/10/04/breaking-p...
Rather abrasive music in my opinion, although I suppose "abrasive music" is still music, so maybe this is qualified praise?

How does "100s of Terabytes" compare to the amount of music the average human composer/musician listens to over the course of their career?
A single and likely application specific bug doesn't demonstrate much. Having the wrong language for that entry is likely a google earth problem, not a qt one, the text cutoff could be a number of things, like the developers manually setting max height, in which case you'd see similar results of the did the same in electron/css, gtk or just about anything else.
Missing the Point
If Vanguard is a tax scam, perhaps I am evading taxes when my kids do chores, when I cut my own grass or repair my own car, or when DW and I have adult time instead of hiring a pro for that...

Perhaps the local soup kitchen is acting improperly when they don't charge retail rates and sales tax for the prepared meals they serve.
> So quit trying to be a better programmer so you can write more code faster and better and be more powerful at it so you can be a better cog and get more head pats. Be a better programmer to help save the planet from red lectroids from the 8th dimension.
RIP, Mr. Bogle. Does anyone know how Bogle concretely thought of the existence of samples like Warren Buffett who have outperformed the market over decades, granted the outperformance may not continue in the future [1]. I presume Bogle's view on this would be nuanced.

[1]: https://qz.com/1216260/warren-buffett-doesnt-beat-the-market...
A theory based on the article is it seems Pirlo may be written in Python (going off the fact that is leverages SQLAlchemy) - which is interesting given most providers are writing new infrastructure code largely in Go (Spinnaker is another Python exception).

I'm guessing that Python is still heavily used inside Dropbox, but does anyone know if they have published any style guides or tooling to managing Python codebases at their scale?
A mention for Tower. I only do the basics but it totally took away my Git fear.

https://www.git-tower.com/mac
Article's real title is "'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says" which is more ambiguous than the misleading HN edit.
The points will dangle over the paper. This keeps you from making a mathematically precise point. It works to approximate a trisection in practice, but in the realm of pure geometry it can't give you an exact result.

You can make a precisely curved version to overcome this, but that loses a lot of the elegance. Especially when all you need to trisect an angle is a straightedge marked to measure a single fixed distance.
There are ethical and practical reasons to avoid a system where buyers have a financial incentive to go without representation. In practice buyers without representation are unlikely to close, and sellers are unlikely to accept unrepresented sellers because the sellers agent would charge more money because. Neither the seller or the buy would save a substantial amount of money compared to the old system.
I take it they would have gotten away with it if they did it from Russia?
Nobody in those other countries praises their government as if it were the best out of all others.
Seemingly with the exception of if it's a position supported by science.

:)
See:

https://i.imgur.com/ZphvVST.png

This is done when someone passes who is considered especially (noteworthy|significant|involved|something) to/with the HN community. AFAIK there's no exact formula for determining who the mods deem worthy of that tribute, but I do know that they don't do it for everybody famous who dies. It's usually people who are particularly close to the HN world in some way.
What can I say, you aren't talking to those people.

The build-out of renewable power and electrifying everything in a matter of two or three decades would be superhero-level industrialism worthy of the legacy of WWII America. Solar panels & windmills need people to install them, and that new battery-electric F-150 is going to need a lot of people to develop & build it. Sequestration, too, will be a massive industrial works if we get it going, and synthetic fuel could balance the flow of carbon in the transit sector overnight.

That future would be built on a lot of American sweat & hard work. Plenty of growth, too. Frankly, I'd have thought that was something the country that rebuilt her fleets in like a year after Pearl Harbor & landed on the moon could get excited about.
That’s a reasonable design pattern. For my usecase we have those segmentations in place at the VPC level, so ACLs wouldn’t add anything for us.
> What are the scientifically demonstrated consequences of that acceleration that we can't deal with? Why is it so hard for you or any other to answer that simply question?

If it's happening in the future and a novel event it's going to be speculation.

> I of course know the answer but it's quite astounding that you don't stop just for a second to reflect on whether you position is as grounded in science and how much of it is based on speculating on top of that science.

Please explain then, with links to all the relevant scientific information required to demonstrate that your understanding of the issue is the correct one.
Vimeo ‘Fined’ €8.5m for Failure to Remove Copyrighted TV Content
I find the regret for not using Next.js to be interesting, because I don't think it would have been a particularly good fit anyway.

I've built an relatively high-traffic SSR'd React website from scratch, and I've done the prototype for the rebuild of the website at work (we're moving away from Gatsby). The reason I'm considering Next is precisely because what i'm building isn't a "web app" like Spectrum, but merely a website (with some e-commerce features).

The sweet spot for Next.js seems to be that you're trying to make something that resembles a traditional pre-React-era website in structure, but just happens to be built using React. Once you're building an app, it doesn't feel like the best tool for the job. You can obviously bend Next to your needs, but fighting the framework is the last thing you want to be doing in the first year of a startup's life.

They managed to get an exit, which is a great result. And obviously they've learned a lot in the process which is another great outcome. But I can't help but feel that having just one experienced engineer on the team would have made their road a lot less bumpy.
That is still a two-party transaction. It is when a third party is involved, that gets you in trouble.
I think the hybrid bit is the key. Sure they are going to make an electric, but I think they expect the core truck market to take the hybrids.

But a hybrid SUV isn't a 50MPG vehicle. If you look at something like the Toyota Highlander the city MPG goes up ~5-7MPG in the city but not at all on the highway. Its significant, but I would expect a little less from the ford which has already been heavily engineered for city driving (aka a 10 speed trans, etc).

Basically, its still going to be a mid 20's vehicle. The only question IMHO is whether they can keep it reliable. Ford has always had a bit of a reliability cloud above them, and truck buyers have tended towards the trucks partially because they have been seen as simpler, more robust/reliable than the rest of fords lineup. They have done well with the ecoboost for now, but truck owners tend to mistreat their vehicles a little more than your average car buyer and people expect a work truck to last...
Yes, this is one of the best reasons to use network ACLs. (You can also achieve this with routes)

I think the idea is that separate teams with different responsibilities can manage the two different layers. Your app team may manage the security groups but the security team manages network ACLs which limit what can go into or come out of a subnet.
My understanding is that the hall-effect sensors usually work in tandem with other occupancy sensors to lower HVAC bills, like: http://axxind.com/hospitality/guestpresence/ .

I think the hall effect sensor functions as a "latch" to prevent the motion system from turning off the HVAC if you are in another room of a suite, out of view of the motion sensor, or asleep.
As mostly a casual user of these products, can you speak to how search and maps have degraded?
If you are talking about wind and sun then they are only providing a fraction of what the world needs right now less than 1%. Even with unheard improvements they wouldn't be getting much above 5%.

Don't believe the hype.
TDD means nothing to me
Americans lost $1.7B trading Bitcoin in 2018
I take no offence to what you're saying. And I agree with most of it. I didn't mean 'suffer for art' in the Whiplash sense. I don't believe that great suffering is either necessary or sufficient for great art. I do believe that there is some collelation. If as in this example, you use art as an outlet from suffering, then it is being created as a result. Suffering isn't going to give you artistic abilities that you never had, but it may make you use what you do. It's conceivable to me that intense or prolonged suffering may also intensify or allow for larger/deeper works. That's all.

On seeing the presentation of this game and the story behind its making, I am touched but its truth and the balance of beauty with the matter of dealing with what's thrown at you. I hope to play it someday.
“However, autonomy will play out very differently on the water than on land, and in many cases it won’t take humans off the ship—or entirely away from the controls.
...

In the near term, it’s more likely that the helm will be controlled by an autonomous system or a remote human operator while a smaller crew takes care of the vessel.”

Lots of different things rattling around in the ol’ promise of “autonomy.”
When we sold our house, we found an agent who was also his own broker. We paid him $500 and he did exactly this. Gave us the forms, put the house in the MLS showing a buyer-side 3% commission, and then made a note that we were representing ourselves and we listed our phone number to call if you wanted to show it. I think we signed something saying he wasn't representing us too.

We had our house listed with a REALTOR for about 2 years prior to that (keep in mind this is during the market crash). But within about 2 months on our own, the house sold.
Wind and solar are not going to come even close to solving our energy needs and they aren't as environmentally friendly as claimed.
John Bogle's Impact on Investors Lives on After His Death
Not using something seems like a hard case to make. The author doesn't know what would have happened had he used another tool. However, I do believe it's possible to properly evaluate a tool after having used it, so... 2/4?
the vast majority of attempts to develop the "un developed, underserved" parts of alaska in any way, will not be recieved with much more than consternation, and can go to the extent of physical violence. Thats the way that people here are.
im not advocating it but it is an inconvenient truth for anyone wanting to invest here. Anyone wishing to invest in alaska needs to get an idea how the demographic will recieve it. We have a very hard time getting kids to go to school, let alone utilizing anything technical. We teach bush skills to such kids as part of daily life, but science math STEM in general is viewed as baggage the man wants to saddle us with. There is a big issue with return for investment.

The idea of a "lower 48" guy inserting the thin edge of a wedge into the alaskan lifestyle is a very itchy spot.

Now to flip the coin and provide a solution rather than herkening to a problem, a big issue of concern is connectivity and quality of mobile phone service. there is very little mobile competition here and little desire seemingly on the providers part to provide connectivity beyond the Anchorage to Fairbanks corridor.
Wow. A neat piece of history here. The Enron + Blockbuster deal always comes up in these documentaries.
Gillette's Ad Proves the Definition of a Good Man Has Changed
As unorthodox as it is, the way I learned Git was through re-implementing it as a project for the data structures course I was taking [1]. This isn't the method I would entirely recommend to most people: instead, like the author, make a diagram for each of the (most-used/basic) commands and sketch out how they interact with the data structures. [2] is a good starting point.

[1] https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61b/fa17/materials/proj/pr...

[2] https://git-scm.com/
> I'm for legalized gambling

How do you prevent people who can't afford it from gambling when it's legal?
Matt Bruenig has a joke that the reason he named his company Vanguard is that it’s the vanguard of socialism.
insider trading has to be the easiest damn thing in the world. discreetly tell someone you know in person a piece of insider knowledge, and let them profit off it, then reimburse you some how. i find it insane people think this isn't happening virtually 100% of the time.
I'm a little unclear why I would trust that there is no logging. With root access to the VPS, I'd be able to determine that the OpenVPN service on the VPS is not logging the connection between my device and the VPS, but I obviously don't have any access to the infrastructure beyond the VPS. My ISP might not be able to see my traffic, but the ISP of the VPS would, and I'd be just as identifiable if there are logs matching my dedicated IP to my account.
Marketing intuition is literally what you’re talking about. They teach it in schools. It’s existed for hundreds of years.

Your deep bias is breaking your logic. These are assumptions that marketers test. If they work, you keep doing it. If it doesn’t, you try something else. You clearly have no idea how the industry works, otherwise you’d understand that you’re arguments have been addressed.

Correlation is the entire point of that advertising. No marketer cares whether being single causes a purchase, simply that being single is correlated with a purchase more than a random amount.
Fwiw, stash can get you into trouble more easily than commit. It’s no more typing to commit or branch, so I recommend preferring those to stash when it makes sense, or when you’re playing with changes you don’t want to lose. Stash is handy for a bunch of things, so use it by all means, just remember that there’s often an equivalent way that is just as easy and much safer.

The git stash man page talks about this: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stash

“If you mistakenly drop or clear stash entries, they cannot be recovered through the normal safety mechanisms.”

One of the best things about git is how big the safety net is, as long as you tell git about your changes. Almost any mistake can be fixed, so why use features that aren’t sitting over the safety net?
I used to own a Focus hatchback and was always amazed at how much I could fit in it. But everyone shitting on Texans for owning trucks is crazy. This is a huge agricultural, construction, and manufacturing state and there are plenty of non white collar office jobs that demand a solid vehicle that won't get stuck in two inches of dirt. I don't have one of those jobs but I still drive a truck, because this is Texas and also America and I earned it...so quit your whining. Bring on the electric trucks.
It doesn't take a fancy model to observe "the glacier is disappearing. When it is gone there will be no summer melt water"

Yes, there are ways to adapt. But previously the glacier provided a free service and now we must soend energy to replace it.

It likewise doesn't take a soeculative model to observe "hmm, more plants die in heat waves. If it keeps getting warmer more crops will die"

Certainly we can motigste, but again we pay more energy for the same result.

It likewise needs no speculative model to note that storm surges now send water seeping up through the streets of Miami, and that if oceans keep rising, this will worsen.

You seem to be saying that we can't know anything about the future, and if anything bad happens we will surely adapt.

Your optimism is admirable but you would make a lousy general.
Given the amount of weird and unrealistic expectations of both buyers and sellers nonstop in a transaction " the one smoothing things out" can be translated to "the essential element to actually closing the deal". There is a reason why most FSBOs wind up with an agent. They fuck it up.
This is one of the arguments for privatizing social security. Instead of social security that doesn’t really help the economy, generate more wealth or increases capital this method is essentially the same thing but reinvests in our economy. Instead of the FICA contributions going to social security, they go into an index fund that you can track and that grows.

Whenever anyone brings up privatization of social security, everyone freaks out because the big money bags will steal it and the common man will be left with nothing...unfortunately they are kind of right. Intense lobbying every time privatization has had consideration makes it so those index funds are high expense, not optimal, and little choice. Goldman Sachs is writing the rules and doing so to benefit themselves. The exact opposite that Bogle stood for. If we were to stop that somehow then this would be fantastic.

What you’re saying though was brought up seriously in the tax bill discussions. They are already making it such that every small business gets a 401k option for employees. Not just tax breaks but forcing them to offer one with expenses covered by the state. That’s a good first step. I forget if it was California that is starting that 2020 or the country. The next step is what you’re saying, 1% tax employer funded. That would be extremely popular legislation and help people far more than a pseduotax break and cost a fraction of the price. In fact it will be a net positive if people were to save more. I think that has a great chance of becoming a reality. The correct way to privatize social security with maybe a cushion in case there’s a disaster would be far more reaching and better but anything that helps the middle class save is imperative.