skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's the phrase: "show me your budget and I'll tell you what your priorities are", look at the federal budget and you'll see that the US "priorities" are really focused on two things. Maintaining our military and supporting social programs.

The Trump administration is negotiating a deal with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan, at the end of the day it will have cost us over 2,000 American lives and 2 Trillion dollars. Imagine if instead we committed 2 trillion dollars to create a 21st century infrastructure? How much dividend would that pay off as compared to this war in which we gained nothing? I highly doubt 2,000 workers would've died in the process.

Tackling the military budget is such a political football though, I understand the geopolitical needs to have such a global military, maintain bases, project force, and be at the forefront of military tech. But I wonder when American's will turn an eye and say "hey, why are we spending so much on war when we need programs at home"? As the nation gets older, inequality rises and growth maintains is sluggish pace, the American government will need to take a larger role in facilitating growth. In my opinion de-funding social programs is an absolute nonstarter, the military approaches the same position but I believe are more at risk. Time will come where the Pentagon will need to defend it's budget, especially if you get a future president on the extremes of either party.
Without Istio - 4 K8s pods each one gets 25% of traffic and that is the only option

With Istio - 1st pod takes 60% of traffic, second takes 30%, and last two take 5% each

With Istio - 1st pod takes users from /foo, second from /baz, third with user-agent forby and fourth with user agent kirby

Just some very simple examples. Istio has many more capabilities
Yeah and it should also post all the porn you watch on your Facebook - you can still choose not to watch porn!
>> game servers
>> 0mq
>> mqtt

How does using 0mq helps me with sending the data that's updated every second and I only need the latest value?

As far as I remember, 0mq queueing policy will end up in the same situation as the TCP queueuing policy: there's no way to tell 0mq, or TCP, that "only the last sent packet matters, not the previous ones".

And the fact is that the reason to use UDP is primarily for those data streams where queuing doesn't make any sense whatsoever in the first place.

And more importantly - have you actually used nanomsg/nnm/0mq or similar yourself? All of these are variations on (re-)implementing TCP over UDP anyway. Or if you're using TCP channels - then reimplementing TCP queueing on top of OS-TCP queueuing.
This is an age-old problem in IT. Some new technology and/or fad comes along, and bunches of organizations suddenly want an expert in it.

It's impossible to find enough experienced in the new field because it's so new and/or growing too fast. But the HR department or technically-inexperienced managers don't understand this and complain to politicians et. al. of a "shortage". (Those in know have seen the pattern multiple times.)

The answer is simple: find a similar field and accept a learning curve for the employee to transition. If you need something quick, hire a consultant to both move the project along and to mentor the new employee.
It's voluntary until it's not, like when valuable services become locked behind it.
I thought you said you had assessed the _whole_ article as bad? You didn't read past the ingress, the motivation of the work done.
FTFY: with much smaller and more recently developed areas of countries.

Leave Chinese cities and go into the countryside and there are primarily dirt roads.
if you control the value of the currency you owe money in, you cannot really go bankrupt.
I obviously wouldn't touch the stuff. But if I was an unscrupulous company who wanted to be able to write the words Extra Virgin on my "Premium Blend" oil then I'd consider it a great deal.
TBH node red always came across as a toy / prototyping tool.

Istio seems to be used in production a number of places.

Edit: also node red seems to be more about coding and istio seems to be more about configuration.
Hellosign is great, however please add tags!!!
While this is a good step, it will unfortunately lead to an increase in first leevl support by people who are confused by the new dialog, or who misclicked and cant figure it out.

But what would the solution be?

A) mozilla keeps a list of domains who can autoplay on their own domain. I am not a fan of this as mozilla would now need to vet sites, and could heavily influence all sorts of metrics on affected sited

B) websites can identify themselv as mediaSite or similar, where the primary focus is the video. However this would allow any site to use that tag, and solve nothing
That's a lot of trust in a black box coded by humans. What's going on under the hood with their Smart Compose? Smart Reply? Smart Labels? It all requires processing very very personal information, and you simply can't vet whether it's all handled securely.
>People really underestimate how poorly suited our modern political structure is to accomplishing large scale public works projects.

Did you read the article?

There's something deeply wrong with large scale construction costs in America, but it isn't politics. Or it isn't _just_ politics. Politics and corruption can't explain 5-10x more expensive costs.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/09/why-so-costly/

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/17/highlights-from-the-co...
Firefox has it, too. The UI is missing, but you can toggle it in about:config.

image.animation_mode none
It's optional. You simply opt out by installing a blocker extension. If enough people want to opt out maybe that's added as a built in switch. (Like the audio blocking this post is about, and popup blocking before that) I think then that's fine too.

Following your analogy, I don't think it would make sense by default for meals to always have no cheese, or for the waiter to always ask if you'd like to include cheese. But i think it's fine for them to allow you to ask not to get any cheese.
No crash protection? Almost 10k? I can get a decent used vehicle for 10k with a better top speed and crash protection. Seems like a no brainer to me to stick w/ a traditional model.
This was from a link to FOX NEWS in the article.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/new-half-ton-electric-pickup-co...

>It’s made by China’s Kaiyun Motors and has a 5.5 hp motor that's good for a top speed of just 28 mph, which classifies it as a low-speed or neighborhood electric vehicle (LSV/NEV). Regulations regarding their operation vary state to state, but they are street legal in some places. It's aimed mainly at commercial customers and has a range of 75 miles per charge.
> If the badge wearer is a woman, you’re not asking other attendees to stare at her chest which is incredibly uncomfortable for the badge-wearer.
Not to mention it's uncomfortable to me as the one staring. Nothing says "I don't know your name (even if I should)" like that half-second glance down to a badge. Or longer, if the badge suffers from usability problems.
Maybe their infrastructure is better because it is several decades newer than ours. If it isn’t broke it doesn’t get fixed here so things have to get kind of bad before they get rebuilt or improved.

Some parts of Europe look way more modern than the US because it had to be. Much of it had been destroyed a couple times.
Wait are you telling me we're due for another... Infrastructure Week?!?

But in all seriousness, we've pissed away trillions of dollars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Republicans are enjoying the past 10 years of economic growth by robbing the Government of revenue, giving away $1.5 Trillion to Billionaires and Corporations, all while inflicting billions of dollars of economic harm because the one place Republicans seem to think we need Infrastructure is in building a ridiculous $100 Billion wall that will cost billions of dollars year-over-year just to indefinitely maintain.

High speed rails?
New Bridges?
New Roads?

Sorry, we're too busy putting children in cages!
Vault from Hashicorp (and its competitors) is probably better suited for what you ask
What's your point ?
I had a quick look at amazon.com, and easily found this:

https://www.amazon.com/Frantoio-Franci-Delicate-Healthy-Anti...

which - while being obviously an "industrial" oil (i.e. something that an Italian wouldn't probably buy anyway as small, local producers that do not export have better products) - is definitely a good quality/brand at US$ 36/lt, the 24 US$/lt for 20% of it + 80% of sunflower oil ( something that is valued around 6-10 US$/lt retail) is "still steep":

0.20x36=7.20

0.80x10=8.00

7.20+8.00=15.20<<24
Interview with Mark Shuttleworth, Founder Ubuntu / Canonical
Yeah I feel like comparisons to Europe often fall flat for this reason. There are plenty of small, wealthy enclaves in the U.S. where the infrastructure is perfectly fine, but the U.S. is so big that telling someone in say, Bellevue, WA that the infrastructure in the Midwest is crumbling is the same as telling someone in Zurich that the infrastructure in Bulgaria or Turkey is crumbling.

Obviously that analogy is far from perfect, as Seattle has its own set of infrastructure problems, but extrapolating from most European countries doesn't seem particularly useful.
Yes, I was disappointed because the topic is fascinating in its abstract form, so from the title I was hoping for something a little more accessible.

However it made me hunt around for more appropriate sources and I found a few, so that at least is good.
I wrote this article and a field guide on China's electric-car boom https://qz.com/guide/electric-cars/. Happy to answer any questions.
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=689747637

The URL is https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=<SID>, where <SID> is in the original URL here: www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/<YEAR>/<MONTH>/<DAY>/<SID>/<SLUG>
Muted autoplay not being able to turn off -- is that for users, or for Google (who pay most of Mozilla's bills).
I sure hope these aren’t road legal. Maybe in warehouses or farms or golf courses. Not roads.
Animated gifs (which are being replaced with gifv autoplay movies) are great IMO. I think the majority of web users don’t mind them.
I've seen some very subtle moving backgrounds that were quite appropriate for the sites they were on.

It's probably too difficult for software to tell the difference between something like a high brow long form interactive article, a tasteful hero banner background, and an annoying popover or sidebar ad.

My least favorite auto-playing videos in a site I use regularly are in the Netflix UI.
$9000 seems like a lot for something so limited.
Someplace (reddit?) did a promo with a fast food chain recently where the hamburger menu was colored like a hamburger.
That's a result of the death of the party boss system, the last vestiges of which we lost in the late 70s. It was extremely corrupt, but largely centrist politics.

The appeal to extremes and gerrymandering came afterwards. The obstructionist politics are not about willpower -- the issue is systemic.
While America have a big problem in public and private infrastructure, I've been wondering in my head about the problem even at small scale in cities and village here in France.

We have a ton of old buildings, privately owned. Mine included, where it's a small building of 4 floors and 4 owners. One appartement per floor.
It's so hard to get people into investing money without any monetary return.
We fix problems after they happen. We waited for the rain pipe to break to fix it, we waited for the balcony to leak in order to fix it etc..

In Marseille two buildings collapsed right in the center of city. They were decrepit and owned by a company who never invested a dim despite problem reported. People actually died.

I wonder how many time it need to happen until we wake up?

I'm managing my coproperty, and it's so hard to even find what kind of local/governmental help we can get. We would be very happy to redo insulation and building beams if it was possible to co-finance it which public/city money.

But instead the norm seems to let 150 years old building (built with good materials) getting destroyed and build new cheap reinforced concrete one.

Is it really cheaper to pop ton of buildings which will not even last 50 years?
What is there no incentive to help privately owned building maintenance?
I mean, I wish I could use a navigation bar on the bottom of my web app, but on ios touching that area springs back the browser chrome and on chrome pinning something at vh will place it out of the screen when the address bar is visible.
A proper democracy is governed by corrupt "politicians" and lobby? Well, if that's the definition, then yes : )
To me the issue looks like lack of maintenance rather than being old and antiquated, though some might do with upgrades.

The issue much of the time is accumulated grime and disrepair. If they allowed for constant maintenance (daily, weekly cleaning and monthly repairs and other work) I think much of airport and transport infrastructure would appear better and function better.

I recall in Japan, obviously there are exceptions, but one would see proprietors dusting and cleaning rafters and other typically untouched spaces, to keep their businesses looking new and attended to, no cobwebs, dust bunnies or grime accumulation. Same with transport facilities, you see people with spray bottle and rag wiping things down constantly.

Shinjuku station, for example, is a jumbled mess of a warren with extra low ceilings and so on is not “modern”, but it’s pretty clean given 2MM daily riders.
The point is, is it better in the past and how much of this can be corrected by politicians being serious about it, not that it is not perfect now.
Self-driving cars, robots: Identifying AI 'blind spots'
Forcing higher cost to serve ads is not a bad thing...
Just because lots of people are doing it, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

What was Gulp’s big idea? Streaming? Congratulations, your operating system has had this facility for over 40 years.

Some of the Gulp plugins are a hoot too. You can download and install a plugin to help you copy files. Our operating systems already know how to copy files. This is pretty basic stuff.

And Grunt? Grunt doesn’t even have streaming. All transformations are done with disk IO as an intermediary. No surprise then that it’s very slow.

Minifying code? Do you use jsmin by any chance? Because that’s written in C.

Generating your favicon images? Is it ImageMagick you use? Because that’s also written in C.

Does Brackets do anything novel? Does it outperform editors written in compiled programming languages? I would be extremely surprised if it did.
Political ads are not inherently bad though. Ads in general are not actually.

Ads help political candidates to get the word out...i think that’s useful and I think it’s awesome that Facebook didn’t go the route of less resistance (banning political ads) here and rather is trying to get this right!

Political ads a a tiny slice of FBs revenue...so I don’t believe they are profit motivated here.

$1B was spend on digital ads in the 2016 presidential runs and Facebook has a 19.6% market share so probably pulled in about $196M which is about 0.35% of their annual revenue...so I don’t think they are in it for the money at all
Everything is relative. I complain often since I've been taking line 13 regularly, but in general it holds up very well in comparison with other systems.
Now if I could only get NetFlix to stop it as well.

Is there anyone that actually likes the autoplay when watching Netflix on TV?

Update/Note: This is in the Roku app. I'm specifically talking about previews autoplaying while I scroll though different shows on the main navigation...
The author of this article can't seem to acknowledge the evidence staring him in the face. First, he criticizes public transportation initiatives in the United States, such as mass transit and airports. Then he says infrastructure isn't all bad here, and mentions ridesharing and telecommunications. Indeed, rideshare and telecomm are not public works here in America. Our brightest lights are the ones supplied by private enterprise. If the author could make his way outside of public-funding enclaves like New England and LA, he might also discover the many private airports that dot our country while being run quite smoothly. It's amazing what can happen when a government committee is not put in charge.
Iirc Firefox Mobile's jittery scroll was fixed in the last couple months (along with fling velocity) so it might be worth checking again.
I didn't say there's no crash protection on the Pickman. It's the $1000 cars sold in China that don't have them. Pretty sure that to qualify in the US and Europe, the Kaiyun car need to a minimum level of safety features.
Affects circadian rhythms, damages retinas: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734149/

Evening use of LED screens alters circadian rhythms and has a detrimental effect on cognitive performance: https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.001...

You can find more. Wikipedia has 40 citations here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_blue_light_technolo...

Your counterpoint is irrelevant. Non-artificiality isn't a guarantee of benefit: if you go outside in the daytime and look at the sun you'll go blind.
Show HN: Sniped reminds you to lock your laptop through public shaming
> There are a lot of interesting experiences that can be enabled by autoplay.

Yeah, like alerting the participants of a meeting to the fact you are browsing crap on your phone.
Did VR Grow 30% in 2018?
Amazingly simple yet awesome. Well done.
Hi, I'm Alex, one of the creators of Sniped.

I had used a similar bot when I worked at Coinbase and it worked much better than the standard lectures from IT at getting people to keep their laptops locked. When I learned that many large tech companies had similar systems but couldn't find an off-the-shelf solution, I decided to write my own.

Sniped is out of beta as of February 1st, but everyone can try it out free for 14 days, no credit card required. The basic functionality is also free for all teams under 30 people.

Would love to hear everyone's feedback :)
Indeed. I wanted to comment that sleep apnea can also cause irritability.
I really don’t see how this keeps coming up as an excuse. East coast corridor is at least as dense and is not far off in purchase power per capita. Plus you could as well compate to China, another huge country with low density of purchase power, and look how they‘re charging ahead in infrastructure. It‘s the political system - not to say that the US should adopt China‘s of course, just that it‘s a better explanation of what goes wrong.
Reddit, Giphy, Imgur, Youtube.

Those would be the big four which would negatively impact my daily web usage.
The web was also meant to be consumed by varying User Agents that conformed to the needs of each user, so I think it's fair if someone wants a text-only user agent.
Not entirely. The feeling imparted to you by the space you're in can have quite a profound effect, particularly if it's the kind of space you're reasonably likely to get trapped for hours at a time under stressful circumstances. Yellowing, misplaced ceiling tiles and a general sense that you're in the 1950's chapter of Portal 2 aren't great.
They fall under the same laws as golf karts, which vary from state to state.
Are you still talking about browser option that everybody can set as desired?
1) Not true, especially not in Hinduism or Shintoism.

2) Religious too, see above. What's karma? Who will be condemned to hell in Abrahamic religions?

3) Please educate yourself before trying to correct others and being plain wrong.
I'm trying to do the exact same thing (learning Rust through solving the AoC) but I'm not done yet.

Regarding parsing, a lot of times the input format is unnecessarily complex. In "real-life", wouldn't you start by sanitizing your input? For me, search/replace and column-edits have been enough to avoid regexps entirely.
> And, oh my god, how many times Google asked me to install Chrome.

Interesting - I've never seen that in FireFox
It seems obvious that used versions of these will be cheaper than $10k.
I guess.

TBH, the way that it's so hard to even say, "All this moving stuff annoys me" without being reminded that it's impossible to opt out of the more annoying bits of the modern web without also making front-end developers cry blood kind of makes me want to opt out of the whole steaming compost heap and go back to using Gopher.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if, 5 years from now, someone is telling me I can't disable WebAssembly to keep people from mining Bitcoin on my phone because that would also disable clicking on hyperlinks on modern websites.

edit: And the way that I'm getting downvoted for expressing a legitimate frustration kind of speaks to the extent to which the original vision that hypermedia should give the user-agent control over how the content is to be consumed is just straight-up dead. 25 years ago, we had alt strings for in case people couldn't or didn't want to view images. Now we have pages that won't even render if you try to disable extraneous animations that some people can't even see, and apparent hostility toward someone pointing out that this doesn't work for them.
The higher cost here is borne by the consumer though, not the advertiser. Javascript shims to 'play' videos do not cost the advertiser anything, just the user's electricity and (ultimately) society's energy usage.
You don’t even need to do that: flip the back and print it just below the front. If you want to be fancy, add a line indicating where to fold.
As an American who has seen blasphemous spending on similar terms at all of my workplaces, I technically believe this, but I have trouble relating or visualizing it. The whole thing is just so surreal in the context of law enforcement.
Accurate but irrelevant. This assumes the pilots knew they were dealing with a runaway stabilizer, and considering M.C.A.S. wasn't behaving similar to their previous training/experience/simulations with Runaway Stabilizers, it isn't clear they'd know they should follow this checklist. Now had they been actually trained on M.C.A.S. inc. faults, they may have known to do exactly this and we wouldn't even be discussing it.

This has been discussed in great detail on other flight forums.
Research: Bad Press Brings Big Banks More Business
Node.js is very popular and some companies with lots of I/O still prefer JavaScript, they have their business logic written in it.
Hi all,

Quick note: the headline is from a Massive Lab Note (https://massivesci.com/notes/scientists-just-cut-the-tolerab...), while the link above is pulling from an Oct 2018 article related to an ongoing US health study about safe limits of several PFASs.

I skimmed comments below briefly--PFASs are used as processing components to create non-stick cookware. They can be emitted directly from the cookware as Teflon breaks down, becomes scratched, or is overheated. The "legacy" PFASs have been largely phased out, with replacements like GenX taking their place. These replacements offer similar toxicological consequences compared to "original" PFASs.
Fair, America as a whole may be vast and mostly empty, but what about the megalopolises? The whole Bay Area has more people than many European countries in a muuuuuuch smaller geography and public transit still sucks.

Most of the east coast is now so densely populated you can almost go north to south without ever leaving what one might call “a city/suburbs”, tens if not hundreds of millions of residents in a pretty damn small area when you think about it. Public transit still sucks from what I hear.

Granted, everyone always says their public transit sucks and that seems interesting too.
As a New Yorker taking the Metro in Paris was decidedly underwhelming. It didn't seem appreciably cleaner or dirtier or more os less safe & reliable than the NYC subway.