skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, yes, that's something important to filter for. Also having a cleaning lady is critical when you're working at an office job.

Anyways I have a girlfriend who is much more organized than me, and she happily does things after me as well (in return I bring her to restaurants all the time, and paying for everything in our lives, as I have much higher income). If you find a great partner, life gets easier.
While it is interesting to read this, there are a lot of confounding variables. Chances are countries which would allow zero ratings in the first place would also be more tolerant of other incarnations of excessive market power.

Note, that in spite of my opposition to net neutrality, I strongly support using traditional antitrust mechanisms to prevent firms' excessive market power and last mile monopolies from leading to unfair prices.
Sounds about right. Check out how people most commonly "party" there too: they binge drink to oblivion on the weekends.
It'd be hard for them to prove that they were the originator of the meme, simply because there is no 'reverse image search' for a meme template; they're designed to be as generic as possible, so that you can mark it up with text that's relatable to your audience.
> No power to any of the network or compute equipment and some failovers did not work as expected.

Wonder if it was the switchgear that failed. Amazon uses custom firmware in its switchgears because this happens so often (Superbowl 2013 etc.)
Women in Sci-Fi Isn’t What You Think
Thank you, this looks really interesting. I've enjoyed using reagent and re-frame on personal projects but ClojureScript was too much for my team to swallow.
We already have DNS over HTTP(S) now.
It makes you wonder how these people got all (rightfully) annoyed at the whole article 13 thing, yet in the same breath seemed to call for the exact same thing here. Not saying they're technically quite identical, but the gist seems to be.

Either way, society needs to realise that shutting down views you don't like isn't the solution, and that these attitudes could kill what made the internet so successful in the first place if left unchecked.
One data center brings the whole bank down?

Right...

This is suspiciously quickly after military exercises in LA right next to a Wells Fargo. It looked like something was being carried out of the building.

https://www.rt.com/usa/450746-helicopters-blasts-los-angeles...
This is the best reasoning I have seen as to why it is not morally wrong to eat meat. Point 2 specifically. I had not stopped to consider the impact of preparing farming land.

Thank you for your time to write that out.

I still personally feel that in my position in life, it would be unethical for me to consume meat. Seemingly the amount of animals killed by a plant farm would decrease as time goes on yet a slaughterhouse would continue at least linearly in its pace of killing animals. I do admit that in some way I believe that it is " more ethical is to discount the lives of smaller, wild animals in comparison to their larger, meat-producing cousins" and I know that this is an undefendable position.
I'm more sympathetic to the Democratic side of the argument then the Republican argument, but the notion that major changes to policy should be made through legislation and not administrative rulemaking isn't really a fringe idea; it is as least practically universal to Republicans, not a particular branch of them.

There's also a broad partisan split on the question of how much new authority the CFPB actually has for regulating non-banks. One view of the CFPB is that its regulatory authority (as opposed to its supervisory authority, which is expansive) is derived primarily from the previous agencies it consolidates, none of whom had a charter to end payday lending. So another way to look at this is, it's within CFPB's charter to use its authority to collect data unfavorable to payday lenders and then write a report about how terrible payday lending is, but it remained up to Congress to rely on that report to impose a federal ban on the practice.

The overarching point is that this isn't so much a distinct feature of Trumpian corruption, so much as simply a predictable consequence of Republicans controlling the executive branch.
>So, Apple Watch or similar tech?

The misery of the one who cares for you at that moment being a smartwatch is enough to cut years off ones life.
>> > it is a seemingly never-ending race just to keep up with the state of the art

>> It is, there is noting seemingly about it.

But if you build a foundation on HTML and CSS then you have something that stays relatively constant in the face of change. All that other stuff is often just fluff and programmers thinking they know a better way.
That's not the right way to do it. You shouldn't monitor how many instances you're running. You just need to determine how many instances you should be running based on your scaling driver (cpu, # of users, database connections, etc). Then you call the Auto Scaling SetDesiredCapacity API with the number, and it is idempotent[1]. If the AWS API is down, your fleet size just won't change.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/APIReference/API...
> Instacart has since said it was a glitch — caused by the fact that the customer tipped $10

I was ready to pull out the pitchforks, but then in an effort to keep journalism honest, tried to look to the primary sources for where this was said and can't actually find it. How was this attribution sourced?
AWS employee here. Sorry to hear that you feel ECS is half baked. Feel free to reach out directly using the details in my profile info if you have any feedback you'd like me pass on to the team.

To clear up the confusion on the relationship between Fargate and ECS, think of Fargate as the hosting layer: it runs your container for you on demand and bills you for the amount of CPU and GB your container reserved per second. On the other hand ECS is the management layer. It provides the API that you use to orchestrate launching X containers, spreading them across availability zones, and hooking them up to other resources automatically (like load balancers, service discovery, etc).

Currently you can use ECS without using Fargate, by providing your own pool of EC2 instances to host the containers on. However, you can not use Fargate without ECS, as the hosting layer doesn't know how to run your full application stack without being instructed to by the ECS management layer.
Might be a language thing, but if someone sends me money through paypal, I definitely would say paypal receives the funds from that person and then sends them to me.

Thus paypal can tally up how much money they have sent to their customers. I can't see how you could misunderstand that or think there is malice in the formulation. I can't possibly anyone would sit there thinking that gumroad ment he donated money to people or invested it.
making us more of a socialist civilisation .. ?
This will be an interesting root cause if it manages to get leaked....
Probably Ink and Bone should be on there [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317174/ink-and-bone...]
This doesn't really sound like _bias_ to my ears. Rather, it's more like the many tales we've all heard of someone implementing a system in one context, and having it produce surprising results in a different context.
A large part of our ECS capacity is running on spot instances which are much cheaper.
A Tracking Game for Developers: Operation Orbital Element
Reminds me of this talk from Vincent Woo (creator of Coderpad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8UwcyYT3z0

Really made me rethink my priorities and has had me change the kinds of things I do.
Overcome Fear
Ask HN: Community-driven or premium services for code review
I was wondering if there are any community-driven or premium services for code reviews out there?

I am not asking for a place where one goes and get their homework problems solved!

More like: "why I am using ADAPTER pattern wrong" or "why my method should be broken further as it is still violating single responsibility principle (SRP)" or "my implementation of thread-pooling will cost me performance delays" or "class names choice can be improved".

You know where people much more experienced than me can assist.

Thanks.
No reasonable person will have difficulty making other arrangements in a nine week period.
Most businesses should strive to be self-sustaining. And if they make obscene amounts of money, all the power to them.

What I dislike is A) the view from startup land that there are only two types of new businesses, "startups" and everything else ("lifestyle") B) and the "everything else" category is somehow inferior or even some sort of hobby or vanity project. Sahil used the term to describe his own company, and at one point felt shame about it, even though he had a real business with real customers and real revenue.

That's how twisted the mindset in startup land has become, where real business owners are supposed to feel shame, and "success" is based on as-yet unfulfilled promises and raising a round?
Are HTML and CSS really vanishing though? 99% of the websites are still built on them. People starts replacing them when they build applications, which is fine imo since HTML and CSS were not conceived to build applications.
The average between CEOs or executive roles is not important, the average (median) among the public at large is.

Simply put, they are better off than most.
The difference to me is whether the moral principles are deeply held, or merely pretense.
see https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/30/18203911/davos-...
ouch Jekyll's fault :) fixed!
Hugo doesn't really replace javascript - it, in fact, still uses it if your theme does.
I don't mean to dismiss the idea. I think animals, farmed or not, should be treated humanely. My point is living or growing up on a farm where animals do get slaughtered can affect your perspective on the matter. I doubt a lot of people really do know the reality of it if their only knowledge of it is from the shock and horror perspective. I suspect culture also plays a role.
Yeah, I liked this piece too.

It's a bit of an overreaction to block AWS and GCP, since in those cases google and amazon are not actively tracking you and you're blocking core infrastructure.
The author is asking tech companies to stop abetting in the oppression of women.
I don't like the term and predict that it will fade quickly, but I do admire the way Netlify coined a term that they could market to their audience of developers who are all yearning for a less insanely complicated way of working.

Whether or not JAMstack is less complicated is a question for another day. What's important is that Netlify owns the hype here and is doing a very good job of leveraging it.
HTML and CSS are probably the absolute worst thing for document creation and management. HTML/CSS are in fact complex, and suffer major issues with export, long-term backup, sharing/collaboration, revision control, review-workflows, printing, security (encryption and password access) and consistent presentation. This is why you want government documents stored in PDF, ODF, or DOCX and not in HTML/CSS.
Color me unconvinced about 5G.

Hope I'm wrong.
Both employees and founders vest.

Founders own more of the company than employees, of course. The good news is anyone can start a company!
> "The Wizard of Oz" is a little bit different in the sense that they shot the first 20 minutes or so with black-and-white film stock and then they switched to color film stock.

Not exactly. They filmed using the 3 strip Technicolor process, meaning 3 strips of b+w film, each for a different color. This was also used in the 1925 Ben Hur, though they used only 2 strips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor#Three-strip_Techni...
The next worst thing for electronics after fire - water! Or are there non liquid fire suppression systems such as pulling all the oxygen out of a room (if there aren't any people in it)?
List of WF scandals since 2015

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/every-wells-fargo-consumer-sc...
4chan's pol forum is all over it. Apparently it's a "happening" worthy of hundreds of comments
Not the guy you were replying to, but I've got an anecdote related to your question:

>I'm interested in your ability to not feel moral turmoil about killing sentient beings. Have you ever struggled with it?

I'm 33, grew up fishing with my grandfather but never went hunting until this last fall when I went deer hunting for the first time. My reason for the hunting trip was about 75% because I wanted to eat deer meat, and 25% to get to know myself better - to see if I could do it, basically. Going into it, I didn't know how I might react after killing a deer or whether I would feel conflicted.

I didn't really end up feeling conflicted at all about it. After taking the shot I was running on 100% pure adrenaline. The deer made it about 20 yards after being shot through the heart and lungs, and was dead when I got down from the treestand and located it. Beforehand I had sort of wondered if I'd feel sad, or grossed out, when skinning and butchering it - I didn't, but I felt a couple of other things. The first was hunger - once you peel the skin off and start cutting into the meat, it really, REALLY lights up the primitive parts of your brain that THIS IS FOOD, SO MUCH TASTY FOOD. The other thing I felt was in some way like I was actually a part of nature, like our ancestors who first made the leap from being prey to being themselves predators, rather than apart from nature.

Hope this makes some sense.
Ask HN: How do mid-level people write achievements in their resume?
Hi HN,

I am trying to rewrite my resume and it's becoming harder and harder with time. When I was younger, it was easy to just write achievements as bullet points (obtained 10x performance improvements of [complex algorithm] used in [arcane subprocess nobody knows exists], rewrote [feature] to use [N%] less memory, etc).

But today I would have dozens such bullet points. I wrote a bunch of code in dozens of applications, a large library, took part in many releases, etc. Yet I'm not a leader so I can't really go the "soft skills" route, I think I still need measurable achievements.

Could I have examples of what you guys think bullet points look like for people with 5-10 years of experience that used a number of different technologies, took part in a number of releases, etc? Or is it just I have been doing the wrong thing and it looks bad if you're still a programmer working on low-ish level stuff when you have that experience?
to make an (extreme and not equal example) you can enter a contract to sell your liver - society has decided that such contracts should be illegal. we shall probably make a similar decision on selling personal data.
> we could all profit if we just had the money to trade, which is inherently discriminatory against the poor

Well, this is capitalism 101: if you have capital you can get returns on capital (with a risk/reward tradeoff, but there is such a thing as a "riskfree" return), and people have been complaining about this since before Marx.

Predictability: you should see it more as a competitive sport. Nobody can predict who's going to win reliably, but being informed and doing the work will give you better results than not.

(Also, not everybody is a "trader"; quite a lot of people are effectively commissioned salesmen for either the buy side or the sell side)
Fantastic. In Ian Mcewan's novel 'Solar', the boorish physicist protagonist remarks that when people talk about "the planet" he assumes their remarks will be ignorant or frivolous and takes this as a cue to stop listening.

This is how I feel about any utterance of the word "cyber" occuring after 1993.
Which of the two is better?

trapping in corporate. Trapping in corporate grants economic independence.

Which means, depending on the family situation, it may be better for the children... it means the woman has the ability to run away if she needs to.

Not saying its a perfect system, or that it should be a binary choice (it shouldn't be), but of the binary choice, one is blatantly better.
Entirely based upon instagram pictures of vegan food, which I am sure skew to the more visually interesting and intensive recipes. A lot of things seem like a lot of vegetables mixed together. I don't like to eat a lot of different things at once, I much prefer a single thing at once. I dislike the feeling of food in my mouth. For these reasons meal replacement shakes have been absolutely wonderful, without them I would constantly lose weight.
You would be incredibly hard-pressed to find a long-term job that only wants HTML and CSS skills without a huge additional career-level skill like visual design or various JavaScript frameworks.

It's doable if you're freelancing, but you'll almost always end up picking up additional skills in the process (or partnering with someone else) because your clients will ask for them.

Though I'd argue that freelancers themselves are a bit of a dying breed (at least in the US) because it's increasingly harder to afford things like healthcare when you're an individual with no company backing.
> "These arguments about tools, frameworks and technologies happen throughout the stack. I have watched them go round and round during the 20 years I’ve been working on the front and backend of the web. The de facto standard technology has limitations, we hit up against problems, we want to solve the problems. So often, we decide to solve the problems by throwing everything away. The old stuff is terrible, invented when we knew no better! We can do a far better job now, with all of our knowledge. Let’s reinvent that wheel!"

Sure, that might be a problem but it's not The Problem. The Problem is results. That is, despite all these reinventings products are still: coming in over budget, past deadlines, with too many bugs and most importantly end users are as frustrated and dumbfounded as ever.

We keep chasing shiny new objects and ego-driven bragging rights (i.e., "...I use Technology X...") and frankly no one on the outside has noticed., nor cares. They're too busy scratching their heads wondering, "Why doesn't this shit work the way it should?"

Agreed. The organization owning the product also contributes to these things.
Keep in mind that most people in Seattle think those are features, not bugs. Fast and efficient does not mean a system you want to live in.
This is a tooling problem imo, and whatever tool that is should just output javascript that works on a canvas. There's no reason to cram another programming language like ActionScript into browsers by default.

Anything that installs and runs like Flash/AS is going to raise security concerns though. Please let's not repeat all that bullshit.
Seems like the law working as it was meant to. It should always be about the jurisdiction of the person running the site or business that matters, not whatever one their users 'happen' to be based in. The whole US idea of people being found guilty of so and so because someone from the US used their site or services is ridiculous.
I don't know if I have a "JAMstack", but here's my tooling to create a product marketing site:

- GitHub for version control

- AWS CodePipeline for building and deployment (include cache invalidation)

- NextJS to statically export my site built in React

- S3 to host my content

- Cloudfront as my CDN

- Route53 to manage my domain (that I got from Google Domains)

- API's are hosted on a different stack

I didn't use a service like Netlify because I wanted to reduce the number of vendors that had access to my user's data (like IP address etc. etc.)
BlackMagic Design's DaVinci Resolve is free, and an amazing NLE/compositing/mograph/color grading kit. Like Blender meets FCP.

Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
By that logic, api rate limits are a method to fleece api users... which is not true at all. Rate limits are put in place to protect infrastructure for overloading, that's been the main reason I have implemented circuit breakers and rate limiting.
Semple also sells a competing product, although I'm not sure how it compares to Vantablack.

http://stuartsemple.com/project/black-v1-0-beta-worlds-matte...
Since when are we talking about forcing anyone to do anything? Someone asked for alternatives and I presented them.
Ask HN: What was the hardest part of getting traction with your startup?
We haven’t gained traction yet in my startup and I constantly wonder whether the “hard” feeling is a) appropriately hard or b) hard for the wrong reasons (e.g. no product-market fit, not talking to the right customers, not yet solving the problem). For my own sanity, it would be great to hear about the hard parts that others have experienced in getting traction.
The last I checked, using Google search is free. What do you think would happen if they started charging for it?
AWS employee here. If you are able to achieve consistent greater than 50% utilization of your EC2 instances or have a high percentage of spot or reserved instances then ECS on EC2 is still cheaper than Fargate. If your workload is very large, requiring many instances this may make the economics of ECS on EC2 more attractive than using Fargate. (Almost never the case for small workloads though).

Additionally, a major use case for ECS is machine learning workloads powered by GPU's and Fargate does not yet have this support. With ECS you can run p2 or p3 instances and orchestrate machine learning containers across them with even GPU reservation and GPU pinning.
not fond of this but people were designing smart floor to detect falls and call for help

about the latter... I know doctors don't like when people inflates tiny issues but I've seen a few people die because they didn't listen to naggers around them
It actually seems like the problem was exactly that smart engineering wasn't applied; microtrenching was basically testing expensive (thouhh cheaper than alternatives, if it worked) infrastructure ideas in production without prior testing in sufficiently realistic conditions; it appears to have been an abject failure that left GF in a shutdown or start over position.
I was seriously just thinking that I'd like to see a Marxist analysis of this from you. So please, keep going.

My initial attempt at it: Facebook is the capitalist, owning the means of production. The workers aren't the employees of Facebook (I mean, yes, those are workers too, but they aren't the ones we're concerned about here). Instead, the workers are the users who generate the content. Facebook profits by keeping the fruits of their labor (their content).

What would it look like for the workers to own the means of production?
Launch v2 PayPal Checkout APIs
That's the government's job. The government fails at it now and then, which is why the citizens need to vigilant and careful in whom they elect.

Do you believe that if the government ran the economy (socialism) there would be no corruption?
Lawyer Targets Uber Over $260M a Year in Taxes
Why didn't it failover to their backup datacenter in another geo?
Confirmed - was able to log in. Some account info is still there, though my mortgage is unavailable. Maybe they'll just lose it?
There is an ethical angle you missed: no animal wants to die, with or without torture. I am vegetarian mostly because I chose not to contribute to the death of any animal, if I have alternatives. Yes, death is unavoidable but it doesn't mean it should be encouraged.

And your point 2 is discounting the animals that died to produce the food that cows and such eat. Besides, personally not all animals are equal to me. When I drive I squash insects, and if I would hit a dog I would feel worse.
Paying for electricity per kWh is just fleecing the customers, too, then? After all, the problem is simultaneous usage, not "heavy" usage as in consuming a lot of electricity each month.

I mean, seriously? Just because it is possible for someone to buy a 1 TB package and then use it all on the first day of each month ... doesn't mean that most average people don't have relatively predictable usage patterns and relatively constant use throughout the month, does it?