skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite see what they might have needed either - BOOPSI was pure guess on my part after seeing how that link described it. My only contact with OS/2 was work had one ps/2 tower with it. I used it a little, never encountered an API or compiler. In those days my experience was 95% Amiga, and just enough Windows to ensure that after Amiga my career went back to Unix. After Intuition and BOOPSI, even ARexx, Windows just seemed too primitive and too much like hard work to develop for.

I do have some vague memory of IBM licensing something for OS/2 from the time. That weak reference was all search turned up. Quite a few links of people talking about it though, including a near duplicate of the conversation we're having on The Register. So if urban legend it definitely gained some legs somewhere. My CATS newsgroup archives, Devcon handouts and other stuff from that era are long gone.

That's not very helpful, sorry. :)
This is why we did not consider GCP when we were looking at moving some of our services to the cloud. Never know when Google will discontinue or drastically change pricing on services.
That doesn't really feel like an anti-FB campaign as much as a campaign to improve the FB experience and an "educational" one to raise awareness related to fake accounts. You can tell as much by their FB page.
Unfortunately it's not always represented accurately! This is a self link but if anyone else is curious about some of the specifics of zero rating, its justifications and issues, I wrote a piece on it a little while back:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/16/wtf-is-zero-rating/
TIL class expressions and anonymous classes are a thing that exists in JavaScript.
Sounds like the story of a young person who drank the VC cool-aid. The company should have been bootstrapped from the get-go... $25k/mo office, …doh.

Yep, easy to say as a greybeard and hindsight. But I remember Joel on Software articles on this subject circa 2000, so some information was out there.

Between the lines I feel a lot of self-punishment going on. Well, I'd love to have $10k+ of "failure" coming in every month, with the satisfaction of helping the little guy/gal no less.

Perhaps you'd consider selling to someone who believes in the mission and hates dark patterns? I don't have a lot of capital laying around, but some, and perhaps something else could be arranged?
Am I missing something or is this just a plain old normal static website?
Be cautious of getting causality claims from studies like this that don't try to control for anything
Precisely this. Seems like a small change, but I think it's a significant one.
If you're that strict then this survey is also useless as you cannot prove anything about general population of Python developers.
I truly believe that's the only reason people aren't using Rust as a replacement for C / C++ immediately. The adoption isn't widespread, but I'm rather optimistic it will be.

It's getting there.
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Sorry for the delay.

It's sorta like "equal and opposite reaction". Push and pull. Up and down. Without "up", there is no "down".

When we do new things, we aren't really sure what the effects or the reach of the correlated/opposite/related effects will be. Going "up" and elevator has simple ramifications. You will need to go "down" again. This is a type of "karma", when your decision making process gets involved. I think of karma as more "work you do" than "shit you've brought upon yourself". It can be good or bad.

With something more complicated, many things may occur all at once and not necessarily be obvious in their origins. Polar vortexes, for example, may be caused by the Earth heating up and disrupting the magnetic field which keeps the cold contained. At least that's what Faraday thought.

You are right about pointing to challenges in predicting unknown-unknowns. In science, we typically avoid those discussions. In other philosophical approaches, we identify them with something beyond our conscious awareness.

Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism have been dealing with these concepts for a long time. It's interesting to see how technology and those thoughts are converging.
Lower cost/passenger, called CASM (Cost Per Available Seat Mile) only gets you so far without taking into account the other side of the equation: RASM (Revenue Per Available Seat Mile). Empty seats and heavily discounted tickets are not good for business. The more seats, the lower CASM, but also the lower RASM.

Double deckers are very efficient by design, but the newest airliners are nearly as efficient as (or even more efficient than) an A380.
Just generally speaking, code that does orchestration and testing in general is often easier under a dynamic scripted language over something that is built and compiled, even if it winds up as a custom DSL. I think Python is one of the better options here for the broader community support, and tooling.

Aside: I tend to reach for node/js often for similar reasons (despite detractors) mostly because I'm more comfortable with it over Python or Ruby, but also because it's already integrated to most of the build/test environments I'm working on anyway.
Seriously. Google messed up REALLY bad on this one. It would really difficult for many customers to come up with a contingency plan under 2 months.

Google should NEVER be trusted with other infrastructure projects going further. Infrastructure isn't some forprofit companies trial-and-error playground, it is about stability and promise to the local residents, it is not about money and certainly not an experiment.
That’s incredibly cool, and definitely covers my concerns there. Good work on giving it some restraint rather than going for sheer volume as well.
YMMV but http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/world... points to IE at 5.74%, FF at 9.5%, Chrome at 70.88% in January 2019. Of course, you should look at your own user logs to determine usage statistics, but many government sites still recommend using IE.
Sorry: "s/stared/started/"
People can still make money because it’s still a rolodex game.
The RIAA lawyers botched it because their strategy was essentially banking on the other party not appearing in court and thus getting a default judgement. When they showed up with proper representation, the music industry hired lawyers were essentially caught with their pants down.
1. Cloud (cloud hosting, managed cloud services)
2. Mental health (apps and tech to help combat mental health)
3. Gamification of things.
The only real issue RSS has is that ads have to be baked in. Sadly I don't know if we could have an open system with personalized ads.

They've already figured out how to do this. I download the Waypoint podcast (which is part of the Vice Media family) via old-school RSS feed, and the most recent episode I downloaded had a pre-roll ad which specifically called out the city that I live in.
I don't know what you mean by "not apparently learned". Even with genetically inherited perfect pitch, the skill has to be "learned" (IE, presented with note labels). Nobody has the ability- without training- to tell you the frequency of a note. Genetic (in this case) doesn't mean "born with the ability", it means "predisposed towards greater ability after training").

Personally, I'd start with the strong observations like "People whose first language is tonal are more likely to have perfect pitch", while people whose ancestors spoke tonal languages, but were raised with a first language that isn't tonal, are less likely (and vice versa). That says to me "environmental differences" are as strong as genetic.

All of this is covered in extensive (and relatively accurate) detail on the wikipedia page. if you want to argue with me further, I suggest getting a PhD in the field, or at least extensive experience with molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, experimental design, and scientific philosophy, as all those are necessary prerequisites for discussing complex traits that have both genetic and environmental components.
DoH failed to keep the important part of DNS, which was statelessness.

Running a stock or DNSCrypt resolver for 10k QPS requires a small to medium sized box that is within the technical realm of most people to operate. Adding stateful connection tracking now creates an operational burden that most IT folks would say "screw it, send it to the cloud."

This centralizes the DNS in to the hands of a half dozen organizations that can operate at that scale, and they also happen to be the ones driving the policy forward.
You are correct. Dwarves is plural dwarf noun. Dwarfs is the verb.
One of my sister in laws is a civil engineer who does a lot of work with sewage treatment plants. She has commented that apparently tomato seeds can survive almost anything.
AT&T simply does not maintain enough fiber coverage in Louisville to absorb all displaced Google Fiber customers. These customers will primarily be going back to Uverse (DSL) or Spectrum (cable).
The 777 is still doing pretty well, isn’t it? I’ve never been in an A380, but I’ve flown the 747 and 787 and there was no real difference in the experience.
Yes, but claims about a "good cake" are not making generalized claims about human behavior. The only downside of a "bad cake" recipe is someone trying it and it's not a great cake.

There are massive consequences for releasing a book claiming to be a factual model for how human brains work and how people should behave towards each other based on this model. If the book becomes popular, this sort of model can become the defacto truth to most people and live on in public consciousness for years as pop psychology.

As an example, look at things like Meiers Briggs (ISTP, ENFJ etc), "Type A vs Type B personalities", DISC personality testing, etc. ALl of these are based on old, flawed, and straight up bad research. Yet companies across America (and the world) are still giving people training and hiring people based on these studies. Note, DISC, for example was based on William Moulton Marston's work, a guy who DIED in 1947. The "research" which became DISC is from 1928! Businesses are still dressing up this old and flawed research and selling it to businesses for huge profits.
I'm -not- a hardware guy, so this may be a dumb question/thought, but here goes -
The human brain is pretty amazing, often thought of a 'petaflops' or beyond, and I imagine pretty energy efficient as well, seeing as that our heads don't reach boiling temperatures. Has there been any work into 'rethinking' chips to work more like a human brain (i dont want to go as far to to say 'organic chips'), or is it just not well enough understood? Or unfeasible for some other reason?
I struggle to see how this story is one of failure. A kid launched a business that is still going 8 years later. He learned that VC funding is a double edged sword and was able to shed some of that burden - buying them out for $1. In the beginning he speaks of building this thing and having it be his lifes work - which it may well be if he keeps going. And yet there was all this talk of being a billion dollar company and an IPO - which is actually as exit strategy. I was floored by the notion that only 20 percent monthly growth was a red flag. 'du fuk you people think you're doing? Launching a rocket? Oh right... SV, VC, etc...

In the end this guy learned a bunch of hard lessons about business, finance, and life. I hope he continues at least until he finds a new adventure, and stops calling it a failure. It may turn out to be exactly what he said he wanted in the beginning: "what I thought would be my life’s work."
Also the framework experience, which isn't really there in Linux, even with KDE, as it isn't the full stack like in Be or other desktop oriented OSes.
Someone on Twitter, I forgot who, made the argument that Spotify might be running a sort of A/B test of either a Netflix like model or a YouTube type model because the future of podcasts is unclear. I think I can agree with both you and the GP if the Netflix model wins.
There was a discussion on the HTTP 203 show about the JAM stack as well, which talks relatively quickly and briefly about concerns when deciding whether or not to implement a JAM stack vs other architectures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXsWaA3HTHA
Isn't that what I'm saying? How am I off the mark?
I think klodolph's point is still on the mark.
I don't read it as:

"The 3D in this WWI footage was faked in post."

Which is obviously true. I instead read it as:

"The reason the 3D looks about as good as you're used to from other films, is that most of those modern films _also_ faked their 3D in post."
>because what you actually do is easily replicated.

Not really for Lyft/Uber, at not now that it's flat fee and ride pooling instead of a traditional per minute/mile fee structure. To achieve those thing efficiently you need data and until you get that data you're burning through a lot of money.
Another good example of "smart engineering can't solve every problems".
> We shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t understand evolution

Agree yeah. The difficult part is that a lot of these people think they understand evolution. Overall Clark County, WA doesn't seem to be a hotbed of uneducated people, about 30% of adults have college degrees there which is about average for US as well I think. At least it's not as simple as pointing and saying "Ah, look only 5% of people there went to college of course they be anti-intellectual with all the associate risks of following conspiracy theories" but it seems something more complex is happening there.
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An incredible amount of software and infrastructure is written precisely for analytics data gathering workloads.

I'm pretty confident AWS's product for this use case would be Lambda and the new on-demand DynamoDB.

Is there actually a use case in analytics that requires a server that accepts connections from multiple clients, and then has to have <60ms latency including state over the wire and executing sophisticated business logic, between those clients, for time periods longer than 5 seconds? I.e. something that resembles a video game?

Because if there isn't, if your goal is to scale, why have containers at all?
Any plans to port this from GCE APIs to something more provider agnostic, like k8s? A lot of us would like to fuzz on on-prem equipment.
You don't need 20% monthly growth for 9 straight years, but for your first year and maybe the second after your Series A you do. Although I'd say 10-20% is more the range.

The reason this is true is that your investors are giving you a lot of money.

Think of it this way, I have a big idea, and I've turned that into a small product making say 10k a month. What I'm telling the investor is that I NEED these millions to turn this small product into the big idea, and that I'm ready to scale this out.

At the point I'm asking you for money, I'm representing that I have the product that the market wants. I'm representing the marking is huge, and that I need this investment to take advantage of it.

Its not unreasonable to say that with that kind of money I can take something that's making around 10k a month and turn that into 30-100k (10% to 20% MoM growth) a month in a year.
I'm not talking about a corporate environment - in that case it's someone doing a job for which they are paid. I'm talking about volunteer efforts in a project for the collective good, in some sense similar to "Open Source".

I'm asking the HN community - what do you look for in a project? What draws you to contribute to a project?
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probably not a good idea, because you are sampling cnt after think you have incremented it and you will get the wrong value

Essentially what happens is:

tmp_cnt1 = cnt + 1;
if (cnt > 100) tmp_cnt2 = 0;

some time later:

cnt = tmp_cnt1;

and after that (if cnt >100)

cnt = tmp_cnt2;

Better to say:

if (cnt >= 99) {
cnt <= 0;
} else {
cnt <= cnt+1;
}
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Well, don't most of their internal systems already run tooling that is already written using Linux and Gnu libraries? Wouldn't it make sense to do testing on what they already have available instead of some theoretical ground up replacement effort?

Not to say there isn't work on replacement efforts, only that testing what is in use is a practical thing, even if the scale is surprising.
Having used ECS quite a bit, I do not recommend anyone building a new stack based on it. Kubernetes solves everything ECS solves, but usually better and without sveral of the issues mentioned here. Last time I checked, AWS was still lagging behind Azure and GCP on Kubernetes, but I have a strong feeling they're prioritizing improving EKS over ECS.

If you're already invested in ECS it's a different story, of course.
>and I buy a used sewing machine so I can take sewing jobs in the evening, then I'm a capitalist and you aren't

I don't think that's true. In the traditional schema (for its faults and advantages), a capitalist is someone who both owns capital and employs wage labour. If you hired people to work on your sewing machine and kept their produce, that would likely make you a capitalist. At the end of the day, these examples don't work well to illustrate the notion of capitalism as a social phenomenon, rather than one involving two individuals who buy beer.
Yes, of course, they are not the same. I did not claim they were. I said:

> You can often recast that migration to something more like

By which I mean, in my experience you can usually write your migrations so that your code can work with the old AND the new version of the data, in which case you don't need to have a transaction around the whole operation.

This takes more work but is safer:

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ParallelChange.html

https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Databases-Evolutionary-pa...
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For you use case you just have to make JSDOM an external package (assuming you use webpack or rollup) and declare it as a peer dependency of your package
So, the problem I find is this.

It seems natural if asked:
"Can we figure out something to help me feel lonely less often?”

To respond:
"Ok well, what do you want?"

If you're not willing to give actual things you want, then the other person has to "mind read." And from my experience in relationships, when people are trying to mind read what the other actually wants, this always ends up in issues/problems.
Thanks for writing this Sahil.

> But I was accountable to our creators, our employees, and our investors–in that order. We helped thousands of creators get paid, every month. About $2,500,000 was going to go into the pockets of creators — for rent checks and mortgages, for student loans and kids’ college funds. And it was only growing! Could I really just turn that faucet off?

I really appreciate that you value being beholden to your customers more than your investors. It seems like as you've bought back your ownership you've had more opportunity to run your company the way you want to, and I admire that that way is doing right by your customers. If I ever start my own company, I would like to run it this way.
Am I not talking about how this film is using well-established techniques for conversion to 3D, the same techniques that most 3D films use?
I won't miss the A380. I will miss the 747 because of how uniquely majestic it looks. https://www.airliners.net/photo/China-Airlines/Boeing-747-40...
> So something is dangerous and people are going to do it anyway so they legalize it and try to make it safer instead of criminalizing it. The US could learn from China on this one.

No there's nothing to be learned here because the US is a very different system. It consists of strong independent state level enforcement entities, it's a collection of individual states, each with an economy of the top 50 economies of the world.

While China has certainly grown like crazy, there, they have a very different system. Everything is centralized so all of the quotas, and inspections are accepted at the central state level. One which also faces challenge of obfusticating as much as possible actual numbers for various reasons: loss of face and the inability to get an accurate gauge within your own country.

So anytime you read a piece of a news out of China, realize what I mentioned above, there are no independent investigative bodies that are able to challenge each other, much like you have individual states, in China the government has final say and the entire judicial system is built to jail, execute anyone the system deems a threat.

It wouldn't be surprising to read about articles in the future about more health complications from eating these farmed pufferfish-as the world recalls, China doesn't exactly instill confidence in their healthcare system when they poison their own citizen's children with HIV.

Not saying everything about China is bad but most of it is quite below the standard of what UN defines as adequate for human rights to exist.

So there's no lesson here imho, and these type of China #1 threads from throwaway accounts we are seeing more and more recently annoys me.

HN has turned into fucking reddit.
absolutely. but it isn't an either-or.
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Yeah but they just plain don't like to invest in infastructure period. It is an expense which takes a long time to pay off and publicly traded corporations are heavily pressured to short-termism.
There is no free market mechanism that can prevent the sale of the market.
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The natural data cap is the actual line speed of the connection.

That would mean a 10Mbit connection == 3.24TB/month

That's definitely a cap that is directly related to line speed. But these 150GB caps are purely because the internet companies are also content companies - and their content channels are zero rated.

And with a 10Mbit connection, it only takes 33 hours to exceed their arbitrary cap over the whole month.
Every dog has its day.
It doesn't really cost money to move data around. The biggest cost by far is building the infrastructure. If the capacity is available, the cost of using it is minimal.
That's a fair point, but then the question is what should the question be? There are many subfields and disciplines of linguistics all of which are imo fascinating. In theoretical/generative linguistics the distinction between acceptability and performance is relevant, and acceptability seems to be a very robust measure.
No, Meetup is for meetups, to meet other nerds :)

I Google my way -
City + business network.

I also ask people I meet in business about their preferred networks, but only people I would like as a client.

Work your way from there. The networks want to be found, they want your money after all.

Edit, about starting somewhere:
Some people work to connect businesses. Depending on your location, these can be Chamber of Commerce, Science Parks, tech hubs etc. Start by asking there and get yourself connected with the formal connections first.
Round robin won't work because a 25% sample is just as useful as a full feed. All they need is enough users to provide a statistically significant representation of traffic.

For you personally, if you send a query for www.example.com to one provider, and a query for images.example.net to another, you've outed yourself as browsing example.com to both.
Robotic Process Automation, and the headache that’ll arrive with it because it’s basically building technical depth directly on top of legacy systems.

In the European public and banking sectors we can’t hire enough people to meet the demands for it though.

If you build something to make maintainability better, please feel free to contact me.