skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is a .js file with a basic implementation of

exports.handler = (event) => ({
statusCode: 200,
body: "Hello world: " + event.body
})

vendor lock-in? You can hang this in an Express server yourself at any time. You can spin up your own three billion nodeJS servers yourself with this. The only thing Amazon does is hardware / instance management, load balancing and of course billing, which I don't see as vendor lock-in.
I've been unable to find a transcription of his speech. What hatred was he espousing?
Yeah one year is a step in right direction, but in the enterprises that I’ve worked at, getting capex for maintenance activity like that is usually an 18-24 month process.

If everything on a platform is an emergency, that vendor won’t be around in those businesses.
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If I order a combo meal in McDonald's but don't eat the fries, will I be sued, because a burger plus coke separately is more expensive?
Disclaimer : working at OVH ;)

Before joining OVH I've worked four years at CityZen Data, now SenX, the makers of Warp 10 TSDB. I have worked a lot on time series analytics, specially in the learning path for different TSDB query languages.

The idea behind TSL really makes sense. It's a query language made by devs for devs, easy to learn yet powerful enough to make some complex analytics with it.You won't have the full power of WarpScript, for example... but to be honest, in 80% of the cases you don't need that full power, and the simplicity gains are simple too big to neglect them.

Testing TSL is really easy if you're using Prometheus or Warp 10, and at the open source community behind it we would love to get your feedback, comments or suggestions.
Hm. I’d like to try applying this theory to my dreams, but I’m having some difficulty in a few edge cases (that have proven to be sticking points in the past). Would you mind if I reached out to you on your opinion on how they should be interpreted according to this proposed paradigm? And what channels are mode convenient for you? Thanks again for your responses.
BA is a flag carrier. Russia only allows one airline per European country (and sometimes none) to overfly Siberia. That the government of the UK continues to pick BA as its flag carrier amounts to a state subsidy.

This is something the EU has tried to address in the past, but not much can be done about it as Russia imposes the policy unilaterally.

But regardless of how it started and who's to blame, the net effect is that when BA flies from e.g. London to Tokyo they can pick a shorter route than their competitors, this makes them much more profitable than they otherwise would be. They effectively hold a state-sponsored monopoly on certain routes.
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How about you embiggen it to include polar on 1 unit circle and 3 points in 1x1x1 square (Pro version has more detail). Maybe even include shading and luminescence.
If they make a profit on a roundtrip, they definitely make even more profit if the passenger skips a flight. So how can they claim damages?
I agree it's present in any kind of dialogue where people assume the worst of others, but Reddit at least allows unlimited text. Same with this site -- I've seen many reactive comments, but then a thread resolves it and everyone reaches a good place. I've seen similar on Reddit, although less so compared to here.

I don't think I've ever seen the same on Twitter, ever. It usually devolves into something worse.

I do think there are parallels between Reddit and Twitter that encourage a level of snark that is just never appropriate when talking to a human in real life, unless you know them well.
One of the standard replies I get when I complain about VSCode being sluggish is that it's not worse or even better than Visual Studio on Windows. That might be true, I don't use Visual Studio so I wouldn't know, but it's an argument that's completely unrelated to Electron. For me that's just whataboutism.

I would rather compare VS code to a regular editor with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and a few bindings to quickly kick off tasks, because that's essentially what it is. Could be Emacs, Vim, Sublime, etc. That's how I use VS Code, so that's what I compare it to. That said, for example XCode or CLion also feel faster, and I consider those way more feature-heavy than VS code.

>> Do you use it on Windows, or another platform?

I'm using VSCode on Linux, on a moderately sized C++ code base with the Microsoft IntelliSense LSP extension. I realize that some of the annoyances I experience are because of the C++ LSP stuff, which is still in preview, but it definitely isn't contained to just that. I sometimes also use VS code on macOS for JavaScript and Python projects, and even though it's a little better there, it's still nowhere near a good native editor. The weird glitches I experience are present on both platforms, and I've had a fair share of them. Keyboard input freezing for some seconds, buffers not updating when files changes, shortcuts not firing, drawing/refresh errors, just to name a few.
Also,
in the third world things are moving towards machines running celeron / atom CPUs, with 4GB of memory and 32 GB of hard drive space.

Out of experience can tell you 32 GB is a space that can be killed rather fast.
Documenting potential security issues with your code is rarely a bad idea.
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You know what other technology has existed wherever Facebook causes disruption? The Internet. The Internet is the real enemy here. Down with the Internet! Also electricity. Down with electricity!
How do I convince friends and family to stop using Facebook?
How did this get 35 upvotes?

Anyway, does the color interpolation take into account the fact that RGB values use gamma coding?
The headline leaves out important context that would settle some of the incidental questions commentators have fixated on in this thread and the article frankly buries the lede (perhaps by necessity):

Rappler has been subject to harassment and intimidation by the Duterte administration. President Rodrigo Duterte himself had made repeated false allegations against Rappler, including being supposedly funded by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Usenet achieved this in the 80's and 90's.
>> 4 months before the law that they allegedly violated was enacted

1. The Internet is a medium in which stuff is sort of continually published as it's requested. If you're made aware that a claim is false and don't actually have anything to back it up, I think it's naturally on you to amend that or remove it. I don't necessarily see this as a violation of the rule of law if that happened and they took no action.

2. They claimed that someone had "alleged links based on reports". Well if they can produce third-party reports I think they're technically in the right. But there's a problem that people read too much into it when writers hedge what they're saying. Reminds of Himalayan Salt: it's known for it's color and mineral content (impurities), but people often say that OTHER people call it the purest salt. Maybe it is, but that doesn't make sense to me. So I once called a nutritionist on it when they made the claim and they said, "oh I don't know, but other people say that". There's so little burden of proof because of how they say it. Should be a red flag when we read it.
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> It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere—it’s killing real news.

It is spreading #AlternativeFacts.
This is a pretty pathetic rehashing of all the rumors and innuendo, totally lacking any self doubt. This isn't journalism, it's sci-fi fiction, and it's not even good.
Some do, especially on topics they don't know much about. And that would be the majority of the people.
You are right and I'm glad you're mentioning it, and the general skepticism about serverless; it's not a golden hammer, its applications are limited, and not every problem should be (can be?) solved with a serverless architecture. The same goes for microservices, which is another gold hammer that people picked up and started to apply to a lot of problems - I've seen a few projects where microservices was the initial architecture, while all of those would've been better off with a monolith for the first two years of operation (before any significant load) to figure out the actual problem to be solved.
Specifically, a video of him saying "gas the jews" repeatedly. The dog is a distraction.
For some reason I can't reply to your other comment, but yes, please reach out to me.
Huh? Then why does Twitter allow you to @reply someone? It is a feature. I mean, Jack Dorsey even doing this interview shows it's a feature, otherwise he should have said "Twitter was not made for this."

And not all blog posts are one-way communication, just like you said, that is why we have comment systems attached to blog posts.
Where I live a combo always costs slightly more than a burger+drink or burger+fries. Where the third item is “only” 25 cents more, for example.
In the case from the article, the passenger claimed these terms were surprising enough to not be valid part of the contract. The court said that because price differences between combination tickets and single tickets are common and well-known it shouldn't be too surprising that the terms include a rule about this.
Yes, please reach out to me. My email is visible on the paper.
I think you just lead by example by quitting it yourself, and giving a good explanation why if asked. It's a personal choice to stop using it. Don't want to risk annoying your relatives.
I firmly believe it is the individual's responsibility to determine the veracity of the information they consume, to the best of their ability. If the platform of information isn't Facebook, it's some other medium of communication. Why should Facebook be responsible for the content its users post, assuming the content is legal? Then again, some will argue that we should make "Fake News", "Inflammatory Opinions", and "Hate Speech" illegal, but I do not believe any governments should be interested in policing the speech of its peoples. I say this as an American, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Oh yes, they really do, you only have to look at what the majority of British newspapers are reporting to see what most British people believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit...
It's kind of insane that airlines both overbook flights in hopes that somebody will accidentally miss a flight, but also get upset or sue people when they intentionally miss a flight. They shouldn't be allowed to have it both ways.
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There's also fraud, but also wire fraud, mail fraud.
Maybe that was the original billing, but Twitter has enabled conversation for a very, very long time with @replies, quoting and so on. Silly to pretend otherwise.
> Just picture a reasonably proximate scenario: It’s the winter of 2020, and Donald Trump—having lost reelection by a margin closer than expected—is in full attack mode, whipping up stories of runaway voter fraud. Local protest groups coalesce around Facebook posts assailing liberals, murderous “illegals,” feminists. (This is basically what happened in France last year with the “anger groups” that birthed the yellow vest protests.) Pizzagate-style conspiracy theories race through these groups, inflaming their more extreme members. Add a population that is, unlike those of France and Nigeria, armed to the teeth, and the picture gets pretty dark.

Wow, that's poetic. I can practically feel the hate emitting from my screen.

I thought Mother Jones just said they had a problem with fake-news three paragraphs up. And then they decide to speculate about the future in which a bunch of wackadoo right-wingers are running around gun-murdering people because they didn't like the election results, full-on civil war (instigated by the Republican voters, no doubt, that's what we chose to run with in this article).

Sure, conservatives probably aren't reading MJ, but I don't understand how anyone feels comfortable with caricaturing people to this extent.

> This is no hypothetical. It’s precisely what Vladimir Putin’s minions, and the Trump campaign and its allies, did in 2016. And why not? Facebook showed them the way, dispatching staffers to campaigns to make sure they knew how to get exactly the messages they wanted in front of exactly the people most susceptible.

By the way, if you follow through the links on this one, Facebook also dispatched staffers to Clinton's campaign. But it definitely sounds more sinister to compare Trump to Putin than Trump to Clinton.
Why? To me this truck is like the Mercedes G Class, it isn't meant to be practical or realistic. It's a status symbol meant to perpetuate an image. It has to meet all of the expectations one would have of a pickup truck even though it will never be used like one.
Not necessary.

I think what allows "winner" apps to exist in modern world is that you can really use only one app at the time. Especially true for Smartphones. The way I hope AR to develop is that all of the small components (the apps) get composited together OS level. So that "winner" platform would be the OS itself.

Albeit, I'm being extremely optimistic here.
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I wish we could stop calling software we don't like "a cancer". It's hyperbole and detracts from the conversation, IMO. The phrase "x is a cancer" is a cancer. :)
You won't find it in the rest of the press because there's an injunction against reporting it and it's subject to active criminal proceedings. The Daily Mail is grossly inaccurate and itself running a campaign of targeted harassment against trans people.

The true story will eventually come out at which point we will find that the accused spent months harassing the victim on the internet and the seemingly innocuous statement was the last straw.
That seems like a remarkably bad strategy from a CEO. If your company is being stubborn, deal with it in-house, not in public.
It's still costly to defend yourself in court over this. Just the mere accusation could be quite damaging to someone's reputation.
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This is the saddest aspect of the current state of affairs, I think. Mid-sized companies had the talent and the flexibility to deliver some of the most meaningful and memorable experiences.

I hope that smaller publishers, like Devolver, fill that niche.
In Switzerland / Swisscom internet vs landline it's the same.
> That's just not enough when you need something easy to setup that you can build then forget about for a decade.

I’ve been thinking about building a 10yr hosting plan for my own want. I thought designing static and then hosting on RasPi behind CDN would be great, just stock enough spares and keep Internet service live... 3G or better sufficient.
Who's the "rest of us"?

The other two thirds of the labor force. None of those people should be settling for a low wage in today's market.
Before draconian anti-terrorism policies? When? (Including Northern Ireland in the UK!)
I feel fine; one of the main selling points of cloud computing (as will be imprinted on you if you ever do an AWS course, sigh) is that before, if you wanted to launch a product, you had to invest in a huge amount of hardware first - just look at the first few years of Twitter where they were struggling to scale up. I mean yeah you could (and can) get managed hosting, rent some servers still at a lot of providers, often for cheaper than at Amazon, but scaling those out is not easy at all.

Nowadays? If Twitter launched today they would have had no trouble scaling up from one user to a hundred million within weeks. AWS is a major (MAJOR) factor in the startup boom, and allows for crazy levels of scaling for new startups that attract a lot of users. If you set up your stuff right before launch, getting slashdotted (or the HN variant) is a thing of the past. The only limit to scaling now is your credit limit.
The project is more or less abandoned.

It was scheduled to shut down last year: https://twitter.com/golan/status/976202325076467712

It's also open source, though the code hasn't been touched in a few years: https://github.com/CreativeInquiry/terrapattern

[edit: noted shutdown year]
> but I think the game industry is a special case. There's enough starry eyed people that love the idea of working on games

Doesn't sound like the group of people to form a union.
I don't think so. From what I understand the problem is temperature, if it runs out of power its unable to keep the important parts warm and won't be able to turn back on.
You can check out these 2 sites with practical exercices:

https://www.dataquest.io

https://campus.datacamp.com

I've also seen this free online Stanford course recommended a lot:

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/about
1) I can't see a description of what he said, but if it's the case I remember he said something about blowing the airport up and someone reported it to police as a threat.

Twitter is a broadcasting service, and you're responsible for how it is read. You don't get a pass because you totally didn't mean it that way. I can't get upset about this one.

2) & 3) Doesn't sound like arrest/prosecution? I don't doubt a lot of things got reported to police, and they followed up by talking to the person.
Flying A->B is more expensive than flying A->B->C. So you can get a cheaper A->B flight by booking a leg to C that you never intend to use. (For example because C is a destination the airline needs to compete on price aggressively with, while B is a destination with less competition so the airline sees an opportunity to have high prices there).

I have no idea why Lufthansa thinks this is within their rights according to the law, so it will be very interesting to see.
I think there are people who went with NoSQL because it fit their specific needs better than a regular RDBMS, and people who went NoSQL because they found it easier to work with than a RDBMS (at first).

The latter group often didn't want to learn SQL and went with NoSQL's as a shortcut, not because they had an intimate understanding of the tradeoffs between the approaches and decided NoSQL was the better option.
S3Proxy is third-party, but Google's GCS S3 compatiblity is very much native. It was a selling point when they first launched it that you could just take boto and change the endpoint, add a header, and have it work.
Reminds me of the color of band-aids (it never occurred to me for a long while, as a "person of colour", that band-aids are actually flesh-colored).

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rachelmariestone/2012/11/26/th...
Presto's set of functionality ( ANSI-compliant SQL plus so much more) is a pleasure to use as a data scientist who does a bunch of analysis. JSON, arrays, maps, dates, HLL, spatial stuff, rich aggregation functions, etc.

The only real problem with it is that it's easy to get into some thorny-looking transformations because there is so much to work with.
That's good to know.

Something I found interesting was the problem of many rural people not really having a formal address. It's so easy to take for granted that everyone has a house number and street with some kind of postal code, in in-fact that they even have a name with a given and family part. You can't always rely on these sorts of things because the world is big and wonderful and full of variety.
Fair points and totally agree. I was dumb enough (I would use the same words!) to buy one the first time round so I agree with you.
This happens in the opposite way as well!

In March a friend of mine is getting married in Panama. The Round-trip from Zurich to Panama was absurdly expensive. For around the same price, I will go to Italy by train, fly from Verona to Spain, hike for 2 weeks along the Camino de Santiago, fly to Panama from Madrid, and back in Zurich.
I don't see why you need shame to explain the disparity. Some people felt that the default yellow still implied whiteness (like it does for the Simpsons), so they added skin tone modifiers. The fact that white people don't feel the need to change to explicit whiteness—but feel represented by the yellow—fully supports the reason that they were added in the first place.

If white people did use them just as often, wouldn't that imply that the association between yellow skin and whiteness wasn't there?

So all this article supports is that adding them turned out to be the right decision after all.
I'm not sure what original goal Twitter had in mind. At the moment they appear to have 100+ millions of users and are valued in the billions of dollars. Even with the shortcomings and flaws people seem to use. Presumably people put up with the shortcomings and use it anyway. I found it funny that people went on Twitter to declare that they were deleting Facebook. I guess my main point is that whether intentionally or not Twitter has stumbled upon a formula that generally works. By that I mean people keep coming back to have their rant, to put someone else down, to share their joys, frustrations, sell their productions, etc
> Second, go after the top 98%

Hopefully you mean the top 2%, or the 98th percentile. /snark

Generally though, I agree with this advice for small companies (i.e. your first ~5 hires). I would recommend making a list of experts on your stack who you would love to work with. Trawl GitHub, StackOverflow, HN, LinkedIn until you identify a list of candidates that are verifiably good at what they do. Then just start recruiting them, a.k.a. selling your company and vision.

For small companies, this aggressive approach seems like it would be both more reliable and efficient than the "pull based" approach of vacuuming up resumes.
Tegel is literally my most favourite airport in the world and one of the few reasons I still bear living in this city.
This makes a little more sense though, because presumably the cable companies get some kick back for delivering the ad network to more homes.
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Just a heads up that your interview quotes probably come with enough info to uniquely identify the person who was that open with you. Might want to return the favor with some anonymity...
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You can use it on linux with Chrome, not Chromium, and Firefox, but only from the website and not from your distribution. This may relieve the hassle of faking your user-agent.
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If you split it up in fixed and variable costs and you see that you can charge different amounts of money depending on destination it messes with their total profits.

Flying a plane has a certain fixed cost (it's not weightless or frictionless, so even an empty plane will consume fuel and have wear and tear, the pilot always costs the same).

You also have variable costs (more fuel consumed with more weight, more work in getting people through to the airplane at check-in, etc).

Now if your variable costs are lower than the cost of adding another passenger then you want to add that next passenger. It might be you're still unprofitable on this flight, but this passenger will lessen your financial burden, even if only marginally.

Now it may be that in order to offer flights at competitive prices to destination B from A, it's better cost wise to split it up in two legs via C.

So maybe on route A->(C)->B you are unprofitable, but because you have people booking A->C at a higher price your total becomes profitable.

However you need those unprofitable people on flight A->(C)->B, because otherwise your plane B is half empty and your plane A->C isn't quite full yet. But still you'd rather have more passengers in A->C.

Now people using these Hidden City tricks use your A->C->B ticket to get from A->C.

This destroys your profit margin, because now your flight A->C has just become unprofitable.

Another thing is this might lead to more people booked on C->B not showing up, thus they're flying with a half-empty plane again here, which they may be able to fill up from other sources of C.

Pricing can get quite complex, but it all makes sense at some level if you have the overview.