skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The socialist definition is unsound. A toothbrush is a means of production - it produces clean teeth using human labor as input. The only difference compared to a big machine in a factory is scale, which is a completely arbitrary metric to define on and in many cases impossible to quantify.

Only land and natural resources can be treated as something different in a sensible way, but that's explored in georgism, geolibertarianism and similar philosophies, not socialism.
The Year in Retractions, 2018: What 18,000 retractions told us
I took a final look at Linkedin some weeks ago.. hadn't logged in in ages. Totally useless, never-ending scrolling pages, tried to look like FB I guess. No informational content anywhere.
So I deleted my account. Something I've had in mind since MS bought it. The updated layout was the final nail in the coffin. No more Linkedin for me, and definitely nothing to miss.
If all you're doing is building web apps then that sounds pretty good.

Pretty certain any large enterprise cloud workload that gcp/azure/AWS is interested in is a lot more than that. Data warehousing, Kafka stuff, identity management, document storage etc
> Surely you can't see withdrawing from society as a good thing. I mean seriously, why would society support that ?

Why not ?
I would retreat in the middle of the forest with minimal technology if I could afford it (yes this life style cost money nowadays).
People are the one who get you in trouble in the first place and avoiding having too much people in your life reduce the troubles and can give you peace.
Interesting, but somehow missing a point for me. You can have quite fast WordPress pages without rolling out this big of a tech stack.

It all comes down to a good theme (most themes are not good) and utilizing a little bit of tech, most of which is already integrated into WP.

For example, I love the Transients API. You can easily cache database calls for posts with the Transients API and save lots of lookup/query time for complex datasets. One could argue that the Transients API is not meant to be used this way but I've build large sites which run fine (and fast) with that.

In the end it comes down to making smart choices: No tracking, few dependencies, minify all your assets, use browser caching, use scaled images, the whole toolset of good practices.

This will get you fast WordPress pages without worrying much about the tech stack you have to build around it.
> If China starts selling global assets, like housing in major cities around the world, and starts to decline their treasury holding rather than rolling them, then look out.

Serious question, what would happen if they do this? Do you mean it could result in a decline of housing prices?
It would be super interesting to see the startup vs mid range vs enterprise client breakdown of each cloud providers. As we are entering the very end of the evonomic cycle I’d expect those to behave very differently in a recession.
Startups don't make the money. All of those boring old companies do and they don't need fancy fancy they need:
- easy to understand for an avg it guy
- slow change
- good price
- trust
I don't understand why you are talking about launching binaries. The entire point of this approach is to not launch a separate browser instance.
This. I’m not usually a fan of scrum, but this is one of the problems it can help solve. You can decide to zig or zag every couple weeks at the end of a sprint, but for those couple weeks you’ll hold steady in one direction so that you can make reliable progress (and force the people making changes to sleep on them and bundle them up.)

Frankly, though, your PM sounds ineffective - especially in a kanban system. Part of their job is making sure there’s a shippable MVP SOON that you can THEN iterate on IF improving it at that point will have more business impact than building the next feature will. And they’re clearly undermining that effort.
India Seeks Access to Private Messages in WhatsApp Crackdown
I would argue that while you can find deep works on the internet, it’s still a medium that encourages shallower works than the printing press did.
Actually, the previous time this was discussed on Hacker News, I saw a lot of posters with reasonable opinions.
Show HN: The Startup Calculator – Find out how profitable your startup will be
In my case a few beefy servers (lots of cpu cores, ram and disk) that are dedicated to the purpose of running data analysis/reduction on them.
My personal site managed by org-page
The majority of Linux users use a GTK desktop, IMO WebkitGTK would be preferable.
Create a Twitter Bot with Laravel Twitter Bot
If I work for a Fortune 500 company I’m not going to be okay with sometimes getting a response on a good day.
Can't we at least have backup plan to reintroduce?
How to Cut U.S. Emissions Faster? Do What These Countries Are Doing
Full Stack vs. Full Cycle Developer
Absolutely! Let's not let decisions about irreversibly altering an ecological web raise even vague feelings of doubt.
It's not even that. Del Boy's van had a lot more cargo space.
Leaked full technical specifications for the three Galaxy S10 models
Ah, because everything socialist is a slippery slope towards gulags, autocrats, mass starvation and military imperialism.

You still haven't given an argument about why "conspicuously splurging is just a waste of resources" and "there's obviously a continuum" means "state capitalism now", though.

You also haven't bothered explaining how "every company beyond a certain size or revenue must be organised as a worker's cooperative" leads to state capitalism (or whatever you're trying to express by invoking the Soviet Union as the scary end), but I'd be fine if you at least bothered actually addressing the OP you replied to rather than just a strawman.

To reiterate, this is what you say you replied to:

> individuals choosing how to spend their earnings is essentially misaligned societal resources

(and also, more implicitly "OP thinks OP knows better how those earnings should be spent and therefore advocates a centrally planned economy, i.e. state capitalism")

This is what you actually replied to:

> Conspicuously splurging is just a waste of resources.

> If a wealthy person and all her descendants save their money forever, then there's no harm to the economy.

> If she spends it digging holes, on the other hand, then that's wasting real resources.

> There's obviously a continuum, but $100 million yachts are probably closer to the digging-holes side of the continuum.

Note that this is a refutation of the GP:

> Those who invest or conspicuously splurge are a boon to the economy and to workers.

I don't see how you can go from "rich people splurging are not actually great for the overall economy" to "state capitalism now", yet that is your interpretation.

OP didn't say "rich people shouldn't be allowed to waste resources", OP only said "rich people wasting resources is bad". There's an obvious solution that doesn't require controlling the entire economy: increase marginal tax rates to reduce wealth gain and make it harder for millionaires to become billionaires.

But I suppose that too inevitably leads to the Soviet Union?
I live in Europe and see how things go down the sewer here. Why can't you?

As a child people had enough money for a good end of life and now they crawl around and collect food and other stuff from waste containers.

Also statistics clearly shows this development. Look at stuff like this (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-ri...) and tell me what you think about that please.

What's baffling about that, can you further explain it to me?

> Western societies are structured around redistribution which ensures that most people are looked after

Do you live in Disneyland?
You are patently wrong. The primary advantage of DLLs is shared memory usage:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/dlls/advant...
The single thing I use Skype for, still, is calling phone numbers. Because their support for that has much better coverage than anyone else, world-wide. And the Skype-in number my wife has works reasonably well too.
For everything else (talk, video chat, files, albums, groups, etc. etc. etc) I don't use Skype.
Yeah the portal UI sucks. Anyone seriously using Azure is probably using az-cli, ARM templates, terraform etc.
What is neuroscience doing to art?
Retro-Tinged Game Controllers: BX Foundry’s Handmade Joysticks
If importing rabbits to Australia would have saved 500,000 lives annually, it would have been one of the best health-related things to happen to humanity.

(The eradication of this particular mosquito species is likely harmless, but that does not matter. We should do it even if it isn't)
Why is online shopping inconvenient
That’s a bad idea in itself, but maybe a necessity. It’s a safety hazard to have big or heavy things that can turn into projectiles or blunt forces in a cabin during an accident.
what if you could target specific dna i.e. a specific person?
But dreaming is related to the gut not the brain. What we eat before we go to sleep decides what we dream about. Dream is related to the microbiome. We are conscious of only the dreams just before we wake up. That is, before the conscious mind awakens.
Ice shelves buckle under weight of meltwater lakes
I think you just try to disqualify my valid arguments because you don't want to see what is happening around here.
Pipes Are Fun – Creating Currency Converter App Using Angular Pipes
Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals
They had the goto platform with MSN then they shut it down. Then they had Skype and as much as I try to like Microsoft and not hate on them and say they screwed thing up when it just feels like a meme to say so:

They totally ruined Skype. I dont use it anymore. I think my first issue was skids getting my IP without effort.

On MSN one somewhat similar though not as critical annoyance was locking people out of logging on to their account by brute forcing the login instead of banning the IP from logging on they punished the actual owner of the account.

Back to Skype... Then they ruined sync on Mobile. You login to your phone and it stalls because instead of pulling in as many messages as you can scroll up one pages worth or only the unread ones, they wanted to pull in the whole chat history like a blockchain update which put Skype to its crawl.

Now they have teams and I would love to use that. It looks awesome but its a little late Microsoft. I guess new Microsoft centered shops will use it. Slack and co are rooted into businesses now instead.

Skype was fine before Microsoft sad to say. Dear Microsoft: stop screwing up Skype.
Early demo of new react devtools
We do survive in the middle of the desert though right? We've proved that, whether its tribes in the Sahara or Las Vegas "terraforming" desert, we know we can do that. I don't think that's an unsolved step on the way anymore.
Great idea, but my servers are constantly being "scanned" for the existence of security.txt, fills the logs up quite a bit.
The practise would be legal if the fee was visible before paying with the card, ie you put in the card and then the PoS terminal adjusts the price according to the card type so the cashier can tell you the true final price if it happens.

That isn't supported in any PoS system I know of. Not in Europe atleast.
Am I mistaken or there is no support for bookmarks / table of contents in the pdf reader? This makes reading a lot more difficult.
To stay with your example, they are simply trying to reframe this narrative. People think Africa is a famined shithole that never gets better, and therefore does not warrant investment or even charity. Think toddlers with those big, pathological, bellies.

Yet that view is mostly wrong. Many, possibly most, Africans now live in busy metropolises. Yes, they are polluted and have a garbage problem and corruption may be rampant. But it’s a lot closer to similar cities in SE Asia than to the 50 year old stereotype that people have of Africa.

Saying „Africa is young“, and obviously the details that follow, tries to shift this to a narrative of possibilities.

You can call that propaganda, or marketing, or just clever copywriting. I think it depends on the agenda, but I can’t find fault with their intentions.
Thank you for this article. People should open their eyes and at least read stuff like this to check with their self constructed reality.

Seems some of them live in a dome where you can't see all of this development. Nice for them - I could cry sometimes because it's so unfair.
I remember LinkedIn Answers as having real potential - there was the germ of something a bit StackExchange-esque there. I used to go in and help people out and ended up getting a client or two through this organic kind of networking.

So they killed it.
Opportunity's record-setting mission on Mars appears to have reached its end
ELF OpenGo: An Analysis and Open Reimplementation of AlphaZero
I disagree.

The ideal application:

- uses no memory

- uses no disk space

- is instant

- costs nothing

- and has all the features in the world

- presented in a manner that automatically shows the user only the exact features (s)he cares about

The real-world application, when the developers work for the customer and not for themselves:

- uses almost no memory

- uses almost no disk space

- is extremely fast

- costs next to nothing

- and has almost all the features in the world

- presented in a manner that automatically shows the user only the exact features (s)he cares about
Looking at the GitHub page[0], the last commit was 2 weeks ago, not 2 years ago.

[0] https://github.com/milligram/milligram
It's Bloomberg's libertarianism/anarcho-capitalism agenda pushing.
Love the Aliyun portal UI. By far the simplest and most accessible cloud portal UI when compared to AWS, Azure or GCP.

Digital Ocean UI also awesome if you consider them a player in the field.
Hmm, perhaps you missed this?

https://youtu.be/07-VvcsrUIE

I don’t know what to do about the escalation of rhetoric and action in this country. But let’s not pretend it’s one-sided.
> Why would someone who inherits money not sit home all day and play videogames?

Because it is better to go to the beach during the day and the parties at night!

A more respectable position is to become the president of your family foundation and go to charity dinners and pretend you care for something.

There are plenty of case where someone create a big business, and when he/she dies the children or grandchildren just spend all the money and the business colapses due to stupidity or laziness (or it is sold).
The link between gut health and your weight
I work with a few organisations and small teams that use slack to communicate. They're campaigners, marketing types, logistics, finance, HR, and overall general staff working for businesses and organisations. I was also attending some university lectures recently (on history) and the class had a slack account which we were invited to join if we had any questions or needed support.

You also don't need to focus on Slack. Skype is an electron app. How many people use Skype to connect with their family?
Cloud-based = GDPR trouble.
I have never been a fan of IBM but if you like open stack for dev ops then their BlueBiz service is nice, with a very generous free tier.

I have always favored GCP over AWS but Amazon does win in the customer support offered.

It will be interesting to see if Google invests in non-automated human teams for sales and support.
Europe’s Next Big-Budget Science Projects: Six Teams Proceed to Final Round
> Lowering birth rates are correlated with more education and income.

Attempting to lower a populations's birth rate is a crime according to the Geneva conventions.
Agreed in principle, and clearly there's no binary rule as every book will have its own level of "padding" / laboring the point, but I think the (O)OPs comment about "internalizing" is interesting, and personally I don't think a "tl;dr" of the books above wouldn't have had the same effect on me.
Azure is horribly complex too. There is an involuntary comical course on pluralsight [1] trying to explain all the different types of services and the small subtleties between services that do about the same thing, but not exactly the same. It’s hard not to leave even more confused.

[1] https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/microsoft-azure-...
But views and functions still require you to persist those objects in the database first. There's no such thing as a query "variable" that you can then re-use in multiple subsequent statements. Of course, you can use table variables or temporary tables to hold intermediate data, but those are eagerly evaluated, whereas functions, views and CTE's are lazily evaluated, and that allows for a massive performance boost (due to optimization).

I can see the appeal of such a construct in SQL. The requirement that reusable objects are persisted in the database requires a top-down design approach, and that doesn't really blend well with modern coding practices.
Reducer organization – taking a step further
Back then the built in Web view that apps embedded was built into the OS as was the browser. You remember that Chrome wasn’t the browser for apps back then.

Also, what’s the differences between updating the OS from Apple’s servers and hypothetically updating an app from Apple’s servers. Are you trying to turn a weakness that Google can’t just press a button and allow every single Android worldwide to receive an OS update into a strength?
The biological basis of mental illness
We need a version of Godwin's law for slack.
Maybe you should get out of your ivory castle, look around and show some empathy for your fellow human beings. There's people living on highway on-ramp embankments and Skid Row in LA almost doubled within the past decade. You don't seem to see that there's a lot of people hurting because they're broke from automation and productivity gains, like the rest of the neoliberal inequality denialists.
All evidence is at Twitter. There is no way to verify any hypothesis without access to what Twitter has, including the hypothesis that the most users on Twitter are not bots. But everybody is free to have any opinion based on the interaction they have with Twitter. In my case, for a reason which is completely under the control of Twitter, my username which can be linked with my real identity is presented as suspended, when in fact I deleted my account. I don't longer have any relation with Twitter but they present an account which contains my name as suspended. Legally true, morally repugnant.
No better alternative is going to be found for Bitcoin. Bitcoin's security depends on it being super expensive to attempt to hack. Electricity is perhaps the most in-demand good (aside from food and water) over the globe. Those other systems like PoS do not have the same irreversible commitments as the commitment to exhaust energy. No matter what you do, you aren't going to get the energy back.

Bitcoin miners will force innovation in cheap renewable energy sources because without them, they will be out-competed and will not stay in business for long, because someone else will make the investments. Bitcoin mining will eventually be run on low cost, low maintenance renewable sources. Some of it already is. Real business needs end up producing results. Virtue signalling middle classes who won't put their own money where their mouth is do not.
You can’t seriously be equating the two
A DDG search for "Text search engine python tutorial" find articles like http://aakashjapi.com/fuckin-search-engines-how-do-they-work... .

There's a textbook at https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.... .

These should be enough hints so you can find something closer to what you are looking for.
Working Alone Is Hard (2015)
I don't use them yet, but I'd render shaders. I need to test it if it's worth it since it's probably possible without GPU-s.
Another aspect of SQL that I have come to appreciate is it's underlying philosophy: state what you want at a high level with a strict syntax; in exchange, your backend will make aggressive optimisations for you.

This sort of paradigm really made me understand that writing 'high-level' code and performant code are not mutually exclusive.
Unless your business is in direct competition with other parts of Amazon's service.

It's not that businesses actually fear that Amazon will look at the data they have in AWS, but AWS props up other Amazon businesses, and who wants to help prop up their competitor?
The Ring of Steel
Ask HN: How to check/enforce best practices on infrastructure?
Dear HN,

In my company we use Infrastructure as Code approach to deal with complexity and chaos.

We use pull requests and code reviews to ensure code/resulting infrastructure quality.

However, we would like to go deeper and spend less human time on this.
For conventional programming languages we have lots of linters and other quality control tools that help us a lot, so we don't search for stupid Python or Go errors manually.

But does anybody have any idea if there are similar tools that check common infrastructure (for example: Terraform) "fxckups" like passwords and API keys being put in cleartext form or database server (e.g. RDS) created with "public" access allowed to the whole world?

Currently I can use things like serverspec/inspec to check out infra after deployment and this works pretty well,
but maybe there any tools we could apply BEFORE the deploy the [potentially flawed or broken] infrastructure?

Thank YOU!!!
Android is as much a Google product as Windows is a Microsoft product.

No one would say that if you want a PC that is secure, buy a Microsoft Surface.
Sorry, there are two separate questions here:

A) the use of a technology - a gene drive - we have no full control of in the wild

B) the act of eradication of a species

to help to lower the loss of human life in Malaria affected regions.

Your statement regarding the Australian ecosystem engineering is purely hypothetic. The import of alien lifeforms always had a detrimental effect on ecosystems, and often, as a second order effect, on humans as well.

It scares me how a lot of people think that it is not worth thinking and evaluating the use of a technology. Perhaps it is because they have no experience and knowledge in this particular domain of science?
I honestly thing that you haven't done any real work with LINQ or you are imagining problems that don't exist. The char array is not usable as string or we have to go back to 0 terminated strings like C.
Nice,
I guess next all publicly trading automakers stop releasing car sales number because of car accidents?
Come to the SF Bay Area and drive around the highways or take a long-distance railway ride: there are hundreds to thousands of people living rough. It's like a diffuse favela, and most people don't care and a number of people actively hate people,
and express violence, for them being poor. This is the result of Nixon and Reagan defunding JFK's community-based mental healthcare centers because they couldn't, or didn't want to, relate to people in different circumstances.
It might be competing but it isn't going to win. If there really was a big market for small three wheelers there would already be a lot more of them on the road.

And anyway even in Norway you can buy a used (less than a year old, less than 2k miles on the clock) 2019 Mitsubishi MiEV for 18.5 kUSD (https://www.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=140199983). That's a lot more car and you can have it now.

Edit: just looked at the web site and you can get a new one for about that price: https://www.mitsubishi-motors.no/i-miev/#!section-cc
Of course they can. This is what OS engineers have spent decades thinking about and optimizing. And then stuff like Electron appears and circumvents all those optimizations. Which is the main reason I dislike it.