skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another media celebrity espousing left-side views. I'm just tired of it at this point. I'm not thin-skinned, I just want some jokes that poke fun at both sides. I don't want a one-sided barrage from talk show hosts to award shows.

Really, if the playing field were level, wouldn't there be more jokes about foibles of the left? The nation is about 50/50, shouldn't the media be about the same?

I think in the decades ahead this will be seen as a golden age of propaganda.
Yeah, good idea. Let's not have armies. I'm sure the people whose ideology or religion we'd rather not be forced to adhere to will do entirely the same thing.
I took it a bit differently actually.

No one wants to put in the work to knit together a shared reality anymore. Why put in the effort when the incentives reward blatant trek and lies as much as it does telling the truth.

At one point in time, we put a much greater emphasis on integrity and telling the truth. In the last century, it seems like that precedent after precedent for not telling the truth, or spinning it into a form where it's just short of a lie. Tobacco, finance, pharma, big chem, big tech, our legal system, and even our government bakes in lying by omission into the basic gameplay loop.

Where's the incentive to be an honest person when the only ones who seem to be getting anywhere are the one's who lie the most?

I think the Internet has just made the problem so much more visible due to the ease of spreading information. At the end of the day though, to the gatekeeper of the status of "truth" goes the spoils of the war for the minds of the people.
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Another economic tailwind that can sometimes add perspective is the technological one. Factories, ships, agricultural equipment, materials... chemistry, biology, etc. The long trend of improvement over long time periods.

There's a lot of emphasis, when we think about economies, on economic systems (fractal reserve banking, limited liability companies, etc.) and political ones. Those are relevant, but... technology is a primary mover in all this, not just an effect of the political-economic cause.
Helpful analysis. Thanks. I was planning to do something like this soon. I’m interested in the performance difference between the same docker image running on fargate vs ECS with a c5.large EC2 backing instance. My initial tests ( a few months ago before they started using firecracker for fargate) have showed at least a 200% performance increase. I also noticed fargate performance really depends on the processor AWS allocates to the fargate task. And the processor is not always the same between identical tasks. Would be worth checking if there are significant differences between fargate with different underlying CPU types.
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From personal conversations with tech folk who don’t work at Facebook, I’d say it’s about the money. Most people say they don’t want to work there, but if the money was fuck-you good, they wouldn’t say no
But do you think it's reasonable for him to stop the language from progressing because he makes stupid mistakes like these?
My point is to stop holding your breath that Zuck is going to be the one to do anything for you. Do you think that's any less true if you don't even use his service?
The Lifespans of Ancient Civilizations
Chance for ARM? How can you say that with a straight face when ARM is the undisputed winner in the greatest market of all.
PyCharm would highlight the expression after : as a type that was not imported correctly (or an expression that is not a type).

I would assume mypy would cause an error.
To be fair, though, this behaviour (namely, staying close to machine arithmetic) has been discussed and decided upon, and advertised. It's what enables the speed.

C/C++ makes the same choices, by and large.
I came to the comment section to make this comment. I was surprised to find out that all skin is orange hue, even dark skinned people. This is one of the tricks of face detection algorithms, and it’s fun to take pictures of people and then extract the hue channel to see this in action. You can do it in any photo editing app by converting to HSV color space and then setting the S & V channels to 1.
So what you are saying is the intellectual minority is leveraging the tools of communication in a good way...

While the rest of society heads off the cliff ? ( see : internet challenges )
>But the military has said it continued to use firefighting foams containing the compounds because companies have continued to produce them and the E.P.A. doesn’t regulate them.

Isn't the point of capitalism that if 'x' company isn't doing 'y', you can take your dollars to company 'zed' and drive the market to the desired result[s]?

They make it sound like no one in the history of ever has produced a firefighting foam without those chemicals. Erring on the side of caution (e.g.: if that were truly the case), couldn't they have used their research arms (e.g.: DARPA) to come-up with an alernative, on their own? After all, it's been 28 years since the Army Corps of Engineers sent the warning out, according to the article, yeah?

I find the thought incredulous, at best, that they had no alternative but to keep using the same foams.
Elon Musk Explains Starship’s ‘Transpiring’ Steel Heat Shield in Q&A
Developer Job Description Red Flags
It’s really hard as a Facebook employee to engage in those topics. The probability of your comment to hit the front page of the New York times is very high. There are a lot of pending litigation so you’re also likely to be involved in those, which is the last thing you want as an engineer.
>One request I didn’t see: money formatting.

Probably for a good reason. Formatting currency should be handled by the i18n system, because that's what it is.

Take one thousand dollars in US currency, it can be displayed as:

$1,000.00

$10,00.00

$1.000,00

$1,000.00 USD

1,000.00 $

$ 1 000,00

and more. And that's not even counting negative numbers which can change their display format based on the industry it's used in, let alone the language.

Then add in other currencies in different locales, often the currency symbol is after the currency, some locales use different spacing, some don't have a decimal to their currency in common usage, some use the same symbol for different currencies ($ could mean USD or CAD or more and in some cases that can be a big mistake) and a LOT more edge cases.
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Some guy took off his clothes and started wandering around the outside grounds
Exactly. Most of the "shortcuts" are anything but. If the input/form is messing with user input (as opposed to the formatting of user input), it's doing it wrong.
It's a good library -- I've used it multiple times.

However, I'm curious why its trending at the top of Hacker News. It's been around since 2016.
I read an article (a month or so back) saying that Austin's great quirkiness was a fluke, of an economic downturn creating a transitory surplus of very cheap housing.
I live in SF. Of course all the well-known problems exist and are troubling. I’m sure there are places I would enjoy living more. It still doesn’t mean that I would uproot and move at a moment’s notice because we company decided to move. Nearly all my friends are here. I have hobbies and routines. I have an apartment with furniture. I don’t understand why people seem to think that moving is such a trivial decision. And I don’t even have a family.
India proposes new e-commerce regulations with focus on data rules
Working/bootstrapping my company when I'm not working at my day job
Ask HN: How Do You Increase Your Output and Mental Stamina?
I work 9-5 and code well in my pre-lunch hours. Most afternoons feel like a waste, I get stuck in procrastination or go down lower priority rabbit holes. My mind often feels more easily distracted and less capable of handling challenging coding issues. This leads to less deliverables and a subsequent feeling of guilt and shame.

Any ideas or methods that work for you?
Not sure your moment of clarity deserve massive praise, but surely it doesn't deserve downvotes. Kudos for sharing.
Where's that map of outmigration by demographic?
I am affected by the Camp LeJeune water issue. I have cancer because of it. I am on my appeal process with the VA over it. It sucks and it's still going to be a long fight.
I prefer "spimes", thank you
I understand the point you're making: CEOs can't be easily shown to be 10x at their jobs the same way that athletes can be.

But then you're expecting all CEO's to be 10x and are making a hypothesis that many are probably not. Maybe.

Look at it from the point of the Board. They don't care about the details. They just want to appoint people who will handle it. They don't have the time to supervise every company they're the board members of (possibly a problem of corporate governance to be sure).

So CEO's tend to be the folks who:
1. Get things done and
2. Accept responsibility

As long as they execute on these goals, the Board doesn't care. In fact, they will pay the CEO more if they take such good care of the company that they don't need to be involved at all.
> Turn off your phone for a day without telling anyone and see how people react.

From my personal experience, they react just fine. Probably wouldn't even notice. Why, how would the people who call you react?
Numbers drive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
Sleep. Exercise. Go out.
Something like Dhall you mean? https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang
Agreed, that's my experience as well. Julia is amazing for scripts and smaller projects, but I wish there was something like Swift (which I'm increasingly convinced is closest to the ultimate general-purpose language) with all the nice things that Julia has.

Specifically, these things make Julia less suitable for larger projects:

- Lack of support for OOP. And no, purely functional programming is not the best way to code all projects.

- Dynamic typing.

- Doesn't compile to native code (there are ways to do it, but too complicated and there are caveats).

- Module system doesn't seem to be design well.

- You can't use a function before it's defined.
Sleep and cook.
Well, yes, but union square is pretty much the center of the public health crisis in San Francisco.
I've found this bookmarklet to work pretty well on most website:

https://lnikki.la/articles/night-mode-css-filter/

I added it as a toggle-able script for TamperMonkey so I don't have to click on the bookmarklet on every page, and changed the 'invert(1)' bit to invert(.9) so it's not full black.
The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage
I'm not sure we actually disagree on many points. We do disagree on some points. For example, what you view as an abusive relationship, I think is more simply a completely different worldview as to what are considered acceptable norms in society. But it's easy for you to look at the relationship and think it's abusive because of your foundational worldview about what is normal and what is OK, especially considering the likely difference between power distance index values between yourself and Chinese culture.

edit: This reminds me of a business case about cross-cultural work I had to learn for my MBA. It is amazing how much a real-life company failed in China only simply because lack of cultural understanding led to immense distrust between the two parties, even though both parties really actually wanted to work with each other. But their cultural ignorance could only lead them to both believe that they couldn't trust each other, as they were completely misunderstanding each other's messages and signals. I can see that happening in general when analyzing another person's society. The point of the case was that cultural misunderstanding tends to lead to negative assumptions, rather than benefit of the doubt. :endedit

I am definitely mostly saying that I've learned that the world has a lot more nuance than I realized when I was younger, and that we'd all do well if we realized that. It allows for better dialogue among people, especially with those who are different from us. For example, I imagine if Americans can figure that out, the American government and society will be much stronger; instead, there just seems to be an insane amount of partisanship that makes things worse, and no way to cross the aisle and bridge the gap.

I will say that despite all the issues I have with the Chinese government, I will not say that "authoritarian governments are bad" full stop. I used to think like that. I don't anymore after realizing how the world is not so black and white. If we demonize a third party, it is easier to not understand the third party. The people responsible for deradicalizing ISIS converts that ran away from Europe are able to understand deeper root causes. They don't just hate people for joining ISIS, nor do they just simply hate ISIS. They are able to understand the other side, and it is because of their expansive knowledge and empathy that they are able to communicate with such people.

As Ender Wiggin once said: "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

Martin Jacques is an excellent scholar who I think understands China really, really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhUmLtlZpw
I've seen this photo many times and have always wondered about the fate of the person in the picture considering how dangerous the elephant's foot is always said to be. It's good to hear that he's still alive and sounds healthy.
That Iancu would travel to the Eastern District of Texas to deliver that speech amounts to trolling of a different variety.
Basically taking care of whatever can't be done through the week. There is also a need to relax, should your job be demanding, but if you have an idea in mind, it's important to spend some time to do some research on it and bootstrap it.
My wife asked for (and got) a KitchenAid mixer as a wedding gift.

21 years later, it's still good as new and gets regular use. Incredible machine.
Just want to shoutout bulma and buefy as a user. I used bulma for a side project and had to write very little custom css. Best feature for me for bulma is that you can just override the colors with sass variables. Not as fully featured with things as other frameworks (bootstrap), but covers a ton of use cases.
Looks nice. I was thinking I may have to learn TikZ to make professional looking diagrams, but this may do the trick.
> Most network file systems are either a layer over an existing filesystem (NFS, CIFS), or are developed from scratch to have separate, replicated, purpose-designed databases for metadata and object store (GFS, Glusterfs). At the same time, most database engines provide (or can be coerced into providing) replication and all the ACID properties needed for a high-performance filesystem.

Idea: Use a database engine (Postgres, MariaDB) on raw partitions with a fast separate nVME log file; build POSIX file system semantics on top. It's pretty obvious that this could work; I'm just starting to implement it so performance and durability can be measured.

source: https://2019.linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/212/
I think NeedMoreTea is pointing to the practice of looking at the numbers and optimizing as much profit as we can out of them, which tends to remove or not account for the human element. It's easy to do a quick glance of the balance sheet and see that the money and hours spent on gardening are a drain on the family budget. A similar thing can happen for government budgets. After all, you don't need flowers to survive, nor do you need many government programs to maintain a country.
>Facebook, which charged 30% service fees on the transactions, revealed in the internal email, “that an overwhelming majority of Apps using Facebook Payments to solicit funds are likely fraudulent.”

No surprise here, again. Facebook launches a feature that allows criminal behavior, reaps the profits, and only tries to roll it back after they are under intense scrutiny.

There is an easy way to fix these repeated problems: Hire people who care about ethics. Of course, the fact that they don't shows that they are only looking for a rubber stamp.

What kind of "privacy" team do they have that approved all the garbage listed here?
Although I read the module documentation I did indeed miss that, I was learning mostly from the Julia tutorial notebooks and am definitely a Julia noob. Julia's `using`, `import`, and `include` does seem like it could have a better design. In Rust or Python for example anyone could tell the difference without looking at the docs. I assume `using` was kept for backwards compatibility?

I'll need to take another look at the code I was working on. I was planning on doing so after a break anyway.
Reading Hacker News, of course!
A Story How We're Monitoring a VPS with Grafana, Elastic and Hastic
> First, I ran a small sample of 2000 requests to check the performance of new deploys. This was running at around 40 requests per second.

...

> When I ran my initial Fargate warmup, I got the following results. Around 10% of my requests were failing altogether!

....

> To remedy this, I decided to bump the specs on my deployments.

> The general goal for this bakeoff is to get a best-case outcome for each of these architectures, rather than an apples-to-apples comparison of cost vs performance.

> For Fargate, this meant deploying 50 instances of my container with pretty beefy settings — 8 GB of memory and 4 full CPU units per container instance.
Snake Game Using Real Time Speech Recognition
What are you hoping to find out with this question? So called “productive” people do as wide a variety of things on the weekend as everyone else. Some people are productive in 30 hours per week, and some people are productive because they work 80 hours per week. Some people make furniture, some relax to Netflix, some read academic papers, and some get extra sleep. Since we’re on HN, many startup founders spend their weekends working.
Same here. This is by far the most badass selfie ever. Good to here he seems to be ok.
The release of the Glock 22 predates the release of the Glock 20, but going by their naming convention the Glock 20 was patented first. It's possible they modified the 20 but I believe it was the 17, I would have to check the book where I read it (Glock: The Rise of America's Gun).
I hate this idea. Why does every credit form out there have to invent new ways to "format" credit card numbers and do fancy stuff behind my back? I have to learn how every form works, because cursor keys, delete, and punctuation no longer behave like everywhere else.

Invest all the effort into reliable, flexible and intelligent parsing of whatever the user types in. Even in 2019 I find web forms (banks excel at this) which complain about "invalid" characters instead of ignoring them.

Incidentally, this idea of "let's improve the standard user interface to make it easier for ORDINARY PEOPLE" is not limited to web forms. Browser URL fields are a playground for programmer creativity and I'm regularly baffled by their behavior: autoselecting the entire input, suggestions completing what I typed even though I never asked for it, and similar ideas.
At This Fast Food Drive-Thru the Person Taking Your Order Isn't a Person at All
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Favorite Literature Books (2018)
I agree with you in the general sense. However, the credit card entry is nice. It doesn't change what you'r typing, it just adds extra information (spacing, which card type). Trying to type in credit card info w/o the spacing is really annoying.
No, I'm talking about an unpopular dictator simply resigning (because he is unpopular) and appointing his replacement! Highly efficient.
Countries with More Butter Have Happier Citizens
The real genius to Berkshire success is how Buffet has structured his business.

Their success is not just a sequence of good investments. They make sound investments but sometimes they fail and they may cling to them too long (IBM, textiles). Heinz may turn out to be bad investment when it seems that consumer tastes are changing. I'm not sure about Wells Fargo either.

Berkshire insurance and reinsurance business is producing of steady flow of cash and float they need to invest. It's the cheap money they have available at all times that is the secret sauce. The result is profitable investment opportunities without the middlemen.

TL;DR: Other companies go to Goldman Sachs to finance their investments. Goldman Sachs goes to Berkshire Hathaway to fiance their business.
I don't think of it as a selfie... It looks more like he wanted to take a photograph of the "elephant's foot", and considering that the only available light was his flashlight, had to do a long take while he trained the flashlight onto various parts of the piece, trying to illuminate it evenly. If he'd wanted to pose next to it and be recognizable, he would have shone the light onto his face while standing still for a few seconds too
Chores.
It kind of does since the book is about inaccessibility, with information literally being destroyed. If the information isn't available, how would you use it in the first place?
True Women Liberation Cannot Coexist with Organized Religion
Not a employee, and I like my data to be safe and not exploited as much as anyone. But, let me try to take a swing at this.

First, obviously there is the money factor, you may choose to ignore it but it is a big factor for many.

Second, the tech is truly state of the art and it is good experience/skill to have/pickup.

Third, I'd say almost everyone passing judgement about people taking up such jobs also judge having such jobs on your resume as a positive. That drives one's value as a candidate up even post such a job.
If people care so much why don't they provide an incentive, would you hire someone who turned down such a job compared to someone who gained experience in such a job? No one ever asked me - so which jobs offers did you discard and why, during any interview.

Fourth, almost every big company has its scandals, now how does one decide which ideal is worth giving up job offer for, is big financial ok? is big pharma ok? is big tech ok? is big anything ok? is working on open source in such a big something ok, say open source software others use at their jobs? is a start up using questionable practices to get to the next level ok? define what's ok according to you, and why do you expect that would be the same for everyone else.
Well, unless you're hacking on kernel code, making your production environment exactly as your development one is trivial. Just develop remotely. This isn't a part of Linus's calculus because, for him, developing remotely is unthinkable.
Okay, it makes sense to say we should prevent overfishing. That doesn’t mean it makes any sense to pay fishermen for the fish they don’t catch. That’s a gibberish sentence. Why should a professional fisherman get paid for the fish he doesn’t catch? Shouldn’t I also get paid for all the fish I don’t catch (which is every fish that has ever existed)? And who is doing the paying?
Germany censors Nazis now, though. What lesson do we take from that?
I am going for a hike along the coast on a beautiful spring day with my wife.
The net upside is too small to be used as statement that explains the US economy or debt.