skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will do, thanks. I'm hoping I can find time to pop by Cooperage in the next month or so. I'll definitely shoot a message over when I do.

I'll check out the Discord server today.

Thanks!
Ask HN: Anyone have resources for becoming a better software dev manager
Does anyone have resources for becoming a better software manager, leader and or just general manager that was their "aha moment"?
Europe does depend on Russia for energy, at least in winter.
It's basically a turd as a story; a lame piece of socialist moralizing with lots of cheap stereotypes. I assume it got made at all because the author was married to Fritz Lang, though she certainly wrote better screenplays before and after this one. It was the design elements of the movie and "special effects" which made it worth remembering.
What YC Learned From Accidentally Letting 15,000 People Join Startup School
It was also standard with glass milk bottles, in the UK at least.
Most “runs fine after 20 years” software is really “security nightmares that people are affraid to touch. Great designs and forward thinking are helpful, but “code and walk away” just isn’t the world we live in.

The new paradigm has to be “plan to evolve with the ecosystem.” There are just too many moving parts to treat software as static.
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IIRC it's the mix that's the problem. Pure newsprint has value, but it takes very little laminated paper or food contamination to make it cheaper to throw it all out than to sort it.
Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator Recognition with Transfer Learning (2018)
Oregon has a beer bottle reuse program. They aim for 40 uses per bottle. Apparently oregon's bottle law is unique because it put the beverage industry in charge of deposits and collection.

https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-craft-beer-refillabl...
This must be a route-dependent thing (e.g. Sandymount routes would have lots of students on them). My routes rarely/ever have trash or liquids on them, hit branches etc.

Again re: seats and engine....these are the same seats and engines used in Germany and England also.

Still, I prefer the trains to buses in Dublin.
http://ruder.io/optimizing-gradient-descent/
Raymond just made up a religion for me. It was not meant by him to be serious. Our perceptions of reality appear to be very different.
It's been proposed, and is being worked on. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/reusable-packagin...

Also, beer bottles.
What do you do when Redis dies on you?
Peat is the first step in forming coal. Peat still forms under the correct conditions, so coal can still be formed.

Conditions might be rarer, but the steps aren't solely reliant on the absence of microbes which now exist.
Show HN: Maximus Adonis – A Fitter You is a text message away
Its not even socialist. At the end, employer and employee are united by Love. I have no idea where to pin that on the political spectrum.
Overview:

On the list of who you should share your cell phone number with, I believe a personal trainer would make the cut, but just barely. There is a gap in the fitness market between X) working out with no knowledge and Y) having a personal trainer with you in the gym. I would like this service to bridge the gap between X->Y.

Maximus Adonis is a “app-less” service that a user interacts with via text message. A user 1) plans a workout 2) works out 3) logs the workout 3) reviews their workout data for insight and repeats the process. Steps 1-3 can be driven by the Maximus Adonis personal trainer.

This Specific Page:

Today I am showing you the workout planner section of the site but I am open to feedback on everything.

The workout planner kicks an email off to the user with an embedded calendar invitation. On a computer, adding the invitation to a calendar works pretty well. From a smart phone, not so much.

As the time of the planned workout gets closer, the user will be sent a workout reminder via text message, which is where I believe the value of the service begins. I think that knowing a human is going to see whether or not you logged your workout will increase your commitment to actually work out.
JavaScript Secrets Vault – Multi-Platform Desktop Application
so is this the equivalent of software as a service?
A fair point. But larger containers would be a good option for those that can.

Instead, I just buy 10x 5L containers when they’re on sale. A big waste of plastic.
Steps to Reduce Your Elasticsearch Costs by 90-99%
could you please comment on how you use Haproxy servers across multiple AWS availability zones ? how do you configre and manage dns for your haproxy etc ? My reason for asking is that I am super cheap and I want to avoid AWS ELB charges.
But there's more to it to desire an own mower:

1. Everybody wants to mow at the same time

2. Community goods are often treated careless, leaving me with a dirty or non-functional mower when it is my turn

3. Who is responsible for repairs
Alex Honnold on rock climbing without ropes
New York City Braces for Changes Congestion Pricing Would Bring
Another issue is that optical scanners read the code on plastics, but the black plastic on things like to-go coffee can’t be read (they absorb the light).

Small changes like “Number 5 plastics cannot be black in colour” would help without any consumer impact.
This is commonly done with bottled water in many European countries. You see stacks of formed plastic holders for the bottles in the back. As bottles get drunk, the empties are placed back into the holders, and the company servicing the restaurant comes frequently and swaps out the empties for full ones. You can tell the bottles are reused a lot because they have pretty substantial wear marks on their sides where they rub against the holders.

And yeah, it'd be great if the same kind of system were extended to more products in the US. It'd be awesome if we could standardize on containers of, e.g., size 50mL, 100mL, 200mL, 500mL, 1 L, both for liquid and solid goods, and just have everything be sold in those. Then you'd just recycle those containers as normal, and instead of being broken down and remade, they'd simply be washed and reused.
In natural gas; https://www.forbes.com/sites/annalisagirardi/2018/12/12/grow...

However there is no strong dependence: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/07/19/how-depe...

tl;dr: 23% of German power comes from gas; that 35% of that gas comes from Russia. That's a power dependency of roughly 8%.

Personally I don't think that's the same as being held entirely captive by a monopoly country as is the case when it comes to IT.

But, it's a fair point, I'll take it. Replacing 8% of a countries energy input would be difficult, but I would argue that it's not impossible.
You mean the Snowden whose supposed presence on a plane of a Southamerican president made US pressure couple European countries to deny him air passage and in effect force him to land, and then made the police of the country he landed in search his plane?

Insane diplomatic incident.

You are right, USA wouldn't kill him if captured. They would only psychologically torture him for years, like they did with Manning.
Did Scandinavia become welfare states because individualists came to the U.S.?
They might also realize they can get the same inputs by creating domestic recycling programs.
Kubernetes and Docker are really great products but indeed if you kill your ego for one second and look at the big picture, sometimes all you need is a tree and you get the whole jungle.
If the plastic is burned in a really high quality incinerator, with a great scrubber stack, it at least isn't putting out lots of pollutants, and can generate power to boot. This might be a better fate than having them end up in a landfill, though of course they are releasing CO2 when you burn them (though I don't know if that's significant at all compared to global CO2 released in manufacturing and transport).
Why Do We Crave Sweets When We're Stressed?
It's a stupid fight to pick. He doesn't have to like the SEC or the law, but they exist, and they exist for a good reason. If he wants Tesla to succeed, he can't ignore or deny that.

And although I love Elon Musk, the SEC is right; he shouldn't be twittering stupid things to temporarily boost his stock price. There's no gain for him in it, it's misleading, and it undermines long term trust in him and his company.
One's search engine of choice might not know that.

The grandparent comment wanted to look for good stalls. I just tried doing a search for pratha on Google Maps, and it yielded results that were less relevant as compared to if one used the more common spelling of prata.
Your data, eventually? If that's OK, some of the time, then Redis might be fine and will be much faster (since not losing data involves much more work).
Interactive Graph - Top 1 percent: What jobs do they have? Explore occupations
On the flip side, it seems Harvard chose poorly who they tenured. Weinstein sympathizers just don't care about the #metoo movement.
I was curious about this, so I went looking.

Here's a HN thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12358177

I want to give Mezzano a shot once I (finally) get through SICP.
What about microcode? I thought the point of this whole computing thing was that we could abstract away the fine details and solve problems on the level they're posed at. Who gives a damn if there's a single atom representing a cons or not?

Lisp is good as a language for humans, and it used to be used in hardware because that was necessary to run lisp code fast. That hasn't been the case for ages.
Sebastian does not disappoint! Thanks!
Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill
Not sure what point you’re making specifically. Could you elaborate?
Show HN: SQL Weekly – Weekly SQL challenges and resources to up your data skills
Polestar unveils its all-electric response to the Tesla Model 3
> In natural gas; https://www.forbes.com/sites/annalisagirardi/2018/12/12/grow....

> However there is no strong dependence: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/07/19/how-depe....

> tl;dr: 23% of German power comes from gas; that 35% of that gas comes from Russia. That's a power dependency of roughly 8%.

> Personally I don't think that's the same as being held entirely captive by a monopoly country as is the case when it comes to IT.

> But, it's a fair point, I'll take it.

Dependence used to be worse, this is result of efforts to lower it because Russia was using it as a blackmail tool.

But I'm just nitpicking anyway, it's not the actual topic.
https://reviewmeta.com/blog/extensions/
> I'll ask you the question I ask them: when the system has a production outage¹, how am I supposed to debug it, effectively?

High-quality testing of your systems, leading to engineers working on generating playbooks that cover the vast majority of production incidents, could be one approach that some might consider. Designing in metrics that aid debuggability could even be possible in some scenarios! Taken together, this can mean engineers get woken up left often for trivial things.

This isn't impossible. It's not even difficult or complex. It is time-consuming, and definitely requires a shift in mindset on the part of engineers.
As a German, I think it's sad that young people are so eager to forget that their own country actually has great dishes that are actually German. Some of my favorite foods are German. Just because not everybody eats like that nowadays doesn't mean it isn't German cuisine or that German cuisine doesn't exist. Looking at that list, there's a lot of German dishes that I love to eat when I get the chance. There's nothing stereotypical about it.
Critics Roast the Army’s Battlefield Nuclear Reactor
Amazon went from my go to reliable source of basically everything that wasn't perishable to not. I used to have packages from Amazon coming weekly and daily and took full advantage of my Prime membership. Now, I can't even remember the last time I bought anything from Amazon. I'm simply afraid I'll get a fake, even if it says ship and sold by Amazon.

I hope Amazon sees this and many similar complaints. I feel the greater population will catch on to this in due time and they could very well fall from their throne. In fact, if they don't, I hope they do.

In the meantime, I'm more than willing to pay more get products directly from the manufactures and stores in person (e.g. Apple, Apple Store, Best Buy, Target, Nike, etc...).

Not sure how this affects their other holdings such as Zappos.
How's this better than kops? https://github.com/kubernetes/kops
What Rising CO2 Means for Global Food Security:
http://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Rising_CO...
It's not bad except that video playback in the browser is not really up to the mark. Wouldn't a Chrome book be a cheaper and better solution for people who need to a general web browsing system?
It is an NIH study which to me implies rigor; including controls.
My main problem with streaming is limited access to older movies, and many streaming services are focusing on shows rather than features length films, so I can't reliably get recent films either with my subscription services. To watch a film, it's essentially pay-per-view for everything, and there's not much of a discount for the incomplete collection of older films that these services have.

I was promised that going digital would mean I have access to everything all the time, but that just hasn't been the case. I still have a decent bluray collection, and I sure hope that Samsung leaving doesn't foretell the the of the format.
Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism
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Id like to see the start of a state owned rideshare network

You mean a bus.
Identities in comment sections have always been fake and anonymous and this is a good thing even if it results in occasional spam reviews

Comments are not the same as reviews.

This is why Amazon, for example, has "verified purchase" status for reviews. Reviews can influence a buying decision and are integrated as part of a platform. Comments can influence a buying decision but they live outside the platform and can always be made anonymously on any other platform.

The issue in this case was someone purchased fraudulent reviews on someone else's platform where the platform's integrity is severely diminished through that fraud.

I support anonymity, as I said I'm in favour of less government interference in markets, but in this case, we need a bigger stick because Amazon and other marketplace platforms don't quite have the technical tools to fight fraudulent reviews.

Also I don't think there's a mention of using real ids?
NuScale's passively cooled mini reactors might be a good fit here. I think toshiba has something as well, but NuScale is home grown. Are there any other small reactor companies in the us?
Tourist crap? This is the kind of food my grandmother made. You've got to be kidding me.
NPM whitepaper on Rust usage [pdf]
China's Jd.com Launches on Google
Thanks for posting this, been following Batygin and Brown's work on this for years. Batygin used to wear a sharks tooth neck around neck. Now I see a video on YouTube with a "trekkie" necklace, cool.
https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/93525292372179353...

That's the exact problem Rancher itself is trying to solve, and it does a pretty fantastic job at it.

Though suggesting its "on par" with CloudFormation suggests that you either know a ton about CloudFormation (anything becomes second nature if you're skilled in it) or you don't know much about either of them. Kubernetes isn't that bad.
My mother’s vegetarian diet contributed to her early death
Vast Data Clustered Flash Storage Bans the Disk from the Datacenter
To take it a bit further, you'd probably want to mark down the checkout suggestion to not only make it look better, but also because you're only suggesting a very limited amount of options, once customers are used to trusting the checkout suggestions for a good deal, you introduce higher-margin and/or promoted products.

More or less the same tactic Amazon used for search results: Return useful/functional results for a few years to train you users to trust what is near the top, then start putting promoted products at or near the top and generally ordering the search by what increases your revenue the most, rather than for any user-oriented goal, AKA "sort by relevance".

Also the same thing Amazon did with prices in general, get people used to thinking you're the market with the best price/deal, etc.
Hackwage: Open-Source RSS Job Aggregator (Django/Node.js/Elastic)
On-Chip Wizardry to Optimize Performance at Scale
Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure (2010) [pdf]
Congrats everyone.

Stories like these are very inspirational.
We call this "Review Hijacking" and have a bit alert that pops up on our report when detected. It's not a bug, it's a loophole that sellers are exploiting. They are taking advantage of the "product variations" feature that's supposed to be used for listing products of different styles together in one listing (size, color, format, etc).

However these sellers are essentially stealing old, expired listings of products and collecting all the reviews associated with them to pump up their rating and review count.

This has been going on for over a year. I really don't understand how Amazon hasn't figured out a way to close the loophole at this point...
The other thing I do, in the hardware realm, is to see what open source and hacker efforts have been done.

If the thing is open and understood, then I will have a much better time. If not, it will probably soon go on the abandoned trash heap.
> For more than five years, scrap and trash has consistently been the US’s biggest export

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/09/china...

And it is likely to be more as trash is often declared as raw plastic, cellulose, aluminium billets, or "electronic components" to evade numerous bans that China been enacting over the last decade.

This is also why American own material statistics by US ITC is likely a better measure (access to ITC data is paid)
Show HN: Haystack, search across your cloud accounts securely
Career Advice Everyone Needs to Hear
To this end: 18F[0] make extensive use of open-source technology and open-source their contributions, while making heavy use of open-source technology[1][2].

[0]: https://18f.gsa.gov/
[1]: https://18f.gsa.gov/open-source-policy/
[2]: https://github.com/18F
About the same CO2 impact as manufacturing them.

The problem is burning it clean. To do that you have to run a very hot furnace, near gasification temperatures.

Otherwise, you will be releasing cracked chlorine, sulphate, partial urethane chains and other hydrocarbons into air. They're invisible but noxious and sometimes stinky.

Electroscrubbers have limitations and high energy cost too.
Not the OP, but this is straightforward: the market fails to price externalities. Costs are distorted and borne by others. You can regulate it, but if you have sufficient control to price in all externalities and then do so, you are not talking about a 'free market' anymore.

And what is the role of democracy in regulating global public goods? How are you going to vote on environmental protections on other continents?
Beta Invite-Only test program of the certificate management tool
Public roads are supposed to be paid for through fuel taxes, which every Uber and Lyft driver pays

Do Uber and Lyft pay those drivers' fuel costs?
Software renderer with colored lights, transparent water and particles
Steven Squyres geeking out about Caesar mission: Sample retun from comet 67P
We Need Chrome No More
I can neither confirm nor deny
> "So its...a hash table?"

The answer is, yes, exactly!. Only, it's a hash table that can be shared across all of the different processes on the server. So if you have e.g. two different web requests that want to update some value, then that's how you do that. The other main alternative is a regular database, but that's much heavier and isn't really built in terms of "data structures".

(Redis isn't just a hash table - it's a list, a set, a queue, etc, in other words, all the standard library of a programming language, only in a way that can be shared across all the processes.)
I probably wouldn't pass the interviews at most of these places :-P

But if they pay me (well the consulting company I work for) enough I might fly in to hold some session along the lines of

- don't annoy power users for no good reason (a certain ad delivery company with an attached search engine might be interested in this)

- how to please all your customers at once - the forgotten art of making your software configurable. Bonus session: sensible defaults (audience: every modern software company)

- your customers might not be as smart as you but most of them aren't braindead - and other notes from the field (same audience)

- continue to be the best - by not nerfing your almost-perfect product (same audience)

- not storing data you don't need to serve your users [0] - a practical guide to not getting fined by EU while also getting rid of dumb disclaimers that won't help you anyway when regulators get fed up (audience: everyone who has a GDPR popup with default opt in to one or more likely more than 100 different trackers)

- why customers who have already bought a dishwasher won't buy a new one however much you advertise for them the rest of the month (and other great secrets from marketing 101). (Audience: most adtech companies and ad buyers)

- the long-term benefits of serving ads that actually provides value - or why you'd want to sell some ads to other companies than scammy dating sites even if they are currently the easiest ones to fleece by showing expensive ads to customers who aren't interested at all. (Ad-tech companies, and that big one with the attached search engine in particular.)

Master class:

- 1/3 Living in a global world: Europeans are also on the Internet and knows when movie and series releases are + other shocking truths.

- 2/3 increasing digital sales by putting the content up for sale - how to increase sales and customer happines all while reducing piracy just buy removing stupid geo limiting

- 3/3 the synergistic effects of making your content available to customers who wants to pay for it while it is still hot

[0]: Deliberately talking about users, not customers here to avoid the ever-helpful response of "if you are not paying you are not the customer, you are the product". And BTW, I agree, it just isn't always helpful.
Nobody wants to drag a lawnmower from the other side of the neighborhood every time they want to mow their lawn.

And over the long run, sharing lawnmowers wouldn't even reduce total lawnmower production. The shared lawnmowers would run more hours per week and need replacement sooner.
Not only that, but the last lawn mower I bought (with my first house) lasted me 20 years. Whereas I'm sure a lawn mower that is used 15 times a week wouldn't last much more than a season or two.

Off topic, but when I bought a new mower last year, I couldn't believe how far the technology has come. No more primer bulb, starts easily on the first pull, and a few other items I don't recall off the top of my head. Same with cars, for example if you get out of it while it is still in gear it automatically puts itself in park, and it can limp home with loss of coolant (it fires every other cylinder pushing air through the others for cooling).
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Linear is more predictable and easier to manage, mentally, so I don't think that will change any time soon.
it's not really datamining, it's more like subjective opinion recording.
kubes
Someone was quoting 40000 but I don't know the source. A 9% vacancy rate indeed sound very high, especially for a hot market... wait does "state" here mean the entire country? So that may include a lot of dying villages where nobody wants to live? Would be interesting to see accurate numbers of Dublin.
That was hilarious. Thanks
Plastic foil, much more biodegradable and probably compostable to boot, unlike PET.
Will this technology slowly replace external crystals for generic microcontrollers? Or just for high-accuracy applications.