skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, mostly useless. As I stated, and I'm sure you'd probably concur, most companies and governments don't go listing their tech stacks (especially critical tech stacks) for the world to see. That in itself can be a big security issue. For instance, AWS isn't allowed to mention, list or use the name of one of the companies I do work for.

I take it you don't use the bank listed. That's fine. Does your bank do transactions with them? Other banks? Other institutions/stores? Do you use NASDAQ? Do others? Since everything is so interconnected, it doesn't take much for one of those services to immediately or eventually affect a bunch of others. It might be relatively trivial if AWS goes down for a few hours, but what about a longer duration and the avalanche effect? Is that impossible?

You also changed the goalpost a bit from "worry me more than being unable to get a Lyft," which is the comment I responded to, to "safety-critical infrastructure." I can't give examples of that because no one in their right mind would list that anywhere.
Also consider influencewatch.org's biases

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/influence-watch/
Are you looking for more devops/infra related roles then?
It's not just 2mg/day; it's 2mg/day/kg of body weight.

So a woman who weighs 110lbs (50kg) would have to drink 50 times that, or 5000 pints in one day to pass the EPA limit.

Obviously most people won't drink that in a year, and this article is fairly useless for limiting itself to the easy-clicks topic of booze versus industrial agriculture chemicals. What I think would be interesting is to look at, across an average diet, what one's total daily glyphosate exposure might be, against any relevant clinical information, but that's more of a research paper than a piece of blog content.
> I could see an Amazon/Walmart/etc store where you reserve the shelf space for presentation, but the goods are actually stored on higher floors and delivered to the customer upon checkout?

let's you decouple storage location from presentation location. i assume the grocery store knows what items are most frequently purchased together, and ensures they're as far apart as possible in presentation-space. but in this model they could then keep them nearby in storage-space, making it easier for them to load your bag up.

(also the instant you walk in, they can probably figure out the things you're most likely to get, and move them to some staging area to go in your bag as soon as you scan it.)
Glad to see the team really embrace the nitty-gritty of keeping the open-source community healthy. React Native is a project with a lot of potential that's taken a few high-profile lumps this past year. Being an OSS maintainer can be difficult and thankless sometimes, but it's good to see teams that recommit to open source instead of withdrawing and focusing solely on internal needs.
The writer seems to be confusing 2008 for 1998. I remember middle school from 2008 onwards. Almost all teenagers were online by then (on MySpace, then Facebook). Nothing prevented your father from checking emails on his Blackberry at the breakfast table, your sister from texting on her cellphone or playing games on her iPod.

Teachers had to ban cellphones in classrooms back then due the teenagers texting or playing mobile games, and there were PSAs about being driven to suicide by cyberbullying. By 2009 you could already obsess over Facebook likes - before then, you could measure your popularity by the number of friends you had versus how many your own friends had - and embarrassing photos could easily end up shared online or circulating among the other students.

It may not have been as extreme as today, but an embarrassing video of yourself could just as easily end up going viral online and leading to social ridicule - see the Star Wars kid.
I'm curious about this, having recently joined a company where I feel completely out of place. I like the work, but I hate the work environment and I'm not really gelling with my coworkers.

I'm not sure how you can assess team dynamics before committing to the job. Unless you sign on as a contractor, you're taking a big risk signing up.
They appear to have a strong focus on what customers actually want, hire bright people to figure out how to build it, are willing to gamble on some of it even if boss disagrees, make sure they keep whatever they build lean + scalable, use that to be profitable at scale on low margins, and tie stuff together as much as they can for higher satisfaction of customers and cross-selling them.

I'm not an Amazon guy or customer. Just guessing from what I read. I am pretty sure that lots of big businesses going cheap on or ignoring workers' advice, investing in expensive or inflexible systems, and pretending to listen to their customers contributes to their loss of market share to both startups with high customer focus + flexibility and pivoting behemoths like Amazon that emulate that.
If you are privacy paranoid an iPhone is the only phone I would trust these days.

You can disable essentially all data collection, the hardware encryption on the device is the only one I trust, their business model so far does not revolve around you being the product but rather a consumer and you get years of guaranteed security updates.
It's certainly a lot easier and faster to walk around a crowded grocery store without a cart than with one.

No idea why you are conflating the desire to push a shopping cars with the ability to cook food..
Native Finnish speaker here. Those are not postpositions but rather declension suffixes to the same stem word (koira, dog). It's still one word, and you discern it as such in speech. Though in speech, if the combination of suffixes you are using is particularly complex or unusual, you might need to make extra effort to speak particularly clearly to ensure intelligibility.

In English, you say "together with my dogs", in Finnish you could say "koirieni kanssa" (with-my-dogs together), or cram it all to "koirineni" (with-my-together-dogs), but you would pronounce the latter word clearly to ensure understanding as the -n- suffix in this context is uncommon in modern spoken Finnish.

Using a similar suffix method as Finnish uses to build declension, we could in English build from stem dog -> dogish (i.e. dog-like) -> dogishness (i.e. quality of being dog-like) -> dogishnessism ("ideology advocating the qualities of being dog-like"). It's clearly one word, but it might be hard to imagine a real everyday context to use it in.

Finnish is hard but not impossible. One great thing is the orthography is practically perfectly regular - something which English gets horribly wrong.
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Show HN: Yes or No – Unpopular Opinion App
Hey HN,

I managed to put together a little side project in 3 months and it's sitting at #34 in Trivia in the U.S. app store so I'm a bit chuffed with myself today.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yes-or-no-choice-based-game/...

Yes or No is an app where you can post a question/statement/opinion and people either vote Yes or No. Once you vote you see what percentage of the world agreed with you.

It originally was intended to be simple questions like "Putting the milk in before the cereal - yes or no?" but the best content that was posted are actually unpopular opinions "Americans should have to pass an intelligence test to vote - Yes or No?". The intention is not to offend but simply to be entertained/surprised by the results.

There's other apps like this already but the content is pretty awful and I found their UX to be terrible with some pretty unethical advertisement walls, so I wanted the opportunity to build something better.

In terms of technology I built the app with React Native and the back end is Firebase / Firestore (which I can't recommend enough for bootstrapping).

In terms on monetisation, I have only really stuck in banner ads every 10 posts. It won't make me rich in it's current form but I just want to focus on retention, building an awesome user base and using that for cross-promotion for future apps.
I think your mostly right. Finnish language has prepositions like "below", "over", "above" but lot of prepositions just happen by conjucating the word. Also prepositions appear in few different ways based on the sound of the word, so "(to) dog" is "koira(lle)" but "(to) home" is "koti(in)".

It gets more complicated when you start mixing other attributes like ownership, so "(our) dogs" becomes "koira(mme)", then you can combine both of them saying "to our dogs", so it becomes "koir(illemme)". Then you can add in time references, conditionals, a question and you get lot of those others forms, like "koirammeko" which translates to "our dogs?"
And when does the definition of intelligence stabilize?
It's funny how people in this thread start to debate what is a word..

Maybe we should just laugh and move on :)
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Define large scale...
> So in JOE's matcher, when simulating the NFA with the multithreaded machine, each succeeding thread will correspond to one of the sub-match possibilities. Augment this machine to keep the ones you want (the ones with the longest matching strings starting from the left usually).

Yeah, this is the standard way to do it. It's what I meant by "fall back to a slower engine," since simulating the NFA is much slower than a DFA.
if your standard is not "quality", then you don't need to do quality assurance. ;-)
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It seems like someone who finds grocery shopping an insufferable hassle is going to feel the same way about spending an hour or two cooking dinner.

Maybe it's true, and carts are a great burden on many people. I've just not seen it myself, so I'm a bit flabbergasted. Especially since children can ride in carts.
The field of automatic machine learning (abbreviated as AutoML) concerns all endeavours to automate the process of machine learning. To provide a sense of what could constitute AutoML, let me post a list from the "Call for Papers" of the International Workshop on Automatic Machine Learning (ICML 2018) [1]:

* Model selection, hyper-parameter optimization, and model search
* Neural architecture search
* Meta learning and transfer learning
* Automatic feature extraction / construction
* Demonstrations (demos) of working AutoML systems
* Automatic generation of workflows / workflow reuse
* Automatic problem "ingestion" (from raw data and miscellaneous formats)
* Automatic feature transformation to match algorithm requirements
* Automatic detection and handling of skewed data and/or missing values
* Automatic acquisition of new data (active learning, experimental design)
* Automatic report writing (providing insight on automatic data analysis)
* Automatic selection of evaluation metrics / validation procedures
* Automatic selection of algorithms under time/space/power constraints
* Automatic prediction post-processing and calibration
* Automatic leakage detection
* Automatic inference and differentiation
* User interfaces and human-in-the-loop approaches for AutoML

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I feel the same. I’ve had stronger urges to buy a car I rented than one I test drive for 10 minutes. You just never get the same level of familiarity, the little quirks and knowing how your body feels after an extended multi-day drive if you simply test drive at dealer. I like to have my cars for a week at the minimum before I can confidently form a strong opinion in regards to purchase.
true, true.
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It doesn't apply to Sydney for sure.

I make $50k-100k AUD less in Sydney compared to Bay Area, with all the same HCOL problems.

A very, very good new grad total comp figure in Sydney is say, $150k AUD. That's $106K in USD, which is less than the salary for a new grad at Google or Facebook in the Bay Area. Throw in RSUs, signing bonus, and performance bonuses, and a new grad is making $50-100k AUD more.
It's simple, you ask them who they are. The ones that are not based out of the US you cannot collect from.

I got a call from Florida. Picked it up. Pretended to be interested. They coughed it up 45 minutes into the call after pretending to want to check their BBB page. I hate to give away all the info from the Ebook. Everyone is skeptical. Myself included. I paid him the money because he put forth the effort to put the information together, and he's my friend, I trust him. It's paid off, clearly.
Ah! Thank you. I already knew of PIRG via Ralph Nader, but you're correct. Influencewatch definitely leans right which is unfortunate if they want to appear neutral.
If the number of holes tells you more about the reactivity and properties of the element than the number of electrons in the outermost shell, then they should be arranged that way. AFAIK there is no theoretical mandate that the periodic table should be the way that it is, so just organize it in the way that makes sense while also providing maximum utility.
Is it legal to take humiliating films of children in private settings and publish those films globally without the consent of any of the parties? Or would the person posting, and the company distributing the film be liable for criminal acts?

Perhaps this could be solved with a series of criminal and civil prosecutions.
you forgot "instant checkout"
I can't help but wonder if there's not another side to this coin.

Just as gangs run prisons to effects both bad and good, I wonder if the new norms these young cyborgs (can't live without the technology that's glued to them) don't have a silver lining about them.

Parents have a window into their kids' social circles that they didn't use to have.

The four big bullies who'd corner the skinny kid in the alley and pummel him can instantly be repelled by a 4 ounce piece of plastic. Not repelled, deterred.

This brave new world has terrors aplenty and perhaps it's not a net positive that every teenager comes preinstalled with a battery of apps. But maybe it could be a net positive and we haven't realized it.
I don't know what you think I could be conflating. the original post was that inflation is not as much of a risk as it use to be due to technology. ("Inflation is less of a risk now because of technology + globalization")

if monetary policy is implemented by a magic 8 ball, that remains true.
> Pretending that "the old days" weren't full of kids doing whatever it took to hit the dopamine joy-buzzer is stupid.

They were, but now we have a device which can massively amplify shame. Worse, evidence of bad, stupid, or shameful behavior is archived forever for later judgement by people in your professional and personal life. This is not mentioned by the article but it should have been. People do dumb and embarrassing things when they are young (childhood up through college), and they used to have the ability to leave their past behind them when they became adults. Now that privilege has been taken away from them and they have to police their behavior and speech or some asshole might post it without their consent on Instagram. I am so glad camera phones were garbage when I was a kid and that social media was in its infancy when I was in college.
Try scrolling through the article and then using the back button.
Or, more likely, in the beginning AWS is what their developers knew and were familiar with, and then as time went on it was easy and convenient to just spin up "one more instance".

Fast forward to today, and now it would be a serious undertaking with serious risks to move off AWS, not to mention the costs of building up the staff and assets to reimplement their requirements in parallel of AWS until reasonably confident they can flip the switch and still have an operating company afterward.

So, they're probably stuck - beholden to Amazon's whims and pricing mood of the day. They've bought convenience from Amazon in trade for massive technical debt, one which may be even more costly to get out of... Or impossible.

AWS isn't going to get any cheaper in the future..

Those free AWS credits Amazon gives students really pay dividends.
I knew Zulip already, and while reading the blog post I was thinking, Zulip needs a way to publish topics in a web format (web archive) I was surprised to see many comments about this in this HN discussion and getting to know it is already in Zulip roadmap.

I will definitely try to help develop such feature as it might be the killer feature for me to use it as a daily driver.
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Ask HN: Is open-sourcing your SaaS a good idea?
So I have an idea I've been building into a SaaS for a while. Without going into specifics the idea is about collecting data from governmental health-related resources, augmenting the data (eg identifying user-provided locations through Google Maps), joining across different data-sources, canonicalising etc, and then allowing the user to search through it in a way that's IMHO much more intuitive than what's provided in the original resources. In addition, given that official sources tend to be obtuse my aim was to simplify the information and make it understandable to the layperson.

Now given that this is centered in the health-industry privacy becomes even more pivotal as I wouldn't want some random SaaS company collecting information pertaining to my health and selling it or utilising in nefarious ways.

Thus, I was thinking, what better way to prove that my service is doing none of that than open-sourcing my code and offering the paid service as the way to use it. Would that 'gesture' be enough to put peoples' minds at ease and prove that I have no intention or desire in tracking them?

As an added bonus I was hoping that open-sourcing the code would help reinvigorate my resolve as my velocity has been dropping and my self-preservation instincts have me second-guessing my idea and its usefulness. Part of me was hoping that open-sourcing the code would: (1) force me to do it better cause people other than me may see it (2) help validate the idea and its marketability (3) potentially let interested parties help me make the code better and (4) allow me to use other open-source-friendly services like CI/CD for free since in the interest of keeping this service as private and 'true' as I can get it I'm doing it all out-of-pocket and am not interested in receiving funding for it.

What do y'all think?

Edit: I should've mentioned that I'm well-aware that someone may scoop my idea, do it better/faster, and I would have contributed to someone else's potential success. My code is nothing magical apart from it being heaps of work and the primary challenge is getting the service to work efficiently without breaking the bank hence my question.
No phones, all phones are confiscated and you never get them back is a very good policy. Likewise with knives and guns at schools.
Oh, thank you for catching that! I can't believe I missed such a big detail.
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correct me if I'm wrong: mingw-w64 has nothing to do with musl libc, which is exclusively for Linux
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Yeah, it might just be best to use a script to run `git clone --depth=1` into a temporary directory and run the Git GUI on that checkout. I think I'll try writing that up.
'thankless'! They are getting paid big bucks as Facebook employees. What are you talking about?
In my experience, comparing organic food at whole foods vs elsewhere whole foods is similar price and sometimes the better deal. However, the conventional stuff they have (that makes up a large portion of the food they sell) seems to always be more expensive than elsewhere. I'm guessing the idea of avoiding the same exact brands is to make it a bit harder for customers to notice how much more expensive that stuff is at whole foods or at least think maybe the quality might be a bit better.
Bad web dev practices may hint at a site being unreliable, but it's a bit ridiculous to assume something is false because of it.