skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually very humane if you think about it. It's pragmatic at the core but still retains the humanity that you say. I believe you're saying it's inhumane because we kill, but if killing 1 person improves the lives of millions, is it still inhumane? Where do you draw the line? What if we help these people you consider "sub-human" to the best of our abilities? Let's say, you get 100 tries to be "human"? Isn't that a good limit to prove themselves based on their contribution in society? What if they don't? Should we just say, "ok, this person didn't do well, let's just leave them be and support them till they die".
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It's in the screenshots in the previous post. The app on the right whose name is covered in a purple box.

It's redacted because that app has nothing to do with OP.
Offering packaged apple slices and milk is going to excessive lengths? Really? That seems closer to the bare minimum than “above and beyond” but maybe you have difference standards than me.

Excessive lengths would be McDonalds installing cold-pressed juice bars. An above and beyond McDonalds would just be your average In-N-Out.
The common uses of AGPL I've seen are in direct response to the big players trying to swallow things up into their cloud platforms while not giving back to the community. So you can blame those entities for the toxicity.
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generally, that has been the way to get google to notice - kick up a shit storm online.

If you have a business relationship, this shouldn't be the way to get support. But it is. :(
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Sorry man, you know how it is; competition is brutal in the overcrowded space of Bionicle video game speed runs. I had to do it in order to get the views.
In any case, that wouldn’t be google’s fault.
This just in: time conclusively linked to most forms of cancer.
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I wanted to add a few details to the previous reply.

While the Raft/HybridTime implementation has its roots in Apache Kudu the results will NOT be quite applicable to Kudu. Aside from the fact that the code base has evolved/diverged over the 3+ years, there are key/relevant areas (ones very relevant to these Jepsen tests) where YugaByte DB has added capabilities or follows a different design than Kudu. For example:

-- Leader Leases: YugaByte DB doesn't use Raft consensus for reads. Instead, we have implemented "leader leases" to ensure safety in allowing reads to be served from a tablet's Raft leader.

-- Distributed/Multi-Shard Transactions: YugaByte DB uses a home grown (https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/architecture/transactions/t...) protocol based on two-phase commit across multiple Raft groups. Capabilities like secondary indexes, multi-row updates use multi-shard transactions.

-- Allowing online/dynamic Raft membership changes so that tablets can be moved (such as for load-balancing to new nodes).

regards
Kannan (Co-founder @ YugaByte)
An Ask Me is a selection on the screen for an option that can’t be added as a customization. It’s to “ask the counter” for what is wanted. Like a bunless burger or what have you.
Yeah i was confused by this too. Parent possibly thinking of virtual machines?
Because epistemology is simple. /facepalm

Postmodernism posits a plurality of truths, as well as underscores the demarcation problem.
Wow, so if I, say buy a cooking knife and get "caught" carrying it home from the store, "A court will decide if you’ve got a good reason to carry a knife if you’re charged with carrying it illegally."

Or if I take a chef's knife to a friend's house to cook dinner with them, the same court will intervene? Presumably following an arrest?

That second link is just so creepy to me (pacifist American). I can see how it uses language in such an incriminating way. It's so absolute: "When you carry a knife, you're risking everything." That's a sublime exaggeration. Worst case, I'm risking one life. Not trivial, but a far cry from "everything."

"knife crime has devastating personal effects on you, your friends, and your family." Meh, it may. But mostly it sounds like the effects are all visited on me by the government. Icky, over-reaching and emasculating.

I can see how it gives people who are already good the warm fuzzies, but actual criminals will mock and sneer at this "effort." ...and it looks like "knife crime" (as opposed to say "burglary" or "homicide", actual crimes, not crimes directed by a specific weapon (again with that authoritarian language)) has nearly doubled in the last 5 years, so great job with your authoritarian campaign, UK! /s https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42749089
Google removed my game based on a false DMCA notice. Bot rejected appeal, twice
Fun fact: all of Google (including Google Cloud) is run in containers. IIRC even VMs are run in containers. The VMs, of course, could contain customer containers, too. It's literally containers "all the way down".
what mentioned in your article has nothing to do with the social credit system. as already mentioned in your own article, it is all about the "laolai" list maintained by courts. This system has been there for over a decade or longer, way earlier the title-bait so called "social credit system".

To give you a few examples - [1][2] are news articles discussing the exact same "laolai" list almost 10 years ago.

[1] https://finance.qq.com/a/20101214/004357.htm

[2] http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/detail_2010_10/20/2846252_0.s...
A lot of what’s being described here is in IPFS, including distributed hosting of your content, and a distributed name resolution system.
Except the law includes exceptions and much less rigorous rules for startups and small-medium companies. It’s directly targeting YouTube, Facebook and the like, in an attempt to make them pay authors and creators.

Unless you’re against copyrights in general, I have a really hard time seeing why you’d be against this law.

It simply pushes the responsibility from you, the YouTube uploader, to YouTube itself. Maybe that will lead to YouTube preventing you from uploading videos, maybe YouTube will block Europe, but I honestly doubt it because of money, and in either case, the EU represents the people of Europe, YouTube represents a few shareholders, I know whom I personally prefer taking a lead on copyrights.

I get the people who are opposed to copyrights in general, but I’m just not.
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>But Eben Moglen and rms have been warning about both problems since before you evidently noticed the second one.

Much like your snide reply, I think Free Software suffers from a public relations problem. A toenail-eating kook giving the same lecture about the four freedoms for 15 years doesn't persuade many people as you noted in the quote above, otherwise they'd have achieved something with all that "warning" they've been doing.
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When someone posts a picture of a nice elaborate home fixture, you can tell which commenters own a home and which do not. The non-owners say "oh so pretty!!" and the homeowners say "that looks like a pain to clean!".
To be clear there’s no way around serializable transactions in cockroachDB. We have had to adapt our monolith to it (we’re thinking of ways to make it more nimble by breaking out services etc). But the point I was making was that we had MySQL for a while and never ran into issues with its isolation levels until it stopped scaling. Instead of vitess or some other MySQL system we went with cockroach after finding vitess didn’t fit us — too complicated and too many moving parts. CockroachDB just works. Also moving to k8s adds complexity too for a monolith built and run on VMs. But so far so good. Cockroach runs fast and is performant given production queries. And ops is happy because it self heals.
I was curious about this. Does this mean the whole surface was covered by water (no land above water level)? Then water froze?
What amuses me is that most of retractions come from ex-Amazonians not from the current staff. This is the only company i know dealing with that much criticism from engineering.

Even more to add is that the article is more or less fresh and at Amazon's scale i doubt any major changes had undergone in the last 10 months.
Finance tends to write a lot of C++ too, but I couldn't possibly estimate their code base sizes.
Hearts of Space [1] has been doing ambient music for a long time, and it’s great for programming and tends to be very low distraction.

[1] https://hos.com
The accurate prediction would have been: Eventually these houses will sell at a lower price.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/9/8003637/north-korea-satell...

Astronomy heaven: The Asian capital with ‘no light pollution’
As an avid anime watcher and a frequent user of https://myanimelist.net/, I don't mind providing a bit of constructive feedback:

- I get that its just a hobby website, but at the moment there isn't enough there that would pull me away from using an established service such as myanimelist. Or at the very least, it isn't completely obvious to me what it provides that MAL already doesn't. If you do decide to advertise on other sites, I'd suggest making it clear to users what your site offers that isn't provided by already established services.

- This might just be a personal thing, but before an image loads, it first shows up as a blurred image. I really do not like this, as I find it a bit painful for my eyes.

The layout looked pretty decent to me and everything loaded fine on my end. Good job the UI and development. If you were just wanting this to be a hobby, then I'd say well done, and keep playing around with it. If you do want this to ever take off in any way, my suggestion is to focus on providing something new, because at the moment it feels like a bit of an incomplete MAL clone (don't mean to come off as harsh here, just trying to be honest). Good luck!
What do we know about long term risk and consequences regarding countries operating with negative rates? Can they be considered healthy? Or is this a sign of longer term risk they face?

What does that environment mean for Joe Consumer and their 401k?
The standard of success is not "we don't use C anymore", that's an insane definition of success. By that definition C didn't succeed in knocking off Fortran.
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Administrative burden isn't academic, but it's not peculiar to AGPL, either. GPLv2/3-style copyleft gets forgone all the time on pure process grounds. It's nontrivial to identify which permissive licenses apply to some bag of artifacts an engineer dug up online.

FSF faced fork threats when it floated AGPL-GPL merger in GPLv3.
I’ll correct myself: far fewer

I’m ashamed.
But Android is not a technological monopoly, and Google has not monopolized all Android apps. You might have low standards for the application of anti-trust laws, but the government does not.
I did not appreciate modern architecture until I bought a home. I get it now. A dream home is a house you can clean with a squeegee; especially the kitchen and the bathroom.
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AI robot removes bias from job interviews, is that possible?
It's only been a week since it was published.
> And what's going to happen to people who're entering a debt spiral, and are as a result further punished by the system?

please stop spreading false info. people on that "laolai" list are those who intentionally refuse to pay their debt when they have the resources to do so. as also explicitly mentioned in your own article, they are punished to the extent of being inconvenience to do certain things, e.g. in your described case, they can still ride a train just not the high speed one.
Something I wish this discussed more was development vs production logs. It talks about a unique request identifier across microservices, but this applies within a single service too.

In your development environment, you're usually only doing one request/job at a time, and so logging each step along the way makes it easy to follow and debug. In production, with tens or even thousands of concurrent requests, this quicky becomes basically impossible.

I've become a huge fan of fewer but "wider" lines. Take sending an email.. I'm sure most people have seen (or even written) logs like:

* New message from me@example.com to you@other.com

* Subject "test 123"

* Generating message using template xyz

* Checking sender against block lists

* Sender block list check passed

* Connecting to SMTP server smtp1.example.com..

* SMTP authentication succeeded, server responded "235 2.7.0 Authentication successful"

* Send succeeded: "250 ok"

This is ok when you're writing the code initially, but much better is a single line (or single structured message):

* Outgoing mail message. from="me@example.com" to="you@example.com" Subject="test 123" blocklist=passed template=xyz smtp_server=smtp1.example.com smtp_auth="235 2.7.0 Authentication successful" smtp_Status="250 ok"

All the context needed (whether succeeded or not), compact, and concurrent requests are a non-issue. I can't say I'm fully on the "structured log" bandwagon just yet (mostly because I haven't found a tool I like enough to give up the simplicity of a text editor), but I can see the appeal for sure.
When us Americans say "European style home" we usually mean "Italian Villa".
Maybe I'm just in the HN bubble, but it seems AMP is pretty unpopular. I've found numerous requests online asking how to disable it from others, though again, only anecdotal.

Is it unpopular? Or are most users ambivalent?
And if it is unpopular why does Google continually try and push it?

Edit: grammatical mistakes
Only domestiques so far, to my knowledge.
The worst invention ever is that shelf that runs around the entire house at 8 feet under a 12 foot ceiling. No one is cleaning that thing.
Hold on one minute! Geologist here -- you're partially right, but "sea glaciers" are absolutely part of the theory! Just to give you a snippet of the sort of things we're considering, here's one relevant quote from the abstract of a 2017 paper on the subject [1]:

> Some previous models have suggested that tropical open ocean or thin‐ice cover is possible; however, its viability in the presence of kilometer‐thick sea glaciers flowing from higher latitudes has not been demonstrated conclusively. Here we describe a new method of asynchronously coupling a zonal sea‐glacier model with a 3‐D global climate model and apply it to Snowball Earth.

As it happens, the key defining characteristic of a glacier is its ability to flow, i.e., "a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight" [2]. While today this mostly only only happens on top of the continents, models suggest that the Neoproterozoic snowballs may have had both normal (thin, brittle, non-flowing) sea ice and flowing sea glaciers! The contrast actually ends up being important in that [3]:

> Even if thin ice was not present in the tropical ocean, it could still have prevailed on large, low‐latitude lakes and confined seas like the modern Mediterranean, protected from planetary‐scale sea‐glacier flow by surrounding continents. This, by itself, may have provided sufficient refugia to explain the survival of photosynthetic algae and other marine organisms.

There's a surprisingly large number of papers on this, actually [4].

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier

[3] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...

[4] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=neo...
It will be 5 years from now in China.

The rest of us can watch and learn.
If you look at photos of Vienna from around 1900 the traffic situation was similar relaxed. Something went wrong.
That or there will be some very expensive government programs designed to maintain the valuation of the boomer owned homes.
Dang probably true for the products you were using but Redshift has been great for me, including the documentation which I have never found to be out of date.

I wouldn’t say its the economical option though.

Oh and its high time ‘count(distinct) over()’ partitions was supported.
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actually i think there was some research showing yerba mate drinkers had higher incidences of cancer due to the hotness of the liquid.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19695149/
The flaking is terrible, oh my goodness. It’s hard to find friends who won’t do that to you.
Time to install an antenna on your roof and join a wireless community network.
I'm in the process of purging a large portion of my possessions. I spent a distressing amount of money collecting items that got used once or twice, got put into a closet that cost me a lot to rent (hooray Socal!), and now are taking up a large amount of my mental space trying to find a way to ethically and economically dispose of them.

I cannot possibly imagine how much useless crap you can accumulate in a 2,000 ft home, let alone 7,000 or larger! Why in the world would you want all that space?
Go back through history and you'll find otherwise.
From what I can tell, this new proposal is more empty than that of George W. Bush's administration.

1) Bush's does not seem to have been a campaign promise. While the vision was proposed in an election year, it also received Congressional funding - $16.2 billion - and legislation in the same year.

Note that Trump started his reelection campaign when he entered office, so anything he says about the future can be regarded as a campaign promise, yes?

2) There does not appear to be funding behind the Trump administration's proposal. Quoting the NYT piece, "an accelerated pace has not been evident in the Trump administration’s NASA budget requests to Congress, raising many questions about how it will be possible for the agency to accomplish this ambitious goal." Much less the White House pressure that the Bush administration used to get their full budget through.

(Quoting https://web.archive.org/web/20050913093403/http://www.space...., "The White House, which had threatened to veto a bill moving through the House during the summer that would have cut $1.1 billion from NASA’s request, leaned on appropriators during the closing days of the budget battle to make NASA a high priority.")

3) I see no indication that Trump prioritizes this policy anywhere near as high as Bush did.

As to "doable insane" for going to the Moon now, note that Bush announced in his 2004 speech "Our second goal is to develop and test a new spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle, by 2008, and to conduct the first manned mission no later than 2014."

That was 4 years for a new spacecraft. Certainly that's more doable and sane than going to the Moon, which was Bush's third goal. Yet it wasn't done.

No matter which of Musk, Bezos, or NASA might want it more, how much money do you think they'll need, and where is that money?
I would like to stress the importance of buffering and thread safety in your logging functions. A logger with buffering will far outperform just opening a file, writing and closing, which is default for many loggers.

http://fredpuls.com/site/softwaredevelopment/java/log4j/log4...
The article is making the argument that people guess structurally wrong. In the same way that it's perfectly possible under a waterfall design system that you manage to get all of your requirements mostly right from the start, it's also perfectly possible that a family is able to anticipate their needs for a house well into the future before having built/lived in it, but it's a structurally losing game.

An example of an alternative approach championed by a lot of people who want to build houses situated deeply into nature is that they'll live for the first 12 months out of a tent, shifting it to various places on their property. By doing this, they get a feel for how the sun behaves, where the wind moves, where animals like to roam etc. and make a much more informed decision of where to site the house. This is much more akin to the MVP/sprint model of building houses.
I know from experience that you can put together a very good full-suite team of 20 people in SFBA with a 5-year budget in the tens of millions. That's a fraction of a $300M acquisition (though obviously the acquisition brings IP, relationships, a team that already works together, etc.)

Such a team is on the small side for a Fortune 500, but definitely large enough to do real work and more than pay for themselves (especially if you're introducing serious ML into your company for the first time).
Show HN: Wise Notifications – the missing web push notifications for iOS
In the US, ~29% of website visitors are using iOS notifications.

As web push notifications are not supported by iOS, we have launched Wise Notifications. It allows you to send notifications to your website visitors via the Wise Notifications App ( https://itunes.apple.com/lr/app/wise-notifications/id1448382... ).

For a smooth implementation, a WordPress plugin and API are available.
most users only care about speed, amp gives them that speed. voila, they keep using google - "coz it's fast".
Opening up the site, I saw the headline load up, then something asking for notification permissions, then I'm not sure exactly what happened but many elements came on screen at the same time and the browser window became unresponsive (Chrome latest on a Samsung Galaxy S7). A subsequent visit worked out better, so I wonder if you have a problem on the first ever load of your site.
Thank you for your kind words <3
I'm in my mid-30s as well and I agree w/ your conclusion. I find that games work best when played occasionally as a substitute for real life activities that aren't legal or safe. E.g., GTA V allows you to steal cars, play with gasoline and rob 711's; activities that if attempted IRL would either kill you or land you in prison.
Most people have difficulty with the fact that an array expression can very compactly represent some powerful functions. For example,

(+/*)\:

is matrix multiplication. The following computes the transitive closure of a binary relation (represented as a boolean square matrix):

{x|x(|/&)\:x}

Its core has a similar "shape" as matrix multiplication:

(|/&)\:

So in a sense variable names don't matter all that much! To grok this code you have to stop thinking in terms of item at a time operations and start thinking of operations over collection of items. If you know how to write unix shell pipelines you are already somewhat familiar with this paradigm except that a shell doesn't provide most of the more useful features of array languages!
I would quite prefer a “Wizard’s Tower”.

A 4+ story vertical structure with 1-2 rooms per level, leaving more ground space for a garden/hedge maze etc.

I wonder if more of us introverted techy types would prefer that too.

Would it be impractical?
> What kind of knives are we talking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQrLPtr_ikE
Perhaps its cubic summands will have a more transparent encoding.
It’s called “infectious dose”, and it’s largely about probabilities.

See this question that I asked a while ago (and associated answers) on Biology SE: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5442/are-all-kno...

EDIT: added missing URL.
> Determining what you can and can't change is an (almost) impossible task on its own

Wot? I have absolutely no problem doing that.
If you’d consider non fang, not all companies use algorithmic interviews. So you should definitely be interviewing elsewhere if that’s what you want. Excluding visa issues.

Also seems strange you put your age in the title, mid 30s isn’t exceptionally old at FAANG companies in my experience.

Also continually comparing yourself can be toxic so maybe take a break from blind.
I've switched to Fastmail and DuckDuckGo away from Google services. Definitely the right choice.
yes BUT like it or not this standard has the backing of the defacto ruler of the consumer email space - gmail.