skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool! I had wanted to do something similar to make use of a stockpile of bottle caps that I was collecting. However, it went beyond the time I was willing to invest. There's some additional difficulties with bottle caps of course because of the shape and non-uniform color.
IsThisFakeNews
Let’s use #isThisFakeNews as a hashtag for posts and photos that need fact-checking and/or are of doubtful origin.
Using S3Select, Spark and Minio to create a high performance data lake
I only use Docker, because I'm too lazy to learn Kuberneres or Ansible. :)
No kidding. We were a 500 person shop that was gobbled up by Oracle. First meeting with Larry - we were all suited out. Walk in, he is in jeans and a teeshirt. He asked, 'why you all dressed up?' A very, very technical discussion on our company's software. He had been thoroughly briefed on our stuff and asked very insightful questions on how our J2SE app worked.
Great video! I don't suppose there is an online version of your presentation for Tout est terrible[1] is there? I looked but couldn't find one. Ca va si c'est suelement en francais.

[1]: https://ferd.ca/tout-est-terrible.html
I think the GP means that central planning was hard to pull off without modern communication tech like phones and internet. So, the western style of federated semi-autonomous regions proliferated, since it didn't depend on strong central control.

However, in the age of instant global communications, it may be that effective central planning is "better," or at least possible.

And now, the individualistic model may not be compatible with the planet-scale adjustments we need to make to prevent catastrophic environmental change.

Also, I agree individualism is not necessarily humans' natural state. We probably self-organize into loosely affiliated extended family units in the absence of imposed hierarchy, but humans are nothing if not adaptable.
> even considering those costs

But there is an overall expected value premium to be paid on low-risk purchases (or to be gained on high-risk purchases)

On average, you will lose money by purchasing insurance. (That's how insurance derive a profit.) However, people are generally happy to do that, because they value the certainty of it, even if overall it's the arthemtically subpar choice.

I expect that you will make profit from the stock market than a CD, even after averaging bear and bull years.

I'd expect that low-income rental are riskier investments, and that landlords are more likely to lose money, but overall the expected value of return is higher. That's just how markets work.
"its more of a political question of who's in charge of maintaining the drivers"

And even more stupid to set the bar then artificial high, when you don't have enough elitist, ideological pure enough hackers to do that.
Disclaimer: I work as a Red Hat Consulting Architect focused on OpenShift (our Kubernetes distro).

I didn’t say anything about being a genius or being stupid. But it does help to have some something to reference [0][1].

In short, there’s several things that help.

1) Start with 3 Master nodes that sit behind an Enterprise Load Balancer (or even HAProxy) and a VIP (console.example.com)
2) We choose to have 3 Infrastructure nodes that perform Container load balancing (app routers), log aggregation, metrics collection, and registry hosting
3) We then put another VIP and Load Balancer in front of Application Subdomain (*.apps.example.com) so that apps can be exposed outside the cluster (myjavaapp.apps.example.com)
4) Stand up 3 or more worker nodes

Yes. This is more complex than plain old Containers. Yes. This is harder than putting an Apache server with RoR and MariaDB on the same Linux VM. But there is lots of value there if you put in the effort. Lots of consultants run “all-in-one” VMs or minishift/minikube On their laptops or homelabs.

[0] http://uncontained.io/articles/openshift-ha-installation/

[1] https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.11/install/i...
From the paper:

“Our system’s write-to-read latency is approximately 21 h. The majority of this time is taken by synthesis, viz., approximately 305 s per base, or 8.4 h to synthesize a 99-mer payload and 12 h to cleave and deprotect the oligonucleotides at room temperature. After synthesis, preparation takes an additional 30 min, and nanopore reading and online decoding take 6 min.”

Also the amount of data that can be written is very small in general for oligosynthesis. The most high throughout methods are microarrays by Agilent and others (not used in this paper). You can buy about 32 megabits for $6000 (http://www.customarrayinc.com/oligos_main.htm). The actual cost of synthesis is maybe $2000 as a guess.

So currently DNA storage would be good for small datasets that you would like to store for a long time. Physical density is useless most of the time if you can’t efficiently generate a lot of data to begin with.

We would need several orders of magnitude increase in the write capacity, which is slowly being worked on. Typically people would like to compare synthesis costs with Moore’s law, using Carlson curves ( http://www.synthesis.cc/synthesis/2016/03/on_dna_and_transis... ).

However there hasn’t been as much progress in synthesis as in sequencing. Why? My theory is that Theres not a very big market for DNA synthesis, so the big investments needed haven’t really been there. Maybe storage on dna could be that market, but it would need to show quick and easy wins (eg stepping stones of practicality like what early integrated circuits had).
Thanks for following up! I'm not surprised because I noticed on HN and in other online discussions that almost all the people that advocate against Kubernetes and PaaS (Heroku, App Engine, Clever Cloud, Scalingo, etc.) are willing to tolerate downtime during deploys and during OS upgrades.
That's what I meant by "brilliantly simple"; namely having something like this work with existing systems while imposing a marginal overhead.
A: "The damaged part of the body is no longer able to do its job," Bleiberg explained. Without a nose, the statue-spirit ceases to breathe, so that the vandal is effectively "killing" it.
Presumably it comes from a combination of things, e.g.
1. Streaming higher quality video.
2. Using mobile more often instead of needing to find WiFi.
3. Changing behavior to do things that you couldn’t before on a slower connection.
4. Faster rate of consumption due to faster load times.
I think there actually is an issue with our data models. REST apis have moved a lot of the complexity of data fetching on the client apps since it is basically a 1 to 1 mapping of the database schemas. Making connections between the different data types becomes a frontend concern which is not ideal since frontend has to deal with partial data and full network latency / failures.

Thinking in graphs and query languages like GraphQL makes building for change a lot easier. Your api now defines all the possible data types and their associations (think nodes and edges). This completely eliminates the need to write data management code as a graphql client library can take care of fetching, normalizing and providing the data to components since it knows about the data schema.

Queries can also be composed from fragments which goes very well with the React component model. This allow each component to define the data it needs and then all those fragments can be composed to generate a query. This query will only fetch the exact data it needs for what is displayed wherever the data comes from.

It does move back a bit of the complexity to the backend (defining schema, fetching connections between the different data types) but this is a lot easier to implement since you have full access to all resources. It is also easier to iterate on the implementations since code shipped to client apps can be hard to update when considering mobile apps.
Ow. Putting teens who haven't committed crimes into an institution is bad enough ... but isolation without cause is much more wrong-headed, especially at that age. Thanks for opening my eyes to this.
Voltorb, maybe? https://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/xy-seri...
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He actually uses Gitbook https://www.gitbook.com/

I’ve been doing the same too https://www.aizatto.com/why-gitbook
The article without the google survey ads: https://outline.com/bjSx3m
Related is querying: You can synthesize another pair of Oligos to selectively amplify part of the DNA that you wrote and only sequence that. Look up PCR if you are interested.
Nasa’s Insight Lander Shows Sunset from Mars
There would be less need for safety technology if everyone was driving around at 60kph, not 100kph. A lighter battery would last much further.. lower cost vehicles.. less environmental impact.. less noise around populated areas etc. It would take longer to cover long distances, but.. smell the roses, or take a train?
Pipe dream obviously.
There are already xenobases being developed, eg Romesburg. Those add extra bases beyond the 4-5 seen in nature.
Just wondering why wireless charging isn’t used? A pacemaker seems to use little energy so one overnight charge cycle should last for months if not years?
Small scale operation of rental properties may be the most common small business in America, so if one actually believes this thesis then one has an easy option to compete down the differential while feeling good about oneself, with very low capital and expertise requirements.

Prior to doing so, I would advise one to ask landlords what their experience has been in the neighborhoods you want to sink $X00k into.
yep, you need to keep a whitelist. i made a 10-liner plugin for css-obj (see my other comment) which i use to mark certain selectors with "!keep" which populates my per-page whitelists during initial css blob gen.

if most of your classes are dynamically applied or most markup is missing then this type of tool is probably not for you, especially if you have no good way of html-ifying enough state variations to keep your whitelist managable.

FWIW, i run an SSR'd ecommerce site (with modals and a quite a bit of other dynamic bits) and while whitelisting needs to be maintained, the resulting list is fewer than 30 items and basically static. the items are regex and some cover multiple/related selectors.

an improvement to this project might be to add inline ignore rules like purgecss does. eg /* nodrop * /
GDR also paid up

This is the most surprising detail!
Reminds of the movie 'Be Kind Rewind.' Low budget film making is great fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Kind_Rewind
> Ansible does not watch and maintain the infrastructure and services state

Yeah, but what I've done is that i've deployed a tiny go binary on each cloud instance that is run every few minutes. Instances take turns checking on each other using a round robin sort of approach (no complicated leader election algorithms etc...)

The script knows how to check the health of the other instances/services and to restart them or alarm if they get stuck.

For fifty hosts, it works fairly well.

I didn't say in the original post, but we are not a product group, so our stuff is 'semi production'. We don't have customers to worry about.

>Somebody posted here that it takes just several hours to learn it.

Sure I can probably learn it quickly, but what I don't want is to now have complicated and mysterious kubernetes problems to solve on a deadline.

I understand linux pretty well, been using it for 20+years, so I'm not intimidated by OS level troubleshooting. Sure without containers, you have to be more careful to keep your dependencies from overlapping, but it hasn't been a problem we couldn't handle till now.

I don't particularly want to trade problems I'm familiar with solving for a whole new set of unfamiliar problems unless there is a clear benefit.
I've looked a bit for it and it appears nobody has put it anywhere. I personally do not have a copy either. I thought CodeMesh in 2017 had it, but it was never published.
When you still not aware the totalitarian country rule you. If Soviet Union cannot get you, how about communist china. Let china great again and humanity suffer.
It's not more complicated or more expensive to form a company.

For a Saas trading as a sole trader does not make much sense to me, as you are personally responsible, not a company. And you'll likely want to move to a company sooner than later, anyway.
There are things like actors working for free with a percentage of the box office profit. Some top actors made more this way than if they actually got a salary.
Ask HN: What's your recommended methodology to develop big software project?
Nice sales pitch. Should probably just be explicit that this is your business.
Because everyone is just flourishing under the US world order.
From Memes to Infowars: How 75 Fascist Activists Were “Red-Pilled” (2018)
The reducer persists the state in the store, the selector projects the store.
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I’d bet this has to do with vouchers. If you qualify, a city will give you a predetermined amount for rent assistance and then you cover the other 20-30%.

Landlords know this. The housing assistance organization guarantees the payment.

http://www.hacm.org/doing-business-with-us/section-8-landlor...

This causes section 8 landlords to inflate their rents. If a regular person had to pay for the apartment, there is no way they would pay these higher prices for these dumps.

However, by subsidizing a majority of the rent, the low income people will live there. The buildings are cheap to buy, are not maintained, boom, lots of profit for the landlords.
Dang,

The linked webpage does not spark my curiosity, it inflames me because I'm against any type of discrimination. Discrimination against men is sex based discrimination.

The webpage naturally attracts political and ideological flame bait and these kind of links should have no place on HN.
Maybe in the distant future.

There are really three steps: writing, storage, reading.

Writing: There are dreams of using biology to write DNA (currently we use chemical synthesis). See the San Diego startup Molecular Assemblies.

That could miniaturize a big part of it and not require your body to host bottles of nasty chemicals. Maybe you could find clever ways of siphoning the chemical building blocks and ATP energy from the host.

Storage and retrieval: maybe just have bioinert containers implanted. You’d like to be able to reuse them so ideally there would be a robust flushing mechanism.

Reading: the Minion reader from Oxford Nanopore that this paper uses is about the size of a usb stick. The technology inside is a hybrid of electronics and protein. This technology will undoubtedly get better and smaller as sequencing has a a lot of R and D money going into it.
I mean, it doesn't take a lot of energy to heat something that is 90nm thick. This is so misleading.
From the very first sentence of the article: "...a new graphene-based film that can absorb unpolarized incident light striking it over a wide range of angles up to 60 degrees."
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Ask HN: What are some of the best cloud resources you've come across?
Hello everyone,

I'm in the midst of pulling together a repository of the best cloud computing resources readily available on the internet. I'd appreciate your help and opinions on what you feel are some of the best cloud computing resources you've come across. These resources can be generic or vendor specific, it's all fair game.

Currently I've broken down these resources into buckets:

- Online classes
- White papers
- Books
- Presentations
- Essays, blogs and articles
- Audio/podcasts
- Sandbox/experimental environments
- Other (anything not listed above)

I'd love to hear what everyone has used to get up and running on cloud computing (beginners), what you've used to advance your knowledge (intermediate), and what you've used to master your craft in cloud (advanced).

Any and all submissions will be taken into consideration. Obviously those resources that others vouch for will be prioritized but everything will get an eye.

Thanks!
Yeah, the fatal assumption there was assuming that they need to have money lent to them.

As I said, it doesn't really make sense to think of the national debt as a debt. It's a government run savings account accommodating the private sector's desire to save money.

In the same way if maxlybbert printed maxlybbert dollars, spent them and then "borrowed" them back it wouldn't really be doing it because he actually needed them. He's providing a service.
There is proof they want to make the UN Global Compact for Migration mandatory
So it is. All good then :)

Ideally though, for the sake of people looking at the GitHub repo, I think they ought to do the following:

1. Rename LICENSE file to COPYRIGHT and change the line

License: MIT + file LICENSE

in the DESCRIPTION file to

License: MIT + file COPYRIGHT

2. Put a full copy of the MIT license with both copyright notice and MIT license text in a file named LICENSE. This allows GitHub to recognize the license and tag the repo accordingly. Additionally it allows people to see the license by looking at that file regardless of language instead of having to know language specific conventions.

3. Optionally, delete the LICENSE.md file unless it is useful elsewhere.

Assuming of course that having the license text and not just copyright notice in LICENSE won’t interfere with R packaging tools once the DESCRIPTION file specifies to use file COPYRIGHT instead.
That's my blog post! If you have any questions let me know.
> are willing to tolerate downtime during deploys and during OS upgrades.

Yeah, that's not a big deal for us. We don't have customers, and this environment is for internal use at the company.

You could say it's a 'semi production' environment.
Indonesia’s Kargo Comes Out of Stealth with $7.6M from Travis Kalanick, Sequoia
That goes without saying, yes.

Dude asked for the leanest version, that'd be it — I'd go sole trader and have it legal, all while seeing whether the SaaS lifts itself off the ground or not
Sorry Shopify, I think I buy MailChimp's side of the story more. I wonder what percentage of Shopify stores are just drop shipping fronts. I can see that hurting MailChimp's deliverability.
What are the potential applications of this tech?
If you make it your purpose in life to help other people, and you do that, you have succeeded in your life. If you make it your purpose in life to acquire great wealth, and you do that, even if you freeze your corpse in liquid nitrogen (this has been done) your wealth is gone.
Ugh I hate it when they say "A sheet of graphene could support X". It's utter bullshit because you can't ever have a sheet of defect-free graphene.

It's like how defect-free glass is 2-4 times stronger than steel. Actual glass is obviously nowhere near that strong and nobody pretends it is.
This is what I call the "Paris Hilton is more responsible than my friends who were bankrupted over a medical debt" theory.

If you pretend that wealth is fairly distributed it makes a certain amount of sense.
International Agricultural Exhibition and Conference: Agritech OSUN 2019
He didn’t worry about things he couldn’t control.
Ctrl+F "exploit", appears 24 times in this 13-paragraph article.

> "Defining exploitation as being overcharged relative to the market value of a property"

The ratio they've based their narrative on is called GRM (gross rent multiplier):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_Rent_Multiplier

GRM is one of many factors when analyzing investment options. Other important factors include appreciation and expenses (maintenance, property management, etc). Cap rates are a better indicator than GRM (because they include expenses) but still not comparable across asset classes due to appreciation (HCOL++) and unaccounted overhead (LCOL--).

I own both (LCOL oil region, HCOL tech region). If the numbers were equal anyone would only choose the tech region, because of urbanization and future expectations for those industries. It's the same reason P/E ratios on tech stocks are so much higher than on oil stocks. So cap rates are higher on my LCOL oil region properties (approx 6, vs 4 in the tech region). But that's just market forces. If cap rates were equal why would anybody buy in the oil region? Even if you exclude the market's predictions for the future (oil vs tech), the LCOL has additional overhead (more properties at equal value).

Reducing the conversation to cap rates and ESPECIALLY reducing the conversation to GRM - relabeling GRM to "exploitation ratio" - shows these prestigious authors (MIT & Princeton) aren't interested in answering any real questions. They're too smart to believe GRM indicates exploitation. They therefore must have an agenda.

The most interesting question raised is who funded their study, else why are they spending their time forging this narrative?
I Skipped GDC in 2019
I think the US ideals of freedom of speech/thought/religion are great, but unfortunately the US "ideal" of greed seems to be what the US is better at exporting.
Can I get an MBA here to explain why this is a big deal? If Spotify can't make money on the Apple store why not just charge whatever they need to, pretend it doesn't exist, and go for customers through different channels?

Like does Spotify really need their iOS app to be an advertising channel for them? Is being able to sell premium on Apple devices really so valuable?
The thing on the back looks surprisingly similar to a package of "Yerba Rosamonte"[1], which would place this picture in Argentina/Uruguay. But it's too low res to say whether that's the case, or just pareidolia.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=yerba%20rosamonte&t...
> The European Union is also worried about unfair competition from Chinese companies, which are controlled by the Chinese government and benefit from the state’s financial backing.

So... like many European companies and even entire sectors?
Sounded interesting, but your team doesn't seem to be on the ball. :(

The HTTPS certificate for one of your main websites (submitting bug issues), linked from your front page, expired last November.

https://assistenza.storeden.com

For a lot of things, some forgiveness is in order.

But for an eCommerce place, it seems a bit much. :(
The one thing that annoys me in these sorts of articles/titles is that they do not really reflect the true costs of production (be it games or film or anything else). Sure it is easy to make a movie with no budget if you don't pay anything for peoples time, equipment, locations, or any other resources. But that does not mean that those are free, or without value.
Apple Stock: A New Era of Mobile Saturation
Caudit: Continuous Auditing of SSH Servers to Mitigate Brute-Force Attacks
>So whilst we see green grass, it's true colour is everything but green.

I've never liked this phrasing. In what sense is the "true" color not green if we perceive green? It is the color it reflects, it's just a little counter-intuitive when you first learn of the physics behind it.
Does such a Microsoft's app store for Microsoft's Windows Phone still exist?
The lesser evil, any country with Western norms has my vote. Nothing is perfect
i'm sure there will be soon enough. i kind of laughed to myself when calling it "fast" since it takes 175ms to process ~45 KB of data :D. in a compiled language (or wasm) it would no doubt be an order of magnitude faster.
Ask HN: Is anyone attending LibrePlanet this year?