skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or not at all in some cases.

Too much of that stuff is indoctrination and opinion being passed off as education as of late.

It results in people who believe they are "educated" because they have learned to hold certain opinions. And judging others "education" by the opinions they hold rather than fact that they know.

That isn't to say an understanding of history, of languages etc isn't worth having, it certainly is. Some of the other stuff not so much.

Additionally, the sad reality on the ground often is a person is judged as educated by the display of indoctrination they receive, so practically speaking, at this point in time it does have some value can open doors. But that's kind of BS really imo, and I don't care for it.
It's always a quesion of risk.

Maybe you go multi-cloud and your AWS only competitors crush you, because you spend money and time on the wrong thing and their one-provider-setup just integrated so well and saved so much time and money.

Maybe AWS goes bad quick and you can jump ship with your multi-cloud setup and save your butt while your competitors go down with it.

I just don't know :)
Most medical expense is care of chronic conditions and end-of-life care. Not elective procedures.

https://www.qualityhealth.com/health-lifestyle-articles/10-m...
I basically just pay for things I use a lot. With YouTube I use the offline videos and background playback very frequently, and not having ads without adblock is nice.

And yes, I concede that something more like Apple News would be much better. Still, I fear for a future where every last bit of content is behind a subscription paywall. The freemium model and ads in general get a lot of well-deserved flak, but they do at least make things more accessible.

I find it fascinating how different the opinion on HN regarding paywalls is when it comes to scientific journals versus news publications. Like yeah, the money is ostensibly going to the right person with news publication paywalls. But a lot of arguments about paywalls hinge around how it gates knowledge and information, and to the end user, it really isn't any different than if your ISP charged you $5/mo for Wikipedia access. I realize this comparison will make people upset, but to the average user? Really is the same thing.

All in all, I shouldn't be so irrationally angry over paywalls, but there are days when I come across 3 or 4 links that I can't read, and I just pass over it, remembering the past when people could discuss almost any article online regardless of how much free cash they have to pay for subscriptions.
Hey, weird ask, but I am going to be visiting Mongolia in 3 months with a small group of online pals. Want to be friends? My email is on my profile!
While we don't have perfect information for either Lyft, or Uber, a while ago it was reported that Uber at least was profitable within the San Francisco market, along with some other major urban areas.

A large part of their losses are down to expansion. The markets they've become established in are profitable.
It is not out of taste. Caste System(Jati System) though weakened still alive and kicking in India. (Dalits) Lowest caste layer in India is still subjugated to things like Cow vigilantism, Honour killing, Social boycott, Caste clashes and discrimination in various/all forms of life. It is interesting to note that Dalits are almost always on the receiving end of these issues.

Giving example of the Prime Minister/President is equivalent to saying since Barack Obama is the president of US, black discrimination.

PS: I belong to the so called Lower Caste in India and I have myself experienced instances of subtle/blatant discrimination. Thankfully haven't experienced anything serious yet, maybe because I became an Software Engineer and now live in a major city, thanks to the affirmative actions adopted by India, but poorer strata of lower caste living in tier-3 cities/villages face a lot of cases of discrimination even today.

While India has a long way in social development, it still has a long to go. This narrative of bashing Europeans/Outsiders/Pakistanis for anything negative has to stop. Jati System has been in practise for thousands of years now.
Full speech: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/ike_chance_fo...
> it's more of a "what can really be done" attitude

I once offered to help to host a breakfast for my Congresswoman to show there was a base of motivated people, in New York, who would back her if she put forward anti-NSA legislation. This was post-Snowden. Her office was open minded. Attendance was dismal. We all agreed to re-focus on other issues.

Another example! Two bills in Albany. One regarding Equifax. One regarding something with teachers. I'm helping with the Equifax bill. Guess which one had phones ringing off the hook with supporters calling in? Guess which one I had to concede had a more-motivated base, and was therefore--politically--the policy to put forward?

People still control the country. It's just the people who show up. If you don't show up and participate, that's fine, that's your choice. But it's a choice.
Cartography: Graph view of infrastructure assets and relationships between them
SpaceX Super Heavy Starship Compendium
Lying can never be a stable policy. Secret surveillance is lying. It is unstable and can’t last because it leads to undefined behavior.
When something is both expensive and of no practical value, it’s clearly intended as a means of wealth transfer.

Now that's an interesting thought, referring to ivy league degrees.
There are many languages that work on both client and server. Most obviously JavaScript/Typescript, but also Scala and Clojure. If webassembly really takes off you can add Rust to this list.

I'm not sure how a combined framework for server and client side would work.
I recently started working with Django after not using it for almost 10 years. It's really wonderful how nice it is to get projects up and running so fast, and the Python community is stronger than ever. There are many integrations with modern tools like Cognito and Stripe, and it automatically turns my model definitions into an admin interface and REST API (with django-rest-framework). I think I'll be sticking with it for a while.
Makes you wonder if a similar pathogen can explain the insect decline?
> Their self driving tech is built on top of Baidu's open source platform and another open source platform with only 1 year of development with a huge team. A recipe for disaster.

I assume you're talking about Apollo [0]. Out of curiosity, what's the other open source platform you've mentioned? Do you have any sources?

[0] https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo
.Net Foundation Board of Directors – 2019 Results
On a new cryptographically secure hardware chain, with parts from Apple.

If you have a bypass to that security, the anti-replacement measures won't work on you.

If you don't have a bypass, then the replacement parts won't leak any more than the old parts.
Speaking of JS, do you guys have a suggestion for good SQL querybuilder and maybe a migration tool for Node? I prefer to do everything else by hand or use smaller libraries.

Not that i don't know how to write SQL queries by hand, it's just raw SQL queries with conditions is just ugly.
I really have no horse in this race, but I would like to know what the argument FOR React+Redux+GraphQL is for developing apps in 2019.

Is it that we need to offer offline clients to meet user expectations?

Better raw performance on the front end?

Cheaper server costs or easier to deploy serverlessly?

For the progressive enhancement of your resume?
I played for 30 seconds before my screen got plastered by a long and heavy handed essay.

I prefer games not be so heavy handed but, If it must, I’d rather the message be part of the game (eg, papers please) than an essay on top of it. It just immediately turned me off, hard.
Why? It’s the free market approach. After all, healthcare is just a service.
For people suffering from chronic pain, the benefits of turning off pain completely would far outweigh the risks.
Fast and portable keyboard/mouse terminal handler in pure shell script
Quick demo:

bash -c "$(curl -L https://git.io/fjToH)"

To exit, use CTRL+W

Piping will not work! Please use the subshell above.

When open, type anything or move the mouse in the terminal.

Code is less than 500 lines. Uses mostly standard POSIX shell and does detection when using non-standard stuff.

Tested on multiple shells and terminals in multiple OSs. zsh, bash, ksh93, mksh and xterm, mintty, WSL, Terminal.app, Termux.

The trick for the speed is to use `stty -tostop` which allows background jobs to send output to the terminal, then issue atomic changes to the screen in background and let the shell itself decide the order. ksh variants are particularly performant and stable with this technique.

Other shells almost got support: posh and dash miss the `read -n` option which allows reading input byte per byte. yash is too slow to track mouse. Busybox, oil shell, mrsh were not tested. Ion and fish are largely POSIX incompatible so I didn't bother.

It's a prototype, so it has no API for making your own stuff. It's mostly designed to prove that complex , dynamic TUIs are possible using pure scripting.

I'd love some feedback on compatibility and performance! Thank you.

Gist Page: https://gist.github.com/alganet/63f1dbc97b8fd35f7bb14ec30f79d2a5
Simply labeling anyone without the time to join you, or the belief that it can help as the problem is bullshit. Your premise, that if more people banded together is a false one. The ability of politicians and corporate entities to divide people with wedges, to destroy public education and healthcare, and to gerrymander is potent. You see the end results of that in a broad population and conclude the problem is with the population not seeing your point, but that is the point.
I use my Google Home mini and Home Hub every day to ask for the weather and set timers to alert the kids that it's bed time. We use them to play songs and my 4 year old asks Google questions about Spanish words every other day. They're neat to have around.
Your stereotype may or may not be true. I'm self-taught, my degree is in Aerospace Engineering. But I was curious about how the author(s) of a BASIC interpreter knew what to put in the language so that I could write a little program to determine bending moments in Harpoon anti-ship missiles. I started with the CS part, and ended up having to learn programming concepts along the way.
> Performing a double blind test on whether meditation can help you avoid pain would probably be unethical

Um... how does one even perform such a test? It's not like you don't know you're meditating.
You do get memory unsafety. OpenSSL compiled to wasm would still be vulnerable to Heartbleed. The JVM would prevent it.
> It really does pay to keep capital requirements low, profits high, and get on the hyper-growth curve before taking lots of capital rather than taking lots of capital so you can get on the hyper-growth curve

How much of the capital raise decision due you feel falls into founder choice vs market or industry dynamics?
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M. It’s Collected $6,790
That falls under greater fool theory.
Go and Rust are actually a great combo with only a little overlap. What’s great is that they are both C family and have some shared principles and flow.

When you need a decent concurrency story, moderate speed, and have a problem that is concrete, choose Go. It’s a good candidate for replacing Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and smaller Java projects.

Rust is better if you need maximum performance, are building a large project where more abstraction where parametric polymorphism can help, or need thread safety. It’s a replacement for larger Java projects, C++, and C.

Generally I write more Go projects, but my Rust projects tend to be bigger and are doing very complex things like user space networking or wringing maximum performance out of a kernel subsystem or running in a very low resource environment.

Both languages have made my teams enjoy their work more. We also have empirically measured a decrease in time spent fixing bugs and other production issues, as well as reduced resource consumption (mostly from getting rid of Python for Go) and snappier cli tools that are saving us $$$$$$ in terms of time and hardware). Both languages are built for modern problems and getting stuff done.

Also Go and Rust position us to hit Wasm hard. I can’t understate how important Wasm support is and how both of these languages are already miles ahead of the competition. This is containers right before Docker. Your company should be pivoting or have a strategy to get on deck with these languages.
I feel like as a collective set of industries across development and security we have been telling people for years not to reinvent the wheel because it's easier to stand on the shoulders of giants. Despite this, there seems to be an increasing push (from, for example, Go programmers) to go back to DIY. Is this not tearing away all the work we've done to stop people building their own auth, their own crypto, their own file read/write mechanisms and use ones that are battle-tested and safe?
I've been satisfied with Knex.js. It handles query building, transactions, connection pooling and migrations

https://knexjs.org/
Sails.js [1] is a good JS equivalent of rails.

https://sailsjs.com/
Trick of the wealthy. It's the only thing that keeps people from revolting against this madness. Donald Trump's fortune is largely the result of labor and ingenuity, right? This warped perspective is going to be the death of us.
No call for simulators in new Boeing 737 Max training proposals
Is it legal to seek a loan against locked up public stock?
16-player using 31.25 kbit/s, that would be interesting.
Having appropriate responses to stimuli is vastly more useful.
Then why didn't they just leave the first part of the sentence out completely? It would then be more factual and less scaremongering --- unless that's what they wanted, to push a "Google can do no wrong" agenda.

I have no problem with factual reporting of the risks; it's the scaremongering promotion of Google's walled-garden that irritates me the most.
How trickle-down economics works:

First, the shareholders get all the profits.

Then what?

...that's it.
Exactly. Seems like the author was not qualified to write this article in any way.
This sounds like a fairly strong buy argument, so it must be reflected somewhere in the IPO documentation. Could anyone who read deeply into it share a link to more details?
All of this nonsense comes one root evil: giving publicly viewable grades for fundamentally in original work. Grades and homework should be for the student's private benefit. The only public marks should be proctored exams for demonstrating skills, and whatever original work someone creates that has value that stands on its own outside he artificial school environment.
That's largely because it's the easiest way to deal with Custom Resource Definitions within Kubernetes, and because many of the tools that make writing a Controller or Operator easy are only exposed as internal APIs.
> The ability of politicians and corporate entities to divide people with wedges, to destroy public education and healthcare, and to gerrymander is potent

The people who talk about opposing mass surveillance are, on average, better educated and higher paid than the average American. When they can't bother to show up, it's noted.

In order for something to be divided it must first exist as a unit. It takes a shockingly-small number of people organizing to a shockingly-little extent to exert change on representatives. Particularly if those people are geographically spread out.
There should be a convention for alerting users that content is paywalled :(
I am no Fukushima apologist but that is a click-baity headline.

> The newly detected Fukushima radiation was minute... too low to pose a health concern... Cesium-137 levels some 3,000-times higher than those found in the Bering Sea are considered safe for human consumption under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards, officials said.

The standard for science articles on HN should involve significant concentrations of [bad thing], not just trace amounts. See: Enrico Fermi's "Caesar's last breath" exercise.[1]

For this to be significant there should be something disputing the EPA standards (which may very well be too lenient). But there's no such dispute mentioned in the report. It's just, "contaminants were found."

[1] http://www.hk-phy.org/articles/caesar/caesar_e.html
I see tree frogs on my deck every summer. My last sighting was in August, I know this because I took a couple of pictures.

They do seem less plentiful than they were a few years ago though.
Is Lyft losing money because they are offering a service below cost or because they are spending on marketing to acquire and protect market share? One seems unsustainable and one seems manageable.
As a front-end developer I hated Rails, every day was a struggle working with the project, it was so slow. It was around 4 years ago and I was using top of the line Macbook Pro.

Our project wasn't badly written, it was just that slow. Is it better today?

I somehow ended up working with PHP-based back-ends but for smaller projects and I sometimes miss Rails, because Docker for Mac...
> The ability of politicians and corporate entities to divide people with wedges, to destroy public education and healthcare, and to gerrymander is potent.

Boom. You really hit the nail on the head there.
Here's how i replace Rails with the "modern stack":

- Compile Graphql schema into Typescript typings + Fragments for "Active Record"

- React Hooks as controllers action.

- React Suspense for HTML rendering.

- Apollo for graphql caching

- ExpressJS for middlewares.

- @reach/router for routing.

- @loadable/component for code splitting.

- Serverless for API.

I missed Rails, too. But i found that the "modern stack" is not bad at all. It just needs more time to investigate to find out the best way to reuse features.
Since they killed Google Reader because of G+, my question is now that G+ is officially dead, can they bring back Google Reader?
There may be explanations beyond wizardry - e.g. maybe barbers were historically often self-employed, small business owners who realized they stood to gain from creating barriers to entry such as licensing requirements.
if that were true they would just publicize their production numbers
Because once it's gone, you're never getting it back.
Focus on investing your money, building up an asset portfolio (I suggest commodities over stocks/housing in the current market, but that's not the important part here).

Your financial future should depend on your wealth compounding, and not on your number of promotions. And of course for wealth compounding timing is key: the earlier you start the better it will be for you over time.
It's also because a k8s daemonset or sidecar takes 5 to 10x less memory to run using Go. No one wants to run small pods with JVM and xms / xmx settings to 512MB.
I get cluster headaches or something similar - still being diagnosed. Anyways, they're extremely painful, by far the most pain I've ever experienced. I have a meditation/visualization I do that largely negates the pain. I actually got the idea from The Dresden Files books, oddly enough - the main character does something similar at a few points throughout the series.

It works, but only if I can wholly concentrate on it.
It was very well covered in the news at the time.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/31pay.html
> wealth is largely the result of labor and ingenuity

Does that assertion come from a study, or is it just a guess?

My guess would be that wealth comes primarily from war and genocide, but I admit I haven't looked at the economic theories.
I spend a decent amount of time following their progress and the corresponding reddit. I still found a whole bunch of new interesting tidbits sprinkled throughout. I can't wait to see how this progresses over the next few years.
> There’s no longer a standardized way to get user accounts with a login/signup, [...] so instead we need to spend days rewriting this functionality anew on each project

I don't think that ever existed "THE standard way" to build web applications. At the same time Rails was trend, for a lot of people the "standard way" to build web systems was write it from scratch in PHP.
Why don't you skip all this nonsense and just give grades only for exams? This is how colleges were run before they turned into remedial high schools.

If your course needs a big final paper, you don't grade the paper, you grade a defense of the paper, that shows they really know the material behind the paper.

All the work before the final is just practice and grades don't matter.
I have a couple Google Home mini's in my apartment, an android TV, and almost all of my lights are Phillips Hue. I use the assistant constantly to turn on/off lights, change colors, dim them, play things on the TV, etc. Very high usage.

I think using the assistant for things like calendar, weather, traffic, calls, etc is more difficult than just using a phone.

But being able to turn off all the lights in my apartment when I'm ready to go to bed by just saying "lights off" is really nice.
There are a lot of things you can't do if you can't drive. I was just in Nevada and Death Valley on vacation a few weeks ago. Utterly undoable without either yourself or a companion driving.

I suppose you can just shrug and be OK with pretty much staying in or near cities but that seems to close off a lot of options.

I also couldn't deal with day-to-day things without a car but that's at least somewhat manageable depending upon where you live and work.

ADDED: I'm not a typical Silicon Valley developer to be sure, but I couldn't even have done my first job absent a drivers license. It may be worth asking if you want to be employable outside of certain bubbles where you'll be the weird person who always needs a ride because they can't drive even though they don't have a disability.
Yes, and indeed they tried this (especially on Plus, around photography).

The problem was that the product was working as designed - it was the importing of external feed that was both the key feature and the problem.

It might have worked if two-way-comment feeds were a thing. But there is no reason why Twitter would want to implement that.
I work around 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. Activities include deliveries, research, planning, and hourly impromptu operational check-in's. 5-6 times a week, I shop for and prepare team meals as well.

This schedule allows for 2-3 hours for exercise, relaxation, netflix and hopefully chill.
Did you try it or maybe even use it? I tried Sails a year ago but the learning curve felt really steep and it wasn't super popular at that time :(
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> by happenstance

It was deliberate choice.

> picked a synagogue purely by chance

Also deliberate.

But though the deliberate choice of targets is clear, I'm not advocating banning Congregate Charlottesville or closing synagogues. Right to assembly is a basic human right.
>nodejs / typescript graphql backend and React / Apollo on the frontend.

So uh... I run a Rails / graphql backend and React / Apollo frontend. It's not perfect, but I still think it's easier than running a complex node backend by an order of magnitude.
My personal opinion is we first need to release the NSA from impossible demands for perfect information. It seems like each time there's a terrorist incident people ask how it could be prevented and why didn't we know? The answer is if course you simply can't know everything, particularly what's going on in people's minds.

Since the impetus is always on NSA to gather intelligence and prevent the next disaster all they can say is "We need more data". No, they don't. No amount of data will prevent every criminal act. Instead we need to revisit the trade offs made between freedom, privacy and bringing criminals to justice.