skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically it doesn't free up the people who used to do them to go about doing what they want with their time - it only frees them up in the same way that the computer will free up memory, the people are able to be allocated to other places in the economy. The observation that automation tends not to free people in any genuine sense even runs against Keynes' predictions for how much we'd be working today.
There's nothing "polite" about trying to create conflict out of trivial non-issues.
These curations get overwhelming pretty fast and lack social proof. Anyone can pull request anything.

For example, the first screenshot tool I clicked didn't even have a screenshot or copy on the landing page. Just a download button + email collection form. https://getkap.co/ -- Not something I would blindly run on my machine, but I'd consider it if it was HN's favorite tool.

Another take on these "Awesome *" lists would be to link to real world forum topics (Reddit, HN, etc) where people are discussing, say, their favorite screen-recording tool. That way you at least get a priority queue of software to consider. And you can differentiate between a tool with 100 upvotes vs. one that's only ever shilled by its shady creator.
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I'll add it to the ever growing list in my "To Read" folder :)
Ohh that's cute. We have 2 Bulgarian Calico sisters and without a shadow of a doubt, absolutely factually, they know their names.

I would bet a million Leva on that.
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They have greater capacity to build batteries than any other car manufacturer.

They have a greater propensity to build BEVs than any other car manufacturer, since they are all dependent on dealerships who live and die on income from servicing ICE vehicles.

There is not going to be any rapid change to BEVs from established manufacturers. It will be all talk, no action until the last dealership closes down.
"Hello", "good morning/afternoon/evening". In Japanese, "Ohio/Konichiwa", in German "Guten tag" etc.
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Also adding easy mode retroactively cheapens the experience for those who have invested genuine effort into playing the game so far.

Also there is satisfaction in knowing you beat something that not everyone who bought the game has.
Fair enough. I just noticed down below someone was using keepass2android or similar. I'm using keepassdroid, and I noticed they have an issues page. Filed one. I might investigate bitwarden if I get bored[1]. Thanks btw, it really did not occur to me actually that there would be other versions.

[1]something that will not likely happen between family, work, and chores around having a large property
All these "awesome list of ..." maybe means that there is a need for a site like Yahoo in the 90's which tried to catalogize internet in a hierarchical list-of-lists manner.
lastly: vaporwave. anything from Vektroid is fine.
Also, you never know what “side channel” may appear out the blue. Say, for instance, that Intel makes a chipnfor which 0’s spend less energy than 1’s in computations.
I don't think it is fair that you are being downvoted.

Size does matter and not just in sense that it is using resources. The largest part of the 24 MB probably never gets executed but it adds unnecessary complexity that may hide bugs and security flaws.
It’s pretty disgusting to accuse a dead pilot, that was fighting to save his life and that of hundreds of people, of incompetence from the warmth of your chair.
I know Army SF Snipers who shoot customized 5.56 rifles, obviously using heavier rounds and such.

It's a great round -- I love 5.56.
FWIW I use KeePass2Android and I sync to my OneDrive. I have no issues with it on Android 9 on a Huawei device running EMUI 9
Just because we can't predict the future doesn't mean we shouldn't try to estimate things. If we wanted 100% certainty, we'd have to throw away pretty much all science and human knowledge.
Yes, I would be very interested!
Temporal thinking is something that needs to be exercised. It's relatively easy to think 'what if', 'and then what' but much harder to think these through when each next level overwrites the previous one, it's not a matter of adding up the effects of static layers. Successive effects invalidate former ones to varying degrees. It's really just running thought experiments, but running them deeper and simulating for longer time periods.

The most visual demonstration of most of these talking points is in the game of Go. Being able to 'read' the board is seeing the good/bad outcome of a world of possibilities.

The other really good comment made was about quantifying second order effects. Being able to imagine higher order effects without being able to estimate them leads to analysis paralysis.
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I didn't really look at the quote as being a literal, canonical truth. I have my own doubts about it being _literally_ true, but I feel that the underlying idea that "the longer a bug persists through the development process the costlier it becomes to fix" is true.
People keep making comments like that. I really wish someone would explain to me how that attitude makes any sense at all, given that the US imports 40% of its oil from Saudi Arabia (see my comment with links below), and has core military operations based in that country.
The saddest thing about Kap, is that they had a very nice landing page, so much so I had put it in my "inspiration" list. And then they changed it to this...
Well, maybe he should not have also offended (in the law and the colloquial sense) his „real“ hosts.

It’s almost as if no man is an island, and also Karma.
Perhaps UBI could be implemented as UBA (Universal Basic Assets) in that each citizen owns a piece of the betting market.

There could be a tax to place a bet that is then distributed evenly to all citizens so even if one goes bust they still get chips to play.

I’d be curious if there is a way to implement this in a small community as a test.

Perhaps we could run an annual festival by this method and experiment with it.

I’d be happy to offer up http://Majagual.org (the island for those who are wise and of good will) as a resting ground for this or other forms of alternative goverernance.
> I am surprised all of the comments so far are so negative. They can take carbon out of the air and make jet fuel with it. We still need jet fuel. It makes flying carbon neutral.

This is either an oversimplification or the technology is not useful, since a naïve method of doing this means that you will have to put in the energy we got from burning the fuel to convert the carbon dioxide.
Literally there are no such tweets.
So you are saying it could be worse. However, if they raised those cows properly it would even help with fighting climate change. But I'm sure they are going down the animal factory route instead.
Main findings of the investigation by EU's antitrust regulator (article extract):

* From 2006 to 2014, the three German automakers conspired to limit the development and roll-out of emission cleaning technology for passenger cars sold in Europe.

* The talks were aimed at restricting competition and "breached EU antitrust rules."

* Two types of technology specifically were restricted: one to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel cars, and another to reduce harmful particulate matter from petrol engine cars.

* The companies "denied consumers the opportunity to buy less polluting cars" despite the technology being available.

IMO: the Dieselgate is still known as the "Volkswagen emissions scandal" (e.g see the title of the main Wikipedia article on the subject) and yet, the deeper we go down the rabbit hole, the more this appears to be an industry-wide conspiracy. Is there any other case as global and catastrophic as this one, in terms of collusion against regulations, people's health and the environment?
It's quite similar to http://evernote.design/
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Not to mention all his trouble started when he raped (allegedly) one of his former hosts, who had also put him up for free and was generally a fan until he violated the house rules on hygiene.
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This is literally a gold mine. Despite being a founder of a Design company, coming across such collection of compiled resources has always been a painful task.

I have tried using https://startupstash.com and https://startupresources.io earlier which had good resources too.

What's the best way to add more products to the list? Any idea if I could add the following products:
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I'm rather struck by the realization here that if a person has spent significant amounts of time in prison being locked up for following their principles, they may start looking at getting locked up for their principles as, well, just something they do.

Is this a traumatic response to the initial experience or something more? After all, being willing to go to prison for your principles underlies much of 'real' activism.

Probably a mix of both.
I agree. It seems no algorithm could kill "curators" yet.
I forgot to add --- the biggest benefit for me is I continue to have a copy of the webpage exactly as I see it, and the copy will remain with me even if the original page goes 404.
> But if we want sex-segregated bathrooms then there's little point if people can just randomly change their mind about which category they belong to. What's the point of categories then?

Categories do not need to be immutable. There are meetups for bikers and redditors and many other categories which anyone may self-identify as belonging to. These people prefer to think of themselves as belonging within those categories for any of a number of reasons, and accepting their choice is generally a decent thing to do, barring a compelling reason to the contrary.

The point of the male/female categories is that a large number of people identify as one of those two genders, and prefer strongly to be recognized as within one of those categories. There are exceptions and it's more complicated than that, but in the common case, that's why the categories have value: people ascribe value to them. If recognizing someone's desired identity makes them feel more comfortable, why shouldn't we? In the case of genders, it's especially important since it's such an important category.

Finally, people switching genders on a whim is a strawman itself. Transitioning your gender officially is a multi-year process, and you face significant persecution and stigma along the way. I don't see why anyone would undergo that unless it helped resolve some acute gender dysphoria.
You can't climb Everest if you are disabled also. So what? Should that mountain be flattened to accommodate everyone.

From software games are hard and it's not like they cheated someone into buying the game, who is not in the target audience.

Disability options that don't affect the design vision are not a problem. But the developer should have the option to choose their market and audience.
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We have around 2.1 mio queries per day, because we cache ip-loc data locally. otherwise it would be around 30-50 mio q/d
I want to say I still have this in my basement in a box. I also want to say I have this in my old workstation computer and it still works, sitting in my basement.
I agree that it's needed.

The problem with those kind of sites is that the site owners try to game the ranking system.
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Be my guest. For sure I won’t be aboard one of these death traps in the next accident.
And we’ll have another accident if they let this killing machine take off again given that they are just doing a useless software fix.
Thanks for sticking with it. I sometimes feel I'm the worst at self promotion. It is too conflicting with the realist in me.
If you only work with fictitious data, the conclusions of your analysis and models... will be fictitious.

That doesn't have to mean it's worse though. Testing with 10,000,000 fictitious accounts generated to cover lots of permutations of user data is a great idea even if the real data won't ever have some of those permutations. It's a testing technique called "fuzzing", and it's quite common.
In most cases I can remember, including the most high-profile ones, internal channels were indeed used. They were just ignored. It's the act of going outside those channels which triggered the disloyal reprisals.

I don't see much of a problem with making it mandatory.
or better yet, just delete your facebook altogether. i did, & i feel great
This, for Docker. Everybody is using it these days, and I understand there are valid use cases. But it's way overused and very often does not justify the added complexity. Keep it simple.
False. Trust in journalism is built by proving reporting to be of quality over time. Not by providing a bibliography before the report ever dries.
GGP’s comment is that he can’t keep doing the things he used to do like calling foolish behaviour “retarded”, slapping the female members of the seam on the butt in place of the high-five his male colleagues get, or asking female colleagues out on dates.

The people most upset about being called out by “SJWs” are the ones whose behaviour is most problematic and exclusionary.
> in part because PCs were aggressively marketed towards boys only.

I've seen this repeated a lot without, as far as I can see, any credible evidence that (a) this was actually the case and (b) that the causality worked the way indicated.

To me, it's at best a classic "wet roads cause rain" fallacy that doesn't make sense at any level.

1. Companies are dollar driven

This idea that companies would forego a massive market in order to...I don't know, "keep the girls out of computers" just doesn't make any sense. Even typing these words is weird, the idea is just so utterly ludicrous.

And the idea that it might have been just oversight also doesn't wash. At least one company would have at some point asked the question, tried it out and made a killing.

2. Nobody wanted to keep girls out

Heck, I grew up in the 80s, and the very last thing on the mind of any of us computer nerds was "oh my god, we need to keep the girls away from this stuff". We would have given almost anything to get more girls interested. They just weren't.

3. The effects of marketing are vastly overstated

Us computer nerds did not want computers because they were "marketed towards" us. We wanted computers because we really wanted computers. In fact, I had no awareness of computers until exposed to Apple IIs in summer camp, first a little BASIC and then shape tables. Oh boy, shape tables! And yes, the computers were open to anyone who wanted.

In fact, we got an Apple, despite all the marketing material I remember being the Tandy catalogs. They even had a 68K based model at that time!

4. The ads were gender neutral

Although I don't remember much in terms of ads, what I remember was fairly neutral. As a quick check, I did a Google image search and the ads were quite balanced, for example families grouped around a computer with mom+dad+girl+boy.
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Cuba also has a big US military base, the US simply refused to leave once their relationship went sour.
Is that true?

I don’t need to try out jumping off a cliff to know it’s a bad idea.

And you could have a bill of rights.
That sounds exactly like a secretary.
3rd order thinkers see direct causes, indirect causes, direct effects and indirect effects, which establishes the need for setting up an internal feedback loop to strengthen the causes classified as direct (coming from within) and to power the process of distinguishing between direct and indirect causes. Without this feedback loop the experience of indirect causes results in an experience of loss of agency.

1st order thinkers know what they do, 2nd order thinkers know what they do to others, 3rd order thinkers know what they want to do. I'm leaving an interpolation which is both obvious, crucial, trivial and infinitely deep to the reader.
> energy/material intensity of global GDP has probably been falling because most of the GDP actually is generated by way of massive unaccounted debt piling up

Real energy intensity is falling. This is because of both increasing efficiency and [1] a greater fraction of demand being explained by immaterial factors [2].

In any case, leveraging an economy doesn't directly change its energy intensity. If it costs X kcal to produce $1 of goods, it doesn't matter if those goods were paid for with cash or credit.

[1] https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13149/1/MPRA_paper_13149.pdf

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0140988382...
I suspect we're going to end up seeing evidence that the first accident was also the result of known risks being down-played / swept under the rug in the name of profit.
One perspective is that the first and second accidents happened because the band-aid fell off, and the first accident should have been the cue to use stickier bandaids. But it seems very unlikely that no engineer anywhere through the development said "This design is for shit and is WAY too dependent on a bandaid that can't realistically be adequate".
That Manning matter is settled. She has immunity and double jeopardy protection. Sitting in jail in protest of a grand jury is a futile gesture that says more about Manning’s need for attention than anything else.
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I think it is far more defensible than illegally collecting this information and making the leak necessary and required in the first place. Since there are no repercussions for the latter, I don't see how you could call it indefensible. Since allegedly nothing happened.
Reminiscent of fuzzy logic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic

The Wikipedia article discusses various extensions of logic and symbolic computation to include probabilistic elements. This was a popular topic in the early 90s.
They might well have been keypunch staff back in those days a lot of code was written long hand and send of to the punchroom to be keyed in.
> it still remains a fact that humans talk, make music, feel remorse and have civilisations

We are very clearly not the only species that can have complex communication. Other mammals do so without even counting primates.

Bird songs and whale songs are not music?

I partially agree about feelings. My gut says that animals have emotions. But we should not be assigning human emotions to whatever is going on with them. Though perhaps primates mirror our emotions since we are after all closely related.

They certainly don't have civilisations or culture on the level that we do. That's clear. But some other species of primate could have survived instead of us.

At the end of the day, we're just an accident of evolution. Our ultimate goals is still to mature and try and reproduce just like everything else.
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The article is good in saying stay out of the middle. The point it missed completely is that you can be in several places at once. Accepting of many things and simultaneously changing the world in a specific other place. Same goes for being intro/extravert. After looking inward, take what you've discovered and apply it outwardly. Like they say, wisdom is knowing what can be changed and picking your battles along the lines of your passions.
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These lists get far more Github stars than actual software...same problem here.
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Indeed, but you can hide behind your 1st order thought, play dumb and get the vote of the 1st order thinkers.
When I was about 17 I read a Peter singer book on his ethical philosophy. It was all about grounding ethics rationally in principles. It made me enroll in a philosophy degree.

He flirted with all sorts of wierd conclusions. Babies are less conscious/intelligent/etc than ravens or apes. Does that mean they have the same moral standing as apes and birds?

However you try to rationalize human exceptionalism (or ethics in general), you can usually find examples where they don't apply to all people, or some other rational conclusion that doesn't feel right.

Anyway... I don't think our morals are or can be grounded in morality. Ultimately, "Man is the measure of all things." Morality applies where we decide it applies. There is no higher truth, no underlying rules we can unvover. There is only subjective human judgement and our attempts to rationalize it.
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so then everybody has a copy of the docker container and access to the data too. How does that improve things?
Mark Zuckerberg and James Comey, among others, were reported to be using black tape: this is far more elegant. https://www.amazon.com/Yilador-Premium-Computer-Smartphones-...
This is a cool idea but unless it provides a seamless UX it will probably have minimal utility but I guess you could appear enigmatic to your friends and likely shunned by the algorithm. I think a solution that doesn't rely on Facebook would be preferable and I prefer solutions that don't further the monopoly of Chrome by working exclusive to that ecosystem even though I know Firefox is used by less than 10% of people at this point.
9 servers (8 reads and 1 writer) running all of the time with asynchronous replication (as opposed to synchronous replication) with duplicate data - yes the storage is shared between all of the replicas.

Not to mention the four lower environments some of which the databases are automatically spun up from 0 and scaled up as needed (Aurora Serverless)

Should we also maintain those same read replicas servers in our other environments when we want to do performance testing?

Should we maintain servers overseas for our outsourced workers?

Here we are just talking about Aurora/MySQL databases. I haven’t even gotten into our VMs, load balancer, object store (S3), queueing server (or lack there of since we use SQS/SNS), our OLAP database (Redshift - no we are not “locked in” it users standard Postgres drivers), etc.

AWS is not about saving money on like for like resources as you would on bare metal, but in the case of databases where your load is spiky you do. It’s about provisioning resources as needed when needed and not having to either pay as many infrastructure folks. Heck before my manager who hired me and one other person came in, the company had no one onsite that had any formal AWS expertise. They completely relied on a managed service provider - who they pay much less than they would pay for one dedicated infrastructure guy.

I’m first and foremost a developer/lead/software architect (depending on which way the wind is blowing at any given point in my career), but yes I have managed infrastructure on prem as part of my job years ago, including replicated MySQL servers. There is absolutely no way that I could spin up and manage all of the resources I need for a project and develop at the efficacy level at a colo as I can with just a CloudFormation template with AWS.

I’ve worked at a company that rented stacks of servers that sat idle most of the time but we used to simulate thousands of mobile connections to our backend servers - we did large B2B field services deployments. Today, it would be running a Pythom script that spun up an autoscaling group of VMs to whatever number we needed.
Yep, we had this exact issue on our live servers deployed to Windows Server 2016 in a VM - essentially I would do:

1) post tasks to process some data

2) while(tasksNotFinished) Sleep(1);

Well, very quickly found out that the Sleep(1) was always a minimum of 16ms(or a multiple of 16ms), which made the whole thing stupidly slow. We fixed it by running timeBeginPeriod(1) which overrides the system timer resolution to 1ms. Yes it would kill the battery on laptops, but on a server this is not an issue.