skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the article the thought occurred to me that "disposable" is probably more a factor fo cost + materials (and obviously related). By that I mean, if a thing is cheap and "plasticy" it really doesn't matter how beautifully designed it is — it will feel throwaway. Make the thing from aluminum, glass, magnesium, steel ... the price goes up (the durability goes up) but the value (both perceived and monetary of course) go up as well.

While Apple (as an example) try to tempt their customers each year with something new and new-featured, I'm not actually aware of people tossing out their old iPhones (or MacBooks for that matter) even if they do in fact spring for the latest. Instead they seem to get handed down or repurposed (media center, man-cave, etc.).

I don't feel the same way about my $150 plastic Chromebook.
This is a good point, will do.
Linkerd v2: Lessons Learned from a Rewrite in Rust and Go
For every time you say "LSTM is industry grade" I would point you to large companies (Google-level) which train their acoustic models with TCN architectures.

He used Transformer, why not TCN?
Yes, my immediate gut reaction to the title was to think, maybe next we can have an app to promote the creation of super workers that produce outputs far in excess of their quota, we could call them Shock Workers. Then I read it and some of the language leaned eerily in that direction.

OTOH I've seen similar things used in a different way which worked well, in places that have lots of ops centers to link them and make them feel like one - you can look up and see the other ops center with your colleagues there and chat etc. But that was less about applying a work/focus pressure and more about enabling communication and keeping the teams connected.
As soon as someone makes a serverless postgres with a free tier on low usage we're going to see some big changes in the industry
I don't understand how the curl http://site.com | bash anti-pattern has become so widespread. Especially with -k.
I'm sorry, I'll have to respectfully but strongly disagree if you're going to simplify India's attainment of Independence and grant entire credit to Gandhi & Co.

There were many others who contributed, some more than others, some peacefully some not so. And, let's not forget the WW-2 after which the British were not in a strong enough position to hold on to colonies.

Also, you should ask Dalai Lama how the pacifism worked out for the Tibetans when their country was occupied by China. I surely don't want that for any country, and definitely not for India.
Not designed for developers but sigmacomputing.com let's you write 4000 lines of SQL using a purely visual intetface. I have built queries with it and then used them in code though.
Ask HN: What tech events you should attend?
How do you know what events you should attend ?
Are they all worth your time ?
Are they in your domain ?
Do they align with your skill sets ? Thats exactly how the idea of eventsDF (www.eventsDF.com) was born.

I was once trying to understand serverless technology and after a lot of research I found out that there are some great webinars hosted by AWS, google and many more. And I joined one and it was quite a breeze, the content was absolutely top notch.

And I realized that every company who has a product or offer any services , solves a problem in a particular domain and these events / webinars/videos/ conferences are a great way to learn the topic/domain and the industry trends. Not only these events are very high quality but many of the time they are free .

And then I started finding and attending more webinars and conferences . But to find events which are suitable for my skills sets/interests was time consuming and wasn’t something very systematic.

www.eventsdf.com your own dataframe of events, where you find technology events that matters to you.

1. eventsDF is a try to index and curate all these events
2. You create a profile with your skills and your interests
3. eventsDF suggests you the recommended events based on your profile

I build a prototype and was wondering if this really is a problem for others ? It has decent amount of content, but before we start adding content more aggressively , I wanted to reach out to fellow community members to see what they think ? Is this something worth pusuing?

Any feedback, suggestions are greatly and truly appreciated

Thanks
You're right. But:

The basic idea is this: Let's say i once downloaded long-tail file X. Me sharing it for years and years isn't the default.

But what if it was ? what if this was built into one of the popular torrent clients , and i would have to opt-out to change it ?
This seems to be one of the major drivers for some folks who do pair programming.
An obscure Indian journal with an impressive and growing international stature
People opposed to intelligence work wouldn't apply for a job doing just that and requiring a secret clearance.
Apologies, I meant my point more as amusement than winning an argument.

I am just now reading Practical Common Lisp, and amusingly one of the first things they do is build a simple query language. Didn't even use loop. So, to your point, the imperative commands of looping can be far removed from what people today call comprehensions. That said, I don't think it is inherent. Just a quirk of history.
Yes, I'm not questioning whether one would be more productive (I think actually someone would be more productive!). It's the value of this productiveness in the context of manipulating shame. Maybe for you shame is not a factor here, and that's great. I can only know me, and for me, the act of having someone watch over my shoulder (and only watch over my shoulder) as I work would have some level of shame/guilt involved.
Maybe Australia should follow Norway sovereign fund idea:

"I don't think anyone expected the fund to ever reach $1 trillion when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996."

From:
https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/19/investing/norway-pension-fu...
Le Con, Hinton and Bengio Win Turing Award
I think "alternative" word is OK but not exactly match "managed" + "hosted".

(I used Dokku like 5-6 years ago)
No HN account is a nation, surely?
The screen is the part to choose wisely if you want good battery life.
In Mac 12.1.1 the data-list seems to work that way, (based on the example in this article), but the color picker seems busted (the color remains the same default, no matter what is chosen interactively).
That explains the cartoon gag.
I’m not sure how I feel with an entire generation of kids mindlessly glued to their devices. When I go to restaurants, I genuinely praise every parent that doesn’t have their kids glued to their ipads/phones (which is rare)
I'll save ppl some time:

* first 20 mins: Writing a contrived report query that's easy in SQL is easy in SQL.

* but: most real reports require many different fields collated into many parts of say a pdf or xls. Once you take this into account writing custom code to do the entire report is often the only way to do it. :<

* you often can't do some of what the author suggests bc in a "real" org you have db zealots that only allow access to their precious through stored procs and a surprisingly large number of meetings

* trying to do some non-trivial where clauses? Not in SQL - so you have to use an external lang. I call this "Works in my presentation" syndrome.

* he acts surprised that a lang that uses a db through a SQL api can't be as fast/efficient/terse as a system that uses SQL and has direct access to the db/storage.

Stopped after that.

PS Seems like a funny guy tho - liked his style! :>
Are you contending that this is reduce or reuse?

It doesn't appear that you're reducing your use of boxes, and you aren't reusing the box as a box.

Recycling it as cardboard would seem to be better than using it as mulch, but using it as mulch would seem to be better than putting it in landfill.
There is a large amount of work (I don't know what would be a complete proof for this) behind the idea that anything we can explain, we can do so with math. If we can't explain something with math, we can't explain it, period.

It's just an incredibly flexible tool.
> For me, guilt/shame is something to be overcome, not used as a tool.

Wow, I think I quite strongly disagree.

What do you think it exists _for_ ?

It is good for society that people have the capacity for guilt and shame.

If we did not, I cannot see any other recourse other than fear!
>I’m sorry but you can rationalize literally almost anything using that argument.

And why not?

>I’m quite sure the babies will get made just fine without alcohol.

Yes, but would they be as happy once they rich drinking age?

Millenia of civilization says: "no".

At worst, they'd found some other mind-altering substitute.
I am suddenly reminded of the one Animaniacs skit - "Let the anvils ring!"
You are close to describing what I meant, except what I was saying is not related to a REPL.

For example, I find I am much more productive writing Python code instead of Scala or Haskell, after many years of experience in all three. By “productive” I mean writing fewer defects, completing programs more quickly, and validating that programs are sufficiently correct & efficient for deployment.

A typical work cycle in all 3 languages would be to read code, edit code, invoke a test command from a shell prompt (which triggers incremental re-compilation with Scala and Haskell). In business settings, even for very minor code changes, the incremental re-compilation would take on the order of a few minutes every time, and this was in large companies with sophisticated monorepo tooling and dedicated teams of tooling engineers who worked on performance for incremental compulation. For Python, I just run tests and get immediate feedback without waiting ~3 minutes every time.

The types of correctness verification offered by using the compiled languages and waiting ~3 minutes every cycle was just not useful. I got the same verification in Python by just writing some low effort extra tests one time and then save ~3 minutes on every edit-test cycle.
I don't know why you are being downvoted but I'd like to know. I have a very official and very governmental API that isn't properly set up and the official doc says to use curl -k to talk to it. I had a long argument with one of the dev, with a PoC and a live example, about how it was a bad idea, especially considering how it can easily be fixed but... the 'feature' is still there.

I suppose the next $2,000 a day consultant will get them the memo.
Ah yeah! I used Caprover when it was still CaptainDuckDuck, it was awesome :)

- No, for now it's only application hosting. You should use an external service like S3 to store immutable files.

- Although filesystem is available it might reset on server upgrade / scaling / migration. That happens very rarely (safe for temp files) but general files should be stored somewhere like S3.

- For PostgreSQL backups, they are actually done with dumps (pg_dump) so it's not a base backup.
Right, me too. I'm just saying that the shame/guilt applies via your coding partner as well. Maybe more so, since they're a peer.
It reeks of "scientific management", a scrupuleless way of exploiting the slaves^H^H^H^H^H^H employees.

Ruthless con named Frederick Taylor looks for a way to make himself a ton of money by "consulting" on improving worker productivity.

"How did Taylor arrive at forty-seven and a half tons for Bethlehem Steel? He chose twelve “large, powerful Hungarians,” observed them for an hour, and calculated that, at the rate they were working, they were loading twenty-four tons of pig iron per man per day. Then he handpicked ten men and dared them to load sixteen and a half tons as fast as they could. They managed to do it in fourteen minutes; this yields a rate of seventy-one tons per man per ten-hour day. Taylor inexplicably rounded up the number to seventy-five. To get to forty-seven and a half, he reduced seventy-five by about forty per cent, claiming that this represented a work-to-rest ratio of the “law of heavy laboring.” Workers who protested the new standards were fired. Only one—the best approximation of an actual Schmidt was a man named Henry Noll—loaded anything close to forty-seven and a half tons in a single day, a rate that was, in any case, not sustainable. After providing two years of consulting services, Taylor billed the company a hundred thousand dollars (which works out to something like two and a half million dollars today), and then he was fired."
shard token top of 2nd paragraph threw me for a loop, is this some sublime feature I don't know about? Means Shared token.
This is a bad idea, when are you considered a criminal and when is the FBI/police allowed to take your DNA for testing?

When they arrest you? When you are convicted? Convicted in the 1st instance? Upper court?
Urban highways that deserve to die ranked
Sugar Hill is such an evocative name.

There are quite a few neighborhoods and towns named Sugar Hill around the country. Most of them (all of them?) perhaps named as either a descriptive or hopeful reference to the possibility of a post-emancipation "sweet life" for black Americans.

Sugar Hill Records takes its name from the Harlem Sugar Hill, rather than this article's Brooklyn-via-North-Carolina Sugar Hill.
What makes the Kessler scenario worse is that every collision creates dozens or hundreds more cars, increasing the probability of a subsequent collision. Through positive feedback, large classes of orbits become unusable for meaningful mission lifetimes, even if the odds were still low for an individual spacecraft to have a collision in some short time window.
One of the biggest problems with embedding SQL directly into your application is the dreaded vendor lock in. In my experience each RDBMS vendor supports its own special flavor of SQL. Once you've baked that flavor into your code base it becomes non-trivial to change your SQL backend if necessary. From what I understand Amazon has spent years trying to untangle the rats nest of embedded Oracle SQL dependencies within its codebase so it can extract itself from Oracle vendor lock in. So before you bake that SQL string into your code think carefully about what SQL functionality you are using and ask yourself if its representation is specific to your current RDBMS vendor.
"In the last seven (7) years, have you illegally used any drugs or controlled substances? Use of a drug or
controlled substance includes injecting, snorting, inhaling, swallowing, experimenting with or otherwise
consuming any drug or controlled substance.

[...]

In the last seven (7) years have you intentionally engaged in the misuse of prescription drugs, regardless of
whether or not the drugs were prescribed for you or someone else?

[...]

In the last seven (7) years has your use of alcohol had a negative impact on your work performance, your professional or personal relationships, your finances, or resulted in intervention by law enforcement/public
safety personnel?"

They also ask a bunch of other questions as follow-ons. https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86-non508.pdf form page 93 PDF page 96.
Hi there, we may potentially have a solution ready for you in a couple of months (in private beta currently). Do you have a bit of time to chat about your specific requirements? If yes, my email address is in my profile :)
Calling China "China" is an incredibly low blow?
Tangentially related: is there any sort of dashboard service that would let me create a dashboard showing things like:

* email inbox count (differentiated by email inbox)

* unmoderated comment queue on website

* Facebook unread message count. Similar ones for other social media inboxes

* and maybe some custom metrics or ones triggered by a spreadsheet or todoist or something

I think this would be immensely useful for my own purposes, in seeing where I wasn’t on top of things. But also useful for sharing with someone else and being accountable. Would allow analysis too, such as eliminating a certain inbox entirely, or delegating some sections, etc
Kqueue: A generic and scalable event notification facility (2001) [pdf]
Related reading about focus and folks on the autism spectrum: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uoe-abq04051...
Legends say that long ago outside of the bubble where people working constantly monitoring each others and there even was people who's position was literally supervisors.

This is called "office". Somehow absolute peak of my procrastination happened in those human filled dedicated work places with supervision, from bosses, peers and subordinates.
Suuure. And lithium is infinite.
Okay, so shame exists because it is good for a society that is built on shame? I don't mean to be derogatory in anyway, but the fact something is stabilizing doesn't mean it is good. I believe there are better ways to build relationships with others
It's interesting that this is a scene from Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment. I always wondered if it's a bizarre coincidence or some sort of influence went into the novel, or reports about Nietzche's life.
Hm, is Heroku PG a serverless postgres? I don't know what serverless postgres is seriously.
do-cyborg-cockroaches-dream-of-electric-trash
The SoC they are using (Qualcomm 205) seems to be less than $10 in single unit quantities: https://www.kynix.com/Detail/1331087/MSM8905.html
"demise of Samsung phones in China is more "emotionally" driven"

Incorrect. Unable to compete and inadequate customer support are the reasons.

Samsung used to have a big user base in China. But product offerings from local manufactures became much better. Design, software and quality wise, they suit the customers' needs better. Samsung's products are simply - "meh".

In terms of customer support, Samsung treated Chinese customers like second class citizen. E.g. during the faulty emmc and fire-catching battery fiasco, they refused to offer the same level of customer service as they did in the US and Europe.

When the first/second case of exploding battery surfaced, Samsung accused the owner putting his phone in a microwave to cause the battery to explode.

Also Samsung adopts some dirty marketing tricks which is well known in China. They have been fined in Taiwan before.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/samsung-f...

All the factors combined, caused their market share to plummet.
I'm writing this on a 2008 MacBook which I've replaced the HD and optical drive with ssd, upgraded the RAM and repeatedly replaced battery. If I could update the CPU and screen I would.
I call this pattern "dotsql". (I've made private golang and rust crates for it).

You avoid inline sql like the plague and your editor can have a nice dedicated sql buffer with all the bells and whistles.

I wish it was a more common pattern, it just makes soooo much more sense.
I wouldn't say we're seeing the first few waves now - MAG and Metal Gear Online were circa 2008-ish, right?
For some reason I find this very concerning yet I have no idea about any of the possible implications
I guess you are right. I'm much more interested in ES implementation, PWA support, etc, than the APIs you mention.
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” - Edward V Berard
You mean like generations past who had iPods, Walkmen, Gameboys and portable DVD players?

People have been complaining about kids and their electronics since the Atari 2600.
Freaky. Dna samples should sort of be viewed as banking information. Some point I am sure dna will be correlated with different arguments styles people are vulnerable to. Or their purchasing style etc. Or even better correlated with their overall life outcomes.

I wonder if they are looking for genetic correlates with homeless or marginalization or mental health.

It is surely a study without consent of the participants. Super illegitimate and shady.
Running the Linux kernel would just be a pyrrhic victory, as it already happens on Android and ChromeOS.

Any OEM would eventually just replace it for something else, preferably non copyleft.
Facts That Demonstrate America’s Ethical Breakdown Is Turning Fiercely Crazy
All my dev life was in finance, they don't give a shit about how its done, they just throw money at the problem until its finished. your boss and your boss's bosses are just worried about making their bosses happy. Another thing that happens a lot: here it comes the big tech company sales man with swag, hookers and travel tickets to their next conference in the most exiting city in the world, the guy in charge will buy any tech from them. and most of the time is pure crap.
from reddit [1]:

* Saint Bartholomew was skinned alive - he is the patron saint of butcher, tanners, book binders etc.

* John the Apostle was boiled alive - he is the patron saint of burn victims

* Simon the Zealot was sawed in half - he is the patron saint of sawyers, lumberjacks and curriers (leather tanners who specialize in shaping and stretching leather)

* St Sebastian was shot full of arrows, recovered, an beaten to death by a bunch of clubs by the emperor's soldiers - he's the saint of archers and soldiers

* St Barbara was tortured and then beheaded, when they were carting her body off, the cart was struck by lighting, catching fire - she's the patron saint of firefighters, artillerymen, and those who work with explosives

* St Lawrence got cooked to death over hot coals. After being roasted for a while, he told his executioner "I'm done on this side, turn me over" - patron saint of cooks and barbeque and comedians

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b9u3d8/statue_of_sain...
Forgive my ignorance, but what are some of the "less good" options? I ask since it's my understanding L-ion supplies are not infinite, so it's probably good to think about alternatives if the price spikes.

(For example, I'm not an EE, but is it possible that if you're willing to tolerate a bulkier rig for a device to store charge in capacitors?)
I thought you were kidding. You weren't!
I was going to say. Go work in an office?
Until they get bought out or simply change their minds, that is.
What is “the startup” in this case? What is preventing from disclosing the name of the business?
The sound! It's like Thor's hammer cracking a frost giant's skull. I wanna see it in irl.
The thing about it that I find hard is knowing how to judge the important bits to read and knowing where to direct my attention as I read. Any tips on learning that?

I find that without knowing where to direct my attention, it is really hard to avoid getting distracted.
> In limited quantities it can be a sleep ad.

But it's not a sleep aid. Seriously. The idea of a nightcap has been thoroughly debunked.

Alcohol is a sedative, being sedated is not the same as being asleep. I'd suggest looking in to Dr. Matthew Walker's research on the effects of alcohol and sleep if you want to have a clearer picture.
The problem is, however, the longevity of these batteries. In the smartphone world, we've seen a huge emphasis on "50% charge in 10 seconds" but I like to believe batteries weren't designed with that in mind.

I refuse to use 'fast charging' since I believe it will reduce the life span of the battery (which I guess is what they want so you buy a new phone).

If it can be proven batteries can charge much faster AND have an acceptable life span, that's okay. But I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.
It's rare that a model introduced in a paper has fair comparisons. You'll want to see it used by many different authors before one can speak with confidence on claimed improvements.

In this paper, Bellard makes a comparison to the Transformer, some variant of which holds most NLP records. Of note is that in this test, the Transformer did not outperform the LSTM. Is it that Transformers need to be larger to outperform or LSTMs are more suited to compression or that more epochs are required? This deserves further investigation, what are the required conditions for Transformers to underperform LSTMs?