skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just saw a submission on the "demise" of Cloud Foundry (a Heroku-like PaaS) that's relevant to this discussion: https://medium.com/@krishnan/lessons-from-the-demise-of-clou...

Opinionated Platforms Are Risky: The CloudFoundry platform was more opinionated than some competing platforms in the market. In fact, the biggest debate between CloudFoundry and its direct competitors was about whether customers need opinionated platforms or not. CloudFoundry only supported 12 factor applications whereas platforms built on top of Kubernetes could support both stateful and stateless (12 factor) applications.

If you're building a stateless 12-factor app and there's a buildpack that does what you want, buildpacks are clearly better than lower-level Dockerfiles. But there's no buildpack for something like a database and there probably never will be, so the flexibility of directly building containers needs to exist.
Kofola originated as a by-product of pharma industry.
> I want to know what you personally think about the morals of a country choosing to close the borders in any capacity, as long as it was democratically chosen.

Being democratically chosen is utterly orthogonal to the morality of the policy, and only relates to the morality of the policy process.

Also, you seem to be asking about different things and may be conflating them: “closing the borders” is different than “prohibiting immigration”.

> Nation will suffer economically due to lack of trade

This is an affect of closing borders, not prohibiting immigration. Stopping immigration has no direct effect on trade.

> and/or talent

OTOH, this is an impact of either closing borders or merely restricting immigration (or non-immigrant alien work, e.g., cutting off H-4 work permits as a means of making H-1B less attractive.)

> Nation will have better chance at maintaining culture/language/tribe

There is a difference between stagnation/decay and healthy maintenance, and forcible isolation leans more to the former than the latter.

> It will bring back jobs

Closing borders won't, it'll kill them in large numbers. So will stopping immigration, though in smaller numbers. OTOH, stopping immigration will also reduce the pool of people seeking jobs. Which may somewhat offset the hit to overall employment from the job loss.

> and keep the nation safer.

If you magically assume complete effectiveness, sure, in terms of external threats, but you might as well just assume complete effectiveness of a policy of only stopping dangerous items and people from crossing the border, which is more focussed but no less magical.
> but your wording sounds like you're advocating taking revenge

No.

It's you, KMag, who is creating a straw man against SolaceQuantum.

SolaceQuantum's actual wording is using "paid well in jail time." Which means the expectancy of the involvement of the judicial system (courts, lawyers etc.) which could also eventually produce such a sentence (jail time).

And that is certainly not "advocating taking revenge."

SolaceQuantum also never mentions "engineers." It's again your straw man construction and a false claim.

It's already clear that in this case the "fox was guarding the hen house" (As reported in (1)): "The FAA, citing lack of funding and resources, has over the years delegated increasing authority to Boeing to take on more of the work of certifying the safety of its own airplanes." Note: FAA "is a governmental body of the United States with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation." Also note, just as an example: "The FAA has been cited as an example of regulatory capture, in which the airline industry openly dictates to its regulators its governing rules, arranging for not only beneficial regulation, but placing key people to head these regulators." (3)

1) https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile... )

Also (2):

2) https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/senat...

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administratio...

All that is certainly not about the "engineers." And the Senate Committee already investigates.
Thanks, great design. Signed up for early access.
I had a pint of homemade Kvass today at a local restaurant in the Baltics. It's very different from what is sold in the supermarkets, and much heathier than Coke.

To those who have never tasted Kvass: it's a natural drink, which stands somewhere between Coke and beer. It's softer and a bit sweeter than beer, but can still have up to 2-3% alcohol when made at home or bought from a local brewery.

However, when bought from a supermarket, it's mostly just a carbonated water with some sweeteners and artificial flavors, trying to recreate the original taste at the lowest possible cost.
If you have no use case for this product, consider the ways in which you have been fortunate.
> Americans who have concealed carry permits on their person when entering Canada will have their vehicle searched with a fine toothed comb.

If the Canadian border authorities are searching your person, such that they are likely to notice something like a concealed carry permit, your border crossing has already gone south.
Utilitarianism is a perfectly valid moral framework; one might prefer a different one, of course.
> no way that bicameralism would be the dominant phenotype only a few thousand years ago

It would be cultural and taught, not genetic.

There are non-isolated populations: I come from a religious background where the idea that God "talks" to you is quite prevalent. If you want an analysis of how could possibly be the case in our modern society, I recommend Tanya Luhrmann's "When God Talks Back".

I say Jaynes puts the transition as far too sudden compared to what it actually could have been. Individuals could have had developed his version of "consciousness" often and repeatedly, but failed to pass it on into greater culture. I think of literacy as an analogous transition; until it's actually of benefit for the average person to read+write (ie society has moved beyond majority subsistence), it's not going to happen.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12958803-when-god-talks-...
Do you plan to accommodate multi-line lambda? Python is hamstrung on this front thanks to the white-space oriented formatting.
Pure handwaving speculation here, but this incident is feeling like a result of the limitations of fly-by-cable - specifically taking the tried and true design of fly-by-cable, but augmenting it with motors in parallel to human control.

System integration is a known common source of errors, and what is less formally specified than the effective limits of a human being? If the human(s) are fully in the loop, then the buck stops with them and we know how to socially characterize and educate about failure modes. A pure-computer portion of the loop is characterizable by straight engineering.

But rather, we've got human pilots physically fighting against electrical motors. Either the pilot is right and the computer is wrong (in which case any physical effort expended is a further detriment), or the computer is right and the pilot is wrong (in which case letting the pilot effectively sabotage the computer is wrong). There is no middle ground between these two - weighing the input of a human versus the input of a computer based on them physically fighting is not a sound methodology.

Either powered drive of the trim is necessary or it is not. As it seems to be necessary due to the forces involved, the sensible design is to declare the actuator a critical part of the plane, and make the human input go through the actuator rather than around it.
This. Exactly this. This whole “stop relying on third party” is a silly meme that sounds nice and fluffly on the surface, but impractical when you dig into it.
Kvass is very uncommon in Slovakia or Czechia (it's only known as Ukrainian or Russian drink, one can buy it it shops with UA and RU products, which are oriented mainly on UA and RU expats)
I think it used to be the case that a language and it's implementation were considered separate things. Today it seems like they are conflated to the point where people take the position that if it's not implemented, it's not actually a language. This view discounts the great languages of the past that were never implemented due to platform immaturity.
It does seem very similar to the implementation of HIBP's Pwned Passwords by Junade Ali[0]. I haven't delved into the nitty gritty details/differences between the two, but they do seem to use similar techniques to guarantee k-anonymity.

A key difference, at a glance, is the inclusion of usernames to be paired with the leaked passwords.

[0] Junade Ali's write-up https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.theepochtimes.com/microsoft-finds-backdoor-in-hu....
> This will get abused by spammers, even with email confirmations.

Could you elaborate? I have vague worries since there's not a captcha or anything. But I can't think of an attack or abuse beyond a DoS-type thing, and I don't know why someone would do that beyond trolling. I know my naïveté probably sounds painful but I would appreciate more feedback here.

Would a captcha be enough? My concern there is that I'm being super paranoid about privacy (https://aytwit.com/about#privacy) and wouldn't want to incorporate Google's captcha if I don't have to.
This citation admits that it's pure conjecture how many North Sentinelese died due to outside diseases. Neighboring tribes on neighboring islands suffered heavy losses, but you specifically claimed that large numbers of natives of North Sentinel Island died.

As far as I can tell, it's highly speculative third-order conjecture that (1) large numbers of them died due to diseases acquired through contact (2) they have a belief that quarantine will protect them (likely despite not having a germ theory of disease) and (3) this is their reasoning for killing outsiders. Medieval Europe was significantly more advanced, and they had all kinds of strange ideas about the cause of diseases and plagues that prevented them from mounting effective quarantines.

We can't expect them to have the same feelings we do about killing outsiders, and I think it's a stretch to project our understanding and values on them and then to back out a reasonable Western-style justification for their actions. I think it's much better to admit that we know very little about their system of moral reasoning and give them the benefit of the doubt that their killing of outsiders under the specific circumstances they found themselves in is moral within their moral framework.
One reason is to recover from "mach tuck":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_tuck#Design_features
Are you saying the Bicameral Mind could be a result of a viral infection? And that virus could have disappeared in the last two thousand years? Or are you saying the phenotype could have disappeared?
>Its my data and I should own it.

Then don't give it to them.

>Is this Facebook trolls

I personally don't use facebook, and don't advocate for others to use facebook. If you do use facebook, then you are accepting the deal they have offered you.

>What exactly do we stand to lose if Facebook can't aggregate data on a level akin to a hyper advanced dystopiam government?

This is how facebook makes money, and stronger how they survive as a platform. If they couldn't do this, then more then likely we would lose facebook. I personally don't see this as such a huge loss, but apparently you do.
Check out blockstack, they solved this in similar way like you described
The people who won’t put in an email address probably wouldn’t pay. It is a barrier, but it’s pretty low, and you’re better off spending time making the site more convincing the product is awesome than playing with collecting emails or not. Most times I’ve seen experiments run on this, more often on create an account, you increase the install rate and decrease conversion proportionally. So it’s a question of whether a bunch more nonpaying users provides value to you or not. Though every product is different so ymmv.
I can understand the priority of making the tool language-neutral, but by making it agnostic of the underyling structure, this can also cause lots of "code injection" like problems where the generated code behaves in many unintuitive ways. See e.g. https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/project/rhel-doc/3/rhel-cpp... for examples.
Some of this must be a US dictionary specific thing, because the GB dictionary (in firefox) isn't quite so awful[0], not far off, but a bit better.

e: It appears that M-W lists amongst as a 'less common' variant of among, so I'm guessing that whatever was the original source for the US dictionaries in LO/OO/Firefox just took the most common words - it's possible that this was a space optimisation that made sense in 2002 or something, but doesn't today.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/5D0SDXH.png
So, is burden of proof a good thing ?

It's fine for me to listen to an argument without proof. If i'm interested, i could discover myself in many cases.

Providing a proof is not free knowledge. Providing an argument is free.

I can relate me in today's conversations. Sometimes i provide an argument for the topic. Maybe i'm not interested into the details of the why, i just leave it for viewer to know the "what", not the "why", and i'm fine with it.
There are other potential sources, most notably, Iran. That comes with its own geopolitical issues, such as US throwing a fit about it. But from a purely European perspective, it's probably better than Russia, since there are fewer conflicting interests.
I completely agree with the negative feedback on your r/software post. [1] You should not require an email address in order to download free desktop software, especially when there is no accompanying web service.

> I do this because it allows me to directly reach out to users, provide them with on-boarding emails/updates, and build a mailing list of people interested in keystroke automation (my domain of software).

What if I don't want to be contacted? Am I expected to provide an email address, wait for the first marketing email (which I never asked for, BTW), and then unsubscribe?

> the richness of interaction you can have with customers over email

There's certainly some survivorship bias here. [2] You also need to consider all of the prospective customers that are turned away by this requirement. (Those who elect to sign up for the free trial are, by definition, willing to provide an email address and probably more likely to interact with the developer.)

Perhaps you should run an A/B test to investigate the effects of your email requirement. The data will speak for itself!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/b86fsa/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Would an aerogel-like material suffice as an 'enormous heat sink'? Has anyone tried this?

Edit: would a metal aerogel not count? (Definitely not maker ready though, I assume)

http://www.aerogel.org/?p=932
No disagreement. There are a lot of unit characteristics such as the minimum amount of time for how long the unit can be online. This was also good at pointing out long term contracts and agreements that are not seen by the market.
I run some things at home using dokku and I switched them all to use Dockerfiles since the buildpacks are crazy slow.

Not 100% sure if that is the fault of the dokku implementation or buildpacks in general though. It's all IO related, so I might not even have noticed it had I had faster disks.
I made this as a side project. Hope you enjoy it :)
I didn't "get" tdd (even after what I thought was a fair shake) until I paired with a person who was well versed in it. Suddenly, it clicked. It even happened in a code base that I said you can't do tdd in!

Even after this great experience, I would not say that tdd is for everyone and for all situations. I like to have some layer of test that I see red then green, and tdd helps with that. But I find tdd _only_ works when I know what the end result will be. I often don't. I know that something kinda foggy has to happen, and I'll build a first pass, then go from there. As long as a test gets done, I'm good to go.
I don't mean to be that "person', but you might want to express more about what you're building. Anyone who values their time, won't even consider this post because it's not saying much.
Right now when things escalate, there is no "ok lets cool down and take a step back" feature. Whether its on news media or social media.

Instead there is a never ending further stream of negative stimulus being recommended to people who are already triggered. The content sources are given real-time analytics on how to do this more efficiently.

I don't understand why that can't be slowed down.
Sorry, I think that I don't understand meanings of the sentence => could you pls split it into smaller/simpler sections?

Thx :)
Really? Because MS and others have stated what Huawei did here isn't unheard of.

This is simply news because it's Huawei and many want them to be guilty of backdooring US entities. Perhaps they are, but no more many other "respected" US companies.
Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning? My Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning
Thank you! You're welcome.
Changed now. Thanks!
Since you make a very strong claim on a very complex topic, would you mind if I asked you to share whether you have expertise / credentials on drivers and security?

Edit: I'm not sure if it's considered appropriate to ask for credentials on HN. There's one way to find out :)
The Invigorating Strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche
Btw, you have a bunch of dead links to Google+ (readme, the linked page, etc).
> Python is hamstrung on this front thanks to the white-space oriented formatting.

You could have multiline lambdas with Python's signficant whitespace, the then-BDFL just didn't think it was important enough to accept any of the syntax options proposed for it or to bother finding another option, believing named functions were sufficient for the multiline case.
I'm from the US and tried Kofola back when I used to visit Prague for work. It was... interesting. It definitely didn't fit my palate but I don't drink much American soda either. It was certainly unique. My Czech friends told me that it had been invented to use up left over coffee waste. I'm sorta sad to find out that was an urban legend.
lol where does there exist such an asset
Costly regulations slow down or prevent life-saving drugs from being developed.
You get called some kind of -ist and kicked out. Argument over.

Vast majority of people are utterly incapable of debate (this is not new). What is new is that it became normal not be embarrassed by that, in fact being incapable of debate is considered a plus.

I treasure few friends I have that I can debate things with, so rare.
> A lot of comic strips are a product of their time

Yes, and even those are worth reading. Newer is not better.
Energy Department floats $40M to boost quantum computing research
Sorry, I've always had an athletic shape. Even as a kid, I ate clean. Lots of fruits, vegetables, only drink water, avoid sugars, and white bread, etc. The basics for a nice diet.

I haven't followed the trend of the Keto movement, but I'm hearing amazing results to others. Glad it worked for you, and congratulations on your new body.
I've contracted for four different teams at Google and have only been underwhelmed by their people. Especially those who weren't engineers. This is not a surprise to me by any means.
AFAIK, it's part of the BeyondCorp initiative, which started as a way to give trusted access to devices on untrusted IPs. GP here is talking about the individual hardware dongles that are make the feat possible today:

https://www.businessinsider.com/none-of-googles-employees-ge...
One thing about both programming and music is that they both offer alternatives to the mainstream academic learning environment. Learning either of them can be self paced, and there are options for doing it through teachers, the Internet, in groups, or just alone with a guitar and a record player.

And it's fairly easy to assess your own progress, at least up to a point, and take your rewards as they come. You can also begin doing these "for real" whenever you want.

So it doesn't shock me if a person who seeks out programming for some of those reasons, also seeks out music.
I mean, it's goofy, hacky, and has obvious security flaws but doesn't look malicious. Calling it a "backdoor" ascribes a certain intentionality to the vulnerability that's not clear is warranted. It's about the code quality I expect from the management shovelware that comes preloaded on laptops from any major brand.

Source: I've written kernel drivers and exploits.
This really does fit perfectly with Snapchat’s MO of plausible deniability in messaging; and could be exactly what they need to gain an edge against Instagram.

Seconding talking to Snap.
But for this same reason, we have deliberately built them in places where electricity is cheap, often right next to hydro power plants. I don't think existing factories that are converted could get deals that are quite as good.
Hi! I might be an embarrassingly gushing fanboy about everything you do, so I'm probably biased here. (I wrote the FlatBuffers Wikipedia page, for example.) Lobster is pretty inspiring (despite not being nearly as radical as, e.g., Aardappel) with its lightweight lambdas and (like most of your work) a very minimal core language.

Is there a comparison of different versions of Lobster somewhere? I'd like to be able to make statements like "My new language XYZ, unlike Lobster, is dynamically typed, resulting in difficulties such as plicplocpluc in developing the IDE" but different versions of Lobster now cover such a large part of the language design space that this is becoming difficult. For example, that statement doesn't make sense with respect to old versions of Lobster, which were also dynamically typed.
I'm not following. Git is source control: the message should be tied to the code that went with the commit. Are you amending before pushing?

As for tdd, I don't see this as a logical extension (yet). My logical extension is document driven design. Write the api, get feedback on that, then make it work. I like to design from the outside in.
Great question. One answer is that it gives the recipient plausible deniability (I think I'm using that term right, sorta). They have the power to not respond even though they probably know who the sender is. And if they don't try to respond then hey they can never be 100% sure of who the sender is. And the sender can never be 100% sure their message was even received. So basically it gives both party's ego/pride some breathing room.

As far as the "no hint" case, well yes the service would need to be in the zeitgeist in order to have utility. Who knows maybe one of the big social networks will steal the idea. They can go for it! Just remember little ole me in the credits section somewhere, is all I ask. :)
The point, which I think you missed, is that you don't need to manually trim. Look at the image I linked to. It's MCAS down 2.5 degrees. Pilots up 2.5 degrees. MCAS down 2.5 degrees. Pilots up 2.5 degrees. It's a repeated cycle of the pilots getting trim to where they want it and the MCAS kicking in to nose them down

Yeah that's what the Lion Air crew did, and it worked until it didn't (lost control in a turn?). But counter the trim with the push buttons and then hit the cutout is not in any Boeing QRH (yet?). As a non-pilot this seems like a reasonable option, but there may be something glaringly obvious as to why it's a bad idea. Even if this is the ultimate solution it's quite different to how you'd react in an NG and will come with extra training. Basically a bad situation all around.

If I've parsed everything appropriately the Ethiopian crew did try to turn the stab trim motors back on presumably to regain control over the stabilizer and we saw how that worked out. There's just not a lot of room for diagnostic work at that altitude.