skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same boat as you, I really really liked NanoBox because I could just not worry about deployment and I could stand up and tear down my whole infrastructure quickly after I was done with testing.

I was also concerned that NanoBox had gone quiet for a while, and I am a little scared of there being a DigitalOcean lock-in.

However... I love DigitalOcean and they seem to be going from strength to strength - looking at their block storage, managed databases and Kubernetes offerings as things I want to get playing with soon.

Excited for what the future holds for this.
It depends on situations: Your location, your health, age, family, finance,...

If you mostly work on a team, then it's enough to NOT create art.

In my case, i MUST create art, to abstract most of boring stuffs, because of the situation.

That means, i want to spend the least brain work in software engineering as possible with the help of art.
You can save three more bytes by making the background color #eee. ^^
I like the hacks, makes me learn
If you believe that most human concepts are lessons that need to be learned, be that calculus or morality/socially acceptable behaviours then it follows that not all students will respond equally to a given teaching method. Just as we're discovering that some students given some patience and different explanations can flourish at maths late on in their "education", perhaps the same can be true for individuals and them learning their lessons when it comes to ethics.

This story resonates somewhat with me as I was definitely a problem-teenager but have since mellowed out substantially, thankfully without ever encountering trajectory-altering consequences (although probably deserving to in some ways)

When I look back I simply wasn't engaged/challenged in the right ways and was looking for every opportunity to challenge myself - even pushing the limits of authority was a source of enjoyment and punishment was almost a reward for me: I never really responded positively to punishment and definitely didn't learn anything from them.

This became really obvious to me after I had the following observations:

- at high school I was highly disruptive

- at college I was fully engaged because the environment was academically challenging

- many years after at coding bootcamp I felt some of the old teenage urges to disrupt bubbling under the surface when classes were too slow (thankfully I know much better than to act on them now)

So I guess my point is that it feels natural to condemn the individual, but we really don't know anything about them or their circumstances, and with my educator hat on, I'd rather assume a misguided individual and challenge myself to find a way to teach a new lesson than opt for the easy way out and condemn them with some kind of heavy punishment (like expulsion).

Perhaps in this case some of the following may be useful lessons:

- some labour-intensive efforts that directly relate to cleaning up the mess of security breaches and election counting

- work on fixing vulnerabilities of the school network (if money were no issue, have the student try to protect the school against a pen-tester, in the hopes of establishing some empathy for the difficulties of being a time-poor underpaid school sysadmin, or at the least have some constructively directed black/white-hat energy)

- find some relatable issues on the morality / pain of vote rigging and have the student study them
MS has had a tendency to do things differently for the sake of doing things differently (eg. for instance clip-space range/w from 0..1 instead of -1..1) but I love the candor in this document:

"D3D9 and prior had a terrible Pixel Coordinate System where the origin was the center of the top left pixel on the RenderTarget"
I don't think I'm asking for too much by wanting a woman in tech to look up to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's not sexist dude, I just want some representation in my role models.
Decoded: The 'Top' Utility (Procps)
Less general functions can call more general functions, like fork calls clone on Linux.
My partner has aphantasia. If we didn't see each other for a couple of weeks, they used to say that they'd forgotten what I look like. I never thought they were serious until we realised they had aphantasia a few years ago. My partner also dreams in verbal narratives, which I find fascinating.
It seems their site has been hacked? Link redirects to 3rd party sites!? (edit: see link to twitter thread) https://twitter.com/Mail_Gun/status/1115904832274141184
Good, but I'd replace that font with the default:

`font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif`

It'd remove the unnecessary font and still look good.
TIFU by spending the last year on Reddit talking to myself after being muted
That's the older edition of the book which covered Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak and Postgres. At the time this was published I was already using CouchDB, Redis and PostgreSQL so we bought a (small) crate of these for my new department's employees.

The new edition can be found at https://amzn.to/2KpxOqU and covers Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Postgres, and DynamoDB. I think the most interesting thing about the new edition is that it drops Riak in favor of DynamoDB. They're both K/V stores but trading an open source database for a DBaaS shows me how entrenched the Amazon ecosystem has become in the last 5 years.

Interestingly, one of the authors answers the question of how they chose which databases to cover with "We did have some criteria, if not explicit. The databases had to be open source—we didn’t want to cover any databases that would tie readers to a company." I guess that's not a strong part of the criteria? I guess a database experimenter could still complete the book's exercises using Amazon's free tier?
The fact it was called "NT OS/2" before Windows NT seems to indicate it was a happy accident.

(https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nma... the Smithsonian has early design docs with the original name on the spine).
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Yes, and not just the black slaves.

We should include the enslaved countries (in Asia, Africa, etc), and whole nations made to work for them and their pockets. 2/3rds of the world were subjects to the East India companies and related colonizers...
A Principled Approach to Taxes
No, it is only a hallucination if the one experiencing it perceives it as part of reality.

Edit: here is the introductory paragraph of Hallucination from Wikipedia [1]:

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception. Hallucinations are vivid, substantial, and are perceived to be located in external objective space. They are distinguishable from several related phenomena, such as dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, and is accurately perceived as unreal; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; and imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control.[1] Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted stimulus (i.e., a real perception) is given some additional (and typically absurd) significance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination
The comparison of GDP with revenue is a comparison of apples with oranges. The GDP is the sum of all values created in an economy, the turnover is just how much stuff was moved around. A better comparison would be GDP vs. value added. For example, Volkswagen has a turnover of 236 billion euros, but the value added is just 25 billion euros.
The moment you get mitigating circumstances because you just did it for fun is the moment when everybody starts doing it "for fun". Plenty of crimes might have a "thrill" component. This doesn't justify them at all.

The guy accessed other people's email accounts. The punishment for "hacking the elections" is one thing, accessing someone's email account goes way beyond that. So even comparing it to abusing a paper ballot system is not at all appropriate. It's comparable to someone opening up your mailbox, reading your mail, then sending some in your name. For fun.
> Every efficiency you gain in production scale you tend to lose in distribution efficiency.

How is that true in the case of robotic berry pickers?
Stamps from after WW2 never had any value.
As another reference point, an annual salary for low-to-medium skilled labour in mid-17th century Holland was around 100 to 200 guilders, which would be about 20 million USD according to the implied "Infl. Adjusted" conversion in the article (upon which the entire premise of the article rests).
I don't see how paper bags aren't better. Both plastic and paper require processing. The difference is that paper isn't toxic when degraded, plastic is.
that's not entirely true. There are nonprofit medical providers and they are equally expensive as for-profits; and there are also in the US a handful of "extreme for-profit" medical providers which are considerably cheaper (without sacrificing quality).
Yes, thank you. I will explore greatly. So greatly that I will enjoy the exploring deeply. I will feel so freely when exploring deeply your greatly organized and deeply amazing listings. So amazing it's touching me deeply.
In fact, last time I was living in Alberta but regularly driving to BC a couple years ago, it was cheaper to buy most beers/wines in BC, and nearly the same on hard alcohol (mostly because of Costco liquor stores being available in AB but not BC).
You can find illicit copies of almost every font online for free if you know where to look. I suspect that puts a bit of a damper on the "generic clones" market strategy, since folks who _really_ want a cheaper alternative can get one for free.

Also, font companies are big and can threaten legal action, and even the threat of legal action can put people off, even if US law makes the font letter-shapes themselves not copyrightable.
It's a spectrum. 5% of people have aphantasia, 10% of people have a very weak visual imagination, another 10% have a weak visual imagination, etc.

That's what accounts for so many people wondering if they have aphantasia.
If C++ is an option, Baidu has a clone called Tera.
Github pages are limited for 50k views per month.
Sometimes I watch Antiques Roadshow and Strange Inheritance. The big scores people make still rarely justify their investment - investing in land or the stock market paid much better, and much more reliably.
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> Each of the robots was equipped with a patented “Pitzer wheel”—the appendage that does the actual picking. The wheel had six soft-rubber clawlike “obtainers” that are able to cup the berries and pivot, imitating the popping action that human pickers make with their wrists.

So they patented the human hand, minus the functionality they don't need?
AI: EU Commission takes forward its work on ethics guidelines
Created maybe but they were published in a sort generic MS BASIC with some tweaking required to get them to run on different machine implementations.

https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=i...
Chinese Electric Vehicle Company Releases New Model Lixiang One
I have posted this further up already and hate to repost it but this comment warrants a proper response because the use of the term hallucination is seriously misguided.

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception. Hallucinations are vivid, substantial, and are perceived to be located in external objective space. They are distinguishable from several related phenomena, such as dreaming, which does not involve wakefulness; pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, and is accurately perceived as unreal; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; and imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control.[1] Hallucinations also differ from "delusional perceptions", in which a correctly sensed and interpreted stimulus (i.e., a real perception) is given some additional (and typically absurd) significance. , from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination
A nonoffensive version of "better motherfucking website"?
Not really a mixing of terminology considering that the scientists/engineers are only going to be a small proportion of the coding population.
the lambda-CDM model assumes the existence of a distribution of dark matter which is unique to each galaxy and empirically derived. That's potentially a (countably) infinite-dimensional free variable vector for each galaxy, although typically models assume dark matter is usually symmetrically distributed (which can still be a countably infinite-dimensional free variable vector, as a function of rho and phi at least). In any case it's got enough free variables to account for two drastically different cases - 'normal' galaxies, and diffuse galaxies, which apparently have no dark matter. How do you parameterize that without at least one free variable per galaxy?

> If there were a better one, it would already be accepted.

I see you've never actually been a scientist.
A nice summary: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300149/eu-artificial-int...
I think the best measure would be what percentage of the total world's wealth (valuation?) does a company represent at some point.
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It's not worth my time. Signal-to-noise ratio is too poor. The guy can go talk out his anger issues with a therapist, and when he's done, if he wants to write out a succinct post that compares Mozilla's issues with those of the other browser vendors, I'll be the first in line to read it. I will be very surprised if they turn out to be the worst of the lot.
If you put the results of org-babel into the buffer, then pandoc handles everything OK.

The one problem I have with pandoc is that when using word export, it loses the table and figure numbers. Mind you, at least I only have to put those in outside emacs :)
Once I played with tables in org-mode, I never turned back to markdown. I am not sure if there is another markup tool which looks at tables as good org-mode does.
There is, of course, absolutely no difference in how errors are handled in this case vs forks. A process that handles one million requests is much more likely to crash than a process that handles one request though (regardless of OS).
Safari for me. No other browser implemented anything near ITP2. Btw, many valid points there, please add Cloudflare DNS to the list.
The title of the submission is wrong it should be "Benchmarking WebAssembly using libsodium". This isn't about the overhead, it's about comparing native vs. WASM using a concrete example.
It's ironic that the author chose to use a page that loads 1.5Mb of data, including 12 separate stylesheets, to write about a minimal stylesheet.
I'm old enough that this title recalls airbrushed illustrations of chrome-plated rockets and robots on distant worlds, in the children's science and technology picture books I read as a youngin.
It uses VBA, so it's not going to be compatible with non-MS office products (and the author doesn't really advertise compability anywhere anyway).
I doubt a peasant today eats as well as a King of even 1000 years ago.

Lives better, maybe. Eats better? Hell no.
Can you explain more? I mean, I see that you're essentially a video service. Don't you have a backend? Don't people login? How do you handle all that on a static site host?
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Conspiracy theory: what if IRS (the Govt) when designing the free software with all the options--thousands and thousands of pages https://www.politifact.com/missouri/statements/2017/oct/17/r... --lean on the side of the government when in doubt? Intuit, HR Block etc have some sort of guarantee and incentive to save users, IRS not so much. Doesn't even have to be a conspiracy theory ("We need the money so let's make them pay $xx Billion more this year") just the way incentives work. Maybe simplify the code first?
I really don’t like that Google font. Too lightweight and hard to read.

And if readability suffers, I’ll rather take the crude original motherfucking website over this.
Nice, I just would use a brighter black for the font. Try #565656
Particle Systems: A Christmas Story
You have to describe every hour, but not necessarily work every hour.
And the font is ugly to boot.

So it’s utterly pointless.
Side-by-side comparison?
Ughn, I really thought that this rah-rah pseudo-masculine tough guy aesthetic was something we've collectively moved on from?
There wasn't a dominant platform in the UK either. We had multiple machines from Acorn (inc BBC Micro), Sinclair, Dragon and Amstrad plus the Commedores and Atari's you had too.

I don't think Apple really came to Europe until much later.
1/5 century
Good luck estimating both 17th-century world wealth in Dutch guilders and 21st-century world wealth in USD, both within an order of magnitude. That's at leasts several months, if not years worth of research work in there.
Scotland agreed to merger with England in 1707 after the country was financially ruined by another crazy scheme in the Americas. They had tried to create a colony in Panama, in an area which is "virtually uninhabited" today.
Similar project yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19607169
If Mayer was never hired by Google, Google would have been just as big. It's a shame how rich these executive starlets like Sanderberg, Mayer etc become: their roles are completely dispensable, but their wealth suggests that they weren't.
Yep ... the first thing I did was to see if he was "eating his own dog-food". As an aside, I'd recommend against putting the linked site on a projector at work (or at least look at it first to determine whether it fits your organization's culture).
Same goes for me. It was an invaluable course for me.
7 CSS declarations and you too can include a Google tracker in your website. No thanks. Host your assets yourself.
Technically you don't need the linefeed characters either.
If I recall correctly, aphantasia has no measurable effects on anything beside the ability to voluntarily visualize things (unvoluntary visualizations like under drugs or visual dreaming does/can even happen for people with aphantasia). I can't cite a source for that now (and frankly have no idea how I could find out).
Commodore Peripheral Bus: Commodore DOS
In The Netherlands, even texting while riding your bicycle will likely be outlawed in a few months [1]. Personally I think this is overreach, akin to forbidding pedestrians to use their phone while walking the sidewalk: they're risking (mostly) their own life, not endangering the lives of others. (Yes, I got hit by a distracted bicyclist once in my life, and many many more close calls.)

[1] https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/fiets/vraag-en-antw...
"Ugly" is a bit subjective. I quite like the font, and the Latin character set woff2 font file is only 13kb. It's not a bad choice.
The thing about org mode is that it has everything you need to do the full fancy latex typesetting without loosing the ability to export to other formats the way you do if you write raw latex. Of course there are times when you have no choice but to duplicate a block if you are doing something really fancy, but that is a fairly rare occurrence.
It is impossible to compare wealth across centuries. Even really difficult across decades.

The owners of the Dutch East India Company endured conditions poor Europeans would find appalling today. I'd say the average welfare client lives a far more powerful, peaceful, safe and comfortable life today.

And if by wealth we mean power or abilities, at the height of it's power, whether we talk shipping, trading or ship production, the combined manpower of the Dutch East India Company could't produce an output greater than that of a tiny company today.
Sure, happy to expand on it.

You're right, as a video service, we cannot do everything through them, we use our own encoder service with AWS Lambda, and manage users through a NodeJS app. And Netlify is a very important part of our stack, as it holds our main client app, which connects to these other parts of our stack.

Btw, congrats on TalkJS! Looks amazing.
+1 for "branch predicts"
I'm not upset people responded to some of things around the central point I made. I am upset they are suggesting that central point was correct.
Realy was thinking about the tax credits system in the UK ie benefits paid to low paid workers.

And to be blunt if I was a LP / Shareholder in a fund/company ran by PG I absolutely would expect hi to invest in companies that will be profitable and not rely on government subvention to be profitable.

I am a small shareholder in PE investment companies both UK, USA and elsewhere.
But then alumni donation don't go to actual education, instead proping up oversized sport dept
I would say a true software engineer is someone that can design a system to meet a SLA, write documents which systematically show how it's measured and specced. Most software 'engineers' (including all but one of them with that title in my company) are just 'devs'.

My feeling is that a software architect is someone who can design something to try to meet an SLA but is too lazy (or too high level) to actually check it.
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> The world would be a little bit better of a place if we’d stop coddling those who float haphazardly through their own existence.

Why? Do you never ever make mistakes?
AWS: How to Limit Lambda and API Gateway Scalability
Think the issue with cold weather heating will be fixed by the introduction of better heat pumps.
For many years there was also a wiki that just didn't refuse to die. I think that when I left there was yet another attempt going on to migrate the content away from it. Surprisingly, one of the main appeals was that its availability was independent of Google's production environment (Borg, GFS and co.). If Docs or Sites were down, which was slightly more likely inside Google because most employees were on dogfood builds, it was going to be a fun day...
No.

Patients get charged $1000 for an ibuprofen based on a particular hospital's calculation at distributing costs across a variety of procedures, staff, and settings. However they distribute those costs, the costs must bear the expenses of physicians (who had to figure out whether you needed an ibuprofen or a cardiac catheterization for that "chest pain" and whose complexity of decision-making and time-cost is not diminished because the answer turned out to be muscle pain rather than cardiac), nurses (who administer the drug, and who aren't one cent cheaper because they were giving you ibuprofen rather than rituximab), attributed cost of auxiliary staff, and facility maintenance costs (it's a lot more expensive per square foot to get your ibuprofen in an emergency room than in a primary care center.) The result is that line-item billing usually looks wonky. That we offer line-item billing is a weirdness from our fee-for-service structure, not an actual recounting of the cost of giving someone ibuprofen. If the ibuprofen was listed as a buck, the 999$ would still have to be shifted onto another line-item. The costs have to be attributed somewhere.

And you know what? Everyone should kind of know this already. If you didn't think it required the urgency, staff, equipment etc. of an emergency room, you should've gone to a primary care physician. They would've gotten you that ibuprofen for pennies. That you go to an emergency room indicates there's something else you're paying for besides the ibuprofen.

(( On top of that, the expensive price is usually a chargemaster price for negotiating with insurers, not a price intended for human beings to actually pay. The uninsured get fucked by being input into a system that takes for granted that they are a highly uncommon component. ))