skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to explain. Unlike any other product I've ever used it just works. It's like hosting + CI/CD + CMS features all in one. Deploying just works, there's hardly any configuration you have to do. I used to put all of my static sites and simple applications on DO droplets, but Netlify just makes things much easier way easier (if you can believe it). It's like a PaaS for static sites on steroids.
I moved to ING which was absorbed by CapitalOne. I've had very few problems with CapitalOne. There are no branches near me so I occasionally have to ask friends to write me a check if I have some cash I need to deposit.

I half-heartedly looked for a credit union to join, but every one I found seemed to be for groups of employees I'm not a member of.
This is primarily for people who are looking to attend YC interviews in Bangalore, India [0].

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-interviews-in-india/
Any chance there will be cron jobs for functions? Right now, I'm using AppEngine just to schedule a function to run.
Hey folks - My co-founder and I have been working on this thing for over two years and we're just starting to get some traction. We applied to YC S2019 and we'd love your thoughts/ideas/feedback. Fire away!
My go-to argument against age discrimination on those occasions when I see a ~20-25-year-old in my area spout the idea that the old fogies just can't keep up with those hot young whippersnappers is to ask them point blank, "do you honestly see yourself not getting any better and learning anything in the next ten or twenty years? You seriously believe that you are, right now, as good as you will ever be?" It occurs to me as I write this out right now that I should also add "If so, please put me in contact with your manager as I'm sure they will be overjoyed to hear that you do not ever expect to deserve a raise, and, indeed, expect to be paid progressively less over the next few years as your skills rot away and you become steadily less effective."

It doesn't help that as near as I can tell, the undergraduate computer science education has barely changed in the 20-25 years since I took it. This is generally a good thing, not a criticism; it shouldn't be chasing every fresh hot trend, that's not its job. But if the fresh young whippersnappers are supposed to be picking up the hot skillz that will put this 20+-year veteran to shame, it's not clear to me exactly where they are supposed to be getting these hot skillz from. It certainly isn't from their undergraduate education.
It may have been an independent recruiter just offering up their experience with that particular company. In that case, I'd welcome the insight.
Thank you for introducing me to the fact that a collection of ferrets is called a "business".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret#Etymology
The tech is no longer the hardest part (if it ever was). Meeting a market fit or business need is hard, and benefits from experience.
> You are massively cutting the most basic of freedoms (food, water, and livelihood)

my lungs emit CO2, so you must either believe that infringes on your freedoms, or that some emission of CO2 is acceptable. What about the food you eat. How did it get to the grocer? How much energy did it take to produce the nitrogen that was used to fertilize the soil, or to drive the tractor that harvested and plowed the field? What about the structures that you dwell in every day? They took an enormous amount of concrete and steel which rely on fossil fuels to procure and assemble.

Unless you advocate going back to a caveman society, carbon emission is so deeply ingrained in our society that it cannot be eliminated in our generation. And you do not have the right to tell others to live like a caveman.
Same here - 16K Tandy Color Computer I from 1981-2. It was great for doing Numerical Analysis homework.
Thanks for pointing this out. Have updated the title.
Wow, you took that way out of context.
Cloud Functions is single concurrency, meaning every new request causes a cold start (generally speaking).

Cloud Run can be single or multi-concurrency (defaults to 80), meaning one in 80 requests globally causes a cold start (again, generally speaking, assuming the container isn't CPU bound below that, etc.).

So, if both are running in single concurrency mode, you'll likely see similar cold start time; however, since you can go multi-concurrent in Run, you'll likely see better performance, especially when scaling up.

A nice side effect of this is that your costs will also drop, since you can pack more requests into your instance.

Edit: as noted in the other thread, because you control the container image, you can optimize that (e.g. use Alpine instead of Ubuntu) to reduce weight and decrease cold start time. But if you're using a language like Java, it's possible that starting the JVM and framework is going to be more expensive than the OS load time, so it might be a wash.
AirConsole – Multiplayer Games for Friends
I suspect it is a company to company thing at the very least.
It is useful to compare ethicality among sets of alternatives; an absolute scale would be more of an abstract philosophical exercise. They are taking the practical, decision-informing approach and have put using the least-guilty browser near the top of their list.
You can send money easily with a few taps in the USA also.

I haven’t written a paper check to a landlord in over 15 years (but I had to do the money bags thing for a few years in China). Heck, even if they don’t have online payments setu, you can usually just auto send them the money as a payee (I do this with my daycare). It’s annoying when I do need to use a paper check once or twice a year, I just go to the bank for a temp check (which is the only time I visit a bank branch also).
malicious advertising networks and advertising/JS botnet things have used fast flux DNS for a long time now. It's fairly standard practice for hostnames and IPs of things serving malicious content to have extremely low DNS TTLs, the malicious actors have scripted/automated their changes.

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/01/12/fast-flux-networks...
About a decade ago, i worked in a factory that produced eggs for things like McMuffins. For 8 hours a night I would make stacks of 10 or so of these paddies coming down a conveyor belt and place them in a cardboard box. After several stacks the box would be full and you pushed it down a roller to go get sealed and shipped. This is ALL i did. I stacked paddies in a box and then pushed the box. I had some really elaborate day-dreaming scenarios that maintained my sanity. Lots of the people working there had 10+ years with the company doing similar mindless tasks - they are still around!
Breakthrough discovery in astronomy: press conference
core.async is a macro. Call an already compiled function under a library that blocks and the whole system will come to a screeching halt. Goroutines don't have that limitation.
You say "codependent" like it's a bad thing. What's so great about individualist thinking? When finding meaningful work, why shouldn't we consider what other people want? And why should people have to figure it all out on their own?
You remember how HTML5 was sold as the replacement for Flash; as a platform perfect for browser games? This is the logical extension of that.
I think the design is pretty great, we have a virtual fighter combat system with training, (and many hardcore fighter game fans appreciate Virtua fighters mechanics) we have an arcade with actual games from the era, we have a gacha system. But the point wasn't to make an arcade, the point was to create something like a real world where you can walk around and explore. It's not about dopamine hits.

I think one famous mechanic besides 3d fighters that Yu made, was the arcade that has a vehicle you ride on.
Hmm, Mixed-use in my eyes is apartment buildings (or condos) where the 1st floor is dedicated to shops. Perhaps its just the culture of my area in the mid-atlantic.

Basically apartments / condos on the 2nd floor and up, but shops on the 1st floor + lots of parking. I can't really think of a traditional anchor at these locations...
Sadly, I know a lot of college educated people who describe their white collar jobs as finding a related document, scanning it, and entering the data into the right place in a spreadsheet.
I'd suggest people learn how to do plumbing and electrical work. It's not work that can be easily automated, and plumbers are often charging more than lawyers.

The fact is, there is a LOT of room for people to work and grow. The typical factory job is significantly waning, and will continue to do so. Local service oriented jobs are far less likely to be outsourced at all. "Dirty jobs" in particular tend to pay well, and are pretty damned safe from outsourcing.

The bigger issues are more societal and likely to worsen with roughly 2/3 of those in higher education being women, and over 70% of women unwilling to date/marry those of a lower social/education status, even with matching income.

The highest satisfactions in life, generally speaking, come from earned work:income and family engagement.
It is certainly pretty weird to think that it's important to spend your time at work all day with people who send thank you emails after job interviews, especially given that they won't be doing any more job interviews with you while they work there.
Or Morrorwind if you get through reading the 36 Lessons of Vivec in game.

https://fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/the-metaph...
Not gonna lie, without trams (the obvious best mode of transport) in the map, it's of little use. That's obviously the same for the original one. Don't understand why they are not combined. Let's be honest, it's GoogleMaps all day any day.
I like it! Does this only work for women's clothing at the moment?
> There are comments about increasing automation and policies of that effect but no policy or recognition how job losses will be coped with. Apparently it’s ok to permanently remove jobs but universal basic income is non-negotiable.

You're right! This is a huge, glaring, obvious contradiction.

I've always found it useful to extend the principle of charity in situations like the you so wisely point to. Perhaps people have some reason to expect that some other outcome could result from permanently removing jobs other than a permanent reduction in the number and type of jobs available? Do you think this is possible? Maybe these people might opine that our economy is not a fixed-size lump of labor.

Again, you very correctly point to a absolutely critical point. Might perhaps there be something else to consider here? If I'm wrong, and the world is indeed a fixed lump of labor, can you help me understand why these people are wrong?
Oh, sure, I didn't mean to critique this article in particular. I thought it was actually somewhat interesting and went off on some fun mental tangents around how the form of the creative medium can influence the message, the obvious example being the interplay of mechanical difficulty and narrative in Fromsoft games. Stuff like this definitely benefits from a fresh perspective. Nobody needs another self-referential addition to the homoerotic subtexts in Madoka fandom wiki page.

Where I and others have had problems in the past tends to be around content that's less interpretive, like this, and more factual, like "a window into competitive play in ___ MMO", where, if you're a competitive player of ___ MMO, the gaps in understanding are on display front and center.
Younger workers are less likely to recognize pointy haired bosses for what they are, I say. Young people are happy just being treated like adults. "Invitation to a strategy meeting? Wow, I'm a grown-up now!"
You occupy such an extreme minority among knowledge workers that, as a matter of default policy, your view has to be discounted in favor of privacy and quiet conditions.

However, it’s easy enough for employers to provide both private & quiet offices and separate areas for constant collaboration and ambient chatter, allowing people to choose which type of area they want their primary workspace to be located in.
> To my eye a strong imperative flavor pervades most python code. After some time spend dabbling in Clojure, I find python rather primitive.

Likewise here (except Rebol instead of Clojure). I've never been able to explain it well, but something about Python feels really limited in a very similar way as Java (like, 1.6ish) does.
Content marketing in the space industry: channel strategies
2.5% may seem small but I'd wager the ripple is larger than you think. I have read upwards of 90 regularly scheduled flights being canceled well into June. Assume each flight has an average of 150 passengers (plane capacity is between 138-230) then you are looking at 13,500 lost connections every day, seven days a week well into high time for travel. I am hard pressed to believe that sacrifices will not be made on account of this seemingly minimal fleet size change.
This made me think on a tangent, on whether divulging spoilers for an interactive experience have a heavier "stigma" than for books or movies. Five or 10 years from now, or even a month from now, I can't imagine being offended if someone were to spoil who dies in "Avengers: Infinity War", or the 3rd season of GoT. Whereas a video game is much more inherently about the "journey" -- e.g. you have to do some work to get to the end. I think I'd be annoyed if people were just spoiling "The Last of Us" 10 years after its release (which is likely to be after its sequel is released).

That said, I don't think I'll ever find time to play the original Shenmue. But hearing more details about why it has cultivated such a fond following makes me very interested in playing its Kickstarted sequel.
That's a fair point. Devise is pretty much standard so it's easy, but you're right that it would make more sense for it to be part of Rails to begin with.
Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations
Yep! Image classifiers are used to generate tags from the product image to help match products to searches. Right now there's about 30 tags that are being labelled, but in the future there'll be around a couple hundred tags being identified.
Hardly a good thing, though. The last thing we need are inexperienced leaders
If you want to go further down this rabbit hole: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Nothing. Some people want to make a fuss and get offended at anything.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks.
I can't reply to you - but here is another article with some more detail

https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2018/11/solar-a...

But no, it is cheaper today to generate energy with renewables when the sun shines or when the wind blows. Backed up with a gas plant which you can quickly shut down in the day when you have heaps of cheap solar coming into the system and then ramp back up at night as needed.

So are renewables a cheap when to generate energy? Yes.

Are they cheaper than most other sources currently? Yes

Are they dispatchable? No.

Will battery tech soon (10 years?) make them dispatchable? Likely.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-a...
It’s in most countries’ political interests to increase their populations, if they can feed them.
Disclosure: Cloud Run Engineer

I'd encourage you to test your particular app, but you should expect similar cold start times in Cloud Run.

You can set "Maximum Requests per Container" on container deployment so you are in control whether a container has single concurrency (i.e. "Maximum Requests per Container = 1"). If your app is not CPU-bound and you allow multiple concurrent requests (the default) you should see fewer cold starts.
What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?
On terrascope.be, there is no such large difference between July 2017 and 2018 satellite images (Belgium, somewhere in the North because images wouldn't load for some areas):

https://viewer.terrascope.be/terrascope/?language=en&date=18...

This may well be before/after harvest or early vs. late July images on bloomberg.com - it's such things that have made me very skeptical about the climate change debate. And of course, some people are quickly downvoting facts they don't like.
What Is a Podcast?
Response to IBM's strategy re: the Red Hat acquisition?
Symbolic vs. Connectionist A.I
> I viewed it as Modern C++ with Memory Management done right from Engineering perspective and elegant syntax with package management done right from the beginning

That is a big deal in and of itself.
Check out Cloud Scheduler (https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/) which can target an arbitrary HTTP URL, and will support authenticated push to securely target Cloud Functions and Cloud Run (I think this is going to public beta this week).
(disclaimer: I am part of a Climate&Energy research group that does some economic modeling of this sort, though this particular solution is still being researched)

> We do not need to reinvent our economic systems, we just need to push back against the political power of a few established special interest groups that want to protect their current profit.

Ironically, with some of the better solutions (e.g. a Carbon Tax), fossil fuel companies may not actually see reduced profit, but that is not well understood by the industry since the reason is slightly subtle.

Since energy demand is relatively inelastic, increasing the price only slightly decreases consumer demand. While that by itself is technically a loss for energy companies, a sensible carbon tax also creates a secondary market to dispose of CO2. The majority of the additional consumer cost of energy is actually paying that secondary market to take the CO2. It turns out that disposing of CO2 is primarily an energy cost, which means the net demand for things like natural gas can actually go up.

At the moment, my personal favorite solution is to implement a "Carbon Rebate"--basically a revenue neutral tax. You tax CO2 emissions (probably at the source), and create a secondary market to offset emissions to avoid paying the tax. Any revenue from the tax is uniformly redistributed to consumers (perhaps as a tax credit), and you have the "tax" rate ramp up year over year. This establishes price discovery and creates an economic incentive to solve the problem without being significantly disruptive to either the industry or consumers (and somewhat exploits the prisoner dilemma). From a US-centric viewpoint, trade agreements would be required to enforce this tax on goods imported from other countries that are not subjected to an analogous carbon price. Since the import tariffs money would be redistributed to US citizens, it creates an incentive for those countries to adopt a similar policy.
Anyone who has been to over 10 countries or so should see... This is hilariously wrong! I've lived in Scandinavia, Asia, Europe, etc... Denmark is the happiest by a lot? Hilarious!
That is an excellent and informative point. Bioinformatics is the subgroup that I am interested in for C, but that already tends to be pretty niche. The next best thing are the 'tool builders', of other command line tools. I've been enjoying reading the BSD utilities source code.
I'd rather that people disclose when tangentially related than not at all. I'd say it's a good thing.
Mental Models Unlock Your Thinking
The only thing that's really new in the last 10 years (or more) though is depositing through mobile apps. I've been doing that with ATMs for a very long time.

I maybe go into a bank branch once every couple of years for some reason or another. I'm always a bit floored by just how much prime retail real estate bank branches consume in a typical city. I guess it's a form of advertising. (Of course, the same thing is true of mobile phone stores.)
From your first link:

> Increasingly, scientists believe that climate change is driving the warming waters and setting up a new regime in the Great Lakes that may lead to lower lake levels and a permanently altered shoreline.

...

> “The El Niño-driven warmer temperatures are a surrogate for what the future climate might be. The lower lake levels during that time may be a signal of what might be happening under longer term climate change.”

I don't see where it says scientists were saying anything for sure, the claim is just that the lower water level "may" be caused by climate change. The truth is that climate is complex and climate models are imperfect; there's a lot we don't know for sure. What we _do_ know for sure, however, is that atmospheric CO2 has a big influence on the earth's climate, that periods of higher levels of CO2 has historically been at the same time as higher temperatures, and that we are seeing actual measurable changes in things like average temperatures.

The effects those changes have on any particular lake, wether its water levels will drop due to increased evaporation, or rise due to wetter summers, is hard to say for certain; we can just strive for making ever more accurate predictive models.

Also, the graph in your second link isn't loading, so I can't comment specifically on that.

> If something is wrong, someone has to do something, right? We can't just sit on our asses and wait. Hey, government! Go do something!

Yeah. Other than a revolution, the most realistic way to make sure that happens is to vote for people who care about this stuff, and against e.g people who claim climate change is a hoax.
I feel like that's situational. I live in very flyover rural US, and the only time I use a check is to pay for my electric and internet, even though the option is there for electronic payments. I only do that because the companies are awful and I'm trying to inconvenience them in a small way. And there are definitely ways to pay other people via electronics.
Not to mention that it renders websites that display dates and times inaccurate due to reporting your time zone as UTC. Chat programs, web mail, web calendars all become unusable for me.
Article mentions that 1401 emulation on the lower models of the 360 (models 30 and 40, I think), was a key to success of the 360's. I know that emulation also ran later on larger and later models, 370's, etc. Anybody know when this stopped? I recall one company still running 1401 autocoder (on an IBM 3090 or something like it) until Y2k conversion was not feasible. Did any of those old autocoder systems survive past Y2k?
> but pay them a fair and reasonable wage for doing nothing

I subscribe to some limited belief that prices rise (where possible) to meet demand. See San Francisco housing prices, or Madison, WI housing prices as companies attract and pay their employees quite a lot. So, just paying people a "living wage" isn't enough. If that's a route we go in (and I sincerely hope we don't) we need to handle every aspect of living; housing, food, medicine, etc. Just dolling out dollars/euros isn't enough.

> or do we as a society expect to try to get as close to a fair and living wage as possible for everyone no matter how much value they add

Paying regardless of performance will destroy productivity. People tend to do a "gradient descent" algorithm in work, finding some local minima of effort for their pay. I understand not all people are like this. I'm only saying I think that enough people do, that paying some fixed minimum for all no-matter-the-value will destroy economic growth.
Possibly. The announcement is all about the local version, so there's no way to try that out without installing it locally. However, it's the local version of a product that already exists entirely online with no need to `npm install` anything.
I faintly remember some weird edge-cases, like I could enable cloud-front only for S3 buckets hosted in us-west-1, but I had it setup in eu-central or something like that?

I don't mind AWS, but Netlify was just painless.

In similar fashion I use now.sh, I could upload a thing to s3 and fiddle with permissions and settings, or I could `now` :)
Ministry of Silly Runtimes: Vintage Python on Cloud Run
Did you accidentally reply to the wrong person?
It’s not an equilibrium state so is different from the others.
"Codependent" has a specific meaning in psychology, it doesn't just mean people who depend on each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency