skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTA: "say datacenter automatic failover component, in one part of the territory. Getting this component right may take months of your time. But it is OK. You are building a new street in one of the suburbs, and this adds up to the big picture."

Wait, what?!
Driving metaphor aside... 'MONTHS of your time' to implement failover? People, this is WHY the cloud was invented, so we didn't have to spend months re-inventing. In AWS and even GCP, this takes a day or less if you know the (well documented easy to use) storage offerings. Seriously reconsider your selection criteria when you start saying things like this, because what I just heard is that my team just told me implementing failover is going to cost $60k. Guess how much easier that made my case to switch to another cloud-native offering? TCO over everything. Even Ballmer would agree with that - he made the same case for Windows, against Linux in the 90's.
One of the reasons is that a class of deployed programs might not need EVAL at all or that it is also not allowed to have EVAL for some reasons.
Science and bicycling meet in a new helmet design
I thought that part was added just to try to draw in the younger folks who are too little afraid of the scary science and maths parts to consider learning about tech stuff.
Thank you, friend. I’ll look into this.
Putting it down quickly was your finely tuned technical instincts saving you from disaster.
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I found myself having 2 time sinks:

- git: even with a lot of "bash automation" when it comes to cloning projects, rebasing and merging is still a pain.

- Switching databases/workspaces when working on different versions of a product. Fixing a minor bug could take a few hours waiting for things to pull, setup, build, run etc..
I think IntelliJ's 20XX.X model works great. Sequester big changes for annual upgrades and introduce minor features throughout the year.
Half the planet, but 90% of population, and probably 95% of users.
Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
Building applications for both Snappy and Flatpak at once
Which I personally think is a good thing! I also can’t FOIA request your medical or education records.

I can however FOIA request medical claims for a region. Thus keeping the data anonymous
Ah, I though you were suggesting that the GDP per capita in Norway was high because of tax transparency.

Now I realize that you were probably just saying that Norway and US are comparable in terms of GDP per capita. Am I correct?
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In the US, the top 10% pay about half of all taxes, and also have about half of all income. How is that disproportionate and why should we be thankful for people just for pulling their own weight?
Yes and no. The definition doesn't require that what you have is embedded in a higher dimensional space. Though that's a good source of examples.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_embedding_theorem

Basically says that many manifolds can be described as a lower dimensional submanifold of some euclidean space.
Yes! Semver is very precisely specified and the specification ain't very long. How on Earth could they mess it up?
If you can find an apk I'm using Backitude (gaugler.backitude), notable for using location 'steals' when some other app gets location rather than directly querying on its own. I just have it write to a kml file locally, and another program syncs that folder to cloud storage 2x daily.

It's also capable of pinging a url with location data if you prefer.

Edit: this may be interesting from someone else actively using it for their own tracking and reporting (includes parsing scripts) https://petermolnar.net/location-tracking-without-server/
In addition, it is entirely possible that when Rust has a formal semantics, it will use exactly such a provenance-aware memory object model to describe which pointer operations are safe and which lead to UB. People using the safe fragment of Rust won't care about this, but that's certainly not all of Rust.
NYT article from 2016: A Drug to Cure Fear https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/a-drug-to-...
That's what manifold means to me as well.

Though, there are exceptions to the "one" part, like intake manifolds with two inlets (dual plane is common), exhaust manifolds with two outlets (common on inline 6 engines), and also some really odd setups: https://speedmaster79.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thum...
Hi, I'm one of the founders of this project.

Webiny is a CMS that allows you to build pages, similar like any other CMS. But the unique thing about Webiny is that it's designed to run inside a serverless environment like Lambda, plus the fact it uses ReactJs, Node and GraphQL.

Webiny is aimed at developers, but we do also offer a managed hosted version, which any non-developer can use, as you don't need to install of configure anything. Just follow the get started link on our homepage.

In case you try it out and have any feedback to share - I would love to hear it, since we are a new project launched just few weeks back.

Cheers,
Sven
You can tell that somebody has 100k to spend on a car but not that this person has 10 millions.
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I think the language-backed semver can be useful (I really want Cargo to support this mode!). The general unguided semver seems less useful.

I envision a much simplified alternative (or analogue) to the semver: there is a single decimal revision, and you should strive to be compatible back to the first revision. When you are willing to break the compatibility, you simply rename. This is similar to Go's practice but can be technically made compatible to the three-part semver (by encoding minor and patch versions to the decimal).
Employers already have way too much leverage. This would give employers a bit more info, and employees a lot more info, which should level the playing field considerably.
> so vile that they do not deserve publication

It’s a policy that’s standard in several Northern European nations generally recognized as civilized and a good place to live.

You may consider it vile but from the perspective of the NY editorial board I don’t see why they would.
Google Assistant been recording my voice since 2014. How I deleted everything
Don't some people who have, say, a social anxiety disorder already take a dose of propranolol one hour before a social event? So isn't this discovery already widely known among propranolol users?
Power and cost benefits from the perspective of the end user. I have a device that draws under 10W that is (as far as I'm concerned) capable of world-class and ever-improving voice recognition and interaction. That a service provider or set of service providers are providing me temporary use of kilowatts of computing computing power that I don't ever see a bill for is irrelevant from the perspective of "is it worth me paying $40 and $5 of electricity per year to have a tiny voice assistant?" vs "is it worth me paying $500 and $75/year in power for a fully local, larger, and inferior solution?"

It's unsurprising to me that the market evolved towards the former as the latter would almost surely be a commercial failure.
I did.

You gain retention by assimilating facts at the same time you have some emotional experience, this is one of the reasons why professors who are entertaining can sometimes also be much better teachers. Laughing while assimilating works better than simply trying to memorize stuff.

Even looking at rote memorization, most experts in memorization tell you to associate places and emotions with whatever you're currently trying to memorize.

So by removing the emotional payload from the memory, you're effectively also removing the memory itself, even if superficially the facts remain. What will happen over time is that since there's less emotion associated with the facts, the facts will be forgotten -- like all the other facts in your life day-to-day are forgotten.

I knew all of that and thought others did too. Next time I'll try assuming that is not the case.
Why couldn’t it be used to lift people up, rather than pull them down?
The only whitespace that Python cares about (that other languages do not) is whether a line is indented more or less than the previous line (off-side rule). So the screen-reader could read out “INDENT” and “DEDENT” when the indentation changes (matching the Python lexer: http://web.archive.org/web/20180217005004/http://www.secneti... / https://docs.python.org/2.0/ref/indentation.html), or read “start block” and “end block”. This would be about as frequent as reading out (in brace-using languages) “open brace” and “close brace”.
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In the video, the robot is remotely controlled.

How long will it take until reinforcement learning / ML can do these things automatically?
So it's a Z88 for the new millenium, nice.
So you have a problem with them using the contacts in the literal way they said they would, to build a graph to suggest friends to people.

Seems like being mad you got bacon from a bacon salesman, screaming that you were told it would be pork.
Taxonomically, ravens and crows are not distinct clades. That is to say, not all the species we label "crows" are more closely related to each other than they are to all of the species we label "ravens," and vice versa.
While I love the idea, I feel like it'd take away from HN's basic/clean slate idea
Third parties like who?
I wonder about cause and effect here. Would those attitudes persist in a world where everyone’s income is public information? Maybe people are weird about other people’s salaries because it’s so unusual to know what they are.
Hi there,

Strapi is a headless CMS - meaning there is no presentation layer where you can view your content. You just get a JSON back. Webiny comes with a visual page builder, as well as a presentation layer. At this moment Webiny doesn't have a headless module - but that's something we are working on.

Keystone is more a web framework with a base set of modules, so I would say it's similar to Webiny. However Webiny is designed and built from ground up to run inside a serverless environment.
It's also possible to purchase cars that are extraordinarily expensive that the average person walking in the street wouldn't think twice about:

- Renault 5 Turbo: now worth anywhere between £60,000 and £120,000

- Peugeot 205 GTI: £15,000 to £20,000

- Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500: one recently sold for £113,000 (https://www.evo.co.uk/ford/ford-sierra/20210/ford-sierra-cos...)
this in general accurate but I would warn people to have a thick skin in there because there are some seriously toxic people in there (TRW3W or whatever his/her name that was fairly knowledgeable but hung out in there I think purely to assert his/her superiority).
Hi everyone! Just a friendly reminder that as a community of largely white, highly educated, [male](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309) [millennials](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588), we have some blindspots: areas we cannot see that we do not know we cannot see.

When we read an article like this, it's natural to put yourself in the shoes of the people it's about, and imagine if you'd have reacted the same way. As empathetic as we may each feel we are, this process still involves projecting a magnitude of assumptions about the other person's experience which we simply cannot know. We naturally assume that people experience life _generally_ the same way we do: sure, their circumstances may be different, but we're all equal and we all make choices basically the same way.

But it isn't true. We each see the world through a series of lenses, and it's not really possible to remove those lenses. The best we can do is be aware of the lenses, and that other people have different lenses.

I'm not suggesting this article is right or wrong; just that those of us who feel very strongly about it in one direction or the other should, perhaps, acknowledge that theirs is not the _only_ legitimate perspective.

If you're interested in learning more about lenses, privilege, and why we often feel defencive when confronted by it, I highly recommend [this book](https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/d...).
For me it's the anticipation of putting myself on the line. I can speak up in meetings where I know i'm an authority, but struggle to do so when I don't have that role. Social situations with people I don't know well will nearly always have me looking for ways to avoid it, even though I've been told repeatedly that I'm very personable. I've done group salsa performances in front of hundreds (possibly thousands) of people, but I need to get very drunk to do regular club (not salsa) dancing.

My best guess as to the origin is the environment at home when growing up. Without going into too much detail, it was very stressful and I felt like I didn't have a voice.
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Those borrowing are much more than those that lent money. And the latter by definition have more money to burn.

So not sure if what you say is the more social damaging scenario or the inverse...

Just pointing that across countries and cultures, human civilization has had a constant, throughout millennia, disfavor, of those lenting money, and of interest in particular.
i hear ya but part of the reason we keep losing ground here is because free market radicals have tilted the playing field so far against the working person that the average working loses too much time struggling to compete that they can't actually work to change things. the only way we can get out of this vicious cycle is by tilting the playing field back the other way. and that, unfortunately, is going to require more hard work, not taking shortcuts (a la Manning, and a la Assange who actually seems to have been working recently to worsen this problem). then maybe we'll see real change.
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I wanted to make something that could help doctors, medical groups and health insurance companies scan their documents (images, files) and detect their members' Protected Health Information (PHI) and then scrub it out on device. This would help them avoid leaking protected member data accidentally and help them not have to manually scrub this data out before it's safe to post on the network. Leaks of this kind of data can be costly per HIPAA.

I used Computer Vision to scan an image for text, then classified if it was one of the nearly 20 forms of protected health data using a combination of ML and heuristics, then scrubbed it out on device by drawing a box over the text. It's not 100% accurate but showed good results (seems like about 90%). I also added the ability to tap on the image and manually scrub an area, as well as remove any incorrect classifications.

https://imgur.com/a/BFVlaxL

Next up I'd like to improve the accuracy of the model and then build a desktop client that does the same kind of detection on different documents. Some of the feedback that came up during my pitch was wether this could be used to identify other kinds of information (financial), and I'd like to experiment with generalization of the model for different domains.

Figured I'd post for more feedback - what a fun event, and it was so great to talk to aspiring and past YC alumni and partners!
TL;DR: The anomaly includes propellent out-gassing events from the spacecraft, creating a dissipating halo and several pieces of debris. The satellite is now drifting at 1 degree a day. Cause as yet unknown although an external impact (debris or micro-meteorite) is hypothesised.
Training Recurrent Neural Networks
I disagree. I don't believe Pavlina has the track record of Joel regarding software development. His life advice at that time was "stop sleeping, you'll do more and let's see how far we can ride that secret thing" while claiming being telepathic and talking to birds.

Now I wouldn't be surprised if Steve made way more money than Joel.
I couldn't care less whether "Buzzfeed" believes their own argument or not.

I'm putting the quotes there because Buzzfeed is not a singular entity with a set of beliefs it identifies with. It's also not like a cult where everyone has to believe the same ideas. Which is why it is nonsensical to ascribe hypocrisy to a non-person entity ...

And that is exactly how you can get an article against adtech written for and published on a platform that is using said adtech similar to what the article speaks out against.

The worst part of it all is IMHO that the entire top of this discussion is dominated by arguing about whether Buzzfeed is hypocritical or not, instead of discussing the actual topic at hand.
No thank you, I think it's bad enough that the government knows where I work and how much I make.
Aren't ravens the birds with the Spy-vs-Spy behaviors?
Speaking from Norway, the media gets access to the complete tax lists, and are assumed to publish information contained in them responsibly. They have to use "journalistic discretion" and cannot make the full list available. For everyone else, lookups in the list are logged and available to the person that has been looked up.

Personally, I'm not sure I'm so super happy with this system, but it's very much in tune with our culture where being in a significantly better position than the average is seen as suspect.
Functional Programming with Typed Holes[0]

I don't know if it's exactly what you want, but this team is working on making a language and compiler capable of "filling in the gaps" on syntax errors. I.e. it can provide completion suggestions and allow you to explore the consequences of those suggestions, by propogating them through the whole program.

The link below has pretty extensive coverage of this idea, with a paper and youtube video.

[0]:https://popl19.sigplan.org/event/popl-2019-research-papers-l...
Interesting!

If I worked on a product that was version 2.1 when I started, and 5 years later was on version 6.5 without any actual rewrites or improvements in it, I would find that just as demotivating.
Find somebody confident you can relate to. Neil Patel on why he shaved his head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqhUhDyE9w

The dude is more confident than Elon Musk. Unless you are a Thor you will always have some prejudice working against you. That some people had a better starting position than you means you will have to work harder and smarter than them. Every beginning feels crappy for everyone. Having a realistic goal and being gritty sure helps.
Is it just me or Musk's life is straight clone of be Benjamin Franklin's idiosyncrasies? They both are entrepreneur that act like Playboys etc.
Please, lets not blame the business people. Both of the worlds largest surveillance and ad companies were founded and built by "techies".

Your chosen education has nothing to do with how big of a douche bag you chose to be.
It costs an arm. It's not event mongo 4, it has a subset of mongo 3.6 features : not all aggregations queries are available. Would not recommend.
Sometimes written "gronk", although they are actually songbirds.
I don’t know that I want all my stuff public, it potentially changes relationships with coworkers, neighbors and friends. On the other hand, if things were kind of anonymized you could look at the tax strategies others use. I don’t know about you all, but we save, we give to our church and other charities, we invest, we are both frugal and comfortable and then we do our taxes and its demoralizing. I can’t help but think there is some big trick we and our accountant don’t know or are too honest to use or something.
The kind of rules the Washington Post article talks about, i.e., explicitly formulated rules that are supposed to regulate behavior but are not (yet) laws. The article contrasts this to "unwritten rules", by which they seem to mean social norms and/or conventions. Social norms are usually not explicitly formulated and codified and if they are, they still exist independently of that formulation insofar as they are internalized by a significant number of members of a group. They evolve organically out of actual social interactions.

How exactly they evolve, what distinguishes social norms from conventions, and their relation to institutions, these are highly controversial topics. I'd personally recommend Cristina Bicchieri's taxonomy and approach, but there are other theories out there. In any case, it seemed clear to me that the WP article didn't talk about social norms - you cannot just decide what social norm is to be in place, these evolve independently and can be more or less stable -, and the WP article doesn't talk about laws only either. It seems to be based on the idea that written codes that are not laws should complement laws and replace actual social norms as kind of guidelines of how to behave, and I reject this idea for many reasons, including many moral ones.

To summarize my reasons very briefly: Everybody has a right to be an asshole and not every undesirable or unwanted behavior is also immoral. I'm very unhappy about the apparent trend (which seems to mostly exist in the US only) of not being able to distinguish between criminal behavior, immoral behavior, generally undesirable behavior, and personally unwanted behavior. These are all different things and mixing them up leads to a lot of confusion.
Even if you require all politicians to publish their tax returns, it wouldn't really be "holding politicians accountable." They have become more sophisticated in their pay offs and much of the graft flows to their children rather themselves. See Secret Empires by Peter Schweizer for a recent book diving into how this now works.
In the age of “we need to get our privacy back” someone is suggesting that an extremely personal thing that includes money is made public? Are you kidding me?
My resting heart rate is about 55, and I don't do a lot (arguably not any) of cardio. I'm probably in the group of people who shouldn't take propranolol.
> helps us (and our users) avoid the confusion around the significance of a release.

I think you mean "makes it impossible to know if a release includes backwards incompatible changes without looking at the release notes, while still having a release number say nothing about other aspects of the significance of a release."
The Assange arrest is a warning from history
It depends on your marketing and branding.

A personal brand can be highly effective and successful in this market (“The go-to expert for X.”).

Marketing yourself as a company when you’re really just one person can come across as dishonest.

That of course doesn’t mean that you can’t still use a company for accounting purposes but in terms of marketing I’d say that the personal approach is better.

However, you might want to think a bit more about what to market yourself as. As a “full-stack dev” chances are that you’ll be seen as a pair of hands, a fungible commodity.

Finding a niche or a particular problem you’re an expert at solving in the long run probably is a more profitable and sustainable as well as more rewarding approach.
That logic only works when something like month doesn't.