skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Also, there are plenty of other uses of vegetable (by which I mean all non-animal, not just veggies) waste matter too, uses of all kinds, including industrial, home, medical, etc. Just randomly check out say Wikipedia articles for 10-20 common vegetable matter sources, such as corn, coconuts, bananas, soy(a)beans, guar, etc., to get a better idea about this.
Interesting. Why not use DynamoDB?
This is not particular to NYT but when your news sources are A/B testing and have information on your feelings, they will happily make up the news to reinforce your confirmation bias.

The Royal Society's motto "nulius in verba" is becoming more true by day.
I think when they say "circle" they're talking about your path, not your orientation reference. That's probably wrong terminology, but it makes some sense if you're thinking about how the path has to be a closed loop.
What infrastructure do you have in mind? I guess if you employ people from everywhere, there's a bunch of overhead for handling international work contracts, payment etc.
It’s as if humans are the problem and technology is the solution: Rushkoff
A hundred times this. One big red flag is if you have a 'free' stack which does something useful for you. It is important to ask if it does something 'useful' for the stack developer who gave it to you to use. Perhaps the most canonical example of this was Facebook giving away "free" internet to under served groups in India. At what point will we have an organization giving away 'free phones' to people as a way of developing demographic data?

On the plus side I think more and more developers and users are becoming aware of the dangers and the actual cost to their privacy and/or brand that these 'free' things expose and so it will perhaps get better.
> you simply rename

That sounds like an awful idea that will result in people adding version information to the name, not to mention destroying discoverability.
You may find useful this forum post on European CLEVO resellers: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-resellers-in-t...
I'd like to know too! The only ones I could find in a quick search are France and (maybe?) China. Knowing about the others might be useful when travelling.
Pretty easy. Just tax the difference between market rate and actual rate, and apply a means test to it. The mostly mythical Rich folk collecting cheap apartments will go away quickly.
Thanks for the long answer. Much appreciated.
A project of such scale and longevity always seems to pique my interest. I bet there are some interesting historical artifacts in that codebase. Why is old code so fascinating?

Decades ago someone as insignificant as you wrote this code. I find it especially interesting to come across comments in code, which allow developers to express themselves outside the confines of the language. I feel like a historian in this context, analyzing this person's thoughts and state of mind. Perhaps the author included elements of emotion or humour. Who was this person? An insignificant developer, as I am -- did they ever become something of themselves?

I think the developer's story is rarely told, but it's a story worth telling!
What if you were the owner of the building?
2009 Chevy Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air Crash Test
Is a tenant allowed to add their own bathroom, paint and ‘modernise’, or more accurately de-slum the place?
If not, I’m not sure I see the appeal. It’s an interesting story but that is a terrible apartment.
Low Power Meets Variability at 7/5nm
Yes, good for people who get rent control. Bad for everyone else.
This. The tension in the OA sounds like people a conflating sales marketing based product number and the engineering based version.

Keep those separate or have constant missunderstandings, arguments, and frustration. Sadly, I talk from experience.
Me too. I have serious questions in regards to maximum landing weight, will or won't the payload have to be jettisoned, and whether there will be propellant restrictions.

Imagine an emergency scenario where a high payload of hydrazine/NTO/UDMH/MMH has to be dumped at low altitude to recover the plane "safely".

With a traditional vehicle you at least will never have an incentive to take your launch vehicle anywhere where down range includes a low altitude intersect with a population center.

This on the other hand... Oof. This brings an entirely new dimension to Range Safety. I can see the lesson having to be relearned the hard way if we aren't careful. Not saying it isn't worth it, but man, those postmortem would not be fun.

Would be a hell of a thing to see go off without a hitch though.
Honestly, there is a chance I’m dependent on it now. But I’m still okay with that being a trade off. So long as I always have at least 40 minutes notice before having to do public speaking, I should be fine.
"Doesn't work either" is a subjective opinion. It "won't work" as prices would likely skyrocket the day after such controls were abolished, but I'm not so sure it would be the same after 5 years. In the long-run people are likely better off.
They probably didn't talk to her.

But that doesn't really change things, does it? Prices completely out of wack with market.
Cue the old protest that "root" means something vulgar in Australia, and so the Unix superuser should be named something else.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root#Etymology_2
The fundamentals of life in general should trend towards not being commodities - it should get easier over time for people to do things themselves, instead of there being more things someone has to pay for.
The profit per monthly active user and the profit per ride graphs both show Lyft losing more.
I believe you, it’s just funny to me how people interviewed for the story want even more leniency if you describe that it’s already being granted. I’m also curious: do you have any insight into how does HCO deal with false allegations? Everything from me saying I saw someone drink a coffee to me claiming I had an ONS with someone to get us both in trouble.

> the move was praised by its younger members and galvanized their efforts to push for change on B.Y.U.’s campus

Just goes to show that people “galvanizing for change” will always try to take a mile when you give an inch. It really feels like any sort of compromise in $current_year is just a sign of weakness.
Your response is testament to how thoroughly your thoughts are programmed to serve the needs of others...

To clarify, fully 1% of GDP growth which is 16% of real (inflation adjusted) business growth, is from population growth. This is why our business-owned media wants us to think this is a crisis ...
News environments have been driven by ad revenue for over a century. Serious newspapers address this by a Chinese wall between editorial and advertising departments [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Journalism
(Reposting this, since I think I posted last time during an off time.)

I made the decision this year to be more open about my journey bootstrapping Keygen. This interview is a bit long, but I hope it contains some valuable no-BS insight into how I've approached building and growing Keygen. Would be happy to answer any questions that I didn't cover in the interview!
My stack is interesting. It's about SQL.

Non-programmers could learn, understand and use SQL for their need.

So, i migrated from a RoR stack, which uses Active Record into the SQL to API approach. That means, i put non-programmers into the center of my stack.

That said, developers will need to build more strong abstraction, so that non-programmers could stand on their own to build their things. It's not the job of developers.

Developers is to build foundation.
To some extent brain "power" goes with surface area, right? Granted the surface is highly folded in 3 dimensions. But I think larger brains have a lot more "non thinking" matter to support the complexity of maintaining a larger neural network. On the other hand, effective thinking-power may be superlinear in neuron count. Or perhaps sublinear.
security research is starting to drift into bizarro land

Remember that these people are essentially trying to earn a living by finding vulnerabilities, so it's no surprise that they'll try to spin anything as one, regardless of any other considerations.

I've used the term "security vultures" before in reference to such things. It's unfortunate that a lot of companies misunderstand or obey their requests, and in the process useful features are destroyed and software becomes more user-hostile.
sudo requires being granted permission. If you have it, you can run code as root. It is not granted by default.

COPY...PROGRAM requires being granted permission. If you you have it you can run code as the postgres user. It is not granted by default.
“we are seeing more opportunities than would have been there normally.”

Disaster capitalism at its finest. So the future in fact does look bright for profiting off the collapse where there will be another huge transfer of wealth to those with lots of capital laying around... from those who actually own productive assets and manage them.
That’s a tautology. A nice area is nice because rich people live in it.
Wouldn't that just degenerate to one party consent with the manufacturer as the consenting party?
or you google “lyft stock”?
What about the "production life cycle perspective" requires that major version numbers not bump in those cases?

If version pattern is thought of as "compatibility.feature.fix" then there is no reason that feature and fix changes cannot also bump the right most number [as compatibility is broken].

EDIT: for clarity
> The gist of his thesis, if I recall correctly, is that scientists are indeed progressing towards a deeper understanding of the universe

Interpreting Kuhn is an art unto itself, but I find rather that he is saying progressed can't be measured and therefore can't be inferred. He wouldn't be much of a relativist otherwise! I'm not sure but I think he uses the word "incommensurability", which implies an absence of indicators of progress (if not him then certainly some interpretations of his book use that very word).

This is not to say that I agree, but it's the cold logic of it that makes him hard to refute. Rather, pragmatists like me have resolved to ignore him and enjoy our iPhones and lasers.
Or just ‘lyft stock’
But you haven't given a concrete example of you being actually affected by this so I will assume it's more an on principle argument rather than you actually pointing to any wrongdoing.

Your ISP tracks you, Ycombinator tracks you, every site out there that have cookies track you. Everyone can potentially missuse that data they don't have to be Facebook for that.
It has always been known that certain content would work better to sell ads than other. Travel, cooking, or home decoration, for example, are definitely better than political news.

And yet, the NYT has withstood the pressure to become the ground level equivalent of an in-flight magazine.

Can we maybe credit them for that, instead of just assuming that everybody agrees that they will succumb to economic pressure without feeling the need to even make the case for it?
MySQL's ‘load data infile’ is much faster than anything going through the client, precisely because it avoids layers of processing. (At least it was way faster back when I was using it.) Dunno about this business in Postgre.
Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs
If there was any question that the NYT is not a newspaper, at least in the pre-internet sense of the word, this should put it to rest. The same kind of shenanigans are at play in every news outlet I can think off. How does one make sense of such a vast world when telling the truth is not profitable?
And for a specific example of the sort of ecosystem stuff I am talking about, to save/load some local data on iOS you have some API options:

Core Data

SQLite

NSArchiver

NSKeyedArchiver

NSUserDefaults

JSON

Property lists

Protocol buffers

stdio

NSData

memory-mapped files

Realm

This is without getting into anything too obscure. This list is probably also out of date.
That would disincentive investments and property ownership.
I can see the headlines now:

"Thousands killed in [less-developed country] civil war; more food left for survivors!"

"Average global temperatures up 4' C in past decade; boom in tourism in Hudson Bay and Siberia!"

"BigCo lays off 70,000 workers; social services employees self-worth increases!"
it's more of a defense in depth strategy

If you take that to its logical conclusion you end up with completely unusable, user-hostile software that becomes nearly useless.

The fact that everything can be abused, should not be a reason to ban everything either.
Structure of Scientific Revolutions was incredibly revelatory for me. I did not even realize there was any backlash against Kuhn except that his work is sometimes co-opted by pseudo-scientists and that he was over-reliant on a previous work (iirc).
The previous poster is correct, I think you are mistaken. It should read like this:

"if you are an engineer at Microsoft working on a small azure component, say datacenter automatic failover component"

At least this is how I read it since the OP works at MS it appears.
Realistically, I think there are a lot of people working in these sorts of situations.

Such a stable environment would leave a lot of room for side projects on a stable paycheck, or getting some extracurricular qualifications.
The closer to the city center the more money you would need, creating segregation and eventually ghettos. Rent control prevents this.
Thanks for the explanation Sven. I got confused due to the terminology. I've usually seen similar projects referred to as static site generators. I sincerely wish you luck with the project.

There is one recommendation I'd like to make however. In the README, it might be nice to display some sample configuration and/or possibly a diagram explaining how all the pieces fit together. I'm most interested in learning how to get started with Webiny and what are the various cloud things I'll need to configure to get an operating system.
> That being said, I think the math changes somewhat for smaller launchers.

Do you have any analysis you can point to to substantiate this? I suspect any such analysis is heavily predicated on assumptions, such as whether or not the small launcher is designed around existing engines/motors.

I don't think there is a compelling case to be made that operating an air-launch carrier aircraft in addition to the costs associated with the remaining rocket stages works out economically^.

Orbital was not able to get compelling economics out of Pegasus. To be fair, they were doubly-hamstrung by their use of a carrier aircraft airframe operated by vanishingly few (L-1011) as well as the Pegasus using expensive solid rocket motors (here's another non-intuitive reality of rockets - solid motors are very expensive unless you buy in bulk).

^The most compelling test of economic viability of air-launch for small systems will come with Virgin Orbit/VOX space that is using a carrier aircraft airframe which is still in significant commercial use (quite a few 747 air freighters) as well as modern-yet-relatively low complexity LOX/RP liquid rocket propulsion. And if they want to say double their payload capability, they will not be able to do that with the 747. Maybe at the extremely low-end, GOLauncher will also be similar.
Surely you can do that anyway? Usually you’re allowed to report suspected crimes.
So how do they choose who lives in the bad areas? Lottery?
Valuable to people who want a place to live. The reason is that people need shelter.
I was paid to have a role like that. It was great while it lasted but wore thin after a year of dealing with reoccurring problems that seemed so obviously idiotic.

Pushing the automatic carpark gate open with the car because it wasn’t fast enough: a couple of times a month.

Putting clothes hangers up through sprinkler heads and setting off the sprinkler: quarterly.

Meth addicts smashing up washing machines: monthly.

Crazy people with crazy demands detailed in multipage letter: weekly.
Just adding context in case people thought the populations were roughly equivalent. It has bearing in the validity of choosing something the majority of people would understand.
fair point about compressed bytes, but what about structure ? even ubuntu never felt that intimidating but maybe it's because I just didn't count folders
Sorry, it's $85k, not $95k. The point is, local cost of living variances can be extreme.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/22/in-costly-bay-area-ev...
For those that want to know more about how Turbo Pascal came to be, there are a very interesting interviews with Anders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JckLuXcovl8&feature=youtu.be...

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...

https://www.welcometothejungle.co/fr/articles/anders-hejlsbe...
I read that too. Not sure early NT or even DOS days
Housing queues. You apply and the the longer queue time gets the apartment. Is that not a good solution?
I hear this kind of thing all the time. "Your case is serendipity, but they were listening to me!"

Do you know why you thought about adopting a dog randomly? Are you confusing cause and effect? Perhaps you were really being shown dog ads for six (or sixty) days and only noticed it for five.

I say this not to dismiss the fear of recording, but to raise that recording is kind of a lazy rationalization that tech companies probably favor over the other, more realistic explanation.

The idea that the ads have changed your behavior without you realizing is far more creepy. They don't have to listen to what you say because they influenced you to say it.
the buried lede is lyft's opex spike right before their ipo. typically you'd try to subdue expenses to make the profitability numbers look better, unless you have other problems to fix that you can spend your way out of.

(taking these graphs as truth) lyft's gross margins were flagging, so it seems they goosed gross margins with opex, like marketing (likely promos) and better customer service (e.g., refunds). they spent their way to higher gross margins so they could look better than uber for ipo.

but as the rest of the analysis points out, lyft is seriously behind uber in the race to overall profitability despite higher per ride take rates. they're still a risky investment in comparison.
So a manifold is a surface?
His book is one of mentioned here, and I believe rightly:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Books-That-Wouldn-t-Di...

Also on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19423369
remember the MinWin project ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinWin

I wonder if it helped shrinking the code base too
Thanks. That makes more sense.

The article didn't mention AUC, so I assumed they were talking about accuracy in the sense people normally mean it, which also matches the definition in the sidebar of the wikipedia link you shared:

(TP + TN) / (P + N)
Unfortunately, I could only second this opinion and add a few points of mine.

1. Many unexpected behaviours which you would not encounter in any other software - for example when you're blocked by its firewall, it would let you connect on all 7 OSI layers, then kick you out with "Command failed with error 13: 'Not Authenticated' on server xyz:10255'". By the way even Azure Portal itself doesn't know how to handle this behaviour correctly and when not included in the firewall whitelist just blinks like crazy.

2. Many seemingly basic features commonly found on other database systems are for some reason missing here - it doesn't support users as such, just issuing resource tokens[1] (which you must implement yourself). Thus, most CDB users just go straight with the master key even on production.

3. It is not fully (nor at least nearly fully) compatible with any of the advertised APIs - SQL doesn't support joins, MongoDB misses quite a few features and adds a requirement for the shardkey to be part of the query. Which is not supported by Spring Data, so you must do low-level queries for everything but select (think updates field by field with null checks).

4. The tooling is horrible - as it is not compatible with neither mongodb nor traditional sql, you would need to include the "CosmosDB Emulator" in your build in order to have at least some predictability. The problem? It only runs on docker4win and a Windows VM would need to be running by all developers on the team and workers of the CI/CD. As of April 2019

5. It is CRAZY expensive and the pricing is not really transparent - in our case we had 20 MB of data, 4 1000RUs collections and multi-master write in Western and Northern Europe. The monthly bill? 300 EUR even though Azure Portal was displaying 1/6 of that cost - apparently for multi-master you multiply by the number of regions + 1 (2+1 = 3) and for geo-redundancy only by the number of regions (2), thus the 6x higher cost. The result of that was that we were paying several times more to manage 20MB of data than for all the remaining data - hundreds of GB.

Maybe if you really, really need the planetary scale, the master-master replication and the <10ms SLAs it would make sense and the hassle and cost would be worth it (though I seriously doubt it), but in any other case it is a massive mistake to go this route.

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/secure-acce...
Or Russia, or India, or...
I love org-mode as a format and as a literate / notebook programming environment. And I love emacs.

But, I think it’s great that more people are looking at org-mode outside emacs. I’d love to see alternative tool chains that push the capabilities and open more people to its magic.
What makes this work is that the better hobby motors for drones are now pretty good. Hobby motors used to be cheap sheet metal junk.
This comparison is very flawed as it fails to recognise a major difference: the two companies work in very different markets.

Lyft is only active in the US while Uber is spread in many different countries. Unit economics look totally different in NYC, Cairo, and Rio.
Using NodePing to Send Downtime Notifications to Slack
All industry will be sleazy and disgusting if it pays to be that way. If giving kids cancer meant they could make an extra dollar, they’d do it. (And there are plenty of examples of other industries doing exactly that.)

The only way to put a stop to it is to make it unprofitable.
Exactly. This was no doubt very expensive for Cessna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_162_Skycatcher#Wing_mod...

Can anyone think of a car recall that required 32 hours per unit to fix?
I usually put multiple document types into a single collection and have a “type” field to get around this. The fields are indexed so this is efficient. To decide when to use a different collection I look at the scalability and other settings at the collection level, and group things that have similar needs together.
An item about versioning is always a good time to revisit Rich Hickey's thoughts on growing software and his criticisms of semantic versioning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
It's true. In my experience of talking to artists...they work very differently, but most don't work alone and need a community to function. Sharing the Atelier, contacts to the business side of the art-world etc.

Another very big factor: A (suprisingly) large amount of artists don't really make most of their money through the selling of their art. They do art workshops with adults and children and therefore absolutely need the proximity to their clientel.