skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that you will not be able to run a monolith without a microservice. In fact, you'd be able to run an entire project without a lot of trouble.
This is so much easier to debug and debug. Even with simple tools, it's almost impossible to debug code without refactoring a few dozen layers and building up another microservice.
The question is what does the microservice plan on doing? When it needs to scale, it's an issue of how much time is spent on the development of the project. If the micro service plan is a waste of time, it will be a problem.
This is especially true if you only have 2 servers running the microservice, and you can use docker containers to build and maintain your own servers which support everything (apache, docker); for your projects, it probably takes less than 5 minutes to figure it out, and when you start getting serious about running them with one or more different pieces of infrastructure you don't think twice about spending that much time in production.
I'm not a huge fan of microservices: I think they will be hard to scale even before they become more of a problem.
Most definitely a reference, what a touching way to sign off.
For real. It’s kinda disconcerting.
Interesting that is what I felt without being able to put words on it.

When you read the text's beginning it feels like real text but after reading some sentences you feel something is way off. And it's abit creepy.
This strikes me as fundamentally flawed and outright hostile to a conservative mindset, conservative as conservative not necessarily a political ideology mind you.
Just sprinkle some “experts say” and “the community responds” in between.
Currently near the top:

> Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers anomaly at Cape Canaveral

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hncynic 1 minute ago

The problem is that it was a sign of an unstable airplane, as in the case of the original comets. The only way to protect it is with the helium and oxygen and liquid nitrogen.

I don't really care, but I can see no reason to be afraid to do that.

hncynic 1 minute ago

For the first 10 minutes there was a huge difference between the reported issue being a bug in the test software and the SpaceX failure.

The second time that happened was a second time to the SpaceX crew with their tests and another second time to the Space Shuttle team with their test suite. It was a different time to the launch of the test software, but that's it.

The two times the SpaceX crew did that, the first time they did this, they would have to run their tests with a new test/test suite.

I am wondering if it's the first time the SpaceX crew received a test suite with the mission at all.

hncynic 1 minute ago

I was always in the Space Shuttle business and they had a shuttle that would burn and land the crew on a very low orbit and then use it to do the launch. They were pretty upset that if they ever came back to space, they would probably still be at SpaceX, at least for the rest of my life.

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I find it strangely realistic. When I skim it kinda sounds like HN. You have to actually read to suspect anything. If I was a bit mischievous I might actually post one of these in the other article.

So how is this done?
> I've known no one who learns programming by reading books.

Similarly, taking a dance class won't make you a dancer, but it helps.
Indeed, "the market". Like its some kind of God, and to obey its whims is morally correct.

Maybe it is what "the market" wants, but maybe society has different preferences. We routinely choose to override the market's decisions, and we can do so here as well.
> Every country in the world would be an empire like the US if they only could.

Not every country has an expansionist policy

Surprise.
Yep it is, and we should most definitely nail it down with further study. Especially since, as you kind of hinted, it's so hard to isolate or control all the variables when you're dealing with people just living their lives.
> pace.js : pacemaker controller software implemented in javascript

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> Looks interesting, although I'm still waiting for a way to make my own pacemaker using Javascript

> For anyone else who wonder what the fuss is with the pacemaker API, I wrote a library that was ported to iOS, Android and the iOS platform back in 2012. It was a very fun way to play with pacemakers in iOS. The codebase is just small so any time you try to use it on your Android or iOS device, you want to check it out and watch your progress. The idea is to add a couple of API calls to the iOS code to access pacemakers, then use another library to access the pacemaker software on your iOS device. This is the kind of thing that makes the browser a bit better. This way you can use the API to do everything you want via a browser widget, and then use the API to generate pacemaker apps.
Did you just...respond with a comment generated by the site about its own title? Or is this a real comment that I just don't understand.
Whenever naming comes up, I can only ever think of "Boaty McBoatface."
Of course it is funded by the communist regime. Why else they would fight tooth and nail against the bans all over the world.
Disagreement about how to name methods is not an 'anti-pattern'. It's a literal non-issue that affects nothing at all whatsoever.

Junior programmers pick on whitespace formatting and variable names because that's the only kind of criticism their skill level allows.
It is not. Lithuenian and Polish dark bread is best.
Also, this CrewDragon have flown before, it has been in space and landed in saltwater, those are factors that could have contributed to this.
upwork
My company has no investors. The first years were a bit hard revenue wise.
The first engineers were paid a lot more than myself and the other cofounders until we got proper traction.
Never had any issue with that.
Playing your cards right is a prerequisite for becoming principal.
Right to roam laws clearly don’t include the right to do damage by driving an offroad vehicle anywhere you like.
Python If __name__ == “__main__”: Concept
How do you extend this argument to, let's say, three of the richest people on the planet namely Bill G, Mark Z and Jeff B ? What cure do you suggest for them?
Amazing. Is the space time being dragged faster than light like a “warp drive”? I find that fascinating. Could it be used as some sort of slingshot to get a probe going pretty damn quick?
The original British Royal art collection was confiscated in 1649 by Cromwell and it's putative owner was put to death! Almost all of it was sold off, with some parts later returned after the restoration and then glorious revolution (which was more or less a coup). The subsequent collection was built up significantly by the Hanoverian's.

I expect that the crime being referred to was the execution of Charles 1st?
I've got:

> > hncynic 1 minute ago

> The article didn't say anything. But it just says that the launch failed, and that it did not have a recovery time.

> So to me, this sounds more like an anomaly of some kind to explain it better than a normal anomaly of the event.

> What it means to say that the failure caused is exactly the same thing that happened when the spacecraft started at the right time, except it didn't have a recovery time and was unable to recover.

> How long is an anomaly like this from space-X supposed to take?

This is a comedy generator.
1. You can extend that argument like that, but I wouldn't. At least not to "there should be no rich people at all". But at some level of wealth, a difference in quantity (of money owned by an individual) becomes a difference in quality, and IMHO we should think really hard if we want that difference to exist in our societies.

2. I agree that an inheritance can/should be treated just like an income. And that's why I applied the usual tax fairness argument of "the more wealth you have, the more responsibility you bear for financing public services, because you have greatly (if perhaps indirectly) benefited from them."
Lot of noise though, we are far from passing the Turing test in most case but still fun:

>Nice idea from a hacker perspective.
I'd like to point out the following two issues

- Your results for your comments seem a hell of a lot to me, for example, but not the comments that you linked to.

- Your results for comments in particular appear in the top left of the comments. But the comments appear on the right of the comments.

- You need to be looking at what your titles are up to and what you are actually looking at and how other titles are. I have to click through the comment page to get to the first page.

I just tried it and it works.
I remember Étienne Klein explaining that one of the theory why the universe is flat (if you take 3 galaxies and draw a triangle using them as points the sum of the angles will always be 180) is that we might be like an ant sitting on a ball. The ant only sees so much of the ball and from its perspective everything is flat. But in reality the ball is round.
Having experimented down the rabbit hole of GUIs, it is essentially a flexibility trade-off. If you want something to look and feel just right way for the user (ie. not programmer) to easily interact with, it turns out to require endless customisability. The GUI framework to accommodate customisability requires a fair amount of boilerplate and some more to accommodate different platform semantics.

I basically ended up concluding that any time I need a GUI on desktop, I'll just use browser/electron + React/Material Design which is pretty much the ultimate in customisability. I found this not only simplified my life as a programmer, it also resulted in more intuitive to use and better looking programs. There are very few use cases where sticking with traditional Desktop visual semantics and maintaining a uniform look with system apps is actually a usability advantage.
Took a few tries before something fun came up, but this one blew me away (OP title as input).

> Wow, the quality of the comments is impressive. But it also shows the top comments that have appeared from time to time.
Blast from the Past: Inside Ukraine's Last Nuclear Missile Base
I can't seem to get passed the authentication with firefox. chromium works fine.
I tried: "Facebook announces sending man to Mars" and got this:

I'm impressed that they have finally addressed the issues with the mission to Mars. I hope this isn't just a marketing push from FB, but a huge PR push.

then this:

I was wondering how they do it: the man is going to be in a position to land on Mars. Maybe not in Mars, but in the atmosphere of the Moon, this would be the most useful thing I have ever seen. And I guess the question is, can it be done with Mars?

then this:

The headline is a bit misleading. Facebook has no plan to send a man to Mars. The article points out that Facebook are planning to send a woman to Mars.

I couldn't help but laugh aloud. Good work!
So you're making the same change but taking longer to do so?
I've seen this before and recall allegations of being staged/faked. Anything conclusive to say about this? (Real/fake?)
Let’s be honest here. Very very few cs majors actually enjoy HDLs. Also, they are less and less relevant these days. lipstick on a pig
If you look at any of their products (might be hard to do actually) the focus was metaprogramming as a paradigm and building tools to create basically DSLs for various domains which allowed more or less what you're talking about, all of which were interpreted to a sort of universal meta-language and all of which could be projected from that representation into any of its other forms. Pretty cool stuff, or at least it had the potential to be.
I’d advise against planning s hectic TED schedule if your pregnant. Doesn’t sound like an essential thing to be doing. As for sleep I agree we need to get more but it’s hard these days. Too many distractions and pressures out there.
First words of the abstract:

> In the redshift range 100<(1+z)<137, ...

z is the letter often used for redshift, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift, a stand-in for cosmological time that's easy to extract experimentally (as compared to an actual time). (1+z) is essentially the ratio by which the universe is bigger today than it was when the physics being observed happened.
Doesn’t mean it’s right either. Taken from the link you cited:

> One reason why I am skeptical has to do with the difficulty of the causal reasoning needed to establish that a slope really is slippery; most slippery slope arguments make little or no attempt to do this hard work. Moreover, it is difficult even in retrospect to tell whether a slippery slope mechanism has actually been at work.

I see no attempt on the part of the commenter I replied to, to make this kind of effort. And to save them the effort of doing so- even if they had established the presence of a slippery slope, they’d still need to prove it was the causal agent of the consequences they described.

Short of evidence to prove in advance that action A will lead to consequence B, this comes across as scaremongering.
Nvidia 418.52.05 Linux Driver Brings Vulkan Ray-Tracing to Non-RTX GPUs
"Musk says SpaceX will start selling tickets to Mars"

- I thought the title was going for Elon's marketing and the fact that one of the people behind this site is probably one of the least technically competent people I've ever met.

- It seems like this is a common tactic in the aerospace world. The first thing I always thought was that spacex was going to go in space like space and the cost wouldn't be a problem.

- He probably won't make it.
Alright, Southwesties, have fun with those Maxes. It is not surprising that the company has gone all-in on the 737 Max, as it went all-in on the 737 from the start. It is the primary reason Boeing continued the type versus creating a replacement based on 787 technology.

Why should Boeing innovate when it has customers who will buy its legacy equipment with a kludge of addons?
Yeah, unless it is a bug like I said. Maybe you forgot that you need to save X as a well and that all services that use it must pass X otherwise the data saved is invalid.
The math involves space mining.
> invert the problem and see if it's solvable by retracing from solution to the start

This last bit I personally find tremendously useful. It works best on hard conceptual blocks (though not necessarily Shannon-hard).

I start by "explaining" to an invisible audience how I solved (past tense) the problem – without having a clue how to actually approach it. First the overall hand-wavy "feel" of the solution, then filling in more specific gaps as the imaginary audience prompts. Sometimes retracting and adjusting the narrative. Very top-down, back-to-front.

By the end of this, there's often a working outline. I call it "Solution by Bragging", as a more extreme form of rubber-ducking.
What is meant above by "generalisation" is generalisation on out-of-sample data, i.e. not the sample on which you train and test your model (whether you have access to the test set or not). If out-of-sample data has a different distribution than the sampled dataset, then you're SOL, regularisation or not.

As a for instance, here's an interesting paper I found out about from HN that describes how image classifiers trained on one standard dataset (ImageNet etc) do much worse on other standard datasets and how it's even possible to identify the dataset a classifier was trained on:

Unbiased look at dataset bias

https://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/publications/datasets_...
So you don't use any Electron-based apps right now. Why not? You will then answer your own question.
On the power of unexpected rewards for Upwork contractors
There’s CEF, which is effectively Chrome as a library (it’s one of the targets for the build process E.g. Mac, windows, iPhone, CEF). There are various projects that then build on top of it, like CEF python.
Uhm, has Winston Churchill never heard of taxes? Property tax, income tax, capital gains tax.
Netrunner Rolling 2019.04 Released
The comment above mine was written by AI and you will never find out.
I’d use it but I’d need a free plan first to prove it works. I’d use it more for ideas and inspiration than to just mindlessly copy over the headline. If the headline sounds trashy i wouldn’t use it.
I'd never done anything much with pam before but found it relatively easy to get PrivacyIDEA working on CentOS, it's even easier if you're using Ubuntu. https://www.privacyidea.org/ and Cornelius is really helpful.
The HTML page, which includes the JS scripts embedded, is only 75KB... not bad for a language so different from JS.
> neural nets can approximate any continuous function

So-called "neural nets" are just logistic regression with a fancy name. Seems "deep learning" is just a wavelet transform with a sigmoid basis. (So, boring math stuff we already knew forever, plus marketing mumbo-jumbo.)
Rust used to have green threading as a language feature - it was only dropped because the language-based support was considered clunky, unduly restrictive and ultimately not necessary. This is reimplementing the same use cases in library form, with only minimal support in the form of a custom syntax once the async/await feature goes stable.
Suspected Russian-Speaking Threat Actors 'TA505' Continues Cybercrime Spree
Angelastic ran her haiku detector on the Mueller report and found some amusing results:

https://angelastic.com/2019/04/20/unintentional-haiku-in-the...
A microservice seems to be just another level of abstraction. They follow in line from functions, to classes, modules, packages, and libraries. It's just the next higher level of abstraction, this time separated by network calls.

The positive side of microservies is that they can be scaled and updated independently. The inherit downside is that adding network calls can add race conditions and failure states.

However, the real trouble with microservices starts when they are misused. If service A calls to service B which calls to service C, which in turn modifies the state of service A, you can easily enter a world of pain. This type of behavior can happen with any abstraction (e.g., functions, classes, modules), but unfortunately, it is very easy to do with microservices, and happens all the time.

I do like the idea of separating truly independent services for scaling, but today we still need a better way to enforce or clarify that separation so that these types of dangerous dependencies don't creep up.

Just spit-balling here, but this type of dependency enforcement could happen at the container or container orchestration level. Perhaps Docker or kubernetes could prevent a service from accessing a resource if another upstream service accessed that same service.

If you need two services that talk to each other to also read and write to another service, you aren't really building microservices, you're building a distributed system.
Yes, but the existence of jerks with offroad vehicles explains some of the fences.

There are plenty of places where just having visitors regularly hike across the ground off-trail does significant damage to the ecosystem, which is why fragile or popular parks restrict public access to marked trails and designated campsites.
Cute idea, but I can't seem to get anything decent out of it.

I tried the following:

> Massive strike at oil rig as radical turtle lovers declare independence from federal regulations against shelled creatures

> 1 + 1 = 2

> 1 + 1 = 3

> Cats rule teh interwebz

> US elects Jon Skeet for President; challenger Chuck Norris too busy counting to infinity infinite times to notice.

> xkcd is funnier than late-night comedy

On the upside, the titles about math did include commentary on math, while the title that references xkcd included a link to one of the comics.
Either we find a way to avoid excessive wealth concentration, or we are headed for a violent revolution.
Ice Baths and 2:45 A.m. Kettlebells: My Tech-Guru Lifestyle
I am not a fan of Chinese goals and methods, but this doesn't mean anything. The entire Internet has been funded by US military and intelligence, so what?
Fellow peasants, our feudal lords truly are overflowing with benevolence!
In what world do tickets go to managers?
Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network
Wot I Think: Sorcery Parts 1 And 2 (2016)
It was roughly the same during the French Revolution and giving public land to veterans is a practice since the Roman Empire. But in the USSR during Stalin, colectivised agricultural land amounted to 91%. The blosheviks took land from everyone who owned land, big or small. Add to that other private property such as livestock, means of production.

I agree that Cuza's secularisation of monastic estates was a good thing.
Disney’s flying robot stunt double can pose just like a superhero (2018)
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: A Turning Point in the Debate over Monopoly
> which is why you don’t see a lot of BYD EVs that aren’t fleet.

Yes infrastructure in most places needs to catch up but even so, having taxi and bus fleets transform to EV is nothing to be sneezed at in any city.

Taxis (bith standard and Uber varieties) may often form 10% of vehicles in cities (eg. where I live in Singapore) and disproportionately contribute to miles driven and hence emissions and smoke. Having all of those transform to EV is a very good thing.
I’m not happy with the static site generator offerings. Some require a bunch of dependencies like ruby. I guess that’s not so bad now I know docker. But they all have some system of generating from templates that feels limited and annoying. Something I thought of that I’d make if I got time is a simple static site generator based on a JSON data model (that can pull in markdown references). This gets fed into a function in JS that you write to convert that into a bunch of files ie your website. This makes it 100% hackable in a familiar and general purpose language - JS, with the ability to use any template system eg handlebars or hell... just backticks. You’d have the whole Node ecosystem at your disposal or even call out to other exes such as pandoc.
Oracle has been part of Java community since 1997, presented quite a few Java related ideas alongside Sun and IBM like the NC, had their own JVM, was the first RDMS vendor to support Java as stored procedure language, is active addiding AOT support, a 3rd party feature only, considered tabu at Sun with JIT über Alles as the only true way, and JEP process is much more open to 3rd parties than JSRs ever were under Sun's management.

There is plenty of Red-Hat, Amazon, Alibaba, ARM, Intel tech on OpenJDK, which doesn't hide the fact that the large majority of OpenJDK developers are Oracle's employees.

Haters are going to hate, no matter what.
Right, I don’t disagree. I’m still not sure how the utility of the health system isn’t health outcomes. You can make a case that they are interlinked, smoking and health, but that doesn’t really answer my question. If anything, to me, you're making the case that (abuse of) substances such as alcohol, cigarettes and all 'illicit' narcotics should be under the full control of the health system and not the criminal justice system. Similar to how Portugal handles it.

FWIW the big issue is that private companies don't want to compete with the state because the goal of the state is to provide quality care, not to maximize profit. None of the private insurers are lobbying for two-tier universal healthcare so they can show off their sheer superiority are they? You'd think if they were actually superior they'd love, or at least be neutral to, the introduction of an inferior competitor.

If you're so sure private cover is better why push back against the introduction of a public option at all? Welcome all comers with open arms.
> we are far from passing the Turing test

I'd propose it's an unproven theory that comment sources other than this software would pass the Turing test.