skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how Azure might be designed causing delays like that. A simple operation of deleting a VM should do an RPC from the API endpoint to a machine-manager type service, which in turn does an RPC to the actual machine.

I would expect all that to happen typically within 1 millisecond, and perhaps up to 100 milliseconds at the 99th percentile latency when the VM machine is overloaded/overheating/otherwise unhealthy.

So what design did Microsofts engineers pick that can ever take 10 minutes to do anything?
It seems perverse to think of Native Americans as immigrants and a little prejudiced to assume they are opposed to representative democracy.
On the other hand many countries have successfully introduced recycling and pollution reduction measures currently and in the past. Germany's attempts to move to renewable power have largely failed, but it does show large scale economic measures are possible. France demonstrates that a switch to nuclear, if others choose to go that route, is viable. There are ongoing efforts to reduce the use of plastics, particularly in it's forms most likely to result in pollution. Our switch to electric vehicles is well under way.

We are still screwed, I'll give you that, but the degree to which we are screwed and how fast is something we can influence, and that does matter.
Forgive my ignorance, but how do things like this happen at such a massive scale? I would understand maybe one big area shutting down because of some sort if internet network issue, but then there should be some redundancies in place no? I don't get how it just all goes down across the globe, is there one master-computer that has just gone down, taking everything with it?
That's clearly untrue, since it's entirely possible to consider having perfectly sealed borders while not deporting undocumented immigrants. There is no way such a situation could be described as "open borders".
Ask HN: What are the 80/20 software patterns/tactics you've found in your career
what tactic (doesn't have to be an official software pattern) which you've found could truly be considered a 80/20 move which can be applied in most stacks
I am so tickled by the last names of the speakers. Einstein introduces Jung.
Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?
I'm writing a book about the role of software developers in the global economy.

One of the book's themes is that developers hold a strange kind of power: we get to make decisions in code that affect end-users but only other developers (and sometimes not even then) can really hold that code to account before it goes into production. Seemingly mundane decisions in code can have profound consequences.

I'm gathering stories from people who've had to take decisions like this and especially where it was in a domain for which they had no experience.

I'd love to hear from people on HN who have stories to share. I'm also interested in hearing from people who dispute that this is even a thing.
> Or we could go back to the concept of content-agnostic neutral platforms

Europe's Article 13 and its companion will make sure that NEVER happens.
I don’t think there’s any indication that this will work at temperatures far from absolute zero, though.
The law is the law. The courts can only uphold and interpret what's written.

So before we can get to no more runways we need governments that react appropriately to the problem, and build climate change and environmental consequences into laws. Strong laws that restrict and tax carbon, building regulations, transport, well everything.
Sorry, no trolling here. The times I've tried to fix the setups I've lost my patience with it and IIRC got things back working by deleting conda and installing packages through manually homebrew (all Macs). But it wasn't on my machine, so I'm not sure how they got into that state. I think it was due to using a wide range of IDE's/environments that all tried to manage their own packages and load paths, combined with perhaps some manual setup.

Probably Conda is fine if you just commit to it, but I think the users who got into these messes weren't knowledgable enough to oversee the consequences of their actions.

So you could argue that the problem isn't with conda, but with the users. However, it seems that for naive users the consequences of using conda aren't clear (enough), which can get them into a mess.
On the Web2Py framework, the article (bit.ly/2ZTwYpV) claims that "Though it allows us to create dynamic web content in Python. It does not support Python 3.". This is incorrect. Web2Py does now support Python 3.
You’re implicitly suggesting that the brain “operates like a piece of machinery” and that we just need to adjust the form of “simulation”. The problem with this is that you’re also implying that the brain (and human mind) is a deterministic system.

The implication of determinism is that everything is predictable. Given a set of inputs, in a deterministic system whose rules we fully know, the output is entirely predictable. We could extend this determinism to the whole universe, and reduce the universe into a pure function 'f' with a some specific initial state 'x'. Starting with f(x), for every unit quantization of time, f is applied on its previous result --- f(f(f....f(x)....))). And that's reality. (If you believe in a Big Crunch / Big Bang cycle, the output of 'f' at some point cycles back to the original 'x'.) The initial state 'x', and the definition of the universe function 'f' _is_ existence -- the totality of all that is.

I don't have any proof that we are not living in a deterministic universe, but all I can say is that, philosophically, I find the idea of determinism to be extremely upsetting. It empties life of any meaning. Why even continue living if everything you do was pre-programmed at the beginning of the universe? Determinism implies that the values of 'f' and 'x' could be blamed for the Holocaust. Moral responsibility becomes meaningless, because everything is pre-programmed. I think a lot of people, if they deep-down believed in this sort of mechanical determinism, they would sink into a very deep deep depression. I struggled with this myself, as a teenager—and I’ve emphatically rejected human mind determinism.

Believing in free will on the other hand, is very empowering. Believing in the concept of free will can in and of itself imbue one's life with a certain degree of meaning, purpose and drive. It means what you choose to do, matters. Life is meaningful; we’re not just empty automatons executing our pre-programmed futures under illusion of choice / free will. We are sentient beings with free being.

From the point of view of physics, I think free will in biological organisms will eventually be proven to some degree. The fact that in the last century, practically every physicist has come to accept that there's a lot of unpredictable behavior in matter, that cannot be deterministically predicted, and can only be described with probability distributions, has been very reassuring. My theory is that free will emanates from somewhere in these probability distributions, and is amplified in living organisms.
Like potatoes in the British Isles.

Do you mean how (the method by which it was achieved)? Perhaps you really wanted to know why?

You might also compare coffee, and tea, there.

I imagine it's about fashion really, the new product usurps the old, it garners higher prices initially, then there's a glut, unless there's a reason to go back the product becomes entrenched.
Try googling Thalidomide.

These procedures are in place for a reason.

You're offering an emotional argument, that to me is even more reason not to have a profit motive like this. People will pay any price, for any thin sliver of hope. We should be making sure that isn't taken advantage of.
What are IVF related risks?
Donations and free time.
> That's right, ellipses are not elliptic curves, and elliptic curves are not elliptical. I don't know who was responsible for this idiocy, but if I ever meet them I'm going to kick them in the ass.

The referenced Wikipedia page contains a perfectly valid explanation for the term "elliptic curves", and a little googling reveals that it was Legendre who's responsible for "this idiocy".
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>(in the case of, say, Amazon) literally starve and faint from exhaustion, and get less than minimum wage for it.

Amazon pays no less than double the minimum working wage in the US.
"ui" extensions run locally while "workspace" extensions are remote.
Rings some bells. Didn't they win Slush 2018 last year?
because it might get knocked off into neighboring traffic.
There's at least a little bit of study regarding graphene toxicity. Hopefully nothing as massive as asbestos will ensue.
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The Bolt is not derived from the Spark EV. The Spark is based on the Daewoo Matiz and is made in Korea. The Spark EV is quick hack on the gas Spark. I'm on my second Spark EV, they are great cars for what they are. A purpose built design could be so much better.

The Bolt is based on the Sonic I think. Built in the US. It's a bit bigger than a Honda Fit, and much bigger than the Spark EV which is more the size of the Toyota Yaris hatchback.
>And not what Tumblr did - their erotic content ban was under way before the CP snafu got them temporarily kicked out of the iOS App Store.

They got kicked off the app store in november, and moved to ban all porn in december. They might have been planning this all along, but I've seen no evidence for that.
To break things down step by step: You said and I will quote:

> However diverse the communities that live in the US are, they have to support the core ideas that make the US a nation. There are people in the world who do not support those ideas. It would be foolish to have too many of them within US borders.

I pointed out that many Native American tribes do not adhere or support many of the core ideals that make the US a nation, particularly considering the US as a nation was founded upon their bodies. You said it was foolish to have too many of those kind of people within the US border. Your argument essentially advocates for their removal.

So should they be 'deported'?
I prefer to filter on the word "hurry", among other things. That seems to catch all the mail lists I don't want to hear from while keeping those I do available. I don't hurry.

I only filter them into a pre-spam folder and batch spamflag later, that way I don't miss anything hit by a false positive (e.g. a Signal v. Noise digest had the phrase "Why the hurry?" at one point)

Using this method I don't think I had a single black friday email hit my inbox last year :)

Oh and of course "Greeting(s?) of the day" has never been a legitimate email. You can safely auto-spam that phrase.
Then, as mentioned in the article, the you could filter on the word "click" too.
I'm a little confused on this issue. How did all that carbon end up in the permafrost soils in the first place? Presumably because the climate was warmer, and vegetation grew and locked up carbon there. So now the climate there is warming, won't vegetation growth take off again? I'm not denying there's the potential for lots of CO2 and methane to be released, but also there's the potential for more CO2 to be locked up too. At what point does the process switch over from releasing greenhouse gasses to vegetation removing them again?
Just be honest: “whenever I travel, for security reasons, I always wipe my laptop and phone of any personal data as I’m extremely concerned about it being stolen while traveling.”
No. It is a simple profit motive.

If the search results were 100% good (impossible) or even 70% good (state of the art) you would click on the results instead of the ads. The worse the results, the more ad clicks.

There is no real competition (not unless you are going to pay for a search engine directly as opposed to bloated prices for everything) so no incentive to do better.
Reminds me that I need to check performances of graphene supercaps featured electric engines.
Any action carries a risk.

It seems over the top to have a blanket freeze but equally risk should always be considered and all deployments are not equal when it comes to risk.

Deploying Friday evening or during the weekend might actually be a very good time to do it if that corresponds to a 'quiet period' for your users.
Not problematic research. For racist pseudoscience published in OpenPsych pseudojournals.

Noah Car is not an edge case.
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That's an incredible nitpick that you have there. I'm very happy that your purchase of the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses is working out for you.

Regardless of how much the 'minimum working wage' is in the US, they are still getting paid less than they should for the amount of stress and trauma that they have to endure

https://stallman.org/amazon.html#exploiting
This is all written in a "Let us do this or we're doomed" tone.

I wonder if exaggerating the effects means permission is more likley to be granted.
Modern-day spam is typically generative, and modelling the distribution of "natural e-mail messages" is sadly too naive today. Human beings also understand text through vision, not through bits -- so 1oca1host is just me corrupting the word localhost, but making that inference requires a visual understanding of words. That also gave rise to what is probably a more common spam variant today: the text-embedded-as-an-image type. I've long been of the impression that the only proper way to do text analysis is by vision, a more end-to-end solution as it were.
Have you tried a Honda Clarity? It has decent space inside and gets 45 miles/charge.
They could take a look at what Nishimura did by splitting 4chan into a work and advertiser safe 4channel.org and the unsafe 4chan.org domains.
Wait did Paul Graham inspire SpamAssassin (the original 'big deal' Bayesian spam filter)?

Cool circa-2002 game for Unix nerds: you have 60 seconds to telnet to port 25 and generate the highest spamassassin score.
I always assumed they are storing every photo to help recognition because it definitely seems to get better the more you use it. You're right there is a human there though monitoring it, I assume they only step in when the system cant identify you.
Not a nitpick at all...I wish I could talk about this more! Let me know if you want a good book list on this. There are several out there with full Matlab code to accompany the equations.

It has trigonometric identities in all the equations (sin & cos) if you do the full AC method. We all generally use the Newton-Raphson iterative method for the large sparse models we have. Gauss-Seidel is great for small models, but takes ages to converge as your model size increases. There is a "Decoupled" version of the Newton-Raphson that zeroes out some terms that usually don't matter in the Jacobian to speed things up considerably. There are some other solver types being researched, but Newton-Raphson is fast, good at converging, and is well understood. The last and very popular method is the DC loadflow where you make a lot of assumptions and linearize the entire thing. This isn't used for important studies by itself, but is embedded in lots of things such as market commitment and dispatch as it is extremely fast and almost never diverges. There are also other useful sensitivities to derive from it.
Well, there's definitely utility to you in creating things, even if it provides no value to anyone else. Not only can you solve your own problems this way, but it develops your skills, creativity, & general sense of well-being.
Wait what? The BBC's iPlayer was in this "streaming fight"?

I thought it is only available in the UK and not anywhere else unlike the other players such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.

iPlayer doesn't seem nowhere near winning this "fight" against these players IMHO.
These systems invade everything, and give you no real way of consenting

This is a simplistic objection, that doesn't stand to cursory scrutiny

When you visit some random site, you will be informed upon to dozens of services, with no way of even knowing which

You decide the browser and extensions you are using, and your computer is actually making the connection to the others websites.. !

You might not use Google, but can you avoid sending an email to anyone using Gmail - particularly those who use it with their own domain?

When you send a regular snail mail you don't control either the postal box used -- a company could be scanning the document. Don't send the mail, or encrypt it.

with companies employing many mechanisms to surveil you on the public street

The issues lies in the fact that the streets are public and not private places
This stupid article should be simply flagged. There is no good discussion can come out of it.
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> really shouldn't surprise you

It did surprise me very much since I don't know much about that field, and the article itself had a lot more curious/useful/new to me info like, quote, "We don't have massive [food safety] issues on either side of the Atlantic. Both methods seem to work" that expanded on the title. I hate clickbait as much as anyone else, but this didn't look like it.
Everyone on an ESTA has their photo taken when they enter the US (at least first time you enter on an ESTA. I don't always have it taken on subsequent visits). I would assume that is enough for them to match you.
This also has downsides: for example, the user is confronted with an ever-changing UI, and other surprises.
Thank you for your story. My younger son has been diagnosed with early childhood autism. My wife and I think that it is not in a very strong form, but our neuropaediatrician tells us that regular kindergarten would be too much for him.

In our opinion the problem is that regular school is just not flexible enough to accomodate children like him. So we are going to enrol him in a Montessori school where he already knows people from the playgroup. The headmistress told us that they accept him and they will employ a therapeutic education teacher for him and two other childrens who are also special.

We will see how it works out.
It looks like something of ~7M from the famines, ~2M from Gulags, ~1M from executions, uncertain number from torture.

Numbers from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...

I'd say if famines are the cheapest way, many dictators with a genocide mind set would do that if possible.
SpamAssassin predates the article. Not sure it had Bayesian filtering from the start tho.

Paul Graham however definitely championed and popularized the idea of Bayesian filtering.
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You can also find it here:

http://www.websters1913.com
I've been intrigued by nix then guix for several years now, but have yet to give either one a test run.

I understand some of the technical differences, but can anyone explain the implications of the license differences to me?

I know that NixOS is X11/MIT licensed, and that as a GNU project Guix is AGPL.

In practice, if I wanted to use Guix as a base system for hosting a proprietary SaaS website, would there be issues with that? Either way, is there an easier-to-read summary than the license itself anywhere?
Something working with neural networks has helped me to come to terms with is that we are probabilistic creatures, and even things we call facts are things we simply feel very confident about. Science itself is a process of increasing confidence in an outcome, not an exercise in certainty.
> I feel like people often view the world with rose-coloured glasses when they write these anti-screen messages.

With all due respect, perhaps they're viewing through the glasses of "not having neglectful and/or impoverished parents." A daily 3-hr purgatory, isolated from socialization or stimuli, will not to a kid any good.
So what, you just say, this is a new phone and I lost my previous one. Conversation over.
Wouldn't that run into regulatory issues?
Subsidizing the risky behavior and subsidizing the treatment are distinct things.

I dislike the idea of refusing treatment for some based on certain criteria for a number of reasons - one of the big ones is that I've witnessed the enormous irrational engine that is medical insurance billing in the US, and I don't really trust ~anyone to decide on whether a treatment should be paid for when they have a fiscal incentive one way or the other.

I'm trying to understand what you're specifically objecting to - it's not researching treatments for these conditions being funded publicly, I think, just giving them to people who were affected by risky behaviors?
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I had problems on android too. if I recall right, it had to do with power saving/background connections. Somwhere in the android app settings you can allow syncthing to run in background or so, then it works
> being socially awkward wasn’t a clinical medical condition.

Being socially awkward is neither sufficient nor required for an autism diagnosis.

> If you can brush your teeth, comb your hair, tie your shoes, and iron and fold clothes but choose not to then you aren’t autistic.

None of these are symptoms of autism.
> makes no business sense to do so

Actually it's not true that local-first software cannot be businesses (or non-profit orgs but still revenue-generating), it's just that the money to be made in local-first is an order of magnitude (at least) smaller than with cloud software. On one hand, the money to be made is much smaller, but on the other hand, local-first is where the next big disruptions can happen, while still having a non-zero revenue. Look at open source or open data projects for some examples on this: Wikipedia, VideoLAN (VLC), OpenStreetMaps, etc.
Interesting side effect of illegal immigration is lower wages for the lower class. Even legal immigration pushes down wages in the upper middle class. Deportation is not xenophobia but upholding the rule of law, even when you disagree.
The issue isn't really that the world is going to turn into an inhospitable dustball or watery doom. It's that climate change is going to obliterate the apple cart for humanity.

We like to build big complicated high-cost centers right on the coast. Rising sea water = bad for us.

We like to build expensive permanent buildings. Crazy weather = bad for us.

We like to farm monocultures in predictable climates. Unstable seasons = bad for us.

'Life' is going to be just fine. It's just gonna be super inconvenient for us humans.
I was simply trying to have a broader thinking, not only about how current cars are bloated with hitech but about the place of cars. I care about technology and consumer goods getting more and more opaque, littered with useless electronics (not all, abs and esp have proved themselves). But to have a complete picture one should also take into account their usage of cars, which use case they fulfill, and whether or not this could be done otherwise.
How exactly is research backed by data racist? https://openpsych.net/files/papers/Carl_2016b.pdf
Any system has failure modes. The advantage of a visual system is that it is also useful for human beings. Especially given how the original article talks about semi-automated settings, this type of collaborative approach could prove fruitful. It sounded like ToF did not work very well for them across the entire environment due to lots and lots of little steel cages (i.e. cargo crates) too.
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I would say so, too. Given there are no bi-truncatable primes with length 99, there cannot be any larger ones.
No idea, I use rust and python with it.
Right - growing up when the world was becoming fascinated with social media led my brain to constantly seek reward & imagine an eager audience for my fascinating adolescent thoughts. Now I see the freedom in the fact that no one really cares.