skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry but if taxi drivers are committing suicide due to losses on medallion value, they should be protesting city hall, not Uber. If the government wants to create rent seeking monopolies then it needs to have a plan to unwind them when things change.
Most people (regardless of where they are in the world) are not going to be able to afford a cluster of any meaningful size. So, the best option is to learn these tools by running them on your local machine. You can use Virtualbox or Docker to set up virtual hosts within your machine to simulate a cluster.

Also, data engineering is a vast field. Pick an area that you would like to pursue first and go deep: Machine learning (feature extraction+training), Hadoop/Spark job processing, event streaming & aggregation etc.

Then try to find a entry level job that would allow you to apply what you learned and also get to expand your knowledge of running actual clusters.
Alternatively:

Cloudflare simply is making a subversive play against their competitor CDNs. Client subnet of a DNS request is used for initial rough mapping by Cloudflare competitors such as Akamai (definitely) and I believe Fastly ( and probably others) . Stripping it easily adds at least a few milliseconds to the time to first byte and most likely results a request re-routing on the second or third request.

After all, no other CDN is operating a well used public resolver.
The study shows what the participants were microdosing with. A subset of the people were shown microdosing psilocybin, with an average of 0.3g per person.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=...

That can't be the case, as 300mg of psilocybin would be a devastating dose. Even 30mg is a sturdy dose. Obviously, they must mean 300mg of mushroom matter, but it doesn't say if it is dry weight or wet weight.

Anyway, it will be nice when someone can do a double blind study of microdosing and get some real data to work with.
You guys are everywhere
For the benefit of those who might not have gotten the allusion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts
https://www.alelo.com/products-and-solutions/
Switzerland is not a member of the EU and is free to be very strict on education and skill requirements for its immigrants. Many US conservatives that lean libertarian are very much for increasing and streamlining legal immigration, as long as laws are enforced, immigrants are prioritized by merit rather than lottery or privilege of geographic proximity, and the welfare state is trimmed (one of the reasons why government agencies limit immigration more than a hundred years ago is due to budgetary resource projections).

Japan, South Korea, and China are among the wealthiest countries, and have very low immigration.

The US context is also exacerbated by the fact that locals cannot legally compete with illegal aliens working sub-minimum wages. In those towns wages for legal workers stagnate at the minimum wage floor due to downward pressure, and job listings are more of a custom than an honest opportunity.
Oh, lord. Bob has been thoroughly discredited. Like utterly and completely. His credentials do not check out. Nothing he says checks out. Nothing he says even makes sense when you apply the most basic understanding of physics or even simple logic to his claims. But the guy is amazing to listen to, and I really think he believes every word he says. And that's a bit scary — to be that deluded.
Too late now, but I think "scaffolding" was important, and after reading other comments I think that "working" is an exaggeration.
> One difference between how GitLab and GitHub run their infrastructure is that GitLab doesn't keep reflogs, and uses git's default "gc" settings.

Does this also apply to self hosted GitLab CE/EE? Also how does Gogs/Gitea handle this?
You have listed ZFS as a benefit of Linux in contrast to BSD, but BSD has better support of ZFS than Linux, so I'm curious why you listed ZFS in this way?
Here's a possible borrow checker alternative: http://aardappel.github.io/lobster/memory_management.html
Wow. I've heard of people needing as little as four hours but never something this extreme. So, what do you spend your time doing while the rest of us are dozing off? Are all your biological markers in line with that of someone who is otherwise healthy, blood pressure, the works?
I just listened to this podcast episode today: "Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress" (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/the-ezra-klein-show/e/5...)

It is a fantastic deep-dive into our biology (stress), neurology (amygdala), poverty (status poverty, not financial) and much more
“Hubris and self hatred?” Can’t disagree on our hubris, but self-hatred? I can’t think of any time more narcisist than ourselves!

I want it rebuilt as close to the original because we are incapable of self-reflection.

Surely nothing we build can be devoid of ourselves, but why not leave behind subtlety?

The question is obviously rhetorical: Notre Dame is too big, too important an opportunity for some mediocre president and architect to leave their name in posterity.
They have no power. They have numbers but they can’t use them.

They are too poor and too desperate to be unemployed for long, they have no benefits, and many will be replaced with robots.

The gig economy is an underclass. They are serfs. Unless they rise up violently nothing will change.
If the problems you have with UK and USA government are you don't like that people yell at each other and the representatives don't look the way you feel they should look, then you're right and they should change to a more 'civilized', proportional government.

It's hard to argue against someone's feelings.

But if you want to talk about good governance over time, does the country endure and does it make good decisions that ultimately benefit the country, that would be a more productive discussion. You have an uphill battle, with history not being kind to proportional democracies, but there's plenty of room for opinions and reasonable disagreement.

It's possible that constantly pitting constituents against each other is actually a vital component of democracy.
Don't we know that chimps engage in large scale tribal warfare. And that our ancestors killed off the Neanderthals
My take on the Emerson quote you mention is to be mindful instead of mindless when it comes to consistency. I respect the commitment to consistency you convey (and I do think it is mindful).
to his defense he said "lots of"
Hi! On-site is a hard requirement? Spending 2 weeks per quarter at client site, plus work from home... seems like it is already a fairly remote-friendly position.

I also because I've had a few great conversations with MS over the past 20 years or so, but never been able to make geography work.
I'm curious. It seems like the before after in this situation seems to have more to do with not having a family / having a family, than working somewhere that has food perks / doesn't have food perks.

Unless the the corporation is paying for your entire families food budget, prep, cleaning etc, I think what you have just described is exactly the point of the article: being single and having all (or most) household chores done for you is really attractive and great, having a family and needing to do this yourself for multiple people sucks and is hard.

Ergo, these perks prolong the time spent single and enjoying the perks.
That was my dad. He eventually wrote the first Pascal compiler in North America, to tame the pdp-11.
I've found my employer will cover these lunches, though it may not be strictly necessary for them to do so.

And to my sibling commenter: when I am at HQ, I am able to partake in the free food perk.
Primary source: http://www.nytwa.org/home/2019/5/3/strike-uber-lyft-all-app-...
Some times it blows my mind that my grandmother was a software developer. Humans have been doing this stuff for a long time.
Wonder if they could use S3 bucket with a lambda to resize. I’m sure their images are a long tail so certain images likely have way more traffic than others. At a previous company where we were also doing a lot of imgix traffic we did something like this but with a go service but now I’d just offload to s3 and use lambda to avoid Devops..
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I obviously didn't mean all. India, Japan, Germany and perhaps a couple of others, such as South Africa and Brazil, deserve to have permanent status to have a more even security council.

It's more an economic issue than a nuclear issue IMO. And, I think the veto should be done away with.
What a nightmare! ---- ALL of my extensions have disappeared and have been disabled this weekend (with ZERO warning) ---- Trying to use my Roboform password program is a nightmare----
If the problem is not 100% solved by Monday (May 6), I plan to exterminate every trace of Firefox of every computer I own ---- Shame on Firefox for placing uses in such a nightmare situation with ZERO warning and ZERO solutions ----
2 Lyft drivers in a row ditched me today. Maybe the strike started early.
Liberating My Neopets Data Through a GDPR Data Retrieval Request
Five Questions Every Startup Should Ask About Accelerators
Visual Studio's debugger is especially magical with .NET. With the debugger paused on a breakpoint you can drag the "next statement" pointer backwards to rerun pieces of your code. You can also edit the code while paused and your changes will be reloaded on the fly when you continue execution.
It never hurts to wonder. If we assume the Tic Tac is a man made craft, it doesn't seem a far stretch to also assume it may employ antigravitics. Perhaps it can be traced back to Die Glocke [1]. Your linked HN posts also mention Hutchison, an interesting character who appears repeatedly down the rabbit hole, where you'll also discover Schauberger and Leedskalnin. There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in these topics, which often delve into conspiracy and pseudoscience, making it hard to discuss them without sounding like a crazy person. In any case, it's fascinating to ponder, even if it's all just science fiction.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Glocke
For drivers, there are only short term gains to be had. Fully autonomous vehicles are the centerpiece of the ride share roadmap (for Uber, Lyft and even Tesla). Drivers might as well capitalize on short term opportunities while they still exist. There is no long term game for them.
Understand Graph Attention Network
Big emphasis on "arguably". I think what gets missed in these discussions are the people that don't want to be employees. The "just making a bit of side cash" driver that all of their marketing is directed towards, that a full employement relationship and all the bureaucracy that entails, would preclude.
>> How's that for nuance?

You are too stupid to know how stupid you are.

Is that you, McArthur Wheeler? Dunning & Kruger send their appreciation for inspiring their groundbreaking work.
Scopes – Retargetable programming language and infrastructure
Reading is fundamental. Let me quote myself:

>> Happiness is an upwelling feeling in our being.
I ordered so much stuff from Fab back in the day! I thank the investors for their largess
Just started a new job that offers the breakfast/lunch/dinner perks. There are several aspects to it.

Retention:

* obviously, if the competition doesn't offer lunch, you want to go there

* obviously, if the competition offers lunch and your company doesn't, you will want to leave the company

* building a community starts with breaking bread. If you can get friendships and relationships to form via this mechanism then you will have a stronger retention, stronger ties between coworkers, etc.

cross-pollinating:

* grabbing lunch with someone else in the company is easier

Team:

* go grab lunch with coworkers to know what they're working on

* free lunch = better moral for the team

* you save time looking for lunch, so you can spend more time eating with your coworker

* since you all eat at the same place you randomly bump into coworkers, you often eat with them, etc.

Life outside of work:

* you can go earlier at work since they serve breakfast

* if you can bring food home, you don't have to lose time meal prep'ing and can spend more time doing other things
perhaps some alien in another dimension was moving his mouse a different direction?
Why, hello! I was just as surprised as you!
A guide to the open source distributed tracing landscape
The headline says ride share drivers, not taxi drivers.
I’m trying to think through why removing the debugger should help one build a mental model of the code faster than having constant access to one.

I guess I can imagine workflows that are overly debugger dependent - the programmer has a “trust nothing” mentality and checks the behavior of the code against their mental model of the code “too much” thus slowing them down.

But I think theres reason to think the programmer can maintain a mental model of the program while using debugger queries to verify aspects of that model in a way that’s a lot more efficient than relying on mental model alone. Beyond that at some point observation of the behavior of the program will come into play — and I don’t see why utilizing the power of a debugger to generate a lot of precise observations quickly isn’t a pure win ...
My brother-in-law met his wife on a MUD. I met my wife playing ToonTown online. Any avenue where folks interact will create friends, enemies, lovers, and life partners.
Not holding my breath on that happening any time soon
Greta Thunberg’s Rise Shows Why We Have Been Unable to Stop Climate Change
This is not a presentation format that inspires confidence that this is not crackpottery
really? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder...
I’ve done exactly this. But not at any scale. But if they are specializing in this and with low margins, AWS is not the answer. The compute cost would be relatively cheap and possibly even the storage cost. I would think that the bandwidth costs would be expensive.
You are free to define yourself however you wish. You can call yourself a pro-free-market, anarcho-capitalist who believes in regulation and a strong communist government. You can mix up and confuse definitions all you want. That has no bearing on the validity of my point. Alex Jones is someone who rails against government interference in markets, and he is the type whom I'm referring to. Now people complain that he's being treated unjustly, when it's really just market forces that have dictated his fate. That is a specific example of what I'm saying.

If you're offended by my standard usage of the term "free market", then you can change my statement to "People who oppose government intervention..." I'm not interested in what you think the term "free market" means, because it's entirely irrelevant to my point.
Yeah, I was always sure it would run out of steam eventually (as I said in another comment), but I do think that point is well beyond where e.g. Duolingo reaches. What I described is basic, but once you're generating sentences from data there is quite a lot you can do with it.

I also used clozes; once you're reading newspapers with high retention I doubt there's much use to what I'd build. I can tell you that clozing children's books does not at all fulfill the same role having done both.
Speaking only for myself, I am vastly more interested in seeing commentary on the content, than on its formatting.
In Lionel Shriver’s wonderful ‘The Mandibles’ [0], set in the near-future, human contact has become a no-no for this reason. To touch is to spread germs, which are by now potentially deadly.

Great book if you’re in to near-future dystopia.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandibles
Counter well sort of (and I'm going to be very US-centric here because they lead the show) - Fed interest rates have been following a pretty visible downtrend for the last 40 years [0]. M2 growth looks quite predictable [1] and the amount of all this that seeps down to consumers seems quite consistent [2].

After 40 years, it seems likely that the lenders have identified all this and are accounting for what is happening in their lending policies. The borrowers would enjoy the feeling of the loan lightening, but their loans would have had a little heaviness built in already in anticipation of rates being lowered.

Looking at [0], I'd lend on the assumption that rates are heading back to 0 in the next 5 years, even though interest rates have been ticking up for years. I'm sure the banks have a more sophisticated model, but the trend is a bit too obvious now.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
Why aren’t all hospital surfaces coated with silver?
>I've observed that a lot of VCs want to be founders (was guilty of that myself before I started my first startup) and a lot of founders want to be VCs,

Is this a silicon valley thing? Most of the VCs I have met are as far removed from tech as possible.
the article content mentions how taxi cab drivers commit suicide due to the uncompetitive prices.
Reading Why We Sleep has made me somewhat skeptical about people claiming to not need sleep. A quote from the book:

> We have, however, discovered a very rare collection of individuals who appear to be able to survive on six hours of sleep, and show minimal impairment—a sleepless elite, as it were. Give them hours and hours of sleep opportunity in the laboratory, with no alarms or wake-up calls, and still they naturally sleep this short amount and no more. Part of the explanation appears to lie in their genetics, specifically a sub-variant of a gene called BHLHE41.III

> Scientists are now trying to understand what this gene does, and how it confers resilience to such little sleep.
Having learned this, I imagine that some readers now believe that they are one of these individuals. That is very, very unlikely. The gene is remarkably rare, with but a soupçon of individuals in the world estimated to carry this anomaly. To impress this fact further, I quote one of my research colleagues, Dr. Thomas Roth at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, who once said, “The number of people who can survive on five hours of sleep or less without any impairment, expressed as a percent of the population, and rounded to a whole number, is zero.”

The gene described here is also called DEC2: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/03/410051/scientists-discover... - this is the same research group as the New Yorker article (Fu et al), but four years along.
Surprisingly, third party libraries have ended up being fairly predictable as well. Not perfectly, but enough that I am usually not too concerned about it. Tend to RTFM at least once, though.
I was in the comp sci program at McMaster University. Until I got to the university, I had only ever connected to dial up BBS systems. Once I got on the internet, I was hooked and Mars Hotel had lots of very fun and friendly people hanging out late at night.
Yes, very strong small family ties.
This is how the system ends up as a maintainable mess in the first place, where the fix for the aforementioned bug was to +8 and move on, which causes (at a later date) some other section to break because instead of 25, it's returning 33 so the developer adds a -8 and moves on...
prisoners dilemna
Uber can’t really retaliate people organizing against them...

All Uber has to do is raise the wages of the drivers who don’t strike. This will encourage other drivers to give up the strike and start driving again. Once enough drivers are back, Uber will lower their wages again.

And they could probably automate this.
Future pricing plans?
I didn't downvote, but...

"I understand a scrappy startup needing to focus on growth and using the most convenient tools"

Well, there's your answer. As a scrappy startup, you can't afford to plan migrations you aren't planning to execute. It's that simple. Heroku is not going away (they're owned by salesforce) and they have a good reputation for uptime.

The "what if" worst case scenarios have to be weighed against other business concerns. And this company appears to have done a good job of navigating such things.
How do you have this different view of the world and work deeply for the CIA. Is talent that hard to attain rn?
Be patient, and talk to your local Alcor representative.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
Well let’s see where to start. Terraform is not magic. All of the provisioners are specific to a platform.
I wonder if the author has actually used a debugger with practical reverse execution, like rr, UndoDB or TTD. It is not just another feature like "pretty-printing STL data structures"; it changes everything. Debugging is about tracing effects back to causes, so reverse execution is what you want and traditional debugging strategies are workarounds for not having it.

Those record-and-replay debuggers also fix some of the other big problems with debugging, such as the need to stop a program in order to inspect its state.

The author is right that the traditional debugger feature set leaves a lot to be desired. Where they (and many other developers) go wrong is to assume that feature set (wrapped in a pretty Visual Studio interface) is the pinnacle of what debuggers can be. It's an understandable mistake, since progress in debugging has been so slow, but state-of-the-art record-and-replay debuggers prove them wrong. Furthermore, record-and-replay isn't the pinnacle either; much greater improvements are possible and are coming soon.
I specifically meant that the article was largely an appeal to authority, not that the practice of not using debuggers is itself based on appeal to authority.

Having said that, I find your argument here pretty weird. I use debuggers because they are useful to me, not because I of quotes about them from famous programmers.
Oh, TIL. Thanks for the info! It won't throw us back to the pre-semmelweis era though only to the pre-fleming area.
The first part is unrelated and comes off as a straw man argument. As for your second point, the article said alien life, not aliens. The Panspermia theory is widely accepted in the scientific community. The organic compounds that are the building blocks for living organisms or living organisms themselves were most likely introduced to our planet via comets. These chemical compounds are common in our universe and the universe is unfathomably massive. But if we're going with you're first point then aliens would have to exist in one or more of the infinite multiverses. Besides the observation of our "material reality" doesn't negate the possibility of other observers or that a conscious observer is necessary for something to exist. The universe existed before humans could observe it so it's existence or anything else in it is not dependent on our observation of it.
How would Terraform help you move between cloud providers when all of the provisioners are specific to the cloud platform.

If you’re a small startup, the least of your business risks are one of the major cloud providers shutting down.
or take up a skilled trade
Why not add something reflective of our times?

Because the value of such an old building is that is a reflection of their times. If you want to reflect your time, build something new.

You are calling for erasing history.
I know of a couple that met via CompuServe.
> Loops and such are also similar.

While “if” doesn't work that way in Ruby, loops do (there is a for..in statement, but it's syntax sugar for a call to #each, and not idiomatic to use it anyway.) Python does a lot of that; putting loosely C-style syntax as sugar around method calls (which themselves support more general message passing patterns than Java-style method calls.)