skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been moving away from using shell scripts in a tools/ directory to using Python Invoke (http://www.pyinvoke.org), which is the library underlying fabric.

I used bash scripts for years, but for a lot of reasons made the switch:

- It was always painful to create small libraries of functions used across multiple scripts in a project

- It's difficult to consistently configure them with per-user settings. I've written bash implementations of settings management, Invoke handles this for me.

- I'd still have to reach for Python whenever I needed to do anything with arrays or dicts, etc.

- Getting error handling correct can be a chore

Invoke has a lot of nice to haves to:

- Autogenerated help output

- Autocomplete out of the box

- Very easy to add tasks, just a Python function

- Easy to run shell code when needed

- Very powerful config management when needed

- Supports namespacing, task dependencies, running multiple tasks at once and deduplicating them

It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than my hand rolled scripts were.
If you really want to start learning about systems, go for Incose's setup: https://www.incose.org/

You might find some of their handbooks online free of charge (maybe not the one most up-to-date).

There is a really good book written by Haberfellner called 'Systems Engineering' which to my knowledge is only available in German. The book is awesome though: https://www.amazon.de/Systems-Engineering-Grundlagen-Reinhar...

Oh, it seems like they finally managed to get it translated - apparently available in July this year: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/reinhard-haberfe...

I did my Master's degree in Systems Engineering based on both Haberfellner and Incose's handbook. It's been great learnings which have been useful ever since helping me to separate all kinds of problems as both a software developer and a systems architect.

So, enough said - separate and conquer ;)
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As someone who has ADD, I agree. I’ve been reading the biography of Leonardo DaVinci and the author mentioned if he was alive today, he would most likely have been medicated for ADHD and mood swings.

I think things like diet, food additives, busy society, and work demands make it impossible for people like us to function well.

I know for me at least, I live a pretty unconventional life so I can thrive in my own way. I’m often up very late. I’ll obsessively work on something and neglect others. I’ll be late to things. I can’t do big social environments and I definitely can not handle stuff like night clubs. I need a lot of alone time to sift through all of the data that has bombarded me. It’s taken me years to figure out. But as I craft my life to work with my oddities, I become happier, healthier, and more productive.

I think for me, a better description than mental illness is “neurodivergent.” Because if I build my life in my own unconventional way, I might be able to thrive. And then when I get put in situations that don’t work for me, I become textbook mental illness.
It’s how Canada works too. Federal minimum requirements (the Canada Health Act) implemented at the provincial level.
Most judges agree on most cases. This is true on the Supreme Court and gets more true as you go down the hierarchy.

That doesn't mean the disagreements aren't important.
Nope. I develop in Python, Java, and Kotlin on Windows and never touch WSL. Make is available natively through Chocolatey (a Windows package installer), but I prefer Gradle.

(I also write code to run on Linux, but still prefer Gradle.)
For said big fish, they can say to the new company "hey, I have this much value locked up, which I'd lose by moving to your company, you'll at least need it match it, for your offer to be competitive."
Facebook sues app maker, says it made millions misusing Facebook user data
I'm sure it's surprising to the various pro-life groups who fought for his nomination.
Well people here keep ranting about 1 percenters without ever realizing that >$100K earners are among one percenters in the world.
More to the point, look at what people choose to live in. Good modernist and brutalist homes sell quickly and at a significant premium over prevailing market rates.

Modernism got a bad name in many Western countries, because it was used as an architectural and philosophical justification for cheap and shoddy system-built housing to fill the post-war housing gap. That doesn't make rectilinear forms and bare concrete inherently bad; we don't blame vernacular architecture for characterless mock-Tudor estate houses and vulgar McMansions, we blame bad architects, profit-hungry developers and philistine houses.

https://www.themodernhouse.com/

https://vimeo.com/93963469
Besides retraining, it seems that there must be upper-body strength tests that 737 MAX pilots will have to pass to ensure that they will be able to manually trim the stabilizer.

Are such tests part of flight crew physicals?
Single use plastics (eg diapers, syringes, many dressings, nitrile gloves, surgical tubing, surgical sutures, saline bags, and so on) are a primary medical supply.
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arxiv.org I have a whole list of open Access journals
https://www.intechopen.com/
http://freecomputerbooks.com/
https://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/open-source/

and a bunch more
Citation on the large number of unvaccinated?
Show HN: WebRTC Calling PWA
Clearly that's the case, but I didn't expect it to be.
Agreed but as the article noted finding yourself on a broken down tractor during harvest season isn't dependent on having a new machine. In fact, I would argue you are MORE likely to find yourself in that position with one of these new machines.

At least in your position you knew what was wrong, you knew what part you needed and you knew how to install it. These new machines are specifically being designed so that a layman such as yourself can't fix them.

Big AGG isn't stopping there either. They aren't just trying to cut you out. There trying to cut out the repair guys and the suppliers. They want to own everything: the repair shops, the delivery shops, the manufacturing plants... their even trying to purchase the intellectual properties. Truth is no one needs a brand new machine just like no one needs a brand new car or a brand new house, imho.
Or you put off getting care because you don't want to spend a four-figure sum only to find out it's a problem that will resolve itself. I know people, with insurance and without, that have done just that.
"In other words, the existing American model that you're defending"

Careful, those are fighting words! I am in no way defending the current American model. It sucks. Let's be clear here. I highly, highly doubt that anyone is arguing for status quo in America here.

I'm defending capitalism against single payer and medicare for all proposals that rely on magical thinking and trusting our government (that got us into this terrible status quo). If Japan has a mostly market-based solution then lets hear about that some more.

EDIT: "It's not about whether we can do better. It's about whether we could possibly do any worse, at this point." Yeah, that's the kind of cynicism that I'm also fighting against. "Yep, we are screwed, might as well try socialism" is not an attitude I'm inspired by.
It doesn't matter the theory driving his votes, it matters the outcome. If you vote against say, civil rights, because you have some super-nuanced view about how the court can or can not be involved in respect to state politics, you're still propping up Jim Crow laws.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The UK Supreme Court ruled that the accusations would be classified as rape under English law too. That was ones of the ground that he used to challenge the original warrant.
> So from that perspective, the economics between the computer world and farming world are probably the same

This totally leaves out the risk factor of not finishing harvest in time. In northern climates, if you don't finish, for example, by early September, the remaining crop may be unharvestable. Thus you could lose half your crop, totally.

So the economics are not at all the same.
While you are correct, I do believe that these feel-good campaigns distract from the corporate polluters that cause the vast vast majority of these problems.

If you get people fighting over straws which are some exceedingly small amount of overall ocean plastics and pollution, then no one's gonna pay attention to the real villains.
Why did they buy Whole Foods? They could have easily opened up a few hundred grocery stores too.

Uber has around 4 million registered drivers and millions of daily users and a huge team of engineers working on these problems. With Lyft and Uber in this space it makes no sense for amazon to try and compete with them.

Uber is trying to turn itself into a logistics business and Amazon is investing a ton into making 1 hour delivery work because perishable goods are a huge slice of commerce and a big growth opportunity for them.
> the single-biggest booster for me as a practitioner.

Can you instantiate this claim with an example? I'm somewhat knowledgable in both math and computer science theory but have yet to feel as though my math background has helped me in practical CS.
There is definitely a reason. Supreme Court Justices have policy preferences like anyone else, and if a particular decision would hurt the electoral chances of their preferred politicians then that's a reason to go the other way.

Whether or not they actually do this is another question, but the incentive is still there even with a lifetime appointment.
This looks like little more than marketing fluff and with rather confusing messaging at that. For example the post states:

>"One specific example of Argo’s smarts is its ability to distinguish between multiple potential connectivity options as it leaves a given data center. We call this “transit selection”

A "global private backbone" and edge routing have zero to do with each other. They are orthogonal. You can "pref" your transit provider's customer routes from just within POP itself. This has zero to do with whether or not you have a "backbone." The way this works is that you pick your top N destination ASNs and continuously monitor ping time, jitter packet loss etc. Then you prefer the more desirable routes via iBGP. This is not new and not innovative either. Internap has been this 20 for years now. This was the whole "secret sauce" of their PNAP architecture back in the day. In fact they even sold a hardware device to do it called the Internap FCP(flow control platform)it has since been named MIRO [1][2]. Of course many people do exactly this themselves with BIRD/Quagga/Exabgp and some Python. And you certainly don't need "machine learning" to do this.

As a CDN customer I only care about getting the best path from the POP back to the eyeball networks. Why would it matter whether the CDN provider has fiber between two of their POPs? There should be enough transit diversity at each edge location
that fiber between POPs is irrelevant. I should spend as little time on the CDN provider's network as possible i.e "hot potato" routing. This is the whole value proposition of a CDN. Honestly this whole sounds like a cost savings mechanism that they've trying to spin and sell as a product innovation.

Also where is the Cloudflare backbone map? It seems to be conspicuously absent for announcement about a "global private backbone." How many route miles are there? Is it an actual backbone or this just some CWDM gear that only connects POPs in the same city over municipal fiber?

[1] https://www.inap.com/press-release/internap-rebuilds-patente...

[2] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080206005468/en/Tel...
Everyone has a different opinion on this, but I have a hard time believing desktop users (Linux, Mac, Windows) would accept getting their software only from the computer manufacturer's officially approved store.

Would you?
The only way to resolve this is to make the search algorithm public, so that we actually know how the results should be interpreted.
If you're into python, look up decorators and coroutines. They will blow your mind.
My acquihire adventure as a bootstrapper with a large tech company
Actually, that's typically what does occur as part of gentrification. Typically a bohemian neighborhood has all sorts of interesting indie stores selling books, art, antiques, etc. But these stores aren't that profitable -- a chain retailer can pay much more rent and so the owners evict the indie stores.
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>if everything is a debacle then nothing is a debacle.

Most things appear to be in a bit of a debacle right now. Also, to my understanding of debacles, if everything is in a debacle, then everything is still in a debacle, as a debacle is more of a state than a relative term.
TIL: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
> Socialized healthcare systems have much larger wait times.

That's because in the US, a very large proportion of people go to the ER instead of the normal in-patient process that universal healthcare countries use for non-emergency problems. US hospitals have very long waiting times for ER for this reason. Here in Australia, I've needed to go to the ER before and there wasn't a waiting time (though obviously this depends on the time of day and what hospital you go to).

This is all due to lack of funding and staffing for hospitals, not for any other reason.

> More research needs to be done before enforcing such a system on a wide scale in America.

I'm pretty sure the existence of this system across the developed world is sufficient research to show that it works. Even with these worries you have, the healthcare system would be orders of magnitude better than what you have now.
They don't even need to copy your website.

Anyone can point a few hundred domains to a few haproxy instances with LetEncrypt certs, then point the backend to anyones website. They just need to change the header to the backend to request your domain instead of the proxy domains. Easy to do. They are not copying the website, just proxying. Google will see that as the same thing and SEO downrank your site. With cache enabled, the proxied versions may even be faster.
Were you paid to write this?
Can you please not post such dross to HN?

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"A vocal fringe of U.S. parents oppose the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, believing, contrary to scientific consensus, that it can cause autism."

No amount of scientific evidence can ever prove that MMR can't cause autism, only that it isn't responsible for the autism epidemic. One wonders whether Reuters is purposely trying to give credibility to the anti-vaxx movement.
They have that reputation, but be watchful. Lots of things are more expensive at Amazon, now. What they're selling me is convenience more than anything else. I can often find lower prices elsewhere but it's more work.
> really really stupid

Sounds like it's really, really smart from a business perspective.

I think it's similar to the idea of, "if you owe the bank a million, that's your problem, but if you owe the bank a trillion, it's their problem." Would you rather have the gov't bail out JD or risk massive food shortages? I know my choice.
Not sure if things have calmed down in the last year, but get ready for 2-3 hour lines.
"...builds boxes to size..."

That is a major feature. The inability of human packers to properly size boxes is merely wasteful for many products that come in their own packaging, but damaging and costly for Amazon's original product, books.

We've had so many book orders arrive damaged that we hardly ever shop at Amazon for books. They just toss them in a box that is too large, with some wadding material, and sent them off. Almost every time, the corners, covers and pages are damaged or torn. Returns more than once are frequent.

So, I'm very glad to see this on a micro level, and also on the macro-level of reducing waste, both in packaging material per box, and repeat shipments for shipping-damaged goods.
Absent a cost-benefit analysis, making the world a better place is not a useful heuristic for the effectiveness of policy.
Really? For the CalSTRS example, they issued PR that they bought into the FB IPO, and had also bought into pre-IPO private companies.

eg:

> CalSTRS has owned shares in Facebook, Inc. since its initial public offering in 2012, as well as through privately held assets prior to the IPO.

https://www.calstrs.com/statement/calstrs-ongoing-engagement...
Cool, none of the examples I noticed were referencing that AFAICouldT.
TRON CEO Says He’s Responsible for Bitcoin’s Price Growth
literally no one forgets this.

UBI haters somehow never fail to pretend as if no one has put an ounce of thought into how to pay for a proposal that intends on giving everyone free money.
There are several levels of "Full Flight Simulators" [1] defined by the FAA: "There are currently four levels of full flight simulator, levels A - D, level D being the highest standard and being eligible for zero flight time (ZFT) training of civil pilots when converting from one airliner type to another."

The requirements and process for testing simulators for certification is documented as well [2]. Its not clear from the article exactly what simulator they were using though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_flight_simulator

[2] https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/nsp/media/14CFR60_Sear...
> believes they are buying a general computing device that they can use for any purpose and customize freely, which is simply not the case

So you are arguing that an iPhone is a very sophisticated calculator and not a general purpose computer?
Thank god it's still that low (< 1000 people it looks like). And I love that we have so much data available these days.

Back when I was really suffering due to an autoimmune condition, I found that following various data-fed sources, for example one of the U.S. Navy's Twitter accounts which shared data on sick sailors, helped me make some pretty educated guesses as to what the sickness-of-the-month was. Edit: Found it--example at [0].

Being a part of the autoimmune community, I can also see why there's so much push-back against vaccines. These people (that is, those who object due to vaccine fears) aren't referential thinkers who are comfortable with broad social measurement (objective science). They are often own-ideas driven, analytical people (NIH, as we say in tech) who have yet to cross the subject-object gap in their own methodology, but they have also typically made some notable personal progress as self-reported.

The sad part is that people like this don't realize that decision-making regarding their children is exactly why & where you'd want to apply more objective thinking ("they are not me" is where social measurement / objective science can shine some light).

Anyway, were I to try to combat this kind of thinking, I wouldn't do it via emphasis on science. These are people who are conditioned to batten down the hatches when confronted by science. I'd do it via social trend science, by testing words, phrases, personalities and social clearinghouses (be it Youtube channels, or whatever) that show possible social traction. Fringe social groups are notoriously weak against such "social technologies," which can quickly cause fracture. No numbers, no data, etc. Get that stuff out of here; this is the completely wrong psychological match for such an approach.

0. https://twitter.com/NH_RC/status/1112816699227635712
> superfluous byproduct of consumer capitalism

The same can be said about most quality of life improvements, doesn’t mean they’re unnecessary. I enjoy the time throwaway cutlery saves me so I can spend it on something more productive, instead of having to carry dirty cutlery around until I get home.
When it comes to sensory aesthetic experience, I don't think there's any such thing as a true objectivist. Acknowledging the limitations of scientific method for testing personal experience is itself a "subjective" thing, and any good scientist knows that when the results of one measurement disagree with another, it doesn't mean the other measurement is necessarily wrong.

But I'm not talking about scientists or the scientific method here. I'm talking about dudes on the internet who claim they are "objective", which is a whole different horse.
I'm 100% opposed to federal health care, but would be in favor of letting the states do whatever they want. How about that?

Like you said, small countries already do this. When 2/3 of the states can agree on a system then we make it federal. This is more like what Sweden does, their counties finance and administer health care according to agreed upon federal standards.

The U.S. government has already made a huge mess out of health care- the biggest in the world it appears. I don't trust them. We've already been screwed by industry lobbyists. They need to take a back seat and let the states run with this for now. As per our constitution.

I am 100% in favor of various plans at a state level. Vermont was going to do single payer before Obamacare. That's what I want to see. States will copy successful systems, and an amendment can eventually be passed once enough states agree on a federal system.
Not yet. What's the US population? 300 million, say, roughly? 1 in 10000 rate of nasty side effects is 30,000 people. The measles outbreak isn't that big... yet. If 75 cases is 9.8%, then the outbreak is about 750 people... so far.

[Edit: The thing is (as most people here probably know), you can (mostly) safely be unvaccinated if everyone else is vaccinated, because you probably won't ever be exposed. But when other people also aren't vaccinated, it's more risky.]
I think a lot of people will stick around for 6 months, and even longer, and that’s perfectly fine if they want to be there, but it’s not fine if they are staying because they feel trapped by their RSUs and taxes.

I’m not saying you should leave. I’m just saying that you should not feel trapped into staying by your RSUs.
Nobody mentions what self taught programmers miss the most.

Theory. And not just algorithm theory.
>a general observation (itself a meme) of ideas like people do not think in facts, or fully realize the difference between reality and their interpretation of reality.

People have been pointing that out for a loooong time. Plato's famous allegory of the cave. Or St. Paul in his letter to the church of Corinth, "Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known".

>Indeed, chanting of team slogans[, reciting famous quotes, and using mnemonic devices] are all forms of memetic, cult-like behavior

Next elementary school science teacher I run into, I'll have to enlighten her that "ROY G. BIV" is cult-like behavior and she's been brainwashing her students all this time ;)
Banned Pesticides Could Be Killing Md. Bald Eagles, DNR Says
IDEs - A proper work-grade IDE like Visual Studio will have some tools built into it that will save you tons of time. Features like "Edit & Continue" have saved my bacon many times by making intractably difficult bugs in algorithms much easier to understand because you can experiment with your code on the fly.

There's also some more common features in most IDEs like being able to jump between symbols that saves a lot of time day-to-day.

If I'm interviewing you and you say you don't like using an IDE or a debugger, that speaks to your work experience, your productivity, your self awareness about your productivity, and really puts an upper limit on the difficulty of the problems you've had to solve.
How about setting up your own git remote?
Neither source you link even mentions google. Yes, please find a lot more. That was not enough to make the point.