skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is the most people in the USA (and their elected representatives) are totally in favor of budget cuts; they just don’t agree on exactly what to cut. Some liberals may want to reduce military spending and some conservatives may want to reduce social spending. As a compromise, both parties usually agree to increase spending on both.
Anyone who wants to see the exact wording can start a DS-160 application at https://ceac.state.gov/genniv.
Replying to you since this is the top response but aimed at y'all really.

At the risk of stating the obvious. Gut bacteria are bacteria... in the gut. Like if you tell me they affect the absorption of nutrients - I can see that. Maybe they make something more bioavailable or maybe they break something else down. If you tell me their involved in deficiencies and over/underweight that kinda makes sense.

Tell me they affect appetite through manipulating our signals ok. Not as obvious but not implausible either.

Tell me they cause highly complex behavioral differences... it just seems implausible. But maybe gaba can indeed explain it.
> The bill will go into effect if Gov. Mills signs it

She'll sign it. Mainer here who's been following what's been going on (she's our first female governor), she's been very committed to making sure our state is modernized. She quoted Kurt Vonnegut in her inaugural speech.
That's an interesting idea. It might be a good way to circumnavigate this problem. But there are some drawbacks. Maybe there's a lot of things we could get away with actually needing FP16 accuracy (like iterative methods can sometimes do this, especially in ML) but call FP32 but there's plenty of times where FP32 matters. So I guess it is highly dependent upon those issues and where you can get away with them. But further, how do you enforce that? I think it is interesting though.
To be totally honest, I haven’t implemented anything using RLS, it just seemed the way to go since it’s native Postgres. The Hasura team gave me the same explanation as they give in this article - when you use RLS, you have to rerun every query for every client to get your results. By doing it in the application layer, you can run a single query instead.

In terms of the setup and migrations, I also have the same reservation about it being harder to do with text. So far I’ve left it to one of the other guys to implement so it hasn’t been painful for me, yet!

Edit to add: I believe they built their version of RLS before Postgres had it. So it was more a case of Not Invented Yet
Financial instruments that only the rich have access to (shorts, puts, ETFs)

I see someone hasn’t been by r/wallstreetbets
I go back and forth on this.

On the one hand: if Apple really wants the iPad to be a laptop replacement, there needs to be a way to do everything that a laptop can do. It doesn't have to be the same way; it might be a new way that requires a learning curve. (A lot of the "iPads suck because I can't do my work" articles I've seen really mean "iPads suck because I can't do my work the way I expect to be able to do it.") But if I literally can't do my work on an iPad, it's not a laptop replacement.

On the other hand: while I can't open a terminal on the iPad, I can open Blink and open an effectively persistent mosh terminal on my Linode. I have a Git client that can make a repository a document provider, letting text editors work with it directly. It's possible that there may be some things that the iPad can never do locally that I can still technically do "on the iPad," and that this may be enough.
Except that you need developers to build an ecosystem and Apple is currently alienating them in droves. developers developera developers as a wise man once said
The first publication related to my thesis appeared nearly a year and a half after I graduated. Part of the reason is that, at least in pure math, it might take 3-6 months to receive a rejection!
I applied for a visa waiver for a short term trip to the US a couple of weeks ago. They asked about social media, but the question was optional. Surprisingly, Github was also on the list there. I’m not sure what border patrol agents will think of my pull requests - but so long as that question is optional I’m going to opt out of answering it.
Even if there is legitimate cause to disable the account, I would prefer to see DO being more transparent with their process here.
> though I find piles of complexity added by classes/methods the exact opposite of simple.

I mean, the model of your objects calling methods on other objects (that you don’t control)—and having your methods called by those same objects in turn—is inherent in the abstract machine being programmed for. You don’t have to use express the internals of your program as classes and methods, but that’s how people are going to see your contract “from the outside”, and that’s also how you’re going to have to interact with other contracts.
I guess it depends on what each of those VMs is doing. I don't trust the Dev's explanation tbh.

> to make it faster we execute it in parallel on multiple droplets ~10 that we set up only for this pipeline and shut down once it’s done.

Tildes preceding numbers means "approximately". Why doesn't he know exactly how many VMs he spun up?

Was he actually spinning up 1 VM per record and only allowing 10 VMs to be running concurrently?

I'm not a Pythong dev but why can't you execute 10 instances of Python on a single VM?

If you need to dedicate an entire VM to processing 1 row, what the hell is it doing?
I don't know how you manage your music, but when I use iTunes I just drop it on the icon and it gets filed away (organised) for me.
I run the IPFS daemon on Hetzner, and it was trying to connect to local IPs because of some misconfiguration. They sent me an email saying my server was portscanning their LAN, and I should fix it and email them how I fixed it.

I didn't know what they were talking about so I replied saying that, they helped me shut down the local port connections and I never heard another complaint from them. There was no downtime or banning at any point.
As someone who has spent the last 8 years in big enterprise it amuses me slightly that small businesses are discovering this now. Because where I work our customers often have contracts that make us accountable for every single hour of downtime. Requiring us to pay customers penalty fees if their service level is affected.
Smaller VPS providers like Linode or DO oversubscribe like crazy. Last time I used Linode, they would email us telling us we're using too much CPU or memory, and we'd need to move to a larger tier VM.
Kubrick's Master Plan
They're tracking the TLS ones too. DNS & Server Name Indication reveals which site you're going to. DPI means they're watching the content of the HTTP pages you go to as well.
It can be.

Look at bitcoin, its value is expected to go up, so owners never use it, they don't even feel the need to put it in a bank account to hedge against inflation, because the likelihood is there'll be the opposite, deflation (because theres a fixed number of coins that can be made). So now you have all this cash sitting there doing nothing. Not being lent to businesses, so they can grow, or invent hover boots or what ever, it's not being put in a bank, so they can lend it to someone to buy a house.

It just gums the system up, the haves accrue more by doing literally nothing. The have nots have no opportunity to improve their lot, or the lot of the haves.
The difference between you (and me) and an unfortunately large number of people is that they don't have the luxury to trade money for time, even for seemingly trivial things. Spending $3 and two hours at a laundromat might be the only option, as $5-$10 for a service can often be out of reach.
Pew Research on this topic: "But in real, inflation-adjusted terms, the median has barely budged over that period: That $232 in 1979 had the same purchasing power as $840 in today’s dollars.
Wage increases in the U.S. rise to the top earners
Meanwhile, wage gains have gone largely to the highest earners."
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
It's important to note that publishing a paper can take quite a long time. For instance, it quite commonly takes 2+ years to publish in JASA, the premier statistics journal.
The question is how you organize the albums, hierarchically. The easy case is when you have artist/album/track, like:

Music > Buckethead > Enter The Chicken > Funbus

But how do you file, say, classical music? Do I file this album under Wilhelm Furtwängler, the conductor? Do I file this under Bach and Beethoven, the conductors of various tracks? Do I file this under Wiener Philharmoniker?

In iTunes it’s irrelevant, because I can find the album by looking for Composer=Bach, Composer=Beethoven, artist=Wilhelm Furtwaengler, or artist=Wiener Philharmoniker. With a filesystem I would… use symlinks or something?
> Those same users are probably benefitting from the other thing I did that delivered value to my company. It has value for the company because it has value, directly or indirectly, for the customer. Eventually, it'll sort itself out with competition.

This kind of oversimplified faith in the idealized notion of the free market completely ignores the myriad of externalities that systematically distort software competition. General arguments aside, it suffices to go through almost any set of software niches to note that the dominant products in most of them are dominant for reasons that have nothing whatsoever (and are frequently inversely correlated with) any reasonable sense of technical merit or even economic value produced (for the users) in the present (though many of them were once upon a time arguably the best in their respective niche).

> Ultimately, my work is dictated by what the customers whine about. If they make more noise over missing feature X than slow feature Y, X gets my time.

Non-technical users rarely articulate performance-related concerns, but that doesn't mean they don't have them. In my experience, if you have prolonged free form conversations with them, they will often voice impressions of the software in question getting slower and less reliable overall, whereas targeted questionnaires and focus groups will tend to laser in on specific features simply because those are much easier to articulate. Also, bad software is so common by now that some people can't even imagine that there isn't actually any sane technical reason for, say, Photoshop to take almost 10 seconds to open a simple image file. That doesn't mean you're not wasting their time, money and energy.
For iPad, it's primarily clunky and a huge waste of space.

For iPhone, I'm certain there is a better way to discover and open apps than what was devised a decade ago. The current pull-down search is useful, but as a naive idea: some sort of search & auto-complete on the home screen would be great.

EDIT: Bonus - Trying to organize your apps is a nightmare. How do you organize a bunch of icons split across multiple screens?
And remember that they want the list of all the clubs and associations you have ever been “associated” (not just a member) with in your lifetime if you apply for a green card. They want the address, name of the president and dates of association, for your entire life.
The developer is a 2 person team. Why would they use multiple clouds at that stage?

Additionally, if 10 spun up VMs is considered an “unreasonable” load on DigitalOcean infrastructure I shutter at the concept of building anything on the service. Does DigitalOcean even define “unreasonable” in their terms or is it kept vague?
Nowhere am I saying that meat leads to bad gut bacteria, what I am saying is that you can starve out the gut bacteria that eat meat and live for a while with just the bacteria that eat plant based foods.

Because you can't live off just meat alone (unless you are a dog or other carnivore with a short intestine) there isn't the option to cut out the plants and just live off burgers and sausages for a year, to clear out and reset the gut bacteria that like a bit of plant material. Going vegetarian is therefore a safe personal experiment.

The problem with processed foods - even if natural and without additives - is that they don't make it past the small intestine with any nutrients in them for the gut flora of the lower intestine.
High-context and low-context cultures
Some of the ancillary features are getting refactored out, it seems. Plus the app might be getting a rewrite so it's not some awful C++ cross-platform hybrid?
> It’s unrealistic to expect this of a tiny startup.

Then it's unrealistic to trust them with your business.
> I, a US citizen literally JUST spoke out against the practice in the post you are directly replying to.

Good for you.

I'm also a US citizen. I read this entire thread on HN and mentally said "Hmm. Bummer." I then went on to browse other HN topics while waiting for my Model 3 to finish charging.

My point? Most Americans don't give a shit. You'd be lucky if even 20 Americans complain about this on this thread.
Developer receives an e-mail "we noticed something weird. btw here's our TOS. please explain".

Developer explains as requested.

Developer receives "k, we've restored your account", which sounds an awful lot like "what you're doing is fine".

Developer gets shut down again despite having explained the behavior as requested (i.e. the explanation is on file) and despite the explanation being considered sufficient by DO.

The "with the details you provided, we've removed the hold" e-mail is hard to interpret differently than "sorry for the misunderstanding, this is fine", especially as the initial e-mail asked them to explain to "ensure your account is not subjected to additional scrutiny or placed on billing hold". If they meant "ok but don't do that again" they should have stated so.
Slightly better schools are worth this massive police state expansion? We could save many lives lost to crime each year if we forced everyone to wear ankle monitors all the time too - wouldn't that be even more worth it?
Fair enough. My claim was from September 2016, predicting that it will never work well in the future (and the UX problems I highlighted were from 2010 onwards.) I think it was pretty obvious that the app will need to be unbundled (about an year after my post, Apple started removing some features from iTunes like the iOS App store).

I'm sure people liked it in 2004 (although I never was blown away by it.) Also the fact that it was the #1 store can reflect music distribution agreements (and the success of iPod/iPhone) more than its prowess as a product.
Will I still be able to rip CDs and put them on my phone? Yes, I’m old fashioned and still only purchase on CD.
Good points, thanks. I keep forgetting that RLS is a fairly recent Postgres feature--2016 or so if I'm not mistaken.
Hard links are going to blow your mind. https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Hard-Link...

Seriously, I had my MP3s organized this way pre-iTunes. I get why that can’t scale to the general public, but I still think a tool could approximate it.
So what do you call all the people who develop for apples platforms because they make an extremely high portion of the value for an OS. Without Mac/iOS developers, apple would have gone bankrupt long ago as no OS can compete withouts external developers?
I became an SME (in k8s &| devops), did some impressive work at IBM with it, left to start a company, do consultation / custom work on side to keep cash coming in. One gig is mainly DevOps spanning AWS, GCP, onprem; the other is a migration from AWS to GCP/GKE.

The biggest contributions to success seems to be track record and networking. The second gig is with a former coworker who knew my work.
They take your phone, hold you for a while, then let you into the United States?
At a certain price point, yes there is, if you're paying $800/month for hosting services to a mid sized regional ISP with presence at major IX points. That ISP cares about its reputation, and cares about the revenue it's getting from you.

I can tell you that as a person whose job title includes "network engineer", we have a number of customers who have critical server/VM functions similar to these people who had the DigitalOcean disaster. If something goes wrong, an actual live human being with at least a moderate degree of linux+neteng clue is going to take a look at their ticket, personally address it, and go through our escalation path if needed.
Probably they are working on this already.
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> As a user who understands and consents to that request

They can't really consent, because no-one truly understands what it is that they are agreeing to. It is simply not possible to have informed consent about the use, re-sale, re-combination, re-identification, long-term storage, profiling, credit/employment/health/housing impacts, etc. It's not possible to consent because you can't tell what you are giving away about other people who you aren't aware that you're impacting, and don't have their permission to do so. There just isn't any way for someone to say 'I understand and consent' and have it be meaningful.
I’m not disagreeing that they have more. I’m saying that when you are stuck without LTE in the boondocks. You’d much rather fallback to GSM/HSDPA than CDMA.
What do mean? Safari, on both iOS and macOS, supports most aspects of PWA (most notably, Service Workers), and has done so for quite a while.
The percent sign might be unintentional.
People used to say the same thing about washing hands -- "little organisms on my hand are making me sick? I don't buy it."

Nowadays, the gut is sometimes referred to as the "second brain" because of your enteric nervous system which is located inside the gut. It probably has more influence over you than you're aware of, as it operates independently of your CNS.
Of all things...two classrooms? Seriously? How low does this have to go before everybody takes a step back? As a country, doing something as petty as this blows my mind. Is there anything that can even be done other than shaming them? I really do feel for the people caught up in this whole situation. Especially the poor children who are growing up in not only this pathetic display, but also the never-ending violence.
Usually we breed organisms for weekness. Many of our farm animals and plants wouldnt survive without our protection.

Also mutations, often have to overcome obsticles to conquer a new niche. They have to reach a specific habitat or deploy seeds at a distribution system (cars driving dirt roads e.g.).

Lets take a nice little SciFi Example- NASA breeds in its lab a terraformer for venus, a sort of airborn spirondella. This could potentially wipeout all live below, by covering a planet with green "living" clouds.

Now this organism could escape the lab, bot as long as it does not reach a warm, wet climate it is dormant. So even if this dangerous organism was out there- it could potentially deteriorate before it reaches the equatorial belt and starts to bloom.

Nothing is certain in nature, but one thing- if its a success - it trys to be a exponential success.
Do you believe that there are secret sex slave networks in the world, anywhere, at all? If so, who participates in them?
Do you believe that satanic rituals are practiced anywhere in the world? Who practices them?
Do you believe that pedophilia is a thing that exists in the world? If so, which ones are the pedophiles?
second this, Linode for 15+ years here, tried DO a few times(but never left Linode), now 100% back with Linode.

Linode even has an irc channel(you can use browser to access it), I rarely need support, but when I really need it, it is always fast, to the point, available.
I mean this is solid logic if you're older and experienced the advent of the internet.

But keep in mind that we have an entire generation of people coming up that are growing up during the age of the internet. Kids aren't going to be concerned about using the internet as themselves and obviously they'll do or say stupid things as they age. So while you may become more concerned about privacy, everything you did as a kid is on the internet. Forever.
Does my album go under the composer, the conductor, the orchestra or the soloist?

This is one of my peeves with the 40's channel on Sirius. There could be the wonderful voice of a woman singing a song, but the display will only read "Benny Goodman Orchestra."
No, I get asked to accept a cookie on every page view because I don't allow cookies.
To be quite honest and thoughtful about it - probably extremely few companies went bankrupt silently because of issues like this. Let's be realistic.
Doesn't inflation also trigger interest rate increases? That's not good for payers of variable rate loans (mainly low credit and poor).

And doesn't the price of assets increase in lockstep with inflation? Those holding cash and bonds are the ones getting pinched during inflation.
nice word of the day usage ;)
Coldtea said they need to explain their lack of contingency plan wrt "servers, colocation, another cloud offering, etc...".

PostPost said they didn't, that even huge companies don't have contingency plans.

I agree with PostPost, and I'm trying to figure out which one you agree with.

If you define being able to adapt as a contingency plan, well, I have confidence that this company is fully able to adapt! Their architecture is small and pretty easy to move. The only problem is a lack of external backup, which will be remedied very soon, and once that happens they could easily shift to another service even if DO re-disabled their account.

So that would mean you agree with PostPost. But you don't seem to agree at all.

I'm struggling to reconcile "The ability to adapt is the definition of a contingency plan." and "this imaginary contingency plan of theirs". If you demand a preexisting written plan then that means you're not accepting "the ability to adapt" as a valid answer at all.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL in NoSQL Databases: A Comparative Study
My understanding is that it isn't the 10 VMs as much as the resource usage (my suspicion is that DO is running a lot closer to the margin that larger providers, so they police this more). So they probably pegged all the CPUs at 100%. (perhaps a message queue approach would have been easier on the resources)
(I work at Hasura)
Thank you for the note! This can definitely be made easier, and we’re working on this.

You can also add sql migrations as a sql file and that’s something we should document better! https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/migrations/referen...

Coming back to RLS, doing what we’re doing to fetch multiple results for different clients is not easy. Connection variable vs being in the same sql statement essentially.

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...

Further, owning RLS helps us target more hosted Postgres vendors, and other Postgres flavours that don’t support RLS well. RLS on Heroku doesn’t work: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql#conn...

Owning RLS does have a few other advantages. Having a unified experience in bringing that authz experience to “remote schemas”, for example.

(Typing on my phone, apologies for typos etc)
Just please let me keep my star ratings instead of having to switch to thumbs up/down.
virtue signaling. it's a recruitment tool.
> Hard links are going to blow your mind.

I know what hard links are.

> I get why that can’t scale to the general public

So why suggest it as a solution?

> pre-iTunes

So even you gave up on it?
This is illegal in San Francisco -- a second kitchen necessarily makes a second unit, so you'd better have the right zoning/permits.
If you hold dollars, then indeed inflation will tax it away. But if you hold assets that are not denominated in dollars (like real estate, stocks, etc.), then inflation does not tax it away.

Rich people in general know about inflation and invest in things not affected by it.
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More discussion of the same topic, with a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065153