skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that HN User gman is trying to make exactly that point. (I could be wrong though.)

I wonder if 30 to 40 years from now, we'll be having the same convo about electric cars that we are having about recycling plastic? Something that seemed good on the surface, but masked all kinds of externalities.

I mean, at least electric should be a bit better than ICE in daily use. But will making these things at scale in the first place cost too much in the way of carbon production? Or other forms of pollution that we as consumers don't even know about yet? You may say, "well it was your job as a consumer to know the impact your purchases were having." But I'm just not that knowledgeable about that stuff. I don't know if a billion electric cars are bad or good? And it might not even be the cars, just the fact that we have to make the roads may be polluting somehow? Or whatever? It's just too much for a consumer to know. Should I be buying electric? Or supporting mass public transit? Which is better? Or is it just a question of which is worse? There's a lot to think about there.

Or maybe it's just me?
It's not about them having a ton of money. Money on gets you so far. Amazon owns (part of) the infrastructure that modern connected society relies on. I look forward to it getting broken up once the old guard leaves politics and some better educated younger politicians swap in, but Amazon is offering good deals to too many people, except the people that work the warehouses for their distributed global shopping mall. Even if Amazon got legislated to treat all those folks right, hire 100% more people to cut shit times, and raise salaries by 100% for all warehouse workers, all that would do is slow down growth of a company that literally owns part of the internet we all rely on.
It sounds like you're lucky enough to have not experienced micro management, but instead close support.

Micromanagement plays out as a constant barrage of needing to be updated on every single detail that you work on. It's immensely tiring, and essentially comes from the manager not really trusting you and exercising too much control. They need to know about every action you take and how long is it taking (and why is it taking X long). It's horrible and drives people to look elsewhere. Project managers also fail badly at this. They badly manage the customer and try always be a 'yes' man to every whim they have, and end up driving the engineers crazy by wanting constant updates hour by hour.
I tried to find the American English pronunciation for 'agile', thinking it would be the same as in 'fragile' (silent i and e at the end), but for all examples, the 'i' is pronounced like in 'isle'. Can anyone chime in with the correct AE pronunciation?

My English Dictionary corresponds to what i expected, but it is different in practice it seems.
...and it doesn't really work because it wasn't a compromise between parties...since the GOP controls most state governments, they have stripped out the Medicaid portions. So...it is largely a failure in many regards. If there had been real party to party compromise, the bill might have actually helped cut costs. Instead it was just something to pass quickly to notch as an accomplishment. The Democrats aren't the only ones who have done that...the GOP is equally guilty. It's time to start compromising across party lines, and things like what Warren and Bernie have put forward do the polar opposite.
- Tesla currently has a huge efficiency advantage[1]

- Tesla's Model 3 interior is highly polarizing; you either love it or hate it. That will help carve out a niche even if all else is equal

- but most importantly, it's all about the batteries. Audi had to scale back e-tron production for 2019 due to battery supply issues; what's going to happen when the big carmakers need several orders of magnitude more batteries? Tesla has their own battery factory. OTOH, there are a LOT of chinese battery factories being built right now, we may see battery prices fall through the floor if they are overbuilding. Anybody who's watched the DRAM market over the past few decades knows what happens when you need really expensive factories to build a commodity...

1: https://electrek.co/2019/02/21/tesla-efficiency-range-test-a...

2: https://www.electrive.com/2019/04/23/audi-revises-production...
Actually, I've seen plenty of people with cords running across the pavement to their cars from the house. Obviously run the risk of being sued for a trip hazard or someone unplugging it, but it's a bit of a stop gap.
The suicide rates by ethnicity are very interesting as well - white people have a significantly higher suicide rate (2x) than most other ethnicity, despite presumably facing fewer problems overall.

My theory is that they can't attribute issues in their life to things like racism/discrimination, so they perceive failures in their own life as their own fault rather than the fault of a racist society. That also seems to fit with suicides dropping during the world wars, when there is something else which you can blame for your problems, suicide rates are lower. I have nothing to back this up though so idk but it makes sense to me, blaming someone else for your situation is a common way to make yourself feel better about it (and is reasonable in many cases I think, there are lots of things you can't control which contribute to failures in your life).
It should be well understood that spamming weak applications to lots of companies is a terrible way to job hunt.
“Google Glass Is Banned on These Premises” (2013) [pdf]
> They can’t even give a list of all my data under the GDPR

GDPR specifically states the opposite - that they have to give you all the data they have about you when you ask.
The dream of owning a house, owning a car, owning land is disappearing with more and more lease contracts, investors scooping up everything with large sums of money.

Our society is fastly moving towards a feudal system. It will not take long until everything is owned by rich overlords.
This doesn't look like another housing bubble AT ALL.
its a charity, and unlike in the US, charities are tightly controlled and have to publish reasonably detailed finances.
If they don't want older devs, why would they pay to join the board? PR?
The trouble is that in many cases it goes a bit further. Steps 1-4 are as you say. But then

5. Keep looking down Amazon's product listings.

6. Notice that _every single thing in the list_ is a weird pseudo-brand whose products are presumably drop-shipped from China.

7. Notice that many of these things, although nominally having different manufacturers, are obviously pretty much the same thing, probably coming out of the same factory.

8. Try to find some suitable products somewhere in the list that actually come from companies you might have heard of and that aren't just reselling the same probably-low-quality Chinese products.

9. Give up and go to a bricks-and-mortar store.

(For me, looking at Amazon UK, for the particular search mentioned above there do seem to be a few real products in among the deluge of fake-brand junk. But often >90% of the products in the list are fake-brand junk. And of course then there's the possibility that the real products are actually fakes too.)
I feel the same about sites like inc.com, fastcompany.com, entrepreneur.com, forbes.com. They are the absolute worst, shallowest content for business journalism, but they're right at the top of search results, and their blogspam fills up my Pocket "Discover" recommendations.
People are asking for Face ID on laptops?! I have an EFF sticker over my 2015 MBPR's webcam thank you very much…
Are they counting drug overdoses as suicides?
If you want to stay sane with touch bar, buy one of those keyboard covers for non-touchbar models with ESC/Fn keys, pad the Fn keys with some pieces of rubber. Then you can have have some poor man's tactile feedback. The very latest keyboard is improvement both in sound and feel, latest CPUs are very fast, just the touchbar kills the overall impression.
Thing with Tesla is they have a few stuff they do better than others.

I hate the experience of buying a car. I hate going to a dealership. I hate haggling. I hate having to say no to every crap they want to sell me.

I think Tesla is a breath of fresh air in the car industry, and I think they're going to continue trying to do things differently than everyone else. We'll see how that spans out in the future, and if they're going to keep being able to fix these issues we've just come to accept with the traditional car industry.
Why would someone not liking coffee make you think that some very specific other person must therefore like coffee?
I'm not saying it's impossible, just that infrastructure is needed. I don't see other examples of EV companies helping with infrastructure - even if fast charging isn't ideal, it's there.
With respect the record demonstrates this Pollyanna perspective is naive. There is extensive precedent for commercially run operations causing serious accidents by cutting corners. Just read a few accounts of major historical industrial accidents through history.
That's not a guarantee anymore; in some banks here, the person behind the desk is just a glorified form filler. Everything has to go to the central offices anyway.
Yes, though you'll need pass-through header pins:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-power-over-ethe...
Matrix project lead here; we've been making steady progress on performance issues, and since we exited beta a few weeks ago (https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/11/introducing-matrix-1-0-an...) we now have much more bandwidth to improve it. We were consciously following a "make it work, make it work right, make it work fast" philosophy.

For instance, as of a few days ago we have a tentative fix for one of the biggest causes of high RAM usage in Synapse (the reference server implementation): https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/5480. If this tests out okay in the wild it should land in the next release.

Meanwhile, my personal server idles at around 600MB of RAM (across a few hundred conversations, some in quite large rooms), although there's room for us to reduce that by at least a factor of 10.

It's important to understand that Matrix is effectively a system for replicating chat history - it's more like USENET or Git than (say) XMPP or IRC. As a result, the resource utilisation depends entirely on the complexity/size of the rooms you participate in. A single person server where that user joins thousands of public chatrooms with hundreds of thousands of users is going to use a lot more RAM than a 10,000 person server where everyone is in small private chats.

Finally, a lot of Matrix's reputation for bad performance comes from the fact that the default sqlite database is not remotely optimised at all, and performs horrifically badly as soon as you start federating with the rest of Matrix. You have to use Postgres these days. Also, if you do end up with a heavily used server, you have to manually increase the cache sizing in the config; it doesn't autotune the caches yet.

So to conclude:

* Run Python3

* Run PostgreSQL

* If your users are joining lots of large rooms, you'll need to manually increase the cache factor to avoid hammering the DB. Alternatively, you can now cap the size of rooms your server is allowed to participate in (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5069)

...and you should be relatively fine.
The problem here is that Google is actually a much better actor than their competitors.

Yelp is an outright extortionist:
https://nypost.com/2014/10/13/restaurant-fights-yelps-allege...

And I don't think I need to go into detail here about just how awful a company Oracle is.
Those features are never coming back, but you can dream.
> The public interest is at best being represented, in majority, by people tied up in potential conflicts of interest in the given matter. At worst, it looks like special interest groups for VeriSign and The Internet Society(ISOC)/Public Interest Registry have captured multiple groups at ICANN and are trying to use it to line their organizations' pockets.

> This appears to be a case study in regulatory capture. Beyond public outcry, there appears to be very little stopping ICANN from simply pushing through these contracts despite overwhelming evidence that the average internet user isn't in favor of these changes.

The whole internet naming system in place right now has issues due to this fact. DNS and naming have become a critical part of the internet infrastructure and deserve to be owned, controlled by and/or operated for the best interests of the people.
I am 37, and my wife and I have an awesome little 2.5 year old boy named Calico Jack.

Do I regret having him?

Not for a second, having a kid is like seeing the world through new lenses and just so rewarding. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have some costs that even with a lot of forethought that I didn't quite anticipate. No regrets, but def some costs in terms of impact on our marriage and on my wife that I didn't anticipate. We've overcome a lot of them in the last few years, but it was hard and took some time. And, it still takes a lot of time to make sure we are connected. Money helps too so you can get a babysitter for a date once a week, or to pay for the insane cost of pre-school. We are thinking about a second but nervous about the further impact on things.

I started a few companies when I was younger and I've had a few good exits, so I came into the marriage a pretty seasoned entrepreneur. Starting a business while married and with a kid is TOTALLY DIFFERENT than being in your 20s/30s and single (or in a relationship). It can def be done, but I've had to get a lot better on time management and have some honest conversations with myself about what I have to stop doing in my life. I think in some ways it gives you some hard boxes around decisions which make decisions easier too...

I do think you can still pursue entrepreneurship, but it has to be a team decision and it can't sprawl around like it might be able too in your 20s. It will def cause relationship stress as finances always do that. My wife and I run a Facebook support group for spouses of entrepreneurs on the subject (https://marriedtoanentrepreneur.org/).

Hopefully, you can rekindle intimacy in your relationship as that doesn't sound like a good place to be :(. One of the big joys of being married for me is traveling or hanging out with my wife, and making time for that really helps to reset me and remember that we have strong connections. If that was lost it would be more like having a roommate who gets on my nerves sometimes :)

Hope that helps!
I'm not happy with ICANN's behavior in recent times. Their bylaws and organization seem to be well designed, but I was wondering - is there a deterrent? Is there a mechanism for punishing their executive staff when they act in bad faith? What do they have to lose?
Peter Drucker: the largest drain on corporate productivity is recommunication.

Short term goals. Narrow focuses of executive team. Lack of technical executives. Brain drain.
As heavy users of all of these tools in AWS, we’ll share some examples, tips, and recommendations for customer data in the AWS ecosystem. These same concepts also apply to other clouds and beyond.

1. S3 or Google cloud storage as a cheap and reliable storage layer

2. Athena or Big Query as a SQL query layer

3. AWS Glue Catalog as metadata store

4. EMR as a transformation layer
God forbid you have to contribute $900 for the future of the country. You realize 50%+ of Americans don't even have $1000 in savings, right?
Meh. We live in a town of 12,000 people (big town for the area, but in a very rural part of the US). My wife and I share one car, and walk/bike/take transit more often than we drive--the car is mostly for getting our daughter to daycare in the winter and for when my wife is on call at the hospital. There are plenty of folks in the area who don't drive at all.

There are certainly parts of the US where a car is necessary, but 90% is pushing it. It may well be that 90% of people think that they need a car, though.
The variance is tricky because of the enormous time range and the huge number of variables. It's also impossible to account for any black swans, positive or negative, that might happen in the next 80 years. We have no idea if some miraculous carbon removing technology will be discovered that saves us all. Or if we're missing some key component to the puzzle and actually we'll be extinct by 2050.
> Someone (Caltrans?) put fences around the train tracks to try and stop suicides.

Reducing access to means and methods is the best way prevent suicide, and that includes physical security around frequently used locations, especially if they involve trains or high places.

There's often a strong resistance to this and I don't understand why.

See this rather old English government advice: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

(See in particular case study 2 and case study 3 on pages 22 and 25)
Well said. I had a similar reaction when I saw this as to, maybe google just doesn’t hire new grads, but I know that’s not the case. Almost every fresh out of school grad has tons to learn, regardless of how great their education was. Schools don’t teach communication, patience, how to generate buy in, calendar courtesy, or any number of “how we work together” skills. I know when I look back at my 23 year old self I’m embarrassed with how I looked at the world and those that I worked with.
>What an incredible false dichotomy.

I think their point is more "We're already running out of water, aquifer depletion is a thing on multiple continents and there are now cities that have officially run out of fresh water. Adding even more farming, which requires water input above and beyond natural rainfall, is just going to worsen another dire issue".
Well, but in some cases you did. Many, many items on Amazon are not sold by Amazon. Quite a lot of Amazon's business these days is just acting as a marketplace for independent sellers. This is how they keep an arm's length ("plausible deniability") from the problem. I agree, however, that it doesn't absolve them of responsibility.
2040 is a hilarious timescale. That's 21 years away. The Model S is only 7 years old.

Banning new ICE car sales in 2025 and on the road in 2030 would be about in line with what I'd expect the market to do anyway.

It seems, well, silly to be producing brand new petrol/diesel cars when there are already masses of used ones out there that will do the job.

The article talks about EVs having some small digit percentage difference in cost of ownership or whatever vs. a diesel. If it's that close, then you may as well just ban new diesel sales now.

The main reason not to would be a worry about demand spikes causing shortages.
Because it does irreparable damage to your family and friends
Seems like Google is starting to do some work on trying to fight it.

Few days ago went on Google play store and was greeted with a modal telling me I can install other search bars and it gave a list of Google, Bing, Yahoo and DDG.

After that it tells you there are other browsers available to download and it gives a choice of Chrome, Firefox, opera and some others.

Good move but will it be enough in a high profile case? We shall see
This sounds like the same fallacy the UK had with chip transactions. The magical fallacy that they're infallible and totally secure, thus all fraudulent transactions are automatically your fault.
Boiling coal in water: Hydrogen production and power generation system
Well said, it blew my mind how much if something is wrong with your marriage/family work just can't be done well.

I think with my next company I plan to have a seperate slack channel just for spouses to talk and support each other, or something to help them stay well. I think companies should pay for couples retreats or something to make sure the home life is good.
Oh wow. I thought you were referring to simply clicking Quit in the menu. Thank you for this. I hadn’t realized that was an option. It has bugged me for a long time.
Came here to add this. At least based on this paper, I feel better about where things are headed with my choice of using elixir/erlang/OTP as the primary stack for our web services, for exactly this reason.

While we don't have the scale yet to need to cluster out and handle these kinds of issues, I've told my cofounder, that thanks to Elixir, I'm not terribly worried about the costs when does happen (not as worried as I would be if we were using something like ruby)
Living does irrepairable damage to me.
DevOps outsourcing: everything you need to know to get started
Absolutely. "Move fast and break things" is barely acceptable for services where failure is mostly just annoying, like social media. If your product is banking, medicine, transport, or anything else that can seriously harm people, "move fast and break things" amounts to criminal negligence.
Learning from Old Repositories: My First Large Project
Still running a decade later.

Of course, now they've lost the people who designed that system, and are hard up to keep it updated. Like most large corporations, they 'outsourced' IT years ago. Which means, they lost their IP for their business processes to a revolving door of contractors.

My sister is retired, but predicts the collapse of the US business sector due to critical process failures within a few years. Its a pretty dismal outlook.
As noted in other comments, Butterfield had a similar failed-game-pivot that turned into Flickr
I had ODROID C2, I don't know how things are now but I've returned mine as it hanged a lot and had lots of different issues. At same time I had 2x Raspberry Pi and it worked fine. This was couple of years ago.
The stress in the US system is very different. Indian schools (basically the oldschool british system I grew up with in boarding school) are hard but not stressful. Performance metrics are clear and students know what they have to do. US schools have become strange minefields of nebulous collage prep. Grades are given, everyone gets As. So students are forced to pad their resumes is other ways. You don't see indian students picking sports based on whether they can make team captain. You don't see average Indian students participating in 4+ team sports during a given week.

I've talked to Canadian kids who, when caught using steroids, have said that their performance on the field was part of their entrance plan. They had consciously decided to take drugs not to become pro athletes, or even to win a scholarship, but simply to get into a proper university. Similarly, I haven't heard of many indian students taking "learning drugs". I heard an ivy league admissions person talk about the sports thing. She spoke of a boarderline case involving an athlete who had competed at the Olympics. He had failed to medal. THAT was part of the schools decision, whether they metaled or not actually mattered.
It would for sure be a boon for them to copy Tesla's homework in this fashion but let's not forget that the culture that fostered such breakthrough would likely suffocate and die in that post-acquisition environment. For a group whose stated mission is to accelerate the adoption of sustainable energy, I see this outcome to be unlikely. However much it might help those entrenched entities save face and present a "Hello, fellow EV makers!" facade.
He means in the ordinary case, where you regularly hit the limit before, just through legitimate transactions.
No. Most Americans have no idea when they are interacting with government.

Safe water, safe food, safe(ish) drugs, roads, less air pollution, the mail, airplanes that fly safely, cars that are safe, fuel efficiency in cars, and thousands of other things are all generally good interactions with government that most people don’t attribute to government.

Yes, going to the DMV sucks. Doing your taxes is annoying. Thats about all most people think about when they say the government is bad.