skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good!

I'm routing for Mr. Elon Musk. There's plenty for everyone. It's not a zero sum game.
I work for AWS. There is typically a balance that has to be struck when sharing information with customers. I would imagine this goes for most companies, which is why it isn't until a post-mortem that the messaging is fully refined.
I sometimes do the opposite for this: put my destination as my starting point, and use that to figure out which city is the best for me to fly out of.

I live near a border, and can arrange my life around a few other cities if the savings are worth it (e.g. visit family or see another city a few hours from me)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20329699
Compared to wind and solar it certainly is.
That's the problem with using fearmongering and clickbait to generate profits. Every article I found where a scientist spoke about the 2020 date he was careful to note that the numbers were preliminary and only what could happen while pointing to the long trend of warming and the decline in the number of glaciers from 150 to just 25.
We live by a creek in Appalachia. The creek sits at the end of our back yard. The previous owners kept the grass mowed short all the way to the banks of the creek. It looked nice. On the other hand, there was a tendency toward erosion, and I feel its part of my responsibility to do what I can to encourage healthy waterways. Besides, this area is a really important pathway for migrating animals (see: https://www.climatecentral.org/news/map-animal-migration-cli...), and one of the most bio-diverse areas in the country. I don't want to be part of the problem, and I hate mowing.

So, this early Spring, I decided that, city be damned, I'd not mow within 40' of the creek. It rapidly turned into a thick meadow.

But then I chickened out, because I knew city officials were coming to inspect the neighboring property. I mowed. In addition to the enormous number of insects, I nearly mauled a turtle, a garden snake, and a bird's nest. So, I said screw it, and put the lawn mower away. I've got plenty of lawn for the kids to play on, and for me to sweat my undies mowing. And the city officials never said anything.
Can you flip the statement with something like OpenCV?

I blink my eye, I get these billions of numbers?

Then interface it with wireless, package it up, and distro it out into the human genome.
This part was somewhat nuanced, so I wasn’t sure to post it: yes, if you are using GCLB, and have more than 1 healthy Region, we will also rebalance to avoid us-east- for now (though not so statically as that sounds, mumble mumble).

Edit: added this to the top level comment so more folks see it.
Traditional merch takes a higher level of capex. Part of the appeal of microtransactions - and increasingly the preferred model when looking at newer multiplayer hits like Fortnite - is that you can get in that business for cheaper by selling in-game cosmetics, and that only distorts the game's aesthetics, not its core ruleset. Fortnite has done very well with the model of letting the game change radically and frequently while herding along the same playerbase with new cosmetics that complement game changes, while in contrast, Rocket League has changed essentially nothing since launch and has a smaller but very dedicated group of competitive players, who also get cosmetics each season. Both are viable in different ways.

Hits still end up with tie-ins, so you will see toys for hits with broad appeal like Minecraft, Fortnite, Angry Birds, slither.io, etc. But you usually don't see new IP placing their bets on this stuff early nowadays.
I'm reminded of:

"You have a problem, and you decide to use a regexp to solve it. Now you have two problems"

Although of course I'm just kidding and I'm sure that a good regexp probably is the right solution for what they're doing in that instance: they have a lot of bright people.
and I'm telling you its not.

The idea that rule of law basically doesn't exist and isn't the method of choice in perpetuating a circumstance in "these other corrupt countries" is overly broad and often inaccurate
Less than half the time is provable. More readable is a bit of a stretch.

What does declaim mean? What about ftype? What is the (* * *) in the array declaration? What is ash? I've read through some of CLtL and the rust book both, but none of those are constructs I've come across.

Also (this doesn't matter in practice due to rainbow parens for almost every editor), it's really hard to read lisp code without syntax highlighting. Rust isn't super easy, but I don't have to count braces to see what lines up.
"Trump's autocratic tendencies." Gimme a break. Meanwhile, without a hint of irony, the left imposes censorship on every public platform to try to save us from 'fascism.'
I fail to see the point of your post? Are you arguing that less transparency and information is a good thing?

I doubt any of the people you are talking about "not caring" read this site to begin with.
Yeah, you can now provision multiple instance types in an ASG which mitigates this somewhat.

I think people sometimes forget that the cloud isn't magic, and a sudden burst of requests for new instances needs somebody to actually rack up some servers.
How we came to create a new image placeholder algorithm, BlurHash
Do we need a new definition for RAID level?

Redundant Array of independent Data Clouds.

I guess for RAID 5 would I need a min of 3 regions or 3 separate cloud providers.
I was talking to a bird person who used to participate in various population studies with the national park service. There exist species for which tag-and-release doesn't work at all: jays and corvids in particular are verrrry good at avoiding the places and types of traps where they've been captured before.
Your, even brief, description is interpretable by your clients and some customers - and is actually really informative. It helps estimate the magnitude of the issue, and the types of downstream problems to expect or avoid.

Knowing an astroid took out the entire continent tells you something about the repairability, resources required to fix the problem, and generally provides context for later updates, as opposed to other contexts like a cut fiber line, a burning datacenter or a bad power supply.
Maybe it won’t seem so accurate to you when you realize the baseline in your link is not the 1989 level.

Edit: But you might have a point on the C/F question. I don’t know what Dr. Brown meant. The quoted 9 degrees difference relative to the Ice Age may suggest it’s not Celsius, but even in that case we would barely be at the lower end of the “conservative” range of 0.6-3.9 C rise.
Does it really matter, my question was why would you not cook food yourself? I'm not offering a model that other people should copy.

From experience cooking daily for 8 people is not that much worse than for 2 people, it's just a different kind of project both have hurdles and highlights. Not going to lie, being able to take time off each day to take care of your kids really did help with time but it mostly it was to socialize and being less of a eat-work-sleep machine.

Ordinary day now is, breakfast 0600-0730, work things 0730-1630, cook and take care of kids 1630-2100, other things 2100-~0100.
The author also developed the Toot! app for Mastodon.

https://mastodon.social/@tootapp

This is the algorithm behind Mastodon's new preview blurring.

https://mastodon.social/@tootapp/102348941167059848
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I encountered this last week as well, spurred on by the thought: where did the squirrels in NYC's Central Park come from? According to this article, they were introduced by humans in 1877: http://nymag.com/news/features/squirrels-2014-2/

But, I wonder if there's more natural migration going on now, or if Central Park is isolated enough from other green spaces that this population is cutoff from others. If that sounds absurd, remember: Manhattan is an island! I think squirrels are more free-roaming in the Bronx (with a bunch in the Botanical Gardens), but there's a river between them, and lots of paved concrete. Squirrels will swim, but there's quite a few blocks of mostly paved concrete between the river banks and Central Park. A squirrel could make the trip, but there may not be much cause to.
It’s not covered. The form lists specific social networks and asks for the usernames to those networks.

Here’s what the form actually says;

> Select from the list below each social media platform you have used within the last five years. In the space next to the platform’s name, enter the username or handle you have used on that platform. Please do not provide your passwords. If you have used more than one platform or more than one username or handle on a single platform, click the ‘Add Another’ button to list each one separately. If you have not used any of the listed social media platforms in the last five years, select ‘None.’”

Here’s a screenshot of the form:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.flyertalk.com-vbulletin/569...
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What sort of regular expression pitfalls can cause this sort of CPU utilization? I know they're possible but I am curious about specific examples of something similar to what caused Cloudflare's issue here.
This makes sense, the Audubon Society does this with birds. https://www.audubon.org/conservation/about-great-backyard-bi...

Everyone counts their "back yards" and they compile all the data. About the same difficulty as the squirrel count, but you are trying to identify what kind of bird.

On the other hand, I don't think that number is right. Based on my trips to NYC, and the amount of squirrels I've seen I think it's way low. But I may be skewed by the number of pigeons that are also in the park.
>1. It's not your website, why spend so much time and effort on dissecting the issue? If one did this for every webpage they visited it'd be a more than a full time job.

1) This is a community with a lot of web developers and programmers, and people who have a professional or hobby interest in these problems, and are hanging out here anyway clearly with nothing better to do.

2) We have to do it here because they don't take issues and pull requests.
No, wrong incentive structure for ISPs. They're job is to deliver packets from point A to point B, and I want to pay them to do that well, and ditch them if they don't.
You've missed the point. I believe the parent is talking about a 7th generation platform with a fundamental design flaw, not weather seal degradation. Price of the vehicle is completely irrelevant, but to be sure, these types of problems exist in just about every exotic on the market.
None of the things you mentioned are a real issue if you do a little homework.
> it's small eco system makes me look over it.

You have relatively clean access to all C libraries. But I do not know if that is relevant enough in your area of work/play.

And the standard library is also pretty nice. Sure, it's nowhere near Python's Batteries-Included package, but it can get you quite far.
Completely different execution, same motivation and (desired) end result.
It's a tough business. What email app has ever had a real business model? The opportunity for acquisitions seems to have closed with Accompli being the last big one (bought by Microsoft to turn into Outlook on iOS).

Also the founding team is from rapportive and rapleaf which are part of the shady data brokers that HN discusses often. It's best to assume good intentions first but there is precedent here.
How will you handle itinerary changes by the airline?

I know lots of people regret booking with Expedia or the like when there’s a change and they can’t deal with the airline directly.

There might be some value in doing EU261 claims and their equivalents on behalf of businesses. My guess is that nobody pushes the claim when the employer is paying the bill.
Mh, I fully agree that I don't expect '(cd /proc; echo *)' to hang because of the disk being full.

However, with my current setup, the alerting checks all disks of all monitored systems every minute, and once a single of them exceeds 80%, we get alerts. That's no smart setup, that's stock nagios/iciniga/icinga2 with stock nrpe checks. This is considered a very cheap and basic setup when running servers. We've had this on our solaris systems out of the box.

And practically, this is an alert with a very high true positive rate and very few false positive alerts. Most false positives we've had to deal with had been with systems with > 3-4 Tb of storage. And systems filling up more than 5% - 10% of their storage per minute tend to trigger other stock alerts as well.
Isn't open to DDoS better than can't be reached?
~35k is currently more or less entry level for an electric car due to battery cost.

The leaf for example is 31k, has a 150 mile range and many sacrifices. The bolt on the other hand is running $36,620 for the base model with a more reasonable range.
What a craptactular SLA.
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The real trick here, which many people don’t want to look at, is to avoid overly centralizing your workflow.

I can get a lot of work done while Outlook is down. Hell, probably more work done.

If our build server is down I can work for a couple hours (unless we’ve done something very bad). Same for git or our bug database or wiki or or or. When I get stuck on one thing I can swap to something else every couple of hours. And there is always documentation (writing or consuming).

But if some idiot, hypothetically speaking of course, puts most of these services into the same SAN, then we are truly and utterly screwed if there is a hardware failure.

Similarly if you make one giant app that handles your whole business, if that app goes down and there are no manual backups you might as well send everybody home.

I went to get a drink the other day and the place looked funny. They’d tripped a circuit breaker and the whole kitchen lost power. But the registers and the beverage machines were on a separate circuit. And since they sold drinks and food in that order, they stayed open and just apologized a lot. Whoever wired that place knew what they were doing.
Custom type checker errors for propellor
Even if it is exported, exports is how a country increases its wealth and improves the lives of Brazilians. It's easy for people from a country to a high quality of living to criticize other countries for trying to achieve the same for its citizens.
Busybox is a fun read on how they got all that functionality into such a small space. It always amazes me that my home router has all those functions because of Busybox being loaded.

OTOH, I shouldn't because I think my current router has more CPU / Memory than my first mainframe.
Do you know that though? does the system know if it misses someone? How long does it take? The linked article suggests employees are banking months of vacation time in anticipation of the long delays in processing.
Depends on the relative costs of the two options?
> From my understanding of things, the biggest thing in the way is that processing payments costs money.

This is one of the largest problems (if not the largest problem) on the web that I've been thinking about recently. Services like Venmo aren't designed for commercial use. Paypal is a privacy nightmare, and it's bad for sellers too because their chargeback policy is a mess -- and that's even ignoring the fees. Bank transfers are insecure and cumbersome (and again, often come with fees).

Bitcoin doesn't solve the problem for a metric ton of different reasons -- it's proponents are too concerned with worrying about inflation and investments and alternate currencies then with actually practical questions like, "can the payment reliably be completed in less than 1 minute", and "does it have fees associated with that kind of speed?".

It's a very complicated situation, and I have no idea what the answers are or where to even start looking for the answers, but I'm increasingly frustrated by online payment systems, both as a consumer and as someone looking to accept payments. They're almost universally bad.

I think this might be one of the big reasons why advertising works so well -- it's not that advertising is efficient, or that fraud isn't a problem, or that consumers like it. But advertising is an easy way to have a micropayment of as low as a cent or two linked to a page view. And as far as I can see, there is no alternative to that.

In the absence of a way to do actual micropayments, paid subscriptions on the web are also far more costly than ads are. Your average website doesn't get 25 cents every time you load a page. But you have to scale everything up, because otherwise all of your gains just get eaten by fees.

I'm convinced our lack of a decent payment system is seriously holding the web back.
The one you like, of course! All the others are bloated and complex.
FT have the same issue with Brexit - woah there! take your mouse of off of that down vote and hear me out!!!

Since the vote came back they have had a constant stream of negative articles both related to the current days events and repeats of what they have said on previous weeks.

Their authors are now at the point that if Brexit does happen, and it is anything less than a total economic apocalypse, they will look like they got it wrong.
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Hi there, I'm the senior dev for NPR Visuals and the person who worked on White Lies (linked above, for which we did, in fact, use this guide). As a general rule, I don't comment here. But I did think this is worth responding to, because it speaks to the degree to which newsroom developers are still not visible even within the industry, much less outside.

At this time, NPR's News Apps team is about five people, for a large national newsroom. That's actually pretty small! If you look at the kinds of teams that do this kind of work at places like the LA Times (which has both a graphics department and an award-winning Data Desk) or the NYT (last I checked, they had 40+ people on their graphics desk, plus an interactive team in editorial that works on projects like elections) or the Washington Post (big and still hiring). But many newsrooms (both print and broadcast) have at least small teams or single devs that work on big projects like this, even if they're not "flush with staff." That's because having an interactive team inside editorial is a force-multiplier for digital journalism--it lets us combine writing, video, audio, animation, and data in ways that makes the entire package better, so that hopefully people are more likely to pay for it.

And if you have a team, you need a procedure for managing their resources and producing quality work, and that's all this document is. Sure, it's 38 pages long, but a few points: A) we don't follow this letter-by-letter on every project, it's a general tool; B) there's a lot of pictures and it's well-written, which boosts the page count; and C) the audience here isn't just the team, it's also the newsroom: we need to define our processes clearly so that we can interface with journalists who don't necessarily have digital experience or understand why we're making the choices we're making.

We also need to onboard people into the culture of NPR Visuals, which has been a leader in the interactive news space for many years--these guidelines help newcomers and interns understand how we work methodically and carefully to create high-quality journalism. I joined this team, in part, because of its legacy of innovative narrative work. We're not just slapping pre-selected stock photos on a first draft and calling it a day.

It may be true that a lot of small outlets don't have the equivalent of News Apps, or the Interactives team at The Seattle Times (where I previously worked). But it's just not accurate to say that these kinds of teams and procedures don't exist, or that this is a pipe dream. My whole career, and that of my fellow data journalists, shows that's not the case.

Finally, if you're interested in seeing not just how NPR works, but also how teams produce similar rich visual projects around the world, I strongly recommend checking out the archives at Source (https://source.opennews.org/), which in many ways serves as the de facto journal for digital newsroom types. I think you'd be surprised at who you see represented there, and how strong and interesting the work is.

In conclusion, subscribe to your local paper and/or NPR Member station!
How to implement a multi-CDN strategy (streamroot.io): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18399523

Etsy implementing multiple CDN (7 years ago, the CDNcontrol project looks abandoned): https://speakerdeck.com/ickymettle/integrating-multiple-cdn-... https://dyn.com/blog/speaking-with-etsy-about-multi-cdns-and...

Basically: you can try to keep a low TTL DNS, but it'll be more DNS traffic, and 5-10% of traffic takes forever to cut over because nobody respects TTL. Worst case you have just as much down time as before, best case most of your traffic is recovered in a few minutes.
> Even parallax based systems are good at avoiding stationary objects, and are inexpensive since they use two overlapping visible light cameras (see EyeSight for one example). Essentially they work like the human eye to determine depth/distance.

While I agree that it would be better to be using a multi-camera system for depth estimation, and there's no reason not to (because cameras are cheap and easy to build into bodywork of a vehicle), it shouldn't necessarily be needed.

Otherwise, you'd have one-eye sighted people, who drive, running into the same obstacles, right? But they don't - so how do they do it?

Probably motion cues, depth-from-motion, etc - something the brain does. From a cost-savings perspective, eliminating that extra camera will likely be looked at being done at some point, because over millions of cars manufactured, not installing that extra camera and wiring will save a ton of money and increase profitability.

But Tesla isn't quite there yet, and probably shouldn't eliminate it...

Furthermore, I'm not sure even LIDAR should be eliminated; the more sensors and sensor types, the better, ultimately. The problem is finding a LIDAR unit that has enough resolution and can be fitted to a vehicle (and doesn't look like a giant spinning top). Flash LIDAR units will probably be the solution, but they are still fairly expensive, and I don't know if they have the resolution needed yet, either.
Win32 is a disgusting nightmare, and I pity the devs who have to re-engineer its features. For backwards compatibility reasons, I am unsure if they would be able to use new Frameworks or tools. Apple still uses ANSI C (as do so many people) because anything newer is a backwards compatibility nightmare.
> For things that don't need classes (and there is a lot of code) I stick to C.

I'd use D anyway just for the GC or whatever, less compiler fighting, betterC etc. Procedural, OOP, functional, yay.
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