skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Update 4:06pm ET: Dropbox says this was a mistake. "We recently announced a new desktop app experience that is now currently available in Early Access. Due to an error, some users were accidentally exposed to the new app for a short period of time. The issue has been resolved, though there might be a short lag for some users to see resolution. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused."

Also, for linux users:

> On Linux, well, Dropbox doesn't care enough about Linux to port the file manager app over. Lucky penguins.
The mechanism isn't US-specific.

The analysis is.
I don’t think Rob Schneider is a particularly useful opinion to share. But the observation isn’t wrong. I’m definitely liberal, but a lot of liberal media content is pretty bland and annoying. Not Netflix, but the Twilight Zone remake suffered terribly from this. I’ve no doubt that there’s a ton of aggressively left comedians because... most stand up is bad?

That being said... I don’t really expect to watch even a majority of netflix’s catalog so idk if it matters if some low quality content exists.
Brings a new meaning to finding bugs....
Second, Salsa is a work of just 1 man + few collaborators. Knowing the crypto community, this itself may be a reason for push back from it.

Daniel J. Bernstein, to be precise, also author of Djbdns, Qmail, NaCl, Curve25519, ... Some of which he solo authored. So I'd take the quoted skepticism with a huge grain of salt.
FWIW things may not actually be used anymore, doesn't mean the repo is ever taken down. Usually the manifests that sync these repo's simply "unhook" the repos when they're no longer in use. OP is excited that there's a bunch of links, but that's not the correct measure of "in use."
Why not just enshrine a reflection of our morality into law itself? Large groups of people have shown a pretty bad track record of caring about "ethical behavior".
As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I've come to realize that giving other people the ability to mine my data is definitely different than what I understood this service to be about. However, it's apparently what he does. And now he charges for it. I definitely see a problem here.

Of course, if there's no bad guys, I guess you don't see any problem. That's one weird point of view.
Can you take up a contractor role? There are lots of consulting companies that place contractors with companies and FE skills are frequently in demand. Just don't tell them that you are available only for a month.
How Ancient Rome’s Concrete Has Survived 2,000 Years (2017)
Agree with you that constant screen time doesn't make for a healthy lifestyle. Seems pretty speculative and prob too optimistic to assume people are coming to this realization and acting on it.
>But interviews with entrepreneurs and officials in Nashville point to a mix of factors behind its success, including some that were out of the city’s control, such as the state’s lack of an income tax, and others associated with its unique local assets.

NYC and SF, both big tech hubs, both have income taxes.
Yup.

I've been using vi[m] on an almost daily basis since about 1989...wow, that's 30 years.

In those decades, I have resisted putting anything in my .vi[m]rc except:

set tabstop=4

set expandtab

set shiftwidth=4

set shiftround

That's it. And I agree with you, it's a very happy place for me.
Oh yes, certainly. I just don't want my money going to them to incentivize things. So I don't want the government to subsidize living in flood plains or in Alaska or even in coastal California.

We will all pay a carbon tax and we'll all live with the results of our actions. Let the chips fall where they may.
Two separate S3 buckets with different credentials

This gives me the heebie-jeebies.

It seems better to me to have one on Amazon, and one on another cloud provider entirely. Plus regular sneakernet archives, if your data is of a size that would permit that sort of thing.

I'm fortunate that this kind of thing is handled by other people where I work. It's my understanding that we have production data on one service on the east coast, a mirror with a different company in the south, and weekly backup archives stored offline on the west coast.
> so tired of Elastic just randomly killing their clusters out of nowhere and having to spend basically triple to deal with it that they're bringing it all in house.

That is because Elastic Cloud is not a fully managed Elasticsearch. People often don't get that with Elastic Cloud you are still responsible for your ES cluster. That's one of the differentiators that e.g. Sematext has (disclaimer: founder).

> AWS's hosted solution is poor, Logz.io and ElasticCloud are expensive.

Right. Have a look at https://sematext.com/logsene pricing. People say Sematext compares favorably to Logz.io and Elastic Cloud.
Perez's Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital makes the point that when a technological revolution occurs, gains are frequently concentrated in a small number of locales that are the first to adopt the new technology and adapt their local industries to the new structure of the economy. This results in significant economic (short term), military (medium term), and geopolitical (long term) power. The changing power balance usually sparks a war and a realignment of the global order.

In the industrial revolutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries, though, nation states usually adopted the new technologies en masse, with the whole nation sharing in the gains. So you had rising nations like Britain, America, Prussia, and Japan which could challenge declining empires like Austria-Hungary, Russia, China, and the Ottomans.

This technological revolution is different, because you have specific parts of nations that are adapting to the new technologies and thriving, while other parts get left behind and see the power they had wilt away. There's relatively little historical precedent for this; the only ones I can think of might be the decline of the Roman empire (where the Eastern Mediterranean remained up-to-date and civilized, while the Northern European hinterlands disintegrated and broke up) and the American Civil War (where the industrial North conquered the agrarian South). And this pattern isn't just U.S-based: China also has a dramatic disparity in wealth & power between coastal cities and the inland hinterland, as well as one between the high-tech South (centered around Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta) and more politically powerful North (around Beijing).

I don't know exactly what it means, but I don't think it bodes well for either of the major global superpowers.
Interesting. Good point. I'll have to think about that.
I'm not asking you to leave HN, I was suggesting you leave the WSJ website. And I didn't realize you were complaining about it being on HN (which I agree with) - I thought you were complaining about the fact the article was paywalled to begin with, my mistake.
So... whats up with: https://trennd.co/trend/craft-beer

A peak every April and a dip every December?
This seems like the result of some smoothing algorithm needing ~4 months of data and resetting every year.

This one even more consistent: https://trennd.co/trend/airbnb
It may be that the best place for that technology is in prototyping environments. Similar to something being mocked up before cut into HTML/CSS/JS. The biggest problem I imagine with graphical is the maintenance of it.
Along the same lines - Project Orion:

> Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion). Early versions of this vehicle were proposed to take off from the ground with significant associated nuclear fallout; later versions were presented for use only in space. Six non-nuclear tests were conducted using models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
It really depends on what the Ted presenter means by 'pitchforks'. Yes, there have been protests, that more or less fall within the Overton window: they're orderly, and peaceful -- they fall within the confines of how we make change in a Democracy.

However, the Ted speaker seems purposefully vague. Does he mean that people will resort to more extreme or not peaceful forms of protest? I'm not certain.
I found hard how to insert posts, ok, it is a social network for developers but the markup language could be helped by WYSIWYG editor
It's quietly more converged with desktop functionality than a lot of people have noticed (especially with the fact that most recent components being built directly in React Native there is a ton of codeshare between desktop, mobile, and web these days according to Office team presentations). In some ways the web is at least slightly ahead of the desktop apps (the "Simplified Ribbon" transition has mostly already occurred for all the web apps, but it is still in progress on an app-by-app basis on desktop).

I get a strange "OpenOffice/LibreOffice knock off trapped in some alternate 90s" vibe from Google Docs and I've never quite used Google Docs enough to detest it, but every time I am asked to use it I find it's off-putting feeling for a web app.

I've used the web PowerPoint to present from in a pinch, and I've used the web Word to write from in a similar pinch, and other than obvious native control distinctions I think in most circumstances I'd be hard pressed to tell you the difference between the iOS/Android versions of Office applications and their web counterparts shrunk to that form factor. Sometimes the same can be said between web and desktop, though ironically right now the "Simplified Ribbon" gives web away immediately right now for the Big 3 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Microsoft has been doing a good job converging the experiences and all the platforms still feel like "Office" to me, at least.

I think I still prefer to use the desktop versions day-to-day over web, but I don't know how much of that is just inertia that I always have them installed anyway. But I do wonder sometimes if I were to experiment with another run at a Linux only system in my life if I'd feel the web Office was sufficient for most of my needs. (Hence my curiosity if you'd tried it.)
> If you have a problem with people using the word monopoly as synonymous with anti-trust then just interpret it as anti-trust and ignore the word.

Are you suggesting that we should ignore people misusing economic terms when discussing economic policy? I don't see how ignoring blatantly false facts is better than educating people such that they can properly discuss a topic using the proper terms.
We could do all that and more (and we probably should) but we'll still have a bottleneck somewhere.

An organ just came available for transplant: who gets it?

Solving the triaging issue would basically be solving scarcity. So yea, in a post-scarcity world we wouldn't need to have this conversation.
>They have the right to access anything they pay for without telling you.

No, they don't.
What made you pick those 4 if I may ask?
Embed your Git revision into your go binaries
Does anyone know the health profile of these apples that are bred to be sweeter? I love fujis and honeycrisps, and I'm sure I'll like these cosmic crisps as well.

But I wonder if they're as healthy (i.e., calories, glycemic index) as the apples that we were told were so good for us in our youth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473522
what does that even mean?

Let me give you a trivial example: GCP gives you a lot of flexibility with CPU and memory when creating a VM. Let’s say your workload is ideally suited to some weird combo, like 5 cores and 13G or something. On GCP that’s what you provision and that’s what you pay for. AWS and Azure offer fixed sizes, so you have to round up to 8 and 16 (and pay for it). So if you want to be cloud-agnostic there’s one cool but very basic feature you just can’t use.

Once you start digging into this stuff this keeps coming up: something that’s efficient (cheap) in one but not in another means: do I do it the same and pay more, or do I diverge and accept that I’ve got 2 configurations for this feature now, and save some money. Multiply this by 1000 special cases and then you find that trying to make one size fit all is a wild goose chase.

All Terraform really offers is doing this in similar syntax for the subset of each cloud’s features that Terraform knows about, and extending Terraform yourself for anything it doesn’t. Yes, I would rather use the native thing for each cloud, even CloudFormation. ARM Templates and DSC are actually quite nice once you get used to them!
Is the Sparbücher number for a virtual account that is backed by a regular account?
The travel industry is highly protective of its data. It's my understanding that they consider it proprietary and only sell it to those who they deem worthy.
Does this support user defined data structures? This is a thing holding me back in Stan and other frameworks with AD (they only want scalars or arrays)
Stealing from corporations is stealing from people. Otherwise, I could justify stealing hubcaps from your car as stealing from the car, not you, so it's ok.

Besides, if you have a moral code that specifies who it is ok to steal from, you'll need to accept another's moral code that says it's ok to steal from you.
Github will happily hand you an access token by visiting "https://github.com/settings/tokens".

These are bearer tokens, in that the bearer gets granted access by that token alone.

You happen to send it along in a Basic authentication in HTTP instead of as an Authorization header, but it is a bearer token all the same.

No OAuth2 flow required.
Almost never add swap. [1]

[1] - https://github.com/ohdns/sysctl_and_thp_test
There's two competing currents here. One the on hand, Julia is extremely powerful and dynamic, so it has very high expressability for any possible differentiable programming you could think of. It also has a fairly simple core, so as long as you know how to properly transform the core, you can get a mathematically correct differential. However, the reason julia works so well is that the compiler is able to understand and eliminate all the dynamism and complexity for you at run time and generate very tight code as a result. When you add AD into the mix, the generated code becomes, much, much more complicated, so the compiler needs to work a lot harder. That can sometimes be a cause for frustration for us, because we get something really cool working with absolutely zero effort, but then need to go back and make the compiler better to reclaim some performance (static languages have the opposite problem, where you need to improve the type system in order to allow the thing to happen, but once you have described it in a specific enough type system, you usually also have good performance - if your language is any good that is).

Overall I think Julia is a pretty great language to implement AD (as evidenced I'd say by the 15 or so different AD packages that people have written for individual use cases before the latest push for a unified one), but it still is a very powerful language, so if you want your AD to handle the whole language (as we do), then you're gonna have to do a bit of work.
Are you going to lead by example? You could have sold your laptop and spent your internet bill to feed hungry people.
That's not true in the actual web, however.

The best example is a large number of unimportant sites that send 429 errors for /robots.txt if they think it's a scraper. A 4xx result for robots.txt is considered to mean no robots.txt for most crawlers. So the website is getting the reverse of what it thought it was getting.
It's also a major flaw of the cloud and SaaS providers. They don't encourage customers to maintain local (or alternate-cloud) backups, because they refuse to admit the appearance of weakness.

If a Cloud/SaaS provider is going to claim to be your hassle-free one-stop shop, shouldn't they provide, as a matter of course, a feature to dump your data daily/weekly/monthly to a designated off-cloud site of your choosing? But they don't, because they want to pretend that they are impenetrable and 100% available.
No, just anecdote from my own lifetime and observations. I would just say the 2nd paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_costs is essentially the same thing I'm talking about.
If you can't trust the recipient, there's nothing you can do. The point isn't to protect yourself from an untrustworthy recipient, it's to protect yourself from inadvertent disclosure.
Runescape “Muting” Leads to First Amendment / Due Process Lawsuit Against Jagex
I suppose that the standard wiki makes it easier to recognize
They're all propagated from cuttings. You need to to spend 5(ish) years to get a crop to see what the apples actually taste like, then you've got one tree to take cuttings from to get the first 'generation', which you'll be waiting a similar amount of time to get fruit, longer to get a decent crop. It just takes time to scale up the number of trees, from just the one, and then for the trees to get mature enough to bear a decent crop.
I have not seen much of this positivity, that is people voting against their immediate interests to embrace long term change and saving for a different future.

People vote for things which are better for themselves and for social issues they identify with, but rarely for things which actually cost them something.
Does this 58% statistic come from a sample of people who actually have broadcast TV access and streaming access? I, for one, have never had broadcast TV access as an adult, and the most recent "TV" I purchased was actually a 48" Vizio display that has no coax input.

I was surprised by this number and assume they were only looking at people who actually have access to both. If that's the case, what is the number among the total universe of streaming video users?
Top Java-Based Content Management Systems
Also, backups must include a physical process of moving a copy of backups to an airgapped secondary system (a human ejecting disks/CDs/tapes and carrying them to another storage container), so that it's impossible for an attacker to compromise the backups via the same software exploit that corrupts the primary data.
That's interesting to hear. Would love to read about how Vespa compares to Solr and ES.

This may be of interest to you: https://sematext.com/opensee/report/project/trend?q=ElasticS...

Would you happen to know how Vespa compares to ES in terms of memory or CPU footprint? Have you done apples to apples comparison by any chance?
Patience isn't about waiting for something to take a little bit of extra time. It's about working on something and being willing to wait for _years_ if necessary to see it happen. To know that what your waiting for is out there on the horizon, is visible to you at all times, yet there is no way of speeding up your journey toward it. Ultimately, it's about how we live in the space between the moments we anticipate.

It's been a very frustrating, but important 12 months.
Maybe this is betraying my ignorance of emacs, but Ctrl-V?
I fully agree, but people are often capable of knowing something abstract is true in general (web is full of tracking), but often fail to make the cognitive step to apply those facts to the specific case (there is tracking on porn sites).

Nearly 20 years ago I worked as a Dell phone support technician for a few months and it was the best learning experience I've ever had in terms of understanding what the "average" person can actually comprehend. I think many technical people have experience with non-technical people who are otherwise fairly educated and clever (eg parents/grandparents), but there are a lot of people who have difficulty with the concepts, let alone the details. I think those people still deserve privacy.
The auto playing of trailers has been enough to curtail my casual browsing of their app.
Any service that uses API keys are basically handing out bearer tokens. Whoever holds that API key can make requests to the service, it grants you access.
Culture counts.

This is probably gonna get me killed, but I would have qualms with starting or moving a business to a city where reproductive rights are under continual attack. The situation is inhumane.
Ask HN: Why is scientific programming dominated by dynamically typed languages?
Modern scientific programming is dominated by Python. Beyond this R has some history. Julia is up and coming. Many AI applications used to be developed in Lisp.

Is there something fundamental within scientific programming that makes dynamic typing desirable?
I'm not really sure what you're getting at. You and I are both emphasizing a different behavior for different classes of applications. I feel like my comment and the article were pretty clear about that. I've had the opposite experience than "almost always false in practice" but my domain is fairly different than most here so I try and be very careful when generalizing.

If your hardware is underspeced for the workload, there's still a business case to be made before you buy new hardware. Sometimes the preferred failure mode is to slow down, other times it's preferred to die and restart. Hardware speced for peak loads can sometimes cost multiple times otherwise appropriate hardware...assuming you even know what peak loads will be.

I have one class of application that is fairly idempotent, we don't have hard drives on these machines, so we don't use swap and expect it to die if it exceeds the amount of memory requested. This article reenforced this.

I have another class of application that queues up things to process. The specs work on the current hardware 99% of the time, but on holiday weekends when large projects are delivering things slow down because work is submitted and people leave so nobody cares. Reloading the state from disk can take 20m+ and without swap if you were to exceed memory you're dead in the water until you purchase more hardware. Our contingency hardware has identical specs as the original.
How'd global warming get on that list?
> Norway has a sovereign wealth fund that is doing quite well.

20% of Norway's GDP comes from oil revenues (the government owns the oil extraction business). It remains to be seen how things would go if their oil revenues ceased.
i wonder if the higher ups are subjected to open work spaces
In the past I've personally enjoyed the Golden Delicious apples simply because they are more "mellow" if that makes sense. They're not some artisan apple breed that is starting to become more of the norm. They just work as a simple apple.
I developed/run a private server for the game that many members of the Diablo team made after Diablo II (Hellgate: London) and the same technique is used for random dungeon generation, but using 3D assets and 2d flat floormap shapes to make the combinations. In fact, it's even called the same thing, DRLG!

Sometimes the game tries a few thousand combinations when a player enters a dungeon before being satisfied by the results (there are configurable constraint sets).
We essentially do do this--duplicates are only looked for in the (project, user, time) shard. It’s certainly more than a handful of pages, but nothing extremely cost prohibitive at all. The indexer dedupes a whole shard at a time, but only if at least one duplicate exists--in the normal case, we just do nothing. Unfortunately, we also can’t control the number of duplicates that we get (since we ingest data from our customers, we can't control how good it is), and a lot of the time, the number of duplicates are fairly frequent due to suboptimal implementations of Mixpanel, making the whole shard deduping a fair tradeoff. We definitely never touch the network :slightly_smiling_face:
I'm betting on Kubernetes, Docker containers need an orchestrator, I didn't get it at the very beginning
Just don't think differently than the city managers and you'll be fine.

/s