skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s either trolling or dislikes AZ with the zeal of an extremist.

Toilets are a non issue. Most of AZ water usage is the whole country’s responsibility (we eat, don’t we?).

Sure maybe Phoenix could do with a few less golf courses. But kitty litter toilets is trolling
It's less about what front-end engineers are allowed to do, and more about having an abstraction flexible enough that new front-end features don't need changes on the backend unless the data model changes. Backend or full stack engineers can design endpoints however they want, whether it's RESTful JSON or gRPC, and GraphQL acts as a flexible aggregation and presentation layer.

If you're finding that your endpoints are filled with unnecessary optional fields, that they're specific to a single screen in the UI, that nearly every new feature involves work that's duplicated across front-end and backend, or that you're suffering a performance hit from the round-trip time between front-end and backend when you query nested objects, then GraphQL can be an option. These are problems that you run into when your product starts to get bigger and more unwieldy, so if your UI has five screens and doesn't reuse the same content then you might not see a lot of gain. Having said that, my former company was under ten engineers, so I don't think you need to be Facebook-scale to benefit.

Totally agree that the advantage is architectural. It's not a question of technical merits or of REST being bad. GraphQL is a layer of abstraction to separate data from presentation, and like other abstractions, you shouldn't use it unless you have a reason to.
Mindfulness was a major step forward in the exploration of the self, at least for western culture. I see this criticism as the next step forward. I too have felt some ambiguous disconnect between mindfulness and experience that this essay does a good job capturing. The goal of mindfulness is to make you realize you don't exist, and to try to reach a state where you don't exist, and teach you that your thoughts aren't your own and you have no free will. That was a step forward in breaking down the self, and this next step is to unify these ideas with the self and existence.
That ship sailed long ago. India, China, and Africa are going to blow out the remaining carbon budget regardless of what America and Europe do to reduce emissions.
The truth is spend 10,000 hours building something in a certain language and try to find a job in a related language and those 10,000 hours mean very little.
> actual makers and inventors of technology/research and sometimes are better content than the actual links being posted

Yes! I'm humbled every day by the people on HN, and it's one of the things that keeps me coming back.
Maybe you heard about prohibition of billboards in highways, but it was only of alcoholic beverages. I remember hearing about it years ago when Osborne's bulls where saved because they were (justly IMHO) a national monument or something like that. The name was removed though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_bull
Hm, I remember reading other unrelated reasons the author mentions for switching away. Maybe the article was edited after you read it.

Is this gonna be another systemctl situation?

“It’s new! Hiss!!!!”
The problem with this is that in many situations, you can have a perfectly valid study done with only 8 people. It entirely depends on who those 8 people are.

You are by far much more at risk of falsely believing something because your heuristic for believability is wrongly associated with skepticism.
Interest rates now are incredibly low because central banks are keeping them low in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. But the fact that our economies need such incredibly low interest rates to generate growth isn't good at all. What will they do with the next crisis? Go negative?
Anyone know how a good book or three about history of the military-industrial complex?

I'm especially curious how various economic ups and downs in the military may have influenced venture capital. I'm also interested in tracing back those ups and downs to various presidential mandates. Seeing the whole chain from presidential biography to consequence on the investor landscape. (Other than that it's generally good to know the history, I think it could also act as a source of amplified imagination about how things that's going on right now might produce similar effects.)
It is a fully capable platform. How it's used isn't a fault of the platform though. It seems user-agents and adblockers are applying the proper protections, just like how antivirus works on your desktop.
I've had very similar thoughts about mindfullness. Mindfullness tells you to observe your fears and other feelings and see that they come and go, while it does not focus at all on whether and to what degree they are actual valid and important. Feelings are often signals from your subconsciousness, which is trying to tell that something. Of course, a lot of the time these signals can be BS or blown out of proportions - but effectively ignoring them via mindfullness is not a good approach in my opinion.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bio-Ears-Silicone-EarPlugs-Protecti... I use these, they are big enough you can split one plug in half and use them for a few nights so I get a couple of weeks out of a box, own brand ones are no worse, boots in the uk does them at about half the price.

Honestly though they are cheap at 5 times the price for a good nights sleep.
Sounds like you need to Branch out more to me. There's more than one way to skin a cat, but have you tried cooking one?
If life's a game then it means it's time to start dual classing. Use your skills as a step up in another field? Even as a hobby maybe.
I should have been more specific that I wanted it on iOS, too. That’s a good option for desktop and worth mentioning.
The terminology comes from a proposal for C++ which has been under discussion for a long time.
Sure. Gotta use that time for HN comments.

I agree with the actual comments on Dockers design.

But I’m in infra and security so I’m biased.

It’s my job as a tech nerd to care about that stuff? Or maybe I’m leaning into the role too much.

Why even bother working in tech when this march forward is what everyone complains about but has been here forever?

Growing up means getting over this shit internally.
There's a 24-hour Kroger near where I used to live that would routinely shut down the last human cashier around 10PM, which was about an hour too early.

This resulted in a nightly backup at the two self-check lines they'd leave open, sometimes taking 20+ minutes to check out.

Even as someone who prefers to self-checkout: It was a mess.
I can't be long here so this will be short.

There are quite a few places differential geometry is very useful to know. Generally, if you want to know at a fundamental level "what does it mean to learn, what is inference truly?". You will find yourself in dire need of learning differential geometry. The easiest example is: the deeper your understanding of differential geometry, the more you'll be able to reason about hamiltonian monte carlo algorithms.

Information geometry also applies differential geometry, where you can think of learning as trajectories on a statistical manifold.

K-FAC, mirror descent and the natural gradient also derive from or are closely connected to work in information geometry. There's recent work connecting optimal transport. Optimal transport is an important idea and pops up in many surprising places, from GANs to programming language theory via way of modeling concurrency, for example (Kantorovich metric for bisimulation). Understanding differential geometry allows you to see and navigate such rich connections at a deep level. I heartily recommend it. A good place to start is: https://metacademy.org/roadmaps/rgrosse/dgml
That's idiotic. Phoenix makes as much sense as Los Angeles and there is plenty of water from the Colorado River feeding both cities.

It takes less energy to air condition Phoenix during the summer than Minneapolis takes to heat in the winter (temperature gap desired maxes 50F vs 100F). Additionally, the energy it does take is much more amenable to being fulfilled by cheap solar than the cycle required by heating at night.

The only people who find it arrogant are ones who do not understand air conditioning is cheaper than heating and that water can be moved in aqueducts.

Nobody claims that Chicago should not exist, nor Minneapolis, nor New York. The only difference is that they depend on older heating methods instead of air conditioning.
It has a number of bugs, resulting from the bad call that was the decision to hack the original 737 for commercial reasons (whether to appease their customers or just to save money, it doesn't matter -- it was a bad call, made for the wrong reasons, and hundreds of people are now dead because of it).

> The only flaw the plane had was being treated as 'just another 737'

Passing as "just another 737" was the whole point of this plane. Which is why it should be scrapped. Boeing and its customers will scream? Tough - next time, build a plane in the proper way, so you don't kill people. If that means making a bit less money, well, money comes and goes.
Yeah it uses a mozilla cloud speech api. I gather one can run it locally though (Deepspeech).

So not too worried about this aspect.
I know alot do not like law enforcement of any kind, do to a small few, spoiled it for all¿
But this is a chance to make a difference before it is too late¿
Have you tried changing languages? Keeping up with framework churn should keep you busy for the next 25 years.
Yeah - but not google - they switched to mozilla deepspeech. You can run deepspeech locally, but needs something reasonably powerful
Couldn't we solve this problem by always clicking on ads we don't like, then close the tab?

If I like a company, I tend to scroll down in Google Search until I find their organic result. Hopefully that makes a difference to their bottom line.
So like a self imposed carbon tax?
Did he ever actually have a test done to confirm this? The article doesn't mention it.
> Because that is where you don't have to ask anyone for permission

Some cities have hscker or maker spaces, but the result is similar (at least what I've seen) : you can't leave you stuff out (it'll get stolen), make too much noise etc. Nothing like a garage where no one will get on you for cutting bricks with a chainsaw.

More simply we miss paying some bills by living in a small apartment where there's not room enough for a desk to out to do that so they end up on the kitchen table covered with kids' spaghetti etc
> Yes, the 2008 crisis was bad. But on the whole, are people still worse off? When my parents bought a house in 1989, their interest rate was multiples higher than I’m paying now.

In 1980, Congress passed the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act.

> Moreover, the boom times of the 1990s was also partly due to the financial system.

So surely you remember the tech bubble then and all of the consumer loss. One snippet to jog your memory: "Pets.com stock had fallen from its IPO price of $11 per share in February 2000 to $0.19 the day of its liquidation announcement." [0] I'm sure there were plenty of consumers who bought into that company under false pretenses.

> Thus looking at busts, instead of long-term trends, is a convenient way for pro-regulation folks to distort the overall impact of deregulatory measures.

What about if we flip that around, maybe... Looking at falsely inflated markets, instead of real earnings and growth, is a convenient way for pro-deregulation folks to distort the overall impact of regulatory measures.

Get rich schemes are unfair to the unknowing victim. There are more parallels with many of the questionable financial vehicles and products that turn up when no rules are in place.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
Do your own research, it's not like documentation of his bullshit is hard to find.
> every climate scientist will tell you that we'll need negative emission technologies

> even reporting about them makes people think they can skip the hard part

It also gives many hope. There's a lot of doom and gloom about global warming and climate change. We hear a lot about how we are past the point of no return. But in reality reducing emissions and employing sequestration technologies would make that untrue. It would mean we CAN get back to where we need to be.

I don't buy this whole argument about sequestration just encourages use of dirty energy. Consumers have very little choice and when they do being green has been in vogue for quite some time. I don't think sequestration is going to undo that thinking and popularity. Especially if we keep talking about the importance of both.
And your kids might not "play well with others."
Water from the city comes from the CAP. The reservoir is filled as needed from that and there isn't a crisis there. You can ban as many glasses of water from restaurants as you want and it won't make the slightest difference. Just slightly more CAP water will be flooded out to farmland.
To be fair, the write up isn't much more that.

TL;DR

They use Okta for SSO, GCP for Service Accounts (automation), vault for secrets, ca and tls, GKE generally, and this is how it all works.

That said, the article is good and the author has a good understanding of what's going on. Typically, you need to know how something works before you can form realistic opinion on whether or not it is secure. Too much of the industry is full of blind trust from people that can get things working but don't scratch beyond the surface of integration.

The author has likely had to understand this in order to explain it to InfoSec assurance, compliance and audit departments, but I think writing it down is really useful for people without the tech.

I think they could expand on why they use vault rather than the secrets engine directly, but I suspect that was because of integrations, protability, and the workload indentity functionality behing newer than their setup.
There are already lots of services that do this, and some that can be tied to specific purchases like airline flights (just Google "purchase carbon offsets"), but that said I really like the parent's idea of automatically tying it to a credit card. Don't know if this exists already.
You could have gone to an urgent care for less than 300 dollars cash, even when I had no insurance, this is what I would do when I had this same kind of thing happen
Quants Seek Human Touch
Related, one of the most interesting articles I have ever read
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
Ha, please have a little trip to any of the open air electronic markets of Eastern Europe(even of those countries that are within the EU) and every other stall has DVDs of almost any PC game/software you can think of. Signs like "newest game releases here!", "Windows 10 all versions no key one dvd!", "Blu-ray movies - 10 per disc!" Are still common. They are not even trying to hide this even though the police are meant to be on a look out for that stuff, but I can guarantee that I could come back with a backpack absolutely full of pirated PC games from one of these markets - that is making people money, no one is doing this out of charity even if prices are low.
Yes. Arguing that online advertising should be like traditional advertising (killing the adtech industry of today) means accepting that a ton of money will flow from small players to the bigger players, and into more insidious forms of ads (video overlays, native ads posing as news). But it’s a tradeoff I’m more than happy to accept.
> That's a bit hyperbolic

It was meant to be, in response to OP's hyperbole that there's nothing new being created.
Being able to package an application and dependencies in a container, then run locally or using one of several AWS Compute services is pretty powerful.

I think containers have been through the hype cycle, but they definitely have their uses. Anybody else use Thinstall (now VMWare ThinApp) on Windows? It did something similar by presenting your application with virtualized versions of the Windows subsystems, and was super useful when you were faced with DLL dependency issues.
I think - just not of interest !
In most of the groceries stores around me, discount logic is applied after the the total is completed. So voiding after you completed scanning and were ready to pay would have been legit, but maybe not so much if you didn't wait until payment time.
People shouldn't talk while driving? Yikes. I mean, I know it affects concentration and I suppose that means it probably increases accidents at some level, but speaking a thought out loud when you remember you need to do something seems pretty innocuous to me.
That's the false dichotomy again.

One example of a third way would be that when a plane is 97% the same as one you're certified on, have something between no and full recertification which is only 3% as time consuming because it only covers the differences between the planes instead of going back to square one.
I'd gladly trade the shared 900sq ft I pay ~$400 to rent for something smaller but as far as I can tell I can't really rent anything cheaper in the entire united states.

My roommate and I don't even know what to do with our living room. Spend money filling up a space we don't actually care about? Nah, we've just been collecting free shit to throw in there because we really don't care.

Thanks for keeping me from being 'exploited' though.
Life at conception is a relatively new concept even in the catholic church. Up into the 70s many US priests taught that "the quickening" was the point of ensoulment. That changed with the legalization of abortion by the supreme court and the modern pro-life movement. Biblically, it is even more confused and the protestant (and southern Baptist) incorporation is similarly recent.

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roman-catholic-church-quickenin...

http://www.bpnews.net/44055/how-southern-baptists-became-pro...
I don't understand. Nowhere in there did I see anything about the job interviews/hazing of his own company, and companies that mimic it.

(Which decidedly don't test for that 10 years of experience, but rather test for who spent their time reading the coding interview prep books, drilling for the 'coding' test questions, formulating acceptable personal answers for what the books coached on behavioral questions, and wearing kneepads.)
> Have you tried changing languages?

Yes. And it is a good idea. I have moved between Java backend applications and C++ videogames jobs. The difference in language and domain keep things interesting, and you discover that also there is a lot of sharing and you can apply patterns across very different domains. I have around ten years of experience in each.

I have also developed professionally in Clipper, Visual Basic, C# and even a little assembly. But, nothing for so many years as C++ and Java.

> Keeping up with framework churn should keep you busy for the next 25 years.

Oh. Yes. I just find it boring. To learn to do the same thing again and again with different named functions losses its appeal after a while. I try to keep my knowledge close to the core of the frameworks and google anything more complicated than that. I suck at interviews where I get questions about how to do this or that in a concrete version of a concrete framework, thou.
And they would be right...
As a Phoenix resident, the water relevant to you is the Colorado river. You are along for the same boat ride as southern California and Las Vegas.

You're even slightly advantaged over those other two because of the aquifer under Phoenix.
Recaptcha is a concern, considering the information being requested, but this is worse: https://i.imgur.com/ARPFyFl.png
> Of the major browsers...

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
It's not hype, it's just realizing that "Docker the container runner" is mostly a relatively thin layer above kernel APIs.

If you're not embracing the full Docker but using Kubernetes, the "runc" could be any of the dozens of alternative launcher.

You don't have to rebuild everything. That is what standards are for. Of course, this commodification is a problem for Docker Inc. The reason why they're "hyping" their brand ;-)
This embarrassing early era of an internet built on the ludicrous house of cards of advertising can't come to an end soon enough.

I look forward to reading in the history books about how some of the world's greatest minds spent their time and energy figuring out how to build businesses on manifestly bad UX.
I assume this is the CO2 content of one gallon but not the CO2 footprint of producing the fuel and getting it into the tank.
Could you tell me what IF means please?
Is much of this applicable to writing a dissertation? Is there anything it's missing for writing a dissertation?

Edit: ah, found my answer in chapter one (quoted it below). All of it should be applicable, as the "thesis" that this refers to is known as a "dissertation" outside of Italy. Perfect! I've been wanting to learn the PhD research process without bothering with the matters of financing a PhD and the deadlines.

> outside of Italy, the thesis proper generally applies to the doctorate, a degree pursued by those students who wish to specialize and pursue academic research in a particular discipline. Although the doctorate has various designations in different parts of the world, we will use the common abbreviation “PhD.” ... In universities around the world that traditionally grant the PhD, the thesis usually refers to a doctoral thesis, known as a “dissertation.” This is a piece of original research through which the candidate must demonstrate his scholarly capability of furthering his discipline.
I don’t think your citations are sufficient evidence to discredit the CDC and NIH at this time.
Not only is he recreating the mechanism, he's also exploring antique methods and materials that were possibly used.
I looked into this two days ago and decided to get a subscription with https://climeworks.com for a part of my CO2. It's the only thing I can do until the bus that I drive to work with becomes electric, planes for business trip start to fly electrically, there is 100% renewable power, etc. I'm making all the right choices available to me today (such as renewable power at home, recycling, etc.), but even so, many tonnes of CO2 are produced for me every year. I can't just shrug and do nothing.

It's quite expensive, and all of those CO2 sequestration companies (including Climeworks) sound pretty prototype-y. Climeworks is the one with a consumer product and clearly states that they already remove CO2 from the atmosphere today. This is what I got back from sales when I asked if my money will be for R&D that might, one day, remove the CO2, or if it would support operational costs of a machine running today:

> you will receive we state the amount of carbon dioxide that has been removed in your name. No one else can put a claim to that amount. [...] we run the machines most of the time anyway [but] proving that there is a market for our services (such as CDR for individuals) makes it easier for us to broaden the application of our technology.

So that gives me a reasonable confidence, but I'll still spread out my CO2 compensation a little in case part of it turns out to be badly spent. And trees have more advantages than just producing rock, even if we'd need much more surface area and water to maintain those trees than to sequester CO2 into rock.