skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree life sucked before PaaS. I've been responsible for responding to far too many production issues where the PaaS tooling got in the way of rapid response.

PaaS is a problem for me because so many developers don't understand (or own) the tradeoffs of choosing PaaS, so i have to constantly have the "no-PaaS" argument to people who have never dealt with the responsibility of uptime response and can't fathom why I'd want to "do more work when the PaaS does it for you"
> Obviously Terraform wasn’t an option :)

Why?
You know, that makes sense. I was missing that context.

If you ever do, please give container orchestration a look. It makes it honestly easy.
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You both have good arguments, but I would tend to agree with lone_haxx0r, even if his idea is maybe not practical.

He is comparing sending IP messages to freedom of speech. The debate is : are you for full freedom of speech or not?

In many countries with high level of freedom of speech, you can still be sued for just saying things : wrongly accusing someone, sending death threats, disclosing under NDA, etc

The logic of lone_haxx0r is noting that, physically killing someone is already illegal and punished, so why is sending death threats also illegal ?

We all know that it's for peace of mind of people, and also probably based on statistical evidences that some jokes may have turned bad.

Anyway, this pseudo freedom of speech is beneficial for rich people and big corporations as you can just throw more money to defend yourself with more words, and attack anyone who have a valuable piece of knowledge to your organization.

Snowden and Assange are good examples of why we should further liberate freedom of speech. Their intent was to inform people of a danger, but what they did (hacking) is so far considered illegal.

So, yes, we can charge people based on their intents, but in practice (for example if someone isn't able to express their intents, or in case of a government secret agency) it doesn't respect freedom of people.
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Because I worked at AWS for the last 8 years :)

Tbh, I don’t think it’s prohibited, but CloudFormation was the default choice.
Don't do something like this. A 7 day fast of just water isn't healthy. Your body starts burning more than just your fat. Even when doing something like a highly-restricted-calorie diet such as 960Cal/day you don't want to do for more than 3 days without medical supervision.
But they haven’t? It’s trivial to start a business.
I think it works mostly for those who try to fill up every waking minute with "meaningful" activities. HN seems to be full of people like that, and to them taking a break from the chase might be the most important thing and mindfulness helps them do that without feeling like they wasted time.
Energy and raw chemicals. I think few people appreciate what the implied scales are for anything remotely resembling fast sequestration (read: this century) of atmospheric CO2.

There are finite supplies of everything. We've only every been able to do gigaton industrial chemistry when it was strongly thermodynamically favored; in this case we are trying to run it backward up a steep gradient. The chemical processes described would also require globally depleting mined chemicals that we also use to produce food.

We would need to manufacture several orders of magnitude more raw materials, including the entire upstream supply chain, than exists today. The actual scale is comparable to current global GDP for many of the proposed industrial plant solutions when scaled up. We simply don't produce the required chemicals, nor have the underlying resources to produce said chemicals, at anything remotely resembling those scales. No amount of wishful thinking will change that. I trained as a chemical engineer, I can do the math.

It isn't a problem of employees. We literally have no capacity to produce the upstream resources to feed these industrial designs at the required scale. The inputs to their process are not produced by magic. This is a fairly technical point but literally no one has offered a proposal for how the chemistry would scale to a level that would solve atmospheric CO2 this century.

It is a really hard problem. We are trying to run planetary scale thermodynamics backward. The amount of energy required is mind-boggling even in the most optimistic scenarios.
I believe the connection is that people addicted to narcotics are famously insistent about self justification, even when it is obviously baseless.
Extended waterfasting is dangerous. If you're going to go more than 3 days on even a sub-1000Cal/day diet, please have medical supervision.
Auto-updating if you have storage space for opkg installs is reasonably sane, via opkg. Building a new firmware image is not. Updating via stock builds (LuCI or sysupgrade) leaves the matter of local configurations and package installs ... at best unclear.

A major set of problems are:

- Minuscule rewriteable storage on consumer networking kit.

- The need to create a firmware image, and not merely select and configure packages on disk.

- Bootloader fuckwittedness.

None of these are OpenWRT's fault. They do define the operating theatre, however. Unfortunately, in light of this, OpenWRTs tools and documentation are not up to the task. Yes, free software, volunteer project, etc., etc. I'm hoping my criticisms may be useful.

Many consumer devices (my ADSL modem comes to mind) have nanoscopic writable storage: 8 MB is not atypical.

OpenWRT's other upgrade opions are ... neither clearly stated nor readily achieved.

One of the higher-ranked HN OpenWRT submissions concerns why there is no autoupdate:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160206204329/http://prpl.works... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870294)

The OpenWRT user guide does not clearly address system upgrades, though there's otherwise good coverage of many topics:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/start

The most applicable section appears to be "Installing Additional Software", with sections:

- Beginners guide to building your own firmware

- Extroot configuration

- Managing packages

- Opkg Package Manager

- Saving firmware space

- Show available package upgrades after SSH login

- Using the Image Builder

Only the last directly addresses upgrading. A dedicated "System UpgradinG" document would be extremely useful.

The sysupgrade docs are not in the user guide but the technical reference:

https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/sysupgrade

I've tried compiling from source. There's a hell of a lot of menuconfig, and my build failed after 9+ hours. Not newbie-friendly at all. (FWIW I don't consideer mysef a newbie.)

I've not yet tried the imagebuilder.

I'm very familiar (20+ years) with Febian, and both the familiarity and its APT package management make the process highly predictable (with much help from ample storage and open bootloader standards). OpenWRTx is a long way from that, yet.

If you've any illumination or advice to add beyond "Auto-updating a plain OpenWRT installation is not hard to implement and allows you to stay up-to-date", I'm all ears.
How does that follow? If what I say is true (and it is, just talk to software engineers who work at these big companies they'll tell you the same), then it means Microsoft have done nothing under Nadella that's ambitious or challenging from a technical point of view. They have made no new products or improved existing ones that warrants calling it a revival. All they have done is better PR.
You don't need to spend 10 years to become a fantastic programmer. Many people are clueless when it comes to how to learn things (this is why the question "how do I learn X" is so popular even when it has been answered many times before).

Quickly identify the best resources to begin with for whatever topic, which is very easy to do, and work through them. This will get you much more value per time spent than opting for the easier "get rich quick option". For the C++ example, this is the difference between the learning C++ in 24 hours book, and The C++ Programming Language.

I think someone dedicated and mildly intelligent could become very good at programming within two to three years, and outdo the vast majority of programmers with 10+ years of experience.

It's not a bad thing to want to go fast, which is why I disagree with the premise of the article. Just make sure you go as fast as possible without sacrificing quality of learning.
Not much here other than "do weight training" and buy our book to learn how.
I don't believe this, but there's not enough info out there online to tell.

Article from his experience before surgery in 2010 -

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/is-there-a-doctor-in...
This is super cool! I love when people make fun projects that use standard tools in clever ways. Well done!
this is one reason i like console browsers; i have a custom default css for it as well though. a lot of sites like to have there own rules for css and that is when general user css have to get into per-site css configuration especially your graphical browsers.
Zounds!
Generally no, but it's been convenient to have the architectures match up. It minimizes surprises. Different architectures also make people ask if they should switch to PCs.
Facebook is somehow really good at suppressing key metrics and important stories (and I am not sure how they do it). A good example is the friendly fraud case, which if it had come out pre-IPO, would have probably killed the company, or at the very least made it impossible for them to acquire IG and WA.

I also find it odd that so many investors, stock buyers and advertisers actually trust any of Facebook's self-reported stats.

At this point, I think they have already become the Enron of the tech industry. It may still be a while before the whole thing blows up, but even Enron seemed to be doing really well right up until the moment before the bottom just fell out.

"While it only appeared in the Texas Journal, the Texas regional edition of the Journal, short-seller Jim Chanos happened to read it and decided to check Enron's 10-K report for himself. He didn't think it made sense that Enron's broadband unit appeared to far outpace a then-troubled broadband industry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Timeline_of_down...
"Why then, doesn't the government bring advertising to a halt?"

I've been advocating for bans on unsolicited advertising for many years. Usually such comments get voted down in to oblivion, but as the years have gone by more and more people are beginning to feel the same way.

Advertising is severely detrimental, not only because of the reasons that you state, but they also distort the media because news outlets are loathe to do investigative journalism or negative reporting on the companies that provide their bread and butter and because they also want to run stories that don't offend or antagonize their advertisers -- stories from that point of view that capitalism is bad or advertising is bad, for instance, are off limits to many outlets partially because of this.

Advertisers also routinely lie about the products they're selling, so people are being deceived about the products they're buying, sometimes with very serious negative consequences (such as advertising of cigarettes or medical products that are actually harmful).
Russian annexations and conflict fueling have nothing to do with ethnical Russians or identification with Moscow (whatever that means). It's related to regions of former USSR which oppose Putin's imperialist craze (may be you call that "Moscow"), and want to actually have real democratic government and independence. As soon as that happens, Putin's mafia tries to create or fuel existing local conflicts, by sending mercenaries that back local separatists or by outright openly occupying some regions.

Putin doesn't care in the least about Russian people in those territories. He only cares about destabilizing countries that don't want to be his vassals. This happened in Moldavia (where Russian army is present in Pridnestrovian region), Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and Ukraine (Donbass, Crimea). Armenia came close to it when they removed previous government controlled by Putin, but since they didn't demand that Russian army should leave (they have military bases there), so far it didn't erupt in armed conflict. See also how Armenia still backs Putin's policies in UN and the like. If they won't, Putin will come knocking.
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CSS sprites most likely. You can combine related smaller images into one image and then position the background image to an element so that only one portion of it is shown. This increases load speed and caching abilities since only one http request is made for the single combined background image.
Mindfull meditation may have its background in Buddhist beliefs, but that doesn't mean that you have to apply them to your meditation.

The Australian author Eric Harrison does a good job at seperating the two.
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-foundations-of-mindfulness-...
It's seems easy to dogpile on Boeing in this situation - there is likely even truth to narratives of under valuing engineering at Boeing, I should know. But the story of corporate greed and callous corner cutting is too easy and starts to feel like group think. Boeing, as the plane manufacture, has the task of ensuring safety under a vast array of conditions. And in truth, they, along with industry have made flight incredibly safe. Not only are planes complicated, they are complicated systems composed of many more complicated subsystems operated by Airlines across the world under different regulatory agencies, with differing training and maintenance standards. It's complicated and it's always easier to see flaws in hindsight. Second, don't think that Boeing doesn't know that there business hinges on consumer confidence. Every time there is an incident with a plane - manufacturer's fault, operator's fault, or whatever, Boeing gets a black eye. Regulation is critical, but not a blanket solution to industry challenges. It may not be right, or ideal, but there are good reasons the faa delegates. How much more funding should we give them to make us feel safe? Fatality frequency is measured in "per billion" today. We want a bad guy when there is tragedy. I fear that want will further damage a company already fighting for it's life with Airbus. Let's not let them off the hook, but neither are the causes or solutions simple.
http://omswami.com/2018/04/enlightenment.html

In my personal experience, enlightenment is realizing, at the depth of my being, this prospective that nothing, absolutely nothing in this world, including my body, relationships, wealth and my possessions are going to last for ever; everything is impermanent and my problems are extremely tiny compare to the immensity of the universe, so I should take it easy and live life compassionately and kindfully. These positive emotions help me to experience and retain the bliss, peace and happiness

How to know someone is enlightened? Since I know what being enlightened is, the job becomes simple. Just observe that the person carries out himself in enlightened manner at all times; if he loses it in adverse/unacceptable situation, it means that he might be on the path but haven't reached to the other side yet.
My mind has been blown by the fact you can do ‘/front?day=YYYY-MM-DD’
That's true. The motivation for the swimmer is to not get sucked into the intake. I can hear the coach laughing maniacally as he turns the speed up to 11.
I think if you start a new project, PaaS is definitely the way to go. You don't have that many infra people available, you don't have time to deal with building your own deployment details, etc. Once you have time, staff, and real users - move from PaaS to something you can prove is both a better fit and more reliable than (for example) Heroku.

But in the meantime? PaaS services solved a lot of issues for you for less money than it would take you to interview a sysops person. Use them as much as you can, whether it's complete app hosting, abstracted container deployment, or something else.
Grid tricks your mind into seeing colour
I'm not. Facebook has a massive store of data that will likely be very interesting to future historians. Just because it is biased and unreliable doesn't mean it isn't useful.
Be Inc went belly up because of MS anti-competitive practices. Vendors would get a discount if they shipped only windows computers
You probably would have run into security issues with using terraform as each version would have to be vetted and any extensions you use
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> The reviewer is supposed to determine what goes in or not, so how can this be an opportunity to learn from what goes in?

You specify multiple reviewers. That's it.
How often were sons named for their fathers? I imagine it would be confusing to have generations of John Johnsons around.

Regarding “the eldest having a particular first name which would be given to the next eldest if the older one inconveniently died”—is that referring mainly to childhood mortality? I’ve read of names being reused at times due to the (by modern standards) shocking rate of infant mortality but I’ve never heard of that particular custom.
the hn vote arrow is not a sprite - it's a single image, displayed rotated 180 degrees for the downvote.

https://news.ycombinator.com/grayarrow.gif
The problem is, like me, you can be relatively unintelligent, work forty hour weeks, and make around a quarter million dollars a year peddling ads. That's tough to give up when nobody's dropping dead because of it.
Not very heavy, but I was and am still doing Phrak's GreySkull LP.

I have been working back up to it that way, but consistently plateauing at about 20% below my previous peaks.

I do plan on changing my diet once I'm at a place I'm happy with to be a bit more friendly towards weightlifting goals.
The main source seems to be Jumpshot 2017 clickstream data, these posts on Moz are within 2 days of each other, the first is cited for the "a third" quote in TFA:
https://moz.com/blog/seo-photos-visuals-graphics-whiteboard-...
https://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed

But "a third" seems a bit misleading as the big pie chart in the second only shows 26% (closer to a quarter). From the bars in the middle of https://sparktoro.com/blog/2018-search-market-share-myths-vs... (also Jumpshot data) we can see that Google Images has been steadily decreasing in share, it might indeed have been a third in 2010-2014 but today is probably below 20%.

Then there's this Quora answer from 2010, it has a 1:5.5 ratio of images to search from Alexa, i.e 15%: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-ratio-of-Google-Image-traf...

So that's two different sources of clickstream data that mostly agree, 33% is too high but 20% is plausible. The numbers are not really going to get more accurate than that unless you can hack into Google.
My company[1] has written 100's of 1000's of lines of Terraform code as part of a commercially maintained library of prod-grade Terraform modules. We've also used Terraform to setup 100+ teams on AWS with prod-grade infra, and I can confirm that Terraform works very well for robustly launching on AWS.

There's also a fast-growing ecosystem around Terraform: lots of open source modules, automated testing frameworks, and a growing number of tooling solutions. In the early years of Terraform, bugs and stability were major issues. With 0.12, the maturity factor is becoming very compelling.

On a separate note, I'm surprised the author endorses plain old EC2 over Docker. I get the point of "choose boring tech," but it seems like launching your app on EC2 requires a whole bunch of rework around automation that's already done for you in ECS, EKS, or dare I say even Elastic Beanstalk + Docker.

[1] https://gruntwork.io
I would like to create something new.

Something like the unholy child of RSS Feeds / Podcasts / NNTP / Email / Pub-Sub / Gopher / Google Reader

A new language (or two complementary languages) separating content and presentation, limited, possibly not Turing-complete but expressive. Specifically less powerful than modern web browsers.
The videos can be there. YouTube can't make money off of them until they comply with the conditions. Youtube can't host porn videos with 17yr olds despite them not being illegal in many countries.
Let’s Annotate Our Methods with the Features They Implement
Your censor doesn't work on unicode fonts.
I lift weights 3x/wk as well as a few other activities, and have been since long before I started the diet. I just didn't care at all about what I was eating all that much.
As someone who has done a lot of both walking and meditation, I'd say they have orthogonal benefits.
They might not 'like' it but they might not care enough as long as the stock goes up and the dividends keep flowing. The regulation should be there to prevent the erosion of certain boundaries, the eternalization of certain costs and the eventual public recovery of the profits.

Like most of the neoliberale 'economic theoretical models', the idea that the regulation is fully separated from the arena of the competition and thus cannot be captured and coopted is so ludicrous it begs the question how it ever became more than a joke in a b-list standup comedian's backup repertoire.
Countries which aren't run by tyrants will not engage in these sorts of experiments. Any free-thinking scientific community knows the risks vastly outweigh the benefits, and will continue to do so for a long time. Surely you can see the biggest problem is that IQ is a surrogate of what we actually want, and if you start editing to achieve that, you could easily end up with people that are world class at guessing the most obvious next number in a sequence, but will never discover anything.

What is likely to happen is that somewhere like North Korea could start trying it. If they get far enough into it, they will probably realise super-intelligent people don't want to hang around in totalatarian regimes run by fools, or swallow propaganda. Either they will find a way to make super-intelligent psychopaths who are naturally gratified by participating in world-denomination skullduggery, or they will engineer them to be somehow dependent on the regime, perhaps introducing a disease that needs some hard to acquire maintenance therapy.
If you don’t drive, leave the country, fly on airlines, buy alcohol or tobacco, patronize establishments legally designated as certain categories of alcohol-serving establishments or adult entertainment venues, have a bank account, or have an actual job that would require you to fill out an I-9, you might be able to live in America without ID. But it seems really, really hard.
Even very talented swimmers can have shoulder problems from over training. That's what cortisone shots are for.
If your site is simple sure PaaS will work, but anything advanced and even simple things are becoming complicated.
> And her insurance undoubtedly paid out at least 4x that amount

A bold assumption.

The whole argument is a bit of a straw-man, too. Single-payer isn't the only way to do universal healthcare, which could also drive other costs not associated with the specialist down.

Anyway, I'm not sure the article supports any such kind of speculation. And morally, I'm not sure which arguments you can make based on one person, nor do I want to.
> The only relevant physical involvements here are between you and your ISP, and me and my ISP.

Forgive me, I may be wildly misunderstanding here, but are you saying that the hosted web service is fair game to you because you have no direct physical involvement with it? Because there's a middleman (your ISP talking to their ISP)?
I tried most, but eventually settled with surfing and table tennis.

Running broke my hips, cycling is too expensive and dangerous, and I got tired of swimming. Too boring. I only do a long distance race once a year on our river, which is fun.