skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just took a listen (specifically spotify:track:0Z1vYjhlHvomaTl2VWGLrd), and I think there's something there you should pursue. Truly. The first 15 seconds could be stripped down and the scale part (sorry, I lack the terminology) to only the parts needed to agree with the second voice that comes in, and repeated a few times. The syncopation of that second voice would work great when laid over the beat. Then the mood gets darker and the theme is re-asserted. This would be the "meat" of the track. The entire time, all of the fluttery scale stuff gets stripped only to those spare notes which are needed to harmonize with the higher "voice" and carry the theme. I obviously don't have the chops, but this is a great, great idea.

It's wild and chaotic, but it doesn't need to be. Chopin has these wild scales to drive the piece along, but you've got a beat.
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I believe it doesn’t. I go to expensive restaurants and bars mostly where waiters and bartenders get way overpaid due to tipping. If it has any impact, it will help smaller waiters/bartenders that do not work in busy places and suffer from their employers not paying them a normal wage.
US government doesn't know if people who access github will contribute, or just take and use including military and government applications.
I think you are forgetting tech support. Depending on the product and the types of users you have, it can be time-consuming and quite expensive for the company.

The primary reason subscription model makes sense, and why many software shops are switching to it, is because you never want to find yourself in a situation where you have to generate new sales to afford supporting the existing customer-base.
I agree 100%. In my view every change you make to your software (that is not a bug fix) is just as likley to reduce the perceived value for your current customers as to increase it. Spread these changes over time and you segment the customer base across different states of pleased and unhappy. Naturally as the customer base denormalizes against any given state affinity you reduce the overall population's feelings about your app.

IMHO this is one of the hardest problems to solve with long lived applications. What changes can be made, what features can be added or changed and what "look and feel" changes can be made without tilting the affinity of the current users vs expanding the value proposition for new ones.
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Intersting. Eventually he left to farm a ranch west of silicon valley. His prose is poetry:

In his 1991 Business Hall of Fame acceptance speech Hock explained:

“ Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper – Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition. In 1984, I severed all connections with business for a life of isolation and anonymity, convinced I was making a great bargain by trading money for time, position for liberty, and ego for contentment – that the beasts were securely caged.
I really appreciate all the feedback @znpy @crosseye_jack @xwkd @ppseafield and everyone else.

We're going to be making changes and updates to the site and will try to make it better.
>I trust a rational, profit motivated actor much more than one intended to promote an ideology, a personality cult, family and friends of insiders...

You shouldn't.

Many "rational, profit motivated actor" absolutely promote the use of "family and friends of insiders" all the time. And they are obviously promoting an ideology. Maybe you have an affinity with that particular ideology, and that's fine. Just saying that those motivated by profit or power, are the same as those motivated by ideology and religion.

Any one of them would sell you, or your grandmother out in a nanosecond if they could get what they wanted out of that exchange.
2017 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634363
Exactly. That was the point I was trying to make in my previous comment.
Not necessarily a bad idea, unless you have other ideas as to which global power you will be under the influence of, or that your country can withstand such influences on its own.

There is no denying it, the meddling in foreign affairs from the western point of view shows that the influence of global powers on individual countries is very possible and this can easily come back around to bite you if you're not part of an equal or greater power.

The UK will be fine on it's own, because they have always been under the influence of a greater global political power.
The second project that was upvoted by an "expert" (GreenGovernance) is at #20.
ASM = assembler (assembly code; very low-level programming).

Nice reply, agreed that docs are a great bunch, upvoted.
Have you ever used Common Lisp macros, D meta-programming, Nim, Dylan macros, BETA pattern matching, OCaml pptx templates, Template Haskell,...?

Yes, C++ compile time capabilities are powerful, but they aren't by all means the only game in town.
I’ve been looking for something precisely like Bolt, thank you for the link!
Yes, it's pretty crazy how well this already works.

A toast to the manpig that shall grow my future replacement liver!
I've noticed it's very common for VR marketing material to show young children using the devices. Is stuffing a headset onto your kid going to be the new 'give them a tablet to shut them up' in the future? going to have some very interesting repercussions.
TIL: The "run rate" is extrapolating a year's revenue from some shorter period. So the headline means, "Google Cloud earned $2 billion last quarter, which will be $8 billion a year if we can keep it up."

So it makes the numbers more comparable with "per year" as the standard rate, but with all the obvious hazards of extrapolation.
Would you consider attempting to convince an entire civilization to bend to your (lord's) will, against their own (as expressed on several occasions, spanning several decades), to be a harmful act?
Actually, HakunaCloud works on cloud servers, not containers. With Kubernetes you pay for the worker nodes, not for running containers.

HakuaCloud starto&stop cloud servers, so you actually pay only for the time the servers are needed
The "compile-time programming" category of this survey is dominated by constexpr proposals, where constexpr can replace some pretty ugly template metaprogramming.
There is good stress and bad stress, as I'm coming to find out the hard way.

I also do very well in environments most would call "high stress" - I ran a medium-sized hosting company for many years, being the guy where the buck stopped if things went wrong. Sure there were days that were pretty terrible, but in the end I controlled the entire stack, the people working on that stack, and even which customers I took on. Yes, the work was incredibly hard, fast paced, and sometimes very stressful. But it was enjoyable because I had personal agency to effect change. We have a service going down daily causing escalations at 2am? I can put a couple guys on it and fix it, with a sane solution we all felt proud of. That sort of thing.

In another environment where I in theory had a "nice easy 9-5" with effectively zero external stressors such as customers yelling at me - I was the most stressed out I ever was. The job was entirely internal politics and jockeying for position with all the subterfuge and backstabbing that implies. Effectively being put in charge of outcomes I had practically no real agency over.

That latter time period of stress has likely damaged me long-term, and caused many forms of health problems I would not have expected. It is a long road to recovery from something like that, if it's even fully possible.
Bob Nystrom's other roguelike-related posts on that blog have been a big help for my personal fiddling with gamedev.
Viveport, eww.
King Harold II of England had a number of tattoos. After his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, his tattoos were used to identify his body.

and more here - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/nigelfarndale...
> Be a better management with transparent performance reviews and quick feedback with on focus areas.

This article contains dozens of grammatical errors (starting right off with the title). Whenever I read something like this, I'm so distracted by the errors that I can't even focus on what the author is trying to say. The English language is dying.
>Assuming the Japanese don't have debates on bioethics.

Nice.
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Interesting idea. Almost bring the idea of lambda to VMs, doesn't it?

Also, how does hakuna work with DO? I thought DO still charges when VMs are powered off?
While I disagree with the US's stance, ignoring your morals because other countries are doing something would be a race to the bottom.
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Except that none of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction_claimants would claim that they were fantasizing their experience. But anyway.
Yeah, but that's just a thought. Have a look at Kleros https://blog.kleros.io/become-a-juror-blockchain-dispute-res..., they are building a "Dispute Resolution Layer". Something on these lines should work, I think.
Do you have any recommendations for modern, classically trained musicians?
That's just to make things in full picture. It's inconsequential and worthless in the scope of the film. To me, they do not even to explain why machine do that. Like so many Japnese manga and anime, they never explain the history, just follow the setup and narrative to explore the human story. I guess Hollywood is not used to that style.
One part of the solution is probably to raise awareness of the ways that systems justified in these ways are already being abused. For instance, spying on romantic interests at the NSA was apparently common enough that they had a cutesy name for it.
'inspect constexpr' is part of the pattern matching paper, IIRC.
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Especially when they democratically voted in favour of being part of Russia. This is essentially a punishment for them for voting the way they did.
I worry about allowing Japan, a country that has refused to fully own up to the biomedical atrocities it committed with Unit 731, to lead the way on these kinds of experiments. I would feel much more comfortable if there was international ethical oversight.
https://www.tattooarchive.com/history/queen_victoria.php

Edward VII was inked up, with his mother's approval. If it's good enough for the son of Victoria, it should be fine, even for the prudes.
I watched both. It's ok. It is to The Matrix what Deep Impact is to Armageddon, both released the same year iirc.
Like the new twitter layout in a browser.
I doubt it. Most don't have nearly the stamina for a VR headset as they do for a regular screen.
>when you have a product that works, and an existing customer base - freeze it. ... simply leave the product the way it is, bar minor BAU and bug-fix work. Instead devote effort into building a new, next-generation product ...

As a counterexample, Apple did this with Final Cut Pro and suffered years of criticism from customers for “abandoning” their installed base. Of course, being Apple, they didn’t seem to care. :) The new version eventually got to parity and beyond, but in the meantime people were seriously unhappy (and I’m sure many still are).

People don’t like change, and people also don’t like being abandoned.
For years I've used Fantasque Sans Mono [0] which is Comic Sans inspired:

> realization that at some point it looked like the mutant child of Comic Sans and Helvetica Neue.

[0] https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
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> The Lake Wobegon Strategy famously coined by Google and Peter Norvig claims that you should always hire above your team average. Doing so increases the quality of your team.

Ugh, not this again. Obviously don't hire people who aren't good at their job. But most improvements come from investing in your team.

> are they putting their code up for review [...]

Missed one: Are their code reviews/pull requests high quality? I.e. do they go out of their way to document how they tested it? Reproduction steps? Do they invest time in making code reviews as easy to review for other people as possible? Or does their code reviews always take multiple rounds of review due to sloppiness?
> ...other countries are going to move forward no matter what America does.

While that's their prerogative, the US could still enact trade sanctions.

On the other hand, DARPA is probably already working on the next generation of hybrid human/gorilla soldier.

Related:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926701-000-blasts-f...
Now that we have CGI scripts in the cloud (lambdas), there ought to appear an implementation of inetd, too!

Jokes aside, I wonder when cloud providers will add something like this as a native feature.
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The collection of his articles that were published in that book is wonderful. I loved the cruise ship one, and I really enjoyed his articles about the IL state fair and about tennis because I grew up in the same area that he was talking about.
I agree with you in principle, but this house party really was something else. They didn't just primp themselves up to look good for this event. They all looked like male models, fit, tanned, healthy. You can't look like these guys did without a lot of work. Diet, exercise, I felt like I'd walked onto a Hollywood set. I wish I could have stuck around and mingled, gotten a sense for what in the holy heck I was witnessing, but large masses of people make me super uncomfortable. So I went back down to my apt.
Let's not forget "stukach". Your friend or relative might be the one who meets a curator from KGB and reporting everything "interesting" you have said. Each big enough organization had a permanent curator assigned to monitor sentiments. And repercussions were real enough.
From what I heard, the script was "simplified" to be more relatable to non-technical audiences.

When you get to the scene where Switch holds up the battery, just replace it with a CPU chip.

It makes far more sense if the Matrix is the AI server farm that does all their processing, and human brains are the processors. The AIs need the brains intact, which is why they don't just lobotomize everyone as fetuses and dispense with the VR illusion.

In my personal headcanon, the Matrix is an Inception. Zion is a server rack, and the AIs in it have been fooled into thinking they're human. Their apparent conflict with AI was engineered by humans to condition them to abhor conflict between human and AI, and to erase the idea that they are separate tribes.
I recall that my impression at the time was that the movie somewhat avoided big ideas. It seemed that every time it got too close to something that might cause the audience to have an idea, it would throw in a monster or something to distract away from it.
1945 was a long time ago and a very different Japan... We don't still force Germany to have caps on its army.
Sorry, I meant all inputs whose length equals the output length.

The point being, for at least that case you can guarantee a sensitivity of one bit.
If it was for batteries, plants would be radically more efficient.
I think this is Servo? Is there any progress with Servo outside of VR/AR? Really looking forward to a browser with parallel layout.
Depending on how small the niche is you can sacrifice a small amount of users if they switch to keep the code simpler. Also it's not like the model prevents you from adding features. But it gives you more freedom to pick the ones that make the most sense to implement because you do not need to constantly chase new users.
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What's the "best" solution out there for GUI's? Looking for varying opinions of people who dabbled in several frameworks.
The Alexa platform is going a long way towards giving people an expectation of interoperability. So long as you've got some fairly basic code on your backend Alexa is able to respond to devices updating it on their current state, and you can set up automations to respond to that and change the state of other devices.
Font IP is special!

The names are trademarks, so you can't copy them exactly, but you can use suggestive alternates. Palatino => Palatable, for example. TeX Gyre Pagella is a very nice version.

The code is copyrighted, so you can't copy the code exactly. But -- you can rasterize a font, print it, scan it, vectorize the output, add your own hints, and now have a clean re-implementation. The shapes of the letters are not copyrightable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
When people can be extradited to the unfair, Chinese domestic courts or failing that kidnapped by the Chinese government I would say that’s not ”largely autonomous” anymore. There’s no way for the kidnapped Causeway books employees to use the HK courts to get them out of Chinese courts, even though they committed their ”crime” in HK.

The respect of ”one country, two systems” was something China promised the UK. The international community is absolutely remaining in the picture.
>If there was a bubble and it were to burst, kitchen-table investors might scarcely notice, unlike in the late 1990s.

When bubbles burst the average person doesn't lose because the market plunges. The average person has little money in the market.

They lose because themselves, friends, family and neighbors lose their jobs.
Hi, I'm a developer at Hakuna. Thank you for the feedback.

With DO, we destroy the instance so that nothing is charged for it, and save a snapshot to be used to restart the instance; you pay only for the snapshot storage - $0.05/GB per month.
yeah, really. Why not put it on Steam?
He didn't assume that. Also, you're making the internet a worse place by accusing him of doing that. You should feel bad.
The most disappointing thing about the original Matrix movie was that it's taken for granted that the reality Neo is shown when he takes the red pill is the "true" or "real" reality, while he might actually still be in the Matrix or in some other false reality. In fact, there could be an infinite number of such realities, and there's really no way to tell when you've reached the real one. This possibility is more satisfactorily explored in Inception and the Philip K Dick books which likely inspired them both.

I'm happy that The Matrix has introduced many people to philosophy and Eastern religious ideas, however. That's its biggest contribution.
You would have to build your own with a small, insulated motor, and a high gear ratio.

You might be able to hire someone at a local makerspace to build something along those lines.
"Given an 'experience machine' capable of providing whatever experiences we desire, in a way indistinguishable from 'real' ones, should we stubbornly prefer the truth of reality?"

If real and virtual are "indistinguishable", how can we be sure what is real and what is not? That's one of the themes I feel that was missed in The Matrix - there was never any doubt as to what was the real world and what was the virtual world. That I felt was much better explored in the contemporaneous eXistenZ, with its constant underlying doubts about "are we still in the game?"
Some corollaries:

Upgrading from v1 to v2 of your product is no different than migrating from your product to your competitor's product, except you probably have better compatibility. If your competitors offer good-enough compatibility, or you break backwards compatibility, even this advantage is lost.

Just as with data structures, we should build software itself as generally immutable. The successor to version X, in most cases, is version Y of something else. The exception seems to be filling out features. If your v1 is good but sparse, then adding missing features is an obvious win for users, too. That means, though, that you need to publish your roadmap. Customers can't plan around arbitrary releases and mystery features.
Countries don't have direct representation, political blocs do.

Each country picks its own members (at minimum, six of them in the European Parliament), those members congregate into political blocs, those blocs make proposals, build a majority within EUs regulatory bodies, and adopt changes.

The difference between Germany and the UK is that German parties recognize this process and follow it. UK's (right-wing) parties, on the other hand, go on a tantrum locally whenever something doesn't go their way on an EU level, because they believe they're in a privileged position and that their vote means more within the EU. It doesn't.

My aim isn't to convince "leave" campaign that they should stay. On the contrary, I agree with the comment that said good riddance. Their tantrums stopped the progress of the EU far too many times.

If you think that the electoral college in the US is terrible, please, look up how Boris Johnson got to the position of the Prime Minister. The process was so undemocratic than it can't be considered anything but a complete joke. Brexit will finally happen, EU will move forward, and we'll all sit back and watch the UK's economy crash and burn. In over two years, they haven't even figured out what Brexit actually means, so the thoughts of them figuring it out within the next four months is laughable at best. There's not gonna be enough popcorns in the world for that shitshow.
> Hakuna Cloud is a software-as-a-service HTTPS proxy. You don't need to change existing software or infrastructure, and you don't need to install additional tools on your servers.

> Each cloud server must have an FQDN/DNS name configured as a CNAME to our load balancers.

> When your server stops receiving requests, it will be stopped. As soon as a new request arrives, Hakuna will start it.

Interesting idea. It's like a proxy that kind of makes an instance/vm-based service act like a serverless service, without moving to containers or rewriting.

Seems kind of niche but I can see the use: there's a lot of services that have a time-based usage pattern (during working hours, or used interactively for a few minutes/hours sparsely through the day).

What are the cold start times like with this (at least for a typical, simple app - say on asp.net on Windows or something hosted via nginx on
Linux)? What happens if an instance is being stopped and a new request comes in - does the request have to wait for shutdown plus startup?
This is a much better argument than your first comment.

For a persistent connection, you might want to move from HTTP to WebSockets, which also brings the bidirectional quality and some more of the pub/sub qualities. Though WebSockets' complexity compared to just HTTP is similar to MQTT.

Being able to implement the protocol yourself is less something I would do in production and more a comment on how easy a protocol might be to grok.

I wouldn't expect to implement my own WebSockets client. So this and the relative overlap of features puts MQTT and WebSockets in the same bucket for me (far more so than MQTT and a raw socket).

Summarizing my views: MQTT seems as opaque as WebSockets without the benefits of being built on a very common protocol (HTTP) and being used in industries beyond just IoT. The main benefits proponents of MQTT argue for (low bandwidth, small libraries) don't seem particularly true in comparison to HTTP and WebSockets.
Yeah, I'm with you. For static pages, I like gitlab. For other things, there's always google-app-engine or similar services.
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