skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an operator, shouldn't you worry if something battle-tested, that implements extremely critical functions that are tricky to implement correctly, is replaced with something that is unproven?

As someone who enjoys sleeping at night, I wouldn't poke something like that with a stick before it has matured for a few years, and before many brave (?) operators have smoothed out most rough edges by landing on them repeatedly with their faces.
How do you mean "spam attack". Is Vesta some kind of scam?
Awesome, nice to see quick iteration!
Things do change. That doesn't make your specific prediction of what they will change into correct. Given that your previous assertions about the past and present were wrong, I doubt you are correct about the shape of the future.

Happy to bet on it, though.
I would enjoy working close to the metal in some capacity, it's just not really what the majority of modern tech businesses require, and moving in that direction is likely not worth the sort of career reset it would require.
Old pee is basically ammonia.
To be fair that isn't the whole story and doesn't really make for a convincing argument to the contrary.

Doctors should be paid well, and in the case of the Cook Islands I assume they have public institutions providing doctors and medicine. In which case, tax payers are paying for it. Which is almost always the most ethical way to do it, and the only really right way we have working practicably in the world today, but it isn't some impossible efficiency that $2.50 supports the costs of operating the hospital, the cost of the drugs, training the doctor, and paying them a wage to justify their skill and expertise required.

Its largely where many politicians in the US arguing for fundamental change to the system come from - its really hard to imagine anything much worse than what they US has now. It would actually take considerable effort to design a more inefficient, more obfuscated and incomprehensible, more exploitative and harmful way to organize medicine professionally.

People just don't want to acknowledge that the United States federal government is not acting on the behalf of its citizens in its decisions whatsoever. It hasn't for decades, but coming to terms with the dissolution of democracy and the reality that US citizens don't have a meaningful, statistical say in government anymore is a hard pill to swallow, because the answers to the question "what do we do about it, then?" are all ugly.
Unrelated: Your speech-to-text result threw me for a loop, "moose Leon" (mostly)

Related: A hardware "Dash" button made more sense in a time when mobile smart devices were not ubiquitous. The recommended items I see are really strange, often items that are "one-offs" which I might only buy once every ten years are recommended. This to me is a serious problem with their algorithm.
I agree. The only real issue to me is testing of warhead detonations (pretty bad all-around regardless of where you do it), which I don't believe this treaty covered. The test ban treaty is still in effect, so this losing the INF really just means potentially more missiles.
Did you ever see the movie, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"?

An excellent portrayal of medieval baths in that.
I serve as a voting officer in my county.

The voter role is a database.

This is database maintenance.

It is necessary.

Every voter should verify that they are signed up to vote in the one (1) place where they pay federal income tax.

People who have property in multiple states are among the weakest links in the system, as getting an absentee ballot for a place where you have a legitimate residence tends not to be hard.
China and everyone else is currently betting that after the present 4 year bout of insanity, relations will normalise and as such an overly aggressive response is simply shooting itself in the foot.

The next decade on the other hand could be catastrophic for the US though because depending what rhetoric trends in the US the rest of the world will be looking to insulate itself from that political environment.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20573968

Should be dead for exactly the same reasons the original is dead.
Ask HN: What are you using to build apps?
It has been a while since I have built something? Last time I used Meteor, which was pretty intuitive to learn and had a good ecosystems. What would you suggest that I use today? I'm looking for something that has a community and some free tutorials to get me started?
Thought experiment (I don't actually want to go down this road): can you out-market Amazon in this scenario? If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, can you find people who would buy things from Amazon anyway and offer to make purchases on their behalf at a 1% discount (which is, on paper, obviously rational for them), such that you're now getting back $396 of the $400? Now you're spending a mere $4 for the $500 rent discount.

And in turn, why would market rent for your area be N instead of N-$500 (or N plus discount matching), if that discount is generally available? If everyone gets the $500 Amazon discount, then everybody has the switching cost problem, and so landlords would want to match what the market is actually willing to pay, not what it looks like they're paying on paper. This is basically the same scenario as early termination fees - when cell phone companies decided to increase the switching cost, other cell phone companies said they'd eat that increase in switching cost just to unlock locked-in customers that they couldn't reach.

And ultimately all of these mechanisms are annoying and fiddly mental overhead, but could purchasers band together and join an organization that negotiates on their behalf, organizes boycotts, etc. for a relatively small fee?
When fonts were new, documents were full of different fonts. Now it is animations on web pages.
It's great until you discover things like position-fixed doesn't work when there's an ancestor with a transform.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20574

It's really fun because even a will-change: transform will trigger it.
Price discrimination yields the most profit for a seller. You want to be able to capture all that each person is willing to pay, because your cost of goods sold remains the same.

Also the new customer doesn’t permanently get a sweetheart deal, it’s always a temporary incentive to join, which doesn’t seem unfair to me at all. However, as a buyer, if you’re not always shopping around, expect to pay more than someone who does. That’s just how the game works.
50 yrs old, just started a new job as a Sr. Software Engineer, and now learning go, kubernetes and google cloud platform. Been in management in the past, but grew tired of that route. I do find that my experience (C++ -> Java -> Scala) with healthy doses of (Ruby, Groovy, Python, Perl) is a good foundation to work from.

This job is my plan B, and it's OK.
Google (and I assume most ML providers) offers transfer learning on image models: https://cloud.google.com/vision/automl/docs/
Seems weak.. "well, I did all I can.". Look at Hong Kong at the moment; the youth seems to be going all-in with their protests. What is their goal and can they achieve it? Forcing a regime change seems impossible, but who knows.

Meanwhile, Mueller is finished, Trump is still president, and Pelosi is the 2019 version of Chamberlain...
Yeah, I just noticed that at the same time. Fixed "moose Leon" to "mostly on".
Makes me feel old because I remember that world.
I lived in DOS. I remember trying to download Doom2 over telephone. All 32mb of it zipped - it took hours.
Then we'd play 'networked' over phone.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
If something like what is described in the article ever became true, then I really hope someone invents something like APR for credit cards for these kinds of arrangements.
> Why not buy some companies and get some proper entrepreneurs back into the mix of management?

Because it's inefficient. Google could buy a thousand biotech startups that are all doing innovative work trying to cure cancer and things like that, but that work has nothing to do with search engines or data centers, so it makes no sense to put it under the same roof. The same management staff isn't going to be effective in managing both types of business, all it's going to do is split their focus.

But give the money to the shareholders and the ones who want to can use it to invest in biotech, others can invest in electric cars or new types of power generation or energy storage or space exploration or whatever else.

Using the profits from search engines to fund cancer research and space exploration is great. Running those businesses inside the search engine company is pointless.
Can you elaborate on the delivery costs and employee travel aspect?

Surely by selecting a location that balances low rent versus proximity to residential areas you could lower operational costs while still ensuring staff could get to work and keep delivery costs low? I get that running a restaurant is a complex and risky business, but i dont think youve really addressed why a delivery only kitchen would fail consistently.
Gathering Interest
Speaking of terms, I've been pushing for replacing cocompact with mpact at the last conference I went to.

Turns out, the finest minds out there are already on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocompact_group_action
Dropping the hyperbole for a second.

Is there a line for ML (what we're erroneously calling AI here) where you think sharing it is appropriate? Self driving car tech could certainly save a great many lives; is it more reasonable to share the next Viagra than to save those people?
A claim that the prestige/name recognition of a school is a network effect is just plain wrong. More than half these examples are not network effects. Don't dilute the term in to uselessness by making its borders infinite.
Overview of Risks Introduced by 5G Adoption in the United States [pdf]
> Most people can skip commented code just fine, since it looks like... commented out code

Line comments, yes, but not for block comments or #if 0 disabled sections -- if your search result comes from the middle of one of those, it does not look like a comment without the context, and can mislead you.
Some of us had to make do with ATDP.
"According to the nonprofit Zero Waste Alliance, [zero waste] means diverting at least 90% of waste from landfills"

So, the first "only 10%" waste airport?
What’s a little tricky here is that the cash price is only $521 because the insured price is $2,758. If the patient were able to choose the cash price or the insured price, the cash price would be much higher.

One of my family members once told me he is against socialized medicine because it subsidizes the bad choices of the poor. True enough, but that’s no different from the current situation (since hospitals can’t refuse to treat) except that the one we have is opaque.
What I found dealing with Chinese Factories is that they will reduce the price of goods as much as they can to reduce the impact of tariffs for the customer. Most factories receive a Government subsidy for all goods that are exported (BOL from shipping lines). In some industries it can be as high as 15% of the price charged to the customer, which allows them to be more competitive or in the event of tariffs allows for price adjustments. Eventually if the tariffs get to a point where there is no profit left then any additional cost will be passed on to the customer and could be passed on to the consumer.

I feel this is what is occurring now in the USA. The Chinese are eating the tariffs and will continue until there is no more room to maneuver. At that point US companies will probably eat some of the tariffs by reducing profit. Eventually the consumer might have to pay a little more but that isn't a guarantee. The consumer could luck out and pay what they were always paying.

During the 2008 melt down, all our factories agreed to work at cost as long as we continued to buy so they could keep the work force employed. The Chinese are very tough and very willing to do whatever it takes to stay in the game.
It is bearable when using an efficient client like Ripcord.
>You'd think that even a casual search for a subject like Tiananmen Square would be a wake-up call.

That assumes they'd agree with the Tiananmen Square protests, which is quite a large assumption.

Some might disagree with any protest, like many of people in the US disagree with all kinds of protests (of left and right) -- e.g. because they're pro "law and order" and centrist --, and tons which disagree with protests of left XOR right.

Others might agree in principle, but still think China is better off without a regime change, which would be a huge unknown, and might even bring a huge 1.6 billion + country on the brink of chaos and civil war, with power struggles and what have you. Who said such a change is necessarily gonna be a peaceful transition? Officially or unofficially, they already have heard of stories of massive human toil in past power struggles (the "cultural revolution" for one), and might prefer stability and prosperity over democracy.

Or they could consider their situation just a-ok as it is, with its warts like many places have, but generally working well for the country (or for their personal interests).

Aside from propaganda, people also make their own minds, and what someone else, from another country believes they should be wanting, is not necessary what they do believe.
I saw a BBC short video while in Europe last summer. It was surreal. The video was basically showing how awesome these aerial surveillance platforms were. At one point the reporter walked out of the control center and started dancing outside. It looked like he was having a lot of fun watching himself from a few thousand feet up. If anyone manages to find it please post it. There was no talk about the privacy implications. Just a puff piece to acclimatize people into thinking this was normal.

If you don't yet know what these balloons are from articles on Afghanistan, they provide very cheap ubiquitous physical surveillance on very large areas. If one of these things have LOS on you or your home, you no longer have any physical privacy.

If this doesn't piss you off you need to look up what a panopticon is.
Interesting, thanks! Will try poking things in there. Though this might explain why parts of the GUI sometimes get held up by each other...

Is there, by any chance, an intro to the moving parts in the GUI code, for newcomers?
Big companies seem to typically be on the opposite side, and not care about tech of the day.
Last time I checked, most chips for smartphones were made in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan.

US-made chips are necessary for high-performance computers; there is no China-made Xeon or Power9. But this is not smartphone stuff.

Re Google: ad sales in China did not stop, but Google received no revenue from that huge market then.
The simpler solution, is to just not price-gouge customers and hope they don't notice, while trying to build a subscription-based business.

If Amazon isn't able to offer any level of price stability, then don't offer the subscription. Toilet paper is convenient to get on a subscription basis, but that convenience isn't worth paying $5/roll.
I don’t think that sending a sternly written letter should have any bearing on one’s conscious. I upvoted GP, but on the same note I know there is nothing we can do at this point against a powerful bureaucracy with a lot of ideological and financial incentive to proceed. That this has continued and accelerated under multiple administrations with varied talking points should tell you everything you need to know about the power of the modern vote at this level.
<in a midatlantic accent with suspenders> Hwy Dennis, I certainly cannot fathom how in Betsy's name you use such vernacular on your tweetbooks, facespaces, or concord, or whatever is broadcasted on the visual caluclator these days.
I think that a system of popular thought (epistemology?) is invariably antagonistic to all other systems. Adherents of one typically seek to discredit the others. There is always a body of popular stories explaining why all to other systems are bad.

Ants defending the ideological hive. You see it in science, religion and politics.

Charles Fort addresses this phenomenon in his "The Book Of The Damned".
Electric scooters aren't as green as you may think
If everyone could copy your IP which is essentially free to do these days with computers, how would anyone make money creating IP which is the main driver of GDP growth? Would you prefer to live in a stagnating economy while every other countries citizens gets richer than you everyday?
http://16colo.rs
Heh, I had a 33k6 and my buddy across (an admittedly small) town only had a 14k4. It was often faster for him to ask me to download something, and then he’d hop on his bike, ride to my place, grab the floppy, and ride home.

That, and FidoNet! Nothing like a 12-year-old arguing his clearly superior opinions on a high latency global message board!

Fond fond memories.

Edit: also got my first functional Linux distro over dialup (Slackware). Floppies were expensive too, so I somehow figured out that I could download the A packages (core system), and a small subset of the N packages (networking) to floppies, and then bootstrap my way from there. Basically just grabbed PPP, the command-line FTP client, and Lynx, did the install, and then downloaded the X11 packages and Netscape from there.
The AWS IoT Button is for the AWS IoT Button service ("Cloud Programmable Dash Button"): https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/

The AWS IoT Enterprise Button is for the AWS IoT 1-Click service ("Trigger AWS Lambda functions from simple devices"): https://aws.amazon.com/iot-1-click/

Notice how the Enterprise button listing (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FPHHGG) says "This is not the AWS IoT Developer Button" with a link to the other button.
It was always "possible to modify software". PC magazines from the 80s and early 90s even published patches of the form "change bytes at offset X from Y to Z", almost always discovered by someone with a debugger and not the original author. There are quite a few unofficial Windows patches around too, and that was never open-source.

Perhaps it's time we rid ourselves of the misconception that source code is necessary to understand and modify software. It may make it easier, but it may also make it harder (by, among other things, helping to propagate the misconception.)

Imagine if RMS didn't base the GPL on the availability of source, but simply enforced the legality of understanding and distributing software. I suspect the "free software" movement could've become something far more interesting and powerful, and reverse-engineering techniques would also become far more advanced than they are today.
I’m reminded of a quote I can’t find again and I’m paraphrasing and butchering- every generation sees the previous one as primitive troglodytes and the future one as effete dandies.
You can technically still do this with 3.5" disks, it's just a invitation for horrible mechanical problems when (not if) the disk touches something it shouldn't or unseats from the drive motor. Also you need to manually push various latches and levers that the sleeve would have run into.
>One, we don’t censor that information

You don't have to, when nobody really cares for it, and the system is such that nobody is gonna do anything about it (and the people who did those things get a slap on the wrist, if not a pat on the back).

It's regimes that lack this that censor information -- regimes that are worried that e.g. protests could result in bringing them down.

If you don't worry about that, you can let almost anything be said. Especially if you just let it be declassified/acknowledged decades after the fact, when even fewer will care.
Started by talking with contractors who worked where I was full-time. Many had long term contracts & were making 2x what I made, doing the same work. Test the market before making the jump. Also, keep in mind that staying at the same job is not as secure as it seems; contracting is less risky than full times these days, especially as you get older.
When I was in elementary school I was told about Miller's experiment:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/03/2... but nothing has ever filled the gap between his results and how a bacteria could be generated.

This is one explanation of what could have happened: http://evolutionfaq.com/articles/probability-life

Is there any more supporting evidence that life really started that way?
I assume there are other archives like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarastollen_underground_arc...

Designed to withstand 70s nuclear war scenarios, among other things. Stores about 1 billion 35 mm images at the moment.
On the other side, modernising the texts might not be what gutenberg wants, if they want to keep original errors from the books? Haven't looked it up but I have been in other book project where it was more important to keep everything as it was printed.
There's a lot wrong with the medical field, but this is a ridiculous argument. Programming is hard, medicine is hard. But it's in different ways - it's definitely not transposable (obviously- you switched the other way). I say that as someone who worked in FAANG software and is now in medicine.

Equating salary to mental load is also factitious. Manual laborers work harder than all of us, maybe we should switch salaries with them.

I 100% agree with the difficulty of becoming a doctor. I disagree with the gatekeeping however. Ultimately it comes down to residency positions available, and funding is government limited. We're seeing tons of new medical schools opening, acceptance of the DO crowd, and still the system is getting more competitive.
Good thing Belgium already sold this NATO spec technology to China...
I’m not sure which IP you are restricting - it’s a cloud based service, so, by definition, your clients are pretty much anywhere on the Internet. What would you restrict?
When you setup an S3 bucket the permissions are pretty explicit. The issue here is the UI is confusing (arguably it's wrong but I digress) and is related to a configuration that you'd have to hunt for. It's not an obvious permission that you can easily know it should be changed unless you have experience with it (whereas S3 it's listed right there when you created it and by default it's pretty private).
The problem is that they are trying to cheat, rather than truly understanding what somebody is saying and responding appropriately.

That they are now addressing the consistency of their own model shows that they are barely able to understand what the model itself is saying, let alone what the other party is saying.
Cities and surrounding areas in each state may be experiencing growth, but not the whole state. And even between cities, it's a very uneven balance. It's a different game in the tier 1 cities/suburbs versus elsewhere, and the issue isn't that there are richer areas and poorer areas, the issue is that the gap between them is getting larger.

https://www.redfin.com/blog/data-center/
Lol this is truly an excellent comment
I ended up using this to download all the azw3 files for my kindle, it's probably not the best you could do, so feel free to use it as reference for yourself if you might do something similar.

curl -s https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | grep -oE "/(.*).azw3" | sed -e"s/^/https:\/\/standardebooks.org/" | xargs -n 1 curl -O

P.S. Calibre seems to only work with them and the kindle when you send over USB (I keep my paperwhite in airplane mode, signed out, ads disabled)[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20596300
>why isn't Bush in prison, why isn't Trump impeached? It's not a "small minority"; it's the majority

Because in America you can openly talk about those things on the press and the internet and comments, and thus let off steam...

Of course the end result is the same, as in China they keep happening!
Freeway overpasses?