skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For [3], it seemed pretty clear in the post that the limit was 'arbitrary' in that there was business reason to impose some limit, but no specific limit was motivated by any reasonable "intentional" or "clear" thinking, and that, moreover, trying to discover some kind of reason was unnecessary and thus wasteful to even try. The author clearly points out that, apart from the limit, there is no need for "transactional correctness', i.e. no other part of the system required that the limit be strictly enforced.

And if that was some day no longer true – if they realized later that they really did need "transactional correctness", then it still seems like they may have made the correct decision in incurring technical debt, especially given that the author mentioned that the limit was never exceeded in production.

If that system did in fact require a hard limit then they probably would have focused on implementing "transactional correctness" as that would have then been a core feature of the system.

I can certainly sympathize with your comments in this thread. But all of your examples rather seem to confirm the utility of the analogy/metaphor as it's certainly, clearly, true that some people incur too much technical debt and are never able to 'pay it off' later when it comes due. That's not a knock against the analogy but instead a mark in its favor – debt should be taken on mindfully and carefully.

Contrary to what seems to have been your experience, I've seen technical debt incurred to great benefit.
As a policy in action in Kenya, I'd say that it is working. (We have a ban that has been in place for more than a year). practically everyone at the supermarket uses reusable bags compared to pre-ban mentality of 'oh I'll get yet another bag at the till'.
The "five demands" of the protest are:

* Withdraw the extradition bill

* Carrie Lam resigns

* Protests are not categorized as riots

* Full independent inquiry into the police

* Release of imprisoned protestors

Nothing to do with housing or any of your other claims.

And it is hard to believe the army being summoned to Shenzhen (just across the HK border) or "leaking" videos of training to use force against people dressed as HK protestors is a random accident.
This won best paper at WOOT (which is Usenix Security's analogue to Black Hat). It must be a hell of a ZIP bomb.
Hi, Please ask if any part of my post is ambiguous (I'm not a native english speaker).

- Not leaving the baby alone especially when she cries, is simply one of the most important things.
The first year is the time of developing the confidence.
I recommend this:
https://www.parentingscience.com/strange-situation.html

- Later, at age of 1..2 years: limits, rules will be more important.
Without limits the child would not feel safe, and often tends to put control in her own hands,
which is not her responsibility at that age. Also see: "fear of losing control".
IMHO its especially hard if you've done right all the 1st year. :)

- Playing with her is a lot more important than giving toys.

- Tantrum is not a problem, even if it lasts for 30-40 minutes.
It is an emotional expression, saying something like "Help, I lost the attachment to you!"
A good limit for example: She must not hurt anybody, but expressing emotions is allowed.

- Screen, phone, tablet, Youtube, etc. is forbidden until 5 years, later time-limited (if inevitable).
I know that a lot of people are opposed.

Yes, being a parent is challenging.
Theres no reason it needs a DL model. There's a lot of software that calculates tie points and creates point clouds from pictures, which is what they are almost certainly going to do here. DL to go from orthoimages to point cloud, if it is a thing, is probably still in the feasibility steps.
Netflix is one side business for Amazon and they rely on AWS for hosting. Why put them in the group?
It has plugin architecture that allows anyone to build plugins for Yack. Once out of beta, users will be able to install custom plugins directly from GitHub. Plugins must be written in TypeScript though.
What impossible to achieve demands are being made in the definition of toxic masculinity?

For reference, I'm using the definition from Wikipedia[0], since disagreeing on terms is a common problem in discussions like this.

Interestingly, Wikipedia says the term and concept were invented by the men's movement, not resentful feminists.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_masculinity
From the article's "Methodology notes":

> That includes millions of Android-powered devices and millions of PCs as well. They have much lower coverage on iOS devices and so don’t report on visit data from those browsers.

I'm not saying that their sample is not heavily biased, but they do claim that it's not a desktop-only dataset.
I wonder - what usually determins delivery costs is how many deliveries a person does per hour.

That usually depends on the georphical density of deliveries.

And cars are faster. So that means more deliveries.

So order aggregators should have better economics.

This should allow them to take some fees while still offering a better deal.

Why isn't that the case ?
Licensing and regulation. We are entering into a new "battery era" that is similar to the "smartphone era" where being battery operated sidesteps old regulations much like being a a phone app sidestepped traditional regulations.

A sit-on scooter typically requires insurance, a drivers license, registration, parking restrictions and cannot ride between traffic or in designated bike lanes ans often the sideway. Battery powered bicycles are not yet seen at "motor vehicles" so they avoid all those issues. This allows them to be cheaper and faster for businesses like dominoes.
easier explanation is that they were doing troubleshooting and had removed the filter to do that.
>The bikes are equipped with lights in the front and back, reflective materials for driver safety ...

From the picture it appears that the bikes are almost fully stealthed for the daytime. Black and dark colours showing to the front which is the direction the collisions come from.
MS has not changed strategies since starting .net core. It's on v3, going on v4. If you're still unsure what the future is going to be, you've missed the boat.
Not a good example. Ben Carson ran for president himself.
This is my gripe with LibreOffice, Gimp, Audacity, etc. They all seem to not care about UI. You should check out 6.3 of LibreOffice though, I hear they are improving the UI with every release these days. I personally just use LaTeX or markdown for everything.
a cabin on a big chunk of land where you can harvest timber using the advice of a professional forester?

I must be missing something but I am having hard time fitting this into my definition of the "little folk".
happiness = reality - expectations
And I would say that's an example of when it can be good to purposefully take on technical debt.

In my experience there have been plenty of significant refactorings that simply would not have been done if we didn't allow ourselves to get into this state where there is simultaneously an old and a new way of doing something.

Especially if it's an area that sees frequent addition - it's not helpful to have people constantly adding code in the old way while off to the side people are trying to create a new way and completely finish switching everything over to it before integrating.

Managing risk and balancing other active tasks in the pipeline also push towards integrating smaller pieces over time while multiple ways of doing the same thing exist.

But you need to have organizational continuity, which can be rare when everyone is trying to hop jobs for better salary every couple of years.
These are great insights, and I thought of a 4th one, at the intersection of your 1) and 3): when a rural land-owner wants to develop their property or small or large business wants to start a new venture locally, the environmental regulations can be seen as blocking their ability to get ahead like everyone else. It doesn't help that urban areas have essentially stamped our their own sensitive environmental areas in prior generations, so they have the ability to develop and enrich themselves. Rural owners see this, including all the electronics and toys, but don't have the ability to match it.

The sibling comment by freehunter makes a good point too. But the bottling plant went in because someone was able to sell or develop their land, and because of the demand in the urban areas. You can bet if environmental regulations had blocked it, there would have been lots of local grumbling against the EPA--and of course no mention of how the threat to their wells had been identified and avoided.
This is a weird comment... am I understanding right that you do believe in climate change and believe that people were aware in the 1980's? The first couple lines where you talk about a teacher "brain washing" you into "tree huggers" and seeing "hippie flavored propaganda" comes off a lot like how ignorant, far-right climate change deniers sound. However, towards the end it sounds like you are saying that you knew about global warming. Care to clarify?
Totally agree. How many times have I seen Tech Debt as a task to be completed in some future sprint (ya right), or seen it as the title of a category in a dev schedule containing missing product features.

Tech debt is such a general term it does more harm than good, and is often abused by people that have no clue what their actual tech debt may be..

It also implies that someone knew what the price tag was in the first place to accrue the debt, which they most likely didn't. No one knows what needs to be built or how to build it beforehand, except maybe NASA, this evolves along the way.
Does anyone else use search at least a dozen times a day just for spellchecking a word or confirming a phrase? I find myself pasting phrases into the search bar when autocorrect or spellcheck just doesn't do the trick. I'd love to know what percentage of "searches" were never actually looking for a target.
For note taking, I just send emails to myself.
Remember RSS readers?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.
>Most people throw away their pencils when they get too short but I actually find them easier to use.

You can also use a pencil holder or lengthener.
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Am I reading this incorrectly?

"Each of the city’s five boroughs registered gains in population. The Bronx saw the largest increase, up 3.4 percent, followed by Brooklyn (3.1 percent), Manhattan (2.7 percent), and Queens (2.2 percent); Staten Island showed the smallest gain (1.6 percent) over the 99-month period."
My mistake. I didn't realize anyone was stupid enough to put an antivirus on an Android. Please amend my complaint to say that the sample is biased toward morons.
GP appears to have diagnosed himself with chronic metal poisoning, and doctor-shopped until he found a physician willing to make his self-diagnosis official and prescribe all the oral chelators he convinced himself he needed a priori.

Chronic heavy metal toxicity is a subject rife with quackery and pseudoscience, especially when people start talking about chronic poisoning undetectable by conventional medicine. It's best to be careful whose story you believe. It's a hot button issue for me as a person "on the spectrum" because ill-informed parents subject their kids to Cutler protocol and other fringe chelation therapies under the belief that they're "curing" their kids of autism, and causing more health problems than they fix (chelators are themselves pretty toxic!)

Here are some resources about metal toxicity pseudoscience:

http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/2010/07/autism-and-biomed... (section "The Cutler Protocol")

https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/uri...
> the Islamists are in the minority of Muslims just as fundamentalist Christians are in the minority among Christians

There's a difference, though.

Non-fundamentalist Christians have done a good job of marginalizing fundamentalist Christians so that the damage they can do is very limited.

Non-fundamentalist Muslims have done no such thing to fundamentalist Muslims, which is why the rest of us end up having to deal with them doing things like flying airplanes into buildings, shooting rockets into populated areas, trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons, wanting to establish a global Caliphate, etc.
ImageOptim also strips out a lot of (all?) the image metadata which is often a place people leak data unintentionally.
I'd prefer an API that plugs into Sublime Text, personally.

I've been using QuickSimpleNote to sync sublime text to simple note to my phone for the last year or so and been more or less very happy.
Close enough, I was thinking of these bad boys: https://jalopnik.com/this-japanese-pizza-delivery-scooter-ba...
So LyricFind says they licensed the lyrics from the publisher and then verifies against other lyrics websites. Somehow, they ended up with a copy of the lyrics as posted by Genius.

Genius doesn't own the copyright to the lyrics and screwing with the punctuation doesn't create a new work, so I'm not sure they have much of a case against anybody. Maybe they could come up with a ToS violation or CFAA case against LyricFind?
What Is GraphQL: History, Components, and Ecosystem
> Edge are (were?) both a joke

Edge is one of the best E-pub readers ever, in any platform.

That's the only thing I use it for, but it beats Internet Explorer, that just wastes disk space, never being used.
Certainly it's something people are good at, but it requires a lot of skill and expertise!

The method I described with an AR headset makes it something that anyone could do with extremely minimal training.
Because Google. For the number of times I've needed that kind of thing, looking it up when needed is far more efficient than memorizing it.
Most (if not all) home lab users will be using virtualisation to spin up multiple VMs.
IIRC shatter attack was exploiting a badly designed general purpose window message protocol that by design quasi-directly allowed arbitrary code execution (especially at the time, with no mitigation).

This one is way more indirect and goes through obscure and less reviewed channels, but the end result is kind of the same, even worse; because the integrity level was supposed to fix that mess, except MS was not lying when they said that this was not a security boundary... only they did explain the full picture properly explain so that we could understand that UAC is this much worthless -- lots of people thought of it as reasonable enough when set on Always notify, turns out it seems just plainly broken -- and because there seems to be no proper design comprehensively focused on that topic, it is very possible that there are other avenues to achieve the same result.

I think I now understand way better why they want so much (and have started since some years) to leverage virtualization for security purposes: it seems impossible for them to evolve their historical crappy design to something sound (without breaking all kind of crazy 3rd party applications) otherwise.
Yeah I'm pretty confused as to the use case. How does it allow researchers to "experiment with state-of-the-art techniques" or enable "rapid development"?
Any reason why you took the approach of mounting a share drive rather than push to a cloud storage solution? s3 or other?
And not used a more "cloud based" container solution like Kubernetes, Azure Container instance.. ?
The History and Legacy of JQuery
It also carries stricter enforcement of traffic violations, and mandatory drug testing.

I got a ticket for an improper lane change and the judge asked if I had a CDL which seemed to imply it would have been revoked.
I’ve seen that azure has some nodes with infiniband connection (same that is often used in super computers).

I did my PhD in physics simulations (molecular dynamics), and have the same problem there. I tried running these simulations in Google Cloud without any good performance results due to high latency (compared to HPC). I’m no GC expert though, so should be possible to improve what I did.
I have an almost identical setup hardware-wise (I opt'd for dual 2687 v2s [better single core performance]) and it only cost me $1000. It also supports 20 physicals disks with no extra hardware or configuration needed (aside from just plugging in the disks and adding 'em to ZFS).

RAM (DDR3) and storage capacity (cheap SAS drives) in these systems is really where the savings is... I don't think I'll ever own a "regular" desktop again.
At this point "office" software really should just fossilize on a useful working feature set; security support being some kind of small maintenance fee or turned over to the public universities if the software is given to the public domain.

LibreOffice is indeed getting us closer to such a world; but at least where I work the office drones still need "the office" software to make sure they can open documents from other organizations... it's maddening.
If you think OP is smearing, you can refute his argument with facts and flag his comment. It’s a human bias to think someone whom we disagree with has a malicious agenda. Democracy can survive the worst oppression, but will perish if we fail to conduct civilized discussion and start accusing and labeling each other when we disagree.
It would be interesting to compare this approach with an updated Atwood's Scooter Computer.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer/
I think Sneakers is more realistic and captures the essence better, but WarGames is the one that impacted me the most and holds a special place in my heart.

I was about ten years old when WarGames came out, and I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas that year. About a year later, I got a modem, and about a year after that I started "wardialing" my entire local calling area (and also accidentally some non-local calling areas; I spent the whole summer mowing laws to pay my parents for the giant phone bill that resulted).

War dialing led to random "login" prompts, which led to me teaching myself Unix, VMS, and PrimeOS. It led to Tymnet and Telenet (X.25 packet switching networks). That eventually got me, through many complicated jumps, to MIT's free Unix systems (anyone who could access it could get an account).

Between MIT's free Unix systems, and a lot of commercial systems that I--ahem--borrowed access to, by the time I was 15 years old, I was already a Unix, C, and Internet expert, years before Linux and even years before any local ISPs existed. When my friend's dad, who worked at AT&T's Bell Labs, found out that I was hacking into systems just to teach myself Unix, he gave me surplus AT&T 3b1 and 3b2 Unix machines.

By the time I got to college in 1990, I already knew more about Unix than any of the professors. While that led to me abandoning my courses, it also led to a full-time sysadmin job at the college, and when the Internet exploded a few years later, I was already a decade ahead of my peers, and my career took off from there.

So I have WarGames to thank for all of it. I'm sure glad I never got caught hacking into anything; even though I was at worst a grey hat, I had friends who were criminally prosecuted. I was in the same systems that Kevin Mitnick went to jail for five years for accessing.
I'd be interested if this were browser based.
Looks like lots of reflective material on the pizza containers, but I agree black is a poor choice here.
Author of the post here, figured I'd clarify some things since there seem to be some major misconceptions present.

First off, I don't claim to be an expert, I find that a pretty arrogant title for anyone to use.
I'd like to think I know a thing or two about building highly scalable webservices however, and of course I'm always open to the opportunity to learn if I'm doing things incorrectly.

That said, Picsum is what I use to play around with new technologies and try new things since it's high-traffic enough that I can get some real data on how things perform.
Is it very over-engineered? Absolutely, but that's part of the fun.

When it comes to Picsum, the reason for not pre-processing all the images is that there are simply too many variations with the sizes and variations you can request through the API. For every image, there are 5001 * 5001 * 22 variations that can be requested, and in total, we have just under a thousand source images.

As for running Varnish behind our CDN, this is done for a couple of reasons:

- We can make sure that an image is only processed once simultaneously, even tho the CDN might request it multiple times before it's cache has been filled.

- We can apply optimizations, such as sorting and filtering the query parameters for variations, to achieve a better cache rate. This is not possible to do with the CDN provider we use.

The resources it uses are negligible, the extra latency within the cluster is vanishingly small, and it saves us a lot of extra processing.
Every service within the Kubernetes cluster runs at least two replicas, varnish included, for redundancy and to distribute the load. We're not using separate servers for each layer/component, that'd be wasteful.

As for bandwidth costs, there's no cost for the bandwidth between the CDN and the load balancer, as DigitalOcean does not charge for load balancer bandwidth. There's also no cost for anything behind the load balancer, as this is all internal traffic, either within DigitalOcean or within the Kubernetes cluster itself.

Talking about Spaces, I think you might be confused. Spaces is an object storage, which also happens to have optional CDN capability built-in. Picsum only uses the object storage part, for storing the source images that are used for processing. The reason we use Redis to cache said source images is to avoid having to fetch them from Spaces on every request, as this is rather slow comparatively.
An important distinction here is that Spaces/Redis stores and caches the source images, not the processed ones, which are cached by Varnish and the CDN.

As an aside, since you seem to think that comparing numbers for services with vastly different needs and usecases is worthwhile, Picsum serves a bit over 8TB of traffic a month, and costs less then your setup to run.
I'm guessing this is proprietary? Couldn't find any info about the licensing from the website.
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An extremely important part of project management is the ability to say "no", even if the customer is bringing extra money to the table. Extra requirements have a way of increasing costs in an exponential way and it's very easy to lose sight of your original goal.

Of course this is a problem when you have Congress breathing down your neck and looking for any excuse to cut your program. One big advantage of skunk works projects is that they keep you firewalled off from idea men.
If all the food items in a supermarket came with a built-in loop, you'd just run a rope through the loops and you could carry as much groceries as you can lift, without needing a bag.
And don't said reusable bags cost thousands of times the carbon emissions of single use plastic bags? So unless you use your reusable bags for years and years, you won't break even.
As a dude who runs around in the Scottsdale hills just after dawn, it's nice to see our tribe get recognized. The city is surprisingly pleasant and friendly at 5:00am in July.
Sort of badly coded. The cursor moves when it shouldn't.
Thanks, RickS for your comment! Yes, I don't want this site become a rooms of people talking about being sick. I want to make something special and such feedbacks as yours helps me further to understand the right path to do that special site.
That's why a lot of people are talking about Librem 5 by Purism
Ignoring the fact that Dominos was a pretty different idea in the late 60’s, and ignoring this new innovation, “operate” is exactly what Dominos did for decades until their reputation for quality was so much in the shitter, they came out and apologized. Frankly, if I’m going to eat catsup-covered cardboard, I’ll get a Little Caeser’s.