skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friendly for certain kinds of businesses and practices - those that make short-term high gains for investors through rent-seeking and asset-stripping before shutting down or selling off to the next mug before it all goes down the pan.

Not friendly for manufacturing (relying on JIT inventory management across borders and regulatory alignment for exports).

Not friendly for scientific spin-off/catapult startups, which rely on the the universities attracting researchers and research grants.

Not friendly for anything relying on a large number of domestic customers with disposable income (e.g. retail), because everyone will have to save up against the fear of sudden unemployment or US-style healthcare bills.

Basically, most things that are not good for the general public are also not good for most business, because in the end, businesses rely on customers buying their product (or in a B2B scenario, their clients' products and so on).
Bots? I have a hard time beleiving that a paid service has a silent fanbase. But maybe they do.
Any 'mass market car' can by definition not be good for the climate/environment. Cars, whether electric or other, are unsustainable.
That's... really rude. Sourcehut has been around for a while:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sourcehut&sort=byPopularity&pr...
The one thing I have found tedious with k8s clusters is when you need to work on the host system in relation to a specific pod. E.g. to diagnose kernel issues or for profiling/debugging tools that need unrestricted root.

This can require jumping through several hoops. Find the node, get through some bastion host, inject SSH keys into target node, build an SSH chain to get into the host, then escalate from admin to root account.

It would be nice if kubectl offered an escape hatch for these kinds of things, assuming one has sufficient permissions.
I'd say since monolith produces a plaintext document it lets you edit things easier if needed.

JS can be removed from the final document using the -j flag.
HTML Files can also be grepped for content, unlike PDFs.
possibly to do with their deeply socialist ethos

No, it has to do with the fact that Singapore is a small place, which would completely choke if they would not restrict the use of private cars via heavy levies.

And regarding socialist ethos: Singapore is, arguably, the most capitalist and business friendly place in the world.
Japan was already preparing to surrender before the bombs were dropped.
I actually recommended this to her already - the book (The Elements of Computing Systems) of the same course was the first programming text I ever read. Really enthralling!
Why is Recruitment so Broken? (can it be fixed?)
socialism is not business unfriendly. china is super business friendly
It sounds like a great add-on, I have to check it out to see what it does to remote assets and how it works with asynchronously loaded assets.
Liquid cash is worth more than store credit. Your "$1" is actually 1 StoreBuck.
Doesn't mean you're not fishing for users there.
Companies install it on Macs as well. It's pretty much everywhere.
If you wanted to know where the citizen children of a divorced and living in 2 states couple lived, how would you do that in a way that tied out for census purposes without doing a census? For retired people with houses in more than one state?
Or maybe they are just more visionary and resist the detrimental decline of the environmental commons spiral that comes with a private car ownership based mobility model.
> High level chess will eventually just change the rules if forced drawing lines make it too dull.

If it hasn't happened already, it may never. People were complaining of the draw death of chess decades ago, and it's worse now than ever.
>I'm sure this complexity is temporary. One tech will automate all of this away and building , deploying and running will be much simpler.

Kubernetes was supposed to be one of those technologies.
Effectiveness of Polypill for prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Nitpick: "Being a prick" in the parent was "trying to work around the license". "Writing your own alternative" was the "don't be a prick" option.

Of course, just because you write your own alternative doesn't mean you can't be a prick if you want. :-)
Just stubby pencil work here because I'm up at entirely the wrong hour and this might help me go back to sleep.

Envelope volume of the Goodyear blimp is ~8.5e6 liters.

Density of hydrogen at STP is ~0.09g/L. If we filled the Goodyear blimp with that we'd have ~765kg of hydrogen gas. Let's round up to cover the slight operating pressure and say we have 800kg of hydrogen.

Energy density of hydrogen is very high, 141MJ/kg. Energy density of Jet A is ~45MJ/kg.

So our hypothetical blimp has the equivalent of 2600kg of Jet A on board.

The Goodyear blimp only holds 8 passengers plus two pilots. A similarly sized jet would be the Learjet 60. It holds 3500kg of fuel.

So, most jets probably have more on takeoff and less on landing.
Well, of course. Like any relationship it can break down. I don’t have a great relationship with my father, which seems common for my generation. He spent most of his time working - not enough time with his family. Having a genuine relationship with your kids and being involved requires a lot of self sacrifice - if you don’t do that the relationship is going to be bad. Almost always that requires putting your career on the back burner which is hard for a lot of people.
The protesters have very specific demands. Economic issues do not feature in them.
Isn't literally everyone fishing for users? Relax dude. People need somewhere to go and maybe they'll find Sourcehut suitable to their needs. I don't know what your definition of spam is but this definitely doesn't qualify for my (unusually strict) definition of it.
You are only comparing Tesla. However, if Tesla prove to be a success, the GM or Hyundai of the world would start pushing even harder to get their EV cars into Singapore.
> AUR are packages that aren't in Arch's repo system

AUR, Arch User Repository.

> thus you are expected to vet the packages yourself

Obviously, as a long time Arch user I didn't know this.
> ...climate would in fact be a primary concern of Singapore. So why is it not?

Literally the second sentence in an article that was submitted:

> The city-state, which has said its efforts to cope with climate change are as crucial as military defense, has prioritized greater use of its trains and buses, Masagos Zulkifli, minister for environment and water resources, said in an interview Wednesday.
I love this!! I still try to send snail mail as often as possible -- everyone love recieving it. But the problem is that I rarely ever get a reply back and... well, its a bit frustrating to send letters and postcards without reply. So finding a community like this, where I could not only enjoy writing/recieving letters, but also talk about interesting things! 10/10.
>In the states we have to rely on stuff like the Innocence Project, unfortunately.

The American justice system is built upon the premise of retributive punishment and not rehabilitative punishment; so, they believe that whoever is in jail/prison must've earned that because, to them, the system is infallible - when, clearly, it is not.

To that end, the system in the states depends on bodies filling the cells. It doesn't really matter to the system which bodies fill the cells, as long as it's someone: The company operating the jails/prisons are going to be turning a profit and not dropping the jails/prisons back onto the system to be responsible for. So, to the system, what does it matter, yeah?

We should also mention that felony disenfranchisement[0] allows scenarios where people can lose the right to vote for life. In cases, such as in Florida, that right can only be restored at the whim of the governor[1,2].

Florida isn't alone in this, to be sure, but it demonstrates a problem that is based on a flaw in American society, overall.

In other words, if society gives zero fucks about its own citizens - even after they've paid their dues to society - why would anyone expect the system to care, when it's counter-productive to the system's own benefit?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement#Unit...

[1] - http://www.npr.org/2015/12/11/459365215/ex-felons-fight-to-r...

[2] - https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/02/01/fed...
I'm a paying user. Beyond the article there's not much to say.
While I agree in principle (maybe not that we should get rid of 100% of cars, but probably >90% of cars), there's no way we can do it quickly. And almost certainly not quickly enough to avoid +1.5 C, or very likely even +2.0 C. EVs are a good stepping stone.
Because top companies hire people by what are essentially IQ tests. High levels of intellectual ability allow you to write software with better abstractions and cleaner interfaces. Complex software engineering is inherently tied to innate ability, as painful as it is to admit. There are limits to this craft, and without speaking of them, people implicitly understand what it means when someone is a very good programmer.
I am one. Happy paying user, upvoted sourcehut's posts because I like to support independent services, but rarely commented.
Am I the only one who can't find the source of this "open source software"? How they can beat Bitbucket while they hide the code under unusable UI?
I do all of my development in a VM, which allows me to take snapshots and have a portable GNU workstation that's decoupled from my desktop and hardware.

Meanwhile, my desktop remains clean and ready to play media in native environment with good hardware support.

I used to think it'd be slow, until I tried it. My computer is 8+ years old, and it works fine. I mostly do text work.
It may be high time to discuss what AI policy has actually done so far. From what I can tell, not much other than letting social scientists get in on the deep learning gravy train.

Meanwhile, misuses of ML are proliferating without limits, and 'AI policy' is apparently mostly used as a fig-leaf to collect good-will, marketing, and buy a seat at the table for future regulations. As usual, regulations will protect incumbents, so my as-usual cynical read is that OpenAI's policy interests are about protecting its own future interests. From that perspective, the entire GPT-2 stunt was highly effective.

Now depending on your outlook, that may be an argument that we need more people in policy, or fewer. Or different ones.
Can someone please explain to me why this is so groundbreaking? If I blow a smoke ring and there is no wind my smoke ring stays circular. If there is wind blowing from the side my smoke ring will become distorted. Likewise if there is a current in water then I expect that current to disturb the propagation of waves moving through the water, not so? The medium in which the wave is propagating is itself moving.

Surely this has not remained a mystery for 127 years.
Yup, even Costa Coffee has decent cold brew. In my opinion it is very hard to make a bad cold brew, compared to espresso. You just take OK coffee and let it sit for 12 hours. Bingo. With espresso - in Starbucks the make the "american espresso" that quite sucks. It is large and burned.

Also Starbucks french press is pretty decent and good value for money, but it is on "secret" menu and you need to ask for it.
The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media
Yes, they also dodge tax in dastardly ways and as such I'd rather not be one of their users.
Hiram Nunez used Shopify to turn Tweets into T-shirts
> Where is the source?

The homepage links to https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht
(EDIT: which is now also the URL in the blogpost with the link text "100% open source software")

There are also Hg repos at hg.sr.ht; idk how easy it is to find git.sr.ht from hg.sr.ht.

> how can they beat Bitbucket while the code is unusable

Well, for Hg users, it's not like there's going to be much of a choice in a year (given BB is sunsetting Hg support), right?
Related: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15604180

'The Polymeal: a more natural, safer, and probably tastier (than the Polypill) strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 75%'
Reading won't take you very far.
> Extradition treaty require local competent court to make a decision whether to extradite or not.

Actually it erodes the court's decision-making ability as all the court can do is judge whether the request meets the legal standard, not whether there is any merit to it.

> here majority of the protestors do not even understand how extradition works.

That's patronising and, unless I see some reliable polling on it, I wouldn't believe it is true.

> Hong Kong do not have a decent judiciary or legal system, it works at the whims of China (again a perception created by few).

This is broadly false.
if you have 'clean' electricity mix e.g. France (dominant nuclear), Norway (dominant hydro) then I consider electric car as 'ecologic' (after few years lower CO2 than conventional car).

For other places around the world where electricity is more 'dirty' just drive some small car with combustion engine and maintain it as long as possible. Small car needs less energy for transport then heavy electric vehicles.
In what scenario, a system without a db password could possibly be designed for new startups?
The comma character as a token in variable is decalararions is not the same thing as the comma operator.
Clicking the text "100% open source software" brings you to the following list of git repos which collectively contain the source code for sourcehut:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht
My personal theory as to why chess isn't that popular in the US - and why the US produces relatively few world-class players given its very large talent pool - is that chess at a high level involves a large number of draws. The last championship was entirely bloodless in the main games and had to go to tiebreaks (rapid + blitz games). At IM+ level more than half of games end with draws. And this goes contrary to the US mentality where everyone is either a 'winner' or a 'loser' and competition is seen as a highest ideal. A game where most of the time it is impossible to tell the better player must feel frustrating to amateurs. And indeed, many many many times some laymen will complain that there are 'too many draws' and 'the rules must be changed' so spectators see some blood.

Another common complaint related to draws is the number of 'grandmaster draws', or 'comfort draws', whereby two players, usually at a high level, agree to leave it at that after a low number of moves (Chess is one of the few games featuring 'draw by agreement', meaning both players may agree to a draw at any point in the game without justification). Almost every grandmaster is guilty of that, and players who do that often get derided by their coaches, the media and amateurs: how dare you, you are a disgrace to the sport, I didn't pay to watch this, etc. I daresay the complainers are either hypocritical or have never been involved in high-level long-form tournaments (7+ days of 4+ hour games each plus rapid/blitz side events etc.). Sometimes both players feel tired and don't want to play it out (usually due to having played it out 6+ hours the game before) and objecting to that is just unrealistic. Chess isn't a gladiatoral arena. Then there are the famous accusations of collusion from Fischer against his Soviet counterparts but Fischer has always been slightly mad his whole life so I wouldn't take anything he said seriously.
You can always checkout remote companies directly, here's a list of 900+ Startups hiring Remotely in 2019 - by Remotive.io[0]

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TLJSlNxCbwRNxy14Toe1...
So what. Just because they have good public transport system they don't seem to be urging to ban cars. Cars will exist and it's way better to have them electric than gasoline.

They don't seem to be in any urge to get electric buses either.
Hi aloer!

Garden co-founder, so perhaps (likely) a little biased[0].

Depending on your needs, Garden and Tilt are both great solutions, with slightly different philosophies.

It's easy to get started with Tilt if you already have the Kubernetes manifests. If not, Garden might better suit your needs since its "container" module type allows you to provide only a minimal description of your module which Garden then maps into K8s manifests. So you won't have to write the full specs for 20+ services. (Garden also supports Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts if that's your jazz).

Garden will also manage the dependencies between all your services (at a granularity of builds, deploys, tasks, and tests). So if service12 needs to be built before service20, and service18 needs to be deployed before service5, but only after the database migration for service2 is completed, Garden can take care of that. This also improves dev speed since Garden knows exactly what to re-build and re-deploy as you make changes to your source code.

And on the topic of dev speed, Garden supports both hot-reloading and in-cluster building which allows you to share build caches with the rest of you team.

In general, there are a lot of interesting tools in this space and it's evolving rapidly. So even though developing on Kubernetes on your local laptop _can_ suck, developing distributed systems doesn't have to.

[0]: https://github.com/garden-io/garden
Father of 5 here, during first 2 I was right there, gained a lot of weight slowly but identical twins @ 43 I am surprised there had actually been a weight drop.

It has been amazingly difficult with twins, for the first 6 months it was pure hell. I didn’t really sugarcoat it when people asked, yes it’s hell, no it’s not fun. People were much more understanding of the my sour attitude with twins.

Many people both get up as a sign of support but yea it’s stupid, after some time we found that taking turns getting up has allowed the other to get some sleep, surprised we didn’t get any guidance from the hospital on this subject at all while at the hospital.
But Docs had the ability for multiple people to concurrently edit a document and see one another's changes [1] before Wave was even launched - right?

Hasn't live multi-user editing been there all along?

[1] https://youtu.be/dSGkzDgW1fA?t=78
Not everything is about the US elections. Hong Kong's future is independently important.
> The market effect on BMW, Mercedes, etc...

It will have an impact, moreover for BMW and BENZ electrical line up to come close to Tesla in quality, range, reliability might take another decade.

> Oil and gas industry

Singapore oil tax is not same as electricity. Moreover electrical charging station is not a competitive advantage any decent company do it, indeed blueSG and SP Utilities have more charging station than Shell in Singapore. EV and Tesla will affect this industry directly.

> Maintenance

In general, AEVs require less maintenance than conventional vehicles because there are usually fewer fluids (like oil and transmission fluid) to change and far fewer moving parts.[1]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/electricvehicles/electric-car-sa...
Well, the page contains nothing but a tool to import data from a competitor in order to get users of the competitor to sign up for your service. That meets my definition of spam to a certain extend.
Yes, until we get to the point where Chess is solved and some AI can say

1. D4 Mate in x.

I think until that happens, chess is fine.
It's all about the density of this state/city which makes individual car ownership pretty impractical.

I don't think teslas are needed in Singapore, but it doesn't mean they are not needed elsewhere.

I think SGP's PM is a bit too focused on his country to judge that.
Mercurial users can use their builtin Web UI unlike Git users
It's pretty clear what the view in Hong Kong is too. On "their side" of the world.
Ask HN: Am I too old to switch to Bioinformatics through a Masters?
By trade I am a web developer and have worked a lot both in the backend and with different databases. My math is very rusty from high school (because as you may know, there is no math in "soft" software development any more which always surprises my friends when they ask). I remember almost zero about how cells work from school.

I was trying to forget this part, but I am 39 now.

There is a very nice Masters program where I live in Europe that is about Bioinformatics, I contacted the co-ordinator and said I could get in if I refresh my Math and Biology with a few books about linear algebra and the book "Essential Cell Biology".

So here is the thing. It would take me this year to prepare myself at my own pace for induction and study these. Next year I would start the 2 year Masters and I will graduate when I am 42.

I would like to either do a Phd or work in a research environment where as someone put it here on Reddit and it stuck with me "I would much prefer analyzing vast datasets of cancer causing molecules than datasets of user behavior to make the company monetize a product".

Questions:

1) Am I too old to be accepted in jobs and research environments after I finish the Masters

2) Is age-related cognitive decline an issue that you think might affect me? I couldn't find many examples of people switched to something very intellectually demanding with no experience later in IT (most of my colleagues are now project managers something that uses crystallized (learned) intelligence and experience rather than sheer processing speed & memory)

3) Will I be able to actually contribute or with my age I will probably end up cleaning excel sheet data? I want to contribute meaningfully

Please be blunt, I am about to spend 3 years of my life in this.
Came here to find this comment and upvote it.
> The inspiration was the TOPS-20 input JSYS (system call) mixed in with Emacs.

I find this interesting, because the t in tcsh comes from TENEX, the immediate predecessor to TOPS-20.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120414085306/http://www.tcsh.o...

> TENEX was created at Bolt, Beranek & Newman (a Cambridge, Massachusetts think tank) in 1972 as an experiment in demand-paged virtual memory operating systems. They built a new pager for the DEC PDP-10 and created the OS to go with it. It was extremely successful in academia.

> In 1975, DEC brought out a new model of the PDP-10, the KL10; they intended to have only a version of TENEX, which they had licensed from BBN, for the new box. They called their version TOPS-20 (their capitalization is trademarked). A lot of TOPS-10 users (`The OPerating System for PDP-10') objected; thus DEC found themselves supporting two incompatible systems on the same hardware--but then there were 6 on the PDP-11!

> TENEX, and TOPS-20 to version 3, had command completion via a user-code-level subroutine library called ULTCMD. With version 3, DEC moved all that capability and more into the monitor (`kernel' for you Unix types), accessed by the COMND% JSYS (`Jump to SYStem' instruction, the supervisor call mechanism [are my IBM roots also showing?]).

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/net.sources/BC0V...

Purely as a side note, TOPS-20 was commonly called TWENEX ("Twenty TENEX", because the machines it ran on were branded DECSYSTEM-20 by DEC) and the ITS Emacs info file had an interesting note to this effect:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/info/emacs.147

Twenex Twenex is the operating system which DEC likes to call
"TOPS-20". However, a person should not be forced to
call a system "tops" unless he really thinks so. Come
now, DEC, don't you think people will praise your
products voluntarily? The name "Twenex" is also more
appropriate because Twenex was developed from the Tenex
system, and has no relationship to "TOPS-10". What's
more, it's very euphonious.