skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> enough people

I think the proper denominator here is kg of product, not number of people.

Yes, the occasional consumers don’t care about 8 or 12$/g, but the heavy consumers do, and they’re the bulk of the market in terms of consumption.
Kubernetes, Kafka, Microservices
You can't buy Win10 Enterprise if you are an individual.

Now all that ridiculous bloat is pretty easily disabled. But that along with telemetry and forced updates are probably the last drops that will force me to linux for my workstation.

I can't believe they sold their trust for that. I can't use an operating system that I don't trust.
Not for quite a while now.
I have been mulling over this for quite a while. What to do if USA one day enters the negative rate territory. I'm not yet so sure.

Go all into stocks, bonds? Buy real estate, lock up in long term CDs before it hits zero? I have thought about foreign savings, but without FDIC insurance, it doesn't even seem to be worth the risk.

What are your plans?
bitcoins? gold?
Paper is thin, light, durable... you can make books from it and transport them easily. It can be manufactured from materials available in abundance in Europe.

A book made of wax tablets, or velum is not as good. I don't imagine vast libraries and universities running on books made of wax tablets or velum.

With respect to Papyrus, I agree. The Great Library of Alexandria was all papyrus. It can be produced at scale. But Europeans had to import it from far, far away.
> which is a contract (go look it up if you don't believe me).

I've looked it up, I can't find anything. Apparently in germany GPL is a contract, as in germany contracts don't require consideration. But in the US, GPL is a license, not a contract.
The article describes at length the thoughts of Lt. General Christopher Bogdan, who was in charge in 2014; Vice Admiral Mat Winter, who was in charge until this past July. The reporter for this article actually works for Defense News, and the NYT article cites material from, and links to her June 12 article, which refers to "documents exclusively obtained by Defense News" which describe 13 "category 1 deficiencies":

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/12/the-pentagon-is-b...

Note that the posted article is a NYT Magazine piece, which has different editorial style and convention from the newspaper. Typically, a story this long wouldn't be written by a non-staffer in the newspaper. But it's not uncommon for the magazine to commission a writer who has written a notable article for a different publication to generalize and elaborate on it for the NYT Magazine.
Many popular games even today are not "high quality" in the slightest, though. (Think Monopoly)
musl is standards-compliant, so it sounds more like "using python or valgrind causes other problems,"
They should start a pro race series.
Music producing with LMMS, mostly wanting to make jungle dnb sounding stuff

I've installed FL studio a few times in the past but didn't get really far. This time I've decided, let's actually gain some understanding of theory and tools (like synths: https://youtu.be/atvtBE6t48M) and make a little something just for fun.

I'm using LMMS because now I'm on linux and don't want to deal with wine and FL studio. LMMS is actually pretty good, and has a good selection of tutorials on youtube
I didn't see this question until earlier. That's why the site guidelines ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to ask us something: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We turned it on temporarily because HN was under attack by an account-stealing botnet. Obviously we don't leave it on any longer than we have to. We also are happy to put anyone's username on a whitelist, as the people who emailed us found out.
> What percentage of the economy can be fully and truly competitive?

You need to give us your definition of competitive. The grand parent already answered the examples you provided. The competing products being "essentially the same" does not detract from their competitiveness.
Indeed. After running this for a few weeks, most of the playbacks where a couple of seconds and consisted of a script that, once it obtained access, would just try and pull down payload sitting on a vulnerable host (in my case on the OVH Euro ISP) and then try to trigger a cron setup and exec in stealth mode on linux.

Rarely did I ever get an interactive shell show someone trying to move through the process. When I did, it was fun to watch. I would say automated 1-2 sec script attacks outnumbered human logins 1000 to 1.
these are heroes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/cvabey/hong_kong_...

these are pawns:

https://i.redd.it/i1oy745tnli31.jpg
you essentially need the bike version of this

https://www.sunkidworld.com/en/2017-02-height-adjustable-sma...

not a bad idea
You have to remember that even if you don't care about your account getting hacked, hacked accounts are a nuisance for other users of the platform as well.
What resources did you find more useful? Aws’s own documentation?
It would be great for German investors to stop being such cowards when it comes to risk taking. I am not sure where this culture even came from.
See this from a provider standpoint and you will immediately groan at the users setting up their accounts for easy collection from spammers, who in turn use those accounts to spam your service to oblivion. You'll have to deal with the cleanup, not the spammers, not the compromised users. A lot of users don't value their accounts, and this is precisely why we have so many account breaches happen to this day.
> Then lastly macOS. I have had a mac since 2011. I am having a hard time with the direction Apple is going with their laptops.

This, a thousand times this. I had a discussion earlier this week with the owner of a Mac repair shop of 15+ years here in Toronto, who lamented the release of any Mac portable since 2015 - saying 'thank God for the 2012-2015 units, or I would be out of business.'

I told him I'd been buying Macs for 15 years, and during especially times like buying my first iBook at age 15, I absolutely relied on, and still rely on, purchasing a laptop with the intent to upgrade the RAM and the HDD/SSD in the future.

With the laptops continually increasing in price, justified by tacking on useless features nobody wants, and then preventing upgrades, the laptops are out of reach for me to justify as an intermediate iOS developer. The 2017 models locked to 16GB are already virtually obsolete to a serious developer or film editor.

I will not, would not, on principle, buy a computer whose hard drive is soldered to the Logic Board, if only for the sake of retaining the hard drive itself aside from the laptop.

There is no possible, potential benefit a soldered hard drive, or soldered RAM, gives me, and the detriments far, far outweigh any benefits.

Previously, if the hard drive or RAM got corrupted or damaged, I could replace those parts the same day. What now?

Truly - and I mean truly, butterfly keyboard and lack of ports aside, even internally, Apple has finally gone from questionably being form of over function, to its focus on form over function being a literal insult to its long term dedicated users, and simply not responding to criticisms.

So the media laughs at the Touch Bar, fans and critics deride it, and Apple's response - to cancel the non-touch bar version of the 13" MacBook Pro.
Because Ctrl is for sending control codes, Command is for issuing commands. You need to have one keystroke that means "copy", "paste", "print", help, etc. everywhere in the system.

Only macOS gets this right.
Even that’s kinda expensive. An online vendor I’m familiar with has regular specials for CAD$150/oz (~US$112), free express shipping and they usually throw in a sample or two.

And unlike the legal suppliers, plenty of edibles.
The author reported an extensive story about the F-35's flaws based on exclusive documents in June. This submitted story revisits that work (and writes it in the style of the NYT Mag):

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/12/the-pentagon-is-b...
Another: FDA approved ketamine for the treatment of depression, but the costs are through the roof. If I remember correctly it was somewhere around $7000. You can get more or less pure ketamine on the black market for $30-$50 per 1 g. That 1 g will last ages if used for depression.

Edit:

Found it:

> Ketamine treatments usually cost a few hundred dollars per infusion, but the expense comes not from the generic drug, which is cheap, but from the doctors’ time and the clinic space. In contrast, just the Spravato drug alone can cost almost $900 per session, which would bring a monthly cost — at the recommended two sessions a week —to nearly $7,000, according to Stat News.
> Could you elaborate on how the behaviour of German savers differs to those in other countries?

European finance is bank based. Banks make most of the loans. Bank managers decide which projects get financed and which don’t. Investors put money in banks and let the banks make decisions.

American finance is market based. Bond buyers make most of the loans. Bond (and stock) investors decide which projects get financed and which don’t. Investors themselves make decisions.

Broadly speaking, the European bank-based model is moribund. It concentrates risks and is too conservative. The ECB is trying to change this, but it involves changing a social contract around how investors behave. This has happened without a broader debate, because Europe, and now we’re seeing a backlash in Germany.
More like cheap Chinese bonded leather which permeates most sub-$100 leather goods.

I make a pass on buying most leather products because it's so hard to find decent quality without an overinflated price. I don't even dare buying it online unless its a niche where substandard materials are unlikely.
I guess if there's interest in it. Honestly, it's not like I'm that good at programming.

Literally, all I did was second guess every line of code and operation I put down. I would try to think of alternatives and research for alternatives. Then test them in their basic forms. It's just grinding work with a giant spreadsheet, nothing special.
When HN is under attack, we have to do things we wouldn't otherwise do. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20794659.
It doesn't stop until *p is \0, so yes
At least you can grow your own now.
They might also be lying to you. ;-) I know savers that pretend that they have none. They cry with everyone about how they are broke, but are actually saving great. They don't want folks asking to borrow money, and they don't want to be the odd one out, so part of socializing is acting like everyone in public, but doing otherwise behind the scenes. I knew a few such folks in college, party animals on the outside, but quiet studious when everyone else is asleep.
Wasabi is not the same price as B2.

B2 is:
- .5 cents/GB/mo
- 1GB/day free egress, 1 cent/GB after
- generous free API call allowances, cheap after that

Wasabi is:

- $0.0059 cents/GB/mo (18% higher)
- all storage billed for at least 90 days
- minimum of $5.99 per month
- this doesn't include delete penalties
- all objects billed for at least 4K
- free egress as long as "reasonable"
- free API requests
- overwriting a file is a delete, ie, delete penalties

https://wasabi.com/pricing/pricing-faqs

With HashBackup (I'm author), an incremental database backup is uploaded after every user backup, and older database incrementals get deleted. Running simulations with S3 IA (30-day delete penalties), the charges were 19 cents/mo vs 7 cents/mo for regular S3, even though S3 is priced much higher per GB. So for backups to S3, HashBackup stores the db incrementals in the regular S3 storage class even if the backup data is in IA.

For Wasabi, there is no storage class that doesn't have delete penalties, and theirs are for 90 days instead of 30.
Either by tolerating some risk and investing locally or by buying some US Treasury bonds.
Write down your motivation for reading the book. Do whatever you want until you feel like taking a break. After the break, write down reflections on what happened. Repeat.

This works for anything, not just reading books.
Indeed - contrarian viewpoints are to be avoided at all costs for productively mass converging on falsehoods.
I don't commute by bike but I ride on the Burke Gilman trail fairly regularly and have never experienced any animosity whatsoever. It sounds like you had a freak encounter with a run of the mill wackjob. The city is full of them and the police are essentially worthless... My guess is that encounter probably had more to do with his mental problems than the fact that you were on a bike.
My 7th gen X1 works on Ubuntu out of the box, except for an annoying trackpad bug that can be fixed with a one-line config file change.
Try Scoop on Windows instead of Chocolatey.
I wrote some Prolog 25 years ago in school. As I recall we did a bunch of pattern matching stuff with it and at the time it never made much of an impression on me. I had similar experiences with CAML, SML, and COBOL.

Scheme, C, and Pascal were the languages that clicked and had me writing stuff just for fun.

What was it about Prolog that turned you into a fan?
I find that I have the opposite problem myself. With Clojure, the code tends to be more declarative and it tells me what it's doing. Meanwhile, Java leaks a lot of implementation details into the code, and I find it much harder to decipher the intent.

For example if I see something like (filter even? numbers) I immediately know what is being done and why. There aren't any surprises there.

Meanwhile, when I see something like:

List<Integer> acc = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (int number : numbers) {
if (number % 2 == 0) acc.add(number);
}

then I have to walk through that code in my head to figure out what the intent is, and whether it's actually doing what it's meant to. On top of it I have to worry about mutability. Should a new variable like acc be used, or should the numbers list be updated in place, if it is updated in place where are all the other places that it's used, and are they being affected when I make a change, and so on.

So, there's a lot more to think about even in a completely trivial case such as the example here. In real world code that complexity quickly becomes overwhelming in my experience.
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I don't think gas pipelines are good investments. Any investment into fossil fuel infrastructure creates vested interests in the continued use. Similarly, I'd prefer investments in rail infrastructure over investments in the Autobahn.
Outside of the likely salaries for people on HN I would agree with you. However, I'm fairly confident tech worker salaries start at or above the threshold in most locations.
Sean Connery would like to persuade you otherwise.
My boots scratch because they're coated and dyed oddly, drives me nuts. All the scratches on my belt blend in over time.

I love the stuff (thank you, cows), it's a heavy, reliable organic construction material. Lasts a lot longer than fabrics.

The trick is to get 'full grain' leather, that's the actual thickness of the cowhide and doesn't have backings or multiple layers glued together.
Most of the IPOs are getting killed this year because they were overvalued during their investment rounds. Slack may still come out of it but I would expect it to take a little bit.

Also do keep in mind that all the VC money / investors can't make trades till 6 months after the IPO so you might see some movement in October.
> People in major cities are open to pursuing unconventional careers on Youtube, Instagram, Blogs etc.

Given the inane (at best) nature of most of what appears on youtube, instagram, blogs, etc., I'm not sure that's especially positive.
Show HN: HTTP://Ezii-Os.herokuapp.com
Thanks for the info. I looked at Matebook x pro with 13 inch display, 256GB of storage and 16 GB of RAM.

Again, a personal opinion.
It costs as much as the equivalent MacBook Pro. I would not choose it over a MacBook because why?
Apple has been known to care for customers in the sense that even if they fuck up keyboard design, they run a service program for free. Battery mess up - replacement for cheap. Simply that they have a brand to protect. I can rest assured that I can make a warranty claim that will go through. I’m not sure if I can say that about Huawei. I might try them if they are cheaper or give me some incentive to try. But, if they are the same cost, why would I willingly take the uncertainty?

Some incentives hat would make decide that way are :

1. Open drivers and documentation.

2. Promise of equivalent service or replacement if necessary.

3. Repair/upgrade friendly design - no soldering of memory and SSD. I'm okay if that makes the laptop a few millimeters thicker and a few grams heavier.

Thanks for the info though.
Sure.

The process as spelled out by a number of thinkers including Sir Thomas More (who was observing some of these things first-hand) and Hilaire Belloc (who was basing his thoughts on such sources as More) was that the Industrial Revolution in Britain (and hence the world since it started there) can be traced back to the way the confiscation of the monasteries lead to spending up the enclosure of the commons. Basically while the Catholic Church had an effect of spreading out power a bit more away from the state, consolidating this in the hands of the state and in the hands of landlords meant that the landlords were much more powerful and therefore pushed peasants off their land in order to raise more profitable goods such as sheep.

The result was a large number of destitute peasants who ended up in the city unable to support themselves. Some of these were shipped en masse to the New World. Others were given destitute wages in the early textile mills.

The same process starts much later in France where you have a parallel confiscation of the monasteries under an effort of secularization following the French Revolution. Although the Reformation fizzled in France for various reasons, the same political pattern of state seizure of Church lands did happen just as it did elsewhere in Europe and this lead to the same destitute masses forced to the cities.

This process closely parallels the way the Andrew Johnson administration pushed freed slaves into the wage labor system thus revving up the industrialization of the North which was jump-started by the civil war.
Maybe the world is more in discord atm, not slacking?
A vote doesn't change anything. If you want change you need to influence a multitude of voters. What kind of entity has that influence in the United States? Corporations.

If there was a candidate that fit the profile of what you desire. How would you even be aware of that candidates existence? Usually through some news organization, youtube video , television, google search.... all avenues that are given to you by a corporation.
Skimming through the first hundred or so hits on “moat” on images.google.com shows that pretty much every single one does in fact interrupt the view.

So at the very least, keeping a clean view isn’t a fundamental property of moats. But keeping a clean view is the raison d’etre for haha’s. In fact that’s how they get their name.
Let's consider understanding a mathematical theory - say linear algebra. In principle, the entirety of the knowledge of LA is contained in it's axioms and the standard rules of propositional logic (i.e. can be compressed into them). If you just know those, you can recover any theorem or statement of LA. But this is not how human understanding operates at all.

Usually one understands LA when one has memorized many different theorems of LA, have perhaps memorized how to derive some from others, or even the same theorem in several different ways. That doesn't even begin to cover establishing links between LA and other branches of mathematics, all of which a proficient mathematician memorizes individually, and memorizes connections between the links. The mathematicians mental knowledge graph is compressed, but not that much.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18681759
I think you're reading a lot into those books.

Microservices were pioneered at companies with thousands of engineers. That is where they shine.

Small is relative. The point of a microservice is to allow a smallish team of 5-10 people make their changes independent of all other teams. That is their primary purpose. To make sure your thousands of engineers aren't stepping on each other's toes.

All other benefits range from minor to bullshit, especially if you don't have a huge engineering department.

The above applies even if you don't use DDD. DDD oftentimes goes along with microservices because their bounded contexts are a good way to split your microservices.
What is a plugin for websites, that shows buttons intelligently?
Like, it shows like a horizontal array of buttons (4 or so) and it switches what buttons to show intelligently
Finding a Hacking Date in Switzerland
Out of curiosity, why is West Portal station one of the endpoints of the proposedd route? It almost makes sense since it's a public transit hub, but you can't take your bikes on MUNI metro anyway. So why not just have a terminus further down Portola instead of at a MUNI metro station?
> There soon turned out to be an essential flaw in the grand plan for a single plane that could do everything. Design specifications demanded by one branch of the military would adversely impact the F-35’s performance in another area. “It turns out when you combine the requirements of the three services, what you end up with is the F-35, which is an aircraft that is in many ways suboptimal for what each of the services really want,” said Todd Harrison, an aerospace expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It is much more expensive than originally envisioned, and the three versions of the plane actually don’t have that much in common.”

And nobody was surprised.
Oh good to know! Thanks for the info
No. Congestion, pollution, accident, and climate change externalities add up to about $0.10 per passenger mile: https://media.rff.org/archive/files/sharepoint/WorkImages/Do... (p. 14). That's vastly more than the $0.01-0.02 direct subsidy for cars from road construction/maintenance, but much lower than the $0.87-0.90 per mile subsidy for transit: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=15144; https://www.newgeography.com/content/005596-reason-1-end-tra....

And of course--those pollution externalities can be greatly reduced by switching to electric cars.
Best would be, if it's a plugin tailed for programming or making changes to code.

I want to integrate it here as the next step:

http://ezii-os.herokuapp.com/
There's no complete escape from exchange rate risk. Keeping it in Euro puts you at risk for all direct and indirect exchanges with countries not using the Euro as currency.
if German wages were depressed and labor was so cheapened, how come they are still able to save more than their counterparts?
Thanks for sharing.

On the other hand, I heard that running sandboxes to obtain the latest samples of IoT viruses and tracking their evolution is fun.
Completely off-topic, but :

In the post WW2 context, with the cold war looming, having the UN ratify the existence of Israel was a huge thing. Don't forget that both in 49 and in 67 nobody was giving Israel any chance to survive in a war against its arab neighbourghs. At that time, things were very very different from now.