skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I don't use "work-in-progress" things in production (unless I own it and wrote it) and I have a hard time recommending others do so.

2) It's not just events in your application you have to worry about, but environmental stuff as well. SNS is the lingua franca of AWS and you've gotta put it somewhere, with reliability guarantees. That increases the amount of orchestration you have to do outside the safe-and-happy confines of k8s itself, and that makes my job way harder than having only-one-road-to-plow.

At my current company we use ECS/Fargate, but it's only really so we don't have to manage servers; each ECS service has one task and is independently managed. And it interacts directly with the baseline cloud provider so there's no weird jank at the edges of our compute vs. our datastores. The containers are a convenience here--I'd use EC2 just as readily. But I see no real value to using k8s instead and haven't at any of my consulting gigs to date, either. The k8s environment is both incomplete and at best kinda-incompatible with the things that actually matter, like your data, and TBH it casts real doubt on the reason to use it.
Anecdotally, yes, I eat less meat now for environmental reasons, and I think you're right to generalize.

Especially in progressive cities and circles, meat and oil are in the same class. It's hip to eat veg, socially conscious.
API Gateway Identity Crisis – are they replaced by service mesh?
Probably referring to this crap:

https://twitter.com/tatianatmac/status/1164912554876891137

part of this breakdown: https://dev.to/aryanjnyc/ken-wheeler-and-dan-abramov-deactiv...

I think people with such obsessions, bringing their baggage of politics everywhere should be thrown out of tech communities discussing tech. They can form whatever meta-community they like for that.

I have seen absolutely zero ..."white supremacism" in React community leaders, and the whole idea is too bizarro to begin with.

If someone is both a white supremacist and a React developer (which I find implausible, but ok) that's bad, but it's not like it's any sizable part of React devs, or characterizes the tone of the community, or affects anything or whatever...
Could Not Open /Dev/Vmmon: Broken Pipe VMware Fusion macOS Mojave Error
Exactly my point. The prosecutor told me its because the defense is trying to dispute everything and get the footage removed from evidence.
It's interesting to hear an internal perspective of how "great" Stripe's recruiting processes is.

As an external applicant, I would say it was better than most, but still an internal recruiter shit-show. Week-long windows between email responses, dropped balls, and even no-shows for scheduled calls. Seeing this contrast makes me wonder if Stripe employees are just high on their own supply?

Recruiting is hard. I can only imagine it gets harder at scale. I'd bet that Stripe's best recruiting is done through employee referrals... and that is probably building a mono-culture.
As if they can't be but racists, right?

Well, k__ your name stands for KKK, and if you say it doesn't, it's a random handle, then that's you using "plausible deniability".

How about that?
What problems do you find with it? It might be limited in features but I'd rather not have to maintain e.g. a WordPress server for more if I can avoid it.
> Due to the pilot nature of the study, no formal power calculation was performed.

Only 60 participants. Take results from this with a grain of salt - it isn't a systematic review - which aggregates the results of multiple trials such as this one.

Here is a systematic review:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6128599/
It literally was a decision a startup made. Bebop was a startup that sold itself.
Care to share the website?
I have a similar problem. I'm always pessimistic, stressful and anxious. After my job interview for a machine learning job, HR gave me a personaly test. It turns out that they were literally horrified by the results and told me that every response I made was the exact opposite they were looking for. I got the job nevertheless but mental issues do become a barrier in one's career. I knowingly try to be alone in the office, don't take any breaks and don't talk to anyone unless it's necessary. Haven't heard a complaint yet. But I would suggest to the opposite, communication is important.
This probably will get flagged but the Brexit discussion that is beyond if it is good or not is interesting and quite relevant to the tech community considering all the scandals about data processing.

When the news first broke I asked this and I still think it's something worth discussing:

"Putting the substance of the politics aside, I wonder why all this feels coordinated.
I mean Trump, Brexit, Putin, Erdoğan, The guy in Brazil, in Hungary - all seem to act like a part of a bigger organization.
I don’t really believe that there’s a grand conspiracy but I am fascinated how unrelated organizations act in resonance.
It’s not even limited to big politics, suddenly right wing bigotry is sexy. “Lone wolfs” attack women, minorities or pretty much any outliers, movements emerge as ways to combat vegans, girls that don’t behave in the desired ways etc."
If you don’t mind me asking, how did you become lactose intolerant? I don’t know much about that aspect of biology.
I wasn’t able to find the results or summary, did I miss it in my skim?
Somehow one day a week fasting sounds more manageable than daily intermittent fasting to me. Could be an interesting way to kick off the week on Monday :)
Gas is cheap when you don't count the externalities like fucking up the planet or the whole military-industrial complex and wars to guarantee oil supply.
How much of this is changing eating pasterns, and how much of this is the re-labeling of foods?

"Vegan" is no doubt now a sales point, but many vegan foods have been eaten for centuries without that label attached.
Slapping the sticker on them now doesn't mean that anything has changed beyond how we do the count.

I also question the "vegan" label itself. Exactly what type of vegan are they talking about? Veganism isn't as simple as whether a food is vegetarian. There is no single authority or rulebook to determine whether it is kosher or not. There are various levels and judgement calls to be made.
I take your feedback, we will look to make our CTAs smaller.

Also I did end up pasusing a bunch of campaigns which we used to demo the feaure itself.
>so while he may not be an actually white supremacist, he does seem to fit a certain toxic mold.

E.g. person who doesn't agree with my favorite ideology on all its points?
If it was a family member of yours that was murdered wouldn't you want someone to help catch the person who did it?
I love that paragraph. It always reminds me of the Fake Barn Country gettier problem. They're not exactly related, except each involves the epistemic nature of a barn.
Remote Work: Startups and the Problems
Know any startup solving a problem in the 'Remote work' space ?

Here are some which I know.

- https://weworkremotely.com - Find remote jobs.

- http://remote.tools : List of remote tools.

- https://worklogs.co : Easy time tracking for remote teams working on Slack.

- https://standups.io : Remote teams standup tool that works like Snapchat stories.
I don't know what they are doing currently, but the article from a few years ago said, "We run them on stock Linux images deployed to AWS. We use SBCL for production deployment and CCL on most of the developers’ machines."

Once a large application works in some environment, you usually need a good reason (such as lower overall cost or inability to keep it working) to switch. They hit a few unlikely bugs and have already developed solutions for them. If they switched, the odds are excellent that they'd hit new unlikely bugs that they haven't found solutions for, and it's hard to have a smaller cost than SBCL or Linux. So while they may have changed, there's a reasonable chance they haven't.
> LineageOS would have to be forked by the manufacturer to be supported by them.

LineageOS accept patches, do they not?
Cyber-Essential Tips for Increased Cyber Security (Techy&NonTechy)
With previous generations of home security systems, the recordings were stored in an on-premises hard drive. Ring doesn't give you that option, all video is stored on their cloud, "for the customer's convenience" of course.

The result of that is the random citizens won't have much leverage to say no, because the police can likely figure out a way to get the video from Ring directly.
I know product manager that uses a pen & touchpad to navigate websites for exactly this reason
Sure. But lately I keep hearing that these users are implicitly under attack by constantly requiring them to fill CAPTCHAs.
Intel’s Comet Lake-S Could Push Even More People Toward AMD
>The word “guys” means something bad in the U.S.?

Only among people who think just because everybody should change how they talk to accommodate their (frequently updated) ideologies...
You don’t become lactose intolerant; you become lactose tolerant via genetic mutation. This is a mutation that originated in Northern Europe but not in east or South Asia.
SDSC Doubles Up Performance with Expanse Supercomputer
All the sense is made here.

Calgary, being a fairly sizeable city, may be an exception, but a lot of our beef comes from Alberta. I'd say Alberta is mostly known for beef and oil.

Heck, you guys have the Calgary Stampede - the last time I travelled out there I made sure to grab myself the nicest reasonably priced steak I could - Alberta's beef is known across this country.

Confirms what I was thinking about it being regional. I imagine other states and provinces with similarly agriculture focused behaviours would see the same result.
It's mostly people who look for reasons to be offended to validate themselves...
It also shows that OP's brute force approach is overly constricting - the stylized P forms both d and e upside down.

Still in awe of the artist who came up with that one.
>so I don't understand the massive downvoting

I'm curious about this too. Sure, I'm argumentative and sometimes post a bit too aggressively in my tone, but I've had seemingly innocuous posts get down-voted within a minute or two of posting them.

Normally I wouldn't care, but it seems like HN has an algorithm that punishes people who are consistently downvoted ("slow down"). It is possible to game that system?
Because it's fashionable and scores you some points...

If the inverse became fashionable in 10 years, the same kind of people (if not the same people) would do a 180o.
Isn't all this offloaded to the driver though? e.g. not Uber's $3 cut
Headlights+Reflectors
You could take a look at the talk about Entity Component System in Rust, by one of the creators of starbound(as far as i remember), she is a woman.
And i don't understand your rage about nodejs. It's in fact very fast. That's wrong about that?
> It's not as if the police are pulling a Batman and watching every ring simultaneously

I have serious doubts this can't happen with a keystroke if deemed necessary to protect citizens from imminent danger or terrorism. It's cynical but we also thought there was no chance the government was spying on all Americans telecommunications either.
There's a context-dependent trade-off between analyzing, using the currently available information and what can be reasonably be deduced from that, and experimenting.
>It's something of chicken-and-egg thing, though. It's hard to charge reasonable prices when a system is inconvenient, but it's hard to build a convenient system without demonstrable demand.

Uber/Lyft have done it with their pool/line service. IMHO, the problem is the focus on major infrastructure over less grand services that people actually will use. My city is talking about spending billions to extend commuter rail. Yet when I looked at going to a place in the city center 5 miles away it was 23 minutes by car and an hour and 20 minutes by public transport. I literally could have run there faster than taking the bus.

I did the math and for the system as a whole it comes out to be about ten bucks a ride. It would be cheaper and better for everyone if they just subsidized line/pool.
You can get a new tesla battery for 1400 ? granted most folks cant replace one but I can. I cant work on or replace a tesla battery. I have also rebuilt transmissions and that gets you a fraction of the cost because the clutch packs are typically the only wear out part... that and seals.

https://www.transdepot.net/Stage-1-4L60E-98-05_p_215.html
But uber isn't paying for the car, the insurance, or the fuel.
Medical device cyber security will be a problem for 15-20 years
The difference being having a more positive/helpful/constructive mindset.

With "how might it work" you're proposing solutions to the potential "why will it fail" problems rather than dumping more obstacles in the way.

"this will work if we do X because it will fail if Y"

vs

"this isn't going to work because Y"

I think the prior would be a more pleasant experience.
Somehing missing from he ile?
Hi HN,

I'm interested in the possibilities that graph data structure provides and strongly believe that it has a bigger role to play in the future of software engineering and data analytics. Knowledge graphs are a great example of graph technology in practice.

I wrote this article with the intention to provide an introduction to this fascinating topic and hope that you find it useful.
> If you block it at the user-agent, sites will share data at the back-end to create a super-profile

This needs a bit more technical detail. If you mean they'll combine IP + other fingerprinting, we can work on mitigation techniques there too.

> I really don't see how this puts a dent [...]

It does as it asks sites to more explicitly install something server side with their HTTP server instead of embed this one-line script tag. Changing from the browser being to store of cross-site identifiers to the backend has a chance to shine more light on the practice and increase the burden of tracking. It can make a real dent.

Regulation/enforcement are orthogonal to technical solutions. There are also varying levels of support for the former vs the latter and we shouldn't mix them nor should we blindly say "regulation and enforcement" without nuance. Many, including myself, are against most regulation/enforcement approaches due to implementation incompetence (intentions notwithstanding). But regardless of that debate, it shouldn't muddy the technical debate.
I'm unsure as to why they don't do that, I suspect it's because nobody using Python has found floating-point rounding to be a bottleneck yet.
"Not interested" seems to work just for a little while. They will come back eventually...
i can't agree enough. i got an openmoko second hand after a friend who got it gave up on it because he couldn't use the device for actual phonecalls and messaging. he was very frustrated and disappointed. i managed, after trying a few stacks to find one that mostly worked (it was the qt one).

i am now using /e/ which tries to add more privacy to lineageOS, and they manage to produce a much more polished experience than raw lineageOS.

it makes a huge difference. things that i was struggling with on lineageOS, like searching addresses and getting directions suddenly work out of the box and if anyone asks for recommendations for a privacy oriented phone i'd point them to the models that e.foundation sells with /e/ preinstalled.

i do hope that someday i'll be able to recommend a purism model too.
Wayneftw does think those are ads, and argued that they are ads when Apple installs not-requested software. Then blub argued that Apple is different because products aren't ads, so wayneftw said that if they're not ads when Apple does it, they're not ads when Microsoft does it.

You honestly don't think those are ads? It's Microsoft pushing "install this!" icons for third-party apps from the store in your face in a non-related UI place in the OS, that you have not chosen to install. There is no other proper name for that than an ad.

"Around 2014, over 93 million people were playing Candy Crush Saga[..] Five years after its release on mobile, the Candy Crush Saga series has received over 2.7 billion downloads, and the game has been one of the highest-grossing and most-played mobile apps in that time frame." - Wikipedia

Is there no way to explain this as "giving an easy way to find Candy Crush to the millions of paying customers who want that"? Isn't HN always on about "build things people want"?
There is probably some worthwhile deeper analysis, but my lazy response would be that the whole world is more connected than it has ever been and when things start becoming a problem it will cascade to everyone eventually.
A few years ago, i worked on a payment processing system for a high street bank. The system, in its first stage of evolution, would receive a file full of payment instructions, parse each one, validate it, then pass it on to a gateway in a special binary format.

An architect had decided we should build this as microservices, coupled by message queues. There was one microservice which split the file into records and parsed each one, one which validated each one, and one which handed off to the gateway.

In the first demo of the system, it took half an hour to process a file with a few thousand instructions in it. This was a ludicrous amount of time: it really should have been done in seconds.

The team met, and one of the senior developers pronounced the solution: since this was a microservice system, we would simply split one of the microservices in two, so we could scale out the amount of hardware we were using. The service selected was the first: rather than splitting and parsing the file in one pass, a first microservice would split the file into chunks, and pass each one onto a second microservice, which would parse them.

I asked where we thought the problem was, why we thought splitting a service would help, how we would measure the improvement, and, moreover, why we thought that adding a network hop would make things faster rather than slower. My questions were rejected as self-evidently unnecessary: it is well-known that you can improve the performance of a microservice system by scaling out.

The service was split. There was another demo. It was just as slow as before.

The project was removed from that team, and transferred to a new team under my leadership.

(this is a true story; the one fact omitted for the sake of drama is that the transfer of the project wasn't due to the embarrassing demo, it was purely down to staffing and logistics)
Thanks for this comment. I think you might have just solved issue #33 in the wtfdocs repo.
>If what you're saying is accurate then similarly you ought be able to radically shift the views, values, and beliefs of America using marketing.

If someone had the money and the motivation, I have no doubt that they could. There's reasonably compelling evidence that Russia is engaged in exactly that as we speak, albeit on a fairly modest budget. It's undoubtedly true that the USA has done so overseas; the CIA, the State Department and the DoD allocate substantial funding to "soft power" and PSYOP initiatives. The US Agency for Global Media alone has a budget of $750m, with the explicit objective of fostering support for America's definition of freedom and democracy.

An obvious example of marketing-driven cultural change is the diamond engagement ring, which became a norm almost solely through the marketing efforts of De Beers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27371208
There are some extremely strong prejudice and discrimination against people from mainland, it's similar to racism. mainland Chinese people didn't know this in the past however the past few years it became much more pronounced, this is especially true among the poorer people in HK. People who visited Hong Kong came back with very negative experience and words spread fast. There's next to 0 sympathy to Hong Kong in mainland today, if the PLA rolled in to quell the protest, half would probably cheer.
A V8 Performance Cliff in React
So it's not government sponsored surveillance, it's company sponsored surveillance, paid for by the people who don't want to be watched. Grand! And then Ring can charge the police forces money to use the service! :\
Show HN: Software Bots to Save You Time – zzBots
As many of the news articles have talked about, Google Hire's origin was the acquisition of Bebop. Some discussion on this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839516

In this case, I know that Diane Greene advocated for her team to have the opportunity to launch their product, which they had been developing in stealth from 2012-2016.

I haven't worked there for some time now, but Google has historically supported teams in launching into the market through experiments, labs, new product launches, etc. However, Google's current scale makes it very difficult for a new product to be worth improving and maintaining. They must make billions in revenue directly or indirectly to show up in a meaningful way. In most cases, products are given a few years, tested for impact, and ultimately the most likely outcome is that a product will fail when that is the bar. It is not entirely different from the reality of a startup—the majority of startups don't last either.
Is it really a conspiracy when we know people like Steve Bannon have traveled to some places like Poland and France to advise the far-right parties there on getting elected?
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Python doesn't support hex float in printf, but it does give you an easy way to do the conversion: x.hex()
That's not equivalent.
In one case you need a human testifying because the memory of the events are stored in their brain that's inaccessible to any other form of retrieval besides giving a deposition.

In the other case, the camera caught it on a digital format thats accessible by literally anyone living in the 21st century.
But if you dig on vegan food
Well come over to my work
I’ll have them cook you something
that you’ll really love

"Bohemian Like You", Dandy Warhols (2000)

It's always been trendy in certain circles, I think the expansion now is partly environmentalism and partly "mainstreaming of hipsterness".
I hate the recommend algorithms they use. If I get interested in a particular topic for a few hours, or watch, in a whim, a video I would normally have no interest in (a pop music video for instance), I don't want to see and endless series of videos in the same category.

It's bad enough that I had to log my AppleTV's YouTube app out, because children. My Recommend page would be overloaded with Fortnight, PubG, and RDR videos. That I could understand at least.
A large percentage of people become lactose intolerant as they become adults, IIRC only a segment of people from all over the world (concentrated somewhat in Europe and parts of Africa) retain the ability to digest lactose into adulthood, east Asian here I personally started getting slight indigestion from milk but not ice cream or cheese in my 20's.
So it’s just like the native Skype client.
Is 'social credit' coming to the US?
Eating patterns are definitely changing. While nobody I know is going full vegan, plenty are incorporating more vegan food into their diets.
Is the Mathematical World Real?
A USB cable might have been nice, but I never use the earbuds that come with devices. This is okay be me. They didn't even need to include the screwdriver. Actually, I do like having extra mini-screwdrivers, so that is okay by me.
Woman Tries to Climb Mountain to Prove Vegans aren't Weak, Dies. https://time.com/4344556/mount-everest-death-climbing-vegan/
If you’re into general wordplay I highly recommend Making the Alphabet Dance.
These guys are following the Uber business model. Burn as much cash as possible up front to generate buzz and big numbers for the IPO, worry about profitability later. The problem is that, as Uber has shown, profitability never comes. Peloton will limp around for a few years after the executives have all taken their sweet IPO money home and become a shell of what it once was. Too bad.
HMS Terror's 'incredible' condition may offer clues to lost Franklin Expedition