skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why not dump it into a time series database - even something as simple as a set of whisper files on a local disk can be a lot more useful than a flat file. go-carbon is my tool of choice for this kind of job.
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I just spent 2.5 months in Bali working on a solo project (fitloop.co). I found it to be great in several degrees but also lacking in others. Currently, I'm back in SF and looking for my next spot. For those of you living + working remotely, where are you living and what is your breakdown of:

- Cost / month

- Tourism level

- Weather range

- Availability of wifi + cafes/coworking

- English-friendliness

- % of People also working on app products (as opposed to marketing/drop shipping/shopify/amazon sellers)

- Locale type (city, town, village)

P.S. I'm aware of sites like NomadList, but I would love some qualitative / less popular answers from the HN community!
As a side note, $2B is pocket change for a federal government that spends $41B a year on the equivalent highway system. https://www.bidnet.com/resources/business-insights/us-govern...
This is not a perfect answer either. There are many situations where a parent is at odds with their children as to what is appropriate. In some cases, the parents should "win", but in some cases, the child should "win".
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I would normally say that the most reasonable comparison is to the profit obtained from related features or products. For example, the FTC should be able to fine Alphabet up to however much profit YouTube makes serving kids in the US. Unfortunately, it is widely rumored that YouTube makes no profit, and that means they almost certainly don't make much money off of kids. Still, at some point, you have to watch out that the fines don't get so big that it just makes sense for YouTube to ban all content targeting kids, at least in the US, because that would be a disaster for everyone given the amount of educational content there. Google pulled out of the China market because the moral and economic costs of complying with government regulations wasn't worth the value of the market, we don't want them doing the same thing here for specific products.
> They were doing torch marches in the same places where the nazis (like, literally Hitler's party in the 1930s) were doing their famous torch marches.

In that case I agree with you, that is a rather clear expression of nazi sympathies on the part of the people that would do that.

>> st on my systems is an alias for git status.

> Ah, that's an interesting shortcut.

You might be interested in my other git shortcuts also. This README has all the details you need about them:

https://github.com/ctsrc/shell-command-aliases/blob/master/R...
Haha, I know right? I’m just repeating what has been drilled into me by everyone I’ve talked to who lives in the valley. I’m coming from the South so thought I had won the lottery, but apparently this won’t cut it b/c fixer uppers with decent schools and commutes are $2M+. And traffic is really bad so just ‘drive till you qualify’ is a Faustian bargain.
The point where it all falls apart if the application falls behind for one frame is a showstopper for game development.
Thanks, that's very useful.
Oh man I totally agree. It's a fetish for dead tree books. And to be perfectly honest I have the fetish, but I recognize that it's just a fetish. It irks me to no end that the whole education system keeps on pounding this idea into our heads (parent's heads) that they need to limit screen time because only physical books are important for education. Physical books are awesome but they will dwindle in popularity as our reading tech gets better.
Many countries even have their own internal alcohol belts. Austria has many wine growing regions where Wine dominates alcohol consumption.
This is a way to scratch your left foot when your right foot itches.

The way to alleviate loneliness, is to do meaningful work. Meaningful work will inevitably involve other people.

It's not loneliness so much as being so fucking bored, because everything that took up your time in the past centuries, has now been automated, and you're sent to prison for 10+ years to break your spirit as early as 3 years old.

You send children to school where they have no autonomy, have to sit quietly and memorize stupid bullshit through their entire childhood, and then wonder why they go nuts in all kinds of unpredictable ways.

We're not meant to do stupid bullshit we see no value in doing our entire lives. What's a roommate gonna do to alleviate that? Just skip roommate, try heroin to forget this shit existence and plunge into a world of bliss.
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But the key takeaway is we both need to keep working, and how folks in the Valley swing the working and kids combo. Most people here have SAHMs or part-time mom jobs.
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Just launched the prototype, but have been designing this through the pain of doing competitive intelligence manually, and how hard it is to keep it up to date.

Would this help you out?
You may mean well, but anyone who is discouraging our youth from voting will not get agreement from me. We have a large demographic of older voters who vote they same way they have been for decades, along partisan lines based on dated world views. (And I'm old, so I include myself in this.) We need the youth to vote.

Yes, educated votes are better than uneducated votes. So plan to vote, and plan to learn.
One could discourage cheap hookups by steering online interaction. Eg by not allowing any picture uploads, and having very detailed questionnaires.
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As far as I know the most consumed alcohol in Spain is beer.
We just moved 34 microservices to EKS, along with associated migration of datalayer and built out coupling to the few things remaining on-prem. It took about 24 months and cost about $20M, about twice the optimistic estimates. We are beginning to see the force multiplier. As a person who does things, it was a slog, but it seems to have been worth it.
Try staying at a five star resort villa style hotel in Bali or some other SE country. The last one we stayed at was two stories with a living room/kitchen/massage room on floor one (next to a private pool) and the bedroom/huge bathroom/walk-in closet on floor two. Seriously would love to have a real house like that. Most of the bungalows I’ve stayed in haven’t been as elaborate but have felt very much like home.

Hotel rooms in the city are always much smaller, but non urban tourist areas are very different (Eg Manila vs Boracay).
For the life of me I can’t figure out why I would recommend Kubernetes to any company who is already on AWS. Except for the custom stuff, you should probably used a managed equivalent and for the custom parts where you need HA, scalability, etc. just use regular old ECS or Fargate for Serverless Docker. Heck even simpler, sometimes is just to use a bunch of small VMs and bring them up or down based on a schedule, number of messages in a queue, health checks, etc and throw them behind an autoscaling group.

I’m not familiar with Azure or GCP, but they have to have more easily managed offerings than K8s.

If you’re on prem - that’s a different use case but my only experience being responsible for the complete architecture of an on prem solution was small enough that a combination of Consul/Nomad/Vault/Fabio made sense. It gave us the flexibility to mix Docker containers, raw executables, shell scripts, etc.

That being said, for both Resume Driven Development reasons and because we might be able to find people who know what they were doing, if I had to do another on prem implementation that called for it, I would probably lean toward K8s.
Student ID photos and biometric photos aren't necessarily the same, and a software system that tracks with certainty where each student is anywhere in the building has implications, as I mentioned just briefly above.
Personally I think the most important part of reading is picking up the general idea being conveyed, not to be able to precisely recall an idea. Like a support vector machine (SVM), I think your brain mostly retains information about model defying events. Most people won't remember what they had for a meal a month ago, because the event likely had little surprise - but you'll probably remember the meal that gave you food poisoning.

For example, I've read thousands upon thousands of papers, I generally accept that I cannot recall all the information in them. What I can do on the other hand is figure out exactly what I need to search for in order to find information on a topic and the re-learning time is greatly reduced.

This general acceptance of not being able to recall precise information about any given topic mostly came from my time in school as a child, where I realized the teachers were not so much teaching us topics for the real world, but giving us the framework to learn any topic.
Is 3 hours per year really that bad? It’s 99.96% (three 9’s) uptime which I’d think is fine for most small to medium businesses.
It's hit or miss for discounts. The biggest discounts I've seen are just from booking early. If you can pick a good chain (Marriott/SPG has been the best for me since they're everywhere and reasonably priced) and get a rewards card it can offset the cost. Free food from the lounge is great too (pick a hotel with an Executive Lounge)--rarely pay for food.

As for upgrades, yes almost all the time if you're top tier status. You just have to pick a hotel that isn't fully booked so they can upgrade you. It pays to research upfront to find a hotel with a lounge, good upgrade options, good free breakfast and seldom fully booked, but its worth it.

There are a lot of things to consider based on what you want. E.g. gym, pool, fast wifi, lounge, free breakfast, near a park, good place to run/walk outside, high-rise for the views while you think through problems, rooftop bar, near a movie theatre, rewards card, airport shuttle, etc.
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I am interested in the technical aspect of implementing such a system.

I know the founder of
https://www.fakeskiller.com
which is a browser extension for highlighting fake news (they also released a mobile app not so long ago).

They use fact checking organizations to classify news as fake news and highlight posts in social media, which contain links to fake news. They also provide link to rebuttal.

But since there is always a lag between producing clickbait fake news and working on proving it's a fake, I assume those who fight disinformation and propaganda will be on the losing side.

That's why the founder of Fakeskiller always invites everyone on educating those "useful idiots", who are sharing those fakes and sharing truth with them.

But can the propaganda be effectively fought technically? I assume, no.
Not to nitpick, but it's "a moot point".

Fun fact, the word "moot" has the same origin as "meet". A "moot point" was originally "something that has to be discussed and decided at a meeting" (like a town hall or similar). Thus there was no sense in discussing it, since it was up to the meeting to decide. Also, scouts still call their congregations "a moot".
This takes us back to my first comment.

> Vote selling could be an issue with either paper receipts or my protocol above. The best solution for either is probably outside the system (criminal penalties and significant whistle-blower rewards). You might be able to add deniability to the toy protocol above, but things would get complicated.

Extortion and bribery work against individuals some of the time, but using it against large groups of people hoping not even one of them will alert reporters or police?

Not to mention, this is a flaw in the current voting system, because people can easily sneak phones into booths to take video of their votes.

Being able to confirm that your specific vote was counted should be considered a basic human right. If you look at it that way, it feels strange to deny people a basic right to protect against some harm we don't currently address now, but could easily address in other ways.
I suspect from the copious British immigrants more than the native population
This is going to cone in very useful indeed.

It's been around since kernel 4.2 according to the article. Do any of the mainstream container orchestration tools use this data, I wonder...
It'll just send an SMS, the protocol isn't going anywhere. Phones still support 2G networks too and even iPhones can still send SMS messages although iMessage is a thing.
Beyond his DS9 episode where he played an unconvincing Vorta, I’ve never heard of him. Cool name though.
I'll take simple over easy ;-)
If s/he is any good s/he will also be a nice human being. In any case, for that particular company it's their only good and cheap chance.

There is an alternative, use an agency. The problem with that is that companies will simply reject the proposed candidates without justification because hey, they are the customer.
Reminds me of the Chumbawumba song "EU has a whiskey belt, EU has a vodka belt, EU has a wine belt"

EU never gonna keep me down?
You could check out Clojure's built-in memoize (https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/memoize)
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Plugin and forget? Until it fails of course, then you have the backup issue.
A c4 dedicated host at AWS (simply picked as the 2nd listed in the Dedicated Hosts Configuration Table as c3 the first doesn't show up under the Instance Types page) comes with an E5 2666v3, 64GB of RAM, and no storage for $810/mo.

The CPU model is non-standard, but at 10 cores and 2.90GHz is effectively a slightly higher clocked version of the E5 2660v3 (10 cores, 2.60GHz). The first google result for a 2660v3 dedicated server with an order page that allows to adjust the options (13 usable IP's, 64GB RAM, minimal 120GB SSD storage) comes out to $275.

And this is based on whole box to whole box comparison. The cost of individual instances at AWS equivalent to one of those boxes can be much higher depending on the type and size.
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Can you imagine the outrage on HN if Google would redirect messaging from SMS to a proprietary iMessage-like protocol on all Android phones?
It's goal in the end is very simple: you have N different state machines and you want every state machine to process the same operations in the same order. To do that you need they agree every time a new operation must be processed. (Multi) Paxos is an agreement algorithm that does that.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. With your mind in a suggestible state, it's much easier to convince yourself that you're seeing in 4D than is to actually see in 4D.
Clojure's implementation of `memoize` is here:

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...

What were the special cases for your use case?
...and the earlier we discard books from mainstream society, the quicker it will gain its place and appreciation as a "fetish", as you describe it ;)

I believe dead-tree books would rather profit from such a change than suffer from it.
What you’re describing is basically Iceland. It used to be richly forested. It lost its forests and then its topsoil. Essentially an ecological disaster brought on by the vikings. But life finds a way.
I did also find the ecosystem to be not-so-mature a few years ago. Compared to something like Rails or various Java collections of tools it feels like things are less available or simply a poorly-made Clojure veneer over and underlying Java tool.

Ecosystem takes a while.

(Yes, I was using both JDBC and Ring as well as other things like Leiningen. Core.async was a notable exception as something done better in Clojure than elsewhere)
The two images at the top are quite dissimilar with no clear explanation why. Different years?
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FTA: ”The alcohol belts refer to the traditional beverages of countries rather than what is most commonly drunk by the populace today”.

Also, the second map, labeled ”Map of Europe with individual countries grouped by preferred type of alcoholic beverage, based on recorded alcohol per capita (age 15+) consumption (in litres of pure alcohol) in 2010” has Spain labeled “beer”.
as i was talking to a friend about clojure i came up with an analogy i cant shake: clojure is what happens when you just make your programmer directly write an AST. a bit reductionist, but anyone care to debate this?
That sounds like it would be very interesting. And while we can't extend our senses just yet, we may be able to swap them. I'm very curious if anyone has tried to use a space-filling Hilbert curve to transform vision into audio and let their brain adjust to it like suggested in this video https://youtu.be/3s7h2MHQtxc
While I know it’s not the main point of the article, I’m getting really tired of the anti-sysadmin bias in pretty much anything related to devops. It seems to be a favorite trope to paint sysadmins as a dying breed of monkeys who are only capable of keeping pets and doing manual tasks when they get around to lifting their knuckles off the floor. Who do you think is writing the playbooks for ansible? How do you think you can even write those things without first having a deep understanding of how the system works and having a set of procedures around them? Who do you think runs the systems your containers sit on top of?

Just because infrastructure as code appears to use the same tools that developers use (text files, git) doesn’t mean developers can do the job. Me having access to a pen and paper doesn’t make me Shakespeare.

This is especially harmful in an article that claims to be aimed at management, ostensibly trying to set the future path for organizations.

P.S. Otherwise a nice overview of things
Beijing and Shanghai have some nice extended stay hotels that are 4 to 5 stars. Rates are weekly or monthly, I lived in one for a couple of months when I first arrived in China.
Agreed. SMS is not encrypted end to end. We don't need another protocol like RCS that is not end to end encrypted... that is the basic minimum today.
Isn't that the point of lisp and homoiconicity in general? That you're writing an AST that you can also treat as a data structure?
It’s right there in the second map. It is something quite recent; most probably due to the lower price of beer and less variance of quality.
This.

We seem to be forgetting KISS - at some point yes we need to use massive scalable architectures - but humans got on fine treating large numbers of animals as not pets long before we went full on intensive chicken farming.

There is a lot of space between pets and Google-scale
It's pretty easy to work out what they actually saw from the words used to describe them. A hypercube rotation is a 4d object projected into 3 dimensions. Nothing extraordinary at all about that.
FWIW, not trying to troll. I grew up with and was in favor of 90s environmentalism, which seems to mostly have been a success [0]. The latest environment doom and gloom doesn't have the impact and persuasive power that the previous environmental crusade had. Maybe it's just that I had school indoctrinating me then and don't have that now. But I like to believe that's not the only factor here. There's something lacking about the biodiversity and climate change outrages of the late. Some scientific persuasive power, some rigor missing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm generally supportive of the fundamental argument that we ought not to change anything too fast because the consequences are terrifyingly unknown -- that's what makes me a conservative, in fact. However, there's a damn good reason to make that gambit: the elimination of global food scarcity, lifting the developing world out of poverty through industry, allowing developing worlds to be self-sufficient and not dependent on the West. If we lose the Amazon in the process and sea levels rise many meters, as a hyperbolic example, maybe that price is worth paying until we figure out how to not do that. We definitely don't know how to not do it yet. I don't know, and neither does anyone else. Well, that's only half true. We could force every country on the planet to build nuclear fission reactors and electric vehicles at threat of war. But nobody's willing to do that, so it seems like climate change must not actually be that pressing.

In summary, it's risk, and it's scary, but I guess my biggest problem is the idea that it's likely to be bad for us. The opposite seems true, in the medium term. I mean... If Coruscant is devoid of naturally grown life and is fed exclusively from hydroponics, is that planet instrinsically bad?

Sorry for the shallow response and analysis in this post, but I wanted to respond with something before my busy afternoon today. I'll be back.

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...
Because they're caused by changes to the ecosystem, and some of those changes are going to kill us off.

They also cause further changes to the ecosystem in weird complex feedback loops, which will also kill us off.

They'll also collapse some food chains which will kill off many humans.
You can start the JVM in well under a second, the problem is most JVM programs don't care about startup time thus startup becomes slow. Most JVM apps are designed to be long lived.
Since when does the Chinese government care about a few innocents? This is the country the labels entire groups of people as dissidents simply for being an ethnic minority and then tracks them using gait and facial recognition, as well as DNA and voice identification. If the US police are considered overboard, then the Chinese police are the ones saying "Here hold my beer." I'm not sure why this is a surprise to anyone at this point, as it's pretty much what the Chinese government does. They care more about image than anything and it pervades numerous points of their government including smiling during inappropriate times, train subsidies, recycling policies, currency manipulation, and constantly breaking their international promises against militarization.
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First map is aspirational. Second is actual.
Cloud can often be cheaper than on prem or at a colo if you are both willing to be “cloud native” and change your processes and you have people who actually know what they are doing and not a bunch of “lift and shifters” who are old school netops guide, got one AWS certification and now only know how to click around in the UI and duplicate an on prem infrastructure.
> How do you deal with stateful applications like databases?

The impedance issues between kubernetes and stateful applications have been mostly solved. The main problems stemmed from the object model not yet being mature enough. Deployments did not offer good solutions for assigning stable identities to pods across restarts, or making it possible for them to find and attach to persistent volumes. StatefulSets and PersistentVolumeClaims solve these problems. Most of our k8s workloads are stateless, but we do run some big elasticsearch workloads in it. Having said that, I think if you're a small- to mid-sized business running on the cloud managed offerings are the first place to look. GCP CloudSQL has worked extremely well for us.
The simple truth is companies value loyalty above all else. If you are the best or not doesn't really matter. It matters that you can pass some simple tests but nothing else.

In the gig economy it's important to be able to show to your client how the final product looks like. I.e. a portfolio. They have money just for one run, one try. Risk aversion is high.

Companies that truly want the best and have a process to filter for the best are exceptions. Maybe less than one in a thousand.