skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any decline in activity might be what news reporters are sensationalizing the word recession into, but that's not the proper economic definition of the word recession.

>A recession is a macroeconomic term that refers to a significant decline in general economic activity in a designated region. It is typically recognized after two consecutive quarters of economic decline, as reflected by GDP in conjunction with monthly indicators like employment. Recessions are officially declared in the U.S. by a committee of experts at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), who determines the peak and subsequent trough of the business cycle which demonstrates the recession.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/recession.asp

To dive in deeper: I don't have a proper definition of "economic decline" but as far as I am aware it means, not a slowing economy, but a dropping economy. eg, the market going down, or unemployment rising.
Two points: it seems a little grotesque to be focusing on creating people trained in STEM solely for the purpose of keeping an "economic edge", as if they were troops that we need to keep us safe, and university students are some kind of army we need to train, and secondly more and more ethical and cultural issues due to what STEM students go on to create have come to light recently, and training in critical thinking, philosophy and even art may help with that - though in a way that also seems wrong-headed: to encourage people to pick humanities subjects to help the people who picked STEM subjects not be unethical. It's Kafkaesque.
That's exactly why they do it!
They should just foist BCL and Borgmon upon the gullible masses. All cloud development will be set back years while people (try to) figure it all out.
I know someone with aphantasia who is an excellent mathematician, I asked him what he does instead of visualising and he says that he does mathematics with the kinesthetic feeling of arbitary imaginary limbs. This may possibly explain why he is one of the very few people I know who seems to experience no conceptual jump in difficulty when solving problems that have 4 or more dimensions when compared to solving those with 3 or less.
Ok so it is this one. I was talking more about how the region itself has features, exceptions/quirks that are different than other AWS regions. Basically a quirks-mode region with differences that may, or may not impact you at some point in time. Or you do have special needs and US-East-1 is the only region that has the special non-standard ability you want to use.
eBay has an api project that appears to have been half-completed and then abandoned. Trying to understand exactly how to use their APIs is extremely confusing because they don't have anything definitive and basically a frankenstein-like API so I've given up. I frankly wouldn't trust anything coming from eBay at this point, they appear to have extremely poor developer support and no investment in making their APIs better to use.
I’d say older people should focus on educating themselves about the various issues in an academic sense, particularly if they haven’t been exposed to the many new issues facing younger people that are often ignored by the many politicians catering to older groups.

Don’t just listen to cable news and partisan radio shows, read studies and learn the statistics/background so you actually understand what they mean. Look up primary sources to get perspectives from younger people who may face very different circumstances than you did at their age.

You have a whole life of experience that can help and hinder; take the time to understand the changing world instead of clinging to the past so you don’t just make things worse.

From my own experience it’s disappointing to see older people ignore or stall on a variety of social issues that no longer affect them because they’re set. Even worse, some ignore or pooh-pooh serious long-term problems just because they’ll be dead when the ill-effects kick in.

I’m not sure what to blame for this selfishness and myopia, but it’s important to remember that “uninformed” is not just an adjective that applies to the young.
I am really curious why people are downvoting this.

I've always thought that a more restrictive and simpler version of yaml would be a good alternative.
Novak Djokovic’s $740 Solution for Processing Your Feelings
Whenever I hear people talk about picking up journaling I come away a little annoyed.

They publicly describe a habit that they claim is useful. To me that implies that they're suggesting others invest time into the habit.

But I've never been compelled by the arguments. I haven't seen someone try to make (even qualitatively) refutable claims. If you don't make refutable claims, how can I experiment in order to see whether the habit makes sense for me?
I cannot read without a pencil. I highlight the important passages and then I make an effort of memorizing that passages. Think you're a monk and are reading the Bible, reading by verses and memorizing, incorporating that into your knowledge. Take notes of related ideas, expand the text, don't be reductionist, think of the whole.
A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind
It's an advertisement for a book.
Headline: "X never works"
Article: "This is not an indictment of X" Goes on to list numerous examples of X working.
Have you found any utility in this stuff with your work?

I mostly just use frameworks that think about this stuff for me while working hard to keep consistency in spacing (padding, margins, etc) which functional ones like basscss and tachyons do a good job of pushing you towards (much more than Bootcamp and others).
Well, why don't you? Job configs in borg are protobufs. GCL can produce the required protocol message but so can any other language or tool. You could use Guile or whatever your heart desires.
I do not think Google figured anything better than BCL.

Disclaimer: Was owner of borgcfg 2016-2019.
https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...
It's on GitHub, if you fork it, they can't kill it. If you use it, contribute to it.
I know in America, in Colorado and Florida, nurses are in demand and paid pretty well. From the people I know, ~$60k+ with a 2 year degree. They're also generally happy with their jobs. They might bounce from one hospital to another for a year or two until they find the company and bosses they like. Then they hunker down. But each one I know had recruiters help place them.
As a brewer myself, it's not always to cut costs. Some of the best IPAs available legitimately require oatmeal in the mash (mash is the grain combined with hot water at a precise temperature to allow enzymes to extract and convert the sugars). In this case it's not done to cut cost, it improves the beer. Mass produced stuff like Budweiser isn't really beer IMO. It's something else entirely.
I've been an Amex cardholder for 19 years and never paid an annual fee. They waive it every time, both for business and personal cards. If you aren't an active user of the card then I could see them pushing back but I've never had any issue at all - it's a 5 minute call for me.
Klingon Language Institute has a web page in English, but not in Klingon. That usually does not happen to Esperanto organizations.

Having two books translated to Klingon is impressive. To compare, the library of UEA offers 770 books in Esperanto in category "Translated Prose", and 362 in category "Original Prose".
https://katalogo.uea.org/index.php?kateg=prtr
https://katalogo.uea.org/index.php?kateg=pror

There is also a Wikipedia in Esperanto, with over 1/4 million articles. Fewer than English with almost 6 million articles, but still more than many languages with millions of native speakers.
https://eo.wikipedia.org/

This is why I find the statement about more Klingon speakers than Esperanto speakers very unlikely, whether now or a decade ago. (Klingon Language Institute boasts about growing fast, while Esperanto speakers usually complain about stagnation; which makes it even less likely that the statement would be true a decade ago if it isn't true now.)
Really unergonomic typing form and posture combined with horrendously unergonomic equipment and furniture is pretty much the standard in most office jobs. (For people who have spent time thinking about the subject, it’s quite depressing to walk around offices and see a large proportion of the workers typing with constantly extended wrists, arms outstretched, hunched or slouched backs, etc.)

It is entirely possible to type (at high speed in continuous bursts of 20–30m, with short breaks between) for 5+ hours per day every day for decades without injuries. The key is to reduce static load on the muscles and put joints in a neutral position, and make sure to occasionally move around.

It used to be that people who did such work first went to secretary school where they were trained in the proper form by experts. Now, everyone teaches themselves with no external feedback, and uses whatever equipment they happen to find lying around, most of which was incompetently designed, with a heavy priority on cost cutting. Almost no office workers are trained in office ergonomics.

The office furniture and computer hardware industries (along with government research funders, etc.) have been underinvesting in ergonomics research for 40+ years. The keyboards now are worse than what was typically used in the 1970s–80s, and desks and chairs are generally about the same. Official ergonomics standards developed by national and international organizations simply codify existing bad practices instead of trying to work out better designs from first principles.

What ergonomics research is done typically investigates how (small samples of) people will react to very slightly different design choices in the short term if given no training and little adjustment time. Usually the measurements taken are methodologically suspect. It’s a mess.
That makes sense that people in Asia would feel that way. With the tariffs China is being hit the worst, and it's probably rippling to that general region.

Also, it makes sense Germany is slowing. Germany's economy is strongly based on higher end exports, but with the drama with Brexit, and US tariffs, Germany is going to be mildly hit, but in the long run, asia has slowly been exporting higher end products. Anecdotal but, 5 years ago I'd buy German made speakers, but today the same companies are manufacturing them in China. Germany is trying to transition to white collar and has been for a few years now, trying to offer good incentives for software engineers to move to Germany.
We do indeed. XML is awful, YAML is a clusterfuck, JSON is often insufficient, and so is INI. TOML looks promising, but might not make it out of its niche.

If Cue is basically a better YAML with built-in schemas, that sounds pretty good.
That's interesting. In that case we should make it much harder and really expensive to get ammo. When facing a gun, you can't be sure it's not loaded, but the number of shots fired especially without specific intended targets will drop drastically.
The idea that US high schools provide a liberal arts education when colleges increasing find themselves unwilling or unable to is a fantasy. The STEM focus was born out of the inadequate secondary education. Those same inadequacies exist in liberal arts education.
I am pretty sure you placed the hate on the wrong target, you probable are hating borgcfg, instead of the GCL/BCL language.

Disclaimer: was borgcfg owner 2016-2019.
https://dnsimple.com/
> I don’t know if this problem has a proper name, but in game development you usually don’t want truly random numbers. I’ve seen the solution named a “pseudo random distribution” but “pseudo random” already has a different meaning outside of game design, so I will just call it controlled randomness for this blog post.

The correct term is probably quasirandom or low-discrepancy sequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
I really think you’re just living in a bubble. I know many recently graduated non-CS engineers who stepped straight into high salaries in their fields. Civil, mechanical, structural, aerospace, petroleum, acoustic, chemical, material, biomed, marine, geological... There are literally hundreds of different specialised engineering disciplines, and so many of them are high-demand and high-paid. Don’t get all your information about the world from SF job listings.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807236
Less footguns, built-in validation, strong types. Me gusta.
There are still grave social injustices in the world, but do you think the US (for example) is worse off than in the 1850's or 1940's?

What would your ideal curriculum be?
Different experience here.

Split keyboards allow you to keep your keep your wrists at a more neutral position vs having your forearms rotated inward but then twisting the wrists outward in order to type on a flat keyboard.. It absolutely helps with my RSI and if I have to use a flat keyboard for an extended period of time I start to get wrist pain.

A split keyboard and ergonomic trackball such as a Microsoft Trackball Explorer or Elecom Deft Pro, combined with a weight training workout, essentially solved RSI for me.
Is it not still the norm? (Though, with an LCD screen of course, not with a CRT.)

Many of my games include some form of vsync option, I think. (E.g., Factorio calls it "Wait for VSync", 7 Days to Die "VSync", Zandronum (a modern Doom port) "Vertical Sync").

My understanding was that it was a trade-off between smooth graphics at the display's framerate, or a faster framerate with potential tearing (on-screen artifact). With it off, you'll "see" something as soon as the currently rendering frame renders a pixel containing whatever is relevant. But with Vsync on, you'd need to wait until the next frame renders (and for it to hit a relevant pixel), introducing a slight delay, and tearing when the new frame overwrites the old frame at the point where the display is currently "drawing"/displaying.

(Though it does seem like it is defaulted to "off". It's my understanding the pro gamers like the lower latency over the visual artifacting.)
I want write once storage. For photo backup. No virus or user error can ever delete my photos.
Never knew of mmult. Will try to look at that technique to simplify the formula.

Aside from that, another user posted excel campus example of filter function. That also returns an array. And pretty much does what I need. However, it is only for office 365 insider and not to be released anytime soon.
That was a coup by the Rhode Island School of Design.[1]

As a result, we now have "maker spaces" with people making collages and doing embroidery, but no metalworking tools.

[1] https://www.risd.edu/academics/public-engagement/
>I'm now in a complex where we all hang out in the parking lot most afternoons.

Sounds like you have something rare and valuable.

Anyway, you make good points. From the point of view of society's health, it's good to create connections between people of different points of view, and this project could end up being harmful if it cloisters likeminded folks together. I would guess that many of the properties listed (such as being a musician or enjoying hiking) cut across fairly wide swaths of society, however.
Yep! I've supported a lot of high profile WordPress installations for about 15 years now, all with varying degrees of customization/applications tied-in. For me it's less reputation and just personal experience of knowing what will be less painful in the long-run to support, scale, and extend.

A lot of people will frown on my advice to pull in the primitives from WP and/or directly tie-in to the existing database. People have an "all-or-nothing" approach to WP/application development and will push you to do things 100% in one tool or another... sometimes this is a great decision, many times it is not.

The truth is, WordPress is a great CMS with backwards compatibility that is astounding... but to maintain that backwards compatibility it has to hold itself back. When I have to work on WordPress sites (way less often by choice) I find the APIs and ergonomics to be horrid and regressive, as-if I was still stuck programming for PHP 5.x.

The downside of what I'm pushing: you have one more codebase to manage/deploy/update/document/etc. For me, that's no big deal. I have an established GitLab pipeline for smooth deployments of WordPress and Laravel codebases alike.

Effectively I've designed my engineering projects/teams around "spinning off a microservice when needed"; but I also work on very large-scale applications. One more thing that keeps this manageable is hella-good documentation _IN THE REPOS_ that link to sibling codebases + describes every significant integration. (WP + Laravel via HTTP API and DB tie-in)

Same goes with the API docs - even if internal, and even if for 1-2 routes: Ensure every potential HTTP request/method/URI is documented and kept up-to-date. I rely on Postman for this so I also get actual tooling along with my docs!

Keep fighting the good fight =)
We used to joke that open-sourcing Borgmon would be an industry-disabling move, but Prometheus is very popular which just proves there's a lot of people with poor taste in software.

FWIW Piccolo has also leaked into the industry in the form of Pystachio.
Zoned SMR storage has almost no use case outside of tape replacement.

The same drives configured in 100% random I/O mode lose a handful percent capacity and the tradeoff for SMR zones is awful: rewrite your entire filesystem stack (thousands of labor hours) and expect awful performance. For most businesses this is not an obvious win.

Meanwhile, big cheap dense SSDs get bigger, cheaper, and denser every day. You don't have to rototill your filesystem to use them effectively. So I don't see a lot of sense in investing in zoned filesystem support when archive tier bottom-dollar storage can just use the unzoned, marginally smaller spinning rust today, and switch to the unzoned, super lower write endurance flash media tomorrow.
Slightly unfortunate naming, as there is already a Vector project in the metrics space.

http://getvector.io/
That might be a case for the Swedish implementation of GDPR.
That’s a fair description of the syntax, but Clojure is more than just syntax.
https://lifehacker.com/know-what-countries-guarantee-drinkab... and https://i.redd.it/q428xlnjh2f21.png

Looks like unsafe dominates safe to me, by far. In the America’s, only Canada and the USA have potable water. In Asia, it’s only South Korea, Japan, and the rich city states (HK, Singapore, Brunei). In Africa, nothing, in the Middle East, just Israel.

Europe is the exception, but then it’s mostly just the EU countries. Serbia and Croatia aren’t listed as having safe drinking water (I assume it’s the pipes that are of concern, not source, like first tier Chinese cities).
There's always optical media or SD cards with physical write-protect toggles. (If you leave the optical media in the writer, though, conceivably an absurdly specific virus could cause the device to burn out existing contents.)
I'm assuming workerpool doesn't support closures? Judging from its GitHub page, it doesn't look like it.

From my own experience:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20192486
Ask HN: Why code “post-reviews” isn't a thing?
Regular code-reviews are supposed to catch errors, bad style, or bad architectural decisions early on in the process. For it to work, however, everyone should be super disciplined and spend a lot of brain-power reading through each diff. Usually, it's really hard to dig into someone's code until you're fully int the cotext (read: working on the same piece of code). On the other hand, I often find myself in the situation when I'm dealing with someone else's code and think, "Oh god, how could I even approve this PR?". The next thing I usually want to do is let the team, and specifically, the code author, know that this is how we should NOT DO things. The problem, however, is that the code-review window has closed and there's no other standard place (besides GitHub PRs) to comment on the code.

I'm wondering if commenting on the code AFTER it has been merged is standard practice on some project and if there are any good tools for that.
I suppose a refutable claim that could be made by this post is “People who regularly journal gain more self awareness than those who do not”
I suspect this is because Clojure developers tend to be more senior.
It's like the QLC drives with SLC/MLC cache (e.g., Intel 660p) except the performance cliff is far, far worse (and obviously the "fast" mode is far worse as well).
While those are good terms for deterministic uniform random number generators, that is not what the author’s talking about.

He’s referring to how in games, you sometimes don’t want random patterns. But even when you do, you don’t want the pattern to be truly random, because true randomness sometimes feels unfair and sometimes feels un-fun.

It’s a concept with a broader scope than low-discrepancy sequences.
Yeah, I am grossly oversimplifying things with my definition. For these belts, "wine" is used to describe anything made from fruit. They also mention cider drinking regions of the UK as potentially part of the wine belt.

Really there should probably be a fourth belt covering SE Europe, but as these are only used for informal discussion it doesn't really matter.
There is a large difference between battle-tested tech maintained by a properly staffed team and a proof of concept built by someone in their spare time.

The title certainly made me think that it was the former, even though it's the latter.
You might want to check out Apache Drill. It allows you to access structured files as database tables through JDBC/ODBC.
It's Distributed Systems, the context is Paxos after all...
Show HN: Log File Anomaly Detector
Amazon Route 53 has both a CLI and an API
Hi! I'm Larry, founder and CTO at Zebrium. I used to build bespoke machine data analytics platforms for software and appliance vendors. These systems were really useful, but it took a lot of work to make and maintain them. So, I took a couple years to myself to learn, apply, and develop the ML chops I needed to build such a system automatically. That's what Zebrium is all about: applying a range of techniques at different scales to achieve near-100% structured log data coverage, with no supervision or pre-structuring, from as little as 100K of real-world log data.

Our software builds a catalog of event types and parameters for each of a set of log types (for us, a "stack" corresponds to a set of log types). With this context, it finds "anomalies" through the logs, using a model built on a set of features. These features include simple things like severity and first/rare occurrence, and complex things like change in rate/periodicity, cross-event-type and cross-stream correlation, NLP topic, and timeseries features. We've trained our model on data from a few dozen stacks, including dozens of real and interesting "anomalies" the operators would have liked to see uncovered.

Our software seems to spit out "good stuff" most of the time, and tends not to want to "ring the pager" when nothing breaks. I think it's become quite useful - but I'm biased. :) We want to continue to make it better, so we want to get feedback on what happens when people submit log files with interesting problems that could have been spotted within the logs. Let us know what we get right and wrong.

Our SaaS service is in private beta, but anyone can try our log anomaly detection. You can upload up to 5 logs at once (more data and related files improve accuracy) and get a report listing your anomalies, the reasons for the anomalies, and a visualization of the event patterns within your logs. The report is sent to you by email (this is why we ask for your email address). The service is free and you can use it as many times as you want (limit 500MB of logs each use). Please try it (www.zebrium.com/anom-detector) and let us know what you think.
We still haven't.

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