skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, I can't upload anything into S3. I'm unable to, from memory, create or modify any of my own buckets. My account is in some weird half-suspended state from a past billing incident, long resolved, where things mostly work - but modifying S3 is not one of them. Support insisted everything was fine even as I uploaded videos of the failures and eventually I just gave up.

I leave a few legacy things running there (billing works, of course) but these days just put personal stuff on Digital Ocean, which seems to meet basically all my needs without the complexity and cheaper to boot.
Thanks. 20 years in the states and still not getting it right at times ;-)
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While I was in France, I saw an interesting solution to this on their Metro system.

Maps were physical and line maps were even built into the train itself, with an indicator light showing where the train was on the line. When a stop was closed for maintenance or closed early or something, a vinyl sticker was placed over the stop with updated information. It was seamless and blended in with the style of the existing map.

A solution like this would be adequate in most areas I think.
Are you familiar with quantum Monte Carlo? This is just variational QMC, a well established method, with a neural network as an ansatz. Traditionally QMC uses ad-hoc ansatzes anyway, so this is not different.

Also, I‘ve spent last seven years doing DFT calculations, and although sometimes one can explain the failures, more often than not it‘s just intransparent. QMC is actually in the core of DFT, because QMC calculations on the uniform electron gas have been used to parametrize LDA in DFT.
slingshot boy is cool.

the young boys with the array of plastic guns is a bit disturbing*

* to a non north american at least
Aspie is usually not considered derogatory... more casual and friendly. Some may not like the word but it doesn't have any sort of sinister connotation. I see pretty much every synonym for Autism or Aspergers being used derogatorily online.
And that’s spending all your money on food, leaving nothing for anything else!
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Professional lawyers posing as peers psychologically tortuting him to shatter his worldview, while the professor that led the experiment manipulated him to continue.

Given that he secluded himself and wrote about his ideology for years like a comic book villain origin story, it's safe to say they took to too far, whatever it is they did.

Also, afaik MK tested lacing with different doses, and only the big incidents were disclosed. Why wouldn't you suspect drugging here too?
this is arguably much, much worse than the Epstein donation stuff.

Accepting these donations is morally shady. Their treatment of Swartz is downright evil.
Many people are prone to the feared "afternoon slump", or however you might call it. Cutting down on your lunch is a good way to ameliorate that. For myself, even on the days where I'm not doing IM, I won't eat more than a sandwich or a bun around noon. My main meal is always dinner.
I understand. I think if you or someone else were skeptical, they'd probably be right to be. But you'd be surprised how far you can get using heuristics and experimentation with low-risk nutritional products to determine if they are beneficial or not, although any results achieved this way are understandably not very convincing to an external observer.

I think a good heuristic is if something is a very common nutritional element, then it's likely safe. Vitamin K2 in its MK-4 form is found in the cheese and meat products produced by grass-fed animals (think Netherlands, France...), while its MK-7 form can be found in certain plant-based products fermented with B. subtilis (Natto). People eat high-K2 diets around the world. It was certainly not going to kill me to try it out at a dose not exceeding what you can get from food (e.g. Natto can have 1000mcg of K2 MK-7 in a single serving!).

I also try not to take most supplements every day, because the idea is simply to top off levels of things I'm deficient in, plus to give the body some time to eliminate the supplement after using it, which reduces toxicity risks even further (turnover is an important factor), and also reduces the risks of forming a dependency (for example, I don't take taurine supplements every day, in case the body's own taurine production would get suppressed).

edit: "what to combine it with or not,"

It complements vitamin D, magnesium and calcium. I discuss this briefly in another post in this comment tree.
Of course, the worse thing than being an idiot is being a slow idiot.
Just because something is better does not make it good.
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Wow, I have the complete opposite experience. Monitoring, metrics graphs and logs are just miles ahead in Google IMO. It's so much easier for getting visibility.

Do you really prefer Cloudwatch to Stackdriver? How about having a Lambda being triggered both on SNS messages and HTTP requests (setting up a proxy) and having that Lambda deployed with a CD pipeline - compared to doing the same with Cloud Functions?

But I guess it also really boils down to which products you make the most use how, how and your scale. Clearly we have different preferences.

I guess I am not seeing the bad parts you do because 1) Apart from DNS and some IAM, most infra changes are done from Terraform or CLI and 2) I have pretty high-end workstation.
Can you elaborate on the "gaps"? See my other answers. I am trying to be as precise as one can be.
You might like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542258

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For me that isn't the problem. It's mapping the several-thousand acronym riddled hairballs into reality. The reality matches no other reality which means the knowledge is probably useless in 20 years time, much as the knowledge I had of proprietary stuff then is useless now. My head has only a certain amount of space and motivation for ephemeral complexity hairballs like AWS.

At this point I have to wonder if this is intentional. It makes it difficult to escape if all you know is AWS's reality abstractions.
Initially, or later, when the large, mechanical apex predator has cleared the area?
Which is why some people, like Paul Vixie (no DNS dummy, he), think that this is an absolutely terrible idea.

Mozilla is now basically dictating policy to organizations.
No one knows what attention is
Uploading to S3 is easy until it isn't. It works pretty nicely for one-offs but when you have to blast a few hundred gigs into it or large files from a bit of software you wrote it's a royal pain in the butt. The phrase "multi-part upload" makes me cry inside.
And policies never change. There is never a change of management, especially after a company goes public (which CF is planning to do). /s
It remained me this gif https://www.jokejive.com/images/jokejive/4d/4d735fbf33e893db...
And how the hell is split-horizon DNS supposed to work if resolve.conf is ignored?

This may be "fine" for (some) home users, but most organizations have a whole bunch of internal-only records. And even a lot of residences have things like printers and such that live under .local: how is the browser supposed to connect to those?

Who the fsck is Mozilla that they get to dictate policy in my IT organization about how DNS "should" work?
If the screens can't change at all, I agree, but non-interactive doesn't necessarily mean not changeable.

If they can be changed, this situation is a tough call. I can see the benefit to screens if NYCT can

- Replace the images with emergency messages fast

- Change the maps without the cost of sending crews

- Save money and energy with screens (not sure which has less environmental or financial impact, printing and replacing many maps or powering a disposable screen)

High resolution would still beat low, though under magnification still seems readable to me.

Glad to see NYCT at least appear open to input and a citizen so giving. They should hire him!
"On WeChat, for example, group chats are discovered entirely by word-of-mouth or QR code—there is no global search option. The QR code is automatically disabled once a group reaches 100 members. Once the group grows to that size, users can only join if invited by a friend; groups are capped at 500. This means that even large group chats have a built-in social filter, since anyone who joins the group is likely the friend of at least one other existing group member. As a result, every group feels like a secret, known only to other members."

I couldn't imagine Facebook limiting group size. It seems like mass groupings and mass trends are kind of the bread and butter of western culture. I am reminded of how anti "Sorcery of the Spectacle" this is.

* The paranoia about mass action in china has created a new kind of artificial collectivism/individualism hybrid: The capped size group. * We are seeing a new form of social organziation! People, this is momentus! Seriously, go read "Sorcery of the Spectacle" again and think deeply about what this means. It's practically a re-conquering by the proletariat of the social sphere!

The no global search thing is crazy. You actually have to know people who tell you about things? How absurdly 1990s! The whole thing reminds me a bit of the mailing list culture of the late 90s. That all got eaten by Facebook groups, but it could have been something different.

"Cultivating a sense of safety is key. Unlike WhatsApp and Signal, which reveal users’ private cell phone numbers to the group– or the now-defunct chats within Facebook Groups, which exposed users’ real identities–WeChat allows its users to adopt aliases. Those anonymous usernames act as a privacy shield, giving users control over how their identities are displayed. (Though it’s hidden from other group users, WeChat does require a phone number and real-name verification to sign up, which curtails anonymous troll abuse.)"

So they've learned from 4chan!
That's why the notion of practical significance exists expressed most frequently as an effect size.
What if they are dropping out because they are not good at it? I like playing music but I'll never be good enough for any orchestra. If I had been told ever since I was a child that a) I can be a professional musician if I want to (in fact, that I should become one because there aren't enough with my kind of genitals), and b) that I will face discrimination, then when I inevitably fail what do you think I will attribute it to?

It should be abundantly clear that certain groups, especially white women, are actually preferentially selected. There is no discrimination against them. Other groups, like black women, may have a stronger case, but you can't just take an individual's word that they failed due to discrimination. There needs to be evidence far beyond self-reported victimisation.
Jugaad has been mentioned a few times on HN. Here's the largest discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597509

And here are some BBC Radio programmes about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ng09d

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cstydc
Original: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-top-program...
Your sort of reiterating my point.

I know UI stuff breaks a lot, but my point is that when it does break, its obvious. Bugs should be easily caught in human acceptance testing.

Also an automated test UI is never going to be the same as a human test, a lot of UI bugs can result from the vagaries of various physical devices touchscreens / gamepads / motion controls etc.

Also anything that tests such high level functionality is going to be very complicated and touch many parts of your code, it will probably be more complicated and less maintainable than the code its testing, which defeats the purpose imo, do you want to write tests for your tests?

UI stuff tends to change radically over development, so you'd be more than doubling your work with all the testcode youd have to write.

and it would still never replicate an actual human running the actual game, you absolutely are still going to be doing human acceptance tests + the closer you try and get automated tests to that the more complex and less maintainable they get.
A series of loaded questions does not convince anyone :) With large accounts all of these tools start to break down, by that point it's much easier to work from the command line than, say, navigating GCloud's single global view of VMs which becomes actively harmful in this case. I run 1500 instance load tests on GCloud quite regularly, so this is not some imaginary problem, and genuinely large accounts can easily grow to 10x that

I'll always prefer the ability to quickly hit refresh than waiting 4 seconds because I made the mistake of ctrl-clicking a link, and now a new tab is 'booting'. But I guess this preference depends on how quickly one expects to be able to get their job done
Technically you're right of course but I think you miss the broader point. AWS is ludicrously complicated and overkill for most startups, like a corner store implementing SAP. The problem is it's the gold standard for "cloud" and choosing anything else (apart from GCS, perhaps) attracts the need for justifications and, ultimately, unwelcome accountability. "Nobody ever got fired for [choosing AWS]".

I'd personally love it if AWS implemented a digital ocean-like "basic" interface which, realistically, covers 90% of startups' needs. Simple is good. If needed, they can switch over to "Fortune 500 mode" later.
Total opposite experience. AWS UI is slow, workflow is terrible. Google cloud is much better.

Mind you once you get to a certain point using the APIs is better.
Modern wind turbines already are safer for bird life. The windmills that killed raptors were the small fast-moving ones, which are being replaced by more efficient, and gigantic, slow moving ones.
Google seems intent on ruining their decent image search engine. The removal of features like search by exact size is making it worthless for certain tasks, without a good alternative.
According to the Twitter thread, MIT had Epstein flagged so they wouldn't take any money from him. Ito and his team got around this by marking all Epstein's donations as anonymous and carefully hiding him from the University.

I don't have a dog in this race but it seems to me that Ito has to go. Poor judgement in accepting donations from Epstein is one thing, but hiding it from the University and lying about it cannot be acceptable.
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So often, most of my answers were found on Stackoverflow.
I live right next to a major highway construction project. They work in all weathers (or at least try to) and 24 hours a day. 100% male. Funny how nobody is crying foul about this clear case of discrimination. Yet in tech/IT we're failing if the numbers are not 50/50 apparently.
Lets try to be a little more honest.

> 1. What do you want to do differently in your next role?

Earn more money

> 2. Imagine yourself in three years. What do you hope will be different about you then compared to now?

Being more wealthy

> 3. For the last few companies you've been at, take me through: (i) When you left, why did you leave? (ii) When you joined the next one, why did you choose it?

1. Because the job sucked
2. Because I need to pay the bills

> 4. Among the people you've worked with, who do you admire and why?

The CEO of company X, because she managed to free herself from this life sucking process

> 5. Tell me about a time you took unexpected initiative. Follow-up: Can you tell me about another?

I left several jobs because the code base and the colleagues sucked too much

> 7. What motivates you to work?

The need for money

> 8. Looking back on the last five years of your career, what’s the highlight?

Every time again, the holiday

> 9. What are you really good at, but never want to do anymore?

Being a brown noser

> 10. What’s the difference between someone who’s great in your role versus someone who’s outstanding?

Even better ass licking

> 11. How did you prepare for this interview?

I didn't prepare, I just try to be honest

> 12. What do you believe you can achieve with us personally or professionally that you can't anywhere else in the world?

Hopefully I can up my salary for the next gig

> 13. What are the three most important characteristics of this function? How would you stack rank yourself from strongest to least developed among these traits?

It is not sane to rank myself against unknown factors

> 14. Tell me about your ideal next role. What characteristics does it have from a responsibility, team, and company culture perspective? What characteristics does it not have?

My ideal next role is developing software for my own product. The main characteristic would be:

- no annoying managers to manipulate me
- no forced 'happy team'
- no agile or scrum
- no spaghetti codebase
- no code reviews
- no managers and self made 'important' people taking a cut of my produce
- no need to lick ass of colleagues to survive the office politics
- no traffic jams, no commuting
- a healthier and happier life in general

At this point I expect to be rejected from the interview, and wish them all the best.
It may not as big as it looks due to Mercator, but Russia is still the world’s largest country by a very large margin (almost a factor of two).
We should try to make wind turbines safe for birds because it's the right thing to do, but we should focus our energy elsewhere if preserving bird life is a goal: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/chart-cats-vs-t...
I wouldn’t go that far. I use a combination of the console, Cloud Formation, the CLI, and Python scripts for dev ops/infrastructure type work and Python, JavaScript/Node and C# for development.
It's a good effort by ISRO and it's scientist. Just can't understand why so many countries reinventing the wheels. Space missions should be multi-country efforts continuously as it belongs to all. We should not extend our tribal nationalistic thinking to space.

Best scientist can be in any nation and more diverse the group and experience the better chances of success.

I know I am just dreaming, but hopefully we can come to consensus and try challenges of space as a new frontier as a single human race, originating from Africa.
LSD may have unearthed Olson's conscience, which doesn't mesh well will having been involved in human torture. I think LSD may be the opposite of mind control. ( I don't think it's safe though )
Given the successful landing would've been a political bragging point, could contact have been lost deliberately by people with a different political affiliation?
What, in your opinion, could be improved for remote-only companies?
Compared to where ? $2 isn't even worth the same, depending of the place you are in the US.
Is your objection to the use of the word "kowtow"?

What word would you use to describe the examples given in the article?

"Kowtow" means to act in a submissive manner. Is your argument really that Epstein was so submissive to the Media Lab that he could not have refused to donate the money? Because that makes no sense.
We don't discard anything because we don't specifically identify or recognize these faces in the first place.

I don't think we go back to old photos, I suspect it would not be practical. But I am not positive on this one.
I would hazard a guess that people’s intuition with shapes on a flat surface works better than their intuition on a curved surface, even though a globe is physically available.
Why is that hard? The CLI automatically does multi part uploads. It’s also simple with the various AWS SDKs.
I am addressing your ideas - they're cynical, selfish, and unnecessarily assume the worst in people who are working hard to help others.

https://xkcd.com/1432/
Interestingly, the Stockholm metro system puts compass roses on the platforms (probably intended to provide some feeling of connection to the outside world), but not at the exits where they would actually be useful.
The live stream was heavily oriented towards the VIPs in the mission control room. There were interesting things going on but the video kept angling for reaction shots. It was annoying if you came for the space and all you got was the politics.
I'm curious, could you point me at a shop that has a better UI? So far, all the other online shops I used so far (and that have a varied set of items) were either on par or much worse. Most of them were bog slow, search didn't work as expected, or some other aspect failed to work properly. Those that were on par were for specialised products.
Oh please, are you yourself a pedophile? You don't know the meaning. Pedophiles should be presecuted for what they are capable of. Most pedophiles have already done damage to kids.
No. We’re different groups of people with different interests, different values, different ideas principles cultures histories views of the world. It’s good for us to be competing to explore space (and in trying to develop technological advantages in general). For countries like India it’s critical to develop their own technologies on this front. Otherwise they’ll remain eternally dependent on America, etc., for access to space.

A “single human race” would be a deeply dysfunctional, unworkable mega-society. Our societies are already too big to be governable. (Ever notice how in Star Trek, aside from token, curated, differences, trillions of people are somehow almost completely culturally homogenous? That’s what makes the federation governable. But it would never work that way in real life. There would be intense conflict. The idea of a society that big being governable is part of the science fiction.)
Live in Germany, and I care about handling, breaking power, and acceleration at rarely >50km/h, and often at >100-130km/h. Acceleration at 0-100km/h makes no sense for any meaningful use of a car here.

When I'm driving at >250km/h on the highway and one truck tries to overtake another at 80-90km/h, people driving 130 on the middle lane end up switching to the fast lane, so I have to break down to 100-130 km/h, and re-accelerate back up to >250km/h afterwards. The faster that happens, the less my average speed falls.

In Germany at least, one never lands into the highway merging lane at lestt than 60-70km/h, and the normal thing is to be at 50km/h and slowly move towards 80km/h for merging once you are on the merging lane and merge carefully. By the time you finish merging you are already at 120km/h in the slow lane.

If you are driving curvy roads, you want good handling so that you don't have to break down to less than 50-60km/h most of the time, and then you want good acceleration from 50-60 up to 100 km/h, and good breaking. You can't drive curvy roads here faster than 100km/h anyways.

Nurburgring is a mixture between highway and track-curvy roads (realistic curvy roads in germany are not like that), where a skilled driver with a car with good handling rarely drops below 130km/h in the curves, and is at about 250 km/h on all straight segments except for the very last one. Being able to reach 300km/h in the last segment is nice, but it only makes a dent in the overall lap time and doesn't really help if your car has bad handling. Also, its the last segment of the lap, so if your EV is overheating you'll fail miserably there.

The only situation I can imagine in which 0-60 matters is if you are drag racing, and for that, I have a 9.000 EUR BMW S1000R that beats pretty much every single car. Why would anyone pay >80.000 EUR for a drag racing car escapes my comprehension. Why would anyone care about Nurburgring times escapes my comprehension as well. I was once there with the bike, and I almost shit my pants. There is a huge difference between smoothly cruising at 250 km/h in a Germany highway, and driving at 250km/h on Nurburgring. People driving there are insane.
Attaching to a very thin cable seems problematic, friction would wear on it at high speeds.
I wonder whether a linear induction motor (also acting as contactless magnetic bearing) would be possible or fail due to the small surface area.