skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This one time a van cut me off turning right across a bike lane while I was cruising at approx. 25mph on 8th St. in SF

When approaching an intersection, it's best to ride in the general traffic lane that corresponds to the direction you plan to go. Trying to overtake traffic that may turn right on the right will almost certainly result in what happened to you. CVC (California Vehicle Code) makes an exception to the requirement to ride in the bike lane where right turns are authorized in 21208 (4) [1].

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll launch soon http://ngrid.io.
Hi, thanks for the feedback!
Are you referring to disk/space bandwidth?
Git being "distributed" version control is meant as distributed because it doesn't require a central checkout server, and GitHub is simply a distribution (not checkout) server
Thanks for the thoughts.

> My new hope is that "mainstream" cloud infrastructure will push towards being incrementally more and more decentralized on a technical level

That sounds pretty close to what I'm doing with my current project. Start with a centralized platform that is instanced per-user under the hood, provide tangible benefits vs the big guys, and eventually open source it for self-hosting. That's the dream anyway.
True about Sansa not being FOSS, but it was at least flashable with FOSS due to the effort of the Rockbox community. I looked at the AGPT Rocker, but again, it's way too large (IMO) for its simple function. And needlessly expensive.

Here's hoping someone tries to fill the market hole.
Integration between the various services. Any individual service is pretty straightforward, but bringing all the pieces together can be a challenge (security, networking, etc.) Billing is also a big deal - your solution can end up being very expensive.

A better way to learn it, IMO, is to come up with some project, and implement it. For example, a typical webpage with a backend db, some storage, DNS, maybe load balancing. Avoid EC2 options, only because that's too easy (it's just a VM).

It won't be incredibly difficult, but it isn't as easy as spinning up a VM on your local machine.

Hope this helps.
As an added bonus, people with these skills cost x3 as much as a standard engineer. HR will love it!
Ironic from a site called Wanken...
It’s not getting worse, though.

Canadian provinces’ public schools are ranking in the top 10 of world countries.

https://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/provincial/education.aspx

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40708421

As an aside, I do not trust the Fraser Institute to be unbiased on the matter of any kind of public spending. Public spending is a essentially against their core values.
In case anyone is confused: although the "fees" are covered under many circumstances you nevertheless need to pay a "student contribution" "service charge" of around 3000 euro at most institutions. So, it ends up being the same as fees were a few decades ago anyway.

A lack of popular support for the truly free education movement (some name like FEIS if I remember correctly) while it looked like the Celtic Tiger was going to provide every Irish(wo)man with a rental property in Bulgaria led us to this pass.
I used to work remotely and could not deal with the loneliness and social isolation; now I'm not sure I would consider a full on remote role. I consider myself introverted and the social interaction at work is all the interaction I have, really
A study titled "Head Injuries As a Cause of Road Travel Death in Cyclists, Pedestrians and Drivers" has the following quoted text in its conclusions section:

> Head injuries in cyclists are often considered to be an important cause of road travel death, but this depends on the metric used for assessing importance. Pedestrians and drivers account for five and four times the number of fatal head injuries as cyclists. No-one is calling for pedestrians to wear helmets although the fatal head injury rates are similar for cyclists and pedestrians. The rate is higher for cyclists than pedestrians by time travelled and is higher for pedestrians than cyclists using distance travelled.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221414051...
I disagree with this.

Chrome's Omni bar, and even newer Firefox addressbar encourage the use of search engines, and I have never seen someone type "bestgloves.com". At worst, they search for Gloves on their favorite seller web site (which can be different in many countries, Amazon in US/EU, Shopee in Indonesia, etc).
We'll get there. I don't believe for a minute that kentonv doesn't still plan on being a part of that future.

> This needs some sort of WRT54G kinda moment, synology or ???, you needed to have a last mile partner or a host (vpn in to services)

While I love the idea of everyone running their own hardware, I've been thinking recently that physical separateness might be the least important aspect of decentralization. I think alignment of incentives is more important. What I mean is that having your apps/data on google's servers isn't necessarily a problem, but being locked into their platform and unable to easily change is. When it's simple and convenient for customers to change providers, companies are incentivized to maintain high quality products and features such as privacy guarantees.
Shouldn't let the engineers write the emails...me included.
These kinds of concerns are why I put all my "untrusted" devices on a separate VLANs, so I can reliably shut them out of the internet. Simple VLAN-enabled switches don't cost that much any more. Such a switch allows you to treat any port of the switch as a distinct network interface on your main router, where you can just disable forwarding for selected interfaces entirely. It also prevents your untrusted devices from seeing each other, i.e. your printer wont't be physically able to send ethernet frames to your VoIP phone, even if connected to the same switch. Here is some introduction to the concept:

http://corecom.com/external/livesecurity/vlans.htm
I came from CUBASE and it took me a couple attempts to get used to ableton

Frankly thinking of it as a sequencer is a limiting mental model.

Think of it as a instrument to jam with.

When I used cubase I spend about 20% of the time with jamming together a basic idea and then 80% with arranging.

Ableton flipped that for me...now I spend 80% of the time jamming (and loving it) and only all the way at the end I quickly create the arrangement once I am already super familiar with all the parts I created during jamming.

It’s had a really super positive on my creative quality!
Ask HN: Favorite Lifestyle Resources?
I'm looking for some lifestyle activities/writing for people like myself who i'd categorize as: early/middle career (mid twenties), high income earners (or working in tech), uni educated, single no kids and open minded. What I'm interested in is exploring other mental models or ways or living outside my habits. I'm open to coaching or any retreats if anyone has any recommendations.

Some examples I can think of are:

- Various financial blogs/books (rich dad poor dad, FIRE communities etc.)

- Derek Sivers' Blog https://sivers.org/blog

- Self Authoring by Jordan Peterson https://www.selfauthoring.com
> AWS purportedly puts design documents forward in the form of six-pagers. They start meetings with a 20 minute silent reading session. It's like the book club from hell.

Not just AWS- that's an Amazon-wide technique. And it's freaking amazing. You should try it.

Look, there's two other options. 1- let someone bullshit you with PowerPoint for an hour and skim over critical details. 2- send out the doc ahead of time for everyone to read before the meeting and have every single attendee say "ah yeah I only had time to skim it, but looks good to me". Wasted time.

The Amazon design review meeting involves no bullshitting, no homework before the meeting that gets skipped. We all arrive. We read the entire doc, on paper, red pens in hand. Then we dive into questions on the important bits and anything circled by those red pens.

Generally takes a lot less time as far as meetings go.

[Bias note: I've been at Amazon, but not AWS, for 7 years. These are my own opinions and not company statements]
Ask HN: Is there any point in trying to clear your online footprint
I'm starting to get worried about online privacy. I'd like try and remove some of my online identity. I'm not sure if there is any point. My plan is to shutdown all social media accounts and email. Re-opening new more anonymous ones.

Is this going to actually do anything or will Google and other marketers figure out I'm the same person and I'll be tracked all the same?

My concern comes from tools like this https://github.com/Greenwolf/social_mapper. Given this sort of thing it seems too easy for online blackmail/extortion scams to get hold of my information.
This is really funny, but I'm curious for people in the know on this: if you were starting from scratch (so no legacy), would GCP or Azure be better? As far as I can tell AWS's main advantage is cost -- is that fair?
Most businesses can probably run on a single server from OVH (see Paul Tyma's Mailinator architecture for inspiration: 1.2 billion emails on a single server, http://highscalability.com/mailinator-architecture), but I suspect a lot of folks in tech want to pad their resume with cloud buzzwords, so they recommend overcomplicated architectures to business that they absolutely wouldn't spend their own money on. So much of tech design, nay, tech thinking, is based on following fashion trends, it's shocking.
The first couple times are tough, like toilet training. Sometimes to learn you gotta pee on the rug. And when you (the parent) aren't there to react, the novelty of their disaster-play goes away - surprisingly fast. Little brains work faster than I think we give them credit for. Their bodies are not strong but that brain is some kind of magic sponge.
I just don't talk about my stuff online that much anymore. I'm still excited by VR, probably more so now than ever now that I have a great job where people really appreciate me. I can do so much better work now. I can actually look at my GitHub commit records and see the timeline.

I try (and often fail) to remember the 90/9/1 rule of online communities. 90% of people are only lurkers. The next 90% (9% of total) of people only comment. It's only 1% of people that create things. It's why I have retreated from taking about my projects online. Literally 99% of the people looking at your project have no idea what it's like to build something.

Stay in touch. You can find my contact info on my website. I might need help in the future.
Best takes (so far):

- Nobody has figured out how to make money from AI/ML other than by selling you a pile of compute and storage for your AI/ML misadventures.
- "AWS stole our open source project and turned it into a service!" is the rallying cry of people who suck at business models.
- Amazon's managed ElasticSearch offering is awful because it's ElasticSearch.
- A major reason to go public cloud that @awscloud can't say outright is "you people freaking suck at running datacenters."
- Route 53 isn't really a database, but then again, neither is Redis.
- MultiCloud is a good idea if you're tetched in the head; it treats cloud solely as "a place to run a bunch of VMs." If that's all you're doing, go you I guess. Bring money!
- Reserved Instances are the best way to take the on-demand promise of the cloud, and eviscerate it completely by forcing customers to think of it like it's an ancient datacenter. "Enjoy your three year planning cycles, schmucks!"
- Baby seals get more hits than the [AWS] forums do.
- "You should deploy everything to be HA across multiple regions" is the rallying cry of armchair architects who don't pay their own AWS bills by a long shot.
- "What does AWS have that GCP doesn't?" "A meaningful customer base"
- There's only one place to see every resource in your AWS organization, in every region: the AWS bill.
- DocumentDB isn't a perfect MongoDB clone yet, and can't be until it's just as good at trashing your production data.
- Netflix has assembled many of the most brilliant engineers on the planet so they can... use @awscloud to stream movies. Draw your own conclusions.
Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties
As much as we like to think that we don't have to pay for premium domains, they still do have a good reason to purchase..

Not all TLDs are treated equally. Think of this yourself: would you trust URLs with .xyz or .to? Those domains are used so much in spam (because they are cheap or free), and we already have bias against them.

At best, these novelty TLDs work as an extension to the .com domain. If you can, always always buy the .com. you will probably need to pay a premium (domainers awfully overcharge you), or choose an abstract name at least.

You will need to think about the TLS registry and technical details as well:

- Most novelty TLD nameservers are run on "shared" nameservers that handle other TLDs as well.
- Some TLD nameservers are quite slow as well, which can result in recursive nameservers to be slow.
- DNSSEC, Nameserver glue, and whois considerations.
- Registries will have to pay ~$25K in annual fees in addition to costs to run the servers. This cost will be spread among domain owners. This is one of the reasons why certain TLDs tend to be expensive (apart from the registry greed)
religion largely claims to make your life better by teaching you how to interact with each other. it uses believe and fear of an unprovable entity to do that, sure.

but you can verify if it does make your and everyone elses life better or not.

those that claim to be messengers of god should be recognized by their fruits, that is, by the effect they have on society.
How quickly does it wash out?
No- It seemed that when I would try to use arrangement view to string sessions together, they seemed disconnected from the session I was just editing. I basically just end up using Push to sample chop and then move what I find to other software or hardware.
My "go to" answer for these issues is to run the address in virustotal.com, which will tell you about any blacklisting issues the domain may have.

In this case however, and firefox on my machine, I cannot find any issues.
Yes. This is amazing technology and looks fantastic.

No it is not what is generally referred to as a ‘Ken Burns’ effect, which I think is a distraction in the title.

Because this is awesome!

Also how can I use this for a project I am literally doing production on right now??

Edit: People usually just call this parallax.
You’re correct. I just don’t see any argument for jQuery that doesn’t boil down to “I don’t want to take the time to learn how the DOM works” at some level, and it makes me mad on the internet.
Pretty neat!
It seems to work pretty well for everyone. FHIR developers are keenly aware of the version of the spec they are (currently) targeting.

Also they are color coded.
Knowing how to flex your ankles and set the seatpost height and gear ratio correctly lends itself to a style known as spinning that reduces the need to have the foot completely latched into a pedal while you mash and pull.
>jQuery was always a convenience layer over the DOM

jQuery is, among other things, an alternative DOM manipulation API built on top of native ones.
And it is a better API at it.
I say that because we have voted with our feet and querySelectorAll is clearly inspired by, but still a paltry copy of it.

>When you say "native alternative to jQuery" it's clear that you don't understand the orders of magnitude difference in effort required between standardization and browser implementation of new APIs versus throwing a library up on github.

I'm sorry, you are not making much sense. jQuery predates GitHub by a few years and was, at its heyday, more important than any single browser alone, I'd argue. Its API has been stable since before open web standards was a largely agreed upon thing.

>If browser vendors adopted jQuery APIs, you'd have a redundant DOM…

It wouldn't be redundant, it would be the default. I don't think you understand what I was questioning.

>…incompletely implemented, with unique bugs in each browser…

Again, not much sense. Why is implementing the current API guaranteed to be any more complete and bug free?

>…and probably being widely deployed just in time for React to come into fashion and make it all irrelevant.

From the article:

“jQuery is the most widely used JavaScript library in the world.”
“W3Techs estimates that about 74 percent of all websites use jQuery.”

Please explain how that's irrelevant in any way.
I don't want to come across like I'm prying. I just want to hear an interesting story. You seem like someone who's working hard to build a cool product that puts community first and isn't controlled by just one company. That's cool. I want to hear more. What are your values? What are your struggling against? What sort of opportunities did VMware have for improving its management process? For example, did community work get delegated to a product manager in a way that made you feel disconnected from your base? Did they intend to monetize the product in a way that made you feel uncomfortable? If you're making personal sacrifices to defend the community, then why not let the community know?
Ask HN: What are your favorite sci fi audiobooks?
Ive heard this from quite a few folks. I dont do a lot of ITB recording though, so that may be my problem. I mainly use my 2 SPs (SP-1200/Sp-16) for the jamming part along with keys/guitar/bass. By the time I fire up software the idea is already there, and I want to arrange it.
*inherent dangers
It was a bad security feature anyway, easy to bypass
I agree, but I add one thing that I've seen a lot of decentralization efforts ignore: If I decide to move servers, I need to be able to take with me not just my data, but my software (apps). Otherwise, self-hosting tends to mean accepting second-rate software, and choosing the best software means also choosing the servers provided by the same company. These should be separate decisions.
If killer robots are “banned”, then defenses against killer robots won’t be developed, and a country or other entity that decides to use killer robots, will be capable of surprise attack that makes Pearl Harbor look like amateur hour.
I don't fault ES for this necessarily, but the biggest problem with ES is, it's easy to build something that looks like it works, right until it doesn't.

This is a problem for most DBs. You put stuff in, you take stuff out, and it works... but you're putting it in the DB in a way that will make the queries you need nearly impossible to do within your real-world/production constraints (response time, resources required, etc.)

The thing is ES is so different from most DBs, so you need to relearn how to do things right. And to make matters a little more difficult, all DBs have a lot of knobs, but ES just has way more knobs you need to know how to turn to get something that won't fall on it's face in production.

I don't remember my experience with ES on AWS that well besides it was behind on major versions for a while at one point, and if you set up ES resource with CloudFormation... god help you if you need to roll them back.

Using serverless with ES looked something like

api-1
api-2-because-1-is-frozen-rolling-back-cloudformation-es-instances
api-3-because-2-is-also-frozen-rolling-back-cloudformation-es-instances
api-4-...
At least in the US, the 50% crossover of households without landlines was a few years back.
Depends on your budget, your risks, your technology sophistication, your location, your variation / cylces of in compute & storage requirements.

Recently from the same person this story[1] on the minefield that is AWS costs for data transit.

So, whether the 'Main advantage is cost' is accurate for you is very much an 'It depends' proposition.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20972687
Thanks for clarifying.

>"I am trying to point out that the HW/OS on a mainframe is design for a very different thing then how people today think of "cloud" design."

Might you or anyone else have any resources you could share this design paradigm? Thanks.
Tokamak Energy exceeds target of 20 Tesla with HTS Magnets
There were brilliant until they were sold to HP. Great Linux/MacOS support. I bought one recently not knowing this, and though it works okay, there is no support, no driver updates etc.
Hey, if you're happy with a "B" grade, that explains a lot about Ontario schools :-)
Many people swear by HPs older large-volume printers, such as the Laserjet 4200 or 4000 series. A toner cartridge lasts 10000 pages, and you can repair the things if the need arises.
I practice on my friends, who are largely not-engineers. If I can explain it in a way that makes them excited, I know I'm hitting on a story point that resonates with people beyond just the tech.

I'm your specific case, I might not use the term VR. After working on the industry for the last 5 years, I think the term doesn't really mean anything to anyone who hasn't experienced it, and that's most people. People seem to understand "Immersive Simulation" a lot better, especially with immediately connecting to the value prop with regards to training.

How do other companies talk about VR? I don't know. I don't like how most other companies talk about it, but maybe I'm too close to the tech.
Let adults get bored again!
I hope I remember to come back tomorrow. I could see something like this becoming my new tab page. I like to have a word or thought of the day and doing it as a group exercise with one of these “tribes” sounds delightful.
There's also a video that covers it in a bit more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Tl39CYhNM
Yes the Amazon rainforrest is nearly gone and it should have been protected better but also all other countries forrests should have been protected, for example where there were massive forrests across europe that were destroyed centuries ago for building things like towns, cathedrals and castles and for firewood.. these should be at least in some significant part re-grown.
Yeah, because this number includes initial setup costs and any penalties for backing out of contracts contingent on plans scrapped after the change in government.

I’m way more interested in the next year.