skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can - if you don't do the cloud setup, the RM won't try to sync anything. Then your file management options are the device's built-in software (which is viable prototype quality, not shipping quality) or some custom scripting. Given that this is HN, you're probably better off writing some small scripts to manage the device via SSH or curl.
This didn't come out of the blue. Thomas Cook is known to have problems for years and an impending collapse has been rumoured since months ago. Why did all these traveleres choose them is a better question
Even if someone were to invest in we work they will expect bargain price, given things considering.

I think SoftBank is probably pushing things further enough until they raise money for their next vision fund.
That reminds me of my grandma, she used to hand me money “for you to buy some X”

I should give her a call.
I think in a lot of situations there needs to be one of the parties that steers the conversation a bit - interrupt themselves or the other party if they're going on a tangent. It takes some time and practice but it will pay off in the end.
The motto of waste management is "reduce, reuse, recycle" and they're in order of priority. First order of business is to reduce the amount of waste we produce.
A $10 VPS would've been enough to handle the kind of load his site sees too, which is about 15x cheaper again than AWS.

If you're really looking to save money, don't touch AWS.

Source: I run the frontend for an interactive "one-page-app" site about 3x larger on a $30 VPS with room to spare.
You Might Not Need a CRM
Pulseaudio is still a stinker when it comes to latency. In fact it is unusable if you care about latency at all.
My personal issue with meditation is inability to be non-judjemental. I am not aware of the variety of meditation techniques, the only few that I've tried were simple body scan and focusing on breath. The common advice from all of the guides that I've followed so far was 'concentrate on a thing (breath or body scan or whatever) and if your focus has switched to some arbitraty not-connected thing, just recognize that and move your focus back, not blaming or judging yourself for losing focus'. This last 'not blaming or judging' is a real problem for me. I just cannot stop thinking of myself like 'hey, you've failed to keep focus again, shame on you'. As a result, to the end of the session I feel even more nervous, distracted and generally worse that it was before the session.
This used to be different for me a number of years ago, when I've just started trying to meditate. I remember that my first attempts really allowed me to relax and stay away from the daily stress. But this first streak lasted not more than a month, and the latter ones worked worse with every other try.
Have anyone ever felt the same? What would be a good solution for this problem?
Just to be clear, "I hate Poettering" is a perfectly valid reason, and not at all ad hominem?
I thought commenter W. Van Dam made some good points:

“ First, you don't need API Gateways if you use an AWS SDK. Like this guide shows. And of course you don't need a load balancer, because that's precisely one of the things that serverless takes care of for you :-)

More importantly, you didn't actually compare serverless to your current situation.

With serverless solutions you can typically save cost in terms of server management. Serverless isn't maintenance free, but you should be able to reduce your monthly cost (e.g. lower labor cost).

You're right to research whether it actually works for you, but I think you're not done yet ;-)

Also, perhaps CloudFlare Workers are of interest to you. It's a rather new offer in the market. They charge 0.50 dollar per million requests, with a time limit of 50ms per request. Sounds like this combination would work well for you in comparison to AWS Lambda”
I don’t think you understand as someone that isn’t a member of the cognitive elite I would have never been given the choice.
Self-driving cars aren't real. And ancient Egyptians were using tablets, I don't know if you chose this word on purpose.
Lucky me!

(although genuinely we did make the backends to one of our games FreeBSD, but its a lot more awkward to use than something like Debian on google cloud, and don't get me started on ZFS performance on Google Cloud, it's abysmal)
> I visited Amsterdam and was interested in their history and how it took off after the invention of the corporation.

I wonder if anyone has written a history of the Dutch economy that can be also accessible to non-Dutch readers (i.e. translated to either English or French or Spanish). From a very outside view (i.e. mine) the Dutch used to be a very entrepreneurial society/people in the 1600s going into the 1700s, but it seems that by the 1800s that spark had gone. They're of course still one of the most developed nations in Europe and in the world, but it looks like in terms of risk-taking they're the same as us, the rest of the Europeans, i.e. behind the Americans and I'd say even the Chinese.

As a similar example the Italian economic historian Carlo Cipolla was blaming the wars and the associated pests/famines of the early 1600s for Italy's towns' fall into economic irrelevance. Not sure if they're easily accessible on the Internet, but in one of his books [1] he presents some charts where the population of entrepreneurial Italian cities of that time such as Firenze, Venice, Brescia, Lucca or Bergamo felt by more than 50% during 1600-1630 (give or take), which caused them not to be able to compete against Flemish and especially English clothes-related industry. I wonder if anything similar happened to the Dutch.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Before-Industrial-Revolution-European...
It's obviously not easy to answer.
Perhaps you'd have to ask, what would Woz do today? (That Jobs might want to start selling)

When they started messing with personal computers, it was considered uncool, boring, nerdy, useless. Even corporations selling electronics were not particularly interested.

So you'd have to find a group of boring, nerdy, uncool people messing with stuff that fascinates them regardless of what everyone else thinks. You won't find that crowd anywhere near venture capital and large corporations.

edit: I do realize that Woz was working at HP, so my last sentence is perhaps exaggerated. Maybe some Google or Microsoft employees are doing boring stuff that those companies are not interested in.
"Our findings suggest that long-term meditators have structural differences in both gray and white matter."
I've had a group of colleagues where we would at a point say "ok, pop, pop, pop". That meant this same thing.
> The Guardian article mentions that hotels have to wait up to 3 months to be paid by the holiday company.

Ninety day terms are very common in most B2B industries. Large companies quickly learn that their suppliers are dependant on them to stay in business and can be abused almost at will. So nominally "90 day" terms claiming you have 90 days to pay become "We definitely won't pay until 90 days after you bill us" and then "We typically pay in the working week after 90 days is due" and then "We only run routine bill payments on the third Wednesday of a month, so it can be up to 120 days I guess you got unlucky" and next thing you know the work you did in April is only paid for in October by a company that you know is already on the verge of bankruptcy but if you don't do that work they'll cut you off completely. It's crazy but that's how it is.

The EU says if in practice you don't pay on or before 90 days you owe interest at a calculated rate on the due amount. But most small suppliers are so in thrall to the huge company they supply that they won't even ask for that money.
Not OP, but the “volatile” qualifier should prevent the compiler from optimizing it out.
I think the problem is that these terms had meanings before the last five or so years. There are setups that are actually accurately describable as "serverless" - for example, SQLite is called a "serverless database" because it's an embeddable library that just operates off a file as opposed to client-server DBs like Postgres or MySQL.
Author here.

The differences are explained in the post. The dark web is a vast groups of services that cannot be accessed without using special software / proxy.

The hidden services are service running on the TOR network and accessed using a browser that use the TOR proxy.

They are a type of dark web services, but not the entirety
And what's funny, is that originally, this 3/4 minutes formula is likely more tied to physical constraints than marketing/human psychology: https://www.vox.com/2014/8/18/6003271/why-are-songs-3-minute...

Which reminds a bit of http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html as well.
Google Will Listen to Your Conversations Again, but Ask First
> With fiat money, the government basically doesn't owe you anything, but it's still a debt for the government and an asset for you in accounting terms.

You don't understand how money works. “Money is created by the government” is a myth. In western countries (and most of the world, including China!), money is created by private banks and the money on your bank account is a debt from some guy somewhere (likely a mortgage, a student loan or some corporate debt).
It is an elementary mistake done by the programmer of the audio application. I think that's the reason the author wrote this article.

Kernel designers solve that by temporarily boosting the priority of the lower (blocking) thread to be equal or higher than the priority of the blocked thread (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/pr...). It's called priority inheritance.
Still not worth worrying about in a developed country.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fatalities-from-terrorism
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Thank you!

There's no practical purpose for the crawler. It's more an educational project than anything.
Serverless is good for doing extreme parallelism. You can literally have 5,000 CPU cores working on your task in seconds.

You can’t do that with EC2 nearly as easily or cost effective.

This is where serverless really shines. If you have a fixed static load, you should be using the cheapest available compute instance from EC2 as possible. Reserved instances & test performance in lower cost data centers.
I just finished the book and I agree, it's excellent. Although I knew most of the facts reading it from the source in one cohesive work along with the background looks impressive.
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That's a really important skill to have really; in software development there's a huge ego culture going on, people having their own opinions and clinging to them. But the path to maturity and / or seniority involves opening up to other people's opinions, truly understanding them instead of just pushing your own through. Active listening (which is what you're describing there) is a huge part of it. You can't argue with someone if you're not willing to listen in the first place.
Probably a non-native-English-speaker.

In many Euro languages, words derived from Kronos (i.e. related to time and recurrence, like chronological and chronically) have a C rather than CH spelling (cronologico, cronicamente, cronico...).

“Crony” has a similar root (“people hanging out together all the time”) but it’s an exception in the English language, where such words use CH; it’s also (ironically) a very English term, that doesn’t really translate. So this is probably a typo.
Thanks for your clarity in saying this, usually people take great pains to be politically correct about who they consider to be “lesser”. I’m a little taken aback that your line would be making $145k a year (the best liquid compensation I got across ~5 different offers when I graduated) though!
Most British companies I’ve seen operating appear to be an absolute mess from the inside. It’s funny that the British have the Northern European credibility in business but I don’t think they’re anywhere close as efficient or organised as the Germans or the Dutch. This is just personal experience but I’ve come to realise it seems to be the norm that British management is overall terrible.
I’ve always felt that the reason we haven’t heard from aliens is because they know New Physics and they use it to communicate. Given how much of the universe is made up of dark energy, dark matter and other unknown physics, it seems reasonable that there are significant discoveries to be made which could perhaps be exploited.

I mean let’s say we discover a new, non-electromagnetic way to communicate reliably over vast distances using some kind of low power, high bandwidth signalling system. We’d abandon EM in a geological heartbeat. In cosmic terms we would emit a wafer thin EM shell just 150 light-years thick - and then we would fall silent.

So basically I just think we don’t know enough physics yet. We are perhaps a few discoveries away from being able to listen in on alien conversations.
> Race conditions

these are more precisely called data races. And yes, they are UB in C/C++.
Not a blockchain.
Yup, and it's absolutely fine to do so - however, you also need them to understand what they're doing themselves, give them some advice on how to communicate more effectively. As another commenter pointed out, some people talk a lot because they're nervous, because they are afraid if they stop talking they won't get another say in a matter. They need coaching, reassurance, etc as well.
Dimensionality reduction in large data sets using Siamese Networks
Are you sure? IKEA has quite cheap solid wood furniture.
Find a good teacher
Of course, in real-world discourse delaying the high-order bits often just means they're never reached.

> A: There's a thing I don't like. It's coarse, rough, and it gets...

> B: Many coarse and rough things are vitally important though, why for example there's...
Great website. Quick note - your site doesn't functions without javascript. Having enabled it and trawled through it I see no reason to require js to be enabled. Adding a non-js fallback would be great.
Interrupting when talking is simply the human equivalent of XON/XOFF flow control in RS232. Some humans are not capable of such software flow control and need the human RTS / CTS handshake which is probably body language.
And then other humans simply don't have flow control enabled. At all.
So do you just tape the thing to your third eye or something? Do you have some kind of harness rigged up for it?
Remember he is now rather difficult to employ; and needs to avoid the appearance of inappropriate alegiances. So - making money off of a book should be kind of a big deal for him. Also, it takes a whole lot of time and effort to write a book (which could theoretically have gone towards supporting himself otherwise).
But most small suppliers are so in thrall to the huge company they supply that they won't even ask for that money.

I wish I had kept track of all the examples of this I've read about. It's basically standard practice for big companies to be financially abusive to small companies they work with. It's rampant.

It also seems to be something every small company has to learn the hard way on their own because it doesn't get talked about enough.

Small companies routinely think they've got it made in the shade if they can land a single big account. Reality is more like Darth Vader saying "We have altered the bargain. Pray we don't alter it further."
This’d be great for contracts too. E.g. an NDA.
Who do you see as "lecturing" here?
That's definitely a distinction to make. The person completing the sentence will feel - or emit the feeling - that they get what you mean already but the speaker is being too slow. In a case like that it's important for the speaker to be assertive and raise their hand, mention the other person's behaviour and finish the sentence themselves. Like a sharp callout of the other person's behaviour, a meta-statement about what is happening. Just pointing it out is already enough for a lot of people. That will cost some extra energy though, because you're not just talking about subject x, but you're also mindful of your own and others' behaviour in a conversation.
No one seriously thought Tabby’s Star was aliens it was just weird.
It hasn't helped. The fall in the value of the pound caused by Brexit has made their service significantly more expensive.

Thomas Cook might have been able to position itself, in the internet era, as a local trustworthy service that takes away the uncertainty of buying from unknown overseas services. The increased costs caused by Brexit only made a difficult market more difficult.
Because people often book holidays six months or more in advance, and Thomas Cook's financial woes weren't especially big news back then.
> not having enough cash on hand to actually provide the services they've sold

The article mentions that one of the issues here is that the credit card companies saw that collapse was imminent and certain and thus refused to release the funds charged by their customers to Cook, knowing that Cook would collapse, the customers wouldn't get their full holiday, would do a chargeback, but the bank wouldn't be able to get the funds back from Cook.

> "The tour operator is understood to have made a number of proposals, including ... for credit card companies to release about £50m of cash they are holding as collateral against Thomas Cook bookings."

So maybe they did have enough cash on hand in a way, but the banks weren't releasing it to them.

Another intractable and perhaps the main problem was their massive debt service owed on their previous bailout. Kind of similar to Toys R Us and other companies that have had a bailout of one form or another that leads to massive debt and debt payments taken on and beyond the ability of the company's profits to pay off.
Lambda is cheap, API Gateway is expensive.
Lambda with API Gateway should be used for low or unpredictable volumes.

You can replace API Gateway by an ALB, which will be much much cheaper in the article use case.

Lambda is also great when it's triggered by everything but API Gateway. Analysing a file uploaded on S3, reacting to an SNS message or consuming messages in SQS.
I've been homing in on this conclusion, or a neighbour of it for a while. Take the periodic table. That's it people, we already know all the stable elements. Nobody's going to discover unobtanium. Aside from some high energy physics and some details of quantum mechanics, we probably know most of the useful practical physic there is. The open frontiers are biology and chemistry, but those are all about combinging things we mostly already know about in new and interesting ways. Eventually we'll figure all of those out as well. Then what?

I'm not saying it's impossible we'll discover some amazing, paradigm shaking new physics that will upend everything. Maybe. But we can't bank on it and it's entirely possible no such civilisation shaping new physics exists.

If that's the case, then the future will all be about engineering based on parameters we already pretty much know. I often see the Daedalus project held up as 'proof' interstellar travel and even interstellar colonization are possible. That was a designs for a very modest space probe payload, but even so the resources required to build them would pauper our whole civilization. Even if, or when, we master the resources of our whole solar system, those probes would be a significant cost and it seems likely they're way too puny to deliver a robust self-replicating bootstrap infrastructure. There's nothing inevitable or necessary about interstellar colonisation. The universe doesn't owe us Star Trek.
hmm, only 15% slower for a service that spins up on demand? That's not too bad at all, actually..
> The quality of the existing software is actually pretty good, everything is smooth and polished. It is just not very packed with features.

I would say it's very far from polished, but it's finally okay now. It took a long time to get there though. I don't even want any particular features for the device, it should be just like a paper notebook, with minimalistic software. It was only in this spring's update, a few months ago, that they finally shipped features to manage notebook pages, such as moving a page or inserting a blank page. It's one of the very basic features the device should have, but I had owned the RM for over a year before finally getting that.

I understand they're a small company with a small software team, but I think it's still important to point out the software weaknesses while saying that the hardware is indeed amazing.
Not only that, but it is also way harder to structure and develop than a normal application. At least in my experience.
It’s like this at most elite institutions.

NC State has a graduation rate of 75%. Duke (where I was rejected for being an inferior candidate) has one that’s 95%.
Disclaimer: I work for Salesforce, Heroku’s parent organisation.

I have had so many conversations with devops managers and developers who are individual contributors and the Lambda hype reached frothing levels at one point.

Contradictory requirements of scale down to zero, scale up infinitely with no cold starts, be cheap and no vendor lock in seemed to all be solved at the same time by Lambda.

Testability? Framework adoption? Stability? Industry Skills? Proven Architectures...? Are some of the other question marks I never heard a good answer for.
A day or two ago there was a comment on HN about the differences between eastern and western societies regarding entrepreneurship and/or motivations (the west is driven by events while the east is driven by its location). I am pretty sure there's a link between that comment and that submission but I can't find the original comment at the moment.
A company with margins cut to the bone in the internet era should have spent money they don't have, just in case the UK government does something stupid that causes the currency to tank?
Incorrect (Or have you sources?).... the issue is old legacy based companies. No matter where they are based.

Legacy as in business systems, business thought process, legacy IT, etc.

TC is a very old company
Undercover Police Dressed as Protesters in Hong Kong Severely Injured People
This is a topic that's particularly interesting to me because there's an ethnic group in my country - the Igbo - that are so pervasively, aggressively[0] entrepreneurial that it's become a meme. I can't really think of another culture that has business woven as tightly into its very bones - I haven't read the entire paper yet, but I'm curious to see if it mentions them at all.

[0] In a good way. Several people have noted that the Igbo pretty much invented venture capital.
This is an old thread, why is it being rehashed?

Pipenv was a shitshow, I’ve said as much in that thread and elsewhere, but there is probably no need to stir this pot again.