skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a hemp farmer. I definitely believe we need some kind of system like this to prevent corporations from monopolizing certain phenotypes. Sadly, I can’t see this working very well in practice for our industry. Cultivars already go to great lengths to protect their unique strains. Which is unfortunate for a lot of research on the endocannibinoid system.
There was a generic design based on Via Wondermedia at around that time. Its wholeasale price was going down to $70 in 10k+ batches.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wondermedia+laptop

Used to be sold to Africa, South and Southeast Asia in droves, but not anymore when quite decent x86 lappies now go for $150
Fair point, though Netbooks where smaller than that here is a Dell Mini 9 with a fairly generous 8.9” screen, but many where even smaller. http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/dell-inspiron-m.... The Eee 700 for example was 7”, but some where down in the 5” screen’s.

By comparison you get a 6” 1920 x 1080p screen on a 100$ ZTE ZMax PRO.
Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?
Anonymity allows you to sow an action without reaping the societal karma of the action.

In a good, free society, maybe anonymity isn’t important.

But in a bad society, one in which collaboration on a cause is punished, but each individual desperately wants to collaborate and change something fundamental...

Anonymity allows the planning of synchronized action.

——

Mass or targeted misinformation also threatens the planning of synchronized action.
The need for a staging instance for integration testing doesn't disappear when you run your API in lambda.
Linux Foundation exec believes edge computing will be more important than cloud
Exactly, it's like saying to someone running a restaurant that buying their bottled water from a convenient store is more expensive than buying it in bulk from Costco.

It's entirely missing the point. At the end of the day, you have to look at your specific usage pattern and pick the best option for you. Obviously, as with any other technology, anyone who forces a specific option in every possible situation is most likely wrong.
That article appears to be discussing a migration from Redshift to Clickhouse. Redshift is a managed data warehouse, not a serverless solution in the same vein as Lambda.

I don't understand the point you are trying to make.

Edit: The comment I am replying to was originally just 'Please explain' and a link to the article in question, and contained no other context or details.
Classic. Not a day goes by that Evan Spiegel doesn’t regret selling Snap for a cool 7 billion to Facebook and just moving on with his life, so they throw out crap like this as some kind of revenge by social mob justice. He drank too much of his own koolaid.
So? A huge number of scientific ideas are badly named for laypeople. We have both "somewhat homomorphic encryption" and "partially homomorphic encryption" and they mean different things. That's done bad jargon. But when targeting the research community it works fine.

There are no naming committees. Names pop up largely by accident. This is true for all fields. Heck the entire field "artificial intelligence" is named in a way that causes no end of incorrect beliefs among laypeople.

The solution is better journalism, not fighting over how names are understood outside the community.
> A fundamental aspect of the project was to rethink education in relationship with technology. But if you learn a little bit about the history of education in each country, you’ll see that education is closely related with politics ... if you want to change the education system including how teachers teach... technology alone is not enough.

Careful now, Jason Palmer was anathematized by the Valley elite for saying exactly that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/style/oh-behave.html
"even" -> "event".
We read lots of books, but the most useful thing we got by word of mouth. "Elimination communication" basically you teach baby to poop when you hold them over the toilet or sink. You can sing a little pooping song or make grunting noises as a queue. This eliminates diaper rash and is much easier to clean up then a poopy diaper. It also makes potty training easier when you get there down the line. You can start very early, 1 month old is fine.
There is no reason that Fargate can not be a replacement for lambda.

There are three use cases for lambda:

1. Event based triggers where something happens externally that you want to process. You can do the same thing with Fargate by either having a continuously running process that reads from a queue or responds to an API request (AWS Event -> SNS -> API).

2. Timed events. You can do this with Fargate directly (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-farga...)

3. APIs. Fargate supports autoscaling.

Fargate can do anything that lambda can do without the limitations - request and response payload size, a 10GB temporary storage drive instead of a half megabyte, and no 15 minute runtime limit. Of course no cold start times since you can have a minimum number of instances always running without Ping hacks.
Why would it possibly be a "black swan" event? All the numbers are public and we see it coming from miles away. Black swan event refer to something that isn't easily predicable because of their rarity. The government makes debt payments and calculations constanty. It's not like people just want up one morning and everything changes. That's not how markets work.

The people who pay these "everything will turn in a dine when people really understand" narratives are usually people who the markets are telling them they are wrong and cannot accept it.
Bill Clinton accomplished that but at some cost. My father still laments the cancellation of the superconducting supercollider that he had the pleasure to work on.
How many employees does RaptorCS have? Their products strike me as very ambitious but quite niche.
> The exceptions prove the rule: Alaska and Norway were both established, egalitarian societies before the oil was found, in contrast with Middle Eastern petrostates, Russia and Venezuela.
How long do we expect roads to last? Or the investments that have to be made over someone's lifetime to enable them to retire? Even the big "high tech" weapons and aircraft investments which consume a big chunk of spending have 30-50 year project lifetime. The B-52 fleet is 55 years old, not counting the design time. Is it not reasonable to spread payment for that over the lifetime of the asset?
Aside from situations like China where state censorship of history and news are an actual thing, or in situations where whistleblowers need to protect their identity... Some people just want privacy.

Give me a solid reason for why you want corporations and governments to have access to detailed records of everything you do online.

There's value in that data to certain groups of people and we may not like what the future looks like once that value is tapped to its potential.
I remember the same problem in a Nexus 4. And Google said they couldn't fix it because it was a bug in a Qualcomm driver and they had no access to the source code.

I think the redesign fixed that because Snapchat no longer takes pictures with the camera. Instead, they take screenshots of the camera preview.
> But very few people would go to the lengths that Ballmer was prepared to go to.

Larry Ellison? Scott McNealy? I'm sure I could think of others if I had the time. Ballmer was merely the most visible because MS was at the top of the food chain at the time.
Thank you. There was too much left-of-dunning-kruger-peak anger in the thread to give me any sense that the tweeter knew what they were talking about.
EDIT: I was wrong. As a reply to this comment mentions, the article mentions another treaty that Israel ratified in 1964.

Original:
Flagged for editorialized (and wrong at that) title. Israel never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as mentioned in the article linked.
Just saw something similar by photographer Alejandro Guijarro recently, see the "Momentum" project:

https://www.alejandroguijarro.com/works
Ask HN: How to monetize troves of foot traffic for retailers and other co's?
If one had a way of collecting highly accurate foot traffic data for a representative set of national retailers or other large organizations (casinos or hotels for example), how would one monetize this? Theoretically it could act as a leading indicator of earnings I would guess. Are there any clearing houses or third-parties that specialize is taking and monetizing big, valuable data sets?
Author here. Counterpoint: my HiFive Unleashed (RISC-V) experience has been extremely positive.
I think the surprising thing is that people are surprised.

It took basically until now for the bloom to come off the rose. Think about that. For 20 years Google has been supposedly hiring the smartest guys in the room and all it took was free food, some ball pits and slides, contributing some tech to open source, and working on a handful of "moonshots" that haven't gone anywhere to keep the sheen of innovation going. And it worked. For 20 years.

People have been saying Google is the new Microsoft for a few years but it basically took until now for that to become consensus. Microsoft, who's been on the back foot until recently, has recast themselves as the new Open Source Champion, basically using the Google playbook from 20 years ago. And it's working!

If you think about it Apple is the only company that hasn't changed. There's never been a bait and switch. It's always been proprietary. It's always been confident, others would say arrogant about its products. They've never tried to cloak themselves with the mantle of open source. The only reason the tech industry uses their products is because of its inherent qualities. No one had to be tricked into liking them. And they've always been honest about this.

All the "privacy cranks" were right about Google. But from 2000 to about 2015 they were casually dismissed as fringe. People really bought the "Don't be evil" slogan externally (and I'm sure internally as well). Before Facebook, they mastered the art of doing something bad then walking it back with an apology and some opt-out privacy setting that they knew no one would enable. Privacy was always an afterthought (read Steven Levy's book about Google).

I'm glad everyone is seeing the light finally.
We deploy to a test stack and run a full integration test of the code running in AWS. I believe it's also possible to self-host locally, but we never really looked into it.
One book I recommend is “How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen, and How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk”. Beyond this and some others, one thing I would not get overly hung up on is “evidence based”. I say that because you’re not raising an average of all children; you’re raising an individual child who may (or may not) be an outlier in all kinds of different respects.
I just think it could be applied to UK politicians who are predominantly privately educated and incredibly out of touch, but it is a stretch to think that most company managers are privately educated. Particularly because in the car of Thomas Cook the CEO is a German educated Swiss man.

Prior to that is was run by a woman, who was not Eton educated. So basically the comment is a generalisation that cannot even be applied to this specific instance.

The only thing it can be applied to fairly is the British political class, who in general would adhere to it.
We created serverless-artillery[1] for testing end to end. As the bonus the load tests can then be used for acceptance and monitoring as well.

[1] https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery
Source paper https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6459/eaaw1944.ful...

>From 2000 to 2018, the proportion of antimicrobial compounds with resistance higher than 50% (P50) increased from 0.15 to 0.41 in chickens and from 0.13 to 0.34 in pigs and plateaued between 0.12 and 0.23 in cattle.

>Globally, 73% of all antimicrobials sold on Earth are used in animals raised for food.

Jeeeesus. It sure feels like humanity is painting itself into a corner along multiple dimensions. I wonder at how many previous points in history did new technology save us from the brink of annihilation. Im not sure we've ever been powerfull enough to be truly as in danger as we are now.

On the other hand, earth is still slaloming between asteroids we cant predict or stop so we've never been out of danger at all. Oh well, back to work.
I work in education technology as well and I definitely see what you're saying. There is always a focus on more and more tech... but content remains shitty across the board.

Youtubers are lightyears ahead of content providers in the education industry.
"the four types of antimicrobial drug most commonly used in farm animals to help them gain weight — tetracyclines, sulfonamides, quinolones and penicillins — are also the ones with highest resistance rates."

It never ceases to amaze me the decisions that we as a species make with full knowledge of the consequences that seem to be geared towards implementing wide spread disaster. We as a species have very much decided that short term gains are well worth long term disaster.
But so long as the debt rollover remains straightforward, the principal never has to be repaid. Large parts of the economy probably couldn't survive repayment of all outstanding treasury bonds, they're too useful. They behave more like huge denomination bills with a tiny coupon.
The companion site http://hnreplies.com/ covers that use case.
GNU Taler: Privacy-Friendly Payment System
Which you would have if it was open source. I don't understand your point.
I didn't mean to imply that all UK managers or politicians are like that, just that there's a segment that's coming from these schools that train primarily for confidence rather than competence. And they try to help each other to these positions of power in order to maintain the system.

It's not universal for all UK politicians and managers, and it's not unique to the UK, but their system of mediocre elite schools that seems to train specifically for confidence, does make it more blatant.
Upton Sinclair lamented the fact that nobody really got the point of The Jungle.

I think after all this time he is about to be proven right.
That would make the difference between me using this tool and not using this tool. Losing my shell history isn't worth a momentary ergonomics gain.
> I am no easy mark for those who want me to change my views.

This is an absolute lie. I know for a fact he has cancelled talks he's agreed to after being contacted by various factions of activists.
If you are lucky you can find out who bought your data to recover and/or destroy for a hefty tag, and wonder if it was copied and sold adittionally...
Completely agree. There are a couple of "killer features" of functional programming that led to us adopting it both to build Dark, and for Dark itself. Immutable values makes it so much easier to reason about programs. And then removing null and exceptions.

The downsides: a bit of a learning curve for programmers used to OO; some classes of problems are easier with OO, though not as many as you'd expect.

The real downside I've seen is that so much valuable information is in academic papers that aren't approachable.
Leaks in Persistent Memory
Absolutely. Two things I remember (from back in 2005) were:

Campaigns defaulted to worldwide. You've got some naive new user selling for example hand painted dolls to a UK audience. They sign up for AdWords, and get a huge influx of visitors, yet nobody is buying. Why? Because the website doesn't and cannot sell to all these new US and worldwide visitors. The thing is the seller is an expert in dolls, not SEO, and has no idea what is going on.

You can set a daily limit on ad spend, which is nice, but it means that your advertizing works really well for that niche midnight - 5am visitor profile, but doesn't actually bring in local buyers who are awake at normal times. Again, the naive AdWords users usually have no logging or stats (and if they do they wouldn't necessarily know how to interpret it) so they don't understand what is going on.

I hope Google have fixed these two things, but I'm sure there are plenty of other traps.
I’m not saying it is a wise decision. No one would say not paying your rent and being evicted is wise either. Poverty forces you to make bad choices sometimes.
It's not open source so much as it is GPL. In industry, GPL software is essentially anathema. MIT/BSD and other licenses are far easier to get approval to use.
But why would you do that? That forgoes growth and investment now in exchange for .. what exactly?
I don't disagree with that, British political class certainly fits the generalisation made by the GP, but it can't be fairly applied to business managers. Thomas Cook was run by a Swiss guy educated in Germany.
I've posted this because I am curious to read HN's commentary on it. I am finding the documentation to be too focused on technical details and not enough on how it will work for merchants and consumers in practice, or whether any implementations exist.
That would be fine if he didn't pretend to be a man of "principles" built on a foundation that can not be shaken.
As basketball analysts like to say, you can’t teach height.
The article mentions that it violated the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, which Israel had signed.
US Authorities Indict Two EtherDelta Hacking Suspects
I have the orange (the envirnoment) and purple (the langauge) Smalltalk-80 books. They're really lovely and immensely thoughtful. I know everything is all functional right now, but I still feel Smalltalk never got it's day in court. I don't think most devs realize what's actually there. It's amazing tech that's never been widely enough appreciated. I think old Smalltalkers who know are just sad about it.
Good to read this, I call this the Spartan Webdesign and describe it here[0].

[0] https://www.sinax.be/blog/general/guidelines-for-spartan-web...
> FP would need to solve a severe problem that could not be solved with existing approaches in order to make a breakthrough

So the question the author is asking is whether there is problem which can only be solved via lambda calculus and not by turning machines or at least the difference should be significant in favour of lambda calculus.

Since both approaches are equivalent models of computation, I have to bet on the "no such killer app" side.
> don't like the joke

this was an attempt at humour? work on those bits some more at the comedy club
I’m super libertarian and even I would like to see somebody raise taxes and cut spending to cut the deficit… although it would be a battle to get them to lower taxes again once the debt was paid off.
Do you have that study - sounds an interesting read.
It's a new type of yoga where you jump up and down while repeating your mantra. (His is "Developers".)
That's too bad. I bought an XO through the "Give One, Get One" program. It was a great device for kids to learn with. It had built-in microphone, speakers, camera. You could display a sound wave like an oscilloscope.

One subtle point that is difficult to convey is that the OS was highly optimized for power consumption. It would suspend execution in micro-increments to prolong battery life. That's important if you have to manually crank a generator or pedal a bike to make power.

Those kinds of features are not available in the laptops used by developed countries.
SNAP has $23 billion market cap you dolt.
read past the first paragraph.
There werent any women on AM. When the story broke they couldnt find anyone who actually had an affair. It was scams all the way down.

(And when the mounties responded after the hack there wasnt any evidence either. A so-called unicorn had no cohesive security program.)
Another less normal option would simply be to make /sbin/init a shell script.

Instead of trying to detect hardware, network, and all, you could just hardcode everything. If you're working with a standardized set of hardware, that would most likely be simpler than anything else.
Struggling Farmers See Bright Spot in Solar
Its simple to get to know your local rancher. You can even voice your concerns and have them heard by the person raising your beef, while walking the ranch on a nkce day. Factory farms are the bigger problem, not just meat per-se.
The refusal to sell the laptops to hobbyists (beyond the short-lived G1G1 program) and first-world school systems was apparently motivated by problems managing expectations for the low-power machines. G1G1 resulted in a large number of complaints and support requests from people who expected a commercial-grade "laptop", and the foundation was unwilling or unable to deal with them.

That said, I think ignoring the first world was an enormous misstep. Under-funded US schools would have benefited immensely from OLPCs, and a large domestic demand for the devices would have helped scale up production, reducing cost and increasing availability for poorer countries as well.
Clinton ran a current account surplus, but overall debt grew because Medicare and Social Security were still losing money at the time. Not to mention that it wasn't all Clinton, some of it was the opposition Congress.
The goal used to be academic and early innovators trying to improve the home.

The goal posts have changed. It's not about making huge companies lots of money and helping them gain power and influence.

This isn't a technological shift as much as it's a goal shift.
> it misses the obligation to pay the principal

But you never really have to do that. You can just keep rolling them. If we could keep the debt at the same absolute level inflation and productivity increases would drive it into insignificance.

Of course the idea of keeping it at the same level is a fantasy.
The normal management of inflation by raising interest rates works by slowing economic growth. There's no reason to raise rates in a recession.
When I put on my instructor hat, serverless is ideal as it drastically simplifies what a student has to learn to get a website up and running.

But if you already are a full-stack engineer, then I think having an entire stack at your hands is way more powerful and flexible.

I think it's matter of time though where just like how Bootstrap paved the way for re-usable components, serverless will soon pave the way for re-usable functions or even services which I think would be a total game changer.
China is also building hundreds of more coal plants in other countries and have plans to build more in their country.

I find it deeply ironic how everybody talks about what the US has to do to stop climate change; while China just goes about its business making the situation exponentially worse without anybody really caring.
Copying features of your competitors and innovating on them is part of competition.
You should do whatever works for you! But, have you encountered the idea of "Functional core, imperative shell?"

https://www.javiercasas.com/articles/functional-programming-...
None of the reasons you wrote are nearly as reasonable as your boss(es) seeing you as a reasonable person, a team player, etc. as evidenced by your open discussions. Some things they can't glean just from the fact that you solved a ticket quickly.

Yours looks more like a list of ridiculous, implausible but of course still technically possible reasons. As a boss I'd like to know if the person I'm promoting is willing to come up with such arguments in an attempt to prove a point. ;)
See https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery

Note performance, acceptance, and monitoring modes
Yes, the scrollable tiling concept looks really similar to our approach: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM/ (except "stack" seems to be restricted to webpages?)