skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried using google cloud run, with a rust web server.
I think google only counts request processing time and rounds up to the nearest 100ms.

All i had to do was provide a container with a web service that reads a environment variable to listen to a specific port.
And I would say you are the victim of pro-extravert brainwashing.
The most shocking thing I've learned from the book "Quiet" that there was an general attitude towards intrawerts that they are somehow deficient, and, what's worse, actual discrimination against them at universities.

Being introvert does not mean you are antisocial, you just don't need to socialize that much.
It may be very enjoyable but it is also so draining.
I think it's more a system to protect Regular Joes from having small amounts of money stolen from them by shysters hawking get rich quick investment schemes. Many of those are now federal crimes, making the risk-reward unappealing.

The assumption is accredited investors are more capable of doing their own diligence and better able to weather the loss of a $50K angel investment than Regular Joe.
The First Day of the Cenozoic
> They wanted students to learn an interface they’d be using for the rest of their lives

Somehow this just sounds very sad to me.
do you have a link to that? (can’t seem to find it myself)

i would really like to listen to it because intuitively i’ve felt the same way and wonder what others who are-in-the-know have to say about that.
Show HN: Tao Te Ching with Python
> In theory, the best way to conduct a church-of-interruption exchange of ideas is big-endian: you begin by summarising your idea and only then flesh out the details. That way if your conclusion is understood you find out as quickly as possible.

There are probably some linguistic phenomena at work here: subordinate clauses in German, for example, have trailing verbs (present perfect/pluperfect conjugations also have a final verb).
There is a bunch of stories like that.

E.g. https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-ve...

> On June 20th, board members of the „Zwiebelfreunde“ association in multiple German cities had their homes searched under the dubious pretence that they were „witnesses“ while their computers and storage media were confiscated.
React Reignited My Love for Web Development
> As other commenters mentioned, it was a direct inspiration for Asus eee PC, which spawned an entire category of netbooks and ultrabooks.

I'd say they were late to the table with a sub notebook design as Toshiba released the Libretto in 1996. Then there were those weird Windows CE mini laptop organizers in the 90's as well. Sharp Wizard, etc.
Same, I really don't get gift cards as actual gifts. On the other hand, because they're less useful than money, you can often get them cheaper in some kind of promotion. I'm getting almost all of my groceries+fuel via gift cards which I can get from my car insurer with 5% discount. But there are many online markets that would probably give a better price of you have time to deal with them.
> Btw, you are talking about the former US president Obama? Seems a bit weird for him to care about car maintenance?

Why wouldn't the President care about the safety of millions of potential death traps driving to work daily?
So which is it?

- This is going to be so awesome that "everybody and their brother can't stop themselves from tripping over their own feet to adopt".

or

- Wishful thinking, doesn't matter.
Wasn't that like 10 minutes after which all videos became 10 minutes to explain what could be told in 30 seconds?
The thing you quoted does not say what you say it says.

I think we agree on why Snowden blew the whistle, I just don't think it says that in the excerpt.
> And one other suggestion, which I made to a vice president but perhaps not in my talk.

>

> Release the source code of Windows under the GNU GPL.

>

> I know that is a stretch, but from what I heard there. it isn't totally impossible.

I do not remember who or where exactly it was, but i remember someone influential from Microsoft that was asked about open sourcing Windows (not necessarily under GPL) and they also said that it isn't totally impossible.
If it turns into a fractional reserve system, it'll be just another system of control, run on centralized databases with as much surveillance as today.

The only way to achieve the level of freedom Antonopoulos is talking about is with real scaling, so people can directly use cryptocurrency in everyday transactions.
If the cost of doing Something is larger than the benefit then, no, doing Nothing is better.
Search for Here are how I manage my works as a remote web developer
Health treatment isn't really a basic thing. I find it really bizarre how people keep trying to write in more and more luxury goods as god-given rights.

Whenever I think of rights, it is things that society and other people must not do, rather than something that other people must provide for me.
It really depends what you're doing. I've been trying out serverless on-and-off for weeks now and still don't have a basic two tier application going the way I want. I'd have been substantially better off dropping $5/month on a DigitalOcean droplet and running PostgreSQL and Rails on it. DigitalOcean even has really helpful templates to start up basic servers.

This may be a specific criticism of AWS Amplify, but all I've been doing is trading off some arcane knowledge in open source software for arcane knowledge in some vendor-specific system. Most of my time has been spent searching for answers to Amazon-specific issues that haven't been solved in any of their SDKs. Or I wind up walking through their SDK code trying to figure out how to metaprogram my way around it.

Perhaps if I used the web UI to stand everything up, it would have gone a lot smoother. I'll admit I'm a sucker for infrastructure as code. But, as it stands, I can't see how this really saves anyone any time. It's still an incredibly manual process without much in way of help or support the moment you veer off the one path Amazon has decided you should be on.

(To make things more concrete, I still don't have Cognito working with optional TOTP 2FA. The withAuthenticator component apparently only renders the TOTP setup if 2FA is required. I've spent hours trying to work this one out, including spending time on the Amplify Gitter channel.)
You can start by agreeing with it. It's not just true, it's the fundamental reason the UK is in the mess it's currently in.
As with any compute environment...
Good example of hacking humans:

"Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."
You're answering why American invest in those European start-up, but my point was the lack of exits not involving American companies. The number of IPOs of European startups is really low compared to the US.
> Direct GitHub to promote correct and clear use of licenses and the best use of copyleft (GPL version 3-or-later).

Ehhhh... I very much like that my source code repository host isn't consistently nudging me to a specific license, thanks :).
> 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.

Interesting. Do you have a source for this?
This seems more like experience with certain kinds of companies - I've worked with companies around the world and there are certain anti-patterns I've experienced everywhere which really have little to do with the nationality of the management. For example, idiot CEOs, nepotism and micromanagement are, unfortunately, international phenomena.
Interviewed at multiple faang. You are 100% correct about Asians. They are extremely biased and discriminatory towards black candidates. Especially engineers. They hold the bar much higher for black candidates. They purposely ask harder and more abstract questions. Especially when it comes to coding. Ive seen this and experienced it myself as an engineer manager. Let's not even get into how they coach each other for interviews. If it was up to them there would bo ZERO black engineers in tech. Call out the unfair practices. They are definitely there.
Actually you still need to hire your own AWS DevOps certified engineer: https://aws.amazon.com/fr/certification/certified-devops-eng...
I wish RISC-V could launch a new generation of French foundries ! No Intel tax and no US-backdoors anymore.
> I consider the whole start-up culture harmful.

I don't think it is quite that black. There are plenty of good companies and nice people that make bank from starting new companies. The hype and the bro-culture are not the only faces the start-up community has and if that all you see then you're missing a lot of the good that is happening: Female / minority participation in start-ups is substantially above country average for most countries in Western Europe, there are quite a few start-ups that are working hard to achieve something good for the world, but not in an 'Instagram' like manner kind of 'good for the world'.

SMEs are the backbone of private enterprise in Europe, they create more jobs and employ more people than all of the enterprises combined. They are the backbone of the economy and I'm more than happy to see a thriving eco-system around them.
Great for recreational "I'm going fishing this weekend", but I'd imagine it'd be a drop in the bucket where commercial fishing is concerned. A single ship might catch millions of fish in one go.
The problem is the difference between the aspirations and the reality. ZX81s did exactly what they were expected to do, the way they were expected to do it. Netbooks were almost universally bad. There were very few reasonable scenarios where they did what you expected them way you expected it. I have owned a Lenovo S10e for a decade now and have yet to find one of those scenarios.
Pressure balance in a lower collisionality, attached tokamak scrape-off layer
The average car is almost 12 years old (https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/average-vehicle-age-incre...) and most people aren’t fixing their own car. That means most people can afford the maintenance needed to keep a car on the road.

As many dry cleaners that I see even in the less affluent parts of the city, people are able to afford to do that too.

Most less affluent people who do own their own home (as well as many who could afford it) do cut their own grass.
I'm one person: I cannot make all possible mistakes on my team. Eventually I have to let someone else on my team innovate make those decisions without me second guessing this.

You could also call the above management, and second guessing micromanagement. Even as a senior engineer who has been around a while there is a lot I don't know, and some of that I need to be content to leave to the other engineers to make the mistakes and do the learning not me.
It can be quite a minefield. I worked with a guy whose chit-chat policy was disconcerting - stating the bleedin' obvious.
"You are in early today!"
"You are in late today!"
"You are on time today!"
"Wearing the red shirt again, I see!"
"Got your hair cut!"

While this 'say what you see' served as a functional ice-breaker, as an introvert I found it strangely confrontational, almost like an interrogation. I felt like I was having to justify myself, as there was no obvious opening for a meaningful reply otherwise (simply saying 'yes' hardly cuts it). Of course, that was all on me, he had no idea I was reacting in such a way.
What software do you think is currently making Bitcoin obsolete? It seems most all alternatives just have design trade offs that lead to more centralization.
As a fellow Michigander involved with the West Michigan Walleye club and our fish pond here in GR, fish stocking cannot fix overfishing and habitat destruction. We stock cool and cold-water breeding species like walleye, pike, trout, and salmon because their breeding areas have been destroyed.

The process turns a productive, diverse pond and stream system into a monocrop so we can still have walleye for sportfishing in a select few lakes. It can help the species survive until we can get our heads on straight; it's not ecologically healthier than the natural state.
Not a strawman, nope. Please put the React salesmen on this list of bogus hype as well. It’s all projection and propaganda—zero substance.

Here’s the proof of evil intent behind React, for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20711598
Wasn't the Toshiba Libretto more like a $2000 laptop? <g> With the Windows CE 'organizers' not that far behind? Sure, hardware was a lot more costly back in the 1990s, but still. (And how could you forget to mention the Palm NetBook?)
Licensing is probably the biggest headache I’d guess - being insolvent the airline won’t have a valid license to operate into those countries any more and civil aviation regulators are usually very strict on that sort of thing. But as you suggest, insurance and ability to pay landing and fuel charges (sometimes aircraft are impounded by airports for failure of the owners to pay these charges) are some potential issues too. Then the planes themselves may also be leased and so the owners of those planes would want paying too, possibly including any arrears, before allowing them to be used.

None of these are obstacles which couldn’t be overcome but it’s quicker just to use someone else who doesn’t have those issues.
Communication over DDR4 is way faster than communication over PCIe Ethernet. Even 40Gbit is slow compared to RAM.
Light-entrained brain-tuned circadian circuits regulate ILC3s andgut homeostasis
CMS Releases Open Data for Machine Learning – CERN
isn't SPA and lightweight a contradiction?
My ten year old N900 can not run a modern SPA frontend but is pretty "snappy" with plain old small HTML sites.
Seeing that “most people” are paying someone else to fix their car, that means that most people find a way to pay other people to do it instead of learning how to do it themselves.
Reminded me of this video of two bus passengers having a silent dispute over window.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQqeTEYBFfM
The power and bandwidth limitations aren’t exactly the problem with interstellar communication, it’s latency.
that's a german legal liability thing. not (just) european business generally being stuck in the 90s
Biographical Memoir: Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore
My university had one in the science building and I played with it a bit. It was able to view various visualizations of data covering the globe (temperature I think might've been one, but I'm near positive weather was also available). They also had imagery of other planets loaded up, so you could spin Mars around to look at different spots.

It's not a very bright display; it is just a projector after all. That video plays pretty well to its strengths in a darker trade show, but in a bright atrium it's much harder to use. It's a little hard to describe, but the "viewing angle" isn't fantastic either. The surface is harder to see than I expected as it gets closer to being perpendicular to your eyes (yeah, obviously, but it seems to lose contrast/brightness or something).
That's because usually long before an IPO opportunity rolls around there have been a lot of feelers from US based companies looking to buy market share.

This is one of the reasons why I am worried that GitLab will end up selling to a US based company. Time will tell if they hold strong, if they do I'll be sure to buy stock in their eventual IPO just as a reward for showing that a US exit is not the only avenue available.
If an animal is violent and a threat to others, you put it down, you don't keep it in a cage forever.

Generally, people get uncomfortable with that idea when it is extrapolated to people.
Not true, although it's more complicated than in the US.

You can't fire someone at will like in the US, you need to justify the decision. Which takes some time and paperwork. Also, it used to be risky as the fired employee could sue and ask for damage, with no legal cap. The later has changed. So you can fire people, I've seen it done a few times, if you have a competent HR it's perfectly doable. You will need to document why and have some justification, and be ready to present your case if challenged.

Also, it's possible to let someone go my mutual agreement, with the employee keeping their unemployment benefit (there are limits to prevent abuse). It also eases things when both sides agree there's a mismatch, which often happen.

So it's definitely not as fluid as in the US, but not stuck as some people would let you know. You tend to be more cautious about the hiring for sure.
By being given an iPhone/iPad and clicking around, you wouldn't even learn about what a filesystem is, let alone about anything else in terms of how your device works.

On a PC, just by being bored you can learn quite a bit about how the OS works; you can access devtools from a browser; you can learn tons and tons by trying to get some old/obscure game to work; you can google "how to make a game" which would probably lead you to a download page for python, which you could install and start writing some scripts; you could easily stumble upon Blender and some tutorials and start 3D modelling.
Nigeria Runs on Generators and 9 Hours of Power a Day
When I was freelancing for a big US corporate, sometimes it went beyond 90 days.

I wouldn't have minded if the contract had specified 90 day terms and payment had been timely after that. But the contract said payment would be made "promptly."

Sometimes the only way I'd get a payment was by hassling accounts and senior management day after day after day. It was a huge waste of everyone's time, and - unsurprisingly - I moved on as soon as I could.

UK clients would usually pay promptly on 30 days. Occasionally there were problems at the end of a quarter when VAT bills became due, but they were rare.
Most annoying to me, from the top of my head, is when you are trying to find a word to say, and your interlocutor finishes your sentence with a word which is sort of fits in, but not the one you had in mind.

I'm not sure I'm all that against interrupters, and I think I can handle them and can sort of be one myself, but it is surely exhausting.
Retrieval of Large-Scale Spatial Environments in the Human Brain
> There are those who think that Microsoft invited me to speak in the hope of seducing me away from the free software cause.

> Others assert that inviting me was opposition research and nothing more.

Honestly, why would Microsoft in 2019 even need to either convince RMS to give up free software or to research him at all?
Almost all of their aircraft are leased, not actually owned by them. In the short term, they'll probably be impounded by the airports they're currently at, pending payment of landing fees.

https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Thomas-Cook-Airlines
But that probably lies more in the framework used rather then in the "SPA concept". Disclaimer: I'm not a front-end developer so I may be totally wrong.
They may well have hedged, I don’t think it’s clear. But I would point out the limits of hedging here - they’d have needed either collateral or someone to offer them credit terms on hedging to do that, neither of which were easily available to them.
I'm using "Auto Tab Discard" and I'm happy with it. It "unloads" the unused tabs and reloads them once you switch back to them.
Bitcoin as a vehicle for money laundering is overstated. Banks perform money laundering. They are frequently caught and lightly punished, so they continue to do it.
Yeah. See https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html
It's at File->Account->About <program>. Because it totally makes sense to put the about box under Account...

I should also mention that there isn't even a Help menu anymore, because nobody would have a need for help with anything in Microsoft Office, right? You can still get help if you know about F1 though.
>Publicly take back Microsoft's attacks on copyleft made in the 2000s. Ballmer called the GPL a "cancer". Allchin called it "un-American".

(from the "Suggestions I gave to Microsoft" section)

This is something I agree with. I don't think that Microsoft are likely to apologise for EEE [1] as that is likely just considered 'business' and part of the zeitgeist; neither do I think that Microsoft necessarily needs to endorse or support GPL as they are definitely unlikely to be using it for any products for the foreseeable.

They should, however, be a bit more repentant about starting a McCarthy-esque red scare against all things open source. I don't think those things were appropriate at the time and they really should at the very least be acknowledged as part of the "Microsoft heart Linux" initiative.

Part of me, though, thinks that Microsoft's recent adventures in Linux have been more 'Black Friday' than 'Good Friday'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...
Oh cool, I will compare with my smalltalk-80 book that just arrived today!!
The most annoying outcome there is when you book a window seat, only to find no window thanks to a plane switch - at which point it becomes worse than a middle.
Like there isn't enough gatekeeping going on with US "healthcare" already? Which is very likely one of the causes of this in the very first place.

I live in a country with universal healthcare. When I get sick or have an accident that requires urgent medical treatment, I'm wasting literally zero thought on "Can I actually afford this?", I just get the help I need and it won't leave me with massive debt.

I can't even imagine how depressing, and for some probably enraging, it must be to be in a situation of distress and pain, while having to consider if one can actually afford to get professional help, without having to pay off crushing debt for the rest of one's life.

The surprise here is how few people snap from this very apparent inhumanity going on.
That sounds kind of like a caveman arguing that there will never be a practical temperature higher than their campfire, because anything hotter would burn the meat.
And I'll add that a POS should be 100% working even with no internet connection, which it's much more likely to fail than electricity.
What he did instead is grab all the files he could get hold of

This is addressed in the book.
> What an incredibly spurious, over-generalised anecdote.

Could be. I'd like to hear what evidence, beyond this one news story, informs the OP's generalization.
Right, a source of far too much capital put into hair-brained ideas because most of the time it's capital controlled by people with more money than sense.

If we taxed people sensibly and spread it around, then there would be a lot more capital available to the average person wishing to start a business.
And you left out the part where I said “and there is a demand”. There is no demand for someone who can remove a tire but not install it....

Every specialization is about knowing the level of integration and specialization.
Why Can’t We Stop Pancreatic Cancer?
While there is a lot of lambda/serverless hate in this thread, I (who have no experience with it) am reluctant to conclude based on this alone that lambda is useless/stupid. Need more info.

Is there anyone who has had success using lambda, or can anyone find a write-up of a success story?

That would help me (and others) understand/believe better I think; if it's a very rare case where lambda ends up being helpful (which is the opinion of this HN thread apparently), a case study write-up of a real world success story would still help us understand when we _aren't_ in that situation.
Exchange rates I don’t disagree with but access to credit in general is as good or better now for UK companies than in 2016.