skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One question, which is puzzling me:

- there is a company which provides you with IT administration, which you trust it cpu management, memory management, network management,...

- in most cases (not all, but in most cases), you are developers not system administrators

- you dont have resources in term of hardware budget (in form of multi year plan), network budget, human resources budget, own knowlidge budget,... to set it up as a single man / company operation

Why do you believe, that some company that offers you all those "favors" would make it cheaper than if you wouldnt lack those topics? Even more as there is a huge mountain of knowlidge/time/money/... you dont have?

If I were them, I would spoil everybody to the point where developers wouldnt know what ip is, run operation on my own expenses and then raise up the prices a lot. And I dont think I am much smarter then "them".

To me it is dead simple. Same as all the cloud topics. It is a reasonable trade off, the companies are offering you a "favor" for money in same way that you do it customers.
Dell makes them in China (received one of XPS today for my son). Difference between 4k and 1080p can cost you about approx. 600-1000 USD (from my experience of reviewing this market extensively few weeks ago). RAM difference - about $100.
A Message for Children About Climate Change
You're exactly on point, and your 1:1 exchange here demonstrates the principle of shallow thoughts perfectly.
Probably has some sort of MAC address identifier that can detect whether something if different than the host DNA, but I have no idea nor experience in biology.
Now you can easily write the following state machine in C#:

static State ChangeState(State current, Transition transition, bool hasKey) =>

(current, transition) switch

{

(Opened, Close) => Closed,

(Closed, Open) => Opened,

(Closed, Lock) when hasKey => Locked,

(Locked, Unlock) when hasKey => Closed,

_ => throw new InvalidOperationException($"Invalid transition")

};
Introduction to the Linux chgrp and newgrp commands
Plain and simple, it's an awesome way to get started quickly and cheaply and some things will always be better suited for the cloud. But long term, there's some parts of your network where you should roll your own.
So because you're bearish you think that SNAP's CEO regrets his decision?
In the US people are getting increasingly angry due to their economic circumstances, despite the fact we live in a growing economy, because the future looks less promising.

What kind of dangerous demagoguery will people turn to if the world economy gets sucker punched? Sure, people will lose, but what happens if a class of people lose far more than everyone else, and refuse to take it passively?

We don't even know what a world without constant growth looks like.

The biggest thing to fear in such a scenario is other people and their weapons.
A spike ball: http://www.flamingpear.com/gallery65.html
> we generally agree that the printing press was very good for society

But are we right about that? To answer questions like that we have to make up counterfactuals, which are hard and hand wavey. Maybe we would never get the Reformation, and so the Catholic Church would still be burning heretics (a different spin on the modern day burning man), but as the article points out, maybe we also wouldn't have the haulocast...

I personally agree with historians like Yuval Noah harrari that it's been all downhill since agriculture
As someone with a Ruby background in a new job doing C# stuff, I really love C#!

Now the Windows exclusivity of .NET is no longer a thing it's much, much more appealing (who wants to run Windows Server over a Linux server if they can avoid it?).
It’s legal, no doubt about it.

But forking with the intention of helping people run concentration camps and changing the authorship of the commits? Doesn’t fit into my model of ethics.
I can see that but suggesting a course of action that is absurd on its face doesn’t do anything to refute his stance. Medical treatment for a severe injury isn’t optional.
We could, and are, rather easily. The more complex the life-form/system, the more vulnerable it is to simple attack.
Datapoint:

I'm using serverless because it lets me deploy a new API endpoint in a matter of minutes.

There is 0 configuration, and deployment is a single command. I also have my own servers running some of my APIs, the difference how much work I have to do is huge. Serverless on Google Firebase is literally "export a function, now you have a new endpoint!".

There is, quite literally, nothing else to do.

I can move 5x-10x the speed with serverless. There is less (almost 0) infrastructure to maintain.

Yes, it costs more, although the math with Google Firebase Functions is pretty trivial, everything is bundled under 1 service, and sending data around between Google cloud services is free.
By turning the EU into a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Personally, I don't care about carbon taxes (I drive a Tesla, too). The poor people on the other hand, will have to suffer even more apparently. They are the main beneficiaries of cheap energy/pollution, since they buy a lot of stuff that's only cheap because it comes from countries like China and India and taxes on fossil fuels and meat will hit them hardest.
The article's point is that it really isn't different this time around, isn't it?

Should Caxton overrule the translator and restore the original text? Or should he let the censorship stand, implying that, even if such insults were acceptable in ancient Athens or medieval Cairo, they were now beyond the pale? After many sentences of ornate hand-wringing, he tried to have it both ways. [...] As soon as he made his decision, he attempted to rationalize it. In the rest of the epilogue, he seemed to imply that he wasn’t a gatekeeper after all—that, although he was clearly a publisher, his printing press should be treated more like a platform. He was merely serving his customers, he suggested: they deserved to hear all perspectives and make up their own minds.

Later, it goes on to describe how the printing press allowed Martin Luther to "shake Saint Peter's throne," but also to produce and distribute "the first work of modern anti-Semitism and a giant step forward on the road to the Holocaust." (I'm quoting the passages the article quotes, from historians Elizabeth Eisenstein and Paul Johnson respectively.)

The article isn't suggesting that the Internet is all the dark side here -- it's suggesting that the "techno-utopians" seriously underestimated the potential for their inventions to be misused, and that that really isn't different from what happened with the printing press. The difference now is the scale, speed and reach. But as the note at the end of the article reads, the print headline for this piece was "The More Things Change."
Reducing output isn't going to happen, well it won't happen until it's too late. It's like the smoker that gets diagnosed with cancer, and then decides to quite smoking.

It's also ludicrous that think that warming will stop and hold at 1.5 or 2.0c adding less won't stop the increase in climate warming, it will just cause the increase to be slower.

The other thing that's ludicrous is that we aren't monitoring the earth's output, the warming oceans, melting glaciers and thawing permafrost are now contributing greenhouse gases due to the warming climate, they are now locked into positive feedback loops. Which means every cycle the changes get a little bit bigger as the cycles feed themselves. Unless we can start to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere these feedback loops are just going to keep running.
There are a few related announcements, here are some links:

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-core-3-...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-and-blazo...

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-f-4-7/

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-ef-core-3-0...

- https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core (if you're on 2.2 you have until the end of the year to update to 3.1, which will be LTS)

- https://www.dotnetconf.net/ live now

Shame about the bad timing with the UN summit: http://webtv.un.org/
The Clinton years also coincided with a great increase in consumer debt (mostly credit card). When people have more money to spend, they spend it - and the economy grows. There's a cost that comes later, naturally.
Venus probably had an Earth-like climate which evolved a wide variety of lifeforms, which culminated in the evolution of an intelligent species that built a global civilization. However, they powered this civilization with hydrocarbons pumped out of the ground, left over from decayed plant matter from eons before, so they could drive around in oversized SUVs, instead of living more densely and using trains to get around. Some of their species tried to warn them that disaster was imminent if they didn't change their ways, but the rest said this was just alarmism and that there was nothing wrong with cutting down their forests to have more grassland for raising large livestock for food. We can see now how this all worked out for the Venusians.
Accurate. People assume that more technology will fix everything but it will have to as much an 'inside job' too if we are too keep progressing as a civilization.
Actually US businesses were doing fine for the most part, except for those trying, and failing, to compete with the ladder replacements that moved overseas. There is a militarily strategic reason for keeping domestic production of your full supply chain, but most businesses don't care because (and this is a shocker) corporations aren't Americans, nor are they Chinese or any other nationality. They are greedy and self-interested and don't give a hoot about their country of residence.
That is a different facility, but it is nearby.
Seems like there was a perennial disagreement (which is continuing today) about the degree to which OLPC was meant to help teach computing, or a curriculum, or just give students and teachers some tools to do parts of what they were doing anyway in a higher-tech way.

Edit: I particularly appreciate bryanwb's comments on autodidacticism at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21047351, which point at a fourth possibility: the idea that just having access to computers is good for kids.
Those are pretty much my reasons as well (it's just icing on the cake that it's an architecture I have long familiarity with).
> I also spent hours trying to find my travel buddies when we were inevitably separated.

In the old days before cell phones, it was pretty common practice to set up with friends a meeting place in advance, and a schedule to gather there every so often. Something like "at noon, we'll meet up at this tree".

My friends and family have never stopped this habit -- it's just a nice backup plan in case one of us loses or damages their phone.
Sixth airline to shut down in the last 12 months.
Microsoft – AI for Earth
"How dare you have more than two children?" It's easier to blame capitalism and lecture to politicians instead of poor third-world families.
You campaign incessantly to increase public awareness of the climate crisis, so that a populist politician will have as much to gain from acting to curtail emissions than from reducing taxes.

Also, instead of taxation - which is more more easily fungible - you aim for the phasing-out/banning of industrial processes which are overly polluting. With that, there's less of an immediate gain from careless de-regulation.
A Reddit user charted just how much AMD is beating Intel – TechRadar
One thing I would add is to make sure not to ignore any discomfort. It is easy to get used to ignoring the signals that something isn't right and at least for me changing my posture a bit helps when I start to notice trouble (if that doesn't help, try something else or at least write down when you have discomfort if you can't think of anything else to try in the moment so you are not completely ignoring it).
I agree my comment may be a knee-jerk reaction, and it is quite a good technical article with clear examples.

I also agree that the open source tech used in this solution is very powerful and it is great we are at a point where a solution like this could exist. I love avro schema registries and kafka just as much as the next guy.
> But rubyists would’ve loved C#.

As a Rubyist, I'll admit that C# is the least bad of the C++/Java style of static OOP languages, but it was that it was always too tied to the .NET ecosystem and heavyweight enterprise tooling more than Microsoft's “supervillian role” with regard to FOSS that made it unattractive for lots of places where I would want to use Ruby. That's improved with Core, somewhat.
It's reasonable to assume oysters aren't the only organism to do this.

It's probably fine to restore the oyster reefs to their former glory. It might not be fine to populate them with 10x the natural amount.
Asimov: Exclude node_modules from your Time Machine backups
So all the faults that Boeing are fixing now are imaginary, you do not absolve Boeing of it's fault because some super pilots would have saved the plane. Maybe you should have followed your advice and read about all the mismanagement of the project and how important details were hidden from the pilots.
Jaron Lanier made a pretty good argument that the dedication and belief of freedom of information in the 80's is what pushed businesses to adopt the advertisement/surveillance capitalism model
Adding to some of the other comments: Leukocytes (immune cells) such as B and T cells will undergo "education" when they are developing. For example, B cells, before being released, will go through something called central tolerance in the bone marrow. If the B cell receptors bind a "self" antigen (markers that are associated with our own cells) while developing, it will go through negative selection and be destroyed. Of course, some B cells that bind self antigens do make it through in rare cases and this is what manifests as an autoimmune disease.
Is it now? The predictions are, as far as I understand, that a lot of coastal areas will become submerged this century, meanwhile the rising temperatures will (and already are) mess up with the food supply. As that accelerates, the world will see a migration wave like never before in history, and frankly, it sounds like straight to World War 3 from here to me.

The planet, frankly, doesn't matter. It'll be fine. The thing that matters is our technological civilization. Whether it's a gun or a glacier, our civilization is fragile, and when it fails, it's essentially game over for humanity - mass deaths followed by the remaining survivors stuck in medieval conditions for many thousands, or tens of thousands of years.
I've met brilliant technical people from every race I've ever thought to recognize. I don't need any further argument to understand that there are brilliant individuals of all races.
> RMS did not describe the trafficked child as "willing". He said she presented herself to Minsky as willing...

That unbelievably loose semantics, especially considering this wasn't some random streetwalker at a bar. They were on an billionaire's island with a f'ing sex temple, for god's sake. And, I'll reiterate, this was a child being offered to a 74 year old man.

What I will concede is that RMS is the first person I wouldn't expect to understand any of the unspoken obviousnesses of the situation, such as being able to deduce, in the moment, why a child prostitute would be presenting herself as willing. Regardless, that doesn't cover how he used it at the time to excuse Minsky allegedly sleeping with her, because this supposed witness wasn't openly known. "He may have thought the child was willing" is about the most disgusting excuse imaginable.

But what upsets me most is that people jump to the defense of a 66 year man that does this, as if he shouldn't have learned by now how not to act like this, even with impairments. He has been allowed to be this way, because his horrid behavior is always defended by his fans.
> We use Google/Yelp and just pick a place with good reviews

You must have better luck with reviews than I! Personally, I've never really noticed a strong correlation between the reviews a place gets and how good the place actually is.
It looks like if you take China and India out of the equation, the numbers are trending down.
If these features were critical enough that you could found a company on them, then clearly they brought innovation to the scene. If they had not come along, it's unclear as to whether Facebook would have ever introduced those features in their products.

"Fair market competition" is the idea that products compete on their own merits, not that you can leverage your market position to destroy competitors. "Deeper pockets" is certainly antithetical to fair competition even if it's a reality we must sometimes accept. Exploiting the fact that you have "more users" should probably also be looked at as anti-competitive since it certainly doesn't benefit consumers by locking people into exclusive platforms.

Are we really going to resign ourselves to the idea that FAANG will now and forever own nearly all the internet? What good are the "principles" of "free market competition" if we allow consolidation to effectively eliminate the market?
This book is dated but excellent. It basically teaches us to have empathy for our child’s state of mind and feelings. This empathy is hard to generate sometimes but I’ve found it to be the most effective way to parent. Ironically this is true of all human interaction: empathy is hard but is so powerful.
I remember a few years ago reading how Dell had lost the ability to make their own computers gradually over time. On the face of it, every bit of manufacturing and design they moved out of the US made sense, but all of it added up over time meant that they had effectively lost control of the computers they were selling.

It was an interesting story that but my google-fu isn't strong enough to find it.
Hi, thanks for the heads up. I just updated it.
Yes, it actually is. I'm just a temp. I'm flattered that you asked that, but I'm in no position to hire anyone; I'm a deadbeat Slavophile trying to masquerade as an IT expert.
D3 does this amazingly well: https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-projection/blob/master/README.m...
How to Make the Most of Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019
I think the airline part of their business was pretty minor, only a few aircraft, and they were considering selling it anyway. It's not really a story about an airline shutting down.
>Any banker can confiscate any customer's money on a whim?

That's the point behind the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency). They're to make sure that does not happen. Broad brush stroke, SEC for the banks. Chase bank actually tried this on me after depositing a check from a client. They wanted to hold the check for 31 days and they froze my account (which included my payroll and day to day funds). Granted, it was a big check and the biggest one I ever got by a large amount. But verification of legality for that amount was only supposed to be about 3 days (which I don't have problems with). Anyways, did about 5 minutes of extreme panic research and discovered the OCC. Literally that easy to find. Called them up, explained the situation and they said they need to do their due diligence with my info. 2 days later (they researched the payment, fyi I was sub-sub-contract on a gov job) they scheduled a call between me and Chase bank at a branch. They forced the funds released and account back in working order. Chase gave me a huge apology. I literally told them to shove their apology in their ass and to cash out my company's account so I could open a new one elsewhere. They claimed they can't cash out in such short notice, the guy from the OCC on speakerphone speaks for me and goes "Your office has 30 minutes to figure it out."

Literally, my favorite gov agency since I did feel pretty baller going against Chase bank. The Chase branch had 2 lawyers and a regional vp with their branch manager waiting for me. I think the CFPB got involved too, on my side, but OCC took lead. At least the guy I always talked to was OCC. I was just surprised how fast acting these people were. From account freeze to walking out was only 3 days.

Makes me wonder though, what other agencies are out there, that baller, that protects the public?

Now Greece, sure. Not like they truly have a functioning government to begin with.
To be clear, this has nothing to do with .NET Core 3.0 but rather is a feature of C# 8.0, which depends on compiler support that can be targeted to any previous version of .NET Core or Framework, all the way back to Framework 2.0 (tested myself, although MS says not to target 2.0 or 3.5).
I wonder how many of Europe's super cheap airlines are losing money.

If more fail there might be a domino effect as so many places have come to rely on tourism.
It seems like the whole financial system depends on the time delay between people agreeing to get a certain salary/price and then actually getting paid and spending it.
By the time they actually get paid, the money is actually worth less than what they had originally agreed to.
It seems that large corporations should be able to make a profit on that delay alone, even if they produce nothing of actual value. I guess it explains why huge powerful corporations like Apple and Amazon always ask for money up-front and then delay payment to suppliers for as long as possible. Seems like a vulnerability in the system.
"These are Gothic High-Tech figures, people who position themselves in the narrative rather than building any permanent infrastructure"
Instead of arguing about whether or not we can put the genie back in the bottle, why don't we figure out how we can do better than we opened one last time, e.g. how can we avoid the mistakes that followed the adoption of the printing press?
The Joshua Tree Quantum Computer Achieves Quantum Supremacy: Dr. Elliot McGucken's research group hath created a quantum computer capable of simulating over five sextillion atoms in the form of water molecules, performing massively complex calculations in a fraction of a second, leveraging quantum entanglement in the Hilbert Space, thusly tapping into the power of higher dimensions and the space of parallel universes. These highly complex many-body calculations would take classical computers over a trillion trillion trillion years to solve and simulate. The JT Quantum Computer leverages the quantum multiverse to generate random numbers and pattern distributions via the entangled interactions of five sextillion atoms.

Atoms in a drop of water = 3 atoms/molecule x 1.67 x 10^21 molecules = 5.01 x 10^21 atoms, or five sextillion atoms.

The patent-pending Joshua Tree Quantum Computer works as follows:

One obtains an eye-dropper and a glass of water.

One takes up a drop of water in the eye-dropper.

One drops said drop of water onto a flat piece of glass.

Immediately one achieves and observes the random pattern distribution based on the entangled interactions between the over 5.01 x 10^21 atoms (five sextillion atoms), as the combined wave function collapses and the universe splits a trillion trillion times. Using a classical computer, one would be unable to simulate this calculation even after a trillion trillion trillions years. The JT Quantum Computer leverages the entangled quantum interactions between the atoms, thusly mining the Hilbert Space of parallel universes and the multiverse in a manner that is at least several sextillion times faster than IBM's leading SUMMIT super computer.

And so the Joshua Tree Quantum Computer hath achieved quantum supremacy.

The Wright Brother's first flight lasted under a minute, and already we have crossed far further than that, with big plans for the future, and multitudinous commercial applications. A new era hath dawned.

We are currently seeking $200 million in funding to complete the design of the Redwood Quantum Computer, which will involve an entire bucket of water and which will be able to leverage the many worlds of Sean Carroll.

dx4/dt=ic friends, dx4/dt=ic :) :)