skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day, it all comes down to usage patterns. It often makes total sense for low-volume tasks to be processed by Lambda. If your company only has low-volume usage, or even just bursty usage, then Lambda is a slam dunk.

Now, say your company has a mix of low-volume and high-volume tasks--sure, you could comingle your low-volume work use some of the cycles from the high-volume workloads--e.g. add some endpoints to your high-volume application that handles low-volume tasks. But, isn't this trending towards the monolith of yesteryear? Which, is fine, I guess--monoliths aren't pure evil--but with microservices and serverless we've finally been able to apply the tried-and-true design patterns of separation-of-concerns/do-one-thing-well to entire applications (not just to little utilities and libraries).

The point is, there's nothing wrong with embracing the right-tool-for-the-right-job and using a mix of infra strategies is often what's best for an org. You don't have to go all serverless, nor do you have to go all containerized. Let your big-dog 24/7 high-volume applications do their thing in Kubernetes and let your one-off admin tasks spin up for 100ms and die and not bother anyone else.
That just looks like a standard PaaS to me--Heroku has been doing that forever.
> So EVERYONE knew and they still disagreed with their point of view. Warned them that accusations without proof like that would get serious. Does that make them evil?

Sometimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Colorado_serial...
ICE, because it’s useless. There is a service for catching criminals it’s called the police. There is absolutely no need for a nazier one that would handle only one type of misdemeanors in the most brutal And devastating way they can do.
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The touch screens are there for the same reason that software is filled with user-hostile animations and contrast trade-offs: they look cool (aka they demo well) which leads to more sales.
`“I whistle blew a colleague who used the N-word in jokes. HR found nothing conclusive”`

I was once asked in an HR investigation about a similar accusation where I was present in the room when a coworker was supposed to have said this slur in a joke.

Not only was the word not said, but the actual context of the conversation reported was that the accused party was decrying a public figure for making blatantly racist statements. I made it absolutely clear to HR that nobody in the room would tolerate even the slightest bit of racism -- none of us would find that acceptable in any way.

Certain people have sensitivities such that they will overhear things in passing and then inject words into a conversation that were never said. It's just like that game of telephone we all play as kids that somehow everyone forgets the lessons of by adulthood.

That's my charitable interpretation of the reporter's actions in this circumstance. Given their wild accusations about a recent new hire who is a minority though, I suspect something more nefarious and that HR process might be used as a weapon by an actual racist here.

My point is just that evidence is important and that probably most companies don't want the blowback of letting a known racist get away with it because that sort of thing tends to blow up in public later.
I think the OP meant "bloated and heavy" in terms of the sheer size of the thing, not the performance of it. And it is. It's very difficult to use _just_ the 2D rendering part of Chromium, you bundle the whole thing, warts and all.
For someone who is not well versed in Google Android, is this completely out of the blue, or was this well known within Android circles?
> Some people in the gray areas are going to get burned,

The ends justify the means right?
You can easily buy a physical Suica card from the vending machines at train stations. English language interfaces are also available.

Mobile FeliCa was practically unheard of in non-Japan smartphones a few years ago, and is still limited to only a few phones today.
Runaway states are an unrealistic scare mongering tactic that very rarely show up in nature. There are so many feedback loops, both positive and negative, but people always forget about the negative feedback loops and overemphasize the positive feedback loops. Sure, any positive feedback loops taken out of context can be scary but that’s because it’s an idealized state that doesn’t really exist.
The highest conversion rate I've ever had on ads was when you could buy out a specific subreddit.

Now Reddit just sells generic key-word targeted ad-space and it's really not worth it anymore as you are selling your soul to an algorithm that doesn't know your audience.
The article mentions https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/ but doesn't link to it. Just put in a photo and see what category of person the algorithm sorts them in to.
Facebook just deleted this page so I guess this report was onto something
I think Microsoft got off relatively easily compared to AT&T and Standard Oil, but I was in the camp hoping they'd be forcibly partitioned so that the applications business was separate from the OS business, both of which were separate from Microsoft's hardware operations (which consisted mainly of peripherals, because they hadn't gotten into the game console business yet).
For the artist, ImageNet’s problems are inherent to any kind of classification system. If AI learns from humans, the rationale goes, then it will inherent all the same biases that humans have. Training Humans simply exposes how technology’s air of objectivity is more façade than reality.

An AI being accused of bias tends to really mean it works. Removing bias from AI, I've noticed, requires hardcoded 'fixes' rather than refactoring the algorithms. And in my view, becomes yet another human-curated classification system, and no longer AI.
If you cross the border to reach a port of entry to request asylum, it is not an illegal border crossing.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3
I don’t think speaking about religion is a problem. Here's what I think, for what is worth:

First, your message may give the impression that you are giving an unfounded lesson to some people here. “You will not […]”

Second, you may be speaking a language to which not everyone is receptive. For instance, you are stating things about our duties, but people who don’t see a meaning or a goal in life (does it sound sad?), or don’t feel they have a specific duty may not fully understand your message.

Some people here may also be seeking evidences for some statements you make because they are not obvious to them. For instance: how can you know that nobody will ever suffer as much as Jesus or more? Is there a study out there finding this result?

Though I may also be doing the mistake you may be doing, that is, not speaking the right language to be understood (I may also have offended you by doing so and I'm sorry for that if that is the case). Quite like in the following copy-pasted joke:

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A religious women upon waking up each morning would open her front door stand on the porch and scream,

“Praise the Lord.”

This infuriated her atheist neighbor who would always make sure to counter back,

“There is no Lord.”

One morning the atheist neighbor overheard his neighbor praying for food, thinking it would be funny, he went and bought her all sorts of groceries and left them on her porch. The next morning the lady screamed,

“Praise the Lord, who gave me this food.”

The neighbor laughing so hard he could barely get the words out screamed

“It wasn’t the Lord, it was me.”

The lady without missing a beat screamed:

“Praise the Lord for not only giving me food but making the atheist pay for it!!”

---
Ask HN: How did you prepare for being a first-time parent?
I wonder what's the best/recommended way to prepare for being a first time parent?
Any recommended books/blogs/videos... ?
Somewhat blissfully, work isn't a court of law, and the source document makes clear everyone and their mother knew what was going on, and they knew the employee would go public with these claims, and yet had the courage to not throw someone else under the bus so they could appear morally pure
> The web application needs of most startups are fairly trivial and best supported by a serverless stack.

Pretty subjective statements, I suppose we don't have the same definition of "trivial".

> If your best choice was Rails or Django 10 years ago, then it’s serverless today.

Comparing the features of Rails or Django with serverless is like comparing a spaceship with a skateboard.
I am amazed by the number of negative comments this article is getting.. on Hacker News of all places.

I don't see the article claiming people should drop PostgreSQL and use this, it's just asking people to give it a try if they are interested.

Much more interesting would be to discuss what capabilities would be different if this were a mature product.

For instance, this sounds interesting:

> One advantage of using Kafka is that multiple servers can all “tail” the same set of topics. This allows multiple KarelDB servers to run as a cluster, with no single-point of failure. In this case, one of the servers will be elected as the leader while the others will be followers (or replicas). When a follower receives a JDBC request, it will use the Avatica JDBC driver to forward the JDBC request to the leader. If the leader fails, one of the followers will be elected as a new leader.
Microsoft Can Acquire Adobe, Provided It Doesn’t Balk at $260B Price Tag
The AWS bill seems high already. $90 dollars for m1.small, which has 1 vcpu and less than 2GB memory? At my current hosting provider that machine costs less than 5euro! What am I missing? Looking at the hourly usage it seems to be the equivalent of 3 machines running 24/7, so 15 euro, but still?
It's a useful article. But as a pilot and former CFII, I do not agree with Langewiesche's assertion that AF447 was "an exercise in poor airmanship". That's a callous disregard for the final report that put blame on Airbus and Air France, for training deficiency, simulator deficiency, and cockpit UI/Ux confusion contributing to the problem of pilot panic.

Is it poor airmanship that resulted in US Air 427? How is what happened on AF447, Lion Air 610, Ethiopian Airlines 302, anything to do with pilot competency and airmanship, while US Air 427 pilots don't get any of that criticism? Is it American pilot versus foreign pilot bias? It would seem so, but it's also a distraction from the question of pilot role: is it really appropriate to consider them the last line of defense as if the airplane and now automated flight systems are capriciously trying to kill everyone at any moment and if the pilot can't intervene that "airmanship" has to be brought into the discussion?

I just think it's a cheap shot. Only from the mistakes of these dead pilots, and a bunch of dead people, is their the concern that leads to fixes from manufacturers. And Langewiesche didn't bother to bring up Boeing's previous track record with 737 defects either, and how unconscionable their intentional misdirection was.
I've toyed with the idea of a tarpit service for badly behaved crawlers which just don't get other hints.

I'm glad to see that if my services are behind cloudflare, I could just turn something on and let _them_ deal with it.
Here is a longer list: https://old.reddit.com/r/SpartanWeb/

In theory a web crawler could check for Javascript inclusion and but crawling might be futile because most of the web is not "spartan".
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I think people like yourself will end up on an island or somewhere else very remote, with all the chances to build the utopia you're ready to destroy our civilization for. You'll have no "patriarchy", "white supremacy" nor "climate change." You'll have everything you need, except common people to blame and try to extort money from.

Majority of revolutions failed, and it seems like folks like you never learned about the consequences of trying to "change the world" and failing.
Nim's creator personal words about Nim 1.0
Honest question: how much of the recent pushback could be attributed to incumbents feeling threatened by Juul et al.?
Trump’s Emissions Fight, Amazon’s EVs, and Other Car News This Week
> > whereas Jews were rounded up and starved to death

> Those are called death camps.

I try to not engage in political discussions, but I'm going to strongly disagree with you. The popular definition (i.e. actual living language) of a "concentration camp" is "where people are killed" - for example, see Wikipedia page Auschwitz concentration camp.
never thought of it this way. if it was laid out as a red/blue pill like that, i'm not sure what id take. i think once you are a billionaire the average person probably just assumes your not nice anyways, might as well triple up the cash.
Only 2 endpoints per month? What exactly are you comparing to that doing it twice a month would waste way more time adding an endpoint vs serverless?
> i wont claim to be a serious badass

AP Physics C without a calculator qualifies you!

Some of the most fun teachers had open-book open-note any-calculator tests for various technical subjects, but the questions were carefully designed so that if you stopped to rifle through a book or notes or pull out the calculator, you would run out of time. Everything was set up to be symbolically done faster if you knew your stuff. In addition many students hearing open-book open-note simply don't bother to study and thus blow the test that way despite having too many resources available to distract them during the test.
That raises some interesting questions about dynamics and alternatives. HR is infamous for their primary role being liability prevention or more crudely stated ass-covering.

Do you know of any alternative systems in place to resolve issues?

Even if Google wanted to form some sort of employee handled board or arbitration to decide how to handle accusations they would still be liable. And that is ignoring messy office politics involved in that sort of empowerment, bad actors, or just flaws of many parajudicial systems.

That companies would still be liable isn't neccessarily a bad thing as otherwise it could be delegated into a bigotted council and violate all sorts of discrimination laws at will. Any innovative system would need to address those issues as well.
The sentence is written in English, there is no Spanish language in the sentence to be erased.
The world is burning to the ground but at least these damn kids won't have Mango flavored e-cigs anymore. What a lovely use of our resources.
Have you tried the Butrans patch? It is buprenorhpine and as of February, 2018 there is no legal restriction on it under CDC/FDA policy: unlimited prescriptions. No special license required to prescribe it (it is against regulation to use the patch for addiction). It is now generic ($160/month with a coupon, usually requires a prior authorization), and doesn't:

* Get you high
* Make you drowsy
* Addict you (yes, you'll have a tolerance, but no it won't be a problem)
* Give you cravings
* Stop your breathing

Each patch lasts a week and if they stick to my oily skin (I once dumped a 10 day heart monitor in 8 hours), it will stick to anyone. And you know what? It's not that much less effective than morphine. And it's even refillable.

Have you tried all the non opioid options? Lyrica, Gabapentin, Trifexis, Cymbalta, Nortriptyline (and other TCAs), etc? Lyrica is for nerve pain but Gabapentin and the others are used for all kinds of pain. CBD has limited evidence for helping nerve pain, but be aware that it has a long (>24 hour) half-life and can make you slightly high if you take enough daily (yes, in high enough doses it is psychoactive). There is good evidence for glucosamine/chondroitin for arthritis. There is limited evidence for tuermeric/curcumin (and its cheap!) for helping pain. There is limited evidence for SAM-E (but not if you've ever been manic) for pain. Are you on an NSAID? What about Tramadol? And for me, prednisone is a lifesaver for flights and conferences - I can't do either without it, but obviously you don't want to take it a lot. Great for flareups.

Have you tried compounded topicals? I have 9% Lidocain (store is 4%, pharmacy 5%), 9% Diclofenac (insurance covers 1$), 8% Tramadol (no mental effects), 2% cyclobenzaprine and 0.2% clonidine. You can pack in 30% of medicine, though I take 31.2% cause they still fill it. Topicals never helped me much - in particular lidocaine did shit. Until I tried 10%, that was magic. Most pain is felt on the skin - even organ pain, so you should definitely try this if you haven't. You can get a custom formulation fit exactly to your pain.

What about the various interventions offered via injection/rhizotomy? Do you see a physiatrist? Have you been to see an interventional anaesthesiologist? If you're really suffering have you asked about a spinal stimulator?

If you try most everything on the list, they will write you opioids even today, if buprenorphine doesn't cut it. Maybe you've tried all this stuff but most people I encounter on Quora aren't even anywhere near the end of the road and have given up.

Many people are unwilling to take drugs that affect the brain, and I always conclude they must not hurt very much because I'd take a pill with a 90% chance of curing me and a 10% chance of killing me.
It’s not a good assumption to think that because a charity pays lavish salaries and stays in fancy hotels that it is somehow more effective.

You're 100% right!

We should assume no such thing. We should measure whether it's more effective and reward that. Measuring and rewarding anything else creates perverse incentives, such as:

I’d rather donate to a charity that both has low overhead and reduces the malaria rate by 20%.

Really? If two charities deliver the same results, where one pays its staff minimally and spends the vast majority of its money on its treatment program, and the other pays and treats its staff well (lavishly, even) and spends less money on a more cost-effective treatment program, yielding the same ultimate results, then I'd say the former enriches more lives and deserves my money more.

When people say "no good deed goes unpunished", that's a joke because that's obviously not how we want the world to work. The world we want is one where bad deeds are punished and good deeds are rewarded.

We should prefer to donate to a charity that is as effective as alternatives but pays and treats its workers better, because the people who make those missions succeed deserve to be rewarded, not punished.

it’s pretty much impossible to tell if a single charity reduces the malaria rate ... there are lots of other factors and organizations contributing to a shared goal

That's why the article I linked to advocates randomized controlled trials, among other ideas.
I wanted one for the Forth environment too!

OLPC's Forth Tutorial: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons
Indeed, however a non-graphing calculator and a non-graphing calculator have differences, I personally would not want to live without calculation history and enter-calculation-then-calculate system (instead of the one where every symbol you press instantly applies it to the number you have on screen, I have no clue how these two are officially called). Point being that we'd end up with a certain list of allowed calculators even if they're not graphing because they're simply not the same and some are much faster and nicer to use.
> I don't want to live in a world where everything new is an iThing that says I can't help you Dave.

That sounds like the "war on general-purpose computing" that Cory Doctorow was talking about a few years back.

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
Upton Sinclair: Markets and Misery (1906)
But the entire point of this line of questioning is that there are more programmers who already know C.
> Look, ICE does more than just "separate families" they also fight human/sex trafficking

Ahh, yes, the good ole "fight fire with fire," approach where you let your agents run rampant sexually abusing children, yet claim to be doing good.

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/immigration-detention-se...
That’s not the bill. That’s from the federal register, which records decisions of administrative agencies. Assuming you’re talking about Annex A, that is a recording of specific products that the USTR has ruled are excluded in response to existing exclusion requests:

> As set out in Annex A, the exclusions are reflected in 38 specially prepared product descriptions, which cover 46 separate exclusion requests.

As is clear from Section C, these are decisions on publicly filed exclusion requests that were the subject of public notice and comment. There is in fact a whole website dedicated to explaining what these exclusion requests are and how to apply for them: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/enforcement/section-301-investi...

As discussed above, criteria for exclusion are things like products that are only available from China, whether the product is strategically important to China, etc. But the decisions are made case-by-case and that’s why the list of excluded products is literally a list of specific products.

This is just a funny misunderstanding, but a lot of “the government is so corrupt” type ranting is rooted in these sorts of erroneous readings of legal documents.
Under the idea of legitimate and illegitimate use, why wouldn't drug trafficking be legitimate? It gets drugs off the streets, decreases violence compare to street level drug dealing, increases safety (while the reputation of online sellers isn't a great metric, we are talking relative to the person on the street corner), and generally involves only adults.

If one is willing to argue that the US government throwing someone in a cage because the grew or bought the wrong plant is legitimate, then I don't see how they have any standing to complain about China doing something for someone who held up the wrong sign at a protest.
It's all theater as far as I'm concerned. Nobody actually gives a shit about this.
Similarly in Poland, current proposed plan is 30% value of a car, but with absolute max price limit of ... ~28K Euro, meaning only Opel Corsa-E qualifies. Why?!?
> 28% of high school students this year said they had used an e-cigarette at least once in the past 30 days

Holy smokes! If you look at data from a few years ago [1] that's more than double what you'd see for cigarette smoking (eyeballing the numbers here, the data is more granular).

Is it easier for kids to get e-cigs than cigarettes? Or do they just want them more?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK294302/table/ch13.t3/?...
The case for Charter Cities within the effective altruist framework
From Writing My First Line of Code to a $226K Job Offer in 8 Months
Good companies have policies that any good-faith reports of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, fraud or abuse at the company, or any other similar event _shall not_ be subject to any bad consequences or disciplinary action, even if the complaint/report is not found to be substantiated or serious enough for the organization to take action on. No retaliation for people raising issues.

Google either doesn't have such a policy or it isn't followed, as shown by the linked article.
Any more info on this or maybe some screen shots? I'm not on the market but given the complaints about the current state of dating apps I think lots of people would be curious to see this.
I've been running many non-JS crawlers for the past few years, and there were a few pages that kept pushing the CPU load of my servers to a halt. When I dug into the source code, I saw that the HTML was a convoluted text of tables inside tables inside tables inside more tables, thus making it incredibly time-consuming + CPU-intensive for my DOM parser to parse (I was using Nokogiri, a Ruby gem at the time). Thus Cloudflare could be serving these types of "fake" pages to bad bots.

They could also be doing things like serving fake streaming audio that never ends, or anything that might make it seem like the web page is just a huge page that needs time to load.