skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt they are doing it with 70s technology. The point of my comment was to demonstrate the improvements since the 70s have added a lot of value to customers, especially the fact that I can compare prices around the nation and even world within minutes.
Trashmen collecting garbage with an Xbox controller and giant claw? In a neon jumpsuit? Yes. That's futuristic.

I hope NYC adopts the system. I agree, it is totally within reach.
Fortunately[1], those annoying birds and insects are going away[2] like never before!

[1] for you
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_decline

Are humans starving to death also something you'd be really happy about? Because if insects and birds go away, who is going to pollinate all that shit you plant and expect to be able to eat? Also not fond of your cities and farms pouring your waste into the oceans wherever.
I just travelled with my SO and another couple. Everyone on their phone, all the time. Posting to IG, looking up the "best" restaurants and attractions. It seems they can't see value in wandering and discovery. Not my kind of traveling...
> Then you're not talking about versioning are you? you're talking about install order.

I didn't mean build order but install scripts and native module builds.

The first type can create issues when external resources are downloaded (Puppeteer, Ngrok, etc.), which themselves have different versions or that fail to download and where the Node.js module falls back to another solution that behaves slightly differently.

The second type can occur when you have say Alpine Linux that uses MuslC and Amazon Linux uses GCC or when the native module tries to link with a shared library that is supposed to exists but doesn't.

> Are you generally proposing it would be common to use an entirely different OS? Or a non-boring extX filesystem?

I haven't checked but Amazon Linux by default uses XFS on EBS disks so I wouldn't be surprised if Lambda's used the same. So not a boring extX filesystem. ZFS is also relatively common.

> Serverless exists precisely to answer the question.

No, it clearly doesn't because your function will fail in local and succeed in Lambda, or the reverse, exactly due to the issues I mentioned in my various comments here and you will be left debugging.

Debugging which starts by finding exactly the differences between the two environments which would have been solved by a VM or Docker.
It would be great if everybody did this!

Or even rental car companies.
Immutability is important in FP, lots of functional languages don't even have a var-keyword - they don't deal with values in the sense that oop or imperative languages do.

(Instead, they just functionally transform shallow copies of input data, iirc this paradigm is called 'data driven programming')

...so, yeah, "no values" relative to the amount of words used in FP. The pun needs a bit of a stretch, but I'd take it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kinda wild in your post history you're advocating for AWS as a cheaper superior platform without disclosing that you work there.
No good deed goes unpunished eh.
Wouldn’t that just be a form of inversion of control? It feels a lot like dependency injection, though maybe I’m misunderstanding from the example.
Without a further examination, I don't think they are unrelated.
FP tends to have a disregard for practicality, and performance especially. Yes, it's elegant, by being abstract, but this abstraction comes at a cost.

After falling in love in it, I wrote a large project in F#, but eventually had to ditch it and rewrite in C#. A simple analysis of any F#-generated IL will reveal this.
I really think we're talking about things the wrong way. The argument shouldn't be slower/more expensive. Use the right tool for the right job. If it's simple REST don't use serverless. It's CPU bound stuff like generating thumbnails, parsing xml/json or file conversion is where serverless helps.
The UN Climate Action Summit 2019 is live online http://webtv.un.org/ or https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/
Are extroverts supposed to work on it too?
The video is about (internal) hearsay, the guy doing the video was fired recently and is still quite salty about it.

Still, it is a really interesting inside look and does reflect some of the issues I have heard friends and collegues talk about. These high stress environments are toxic, and it is ludicrous that some of the best in the field are working in such terrible conditions.
it's been planned since the beginning: https://ziglang.org/download/0.3.0/release-notes.html#concur...
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Yep, like .2 mm/y^2. Exponentials grow much faster than parabolas. When you see that an exponential changes from almost 0 to something, it will change from something to too big to fit in the graph soon, really soon. Parabolas grow more smoothly. The difference is important to make some realistic predictions.
”only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities”

Of course. If 50% could do them, they wouldn’t be called “high computer-related skills”. Only 5% of the population has high athletics/cooking/etc. skills, too.

”and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.”

Seems like the definition of “medium-complexity” needs a small adjustment.

The message of this is “the medium is lower than you think it is”.

The good news is that what is considered medium goes up all the time. Transferring files between computers used to require meddling with ‘standard’ RS-232 cables and Kermit. Nowadays, 3-year olds regularly do it. Retouching photos used to be something for the 1% (and that likely is rounding up significantly). Now, 5-year olds can do it in seconds (taste still may need development at that age). Printing a map with the driving route from A to B? Child’s play (but they would wonder why you would take the trouble)
It's not just higher temperatures. Ocean acidification is a major issue as well, and that threatens to completely upend the entire ocean ecosystem. Drinkable water will be reduced. Less farmland will be viable. Glaciers melting threaten to disrupt ocean currents which would completely change our weather patterns, and not likely to be for the better.

>And we can be certain that there will be a new equilibrium, otherwise life wouldn't have lasted for hundreds of millions of years.

Basically every time something this major changes, the dominant species does too. We're smarter than previous dominant species, but since 'not having to deal with all of this bullshit' is far smarter than 'scrambling to come up with solutions that may or may not work and are unlikely to be cost effective even if they do', maybe not as smart as we think.
It's almost never about server capacity. It's usually about who's maintaining them, who controls the updates and versions of software on there, and which dept the server's billed to. All stuff that's reasonable for things of a certain size, but unreasonable for things too small or big to fit the process will.
Finally, a good use case for AMP ;)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/scie...
I'm a huge fan of this. Have done it many times, and it's an important exercise. Keeps you in the moment.

Related: See FullContact's Paid Paid Vacation policy:
https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/
Submitted 2 days ago. Linked wikipedia article gives more doubt on what happened and who was responsible

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039013
'This Is All Wrong,' Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders at U.N. Climate Session
Surveillance capitalism is a misnomer, a knee jerk reaction. At a glance, online advertising generates somewhere between $83.0 billion in 2017 and $220.38 billion in 2019, the exact number does not matter because it pales in comparison with other industries. Even if we removed all targeting online advertising would not disappear, so not all the worth is due to surveillance. Online surveillance is bad, but it does not define the type of Capitalism we live in.
Walking patterns can diagnose different types of dementia
Some news.ycombinator readers may actually work for Facebook, and have a direct financial stake in the outcome of this matter.

It sounds like a conspiracy, but it's possible. You know the old saying about "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
There’s lots of discussion here about UI design and intuitive interfaces in here, but not much about training.

Computers are, by far, the most complicated machines that people are expected to be able to operate without any training whatsoever. Is that actually reasonable?

It really sticks out for me in the workplace. So many jobs require computer use. So many of the people in those jobs have no idea how to use them. They muddle through on a combination of habit and tribal knowledge, and call for help the moment anything different happens.

Consider jobs that require operating a car. It’s expected that someone hired for this job already knows how to drive. If they dont, they either won’t be hired or they’ll be required to complete training to learn how to operate this equipment.

Yet if you replace “drive a car” with “operate a computer,” usually they don’t care. Just try your best, and call IT for help.

Making intuitive interfaces that anyone can pick up and use is great, don’t get me wrong. But I feel like we try to take it to impossible places.
What’s Faster? Count(*) Or COUNT(1)?
United Nations UN Climate Change Summit 2019
This is all about sending a message and clarify a position.

When someone in a marketing team of a company sends a message, they usually speak for the company, not for themself, except otherwise explicitly stated. So indeed, we can't expect a huge company like Microsoft have a uniform opinion on all things, but Microsoft as an entity stills sends a more or less coherent message if they take care of their communication.

And I would not blame someone understanding a statement from Ballmer for Microsoft's official stand if the statement was made when he was the head of the company and the company did not issue an apology or a clarification after the fact.
>Low rates are a result of boomeres all over the world saving for retirement
[citation needed] How did you come to that conclusion?
So this is where the analogy works; It's wise that the average person be able to perform moderate computer skills; similar to it's wise for anybody with a car to be able to accurately assess risk by knowing enough about cars.
Can you tell more about what kind of project this has been, and at what point you decided to turn around?
In case anyone else was wondering about when this was published, as I was, this was published on RMS's site today:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#23_Septe...
Ah so it's serverless as a tool to work around corporate red tape, then ;)
Thanks for the info! I'll try reaching out, but I'm probably too small of a fish for them to be interested :)
More on Prime Parallelograms
meh, to me the term "value" only makes sense in a mutable context - if the variable can't be mutated, it is it's own value. but let's not get lost in semantics over a joke (the more because we don't even know wether it was intended)
Why Men Can’t Say ‘I Love You’
I think so. I love deep and meaningful connection and getting lost in that conversation but if you leave out all of the small talk that naturally happens in between, it’s easy to find yourself in a very lonely place. For a time I used to dislike it because it seemed pointless.

Not everybody is comfortable with silence and, given a chance, you might find that some small talk kicks off the deeper conversation you so desire. After that I realised it wasn’t so much the deep meaning that I wanted so much, it was being able to connect, listen and empathise. And to enjoy some of that from someone else.

In the end, the small talk is quite valuable even if it seems utterly banal on the surface. Sometimes I just laugh about it, use it as an icebreaker.
Looking in from the outside, I just can't see how a project written in most esoteric-leaning languages can scale beyond like 5 developers without becoming an unreadable mess simply due to the expressiveness of the language.
> There's plenty of evidence at this point, it isn't an assumption.

Literally bullshit. Please stop with your ignorance.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165128/
Those crop fields are also harvested to feed farm animals. Eating meat requires more crops (and thus acreage) per calorie to the human consumer than eating the crops directly.

Eating meat will always have a higher death per calorie. An informed vegan knows that there is no such thing as a cruelty-free diet, only one that minimizes it.
If you continue reading that article, they go on to say Unity is not to blame...

There's a lot of reasons shipping Unity games is hard but the GC and C# are not among them or at least much lower than, say, dealing with how many aspects of the engine will start to run terribly as soon as an artist checks a random checkbox.
This reminds me of my aunt's ex who is an accountant telling me in mid-2000s that his peers wouldn't take seriously any program that run in Windows because to them all the graphics gave a 'toy' feel. Apparently pretty much all of the accounting software either ran in DOS or were Windows programs that ran in the console as to give that 'serious DOS look'. I also remember him receiving software updates via floppy disks in sealed envelopes from one of these companies.

I wonder what those companies making those programs are doing nowadays.
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Congratulations!!

I got 21 months old and I read/skimmed through pretty much everything popular and did almost everything by books. Sometimes, I followed advices in the books and got different results, it made me feel a bit of failure. Of course, I understand that every child is different and parenting science is in infancy right now. But at some subconscious level, maybe I thought parenting is like programming and one can easily control output with their code.

So be careful putting too much faith in these book even if they are evidence-based. At same time, I am surprised to see so many people recommending against reading up on parenting. Sure you will learn a lot of things from your parents and some of things that you will read in books might be common sense, but there will many new things you will learn. And some of common sense ideas are not even correct.

These books/blogs helped me being better father & husband, and also helped me deal with a lot of stress. "Let them Eat Dirt" helped me relax about being dirty.

"Brain Rules for Babies" helped me relax about not trying to teach my son all the time.

"What to Expect First Year" had a lot of useful tips. I didn't know that one should not microwave in plastic containers. And definitely don't microwave milk.
I think so. I love deep and meaningful connection and getting lost in that conversation but if you leave out all of the small talk that naturally happens in between, it’s easy to find yourself in a very lonely place. For a time I used to dislike it because it seemed pointless.

Not everybody is comfortable with silence and, given a chance, you might find that some small talk kicks off the deeper conversation you so desire. After that I realised it wasn’t so much the deep meaning that I wanted so much, it was being able to connect, listen and empathise. And to enjoy some of that from someone else.

In the end, the small talk is quite valuable even if it seems utterly banal on the surface. Sometimes I just laugh about it, use it as an icebreaker. Life isn’t so serious all the time, after all.
But that makes operational expenses go up. For instance, now you have to tweak the Nginx config to support the service that normally lives on that machine and the new system. And you still have to write and maintain the web service driving it (which may not be hard, like a Flask app with a single route, but still more than zero). And you still have to maintain the server itself, which should involve regular OS updates and any work you have to do to automate deployment of the web service, unless you really like doing all that stuff by hand.

Or you can upload a single function definition to Lambda and let it do everything else.

Again, I wouldn't use Lambda for everything, but I'll gladly let it handle the stuff I won't want to bother with.
You say as if it was all in GP's head, but being "a good human" and running a "good business" are concepts that are commonly understood, if a little fuzzy in the details. They're also the underpinning of society - the more good actors playing fair you have, the more stable and efficient a society is.
How would you know where the money earned as interest is spent?
> There is no feasible way to ensure that all food is pasture-grazing cow meat at a price point accessible to most Americans.

Maybe Americans (westerners in general actually) should simply eat less? 3 oz of meat per day is enough (5 oz of protein is recommended, but part of that can easily be filled by grains, legumes, cheese, milk, etc...). No one needs 10 oz of meat per day (current average consumption for Americans).
Show HN: HomeWerk – Work from Home, Together
I am not sure if you have been paying attention to the strongly typed, category theory zealots lately (who seem to claim they hold the one and only valid functional programming viewpoint). The size of vocabulary and relations they end up juggling put any over engineered OO system to shame.

It is attracting the same kind of people that 15 years ago would have reached for (and preached) the GoF book.
> European bureaucracy is a tar pit where innovative business goes to die.

There are 27/28 economies in the EU alone, ranging from Sweden to Greece, with very different cultures, laws and bureaucratic competencies, some of whom have successfully incubated very innovative businesses.
What Drove SoftBank’s Vision Fund Up Is Dragging It Down
Being incompetent isn’t the same as being unethical however given their target audience they were more negligent than incompetent.

I think the biggest take away from that site was just how few women were there compared to men, like we were talking in the single digits for verifiable active accounts.

Which is also where the unethical part comes in as AM was running chat bots or ignoring their existence to keep men on the site.
The dude hates doctors and nurses so much that he thinks they deserve to be physically attacked. And yet he is desperate for their services. This is a contradiction. I’m attempting to point this out.
SoftBank turns against WeWork's parent CEO Neumann: sources
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As the joke goes:

If you owe someone 100K and you cannot pay - you are in deep trouble.

If you owe someone 1 trillion and cannot pay - they are in deep trouble.
I don't know that I have a strong opinion on firmware, but I think there's a few points.

Distribution rights are a lot clearer with firmware on the device and a driver in code.

With firmware on the card, the interface between the kernel and the card is likely to be more well defined and thus easier to replace either side.
> Not limited to the British upper class. It's astounding how far someone can go in life by simply being confident, charismatic, and articulate (and tall) despite being completely full of shit.

I've gotten a similar vibe from a lot of graduates of prestigious US schools. Very confident, fairly confrontational style of conversation. I'd actually kinda like it if I hadn't learned through feedback and midwesterness to do basically the exact opposite. I'd guess it's especially strong in those who've been through seminar-style prep schools (which is most of the "good" ones, as I understand it) before going to university.
Yup! Haven't done it in years and created this different account to be more clear/direct in who I am. That is also why I called it out at the start and bottom of all my responses.

Thanks, - Chris Munns - AWS - Serverless - https://twitter.com/chrismunns
I can only laugh when I think about mining bitcoin when it was ~$15. I could get 0.1 BTC per day out of my GPU. Not much then, but if I had managed to hold it to today that's $1000 per day. I didn't hold it, obviously, but it's insane to think about. I feel like I missed out, I can't imagine what it's like for the people who mined thousands of BTC a day on a laptop CPU in the very early days and then forgot about it.
“There are so many unknowns and so many new things we are discovering,” said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of plastic surgery transplantation at Brigham and Women’s and one of Tarleton’s surgeons. Still, he said, “It’s really not realistic to hope faces are going to last (the patient’s) lifetime.”
Speculating about sock puppets is not only not interesting, it’s against the guidelines. If there’s a post you want to make a substantive argument against, please reply to it directly.
But what the article talks about isn't money printing for bailouts. It's about the government's ability to monitor transactions, freeze accounts and confiscate funds.
I did not see a paywall.
i'm not sure Fargate is considered Serverless.
>In fact they are often highly inappropriate because it will lead others to say bad stuff, meaning gossip they can share with their chosen handler

Seems like the standard "kiss up, kick down" mentality that is often present in corporate environments
Honestly, I've never seen a language or paradigm that you can't easily write spaghetti in.
>> Long _natural_ lifetimes are a fundamentally at odds with evolutionary progress.

I'm not sure I see that. For example, humans live many orders of magnitude longer than bacteria and yet we have both evolved just fine.

Anyway, I don't see why a species is pressed to evolve quickly in absolute terms. If all species on a given world evolve lifetimes many orders of magnitude longer than on the Earth, then there's no reason for any particular species to hurry.

I think how long or short a species' lifetime is can only be understood in the context of the environment in which it evolves. In any case, we don't know anything about life on other worlds, and my point is that we can't really make such big assumptions based on the single example we're aware of.