skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just saying people do really use ear buds for their actual function, which is something your use of the word "exclusive" seemed to dismiss out of hand. Does that mean that nobody's going "ooh, look at my white earbuds, everyone?" Of course not. But the fact that some people do want to show them off doesn't mean that other people -- I would argue a lot of other people -- are just using the thing that came with their phone.

I never argued that mechanical keyboard users were interested in signaling anything -- but I'm sure a similar dichotomy applies. Some are interested in signaling. Some are interested in them because they're good to type on. The analogy only goes so far, though, because mechanical keyboards are an extra-cost purchase, while iPhone earbuds are free pack-ins which most people don't consider to have particularly good fit and sound quality. If I'm interested in a well-manufactured accessory featuring high quality processes and materials, I may buy a mechanical keyboard, but I will probably not stick with the damn white earbuds. If I'm wearing an audiophile brand of in-ear monitors most people won't recognize out in public, am I still doing it to "signal"?
PDA tumours in humans and mouse models of this cancer displayed an increase in fungi of about 3,000-fold compared to normal pancreatic tissue. The composition of the mycobiome of PDA tumours was distinct from that of the gut or normal pancreas on the basis of alpha- and beta-diversity indices. Specifically, the fungal community that infiltrated PDA tumours was markedly enriched for Malassezia spp. in both mice and humans.
Oh wow, I have been living under a rock. My friends and family consider me a mechanical keyboard enthusiast/geek because I have two mechanical keyboards and a simple 6 switch tester that I used prior to purchasing my first mechanical keyboard, the CM Masterkeys Pro S RGB. I've tried explaining why I ordered a tester, why I chose Cherry MX Blues, but I don't think I managed to get my point across. So here I am, having spent around $250 on both my keyboards, an outrageous amount in the eyes of my non-technical friends and mom. At least my wife supports me, telling me she doesn't understand, but she likes seeing me so hyped and enthusiastic about it. Turns out I haven't spent that much! Interesting article and even more interesting discussion here on HN... I find it hard to justify paying $1,668 for a keyboard, but then again - it's an enthusiast market and I see the appeal.
Why not walk down the street naked? I'd love to, but then I'd get arrested. Irony...

Cheekiness aside ( Pun ;) ), I second your point. "Having something to hide" is frequently conflated with "not wanting to share something with everyone that I don't need to".
My Keyboard.io Model 1s are still my two favorite keyboards. I backed them on KickStarter and I'm glad I did. I'll still point out this article to Jesse and Kaia to make sure they're mindful of the option for future models.
I think more information is required here in order to get pertinent advice.

My general comments about managing a team that is engulfed in firefighting activities:

1) Don't pile on. Not everything can be a "#1 priority". An important part of the job of a manager is to guide the setting of priorities. Determine the priority ranking, and assign tasks according to it. Shield your team from pressure from other parts of the company when it comes to the items that aren't currently assigned.

2) Set proper expectations to upper management. This is part of your "protect your developers" role -- you are the firewall. Accurately and honestly keep upper management informed of what is currently being worked on, what is not, and why.

3) Don't push your team to work faster than is sustainable. Pushing for extra effort is fine when done occasionally, but it's not fine when it becomes standard operating procedure.

4) Keep track of progress. If it's taking longer than it should to put out a given fire, find out why and grease those skids if possible. If "why" is because it's a trickier job than expected, consider temporarily swapping that task out for a different task of equal priority, or reassigning that task to a different dev, and so forth.

5) Be aware that simply adding more people to a task will not necessarily speed up the completion of that task (and will often slow it down).

6) Celebrate all victories. It's very hard on a team when all they are doing is firefighting. Every time a fire is put out, celebrate that with your team. It doesn't have to be a big deal -- it can be just a department-wide email recognizing the victory, an afternoon off, a cake, or even just a short victory dance in front of the rest of the team. The idea is to provide a sense of completion and a job well done, rather than just letting the team do nothing but dwell on the raging infernos that still await them.
> I feel they entered the business because they AWS showed the industry that it actually has pretty good margins.

And they stayed because of Azure. Azure was making huge profit when google decided to increase number of data centers. This wouldn't be coincidence, IMO.
Honestly a gen1 prius is the ideal shape. It's small and the car is one big bulbous wedge. Pedestrians hit the car at the legs, topple over the hood, and roll off.

SUVs and trucks have a huge front end that can rip people in half or slam them under the car rather than have them roll up and off. I saw an SUV hit a deer and the poor thing exploded like a grenade.
Now your Tesla can come pick you up. California says that’s not ‘driverless’
I’m a motorcyclist, and I don’t get how this works for you in real life.

If I’m riding down the road and there’s a car stopped at a stop sign or intersection, and we make eye contact, yes I assume they see me. I do not come to a full stop in the middle of the road to let them turn just in case they forget we looked at each other. There’s no way to ride that defensively and not get hit by car drivers behind me, or make weird illogical trade offs that otherwise increase my risk of being hit. Yes, we can all ride defensively, but at some point we’re trusting other drivers to behave logically.
There are more closed-source projects than fit in the Docker workflow.
You can't earn money on Tether (the value is always $1) so there's no ground for FOMO.
Yes, I think it is a given that when actual self-driving cars become a reality they will have to include a system allowing police and emergency services to control them. It will no doubt be a criminal offence to temper with that system.

This is a reasonable adaptation to self-driving cars, though.
>Coal is being replaced

Wherever coal is replaced it is replaced with natural gas (occasionally with hydro and nuclear).

>As long as renewable + storage + gas is significantly cheaper than coal/nuclear ...

This is a red-herring. It wouldn't matter if solar and wind were free. We can't use them without fossil-fuel back-up, which today means coal or natural gas.

This is also why natural gas companies are one of the biggest lobby groups for solar deployments.

>(and "wind ain't blowing" is much less of a problem than you probably think)

It's actually a huge problem. If the wind speed is too high, you can't generate electricity (due to risk of damage to the turbine). If the wind speed is too low, you can't generate electricity.

But the elephant in the room is storage. You can always dump more and more money to over-provision your generation capacity (meaning that in certain seasons you would have a ton of generation capacity sitting around doing nothing). The problem is that we don't have storage figured out at all.

>which makes them very predictable

Yes as much as weather can be predictable.

>and storage technology costs are improving as fast as production costs.

To be clear, we don't have storage technology that can store enough energy to power a reasonably sized city (pop:~1m) for a few minutes, much less a modern economy for weeks. There is no such storage technology on the horizon either. You need natural gas as back-up. Maybe in certain geographic region you can build a pumped-storage reservoir (at a great environmental cost).

Take a step back and look at the big picture. No region with a reasonable population is currently being powered by solar and wind even though there is huge amount of pressure to do so - why is that?
> You work for Google or something? I've been in an out of a ton of IT departments and I'm just reporting what I've seen.

I don't work for google, nor does your attempt to switch to personal attacks change any of the points I made. In fact not only do your assertions sound heavily biased, you now admit that you never done a real evaluation of a service you're criticising. Frankly I don't care if X or Y has more market share, but people making baseless assertions regarding stuff they have no experience or knowledge in simply add noise to a discussion that's expected to be insightful.
I love seeing solutions like this work in small European countries with small, homogeneous populations, and then watching a bunch of Silicon Valley folk--who live in a relatively small, homogeneous population--rant about how this should be the standard for the whole US, which has neither a small nor homogeneous population.

Edit: homogeneous areas, not populations. My bad.
That's not an argument against the point you're replying to. We shouldn't subsidize wastefulness by either the rich or the poor when they make poor choices and squander opportunities and resources.
More like "build an ML system which recognizes real tanks but not toy tanks". Doable with today's tech.
I'm guessing by the '20 minutes' part they're referring to moding the stabilizers: https://youtu.be/cD5Zj-ZgMLA

Not hard to do, and it changes the sound/feel of them in a way a lot of people appreciate.

P.S.
I second the GMMK ( https://www.pcgamingrace.com/products/gmmk-full-brown-switch ) as a good way to try out switches and keycaps. The board is fairly cheap, nicely built, and has hot-swap switches that allow you to try various switches without soldering...
And then every programmer I guess should also know how the processor is doing branch predictions and the microcode....

How deep down should your bog standard web developer know?

Yes, at one point I did write x86 (and 65C02 assembly before that)

Then we get into the whole “Mo one person knows how to make a pencil.”
While Calibre is not what I'd consider to be a "beautiful" program, I do not care. It's functionality is unbeaten.

What I really hate about it is the directory structure, it forces upon you. I have my books sorted in topical directories and Calibre sorts them by author. That sucks. If this single issue would be addressed, I couldn't be happier with Calibre, especially, since Kovid is a very helpful person.
Of course rotisserie chicken is just another form of fast food. You're proving the point!
Alteryx acquires machine learning startup Feature Labs
Robert’s rules of order are used EVERYWHERE, not just in parliament. You’re local school’s PTA probably follows RRO for its meetings, but in a context where unanimity probably matters more. That’s the subtext of the comment you are replying to.
Quite simple really. The government is a terrorist crime syndicate that happens to own the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence and no one should give them access to their personal lives, lest they be locked in a cage or treated with pointless violence.
Google AppEngine launched in 2008.

Google Cloud Storage launched in 2010

Google has been chasing Amazon since AWS started, and has been accelerating investment.
Reasonable people can tell the difference between 600/300/100 speakers or amplifiers. Up in the audiophile range, the difference between a $20000 amp and a $2000 amp is mostly placebo effect.
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Consider the audience as people who primarily experience this moderation, and have no idea what these sort of things actually cost. For them, the resources of a dominant social media company seem arbitrarily large. (Originally I titled it "huge resources", but it looks like HN has some filter that strips qualifiers like that and it looked silly as "companies with resources")
Glass curtain walls are many things-- lightweight, easy to prefabricate, etc. You can make an excellent claim that they belong in the repertoire of any builder. But to claim they represent progress or civilization is just silly. The point of any architectural element is to serve the building, that building's purpose, and the people around it. For the same reason you wouldn't build a skyscraper out of masonry an outhouse with all glass curtain walls is an expensive failure, not a triumph of enlightenment.
It seems like every week that the mainstream press, in search of clickbait content and with no understanding of statistics, misstates the results of some study or another.
That's going on already. The US elections are one result.
Great question! the article mentions some alternatives but they don't do exactly what you say.
That is a good one. I should add to that, and this may be contriversal, that riding slightly faster than traffic is better than riding slightly slower. When I am approaching traffic, the ability to respond to traffic is in my attentive hands. When traffic is approaching me, I have to wonder if some texting teenager is going to ram into the back of me. Now, some might say that "speed kills", and that is true, so YMMV, that is my own personal take (and honestly it would take all the fun out of it going slower than traffic!).
> modern framework/usable interface,

Let me guess, some Electron monstrosity that looks like a web site but runs on a desktop?
yes, I agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_compatible
Our AI is nowhere near the intelligence of an 8 year old, who can presumably also do more things than just decide if a photo depicts a bus or an avocado.

Indeed, but at least you describe a slightly more accurate possible representation.
Wouldn't that be a common thing? Don't LLCs have operations in locales other than where they are registered?
I'm working on a layout engine that offers something similar: https://github.com/maxharris9/layout

Here's a video I uploaded of it in a demo app: https://twitter.com/maxharris9/status/1179600178426208257
You were both obeying the traffic laws. In the case of lane splitting where it is illegal - one person clearly wasn’t. Not wearing your seat belt didn’t cause the accident.
Interestingly London had one of the most extensive tram systems in Europe, but sadly it was mostly abolished in favour of the Car because:

1) cars = freedom

2) trams are for the poor

A good little mini-doc by Jay Foreman spells it out nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3C_PjJonM

Interestingly, a very similar story in the UK surrounding bicycles. :\

I wouldn't call Zurichs streets perfect though; by sheer coincidence I spent the majority of today exploring the city for the first time in my life and was very confused on how to cross the road at a lot of very ill-thought-out junctions. And there are still a lot of very loud cars on the road.

However; I will admit there is a "feeling" when walking through the city that it was well thought out in general, I felt like I had a lot of space and I didn't get the same claustrophobic feeling I get in NYC or the cramped "intruded" feeling I get in London.
The APT referenced in the NCSC alert is APT5: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-chinese-apt-is-now-going-aft...
To clarify for others - LNT refers to "Linear No Threshold", the most conservative [0] model for assessing deaths from radiation exposure. Under LNT, if some amount of radiation leads to a 1% chance of death, 1/10th that amount leads to a 0.1% chance of death. This is most likely overly conservative, as cancer rates in the states do not seem to vary with radiation exposure as would be predicted by LNT.

So 4,000 is a good upper bound, if anything.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
I mean technically war (or just a few dropped bombs) could stop this dam. But I know that's not what you meant.
I don't have crazy expensive keyboards, but I think your assessment is overly reductive. Good keyboards feel better (and are more comfortable for days on end) and reduce typos over bad ones.
So, the US does this to literally everyone, and it's not a big deal. Someone does it to us, and suddenly our democracy is dying.

Downvoters: please explain why I'm wrong. I don't support any electoral interference.
Chatbots – a personal perspective (p. 13) [pdf]
Usually, it's a case of "You get what you pay for".

For GCP, you can get 4-hour response time SLA for $100 per user. If you want 1-hour response SLA it's $250. Then there's Enterprise Support if you need 15-minute response SLA, TAM assigned etc which costs more.

Caveat: I work at Google Cloud.
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All the more reason the US should be protecting itself from these sorts of things, don't you think?
TIL there are people who still have cable. I assume it's just generational? I don't know anyone (including my parents) who have cable anymore - and that's very much limited to tech folks.
In one sense you both are right. When a portfolio manager puts in a large block trade, its been common for a long time for execution management systems to optimally handle the execution, by breaking the trade into smaller pieces of varying size, at various prices over a period of time, to try to get the best execution possible. Proprietary systems have been built which are very good at that. So while the gross holdings of a fund might be set by a human, the executions likely are handled by software.
Was Emily Moore's child ever born?!?!
In a civilised country the government would force Comcast to share infrastructure and would set maximum prices regarding what they can charge for it.
https://shop.keyboard.io/products/model-01-keyboard is my keyboard of choice for most tasks, and certainly for typing. It's both split and ortholinear. It uses Mathias Quiet Click switches and custom-formed keycaps for the design.
Google Compute Engine offers ad-hoc VMs. Google (and Amazon) have many offerings.
I learned to type on manual typewriters, so I like a _heavy_ switch... Box Navy Blue, Box jade, or sages are my current favorite. Cherry Green just wasn't tactile or clicky enough for me.
I believe most GCP services lose money. A few years ago when I left only a handful were profitable. It's probably profitable now overall, but not as wildly as one might think. Hence the recent curb-stomping of Diane Green.
Obviously depends on the use case, but since C++11 there is little to no pain involved in manual non-stack memory management. You clearly express the ownership semantics through things like std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr and if those make sense then everything works (minus problems like circular shared_ptr references, which exists in similar forms with GCs).
Core infrastructure may or may not be low margin (traffic rates are nearly pure margin designed to create a moat and may or may not eventually be challenged by regulators as anti-competitive; it remains to be seen). But the lion's share of cloud margin comes from value-added managed services e.g. AWS Lambda and GCP PubSub, which are exceedingly more expensive than their underlying infrastructure but not nearly so expensive as to justify small companies hiring FTE to manage open-source equivalents. And there aren't nearly enough cloud players to justify competition building out competing implementations for, say, the Lambda API, with the sole exception coming to mind being competing object storage providers implementing the S3 API.

Multi-cloud isn't a myth, but it's pretty close. It requires lots of discipline that most customers won't have. The smart money is on cloud providers improving their margins, not shrinking them.
> If you feel strongly, please do this. It adds value. The creator might really benefit from it.

There is an awful lot of self-deception packed into this paragraph.

> We would actually love to read that.

That part is probably true for many.
If a company fails, does that mean everyone in the company is wrong about their work?
1) 39+525+7-8 also works if I understand the problem.
2) You can optimize using various number-theoretic principles -- checked division and subtraction

3) C++ is much much faster for this -- less than a second on my boxes.

Not sure where people get the idea of dynamic programming -- you can do some dynamic tree cutting (e.g. if you don't have enough operators to get to your target), but there's no real objective function here.
Personal opinions (even ones grounded in science) that run contrary to prevailing norms have become weaponized. Until that goes away, I want my privacy.
Argument? Its a trade off freedom vs security. Traditionally patriots have chosen freedom.
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> is ultimately a silly and misguided proposal

No its not.

Its analogous to quantifying an F test with watts.

Nothing wrong with that. I can give a billion row dataset to a dozen people. John assumes normality, samples 100 rows, runs a linear regression, gets 70% R^2, under 1 second on a 1980s era computer. Mary doesn't assume normality, runs a glm via irwls, gets better explanatory power than John, still on 1980s computer, though she takes 5 seconds instead of 1. Then James comes along & runs a decision tree & is twice as good as Mary, but he now needs a second on a 1990s PC. Tony uses a random forest & Baker wants a 128 layer neural net. And so on & so forth, until we end up with burning enough energy that would otherwise power a village, to overfit some dataset that excel at some completely artificial leaderboard metric.

At some point a grown up comes in & says you don't need to light up your bedroom with industrial stadium lighting if you need to do your homework, a 40w table lamp will suffice. Hell half the third world uses a candle & they are performing quite well, if not better. That's really all this is.

The marginal gains in performance aren't justified compared to the amount of energy you end up expending. Half these models are brittle & have zero shelf life, ppl regularly throw away stuff they wrote just a year ago, so to what raison d'etre this pursuit ?
Interesting. I feel like most C++ programmers I meet have a high level of enthusiasm for Rust, as it has C++'s high/low level blend and the safety helps prevent more footguns.
To put some numbers in perspective: the punchline was that you could contaminate 3 million liters of water. That sounds like a lot, but that's roughly how much NYC consumes in a minute.
In Italy I've got the measurements since 30 years and counting.

I imagine the healthcare system plays against you in your country
Client-side detection. You can probably argue that it can be evaded easily because it is client-side, but most people won't bother + it isn't like FB has an open API with a ton of third party FB clients.

I spent less than a minute thinking about this, but there are probably tons of other strategies they can employ. People familiar with the domain, I would actually love to hear your takes on this, as the topic is fairly fascinating.
I really really don't like that, and I really hope it'll never happen here. The possibilities for abuse are amazing.
(Congrats on 1k karma)
This is misleading because Tether isn't a legitimate cryptocurrency. It is a token that is issued and tracked by storing metadata on the Bitcoin network.

From Tether's whitepaper; "...Tether Limited is the only party who can issue tethers into circulation (create them) or take them out of circulation (destroy them). This is the main process by which the system solvency is maintained." (Yikes!)

There has been much interest in whether "Tether Limited" actually holds enough USD to back all tokens in circulation. I bet they don't. In any case, it's not something I'd want to hold on to.

It is useful for imitating the value of USD in order to buy cryptocurrencies on exchanges which have been shunned by the conventional banking system due to various regulations or insecurities. That's about it.