skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this really begs the question of what exactly is meant by a microservices architectures. In my mind this is one of those subjects that is almost infinitely variable, producing a range of responses from everyone you ask. Personally, I contribute to this mess by thinking that a great way to start an MVP is as a monolith organized into microservices, that is, to adopt some of the the build-time organizational concepts but to just run it like any old monolithic app, without the runtime complexity of a "true" microservices stack.
That's a great comment, it's very refreshing to hear someone write about a different reason for starting a business and how beneficial it can be.
Michael Lewis: Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker
The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools
There's having Facebook and then there's using Facebook. I think most people who say they don't use Facebook still maintain an account for things that require it.
> Why do you think it is discrimination and not just women not choosing that career?

Why do you think those two things are mutually exclusive? What if women are choosing to leave computer science because it's somewhere between subtly discriminatory and outright hostile?

I'm sure it's cultural because: in the US women in CS was ~37%, today it's 18%. Why the huge swing? There have been times in recent history when many many more women chose computer science. In India, there have been years when the participation rate was above 50%. There are places on earth today where many many more women chose STEM.

So, it's obvious based on the data we already have that today's low participation rates by women in the US and Europe is not an intrinsic property of women, rates are neither fixed nor the natural state of things.

All the rest of what you said is that maybe it's attitudes, and sure, maybe it is. Maybe that's the problem?

I've spoken with women too, and anecdotally, most women say the exact same thing as most men when they say computer programming sounds super boring. Some women I know confirm that discrimination and hostile behavior exists and is alive and well, especially the higher you go in an organization.
Yeah, that was a weird turn of phrase in the article.
"Surprisingly, the startup has never been sued."

Ok, why should it be sued?
I'm excited that they got investment to build an Android version - I plan to be an early customer. A couple of things, though:

>> write legal letters to scare businesses out of overcharging you

This one actually concerns me a little. A lot of businesses use legalese to scare and overwhelm you, so it's great to have something to fight back. But there are also a lot of people out there who just game the system as consumers too - I'm a little concerned for Mom & Pop shops who will just end up being the victims here instead. Ultimately I don't think there's a perfect solution to the fact that dishonest, selfish people exist.

>> they’ll think ‘this could be made public and go viral and hurt our business

This might play out in a more complicated way. I have an app that records all my calls. I stop the recording immediately if it's a personal call. If it's a business I inform them I'm recording the phone call. Much of the time, that ends the call. The business was going to record it too, but now that they know I'm going to record it, they tell me they'll have to end the call and schedule a time to call back when neither of us records it, which I refuse to do, so I take care of business in writing, often in-person instead. Instead of making my over-the-phone business more confident, it just eliminates the phone as an option.
> Are my christmas lights that I put on during winter also everyone else's problem because they waste energy (that I bought with my own money)?

Yes but too little to bother about. Transportation and inefficient heat management are the only common ones that matter.

> they can simply be taxed in like for example a carbon tax

On that we agree. I believe car fuel is taxed appropriately in the UK, but in general these externalities are not properly accounted for. If they were, it would be a different matter, but they’re not.
That's in my vernacular, but I blame my Proudly British Grandpa.
How do you actually use the picture of the fingerprint to get into a phone? It doesn’t accept pictures, only fingers.
48 Hours in the Strange and Beautiful World of TikTok
I'm sure a lot of the vitriol on 4chan is a combination of boredom and catharsis. I've done it but it got old really fast.
CPU-heavy tasks may not be constrained as much on mutation as on the host VM architecture. The threading system purposefully prevents a thread from hogging all resources. And since you have to run every computation in a thread (process), there really is some overhead. As I'm sure you know, the BEAM is built for concurrency, not for parallelizing computations.

Take Haskell for example, which is also immutable but doesn't require you to spin up processes to do computations. It handles CPU intensive tasks significantly better, but is a worse choice for highly concurrent low latency soft real-time apps because of the scheduler and garbage collector mechanisms.

Edit:
Btw thanks for bringing up that comparison across types issue. Never realized that. What's your solution to it? I'd write guards on functions that filter input based on types, then have a final fallback with no pattern matching that throws an error explicitly.
Why would it be hidden away in some settings instead of right in your face with a nice fat button "Change how my videos are recommended..."? Even beyond that though, most online platforms today offer very limited general customization - and so there's not much reason for users to go digging through settings. They are designed to work primarily with the default configuration, and so that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
> it doesn't compare to old school word-of-mouth, visibility, coupons, local magazine ads, etc.

This matches my experience working for small biz owners as well. It's funny, years ago we (techies) all told these business owners what a waste "traditional" advertising was. "Shift your print/radio/tv ad budgets to digital" we said, "it's trackable" we said, and now it's shifting back as digital ads are not returning the same value thanks to ...very accurate tracking. Meanwhile, local radio was destroyed and rebuilt, local print is also currently rebuilding (not quite there yet) and TV is becoming more affordable as they have to now compete with digital.
Ok, I have a really dumb question...

Why does everyone say you can't file taxes for free? The IRS has a site for it here: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...

I get that Intuit is fighting tooth and nail to keep their business, but "hiding" a page from google - seriously, is that to be considered evil now?

Seriously, I'm missing something in this conversation.
Right. A lot of "modified gravity" theories have been proposed in recent decades, investigated, and compared to observations; with work they can be made to match up. Dark-matter theories on the other hand do a somewhat better job of matching observations, which is why they have become the best-liked explanation for the galactic rotation curve puzzle.

Scientists didn't just jump to dark matter at the start, and no cosmologist will tell you that dark matter is definitely the explanation — it's simply the explanation that currently seems most likely.
We got rejected 4 years ago and ended up building the company to about 40M/yr revenue. And we have many VC rejections to add to it. So dont take any rejections too seriously. Focus on the customer need and building a good team.
One simple answer is that marketing (a.k.a. thought manipulation) works. Propaganda works.
What's the advertisement/marketing spending for all these surveillance companies' products in the past 10 years?
And, in comparison, what about the advertising spending for consumer awareness of privacy respect and personal information security?
Combine that lopsided-ness with the general person's lack of technical/surveillance education and it's more understandable why people aren't rejecting these companies' creepy behaviour.
Over 60% of employees are happy at startups–far outpacing FAANG and MSFT
How is a gambler winning some money even remotely newsworthy?
I haven't looked to far into this project, you might be able to gain a decent amount of stability with better materials like 3d printed plates instead of cardboard. (This is a place where CF filament actually makes sense, it's one of the most rigid printable plastics)
ProxyJump was added in OpenSSH 7.3 so systems from a few years ago might not support it. It does the same thing as ProxyCommand with -W %h:%p but you can’t set custom options for the jump connection with ProxyJump.
Thanks for your thoughts! I should clarify that I am not looking to go to the bank with this project. But I did want to start shaping the idea, and part of that was defining a lightweight, uncomplicated subscription of sorts. From price to the number of people, to the books on the list, all of this is subject to change.
As an American living in Kanton Zürich, I used both (paid) TurboTax and (free) Privat Tax (straight from the cantonal government).

Swiss one was way easier to understand by far. As a side effect of doing those taxes, it was easy to see my actual wealth and my actual net income for the year. Which in America is a sin.
Siri has been enabled by default since iOS 9[0].

[0] http://ios9news.net/setup-hey-siri/
May I say that I love your use of GAFAM. I always thought FAANG was silly and Netflix was not like the others and was included just to make a good acronym
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Excellent, I will shoot you an email.
It does, but it highlights many things as issues which compile just fine.
They do have a freemium mail offering

https://www.startmail.com/en/

I have no idea how much revenue this may bring in but it can't be much since I don't think I've ever seen it recommended in an Ask HN thread.
Some experiments are literally looking for new types of matter that could play a role in interacting with observable/known matter than could potentially explain the overall observations. Some folks are also tinkering with the models/equations themselves to explore how to better model the universe. See Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an example.
Dave and Buster's replaces Impossible burgers with new plant-based product
The term 'dark matter' has something of an interesting history. Lord Kelvin (yes, that Kelvin) talked about 'dark bodies' in 1884 when discussing the missing matter of the galaxy. Henri Poincaré, writing in French, used the term 'matière obscure', which translates to 'dark matter' (kinda) while discussing Kelvin's work in 1906. In the late 1970's and early 80's, Vera Rubin, Kent Ford, and Ken Freeman gave the evidence that dark matter was a really real thing all over the universe and they used the term 'dark matter' in those papers to describe their measurements. In 1984, George Blumenthal, Sandy Faber, Joel Primack, and Martin Rees released a review paper on the recent findings of many groups that tied together Cold Dark Matter theory. I was a student of George, Sandy, and Joel's (in separate classes each) at UCSC.

Joel told us that 'dark matter' was a term used at the time and that coffee is a favorite beverage of many astronomers. As one of the local Santa Cruz coffee shops was serving a drink called 'double dark espresso' (caffeine levels fit only for a tired astronomer, I guess), he decided to name the ΛCDM theory after one of his favorite beverages, hence the 'Double Dark' Theory.

I think dark matter is a perfectly fine term. It's stuff that doesn't glow or interact with much of anything, but seems to just fall down. The term 'dark' is very much in keeping with the naming conventions of the post-war ear, where things are muted and humorously named (Big Bang, MAD, Charm quark, etc). The community has really embraced the term and, per at least Joel's theories, has remixed the term into coffee and other drinks, riffing and expanding the names to encompass other 'fun stuff'. I'd expect the names relating to various scotches to creep in soon (double cask, 15 year, etc), if my friends' predilections are any guide.
This documentation is very impressive. I like that the author included a link to "Why is the documentation structured this way?" [0].

0: https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation
100% agree with you, though I'm skeptical that we'd see an improvement in quality of content if loot boxes and their like become untenable.

Aside from getting people hooked, loot boxes tend to feed into a larger aspect of a kind of collection game. I don't see that stopping, and it'll likely continue to be a cheap way to keep people engaged in whatever platform is available.

Instead of a loot box, I'd expect to see more stuff like EA's Apex Battlepass or Blizzard's War Chest in Starcraft 2.

PS: I would happily throw money at any reasonable attempt to expand on Half-Life or Portal. C'mon Valve!
We think katacoda is great! I'd say our two major differences are the interactive visual layer representing the real time state of the system, as well as having much more advanced content. Our main content developer is Nigel Poulton, the author of The Kuberentes book, and our goal is to cover the whole of k8s in the next few months
Easiest way to do taxes is to do them by hand. There are copious amounts of guides from the irs explaining in detail how to fill in each box.
I had the impression that Microsoft treated its employees particularly well. Maybe things have changed since the 1990s.
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Sotabench: Benchmarking Open Source Models Directly from GitHub
I'm not an iOS user. Is there a reason the clustering can't be done while charging? Does it simply take longer than a charge cycle if a person has thousands of photos?
"Blind Bag" toys and collectables are actually quite common. A web or Amazon search returns an abundance of such products which range from different IPs (Video games, tv shows, etcetera..)

There are also YouTube channels devoted to opening these products in bulk.

Pokemon cards, baseball cards, hell, even these subscription box services that are popular nowadays could be considered 'real life loot boxes'. The idea of a product that you purchase not knowing it's contents is not new idea, but it seems like we have decided that loot boxes in games are different from these products.
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Hah, cool site, thanks for sharing. I love how /biz/ posts per day chart follows bitcoin price over past few years.
I have similar experiences with my theater troupe. It's very different from trying to market a national or global scale product. The market is small and hyper-local: people won't travel far for it, and only a small percentage of the community want it. They exist, but connecting with them is difficult without blanketing the area.

Facebook serves the same niche as the local newspaper used to. Those newspapers are disappearing, and people pay little attention where they do. Everybody reads Facebook. (If the "kids" have moved away from it, well, they're not really our target market anyway.)
Gabe from the Azure team.

+1 on YAML having its fair share of problems. I like to think of them as our collective problems, since nothing has emerged to replace YAML yet. If something does I’m certain OAM could be adapted to it.

I’ve personally seen some promising exploration of config through Turing-complete languages like TypeScript. See Pulumi.
> We are now at $5,000 in monthly recurring revenue

You're doing it. Very impressive/cool. YC isn't the end-all, nor is HN. It's objectively impressive that you got rejected, saw something you can fix right away, and executed. Not only that, but you continued to execute/grow from there to $5k.
I am the developer in charge of CalFile, the free filing software that everyone asks for here for state of California.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/inde...

I am pushing so hard to make it better and more useful to more people, like being able to add capital gain that is not currently supported.

these are the push backs that I am getting:

1. Last time they tried to do what all of you ask, a ready return. TurboTax and others hired bunch of lobbyist and put so much pressure on people here and killed the project. People are still afraid and don't want to do too much to grab the attention of their lobbyist!

2. Use of CalFile goes down every year and if trend continues, it would be killed in the near future.

when you have your Federal return it is much easier to pay a little more and file your state tax with it too.
No body even knows CalFile exist because we don't have a marketing budget to promote it.

3. Even people here buy the argument that free software exist and people could file their taxes for free.
I've been using this for last couple years and it's a great piece of "software", I prefer it over TurboTax.

The dedication of the maintainer to this project is truly impressive.

I'm on linux but it works fine in the browser version of Excel.
>well I guess I shouldn't name him in case it violates rules

Can you provide links or terms to search for those of us who want to read the story?
Q: Do you guys allow DB connection pools be changed? I know for a fact from my production experience that a small enough number for a DB connection pool in a Phoenix project can cripple its performance due to a lot of requests waiting for the pool.
> How are loot boxes any different to Kinder eggs

That's an interesting question! At first I thought they were pretty similar, but I had a think about this, and there are several key differences:

* With loot boxes, you can often trade the items that you won

* Loot boxes often show you the rarity (and sometimes the value) of an item that you've won.

* Loot boxes often show a spinning wheel or similar device that adds a level of excitement and a feeling of a "near miss" by showing the wheel "almost" land on an item.

* Some loot boxes allow you to "roll again" if you're not happy with the item you received.

* Loot boxes play sounds and show effects depending on the rarity of the item won.

* Loot boxes are given out for free, but you have to buy a "key" to open them.

* Games with loot boxes emphasize items that can be won from them, and encourage players to display these items for in-game prestige.

* Some loot box items give you an in-game advantage.

* Loot boxes are not edible.
The Difference Between Marketing Strategies and Marketing Plans
Or incompetency.

I think our leaders spend way too much figuring out how to block the other party from moving forward than solving hard problems.

China’s a bully but my god, it gets shit done at an insane pace.

That being said, how do people file Taxes in China?
Holy shit talk about a humble brag. You overpaid by $21k? You must be balling.
Having moved from Sweden to Germany I appreciate Elster existing (and not being solely paper based unlike the other many many German beaurocratic exercises one has to Wade through).

However it misses the most important part. In Sweden your tax declaration comes pre-populated with data they already have, like salary/pension/savings/stock sales/etc., and you can either just accept it as it is or make changes to the already existing data.

It's so easy that you in fact just can send an SMS (that is verified to be from you) to the taxation agency saying that their suggestion is right.
I think you have fundamentally misunderstood my point.

Let’s say I buy a widget. How can I trust that the widget will arrive? That it will do what widgets do? That it will not break? None of these are payment issues, but they might call for a refund. How can I get a refund? How can the refund system be resistant to abuse?

The answers we currently have are “the law”. If the law functions, I don’t need a trustless currency.
Trans people are being murdered in the USA on a fairly regular basis. Emphatically confirming that they have human rights is unfortunately not a waste of time.
It does when you're Bloomberg and touching anything tech related.
Europe continues to wrestle with the long arm of American law
I totally agree with beefield, and like the idea of banning cars, however you're wrong about the tech cost. The only tech needed is a computer and some sensors, and computers aren't exactly expensive these days. The Tesla model S already has a fair amount of self-driving tech, and it costs well under $100k. Cameras aren't exactly expensive either; the big question mark is LIDAR, but some self-driving companies seem to be eschewing that in favor of pure-camera driving (though I really question if that's a good idea because LIDAR isn't affected by weather as much).

The bottom line is that the extra tech needed to make a car self-driving isn't very expensive, and the hardware costs are continually falling. The big problem is just software, which as we've seen with mobile phones, becomes very cheap when deployed en masse.

You have a point about the 9s, but given that our current (American) society places almost no emphasis on safety, and will happily let you drive around any piece-of-shit car you want in most places regardless of how unsafe it is, I have a very hard time believing society is suddenly going to demand 9-9s reliability from AutoCarOS.
Surely that's only for employees though, not for companies? This is how it works in several countries, including the UK - your employer tells the tax service about your salary and pension payments, and you only need to fill a tax return if you have "something else" to tell them about, such as another source of income.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but many people are really mad about the president's actions and the unasked for effects.
I understand, but she has the same point about essentially every modern idea in physics.
>in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence

You can trade all you want on material non-public information if you're not an insider (or got your info from one under certain circumstances).
Can you give contemporaneous examples? I'm curious if there are companies out there actively pushing their language/framework, as opposed to sort of passively posting/updating without marketing.
Thanks, I know it’s not 10, I just picked a round number because nothing was supposed to be that specific. Don’t be so literal...
That would be pretty disappointing, but as far as I understand it, entirely possible.

There are three ways to detect dark matter:

1. scattering in a lab

2. annihilation products observed with a telescope

3. gravitational effects

We've seen 3, and we'll probably get a huge amount more detail on the distribution of dark matter through that method as time goes on. That would already be pretty convincing to me.

People have been looking for both 1 and 2 for a while, without any conclusive detection. But it's easy to write down theories of dark matter that are extremely difficult to detect with those methods.

At some point, we may have to accept that the only way to detect dark matter is method 3, through gravitational effects.
You CAN, if...

1) you are under a certain income threshold

2) you go seek out that particular page (vs searching free file in google and clicking on intuit)

Or you go directly to intuit and qualify as a “free filer” which you only qualify for if you have a dead simple return - w2 and no deductions or extra forms.

The problem isn’t that you can’t file free. The problem is that intuit is doing what it can to bury it while promoting its conveniently named “free” edition that bumps you up into a paid edition faster than you can say “what?”.