skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people aren't articulating what they want.

People hate the cable companies because you're paying high prices for a bunch of bullshit.

People hate the plethora of streaming services because now they have to pay 50 different places. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, etc.

What people want to do is choose what "channels" or shows they want and pay one entity.

Basically Amazon Prime's model of adding on CBS All Access or HBO Go (Now? Max?) to the base. But Amazon's UI is probably the worst.
You might want to cross The Intercept off that list, since they inadvertently burned their source, Reality Winner.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...
I find it interesting that Spotify, Apple, Pandora and others can do this for (95%+ of) music, but no one can do it for movies or TV.
A Mexican General’s Exile in Staten Island Led to Modern Chewing Gum
No kidding! How sad is it the entire time I was reading this I kept looking back at "Bloomberg" and was thinking to their other reporting like the server spying that they never did explain.

The National Enquirer may be more reliable than Bloomberg at this point.
As a manufacturer you have no choice. If you make a product that has even moderate distribution it will end up on Amazon. You either take control of your products on Amazon or deal with the consequences: counterfeit goods, used as new, damaged as new, bad customer service, people undercutting all other retail partners, etc.. The customer doesn't care. They will blame you.

It's kind of funny that Amazon actually has a much worse problem with all the things that kept people away from eBay.
HP Confirms it has received a proposal from Xerox about being acquired
Redis modifications are transactional: https://redis.io/topics/transactions

Though I agree on points 2 and 3, especially 3 since it adds complexity.
The Wikipedia article seems to suggest otherwise.

Select quote: "In August 2012, the FBI also issued a warning that scammers were taking advantage of MoneyPak's untraceability to coerce unwitting victims into paying a "ransom" to unlock their computers infected with malware."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_Corporation#MoneyPak...
The reason for using timers is that you can make them dependent on sockets, files, file systems, etc.

Love it or hate it, the whole idea of systemd is to centralize all task-ish management, whether one-offs, long-running, periodically-running, static resources, logs, etc.
NBC's rumored plan to build Hulu Attempt 2 with Peacock and focus on it being ad-supported and free by default might have a chance.
You can see a large collection of these scent jars in person if you visit the Stasi Museum in Leipzig: https://europeforvisitors.com/germany/leipzig/museum-runde-e...
We, the people, should just make a new Linux Foundation and new FSF. The current ones are clearly broken. Postmeritocracy my ass.
350k of profit or revenue? It's not the same thing. In profits, that's typically a 50 million company.
At what point does solving these "new" problems become reinventing the wheel?
I've traveled quite a few times for business since having kids. My brother-in-law travels even more than I do for business.

Business travel is both a personal preference and part of the bigger career direction tradeoffs that must be weighed when choosing an employer.

"I have a family" isn't something to hide behind when your job includes a small amount of travel. It's something that can be accommodated and planned for.
Subscription, your remaining family pays 25 per year for each relative "digitally available" (otherwise it gets deleted)
Right, but the comment above addressed that directly, and was met with a dismissive response. In fact: the roughest neighborhoods in cities like Chicago are a direct result of racism. It's not controversial or even disputable: you can look at a crime map, superimpose the redline boundaries, and see the correspondence immediately.

Is everything a result of racism? I have no idea. I kind of doubt it. But the comment above gave specific examples of things that impact us to this day that are clearly based on racism, and that won't be solved simply by a generational shift in attitudes (which has largely already occurred in the US).
More than half billionaires are self-made.
Another neat hack is to use Postgres as a quick & dirty replacement for Hadoop/MapReduce if you have a job that has big (100T+) input data but small (~1G) output data. A lot of common tasks fall into this category: generating aggregate statistics from large log files, searching Common Crawl for relevant webpages, identifying abusive users or transactions, etc.

The architecture is to stick a list of your input shards in a Postgres table, have a state flag that goes PENDING->WORKING->FINISHED->(ERROR?), and then spin up a bunch of worker processes as EC2 spot instances that check for the next PENDING task, mark it as WORKING, pull it, process it, mark it as FINISHED, and repeat. They write their output back to the DB in a transaction; there's an assumption that aggregation can happen in-process and then get merged in a relatively cheap transaction. If the worker fails or gets pre-empted, it retries (or marks as ERROR) any shards it was previously working on.

Postgres basically functions as the MapReduce Master & Reducer, the worker functions as the Mapper and Combiner, and there's no need for a shuffle phase because output <<< input. Almost all the actual complexity in MapReduce/Hadoop is in the shuffle, so if you don't need that, the remaining stuff takes < 1 hour to implement and can be done without any frameworks.
I haven't seen that at all. Every popular open source project that comes to mind uses an ORM in some form or fashion. I'm sure they exist but I can't think of a single one that is just doing raw SQL or Query building, across any programming language for that matter. Heck, I think GOGS/GITEA are the reason xorm even exists. There are a number of ORMs for golang, they just all have their pros and cons.
1. Logojoy is, in every way, a superior brand. (Q: Who designed your awesome logo? A: Luka.)

2. They should never had combined a brand change with a big change in what they offer as a business. Now they don't even really know what is broken.

3. All this was likely compounded by a technical assumption that was incorrect, e.g. some content likely disappeared or backlinks were broken.
There is also the case of several simulations of a smaller universe running in our universe, with the external observer trying to look ahead.

But even if you could simulate the universe to look ahead, most likely there is only one possible algorithm of simulation, so looking ahead is still equivalent for the tested subject living and making its choice.

So even if it can be repeated, the simulation is more like a time machine than a formula.
"Perfect" is of course unattainable, but I'd at least hope that engineering could be able to push for -- and be granted -- the time to build a system that meets what should be some pretty obvious safety requirements around redundancy and failure detection.
Could anyone recommend similar guides for other cities? I've seen a lot of these for the bay but this is the first that I've ever seen for another city.
Exploration vs exploitation. But it gets funky when you try to think of how it applies to higher-level human thought. Like trying to optimize a hyperparamter without even knowing what your categories are.
All points are like stale mantras by now, but still:

* Errors happen. All the time. And how you handle them matters. The
err != nil path is not unlikely.

* If your error processing code is repetitive, you're doing it wrong.
Wrap your errors. Add context.

* Errors are values. Make them useful. Again, add context.

Honestly, while a lot of people look at Go code and think “this is 50%
error checking”, every time I read an under-handed piece of C or
under-catched piece of JavaScript, I think to myself “where is the
error checking?”
I’m a rational person who enjoys flying, and I just never want to fly on a Max.
It's either delusional or just intellectually dishonest to impute "racial components" to Trump's rhetoric. He, and MAGA types in general, is not racist nor has anything he's done explainable by "racism". The persistence of imputing "racist!" belies projection, lacking an objective basis. We really, truly, don't care what race anyone is; what matters is hard work, abiding by laws (including immigration laws shared by most nations), and earning your way. Alas, those seeking racism everywhere see racism everywhere, especially in designated opponents.
>They're rewriting the avionics from scratch.

So claims Bloomberg. Since there seems to be overwhelming consensus in this thread (that I also agree with) that it would be colossal stupid, I'd wait until we see confirmation from some other source. Bloomberg hasn't had the best record with facts or nuance in many stories recently.
No worries, I'll just use the torrent sharers. I bet those will give me a constant 4K quality on all my devices, no ridiculous DRM, get to keep them once I terminate my "subscription", etc. Oh and it's free, not 10-15$ USD for each service.
Anywhere you accept JSON from untrusted users, you should be catching parse errors anyway.
Phantom Stacks: If You Look Too Hard, They Aren't There (1980)
Who is "we"?

Recipients like getting money, obviously.

Non-recipients generally don't have the power to interfere.

The US government has that power, but the US government is beholden to the Saudis' control over oil.
I'll still take that over having no idea what errors could be thrown at which point in my code. Treating errors as values is very verbose, but it's the easiest error handling I've ever tried to wrap my head around.
These are the kinds of articles which lead to the website issuing a 'stick to the tech' notice to the writers.
Another issue: they all want you to have proprietary non-free DRM software in your web browser that is a big pain to install. None of these services "just work" like you'd expect, and users have to spend a lot of time configuring their browser for services like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. And in the end all that configuration work just ends up making your browser much less secure with code from untrusted sources like Google Widevine (a company whose objective is to serve you ads that are personalized as much as possible by tracking your every movement and click).

Firefox tries to sandbox Widevine but this code is from a dirty company and you can bet it's trying to break out of that sandbox.
Ask HN: What Happened to Memristors?
It was supposed to change everything in our computers - RAM and Flash and so many other promises
> So not only is the earth going to gradually become hostile to humans, it's going to happen with dwindling stocks of good scotch

But you repeat yourself
Based on one story from Bloomberg? That might be a tad premature - they never did address concerns with their "reporting" on the China server spying issue.
I think these types of adversarial attacks are even easier to foil than that because they're specific to one particular set of weights. Even really really small changes in the training data or model could invalidate the attack if I understand correctly.
With a non working mail configuration, it goes nowhere.

I think the author meant that
Revenue.

As a single founder company, I’d think that would be mostly profit, say 90%? That leaves about $400,000 per annum to pay for an ec2 instance and salary if working from the kitch table.

Imagine having a company 90% profitable and burning it up on the dream of venture capital backed growth.
Most of my complaints, I feel like are pretty well documented: No ability to do Generics, no ability to do operator overloading, no ability to make your own for each style loop objects, very manual and repetitive error handling. These are all simplifications to the language spec at the expense of more complicated usage. For the most part, I've been trying to understand myself how to express why I get a pretty bad taste in my mouth when using or looking at Go code, why it feels so much less productive to me than the higher-level languages. Which is what it has been making dents in more than anything else. I especially wanted to understand this since I do see myself as someone who values simplicity. In the end, it's because I value simplicity in usage, rather than the simplicity be in the language constructs. I'd instead rather learn a slightly more complicated language, and be more productive with every task I write using it. I don't see Go users as cavemen. That was admittedly an exaggeration to express my point clearly.
"white supremacists and neo-reactionaries" are practically non-existent. Try actually understanding your designated opponents, instead of slapping nasty labels on them. We did NOT "choose to embrace a racial narrative", it was imputed on us and we don't know how to fight it effectively (a la "I don't believe X!" "well, that's surefire proof that you believe X!").
I'm a US remote contractor and the legal departments of many US companies won't even employee me full-time if I reveal that I don't spend 270 days inside the US (aka don't have US residence). Pretty standard practice to care about place of residence.

The guesses made by HNers in this thread about what's illegal must be way off.
We do not use foreign keys (2016)
Why do we tolerate saudi oil in our gas tanks?
>we would often disagree with the action that was taken

It's not that uncommon
> Anyone know how connection pooling works with listeners?

They don't. LISTEN is per connection and pgbouncer multiplexes many sessions onto a single one. The poller holds the connection and has no way to propagate back the notification while still maintaining multiplexed sessions as isolated.
Build your own Machine Learning web service with Django
Couldn't it be that the unconscious mind influences the conscious mind to make it seem like we agree with the action that was taken?
The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher (1991)
I had a similar idea a little while ago, but it was primarily aimed at storing DNA of your loved ones.

Not only would a backup of the DNA be stored inside a physical product, but the most variable regions of the genome would be sequenced and used as input for a set of lights embedded in the device, so that in the end every product is visibly different from ever other one in a way that's related to their actual genetic makeup.
It is in line with the categories of the accusations made in that time. This is effectively a loyalty accusation: by seeking to mediate, he has shown himself to be insufficiently committed to the cause of racial and gender justice, which consequently means his motive must have been to defend the racist.
Oh, and I was there when they made that switch, and you wouldn't believe the complaints people had. Endless litanies about how awful it was that trash was only going out once every two weeks. In time, of course, everyone adapted. But it was pretty amazing at the time, for such a relatively painless change in behavior. You'd think they were being asked to cut off a limb and put it out every week.
I probably missing context (I for sure haven't spent much time on looking into it, and don't plan to), but it seems to be a call to come to the table with someone who's self-described actions are:

> "Because this, my friends, is how you deal with SJWs. You troll the hell out of them and they have no weapon they can use against you.

Stop fighting them with logic. Just say inflammatory, illogical things to them."

https://twitter.com/simpleprogrammr/status/11861277413907415...

I don't think you should assume people are in the wrong just because they do not want to spend time playing nice with that.
So... clearly this is correct. He wore that hat to attract conflict. He recorded his interactions wanting to catch his political enemies in embarrassing statements. He seems to have deliberately inserted himself into the conflict that got his pass revoked.

To wit, he's absolutely a right wing troll.

That said, he doesn't seem to have done anything actually wrong here. It doesn't even seem to be alleged that he's done anything objectively wrong. If LF wants to disallow right wing trolls at its conferences, they need to put that into the code of conduct more explicitly than they did.
plus I don’t have to sign up on yet another service for just one film/show.

I am 100% in for paying for the films/shows. Just give me a convenient cross-platform option to do so without any BS
Same, just did this the other day. I also went there from Logojoy and was immensely confused on wtf Looka was, and how I got there.

Also, I just noticed Logojoy is left alone, but my spell check auto corrects Looka to Looks lol. Oy.
Our core team - and indeed our original team - were native developers not React JS ones.

We chose React Native because it was a pragmatic choice and the best tool for our situation. As our startup gained traction and we decided to build mobile apps - we already had a React JS app so it made sense to try out RN.

As it turns out, we were able to build an almost feature parity versions of the React app in a weekend that shared all the business logic - so it made a ton of sense for us.

React Native for Android did not exist at that time (not open sourced) and so I had to build out our initial Android app in native - I can tell you it took me a lot longer than a weekend :P

That isn't to say there are not pros and cons to each approach - but I think it's important to be always open to new tools/languages vs. going with the "devil you know" so to speak.
No way. They paid for all the actual work and took a cut. He wasn't a single founder doing all the actual Service work
Is this related to what Vint Cerf called “Digital Vellum” [0]

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0IabXOLdbAQ

*PS not sure if I have done the reference thing twice.
Eh, if he had to pay for a lot of the traffic that generated sales, I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to 50%. But still, this was almost certainly $100k+ profit per month.
Ireland is still operating three power plants which burn peat for electrical generation.

Shut those down, and there should be plenty of peat to make whisky for the foreseeable future.
Dedicated testers can be quite skilled at figuring out ways to break software (sometimes annoyingly so). As a dev I'm usually thinking of how to make my apps work, not how to make them fail.

Unit tests: certainly good, but on one team I recall there being the phrase that a good integration test was worth 1000 unit tests: if the individual parts work but they don't work together correctly as a whole system then what practical value was our unit test?
This case may be an exception, but the root cause for most comparisons of Go to C++ is that Pike started it: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
France's newest PWR reactors, using the EPR design, are being built in France and Finland. They're both grotesquely late and over-budget. If Flamanville 3 could switch on today and incur no further construction costs, the electricity from it would still cost more to generate than German electricity costs to generate.

What will happen to the EPR in Europe after Flamanville 3 and Olkiluoto 3 are finally complete?

The faithful would say "build more EPRs. Future ones will be cheaper due to lessons learned on these original projects." And they might well be correct. Unfortunately, the Flamanville 3 and Olkiluoto 3 projects were also touted as affordable and predictable to build back when they were originally started. How do you convince buyers that the lies and/or irrational exuberance that lead to bad predictions in 2005 have been tamed, and that the next reactor project will be the real affordable, predictable reactor project?
I dunno, the author claims they're sorting the table from worst to best, instead of by minimum maximum depth to maximum maximum depth
Multiple copies, and always keep some of them in padded containers.
The bigger question is: Do we want the Police, CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. to be able to have access and use that information however they want?
Why is it jarring to see in Asia, as opposed to everywhere else?
While enough crashes will hurt the stock, I don't think this is enough of a counter to the existing pressure because it is possible to modify a business in a way that increases stock value, sell the stock, and then let others take the losses when the public perception hits the point people stop buying the product (in this case, stop using flights flown with Boeing airplanes).
Depends on if logojoy would stay as lead gen for actual software play, a la canva, or if they were selling human-in-the-loop as pure AI. The former then margins might be fat but the latter his margins will be slim.

Additionally to continually stay ahead of the pack most of his revenue might have to get dumped right back into advertising.

Say it's a $5MM/annum business, after costs, paying out salaries it might be half a million in profits.
if 20 milliseverts per year is the correct level for evacuation then why do we not evacuate Kerela in India, Ramsdar in Iran. Kerela has radiation levels 3 times higher than 20 milliseverts per year. Denver has higher background radiation than most places in the US. Higher altitude and higher radon levels. They are not quite to 20 milliseverts per year unless they have more radon in their house which some do.

Flight crews get 3.1 milliseverts per year. About 50 days worth of Fukushima exposure.

Air pollution causes 7 million deaths per year. 4 million from outdoor air pollution. The hospitalization rate increases on the bad air days. The effect is immediate for many elderly and asthmatics. Air pollution levels in some cities in India, China and other parts of Asia is like forcing everyone (including babies and the elderly or asthmatics) to smoke 6+ cigarettes a day.

Being barely able to breath is very unpleasant and scary.

12,000 people died over 2 weeks in 1952 during the London Fog air pollution event. Atmospheric inversion trapped air pollution. People dropped dead with blue lips and their last few minutes to hours were spent gasping for breath.

144 people were killed in 1966. During the Aberfan disaster. Millions of tons of coal mine waste were left in piles on a mountain. A heavy rain caused the mine waste to slide down the mountain and into the town of Aberfan. It buried a school. 117 children dead.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/aberfan-coal-disaster-...

Multiple incidents where over 100 people get burned alive in oil tanker spills. 150+ in Pakistan in 2017. Poor people ran towards on oil tanker spill to scoop up oil from a leak. Then it caught fire and they were burned alive.

8 billion tons of coal is moved every year. 1000+ die mining it. Many die underground slowly when they are trapped in collapsed coal mines. 40% of freight trains and trucks move coal. So almost all freight train and truck accidents in certain areas are people being hit by a vehicle loaded with coal.

5 billion tons of oil per year.

Norway is big into oil and gas.
$62 billion for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Power-to-gas would be a cool technology if we could figure it out, though honestly if we did it would make the argument for nuclear even stronger. Whatever the technology ends up being, it will benefit from large, efficient facilities fed by large amounts of clean, steady power. That means nuclear if you want the overall cycle to be carbon neutral.
Looks like that was speculated here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21478218
Not rare. The majority of Linux distros have switched to systemd because the majority of people who work with it like it better than what they were using before. It's just that no one ever made it to the front page of HN writing a blog post titled "This technology is generally decent."
Do you mean concerns with tracking all your health via digital means?