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Ask HN: Who are the up and coming thought leaders in your field?
We have many thought leaders today across lots of various verticals of our industry: programming languages, agile methodologies, lean startup methodologies, architecture principles, machine learning, etc...

I am very curious to hear the thoughts of the community on this. Who do you feel is pushing boundaries and writing/talking about it?
They switched to calendar-based versioning earlier this year with the 19.1 release, for reasons explained in this blog post: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/calendar-versioning/
so is "MaxSessions 1" the correct fix if you can use it?
It's more of a local policy issue for southern California residents.

Of course all of this can be debated, and perhaps it's not the 2nd most important, but it's much more important to me and all my friends than most policies.

Native mosquitos on the west coast (Culex) do not carry west nile or zika.

The new Aedes species does and is extremely hard to control.
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-aedes-m...

Further, it caused everyone I know in the Los Angeles area to stay inside during this last summer. My kids and friends kids stayed inside all summer. It was like night and day compared to every other year.

Fear of Zika has spread to pregnant mothers around my neighborhood. People are literally choosing not to get pregnant because of the fear of this new mosquito in the area.

The amount of fear caused by these new mosquitos has been extreme. They are very hard to control, I think this new invasive species can only be eradicate with government intervention. There are no cost effective trapping solutions.

Nets and Deet aren't 100 percent effective and is not something we should settle for being the new normal when government intervention is possible.

The sooner it's dealt with the more realistic it can be fixed.

I would literally vote for any local politician if this were a primary policy issue for them.
I'd recommend using an APM product off the shelf to get a lot of the mentioned functionality in the article (Monitoring, Tracing, Anomaly Detection). I would definitely _not_ recommend trying to roll all that yourself, unless you have a ton of time and resources.

There's a few good ones out there, we use Instana and it's working really well.
You're not considering FB Marketplace ... the primary interaction there is via FB Messenger. I can foresee the following:

1. see something you like

2. message seller and arrange meetup/pickup

3. upon inspection, pay via messenger

4. transaction done
Didn't Instagram do this a while ago with a Buy button? I've never seen the button, but I'm also in Canada where the feature may not be rolled out yet.
Works for me. Opens a new tab with an image, e.g.:

https://2r4s9p1yi1fa2jd7j43zph8r-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/fil...

FF 70 on Arch Linux.
But given the current state of frivolous lawsuits, it would seem the criteria needs to be loosened and/or the enforcement stepped up.
I had identified the problem of google information dominance and inefficiency long time back and release a prototype micronest.com/searchly

The solution would be very complex but i had the problem identified..Now working to release an enterprise version inspired by this.
Very creative :-p
Tearing apart printf() (2018)
That would be totally valid feedback if it were possible for the candidate to interpret it at face value. Given that effectively no companies provide substantive feedback, even if "there was a more qualified candidate" is the reason, any reasonable candidate is going to interpret that as "sorry, we can't tell you the reason."
Which state? I’m very surprised an entire state would not have an HSA eligible option on healthcare.gov.
Are you saying that they run on a propane flame in the RV?
Supersonic passenger flight is happening. Boom Supersonic is building their (crewed) subscale supersonic demonstrator right now. They hope to pick up where Concorde left off (but much more efficient and slightly faster and more granular, enabling more routes).

NASA is building a low-boom civil supersonic demonstrator (also crewed) that will demonstrate sonic-boom-lowering techniques to enable passenger supersonic flight over the continental US.

There's lots of room to improve these things still. And I'm excited still about lithium battery tech. It's the internal combustion engine of our century and its consequences are perhaps even more far-reaching. The theoretical useful energy of the most advanced versions of this, the lithium-air battery, are on par with that of hydrocarbon fuels, so by the middle of the century it's likely we'll have completely clean civil supersonic transport with low acoustic emissions as well.

I think we still have a very long ways to go to advance technology. Vacuum tunnel maglev trains allow higher efficiency than even conventional rail but without an ultimate speed limit. They could operate at hypersonic speeds in 100 or 200 years from now, with the energy recouped regeneratively at the end. That makes efficiency orders of magnitude better than today's passenger air travel with speed increased by an order of magnitude.

I think ultimately in the further future, if you want something exciting it'll be:
Further urbanization of everything, so humanity concentrates in opulent metropolises well-connected by ultra-efficient transport. Food production increasingly goes to single celled organisms, freeing up space for rewilding of the Earth and healing of the ravages of industrialization while individual well-being is far greater. Human economic expansion in space is technically unbounded. The solar system allows access to many, many orders of magnitude greater energy supplies without an impact on the Earth's ecosystems. Things that can tolerate latency, like high performance computing will leave the planet to access unlimited energy in space (Moore's Law coming to a slow end will actually enhance this transition as you can afford to amortize the hardware over long enough periods of time for this to make sense).

Musk's spaceship is just a taste of what's possible. Improvements in efficiency in even chemical rockets (by reducing structural weight, fine-tuning Isp over the mission cycle, using hydrolox near stoichiometric to enhance performance) can reduce cost of space travel to about what long-haul passenger travel currently is.

I think things will continue to improve. And these are only the foreseeable things. The actual future will contain many unforeseeable discoveries.

None of this is guaranteed, but it can be ours if we so decide to make it thus.

A vision of the future beyond the Earth in the timeframes you mention: https://vimeo.com/108650530
We start over with a new web. Let's take what we learned from the current one and just start with a straight-up application platform.

Create a virtual architecture, what would traditionally have been called a Virtual Machine before the term was overloaded, comprised of a simple instruction set and memory mapped devices (ideally simple enough that you could write an interpreter for it in an afternoon). Write an LLVM backend for it. Sandbox it by default so that it isn't even allowed to pull data from anywhere other than the same socket it came in on without permissions, or play sound, or anything an advertiser thinks is a good idea. Don't over-complicate the rendering by forcing some kind of automated re-flow crap, just provide the relevant display metrics directly to the program (resolution, px density, viewing distance, orientation, etc.) and let it choose how to best represent itself.

Things like that.
I wonder if they knew that name was already in use by an abandoned video player.
I would think this could be simply another (probably quick) round of deliberations by the jury, not a whole other trial.
Externally funded by deep pockets and primarily created to make a small group of people extremely rich at the expense of everyone else?

Oh, wait.
I hope this gets more attention.

Not because I think what Google did breaks HIPAA laws - there are many sub-threads below that can explain that better than I that this doesn't violate HIPAA - but rather the question helps highlight where we should truly be upset.

What Google did was legal; because of that, we should be upset that the government / regulatory bodies created an environment such that this was legal. Rallying against a publicly traded company of 100's of 1000's of employees for doing something "immoral" is not a productive use of your energy.

(The irony here is I usually am _against_ more regulation!)

It's a similar argument I made with the whole martin shkreli debacle: senators & congressmen/women got their picture day grilling him with the whole "how could you price gouge these poor, sick people?" But his consistent response was, essentially, the inverse: "How could you create an environment where this is totally 100% legal?"
Disney+ also has a bundle offer for Hulu, and ESPN+ as a trio. Disney just recently reassured shareholders that Hulu was their focus for all of Disney's less "family friendly/family focused" content (Miramax, much of the Fox catalogs), including that the FX/FXX content programming team is moving into building Hulu Originals in addition to cable content. Disney seems keen on differentiating Hulu enough from Disney+ that they may not cannibalize the Hulu audience that much. (Probably the thing for Hulu to worry about much more than Disney+ is the expiration of their deal for Comcast/NBC Universal content in 2025, and the ghostly specter of whatever weird plans Comcast has for "Peacock".)
It is true, and some Chinese production lines are truly feats of engineering. However, it's a little tricky to determine whether this is really Chinese values and engineering or the values and engineering they have imported from other countries. There's a lot of production lines in China that produce nonfunctional goods.

In the microelectronic and mechanical areas the strength of the Chinese market seems to be very, very lax IP law. While most of the interesting parts don't make it over to the western market, they have very featureful, accessible, and novel components that are made by cobbling together (potentially stolen or at least unlicensed) IP.

Historically US manufacturing used to be the best cost/performance optimized and this is what helped win WWII.
What I don't get is how hospitals can justify the costs for a lot of the shit they charge for...

Example if you have a baby and ask for an itemized list you might see something like $49 for chest to chest time with baby... they're fucking charging you to hold your damn baby.

Or $35 for a single ibuprofin for pain. Seriously? 100x markup? I can get a bottle of 100 ibuprofin's for < $10.

Some things should just be free because it's a hospitality industry right? I mean you go into a restaurant and ask for extra napkins they just give them to you. They don't charge $2/napkin. Or at the very least - at cost.
I mean, if I really think about it, the two I came up with is ensuring people can't look in the window and potentially something about insulation/energy efficiency of covering the window.
Segmentation Data Pipeline for Tensorflow 2.0. Supports Image Augmentations Too
How would you enforce bounds checking while supporting unsafe languages?
My own blogging has served, variously:

- As a public record of the evolution of my ideas and thinking. (Often embarassing.)

- As a reference for things I've found useful, and contextualised.

- A place I can post my highly original thoughts ... to be told "oh, X came up with that years / decades / centuries / millennia ago." Happens far more often than I'd have ever dreamed.

- As a place I can refer to / link to my own best efforts at explaining some idea or principle. Rewriting from scratch continuously is tedious.

- Rarely, for discussion.

- As a very loose bookmarking service. (Only a small fraction of references end up there, but the ones which do tend to be significant.)

- Something of a shingle, though I've not leveraged that as yet.

Every so often a particular post will take off, and it's generally exciting when it does. Rarely the pieces I pour my sweat and tears into, though that happens occasionally. What the World decides to Take an Interest in is a wonderously fickle phenomenon.

There's also the tinkering on the blog itself as a technical means of presenting, distributing, and organising information, which I find interesting.
Importantly, they also worked a lot fewer hours than the Netflix engineers did and probably got to go home every night and weekend.

Netflix pays very well but also works its tech workers hard.
I just stick a piece of black tape over it. It doesn't even void the warranty.
> Charter and voucher schools ARE public education, they just aren't part of the traditional monolithic bureaucracy.

They also traditionally get to pick and choose who can attend, which often means excluding costly students like any that have disabilities.

> The ability to try different approaches and run different experiments to see if it results in different outcomes, and make fast adjustments, free from the existing hierarchy, is the quality improvement that proponents are striving for.

Great. Let's apply "move fast and break things" to education. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.pushbullet.com/ far better than using google keep, whatsapp groups or email
Bad adblock filter, maybe?
You missed my point, which is not sandboxing.

Webassembly through fine-grained sandboxing promotes software decoherence by amplifying the number of dependencies (since the major downside to working in this fashion is now advertised to be reined in).

When the number of dependencies goes up, combinatorial explosion ensures that the state-space is full of possible attacks. Fine-grained sandboxing does not solve this anti-pattern but can in fact make it a lot worse. You can examine each and every dependency and make sure that its sandbox is kosher but that does not guarantee anything about the interactions and transitive relationships between dependencies. The metasystem is now an amplified (by sheer number of dependencies) state-space that attackers can seek to manipulate.

Since security is a systemic rathen than an isolated affair, the model that the OP advocates for is broken.
nofap needs your help, porn industry is attacking
Seems like it's just Paypal but on Facebook.

At least it's not backed by some wasteful and unnecessary blockchain nonsense.
Not true. Recently I found myself using duckduckgo more. Partially because they added ddg.gg and it's not such a pain to type.... but mostly when I just can't find stuff on Google. That was never the case a few years ago, if I didn't find it on Google, I couldn't find it on any other search engine.
Head of Docs and Training at Cockroach Labs here. Thanks for this feedback, ralusek. It's spot on, and we're planning to create much more direct and prescriptive guidance and best practices for working with CockroachDB across multiple regions. That's when placement of data (via geo-partitioning or other approaches) is crucial for reducing network latency.

In case you haven't seen them, for now, we have docs on some data placement patterns for multi-region deployments: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/topology-patterns..... We believe the first and third are best for most cases. This tutorial also walks through the impact of using those patterns in a cluster spread across 3 regions of the US: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/demo-low-latency-m...

But we'll definitely continue working on better guidance here.
A major antitrust issue is that too much competition is annoying for users. I'm not going to check every airline carrier when booking a flight, I will use an aggregator. Same thing for hotels, restaurants, etc.

Look at the current streaming environment: it's becoming highly fragmented and I predict when the dust settles there will only be 3 major players, there's only so much content an individual can consume and is willing to pay. Google's role as the aggregator for queries will be incredibly difficult to disrupt as long as there is some friction to using another service.
That and the telescreen can fuck off. Zuck has done enough damage to society. Even Cthulhu is shaking his head at him.
We are a small data consultancy, so we use other/more diverse things for customers, but our internal stack is fairly simple:

Hubspot/Jira/G Suite → (Python) → PostgreSQL → (SQL) → Tableau

Since we are Tableau partners, we have a bunch of internal licences either way. We host Tableau Server, ETL, and PostgreSQL ourselves, all on Centos cloud servers.
> All raw data lives in S3... I'm curious to hear if others use a similar pattern, or if there are better options.

You still may need to maintain information about what is in S3. If you're already using Snowflake you can probably achieve this via External tables. Otherwise you could run your own hive meta-store or use AWS external tables.

We're also trying to decide whether it's cheaper/easier to store things in S3 or just keep everything internal in snowflake. In some cases the compression is so good on some of our data, it's better keeping data stored in a table than in internal or external staging. Obviously this is bad if we ever have to move away from Snowflake, but we haven't committed to either approach and lots of data is still backed up in S3. Our total data warehouse is about 200TB at the moment and we're projecting significant growth over the next couple of years.
Watch Out for Disk I/O Performance Issues When Running EXT4
It could be, it's hard to rule out that but the parties are both owners which feels like an odd occurrence for a SLAPP suit. It makes sense as a contract dispute but not much as a SLAPP suit.

If it is a SLAPP suit what are the advertisers for Snopes trying to prevent Snopes from publishing?
While I see your point, I also believe the sheer shameless lies were not possible before 2007, pre-mobile and pre-twitter. People would consume the info, slowly, and have time to process it. Now, the you know who says something like, "you know, that seems shady, someone should look into it", and leave it there. And then just burry that under another never-ending stream of lies.

I think both are really interlocked. Low barrier of entry = a flood of info = low attention spans as a defense mechanism to deal with it.
Well that's the point of course.

I would be astonished if those in power were unable to find a way to exempt themselves from these rules though.
I understand your point but don't you think there needs to be some middleground between not offering any follow-up at all and arguing endlessly about the decision?

If you send an Email with some reasons, you're not required to spend hours defending your position. But giving some feedback is beneficial to the applicant and potentially also to yourself because you're forced to think about the reasons and keep a record which might also be useful.
I'm pretty sure though they have to supply an 'itemized' list if you ask for one, which you can contest anything on the list and a lot of times take them to court over if they don't budge. Often they will because they know $35 for an ibuprofin is absurd but most people don't think they can win against a big bad hospital.
Try "site:reddit.com"
After looking for good tools in this space, to create documentation diagrams, I stayed with Draw.io and yEd[1].

The latter has a pretty cool feature that re-arranges all objects according to some predefined layout. Quite neat.

[1]: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
I see an ad every two minutes of video on youtube. It has become very hard for me to watch anything on Youtube.
I never said he doctored transcripts, I said he cherry picked bits of the transcripts to release to support his narrative.

But he did claim Trump said things in the call that he did not, in a statement he made to Congress.

Also, Schiff has been on RT numerous times. Why would an American congressman make statements on a news outlet controlled by the Russian government? Nothing about this guy is trustworthy. He also claimed for two years they had definite proof of corruption.
Maybe there’s a small market in the ”Venmo me $5 and see what happens” spam, coming soon to your inbox from a bot with a really hot profile pic
Bitcoin, would be easy to get a paypal account shut down.
As opposed to what? YouTube is supposed to just host videos for you for free?
I'm surprised they didn't have something like this sooner. I'm sure there are other tools, but the only one that I know of that people use to send payments to each other regardless of bank account is Venmo.

Being able to send money to other people easily is a huge part of living in a digital world. We may not trust FB with our payment data, but millions of people probably will.
https://status.aws.amazon.com/
IAM is global and is in issue state.
This sounds pretty awesome. Do you have any write-ups that explain more?
I think we are talking about completely different things. Forget the actual virtualenv and Python for a sec.

Imagine you want to check out the hypothetical language Jagoust. This goes something like so - you install Jagoust and maybe some Jagoust tools. You fire up your interactive environment and set it up so it knows where Jagoust and its tools are. Using your enviornment you do things like tell Jagoust where your project is or which particular version of Jagoust to use, etc.. And that's pretty much it and while the details are different, the process is quite familiar to you since it just leverages your standard interactive environment in ways mechanically similar to Rugoja, another language you know.

Later you decide you want to try the language Snek. The first thing you notice in the Snek tutorial is that your standard interactive environment is somehow not good enough - you need a meta-environment for it and your project. Perplexed, you google some more docs and ask some Snek people and find out that meta-environment used to be how things were done but these days, you probably want a quasi- or para-environment. But why do you need an environment for your environment? You do not know. Such are the mysteries of the Snek.
I can second this, I've brought my laptop on multiple flights after the ban and nobody cared. Amsterdam - Krakow with KLM and Dusseldorf - Moscow with Aeroflot and they all just accepted the laptop. Took it out of my bag at all airports except Amsterdam. (You don't have to take out your stuff from your bag anymore, you can also bring filled bottles of fluid)
Worth noting this is happening after the incorporation of VMware’s harbor registry into cncf. Harbor provides a solid enterprise registry with auth, Clair scanning, and a reasonable ux. https://goharbor.io/

Still, it’s great to see quay make it out into the open.
Oh, it's a Venmo competitor. I guess it's useful in that you already have your friends loaded in so you can know you're sending the right person money.
WeChat is the #1 application in China, which i think gets > 80% of usage, last I checked. WePay / mobile payments are _incredibly_ popular. Why _wouldn't_ they try to copy what is working in such a hugely popular app?

(I'm not saying that FB is using this to try to get into China, but more that the sample of "what's working in the industry" shouldn't be limited to just the US.)
I think the point is that your laundry list of features in your language of choice does not really matter when it comes to adoption.

For instance, memory safety does not really matter so much that people would stop using unsafe languages.
Currently:

Models and feature engineering done in python, trained locally, weights uploaded to S3. Dockerfile with a tiny little web server gets deployed through or CI/CD pipeline for serving.

Soon: Argo workflows + Polyaxon for data collection, feature engineering, training etc. Push best model tobS3, same CICD process with docker container deploys little web server onto our Kubernetes environment.

Deep learning stuff will probably use a similar setup, but with PyTorch instead of Sklearn. Would like to look at serving with ONNX exporting.

When the Julia packages evolve a little more, will be looking forward to using that in production.