skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point.

Ask the _maintainers_ of the project, not a random person on the Internet.
That is very true. It is an operating system now.
Fairly sure I'd forget all the time that it thinks giving it a syntax that looks like form-encoded obviously means I want to send a JSON request.
It might be a slightly older phrasing, but to match your anecdote: I've never heard of poky meaning slow.

More:

> It's located in a pokey little village in the middle of damn near nowhere.
I mean, significant mental investment sound like typing "sunk cost fallacy" to me.

The whole Urbit system could be described in terms of linked-lists and S-Expressions. Even languages as obscure as K, J or APL have better reasoning than Urbit.

Obscurity only leads to smaller number of people wanting to explore something. Only people who stays with it are "believers" and not experts.
good article. Have you seen what Golem (https://golem.network/) has done in terms of crowdsourcing compute power and creating a marketplace?
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Some people are just pathological hyperbolists. I think that's really the handicap here, not any facility for understanding algorithms.
Third parties like Snowflake get around this by having you pick where their service is hosted so that bandwidth and latency aren’t a concern.

Further, Snowflake is a good example of an unbundled service that has more capabilities than AWS Redshift (for instance, zero copy clones). They use AWS for infrastructure - the entire warehouse is stored on S3 - and value add on top of it.
He made those remarks after he pretty much was forced to "professionalize" by The Foundation.

I do agree however that at no times should criticism of code or work become personal.
So they will not find it much cheaper. AWS is priced that same regardless.

They might enjoy knowledge sharing, but at the speed that AWS evolves, the half-life of such knowledge is very short.

If I would bet on anything it would be Kubernetes. At least my knowledge is the same across clouds/on-prem. And there is no gatekeeper.
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Thanks a lot! I’m at the very beginning of managing a team and culture is key. I’ll probably have to turn that around.
I think you're right.

I worked on Yocto for two years, it is over-engineered _a_ _lot_ to say the least.

The BSP companies like it though, my theory is that, since Yocto is so complex(unnecessarily), only them can solved the problem for clients.

It's a worse case comparing to gentoo for embedded space. Just use buildroot to bring up your board, much simpler and faster with top class documentation.
I don't know if you are trying to be disingenuous or are mocking people that would think this way.

But when someone comes into my house I have some control over what they are allowed to do within my house and I can ask them to leave with the support of the law if they don't obey my wishes.

When I enter a voluntary employment agreement and give an employee access to my equipment the same thing applies.
a pdf, http://www.r-5.org/files/books/computers/languages/erlang/er...
Do know evil.
Lovely introduction to pulsed radar systems. Would love a similar piece on continuous wave systems (fmcw, for example). Thanks for this!
Seems like there's a lot of similarities between DOD and relational modelling (as in modelling for a RDMBS). I imagine DOD is kinda like doing batch/bulk operations in pure SQL vs using an ORM.
> AWS security is so complicated now, at the control plane layer, that hardly anyone understands it.

Yep, and in the context of OP asking to pull out authN and ID, it's a lot clearer how to pop in an alternate DB than IAM. Even pulling out Cognito makes some sense, but not IAM. Notice OP didn't even mention authZ because IAM roles and policies are so intertwined with every AWS service, there's another major disincentive to pulling something out. It seems any pull-out solution will need to wrap IAM such that it will incur treble complexity and performance hits.

Ideas?
Keep in mind that IT domain is somewhat separated from the rest of all other economics of Belarus. Pay rates in IT-related companies a much higher than in in almost any other domain. On the other side, most of heavy industry, education and medical service are in decline.

Frequency of metro trains is reduced if compared to what there was had few years ago. 2 minute intervals are only on rush hours. Most of other time it's ~7-10m intervals.

Electric buses are used only on single route in the center of the Minsk.

Yandex and Uber in Minsk are joined into single company. So you can't say that Yandex beat Uber :)

> $9 SIM with unlimited data for a month

I suspect that this is not true. AFAIK, there are no real "unlimited" plans. There always a cap on total volume of data.
Well, modern capitalism is socialism (the US for example or EU are hardly "free markets", there are all sorts of protections, interventions, tarrifs - hardly a Trump novelty -, things like copyright (another artificial government given restriction on trade and manufacturing, central monetary policy, huge armies and postcolonial negotiations to secure favorable deals, mass surveillance, and so on.

And modern socialism (whether what the US calls as such in the nordic countries or France, or what they have in China) is also a whole lotta of capitalism, so there's that too.
There are a lot of opportunities in health care and marketing in and around KC. The $85K figure in post above for Sr. is on the low side. Cost of living is a huge plus. Rents adjacent to downtown KCMO can be had for $1,100 per month. I think the average home price in metro area is about $200K. There are lots of pockets of middle-class neighborhoods. Gas is $2.30 per gallon today, which is $2 cheaper than CA. Google fiber has this town wired, 7 years later they are still laying fiber. Two months ago I saw a crew 20 miles from downtown laying conduit for fiber, this would be on the edges of the city, what you might call semi-rural.
I write notes in bullet form in a work-specific private github repo of Markdown files.

Each daily file is named by date as mm-dd-yy.Rmd with the following info

# Date: xx/xx/xx

## Time in/Time out

## Log
* Task 1
* Task 2
* Subtask

## Notes
* Note 1

I've changed a bunch of stuff around like folders for each year/month, but keeping it in raw text files within a folder directory keeps things organized, and grep-able for searching. My log folder is also within my workspace folder for where folders for other projects live so I can easily open up today's work file with vim in a new tab when I'm working.

The Github repo is mainly to keep me synced between different computers I have to work from between working from home and on different office computers, and also so I own my own log of workplace interactions in case I need to report a list of interactions to HR (which I have had to do multiple times, and has saved my ass).

As for why I'm using R-flavored markdown instead of standard markdown, is that I've found that there are a bunch of standards for markdown that use the *.md extension, and that R markdown gives me good, consistent highlighting, code snippets, functionality with pandoc, and has its own separate extension.
Then again, many workers depend on video calls or video conferences, which easily require a multiple of that bandwidth.
Regular security updates are also important. Those add up nowadays, and if they’re slow to download you tend to skimp on them.
>Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition.

Pretty clear what your views are.
I don't think that indirect network effect is particularly strong in this case, though.

There are similar ecosystems around Azure and Google Cloud, and there are plenty of tools that support all 3 clouds equally.

I really don't think AWS is getting any kind of meaningful competitive advantage here these days. And if there's any at all, it's dwarfed by technical, financial, and strategic factors.
It's not deliberate, just a bit of an ongoing challenge. We've historically been very engineering-focused while honing the system; poking our heads out into the world, we now have to describe it.

The problem, I think, is that there's a lot of inference gaps to clear in terms of how people understand computers and how they understand the internet that we simply dispose of. A lot of the project is an attempt to re-architect the entire stack to resist the flaws of the modern internet — everything we take for granted as 'the way it is,' from the annoyances all the way to the downright evil.

High level, start with the Wikipedia entry. [1] Then peek through some higher-level, overview docs. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit

[2] https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/arvo/
Most of those languages though change the original words to suit the language (e.g. with gendered nouns, certain suffixes, changing the spelling, etc).

English tends to just copy, at least from other latin-script languages...
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Yep, resveratrol on its own doesn’t seem to do much, which is puzzling given its effect on mice. That’s why I added Sinclair’s claim
that it is a synergistic part of his drug cocktail. Let’s hope NMN is different. As for Elysium, Sinclair is not affiliated with them and he said he doesn’t make any money off of supplement sales.
I am not sure you are telling the full story. It seems to me different sides have different interpretations w.r.t the 'universal suffrage' as in the joint declaration.
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Exactly! The beauty of life is in its flaws and limitations. Perfection is boring. Gödel opened the door to a multiverse of mathematics, all flawed in some way, yet not unworthy of study.

Mathematicians of the past sought perfection for the glory of God. Now we have the opportunity to give credit where it’s due: to our fellow human beings, many of whom devoted their lives to the craft of mathematics.
Yes, it's always the others that are the problem in the US system. If you went to any other of the groups you listed they would have the same list with the exception of themselves. In the end everybody makes too much money and is inefficient.
Ford was using Vanadium steel in the chassis of his model T in the early 1900s
Dystopia is now.

The following is inevitable in this thread so let me put it up front:

Before people say that Apple has Face ID, so Chinese face scanning is justified; the former is encrypted on device, largely by a company that promotes privacy, the latter is an order from the government, not a democratically elected government but from a fascist authoritarian regime that is heading straight towards the blood stained path of Nazi Germany (with a modern twist), whose leader cannot be critized and has elected himself for life.

I'd like HN community to discourage whataboutism that distracts from the original argument. I see it here every single time when there is a thread about China and it is frustrating, counter-productive and most importantly - it is distracting away from a worrying and terrifying consequences of Chinese surveillance program. It masks truth.
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You mean like lifting more than 300 millions people out of dire poverty? Chinese in their 40s and 50s rabidly defend their government, because it delivered. I bemoan lack of democracy, Xinjiang repression, pollution and all the rest; but the fact is that the past 30 years have been a success of unseen proportions for China.
Purifying helium is relatively trivial. All helium comes from the same oil/gas wells, and is not renewable. Many sites that could capture helium choose not to because it wouldnt make them enough money, so it floats out of the atmosphere and is lost forever. It's used for party balloons because the market is too short sighted to price it at its true value because of what naively appears to be a surplus. In 100 years people will be WTFing at our senseless waste.
I think it’s 320 million people but that’s just being pedantic.

One thing you could compare it to is America four decades ago.

Wealth inequality in America seems to fluctuate, there was the gilded age which was greatly unequal, then we tampered it down with very progressive tax codes which we’ve since been slashing away at to produce what you see today (there are other factors as we of course).

Europe has many areas which are far more egalitarian than America but you’re almost certainly correct that the vast majority of Earth’s 7.whatever billion inhabitants live in deeply unequal societies.
Thank you for your reply!

I will check these services out. I hope that they can fit my needs. :)
As always, there's an XKCD for this: https://xkcd.com/806/
The literal definition of socialism is an impossibility, power always gets concentrated among the few.

"This time will be different" crowd hadn't been compelling. Human nature hadn't changed.
The elastic cache sla is 99.9%. That's roughly 43 minutes per month. Do you think that's that hard to achieve given the tools we have today?
Arent there many providers with unmetered bandwidth, in nearby datacenters?
Have you tried notmuch? https://notmuchmail.org/

It uses a Xapian index, not an RDBMS, but it's impressive. RDBMSes aren't known for producing good natural language search results.
That doesn't seem to be fully accurate.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166032/th...
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If it’s your own kid set hard limits. (30 mins per day or 2 hours per week only weekends) There’s a huge industry in capturing your child’s attention, and they don’t own the downside.
That's very unfair in that there's LEDs on experimental lab benches running 200+ lumens per watt (very handwavy). Something tells me you won't be getting amazon prime shipping on a 100 L/W sulfur bulb anytime before you're already getting amazon prime shipping for 200 L/W LED bulbs... Theoretically LEDs top out just under 300 L/W under ideal lab conditions, so a theoretical max of 100 L/W for sulfur is not so good.

The real competitor of these "ten kilowatt" class bulbs is theater-type arc lamp type devices where you can't deal with the weird spectral effects of LEDs and other quantum mechanical goofiness... Today you can buy COTS xenon lamps that run around 40 or so watts/lumen, so 100 L/W is a nice upgrade for stage and film theaters.

I don't know what sportsball stadiums use for night games. For raw bulk ugly illumination, sodium discharge lamps are COTS around 150 or so L/W, far surpassing what the sulfur bulbs can do in the lab. Interesting thought experiment is immense capex was dropped to illuminate sportsball fields and replacing the lights makes half the demand go away... so are sportsball fields going to be twice as bright at night or recycle all that power company infrastructure or is legacy pro sportsball going away with the boomers before sulfur bulbs could arrive commercially or ?

I don't see an easy way to decouple the magnetron and stuff from the lamp for sale purposes. A kilowatt class xenon lamp runs over a hundred dollars and figure a kilowatt class microwave oven and its innards could double the cost of a sulfur lamp while halving the cost of the electricity... this is really bad news for theater goers... it'll make theaters even more capital intensive which means even more risk adverse. If you're tired of formulaic remakes now, imagine when financial risk is twice as high due to double the bulb cost, LOL.
Well, Yarvin's "model" is both very wrong (much more wrong than most models by actual scholars) and not useful; we know that because that "model" was once mainstream, and quite harmful.
> I'm always confused by statements like "a republic, not a democracy."

You're clipping the idea too short to maintain its meaning here. Let's look at what was actually said

> the US has never been built as a direct democratic system. It's a Republic.

The key word you've missed here is "direct". People say that the US is a republic and not a direct democracy. These have clear meanings. A (democratic) republic has elected representatives while a direct democracy puts everything up to a popular vote. This is the key feature people are distinguishing, electing representatives versus putting all decisions directly up for voting by citizens.

The meaning only gets lost when people try to use this idea to smuggle in other related ideas like voting power in national elections being based on geography. That's a specific choice, not a necessary feature of a republican form of government.
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Time crystals are not an equilibrium state of matter.
Web-Based Motion Graphics Editor

Export / Import Files

Exported Files can be played in a Player

Exported Files can be added to your web page

This is a second version. Images can now be dragged and resized easily. Animation paths can also be added and edited directly.

Its at a pre-MVP stage.

Looking for:

Advisors + Users to direct what features to develop first. Shouldn't take more than one hour per week.

If you have developed Flash games before, I would love to have your input.
Jeez. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Many believe those protections you describe is the cause of inequality.

For example,when only 300k/yr physicians can give you access to medicine, it's not capitalism.
I send a LOT of screen shots these days. Grab (OS X) to the clipboard, paste in text message or email. The screen shot usually has everything I want to point out while leaving out the unnecessary.
I figured paying for a year up front was implied.
Walker seems to have made some claims without empirical backing. Sinclair on the other hand refers to miracle research in mice and says that they might or might not translate into humans. However, he does explain, at length, how it may work to extend longevity in humans just like it does in mice.

He also gave the aforementioned drug cocktail to his elderly dad and said it seems to have rejuvenated him. His dad is hiking all around Australia, just like he did as a young man. I paid little attention to that particular claim since it is an n=1 anecdote.
Right, but at least where I work (Austria/Germany) if a healthcare provider is outsourcing their data to you, they won't allow you to use AWS anyway (data has to be on your servers, in the same country, run by a company owned in that same country). So even if you are in the situation where you have to worry about uptime, AWS isn't a solution.
Scala Native [0] gives you AOT via LLVM, so it isn't quite the same thing, but can, in some circumstances, significantly speed up your code.

[0] https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native
I spent three months with my corporate IT on a problem I'd diagnosed in 10 minutes, because in a previous life I was corporate IT and had experience doing exactly what they were doing. After explaining what and why I thought the issue was what I thought it was they told me I couldn't be right and I let them dig at it. After multiple calls to Microsoft, who was equally confused, they finally got to an advanced tech. They called me and told me proudly they'd discovered the issue. It was exactly what I'd said three months earlier. This is not the last time issues like this have come up with my corporate IT. I always assume incomptence unless shown otherwise. I'll be polite but I don't think it's always the right solution.
AWS always charges for outgoing bandwidth. Unfortunately, they aren’t part of this: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
The problem is that everybody agrees on that "universal truism" but nobody can agree on what it means. "Clear, simple, straight forward, plain as day" is up to the reader. They're also a moving target.

To some people, C is simple. To other people, C is full of "complex and subtle" sources of pain.

To some people, a VM with a GC and a JIT is "complex and subtle". To other people, using a HLL with those features enables them to write programs which are much simpler and clearer.

These positions also change over time. A JIT is a fairly standard technique in 2019, but in 1973 it was still very much in the research phase. Even the idea of writing a kernel in such a HLL as C was once revolutionary.

I have an SDET friend who calls these types of universal truisms "apple pie", as in, you hold a meeting and say "Apple pie is good, right?" and everybody nods and says "Yes!" and then goes back to work and absolutely nothing was learned or decided.
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Great! I hope you manage to pull this off! It's a much needed tool in our IT world.

I remember seeing something like what you are doing a while back, but it was such a small project that I can't recall its name or find it via Google. But I think it was a shell favoring functional programming style meant for plan9.
... In which most people didn’t reap benefits, as the current protests show.
Good points.

Would add that edge compute, running cloud paradigms (code instead of config; automation; management abstractions), partially addresses these limitations for many use cases.

Costly to move the data off, but longer-term ROI for those orgs that are willing to make long-term decisions.

Meanwhile, as edge matures, greenfield apps should be edge-centric, rather than cloud-centric (doesn't mean they won't have cloud components...they will do the processing and storage where it best makes sense).
A URL without a scheme is somewhere between "plain wrong" and "incomplete."

The program switches around between HTTP methods, content types, query building, request serialization, etc, at every minor syntactic change to the command line arguments. The fact that a foo=bar implies that the request content type AND the accepted response content type will be set to application/json AND the foo=bar is POSTed as a JSON object isn't a "sane default."

That is not to say it can't be a useful utility. The quirky syntax for query parameters, JSON-serialized request body, etc, can be learned and is quite concise, so after the initial learning curve, it can be used very efficiently.

"Sane defaults" is false advertising, because it implies the least amount of surprise. This tool is the opposite. It is unintuitive but potentially very efficient once learned.
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Harmful to whom?
I have used stow before but I don't always want to name files what they are named.

When I want to edit a file I type vim but I can't always remember what the name of the file. I use tab to cycle through the files but it doesn't show dot files. I then have to type . then tab through the files.

I find this pretty annoying so I remove the dots in my dotfile repo but then stow wasn't symlinking to the correct file since there should be a dot

Does anybody have a solution that lets you alias files but still use stow or an alternative?

I don't want to write my own script or change the behavior of tabbing through files to also show dot files.
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Not inherently, but if you want to use provisioned storage then your storage driver[0] will have some cost (unless you use local storage).

Of course, if you're on AWS then you'd be paying the EBS tax either way.

[0]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes/...
Sorry, but this is a completely inaccurate generalization of both Jews and Christians, both of which are incredibly diverse populations with practices that vary incredibly widely by denomination, country/region and social group.

Bible study groups are a common Christian thing in many, many churches, for one. Also, it's fairly loaded to suggest that Christians "appropriated" the Old Testament. Perhaps you could choose less divisive language.