skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental issue is that they are using a broken pattern for granularity of work. Any idiot can put together a lot of containers and farm work out, that's how Apache/CGI worked for years. But it's not scalable. They didn't understand the language runtime well enough, so they punted the problem to parallelism. At scale, they are now repairing the model to "save money" on what was essentially a no-architecture solution.
This also happens with rivers! It's incredibly annoying.
Another YT issue I personally find annoying as someone who has recorded a LOT of programming tutorials is all the garbage that pops up on the lower part of the screen whenever the viewer presses pause. A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal.

In the past, YT allowed creators to prevent this behavior and recommended videos in general by appending a ?rel=0 to an embed or via the API. Last year, they removed that option.

It's frustrating that they claim to be explicitly trying to promote educational content, but then they degrade the experience for educational viewers, regardless of the preference of the viewer or creator.
It's definitely tapered off, though: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/graphs/commit-activity

There's no activity in December. There was one commit in November, and that removed a Fedora version number from the readme.
Would like a version but for managers. "What to do before you decide on using 'AI' in your project."
The Download - MIT Tech Review

The Hustle - Business/Tech

Daily Programming Problems - Interview style questions that are language agnostic (mostly).

I also have language specific news letters for Java, Python and C# that are ok, but nothing special.
I'm aware that the Python Packaging Authority is not the Python Software Foundation. But they are also the Packaging Authority.

The PSF may not have officially granted them some sort of status, but as PyPA maintain pip, setuptools and warehouse, they are in fact the authority when it comes to packaging, unless the PSF comes out with a statement saying they aren't.
> Maybe. We assume "dark matter" has to exists because it interacts with/creates gravity. The only thing we know that can do so is matter.

This isn’t really accurate. Everything interacts via gravity, notably radiation and gravitational waves. (The latter hasn’t been directly experimentally tested AFAIK.)

A major reason to think of dark matter as matter is its equation of state, i.e. how it behaves when stretched or diluted. If you put 10g of light in one box (this is possible in principle — it’s a lot of light, and you need a box with impossibly shiny walls) and put 10g of cool gas in another, they gravitate identically. But, if you expand the boxes the same amount, the light gets diluted far more than the gas. That is, if you double the box’s volume by moving one of the walls, you still have about 10g of gas but much less than 10g of light. If you had a third box full of 10g of dark energy and you double the box’s volume, you end up with 20g of dark energy. Yes, this is really weird.
This ignores astroturfing, abusive mods, user hostile tactics (forcing v.reddit on users and disallowing converting it to gifs - even banning a bot that did it at the website level), and a lot of other serious systemic problems with reddit's "community."

Reddit was once a community, but now it's an attempt to monetize its users - nothing more, nothing less. It's clearly already dying to anybody that isn't inside the echo chamber. It moved away from value creation years ago and is clearly in the death grip of value extraction.

I suspect it actually has a lot to do with their latest investment round 5 years ago, but this is purely speculation on my part.

https://venturebeat.com/2014/09/30/y-combinator-backers-upvo...
I got 4 ads, 3 were Progressive, Geico, and AAA. Those are likely to be top results for car insurance even without the ads.
I can't underscore how important this is, not just in the US and in developed countries but across the world. There are so many policy makers that are woefully under-informed or that operate under assumptions that are decades-old and a new crop of talent is required.
Curious Cat
Hackernews told me old-school distributed services need to die because centralized services have better UX.

UX is everything, Hackernews told me.

Where is your god now?
700g are 700g. So no, the dark matter inside Earth has basically 0 effect on Earth.
It's hardly vitriol. I just thought that the headline and opening paragraphs ("a news story for every constituency... all written by a computer", "the BBC's biggest test of machine-generated journalism so far", "Each of nearly 700 articles... was checked by a human editor") did hint at an AI element and more variety of composition in the articles than I found there to be.
I worked at google for 8 years, 2005-2013, and I disagree with your statement. Nobody was ashamed of how we made money, and the ads organization was a great place to be an engineer and get promoted. Early on, 20% time most certainly did exist, but you had to push for it, and among some managers, it was impossible to get it during normal work hours, but in the broader organization, it existed. People genuinely did try to do the right thing. Google was not my first job, I had already been working for quite a few years, so I had many earlier silicon valley companies to compare it against, and it genuinely was a fun, interesting and well meaning place to work. That started to shift over time and turn into a bureaucratic corporation where people were no longer rewarded on merit, and so I left, that was six years ago.

During the years that I enjoyed there, we got to work on some truly difficult problems in terms of scale, built a whole lot of cool stuff that's helpful to the world, but doesn't make money (Maps, for example). These cool projects happened because advertising brought in so much money that we could waste some on providing something of value without clear financial return, and Sergey, Larry, and Eric were behind that.

So, Google was not dishonest from the start, it was idealistic, and then at some point, the idealism crashed into reality, and that's when things started to change. The initial attempt at a unique culture was an honest attempt.
No, it can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

https://www.qemu.org/download/
because nukes dont exists, research it, look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, compare it with photos of Tokyo, almost the same damage, flat with some trees and buildings standing.. no crater, no radiation, how can trees and building survive at groundzero? undamaged buildings, and bridges at groundzero but miles away from center concrete buildings collapsed , blown away .
no radiation problem, they started walking around and started rebuilding the cities just days after.
search hiroshima Tram that restarted service just 3 days after the bombing.
nuclear tests are fake with huge pile of normal explosives, and some hollywood editing. all fake. you can see clouds not moving because they use layers, and colors dont match.
Google's mistake was to brand themselves as a moral cause. When you do that, you send out a beacon to some of the most righteous smart people on earth and they become employees. Righteousness and smarts is a toxic self-undoing mix.
Hate to be a critic, but the transitions are distracting. Why can't I just read without things jumping out at me, from all sides. Its a little jarring.
SugarCRM does this. I don't like the setup when support is required because the reseller tries to sell additional products.
You made me realize that I share all these grievances but the degradation has been so relatively slow that I never really thought about how worse it had become, boiling frog style.

I've definitely experienced the "wait why won't it show me the name of that street I'm clearly focused on" problem multiple times. It's especially ironic because I remember that once Maps readability was first class and an example to follow, IIRC mainly because they had a relatively simple but elegant algorithm that would aim to maintain a relatively constant information density over the area of the map at any zoom level. So if you had a very dense area only the very important labels would show and the rest would be hidden until you zoomed in, while in more sparsely populated areas you'd have a lot more detail pop up even at relatively high zoom level. That was a good compromise.

In hindsight it's completely obvious but I remember that when Maps started that was relatively innovative, I remember that many predecessors tended to emulate paper maps more closely (probably because that's what people expected back then) and were a lot more cluttered as a result.

>I think it's a real shame, because I remember in, e.g. 2012 I thought Google Maps was an incredible revelation

That seems late to me, are you sure that's the right date? I remember spending hours zooming in and out of Google Maps (and Google Earth) in the mid-to-late 2000's. Having a full map of the world to explore was mindblowing to me. Apple Maps launched in 2012!
Yes, they have contacts/agreements with the parties that get access. Whether that's full time employees or contractors, I don't think that changes the main issue. They will never expose that information to the public.
Why not just run inside KVM on Linux, and why use a bloated windows framework and toolkit? Qt is a great example of a cross-platform framework that doesn't require a lot of dependencies. However, you could also just build a PWA. If you're going to use bloated proprietary frameworks, why even use Linux at all?
I just wanted to buy a ticket for the Running Remote conference, and then I saw that there are only on-site tickets ...
You know who else handled conflict in a way that wasn't always understood? Linus Torvalds. I think there's a theme here. Why is it that successful project maintainers sometimes lose their patience with the community? Remember when GvR left the Python community? I think one of his final public statements was, "Now that PEP 572 is done, I don’t ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions."
Mass media is an interesting choice of example given the recent digital media collapse. There, too, people who were recruited on idealistic visions of “journalism” are being forced by their bosses to reckon with the fact that their job is not to report stories they consider important, but to create content that turns a profit on ad revenue.
A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished
I don't know if I've been desensitized to large numbers but a large organization like the WHO spending a few million dollars per year on consulting services seems pretty minor.
in my experience, most people dismiss cyc as a failed science experiment. this shouldnt be! after all, many important deep learning concepts have their roots in the 80s, and it is possible that cyc could be revived too.
> Also added option to export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant "paravirtialized"

So they don't seem to be very serious about multi-tenancy?

(Spectre and Meltdown are more or less considered the nails in the coffin of Xen para-virtualisation for multi-tenant environments).
If it's so embarrassing, maybe we should have solved this problem before it came down to a child shaming a bunch of adults about this. It's INCREDIBLY embarrassing, but not for the reasons you're saying.
It hasn't been removed, because PyPA disagree [0].

> It's an official project of PyPA still, it's just not being pushed as the "be-all-end-all" option.

[0] https://github.com/pypa/packaging.python.org/issues/589
Windows is not over? I see Microsoft as similar to IBM now. They will make a lot of money from their Rolodex, possibly more than they ever made before, but they no longer own a relevant platform someone would write new software for.
Last time I checked, Google was mostly charging per viewer instance, whereas OSM tile providers where universally charging by actual volume. That way, Google pricing would be unbeatably attractive for an SPA where users are panning and zooming a lot in a single map instance, but prohibitively expensive for sites where users open a lot of pages that each contain a little map viewer (or multiple) that is hardly ever interacted with.

A clear horses for courses situation. Unfortunately the site I had in mind was just as clearly a "both".

The main reason for not self-hosting is data updates I think. Setting up that "data supply chain" might not be very hard or expensive, but it can adds a lot to the overall maintenance demand of a site. Chances are that automation will keep working precisely as long as you can remember how you did it, plus a few more days.
1. What you're saying is true. But in the US, the term "Imperial Presidency" is used to describe the scenario when checks and balances fail between the three branches, thus the power primarily resides in the executive branch to make decisions, and with little oversight from the other branches.

Once there is no more legislative or judicial oversight, and the president can choose to make every action classified, then it might as well be an authoritarian system.

2. > Who sees it as such?

The US's political establishment and law enforcement agencies.

Let's be clear about what I am for and what I am not.

There's two types of property seizure in the US:

A: Property seized directly as the result of a crime (cars used to transport drugs, houses used to store or manufacture drugs, bank accounts used to store proceed from drug transactions, etc.)

B: Property seized merely as being suspect to being involved in a crime. So called civil forfeiture. These are the weird cases like "US vs. $5000".

I'm all for A, but against B. And if you say you can no longer seize bank accounts or houses of convicted drug dealers, then that's a non-starter in the US.

3. The framers of the constitution never put an article describing the role of the free press. Nor was the free press an original guarantee of the constitution. That came later with the first amendment. It was the final check on government corruption and overreach.

There's lots of national coverage on the Russia-Gate stories, but the local news doesn't have the resources to cover city-council coverup for a 1500 person town anymore. It's a shame, I agree because the people in the 1500 person town deserve just as strong a protection as those that live in NYC. But if you have a political party that attacks the media as being "partisan", people are going to stop subscribing to the local newspapers, because they're "partisan-by-default".
Show HN: Autonomous Racing: Proportional Controller
That's odd because NT debuted with a Posix "personality," so it must have been taken into account with the original design. Processor independence was another goal, though abandoned for a long time.

In other words, they should have taken this into account unless the personality thing was just for show.
The first major investigation into McKinsey ran a year ago. Here's the NYT's explainer about it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/reader-center/mckinsey-he...

> *The most basic question we set out to answer was this: Did McKinsey’s pristine reputation as the foremost purveyor of “best practices” match its record? After nearly a year of reporting, we found that the answer was often no.

Every recent ICE investigation is related to an ongoing major story:

- Chinese global economic policy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china...

- The opioid crisis: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/business/purdue-pharma-mc...

- ICE: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/mckinsey-ICE-immigrati...

- Rikers Island prison: https://twitter.com/i_m_m/status/1204793794975141890

The more recent spate of McKinsey articles are related to the fact that Pete Buttigieg has entered the top tier of presidential candidates, and McKinsey is his third other job on the resume.

It's not tough to believe if the investigative hypothesis is correct: that McKinsey is the goto consulting firm trusted by the world's most powerful governments and companies when it comes to decisionmaking.
Jack up the price, give grants, and deduct the grants from your taxes.
Fun side note:

Our Xdata data publishing plugin for QuarkXPress uses HyperTalk as its scripting language, since we shipped it first 30 years ago.

Still shipping, though XPress is dying...
There's no doubt that good pay has always been part of the appeal. I don't know if there was ever a time when Google was offering below market average pay, so it's going to be hard to separate the attractiveness of the culture from the attractiveness of the comp, perks, and benefits. FWIW, when I joined in the mid 2000s, I felt like most people were coming because of the compensation and career growth potential. Free food was obviously a plus, but that's not why I picked it over Microsoft.
There are over 500 commits merged to master since the last release. The community is actively contributing but these changes don't get to the end user because the maintainers are not releasing them.

Bugs get reported and closed because they are fixed in master every day, wasting not only the end users time but also that of the people actively working on the project.
Too feminine is an unusual critique for Reddit. Maybe things really are changing fast.

The only social media I really like is Pinterest. It always gets ignored in these conversations and besides a few minor things, there development never seems to bother the base.
The analogy works in other cases, though.

Local newspapers are pretty much exactly "advertising companies", with advertising making up two thirds or more of each printed page, and no real care given to the journalism side of things.

Given that there clearly are "advertising companies" (or "users-as-product" companies) masquerading as user-serving companies, it might be sensible to talk about a spectrum between user-serving and user-as-product, and where companies fall on this spectrum. You can be, say, 30% a user-serving company, and 70% a user-as-product company. You could also trend in one direction or the other over time.
And lots of telemetry too. It's a mixed-bag really.
Thank you I had no idea how the numbers were chosen until now!
XenServer would be another similar choice that supports GPU passthrough. Depends a lot on what you're used to.
Those organizations include governments and global corporations. Why wouldn't the aspects of their decision making process be news?
>> Thank you in advance.

I think you read this comment as condencension, but that was definitely not my intent. I meant it in all seriousness that I would be grateful if you could reduce the confrontational tone of your comments.

Anyway I'm sorry that we failed to communicate and have a productive conversation.
You hit the nail on the head here. When N different API requests simultaneously time out – all because a ramda.uniq call in one of them received an array of 100,000 nested objects – it's easy to make a spot code fix, but harder to systematically prevent it from happening in the future. There aren't really linters for "bad event loop blockage". Code reviews are the main tool we have, but you'd be surprised what sorts of logic can trickily block the event loop. For API reliability and development velocity in the short-term, by far the easiest approach was to throw more infrastructure at the problem.

We do use Go for almost all of our other services, and there are an increasing number of integrations written in Python. But we're still using and investing in our Node integrations code for the foreseeable future, and this was an important step for simplifying our infrastructure.

We certainly hope the tooling and rollout process in the post were instructive for anyone using Node, even if their stacks were pristine from day 1 and never need this sort of complex migration :)
They say things like turn left at the second light.
The knowledge is represented in the links. Words don't inherently mean anything. The meaning of a word is how it relates to other words. The "math" of knowledge representation is in manipulating and searching the graph. The nodes can be named anything, because the names aren't knowledge, they're just tags on parts of the knowledge.
For me from my laptop: 4 above the fold, 3 below the fold. Each ad also has more pixels of real-estate than an "organic" search result. More than 70% of the pixels I see on my screen before scrolling belong to ads!
Third Base (Scott Galloway)
JavaScript doesn't require event loop design. You can do a PHP like backend design with JS, where each request is handled by a fresh process, and all JS functions block. There's nothing in the language that prevents this.

Some features would become unusable, like Promises and async/await, but those would be worthless in such a design anyway.
"If the clients use HTTP/2, data transfer decreases further, as response headers are compressed."

But CPU usage is increased for decompression and CPU is the only real bottleneck.

Just because you don't pay for the compression electricity doesn't mean you get away with it.

This ties back to my previous comment on the User-Agent subject yesterday, remove all headers except "Host" from all HTTP traffic is the solution.

HTTPS is a complete waste of energy. Security should not be overarching, it should be precision.

WebSockets are also bad, since they don't work well with memory latency. Use "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" on a separate pull connection instead.
I have personally been extremely bothered by the masked threads for a while now as I often browse reddit unlogged. So I can attest it is real and awful :/
This is just the next logical step in transforming reddit into some sort of not-racist 9gag. A stream of images and videos that encourage scrolling, not 2000s bulletin board discussions.
> I have to assume the fact that nobody is just cheap-hosting opentiles mapsets for a tenth of the price indicates that the underlying infrastructure (bandwidth?) is pretty pricey.

Mapbox charges ~$4 for a thousand map views, while we charge $0.10 for a thousand map views (less than a tenth of Mapbox's price). How do we convince you to switch to our services? https://www.nettoolkit.com/geo/about
Is it allowed by Apple to set up a macOS version N virtualbox guest on macOS version N host?

Because I'm trying and I can't imagine how their OS could be more hostile toward me doing it...
> Consider the average personal car is only in use 5% of the time.

Freedom to choose has value. Convenience has value.

I keep my cleats in the car, so that I can just pick which day I want to play ultimate frisbee on the spur of the moment. I don't have to decide in advance and pack something. That freedom to make up my mind on the spur of the moment is worth something.

I can be at home, and decide I need something from the grocery store, and just go get it. I don't have to order a car and wait for it to arrive. Once I'm done at the store, I don't have to order another car for the trip back. That "it's ready right now" convenience is worth something. (Yeah, I know, in a decent urban world, the grocery store would be within walking distance. I don't live in that ideal urban world.)
Dishonest!? You base this on the assumption of ubiquitous use of Google products. I don’t elect to use Google products, but I still am subject to Google ads and adtech.
how do they date "paint" carbon dating? goes back max 50,000 years. they never tell which dating method was used.
I don't know whether anyone calls them that any longer, but the work of the "gandy dancer" has not gone away. There is a union now pat of the Teamsters, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees: https://www.bmwe.org/default.aspx
Grumpy old virtualenv user trying not to be smug.