skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think the source of the hate is how little the dialog actually tells the user. imagine the message saying something like "{{ process_name || process_command }} is blocking the shutdown, press F7 to terminate it forcefully"

i doubt anyone would complain about systemd with such a message. its just beyond annoying not being able to see which application is causing the issue nor having any options beyond waiting or removing the power entirely
Yeah I probably should have clarified a bit :)

In North and South America, and in other European cities (though certainly not all!), my experience has been that Uber is 99% of the time

1. better UX, and
2. cheaper

than taxis, _generally_. In Berlin, taxi service is generally professional/clean/fine, but it's quite expensive, and when I travel to other places I get quickly spoiled by the Uber experience/cost. I understand why they ban it here, but from an end-user perspective, really wish they didn't.
Can it help with compiling Typescript to WASM? i.e. in https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
Or Kotlin Island - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island
Meanwhile, in the US : https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/9/20857440/google-antitrust-...
Clickbait title. RDS pricing has doubled relative to the instance pricing. RDS absolute pricing has gone down, just not as much as the instance pricing. RDS may have some fixed cost (or slower moving variable cost) component separate from the raw instance cost.
The filters are used to seek from database files, so lookup/query side performance is not major issue (Xor filters were mainly interesting because of the smaller size). Normally a secondary index would do the job fine, but because of the high sustained rate there is no time to write it. And all CPU cores are already maxed out, so moving more to background doesn't provide net-benefit..

+Thanks everybody for your encouraging words :)
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Came for the Java jokes, was not disappointed
Picking out that line in particular, sure you might be right, but there's more to it, from the first quote from the parent.

> Uber determines the price of the ride; Airbnb doesn’t set the rent. Uber sends an order to a specific driver; Airbnb merely provides a prospective guest with a list of properties. Uber, according to Thursday’s ruling, exercises “decisive influence” over the transaction. That’s not the case with Airbnb.
I thought Airbnb was a voyeur porn facilitator?
> There are now VPNs out of Hong Kong operating output of FB ASN space.

ELI5?
Being deterministic doesn't make it any less conscious. We're talking perception here, not free will.

In fact, there's pretty good evidence that what we call consciousness is a post-facto rationalization of the subconscious brain processes that determine an automatic answer of your brain to stimulus (not that it makes them deterministic, but certainly they're not "rational" in the classic sense).
The linked Fast Company article has additional tidbits, highlighting the amount of developers, for example.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3051883/the-bloomberg-terminal
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Thanks for the link, but actually I already use integer compression.
It is not one above the other. I can understand if my point of views are not common or if you disagree. But in order to have a healthier debate, perhaps you could specifically address my points?

The US does not (usually) interfere as much as Europe into business affairs. I don't think that automatically translate into "valuing corporate rights above those of individual citizens"
I don't interview much, but one of my first interviews out of school was in style of good cop, bad cop. The "nice guy" even had a black eye, IIRC.

I was distraught by it, but then I talked to a friend and he told me - well, maybe they were looking for someone to handle stress really well, and it's not you.

Looking back, I think it was utterly bizarre (for a programming job, anyway). But, hey, to each his own.
That's not always possible without changing the subtleties and basic meaning, or even intention as well as discussing and questionioning what the author wanted to say with their sentence or paragraph. This is particularly tricky if you write political commentary on your site. Blog post of a politician or social media posts can't be quoted where there's already vaguely stated and often said politician removes the post after backlash so you wouldn't be able to link it.
The javascript ancestors didn't die because they created such an insane amount of tools.
This is good! Investigation is taking place, not automatically fining and asking questions later.

I think my point is not really getting across. I am not advocating that tech companies get a free pass to do whatever they want.
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I don't _think_ either case it true.
> A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.

not how it works for me! i have friends on fb that i haven't talked to or seen since high school. i don't use fb proper but it's good to know that it remembers everyone so i don't have to. i guess it goes the other around as well.
> Just specify it as `jobs.<job-id>.container`.

I don't know what this means. Are there any examples?

Running in a container is the one big thing I'm missing and couldn't find any documentation about.
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No, this is just insane Python behavior. There's clearly nothing in the Windows I/O path that's doing this, and if it's a "convention", it's not even one that Python 2 has followed!

PHP doesn't do it this way:

php -r "echo json_decode(chr(34).'\u00DD'.chr(34));"

Ruby doesn't do it this way either:

ruby -e "puts \"\u00DD\""

Neither does MSYS2's Bash:

printf '\u00DD'

Neither does Node.js:

node --eval="process.stdout.write('\u00DD');"

Hell, even Python 2's behavior of raising an error is more sane than just encoding in cp1252 silently and expecting every developer to somehow know the resulting byte sequence is going to be different on each platform:

python3 -c "print(u'\u00DD')"

Obviously, I'm not the only one who thinks that whatever this (ancient?) so-called "convention" is, it's actively harmful enough to avoid in 2019.

And as if that's not enough, that's not even the end of it. Even literally writing a string to a file (with no console or stdio in between!!) ends up producing a completely different file depending on which platform the code is run on:

python3 -c "open('Temp.bin', 'w+').write(u'\u00DD')" && xxd Temp.bin && rm Temp.bin

How is any programmer supposed to deal with this insanity? A program writes to a file, but produces files with completely different contents depending on the platform? Heaven help you if you try to interacting with a program in another language. At least with newlines, as painful as they are, most people know and recognize how to deal with them. But dealing with that mess is enough, and not a reason to make the situation even worse?! It's almost as if they took the CRLF issue and then went "Hmm, that's not fair to CR or LF, we need to do this to even more characters."

Somehow we have all this nonsense in the name of "fixing" strings from Python 2. Instead of finding a better convention or at least leaving the existing behavior alone, Python 3—which is intended to let people write cross-platform code!—actively embraced it and botched Python 2's safe behavior, making programs produce garbled output completely silently... and blaming it on the stupid developer for trying to write a broken cross-platform program without first getting a PhD on the history of Code Pages on Windows.
Sharps are also higher in this keyboard, what makes you think they aren't?
I agree with your general point, but:

> I despise the web.

The web used to be great. I think you're despising something else.

> HTML was designed for static documents, it boggles my mind that things like nodejs were created. It's not a secret.

Someone already told me we were heading this way in 2005, using JS to write apps inside web pages. It boggled my mind then, but it hasn't really boggled since. My main worry (and sadness) was that JS was such an utterly shitty programming language back then. It was something you loved to hate, writing JS functionality for web pages was almost like a boast; look at the trick I can make this document do by abusing this weird little scripting language.

But that has changed, oh boy has it changed. Almost all the warts in JS can be easily avoided today. With the addition of the `class` keyword (standardizing the already possible but hacky class-like constructs), the arrow functions, and the extreme performance increase in current engines, it's actually become one of my favourite languages to code for. But don't worry I don't use it to write bloated web apps :)

> HTML techs can't even run efficiently on a cheap smartphone, which is the reason apps are needed for smartphones to be usable.

That's not the reason why apps are "needed". It's simply because it allows for more spying on the user. A website can only do it when it's loaded, an app can do it all the time, periodically, on boot, or whenever. They get a neat device-global tracking ID (and more than enough fingerprinting info, just in case), which makes tracking super easy and the advertisers happy. They don't have to do anything with that cookie permission banner EU law, because, well yeah apparently the EC didn't realize that apps are being used to do everything the advertisers want but the websites can't. Cookies are child's play compared to the trackers they can insert at elbow depth.

And the few apps which are actually apps because performance of being a web app doesn't suffice, they actually tend to be about performance and not so bad in the bigger picture.

You see the same thing on the web though, all the bloat and slowness and shit is caused by ads and tracking. Normally we fight against industries that are a net negative on society. Except that ads happen to be equivalent to propaganda, and tracking happens to be equivalent to surveillance, so somehow there's not a lot of push from the powers to get rid of these things, because of how convenient it is this industry just builds the infrastructure for them. They especially like it when the tracking is sent over unsecured HTTP.

That said, there should be sufficient work for a qualified engineer to write code for industrial applications, no? Many web devs can only write PHP/JS framework code. If you know how to program industrial controllers, or have similar qualities, experience with various industrial systems, I doubt you're going to have to explain anyone you're not a web dev ...
Actually, I started reading about async/await from asyncio package. But for a newbie the above article is much simpler to grasp concurrency and parallelism concepts. And the sample code makes it a lot easier.
> This is purely Indian National Congress (GOP of India and currently out of power) driven rioting.

Ref? I have one for you: BJP members arrested for rioting wearing Muslim outfits, https://thewire.in/communalism/murshidabad-bjp-lungi-skullca... So, that rules out purely INC driven rioting.

> It does not have mass public support but being made to look like one.

The BJP led government shutdown the internet and imposed section 144 in various parts of the country essentially denying the right to organise and protest, and in two cities, the police open fired on unarmed civilians, killing 3. It can't get bigger than that. It hasn't been made to look-like anything than what it really is.

> Muslims, by spreading misinformation that the act is somehow against them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/ebdeup/an_attempt_to...

> In case you are not aware how minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have been treated, following is just the tip of iceberg

You know what they say about getting your own house in order? India has so many internal issues that the amount of spending required to enforce CAA is beyond bonkers. How about India sign the 1951 UN convention for refugees, instead: https://www.unhcr.org/1951-refugee-convention.html I'm sure you'd support that, given how worried you're with humanitarian crisis on the other side of the border.

...and the audacity to end the post with mis-information and deflection with not a single link supporting the baseless accusations and claims from the first three-quarters of your post is astounding.
Ded Moroz wears blue hat though.
The question would probably hinge on whether they were given to building cyclopean architecture. If the Egyptians were just content to build mudbrick cities, rather than erecting pyramids, colossal stone statues, stelae, obelisks, and the like, they would be much harder to detect.
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> Yes, we can't falsify that a Turing machine has conscious experience, but we have no reason or explanation to suggest that it does have one.

I don't have no reason or explanation that suggests that you have a consciousness either. You could be a very elaborate chatbot that posts coherent replies at online forums. Also, I do know whether I'm a chatbot myself or not, but you can't tell about me just from the replies written here.

> We may not "know" of such a thing with certainty, but we have a strong candidate in consciousness.

The problem with that is, you don't have a test for consciousness. There's a strong candidate in MRI brain scans (at least for humans), but you can't really be sure.
I'm curious about what the situation would be where a person had done tons of great writing but could not come up with one sample. Confidentiality?
The actual title is "How Mike Bloomberg made his billions: a computer system you’ve probably never seen", which much more closely describes the actual article (as there's not that much detail about the terminal itself).
Depends on what you mean by "libertarian".

There's a vocal group of "libertarians", the ones that veer towards anarcho-capitalism, whose stance is basically that state power is bad but economic power is just fine. Those folks may not explicitly say that they want corporate rights to be above those of individual citizens, but the practical consequence of their worldview is that they will be (to an even greater extent than they already are today), because corporations have much greater economic power than individuals.

"Libertarian" used to be a concept that was purely about individual freedom, but it has been twisted to a large extent into something that is quite opposed to individual freedom in practice.
And as an example, Don't list how to install node.js, npm packages and ENV settings in your HAPI server tutorial
FB is kinda badly positioned when it comes to man-machine interfaces, not because of their technical capability, but the lack of trust that is needed for societal acceptance in that space. People who initially supported Oculus wouldn't have done so if it came out being from FB, they wouldn't have gotten over the initial hump.

I think that this is one of the reasons why Apple bets so heavily on privacy, they had a much better long term vision when it comes to wearables and man-machine interfaces in general. If Cook distances Apple from China they have such a big advantage there, if not FB will use Apples connection with China to their advantage.
I love the Janko keyboard. I made an iPhone version (never released) in 2009, and I still use a monome version I also created. The monome version doesn't have the staggered keys in every other row, but it's still quite usable and retains the same properties with chord shapes always being the same in every key.
A fair bit can be pieced together from its own website.
For example these days the terminal is just a software based product which comes with a keyboard for each license. The PC is up to you to provide. You can even connect to Bloomberg using the internet but you can still use a dedicated leased line connection.
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>Ease of transposition is not a big advantage for a trained musician

"Fast typing with QWERTY is not a problem for a trained touch typist".

Only once the cost of training has been amortised, through endless hours of practice. This alternative design makes transposition trivial, and enables many other types of playing by offering more alternatives for chords, note relationships, etc.

Aside from manufacturing difficulties, standardization, etc (which make sense as difficulties) I never could understand the Stockhold syndrome with the prevalent designs being considered good for what they are. They are not any kind of optimal or best-compromise, just historical accidents.

>makes common chords more comfortable

This reverses cause and effect.

It's not like there are common chords people like and the piano makes it easier to play them. It's the reverse: the piano makes it easier to play certain chords, so people have resorted to using them more, making them more "common". They're common because the piano forces them on you. (Guitarists have similar common chords they prefer to write to, because the guitar design and standard tuning make them easier).

This alternative design frees people from having to accept some chords as easier making all chords equally easy and equally transportable. In fact easier, as there are multiple fingerings to chose from.

>and the contexts in which it might be useful are pretty small (accompanying a singer, pretty much).

That leaves out jazz, which uses transposition all the time (singer or not), and of course downplays accompanying a signer, which is what 99% of professional keyboard players do. The world has more bands and honky tonks than classical pianists.

And it's not like such a keyboard like Janko or the Chromatone is some wild design that only some inventor and 10 fans use.

Historically tons of accordionists (in Eastern Europe and Latin America) play similar keyboard designs...
I read somewhere that the most strenuous thing to an aircraft's structure is pressurization cycles, which properly parked aircraft aren't going through.
And that's when we should claim copyright for our very own grampa frost!
Totally fair. There's a few things I'd like to point out:

* I get to push the EEG button with just my brain, which is neat and fun.
* I get to build multiple high resolution EEGs into something that doesn't look terrible like a pair of headphones or a hat, which is fun (yet flammable).
* I play a few instruments (most recently bought a violin, which I'm still terrible with). It took years to become good at each instrument. I assume that it would take years to become good at using a BCI and properly adjust it to my brain.
* I'm working on this with the initial assumption that I'm most likely going to fail, but I'm going to have a good time.

Edit:
* It also gives me an excuse to work on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661567
I've been booking meetings for 2020 and it still looks weird.
70% is still a pretty good deal.

Back when RDS did not have Postgresql supported, our dev team build something similar on top of EC2, EBS, Wal-e (S3) and XFS.

It was a lot of work to get all the moving parts working nicely; lot of testing to perfect all procedures and I can tell you, it was no fun at all when we got the instance shutdown email notification from AWS (or if you wanted to spin a new server from snapshot / upgrade instance type, ...)

Here's a list of things that you get with RDS:

- Somebody else will make sure that failover, snapshotting, backup recovery work. If you use EC2 this is going to be something you need to test periodically (unless you like bad surprises)

- Automated failover election mechanism

- Logging integrates with S3 out of the box

- Proxy (no need to run your own pgbouncer anymore)

- Engine upgrades work with replicase and multi-az failovers

The list is much longer than this but my point is: the amount of overhead that comes with running PG on EC2 is high and does not improve that much over time (probably the opposite is true if you consider that developers/DBAs come and go).
On geological timescales, that makes no odds. Nothing built of stone will survive natural weathering over millions of years. Mountains don't survive it.

Concrete won't survive it either, even modern reinforced concrete (actually, our modern reinforced concrete won't last as long as the concrete the Romans used, and their concrete might actually outlive lots of ours).
In both languages (English and German) the name has the same origin I believe, and the same current meaning of a name that doesn't imply the person is of the Christian religion. I think it's wrong to say that there's a language confusion of being too religious, since the name has the same religiosity in both languages.
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I think the parent comment was implying that jam can be healthy just because it uses whole fruit as an ingredient. The chemistry behind turning a mixture of fruit and sugar into something called jam is pretty well known - there has to be a certain ratio of sugar for it to "set". Usually this is 1:1.

I wrote my comment because I think that people are shocked when they actually see jam being made at home and how much sugar goes into a batch.

https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/22/what-makes-jam-set-t...
Are you wearing one right now?
Assuming you know Bash already, Python first and Go second. On a sidenote, I came across lots of NodeJS infra stuff as of lately.
Hi, - thanks for the feedback - I appreciate it. Negative feedback is always helpful :)

I did originally try using a meatier example but I found that doing that a) makes writing the article really hard - for example, diagramming a meaningful database is a lot of work and makes the diagrams incomprehensive and b) it is that much harder to trasmit the principles than when the example is trivial.
Or D, which integrates with native C libs and has the concept of 'exit scope' for deferred code.
Everyone really should be made to code up a few Win32 apps, at least, before they are allowed to make an Electron app, just so they can get a real sense of what the trade-offs actually are, instead of relying on hearsay and FUD.
VNU doesn't exist anymore, it was completely bought out and renamed The Nielsen Company.
Thanks for sharing. Actually, I searched MELPA before posting my question. It is time to support this package to get included into MELPA/ELPA.
> This is good! Investigation is taking place, not automatically fining and asking questions later.

There was a multi-year investigation by France before the fine was issued to Google.
Maybe all this results in a really durable and foolproof system. I don't see how this is a bad thing. It looks like defense in depth against errors and corruption.

Also, to my knowledge, the logs in a DB are not kept forever. Instead they are trimmed as soon as reasonable. It starts to smell a little bit like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_merge-tree
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I have autism (previously diagnosed with anxiety disorder), so I thought I'd fit this one, and indeed I do. I wear hoodies (pref. ski sweaters) practically throughout half the year. They help prevent rain and cold on my head, and allow me to reduce external senses. Ski sweaters allow me to protect my hands from cold and dirt.

I also wear glasses which color with the sun (not like dark sunglasses) but work normal inside. When I go outside, I hardly notice the difference with regards to light. I'm not sure what the effect is on blue light filters etc.

I wasn't aware of a racial bias regarding hoodies (I'm what Americans call Caucasian white, but European).
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Or US does not go far enough.
Same experience with document dB. Its wound up being a fraction of the cost to roll out 3 auto scaling ec2 boxes. Literally a tenth of the cost.