skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat! I wonder what happened here:

https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Show%20...

> #6 (0) 184 (1) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:08:54.566Z

> #6 (-1) 183 (149) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:06:55.781Z

> #7 (3) 34 (-148) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:04:56.732Z

> #4 (0) 182 (1) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:00:54.504Z

Also, I find myself wishing for a "new comments since your last visit" like Reddit Gold gives you, or some way to "subscribe" to a node of comments and its replies. Anyone have any good solutions for this?
Well, I got it from you saying that you think that a few extra bucks from a small group of people won't make a difference in response to someone suggesting the amount the rich spent on charity could be given to the government instead.

That implies that the tens of billions of dollars spent by the rich on charitable donations wouldn't make an impact if given to the government, doesn't it? If that's the case, why tax them for that amount?
Listening to Vietnam from a Shack in the Woods in Canada (HAM Radio)
When the dude is walking across a 3 way 45MPH in each direction street in a low light situation. Then 1 block away was a well lit cross walk. Yeah he gets the horn. Sorry if I did not make that clear. Did not think I had to... Oh that happened to me just last week. Although I am not sure why you think it is OK for that 1 dude to hold up about 40 other people.
There's an old joke about mathematicians being bad at 'math' (adding, substracting, multiplying).

I think we've missed a similar lampoon of software developers about measuring things with computers. Lack of basic analysis skills has been a running lament for about as long as I can remember.

Some of it may be learned. We seem to fare better when we have accidents that require the additional expenditure of resources than when we point them out a priori. Letting things be surprises is a bad habit but one that often enough pays dividends.
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I can tell you as a moderate I didn't care which one of them got elected, they were both bad in their own way.

Personally, I think what people missed is that tech is doing really really well, and people in tech tend to be on the left. This means a lot of people on the left are doing well financially. To the point that they can afford to be offended by Trumps "punch em in the pussy" comment.

Do you know who can't afford to be offended by it? Those who are losing their jobs and have no way to support their family. And the left, in general, STILL doesn't understand this. Because I'm a moderate who didn't care which one got elected, I've had the opportunity to speak with many Trump supports (they were willing to open up about it). And do you know what every single one of them starts with? Every fucking single one of them?

"I don't agree with everything Trump says, but ...".

Trump straight up told some of these companies that if they move their manufacturing out of the US there will be consequences.

Think about it from their point of view. He said what they desperately wanted to hear. Of course they voted for him, the lefties would have too if the situation was reversed. It's not hard to understand why taking care of your family Trumps some jackass making sexist comments.

As far as I'm concerned, Trump getting elected was our system working as intended. You had huge swathes of the country that were being left behind and ignored. When Trump got elected, one of the first things Bernie Sanders did was start proposing laws to help that segment of the population. I bet you they're not ignored in the upcoming election.

And besides which, all signs point to the economy doing well, so all the FUD from the left about the sky falling with some of Trump's policies just help strengthen Trump's chances in the next election.
To be clear on why Visual Studio Code is better, there are between 20-25 people working on it at Microsoft[0]. Both Sublime Text and TextMate, the editors that were replaced before GitHub and Microsoft got in this game, were largely written and maintained by a single developer. So there's your answer about why they're better. They have a gigantic order of magnitude more resources poured into them, and they're free.

Maintaining the best text editor in the world can be done on budget that's still a rounding error to a big company, and for whatever reason some of those companies are interested in owning that market now.

[0]: https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/04/25/visual-studio-code-c...
Good question. One reason is PyPy didn't support NumPy until last year.
Doesn't FAANG, by definition, not include Microsoft?
"Quarter of the world's supply..."

doesn't sound like the world of "tiny volumes", but something that moves pretty big markets, which is hardly an under-the-radar trade.
What military supply lines can teach us about technical product management
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) exercises are designed to make you feel uncomfortable because coaches believe discomfort is evidence of your "DEI muscles" being exercised. The thinking is that you cannot change your attitudes, opinions, and behaviors unless you can first become uncomfortable.
I'm very optimistic as well. My family has hard-to-treat depression and there's a lot of reason to be optimistic about psilocybin. Michael Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" was a fantastic read.

It only makes me wonder what other possibilities have been out there but banned and therefore unavailable for study and experimentation. Luckily the days of censoring and hoarding information seem to be coming to an end.

Of course as a society we love the pendulum effect. We'll swing it too far and then it will come back the opposite way too far (so much for my optimism :-P)
where do they go instead?
If people got limited feedback, prior to wider distribution, they could re-work their articles so 95%+ of the discussion isn't centered around one superficial point, but rather the bread-and-butter of the article's point: as you mention, 1-person & 4 hours vs. 3-people & 1-week. Big difference between the two!
Are pigs still a source of pharmaceutical insulin?

Edit:
> Insulin can be made from the pancreas of pigs or cows. Human versions can be made either by modifying pig versions or recombinant technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_(medication)
>They key is to detect big events like this before they become undeniable common knowledge.

Indeed. It's quite hit miss though.e.g. I called the supermicro stuff right. Made money. Tried same on amd spectre and got burned.

Each time relying on hn being ahead of the knowledge curve
I feel your pain. My manager treat problems I mention as just my problems and not as a team/culture problem that I am particularly vocal about. My current manager views me so negatively right now that they have criticized me every 1:1 for the past month. I wish I didn't have to talk to them anymore at this point.
Declining Renewable Costs Drive Focus on Energy Storage
Doesn’t seem like that you - it is back on the front page but low given the number of votes and comments.
> I'm also confused as to how using google maps affects your ability to become familiar with an area - I've found that by the 3rd time I've gone somewhere I no longer need maps at all, but I was using it up until then.

Many people are naturally good at creating a mental map regardless of how they navigate initially. It sounds like you are one of them. However there are plenty of people who don't seem to have that innate skill. Wilderness orienteering experience would help those people. In my experience, it also helps everyone navigate in unfamiliar surroundings (urban or not) if they don't have signal. It is a form of transfer learning to use an ML analogy.
Yes but the implementation of the notification handling is impressive on the client side. The server side software as far as this is concerned should be easily deducible and isn't the interesting part.
There's a difference, because something like "take good photos" is not a task with an algorithm.

If somebody wants to know how to resize an image in Photoshop, you really just want to know which option in which menu and which default settings to use, followed by short (skippable) discussions of sampling algorithms and how resolution interacts with image size. YouTube discourages this kind of efficient information delivery, as Google's incentives drive it to encourage sustained attention. It's hard to build that kind of attention on "press this button and then that one." This is analogous to a laboratory session where you really want to learn by doing, and just need the recipe.

However, learning to be a good photographer is not an algorithmic task—though it may involve them. Being good at something complex involves a comprehensive view and a value system to understand what's important and how many factors interplay. This is calls for a soft version of the academic lecture—something YouTube can do very well.

YouTube can be fantastic at the latter: just avoid it for the former.
The negative part is also very true --- I've had a GPS tell me I was deep underground, when in fact I was on top of a hill.
There is no space? I am surprised. Sweden has separate bike lanes and walking paths in the suburbs. A lot of Northern Europe is the same.
That’s true. unfortunately you can’t cherry pick with foresight what decades you want to skip when investing.
everything is safe or unsafe depending on dose-age and frequency of use. click-bait stupid analysis / catchphrases /headlines about drugs are why the average conservative is quite rational in their approach to just thinking that the better advice for younger people is to simply abstain.

the same applies to coffee.

if you don't know how to use a drug properly you shouldn't use it.

saying it 'is safe' is nonsense. TOTAL ABSURD NONSENSE.

morphine is safe. it is used tens' of thousands of times a day by people in intensive care units around the u.s. , maybe millions.

'safe'.

nothing is safe. everything is safe. what isn't safe is listening to nonsense.
He's been anti-complexity for awhile. the matrix ecosystem is far more complex than signal.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/john-roberts-american...
Not a lawyer but I work in Finland. This is not a "right" of employees but sets the limits for what kind of flex-time agreements can legally be entered into. In many white-collar jobs people don't really care about the legal limits, and in fact the new law (in force since yesterday) allows for more flexible arrangements.

https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2019/20190872#L4P13 (doesn't seem to be available in English at this time)
1. On a short time horizon, not as sure, back of the napkin, it took ~12 dev months (5 months with 2.5 people average on it). However, our cost per 1000 msgs/sec is much lower (like 1/4 the cost of Kinesis) so we fully expect that investment to pay off over time assuming that adoption by the rest of the org continues and we don't find a ton of issues.

1a. You are correct we didn't require geo-replication for existing use cases, however, initially, we saw geo-replication as an easy way to improve DR and we have an internal requirement for a DR zone in another region. Now that we have done the work, we are starting to see multiple places where we can simplify some things with geo-replication, so we think long term the feature will be really valuable

2. We split up auth into two main components: auth of users (where we use Okta) and auth of services. For okta, we just wrote a small webapp that users can log into via OKta and generate credentials. For apps/services, we already had hashicorp in place and wanted to just piggyback of our existing form of identity (IAM roles). Essentially, a user just associates an IAM role with a pulsar role and we generate and drop off credentials into a per-role unique shared location in vault that any IAM role can access (across multiple AWS accounts)

3. Once again, geo-replication wasn't really a hard requirement initially but more of something that we really like now that we have. I think the biggest reason why not postgres is that we have combined message rates (not everything is migrated yet) on the order of 300k msgs/sec across a few dozen services. Pulsar is designed to scale horizontally and also has really great organizational primitives as well as an ecosystem of tools. While I think you could maybe figure that out with some PG solution, having something purpose built really can pay big dividends for when you are trying to make a solution that can easily integrate into a complex ecosystems of many teams and many different apps/use cases
Note: submission title has been updated since this comment was made:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935806
In addition to sibling's seasonal observations, China have had a bunch of on-again/off-again pork tariffs through much of 2019. If a pig is big enough to slaughter, it has to go somewhere. If it can't go to China, it will sell more cheaply elsewhere. In the longer term, pork will probably get more expensive.
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Obviously "pleasant" is pretty subjective, but here's Huun-Huur-Tu performing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bDntRWfL70
> All proteins (beef, chicken, pork) will benefit.

To paraphrase: Some people will make a profit from the mass slaughter of billions of living beings born and raised in hellish conditions.

Once we abstract away the details with custom language, we can safely play with numbers and actually make a profit from it, moral implications just a distant afterthought.

That being said, I'll go back to browsing around or maybe watch a movie; I've had protein just an hour ago, I feel full and satisfied.
A Photographic Journey Through the Decline of Brick-and-Mortar Retail
Many federal, state, and county employees already alternate Fridays off.
As an Opera user from 2003 to 2016 (when they decided to drop Presto) I don't remember having any issues with it.
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so why bother creating space for those modes.

My suburb had 2 very popular parks at either end -- as kids, we always walked or rode our bikes there... on the road since there were no sidewalks. Likewise when we went to a friends house we generally walked on the road (or cut through people's yards).

There are plenty of reasons to have sidewalks even if there's no commercial destination to get to, not everyone can drive everywhere they need to go. Of course, this was a time when kids were allowed some autonomy, nowadays maybe parents would drive us 2 blocks to the park.

The neighborhood still has no sidewalks, but I see speed bumps and "Slow down - watch for children signs", so seems that kids do still walk on the roadway and parents are worried for their safety.

I rode the school bus to school because the school was way too far to walk -- it wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that the school was only about half a mile away, but with no sidewalks, it wasn't realistically walkable despite the short distance. We spent more time waiting for the bus every morning than it would have taken to walk there.

At the time it seemed completely normal - why would anyone walk when they could drive!? But now I pay attention to walkability and bikeability and avoid driving when I can. (not just because it's good for the environment, but it's good for me too)
I forgot that auto-update can upgrade the OS. Blocking those updates to prevent UI changes makes sense.
This is bordering on Wayne Dyer-level platitudism.
"not worth it for the big guys"

Sounds like a legit strategy, but it also sounds like part of it is actively not competing with them.
The loss of pigs in China affected heavily soy exports from the US, so it kind of became part of the trade war hurting US farmers.
Fwiw one of the things I don't like about Signal is that I have to share my phone number, which makes it a poor fit for anonymous communication.
What ‘overwhelmingly classified’ technologies could the Space Force disclose?
This article isn't about philosophy, it's about science. The author is making scientific claims and advocating scientific methods of measurement. If the scientific claims the author is making are false, or even if the error involved in the measurements is significantly larger than he believes it is, his entire scheme falls apart.
Thank you so much, I am going to amend the "fill" section. Are you ok with being credited as "quincunx" or you prefer something else?
Requiring drivers to be 18 and take extensive driver training and having a zero tolerance for drunk driving is certainly “cultural”.

But for the the technical argument (cars, infrastructure) I’m not so sure. Manuals are definitely going the way of the dinosaur in Norway (people buy SUVs and Teslas - they don’t even have manual as an option).

Distraction is a problem but it seems it should be as big a problem everywhere where there are distractions. What helps there is infrastructure: a distracted person is much less dangerous in a roundabout than in an intersection. A cyclist on a separate path is less likely to be hit by both drunk and distracted drivers etc.

But yes these things are expensive. The consequence of replacing thousands of intersections with roundabouts is huge. Building bridges and tunnels so pedestrians never need to cross roads is expensive. Converting highways to be separated without oncoming traffic is really expensive, even if Norway and Sweden fancy the cheaper alternating 2+1 lane conversions.

Getting rid of the first part of deaths is low hanging fruit. Just change DUI levels (perhaps doing something about distraction but it’s unfortunately much harder as there are no breath tests for distraction). That’s almost “free”.

Going the rest of the way towards zero costs a lot of (tax) money in infrastructure, and that might be a harder sell.
Alternate title: Amazon employee was given a warning by HR after she explicitly broke company policy regarding talking to the press

I know it's fun to hate on the big tech companies recently and act like they are bullies (and indeed in many ways they are), but this is a bad example of that. Most companies I know of would outright fire you if you, against explicit company policy, went to the press and started badmouthing your employer. The fact that Amazon only gave her a warning is the only surprising thing in this article.
Very good comment and thanks for your work on MVT. I use PostGIS's MVT tools on a daily basis.

I do an intermediate approach: my queries are sometimes too expensive to run dynamically, and my data change semi-frequently (daily/weekly basis), but when they do change I have a clear idea of what tiles are affected. So any time my data needs updating I can mark tiles as stale and then I have a sidekiq job that processes them and uploads them to S3. The tile server itself pulls from S3.

This is probably not quite as fast as a dedicated tile server, but it's far more reliable/responsive than dynamic rendering and reduces load spikes on the database.
I think it should identify posts by ID rather than by post title - it seems that reposts and dupes confuse it (for example, the current top post was posted a total of three times per HN search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., which causes the apparent history in this tool to bounce around a lot: https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/The%20P...)
It's been a while ago but I think it was either a Kyocera, or one of those Samsung dumb phones.

Otherwise there's also the 3310 refresh, although that's 3G.
Agree. The "new" operator in my case was hidden deep inside a corporate framework where the guy that invented it had left a long time ago. Quite an adventure down the rabbit hole to figure that out!

Boxed primitives are useful when working with systems and languages where "null" is a concept. Take for example, interacting with a database where you have a boolean column that has true/false/null. That translates well to boxed primitive types.
The hard part of Web Assembly is getting data in and out. Since you can write in C and compile to WebAssembly you don’t have to learn WebAssembly. But even C doesn’t make data exchange easy. You basically pass a large array of bytes in out instead of proper high level data structures. This is what makes WebAssembly hard.
FWIW, having climbed Twisted's learning curve long ago the current async-all-the-things fad looks so childish to me. I remember when Tornado came out and I was like, why would you use a go-kart when there's a free Maserati right there?

https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
How old is the skyway system? Were the buildings built with this in mind or were they added on later?
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Every company I’ve ever worked for has had language that forbids me from speaking to the media on behalf of the company. This has nothing to do with the climate and everything to do with violating the agreement you signed when you joined the company.