skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Childcare (aka mom has a child, goes back to work 6 weeks later, pays $x/week for daycare or a nurse) isn’t a government service and it’s very expensive. Why is it so expensive?
If it works for you fine, for me systemd has been an annoyance at times, as in not predictable. Plus the mess of badly designed tools it brings with it (eg. systemd-resolved, journald). Never been a fan of SysV either. We also run openSuSE, Ubuntu and Debian. FirewallD and UFW are just layers above a not so greatly designed firewall setup tool (iptables). PF is very well integrated and can be easily used directly without any higher level layers. You can even add ALTQ queuing rules in its config file.

I'm not trying to convince anyone, but FreeBSD has always worked great for me and has been a sane OS in every respect.
Just one reason: imitation beef is often highly processed, while beef itself is all natural.
The Canadian government is pretty much uniformly incompetent as an institution.

I honestly can't think of a single thing in my lifetime they haven't bungled.
This article fails to mention the issue of needing a database. It doesn't matter how seamlessly your application can scale if your data backend won't scale with it.

They mention Cloud SQL, which is of course instance based and would run into scaling issues if your app got suddenly hammered. Not to mention, the cost isn't $0 if your app gets 0 traffic, you are going to have to pay to keep that running around the clock.

I realize some applications are very heavy on the app side and light on needing to hit the DB, but in my experience, that isn't very common.
Can you explain what's wrong in that excerpt?
This highly depends on the building you are in, I guess.
I don't do podcasts. I can read faster - and more importantly - easily skim articles. I can't listen to something in the background, because I end up tuning it out if I'm concentrating on work or whatever. I live somewhere where I don't have an awful commute.
Please show podcast date; I appreciate you need to bootstrap signups by having Sam Altman on your front page but the product is not just useless but actively wastes my time when I can't tell if this is new content. (The Sam Altman interview is from Nov 2018 and this info is concealed by podnami)
Ask HN: Automation and People?
Since 2018 we are hearing great things about automation advancements, the benefits:

> automate away boring/repetitive/laborious works, give people more time to think, pursue meaningful work, more free time for family, cheaper things as cost of production reduce etc..

Last week a TV show: a factory bought sewing robot that replaced ~260 sewing workers. A university is wants to replace human drivers asap. Amazon is rumored to be experimenting with warehouse-bots(?) that can replace human picker. So many innovations.

But, these automation aiming to replace "boring/repetitive/dangerous/laborious" jobs but majority in society rely on these for a living. Unlike what we think, only small percentage hold big professions.

In long term, production cost reduction doesn't guarantee benefit to end-user(Apple products). Replacing jobs means people no longer have a job & often it is impossible to move up. May be new jobs of maintaining/assembly of robots will come up but only fraction of total displaced will be needed & retrained.

My questions:

* Why are these negative side of automation almost never brought up in media or anywhere?
* What will happen to people who will lose access to their jobs being automated away?
* Is there some long term plan for people who will have to gain new skills?
* Are governments thinking of making trade/professional (re)trainings free?
* How easy is it to re-train a huge number of people into some new skills?
* What happens to people who can't be trained into more "intellectual" jobs?

Aside: Many claim that, people can go and pursue more intellectual jobs, but education is NOT cheap & student loan is a major issues nowadays. Also, many people believe that they don't have the "knack" for certain skills/knowledge, not everyone can be trained to be a doctor/engineer/architect etc.

Sorry for long post, I just had many things to say. :)
There's an ISO for a Windows (95?) based SDK floating about. It possibly is the very same CD that you mention.
>wish I could fully disable these alerts

Can't you? On my iPhone, I can. I'm not sure I would--although I have one category of alert disabled, but I can.
Yep people really pay $29-$69 for a 130 pages eBook!

I tested all the prices between $9-$99 and I found these three tiers approach to be the most effective.

To be honest, this was a very difficult subject for me, here was my thinking process:
- How much does a physical tech book costs --> I checked the best sellers on Amazon and saw $25-$35
- Since I was selling an eBook, I was thinking that I should AT LEAST divide this price by 2.
- Not only that, but I "only" had 3 years of experience, so I should again apply another discount.

So I launched at $9...!

Then I learned about pricing strategies, value-based pricing and all. I did some experiments, increasing the price every month, and I was completely shocked to see that the conversion rate was still the same.

Hope it will help.
So... "I gathered savings and wanted to rest for half a year" is suspicious?

Maybe I am misunderstanding here.
when visiting some island resorts (like 2 hour boat ride out) in thailand i was shocked at how much plastic garbage was floating around those otherwise beautiful islands...

it’s my opinion these things need to become laws and business, not just individuals need to be fined heavily for jut dumping trash out
Eric Weinstein interviews Sam Harris on The Portal.

https://youtu.be/6FQy9BLVzxQ
> When I write code at work, I write so according to guidelines that my employer and my teammates have produced, not all of which I agree with.

This is the core of the opposition between being an employee and being a professional, such as a professor, a priest, a judge, or a doctor. The professions answer to a higher authority than those who pay them, and this is essential to their role. In the case of professors, part of this is codified in the norm of “freedom of inquiry”, which has been central to the modern conception of the University for centuries.

It is unsurprising that the dominant paradigm of wage labor attempt to erase and co-opt the pre-capitalist institution of the professions, obliterating it as an outdated or worthless obstacle and even attempting to appropriate its terminology. But I think the existence of professional institutions like the academy and the judiciary has done a fair bit of good, and replacing them with wage labor is a perilous enterprise.

To be clear, you are not a professional software engineer. You are an employee, directed by management. That is the opposite. That is why you do not enjoy the autonomy that professors are struggling to retain. Your plight is regrettable, and condemning others to it would be not only regrettable but potentially catastrophic.
I don’t think you’ll fix high housing costs.

There’s a supply and demand problem. Limited supply (real estate), lots of demand, therefore prices go up. Those who can afford it do pay it and are competing with each other to pay for the property they want. Why would New York or Bay area housing ever go down?

Time for more people to admit they can’t afford to live in the best + most popular places and instead move to “less desirable” places, like Iowa.
Work Is Work
Your comment shows a lack of perspective.

Depending on where you live, $400 could be a good amount. OP could be living in another country where this kind of money could be very interesting.
There's a reason "downvotes" are called "flags" on HN
Sometimes cost isn't the issue.

My advice: If the tool is right, buy it. If nothing out there fits your wants, then build.

There's a big advantage to controlling your own stack. It's why companies like Google built things like file systems.
I agree that 5 to 10 lines might be a sensible upper limit where a shell can safely be used.

Basic does have Goto, but modern dialects do have all the usual control structures. Perl has weird syntax, but far less dangerous footguns: e.g. there are proper arrays, as opposed to many shells. One can distinguish between an empty and an undefined string. One can declare variables and there is the notion of data types. There are even things like taint mode. In shell, you can't even properly iterate over a directory without nasty surprises.

Same in C. Yes, there are memory safety problems, but those are outnumbered by far by shellscripts exploitable via some expansion or variable injection. Its just that thankfully nobody uses shellskripts as network services, so you don't see as many reports about that.

And yes, brainfuck was there as hyperbole. But I truly believe that there are very few things worse than shell for programming.
The problem with K&R is that is useless for building actual, working C applications. Even being up to date with the language's specs means very little as getting every different library up and running in each platform is a fairly high barrier, much more so than other platforms.
Scriptnotes #403: How to Write a Movie[1], where screenwriter Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, The Hangover 2/3) meticulously lays out one approach to crafting a screenplay around thesis and antithesis. (TLDR: put your characters through agony.)

It’s the most impactful episode this year because I’ve been keeping these ideas in mind lately whenever I’ve watched a movie, and it has really given me a different way to understand what’s going on.

1: The episode itself requires a premium subscription by now, but the transcript is still free to read: https://johnaugust.com/2019/scriptnotes-ep-403-how-to-write-...
More like unintended consequences. Like many real world cases, each of the policies is a reasonable, sound and fair policy by their own right. But when you combine them they might seem designed with exploitive motives.
Sometimes the official recommendations they file with the FDA and what they know from their internal testing vary.

If you call the company, they can basically answer any question you ask, even for un-approved indications.

But for them to bring it up without you asking is a big Nono.
+1! First thing I looked for.
Years ago I ran a side project that went viral. It grew to 60k visitors a day and my monthly cloud expenses were around $1,500. I cannot fathom a scenario where you get a surprise $100k bill from a viral hit. Anytime my project went down due to scaling, it was painful. You don’t get many chances at going viral.
I wouldn't describe politicians trying to score cheap political points as "America" having a weird complex. I can promise you the average American does not have any thoughts whatsoever regarding Canada. It's not even on our radar.
The expansion of the universe is consistent with our best astronomical observations. Saying it is a 'fact' is just wordplay.
Man is fined £90 for hiding face from police facial recognition cameras (2019)
Then how could it produce a copyrightable work? The Berne convention only applies to 'Nationals and residents' of a country. Therefore if a court has held that the robot produced copyrighted material, then the robot must be a person.
Cool and all, but wouldn't one prefer db tests?
I just inhaled several episodes of this podcast. I recently realized I liked true crime podcasts, and had an interest in cyber security...searched my podcast app and boom, I’m hearing about ransomware and Xbox bios hacking :)
> Actually, those statements appear to be largely true and should be studied more to learn why.

Actually, those statements are each demonstrably false, but it is interesting to see those to whom the statements seem to appeal.

The first is not even close to the definition of affirmative action, but it is the sort of cleverly defined rhetorical definition that some people like to trot out to try to attack affirmative action. You can tell the difference from an actual goal of such policies by the introduction of terms like ‘lowering standards’.

For the second you are actually going to try to use the number of Nobel laureates to define the rate of ‘genius’ across a population? Seriously? If you are wondering why most Nobel laureates are men, maybe check out the research (1) and examine whether such a selection criteria actually even measures what you think it does.

The claim that the introduction of women to higher education was the source of the rise of administrative overhead at colleges is simply too ridiculous to even bother refuting. To be honest, it is so silly that I went hunting on the spurious correlation site to see if they happened to have put that chart together.

The problem with people who use terms like SJW is that they have very little support from data and reality, so they tend to aim for cheap rhetoric to compensate for weak arguments.

(1) [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0256-3] Surprise! It’s due to bias.
Simple: You do not presume guilt, hence independent recreation is the default assumption and it is copying/redistribution which needs to be proven.
That's one way to view it, certainly.

The other way is that downvotes are a great tool for ensuring high quality discussion, and if the thread is about podcast episodes, then downvoting full podcasts helps keep the thread organized. Downvotes aren't necessarily bad, they may just mean - hey, this doesn't belong as much in this thread, so I'm voting on it to help organize the thread for other readers.
A “cap” feature isn’t as easy to implement as you’d think. What happens when you hit the cap? Does it start shutting down instances? If yes, which ones and in what order? And don’t say “I don’t care” because you do care—you are allowing your provider to basically cause an outage in your service.

If you do allow some kind of ordered shutdown of service, what is the UX going to look like? What is the API going to look like?

Having a cap is not an easy feature to design or implement. And on a backlog, it is going to be a “multi quarter, low impact” item—meaning it will never get built.
> My Python code ultimately runs on a circuit, but it feels lacking to say that my program is the circuitry. The program itself only has meaning inside of my mind, and in fact could exist equally well on paper. It exists conceptually even if it never manifests physically. So where do concepts like this exist, given that they don't exist as matter? What do we mean when we say that something like 1+1=2 is true - that that truth exists - and would exist even if there wasn't any matter to have 1 and 1 of?

You're claiming that these concepts don't exist as matter, but you've actually described how it exists in matter. Moving the program to paper just changes the matter from silicon and metal to paper and ink. You're saying it never manifests physically while describing its physical manifestation.

Even if the program exists only in your mind, all that means is that the physical manifestation is neurons/synapses instead of silicon/metal or paper/ink.

I won't claim to know completely how the human brain works, and I think it's unlikely that anyone completely understands everything. But it's unreasonable to claim that anything we don't completely understand the physical manifestation of must not have a physical manifestation. That's just the God of the Gaps argument[1] repackaged into a "Mind of the Gaps" argument. If you are defining the mind is every thought and mental process that we don't understand, then the mind is an ever-shrinking phenomena that slowly disappears as we apply the scientific method. In that case, I think we have a better word for that than "the mind": we typically call that "ignorance".

> Similar argument patterns permeate most ancient philosophies. The meme is that mind is the ultimate reality, of which the materialistic worldview is a surprisingly fragile inverse.

This is unsurprising, given that ancient philosophers lacked even basic scientific knowledge. The materialistic worldview seems fragile when you know next-to-nothing of the material world. We might draw the same conclusions as them if we only look at the evidence they had, but it would be foolish to only look at the evidence they had, when we have access to, for example, modern neuroscience. It would be extraordinarily improbable for people who believed fire came from phlogiston to come to the same conclusions about the nature of the mind, as people with access to decades of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
It's because most people in my country (US) are brainwashed, supporting and voting for things against their own self-interests like groveling at the feet of entities like Google. They think the end user, like employees, should have no rights, and are lucky to have what they're given. There's no fight, because it requires less fortitude to craft a story in your mind that the dominant force and apparent way forward (corporate domination) is somehow good, to avoid having to do any real work in fighting the system. It's laziness, intellectual and physical that pervades our society. Yet many of the same people will call the French, "lazy". It's the other way around.

Prudent regulation is necessary, but a strong lobbyist group for programmers such as a union or professional association would hurry that along much faster. Developers are end users too, and would be the most likely source of such a push in today's system. Unfortunately unlike lawyers, dentists and doctors, programmers think they're too smart to get organized.
No they are not. Downvotes and flags are different things, and have different rules about them. (Flags mean "this breaks the rules/needs moderator attention", downvotes are a lot more general "negative sentiment")

EDIT: downvotes probably aren't available to you yet, NilsIRL, I think the karma threshold is higher (500?).
From what I understand, Amazon comingles their own inventory with third party sellers so although the cards they buy might be legit, you're not necessarily guaranteed to get what they bought vs what CheapMemoryAmerica1999 contributed even if you buy the ones from Amazon
The devs that complain about <1gb of space over an important piece of software are living in the early 2000s still. They haven't figured out a terabyte on disk is worth about $30, with ssd terabyte at $100.
Odd to see such a long article with no mention of MMC, TF, or xD.

Also worth noting that these cards (with the exception of xD, which is just a packaged raw NAND flash) have a complete embedded system in them too: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
> Well-tuned FreeBSD can beat well-tuned Linux easily, but requires skilled staff.

This doesn't seem obvious to me, there are a lot of tech companies with skilled staff that choose Linux and also deeply care about performance.
The whole point is that that is not a minor difference. That same personal car, for that same money, would be much more useful if it was someone's first car instead of 10th. The money given for the car is the same either way, but the real utility that the car brings is not.
Probably a mindset thing. Side projects are lottery tickets in my mind. Implementation of an interesting idea hoping for the remote chance that it might get actual traction (and become more than a side project) - at that point it needs scale and it needs to scale fast while people are talking about it. If you take another week rearchitecting your backend while your site is down, you lost your chance. So you shouldn't probably expect huge traffic, but make it ready for the traffic or there is no point if it will fail the moment it starts to get traction.

My 3 side projects got reddit frontpaged (also here) and I got better at handling it. Fortunately I always had scale in mind (at peak got thousands of requests per second) but the first time was not a pleasant experience because I would have to pay more than I could if that kept going on. Fortunately I found a solution while keeping my site online and over the time the project paid me very handsomely. If I didn't plan ahead, those would be dead in the water.
Your strategy still suffers from the unattractive aspect of behavior constraint. Human civilisation serves to enable us, not to constrain us. Regulation on the management of fishing nets is far more preferable to me than just advocating people constrain themselves by eating less fish.

The fetish of constraint seems to be popular among environmentalists, but it's certainly not the only way or even most preferable path forward.
Doesn’t python have channels? The pipe is essentially a channel combined with a close message (a null object I guess) Otherwise you can do something similar with iterators and function composition. I guess the syntax isn’t quite as easy to read if you’re not used to function composition?(which seems surprisingly difficult for some beginners)
WAV is almost always lossless with PCM data. I'm not sure where you got the impression that "you don't see that in the wild too often". Depending on what kind of analysis you need to having your audio at 8k is going to deem any results useless. I would have it minimum 16k and aim for 44.1k in order to preserve the top end which is where a large quantity of useful information is. The reason most sets are recorded in 8khz is that they are running MFCC's which are quite stubborn and insensitive to the high end anyway with most enough information for machine learning existing in the bottom end. If you're doing music, or environmental sounds you really need to preserve the other frequency bands.
Google cloud doesn’t allow those cards.
Cool idea. Some points of frustration:
* there's no way to get to the "home" of the podcast (so that I can explore episodes not listed on the site)
* there's no indication of how long the podcast is
* there's no way to interact with the media playback (skip forward, etc.)
Sandisk released a whitepaper on their SD wear leveling in 2003, not sure if it's changed significantly since then or not: https://web.archive.org/web/20150326122100/http://ugweb.cs.u...

With modern TLC flash any card without wear leveling would fail pretty quickly.

Wear leveling is actually a major problem for applications where power might be suddenly cut, because if it happens while the wear leveling is running then the block allocation table can be corrupted which leaves the whole card unreadable. It's a pretty common complaint among i.e. raspberry pi users who tend to unplug them without shutting down.
My hope is that it was a test they do every morning. But who knows.

Having said that, a test that could result in shutdown.... Sunday at 730AM is an okay time for capacity to go offline.
Probably zero. You can imagine all sorts of things that don't happen.
That's why I hate bash and Makefiles. The syntax is just so cryptic that if you don't write/read bashfiles/Makefile for a while it's just impossible to get back into it.
There's $250 cost. And then there's... Optimizely. 5 figures a month. Then you look at other tools and realize most the work is meh at best. They don't integrate with react without work anyways.

Point is, it all depends.
> It is sad to me that as civilization "advances" more and more people want to go back to a time where people were subjects of their government, instead of free people.

if you live in a real democracy, is it really authoritarian that a majority decide that we want to live in a cleaner world?

the earth isn’t some computer program where you have infinite ram and can just alloc as much as you want, at some point you start pushing other process out of memory, and you wonder why stuff starts crashing and freezing...

(i’ll stop with the computer analogy now ^^)
> I think everyone should have access to good education

How do you define everyone, access and good?

Does access === free where I currently live?

If parents can’t afford to live in an area with good schools should they be forced to get better jobs or moved to LCOL area so their kids get a better education?

or no matter where you live or how you live a third party should make sure your kids get a proper education?
As in: rejecting the premise utterly.