skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is highly individualistic.

I can smoke a cigarette or cigar socially, periodically, have done so for years, and never experience a craving. However, alcohol calls to me like Odysseus's sirens.

I have friends who are precisely the opposite: hopelessly jonesing for cigarettes, but have no problem grabbing a few beers a month with friends.

This is not merely anecdata - individual susceptibility has been documented in the literature, as well.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171010124112.h...
I do not advocate panic, but I also find the reassuring posts about coronavirus a bit insensitive, and this one is a good example

> That’s why most people who die from a seasonal flu infection are older people. And this is exactly what’s happening with this new strain of coronavirus: people who are already sick and older people tend to suffer the most from it.

Sure if you don't have young children, are not over 70 or are in good health, you have nothing to fear, but this kinda suck for people potentially affected to have another flu-like virus in circulation, isn't it?

I find it a bit dismissive to basically say : it is not too bad a few hundred/thousand old people will die and that's it.
+1 — great reminder.
Uber is a ridesharing app. From the perspective of the government it's pure coincidence that the driver and the rider are going the same way and when the rider is paying he is merely splitting the gas bill and that means its a private car.

There are two things the government could have done:
1. Exempt anyone with the ridesharing app
2. Fully regulate ridesharing so that they are no longer classified as private cars.

1. means abolishing the car ban and Uber will fiercely fight 2.

This is a situation the ridesharing companies brought upon themselves so I don't see how you can describe the government as corrupt.
rsyslog is far more powerful than you're making it out. You have to actually tell it what to do but it's more expressive than filebeat and logstash.

* rsyslog in the use-case he's describing is just a method of pushing some subset of the logs generated on a client system to a directory on the collector which has trade-offs but the benefit is having really simple failure modes.

* both rsyslog and journald store structured data: rsyslog with lumberjack, and journald just always. And rsyslog can parse and structure the logs in-flight so you save computing power on the collector.

* rsyslog behaves exactly like filebeat when it comes to reliable delivery and can persist unsent messages to memory then disk. rsyslog's rate limiting, backoff, and retry options are super powerful.
Houdini for instance runs on Linux machines
I can only see this making traffic worse throughout FiDi and SoMa. Ubers/Lyfts will have a harder time twisting around to get to pickup spots as they are forced deeper into the mostly-one-way streets around market. BART continues to be decrepit with no new capacity nor reach nor increases in reliability. And people will still drive into downtown because SF is incapable of allowing large increases in the number of in-city housing units. All those people from East Bay and South Bay and the peninsula have to get into the city somehow.

I love car-free initiatives and wish SF could be less choked by vehicles during rush hour especially, and maybe this is a start of a bigger revolution, but I’m not holding my breath.

PS As everyone else pointed out, nice carve-out to prop up the taxi industry.
I think there is much more non-SQL then the OP realizes. I have been protesting non-SQL, SQL is more powerful than most realize. Also the term "Big Data" is being used 99% of the time about data bases I could load into my ram but counted in millions. This then causes people to search for things and find non-SQL.
It would still be illegal to import those generics into the US. Probably doubly so, since the FDA wouldn't be inspecting said generic drug manufacturers.
From my experience (consulting for a decent size company that has lots of their infrastructure on Azure) it looks to me that the amount of management involves is not less then if they had it on premises or co-located bare metal.
Developing Alexa Skills with MongoDB and Golang
Even as a long-time Tesla fan, I think their stock price is fairly excessive.

> the “bull case” is for them to dominate the entire automative industry (not just the EV segment)

Is Tesla's market valuation highest than the highest valued automakers?
Since version 1.16 certificates can be dynamic, no need for reload.
World Machine Learning Summit Auckland 2020
I'm writing a post on software estimation, how it's difficult to estimate things correctly. One of the arguments that I want to make is that estimating poorly is not restricted to the software industry (obvious in retrospect). Military and public infrastructure projects are an excellent source of poorly estimated projects.

I've been collecting data about F35 specfically, 'cause it's so recent and the cost overruns are just mind boggling.

Anyway, here's an article from last year [0] that discusses how project management for the F35 prorgram reclassifies "blockers" and "criticals" into "major" and "medium" (severity levels of the issue). Especially like how the IFF transponder fails to send out a distress call if a pilot ejects, or how the arresting hook (for carrier landings) bends the airframe.

[0]: https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2018/08/f-35-program-cutt...
I lived in San Francisco 15 years ago, and last visited about six years ago. I know a lot can change in that time frame, but when I was there, there wasn't much car traffic on that section of Market. I don't object to the car ban, but I don't think it will change much. Looks like another victory of PR over practical impact. This is a cheap and easy way to gain good press without addressing any of San Francisco's core transit problems.
We can restrict cars and build public transit. Cars are the #1 killer of Americans under the age of 25. It only falls to #2 at the next age range because of overdose deaths.

Cars are deadly and inefficient. Electric cars are still cars.
Bespoke solutions are always going to outperform generic ones. You need to choose the right tools for each job. ElasticSearch definitely has it advantages if you have to write complex queries, however, might be less suitable for grep like queries.
Not everyone wants Docker installed on their servers. It’s not a requirement with this playbook.

Furthermore, if you do want to use containers, there are tools like ansible-bender[1] that use Ansible to build container images.

[1] https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-bender
(edited the link to point to the ansible-community repo)
Would love see this expanded to include most of the city. Manhattan too. I don't think people need to drive around cities in cars, perhaps with some exceptions (like people with disabilities). Roads are a huge waste of real estate, and more than half of the surface area could be replaced with greenspace to increase the amount of clean air and proximity to nature.
The nugget of truth was that joins and transactions are very difficult to implement in a performant manner in large scale, distributed systems. So it was possible to write very highly scalable databases if you give up on "SQL", which was a stand in for joins and transactions.

Since then, developers have been coming up with clever ways to implement distributed joins and transactions more efficiently and scalably on top of distributed database engines, and thus "the return of SQL".
> Designing the tools that providers use to treat patients is exceedingly difficult and filled with moral hazards.

I don't doubt that—but I also have a lot of trouble believing that the people who designed this tool didn't know exactly what they were incentivizing. A UI designed with the user's interests in mind simply would not have come out this way.

The degree to which we've normalized the creation of dark patterns is scary.
Why is it causing you grief? Does the task matter? Will it help the company? Then why can't you suffer through it? Someone has to! Why should it be anyone else but you? I don't believe everything that we do for work ought to be enjoyable, sometimes it's tedious and boring. But we must suffer through it because it needs to be done. I personally believe that most people feel like you do when they don't see how it connects to the broader company strategy and what value it brings. So try to understand that. If it brings no value, then speak up because it's not worth doing.

This is my personal opinion and feelings, I know most people don't agree with it, but that's how I reason about boring work.
Something I'm confused about: the entire dataset (train+test) is submitted to the blockchain (in the PAY_FOR_TASK transaction), right? So what's to stop miners from using data from the validation set in training?

Edit: I think I understand now; training is deterministic given the nonce and the winning entry is verifiable based on that. You don't have to verify the other entries, because there is no incentive to cheat if you don't win.
Noisy neighbors tracking can be automated and partially solved then. With cloud you gain access to the provisioning API and with Terraform/Ansible stack (as for example) you are able to build up and manage infra quickly, efficiently and declaratively. Bare metal provisioning can also be automated (as via private cloud solution, for example) but you need dedicated team for that (and nice OpenStackers aren't cheap). I was solo managing 500+ hosts once on public cloud, there is no chance you can do this without what you call "hipster tech" and modern devops toolchain.
o++oPS (OttoProgrammingScript) Programming Language
I think cloud's way harder than managing actual hardware (and/or your own VMs and such on actual hardware, or even traditional VMs on someone else's hardware) since once you're beyond the trivial it quickly becomes a superset of traditional admin knowledge, not a replacement—you end up having to know how to do things the old way to understand WTF the cloud is doing and troubleshoot issues, or to integrate or transition some older system, or whatever.

And then of course every "cloud" is full of about a billion hidden gotchas ("well the marketing page says that'll work, but on Tuesdays in February it won't, so use this instead, but only if you're writing your logic in JavaScript because the tools for the other allegedly-supported SDKs are broken in weird ways half the time, so instead use this other thing, unless you're a Libra, then...") none of which knowledge transfers between "clouds", and each has a pile of dumb names to memorize and a ton of other per se useless, but necessary, knowledge you've gotta pick up, just to rub salt in the wound.
Is that still active after the whole Public Works corruption thing?
> Finally, the shameless plug: if developing the Clojure ecosystem is important to you you should consider giving us (Clojurists Together Foundation) money -- we've funded critical infrastructure like CIDER, fireplace, Ring, Reagent, shadow-cljs... Oh, and we keep a little thing called Clojars afloat :-)

I will definitely give you folks some money for that. Thank you for making it a thing! :- )
Yeah, "CAPEX always increases, OPEX always decreases".
"... pedestrianizing their downtown cores ..."

Lots of cities already did this in the previous millennium. Nice to see that 40 years later word is finally starting to get around to the likes of NYC and SF.
Your quote should have included the word "much" after "evolved", as the article describes some of the ways that A/C systems have evolved over the last century.
Understanding and Implementing Core Hours
This "feature" was added to the software in 2016, well into the epidemic.
Avast CEO Shuts Down “Jumpshot” Programme, Apologises to Users
Seriously, this technology isn't new.
Has Davos Man Changed?
Anytype closed alpha demo video – self hosted, encrypted kms [video]
> So, this is an extremely well-known claim for which you can find numerous reasonable-looking citations

I didn't see any mention of blackmail in that article? Which bit were you referring to?
> How do you tell the difference between that and them just driving for their own purposes?

The non corrupt version is of course that Taxis are not exempt from the car ban.
It's abundantly clear in the README. Every single component is spelled out. Did you only read the title or something?
With apps there’s two levels of validation that you can do, and only one is done by the OS.

The most common, and automatic, is the verification of the chain of trust. On iOS this happens automatically if you use the standard network APIs against an HTTPS URL.

You can take it a step further and avoid MITM attacks where the middle party is able to mint trusted certs by doing something called certificate pinning. This is a manual verification that the certificate used by the server you’re connecting to has certain properties that you know match your API server’s.
I’m not sure why this got downvoted.
Jepsen Results against Etcd 3.4.3
From a CBC article linked in the story above: "This attack had all the hallmarks of a classic "watering hole" attack, in which hackers find a website that their targets frequent and infect it with malware in order to gain access to those targets. "

is there any more detail on the specific malware infection and if it was, in fact, a "watering hole" attack or if they simply don't have a clue how this happened and have called it this simply so there's a plausible explanation?
Thanks! I can't exactly take credit for being insightful, but perhaps well-read - a friend and several people on HN had stories getting jobs with essentially hopeless startups, and I figured that "what would a VC ask about this situation?" was a good starting point for due diligence.
RealityKit on iOS: Detecting and handling collisions in AR scenes
I don't think the crimes technically qualify as a capital crime despite the major and obvious ethical and moral lapses. Even with more blatant and callous examples like "miracle mineral solution" (read: bleach as medicine for internal use) fraudsters don't reach that level. Nor even "knowingly selling possibly tainted products". Not a lawyer but I think it essentially would call for say deliberately adding cyanide to your products to be outright murder.
Redesigning License Zero
This is awesome, if only there was something like this covering Ireland...
I really wonder if the authors of this paper actually understand how Proof of Work works. The game theory behind PoW requires it to be wasteful in order to create strong incentives for constructing valid blocks. If the work is useful, then there is no incentive as there is no potential loss for attacking the network. The security of the network comes intrinsically from the waste.
The oft touted 1.5 trillion figure is the total estimated cost of the program over 55 years.

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/09/04/f-35-program-update...
o++oPS (ottoProgrammingScript) essentially is a linear query language, but it also allows a wide range of computations.

It uses repeating groups (hierarchies) and has several powerful but easy to use operations for selection, restructuring, computation and joining tables and documents.

https://youtu.be/XI-J_KyqgFg
I haven't used this myself but it looks like it uses nightly encrypted backups using Tarsnap
Here in madison we have a personal car-free street in our "spine" and it's great, the businesses there are some of the most sought after spaces
I have had lots of sync problems with one drive (files excluded because of characters in their names, frequent, heavy resyncs).

Perhaps you don't see these problems if you use Windows. I wanted to use it as the marginal cost was 0 (already had to have a Word license) but I couldn't rely on it.

I don't like Dropbox spraying shrapnel through my mac's UI even though I told it not to, so don't take this as a defense of DB -- it simply sucks less and does the baseline (save my files) better.

Which is also my justification for using a Mac (sucks the least of the options available to me).
This reads like a hit piece on Lockheed Martin Corp.
Strange. Something like allowing a combine harvester into a U-Pick-It farm. Because, its open to the public, right?
If I’m understanding you correctly, I used guacamole for just this purpose once. Terrible legacy desktop app needed to be ‘ported’ to ‘the cloud’ ASAP because reasons. While we were working on a proper rewrite, I stood up a VM running the old desktop software and a web page that used guacamole to VNC to the app. Worked fabtabulously, and with a little printer redirection and UI tweaks, wound up being preferred by the users over the rewritten proper web app. In all honesty, not a terrible solution. Users who had been using the app for a decade didn’t have to learn anything new. I did have to learn something new, though, as then we had to port our new features from the real web app back to the VB6 legacy ‘desktop’ app, lol.
In EU they are. Dunno about the states. In the beginning they were not, that I know. But by now... I heard that even Google and Apple were interested in becoming banks (not sure if they followed up on that).
Makes me wonder how much of this is based on experiment data. I’ve seen teams spend weeks on well crafted, thought-out welcome messages and walkthroughs, only to find (through analytics) that most users just X out of the walkthrough right away.
I'm on 14th St most days. Have you never taken a M14A/D bus? It's much more convenient than taking the L or walking two or three avenues, especially if you already have an unlimited Metrocard. L trains on the weekend are usually too packed to fit more people on because of the 20-minute headways. Buses help to relieve some of this congestion.

That being said, 23rd and 34th could also certainly use busways. NYC (meaning CBD Manhattan) is far too dense to accommodate single-pax vehicles. Luckily, we seem to be making progress toward eliminating them.
That's someone in the govt machinery/ruling party trying to curry favour with the current leadership... Shitty and sad.

Since the current govt has come in, pseudo science has flourished and been tacitly encouraged and scientific temper in general has been thrown out of the window. All this to prop up ultra-nationalistic narratives..

A sampling:
1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46778879

2. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/on-economy-piyush-goyal-says...

There's many more... it's depressing.
Until Citizens United blew the door open, if you were a corporation you had to find ways to get money to candidates.

Telling your employees to donate to $CAUSE was one of them, and offering them bonuses or matching or other "incentives" -- aka "sign here to get your X-Mas bonus" on donation form -- was a way to move money.
Yes, I know plenty of Devopsish people that make more than that. And I'm not even talking about SRE-minded folk there.
I despise TDD. It just does not fit with the way I think about solving problems. I will do what is needed of me but I just hate thinking this way about writing software. I enjoy imagining how the whole system would be in mind's eye and then just code it asap, then refactor as needed.
And I'd personally be in favour of that. But is the argument really "taxis shouldn't be allowed to do X because the unregulated startup that ignored city regulations has worked itself into a position where it can't do X, and anything else is corrupt"?
refresh my understanding, if i manually type "https" into the address bar, then i can't be MitM'ed through lack of HSTS, right?
Those defines remind me of how Bourne shell was originally written using such a system to make the source look more like Algol 68. It might even still be maintained that way in BSD to this day [0].

[0] https://books.google.ca/books?id=9f9uAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9...
There's two part pressure needed for every change: good alternatives and disincentives for the old option.
I did exactly that: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
As a side effect, it even supports .gitignore!
Doing that stuff is hard.

Sovereign doesn't solve all your operational problems.

I think it's suitable for personal use. I wouldn't run it in a production setting without thoroughly understanding all parts of the stack.

I would say it's good for personal use or to demonstrate what ansible is capable of.
We posted at the same time, see my comment above yours about the documentary Pain Warriors.

Dr Mark Ibsen is one of the five stories. He lost everything for helping those with Chronic Pain. Five of his patients killed themselves when he was no longer able to prescribe. The medical board said he was over prescribing, that blood is on the boards hands. The arbitrator/judge in the case said that Mark did not do anything wrong, yet The System destroyed him.

Yes it is a rough field. I see it every single day in advocating for those that the Medical Establishment has forsaken.

There are bad doctors, there are bad people writing medical software as this thread explains. They need dealt with.
You really have a very good username.
If I advertise "free food" that doesn't mean it's your fault if I poison you. Nor does it mean I should be allowed to continue without legislative hindrance.
My vote is 34th Street next, but that's probably a fantasy. Getting crosstown at 34th would be so much better with a busway. It might even make the nightmare that is Herald Square/Penn Station slightly less bad.
The precise statement is that you need to have O(2^(N/2)) items before the probability of finding a hash collision is greater than 50% (or whatever nontrivial percentage). English is hard and I think whoever cares about the details can look it up themselves.
Show HN: Duro – scheduled materialized views for Amazon Redshift
I don't use Dropbox, nor am I a Node dev. Why would a node_modules directory tank Dropbox?
We see a lot of security researchers time and time again finding security issues with mobile apps. Not sure if security matters more than adding features quickly.
The backbone of Anim/VFX is built on Linux. However, the majority of these places are running RHEL/CentOS.

Adding that text is just standard marketing for the layman to know that the system is ready for graphics workloads, be it VFX or CAD.

For your second question:

Nuke, Mari, Katana, Maya, Houdini, Substance, Clarisse, Fusion and Resolve (less used), RenderMan, Arnold, VRay, Redshift, Octane, Blender, etc. You’ve also got custom in-house tools and applications, motion capture software, render managers, project management tooling, plugins, etc.
I think, more importantly, is why does it matter? We have the infrastructure we have now. Maybe GM should be held accountable for what they did, but what does that have to do with access to cities for people with cars today?

I see a lot of vitriol towards drivers in this thread, and any other time this topic comes up. We didn't make the world the way it is. It ultimately feels like classism. I'm glad these folks are able to take advantage of the privilege of living in a dynamic, multicultural city. But not everyone can afford that.
> you can write bad code in any language.

But it's more fun to do in C.
Build an iOS App to Predict Air Pollution Using a Random Forest Regressor
Busses can move a LOT faster without cars in the way and can be much more timely. Also, higher usage means that they can run more frequently, which also improves the usage rate.