skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing prices cannot rise forever. I'm glad there are people in the banking industry that are not oblivious to this. More money must be spent on housing even if you rent. This means less money can chase other goods and services. That is the reason it looks like we have low inflation. The puzzle is now complete.
Elastic just released their operator called Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK): https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-cloud-on-kubernetes-ECK-...

Operators are basically mini-programs that run in your K8S cluster and automatically handle deployment, upgrades and maintenance for their specific software. This operator can setup all of the ELK stack and it's all done through custom resource definitions. Use this instead of the helm charts and manual YAML files.
The challenge with this is when you have a team with members that, by and large, wants to be led for various reasons (lacking motivation, does not want to lead, distracted with other priorities, etc.). In a team like this, there needs to be someone that “calls the shots,” as it were, while giving every team member enough of a voice to feel like they are heard and enough autonomy to do the right thing (provided they have the skills).

Speaking of skills, this leadership approach fails hard when you are handed a team of people that are low-skilled, for whatever reason. Some of these folks can’t be let go (too expensive to do so, usually). Micromanagement usually works in this instance, especially if you can’t train
Linux++ (February 23, 2020) Issue Out with Interview Featuring Alan Pope
Is securing venture capital the only acceptable outcome for a startup?
I like Perl, but it's had a bit of an identity crisis since Perl 6. I believe late last year, they renamed it to Raku as a 'solution' to this identity crisis. I still think Perl can get the job done in a lot of different circumstances and, despite the fact that it's not really used as widely for web tooling as it was in the late '90s, it's still an invaluable scripting tool for sysadmins still willing to dip their toes in and learn it. As others have noted, the 'shiny new toy' effect has made Perl less attractive, but I think Perl has unfairly gotten a bad rap, especially in regards to opinions of how 'ugly' the language is - I tend to think it's more elegant than ugly. And of course, any programming language can be ugly - all depends on how clever the programmer in question wants to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)
It might not rust but it can corrode.

Ford had hood issues:

http://www.fordproblems.com/hood-rust/

Aluminum boats:

https://goneoutdoors.com/effects-saltwater-aluminum-boats-85...
Does Amazon know you are not a manufacturer? How do the customers benefit from the risk of involving orgs like yours?
Ah. So what you're asking is if Teslas are designed to hold up to the conditions in Tahoe, where all of the engineers at Tesla vacation during the winter?

Memes are great. In this case, great at misinformation.
I think I dig your comment -- but I'm curious about your use of the word "tropes" which has a somewhat negative connotation; was that intentional?
> You can probably tell at a glance that a “Chanel” handbag going for $20 at a flea market is fake

Amazon sells these exact items with Prime as well.

> Although Amazon has taken many measures to prevent counterfeits and unsafe products from showing up on its site, plenty of fakes still slip through.

I don't believe this one bit. There are blatant fakes being shipped through Prime. They're not flying under the radar or bait and switching. Go on Amazon and search "Yuangu belt" -- you will quickly find Gucci & Hermes fakes being shipped through Prime. Are you telling me their "counterfeit measures" could not detect this before allowing it to be sold with Prime?
They do very frequently ask sellers to provide supplier documents. Amazon does very frequently do their own independent investigations into suppliers. There are probably hundreds if not thousands of Amazon employees and contractors requesting supplier documents and following up with investigations all day every day.

However, Amazon also permits sellers to operate from countries that ignore US court orders. It is also possible to run 100s or even 1000s of Amazon seller accounts at the same time in contravention of Amazon's rules on this. It is also possible through fictitious entities for citizens of countries under US sanctions to operate Amazon businesses.

There is no way to enforce a judgment beyond grabbing any US based assets. You cannot, for example, extradite, prosecute, and imprison a Chinese citizen for poisoning US kids by selling Tas-T-Lead counterfeit Pbikachus.

This general type of problem is just more acute with Amazon and other ecommerce platforms than it is for other things like web media. If a Belorussian bot network embezzles $2 million from a US ad network, no one dies. When you sell dangerous physical products, people can and do die. Problems of addressing hackers and the like who are hiding in judgment-and-extradition-proof countries become more obvious and serious in the eyes of the public when the harms go beyond just businesses suffering abstract financial harms.
Perhaps Forrest Mims of Radio Shack Engineer's Notebook fame?

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...
This is an art project and nothing more.

Humidifying only 600 square feet, the size of a studio apartment, takes about 5 gallons of water per day in winter. [1]

The reservoir on this object looks to be no more than two gallons, and I would be truly shocked if it requires even daily refilling. If it actually moved enough water to make a difference, it would be a fundamentally flawed design in requiring multiple complete fillings per day, carting entire gallons to it (as you can't simply take the reservoir to the faucet). In fact however, I would be shocked if it made any measurable difference at all.

It speaks volumes that no information about the rate of water consumption and no measurement figures of RH are present on the page.

1: https://www.generalfilters.com/support/humidity-calculator.h... (settings: St Louis MO values for outside temperature and humidity. Inside 74, 50%, 8' ceilings, standard 0.5 air changes, 1 fireplace)
> because Netflix-style on-demand services are the way people want to consume content now

Is it? I have been exposed a bit to Netflix and the content is a lot of filler with the occasional interesting movie. But not nearly enough value for what it costs in my opinion, and with the very limited programming it would become boring quickly.
As a former biophysicist (I made crystals once but nmr was more my thing) who is now a programmer - I had the same sentiment.
Acquisition Offer and Y Combinator Application
Hi,
We like to apply for Y combinator next month, but we also have started two acquisitions offer talks which can take up to four to six months.

So we wonder should we mention this fact in our application? Does it have a negative impact on our application?

Also, we have NDA with those companies, so we can name them.
Thanks for all the advice. We'd just be running it on single buffers so I agree it makes more sense to start from the rust regex library than ripgrep. We do however need to continue supporting backrefs and lookaround, so we'll need to add `--auto-hybrid-regex` functionality to fall back to either Node's engine or a webassembly PCRE2.

As for wasm vs FFI, it would ideally work in browser (Monaco), which makes wasm the best bet I believe.
Xmake v2.3.1 released, Seamless integration with other build systems
Apple's machines are great. Apple's accessories not so much (see reviews on Apple's site). The 3rd party products Apple carries in their stores and on their site can be downright trash. I once made the false assumption that being sold by Apple was a kind of stamp of approval but I've since realized it's just which ever sales person managed to negotiate to get in the store. As a very concrete example, Apple used to carry Morphie battery cases which at the time were not actually Apple certified (lightning connector certification) as compatible with iPhone and yet other 3rd parties cases were but were not in the store. Also Belkin (not a fan)
> The reason data lakes make sense is because it is effectively unlimited scalability. You can have as many crazy ETL jobs, inexperienced users, Data Scientists all reading/writing at the same time with no impact.

Eh, almost all Data Lakes cannot handle small files well. All it takes is for someone to write 100 million of tiny files into the Data Lake to make life miserable for everyone else.
> If the business is stupid, fraud should happen.

Are you saying fraud is justified if a business is boring?
S3 is just storage. It doesn't provide any querying, crawling, metadata, provenance, or other details required for data at scale.

That's why AWS has entire product suites from Athena, Redshift Spectrum, Data Lake Formation, Glue, etc to help companies actually do something with the files stored in S3. And it's often a mess compared to just fixing their processes and ingesting it properly into a SQL data warehouse first.
You can always run your own company-internal or limited-to-your-home CA and add it as custom root CA to every browser in that domain. These maximum certificate validity rules IIRC don't affect custom root CAs you added.

I agree with you that the web is being commercialized, but limiting certificate lifetimes isn't the problem. It's rather stuff like the .org domain sale, google amp, Chrome killing the file:// protocol (after all, html files don't have ads inside them, can't be indexed and they don't make any money for Google), FLOSS projects adopting discord, etc.
One way in which Amazon has restricted this type of gaming is by restricting the ability of sellers to apply extreme discounting. Even legitimate attempts to do this such as liquidation can result in a warning from Amazon about rank/review manipulation.

However, real crooks just compensate verified buyers by paying them via Paypal, Payoneer, etc. You can't protect against that except through court order or by private sting investigation. Amazon does sue organizers of these schemes and has untangled some in that way, but that is challenging to scale.
Now you create an interesting set of issues for the quality and security tests.

How do you test code quality and code security as part of your pipeline for all of those different versions on the fly ?

eg some run python 2.7 and some run python 3.0
Hi...I’m another Plan PM and would love to jump in. Thanks for being patient…and even more so for contributing your perspective to help make GitLab better for the wider community. I agree with you that we need to do a lot of improvement around the UX of Group/Project navigation — especially when something is in one and not the other. Here’s a bit of additional background context on Epics...

We noticed that a lot of folks have been trying to use Milestones for Epics. I think a main reason for this was due to the fact that up until yesterday when 12.8 was released, Epics were restricted to Ultimate (https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/02/22/gitlab-12-8-rel...). We made this change because we believe Epics and Milestones serve two distinct purposes and are applicable to Directors as the buyer — and even arguably Managers — within our pricing model (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/) . The goal of Milestones is to group issues by time horizon, whereas an Epic is used to group issues by subject matter. This also typically maps to different key personas within an org and how they measure progress.

Within GitLab, Issues are the key object that links Milestones to Epics. By looking at an Epic’s issues, we dynamically derive delivery dates of an Epic based on when the underlying children issues have been scheduled for implementation. We designed it this way so delivery teams didn’t have to constantly answer the question “when is this coming and are we on track,” instead surfacing that information automatically on the roadmap to keep stakeholders across the business updated. We also did this because we believe the timeline should reflect the reality of the teams that are responsible for delivering and not a forced, untenable schedule that will leave teams burnt out. While this is the inverse approach you suggested with Milestones inheriting due dates from Epics, we think this will ultimately result in a healthier relationship / scope trade-off discussions between delivery teams and their stakeholders.

As for surfacing Epics within Boards, we plan to tackle that with via horizontal swimlanes (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/328). Additionally, we aren’t planning on making Boards within Milestones, but we are planning on extending Boards to make grooming, managing a sprint, and doing capacity planning a much more delightful experience.

I really appreciate your input and would love for you to jump into some of these issues or open new ones in gitlab-org with your feature requests! Lastly, I understand what you mean when you say things feel a bit "weird". Iterating quickly doesn't always produce the most polished experience while big features are being developed, but it does yield the best long term outcomes as a result of more frequent and timely feedback like this ;)
how long ago?
I tried it maybe 3 years ago or so, and also ran into a lot of compiler bugs, which I reported. The good news is I saw all of them get fixed! Haven't tried the language since it hit 1.0 recently.
Apparently one other eruption might have contributed to the French Revolution (!!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki#Consequences_in_Europe
Do they still use Bitcoin in the face of alternatives like Monero?
As a teen, Myst was my first rabid geek fandom. I spent hours, days, weeks, playing and replaying Myst, and its sequel Riven which is like Lord of the Rings to Myst's Hobbit.

I was accepted into the early beta test program for URU, the MMORPG spinoff of the Myst franchise. It consumed the better part of a year…I helped run fan forums and organize in-game events. I made friends. For a time, it was an incredible community.

A visual art reference and "making of" book about Myst and Riven became my bible as I pursued 3D graphics art and almost went to art school to become a game designer. I ended up dropping that idea and went into web/software space instead. (good career move!)

All that to say, Myst is to me what, say, Star Wars is to many others. Its impact was gargantuan in my life and it shaped the person I am today. I will always be grateful to Cyan for that.
I have applied for a job at a company where they were switching from Python to Rust, because even though they were using Numpy, there was a lot of overhead in setting the data up to send to Numpy.
Vue has an official router, but it's not built in and usually something like Vuex is used for state management. I'd certainly agree Vue is oriented towards SPAs, but that's not all it does.
Ah yeah, for backrefs you'll need to find a way to use PCRE2. Not sure what the WASM story is there. But at that point, if your only problem with Node regexes is catastrophic backtracking, then you might as well just stick with Node. PCRE2 will have the same problem.
Almanzo was born over 40 years after this "year without a summer" - does "Farmer Boy" actually mention it, or is it another bad summer?
Agreed, I'd like to see stats on this. From the stars on the Deno repo it looks like the server-side JS market is only going to get bigger.
It's not those libraries' performances, but allowing people to port their own code with less friction for a presumed gain in performance.
Private emails; Forwarding emails to random addresses for privacy reasons. It supported multiple recipients, black listing of senders and domains, muting addresses.

I know it had been done before, but I wanted to see if I could improve existing solutions.
I never ended up launching because I felt insecure about my solution (even though I tested it).
Indeed, that's pretty much where I started out; Arithmetic evaluators and template engines.

But it's a giant leap from there to Pascal, which is why I like to recommend Forth as a stepping stone.
I want to say this is fairly reasonable for a 400k vehicle, but two AC compressors before 120k miles is crappy. An electric-driven compressor has a muuuuuch easier life than one driven by serpentine belt that with a clutch. It should be essentially a forever part. That's some shitty design on Tesla's part.

Going that long on factory brakes shouldn't be too surprising either; hybrids have been doing that for decades.
They do, but it's not a job nor is it compensated except by delivery of the products. It's called the Amazon Vine program. There is also something called the Early Reviewer Program which is different. Sellers opt in to the ERP for new products. People who participate in the reviews sometimes get a tiny incentive from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/vine/help
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Not at all. Considering it from that point of view could help the OP come to a more informed decision though.
You can't compare the effects of the occasional weekend in Tahoe to that of a decade of winters in Toronto.
I published Trello Dojo https://leanpub.com/trellodojo a while back. I’m not sure it’s a complete failure: Joel tweeted it, it helped some people, and I made about 20k in royalties. But they have since added templates and other features and I haven’t updated the book in a while. I’ve been trying to find time to update it for a few years now, and just haven’t. I also have a company that wants a developer specific version and haven’t gotten to that either. I also have a Trello board of a hundred or so ideas, but have learned ideas are cheap- making time and energy to actually build and market is the hard thing.
Maybe they're actually deluded and believe their product works instead of just a scammer, and they think the radioactive material is necessary.

> In this video we go through all of the testing I did over the last few months to determine what's in these products and if they're dangerous.

I wish for something important like this they would just say the result in the description. Gotta get that ad money I guess.
That isn’t really how life works. I’ve been through unspeakable pain (literally, no words to describe it), and in the midst of it it felt that if the pain ever ended, I would be thankful for every day — because it was a day without pain. One day the pain had subsided, and at first that was true. But years later, it’s hard not to just take each day the same way as I did before the pain. Knowledge of the worst doesn’t really improve your day to day, although it can put it into perspective.

It’s the same as if a parent died. People don’t become happier after experiencing that kind of sadness, if anything it makes them more sad.

I doubt if everyone in the world who was privileged took a weeklong trip to the most undeveloped, rough living conditions on earth, that much would change long term.
Until it's not just one machine. You might briefly then use Swarm... But does anyone for long, whether production or home?

K8s has its complexities for sure, but to me it's the simplest - or at least 'only figure it out once' way of running multiple machines (besides having 'the webserver', 'the db server' etc., of course.)
this has been my issue, is my model is very much higher than the hardware
Wait until you hear about your couch and clothes:
https://time.com/4462892/couch-cancer-flame-retardants/
Latin America and Africa have the temperature going for them but especially Africa has a ton of back-and-forth with China so you can expect there are or will be cases there.

Indonesia is an interesting case especially geographically. Maybe there is some data on how well they did during previous pandemics?
I don’t believe it, you sound totally cut out to be a dev in today’s culture to me. :)

If you’re experiencing issues interviewing, there are lots of things that could be going wrong. It might be the types of jobs and/or companies you’re applying for. You might be shooting slightly too high or too low for your experience level. You mentioned plainly that you’d work for not much money, that could (perhaps surprisingly) work against you if you say it in interviews. It could even be sampling noise, just an unlucky string of interviews. But I’d hire someone like you on my team...
Hmm you're right. We CI to a dev environment that QA pulls in at their discretion.
Does anyone know if/why it is legal for China to be producing and selling these blatantly knock-off products? It seems outrageous that they are able to sell a product with the same EXACT name (the 'Ove' Glove example in the link) as the copied product.
how is Graal more polyglot than wasm?! Does it support low level languages as well? Besides, it's only one implementation (controlled by Oracle) and will probably remain so forever — who would want to risk a lawsuit by reimplementing it, I wonder.

wasm is already in all major browsers. It's succeeding where no JVM-based approach ever could.
This is really cool! Awesome work. I assume you've seen https://sourcegraph.com/ as well? This to me seems much clearer and a bit more intuitive (though I've only spent a little time in sourcegraph). Really really cool. Does it also search code comments?
Rust has grown tremendously in the last few years. People are using it as a general purpose language, from Unix command line utilities to industrial IoT services. Greenfield projects are using Rust as are next generation refactoring projects. Game development, multimedia, and even data scientists are showing increased usage. Embedded adoption is growing but at a slower rate. I'm not going to drop names until announcements are made but companies that have used Go for flagship products are no longer doing so. They're rewriting in Rust. Healthcare startup(s) who are building systems to compete with Epic are using Rust. Government contractors working on intelligence systems are also using it.
Almost trivial to say at this point, but I think this is one of the biggest challenges we face nowadays. Before the Internet, socializing for the most part required some sort of physical presence. This meant that “fringe” beliefs were much more readily counteracted by the more balanced make up of respective peer groups. Now that communication and virtual “gathering” are commonplace, peer groups are often directly chosen by belief.
>Do you think people from these groups are inherently unable to pass the same interview?

I've had two job search workers insist on those "top of funnel" tactics when I searched for a job and when I refused two separate workers refused to give me an interview through anything but a diversity recruiter. I didn't really want to take a job from somebody who would hire me just because I went over one of their lines and checked the right boxes and not because I was the best.
Singapore Airlines is using aeroponics to upgrade in-flight meals