skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wren is a great little language in the Lua sector, but more traditional than it (or JavaScript). Use it with the recently announced DOME to get started with some simple games (People, please don't let beginners start with webdev!)

http://wren.io/

https://domeengine.com/

Having said bad things against JavaScript, I believe TypeScript might be a good start. Definitely a large community support and good tooling.

The problem with either of those is that you don't just need a decent language, you need decent teaching materials. And there's little of that that I'm aware of -- and Rust/Swift/Go aren't even intended for first time programmers (Although the Go Programming Language book might serve well enough, after all we got quite a few people who started with C, a language equally unsuitable for the beginner)

Pharo is a bit too "old", with 12 years (or 24, or 48, depending on how you count), but the environment has a neat little tutorial, and "Pharo by example" is a good book.

https://books.pharo.org/pharo-by-example/

Personally, I'd recommend older stuff/languages. Do the Coursera SML course and you're way more ready for the hot new trends like Elm or ReasonML than your fellow Java/C#/C++ grognards.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
Use const always, unless you must use let. That's it.

You don't need to read other articles on this subject, it's that simple.
Storage Systems of this scale are thesedays almost exclusively built around object based storage rather than "legacy" block or file backed solutions. I guess today, min.io is would be the way to go. (to "go".. little pun on the end:)
Yes, but they're lying when they do so. What's required legally, and the industry-wide standards that are currently in place are both insufficient. Adhering to them is great, but companies doing so cannot reasonably be characterized as being defenders of privacy if that's all they're doing.
The parent comment is saying you can use `kubectl exec -it deploy/something` instead, and it will pick a pod for you. That landed in 1.15, IIRC.
Both "danger" and "abuse" are open for interpretation, and some people take "better safe than sorry" to an unhealthy extreme. Your response suggests to me that this is the case with you.

Even if there is a problem, how is it not better to address that? If the parents don't feel safe, they will avoid all those service providers. The kids don't get help if using the service providers is too risky for the parents.
Completely sensible save for cultural stigma?
Has there been any public statement from Apple, Google, and assorted companies? I'd imagine they have to be concerned about this.

This one feels kind of weird in that I'm not seeing the same level of uproar/pushback as I've seen in the past, which is a slightly frightening bit.
When you state "very low carbohydrate diet" - what do you mean? Do you mean you're actively avoiding fruits and vegetables, oats, nuts, etc? Or are you avoiding processed foods and the carbs that go along with that? The "carbs are the devil" argument is a huge misconception with people.

You mentioned that it's easier for you to not eat on a very low carbohydrate diet. My main eating regimen is two feeding periods that are generally between 12:00P and 8:00P. My diet is mainly plant based, so very high in unprocessed carbohydrates - and I do still eat fish and am also not opposed to eggs from time to time. I have no problem not eating. If I don't eat at all until the early evening I am generally never hungry.

So I'm genuinely interested in what you mean by "high carb". Processed carbs and satiety don't go hand in hand, but a "high carb" intake of whole foods is not remotely the same.
I highly recommend YC use 60 frames per second (fps) for these videos for a better 'real' feel
I think it's inherently tricky for reasons I tried to explain in an old blog post, recently republished here:

https://witnesstodestruction.blogspot.com/p/the-gray-zone.ht...
Elon Musk: The coronavirus panic is dumb
0. You can only get 2 TB+
I'm responding to both, the cuts you mention never took place so it's a bad faith accusation.
She’s a great writer. Axioms is one of the few things I read every morning.
Storage can be far cheaper when decentralized. Sending data over the Atlantic is super expensive compared to LAN networking. Almost all content providers peer with ISP's with onsite hardware. But why stop there, put the "racks" in ppl's basements. Data storage is very compact now a days, you can probably fit 100 TB is a shoe-box.
Balzac famously (apocryphally, perhaps?) known for drinking 50 cups of coffee a day!

This part resonated with me:

> When you have reached the point of consuming this kind of coffee, then become exhausted and decide that you really must have more, even though you make it of the finest ingredients and take it perfectly fresh, you will fall into horrible sweats, suffer feebleness of the nerves, and undergo episodes of severe drowsiness.

I definitely get extremely drowsy any time after 5 pm when I have gotten into the habit of drinking plenty of coffee per day
Base64 encode, no such thing as text-only.
Seafood salesman smuggled £53m worth of live eels out of UK
Something tells me that you also love you some sarcasm.
This is the comment you see from people on EKS or GKE. Many companies have compelling reasons to keep a large part, or all, of their services in-house. Nobody who actually has to install and administer K8s is on here commenting about how easy it is to run, maintain, and upgrade on their bare metal hosts. Troubleshoot, I almost forgot troubleshoot! All of those moving pieces, and something is hosed at 3am. This will be fun.

It will be great if that changes someday, and there's certainly been progress, but for places where they'd need to run it themselves, K8s is a tough proposition.
My experience has been similar to yours. The company I work at has very complex business logic written as a custom DSL parsed/executed by a crazy pile of Perl code.

Recently we had requirements to come up with a way of providing on-the-fly validation in a web editor. This was only possible by ditching the old implementation and re-writing the grammar using ANTLR. While the old implementation is unmaintainable and (probably, who knows?) buggy, the ANTLR implementation is trivial to work on, test and add new features to.

If you're working with a limited time budget, which is common when your main job isn't to maintain the language, then parser generators such as ANTLR are a godsend. ANTLR even enables you to generate parsers in different languages depending on where it needs to be executed. Need something to run client-side, in the users browser? Generate a JavaScript parser and you're done. Need it to run in the Java backend? Generate it in Java and call it a day.

While it's true that error handling isn't the best, it's already better than nothing, and, as you say, can probably be improved with a bit of customization.
Id: Ms-vscode.csharp – No extensions found
Virgin Media leaked filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs, names, addresses
If one of them is behind on encryption relative to others it's a competitive disadvantage. If all of them are forced to abolish encryption it's a welcome opportunity for better ad targeting . Additionally this increased regulatory and technological burden is a good start-up deterrent. What's not to like?
It doesn't help that the media is blowing it out of proportion as usual.

"There's another infected person in [YOUR_COUNTRY] - 10 ways COVID-19 can kill you! You won't BELIEVE number 3!"
It’s only 17% lower than the prices last year. Not gonna be that noticeable in retail prices. Not even worth a 2 for 1 special.
> head of HR. [...] menial job

I'm sorry, that came out judgy. If you're Head of HR for a 300+ person company that's a lot of work, a lot of responsibilities and a ton of coordination.

If you're 'Head of HR' for a ragtag group of 20 people that's a title without much gravitas. A head with no tail is just a node.
Exactly ! I don't know why folks want to have it both ways - you cannot separate the good Facebook features from its bad privacy violating features - folks need to choose what shade of gray they are ok with.

Facebook started off as a very white shade of gray and has slowly turned to the dark side, getting darker and darker shades of gray until the present day, when they are nearly black, gamma channel 1/255.
Teams is the choice of CFOs. If you’re buying a bazillion Office licenses anyway, MSFT will practically give Teams away if you boot Slack.
Linux Kernel Live Patching: What It Is and Who Needs It
That still sounds weird to me. I obviously understand what you mean, but I still don't like the idea of saying "I googled x on DuckDuckGo".
Honestly, while it's not perfect, javascript will likely give you most bang for your buck. You can use it client side as well as server side. It's not the perfect tool for every situation, but you certainly won't regret knowing it.
I know these kinds of tutorials are just for getting a flavor of a framework or paradigm. Nice so see it.

As someone who's used Mongo for nearly a decade, I always feel compelled to note: Mongo will NOT scale with relational data like this. Sure, it can handle a lot of records. It'll have fast basic inserts or queries. It can scale with replicaSets and sharding. But it is NOT designed for relational data. Doing relational data is so painful in Mongo, with any sort of scale. Save yourself so much migration headache by using a "regular" SQL database, until it doesn't work (rare).
Show HN: isEven API – tell if a number is even SaaS
Enjoy!

http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
Advertising is a cancer on society
(last update: 2019-10-02)
Thanks! We actually just need to be able to upload HTML files and have it rendered as a web page (and not just display the HTML code) so our team can data label / annotate certain sentences throughout the document.
1) That's per 250 kcal. A plate of pasta has significantly fewer calories than a plate of steak. Sauces on either can alter this, but they'll likely have their own indices to pay attention to.
2) The low ends are equal. The high ends are off by a factor of 1.5.

I think that the real question is "What will happen to my insulin if I eat a meal of pasta vs, a meal of steak?". To that, I think that the steak will in fact spike your insulin much higher than the pasta.

That said the beef has a higher satiety score (by almost exactly the same ratio as the high end insulin ratio).

Again, sauces, what your body needs right now, what you'll eat for your next meal,... lots of things can alter the overall health perspective.
It's also very easy to implement your own client side encryption methods with wrappers around service provider APIs.
Sure they may be private APIs but if people are desperate libraries and apps will appear to do this.

Really anyone who wants to encrypt data WILL, the algo ithms are public knowledge, it ain't going anywhere.

Why is the English speaking world becoming so authoritarian in its policing of its people? This isn't going to end well, I honestly believe the English Empire is burning right now.
Really smart people make this mistake a lot, so I'm wondering what Sia is doing to decorrelate failure rates. If hedge fund quants can turn mortgage tranches into a machine for massive correlated economic losses, can blockchain quants turn storage tranches into a machine for massive correlated storage losses?

Or if one of the major hyperscalers or datacenter operators decides to start selling storage to Sia, it seems likely that their control plane across datacenters could result in correlated failures. A networking outage for their AS could result in multiple datacenters appearing offline concurrently, for example.
I just tack reddit on to the end of every search.
We want decentralized systems so that people will be more free. Giving up freedom in order to get them is completely counterproductive.

Decentralized systems aren't nothing; they're more resilient against these types of attacks than the alternatives. However, decentralized systems don't welcome these attacks any more than anybody else does. These attacks still hurt us, and they still make our life harder -- China isn't more free because its centralized services are all back-doored.

There's a (thankfully fringe) group of people who keep saying that if Section 230 goes away everyone will just switch to more Open protocols and it'll be fine. But this is painfully naive; a pseudo-requirement to backdoor communications will make it harder to build Open platforms and onboard users, because no commercial host will want to touch a platform that exposes them to liability. Getting rid of Internet freedom turns the people using these systems into criminals, which will make Open platforms much more dangerous to use, much more risky to sponsor, and much harder to advertise or develop.

What happens when you go to host your private encrypted email on Linode, and Linode says, "no, because then we can't scan your server for CSAM"? What happens when the Matrix org tries to set up a free server to onboard new users and the government prosecutes them? What happens when every user running a Tor exit node becomes liable for content traced back to that IP? What on earth makes you think the DOJ won't prosecute hosts of Open services?

There are so many ways this law can go wrong, and so many ways it can be expanded from here to shut down the projects you think it's helping.
The way that you protect those at high risk is by not having those 25yr olds go around spreading the virus as asymptomatic carriers.

Your logic has the same faults as "I don't need the flu vaccine, I'm not at risk because I'm healthy/young."
Backblaze is very good but they are definitely not efficient in $$ utilization.

Efficient $$ utilization is bread racks, built out data centers abandoned by the likes of PepBoys that landlords will part for $3/sq foot per year and Google using servers without cases and velcros to keep hard drives attached.
Here's the issue. We know that due to economy of scale and domain experience, AWS will always have the lowest cost (to Amazon) for storage -- whether that's totally-reliable storage, or sorta-reliable. If there was a demand for sorta-reliable, they'd build a sorta-reliable S3 and undercut you. Then, blockchain adds inefficiency. Therefore, it's basically impossible for any blockchain solution to have a lower total cost to provide storage.
Or handguns. Or in recent years darts. ;-) Folks who minimize the risk don’t understand compounding growth.
I never log in to Google’s services in the browser[1]; clear my cookies on browser close; use several other blocking methods for privacy; and have been using DDG as my main search engine for years.

Yet, I’ve used `!g` more in the last months than ever before. In my usage, DDG’s results are getting noticeably worse. It’s unlikely I’ve forgotten “how to use it”.

[1]: I only log in to a Google account for Gmail, and always on an app.
Ah, interesting. Unfortunately it works poorly with tab completion (i.e., not at all), so you still have to type the entire name of your deployment, even if there's only one in the context's namespace.
Ice is not an adversary.

If reviews, or any post-review substitute technology, become the thing that helps imperfect humans make decisions, then that becomes the target for attack by misinformation. If reviews drive business, then so do fake reviews. Reviews are valuable, so there's a market in reviews.

> You can make choices about things you've never experienced, across a wide variety of domains: Amazon, Airbnb, the App Store, Shopify, Google Play.

Reviews steer hundreds to thousands of dollars of spending from every consumer. Nothing that valuable can be allowed to remain authentic.
But, why would you want the declaration in the try when the scope of the variable is broader? It's true that var let's you do that, but it seems to me that's strictly a misleading thing.

Sure, you’ll often need to split declaration from assignment with let in that case, but that's not a bad thing, IME.
Most people should be behaving normally with some added protections (like washing their hands), and those who are at high-risk should be protected.

You would think, but you would be wrong.

Here is the fundamental math. There is a number called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number which is how many people the average infected person infects in turn. If that figure is above 1, the epidemic spreads and some nontrivial fraction of the total population will get sick. The exact number who catch it is impossible to calculate since the relationship between the basic reproduction number and how many people eventually get the disease is chaotic.

But if that figure can be reduced below 1, the disease dies out on its own. It took draconian measures, but this is already happening in China.

Public health officials have a variety of strategies available depending on the situation. But the choices from most desirable to least is as follows.

1. If possible, get the basic reproduction number below 1.

2. If not possible, encourage at risk groups to get extra protection so that as the disease sweeps through, as many as possible don't get it.

3. Be overwhelmed.

The current strategy is focused on the first option. As noted, the basic reproduction rate is already below 1 in China and the disease is dying out there. If it escapes, the second option will be tried. But an epidemic that hospitalizes 20% of victims and kills 3% will, if we accept #2, leave us quickly at #3.

And as much as a temporary slowdown of the economy loses us all, figuring out how to some up with a reasonable substitute for hospitalizing 20% of the country when we don't have medical staff (knowing that a failure to figure it out will result in much higher casualty rates) will have much greater economic impacts.

It turns out that we can quantify it. Based on https://www.theglobalist.com/the-cost-of-a-human-life-statis... it is reasonable to say that we value a human life at about $8 million. If half of 327 million Americans get sick and (as current rates have it, 3.7% of them die, the economic impact is about $48.4 trillion. That is about the same as the US economy for 2 years. If losing 1/4 of our economy for 6 months, and then suffer similar economic damage on the path to recovery, gives us even odds of preventing this, we absolutely should panic.

And, as China demonstrates, it IS still possible to prevent this outcome. It will take heroics. But it is possible.
Wow I didn’t realize so few people had hand transplants. For numbers that low in the human experience, I like to compare with the number of people who’ve been to space.

At 200 transplants, that is twice as rare as going to space!
Why can't there be both?

There's lots of capital with nowhere to go, hence bonkers real estate prices, wacky startups getting funded, overpriced assets and low bond yields.

There's also of people without much capital who want to do things like buy cars and houses or start businesses.

These things aren't mutually exclusive. The capital is largely held by a small number of people. Most people don't have any or not very much.
Julio - great to hear from you, and thanks for the kind words :) In many ways, my journey to Datasaur began with that team/project 5 years ago.
I see the distinction you are making, and it is a very fine one. One hand you have "deleting and not using Facebook" and on the other hand "not using Facebook" - I would say they are almost equivalent to Facebook (since they don't really worry about the Delete flag).
But, once you delete your Facebook profile, you will not revert to logging in occassionally, so psychologically, it does make a difference to you (but not to Facebook).
I got tired of seeing programmers struggle to tell if a given number is even, so I built this solution.

You can see an example here:
https://github.com/BraydonKains/is-even/blob/master/python.m...

I'll be around for questions!
It would be nice if you could assign the result of a try / catch (or any block) to a variable, you can kind of emulate it with an IIFE:

const outer = (() => {
try {
...
return ...
} catch (error) {
...
}
})()
Yo mean like those in the sinaloa cartel who built submarines, drones and erected their own cell towers?
It's not going to be convenient to get off any Google product. If privacy and escaping algorithm bubbles is important enough to you, DDG can probably be "good enough".
Interesting article, but "black swan situations like world war three" may be underestimation. Software bugs are more likely and sometimes fatal.

I wonder why transfer prices are not included? As you explain every transfer is paid does it mean one has to pay for 10 uploads of every single object, right? But as equipment ages, peers go out of business then who pays for the data rebalancing transfers?
Posted at my dad's cemetery, facing a busy road in suburban River Grove IL:
"Drive carefully, we can wait"

https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/fjAXrFcLzRE8UN4TYTGC...
FCC to require anti-robocall tech after “voluntary” plan didn’t work out
The tetragrammaton is a 4-letter name of God, and a conceptualization of

- somethingness

- becoming observable/“contrasty”

- germinating

- and becoming self-aware (and an applied practice)

Like a stack overflow of reality. It is one of many names of God in Hebrew.

This essentially represents “the all”, as we can understand it. It’s interesting how ancient alphabets were built on base concepts and interactions. They have a sort of philosophy to them.

Markov chain text generation is pretty wild, because we now can build computer systems that endlessly generate their own many-letter “names of God”. God has many names in Hebrew; everything is a name of God, so to speak, like a DNA sequence.
I honestly believe that the Corona virus is more of an illness of mass psychological fear than it is a Virus. I'm not saying the virus isn't real, or that those who suffer from it aren't real.

I'm simply saying that, at least for the US according to the CDC, 260 people have become ill and 14 people dead... which is nothing compared to 300,000,000 entering a state of unreasonable fear.

I know people who don't get a yearly flu shot (50,000 dead/year), don't wash their hands before eating (most viral and bacterial infections aren't airborne), smoke (400,000 dead/year), drink (80,000 dead/year) and regularly drive late at night when tired (35,000 dead/year)... yet they are taking every possible precaution against corona virus, because they don't want to be the 15th death. It's so weird.

Again, not saying it isn't an issue or doesn't exist or can't become a bigger issue. Just that the fear is so disproportional to the threat, it's mind blowing for me. It feels like some mass psychotic event. I'm just disconnected enough from most people's reality that I can't seem to share in it, so I stand a contrarian outsider like I've always been, scratching my head.
Yeah that's not actually true. Celebrities call and give their real names because being famous means there's always a table available even if when there isn't one for regular people. Source: In a past life I worked at a destination restaurant in the front of the house.
>I have little faith in our elected officials to parse out the ramifications to encryption based on how the act is written.

Then its your duty to contact your Senators/Representative. It's not hard.
In India it gets drowned in spices, and really mainly serves for texture, but it's a pretty damn good texture.

And crustations generally are a very satisfying meat to bite into