skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost efficiency on cloud providers mostly comes down to how well utilized your fleet is. You can always waste money on idle machines. Containers help with the "packing", which in turn can help with costs. Issue being: your time is probably the most costly thing, so it's debatable unless you can get it done comfortably and happily.
Rate limiting using Python and Redis
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nomura-only-machines-are-b...
This just doesn't pass the smell test. Running your own data center is a huge capital and operational investment. While there are hundreds of companies world wide that do this, they tend to be core telecommunication companies (infrastructure), dedicated data center operations, dedicate hosting companies or companies with billions in revenue.

A google search confirms that they colocate, apparently with Equinix. This is as far as running a data center as living in an apartment is to building and managing apartment buildings.

(Fun Fact, while Amazon does own and run its own data centers in most places, they're also colocating with Equinix in some regions (though I assume their level of colocation goes beyond traditional colocation)).
"Open source" is a term long-used in intelligence/police circles that refers to the means of obtaining information, e.g. a newspaper article is an open source.

As most intelligence-related terms do, it has inevitably spread out to the wider audience of wannabes and obsessives about military things. Realistically, you don't use it in normal conversation, particularly in places like HN, precisely to avoid confusion... unless one wants to signal that he's using it in the "intelligence" term, i.e. that one is a sad wannabe.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23012844.
Question from not-a-farmer. Is this all corn and/or wheat? What does such tech look like for non-corn/non-wheat related crops?
So, more than for using c++ with c++ -- in your build/link setup?
> enforced a minimum quality standard with suppliers.

I'm not saying Wal-Mart is top tier quality. The point is that their product quality vetting with suppliers is still magnitudes more than what Amazon does.
> Two, three months without schooling will significantly hamper their development.

Only within the rigid schedule set for them in the default school curriculum. I doubt they’re ultimately going to notice a difference of 3 months.
A Starship/Superheavy has a diameter of 9m. This fits a mirror about 14 times the area of the Hubble.

For a single launch, that's quite remarkable.
Indeed, a download and quick look shows that the book has a lot more content than just a sequence of lessons. I've immersed in the foreword, and enjoying it greatly. The best textbooks are not just informative, but written to be enjoyed as literature.
Upwork giving away $1M for businesses working on Covid-19 fixes
You don’t seem to be reading my posts carefully, so let me spell it out for you. My point is that essential is seemingly arbitrary. Constructing a playground is essential but gardening isn’t. I can drink away my pain or het high but I can’t get physical therapy.

It doesn’t take a conspiracy theory to understand what’s going on. Essential has been defined narrowly enough to keep the public inconvenienced so that they stay vigilant. If you disagree with me on this go read the New Yorker article on Seattle’s response. Optics plays as large a part as science when it comes to public health.

Essential is also defined broadly enough so that big businesses and their lobbyists don’t complain. That’s capitalism, you can disagree if you want.

Not every argument has to resort to name-calling and accusations of being fake. Even on the internet.
> I don’t want to place a burden on this planet nor do I want to do the work required

One of these is true.
that adds to sensational phrases msm uses
The end of the line, ah well.
I think I'm getting a better handle on my anxiety issues. Also, I played with Legos for the first time in a long time.
I thought 6-8 weeks ago we didn't know that children aren't major vectors (let alone that it was pretty obvious), and I'm not even sure we know that now. Can you provide some of this 'evidence that has gotten stronger' for this claim please?

Suggesting that closing schools is pointless because they 'might' be more of a vector because their parents lack the competence to instruct or control their children seems unnecessarily pessimistic. Were I in a position of authoring public policy around this kind of event, I'd a) vigorously adopt the precautionary principle, and b) assume we could convince the parents and the parents could then convince their own children.

I'm confused by the last claim you make -- I thought the 'for profit' camp was very much against closing schools (or indeed closing anything for very long).
https://archive.md/eT2bg
In case you're curious, the calls in a foreign language are, I understand, generally immigration scare attempts.

They were a big thing a few years back when Trump was talking about walls and kicking people out of the US; I thought they had died off, but I've also stopped answering my phone.
Hello!

To add a bit of context: the Pants Build project has been managed by a non-profit 501c6 organization for the last few years, and is wholly independent from Twitter. In the last year, Twitter has contributed less than half of the changes to Pants, with the rest contributed by Toolchain Labs and by the wider Pants community.

Would be happy to answer any questions about the project.

(disclosure: active Pants developer, former Twitter employee, current Toolchain Labs employee)
Satellites need to be incredibly well built because they are ridiculously expensive to deliver. If we can deliver them for a fraction of the cost, it no longer makes sense to build them so expensively.
Is this not just a really long advertisement?
anyone know good python ipfs resources + decentralized sync-able embedded databases ?
In my experience, the problem has a lot to do with how teams organize around ML.

When you have engineering team separate than a data science team, you'll inevitably have unproductive conflict & politics. One team might be incentivized for stability and speed (engineering or ops) and the other model accuracy (data science). The end result can be disastrous... An engineering team that wants to bend nothing to help data scientists get their work in production. Or a data science team that only cares about maximizing accuracy, even if it might destroy prod, or be impractical to implement in a performant way.

To hit the sweet spot on accuracy, speed, and stability, you need to have one team that focuses on the end feature. It needs to be cross-functional and accountable for doing a great job at that feature. And the data scientists need to be possibly more focused on measuring and analyzing the feature's success, rather than just building models for models sake.

I'd recommend the book Agile IT Organization Design if you're interested in good team design patterns
You will get 100 different answers. I like the argument that inflation is actually high, but our outsourcing of goods that make up the consumer inflation algorithm to cheaper countries makes it seem like inflation is low, but goods that can't be outsourced (education, housing, startup unicorns, financial assets like stocks) were eating the excess inflation that had no other place to go.

So the real value of stocks is lower when adjusted for true inflation, but everyone claims inflation is minuscule / nonexistent so we can pretend that printing trillions of dollars and handing it to banks is having no effect.
The release notes contain a pretty extensive list of what APIs have changed.

The path to upgrade the dependencies is probably to run `go get -u <dep>` for the direct dependencies you're including, and then fixing errors that pop up from doing so.
Your experience might be true in a big American city, but in Europe it's the complete opposite. Amazon is relatively fast (2 day shipping), but the grocery selection is limited and full of third parties charging extortionate prices. E.g. the same brand of nappies is 2x more expensive than getting it from Tesco. Anything specialty, such as musical instruments, PC parts, furniture, etc. is more expensive than getting it at the source, and all "cheap" items are 2x-5x more expensive than buying it from China, shipping included.

Amazon beats other shops in terms of convenience and selection (you can buy lots of random unrelated items and get them delivered fast), but often it's basically just a more upmarket eBay.
Maybe, maybe not, but those are still options that are agnostic of Google. This doesn't rope AMP into being any more dependent on Google than it was before.
Amazon.com

If I don't find what I need in the first few results I have to scroll endlessly. No amount of filtering or sorting helps.

The browsing experience is lacking. I think most people have been trained to buy specific items, rather than searching for the product that is good for them.
The point was that we don’t have any clue whatsoever what will happen because this has never been done before in human history.
Bank of America has spoken along those lines.

(https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/31/ban...)
Hi HN, this is project I've been working on, started developing this language seriously a couple months ago with C++ in my free time. The objective here is to allow arbitraty compile-time code execution and modification of every part of the code at compile time.

Created many experiments previously to this to figure out LLVM and other tools. Switched to Kotlin recently because adding functionality with C++/Bison/Flex was proving difficult. This means that it requires JVM right now to compile, but when the language is able to self-host, it's probably also easy to do it.

The reason for this is that I don't see any major programming language doing this. Everything seems to be very restricted to const expressions or string manipulation.

Any questions please ask away :)
A good war can always be used to revive the economy.
You have to move your data to Dolt. Dolt is a database. It's got its own storage layer, query engine, and query parser. Diff queries are fast because of the way the storage layer works.

Right now, Dolt can't be distributed (ie. data must fit on one hard drive) easily so it's not meant for big data, more data that humans interact with, like mapping tables or daily summary tables. But, long term if we can get some traction, we plan on building "big dolt" which would be a distributed version that can scale to as big as you want.
It doesnt seize to amaze me why news orgs dont provide sources in addition to claiming another org claimed it first. In the hype about trying to be real news maybe you should take it much more seriously. I can prolly find independent researchers who arent part of huge news orgs who do link to sources.
It's expected that there is some pullback after that first leg down. Expect a second. Right now we are practically mirroring the chart from 2008, if you want to see where we are at.
Views also work.

I don't understand what you mean re "access". RLS is what removes access to those rows, that's the point of RLS.

In postgresql, anyways, superusers aren't subject to RLS and the table owner, by default, isn't either. But RLS can be enforced for the table owner by a single alter statement.
The market doesn't reflect the health of your local businesses. It's largely chains and massive corporations that are publicly traded. Between the fed's $1.5T injection in the markets and the $500B bailout/loans for corporations, you can see how the numbers might not look too bad from Wall St's disconnected perspective. Today a lot of companies were announcing their numbers and matched ~ expected earnings. Q1 wasn't 100% trashed by Covid. Q2 might be a lot more interesting especially if the shelter in place lingers towards the end of the summer which would not surprise me.
The modern American society has put a ridiculously disproportionate value on capital vs individual which is driving the dissonant signal from the stock market. People could be dying of hunger, but if the SP500 companies kept their numbers in line with expectation, the "stock market" would be green all over...
Parents who both have to work because mortgage/rent now requires two salaries are going to find this next to impossible.

Yet they are living in a house that most likely stood during their parents' time and then it required just one income.

What changed? Lending against household income instead of primary income.
In the U.S., states navigate jobless flood at different speeds
Apple's store shows them at $199: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRXJ2AM/A/airpods-with-wi...

Unless you're talking about the lower-end ones without wireless charging which are $159: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MV7N2AM/A/airpods-with-ch...

The Google Pixel buds include wireless charging, so they're matched up against the higher end Airpods.
Including people on HN. /s
I guess Zoom have choosen Oracle cloud for it's horrible UX. Both give me the same chills when I look at their UI.
> One enabled by having moderately wealthy parents.

It is a cultural problem and not a wealth problem.

My state spends >$10k per student per year on education.

Excluding my mortgage my expenses for each of my kids (food, transport, clothing, etc) is well under $10k/year.

If we redirected the money from schools to parents the vast majority of two parent households could afford to homeschool their kids.

And that’s not including all the additional spending we do on disadvantaged families.
http://web.archive.org/web/20200330090855/https://github.com...
> then go into the market at 18 with no experience in a job, no employment training, and no real concept of what it means to actually work and run a business.

Either at 13 or at 18, the thing is the same though. With the difference that at 18 they’re suddenly expected to know things that weren’t ever taught to them.
How is it totally fine that a company should have enough leverage to blackmail you into shutting up and continuing to use their platform?

I'd be sorely tempted to shout from the rooftops, hit up every VC I could, and move heaven and hell to break into their vertical just on principle at that point. Sometimes, not rocking the boat does more harm than good. Doing anything else is basically accepting the legitimacy of the practice.

Don't get me wrong. I understand the inherent risk. I realize they have their business and employees to think of. However, taking the hush money and moving along just sets Amazon up to do it to someone else. It isn't "just business"; it's bad business, damnit and getting away with it lowers the bar for everyone because you're not willing to hold someone to account.

If the next 5 businesses who catch Amazon out doing this type of thing carefully, documenting every detail, and take it to the authorities, you can bet there will be change. They may make more money than a small nation, but tie up non-trivial portions of it fighting tooth and nail against multi-national legal scrutiny, and I guarantee there will be traction gained.

Anyway... End rant, andapologies. That type of thing makes my blood boil.
The thing about anti-Amazon rhetoric is that it's easily debunked because so many people transact business through them. There's no need to take any "expert" or activist opinion on the matter. The proof is in your own life experience. If it's sunny outside but someone on the internet is telling you that it's raining, you probably should discount the opinion of that person, or ignore entirely. I have no doubt that people have been ripped off from Amazon but their customer service handles the situation very well. I don't like that Amazon is taking over the global economy and won't stop growing unless it is forced to. However, they're conducting business well.

(I'm not affiliated with Amazon other than that I've been a customer since the 90s)
I'll wait for the LLT, the Ludicrously Large Telescope.
If someone has a blog on tourism in Britain and has Adsense on the blog, does this mean he can't use these images even on pages that don't have Adsense?
Check this out dave https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14783521
Wikipedia puts their current fleet at 745 planes[1], and I'm not seeing more than 200 Southwest planes out there by my quick count. Could be close to a third of their fleet, which is still bonkers to think about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet#Curre...
>> Easier – No complicated deployments, better DX

I'm a big fan in many use-cases, but this one is overstated IMO. Yes, your "site" is essentially a bunch of static pages but in order to do all that fancy stuff that the JA-part is selling you now have a massive deployment challenge that's just as prone to the same problems as the distributed monolith.

The big win IMO is moving runtime concerns to build-time. There are a surprising number of scenarios where the backing data changes on predictable, not-that-frequent basis. For example, it is far easier to publish a product catalog based on some internal system via a static generator than some sort of real-time link.

There are lots of cool use-cases but JAM is not reshaping the web in any structural way, at least if you've been programming it for more than 5-10 years...
I was quite confused on my first read as I've always really trusted Indian Country Today[1] even though it's a much much more specialized news source.

1. https://indiancountrytoday.com/
And then Judge Judy comes on the TV...
TypeScript 3.9 RC
Well, I also saw a medical worker saying that if someone dies before testing, that will be counted as a COVID death[1].

No amount of Hacker News Mental Gymnastics(tm) is going to explain that away.

[1]:https://twitter.com/BraveTheWorld/status/1254232498122428416
who says that?
Boeing Field looked like that even before COVID-19, with all the 737 MAX in storage.

Lots of photos online -- search "boeing field 737 max storage". I like the ones that show the reclamation of employee parking spaces: https://www.pressclub.world/2019/07/22/boeing-737-max-ground...
This is pretty cool. It's about the same concept as https://stdlib.com/ but using JAMstack providers to build the serverless functions instead of dealing with the complexity of the major cloud providers and supporting different programming languages.
My feeling is that investors have steadier hands now after they've witnessed the 10+ year rally after the 2008 crash. No one wants to be left out. Eventually though the market will catch up with what's happening on the streets (unless the fed keeps pumping money in).
To say nothing about radiation shielding on the Lunar surface.
I did this a couple weeks ago. I shopped around, found a handful on Amazon that would be good, then went to Best Buy to buy one. The best part was that Amazon said they'd ship in May (almost 3 weeks later) while I could pick up from Best Buy the next morning.
I don't think that math adds up.

Seller does $12 M/yr revenue with Amazon. How much is an exit fraud worth? I find it difficult to believe that anyone on the black market is willing to pay anything close to the discounted future earnings of a $12 M/yr revenue business just to pursue an exit scam for about a week.
Teacher here (kindergarten/first grade). This is so important to underscore. Curriculum doesn't serve children or society if it becomes an arbitrary yardstick to measure children's development. Thank you for calling this out!
Food stamps come with a whole bunch of restrictions on what you can and cannot buy with it. Want a big jug of milk to save and you need a big one anyway cause you have kids? Nope, the only approved milk is the half gallon, etc. etc.
So for some people, while it might not be the top #1 problem it's def up there.
From a social-acceptance perspective I'm not a fan of "transparency mode". When I see people walking around with earbuds in all the time, even when they're not actually using them, I have a -- probably unfair -- visceral negative reaction.
I wonder if Rich Little had to get everyone's permission.
> The point of shelter-in-place is to prevent overloading of hospitals so that both COVID-19 patients and everyone else could get care - and have their lives saved by medics (which is often possible).

We achieved that, and yet we're still locked down. Why?

The fears of hospital overruns was based on scary numbers that turned out to not reflect reality at all. The hospitalization rate is far lower than we thought. The infection fatality rate is far lower than was implied by the CFRs being thrown around.

> This is scaremongering. If you have any estimates, go ahead, and pit them against what is now the #1 cause of death in many regions across the US.

No, it's not. But anyway, I predict at least an extra 50,000 suicides (i.e. a 2x risk of suicide). Similarly, we could easily see twice as many opioid overdoses which would be another 60,000. (I feel more confident in the spike in suicide than the spike of overdoses because it may be that the fentanyl supply chain has been disrupted).

> The number of people who died from COVID-19 is about the same as people who died in the Vietnam war at this point.

And also roughly the same as the number of people who died from the Flu last year. And about 1/10 of the estimated 480,000 smoking deaths per year in the US.

But, I'm not saying that Covid is not a big deal. What I'm actually saying is that lockdowns don't reduce mortality whatsoever, rather they increase it, because containment is not a viable strategy and the lockdown harms groups who never would have been harmed by Covid.

I'm predicting well over 100,000 Covid deaths this year.

> There is also no way to bring people back to life. Cry me a river about destruction of wealth.

The lockdown is destroying life, not "just" wealth. And I don't just mean in wellbeing, which we've absolutely destroyed. We're causing actual deaths by foregoing preventative care, furloughing tens of thousands of healthcare workers across the country, and increasing mortality from suicide/overdose/all cause mortality in general.

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Here, go ahead and read https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22961835&goto=threads%...
Some differences that would probably affect things in court:

1. It's parody. Parody has specific statutory protection.

2. It's clearly labelled as speech synthesis.

3. It doesn't stand in for any of the original works. The market for deep fakes is much different than that for songs or presidential speeches.
These loans can be forgiven if stipulations are followed.
Don't let your dreams be dreams. YouTube data API allows downloading captions, and the iframe API allows setting playback speed.

You could build a site that inputs YouTube video URLs + WPM and then outputs the video playing at the desired WPM.
Google says it's just a 2 hour drive from there to LAX, or 4 hours on a bus. Maybe their airline just bussed them over to LAX?
> It very much narrows it to impersonating a well known voice _in order to to sell a product_, therefore the individual is _due proceeds based upon those sales_. Impersonating a well known person for other reasons (parody, political or religious expression, etc.) would not fall under this precedent.

Isn't that already covered by the fair use doctrine though? It wouldn't be a matter of copyright to begin with in those other cases.
I got my first call in Chinese a couple of days after I applied for for my visa to China so I assumed it was legit and related initially (e.g. they want more documents or something). Fortunately I don't speak Mandarin so once I tracked down my coworker and asked him to translate he told me it was a known scam.
Crowdsourcing news links and tips from the public.
With this kind of money, why isn’t a lawyer involved?

I agree, hire a lawyer with connections, one that can make Bezos life difficult, just like he made yours . . .
I've actually read that. Was very good.