skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are very few niches where the cloud makes sense: Namely, where you are either too small to benefit from a single server and a single entry-level IT guy (think three or four person companies with low need for technical competency), or where you are expecting rapid growth and can't really rationally size out your own hardware for the job (in this case, the cloud is useful initially, leave it later once your scale is more stable).

In every other case, you are paying for the same hardware you could buy yourself, plus the cloud provider's IT staff, plus your own IT staff which you likely need anyways to figure out how to deal with the cloud provider, and then the cloud provider's profit margin, which is sizeable.
> For the most part, it makes no sense to use electricity to power a heat engine.

Exactly. And modern aircraft engines generally just use the turbine to power a high bypass fan, at which point why pretend to be a heat engine when you could just spin the fan directly and save a tremendous amount of power?
It wouldn't reduce all of the incidents, but heart attack risk is higher in those who don't get enough sleep, so he's not wrong on that, if people are getting more sleep at the moment.
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We know there are colors of light the eye can't see, consider there are true things the brain can't think. Your brain has tricked itself into believing its a universal understander. It's not.
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In theory we should be able to have external battery packs for electric cars, but I think the power density would have to about double before that happens. How many miles can you fit in a 30 lbs battery right now? Not very many.

I think that gets you about 10 miles in a Tesla. If it got you 20 miles it might be worth building a few slots into the trunk for extended range.
The 'pointer magnetism' in iPadOS has two different effects.

The main effect doesn't change pointer movement: Most controls on iPadOS are bigger than they look, because fingers. With no adaptation, the cursor would be hovering over controls when it looks like it's 24px away from them.

To avoid this, controls move toward the cursor when hovered, depending on how far away the cursor is from their centre. On any given frame, if the cursor is within a control's actual bounds, the control will visually overlap the cursor's current position.

The second thing does affect pointer movement: If you quickly swipe in a single direction, and the cursor lands on the edge of a control, effect #1 still happens on the approach, but the element bounces back to its resting location, and the cursor goes with it.

This seems to work well in practice. It doesn't change anything while your finger is moving, it doesn't affect any 'precise' motions, and it can't lead to your swipe landing on a different element.
Create your own Harry Potter story with this app. (RNN that generates text)
Covid-19: Will countries with younger populations fare better?
Talk about spreading mis-information! I really hope you were joking about self-infecting.
Maybe working from home is just less stressful. Or, maybe they are finally getting time to exercise, thus putting of the strokes (I don't know if exercise will put off a stroke, but maybe). I know I see a magnitude more people around my neighborhood out walking, jogging, etc. than I ever saw before.
Reading Seth Godin not only changed my life but taught me what great marketing is. Once you know what great marketing is choosing your tactics is easy.

His blog is invaluable (https://seths.blog). Read his “Top 100” and then go buy his latest book “This is Marketing.”

Marketing in a nutshell: Grow an audience by earning their trust through consistently providing value and fulfilling your promises. Choose the medium that best resonates with your audience. And start with the minimum viable audience.
Thanks for that!

I didn't bother looking for settings, and sure enough, you can switch off "Pointer Animations" and now my cursor isn't getting "trapped" all over the place.
>Software developers want to know whether their existing marketing methods are effective. The FB SDK helps with this.

As you mention, this is something the software developer want, not necessarily the user.

>You always have the choice to not install the app (if you don't want to).

This argument may have some teeth if directed toward a user in our industry. Depending on the scope of the particular software in question, the majority of users is likely to be those outside the software industry; the layman. The argument falls flat when the other person doesn't have the necessary understanding to be able to perform thoughtful analysis.

>This also helps developers make sure their marketing is effective and reaching the right people, which seems like a win-win to me.

That may be one reason this practice is in-use. I don't see how it makes the difference: the software developer continues these practices with no consideration of their user, much less the user's consent or indication anything is going on at all. It's all about what the software developer wants, not the user and that's not OK.
That S3 is eventually consistent with object updates (HTTP PUT) might also screw up things for a company whose core value is synchronized storage.
Things happen because they can.
Like a vacuum that gets filled, just because it can be filled.

(The thought came at a time of mental rut, and thinking that I cannot contribute further to the idea I had)

Things get discovered/invented just because they can. If you were to stop existing at this moment, it'd still get made. The best you can do is accelerate the process. If it can exist, it will be brought into existence. The only thing you can influence is the time at which it'll start existing.

Basically led to me pacing down my life and stop living with the constant stress of "I got to make it or it'll never exist".
Depends how creative the AI is. Human artists are trained on copyrighted images too.
Can we agree that each restaurant having a separate app is one of the dumbest outcomes imaginable?
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This whole food delivery app business is a rip off for small restaurant owners.

The owners of a few restaurants I frequent all seem to hate these apps for how much they charge them. I heard approximately 30-40%. Sure they do bring in customers specially now but 30-40% seems too high if you consider what it costs the apps.
That's pretty common, my contribution to my current work is surely in the negative as well due to the massive amount of spaghetti code I had to refactor.
Self-Discipline.

Specifically, a book called "How to do what you want to do" by Dr. Paul Hauck has influenced and shaped my thinking.
> Where do new houses come from, if occupants aren't paying their share of the labor and material cost that went into them?

Landlords are out to make a profit, so renters are obviously already "paying their share" of the cost of their unit in rent. If they weren't, their landlord would be broke.

> Why single out my landlord to lose everything for choosing a different asset class than I did?

Call it "creative destruction." Like the buggy-whip makers of old, maybe he made a bad choice about what business to get into?
In general I would agree with you. My sense is that UberEats can't possibly absorb the huge loss of business of Uber's "main" product line. I also feel that Uber's problems will persist for at least 15-18 months, if not for longer.

In this case, you still need to considerably cut your workforce, to be able to use that cash for a "very long" rainy day.

Just IMHO. I can be completely wrong on all accounts.
I think you're looking for Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
>We had a live model at the late Dennis Hoffs cathouse near Reno with a lovense in her vajayjay taking ETH porntoken ICO investments in her toy through the ethereum blockchain.

I'm a native English speaker, but apparently not a native teledildonics speaker. I can't make heads or tails of this sentence.
> maintenance is actually quite low.

I do hope you regularly patch and reboot your systems.
Automation eliminated 90% of farm jobs over the last 200 years, and the American middle class became immensely wealthier directly because of this.

Automation creates better jobs and it’s benefits lifts up everyone over time.
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> You always have the choice to not install the app (if you don't want to).

Before this article came out was this information available to the users to help them in making this decision.

No, it was not! Hence the problem.
There is a big problem with optimistically assuming immune systems will respond like SARS even, because we know in general terms the more severe the symptoms the longer the immunity lasts, but wait ... huge huge numbers of people with Covid-19 are asymptotic, that is not the cases with it’s SARS and MERS relatives! wake up people, herd immunity is delusional and dangerous. more likely is very short immunity, just like the other 4 Corona family virus which cause many of our common colds, high asymptotic rates, and reinfect us very very frequently and NOT due to mutations!

http://www.columbia.edu/~jls106/galanti_shaman_ms_supp.pdf
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Dine-in service being illegal has certainly made takeout a popular option around L.A. I do wish more people wore masks to pick up the food inside the restaurant, however.
As much as you can hate a service, please consider the the primary "victims" of a layoff are the workers, not the company itself.

I don't think that any specific individual "deserves" to be punished for having worked at a company like Uber. There might be exceptions, and there might be a few specific individuals that crossed the line, but most people do their work and behave with honesty, and they don't deserve your negativity.
> complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours

Not to be glib, but isn't that about normal for the flu? The reason there's so many folk remedies is that you'll generally recover after a couple of days and attribute it to whatever you did in those days.
Terraform, Hugo, S3, Cloudfront.

It’s low maintenance, cheap, and simple. No “moving parts”, and on the off chance I ever put anything up that gets attention from HN or bigger sites it will easily handle.
Perhaps, but now I know what the ‘Streisand effect’ is...
The 9 alignments from the Baldur's Gate series.
First known person-to-person transmission of coronavirus in the US
I agree with you OP.

Our company provides on-premise ERP systems to small (we’re talking at most 20 person companies) wholesale distributors.

Pre-COVID, I was pushing for a cloud solution to our product and pivoting our company towards that model. We’re at a hybrid approach when COVID hit.

What ends up happening with an on-premise/hybrid cloud model is we end up doing a lot of the sysadmin/IT support work for our customers just to get our ERP working. This includes getting ahold of static IP addresses (and absolving responsibility), configuring servers/OSes, and several other things along the same vein that’s wholly irrelevant to the actual ERP like inventory management and accounting.

Long story short, these customers of ours end up expecting us to maintain their on-premise server without actually paying for help or being knowledgable about how it all works. We keep pitching them the cloud but they’re not willing to pay us a recurring fee even though it actually saves the headaches of answering the question “who’s responsibility is it to make sure this server keeps running?"

I think a lot of these answers here are dealing with large-scale products and services where the amount of data and capital costs is so massive it makes sense to start hiring your own admins solely to maintain servers. For these small mom-and-pop shops who are looking for automation, the cloud is still the way to go.
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I would also argue vaccine is not likely for many related reasons.
That doesn't really answer what containment means or what the long-term strategy is.

If you relax lockdowns while you still have a significant number of active cases then expect outbreaks to reoccur. So is the plan to stay locked down until active cases in the applicable area are essentially zero, i.e. eradication? If so, how long will that take? If not, what is the plan?

I know there's no easy solution here but even my well-informed California friends don't seem to know what the plan is.
User benefits from effective marketing. If software dev knows who their audience is better it means product will reach the correct customers more efficiently. It is win for everybody.
I like mathy company names. In fact, as a math person from long before it was cool, I love that others like them too now. I still own a few mathy domain names that friends warned me against using years ago when I was deciding on the name of startups. Maybe their time has come.

What does irk me a bit is when programmers abuse math words. Like implementing correlation and calling it convolution. Or using Tensor to describe a nested array of numbers. Sort of like nerdrage over an inauthentic movie portrayal of a comic.

But Tensorflow otherwise is just kinda descriptive. An iteration of the "dataflow graph" idea that operates on "tensors".
Happiness depends on the discrepancy between expectations and reality.

Your mind has a simulated copy of reality. The more you develop opinions about the future based on this copy, the more likely that they are out of sync by the time the future comes.

Seeing these two as separate, and their distance as something that hurts, has made me wary of elaborating my expectations. I dream about stuff I consider important and this category shrinks with age.

I’m not saying don’t plan/dream/hope. Just pick your battles and focus your efforts on the ones you decide to keep. Otherwise, just go with the flow.
-- "I've done projects on my own and I can complete them," and "I've worked with engineers, product managers, managers, designers, non technical people and together we have shipped software."

You've managed to describe everything awful about programming in one sentence. You are the reason he can't get a job, only you, you god awful human.
Ask HN: Why there are so many AI compilers?
There are a lot of AI compilers out there: MLIR/TVM/XLA/Halide/Hgraph/TensorRT etc... Do we really need so many AI compilers given that only PyTorch/Tensorflow/MXNet are mainsteam frameworks? Or do HW vendors/frameworks really have the incentive to have their own set of IRs?
Is there a comprehensive list of applications that have the FB SDK in them so that I can decide to not install those?

Does Apple use FB SDK in their apps? I think not, but can someone confirm?
Palantir develops tools to be better at tasks that are pitched to them in some degree of detail through the RFP process and similar processes. Palantir as a company would not exist if it were not for the less savoury of those tasks.

We do not hear, "Government X purchases a couple thousand Excel licenses to keep a database on people it'd like to kill", and I imagine that Microsoft does not sell Excel to Government X in response to an RFP for tooling to keep track of people it'd like to kill.

(Of course, it'd probably stick its metaphorical fingers in its ears if it did hear about Excel being used for that purpose.)
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When I was in middle school (mid 80s) I had to memorize a poem. But I've forgotten the name of it. And I've forgotten the poem ;-) What I do remember is that it was about animals and was off the wall crazy (like poem about Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts). Does anyone know if there is a website where you can enter parameters and it will suggest possible matching poems? I'd really like to find it again.
That’s total nonsense. There are many reasons to believe the immunity is very very short.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jls106/galanti_shaman_ms_supp.pdf
Even better. Give me a quick one-button "here's a lawsuit against you" as a response for my email being in that list. I'd gladly pay hundreds of dollars to 1) remove the pain and 2) punish a business like this.
24 servers, interesting. That seems like a small enough setup that I would definitely have left it in the cloud. Much more than that and i think it makes sense to start moving to physical servers. But 24 I would have guessed would be cheaper to maintain in EC2.

Are you setup with one or two racks in each location and maybe one full time IT/Sys admin at each location?
Let's have a honest debate about “herd immunity”
I've been there. Some article or art really lands with me, falls completely flat with friends or when I post it.

I've also experienced the opposite--a focus of this very article actually--creating something that catches on much more than I expected.

It's surreal being able to create something that people love and not being able to exactly know why that one bubbled up in particular.

Feeling a profound connection to some work and not having others see what you see is the brother of that confusion.

If you want a surprisingly deep meditation on popularity in art, Chris Rock's Top Five has some interesting dialogues on it. And Chuck Klosterman's "But What if We're Wrong?" is a good book basically about how unfathomable popularity is.
The author points out a poor abstraction and blames the object oriented programming with its secret methods and private code happening behind the scenes, when the issue was just poor documentation or a flawed implementation. Would functional programming really have prevented all bugs?

I've never met someone who hates on OOP like this and has also spent time working in a multi-team setting on a large codebase. Given enough code it's impossible to grok everything that is going on and some kind of abstraction is necessary. This is where OOP really shines; OOP is great exactly because it abstracts away data so I don't have to think about it. Sure, multiple inheritance and deep class ancestry can make OOP code hard to follow, but it's just as easy to write bad code functionally. This post is just comparing the worst of OOP with the best of FP without doing the reverse.
LTUI – A cross platform terminal UI library based on Lua
Apparently you can turn it off in settings.
This seems similar to the direction Apache Arrow is going in, but I don't see the use case for this once Arrow dataframes are prevalent.
Blended learning model combines tech with in person teaching at SPARK
If we all had fewer sex partners, that would go a long way.
I really, really like your metaphor of the dirt roads remade in place. It’s fascinating to look down at the sidewalk in NYC and know that it was farmland only a few centuries ago. We know the aphorisms: Rome wasn’t built in a day, but we don’t always think them through.

At work, when a new person joins our team, it’s fascinating (in a non-cynical way) to hear “why are we using a dirt road here instead of a highway? Wouldn’t that be more efficient?” It’s fun to imagine the implications of such a project, and it’s a great opportunity to give perspective on the traffic flow of customers, developers, operations.

Could we build a highway there? Yes. But usually, it’s a better allocation of our finite resources to do some maintenance on the existing highway. Sometimes, we actually need to take highways apart and replace them with something more informal, since their maintenance costs more than they’re worth.

Something tangential this reminds me of is the concept of “Desire Lines”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path. The work of an SWE can be summed up as the identification and “improvement” of desire lines. If you build a highway, but it’s not on a desire line, you’ve just wasted a lot of energy!
The OP said without payment they will send you to the ER, which is true. If you can pay, as you said, then they will see you.
Not quite, but it’s certainly one of the heuristics I would expect to see someone implement. It isn’t a good fit for my use case though.
Seems like it only takes a few minutes...did you try it? How did it affect the headache?
Using that quote in this context essentially represents the epitome of first-world problems and privilege.
The code is a dumpster fire. I wouldn't trust it to manage my shopping list and would get in deep shit at work for something like that. Not sure if that article itself makes good points, but the code alone should anyone nope out. Publishing any results from this feels criminal, let alone something world-changing as their reports.
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Becuse we don't trust a foreign cloud provider with our client's data. Why is that so hard to understand?

All the best cloud providers are from the US and as a european company with clients in european government and healthcare we are often not morally or legally allowed to use a foreign provider.

The sad thing is that this is an ongoing battle between people on a municipal level who believe they can save money in clouds, and morally wiser people who are constantly having to put the brakes on those migration projects.