skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been huge on poetry, but decided last year to memorize a poem each month. Totally doable, but I only made it through about four. My own laziness.

You get to know a poem so much better when you memorize it. You need to think about each word. Sometimes your brain wants to substitute another word and you have to think about why the poet chose the one they did instead of the one that might feel natural.

It feels like engaging in a great conversation. These poets all read each other's work, going back in this timeless chain into the distant past. And you can tell when one is responding to the words of another, who they know can never answer back, but there's a connection all the same.

Recognizing Ozymandias being recited in a Ballad of Buster Scruggs short felt like seeing a dear friend make a surprise cameo in a movie.

Plus, if you've got a flair for the dramatic, it's a neat party trick.
Not just network calls, but also the file system, or basically anything nontrivial.

C++ static variables can now be annotated with constinit to resolve issues like this: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constinit It basically asks the compiler to enforce that constructor calls can only do trivial things.
My bank has the Facebook sdk in there app. At the time they where the only bank willing to open an account for an under 18, international student. I queried them about opting out, they told me to opt out on Facebook's end. Not sure how I would avoid banking.
> What comes off of those colo servers is literally just bits streaming from disk to network

So... the core of their business?
What's the time trade-off?

I've been drawing out my plans lately for a hobby project, all 100% on AWS.

Being able to spin up my entire infrastructure with Terraform, build out images with Packer, setup rules for off-site backups, ensure everything is secure to the level I want it, etc. - It takes me next to no time at all.

I can't imagine buying hardware, ensuring my home is setup with proper Internet, configuring everything here, and then still needing off-site backups anyway.

Now, keep in mind - I'm definitely coming in from a Millennial point of view. My entire career was built on cloud. I've never touched hardware apart from building a computer back when I was 15 or something. I understand virtual.

But being able to build up and tear down an entire setup, having it completely self-restore in minutes. Can't beat that.

Napkin math has me at ~$50/mo: Full VPC, private/public isolated subnets, secure NACLs and security groups, infinitely extendable block storage and flat-file storage, near-instant backups with syncing to a different continent, 5 servers, DNS configurations, etc.

All depends what you're doing too - of course. But for me, just the trade-off of working with what I know and not needing to leave my cafe of choice, still not breaking the bank - and if I do, having instant tear down and restore. Bam.
A few months ago, there was a demonstration of a lightweight model airplane propelled by the air currents produced by a corona discharge [1], and ion rocket motors have great specific impulse, but they are both low-thrust devices. I believe you are right, that these are not heat engines, any more than an electric motor is: in all these cases, the moving part is directly accelerated in the direction we want it to go.

[1] https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/researchers-successful...
Porntoken.io has been up for several years with no problems.
Also porntoken was the first project to do teledildonics with the lovense toys through the Ethereum blockchain.
https://github.com/porntoken/EthereumDildoMonitor

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.

Porntoken is largely done now, but we had a damn good time making the movies we did.

https://avn.com/movies/241591.html

All the movies on the website still work however.
> [2] https://github.com/007/hashcash

Looks like your repo is https://github.com/007/hashcash-js

But, cool! Thanks for sharing.
> I don't understand the appeal of these food delivery services at all.

The appeal was that these services would work with almost any restaurant that had takeout but not delivery.

Personally, if I were a restaurant, I would use these services to gauge how much interest my clients have in delivery. Once I pass a certain threshold or during peak times, I would hire my own drivers and do my own delivery while cutting out the SillyVally VC backed services.

11:37 PM on Tuesday--sure, Uber gets that one, LOL. Peak Friday from 5:00PM to 10:00PM--I'll have my own drivers for that timeslice, thanks.
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You can reset the brush back to easy-start mode, and do a thing where you reset the two minute timer. Haven't found a way to do just a simple on/off/no timer, though. I found this rather amazing rabbit hole of a page while looking:

https://www.animated-teeth.com/electric_toothbrushes/b-sonic...

This says... something about modern dev practices. I'm not sure what.
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> There is only one infinite game

It's World of Warcraft, isn't it? :)

Thank you for the quote. I get the point and it gives me something to think about as a gamer who often settles into the gamer equivalent of comfort food.
This is awesome. I love the simplicity.

I tested it out with CockroachDB to satisfy my curiosity and it works perfectly, using the PostgreSQL driver. I think adding first-class support would be as easy as making a new driver that's the same as PostgreSQL but with a default port of 26257!
I use things like this and FontAwesome etc. a bunch, and they no doubt solve a real problem. But I also sort of wish that the problem were solved in a way that does not involve stuffing things that are not even remotely text into a font.

It seems like there should be a generic way to say "put image X (SVG, PNG, whatever) on the screen here, as if it were a glyph, and also do scaling and linebreaks and alignment properly, oh and colors and so on". I expect this already exists somewhere deep inside CSS - does anyone know the story?
Spend less time looking at a screen. Spend more time outside and/or around people I enjoy.

(Note: I'm more extroverted than introverted.)
This is a cool thing about learning something as a kid: You have no taste to get in the way of learning. You just learn. This is true of six-year-olds learning to play the violin.

Another taste-bypass is to jump into a field that's new enough to have no established standards for taste. For instance when I learned programming, there were no beautiful websites or even software to compare my work to. Websites were a decade away, and I had no access to any interesting software other than what I wrote myself or could find in a magazine. I was having a blast, and felt like master of the universe, though my programs by today's standards would be laughable.
Not really an idea, but I guess something of an epiphany:

We were doing a basic physics class at school at maybe 12 or 13 years old. We were learning about Newton's laws of motion etc.

One day we had a test and there was a question about why playgrounds often have rubber matting or tiles around the climbing frames or swings etc. Cue a load of waffly nonsense answers about "cushioning impact" or being "soft so it doesn't hurt" etc from everyone in the class. The teacher berated us: Force = mass X acceleration - reduce the acceleration and the force goes down too.

A lightbulb went off in my head - suddenly science actually meant something in the real world rather than just being something your learnt at school. This was how the world worked.

The fact that this moment still sticks out in my mind suggests that it was probably quite a formative moment for me and I guess changed my outlook on the world quite significantly. (... but then there was also a sort of philosophical existential thought about the "tyranny of equations" we end up living our lives by if we like it or not!)
What is this fresh hell? If you buy a spatula on Amazon, would you accept "client-side analytics" on what you cook because "it's basically the only way to monitor it?" Or would you say that your spatula usage is nobody's business?

I love and happily pay for Spotify, but it is eye-opening that they send any data to Facebook. Well, shit.
I don’t think ‘no pollution’ and ‘no restaurants’ for only three months would significantly affect the heart attack / stroke rate.
The idea of using game as login method (VIDEOS)
Don’t forget that you’re picking which houses to invade based on gender, age, etc.

Totally not creepy.
Manufacturing Here. This is also the Case with us. Also the cost to run our on-prem in the cloud would be almost 10x what we pay right now. Such an insane amount of CAD Data, there is 0% chance we can get an internet connection that comes close to what on-prem can handle for our massive cad data.
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I played with LyX a long time ago, when exploring options for editing XML documents.

The way it presents the structure of the document was great.
> He’s telling beginners that because you’re trying you must have good taste

That's not how I read the quote. I read it as him saying, you can't know whether or not you have good taste without first producing a lot of bad work, and that producing bad work is not necessarily a sign that you have bad taste.

If anything, those who judge themselves harshly are demonstrating good taste because they can see the flaws in their work compared to the works of others. It's those that don't feel any sense of criticism toward their own work that lack good taste, but they wouldn't feel this quote applies to them in the first place, because they wouldn't feel that their work is disappointing. They would instead be blaming others for not recognizing their superior work.
It really doesn't matter to me what random person delivers my Amazon package. I care about what I eat.

The fact that it is fast food is what surprises me. There's so little value added for so much money. I'm sure it appeals to other people. I ride elevators with Uber Eats drivers delivering a Subway sandwich. That's a ridiculous investment for such a terrible meal.
Unrelated to the post, but related to TechCrunch: is there a way for me to prevent them from hijacking my back button? There’s nothing more frustrating than clicking back to go to my previous page, only to be redirected to the same exact page I already am on.
Samsung Vice Chair Lee Jae-Yong Issues Public Apology, Vows to Change
I tried to order food with DoorDash. I couldn't figure out how to use the app. I entered my address and selected a nearby restaurant. I picked a couple things on the menu and added them to my order. Never was able to figure out what to do from there. There didn't seem to be a cart or order or anything and there was no call to action. I gave up after a few minutes and deleted the app.
The fast Fourier transform and related topics in stochastic processes.
That'a very significant, nevertherless. For workloads that arw not diverae in terms of software, but simply burn CPU, Ram and network, cloud is not cost effective
That is where the margins come from on AWS. They are charging 10x the cost of the hardware. Even the AWS well architected framework says that there are always tradeoffs between disaster recovery and cost. For your business cost is more important than having your servers replicated in many time zones.
Two sides of the same coin generally means complementary items that may seem unrelated, not opposites. An English teacher I had banged on about theme and style being two sides of the same coin when writing.

The example here would be that mass murder is not really as effective without technology, whereas technology enables us to flip to mass murder quickly even if we previously didn't consider it. They are complements.
Maybe the government having access to all of your data....
In the eyes of the law, how is storing and sending the guid later different from storing and sending a cookie?

Edit: the GPDR link specifically says identifier numbers are personal information, and I don’t see a carve out for allowing targeted marketing campaigns to use them to measure/improve targeting performance.

Wrong link, maybe?
"A beginner practices until they get it right, a master practices until they can't get it wrong."
> They all seem to trend towards feminine cat/fox 'sonas.

The gender bias is actually really interesting. I'm curious how much of it is due to:

* Inherent bias in the source dataset. (For example, nekomimi art is overwhelmingly female -- there's a reason they're referred to as "catgirls". The GAN does a great job of distinguishing this from Western anthropomorphic art styles, incidentally.)

* Bias introduced through filtering of the dataset, e.g. by excluding NSFW source material or certain tags, or a bias in what types of faces were recognized.

* Androgynous faces being interpreted as feminine by default.

* GAN-specific characteristics of the output (like smooth features) being interpreted as feminine.
25 years ago, after a rafting trip in the Yukon and Alaska, I decided to memorize Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee. After working on it for about a month, I had it cold. Never attempted to recite it since. After seeing this article, I thought I would give it a shot. I stumbled over a couple of lines in the middle, but, overall, I remembered it pretty well. Now if I could only remember where I put my keys 60 minutes ago.
I used this technique in my forms until I realised that the browser's auto-fill also works similar to the bot and will fill fields that has a familiar field name (email, name phone etc). Real users (many of them) who use browsers auto-fill feature will get blocked by this technique. If you add a field with a random field name bots ignore that field.

One thing that works still is using Javascript to create a hidden field and make that field mandatory. Run of the mill bots don't run Javascript yet. However this will exclude people who have disabled Javascript in their browsers.
For all of Walmart’s ruthlessness with how they treat their employees, I do get a bit of enjoyment out of the flip side of them channeling the same ruthlessness towards refusal to let Amazon eat their lunch.
Reminds me of Android's "Show Taps" option in developer settings. Albeit with much more physics and animation.
The site owner can work it out, but the problem is the regulator cannot.
I have recwntly put together a K8S clyster out of old and bargain basement hardware for hosting personal projects. Equivalent perf. from big cloud would cost me $ 400++
Spotify is a paid product.
Do you trust your Uber Eats driver? As I said, I understand the appeal of the occasional food delivery. I don't understand how delivery of fast-food at such scale can be sustainable. Right now it is making it possible to have cheap fast food delivered. I don't see how that works once the VC cash is all burned up. That is, until it is fully automated.
The Esperanto translation is fantastic
Why should we convince them on altruism and not by paying them more? I thought USA was all about the market deciding where resources should go?
Cost and Latency.

My team and I run the servers for a number of very big videogames. For a high-cpu workload, if you look around at static on-prem hosting and actually do some real performance bencharking, you will find that cloud machines - though convenient - generally cost at least 2x as much per unit performance. Not only that, but cloud will absolutely gouge you on egress bandwidth - leading to a cost multiplier that's closer to 4x, depending on the balance between compute and outbound bandwidth.

That's not to say we don't use the cloud - in fact we use it extensively.

Since you have to pay for static capacity 24/7 - even when your regional players are asleep and the machines are idle, there are some gains to be had by using the right blend of static/elastic - don't plan to cover peaks with 100% static - and spin up the elastic machines when your static capacity is fully consumed. This holds true for anything that results in more usage - a busy weekend, an in-game event, a new piece of downloadable content, etc... It's also a great way to deal with not knowing exactly how many players are going to show up on day 1.

Regarding latency, we have machines in many smaller datacenters around the world. We can generally get players far closer to one of our machines than to AWS/GCP/Azure, resulting in better in-game ping, which is super important to us. This will change over time as more and more cloud DCs spring up, but for now we're pretty happy with the blend.
On Pythonista you can run Flask or Django, it's nifty. The apps are coming, there's one for nodejs and react. Would not be surprised to see ruby/go soon.
It's always a good time to exercise your brain in a different way. I started memorizing poetry while in high school just for the fun of it. Some I found motivational, some just silly - Jabberwocky almost broke me. Whitman - that man knew how to live. My favorite of all remains Poe's The Raven. It was the Simpson's shortened take on that poem that first drew my attention, but man, did Poe know how to tell a story, and the meter! Such a rhythm, such a beat that man had.

In learning other languages one of the greatest challenges of all is to understand their poetry. Pushkin, Lermontov in their original are treasures. If only I could understand them all without always keeping my dictionary handy.

It is always wonderful to find a poet's expressions when they have chosen a different way to say what I'm thinking. Mary Oliver's Summer Day is just a celebration of the wonders of life.

Also, this stuff is a great source of passwords. Nobody puts words together the way poets do.
You waste your time, and small claims throws out your case because you agreed to arbitration with UberEats.
> Maybe people could train to read easily that font - they didn't have much of alternatives. That would mean readability is rather conditional. I'd like to know.

I feel like comprehension of the underlying language will aid readability. If it were written in English, despite the illegibility, I'd be able to read it easier by having a general sense of what the words are supposed to be from context.
Were you a breakfast eater before you started?

The thought of food usually makes me queasy before around noon. So I naturally slipped into intermittent fasting before I knew what it was.
They usually don't show up and you get a default judgement
Where do new houses come from, if occupants aren't paying their share of the labor and material cost that went into them? There are always popular areas without enough space for everyone, who decides who gets to live there? Why single out my landlord to lose everything for choosing a different asset class than I did?
Is it strange that they're using SurveyMonkey and not Microsoft Forms?
One of the few modern artists that exemplify Zero to One. They weren't just genius, they were fearless. And the world is a better place as a result.
Servers aren’t replicated. As a matter of fact.. aws began out of unused machines for ephemeral servers
We hear from our customers mostly what has been said here: cost and mental overhead. There is a bit of a paradox - companies that plan to grow aggressively are wary of AWS bills chopping their runway in half - they're very aware of _why_ cloud providers give out a year for free to most startups - they recoup that loss very fast once the cash faucet opens up.

What really gets me is that most cloud providers promise scalability, but offer no guard-rails - for example diagnosing performance issues in RDS - the goal for most cloud providers is to ride the line between your time cost and their service charges. Sure you can reduce RDS spend, but you'll have to spend a week to do it - so bust out the calculator or just sign the checks. No one will stop you from creating a single point of failure - but they'd happily charge for consulting fees to fix it. There is a conflict on interest - they profit from poor design.

In my opinion, the internet is missing a platform that encourages developers to build things in a reproducible way. Develop and host at home until you get your first customers, then move to a hosting provider down the line. Today, this most appeals to AI/ML startups - they're painfully aware of their idle GPUs in their gaming desktops and their insane bill from Major Cloud Provider. It also appeals to engineers who just want to host a blog or a wedding website, etc.

This is a tooling problem that I'm convinced can be solved. We need a ubiquitous, open-source, cloud-like platform that developers can use to get started on day 1, hosting from home if desired. That software platform should not have to change when the company needs increased reliability or better air conditioning for their servers. If its a Wordpress blog or a minecraft server or a petabyte SQL database - the Vendor should be a secondary choice to making things.
This is speculation on my part, but it seems like this might be difficult to sustain as the external air pressure changes as a rocket climbs. While the gas supply pressure can be controlled, changes in external pressure seem likely to affect operation, e.g., as air density gets lower it exhibits less resistance to the exhaust, changing the backpressure. Maybe that can be sensed and compensated for? That may add additional complexity and reduce reliability, especially if achieving stability requires very fine tuning. On land or in space there may be no such issues, but air pressure and temperature changing as a rocket climbs may cause issues. I'd want to see it fly before I'd believe it could be used in rockets.
I know some people who use g̶i̶t̶ ̶g̶a̶r̶d̶e̶n̶e̶r̶ gitfiti to draw on their commit history. Like NES and Atari sprites, like Pacman or Galaga. It's just meant to be a funny subversion of people who take GitHub graphs a little too seriously.

I've never had someone ask about my GitHub and it's on my resume. Probably because it's fairly inactive and I regularly take down projects I'm not proud of.
It came out at the end of 2018. You probably just haven't noticed it because the only visual is a little badge at the bottom right hand corner of the page.
Disagree; your still at the mercy of whatever last mile is __between__ the cloud and the office.

Also any bandwidth limitations; in the US that's still a big deal.

Public facing stuff should probably be colo or rented server.
That depends on your cipher selection, IIRC. At a previous job, we had an appliance that got a mirror port of our uplink and could record HTTP sessions between customers and our webapps; it was given a copy of the private key, and it worked great, right up until newer HTTPS standards pushed PFS and broke it.
No Amazon Echo or Google Home interface? I thought all the IoT devices were supported by them these days..

[edit:] Well this totally exists!

https://coolblindtech.com/alexa-is-now-available-for-sex-wit...
A “view cart” button appears at the bottom of the screen when I add an item to my order (iOS).
I have serious, serious doubts about the whole approach of "identify known objects in a camera feed so you can try not to hit them". I don't know what the current approaches are but there needs to be some kind of subsumption setup where if you don't recognize an object, at the very least you assume it's a stationary solid object and you don't hit it. It doesn't matter if your classifier says it's a brick, or a grandma, or a hibiscus, or (unknown). Unless you've positively identified it as something that's safe to hit (say, a plastic bag wafting along in the breeze) then don't hit it.

If you do have an identification then you can layer behaviours on top of this (eg. Is it a person? They usually walk forward or in the direction they're looking, so anticipate this.) But the default behaviour cannot be "dunno what that is so I'll ignore it".

"Don't hit the thing" is the most basic, fundamental behaviour for a self driving vehicle.
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