skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the GPU price you’re quoting is about 10k too high. $8500 for the V100/32gb
I imagine the tourism industry will suffer to some extent, but if NZ/AU residents are essentially restricted from traveling outside that zone, you may see an uptick of travelers who would have normally traveled outside that zone now choosing to vacation inside those two countries instead.
> Would you recommend it as an introduction to topic?

No. I would not recommend it unless you have a strong foundation in statistic.

If you want an introduction, I like
"Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R and BUGS" by John K. Kruschke. It's basically the Bayesian intro statistic version of Wackerly's statistic book (frequentist).
This is a fun read. Curious how this works for large systems:

> This shell instance is special because it only contains sufficient information just to make GNU Hello, available. We can even inspect the value of $PATH, here:

> (list of 20 or so paths to binaries)

Do binary path lookups slow to a crawl when you’ve got 100s or 1000s of separate directory paths to look through? IIUC, there’s a separate directory added to PATH for each binary right? Which presumably would be a disk I/O to read the file list for PATH matching for each command.
the inverse is true. I am banned from Uber and cannot sign up for UberEats
Click and hold on the back button, you should get a list of previous pages.
awesome job for a side project! looks very slick!
Without staking my flag on either side of this argument, it's a bit silly to say "the only reason this stands out is because it affected so many people" as if that's a reasonable counter-argument.

The large amount of people affected reinforces your parent comment's argument. Something that has the potential to affect an immense amount of people should be treated with a relative amount of care. Writing crap code and pushing carelessly would be a far more significant failure of judgement if that code were in the Facebook SDK than if it were in Johnny's Hello World App.

It's also worth noting the difference between writing code with a minor change in behavior that when pushed to production causes an unexpected domino-effect of obfuscated cascading failures across multiple different services that eventually impacts an immense amount of people, vs. directly writing code that crashes on the client side and impacts an immense amount of people. This is the latter.
Don't be an apologist. Any technical person here could show you how to write polite and respectful software.
Came here to rave about McElreath. The book is great, as are the attached materials and YouTube lectures. Thumbs way up, especially when Gelman is giving you trouble.
Why don't you just disable the cookie in the browser you are running in the computer you own?
If you can't, that means you have no control over the computer and software you own.
It says above that quote: "These are satirical, but real"
> Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

Why do you think that Facebook paid for this research?
One of my favorite things (at least for personal projects) about using the cloud is so-called "platform as a service" systems like Heroku, where I don't have to get down in the weeds, I just push code and the process starts (or restarts).

Is there something like that I could use on my own hardware? I just want to do a fresh Linux install, install this one package, and start pushing code from elsewhere, no other configuration or setup necessary. If it can accept multiple repos, one server process each, all the better. I know things like Docker and Kubernetes exist but what I want is absolute minimal setup and maintenance.

Does such a thing exist?
Kinda funny that a bunch of accounts came through and downvoted everything I said, in this thread, whereas my comments were previously highly upvoted. I'll take the fact that no one has bothered giving any kind of counter-argument as strong confirming evidence that I'm right, but touching a nerve someone has. So thanks for that!
Aarogya Setu: The Story of a Failure
I hear you. I hosted an event for one of Uber’s earliest investors and UberEats f@cked up the order and showed up 90 mins late. I even called the restaurant a day in advance. Lots of finer pointing. Never trust them again.
Yeah, cloud dev-ops and HPC are so similar and still oh-so different (I run a smaller HPC cluster for genomics). When reading these questions, someone with an HPC background would probably already know the answers (or just accept SLURM as an answer for everything).

With respect to the original questions -- I've investigated running a full SLURM cluster on the cloud and it just never seems worth the effort. For larger clusters than mine, maybe, but then when you start to hit the levels you're talking about, I just don't see the point in moving to the cloud. It would be hard to hit that sweet spot where the costs would make sense. Amazon even has a series on scaling a SLURM cluster with AWS EC2 provisioning, but it just seemed like more work than was justified for us.
I'm a lasagna

Hog go hang a salami

This sentence no verb
Most likely: all of them. Most people have above average taste in some subject they are, for whatever reason, overly interested in. And you can't really judge this based on how good they are now or will be because that doesn't say anything about their taste just their current ability.

It's kinda like your example. No one in Dallas really thinks the Cowboys are any good. Not anymore. It's just something mildly amusing you can say. In fact the comment is rooted in being obviously tasteless. It's just the local team that was really good way back when. Those with taste may recognize that Romo was actually good or that he's made a good commentator but no one actually thinks the Cowboys are or were good since their heyday. (Though honestly I don't know or care about the team. I'm basing this on listening to sports people.)
Klarna's “Pay Later” Impact on Ecommerce Sales
I have one of the new Magic Keyboards in front of me now.

I had the same reservations as you before trying it out (and it’s a little hard to tell because all I have to rely on is my meat brain’s interpretation), but it feels like the cursor still moves in linear space. It’s just that whilst it’s over a button (or other control) that the cursor disappears and the selection feels glued to the control for the duration it passes over.
You forgot watchOS, where you literally cannot design a non-native app.
Life-Centered AI
Gotta love the headline
Do you have any objective evidence of this? Like, a screen recording comparing the two?
That's an incredibly naive assessment and is absolutely not true in practice, except for perhaps for some orgs where the stars just happen to align to make that a reality. Most places heavily build "cloud" into their frameworks, tooling, hiring, and, well, everything. Even just swapping out a single hosted/managed component (as my company did a few years ago, replacing Kinesis with Kafka) can require a lot of up-front work[0] and on-going maintenance.

[0] Especially if you're already in production with the thing you want to replace, and want to transition without downtime for your customers.
If you’re going to call something “utterly and trivially verifiable (sic) false” you should actually check. Interstate highways use more cement than asphalt.

“The analysis shows that a total of approximately 1.5 billion metric tons (Gt) of aggregates, 35 million metric tons (Mt) of asphalt, 48 Mt of cement, and 6 Mt of steel is in place in interstate highways.”

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3127/2006-3127.pdf
EU legislators avoid legislating particular technical solutions, since those tend to not age well (see the uproar on HN when it was reported that the EU legislated to mandate USB-C, when they didn't actually do that, they just mandated that the industry agree on a standard)
This sentence from Fight Club has had a long lasting impact on me: "The things you own, end up owning you".
Quebec power and internet pricing is really competitive. For residential services I pay $0.06/kw + $80/mo for 1Gbps fiber with 1ms ping to 8.8.8.8 (USD).

As a result, I run a power-hungry Dell r610 with 24 cores and 48GB of ram with 20+ services on it for many different aspects of my company. All the critical stuff runs on DigitalOcean / Vultr, but the 20+ non-critical services like demo apps, CI/CD, cron workers, archiving, etc. run for <$200/yr in my closet.
Funny thing about haptic click is how jarring it is if it's off, like pressing your iphone's home button before you realize it lost its charge. It really feels super-dead.
Pretty rude there.
California is split. The Bay Area is past peak, socal is still growing. Washington and Oregon are well past peak, around half of their peak new infection rate. New York is crossing under 1/3 now. Likewise New England and a few other smaller states are clearly over the hump.

This stuff works. All these places could have easily blown right through health care capacity like Milan, but they didn't. The really frustrating thing is watching it work, then watching everyone figure things aren't so bad and demand that we "open up", when the only reason things aren't so bad is because we didn't.

Another month for these early states. Just be patient. As for everyone else, it's going to be much longer than if they had just followed the lead of the lockdown set.
... Americans wear their shoes in the house? I'm a (non-white) American and this is news to me. Whenever someone comes to my house, or I go to someone else's house, people leave their shoes at the door. I thought this was something that pretty much everyone from every part of the world did.
This! I very much want to hear about how you get your bandwidth.
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This could actually be a good thing. These days advertisers act as censors: all it takes is a bunch of complaints and a website's revenue stream gets pulled. The webmasters react by deleting the controversial content and avoiding the subject in the future. If this is what a profitable internet looks like it should probably die.

This is how newspapers have operated for nearly a century, and how television operated for over 60 years.

What do you expect will replace it? A reversion to the patronage system? I don't think Bloomberg or Murdoch paying for content to be made in the way they want it is going to be an improvement.
Have you tried language server implementations like coc.nvim? They seem to be superior to ale and others that don't use the Language Server Protocol.
Almost none of these are blogs, and most of the websites linked are just junk
If you don’t already have a valid session cookie name a cookie solution to first request authentication.

With a local storage solution I would embed a session hash in some dynamically written HTML or a response header that is then stored in localStorage and then on every subsequent page request in the current HTTPS session send back that session hash prepended with a salt in the https request header. Then it’s always on initial page request but only after the session is established by the server.
It's sad that this is a hidden option; I can't imagine using a capacitive touchscreen that didn't do this. The instant feedback on an input channel as fiddly as that is simply invaluable.
They ruined this site with the automatic “smooth” navigation to other stories and the homepage. I don’t know anyone who likes it.
I’ve actually always wanted to do this; Categorise FB comments based on the original post, then build some sort of Q&A platform where the answers are just those FB comments. (Of course with randomised names and profile pictures)
We have a serious and growing shortage of primary care physicians, mostly due to insufficient federal funding for residency programs. Every year some students who graduate from medical school are unable to practice because they can't get matched to a residency slot. Ask Congress to increase funding for those programs.

It would also help to expand the ranks of physician assistants and nurse practitioners. It doesn't take a full physician to diagnose a middle ear infection or wrap up a sprained ankle.
Presumably, for the same reason it would be convenient for me to write in a non-javascript language for the browser: I've already invested in X lang, it would be nice not to have to keep current in two languages if someone is trying to port my vm to another platform [0]. <Edit to add> On the other hand, I'm chastened by the lifecycle of projects like Jython, that can only survive with maintainers who are well versed in two runtimes, which is apt to be a small intersection.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

tl;dr A creator of node.js and others have made a new runtime and ecosystem [1] (via rust) for EcmaScript that also bundles a Typescript transpiler. Rather than utilize npm, deno dependency files call out specific uris, rather than an abstract package and assuming it is on a central server. In service of letting a user choose the sandbox boundary, the interpreter requires disabling security features (ex file IO) via the run args or a config file.

[1] https://github.com/denoland
You're getting weirdly extreme. I bet most Macbook users have used Windows before and preferred to just get used to the suddenly inverted scrolling behavior on the Macbook rather than change it to what they were familiar with on Windows.

I vastly prefer "natural scrolling" now. It was awkward for about 10min. Now when I use someone's laptop that scrolls in the opposite direction, it's jarring to see the content move in a direction different than my fingers.

You're speaking from the comfort of familiarity just like anyone else is, though I can't believe anyone feels so strongly about default scroll direction. Why let something so stupid annoy you?
Show HN: Helping laid off/furloughed workers due to Covid-19
Burn it on hookers, booze, dope, travel, education
There are some nice communities out there, but they’re usually well hidden and relatively small. Once a community grows, it turns into the same shit show as the rest of Reddit.
Sorry but that’s not correct. Have you ever looked at the economics of cloud compute at that scale? You absolutely are paying for a lot of tooling that’s irrelevant to your use case. This is because GCP has to be a general provider. They have to offer the broadest possible solution to capture as much share as possible. This means there are money losing services (also low margin) that are offered to provide a complete end-to-end solution. However, the fact that those services exist means that the cost has to be made up for elsewhere. These economics are not some complicated rocket science and exist in many other types of businesses.
It depends on what you want to support. Browsers for example have been adding intermediates to their cert stores, so if you only want to support known new browsers, you only need to send the server certificate and nothing else...assuming said intermediate signed is one of the certs the browser has supplied.
This is objectively wrong, just by numbers. Covid deaths alone, in areas where this has been studied, are routinely outnumbering deaths due to all other causes. Even granting the premise, there aren't enough heart attacks and strokes to make these deaths "not worth it".
Ooh completely unrelated to the thread but thanks for offering my friends and I countless hours of fun during our middle school years!
"If more browsers were still User Agents in the literal sense, maybe we wouldn't have needed this legislation."

s/browsers/popular &/

There are browsers and other clients that are still User-Agents in the literal sense but they are not the popular ones.

The popular browsers measure their success by market share, not qualitative measures.

That is why Firefox tries to stay more or less in lock step with the leading browser on features.

This is not done out of fear of being inferior by some qualitative measure but out of fear of losing market share.
What is this guy smoking? He presents a false dichotomy of saving "labor" vs "assets". Look, if assets depreciate, it affects balance sheets of everyone, including corporates, and induce a balance sheet recession which reduces reinvestment into the economy. Everyone's fked then, too. It's all connected.
You’ve never reached out to a targeted, relevant industry contact in pursuit of a potentially mutually-beneficial endeavor? If so, have those individuals always anticipated your communication in advance?
Rust's "borrow checker" https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.8.0/book/references-and-borrowin...
Interesting things about the Lua interpreter
Scientists create a jet engine that uses plans created from electricity
> clearly other people do as well

I don't think most people understand how the content they post to Reddit is licensed.
Not sure that's universally true. We have probably tens of thousands of EC2 instances in our infra right now. Just the cost alone to build out on-prem infra and migrate things over would likely wipe out a half-decade or more of cost savings. And in the meantime our shift in focus would hurt our market position.

If we'd started in the beginning (11 or 12 years ago) with our own infra, I imagine our recurring infra costs would be lower right now, but I also suspect that our 3-person founding team would have failed to produce an MVP before their initial time and money ran out.

If I were starting a company now, I'd probably do things in a more "platform agnostic" way such that a cloud->on-prem migration might be easier. But I still never expect it'd be easy.
If I should die think only this of me
That there is some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
kraftwerk was my favorite band for about a decade. i still love them, but other stuff made it to the top of my favorites list.

the band had an amazing run from 1974 to 1991. it sure is strange, though, that past that point, they pretty much stopped making new music.

the most charitable interpretation i can come up with is that they had created all the music that they needed to. or maybe, with the dawn of widely-available computers and much cheaper music synthesis, they could no longer stay five years ahead of the competition, and opted to bow out instead.
Samsung Android multiple interactionless RCEs
Github flow is garbage.

Its broken by design and forces a subpar experience on top of something that actually fucking works.

Maybe you find it nice and dumbed down, good for you. The rest of us want git to actually be git.
The 'not knowing' part happens when the outrage is then transferred to any app which does integrate the FB SDK (like zoom). We as developers have sortof taken for granted that the FB/Google/etc SDKs can do no evil. Maybe that attitude should change, because public opinion certainly has.
Indeed, there is the Developer Certificate of Origin for that:

https://developercertificate.org/
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

- Upton Sinclair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair)
Sure but probably 99% of the

> 30% of all internet traffic.

is outside of the cloud.
I think it's probably because Facebook comments are garbage. Just people tagging eachother and saying lol. Reddit's are hardly high quality but at least they are roughly sentences most of the time.
Well, it's been said the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else.

But you're right. Just making a presentation for nobody is a great way to learn something on many levels.
Quote from the Futurism article [0] that links to the submission: “ A prototype jet engine can propel itself without using any fossil fuels, potentially paving the way for carbon-neutral air travel.
The device compresses air and ionizes it with microwaves, generating plasma that thrusts it forward, according to research published Tuesday in the journal AIP Advances. That means planes may someday fly using just electricity and the air around them as fuel.”

[0] https://futurism.com/the-byte/jet-engine-powered-electricity
Ah that is what is happening!!! Thanks HN. :)
Yeah in CS ML it’s pretty common. Many papers are on arxiv before submission. With changes in between.
I’m still only somewhat recently down this particular path, but it’s proven to be one of the more profound realizations I can remember:

You can’t guilt yourself into doing things you want to accomplish. You’ll always resist and make excuses. The only way is to enjoy the act of doing them.

Fighting procrastination, whether by guilt or rewards, is a losing game. Instead, cultivate an appreciation of the task you’re resisting, however complex or banal it may be. Learn to enjoy the micro-accomplishments of each moment. Instead of the dopamine hit of procrastination, train yourself on the dopamine trickle of sustained action.

It’s not an all-at-once change, but for me, at least, it’s had a very concrete effect so far.
if it's only one, then it is the idea that "the word creates objects", or that "creating a word, makes the object", and the power of language

for example, you can take some time to study a language, until it becomes impossible for you to not understand it when you perceive it, it becomes a part of you, of both your cognitive self and your subconscious, and you can encapsulate all of that, saying that "you grok the language"

you can also see this in a lot of places, instead of "the study of the properties of matter in relation to heat and temperature", you can say "thermodynamics", and you instantly convey a lot of meaning

and this has "given me" some moments where "a lot of pieces fall into place", like understanding that a less general version of this, is the Abstraction taught at CS classes, where it is about computational systems, and hiding implementation details, rather than the more general idea of encapsulating the understanding complex ideas, in short sentences (or words)

it's the title of an Essay I had to read in high school, when I read it, rather than the message it was supposed to convey, which is how language gave women a lesser standing in society, I got really interested in the title, in Spanish it's "La palabra crea objetos"

there are also others, like how "you don't really have to do anything, other than deal with the consequences of your decision to do, or not do something", you don't have to eat, but if you don't, you have to deal with the consequences, it gave me a more concrete feeling that that our choices shape our lives

and how everything is connected, in the way that when there was a terrorist attack in NY, thousands of miles away, in another country the price of fish and shrimp dramatically drops, in that the space station's parts were influenced by the Roman Empire, and in that war has driven a lot of the development of science and technology
I’ve known it’s fake for years, and I still feel like it’s moving.
Anything?

Why do you choose to use your incredible talents for the benefit of such a disgusting company?
Interestingly, I've collated some articles that I thought were good reads for learning. Hope it is useful! (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-02-15-list-of-feb-art...
Because Elon doesn't believe in the cloud. We were one of the few teams that got AWS access, and we were told not to rely on it too much because it's temporary...
My electric toothbrush is about to get a pretty cool upgrade.
Most? Based on what?
Not all food fits into the delivery model, burgers will get soggy, toasted sandwiches will get will get cold, salad will be cooked by the warm ingredients, ice cream will melt. For the most part if a food is good delivered then there were already restaurants offering delivery of it.
... Then don't buy a $2K+ MacBook Pro?