skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a viable career--just make it one of the skills that you have. You can start with Solidity and program some basic smart contracts (check out https://remix.ethereum.org/). Then when you feel like you're getting the hang of it, try creating a server that listens for blockchain events and manages a DB of off chain activity... and then you can start architecting more complex systems, like contracts that interact with each other.

Speaking from a financial standpoint I think ETH will be more of a career for you if that's what you pursue--you can charge well for smart contract architecture. I think BTC will be more of a store of value (and then transactional too later on) and ETH will be computational/contractual. Lots of people have strong opinions on this and other decentralized scripting languages; this is just my opinion as a random guy on the internet :)

Speaking from a code efficiency standpoint: Solidity will force you to be very economical about the code that you write, since you pay per opcode to execute code. I think that alone is worth writing some smart contracts, because it forces you (as long as you set cost as a constraint) to be efficient in your architecture so it's a good exercise.

There aren't a ton of real world applications where you can honestly say "that architecture is better than a centralized one" yet. But if you study the tech and grow with it over the next 20 years you will have a complete understanding of how it works and will be in a position to contribute as it gets to higher adoption levels (or help push it there), which I consider a good idea.
Some cultures have been much more accepting of mental illness than western culture is today.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka
I think I had heard that the Chinese amongst their normal population (not officially) called it the "Wuhan Flu" originally.
At least in April, almost twice as many people had trust in our expert (71%) than our President (45%) or Legislators (41/40%).

https://morningconsult.com/2020/04/08/dr-fauci-is-voters-pre...
All the bucks stop with him. He's a CEO on the ground floor of a factory, not only overseeing and but also engineering.
You don't want that in soup, do you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpUn9tzwj2E
As soon as you start trying to automatically filter out messages you don't want, you enter an arms race that you're not going to win.

Surely a better solution is to provide the players with a way to votekick abusive users, and leave it at that?
Why do articles insist on providing numbers with no appropriate context? What do the absolute number of deaths of 9/11 or absolute number of deaths in Viet Nam have to do with this?

Perhaps better comparisons would be: how many deaths are there in the world per day? Before and after the instigation of covid19? How many deaths due to pneumonia before and after?

Has the death rate in other categories been reduced? Are there fewer accidents? Maybe we should just lock down forever because it might save at least one death due to accident?

"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero".
And I guess I've just found the most authentic and ridiculous way to play a midi file on somewhat modern macOS: run winamp in wine.
It prevents your child from turning into a projectile during heavy turbulence.
I don't know if it's a lie but there sure is a lot of spyware these days. For example, if you follow the directions to disable telemetry in strapi, it still stays active in certain configurations (eg. devmode). In other modes it loads external resources that can be used for tracking.
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Terraform is better in almost every way.

I disagree. I spent time in Terraform a few years ago working with a client and Terraform had the ability to create but not tear down resources for some services. I was shocked -- check out the Github issues history. I ended up writing a "bunch of bash script wrappers or similar around it".
Your second link is an interesting read. Even though the virus was found on the floor and >6 ft away in a Chinese hospital, fortunately no staff were infected. I am not a scientist but I think they just tested for viral fragments versus active infectable viral particles. It’s reassuring but caution is still warranted.
A little off topic, but is there a german version of Solaris that is "readable"? The one I got reads like it was done in google translator (back when it really sucked).
One time a hosted an ElasticCache for testing purposes for Bull library for a couple of days and then I forgot about it for a month but I wasn't even using it. Got the bill for 1500$ :)
While it's possible to provision actual instances with terraform, it's not what you should be doing.
Let terraform handle the infrastructure, and have ansible or puppet or saltstack or cfengine or whatever provisioning tool to do the instance setup.

It's all about the right tool for the job, and managing your linux install with terraform is not that.
I disagree. I think this "trivia based" knowledge is leading to a decline in overall ability and innovation. I've noticed it in myself.

The problems we are starting to face are not google-able problems. Despite this wealth of information, people still struggle in math class, physics is still hard, engineering students still drop out, etc. Analytical, problem solving activities are getting harder to do. Sure, I can look up the date of X, but so what?

Now that there is absolutely no barrier to entry, I'd wager much of what you google isn't even truth. Look at anti-vaccination, holocaust denial, conspiracy theories, survivorship bias self help not based on anything. There is no inherent curation built into the internet - on one hand, this is good - but I think we are now seeing the negative effects grow exponentially.
I work in a security office managing AWS infrastructure resources across a large org and three of these services work great for us:

CloudFormation: this is an excellent resource when you need to tell teams across our org how you want them to set up resources. Rather than have numerous lengthy meetings where we tell them what to do, we just give them the CF template, super simple, and we guarantee everyone has the same setup.

Kinesis: works great for ingesting the data we had them set up resources for with the above mentioned CF script. I can't speak to the Java dependency the author mentioned. Not an issue for us. YMMV.

Lambda: Also works great with the CF template setup mentioned above. Super cheap to use. Maybe the difference between our implementation and the authors is the frequency and trigger used. Our lambda functions are all time based and run once a day, or maybe a few times a day. Super reliable, super easy, super cheap.

I think the overall thesis here is that the usefulness of AWS services depends on what you are using them for.
Understood but 3 weeks off in a communist state... doesn’t seem very likely.
> Do you seriously think that if money and status weren't factors, every one of the "smart people" that went into finance or law would have exactly the same choice?

Yes. Money and status are among the most core notions of the human societal experience. They represent success, continuity, surplus, achievement, ranking, collective opinions. Any attempts to remove or repress them invariably fail due to proxies that spring up to substitute the utility they provide.

This doesn't mean they they are intrinsically "good" for humanity, just that they are useful abstractions that humans use to maximize the throughput of their Dunbar number. If you tried to remove them without providing suitable replacements, people just go about recreating them.
TSA and security theatre became "normal".
The data is getting getting buried in communal graves in some parts of the world, like Italy. It's not like there is an option to quietly gather more data until we take a decision, decisions must be made today.
No, https://slate.com/business/2020/03/federal-reserve-bond-mark... explains well.
In the face of both, Alameda County is likely to be put in a position where it may feel the need to reconsider the lockdown orders in the face of both an expensive lawsuit and losing jobs, when relaxing restrictions on Tesla can potentially save the county both jobs and money.
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According to Curry-Howard correspondence, writing programs is like writing proofs. So a working (or at least type-checked) program is like a proof that was verified by the computer.

In that sense, the poorly understood ideas have to be expressed more precisely, when writing a program. The program itself, however, is not necessarily a good medium to express the most interesting ideas, because they can drown in technical details.
This is definitely a post based in experience, but maybe not based on broad expertise in using these tools.

I don't want to pick apart the entire post, but I will say that the Lambda + API Gateway example is maybe the best example of jumping into the cloud-native world with blinders on. Just about every modern programming language has a toolset right now that will do the work of generating a CF template for you that creates an API gateway that forwards all HTTP routes to a single Lambda, and then that Lambda is responsible for handling the actual routing of that request. Examples include Zappa, ClaudiaJS, and Ruby on Jets just to name a few. I can't imagine providing a feature-rich web application in Lambda without this kind of abstraction.

Not knowing that such tooling exists, or explicitly choosing not to use such tooling, and experiencing pain as a result seems to be common theme in this article. If you dive into architecting a system using AWS's product offerings without understanding the tradeoffs you're making, you will experience greater cost and greater friction -- hands down.
I've never had a battery life problem with Arch or Mint.
But font antialiasing was available starting from Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus!. I don't remember for sure, but I doubt browsers were exception and didn't use system-wide font antialiasing.
10 million is too long a time frame on human scale, given that humanity looks so drastically different even compared to 50k years back, and agriculture is also some 14k years old. If humans manage to survive on mars for 10 million years, they would be advanced enough to be out of it.
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> I would strongly advise anyone to wait for better research coverage before drawing any conclusions on SARS-CoV-2.

Agreed, so I take this article with a grain of salt.
To be fair, that also happens a lot in Terraform. I'm taking over work at my org where people have wrapped Terraform in 2-3 different tools and templating engines. And then you have to work out how to robustly store and back up your TF states because piecing it back together if you lose your state, or someone else corrupts it, can be just as bad as the worst CF issues.

Overall, I think Terraform is better if you're deploying a lot of inter-connected resources, but Cloudformation makes a lot of things "just work" in ways that Terraform doesn't. I think of it like ECS vs. EKS/Your Own Kube Whatever. ECS is full of gotchas and limitations, but if you play along with it you get a lot of things "for free".
>sudden injection of completely novel phyla at 540ma

Octopus.

https://qz.com/1281064/a-controversial-study-has-a-new-spin-...
This is probably the God of "just because we can" art projects: https://www.windows93.net

This is a cool project but the end result doesn't really look like it does on real hardware
Windows 10 was the final push for me to switch to Linux once and for all. And so far I'm super happy with it. I'm using Linux mint and I must recommended it highly for any long time windows user as they've hugely reduced the learning curve.

The only thing I miss is Photoshop. I've tried so many alternatives like gimp, etc but I find graphics editing a big struggle, for example I can't even do simple things like adding a red arrow to a screenshot till date without googling for it first. Also wine it didn't work for me for some reason. But thankfully my graphics requirements are pretty less so I boot up windows for that, other than that I don't miss Windows at all now. Rather it would be very hard to go back now.
The rich make "morally unusual" choices, too. Like fraud, both legal and illegal. Also, receiving massive bailouts instead of living with bad gambles. Many people seek regulatory moats or corrupt relationships to avoid competition. Also morally questionable.
For reference: Drive by installation of adware/malware is very lucrative. The going rate is around $1 per install.

One perfect example is Google Chrome, that used to pay the usual price per new install. That's why Chrome got bundled into the installer of every software and their mother, and got so many users so quickly.
The comments on that article are very entertaining
> To anyone in research in the field, the distinction you are trying to make is moot.

Maybe to a researcher, sure, but to people predisposed to disease or mental disorders, that distinction is the most important of all.

Why? Because it means that you can do something about it, that you can deflect the trajectory of the disorder through your own actions.
Font ligatures only affect how the text is displayed in that specific font. The underlying text is always the same.
Actually, I merely responded to a particular quote (which I quoted), simply to note that perhaps the thing which that person said is "vague and bullshit" may not entirely be so.
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…because you were able to detect - with your naked eye - the absence of microscopic virus molecues on the various factory surfaces.

Wow
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The beam is on the order of kilowatts.

Noone is going to deploy satellite network just to power some semi-gliders.
For VSCode users: I've been using the CodeSnap [1] extension which lets you do similar code screenshots without leaving the editor.

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There are at least 3 transliteration systems for Japanese. Writing foreign languages with 26 Latin letters usually loses some nuance and shows some bias towards the pronunciation of the authors' native language.
>Whoever came up with the idea that blue on black was a good color for displaying code on a screen

Was probably working at night and didn't want to be surrounded by lights 24/7...
Yea, this is exactly what I was talking about. It's not to say that Cloudformtation can't run into the same thing - deleting S3 buckets is difficult in any situation - but there's a lot of things Terraform doesn't/won't do, and often you're left with just making your own second layer of automation to work around.
Maybe try Inkscape for some of your graphics needs. Adding arrows etc. is very easy.
Is there a list of supported websites for youtube-dl?

Or does it just automatically grab whatever media is in the URL page?
This is the same car plant that produces triple the number of OSHA violations as any of its competitors (combined).

If that plant has a record, it is one ignoring safety.
Difference is, the discovery of quantum mechanics did not require billion-dollar investment in equipment and manpower (not until work began on nuclear weapon, anyway). Besides, current research in high-energy physics, while being expensive, only brings scientific value and not much at all in the way of practical application (except, perhaps, as a side-effect of building more and more sophisticated equipment - but that would be like saying that wars are good for medicine, because obviously direct investment in medicine would be more efficient than investment in war).
> With lack of drift detection comes great uncertainty.

But CloudFormation does have drift detection: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

I'd pick Terraform before CloudFormation, but there are things that are better with CF, such as rollbacks (they really do work as expected in almost all cases), and AutoScalingGroup's UpdatePolicy (rolling/replacing deploy of new launch configuration with healthchecks), which is not available outside of CF.
The Surface Pro briefly pulled me out of the Mac ecosystem. And I spun on my heel and went right back at the sight of baked-in ads.
When in doubt, test it out
Could not figure out what to top row icons mean. what is going on over there?. Dark mode should not be default give the choice to users
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A perfect counter example is nier: automata
>>Granted, this one is tougher, but not that much tougher than a bad strain of influenza.

Covid is more contagious and more deadly than what we had so far when both factors are considered. In Italy hospitals were pretty much overwhelmed this year due covid with the number of people dying and the sheer number of infections. Did that happen last year or the year before due influenta/flue season as well?
I agree and the enormous amount of knowledge build up is lost overtime when not actively used. Not investing in the next project is like no more space travel after we went to the moon. We should always push these projects further for the sake progress. Especially when you see it in the light of the defense budget.
It has. Since it does not boot most of the time, you are going to shut down your computer and do other, meaningful things instead, like reading, writing, painting, hiking or hanging out. Install Linux and wasting time on HN and Facebook is a problem of the past.

(I'm joking, I have been an happy user of the Linux desktop on laptops for many years)
I've found all of these things to be unhelpful compared to just having a notebook next to my book, the added writing down of information helps me retain information better.

I question the benefit of search beyond finding a sentence or two. Most large ideas require more than a sentence or two to explain something, and ignoring the context before and after could limit my understanding.
> With the Lambda server-less paradigm, you end up with 1 lambda function per route.

You do? Why can't a function be written to handle multiple routes?
I am about to start deploying with Terraform. Taking the big step.

Why should I use Pulumi over Terraform? (Genuinely wondering)
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I'm confused that the author says about Cloudformation:

> Lack of Drift detection or reconciliation. With lack of drift detection comes great uncertainty.

Cloudformation has definitely had Drift Detection since 2018: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloudformation-drift-de... It's not everything you might want it to be, but it's not like Terraform will reconcile your drift automatically either, that I know of.
> give a measured light dose, and reliably generate a mild case.

That’s how it used to be done, eg for smallpox. Inoculation or variolation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
Hot rhetoric aside, this comment is insightful, so I'm vouching it.
It would be easy to overshoot and then be perceived as this arrogant know-it-all. There are warts everywhere.

You should strike some balance between the impressing the employer and attempting to dig up the warts.

Sure, if the employer has accepted that they are in over their heads, it's a valid strategy to try to find all of the warts up front. Think about a home owner vs a specialized contractor who performs a brutally honest and (seemingly) credible analysis on the spot. How often does this scenario play out in the extremely vague world of software?

(In this subthread we're talking about consultant interaction with a potential employer, which is a bit different from a regular job interview, or from a scholarship interview)
Yeah, I see. I still think it's a bit harsh, especially since it kinda depends on how you interpret it here (i.e. what is "Google search"? The frontend or the backend? etc.) and it was made in good faith after all.

This reminds me of a passage in the "Waterfox joins System1" blog post[1] where the maintainer of Waterfox goes into how they've recieved harrassment because some people felt Waterfox wasn't up to their standards in terms of privacy.

[1] https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-has-joined-system1/
It's an affordance - it signals immediately to the reader that the block of text is source code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

Best example of affordance is handles on doors: horizontal spanning the whole door for push to open and vertical for pull to open.
Well, until someone trips over the power cable.
Why is Google Analytics showing index.php after every page URL?
Also ebooks are so freaking expensive when I can get used copies for pennies on the dollar.
VR content is limited by the size of the addressable audience and thus the potential ROI. If it’s pretty low for games, it’s dreadfully low for an entire operating system.
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. . . "Robert Baruch of project5474 decapped this chip for me by boiling it in sulfuric acid at 210 °C."

You will have more chance of preserving the internals if you simply place the chip in methylene chloride aircraft paint remover overnight (do it outside in a closed vessel as MC is carcinogenic)
I strongly agree with this quote from the article: "What bibliophiles really fear isn’t the disappearance of books but the elimination of the time and space needed to enjoy them."

I absolutely love reading books but it takes a really conscious effort to carve out time and space in the day to to it. I need quiet and I need my other interruptions to pause.

I own a ton of paper books but I've recently switched to Kindle. I find that having a small and self-illuminating reading device makes me way more able to take advantage of reading time when I find it.
> Or rearranged their "room" with decoration that spelt out letters, or simply drew cock and balls, etc.

A whole Lego MMO was once cancelled because they couldn't come up with an automated way to detect such things in virtual Lego buildings and using employees to filter the content became too expensive.
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Compare the f++ script https://pastebin.com/5FM7Hzef which takes 3 seconds with the bash script https://pastebin.com/RTXXEHBg which takes 3 minutes on my machine for example (both scripts create and delete 100k empty files).

Nift can build all of a basic 100k page website in ~11s and do an incremental build in ~2.25s on my 2014 11" i5 macbook air running Ubuntu 18.04, it uses under 500mb memory building the same basic website scaled to 1 million pages.
split() itself is externally safe. Lots of stuff in the standard library is unsafe under the hood, including some of the core data structures.
The financial world’s nervous system is being rewired
I use gpg-agent, but I agree it is often a pain. I will probably switch to U2F + SSH once more servers have OpenSSH 8.2.

Do you know if this already works with GitHub?
The brilliance goes beyond the web design. From that menu:

"DINO would like you to know that more than three toppings will be expensive and won't be any better."
> Venus is easier to reach than Mars. The Delta-V is 0.4km/s and 0.7km/s respectively

I'm not sure where those numbers are coming from. The Δv for reaching low earth orbit is already on the order of 10 km/s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget