skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how you can learn anything without such taste. To learn you have to be able to know what can be done better. Or someone tells you.

I think the point here is diminishing returns. When you're younger or rather a beginner you can make bigger leaps because you're learning the rough basics. When you're an expert and you can still tell that it's not good enough it can take months or years to make you reach that next milestone.
Oh, so live model means a living-women

late Dennis Hoffs - no idea who that is

cathouse = brothel? because of pussy cat?

lovense - no clue

vajayjay - please don't tell me that is supposed to be vagina, are we still in middle school?

taking ETH porntoken ICO investments - something about money?

toy - this must be the teledidonics

through the ethereum blockchain - hey, whatever is your kink
All the big providers have had and will continue to have challenges. Any issue that is a product of too much success is a good problem to have. MS are still the biggest player in productivity so pandemic affected them differently.
Maybe on a research level in still relatively controlled settings.

It's only recently that that you could use this with a high success rate in 'the wild'
Lots of great insights here, which fully accord with my experience, even in the small end of town.

About a year ago, I was in a meeting with my new CEO (who had acquired my company). My side of the business had kept hardware in-house, his was in AWS. We had broadly similar businesses in the same industry and with the same kind of customers.

My side of the business needed to upgrade our 5+ year old hardware. The quote came to $100K; the CEO freaked out. I asked him how much he spent on AWS?

The answer was that they spent $30K per month on AWS.

The kicker is that we managed 10x as many customers as they did, our devops team was half the size, and we were rolling out continuous deployment while they were still struggling to automated upgrades. Our deployment environment is also far less complicated than theirs because there isn't a complex infrastructure stack sitting in front of our deployment stack.

There was literally no dimension on which AWS was better than our on-prem deployment, and as far as I was able to tell before I quit, the only reason they used AWS was because everyone else was doing it.
When I studied physics 25 years ago in Bergen University in Norway Emacs was used by most stuff and students. Most of the usage was writing papers/thesis in LaTex followed by scripts for Matlab or similar systems.
How about we call it what it is, a Depression.

And let people make the argument if "it's just a Recession Bro"

What time line do people expect for this to be "just a Recession"?

When do people expect business to stop being legally stopped from opening and people wanting to use them across the world. So when will all borders reopen for instance? Vaccines might be 2 years. So this is the best case, the world let's C19 run it's natural course.

Then after that, we will have to pull out of a global financial slump.

We have both a lack of financial confidence combined with a fear of a virus to deal with.
I find the UI much more beautiful and clean than github's, but this is mostly a personal preference. Just hope it will be feature complete really soon!
Far outside my wheelhouse here, but isn't this just superconductors [1]? Liquid helium forms below 5.2 kelvin [2] and super conductors can be formed ~4 kelvin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistance_and_cond...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_helium
How do you manage installation and upgrades of dedicated servers?
What do you use for block storage and object storage?
Kubernetes and Ceph seems to be hard to setup and maintain.
> our propensity for violence

I think you’re underestimating how brutally violent many animals can be, even herbivores. Just look at what the males of many species will do in competition over females. Yes our organisational skills and automation take it to another level, but the propensity to brutalise and kill is everywhere in the natural world.
Microsoft Offers $100k If You Can Hack This Linux Operating System
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/getw...

Sorry, I couldn’t resist :)
I made the mistake of introducing my kids to Kraftwerk early on and was treated to six months non-stop of 'we are the robots'. Still love the song :)
Looking great !

Any plan for Query Plan diagram / visualisation ?
Very cool! I’ve been looking for a decent cross-platform SQL client for a while, so I can’t wait to try this out tomorrow.

In case anyone is curious, here’s what I’ve tried so far:

- DataGrip: bulky, slow, bugs never get fixed, non-FOSS

- Azure Data Studio: great interface, but no MySQL or SQLite support

- phpMyAdmin: clumsy, lacking in features, requires a web server—I’m really not the target demographic for this one

- CLI clients plus a decent text editor: what I always end up falling back to; daily driver at the moment
I have adopted this way of thinking many years ago.

Now the only thing that creeps up during the day is the occasional feeling of existential dread, of losing my senses to age and illness until the universe finally suffocates me and casts me into the eternal void.

Honestly, I think I'd rather get upset about that asshole in traffic.
Trying to make the opposite transition, my quibble with web development is that much of the work seems so pointless.

That's the problem with web development today. Something that not only should be straightforward, but used to be straightforward, is now very complex. Partly because it involves connecting a large number of complex and constantly changing packages.

The last time I wanted to do something with an API, I coded up the API in Go and ran it from FCGI to get multiple copies. Easier than all those "frameworks". Probably faster, too, since Go is hard-compiled.
One thing that currently blows me away: Kraftwerk sounds incredible using the new 16" Macbook Pro with its improved speakers. 'Am Heimcomputer sitz ich hier'...
The bot told me that it was an accountant, that it would do my taxes for free, and that I can tax deduct all my beer purchases.

What a nice bot!
Oh, sure, but when they think they have written something to S3 and got a successful HTTP response back from the API, perhaps they want to be able to tell clients to go fetch the new data from the bucket. But those clients may not get the new data then, due to eventual consistency.
This was btw invented in Finland by the failed kickstarter project, the Solu computer:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/676993694/solu-a-new-br...

For people understanding finnish, this podcast tells the whole story:

https://areena.yle.fi/audio/1-50499091
Http is just clearly not made for the current state of the internet. It was obviously made for much simpler uses cases but has organically grown together with the internet. This has led to numerous hacks and workaroudns which often became the defacto standard to do things on the web. It's not necessarily an easy problem to solve, client server communication is hard. But http protocol seems like the least effective way to do it, but almost impossible to replace now.
That our responses and our negative relational feelings are based on out own choice - Nobody makes me feel angry, victimized, as a failure - it is always my choice to feel those feelings.

It is not always i am able to choose not to feel it, but i always know i am feeling it because of my own choosing.
You can sell your data for cash.

But this thing where big sites say "data or else" isn't a proper negotiation. It's a contract of adhesion, and those get regulated for good reason.

If things get moved behind expensive paywalls, that's a shame. But if there is more truely free access, or content behind paywalls that charge as much as an ad is worth, that can be a net benefit.
Intelligence as measured by IQ on the other hand is a very well defined concept. It is a quite good predictor of all kinds of life "success" (however that is defined). It is not fluent.

Of course it is not everything, and there are lots of idiots who believe so. However, the whole "you can do anything if you put your mind to it" is is not true. The people who are the worst off in society (and I live in "socialist Sweden") are the people with weak theoretical ability, but still within what is called average intelligence. The have the worst mental health, the worst physical health, the worst economical situation and the highest criminal record.

The idea that working hard solves everything (from the right) and the idea that intelligence does not matter (while politically mainly catering to the middle class - the left) have made society a worse place for a large chunk of people.
You can rent a P3 instance on AWS that has enough headroom to run the largest model, I think.

Though it's around $12 USD per hour!
GoogleChrome – Web-Vitals-Extension
I think you have your geography and timeline mixed up a bit.
> or the “right” framework to choose, changes from year to year

I've been using React in all of my projets since it came out in 2013. That's 7 years. React's (+ node for backend if needed) been one of the recommended for at least 4 years.

And lots of things have changed ! Using modules and building complex apps now with Webpack & co is so much easier than before. Not needing to support IE is also a blessing.

The piece doesn't say how mobile dev would be easier. Or how embedded dev would be easier.

It just says : dev is hard. Yes it is, it's a a full job.

Hopefully nocde solutions will reduce the gap for some use cases.
How Bell Labs Missed the Microchip (2006)
I think https://www.alexirpan.com/2019/10/29/openai-rubiks.html is a pretty good take. tldr: unfortunately, even tiny discrepancies between the simulation and reality (like the size of the cube's bezels or a few extra parts in the robotic hand) can significantly degrade your model's performance in the real world, even with tons of domain randomization during training. So, either we need to improve our simulations to randomize a lot more details, or we need to improve our neural nets to generalize more effectively.
I've written about this before, but the thing that always gets overlooked about this quote is the "unknown-known" corner of the truth table: the things we take for granted, but do not ever think about. These are what we _really_ need to worry about.

In the case of Rumsfeld, it was the prisoner abuse, the civilian casualties, the torture, the blowback, ISIS..

In our lives this can be structural inequalities, the way power manifests in systems, Conways's law, all that.

The big one, of course, is the environment. We're all fully aware that we're in the middle of a complete ecological collapse, and that without drastic action and change in both our habits and the geopolitical world order, our grandchildren will inherit a nearly uninhabitable Earth. Yet we all continue on as if nothing is wrong..
> They need to rewrite it to use hooks at some point

What is the reason that not using hooks is so frowned upon? When I took my first steps with React, I didn't know hooks, so I write component classes and it immediately "clicked" with me because it behaves like most other GUI frameworks do, from Win32-based (1) to X-based to Android to iOS to macOS to Java, and tons of higher-level frameworks in between. It also feels obvious to write a component class because you are describing the behavior of a stateful thing, that is, exactly what classes are made for.

With hooks, OTOH, we have a stateful "function", but all state is implicit, which describes behavior other than its main behavior (rendering) but that is implicit too... I can see why developers outside the React world don't "get" hooks, because I can't even remember seeing this idiom outside the React world. (BTW, I've seen the claim that hooks are easier to reason about, for which I found the opposite to be true, and the claim that this makes the main function stateless, which is absurd since the state just becomes implicit).

(1) the raw system-level APIs are often not class-based, but nearly all frameworks above it are.

edit: the footnote broke formatting
> not being able to move the mouse to the bottom of the screen without triggering the applications bar

Is it possible to fix that by using the method described here? (start at 1:10 mark):

https://youtu.be/7dxLcr68lLc?t=71
Scummvm has that on Android too.
Yes, as an example we can run docker (for windows) on our own VMs or (all) in our Azure setup.
Designs based on pulling are also faster to code than their push equivalents, especially when parallel or in a client server model.
* I don't want to stop for half an hour every 200 miles.*

Ugh, I don't even want to drive 200 miles in a day if I can avoid it.
Procrastination is an emotional problem.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200121-why-procrastin...
A Brief History of Cryptography
Is the author asking why putting up a paywall for Django hosted on Heroku with Stripe integration on what should be static content is difficult (for stories related to overcoming idiosyncrasies in using Python for bioinformatics, or all things)? I'd like to give a rebuttal, but the site (the Minimal Errors theme for Jekyll?) does click-jacking (blocks copy/paste) so I won't bother. I guess the answer is right there: webdev (and bioinformatics) is full of incidental complexity and zero-sum "solutions" advertised to you when the original purpose of the web is just publishing structured documents via HTML/SGML (even though I'd agree Python is great for learning, and Heroku has at least a reputation for being the easiest cloud hosting option out there).
It isn't they could be wiped out by one piece of bad luck.
If at first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your failure is "statistically significant"
Suppose I’m not familiar with him or am not convinced he’s a megalomaniac. I know this is taken as gospel around here, but what evidence would you present to convince me of that claim? Is it just that he wrote a book about ideas he thinks are very important and interesting?
I can get on board with the urban centers being altruistic and subsidizing rural America as long as there is some return value unlike the current times where they turn around and gives us Mitch McConnell.

Also let’s pay nurses and doctors well even if someone has to bring healthcare to rural America.
> We can even inspect the value of $PATH, here:

> (...)

> Your output is going to be different from mine because of the hashes in the store paths.

Does this mean that a nix install is not reproducible? If the same installation is performed twice, the file names and contents will be different due to some randomness?
I stop going to sites which break the back button. When TechCrunch made the design change, I stopped visiting them all together. That along with the bloated auto-scroll to next story killed the site for me.
Electronic or not, very inspiring compositions as well. My favorite "acoustic" cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_VKWStK98
Is there a better documented framework than Django? I am not aware of one.
Very sad day. Autobahn, Man Machine and Computer World were my constant background music when I was learning to program on a TRS-80 all those years back. "I program my home computer... beam myself into the future..."

Still programming, still find Kraftwerk inspiring. Thank you Florien and Rest in Peace. Your music changed my life.
Follow the vibrancy[1]. HN is receptive to those kinds of cool hardware projects, but it isn't main focus here.

Makers who are specializing and have a platform attract like-minded others. Go to their published work, check the comments, check forums, ask in Discords and you might have better luck in your search. Follow creators across platforms other than self-managed web. YouTube, Twitter, ? Thingiverse. Or Google (keyword) Alerts.

I think of https://youtube.com/appliedscience (with active twitter and semi-active blog, I've discovered at your prompting). His featured channels[2] appear numerous and promising.

Check local hackerspaces, noisebridge and sudoroom come to mind in the Bay Area. Ask in their IRC channels, or check websites.

Follow the individuals long-term if you can. Support people doing interesting things.

Be the change you wish to see. Possibly supporting them monetarily, or reaching out to encourage, offer suggestions, and to collaborate, imitate, or extend.

[1]: https://prog21.dadgum.com/97.html

[.]: https://youtube.com/appliedscience

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333/channels
Similarly, my 2015 MBP huffs hot air out from between the keys on the keyboard when it's overheating.

Horrible in summer (I got a heat rash, then an external keyboard) but great in winter.

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> As long as you don’t need any dynamic content or dynamic UI

People seem to be ordering more of that, not less. Look at Reddit. They have all manner of stupid animations now.
What are the misconceptions of non-tech folks when working on web projects?
The advantage of suctions grippers is that they are naturally compliant, and thus forgiving of positioning errors.

There's some cool looking combinations as well, Righthand Robotics makes grippers that retracts a suction cup into a set of fingers. It looks a bit like Xenomorph.
Wouldn't a counter argument be that the MOST successful people do not do what others do and define their own path. I.e. it's great if you're optimizing a game for a particular outcome but if you're creating a new game following what other people do may just leave to the average (of whatever group)?
And it looks like you've just scratched the surface, you're not finished encountering walls yet.

Hang in there, there's a relative important chance that the fog will clear for you in some months/years.

The hard truth is, software engineering today is made of layers upon layers of abstractions. You have to dig threw those layers, understanding sufficiently the inherent and different complexity of each one before jumping to the next. And then finally it'll make sense, and new layers (there's a new layer every year btw) will be easier to grok.

If it helps, we've all had to go threw this learning process. All of us.
However I don't think everyone is made for enjoying this process, that's another hard truth.

The real difficulty is sticking to the learning process while everything and everyone is screaming at you "Go! Build something! Ship Something! Show something you lazy b".
I'm guessing that, in the process of translating lyrics to another language, word choices are made based on a preference for keeping the original rhyming scheme and rhythm. Alternatively, it could just be a bias resulting from the listener's experience with each language.
Publicist launches its marketplace for freelance PR and marketing
Indeed. People aren’t working, aren’t seeing friends/family, and don’t have regular appointments. For many of us, if we died tomorrow, it’d take a while before anyone noticed. I have no idea how many of my friends are still alive; I assume most are fine because they're young, but I’ve lost contact with most of the people I normally see on a daily or weekly basis.

When we come out of this, who will be left behind? And how many of those lives could’ve been saved if we weren’t in quarantine? That’s not to say the quarantine isn’t necessary, but it’s an important question to ask, as its a significant cost that isn’t obvious.
Finally a QR code generator and scanner in one app
Stories like this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_Houben - terrify me, imagine being assumed in a comatose state, but being conscious the entire time.

The claim that this was true was rejected years ago, but thinking about it is scary.
Compare

Sie ist ein Model und sie sieht gut aus
Ich nähm sie heut gerne mit zu mir nach Haus
Sie wirkt so kühl, an sie kommt niemand ran
Doch vor der Kamera da zeigt sie was sie kann

Sie trinkt in Nachtclubs immer Sekt (Korrekt!)
Und hat hier alle Männer abgecheckt
Im Scheinwerferlicht ihr junges Lächeln strahlt
Sie sieht gut aus und Schönheit wird bezahlt

Sie stellt sich zur Schau für das Konsumprodukt
Und wird von Millionen Augen angeguckt
Ihr neues Titelbild ist einfach fabelhaft
Ich muß sie wieder seh'n, ich weiß sie hat's geschafft

vs

She's a model and she's looking good
I'd like to take her home that's understood
She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time
It only takes a camera to change her mind

She's going out tonight but drinking just champagne
And she has been checking nearly all the men
She's playing her game and you can hear them say
She is looking good, for beauty we will pay

She's posing for consumer products now and then
For every camera she gives the best she can
I saw her on the cover of a magazine
Now, she's a big success, I want to meet her again

--

The deeper layer of the lyrics is almost completely absent in the English version.
The kid (wearing a MAGA hat who happened to be in Washington, D.C. from Kentucky to attend an anti-abortion rally, with his school.)

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/23/18192831/c...

Also, the suit with CNN was settled out of court without any disclosure of terms on either side. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cnn-settles-l...
I worked in Switzerland and a reason to use on premise here is Security

Many detail banks, asset management company or high security company refuse to use any public Cloud.

They want to have a strict and traceable list of people who have physical access to their hardware.

This in order to control any risk of dataleak [1].

In practice they use generally on-premise installation. They ren space in a computer center and own there a private cage monitored with multiple cameras. Meaning they know exactly anyone touching their hardware and enforce security clearance for them.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Leaks
Cppcast: Envoy Proxy
Please make this happen, even if you can't fully do it justice yet. I just read it aloud to myself and I love it. I might have to memorize this one myself while I'm stuck at home.
I start getting my friends up to speed by giving them just enough JavaScript + HTML to write a Tetris clone. Of course - I guide them along the way, answer any questions they have, and push them towards the right direction if they get stuck. If they can get through it - then they can make it in the world of WebDev, and software engineering in general.

The main thing to remember is that you can only show the way - the person in question must actually step forwards and be motivated enough to go through the learning process. Otherwise - you need to think of another career. Programming is not for everyone IMHO.
Ahh, so we get to it. You just don’t like MS. I think that’s a valid reason not to use their products.
Another electron app, nothing to look at here.
> You always have the choice to not install the app

You also have the choice to consider the practice questionable, unethical, a systemic problem once it becomes widespread; to highlight it in public posts and forums, to protest how widespread it has become, to believe that it should be illegal in the context of consumer and privacy protections, to lobby for making it illegal, etc.
Payload fractions: SLS: 3.4%

That money drain needs to be cancelled. Building RS-25 engines like the ones from the Space Shuttle to use once and throw away is a pure pork program. And they get a crap payload fraction on top of that.
I can't even click the link, it's going through an advertising netwok, and is blocked by my DNS
I interpreted it as: prior to moving to the cloud, server maintenance was not a very significant cost, so the justification for moving to the cloud was weak.