skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you're downvoted - I might disagree with part of what you wrote, but it's a reasonable point.

I will suggest that motorcycles are inherently more dangerous. A car has four points of contact, so like a table, there's some inherent stability to it. A motorcycle's two points of contact means that stability has to be in some sense active, which seems problematic.
Amazon Makes Graviton2 AWS Instances Available
Why not both? The beauty of the internet is a lack of spatial constraints or need for mutual exclusivity. The benefit of walled gardens is seamlessness. The benefit of open protocols is to be able to take control, extend, and experiment.
Nacht Wacht was not the original title. It was originally called _"De compagnie van kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburgh maakt zich gereed om uit te marcheren"_, which means "The company of captain Frans Banninck Cocq en lieutenant Willen van Ruytenburgh prepare themselves to go marching".

At the time it was controversial, because normally such militias standing in a nice orderly fashion. Rembrand instead chose to paint this chaos, and apparently the people who commissioned it weren't happy.

At some point two sides were cut off to make it fit in a smaller room, and when it was rediscovered, it was very dark due to the many layers of old varnish. There's where it got the name "Nacht Wacht". Restoration of the painting made it a lot brighter again.

The name stuck, though. The original title is a bit cumbersome.
Intel, TSMC Reportedly in Talks to Build New US Foundries
Both are definitely in to retail. The are not market places like so that is a difference. (they both have physical and virtual stores where they sell both physical and virtual products and both own-brand as well as third party)

If companies are afraid of other companies looking at their stuff they are essentially going to have to reinvent everything themselves. What about transactions, imagine someone checking what they pay their supplier and what the customer is paying, that'd be scary. So now you can't use off-the-shelf cash registers, banking services, ERP systems etc.

The only difference people are trying to see is that AWS and Amazon Marketplace both have Amazon in the name. They don't have the same people, the same building or the same anything, except the same Bezos at the top.
Vochi App Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding from Genesis Investments
Looking at the product comparison chart[1], there's quite a lot of features that aren't in the open source "core" CockroachDB. That's fine of course, but the one that seems concerning is the backup/restore. Is there a reasonable and reliable way to do backups and restores with just the "core" open source product?

[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/compare/
Happy to see Borges in this list. His stories are short, but nonetheless can delight and occasionally provide a new basis vector for the mind.
You might like the Gateless Gate by Mumon.
http://oaks.nvg.org/gate-struggles.html

Hui-Neng's "Your Minds Move"

The wind was flapping a temple flag, and two monks started an argument. One said the flag moved, the other said the wind moved; they argued back and forth but could not reach a conclusion.

The Sixth Patriarch Hui-Neng said, "It is not the wind that moves, it is not the flag that moves; it is your minds that move."

Joshu sees the Hermits

Joshu went to a hermit's cottage and asked, "Is the master in? Is the master in?"

The hermit raised his fist.

Joshu said, "The water is too shallow to anchor here," and he went away.

Coming to another hermit's cottage, he asked again, "Is the master in? Is the master in?"

This hermit, too, raised his fist.

Joshu said, "Free to give, free to take, free to kill, free to save," and he made a deep bow.
>Programmers who come to Go from C++ and Java miss the idea of programming with types, particularly inheritance and subclassing and all that. Perhaps I'm a philistine about types but I've never found that model particularly expressive.

Whoa, hold it there... inheritance and subclassing are OOP, types is a different subject, right?
We had a traffic light system as well, but I think it was controlled manually by a staff member, and there wasn't any penalty when it was red. It didn't last long.
The majority of cloud costs of storage are bandwidth, so ignoring this makes the analysis meaningless.
Today I just woke up to find yet another "ORA-01555: snapshot too old" on something I left running overnight.

Honestly, performance isn't as important as the capacity of getting an atomic snapshot of your data with any reliability.
The recourse is addons.
Using the informal "du" over "Sie" is not anywhere near using the n-word in english. Raising your outstretched hand just above head hight to greet someone would be, though.

Overall, using "du" is acceptable in 90% of social interactions. It's only when talking to people in higher positions or as a courtesy to elderly / unfamiliar people.
> Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group to battle Washington

My guess is that Facebook is going to look for its own specific interest not so much "pro-tech". That makes sense and it is the normal PR naming to make it more palatable.

I can see that Facebook lobbing sometimes is going to align with "tech" needs and other it would play opposite to it.

I cannot read the article, so, anyone knows if organizations like EFF would be included in this advocacy group, it includes just Facebook or which companies it includes?
I see an untrusted cert: "Issued by: allot.com/emailAddress=info@allot.com". Am I the only one?

EDIT: https://www.allot.com/service-providers/url-traffic-filterin... still not sure if it's on my side, or if the CDN (netlify in this case) is applying this to some regions (I'm in EU)
Marcus - thanks for stopping WannaCry. Be well.
Infinite Jest has been for a long time in my must read list, but never got to reading it. Heard not much, but only good things about it.

>depending how old you are, where you are in life, etc may offer a different lens.

Could you elaborate more on this? I am curious. Maybe I could be right now in that situation. So in that case it would be optimal to start reading it now instead of in a year or two.
A few years ago I started to play with go. First impression was great. But a month or so in I started to having more and more doubts. As a Java/C++ programmer I was missing especially the generic collections. Slice and map are a good start, but not enough.

Then one day I had to implement the swap operation for sorting. Again. And I thought that even C's qsort was better, and WTF am I wasting my time on this half-assed language. I dumped it, tried rust, and even with its slow compile times I couldn't be happier.

Now a few releases later, they fixed sort so I can only implement compare. Sorry, it's not nearly enough. Essential parts are simply missing. Exhibit A is source code generation, a clear indication go isn't enough on its own. I'm not working with an ecosystem where my human time is less important than the language philosophy. I want to express a repetitive pattern in the language, and then never think about dumb bureaucratics again.

It was a near miss, though. SOme things are clearly correct. I want to look again when they finally have generics, and some basic collections. I hope that day comes and I can give it a new chance. But until then, less was simply not enough .
How do I know which recommendation has been voted the highest?
GEB always struck me as masturbatory, self-aggrandizing ramblings about simple ideas like self-similarity, with strewn-in, stream-of-consciousness anecdotes about Greek mythology, art and biology.
Trains use lots of metal in their construction, and even electric ones might use fossil fuel generated electricity.
But 'secrecy is not security'. This nonsense about 'hiding' the SSID is foolishness. For the reason I just gave. Plus, now, when anybody IS connecting, they're 'probing' that SSID by spamming every channel with the SSID. Like hide-n-seek where your little brother won't shut up and keeps saying "Are you still in the closet Fred? Are you? I'm under the bed! We're being secret!"

So no, masking the SSID in your router isn't doing anything.
To quote from Anandtech:

Amazon is also making some very impressive benchmark comparisons against its fifth-generation instances, supporting Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 processor of up to 2.5GHz:

All of these performance enhancements come together to give these new instances a significant performance benefit over the 5th generation (M5, C5, R5) of EC2 instances. Our initial benchmarks show the following per-vCPU performance improvements over the M5 instances:

- SPECjvm® 2008: +43% (estimated)
- SPEC CPU® 2017 integer: +44% (estimated)
- SPEC CPU 2017 floating point: +24% (estimated)
- HTTPS load balancing with Nginx: +24%
- Memcached: +43% performance, at lower latency
- X.264 video encoding: +26%
- EDA simulation with Cadence Xcellium: +54%
EU ombudsman: regulator should have stopped director from joining lobby group
I don't understand what you are talking about. What is so special about receiving data and displaying UI controls from it?

Networked apps, business apps, database frontends, etc. have been a thing since the 80’s, and I am not even talking about that but IDEs from the 90’s and later.

The code you show is identical to what was done back then in many languages, many frameworks and many systems. Filtering, sorting, per-item UI, multi-views, synchronization, etc. has been always a basic need.

The web is yet another UI/app framework. Nothing less, nothing more.
Yeah, because professional museum curators and art restoration teams are well known to just shake their heads at safely moving large exhibits, baffled at the prospect.

C'mon.
Interesting I might try that. How long did it take you to loss that much weight?
Ask HN: What can I do to help prep for my new manager before they arrive?
We just hired a manager for my team (machine learning), and they start in about a month. How can I best prepare for their arrival?
You would definitely appreciate Intelligence and Spirit, which employs game theory, linear logic, and Hegel towards a theory of artificial general intelligence.
Congratulations. Everyone have good suggestions in threads. Few other things:

* Learn to measure cross-cutting, high level technical metrics. Build up your own "fitness functions" and constantly ensure they are looking healthy. e.g. Incident metrics (https://www.atlassian.com/incident-management/kpis/common-me...), SLOs (https://landing.google.com/sre/resources/practicesandprocess...), Lighthouse scores, Time from raising a PR to deploying in production, etc. https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/fitness-funct... Don't be "abstract" when talking about maintainability, testability, observability, etc, but be able to support them with numbers.

* Draw yourself a line. Find out where you are the decision maker and where you are not. Example: don't make your entire judgement based on "how many people can be allocated", "what's the cost", "will users like this feature", etc. Budget, people & UX are not your decision making responsibility, there are Managers, Directors, Product owners for that. Give your recommendations, but let them do their job. It's easy to fall into the "I know everything better" trap.

* Don't be a "hired gun" working feature after feature, or a firefighter resolving issue after issue. Have an agenda for the technology itself that you work on 30% of the time. 6 months down the line, regardless of projects or firefighting missions – you should be in a position to prove that the technology is maturing, like: "In the last 6 months, our number of incidents/bugs has decreased from <X> to <Y>", "our time to ship features has decreased from <X> to <Y>", etc.

* Don't – just don't – ever give abstract advice. A major difference between experienced and novice engineers is – giving concrete examples, facts or metrics to back up. If you don't have an example or use case, and if you just have a hunch, just keep it to yourself and move on. Remember that what you do is what other engineers will indirectly follow. You have to set engineering culture by example. If you talk abstract stuff or behave opinionated, engineers will reflect it right back.
Scriptwriting is just a particular form of writing, so any process you've developed would work whether someone is writing technical tutorials for video or sonnet form. :D
The Next Social Era Is Here: Why Now Is the Time for Social Products Again
Does that mean you'd be alright with me sitting outside your house taking photos of it and scanning for network signals coming from your house and running a software radio receiver to see what you've got going on inside?

If not, why are you alright with Google doing it?
This is, on its surface, a product announcement, but at its core it is actually another great explanation of why podcasts shouldn't be submitting themselves to Spotify.
Please tag this with the date, 2012. Great but old blog post.
Would it be similar to say "factories worsen inequality by mostly helping high-income earners" (consider England during the Industrial Revolution)? New technology increases our productivity.
It's ok if he didn't, comment was positive way to say what he does instead of saying that was crap.
There's nothing particularly linear about groups.
> There's something to be said in favour of a method that any village idiot can understand and observe with their own eyes.

For example that it's a precondition to fair and open elections? :-)
How Priming Research Went off the Rails (2017)
My ex-gf’s dad from the South made us fried chicken for Thanksgiving Dinner one year. He wouldn’t let on anything about his recipe or methods but it had this distinct buttery taste (which was awesome), I figure frying in clarified butter was part of his secret.
Yes. But what are they supposed to do? They can't simply ignore it and expect rule of law to be treated seriously. Hence, it is a dare.
Funny you should mention sonnets, Chapter 8 develops an example technical tutorial on generating sonnets by remixing Shakespeare's work.
Not the person you responded to but I found this course to be very good:
https://www.edx.org/course/computer-graphics-2
I find the EFF to be way too lefty and not necessarily doing a great job.
Sure, but it likely has ten times the infrastructure to manufacture and deliver them.

The US is, in many ways, a bunch of ~30M person countries, akin to the European Union. Freedom of movement, no customs between them, powerful state-level governments, etc.
Many of these problems with models arise because more businesses are buying machine-learning systems but lack the in-house know-how needed to maintain them. Retraining a model can require expert human intervention.

I think this quote is very interesting since it is a practical use case where humans trusting computers and algorithms without enough understanding could be dangerous. One can think, me especially when working with banks, insurance companies and health care industry, that they are slow and too rigourous. Though, in times like these I kind of appreciate the thoroughness in their procurement and policies.
... or Magit.

Needs Emacs, but installable in 1 minute from Spacemacs installation, requires zero emacs knowledge and has vim-like shortcuts if required. I haven't seen any git client more convenient and powerful at the same time than Magit and I've tried dozens; I don't use Emacs but keep it around solely as a git front end.
The Art of Electronics.

I can't say I've read it cover-to-cover, but it really is an excellent, approachable electronics resource for enthusiasts and professionals alike.
Also if you’re in Kansas City and want to get food at a sit down place, Stroud’s pan friend chicken is the local spot. It’s become a little more “middle class” than its humble roots were, so it’s a little pricier, but it’s delicious. My uncle says it tastes exactly like my grandma used to make (which I unfortunately never got to try). Their cinnamon rolls are deliciously ooey gooey too.

If you’re in KC or surrounding suburbs on business there’s almost definitely one nearby.
And they are mainly used for breaking the law.
PID control theory. I don’t love it, I am very curious about it
Seems like the system works far more frequently than we generally give it credit for.
Create a voicemail bot for slack using Twilio and Node.js
Same though on desktop / firefox. I thought to read through the comments first to see if others anticipated the same thing.
Yes, you can't beat the classic essayists. Sir Thomas Browne too. Melville draws a lot from these writers in Moby Dick.
Show HN: Image generation API for social media – Autogenerate social share cards
In that case because I couldn't think of any that were a major component. Which I suppose is a side effect of their scale my mental modeling.

Facebook getting other social networks is cognitively equivalent to roughly an additional third each without checking the numbers - both are big known names. Google and getting YouTube is an influential chunk of their empire even if low margin from the expense - say an additional third of their "main product" along search and Android.

That is probably why I couldn't remember others.
To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. Terms like "OOP" and "types" have very context dependent meanings. Given the context, I took him to simply be talking about people coming from "class-based" languages, not anything to do with types in general.
Ok, cute, but does it mean anything? Of course the wind moved the flag. Are they all ignorant of physics?

No of course not. Its some metaphysical plug about relationships or something. One of those 'one hand clapping' things. I guess the point is to get you to stop overanalyzing. Which I'm doing.

But no, I didn't get my mind blown by monks in semantic circles. I guess I'm not ready to be enlightened.
Why do they need to be quiet? This is in a cafeteria, not in a classroom.
I agree with what you said. The book encourages all kinds of shortcuts (not explicitly though), and later on I found other books to be much better on the same topics.

However, it is very very easy to read and follow. And if you are not a social person, the book is a good first read.
Managing Distributed Teams in the Age of Remote Work
Let's hope Elite Dangerous introduces a complicated menu system for their carrier system to compete!

Oh wait
My point is that in environments like old-school Delphi or VB, or even with frameworks like Qt, those things take way more effort and boilerplate code than they should.

For exapmle in Qt you have to either subclass QAbstractListModel or use QStandardItemModel with weird QStandardItem wrappers around your data, then you have QSortFilterProxyModel (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsortfilterproxymodel.html) and all that weirdness. And then for the actual UI of the individual items, you have QAbstractItemDelegate, etc. https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractitemdelegate.html

I mean, just look at this example: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-itemviews-stardelegate-exam...

No way that should take that much code.
"Hidden Order" by John Holland. I think of it as a programmers view of complex adaptive systems. There are many books about Emergent systems, CAS, etc. but this one changed how I think and how I see the world.
M&A often involve conservative brand strategies, at least in part to promote a veneer of competition and diversity, while the insidious effects of consolidation are left unsaid and off the public radar after the M&A event. Imagine if all those purchases renamed to include Amazon in their name.
I'm on the ops-architect end and I read design docs and usually steal all of the plantuml and everything else I can find as nobody ever (aside from the developer of the feature) can help me track down or troubleshoot problems and I find most developers to be very disorganized (I was too until recently and it's still something I work on daily). So the documentation is appreciated. I also write a lot of ops-focused docs and tools, like stuff to lower MTTR and just generally help my ops teams relax and be lost less often when alerts come in. An ops person should never get an alert at 2am and be completely lost, no playbooks or guidance or anything because a lack of implementation documentation, I've been there, it sucks and will make you regret your employment.

I don't think most of that gets read either. But I still do it. I just assume most people are siloed in their own projects and barely have time to get those done so reading ancillary stuff is on the backburner. But if some emergency ever comes up at least it's there and if I'm on a mountain I got everything out of my head so you won't need me to walk you through how something works over the phone.

With that said, I face immense frustration when I go into a microservice repo that is scaffolded hoping that some golang developer updated the readme to actually be relevant and not the scaffold template and 99% of the time for internal stuff it's never, ever touched. Please do some documentation for Ops/new-devs, etc. That extra 30-2 hours of work will save half a day of some new person trying to launch your service in KIND or whatever, now compound that over every new person/outage/time you've had to explain something that you didn't document. The readme.MDs in every single one of your microservices should not be a base template with zero touching. It's not hard work to give someone who has never touched it some breadcrumbs on what your service does.

Half the time I go in there when something is already broken and the stress is high hoping for simple stuff to get me going, even just some basic UML of what apis its talking to, what kubernetes resources it needs, what RBAC permissions, etc. Think of yourself having never touched the service and leave some pointers/best-practices for someone who has never touched it or troubleshot it (like your ops people when you throw it over the fence for deployment).

Having to figure out your microservice architecture via container logs when SHTTF is miserable.
Learning how to make concise, effective infographics is a part of learning technical writing.

A picture may not always be worth exactly 1000 words, but images with high cognitive density are usually worth putting into your document.
It looks like it supports various iPad models so there are options that are much cheaper than $1200 for the iPad.
I'm a team lead and every single person on my team has told me they feel much more productive and able to focus since lockdown and 100% remote work started. One of the people on my team would normally work in our office's "chill room" because he found it slightly easier to focus in there compared to his actual desk.

In my opinion an open plan office for developers (or anyone, really) would ideally be an option, but you would have to opt-in. There are situations where being able to shout over your laptop at your coworkers is going to be beneficial, but there are also situations where people should be able to zone out and concentrate (zone in?) for several hours at a time without having to blast white noise in their headphones.
India expects working from home to pull more women in the workforce
Its not an ad, and I found it pretty good with the section on Docker networks the best of all the course content. Did anyone notice the last example which is on dockerising a real world app, that is awesome.