skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the whole "there are two types of programming languages" Stroustrup quote applies to JS just as much as it does to C++, but can anyone comment on whether JS was hated as much as it was back when this second generation of browsers was being built? As someone who went straight into research and low-level work, I don't touch JS very often, but it seems to me as though the Web is in this arranged marriage it doesn't like, but refuses to leave because of the inconvenience.

I feel like in some regards, we have seen generational shifts in other languages. In domains where Perl, Java, and C++ used to dominate, we now have Go, Rust, and Python.

Absolutely worth noting that with the exception of Python, there are probably still vastly more lines of C++/Java code running in production than Go/Rust. I kind of don't get how if JavaScript is so bad, then why do we now have things like Node?
An important self-realization, every app I install becomes a potential 0-click remote attack surface. Does disabling notifications at least solve the 0-click aspect?
The cost is only there if you transfer out of aws. Something like glacier will have a retrieval time on the order of hours or days.
It inspired an entire Freddie Gibbs song (after the one in Gary) although from what I hear the farther west you go the better. I’m certainly not going all the way out to Hoffman Estates though, chicken be damned
If the only purpose of becoming educated is to get a high-paying job, then sure.

If the purpose of education is to learn something about the world, become an informed citizen, and contribute to (or at the very least, become aware of) human intellectual, scientific and artistic achievements, then no, a tech company isn’t much of a substitute.

Unfortunately these two things have been conflated, lowering the value of both. Personally I would like to see the university split into two: one half technical education based on economic needs, the other half focused on educating people. St. John’s in Annapolis / Santa Fe seems like a good model for the latter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_College_(Annapoli...
That would mean either implementing your entire API twice, or adding layers of pointless indirection, for extremely little gain. It is just not reasonable.
It shouldn't, unless your only purpose is damaging that individual, which sounds to me like a not very humane purpose.

Work is one of the main purposes and goals an individual may have, together with family. Denying that to anyone is simple and plain tyranny.
No. Whole Foods is one of many Amazon ventures, but not the most significant. Supermarkets (Lidl and Kaufland chains, mostly) are the main business of Schwarz Group.

It's more like saying "Google will do X" when it's technically Alphabet that spawns X.
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Why wait until death? Why not start right away? All his entities are just getting wealthier each year. In 2010 Bill Gates wealth was 50 billion. Now it is 100 billion. 15 years after the announcement and "philanthropic" work. Can you explain that.
I don't know if you noticed that one of the use cases I mentioned was level artists. 9 times out of 10, a level artist isn't trying to optimize some specular highlight in a vase, they are trying to see if this room is lit in a good way (aesthetically pleasing, the player can see the right things and so on). So I agree that there are use cases for which a fast denoised preview isn't useful, like the one you mention, but there certainly are ones for which it is quite sufficient, and infinitely better than waiting around for minutes waiting for the lightmaps to bake GI.
I think his point is there are plenty of other noble causes that could use the money a lot more.
Do these people write about what they do? Make and Hackaday are great for fun one-off projects, but I don't really know much about the world of small-scale commercial like this. Make went bankrupt because they couldn't support operations on a hobby budget... I'd love to know what the next step up looks like, especially if it's some large esoteric agricultural machine.
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No, that's not the point. If the small risk of someone dying from covid19 is enough to take away everyone's rights, what keeps your state from taking away your rights for a similarly flimsy reason, such as the risk that you will commit a crime?
There are some things which aren't predictable, such as how many miners are going to drop out of the race given their potential revenue has just been chopped in half, with no corresponding doubling of the BTC/USD exchange rate.

Some may be speculating that miners dropping out is bad for bitcoin because it reduces the security of the network and may give people weak hands if they're concerned that their money may not be as safe as previously assumed. Miners dropping out of the race would also release more mining hardware onto the markets at discounted prices, and some of it may go towards attempting to attack bitcoin. However, if you do the sums and work out how much it would cost to attempt and sustain such an attack, and how much can be gained from it, you quickly realize that such an attack would never be attempted for monetary gain - it is in the miner's best interest to play by the rules. The only other motive for attack is to cause temporary denial-of-service, at the expense of the miner, but this could only plausibly be conducted by a nation state due to the amount of work done in Bitcoin.
Reakit – Toolkit for building accessible UIs
http://archive.is/VtKbR

I got a 503 error!
> Oh they are, I just prefer to focus on good things rather than bad things.

If you can afford not to focus on them, then trust me, they are absolutely not focused on doing that. Your experiences is very different from those who are actually suffering from them.

> Things are pretty good for me, but it's not because of politics.

Only because you class those things that go in your favour as "not politics" and only those that challenge your position as "politics".
Genuine questions: what makes ca have such lower number of deaths compared to ny, given it has a comparable number of tourists and both are crowded? Also, ca has a somewhat comparable climate to italy and spain, yet CA has fared much better. What the heck is the missing piece here?

Greece is also similar to italy and spain and it has far less numbers of deaths. East EU countries as well yet Russia is doing far worse. Very odd behaviour from this virus and i dont think the gaps are in counting methodology or over/under reporting.
>building fancy pilots all day, but refuse roll them out because it will cannibalize their core business

That's the big difference I've noticed between German and US companies.

In German companies if you are an exec that brought success to the company in the past then your word is the law and focus is on keeping the status quo and make sure that any new ventures don't make existing higher ups obsolete.

Whereas in US tech companies innovation is the primary focus regardless if someone's division ends up obsolete and needs to be let go. Famous examples being how Netflix pivoted from DVD rentals or Tony Fadell, creator of the iPod who was tasked on delivering an iPhone prototype back in the day and failed as his team's design was basically an iPod based phone which lost in favor of the current iOS iPhone we all know today. During the live iPhone launch demo, Steve Jobs deletes his contact from the favorites list basically saying "you're fired" and the rest is history.

You won't see something like this in a German company where age and experience in the company is more valued than being a visionary for future market trends. That's why you'll never see the big German car manufacturers pull off a Tesla even though they have more resources. Can't pivot and cannibalize the current products and have to shit-can some famous higher ups that were successful in the past.
Agree, world class education in maths there. He understands the importance of examples and visualization and it changes everything.
Why herd immunity to Covid-19 is reached much earlier than thought
>poison the atmosphere every day with a car

So you won't mind electric cars then, which fix that problem ?
I have never been in a Lidl Store I would consider "first class". It's not bad products but they have a few factors that severely limit the impressions.

They mostly only carry their own brand with extremely limited options. If you want orange marmalade they have one style from one brand (their own). If you want some other style, find a different store. (This is the case with most of their items besides a small additional selection of eg certain candy, but still very sparse compared to other stores.)

Most items are set up in bulk on the cargo carriers it comes on. Although this is probably also a lot for show to give a "price consious" appeal.

They tend to have a significant part of the store dedicated to whatever random garbage they got a good deal on. Sometimes it's a boardgame, sometimes it's a stuffed animal, sometimes it's a power tool. Usually decent quality, but rarely the best.

For me I put Lidl in the class of store where you have to make multiple trips to different stores. If I'm cooking I can rarely go only to Lidl. You usually go there to buy some of the stuff you need but then get the rest at some other store with more items.
On Forth's FAQ it says: "Our service is available within the UK only, if you live outside this territory you will not be able to buy this test."
Yes I'm thinking about smaller players. I would bet GCP will be cancelled before most of the small players give up.
A 2018 paper by Strang about this approach:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00029890.2018.14...
How will they get to the dispensary?
Amazon releases Kendra to solve enterprise search with AI and machine learning
What language is that code in at the end of the post? It looks very similar to JS.
Cancelling SAP is a sign that they can avoid sunk cost fallacy, which is good.
Happy to chat in much greater detail over email if you like (in my profile) -- transit specifically is not generally our limiting cost (though of course in the context we operate in, every penny counts -- e.g. we run our own DCs, ambiently cooled, single-feed grid power with minimal backing, etc). We generally run very close to the edge, capacity-wise, in order to get the most out of what we have -- in this case, demand moved very quickly and we had to work a hardware deployment to catch up.
I used the ListenNotes API for a previous startup idea I had and it was great. It's amazing how few (if any) podcast search APIs there are and ListenNotes is definitely a good example of one.

Wenbin also had a great blog post on "Good enough engineering" that deserves linking to: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/good-enough-engineering-to-...
Our devs hated it due to ease of accidental flow fsck ups. And good luck scaling it or trying to put it behind an LB!
Let's not kid ourselves : European ad-tech companies are not substantially more ethical than their American counterparts.

GDPR (even with its current clumsy implementation) is a much needed piece of legislation since the data processing market have no economic interest in "behaving" ethically.
In general you don't need to vacuum manually, this happens in the background automatically. If you have a lot of activity on the DB, or fit into certain corner cases you have to tune the autovacuum parameters. The default is generally getting better with each Postgres release.

And if you want to play with the Autovacuum settings, you really should read up on this in detail. There are some counter intuitive aspects to it, e.g. in many cases if you have problems with autovacuuming you should vacuum more, not less.

One exception is after you restore a backup, you might want to run "VACUUM ANALYZE" so that you get some good statistics immediately. That also will happen in the background later, but until then you can get weird query plans.
Detecting nuclear detonations? Or perhaps even tracking nuclear material?

AFAIR, it was thanks to such gamma ray detectors pointed down that we've accidentally discovered gamma ray bursts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite)#Role_of_Vela_...
> In comparison, today's gaming industry is fragmented beyond all recognition.

Not really. The gaming industry today is free-to-play MOBA games for Android and iOS.

Anything else is legacy that only keeps existing due to nostalgia of the 25+ crowd.

Granted, this crowd is the largest and the one with the most disposable income here in 2020, but it's obvious that going forward it will quickly wither and disappear.
That doesn't seem true:

https://labor.vermont.gov/unemployment-insurance/refusal-ret...

I believe there was also an HN submission about a group of states doing these types of things to force people back to work even if they feel scared of catching the virus, or giving up their unemployment benefits, though I can't find it now, so Vermont isn't the only state doing this.
Agreed, Linux is way behind in kernel and userland hardening. Things are slowly getting better, with some of grsec/PaX's features being merged upstream [0] and X being slowly replaced by wayland (but it still has issues before mass adoption). SELinux/Apparmor fix some issues, but their policies are not restrictive enough (and when they are, they get disabled because they're too user-unfriendly).

Android did a good job integrating SELinux in their ecosystem to provide some sort of sandbox, I wish there were similar project for desktop Linux, but it seems only Redhat cares about SELinux in the OSS world (and they don't seem to have this kind of project in the works).

sudo is Linux's UAC, and I agree that it is insecure, but its use is optional and with good selinux policies, you shouldn't be able to highjack it like in the OP (unfortunately, there are no good, easy-to-use selinux policies)

Linux has too big an attack surface IMO and I wish microkernels like GNU/Hurd or seL4 would become more popular, but, like most things in OSS, there are not enough people interested.

[0] https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...
The disaster wouldn't have happened in the first place if China had not assassinated doctors trying to circulate early information about Covid-19. China in effect created the problem and then solved it very, very painfully.
But I have bandwidth to share, not cash. I'm already at the lowest subscription level with my ISP. I understand the argument, but if there was a general technical solution this would be nice, right?
Phew! Happy to have read the comments here. They say a lot. I will go with Apache Airflow for all my workflow needs from now on. I wasn't entirely sure if this was the best bet, but after seeing all of this I am now.

I know a massive installation [0] which is about to be open sourced, where Apache NIFI is used in the middle of the stack as a key component. No dismissal of the capabilities this package offers intended.

[0] https://sikkerhetsfestivalen.no/bidrag2019/138

slides [slide #32]: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c2f61585b409bfa28a47...
Monitoring website performance with Lighthouse and CircleCI
That was near the top of my favourite festive fifty and as such I often listen to that along with other favourites from that time such as Ballboy. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1_3mKnutU )
I agree we should have more/better ground transportation but:

> Any airplane I've ever flown had better filtering and circulation, more spacing and better hygiene, than any bus I've ever ridden in.

And most modern trains I've ridden beat a plane on all of those metrics.

> Every airport terminal was more spacious than every indoors bus or train terminal.

Airport terminals have to accommodate planes, which are enormous, inconveniently shaped, move slowly between the runway and the terminal and spend at least ~1h exchanging passengers and cargo. This means there's a large number of very large vehicles sitting around that need space and infrastructure, which means the airport terminals have to be huge.

Since they're required to be huge and large amounts of real estate are needed, airports are also usually located far from the center of the city they serve.

And finally, people are forced to spend a lot of time in an airport, so there's a lot of opportunity to make a lot of money from passengers, which means incentive to spend a lot making the terminal a nice place to be.

Trains and buses are much easier to accommodate and typically sit at their station for minutes at a time, which means the station can be much more compact. The stations are usually located throughout the cities they serve, which means real estate is expensive and should be kept to a minimum. Passengers usually pass through a train station in a matter of minutes and don't have a need to loiter and be captive to the shops there, so there's not as much in the way of opportunity for profit.

> So why this obsession with airplanes as the vulnerable part of the equation? Is it all just... human inability to calculate risks and our focus on the "flashy"?

Because airlines can go bankrupt relatively easily. It's exciting when a big, well-known company dies.

> This should be throwing our entire transportation industry into disarray and restart fundamental discussions about urban planning and urban landscaping of the future... and yet I only ever see the airline industry mentioned.

I think because there's not a whole lot that can be done there. Cities are already there, they've already been planned. You can't easily take a city built around roads and rebuild it around trains, trams or a subway, especially in America, which is what you'll see most of on HN.

The most I've seen is a city that already has trams and trains replace roads to expand their already mature train or tram network.
Not all poka-yokes are as elegant as the ones in the article. A friend once told me about a poka-yoke measure put in place in their factory after someone left a wrench in an airplane engine as it was being assembled (leading to millions of dollars of damage).

Tools were stored in a special toolbox. The tools each had a slot to be stored in (the slots were foam, cut in the silhouette of the tool, so only that tool could be stored there). Each slot had a sensor to tell if the tool was there. You had to scan your ID to open the box. A computer system logged which tools you took, and you could not punch out your time card until all your tools were returned.

The system was complex and costly to build, but less costly than a single mistake like the one that inspired it.
Yep, that's what I post every single time. Taxis are already self driving cars, so any argument for a self driving car should apply to them as well, yet people still prefer owning their own car than being "automatically" driven everywhere. It would already be cheaper for me to take a taxi to work every day than pay for my own car, yet.....I would rather pay a bit more and have a car that is mine and that I can do whatever I want with. The self driving aspect is just not appealing in the slightest.
This is awesome! My fiancee was in the band Comatose that did a Peel Session recording in 1998. I've never heard because we didn't start dating until years later. This is the session. https://www.youtube.com/embed/KtyoQC7zyvU
> I know exactly how convincing I was, but I was never called out enough during the meeting to out me.

I'm the technical guy on the other side of the table. We don't call people out of politeness - just smirk and enjoy the ride. After the meeting we talk freely to people in charge and destroy all your hopes of sale.
Although I think the WHO has been way too cryptic talking about the issues surrounding antibodies and immunity, I think the real questions are really around degrees of immunity.

It might be that 80% of people get antibodies and immunity, but 20% don't. Or some people get antibodies but it doesn't prevent them from being a carrier. Or the immunity is only partial, etc. And then there's the ADE stuff which is theoretical but scary.
>This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach. That is something I cannot support.

It is 100% evidence based. Reduction of gatherings = reduction in transmission. There's no way around this. People may be more likely to get covid from costco, but reducing interaction to only costco is still reduction of transmission.

This idolization of Elon Musk and contrarian logic that really doesn't even make common sense is getting on my nerves.

It's like one of those people who said that face masks weren't protecting people from covid using faulty but overconfident logic.

Uh hello? A face mask blocks light and slows down
I started by only reading his book thinking it was enough. I was very wrong, these videos marry themselves beautifully with the content of the book which suddenly became incredibly clear once I started watching the videos. Strang teaching style can also seem odd at first, but don't give up, he is an amazing teacher who makes every concept simple to understand. This course is a true gift.
just wait we will get a hitler reference :D
Firing an employee is not violence.
It’s not hard to see why .ORG rattled so many cages. It seems like there’s a lot of passive anger of old school vs new money, even now in 2020. Thinking about domains, it doesn’t take too long to get into the politics of property.

How do you think domain names should work?

Should you just be able to buy them openly? If one person has all the money, then should they be allowed to buy all the domain names?

Should they be limited to some sensible amount per person? Is a company a person? Should companies be limited in the same way?

If there is a limit, should the price be capped as well, or left open to the market? Those with the most money get to control the best domains?

Personally: I am grateful that we still have a system that works for all and I’m very motivated to not see it go the way of rampant commercialism. Mozilla’s post helps me proselytize.
I still think it's weird that companies think this helps anything. AWS isn't the same as the Amazon shop. Yes it shares the name and if you go enough levels above management you end up with Bezos but other than that their computers != their shop.

Sometimes people then point to the fact that it's still a US company but ironically people try to make that point on their US-created computers using websites on a US-owned gTLD with US-owned software. Generic cloud resources seem like the smallest issue to me in that chain.
So you now have 3 pixels per meter in each direction of the 10km x 10km square.
Not really a good example, Swiss rails are supremely expensive to state and travellers too. Most countries wouldn't be able to afford such density to have good coverage. They definitely don't run very precisely in many places due to many factors, as a local I can attest to that with many late arrivals to work in the past.

These days they run almost empty at huge losses. You still need to haul 300 tonne of steel through whole country, even if there are 5 passengers.

Maybe its the best implementation of the train network for civil travel, but still needs to be heavily complemented by network of buses to all small places.

And that grandma drive to the door would still have to use a taxi every single time.
> ”being suspiciously cheap ... I'm not 100% sure that's what I want of a cloud provider.”

Just like in the supermarket industry, there is plenty of demand in the market for quality products at cheaper prices.

I remember the early days of AWS where they would surprise us with price cuts every 6-12 months. That hasn’t happened for a long time, which suggests to me that AWS is, over time, taking advantage of their dominant position and getting more greedy with pricing. Just like Amazon itself!
Thinking Fast and Slow. I recommend this to absolutely everyone. It’s a huge study on how everyone thinks, even when they think they’re above thinking like that. Truly amazing!
oh god dude I helped saving lives now I want to be allowed to kill them. xD