skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBF with a completely greenfield project and managed K8s (GKE or EKS) you can absolutely get a pretty well set up infra very quickly if you are willing to learn how to do so.

I often get the feeling a lot of the negativity comes (rightfully so) from trying to replicate a current existing project into kubernetes. This is true of almost any paradigm - try replicating a Java EE monolith into Erlang and you are going to have a lot of problems. The big thing to note is that starting a project on Erlang very well might solve the problems that a Java EE project ran into, but that is because they were able to solve them at the ground floor, and just popping a Java EE project with all of it's architecture into an Erlang project will probably end up in a worse spot.

I think that this is what often happens with k8s as well - if you or your company have a currently working implementation that isn't on k8s, of course you won't be able to just easily plop it into a k8s cluster and everything be all well and good, but I think the problem is that people are equating that issue with k8s itself, which is a completely different paradigm.
> peer review at CS conferences is normally anonymous and double-blind to reviewers and authors

Really? When I was doing my PhD from 2008-2012, double blind conferences on computer systems and networking usually reveals the authors.

Although double blindness is not perfect:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1517480.1517492
(Double-Blind Reviewing — More Placebo Than Miracle
Cure?)
That issue was last updated in July 2019, did discussion continue elsewhere?
Sure, there is a short term consumer benefit in that someone gets to save 9 cents on AA batteries. It’s not at all clear that consumers benefit in the long term from Amazon becoming ever more powerful.
Bilingual school hints towards a private school, so you might be right. German education is actually strict around who is teaching and even private schools have to follow a public curriculum.

Lefties have special pens, as we generally learn writing with foundation pens which would smear for a leftie. Sometimes I remember lefties (and righties?) using blotting paper to prevent smears.

In the 90s you still had some lefties being forced to write with their right hand. I assume they are now allowed to write with ball pens that don’t smear. All the lefties I know in my generation have an awkward writing position in order to prevent smears. But generally the way you write an „N“ doesn’t differ. You start on the left bottom -> up -> right bottom -> up.
COVID test accuracy is very similar to condom effectiveness: they're both high in theory, but surprisingly low in practice, not because of the science but user error. I've seen estimates as high as 10-30% for false negatives, largely due to poor swabbing practices:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/false-negatives-covid...
It always seemed cool to me from the old TV shows to see the Milk Man making deliveries. Add some other staples like Bread and Eggs and I could see them making a comeback.
can a society with two big groups holding such divergent values survive? Or is it inevitable that is splits apart?

There are historical examples in both directions, so arguably we don't know.

A society that didn't survive: Russia during the Bolsheviks. One group was so aggressive it took over completely.

A society that did come back from the brink: perhaps Britain during the 1970s?

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

Left / right conflict resulted in widespread strikes, three day weeks, an IMF bailout, power cuts, garbage piling up in streets, bodies going unburied, hyperinflation and so on. It was resolved after voters replaced the left wing government with a right wing one that radically reformed trade union laws and refocused policy on inflation control, but at the cost of a huge recession. The UK pivoted from quite far leftism to (for Britain) nearly libertarian government within the span of one or two elections; eventually Thatcher's libertarian policies led to riots and she was kicked out by her own party. After that both parties moved more towards each other, paving the way for many years of Blairite centrism.
I've been doing professional FP work for 20+ years at this point. Haskell has community was the biggest killer for me. It was great when I made the jump from Standard ML to Haskell about 15 years ago. About 5 years ago I just couldn't stand what it had morphed into any longer - from the tension created by certain companies to well known community members who were just trouble for one reason or another. Instead of returning to Standard ML, I've been doing Ocaml for the last 5 years or so and couldn't be happier.
I ended up dropping out of graduate school, but the advice I was given before entering was this:

Choose your advisor, not your area of focus.

Your advisor single-handedly decides how smoothly your PhD will go, and once you have your PhD, you can decide where your career goes.

Obviously, area of focus does determine a bit of your future, but within that area, optimize for a helpful advisor.

Also, I am sure your university has resources, and ways you could report this behavior, but it's often very difficult to unseat/challenge university faculty, so I totally understand an unwillingness to act.
I agree with the other commenter: finish what you started, get out, and focus on doing good work.
The difference between Amazon and a grocery store is that Amazon has access to global supply chains, Amazon also does logistics, Amazon also does web services, Amazon does its own customer analytics, Amazon uses some very sophisticated algorithms to personalise search results, Amazon sells books and videos and other digital content which it produces and sometimes publishes, Amazon makes special user-friendly control and access hardware, Amazon is also a digital storefront and backend warehouse system, which sellers pay for, at prices that Amazon sets, often with most or all of the risk loaded on the sellers.

Among others. Including aggressive tax avoidance in most jurisdictions in which it operates.

Amazon is nothing like a grocery store. Nor is it like a department store. Nor is it an online store.

It's more like a B-movie monster which is trying to devour retail, manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics, consumer analytics, advertising, content creation, web services, publishing, consumer AI - and a significant proportion of the cardboard box industry.
TLDR: This article is a rant.

Now in hindsight everyone is ranting about how lockdowns were a bad decision. When s$%t was going down and no one knew what to do, you depend on leaders to make the choices that not everyone can. I don't see what is so hard to see in the "science" part? Haven't you all seen the flattening of the exponential rise in covid-19 cases with the introduction of lockdown measures? Was that a happy coincidence? No, it was a strategy introduced to slow the growth. Now look at Sweden and Brazil that didn't introduce lockdowns and how they are still struggling.

see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/shutdowns-p...
Don't do this! Try to do the best research you can. When you are make your own way as a researcher you can learn from this bad experience and conduct yourself with more integrity. Once you have a post PhD job what you did during your thesis won't matter, to be honest - 10 years on people will judge you by your more recent publications.

So don't get off track - changing schools/advisers/topics can be very disruptive and you can wind up becoming a tenured ("ten-yeared") graduate student. I was forced to change advisor due to my first one leaving and it took me from 'on track to get out quickly' to 'slowest guy in my year to finish'.
Yes, I linked to a relevant paper in this thread. (And I think it's what you would expect for a disease that is non-symptomatic for many young/healthy people.)

> That would mean that the virus is cleared by the innate immune system and not the adaptive

Not necessarily, because adaptive antibodies produced through previous exposure to coronaviruses can also bind to covid19.
To fix some issues with a Roku Premiere Plus and switching refresh rates causing screen blanking because if those stupid Netflix Autoplay trailers.
It's definitively not the same genre but Shores of Hazeron was an empire building MMO where you start as a simple caveman on a random planet in a fully procedurally generated universe and you are supposed to create a city from scratch and figure out space travel. Colonize other planets or moons in your solar system to create a FTL drive and then fight other empires. It looks awful and the developer made some questionable decisions but hey it was just a one man show. Nowadays the closest spiritual successor is No Mans Sky. Huge procedurally generated universe. Check. Randomly generated animals. Check. Spacecraft with combat and seamless transition from planet to space. Check. The ability to create your own spacecraft designs? Nope. The ability to actually do interesting things with the planets like build a colony on them? Nope. Massive multiplayer? Hell no.

No mans sky is just eye candy. Imagine the benefits of reaching the center of the galaxy and thereby being teleported to a completely different one if you could colonize that new galaxy! You'd have a massive edge over the other empires. The reality is that all universes and planets in no mans sky are functionally the same. You can stop playing as soon as you see your first planet and nobody could claim that you didn't see everything the game had to offer.
It also seems to have little bearing on how essential an activity is, and it hastens the ongoing consolidation of our economy into a small number of enormous companies.

Personal anecdote: I need a biopsy from a specialist surgeon who does not treat respiratory diseases and does not reside in a hospital.

Sorry. That's non-essential. I haven't been able to get it done, and it's been months. I'm also on COBRA, so...clock's ticking.

But if I want to buy a paperback? Well I can't visit my favorite local bookstore which is usually quite empty (non-essential), but I can go to a packed Walmart or order it off Amazon.
> Just because you got used to this tool, does not mean it is good UX. To me this looks really cluttered, and I would be overwhelmed, if I looked at all those options for the first time.

It is also true that looking cluttered at first sight does not mean it's not good UX.
For many people - they don't really have the quickness you speak of and even if they do, they haven't found a way to apply it in a way that they enjoy.

The problem many people are fighting is boredom. Hence the prevalence of alcohol. It makes time go by, it turns off the brain that is largely capable of haphazard worrying and complaining.

For those who are smart enough to assemble hierarchies of meaning and play with them, sobriety is great. For most everyone else - regular drug use is probably an optimal strategy.
I don't know that I love Amazon putting their stuff first, but this criticism of Amazon's actions was interesting:

> The new approach violates Amazon’s mantra that every decision must put the customer first, said Tim Hughes, a consultant who used to work in product management at Amazon. “Why would their brand be a better option for consumers?” said Hughes, chief operating officer of a firm that helps brands manage Amazon accounts. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be cheaper, or better, or anything. So then what’s their justification to say, ‘We’re just going to put this up in front of everybody else’? This is just another example of Amazon being able to manipulate the platform for its own good use.”

I don't disagree with this, but at the same time, if you're arguing for advertising determining what gets the top slots, why would a manufacturer that can pay more be a better option for consumers?
Google/Apple maps where you live and go, Facebook knows who you deal with, Microsoft knows how you use your computer and Amazon knows what you buy.

It's ok if you're a boring type for your whole life.
Not sure I understand this post. You say it isn't a problem for the future but then go on to say it is a problem.
Well, my partner has the same issue.

Even thought we are living in this city because it was the best for her career (She's a professional flamenco "bailaora" and where we lived before her career was dead in the water) she doesn't have a large amount of friends, but boy does she crave for going out.

She is really having a bad time going through this, while I'm surfing the wave without issues.
This is one of the best articulations I've come across. For me, it sparked the realization that the boundary line between (to cite your example) light and perception is on some level an arbitrary distinction between words, that reality is continuous but language is quantized and the relationship between the two is malleable. There are numerous other paths to this insight, but for me it turned an intellectual understanding into a gut-level one.

Foucault, for instance, penned this anecdote about Borges in his introduction to "The Order of Things" five years before he took acid out in death valley:

“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ in which it is written that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that.”
They are so discredited now, now one listens to them.
Ask HN: Is the AWS CloudFormation GUI console down?
Very weird question, but I can't see my CloudFormation consoles in the GUI for the past week or so. I keep getting this error in DevTools (Chrome and Firefox):

vendor.js:22 TypeError: Cannot read property 'stackSummaries' of null
at render (main.js:1)
at t.render (vendor.js:14)
at In (vendor.js:22)
at Nn (vendor.js:22)
at Ln (vendor.js:22)
at wr (vendor.js:22)
at Cr (vendor.js:22)
at zr (vendor.js:22)
at Hr (vendor.js:22)
at Fr (vendor.js:22)

This is us-east-1 and us-east-2 as of June 8th, 2020 6:26PM ET. AWS service indicates green for CloudFormation (N. Virginia) but I'm guessing that's API-only.

Not sure if I just have some extension or config setting off locally in both browsers, or whether it's seen everywhere.
Well, yes. But it's not the same, and I'm in this boat as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23460927
Same here. I always joke that I decided to become a doctor early on, went into CS and all that is left from my plans is the handwriting.

I remember from 3rd to 6th grade we had „Werken“ ( handicrafts, wood working) lessons and we had to write perfect non-cursive „Druckschrift“ (Block letters) in the „technical documents“ and „drawings“
I’ve taken the training and I recommend it, Keep in mind though that TLS and PKI are broad subjects and covering every intermediate/advanced use case in a two days training won’t be possible.
But yeah it does cover certificate chaining issues, cross signing etc.
Cheers, I'm checking that out now :)
I did a 24 hour sous vide ribs. It was ridiculously good. So I know it works for slow cooking "bbq" when you don't have a smoker.
All of the peer answers are excellent, here are my $0.02:

As a design principle, it makes sense to use/re-use the capabilities of a component, rather than an agent acting on that primitive. For example, HTML already has a built-in CSS engine that can animate. Re-writing the animation in JavaScript is redundant and adds more code, which means more bugs, more size, more maintenance, etc.

Consider this example in C: using printf("%f", val) versus writing your own convert_float_to_characters_to_stdout(val) function.

There are cases where you may want to do the latter because printf is a very large function for embedded controllers and sometimes excludes format specifiers to save space, especially %f. But normally you just use what you are given rather than re-inventing the wheel.
5 dedicated folks = a lot of dollars. $500k-1M? Do those 5 folks keep things up reliably without burning out?

Honestly curious - never used k8s or Mesos* in production and we have a much smaller team managing a much smaller infrastructure, I am sure.

edit: meant to say mesos but applies to both
Actually, Chinese characters did originally have a defined linear order (or, rather several schools existed IIRC). It's been a while since I looked at this, but essentially they were ordered by radical and then pronunciation, with some other tie breaker rules. Japanese word dictionaries, though, are indeed usually ordered by pronunciation. Kanji dictionaries have a variety of different orders, but most of them are ordered by radical and stroke count.
At ~1.1 per 100.000 inhabitants it is lower than the USA which lies around ~4.9 per 100.000 (data from BRÅ (Sweden) and FBI (USA) for 2016). Compared to the rest of north-western Europe Sweden lies on the high side, e.g. Norway has less than half of this number, the Netherlands about half, Germany around ⅔, Denmark has a comparable murder rate. The situation in Sweden varies markedly from place to place with Malmö generally lying somewhere at the top (~3.5 murders/100.000). Where most countries in the region have seen a downward trend in the number of people subject to a crime, Sweden and Germany go against the trend with a steadily rising number [1,2], in Sweden this seems to be largely due to the rise in gang-related violence which has also led to a sharp increase in the number of shootings and gun-related homicides [4], hand-grenade attacks [4] and stabbings (on which I do not have separate data other than noticing the number of knife-related crimes in the news steadily increasing). For more info see Wikipedia:Crime in Sweden [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sweden-crime-1976-2016-ro...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden
I think one of the best indicators of "coding on the edge" is when you have to hack things together to make them do the things you want them to do.
Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
Anecdata: Series B startup. I've found GKE to be almost completely painless, and I've been using it in production for more than 4 years now.
I don't think the article gave a fair representation on this count; sharing a link to a single GKE incident that (according to the writeup) spanned multiple days and only affected a small segment of users doesn't (for me) substantiate the claim that "it isn’t uncommon for them to have multi-hour outages".

In my experience, multi-hour control-plane outages are very rare, and I've only had a single data-plane outage (in this case IIRC it was a GKE networking issue). Worst case I see is once or twice a year I'll get a node-level issue, of the level of severity where a single node will become unhealthy and the healthchecks don't catch it; most common side-effect is this can block pods from starting. These issues never translate into actual downtime, because your workloads are (if you're doing it right) spread across multiple nodes.

I wouldn't be surprised if EKS is bad, they are three years behind GKE (GA released in 2018 vs 2015). EKS is a young service in the grand scheme of things, GKE is approaching "boring technology" at 5 yrs old.
If that is the case, why were non-essential businesses shut down and shelter in place orders enacted all over the world?
I hope to see this trend come back. We pre-order milk and vegetables from an Amish farmers market and pick it up at a drop off location in our neighborhood. The quality is so good that we don't mind paying an extra bit more, it is actually not a lot more expensive but one has to commit to order and pick it up in specific location so this particular setup won't work for everyone.
I totally disagree but I just want to compliment you on a delightfully written comment. I laughed out loud multiple times.
my comment was way off the mark, didn’t realized it sounded sarcastic. i was instead trying to appreciate his approach to the intangible—pointing to direct experience to avoid stockholm criticism.
Do you guys turn JS off completely while surfing the net because you don't like someone analyzing your uses? It's hard to imagine what your comfortable life would look like.
The labor market is not zero-sum.

If Haskell is just a signal that selects for more competent people, companies will be happy to hire people whose competence they would have to invest a lot to match otherwise, and developers will be happy to get a larger salary than they would be able to get otherwise. (But yes, this would disfavor people with other kinds of signal.)

If it selects for high productivity people, or if it helps people be more productive, companies will be happy from getting more output than they would otherwise, and developers will still get more money.

The stereotype is that Haskell jobs pay less, and developers are happy to work with a better language. That still doesn't disfavor any party, but I don't think anybody has any evidence that this is the case. Notice that the GP is talking about people competence, not salary.
We haven't even got to ops stage yet. Small team has spent 6 months trying to repackage our app into openshift and still barely works. I think everyone regrets even looking at it.
The 'needing a team' aspect of Kubernetes sounds remarkably similar to conversations I had like 8 years ago when Openstack was the new hotness.

We went with ECS and have been happy with it. It plays well with all of AWS's other products and features. For the few things we have to run On-Prem we use Docker Swarm in single node mode and it works well (albeit missing a few features like crons from Kubernetes).
FWIW, I just did a similar thing. The first 5 or so Amazon brands were clearly labeled as such. Then I searched some of their lesser known brands and found many weren't clearly labeled.

Try it yourself. The hard part is finding out what Amazon's brands are since they (surprise!) don't publish a list. This is the best list I could find in my short time searching

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-owns-these-brands-lis...
Is that widespread now? I mostly stay out of web dev and this is the first I'm hearing of it