skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't read any commentary on the current China situation at all into this decision. The appeal of India's growing middle class, IT outsourcing industry, Android-centric smartphone market, widespread English fluency and emerging domestic startup scene is there for a Google wanting access to that market and a base for certain types of operations regardless of what China's doing.
I’m not really sure what containers/k8s has to do with JVM? Containers are just name spacing, not virtualization. If you’re running in the cloud, either way you slice it you’ll have two virtual machines: hypervisor and JVM.

I’d argue that being able to herd your JVM procs like cattle makes them good candidates for k8s because you can always just set resource limits so they get purged when the heap becomes too large.
The basic principle of induction is to prove k+1 in terms of k. If we can show it's true for k=1, then it's true for all k>1 as well. But assuming that it's true for k is a basic part of inductive proofs. It's like falling dominoes. You show the first domino falls; you show that, if the previous domino falls, the next domino will also fall; and thus all the dominoes fall.

The trick in this proof is that the steps for proving k+1 in terms of k don't work for all k > 1, which invalidates the generalization that the induction depends on. The steps obscure an extra predicate on the generalization, so that it's not fully general.

If the proof (of some other property) didn't have that hidden predicate, or something like it, it would be fine. The problem really is that far down.
The real definition of "expert" isn't "knows stuff you don't" but "reliably does stuff you can't."

So when an expert makes accurate predictions about climate change, they're not believable because they're in a political category called "expert".

They're believable because they've done what they've claimed they could do. And your opinion is less relevant than their opinion, because you literally don't know enough about the details to even start doing what they've done.

If you look into the pseudoscience of denialism, you'll find that not only are the same "experts" rolled out to challenge climate change, tobacco dangers, and so on - but it's incredibly rare to find one with a credible paper trail of accurate and useful predictions about the topic they're holding forth on.

But populists aren't interested in the science, they're interested in pandering to public narcissism. No one has a problem believing dentists know more about teeth than they do, or that mechanics know about cars.

But populists like to use sideswipes - like claiming climate science is all about funding - which are personal smears and not about the facts. And they add a strain of anti-intellectual pandering by suggesting these domeheads are looking down at regular honest Americans, and how dare they be so insulting?

This is like honey to narcissists, and the debate stops being about reality and becomes about feelings and identity - which is exactly what the denier farms want.

The mechanics are thinly varnished bullying, similar to some of the drivers of misogyny and homophobia - "How dare you be different, and how dare you even have an opinion? Shut up and stay in your place. See - all these good folk here agree."
We often call things legacy because they were made a while ago, or the person who made it isn't at the organisation anymore, or — frankly — because we weren't involved in making it. But those are just proxy indicators for the true indicator of legacy technology: how difficult it is to change.
To say Mr Ambani has good relations with the current government is underselling his influence. He has good relationships across the spectrum of Indian political parties (except maybe the communists who are effectively irrelevant).

However you feel about how Jio got its foothold in the telecoms game ([1] has details), it’s sheer scale makes it an attractive investment. It’s one of two major national 4G networks and an astonishing amount of data moves through it. They’ve big ambitions on the 5G front. They’re also building India’s largest last-mile fibre network. Given that Ambani wants Jio to be debt-free by next year, and an upcoming IPO for Jio by 2024, key industry players falling over themselves to grab a pre-IPO piece isn’t surprising.

The concern, of course, is the complete lack of privacy legislation in India, and how this impacts Jio’s ambitions re “monetising” its users and their clickstream activity.

[1] https://m.thewire.in/article/tech/reliance-jio-telecom-regul...
More broadly maybe one should think of the China model as state-led capitalism and note that it did not origin in China but in Japan and succesfully carried countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore out of their development country status.

It is not the same as nationalism and in particular for India, strong nationalism has the flip-side of igniting dormant conflicts with it sizeable muslim minority.
Foxconn is moving some manufacturing to India.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-india-apple-exclu...
> Then I asked “how do the scientists know this?”

Plug for the wonderfully entertaining A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, which he wrote just to answer this question and fill in the gaps that education misses.
> What also gets lost in the fray is FreeBSD, even with all those Linux-focused tools, is still a compelling and useful operating system

Is FreeBSD compelling and useful at this point beyond as an inferior but more liberally licensed Linux substitute? This is basically what Sony (after their PS2 woes), Nintendo and Netflix (as far as I'm aware; maybe there are technical reasons too) have been using it for. The last clearly competent company I can remember picking FreeBSD for some technical benefits was WhatsApp many many years ago, and as far as I am aware that decision would not make sense today anymore.
As the comment by timsworkaccount says, this is definitely Athena at JPMorgan.

For those interested, I gave a talk on Athena at PyData UK 2018 called "Python at Massive Scale". 4500 developers making 20k commits a week. Codebase with 35m LOC.

The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYD9yyMh9Hk

It covers Athena's origins, what it is used for, application architecture, infrastructure, dev tooling and culture.
It's one of these errors that native speakers are more likely to make than even the beginners with English as a second language :)
Google Analytics has a fair amount of filtering by default - including bots/spiders.

Went to Plausible's website, it makes no mention of this type of blocking. That 13% could be eaten into significantly by removing that type of activity.

More convincing would be matching up activity across sites, and seeing for what sessions they differ. If this was a decrease in users who had significant sessions (>30 secs, for example), there'd be more meaningful conclusions to draw.
One decade at a time man
Scientific Misconduct Incidents
Well there are a lot of people who are not aware of the fact and then there are those who are onboard because they are onboard with the government. So the alarmist kind are a minority which media doesn't show. Also 90% of the media channels are owned by the aforementioned person.
> it's absolutely 100% forbidden to pass a car on the right

Somehow, it doesn't stop all these frickin' Audis from doing it. (It's always Audis.)
[Bookstack](https://www.bookstackapp.com/) has been working very well for us. Lots of great features and good UI. Also it integrates with LDAP and is open-source.
seemingly not enough :-)
> If someone needs a concept dumbed down and distilled to the length of a tweet before they can approach it then maybe they shouldn't be here.

I would be afraid that taking such a view would be (A) gatekeeping, (B) elitism (despite your assertion, this is not supposed to be a community of elites; high-level discussion doesn't require elitism), (C) and dismissiveness about the use and usefulness of summaries — they're a perfectly reasonable tool for conveying the most interesting point of what sometimes are very long, technical documents; videos; and often presented inaccessibly.

Such assertions preclude curiosity which is a crime greater than failing to read an article to someone's arbitrary satisfaction.
It sounds like you don't understand how an inductive proof works.

Steps 7 and 8 are perfectly fine. Everything up to that point is perfectly fine. The problem is only in step 9, exactly in that "with the exception of k < 3" (actually k<2) - because the trivially true base case of k=1 is that exception. The induction step is correct, it just doesn't work for the only available true base case.
Seems like a headline grabbing thing in the current geopolitical context. They are stating $10B in the next 5-7 years. Quite sure a company like Google would have a spend like that earmarked from way before in one of the big emerging markets like India. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google all have been working towards this for a while now.
surprised this is so controversial. Anyone mind explaining why you disagree?
Found a great deal on a herman miller aeron. No more back pain, it's great!
> "you don't know what you are talking about because obscure hair splitting point x"

I'm a man and have been told that countless times. Are you sure it is a sex-specific issue? Some people just need to gatekeep their precious fields and feel attacked when a newcomer works on them. I would not go as far as calling that "abuse", I even find it mildly amusing when I'm on the receiving end of ridiculous critique.

> I have a daughter, and I want her to follow in my foot steps, but I don't want her to deal with the horrid shit the small but very vocal minority shart out.

I also have a daughter and a son, and I'm trying to teach both of them that the world is a horrible, hostile place, and that they are out to have an epic fight for survival. Petty creepers will be the least of their problems. There's also a few beautiful things in the world, and I'm also teaching them to appreciate them when these are found, but never to expect or somehow think that they are entitled to them.
Packaging, convenience, lack of redundancy and logical structure are worth a lot if your time is valuable. ConversionXL sell video courses for $600 each that have ~the same content as their endless series of blog posts. But the video course has a beginning, middle and end. It’s a polished finished product. The blog posts are raw material. Plenty of academics do similar things when writing books. There’s vanishingly little in any of Bryan Caplan’s that didn’t appear on his blog first but the books are far superior at conveying a theory, rather than more or less disconnected facts.
> Seems to me when a crisis hits the last thing you want to have is debt you need to pay back.

I think that when a crisis hits the first thing you want is cash, and that means the last thing you want is to have just spent all your cash paying off debt.

Imagine that you need to buy $100,000 of inventory to sell, and you have $100,000 to spend. If you spend all your cash on inventory, then you have zero dollars on hand. When your account comes back and tells you that you need to pay another $10,000 in taxes — now you need to borrow, and it's a lot more difficult to borrow with nothing in the bank than with $100,000. When one of your customers trips and falls on the just-washed bathroom floor, you need money to compensate him. Not having cash is pretty awful: necessary cash outflows can be spiky, and income can be spiky, but the spikes do not necessarily need to align. This can lead to a cash flow crisis, and eventually to a restructuring bankruptcy.

OTOH, if you had borrowed the money to buy that inventory, then yes you would have had to pay $110,000 or $105,000 or whatever, but you would also have had the freedom that cash gives you. Borrowing would have smoothed out a major expense, and permitted you to pay it off in smaller chunks, making a cash flow crisis less likely (although of course still possible).

Consider right now, with the whole COVID-19 situation. It could very well make sense to borrow at a good interest rate: the difference between the interest rate on debt and one's investment return rate is essentially the cost of insurance to have cash on hand. Note that sometimes this can even be negative: it is possible even now to get 0% interest-rate credit cards with terms of over a year: you can invest the cash and pay it off in twelve months.
Debian was my main OS everywhere since perhaps 1999 or so. I've jumped on Devuan early on and I think is just great.
It does seem insane that a company would be able to just decide to start doing chip design and could do it better than Intel. But you can see how it happened. Apple obviously went for ARM in the first iPhone using a Samsung chip. It quickly became apparent that Samsung were going to be a competitor, and that the CPU is going to be a differentiator for the iPhone. So in 2008 Apple bought PA Semi, and started building that team up to produce a custom version of the iPhone chip - and that was a massive success, releasing their first chip in the iPhone 4 in 2010.

So Apple have been designing their own CPUs for a decade now. Over that time, they've been massively focused on performance through efficiency - because they're concerned about battery life, power dissipation etc. Whereas Intel has been making bank by designing more and more powerful processors for the data centre.

Of course Apple don't fabricate their own chips - they go to fabs like TSMC to actually manufacture the chips. Whereas Intel does that themselves. It's worth noting that TSMC is more of a direct competitor to Intel (they fab AMD chips too) and they've been executing their road map better than Intel have for a few years now.
I would assume that his blog posts are what convinced quite a few people to actually buy the book. That said, I'm not too familiar with the book sales industry.

I am familiar with consulting. Initially I thought that giving all special knowledge away for free would be the worst thing I could possibly do.

Boy was I wrong.

Nowadays I give presentations detailing step by step exactly what people need to do in order to achieve some outcome, with as goal that they could do it 100% by themselves if they want to.

My theory is that this leads to more sales due to me becoming more visible + it builds large amounts of trust + the best possible clients are going to be very busy + the best possible clients are aware that they could implement all my advice by themselves, but if having me on board as well increases odds of success by as little as 10% (or increases the total impact by as little as 10%), it is still going to be a win to have me on board as well.
Cargo check does not help with what the parent is talking about, which is a edit-compile-run loop.
Interestingly it's strong enough to support a fairly broad range of products from Apple.
> The broker being stateless is great. I've had issues with moving partitions around in Kafka.

Well, the Pulsar broker is (kinda) stateless, because they are essentially a caching layer in front of BookKeeper. But where's your data actually stored then? In BookKeeper bookies, which are stateful. Killing and replacing/restarting a Bookkeeper node requires the same redistribution of data as required in Kafka’s case. (Additionally, BookKeeper needs a separate data recovery daemon to be run and operated, https://bookkeeper.apache.org/archives/docs/r4.4.0/bookieRec...)

So the comparison of 'Pulsar broker' vs. 'Kafka broker' is very misleading because, despite identical names, the respective brokers provide very different functionality. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison, like if you'd compare memcached (Pulsar broker) vs. Postgres (Kafka broker).
Still based on ARM cores, far as I can tell? Plenty more on chip than just the cores, though.
Super-rich call for higher taxes on wealthy to pay for Covid-19 recovery
It is fascinating on multiple levels - first of all, we do not have as complete a picture of the human story as we think we do, and any new piece of the puzzle sure makes the view a bit more detailed.

Second, this is a cave that was being worked by human hands 11,000 years ago, almost completely preserved by the flooding waters. To get to it, required a great deal of modern technical skill - and courage - since its located in a deep, deep cave system. That alone is worth understanding - the means by which this exploration happens.

And then, there is a chance to tie all the pieces together a bit. The ochre from this site can probably be identified in other artefacts (maybe), and show what sort of trade routes and civilisation was happening, at the time.

Because we really do not know enough about our past, it has to be said.
Netflix folks repeatedly stated that in their benchmarks Linux simply couldn’t push data fast enough.
Do you work for a domain registrar?

$10/year * 4 Gigapeople online.

Mandate that much free revenue to the likes of godaddy? No thanks.
So much yes!

I never understood why you would have to pay for security... "Oh look, our software is inherently insecure, but if you pay more, you can get a mitigation." It truly gives no good light on whatever you sell.
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Ask HN: Reducing Email Marketing Costs
I'm currently with mailchimp for email. However as my list grows, I'm finding it quite expensive for a small business. I've looked around and the big names tend to be fairly similar, but there's something around sendy with AWS, but wondering if that's the best option for reducing my costs, or if someone has an easy, cheap solution for replacing my mailchimp service?
the person is connected with both the parties. so may be opposition does not dare to mention him. but i personally feel he is lesser evil, especially if you look at the penetration Chinese products and venture money have made in India.
Debian on a simple laptop.

ubuntu Mate/Manjaro on laptop with a graphics card (what I would put on a desktop if I had one)

Debian/ubuntu server if in need of server.

Debian has quick and easy keyboard shortcuts to easily move/resize windows from desktop to desktop. This is something I am used to do while multitasking.

Mate/Manjaro has integrated NVIDIA support, and more software sources.

If I set up a server, I just like to save time by already knowing commands and programs.
25 years on Linux, tried perhaps a hundred distros plus all of the classic BSDs. Also developed for a couple high profile ones.

I use Ubuntu LTS for my gaming box, with as few tweaks as possible. I want my operating systems like I want my woman: stable and without issues.
If you like low-tech https://dokuwiki.org (PHP, no-DB).
This is just a PR announcement with no specific timeline or even a plan.
Thanks!

Under what circumstances would you expect someone to discover your book (they can't buy it if they don't know about it).

If I want to learn a particular software tool (Kafka, Kubernetes, git). I might go to Amazon or Google and search the name of tool, possibly with "book" appended.

If I want to learn how to do functional programming, I'll search for "functional programming book" or something like that.

What's a search term that I'd be likely to use that would lead me to your book? Or is there one?
I'm a blue water diver, and every time I see these kinds of stories I get serious claustrophobia kicking in.. I wasn't always claustrophobic, just when I started seeing divers doing deep caves, for some reason, pushes the button.

Serious willies factor.
Well, thanks, I guess? Hahah, seems so weird to download random things from random sites to gain a security feature...
Pi-Hole + wireguard works really well.

I have my wife's iPhone set up to automatically connect wireguard unless we are on the home wifi. She has no idea it's even happening. She is just happy that the Internet is always less full of junk.

The only time she had an issue was on a flight, where she was using the wifi without Internet to watch in flight movies. It was still trying to send everything over VPN and failing, so I added United's wifi to the list to not turn on wireguard, and no problems since.

Plus it means she always has access to my internal Nextcloud and Plex instances no matter where she is.
Note that Step 9 can be read as introducing an entity that is known to exist, or introducing a variable to be universally quantified over. It isn't until Step 13 that we see that Step 9 should be read as the former.
Yeah it feels they're just being pushed to out-everything Gitlab, to kill a competitor, before relaxing and stagnating.
I never personally developed on Athena but I remember it requiring AIM (an internal distributed file system sort of like NFS built on Hadoop that had a fairly complex data model). All the Python libraries were compiled and linked against the AIM fs and required some shenanigans to import modules making the code not very portable
Having to care for memory management is by definition very low level.
It works a lot better when your domestic market is a billion people and your local companies can feasibly improve their manufacturing capability fast enough to serve it adequately.
Has anyone used the GitHub wiki as part of a professional work group? Wondering how that went? If you're already using paid github it seems no brainer.
for those interested in other examples I studied a bunch of them and compiled them into this list for my own book launch https://github.com/sw-yx/launch-cheatsheet

I'll be adding this one naturally
It doesn’t need to be super to do that — even bacteria are a type of von-Neuman machine that can turn us into more of themselves.

An ASI could convince you that turning yourself into a paperclip is a fun and exciting new opportunity to liberate you from $PERSONAL_PAIN and finally allow you freedom to engage in $PERSONAL_FANTASY.
I have seen few, often genius programmers do that. but not everyone can have a mental map of the code like that. we just need to run and fix part by part.. may be it's matter of practice, but that's the way several programmers workflows are.
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It's not a technology problem; higher education is free in my country.
Since dang exerts his own political beliefs on other people through his role as a moderator, I will have to censor myself here. Because to do otherwise would be “flame baiting.” And I have to preemptively point out that making a personal attack on a moderator, as this will undoubtedly be interpreted, is not flame baiting.

A certain political group likes to use science like a noun. They say that science says this, science says that. They call anyone who disagrees “anti-science” and “anti-intellectual.” This science baiting is almost worse than when people hunted witches or believed in magic. The science brow-beating crowd is almost Omni-present. And I know for a fact that their mob-style brow beating has caused scientific stagnation by preventing people from investigating politicized topics. It’s like these people don’t understand the difference between someone who strays from the consensus because they have good reason to and people who are just dumb.

I know in my heart that if left to it’s own devices, the brow-beaters would not make any scientific progress. That’s the great irony. They worship the science god. Can’t they see the contradiction there?
With the right search words you can find plenty of those on https://www.shodan.io/

edit: I found this one [1] just by searching for webcam. Seems to be from some factory.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/WevJodh.png