skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, it would probably be as hard to maintain as an opensource version. We really want to have access to the code to make sure we can fix, troubleshoot it, understand it fast...

Things that may've help:

-- Configuration definition (e.g. protobufs.)

-- More focus on observability: error metrics (instead of logs), tracing, etc.

-- gRPC control plane.

-- C++ module development SDK.

-- (ideally) bazel.

Some dataplane features like gRPC JSON transcoding, gRPC-Web, and http/2 to backends.
I used NetLogo at one point in my education. It was a lot of fun. Maybe too much fun. So easy to get sucked in to tweaking a parameter here and there and watching the same initial conditions evolve in different directions. Simulation researchers must have to be constantly on guard against having too much fun in their jobs.
1870: 1450 tons of gold

Versaille: ~46000 tons of gold
It's not a conclusion, it's an ad hominem attack.
I suspect Hugo: https://autoiterative.com/blog/index.xml
Ask HN: What does your ideal software engineering interview look like?
Posted this before but it got lost quick, so trying again. I've seen many posts talk about the deplorable state of interviewing today, calling out whiteboarding, take-homes, multi-days, algorithmic, etc as all have massive shortcomings (and I think many who've done the rounds of the interview circuit would agree that its a stressful pain in the ass situation). Maybe the answer is that there isn't any one-size fits all situation here, but I was generally curious about what people think their ideal software engineering interview would look like?
Yeah I was glossing over the specifics for this context. The way futures/generators are implemented as syntax sugar over a closure/state machine that can live on the stack is one of my favorite features of Rust, but i.e. an executor that uses a smallvec task queue is a bit esoteric for a discussion that started around Javascript.
The issue is that the market can bear it.
> We’ve created over 175,000 new jobs since March and are in the process of bringing 125,000 of these employees into regular, full-time positions.

Boom. These numbers are just damn impressive. Can you imagine? Adding the equivalent of Bank of America... in one single quarter.
If the device is still supported and getting updates this shouldn't be an issue (just remove the compromised CA from the trust store). If it is not supported, it is still better than having a brick.
What's the cutoff for something to be considered "Edge"? It looks like Fly has only about 20 POPs.
There may be valid reasons to deserialize in a stricter way. Consider this scenario: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/HAWKULAR-451?focusedComment...

> For example, suppose we have JSON that represents a set of metric data (this isn't our real JSON, this is just a thought experiment) that should look like this, with "tags" being optional attribute:
{ "id": "1", "timestamp":"12:30pm", "value":"999", "tags": [ "myapp" ] }

> Suppose a python client sends tags but calls the attribute "tag" rather than "tags" (its missing the "s"). Its an optional attribute, so the server won't consider it an error if the "tags" attribute is missing. But it also won't fail due to this unknown attribute called "tag" - it will just silently ignore it now. The Python developer is wondering why his tags aren't being stored - he is getting no errors but they are just silently being ignored. He would need to figure out he is sending in the wrong attribute name, with no error messages to help him out.

> That's the use-case I'm asking about - the "silent error" that will occur due to malformed JSON messages.
> Stopping both will have a negligible effect on global carbon, probably near 0 since more people will drive as a result.

That seems to assume that people are still doing the same amount of travel, just not by air; but I don't think that's true.
Thanks mate. That was very helpful. In general, I can prove that I've used the name commercially long before they've trademarked it and I own the ".com" domain name. I hope I won't have to reach out to lawyers though.
Ten Git Commands That Don't Exist, but Should
> Requiring passion is a euphemism for being over-workable.

That's definitely true in the general case. Having passion means wanting to do the best overall thing because you care about the thing going well. The best overall thing is working hard to prevent long hours which lead to burnouts. If you have managers and senior leaders who share the engineers passion, this problem is self-correcting.

Source: I frequently lecture our (junior esp) new hires about working too many hours. Especially during incidents. Yes this is exciting. Now go sleep and see your family. Come back when you are rested and ready to play at full speed.

I also have uncomfortable talks with people who frequently say "meh, close enough" about whether they actually want to be here. My team performs at a consistently high level.
If you define "workers' rights" as progressive politics then you've kinda hit the nail on the head.
These days one of the biggest value adds of buying from Best Buy (over Amazon) is that you know you won't be getting counterfeit products. My confidence buying consumer electronics from BB is far higher than from Amazon.
Sorry, where does it say or imply "US"?

Presumably people are buying the best phone for their budget and needs. Per OP, "They don't own a PC, this is the only way to safely conduct e-commerce." How many people with an iPhone do you want to bet have a PC, versus how many people with a "junky low-end android"? I'll bet you vastly more iPhone owners have another computer.
Does anybody know how to interpret “users can adjust color settings of each specific book, easily changing parameters such as contrast, brightness, gamma correction, and saturation.”?

The cynic in me reads it as “users must tweak settings for each book”, but if so, why would that be?

If not, why would a reader have per-book settings?
I just had a thought...what if you asked GPT-3 to write a script for ELIZA, given e.g. DOCTOR as an example?
Click bait headline that was actually quite enjoyable to read.
Details? References?

Here are docs on recovery (updated Feb, 2020) but the process sucks: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/rever...
This is not exactly cherry picked, but I did play with the prompts till I could get GPT-3 to write an article in the first person in response to the article, instead of other random output. This is the first successful attempt.

GPT-3 on Philosphers
by GTP-3
https://pastebin.com/3AEtjv35
As you can guess, changing the name of an established product would the be a means of last resort.
Wow! 2% of emissions? That's a lot. If you shut off airlines it's the same as a single year's growth in emissions.
It was written as part of a DoD project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#His...
I remember thinking when coronavirus was a new thing that it was an almost perfect mix of harmless and deadly, harmless enough that most people would carry it asymptomatically, deadly enough that it would reliably kill the vulnerable.

I figured that something like bubonic plague, which is absolutely lethal in comparison, wouldn't get very far against modern surveillance tactics and medical practices.

Since then, my estimations of our ability to deal with pandemics has taken a few hard knocks. It seems to me that even a comparatively nasty disease, with correspondingly obvious symptoms would probably be able to reach pandemic status, just because so many countries are a chaotic mess.

Obviously, even with a South Korea level competent response, I guess it's possible to have a disease that stays asymptomatic but remains contagious, then kills a large number of carriers after some length of time. Doesn't seem likely though - contagion more or less involves some kind of symptom (sneezing, coughing, etc) and it's hard to imagine a body developing a really high viral load or bacterial population without becoming feverish.
It seems that Stephen's criticism (https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html) was mostly geared towards the Cardano blockchain project (https://cardano.org/) which is mainly developed by IOHK (https://iohk.io/team/). Apparently Stephen had for example send emails to several of their employees, stating that they are working on a ponzi scheme.

The video contains Charles Hoskinson's (who is the CEO of IOHK) rebuttal to Stephen's arguments.

References:

Stephen's original post: https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html

Hacker news discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997667

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/cardano/comments/i0ube5/the_haskell...
An effective counterpoint to the charge that Amazon is an unstoppable monopoly.
I don't use Google Drive per say, since I run Linux. I primarily use rclone and previously had issues with Dropbox throttling uploads as well. Currently I pay $12 a month and get unlimited storage with G Suite. In addition to all the other G Suite features, Dropbox doesn't offer anything close in terms of price or features.
To track clicks without redirects and JavaScript use the 'ping' attribute: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_ping.asp
Maybe change title to "Best Buy used a combination of corporate strategy and emotional intelligence to save itself from ruin" (from the subtitle).
I also wrote a short piece[1] on philosophical implications of GPT-3. Noticed some comments are quick to dismiss all philosophical implications entirely since GPT-3 is just dumb algorithms. Open to debating any coherent arguments.

[1] - https://www.markfayngersh.com/post/the-thinking-placebo
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-rds-proxy-...

> Your function code is cleaner, simpler, and easier to maintain.

I don't think your post covers the nuances. "Not a correct implementation"? We weren't trying for lowest latency, we were trying for highest reliability / simplest code / easiest to test. How do you test that your reused connections handle the "timed out right as next request comes in" case?
Not only that. NOT selling to Yahoo! in 2006 for one freaking billion dollar, despite everyone, including the entire board, was in favor of the deal. Imagine that. You're 22 years old, this is the first company you co-founded, and you can walk await with something in the ballpark of $400-450M. Set for life. And instead, you do everything you can to turn the deal away, and keep building.

This single episode is, in my view, enough to determine that MZ is a very special entrepreneur.

And yes, agree: privacy, Cambridge Analytica, etc, all topics that deserve attention. But purely looking at his skills, he's simply a genius with iron balls.
I wonder how much of this is offset by the increase in shipping volume due to the increase in ecommerce volume.
No that prevents counting what people who are in the primarily-social-media group would do if social media didn't make them feel as informed as they are.

It also doesn't consider the type of news writing people get from each source. Some sources, like long form news articles, can cultivate interest. Others, like news clickbait, have no motivation or room on the page to cultivate. Clickbait often focuses on shallow answers that don't disclose the depth of the topic.
Effectively competing against Amazon:

https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/amazon-almost-killed-best-...
I should have been more clear: the first sentence was meant for defeating skimmers and the like. Nothing to do with helping the retailer, just the end consumer.

You're entirely correct with EMV. Additionally, more gas stations are moving away from the old satellite connections, and an m2m cellular card in a POS terminal is a lot harder to shut down (at least without the cashier noticing).
I was living in Vietnam. I payed about $550/mo to live in hotels. I took about 1-2 flights per month to various countries or cities (~$80ea).

I also ate like a westerner (avoided street food, enjoyed the higher quality food). Didn't own a motorbike for safety reasons, so taxies added up. Gym membership is ~$100/mo.
California Geothermal Energy Statistics and Data
I've commented here a few times that Best Buy really has turned itself around and now offers a great shopping experience. I have a location nearby and every time I go in to buy something the employees are super helpful and knowledgeable. They also have a decent selection and can usually have a pickup item ready in less than an hour. Additionally, they will price match with Amazon on most things.

I'll choose them over Amazon any time if they have the item that I need (which they typically do).
I deliberately simplified things. My "10" is the costed price of the app.

Ignoring all other factors, flogging the app on Apple automatically introduces a parasitic "tax". That is the hallmark of a monopoly.
Good suggestion. Current title is really bad clickbait that does it no justice
No, the median SFH sales price in Santa Clara county is ~1.4 million. I just looked it up. https://scc.rereport.com/market_reports

Mountain View is one of the most expensive cities in the county, second to Palo Alto and maybe Los Altos. Most of the area is cheaper.
A shame they picked nginx in the first place, it has all the stats and critical features behind the paid edition. HAProxy is always a better choice for load balancing.

Besides that, it looks like the move was significantly driven by GRPC and profobuf. No surprise here, GRPC really doesn't work well over HTTP. Once a company start using the google stack, they have to move to more of the google stack to make it usable.
Who knew that Best Buy's USP was simply shipping the product you actually bought?
Can I submit a proposal?
clickbait is the logical endpoint of ad-based business models.

Ad-based business models are the logical endpoint of an ad-dominated landscape. See: people complaining about paywalls.
I don't know about smarter. I see a general hum regarding correlation of sport and willpower.
But I am not sure about causation.
I'm sitting in a hotel waiting for 22 TB of data to copy over, so I could not have read this piece with more interest. Moving data in these quantities is like pouring tar, and it's always great to hear war stories from people who have done it. It is always more painful than message board theory would suggest.
Such an awful comment.
From the paper you can see that they actually target CompCertTSO (a C subset)

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/CompCertTSO/doc/

from the CompCert folks - who do formally verified C compilers (also worth looking at, btw). Targeting a subset of C allows them to preserve their behavioral guarantees in way that would be challenging I think with the full C language. So it's not an unreasonable subset to pick if you're serious about predictable outcomes.
Posted as I am always surprised how many in CA are not aware of geothermal plants.
Microsoft is huge for legacy companies. It integrates really well now with Office and while it was worse a few years back, it definitely seems to have improved now.
> Censorship isn't always bad, though.

Yes, it is. Censorship is obscene, no matter how well-intentioned the perpetrators.

> Copyright is censorship in the same way that making it illegal for someone else to say they are you (identity theft) is censorship.

It isn't illegal for someone else to say that they are you—per se. Actors do that sort of thing all the time. It only becomes illegal if they do so deceptively with the intent of achieving some sort of financial or personal gain, i.e. to commit fraud. The illegal part is the attempt to obtain goods or services under false pretenses.

Copyright is completely different. It penalizes the unauthorized distribution of factual information—even if these facts are just the arrangement of words in a work of fiction, or a series of numbers describing a certain sound wave. There is no deception involved in copyright infringement, no goods or services obtained under false pretenses, just the communication of information through channels which certain parties would prefer to suppress.
When did Apple started distributing dividends? I remember them being known for not doing so.
not if you count the rise in unemployment because you're killing jobs
The three major modes of product strategy
This feels like a bit of a puff piece to me. Nothing in here felt "brilliant" to me. In fact, I'd argue Frys or Radio Shack did everything on this list better.

That being said, I do often prefer Best Buy to Amazon for tech things, for the same reason I prefer clothing stores to online shopping. For something that expensive and personal, I want to see it in person. I want to see if it'll fit (whatever that means... from sizing to the types of plugs, etc), see compatible products, etc.

I do love is how accurate their website is. It's usually right, and I'd love if more stores had an online way to see if something was in stock before I went all the way there. In my experience, Best Buy is the one that gets it right the most.
They didn't. They were relying on the first sale doctrine.
My god. That's astonishing.
Garmin (GRMN) Surpasses Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates
> A month ago I spent week trying to get Cognito working with a Serverless API

Do you actually need Cognito and a Serverless API?

It's a drag because you put yourself requirement that make no sense with your project. The goal of theses tools are to make you go quicker, if they doesn't, it should be your first warning that they aren't for you right now.
> If you shut off airlines

Well the thing is that you don't.

Even if the airline industry is decimated, you would only see a fraction of that potential value go down.

In essence you're talking a fraction of 2% of all emissions.

That doesn't even register as noise in the overall trend.
CERN is a correct example. The LHC reportedly generates 1PB per second: https://home.cern/news/news/computing/cern-data-centre-passe...
> Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people are buying new phones while they're sure they can, to avoid the risk of being stuck with an old and potentially failing one when they can't.

I think you're incorrectly assuming people are good at any form of long term financial planning...
Personally I regret the new OS features; I find them clumsy and bothersome. I love the iPad overall though. (I’ve been all in on Apple since ‘08 for context.)
Amazing! Thanks for writing.
Interesting perspective of a retailer that invested in its employees and found success. It's sad to see employee benefits and loyalty and an all-time low across society when just a generation ago it was so strong.
Companies Are Using Employee Survey Data to Predict–and Squash–Union Organizing
In times of economic pressure, buying a $1000 phone is not the smartest idea.
So, he used that practice to his advantage--by instituting a price matching system.

More like he used a price-matching program to swindle people.

Suppose you want a 512GB microsd card. You've heard through their ads Best Buy will match Amazon's prices, so you depart your house with cash in hand, happy you won't have to wait for shipping. You walk into Best Buy, pick a Sandisk drive off the shelf, and show the cashier that despite Best Buy listing it at $150, Amazon only charges $100, so please match their price.

Sorry says the cashier, this Sandisk 512GB U-3 V30 A2 Class 10 microsd card is model SDSQXBZ-512G-ANCMA, while the Sandisk 512GB U-3 V30 A2 Class 10 card on Amazon is model number SDSQXA1-512G-GN6MA so we can't price match.

Price matching means absolutely nothing when every single one of Best Buy's overpriced products has its own special model number that prevents them from ever having to price match anything.
Er, unless you buy from a third party on the Best Buy website? Which is a thing I was disappointed to find out they started doing a while ago.
(For those like me who don't know the jargon: USP in this context seems to stand for "unique selling point".)
Great job! Would like to see you on indiehackers podcast talking about your journey, maybe a bit early for this but hopefully soon.
I have a suggestion to add some kind of pagination to the video so after one video you go to the next one without going back to the pain profile page, or maybe some kind of playlist, I think would be wise to focus on making the video experience very good before adding the audio feature.
good luck
I dunno man. I spend my life in the command line. I don’t think anything could replace a Linux laptop right now for sheer flexibility and power.
Wrong. The "productive" activity for land holders under system without LVT is preventing others from utilizing it. Without LVT you only achieve massive resource underutilization and favoritism of the first who grabbed it.
Honestly, the In-Home Advisor thing is pretty unique to me, particularly the “be comfortable not closing a sale” quote — that seems pretty cool for the company that’s known for Geek Squad
Their shipping is also quite fast. At the beginning of the stay-at-home orders when Amazon was really struggling, I had couple of things delivered next day for free. It likely has to do with where you're at, but I was surprised because I had not ordered anything from Best Buy in ages when it would take anywhere from 5-14 days.
I tend to use other retailers for electronics, but this alone has driven me away from Amazon.
Exactly. It was years ago that I last stepped foot in a Best Buy but just in 2020 alone I've been 5 times already. If my purchase is electronics and above $50, I check Best Buy first for local pickup, then B&H Photo and amazon last.
You write with a healthy amount of bias. Are there some stakes you should disclose?
This actually measures communication skills, and it's often overlooked. If someone's able to clearly explain a design they did or an algorithm/data-structure that's non-trivial it's a good thing.
I spend $10k/year on Amazon. The only counterfeit product I've gotten? A crêpe spatula that was flimsy and clearly not like the product pictures.

Am I lucky or are you guys not able to detect suspicious product listings/sellers? I see them sometimes. They are easy to avoid.
It's technically "allowed" by ISO26262, but I've never encountered anybody using it for anything in automotive. The automotive software ecosystem is dominated by C and firmly kept that way by the bevy of tools in use (e.g. flavors of AUTOSAR, Mathworks Simulink, etc.).

That's not to say that nobody is using, or hasn't used, Ada in automotive, but it would seem likely vestigial rather than up and coming based on my exposure to that industry.
There's quite a lot of OSS RTOSs.

https://www.osrtos.com/
That depends the population's knowledge more than the machine itself used. According to accounts Christopher Columbus scammed surrender of natives through exploiting astronomy. If they had better local knowledge he would have been mocked at best and at worst would have become a lost expedition.
That’s an airline interest groups website so the figures are the rosiest you can find — not to say they’re egregiously wrong but they’re framed very positively.

Air travel doesn’t exist in isolation, less air travel _because_ less people are travelling means you would expect to see a reduction in car use too.
On top of that, it costs nothing to hold that item that's in stock for pickup, and during the worst of COVID you could not only curbside pickup stuff you put on hold, but arbitrary things not ordered in advance too.
So I hear this line over and over in Hacker News. Do people really have that many authenticity issues?

I average well into 5 figures a year on Amazon stuff. Have been for years. Have never had an authenticity issue.

I buy sold by Amazon and 3rd party. Name brand and white label. Electronics and home goods.

I’m just not getting it?