skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The main point of life is not optimizing for optimal spending, its optimizing for enjoyment

I'm pretty much there. And having got there, I'm not convinced (yet) that it's the right goal at all. Hard to divest from it, however, since enjoyment is hard to walk away from.
Why do you think the phrasing 'shall request ... is intended to' means there? It's a trapdoor for 'actually guarantees nothing', right?
Looks great, and as the other commenter mentioned, solves a problem I've had on previous teams. I actually like the layout and the graphics on your landing page. If you're comfortable sharing, I would be interested to know how you procured or produced the art.
In the case of UGC, you have zero ability to assume control of the object's lifecycle and enabled state. Zarro.
There is a great misunderstanding as to what serverless actually is. So many people, including this article, equate serverless to cloud functions. There are plenty of services like Google Cloud Run or FaunaDB that are also serverless.

IMO what makes something serverless is that you don't need to provision or manage infrastructure, and also no need to worry about scaling as it will go up and down as needed.
Yet another study that doesn't take into account cellular immunity (T-cell based).

Also, antibodies aren't always present in the bloodstream: memory B cells can start producing them when needed.

That said, the study provides interesting findings, from a quick look. In particular, there is no cross-reactivity of antibodies against other coronaviruses. This is the exact opposite of what was observed with cellular responses, which IMO means that cell-based immunity plays a larger role with coronaviruses. It's a pity the discussion section of the paper doesn't mention this.
check out GL inet, which has a (FLOSS) GUI on top of openWRT for easy config. it also has the ability (from the GUI) to act as a wireguard VPN.
That's how we like it in here. If you want to joke on HN, you have to put in some work :).
I could make an nth-order polynomial that selects the correct outcome of the past n elections ... and if I shroud it in enough mystery and red arrows I bet at least a few "news" sites would share it
> Zheap does lead to lots of tricky scenarios. If for any reason you need to access the old copy of the row, you have to fetch it from the separate file. If the transaction that performed that update is rolled back, you need to replace the new version of the row with the old version of the row. This sounds straightforward, but gets really tricky really fast.

This is pretty much what Oracle is doing.
Am I the only one to find it strange that a country without a central, government run, citizen registry, has a public voter registry with actual party affiliations?
It really comes down to how well a GPU's capabilities align with the problem you're trying to solve. A modern GPU is basically thousands of really simple CPUs that all
run the exact same program but on different input data. Communication between those CPUs while the program is running is incredibly bad for performance. If your problem is solvable within those limitations, then a GPU is a good choice.

An FPGA gives you more flexibility because you can dedicate hardware exactly where you need it. You don't even need to stick with common data widths. If you only need 11 bits, then there's no need to do 32 bit math, for example.

An ASIC with custom circuitry will generally be the fastest, lowest power way to solve a problem, with the lowest per-unit cost, but it has absurdly high development and initial tooling cost. An FPGA gives you the benefits of custom circuitry with significantly lower development cost (than an ASIC), but it's less power efficient and the unit cost is relatively high for what you're getting. A GPU gives you good power efficiency, good development cost, and good unit cost if your problem maps well to what GPUs can do. A CPU gives you the lowest development cost, but sets a mediocre baseline for power efficiency and unit cost.
There's always stenography

http://www.openstenoproject.org/
I actually like Cloudflare's expansion, as a way to compete with existing monopolies (Google, Facebook).

If I want to run a livestream for church, why do I have to send the packets all the way to Google's servers in California just so it can be on YouTube? I wish Cloudflare could host that right here in the same city. That's where most people are watching from anyway.

Or what about social networking? I'll continue to use Facebook to keep in touch with friends in other places, but the majority of my social life is with people nearby. I don't see why the messages sent from me to a friend in the same city should leave the country.

I don't know if Cloudflare would be willing to do this themselves, but perhaps there's a space for new startups in edge hosting, not just edge caching. Cloudflare's expansion could be good for privacy, so I support them - for now.
I think people are jaded because a lot of these use cases stem from ignorance and/or incompetence of the underlying tech. The majority of people arguing the benefits of NoSQL aren’t professional DBA’s, they’re people that don’t know how to use EXPLAIN. The majority of people touting the “infinite scale” of serverless haven’t even benchmarked their server, never mind optimised it.

Prove to me that what you’re trying to do can’t be solved with a Python script, Postgres and a beefy machine. I don’t care about the theoretical benefits of whatever you’re pushing, I want hard numbers. Unfortunately the community has spent quite a lot of its time and effort these last few years making it easy to unnecessarily scale horizontally. I want no part of that.
Having used it for 20 years now... I don't find that dvorak improves my typing speed. If anything it probably net reduces my productivity since often I'm hitting paste (ctrl-v) and I miss and hit exit window (ctrl-x).

However, I like it because it feels comfortable typing in it, way more so than qwerty.
Living in the same city as Adrian, I very much agree with all of his points. Cars are expensive to operate, park, and maintain here, meanwhile we have 3 carshare options that are way more pleasant than owning a car. For excursions outside the city, I've decided to rent a car for every situation that I need to, and then consider a car purchase if the math works out better. So far, even after having rented a car 5 times this year, I haven't surpassed just the cost of insurance for the year, or the tax, or the annual maintenance cost, and I've increased my time spent at parks, in the mountains, and elsewhere.

So far there's been one exception to this, which is super early morning and multi-day hikes that I can't get to without a rented car. That's it.

Likewise, I'm visiting the prairies where I'm from, and spent an hour today raking away all that leaf falling and dog poop action the yards have been getting.

I do enjoy long distance drives, so my partner and I rented a car for a month and split the cost. At about $400 each not including gas, it's in the range of the same car plus insurance monthly, but we don't pay for what we're not using.
I never got the hand of cloud formation. I suppose it is nice from a visual (drag and drop) point of view, but I couldn't use it in production and moved on to manage my architecture with terraform.
I think one of the reasons is that "we don't train people on how to make UIs". If you look at when UI is introduced in CS programs, its as a visual example for Object Oriented Programming. However, its introduced and immediately moved over. The next time its used is only if the program has a specific course on UI development.
What do we know about the effects of Austerity? (2018)
Congrats you missed the point too.

When it comes to backward compatibility nobody cares what projects are starting today (and would care even less considering how many projects die). It matters what you've been doing in the last 10-15 years.

It's not about whose fault is or is not. It's about the state of things.
Agree. They are also not handling hosts who point hidden video cameras at guests.
I worked in high security settings. You leave your devices outside at the porter in a lockable cabinet. Or better don't take them with you at all. And you get a mandatory security briefing.

Mostly you can safely assume the meeting room or internal servers and routers are already tapped. So act accordingly.
Serverless has been a clear case of a solution looking for a problem, IMO. The vast majority of the software I’ve deployed in my career gets called a lot; deploying them onto a serverless platform would’ve increased our cost and maintenance burden significantly above simply dockerizing some web app.

There are certainly use cases for the occasional script run, but that feels like more of job for some cron-like software, and also feels like a far cry from what serverless promised.
It's personal preference, but if a parameter is well and truly compile time I think it should be separate from the others (it certainly makes introspection "easier")
This is potentially very much like saying, "we burned this little bit of fuel, and all that happened was the fire got brighter because it spread to more fuel! It can never go out!".

There's no reason to expect the job-generation cycle to last forever. In fact there's every reason to believe it can't. The question is whether it ends on a scale more like decades or centuries. To blindly assume that things will continue as they have is foolish. (To be clear, I think the solution looks more like UBI than Luddism.)
I think your example isn't completely off the mark, but I do think the article itself actually answers this: there is a shortage in trade labour in the non-commercial construction sector in (North) America.

We are also at a cross-roads with regards to having a housing crisis. There are many places now (Bay Area, Boulder) where housing is skyrocketing not because the value is naturally increasing, but is instead being artificially inflated due to a shortage in homes. One "radical" solution to this: build more homes.

However, given the amount of labour and time needed to do so, we may not be able to avoid the housing crisis. One way the market is responding is moving to pre-fab construction, and trying to reduce time / costs that way. The article does seem to claim that the projects cost about the same, even if pre-fab is faster in terms of time. This _does_ identify a problem with pre-fab, namely, how come they can't fulfill this promise of being cheaper & faster. Seems strange that you save time but still cost the same when what you're proposing is taking away a significant chunk of higher-skilled labour from the equation.

Some of this is regulatory capture (wasted time / money trying to convince cities of the process), some of this is nascent technology sucking (see top parent comment, sometimes pre-fab doesn't get it right), and some of this seems to just be a lack of experience on behalf of the companies trying to "disrupt" construction.
The table needed to never be visible as empty, so truncate wasn't a short term option.
There were a couple of studies with artificial sunlight published a few months ago. On non-porous substances, viable virus does not last more than 6 minutes if exposed to light (25 C and 70% humidity, IIRC).
Cython is a superset of Python. If it’s valid Python, it’s valid Cython. Cython supports the full range of Exceptions and Python stack traces, and you can annotate on a per-function basis whether you want this in Cython.

Managing Cython implementations as separate extension modules is a feature, not a bug - it separates concerns and allows only spending any effort on type system constructs in the small amount of cases where those optimizations will help you.

Cython is extremely easy to compile and standard Python packaging tools work easily with it out of the box, conda included.
I would think agencies that relieve military gear would be operating in more dangerous cities. That would explain the higher level of police involved shootings.
wow, it took me 3 weeks to get basic proficiency, but really slow. 6 months to parity with qwerty, about a year before I was truly comfortable with it. probably about 2 years before I was completely fluent with both, and 5 years before my brain could map my own personal keyboards with dvorak and default to qwerty in all other cases with nearly zero mistakes. These days (20 years on) I have no problem, running, say virt-manager, which does not respect the linux key remapping, and typing in non-dvorak even on my own machine in a context-dependent fashion.
Learning Haskell – Miscellaneous Enlightenments
Honestly I wish construction was less efficient, if only to guide us back to proper land use and dense developments.

Factory-churned suburbia is the last thing we need.
Are religious people lying when they claim that [their specific version of] God exists? No, people often believe untrue things for weird reasons. How far do you wanna go in restricting people's freedom of speech? And are you happy that the Ministry of Truth will be run by companies like Facebook and CloudFlare? I mean, sure, you're happy now that you agree with their censorship, but are you going to remain happy when they shadowban your comments on politics because they are deemed "lies"?
It's neat, but where's the mortar between the bricks?
That only works if you’re relatively latency tolerant. Serverless systems currently suffer badly from cold start issues, particularly when large spikes arise. This can be solved, but it involves enough silliness that paying for a VM is probably cheaper once you factor in engineering time.
If I wont the prize, I'd want to be awoken at 2:15am. Heck, they could drop a bucket of ice water on me and wake me up to tell me the good news.
The full timeline + previous coverage is here:
https://blog.t8012.dev/on-bridgeos-t2-research/
With that definition, wouldn’t something like beanstalk qualify? I think that definition is overly broad. However, you’re right in that it does make me wonder where the definition should start or end.
No. I mean you can use the included PIM/multimedia apps with any current service you use without using any Apple account. Just goto accounts and passwords under settings and add your preferred service to integrate with notes/email/contacts/etc.

Sure I would say this would make it more of a feature phone but the device itself is quite usable without an iCloud account.
My impression was that Starlink relies on inter-satellite links to route traffic. We can use the same links for our own extended network.
If you are yelling or distributing pamphlets in my backyard and I don't like the message, and I ask you to move, I'm not sure you would refer to it as "censorship".
wmf does have a point though. When it comes to ISPs and telecom companies, I'm pretty cynical. It's a well earned cynicism though.
Funny but disingenuous, since "predicts" implies that the model was created before the 1960 election. This no more predicts a 15-bit value than getting two specific bytes out of a PRNG with a specific seed.

It's just like that post a few years ago where newspapers used various dodgy "predictors" like "a [state name] president has never lost a reelection", and someone had collected a bunch of these which turned out wrong.
> Kind of surprised the article didn't mention lack of reasonable development environment.

I've been pretty happy with Cloudflare Workers.

You can easily define environments with variables via a toml file. The DX is great and iteration speed is very fast. When using `wrangler dev` your new version is ready in a second or two after saving.
I have a friend who calls me at 3am (or something equally ridiculous). I always answer in case he is in trouble, when he's just pissed I'm grateful it isn't anything serious and chat away with him.
I'll second this. I'm currently migrating away from Firebase to MySQL, and I'm glad I didn't wait any longer.
Like another poster said it’s about 65/mo all in for a cheaper car, and personal preference is all that really matters.
They might have secure connections to popular cloud providers, so it might not be an issue for most people.
Sounds like a market opportunity. Someone gets to be the brand that doesn’t have the “Sells your data” warning sticker on the box, and there are enough people who care about this that Apple is marketing itself as a privacy focused company.
Literally nothing in that list is unique to Serverless. There is in fact at least 2-3 ways to do that in AWS alone using VMs.
OP here: happy to answer any questions about my setup. Just to clarify - the core idea is not shortcuts but how you can use them to integrate changes in your life like reflecting on how you feel or how well you understand your learning material.

More thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702678.
Great for GitHub and Twitter for sure. Much nicer to be able to see the username the repo/tweet is from rather than just "github.com" or "twitter.com".
>Windows does have an ARM port, all the drivers and board support packages seem to be tied to Linux

Not entirely sure what you mean by this. Windows has supported ARM for a long time, Windows CE supported ARM starting in 1997 [1]. Windows Mobile which ran on ARM phones had been around since 2000. The Surface RT, based on Windows RT, was a more traditional tablet was also ARM based. Now Windows 10 on ARM has been around for about 3 years and third party manufacturers are selling ARM based Windows laptops.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Compact#Relea...
Rumours of Linux' config hassles are greatly exaggerated. Use Ubuntu, Linux' Windows, and it. just. works. Even nvidia GPUs don't require you to install anything, let alone build or configure. The last time I ran into trouble, must've been the mid-aughts.

What I do see is techies confusing cutting edge distros such as Arch for 'Linux'. When you're running Windows, you're not using an internal MS build either, so that's the wrong comparison (which I see made often the techier people are). The proper comparison is Ubuntu LTS and Ubuntu LTS only.
Exactly this. I do my side projects for personal development and enjoyment. It's my opportunity to grow in whatever direction I like, and I'm not going to let my job dictate what kind of side projects I'm taking on.

If that results in skills useful at work, or for finding work, that's a nice but entirely secondary benefit. The more important benefit is burnout prevention - because I too "don't get paid to do the interesting things that first attracted" me to software, or science and technology in general.

> I'm just boggled at how many people appear to find it unimaginable and unrelatable that a technologist likes technology enough to mess with it for fun, even after work.

Me too. I sometimes wonder if I'm not missing out, but try as I might, I don't enjoy the "normal" stuff as much as I enjoy intellectual stimulation. I also sometimes wonder if this isn't because my eyes just don't get tired from screens. I can look at computer screens 16 hours straight, and my eyes don't get dry or itchy. I had co-workers who had to use saline drops at work, and I can understand if they didn't want to look at any screen when they got home.
Apple TV started as a side project [video]
Haha, very funny. It's based on the first three characters of each name.
> So even a humble AND gate program will need to copy its inputs to the output if it's to be reversible.

It's been 20 years since I had to think closely about reversible computing, and I've forgotten lots of the details. When I said "implement a hash function", I actually meant "implement exclusive-or with the result of the hash function" or something similar.

> As well, cryptographic hash functions are generally not [invertible] anyway.

Good point. But aren't there one-to-one equivalents, called one-way functions, trapdoor functions or something like that? My cryptography is even rustier.
That’s why I switched to Colemak instead of Dvorak - keeps zxcv in the same spot.

But I agree with you completely - Colemak is way more comfortable to type in than QWERTY. Way fewer hand movements and less finger stretching for common bigrams. My non-scientifically based hope is that it’ll reduce RSI in the long run. No regrets after 10ish years
> Secondly, Bottom of the Totem Pole is actually the revered position[1]. Bit of an amusing cultural knowledge oversight on the OPs side ;-)

Hah, this is super interesting. I'm almost certain that I heard or read the "bottom-of-the-totem-pole" saying before, but you're totally right that I may have reversed it!
Ask HN: Tips for Writing?
I've found that splitting my time distinctly into writing vs editing has been really helpful.
Writing: blurting everything on the page, no deletions.
Editing: Refining what's on the page.

Does anyone have similar tips on writing (whether that be for dev blogs or such)?
I've found the complete opposite to be true most of the time.
Please do! ^_^
As Nate Silver complains about often, there just aren't that many presidential elections since 1960, it's way to easy to build some overfitted model that seems accurate. As another comment mentions, we could all just build a nth-order polynomial to achieve a 100% accurate prediction on previous data.
Engineers can only fix so much, they can not really do permitting and regulation
The NBA quarantine works because it's for a multi-billion dollar industry and aimed to protect fewer than 500 players. Over a million people are in nursing homes, and more than another million work in them.

I am not sure why you think it's more realistic to lock down three million people totally than have most people take moderate precautions. Remember, this is in a proposed scenario in which the average grocery shopper will have a high likelihood of being infected, without masks or any social distancing measures being taken.

The White House tried the "frequent rapid testing" strategy, and that didn't seem to do a very good job of protecting the staff there. Again, this was in the current situation in which we have a relatively low prevalence of contagion, with social distancing measures and masks in the outside environment.
Boo! This is awful advice.

I'm constantly commended on my side projects, and I excel at them because I enjoy them:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-jf-ans

- https://vo.codes

- https://trumped.com

The laser stuff made me wealthy, and that wasn't even my intention. People at the time told me it was a huge distraction from my academic career and a waste of time.

My current side project is a real time voice converter (like Mission Impossible).

Follow your passion. You'll deliver better results and open lots of doors.

Your side projects will also usually be pretty novel. It's fertile ground for startup material.
This is a bit like how a mail service might guarantee they'll deliver your mail to a safe mailbox at that address but not guarantee anything about who is at that address or whether they'll be reachable at any point in time. The only thing this establishes is that there are more issues to worry about than the one I was replying to.

P.S. You don't even need a crash to induce the condition you're describing. Just call unlink() from another thread and suddenly fsync() will no longer be able to (and shouldn't) guarantee reachability...
Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". As far as I know, Stanford does not.

Doesn't Google had the leaders in auction theory now?

Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.
In fact, QWERTY was designed to prevent jamming of early typewriters, allowing to type faster.

http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-hidden-secrets-of...
She didn't say no