skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m also a big fan of rails, but I’ve experienced a lot of problems scaling it. A lot of the problems ultimately came down to the simple fact that Ruby is really, really slow. At a certain scale you end up forced to develop infrastructure on a different stack to keep up with the CPU load. I never ran into that so quickly when building similar systems with java, go, and C#.

I wanna say something nice about rails too so I’ll say I have never seen a team so quickly deliver high quality web app features than a well oiled rails team. It’s something to behold.
Very uncharitable response.

The above poster is right on. That your favorite poet or whoever can fly off the handle with their toxic political faction-war delusions or whatever is a direct contradiction to the common idea where Twitter is useful for following your favorite X.

It often sucks the fun out of things you like and it’s a good reason to not use it at all. Nobody is pitching “safe spaces” here. But it’s a good time to ask yourself how much a toxic one is going to enrich your life.

Getting off Twitter and Reddit are two great life upgrade tips.
> Retire and do whatever I really want to do with my life.

Do you know what that is? I suspect most people don't, especially after spending 20+ years in various jobs.
Looks like a good time to launch my startup moober
> Corporate tax rates can be lower, ideally at 0, but I doubt our current system incentivizes corporations retaining profits.

Multinational corporations commonly avoid taxes by keeping profits offshore in a low tax jurisdiction. In order to pay the money to shareholders they have to repatriate them and pay corporate income tax on the money, and then the shareholder has to pay tax again on the dividend or the capital gain from the buyback.

Or they can leave the money where it is, not pay any of those taxes and invest it in some index fund from there. But then the money is stuck inside the corporation, and gets invested in some index fund instead of potentially going to some higher risk/reward investments that some of the original shareholders would have chosen.

> On the contrary, recently many needed to be bailed out because they paid out too much to shareholders instead of saving enough for a rainy day.

COVID-19 isn't a rainy day, it's a once in a century pandemic. Most companies have never made enough money to be able to survive it, and the ones that did still shouldn't be hoarding it just in case. Systemic problems get solved through systemic actions, e.g. lowering interest rates or sending stimulus checks. To expect companies to have saved enough money to survive rare systemic events without that is to penalize and destroy any company lean enough to have been unable to save it to begin with.

> Making a better product also doesn't necessarily lead to profits.

Making a worse product in a competitive market has a strong relationship with going out of business.

> There's a far greater correlation between monopoly power and profit.

But that's an independent problem. The solution there isn't to raise taxes, it's to break up monopolies.
Well, the Hue bulbs and most of the competition are not very bright.
It's actually open source (instead of the source available/open core nonsense).

Whether that matters to you or your business is a different story.
"Rebekah Mercer is funding Parler, the social-media app touted by Republican politicians and pundits that conservatives are flocking to"

https://www.businessinsider.com/rebekah-mercer-funds-parler-...

"[Robert] Mercer played a key role in the campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union by donating data analytics services to Nigel Farage. He is also a major funder of organizations supporting right-wing political causes in the United States, such as Breitbart News, and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for president."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mercer

They're a husband and wife pair that fund hyper partisan causes, it's not exactly jumping to conclusions.
Yup, and worth pointing out such chemistries are already common, although slightly heavier. Lithium iron phosphate, for instance, which also tends to be safer and have longer cycle life, has improved to the point that Tesla is planning on using it for low cost versions of Model 3 (and/or whatever their $25k model will be called), as is already common for electric cars there. Iron and phosphorous are very common and cheap.

So there are lots of alternative batter chemistries that all have lithium as the common element.
I think so, that's why I usually try to avoid it.

But I guess it's the last resort if you absolutely have to use a Lambda without cold-start
It's funny how open-core gets berated on Hacker News and Reddit, as if it's somehow evil to make a living, with with decent OSS chops on you, someone is ready to call that an advertisement or self-promotion. As an industry we need to get a grip.
The argument that we need to stop tribalism to preserve society is both an un-self-conscious conservativism and a more pernicious appeal to cultural homogenization, which is what the dominance of the platforms caused, and which these innovations are a reaction to.

There is no diversity in 140 characters of closely monitored claptrap, and there is no risk and opportunity in trust and safety. There is no culture in a homogenized overton window, and there is no innovation in walled gardens.

The very idea that we need to suppress ideas for fear that the ignorant masses may be exposed to them is a fatuous, aspirational elitism that is the very reason the platforms have become stagnant.
It sort of does, in theory anyways. The constitution states that the government can be dissolved when the people feel it's necessary. That's not based on a single state though. But, the states should have a lot of power within their boarders, but it seems the 10th ammendment is often ignored and the judiciary fails to check the legislature on its overreach.
Warning Issued for Millions of New iPhone 12 Users
My Xfinity/UniFi Network Upgrades for Better At-Home Work
It is a good article, but actually it skipped the hard part.
macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models
You've decoded my hidden agenda ;).
This is why investing in small cap stocks/funds always pays off in a recession. They take off like wildfire during the recovery.
David Blackwell, 1919–2010: An explorer in mathematics and statistics – PNAS
Definitely needs a better camera before I could consider it. A jump to 20MP, and then perhaps forking OpenCamera rather than developing one directly for Pine might be a good way forward.

Does Pine have any recommendations for auto-cloud backup of photos, to replace Google Photos? (Photos is one of the killer apps for me - I could live without the cloud features, but the seamless cloud sync is a major feature.)
I don't think there is anything wrong with a limited viewpoint or an echo chamber but I haven't actually seen one operate (plenty of clutched pearls though).

I have a simple rule: I won't block or defollow based on your ideas, but I will do it very quickly if you are obnoxious, boring, trying to build an audience on twitter to sell products or build a brand or otherwise act stupid.

It is easier to follow my "don't say stupid things" if we already agree on most things, so I relax it a bit for those whom I disagree with to only include not denying reality and being non-stupid within their world view (e.g I am not going to follow someone who posts about 5G covid, but I have followed people who are against abortions.
The lith in lithium is the same word that describes the Earth’s crust.

To a reasonable approximation, the day we run out of lithium is the day we’ve mined the entire planetary surface.
Off-topic, but damn, that site loads quickly. That is very unexpected for a journalism site
You're having a strawman argument with yourself. This has nothing to do with COVID-19, and COVID-19 virus or vaccines are not mentioned at all (AT ALL) ... and yet you're arguing some hypothetical.

>Well, let's add some actual context that the article lacks.

Why does it need more context? Or rather, why does it need the specific context that you're arguing for?

The fact that one cannot even put together a factual article about something that really happened, without getting criticism that some larger narrative isn't constructed (either that vaccines are good, or that COVID-19 vaccines will be safe - unless administrated by the Trump administration) should provide a clue why news outlets are so distrusted by the large swaths of the public.

To make it more personal: I don't need help to make up my own mind what this polio outbreak in Sudan means for my life, my choices, and my politics. Tell me what happened, give me good-faith context to understand the background of the events, and let me do the rest. If you don't, I just won't believe you because now you're not a journalist but an actor pushing politics or ideology that I may not agree with.
I have known that development of linux, git was done over email, And always wondered how PR worked there, but I never took time to know how actually it was done.

For someone like me this[0] looks like a good start.

[0]: https://git-send-email.io/
Perhaps the problem is the cutoff? A million dollars is not "wealth", not anymore. It's just 2-3 houses in a big city or half a house in SV.
This is all public info. You can scan & decode the PDF417 barcode on your state issued identification to see exactly what data is available. Most jurisdictions conform to the AAMVA standard for this.
iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Users Complain of Missing SMS Texts and Notifications
GP isn't talking about the relationship between the gas station and customers. They are talking about the relationship between the gas station and the business that acquired it.
In the tangled world of far-right chat rooms
Thanks! I used to come across unmaintained projects that I'd be willing to merge some PRs for (they'd usually have them pile up), that's how I came up with the idea.

I think most people expect that they'd add their project and get immediate help, when the project is more a backup plan to straight up abandoning a project. I think you're the first person other than me to get excited by it, so thanks!
In this market, the lesson is to start a startup when rates are 0 and trillions have been pumped into financial markets due to QE infinity.

Growth at all cost is being rewarded handsomely. If you’re a tech company that can grow, no investor will care if you’re burning money while doing it.
Regarding privacy issues, IMO if that's a problem you've screwed up big time. Stuff like lights should only use local control and not be tied into the cloud or at least it should be optional, and any lights should fall back to working like normal dumb lights if they lose contact with the hub.

When it comes to rolling your own devices with an Arduino or similar, this is much harder to do safely and in a code-compliant manner than you would imagine. Making your own sensors is fun and harmless, but making stuff that is hard wired into mains is a bad idea. It's not totally impossible to engineer a properly safe device if you really know what you're doing, but it'll probably end up costing more than a commercial device and won't come with the compliance testing marks.

I agree, however... even though I have a lot of effort sunk into my own home automation setup it's not for everybody and there are plenty of downsides.
For anyone interested in wingsuits in general, check out Jetman (Yves Rossy):

https://www.jetman.com/en

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

Obviously cool if you can do similar things with electric as well.
It's funny, there's a scene at the beginning of the play "an inspector calls" (set just before WW1) that mirrors exactly what you just said. I think it was a historical callback to a real, commonly held opinion at the time ("the interests of capital" was how he phrased it).

I don't think our elites particularly want a world war either. I think they're perfectly prepared to push us in that direction in an attempt to cling on to their wealth and power though. They will prefer liberalism but they'll support far right populist who protects their property if that fails to garner popular support.
New Trend: Data-Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Over engineering or buying over engineered devices makes people feel good even though it's ultimately useless and unproductive. Like masturbation. Sure it's fun. But pretending you achieved something is the real problem. Ultimately, it's just ego tripping.

It's fun to visit friends who get these devices. I have yet to see one setup that doesn't have some fuck up. Needing constant reboots, lag, some other type of delay or even best, that one device that just doesn't work no matter what.

Yes, I wish dumb TVs would be normal again. Had a friend mention that he doesn't need a tv bigger than 32in, thus he got a good quality monitor and sound system. Hes single and doesn't watch much tv anyways. Most monitors are telemetry-less, which is what we want. It's a bit more expensive of a setup, but he's had it for years and is happy. At least happier than I am with my stupid ass samsung smart tv. Tossing that idea out there, especially as monitors are getting bigger these days.
WIP on a PS5 stock scraper bot
one factor here is that 'senior' doesn't really mean anything anymore other than 3+ years of experience.
Is this product better? https://www.pulpac.com/

I know nothing about it other than the company's own claims, but if their claims are true then it seems interesting.
Droll & sloppy conspiratorialism. I'd say it's an interesting warning indicator. Except it's not really interesting.

> I can troll ruthlessly, and I brook no dissent from stupid voices.

> I have a powerful, powerful voice, and ethical rage BURNING in my heart.

Yikes. The whole thing is trying to be edgy & cooler than cool like this. Perhpasaybe good to know what kind of adversaries there are out there. I'm all for the weird & out there but everything about this post is, as it says, a manifesto, trying to excite & antagonize & signal, make itself seemingly stand apart... from what is hard to tell. But it seems to include detaching from empathy & civil mindedness.
This is terrible. Reporting a bug is not the same thing as asking for support.

Yes, its obnoxious when people misunderstand the difference between a bug and a user error. But that's the price of people reporting actual bugs. If you have no interest in learning about actual bugs in your software then be honest about it and admit that it's unmaintained so that someone who does care about the quality of the software can fork it.
> Here in The Netherlands and probably other parts of Europe, you are not allowed to run electricity and network or phone cables through the same tubes.

Presumably that is not because of interference concerns but because of the danger of mixing high voltage and low voltage circuits in the same conduit, right?

As others have noted, conduit isn't usually used in houses in the west.
So the Anova is a combo dry convection and steam oven, correct? (Not microwave) Looks interesting.

I was wondering also if you know a model that combined variable inverter (not duty-cycle) microwave output, convection, and steam-sensor.

thanks for the info!
Ugh, I rewrote my serverless service for exactly these reasons. It felt magical the first time where you can deploy a service without spinning up a server so I put up with all these annoyances. But then docker gains popularity and suddenly there is no practical advantage in using serverless anymore, at least for me. I rewrote the service in django, packaged it as a docker image, then run it on any platform that can run docker.

On the other hand, I use cloudflare worker on a bunch of my projects. Unlike aws serverless, cloudflare worker is actually useful because it can do many things that can't be done by traditional backend, such as running and intercepting requests on the edge servers that sit between your server and your visitors.
You can prepay up to 10 years into the future for most TLDs.
I had heard of his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and know its synopsis. But man, this guy is a visionary. I should maybe actually read the book.
This attitude is horrifying to me.

As both a project maintainer and a contributor, this is part of the toxic new attitude that has resulted in me no longer spending my valuable time opening bug reports against projects. If my hard work is going to be looked at as an insult or entitled request, go to hell. That sort of rudeness is shocking to me.

In projects I maintain, I get my share of spammy low effort requests and I ignore them or reply with a polite "Need more info" or "no time for now". It's not really that big of a deal.

For other projects that I use and appreciate, I have also spent hours before gathering useful debug information, only for it to be completely ignored. If I spend hours building a nice report for you and you won't spend 5 minutes reading it and two minutes responding with "sorry but I'm too busy" then who is the entitled one here? Further for you to look at it as an insult?

I rarely even send PRs these days because those often rot for months or years.

This is not a user problem, this is a people problem. Please people, lets make these types of people into the minority in open source. Please, let's give each other the benefit of the doubt. Let's appreciate effort on both sides. Don't be a doormat, but don't lose your humanity either.

In short, let's be great to one another.
Do you have any ETfs you like?
It's the new wave, how else can entrepreneurs capitalize and build the next generation of data infrastructure platforms?
You can run media empires from the bedford hills correctional facility? huh.
So did you read my answer to bfclusion? Does it make you think?
This thing is exactly what has been really infuriating on recent ubuntu releases. When a program misbehaves, I have no idea what the actual process is called
Defaults are opinionated per definition. You might agree or disagree with them.

I don't believe the defaults related to this issue are a problem; its the lack of transparency about this, coupled with it being difficult to change this. Probably every update you gotta fix that. That's akin to running a Hackintosh. And we all know macOS is moving towards iOS; not Hackintosh/PC.
Parler doesn't deal with this problem at all.
Curious what part of Rails you didn’t find scalable? Our Rails frontend servers run on cheap VMs that are easily scaled horizontally.
We are all capable of being digitally pre-diabettic
Which one hasn't, might be a better question.
I found this post a very interesting perspective. TL;DR: count your blessing if you're feeling "just fine".

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/24/how-bad-are-things/

archived link with nicer design:

http://archive.is/tLNDq
You're both right. Sometimes we have to work with the data we have. Other times we have to create or buy the data we need.

Some companies aren't experienced at building infra to collect data and don't know how to do it. Or their environment is too complex or expensive to sample data from. The data scientist's job in such cases is to do their best with what exists, show success and make a business case for investing resources into data collection infrastructure.

In other cases, when the required sensors don't exist and the information is critical to decision making, you can either buy the data or work with with an engineering group or external vendor to integrate and build out the sensors needed. Need foot traffic data? You can buy from a data marketplace like https://datarade.ai, where there exist various vendors (like SafeGraph -- which was recently used in a COVID19 study published in Nature) aggregating foot traffic data from cell phones. There are datasets that can be used as inferential proxies (so called "alternative data") for the actual data one needs.

Need to collect in-store data? I was at the NRF conference (the world's largest retail tech conference) in NYC back in January and there were a boatload of vendors hawking different types of retail analytics sensors.

In certain small scale operations, you can even engage field operations and get the in-store retail staff to help collect data and upload manually. (you'll need a good relationship with the field supervisor of course)

Sometimes the data does exist but is inaccessible, say in the ERP or in some proprietary format -- then you have negotiate with certain business groups or with OEM vendors in order to get the data out.

It all boils down to whether the data has value that exceeds (by a margin) the cost of collecting them. If the answer is yes, there's often a way to do it (albeit sometimes imperfectly).

Is it part of the data scientist's job description to create or participate in creating data collection infrastructure? I guess this depends on the company but for many companies the answer is yes.
Why do you make than inflammatory analogy ? Even Philip IV didn't kill all templars, only the senior leadership. The rank and file templars joined other orders.
Up, I'd like to know your thought on ngrx vs mobx.
For me there was no going back
I think "more news outlets" kind of omits the interesting part of the story (the part in the headline).
You can't really understand America unless you've seen "Gummo".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/

(Please note: I am not recommending watching Gummo. Once you've seen it you can't un-see it. I'm just saying that you're picture of America is incomplete if you haven't encountered that side of the nation.)
I share your loathing.

The stale bot will unhelpfully ask if "this is still an issue" or if something is being waited on for a pull request. You take the time out to reply, so that stale bot keeps the issue open. Repeat this meaningless back and forth, for months as the maintainers ignore the issue or pull request. Eventually lose the will to continue and let the bot close the issue or pull request.

Net outcome: A potential contribution or solution lost.

Stale bot only exists for aesthetic reasons, to keep issue lists clean and to close issues that maintainers don't want to deal with directly by abstracting away the interaction.

More maintainers should understand that it's OK to just ignore an issue but leave it open.
The behavior you describe is essentially inertia-driven, only producing change when it becomes inevitable. And it'll be the reason we won't manage to prevent most of the ecological collapse that is already happening.

If we don't behave in a way that's sustainable for an indefinite time, we're living on borrowed time. Sooner or later this debt will catch up. IMO the belief that technological progress will save us is naive. The problem is not technological, it never was, but a matter of priorities.
1/ No there's no "incredible harm" to the society, not more than any technological revolution in the past and it's bringing more good than bad, like any technological revolution.

Incorrect at best, apathetic and myopic at worst:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
does DDG or similar search engines support searching based on 'takedown' or similar notices?
This may be the best we can get. Different places banning different things. But they need to be honest so people know what they're getting into. Twitter is a progressive space.

I'm curious if Gab bans support of antifa. They couldn't claim it's about indirectly inciting violence, because they come close to the line when it comes to Nazi opinions. They do ban porn, which is fine with me. There's plenty of porn and it doesn't benefit from a network effect the same way. And I'm glad every place bans spam.
Show HN: An app to create a slideshow using Excalidraw
It would be nice to have an option to hide those navigation buttons, and replace them with gestures, like SailfishOS does.
It might fit those books, there's a great one that is also highly entertaining called "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion".
conspiracy against democracy = people pursuing political ends I don't like

Grassroots democratic action = people pursuing political ends I do like