skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. I keep calling that Serverless 2.0. 1.0 being basically a fast cache clearing CDN.

Workers is so cool but the starting point is a a bit rough. It looks like they have big plans and will eventually have a full pipeline vs the current Wrangler + scripts situation.
Google tried to prevent her from publishing a paper, which is outside of their normal practice, then dissembled about what happened (pretending internal reviewers are anonymous, for example)
Developers should always be concerned with the platform they are running on.

Yes, this takes time and energy, but so does anything worthwhile.
Yay -- going to spend the holidays porting my personal website over to this.

Cloudflare has made it really easy to give them my money.
Got it, so, in theory this sets the groundwork for a class action lawsuit?
It most certainly does not do so by default. It will occasionally prompt you to set up backups and you have to choose the frequency and method.
Cats Make Your Life Better, According to Science
Goodreads Is Retiring Its Current API, and Book-Loving Developers Aren’t Happy
> But at the same time, there is a universal hate for ecologists.

This doesn't seem to be true? Annie Hidalgo won re-election and has pretty decent popularity ratings. Maybe they're hated out in the countryside or whatever, but the actual citizens of the cities run by these "ecologist" mayors do seem to be generally happy with them.

I really wish we had one here in NYC. Only 22% of households in Manhattan where I live even own cars, yet an ungodly amount of the total public space is given over to cars, including two whole lanes of free parking on most blocks. Meanwhile the sidewalks are narrow and often full of trash bags because we can't even put in dumpsters lest some sacred parking spots be removed, and delivery vehicles are constantly double-parked or blocking bike lanes since there's no delivery-only spots.

I think the majority of people here would be in favor of a mayor that de-emphasized cars and got a lot of this traffic off our streets, thus making it more pleasant for people on foot.
define "fair price" - fair to who?
Wait until it is common public knowledge that a distributed system failure can cause a loss of life. People like you and I may be interested in these postmortems strictly for the analysis, but the public at large is not.

On the other hand, they're very interested in things that can kill them.

I also wonder if there's more public attention paid to nuclear incidents in the region because of the proximity of a player who does not disclose or cooperate in nuclear incidents.
I can only speak to Netlify and Vercel, both really good steps forward but very immature solutions.
I heard one can make k8s run containers in separate QEMU/KVM vms or even on bare metal (I have no experience in setting up k8s so it may be wrong)
Usage question: Does it use multicore by default?
Just FYI, Schwab does have a mobile app. I don’t like the vertical charting as much as Robinhood, but you can still trade stocks and options through it. If you want to trade bonds or some of the more exotic stuff you need the website.
The Open Source Way 2.0
Thanks! I really appreciate the feedback on the experience.

I wanted to keep the scope as small as possible first time around. Undo is definitely under consideration.

Note that the guide lines are only really necessary for when you have certain diagonal edges you want to align, and you can even get away with some diagonals without using guidelines if the adjacent panels are similar in dimensions.
Correcting people when they use wrong pronouns is distracting but I get it, but can we at least not correct people for not using the right variety of neutral pronouns?
Curl Supports NASA
The most critical prerequisite to being a good C developer is to really understand pointers on an intuitive level. The biggest block is that most people don't take the effort to develop mental fluidity. So when they see something like a dereference to a pointer of a pointer, or a cast from a pointer to an array, it interrupts flow while they consciously work out what's going on.
I think the target market here appreciates the one stop
Solution given the big players here have always offered that.

I think alternative build integrations would be good though I do agree with that full stop. There should be a way to hook into the system from an outside pipeline to notify that a build is ready and able to be uploaded

I’d bet it will be an enterprise only feature first once though once it happens, we shall see
The same thing happened in the US North East, NY, MA, CT, NJ -- the majority (e.g. over 2/3) of deaths are in long term care homes.

That is the problem to solve, lockdown or not, in most countries we have utterly failed to protect our most vulnerable people. In fact I'd go as far as arguing that lockdowns and restrictions for the general population have diverted attention and effort from protecting the LTC homes & the vulnerable.
now this is the content i come here for. initial page load times are woefully underrated - the modern user is impatient. those milliseconds count, boys.
Damn, I knew that the Micro:bit was a thing but I never expected it to embark so many sensors.

Even outside school context it looks amazing to quickly make some IoT or Wearable stuff. Embarking wireless, accelerometer and sound right out of the box is amazing. No more loosely attached cables to extension boards.

Thank you for making me dive into it!
This is a tremendous example of argument by anecdote, and a strange anecdote at that. And a tenuous link to an event that is not simple to interpret: A prominent Scientologist berating members of a film crew on the basis of what might or might not be a pretense.

Here is a more plausible analogy: I write books. All of my books have been pirated. Almost all of the pirated copies are consumed by people learning to code who would otherwise not be able to afford my books, or who would buy them from local publishers in developing countries from which I make a pittance. While I am not left out of residuals the way a movie crew is, once I have made money in first world markets, that's mostly it. I really have no incentive to pursue pirates, much less make anti-piracy a fetish and lobby to impose draconian measures on the general public.

The MPAA is a lobbying organization like other organizations that lobby against the public interest. They need to construct a self-justification the way coal, cigarettes, soda pop, etc. have that need. There don't care about the "little guy" but will cynically spin that story if there is an advantage in it.

When sugary fizzy drinks are taxed, think of the out of work... dentists? Or would it be more like "if home soda machine DRM is hacked...?"
This must have been something different, the first HiFiBerry OS version was released this year.
> Generally the PDF copy of a book is designed to fit the format of the final printed book. The PDF is even often the deliverable sent to press.

I believe this is precisely what the GP finds appealing about PDFs. A PDF (usually) constitutes the original copy, reproduced faithfully.

It's like the difference between buying a widescreen VHS versus one that uses pan-and-scan to fit the movie to your TV's aspect ratio. Sure, the widescreen copy may not be ideal for your viewing environment, but it's the version the director intended for you to see.

And for both eBooks and movies, you can work around the problem by using more appropriate hardware.
Sony’s Crunchyroll purchase puts anime at the core of its streaming play
Are you wishing for other strong ad competitors? Or are you wishing for alternatives to add?

Sometimes it seems the overwhelming sentiment at HN is that ads (especially targeted ones) are bad for the world. But it seems like nearly everyone is relying on them for their livelihood.
If it’s free you are the product. Why is that so hard for people to grasp?
Hum... Docker automatically adds an entire OS as static dependency to anything. How does that goes with "not using too many dependencies" rule?

Also, good luck doing static analysis on binary tools.

There's an entire area of work people call "ops" that specializes on managing that dependency. But they can only do that if it's dynamic and loosely coupled.
Classified documents related to what? The investigations into his own criminal conduct?
> but my opinion is that it is detrimental to public perception of risk.

This would positively affect my perception of the plant's operators. They handled the crisis, and now are laying out the post-mortem for the public in a transparent manner. A culture of secrecy conceals incompetence, and that can lead to disaster. See: Chernobyl
> There are cars in the 1-2k range that work perfectly fine and will reliably work with minimal maintenance

> At the low end cars really don't deprecate much

I tried the whole Tropical MBA buy-an-old-car thing. Went with a 10-year-old Camry that KBB'd around $5k, had it inspected before I purchased it, and everything seemed fine. 6 months in, I ran into an issue that required the entire electrical system to be replaced which pretty much totaled the car. I wound up getting about 15% of what I paid for the car back out of it after 6 months of ownership.

Bottom line is that the old car napkin math works as long as the vehicle doesn't run into serious issues, because the moment it does, it really doesn't make much sense unless you're willing and able to do serious work on your own car.
Trying to Make Sense of the Mystery Monolith Craze of 2020
After a yearlong review, Europe approves Google’s FitBit acquisition
Alas, for most people, especially retail and even more especially options, it's better if they trade less.
First, I really do appreciate what you are trying to say - that proprietary software is where the money is. It also could be that most of the time, there really isn't a reason to share source code. I've built lots of software for companies large and small. Most of that software is for automating some very specific business process, or making some machine configuration work that no one else in the known universe would ever want anyway. The only developers who that code has value to will work at or for that company. It's not that it is secret, it's just a snowflake. In many cases the budget was so small, that the application wasn't tooled to run anywhere else but on that customer's existing infrastructure, so it would take more time to make that code open-source ready. BTW, open source code generally (but not always) is much higher quality than what I see in most proprietary software because it is going to be reviewed by lots of others and there is often an expectation that that code work on multiple platforms.

Also, when you use absolutes, like "All significant open source development is done by folks ... cashing a paycheck" you are guaranteed to be wrong. It is also disingenuous to people who actually are out there scratching an itch... and to all those developers who started by scratching and itch and finding customers or companies to pay them to keep scratching that itch.
OT: your woodworking is amazing, always enjoyable to see someone transition to a more fulfilling line of work.
I want to start learning lisp
The True Cost of Going Public
One drop of dichloromethane does them in super fast. Their body metabolizes it into Carbon monoxide. A bit of a wake up call for those of us using dcm (our bodies do too, but less quickly)
Love plausible analytics.

Upgraded to a paid plan for my project which is getting some traction and I was able to get exactly the kind of analytics I was looking for. I also share similar principles with regards to user privacy and so it’s definitely something I want people to use more and advocate for.

Great work folks.
I don't think the right to sue is inalienable.
ELI5: why exactly did the clients get bad execution?

Does sending order flow to trading firms in itself cause unfavorable execution?

Or did the trading firms treat order flow from RH differently than from other sources?

Or is it something else?

And does the fact that RH was receiving large payments for order flow impact the quality of execution?
This is likely the best recent example (from last year):

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29634/trump-tweets-int...
Stripe's culture of writing well is really quite impressive. Everything they publish (in my opinion) is top notch and super readable.
Why do musicians ignore high-end audio? [video]
Talk to them. It's not going to be clear in the code as it will be with how they talk to co-workers / sort out issues.
Their demo generator is hoping to be 5KW and 100lbs vs an existing 764lb 5KW model.

A 5.5kw generator from tractor supply runs $650 and weighs ~150lbs.

I’m sure this engine has some big advantages, but lbs/steady state watt doesn’t seem to be one. What am I missing?
> I am seriously suggesting that if states want to pay people to stay home they should find the money by cutting other spending, selling assets, raising taxes on the wealthy (households with an income over about $200K who didn't receive a stimulus payment in the first place), and issuing general obligation bonds.

So, basically, you think they should do things like finance their house with their credit card (general obligation bonds) instead of taking out a mortgage (federal deficit spending)? And what's your reason for that?

Honestly, this seems more like you're opposed to stay at home orders directly, but expressing that opposition indirectly by demanding arbitrary (unreasonable) policy restrictions to make them seems less desirable by making their implementation unnecessarily painful and difficult.
Well it makes sense if you have politicians consistently selling you misrepresented ideas like "Medicare for all" or "Defund the police". Of course you will start to lose trust in the system and the officials.

I think the bigger issue is how the divide between the parties happens. People seem to demonize the other side based on a specific issue that is important to them and then extrapolate that view to all positions held by the party on the basis that "all [party] politicians are stupid because of their stance on [issue] so their ideas on other issues are stupid too".

For a generalized example, the divide is mostly urban vs rural (even in other countries). A major single-issue voting topic would be gun rights vs gun control. A rural person thinks a new gun control law is stupid because the law seeks to ban certain items that statistically don't cause many problems and they find utility in their gun rights (more likely to hunt, slow police response, etc). An urban person would think the new law is good because "why does anyone need that item" and they find little to no utility in those rights (less likely to own a gun, carry a gun, hunt, faster police response, more exposure to the negative news/affects just due to population density). Each side thinks the other is stupid on this subject. People then think, hey the urban person wants to take away my rights on guns on (what appears as) stupid reasoning, so I don't trust their proposal to federalize healthcare because their logic/brain must be deficient. Then urban people will say these dumb hicks "...are clinging to their guns and bibles..." so they must be too stupid to know what's good for them. Which leads to neither side actually listening to the concerns of the other like a community should and instead just trying to gain full control of the government to ram through whatever laws their side wants.
And because they disappear people are more likely to check their feed more often so that they don't miss a story from someone they follow.
FYI the particle sensor link to AliExpress from that page is broken.
so now we're victim blaming for robinhood not disclosing where they make money?
Going before a proper judge would ensure proper procedures are followed and proper precedent is set.

What they do reminds me way too much of https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/543/
Are you sure a corner reflector will work?

The entire premise of the synthetic aperture is that the transmission and reception are distant from each other, but a corner reflector will reflect back to the location of the transmission - i.e. it will entirely miss the receiver.
>Working among exclusively smart people, having good conversations, not being in a nasty corporate framework

This is a really interesting take to me because my experience was quite different. I thought many were smart in a vary narrow field but at times lost outside of it, prone to ego-based biases, and much more concerned with publication and funding than really intellectually curious. There’s definitely pragmatic reasons for the latter but it seemed to water down the pure intentions people have brought up in this thread.

Of course there were wonderful people as well, but I’ve found that in the private sector too. I guess it goes to show mileage may vary and perspective is a key component
its all staged anyway, its just fun to wish revenge on porch pirates...
Rayiner is making an argument about whether politicians should use the word. He argued no and I think that's right.

You're trying to pull him into a separate argument which is should individuals use latinx or latino. (The obvious answer here is to use whatever word who you're talking to would prefer)
Since when does firing people constitute ownership?

I (partially) own the government (in theory, if it's a democracy). I don't own the company that I work for.
Are you implying the name could be referring to a different von Braun? Or are you denying that Wernher von Braun was a nazi?
I hate to break this to you but front running happens all the time in finance. In fact that’s the entire business model for bulge bracket trading desks. I know it’s easy to point fingers at RH but what they’re doing is very benign.
Wait...what would have been the better approach then?
No, those are not out of the 51%, but of the 0.16% "Malicious / potentially harmful images"
Ask HN: What do you guys think about future of Bitcoin?
And this is not another thread on Internet asking about its future price, I know here there are the most brilliant minds of the world. I want to know what do you think about its future. This coin has a space in our world, we need bitcoin? Or is only a cyberpunk manifesto wannabe? I think is like not for me. I feel comfortable paying my taxes, but I have some friends that they are bitcoin maximalist and a little anti-government. I don’t know if it’s correlated.
And finally, what do you think about the last so heavy demand, is only a FOMO? Future threats about our fiat economy that I don’t know??
Life in Garbage
What was the topic of the paper?
https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

This is the "getting started with coding" guide that I give to people who ask me about these kind of things. This is a defense mechanism - I tell them that I'll help them get started with a career in coding if they return me their completed text editor. So far nobody has, so maybe it's not the best beginner tutorial?

I still thought it was a great tutorial.
Show HN: QLO – Browser-based 3D clothing mockup builder
Hi, regarding number 3, I have filed https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/58032. Would love to get your feedback on the proposal; does it address your need? do you have a different idea for how it would work?
Didn't they push back on the publication because the paper was lacking in certain regards? IIRC it failed to take into account relevant recent papers, for example. Which probably could have been fixed if they didn't submit as late as they did.
Usually, but you have three buttons on the first screen of their homepage: for schools, for offices, for homes. I don't think they're only b2b.
Egon, that's really cool! It reminds me of when I used to use Manga Studio- iirc it had a layout editor with a similar approach where it would split panels based on a separator line you could drag at various angles.

Glad to see someone else in this space!
Again, the USSR was NOT Communism.
Internal Review Report for the Iowa Democratic Party: 2020 Iowa Caucuses [pdf]
good luck. I love Baudrillard's philosophy but had a hard time getting through Simulacra and Simulation.
I think the primary reason for this is because people (generally speaking) in democratic societies share control of their government (for the people by the people etc). This is not true of company->employee relationships.

It is assumed that if you join a company you share their values and if you no longer share their values the barrier to leave and join another is quite low. People have different values and that is fine. Unless your employer is engaging in illegal behaviors, speaking out against their value set is just showing intolerance for other people and their values.

Move on, join up and use your time to help lift values you hold, don’t just spend all your time tearing down others. Respect the fact that others can have values different than your own.
Ive been very happy with Dwolla and their level of support is wonderful. Our small team gets a slack channel with our rep and a few others and they respond quickly.
Govt cannot be an arbiter of what people do with their money. Period.
based on her profile it seems like shes a journalist focused on tech writing.
You can already do some of this with wslu (out of the box on the ubuntu image). You can create desktop shortcuts to linux apps (and I think provide an icon, otherwise it'll try to guess), wslview proxies to your default browser on the Windows side, and I think there are a couple of other things.
There is some marketing here to be sure, but in some sense, they are at least partially right in that:

- they aren’t just reselling AWS services (if I recall correctly Netlify and to at least some extent Vercel do, for instance)

- They will be providing their own database platform (coming soon according to the blog post, as of 12/17/2020) which means they can provide the ability to have a single end to end provider for my app. (Interested to know if CloudFlare will provide a secure user authentication layer on top)

- they have one of the world's largest CDNs, no other player really offers that out of the box (though you can just as easily integrate with theirs, it’s just not as convenient and I’m sure the integration there will play out accordingly)

- They are offering workers out of the box, which are a lot like lambdas, in that they run some arbitrary function(s) when called, but have greater capabilities beyond that with the system since they are “CloudFlare Aware”

It’s not all untrue, however:

To your point, it’s very much a marketing message vs a hard reality in that services offer a good deal of feature parity and this is more of a leap in the current iteration of things rather than a pure innovation in the problem space. You can readily achieve this today with some combination of Heroku + CloudFlare CDN, for instance (and that would include edge workers, if you so choose)

I imagine this wouldn't be terribly hard to emulate with AWS Amplify[0] either, though. I like that CloudFlare is offering something not directly tied to AWS or another cloud provider explicitly (I'm not talking about them using it for extra compute or what have you. I know that CloudFlare has their own network of servers and generally they're selling access to their metal, not another provider(s))

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/
Which on Windows is the key combination to delete the most recently typed word, and is basically muscle memory to replace spelling mistakes for me...
Workers, also now has a free tier, with some usage limitations: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing

The "Workers Sites" works differently than "Cloudflare Pages", at least from the developers side. You're using their wrangler tool instead of passing a git repo to their CI/CD setup.