skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My workplace has got all kinds of attention for building a blockchain based data collection system that encompasses an entire sector of the economy. It's "almost done", so we are right now starting a simple set of REST services that write into a badly normalized transactional database just in case it stays "almost done" for too long.
Show HN: Deploy Next.js to AWS
Hi HN, we are Frank and Jay and we are working on a better way to deploy Next.js apps to AWS: https://serverless-stack.com/examples/how-to-create-a-nextjs-app-with-serverless.html

We are the founders of SST, an open source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps on AWS: https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack

We found that many people in the community were looking for a better way to deploy Next.js apps to their own infrastructure and they were unhappy with the options. These were not easy to customize (Amplify Next.js) or would pass your code and credentials via a 3rd party service (Serverless Next.js component). So we decided to fix it.

There are a couple of things to note, specifically the AWS integration.

- Completely open source and free

- Deploys directly to your AWS account

- Import environment variables from your AWS services

- Easily manage permissions to your AWS resources

- Works with any CI service, supports PR/preview deployments

- Uses AWS CDK to define your infrastructure as code

We wrote about how to get started and compared the various deployment options: https://serverless-stack.com/examples/how-to-create-a-nextjs-app-with-serverless.html. You can also check out the docs: https://docs.serverless-stack.com/constructs/NextjsSite

We'd appreciate if you took it for a spin and gave us some feedback!
Don't you think many/most users dgaf about e2e ?
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A 10x marathoner can achieve a qualifying time for their marathon far 10x faster than the average person who might not ever be able to qualify.

When you talk about a 10x programmer, you don't expect their program to run 10x as fast. You expect 10x the results.

A 10x marathoner could post the regular marathoners best times 10x as frequently throughout the year easily. His training runs would destroy regular runners PR's. No amount of work by the regular guy would allow him to produce a single instance of comparable performance.
Did Rogan even attend college? I don't know enough about his background. Getting a phd is a pretty good step, but not the only step, for being an intellectual.

Going to high school and then spouting out things like taking horse medicine to cure covid would be a pointer in the opposite direction.
I felt like I could have used a better articulation of their definition of "loud" and "quiet" aliens, unless these are well known terms in the domain terms and I am just unfamiliar...
You shut your big fat pie hole. Spaces.
I wrote above to a similar example of extra-territorial government activities the US does but at least there can be domestic repercussions to such things (e.g. investigations, congressional hearings, etc.). I sincerely doubt such things happen in China. But as far as things like spying and the NSA in foreign countries... I think you're out of luck as is the rest of the world. Everyone is spying on everyone. I mean the Germans have been lambasting the US for doing so and then it broke recently they also bought from NSO Group! I would be shocked if the French weren't doing the exact same.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-secretly-bought-nso-pega...
(for consulting in ML)

The Second Rule of Machine Learning - Start Machine Learning with simple shallow models.

50% of the problems are solved with good data choice of data + some generalized linear model.

30% remaining problems solved with shallow models or old school ML models. Anything from support-vector machines, decision trees, nearest neighbors, very shallow neural networks.

Remaining 20% require more work.
> The main disadvantage of these products is controlling dose, and those go away with a well regulated market.

Nope. THC intake with smoking is (pretty much) consistent across people and the dosing feedback from intake to effect is much shorter, whereas edibles hit differently depending on a lot of specific factors (body weight, how much one has eaten/drunk) which means that especially in "social get-high situations" edibles don't really work as intended. Not to mention it's easy to overdose on edibles.
I guess this all depends on your definition of 10x. It sounds like you are saying 10x the average person rather than 10x the average person who works in that field.

I'm a 10x developer if we count non developers. I am not if we could people who work as developers. Likewise there are expert marathon runners who are 10X, or more, than the average human. But there are not marathon runners who run 10x faster than other professional marathon runners.
that account was created minutes ago

regardless of all else GDC7 appears determined to contradict reality in all threads, and of course, without any supporting data

source: their comments on other threads
Go solar, or go home

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/es/2020/08/how-sustainable...
I'm reminded of the waste many CI sets do. Where they download the same set of dependencies at the same versions for each run. No effort put into caching thing.

There is so much bandwidth used because of that (I've seen the numbers for some projects and it's HUGE).
You essentially prove my point. That an illicit form of a dangerous activity exists because many other people are doing it as part of their daily life not because the activity is in itself illegal.
On the Net Negative Producing Programmer - https://wiki.c2.com/?NetNegativeProducingProgrammer and the referenced article from there http://pyxisinc.com/NNPP_Article.pdf

That article starts out with...

> We've known since the early sixties, but have never come to grips with the implications that there are net negative producing programmers (NNPPs) on almost all projects, who insert enough spoilage to exceed the value of their production. So, it is important to make the bold statement: Taking a poor performer off the team can often be more productive than adding a good one. [6, p. 208] Although important, it is difficult to deal with the NNPP. Most development managers do not handle negative aspects of their programming staff well. This paper discusses how to recognize NNPPs, and remedial actions necessary for project success.

> Researchers have found between a low of 5 to 1 to a high of 100 to 1 ratios in programmer performance. This means that programmers at the same level, with similar backgrounds and comparable salaries, might take 1 to 100 weeks to complete the same tasks. [21, p. 8]

Source 21 is: Shneiderman, Ben Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (Cambridge, MA: Winthrop, 1980)

https://www.amazon.com/Software-psychology-computer-informat...
> Everyone here seems to think FB is some horrible, unethical company

I don't think that's true. Most of us here see Facebook as a drunk 16 year-old with a set of car keys and Daddy's credit card. Not evil, just hopelessly reckless and lacking in self awareness and self control.
It's easy enough to start with an uncooked chicken, or better yet, wings for the high collagen content. When you start with a rotisserie chicken, you've a lost a lot of the chicken's flavor to the roaster's drip pan.
Hi! I'm the creator of Manyverse.

That's right, it's using a ton of space. We are currently working on a new protocol extension for SSB targeted at solving exactly this. Here's a presentation from some months ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKr208wpr6Y , although our designs have changed a bit during implementation. See also https://github.com/ssb-ngi-pointer/ssb-meta-feeds-spec

We're building this under a grant from the EU Commission, NGI Pointer, read more about it here https://www.manyver.se/blog/2020-10-update

We're almost finished with a proof of concept of meta feeds for partial replication, and we're working on compiling statistics on how much will it reduce the total payload sizes during replication. For that purpose we built a network simulator to simulate replication at scale: https://github.com/ssb-ngi-pointer/netsim/
You could colour the plastic inside the connector. That would be invisible once plugged which would probably suit Apple etc.
‘Noisy’ Russian hacking crews are among the world’s most sophisticated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28616016

DHH really needs to read 'Give it 5 minutes...'[0] from his own blog.

[0] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes#:~:....
> I went to assemble one, and when trying to determine the LED orientation I discovered a fatal flaw. I had the footprint rotated 90 degrees. (-___-)

Why was that a problem? The leds are square, so you could just rotate them by 90 degrees?
Here in the US you can purchase dry ice at a lot of grocery stores (Publix). If I recall it was in the wine section.
It seems that in order to implement the FCC’s orders to turn 988 into a shortcode for the Suicide Hotline, millions of Americans/Verizon customers now have to type the area codes for local calls, as well as teach their small children.
Edit: I’m responding with my US experience because the author concludes with “if we want the US to be like this…”

Working for a few years in a licensed field was very frustrating, so personally I’m glad not to work in a union. The entire system was based on tenure, so there’s limited opportunity to get ahead by working hard, you just have to wait your turn. Further, you are always at risk of losing your career if you speak out against the orthodoxy of the organization (licensing establishment in my case).

I want to see all workers paid better and everyone to have a good material life, regardless of whether they’re an all-star worker or entrepreneur. But to me it seems a better formula to get there is for companies to face fierce competition and firm anti-trust regulation to limit their power, and for individuals to have a robust social safety net that greatly reduces the risk of failure which increases their power.

As one example, in my experience as a small business owner, nothing causes me more stress than healthcare and ensuring my team has good coverage. But big companies have a huge advantage of scale and can provide this benefit much more efficiently than I can. At the same time, for workers in the US, the need for good healthcare gives employers tremendous power over employees, and deters many from taking on entrepreneurial risk. If we had quality universal health care in the US, I would expect that to result in meaningful wage increases and a lot of new business formation and competition, as it would represent a large shift of power from companies to individuals.
Most companies don't have control over their data centers (except to maybe use energy efficiency as a selection criteria). But you have a point about CPU.

But regarding incentive alignment, making those data centers more efficient is not just more green but also saves the companies a boatload of money.

Since cloud providers don't charge extra for your utilization percentage I've always told my teams: if the CPU is running cold either the software can use it more efficiently or we're overpaying by renting more capacity than we need.
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So they idea of agile is to work closely to with the business and other stakeholders. That is why people do refinements to create shared understanding. Specification by example is also a good way to get shared understanding. If you have shared understanding, that is to say everyone understands the end goal it is easier to have less documentation.

If you work in an old school environment where you get work packages and you just have to do the work. You will need more documentation. simply because you can't ask any questions to the requestor.

Value is not only measured at the end of a total delivery. So for instance your car example. It could be really valuable to deliver the ABS part of the software to test it and any other safety and control functions. All these functions can get tested before the whole is delivered. If some less important features might not make it in time before the car launch you could decide to bring the car to market with the most important features and add the farting feature with an OTA update
Yeh, definitely - I appreciate the input nonetheless!
The name is not great and it seems like the target market is probably already served by breadboards?
> I attempted to assemble a board bey placing LEDs at 90 degrees, but ultimately this was a failure, the pads look reasonably symmetrical, but they’re not exactly.
This is a very odd article, with much sneering at educated people ("That writer, unsurprisingly, is an Ivy League-educated lifetime New Yorker") followed by lamenting that we're not in a "smarter and more adult world".

Maybe if we didn't sneer at education we could have one.
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Unlike liquid-based vapes which use pure nicotine, Juul pods contain a tobacco leaf extract. I don’t have a source to confirm, but I find it likely they do contain MAOIs.
It's extremely easy to pass a drug test if you have few hours notice. All it requires is some basic googling skills.
The site emphasizes the educational aspect. I think they have a point. Nothing teaches mathematical relationships like hands-on instant feedback from a physical system. Patching your program and turning knobs in a literal sense jives well with the naive mental physics model some of us rely heavily on for reasoning and learning.
You do realise the inventor of "horse dewormer" who got a nobel prize for it (does that count as intellectual) also talked about how it has antiviral properties?

Oh wait you didn't because his video got removed from YouTube by other "very clever people"TM

I'm not endorsing ivermectin, I don't know if it works for covid or any other viral infection, but your reduction to people needing a PHD to make informed choices is just silly.
Agreed. I had a tech come to my hotel room in Hong Kong and fix my Alien (Dell) computer. He replaced the screen and keyboard under warranty in 2016. I had a Dell that I dropped off for same-day service. I have a Thinkpad T430u I bought back in 2012, and it is running great. Very solid. I run Kali Linux on it, and I do a lot of coding or writing on it. I love the keyboard, and I am one of those fans of the thumbnub! I have owned all sorts of computers from 1978, and this is by far my most rock solid one. The original battery is still in it, and it is not holding the charge it did, but hey, 9 years is a long life for a battery in these things. I am now using a MSI Stealth G65, and it is great, but let's see how it holds up. I've dropped it twice in two years, but it seems fine. I use it for my 3D work, CAD, and UE4 fun. I may buy The Framework to see how it goes, although like some others, I worry the parts will not be available two years down the road, and if they are, at a normal price. It's a chick-or-the-egg scenario: people need to buy them to create a market for this to happen.
maybe you don't see it. try to look behind the smoke and mirrors. you are being constantly checked like in the chess game. this is just a step in the "new normal" society. PCRs and antigen are just an intermediary step. they want you vaxxed. they want some percentage slaves, most dead both inside and out. search for klaus schwab interviews. maybe you'll get it right.
Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are unreliable
For me, it's not even about talking to them, it's often about watching. I often go to a nice place when I visit NYC and I explain to friends that it's similar to why someone would go see a Broadway musical, but with food. The coordination, the way everything comes out in a choreographed way, the little rituals of how they pour wine or deliver new utensils, all of it is a practiced show.

Or sometimes it's not, and that can be interesting too. I went to Schwa in Chicago once and the service was good, but very barebones. They didn't have a liquor license, so it was all bring your own drinks unless you wanted water. I didn't have anything I'd brought, so the waiter kept bringing out cans of beer people had brought and left behind that he thought would pair with my next course and just cracking open a can and leaving it on the table for me. Completely wild dinner experience that I think back on to this day.
Monopsony can happen too
sudo relying on the PATH provided by /etc/environment is safe... What isn't is system() relying on the current PATH, provided by the (unprivileged) caller.

The author is so very confused. Not a single argument actually in favor of system(), as opposed to execve() which is the alternative mentioned in manuals next to "don't use system".
This. Knime is similar to BI tools, but it is more action oriented. The reports may not be as pretty, but it can handle the entire ETL pipeline and actually do things besides make interactive pivot tables.
Unless we have systemic change (e.g., border adjusted carbon tax), anything we try to do as individuals is going to be penny wise and pound foolish. Most of our carbon footprint comes from industry (including transporting goods). Much of that presumably comes from our trade with China both in terms of their lax pollution laws and then transporting goods across the Pacific. None of that is going to change unless we stop pretending that pollution is free, which is to say we need to pass some carbon pricing scheme so that companies have an incentive to reduce the amount of pollution in the goods they sell us. Greener items will inherently be cheaper, and it will give local manufacturing a competitive advantage (bringing back jobs).
Isn't this a capacity planning issue? I thought if you are 100% complete on every sprint, then you are planning incorrectly. It's not supposed to be a report card every 2 weeks but an approach to review your work to build for the long term, right?
Welp, I used to play Tremulous[1] with it on my ThinkPad X61, slaying people with granger(= builder) on "X" server. I often spammed the chat when I get a fancy kill (something like "you got killed by a trackpoint lul", with color). I wonder if anyone remembers it. Hahaha

Trackpoint is like a joystick, very short but sensitive and accurate. The best experience was with a SoftRim cap, which significantly reduced the force required to register.

Even better, using VIM and tiling WM completely eliminates any reason for my hands to leave the resting position on the keyboard. This was simply fantastic, and that's why I still have my X61 around.

[1]: https://tremulous.net/
Yeah the horse paste and soft-pedal antivax shit is definitely when Rogan and also the "Intellectual Dark Web" jumped the shark.

I don't think you need a Ph.D, but as you say it's one decent avenue. You can also grind yourself up, but you have to be an honest real autodidact who actually tries to learn stuff not a crank. The core characteristic of a crank IMHO is that they either stop when they know enough to sound smart or get emotionally attached to particular points of view and refuse to entertain others.
Do recall the context… The Arthurian legends are not a story with sole authorship, like the Lord of the Rings. These are stories twisted and told by many different people. Perhaps the modern analogy is Spider-Man. Within Marvel there are many different varieties, and then you add on the fan driven content…

For those deeply interested in different takes on Arthur, Steinbeck [0] took a stab at it too. This sent me down a long Arthurian rabbit hole.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acts_of_King_Arthur_and_...
I can't believe that article "Equitable Research Requires Questioning the Status Quo" is not "trolling" attempt. This can't be written in a sincere and serious fashion.
It does make the transition a bit harder, but it also reinforces good habits at the same time -- you shouldn't be looking at the keyboard while you type. I also think the value added by an alternative keyboard layout to smaller screens is marginal at best, if not counterproductive, since having your fingers farther apart (e.g. not on the home row) makes typing easier.
Why the hell would you want a new laptop every year? Doesn't seem very "reasonable and responsible" to me.
I love /r/HermanCainAward because it dispenses with the mandatory charity and forgiveness we're expected to muster for people whose willful ignorance and embrace of anti-intellectual ideologies gets them killed because we're supposed to be "better than that".

I'm not interested in being "better than that" and I honestly believe that every dead conservative makes the world a slightly better place for their passsing because now they're out of the way. I love the smell of dead antivaxxers in the morning. It smells like eventual victory.
Interesting, I have made a similar project, except instead of rotN, it encodes the input as UTF-8, and then shifts up the codepoints to display each byte as a different character to what it would normally be. The invariant is that `byte & 0xff` is the real byte value.

I call it "Mojibake Steganography": https://incoherency.co.uk/mojibake/

I think in principle (judging by the description of rot8000), my tool should be able to decode rot8000 messages natively, but it doesn't seem to work on the example given here. From looking directly at the codepoints given, I think the example is wrong. It starts:

u+7c5d u+7c71 u+7c6e - which works out to "]qn" instead of "The", unless I am misunderstanding something. And in fact that looks definitely wrong if we're expecting ASCII output because they're all more than 127 away from 0x8000, no matter how it works.

The rot8000 page says:

> It also bypasses 32 control characters, technically making it rotFFE0, sometimes with an additional offset.

I definitely don't understand how this is meant to work. Why does skipping 32 control characters turn it from rot8000 into rotFFE0? Should that say 7FE0? I still don't see how ASCII is coming out as 7Cxx.

Taking `char - 0x7c09` gets the expected ASCII output.
Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind
> If you burn your sauce, that's probably an off-flavor.

Probably, but people burn meat on purpose.
I tried edibles as well and got sleepy, agitated and a slight paranoia from it. Tried it a few more times to make sure it wasn’t just that and it really doesn’t jibe with me, prefering to be sober to that.
I think I still largely disagree with what you wrote. I do agree that the thesis could be more clearly written to say that objectivity and rigor are not /purely/ harmful.

Their definitions of objectivity and rigor are quite similar to ones you'd find in a dictionary.

In the intro, the author writes "However, long-standing values and practices rooted in racism, ableism, and classism are ingrained in the fabric of research, leaving many researchers unaware of the harm they are causing." To me, this statement does not say "rigor and objectivity are only harmful," it says "rigor and objectivity have a harmful component."

Of course, the body of the article is mostly evidence to support the thesis. Since the thesis does not claim that objectivity and rigor are purely harmful, there's no need to spend any ink on the benefits of those things.

In the conclusion, it is reiterated that "research can be a tool for positive change, but it can also cause harm." Yes, the claims are bold (especially out of context!), but this is a reasonable treatment of the topic and your criticism is coming at it a bit sideways.
One life-skill you can master is being able to switch up your language depending on who you're talking to. I talk to my son differently than I do my best friend (obviously). We even have an Internet slang term for this: ELI5[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/