jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was vague and unclear, entirely my fault. I really want Rust to be successful, I just think some of the decisions being made are shortsighted, so I will watch after release to see if I am correct, hope I am not.

> What is the impending 1.0 release if not that? We've been very clear all along that 1.0 means language stability. I see no "hand-waving".

I guess I don't consider "stability" and "backwards compatibility" the same thing -- in the "stability as a deliverable" post, it was specifically referenced that rust will "continue to evolve at a rapid pace and even accelerate!" (quoted from memory, sure it is somewhat off).

I think a constantly growing language (no longer changing cause old code has to work, but growing... which seems worse) and the fact that libraries will opt into new features and bundle use of those features with bug fixes will mean that the entire userbase is on a 6 week upgrade cycle -- 8 or 9 upgrades a year. I consider that a mistake. Furthermore, I consider the idea that the channels will not fracture the community to be very naive. I expect a lot of libraries will just live on unstable and tell users to "come with them".

> Why would you be worried that we're following precisely the schedule that we said we would?

You are correct and that was unfair. I can't fault the team for doing what they said -- even if to an outsider it seems like an insanely late time to be doing these types of refactoring.
Not individually, but there are groups who attempt to keep track of which cause the most damage when you eat it. It's not likely to solve the problem in the long run though, because there are a lot of people who just don't care. Personally, I think the world should look to the Iceland model and institute strict quotas across the board.
Hmm, I wasn't aware of that, I thought they usually just had the butcher or somebody throw it together in house. That was just a guess though.
I've seen some programmers get fancy and try to overengineer what they are doing. It's the temptation of premature optimization. They just need to be forced into doing some maintenance and refactoring work for a while to realize how much fancy code really sucks.
Thanks. I agree re: admin themes/ templates. I also like the "AskHN: What do you want in a web app theme" bit. I should do that asap.
For many open source developers/contributors, open source is not their entire life.

The majority of open source users/developers/contributors are pragmatic about the utility of open source software (it does a job they need done and the access to open source code makes it better), but there is a very vocal minority for whom open source/free software is an ideology (there's nothing wrong with that either).

I'm 100% open source on the server. The combo of Ubuntu, Django, Nginx, Gunicorn and Postgresql has made me very productive.

I like futzing with servers, I hate doing it with notebooks. OS X might not always "just work" but it does for most cases that matter to me.

Other people might own consoles or use Microsoft Office (or Google Docs) or other stuff which isn't open source, but that shouldn't affect their support for open source in the areas that matter to them.
It sounds like a real pisser for the owner of the businesses, but it's hard to take the article seriously when it's so loaded with populist sneering. The first line is the giveaway: "We often hear politicians and pundits denounce property rights" -- do we really? I don't know if I've ever heard a US politician explicitly denounce "property rights" as a broad category. It isn't necessary to keep harping on the broader issue -- just tell the story and it should be clear whose rights are being violated, if any.
I can understand his argument about tinkering and distractions, but personally for me it is all about apps. If Linux had the same polished apps like OS X has then I would probably use Ubuntu as my main OS.
Fearlessness is a trait of psychopaths. It appears that the amygdala is dysfunctional in psychopaths :

" the amygdala is crucial for stimulus–reinforcement learning and responding to emotional expressions, particularly fearful expressions that, as reinforcers, are important initiators of stimulus–reinforcement learning. Moreover, the amygdala is involved in the formation of both stimulus–punishment and stimulus–reward associations. Individuals with psychopathy show impairment in stimulus–reinforcement learning (whether punishment or reward based) and responding to fearful and sad expressions. It is argued that this impairment drives much of the syndrome of psychopathy. Stimulus–reinforcement learning is crucial for socialization, for learning that some things are bad to do, and individuals with psychopathy fail to take advantage of standard socialization techniques."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2606709/?tool=pm...
I could be taking your comments wrong, but they make Fantasy seem like bad SciFi. Well told fantasy stories explore the world in an introspective way. The "magic" systems provide drama, "color", and a vehicle representing power but typically the character development and introspection are the important aspects.

Taking Steven Erikson as an example of a top-of-the-craft Fantasy author, he explores moral ambiguity with a scientific approach. Quite often he turns my beliefs upside down and sideways so that I'm confused by them.

I can see Fantasy as a string of what-if's if it's in the sense of exploring people and society.
And they have perhaps pissed off another extremely important group -- the smart engineers that they want to come work for them. They probably haven't done it as badly as Oracle has recently, but if they keep this up it's gonna hurt.
Makes me think of Love Canal, where they built a school and neighborhood over a toxic waste dump.
"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." - John von Neumann in 1949
I've been wondering if there's a sort of nash equilibrium to these things. How many startups will a restaurant let auction its open tables before losing faith in all of them?
Which day?
> how elite state-owned venture capital will work

Perhaps something like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/commitment-to-small-busin...

https://arsenalgrowth.com/

https://www.welcomeurope.com/european-subsidies-sector-Innov...
Wonder if the author dog-fooded his concept, that would provide some real life use cases to serve as reference.
If the CMS has a special Admin page, then it is not a CMS for the non-techie.

Administration can be no more than filling out forms, uploading images, etc, etc. No plugins, no DBs, no hosting, no nuthin'.
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms
is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all
genders.

Okay, let's be clear. Anachronistic != Classic.
What kind of network do you have at home?
What you don’t want to hear is, I get enough computers when I’m at work.. I’ve yet to meet a serious security guy who doesn’t have a considerable home network.

Ehrm... sorry. At various times in my past I've had: a garage with two server racks, several BBS systems, a coffee table made out of a small beowulf cluster of recycled SUN sytems, various media servers, a PBX system, most switches/appliances rigged up to X10, a cross city wireless link on my rooftop, remote-login-via-packet-radio, various centralized login systems, etc, etc....

But now I have: a router, MacBook Pro, Vonage box, and a big USB HDD for backups. Sometimes I plug in a projector to watch movies.

I'm not "just looking for a paycheck", but that doesn't mean that I have to maintain a second enterprise network at home to stay sharp. Certianly not now in the days of vmware and cloud computing.

Employers seriously need to grasp that a work/life balance is the sign of a healthy, professional employee with his/her act together...
Can it be used for commandline scripts? As in

#!/usr/bin/env kata
print("hello ", "world");
I thought the same thing....

classic cross domain ad tracking trick. BUT seems like chrome is trying to limit by keying caches to the domain. BUT BUT maybe not in cross domain web workers?

IDK though might be some interesting ideas. *edit maybe just cname cloak like are doing to get around itp

poc:
https://github.com/dillondoyle/css_cache
https://dillondoyle.github.io/css_cache/index.html
There is, in fact, no recognised principle by which the propriety or impropriety of government interference is customarily tested. People decide according to their personal preferences. Some, whenever they see any good to be done, or evil to be remedied, would willingly instigate the government to undertake the business; while others prefer to bear almost any amount of social evil, rather than add one to the departments of human interests amenable to governmental control. And men range themselves on one or the other side in any particular case, according to this general direction of their sentiments; or according to the degree of interest which they feel in the particular thing which it is proposed that the government should do, or according to the belief they entertain that the government would, or would not, do it in the manner they prefer; but very rarely on account of any opinion to which they consistently adhere, as to what things are fit to be done by a government.

~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Not specific to Trump, but:

Honestly, the campaign de-platforming (especially the last-minute ad-pulls) might concern me more than the head-of-state censorship.
>Does it matter right now? No. Will it in 50 years? Probably not still. Looking at our planet what we understand as modern law has generally only emerged in large groups of people. It's debatable whether any small group truly needs it.

It takes a special lack of self awareness to type this out on an internet forum in 2021.
Car dealerships often sit on prime retail locations. So that vast inventory will often sit in a location close to but not conveniently adjacent to the actual dealer.
The American far left has a long history of being squeezed out of public fora and you don’t really see them storming the capitol.

They don’t debate and they know they’re right. What’s the point in keeping them?
I sure hope not Arabic :-/ As a minority we will be fucked.
One thing has nothing to do with the other. With over thirthy years of hardware and software engineering experience, including being published by ACM robotics I think I can voice opinion about a design concept. The nature and details of the connector have nothing whatsoever to do with the validity of my arguments.

As for the $30K price point for a robotic snake charger. Well, let's just say I have designed and manufactured enough hardware during my career to have an idea. It sure as hell won't be $3,000.
Above all, always believe that _you_can_do_it_. Anything you set your mind to- it may take awhile, but keep at it & believe in yourself- regardless of what _anyone_- even so-called experts may have to say negative. When you want to go & do something, know that others who have found success at doing something similar, were one day as inexperienced as you might be now. Just try to learn as much as you can- take the good & leave the bad, and have at it as best as you can. Seek out those who can help you, surround yourself with these people- remove negative people from your circle of influencers, and give it your best. Actively do good, & passively fight evil. Make an effort to learn from your mistakes, and remember- god favors someone who puts in good effort, whose heart is in the right place. Don't let yourself get unbalanced, keep pets around you to constantly remind you of what it is to care about someone/something who's not you. Think about what it means to keep them happy, & put forth great effort to have a good relationship with them, they'll always love you, no matter if you're up or down. Be careful not to put all your faith in one person/group of people, they have the capacity/likelyhood to turn on you when the time is right for them. But don't be afraid to ask for help- _everyone_ needs help at one point or another, whether they let you know it or not. And even if you don't believe in god, pray anyway- it does something in our minds that's good for us. Science proves it, believing in something abstract helps our subconscious somehow that science has yet to explain. Look for ways to be an optimist, it'll help you far more than you could imagine. It's very hard sometimes to find the light side of darkness, but it's always there. Even if you have to repeatedly talk to yourself in order to feel a sliver of gratitude for something as mundane as being priveleged enough to not live in a third world country, or a war torn region, that little feeling of gratitude, even if you only feel it for a fraction of a second, has the power to grow in your subconscious and carry you through tough times that will certainly arise. If you can get in the habit of finding something to be grateful for, your subconscious will do some invisible magic & pop up and help you one day when you need it most. Someone like 'mouselover' will post on HN & ask a question that forces you to remind yourself what works for you at a time when you've almost forgotten it yourself.
Right now with the web we are prisoners of our own devices.

We took a document fetching/presentation system and beat on it until we had an application platform, and we're feeling the pain. We have built workarounds on top of workarounds to try to make applications look better, work better, and better to develop, but we're still stuck with the browser and its limitations. Reading some of the posts here, it seems like some people have developed Stockholm syndrome for the browser.

What we have turned the web into is a resurrection of mainframe computing. Our terminals are just a little bit better this time. It was the only vector for exceptional ease for the user so we flocked there, the trouble is, talking to the terminals makes up have to do a lot of less than ideal things on the serverside. Sure we may have prettied up some parts and made more and more tech for talking to the terminals, but its not great. We and bitched and moaned about the state of the terminals and over the last decade they've even became a smidge better.
The last time I used it, Gundo becomes unusably slow when you get more than a modest amount of edits in your history.
"Since Google is hiring over 6,000 people this year, those picketing there say they want to make sure that their respective groups have a fair shot at being hired."

No, what they are really trying to do is to come up with hiring quotas for their respective groups. Look, Google, Apple & others are already very hard pressed to get enough candidates to interview and hire. I don't think they are in any position to say "Hmm, this guy's a Latino/a, let's pass".

The fact that they have no idea what they are talking about is evident from one of the signs that one of the protesters in the photo is holding up saying "Break Up the 'Whites Only' Club at Google". Jeez, have you ever been in the Googleplex? It cannot be called the `Whites Only Club` by any stretch of the imagination (unless you redefine "white" to include Indians and Asians). The first fact you notice is how many women there are (I heard estimates of >40% in general >10% in engineering, and that's unheard of in a technical company).

Similar arguments apply to Apple (although, admittedly, people are better dressed there, Job's influence?)
Yes, I've actually used it before to set up a hacky progress report for batch tasks.
Hopefully those people are also in it for the long term and know that an 8% drop will mean nothing if the earnings and profit grow year-to-year.
summary ... social networking is nice but society can abuse it. I'm doing it the right way, everybody should do it how I do it.

What a waste of my 5 minutes.
Back up on Tenerife
I'm french canadian and the most satisfying solution I've found is to keep switching from one keyboard layout to another. I mostly use the american layout when I code, and the french canadian one to communicate. I got used to it in about a week.
I think the difference is tackling a pre-existing market. Both cars and space had large existing markets to which Elon could speed up the rate of progress.

There isn't really a market for BCI except for cases of disability. In this case, he has to create the customer demand for a technology that doesn't exist. That's a really tough sell when even if it did work (which is very much in doubt), would require a literal brain surgery. This isn't like scaling up a factory or using modern compute to get a rocket to land itself. It's fundamental research with uncertainties on perhaps every angle.
I had a carbon monoxide alarm which, when triggered, would beep the Morse code for "CO".
Thanks for the detail: I take it that hibernation is not a core need for data centers/servers, and therefore the major distros like Red Hat & Ubuntu aren't particularly concerned about dedicating resources to this problem?
If you read enough history, you realize that people who fail are forgotten, but the people who mock the people who end up succeeding are remembered and humiliated forever.
Sort of, but that's not a laptop.
There's this thing called love, you might have heard of it.
It seems you have over-estimated your system administration skills and expect prgmr to compensate, even though that's clearly not the business they're in. Frankly, this thread reflects pretty badly on your ability to take personal responsibility for your business.
I used to live in the TL, your graph suggests there are no police sirens around 12am - 4am, I find that hard to believe. =)

Maybe you could add sound samples? Would make the whole experience a bit more personal...
This may be a naive view, but using the terms in the domain name as an attribute in measuring relevance (and rank) seems to have outlived its usefulness.
This is really cool! Having lived in the Tenderloin, I can testify to the impact of its noise on my quality of life.

How is the project being funded? What does it take to install the data capturing equipment? How do the interactions with the city or property owners go?
TBH, everything that was listed as a complaint could be a complaint for nearly any transactional RDBMS. For workloads that require heavy always on replication and availability RDBMS's haven't been the go to solution for a long time vs. distributed DBs. Changing from Postgres to Mysql or MySQL to Postgres (or even Oracle) won't really buy you much if you're running into these issues.

Even this one

> The bug we ran into only affected certain releases of Postgres 9.2 and has been fixed for a long time now. However, we still find it worrisome that this class of bug can happen at all.

(rare/specific) Data Corruption bugs around master-promotion and handoff occur in every major DB. MySQL is no different, and I've personally had to track down issues in a few popular products. If you run thousands of copies of a piece of software with different workloads and hardware configurations... you're going to find bugs.

After all - how many DBs passed Jepsen on the first shot!
(timf had submitted that one too, but it slipped down)

Another write-up with names and tech details here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/14/seamicro_sm10000_ser...
A great thing is that padrino seems quite fast more than ramaze and more than rails. Obviously according to this: http://www.padrinorb.com/blog/padrino-0-9-10-released-built-...
I think the general miscommunication here is that you seem to be talking about desktop computing, while this article is focused on datacenter usage.
I wonder why it's always London-based analysts and think tanks who predict the imminent fall of the Euro. It's not like they have anything to gain from it…
Suppose there are 100k shares issued. Some traders decide
to naked short 50k. Actual holders of the shares say, "Oh
crap. Half the company is for sale - better dump my shares
while I still can." So they put up a total of 75k for
sale.

I used to believe that, and wrote to this effect in this forum previously. However, I've since been told that you can find out in Bloomberg how many shares are out short on some exchanges, even if they're naked. Hence, my previous statements suggesting that you could inflate stocks to lower prices are probably incorrect.
You vastly underestimate the effects of not being able to see.
Don't forget - most companies that are interested in reporting this way probably already have an internal team tasked with this job.

You need to market your services to high level decision makers and be adroit at negotiating the murky waters you'll be in (essentially competing with or doing the work of an existing team).
http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone

Maybe you could write an application to automate the spreadsheet work.... which might be more motivating?
I can't disagree with your thoughts; to be honest it could be you occupy a specific but useful niche (just based on language; reporting, data liberation, etc.) but it is hard to say for sure on generalities.

I actually have an anecdote about reporting in a piece of software we use. It's a highly customized database which then lets you design reports using Microsoft Report Server. Honestly, it's, really, a complete nightmare to use. But is it cost effective to get a consultant in to make it like, say, Gmail? That would be a dream (and if I had the decision you'd be at work on it tomorrow morning :)) but the truth is that your additions would mean re-auditing the whole thing, hiring other consultants to ensure it met data standards, retrain staff, etc.

Essentially what I am saying is that while the trade off of your cost vs. the man-hours saved is probably a net gain. When you get into a largish company lots of additional costs come into effect.

In addition (and this is probably a more important factor) habit breeds contempt; or, rather, if I was using this DB for the first time today I would hate it. But after 2 years it doesn't bother me any more.

If you came to us with a knowledge of the software, our requirements and a proposal of how to beat it then that would probably be considered - making a pitch like that can be hard though (because how do you know what we use and how). Something with before/after figures dressed up in the kind of language managers like.

Turning up with a "vague" (If you follow me) proposal to liberate databases is nice, but unlikely to hook anyone in the few minutes pitch window.

Again; not to put you off. But you may well need to use a different approach to "normal" consultants to get companies involved (I really wanted to give you a suggestion here but I am struggling, sorry).
This looks great. Definitely going to give this a test run this weekend.

A few questions:

* What are the advantages of having the build on Netlify's end vs. the approach used in Divshot (build locally then deploy)? (I imagine the answer is the same as why you would setup a build server for your compiled codebase - repeatable + reproducible builds, etc. Just wondering if there are other reasons I may not be aware of)

* What is the recommended workflow for setting up a beta environment and then promoting to a prod environment after testing? Would you use git branches for this?
Kagerjay's comment is responding to csytan's comment, not your post.
Why the story about Madagascar and pandas? The website and app doesn't mention it so I sounds simply made up and adds confusion.

Link to the app: http://okimdown.com/
I'm not sure about the veracity of this story, but aparently pope Innocent VIII tried boold tranfussion from young boys to kkep him young in 1492. The pope and donor died in the process, probably by incompatibility.