jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't get it. Why is it a problem taking a pg_basebackup of the new master to re-seed the old master (which is now a slave) and then promoting it to master again?

Or does pg_rewind offer a way to do this that doesn't require taking the current master offline when you promote a slave?
You can use Sublime to remotely edit files on your Raspberry Pi. Running Sublime directly on the Pi is not supported officially and it will probably be too slow anyway.
That machine wouldn't be viable if it wasn't for software. The force touch trackpad, which allows the MacBook to be thinner, desperately need the software to make the illusion work.
I thought the title was a pretty good hint as to the content of the article, assuming that you're familiar with the reference to "et tu Brute": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu,_Brute%3F
Yes, but how does he know? Surely he must see the result before it goes off to the next stage, but in the video it looks like he has no feedback of what he typed.
The point is that 5% de-duping (ie less deduping) would lead to the high number.
Probably, but it's not like they're immune to failure.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/02/google-app-engine-...
http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/google-app-engine-broken-fo...
A sign similar to this was proposed by librarians:

"The FBI has not served this library a national security letter. Please watch for removal of this sign."
Needs IE7 and IE8. It would be great to see how far we've come.
Because if you know your unix and you have the time and experience to quickly setup the stack you need there's no need for a pretty control panel. If I only need ONE VM for something I know it's trivial to setup for me and will probably very seldom require me to use a admin console, I'd always go with pgrmr. There are situations though, where going with a bigger and shinier provider might make sense, but most of the time pgrmr is mighty fine for a beginning hobby business.
> if you lend a book to someone else, you lose the ability to read it until you get it back.

Same as with a real book. I think the limits we're all used to with physical objects seem, in some cases, a bit less onerous than weird, arbitrary ones. "I bought it, I should be able to do what I want with my copy".
made my day! thanks :)
Thanks, great advice :) Right now I'm taking backups of dumps - slow, but a tiny bit easier to deal with. At some point I'm thinking about replicating to a slave somewhere, although to be honest I need to do some more reading about best practises.
If it came from being in a country with roads, education, national defense, and smart worker then is it proper for the tenth person to view all of their wealth as theirs alone with no obligation to other?

Ok - the tenth worker has an obligation to pay for this stuff. But about 60% of the government budget is just wealth transfers, and has nothing to do with the public goods you mentioned. Why does the tenth worker have an obligation to pay for that?

(I'll ignore the fact that education is a private good. I'll also ignore the many wealth transfers hidden inside the public goods you describe, e.g. inflated teacher comp packages, unnecessary military spending which funnels money to various congressional districts.).

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year2008_US.html (All #s taken from official sources. I use this link because it is t he only source I've found which combines both state and federal numbers into one chart.)
Yes and no. Ideas solidify through code, and then form a solid basis for new ideas. If you never reduce an idea to code it becomes too hard to build one idea on top of another.
> "Charles Ralph Boxer was born in 1904 to a distinguished British family of considerable means... His scholarship, both specialist and interdisciplinary, was gained by research and reading - he owned a library of institutional proportions - as well as by experience in his extensive travels.”

How many future scholars will be educated by comparable books at the free and larger-than-institutional archive.org and international variants? No longer does one need to be born into a "family of considerable means" to gain the scholarly skills that come from curiosity and access to a quality library.
My prediction for the new vocabulary: https://reactiongifsarchive.imgur.com/
TLS also takes some time to initiate a session, but that hasn't turned anyone off SPDY, since it supports concurrency from then onwards. :-)
This what generally people think of 10x. The imaginative 10x heart surgeon would do following:(any or all of it)

1. Take 10 times less time performing heart surgery.

2. Could perform successful surgery at 10 times less cost.

3. Invent new ways of doing work of 10 heart surgeons.

4. Survival rate of his/her patients would be 10 times that of other heart surgeons.

5. Could perform heart surgery so complicated that it would generally require 10 heart surgeons during the surgery.

Are you going to find such a heart surgeon ? If so, how many? would entire healthcare system be functional if all hospitals are adamant on just hiring 10x surgeon and at the same time advocating bringing more 1x heart surgeons into the market.
Traditional host anti-virus software is another good example of 'enumerating badness'. It's certainly hard to keep-up when you take this approach.
Yeah, it gives you the ability on the command line to interact with GitHub functionality, like browsing issues, opening a pull request, and so on.

I'm not familiar with their Ruby implementation either, but hey if it works the same way, is faster than it was before, and some developers enjoyed working on it then I guess it's a net positive :)
I don't think the loss of a language without a literature is much of a loss, really.

Also Navajo, though grammatically odd to speakers of Indo-European languages, contrary to the article does not seem to only have irregular verbs.
Nioce job but it's too bad there's no licence and the building code is missing.

It's also not really new, Seb35 already did a great job on this previously as free software:
- https://github.com/Seb35/CPI
- https://github.com/Seb35/Archeo-Lex
- http://blog.seb35.fr/billet/Arch%C3%A9o-Lex%2C-Pure-Histoire...

Also http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr proposes git versioning of the parliamlentary process for each bills: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/06/25/opengov-voices...
This would mean that companies couldn’t raise capital for five weeks and individuals wouldn’t be able to liquidate stocks for necessary cash. Not a great idea.
Those in the developed west who get on those soapboxes probably already fall into crunchy green subcultures anyway and are cognizant of their own carbon footprints.

And the active HN reader, whether they fall into that camp or not, are unlikely to be in the actual part of that global 10% who dictate industrial policy that have far-reaching effects on the rest of the world.
Thanks, I was not aware of this.
LISP and Smalltalk
The problem with operating at the level of the containerization abstraction is fundamentally the number of dependencies you are calling upon, and the emergent properties of all of these things interacting together (i.e. the mutually-shared state). Furthermore, you have to contend with the explosion in the dependency graph, because of the mindset that seems to be pervasive throughout: Everything should be vendored and never replicated in-house.

If you really want to get to the bottom of it, minimizing your interactions with external dependencies (i.e. binary images compiled outside of your control) is the only way to get closer to a provably-secure solution. Some might take offense with the prospect of a system that is "provably" secure, but all things are relative if you want to get really pedantic about it. I will concede that in many cases that security is not paramount, but it should always be a consideration when other humans are involved with your software. For instance, authentication protocols that a junior developer can read and understand in a few hours are going to be more secure than something that takes a team full of enterprise architecture and containerization specialists many weeks and meetings to figure out. Something that someone can play with in their head without much difficulty is going to be easier to probe for potential flaws. All of my project managers could explain in-depth the hows & whys of authentication/session protocols throughout our codebase because we went with something very simple.

I don't understand how so many seem to get buried under these mountains of tools/vendors either. Our entire list of 3rd party code-area dependencies is as follows: AWS, Windows, O365 (+Teams), SQLite, C# 9.0, VS2019, Git[Hub], .NET Core, AspNetCore (+Blazor), Apache PDFBox, Jenkins, iOS, XCode, MacOS. This is it. 100% of what we require for operating our humble software factory, including on-going delivery & support. There is no containerization and certainly no orchestration of such things. Our entire stack can be stood up on a t3a.nano without any performance problems. Developers enjoy being able to walk up to any blank windows PC and arrive at an operational development environment within 20 minutes (assuming you have to install VS2019; <60 seconds if you do not). I cannot comprehend sacrificing one ounce of this agility for even the most tantalizing of shiny new things. Yes, we had to write a lot of stuff in house. No, I would never go back and do it differently. This is better in almost every way. I have operated in environments where 100% of the things are outsourced. It is a hellish dystopia by comparison. There is probably some happy medium, but my security objectives are too intensive to explore such grey areas.
A lot of regex-based solutions are not robust against bad input.

Bad input doesn't always mean that the regexes don't match!

Regexes have a very happy home inside lexical analyzers for tokenizing languages. Lexers define what is correct input and match every case with some regex pattern. If there is no match, then the input doesn't contain a valid token: the lexer can loudly complain (logging an error that can be treated as fatal by the overall compile job), drop an input character and try matching again.

The typical regex solutions in Perl (Awk, ...) scripts go like this: "look for this flimsy, minimal regex somewhere in the stream and assume it's the right thing, then match this other regex in the same line and---woo hoo!--that's our item. Oh, false positives, schmozitives."

Basically, if we were to pin it down to a single difference in principles is that using regexes for searching for something small in something large is different from matching an entire input in its totality (and then getting at the desired parts).

Searching is the quick and dirty thing that's easy to reach for.
Is it a hyphen? Or would it be saraiiman? I actually don’t know.
The rules for the executive branch are fairly rigorous. The legislative branch, not so much. There's a huge difference in scale: the executive branch employs some 4 million folks, the legislative branch just 35K.

Just the picture of Pelosi's desktop indicates there's no automatic screenlock, which is a fairly low bar as controls go.
I hope Twitch now bans antivaxxers and antimaskers.

For example, this person, http://twitch.tv/anthonypatchofficial makes a living via Patreon donations spreading misinformation about COVID-19.

He claims vaccines are made using HIV, among other nonsense.

He has 100+ viewers in average. He could not make a living doing this if Patreon and Twitch deplatformed him.

The only reason that guy gets up in the morning is to make the pandemic worse than it already is.
Make it something embedded into GitHub/Lab that we already use today, rather than forcing us to duplicate on some other platform.

ZenHub is a great example of this.
That's what I remember as well; if you limit it to science, I've always heard Math > Physics > Chemistry > Biology.

I've never heard of a ranking that mixes science and engineering before the one you mentioned; at my school, at least, there was generally mutual admiration, with math and physics ranking above any engineering field.
Where would you say the Long Sun books fit into this? I've always been looking for the great book about generation ships, and I thought they might be it, but I just couldn't get into it. Are they worth revisiting now that I have a better idea what to expect?
I’m with you in trying to avoid shell scripts. That said, shell scripts are especially convenient for simple glue scripts. No external dependencies and shell will run basically anywhere. Long isn’t necessarily bad for pipelines but anything over 100 lines is suspect.
Why wouldn't that be the case for e.g. LogicT?

Prolog is _larger_ than LogicT. It is the additional syntax and runtime system in a custom Prolog implementation that needs to be defended, not the lack of it!
You'll get mixed answers because people don't like the same stuff.

I like the Melbourne area. I'm to the east, out on the barrier island. I have a coworker out to the west, with canal access to a lake so he can go shoot alligators from his airboat. There was a coworker who got 11 acres. He got sheep, chickens, and goats. He can shoot in his yard. Somebody got a low-rise condo right on the Atlantic Ocean beach. Somebody bought a McMansion.

The last time this came up I described the culture a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17271199

People who want to walk to work can do that, but road traffic is insignificant. The public transportation here is called SCAT. (supposedly the Space Coast Area Transit) The word "scat" fits it very well. I don't think anybody cares.
It still took great amount of computation resources (~250 V100s in 12 days or ~500 V100s in 18 days), but this can have much broader impact in everyday life much quicker. It could quickly translate to much more reasonable image labels, search rankings, video recommendations rather quickly. Very impressive work.
Well it's nice you can't handle it. But in an actual practical sense public transit makes large cities possible. It's more efficient and for people who are used to it not a stressful endeavor if it's actually managed properly.
You must love monopolies.
Complete speculation: Intel never gave him the autonomy to make any changes that mattered, resulting in a clash and a forced exit.

Intel's CEO needs to go yesterday. I can't believe he's still there.
For the downraters: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html . The parent comment isn't a troll, it's just a (slightly obscure?) joke.
Cool. One more thing: do you store the credit card number (either database or log files)?
Yeah, I'd love to be a part of some kind of development outside of the ESRI juggernaut.
NILFS is very nifty for write-oriented work, but I'm not sure if that's their workload.

But if you're logging stuff, NILFS rocks:
http://lists.luaforge.net/pipermail/kepler-project/2009-June...
Imagine what would happen if this became a thing for TV and movies. Whenever Iron Man would pull up to the Avengers head quarters, you'd get a message "This scene is sponsored by Audi AG". Every war movie would have a "Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces".

And those are just the obvious ones. It would be super funny if they'd have to do it retroactively.
So it's basically another internet forum?
They upped the limit from 400,000 cells - I think it's around 2M now, will try to find the source
These guys agree with you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941823

An by these guys I mean: Pinboard, Diigo, Historious. And there are the less known: ScrapBook and Greplin. And the traditional, and weakest of all: Delicious

Problem: bookmarks from 3 years ago are hardly relevant. I have to clean my delicous from time to time, as these links not only go stale, but even if the did, they are just so horribly outdated, that the information is just not relevant. This does not happen to all of them.

Deciding which is which is the really interesting part. Even on Google now I often find myself pruning things that are more than 2 years old. But they can just give a higher weight to its freshness score (something they showed that is very important to them on their paper on Percolator).
I wonder how big a role Ping played in all this. I still haven't figured out the point of it, but maybe Apple managed to leverage it in the sales success.
Without a doubt, I would say all advice on my college education. The first bad advice I got was that I absolutely needed to go to a small school that would give me more personal time in the classroom. This ended up stressing me greatly in school... I wouldn't find out until long after I graduated that I excel greatly in environments that require me to investigate and learn on my own with some guidance.

The other poor advice was that county college is only for loosers. My advisors and teachers impressed this on me bigtime. In retrospect, county college would have been awesome to buy me a year or so until I was able to maturely handle a challenging curriculum. I needed some time to learn how to learn and gain some confidence in my ability to learn.
Agreed. This quote stuck out to me. You either have a natural aptitude for medicine or you think the grass is greener on the other side. Maybe Dunning-Kruger effect. In any case, devote some time to the hard stuff. It will pay off.
As a father, I'd say that being "too old" for kids is probably a good thing, because it means they weren't high enough on your priority list for you to do a good job at anyway.
My parents: "Economics is where the money is; don't switch to Computer Science"

Glad I ignored that one. At universities in the UK, you choose a degree at the beginning then that's it.
Skipping questions shouldn't be that hard. I don't care for either Peet's or Starbucks, nor do I care for Ke$ha or Kate Perry.
I partially look at hybrids and electric cars as a hedge against the possibility of Peak Oil making a significant difference in oil prices at some point in the next few years.

Might happen, might not. Regardless, I get to drive a fun new toy -- I find the experience of driving a hybrid to be fun (the sound, instant torque, etc).
I think the grandparent's point is that you shouldn't force yourself to be an extravert no matter what extraverts tell you. Yeah, it's good to engage your extraverted side, but there's a big difference between that and actually becoming an extravert.
Go outside and get some fresh air.
Carl Sagan makes that comparison in his book "the demon haunted world".
Silverbacks are male Mountain Gorillas, Diane Fosey studied them for 18 years starting in 1967 and George Schaller studied them back in 1959 and he wrote 2 books about them.

The giant squid is rare but not unsubstantiated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRZuafewzI
I believe they're referring to the field of statistics as a unit instead of a collection of multiple statistics.
Become when? I don't mean to sound crass, but the US has been owned by private interests for a very long time. It has done despicable things for a very long time. There has never been some golden age of American freedom and enlightenment. To assume so is the greatest problem for America today - there is some strange belief that there used to be these "good old days" that never really happened. We have been assholes since the early 1800s and we've been the top shit dog on campus since the 1940s.

I don't really know if there's such a great difference between what we did to the Native Americans or Africans or Latin Americans. The only difference between then in now is force projection and the lack of pretense.
Interesting. He certainly takes on a different tone about the experience in this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlkV1ybBnHI
Gee, Lander was first a mathematician.

His lectures on biology at MIT are on
YouTube and
are a lot of fun. He's really
charging ahead.
True, I started using it few days. Absolutely brilliant framework for beginners.
Yes, the four color theorem was proven by Appel and Haken on an IBM 370-168 at the University of Illinois in June 1976. Coq was released in May 1989.
gitter.im is awesome! But it's more like a slack for github. I wanted a few comments on the project page to get an idea if I want to explore this project or not.

Is it going to accomplish this goal? No idea..
Startups don't make another photoshop, they make another gimp and hope to grow it into another photoshop over time, or hope to get bought out by a company that makes another photoshop and wants their talent and technology.
I'll emphasize GPs words:

> There is no such thing as an "anonymous closure". There are only anonymous functions which may or may not create a closure.

Which is exactly what you did: calling an anonymous function which happens to create a closure over variable `a`.
Jeez. Very strong reactions against that. I guess I might be the only one feeling that pain. I guess I will have to write my own bookmarklet for that.
Ok. I'll use the suggestions thread next time
Netflix seems to be very forward-looking at least with 4K already available. Still, I'd rather have a larger library of 720p content than fund a bunch of new mediocre shows. It's no surprise that everything is fragmenting into the new services proving that piracy will continue be the best option for the consumer.
The "tree" objects that git uses to track state, are they hash trees?
On the other hand, having negative integers as literals will cause even harder problems with subtraction (as in "2-2")
By telling their access points to send deauth requests to all devices that aren't on their networks.

And yup, 802.11 tells devices to deauth even when receiving unencrypted deauth requests from access points the device expects to be encrypted.
It's nothing like the granularity of the uMatrix UI.
This makes sense when dealing with intrinsic units that also follow the base10 pattern.

Bytes do not. Bytes are made up of 8 bits, and bits are powers of 2. Neither of these facts have any relation to base10.

There is inevitable shoe-horning happening on either side of the argument.

If a new metric was to be introduced to provide for those who wish for "everything to be neat and tidy, excepting for the base unit", they should be the ones using a new term, while the rest of everyone continues using the incumbent one.

Overriding the commonly-accepted and widely-used term with a secondary meaning is a sub-optimum solution.
I wanted to respond, but between listing personal accomplishments and personal attacks, there wasn't much to respond to.

Maybe just that what you consider bitter I consider quite matter of fact. This is a cultural difference; if you work with Europeans, you'll encounter it a lot more.
Have you heard of Gabor Maté?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIjvXtZRerY
It's because shells are really designed as ways to run and manage tasks (subprocesses). So anything not related to that is at best secondary, and a pain in the ass.

The opposite being true for your average general-purpose program, where managing tasks is a secondary concern and delegated to a library.
> is there a lot of pressure to use the latest version of Blender?

Post 2.8, not hugely, AFAICT (outside of the desire to use new features). Older released versions are always available even back to SGI/Irix releases that are presumably primarily of historical interest.

The Blender team has an awareness of the potential disruption that arises from being forced to upgrade in the middle of a typical multi-year film/video project, so now explicitly cater for this use case with their new Long Term Support (LTS) versions pilot:

https://www.blender.org/download/lts/

Bugs fixes will be added but no new features.
> Most of the world could greatly benefit from its functionality

*as long as the world is managing text files, which is, albeit not prohibitive, a big caveat.
It's always funny to read such generalizations. You will (almost) never find a trading desk at a bank that takes a directional position on an asset, i.e. gamble. The entire foundation of quantitative finance rests on hedging and replication. If I sell an option contract for $x then I must use that $x to build a portfolio that would compensate my potential loss on the option that I sold you.