jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've read a lot on how other orgs have grown and gone through DevOps transformations, and all of this is echoed in those stories, but it also leaves out other strategies. Would like to see more of a matrix of what strategies are useful in what context and aren't in others.

In SRE/Ops, it seems to work better with two single-disciplinary teams (Builders and Runners) in one department. One team builds systems, another team runs systems. This is because experience leads to efficiency. Scaling a single-disciplinary team (in this context) you get efficiency combined with ability to respond to organizational change. Think of a cabinetmaker versus a chair maker. Or in comparing SW Developer / SRE-Builder / SRE-Runner, an auto engineer, an auto mechanic, and a racecar driver. They are each efficient at a particular thing because of their experience.

But for building and running a product as a whole, you want a multi-disciplinary team to manage the wide range of experience needed to build and run that product. You still rely on outside single-disciplinary teams for things that can be done more efficiently that way. But you can change the product faster/better if a core group has a lot of general knowledge about it.

The trick is to create feedback loops where these different teams feed information and work streams back into each other constantly. You do this to fight silo-ism, and to reduce friction in the value chain.

I think "reporting" is highly overrated. The principle of a self-organizing team is that they will figure out what they need to do. If you start dissolving the "lines" between teams, the organization as a whole will start figuring out what it needs to do. If you think about ecology, this is how natural systems work: there are always boundaries in different parts of an organism, but many of its parts self-determine their actions. Coordination becomes a ballet, not a machine.

And what's often overlooked is how the larger organization affects the value chain. The higher levels of the organization often set the tone for how work gets done for everyone. But different parts of the org may benefit from radically different working models. Are there proven ways to run different parts of the business in drastically different ways, yet still provide clear workflows for them to operate together efficiently?
The administrative region with the nation's capital in it gets preferential treatment, pretty much universally across countries and times. DC sort of gets the opposite treatment, though, which is good from that perspective but sort of sucks for the people living there, since they have limited autonomy. So I'd posit that DC, the territory, should have no residents besides the President himself; the only way I get that without forcing seven hundred thousand people to move is to change ownership of the land to some state that wants it.
There's a (not widely publicized) feature of Linux that enables secure key storage inside the kernel: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/keys.txt Storing keys in the kernel has some advantages -- your key will never get inadvertently swapped to disk etc.

It's been too long since I used it to remember the details, but I believe process-private keys are one of this API's features.
Perhaps you could elaborate a bit why you are interesting in learning Haskell?

I'm a Haskell newb as well (write apps in Java for daily living). I'm quite interested in theoritical CS, and that's what keep me pursuing Haskell.

If you ask me what specific benefits I get, then my answer is none. At least at the moment.
Or for those of us who actually like learning, we'll keep on studying Latin and physics and anything else we feel like.
Interestingly, I think any magic number that can somehow end up in the hand of developers (or maybe users whom developers then need to support) should always come with a human-readable explanation, or if it's impossible, then that means that should have been a stacktrace somewhere much deeper in the stack. (Because at first it's easy to just look up what those numbers mean, but when 5+ years down the timeline someone has to support something that only barfs up those numbers ... well, I'm sure a lot of sons and moms would be spared.)
When a society does not have any problems, it creates some new ones.
On a smaller note, adding lossless compression to the image assets in the Uber app can save more than 14% of 2.4MB

If your app has larger images, don't waste user bandwidth and optimize your assets!
There's a workaround if you're open to using CSS animations. [1]

1: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9334132
My understanding is Griddy needs to pay within a small number of days of Griddy customers receiving the power.

But it looks like Griddy had set up customer billing on a prepaid system. You had to deposit $49 to start, and they'd debit your usage as you went. If your balance was low, they'd charge your credit card on file. I would bet at least some customers' hit their credit card limits and their Griddy accounts have a negative balance.

Even for those customers they successfully charged, they may not be able to access that money right away. Some of their customers are likely to dispute the charges, and others will take a long time to settle their negative balances. Griddy would need to have a lot of reserves to pay their current bills while waiting for their customers to pay, and they clearly don't have them; also, it seems like they were unable to get extra capital at the drop of a hat, like Robinhood was when they needed it recently.
Life is like a giant porn site. Not every category is for you, but yes, shit gets weird. Don’t overthink it I guess.
As hinted in the OP, people buy Supreme products because they (the buyer) view the product as being ‘street’ (not Big Corp) and, therefore, ‘cool’. When, in fact, the opposite is true - Supreme is the epitome of Big Corps bilking kiddies and dummies for $100 Fruit of the Loom t-shirts with shoddy graphics.
What the others said (reddit would enforced by banning) plus wallstreetbets are a group of people cooperating to make money. Our volunteer is helping the group make money and so helping himself/herself/etc-self.

IE, the "look how much reddit is exploiting these people" implication is unwarranted.
Not extreme at all. You seem very out of touch with the reality of the enthusiast markets for such things.
People line up for days for stuff like this. If all you had to do was provide ID online and wait 3 days at home... no problem at all.
Eh, it's sort of like your brand being anti-establishment, but you're owned by the establishment.
People aren't going to put up with this anymore , I suspect once most get a vaccine they'll be out enjoying bars / clubs / etc.
I remember another young person named "TIME person of the year" in 1938, Adolf Hitler.
> When I think about this hypothetical person getting, say, programming lessons with my tax dollars, that only makes me angry.

Option A) Person is put into the current prison system. Continues to offer no good to the world, potentially gets out and continues his violent crimes.

Option B) Rehabilitation. Show compassion and understanding, maybe make the guy a skilled tradesman. Now he's much less likely to kill again, because he has options aside from crime.

I choose B.
This is disgusting, not because it is porn, but because someone felt the need to take a cutting edge piece of consumer technology and put the time and brain cycles into developing something like this.

Are people really that desperate, are their elements of society that actually have a need for this. The beginning of the end no doubt if this is the future of entertainment and sexual gratification.
There's not enough here to draw your own conclusions about the phone -- it is simply a personal reaction and reads as such. Better reviews are more detailed, and balance the pros and cons to make a recommendation one way or the other.
Fantasy Football, that's about it.
It is good that he is talking about people, their motivations, their rights, their responsibilities, than about technology. (e.g. "Technology X is going to save us")
I apologize, I didn't mean to offend you, I was just making a joke. You're actually making a great point I think.
Oddly enough, this page doesn’t appear to scale properly on Safari on iPadOS. It’s too wide, requiring horizontal scrolling. Requesting the desktop version works. I haven’t tried any debugging, so don’t know why.
Do you have any insight into his method for procuring offers, or his portfolio that impressive?
Yes, but now only one place to get rekt - the source which (presumably) has tighter ACL than the package manager?

The old way had risk at two steps and now it's reduced 50%
I think if you a machinist/mechanical eng you possess this trait, you have almost all the tools to make other machines that make new machines, but this is is kind of limited to this one discipline, whereas software we can almost build anything. In a previous profession I learnt this great lesson where we would occasionally build specific tools for specific jobs if we didn't have the correct machines to save sending parts out to be machined or even for doing backyard jobs.
Really insightful article on making your office suitable for remote work.
It’s one thing if they deny the accusations, but if they agree with them...
> The image in my head (from movies and books and reading [about] Piketty) is that the wealthy in earlier eras were more idle, living off rents rather than incomes.

Indeed, this is exactly what it meant to be a gentleman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman) in 15th-19th century English/American society -- you owned enough land to be able to live off rents, rather than having to dirty your hands working for a living. Gentlemen were part of the broader upper class called the gentry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry), which also included titled aristocrats (barons, dukes, earls, etc.). Since making money and buying land were generally easier than convincing the King to give you a title, becoming a gentleman was a popular way for ambitious commoners to move up the social ladder. (The flip side of that ease, of course, being that it was easy to stop being a gentleman, too -- just lose your money and boom, your family is common again -- whereas a titled peer would always be a titled peer, even if he was penniless.)

> I imagine servants would have been more of a status symbol for them, whereas today's upper-middle-class strivers see them as more of a necessity "to dedicate more time to working."

Partly it was a status symbol for them, but status symbols were a bigger deal to them than they are to us because their societies were more rigidly hierarchical than ours are. So having ways to display your status was part of how you held on to that status -- gentlemen had servants, because if you couldn't afford servants that told everyone you really weren't a gentleman. It was self-reinforcing.
What is the line between "enabling" and "not stopping"?

When the ACLU spends money defending the KKK's first amendment rights in court, are they enabling the KKK, or merely not stopping them?
Is there a centralized source of other companies who decided to release their video? Thanks for releasing yours by the way :)
> I would guess someone is making bucks from advertising Hover and Gandi...

That'd be nice :)

Feel free to suggest more registrars to add, right now it's limited to 7 major registrars that have transparent/up-front pricing.
Although they can easily replace it entirely. See the Mars Rover demo in the article, I believe it said that the entire image was replaced with Mars, and it was realistic enough that his legs weren't believing what they were stepping on.
This looks just like Magic Leap.
That might also be related to how they're now encrypting messages on the handset after partnering up with Open Whisper. https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/

Edit: this is also pure speculation.
> Does it come with package management yet?

Not really

> Can I easily avoid DLL hell these days?

Yes, it just stores every version on the drive, seems to work

> Can I add my own local repository and use it to maintain a fleet of workstations, making sure they always have the same configuration no matter what?

For free? not easily.

> Is it easily possible to connect to a Windows machine and administer it from a command line/scripting environment?

Powershell does a lot more on this front

> Can I disable the GUI and use Windows without tying up resources for unneeded functionality - i.e. no graphics card required?

Considering Windows Server Core still has a GUI? no.

> does it ship with development tools already set up and configured?

No
https://sci-hub.do

https://sci-hub.st

https://sci-hub.se

are the only working domains that have been linked from the official Twitter, VK, or FB accounts.

All other URLs should be considered unofficial or scams.
> We have some wonderful, historic civic architecture, and some fantastic commercial buildings (in a few places, both at once), but apart from a few genuinely unique/historical neighborhoods most of the city would be better torn down and rebuilt with a minimum of 6 floors, which might allow sensible use of the space at ground level.

I'm curious: why isn't it? On the face of it, this sounds like a great opportunity for some investors to make a lot of money. Buy some land in SF, rebuild with taller, better-constructed buildings, and then collect the increased rent money. Is there some Kafka-style government bureaucracy prohibiting this, or weird tax disincentives?
Perhaps I have not paid much attention, but I wasn't aware this community was so fond of companies tracking their internet usage.
Check out DevStructure blueprints (http://devstructure.com).
Sounds like a cargo cult. Make the 'right' motions, and if the gods smile upon you, your tribe will prosper -- or your app will be approved.
That tone is asking for some passionate replies ;-)

This isn't about PostgreSQL at all. There's things where relational databases are a good fit, and things that are a bad fit. As such, this isn't about what PostgreSQL does poorly, but about the cases where a key-value store with some pretty good data structures comes in handy. Would you really store temporary data in your relational database? Would you use it as a caching mechanism? Perhaps as a queue? Not unless you're crazy. So I guess this isn't about what PostgreSQL performs poorly, but about where Redis is a better solution.
Stop calling it powerpoint!
Hmm. Not sure if I was interpreted as saying something different (considering you have 3x the upvotes) but I agree.

If I wasn't clear, I was saying: if you're fully booked and charging 4x what you were once told is too much, are you considering increasing your rate? In general, I would say you should but I was interesting in hearing this person's thoughts.
The problem goes much deeper. Everything we consider culture--architecture, holidays, leisure activities, beauty standards, music, movies, career norms--have evolved over the last fifty years to exploit us most efficiently for cash.

Our culture no longer cares about us. It exists only to fuel "economic growth".

I'm sorry if this seems reactionary or trollish. It is my true belief.
If they were IT majors they'd probably be able to browse porn without getting their computers infected, or at least fix their computers if they did get infected. Different people have different areas of expertise. An IT major couldn't write a 2500 word critique on Kant if their life depended on it.
I'd love to learn the trick to getting a 100% visitor conversion rate.
> Starting in 2015, the Air Force began embedding what it called human performance teams in some squadrons, staffed with chaplains, psychologists and operational physiologists offering a sympathetic ear, coping strategies and healthy practices to optimize performance.

“It’s a holistic team approach: mind, body and spirit,” said Capt. James Taylor, a chaplain at Creech. “I try to address the soul fatigue, the existential questions many people have to wrestle with in this work.”

Just amazing to read this, I mean after hearing all about the innocent lives taken, and then to be presented with their attempts to optimize the teams involved with it.
Now that NSA surveillance is widely known, it is unavoidably up for sale. What enterprise wouldn't position itself as a strategic national asset in order to benefit from surveillance data, no matter how much it must pay in political contributions. Evidently the entertainment industry has already succeeded at it.

I was a bit shocked to read in the Wikileaks diplomatic wires how much effort is spent on bullying US allies about petty intellectual property issues. I'm more shocked the NSA gets dragged into such trivialities, but not surprised.

Are there any boundaries of propriety that have not been breached?
These days an active GitHub profile gives a developer a distinct advantage. It helps them form relationships with other debs who can teach them so much, even by just reading their code and commit comments. I watch multiple projects just so I can read about the changes they made, what their thinking was and the changes to the code.

Even if you cannot post code does not men you cannot watch and clone projects so you can learn and stay aware of trends in the community. It keeps you sharp. And it better than any industry magazine out there.
Neither. 1/e would require that they all be independent random events which is not true in the general case (and mathematically 1/e would only be an approximation anyway). 1 would require that they be entirely dependent, which is also not true in the general case.
Small local nonprofits can probably even file the 990-N, an "e-postcard"

Surprisingly the IRS really does not make life difficult for non-profits.
Definitely, yes. In section 2 of this paper, I tried to explain how our language is related to what are typically called "synchronous dataflow" languages, or just SDF languages: http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/pact2012.pdf

Slide 11 of this talk makes the same point, but with less words: http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/debs2013_tutorial_slides.pdf
Before I agreed to work at Microsoft I asked the HR people about it. They felt this was a great system because a company with ~100K employees was bound to fit a bell curve regardless of its ability to hire and retain "the best". They told me the five buckets only had to meet their expected quotas at the level of Steve Ballmer, so it absolutely was not a zero-sum game as some had alleged.

I haven't seen a full year cycle applied to myself, but the one period I did participate in didn't quite work that way in practice. In reality, the zero-sum gets enforced much lower in the company than Ballmer himself. Exactly where probably depends a lot on what division and team it is.

Neither have I seen evidence of the claimed worst effects of this type of system. Instead I saw great people take a hit for the team, rather than retaining underperformers for this purpose. Who knows, maybe in some ways this is just as bad.

Every big organization needs some kind of system and there are certainly worse ones. This system is effective in allowing the company to promote some people, keep some where they are, and move some out.

But it would be nice if the current shuffling at the top became an opportunity to bring in something better.
This is exactly why I left Microsoft after 8 years. I worked really hard, had a great year and was expecting a great review. When I got my A-70 I told my manager I would be leaving. They offered me stock, a raise and even gave me a promotion, but I was done. I knew that I'd never be happy working under the Microsoft review system.

I saw many great developers over the years leave for the same reason. This system is poisonous. There is no way to tailor the rewards of the team to the actual performance of the team.
You may wish to edit your group A and B descriptions unless you meant you were dead-wood!

This sounds terrible either way, but why did one group end up significantly worse?
Any chance to see it run on different ARM boards other than the RPi?
I ask because the RPi audio output is notoriously bad, to the point it requires an external DAC for any decent audio use, while there are many other cheap ARM boards out there with perfectly good internal DACs, and sometimes also very good ADCs.
I do too.

Romero spoke about this a while back. Several members of the team at ID, Romero included, got started on the Apple ][ computers. Those machines were completely open, software driven everything! I keep one as a reminder of my own roots, and the machine is still fun! (Romero keeps his too, as do many from that time period, but I digress...)

The author behind Beagle Brothers software and educational materials was a huge impact on many of us, and ID. They released their code so that others may create and so that their games live on for the people who enjoy playing them. Open matters, and that's why one can play doom on almost everything these days, as one example.

It's a great model.

What I've enjoyed is seeing the ID team watch what others do, and share in all the fun from a secure position having been well paid, no worries beyond that.

And frankly, they can STILL sell those creative assets. People would still buy them.
Can’t you just strike that from the contract, initial it, sign the contract and return it? If they refuse the/any edit, can’t you say they negotiate in bad faith and void the entire contract?
Stallman probably thinks the state of the art is "GNU-Penguin-On-A-Sled".
> So I have to bow to the superior collective opinion on HN

You shouldn't do that. There's a lot of misinformation regarding V on this site.

Always best to try things yourself, with V it's very fast and simple.
Scrolling in WebKit is native, scrolling in Emacs isn't.
speaking of head scratching results...

Past couple of years I have wondered how 'chat iw dot us' has been a top result for 'sex chat' search, and they run google ads this whole time.

that one and 'the porn dude' in those results, which doesn't have a chat system - they way the algo is working in those. Of course I am a bit biased, it's sad to me that little content wins in that vertical - lots of content is penalized for something.
Mine did, yes.

Grew up in rural Midwest US in the 80s. We walked in lines on a schedule for bio breaks.

We had to “shut a door respectfully” basically library rules for the sake of others.

Our school had 25-30 kids per class. How else does one manage that? If you really needed to go you could and this article does not say that’s explicitly disallowed.

I think you’re losing the forest for a tree here. The problem is the whole kidnapping & cultural cleansing.
The number of teenagers having jobs has plummeted over time as minimum wage has increased. Teenagers don't often have the skills / work ethic / experience needed to provide more value than they cost and so the job is eliminated. We are removing the bottom rung of the ladder. This is not a contrived example.
They got rid of Ballmer.
it's also shown in James Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed", episode 5 from what I can gather.
There's a nice writeup describing the simplicity of Haskell syntax. [0]

Haskell has 21 reserved keywords that cannot be used
as names for values or types. This is a relatively low
number (Erlang has 28, OCaml has 48, Java has 50, C++
has 63.

In particular, some of the operators you mention represent such fundamental and common tasks that it makes sense to have a shortened form. I'm in agreement that descriptive names are preferable in general, but not always. Haskell syntax is quite simple and predictable (I say that as a former Rubyist); it only appears strange in the beginning because there are so many new concepts to learn.

[0] https://github.com/kqr/gists/blob/master/articles/simple-syn...
Just to add a small detail: vcpkg also has Visual Studio integration, not only CMake.

And regarding repositories, since February 2021 vcpkg has an experimental support for them. You can read the spec here: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/specific....
Haven't seen a non-TeX paper that looked that good (on arXiv) for a while.