skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”It's also just a bit of an organizational nightmare to see 200+ jobs on the main screen”

I never look at the main screen. You can create tabs that segment those 200 jobs. If your job names are consistent (as they should), you can do the segmenting by regular expression (I’m not sure whether creating tabs requires a plug-in)

As to doing (almost) the same thing for different projects: you can POST XML job definitions to the web interface, so if you have the rights to create jobs and to run code on your local system, you can script job creation. In my experience, that’s the way to keep job definitions consistent. To figure out what the XML to POST should look like, grab it from your browser by GETting job/jobname/config.xml (https://support.cloudbees.com/hc/en-us/articles/218353308-Ho...)

Yes, that duplicates lots of stuff in the Jenkins job definitions, but you shouldn’t treat that as source, but as the output of your job creation scripts.
Even worse, if the public comes to associate ML in medicine with shady dealings and lost privacy, then adoption of proven tech will be delayed or stopped. The ethical constraints around medicine exist for good reasons, and shortcuts can cost lives in innumerable ways.
We have a significant amount of HVDC already. Not sure how that helps as there is still many many days when there is 0 wind across the whole of the EU.

Not to mention as the article states the closest big nation, France, is on the verge of an energy crisis itself....
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This article brought on more sadness than I thought it would. As I have grown older and remember times like the one the author described I miss the quiet and peace of an unconnected world. It is a pity that younger generations will never know the this feeling unless it is forced. The freedom of being quiet is sadly lost to the past.
Get someone older than you to manage them.
No evidence of a full game, but "kick arounds" are mentioned as having happened.
Thanks, happy to hear it's helpful. :-)
Private industry can’t manage big capital projects like this.

The current management framework for these kinds of companies doesn’t allow corporate managers to take risks, and the culture of excessive compensation for executives leads them to price too much risk.
It is pretty horrible to interact with as a “customer”, that is, a developer whose builds run on it but who does not administer it.
How many hosts do you manage?

Will your hosts file handle 1542 TLDs?

Does your device have a configurable hosts file?
Unsurprising. Markdown was supposed to be stupid simple but ended being complicated because people can't resist the temptation to extend things.
> That's great for you that your life is so comfortable but do not assume it applies universally.

I'm an independent contractor, I just go from company to company. I just witness it, it doesn't apply to my life.

> I have worked at a job you describe where people do not do much, but I would hardly say that is the norm.

You stay very long at the same company. I don't. My job involve dev and training, and hence I go from company to company. There is a trend in what I see.
I can assure you it is not.
What a weird and needless article, it clearly had the agenda of de-romanticizing the truce events, but basically goes on to confirm that everything, you think happened, actually happened.

Obviously you can view history from different social constructs, but for me at least, this article did little but waste the time it took to read. I do realize that having studied history and being interested in this event in particular, I was probably going to know what the article contained, but I was still disappointed by it.
These can both be true:

1. The cost of living in Dallas is roughly equal to the cost of living in Berlin.

2. The cost of living like you're in Berlin in Dallas is much higher than the cost of living in Berlin.
I agree - is £92.50/mWh really that bad in context? Wind power strike prices are high also including subsidy.

But comparing the mWh cost of wind power which is spectacularly variable Vs the cost of nuclear which is incredibly reliable seems dishonest to me.

As more and more variable renewable energy comes on stream the premium value of reliable energy sources will surely increase over time.

Fair enough there is battery storage + wind, but the costs of that are something like £1000/mWh+ now - hardly comparable.
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Slightly More technical discussion: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-...

This idea isn't new. Robert Heinlein wrote about this decades ago.
Yes, as I've said elswhere.

The object "the fictional character santa" exists.

The object "the magical man who comes at christmas" does not exist.

There is no such object that satisfies the claim, "there is an object which is magic and which is a man and which comes at christmas...".
I don't think that we will be able to convince each other. If you think that everyone needing to run a validating node in a blockchain ecosystem to be decentralized, then NEO certainly won't fit your criteria. I don't subscribe to this definition of decentralization
Yes although ramming whaling ships isn’t exactly a victimless crime.
Cash at least requires a pretty large effort to securely and secretively move large amounts.
> And likely, you need a better job.

Hardly. My job consist in dev and training. I go to those companies, and I'm paid because they can't get things done. Then I go to another one, rinse and repeat.

This situation plays very much in my favor.
For that matter, even cable/satellite feeds run 8-15 seconds behind real time (easily noticed if you listen to a non-delayed radio broadcast at the same time).

Radio broadcasts may themselves be delayed for ratings tracking.
I agree with you, but I don't think the objector in the article is merely making that point.

His scepticism seems deeper. It isnt merely that he thinks that nothing satisfies that equation, he seems to in addition think, that even if something does it wouldnt count as "existing".

If the objection were merely that "x^2 == 2" isnt satisfied, then I agree, that is equivalent to saying "x does not exist" and it would be appropriate to say that.
The comments go into detail about whether or not it's valid to conclude that the results seen are an effect of the garbage collection mechanism, but the impression i'm left with is that the author is justified in saying that there isn't enough evidence to state that reference counting is superior to tracing, and the comment chain just solidifies that for me.
I’ve never watched anything live, but the combined action of adverts and interface gets me.

It doesn’t seem to remember where I left off, they stick to the weekly schedule, they ‘expire’ content and the navigation is nowhere near the Netflix standard. It is a load better than my local offering (Lightbox) which is not good. Audio sync being my current pain point.
Ruby & Rails developer since 1.8/2.2, never heard about POODR
> It is a pity that they are so expensive. I bet Amazon's monopoly has something to do with it.

They can be very expensive if you get them one at a time without buying them on sale, but it was like that long before Amazon.

I've been listening to audio books for almost 2 decades. Back before Audible or Amazon or anyone else, audio books came on dozen-packs of cassette tapes and then CDs, and you'd get them at book stores or the library. If you chose to buy them, they'd cost in the neighborhood of $50 per book for your average book. Then Audible came around and started offering a plan giving two books every month for like $15/month. Then Audible partnered with Apple and got a real promotional bump from affiliation with iTunes and soon Audible as a brand became almost synonymous with audio books. The price for that 2 book plan went up a small amount over the years, but not by much, and they grandfathered previous customers. Then Amazon bought Audible and the price didn't change. Actually, almost nothing changed at all, except that they started getting a bunch of new free content, daily deals, frequent sales, and unlimited free returns. I think the only thing they lost in the acquisition was referral bonuses.

But going back to the context of my original point, if you go hunting for a particular book on Audible today, you're likely to find that it costs $20, $30, or even $40. And you're right, it's pretty hard for most people to even consider paying that much. But I think that that's not how most customers actually get their audiobooks today. It's kinda like...have you ever gone into one of those stores where everything is always on sale? Which price is the real price?
I think that in the future there may be a distinct division between people who have control of their own attention and connectedness and those who don’t. I already see a division between some people I work with - noses buried in their phones all day, and those who tune it out and get real, deep thinking work done.
Mathematically equivalence has little to do with readability. Readability is both important and subjective. Sadly, few people investigate what their audience actually finds easy to read.
Meh. The interface for viewing logs lags my browser.
I typed "/s" and then deleted it.
You're correct, it was a very poor attempt at sarcasm.
Solar battery backed is under $100/MWh (wind even cheaper), and those costs will decline rapidly as battery manufacturing scales up.

Nuclear will never get cheaper, not to mention the rapidly increasing decommissioning costs everyone is keeping off the books. Batteries are mostly non toxic and easily recycled.
The best Jenkins advice I ever received was from here: https://medium.com/mindera/jenkins-a-la-travis-6c5a8debbb5b

On setting up Jenkins Job Builder using a 'seed job'. This setup allows you to add a .jenkins directory to you project, define a yaml based jenkins job inside that directory, push to github, and Jenkins will create the job you defined - NO web UI required.

In other words you make Jenkins behave like Travis.

Set this up with your first job being a job to backup Jenkins to S3 and things aren't as bad to manage.
If you get to that point, check out the Job DSL plugin.
I would be much more interested in your friend's view of an ideal text format.
Yeah but you are much more productive using them from a higher level language binding.

E.G: QT used from Python with PyQT.
We'll deploy a firewall, and make AI write it!
Listen to this episode of the Brian Lehrer show from WNYC for background on the problem and the people who have fought to regulate it: https://www.wnyc.org/story/peoples-guide-power-electric-bike...
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There is a big story here that is not being told, alluded to in one paragraph of the parent article. "[R]eplacing the decades-old VistA medical record system."

VistA used to be the VA's electronic health record system. It is open source. It used to be maintained by the VA IT people with a host of third-party plugins. The name of the part physicians interacted with is CPRS or VA-CPRS. It has a good track record in improving prescribing accuracy.[1] It's cheap. [1] It's tops in physician satisfaction, for several years. [2] It definitely needs maintenance, and isn't getting it any more. Third party vendors have stopped producing for it, too. A big proximate cause: they're ditching the whole system to outsource to Cerner. Cerner makes a not-very-popular electronic health record system. Cerner did make more corporate donations to Republicans than Epic, the biggest EHR provider in the US. [3] Now, Cerner was already working for the DoD and there is some effort to harmonize systems, so it made sense in some practical ways, but it was a no-bid process. Spending close to $10 billion of taxpayer money without any bidding process... ugh. The lawsuit about that has been dismissed, though.[4]

Jared Kushner was pretty proud that the VA chose "in two weeks" to go with Cerner and ditch open-source VistA. [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA
[2] https://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/public/ehr2016#p...
[3] http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/see-what-top-ehr-vendor...
[4] https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2017/10/24/judge...
[5] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information...
Works much better with 4k videos than previous stable release!
Any update on wasm support for mobile platforms ?
He specifically addresses the name too, in the article, maybe he doesn't realize the confusion:

Solution[0] = "A good name"

First, I cameup with "SML" (SunSed Markup Language) but eventually decided to go with "Sundown" (SunSed Markdown) because it's a cooler name that almost describes itself.
The Guardian is left leaning but it doesn't strongly support any party.

And as a matter of fact this plan was initially proposed by a Lib Dem MP[0] (he was also a Guardian columist after that). That reference also notes that nuclear expansion was favoured by most Labour MPs at the time.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11564152
No, but it’s predicted to have a radical climate change.
And at which point in history would you say such goodness did exist?
If a function returns 0 when it succeeds and some nonzero value as an error code when it fails, then you can write

if(myfunc(...)) { ...
Maybe I don't get it, but why would I use this? What problem is it solving that insert JS framework isn't?

I understand JS is popular to hate, for a variety of reasons, but those reasons seem mostly to boil down to nerd cred. The "hate what's popular because being contrarian means I'm cool" crowd.

So, and this is an honest question here, why should I invest the time to learn an entirely new syntax for a framework to build web applications? What can this do that vue.js or react cannot? (And I don't mean it does it differently I'm looking for it does it better or JS framework doesn't do it.)
> for my own needs and found markdown syntax to be lacking to express my HTML tags

This is a little strange tbh. The majority of markdown parsers will allow inline html elements too.

If you're trying to do a large structured document, which will need block specific styling, try Pug. (Formerly Jade.) HAML & Slim also solve similar problems and have the benefit of a pretty significant userbase. (All support embedded Markdown)

Sundown is looking very much like a naive and poorly thought out also ran.
Whereas government policy papers could massage figures and make optimistic projections, the prospectus, which provided financial information for potential investors, could not bend the truth. “A government paper was one thing,” said the former civil servant, “but if the figures were misleading in the prospectus, it was a criminal offence. That was not at all like a government paper, to be honest. It was quite a moment for us all.”

:-D :-D :-D
sure, you don't want it blocking an event loop like the live preview in-browser while you're typing. or a node process.
>Can we afford free music and still pay creators fairly?

No. What's going to make you different from literally every other company that has tried this and failed in the past 20+ years?
A backup battery for the 10-day wind lull from Dec 5th to Dec 15th in the Pacific Northwest would cost $90B and be a football field 100 stories high. Then it'd have to be replaced every 20 years. The footprint of something like that from a land, mining, and carbon standpoint is not trivial.
Quiet and loneliness are synonymous. We've lost nothing.
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Legitimate question: How many electric cars would it be sitting on streets and in garages?

https://i.imgur.com/oLBNeW4.jpg
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The problem with battery backed is getting longer storage; The UK government has just reduced the subsidy for storage technologies that can't keep it going for a few hours; See https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/Lists/Latest%20News/Attachme... for the full assesment of how they came up with that.
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Anthropologists David Graeber, has addressed this and offered the explanation with the observation that we as a society produce what he calls bullshit jobs. Almost 40% of Brits in a surveyed acknowledged that their job wasn't needed.

People believing in effective markets would of course protest and claim such enormous inefficiency can't possibly exist. Somebody will simply start a company without bullshit jobs.

However I think there is a good explanation why this doesn't happen: https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/why-do-bullshit-jobs-exist-4f5...

In short, in any complex organization bullshit work will start accruing and there is no good mechanism to week out such jobs, because the people doing those jobs will have zero incentive to tell their managers that their job in pointless and not needed.

I've tried researching this on reddit and seen that a lot of work people do could have been automated. The people doing those jobs also frequently see this. However they have no economic incentive to do so.

This has lead me to contemplate that guaranteed minimum income has merits, because it would remove the disincentive to make yourself redundant, to some extent. Of course not in the case where your bullshit jobs is very highly paid, which is frequently the case.
>Imagine if Windows didn't allow Chrome to be installed, everyone would be up in arms.

No pun intended, but this isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison—you can’t compare a desktop operating system to one that runs on phones and tablets.

I’m a web developer—I have the release, beta and canary (nightly) of Chrome and Firefox in addition to Safari and Safari Tech Preview on my iMac, which is no big deal on macOS or any other desktop operating system.

It’s very different on phones and tablets, which are closer to embedded operating systems.

This also enables Apple and others to lockdown security in ways which would be unacceptable for a desktop operating system. Given the unrelenting hacking from the kid down the street to nation states—China, N. Korea, Russia, Iran—more security isn’t a bad thing.

Apple isn’t getting a pass—at least not from normals.

It’s the supposedly aggrieved and paranoid libertarian techies’ narrative that Apple is getting away with something and their rights are being impinged upon.
It's very well structured, easy to understand, batteries included, lends itself well to maintainability and scale.

When working for a company with staff below me who had very basic understanding of JS (having just done HTML/CSS/JQuery, had no idea what a promise was), there was almost no learning curve with Angular. The hardest part was understanding what a component was, then learning the folder structure.

Angular's seamless use of templating, the built in support for CSS pre-processing and simplicity of uni-directional databinding had the entire team pick it up and be productive almost immediately.

Using decorators to declare inputs/outputs on dumb components is clear, readable and easy to understand.

Class based components are also very clear.

Some say TS is annoying and all power to you, but using types is optional. Personally, TS has allowed me to save on some test cases by virtue of the compiler catching those issues. Plus there is a comfort in quality intellisense.

Vue is cool, it's like a less opinionated Angular. In my opinion, it's strength is its ability to be dropped into any project, giving you client side components and databinding irrespective of your stack. However I have experienced growing pains in larger projects as a result of people over complicating simple solutions.

I am still relatively inexperienced though, and I intend to spend more time with Vue to see if I can't like it more. I'm sure all of my concerns are addressable. So far though, Angular has treated me very kindly, both in large and small scale projects.
7.6% isn't considered dead?
It is still an issue. In places like Canada they have equalization payments that boost the poor regions from the richer regions.
That’s basically what SideCar was, as drivers could set their own rates, and passengers could choose from a number of offers based on total price, quality, driver rating, and time until pickup.

SideCar closed in late 2014 though :-/ (And there was a recurring cut paid to SC.)
False. Per the issue comments, there was a breaking change in 0.11, aside from the teapot change.
Paywall can be bypassed by opening link in an incognito window, FYI.
>What can this do that vue.js or react cannot?

It allows you to write your web app in Rust.

>And I don't mean it does it differently I'm looking for it does it better or JS framework doesn't do it.

"Better" depends on the use case, so merely by being different something might better fit another use case.
You might find this essay by Bob Black of interest on "The Aboltiion of Work": https://web.archive.org/web/20161031034600/http://whywork.or...
"... It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this is the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes except that they happen to yield useful end-products. Surely that wouldn't make them less enticing to do. Then all the artificial barriers of power and property could come down. Creation could become recreation. And we could all stop being afraid of each other.
I don't suggest that most work is salvageable in this way. But then most work isn't worth trying to save. Only a small and diminishing fraction of work serves any useful purpose independent of the defense and reproduction of the work-system and its political and legal appendages. Twenty years ago, Paul and Percival Goodman estimated that just five percent of the work then being done -- presumably the figure, if accurate, is lower now -- would satisfy our minimal needs for food, clothing and shelter. Theirs was only an educated guess but the main point is quite clear: directly or indirectly, most work serves the unproductive purposes of commerce or social control. Right off the bat we can liberate tens of millions of salesmen, soldiers, managers, cops, stockbrokers, clergymen, bankers, lawyers, teachers, landlords, security guards, ad-men and everyone who works for them. There is a snowball effect since every time you idle some bigshot you liberate his flunkies and underlings also. Thus the economy implodes. ..."

We might ask ourselves what "leading economic indicators" might look like when this was happening...
Does Nuklear fit your definition of sane UI library?

https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear

https://github.com/snuk182/nuklear-rust
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A link between polygamy and war
Author here.

You are right about the name confusion! It has been several years since the last commit to the /vmg/sundown and even if it was active it's not a very common Markdown implementation (although it's one of the best).