skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pike seems especially aggressive when interacting with people he disagrees with and this was for me indicative of the culture. It's been a few years though, so maybe by now I'm wrong!

FWIW, as much as I agree with Rob Pike on most things, I totally agree that he's abrasive and his way of phrasing things is often unhelpful (even though I think people also tend to read contempt into his brevity that isn't there). If it helps, I think he has realized that in the meantime and is largely staying out of public discussions for that reason.
Thank you for this comment and the analysis. This really resonates with me. I think a lot of people look at capitalism as “two people agree to an exchange”, but it goes so much farther than that. Brands matter, which I think is always true, but the importance of branding has become so inflated that we have decided to needlessly manufacture and discard plastic containers en masse just to keep that branding going. And why? My shampoo bottle says “strong hair for a strong woman” or something. What the fuck? Marketers have to manufacture fantasies that have nothing to do with their products and we all live with that like its normal.

Brands do matter. A company that cares about its workers needs some way to be recognized so that consumers can support them, etc. but somehow we’ve taken branding to such an extreme that we will throw away mountains of single use plastic just to keep that train rolling.

We’ve got to find a better way.
Remember when the Pulitzer-winning Washington Post series "Jimmy's World" turned out to be a fabrication?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cooke
I have manufactured a marker holder from an MDF block and a router. One hole per marker. This was a great success with 3 years old I gave it.
Give them something they can create with them. Even the box of the present can be used to create.

latest technology
https://www.tech4ubox.com/
It's impossible to create matter out of nothing. Dieting works and will always work. Not saying it's easy, but waving off obesity as incurable is crazy.
Opinion about Elon Musk seems to be polarized in places like HN. Haven't heard of normal people caring substantively about him, certainly not in a way describable as "hating his guts".
The Lazareth Flying Bike Packs Four Jets of Downforce
regular LibreMesh provides luci web admin interface.

The LibreRouter version of LibreMesh uses a simple UI[1] that has been tested in existing community networks managed by non-tech people.

The LiMe App provides a simple view of the node, neighbors and mesh status, it helps with antenna alignment, mapping and general diagnosis. This system will be coupled with the remote support platform currently in development under the LibreRouter Phase 2 project funded by Internet Society.

[1] https://github.com/libremesh/lime-app
I digress. With the exception of biological disease there has never been a problem that more money couldn't solve. Whoever believes otherwise simply doesn't have enough money (or doesn't want to spend enough money) to accomplish what they're trying to do. Especially with computers.

Take a car wreck
Depending which side you want to believe, NHS waiting times are a direct result of Conservative government austerity, or excessive immigration.
What a Tangled Web Citation Network Underscores Editorial Conflicts of Interest
bullshit. It's shared everything. if you have a 3 nodes cluster for redundancy, the 3 nodes keep the exact same data with only one node accepting reads and writes. It's literally the opposite of linear scalability.
Does the AI get the music award now? The art is then the AI algorithms and not the human. I wouldn't value an "artist" who "created" their "art" this way. It's not really them.
Most people don't/can't pay their hospital bills.
So as you're 21 your advice on not listening 21 year olds is terrible. But then I'm 21 too, so this is recursively bad
"Deputies said that they found 18 other Amazon packages inside his vehicle. They delivered the rest of the packages."

That was really awesome of them to do, especially around Christmas!
on the github releases page, 1.0 mentions licensing changes of some sort. it also has pre-1.0 stuff as well.
Canada did. It's not that far-fetched.
There is a reason flavored cigarettes are illegal. Should the children be fucked over instead?
for all the gory technical details, the datasheet is available here: http://korgnutube.com/pdf/Nutube_DatasheetV1E.pdf

interesting that they break the typical vacuum tube naming convention--the first number usually refers to the filament voltage. as a 6P1, i'd expect it to have a 6.3V filament, but it actually has a 0.7V filament!
McDonalds sells KCUPs that are compostable. Meaning you just put it in with your compost.

They also happen to be some of the best coffee you can get in a KCUP. It's my daily cup of joe.

Anyway if your city does not have compost you have bigger problems than KCUPs. If you do have compost, just get KCUPS that are biodegradable. It's way better than a system where KCUPs have to be recycled in a special way (like Nespresso does).
Just use a Moka pot or Aeropress, surely?
Considering how many people have had their lives ruined by absurd hospital bills I'm honestly surprised nobody's shot one up yet.
It's a great product indeed.

Although I like to point out, that when drinking Espresso out of home I'm with what the layman's bible of modern haute cuisine (modernist cuisine) promotes: that it's exactly the variance of Espressos "out in the wild" that can give you superb once in a lifetime taste experiences.
It's not that I don't care about friends, it is that FB has no greater value than just talking/texting to people. FB just tries to pretend they bring value to things we already had and still do, before it existed.
That, and an attacker could do a replay attack, and potentially send you to an earlier (vulnerable) version.
> As long as the FROM field in your Dockerfile points to `$distro:latest` from Cloud Marketplace

I read this perhaps the wrong way, in which case I apologize on that front.
OK the link works. The NASA scientist is Hal Weaver https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/launch/weaver...

This in addition to Alan Stern's criticism of the IAU classification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#IAU_classification
Move to Europe or mostly any place outside the US and be able to forget about this idiocy.
I prefer something like Yahoo blog 360 with some messaging features, not current facebook. The main problem is that, the stupid feed is very annoying.
Wait, what? You were approached by a CBP officer while taking a domestic flight? Which airport?
Aye even so. They're definitely heavier to store, and their indexes can get quite big, though, so disk space / IOPS can be more of an issue. But still 2.3M is a drop in the ocean. (I don't know about HSTORE though…)

At my previous startup I was ingesting Hearthstone games at a rate of 1-2M / day. Before being handed off to permanent storage (s3, redshift etc) a bunch of data would get stored in a JSONB, with 14-day retention. This all ran on a 200GB t2.large instance on RDS, was our smallest instance and never really caused an issue.
Yep, that's in the vicinity of the solutions we're thinking about. There are a few proposals out there, and prior art like SDCH [1].

The hard part is that compression is already an attack vector for the web (e.g., CRIME [2], BREACH [3], et al.). We want to make sure that we're not eroding or unduly complicating that situation [4].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lee-sdch-spec-00
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREACH
[4] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kucherawy-httpbis-dict-sec...
It would indeed take forever, but the idea is exciting both because it would mean rethinking parts of physics and the thrilling possibilities of experimenting on a small black hole and the numerous interesting ways that could go wrong.
I sense the plot for a tech drama, when he gets too attached but the project is axed...
> genuinely better than stitching together fragments of SQL in the form of text strings. Injection attacks and inserting commas (but not trailing commas) come to mind as obvious difficulties.

You're using the Pymongo library as an example. Someone can just as easily use SQLAlchemy and not have to worry about those things.
I imagine this is a nice benefit of working at an organization that is primarily about writing.
I suspect it'd depend entirely on whether facebook costs everybody $1000/year, or just them.

If facebook costed everybody $1000/year, I would definitely stop using it, because the network would be immediately broken since everybody would know everybody with any sense would stop using it.

If facebook only costed only me $1000/year, I would know the network was still intact, and I would consider it.
Ha, that just came up: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/1087
A coder paradise in the mountains of Panama
Reminded me of the Israelites asking for a king:

Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.
He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”

(1 Samuel 8)
> In terms of out of the box stability and support? Yes, absolutely.

Support, maybe, if you equate support to "You bought a corporate license so you're entitled to talk to a human being with something more than a script and a mandate to act as a meat-shield."

Stability? That's a term with two different definitions: Doesn't crash, and stays the same over time, with no "breaking changes" even to the UI. Windows... kinda got better at the first, over time, and actively isn't interested in the second, given how much change its UIs have gone through. Remember how Windows 95 worked and acted? Want to replicate that on Windows 10? Remember COMMAND.COM? Is PowerShell a drop-in replacement? I'm not saying COMMAND.COM is better, I'm just saying your old batch files won't run if you only have PowerShell, innit? Ditto COM versus .Net versus... whatever they'll have in five years.

Meanwhile, I've been running WindowMaker on Linux with zsh for over a decade now.
> ironically, the Go team has named their own/list forum "golang-nuts" despite that "not being the name of the language"

FWIW, go-nuts was already taken.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2015AprJun/...

That’s the final answer for HTTP2. They note as well that, were they to have proceeded, that the SRV record type would be inappropriate regardless and some new type would be needed.

Therefore, proposing “SRV” to the HTTP working group for HTTP3 will not succeed. Proposing a new DNS record type might succeed, but it would no longer be called SRV.

Based on their reply, I warn you to set your expectations low: proposing a new DNS record type to address their stated concerns would likely take enough time itself that it cannot ship a final RFC in time to be considered for HTTP/3.
Back in the 1990's I worked for a company that I think was the few independent SPARC integrators in the southern hemisphere. We resold these units called Sparcplugs created by Ross Technologies in Austin, Texas:

https://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4148519/ROSS-Technology...

Kind of cool idea, you could plug a HyperSPARC motherboard into a 5.25" floppy bay of a PC. Never really took off though.

We also did custom UltraSPARC 1/2 machines in custom enclosures for the HK MTR system which were used for monitoring air quality in the underground. We'd tested them
for reliability by pushing the cabinets off a six foot drop in the loading bay of the warehouse to test whether they'd keep running in earthquake conditions. Fun times.

Sparc might have had its warts and has obviously lost marketshare to the point where it's no longer really viable for the most part. But all through the 1990's Sun hardware was everywhere, and it was nice to have a relatively inexpensive alternative to Linux which was already making huge inroads especially into the lower end, eg. ISP's etc.
Doing Products instead of Projects
Not sure he's qualified
YAML was designed as a superset of JSON with meaningful whitespace as part of the design, and optional string quotes. It's actually a REALLY good option for something like this.

That said, the statement itself came off really snarky.
Challenge to vape users, go 3 days without and evaluate the effects on your mood. Nicotine withdrawal is the part about giving up smoking that suuuucks!

Do you want to be dependent upon this particular chemical? Do you want to permanently change your brain? (I highly recommend against)
Well... you can also use a modern ORM. I think "stitching ... text strings" is definitively not the way to go when interfacing a SQL database. My go-to ORM is Sequel[1]. I think their API is one of the best I've seen: you can choose to use models, but you can also work directly with "datasets" (tables or views, or queries) and compose them as you like. It's really powerful and simple.

[1]: http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/
That's called an emergent property.
Because this way he can hold it over his wife forever.
> ... claiming he did it because Amazon has an incentive program that pays drivers $5 for each undelivered package they return.

and then

> "This behavior is unacceptable and does not reflect the high standards we have for delivery partners," Amazon

so you build a delivery system with incentives to not deliver packages, then fire those with the temerity to game the system.
Mailchimp is garbage. They are bad people working there. I wouldn't use it to send e-mails to my dead cat.
Later, insurance companies hired brigades to only put out fires on insured properties. Fire companies might have fought or sabotaged one another in order to win the right to put out a fire and get paid for it.

There are analogies (with smaller consequences) in private tow truck operation.
The thing is the "paying for it to be delivered by a nurse" is covered by other things.

There will be a line-item for the ibuprofen itself, there will then (generally) be a separate line item for staff time spent helping you, and there will almost always be another line item for the facility fee.

The nurse's overhead is theoretically included in those latter two line items, so shouldn't _also_ be charged in the ibuprofen line item.

Now, there are logistical concerns that will make the ibuprofen marginally more expensive at an ER than at a clinic, but definitely not $60.

I accept the logic of high drug prices including staffing costs when those staffings costs aren't included in other line items. In most hospital bills, it seems, those staffing costs are already included.
I don't believe there has been any such pattern in GCP products.

(I work on GCP)
There are shortages in a private healthcare system. If you can't pay, you don't get treatment.
And arbitrary spaces with meaningful input isn't easy to make a mistake... my first thought, what about escaping newlines?
> Johnson admitted to taking bait package, claiming he did it because Amazon has an incentive program that pays drivers $5 for each undelivered package they return.

Like paying for rat tails.
I've seen them multiple times in London's ChinaTown. Same skepticism
I wish developers of remote firmware updates would demand a physical write-enable switch. I get tired of the risk of remote installation of malware.
It's not a great article tbh, it's well written but it shows the clear lack of knowledge running a backend. The title should be "we didn't know what we were doing so we switched to a managed DB"

I mean yeah who knew that blocking NTP therefore time drifting would break everything...

For those criticizing MongoDB, Fortnite generates $3B/year and runs on MongoDB, you should tell them it's a mistake and that they should use PG instead.
> [...] he did it because Amazon has an incentive program that pays drivers $5 for each undelivered package they return.

Not sure I understand the program and how it benefits Amazon in any way.
Previously the license was BSD (as my commit above shows). v1.0 moved it to BSD+GPL2+Patent clause that is not more open-source than just BSD. After concerns from the community the patent clause was dropped, a little bit after React.
I get what you're saying and I agree. If consumers want Chrome, they should be free to use it and what MSFT is doing with its pre-configured browser/search engine settings is approaching anti-competitive behaviour.

However, if everyone adapts a single solution (WebKit/V8) then the web will just gravitate towards that and neglect standards and other engines, making it harder for consumers to use those.

The quintessence here is: People shouldn't just look at the raw performace (or quality or whatever) of a product, they should also consider the implications of using it. If almost everyone's using one particular implementation of a standard, then the other implementations will be extinct and users of those other implementations will be forced to use that most prominent one, eliminating their choice.

I'd recommend you read up on "Windows Refund Day". It kinda fits here. Here's a good video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9j-Ywjmbk
You're discussing RHEL7's /usr/bin.

> For example, out of about 50 or so /usr/bin/python scripts I see in a RHEL7's /usr/bin

I posted Ubuntu 1604's in comparison.
I'm a pretty big fan of the new build pack spec. I haven't gotten a chance to really try it out in depth yet, but the layer-aware caching is a pretty elegant way to make fast builds possible.
I’ll try to avoid a flame war, but since you’re using python, SQLAlchemy allows for composing sql strings.
Oracle vs. AWS
> "golang" is the official disambiguation, so it's factually incorrect to call people out for using that term.

I don't think "factually incorrect" is warranted. It's factually correct that the language is called Go. And while "golang" is a useful alternative for searchability and where "go" is taken, it is still a valid criticism to request using "Go" in natural language and prose. As for "official disambiguation", I'd say the most official thing said on the topic is this FAQ entry, which is quite clear on the matter: https://tip.golang.org/doc/faq#go_or_golang

(not saying Brad's comment isn't abrasive or rude. But it's not "factually incorrect")
Actually it is a great example when you think of how much waste and pollution you create by driving a car instead of walking or riding a bike. Great example.

People like to virtue-signal but when they really want something all convictions go out the window.
this isn't clear to you? https://i.imgur.com/UdfzvGU.png
Sorry for the crappy title; the original didn't fit.
In the Database, as someone working in the bank, I can tell you that we store it in Microsoft sql server for the last 13 years. A simple insert command into the RDBMS determines your balance with the bank.
To avoid people thinking "meh, they aren't answering, I'm just gonna toss it in the garbage". Since these are contractors driving their own cars, they don't "return to Amazon" at the end of the day. So, basically, Amazon is just compensating people for the drive back to the warehouse that they only have to do if they have packages leftover.

(Remember that this article is quoting an arrested man; I think there's a good chance what he's saying is a lie. He's probably just stealing packages.)
How easy would it be to transport temperaturized salt compared to sending electricity through a grid? Or rather, could we use this to generate large amounts of renewable energy in remote but energy dense or low land cost locations and then ship it back to populous areas?
I don't think comma separated trees are easier to read... in fact, I think they're quite a bit harder.

I will say it might be easier to write. do string quoting, quote escaping and newline embedded in a quoted string work?
I'm not even clear what the first line is saying. Packages undelivered by.. them? other drivers? How? If it's by another driver, how do they get it, and how do they know it's not delivered? If it's their own package, wait, they're literally paying drivers not to deliver my packages? What in the actual hell.
I check for updates manually when I'm on fast, unmetered WiFi but will next be on slower or metered service, given Microsoft's penchant for huge downloads in the background. I shouldn't be punished for that.
I'm impressed they didn't disappear into the void of, "maybe this needs to be kept as evidence. I dunno... Maybe ... Easier to just assume so than risk getting a slap on the wrist"
Not to be too anti-microsoft. But this seems like they're bringing the EUFI into windows, therefor allowing them in the future to make it harder than it already is(or eventually impossible) to actually get into the EUFI to install a competing OS.

I admit I'm decently "tin-foil hat" about microsoft, but every new laptop I've bought over the last 10 years have been progressively harder to get into UEFI/BIOS to remove windows and install a new OS.
How is it better than a regular dedicated bus roadway without rails?
This is still misleading. The value of Facebook to a given user u_k is a function of the value of Facebook to all users u_i, or at least the set of users that are u_k's friends. So the value function has a recurrence relation. This is why it is disingenuous to say the value of Facebook is a simple linear sum of value per user for every user; it is in fact highly nonlinear.
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Why did they actually migrate databases? The real issue is database operations, not the database itself. The data model is simple so anything would've worked fine, and they already have a working system.

The proper solution is to onboard the proper talent and tools or outsource it all. MongoDB does have fully-managed offerings that will automatically migrate and run your database, across cloud-providers if you need, and would've cost less than all the time and effort spent on this. This is just another example of poor technical competency at media publishers.
A) We do have socialized food insurance. That's literally what EBT is.

B) I'm not going to wake up in the morning to discover that my expected annual food costs have suddenly increased by four or five orders of magnitude. There is no budget-conscious version of a lot of non-emergency, but still lifesaving, medical care.
Cold coffee is just not the same as a hot cup of joe. Also that still sounds like a lot of prep the night before. What if I forget? Do I just not have coffee the next day? That's not convenient.
We expect people to follow the law even when breaking it would profit them. Do we criticize stores for building a business with incentives for taking stuff without paying, then prosecuting people who take advantage of that?
My point was that clean coal can mean a lot of things and sometimes making one part of a product lifecycle "green" just passes the problem down the supply chain.

In this case, scrubbing the flue gasses and recycling the coal ash resulted in toxic drywall. This isn't to say all drywall is toxic but it illustrates one illusion of something being clean or green.