skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No offense but your point of being reliable by virtue of being a growing startup is rather laughable.

YC money or not, startups come and go, sometimes going with more of their users’ data than they should. You could have avoided making that point altogether.
Mental Models for Software Engineers: Regret Minimization Framework
Open source, cross-platform desktop app to monitor and control Tesla vehicles
If you can't make abstractions in golang without generics your programming wrong.
Do You Have Real SaaS Testimonials or Just Compliments?
Corrected headline would be "two different substances melt at different temperatures". :(

I was so excited too.
Not ublock, you need to use ublock origin.
The Truth about Web Components and Frameworks
How automation is going to save retail
U.S. Cities Strain to Fight Hackers
> The early adopters will be scammers and people duped into thinking this is their get rich quick opportunity.

It's a stablecoin. There's no get rich opportunity.
The Infinite Capabilities and Intricate Details of Your Brain
> A good compiler can in a large number of cases infer that it won't modify.

For a single thread that should be doable. But that’s not mathematically covering all bases is it?

And how can the compiler know if the relevant list is not accessed from multiple threads? I’m pretty sure that’s next to impossible and definitely not worth the complexity for such a small optimisation.
If I see an add for Good Omens while trying to watch something on twitch on my tv I am going to flip a table.
I just read the comment history. Clearly a patriotic Russian, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable making this accusation.

I find it more fascinating to presume the comments are made by someone in good faith, who simply may be misinformed on some topics due to persistent exposure to their State’s propaganda.

I particularly liked the comment about not needing permission to protest. No, no, in Russia you do not need permission, but if your chosen time and place is not available the State will kindly select a suitable alternative for you!

Reminds me of some college campuses.
The topic under discussion is response to any serious disaster, not specifically civilian.
I think that parent was trying to state that maintaining sequential consistency is a bottleneck for traditional databases.
Whether they believe it or not it's happening.

I think we need stronger policies that cannot be swayed by public opinion or we're screwed. There's no room for error at this point.
"strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male."

Yeah, that… really doesn't sound as common a theme as you imply
I don’t know about you, but the Snowden Revelations dramatically shifted my baseline of “paranoid schizo”. Before, I thought the prospect utterly bananas that “the government” was tapping every phone call, strong-arming ISPs, and intercepting mail en route to its destination.

Then I found myself in a rabbit hole of Tuskegee experiments, Operation Northwoodses, MKULTRAs, human-animal hybrids, and so on.

Now, the question I ask is, “is this technologically possible?”
In my experience with enterprise applications, we hit database bottlenecks only if you are doing aggregate operations over millions of records or firing 'like' queries over varchar(max) columns without full text indexes. Or generating reports with joins over multiple million record tables.

For most crud operations any production ready database will not bottle neck before you have to fine tune your application server and application itself. Non thread safe application code and libraries have caused more performance issues than large join queries.
My vision on this: The thing is we can't say our brains operate at tipping point since we don't understand the brain fully yet. And won't for a long time. We haven't realized the full capacity of the brain yet, far from it. So, no, it most likely doesn't operate at tipping point for the majority of people.
I think tracking page clicks is completely different to invasive data profiling. Anything that could theoretically be tracked server-side (like a link click) is fair game. The only reason it's done client side is easy implementation.
It amazes me that this story doesn't get more press.

The press thinks that Outbrain and Tabooleh are such geniuses, but they show the same ads they've shown for five years that everyone I know has learned not to click on. (e.g. if you do click on one promising to see some kind of images the one image you won't see when you click is what is promised.)
It is probably one of the more common together with loading too much JavaScript and image content.

However even with that said a modern SQL database can handle A LOT of traffic and I've had discussions about internal CRUD applications with a couple of thousand users at most where people say we must use a document database because relational databases does not scale. Insane.

Of course people can use document databases and similar where it fits but you get a lot of nice things with a traditional rdmbs that you might miss later.
As a side note: I really enjoy how the imagery at the top shows the rating for Python is E (for everybody). Do all apps receive this type of rating? Who got to test this and decide it was E? I always assumed the ESRB rating system was only attached to video games.
The SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/being-on-ca...) says that engineers are compensated for being on call in the form of cash or time off.

Personally I think this is a fair system, and I would hardly call it slavery.

(disclaimer: am Google SRE)
Maybe it's better to link to the original Microsoft blog announcement?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-...
How does ssh know what command you did and how to reverse it?
I hope my comment history will satisfy you. Basicly, some scenes in series are overdramatized. For example, Sitnikov was not convoyed by soldier to reactor roof - he went willingly, Dyatlov wasn't so bad as he portrayed and so on.

Luckily, it is a pretty recent period of history and many witnesses of it are still alive or died in recent past. You may be interested to see explaination from Dyatlov at first hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVthWR4cR1g
This interview has been recorded in 1994, year before he died, but I'm not sure if there are English subtitles for it.
Not a charitable interpretation of the parent comment. Even though databases allow concurrent transactions, commiting these transactions with complete sequential consistency is still an inherently serial process, at least insofar as it cannot be generally split across machines.
Pay no mind to the sinister undertones.
Facebook spends a lot of time making it hard to block ads on their site. I have turned off adblocking for the site because it is often ineffective for me and sometimes breaks things on the site.
Terrifying that, even if they're looking up themselves, they're seeing other people's private data..
Quick, someone grep the standard library code, we can at least get some mild profanity and improve that rating!
What you just said completely defies the laws of supply and demand. Companies don't just overproduce and accept a loss on their goods and services [0]. If everyone has half as much money then the supply gets cut in half. Likewise the supply will only be doubled if everyone has twice as much money.

What you might be talking about is how economies of scale result in increased productivity but your rule of thumb is a pretty poor model. Every industry has it's own learning rate. PV for example reduces costs by 28.5% on every doubling of production capacity.

[0] Ok, ok, this is actually the business model of Uber and pretty much all modern unicorn startups but they do it to drive out competitors, not because it makes economical sense.
Reasoning behind that?
Chimps actually do not live in harems. That is a more accurate description of orangutangs and gorillas.

Chimps live in what could fairly be called a polyamorous society.

Matriarchy is very rare in the animal kingdom. Thus it is hard to say what it is associated with. Even when species have a female dominance hierarchy, it may not be the dominant one, if you take my meaning. Observationally, female dominance hierarchies are characterized by inter-generational immobility: dominance is for the most part inherited.
No, rich people are rich because money is fungible. It is a medium of exchange and readily convertible to other mediums of exchange. And the rich have a lot of it. So whatever medium of value exchange is used by computers, money can be exchanged for it. Now, it can be that computers (or those with computers) will be able to attract more and more money, as we have had with the speculation bubble in cryptocurrencies, and before that with the Web bubble, there may be new stuff with AI like that. It will attract tons of money and maybe make trillionaires.

Ultimately, though, we may have a new phenomenon: autonomous programs earning cryptocurrency endlessly, at all parts of society, for generating content / doing useful computation / facilitating tons of things. At that point they will have most of the money. What will the money the robots earn be used for then?

We need UBI to redistribute money back to people continuously, while the robots don’t have an AGI to spend the money on stuff they want :)
not specific to Mosuo, but matriarchal lineage was not 'replaced' by patriarchal in any simple way .. men hunted then men fought wars, and the winner of the wars declared themselves to be rulers, while "peaceful" people stuck with the old ways centered on fertility .. this happened in different parts of the world with very different peoples, over centuries
New Proposal Looks to Loosen Radio Ownership Rules
The New Deal was politically infeasible until it wasn't.
Or, you know, you don't want to scare people into making poor life choices for themselves just to make sure they don't miss their "window".
I certainly wouldn't want to be on In-Q-Tel's bad side.
Casper is transparent: https://youtu.be/ISugbhXnVTU?t=112
example of such an ETF?
Adguard is getting discontinued due to app store policy changes: https://www.macobserver.com/news/adguard-pro-discontinued/

For Android there's a FOSS alternative (no root needed) - DNS66, alternatively if one has root there's always AdAway.

The only thing that stops working are monetization schemes in games - "watch this ad to double coins!", etc.

Browser-wise - Firefox on Android has working desktop extensions and it's glorious.

When it comes to native adverts (like timeline stuff in Instagram or Facebook) I just stopped using these platforms on my phone. Less time wasted on mindless scrolling.

I yet need to find a good way to block ads in podcasts. Skipping takes effort and I don't have my hands available for fiddling with the headphone remote.
as Microsoft moves to embed blink into windows, wouldnt it make sense for a stripped down version of Electron that calls the OS libraries, instead of embedding their own. I can see Microsoft moving that way for its apps.
> Ideally you'd start before age 20.

In college? Or high school?
Developers – here is the best WHY to quit your 9–5 job
This is a bit of an edge case, but I want to be able to use an ANSI friendly font for Telnet BBS'. At the moment, the supported fonts just render garbage. It would be ideal for me to select my own font as I find it unlikely you will add 'unscii 16-full'.
That’s the problem.

Horses and mules were necessary for plowing the fields. And no matter how they unionized, fields have been turned into parking lots for cars.

But those were animals. Will we value humans?
It must be common in 2Ccltvcm's feed. Maybe the algorithm knows him a little too well.
It's hugely dependant on the app and type of data it's processing.

Our primary apps deal with trading data at 15/30 minute intervals over multiple years. It's not uncommon to have millions of rows involved in a process.

Yes, nearly all of our performance problems boil down to the database. The majority of the time spent on the server is on data access.

Basic CRUD on small data wouldn't be the same.
Thanks, I was just about to ask. My new word for the day! :)
I remember an occasion a few years back where a colleague of mine was getting a VPN connection from the UK to a middle east site working - the Cisco partner couldn't get it to work and said "We don't understand why it doesn't work as it's basically the same as this one that does work" and sent us the config file for another one of their customers complete with credentials etc.
You don't even need to analyze it that far to discard the article.

It doesn't matter whether we agree with the Green New Deal or not, the author is just outing themself as someone uninterested in looking beyond personal opinion and their political bandwagon.
Dang it I was hoping this would be like a Sublime Text style individual license and no cloud stuff. I can't upload work documents outside our network and I hate monthly fees for software.

If I was working anywhere else though I would totally consider this, even though $5 a month is pretty steep for a markdown application with cloud sync. I would probably spring for their yearly pricing of $49.90.
My kids are homeschooled, and there is a very big self-directed learning movement in the homeschooling community.

What people outside the community often forget is that kids are inherently curious, and can actually do TONS of learning on their own. Learning a language is a huge undertaking, yet every kid below the age of 3 manages to do it without any special teaching.

Self-directed learning is just the extension of that, but for some reason it scares people. It's nice to see that it's gaining a little traction in "schools", even if it's still technically homeschooling.
My friend Siqi Chen built Frieds for Sale lol
>I think we need stronger policies that cannot be swayed by public opinion

I don't like where that path leads. I mean, you're not wrong that it would be able to solve the problem faster but I don't think the end justifies the means.
It is weird that he comments on that, and not that it's become the most advertised interracial coupling even tho IRL it's the 2nd least common interracial coupling?

Or are you just trying to ad-hominem him?
How do the economics work, though? The article seems incomplete with respect to that. It says children are the responsibility of the women's household. Does it make a difference if a woman only has daughters (no men in the household)? They just do the same jobs as the men?
Photoshop has been used for years to successfully fool millions of men and women that consume magazines showing people with smooth skin and sexy bodies.
There are a lot of electronics hobbyist who may not know much about programming. The Adafruit/Pi community have a lot of python libraries for sensors and such.

Some children/students may want to “make the thing work” with electronics rather than “get your dev system built and then program the thing to work”. Dependencies can be a nightmare especially on Windows.
10ft+ jump potential?? that's really incredible
Thanks! It would be great if you can also release a .rpm for other distros as well. I'm using Fedora 30 and Snap is generating some issues, that's why I rather install it using a package.
Embedded Rules of Thumb
It seems they made it for newbies:

Once you discover that you need to get Python, you are quickly faced with many choices. Will you download an installer from python.org? Or perhaps a distribution such as Anaconda? The Visual Studio installer is also an option. And which version? How will you access it after it’s been installed? You quickly find more answers than you need, and depending on your situation, any of them might be correct.

We spent time figuring out why someone would hit the error above and what help they need. If you’re already a Python expert with complex needs, you probably know how to install and use it. It’s much more likely that someone will hit this problem the first time they are trying to use Python. Many of the teachers we spoke to confirmed this hypothesis – students encounter this far more often than experienced developers.

So we made things easier.

First, we helped the community release their distribution of Python to the Microsoft Store. This version of Python is fully maintained by the community, installs easily on Windows 10, and automatically makes common commands such as python, pip and idle available (as well as equivalents with version numbers python3 and python3.7, for all the commands, just like on Linux).
Yes, I found this very ironic. Apple says this in their deprecations in the release notes for 10.15 beta: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_note...
I don't think your first sentence is true [1]. Though I admit that there's no such thing as unbiased reporting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19612473
Wow I somehow missed this. Not jazzed about it, but it shouldn't be too bad to install
My take.

We are already "long lived" compared to other species. That is, our heart lasts about four billion beats while other mammals have hears good for a billion beats.

Given that, eventually we get into a regime which is different from other animals thus we need a different system for longevity regulation.
> It could be used to offer low or no-fee payments between friends or remittance of earnings to familys from migrant workers abroad who are often gouged by money transfer services.

Doesn’t Transferwise already fill this niche? These days you can send several hundred dollars to and from the US for around $2-4 in fees, whereas the fees used to be $40-60 from traditional banks or Western Union.
The original New Deal only became politically feasible when the country was on the verge of a violent socialist uprising.
Note that the latest version to ship with mac OS was 2.7, so it didn't exactly ship with well-maintained support
Ah, the old "I have nothing to hide". Just one of many obvious rebuttals: We need to be a large anonymous crowd to protect those among us most in need of anonymity: whistleblowers, activists, stalking victims, to name a few.
I glanced at their history and it seems that, yes, they are Russian, and a lot of their posts seem to have some anti-US sentiment, but automatically saying that makes them a member of the troll farm is a stretch. I see plenty of other Europeans, especially on sites like reddit, openly hating on the US. Hell, there are plenty of people from the US who do that. Unless I'm missing something glaring from their post history, which maybe I am, I don't think it's fair to say "this person is Russian, they are clearly a paid troll and should be banned."
In the above example I tend to agree with you, but I'd definitely prefer early return over multiple levels of nested if statements unless all of the nested statements are quite small.
Linux. I will take broad. I don't agree that my question is vague.
Yeah. We can of course live our life in solitude. We have that choice. But the truth is that we are made so that we find someone, our SO, our life partner, so that we can grow together, love one another, help one another with the path of life, create a life together. It's not merely social conventions, it's deeply engrained in ourselves. Some will disagree of course, but to live alone is to miss on life imo.
Me quantum-tunneling out of my chair to Mars is improbable, but so improbable that it can be considered impossible... an event that will certainly never occur within the entire lifetime of the universe is indistinguishable from one that cannot occur. At that point, differentiating between the improbable and impossible is splitting hairs.

But at least quantum mechanics exists within the framework of what we know to be provable reality. The supernatural doesn't - making it even less probably than me spontaneously teleporting to Mars like John Carter.

The spiritualism that Arthur Conan Doyle believed in and the seances he attended were fraudulent, as were the Cottingley Faerie photos (which he believed were real because the photographs looked convincingly real to him.) I'm certain that he eliminated all other mundane possibilities from his mind to arrive at the supernatural conclusions he did, but he was still wrong.

Mere process of elimination is not sufficient to prove something "however improbable." Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, still needs to be proven. Otherwise you wind up in the trap of confirmation bias.
It's up to the client. If a host isn't providing good enough service, the client can switch hosting providers.
Indeed. The blog link gives much more detail and context then the guide.
No, this is the same substance that melts into two different liquids as the article states
I wonder if it would be easier for these devices to build most of their UI on top of Flutter. That way, these companies could focus on the lower levels of the stack, while developers can build (or port) apps using existing
tooling.
"less conflict for romantic rivals given the expectations"

This assumes all men would be equally likely to get to have sex with the women. Otherwise, if the whole society has to take care of the children, but only a few men get to procreate, it just means many men working for free (like drones) to support other men's children.

Of course that would be a good scenario for some members of society - the women who can choose to mate only with the most attractive men, and the few lucky men. I doubt it would automatically create a happier society, though.
It's slow, it's bloated, and it is so incredibly memory hungry.

Cross-platform is really so over-rated. The Linux diehards aren't that numerous, and if you're down to just Windows and Mac, there are better options. I personally think it's idiotic to try to reuse the same UI across real computers and phones/tablets, so there goes the other leg of the cross-platform story.
Surprise they do. Other than basic (and no longer after bill gate is gone) the only programming language is dos command :-(.

Well seem they did not. Otherwise python will be universal. Anyway need pip etc. And also better to use conda. And easier integration with os. As none, probably not that useful. But better than none.
I didn't see it mentioned in the article but I think it's an important factor: The massive intervention by the BoJ in the corporate bond market of Japan. The BoJ is even buying bonds with negative yield. There's just so much Yen printed by the BoJ it's no surprise that some of it ends up in a venture capital fund, driving up valuations of startups around the globe. After all this is what everyone is warning about: Zero or even negative interest rates will distort valuations and capital allocation.
I loved the show but in case you missed it this was a very eye opening take that seems genuine.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-hbos-cher...
We’re not kidding ourselves. California now mandates solar for new construction on residential roofs. The cost of solar will continue its decline. It’s even easier if you wrap your system cost into a mortgage or finance with home equity on a long amortization schedule at historically low rates.

I don’t think utilities are going away, but I also don’t think they’ll be so profitable as to invest in them as a retail investor (which was the initial discussion above).
That is genius, but I note it doesn't disprove my 'little old lady who lives in park' theory, it may just be mapping the extents of it.
It is not common IRL, black male + white female is the 2nd least common interracial coupling.

However, without going into who's pushing it, it is significantly more common in media than IRL.
Most Influential Books for Programmers
What a great article.

Definitely goes under the heading of "Truths So True They Seem Obvious."

As for "Disorganized or messy code isn’t the same as technical debt," I can't look at messy code without automatically cleaning it up. It's automatic as I read and understand. In the last 5 years I've probably checked in hundreds of PR's of cleanup. If this takes anymore time and/or effort on my part I don't notice it. The only thing is someone has to merge it.