skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its more that they don't track "releases". In my experience, early companies (that are not hardware related) that track full releases are very top heavy with non technical leadership. This is because technical people generally understand in modern saas, releases aren't really an actual thing with early stage companies as they are constantly patching bugs and small features.

The point about monitoring is more a "bus factor". If the organization in general has good visibility into the operation of the software, there tends to be less situations where only one person knows how a specific recurring issue gets resolved.
I think read receipts solved this problem already. If you want someone to know when you open their messages, enable it. Disable it and they don’t find out. If you want to improve that setup, enable read receipts for a whitelist of contacts. People who you do want to notify when you open their message.

I think a mistake was made when some messaging apps turned it into an opt-out and also made it punitive, in that opting out would mean that other people’s read receipts would be disabled.

I don’t think it would be so bad if every single data point wasn’t hoovered up and sold to third parties. They’re probably using this read status feature to measure engagement and decide how to target more ads. They can infer a lot: who you respond to quickly, who you don’t... who is intimate and who is an acquaintance. Who is important, who isn’t.
.9 is an angel investor. They say they like to be the first money in. Many of the things on this checklist shouldn't even be on your radar until after seed or series a. Paying thousands of dollars for employees to attend conferences, hiring a chief product officer, thinking about scaling by x100000, worrying about multi cloud, avoiding vendor lock in, unit test coverage, one click deploys...and the list goes on. This is textbook over engineering and the HN crowd is very vulnerable to it.

Pre-angel funding you should take every hack and shortcut you can to get something into your users hands.

Please ignore this checklist. It is really bad advice.

(source: 2 time founder, over $16M raised from VC. I have made many of these mistakes.)
WWII was the last attempt to capture the wealth of developed nations by invading them.

The Gulf War [0] seems like a much more recent (1990-91) example of this - Iraq invaded Kuwait, taking control of their oil fields and deep water ports.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
clang-tidy should catch this and warn about it at compile time.

The two hours seems on the high-end, if someone's able to e.g. use ASan and the program is crashing reproducibly.
Isn't this pretty much just theater? Does anyone have a story about how fine-grained tech DD cost a company an investment that they hadn't lost for other reasons already?

I've been involved in acquisitions that had fewer silly technical questions.
> This app works best with JavaScript enabled.
What people may not understand is that this huge data set is easily consumable.

It's one thing to think "Oh, sure they record me but nobody is going to sit through everything I said".

It's another thing to understand that with machine learning Amazon might be able to parse this data almost instantly and categorize you, rate you and analyse you without breaking a sweat.
And maybe a few of those economically disastrous wars are needed to empirically reinforce that theory.

I imagine that the future may look back at this era and marvel at how the US lost its world leading position through idiotic wars, while China bumbled its way to world leadership simply by not having any.
False equivalency.

US is a net coal exporter. If we were 100% nuclear the mining would be the same and it'd be exported.

Not a solution.

Instead, Swanson's curve should have been accelerated pushing the cost economics of solar to have made it competitive at an earlier date. Then you wouldn't need global legislative compliance, it'd have been cheaper earlier
Things that make your developer resume in the top%
If I recall my PKZip lore, being able to append an updated file to the end of a zip was considered a feature. That leaves a dead copy of the file earlier in the archive, but saves you having to do the floppy shuffle to update one file.

But I don’t recall ever mentioning that fact to someone who already knew it. While you could probably get away with rejecting that file (who still uses that? Some sort of streaming protocol?), it was a feature at one point.
Can you calculate the chance of the cluster size being >5 when we can cluster events within a one-week period and the rate of events is one every 2 months (debatable, but feels right to me)?

I think that would just end this discussion. I don't know how to calculate that, but my intuition says the resulting chance is low.
>Lane assists and emergency braking assists are going to be mandatory safety features in the EU from 2022.

I am never, ever, buying a brand-new car.
> I know sharing feelings is risky around here

Please don't include bait like this in your comments. It triggers avalanches of offtopicness. (It's also not true—people share their feelings on HN all the time, and are welcome to, as long as the comments are substantive. The only kind of feeling-sharing that isn't cool is ragey venting with no information.)
Yeah, but how is this relevant? YAML, for example, makes JSON a subset, which lets it consume existing JSON without any need for conversion. It's easy to learn, and readable. Leading commas are eyesores. Plus, not everybody is a fan of ML! These are not mass market languages.
The environment is what it is, you cannot fix it.
Isn't what you just said exactly the opposite of coincidence? A coincidence is two or more separate events that happen without an apparent or predictable causal link. So the fact the odds are high that this type of situation could occur (which I agree with) means it is predictable and has an apparent causal link with an associated probability.

e.g. team A doesn't get notifications so they can't fix a server issue is a pretty high prediction of a future failure for that team. So it is cause and effect, with the associated probability.

A coincidence would be you and I have the same birthday, we can associate a probability to that but there is no apparent causal link for why we would have the same birthday.
So few people die from nuclear relative to coal.
There’s little to no absolute left in the US, but there is always a left side of the right.
Which is true indeed!

Nuclear power, in a world where transport emits co2, emits co2 (especially during the enrichment phase).

Just waaaaay less than other forms of electricity production (including solar and wind)
I've had the first butterfly model (wast it 2016?), and indeed the keys would get stuck easily and I had to clean the keyboard with compressed air every other day, but even then I didn't have a single key broken down completely to stop functioning. And the 2018 model is much better, I will blow it with air occasionally, more as a precaution measure, and it works just fine.
That is bad news indeed.
Let's not bring gender into this, but idiots who text while driving deserve to have their asses handed to them for dangerous driving.
Awful broken solutions aren't acceptable.

Not in programming, building things, or running society.
I want to drive 120 until I tell the car not to any more. If I have to set the thing every two minutes, it's not that huge of an improvement over having to keep my foot at an awkward angle, unless I'm driving far enough for that to cause real pain.
I wonder how hard Apple has fuzzed that "feature"
> When writing Rust one comes to learn the code that the compiler likes, and strives to write code that is free of compiler errors in the first place.

I suggested that possibility, but is it generally true, or something personally true for you, or are you advocating that it would be good if people did that?
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My point was never that journalism is not unbiased, I was pointing out that Mozilla has a leftist bias.

"Water is wet, and pointing that out brings absolutely nothing of value to the discussion." That's most of the comments on HN, the only reason I browse this place is because the rest of the internet is even worse.
One is cannibis indica and the other sativa. Marijuana has THC and CBD. Only one kind of hemp is grown for CBD..no THC. The rest is called industrial hemp for paper/fiber etc.
Its more like an alternative to scripts generating configuration from templates. they claim that this is better because you cant for example write an infinite loop ruining the script.
Or whatsapp or signal... Or google drive. Just not YouTube.
They provide an entire replacement economy from which they profit 5% of transactions, I don't see them as being innocent bystanders here.
They are both text based configuration file formats made to be easier for humans to interact with, so I'm not sure what you're confused about?
Which countries achieved economic growth?
This reduces into the most insane game of chicken ever played.

Everyone loses (in every dimension) if no one switches off, but the first country to switch off will absolutely lose (economically).
Fusion energy would eliminate the need for wars.
So, when is Amazon / AWS outage day? Tomorrow?
Let’s not forget the existence of ayyyy lmao.
Predicting secondary structures of RNA folding
There's absolutely no need for commas in a configuration language, in my opinion.
Progressive Dems like Bernie Sanders are considerably less friendly to mass surveillance than centerist Dems like Obama. Bernie votes against the Patriot act every time. You can elect people who will fight it. Folks just don't want too because it might involve pot getting legalized and "socialism"
I'm hardly a fan of multinationals, but frankly from all of those only the exploding batteries seems like a real issue, and in that year, the profits of their whole mobile division went down 96% (across every phone/accessories/etc). Seems like reasonable punishment to me.

The other two seem mostly inconsequential as long as they respect the warranty (even if they have to be compelled to do so, though that should bring a fine as well).
I barely understand any article on quantum mechanics, but now I know that QTT is a thing and people are experimenting with it. That's why I personally upvoted the article but I admit I was on the fence about it. I'm hoping someone knowledgeable will comment on the article and I might gain just a little more understanding. Maybe.
> Here is the business jet version of that

Just to clarify to casual readers: The G650 is _not_ a business jet version of the Boeing 787.

Parent poster meant that the G650 was, like the initial 787, designed to cruise at speeds above Mach 0.9. Note that the production 787 cruises at Mach 0.85 like most other large jet airliners.
Bioplastics too..when used with a polymer. And Hempcrete for buildings(termite, mold and fire resistant) when used with lime.

Food, fiber and medicine.
Nuclear plants produce waste, this means now deciding that humans will have to not mess that up for the next ~100.000 years. Sure, maybe we'll find a way to process it all (or shoot it into the sun with a super safe space elevator?), but right now, this is what we got, and it's really not much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...

> There is a debate over what should constitute an acceptable scientific and engineering foundation for proceeding with radioactive waste disposal strategies. There are those who have argued, on the basis of complex geochemical simulation models, that relinquishing control over radioactive materials to geohydrologic processes at repository closure is an acceptable risk. They maintain that so-called "natural analogues" inhibit subterranean movement of radionuclides, making disposal of radioactive wastes in stable geologic formations unnecessary. However, existing models of these processes are empirically underdetermined: due to the subterranean nature of such processes in solid geologic formations, the accuracy of computer simulation models has not been verified by empirical observation, certainly not over periods of time equivalent to the lethal half-lives of high-level radioactive waste. On the other hand, some insist deep geologic repositories in stable geologic formations are necessary. National management plans of various countries display a variety of approaches to resolving this debate.

We're the species that used x-ray machines in shoe shops, to sell more shoes than the other guy. We put the guy who discovered the usefulness of washing hands into an asylum, out of sheer pride and arrogance. So great, we have a bunch of "complex models", and that's what we want to gamble it on? The weather forecast also keeps getting more accurate, but few people would bet their own life on the forecast for even tomorrow. But we'll do it on behalf of people who don't get a say?
I like the flat style of Apple scissor keyboards, but I won’t discount what could be done with a touch surface “keyboard”. Why worry about emulating the feel of a mechanical keyboard? I love swipe keyboards on phones; removing physical keys makes that frictionless on computer keyboards. (Though predictive text may not be as fun for terminal flags.) And there are probably other gains to be made if you can unlearn what you learned from Mavis Beacon.
Back in the early 90s when I first saw the term, it was "Bones And Raw Food"; i.e. literally raw bones with meat.
PyQt examples 2019: Learn to create a desktop app
I've never met anyone who thought it was always recording. The non-tech folks don't even realize the audio processing is handled on a remote server, and the tech folks understand how the wake word functions together with remote processing.
Nondischargable student loans create a “prison of emotional confinement”
> I don't use Patreon. IIUC, you need to sign up to support different content providers individually. That's not what I want.

Well, isn't the the same thing in the end? Both you and the person you want to pay need to have ths same platform? If someone uses chrome, won't they need to go and "find" the site using Firefox to pay.

What you want is to be able to pay for something once you've found it? I get that, and it's a slightly different model than patreon, but in the end it is the same problem: micropayments are expensive and currently require someone to batch them.

The bigger problem is that requires another shared middle man that some people may not like fot whatever reason.
Imagine all the ops folks gloating earlier in the week (cough CloudFlare) having to eat crow mere days later.
Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes
Hmm...

So the authors claim that their language is guaranteed to terminate for all well-typed programs. That is actually a nice spot for configuration languages. Yet, I wonder how

a) they guarantee it, as I have seen no obvious link to the language's semantics

b) useful this is in practice.

Nevertheless, very nice approach, indeed.
Bit strange how the article seems to blame McDonnell Douglas for all Boeing's current troubles.

First, it uhm no longer exists and second the merger was in 1997 - more than two decades ago!

The current mess is flying under the Boeing flag one way or another.
Good point, if I remember correct it was almost all europians on that particular flight. With your new point it really has me wondering why they valued a life at $240k, or really why they would even bother with this fund at all?
How many atmospheric nuclear weapons explosions could we tolerate?

Certainly more than 500, since that's how many were conducted. We're still here.
Automation necessary. Prices will come crashing down tho’ now that everyone is growing it.

Even the Amish are happy. It will save a lot of farm business bottomlines. Dairy farms are especially watching carefully.
But the outages are sequential, not simultaneous
What about Google and Nest videos? Are those kept forever as well?
Thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523623

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185015

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13109672
Good correction: the outages do happen at a fixed rate. Regarding GCP, I only see a couple events that have lasted more than 8 hours, not sure how many of those affect more than one subsystem.
Yeah, that would fit the timeframe very well.
Yeah, because that's what most configuration languages differ in.
Our day to day software development practices still fail short of what design by contract, MISRA, AUTOSAR, DO-178B and similar offer in terms of delivered quality.

Only with further increase in lawsuits and returned faulty software, like in other commercial areas, will companies start paying attention to QA budgets.
Yeah, what dborham wrote: most people wouldn't know a VLAN if it bit them on the nose, but if your your router automatically created the SSID "foo-devices" to go alongside your regular "foo" people might use it.

Like the "offer a guest network" button which, now I think of it, might already be enough.
I don’t think there has been a case of an atomic bomb engineer leaving a prototype at a bar, though.
Most of us are probably descendants of people who were good at farming, and surviving the occasional war, famine or natural disaster.
You could buy a 2015 MacBook Pro and upgrade to rock solid keyboard, sane-sized trackpad, MagSafe, hdmi, USB ports and an SD card port.

It’s not thin enough to slice salami but I am a vegetarian so that’s not a big deal.
> The top hit for laptop in a windows machine, so what?

It doesn't say anything about whether Windows is good or bad, but it means that no widescale transition away from Windows has happened.
80 proof alcohol is one of the better things you can spill on your computer. I spilled a glass of milk on my Titanium G4. Had to replace a bunch of components (back when you could pop out the keyboard) and it smelled bad.
Top VPNs Secretly Owned by Chinese Corps
>minus the cool drugs

instead we have a very arbitrary channel to decide who gets to receive drugs our society produces, with all of their nasty side effects

For me, any psychoactive substance a doctor prescribes is like pharmaceutical grade krokodil
While I can’t speak to your question, I spoke to my mom (veterinarian) about this after reading this thread and asked her specifically about BARF. She said that in most patients she’s seen on those diets, their bloodwork has been all over the place. She said it’s because when dogs ate meat in the wild, they were actually indirectly eating an omnivore diet, because their prey had plants and grains in their guts. Additionally, she’s noticed some really nasty and hard to detect parasites which she suspects originates from these types of diets. Of course, this is anecdotal. She recommends a name-brand dog food because they’re all well-tested, and says to not worry about feeding meat to your dogs because they can produce the necessary amino acids themselves.

Consult your veterinarian for dietary advice for your specific animal. You should trust their level-headed advice over emotionally-driven decisions from owners.

It’s refreshing to see a skeptical comment like yours, and I too find it interesting a lot of people reporting jumping ship from one trendy diet to another.
Vox family is pretty much overtly pressitutes
Why it's worth reading crazy-sounding scenarios about the future
Nuclear Power is great until it's not. 'Germany is Wrong..' is a bit simplistic. No one would say japan is wrong for shutting nuclear down. Yet Chernobyl was only 30 years ago and fallout was blown over Germany. Some food could not be harvested for years (Mostly mushrooms like my beloved chanterelle •`_´•).

There grew a whole movement out of it and from that a political party called "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" (the greens) which stand for protecting the environment and getting rid of nuclear power. They nearly overtook the conservative christian party at the last eu elections.

Also it's been at least a 20 year struggle to find a place to put all the nuclear waste, also highly politicised and vastly expensive.

You see, it's a little complicated.

Personally I would be fine with nuclear power as long as externalities are paid by the power companies and we learn how to better handle disasters.
Rust is not a collection of C++ best practices, formalized. It has its own "personality", borrowing ideas from several other languages and unfortunately these other ideas happen to be alien to most C and C++ programmers.

There was a funny discussion on the Rust subreddit, where even some language contributors have started having doubts about that complexity. One of them was trapped in his own programming language theory ivory tower, the other was trying to convince them that they are losing developers if they keep adding stuff to the language.

That discussion was a clear hint that the Rust developers don't have C and C++ programmers in mind when designing Rust. They have their own ideas about how a modern systems programming language should look like, and they're doing that. Perfectly fine, but we need to correct the misconception that C or C++ programmers will rush en masse to learn Rust.
Note I said decommission, not patch. And aren't most of the outages of this period routing related?
One reason is that "configuration language" is an extremely wide topic. Some configs use yaml to encode bash scripts for example.

Overall a reason enough is that human-friendly languages have different priority than parser-friendly ones.

Honestly it is the reason I like TOML, with the exception of the date data type it cleanly maps to json (which everyone agrees it is a good enough serialization format) and it is specifically focused on human friendliness (except uniform lists) and readability

As an underappreciated feature, the ability to have scoped keyvalues allow to define nested table with flat statements.
There aren't too many standard onrs. Most people seem to either write a custom (embedded) DSL for their tool or go with something more widely known.

If people are curious about examples of DSLs in Haskell projects, they can look at cabal files, persistent's entity syntax, and servant's type level DSL for API definitions. These go on a scale from "fully separate" to "embedded in the language". (Persistent is in between, it uses something called Template Haskell)

The stack Haskell build/project management tool uses YAML files.

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I think Dhall's power is not that it is an alternative syntax to YAML. It's more about the typesystem than anything else. If you're sold on types, then Dhall is definitely worth a look
why is slack on that list, they use AWS. They arent an infrastructure provider.
Maybe we should control the predators of the insect species who are struggling.