skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switching from P2P to centralised servers might be when things went south. Quality got much worse then it seems. Nowadays Skype's totally lost most of its gamer/techie audience to Discord because they actually are aware of what their customers want.
> Go is in the same category. People are inventing better versions of C++ when I want them to invent better versions of Python. :)

In terms of use cases Go is much closer to Python than to Rust and C++.
The opening does leave a sour taste. You ack that there is little research, and then claim a pragmatic position.

Your data section is compelling. Though, it reads close to the same arguments for why kids shouldn't learn calculus in grade school.

So the questions I would have to counter this would be:

* How stable has racket been compared to the alternatives?

Specifically, how many texts in Java and python taught methods that are actually not good for user in industry? This is ironic, as the argument is they would be using an industry language. But they aren't, really. They are likely using an ancient dialect of an industry one. Heaven help you if you picked JavaScript.

* Is there any data about how well the students do following each language choice?

In particular, this should be easier to get. Do kids that skip the racket course generally do better than those that don't?
I don't think it's that bad for CircleCI. CircleCI's focus is CI/CD and it's highly unlikely GitHub is going to do it as well as them. It's hardly commoditized technology. Their current customers are already heavily integrated with them and their orbs offering is further solidifying that relationship. Also, GitHub is expanding the CI/CD market with Actions so competitors in this space are likely to benefit.

Furthermore:

- waffle.io was acquired and shutdown by the acquiree

- TravisCI was sold to a private equity firm and lost their way
In azure DevOps CI, docker build steps aren't cached, so I hope they use something else.
@dominik-space just reached out to you on twitter.
Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data
On the other hand, MIT/Apache/BSD advocates will have a bright future ahead of them.
What does Twitter have to do with any of this? Do they run their own data center?
CTRL for the shortcuts overlaps with the browser. You need to either completely take this over, or completely leave it be, and in this case, probably the latter. Otherwise I get shocked when I hit CTRL-w to see if it erases a word and it closes my window without warning.

There's also apparently some other things going on; CTRL-u uppercases the word you're on. A link to more docs or something may be helpful.
Of course it has a cost. Everything has a cost. Maybe you meant the net benefit of immigration is greater than the initial cost burden in the long term? I agree with that.

Or do you really believe that tripling the amount of software engineers in the Bay Area wouldn’t have any negative consequences?

That’s the fallacy of an open border. At the very least we moderate and control immigration to mitigate short term costs and maximize long term benefit. And also for basic precautions, such as criminal history checks and vaccinations.
Its because pies start out as unorganized messes and end up as a pizza.

Also for fun
I love Paris, but just like Barcelona, their wide boulevards can be off-putting sometimes and their more cozy, narrow-street, neighborhoods tend to be tourist traps. Montmartre and Borne come to mind, both gorgeous but crowded with visitors and defaced by postcard stands.

Barcelona in particular went through its own Haussmann-style revamps throughout the years, in the XIX century but also for the 1992 Olympics, giving its current and impressive urban layout. [1]

But the thing is I fell in love with Madrid. Its narrow streets downtown, some of them eerie mazes, make living here quite the authentic and unique urban experience.

[1] https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/8/18266760...
It’s an ambiguity that tech companies love to take advantage of.

For instance, Google will say that they analyze your Gmail to improve the service etc, but that no human will ever read your email.

How is the average person expected to keep track?
What is a "proper criminal"?
As a Gitlab user that's not strongly committed to the platform, this looks like a pretty interesting option.

Anyone have thoughts on how this compares to e.g. Google Cloud Builder in terms of functionality? Being integrated into the GH backend seems like a big perk, rather than having to use webhooks for everything.

Seems like you can do things like build your Docker containers (https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions...).

One thing that's great about Gitlab is the Gitlab server/runner split, where you can run workers in your own VPC, but still use their hosted offering. This makes it easier to keep your deploy secrets (aka the keys to the kingdom) locked down, as they never leave your cloud provider.
Have you seen these remote temperature monitors from sensorpush? They seem to do a decent job and there is an internet gateway device to manage them if you want.

http://www.sensorpush.com/#products
Have a look at the posts you've liked, what you've submitted, etc. Are they all brand new developments?

Because surely that's not the case with 95% of what's posted on HN, and that's not a bad thing.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Got to save on the $5k.
I actually really enjoyed 61A with Scheme at Berkeley. I think the benefit of learning Scheme to start is the flexibility of learning how more complex features like OOP, can be built off a simpler language.

> Pascal is for building pyramids imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. Lisp is for building organisms--imposing, breathtaking, dynamic structures built by squads fitting fluctuating myriads of simpler organisms into place. - Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs
The 3 months of darkness is kind of a bummer
Can someone tell me what 'PA' stands for in the memo? Project Admin?
Python also has one built in.

cat input.json | python3 -m json.tool
Can GitHub Actions be used on open-source repositories maintained by organizations?
Having worked in the intel community (long ago), I suspect the practical purpose of Sentient is to replicate the mind of the intel analyst -- to select and fuse multiple intelligence sources into a coherent story that suggests an underlying human activity that would be of interest to investigate further or classify as actionable and then pass it along to an operational group like law enforcement or the military.

Another possibility, of course, is FUD. Promote a project as being more impactful than it really is so that your political critics are distracted by it and thus overlook your other projects that are more important, short-term, and real.

You do have to wonder. Why would a secrecy-driven org like NRO employ a meaningful and daunting project name like "Sentient" unless you want outsiders to become take an interest in the program? When you want a program to fly under the public radar, you name it something meaningless and innocuous like "BranMuffin" or "Spatula", not meaningful and fearful like "KillerFlyingRobots".
Ask HN: Any startup attorneys out there who specialize in company shutdown
Our startup failed, after raising some rounds of seed financing. We're learning the hard way that C-corp closure can be expensive, and that company counsel != personal counsel.

Any advice for a founder?

DM if you're a lawyer and might be able to help. Would love to learn about rates etc.
Some of us deal with the fact that the people maintaining the CI solution keep breaking our pipelines without any code changes in of our scope of responsibility. This becomes the churn as you push empty commits trying to troubleshoot why your builds don't work and it takes >1 day to get things working again. Most hosted CI solutions are entirely inappropriate for some organization's business goals and requirements, so you end up dealing with it being a B or C tier service in an organization that is changing.

I would suggest that there are definitely some organizations where you can't trust the pipeline to work reliably, and the cost of figuring out what went wrong becomes the churn.
Nah. It's more like "we've added a permanent workaround".
I did mean Stansted but admittedly it’s probably the least convenient airport from Central London unless you live close to the Liverpool Street line — personal bias led me astray. London City is of course closer from many points within London but is much smaller. That said, London’s other airports are also relatively convenient, e.g. Gatwick and Heathrow via tube, Thameslink or dedicated trains.
Ah, I see. Is that definitely something which is happening, with good statistical evidence?

Edit: I suppose this is to do with oscillations in the jet stream?
I would further argue that tech jobs in Hamilton/Mississauga (or other satellite/burbs) don't compete with Toronto-proper in terms of compensation. Which leaves you with 1-2 hour commute each way just to try to save a bit on housing, and still not getting the benefit of properly compensated tech work.
Too verbose, I prefer good old regular expression.
The nice thing about having discussions based on fact is that if "the data" is bad, its just another avenue for discussion. That doesn't mean we have to re-hash everything from first principals, and it certainly doesn't mean that compelling rhetoric + poor data might "win", but it sure does help.

People can have a productive discussion on the veracity (origins/malleability are not good reasons to ignore data by themselves in my opinion) of the data, other data can be presented to support or contradict the original point, and in a perfect world perhaps both sides would come away a little more aware of an issue.
I hope I am not being rude asking about this, apologies in advance: because I have two friends with MS I have wondered if consumer VR gear (Oculus Quest, etc.) could improve quality of life as they get reduced mobility. Have you used VR to augment your life experiences? I have tried a few VR experiences that are very good and it seems likely that really high quality VR with haptics could both help people with physical problems and in the future, provide fun experiences if we get downloaded to an artificial body/brain. Do you have any opinions on this?
> I'm wondering why geoengineering is not being seriously considered as a solution at this point.

Because an overshoot in the other direction would be even worse than a couple degrees of warming. Feedback loops can work both ways. We are currently in an ice age[1] and glaciation covering most of the northern hemisphere could happen in about a decade[2]. Reducing emissions is just tuning a known activity and second order effects aside is perfectly safe, but geoengineering is a giant unknown that could cause catastrophic consequences.

[1]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/cause-ice-age/

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC34297/
It's a dream. There is something about our luck of being born in a good and wealthy place; then close it off, hence punishing people because they happen to be born in shitty place.
The Case for Billionaire Philanthropy
Very few developers are prepared to write code that can efficiently use 256 threads / machine. At that level, cache coherency becomes a real and non-trivial problem.

In most cases, I suspect developers will see improved wall-clock times with substantively worse FLOPS/watt. Good for developers, bad for data-centers.
Workaround == loophole?
I have a hunch that internet platforms are making the media show it's true colours by revealing how shoddy it is in comparison. The amount of constant smear attacks against new media personalities and big tech to mind. Not that I dislike criticism of big tech, but notice how it wasn't a problem for them until YouTubers (political or not) really started affecting their bottom line as less people go to the news for "entertainment".

Also, say what you want about PewDiePie, but he was able to go toe-to-toe with The Wall Street Journal and win (at least in terms of views and reputation). This just shows how much they've lost control.
I meant as in search revenue: something like 90% of revenue is from ad sales or sales around search
Been there, done that.

"Upper management want us to be able to offload burst capacity to AWS, MS, Google or other public provider, do what you can to make it work but I reckon in-house can beat them on pricing"

Six months later -

"Congrats, good work! We showed them, we're getting a new data centre!"
> (after it GA’s)

What's the typical latency for these kinds of features to arrive?
Tried it with Aklavik, Jakarta, Caracas and also Mumbai, Portland, Havana.

Both said "no results"
I don't see the benefit of switch from sublime to vscode. What am I missing? Does vscode offer something different?
Interestingly, some of the macOS shortcuts work but not others. I can kill text, for example, but yanking it back doesn't seem to work.
A privacy policy (even though its open source and one can go look up the code) would help alleviate user concerns adopting this.
Gitlab became Github first, and then added devops features.

No doubt there will soon be a Gitlab blog post passive aggressively complaining about Github copying them again.
Or on macOS, to quickly format the contents of your clipboard:

pbpaste | jq . | pbcopy

Pretty sure this is one of my most frequent commands.
I couldn't quickly find out if these features are now supported but what I really want is:

- Actions can fail, but still continue (more like an additional success/failure status)

- Manually triggered actions (maybe with parameters that need to be entered by the user)

- Artifacts attached to actions especially HTML reports (next to plain text, this is the universal output type for a lot of quality tools)
In Germany prostitution is legal and with the exception of st Pauli the red light districts are the opposite of tourist attractions.
I'm not even specifying a topic.

I'm saying there's benefit to moderating off topic discussions regardless of the nature of said content.
Im sick of seeing these sorts of nonsense questionons on HN. This isnt a question at all, it's an assertion which offers no evidence. This sort of thing wastes everyone's time and draws attention away from fruitful discussion, perhaps even by design. People who earnestly want to engage should avoid falling into the trap of responding and thereby increasing the visibility of these bad faith comments.
Its also nice to not be forced to pay the Apple tax to repair your device. Apple is trying their darnedest to prevent independent repair shops from extending the life of Apple products, while Apple tosses boards out, and generates more e-waste, instead of actually repairing components. But yeah, it is certainly nice to have Apple tell you that Apple thinks your Apple authorized battery, that was installed in an Apple authorized store, by an Apple trained and Apple authorized Genius is working just fine. Priorities.
It's not relevant to talk about the cost of something without also talking about over what period of time, and the myth that immigrants are a net negative to the US is completely ungrounded.

Further, the notion that something must not have any negative consequences to be a net positive is an insane one, and not how any rational thinker applies themselves to a problem.

There is no fallacy of an open border, and the short term costs are lower with immigrants than they are with native born Americans (see the myriad of articles I linked if you don't believe me). Lower short term costs, similar-to-better long term benefits (again, a well supported idea), it is a no brainer; immigrants are a better investment for Americans to make than on themselves!

Now obviously it's silly to say, "Kick out Americans, let immigrants take their place" but pretending like there's a cost to be considered for letting immigrants in is hilariously selective in its application of fiscal responsibility, when we spend so much money trying to keep immigrants out.
are you arguing that it cannot be racist unless it's law? So if I start throwing around racial epithets it's not racist because it's not law?
Not sure I understand. From my understanding Azure Pipelines is a service offered as part of Azure DevOps. Does this make the offerings of Azure Pipelines redundant?
so the economy grows through immigration instead of debt.

Without debt how would the state pay the monthly income for the increasing number of people coming to collect it?
I can't help but feel a little worried about this. GitHub's UI has become a lot less coherent as they rapidly develop new functionality. The simplicity/focus was one of the main reasons I preferred it to GitLab. Blurring the line between the two makes it easier to imagine switching, not harder.
What is the difference between a President of Product, and a VP of Product?

Obviously a President is "higher" than a Vice President, but most companies have a VP Eng/Product, but not a President of Eng/Prod
Princeton theoretical physicist Steven Gubser has died
Japan attacked China with the blessing of Teddy Roosevelt, a secret 1905 treaty allowed Japan to expand into Asia without push back from the US.

Pearl harbor happened because we reneged on this "secret treaty" by backing China 30 years later in the 2nd Sino-Japanese War... we reneged because congress had no clue the treaty existed.

Side note: Is Teddy Roosevelt the reason we got dragged into WW2? Yes.
Let's not forget that this does cause some negative externalities. I like the idea of it overall, but I think we need fewer people on the planet (1bb max probably) and a more overall educated and wealthy population for it to be successful. You would probably also want to start with non "western" countries (including Japan etc.) because if you start with, say, the US and the EU, it would almost immediately become uncontrollable. It also doesn't factor in disruption in local communities, changing how others live their lives or how they afford to live their lives now. Some of the tensions we see now are directly linked to mixing of cultures (and subsequent local divisions). At least that's how I see it.
Well, yes. You can write a web application in Haskell and enjoy the beautiful and flexible type system, first order functions, monads and all the other wonderful things. But you shouldn't. Because when you leave, the client will never be able to find someone to maintain the damn thing and chances are they will hire someone else to rewrite it yet again in PHP. And possibly hire someone to make a voodoo doll of you and stick pins up its ass.
Thanks!

I'm not sure if for large open source projects, these machines will be nearly enough to run the CI jobs.

The price for Linux seems quite steep when you compare with for example what you pay with GCP.

It will be interesting to see the Github security teams catching those "public" repos doing nasty stuff like mining crypto - even with hard timeouts on each job it will be cool to see how this plays out!
Nah, I didn't take it that way
1 - Yes, $100 / month.

2 - We bill per monthly active user, so if they're active that month, we'll bill for them. If that's too much for you, please reach out to david@retool.com and I'll try to find some pricing plan that works for you.

3 - No, you can build as many apps as you want.

Thanks for the questions!
Why is this a conspiracy theory? In the pejorative sense of the term (because conspiracy theory doesn't mean false).

The USAF has been pretty open about how alien conspiracies help them. Makes it harder for enemies to distinguish fact from fiction. Sure the Russians know the aircraft at Area 51 aren't aliens, but it makes it harder to get good reports on capabilities of these aircraft. Op Sec is a major part of any agency. They always have been trying to obscure information. Many agencies have often both over and under reported their technological capabilities. This tactic has thousands of years of history and has been essential for all that time too. Propoganda is part of this too.

At least I read the parent talking about it in this manner. As Op Sec. Which of course it is. Anything that a government agency officially releases is in some form or another Op Sec. That's not conspiracy. That's like saying that when corporations make public announcements that they aren't trying to do something beneficial for the company, even if it is damage control.

Sure, we know they don't have AGI. But that's not what matters with Op Sec like this.
Ask HN: How to get my product in front of a more diverse audience?
I've started making a computer security course on YouTube. I'd like to get it in front of the widest range of people possible. I really just know reddit and HN well. Are there other sites I should be targeting or other approaches I could be taking to get this in front of a different demographic (in any sense of the word!)?
Nat just said on stage Nov 13 for GA (for GHES it will be later)
I try to do the same, I certainly walk away with extra pep after those exchanges.

Elevators are a great example, just a quick “have a great day / night” seems to make people happy.
aka

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Do kids that skip the racket course generally do better than those that don't?

This is likely to have some confounding factors, considering the usual mechanics of skipping a university course.
The other American problem is completely unsocialized kids. Children are kept with their family or in tightly controlled social environments. They never experience unstructured environments or adults not from their family.

From time to time, a colleague brings their child to work (because childcare fell through, or something), and they get to interact with strangers! It's weird, they are afraid, they don't know what to say, they generally don't know how to conduct themselves. Oftentimes they are distractingly loud, can't entertain themselves and generally annoy everyone within earshot. And since you are not a parent you are not supposed to discipline the little shits!

Soon they are teenagers and enter the working environment, still without social experience. The Apocalypse is on its way.
>the places with the strictest border controls are often those that are quite desirable

cheeky counterexample: North Korea
The same criticism (which is a valid one) is doubly true of Lisp, but Lisp doesn't take half the flak that JavaScript does.
And the roaming polar bears
This hasn't been my experience at all. What was your "legitimate criticism"?
Open borders != citizenship.
Most devs I know are creating async workloads which don't require cache coherency, as they use parallelism to parallel process separate requests and workloads. I can see things being pretty linear in that sort of space.
It seems like you independently came to the conclusion of Naval's thesis.

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103497725173760?lang=en

Maybe you are looking for sovereignty, where you do things not because you "have" to but because you "choose" to.

The idea your touching upon might be bigger than just your "day job" but how you spend your time and what decides that.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations
We'll be alright.
Unless you happen to be a traveler, then they just delete you.
or perhaps 'Product Area'?
We miss you Yogi!

Now that you've shipped, come back and hang out at the house soon!