skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You likely wouldn’t find DIMMs small enough to boot it though. When I tried to prank my boss by replacing the HDD in his machine with one loaded with W95 it would not boot with even 512mb.
I'd expect to see a lot of foreign investors pull their money out of the US and invest elsewhere.
I uh...Sorry are you mad that an electron application is using ~80mb more than other native applications?

I cannot fathom the indignity required to care about that difference.
Introduction to Event Streaming with Kafka and Kafdrop
What a tremendous display of empathy and leadership to visit your grieving employee.
It's the same in France, and many other western countries.

I think it's just the usual "Australians not realizing they live in a bubble", and kindly warning the rest of the world about laws or practices that have already been in place in our countries for twenty years.
> equating Russian oligarchs to American businessmen

Do you understand that many Russian oligarchs actually were American Businessmen?

Eg; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder
Just remember it has two non-adjacent t's, two adjacent t's, two adjacent n's, and two non-adjacent s's. It's easy!!
Legally, 0 alcohol is not the required standard except in some cases for minors in some states.

Especially for a man who has more bodyweight, having a small amount of alcohol with food over a dinner or something should not be an issue and not cause significant impairment.

Admittedly a lot of people take this standard and don’t realize their drinking is actually in excess, especially with wine or stronger beers. There are those toy breathalyzers which you can buy from amazon and test it yourself, but most people don’t and I’m sure the calibration on those is far worse than the police ones.
If you don't care about electricity/thermals, midtier 95w 4core chips from 2011 are still plenty fast. If you do care about energy, then Intel gets better every year, with 5w tdp-down i7 chips coming out.
Again this shows a complete lack of understanding how software development works.

If you have a public function “A” that is implement using private methods B,C,D. The implementor is free to change B, C, D or completely get rid of them to implement A. This is software engineering 101. Apple was able to make multiple cpu transitions doing this. Back in the PPC days, non native apps could run at near native speeds calling public APIs that were implemented by changing the private interface.
Why would property taxes go down? The property value has gone up.

At least you are being honest that the goal here is to force people out of their homes so that people with tech jobs can buy them.
My former boss used to get really exercised by my doodling in meetings. He tried to bust me on not paying attention until I recounted in detail the meeting discussion along with several questions about subtle points that came up from various comments during the meeting.

Subsequent to that, guess who got canned, and who has since been promoted TWICE to a very senior level and still doodles (during remote online meetings).

The last is an exercise left to the reader :)
I didn't offer any opinion as to whether the work of creating goid user experiences is _necessary_. Since you brought it up, I think that it most certainly _is_ - just that in my experience, people with "UX" in their title tend to be the most adversarial to that concern.
I just cannot understand how so many people would find meth enjoyable.

It's clearly an epidemic, but why? I take regular old amphetamines for productivity (technically ADHD), and they're really effective, but not what I would consider a recreational experience.

If I take too much, I'll be focused like a laser beam, but I'll forget to eat/drink, dripping in sweat, unable to sleep, and in a really unpleasant headspace when they wear off.

It makes me wonder if most meth users are starting out by self-medicating for ADHD and it somehow spirals out of control? I wonder if meth users had access to prescription stimulants if they'd still need more and get addicted. Maybe some people react differently than I do.

I'd like to try meth once just to see why it's such a big thing, but Desoxyn is pretty much impossible to come by, and I'm not smoking street meth or cooking my own.
The problem is already solving itself as well as it can.

The world is running out of any fossil fuel except natural gas which can be extracted more cheaply than the various types of renewables.

With $100 USD/bbl oil you don't need protests and activism to switch away from fossil fuels, simple economics will drive energy choices. Saudi Arabia is going to run out, and it is likely they have been exaggerating their reserves and production capacity for political reasons. It won't take much to explode the price of oil and people know it and are planning for it.
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
The boss in this story should be used as an example for others to learn from. What a great person.
In particular, anything about single-use plastics is mostly a distraction. There's something to be said for the emissions cost of delivering and disposing of them, but in general, sucking oil out of the ground, turning it into plastic objects, and then burying those plastic objects back in the ground is a "complete lifecycle", much more so than releasing that oil's carbon into the atmosphere via combustion.

All the more so if the plastic objects are mostly buried alongside other plastic objects where they can be dug up and reprocessed later on as the need arises.
>Just don't take my freedom of self destruction. It's an important one to me, whether or not you feel the same.

You have that freedom regardless of whether the government allows deadly food to be sold or not. A famous libertarian economist once said that we can't only consider the ideal in isolation from the actual policies that are enacted toward that ideal - his main consideration was the capitalist idea of freedom, but mine is the idea of public health and harm due to negligence.

>I'm just trying to eat a hypothetical pufferfish, maaaan.

No you're not, you're arguing for society to be structured in such a way that companies are allowed to use dangerous products in what they sell to people. You can eat the pufferfish (and I must say that I urge you to) but that doesn't mean others should have to bear the cost of fearing if their next meal will kill them.

>No, that isn't a good reason to arrest me for buying or selling a fish.

This is about as reductionist as the claim that knife murder is simply the actuation of muscles and the thrusting of a metal object. How can you illegalise moving metal objects?

>The most ridiculous laws you people make are the ones that make parts of nature illegal

Plenty of things part of nature are illegal, including (but not limited to) rubbing the back of a frog that produces deadly toxins onto all the objects in your home.
That's a very valid point, and I don't want to go too overboard in my criticism. However I don't think my assessment is wrong. If he really was the one pushing for this decision then I think he should be fired. It's not just about getting it so wrong when he should have known better, it's about ignoring all of the internal push-back from employees who were trying to prevent him from fucking it up the first place. Bullies in the C-suite should be removed.

> but not really worse than I would expect from any misc C-level in any industry.

This is my take as well, unfortunately, but I think it needs to change. There are loads of competent people who can perform these executive jobs. The bar should be higher.
> Also, wtf are you talking about?

TTLS.

> Did you even read the article?

Sure did which is why I referenced it.

> Most sit between? 0-15 minutes.

This is true in that the range encapsulates most keep-alive timeouts not in that keepalives longer than a minute or two are actually the majority. nginx defaults to 100 seconds, Apache is less than that. Most don't mess with these let alone bump them to 900. Generally 60 to 120 is considered standard with some cap on the number of active keep-alive sessions as well. Some go ultra-low or disable it all together, very few go ultra-high.

> WTF is your timeout?

120.

Also please try to keep the conversations together.
Sadly, this is a deal-breaker for most commercial applications...
BTW, copying the entire app to a new directory did begin to take a while after a couple years, and I never got around to solving that. However, I believe it's quite possible to implement COW: hardlink the hell out of the current version, then beat rsync into replacing differing files instead of updating them in-place. The hardlinking part could be done before the deployment even begins—or you could copy the files instead of hardlinking to avoid altering them accidentally.

Or could probably just use overlayfs or something like that.

Note that, while containers can give you COW, they shouldn't really be necessary for the files of the app. And with php-fpm, changing the app dir is faster than restarting containers: it's actually done via changing the Nginx config.
> I find it strange that a private API can be used accidentally, without something notifying the developer before they’ve gotten to the stage of submitting their app.

It's difficult to use private API accidentally. However, it is possible to use a dependency that purposefully uses private API, which is what happened here.

> Do they provide automated tools for developers to use?

No.

> Or a flag that fails your build if you’re trying to call private APIs

Kinda, but that doesn't help you if your dependency is trying really hard to use that API and has been precompiled.

> For that matter, how are the reviewers catching these API usages?

They're running somewhat stupid static analysis and possibly some dynamic analysis? They don't tell you what they do but they're not very good at it and don't generally catch even basic obfuscation. However, if a human finds your private API usage and you look like you're trying to obfuscate it, they won't be nearly as lenient.
If cars go electric and there is less demand for gas, oil refineries will produce less asphalt as a byproduct of oil refining. Demand for cement will go up to pave streets for electric cars to run on.
>How can you prove that it was accidental and not intentional?

I imagine that if you happen across it while moderating then you won't really know what you'll find, because you're relying on reports or random browsing to find offending content. That is, as long as you're following reasonable procedures for moderating then that should be good enough, no?
Merkel wants Germany to have 1m electric car charging points by 2030
It’s perfect relative to the most wildly optimistic expectations anyone could have reasonably held beforehand.

The vocals don’t have any significant residual artefacts from drum hits or any residual bleed-through of instruments playing the same notes. It’s magical.
One time a hotel - which I had fully paid for a week earlier - kept badgering us for money throughout our stay. They said that we had been given too low of a rate due to some error. The rate wasn't even low, they were just trying to scam us. Furthermore, they had our booking for 1 week and they chose not to contact us about the issue until we arrived (making it really infeasible to change hotels on such a short notice).

Another time our hotel room was smelling like a sewer and the hotel refused to fix the issue or move us to another room.

Just two examples there. Hotels are generally awful.
I know of a couple major us companies that do include Israel along with other usual suspects but they don’t spray about it on the internet. There’s also growing concern regarding what corporate equipment you can take across us border so there’s that.
It is incompatible with our human rights to eliminate inherited fortunes. The only way we can achieve that goal is by separating children from their parents from birth and letting them live in randomly chosen boarding schools until they become adults and even then we must forbid them from ever meeting their parents lest they inherit an unfair advantage. There is also a technical limitation: Children always inherit the DNA of their parents so even with the utmost care it is inherently impossible to correct this injustice.

By the way there is a reason why my answer is so extreme: inheritance starts as soon as you are born, not just when your parents die
You only have to look at worrying trend of declining minimum wages in very many developed countries to find employer exploitation is alive and well.

My preference would be for law makers started with laws that forced companies to give theirs workers a fair days pay for a fair days work.
In what surreal world do you live where all stores open at the same time? You need to either memorize or look up opening hours online anyway.
Your dependencies (including the transitive ones) are your responsibility. If you can't keep track of them, perhaps you fucked up. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3344149
Also natural habitats need to be protected. I'm so sick of plastic straw theater though. Plastics barely matter at all for the environment!
As a contractor working on project basis, who can leverage this technique to produce code of such high quality that a commensurate price can be commanded.

You’d need to find a niche that values this level of quality, but if that exists, and if the theory is true, then there’s your gold.
No, that's because they're 32-bit apps, which iOS no longer supports.
“His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbours sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counselled one and all, and everyone said “Amen.”

Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Do you have any references on the actual speed of reabsorption? I tried to find some, but didn't have much luck. I've heard numbers as high as 200 years to absorb all of it, but I don't know how "all" was defined for that metric. 90%, 99%, 99.99%? The actual rate of reabsorption is a pretty critical metric here. Even if it only takes 50 or 100 years to absorb half of it, that may not be fast enough as CO2 levels in the next 50 years are still pretty important considering potential feedback loops that could be triggered in that time frame.
"Working vacation."

Do one or the other, please. Otherwise you're not doing either very well.
The problem is how to adequately choose the person in charge. Adam Smith wrote a book that explains this pretty well.

Your idea is appealing in basic theory, for sure, but a few thousand years of experiment and more sophisticated theory of actual human nature disproves it.
> build useful software for people and live a nice life.

You left us hanging. How will you do this?
It's funny how they try to make us look like the bad guys for using blockers and then they always try and pull a fast one on us. I'd have no sympathy if internet ads became impossible one day.
CI isn’t as sensitive to a few more seconds though, as it isn’t interactive.

And while lockfiles are convenient, they are far from making anything “impractical”. I take Conrad correctness over minor conveniences any day.
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Yes debacle, because why are we only talking about gov secrets here. You know, industrial espionage is real too and some big potential customers could just as well reside outside the US.
Was the app's name mentioned?
That’s nice you’re being transparent.

Be transparent about your theft of IP with that Meltano ripoff of Looker.
I think that's missing the point that should be obvious that people, including you, are simply misidentifying "self-interest" as if a person was an abstraction of an employee.

Every person has many interests. You have an interest in a salary, but you can still get a different job if necessary. You have an interest in staying out of prison that probably overrides doing what your boss says. You have an interest in your retirement savings, but you also have an interest in clean water. Nobody wants a company to poison the river in their town just to get 0.1% more of a dividend. Often people claim that others behave in this way, but it's absurd.

The peculiar mental state people seem to be in when talking politics is that they think they have an identity as a member of a class, rather than a human being that belongs to many classes at the same time.

I guess people talk about intersectionality, but I think that is a way to compartmentalize being human as a special thing special people do on special occasions.
I was wondering about the same, and have been trying to seek prior work along those lines. Here's what I've come across so far, regarding use of Beam VM (Erlang/Elixir) for robotics:

1. Nerves seems like a promising platform: https://nerves-project.org/

2. There's also Grisp ("Erlang on bare metal")

3. Jean Francois Cloutier's DDD talks on using Elixir for behavioral robots (3 annual updates; I really liked these)

4. A handful of talks on YouTube when searching for "erlang robotics" or "elixir robotics", but I haven't had a chance to check out all of them yet.

The superficial catch is that most ML progress in the recent past has focused on exploiting data parallellism (SIMD; rather than concurrency / task parallellism), and I don't know whether Erlang is as great at that. But supposedly it has a very good FFI, because it was designed to interface nicely with C programs running on network equipment.

ROS "feels" like clunky/heavy scaffolding for what should be simple and transparent plumbing. Instinctively, the Erlang VM seems like the perfect platform for building an agent doing fault tolerant concurrent computations -- but I don't have any Erlang/Elixir experience. I'd love to hear about any other pointers, or discussion along these lines.
I think its worth considering how long that long tail is:

https://www.cement.org/for-concrete-books-learning/concrete-...

Taking at a look at the link above (which is published by pretty much the more pro-cement group you can imagine), we get that carbon resorption is a thing, that certainly there is a potential for many structures to achieve carbon neutrality over their design lifespans, and that in the "best case", we're talking about 100% carbon neutrality over decades. We also get that 100% carbon resorption is not a design goal of many forms of current reinforced concrete applications since the presence CaC03 increases rebar corrosion.

Taken at face value then, what you have is that cement currently emits 8% of all human carbon activity, that over the timespan of decades, it may self sequester itself to 4%, but probably somewhere in between. So even if we trivially converted kiln sources to renewables, there's still probably a decent chunk of carbon emitted in cement creation process that may never be self-sequestered.

I think understanding what that final number comes out to would be pretty useful thing to understand, and is hardly scare-mongering.

I think once we drill into our heads that we need to decarbonize, after "the easy step" of cutting fossil fuel use, litterally every other form of decarbonization consists of chasing down some carbon source that accounts for the 2-5% range. There will be no low hanging fruit left.
It's actually in the discussion:

> There is an unacceptably high risk that these nations may apply pressure to individuals living within their borders with sensitive data access (based their role at GitLab). It is our concern. And it is the stated concerns of several customers.

The discussion is actually pretty significant, as they sort out how they might manage the _customer demand_ that is creating these hiring blocks, and in turn, how that is reported and tracked.

I don't see this as a purely "done deal", it's a company having very important discussions in the open that most would just default to "restricted". All this transparency is a great source for others to learn from.
That is a load of cow manure aka confirmation bias. Israel has no compunction spying on the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/...

There are definitely Chinese and Russian spies but there are spies from many countries besides those. The question is why are you singling out those countries and why now.

The reason is that there is a Cold War brewing between the US and China and this company has become an agent of that war.

The seems to be a propaganda war against China brewing in the US. I last saw this level of jingoism when Bush Jr decided to take over Iraq on the pretense of Saddam Hussein supposedly having nuclear weapons. All the TV network anchors were pushing for war and pushing the supposed threat. Later we find out it was all lies.
Why do you think trust-busting precludes reducing crime and maintaining a strong economy?
Good job being transparent.

How about you be transparent about the theft of IP that was Meltano, though.

You literally linked to documentation from the company whose IP you stole. Gl, hope you have a good legal team.
I am not sure if it is a good idea to add PostgREST to your stack. As PostgREST can only interact with your DB, so you would probably be calling PostgREST from another REST. In this case, you would be better off using ORM.
What a ridiculous question... why would you not want the option to download Electron apps through the app store?
Please let me know what you are going to get instead....

I bet is phones home as well, and probably does not even have a opt-out at all.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21420061
My X Gold on training wheels
AFAIU this is making use of feature flags.

Uploading new code to a server where the new-code is behind a disabled feature flag means the program hasn't changed. The feature flag can be enabled when it's suitable. (This could even be 'rolled out' to only a subset of users; e.g. testers, internal, 10% of users, etc.)

deploy = put the code on the server, release = enable the feature flags
the term "Libertarianism" was leftist in the 19th century. Nowadays it refers to laisez-faire capitalism and the austrian school. Get on with the times people
Unfortunately in most companies those who wear the UX title are just UI designers. Real UX is about researching and performing experiments on how your customers interact and use your software. So you can make proven decisions on how to design your product. Not I think buttons should look prettier and how do we make this look cooler.
How do you do CRUD with views? I know Reads are what views do.
If you want something unique, like the Buchla 200, I highly recommend Wiard. A few modules are end of life but you can add in some Euro rack to add sequencing or other modulation sources.

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