skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much like the Russian newspapers I don't think this will be taken very seriously as a source like Wikipedia... the only reason this might be 'scary' is how Wikipedia gives them credibility.

Russia creating a propaganda site provides none of that.
haha, a thing of beauty. He's a madman.

This is what you were referring to right?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HbvjE5OQ

Would be some serious road rash if things went wrong on that thing!
> These companies don't use MySQL directly. They use it indirectly as the storage component of a larger architecture.

Yes and no. Often it's both. I say this first-hand, having performed significant work on the database tier for two of the companies I listed, and consulted for several others.

For example, while Facebook's largest db tier goes through a dao / writethru cache, there's plenty of other use-cases that are direct MySQL usage.

And in any case, why does it matter if there's another layer involved? It's still MySQL powering mission-critical global-scale use-cases. And for example with YouTube, literally the primary benefit of Vitess is that your application can treat it as a single normal unsharded MySQL installation, so those interactions are still very MySQLy.
I never found likers writing to be compelling. I’m sure the foundational ideas are great but I found other books about Kaizen were more interesting
Yes, you were. And you effectively had proven the point I made in my root comment. If your notion of large-scale maintenance involves only the problems that can be caught by a typechecker, you don't know what real maintenance looks like. Which means that even your comments about the issues that can be prevented by a type-checker are suspect.

Again, the wast majority of claims made about FP on Hacker News right now (even in this thread) were made about Java in early 00s. Almost word-to-word, except some terminology. Unfortunately, back then I didn't have enough experience to spot the issues with those claims and people who did have real experience were mostly silent.
Would you be interested in writing a short editorial on this for the Lua Digest newsletter?

https://luadigest.netlify.app
YouTube bot flags commentators for spam and disables their entire Google account
That link is gonna stay un-clicked. No thanks.
phpstan, phan, and psalm all exist and can provide these sorts of static analysis checks.
Is that a prediction for the simple @ validation that was suggested? If so, I'm curious about possible cases
If you and your contacts remain within the Apple ecosystem, iMessage?

A private IRC server?
> "you're just plain wrong" can be "I don't think that's correct" or "I feel this may be mistaken".

I read these sorts of communications as passive-aggressive and patronizing 100% of the time. I'm certain I'm not the only one. And your assumption that your rewording was a constructive comment is unwarranted and condescending.
You're perfectly correct. The advantage of social media, if it exists at all, is symmetric between right and left. The 2008 Obama campaign was universally celebrated in the press for its deft use of social media [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], which included data mining in the style of Cambridge Analytica but at several times the scale, and using that data to hyper-target its message. Strangely, at the time this was universally called the future of democracy, not its end.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.htm...

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/nov/07/barackoba...

2: https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2008/11/19/barack-ob...

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71bH8z6iqSc

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmcyHpG31A
Why? It is definitely from "left" (and rvalue is from "right"). It's pretty obvious.

If you need proof you can look it up in the standard:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/15765936/265521
There was never any conundrum. "Sorry" can be correctly used in both an apology or in expressing sorrow. In saying, "I'm sorry for your loss," the context makes it clear that the speaker is not penitent, but sympathetic.
One could say that the existence if demons has to start somewhere...
They're testing the waters for that already, https://www.zdnet.com/article/at-t-to-auto-block-fraud-roboc...
> And maybe I am less shocked by this affair because in many European cities, wearing a MAGA hat would be seen pretty close as wearing nazi insignia. Under it, lies either someone very racist or someone very confused. And either way probably someone that is not going to have a constructive participation.

That's what I'd call paranoia. Because the nazi insignia isn't in the least comparable to a MAGA hat. In fact, the nazi insignia is much more comparable to Antifa insignia.

Also keep in mind the KKK were democrats.
I think that's because the proper way to accomplish something like that in SQL is via specification. I do agree with you, though, postgres added enums (another feature that it's not strictly needed in SQL, but nice-to-have) but not something like that.

It's possible to emulate union types in SQL with triggers (i.e. check that the field A and B cannot be NULL at the same time, but it does not work if NULL is be a possible value.)

An aside: I wish some relation database adopted sum types: I didn't thought about the implications, but doing 'create table foo ( bar Maybe integer );' and then 'select Some bar ...' would be cool (and maybe a cleaner way to work with NULL.)
That's changed- I get calls all the time on my GV number. I think the initial "success" might have been due to the number blocks being previously flagged as unused. Especially when the minimum block size was still 10,000.
Does anonymity change us, or does it reveal our true selfs?
See also ditaa: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

It's quite buggy though, and seemingly unmaintained. I'm hoping to spare a weekend or two sometime in the near future to write a replacement but we'll see..

I'm not a huge fan of most of the rest of the text-to-graph tools because they give me so little control over how things are laid out, and while there are ways to give layout hints, it feels like an uphill battle to get them to reproduce the information you have in your head / on paper.
I used this last week for a 4 node rpi4 cluster. Great user experience.
Yes, this is as detailed as the last article about c++ vs rust microbenchmarks. Excellent content, and likely tooka really long time to write.
1. "Hot"-style ranking

2. Non-dogshit UI
Parallel Programming in Split-C [pdf]
This article explains a bit about it:

http://icelandreport.blogspot.com/2006/03/necks.html
False. There are many other people in the replies saying they had the same experience.
For Python, Flask and Django are awesome. Ruby on Rails is awesome. For Go, just learn Go. I have some experience with each of these and I think they're all great choices.
If it is 'intentional' it still could be sabotage.

A decade of no issues like this then suddenly a bunch at the same time the bigs are buying into vaping and the legal market for marijuana is growing. The blue ocean of vaping and marijuana is here, both the black market mafias/cartels and the big fish want it and to shakeout the small/medium suppliers you need an event like this. Not to mention the anti-smoking and cigarette lobbies in with the prohibitionists and presidential and governor executive orders, mere months after Altria buys into Juul (Dec 2018), very sketchy and suspect. Top it off it is a big target of propagandists and bot networks right now. Add all that up and it seems like a planned event after sabotage.

The bigs and the mafias/cartels can weather the storm, the small startups and small/medium businesses that have made safe products for over a decade are the target of attack.

In my opinion it was market sabotage on purpose. Every new blue ocean market has events like this and it is from various sources: big fish, underground mafias/cartels, prohibitionists, authoritarians, puritans and moral patrols.

This is America.

People not thinking it is about market power and money are naive as hell.

You think this is for health reasons? laughable. From the country that can't even get healthcare to everyone?

Same with all bans and prohibitions, makes it more unsafe and more lucrative for mafias/cartels because there is decreased supply and increased demand, price goes up, in comes the underground and big fish and more danger.
I suspect most people who grew up with it have a lower chance of having neuroses around it. In the very least, the standard issue 25 year old is only passively engaged with social media in my experience as a current 25 year old. Outliers exist but it’s kind of obvious to everyone else that social media obsession is weird and unhealthy
I really enjoyed the Phoenix project but I have to admit the practices they followed in the last 1/4 of the book were barely described and simply worked almost like magic.
"Many of the spoofers and robocallers the agency tries to punish are individuals and small operations, he added, which means they are at times unable to pay the full penalties." - cant pay the fine? Go to jail, you are breaking the law.

Yet another example of the incompetence of the FCC and Pai
This one is interesting considering it almost became a 'featured article':

> Bicholim conflict

> Fictitious war between the Portuguese rulers of Goa and the Maratha Empire which supposedly took place from mid-1640 to early 1641. It was assessed as a good article in September 2007, but failed a featured article nomination the next month as page numbers were not provided for references. ShelfSkewed (talk · contribs) investigated these references in 2012 and found that the main works cited do not actually exist.
One of the longest and most elaborate hoax articles on Wikipedia. Probably the only to have been assessed a good article.
I'd like to see a 2 year study on absence of Omega-6 and/or Seed oils in the diet.
The Legend of A-N-N-A
NixOS is awesome, but contributing to Nixpkgs is at least a little challenging. The tooling leaves a bit to be desired, and it’s really hard to keep all of the guidelines and rules in your head. It would be an excellent experience if there was extensive linting and the tools were easier to understand, imo.

Certainly isn’t an easy problem.

It’s still probably a lot better than contributing to say, Debian. OTOH, the PR backlog is always daunting.
CoreAnimation is not a private API. Everything directly mentioned in that post is public API. Firefox may use private API but it’s not mentioned in the post.
A non shared space shouldn’t be set up by a third party. 5S is valuable for any shared spaces, including code bases
This is a less studied senario for time series research: contextual forecasting. With enough contextual information, forecasting doesn't need to squeeze the information from its own history that hard.
A better ranking system is the key
I thought the Google SRE book was more actionable with a better set of principles to follow.
We should like, give tax breaks or pay people based on how nationally-unique they name their child. Should be an easy system to implement. Some like inverse log or inverse root of the frequency of the name within the existing population.
And so why is the former consistently portrayed as useless, while the other (targeted in precisely the same way, in fact probably less accurately) is portrayed as literal mind control?
The idea of ubiquitous need for significant enforced correctness assurance is one of the worst things in software. Correctness is a resource like time or memory. Some applications need extremely high resource of correctness, some applications don’t (and can even fail badly, usually due to delay or rigidity, if they have an over-provisioning of correctness).

The presumption that every type of project should fundamentally begin with adherence to patterns guaranteeing high resource usage of correctness is a bad type of premature optimization / premature abstraction.

Rust & Haskell are great tools in the rare cases you do need extreme correctness. But in my experience most situations do not benefit from spending that cost (the ways Haskell & Rust enforce program structure is a huge cost) to get correctness, and you can get approximately just as much correctness with pretty low-touch unit & integration tests in most languages, without heavy costs of roundtrip compile times, static typing, forced (instead of selective) management of mutability and ownership, and so on.
Exactly. The absolute best test for whether or not an email address is valid or not is if the mail arrives to the intended recipient.

And if you are going to do that email validation step anyways, you could probably get away with just using the simple highly permissible "smoke test" regex for your email address input form validation.
Unless you have a system which also references dead people. ("Oh! Those exist?") There are administrative databases spanning centuries..."just use a random year in the 19th century" is just a y2k bug in a new suit.
The US' political system and law enforcement only serves businesses and not its citizens. Until that stops this is just another symptom of the problem.
If the ambulance takes 4 minutes more to get to the hospital, don't we expect it to get on scene 4, or at least a few, minutes later?
Yeah - I envy those with Apple Watches since that's the best one on the market (IMO). I've been waiting to pull the trigger on jumping ecosystems but it's a big change.

Android warning: I've used a Samsung Galaxy smart watch and it was horrible. Messages wouldn't actually notify etc. I used it for a day and never touched it again after spending probably 4+ hours searching forums on how to fix the multiple issues I was having. The breaking point for the Galaxy watch was when I saw people installing dodgy 3rd party apps to get simple stuff like text message notifications working. That experience was bad enough that I have actively been avoiding purchasing Samsung anything, it showed me that they'll ship a buggy product without a second thought.

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I can however definitely recommend the Garmin Fenix - I've been wearing a Fenix 3 HR Sapphire for three years now and although it's a VERY simple device (limited colors, very few apps, etc.) it's also very effective. I will go as far to say the simplicity is a feature! It's not as smooth as an experience as the Apple Watch, but it's very solid in comparison to other Android options... It's also insanely durable and something I can work on a car with, go hiking with, etc... it should be WAY more dinged up than it currently is (I attribute this to the whole "sapphire face" thing). I will likely continue to stay in the Android/Garmin ecosystem for the time being.
And when you are listening to someone, you control the other. In a dialogue, both parts has to do a bit of both.

Getting offended is basically never a good thing because it stops you from hearing their message. Similarly offending others is basically never a good thing because it stops them from hearing your message. So the best way to communicate is to be liberal with what you accept and strict with what you send out. Also called the robustness principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
In the parent's description, it's not spoofing at all. They've purchased real american (local) phone numbers, and are routing calls through them through other means (like internet...). There's no telephone network level trickery or spoofing going on.
>The middle class (and lower class) has suffered tremendously from the lower cost of labor abroad and the ability to cheaply import goods and services. The upper class has benefited tremendously from the same.

This sounds right but is not very true. Look at the quality of living of lower income people, things like refrigerators, TVs, air conditioning, heaters, smartphones, cars, computers etc, and pretty much everything you can buy at walmart have dropped in price precisely because of the ability to cheaply import goods and services.

Things which cannot be or are not outsourced like college, doctors and hospitals are super expensive and unaffordable, and results not only in things like a saline bag costing hundreds of dollars instead of a couple. And this funnels money to the upper class e.g. doctors and college administrators from the lower classes, and results in inequality. Not to mention raising the income levels of other countries allows a lot of people in the US working for companies with a large overseas revenue component.
I've been suspicious of a few agendas on NPR. That's one, another is putting the brakes on legalization.

They had that Refer Madness 2.0 book guy on within the past year selling FUD. The way they setup a lot of these interviews/segments without people on representing a coherent counter point is suspicious to me to say the least.

EDIT: Derailing some form of universal healthcare is another one I'm suspicious of.
How much do they overlap conceptually?
Because right wingers have higher engagement and are more profitable to target, as outlined in this buzzfeednews piece:

> Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters.
> Earlier in the year, some in Veles experimented with left-leaning or pro–Bernie Sanders content, but nothing performed as well on Facebook as Trump content.
> "People in America prefer to read news about Trump," said a Macedonian 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com.

Personally I think it's because right wingers find obviously made up tabloid pieces hilarious and share with their network where as left wingers are more shocked and appalled that someone would lie on the internet.
> Is it really though[0]? Why Twitter?

Because Twitter has a great network effect, everyone's on it and you can follow anyone you want, make new connections, advertise your projects or products, get your voice heard, follow people you like etc.

Nobody is on the fediverse, why would I get there? The only reason I would go there is to get complete freedom of speech, anything else, Twitter already does it and better thanks to network effects. If you are going to censor political speech you don't like just like twitter, then I see no point in switching.

With the blockchain, you could be banned from a client, but the distributed ledger would still allow you to follow people using other clients. Big difference. I agree that I haven't seen any working solution using a blockchain so far, which is what I said in my initial post. Whenever they manage to make a blockchain scale (if at all possible), then it might happen. Forking the ledger anytime there's a user you politically disagree with sounds very expensive not sustainable. Specially if the ledger is the main BTC or ETH, not gonna be effective.
It is a shame we measure a symptom (speeding) rather than a cause (dangerous driving) to measure safety.

I regularly see dangerous driving: near misses; aggressive tactics that work because other drivers compensate to make safe; too close to cyclists; etcetera.

It would also be nice if we could have a way to carrot or stick "discourteous" driving.

(Yes: without speed limits I think we would all choose to drive faster all the time and be dangerous. Also driving in Australia on open road is comfortable because the speed limit is strictly enforced so there is no overtaking).
How Natural Is Numeracy?
The idea that a person's name should be parsed and managed by software is amusing to me. How about just getting rid of concepts like "last name" and "first name" (which already embed a lot of cultural assumptions), and only ask for a "full name"? In some countries people don't have both first and last names. In some countries the last name customarily comes before the first name. In some countries the structure of names is more complicated and the son's name includes a copy of his father's name. I don't think software will really handle all these oddities correctly, given that just a single parent can undermine all the system's rules by choosing an unconventional name for their children.

For what it's worth, in Singapore, where there are significant Indian, Chinese, Malay ethnicities but also highly westernized, the government identity card provides just a single full name. Parents can choose their children's names in accordance with their culture—or not. You can put your first name before your last name, after it, or surrounding it. Or include your father's name if needed.
Have no idea what your point it. You’re suggesting this is a backend change, meaning that Facebook is going to stop tracking like count, but all they are doing is hiding it in the app. Users can still see their own like count.
Perhaps "harm to reputation" as the GP says?
I'm skeptical that Canada does better at assimilating, just based on first hand empirical evidence I've seen in Vancouver and Toronto. I would agree that Canada is doing better at lifting people out of poverty currently.
Disasters are of course less common than ever.

This trend will continue. Every year it's less common.

People do think they are more common.

So the real issue is probably people are weaker in their heads.

Probably social media is the issue.
> but simply unverifiable or insufficiently notable

I presume the internet archive or wayback machine would have them saved?
Sleep well every night. The crazy healthy impacts of good sleep are astronomical. Avoid fried or heavily processed foods. Keep your circulation up with exercise so your blood gets everywhere it needs to go and through the liver. This also keeps you nicely oxygenated. Look up diabetic sores for some on how that can go bad. Etc
> I don't think dissolving the company is on the table.

Zing! Solid line but it misses the point. As with any other data, you can encrypt source code. It's perfectly easy to envision a setup where Gitlab employees in country X can only see plaintext Gitlab data they could already see over the public internet.
I don’t think I’ve seen vitamin D claimed as an anti inflammatory supplement (or that deficiencies cause inflammation). The same goes for omega 3 to omega 6 ratios. I’ve heard plenty of claims, but not that one.
Just to add (you didn't say otherwise), PHP on HHVM is EoL'd https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/09/12/end-of-php-support-future-o....
One of the other reasons targeted ads are dangerous is coz we are totally oblivious to the fact that it's being served to us not as part of a bigger group of customers but to directly manipulate us into action.
Agreed. This is a good starting point to at least let users know that they can take action to provide funding to OSS if they wish.
There are millions of these people.
There are no doubt destructive tendencies on the far left as well (horrible cult-like groups have survived from the 1960s up till now tbh). But there is important way that a particular so of right-wing approach has fed on the current climate.

Imagine, if you will, a fusion of a hate group, a conspiracy theory and a multilevel marketing campaign (and it's not hard given you can see these things in action today). Such tend to be radical, bizarre but not anti-capitalist since they are quite overtly a business (and arguably "right wing" is not almost the best for them but they're seldom left wing 'cause they're businesses).
Juul's marketing and advertising in the early days was pretty much designed to get teenagers hooked.