skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or would be it be fine if I take an elevator and it falls down and kills me? Or whoops, I got a free candy which turned out to contain toxins. I

Those things are paid for by someone who is expressively giving you rights to those goods/services. Just because Method Gaming is paying for their discord server so you can enjoy your free service, doesn't mean they are necessarily aware that you are using their paid-for server resources. OTOH, if I am renting an apartment from a building (which I pay for) and someone comes to visit me in the elevator, I expect that the elevator cost I pay for through my rent is safe enough for you travel in.

> guess I didn't pay for the service so why do I have some expectations for it to work or be safe?

Safe != privacy. The issue is not necessarily security (although there is an implication there as well), but more so it's privacy.
Not forever, just for 200-500 years.
At work we're building an entire service platform on top of managed kubernetes services, agnostic to cloud provider. We had already had bad experiences running K8s ourselves.

Going into it we knew how much of a PITA it would be but we vastly underestimated how much, IMO.

Would not do again -- I would quit first.
I think you inspired the other front page story lol
That's a bit of a no-true-scotsman there. If the problem is just the markup of choice, we should see an alternative markup emerging any time now. If we see imperative-focused tools instead, maybe it's not just about the markup.
If only the iOS date picker wasn't so fiddly and annoying to use.

Also, in the calendar app, when creating an event, i carefully select the date and time, and then i scroll down to set an alarm - and about half the time, the date picker takes my scroll so i lose the date i just entered. So annoying.
> It can be built faster than Yucca Mountain, enabling it to actually be finished before it can be defunded or protested out of existence.

This should not be touted as a feature. This is a surefire way to create local population blowback and most likely ruin any goodwill you may have been able to leverage.
Uncapping a modem to get more speed used to be possible but I can't imagine how it could be useful: It takes two to tango, so to actually go faster you'd need to get the other party to go faster as well. The other party being the ISP you're attempting to cheat, which has every incentive to monitor such things and act on those monitors.

Morality aside, I just don't see how it could ever end well for the uncapper.
Why then would historians emphasize the importance of primary sources? If you rely on a progression of secondary sources over and over, you get serious misconceptions. Such as, for instance, your notion of the forms as being indicative of a descartian mind/body split. That simply isn't what Plato wrote.

So, as it turns out, not everyone can or should read primary sources. It's only for the select few. But those that do won't be dumber than those that only read secondary sources.
Yes, they do but it depends on the context. In my previous company (web agency) they were solving several issues at the same time:

- Project Manager (Proxy Product Owner) is communicating with the client on a daily basis and is getting some important updates about the progress of the Sprint;

- if there are some unexpected developments (for example, some User Stories appeared to be more complex) the Team and the PO can make a decision about it together, discuss various options, etc;

- the distributed team has a chance to see each other (we were encouraging video calls via Google Meet).

However, there are some certain rules which should be followed in order to make Daily Scrums effective:

- video (or at least audio) conferences for distributed teams – it can actually be slower to have this meeting via Slack;

- they must be timeboxed (15 minutes max);

- stay pragmatic about what you are discussing and ask the feedback of your team about it.
Messing how?

I mean, yes, it is a problem, but so is any networking device anywhere on the Internet — as soon as the traffic leaves my network, all bets are off.

The point is not to allow operator-managed crappy devices (like cable modems) into my network.
In banks it wasn't so much the rules in my experience (although they do make it very difficult to express a negative view on a sector or stock and the minimum hold periods can make life a bit more difficult) as the fact that as soon as you want to make an interesting trade in a single stock and ask for permission, very often you find out the bank has a conflict of interest issue (at least, that's what I assumed it was - obviously they wouldn't tell you why you didn't get permission) which means you aren't permitted to do so. From this perspective, funds are much much better.
> Columbus, Indiana

I don't think Columbus fits into this category. It is one of hundreds of pre-automobile county seats that exist all over the US (east of the Rocky Mountains). It has an urban-like street grid with the county courthouse in the middle. What sets Columbus apart from the rest is having a successful multi-national manufacturing corporation that refused to let the town die. On top of that, the founder created a foundation that will pay the architect fees for any civic building if they use a famous architect. The government or church or bank or whatever still has to pay for construction, so you end up with a city with outstanding architecture that is sized exactly for what a small city needs.

If you spend time in Columbus, you'll notice that their hugely successful downtown is mostly old buildings in excellent condition.
A thread like this would not be complete witho7na shoutout to Monarch.

It’s exciting to see new tooling coming out, depending on your need, watching a video or two about how Monarch runs could be helpful in assessing what tool is for you.
http://www.deepisolation.com

They have solved a lot of these issues.
It's not single. Eight Account Aggregators are already approved. Go through the technical architecture for better understanding.

https://sahamati.org.in/account-aggregators-in-india/
>It's not "just" close together like it happened

Development gets done in whatever way makes best use of the available resources at the time. The overwhelming majority of the cities and towns in Europe were built out before transportation over land was slow and expensive so you had dense town centers surrounded by farmland and dense cities surrounded by even more farmland so to avoid spending precious resources on transportation. The practical limits on transportation constrained development.

By comparison huge portions of the US were built out after the advent the automobile (often tearing down and building over places that were previously more densely developed) and being geographically large there was always more land to build into so you got sprawling development because overcoming distance was fast and cheap.

The way we have more or less not built any infrastructure since the 20th century despite increasing population (and increasing clustering of the population in urban areas) is starting to catch up and incentive density but it will take time and policy sticks/carrots if you want it to happen faster than it organically would.

So yes, Europe to a large extent did win the lottery in that regard though they didn't know it at the time.
That's a stretch for them to claim that. More like being the aggressors in Iranian waters. Still afaik they did own up to shooting down the airliner, and did not try to blame Iran for doing that. Happy to be proven wrong.
Facebook's VR quest finally getting real
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I'm not sure how, let's say, radioactive waste short term storage should look like. It's not like you can put the rods into regular containers and safely transfer them between storage facilities.
http://archive.is/x4peS
Just wait. In ten more years IBM and Deloitte will re-brand fat clients and on-prem infrastructure as something else and they'll start selling it to everyone. Replace "mainframe" and "dumb terminal" with "the cloud" and "web app" and we had this same conversation 40 years ago. Then in another 20 years we'll swing back to some version of consolidated+remote servers and lightweight client access portals.
Post service requests to the hashmap queue, get the response on your queue.

But more likely a hashmap is too fine a granularity for queues. If a hashmap can be owned by one process, that would perform better.
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What are those new grads doing? Trading, development, quant?
> What I can tell you, is that for simple use-cases this looks an awful lot like map-reduce

I really don't think this is like map-reduce, map-reduce usually focuses on pure functions applied in a series and/or in parallel, with the entire pipeline acting essentially like one large pure function that can easily be distributed.

In contrast, this idea seems to focus on persistent side-effectful procedures that react to a string of events, with constant global syncing between an unbounded number of modules, which makes it impossible to distribute and highly non-pure.

Also, this seems like a much more specific idea than Objects or even than Erlang. It specifically focuses on extremely small "objects"/"processes", it specifies rigid semantics for their communication, and a frankly insane composition model for the whole program.

I'm pretty sure you could implement this in Erlang, but also pretty sure that this is not how most Erlang programs are written. Similarly, this is within the paradigm of Object Orientation, but it is a very specific example and that there are other (saner, imho) ways of composing Object Oriented programs that conform to the original Alan Kay ideas.
Well it goes with the culture of investment banking: high-risk, high-reward. Once you are in, of course, they give you the ol’ wink and nod about how much of that risk they are actually taking on.
Unless water is introduced, whereupon they fail:

"Oil Drilling into a Salt Dome: Catastrophic Failure: Evidence Lake Peigneur 1980 Disaster BP"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhwjSI3UOIw

This is why fracking is associated with earthquakes. Salt mining has a long and well-documented history of damaging subsurface and consequently surface structure, especially in 19th-century England.

Frackers were "whistling past the graveyard" by denying that fracking caused earthquakes. They've essentially replicated the history of salt mining associations and corporations who destroyed homes and even towns in their rabid search for salt profits:

"Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky

"Northwich sinks!":

http://jsbookreader.blogspot.com/2011/09/northwich-sinks.htm...

"Extraction of Bastard Brine in Northwich":

http://www.cheshirebrine.com/history/extraction-of-bastard-b...
1. By that logic this post is code;

2. I just entered it into the argument!
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I'd argue it is increasingly needed, but it depends on your needs/goals ;)
Anything listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_widget#List_of_commo... does count as "standard widgets". There may be variations in different GUI libraries, but anything that deviates too much from common user expectations will be perceived as broken.

There are ways to avoid traversing the whole volume in each use, namely caching each directory content when it's updated.

As for always showing unwanted information, an interactive solution could allow an option to "fold and hide" specific folders so that their contents are not shown until the user specifically reopens them. A user-friendly interactive solution doesn't require the user to remember and choose among all the available choices for each use, it provides good defaults and reminders on how to access alternative options when those are needed.
This is amazing, really a great source of data.
It's scary if you think that the precautionary principle should be guiding when dealing with radioactive waste and looking back in history of this, and many other examples of "this seem like a permanent solution" and later scientists going "actually...".

And I don't really get too much comfort from statements like "studies ... showed no real negative effects". I still imagine mutant lizards emerging from the ocean in the future with frazers[1] killing off all humanity.

[1] lizard tech, don't ask
dbt is a fantastic tool. We really on it for basically all of our transformations at GitLab.
Sell side are selling liquidity, they're like car dealers who stand ready to buy or sell any financial instrument with buy side firms. As well as the buy side firms listed by tomp above there are also what we call "real money": pension and insurance funds. Unlike hedge funds they are regulated and have to run long only strategies. Can't have pension funds blowing up LTCM style.
low end android is still largely on microUSB. although by the time any legislation gets passed, they'll probably be on USB-C
In the past I tried to follow the Nomad+Consul set-up guides, but on my local machine rather than 3 separate machines, and I found it nearly impossible to get everything running. I ran into a dozen different errors and it seemed to be a lot more haphazard than the docs suggested. I really wanted to get into it, but that experience soured me on the idea that it would be a "simple" solution after all. (I'm willing to dig up and replicate my findings if you're interested)
This is a landing page. Is there anywhere to see more info?
Is Samsung Internet better than Chrome? I've always assumed it was bloatware since it's preinstalled and I haven't heard of people using it. I personally use the Firefox mobile browser, which I think works great.
Is there any potential for energy generation from the high temperatures?
Another very interesting take on this from Andrei Alexandrescu:

https://youtu.be/WjTrfoiB0MQ

https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2015/blob/master/Presentatio...
> which is imo the expected life on a modem

Then buy better modems. My current modem is 4 years old and functions as well as it did on day 1.

If they weren't making money on it they wouldn't sell it to you as an option. Sure the "insurance" might be nice, but overtime they're making money off of you.
Davis is just a college town that has a large number of bicyclists because it hosts the largest (by area) of the UCs and as a result has formed a bicyclist quasi-culture. There's otherwise nothing special which lends itself to any kind of bicyclist utopia and in many ways I found it to be a bicycle dystopia from a frequent-pedestrian, sometimes-driver perspective.
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How would you have replicated the haptics in this project? I'm also quite interested in haptics for VR.
Or perhaps more practically,

1. Try to drive change by local involvement. Many US cities have become incrementally more bike and pedestrian friendly over time

2. Make an effort to move somewhere that's closer to their ideal even if it means giving up salary and other aspects of where they're living today
With Mickey Mouse the issue is more likely trademark rather than copyright.
The headline writer used the old "mysterious Orient" trope, a casually racist idea that goes back to Westerners using words like "inscrutable" to describe Asians. It's lazy clickbait writing and really unfair to the quality of the actual article.
(Full disclosure: Nomad Team Lead here, so I'm biased!)

> Nomad is not a true alternative to Kubernetes.

You're right! We explicitly try not to be a standalone dropin replacement for k8s. Our comparison page goes into this a little bit (but now I realize it's in need of a refresh!): https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/vs/kubernetes.html

- Nomad relies on Consul for service discovery

- Nomad relies on Consul Connect (Envoy) for network policies

- Nomad relies on Vault for secrets

- Nomad relies on third party autoscalers - https://github.com/jippi/awesome-nomad#auto-scalers - although there's more we can do to enable them.

- Nomad relies on Consul Connect (Envoy) or other third parties for load balancing

- Nomad does not provide any cluster log aggregation (although logging plugins are planned which should make third party log aggregators easier to use)

Nomad still has many missing features such as CSI (coming in 0.11!), logging plugins, audit logging, etc, but we never intend to be as monolithic a solution as k8s. We always hope to feel like "just a scheduler" that you compose with orthogonal tools.
Melting sea ice gives phytoplankton the space to pump out cloud-forming gasses
Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
This is not good engineering. If somebody told me this at a business, I’d not trust them anymore with my infrastructure.

So, you say that problems happen, and you consciously don’t want to know/solve them. A recurring problem in you view is solved with constantly building new K8s clusters and your whole infrastructure in it every time!?!
Simple example - A microservice that leaks memory.... let it keep restarting as it crashes?!

I remember at one of my first jobs, at a healthcare system for a hospital in India, their Java app was so poorly written that it kept leaking memory and bloated beyond GC could help and will crash every morning at around 11 AM and then again at around 3 PM. The end users - Doctors, nurses, pharmacists knew about this behavior and had breaks during that time. Absolutely bullshit engineering! It’s a shame on those that wrote that shitty code, and shame on whoever reckless to suggest a ever rebuilding K8s clusters.
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That one was verified and passed.

While sharing coffee with a colleague years ago, he argued that something smelled odd about them. In is opinion was a front for the CIA or some other sponsored group that harvests data.

Mind you that he provided no facts to support this claim.

I tried to inform myself as much as possible about them, about their technology and people working there. Very scarce info exists. Try it by yourself, then let me know if you do manage to find more info about them.

My only recommendation at the moment is qwant on the european side. Not because of privacy, but mostly to enable diversity of choice on the continent. In case of war or embargo, consequences here would be devastating on the tech-side.
Another relevant segment of the Philosophy of science article is the realism/anti-realism dichotomy.

I find it an interesting line of reasoning that the current lack of progress is due to the default naturalistic approach whose sole purpose is finding "truth" vs. a more pragmatic, non-realist approach that would have a much more concrete purpose (e.g. solving particular problems). Truth for the sake of it with no practical experiments seems to have been a dead end.
> These are people that by and large don't want to code

I disagree. That's the stereotype that tool builders have of such people. Good ops people have always loved coding, or we wouldn't be living on the mountains of Bash scripts also known as "Linux distributions".

(Besides, people who don't like to code won't like writing tons of declarative markup either. So there is little point in the current approach either way.)
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Wow this is the first I’ve heard of the Dutch American Friendship Treaty, it sounds like a great program.
I spent 8 years in a 'startup' trying to make collaboration into a service. Couldn't get any traction. The idea of always-on collaboration services was hard for folks. They would launch the service, have a 1-hour meeting, and kill the service. With no expectation of available clients it was hard to market APIs to talk with non-existant clients. Sigh.
This would have been great if it was introduced 15 years ago when pretty much each phone model had it's own special charger, but not so much know when they're almost all entirely standardized. Except for Apple, of course. They're special.
Nomad is awesome. Just like the original author, our tiny team went with nomad for on-prem container orchestration instead of k8s. Since then we haven't spent much time on any nomad/consul maintenance, and all that time we got back - we spent on developing the product.

Basically, I agree with others that k8s is both complex and not fully mature yet.
Fair - I had not noticed the ad labels before. Thanks for the response.
Putting the label in the top right corner instead of the bottom left does feel like a bit of a dark pattern. DuckDuckGo's page layout clearly reflects the classic F pattern of visual attention, and the ad label is not very prominent.
I always wonder why nobody else does it, but its a very pleasing experience to have an archive like this - and it has proven very valuable in production crunches and peaceful moments of downtime, alike.

Another thing it allows me to do is generalise my reading in real time - I know I can always come back to the subject of the PDF in a few days time, or whenever really, without needing to know where to find the details: I just grep my file tree, and mine the data that way.

Key thing is, though, that when saving the PDF, I always check that it is named a decent subject, derived from the <title> tags .. if there isn't one, I add it myself. This is the only place I pay attention to 'tagging an article' - in naming the file of a poorly-named page, but if the page title fits the subject, I don't change a thing. And it means I have a huge set of data also in the filenames, not just the contents themselves .. Periodically, I use 'detox' on my PDFArchive/ directory, also .. this helps with consistent-naming for regexes, and so on.

I keep getting the itch to put all this into a DB with proper indexing or whatever, but .. actually using plain ol' shell tools is turning out to be just as productive. Its a big set of data, but plain ol' files and pipes is proving to be all I really need to get the data mined ..
Not only that, but in some suburban houses, they even turn the basement into a separate apartment and rent it out after the kids have left the house.
There are so many internal battles that you have; paralysis by analysis, over-optimization, learn/build versus buy, impostor syndrome, waiting too long to do xyz, and on and on. Then you have those days where you get stuck on something and wonder if anyone even cares about or notices what you do. But, would you have it any other way?
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I find it hard to put together her criticism of "chasing mathematical elegance, instead of trying to explain observations" with her criticism of the large and expensive colliders. The way I see it, the whole reason why the expensive experiments are needed is that the current theories do explain all the 'local' and (comparatively) low energy observations that we can do here on earth in ordinary conditions; we know that there are discrepancies between our theories and large scale / high power processes that we can observe in astrophysics, but if we actually want to probe and explore these discrepancies between theory and observations, then we need to make some discrepanct events to look at.... which we can't do without the very expensive experiments that she shuns; e.g. the Higgs boson is not going to show up on a low-power particle accelerator, no matter how smart physics you do.
In this case, though, the idea that we need to resolve inconsistencies is the correct diagnosis and shines a light on the incredible failure of the prevailing institutions.

Take for example the idea that a photon is both a particle and a wave. This dogma has been force fed to students for decades without the glaring inconsistency being resolved, or even pointed to as a thing that needs resolving — something is either a particle or it’s a wave; if we observe properties of both, then we need a physical explanation for how one becomes the other. Something can’t be two distinct things. Logically, all I’m pointing out is that “A is A”.

Yet my perspective that there is an unsolved inconsistency here is considered heretical. “Shut up and calculate” is the reigning dogma.