skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the revelation that people don't do this fascinating. I guess I assumed it was part of the human experience.

I had a conversation with a buddy of mine about what language he thinks in one time, due to English being a seconds language for him and it is funny because looking back on that conversation we both assumed that internal monologue was just a default.

I did notice a pattern in the minority of people that do not internal monologue, where overwhelmingly populated by females.
Diesel pollution is worse than petrol pollution, but the average European car is smaller, and there are fewer of them.

Many of the diesel vehicles are public buses, and these can be replaced pretty quickly with electric or natural gas (or hybrid) buses. Others are large delivery vehicles, and with some "encouragement" (restrictions) the owners either replace them, or rearrange their fleet to use their newest vehicles in cities.

For example, London has done both, and is already seeing improvements [1]. I noticed when I visited over New Year that the air seemed fresher, so I'm glad I've found some statistics to show that -- it wasn't just a one-off.

[1] https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/ulez_six_month...
Missed that. Regardless you are agreeing with the OP that they are the worst things humans invented while acknowledging we need them some places is a bit contradictory.
Anyone with an interest in such things want to expand on why?
> I don't recall anything nefarious...

Deliberately bundling adware that injects fake results with affiliate links into search engines [1] on their machines seems nefarious in itself. The MITM of SSL connections just seems like an unexpected added bonus on top, and it took the US Department of Homeland Security to make Lenovo own up to it [2].

[1] https://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/02/19/lenovo-caught-inst...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lenovo-cybersecurity-dhs/...
Here's a great place to start

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/
Circa the time that paper was written there was a lot of talk about "single-process" web servers. I was working on a web site from which people downloaded files and the founder was concerned that Apache used too much memory for that kind of request (we had many dial-up users) and we tried a few of the open source event-based web servers and at the time it seemed that many of them would corrupt data -- we would get all sorts of reports about it from users.
> I’m an idealist, and I believe that a perfect programming language with perfect tooling (or, at least, Pareto-optimal language and tooling) can exist. This is in contrast to people who just see languages as tools to get the job done. For them, a language is probably as good as the libraries available for their tasks.

I used to think that way. But it only took me half a decade of professional development (and reading/discussing in circles like HN) to see that it's a fallacy. A programming language cannot be perfect because it's made for humans, who are not perfect (and runs on computers, which arguably are not perfect).

Accepting the fact that there's no singular, perfect way to express a given idea has been freeing, actually. I used to constantly chase the dragon, getting hung up on refactoring and refactoring and refactoring, trying to attain that perfect description. I still get caught up in it sometimes. A little bit of that spirit makes for better code. But you have to be able to pull yourself away.
Not yet since it's only on the bleeding edge of GHC. I have some games I've been building that I'll probably try it with though.
I think it's safe to remove probably.

This went down a chain of people. CEO. VP. PM. Tech Lead. Developer.

All of them made a choice to kill people for profit.
> If you look at something like Bazel, all the build artifacts end up in ~/.cache (or similar).

That is a terrible design, as it makes parallel builds error prone.
If you don’t mind the curiosity:

These images seem to have a sort of “enhanced blurring” and depth-flattening reminiscent of early 3d ultrasounds.

Am I interpreting that right? Or is the surface of the sun really like that?
"Metro East, the city of East St. Louis had always served as more of a legal shell for corporate privilege—low taxes, nonexistent regulation, minimal public services—than a fully functioning city. By the late 1980s, the city’s sewer system was failing, and the city government was being sued by the EPA for misusing federal funds that had been earmarked for its repair."

Corruption was a big part of the problem. But the root goes deeper. This was always a fake town, a hollow shell built to serve the interest of a business that no longer exists.

I know this sounds cruel but the sewage is only a symptom of a larger problem. The Fed shouldn't step in to fix the sewers, they should step in to assist in relocating the residents somewhere else and let the ghost town sink into the fetrid swamp.
That's funny, whenever I hear far out claims made by journalists mentioned to scientists, they always dimiss them.

But you're saying there are scientists claiming GW causes these naturally occurring phenomenon.

The problem with GW is the same problem with most decentralized political movements. Since no one defines the scope of the movement, any wingnut can co-op the movement with their own BS.
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> They also have a lab that do b&w prints from digital files on photo paper interestingly.

Not new or uncommon.
The “last generation” of photo finishing (think drug store 1 hour photo mats) since the early 2000s mostly used digital printers. They called them laser printers no less (not a xerographic process, but direct exposure)

The developed film was scanned and this of course allowed them to give you a CD cheaply. Also of course allowed printing digital media easily.
The irony of your statement is that the government built both things - the F-35 and the sewer system.

And the sewer system cost is a fraction of the F-35 cost.

So, I would submit (sadly), that we cannot do much good with a fraction of the F-35 project based on prima facie evidence that you just provided.

I get it - we all want to do good in the world. But some people do not, and we have to protect ourselves against them. Others do not want to do good, but rather, do for themselves, and they hide in the system designed to protect us from those who do not want to do good. Finally, we have the Incompetents, which are scattered all over the place and manipulated by both of the prior mentioned types for their own benefit.

THAT is the problem we need to solve. I have exactly zero idea how to solve it, and so far I haven't seen anyone else solve it either.

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EDIT - meant to add that it frustrates me, too.
> Visual Studio community edition with VS tools for Python is a very powerful (and zero cost) option if you're on Windows.

It's only permitted for certain combinations of uses and users, though, on top of not being cross-platform.
Depression has quite a few weird effects on memory, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overgeneral_Autobiographical_M...
The documentation instructs you to pick the services you plan NOT to use:

> Don’t want one or more of the above services? Comment out the relevant role in site.yml.
One thing a microservice architecture does really well is enforce bounded contexts. Oh you want to access that data? Well you need to go through the public API because it exists in a separate process. In a monolith it's all too easy to just 'call this piece of code and grab what I need' (no one will ever know). Project isolation can help but it's not a silver bullet.

The author makes good points though, there are many places doing microservices because it's the hip thing to do and a monolith would easily suffice. But if you have independent software teams in your org that should be able to deploy code independently, then microservices makes a lot of sense.

As in all things engineering - it depends :)
in my experience, banning cyclists would go a long ways to making the pedestrian experience better too.
I've used this project off and on for years, and it's always worked perfectly. I'd have an infosec conference to go to, I'd setup a host with wireguard, give my friends the cert, we'd all tunnel out though that, then tear it down after the con. Total cost a few dollars (most are $5/month)
I agree. I think that a problem in the EU is the wide abundance of government subsidies. The intentions are good but in fact it messes up the mechanism of natural selection in startups. Companies that haven't managed to raise money from private investors because they shouldn't really be funded (for various reasons e.g. their business model isn't viable, not a good team, or have exterior obligations and aren't fully committed,...) manage to keep their business running for 2-3 years because they're being held in life support through a government subdidy. In the end, they still have to shut down when the funding runs out, resulting in a net loss for everyone.

Don't get me wrong, subsidies are generally still important, for instance for initiatives that have a positive societal impact but that are hard to monetize. It's crucial that these organizations can still exist (not everything needs to be able to generate shareholder value to have a right to exist) and if subsidies allow them to do their thing, then that's great. But for the private sector, I think that there are other mechanisms that achieve the same goal but that maintain the much-needed Darwinism of startups, e.g. by offering tax breaks for angel investors.
If you’re choosing to hop the network as a means of decoupling code that’s absurd because you can decouple much more cheaply with PL and build facilities — without introducing a network hop.

But there are problems that justify a service. Decoupling code is just not one of those problems.
I think the only time I'm swayed anymore is if they seem to reveal an authentic self.

E.g. "I figured this was yet another half-baked project management application, but this surprised me." -- Customer #1
People will look back on the late-20th century in the future and be amazed that a common citizen had their own car, their own house with a yard, ate meat daily, etc

I would much rather live in a drivable SF before overpopulation than cope with compromises that overpopulation demands. Changes like this are necessary, but they feel more like the decline of civilization as we know it than progress
I love seeing what people are doing in the space of REPL interactivity. I've been working on a similar project, but for Node.js[1]. One of the things I've found the most helpful so far is color highlighting the input, in addition to the output.

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/repl
Neat idea to extract data at different points to give an extra layer of resolution - could give insights to function and processes we're currently unaware of.
> A fun exercise when learning Finnish is writing a tool that can conjugate verbs or nouns, which is totally feasible in an evening or two, showing just how straight forward the grammar is.

Only if you provide the tool with the stems of the words. For example, the genitive ending is -n, but the genitive stem of käsi is käde- and the stem of aasi is aasi- and figuring that out might not be within the reach of a two-evening tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_grammar#Noun/adjective...
Thank you! I've been using calva for two years now at my current job. I love it. Very nicely done.
The YouTuber Kitboga mentioned above got into the scambaiting thing because someone took advantage of his grandmother suffering from dementia. It really is a terribly abusive con, and one can learn a lot about their methods and intents from watching his channel.
One way to look at this is to say "Hah, how shameful."

The other way to look at this is to say "Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality"
I think the underlying point, as expressed by the author, is that trendy new architecture patterns will never be a panacea for bad engineering, though that's often how they're implicitly sold as ideas.
The next wave of closely-guarded RNG secrets could very well be which solar coordinates your camera is pointed at!
Contracting in Ireland:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/comments/bk8pmo/getting_s...
Dynamic programming questions are explicitly not used in current Facebook interviews.

From time to time, Facebook and other companies study the effectiveness of their hiring process by comparing employee performance and interview performance. I believe dynamic programming questions were removed because there was not a strong link between success in this question and future performance.
Thanks for making your website perfectly readable without JS enabled! A rare occurrence nowadays.
No, people above devs should be ethical enforcement, before devs

Devs can be, if they have to be, but they shouldn't

If it reaches the dev, there should be greater consequences for not catching it earlier.
Sounds like it is just something to add to your resume/portfolio
Similarly, the Moon is about 100 lunar diameters from the Earth. Hence the moon and sun look the same size in the sky, and both total and annular eclipses can happen.
What is this for? YAML in my experience is used for writing and maintaining config at some supposed sweet-spot between human-readable and machine-readable structure.

In my experience also, YAML is already too feature-laden for it's own good in this regard, when what people usually want is just a more human-readable JSON.

Using Yglu for config seems like a bad idea (the whole point of config is that it's not code!) - so what is it for?
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Well, I know someone in the business where the average database is multiple TB, and they still have to somehow run queries against it, 1TB/minute is just far too slow.
Class action lawsuits are a money making machine for lawyers but it seems this is the use case they were designed for
This, this and this. I've consistently found my keeper ratio to be much higher when shooting film, as the memory cards are small and single-use only.

That forces you to think your composition through, take an extra second or two to ensure the exposure is good - it basically enforces self discipline.

(Which reminds me I've got a few rolls to develop after my latest outing with the Texas Leica - a Fuji G690BL; the 6*9 format gives me eight exposures on a roll of 120 film.

Besides the enforced self discipline, I spend all of my working time in front of a computer, so I find it a bonus to have a hobby which does not (necessarily) involve one; I do shoot digital, too, though - I just mostly prefer the analog workflow for recreation.
There are also people who code-switch. I sometimes monologue and sometimes think abstractly.
This paper is a followup to:

* J. K. Ousterhout. "Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for mostpurposes)". (http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf)

* V. S. Pai, P. Druschel, and W. Zwaenepoel. "Flash: An Efficientand Portable Web Server". (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix99/full_papers/pa...)

* M. Welsh, D. E. Culler, and E. A. Brewer. "SEDA: An architecturefor well-conditioned, scalable Internet services". (http://www.sosp.org/2001/papers/welsh.pdf)

Those are some of the more influential papers in the development of event-driven designs.
Problem with this is that it doesn't take into account the profitability of the SaaS. Meaningless saying that x% of SaaSs don't have feature y, when there's no indication that implementing feature y demonstrably drives increase profit.
Almost all companies' overwhelming priority is to increase the wealth of their owners and shareholders. That is often diametrically opposed to benefiting customers. Unfortunately too many people have only attended Economics 101, which insists that the way for a company to be successful is to be the best for the market. Economics 101 fails to be evidence based, or realise that the dominant market is not a company's customers, it's the company ownership.
City dwellers would change their tune on ban all cars if it really happened. Imagine no short term car rentals for trips to wilderness outside of the city. Are you going to ride your bike 200 miles or take your kid on a motorcycle?
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While the instructions go to a level of detail with the assumption that the person typing these commands may not be familiar with them, I don’t get why there are no instructions on this page to revert ignoring a file or folder so that it starts syncing to Dropbox again.
One just assumes that the Venn diagram intersection of 'Hummer owners' and 'people who care even a tiny little bit about the environment' is very small. I mean, how do they get the proper level of psychological compensation from it?
Simply not hearing of something doesn't change the facts.

Commercial vehicles are exempt from the ban. Pickup trucks are commercial vehicles in CA. It's that simple.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/online/fee_calc/veh...

'A "commercial vehicle" is a vehicle which is used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property (for example, trucks and pickups). Vehicle Code Section 260.'
Yeah, I've had colour prints before, but not really seen anyone do true b&w prints.
The people are the only thing the government should serve. The government should not split its time between serving them and serving itself.

Tyranny of the majority is certainly a danger we should take measures against. Things like the Bill of Rights achieve some of that.

But equating the smaller states with the minorities that need protection seems to me an unjustified leap of logic. The small states are largely controlled by giant extractive corporate ventures like agriculture or mining. Giving those states more power merely tilts the game further in favor of those already-powerful monied interests.
I run everything in containers and I spin up all the images / containers from ansible scripts. Am I doing it wrong? I didn't think these two tools were in conflict.
I do this (with OpenVPN / Android, but same idea) and the main factor that limits my own performance is the poor upload speeds of my residential cable subscription. For many residential services, you're looking at asymmetrical up/down speeds, and they usually advertise the higher download number only.

This is normally fine since you most people download way more than they upload and don't run servers in their homes, but when you route everything through your home, you may be limited by upload speeds.
So it sounds like Tailscale is designed for different use cases, ie providing access to 3rd party apps is outside the scope?
As someone who has used both PyTorch and TensorFlow for a couple years now, I can can attest to the faster research iteration times for PyTorch. TensorFlow has always felt like it was designed for some mythical researcher that could come up with a complete architecture ahead of time, based on off-the-shelf parts.
The lecture series and reference material by David Silver: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html. You can then supplement that with "Spinning up in Deep RL" for more hands-on experiments.
Congratulations, you just overengineered a data format.
Excerpts:

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"You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!"
There are usually a bunch of color profiles you can set to control the colors. He defaults are too “vivid”. High end cameras can shoot “raw” images and have more control over color as you need software to “develop” the raw into a more useful format(jpg/tiff...)
there's a really good chance (60%+) someone gets 10 heads in a row!

You can make this 100% if it is a tourney style flip off. This seems obvious but more subtle forms of it exist in the world where randomness is involved but some results are determined; i.e. the difference between someone will see 10 heads in a row vs. this particular person will.
I wasn't speaking about this DA in particular, but more about the conservative portrayal of the city and its failure to effectively deal with crime through liberal policies.
To my mind, the hypersaturation of colors in digital photography is the same as the loudness wars on CDs (which ironically loses one of the great benefits of CD, the huge dynamic range which is now effectively unused outside of few jazz and classical recordings), and the televisions/monitor defaults that emphasize red and high contrast.

Consider, too, with CCD and the lens systems, there are shifts toward certain hues, and further post-processing (e.g. photoshop) is used to distort the color balance.

Of course they probably said the same about Kodachrome's vibrant, but unnatural colors "back when..."

But why? It's done, because we can. And it's noticeably different. And it's sometimes not a matter of being better, just different, since in a saturated world of media (no pun intended) differentiating one's work from the millions of others is often enough of a deciding factor to trigger a choice. Which brings me to the topic of the fashion industry...
> Hah, clearly business success isn't a function of code quality

Mind you, early Facebook wasn’t exactly a “tech business”—the code wasn’t making them any money, such that having a bug in the code would make them less money.

Really, Facebook only became a “tech business” once they got into 1. Messaging, and 2. Advertising. Then they had SLAs, and breaking those SLAs meant losing users/customers; and their ability to deliver on those SLAs became directly related to the quality of their code.
In addition to the other points, film X-ray machines are still in widespread use because unless there's a specific need for a digital one it's hard to justify the enormous expense of the upgrade (and some people prefer looking at film output over digital as well, if it's what they're used to).
>"American cities have been built around the automobile, so of course the automobile will have an elevated level of importance. It would be absurd to think anything else."

Car ownership only reached a critical mass in the 1920s with the arrival of the Henry Ford's Model T. Obviously well after American cities were laid out. American cities were laid out when the dominant form of transportation was the horse and the dominant commerce feature was likely a port. It would be more absurd to overlook these facts.
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Very interesting, thanks for the history lesson!
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SF hasn't had a "tough on crime" DA in the last 60 years. To think that Boudin would be a huge change from the previous do-nothing predecessors is laughable. He simply played up the compassion angle to court the socialist and progressive vote to defeat Loftus, who had the backing of the mainstream democratic party machine.

Nothing will change.