skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Douglas Adams:

“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.“
Tribute to Aaron Swartz
> If your plan is to fundraise in 3-6 months, it might be worth considering doing it now.

That’s me... I sure wish my prototype/demo was farther along. It looks nice but is pretty feature lite
You can use json5 for comments and compile it to json.
I disagree with the parent that the cloud is a scam. But I also disagree that getting to market faster is opposed to the operational simplicity that he's talking about.

Startups are very likely to fail before they need to scale. So that single-threaded C++ server, or whatever it is that the existing engineers are fastest at creating, is fine to get out there and get early market feedback.

The way I always balance this is to make the product manager put scaling and redundancy stories in the queue with feature stories. We'll build with scaling and redundancy in mind, but we don't do any extra work until the business decides those things are a higher priority than testing new hypotheses. And then I have them buy it in increments, so we can add automated load tests as we go. Then if we were to get into failwhale territory, it'd be a decision we all made together.
I think this is a brusquely-worded request to put (2017) in the title.
Something I had been thinking about, which the article mentioned and pushed me over the edge into doing:

I just went on Amazon and ordered two blood oxygen saturation meters. One for adults and one for kids. Even if Covid-19 never ends up reaching us, that is a valuable diagnostic tool to have available. Especially for $30 a piece.
I don't know but my wife helped out with a few tests, all negative. The number from the CDC seems low, maybe it's only the tests that were shipped to them?
What if you take March 31st and add one month to it? (I assume you can do that somehow)
This. Comparison shopping for airplane tickets is what killed flight comfort.
It's in Apple's interest to make development for solely iOS as painless as possible. See Metal vs Vulkan.

Android exists so that Apple doesn't have 100% of the market share, not because Google cares about the UX of the users or the developers.

I think neither have any real incentive to make Flutter work better than it already does.
Advanced Nuclear Technologies Could Accelerate Deployment Across Africa
mask != respirator:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/
Every response adds in the person’s personal biases.
Amazon Cancels On-Site Job Interviews over Covid-19, Ask Workers to Avoid Travel
Fair enough.

And truth be told, a lot of the issues I encountered in the languages I mentioned were from other people’s flawed code designs, not my own.
> First, I do think it's ridiculous that he takes it as a given that Oligarchs favour climate policy. Yes, I can see how someone can point to Musk and .... I dunno Al Gore? and try to make the point, but for every Musk-a-like, there are many dozens of rich people very deeply vested in the fossil industry. I don't think any serious survey of the financial interests of the global superrich will support this view.

Name some names
Find the Cheapest Round-the-World Itinerary, Win $10k
Can you export slack logs as plain text, or something easy to process like JSON? (Haven't used it in forever, so I don't know).

Being able to

grep -A3 -i foobox -r /nfs/info | grep -i rpc

is useful. Similarly, you can shove plaintext into a more advanced search engine easily.
People are bad at analyzing their own behavior.

I don't use Google analytics but I have seen time and again vocal users who seem ignorant of their own usage of an application...and very much not representative of the majority.
> Lara Bak

Lars Bak

> no one wants dartvm in browsers except chrome

The Chrome team also rejected the Dart VM
To be fair, even if this new virus was equally deadly as the flu, it would be concerning. We don't have a "tamiflu" to treat it, it's more contagious than the flu, and could therefore overwhelm our health care systems.
No if you're just counting you can definitely do it faster than 2^n time. I believe you can do it in linear.
They're not mutually exclusive and in fact are mutually reinforcing. As readers of a comment we are expected to read it charitably and part of that is assuming that the writer is not shilling. On the other hand we expect writers to disclose major conflicts of interest and I would categorize a direct competitor as a major conflict of interest (note I'm not calling deimorz a shill and do think his/her comment reflects a common sentiment, but I appreciate the knowledge that deimorz is working on a competitor).

The latter breeds the trust for the former to work.
I mean, the embrace of phrenology is sort of endearing in a bless-your-heart way. The outright racism, not so much.
Although unlike the original code it will be trickier to refactor for >5000 bit architectures once we encounter an odd perfect number.
Strong change control processes: if you want to know why something was implemented the way it was, the ticket authorising the implementation should have all the details including test results and names for who built, who tested, and who signed off.
I sold all my tech stocks last Monday and went all in on SPY puts. This will impact way more than 2008.
page load times go up
It's a hard problem, but I've had some success with a few approaches. One is pulling the team into a conference room and giving a deep-dive presentation on some aspect of our system. I made a point of doing it via a web conference with recording enabled so someone could always go back and watch/listen to parts in a pinch.

Another is calling an impromptu huddle when I'm about to work on something that nobody else feels prepared to handle on their own. When some crazy bug crops up that I'm about to troubleshoot, I'll often ask a few other team members to shoulder surf while I talk through the approach I'm using to run the bug down. It's a great time to ask the group what they think we should do to test their knowledge.
I never quite understood why companies don't just setup an NNTP server with newsgroups to capture conversations, rather than email (which is difficult to search IMHO).
And it doesn't require an overly suspicious mind to note the per-core performance margin Intel were able to claim for most of the last decade is pretty much the drop in their processor performance when you disable all the security holes.
I think I've responded to everything in this thread. If I've missed something, please point it out. I'll look through again later: I spent like five hours straight replying to this thread today, so I'm kind of tired of talking.
Dunno. I haven't worked on a Microsoft property since 2009.
This gets out of date quickly if this is not curated in some way.
I'm not sure about the "successful companies institutionalize the knowledge of their employees" part.

In such context a process becomes a (written) 'procedure/specification', and some folks stop innovating, they just do it "by the book".

HR quickly grasps this and hires people with less and less skill, cheap personnel 'just able to apply to procedures'. Other ones feel like cogs in the machine (especially the best ones, hunted by competitors) and quit.

Someone departing with the 'procedures' may let a competitor obtain a rather complete grasp of it and adopt the best bits.

Letting each team decide about this and establish cross training seems preferable to me, and has many other benefits.
Going with a less-popular language without a killer app yet has its advantages. When you're making a new UI platform it's helpful if you can ask the language team to make changes to the language for you.

Once a language is in use in many places, you can't do that anymore.

Apple did this too when they wanted a language that was compatible with Objective C.

And this is how JavaScript got started, after all.
Exactly; but Missosoup has strongly internalized the idea that neither blacks nor queers deserve respect; as such he truly doesn’t understand why calling them derogatory terms is a bad thing.

To him, it’s insane that a white person could care about a non-white; or a straight could care about a queer. He thinks that’s fake.

It’s sad, but it’s a peek inside the mind of a shitty human being who had abhorrent parents.
I mean, on the one hand I can see that view point —

On the other hand, that’s a fairly entitled viewpoint.

Users are using infrastructure I finance, to do things on the website(s) I created. If you want privacy from the services youre using, create or host your own.

I keep the data secure and don’t give it to 3rd parties. That information is used to fix bugs, improve / build services, etc.

I’m not “subverting” privacy, users are coming to my house and playing with my things, so to speak.
Server side analytics are overwhelmed by bots and crawlers and other non humans in my experience
> But, it is the entire media system, the university-political complex, and all of the largest and most powerful political parties across the West.

So you’re saying that these organisations are conspiring to hide the truth?
It’s kinda incredible what a dumb fucking faggot you are.
Yes, the Flutter API is a bunch of libraries written in Dart.
If people don't like economy seats, they have 3 choices: 1) don't fly at all, 2) upgrade to a premium seat or 3) fly an airline with more economy room.

The vast majority of customers always pick the lowest price.
You’re talking about production engineering. You don’t really do that until your design starts to be nailed down. It’s not.
P5.js 1.0 Is Here
Hypothetically, in 200 years: will it require more or less energy to 3D print daily items than to build it?
> No, no, no. The Taliban were broadly distributed throughout Southern Afghanistan, and they had a cross border sanctuary in Pakistan.

I guess it depends on your definition of "remove". I don't doubt that a Taliban government could be very quickly overthrown by the US military. Probably within weeks. Now, the Taliban as an irregular militia is a completely different manner.

I remember watching a Vice documentary on Afghanistan called "This is what winning looks like". The line that struck me was a US Marine saying something like "the average Taliban fighter fights within 15 yards of their home". If that's anything close to true, no wonder the Taliban have been so hard to defeat.
Sure. I’m not seeing the link?
can anyone recommend an alternative to amazon for such a device? i don't want to take the chance of buying one that's a fake...
Factorio Assembly Language (FAL) [pdf]
Until the wider non tech population can comprehend the danger of things like clearview AI, people who do understand the danger now will have to use tools such as secondary boycots to force change.

I guess the choice everyone in SC can make into the future is too avoid and essentially blacklist the people who work for, fund or facilitate the success of companies like clearview AI.

People are always talking about culture fit here. Moral fit?
If a system is not documented in terms of what it does, how it does it, and common remediations for when things go wrong, then it's a fragile system depending on one person to keep it going.

You need to get (particularly, senior) engineers to buy into the mindset of documenting everything and making the documentation the first place to look (not after all else fails). Leads should hold be held accountable for their docs meeting some standard of "this is a useful doc".

If I were in your shoes I'd get senior engineers in a room and be honest with them about the situation. You're going to need them to do work that they might not be naturally inclined to do, or work that might not seem like a "productive" use of time. You might want to get them to agree on what a good doc looks like (the standard), and what things need to be documented. Maybe take a whole day to do this, with snacks and coffee. Good luck!
I didn’t downvote you. I appreciate the links, though not your dig at liberalism (“central hypocrisy”, etc.) and apparent affinity for libertarianism. My guess is that most of your downvotes come from Quillette defenders, who like to think of themselves as a cut above Daily Stormer readers (albeit perhaps less honest).
Yeah, at some point we're going to have to address that (internet) communication is a two way street.

Until then, your HTML is interpreted by my browser, any resources are going over my network (and only my network if they're 3rd party) and the JavaScript is running on my machine . So I'll be having them obey my rules.
Unless you’re doing something silly a button can’t be more than a hundred bytes or so. That’s only significant on a 90s era cell phone.

Then again most browsers have a print button.
yawn. who fucking cares
You can have analytics and respect users' privacy. As long as your data are anonymized.
Why yes, yes I can: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=252369#p1...
I have read that lung diseases are common in China and that in big cities the smog shortens the average lifespan by 5years. Could better air quality for one year significantly improve people’s health, or is one year too short?
One of the things I practice personally is more-or-less documentation driven development: https://gist.github.com/zsup/9434452 Although I'm using writing developer-level code, so I'm not literally writing end-user documentation. But I follow the principle; I generally start any significant function by first writing the documentation for it at the appropriate level of detail.

I usually also try to budget a day or two at the end to look at the documentation and generally clean it up. I can't always get "fresh eyes" on it per se but at least I can make sure it seems to basically flow.

The side effect is your major project also comes with basic documentation for very cheap. Honestly, it may even be "cheaper than free"; I do this because I think it helps make better code, faster. The act of writing the documentation doubles as a self-directed design review, and I couldn't even tell you the number of times I've documented some particular thing only to realize how stupid it is before I even wrote a single line of code [1], and started rearranging things at the cheapest development stage there is. But I concede in advance that proving it's "cheaper than free" is pretty hard.

I don't present this as a full organizational solution, of course, but unlike those full organizational solutions, this is something anyone reading this can pick up and start trying out tomorrow, whereas "redo how our organization conceives of how we store information" is a bit less immediately actionable, shall we say.

[1]: "Wait, I'm requiring what precondition of the callers? Wait, I'm going to return six values? (Better make a new struct/class/object.) I seem to have an awful lot of functions asking for the same 4 parameters (again, new struct/class/object). I'm asking for how many incoming parameters? These are awfully complicated instructions I'm giving about what they can and can't do to the return values. These instructions on the transactionality of this call are stupid complicated." etc.
How I use a software is not an indication of how I want to use a software. It’s what I’m doing with the options the software has given. If I’m really lucky, I’ll be like everyone else, and an inefficiency in the software will be spotted and fixed so the software will be slightly easier to use. In practice, I’m just doing workarounds to accomplish things the telemetry won’t explain on its own; and even if other users would want to do these things, I’m one of very few actually doing them. So... I don’t really want to trade potentially a lot of personal information just for... I don’t know... to make it easier for developers to develop for the lowest common denominator rather than me?
Repelling the invaders may be a victory, but just enduring occupation, bombing, attacks, etc until your occupiers decide to leave isn't.
Dye penetrant is another NDT that highlights cracks for visual inspection too, but it's proven to be less effective than ultrasonic and x-ray (hence the changes some years ago in the inspection and rebuild manuals by AD's for many (it should be all) turbofan engines). I knew a German engineer consultant who did this on piping, welds and pressure vessels in the field for nuclear plants.

You can use all three of these NDT techniques, where are used in nuclear energy and turbofan engine applications, but still fail to detect weak welds or metal fatigue because of improper calculations or conditions in the real world.

There's no substitute for DT to validate the engineering and manufacturing, such as by overpressing a pressure vessel (which are also covered by ASME BPVC).

Oddly enough, I knew a civil engineer (PE) who was an expert witness and wrote code interpretations for BPVC to the tune of $40-60k per for a few hours of work (but having his experience on large industrial projects is an important prerequisite). IIRC, he had a massive house in Saratoga.
What would you use for "observability/monitoring stack"?
People seem surprised that the article is a confused polemic meant to generate clicks. Is this the first time they’ve heard of Quillette or something?
Only some bots execute JS but even less bots fetch images.
That makes sense to me. I'm on a small team with several projects. Some people know more about some things than others, but we swap roles frequently. We explicitly try to share knowledge. We pair program and have daily standups. We also have a daily "tech time" where we quickly present the new things we've been working on.

The end result is that everybody knows enough to pick up where somebody else left off. We can review each other's pull requests effectively and go to each other for questions.

I'm not sure I like the pair programming or the open office environment, but I haven't tried anything else yet. Sometimes I think pairing slows us down. And we sit right next to a tech support team that's on the phones all day...
That sounds like a server-side problem, not a client-side one. Don't expect me to solve it for you at my end.
Here's another victory: caused 2 trillion in damages to the enemy and thoroughly demoralized them.

Primitive stone age goat herders vs the "world's most powerful" military. Who will win?
I’m on a very tight time budget for my multiplayer game. If I had to set up servers myself on bare metal, I would be making a single player game instead just due to time. The cloud is nice for some situations
There are few that are sold by amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HSAG8BE
Historically, the Pakistani intelligence forces have armed various mujahideen groups, both in Afghanistan, and in Indian Kashmir. Meanwhile, the Afghani government post-911 has been fairly close to India.

This hasn't been true as much recently because the Taliban and other groups became extremely powerful in Pakistan, especially in Pashtun tribal areas, and the Pakistani military was forced to intervene. However, the Pakistani military has never been able to completely corral their intelligence services, which is one reason why there isn't as much cooperation between the US and Pakistan anymore (they were once close allies), with US/India ties becoming closer and closer instead.
>It's an entire community

No. There are millions of conservatives on facebook.

>No proof either

Same to you. What community got banned? Elaborate.
> That will not continue perpetually, sooner or later the tech boom will end and re-industrialization of US will begin.

What makes you think the US is going to ramp up manufacturing again?
I use both daily. I use G Keep for temporary notes of any kind, and Evernote for posting on my blog (via Postach.io) and anything I'll want to keep long-term.

So G Keep for short term, Evernote for long term.
What on earth is this screed about.

Besides the fact Kathrine Johnson's achievements start NASA stand up outside of her race and gender (literally being trusted over computers and programs that sent people into space)

Your analogy with Steven Hawkins is so incredibly stupid and insulting.

Her race isn’t relevant just because blacks are underrepresented.

It’s because SHE LIVED IN THE RACIALLY SEGREGATED SOUTH.

How foolish is it to act like her race is some aside like a fucking wheelchair when she lived in an era where her drinking at a certain water fountain was illegal because of her skin color.

And I mean, you don’t know about a lady who won a Presidential medal of freedom, has a building named after her by NASA, brought people back home from space safely, who was a subject of one of the most successful films of 2016 (a movie that Google shows as having almost 100x more reach than useless fiction like a Dyson Sphere btw) so what?

Kudos to the grandparent comment for doing what I wanted to do but wasn’t bold enough to.

Sure it doesn’t satisfy your delicate sensibilities that this is a post about someone dying, but damnit if I have thought the same thing, and damnit if this isn’t just as good a place as any.

There is no place where someone wouldn’t have tried to brush off their comment with some foolishness about “this is not the place”.

Because it’s never the right place or time when someone talks about something uncomfortable to you people.
I'm glad you reposted your comment.

If you want to read the data behind many of the decisions, read these papers [0].

[0] https://exp-platform.com
The Cost of Being an Entirely Bourgeois Nation
How do you identify bots on your personal sites?
s/Profressor/Professor/

might want to run spell-check, otherwise good.
But that's what Damorian was suggesting
In Wuhan they ran out of hospital capacity and sent people home. People bought vents to administer to their relatives at home without medical supervision.

You need to dispose yourself of the false assumption that people who need vets would even be able to get through the door at an ICU during a serious pandemic.
Can you elaborate on the threat model a little bit? I'm struggling to understand how you can protect against this in a way where an attacker that both knows the relevant encryption key (whether public or secret, depending on whether the crypto is asymmetric) and has write access to the backup location.

If you sign the backups with some distinct key of the backup server, why wouldn't the attacker have access to those keys too (in the above scenario they already have access to the keys that the backup server is using for encryption).

I know there's an open issue in age for adding authentication[1], so there clearly is some threat this would protect against but I can't figure it out.

[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/issues/59
> If there was a big outbreak in WA, do you think the US, as a democracy, could shutdown all airports, roads and rail at the state border?

This is why the WA governor called a state of emergency. With that action, the state level government gains some pretty un-Democratic powers, such as mobilizing the National Guard for martial actions. I think that it would take them a while, and not be perfect, but eventually they could shut down most external transportation.
Here is another implementation using Node.js (although it does not explicitly check for EOF):

require("fs").createReadStream(process.argv[2]).pipe(process.stdout)

Here is a implementation in PostScript (it does explicitly check for EOF, and specifically deals with one byte at a time):

/o (%stdout) (w) file def
ARGUMENTS 0 get (r) file
{
dup read {
o exch write
} {
quit
} ifelse
} bind loop

(I have no GitHub account. But if the owner of that repository want to add, they can add what I have; I post this message (and all of my other messages on Hacker News) to public domain.)
> Until the sun turned into a red giant

That's still far away
When I was learning C 20 years ago, it felt like the C tutorials were really hung up on how scary pointers were, in a very similar way to Haskell's fixation on monads. It got to the point that I questioned my understanding pointers because I didn't get why everyone spent so much effort on explaining them.