skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can break a yaml like definition of your infra, like TF, into multiple "types" files, and packages. You can then combine them (like TF under the hood) but with much more sophistication and validation. Cue's main goal here is to verify what you have written is correct.

You would then craft the body for API calls in Cue from your more abstract infra config, and then could use the scripting layer to make these requests.

Granted, you won't have the state file, but that's a bad idea anyway. You'll have to add calls to see what's there. We are putting this kind of capability right in our tool so you can just do k8s like things where you use TF today.

There are a few people around Cue already looking to skin TF or replace it, basically because Cue gives you these super powers for config, which is pretty much the majority of software.
A lot of language has unsavoury roots. We should recognise it and learn from it, fighting with the language feels like putting so much effort into minor things.

I’d much rather people spent the time and energy teaching underprivileged kids some coding, for instance.
I don't see anything about Taiwan not trusting the WHO in the FT article.

Taiwan is not a member of the WHA because Taiwan is not an internationally recognized state. This is an issue that the WHO has no control over. It's a body tasked with coordinating public health around the world, not with solving intractable disputes over sovereignty and diplomatic recognition. I thought that the particular interview you linked to was done in very poor taste. The interviewer was trying to force someone who focuses on public health to make a statement about territorial sovereignty. She should ask politicians that question, but trying to promote Taiwanese sovereignty by bashing the WHO is just very low. Public health is something incredibly important, and shouldn't be made into a political battleground or damaged for cheap political points.
If the holy grail is only a few years away, then yes. Normal CRISPR editing rely on non-homologous-end-joining (NHEJ) which is not an absolutely exact process. However, there are now base editors (look up prime editing) that edit a single position with very high specificity. Takes a few years from basic research to the clinics but they will be everywhere soon.
The article, probably because it's how the government decided to spin it, is conflating paperwork errors with everything from industrial espionage (i.e. professor tells the company paying them about research done in their lab for another company or paid for by public funds) to actual spying by sharing classified documents.

I am pretty sure it is intentionally vague so that people assume it's worse than it is since they could have just reported the numbers of people they uncovered to be doing something sinister if it fit the narrative.

But I'd lean the exact opposite direction and say that this article has nothing, on its face, to do with hemorrhaging, industrial espionage, or state espionage.
This, I agree with. However, I still see a value in relinquishing problematic language early and often.
This pull request is being sent in by one of the people who originally developed ZFS at Sun. Who is being bullied here?
Don't they have a notoriously austere work environment compared to the other tech giants?
> Using Zoom doesn't mean you're supporting China or being spied on by China.

Yes, using Zoom 100% means you're being spied on by China.
I'm 100% with you on everything you said. It's too bad I've seen many JavaScript devs do queries in loops. Queries that can easily be batched. It's interesting for me what's the cause for this low level of relational database understanding.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how psychology works. "Cognitive hygiene" is not something most people have, if any. To claim you have it is quite arrogant to most of psychological research.

> Surely, the parties responsible for relabeling the default branch will see this as tacit admission of guilt on the part of GH and wield it as vindication of their views going forward.

This is an approach that is not productive, but also not applicable here as those types of actions are usually once the rest of the world has moved, and a small minority has not. This is quite early in such a transition and if anything I would expect Github to be praised for it. I certainly appreciate Github starting the process and conversation here.
It can, but lots of interesting philosophy can need collaboration. Good philosophy of mind stuff should be informed by neuroscience.
A Comprehensive Reboot of Law Enforcement
Are there any technologies today that would enable a distributed backup of IA? Something like BitTorrent, but where I can specify I want to host XXX GB of data, and all the nodes in the swarm would provide a redundant, distributed backup in aggregate?

I realize things like IPFS exist, but as far as I'm aware those require manual file pinning. I want to just donate storage and bandwidth to back the files up, not have to specify which ones to back up.
Indeed the currency exchange limit has been going down. Banks use various excuses to forbid currency exchange, even before you hit the personal legal limit of US $50k.

A monetary policy maker at the central bank and a supporter capital controls was ironically denied to exchange USD $20k a year ago when trying to visit an overseas relative. The reason for denial was cited as being over 65 years old and not providing sufficient documents. He didn’t exceed the US $50k limit. [1]

Earlier last year, China made it illegal to transfer for a profit of RMB 100k or with amount exceeding RMB 5M. This was considered as a measure to curb currency exchange among overseas friends and relatives. [2]

Since two years ago, Chinese banks were required to report transfer of at least RMB 50k or US $10k. Seven banks were fined for not keeping track of such transfers. [3]

Also two years ago, bank card withdrawal limits outside of China was reduced to RMB 100k. [4]

With all these additional restrictions, the amount that one can exchange for is way less than US $50k per year (or about RMB 350k at current exchange rate).

Possibly related: The People’s Bank of China just announced that depositing or withdrawing RMB 100k or more will require registration. [5]

[1] https://money.163.com/19/0529/12/EGBJMPI4002580S6.html (in simplified Chinese)

[2] https://www.auliving.com.au/zh-tw/201902/116872.html (in traditional Chinese)

[3] http://finance.sina.com/bg/economy/economy_forex/sinacn/2018... (in simplified Chinese)

[4] https://www.hk01.com/%E8%B2%A1%E7%B6%93%E5%BF%AB%E8%A8%8A/14... (in traditional Chinese)

[5] https://www.msn.com/zh-tw/news/world/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E6%9... (in traditional Chinese)
It's not mine, I'm merely a user. It was featured on the Path Less Pedaled YT channel.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. [1]

1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment
Apart from a true GAI, the research has progressed really fast. We’ve seen a huge leaps in e.g. image generation and speech synthesis during the last few years that I’m really interested on what the future will bring.
Do companies enforce every single time? No. Can they try to enforce, and win, if your manager is upset, dislikes you, or is just a bad manager? Yes. Do they ever enforce? Sure do[0]. Do you have any data about this or could you find any article indicating it's safe to not worry about non-competes (if they are enforceable in your state)? I looked, and I couldn't find any such thing.

Most times the employee is just going to give up, and pursue other opportunities that the employer can't or won't enforce a non-compete against. There isn't always going to be a lawsuit.

Have you gone over the detailed career trajectory of all these engineers you know? Do you think they would volunteer, without prompting, that they couldn't take XZY job due to a non-compete?

Even if you have had detailed conversations with, say, two dozen people, if big companies enforce on 5% of people, it's not unheard of that you personally might not know someone it happened to. That's especially true if you happen to live in CA, where non-competes are unenforceable.

[0]https://www.geekwire.com/2017/business-personal-amazon-web-s...
Your position is unusual enough that I don't really understand it. If you laid out an argument, I'd be happy to read it and have my mind changed. Terse responses are not persuasive, though.
Oh, I am not saying we are there yet as far as bandwidth is concerned, but even a 4G connection from a slow device like a phone is going to look better today. Uploading 4GiB file at 50Mbps will take less than 15 minutes, or 5 minutes at 150Mbps, and no phone would re-encode it in less than that. 5G goes up to 1Gbps, or 32s for a 4GiB file, and there's your case. Wouldn't you find it nice if your phone could do this in 30s without really burning like a stove as CPU usage spikes?

Again, we are not there yet, but we are not that far off either.

My mention of X was to highlight how this is just old technology within new constraints (move things that do not need small latency from the thin client onto the fast server), but how it's applied is going to make it or break it.
Ok, I see. And the VPC explains the high cold start. Only "solution" I see would be to "keep your functions warm" (there's a feature now for that), but it's more of an inconvenient useful anti- pattern to me. Quite annoying.

Sorry I can't be of any more help :/
I have never once checked a reference or performed a background check on any candidate for our now 20 person company. There are a ton of companies like mine. My guess is more than less but that’s just a hunch.

Diesel mechanic isn’t a bad career (my dad is an elevator mechanic and I still sometimes think I should have just done that), grass is always greener etc
I'm black too, but I've had the opposite experience. Turned down at Google, Microsoft, and a few other Top N tech companies. Is it because I'm black? Probably not. But throughout all of the interviews, I've never met or seen another black engineer on the teams, let alone interviewed by one. It's hard enough to get through the hackerrank-style "gotcha" questions, but it's even harder to feel connected to an interviewer who wants to talk about their team culture in terms of rollerblading or playing sandlot volleyball.
This company actually seems to be the most thorough: https://www.privacyduck.com/
Thought-Terminating Cliche
In this case, those are siblings of the same root, so not reading too much into it at all.

That said, both origin and practical use have relevancy here.
Here are the steps I did to install the driver on Windows 10:

https://kb.ucla.edu/articles/hp-laserjet-1012-and-windows-10
This corona virus holiday's given me the opportunity to revert to my preferred working time. It's taken tremendous restraints not to harm those who give me eye/head aches from interrupting my sleep.

It's maddening how early risers in my family just can't understand why anyone would stay awake overnight and start their sleep when others are just waking up.
And then back to Perl! (the original P in LAMP)
A large part is also for looking for something that passes the letter of the rules, but not the spirit - a loophole.

The Mercedes F1 DAS system they intend to race this year when the season gets underway is just the latest example, but see also the 6 wheeled car, the fan car, getting around the ground effect ban, double diffuser, blown exhaust etc. etc.

It's one of the reasons I love the sport.
> and most companies/dev leads/managers are very comfortable allowing arbitrary half-checked solutions

Not really true - they just don't have _any_ grasp on the problem aside from "Yeah I thought you were working on that last week, are you stuck on it? Why is it taking so long? - Oh so you do have a fix that works, cool so how soon can that be merged?"

Almost all of these types of situations lead back to miscommunication or someone in the discussion just not caring.
You could sort of simulate this with dtach in zsh:

zle-line-init() if [[ $CONTEXT = start ]] LBUFFER=$zle_prefix$LBUFFER
zle -N zle-line-init
mkdir $HOME/dtaches
zle_prefix='dtach -A $(mktemp -d $HOME/dtaches/XXXXX)/sock '
It's not deterministic because you don't know the timing relationship between threads which may drop references. The only sense in which it is deterministic is that "when the reference count reaches zero, the object will be destroyed". That's a long way from the determinism of manual/explicit memory management. It gets even worse if there are per-thread pools in use, though to be fair, this is mostly an application design issue rather than a language one.
Look, I think if you propose a change to a long-standing naming convention it's you who should make the case, and I find the case to be weak. I don't think calling it 'bitching and moaning' is warranted. And if all code ends up not using that terminology I will adapt and move on, not sure what else you think I would be doing.
I doubt that’s specific to these kinds of efforts; it seems that any advance for PoC in America draws a significant backlash, whether or not the advance was substantive or symbolic.
> Probably 95% of the commenters have not read TFA in sufficient detail to argue minutiae details. They see 'language changed in support of the dominant political current' and link it to Newspeak

That might be the first Orwellian thing in this thread - people see a thing they've been told is bad and done by bad people and they need to get their Two Minutes Hate out, and they don't have the intellectual curiosity to spend those two minutes figuring out what's actually happening. (Actually, maybe there's a bit of Brave New World in there too.)

> there is plenty of language redefinition, history rewriting and statues toppling as we speak.

Give me specific examples, and we can talk about whether this is 1984 or not.

(I'm aware of some statues being toppled over the last couple of weeks that were originally put in place by people who wanted to rewrite history - and the act of toppling those statues has caused much more public discussion about the subjects of their statues and their true history than the statues themselves ever did. That hardly seems like 1984 to me. I'm not sure what you mean by language redefinition and history rewriting, otherwise.)
> To give you an idea that pcwalton knows what he’s been doing and has indeed been seeking to match platform rendering exactly,

I don't intend at all to cast doubt on pcwalton's abilities - the work is brilliant without any hesitation.

But I wonder how that is possible given that "platform rendering" pretty much has changed every other macOS version and every Windows version ("ClearType" from WinXP is definitely not "ClearType" from Win10) ; and let's not talk about the customization abilities of freetype which makes rendering on any two linux boxes also entirely distinct.
http://www.phkimpel.us/B5500/

This is the fantastic web-based B5000 emulator.
I'm guessing the write head copied the read head unless instructed to write a new thing at that address, so you didn't need to keep track separately.

Algorithms (implemented in parallel with electronics):

Secondary storage algorithms:

Read(addr):
While address != addr:
nop
Return read_head_value

Write(addr, data):
While address != addr:
nop
Write data

Fast storage:

Read(addr):
While address % 10 != addr:
nop
Return read_head_data

Write(addr, data):
While address % 10 != addr:
Write read_head_data
Write data
The next article in the series, see the menu on the left, describes Donald Knuth as "a programming guru." :)
Nazino Affair
In what way does this pull request "limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will"?
> no one is playing with their own money

Who's money is it then?
Crafting a Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem
They do - but they also have scores of super smart engineers who each year manage to find a certain something - be it a loophole, or just something nobody else thought of.

See DAS this year, F Duct in the early 2010s, the 2009 Double Diffusers (when they were technically banned), Blown diffuser, CF layups that cause the front wing to flex under load etc. etc.
Why does replacing a handful of offensive terms with more accurate words require "restructuring the entire English language"? Unless you can make a case for that, the logical conclusion is that those handful of words will go out of favor and the impact to the "entire English language" will be negligible.
Not to mention the compelled speech in Canada, in regards to gender pronouns.
And it seniority not just $$ that is one of the key tests ie for a director or C level.
This made me think how trailing newline is actually bit weird. Wouldn't it make more sense to just have shell prompts always start with newline and commands not outputting trailing newlines as gratuitously as they do now?
Can you provide any information that shows that per pupil spending and/or small class size correlates to better outcomes?

Since the US Dept of Ed was created by Jimmy Carter, can you show positive results and benefits of this approach?
IPFS works based on files visited. I wonder if you could write a script that crawls randomly until it hits a certain threshold stored...
I haven't compared API Gateway to other services.

Looks like it costs $1 per 1 million HTTP calls. That does not sound very costly if you are talking about just side projects which may not generate close to a million requests?
They decided to give a brief explaination but a post-mortem report like you ask wouldn't likely happen without involving the law. But again have governments ever fined or accussed search engines for misinformation or disinformation in the recent histoy? They have been fined probably for lack of moderation I guess, does anyone know?
I think the reason for it is grounded in theories of causation in human emotions/behaviors: there are a number of behaviors which are deemed to behave like 'symptoms' in that they are effectively determined by a smaller set of underlying emotions, e.g. fear.

Part of the idea, from what I can tell, is that the emotion (e.g. fear) in many cases doesn't appear at the surface level because it is "unacceptable" to a person, so their mind/brain assists in disguising it. But—the symptoms it causes are still there, hence this process of associating (visible) symptom sets to (non-visible) root causes, so that a non-superficial way of dealing with the problem might be recommended.
Underappreciated Superpower: a look into useful software tests
I think it's unlikely that pip will be able to easily install something like Sage anytime soon, but one could use conda [1] which is pretty popular in the scientific community, or alternatively
docker [2].
It also seems there's support in the Nix package manager [3] which is actually more powerful than any other package manager I'm aware of (GUIX notwithstanding).

(I realize that this response is probably useless for the Sage author, but hopefully will benefit others who struggle with installation)

[1] https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/conda.html#sec...
[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/sagemath/sagemath/
[3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
They're about 40 years ahead of you.

am: Flag whose presence means that writing a character in the last column causes the cursor to wrap to the beginning of the next line. If `am' is not present, writing in the last column leaves the cursor at the place where the character was written. Writing in the last column of the last line should be avoided on terminals with `am', as it may or may not cause scrolling to occur (see section Scrolling). Scrolling is surely not what you would intend. If your program needs to check the `am' flag, then it also needs to check the `xn' flag which indicates that wrapping happens in a strange way. Many common terminals have the `xn' flag.
It's interesting that people are downvoting (from their computers made from Blood Rare-Earth Minerals) you but no one is posting links to relief efforts they've donated to or paid taxes for.

It's easy to martyr other people.
> Just how it annoys other people around you

Hah! Yes.

I grew up when ASD and ADHD couldn’t be comorbid diagnoses - and as I wasn’t hyperactive or fidgety, and was considered professorial or studious it was never brought up. Academic problems caused by “not applying oneself” only started around the time I was 15-16, prior to that I just coasted my way through primary and secondary school with high grades.

Growing-up, I think I weirded-out people far more then I annoyed them - hence the primacy of the ASD diagnosis - my last psychologist said he couldn’t tell I was ASD at all until I told him - I think I’m just good at hiding it, but I definitely still have problems.
I used to weight twice what I do today, so I know a thing or two about eating too many calories, and I lost that weight so I know a thing or two about not eating that many calories.

Thing is, a rule like "only eat in an eight hour window" leaves plenty of time to consume huge amounts of calories. I've been known to pack away 4k+ in a meal, both in the past and today. It's not even hard for me. In fact, it's rather hard not to once I start eating because like many people who are of have been fat I'm a food addict.

Some here are saying things like "well, good luck eating 4k of lettuce dude!" and yeah, that is hard. But if you're eating lettuce and vegetables and all that low calorie stuff already you probably don't need the 8 hour window restriction!.
Better yet, nobody should be paid for any work whatsoever. We should all love what we do, and if we won't do what we do for free, we clearly don't love it enough. We should all put our lack of money where our mouths are.
A lie by who? Amazon?
I disagree; I see this as HN responding poorly to the form of the argument, not the substance.

If I were to go around and make comparisons between right wing policies and nazism, I would also expect a rapid downvote into oblivion. Would that downvote prove my point, or would it just show that HN disapproves of my invocation of Godwin?
And now they will get paid nothing for non labor.
Some other examples I've seen in current discourse (mostly in the US context):

* Calling someone Antifa

* Calling someone a "Karen"

* "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

* Something being a constitutional right.

* "Mainstream media" as a way of invalidating any facts presented by the main media outlets.
This is a good article. I don't understand why people find it questionable and get so defensive about it. It does not deny the fast progress nor the potential of current/future techniques. It is simply an explanation for the layman of things that should be obvious to any practitioner in the field.
Understood and I like your suggestion. The problem we had trying to preview too much was that pulling the 'small' (still quite large) images off their web server for each lat/lng point seemed to bring it to its' knees. I wish there was a quick way to see a thumbnail - that opens up a bunch of ideas. I considered downloading all 3.5M images (in batches) and converting to 128x128 thumbs to store and serve locally but probably not good form to do that to NASA and my tired old computer would get rather sad I think.

Hopefully someone else will be inspired to improve on the idea though.
I'm currently doing way less and got multiple offers. No FANGA salaries, tho, but still fine for a uni drop out.
Yes, usually the employer you leave will pay your salary and the firm you're joining will compensate for the bonus you're forfeiting.