skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is that without stronger consistency guarantees you can't do joins between two streams (or even something like argmax over a single stream, since it splits the stream into two subcomputations, which then have to be joined back together).

I think when folks say that eventual consistency is okay, they're thinking about simple aggregates - where transient incorrectness in the result is indistinguishable from noise.

But if you want to do joins, you really want to be able to reason about your unbounded streams causally - Flink, Beam, (and as another commenter points out, Firebase as well) provide stronger consistency guarantees on computations over unbounded streams.
I have also bookmarked this, and will be sharing it with the few Open Source projects I contribute to as evidence that we should stop using GitHub for crucial work. It's a sad thing since I think they have a more intuitive platform than GitLab or Bitbucket, but seem to be transitioning to a full-blown enterprise obsessed Microsoft division.
> Facebook doesn't even let you express anything except for ... ultra liberal views.

This is absurdly counter-factual.
Wait you can get sponsors on github?
In other words.. he just got doctor disrespect'd
> There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram.

Isn't that because Tiktock's content is manually curated (for better or worse)?
>An estimated 1% of men are pedophiles.

I really wanna see how they made those estimations.
How many percent of Woman's are pedophiles then?
Your right to do something does not remove my right to complain about what you did publicly.
Well you can not have those if you don't like eavesdropping. A cleaning lady is atleast something you notice might hear you and she wont use the data to decide my credit rating.

A safe assumtion is that all IoT devices spy on you. I wonder how much longer there actually are robot vacuum cleaners that are safely offline for sale with full functionality.
To be fair nerdcore doesn't attract chorus lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

Closest I can get to HN ⋂ dancing is 1:34-1:48 in Virus' "You should ask" (where the video is about the difficulty of source attribution on a LAN, let alone an entire internet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdoQ2fmIYs
At our shop we are happy using Github Enterprise. There may be something unstated in this page's story.
> If you want to move to Oregon to live on a commune, no capitalist commissar is there to stop you.

I don't know, didn't work out so well for the Rajneeshees. Or Clive Bundy.
> As we proceed into an automated future, our labor protections are pricing humans out of the market

Not just that, but the skill and knowledge requirements to compete with automation will continue to grow and less and less people will be able to meet that demand. Many people argue that many thought this would be the case with many technical revolutions before, but fail to admit that it's converging on a singularity. Sure jobs we didn't know would exist are being created where people can shift their work to, but the cycle for automation is becoming shorter and cheaper and sooner or later we as humans won't be able to keep up (unless you meet the high demands which are unreasonable to expect everyone to adapt to).
Remove standing water, keep your lawn mowed short, remove brush. This will reduce their breeding area. Any standing water not able to be eliminated should be treated with BTI.

Then you can wear long shirt/pants covered in a repellent, such as DEET. This works if you are moving around a lot. They even have mesh head nets.

If staying I come place, you can treat the area (lawn) with diluted garlic oil which can last 2 weeks. You can also use a heated permethrin device, which creates a 15' radius free of mosquitos. You can use traps that emit CO2 or electric bug zappers to also reduce the population in an area.
By not being the sole income earner. If their partner works a comparable job, suddenly youre looking at $25/hr which is perfectly comfortable in most areas.
Pronunciation of shortened technical jargon is an interesting thing. I've noticed certain common variations but outside of very localized "communities" (like the employees of a particular company) it's not clear to me that there is a particular regional or community pattern for most of them.

* I've always assumed the conventional way to pronounce `chmod` was something like "ch-mod" (i.e., "chŭ-mod", with a short u). Is that less common than I think?

* `char` (like the C-style character variable type) is an interesting example. I've always read it as - and usually heard it as - "car". But there are groups where "char" (like the word meaning "burn") is more common. Strangely no one seems to say "care", which would be the corresponding part of the root word "character", right?

* "JSON" is another curious one. I've always just read that as "Jason" (like the name) but others seem to emphatically drop the missing "A", saying it more like "j-SON".

* For that matter, I've always read `fsck` like "f-seek", but apparently the creators intended it as "fisk".

Is there some kind of ethnographic study on this topic? Surely there are identifiable communities of these, but I've never been able to discern the broader pattern. I'm guessing it was once relatively regional, but it's probably more broadly distributed (and maybe domain/community-based) in the post-YouTube/podcast era.
Why would hiring 100+ customer support reps be a problem for Microsoft?
Well, I would like to point out that the right move here would be to call out this clause in the terms of service. One could even try to take legal action in some countries that have civil right measures against such clauses.

But no, instead one runs around and starts a petition.
If you’re doing anything mission critical on GitHub (or even if you aren’t), I highly recommend hosting your own Gitea or GitLab server and, at the very least, use it to mirror to or from your Github repos.

Gitea is very lightweight and simple to manage. I use mine as my primary server for personal projects and mirror them to my GitHub account for the network effect. I also have my server mirroring several upstream projects from GitHub to run my Drone build server against, but it also makes sure I can access them should anything happen to the upstream or to my account.
I know. I tried that so many times. I think I must have marked 'not interested' on thousands of posts at this point.

For some reason, IG thinks I'm a track athlete (among many other things). Even for stuff I am legitimately into (like mountain biking), my IG explore page mostly serves me up these random accounts called things like 'MTBdaze' or 'bike247' that just seem to repost random pics/memes as a way to grow the follower count.
It does indeed have a high monetary impact. Just look at Microsoft.

I use PowerPivot and PowerQuery a lot. A job does not have to be particularly interesting for you to derive value from those two, practically any Excel-using job will do. Either of the two is a game-changer by itself.

I think that the bulk of user-facing changes to Excel over the last ten years is in either PowerQuery or PowerPivot. Neither has an adequate alternative in LO, as far as I’m aware.
I bought the on site service warranty. It was about 100 Euro for 3 years (as in 33.33 per year) for my zBook 15 back in 2014. It got much more expensive on the fourth year (maybe 100+ per one year), then basically started to cover nothing. I got a quotation for 400 Euro to replace the keyboard. The original backlit one is about 130 Euro, the not backlit one is about 40. Of course the difference is next business day replacement but for a keyboard it's never so vital. I already replaced it myself a couple of times and bought a spare one because they'll run out of parts sooner or later. I keep my old laptop as a spare and kind of know what to buy next, ideally the same laptop, maybe a little lighter and with no number pad.
Yeah right, Cambridge Analytica wasn't a thing...
unfortunately, i think you'll find that DX is far too edgy for any school curriculum because it's far too true to life.

school curriculums are not intended to capture the nuance of how a "terrorist" group like the NSF might gain popular support and even the moral high ground as a result of their efforts to reduce the inequality of vaccine distribution. an inequality of distribution that our society is all but destined to replicate, as soon as we have a vaccine for COVID-19.

nor are school curriculums interested in provoking critical thought by posing questions like "what if powerful groups of people are conspiring for their own gain, even when it results in mass misery?" this too we have already covered in the pandemic, when trump's political allies recieved preferential access to the right to sell protective equipment that was in short supply even when their need for it was minimal and the consequences of their greed was mass death.

put differently: school curriculums exist to prevent enlightened dissenters from existing, not to make more of them. i'd be all for having it be part of a course, but it's just too real.
> Designing a user friendly query language for relational data isn’t the hard part. Executing such queries efficiently is.

I couldn't agree more with this part :)

To be clear, GraphQL compiler isn't trying to "solve" SQL itself, just merely the fact that by the time all the table splitting, sharding across disks and machines, and similar required maintenance operations are done, your SQL query has grown impractically complex and entirely unreasonable to write. At sufficient scale, and with sufficient additional non-SQL databases in play, writing adequate queries becomes wildly impractical.

In the GraphQL compiler world, all your databases (SQL and non-SQL) are represented in one unified schema against which you write database-agnostic queries, and GraphQL compiler handles the nitty-gritty details of "which query runs where." GraphQL compiler is not a toy project I build for fun — it's a core piece of data infrastructure that Kensho (company where I work) has been happily using in production for over 3 years now.

I'm writing a blog post about exactly this, and I hope to publish it very soon! Follow me on Twitter if you'd like to see it when it comes out.
Grant was an inspiration.

The whole crew were, are.

Their efforts pushed me along the path I am on and made my life measurably better.

Grant was core to that. Grant made my life better.

I got to meet him one at a Maker Faire. They say, never meet your heroes. Grant was the exception to that rule. Shaking his hand was everything I expected. He was kind to some rando and seemed happy that he was able to make a better life for some stranger he'd never met.

I'm so grateful for his efforts. I am so grateful for his humor. I am so grateful for his joy.

Thank you Grant.
Smart roads have been attempted for years. Usually with some sort of antenna or wireless/light transmitter embedded in the road itself. The cost per mile was just too high. Far simpler to use what's already there with computer vision and map metadata. Now that cars have GPS, A-GPS, and RTK need to tailor roads for autonomous vehicles has been diminished.
In Hollywood's high-circles it's probably more like 15% (estimated)
More proof that anyone that trusts a cloud service for absolutely mission critical infrastructure for a business like source control should reconsider. And I'm not saying this to attack OP in any way.

But everyone should have a system to take backup of their org accounts on GitHub and other services if thats what you use. You don't want the apocalypse scenario that the service bans you and now you are all scrambling to find the latest copies on your PCs.
> we're here to create good, informed consumers

Wow, whatever happened to trying to create good, informed citizens?
"Windows Internals" 7th ed. part 1 and 2 by Mark Russinovich would be the definitive current reference on how Windows itself works but assumes knowledge of how operating systems in general work already.

For general OS knowledge, I second the other poster's recommendation of Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems"
Former Tinder VP Jeff Morris Jr. Opens Up Product Club, a Product Accelerator
They are comparable in how they work technically and what they do with your data, but this is less true of "which geopolitical overlord are you supporting". I edited my post from "equally wrong when Facebook does it" to "also wrong when Facebook does it" to clarify this. To "see ads targeting you" Facebook has to steal as much of your personal data as is technically possible, map out all your social relationships, and then sell it to hundreds of companies all over the world. In any case, the path from watching Tiktoks to supporting concentration camps is long and thin. Most people are not thinking about this and are just using Tiktok because they like it better than anything else.
Generating Melodies with Markov Chains in Ruby
A lot of chips are harvested (in horrifying conditions for the workers and the chips) from old electronics and then retopped.
It's not merely "practice" in Canada, it's the law. And since most transactions are handled by software these days, it's pretty easy to implement and verify (jobs: secret shoppers). Subtler, businesses can try to game their prices to maximize rounding gains; also illegal (jobs: accounting, data analysis). For small businesses with antiquated tills, one should offer grants for upgrades and training (jobs: installation, manufacturing, tech support...).
Regardless, a dozen is a good starting point.
You are essentially shifting the problem from entity to entity and from one domain to another. If you self host your repository, your hosting provider can pull the plug and you essentially end up in square one. If you decide to self host, you should consider multi-cloud cross continent and cross political doctrine cluster.
German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
For GitLab.com maybe that’s a question, but nobody is going to ban me from my self-hosted service.
Yeah, it was definitely "consumers" not "citizens". That was one of the parts that struck me right away.

Glad I didn't go there.
Don't need to be enthused to acknowledge one is better than the other. At the end of the day the NSA/facebook is far less likely to use my information to hurt me than the CCP. The only difference is I live in the US, so the CCP doesn't really care and can't really reach me without committing a potential act of war anyway. If I moved to China and maintained my same social media habits I'd be disappeared rather quickly, and possibly organ harvested.

Consider that if you use TikTok anything you post will show up in your dossier should you ever visit China, even as a tourist. And you're giving that info freely, better hope the CCP doesn't decide to use it against you while you're there to make a political statement. They've done and are doing far worse over less.
Timothy Leary was telling everyone this decades ago, of course.
Im not in IT.

- my phone is automatically ringing every day at 5 am but it doesnt work well!

- a lot of macro in ms office

- some text processing and formatting usually powershell, or any portable interpreter or compiler.

- some mouse/kb scripts for old not scriptble office software
I'm sure this has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Apple replaced my rattling AirPods Pro with a couple quick and simple questions at a Genius Bar appointment. They charged me nothing and it took just a few minutes. No AppleCare.

It sounds like this is more about how they apply policy per region outside of their stores.
So...what is the mortality rate down to these days?
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SourceHut adds continuous integration for mailing lists
> If you try to be more engaged you end up exhausted due to the energy required to cross check information for veracity.

This came up in a similar vein in the PG tweet thread yesterday. There is an assumption when commenting that everyone has the same knowledge base and it simply isnt true a large majority of the time.

I wonder if some kind of social media has tried only "sourced" comments. So your comments can be more easily interpreted when you make a leading statement. I presume then you just get into the weeds about what is and isnt a source though..
I wish our “leaders” (federal, state, local) had at least approximate plan further than half a month into the future.
Homemade hair cut robot with scissors
Are you actually concerned that the Chinese government might get access to your data or is it a matter of principle? What do you think they want to do with it? If they really wanted it could they not acquire it by other means? I ask as I'm genuinely curious. I'm considering install it on my phone to try it out and see how it compares to youtube. I'm not dissatisfied with my youtube feed. Just curious as to how much better TikTok would be based on the descriptions on the article and on this thread.
Probably something to do with this? Mistaken identity maybe

https://dev.to/lucis/how-i-got-the-github-username-of-my-dre...
Thank you for posting the CNN text-only version instead of the "full experience" version. For those who aren't aware, https://lite.cnn.com is text only, but has all the same articles/headlines as the main site.. [Edit] Additionally, There's also https://text.npr.org
I find that a couple of choice swear words get me transferred to a human very quickly.

typically, a human answers the call and is rather tentative (I'm guessing my call gets flagged due to the swearing?), and after my cheerful response back to them it becomes a pleasant interaction.
Any heroes willing to volunteer to be part of the 1%?
1. They would need to be somewhat technical, so they would not be cheap. Let's say $70,000 a piece.

2. It is a free product. Would you spend 7 million a year supporting a free product?

3. 99% of complaints would be of the nature "GitHub is broken. HELP!" and really be some person who did not set the origin before pushing.
Rather than effort into phone bits, can we just put effort into letting you do everything from their website?

A well designed service doesn't let phone agents do anything the customer couldn't do themselves. It is literally called customer support, because they help you do the things you want to do, rather than doing it for you.
But in the article they mention that they don't see the server's response. What's preventing you from spamming ACKs with sequential sequence numbers?
No. There are no network effects here. Any company in the financial sector would switch to an excel alternative with a tangible edge over Excel in a heartbeat. LO Calc is Excel 2003, but uglier and with more bugs. That is not a viable commercial proposition.
Let me give you my perspective on the matter.

Art connects us with history. If we don't have a conscious stream going back to the Greek mathematicians such as Archimedes and Erastosthenes, how do we know they existed? In this case we actually don't have a nice conscious stream because of a little event called the fall of Rome and the dark ages. But the artifacts are as real a connection to early history as my school books with my writing are to my own early history, or yours.

Anything connecting us directly to the Renaissance is inherently valuable, as is the Romantic era, or early industrial history. I value van Gogh for it's place in history, and for the fact that anything in the painting has to be from that date. If you do some kind of verification, you should see that the green pigment has to be the one that they used at that time, and may possibly look a bit faded to a more yellowy colour. Red pigment will probably be somewhat poisonous and blue may well be from a particular plant with a particular name. (IANAAH.)

Going to the Renaissance is of course more complicated than going to van Gogh, going to the dark ages is more so, and even more so going back to Greece. The same holds for any civilisations such as the Maya, ancient China, Mesopotamia, and so forth. We are connected to the San only through very few artifacts and often they are too generic to know. We are but limited to paintings on overhanging rock faces.

The money value is another argument, but if I had the money, I would buy a piece of history for $1m in the same way that I would buy a Fazioli or a Bosendorfer (the one with the octave lower, of course) for some $200k, new or old.
I feel like half a month is being generous. They don't have a plan for 3 days in the future, it seems.
Paragraph 9:

Amusingly, if you get through to a human, or demand to speak to a person, the staffer will probably just tell you what the AI wanted to say anyway: the software will, behind the scenes, provide prompts to the call-center workers.
Yes!!! I thought I was going crazy. My registration got stuck at the payment screen even though I can buy other content from iTunes. I’ve contacted Apple support more than a dozen times in a span of two weeks. I was given conflicting information by different representatives. For example one told me to create a new Apple ID and register again. Then when that failed I was told it was because I had two accounts that tried to register with the same drivers’ license. At some point I think I triggered some anti-fraud mechanism because I can’t even get past the license agreement screen anymore and they told me basically that they’ll “review” the case and get back to me. Haven’t heard back in 3 weeks since.
You've got to use an Apple Card. Don't you understand?

</sarcasm>
I am surprised why it took school system so long. And despite the apparent collapse of traditional education, it is surprisingly resistant to change. I would also include some works from Demoscene, some newer electronic music (at least from the 80s :)).
I am not sure that would be better simply because they would either need to throw away a lot of tickets randomly or the wait times would be horrendous.
Microsoft recently renamed a majority of their products yet again because if it wasn't confusing enough already, it's even more confusing now!

"Microsoft 365" now includes all of Windows 10, Office 365 (Office on PC) and Azure. This is more geared towards the home market.

Then, there's "Office 365 for Business" which as the name implies is more for business/corporate customers.

It looks like your custom domain is using the old Outlook.com/Hotmail architecture, which already supported +<tags> in email addresses - while Microsoft's corporate offering (running on a cloud based Exchange Server) still doesn't, and they're pushing support for it out later this year.
Then why are buying ventilators and asking doctors to put their lives at risk? We never bought ventilators for flu and never had so much focus on vaccines.

Maybe your point is to just go on and accept that few more millions will die of this new cause.
I can't believe I never seen that. I'll definitely check it out. Douglas Crockford, Brendan Eich - those guys are my heros!
Grow With Google: A digital jobs program to help America's economic recovery
>abstract algebra is effectively a sort of secret maths techniques

abstract algebra (rings, groups, fields) is taught in absolutely every undergrad math program in the country (in the world?). there's nothing unique to harvard in this aspect.
> The fire was first reported in a lower cargo area where seafaring tanks and landing craft are parked. It appears to have started in a spot where cardboard boxes, rags and other ship maintenance supplies were being stored, Sobeck said.

I will not be surprised if this ends up being an "oily rag" fire.

https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/Public-Education/Resource...
That exact situation is what the article is about. The part truncated from the article title on HN is "...The human is told what to say by the bot".
If someone maintains a project, wouldn't they have the code and be able to push it to another service (or run their own)?
Captain Nitpick here. That will eventually run out of memory and crash, because of GOSUB instead of GOTO.

Clever, though...