skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing this “keep it small” mantra everywhere. There is a good reason people do large pull requests instead of multiple dependent pull requests. The reason is that current UIs are atrocious. For example GitHub plain doesn't support them which makes it an absolute nightmare to review them (irrelevant changes[1]).

Additionally, syncing the different branches with Git is a pain, especially when you have several levels of dependencies.

[1] I'm well aware of the fact that you can set the parent branch to something else than master. But in that case, you'll have to merge the parent branch after the branches which depend on it. This completely defeats the purpose of splitting pull requests.
> And the number of czars have been growing [2] under both Obama and Trump (though I guess this administration doesn't use that title)

That list is "executive branch officials who have been described by the media as a czar of some kind", not anything official or affecting the duties of that person in any particular way.
What would you say is the "resident innovative force in computing" now?

I'm a little confused by the reference to healthcare.gov: if Big Web is not the right paradigm to handle a... big web site, then what is?
I don't get it, provinces are very powerful here in Canada. It's very hard for the federal government to go against the big provinces. Angering Quebec or Ontario is a recipe for disaster. Btw provinces definitely bought their own PPE too, most provinces have total control over their healthcare system and their public health policies. There's no expectation from the canadian public to see the Federal government intervene in that regard either. If anything, I'd argue the canadian Federal system is much more decentralized than America's.
I agree with this. If you are generally swamped with work, you need to do triage and possibly delegate work.

This isn't perfect behavior. But in some situations the perfect solution isn't feasible.
I would imagine it is fairly carbon neutral... you are burning things that grew over the last year. You aren't releasing new carbon into the air.
This, of course, presumes that ppl want to do JOINs. Wouldn't eventual consistency be mostly NoSQL where joins are not an issue?
Why do you think lobbying had anything to do with this?

I interpreted this as mostly driven by the nativism of Trump et al.
It's weird how this is clearly not just slightly different SKUs of Threadripper like Ryzen Pro was to consumer Ryzen. Instead Ryzen Threadripper Pro seems to be EPYC in all but name?
In keynotes now, I feel a little cringe every time one of the presenters uses a Jobs catch phrase. It's clear they are trying to imitate his surface mannerisms, instead of enthusiastically putting forth their own personalities and values.
You can't just sue because you are displeased with something - you need to have suffered, or will suffer direct harm from the thing(this is called locus standi). I'm guessing OP is saying that Harvard/MIT would not be harmed from this, only the students would be harmed(so they would need to be the ones to sue, not the college).

It kind of makes sense - if everything is online courses, it doesn't matter to Harvard whether the students are at an apartment in Cambridge St or in the middle of the Mongolian steppe, as long as you have internet access.

On the other hand, if students are deciding to attend some other university(say, one in their home country) and Harvard can show that harms them, then they would have standing
The DMCA does grant the target of a DMCA notice to sue the person who gives the notice for knowing material misrepresentation, including access to damages. But indeed it's been enforced very rarely and at very inadequate damage levels after subtracting legal fees. The main example of this provision being enforced is OPG v. Diebold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebold....
This is what bothers me the most about "Autopilot". Marketing aside I think that this level of automation is in an uncanny valley of danger. It isn't good enough to take full control, but it is good enough that the driver feels safe enough to get distracted.

I'm sure there are many of drivers who keep their full attention on the road, but in general humans are bad at focusing on tedious things that they don't feel are necessary.
Yeah this isn't a viable way to formulate public policy. It isn't new either, happened with the travel ban early on. Soft power, and even the viability of a country, depends on certain long-term guarantees, guarantees that the current administration has blown away completely.

I'm pessimistic that even if a change in administration occurs early next year (and that is a major if), there would be anything any administration can do before the next Donald Trump takes office 4 or 8 years from now. I'm betting that the next "Trump" will be far smarter and won't make this one's mistakes. And if the Republic falls, no place on Earth will be safe.

That's not a reason to lie down and die. It's a reason to fight back with the frenzy of despair. I hope a quarter million dead by December will be enough. Enough for folks to remember that elections have consequences.
It's not just WhatsApp web. It's WhatsApp now.
> The idea that a communist movement could have existed without KGB interference is equally absurd.

The communist movement ended up giving birth to the KGB. For that to be true there would have to be time travel involved.

The KGB certainly did their share of support and outreach to both peaceful movements and outright funding of many Red Army Faction terrorist groups which faded away after the fall of the USSR cut off funding and crushed hopes, but claiming they are responsible for their very existence would be an oversimplification.
No, it's 600k per individual that successfully pursues this to the point where government regulators step in. I'd say it's quite likely that for every individual that gets this acted upon, there's a significant number that either (a) never complain, (b) don't have the political pull to get the regulators interested or (c) simply can't pass the burden of proof despite being in the right.
I believe tesla's numbers. When you have a backlog of sales a few cancled orders just changes the queue. Toyota didn't have that. Tesla also had customers in industry least affected (engineers and other upper class) who didn't need to adjust their life as much as waiters did.
I always do this as well. I knew for months before they announced it that Dropbox had been breached. Yes, they waited so long to announce that the thieves had started using the emails for spam.
In order to get the replacement, I needed to know the serial number of the AirPods but didn’t need to provide any proof of purchase (I wasn’t the original buyer of the AirPods). This suggests to me that anyone who can get AirPod serial numbers could get free AirPods sent to them by contacting customer service. Absent the credit card hold, it seems like a good way to steal a lot of AirPods. I would guess at Apple’s scale, someone probably has done this scheme in the past so they need to find a way to prevent it (even if it never happened with AirPods, it probably happened with iPhones). Asking for the credit card hold upfront is a little unfriendly, but a lot better than dealing with a bunch of anti-fraud/collections work. It’s also much more friendly than requiring the customer to send in the broken AirPods first to get a replacement (this is the most common repair service I’ve experienced from other manufacturers, and it’s painful enough that I usually just try to fix the thing myself or throw it away).

I’d say the credit card/mailing method is also not Apple’s preferred means of exchange - it’s the backup for when the Apple Store is unavailable. At the store you hand them the AirPods when you get your replacement so there’s no need to provide a deposit.
Came on here just to check on it. Thanks for the heads up.
MonetDB/e: embedded OLAP/analytics database
This is a very interesting addition to the embedded analytics database landscape. MonetDB/e may hit a sweet spot.

I always enjoyed using MonetDBLite (with R), but it is no longer being developed. I understand that CWI has contributed to the development of MonetDBLite, DuckDB and MonetDB/e. It would be useful to know how DuckDB and MonetDB/e differ. The latter may have the advantage of building on a well established server.

For some other embedded databases, see http://embedded-database.com/open-source-embedded-database-s....
This is why I measure in person months and not dollars.

You fine the speeder a fraction of their income (person months), not a fraction of their entire support networks income (months). Doing the latter would tend to discourage people from forming large support networks (large companies).
On the other hand.. the overreach of the executive branch is a response to the political deadlock in the legislative branch.

If we end up in a situation where neither branch can respond quickly and effectively, that may be worse than what we have now.
As others have mentioned, you can manually adjust the TDP lower by reducing the max wattage for various power envelopes. This has all the same benefits that lower clocked mobile chips have in terms of power savings. The desktop chips are less efficient because they run at higher clocks where the returns have diminished as far as clock/power ratio.
https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/
Secrets should really be stored in services, not files outside of maybe a single bootstrap file (unless you're working on the secret storage service itself).

I generate my secrets once, send them off to the secrets service, and then my service queries that service. I never see the secrets with my own eyes.
I'm still trying to figure out how you avoid speed of light propogation delays to get immediate consistency.
It feels like saving money might also be more environmentally friendly than growth.
Short of range issues, you should drive a Taycan to see just how much better it can get. The Car lacks the infotainment tech of Tesla, the network, and the autopilot tech but from a driving dynamics and quality standpoint makes the Model S feel poor.
The vast majority of the criticism Rowling has received was not death or rape threats. Why do you ascribe that behavior to the entire "woke-left" (I'm assuming thats who you meant by "they"). Do you not think that targets of the right ever receive rape or death threats? These are not characteristic of the left. There is not some "woke-left" governing body directing people and asking some to give cover so that others can issue rape threats. Why do you choose to focus on them exclusively?
Facebook would be ideally placed to orchestrate that sort of scam. It certainly hasn't showed signs of stopping.
Sort of with the Equifax hack and their subsequent business exploit of the breach.
I use the managesieve plugin in claws-mail, works great with no issues.
Edge is based on Chromium
and apparently, direct election of senators in 1913's 17th amendment was supposed to be the patch

now we are just out of solutions and too divided to get further patches in
It's ironic you post this after Bethesda installed a root-kit anti-cheat for this very game (yes, it has since been updated, but not automatically removed if it was already there).

So, yeah, they may have very well collected that data from your hard drive.

EDIT: Brain flatulance, s/DRM/anti-cheat/g
Author here, thanks for the feedback. I want to keep this simple enough for me and my non-hardware engineer colleagues, but will see if I can add a note about the instruction sets.

Yeah, I remember when only the cheap slow devices were ARM, and that suddenly changed. I'm assuming it's because some very talented engineers at Annapurna/AWS and Apple starting working on the problem with heavy iteration – if you look at the Apple A series performance it shows lots of compounding benefits. AWS is much more opaque, but they're likely iterating like crazy internally, and their Graviton2 is a better business decision for customers who can run ARM, and they're layering ML and encryption onto it.

Will fix the note about software being the reason the transition now – I meant to say Apple has had the A series chips for a while, why are they deciding to transition now – probably because it took a while to get the OS and Rosetta ready.
> ECC is not officially supported on Ryzen. If it works on your particular board/BIOS, great, but it's not officially validated or tested

The Asus Pro X570 ACE (or similar name) explicitly offers ECC support though, not just unofficially.
Guys, just my lame thought but can’t differential privacy be legally enforced in every software on every digital device?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team.

IMHO, there is a simple solution to this - release the software under the GPL license. Then no corporation will want to touch it.
This doesn't work for me, at least not directly. However, I find that if I relax for a few moments and then make a full body effort to do a short-sharp shake of, well, everything, I can normally wake myself up. Trick then is to keep moving so I wake up fully and don't fall back into it :/

It's quite possible than I'm just twitching a finger or toe when I do that initial effort though :)
> You seem to be under the impression that there has to be a simple "situation in, binary judgement out" function that always works.

There's a huge range between the ad hoc and the binary. For example, I think Mill's Harm Principle is a good place to start.

> Doesn't mean it isn't a useful heuristic...

I guess that's my point: I don't think it's a useful heuristic at all. Imo, the great majority of people worried about trans jokes and not Irish jokes are primarily on the political left, which makes it a political issue. But it should be (and in fact is) a moral issue: is X being harmed by Y? If so, we ought to punish Y.
How to spot and fix the biggest UI problems if you are developer
Absolutely what your neighbor did is crucial, but it is not a waterfall process. The problem space of "gathering facts" is virtually infinite, means relevance decisions has to start while deciding on what to gather more facts on. It is an iterative process that says "based on these facts we found, we investigated for these further facts and here why it all was important to promote them to public attention".
Is Google ever going to do anything about the QAnon BS Youtube's algorithms are spreading like wildfire? I see more people being taken by this bullshit every day, turning into anti-mask/anti-vax/anti-fact "COVID IS A HOAX CREATED TO DETHRONE TRUMP" nutjobs seemingly overnight.

It seems every week more people on my social media feeds, who I previously thought of as stable and sane individuals, are suddenly going off on rants about how the "sheep" are trying to force "communism" on them with a "fake virus"... and sharing QAnon propaganda to "prove" it.

I've reported more misinformation-spreading videos than I can count at this point, and not a single one has been taken down. The people creating them just keep growing their follower bases, and keep increasing the level of insanity in their videos.

If you start watching videos debunking the insane misinformation these conspiracy theorists and cultists are spreading, the "watch next" list is pretty much always going to be filled with videos from conspiracy theorists. It doesn't matter if you're logged in, logged out, using a fresh browser, on a fresh IP, etc. The algorithm is actively feeding people dangerous misinformation.

If this doesn't stop, we're never getting out of our current situation.
they had already made an exception for F1 students to attend remote classes at the start of the pandemic. They were planning to end the exception for the fall semester, hence the outcry.
I just looked at all of the sites around my city of Phoenix. I'm not sure what sort of double speak definition of "hyperpartisan" they are using here is. If anything this seems refreshingly matter-of-fact, and it's probably all just being generated by a script of some kind. It looks like stories about some local races, some matter-of-fact old story about Trump traveling to a honeywell plant in Arizona. None of this is particularly interesting, and it seems pretty obvious that this is all being generated by the same news org/upstart (all the Phoenix-sites seem roughly the same, and are probably all just getting served out of a central CMS)

Compare this to the top story in the politics section of the Paper of Record, The NYT:

>The QAnon Candidates Are Here. Trump Has Paved Their Way.

Uh huh. THIS is some major record of events they need to document? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/qanon-politic...
> It was always about platforms. Jobs just happened to lose the first time, but he decidedly won the second.

A different way of phrasing it: Apple didn't realize they were in a platform war with the Mac, which is why they lost, and Jobs made sure they didn't repeat that mistake with the iPhone.
actually k8s validates the yaml, welp it doesn't it validates the json. basically yaml is only the format the operators get, internally it uses json.
You know that it's even faster through their return portal, right? I've had literally zero positive experiences with chatbots. There's a reason why they're not taking off.
Early in my career, I learned a simple 'demo day' rule: never demo things that aren't end-to-end done.

When you do, it can easily confuse folks who aren't deeply involved in your project ("haven't I seen this already?") and can hurt team morale because they never get a "shipped it" moment that feels good.

More to the point: enforcing this rule incentivizes teams to build things in small, shippable components. Nobody wants to be left out of demo day multiple weeks in a row.
"When one end of the panel is placed in dirty water, it draws a thin layer of water upwards, which evaporates in the sun, purifying it. By placing the panel inside a glass box, the team collected the evaporated water for use, separating it from the dirty water with a layer of insulation."

3 cm^2 of the material produced 5 ml of water in 2 hours. They don't say what it cost to make.
One extremely useful debugging "superpower" is just to sample a process when its hung–the stack trace can often give you a good idea what it is doing, even if the UI doesn't.
"But he didn’t set out to become a _torchbearer_ for a historic agricultural practice; in fact, he never intended to become a blueberry farmer in the first place."

Good one.
The perfume makers that can't smell a thing
Organizations are always imperfect, which is why I strongly recommend taking the lead and being pro-active in keeping management informed of what you're accomplishing.

Out of sight, out of mine <== don't let that happen to you

I don't believe it is any coincidence that the highest compensated engineers I know also are highly visible through their own efforts.
Car companies have always been build engines and assembly of body organizations, buying other parts from whoever. Each is a bit different but nothing new about not owning all the technology. If it isn't a competitive advantage why bother?
And unfortunately it appears we will not get an opportunity to vote for a high competence leader in the November.
America had to undergo a great amount of social change too before it came out the winner. With groups like the Black Panthers carrying around Mao's little red book, it seems to me that America had to (was forced to) become more inclusive to build allies and compete with the soviet union.
> the senate refuses to do its job

It's not really the Senate's fault. Opposition parties almost never vote with government parties in any democratic legislature, so you shouldn't expect them to in the US.

The real problem is the outdated system that is set up to (1) only allow two major parties to exist, so a European-style coalition government isn't possible, and (2) require both major parties to agree in order to pass any legislation.
> You can get the same machine with an i9 but not ECC memory or the Xeon and ECC.

The desktop and workstation class Xeons are in direct competition with i9 processors in terms of raw performance, which is why Intel uses features like ECC to enforce product segmentation. This isn't the case for the low-end i3 and Pentium branded processors, because the Xeon lineup simply doesn't extend down that far. If you want to build eg. an industrial PC with ECC memory but you only need a low-end CPU, Intel's official solution is for you to get an i3 or Pentium processor because they don't have anything equivalent under the Xeon branding.
Several years ago, Sam Adams had a TV ad about their high sided cardboard six pack boxes, and how they protected the beer from light. I expect the all-around labelling would work even better.
This is the only sensible solution. I don't know of a single thing that I could buy with a nickel, let alone a penny. I think there is some candy that's still sold for a dime, so having a penny worth that much would have at least some utility. The U.S. half-cent coin was withdrawn in 1857, when it was worth about $.15 today!
Always Remember your EX (Editor Experience that is)
Futhark implements array bounds checking on the GPU
I remember hearing somewhere that the reason n.1 people leave their job was their manager. Don't know if that's true but the idea's there. So it makes sense that your manager should be a major decision criteria when you pick a job (being able to actually pick a job is also a privilege, but it's fairly common in SWE)
Thank you for your work, dang.

I want to add that the flamewar type of discussion will attract a certain kind of visitors to the site, who will then steer the entire site in the flamewar direction attracting more of their own kind. For that reason I support nuking any thread that devolved into a flamewar and taking other measures to discourage them.
These only happen when Democrats have the Presidency and Republicans control a chamber.
i9 and Xeon (officially) use a different PCH. So it's not really the same machine.
But as the article points out, it's faster.

IMO the case for Edge over Chrome isn't that convincing, but the Safari one is. If it had container tabs like Firefox (which has become a must for me) I'd switch in a heartbeat.
At some point in the early-mid-00s we as engineers just "gave up" on the web as it was formulated as a document/resource transfer system with hyperlinking, and turned it into this ungainly mess of DOM manipulation, rampant RPC calling, database abusing, JS bound bloat. Finding the HTML document under the weight of ... stuff... on top has become impossible.

There were precursors to this... GWT was an early example of abuse of the web browser stack to accomplish something very non-webby. But it's really gone full bore now.

Back in the mid-90s when I made web pages for a living when some designer came to us with a photoshop mockup in a PSD and said "make the page look like this" we felt perfectly fine saying "no, the web can't do that. design for the web, not photoshop"; no such luck now. And so here we are...
I live in Maine and grew up here.

Field across the road used to be a blueberry field, and one of Wyman's huge freezer facilities is a few miles down the road, along a now discontinued rail line.

Now its a high school. Ahh, goodbye nice friendly traffic pattern, I miss you.

That said, I don't think they've actually stopped burning blueberry fields, every so often I hear someone talk about it. It doesn't seem to be a lost art, just a lesser practiced ones. The kind of wild blueberries we have up here (not those fat ugly tasteless ones other states grow) seem to require it from time to time.
I'm uncertain. It seems possible that many of these people think they're doing good things?