skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly related, but the line "Finally, you need to remember that failure is not the end. Your company might fail, but that doesn’t make you a failure." in the article has me thinking a bit...

What is it about our culture (is it mostly a western culture thing?) that is so obsessed with the question of identity?" Am I a success? Am I a failure? Am I a programmer? Am I a mother? Am I a nerd? Am I X? Am I Y? It seems to me that all these things are either descriptions of attributes, feelings, past actions, past results, etc. No such statement is even close to describing a person in totality. And thus, is never, strictly speaking, true.

You may have failed at something. But are you, literally, a failure? No, you're a person who happened to fail at something that one time. I guess, most of the time, this is just semantics -- a convenient shorthand. Perhaps problems only arise when one takes the shorthand "I am X" phrase too much to heart and actually starts to believe it literally? Is this even worth thinking about? Hmm...
I think you have misconceptions around how much people want to pay for documentation . Usually people come across MDN docs while googling for some keyword . At times MDN is the first search result, but if the users hit a paywall, they will gladly go to the next search result - usually w3schools . It is not a definitive resource but is good enough for most general use cases.

As an example , Wikipedia is used much more than MDN docs as everybody in the world can find something useful on Wikipedia but MDN docs appeal only to web developers . Yet every year; Wikipedia has a hard time gathering donations to run their site with a skeletal crew and they have to resort to huge banner messages exhorting users to donate.
Is this something that will allow you to create a new distro?
> That would explicitly go against Mozilla's goal of having an open web. A paywall for such a fundamental resource would not be a good thing.

It doesn't have to. The content could remain out in the open.

Although you are correct in that I am suggesting a paywall there are other ways this could work:

- Subscribers could set MDN project priorities in terms of which technologies get focus, topic expansion, expanded example code, etc.

- Early access to incomplete documentation could be given to subscribers.

- Issues with documentation or example code coming from subscribers could get priority treatment.

- Offline versions of the documentation could be subscriber exclusive.

The bottom line is that a tragedy of the commons situation needs to be avoided. Is a paywall really worse than letting bit-rot settle in on the existing MDN content?
State management is one of the reasons I moved away from React and Vue. You need a lot of machinery and plumbing to do something that should be really simple.

MobX is probably the best way I've found to manage reactive state with React, Inferno, etc, but still, it's a huge piece of of software for just this purpose.

I first moved to Mithril because it doesn't need reactivity. You solve the same problem than React/Vue et al in just 10kB. No need for an external router or a state management library. Your state is just vanilla JS. Mithril doesn't need to know when a particular piece of state has changed, it just tries to re-render everything and the vdom takes care of the rest. The performance is comparable to Vue 2 and React [1] but the DX is lightyears ahead. It's a sushi chef knife though, you really gotta know what you're doing[2].

Now I'm using Svelte because it's even better. It does have reactivity but the compiler just figures out the dependency graph so you don't need to ship a huge thing like MobX to do that at runtime. You also write a fraction of the code compared to all the other frameworks I've used which is Svelte's best feature. This compiler approach is a game changer IMO.

[1] https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

[2] What I meant by this is that since your app is essentially vanilla JS you're on your own to architecture the thing. If you don't know what you're doing you will shoot yourself in the foot.
That's a very good question. Thanks for asking, as it made me think about this more in-depth.

The porn thing is apparently just a proxy to a deeper philosophical issue. So, basically, in all likelihood we're just primates with an oversized brain. And this oversized brain of ours lets us do marvelous things. As in, we can be as a sort of a mix between the fantasy races of technologically advanced dwarves and mentally advanced elves, to the point where our technology and our art borders magic. We can gain insights into the most minute details of how nature itself functions, and we can use these insights to reach stars, to communicate to each other over vast distances at the speed of light, to trick our senses into believing a different reality, and even to very likely soon be able to cure ageing itself.

But then. A large portion of us uses our oversized brains to just try and consume more, see more genitals, and you know, just try and live our primate lives the best a primate can imagine. And many of us technologists earn our keep by directly or indirectly working on tricking the behavioural circuits evolution has given us to redirect our resources to even more tricking of our evolutionary circuits. Be it the circuits that make us eat sugar, scroll down 'just one more time', or make us believe that we're actually mating. With screens.

So, the fact that one of the first uses we put pretty much any applicable technology on has something to do with genitals makes me remember the research where a chimp would forego peanuts in order to view pictures of female chimp genitals, the research where a hamster would mate to death, as long as you keep exchanging partners, as well as Jon Lajoie's super-hit 'Show Me Your Genitals'. It makes me remember that despite all the wonderful things we can be, at the end of the day we are just what we are. Nothing less, but also nothing more. And that does make me somewhat sad. Not very, just somewhat.
Congratulations on the launch!

You're trying to fix the very thing I hate about email - It sucks when it involves more than a single entity, be it conversations, sharing stuff. It's only good when it's a single email (login, newsletter, etc).
What does "cold brown" mean in this context? How can it be cold near the sun?
Plus, by having a bug bounty program, it indicates that they're going to be reasonable and accepting of outside bug reports. In the absence of such a program, one can't be sure that a bug report isn't going to result in angry phone calls from tech-illiterate people accusing you of hacking them.

I recently found a compromised server on a university's network. I wasn't going to cold call them to report it because I had no idea how Betty answering the phones would react. Instead, I sent it to an IT contact that I knew personally. I knew that he didn't have anything at all to do with this, but that he would know who to get it to.
Do you know of any better Erlang servers? I want to get into Elixir, but the download speed is just awful:

https://github.com/erlang/eep/issues/12
Yes and no. You could likely work outside the union though with their minimum pay/max hours (and a employer side of the same). A union could work for local jobs with other unions (think districts) to keep things local and provide equitable pay guidelines or openness. You likely would not be required to join anyway.

Plumbers have it mostly sorted out though. Critical tech might demand higher pay but I love this story I read of a band doing a wedding and negotiating pay for a 4 hour reception. The planner and band can't come to an agreement so the band says to call the local plumbers union, ask what the cost is for 4 guys on a 4 hours job, and use that number with some drinks tossed in.
A few weeks ago I put together a gaming system with an RX 5700 XT GPU and X570 motherboard. I've installed both Linux (Pop_OS! 20.04) and Windows 10 on it.

With Pop_OS! using the open-source amdgpu driver, everything worked beautifully. The only notable downside (which I don't really care about) was not having polished utilities for tweaking the GPU's behavior, and uncertainty about the status of FreeSync.

My experience on Windows 10 has been much worse. There seemed to be a 3-way argument between my monitor, GPU driver, and Windows regarding HDR settings. And unlike on Linux, an apparent bug in AMD's driver causes instability when using HDMI to stream audio to my monitor.
Hopefully when investors get to see the uncloaked financial statements and disclosures there will be a breakdown of the revenue streams between consulting (aka services), license and support across the two segments (government & commercial).

Of the license revenue, I hope (but find it unlikely) management discusses a breakdown subscription (if any), term license revenue and one-time (e.g. perpetual/buyout).
Where I live a village is what real estate agents call the massive block of suburbia they just built in the middle of nowhere. Or some sort of outdoor shopping center.
SNAP the Ubuntu thing?
I never said it was. I'm not defending AB5. I'm saying that the current situation is untenable, and neither of the solutions being provided to us do anything to solve the problem.
I can attest to pelias (the regular fullsize version of this) running quite well on a 16gb ram server, it was just one country but the server had many other services on it so it might work for you depends on your usecase I suppose.
How does this fool even a semi-competent lawman? “Oh, officer, I never bought drugs. That’s totally illegal. I just left money in a box that my cousin picked up, and a few days later the drugs just appeared there. Totally not, myself buying drugs, though!”
I followed through the whole process as an assignment for my operating systems class in college. Overall I had the same experience as you -- it was an exercise in copy and paste.
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> Since a few days, encrypted video calls

Careful though, since video calls are currently in alpha.
I did as a teenager, probably close to 16 years ago. The process was glacial because I lived in a rural area with rudimentary internet access. Figure from start to finish it took me a year? Gave me a lot of time to consider the different pieces of software being compiled, which I probably would not have done with a fast internet connection. Really helped jump start my interest in systems programming and is surely one of the experiences that pushed me toward the career I have now.

I still feel pretty comfortable in compiling a linux from source. Userland specialization is also a neat topic.
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for much more, https://philpapers.org/rec/HAASSO

but at this point i would say that "religion" is a very squirmy thing to define meaningfully without a lot of "well, but except when ..." clauses tacked onto the end.
I did this 15 years ago, before I gave gentoo a spin.
I compiled my kernel for many years (make menuconfig).

Bottom line: It's not worth it.

I use debian now.
Because it's had no observable effect on us for the last 4.5 billion years of our solar system's existence, and we've postulated nothing that would change this stable dynamical relationship?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
I thought I'd submit this here in hopes of catching the eye of someone on the appropriate Google team or perhaps the eye of someone who knows someone on the appropriate Google team.
yes, because a distro is a collection of software on top of the kernel.
That'd be a good post for HN, especially since the topic of efficiency/robustness has come up a few times recently.
Apple claims Epic asked for a ‘special deal’ for Fortnite payments
What exists on MDN today is easily worth more to an individual than they pay (in U.S. dollars) for a single coffee in a month. Putting that towards a monthly subscription for a vital resource might not come naturally to people given the present "culture of free" on the Internet, but someone has to be first.
Said more simply, Western medicine is founded on scientific proof while Eastern medicine is founded on folklore and word of mouth. This isn't to say that Eastern medicine is bad or doesn't work, it simply doesn't have scientific proof behind it (yet).
Google Play Music to be sunsetted
I bet Palantir could provide something like a social credit score to supplement existing data like from Experian/etc. I wonder if lenders want to work with them but can't due to regulations, ethics, complexity, profitability of the relationship, or simply bad optics.
That's so disturbing. I can't imagine going through a phone call with "tech support" trying to figure out how to send bitcoins knowing the whole time that the support person is the one who is extorting ransom from you.

It also seems like an opportunity to escalate the scam to the next level. Go to this site (controlled by the scammer) and enter your credit card to send bitcoin. Now they have your credit card too.
Some industries are just like that. I now Consulting companies that advertise things like this as a recruiting differentiator
The first example about hospital capacity really just involves tradeoffs around your specific goals, whereas it only makes sense to talk rigorously about efficiency in the context of some specific output goal.

So if you fix some goal, say, "we want to be over capacity 1% of the time," then the most efficient way of doing that is probably to have the minimum number of beds that you need according to your predictions about utilization. But you can't really talk about efficiency when you're deciding what your goal is, e.g. whether you're okay being over capacity 10% of the time versus 1% of the time.
Funded by Pornhub, the only people that could reach 178Tb in traffic.
Oh, I wouldn't do it publicly. The point would be to push back, in private discussions, against the argument that the result was not interesting enough to publish.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Modern_Control_Theory.h... ?
They maintain their own tree and backport the necessary features.
I think considering the cost of change a cost of the optimized version is muddled thinking. It's a cost of deploying the optimized version, but that is only sometimes relevant.

A pure trade-off between efficiency and stability would imply that, were I already running the efficient version, we could buy stability by switching to the less efficient code.
Yup that's me. You're welcome :)
But if the bounties are 20x as high then surely it will draw more whitehats to the market. A security engineer who is working at Netflix or Visa making over $200k or whatever will not work late nights for a $10k bounty but he might for a $500k bounty.
You can make money with COBOL. Does it make it the best language? Considering that you can make money with any other language as well?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lHgnrN8vhVs
Any chance you can just put the answer here? I am not in the market for a bank right now but would like to know anyway. I think it would be valuable for a lot of readers if you just addressed his concerns publicly.
Some of the beneficiaries of MDN are amongst the biggest companies in tech. They can afford to spare some loose change if need be.

There's no need to lockout the poor teenagers who are wanting to explore web tech for themselves.
> Does this describe Unix, for example? In particular the old AT&T version, not GNU

At least to me. Having all these composable commands, unimaginable through how many iterations all that stuff went. I also think that Go was created in that spirit, with robustness/conciseness being more important than anything. Although it seems the language and its philosophy is adapting to more common ways of doing things.
I was wondering if it's automatable, and the site already does that...

I also did the whole book (manually!) as a slacker student. I guess if you do it/let it run automatically as you read the book, you'll know your installed OS inside and out...
Certainly a nice idea, but we need to come to grips with the reason the police are there in the first place. Some kids are just plain dangerous with or without the police in the place. Getting rid of the police surrenders the place to the dangerous kids.
This corporate "moving forward" newspeak sounds ominous.
SMTP is not used under the hood. You can send messages to anyone with an email address. That person may not have accessed Plum Mail before. In that case, the message sent to that person is sent as an email with the option to reply.

So you can stay within your email to take part in that conversation or you can access it in Plum Mail for the full feature set.
All companies are misunderstanding some things and neglecting other things. There's a way in to every system. The best companies hire red teams to pentest their own systems and do their best to fix the flaws, but those dedicated red teams also find a way in every single time.
I think what's happening here is the defined categories don't adequately model reality. An Uber driver is somewhere between the current legal categories of employee and independent contractor.

A fully independent contractor like a SuperShuttle driver can treat each fare as a separate contract, pick only the best offers, and generally not provide the company an adequate service level to ensure a reliable stream of customers. Each driver prioritizing their short-term interests keeps that model from being a viable profession in many cases.

On the other hand, an employer is required to provide certain benefits to employees, especially if they exceed certain thresholds of hours worked. To make the fixed cost of some of those benefits viable, the employer will usually want to require the employee to work specific hours, and often limits those hours to stay within legal thresholds.

It's the flexibility of scheduling I that I think attracts people to gig work. They'll take the ability to cherry-pick the most profitable gigs if given the chance, but it isn't a core requirement.

It's probably desirable to add a third category to provide gig workers some protections without shoehorning them into the employee classification, which many of them actively wish to avoid.
High-G tolerance is not a dogfighting panacea. Even without the pilot, there are issues when you want to take a large aircraft into 10+g range. Structural strength is one thing but there are also aerodynamic limits. The higher the G the higher the stall speed. Superhuman or AI, trying to pull 10g in thin air will result in flow separation (ie stall) and departure from controlled flight... ie you lose control and drop like a rock.

Missiles don't care about stalling. They are on a suicide mission to get as close to the target as possible for the nanoseconds necessary to detonate. Missiles, being small and dense, are much stronger than any aircraft.
> the camp that believes pay should be proportional to the value produced

The problem is that no one knows, how to evaluate this proportion. Assuming LTV makes sense, how to evaluate who contributes more: a designer or a programmer.
Still working on those. :) We definitely beat Python, and we're faster than Node.js and Java at startup time. Where we are in the spectrum from C to Ruby we don't exactly know yet. But we do expect to improve and get much much closer to C as we make improvements to our runtime, such as writing a JIT for the VM.
You could also just get some random dice, including ones with letters, and generate a password directly from that without going the word-lookup route.

I'm probably an outlier, because I already have random dice, but "right leg squshr december 46 monday" seems secure enough to me: https://i.imgur.com/JGh4fik.jpg
Boyd wasn't just a pilot but also a strategist. One of his biggest adherent is the USMC. I don't imagine him rejecting this outright. I would love to know what he would have thought of AI because the potential speed with which AI can digest observations and make a decision could be an order of magnitude greater than a human. Boyd's EM theory was heavily influenced by analysis he and his collaborators did using early computers. I can imagine him being awed by AI and embracing it.
I think the idea of hotel rooms with high end simulators for driving, flying and other stimulants is a fabulous business idea and excellent for places of low scenic interest, ie you go and stay a weekend racing, drinking, eating and sleeping in your room.
Not setting up another walled garden is really important to us. Otherwise we just end up with the situation of another competing platform, as is well explained in this xkcd comic.
https://xkcd.com/927/

We hope people will like being able to keep using their email address but get more features they are used to in other more modern platforms.
I see a new job title coming into being - Enterpruse Data Librarian

40,000 data sets - even if many are just diff versions - is a ridiculous number to manage or even know about on a non full time basis.

Data driven decisions need data yes, but they also need people to know the data exists. And what it means.

And this is just external curated data - use this as the standard for what each department should be producting internally.

In fact that's a good idea - a data publishing standard - not just the data types / schema, but actually supplying it through a format that is consumable by others.
FYI the gp is Jeremy
I would also pay for it for nothing extra at all. Give paying members a special icon on the MDN discourse or something. Maybe a "Sponsored By" page you can get your name on if you want it there. I pay for non-profit news that is free to all, I pay for some apps that have basically identical free versions. Please take my money! Offering a free product doesn't mean you're not allowed to ask for support.
For exhaustivity sake, apache arrow could also do the work but Parquet seems more appropriate here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56472727/difference-betw...
Thanks, I'll keep an eye out this year
> So is that basically saying we're adding more work to a probably demoralized and overworked team?

I don't think this changes their workload. The core engineering team is likely already responsible for technical improvements to and maintaining MDN.
Learn about Test-Driven Development and Software Design. Or learn about Software Design and Test-Driven Development. You'll learn that they are both ends of the same stick.
Not quite: health insurance is not called tax in the US, yet is a benefit under the French system with premiums paid by the employer.
Canadian Facebook engineer kidnapped by Iranian military while in Iran
Then build some tools to make it more convenient by applying the patches post-installation, and publish/share it on github? I just don't see how this is any more hassle then having something that you call an extension but that breaks every update and also needs manual fixing.
OTOH, an plane with a very precised gun may "win" an encounter by circling above a well-defended area, having SAMs shot at it, shooting down the SAMs as they approach, while being cheaper to operate (and replace when it eventually does get hit) than the missiles shot at it.

While at the same time occasionally dropping bombs at targets to make ignoring it not an option.
OK, I'll bite. What do the facts say would happen when a brown dwarf passes through the inner solar system? Is the ejection of planets implausible?
Keep in mind that the Numenorians were a cautionary tale of human pride, hubris and abuse of magical trinkets [1], that eventually led them to declare war on the gods, and try to invade Valinor.

They then got Atlantis'd.

There's a few recurring themes in Tolkien's work - one of them is that marvelous inventions, created by clever people for good purposes, can either be turned to do evil - or the struggle to possess them will turn good people to do evil.

[1] In contrast to the rest of the Silmarillion, which was a cautionary tale of elven pride, hubris, and abuse/attachment to magical trinkets.