skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you are a beautiful person, can you market more? start a patreon and a vlog?

First, it is not against you personally but I have seen this remarks and suggestions too much that I need to scratch an the itch. When the idea of the necessity to market oneself and go get a patreon had raised so much? I get it, it is a way to be the patron of some person doing art, good, whatever in the world as an alternative to grant, funding and old-school benefactors. But why do we have to create a content in response to that, act like we have to create a community around oneself or the project to get the money?

It make me really awkward every time I see a reach like that. I perceive it like a call to create a cult-ish of personality and to enforce the exposure of all in the world through a tiny window made by the different communities you are being part of. And for those people be upfront, they have to stay always the same to keep being the reflection of every member of their communities or it backlashes against them. I always feel awkward that the first response to funding finish to be : put yourself out there and market yourself to get a community and money to create your project. Do not forget to create daily vlog/insta/youtube/whatever so everyone can see that your are here making what we give you money for.

Sorry for the rant.
All Tik-Tok ers will now receive pre-sales training for Oracle Cloud
> Like all other legitimate software on MacOS; they get a developer account and distribute it via the app store (...) I mean come on, it's only $99.

So small utils and stuff, smaller open source projects etc. are not legitimate? Or should they shell out $99 extortion fee to have the pleasure of giving stuff away for free? This is just one of thousands cuts that will kill traction for Mac software.
I created an anonymous social network in 3 hours
But not in a way that scales linearly with CEO pay.
I think you mean plantation forestry rather than agroforestry. An agroforestry system tends to be quite biodiverse and have multiple canopy layers. You also usually intercrop with food crops.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination

Maybe I don’t understand what self-determination means, but wearing a mask and keeping 6 ft of distance from another person, does not prevent one from participating in government.

I am waiting for people to advocate their free speech rights are being violated for not being allowed to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
D also generates significant amounts of said code (unless you turn it off, obviously)

One feature D stole from Ada that is an absolutely inexcusable ommision in a modern programming is contract programming. Every time I start a new python script I end up writing helpers for function pre and postconditions because otherwise I can't rely on anything in the language's syntax.

Invariant clauses in D (e.g. this integer in my struct must be less than 5 when the struct is in a valid state) are an absolute godsend although they do not aid compiler optimisations despite some people saying otherwise (it could have changed but last time I checked the invariant does not make it's way to LLVM or GCC)
I actually see it as the opposite as "lowering" or "spiteful". Without political food coloring and posturing, it's exactly how you'd address bad behavior in a child or animal. Use a very simple measure that is not overly punitive (no jail time!) that is directly targeted at stopping the bad behavior. Once the bad behavior has stopped, you are done. Repeat until they learn to associate bad behavior with negative outcomes.
The whole Corona hysteria caused the number of people to buy their groceries online to explode - government was pushing this message through every channel they had. "Stay at home, shop online, blah blah". Every online grocery shop was overwhelmed and had no delivery slots for weeks/months. Before that I was ordering my weekly groceries from Amazon Fresh for some 7+ years, because I live in central London and I don't have a car. I've been buying my groceries in physical store for many months now.

As of 2 days ago Amazon Fresh was still unusable. I tried ordering from them, but I couldn't check out, because they had no available slots. I was put in a "virtual queue" and they sent me an email next morning with 1 hour window to check out. I missed that because I was sleeping. I don't know how long it will take for online grocery shopping services to recover to what they were, if ever.
"Apps increase engagement metrics" seems dubious to me. Maybe for certain companies and products it is true, but the norm is to have a website and app experience. It is not necessarily the norm to have the website aggressively drive people to the app to the extent Reddit.com does.

I imagine Reddit's website gets tons of traffic from "non users" coming in on shares and searches who will never consider installing a Reddit app no matter how many modals they put up but nevertheless driving ad impressions.
Where did you get 201h? And you completely changed the layout?? I didn't want you to change the distance between A and B.

But I can make something work with the new numbers. Here:

At 120h according to the starbases, everyone sets their clocks, just like you said.

Event occurs at 200h in starbase B.

A near-light-speed wormhole is passing by B and D in its own reference frame. As far as it can tell, the starbases have their clocks synced really badly. In this wormhole's reference frame, it's simultaneously "200h" at starbase B and "182h" at starbase D.

A messenger ship launches from B right after the event, goes through the wormhole, and lands on starbase D at 183h.

So far, we're paradox-free. We can tell D the results of the event before the light reaches them, but that's not new. People do that all the time with the normal wormhole. And since we're 20 light-hours away from B, any signal we send from here would arrive too late to affect anything.

But then the ship takes the normal wormhole, the one that's always connecting A and D. That wormhole always agrees with the clocks onboard the starbases. The ship enters at 183h, and exits at 183h, now at starbase A.

Then the ship sends a signal toward B. The signal arrives at B at 193h. This is the same location as the event, 7 hours before it happens.
Flagged? Come on.

This is about electricity and the law and COVID-19.
Where they always have, as an all online supermarket, betting on the fact that their technology can make them cheaper and with a side hustle of selling their technology and expertise to both other supermarkets and external markets
The idea of a pseudo flow based programming worfklow has always appealed to me because I think having logic as components that can be used as legos makes sense. It seemed like the other stuff out there was either too overkill/obtuse or even too low level for what I had in mind. So I started writing something for personal use in JS that fits my mental model of what that would be.

In a nutshell it's just a runner and uses a project called moleculer which is a microservice framework that I'm more or less just using as an rpc client to execute the tasks of the workflow.

One thing I've been debating with myself is how I should work with the dataflow. Would you say it's better to have the results of every node merged into a singular context across an entire flow that is passed to every other node/block (ie. always one input, the context, one output the context), or would it be better to explicitly declare and pass in inputs/outputs.

Here's one project that does it that way: https://github.com/danielduarte/flowed

One benefit of this seems to be that nodes can run in parallel the moment their dependencies are met without having to care about each other.

I poked around on your site and I like what you have to offer. You appear to do it the singular context way which I suppose makes sense because it seems like every block is an individual lambda. This also seems like overkill for my purposes because I'm interested in being able to do granular things if I wish such as a simpe rule action. I'm not sure having an individual lambda to run "if email exists return true" would be practical. That and the warm up time/latency.

The other thing is managing something like npm dependencies might be annoying across blocks.

Being able to create arbitrary API endpoints is nice though.

I wish there were something a little more in between than all of these enterprisey offerings.
I publish a CLI app for many platforms, including osx, on GitHub. Using the cross-compile feature of Go it just spits out a binary that Macs can run from a Linux build host. I don't own a Mac so don't see what my users do.

Does this change affect running unsigned binaries from the terminal?
Once upon a time, people believed that kings were appointed by God to care about common folk, guide and discipline them. It's fun to see a modern commoner showing the same dedication to a corporate business.
Yes, I agree that a second floor apartment is a bad place for a gym. I disagree that this equipment is the domain of the super rich. What I listed is less than the cost of a decent, not fancy, road bike.
I built my first app in lockdown
Hey everyone I was recently took redundancy from my job and decided to spend my time building https://awkwardparty.com (yes retro look intended ).

This is my first app and I built it using React Native, Typescript and used Firebase.

Also if you have any questions regarding the development let me know!

I'm super happy as it's now available on iOS and Android.

Awkward Party is a social gaming app where friends mess with each other by providing hilarious fake answers to questions and then trying to figure out what the actual answer is. The app contains 5 different games, each with it's own unique theme and questions designed to get the funniest answers.

It's not all about getting answers right it's more about bringing out the awkward humour you and your friends have and having a good laugh together. Not to mention, annoying your friends with the perks you get as the winner.

I would be really appreciative if you could play a game or two with a friend (or the more the better) and let me know your thoughts!

Thanks
I’d love an option for the yaml to be changed to something akin to gRPC .proto configs.
Thanks. I better check on what's happening

edit: all fixed now, correct certs are back. I had switched branches and the changes came into effect when server restarted, including different certs.
I have no doubt that 75% of Waitrose customers do some sort of online grocery shopping, but I have serious doubts that their poll was representative of the whole of the UK.

The original poll was apparently representative, as others have pointed out, but in any case, would that really be so surprising?

Over-60s have been advised to stay at home entirely for much of this year. Many working age adults have also been working from home mostly or entirely for several months having either never done so before or done so only rarely. Lots of people have been sitting around very bored with plenty of time to do online shopping.

Meanwhile, there were queues outside physical supermarkets that could last for an hour or more if you turned up at the wrong time, often starting from early in the morning well before a store actually opened its doors during the early panic-buying phase. Today, happily, the worst of the queues seem to be a fading memory, but where did all those people go? They presumably haven't stopped needing bread and milk and toilet rolls. And you can still have to wait to go in at relatively busy times, and then it's not a particularly pleasant experience trying to keep a reasonable distance from everyone and wondering who's previously handled whatever you're about to buy off the shelves.

It seems entirely plausible to me that 75% of all supermarket customers do at least some online shopping now. Frankly, I'm surprised it's so low under the circumstances.
As a occasional contributor I can attest that most people on the D forums/GitHub are very sharp, although (I do not like Go) Rust's team seem excellent too (albeit slightly more academic?)
I'ts like cpgxiii says. You're right to nitpick though, because there are no certainties. We optimise on a set of data sampled from a distribution that is probably not the real distribution, so there's some amount of sampling error. Even if we find the global optimum of our sampled data, there's no reason why it's going to be close to the global optimum of our testing data.

But - there are some guarantees. Under PAC-Learning assumptions we can place an upper bound on the expected error as a function of the number of training examples and the size of the hypothesis space (the set of possible models). The maths is in a paper called Occam's Razor: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002001...

Unfortunately, PAC-Learning presupposes that the sampling distribution is the same as the real distribution, i.e. what I said above we can't know for sure.

In any case, I think most people would agree that a model that can reach the global minimum of training error on a large dataset has better chance to reach the global minimum of generalisation error (i.e. in the real world) than a model that gets stuck in local minima on the training data. Modulo assumptions.
"Merge groups" sound like solid compression, i.e. compressing multiple files together. Note that .tar.XYZ is always fully solid, while something like .zip compresses each file individually, and something like .7z has a solid block size. That's the main reason why .tar.gz usually compresses better than .zip, despite zip usually using deflate, just like gz.
Actually, last year I inadvertently become a real estate investor because I was tired of paying rent and hated debt, so I looked for cheap rundown shacks I could live in (barely) and buy cash.

Ended up in an old cottage well under 100k on 3.5 acres an hour from the city. Which, in retrospect, was basically like hitting the jackpot for pandemic quality of life. Just dumb luck, though.
Another answer for this particular case is that the D program has less features. Quoting the blogpost:

> Rust downloaded a lot of crates, but that's probably because the Rust version of the code has more features than mine has. For example, it fetched rpassword, a tool that hides password characters as you type them into a terminal, much like Python's getpass function. That's one of the many things I don't have in my code.
Yes, it will generate Exception unwinding and bounds checks and godbolt seems to agree. Anything else you can think of? I think D is less strict when optimizing out exception code.
Well, I _am_ ordering a bunch of 2x6's today to build a shed...
Actually, this is the wrong comparison (at least for me). I went from a 2017 15" MBP that was around 3.5k EUR to a ThinkPad T495 (with AMD hardware) for around 1k EUR and I also maxed out the RAM to 32GB for another EUR 150. I couldn't be happier.

You mention the worse touch pad, and I agree, it took me a week to adjust... but on the other hand, the keyboard of the ThinkPad is so much better, in fact it might be the best keyboard I have ever used (not only on a laptop, and I have used mechanical keyboards).

Also, KDE/Kubuntu seems to have progressed so far over the past 10 years (since I used it last) that it feels better than Mac OS to me currently.

The only pain point remains my photography workflow, which I still haven't migrated and for that I still use the MBP... If I manage to migrate that, I don't think I'm going back to the Apple ecosystem soon.

Currently I feel much more productive at my programming workflow than with the MBP. Doing mostly TypeScript, OCaml and Rust development. And that for about 1/3 of the cost.
Same trick is used on some external tanks for outboard engines: the tank has a raised separator in the bottom so that reserve fuel will be caught away from the engine intake. To access the reserve fuel you need to briefly tilt the tank.

See e.g. https://imgur.com/a/9LsrjIR
If you think it’s not a real thing because you can describe it terms of its components then does an iced bun not exist because it’s just a bun with icing on? You can just buy buns in bulk without icing so I guess you think they’re not a real thing.
Yeah, like stop using tar, and use a better format like Zip Archives.
You sound like a cross between the The Littlest Hobo and The A-Team. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littlest_Hobo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A-Team
On the Delaware, a promising new era in cleanup of an urban river
"dirt" - https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa15/conference-program/...
how is that different than in c/c++ simply adding asserts at the start and end of functions?
I'm happy for OSM, that's great for you and in turn the community. But what about small open source projects? One-person projects where the idea of having several people working on securing legal non-profit status and then acquiring non-profit signing certificates from Apple is for all intents and purposes impossible? And certainly not worth just coughing up the annual $99 fee (+tax) to Apple?

$99+ every year is a lot of money to an independent open source developer who's in most cases losing money for their work. The fact that a company worth $2 trillion is demanding it - it's really beyond outrageous.
I'm getting:

ERROR: Internal Splitgraph error CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function schema_controller.fatal(text) line 3 at RAISE

When running:

SELECT ":id", "vacancy_rates"
FROM "brla-gov/census-demographics-xsrb-mxqt:latest"."census_demographics"
LIMIT 100;
Multivitamin, mineral supplement linked to less-severe illness symptoms
I think it’s time to pull out the ‘splitting’ distinction between “industrial capitalism” and “financial capitalism”. I’m an economist, but in no way enamoured with free markets and laissez-faire attitudes as the default for solving everything. I think Mark Fisher had it right in his Capitalist Realism that Capitalism has totally blinded modern western (and other) societies to the existence of any possible alternative form of organisation. However, the kind of financial capitalism we now live under in most of the West—the kind that generates huge income inequalities, concentrates power in the hands of the financial sector, disproportionately favours incumbents, and corrupts our political systems by means of lobbying by special interest groups—lacks all the oft-cited advantages that Capitalism is supposed to bring in tow in exchange for its shortcomings.
Haven’t been in the UK for a few years but when I did I used https://www.musclefood.com/. The meat was high quality.

Depending how much you spend your local butcher may do delivery to if they have commercial clients such as cafes, restaurants etc.
Drive and Gmail are not the same thing as search. The bottlenecks are different, the architecture and problem spaces aren't the same either.
Yes, that's right. The useful bit is making sure that similar files are put in the same group (or otherwise within the search window of the compression algorithm, which for LZX was 64kB, and for deflate is 32kB).
Sure, this is a well-known problem. Sooner or later this bullshit business model will be eliminated.
Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies into Existence
Mass also increases braking distance and reduces handling, no?
But my wife and I are foodies and we also love browsing the aisles to see what’s new and tempting.

That is one advantage to going in person. Another is simply that you can check the quality of what you're getting to some extent before you commit to buying it.

For example, the "best before" dates on a lot of fruit and veg have been... optimistic, let's say kindly... during the recent hot spell. Shopping online, you just get that somewhat arbitrary indicator. In person, at least you can see that half the fruit in the punnet is looking past its best even though the date is still four days away, and perhaps you'll decide not to buy that fruit today and maybe to get something else instead.

The low-paid store workers rushing around with their over-sized trolleys trying to collect half a dozen different customers' orders at once while being monitored for performance are obviously never going to care as much about picking the fresh-looking fruit or the less fatty piece of meat as the customer who's going to be eating those things or serving them to their family.
That would be acceptable since I could immediately close my account once SRE had connected due to the data breach.

To be more serious, it would be unacceptable for me that an employee can, for whatever reason, access my instance without my express permission and oversight. Even crash dumps could contain very sensitive information.
It's very hard to trust these low prevalance numbers when, for example, I know a few people who are close friends with people in medical fields who tested positive but they themselves didn't get tested but had mild symptoms. I myself had mild symptoms that I'm 99% sure is covid and didn't get tested.
That first paragraph, where the author seems to, even in jest, place blame on his college professor, all the wording and weird emphasis on that, it’s just really really strange. I certainly would not want to be his college professor.
It's the same but it's a different switch to turn it on and off.

Having separate syntax is also very useful because it's much easier to see through my usual spaghetti to find what the code is actually supposed to do in the abstract (i.e. if the string should be a valid email, check it in the in {} clause rather than in the middle of the function)
The issue (or benefit, depending on your perspective) with Terraform is that it's a one-shot CLI binary. If you're not running the binary, then it's not doing anything. If you want a long-running daemon that responds to non-human-initiated events, then Terraform isn't a good tool.

Any time you try to declaratively define state, if you don't have a daemon enforcing the declarative state, then you will suffer from drift. One approach is the one Terraform has - assume that drift is possible, so ask the user to run a separate plan stage, and manually reconcile drift if needed. Another approach is the controller approach, where the controller tries to do the right thing and errors/alerts if it doesn't know what to do.
The Democratic party as an institution is not very left at all.

There are people who identify as Democrats who could be described as extreme left, and they may get a lot of airtime, but they do not represent the party and do not influence it's policies.
We've generally found that the situation is a lot more complicated than that, especially on the warehouse integration side.
Pipx makes installing YouTube-dl (and other Python package commands) easy
Windows 10 is fine in terms of reliability and stability. In fact I find it better than Mac.

However in terms of the actual topic - code signing, Windows is almost as bad. If you run an unsigned program now you get a Smart Screen prompt and you have to click a small "More info" link and then "Run anyway".

It's a bit more obvious than Mac, and I believe there is some system to recognise common but unsigned binaries, but they're still clearly trying to head in the same direction, Apple are just a bit further down the slope.
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