skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You absolutely have the right to use the power of your wallet to try to force those changes. However, again, the vast majority of consumers have voted with their wallets and they do not care for the same set of features that you care about. The vast majority feel that it would make the product experience significantly worse. What use do I have for a headphone jack when I have AirPods? What use do I have for a replaceable battery when it would make my device thicker, heavier, and much less pleasant to use?

It’s a good thing indefatigable contrarians like you don’t get to drive product decisions.
Yeah that is understandable, k8s is a platform with a plethora of capabilities. On the other hand, the vast majority of organizations using k8s have multiple users that have multiple work streams and multiple applications (not true by definition, but close). This lends itself to a code as configuration approach, and makes managing orchestration through a UI risky and error prone. We review code, not clicks.

Further, K8s exposes an YAML interface because it is relatively human readable and of course is machine readable. I'm sure the k8s community encourages users to build on top of this. Want to really do code as config? Write a nice DSL in your favorite scripting language to produce these YAMLs. Submit that as source. You've now automated away the vast majority of toil related to k8s YAML config, because your code can be:

1. modular by design

2. tested

3. tracked as code

etc etc
It seems you might be aware of this already, but irradiation of pork to kill parasites is an established practice in the food industry. Food irradiation in general is safe and effective, but weirds a lot of the general public out (particularly those with low scientific literacy. Irradiated food doesn't become radioactive!) There may be something to be said about the hazards of handling a gamma source like Cs-137 safetly and making sure nobody drops it in the city dump or steals a truck carrying it, but X-ray and electron beam irradiation don't have these drawbacks. Many people today eat irradiated food without ever realizing it, though if they did realize it they might balk.
For theatres the Twin Cities have the second most theatres per capita behind only New York City.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/theatre/best-theatre-cities-in...
Les nouvelles icôNES de Google se ressemblent toutes
The rest of us make up the people that are on these platforms driving the problem. Should Facebook-the-company do more to limit the abuse? Absolutely -- it's within their power and ability. Is Facebook-the-company the party responsible for spreading misinformation? No, misinformation is driven by people and organizations who, without Facebook, would find different ways of doing so like they have before Facebook.

That's my opinion and I understand there are many folks who have similarly logical opinions countering mine. For what it's worth, I don't even use Facebook and haven't for years. I personally don't find use in it but know others who do.
I met this when I had to combine a python project with a Laravel project(which also has its own task manager if I dared to use it). I wanted to use Celery but I could not find a way to integrate it with other parts of my system. Would be nice if Celery had some type of pluggable system that could be built upon so that disparate systems could communicate (you know the value proposition of AMQP).
Your second sentence may be true, but your first sentence is most definitely not. The biggest thing that accounts for the cost of living difference is housing. If you can live relatively cheaply, which most people in their 20s can, you will always come out ahead (and usually WAY ahead) if you take a high paying job in an expensive area vs taking a lower paying job in a cheap area.
You're right, the above declaration should probably be refined a bit. You should be both white and straight.

I would say it's hard to take what you've said seriously having personally known people who have left the midwest specifically due to the discrimination they faced.

Except I do have to have to take it seriously because it's a toxic attitude that belittles the struggles that people face due to discrimination by attempting to minimize their experiences.
someone is always happy to butt in to say ... the South is perfectly open and tolerant

which would be a generalisation, which is exactly what jacobriis is warning of
I wrote this :) I've used some but not all of these so let me know if you have first hand experience and any of the descriptions are misleading.
Using differentially-private to build privacy-enhancing, synthetic data
The cornerstones of modern privacy regulations (such as Europe’s GDPR, and California’s CCPA), and also privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy and k-anonymity, are centered on protecting the privacy of individual users within a dataset.
yep, we've added that. instructions are here: https://docs.plausible.io/hash-based-routing/
I lived in the midwest for over a decade and am married to a midwesterner. I'm also ethnically one of the 'model minorities' so to some people I'm white, while to white supremacists I'm assuredly not.

Most people in most places are basically friendly. However.
Even just being recognize you as 'other' can get old, like being asked "where are you from" or riding the bus in Chicago and having to answer questions about my ethnicity from whoever was feeling tipsy enough to ask them.

Here's one story of folks being un-friendly: I was at a public event, basically a version of a county fair with my wife's family somewhere in the rural midwest. There's a stage with small-name bands performing, food vendors, and a small carnival-ride section. As the sun sets we lose track of her parents, and as we're looking for them I also got separated from my wife. I felt like the crowd was also slowly changing and like I was starting to attract attention in the form of unfriendly looks. I find my wife and try to express this, but her face clearly says it's all in my head and why am I talking about anything other than how we can find her parents. Just then a physically imposed man walks up, plants himself firmly in front of me, and asks in the least friendly way possible, "how's it going brother?" I answer him in unaccented neutral native-born american english (don't remember what i said, but likely something like "good how you doin"), and my wife is like, "ok you're right, we have to find my parents and leave."

So just to be clear - I can't know what might have been, but I strongly suspect that having grown up here and being a native speaker made that evening simpler. And again, I'm someone who many people look at and just process as "white" so I can easily take my experiences as a shallow sample from the tip of the iceberg.

And that kind of "unfriendly" experience is something that happens more often if i leave coastal metropolitan areas.
Caste system is not that simple for example Jats are under reservation in one state but considered upper caste in adjacent state and gets no reservation.

Yes Reservation is still needed. India is big and people who got oppressed under colonial rule would take a few generations more to come up.

Bigger issue is exploitation of caste lines for politics.
Building on Peter's answer, I've always strived for three things: Better, Faster, Cheaper.

Better: I try to build things that are sturdier, more beautiful, and solves the problem better.

Faster: Each time I build something, it has to be done faster. Code is faster to read, modify, replicate. Code functions more predictably and is quicker to debug.

Cheaper: I'll keep charging more, but it will cost less. A fresh graduate might do the same for $2000/month, 3 months. I try to get it done in $9000/month, 10 days. Part of this is not spending too much time on something that might be scrapped later, knowing when to plan ahead and when not to.

The essential skills are not really math or writing. Some of it is raw technical ability - know when and how to use reactive programming, declarative, imperative, and so on. Sometimes it's leadership, speaking up when you're stuck or something looks pointless. Sometimes it's just knowing how to learn and unlearn, and how to filter out the golden bits of knowledge from the sea of useless, self-promoting articles and books out there. And it seems trivial, but one of the skills that lets you do all three is knowing how to type 20 WPMs faster and use keyboard shortcuts.
water start?
Any good resource/s for system design and architecture?
I address the system design and architecture questions from my experience. Additional resources includes youtube guru's sharing their thoughts. I am looking for resource recommendation on System design and Architecture that can help improve knowledge in that area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_binary
Random -- but Placekey also has a theme song (and it is pretty good). More open projects should have a theme song.

check out the Placekey theme song ("Placekey open the world") on soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/user-417054017/placekeyparty/s-MI62Sf...
YES!! I seem to remember a few versions of Excel ago there was a way to import data and set the data type for each column in a preview window to see what it would look like. And to your point, it's very easy to select an existing column in Excel and change the data type anyway. So why not just make everything a string by default?
When asked about how the law would ban certain mathematical operations, IIRC the Australian PM said something along the lines of "The laws of mathematics should be subservient to the laws of Australia"
The truth is it varies, largely based on your personal setup.

Personally, I think the "mean tweaking time" of an average Linux is very low now. I spend almost no time forced to tweak things, except maybe a bit after installation. In concrete terms, for me it's usually a few hours of work spread out over the first 3 weeks. It might be 3-20 hours tops, but some of that might be setting up cool new fancy fun things rather than necessary configuration. From then on I rarely have to touch configs for years.

That being said, I do read of some people having really painful bugs that take forever to fix. You can mitigate this by using mainstream distros on well supported hardware. Ubuntu and Fedora are your best bets for stability.

A decade or more ago, tweaking and maintaining felt like a constant Sisyphean struggle. Now I can throw Ubuntu on a laptop and 90% of the time it's fine after installation.

>Even basic stuff like Wi-Fi and the login screen often doesn't work correctly and requires more tweaking.

I haven't had wifi troubles on Linux in over a decade. Nor any login screen issues. Maybe things are better now, or maybe you've had bad luck with the hardware you're using. Ultimately it boils down to your individual setup. I know how frustrating these issues can be. Anyways, good luck!
Archaeologists delved into medieval cesspits to study old gut microbiomes
I agree it's not a necessary change. But, on the other hand, how much compatibility would it really break? I cannot imagine much applications are dependent on MySQL throwing an error at 800-odd hours (and it would arguably be a very strange design decision).
I'm a big fan of Postgres too for a number of reasons, but this issue is pretty clearly documented so I'd like to counter with an issue I hit in Postgres recently that is terribly documented. UNNEST works a bit funky, and in particular it works super funky if you have multiple calls in the same select statement (or any set expanded function calls it turns out). There's a bit of a dive into here[1] (though that is out of date - PG10 no longer follows the different array sized result, it uses null filling) which I managed to find after struggling with an issue where an experimental query was resulting in nulls in the output while unnesting arrays without nulls.

All DBs have their warts and while MySQL has an over abundance of warts they tend to be quite well documented. The warts that postgres has tend to be quite buried and their documentation is very good for syntax comprehension but rather light when it comes to deeper learning.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50364475/how-to-force-po...
Proud boys
I don't think DINK implies a lack of desire for children, rather the current state of not having any (and consequently a large amount of disposable income).

in my experience, people with large incomes often have more rooms in their house than they actually need for day-to-day life. sometimes it's just a flex, but often they expect to host their extended family and/or friends (and even their families) over the holidays. nobody needs a second kitchen and four extra bedrooms, but it does make bringing the whole family together under one roof a lot less tense.
Not a typical situation, but I work at a FAANG office that's located in the midwest (I grew up here, so it's all I know culture-wise). The salary is great (paid similar to non-bayarea west coast), but the job interview was the same process as with the coasts and there were a lot of good and experienced applicants per position since this is one of the best-paying opportunities here.

Personally, I strongly prefer this to the hustle and bustle of the big and expensive cities - that's my preference though, and I know that it's not for everyone.
That's because the black hole sucked all the information out of it. Haha.
If this were Tom Clancy or a James Bond 007 plot ... you'd release a less infectious/harmful version locally otherwise it would be too obvious and you might get nuked.
It already passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously
A mental model I use all the time when programming is "Chesterton's Fence" (When removing a fence, you must know why the fence was placed there in the first place).

When making changes to an existing system (whether its adding new functionality, extending existing functionality, or refactoring the code while maintaining existing functionality), try to understand the intent behind the current structure of the code and why certain design choices were made.

Once you understand that, you can add new features/extend existing features using the same design OR refactor the code with a new design without impacting existing functionality (assuming you don't have universal test coverage... which frankly will be the case a lot of the time).

Another tactic I use is verbalizing my design choices before/during the implementation of a feature/product. When programming, a lot of developers create a mental structure/map of the code base and what changes they are implementing. They know the changes they are making in their mind and know how to execute them. However, if they were to explain what they were doing to another developer (for collaboration, handoff, etc) or to business/product (ie. in order to explain estimations), they freeze up. Verbalizing your design choice will strengthen your technical communication skills.

Those 2 things aren't necessarily skills, but they are tactics that can be used to be a better programmer.
A few seconds of googling yield, among other nuggets of wisdom:

January 2019: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/325959

January 2019: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/01/jobs-workplace-priv...

February 2019: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/327142

November 2019: https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices

August 2020: https://www.businessinsider.com/open-offices-over-due-to-cor...
We need limits, not alerts. That is, autoscale up to X.
If you're native american in the midwest, you will experience discrimination and your life will be harder than it needs to be. Similar to the difficulties that other POC experience. It's just the way it is, better than it used to be but it's still there and it's naive to think this is a problem that has gone away.

Source: my family.
> Continued GI issues

Can someone tell me what GI is?
Wikidata Reaches Q100M
> commuting has significant mental-health benefits

This seems like a stretch for anyone who has ever dealt with rush-hour traffic in a major city.
Platform changes in elementary OS 6
Nothing happens (locally) at the event horizon, everything works as normal. The analogy that is often used is fish upstream from a waterfall. At some point the current of the stream becomes so strong that the fish can no longer escape from the waterfall, but actually at that point nothing happens from the point of view of the fish, since it is carried by the current, you need a global view to notice that the fish is doomed past that point.

And similar in case of a black hole, you are falling through the event horizon and nothing happens, it is just that calculating what you need to do to escape, you note that it is too late.

To expand a bit on the molecule situation, when one of the atoms is inside the black hole, then parts of its electric field are still outside and influence the other atom. To have the other atom escape to infinity, you would need to break the part of the bond "still outside" and the gravity of the black hole.
The unforgivable thing here isn't the anachronism -- it's the lack of a suitable replacement. If you want a full i64 worth of duration at a reasonable resolution, you're on your own.
It’s All About Access: Remote Access Statistics for Public Cloud Workloads
I’m not knocking your experience and observation, but I wonder if there is some missing piece of information here. The woman who was interviewed on that podcast raised quail on both a farm and privately in her own space. She did try to let the quail free range first, and that was a disaster. She tried to make the coop area more open, and they became too nervous to lay. She eventually created a space that lets them feel safer from predators. She was also talking about a specific breed of domesticated quail. I don’t think she was trying to justify anything. Are we talking about the same things here?

Maybe the missing information is just how big of a cage we are talking about. What are you envisioning when you say that? Are you saying that, if a cage is made to allow them to do that, it would still be too big for a typical sized apartment?

I used to live somewhere where I can see wild quail running around the house every day. I remembered that they liked to hide in shrubs and overhanging trees. The mother might peak out and then run out from one cover to another, with a string of chicks following right a long. I rarely remember them flying out in the open.
Every growing city right now is going to be like that though. Block-after-block of Chipotle, Jamba Juice, and Whole Foods, 5 story apartment buildings with ground floor occupied only by the aforementioned.
Peerspace Teams with United to Bundle Flights with Spaces for Remote Companies
Great statement, excellent articulation.

" isn't even about them. It is about us and the world we want to live in. "

... we have to recognize that 'we don't own this stuff'.

Yes - I do support anti-trust and possibly 'breaking up companies' but we have to be very, very careful at how we intercede into private groups affairs.

The agents doing the 'breaking up' might just believe that they have incredible ability to 'oversee markets' and leverage the power for what they believe to be the 'greater good'.

The power of 'free markets' is often overstated but we should remind ourselves that there is a lot of value there, more importantly it's not obvious. In the short run, it's easy for someone to delude themselves in to the view that 'one's responsibility to the ostensible greater good as governor' combined with 'the grand view of markets' should legitimately empower towards control and market manipulation. After all - a bunch of 'really smart analysts' should be able to maximize social utility through some kind of restructuring of whatever exists at any given time in the markets.

It's a vey slippery slope and a hard thing to 'get right' - so any gains to be made here are going to be really correlated with how thoughtful and intelligent government will be on this one. Even with the greatest intentions it could be a mess.

Whoever doing this needs to be really, really smart about it.
Way to many folks end up with surprise bills. I'd like the option to say - over x dollars cost, shut the damn thing off to the public. Back in the /. days, got a minor project hit by the mass internets and hit with bandwidth charges by the time I noticed.
The New York Times is spreading harmful disinformation about race.

The piece is not technically lying, but all it is really saying is that the poor are disadvantaged in general, and Black and Brown people are over represented amongst the poor.

Here is the key line from the piece:

“But that connection was true only for Black and Hispanic students, and for students with lower family income.”

I.e. the link is actually about wealth inequality and not race, but you have to read this line carefully to understand that, since the rest of the piece is all about how this affects black and brown people. Other than in this one phrase completely ignores that poor white people are also affected.

When it does this, the New York Times creates a separation in the narrative between White people and people of color who are facing the same problems.

This is a divisive. racist narrative, and is a reflection of institutional and systemic racism being perpetuated by the New York Times.

I am not white. Racism is widespread in America. Black people are disadvantaged by racism in ways that are historical and present and are different from people who are not black.

But none of that excuses the New York Times when it divides people by race in pieces like this.

Sophisticated racism like this is worse than crude racism, because fewer people see it for what it is.

You don’t get to be anti-racist by painting racist pictures.

Racism can only be defeated by both being honest about what people have in common and being able to face the historical inequities which persist into the present.
I would love to hear this compares to Posthog!

I just switched from Google Analytics (by way of firebase) to Posthog, which seems very comparable. I liked Posthog because it has a react native library.
What of Alberta's rat control? From what I've heard it's not perfect, but still pretty good. Good enough for Alberta to generally be considered 'rat free.'
Yeah, good luck with that. Let us know how it works out for you, Australia.
Probably because it's measuring the last 3 years and Madison already had a sizable tech workforce for many years now.

Good area. Wish more people wore masks though.
Theoretical physicists are less and less likely to receive Nobel prizes during their lifetime. It took 50 years for Higgs to get his.

Nobel prizes reward experimentally verified discoveries and I suspect the direct observation of a black hole is what finally got Penrose his Nobel. But discoveries like Hawking radiation didn't result in a Nobel prize because even though it is a well accepted idea among physicists, it hasn't been observed yet.

As theories predict things that require more and more extreme conditions and precise instruments, the time between theory and experimental validation gets longer and longer.
I think that’s a good point. The timing of this announcement just seems a bit bizarre, given the stakes. This could have easily been announced next month.

One thing that occurred to me is the potential that Democrats could be using the threat of anti trust actions to pressure the tech companies to be more proactive, re: misinformation prior to the elections. Guess we will know if they make any significant policy changes over the next week or two.
As a new englander, I can confirm that it's really nice to have weather and seasons. It would be boring if every day all year was the same.