skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here: Indeed, this could be an option right before "Configuration" on the spectrum I shared. For that specific example, I don't think it would make sense to do, but in many cases it can be valid.

I hope the point of the essay came through, that there is an abstraction spectrum, and where certain ideas fall onto that spectrum.

Thanks for reading!
I looked into WP Engine recently to see if I could transfer some older client websites, it's eye wateringly expensive!
Bill Gates best job interview answers and Covid-19 update with Stephen Curry
I think you can commute-as-exercise, and commute-not-as-exercise. They're different engagements.

When I lived in Berlin, I would run in the mornings in the winter... it'd be below freezing. 1st 5 minutes I'd be cold, but once I started running-running, I was warm and the temps didn't bother me.

Then I'd come home, shower, breakfast and ride my bike to the office. I'd be cold.
Jamstack is nice locally but doesn’t have a solid solution to something simple like comments.
WordPress is horrid to develop with locally but can do almost anything.

Choose your poison.
If you're being downvoted it's probably for fulminating, which the site guidelines ask you not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You may not owe authors whom you feel are charlatans better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.
Soap operas in the age of pre-internet appointment television dealt with this problem in an interesting way. If you missed an episode or missed the entire week, you could always buy the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest which would have a summary of the week (or month's) story arc. Once a year or so, there would be magazines which would summarize the entire story arc of the show so new viewers could catch up. On a side note, if anyone is bored at work today, look up the Wikipedia entry for a long-running soap, like Days of Our Lives, which will have a synopsis of the entire story. It's quite epic, silly, and tawdry with a decades-long, no-breaks, no-jumps storyline.

I think for prime time viewing, Hill Street Blues was the first semi-serialized drama intended for viewers outside of the soap market. It had an interesting structure with A, B, and C plots. A plot gets resolved in a single episode. B plot is a 3-4 episode arc. And C plot lasts for the season. And then there was continuity from season to season. The show was decently successful, and paved the way for what we have now. One thing I find interesting is how many older viewers at the time thought it was too fast paced, too complex, and didn't enjoy it. They were too conditioned to the episodic norms. I'm sure the show would seem slow now to modern binge watchers.
I blame the dumb meme of 'Hanlon's Razor'. It extols gullibility.
Twitter blocking users from posting or DMing links to NY Post Hunter Biden story
Do you have a video showing a demo of managing a fleet of servers? Does this also address machine-to-machine ssh key trusts? Do you have a contrib repo with existing ansible, chef, puppet scripts to build your cluster and also for deploying agents to machines?
> So, after 5 years you can just do something stupid to get banned and get a full refund? Sweet.

If this was the law, then companies would change the way their products work or the way they ban people. Instead of banning, on Facebook, they would prevent the user from posting and interacting with other users. You would in essence get a very nice advert-only feed but not banned.
The article is astonishingly ignorant about how the process actually works. 1) Local election boards establish how many polling places, their location, the hours, who works there, and myriad other critical details about the election. 2) The local election boards are comprised of people who are..wait for it..local. And, 3) thanks to whichever party is in power at the state level, the districts are drawn in such a way that almost all of the districts have a nice buffer of people/voters who are likeminded.

All of these together generally mean that it's just shitty local election boards and committees, mostly volunteers, who are so inept they don't even understand how many power cords should be around or to have the key to the machines so they can be turned on, etc etc etc.

It's tragic, and it's sad. What it isn't is some mustache twirling shadowy Monopoly man-type figure working day and night to keep poor people from voting. It's just basic organization at the very local level..
> To everyone's surprise, there isn't any payoff, and there aren't any consequences.

It was not really a surprise. As you said things went off the rails for a while already, that was a sign of a bad ending early on. When I saw how quickly they wrapped the Night King in Season 8 I knew all hopes were lost for a good ending.
Both of those would be a substantial improvement, yes. At that point, you'd just have an unusual, specialized wealth tax.

If you're going to change property taxes that much, though, you might as well go all the way to a land-value tax, which would also reduce problems with assessment and improvement.
I was shocked to learn, a few years ago now, that my German friends do not have these. I am out of university for over a decade and it’s still probably a monthly occurrence.

I have never had a work nightmare, but since emigrating some of the school dreams have been replaced by visa-related ones.
What do you mean by backdoor?

For example, say they have the capability to add a law enforcement key to the list of keys being used to encrypt the channel to allow eavesdropping. I wouldn't call that a backdoor.
That term is funny because it basically means capitalism with a human face these days, but if you read Lenin, the big communists were talking about the fight for "Social Democracy" in the early 20th century. Terms get so diluted lol
First mistake is buying on Prime Day.

Jeff Bezo needs to pay their warehouse workers a living wage instead of feeding consumerism to everyone.

He's almost a trillionaire.
Putting in a word for Sanity CMS, it's like contentful but more programmatic. It also doesn't need so much of the constant 'publish draft' button clicking.
Google banned one of my accounts after 6 months - most likely reason (with Google no support you could ask) was not using my real phone number...

Lost access to all info within the account, and other things also.
Why not just prevent signup in the first place?!?!
Yet another reason to vote by mail. Nobody should ever have to "wait in line" to vote, especially not given current events.
Even after they got busted, I had their sells reps pitching my organization that they have proper E2E encryption, and that the public claims were mistaken.

So, no. This perfectly above-board version is not what happened.
can only turn a bit with touchpad. only about 90 degree turn mobility
I hope someone roots it. I'm offering a $5k bounty https://twitter.com/arobertlong/status/1316177057085177857
I disagree. When you’re starting out, support is one of your key differentiating features. Customers will love you and stick with you because you’re there to help them when they need it.

Those conversations, beyond just delighting your customers, are where you really learn the most about them and their needs. It’s where you get to live their pain and understand what you can do to build a better product. I’d recommend being ready to jump on the phone with someone the moment they reach out for help.

Also, you can be honest about out of hours times - people understand that you can’t be there at 1am (though, lord knows I’ve done plenty of support with customers on the other side of the world at that time). But if you’re a tiny company getting established, you’ll be on hand at all hours, even if it’s a bit antisocial. Nobody is as loyal a customer as someone you’ve bent over backwards to help late at night or on a Sunday afternoon.
Baby Yoda.
I saw that on their page - I wasn't as offended about the pricing differential as the post, but I was groaning during the whole verizon pitch. I wonder how much verizon paid for that placement. It felt extremely out of place and very cringy IMO.
Principles for Great Product Managers
..except those who offed themselves.
So there's trade-off between the security and the conference call quality, and this option weighs toward more security. That sounds great for customers in general. I'd wish they choose the E2E option to be the default for small meetings and non-E2E to be the default for larger meetings with some clear notification for attendees.
Deprecate FTP support (deprecated)
Nice, is there similar advice for entrepreneurs just starting out abs looking for seed investment?
A fifteen-piece kit that includes all of the assets you need to get organized, make your resume, cover letter and LinkedIn profile look professional, and power-up through every stage of your job search.
A wonderful watch and mind trip.
Sue in Small Claims Court. The Oculus terms of service permit that. Your problem will be resolved, one way or another.
Humane: A New Computer From Ex-Apple Engineers
pg_stat_activity isn't an extension -- it's a standard system view
It seems to be part of the mmwave antenna. I do wish it was a touch ID sensor.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/10/13/21515128/...
Why would it differ in the RNG, I wonder?
This is something we're actively looking to change with Crunchy Bridge (https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge/). We've started with PL/R and PL/Python in addition to the standard set of extensions. We're in the process of evaluating our next set of extensions including pg_repack, zhparser, pgroonga, and possibly pgsync.

Longer term we're exploring the ability to bring your own and already have some thoughts on how to make that possible.
Humane: A New Computer from Ex-Apple Engineers
The abuse-countermeasures argument is fairly persuasive, but possibly not entirely so. Not the least because scale also seems to greatly amplify that problems themselves.

Most forms of communications/informational abuse also seem to follow the propaganda / censorship / surveillance framework. Certainly spam, various forms of devoicing, and targeted harassment (bullying, brigading, doxxing, swatting).

Countermeasures fall into what I term hygiene factors, and much of my current thinking runs very strongly along epidemiological lines (and did so well before our recent viral symbiote emerged): addressing breeding reservoirs, transmission vectors, surveillance (of dysfunctional/toxic behaviours), susceptibility, treatment, isolation, and the like.

Distributed and decentralised approaches can work, and there are examples of these. From the world of spam: DNSBLs, SpamHaus, IronPort, pg's own Bayesian classifiers, and the like. How much added gain GD AI ML offers, and how much that relies of exclusive data monopolies, I'm not sure.

One further point that's going to be lost here, but what the hell: it's not entirely necessary of even possible to dismantle all informational (or other) monopolies. My key point has been to join the three ills which seem to be the subject of much present discussion as having a common enabling factor. And that discussing the issues separately or without consideration of etiology has little value. Sometimes the answer will be dismantling sometimes it will be to modify governance, ensuring public, social, and or commonweal orientation; sometimes to create counterveilling power blocs to balance forces.
So on durability it seems the converse has usually proven out to be the rule rather than the exception. Probably the best example is the AK, tolerances are loose, it can be manufactured with rudimentary equipment. Basically a metal brake, a lathe and a rudimentary milling machine to machine the gas block and trigger group. The entire gun is pinned together and can be taken down in the field with a punch. It really is so simply built to the point of being genius and while it is not as accurate as some of it's counterparts produced during the same period, it is accurate enough. It is generally regarded as the most reliable gun ever produced.

The converse story of that would be that of the AR-15/M-16 tight tolerances and precise engineering lead to it fouling in action due to dust and debris to the extent that it went thru several decades of revision until we ended up with the modern AR-15/M-4.

As far as barrels I would say that is the biggest issue with ever production a 100% 3D printed gun, unless there are serious advances in modern plastics that lead to an extremely ridged, heat resistant, and expansion resistant material they will continue to need to be metals with high tensile strength. It needs to be rigid to resist barrel wrap where the barrel flexes and reduces accuracy under fire. It needs to be heat resistant for obvious reasons gun barrels get hot and it needs to resist expansion so that the barrel is in contact with the bullet at it travels down it. Thus metal seems to be the only possible material at the moment that contains the requisite properties for barrel development.

Beyond that, even if they can get to 100% of all other parts being manufactured and using common pipe with some chemical treatment to overcome the barrel issue there are still some major disadvantages that cannot be overcome without at least rudimentary metal shop tools. The biggest being that just using a pipe gives you the equivalent of a smooth bore slug gun. For any amount of accuracy the firearm has to have riffling which is groves cut into the inside of the barrel to cause the bullet to twist as it moves down the barrel thus stabilizing the flight path of the bullet when it leaves the firearms barrel. I just don't see how the above issues can be overcome via 3D printing. That being said, it's actually pretty easy to home manufacture a firearm with the most basic of metal shop tools.
"humans were far too heavy to fly and in any case lacked feathers"

Science has certainly not "marched past" the issue of life (or health) extension. Knowing that it is related to cancer or whatever does not end the story. That is like saying we now know humans don't have feathers.

Regarding agency, the story the humans have no real choice in the matter because the dragon will kill them all otherwise. Ending aging would be much more valuable than ending war. Wars do not kill billions of people. Of course, it is possible to destroy all life on the planet in a war, but this is orthogonal to solving other problems.

"You are hilariously naive to think about solving one problem when there is another."
Since quarantine started I've noticed many more teenage daughters tagging along with their moms on errands and walks in the middle of the day.

Probably positive for self-esteem and growth. Perhaps schools now are too focused on academic scores alone and too ignorant of negative social dynamics.
You can do this today and if you get energy for free, then the transportation-losses are of little significance (they are just a few percent to begin with).

Superconductors won't play a role in energy transport until their installation and operational costs over their lifetime are less then the installation, operational costs and losses of legacy conductors.
Botnet disruption shows aggressive U.S. cyber posture
I agree. It was getting worse, but still an ok show in my opinion. The last season was just terrible.

An awesome show becoming an ok show and then ending as a terrible show is not worth recommending for anyone.

For me Lost, was a great show, with highs and lows, with fairly good last season, with a very disappointing and confusing last episode. Still worth the ride in my opinion.
Not OP, but probably because the patriot act was passed in the aftermath of 9/11 when the understood meaning of terrorist attack was 9/11 scale not a dozen people max.
Slightly misleading yes, but we're talking about $30 on phones that cost nearly a $1000. Accusing Apple of playing "marketing games" with carriers is a bit of a stretch.
Show HN: Render-JSX, tools for building JSX-based libraries and frameworks
Can someone explain, does s Japanese master have better sound? From clips it sounds 100 times better.
I'm also in the camp of not offering live support. For most businesses who don't have a 24/7 staffing for the live chat, it's best to avoid it altogether as it creates unrealistic expectations in the customers.

Customers who require instant support at whatever hours will likely find some dissatisfaction in working with your bootstrapped solo founder company now or in the near future. Best to offload them to companies who are ready and structured to help them.
Generally speaking this is designed for accessing your own systems, not the systems of a third party being consumed as a SaaS. That said, any such provider that allows you to restrict the set of IPs allowed to make calls to the service would operate in a Boundary-friendly mode.
Phone subsidies are bad and should go away. Showing the post-subsidy price is dishonest.
At least they didn't force a U2 album on you this time
My kids are elementary students, both wake up at 8:30 naturally (go to bed at 7:30). To eat, get ready and bike to school for a 840 start, they need to be up by 7:30 at the very latest. Couldn't imagine having an 8am start, let alone earlier, especially as they age.
The whole presentation I was wondering how much Verizon paid as well.

Between the pricing reveal and the conflation of their 28GHz deployment as a standard 5G experience, it seemed like it was the iPhone sponsored by Verizon.
I rent, so I doubt I could get a dedicated cable like that on the property by myself, let alone into the unit. The work would probably violate my lease.
> [...] bought keybase [...]

I missed that one, thanks for the heads up (found sources @ [1]). Between that and Keybase going into cryptcurrency, that means I uninstalled Keybase and quit using it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keybase#cite_note-12
I understand Apple’s approach to Verizon here.

Just like the initial iPhone needed one carrier to get things right, 5G infrastructure testing will be like that.

It is in Apple’s best interest if their users experience 5G as best as the current infrastructure allows (which isn’t great yet, because it will take a decade for a full rollout).

It makes sense to have the carriers bend over backwards to see who gets to be the main partner for Apple, because they wouldn’t be able to manage 4+ relationships simultaneously with something as complex as 5G/4G flipping (this has to happen on device, because 5G drains battery 10x faster than 4G, so the device has to use bursts of 5G. If it handles this incorrectly, millions of users will complain of horrible battery life and that would be a big black eye for Apple, something they don’t want to risk).
Sound like really amazing software. Best of luck!

One area where such tool could be extremely helpful is using supplements(and their lower side effects profile) where appropriate in order to minimize drug use.
Yes, even today the billionaires have set things up so that their children inherit most of their wealth, and these families kill all the other humans.
Does it matter? Surely having a reasonable environment is a far higher priority than "being a champion".
Ask HN: Software Jobs for Couples?
My partner and I are software engineers with slightly different/complementary skills. We met during our PhDs. We have done a number of side projects together, gone to software conferences together, and sometimes discuss work things at home and help each other. I know this can be a recipe for disaster but for some reason it brings us closer together. Now that we have both been forced to work from home for the past 6 months I have been wondering if it would make more sense to actually seek work together. Is this something possible? Are companies willing to hire a couple full-time remote or contracting would be the only option? Anyone else feels the same?
$30 seems a trivial thing to mislead about. Who's making an iPhone buying decision based on $30 either way as their red line? People just see the first digit and the number of digits.

(I also think it's a trivial thing to complain about, but I think that's going to be a much more controversial opinion!)
PostgreSQL upgrades are indeed one of the use cases we have with the gem, the way we do it is:

1. Have app configured to connect to both main and replica.

2. Connect to the rails console and tell the app to stay in read only mode until told otherwise.

3. Disable replication

4. Upgrade main to new PostgreSQL version

5. Tell the app to move back to read-write mode

6. Re-create the replica

This flow helped us do hundreds of PostgreSQL major version upgrades in AWS RDS this quarter when we moved from PG 10 to 12.

And this is just a plus, using the gem during normal operations means that if a Redis or PostgreSQL main explodes for any reason the app keeps serving traffic, albeit in read-only.

> Automatic failover to the follower during this process would likely confuse things.

I believe here the problem is mostly naming. The gem "failover" to read-only mode to a replica, it doesn't promote replicas to main ever. Naming is hard.
I think the issue is that it is not a 3D printing problem. Plenty of hobbyist reload and self manufacture bullets it requires a simple reloading press. Most of the components can be self manufactured if one desires, as the other child poster has already said, smokeless powder is probably the hardest to manufacture but not impossible.
Thanks for the link. Pretty much sums up my experience. And I can say it isn't so much about Easter European... it is more like American vs the Rest of the World.
They sleep for 13 hours a day?
"Obviously"... yeah, exactly.
If producers know that up front, then the story line should be planned accordingly.
"The wrong type of snow" is another famous one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow
there wouldn't be a childhood obesity epidemic if that were actually the case.
Sure, automatic ranking is also "possible". The point is that it isn't being used in practice.

Those questions aren't related to what is being discussed: ATSs filtering people based on the contents of their resume.
This is a hero fantasy, and allows you to be legally killed by pretty much anyone. Don't do this.
> you'd need ~21k people working 8/hours to handle it each day.

That's Google's problem with their business model, not the customers'.

The customer, who has by definition purchased rights to the service in question (whether with the currency of their attention, their information, or their money), deserves the attention of a human - with the ability to fix problems that arise - when they have a problem with that service that the company's self-service or automated help can not solve.
Show HN: Employee Referral Tool
Hello, I wanted to share a employee referral tool that I created. It all started as an idea to help recruit much better candidates for a friend who owns a small business. I since designed a website and automated the process. It's free to anyone to use. I would like your feedback if you have a chance to try it.

Pete
And in the process making the experience deliberately awful.

I don't see how that doesn't indicate that outlawing a requirement for an account is so much more preferable.
I agree with that. Apple should not appear to be in bed with any particular vendor. They have done a good job in the past maintaining their independence and it should continue. It’s just a chip off their armor but they are additive.
This is already pretty informative! Thanks for validating your approach!
This is a really nice video. I appreciate the patient walkthrough of the concepts and motivation.
Thanks, cool game! Three lives is pretty challenging on larger fields with lots of unavoidable guess by the way.

Since there's no email adress to be found nor PMs open on Twitter, here is a bug report: there is a mine next to a field of revealed, blank hex fields which shouldn't be possible if blank fields mean that zero mines border to them.

The game is still open, let me know if I should look up a seed or extract whatever useful information for you.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/H5YhfqA.png
The Wrong Type of Snow