skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree we could have done it a lot differently and safely, I especially like the last point you mentioned that is what would have been the correct way to do it.

But this happened as described, a local only script that generated a list of columns to modify then a migration to execute the alter queries for all of them.
That’s exactly the point he’s trying to get across with that video.
See that leading with a "No." there

That's what we're talking about. I hope you don't have direct reports.

Next time be honest "Just shut the conversation down, everyone's a dumbass, I'm right, you're dumb" it'll be quicker than all this back and forth actually trying to get to a stable middle ground :)
Suggetsion for changing the 2nd paragraph:

> So I recruited my own advisory board. Genetics, bioinformatics, nutrition, longevity finance, data science, and finally, a dystopian. Some traded in secrets, others Bitcoin, the rest just wanted to put a man on the moon of life.

->

> So I recruited my own advisory board. Genetics, bioinformatics, nutrition, longevity finance, data science, and finally, a dystopian. Some traded in secrets, others Bitcoin, the rest just wanted to put a man on the moon for life.
> You literally can't go 5km from your house in Australia.

I am in Norway, taking my flight north of the country today in 4 hours. It's my 5th domestic flight since May, when the country reopened after 6 week long, early, popularly supported, voluntarily enforced lock down.

> More people have died in a few months from Covid in the US than the entire 5 years of WWI

…aaand?
How do you chain function calls in smalltalk syntax? I think delineating the argument set for a single function is the main job parens fulfill.
I meant solar on its own.

Solar + battery is where the future of solar is, but the economics of batteries don't work yet relative to grid electricity price in the developing world. So far we've deployed solar+battery in petrol pumps and a few off-grid locations. In the markets where we operate, on grid, it is economically not an option yet.
Thanks to a good amount of time spent with Lisp, I don't mind neither post-fix nor prefix notation that much.
It's a feature of many, but not all.
Oh, true. My suggestion would mostly only add paging out of seldom used data structures.
Entitled Artists
I think their question was this: how is it that I can step through and see the expected changes to my variables, given that the optimiser is permitted to re-order/elide/restructure my code?
How would it work with existing HashiCorp tech like Nomad?
That's a tad ironic is it not?

All I am calling for is people to take responsibility.
GHC already gives you stacktraces when you compile with profiling on. You say they are going to turn them on by default? Interesting!
Colossal Cave Adventure Map
Deepwork.fm – Work Playlist
That's true for all these tech certificates. Getting a university degree is always better value for your money in Europe.
I still think the output is inferior to automatic paper generators from 2005.

This is literally just stringing words and putting random events together.
I thought mostly the US wants a cut of their citizens earnings, even if abroad.
I like calling TESL Elements, as a nice analogy to Euclid.
Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains
To the anger of Windows devs being told to wait for ISO C++23 or even ISO C++26, hoping that the standard gets the relevant papers for C++/WinRT VS tooling to catch up with C++/CX from 2012.

Right now it is hardly better than ATL/WRL, but so is life when Windows team wins its political battles with DevTools.
I recalled Akimov pressing the AZ-5 button in Chernobyl...
I would quite like to have highlight text automatically copy, as it does when I use puttlly with Linux.

Is that a potential enhancement.
You can search directly with duckduckgo.

'Alternative to Chrome' - https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=alternative+to+chrome

Just click the software tab at the top.
For the platforms written in C.
I don’t cook much and I don’t need any fancy cooking knives, but I still enjoy browsing in knife shops in Tokyo and Osaka. (I've lived in Japan since the 1980s.) The breadth and variety is amazing, and the knives are often beautifully displayed.

Two shops I remember particularly fondly are in Osaka: Kunishige [0, Japanese only] in the Tenjinbashisuji shopping street and the Sakai Ichimonji [1] shop in Namba. The latter is in a street full of restaurant suppliers, and several other cutlery shops are nearby. There are similar shops in Kappabashi in Tokyo [2].

[0] http://www.tenjin123.com/shops/國重刃物店/

[1] https://ichimonji.jp/index.php

[2] https://www.kappabashi.or.jp/en/index.html
We could put labels next to all text/speakers speaking that say: ‘this is comedy’
Insurance against Microsoft closing up Windows "walled garden" style. Currently this seems to be low-priority for MS again (probably because the Windows Store has tanked and "the cloud" has become the main business focus), but when Valve started investing in Linux as gaming platform the possibility of Windows becoming a closed platform where software can only be installed from the Windows Store looked much more likely than today.
How many sucessful patents are from freestanding inventors nowadays actually?

The main in-action of patent I have seen is patents being hoarded in big corporations. If the engineers work nights and weekends at those it is their own fault.
In spain at least we mostly use nail clippers as well, I've only seen specialized scissors used for babies for some reason.
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Totally OT: I wanted to read the article but the constant moving items on the right column and the whack-a-mole game to add them to adlbock got me off the site. Oh, wait there's a reader mode I forgot to try. /rant
I think pjc50 was saying “worse” not “worst”.

I don’t know enough about economics or statistics to answer your question, but here is a story about a pilot project: https://www.adb.org/news/features/inside-southeast-asias-fir...
This line's the winner for me : "Thankfully nobody’s job is at risk due to this disaster. The founder is not going to fire the developer – because they are one and the same person."
Thanks for the kind words. I'd be happy to hear more about the rough edges and the nice-to-haves you're after in more detail in a github issue :D
Apart from the main subject of whether energy consumption tells us anything meaningful, Whenever I see such benchmarks withoud D and Nim, I feel like the readers will get a skewed view, and with each such benchmark this view will be reinforced. My gut feeling would be that these two languages would be between C and C++ (at least some other benchmarks place them there), but it would be good to have it confirmed.
You’re describing an antithesis of podcasting. It was invented for the very reason you’re hating it here, which I find strange.

It’s like complaining how walking has a great advantage on your health as a means to shit on the invention of cars—when cars are invented for people who are not willing to walk (and some other reasons)
>nothing else can explain the enthusiasm for a player as uninspiring as Tim Henman

I play a lot of tennis. I've never understood this fascination of Brits, often those themselves who do not play tennis, to bash Tim Henman (and also curiously enough Andy Murray pre-Wimbledon win). Henman won 11 ATP titles, reached 6 grand slam semi-finals, ended 5 years in the top 10, and is an Olympic finalist. He's also a pretty nice guy who continues to promote grassroots tennis in Britain.

Yet the only conceivable reason to the author that people might be enthusiastic about Tim Henman is nationalism? And to leave such a baseless claim without comment like it should just be accepted? Honestly I expect better from the LRB.
Do people who are lactose intolerant - like most Japanese people - have any issues eating butter? Or is the butter sold in Japan adapted to remove lactose?
I'm not sure it's true that

> states that normally vote Democrat are more likely to lose votes than states that normally vote Republican

because it could be true (1) that individuals who vote Democrat are more likely to go uncounted but (2) that states that vote Democrat are not more likely to be undercounted.

A few (totally imaginary) mechanisms that would do this: 1. Suppose Democrats who are surrounded by Republicans tend not to respond to the census, but everyone else does. Then you'll undercount Democrats, but mostly in places full of Republicans. 2. Suppose rural Democrats tend not to respond to the census, but everyone else does. Then again you'll undercount Democrats, but mostly in more-rural states, which tend to lean Republican. 3. Suppose poorer people (however they vote) tend not to respond to the census, but everyone else does. All else equal, richer people are more likely to vote Republican, but richer states are more Democratic. (I think Andrew Gelman's "Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State" talks about this.) Then Democrats will be undercounted more, but Republican states may be undercounted more.

I don't know whether mechanisms with this sort of counterintuitive property are actually responsible for enough of the census-counting difficulties to produce that paradoxical outcome, but it doesn't seem obviously impossible.

(Of course, if what we're considering is the nefariousness of possible motivations, then what matters isn't whether such mechanisms actually do do that, but whether the potentially-nefarious people in question expect them to. That's a different question and my guess is that they probably don't even if they should.)
For anything security focused, Node and Electron are an odd choice.
France production is ~70% nuclear but consumption is well below that. They export subsidized Nuclear at a loss and import rentable and fossil fuel generated power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#/...

Frances issue is the demand curve isn’t a steady state so Nuclear needs on average more supplemental power than solar to make up the difference. Unless you leave plants mostly idle at extreme cost or have vast energy storage you can’t get to even 50%. Consumer rates are heavily subsidized and their close ties with Europe’s grid mostly hides these issues. However power plant utilization still hovers around 80% which means the country pays significantly more for nuclear than countries with better utilization.

Things would look much worse for France if surrounding countries increased Nuclear generation as the seasonal, night time, and weekend surplus would increase.
Street View vs. StreetSide vs. Look Around vs. Mapillary
I'm not sure if GP meant sciter or scite.ai (both of which had a few posts about them recently), or even SciTE.

However I don't see how either of those indicate some "real overhaul of the web", as sciter seems to be "just" a embeddable HTML/CSS engine which doesn't seem like a big change compared to e.g. webview[0].

[0]: https://github.com/webview/webview
To all the people who say "that could never happen to me" work less then 5y in the industry. That can happen to anyone anytime.

Remember: You just fix the errors YOU can think of.
I think most countries will stop demanding taxes from you if you legitimately move to another country, though meeting the criteria for doing that can be tedious. The US doesn’t have such a system, but the way it works most expats won’t end up paying any taxes if they leave the states. Though they’ll still need to file a return.
Sound’s like a simple fix is to not put you in a news-based filter bubble. Randomize all of that.
Dealing with existing code and moving it forward in significant ways without taking down production is always much more challenging than writing new code, whatever form those new ways take.

You can get by with one strong lead defining services and interfaces for a bunch of code monkeys that write what goes behind them.

Given an existing monolithic codebase, you can’t specify what high level services should exist and expect juniors to not only make the correct decisions on where the code should land up but also develop a migration plan such that you can move forward with existing functionality and customer data rather than starting from zero.
Google provides a REST API for its Suggest feature [1] which can be used for product vs style searches. I use it in a CLI script specifically for this use case.

[1] https://developers.google.com/cloud-search/docs/reference/re...
Nobody said the devs have access to those repos
It makes sense if you don't include "replace the current process" in the set of "fix current process".
Or alternatively, what happens when regressive techies take a dislike to your org and bring this up in every thread for a decade afterwards.

Congrats, you really showed those social justice warriors by handing the market to Google, who you also hate for being social justice warriors.
Wifinian enables user to actively control Wi-Fi connections
"fear required when working out what decision to make"

People like you keep making the same mistake, creating companies/organisations/industries/societies that run on fear of failure. We've tried it a thousand times, and it never works.

You can't solve crime by making all punishments hearsh death, we've tried that in 1700 in Britain and crimerate was sky high.

This culture gave us disasters in USSR and famine in China.

The only thing that can solve this problem is structural change.
For the most part, we are not complicating stuff. Today's requirements are complicated. We used to operate from the commandline on a single processor. Now things are complicated: People expect a Web UI, High availability, integration with their phone, Email notification, 2FA authentication, and then you have things like SSL/HTTPS, Compliance, and you need to log the whole thing for errors or compliance or whatever.

Sometimes it's simpler to go back to a commandline utility, sometimes it's not.
5km rules are in Victoria, yes. The west coast is enjoying the benefits of its natural isolation and I don't hear a lot of complaints from other states.

Locking down hotspots seems rational enough. How else do you control an invisible virus? What alternative do you really advocate for that is effective?
Corporations are not going to put transactions on blockchains without strong privacy, for competitive reasons. It's probably not practical to do that while also leaving a backdoor for the authorities, but even if it were, it'd just be a tweaked version of the same technology.
it does not look like that kickstarter is going to succeed -- the deadline is today at ~10% completed with all or nothing
Agreed. Hijacking ctrl-f in my browser (chrome) is user-hostile, given searching on-page is a reasonable expectation for any web app.

I use Confluence regularly over a high latency (600ms) link - and this has the surprise / delayed page load you describe, with the newer search features refusing to action your search request until it's loaded & rendered a large overlay on the right-hand side of the screen.

These two attributes make are hugely frustrating, given looking for information is the key function of a wiki.
The cost of dealing with intermittency of renewables will be tolerable, and a 100% renewable grid will very likely be cheaper than one using nuclear.
> Organizations routinely spend $100M/year to deal with this data, and the workloads are literally growing exponentially.

Let’s step back for a second and just acknowledge that you’re in a very narrow slice of the market. The number of companies that are paying $100M/year to store sensor data is probably countable with 8 bits.

So it might seem like a large gap for you, but it’s honestly not relevant for 99.99% or developers.
Those taxes and levies are used to finance the renewables, so it makes no sense to leave them out of the picture.

These renewables produce a lot of power that isn't needed during their peaks, which gets sold at low or negative prices on the market, yet is compensated for with the full subsidy.

During their troughs, you need another source of power, usually natural gas, which is expensive, or coal, which raises the baseline production and therefore exacerbates the peak production problem. The result on CO2 emissions is pretty damning.

This is the danger of picking "winning technologies", you are telling the market to waste resources. Instead, you need to incentivize the market for your actual goal and then let it do its thing. Putting a price on CO2 would've incentivized all sorts of technologies that reduce net CO2 emissions.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...

Fyi, an interesting statistic is that Eg. Houses in Belgium are more expensive to buy and way cheaper to rent.
great analogy :) I hate cars too.
At work we've been moving towards a kind of rolling release scheme as well.

We're almost there, as we have a launcher that allows users to try out newer versions as well as having access to older versions. In essence you can run the previous, current and next major versions, and for each of those we have the latest 5 builds. We make a new major version typically every month.

This means that a lot of bugs can be worked around by simply running an older build or major version. Show-stoppers thus become inconvenient instead. Also it's easier to tell customers their super important feature will come in the next release in a month, rather than having the feature be backported, avoiding the "partial slow" scheme mentioned in the talk.

The main issue here is the database, which of course can't be rolled back easily. So we don't, and write our code with that in mind.

This has been a great change from when customers would stick on a version for over a year at a time. Upgrading often meant lots of time spent by support for assisting with testing, and by the time the testing was done (not a high priority with the customers) the version that was deemed ready was already hopelessly out of date.
A core catcher is a thing that mitigates the worst scenario of a meltdown (by catching the melted core before it can melt through the concrete floor), it doesn't prevent a meltdown. If the core catcher comes into play the core has already melted and escaped from the reactor pressure vessel.
Superfun. Two Dutch podcasters had an episode[1] made using GPT-3, based on previous episodes, as an experiment. After the usual introduction they read up the generated text. It soon becomes illogical and incoherent but it took me 10 mins to figure out something was wrong. In the final few minutes there's some outtakes of them cracking up as they have to read the nonsense. Dutch only.

[1] https://art19.com/shows/een-podcast-over-media/episodes/fe6d...
Many innovative ideas here.

I especially like the shared cache with trusted peers idea, and remotely scriptable sounds useful too.

But no web forms?

How do we interact with websites (like me posting this comment now for example?)

And no DOM?
What is the DOM translated into?

And no ECMAscript?
Won't that break half the web from being usable?

And yet it can also become a web proxy for regular browsers?

Curious to watch this project mature, as it seems there are several excellent lateral ideas all being developed at once!
Link to the start of the slide deck (for some reason the title link goes to a random page in the middle of the deck)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VCXvyqwOWnQ1A0_yLM39...

PS: a better title would be "How the NES worked (slide deck)"
Also retail businesses in SEA tend to employ more workers than would be considered necessary in the west. e.g. hiring far more shop assistants than they need. If your labour costs are a small fraction of your overall costs then you have an incentive to hire many workers to provide better service in peak times even if most of the time they are doing nothing, or just to make your business look good.
Feels like 2 steps forward, one step back on average to me.
This is an interesting idea (if controlled by a setting). I'm afraid though there is no universal approach to implementing it, which would work across all apps.
That doesn't disprove that Trump, Bolsonaro, Johnson and Erdoğan are far right populist who fucked up.

On the contrary, it proves that US handled the crisis badly, worse than many other countries less developed and less rich.

Of course Belgium, with 11 million citizens (less than NY) and a population density of 385/km2 (USA is at 36) and headquarter of European political institutions had it worse

NY city death rate is in fact 1,960 deaths/million (2 times Belgium)

NY state is at 1,710/million

New Jersey 1,820/million

It's easy to win the stats game when you do not watch them closely

Of course you can scoff the numbers when you don't know that Belgium is counting any death happening in nursing homes (there are over 15 hundreds of them) as covid related, even the untested ones.

If you wanna talk about complexity, you should at least show that you can handle it.
I think we know now that people that want to be disinformed tend to consume media.

Why do we keep seeing studies that show people who engage more with the main stream media have a far more skewed view of reality. That includes places like the NYT.

Why: because to make money you have to focus on the long tail of events, which always describe outliers. It’s how Trump got elected: he was good money.
geez - when the tictockers find out it will be anarchy - Graham's opponent will have money out his ears
The pandemic didn't destroy the democracy in Uganda. In Uganda there was never a democracy in place. Mr Museveni is the president of Uganda since 1986.
Owh wow, I thought you were exaggerating but after seeing the gif on the repo it’s a spot on copy!

Amazing work though. Hopefully it will start getting a personality of it’s own soon enough.
Cheese has lower levels of lactose generally. Probably the same with butter?
They are rewarded with salaries that have never before existed outside of law/business/rent seeking (kings/land owners/etc.), the main power brokers of wealth in most of human history.
I was using Notepad too for decades, and now I'm surprised of how quickly I got used to Ctrl+V simply working the way I always wanted it :)
> It was a fascinating demonstration of what I believe is called "kaizen"

It's not kaizen, it's the perpetual appetite for novelty rather than anything else. Also Japanese TV programs are anything but legit, everything is scripted ahead of time and there's not such thing as a winner which does not happen to buy ads on the same network.
Portfolio Variance Calculation for Securities
To calculate the portfolio variance for the stocks in the portfolio, multiply the square weight of each stock by the corresponding stock variance and add two times the weighted average of the stock multiplied by the covariance between the two stocks.

Gold Signals

To calculate the variance for a portfolio with two assets, multiply the first asset's weighting square by the asset's variance and add it to the second asset's weight square multiplied by the second asset's variance. Next, add the resulting value by two multiplied by the weights of the first and second assets multiplied by the covariance between the two assets.
Idk about Norway, but in Finland you can stream them on C-more [1], which is now owned by Telia, the teleoperator. I suspect this is also the case in Sweden.

[1]: https://www.cmore.fi/ohjelma/44002009/muumilaakson-tarinoita
Technically it would be consistency not irony.