skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nicely written, but I don’t quite understand some of examples to be honest. What is being lumped in as part of the Rationalist World and why? Are we talking post Renaissance? Post Enlightenment? Contemporary? The Greeks were not reasoning people? Of the architecture that is praised here, what makes those pieces so irrational, and what makes the critiqued pieces rational? When were those quaint Parisian apartments built? We could talk about the literal 18th century Age of “Reason“ to start, but the art there was quite Neoclassical actually (and grand and aesthetic per the criteria of this essay I suppose). In fact, it was followed by an era of greater expression and imagination. Le Corbusier and the modernists responded with some peculiar ideas against decoration yes, but surely we’re about a century past that now? On the contrary, so much of the postmodern world has been criticized as shallow and image obsessed and post-truth. What happened to the arguably recent developments that are in between the extremes of modern Brutalism and say, the tedium of Medieval religious art (if we really want some sort of reference point for pre-reason): art for art’s sake, beauty is truth, pure formalism? There has always been a back and forth dialogue between aesceticism and aestheticism, minimalism and maximalism. Beauty and wonder did not suddenly die when reason was “discovered” (whenever that was). Let’s not romanticize ye olden days.
Most of the places I know of or where friend's work use Atlassian. I am wondering if this will drive a shift towards GitLab considering the general consensus I've heard is that GitHub Enterprise is too expensive.
Tesla asks customers to vote against Right to Repair
Data center and server are the same bits using a different license. Moving from server to a one node data center Jira is not hard
You might end up with something like Red Bull X2010. But you'd also reach the limits of human ability to withstand G-forces without passing out, especially in high speed turns and under braking.
You feel like what is "some sort of fresh hell" that you managed to miss?
Remdesivir is also apparently insanely difficult and expensive to synthesize as well - for a humorous take on it see https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/26/problem-remdesivir-maki... if you haven't already.
For issue tracking I like https://mantisbt.org
Can you elaborate on this? Reviews are mixed. A lot of people calling this course and the accompanying book fluff.
My favorite weapon of choice for this is absl::StrSplit. It can be very efficient because it adapts to any return type you like (including range types, so you can `for(string_view : StrSplit()) {...}`).
How you say things matters and "saying how it is" doesn't mean you have to be an asshole about it.
Unbelievable. The next time another reactionary outrage-bait piece from Quillette or Unherd or Matt Taibbi or the National Review worms its way to the front page are you going to swap out its url for a totally different article on a totally different website only nominally on the same topic?

The point of the original article wasn’t just that people misunderstand section 230, it’s that republican politicians are conducting a propaganda campaign to willfully misrepresent section 230–and every thread on HN where someone launches into that tired and fallacious “publisher vs platform” spiel is evidence that it’s working. Facts aren’t inherently clickbait just because they displease the conservative HN massive.
This looks really amazing! Would love to read an architecture post for this. Adding this in your book would also be pretty cool
I know a little about the inside of the jira sausage factory from second hand reports. It's got the "accrete everyone else's business processes" problem that you mentioned, but it's also got the problem that it's quite spaghetti on the inside as well, probably for the usual reason - startup founders writing lots of code in a hurry and conflating the purpose of the software with its architecture due to being too close to the problem. Compound that with the usual startup-in-growth problem of more people than necessary (with presumably very uneven capabilities) working on the codebase and you've got a recipe for a maintenance problem.

I do know that getting put in the jira team is one of the least fun parts of working for atlassian.
I feel the attempt itself is a little bit like trying to turn a turd into gold.
Weird how the Malthusian crisis' victims always end up being disadvantaged unprivileged serfs
"better than jira" returns 6210 results, too :)
Every HN profile must include a real name, verified by legal documents? I think they do that already in China.
No, smoking is great. If it didn’t cause disease, everyone should smoke. It feels good, it looks cool, it’s social but not clingy, and it calms you down. The biggest problem with America today is we all need a smoke break but look at social media instead.
Fair warning that it is under the Business Source License which isn't really open-source. I fully understand why this license was chosen (preventing resellers competing with your SaaS), but advertising as "open-source" is misleading.

Your FAQ also says to "Contact [You]" regarding on-prem instead of pointing to the GitHub, which imo conceals the fact that you can build and run it without a restrictive license.
It's also OS (well, network stack) dependent. The most general answer is that it's possible, but you might need a custom network stack to do it.
I work on Firefox and I cannot believe how seriously people are discussing this. At its core, people outrageously under-estimate how complex browsers are. Nevermind "how fast the web is moving", but even Servo cannot reliably render the wide web correctly, so good luck even writing a clean-slate implementation matching a snapshot of web specs taken today!

"It's one browser, Michael. What could it cost? 10 engineers?"
You can defend on your own HW, using several methods:

-A proxy, e.g. Cloudflare

- A fat link, e.g. 100Gbps Cogent + a good hardware firewall (completely independent scenario)

- Use a GPRE tunnel based mitigation, if you own your own AS number, e.g. by Verisign
The expensive lessons learned from a toxic business partnership
you have to buy a partnership. The firm usually makes you an interest free loan to buy the partnership. Some people bought into arther anderson right before enron blew them up.

The partnership is often the most valuable single asset a partner owns. It prevents them from jumping ship and taking clients. And it acts to hopefully prevent a partner from taking risks that could destroy the firm. Even senior people who might become partners in the near future will not want to put that partnership at risk.

When you retire, they'll buy your partnership out - often paid out over a few years.
I think the core difference is the level of tailoring and the automation of that tailoring. Newspapers, magazines, television, and radio have all had the same incentives in the past, but architecturally the approach was one to many. At first the internet was more of the same, but today social media companies construct optimized engagements for each individual, automatically and very effectively. This is a one-to-one optimization.

Furthermore, social media supercharges the engagement by piggybacking on our social nature - people are usually responding to stuff their friends posted or commented on. This both allows disinformation to be received as more truthful (my friend sent it, why would they lie?) and simply makes it more compelling (I get to be happy/sad/outraged with my friends).

Put it all together and it really is different than before. It's fine to compare it to historical changes in media. I don't agree that it's just more of the same though, the differences make this a whole new animal.
What's the alternative?

I don't know offhand of an open-source captcha library that's nearly as effective as reCAPTCHA. All the old "wavy lines through slanted text" ones are completely broken with current OCR techniques.
> Does M-code serve as a replacement for (the abysmal) VBA?

Sort of depends. M (and PowerQuery in general) is fundamentally about data processing. If you were only dropping into VBA for ETL purposes, then chances are you can use PowerQuery/M instead. With the advantage that it exists in a standard xlsx file, rather than the macro-enabled xlsm files that are more heavily restricted in many environments. It's not intended for more general purpose tasks, nor can it do stuff like interact with the Excel object model directly, so you'd still need to use VBA (or if targeting Excel 2016 and above, Javascript[1]) for that.

PowerQuery/M is basically a sidecar app within Excel, and doesn't have access to nor is aware of the Excel object model. Excel.CurrentWorkbook[2] is just a convenience function available when used within Excel, and it treats data from the current workbook the same as if it was pulling from an external workbook or csv file or web API or any other source. To the extent that even when solely accessing data from within the same workbook and not calling out externally at all, it prompts users with an "Enable External Connections" warning to use. You can then either have the output of that sync to a Table object within Excel (and easily/generally available for use), or made available from within the data model (only available via the object model or pivot tables).

That said, the data access functions[3] are fairly expansive, and you can get pretty creative in how you (ab)use them. For example, Web.Action is one I've abused often: pinging a web service to track usage, triggering external jobs, and exporting/syncing data to an external service. Although those last two uses require a bit of complexity in architecting, to account for cases when it gets manually refreshed/triggered in quick succession or with duplicate data.

> And how similar is it to F#?

I'm not familiar enough with F# to be able to answer that. But if you are, you can probably find out pretty quickly via this[4] article series. PowerQuery/M is used across a variety of Microsoft products, and most resources around it are akin to product-specific "how-tos". Ben's primer series is the only source I've come across that approaches it from a software engineering perspective.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/referenc...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/excel-currentw...

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/accessing-data...

[4] https://bengribaudo.com/blog/2017/11/17/4107/power-query-m-p...
> Implicit type conversions are inherited from C, the language you called "awesome".

It is true that C language has some very limited implicit type conversions. For example you can say:

long n = 3;

And the integer 3 is converted to long. This is extremely limited, and does not make the program hard to understand, which is completely different from the craziness you see in C++.
iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple
> while ignoring the fact that X's 10000 customers seem to do fine with the default configuration.

Do they?

If you've seen the pattern you describe almost everywhere, and the key second steps (well, “customize out of the gate to fit your business processes”) are exactly what the vendor markets heavily, what makes you think there huge numbers of customers who are both not customizing and doing just fine?

I've seen and heard of a few cases where customers use software of that kind and minimize customization of the software and instead try to adapt their business processes to the software. And usually those are at least as much horror stories as any heavy customizers.

Really, as much as it's not in the vendor’s interests, big bang implementation of this kind of software that becomes immediately central to a wide array of business processes is probably a bad idea for the same reason that big bang software system replacements usually are, even when there is no existing software system being replaced. Incremental, iterative improvements to business processes and supporting tools are probably a better idea. But big-bang, notionally close-ended projects are more succinct “achievements” on manager/executive CVs resumes, and no one is courting buyers and giving out swag for continuous improvement.
Yep. 7 million years is a little under 0.2% of the age of the earth.
Dazzling display of logic!
Psychiatrists who have been trained (are there some who haven't?) would be the people to call for psychiatry, but for blessings we'd prefer to go to the source.
South Dakota v Wayfair (2018) overturned the principle that you needed a physical nexus to levy sales tax.
These folks already live in NH so have a NH address for payroll.

The employee would likely have to ask HR to stop MA tax withholding from paychecks (and could file the Form-1 NR/PY to get a refund at the end of the year).

Although I suppose not many people would have predicted back in March what was going to happen (at least to the point of changing their tax withholdings for the year).
Phabricator is pretty good and is open source

https://phacility.com/phabricator/

Some big organizations are using it (like Facebook, Wikimedia Foundation, Mozilla)
Right, it's a kind of bandit problem where you need to choose between exploration and exploitation. Continuing to use the toy that's working is not a bad solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Atul Gawande: ‘It’s not just about keeping people safe’
Well ... it's only a few paragraphs longer and she ends up believing that this incident has taught her empathy.
Please release my rewrite / serialization library for Apache Avro. I wrote it in 3 different languages for Amazon when I worked there, and went through all sorts of discussions to have them release it, and they refused for no meaningful reason that I could see.

The only reason I was ever given was "we use it and think it is great therefore we won't release it." The implication was "If what you wrote was junk we'd let you release it."

Needless to say I never tried to get Amazon to release any of my software during my time there after that, because the response was so poor.

Edit: If Amazon releases my code, I'll be happy to add a tiny credit to Amazon in Notices.Txt and in no other way be thankful to Amazon.
It is public information though that the US offices are closed and we don’t have to be back until July (it’s called “voluntary WFH” but they won’t even let us back in to pick up stuff we left on our desks).
I'm surprised I didn't see more native German speakers refute this.

First, German is not standardized, and the attempts to (re-)standardize it are, let's say, controversial.[0]

Even within Germany there are vast differences within the spoken language, mostly but not exclusively by region. The written language is more uniform but that's also a bit contested. I'm not a linguist but I'd guess the differences are at least as strong as in different parts of the UK.

For example in Berlin you would have the advantage that a native speaker of any form of German can pretty much understand the natives when they talk amongst themselves. You would not have that luxury in Swabia.

Second, the idea that this presumed standard crosses borders is... well sorry but it's absurd. Ask any Austrian or Swiss-German. Or even read their newspapers.

And finally, English is rapidly creeping into unofficial-but-official German. For example they routinely say "Vaccine" in the news instead of "Impfstoff" now. I could go on but I guess it's off topic.

German is a living language, and an international one, and as much as Duden might have been a guiding light to my generation it's not that for the kids at all.

[0]: (in German) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_der_deutschen_Rechtschr...
Thank you. Just the news from that time was so shocking. I can't imagine being caught in the middle of it.
If I do this, will they lock my shadow profile for 30 days?
> I think most people don't have the deep suspicion that everything they may know might be wrong, somehow, and that the phenomena they experience may be explainable in a parallel way that better describes things

I've always wondered why it's such a majority that don't have these suspicions. (It took me a long time to realize I can relate to these 'skeptics' easier and eventually become better friends.) And to drill down into this group: what's the split on whether the suspicion truly never occurs to them and whether they've chosen to ignore the suspicions and be obstinate their entire lives.

Re: casually exploring philosophy through novel or film. Sadly I do think it's just a fact that it's an angle of entertainment and the only exposure to philosophy people get in the 21st century.
I guess I'm assuming design services aren't taxable anywhere else either since it's not a physical good but yeah, maybe should look closer just in case. It's never even crossed my mind to be honest.
Great work. My money is still on the wall on whether localized chemotherapy will be as/more effectivr, but you've been as systematic as can be and it's worth a shot to test in humans. Glad you used syngenic models instead of xenografts.

Ive been out of touch in this, could you clarify what is the current scientific consensus on the role of immune responses in chemotherapy efficacy vs. direct killing? How does your approach fit into that model?

Further,Could you comment on the immunogenicity of the tumor model you used to test the drug? It's a cell line from the same strain but it's still a line with probably a ton of mutations. Have to tried to establish tumors with more benign cells (or spontaneous tumor models ) to see if the efficacy can be matched in such scenarios as well?
Her description of recklessness, impulsiveness and lack of remorse seems to fit well with antisocial personality disorder. Self-aggrandizing is usually seen as a major trait of narcissistic personality disorder, whereas APD (or sociopathy) is typically more inclined towards deception and manipulation for personal gain.

Hence, sociopaths spend a lot of time lying to and manipulating other people. Detecting lies might very well be easier for someone who lies a lot themselves: "Don't bullshit a bullshitter."

With that said, from what I understand of these various personality disorders, it's a bit of a floating spectrum of classifications, so traits and symptoms can overlap.

Edit: I agree, of course, that the whole text should be taken with a tablespoon of salt.
My concern is that I will file the New Jersey return and pay taxes on the money I earned while working and living there, and file the New York return and ask for my money back since I don’t live or work there, and if New York denies the refund, I’ll be paying taxes in both states.

It’s unclear at this point whether New Jersey will let New York claim all this taxable income or whether New Jersey will try to claim it for itself (it needs the money too). The tax rates are pretty similar in both states but my preference would be for the money to go to the state I actually live in.
My employer's national security agreement with the United States CFIUS requires software development in a data center on US soil where all security controls can be audited at any time by the government. Atlassian's JIRA is one of the tools in use for this. It could be a problem if on-prem is no longer offered by Atlassian.
Oh this looks rad!

I'd love to contribute some design / artwork for packaging if you decide to release it as a kickstarter!

Feel free to reach out to me.
Sony clears up when and how it’ll listen to recordings of PS5 voice chats
I would obviously be upset if my wife cheated. But to me a one night stand with actual sex is less of a betrayal than months of texting, saying sweet things to each other, and establishing true emotional bonds without any physical element. Sex is something that happens, it’s an activity. Love is an emotion and using her time to love another person emotionally is much worse than a brief sexual act. My two cents.
85% of Americans have access to 250 mbps broadband in their local market.[1] Prices for Internet only packages are typically cheap in the US. For example I pay $40 a month for 100 mbps (and usually get 125+ mbps). This price is about typical for the major providers.[2]

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-50A1.pdf
[2] https://www.allconnect.com/blog/cost-of-high-speed-internet
Smartphones? iPhone 3G came out in mid-2009 and Android brought smartphones (and computing in general) to hundreds of millions or billions more price sensitive users
Aside from all the great little jokes--there should definitely be a NIST standard Minion meme collection--the silliest part of this is probably that it's a dedicated PCI-Express card.

Well, that and the idea of permanently burning the, uh, unique design choices made by the web platform into hardware is a little horrifying.
Maybe if we remove drivers altogether, things start to get interesting.

What I want is a race were all the cars don’t look identical.
I think everyone knows the rabbit hole problem that this kind of article is warning against. Especially for beginners.

But as a counter-example:

I've done most of those "types of vim porn" I guess, then moved to spacemacs, then my own custom emacs/evil setup. Always with some similar window manager and command line tweaking as well.

Probably spent a hundred hours on all this kind of thing easily, in a small number of big bursts.

Over 20 years.

During which time I've had a very comfortable, understandable, debuggable and pleasant dev environment that made development, testing, documenting, debugging and planning a thing I can just work on without really thinking about the tools. Switching between the files, the command line, the failed tests, the docs, the repls and the browser tabs as fast as my eyes move.

I don't need to break out that one efficiency-tradeoff XKCD either because while it was definitely mathematically worth it time-wise, there is no question the wins were happiness-wise and not-swearing-at-my-tools-wise (just the project code).

Learning to type was probably a better ROI, can't think of what else is in the ballpark though.
I finally clicked the link instead of reading the comments and was amazed to see it's the extension I discovered earlier on HN and have been using for a while.
When Science Is Pushed Aside
I recently told my manager ‘we have literally never delivered a project on time because of process deficiencies, you expect me to believe the next project will be any different?’, only to be told that we had to deliver this one on time, because it was for a client (all our previous projects were too).

I just don’t follow how that logic works..
Maybe, but they can't condition a benefit on "neutrality." Conditioning makes it viewpoint discrimination, which is unconstitutional.
Interesting read.

> One of the big selling points of VCSELs and SPADs is that they can be created using conventional semiconductor fabrication techniques. As a result, they benefit from the huge economies of scale in the semiconductor industry

VCSEL are the lasers and SPAD are the detectors
how do i see it in your profile?
HTML renderer? Maybe not. But perhaps you could make a FPGA that's good at running whatever bytecode your JavaScript engine lowers scripts to.
Amazon and Microsoft have been trending upward in evilness this past year
F1 made 1,500 horsepower thirty five years ago. If such an unrestricted series existed today, we'd probably be looking at 3,000+ horsepower, 300-400mph speeds, and either a) autopilot features (for faster-than-human reactions) or b) absolutely ridiculous levels of fatalities.
IIRC the water under the bringe is actually behind a weir (to aid river navigation). If the weir was already there back then, they could temporarily open it up and significantly lower the water level.
They are discontinuing the “Server” product, but continuing “Data Center”… which has more functionality at a higher price, suitable for bigger orgs. You might already be using Data Center, and be unaffected by the new announcement.
cough cough METAL ENCLOSURE cough cough

:)