skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I have reading comprehension problems but this article sounds so conflicting and presumptuous. Is it a sales pitch or not? If it is, even when it says it isn't, I would start by looking at Arcan's bus factor, and what refactoring and architectural changes were necessary along the years.

Having no expertise in this field I have no patience for people who write in this style but never got involved in the process. But if they did then I would be more interested in reading why their proposal was better and what can be done now in the living code. Also IIUC protocols are exactly that, places to experiment and learn from mistakes until they get stable and anyone can propose them.

There are many developers who could write a good technical solution but it's the ones who can deal with the ugly politics that make a real difference. There's a phrase about that there but as always if you don't send code your opinion won't do any good.
Kelsey's a great part of the DevOps community - always helping and promoting others and their work in addition to leveling up his own game. I've benefited from every interaction with him for sure, at conferences and stuff - he's super knowledgeable and tireless about spreading knowledge and raising others up. A class act through and through, and I was excited to see the article.
The hiring process takes way too long.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/iot-edge
https://archive.vn/F6LiF
To put Waymo's 7.7/million accident rate in perspective, it would mean an average driver, who drives 13,500 miles in a year, has one accident in 10 years.

In other words, I don't think this is a concern at all. It's similar to humans already and will only get better.

I think economics and scaling are the main challenges and unknowns for Waymo. I hope they will soon finish phase 1 (perfect self-driving in a small area) and start pahse 2 (expand as fast as possible).
I'm sorry, where did I demand that "it" (the system?) meaningfully interact with the text? Also, where did I say it only needs to be funny? I can't find that in my comment above.

Regarding the meaning of parody, the link you provide continues as follows:

Although the intention of a musical parody may be humour (as in burlesque), it is the re-use of music that is the original[vague] defining feature.

In music, parody has been used for many different purposes and in various musical contexts: as a serious compositional technique, as an unsophisticated re-use of well-known melody to present new words, and as an intentionally humorous, even mocking, reworking of existing musical material, sometimes for satirical effect.

Examples of musical parody with completely serious intent include parody masses in the 16th century, and, in the 20th century, the use of folk tunes in popular song, and neo-classical works written for the concert hall, drawing on earlier styles. "Parody" in this serious sense continues to be a term in musicological use, existing alongside the more common use of the term to refer to parody for humorous effect by composers from Bach to Sondheim and performers from Spike Jones to "Weird Al" Yankovic.

So there are other uses of "musical parody" than to satirise (in Greek, "parody" means roughly "changed song") but the name of the system I'd say predisposes one to expect a humorous twist.

But of course I'm not surprised that I have to defend my interpretation of parody in the above paper. It is so, so confusing.

Edit: no, wait- so we agree that the parodies generated by the system in the article are not humorous? They are nonsensical and they rhyme, but they are not funny? In that case- why are they nonsensical in the first place? What is the point of a nonsensical parody if it is not humour? Am I really the one demanding a very strict definition of "musical parody", or is the author deliberately allowing a too-general definition, in order to make their system look like it's doing something it really, really isn't?

I apologise for revealing my deeply unfunny self in this thread.
The whole VACUUM paradigm is the biggest thing that bugs me about pgsql. The fact that it can actually freeze things always worries me. Can’t this happen constantly in the background like modern GCs?
People in this market don't want SaaS because it's a black box you control, they want dependable functionality that won't change.

The money comes from other people already using smart contracts. If you've been stuck on that argument for some time then its time to notice that the ship for your worldview sailed a long time ago.

People that are doing multiple operations with separate smart contracts would like smart contracts that combine that functionality into one. You can take a cut of their funds for providing the service. Simple as that. There are more elaborate examples in sister and cousin threads on this post.
McDonald's helped me establish a work ethic and learn what it means to be a professional and earn a paycheck. I was a shift manager in the 11th grade so I had to learn how to manage people and make sure the numbers added up at the end of the night, while doing homework in the back office, with one eye on the drive through times.

Running a shift at McDonald's required some leadership, you have to be able to work the drive through and clean the bathrooms when the time came. You have to be able to handle any tasks in a fast paced environment. I learned how to be a team player and keep the customers happy. Kinda of the same things I'm doing now.
Would be cool if there is were a way to plug this into git
I'm currently bootstrapping as a YC alumni, and I'm going through YC Startup School. The curriculum is just as valuable for bootstrappers! It's all about validating a problem, getting users, planning your time, etc.

The core curriculum doesn't have anything about trying to get investors. There's one video about what YC looks for in a startup application, but even that's still useful for a bootstrapper (clarity of thought).
Beacon Mode local microservice development pattern
They did apologize, but not for the stuff Howard complained about.

A: You kicked in my front door, walked in unannounced, and stole my TV!

B: I apologize unreservedly. I should have announced myself.
I use Hugo + org-mode for my blog. It’s native org rendering is very good and works well for posts with inline code using org-babel. I agree with what others have said that Hugo can be a pain to configure. My experience is that it’s dependent on the quality of the site template you start with.
Knuckle gestures on Huawei Android are basically the same
Is there something you can point to to make what you are saying more concrete?

My hypothesis (that in NA centric but may apply globally) has two parts:

1. Evolution of startups from entrepreneurs with an idea to an extension of corporate r&d / innovation, where startups are given money to ideate instead of to build an existing product.

2. junk bonds -> dot com -> cdos -> vc funds. Money chasing high yields
Not OP, but I don't think they were making fun of the legitimate issues. There have been plenty of instances of pronoun-related overreactions in and outside the tech sector - see the recent-ish StackOverflow mess for an example. There are obviously many issues, but there are also many overblown non-issues and I don't see much harm in making fun of those.
It's a terrible rule of thumb, especially because it can be deliberately manipulated. I say HN user johntfella maliciously killed 12 puppies, and i heard a lot of other people say the same thing. He claims that didn't happen. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Oh I'm not arguing that he's had an outsized impact on a lot of people, it just felt like he was clapping himself on the back for the entire day.
Wow! Feelings! Feelings! Feelings! Since when have people become like this?
People can work dead-end jobs a long time before getting "called up". I work in "real tech" these days, have gotten to write a book on a trendy technology, have had a hand in multi-billion dollar projects.

Before that I was writing PL/SQL in a remote tropical town for peanuts.

Before which I spent about a decade working a parade of jobs that varied from shitty to crappy in the same town.

It is a normal state of being for many folks that their life doesn't run directly from a fancy highschool to a fancy university to a fancy job.
You do realize you’re saying “It’s not worth including some people,” including those with hearing loss, as if their inclusion is worth less than everyone else.

Inclusive design recognizes that by simply recognizing the challenges the extreme ends of the spectrum of ability may be facing, you can design outcomes that create a better experience for everyone, not just those with permanent disabilities. It’s no harder or even necessarily more expensive to design for inclusion from the beginning—it’s a mindset that leads to better, more inclusive, and more human products.
This what scares me about the polls - that they don't account for Trump supporters being less truthful than the rest of us. Just look at Trump - he hasn't said anything true for years.
I've ever only managed to get two useful workflows out of IFTT: making my iPhone ring from a Google Home command, so I can locate it in the house; and tweeting a link whenever I write a new blog post. So this new payment model just forced me to purge a bunch of crap that was never used or never actually worked. I could probably replace those two workflows too, at a push, with little effort.

TBH I never understood all the hype about IFTT; most of its usefulness can actually be achieved by the services themselves, once they choose to care about integration. The early focus on usability had already gone overboard years ago, when their redesign basically made it mobile-only. It always felt like a typical SV-hype-driven phenomenon, mostly based on short-lived home-automation gizmos, and I'm surprised they're still around - although this sort of move might well indicate they are circling the drain.
It works reliably and is not at the mercy of Oracle - so it's pretty much the winner for relational storage, unless you need something different (doc db, time series db...).
> As an example, "improper enforcement of the law" might suggest that something was enforced which wasn't the law.

No, you can't keep making up new meanings for words. "Enforcement of the law" means that law was being enforced. When you add "improper" in the front of it, it means that law was being enforced improperly. For example, when a police officer harasses a person on the pretext of enforcing the law, that would be improper law enforcement.

> This whole discussion was about whether pindab0ter made a valid point. It's not clear to me you are interested in understanding the point made. Maybe it's easier for you to label it as a fallacy.

If pindab0ter wants to come here to clarify that they actually meant that OP is a valid example of enforcing a CoC, I will take their word for it. Otherwise, I'm not going to entertain "hidden meanings" for the words that they already spoke, I'm going to assume that they meant what they said.
I agree. We’ve also spent the last 10 years trying to make web app behave like desktop apps and they are still not matching.
A lot of people imagine databases that way, but they are complex beasts with a lot of features. Everyone seems to say features don't matter, except of course for the ones that they use. Which is often a growing set as your application matures.

All of these features are exciting to the people that can use them.
C# has non nullable reference types since C#8 which is a step in the right direction.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/embracing-nullable-ref...
Probably the fact that while you listed your preferences you and most everyone else wouldn't bother to pay. Primarily since it would mean making a credit card transaction to an unknown site.

Your options are clearly biased towards the fact that you don't want really to pay anything, either in terms of money or ads/attention.
Is Apple Building Its Own Search Engine?
Are you refering to the gigatons of CO2 frozen in the permafrost and about to be released with the melting?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/arcti...
Similar story for me (I also do full stack web dev professionally aswell), but with hugo->Jekyll.

Hours and days struggling with getting Hugo to do what I wanted until I gave up and had a Jekyll site up and running exactly how I wanted it within a few hours.

Who cares about saving 5 seconds site generation time when you lose days pulling your hair out just trying to get the damn thing to do what you want?

I've never felt that site generation time has been a problem for me, although I've only worked on things with 10s-100s of pages, not thousands... But then part of me wonders who it is out there who is doing site-wide updates to x,000 page sites who needs it to happen in 2 seconds? What kind of workflow on a site of that scale can't wait 30 seconds?
For what it's worth I find these criticisms have little value. If your brain is so big that you find reading Quanta beneath you then why are you reading Quanta at all? Just read Arxiv or Nature or Physical Review D and shut up.
Going 3D is a huge limitation on what kind of mechanics you can do. Decent was reasonably popular, but showed how much difficulty many people have given full freedom in 3D space. Sonic style fast scrolling or precise platforming games really don’t translate well.

VR is even worse in that respect as people get seriously disoriented much more easily.
May I ask why were you bothered by it?
It'd be hard for it not to be yet remain consistent with observations and conservation laws.

Depends what you mean though. Define "computer".
The question is about the transition, not the length of time before software programming.
I'm long on BP, they have adopted a green energy transition plan.
Ooh, permanent lock in to a single company’s bill by the second mainframe! How exciting!
4-way intersections in the US have always bothered me. Roundabouts are a much better solution.
But Jaeger, as an example, will let you choose what back-end engine you want to store your traces in. There is no need to reinvent the wheel just for tracing. You can just leverage what is already out there.
Please report them in the SF311 app or at https://sf311.org/.

They won't pay you any money, but they're very responsive in my experience. Things usually get fixed.
I hope you are right.

But from your link : is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods.
This was a really good article, and thank you @jerodsanto for submitting it. I learned probably 6-7 big things about Postgres reading it that I didn't know before.

I won't list out those things, because, I'm sure it wouldn't be relevant to most people reading this comment. :). But, there are a couple things I noticed that I do want to mention:

> There were these edge cases in there, where it’s kind of like less safe. And Postgres was there, and it had a reputation of being just rock-solid, consistent, and more strict with your data

> "... I never had that moment where I’m like “Oh, Postgres, you screwed me over.”

This is a huge deal, and, IMO, the reason to choose Postgres over MySQL. MySQL has some horrendous defaults. You can make things a little better, but, AFAIK, you can't even get to where Postgres starts out of the box. Most of that consists of MySQL being extremely permissive with what it allows you to do in your SQL. Many of those things are non-standard, and some are quite unsafe. Postgres not only
prioritizes safety, it keeps the application developer honest.

It can be a little complain-y, but I'd rather have my database complain than do stuff that could lose data. One great example is when you try to stuff more characters into a text field than it can accommodate. By default, MySQL just truncates the string silently; Postgres just doesn't allow it.

> PostGIS is a huge one. It’s a whole geospatial database.

This is the other point I want to call out. I've had the pleasure of working with PostGIS before. The main thing I'd want to say about PostGIS is that, although there are issues working with geojson and GIS in general, PostGIS doesn't exacerbate any of them. Generally speaking, PostGIS is about as pleasant to work with as a geospatial database can be.
When it comes to energy sources and military tech there has never been "free" market anywhere in the world.

US will support oversized oil industry for a long time after renewables are on par with hydrocarbons. A matter of national security.
I love that quote. Reminds me of a similar one by Taken, I think. Basically that many seem to think they can get the end product without growing it.
I actually think the hyperlink on Instagram thing is a conscious decision to limit people doing stuff like just posting news articles, and is a critical part of what makes Instagram feel very different than other platforms, in the same way people sometimes claim Twitter's decisions on short content affects its community (for better or worse). Like, I 100% agree with your point of companies limiting interoperability, but just not that example (and actually maybe also don't agree it has to do with smart phones: I bet a lot of this walled garden BS would also happen if everyone stayed on the web, and I feel was in fact already happening before apps became a thing).
Only in the Senate. The House of Representatives is single-member electorates.
> Are you talking about the Haskell one?

No?

I'm responding to the idea of the 'colour' of functions and suggesting how I think it should be in Ruby - all side effects transactional, but IO irrevocable. Drop the idea of TVar and make all mutable locations transactional.
So, looking back from 2020, did Backus oversell it? We aren't there yet but it still looks like the right direction to me.
> On the software development side I learned enough COBOL to port some of our mainframe jobs to Python. I wrote packed-decimal libraries and EBCDIC encoders so we could use Python going forward to process batch jobs. A big deal in the payments industry.

Great read, but as someone else who has worked on mainframes and in Python I found this especially impressive.
Yep! Doh.
I don't agree with your reading of the question. I feel like "rather large 10 year gap" is fixating in part on the length of time.
I agree that it feels like the language maintainers are backed into corners and cannot correct old mistakes.

Which feels strange coming from Apple. Google showed up to use this with Go, write a tool that updates the code from version "x" to version "y" instead of being beholden to source compatibility issues in situations like this.
Link to the actual disclosure from Project Zero: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=21...
And not only Africans: pre-Columbian civilizations did that to each other too. You don't become an empire just by handshakes and agreements.
I see. Thank you for explaining. The case you describe didn't come into my mind. Nevertheless I doubt counting is important. Some reps less, some reps more, I believe the feeling you always feel when you've done enough. Or you can set a timer - it's not the number that matters, it's the time you spend under the load anyway.

On the other - the way you do an exercise, small details in your posture and the sequence of changes in it - that's what decides if what you do is going to make you more fit/strong, have no effect or just cause pure harm. It's extremely important (at least, in the beginning) to have somebody qualified to watch how you do it and correct you. Many people prefer to train alone though so they need such an app.
Or perhaps ancient virus and bacteria stores.

https://www.google.com/search?q=permafrost+bacteria&oq=perma...
Just curious, was there any sort of poll taken of your user base prior to implementing the API to determine a rough idea of how much desire there was for it?
This looks great. We’re very much fed up with collaborating on Jupyter notebooks. Sadly my team can’t use Deepnote yet because all our datastores are behind VPN. Is there a future where we could run Deepnote on our own AWS instances?
I like roundabouts too, but which choice is most appropriate depends on circumstance. The US is big and spacious, which makes spending extra on roundabouts not too appealing in many places. And in some circumstances four-way stops flow more traffic.
Many of those Tweets reminded me how much I've grown as a person. Those Tweets reminded me that I made the right choice treating everyone with respect and in some cases helped them in their own careers.

It was my way of saying thank you and hoping those stories would inspire others and bring a little joy to their day.
TxO’s First Cohort: Cohort Alpha
I hereby condemn anyone who downvotes my comments, for they clearly are not kind and deeply hurt my righteous feelings. Can I doxx and cancel the downvoters too? Please....
> I don't know if the Tuesday Morning Group at UT is still active,[...] but it was rather well known and its members produced a great deal of what is now "theoretical computer science".)

*Tuesday Afternoon Club [0].

[0] https://www.cwi.nl/about/history/e-w-dijkstra-brilliant-colo...
> Professor in the mathematics department of the Eindhoven University of Technology from 1962-1973. (As I understand, the "external funding" thing is less of a problem in mathematics. Also, I have no idea how tenure works there.)

Back then, i think full professors were appointed by the Queen. (Certainly so for Beatrix, but he became a prof before her inauguration)

Being appointed by the Queen made it really difficult to fire you - one of the reasons (I was told) they stopped this practice.

Moreover, back then research funding worked very different from how it works now in .nl. Actually, I have some idea of how finding worked from the mid-90s on... but I've read that prior to early 80s, in .nl, most PhD students were part-time and not employed by the university.

Not sure how accurate that is. Irrespective of its accuracy, it's clear that academic life had changed drastically since then. (In .nl at least)
Don't let Uber get away with it
Note that 'Animats didn't comment on JS as a technology, he commented on the crowd.

In 2017 Bryan Cantrill gave a wonderful talk titled "Platform as a Reflection of Values: Joyent, Node.js and Beyond" https://vimeo.com/230142234 In it, he talks about how even though they liked JS as a technology, they came to realize that the values of the JS/Node.js community differed from their values at Joyent.

In the talk (at around 19:30), he identifies that in 2014 Joyent's core values wrt node.js were "debuggability", "robustness", and "stability"; while the core values of the broader node.js community were "approachability", "expressiveness", and "velocity". And there's nothing wrong with either of those sets values, but they're not the same!

With that lens, I'd characterize the parent comment as contrasting the PostgreSQL team's core value of "robustness" with the Javascript crowd's core value of "velocity". That's a distinction in values, not in technology.
This is because of the pandemic and people are literally dying.

Not from SARS-CoV-2, which is also directly causing deaths, but from the world's economy collapsing.

But they are mostly the real poor people that Twitterverse doesn't care about, so meh I guess.

Non blog spam -

https://www.reuters.com/article/exxonmobil-layoffs/exxon-to-...