skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've all had a program crash from a stack overflow. The problem seems to be that instead of the "serverless panacea" they were promised, the code they built can now only run on one of many Google servers, none of which are theirs. No way to kick the tires at all.

It honestly reminds me of debugging a Jenkins pipeline. Something that was designed to be super generic of a runtime but yet the tooling can inexplicably only live on computers that are not your local development machine, and all of it is maximally painful to stub or test or debug to seduce you into "just running it live".

It's like the opposite of the "small agile team" thing they were talking about. If your program requires 7 API keys and some cloud environment to do a test run, I want no part of it.
The consequences are detailed at length in the original post.
>In 2019, there were more than 389,000 computing job openings but fewer than 72,000 computer science graduates to fill them.

I see this in many fields, where a job title or field is casually paired with a degree title to estimate 'demand'. It's not very good data--I mean, what is a 'computing job', exactly, and why does it automatically require a computer science degree?
I put the spotlight on Twitter, it's a source of the news, contains reaction to the news, and it's populated by the same culture as the journalists.

So it's a quick and easy way to write stories to a guaranteed audience.

Of course the decline of print newspapers and online advertising etc is at root.
I know, I was being sarcastic.

In the short letter sundar says "we need to accept responsibility for the fact that a prominent Black, female leader with immense talent left Google unhappily".

It's beyond me how anybody could interpret this as dehumanizing or painting her as an angry Black woman.
Do you mean, like creating a bubble of plastic fed from below where surface tension holds it in a shape like a bubble? And then letting it harden while in that shape? Does the air pressure you talk about mean blowing a stream down onto the lens?

And then, no further polishing is necessary? I'm fascinated to learn more if you have a source to read more from!
you can't compare tumbleweed with fedora since fedora has "major releases" and a support window.
tumbleweed is basically on the edge (with transactional-update support) i.e. there is no "system upgrade"
There's a difference between pathologically high complexity functions and Turing completeness. Sub-Turing languages generally don't allow recursion or unbounded loops - your program is always making progress. Solving 3-SAT doesn't sound like it precludes sub-Turing completeness, since you'd have a finite number of solutions you're iterating over.

It's still useful for a config language because it makes it harder to accidentally make a config that (in practice) never terminates, and usually allows for easier static analysis and refactoring of the config files through immutability and purity.
Housing in LA/SF is not expensive because of Airbnb or “evil Chinese investors” or any other random boogieman the media is trying to scare you about.

I’d put them near the bottom of the list of “things that make housing expensive.”

At peak, there was about 20-40k listings in greater Los Angeles on Airbnb.

There’s roughly 19 million people in greater LA. Average household size in the US is 2.6 ppl. Let’s round up to 3 and be generous.

That means there’s roughly 6.3 million households in greater LA. Even if 100% of those Airbnb’s are suitable as full time residences (its probably more like 30%), the 20-40k units wouldn’t even cover a single year of newcomers to greater LA (yes, the core is shrinking but the greater metro is growing).

The main (key word) reason housing is expensive is due to geographic and local government restrictions on zoning and development which chokes off supply relative to the number of people who want to live there. Not some silly web app for millennial travelers.
As a kind of reverse of this, I once had a Google App Engine site with a reasonable $300/day limit on it. We ended up getting a bunch of international news and usage spiked massively (hooray!) and I tried to update the limit manually only to find out I had to wait 24 hours before the new limit applied.

This mean losing a TON of new users :(
>Windows/IE

I keep having Apple users explain that Catalina is better than Windows 95. This seems in a similar vein.
I'm surprised to hear you had such a bad experience with mount--it's always struck me as one of the greatest exemplars of what Clojure allows you to do that would be impossible in Java. Managing fundamentally stateful components was always a nightmare for me in Java and Java-related languages: you'd never know which class was in charge of initializing what, would always be tearing your hair out trying to keep track of when you can assume certain components have been successfully initialized, etc.

With mount on the other hand, you tell it how to start and stop the component (and stores a reference to the component in the same var where you specified this), keeps a reference to the component in exactly one place, and then it automatically makes some reasonable assumptions about the order in which they need to be initialized, while allowing you to opt out as needed. Re: your example of finding a reference to the db, shouldn't it just have been in the var set up by a call to `defstate`? (Also, which web framework was it? Luminus?)
You can get free or very cheap health insurance in most of the US if you have low or no income, including if you're bootstrapping a startup. "Most of the US" means the dark blue states in [0] plus Wisconsin.

[0] https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-med...
Deploy Postgres Operator to Azure Kubernetes Service
> You can't have it both ways. If mail-in voting feels crazy, the 2016 election where like 25% of eligible voters voted by mail should also be considered invalid.

And those before. It's like most things are done in a way to make it possible to fudge results.
Doesn't look like there's any cutoff mechanism there, and it's a separate, optional step instead of part of the setup flow with a mandatory opt-out warning.

Nor does that address the other complaint - Google (and possibly others) seem to be willing to extend an unlimited credit line to all customers without any prior vetting for ability to pay. That's crazy.
Even that can be finagled by paying yourself a below market salary and signing up for Medicaid.
> Libertarians have their own party separate from Republicans.

Yes, pretty much every conceivable ideology in the US [0] has its own party (or more than one!) distinct from the two major parties for those adherents who don’t understand the futility of third parties under normal circumstances in the US electoral system, or who care more about ideological purity of association than acheiving policy goals through the political system, or who think that we are on the edge of a party shift where their preferred party could plausibly replace one of the two major parties (its happened twice before in US history, your party could be next!).

That doesn’t mean that many of those ideological factions that have their own parties don’t also have substantial (often, much larger) number of adherents within one, the other, or sometimes both of the major parties.

[0] For instance, a non-exhaustive list for the other factions I’ve identified as substantial Republican constituencies:

(1) Social/religious conservatives: Christian Liberty Party, Constitution Party

(3) corporate neoliberal capitalist: Unity Party, Moderate Party of Rhode Island

(4) American nationalist: Constitution Party

(5) White supremacist/nationalist: American Freedom Party, American Nazi Party
I don't what partisanship has to do with anything here. This is just an extremely important issue. You're arguing for a position that will lead to hundreds of thousands more deaths within months. That may seen like the nuanced, "complicated" position to you, but to me, it looks like fiddling while Rome burns.
I've seen the numbers that say to grow 1 pound of almonds you need almost 16000 pounds of water.

But the actual almonds are only something like 6% water by weight, so when that pound of almonds leaves the farm for some far off destination it is only taking about an ounce of that 16000 pounds of water with it.

What happens to the other almost 16000 pounds that does not end up in the almonds?
Alright, it isn't exactly eugenics, it is one step removed from eugenics. Telling people how many children they can have is one step away from telling them who they're allowed to have them with.

> So what is there to prevent some people from having 10 children, every generation, until the system collapses under their weight?

The fact that if they can't feed those children those children will die and the standard of living of their other children will be significantly reduced. Natural economic pressure handles this problem already.

>You say that people with increased access to education and health and such naturally reduce their birth rates. That may be. But I think it would be only a matter of time before they got selected for impulsivity, high libido, inclination to adhere to the parents' religion that says to maximize children, or whatever other traits would lead to a bunch of people actually having tons of kids they can't support.

That's more speculative than anything I've said so far, everything I've said so far has a historical example to reference. Even if that were to happen, not bring able to support the people you create means reduced standard of living, and therefore reduced resource consumption, at best. Again, the problem is self correcting.
It still looks rather complex but if it can actually enforce a budget, that would be great.
Is this because they switched to the new radar view? Just throw it away and keep the old one running.
Thanks for this. I hadn't read that since the time I wrote it.

you're right, it is pretty sad.
The snark was uncalled for indeed.

But keep in mind that there are legal definitions of some things, and those often differ greatly from the colloquial definitions we use from day-to-day.
She was apparently on vacation anyhow at the time.
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Do you not legally cheat on your significant other? I'd imagine you are a cheater too.
How could they fail society? They have no formal expectations and it seems they are meeting what informal ones currently exist.

Not to mention they are comprised of society - is society failing itself a better question. I think in some ways we are failing, but identifying the true root causes will be difficult.
What devs really want:

* Easy simulation of networks between cgroups.

* A mechanism for splitting a ulimit across kernels.

* Hot swappable kernels and kernel tuning parameters so machines can be quickly re-configured.
You are right that the legal owner has the right to install whatever they want.

However Apple is under no obligation to do the work to build a mechanism to help them do so.
A $100M investment will fund the largest ‘virtual power plant’ in the U.S.
That is an interesting counterexample. I apologize for perhaps not being clear.

My question is specifically how would you (the person I'm responding to) would react to a hypothetical New York Times opinion piece stating that PornHub in particular and no other hypothetical website, has never had illegal content or child sex exploitation material knowingly or unknowingly. I'm not asking in broad terms, I'm asking about what your response would be to this individual article.

I am not asking about trees or apples or cancer. I'm asking about a specific instance of your reasoning in regard to this single subject. Just the one single hypothetical question with a very narrow scope.
I wonder why there wasn't a push to move a lot of the logic onto servers? That's obviously an oversimplified solution but presumably there should be some way to take stuff like localization, payments, etc. and push them onto a server application?

This isn't a rhetorical question. I imagine there's a well thought out reason why that wasn't considered.
I find it hard to compare Chrome to IE.

Except for their similarity in its market share dominance, they are nothing alike really.

Chromium is open-source, developer friendly and progressive. The Old IE is just not the same
Probably not. I think what would stop you would be the mountain of regulations required to be a payment provider and tie the networks required for ACH and other types of transfers. And then of course, you need the relationships with all the other banks and so you are really back at square one. Now you are in the same position Mastercard is in.
Companies don't need to steal water in the US, they get it for free or subsidized:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/23/pepsi-coke-b...
People who knew it is what it is right from the get go. They didn't do any bait and switch.
Herd immunity will be reached at a percent of the population being infected. What percent that is depends on a lot of factors, including the rate of infection (R0), the length of contagion, etc. Nevertheless, herd immunity will be reached at less than 100% infected with Covid-19. I'm not saying that it will be as low as 60%. I highly doubt that. I'd say closer to 80-85%, as a guess based on my simplistic math. I'm no epidemiologist. Then again, neither are you, I'm guessing. :)

Months ago there was a fascinating link on HN that had models you could play with to adjust all the variables in a simple model. You should find it and play around. I'll try to find a link when I can come back to this later.
Anthony Fauci offers a timeline for ending Covid-19 pandemic
This is great feedback and I will implement.

Thank you.
I use DuckDuckGo myself. The issue isn't that no alternatives exist (if that were the case, it would be much clearer that Google had a plain and simple monopoly). The issue is that Google can unilaterally kill or make other businesses through their search. For example, they can use their search dominance to push everyone into Chrome in order to kill Firefox (even as they pay Mozilla and Apple to keep Google as default search).

Google's search dominance is under threat from competition, but they do enough anti-competitive stuff to keep their dominance that it's an issue.

Maybe a big step would be just to block Google from paying Apple and others to make Google the default. I don't know. Probably the more impactful would be to separate the Google search business from the Android stuff. The benefit Google has from tying those two together makes it really so much harder for competition to gain ground.

If you want a pretty neutral balanced view of the issues of anti-trust, Planet Money did a good little series on how overreach in the past led to excessive caution and underreaction now.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/704426033/anti...
So I'm an indie game dev and I have experimented quite a bit with the previous version of AR from Apple and the biggest issue was of game design.

Making a game where people have to sit in front of a table, or stand, or hold the device up, is very restrictive and instantly makes you niche. You get more of a potential slice of the market making a cool 2D puzzle.

The tech was cool, worked reasonably well until -A- you moved a lot -B- low light. But unfortunately the market is about playing on the toilet, in public transport; or playing late at night in bed, in the dark. None of which really worked with AR.

As far as I see this going, it's still is looking for a "killer app" (I hate that term).

My best guess is we'll see this used a lot more in a business environment and even then, glasses are a far better approach (hint hint, hold on to your whiskers).
They also save a lot of money in cashier hourly labor. At least the ones that don't keep launching into "Please wait for assistance." mode every time you accidentally scan a fruit instead of entering its PLU code.
My relatively conservative organization would never choose a new Linux distribution to replace CentOS, especially not one with a cheeky name. CentOS has a long track record and is well-trusted. I wish the developers all the best but if CentOS is gone, I suspect we’ll be discussing migrating to Oracle Linux (egh) or even Ubuntu. Rocky Linux will not even be discussed as an alternative.
I see no problem with this, so long as the CME also allows futures contracts based on the chance of at least one CME board member being assassinated in a given month.
No. It's true for every epidemic except extremely fast-moving and long-lasting ones. Covid is not that.
Maybe I'm paranoid but even when you're a single person business it's always better to have some warm bodies around you on the About Us page. Especially if you're a B2B. Single person companies automatically require a lot more scrutiny as a supplier in a lot of procurement departments.
Hudson's Bay has become a mediocre seller of everything. One of many that just ignored Amazon as it rose.

It is unbelievable to me how little challenge Amazon has faced as all their competitors just quietly lie down and die.
Nope....
Is access to legal counsel a right? Or at least a fair trial? That's not free either. What about the right to an education?
If for you life before and after Uber/Airbnb are the same except with different middlemen taking a cut, we live in such different realities I'm not sure how we'd ever have a productive conversation. Airbnb has made a huge difference in my life, by letting me use a short-term rental to decide if I wanted to move to a different city. They built something real, and I'm ecstatic they did.
I'm not trying to say you are anything not sure why you are taking it as an attack on you I was just stating that those people exist in Texas and aren't a quiet minority. I live here I have reference.
> A Web Story is a full-screen visual storytelling experience that conveys information with images, videos, graphics, audio, and more. It's perfect for users who want bite-sized, visually-rich content.

Better Intro: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/start/vis...
> You state those preferences as if there's no possible way they could be provided while allowing competition.

Modifying the software so that it permits third party apps makes the software worse - more complicated, less simple and clear.

So I don't want that.

> but followed a very clear set of rules that dictated what was allowed and not, and took a well defined fee to review apps

What makes you think whoever does this will be more benevolent than Apple, though?
Might still be a net win for the store if the theft is less than the cost of employing a human cashier.
Well, it's not like it was different at any point of history (unless you consider the most primitive civilizations.)
You need to play around with a simple herd immunity model. You'll see what I'm talking about.
That can't be true, privacy protection is only possible in a walled garden? So I can't get privacy on Linux? Even on Tails?
You should read Stephen's blog here... he covers the highs and lows very honestly and eventually went back to a corporate gig despite making some really cool stuff: http://treasureadventureworld.com/
The underlying idea here is that the velocity of money has dropped significantly; each dollar is changing hands less often than usual, so you need more money in the system to facilitate the same amount of commerce.
Intersting. could you elaborate ?
The animated displays are miserably slow to load and don't perform very well. I'm in the habit of using the radar lite version of the old system, which has the whole gif loaded fast enough for the first loop to not be delayed.

On the new site, the base map tiles start to filter in after about the same amount of time, along with a few pieces of the first radar frame.
Let's be realistic.
You are a team of a few persons, using a 'starting' free plan.
How great tools and ux could lead you to not have clue on what they are doing and being able to incur a so high cost by surprise?

Also, for example, in which world is it nice to have your service "auto upgraded" from "trial" mode to 72k "full billing" mode without your consent first?
"Fascism" is interchangeable with "authoritarisnism" in common usage, and the comment I was responding to used it in this manner. Strictly speaking I suppose it is authoritarianism, not fascism.

Managing populations does not have to include killing people. China's one child policy strictly and explicitly prohibited couples from having more than one child. You're softening the definition of what I was responding to to discredit my response.
Not strictly. Downstream GPL users do not need to publish their changes. Businesses and individuals can get GPL software, change it for their own internal use and keep the changes private.

GPL's upstream features are incidental and often practical but are not the point of the GPL and more importantly do not describe how it works legally.
Not that Elon Musk doesn't have plenty of flaws that people online will be happy to spill much ink about, but what does that have to do with widespread poverty on a national level?

Does the US not have a government and state-level and federal-level representatives whose job it is to take care of their citizens and keep them out of starvation? Elon Musk and his pals seem like a convenient distraction from holding accountable people whose job it is to protect their constituents.
Empathy helps to understand how others think and feel
Could be worse, e.g., any prior point in time on average ...
Different expertise.

I'm guessing you are neither?
The most serious breaches of privacy have been made by governments with backdoors and not some script kiddies... Either way, nothing will be taken away from you if another app store is available. Just continue using the Apple app store as you did before. You're taking away the choice of others just because you feel yours is best.
Not turning left in leafy suburbs would mean driving a few miles to make a riskier U-turn just to make a right. So it definitely would be counter productive if it were a strict rule.
Yeah, sorry. I was just comparing to DynamoDB, I have no comparison between Fauna and Postgres.
Another thing that might be playing into the increased shoplifting is that a number of district attorneys are not prosecuting property crimes, especially things like shoplifting. Thus police have no incentive to do anything about that. Thus people know that they can get away with shoplifting so it is likely to go up.
Installer.app and Cydia were before Apple App Store?!
I am one of those people, AirBnB enabled me to travel the world, especially to places I would have never thought to go because I always could fall back on AirBnB for support (and I have, as lousy as it sometimes can be)
Yes, but there is no reputation system attached. Having a strict reputation/review system for both hosts and guests creates strong incentives on both sides for quality rentals and well-behaved guests. No one wants a bad review.
Me too. Moved back to Seattle after spending years in San Jose partly because I didn't want to deal with decades of drought.
It's worth being aware of its shortcomings, as even its 25 day forecast has been shown to be no more accurate than climatological averages.[1] They also have done some shifty stuff in the past regarding data privacy, among some other weird things.[2]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AccuWeather#Criticisms
Older patients 23% more likely to die if surgery occurs on surgeon's birthday