skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the concern stems from differing contexts. When typing on the phone, you're looking at the phone. You're usually (hopefully) not driving.

Driving, on the other hand, is demanding on the senses; on at least three of them. Touch screens pull eyes off the road. Physical knobs are much easier to grab without looking.

In my car I have the luxury of both touch and knobs for some things. I always use knobs when I can. It feels safer. (But then, I also prefer crank windows instead of automatic, so maybe I'm just a nut.)

It's like my Macbook touchbar. It stinks. The physical keys were easy to use without looking. With touch, I almost always need to look steady at it before I touch. For me, muscle memory isn't enough for touchscreens. Weird.
To be slightly more accurate, the public relief got stuffed into the rear end of an end-of-year omnibus spending bill. The CASE act provisions also happened to be stuffed into the bill, along with many other things. The resulting bill was over 5,000 pages.
If it only wasn't dog slow and chewed up memory when working with large files. Large files often force me to go back to cygwin.
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But what if a type which you need to serialize wrongly doesn't set the limit?

EDIT: I see your point now, thank you for explaining
State control of the means of production is a common (though not unique) definition of socialism, is it not?
Yeah, it also annoys me when people assume that all of 4chan and 8chan is /pol/. 4chan has plenty of blue boards like /sci/, /g/, and /tg/ that are relatively decent if you can tolerate shitposting, trolling, and bants. When people write racist stuff, a common response is that they should go back to their "containment board". 8chan used to let users create their own boards, and there were plenty of inoffensive ones. On the other hand, I do think 8chan's /pol/ was just so terrible that it made 8chan overall a definite net-negative for humanity. Even the site's original founder has disavowed it at this point. I also agree with you that mainstream sites like Facebook have their own problems.

But still, whenever I see free speech platforms, they tend to attract a majority of far-right users. I think it's because they're the ones who most often get banned from mainstream platforms and need to find alternatives.
You're attacking a straw man of your own invention here. In casual use (like above), "psycho" means somebody acting in a bizarre or dangerous manner, eg. trying to buy all the toilet paper in the store and not taking "no" for an answer. Nothing to do with actual mental illness.

Obviously the etymology of the term comes from psychological illness via a certain famous Hitchhock movie, and that's one reason why the term du jour these days is "Karen" instead.
How America Bungled the Plague
More of the same:
https://www.levenez.com/unix/other/
"Not only were the various teams all competing for the same deployment resources, it meant that every time an "Incident" was declared, several teams' code had to get rolled-back; and, no team could deploy while an incident was being managed."

So, how exactly did switching back to monolith solved the above problems? Seems to me like your actual problem is in QA and managing releases than application architecture whether it's towards or away from microservices. What I'm hearing is that you decided to fallback on relying on people to not push broken code out to production. Which is fine and all but what are you going to do if your team grows again? Rearchitect the system into microservices? A little heavy handed don't you think? In your particular case, I think, be it monolith or microservice architecture you need to work more on improving QA and streamlining releases. These, once automated, don't depend much on the number of developers. I've experienced this with a team of 3 as well as a team of about 15 (not 30 though). I don't think that the application architecture has anything to do with your problems one way or the other.

Having said that, if the late night calls stopped after this exercise, then that's fine because no one should have to go through that!
Seems as though it would go both ways.

Scientists have career-advancing reasons to have their opinions and research--whether confirmed by evidence and peer reviewed or not--distributed by the media. And the media has incentive to amplify concerning or controversial information.

What's tragic is that these hypotheses or conjectures are being used to make public policy decisions that affect millions or billions of people. And it seems that public servants and officials lack the scientific aptitude or inclination to truly understand how solid the data and conclusions are before acting on them. Or, perhaps more cynically, the officials know the conjecture is unverified but--being accountable to a public who will likely not read beyond the headlines and who will believe any article that starts with "Scientists find ..."--are forced to take action purely to hold the appearance of doing something.

Regardless of the directionality, I agree with the parent that 2020 is demonstrating serious flaws in the relationships between the scientific community, journalism, public policy makers, and the public.
If I was a shareholder of FAANG (I'm not), I wouldn't be very excited about them taking on very unprofitable tasks like solving humanity's urgent problems.
> An unauthorized third party had access to a portion of our e-commerce and marketing database through an API Key.

Running a business selling hardware wallets, customer information should be considered as an overwhelming liability and not loosely thrown around for marketing purposes.

Ledger fully deserves any fallout from the breach for running this show like every other amateur-hour operation Bitcoin has seen since its inception. The fact that their product is actually decent will be their saving grace.
And this is why the right-wing is so up in arms about private sites booting them off their platforms. Because if they have to start their own i.e Voat, Parlor, they will find that they don't have the necessary tech and financial structures to run such a site. So by fighting to stay on Reddit and Facebook, they can freeload off of the other parts of the sites that provide value and can support the marginal cost of their white supremacist subreddit/videos.
Again, I'm not saying there shouldn't be a default limit. I'm saying the limit should be per type, not for the whole serialization.

It can be something as trivial as "PSHashTable is allowed to serialize without limit. Every other type is limited to N levels, unless the user sets `$SERIALIZATION_LIMIT[System.Type]` to some other value." Or make the `-Depth` parameter a `Dictionary<System.Type, int>`.
Is your home dir chock full of namespace folders?
i don't understand how this is something to be proud of.
Why I suddenly felt like voat is a psychological science experiment?
Journalist says she fell in love with Martin Shkreli while covering his arrest
> is there any competitor that has even 25% of the charging network that Tesla has?

Well, EVgo claims to be the largest DC fast charging network in the US. I don't know if that's true, and I don't know if they're excluding Tesla's proprietary network. They claim to have 800 fast charging locations, and I think Tesla is a bit over 900. Tesla has more stations per location, however, I'm pretty certain of that.

Collectively, I think there are more non-Tesla DC fast charging locations than there are superchargers, and the gap is expected to widen significantly over the coming years. Tesla had a great head start, though, so they command the mindshare. And some of the standardized DC fast charging stations have acquired a reputation for unreliability. But ... superchargers break regularly, too.
A Pandemic of Misinformation
I'm sure a simple algorithm could fake book spines based on the dominant colors in the cover. Could maybe even train a ML model if you want to really over-engineer it.

e.g. how the Android app "Blackplayer" colors the music player UI based on the album cover.
The point about Apple excluding themselves is complete bullshit.

Apple explains explained what they track and asks users to opt-in.

They have already been doing this.

All they are doing now is requiring other apps to be similarly opt-in.
SGI machines had capacitor banks in the power supplies large enough to power the machine long enough for the kernel interrupt handler to park all of the hard drive write heads. It turns out that the voltage required to keep the write head writing is often less than the voltage required to keep RAM from corrupting. At least for a time, XFS journaling correctness relied on the kernel being able to prevent garbage writes on loss of power.

There used to be big caveats to using XFS on non-SGI hardware. Though, I think those caveats were roughly "XFS guarantees aren't much better than ext3/ext4 guarantees on power loss, on non-SGI hardware".
Why do they spell phishing with a 'ph?' An unlikely homage
Wow. No reaction here. At all.
I have a lecture about the Sona designs online, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlXkAB2ijN0
There are a lot of similarities between the Chokwe approach to these designs and George Bain's suggestions for constructing Celtic Knots in "Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction".
I think you may underestimate the potential scope of a domain model and the capabilities of SQL. It is certainly math. That is actually the incredible part. That its all just math underneath 20 different joins which express a very complex and meaningful view of the domain facts.

I challenge anyone to present a problem domain which cannot be meaningfully represented in terms of tables in a database. I would prefer if this were bounded by the set of problems you would use any software development strategy upon, but I welcome a more difficult problem as well.
Literally every single legal system on the planet accepts at least a few limitations on speech when it infringes on the rights of other people. If that is authoritarian, then everywhere is authoritarian.

I don't think you'll find too many people who think fraud should be protected speech, for instance.
That layering takes place only in the densest urban core, primarily around significant train junctions. In the rest of the sprawl, there's no separation, some parts of residental greater Tokyo (particularly those still using pre-war streets) don't even have sidewalks.
Hardware based wallets kept offline until needed I suppose. Makes me wonder where banks keep their money...
I think I started in ~2007? I left shortly after I graduated in 2010. My username is based on my actual name if that helps. I've bumped in to a few people from that place over the years, always a pleasure. Hope you're doing well, whoever you are :)
I must admit I feel that same dread. While I appreciate your intent, I'm not sure it helped.
And politics have infected every single discussion. Nowadays it's cool to be partisans, decades ago a teenager talking about politics would be dismissed with a "get a hobby, nerd."

It is an absolute disgrace how it's become normal. Or that mine is an unpopular opinion nowadays.
> FB approaches internal code development with the same data driven rigor as their business decisions. Everything is measured, so I knew for example that the slow build times I was experiencing were slower than 99% of everyone else. Easiest hardware request ever.

This is a natural consequence and trade-off of having a top-down directive of which tools/languages/frameworks to use. That just doesn't happen at Amazon.
You could spend ten minutes debating whether the growing bright light and rising Doppler sound exactly matches the expected profile of an oncoming train.. or you could just get off the tracks. Here absolute fact is only clear when the effect is so strong it's too late.
Thank you. My wife worked for the Special Olympics for several years, and we were privileged to meet so many wonderful athletes in the program. I doubt a single one would think this usage of the r-word was appropriate.
Buckfast, I really like it and so far I’ve found nothing quite the same in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine
When it comes to cars, TSLA is following AAPLs iPhone story and they are around 2011. Note: cars have a longer shelf life. 20 years vs 6 years for phones. And typical turnaround is more like 10 years vs 3 years. Apple and Android dominated the phone industry in a decade. TSLA and “the second OS/UX” will dominate that industry in 30 years.

Everyone now understands that Tesla will not just be another competitor in the automobile industry they have usurped the throne while everyone else was guarding the doors.

There needs to be “an Android” to counterbalance and unite the industry. Otherwise automakers that don’t partner with “the second OS/UX” will dwindle and stop existing. Eg BBM, Nokia, Palm. Meanwhile, Samsung was an early adopter and is holding strong (counter example HTC, also an early adopter but dead).

Like HTC vs Samsung vs Motorola vs Pixel, there will still be competition for best manufacturing and performance. Automakers that adopt the unified OS/UX, will need to make sure they don’t lose that game like HTC.

If the players in the auto industry don’t see this, they have already lost. Meanwhile, it might not be AAPL to make the unified OS/UX. However, they were willing to do it with Apple Card and insurance. Partner with Goldman or (whatever my iPhone loan thing is) and provide an amazing UX. They also have tons of consumer trust and it helps get their foot into the auto market, getting the benefits (Siri, iOS apps, Maps, self driving) without taking on the risks.
A handy guide to check if healthcare is a free market:

1) Can you buy medicine from whoever sells it cheapest?

2) Can you hire the healthcare provider you want?

3) Are you financially punished for choosing your own health insurance?

4) Can you opt-out of government health services?

5) Can you waiver or partially waiver your right to sue the medical professional in exchange for cheaper services?
Bonafide German here. I don't think we could have achieved something so insidious.
Which means you have to track the people enough to determine that they pay...
Why doesn't the pay-up-or die model apply to food or shelter?
> Guess what? I drive a white model 3 long range AWD and I love it. I'm still 1: an engineer with 10 years of hardware experience and 2: skeptical of every ounce of BS Elon Musk has ever spread.

0) Blue P3D AWD + Blue 3 AWD 1) 30 2) Right there with you, but that is a red herring.

It would have been sufficient to clarify that you held the opinion even about electric
cars, without the histronics and name calling. You may be right, because cars certainly are complex.
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> Every single thing I watch, it suggests The Queen’s Gambit and two other random Netflix productions.

I always assumed those three were human selections, not part of the recommendations.

Like the paid ads on top of your search results.
Eero (wifi mesh system).

Sudafed.
@riantogo, bruceb has done you a great service here. This description is great and made me understand what your product is. Use it!
Thanks, codesnik -- good tip!

My favorite tool in this area is `lnav` (https://lnav.org), a scriptable / chainable mini-ETL with embedded sqlite.

Oh and tiny correction (intended as helpful not nit-picking), the idiom is "back in the day" not "back in a day". :)
I can assure you that only in the instrument cluster and the central console area you have the same amount of complexity as in a smartphone. Now add the rest of the car.
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Ditto. So much vibing with your comment, and this post :)

I spent a few years co-organizing a weekly "civic hacknight" event for technologists, designers, policy wonks, public servants, lawyers, and any engaged citizens who cared to show up. Trying to target each of their needs with a single sort of presentation felt like a red herring. We'd have 40-120 people, pitching and/or joining community projects, we'd change venues every month, and we'd have a "warm-up" speaker and pizza to loosen up the vibe (no more than 20-min, incl Q&A). http://civictech.ca/

The unstructured formula is really powerful imho. At its best, it emulates the power of open source, where you don't try to anticipate who's the teacher and who's the student -- you assume everyone is both, depending on which part of the room they're talking to, and how loudly :) In my view, you just need to protect and amplify that fractal nature of the space, allowing it to operate at as many different levels as possible: individual self-intros to the room, the time-boxed room-wide presentation, the open-floor for pitches before work-time, the informal non-pitch convos when ppl don't join groups, the two people catching up together in a corner or on the walk to post-drinks. You protect it all. You don't let the people who love the speakers turn it into a speaker series (even when the calibre of speakers maybe makes you think they deserve more time). You don't let the hackers dismiss the people who just show for the speaker, or who just talk and don't work. etc etc. You protect and advocate for all levels of interaction, and don't valourize one over the other

So much can happen when you design events that resist collapsing the possibilities of a space into a single narrative through-line -- if you preserve a point cloud for sampling by all, instead of pretending you can thread a single story through it. Single narratives are what you build for dosing into individual human minds when you have a set outcome or goal, but it's not what we should foster when we're trying to do computation on difficult, undefined and complex systems.
Yes I agree completely. The recent TWiV has some great discussion on this between this new variant and that ridiculous "sars-cov-2 is reverse transcribing into the human genome" preprint. The scientific publication process and science journalism has always been somewhat broken it just rarely had serious consequences, now it's another broken system the pandemic is shining a light on.

I think the media has a real problem with reporting uncertainty. What's interesting is that there was a collective effort not to jump to conclusions and be careful when reporting on the presidential election. They showed they're capable of restraint when they think it's warranted, but with the pandemic they can't help but reach for the "Because of [unproven report] [consequence] is very likely" formula.
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Uhh, nobody gets cited for jaywalking in rural Texas. Also Australians find Texas small and cute: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/aust...
Estimates are by nature probabilistic. Saying "two weeks on average" means something like: 20% it is one week, 60% it is two weeks, 20% it is three weeks. And that assumes you are already pretty good at estimating! Most people are not.

This is by sleight of hand changed into a commitment to make it in two weeks, 100% sure. Then, 20% of time, developers are blamed for not fulfilling their committments or not estimating correctly. But they did!

If the most important thing for you is getting your commitments done with as high probability as possible, have a three-week sprint, but estimate only for two. Even this will fail once in a while, but less often. And maybe let developers work on the tasks of their choice in the remaining time. Autonomy, yeah!

"Two weeks on average" literally means it could be less but just as often it could also be more. If it is always two weeks or less, then it is not two weeks on average. What if it is always exactly two weeks, not a day more or less? No, that level of precision simply does not happen in real life.
> By "functions" here I mean "pure functions".

After programming for Clojure for quite a long time (~2 years), I fully share this sentiment. Using pure functions for business logic (and also using simple data structures instead of, say, classes and encapsulation) seems to generally makes the code more simple and maintainable in the long run.

> Of course the qualifier is "mostly": this isn't a dogma. Writing a 100% functional system ("going vegan", if you will) often requires you to jump through a bunch of extra hoops to get all the functionality you need.

Also this. Sometimes going fully functional makes things much more difficult, so a little of "impurity" is also fine.
I am guessing it was a blog about this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07805.pdf
"Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models"
As I recall the “misinformation” label was erroneously applied, heck even the “Russian disinformation” trope was walked out to suppress some pretty damaging factual information this election cycle.

These systems are just outright abused for political purposes. It’s just gaslighting to claim they serve some higher purpose.

I don’t think it’s illegal for platforms to censure information for obliquely political purposes, but I personally find it extremely distasteful.
Facebook will never change the way they serve content as long as their business model depends on it.
I recently switched to Fastmail after finally getting paranoid enough about Google arbitrarily snuffing out my account access. I have been very happy with the switch 4 months in.
I’m curious why three call sites isn’t sufficient. Any time I find I have three instances of the same non-trivial logic, I immediately think of whether there’s a sensible function boundary around it, and whether I can name it. If I can, it’s a good candidate.

Obviously for trivial logic that’s less appealing. And obviously all the usual abstraction caveats (too many options or parameters are a bad sign, etc) apply.

The risk with so much duplication is that if the logic is expected to remain the same, even tests won’t catch where they diverge. To me that’s just as risky if not more with internal call sites than with clients, as at least client drift will be apparent to other users.
Problem domain = Shopping, Banking, Coffee Shop, Factory, Airplane

Dimension = Customers, Accounts, Users, Widgets, Inventory

Higher-Order Logic = combining basic functional building blocks in order to compose more complex functionality. SQL enables direct, declarative access to the whole space of higher-order functions. E.g. You want the list of widgets made 3 quarters ago but scoped to one factory line, and only when a certain rotation of employees was on the factory floor? You got it. That's like 10-15 lines of SQL.
Nor do I, but it's worth noting that these sites would go out of business or have their revenue severely impacted or force their customer base to offset the financial losses in order to stay afloat.

If you don't browse sites that do this tracking, then you shouldn't care either way about this whole FB/Apple controversy/dispute.

If you do browse these sites, get ready for the potential of a major shift in those sites' business model.
And despite all that, some people on here are talking about... performance issues? Gross.
But the point is that "fake book spines" is the wrong answer no matter how they're generated.
Yup. Apple is closer to Ford and GM than it is to Tesla. Tesla is highly vertically integrated, and probably moving more so. Apple is much less vertically integrated. They design their products, but all their manufacturing is like others -- kinda like Ford and GM.
> In practice, "free market" as a historically implemented policy has meant "remove all oversight and revoke any protections or governing laws and thus legalize all business practices (such as scams, collusion, price fixing, market manipulations) regardless of ethics and hand the legislative pen to the business leaders to write their own laws.

The rule of law is important for free markets and breach of contracts needs to be punished to have a vibrant market.