skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're happy CockroachDB users.

Can't put my finger on why, but this report comes off as almost pure marketing and not very substantive (say compared to the Backblaze reports). Maybe it's because I had to give an email (mailinator) with no option to opt-out of marketing emails to read it. Maybe it's because it seemed to try to paint all three as winners.

We run CRDB on baremetal. I'd love to see how that stacks up - but I guess their managed offering is a major money maker.

It's a shame because there's clearly a lot of effort put into it and I love the work they're doing (and how they do it).

I will say that, as a non-cloud-believer, I'm much happier dealing with Google Cloud than AWS. It's straightforward and doesn't require nearly as much vendor-specific knowledge. The console is more user-friendly, and things are usually cheaper and faster (but still so much more expensive and slower than just using a dedicated host).
> You think they want to help developers. But this justification is weak.

I think a developers expectation would probably be that if they upload an app to the iOS store, and explicitly say they don’t want users to be able to use it on their laptop, that users shouldn’t be able to use it on their laptop (either by installing it normally or via side loading).

Why should some workaround to this be allowed just because “it’s quite complicated so users won’t expect it to work”. Making things intentionally difficult and unreliable isn’t exactly what Apple is known for... It should either be allowed and simple to do, or not allowed at all.
It’s not that mathematicians have no clue of astrophysics, but that they aren’t working in that area and understanding the field enough to contravene decisions made by astrophysicists.

There’s a rationale around what is, and is not, included in case definitions and included in dashboards. It’s likely that these decisions are made by epidemiologists with not only specific training, but also access to much more data than the person who builds the dashboards.

Making a decision to include data in a visualization without understanding why is not a good idea because it’s common that people think they know what numbers mean, but only because they have limited visibility.

Having a degree in data science doesn’t mean that I’m a data scientist. If I’m hired in a web dev role, then I hope my input is received well and considered by epidemiologists in charge. And I hope they’d be able to spend time explaining the rationale behind their decisions.

This seems like a similar analogy where the build engineer decides to change the git repo because they know better than the dev team. Then someone reading the article says “well they have a PhD in computer science so they should know what they’re doing, it’s simple.”
Yes. Why not give the Mueller report a read? Annotated versions are widely available, e.g. [1]. Alternatively, or perhaps additionally, give Sarah Kendzior's Hiding In Plain Sight [1] a read. It is a quick but exceedingly well-researched and well-documented read which neatly summarises the travesty that the Trump administration has been.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/read-t...

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250245397
Vanta at least made me sign a separate contract with the auditor, so I’m not sure they’re making money on the difference. The policy docs indeed don’t seem very closely scrutinized, and I’d prioritize the service that can automate more for you. Vanta provided its own client monitoring application which exists alongside JAMF and seems to cover the same controls.
“Critics mass” of whom? VS Code is very disappointing, given the hype. Can you give an example of something in the VS Code ecosystem that can impress an Emacs user enough to switch, beyond chrome?

Chrome will always attract crowds, of course.
Yes, that seems to be the much more concerning aspect of this vulnerability.

Without that, this vulnerability seems to only let you create local unprivileged user accounts which isn't such a big deal.
Was a .NET programmer a year ago. Tests regularly took more than several seconds to run, so it wasn't feasible - the feedback loop was too high.

I'm a web developer now (Ruby on Rails), and I rarely do TDD. The feedback loop is quicker, but I still end up not doing it, and feel guilty for it.
In this media climate? What an aberration!
Not necessarily set-up time, but either constants can reverse the roles, or the fact that CPUs are hardly complex and the model most often used in analyzing algorithms is more simple and doesn’t map too well to things like caches, branch-prediction and the like.
Why Using Cassandra as a metadata database for an object store is a bad choice
This didn’t happen.
This is a smart phone practice. It's not acceptable or done anywhere else. Smart phones are terrible computers that say they have to restrict their users to protect them from themselves but they consistently fail to do so.

Something like this doesn't happen, and would not be acceptable, on a desktop computer.
What you describe is a perfect example of what I think of as frugal vs cheap. The cheap person goes for the lowest immediate cost. The frugal person goes for the lowest long term cost.
Will it receive an "update" from the supreme leader some time next year?
Since appeal to authority is the only hotness nowadays, you can anticipate 2bn downvotes.
Proper interpretation of even the simplest data is easy to get wrong. For example, I routinely see smart, well-informed people describe the number of Covid deaths reported in a day as the number of people who died of Covid that day.
> Literally all of her research involved gathering and communicating...

Pedantically pointing out that, literally, this is a false statement.

It’s ok to accurately reflect her work and that advanced degrees are hard without assigning incorrect and hyperbolic characteristics.
What is the law that sending an anonymous messages saying "be a hero" breaks? It seems at worst to be spam and a raid for spamming a small number of people seems very heavy handed...
>> Anecdotes are not data.

Yes they are. The singular form of data is datum, not anecdote.

A personal experience is a data point. A 2nd hand story may well be an anecdote. "I have this and use it for that" is very much data in this case.

Is it enough to make product design decisions? No. Should Apple throw it out as an outlier? I would argue no - to think one person is a special snowflake with a unique problem is a mistake too.
The vscode marketplace also provides a link to download extensions as a vsix file on every extension page. So if the extension isn't on open-vsx I just download it directly and install it.
I don't think "convenience" is a value for the buyer of a consumer good any more than "going downhill" is a value for the designer of a roller coaster. It's just easier.
I agree that using such a pigment for a small number of art objects would certainly be justified, like also the use of gold in art objects or jewelry, instead of its more valuable technical uses, for which there are no alternatives, e.g. in protecting electrical contacts from corrosion or in semiconductor metallization.

However, if instead of using this pigment in a few valuable paintings, it would be used in a high number of ephemeral sketches done for practice, that would be a waste.

Nevertheless, the high price at which the pigment has been launched is good, because it will probably deter casual use.
This is a weird post. Yubikeys are absolutley the solution here, also a password manager. A decent password manager will check the URL for you.
Swatting first of all is a crime. Secondly yes, you do need to comply, even if you are innocent. Otherwise you will get shot.

Nobody is denying it's government overreach, blatant disregard to our rights, and breaks the 4th amendment. But wool should've been over everyone's eyes like 10 years ago. The US acts no different than China in how the state allows government abuse of power to fuck you bureaucratically. Unlike places like Germany where the state compensates you for your time and money if they can't prove your criminality, also reserving your job as well unless convicted; The US just says fuck you but only with slightly more rights than China gives their citizens.
I do admit VSCode is a very polished product. Just like the other tools I mentioned (PyCharm, Kaleidoscope for diffs, Tower App as git client etc).

What makes Emacs different - when you look beyond the simple looking interface - is the possibility to make the packages
/ plugins work together not intended by the original authors by creating hooks that change the return value of the packages, and you can tie together the tools by writing Elisp scripts.

As to where to start: There are many young and ambitious hackers who are re-developing Emacs + Lisp for creating their custom dev / hacking / writing environment, and who create wonderful youtube videos. Magnar Sveen started doing this several years ago (emacsrock.com), then there are (among others) Protesilas Stavrou or the channel of "System Crafters".

When you prefer reading books: "An Introduction To Programming In Emacs Lisp" from Robert Chassell is excellent for learning the basics of Elisp. Mickey Petersens "Mastering Emacs" is excellent. Harley Hahn's Emacs Field Guide is recommended as well.

Also, r/emacs and r/orgmode are excellent communities.

Give yourself time. Don't hurry. Emacs is a tool that will keep your company in twenty years from now, when all the hyped tools are long gone (Textmate users moved to Sublime, then some of them to VS Code, who know's what's next?).
As if SpaceX has delivered anything that isn’t: a) (effectively) government funded and b) built on the back of decades of NASA engineering effort. Blue Origin hasn’t actually done anything.
You are right. They are using a certificate that is not signed by a certificate authority included by default in web browsers.
Apple has a patent on scrollbars. There's no avoiding that legal nightmare.
Emacs has great interactive tutorials built in: C-h t and has a great info system and help functions: C-h h
also: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
There is really a lot of excellent documentation built in and the source code is very easy to find and read.
I think it would be helpful if you let us know why you believe it is obvious.
tl;dr

He thinks the updated aircraft is great.

But he also thought the old aircraft when great in 2018, in the configuration that crashed.

"...I thought it was a great flying machine back then and I think it will be better than ever after its return. Was the aircraft as well designed as it could have been? Perhaps not, but then in no human endeavor is perfection ever achieved."
Do we really need the derogatory remarks in the first place?
The 12" MacBook was a fantastic computer. I used one from 2016 until a few weeks ago. However many of the (perfectly reasonable) compromises that Apple made to build this tiny 12" ultraportable also ended up being applied to the rest of the product line, where they just don't make much sense. Specifically the 2016-2019 MacBook Pro were really affected by this.
> The cops aren’t wild animals.

Sadly, when you give people a stick and tell them they are allowed to beat other people with it, at least some of them tend to start behaving a bit like wild animals. It’s sad, but seemingly unavoidable.
Compared to today, when I see Win9x & WinXP I feel a strange bit of innocence and how simple it was back then, both for individual developers & industry as a whole. (kinda difficult to articulate what I want to say)

May be its not the Windows but 90s & early 2000s ... don't know.
Default Opt-In: You want more kolaches
YouTuber runs viewer-submitted Python code to light up 500 LEDs in Christ (cont)
The time between the emergence of procaryotes and the eukaryotes is estimated to be about 1 billion years. Last time I checked the Universe is thought to be 13.8 billion years. That’s just one order of magnitude between these two numbers. I don’t think it’s inconceivable that we’re the first intelligent life form.

The life itself might be an extremely rare event. Multicellular life might be where the first great filter is.
Fighting against the state is like skipping boulders on water. You're gonna need a massive amount of momentum behind it to get it to work.
BTW we have spoken before. You are the developer of Smitherene, the only other ActivityPub implementation in Java other than my Quanta platform.

Your code was very helpful to me getting my impl working!
I still have no idea why Lex Fridman is an interviewer of any sort. His grasp of grammar and superb lack of vocabulary paired with a constant stoner monotone make him unwatchable for me.

How does he keep managing to snag such illustrious guests?
Then you aren't going up. Rockets are massive tanks of explosives flying through the air at supersonic speeds. That person is there to protect the people on the ground. Launch escape systems will protect the crew, but given the energies involved, the crew is less important than the potential for killing hundreds on the ground, or potentially thousands onboard a cruise ship.
In the authors' defense, these don't appear to be slides at all, but rather a PDF version of what could be a printed document. However, whether the document would look good in print is also highly debatable.
Nice, I’ll check out poetry.

That’s great that some of the virtualenv functionality made its way into the standard library!
Rust will never do semantic changes.

That’s a feature.

If you want languages that introduce semantic changes and break your code, you have many options to pick from, C++ being one such language in the same space as Rust.
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler, Toby Ord

> "This result dissolves the Fermi paradox, and in doing so removes any need to invoke speculative mechanisms by which civilizations would inevitably fail to have observable effects upon the universe"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
> Maybe it’s because it seemed to try to paint all three as winners.

Compared to the rest of the market, AWS + Azure + GCP are all winners. They’re all huge, all growing, and all outpacing the growth of traditional non-“cloud” hosting providers by a long shot. They’re also all greatly beating out any other cloud providers who aren’t them, e.g. IBM Cloud (nee Softlayer.)

They’re essentially dividing up the hosting market together, like any good cabal.

Compared to the growth all three of the big cloud providers are experiencing, the relative growth margins they use to claim that one of them is “the biggest” are basically noise.

To put it another way: I’d much rather invest in all three of them, than in just one of them.
Agreed. It probably should have occurred to me before, but a lot of the Wacom and Huion drawing tablets with screens use HDMI for display and some kind of USB for input. Obviously that would be better if they were upgraded to thunderbolt models that could do both, but that would of course require another $1000+ upgrade for those users on top of the laptop.

Of course the real question is how much more quickly does thunderbolt get adopted when nobody's Macbooks have HDMI, which is probably one that Apple is asking themselves. They've never shied away from pushing industries forward to accommodate them.
This resonates with me. I've long said that if we are to launch any kind of significant space-faring civilization, we will need to some extent to become a different species, through cybernetics & drugs or genetic engineering (probably a mix).

Our current biggest challenge is to make ourselves 'smarter' (i.e. less susceptible to the biases baked into our DNA). Otherwise, it's likely only a matter of time before we cripple ourselves into an extended Dark Age or worse. Constant setbacks resulting from too many of us having ignorant, emotional reactions to incomplete stories with insufficient facts means we're all dancing on shifting sand. It's not a good foundation upon which to build a durable interstellar civilization.
Stay Away from Amazon Web Services (AWS); They Cannot Be Trusted
>Since when is 7 important though?

Since one moon phase takes that long.
Or, maybe the "community" (if there is one) is fed up with framing the entire discussion along the lines of Free vs Open, which clearly hasn't helped with anything. At least it hasn't helped to keep Linux sane (what's the use of it when it's being pulled into vendor-dominated directions a la systemd, gnome, and k8s?). Nor has it stopped the mass enslavement of business, users, and devs into "The Cloud". Nor has it stopped Linux to become world's largest spynet (Android).

GNU started with the goal of bringing free/open alternatives to a Unix/POSIX-like user-space, dev tools environment, and operating system, out of a sense of freedom and a strong distaste towards playing to the tune of big players. F/OSS was never about innovation, so with Linux and the (shortly later opened-up) BSD being excellent alternatives in the mid/late-90s, where's the noble goal today, when F/OSS is abundant "on github", and cloud providers are taking advantage of it?
>Seriously? You blame me for using the very example you brought up in the first place? Well, that's a new low.

My very first comment was not about Parler but in general. Which you keep misunderstanding.

You also seem to not understand the difference between the ideal of free speech and the law. When I'm talking about free speech I'm not talking about the government.

>Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The term "freedom of expression" is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

Nor is the definition of freedom of speech mentioning anything about the government.
I relate. There is no universally valid way to measure understandability and any note can be subdivided so many different ways.

> Each note should contain a single idea and should be understandable when reading in isolation.

It's really a guiding principle. Unlike index cards in filing drawers, markdown with wikilinks allows for infinitely long notes and a low cost for context switching. you can choose whatever balance of note size/quantity you want.

In my markdown-based second brain built originally in Obsidian and now in Dendron, I have around 350 notes with what is probably a Poisson distribution of sizes. The important thing is that jumping from note to note costs very little.

further, if a note warrants splitting, now you can do it as fast as you can think it. The founder of Dendron aptly describes this as a part of the amoeba pattern: https://dendron.so/notes/e780000d-c784-4945-8e42-35218a3ecf1...
> Joy was the inspiration for min :)

Right on!

> min is actually mainly an interpreted language, BUT it can actually as of recently be transpiled to Nim (which in turns generates C code which can be compiled), so you can actually create executable files from min, which is pretty cool.

That is pretty cool. I just started learning Nim and I really like it so far.

> ...the following Nim code gets generated. As you can see, it's mostly just pushing items on the stack :)

It looks like you're sort of compiling the interpretation?

The last couple of days I've circled back and got some work done on compiling Joy code. (I'm using Python as the target language. I'd like to use Nim, but I don't want to learn that at the same time as I'm trying to write a compiler; with Python I have a lot of experience and the surprise factor is low. I know where I'm at with it.) I've just now got it to the point where I can compile (integer) math, binary Boolean logic, and loops and branches.

Example:

ᅠ?- compile_function("gcd", `true [tuck % dup 0 >] loop pop`).

def gcd(stack, expression, dictionary):
stack = True, stack
tos, stack = stack
while tos:
(v1, (v2, stack)) = stack
stack = ((v2 % v1), ((v2 % v1), (v1, stack)))
stack = 0, stack
(v3, (v4, stack)) = stack
stack = ((v4 > v3), stack)
tos, stack = stack
(v5, stack) = stack
stack = stack
return stack, expression, dictionary

true.

As you can see, the generated Python good is not good. (E.g., it calculates "v2 % v1" twice for no good reason.) But it has the qualities of being correct and I-didn't-have-to-write-it! :)

(The compiler code is written in Prolog. It turns out that Prolog is so good for writing compilers that it's faster and easier to learn Prolog and then write a compiler in it than to try to write a compiler in some language you already know!)

This is messy work-in-progress code at this point, but if you're interested...

My notes start at line 697:

https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun/tree/3b96f60f61f0a34928b9ee7...

THe code starts at line 995

https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun/tree/3b96f60f61f0a34928b9ee7...

ANyway, still to do includes: better connections from step to step so the Python code isn't packing and unpacking the stack variable like crazy. Reuse "free" variable names (right now it just generates new vars as-needed, which is fine, but it keeps the values around until the end of the function call. Maybe they could be GC'd earlier, I dunno.)

That's all pretty straightforward, the tricky bit is handling all the meta-programming: as you no doubt know, a lot of Joy functions work by combining args with function fragments to make new functions which are then evaluated. For example, consider this (kinda silly) function:

[dup] cons i

It's silly because it's equivalent to just "dup", but it illustrates the problem: how do you compile this function (or less-silly ones that work with the same meta-programming style)?

I suspect that you just have to include the interpreter and make "dynamic" calls to it from the compiled function (or include the compiler and JIT compile.) What do you think?

Cheers!
> Yes.

I don't have a deep interest in the topic to read about it. I just wanted to know the conclusion. I'll take your word for it, thank you, thats all i needed to know.
https://youtu.be/aB8zcAttP1E?t=4439

How the fuck do you honestly utter a sentence like this and expect not to appear like a 15 year old stoner still in High School?

I don't even dislike him as a person, I'm just concerned for his mental health at this point. He seems to be really struggling to out sentences together in a coherent fashion.
I would add that the non-language mental (visual) model each of us builds (in mind) of the world, in this moment, is both similar and different from other's models.

War and Peace is like a textual Xray of Tolstoy's brain, some of it being descriptive of what he saw while writing it. If our models are similar enough, together we'll see the same things he saw while we read it.
The question is will it grow in the right direction? Org-mode, magit and a pure terminal interface (can run on remotes through an SSH sesion) are still missing. Still love the ergonomics of vs code.
I'm just one data point but thanks to "courage" I hardly ever use headphones on my iPhone anymore. I never have the lightning earpods with me, and it can't use any of the random headphones I had stashed in various useful locations. Bluetooth headphones don't really fit into my life either. Thanks, Jony.
Some people think the same about the Basajaun [1], a big, hairy hominid from the Basque mythology. The myth says he taught humans to use (some) tools (or humans stole tools from him). Keep in mind the Basque language is so old and rare [2] it's not connected to any Indo-European language.

Of course many also think the same of Yeti, Bigfoot, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basajaun

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Basque_language