skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a neighborhood nearby that I often go for a walk on. It was built probably immediately after WW2. Most of the houses, if you look closely, are of identical design. (Sometimes a mirror image.) But over the years, they've diverged as the owners would add garages, bedrooms, expansions, etc. They're nicely done, and it's a charming neighborhood.
Congratulations on shipping this release! Cross-compilation and lite binaries are fantastic features and will finally let JS/TS devs ship CLI tools!
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yes, I’ve encountered that in other people’s projects with increasing scope

I architect my own projects to not need more than a simple data store and scrap ideas that dont fit that archetype
No, browser extension's can't. From their overview:

>HOW TO SET UP

>For security reason, Google has made a policy to not allow webpages to read-write local resource on hard drives. So we need an integration between the Chrome Extension and File System (Windows Explorer, Mac OS Finder) using an external software. To install both, just follow the simple steps described in http://www.vnprodev.com/browser-extensions/local-explorer-in...

On a different note, Chrome "apps" historically have had higher access that allowed some file access (I forget the details), but as far as I can remember extensions have not had any ever. Though since you can communicate between apps and extensions, it was possible to install both and work around it a bit. I'm not sure if that has changed since I last toyed around with this though (it has been a couple years at least).
One goon per voter then?

That is an awful lot of goons, goon payments, goon logistics, etc...
Yesterday in the Java thread I mentioned having done some Java 1.4 stuff in 2016.

The customer was running Red-Hat Enterprise 5.0, and it was going to stay that way as long as Red-Hat would be willing to support it.
Sure ... but it is going to make the crypto market bubble even further ... nothing like millions of bored people sitting at home with extra cash on their hands.
That's essentially like asking "how is it that human feet can walk up mountain slopes, but car wheels can't?"

That is, there is no relation between human brains and artificial neural networks, other than them serving similar purposes in particular environments.
> 1) ...300 million people

The urban density matters more than the country's population
If one had to troubleshoot a bad standup meeting, how might you turn one that feels more scripted into one that feels more natural?
In some cases, the outside world hadn’t settled on a standard when the code was first written, or it wasn’t that good yet.
Bitcoin Core never did checkpointing in the sense of skipping prior history. They merely required a particular block at a particular height.

Not fully verifying history is a complete departure from how things are done in bitcoin full nodes.

And Bitcoin Core removed even those checkpoints [1].

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/75733/why-does-b...
There used to be a place in Mountain View called Weird Stuff Warehouse full of systems of all eras.

Walking down the aisles it filled you with both fascination and melancholy.

They would sell exotic yet thoroughly obsolete $10,000 SGI systems, and also semi-obsolete $20 add-in cards for $1.

It was sort of like a cross between the great pyramids and the star wars trash compactor.
Next time you might want to back up your claims with some actual quotes. Greenwald's assertions about the misuse of the Espionage Act are well documented, cf. causa Assange to just name the latest example, so it would be helpful if you could provide some evidence on why he's wrong.

Also his point about Obama having used the Act more than any other president is simple fact.
What’s the best plan for a radical new workday?
ACID transactions, validations & constraints, and the ability to debug/log by dumping your data to disk which can then easily be queried with SQL.

All of the same reasons you would store relational data in a dbms...
No need for that. There are plenty of countries with physical land used to launder money.
> Most wines don't handle the abuse of an open day well.

I've had a wine that, although initially intended as a cooking wine, tasted fantastic 4 weeks after opening it.
Unless a state legislature has created an entire government organization with staff and rules to oversee mail-in ballots for corporate entities, I don’t see how this anything but an apples-to-oranges comparison.

They don’t have the infrastructure that a state brings to bear to oversee a fair election, nor are there laws to protect the integrity of mail-in ballots for a corporate election. It’s just disingenuous to compare the two.
Retired at 30. Well done good sir.
> why even bother with expensive devs?

Because you get what you pay for. I am yet to hear of any cases where in the long run outsourcing development to a low-wage country actually saved money. Competent engineers generally follow the money and emigrate. Why earn $10k a year in India when you could earn $100k in the USA?
> Our survey
evidence says that about 25 percent of all full work days will be supplied from home after the
pandemic ends, compared with just 5 percent before.

25% seems reasonable to expect given not all jobs are suitable for remote.

Personally I think this is a tiny change compared to the changes coming with AI and automation.
Making friends in a new city is really hard even without covid.

Anecdotally I found meetup helped me out a lot. After a few weeks of awkward gatherings I finally found people I clicked pretty well with. Forcing yourself to go is hard though.
The idea is that you can scale different parts of the system at different rates to deal with bottlenecks. With a monolith, you have to deploy more instances of the entire monolith to scale it, and that’s if the monolith even allows for that approach. If you take the high load parts and factor them out into a scalable microservice, you can leave the rest of the system alone while scaling only the bottlenecks.

All of this is in the assumption you need to scale horizontally. With modern hardware most systems don’t need that scalability. But it’s one of those “but what if we strike gold” things, where systems will be designed for a fantasy workload instead of a realistic one, because it’s assumed to be hard to go from a monolith to a microservice if that fantasy workload ever presents itself (imho not that hard if you have good abstractions inside the monolith).
We have an retro automatically if we have a production outage. This doesn't mean its an everyone must attend in-person meeting. Most of the time its just a writeup.

Otherwise, a lead or multiple senior engineers just exercises their judgement on when something serious enough happened that the team needs to be aware of or act on.
Core models of Artificial intelligence: Discrete to Continuous(book3)
Evidence of differences between continuous Bernoulli distribution and bats distribution

[link](http://vixra.org/abs/2101.0082)
Frankly, many engineers want to use the latest trends like microservices or NoSQL because they believe that’s what’s best for their resume

The sad thing is, they might well be right.

People used to not get hired for a job involving MySQL because their DB experience was with Postgres, but usually more enlightened employers knew better. Today, every major cloud provider offers the basic stuff like VMs and managed databases and scalable storage, and the differences between them are mostly superficial. However, each provider has its own terminology and probably its own dashboard and CLI and config files. Some of them offer additional services that manage more of the infrastructure for you one way or another, too. There is seemingly endless scope for not having some specific combination of buzzwords on an application even for a candidate and a position that are a good fit.

I don’t envy the generation who are applying for relatively junior positions with most big name employers today, and I can hardly blame them for the kind of job-hopping, résumé driven development that seems to have become the norm in some areas.
Woodworkers also commonly use argon, most often via the product "Bloxygen" which is just canned argon.

I've used displacement, vacuum sealing, CO2 via my breath and argon. Argon works the best and is the easiest.
They don't pay them to work 40+hrs/week, but often they expect them to work 50+hrs/week. From what I've seen in Sweden at least, but at least the pay is okay there.
I work on a physics project. The data acquisition system was made on a tiny budget and most of the code is python 2.5.2. It hasn’t been touched in 12 years. We’re stuck with Windows 7 running on some machines because there are no Python 2.5 libraries that support NI-DAQmx and NI does not have any Traditional NI DAQ releases in windows 10. Obviously good solutions involve porting to linux and airgapping the DAQ, but the simplest solution I like is updating the codebase. I’m one engineer with loads of other responsibilities. Python is popular with scientists. I don’t begrudge the scientists. I begrudge the awful decision by the python developers to disregard backwards compatibility.
Pytov – Python with C like syntax, now built as a programming language
> The dead and dying malls, the vacated office parks, the ghost box stores left behind.

Interestingly, around here the Totem Lake mall was written off for dead for the last 30 years. Big boxes, big parking lot bereft of cars. It was a lonely place for a llooong time.

But the whole thing was redeveloped into another mall, pretty much all upscale stores, and the parking lot is jammed.

I can't explain it, but the developers knew what they were doing.
Further reading: https://medium.com/@alexeysamoshkin/how-ssl-certificate-revo...
In general if inteligent life will visit earth or some other life form from 5th or 9th dimention.
They/It will discover that technicaly all earth is with plastic particals, chemicals and huge amounts of trash, mini vaccine bottles and needles etc
I think he means the aftermath of the 6th and what happened to Parler and that Trump was blocked by Twitter etc. But I also think this doesn’t relate at all since Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon acted on their own.
they should also have multiple redundant IRUs
Standups aren't always necessary, but you'd need a high functioning (read communicative) team. In other words, they serve primarily as a forcing function to make sure teams are acting like teams (communicating).

I find the most useful standups are asynchronous though. It's much easier for others to follow along (and ask follow up questions), and avoids statuses devoid of usefulness (or at least makes them very apparent).
>They are actually currently being sold in the US, but start at $10k for the base model.

Same thing from a 50 year old EU manufacturer of electric vehicles [1], manufactured in EU, with all EU norms/certificates https://melex.com.pl/en/offer prices also start at $10K

[1] https://melex.com.pl/en/about-us/history
Or you can just roll with JAMstack as it's literally about what you're asking for.
Sweeping cat puke under the rug is not the same as cleaning cat puke off the floor.

Having software maintainers to tell their users “get bent” does not fix the user’s bugs or security exploits.
Why is this the platform's fault?

Life is full of change. Do we still mainly use horses to move around?

Shouldn't there be a technical lead involved that identifies technical debt in the product and propose solutions?
Of course the product manager has to listen to them. I d argue this is a good example of why they should.
Before Rails was even an idea, we had Tcl and:

- AOLServer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOLserver)

- Rivet (https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/)

- Vignette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoryServer)

- Safelayer (our own in-house implementation, the core team later founded OutSystems)
The laptops were sent by the government to the schools, where the malware was found during initial setup.
The bigger the bottle, the smaller the ratio between exchange surfaces/volume. Small ratio means slower reactions, longer conservation, which is empirically better. And you know, a big bottle, so you don’t have to leave the table.
There are cheaper alternatives, though. Monero, for instance, which also has the advantage of increased anonymity, which can be important in those countries without banking infrastructure. https://www.monero.how/monero-transaction-fees
Is there something about glass blowing which makes it air-inefficient? My vague recollection from my time as a low brass player in college is that the prof's lung capacity measuring apparatus (yes, really) put most of us in the 3-4L range, with one outlier around 5L. Granted, we were trained for such magnificent feats of blowing hot air, but so too must glass blowers be.
I'm an engineering manager, and I can say my teams are just as productive today (100% remote) as they were pre-COVID (100% in-office). I do have very high performing teams, though, and I'm sure that plays a role.

I think one "secret" is that we have small-ish teams (3-5 engineers), each with a very engaged and technically savvy leader. I've known other managers to have up to 20 IC reports. I can see that kind of structure falling apart when remote in such a way that your underperformers start completely slacking off and you're too busy to even notice. It's way harder for that to happen in smaller teams where your team lead/manager is very engaged in the team's work and your relative output is quite visible.
Most major tech companies have a 1:8 ratio of designers to developers.
how does the aquarium filtration system compare to more retail options, like the berkey?
I don't know how many people are partaking in this ballot, but even with a small number of people it's much less economically feasible to individually travel to and pressure people at their homes versus having a set number of places you can arm with your "political guard."
Those very large mysql deployments typically use it as a nosql system, with a sharded database spread over dozens or hundreds of instances, and referential integrity maintained by the business layer, not by the database.

For a good example of a high volume site using a proper rdbms approach I would look at stackoverflow. It can (and has) run on a single ms sql server instance.
Thats nonsense, water doesn’t leech minerals from your body. Distilled water is safe to drink.
That's not a deployment problem though. And if everything you did to build those binaries failed, you can still run those binaries. You aren't out of business.

We're talking about this versus the alternative of potentially not being able to deploy anything. Then you're dead.

In both cases you needed a build pipeline anyway...unless you're operating in a world where "it works on my machine" is a good enough answer.
A big concern is Tether. Tether is supposed to be backed by USD, but it's not. Tether does seem to be pumping Bitcoin.

The risk is that when the next recession comes along, there will be a net outflow from Tether, and just what assets are behind Tether will be revealed.

Unless you're a crook, there's no reason to keep funds in Tether. There's zero upside, and a significant downside.
I don't think the Hacker News crowd likes this and that is reflected in the top comments.

I can see why someone had the urge to build this seeing as this capitol riot was perhaps the biggest threat to american democracy in recent years. What really irks me though is not only how many people brought their phones but also how many actively posted and boasted about their participation on social media.

There is a social media site called "Clapper" that is kind of like TikTok but describes itself as a "free-speech" alternative. Naturally, it is pretty much filled to the brim with conservatives. When the capitol riot happened, hundreds of videos from the event appeared on Clapper. But Clapper acted quickly and seemingly took down all of the videos with geolocation data close to the event at that time. Now, almost nothing can be found there about it.

But the platform is still filled with conservatives who post videos of their laptop screens about the Q conspiracy and "encouraging" videos where they ensure each other that Biden is not yet president and it is not yet over. They seem very technologically illiterate and also very unconcerned about how easily they could get themselves fired for racist or conspiratory content, because they think that this "platform" unlike Twitter and Facebook is somehow on their side. They don't realise that social media platforms cannot advertise when their content isn't "clean" and thus act in their own interest when they ban this type of content, and not in the interest of some opposing party.

So honestly, I think this is just the beginning of such projects, because somehow the people who would do something as ridiculous as storming the capitol keep documenting their crimes and releasing the material themselves... they make it extremely easy for any political opponents.
This is a ludicrous take. Read a book like high output management and learn what managers actually do and you might realize what value they should be providing.
Anyone paid for Japanese Complete? How was it?
> Votes are cast over a period of a couple weeks and are distributed well in both time and space.

How does this help you? It makes it easier because you can send one goon to a hundred people over the course of weeks instead of needing a hundred goons. Everybody knows ahead of time that this is going to happen and they'll be punished if they submit their ballot before the goon arrives to watch.

> And the criminals cannot really verify the vote cast.

What do you mean? They watch you put it into a mailbox. Or just take your ballot and mail it themselves.

> So, let's say they unionize. Break a lot of kneecaps over the next year?

That only happens if they fail. If they succeed you don't have to punish anybody.

> All that will come out and won't look pretty.

Assuming people who have just had a violence demonstration will be inclined to invite more for reporting it to the police.

> By contrast, discouraging votes by forcing everyone to gather in one hard to miss group takes far fewer criminals. It all happens on one day too.

Except that all happening in one place on one day is the advantage because it allows that day and that place to be secured by impartial monitors who ensure that nobody there is looking at anybody else's ballot.
Why would it leech minerals from your body? Your kidneys are more than capable to create an osmotic gradient.

And you presumably consume food with mineral. I mean, drinking water doesn’t typically contain potassium but you don’t see people having potassium leeched out of their body.
I've been drinking distilled water for the last ~15 years, haven't noticed any adverse effects yet.
I think it’s a matter of experience. I’ve used MATLAB for nearly a decade and can whip up optimized bit banging, data acquisition, and signal processing code in a matter of minutes. When I try the same in python I spend days trying to figure out what the “right” solution to something is, try 3-4 options, find the issues with each, and by that point I’m burnt out and tell myself it isn’t worth it to try to replace MATLAB.
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How can you write a test for something that doesn't exist without deciding how it is going to work before building it?

Tests are a form of a spec.
They're doing complicated things, but is that headcount in proportion to it? For comparison, Apple's HQ headcount is under 20k, and entire state level governments for small to mid-sized states are in the low tens of thousands of employees. We all know human things generate lots of work to employ lots of people, but the scale still feels a bit off, even if no one can point to exactly why.
Personally, when I want speed or easy upkeep and intend on doing dumb simple things.

Postgres is more featureful, but if you don't intend on using those features, MySQL is consistently faster and historically smoother to update and keep running.
when you account for cooking with fluoridated water, washing food with it, showing in it, and using it in toothpaste/mouthwash, in addition to drinking it, the numbers may add up quickly.
> Need to treat it with minerals though, as the pure water will be acidic and strip your teeth of them otherwise.

Not really.
It’s the 21st century. Questions like “do these men think that time is free?” have no place in this century. Why not be accurate and say ‘people’? You chose to use a number of big words when simple ones would suffice. Why not take the same care in addressing people fairly?
Scientists create a catalyst that converts CO2 into usable jet fuel
Another typically ungrateful and entitled comment about opensource on HN. Color me surprised.

> Do these men think that time is free?

Do you think they have endless time to plan a migration with minute detail for every possible usecase?

Users have about a decade to migrate their codebases and stop writing new projects in Python 2. Do you need another decade? Or are you personally going to take over the maintenance of the python2 runtime?

Does anybody actually pay the core dev team for support? Do you? Does your company? Have they been coordinating all these years with the core devs and are unhappy with the result they paid for? I kinda doubt it.

It would be really nice if people were just thankful for all the free stuff they got and built their enterprises on.
You can already download your data if your FB account is banned.

I can still try to log in today and get access to my data as a download, but can do nothing else. Was perma banned a couple of years ago when I decided to return to FB and re-friended all my friends from before in the course of a few hours, and promptly got banned. For bot like behaviour, I assume, I never found out the cause!

The data itself is innocuous posts about what I’m eating and drinking, nothing political or otherwise objectionable in any way...

Amusingly, their recruiters have also approached me a few times after that via email and LinkedIn, they must not check if a prospect is banned.
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos

I suspect this has to do with a combination of personal preference and never having worked with a reliable (in terms of just never changing the semantics) code formatter like Black. Sure, I don't agree with every single thing Black does, but it's still infinitely better than trying to enforce code style manually. And don't get me started about those who just don't want a code style enforced - the diffs end up a serious mess, and forget dealing with merge conflicts in a reasonable time.
I used a satellite phone in Tibet without applying for the relevant permits etc. They had no detection gear, the thing looked like a normal phone and payment was pay as you go via Dubai or somewhere like that. (Thuraya - this kind of thing https://www.ebay.com/itm/Thuraya-XT-Satellite/174501734312?h... the aerial slides back in when not in use.)
I would imagine that past offences correlate quite strongly with a proclivity for future offences. Hence reformation and/or incarceration should reduce the number of opportunities for repeated offence.
any advice for setting up a similar system for a typical apartment or home situation?
I really like the story of how Stardew Valley was created. Programming, music, writing and art was all created by a single person. It started as a project by an unemployed man to improve his programming skills.

The game is just so warm and heartfelt and it feels like the author's personality and vision really shines through. I wonder if it's possible to make a game of this quality by a team of people or if it some aspects of the game will suffer.

Some documentaries about how the game was made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YqdutJLIi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-k6j9g5Hzk
As is starting a project in python 3.
Unless the new Wordpress is written in node, comparing the new “JavaScript” stack with the old “LAMP” stack makes no sense to me. Those technologies do not serve the same purpose.