skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We release from master (or whatever you want to call the default branch nowadays). When we’re ready to release, we push a new tag, then the CI will build a docker image with the same tag. Finally we deploy the tagged image. This implies that the master branch must be at all times able to be released to production, that we release only from master, and that the tip of master is what is running in production right now. We have procedures in place to make sure this is always true. The advantage is that when something happens in production, anyone can git pull the master branch (or checkout an earlier the tag) and start debugging the code right away
I thought they were saying there wasn't enough transmission capacity but it wouldn't matter anyways since the rest of the grid didn't have any to spare. Maybe I misinterpreted or responded to the wrong comment.
There is a 3.6GW DC line that goes from about an hour East of Portland, Oregon, down to LA. Its 2 wires. Texas doesn't have any interconnections with the west. But even if they did, 3GW would not be nearly enough to solve their problem could could replace many natural gas plants that are currently down.
Accountability and obligation to disclose information on demand to the public are two different things.

Not all of DARPA's work is public, yet I'm sure that DARPA is fully accountable.

By excluding this new agency from FOI the UK government simply wants to be able to decide which projects to publicise and when, and which projects to keep secret, in the same way as DARPA operates.
For anyone looking for a deeper dive into how Pixar iterates on their movies and how highly-functioning creative teams can work in general, Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull is a really interesting book.

It goes into the history of Pixar and some of the detail of how they work with actual stories from the movies they've made. One of my favorite anecdotes from the book is how they nearly almost lost all the work they did on Toy Story 2 and almost went under.

One caveat is that the book doesn't cover the news about John Lasseter's misconduct, so it's not all roses, of course.
Toy Story has been on a very slid downhill after the second episode. 3 and 4 were both unnecessary and not very good. The same can be said for the Cars sequels, and the more recent Pixar productions in general - they had much better ideas in the very first years.
Very much true. I didn't touch on safety which is a real issue.

That doesn't make the idea bad though. There have been attempts to do this in commercial furnaces before, but the details are hard, and ultimately of questionable value in general. In this particular situation it might be useful, but that is a lot of complexity for something that only makes sense for a week every 10 years.
Recursion: An Indispensable Tool for Every Functional Programmer
There's a difference between time pressure and burning out your employees. I believe the present is referring to the latter.
I think if you open up what you want you lose the security and convenience that would make you stick with Apple too.
> When some games are "exclusives" to a certain store, if you want to play such games you end up having to install every store in existence

Then don't! You don't need that game. If you and other gamers want to make a stand against the crazy number of stores just refuse to install them. Unless you do that the store owners know your complaints aren't going to amount to a thing.
I was curious so I used sunrisesunset.com to see.

Looks like at June 21 (picking a day around the summer solstice) sunrise is at 4:04 am and sunset is midnight. That's a nice 20 hours of sunshine.

On the flip and dark side, Dec 21 it is sunrise at ~10:30 am and sunset at ~3:30 pm. A sadly short 5 hours of sun. Ouch.
Yes but there is a threshold. Good to me doesn’t mean everyone drives a Tesla. It means freedom to do what we want and not be prisoners to what we own or want to own.
yeah! don’t they remember the glory days and freedom of choice to wait in a virtual line on GameSpy to download the bandwidth limited patch from version 1.4 to 1.5 only to realize they’re on 1.2 and there is no delta patch from 1.2 to 1.4 so they can either try again with the full upgrade for 1.x to 1.5 which is about 10x the download size or they can get each incremental patch from 1.2 to 1.3 to 1.4 to 1.5?

come on. there’s a distinct value these app stores add and there is a distinct value in having one for the platform.

the ONLY benefit to this future is Epic gets a larger slice. they will not “pass the benefit down” in some trickle down user freedom economy. they will shove more micro transactions and advertisements into every corner of their marketplace.
Manifest Whilst in Theta
Has anyone ever used Theta Meditation to manifest? I discovered an article on Theta Meditation and something amazing happened. I decided to try the technique on a crush I have. I had never talked to this girl for more than 5 seconds. Its just hello everytime we meet. The next day after I practiced the technique, the girl came to see me at my house (30minute walk). She says she wants to get to know me better because she always sees me around. I find it quite scary because I know its not a coincidence.
I agree that there's no hypocrisy, but I think Apple is acting consistently as a platform owner in both cases. Yes, iOS users should being made aware of tracking software but it doesn't mean that they should continue being the sole store curator for their platform.

We know from past experience that it's commercially viable for platform owners to successfully develop secure operating systems that allow third party developers to develop and distribute apps without an additional tax. We don't have to look very far either. macOS is a great example of where the App Store and third party developers can coexist.

People should be able to choose to buy the app (for 30% more) using the App Store so that it's easy to ask for a refund, receive updates and for Apple to market apps they believe you'd like to use. But at the same time, Apple has no right to force people to overpay for services like Spotify on the App Store. Customers already pay to use a licensed copy of iOS on supported hardware.

Governments have every right to protect the customer from perpetually getting screwed by Apple. At the very least, we shouldn't allow Apple to limit free speech so that developers can't mention a way for their users to save money.
Noam is not one of the Waze founders.
Was the same with instant messaging software years ago; Aol, MSN, ICQ, Mirc, Gamespy, Paltalk, ...
> But what if Steam was the only store for PC and I wasn't able to buy/play any Epic or EA games because of that? That would be worse.

I guess but if Steam was genuinely the only place where people bought games then Epic and EA games would have no choice but to list on Steam which makes you better off, no?

> Or what if the game prices had to be higher than current prices since the only place I can buy a game was steam and there was no competition?

This I think is the meat of the argument but I think it falls down because competition gets weird with software and copyrighted properties. There's no competition between Steam and Origin for games that are only on Origin. If Microsoft Word is only available on the Windows Store for iOS then there's nothing to compete over for a user that needs Word.
Anyone who has purchased an electronic or smaller household appliance on Amazon.in would know Cloudtail made up a significant portion of over all sales.

The Govt didn’t needed a multi year report to know it wasn’t small sellers making most sales. Some in position of power benefited.

Side note, Even with Walmart’s purchase of Flipkart a couple years ago, Amazon.in always seems to be cheaper. Also there is huge gap in reviews and review quality between the sites. Walmart still playing catch up 3 years later
Gmail has the mis-feature where other users can mess up your mail delivery by marking things as spam. Are there others? Or is this just another example of how Gmail isn't so great?
> You're supposed to stop sending emails to someone who's not interacting with them

The only way that this justification makes sense to me is if you mail people that didn't explicitly subscribe to your newsletter in the first place. If that's the case, I think that the problem lies elsewhere.

An email is meant to be read, that's it. Any other interaction a user will have with it that is still under your concern is if they follow any links - I personally object even to that. Assuming to track anything besides people visiting your website from a newsletter link is an infringement of the unspoken contract between you and your subscribers.
Disclosure: I work at AWS, and might surprise you that I disagree. Opinions my own.

I see this line get touted a lot but it is almost never accompanied by any depth. It sounds good, but what does it actually mean in practice? Do you have concrete examples of what using the best parts of AWS, GCP, and Azure are? From where I'm sitting, the best parts of the cloud were created 10-15 years ago: On-demand compute (without dealing with the joys of subnetting, DHCP, and configuring Linux interfaces), object and block storage, managed databases/DNS/load balancers. The newer features tend to lack the things you really need in a production ready service: monitoring, debugging, configuration, etc.

The right answer to this multi-cloud question is to stop having so many different components in your stack. Be painstakingly deliberate about what you adopt and have someone who can articulate (ideally in writing for posterity) why you're adopting it. Pick a few foundational primitives and master them operationally. One relational database, one web server, one load balancer, one cache, zero message queues ;).

(Spoiler alert: this is what all of the cloud vendors themselves do internally.)
You have the choice to not use iOS and not use the Apple App Store. You might not like Apple’s attitude around their operation of the App Store so you don’t use their devices. You might have missed some great apps, but there are still many great alternatives on Android.
Anyone who doubts the veracity of the claims of Tory corruption, here and throughout the thread, please check out the Good Law project and the litigation currently in UK courts.

https://goodlawproject.org/news/
Just One Single History
NX: A multi-dimensional tensors library for Elixir
I highly doubt that devs are the ones who make the decision to put everything behind the walled garden of an entirely separate app store. Although I would agree that devs do shoulder some of the blame for relying on electron and other such technologies for building these things.
This is exactly why I edited my comment and added "original" - the Cars sequels are definitely below par.
For those doubting the above, here is an example from the recent past of corruption from the Prime Minister, paying his lover with public funds:

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/31/10000-grant-given-boris-johns...
I'd say it says the competition can bring out the best in us. Which I find to be generally true, of course it can also bring out the worst in us also!
> I don't know any process in the financial industry that explicitly incentivizes wasting electricity

Inflation. If you don't spend your money, it loses value. This is actually part of the economic program (inflate to grow demand). What are you going to spend it on? Stuff or sevices. Stuff takes electricity to make. Services take electricity to perform.

You could also invest, but that's also just indirectly incentivising stuff and services, except in a trickle down fashion (put money into the corporation that's gonna do these things).

Bitcoin may be wasteful, but, its energy cost is explicit and not hidden, which is why it's attacked.
Are sports cards the future of retail investing?
Far more important was ESP/PSI to use for submarine communication. There were official programs devoted to evaluate transmissions of words via so-called psychics. All that because the Russians claimed to use that.

It's of immense military importance to communicate undetected to submarines. Of course it didn't work. If it would have worked, it would have been a be decisive advantage.

It was trivial and cheap to test.
Apple wanted to launch iTunes as DRM-free but wasn't able to negotiate the licensing for it. The content providers were the ones that made the DRM a requirement.
Actually English is the most common language across India. Majority of the app ecosystem in India is English only.

In Europe, majority of people can't read English at all. I mean atleast people from Germany, Spain, Italy and France.
I dislike uPlay and Origin and that's why I'm avoiding them (I still have some games on them but something has to be veeery interesting for me to buy it there - I'm even willing to pay more to get same thing on Steam).

Why are we all talking about creating more stores? Shouldn't we opt into creating systems API for stores? That way you could choose store application and have products from all repositories (stores) available in there.

On most Linuxes you add repository and it doesn't matter if you use official package manager, graphical one, or some unofficial bash script. You are able to install same software.
I also have ex-colleagues working there... in Switzerland.
I've actually been dealing with this issue. Does anyone have an easy way to resolve it? It causes some pretty nasty rendering issues in our app.
That is it. Why I don't care. He's doing good advocacy.
It'll be fine:

https://patrickspokemonpalace.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/ie...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/antivirus-software-...
That may be how you want it to be, but it doesn't reflect reality. If you consistently have extremely low open rates (e.g. you send to a lot of people who aren't opening) your risk of being marked as spam increases. The only way to avoid this is to periodically cull your list of people who haven't opened in some amount of time.
QCovid: Personal Covid-19 risk calculator developed by Oxford University
And he is also demanding that the second those employees burn out (possibly due to too much passion, and too little attention paid to their wellbeing), he be allowed to put them out to pasture.
I wouldn't call them a plague but it's easy to drown in stuff being pushed out via email. So you end up filtering and it all goes into a folder you never look at.
> It would be perfectly possible to have just one store offering multiple repos/curations etc.

That isn’t true.

In order for it to be true you would need to explain how this would be possible if stores buy exclusive rights to apps.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'd expect that iOS being an open platform is neither necessary nor sufficient for that. As I understand it, Epic could allow users to load free custom skins today, even though it operates on a closed platform. And conversely, even if iOS were an open platform, Fortnite could remain closed-source, and I'd expect Epic could take measures (hash-validating assets on launch?) to prevent side-loading of cosmetic items.
Sorry, misunderstood the original comment. I thought it was referring to outside temperatures
The article is a strange advertorial for Hey.com from the BBC.

Why didn't they interview anyone from the large email providers to get their opinion and learn what they are doing to protect users? Hey.com is a tiny blip in the email universe.
Unless you set a really unusual bar for "subpar lifestyle for a professional" this is a very atypical situation. If you think of "professional" jobs only, developers typically have better than average compensation for around the least barrier to entry. The lack of need for credentials tends to translate to significantly less debt (more so US & maybe Canada specific) and earlier career trajectory entry too.

This may be regional, but certainly seems to hold for US, Canada, much of EU in my limited experience.
Some light searching brought me this: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018...
The first comment is interesting:

"Send me a link to a news story that turns out to be a video, or an audio file, and I’ll close it unconsumed: I haven’t got that kind of time. Send me a transcript: I’ll finish reading in half the time it would take me to passively sit there while it played, and I’ll more clearly remember it."

The author is ok with sitting and staring at the article because it's faster. What he misses is that it forces you to actually be in a position / context where you can read from the screen.

Personally I have been giving a lot of though about balancing how I consume content. Text vs audio. Walking / exercising or whatever instead of reading.

I don't believe we should optimise on "time to consume" but rather "healthiness of consume".
It’s not the only extant orbiter. Most of them are in Baikonur or Moscow. The one in Speyer was an atmospheric test vehicle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_programme#List_of_vehi...
Since I'm an SWE, I actually wrote a simple program to help calculate total compensation that factors salary, bonus, sign on, initial RSU grant, RSU refreshers, and expected company stock bonus. It generates year-by-year compensation as well as an average for the first four years.

It by no means accounts for everything, but at some level the $100/month I get for transportation and other benefits is a fraction of a percent of my overall compensation, so I don't bother thinking of those.

Regarding options, I value those at $0 unless I'm joining the next hottest thing or IPO-imminent company. In those cases, I'd apply some discount based on probability of the exit, etc. Those are so hard to calculate, though. It feels more like winning a lottery than anything.

I started my life in startups and am three for three in "success" in that two were acquired and one is still chugging and making profit after 15 years. In all cases, net value of my options was $0, even when I owned ~1% of all non-founder options. The money I made in the exit was due to being the head of Engineering, so I got a cash bonus from the investor as part of the executive contract, and I got retention RSUs from the acquiring company.
Well, actually there has been a Scripps paper out there since August. It's abstracted here, but it depends on whether you believe 'ground glass' abnormalities in lungs represent destruction. Certainly, it seems like some "asymptomatic" and many mild to moderate cases of COVID cause loss of lung function, which could be permanent (e.g. equivalent to having a history of pneumonia). That could be enough to make you no-longer able to compete at a professional level in sports.

I personally know that a major research hospital is doing (unpublished) research on medium to long term effects of mild-moderate COVID (non-hospitalized) on lung function and that the initial radiological results 3-6mo after symptoms are fairly shocking to those running the study.

So there is at least some published evidence from multiple sources and there continues to be study on this and based on the known action of the disease. Covid "long-termers" do also come from mild-moderate and perhaps even "asymptomatic" cases so I'm not sure FUD really makes sense here.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200811/asymptomatic-covid-...

https://www.uchealth.com/en/media-room/covid-19/short-and-lo...

p.s. these articles were trivial to find and are in no way exhaustive.
Thanks, 1.0 being just around the corner definitely makes me more interested!

As for the redwood vs blitz, I think I get what you're getting at but still not fully grok what _exactly_ it means/looks like (and what are the tradeoffs). I'll experiment with it, so I can develop the intuition myself :).
This is a false dichotomy. Something could be set up that allows the current convenience of the Apple app store in a more federated way. The hoops are put there purposefully.
I can't help but notice the rapists are usually Jewish.
I'm not anywhere near upset but I loved going through IKEA and Sony catalogs in the 90s. It was aspirational since the nearest IKEA was two countries away and represented something modern and more progressive than the furniture we could buy. Most of the Sony catalog was equipment I didn't need or could afford, except Walkmans or various headphones.

It's just nostalgia and consumerism I guess.
> What am I missing?

You should short Bitcoin and make a lot of money
For me, what I like about CH compared to those three is yes, that it's live. I'm tired of overly produced/edited/scripted content, which I find many of those three you mentioned to be more and more every day. Even TV starts to annoy me because many live shows are still scripted, people typically reading off teleprompters or memorized lines.

CH also let's you do something these other platforms don't: see who is listening with you. I was in a room last night with Chris Voss on stage talking about negotiation skills and saw Eric Stonestreet, one of the actors from Modern Family, in the audience. Also just connecting with other people in the audience, adding them on Twitter and sometimes even starting conversations about the conversation we heard.
... when people make money off Bitcoin, where does that money come from?

At least when the scam is selling shares of an imaginary gold mine, there is hypothetically somewhere for the profits to come from. With Bitcoin, there is only a $12B/year loss to electricity charges and no where for money to come into the system but absurd transaction fees.
> What about freebsd makes it a better choice as compared to Linux based systems

I wouldn't say "better" (I don't know want a flame war); I'd say "different". I like FreeBSD, and use it for my firewall (I find `ipf` more intuitive than `iptables`).

I also use it for my fileserver (FreeNAS/ZFS).

I think containers (Docker) works better on Linux. Containers (namespaces & cgroups) are a Linux-thing.
The IKEA book book! https://youtu.be/MOXQo7nURs0
My take would be Google can afford it for now because they have a web ad monopoly and don’t have to compete.

If they ever lose that, the culture they’ve built will cause them to be destroyed and irrelevant in not that much time.

For now, it’s summer.
No just sometimes ;)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_ga...
I think that's one of the things I really like about the show. That is shows that even in Hard(ish) SciFi there is room for humans to be heroes. Also minor spoiler

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it show's diverse crews as being able to perform heroics just as much as the standard male heroic type.
Do you remember the hardware that existed at the time, the GUI, the usability or non usability. There are two systems, IOS or Android. I really respect Apples rules and appreciate them. They stood their ground and prevented Cell Carriers from loading their phone with CRAP ware that is non-removable. Unlike android and any other flavor of phone OS that has existed. IOS when it came out was a true game changer. Its a very dominant player in the cell phone industry because of it.
So much discussion about about work life balance and toxic managers, but not enough about exactly what you've accomplished by working all these hours?

Did you write another object relational manager or another functional programming is great, stop using C++ post?

I wish the conversation was more about how technology was moved forward and how it benefited people using the products based on that tech.

Some of this I think is caused by power imbalances in the employee-employer relationship, prevailing attitudes in SV about acceptable limits of speech and the inability to discuss this freely at workplace due to the lack of trust. So it spills over into anonymous HN and Blind.
Exactly. It's the same reason rich people hire people to do their accounting and cleaning and all the other stuff they don't want to do. I want to pick up my phone and use it not mess with it every 3 days because there's something slightly off or there's a bug with the latest mod I installed.