skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the write up, I really appreciate how there were actionable suggestions within.

NodeBB does host a demo instance to allow people to kick the tires. I don't believe we allow people to upload images, but it is worth double checking just in case.
It's not "feudalism", it's human social relations and power dynamics.
You have a very tough road ahead (as a business). Not because you are not making sense, but because widespread tech adoption is fad based and generally a function of two factors. Who is behind them (google with go, netflix with microservices) and low barrier to entry (mongodb, node.js).
This is true, but is not the reason.

The reason is that there has never been, at any stage, any serious intention of building practical Tokamak power generation systems.

Power density is too small, plant lifetime is too short, scale is too large, reliability is too low, recovery from failures too costly: each by one or more orders of magnitude, and multiplied, while renewables costs are still in free fall. Even fission, overwhelmingly cheaper, is not competitive.

Instead, Tokamak research has always and will always be a jobs program for hot-neutron physicists, intended solely as a way to maintain a pool of candidates for weapons work.

Other, aneutronic fusion methods could possibly be practical someday for power generation or for propulsion, but are actively neglected because they are useless for the true purpose of the program. If your stable of physicists stop thinking about hot neutrons, and find job prospects not involving skills useful mainly for weapons work, they are lost.

Money spent on Tokamak work could be spent on other methods that have any actual prospect of success. Production capacity of high-temperature superconducting tape could be used to cycle solar and wind power between geographic regions without losses. But they are diverted.

Huge Tokamak construction projects have another organizational purpose: corruption. Any sufficiently large public-works project offers practically unlimited opportunities to siphon off monies to profit individuals not engaged in any societally useful capacity.

This is why fission project costs balloon from, e.g., projected $2B to $10B+: not from regulation, not from change orders; it is because ballooning cost is the whole point of the project. Any finally useful outcome is mainly a carrot to keep the money flowing.

ITER is such a project. It does not even pretend to "work" until 2050. It does not even pretend to any prospect of useful power output, ever. Yet, its construction consumes many $Bs every year. Each $B spent makes it harder to abandon, justifying endless overruns.

Most projects must ultimately deliver something, even if vastly overpriced: a jet, a tunnel, a power plant; or finally be cancelled and written off.

Fusion work has successfully resisted any demand for delivery, over many decades, and openly admits plans on not delivering for many more. It is perfectly corrupt. Note, not a penny evaporates: it all lines open pockets. I haven't heard of millionaire physicists (pace Myhrvold), so somebody else gets it.
Anonymity is the first “key characteristic” listed and I can’t find any mention on this page that it is optional for this method.

EDIT: Looking more into it, it seems that it went from "Delph method" to "Wideband delphi" to "Planning poker", and it's in the last step that the anonymity requirement disappeared. Very interesting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_delphi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_poker
I had user #1 before I built the service. I was automating something they did manually. They walked me through their process.
Postgres has some features that are excellent for logging.

For example, instead of inserting everything into a log table and deleting old entries and needing to vacuum things, use a partitioned table and just DROP entire partitions when they age out. You can summarize them into some kind of summary table before that, of course.

The partitions are good for the summaries too. Instead of doing index scans on the range of dates across a terabyte of logs, it is a full table scan on a partition of a single day or hour.

You can use a separate database for logging but the one time we did that it got weird. We ended up doing reporting scripts that had to first copy tables from the active DB to the logging DB so we could use them to JOIN on some log columns. They weren't huge but if everything had been in the same DB it wouldn't have been needed.

All of the scripts and procedures I know of were custom written for this. I don't know of any good prepackaged Postgres logging configs, but they may be out there.
Nah, that experiment disproved the "static background medium" within which the earth would be moving.
Not really just feudalism. But how most parts of the world work
Google doesn't have a separate domain for Drive files, for example, nor do they have separate per-user domains under googleusercontent.com for photos etc
Building a Discord Bot Using Discord.js
The simplified setup for modules in the language-specific IDEs alone makes them worth it IMO. It’s great that the plugins in IntelliJ cover basically everything but CLion, AppCode and Rider - but if I’m working on Python, JavaScript, PHP or doing database work I’ll still fire up Pycharm, WebStorm, PHPStorm and DataGrip respectively because there’s less overhead getting my project imported (and DataGrip is more useful as a standalone DBA tool because I open it and all of my connections are right there).

Given the individual license cost difference between IntelliJ Ultimate and the All Products Pack is minimal it’s worth it, especially given it’s cheaper than IntelliJ + CLion separately.
What Is RPN? Why Did/Does HP Use RPN? Learning RPN (1999)
At this point they, and other giants, successfully demonstrated that they cannot regulate themselves over these random terminations and that the public needs to step in.
> And frankly I don't care how well it works on "spotty café wifi". If the wifi sucks I wouldn't sit there and work anyway.

Obviously the author cares about it. It’s basically an article from a personal blog, what makes you think that the author should write for your own use instead of theirs?

They are sharing their thoughts on the topic, and that’s it.
The signal to noise ratio for posted content is way better than most similar sites, and the comments are usually informative although they’ve become slightly more opinionated and polemic over the years — but even so my trust in the “right” comments rising to the top is much higher here, so the community moderation still works well.

There’s also some ridiculously smart people here, so reading comments tends to make you smarter more often than they make you want to go to bed early, which is saying something these days.
If you like this, you'll probably enjoy Elmer's Engines. It's an old book full of steam engine plans, designed for people who are new to machining.

I used some of them as blueprints when I took drafting in high school.

http://www.john-tom.com/html/ElmersEngines.html
doubles the cost of implementing anything. Say a customer wants feature-X. Unless you're magically at the point where in your 2-3 year cycle where you're switching, both the A and B team need to implement feature. Of course, that's assuming you don't just tell the customer to stuff it and wait 2-3 years.

You're also assuming that you know ahead of time all use cases and interfaces. It's surprising how dependencies are taken. I've seen large scale systems break when a HTTP 204 was changed to a HTTP 206, or a base36 field changed to base62. Now again maybe you're thinking the consumer can stuff it and update everything whenever you decide to switch over, or that you'll have captured everything and have tests around it. But.. for any sufficiently complex system with a sufficiently large customer base everything about your interface becomes your customer contract. Changing everything all at once is going to break a ton of things nobody ever thought about.

Doing upgrades every 2-3 years means you're pretty much never going to be good at them. Institutional knowledge seems to have a 2-3 year memory horizon. Sure, you get that one person who is a bit of an archeologist/historian but tenure at most shops is not long ("The median number of years wage and salaried employees stayed with their current employer in 2018 was 4.2 years" - first hit on Google). While you're upgrading every 3 years, each team only does so every 6 years. Nobody is gonna remember what it looked like.

There's also a meta point, which is what are you actually trying to solve? Is it so hard to go from architecture A.v0 -> A.v1 -> architecture B that you need to build A, maintain A and simultaneously build B? If moving between architectures is so hard but moving between versions of an architecture isn't - why is that the case and why can't you make the former case easier?

I'm assuming that your plan has you upgrading the A-architecture within those 2-3 years. Maybe you're saying you wouldn't touch it at all and just hope there are no security issues or features or scaling you need to do.

There's also another point which is you've coupled all changes to a particular cadence. Maybe you want to upgrade your network, servers, storage systems, OS, application services, etc on different cycles. At the very least you're sorta hoping that all of those things have similar release cycles, which realistically you're going to be picking some network switch that's been out for 2 years and marrying it to a storage product that was released last month (because the previous one is 5 years old and will be out of support before your next refresh).

And scaling... what happens when you can't get the same server you were ordering 2 years ago? Tell users they can't have nice things until the other team rolls out their massive platform shift in a year? Or would you adopt a new platform to scale on, in which case, why are you doing this A and B team thing again?

And not only do you need two teams, but you need two sets of hardware which means you need twice as much datacenter space, etc etc. Do folks need to two desk phones when you roll that out?

And ... I'm gonna stop here...
We need two things, I don’t think either will happen:

1) sanctions against China

2) a Greater Firewall outside China, right on all fiber cables, blocking/filtering all traffic from China.

China is a hostile nation and we need to treat it as such.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ibm+port+a+punch
It was supposed to be. Then some brilliant folks at the US DOD wrote it into some documents on how to manage large scale software projects.
Securing your Amazon AWS S3 presigned URLs, tips and trick
Apart from the other issues discussed here: what about false positives?

In the advertising case the cost of a false positive is a misplaced ad. In the case of a military strike the cost is getting the wrong person.

Plus the level of security on a commercial product is lower (the risk of losing data is simply an insurable cost). So that false positive could be deliberate insertion of bogus data. If I wanted to get rid of a rival I could pay to have ID info for someone the US doesn’t like inserted into the rival’s home or workplace. Boom!
Yeah, that doesn't really make any sense to me, it's like saying it's impossible to avoid taking Swift's A Modest Proposal at face value because you haven't lived in 18th century Britain. That's plainly not the case and if you wrote a long analysis on whether the proposal works out nutritionally, people would reasonably conclude you're a bit of a dunderhead.

Scott Alexander didn't write a long dunderheaded review of Class because he was too young in the 80s.
It's a non-sequitur.

GDPR is about data collection, not about cookies.

Using cookies for core functionality instead of tracking does not require consent. Tracking without cookies does require consent.
CSS-in-JS Support in DevTools
Nice! I'm planning on learning haskell to learn more about FP and this might be useful. I wish problems sets were released as well. But having the lectures is already a great stuff. I can always fallback to exercism.io for practice.
ASRock J5040-ITX
I paused to think about OP's question and the results surprised me a bit. Looking back over my career in tech I can safely say that at every job I've ever had there has been at least one highly abusive person in some position of authority.

One of them was a CTO but most of them were high on the developer ladder and at most middle management. Most of the abusive folks Ive had experience with skewed toward the lower middle of the spectrum between Janitor->CxO.

From outright verbal abuse in meetings to quietly trying to sabotage my projects and in a few cases outright trying to get me fired for standing up to them (and failing each time I might add). I would later learn that one of these guys, my boss at the time, directly blocked me from a promotion that would have surely altered the course of my life at the time. Good thing? Bad thing? Who knows?

I think the modern term to describe these people in tech is "Brilliant Assholes" though they are seldom "brilliant". They have some skills usually but more or less they're just bullies by nature and taking advantage of a situation where they can get away with it.

I can say from my own experience, there is usually at least one person like this in every shop. You're likely to run into one of these if you work in software development.
The reason you don’t have personal relationships with students is not because of MeToo or the current political environment, it’s because it’s inappropriate, and always has been. And please don’t tell me it’s because of nerdy academics not being able to handle it.

If you find yourself meeting with a single student anywhere but the office, discussing things that aren’t related to work, for any significant amount of time, then you need to at least carefully examine the situation. Save that for your friends and family.

Good managers know that developing personal relationships with your team members is not how you lead a team.
I actually had the same thought, so I was looking up Voyager to make sure I was right. In case anyone else is interested in more detail about their power source, here’s NASA: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/instruments/...
Apple Mac Pro Feet Kit
This seems like something that could be done easily in the analog domain. Most TVs have a 3.5mm or RCA line-out, line-in to bluetooth adapters are cheap, and analog signals can be fanned out with a passive splitter.

In practice, the conversion to analog and back shouldn't have any noticable effect. The bluetooth adapter is going to compress the stream anyway.

Depending on what you're hoping for, though, bluetooth might have too much latency. Media players on mobile devices and PCs are aware of the fact that they're outputting to a bluetooth audio device and compensate for it by delaying the video as well.
Scheme-Style
> In industry it’s much easier to leave tyrant bosses.

Well, there is a lot of industry we collectively turn a blind eye to.

Meat packing facility jobs is a hot topic right now due to stories about COVID conditions. The workers in the facilities are treated like the human equivalent of the livestock they process. But the employer is often the "only game in town" for those workers. Even if it's not impossible for them to leave they may be practically stuck and this is reflected in their treatment.
Actually, I'd characterize that as short term thinking. Your platform needs developers, and the power users and such eventually lead the rest of the market.

If they think they've got a castle in the sky, they'll find out why it's there if they start burning the pillars as firewood.
I guess that is the modern way of deflecting blame away from yourself for security incidents. Blame the russians, chinese or just "state level actors".
The two are very similar in this regard.
An Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript Developer” Like Me Became a TypeScript Fan
Maybe I'm being picky, but I think that the author means poseur when they are saying poser
Someone needs to compile a list of all this fringe tech that I see popping up in my feeds, almost daily now. I know there are techpress blogs that pump out articles like this, but there doesn't seem to be an authoritative compendium of such tech anywhere on the net. I could curate this by hand with 3 hours of free time and some Red Bull I suppose.

The reason I want this is because we seem to be swimming in innovation, but nobody to aggregate and make sense of it all, and join-the-dots of all this tech so we can make even bigger leaps with it. Also: A lot of these articles are great, but too quickly shoved into people's bookmarks and forgotten about, without any real action taken on them. Put simply: we are addicted to innovation porn, but with little action taken on this innovation!
> Exactly what I was talking about.

No, you were saying that this empty space would be claimed by the MSR, and that it wouldn't work otherwise due to some hostile intent by Microsoft.

So I edited to add that nothing would "claim" this space, as out-of-sequence partitions are not done by OS: the gaps will be left empty.

> Can we get a show of hands for how many Windows users have been doing this to their MSR?

I do, and a lot of people do - because it's technically possible. If you don't know how to, it's your problem, not Microsoft problems.

The modern GPT scheme + UEFI boot as used currently by Windows is extremely permissive yet secure: TPM and MOKs allow signed EFI payloads, and you even got a dedicated EFI partition with lots of free space to put them there! Add a LUKS partition and you're just as secure as Windows Secureboot on Bitlocker.

But you have to learn on how to use these new things, as it's not your grandpa MBR.
r/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology come to mind as well.
There’s a pic in the header, but it just seems to be a zoomed-in monochrome copy of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Port-A-Punch.jpg
Im confused, it was just a few weeks ago that this data being widely available was "open society" and everybody suspected of Trumpism having their location data checked to see if they'd been near the capitol was "open source intelligence..."

I think I have to disagree in principle with the author here; The gun maker isn't responsible for the murder committed with it; the data vendor isn't responsible for the use or misuse of it, and the person who makes the SQL query work isn't responsible for the decisions others make based on what it shows.

I'd certainly be happier with this kind of capability better controlled if it must exist but then look at the places where those tight controls and public scrutiny are already supposed to exist (FISA courts anyone?)... it all comes down to simple silly human factors in the end so lets design for that from the start.
That controller had a 2600 mah battery for ~60 hours of operation. Much larger in power capacity and volume than what is suitable for tiny earbud like devices.
https://batteriesglobal.com/products/nvidia-shield-battery?v...
A Brief History of Cryptocurrency as Payment (2020)
I think of fumigation as meaning "get rid of pests", as opposed to getting rid of a disease (although obviously the two could be related). But given the fact that they probably didn't have a great understanding of how disease happened, I wouldn't bet too much on our intuition regarding their intuition, in any case.
That’s why I use apple remote app where even copy paste works.
I vehemently dislike ad-tech and the sale of personal data, but this seems like a bizarre argument.

Do we know anything about how the data was bought, or whether they knew what it would be used for?
E is generated by all charges:

div(E) = ρ = ρ_f + ρ_b

D is generated by the free charges only:

div(D) = ρ_f

The quantity that makes an appearance in the Lorentz force law (hence acts on test charges) is E.

Admittedly, things get muddled because the distinction E vs D does double duty: We also associate E with (specific) forces, and D with fluxes. Depending on your system of units, this necessitates the introduction of a conversion factor.
F# for Python Users
inflation is never a monetary phenomenon, always an overspending problem, the supply of money only matters insofar as it is being spent on output -- if the gov't prints $trillion and buries it in the desert, the price of goods isn't going up
My own PhD advisor was fine, but in my experience it does seem industry is better about this on average. There’s basically no HR in academia.
Wi-LE (low energy) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3365609.3365853
The Dark Side of JavaScript: A Look at 3 Features You Never Want to Use
Can someone explain to my why Google isn't being drowned in a torrent of lawsuits?

We are getting stories like this on a weekly basis now.

Google is clearly causing measurable harm to your company and you. And apparently to thousands before you.

Considering how much money patent trolls manage to extract from Big Tech with considerably weaker cases, how is it that everybody is treating Google like a fragile grandmother with dementia, going out of their way not to hold them responsible in court?

This is not a rhetorical question. I really don't get it.

America is the land of getting millions in settlement when McDonald's gives you coffee that is hotter than you anticipated. How the hell is Google getting away with their behavior?
Supposed to according to whom? Perpetual organizations that face no market pressure, have governance structures where one board picks the next (and in practice where senior employees have a lot of influence on trustee selection), and which are given massive tax benefits with virtually no strings attached by governments seem like a really bad idea to me. That’s sounds like a petri dish for breeding pathological behavior.
I would be so happy if Apple releases a mac midi with M processor, 16-64gb configurable ram, swappable disks.
A good reminder that allowing unrestrained commercial exploitation of personal data can have serious repercussions.
The USA is wrecking their economy to bring in their right-wing dictator/coup attempter/puppet. Generally the US works very hard to eliminate any sort of socialist government worldwide, particularly a democratically elected and supported one like Maduro's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...
The us let’s Chinese firms generally speaking full access to the us market.

The CCP doesn’t allow the us companies the same.

Why our government let that happen. Letting so much business leave to the CCP will be one of the greatest failings of the us government.
But if the company shuts down then they won’t be able to maintain the app anyways so as a user I wouldn’t want to use the app anymore and maybe have a copy of my data. The company could be required provide a download of the user’s data (encrypted) before shutting down.
Amazon Transparency
Yeah that sounds like a great idea. Ensure even more that no one inside of China will have access to information about human rights. And then the Chinese government can get to use propaganda against their own citizens even more effectively. There’s no way that could backfire. And there are no ethical problems with what you are suggesting either!
I'm curious to see how this compares in real life to TimescaleDB hypertables with compression - which to me, reads as much the same thing. I'm wondering if Citus is bringing a lower level implementation of idea possibly?
Senate passes $1.9T Covid relief bill
> And no - you cannot sue google to force them to allow users to be infected.

Has anyone tried, genuinely curious how this would turn out.
Premises:
1. P(x) : Teen girls love x
2. Q(x) : "We" hate x

Fallacy of assuming the consequent:
1 & 2 implies P(x) -> Q(x)
True but theres also a difference for a wall sized "painting" of paint splatter/gradient rectangles and a Salvador Dali. I had the benefit of visiting the Dali museum in St Pete FL. Seeing his work in photos and on a computer screen is, "Meh, that's cool". Seeing the exact same pieces tower above you in person is a borderline religious experience that cant be described with words.