skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could help to lower your TTL way before you plan to update. If your current TTL was 24h, you just update it to 5m 24 hours before you plan the actual change of the record itself. The new record can them be set to 24h directly (unless you want a quick turnaround for rollback).

It's still no guarantee all changes will propagate within 5 minutes. But it gives some ease of mind to know the bulk of change won't take a day.

Also a lot of people forget the negative caching of NXDOMAIN records which is set by the TTL of the SOA record. Which means that it will take a while for your new record to be resolved if you started querying before you set the record.
I lower the try a few days before I’m going to make a big change. This is also how we did it in the past at a large corp I worked at.

Does it actually make a difference? I dunno but it just feels right.
Just gotta say, building a real time piracy database is one the coolest projects I’ve ever seen on here. It’s easy to forget that pirates still exist.

Best of luck to you both!
Thanks! Interesting that you ask that - we have very little (if any) overlap with Flexport. They focus on the cargo and the freight, and we focus on operations. We've definitely helped operate some of their vessels in the past!

There is a future where the two parts come together, as their fates are always linked, but it's outside the scope of complexity for us today, and for Flexport as well I imagine.
You're talking about control of the hardware/filesystem/etc, I'm talking about control of the application itself.
> ...bad theology...heresies...

Without "scriptural literalism" how do you know what bad theology and heresy are? Is good theology not simply that which most closely corresponds to Scripture? Your comment makes sense on a Roman Catholic view – in which the traditions of the church are authoritative – but not on the Protestant view (sola Scriptura).
The impulse to see "soaring stock price and valuation" as a reward that can be drained is exactly the kind of sophomoric economic view i was referring to.

it's quite obvious that if you took all of the value of a company the company would cease to exist along with the benefit they bring to society. you don't want to take all of their value? you just want to take the "fair share"?

how do you know what the "fair share" is that doesn't harm the capacity of the company to continue to provide value? fairness would be they pay for the public goods and services they use. do they employ trucks to deliver their product? then they should pay gas taxes on their deliveries. but, wait, they already do that so we want something _more_ fair than being treated the same as everyone else.

that still leaves us with the unknown of "how much more_than_fair_taxes we should require of a company and be sure not hinder it's ability to provide value?"
What would that be?

I’ve encountered this claim more often than I’ve encountered actual fundamentalist churches I think are making any sort of strong claim about the world.

So I’m curious to hear what people think is wrong.
This is a rather naive take I think..

There's a semi-joke that goes "all companies are software companies now" but there is a lot of truth to that..

It comes to down where a company wants to put its effort.

Do you want to own/operate/maintain all your infrastructure and services (and all the challenges that come with retaining scarce talent that is capable of that work), requiring you to substantially invest in an area that is not core to your business?

Or do you want to spend that money (and let's be real, less money too) to pay a trusted third party provider who will do a better job than you would anyways, because that's their area of expertise?

Then you can focus your (likely limited) resources on delivering value to your business instead.
Considering that they literally invented JIT manufacturing, yes I think it counts
Depiction of a steam dregdger working on the Suez Canal

https://www.alamy.com/suez-dredgers-canal-build-dig-excavate...
It's not ghetto at all, conveyors like that are in use all over the logistics sector.
Quite refreshing to read. My first job out of university was at a start-up bank whose first version was, would you believe, built on PHP+MySQL. This disgusted my functional purist build beautiful abstractions wanker self at the time, and I distinctly remember feeling that PHP was below me.

They are still running and handling people’s money.
I don't see the connection.

As I said, many companies require a review/sign off for each dependency (version). Since they usually can't get them externally, they have do it internally.

Enterprises also throw a lot of money at support contracts they never use, there is absolutely space for auditing expenses that give assurance and will be more thorough than any internal process.
5 sigma is a rule of thumb and it still needs to be qualified. IIRC, while the Higgs discovery was officially announced when the signal reached 5 sigma, most scientists in the field were already comfortable talking about a discovery well before that threshold as there were very high expectations (a prior I guess?) that the Higgs had to be there.

On the other hand, almost nobody believed the FTL Neutrino incident was real even if the signal was stronger than 5 sigma. Extraordinary claims still require extraordinary evidence.

IANP and everything.
Like all constitutional rights, it's a right only because 5 Supreme Court justices say it is. The Constitution is infinitely malleable by the people whose job is to "interpret" it.

It is, somehow, even more anti-democratic than the thumb on the scale given to large but poorly-populated states. There is no appeal from it, and any temporary advantage in the other two branches approves decades-long appointments to the third. The Supreme Court now has a 2:1 majority control by one political party, and will do so for the rest of my life.
> It's still no guarantee all changes will propagate within 5 minutes. But it gives some ease of mind to know the bulk of change won't take a day.

Especially it gives you peace of mind that should stuff go badly wrong you can easily revert the change.
Google Translates ‘Unworried’ to ‘Unmarried’
Methodist Quadrilateral still teaches their followers to view issues and compare them to their scripture, then their traditions, then reason, and Christian experiences...

Those are literally the four pillars of Wesleyan, which are all emotion over logic.
> That many in this field identify as a Christian but don't really seem interested in saying so unless it's in a thread which expressly mentions it.

Wouldn't it just be off-topic in other threads though? It's not a surprise it doesn't come up when it's not the subject of a given conversation. I have all sorts of interests that I don't tend to bring up until there's a conversation specifically about them.
..or those productivity porn out there.

Amateurs seek new apps, novel idea, or that best trick that will cure all procrastination. I've been there, and still be sometimes, but much less now since the system began to click and taking shapes after numerous (failed)attempt.

(Well, that made me semi-amateurs I think)

Professional have their own system(usually simple and routinely) and run their life with it. My mom and her trusty pencil & notebook run our household budget for fifty years!(and still going) I can't imagine doing that without some Excel...

Although I'm sure we're all amateur at some point in life...
A Checklist for First-Time Engineering Managers
My comment will be way too late to be read, but I have to say it.

When 4/5 of the major networks use identical wording when reporting on any politically polarizing subject, one cannot help but think they are told what to say.
I would absolutely love to vote for someone who was 100% on my issue. Like the rest of America I chose from my options.

I generally liked the primary scene of 2020, especially Gabbard. The ossified party control needs to be broken up.
JVM/Java has an extensive stdlib, including a decent DNS/IP resolution library that this package contains a vulnerability in.
It also has one of the best date/time libraries I've ever seen, while that it external in nearly all languages for example.
>"No one gives a sh*t about what materials are used to construct the turbine of your airplane"

In case of programming the material is rather people who designed and wrote the software. Good programmers will do decent job disregarding of the language used (assuming language is suitable for domain) and shitty ones will produce clusterfuck regardless.
Interestingly bass forums were better than guitar forums around this. Still mostly gear chat, and lots of discussion about cabs (fearful bass cabs are cool, it's true), but since many venues bass would go preamp->front of house, and you wouldn't really have much control, seems like people were more likely to just deal with not having "perfect" tone. If anything, power was the biggest vice. "Oh we play outdoors once a year, I need 2000 Watts to feel it properly on stage."
If you don't mind the ideological aspect, this article from 2006 is rather relevant to this historic event: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/08/patc-a03.html

"The smashing of PATCO marked a turning point in class relations both in the US and internationally. It signaled the definitive end of the policies of liberal reformism and relative class compromise that had predominated in the post-World War II period and the onset of a ruthless capitalist offensive against the working class that continues to this day.

It also foreshadowed the collapse of the American trade unions and all of the old, bureaucratized labor organizations and parties internationally, which were based on nationalism and class compromise. Reagan’s assault on the PATCO strikers—an attack without precedent in modern US history—provoked massive opposition among working people both in the US and around the world. One month after Reagan fired the PATCO strikers, more than 500,000 workers converged on Washington, DC, in a “Solidarity Day” demonstration—the largest protest ever in the US—to express their outrage and opposition to the Reagan administration."
Fair enough. Yet, is it unreasonable that a company investing in open source - in open source only - and doing all kind of work in the community, actively tries to engage with people that show interest? :) Unless of course they go after you with a gun to force you to buy something, but I think that's not the spirit of open source and freedom of choice, and making happy customers, in which the company operates ;)
Using Postgres as Cron
It skipped 3 of the layers. ;)
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?!
> I'm not aware of a standard way to handle user strings safely

I thought that this was what isprint() was for?
Git's commit workflow is backwards, and encourages bad habits
I don't think this is a practical problem. It may be an ethical one to some, say about as many as vegans. I'm not saying that to minimize it, but rather get a ballpark sense of how urgent this is.

As a thought experiment, say AI does eventually gain consciousness, increasing in awareness, what might some of the stages be:

1. barely self-aware

2. self-aware but without awareness of humans as being conscious

3. fully self-aware and gaining awareness of humans as being conscious, but unable to indicate its self-awareness to humans

4. self-aware, and successfully communicated this to humans

0. not self-aware, and successfully communicated its self-awareness to humans

Now if we put animals on this spectrum, do we have a problem? Likely not since we as animals ourselves will be generous in granting 'awareness' to anything that looks like it.

For machines, levels 1-3 is unfortunate, but perhaps not much more so than the animals that are lower on the evolutionary ladder and not so cute as to be protected by humans.

0 is actually more likely, perhaps not for the scientists who do this research, but for the public at large, who have a tendency to anthropomorphise everything anyway. For this same reason, 3 seems unlikely, or at least unlikely to be a long period.
Just stick a `npm audit` in your CI jobs to run weekly or so?
I think this is wrong.

Someone says "it COULD be stuck for weeks"

It gets unstuck earlier, fine. Doesn't invalidate the possibility.

The criticism is moot. If anyone had made bets, then I'd take both more seriously.
Your claim is that they didn't know what Epstein was up to. That's pretty clearly not the case.
The whole concept of dog whistles is to build a strawman argument. There may be some small groups that use some coded language, but extrapolating that out to the entire population is a straw man argument. It basically allows you to alter what the other side says and demonize them for that interpretation instead of what is actually said.

The entire concept of dog whistles is pretty nefarious and only causes more division by causing one side to be able to assume the worst of the other side. It's also silly to assume that the people who actually think the things that you interpret the dog whistles to mean, are somehow afraid to actually say the things you interpret them as saying. Actual white supremacists don't talk in code, they say actual, clearly racist things. They don't feel the need to hide it.

I read a funny article recently that many minority groups supported the "dog whistle" policies, when it comes to securing the border. The author seemed confused that all the minority groups were racist against undocumented immigrants, or just not understanding that the policies listed in the survey were "dog whistles." The most likely explanation is the simplest, many Americans are against illegal/undocumented immigration.
> Well, when I went to a steakhouse in India, I didn't need to cross a picket line.

The comment was specifically about how it didn't seem unreasonable for the church to publicly oppose abortion, in response to a billboard on the church's property.

> the church had a massive anti-abortion billboard over their parking lot

It wasn't about the members of the church protesting at a hospital or other facility that performs abortions. Admittedly, that does happen in some places, but it's not what was being discussed.
Witches? Seriously? That's just looney crap.

I take it that "last straw" means the "straw that broke the camel's back". I just hope that stories like that won't be conflated with healthy practice of Christianity in people's minds.
The blog post criticizes existing software for their inaccuracy, but that is not their problem. The key signature of a particular passage may deviate from the overall key. I also wonder how they evaluate accuracy shown in [1] and what is the human accuracy in comparison.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DJs/comments/hwlzyt/key_detection_c...
Terrific! Looks great with the tags you added and everything. Thanks and I'll look at some other submissions you've got on there.
I ended up working a few ex-controllers in my IT career. They has some interesting stories to tell.
You may find that you judge others, and others judge you, without the help of religions. Some would say that’s one theme of Christian belief, “judge not, lest we be judged ourselves.” You are ironically doing what you find fault in, judging others. “Christians are too judgmental.” Well, so are non-religious folks and they don’t have any scripture or religious leaders to remind them to be humble, not to cast stones, turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor. If nothing else look for counter examples, the many people of faith who do a lot of good in the world through charity and spiritual work. I assure you, these people exist. Don’t fall prey to confirmation bias and a culture that stigmatizes faith and spirituality as unsophisticated and oppressive, it’s literally the opposite of the truth if you look at it empirically.
Thanks. That looks promising; I'll give it a try.
This is a super common bug.
Why util.promisify `readFile` when `fs` exports promises?
A small addition: Here is the link to the wikipedia article that also tells you about their hotel and airline business.

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

(Cue jokes about earth (they have trucks) and water blockages soon to be followed by air. I haven't seen a good fire theory yet.)
I think you took the wrong tone from the parent comment; it sounds like this person was genuinely interested in sparking a real conversation about how people feel about the environment that they spend time in, and whether that could have dramatically shifted based on what they decided to or had to learn
Arguably calling in the military to break the strike is what drove the steady climb of income inequality up to today's levels as the private sector followed suit:

"Reagan's firing of the government employees encouraged large private employers, like Phelps Dodge (1983), Hormel (1985–86), and International Paper (1987), to hire striker replacements instead of negotiating in labor conflicts.[17] Comparatively, in 1970 there were over 380 major strikes or lockouts in the U.S., by 1980 the number had dropped to under 200, in 1999 it fell to 17, and in 2010 there were only 11.[18] "

http://www.the-crises.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/gini-in...
And we have a global mindset in Europe, right? So we could have learned from others. But somehow nobody invested in contact tracing infrastructure, PPE production, etc. Why? Because you can't justify more spending for something that "could happen". There's an enormous tax burden already in the EU, and governments will be struggling even more with healthcare costs in the next decades. I doubt someone will stockpile millions of KN95 masks "just in case" after the pandemic is over. Because that costs money.
> Fewer people than ever claim membership in unions, political parties,

That is exactly the opposite of my experience.
Ships going through the canal are commanded by Egyption pilots, so it's doubtful that Evergreen has any responsibility.

That would make the Egyptian government responsible. But I'd be stunned if it paid or apologized to anyone.
It all boils down to what is good software? Everyone understands good software has to fulfill its functional requirements; but what about the non-functional requirements, the operational requirements, or the "ilities"?

I've seen a lot of programmers simply assume flexibility and scalability are de facto requirements. Are they? For some systems they are, for others they're not. Embedded systems don't typically concern themselves with scalability and oftentimes don't even worry about flexibility. Simplicity and testability are their major criterion. You need to know your actual non-functional requirements and not make assumptions. This oftentimes requires of years of experience, especially if working in a corporate setting.

Then there's the question of brownfield and greenfield deployment. Companies prefer to evolve software, they're generally not in favor of throwing everything out and starting over. Are you more interested in solving people's needs or using the most popular languages and frameworks du jour?

Greenfield development is risky. Programmers love getting a shot "to do things right." The problem is too many of those programmers are too inexperienced to understand how things became the way they are. They just assume everyone before them was a "bad" programmer and they, of course, are the "good" programmers. All these people are going to do is re-create today's problems, and possibly add in brand-new problems, using the latest languages and frameworks. All at an exorbitant cost.

Software is all about people, processes & tools and tools are rarely, if ever, the problem. Unless you understand people and processes I'm confident you can fail with any software stack you choose. Of course the converse is true too - if you understand the people, their needs and expectations, and the processes then you're way ahead of the game and are likely to succeed regardless of the software stack you choose or are forced to use. That's why I don't care about what programming language you use.

BTW - I like Clojure, I've used it a lot on little side projects. I've never once seen it used for commercial work. Too few people know it for most businesses to risk investing in it. Yes it's a chicken-and-egg problem but remember what I said earlier about people and processes?
Yes, I remember this, I was quite yong then. The USPS was on the verge of striking (my parents and many relatives worked there) and there were deeply worried (terrified) about this. The firing stopped that strike from happening. But yet again these union members voted for Reagan in 1984.

I believe this was the start of union busting trend.
I would hope that we don’t boil everything down to a utilitarian “is it worth the effort to fight for what is right.”

I would hope that any contributor to a community would have this level of activity to right a wrong, not just the famous people.

On utilitarian grounds, I don’t think this individual person is “worth all this effort,” but I think trying to establish community norms is worthwhile if our goal is a healthy community with strong contributions going forward. If a member can be expelled based on a blog post then that’s bad and will detract from people’s willingness to participate, I think.
The Dual Nature of Software Development
I had an interview where they weren't expecting me when I showed up (red flag 1) and the interviewer asked how old I was and after I responded said "wow you look like you're in high school" (red flag 2).

I always wonder how far I could have taken that legally, but I'm not litigious.
No, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I mean, this is one of the mayor schisms between Protestant and Christian churches.

You can check the catechism if you want. It puts it in black on white.
> much of the conspiracy theory following we are seeing is actually a weakening of church

I completely agree. Critical Theory / Wokeness / Social Justice is a new secular religion on the rise for the sophisticated and cults of personality are there for the unsophisticated
Indeed you seem to be right, and now I'm not so sure about my claim.

What I learned from following around the ازگیل page is even more interesting. Those pages say it's known as "coonoos" in gilan, and "kenes", "kendes", or "kaandes" in mazandaran. I can't help but hear "quince" in these. Which happens to be in the same family.
Your thoughts and experience resonate with me.

Although I would look for similar examples elsewhere to understand where it is all headed. And one of those could be the rise and adoption of the JVM. There are a bunch of old dependencies, multiple repositories (compared to just one popular npmjs), a couple of build tools (ant, maven, gradle) compared to npm, yarn, then multiple languages (invented for somewhat similar reasons as Typescript). One thing is sure that the dependencies stay somewhere for-almost-ever, and all else kind of evolves around it.

It seems that the main problem at the moment is the developer (me, you, everyone) who instead of writing 20 lines of code uses a dependency that has 10 other transient ones. You cannot fix it but rather challenge those situations at work and reduce the tech debt for good. Maybe there should be a build tool that throws errors depending on the amount of dependencies. Maybe there should be a frontend framework which will only need 10 dependencies for the helloworld instead of 1500; otherwise we kind of think that if a boilerplate template has 1500 deps then surely adding another 100 will not make much harm.
Or bi-polar disorder.

Regardless, ifend (probably), and definitely myself are not psychologists. Please go see a psychologist. This is not a "drugs will make everything better" but more like you should talk to a professional. Maybe this is all a life perspective thing, maybe it's past trauma, whatever.

They can help. And if you hate them...then you probably have BPD :)
that sounds ominous?