skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using it for years with clients. It tends to sit in between source data and a final destination. Most data platforms are trying to take data from 10s if not 100s of sources and unify them. The variety of formats and sources is endless and I've often had to resort to using Python-based Airflow DAGs to collect data based on dates and store a cleaned up version of what was collected as a timestamped PQ file for Presto. Presto is then great for large scale transformations across the data and ad-hoc exploring.

Presto can be pointed at a lot of data stores but few external data providers offer ODBC-like interfaces. It seems to be either APIs or static file dumps for the most part. So Presto isn't going to be able to pull from these datasets alone.

In terms of security and maintenance, products like Redshift are easier to train traditional data warehouse people up on. The service is relatively cheap and has a nice UI for scaling.

The data world is extremely fragmented. Once firms have something in place changing it is going to be a struggle. Existing staff often gate keep and defend whatever technology they've staked their careers on. Once there are a lot of reports setup with any on data source migrating it could end up becoming a prolonged project which can be hard to sell.

It was quoted Snowflake had a $1M / day budget for sales and marketing. I'm not aware of any Presto consultancy spending that sort of money. Amazon does have Athena but they have countless other offerings which muddies the water.
The biggest difference between US and EU chicken production is use, or not use of, vaccines and antibiotics to control salmonella. The US approach is, for better or worse, to use regulation of the slaughterhouse to control such pathogens, vs inoculation. The situation with eggs is similar. The French approach results in cleaner but more expensive eggs. I'd prefer that personally, but there is a logic behind the US regulatory approach that shouldn't just be dismissed without thought.
I have long waited for a Pure GNU OS. Redhat's, oops sorry, IBM's move gives more motivation to use Guix.
I replied upthread, but I made a mistake reading https://docs.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/... when revisiting what I remembered, and I was just looking at it from the perspective of private repos. My bad!
Sure, having skilled people with the right to make decisions solves almost everything.

But who decides who is skilled enough? Then we are quickly in the realm of politics ..
I wonder how this would work as a systematic development -- or even a business-- -strategy: Ask questions on your (private) Stack Overflow and keep your team adding evolving answers to them. Like, "What is our strategy?". "How do we deal with the fact that ..."
I was hired as a coder on a fun project like that.

It wasn't a big project, I was the sole coder. What had been sold in was basically a Drupal install with some customization. I made sure they wrote a decent specification before I accepted the job.

I delivered on time and we had the first test with the client. Everything went very well, and the client seemed happy.

On the client side, the project was then moved from the project group to those who'd actually be using it. And then came the question from the new manager:

Mgr: "This looks nice, but what about all the other sites?"

Us: "Other sites? The contract was only for one site."

Mgr: "Well, the whole point here was to have 17 sites with site-specific content written by site-specific users, managed centrally with a unified look as if it was one single site."

Us: "Err... that's not what the specification we agreed on says."

Mgr: "Well, as it stands this is useless to us."

And so the simple three day job turned into many weeks.
Female gendering increases humanness perceptions of bots and acceptance of AI
I was wanting to compare the industrial scale cost of doubling the width of a pizza to doubling the width of the cross section of a starship. Your entitled to you're opinion
Not really. NFTs give 'ownership' to things that were already online and widely shared, sometimes for decades (first tweet, nayan cat gif).

The Louvre can still NFT all the images as they please at millions for each one. If anything, it makes it easier now that people can start valuing the items before deciding to make a 'purchase' vs the museum starting auctions immediately.
Rule35:

You seem like a reasonable mentally stable person with a respect for the power that a firearm brings. The issue is that with all tools be they an AR15 (before moving to the Germany I wanted to build an AR10 with a 7.62 caliber barrel — that would have been fun to go plinking with) or nuclear weapons or anything in between it’s how do we prevent the less sane, those that would do the innocent harm?

I don’t envy the politicians here. Their job is very hard. They have to weigh legitimate uses for self defense, recreation, hunting, etc., against those that would use them to kill many on a mass scale.

One thing that did cause alarm in your most recent post was this: “ You aren't shooting at 600m, but perforating a car at 30m.” Why is anyone shooting at a car? In the US some states if the suspect is fleeing you can’t pursue, but this is getting into the weeds of things. Suffice it to say that this is a thorny issue with no real easy fix or silver bullet (pun not intended). I do maintain that if the time to get a gun went from same day to a month I personally would be willing to pay that cost in waiting.

Feel free to continue this over email: Email (b64 encoded) YWxleGFuZGFyIGRvdCBuYXJheWFuIGF0IGhleSBkb3QgY29t
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No, this is suggesting that government should enforce workers' rights to decide freely if they want to unionize. Companies routinely skirt this right by taking explicit anti-unionization efforts, and there are many firms specializing in this.
It's more than that. The bulk of your support time for a typical consumer business, if you allow it, will be taken up by people who are lonely, mentally ill or extremely upset and want to express themselves to someone face-to-face.

These people are much easier to ignore via email, and almost no consumer problem actually requires an immediate verbal response.

Outside of certain niche applications like banking or B2B, I have no idea why most businesses offer call centres at all.
Can you link to the device?
Spain Is Going to Trial a 4-Day Work Week
I dunno what you’re saying; this kind of bug also proves difficult to avoid in large, security-critical projects like web browser engines.
The title should be corrected to "The Mercury functional logic programming language".
But what about captchas?

Due to aggressive no-script and uBlock use I, browsing the website as a human, keep getting hit by captchas and my success rate is falling to a coinflip. If there's a script to automate that I'm all ears.
We already have ship to ship cargo transfers (Lightering):

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

due to draft concerns for the larger vessel.
Please don’t bring this caliber of political discussion to HN. What you wrote sounds more at home on Twitter, Reddit, or Facebook.
Unionized workers get what they negotiate for. Given how tech works, a Tesla union very well could demand options. It is absolutely false that unionization precludes employees getting options.
The FAANG employee is in high demand and therefore has implicit leverage, the call center employee does not. Whether one thinks they should or not does not matter, because the economics won’t allow it.
Who was comparing him to any Fields medal winner? You said his papers were of "very limited quality." That's what I'm saying is untrue. That isn't to say there aren't some stinkers in the mix. Anyone who publishes 1500+ papers is going to have some stinkers. But, "very limited quality" as a general assessment is way, way off the mark, IMO.

Yes, Erdos and Euler are not really comparable, but that's mostly the effect of 250 years and a lot of drugs, IMO. :P
I agree but I think the race to the bottom issue is more an expression of the outsourcing business model.

Companies that can afford to operate their own CS portals will outsource because they know they can squeeze these providers for cheaper services and in turn the employees ultimately are the ones that suffer.
Or why not execute them instead?
Worked very well for ages ...

More seriously, there usually are no simple solutions to complex problems. And government is a very complex problem. So many people with so many opinions - and everyone involved afraid to say one wrong word or make one wrong decision. I don't think more fear helps there.

I mean - prison for corruption - yes!
But prison for incompetence, no. Then you also have to jail the people who put the incompetent person there in the first place and those people and so on.
I pay $3/month for a VPS. Probably not the cheapest way to host, and not the smallest vps offered, but I like that I can just ssh into it and do whatever I want, if/when I want something more than nginx, or I want to configure it in a very particular way (both things did happen). The drawback is that running apt upgrade is on me.
> Can someone explain why it is called a "functional" language?

Not sure why the title only includes "functional", the site itself says "Mercury is a logic/functional programming language".
This is outrage clickbait from a corporate disciple of a conservative think-tank publishing propaganda via corporatized PBS. (Fox News: PBS edition).

Edit: Heritage Foundation and Claremont Institute. :-/
D is very good at detecting dangling pointers into the stack at compile time.
Right. But the client should never come up with the detailed spec. If they know what needs to be done it'd literally be faster for them to code it themselves.

They should never produce more than a page or two of specs, outside of the central task itself, because most everything will change when under production anyways. A project like this is big enough that apps became a thing, and fundamentally changed twice, in the lead-up to the actual work.

And all the little things they could control are just bikeshedding, best done by an impartial designer or by A/B tests.
I don't plan to go to Paris because I don't want to become another victim of the Paris Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
Had to look it up, DasBetterC is not german, it's "D as a better C"
You really shouldn’t expect software employed in a call center to be designed to be easy or convenient for the people working there.
Surely there are more task focused performance metrics.
That "article" is anything but neutral. These articles are a better source: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
Why such app at all, and how can gov may force people to use it?
This definitely sounds like corruption, and every gov contract globally is handled similarly. The sooner people realize that their gov is not special, the better.
Won’t someone please think of the white people
Well, angry toddlers are also often angry when someone takes something they believe to be theirs. And toddlers often think the whole world is theirs and theirs alone and everyone is here for their amusement .. and if reality tells them different, they can get very mean, too. So - I think the analogue holds somewhat.
> nearly every issue I can recall has had a satisfactory solution within their UI.

They started shipping me books bound tightly in bubble-padded manila envelopes. The binding was so tight that the books arrived with damage caused by Amazon's own stupid packaging choice. I repeatedly returned these books with the explicit note "book was damaged due to bad packaging; please use different packaging". They were not capable of fixing their problem.
Horizontal gene transfer occurs routinely among bacteria through a process called conjugation. Bacteria literally inject their neighbour with a chunk of DNA.

This is what the molecular apparatus looks like from the surface membrain of a bacterium.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihlFqOK5cZM
What towns like this exist in U.S? I desire something like this.
Yes, the trouble is agreeing on a definition of "simple"
Mandatory education system?
Not limited to art but for cultural heritage collections in general.

There is the OpenGLAM Survey, a list of Galleres, Libraries, Archives, and Museum sharing their collections under open licenses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yc8z0z7XdhVKvhTbD2_z...

Then there are also aggregators like dp.la, cultural.jp, digitalnz.org, europeana.eu etc that might also be of interest.
Did that richness really trickle down? Just look at the distribution of that money.
In what time period did this "unbridled capitalism" happen?
I threw together a D Programming language glob-grep based off of the Zig version the author posted, if anyone is curious: https://gist.github.com/aruthane/005c6c48f0deb9c4bfc83bc75e0...
You can watch her Ramona TV series with 8 year old Sarah Polley(!) on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7g1gWLIvBgb8A4tFGUKvb07M...
> For the last one I err towards it being a personal liberty to decide what life you do and do not bring into the world. But it does get more hairy when you start discussing public support in terms of resources to support the child/family. Then it is everyone’s business imo. But I’d imagine people that can afford IVF don’t rely on government programs to finance their life.

It certainly is a personal liberty. I am French, atheist, and I am very much attached to that freedom.

Having healthy discussion about this is good as it is an eye opener for all the sides involved.

Now, there is the general population part: someone who willingly decides to have a sick child that will cost more to the society must be ready to bear all the costs, including the ones after their death.

On the other hand, this should also apply to people who smoke, are overweight etc. and though this choice are also a burden for the society, financially speaking.

The last part (money) is not an easy one. The first one (morality) is much easier as everyone is an expert in the subject :)
I am getting 500 even when doing a search.
Recreating an Old “Dirty Gamedev Trick” (2019)
Given the enormous costs of blocking the canal I'm surprised it's not almost entirely automated similar to autopilots. Simulating the hydrodynamic and forces from local weather seem tractable to do in real-time with a few higher end Nvidias. At least to a high enough grid resolution that'd exceed pilot intuition and training.
Plenty of these systems have caught some focus the past year. A different question might be - why do developers not say no to work on this type of software?
FSFE: Free Your Android
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Using S3 Object Lambdas to Generate and Transform on the Fly
I use site44.

It's ridiculously easy. It's a front-end to Dropbox, so if you're already doing this, it's basically:

Sign up, chose "mycrapsite.site44.com"

cp -pr deployedsite/* ~/Dropbox/Apps/mycrapsite.site44.com

Now your site is on the web.

Nothing else is as easy as that. Super convenient for a lot of times when you just need a few files accessible via the web for some reason, too - no need to use any web interfaces, just copy on the command line, and done.
>Maybe, unsurprising to HN, but I believe more in technology's impact than anything else.

Technology is a facilitator for better and more impactful wars. Has always been historically.

>Technology enabled the wars, and probably similarly ended them.

The loss of the role of Europe after WWII (when they couldn't hold the colonies anymore or fight between them for global control) that ended them.

Plus tons of national barriers have been established by then (the break-up of empires and the unification of feudal arrangmenets into countries having brought many wars between populations wanthing their own state and fighting for its borders with neighbors).

The US, on the other hand, which picked up the "top dog" role after WWII, got into countless wars during the Cold War, but it was between them the USSR and their proxies - Europe did not need to apply anymore.

And the US got into all those wars despite the US having the most advanced technology of that era. It wasn't the technology that started/stopped the wars, it was the opportunity they offered (or lack thereof in Europe).

In the next economic vacuum/opportunity we'll see a revamp. We already see it with the current trade wars...
> or opt for IVF to prevent the disorder (and all others that are testable)

This is a point I never considered (theoretically - I am a parent of teens so the question is over for me). I always assumed that IVF is much more risky (all things taken into account) that natural procreation but I have never actually gave a thought on that.
Could you please elaborate on "GPT-3" like? What is this based on? I've heard folks using GPT-2 for such stuff?

On the app, Seems pretty good for mainstream topics. I tried "Best tactics of real estate agents to make the most of your CRM systems" ... quite decent results
>Github pages is fine, but the extra gh-pages branch is kind of annoying.

You don't need that anymore. You can run Github Pages out of a branch like /docs, which makes life much simpler. That's how I run most of my sites.
List of cultural heritage institutions with open access collections
Hyper-competitive low-margin market, many very efficient vertically-integrated solar sales businesses (sales, installation, logistics), lower selling costs (very engaged consumers), most homes single story so lower installation costs, and lower permitting and connection costs.
The problem is that though a lot of homeowners would themselves benefit from dropping prices (most would love to trade up, and as long as we don't end in negative equity, dropping prices would help with that), most people don't seem to understand, and see the house as an investment of the "I can afford a more expensive house" kind (ignoring that those more expensive houses are also more expensive because of the price growth).

Overcoming the psychology of that is politically hard.
Most times "calling out" someone in a way that's effective takes effort. I think they're just giving the majority of people an excuse not to bother engaging in any activism that might actually work.
> so I think you'd need a huge amount of traffic to put a dent in Firebase's static hosting capacity.

No, I was referring to your bill, when your resource usage spikes (really spikes, as in sustained Gbps+ traffic spikes). Many people were taken aback by the unexpected bills.
I don't use Jekyll and I have never set up a .nojekyll file. I don't know what that is meant to do, but you can deploy whatever you want and it will work just fine.

Maybe you need that file on the rare offchance that you're deploying a site that contains something that looks like a Jekyll config, but you don't want it to be built that way.
Much more than a year, maybe 2-3 years.
it's getting harder to be white day by day. /s
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but that blogpost doesn't sound like it's about anarchism or illegal content to me, it's sounds more like them justifying shutting down "problematic" content (like what happened with Gab or Parler). They also have a paragraph towards the end about how they don't want to host "racists".
I did this for a while, the ability to deploy to Azure from within Visual Studio Code was also quite fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_effect
First of all, the system wasn’t treated as confidential information, and workers weren’t told that use of the system was restricted. Second, the data they extracted were simply names and photos. Third, they posted them to a FB group comprising Tesla employees. If you read the judgment, indeed, all of these actions are considered protected activity.
> it should be a nominal task to restrict viewers to those with read access to your repo

I don't think it would be quite that trivial. They would have to inject authentication into your HTML, which could cause lots of things to break.
If it's a founder role, then the equity at time of issue can be worth, like CAD0.000001 (insert zeros to suit) / share, and so the immediate tax liability is like CAD1.

I'm totally not up on CAD/USA tax law, but in AUS the issue can be that you can have a capital-gains event if the company ever has a change of control, even if you don't actually get any income.

Honestly, don't ask HN here: pay an accountant.
My boss defines it as a microservice for every method
What has the amount of software development have to do with the right to be free?

By your logic most of African countries should become CCP's colonies (oh, wait...).

#learntocode much?

Junk arguments.
I knew it wasn't going to work when the NYT's published Senator Tom Cotton's editorial calling for the Army to crush the BLM's protests and the generals pointed told them all to go to hell.

Apparently the Army isn't very happy with one political party.
I agree. Learning to program on my own in the 80s by writing things like text adventures, I had to figure out things like parsing and sorting myself, with no idea that these were common problems with known approaches. Nowadays I lazily reach for answers on Google most of the time when I encounter a problem that is novel to me. I'm pretty sure I'm dumber now because of it.
I saw bad non-union companies, and I hope those horrors won’t happen to Tesla.
It's not tricky if you know what you're doing. There are people who scale-up their backyards to professional microfarming. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-BlDCX__nCLs_ZF9meYQbw

The solutions to failures of open land farming isn't microfarming, it's scaling-up greenhouses or vertical warehouse aeroponics.
I do wonder how far things have to go before we collectively agree that Amazon treats its workers inhumanely.

All it takes is for consumers to stop doing business with such entities.
Hey let’s not make it a freedom of speech issue. If you speak the words “if you what I dislike I’ll beat you up” you’re not asserting a 1A right, you’re just a bully
again, perhaps it's a personal or a cultural thing, but it's not about the "class" or standard of a joint/employer.

It's the idea of a bullshit job + jobs as an ends rather than a means + the additional distasteful nature of being waited upon like that.
OP literally pointed out AWS as the kind of thing they want to avoid because it's too complicated.
Then you're locked into your ISP forever.
He didn’t Dox them - he didn’t publish their home addresses or phone numbers, he merely said “these people testified on behalf of the company at a state hearing.” This is very clearly protected organizing activity, as documented with multiple case citations in the judge’s ruling.

In addition, the employee who was fired didn’t access the internal system. Someone else did, and texted him the photos, which he posted. The person who allegedly accessed the system only got a warning. So, if the concern is the improper access of company systems, then they punished the wrong guy.
GitHub pages:

You can use custom domains with SSL

Here's a full example:

https://github.com/rosshemsley/rosshemsley.co.uk
Nuclear power and warehouse aeroponics.
It's the method I've used for at least 30 years for rapid shots on a non-turbo controller. I most commonly used it to unlock the secret Arcade difficulty level on Gradius 3 SNES, but I used it before that point.

I was a bit surprised to see that was a semi-secret technique!
I don't really like to defend SAP, as I had to use it once just for putting in working hours and was horrified by the necessary steps to do so - but afaik SAP is not "terrible pieces quickly thrown together ".

It is rather way overengineered. In such a way, that freshmen to SAP(out of university), get assigned to a project - but for one whole year are basically just have to walk along with the team, without contribution actual code, because they have to understand how it all works together first.
(at least thats what I've been told by some people going there)

Sounds glorious and horrifying. I rather did things where I saw actual progress and impact of my work.