skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Online processes and APIs are great but we have to have backups and failsafes.

At my company everyone has gone API-crazy. There's one activity in a team I used to be on that used to require a human review of a configuration change. It's something that developers on the team do just a few times a year. Someone got the idea that this should be fully automated, because I guess it would look good on their performance review if they built a new service?

What we had at the start was a description of what you were trying to do and how you could do it, but it included a manual review of a change request. It was simple, understandable, and required very little human attention.

What we ended up with was an API for a microservice with its methods half-documented and no "big picture" description of what API calls you were supposed to make in which sequence to get the job done. API calls would fail with obscure misspelled error messages, and you'd have to guess what you did wrong in the JSON file you were submitting. And then of course it ended up not working half the time, and you'd have to open support tickets or ping the entire dev team in chat to ask why you weren't getting the results you expected when using the API. Of course the initial response tended to be, "Did you read the documentation?" And the user would have to respond, "Yes. Here is what I did after trying to decipher the so-called documentation, and here's why. Here are the results I need. I'm not getting them. How can I figure out why?" At which point two or three very annoyed developers would ask for details on exactly which API calls were made with which parameters, and they'd poke into logs and whatever, before they figured out yet another untested corner case and manually fix the database entries while saying, "Well don't do that next time."

Sure, if you've got to scale to thousands of requests a week or something, building an API with a microservice might make sense. But there's a point of diminishing returns in trying to automate absolutely everything behind APIs. Some very low QPS things really should have a human in the loop by default.
Or Spain has a history of leniency towards undocumented immigrants and they thought they'd get the same treatment.

If course the problem with breaking the law is it opens you up to selective enforcement if Spain decides it wants to thumb its nose at the Brits in particular.
There's also 010 Editor, which has a very similar thing for creating file format grammars. Invaluable if you work with complex binary files regularly.

The scriptable functionality to decode a file format that this and Synalyze It do makes them my two favourite hex editors.

This hex editor looks like a great start, though :)
Maybe it's a disinformation campaign to weaken Taiwan's defenses by tricking us into redeploying half our troops to Paris because we're not sure where the attack will be.
> So many of them are genuinely surprised at what is happening.

So many?
British food these days seems fine to me as a visitor but certainly somewhat different from Spain. Sunnier/warmer weather, lower prices, and generally more laid-back lifestyle would make sense to me however.
I love python, and I don't know if the GP are good points, but your answer is really disengenuous.

> > pattern matching

> We have that in Python 3.10.

> > immutability-by-default for lists and dictionaries

> We do have tuples and frozendict.

3.10 like the version that is not released yet?

Tuples an frozendicts, so precisely non default list and dicts?
A similar/same technique is common in competitive minecraft pvp, where it's known as jitter clicking. There are other similar such techniques with a variety of names.
That doesn't say anything about consumption rates. We don't even know how many of those 68% even know whether or not they are intolerant. My wife is from Thailand where lactose intolerance is statistically very high and yet milk consumption appears to be widespread. They even have milk-based products that are not seen in the West, for example milk-based sodas and soft drinks.
I remember someone telling how his Steam review was copied verbatim... Maybe it was for the 'awards' users can get on their reviews?
My Dad had a floppy on his C64 and it was terribly unreliable, but (once again) less unreliable than the cassette deck that I was stuck with. He loved gadgets, but really only used it to play "Hunchback" and similar games. I often thought "Shall I hit him over the head with a hammer and steal it, so I can create some truly brilliant software?", but I never did.
So why not just extract it? I mean it is open source?
Clearly the 60GB HDD machine was the superior choice for years to come. ;)
I'd be really interested to hear which icons you're missing. I'm actually just about to push an update that will add a few more icons to the library (i.e. queues, caches, DNS etc). Expect those over the next few hours. Will try to include any suggestions in the next release. Thanks for checking it out!
The news we got could have had more to do with the international community trying to save face and spreading a narrative, rather than a large number of actual locals wanting to be part of Russia.
Agreed. Given every single other (less specific) detail that was copied, yea... right the tattoos were probably a coincidence.
Refuse to do any more business with them. Cut them off economically, cut trade routes and flights.
I don't think there is much room for the public opinion or the press to really inform the rest of the world about what's going on in China. We as outsiders make our opinion out of sheer inference when talking about China and the pandemic.
> Since rental supply is almost completely inelastic in the short run rental prices are wholly determined by demand.

Yes, I fully agree with that. I don't see how that refutes my point though.

If the maximum renters will bear is $X/mo before they decide to move to somewhere cheaper, and landlords are currently charging $X/mo and you impose a tax on renters, they'll either ask for their rent to be reduced, or move away.

If landlords charging less than $X, and the tax is imposed on the renters, they'll stay as long as the total is still less than $X. If the tax is imposed on the landlords, they'll raise rents to $X.
Littered isn't necessarily a pejorative term. You could litter a bed with rose petals, or find your path littered with gold coins.

It's not necessarily like saying 'trashed'.
I disagree. How did 1-5mb become an acceptable size to ship to your users? That's actually quite a lot. In a slow connection, this isn't even going to load anything except a blank screen for such a long time.
Yeah I look forward to hyper resolution from tours if these places. Or better just open world where i can wander. Imagine being the only person in the louvre, slipper and sweats with a bottle of wine standing inches from unprotected works.
> removed a significant percentage of its inhabitants

I was actually curious if anyone could help answer the following:

(a) how one would define inhabitant (including bacteria?)
(b) what the net %age change actually would be given a suitable choice of (a)
Amazon Official Twitter: You make the tax laws SenWarren; we just follow them
Love it. If you need more inspiration I can highly recommend Darren Allen's Apocalypedia too: https://expressiveegg.org/portfolio/apocalypedia/
The plan in the 1960s to blast a canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs
>> they treat those same workers like absolute shit with inhumane working conditions

I think this debate is going to be like all the others on the topic, if you have never done manual labor, warehouse work, or factory work you are going to talk about the "inhumane working conditions", and if you have done that type of work you consider an Amazon warehouse job to be a great job for an unskilled laborer.

I did 10 years in that world, the factory workers I worked with would have considered an Amazon warehouse job to be a dream job.

I feel dirty now for having defended Amazon, but the truth is the truth.
Lol, you really need to study science and stop Googling stuff and trying to reply to my comments. You should go back to middle school, really... You just used an appeal to authority fallacy in one of your arguments.... Study a little bit more before commenting it out in something that you have no knowledge about
Regular intercourse is the key to success.
Appeal to authority fallacy. Go back to middle school
If Google would not ignore special characters, it would be the easiest to find... ie: search for "/e/" ... also, alphabet is easy to find because they give themselves priority [0]....

0. https://i.imgur.com/iuxMVBj.png
Birds are metabolically much more active than mammals yet many have long lifespans. This prompted another finding that the number of cortical neurons can explain a large part of the variation in lifespan across species.

https://www.labroots.com/trending/cell-and-molecular-biology...
> I don't think "because it's traditional" or "because we've been doing it for hundreds of years" are good ethical reasons

Why not? Why the fact that something stood the test of time has no value? I've seen this argument often repeated but never explained in logical terms.
Do you have any links/writeups to how you do this?
The tattoos weren't a coincidence. The imposter was specifically impersonating him. The imposter went so far as to get the _same exact words_ tattooed on both hands.

The dedication to impersonating Dr. Lodder is why it's concerning. The imposter wasn't just submitting Lodder's work as his own; he _permanently altered his body_ to appear more like Lodder.
Captain of Costa Concordia salvage looks at the Ever Given fiasco
Always fun to find the first commit:

https://github.com/harc/ohm/commit/4611bf63c5ecb90d782112d68...

2014

Neat tool. I write parsers by hand though. More fun, and you can be a lot sleazier.
I had forgotten the alternative definition. Thanks!
By “take over” the grandparent post means Trump would have become our dictator for life, no pardon would be issued because they would never be charged with a crime.
> I don't, but the accounting does.

Assuming your facts are correct--I have seen factual claims all over the map on this, and government subsidies and favoritism are all over the place, not just in favor of suburban homeowners--this is still not an argument for forcing everyone to live in densely populated cities. It's an argument for removing government subsidies and favoritism. Which I am completely in favor of doing; I'm quite willing to pay whatever the actual costs are of living where I want to live, and factoring those costs into my choice of where to live. What I'm not willing to do is force my choices to conform to someone else's idea of how people should live.

> without leaking their pollution in my air water

Where is that coming from? Certainly not from the references you gave. And if you think cities don't pollute, I don't know where you're getting that from either.
This is a good read. For a long time I explained to people that the value of search advertising was that it matched a buyer who had just asked a buying question with advertisers who wanted to answer that question. This was HUGELY different than previous Internet "banner" advertising. Think of it this way; I put a poster up in the metro that says "Best Deals on Rolex watches" and a million people a day "see it" but a vanishingly small number want to buy a Rolex. However, if Google gets a query "Where to buy a Rolex" or "best deals on Rolex watches", well you know that person is perhaps already considering buying a watch, so you want first crack at the deal.

The secret sauce was instantly pairing "commercial intent" (or the intention to do some commercial action, buy, sell, hire, Etc.) with vendors and firms who can satisfy that intent or "aspects" of that intent. (You might get an Uber ad on a query for "restaurants near me" for example)

Amazon has that in spades. If you are on the Amazon site, that is a huge signal that you are intending to make a commercial transaction. Either with Amazon, or perhaps you are reading reviews of things you can get locally, but the probability that you are about to do something commercial is much much higher. (So does Facebook along a different vector but that is a different post for a different time.)

I know from experience at Blekko that one way to piss off Amazon is to out advertise them :-). That just told me that they considered Ads strategic and selling stuff was secondary to that goal[1].

[1] I reasoned it this way, if selling stuff was primary then any additional exposure is "good" even if you have to pay affiliate fees for it. If advertising was the money maker, then someone doing it better than you (converting your ad revenue into their affiliate revenue) then you respond harshly to that.
Suez Canal to Deploy Clifford the Big Red Dog
Perpetuating and expanding the species is such a basic goal of any living thing that it holds true for the entirety of the Philogenetic tree, with no exceptions, from prokaryotes to plants and vertebrates and humans. In the natural order, existence and proliferation are not just the most important value, but the only value for which an organism exists. Reproduction is often painful and scary, and many living things stop living as soon as they are certain they have successfuly reproduced.

So, by the only universal standard of value among living beings, cows are one of the most successful vertebrates in history - they have managed to breed to almost unprecedented numbers for vertebrates in general, nevermind for mammals.

Even if the only possible way of life for them was the physical suffering of cows in industrial farms, it would not outweighg this basic drive. To suggest that the imagined human concept of 'being exploited' would outweigh the value of existing and breeding is one of the most bizarre takes I've ever heard.

Even humans, who do feel the psychological damages of exploitation and being owned, in the worse conditions of slavery, have never chosen mass extinction over the simple drive of continued life.

Edit: I'd also add that if you value the abstract evil of 'being exploited' as worse than any concrete qualities of the life lead under exploitation, to the extent that non-existence is preferable to this, then you have no choice but to apply this same logic to all agricultural grown plants, especially those that cant even reproduce without our care like bananas or wheat, and to the many kinds of Bacteria we use to produce drugs. They are just as much the victims of exploitation as cows living on nice farms are.
I think you could do that on new ships. But there are a LOT of ships out there that still have like 10 people in the loop to drive them.
OP is just trying to be funny but it seems like it confused a lot of people
Another fun fact (I'm full of them today): while chattel slavery has never existed at a meaningful level in Britain, the specific act of holding someone in slavery wasn't technically made illegal here until 2009: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroners_and_Justice_Act_200...
Did they mean 60 MB? Seems like a lot for ~1987
You aren't supposed to learn everything in one semester. You are supposed to make adequate progress, and the tests are broad enough to catch as much as possible of what you've learned.
did anyone else notice the initial path seemed a bit... phallic? guess I'm just a bit juvenile
Ah, that interpretation makes sense. Yes, no point learning openings if you lose pieces to simple tactics as soon as your opening knowledge ends. So then it should say "start with small drills rather than learning openings", not "That is why it is recommended to start with small drills rather than the full game for the first year". I mean, studying endings is useful even for an absolute beginner, and they are just as much "the full game" as openings.
Brexit in general. I have been following what looks like an absolute clusterfuck: From the exporters at the border who didn't know they had to have the right paperwork to the Northern Ireland protocol. It looks too awful to be true.
Wow. That is an amazing argument. Wow. Such a person is an idiot and the worst state in covid cases is the best....
Just to name a few, Amazon is not competing with: banks, cars (rivian is _an investment_, it's not owned by AMZN), almost all direct manufacturing eg. semiconductors or displays, apartments.com, vacation planning, etc.
don't forget about the curve
And yet countries get sanctioned, coup-ed or invaded when they threaten the petrodollar.

The military enforces the petrodollar, which makes the USD the world’s reserve currency. That means the US can take advantage of extremely low prices on all imports to placate a large portion of the population, while still extracting vast profits from the rest of the world through export of capital at extortionate interest rates.

US domestic production besides military, oil or banks is almost negligible.
For the demographic in question, it's definitely not the food. Many of them refuse to eat "foreign muck". :|
These are not common enough words to lean into. Corporate speak will just incorporate them into the new normal and we're going to have to pivot to something else. How about we streamline to just basic english words that encourage open communication?
That's great - now go to China and start publicly posting on the Internet about China's human rights violations (or better yet, actively campaigning against them) and see how long you last.
Shit, make em NFTs and make a fortune.
My bet is you want the finder to have the least amount of dependencies, so it can still work even if a lot of things are broken in the OS.
Most of them are retired. I think if you're a relatively poor pensioner in a higher cost-of-living rich country like the UK it can make sense to move to a lower cost-of-living country to make the same pension go further. With the cheap flights that we got in the 2000s it wasn't really much different to being in a different town in terms of how far away you were.
Definitely, it isn't necessarily a pejorative term. In this case however, given the context, I believe it's used as such...
That wasn't my experience as a UK expat in the Netherlands. I was there for 11 years and I never heard a thing from HMRC.
No, storing the SHA3 means that if you have the image, you can verify that it has not changed
On demand doesn't mean instantly. Even gas peaker plants aren't instant, they can take 15 minutes to warm up and connect to the grid.

If the sun is down no amount of calling up a solar farm will increase output, if the wind isn't blowing or if it's blowing too strongly no amount of pleading will increase the output of an off-shore wind farm. This is because they aren't dispatchable. This is not the case with Nuclear.

Nuclear can do load following, they do it in France. How else do you think they balance a grid which has 70% Nuclear? They use reactors with grey rods which can reduce the reactivity in the reactor without distorting the shape of the reaction.
DPDK adopts the C11 memory model
I'm pretty sure it must have been MB!
So at what point should the West get involved? Do you think that China is going to stop after it takes Taiwan?
I am really surprised that D's --betterC subset (or just D proper) wasn't even tested, considering that's exactly what it is called and would likely outrank a good bit of everything else on the list.
> There are vehicles that use highly reactive fluid called gasoline. Many people drive them safely because we are smart and designed them to be safe enough to be worth the benefit of travel. There are homes heated by explosive fuel (natural gas). People even cook with it. Sometimes people bring water to a hazardous boiling condition in order to cook or make tea.
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> The utilization of hazardous material in safe ways to benefit humanity is old hat, and wholly appropriate in many cases.

True, still people - including myself - keep burning their hands on the stove or with hot water occasionally. Humans also sometimes accidentally ignite some fuel and die a fiery death (electrostatic discharge at fuel station for example). But accidentally irradiating your and all your 1000 neighbors properties for centuries or until the next top soil replacement is a whole different matter. Before real accidents actually happened it was probably easier to convince people risk was tollerable. Now eating wild boar and some mushrooms in the forrest here is considered a health hazard, cause of high levels of cesium. Boar meat tastes great. It is a damn shame it can't be eaten in many cases. Same for the mushrooms:

https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-w...

Quote:
"Wer seine persönliche Belastung verringern möchte, sollte in den höher belasteten Gebieten Deutschlands auf den Genuss selbst erlegten Wildes und selbst gesammelter Pilze verzichten." -> "If you want to reduce your personal stress, you should refrain from enjoying game and mushrooms you have hunted yourself in the more polluted areas of Germany."

To summarize, I believe your argument is not unfounded but still doesn't properly account for the difference in scale (time, affected area and severity) of the worst possible effects if something should go wrong. And we know there always remains some risk.

People evaluate not only using analytic thinking, but also from observation and influenced by emotions. And the last two processes seem to disfavour use of nuclear power.

A reactor based on nuclear fission is going to be a hard sell in any region that has been affected by one or multiple accidents before. I hope we can get fusion to work and somehow find a way to shield it properly without causing too much waste. Or concentrate heavily on renewable energy storage (efficiency is a goal that has to be weighed against other factors and may be improved later).
The FTP support in Windows and MacOS has always been terrible.

Windows used to do it through Internet Explorer, and it was very easy to screw up your whole desktop session as soon as there was anything slightly wrong with an FTP connection. It also did not support ftps or sftp, and often would not handle write permissions properly. I’ve not checked recently but if i remember correctly, years ago there were reports that Microsoft would (rightly) remove support at some point (ftp is just a bad and insecure protocol in 2021).

MacOS Finder afaik never had write-permission support for ftp, and overall the experience was similarly poor. I used to run Cyberduck or Transmit if forced to use FTP.

Linux desktops did include decent support for FTP, particularly in KDE Konqueror which had a great plugin architecture; I expect they still do. FileZilla was never popular on Linux anyway.
"Everything is sex." - Robert California
Google and Facebook are going to get screwed. They'll get hit by antitrust action (even if just more fines and settlements) while also under the radar losing market share to Amazon via market forces, which ironically is an argument against taking antitrust action against the formers.
Yes. /s

Bezos is the richest person in the world, and it's obvious the lobbyists he pays to copypasta the text of laws and get politicians doing his bidding by ensuring "$upport" motivate them to benefit the rich like him.

Americans have a "minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy" compared to the rich.

Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746