skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine how anybody manages any number of Windows machines w/o a domain. Even just an NT 4.0-style "downlevel" domain (hosted with Samba, if need be) made life so much easier "back in the day". Once Active Directory came out I never looked back. Group Policy makes so many Windows administration tasks reproducible and automated.

I keep meaning, year after year, to take at Samba and see how its Active Directory emulation functionality has progressed. I never end up getting around to it. Presumably, since so much of Active Directory is really just leveraging LDAP and a funky proprietary schema, it has progressed significantly.

I've had a hard time figuring out how to position Desired State Configuration. It feels like an appeal to Linux sysadmins used to Puppet, Chef, et al. I can already do everything it can do with Group Policy, and I'd want an Active Directory domain for single-sign-on anyway. I have a hard time coming up with a use case for learning all new tooling when I've already got AD and Group Policy.
Thanks for the detailed response! I’ve been trying to level up my bash lately, and I definitely have seen a lot of ‘poor’ examples where they bailed out & use eval plus something else, for something native bash can in fact handle just fine, if you dig deep enough!
I remember reading that the reason for long shifts at hospitals, for doctors or nurses, is that most mistakes are made during hand-over. The thing had a study cited, I'm sorry I cannot find the source, so the hospitals optimize for minimal hand-over. I would think they also did a control study on mistakes made during the last few hours of shifts when care providers feel the strongest effect of sleep deprivation, but I don't remember that being compared.
There are actually clear answers to all your questions.

All the tools you listed do different things, except maybe poetry and pipenv, so you can pick whichever one you like, you're not supposed to do anything. You can have choice, illusion of free will, etc...

As to module version, there is a standard on how to define it in __version__: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#module-level-dunde...
The NSA is probably not stealing your bitcoin.
Does this sort of thing happen frequently enough in peacetime to even warrant a contract to build this? Again, see my question about "Who in their right mind opens fire on an inspection crew sent by a warship?"

And during wartime, I don't see this being at all useful. This isn't the eighteenth century, warships no longer perform boarding actions against opponents that are going to shoot back.
were powershell designers from the unix world ? I didn't know that

I don't mind bash warts, history is what it is, I don't sell powershell .. but someone saying powershell is confusing has serious jaws. powershell is really nice and only if you fancy sed/grep everything then you'll consider bash* superior
> why we must celebrate those who only speak within their domain of expertise

"Must celebrate" is too strong. But a good reason to recommend such people is that such people are easier for most listeners to recognize as reliable source of information in the domain. People who are vocal of their unrelated political opinions can be experts on the domain, but they are more polarizing and make people watch out or reject them.
in the commercials you get cheap xanax and life is awesome, in real life you get rape and death
Coincidently, i found this interesting github repo the other day written in R that analyses the large drop in Covid cases in Mexico city after early treatment with Ivermectin:

https://github.com/nasaul/paper_ivermectina

What really impressed me was how it stored the data in a google sheet, but the R-Studio program could still connect to google sheets trivially download the data (prompting the user to authenticate the app to google sheets). It was a nice experience.
I'd be very surprised if low flying, high velocity anti-ship missiles don't make this sort of moot for most cases. Modern militaries seem to be playing a dumb game right now where they aren't acknowledging the absolute horror of modern missile systems, and pretending these sorts of WWII style ship to ship battles might happen between one-another.
You're spot on, besides this part:

> Another popular example of this strategy is Zoom. What is Zoom? GoToMeeting/Webex, but new

Zoom is drastically better than WebEx and GoTo*. It actually works cross-platform and has much less hassle.
This is ultimately a supply and demand issue. Google pays high salaries because they have to in order to hire the talent they want. Game devs apparently do not have to, because they are able to fill their roles for lower salaries. Don't pretend like all tech companies wouldn't love to lower dev salaries, they just can't because they wouldn't be able to hire.

Game companies apparently have a meaningful differentiator, which is that working in a gaming context is something people actually value and are willing to give up potential compensation for.
i once tried installing and running an openbsd system with 64mb of ram.

It "worked" in the sense that the installation was able to finish, and i was able to run a static webpage on openbsd httpd.

system load was through the roof, but the system was still r esponsive. I started running into issues once i wanted to do anything even slightly more advanced (like for instance, run PHP on a webpage).
No. I didn't expect it to be non-blaze/bazel tool friendly, but sounds like it is (aims to be at lest)?

It does seems to support the entire-directory parsing as well. That's nice! Let me give it a try next time. Thanks for the tip!

As a reminder to myself, here is the link to the doc: https://google.github.io/pytype/
layered jungle noises

A tad ironic, as I'm actually browsing this from my schlaaang superseat.
Lets limit GUI then :)
The drop in batting average is primarily due to the increase in strikeout rate. Homers are down, but it's the K rate that is the problem. This is a problem because pitchers are better, but also because analytics has taught that strikeouts are the pitchers best friend, while homers are the hitters'. More attempts to hit homers mean less "2 strike swings" as players used to be taught.

The optimal strategy for both sides is for pitchers to go for the K (increases K rate) and for hitters to try and hit the homerun (also increases the K rate).
A new Postgres-based darling is TimescaleDB. It’s a drop-in for Postgres.

It is a hybrid row column store with excellent compression and performance.

It would be interesting to see how it compares if narrator would try it out. Benchmarks would be cool.

One very neat feature I am enamored by is “continuous aggregates”. These are materialized views that auto-update as you change the fact table.

Continuous aggregates are a great idea. InfluxDB had “continuous queries” (but the implementation of influx generally is not so neat), and firebolt has “aggregate indexes” which are much the same thing.

I think all olap dbs will eventually have them as staple, and that they will trickle down into oltp too.
> To have someone at Merck...

It is not someone at Merck, it is a company release, which goes through a release process, involving a fair amount of people. So more than "someone".

> suggesting there is a "lack of safety" at this point is highly suspect.

The complaint is about a lack of "safety data", not safety.

> with multiple studies showing that the drug is not only effective but safe

Maybe, point they are making, the majority do not even bother to collect safety data, which I take, is not how medical studies should be done.

> [...] is highly suspect.

How? I fail to see that. A company, which currently left in the dust by its competitors, which do have vaccines, is clearly distancing itself from studies claiming that their product has the benefit others claim.
I could understand suspicion, if a company makes positive claims about their product, but if they are clearly distancing themselves from beneficial claims, I tend to believe them.
Yes it's live for business. Those listings where posted by people, so its possible they are false. I'll add to each listing a "Report Spam". I've also gone ahead and taken out that line of text, and updated the contact to remind buyers to do their due diligence. And also will make it so only brands for sale show ones which have cars. Thank you!
This seems to contradict this guy [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108326
Ahem... Spend less time on HN?

Sorry, yes, "snarky" -- but OTOH, it can really be a huge timesink. (Guess how I know.)
> Bank of America then challenged the verdict, arguing that any recovery should be restricted by the terms detailed in its rental contract: “The bank’s liability for any loss in connection with the box for whatever reason shall not exceed ten (10) times the annual rent charged for the box.”

The judge agreed, though she allowed $150k in punitive damages. Still well short of the millions apparently lost.
Perhaps, but most aspiring authors are in the 98% that don't get significant sales. Once you get into the big publishers they will throw the marketing you need behind you - but they won't touch you unless they believe Opera will love you (or whatever the big promotion they needs)
> shouldn't simply using TOR make it nearly impossible for the US government to track them down?

Not even close. Tor kinda secures one aspect of very many, but kinda doesn't.

It attracts attention: Governments actively try to defeat Tor. And if they are looking for a criminal, they might look first at Tor users. In fact, they collect data on Tor use before a crime is committed.
Well reasonable is a whole other thing. And I'm definitely not being reasonable! :)
That's really neither here nor there. The discussion was more about transforming, "save up and pay cash" to "save up and get a loan anyway because interest is so cheap."

I picked $40k because that's roughly the median price of a new car. Whether your going for a $25k car, or a $125k car, the advice is the same: get a low-interest loan.
They are considering it, but I don't think there's a ton of evidence that it will balance the strikeout rate. It will probably decrease it, but would also possibly increase walk rates as well as potentially increase SP injury.
"...applications written in .NET) accidentally badly unregistered leaving all of the event log messages unreadable..."

Don't even get me started on this... Microsoft is actually bad for this with even their own .NET-based enterprise applications. As well - it also makes gathering logs from production servers, then performing analysis on a different machine difficult, as that machine will likely have none of the dependencies required.

Text... text and more text, that is universal.
We do not know. I am sure the banning email must have mentioned something but it was far too vague and non-actionable for us.
I post stuff on dev.to and am surprised to learn that many people on hn consider the entire site spam.
I think you have the cause and effect reversed. If there were more competent software engineers out there available to be hired, you wouldn't have a choice but to accept that Google recruiter's offer.

There are so many people that want to work on games, and there are many positions where these people are capable of doing the job, that that is the situation in that industry.

There are a subset of game development positions that are just like FAANG: well paid, good working conditions, with high skill requirements. Just like FAANG is a subset of the software industry. As big as FAANG is, the median software developer is not that.
Maybe. Looks like the OP says his books are pretty good with high ratings and a high volume of ratings as well, so they must be enjoyable enough to the people who buy them.
GitHub’s Role In, and Responsibility To, the Security Community
Amazon releases its first Brand Protection Report
I think it's right to be cynical - we're talking about the greatest data tracker and silos on earth here.

What concerns me is:

> applications should obtain explicit approval

Why not change that to a MUST? I'm pretty sure that's a legal requirement anyway.

> all data was collected for research purposes with users’ explicit approval and consent.

I don't trust you, sorry. Please show me the UI/forms you used to gain consent. I cannot have sex with someone because they agreed to it in a lengthy, detailed and complex agreement buried in complicated legalese.

> users were allowed to opt out at any point and request their data to be deleted.

And I can request for you to go...yourself with the BS you throw at developers every now and then, doesn't mean you're going to, does it?

I'm getting more and more closer to throwing the smartphone out the damn window, I'm not paying for a device so you can log my every interaction within the world in 4k.
Outside of HN, most senior engineers understand that they can relocate to an area with a FAANG office and earn more money. It's not a secret. Many choose not to pursue this option, despite knowing it exists.

And that's okay. The incessant drive to obtain FAANG employment and FAANG salaries at any cost is not common outside of internet forums like HN or Blind. For many people, there is more to life than chasing the highest paying careers.

FAANG is absolutely a great option for anyone who can make it work. Some FAANG companies are opening up more offices and even considering remote work, but for many of us who aren't willing to relocate our families to FAANG office cities, it's not really an option any more.

And of course, it's fine if someone willingly chooses to work a lower paying job to work on something they enjoy. We shouldn't criticize people for not seeking out the maximum salary they can find if they're actually happy with what they're doing.

Careers are not one-size-fits-all. It's fine to share options with other people, but let's not criticize people for choosing career paths that differ from our own personal priorities.
Cool thanks for sharing. The volatility can get brutally expensive. I sell NFTs for ETH, which of course have to pay income tax on, but if suddenly ETH tanks.... ouch
I would be interested in the sources of your claims.
Most of the thrust is indeed coming from jets on the backpack. As far as I can tell, the hand thrusters are used mostly for balance. So like leaning forward a bit while standing and supporting yourself by grabbing a railing.
I look at the question of money and art at two levels:

1. As an individual, what is the right mindset to have about my creativity? At this level, I agree with you. Looking at the economic trends, the only sane way to create and feel good about it is to do it in my free time, focus on the intrinsic reward and have some other job that pays the bills. I'm very fortunate in that my other job takes good care of me.

But there is another level I think about a lot:

2. At the cultural level, is it good for a society if people can only make art in their leisure time? I consider art to be (among other things) the mechanism by which we define, share, and propagate our culture. Our artworks teach each generation what we value and how we think one should live. They show us what it means to be human.

If that art can only be produced by people wealthy enough to have sufficient spare time (books, poetry, and painting) or giant corporations (film, TV), then you place complete control over your culture in the hands of the rich. Do you remember in the 80s and 90s when it seemed like almost every movie had an anti-corporate angle to it? Did you notice that they all stopped doing that? What should we expect when huge corporations are producing almost every film we see.

Should we be surprised to see that our society is failing to solve inequality when most books are written by the wealthy, about the wealthy, for the wealthy? How are those at the top supposed to understand and care for those at the bottom when those at the bottom don't even have the time to share their stories with them?

I think a just society needs art-makers to be able to focus on their art without worrying about money because it's the only way to ensure that everyone at every economic level gets to participate in defining our culture.
Yeah if you're using the camera as a tool to make money, the perfection of the recent Sony Alpha full frame cameras is exactly what you want.

I recommend analog to people who want fulfillment from the process itself.
There is also nothing good with being mediocre.
It's a good joke. Unfortunately Sanderson's writing style is really incompatible with Rothfuss and Martin's. Also, he has his own epic series that will occupy him for another 20 years.
Adblock it, that's what I do with all such content... I can do it easily through context menu.
> Good thinking is mostly just taking things apart by asking 'why'...

So, good thinking is what your five-year-old forces you to do.
sed/grep/awk have nothing to do with bash tho and you can run them equally easy on Windows (cinst sed grep awk) if you like outdated reg ex.
It seems a scary option to try casually :-/

> Never try to rescue a r/w mounted partition. The resulting copy may be useless. It is best that the device or partition to be rescued is not mounted at all, not even read-only.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual...
> I'm not sure why you think the poor have investment portfolios. They don't.

I never said or implied anything of the sort. I recommend reading carefully what I actually said, and then addressing that instead.
I can imagine that there are places with ever version of the iPhone at every patch level and that the still count as "users" maybe?
What situations would make people unable to upgrade to 12+?
Part of the concern around this work is that the PNAS publication route suggests that teh work didn't survive traditional peer-review. Should all peer review be abolished as data suppression, and we just go the bioRxiv route for all information distribution?
Wanting to be a software developer and being a good software developer are pretty different things. However most good software developers make more money than good game developers.
Would TimescaleDB be much faster for analytical queries that aren't necessarily segmented or filtered by time?

My uninformed assumption is if I do a group by over all rows in a table that they may not perform better.

I'll look into their continuous aggregates -- that could be one way to get around the cost of aggregating everything if it's done incrementally.
Game development is arguably technically harder than typical CRUD-type of app development, even if one uses a game engine. I was wondering if it's simply a matter of supply and demand. So many great programmers want to work on games, hence driving down the salary in the industry.
There are modern 50s that don't weigh as much, but they're also not super-fast f/1.2 glass.
I disagree. I don't think that different streaming services are replacements of each other. It is inaccurate to think of them as mere "video services" (if they were even Youtube would a substitute which it clearly isn't). Their value is in the exclusive rights they have secured for different content. If a streaming service has an exclusive deal with any one of your favorite shows, you are pretty much going to have to buy it.

Speaking for myself, I have bought the subscription of at least four video services in India.
As a username with a stupid pun/portmanteau with a dick joke in it I appreciate this.

I wanted to use the name NaturalsticPhallacy, because it's a prevalent fallacy I see people fall for, and humans have found dicks funny since recorded history but it's too long for HN so I had to shorten it to this one.

I do not build or operate any sort of porn or even porn adjacent software or service and never have. Not that I wouldn't if the right job came along, but I never have and currently don't.

But I digress. Usernames are generally best ignored. The content of their writing is what matters.
The environmental cost of free two-day shipping (2017)
I used to work in the industry. At least when it comes to fiction, it has always been hard to make a living as an author. A very large number of first-time authors never earn out their advance and therefore aren't able to get another book published. A reasonable portion of a publisher's authors are "mid-list", which consistently turn out books that earn out the advance plus a decent amount on top, and each new book also gives a slight boost to that author's back catalog. Long-term, this is how the average author earns a decent living: Output is maybe 3 books every two years. Early on, the advance might only be $15k to $30k per book, though once they earn out the advance they begin getting royalties. Once they have 6-8 books published, they have an audience and enough of a back catalog that they may earn up to $50k/book with royalties from the back catalog adding on a healthy bit on top. However "mid-list" encompasses a wide range, so this can also be lower or higher, especially because a mid-list author with 20+ books, turning out 3 books every two years, may still only get $40k advances based on new book sales, but with so many books in their back catalog even selling only 1000 copies of each book each year can add another $30k on their annual earnings. More if they're popular enough to get audiobook deals as well.

These are the authors that basically keep the lights on for the publisher. Overall though, profitable publishing is a business of breakout hits, the authors that sell 50,000+ copies and hit the best seller lists. Failed first-time authors and mid-list authors may mostly cancel each other out on profit, and it's those few hits that push publishers into the black.
How much of a negative impact did Google see when it was shown that their smart speakers were recording and sharing that data 100% of the time? Probably wasn't zero, but it also wasn't enormous.
There's probably a book in this history of books as payoff, from Grant's memoirs on up.

There is some value to these ridiculous autobiographies (not so much for the I-hate-the-President-books). In 100 years, some future historian can draw from 'The Art of the Deal', 'Dreams From My Father', and probably some biography of Millard Fillmore to reach a conclusion. In the long run, they are all non-entities.
> Compiling on WSL2 would have terrible performance.

define terrible. Compared to what ?

> No one is seriously developing in WSL.

A very strong statement. Do you have any proof perhaps ?
Yes, I am wondering why the person with the username containing the word “Penis” runs Tor exit nodes. It is curious and agree could easily be totally unrelated.
>...That $4.5 number is completely worthless as a comparison to burglaries.

It gives a sense of the scale of the abuse. A number of states refused to give out the data, so it is a low estimate.

>...My understanding is that criminal forfeiture only happens when the owner is convicted of a crime.

Yes, and that is justifiable. Abuses like confiscating a person's money because they went on a domestic airline flight with a large amount of cash are not justifiable.

>...Back to the Madoff example, not all of the money was taken from Madoff directly.

It is a mistake to just focus on a large forfeiture as that is rare:

>...Data from 21 states show half of all currency forfeitures are worth less than $1,300, hardly the stuff of vast criminal enterprises and far less than it would cost to hire an attorney to fight back.

https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeitu...