skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, The Cloud is just someone else's server. Most things in The Cloud doesn't belong there in my opinion but it is yet another trend everyone must follow and check off on their list from management. Let's all chant in unison and play out the rituals sent down from above.

Umbasa!
I will bet that a Linux kernel maintainer is a more capable coder than someone stitching together web apps with Rails.

Besides, something like language and kernel design is computer science, not day-to-day software development that most of us do.
> Jira level power

No thanks
Original author here. I do think it’s good to think about rollback strategies (especially given that your change might go out with something else that might need rollbacks).

There is one thing though, and that is that a lot of these transformations end with more information, so you can usually recover the old state if you ever needed to (or write some compatibility shim for whatever reason)

I had a whole part about rollbacks (and an intuitive proof about why each step was needed and not being able to skip any) in my notes for this, but I decided to leave it out cuz I couldn’t do it justice just yet.

There are so many little details to cover in this space, and honestly the vocabulary and tooling are a bit poor so it’s hard to be succinct
It wasn't intended for working from home, but I've got a hammock with the corresponding structure to set it up everywhere I want.

As Covid-19 hit last year, it was really a great place for having remote meetings. Just set it up in the garden, get a coffee and have a nice day enjoying the sun (and the envy of other people in the call).
It certainly is, but then the next debate is whether the existence of rich people precludes a society from being functional and peaceful. I appreciate that you may believe that the mere presence of rich people destabilizes society, and therefore the goal should be to make the rich poorer. But you ought to know that many others don't buy into that belief, and in fact have built perfectly functional societies based around the theory that it's okay for there to be rich people as long as the poor are well taken care of.

Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US, no wealth tax, and levies broad-based taxes on the middle class. The top marginal tax rate kicks in at 1.5 times the average wage, whereas in the US the top marginal tax rate kicks in at 9.2 times the average wage. And yet, you might probably define Swedish society as "functional and peaceful".
A friend has led an ISO standardized list that you are likely to have used.

One out of every ten academics in the field is going to going to disagree with a given naming scheme. Some percentage of these are going to become obsessed with how you've gotten it wrong. They'll publish literal, old school, paper books with ISBN numbers accusing you and your organization of systematic murder of indigenous peoples, then constantly make edits to Wikipedia with their book as proof. It will take a decade or more to get it off Wikipedia because a "fact" with ISBN number trumps everything.

You'll wake up mornings to all caps, incoherent emails from people who sound like mental asylum inmates, but claim to be professor-doctors at distant universities. They hate you. You have ruined science.

You'll have deranged stalkers who unleash hatred on everything you ever write online from this time forward. As you type a blog post or a tweet, you'll hear their screaming voices in your head, commenting on every sentence you write.

Inside your international recognized naming group will be all the pettiness of the triviality of academic politics.

Outside, politicians and national interests will demand that your list be used as a weapon against their enemies. The offices of heads of state will call your boss if there are even rumors of you making a wrong call.

In the end, only a few strong will remain in charge, able to navigate the internal and external foes, able to read the coming storms by the falling of the leaves, and with a superhuman knowledge of the possible reactions the academics and the external powers who matter. If the world is lucky, a few good changes will slip into the list from time to time, provided they don't anger the wrong people. Inconvenient opinions will be silently stonewalled until such a time as world power shifts. The relentless killing knife of evolution will toss away anyone who does not play the game by its rules.

This list you are making isn't about truth. It's about power.
some keybindings in json isn't really comparable to a virtualize operating system and several mobile SDKs
Another explanation from a salvadorian: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/nt8hi6/im_from_el_...
Interesting that no one mentions that Google also runs the backend flight/hotel search used by most trip planning sites. They bought it (ITA) over a decade ago.

So all these providers already lost this power years ago and are just providing a fancy UX over Google's backend travel search service. Now Google is merging the two search engines and cutting out the middleman.
> you'll need some sort of CMS.

You will not need a CMS unless you publish multiple articles per day (and even then...). That's far beyond anything the preceding posts were talking about, so it's not really relevant.
If I recall correctly a Scriviner file is actually a nested collection of rich text format (.rtf) files with a indexing file.
> Did anyone offer you a course on how to design ICs in university?

Yes, standard courses in Computer Engineering, at least here at Vienna's Institute of Technology, which with comp. eng. and masters in similar fields (just a slight focus shift to, e.g., the modelling/verification side) there's about the same order of magnitudes of students graduating per year too.

Chip foundries do not go where their employees graduate, but where they get gov incentives for building their fabs.
I thought there was something wrong on that page:L I wanted to try the IDE but just got this video filling the page and that single red button: "sign in with your google account".

Why does an IDE for microcontrollers requires a Google Account?
Guess I'll never know.
Google Killed Its Measure AR App, Taken Down from Playstore
You are probably already aware, but there is an official extension that offers this functionality via sand-boxed tabs:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Unless you are a very large company a CDN is not something you can realistically build and run in house.
Launching the NetHack Challenge at NeurIPS 2021
> The productivity gained from these Tools

You don't gain productivity using 500 libraries pulled off NPM unless it's write once read never.
"waking up without an alarm refreshed and ready to face the world"

Does that actually happen outside of stories?
cat /users/*.conf >> global.conf && ./restart_everything
> The outage has raised questions about relying on a handful of companies to run the vast infrastructure that underpins the internet.

Big surprise
As a former ProtonMail customer (for several months) and current Fastmail one (~ 4 years): If you have more than 2 domain names, you'll pay 30 EUR/month for your ProtonMail account. I think that's ridiculous. The 5 alias limit for the "Plus" tier is also too limited in my opinion.
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Right, I obviously meant actually released publicly and not in beta.
> Again, The Cloud is just someone else's server.

Sure, but in a lot of cases, that "someone else" is an entire team of experts in their particular niche that can do a better job of the specific task at hand than I ever can hope to.

Is this always the case? No. Is it sometimes the case? Yes.
Wow such spam, and SAP wow... What trash
Real time enough to control weapons in war scenarios.

https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/plm/ptc-perc-virtual-machine-te...

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/defense-executive/article/...

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/
It's a bad article.

The trivium was rhetoric, grammar, and logic - the basic tools of reasoning and argument. It formed a basis for further study; the quadrivium relied on knowledge of the trivium, and consisted of astronomy, geometry, arithmetic and music.

The trivium was "trivial" because it was "Knowledge 101" - a foundation course, as it were.

A proposition is trivially true if it can be seen to be true merely by inspecting the proposition, and without reference to real-world facts. If all statements are true by definition, you don't even need to inspect them. So I guess "trivialism" is the position that all statements are trivially true.
But this is primarily a CDN, with some edge copmpute, isn't it? What's the functional alternative here, "I'll go ahead and lease 2U of rack space and fly my ops people to every major city in which I have users"?
FBI likely exploited sloppy password storage to seize Colonial bitcoin ransom
The cleverest crooks are in Capitol Hill and Downing Street and Brussels, not Wall Street.
I love how it almost suggests it was a customer's fault. If only they hadn't changed their settings!
I can't find a video on it now but chess world champ Vishy Anand has a big computer analysis system (super computer?) and team that analyses opponent matches and then he does intense preparation with this data. The documentary Magnus has a great segment on Anand and his appeoach before he and Magnus Carlsen play in finals.
Not a framework, but schemaless key-value stores allow you to play fast and loose and avoid a lot of the reason for migrations, with obvious downsides. Monorepos also allow you to change and deploy all of the code at once without having to coordinate versions of both dependencies and deployments.
Why is everyone banging on about this. It's a blog post from the same day, a decent post mortem takes a while to put together and assuming the bug isn't fully patched across their entire CDN, why would they post the information.
Par of the problem is that tools don’t really have a notion of “behavior of system 2 releases ago”.

If you had a Django plugin that, like, let you say “oh the previous version of the app that was deployed had this model shape, so during this migration I need to do X/Y/Z” using the git info, you could do more.

But that would be a leaky abstraction and would run into a sort of coordination problem mid-deploy (what states are other machines in?). There might be some restrictions you could place to make this work though
> When you search for "skyline berlin", you'll see images of berlin's skyline, before you see links to other image search sites.

Not to defend Google, but to be fair,
1) when searching for images, you're searching for images, not "image search sites." To search for image search sites, you'd search "all" (not photos) for "image search," which mostly returns Google image search and Google image search help pages as top results, burying other image search engines on subsequent pages. Google's search algorithm does seem biased against competitor image search sites, but maybe Google search is really finding only articles. Searching "all" for "image search sites" returns links to articles listing image search sites. Searching for Yahoo images returns Yahoo Image Search as the top result.
2) the images search results are actually thumbnails, and also links, so you see the thumbs precisely at the same time that you see links to the sites that host each image search result.
This programme is a very stimulating discussion and a recommended listen. And, yes, the guests in the programme discuss the difference between shyness and introversion. The terms are often used interchangeably, sometimes mistakenly, but they are also closely entwined for some individuals.

The one thing the programme does not discuss is whether different professions are more likely to attract introverted or shy people. This would have made for a fascinating addition to the discussion.

There is a stereotype of some programmers (and gamers?) being socially reclusive or awkward in social situations. Put another way: they are more comfortable in front of a computer than in a room of people. Does programming attract a higher proportion of introverted or shy people? I'm sure we all have anecdotal experiences that confirm or refute that stereotype.

As the programme discusses, people who describe themselves as introverts find some activities, such as giving talks or presentations, as stimulating. These activities are typically seen as extrovert activities.

In a different context, I've seen YouTubers confess on camera that they are introverts or shy, but still reveal very personal details about their lives and continue to talk confidently in front of the camera. Behaviour that might contradict our perception of introversion or shyness. (I presume an 'invisible' audience of thousands of viewers on a YouTube channel is much less daunting that talking to a real audience in front of you.)

Anyway, if you have the time to listen to this programme/podcast, it's a rewarding discussion.
It's political.

In the uk, train drivers unions are one of the last meaningful unions left and the right wing government hates that.

Also, London has a left wing mayor and a very good public transport system. The right wing government hate both the mayor (he's heir apparent to lead the party nationally) and the concept of public transport.

That's also the real reason private train operators were bailed out but public TfL was been hung out to dry...
Or, don’t take old stickers off?
Just an unsolicited plug of an interesting podcast I started listening to recently (co-hosted by HNer slackerIII)- https://downtimeproject.com/

Hope this one gets the treatment.
Why is Amazon dependent on someone else’s cloud infrastructure?
Surely, with the M1s having been actually publicly available for many months now, there's enough data and benchmarks out there that we don't need to take Apple's performance claims with any salt?
Also, during the days of Symbian OS Opera Mini was the best mobile browser available. I remember logging into my bank account and actually doing a transaction on my Nokia N73 running Opera Mini.
> Any BTC whale in the world could dump BTC and destroy an entire countries economy

This is true for every single currency ever and so doesn't make sense to invoke strictly for this one. Even your original claim (that it can't be used as an everyday currency) is already demonstrably untrue as there are plenty of goods that can be bought using purely bitcoin.
The sad reality is that if your app serves any real business value and you can't afford to hire a team that can quickly handle scaling attacks, simply running your own server isn't really a viable option anymore.

The internet's original distributed nature just isn't compatible with the sheer scale of billions of active users.
For your concern, Zoho is a great option. Very reliable support. I got locked out once and they were able to help me get back my account really fast.
Honeywell isn't even the only US-based QC company out there right now
Me, too, US born 1977. I learned about it when I was very young, and for some reason the fact that there were "five oceans" really stuck in my head. I have no idea what source I got it from, whether from school or some ancient children's science book from decades before I was born (definitely a possibility.) When I was older I would get stuck trying to name all five oceans before I remembered that there were only four now. It never sounded right to me that there were four, so this finally restores balance to my brain.
That only protects against one type of failure, eg one of your vendors going down. The article suggests this was a problem in their own software, which in all likelihood would not be protected against by using different stacks.
I didn't say anything about disrupting everything shrug. I just said I'm kind of bullish on it for this use case.

That being said, "it eliminates one possible source of malicious behavior" is exactly derived from "irrevocable timestamps and ordering for cryptographic signatures provide a level of audibility and traceability that wasn't there before." so I'm not sure what your complaint is there. The auditability and traceability are exactly what eliminates that avenue of malicious behavior. Again, it's not going to revolutionize everything, but it seems useful here.
Have you heard about Pluto yet? My very eager mother just served us nachos.
The kind where the user has to chase dependencies.
It’s airburst ammunition which can be fired faster and travels faster than a human can react. The airburst is timed to trigger at the calculated intersection of trajectories (or somewhere in that neighbourhood), significantly improving your chances of scoring a hit even with a high circular error probable.
"Humans generally don’t like to hear that they’re wrong."

Maybe that binary view is one of the root causes, as being "wrong" is not really a thing in many areas.
In fact this has roots in Aristotle's logic. Some years ago, general semantics ("the map is not the territory") tried to offer some push back on that binary view.

Humans do appear to prefer simplifications, with the binary point of view as a possible reflection of that, but we have had some success in evolving our tendencies through education.
It's this sort of attitude that's destroyed the hobbyist programming community for the Windows Platform.

It's also an outdated view:

1. Most Windows software is signed with an Authenticode cert which requires the author to prove who they are to the CA and hand over at least $99.

2. Windows these days has SmartScreen running all the time, which checks executable file hashes against a cloud based database and blocks apps with known issues. Doesn't help if it's an unknown but massively reduces the risk.

3. Windows has a policy that can be enforced that blocks the execution of any software that doesn't pass points #1 and #2.
Given that they succeeded in completing the poisoning of my opinion of academia and scientific research there is no career there at all. I say complete because PhDs can feel unpleasant, but that's mostly a result of high stress, difficult work, no security, and complete lack of a social life and interaction with other people for 4 years, rather than science itself but it does set an emotional impression of what research is like that is somewhat difficult to overcome.
I wasn’t aware of that. That’s very reassuring.
I have bought a curved high-res 21:9 screen with presence detection and automatic brightness and can not go back - actually thinking about a second one.

The curved aspect makes no difference for me, the other stuff does.

Never having to manually turn it on or off is very nice and removes yet another step from getting into work.
Best of all, the money is a loan that London taxpayers will be expected to repay. Meanwhile private TOCs get free cash...
I’ve heard this before but I’m skeptical about this approach. It’s got to cost close to 2x to develop and maintain two stacks — if they’re sharing a lot, that would defeat the point. Then you’d have two stacks tested about as well as the one today. Instead, you could put that investment towards testing and improving quality on the one stack.

I know a second stack hopefully has different bugs. But is that likely (to a meaningful extent)? Reimplementations often reintroduce old issues (which suggests many people make similar mistakes), plus it’s hard to imagine the first stack not influencing the second in various ways.
Moyens simples de passer des données à un composant React
> I like when private companies tell their customers what politics they should engage in.

Well, if they can't provide a service or are having problems doing so for legal reason, it's only sensible to ask their customers to lobby for a better legal framework if they wish to receive that service. It's a problem (IMO) if what they ask for is unrelated to their business, but quite a few people would disagree with that, as well; especially if they fight for something they deem necessary.
fta: "The outage has raised questions about relying on a handful of companies to run the vast infrastructure that underpins the internet."

I read that phrase everytime something like this happens and yet we all still rely on the same handful of companies.
I made my own streaming website. AWS, Azure, Vimeo are all rip offs
BioWall
Not exactly the same situation. Less wages to pay, less pension debts to fund.
> We are still seeing increased origin load as a result of the earlier outage from our service provider.

Does this mean that some companies using Fastly could have major costs because of the increased origin load?
There's an open source Evernote clone called Joplin i've been dabling with a bit. It also enables encryption.

If Notesnook ever gets as many features as Joplin i'd consider it as Joplin's UI is slightly wonky, but looking at the page it seems behind in terms of features.
Proof? All the downvotes you got and why your comments are barely visible and all the crying you did in your comments about getting downvoted.
Undermining to whom? His boss is the CEO!

Blank isn't recommending he go to the board of directors ...
I thought it was pretty good!

Industrial society and its consequences have been a disaster for human kind. The rainforest and its inhabitants are under constant threat and not surprisingly, the chief culprit is Western culture and its values. Culture eats itself like a phoenix, if we allow it to take the upper hand. So, the dream to be a selfish, unthinking, care-free consumer who buys what is fashionable and only hopes for what will be useful tomorrow is just that a dream. The selfishness and the uselessness are inherent in our modern lifestyle; it is a self-imposed, social Darwinist vision of human existence.

The problem is rooted in the ever-increasing obsession with consumerism. Wherever and whenever we try to come up with a more, better, safer way of living, we fall prey to inbuilt greed that so often ruins our lives. It is not about the good of all or anything, but about the doing of only ourselves and living the best that we can. We treat every living being on this planet as if it is of no consequence, a mere means to our own selfish ends. At a more basic level, every individual living soul is our basic concern but all other matter is secondary.

Our relationship with Nature is pivotal to life itself. Nature is a solid financial asset in terms of every single drop of water that
It's rail maintenance that stops trains running 24/7 in London. The rails are too old, often not fit for purpose and no one wants to pay to replace them. So every night they need polishing (literally), grinding, replacing, checking, etc.
Reading only the title I really wished it to be about Macro Room. Was not disappointed.
You can mark args as keyword only or positional only in the recent versions of Python (starting 3.7, maybe?)
Yes. For each step, write code that makes the change, and at the end of the change, updates a record (somewhere; different table, let's say) to note it is compete. Write a test that check if the record is updated, validates the change, and upon validation, updates the record a second time. Make each step depend on the validated value of the previous step. Put them all into cron jobs.

They will churn until all the steps are complete and validated. If a step fails, the rest of the steps won't happen. You can also write rollback steps that depend on yet another value written if a step or test fails. And if you're paranoid, you can force the steps to wait for another value to be flipped which you would flip manually, so you can inspect everything before allowing the next step to fire.

All of this is complicated, so, try to only write backwards compatible code where the data model never changes, or only ever adds fields, or use feature flags, or some other strategy. There's a book on this stuff somewhere...
I may be wrong but I don't think the US taxes companies on the value of their inventory.