skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been on teams where we can't even reliably deploy code over time to one service. The idea of our team maintaining multiple services is madness. That's not a knock on any individual's technical merits. Deploying code to the cloud is just hard, period—and that's even when talking about a traditional monolith!

If devops has a good philosophy here it is - if something is hard, you should do it more often. When something is intermittent pain it can be avoided or considered a one-off; if you are say deploying your web app once a week or more people will start to figure out how to automate the manual processes and optimize the slow ones, rewrite troublesome components and come up with strategies for things like incremental database migrations.

More generally - everything is a trade-off, and you shouldn't blindly accept more complexity when you don't need the benefits that it is supposed to provide. But sometimes you need to embrace the complexity of doing things the right way when you are hitting up against limitations of doing it the wrong way (in this example - slow, painful, error-prone deployments)

Microservices are useful when the monolith becomes too complex for local reasoning and management, so you instead compartmentalize things into components with contracts and reason about those, while you are responsible for managing just your own component. You're taking on complexity (and latency, and additional resource utilization) because your system started to hit up against the limits of everyone working within the same project.

If you haven't hit the point where your database is falling over in production because of concurrent loads, or where development is hindered by the infrastructure/dependency or time requirements of doing a local test, or various other problems - you likely don't need to invest in doing microservices.
I think this case is a bit weird and you shouldn't generalize too much from it. I wouldn't put that principle in the guidelines, for the same reason. These are heuristics, not formal rules, and my comments are just trying to help people understand the intended spirit of the site.
I think the whole idea is cool! It doesn't have to be useful to be cool, in fact some of the coolest projects are eminently unuseful.

I think this is an awesome resume project. They've built an IDE (which is impressive by itself), and then they've got this whole parsing code from OCR thing on top that's not necessarily useful but man is it cool. The fact that it shows a good sense of humor is just icing on the cake.

Like, search and replace on pictures of code contained in PNG files... Just amazing.
Wonderful blog by Bennett!

What's also very fascinating is how fast the scammers have caught up.

https://reddit.com/r/cryptomoonshots

Enjoy the read
> No one really cares if pigs suffer

It's surprising that you don't have any family, friends, or co-workers who do care about that kind of thing. My academic astronomy group has a bunch of vegetarians and vegans. While I have no idea why (it's none of my business), it's my life experience is that a large fraction of them do care if pigs suffer.
I suspect that many of the people responding haven't read any research into the topic.
The problem with proprietary chat services is that if, for instance, Discord pulls a Freenode you need to look for an entirely different app to migrate. With IRC or any federated network for that matter you point to a different server and its business as usual. See how fast everything moved over to Libera over the past few weeks.
Out of curiosity, what's your plan for recovery during an AZ or regional outage?
Where I work, we use Haskell's type system to keep all of these boundaries in sync. All of the "services" we have extracted are indeed libraries. These libraries use type classes to interface with the core of our application which manages data persistence. This also means that each "service" can be written mostly in isolation and use a different data store (like an in-memory DB or something), depending on our needs.
In other words, YouTube is right. If you disagree you are wrong.
A Field Guide to Critical Thinking (1990) [pdf]
Thanks - that looks like an interesting read, but the abstract reads roughly as I'd assumed: "The wealthier the area, the more the impact."

I remain generally annoyed at people who go on and on about how important stopping climate change is, as long as someone else does it. That the most anyone could be expected to do is vote some way or another, every 2/4 years... that's a "I want to be seen caring about it but don't actually care that much" sort of answer.

If you're earning tech money and car about climate change, there are a lot of things you can do. They just involve "not spending all your money on luxury toys and huge houses."
Agreed. That's basically what Go does.

All functions are async, calling functions does an implicit await, and the go keyword let's you spawn a task without await. (At least that's what semantically happens) This way you can write seemingly imperative blocking code, and have it work fully asynchronously.

It's great, freeing, and avoids the function coloring problem. It's really the feature I miss most when writing other languages.

Though I do understand why performance oriented languages like Rust might want to approach it differently.

I don't, however, see a reason for non-performance oriented ones to use function coloring (unless they're doing full semicolon customization, like Haskell with its monad stacks).
The ones with the big "NOT TO SCALE / EASILY MISLEADING, PAY ATTENTION TO AXES" labels in their titles?
Google ensures YT is pre installed on android phones. They also bias searches towards YT in their search engine. This is classic monopoly behavior; using market dominance in one area to maintain dominance in another. People aren't using YT because they try out the alternatives and decide YT is superior, they are funneled there by google and never know alternatives exist.
That's a valid argument if marketing was the primary decision maker in drug development. But that is not the case, at this very moment Merck is likely developing several potential drugs for Covid in parallel, and there is no guarantee any of them will make it to market, costing Merck millions (probably billions) in development cost.

I'm no proponent of big pharma, and it's possible executives at Merck convened and decided to bet it all on drug X and at the same time not to profit from ivermectin. I think it's very unlikely, because it doesn't make sense.

It only makes sense in a comic world where everything is black and white and the motive of the bad guy solves the mystery.

I'm very confused that Bret, who I respect, is falling for this simplistic ad-hominem argument.
The current project is always a dumpster fire but don't worry, rewrite in shiny new framework is just around the corner. What, analyze the issues with our current code? Don't waste our time
Current Ethereu, blockchain is ~300GB I understand. I wonder how much storage they're going to send up.
I often wonder about this as well, but I think there must be a difference of opinion of what 'hard' is.

I think that people think they are confident about Git in 'a few weeks' are basically have a lack of self-awareness. They 'don't know what they don't know'.

I've seen countless times, developers huddled around someone else's computer, trying to figure out what went wrong.

I saw a git animation/visualisation tool once that animated operations, and I saw things happening I had never seen before, basically a lot of 'loose end' things that I didn't even know existed.

I also wonder if that has something to do with the fact that such things are maybe not suited to 'command line' and are inherently structured.
Why? It’s free software and a free OSS library. Be thankful examples even exist at all.
Use less energy.

Here's Václav Smil at Driva Climate Investment Meeting 2019 giving a talk called "Investing in a changing climate – what we can learn from historic energy transitions". https://youtu.be/gkj_91IJVBk

The conclusion is sobering: "Only absolute cuts in energy use would work." ( https://youtu.be/gkj_91IJVBk?t=2283 )

We can do this and most of the technology needed is already invented and available, we just have to get our act together as a species and start using our tech efficiently. We don't have to endure a lower quality of life, just eliminating waste would get us most of the way there.
I know that some aspects are counterintuitive but I don't think it's hard to understand that, without intervention, HN would trend to sensationalism, indignation, hotness, and other qualities which are not aligned with the intended spirit of the site.
pocket change
> Who is going to prevent ByteDance from acquiring every competitive Chinese company

China's social platform ecosystem probably has more diversity than the US. This hypothetical doesn't work great since Tencent(WeChat) is it-least twice the size of ByteDance...

I do agree with the premise that regulation on American companies does have an effect on how competitive they are globally.
In practice, large countries can regulate companies which operate within their borders. It’s normal for mergers of multinationals to seek approval from US authorities, the EC, and sometimes Chinese authorities today, over competition issues. Today, the EC is typically the fussiest, but it doesn’t seem that out there to imagine a world where the US gets stricter.
It's still IRC.
https://pastebin.com/MyhgCk96
Downvotes on HN are unpredictable at the best of times. This, however? Sure-fire way to get them.
The limit is indexed to CPI.
Jesus what a colossal waste of time
Snip and sketch allows you to save a copy of your snip. For me, that's the tool that comes up when I do the Win+Shift+S shortcut. Really handy tool and shortcut.
Came here to make this comment (even though expected it will be already there :) ), the moment i read the post. One of the best channels on youtube.
I don’t even know what this article is about, but I noticed digits of the π.
Speak for yourself. As someone who’s lived in Australia and America, I find Australians (and I imagine people in other countries too) love to consume American politics instead of their own politics because America is more interesting than their own relatively stable politics. Then many of them delight in looking down on Americans because of how “crazy” it seems. I tell people to worry about their own countries. It’s not like they’re forced to care about America on a day-to-day basis They choose it.
> The obvious story is that my father was a decadent jet-setter who either screwed or got screwed by American; depends on your take.

My gut reaction was more, "ecocidal maniac".
The only fair way is to attribute some to the purchaser and some to the seller. Both parties have benefited from the transaction and neither party has paid the associated social cost.
A Low-Carbon Replacement for Short Plane Flights: Blimps
I'm not advocating a closed system. Just like UNIX doesn't lock you in to any hardware or CPU vendor. FOAM is open source and most of the functionality is provided by existing languages, libraries and databases.A universal adapter, not a universal provider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFLlgrzn2E
It almost feels like satire.
Nope. Look at the consumption CO2 emissions:

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
If I'm following this all correctly, the former staff member who decided to give your channel to their friend is staff for the New and Better(tm) replacement to Freenode that all the open source projects are being encouraged to move to. You know, the one that is obviously so much more trustworthy because all the previous Freenode staff are behind it.
If so, it worked on me :) but I doubt it.

OT but did you watch the Andre The Giant special too? I'm not a wrestling fan at all but what an excellent story.
You have too keep in mind that the author is taking a huge personal risk writing this. She could very easily be burned at the social media stake for wrong think so she really has to be careful in what she says
I don't understand why people buy expensive Chromebooks - the author's Samsung device seems to cost $699 refurbished (16 GB RAM/128 GB SSD). To compare, a basic configuration Macbook Air M1 (8 GB RAM/256 GB SSD) can be bought for $899 new with education discount; if you're lucky, you can also buy a Thinkpad X13 at similar prices.
Virtually all sex acts can be done in a healthy way provided both parties are truly into it. Porn has created expectations in men as to what women normally want and as a result a lot of women do sex acts that they don't truly like. Porn has distorted the view of what is 'normal' and the expectations of what a woman should consent to.
The poster you are replying to doesn‘t care about the 49,99% that get the hard end of democracy when they lose a vote if they're the „bad guys“.

So he only cares about the 1-2% that „lamentably“ made his side lose.

Basically he thinks like a dictator, that just needs to get those 51% in his favor and then can absolutely crush the other side.

He completely misses that the goal of a democracy should always be consensus, mutual understanding and a sense of belonging, and that a 51/49 vote is the absolute worst case for a democracy, as it shows a complete divide, no matter which side won.

The goal to fix that should not be to compaign for a few weeks to get the last 1-2% to flip to „his“ side, but rather take a few steps back and think about how his country could achieve a 90+% consensus, perhaps by finding other solutions than increasing taxes for the middle class even more…
HN also abhors poor quality writing and a variety of other "sins" that are routinely mistaken for an objection to the subject matter even though there is plenty of evidence that HN is happy to hear about the topic in question, but only if it's done well.
Of course! Why, only two months ago it was among the most trustworthy public IRC networks in existence.
Underrated comment. While this shows how stupid it is to be radical in a country like Switzerland, it also implies a huge problem for the US to fulfill the Paris goal. Switzerland (and to some degree the rest of Europe) have mostly only the hard parts left, while the US can significantly reduce emissions with relatively simple measures (e.g., building standards). But that only postpones the really difficult reductions to a point when there's no more time to negotiate. So it looks quite unlikely the US will be carbon neutral by 2050.
Thank you, this post gave me something to chew on.
> But that's normal and expected on any non-trivial codebase that has been evolving over some amount of time.

Having to stop all feature work is not normal. A healthy business should be able to have a certain proportion of its engineers working on tech debt at all times, it shouldn't have to stop all feature work to address tech debt.
they got the whole pi
Literally doing nothing (as in, not buying anything) could have an impact if enough people stopped spending discretionary income on physical things. Problem, of course, is nobody thinks they're part of the problem.
We are talking about the big tech companies...

Name one that is an ACTUAL monopoly? Facebook? Apple? Google? Amazon? Vertical integration is NOT monopoly, and thats what many of them are doing.

I see a lot of arguments about these companies that are tantamount to "I didn't know how the world worked till I saw them do it and now I'm unhappy".

After starting to dig a bit further than this article into what some of these would contain, someone with some tech savvy needs to get themselves to the capital and educate our legislators.
I am not the person you asked but my 5 cents.

People think about certifications like those are some kind of magic trick, just like pickup lines.

You might get a girls attention but if you don't have anything else to keep her interested that line is not going to help you much. Let alone if she heard cheesy stuff from other guys that turned out to be not interesting or not having anything more to talk about.

There is bunch of people who think that they can get a certificate and that is it, while certificate might get someone to look at your CV, if you don't have anything more than cert you are not going to get the job. Many employers have hired people with certificates that did not deliver what they promised, many employees have seen such people hired and then let go.

That is also why no one is taking pickup lines seriously and no one is taking certificates seriously. Bragging about certificates/degrees is cheesy just like pickup lines are. Both are considered low effort and creepy attempts to get something.
Yeahhhh, that's not what you said in your original comment at all.

> if an individual is in question for taking non-standard stances in an academic field

If you meant to say "low quality" then say that, but that is not what anyone takes to mean from "non-standard", as non-standard can equally mean exceptional if you are talking about quality.
I would call spirituality in general the 'mapping' of these spaces, descriptions of the way to get there and navigate them, and the preservation of accounts of people who've visited them.

A religion, as I see it, is already focused on one particular version of the map. This can be fine, for example if the particular path is especially compatible with the rest of the culture that's around it. It starts being problematic once it discredits other versions and accounts. Irritating cults is what it becomes when it gets further warped by ego concerns and misinterpretations.
You’re going to have a hard time eliminating poverty when the poverty line is defined as a fraction of median income.
> When you deal in mass distribution, the dynamics and responsibilities are different than when you're in conversation/process with other domain experts.

Why? Is the implicit assumption here that people are too stupid or irresponsible to handle hearing information & coming to their own conclusion on it?

This seems like a distressingly common viewpoint nowadays...
YouTube isn’t just mass-media though - it’s a general-purpose video hosting and sharing site.

I’m not familiar with the current story nor the work of those involved, but academics and researchers can and do use YouTube to share information between themselves - *if* this was, say, a highly technical or academic video with a specialised intended audience and YouTube took that down then that’s different compared to a heterodox (read: quack) researcher putting out a video intending to make their argument directly to laypersons.
Yes, but I don’t understand how Fuchsia prevents pine64 to offer a Linux compatible chip. Not being able to unlock an android/fuchsia/iOS phone doesn’t really matter, does it?

Either way, I was hinting at a possible liberation through the laptop/desktop/server ARM SoC market, which is certainly coming. I think x86 is “over”.
Centralized crypto is functionally identical to a MySQL store.

re: SEC scrutiny, have you met Robux?
Can’t agree more. The tech is interesting, but it is the same greed behind it which is old as mankind. It solves absolutely nothing, does nothing of value and adds none. Crypto is quickly becoming a failure of immense proportions.

The externalities of cryptocurrencies include:

Massive carbon emissions.
Funding "rogue states" such as North Korea and Iran.
Tax evasion.
Laundering the proceeds of crime, including the drug trade, theft and fraud, and armed robbery.
An epidemic of ransomware.
A wave of securities fraud targeting the greedy and vulnerable.
Shortages of products including graphics cards, hard disks, and chips in general as limited fab capacity is diverted to mining ASICS.
Abuse of free tiers of Web services.
Noise pollution.
Childcare for 2 children under the age of 5 in my area will cost roughly $4000. Mortgage for a very modest 4 bedroom house is another $2500. $1500 for all the rest starts to get very tight. Insurance as a category alone can eat half of that. There’s not much left to gamble or drug with.
> Is the implicit assumption here that people are too stupid or irresponsible to handle hearing information & coming to their own conclusion on it?

At risk of being flippant, have you been on Facebook lately at all in the past 5-6 years?
If VM is like a nuclear war bunker, containers are like brick and mortar houses. They are not air tight and have glass windows which can be easily broken, but that's where most people live. They're cheaper to build, comfortable enough, and can last a human lifetime most of the time.

An analogy can go a long way. Both ways.
Is it sad? Or is it encouraging that people still have this choice? What if #python had been built on Facebook or Google Plus?

#python didn't leave IRC, they are just on a different network. Is this not the value proposition of open, decentralized and self-hostable services?
Pfft, half of HN is immune to Covid from taking Vitamine D! Way ahead of you buddy.
It takes orders of magnitude more effort to counteract bullshit than it does to produce it. Your opinion doesn't scale and not only is it easily exploitable by bad actors, it's happening in practice all over the place these days and is a huge, huge problem.
All the 'printed' money is given directly to corporations. This increases their share price. That's where the inflation is. Asset process
I don't think he much cares for labels, a form of gatekeeping, and so he's likely trolling if he calls himself an entertainer.
The LoC has extensive media collections besides the books. The textual collection is on the order of 10 terabytes of data though, not petabytes.
Here is a protocol for Ivermectin that is in use today: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/

That website is run by FLCCC / Pierre Kory

Here is a video about Ivermectin for covid, with Pierre Kory: https://youtu.be/4O7uy4tzI8A
Yes it is called "verbing"
Haha, amazing.
Totally separate from whatever this paper is claiming, I'm already dreading a conversation at some future party in which some person rambles on regarding a very unscientific understanding of this paper and something about burning man.
A quick search on pubmed shows that limited trials on Ivermectin have been done, and more trials are underway.

It certainly seems to work in vitro, but needs higher concentrations than have been tested to be safe in vivo so far.

So... it sort of depends on what the people were saying in their videos. If they're saying it's a possible hopeful contender for near future: that's true.

If they're saying "buy lots of ivermectin now", without any qualifying statements, that might be different.
Driving the SARS-CoV-2 virus to extinction is not a viable goal any time soon. Unlike smallpox there are animal reservoirs.
don't they already have plenty of storage? 300gb is like 40mb, 30 years ago... you can pretty much assume that they have petabytes up there. It is not like you need storage dedicated to this mission...
You can't rely on documentation to be correct because, like comments, it can't be tested or automatically updated. It's only going to be reliable if the system under it never changes.
What's the practical difference between this and issuing shares? Like, can you just issue coins at a 1:1 ratio to shares to skirt securities regulations? It smells fishy.
Ivermectin as a Covid-19 Therapy