skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many others, I disagree with more of these points than I agree with. I DO agree that you shouldn't wrap Enum functions inside of other functions, but I prefer using

Map.get(foo, :bar, :some_default_value)

over

foo[:bar]

because I dislike dealing with meaningless nil values, since they tend to be the source of bugs.

I also disagree with not using else in a with statement. That advise seems a lot like, "Next, pull out your pistol and shoot yourself in the foot," to me.

Languages have idioms for a reason and a lot of these suggestions go against idiomatic Elixir, which I'd recommend against.
Maybe. There was a particular dog breed that I saw all over the place, and it looked a lot like them. Big suckers. Nasty teethies… You didn’t want one of them biting you.

In any case, I’m sure that wolf packs behave in quite a similar manner.
Instead of using the word "idiot", I think it's probably better to describe people who refused to give up small scale farming over the course of the 20th century as...very stubborn, used to doing everything themselves to save money and ignoring risks (to themselves and family) that a big employer can't possibly get away with today.

If you've ever read "Farmer Boy" about Almanzo Wilder, there's a bit where his father is telling him, he can go and live in the city, apprentice to someone and make a good living, but be dependent on other people, or he can be a farmer, take more risks with the weather and everything else, but be independent.
Can a Dress Shirt be Racist? (2016)
I do subscribe to newsletters and I don't want to see those recommendations while I'm doing something else.

But sites are gonna run ads. And if my choice is unpersonalized ad or personalized, I'd rather it be personalized.
Aside from using an automated formatter/linter, I think being opinionated about code style is only really sustainable for single person projects. Otherwise it leads to inconsistent code reviews where people are making changes for reasons they can't understand.
Don't forget interns. Those poor souls are absolutely screwed by all this. In no circumstance can I see mentoring an intern working remotely. At least not nearly as effectively as in person.
This is a great comment, and it helps reveal to us why there are approximately zero good managers.

Imagine a job advertisement:

Position available for (Software Development, but any industry really) Project Manager.

Hard requirements:

• Take ownership
• Delegate
• Know where we want to end up
• Recognise problems
• Understand dependencies
• Remove hurdles
• Provide resources by identify bottlenecks and resource constraints and remove them
• Be able to communicate to the team collectively and each member individually to a high level
• Make sound and stable decisions
• Motivate the team
• Do all of these things well above average level
• Not just this project and this team, but also the next project and when the team gets shuffled around from time to time

There are approximately zero people who can do all of this on a consistent basis. Maybe one in a million can do some of it well some of the time, perhaps. Maybe.

If you have a manager who is simply a reasonable sort of person, though they may be lacking everything else, I strongly urge you to do everything you can to keep that person where they are. If you don't mind tolerating them, you're on to good thing, because there's a fair chance ousting them will result in your team finding the next person is much much worse.
maybe they think that using high-level vocabulary is an indicator of intelligence. Fortunately, the article does that too.
> I am pro science, but science doesn't claim that all vaccines are safe

Indeed. But science does claim that Pfizer, Moderna, etc COVID-vaccines are safe and you are un-scientific if you claim otherwise. They went through proper trials, and were accepted independently* by many countries.

* not completely independently I’m sure, but my point is that even if you don’t trust your country at all, several other ones decided univocally that it is safe
I'm genuinely shocked at how many of my colleagues are in the anti-vaxx club.

Literally half of my team have said they will not get the vaccine when it's available to them. One citing a podcast which talked about how the vaccine causes programmed cell death and the other because "it's all a bit suspicious".

Great guys, intelligent and generally good to be around. I didn't know how to react when I found out.
Grain silos are really freaking dangerous just like a lot of activities on farms.
>Is there some other way that we are do it beside our biological reward system?

Seems to me that's what this whole paper we're discussing is about. If you're already convinced that there is no other way, then you're basically already agreeing with the paper, "Rewards are enough".
10 years ago I had diagnosed pericarditis from a viral infection. I had Covid in 2020 which caused a similar chest pain during elevated heart rate, it slowly resolved over a few months.
Rehabilitation is all well and good, but in the mean time the rest of society deserves to be protected. What do you propose to do with criminals who aren't rehabilitated yet? Even in the best of cases it isn't a fast process.
Responding to skepticism with hostility does nothing except make you feel better. And further convince the skeptics that you're wrong. After all, if you'll try to tell them that their own lived experience is a lie, why should they believe anything you tell them?
I understand the current rulings. I am saying they are erroneous. We (who I replied to and myself) understand what is going on. It is not consistent.
Honest and direct feedback is one thing, belittling people for not fully understanding an edge case can be counterproductive. Linus is also not immune to mistakes, and he admits to having a general lack of understanding of the emotions of others.
> You are probably asking questions to which we don't have answers.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the qualifications of people who post on Hacker News. Who knows; perhaps there's a stray immunologist among the visitors.

What depresses me quite a bit is that discussions in public forums regarding vaccines never seem to move past a high-school science lesson in physiology and cell biology. Which tends to leave people with a rather superficial understanding of what a vaccine does, yet with a high degree of confidence in that they understand how it works.
Seriously? Linus's opinion on covid? Pull up your socks, people.
Forecasting: Principles And Practice
It's one thing to be opinionated about code styles, but I would argue that doing so when those opinions go against standard idioms is a recipe for disaster.

If I ran across a lot of these suggestions in code, I'd refactor them to be more idiomatic/practical.
Sure, however now your atomic has 'static lifetime so it lives forever and that's sort of cheating. The reference counter means nobody in particular needs to be in charge of cleaning up, whoever has it last will drop it. Call it personal preference.

Also, is the broken kinda of look of your blog an aesthetic choice or a bug? Is "![Today%20is%20my%20first" really what that ought to display under the title ? I feel like it probably isn't.
My evaluation is that the original usage of the "sealioning" accusation was indeed as a generic dismissive, and its application was dishonest as well; I don't accept the term as a well-founded descriptor of troll behavior in the first place.

If you look at the original comic[1], the sea lion follows the couple around in public, into their house, and even into their bedroom, without permission; that is what makes the sea lion's behavior bad (criminal, in fact). However, "sealioning" in practice refers to people responding to public internet comments with other public internet comments. To treat the latter like the former is dishonest.

Furthermore, the sea lion is objecting to unsubstantiated criticism of his species, which is a form of bigotry. Imagine people searching Twitter for criticism of, say, their race or religion and arguing back at it. I suspect that 90+% of those who complain about "sealioning" would consider that behavior permissible and probably downright virtuous (and would add that the arguing-back need not be scrupulously polite). I'm frankly surprised that "social justice"-associated people managed to decide that objecting to speciesism was worthy of mockery. I think they just really wanted some term of disparagement for their opponents, and happily accepted this one when it appeared without analyzing it too closely.

[1] http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png
Would smallpox survive in a microscope slide? I remember my late grandpa had a microscope slide labeled smallpox in his basement. He was an old time doctor and had all sorts of neat things down there after he died. I don’t remember what happened but think the slide is still sitting in a storage shed or something. Always been curious about the risk of having such a slide.
If I want to know how much Stripe will cost, I can visit Stripe's webpage and see all the fees laid out. It doesn't tell me "Talk to sales", which is common in the payment/tax calculation business.
Grain bins and silos aren't the same thing https://ilfbpartners.com/farm/the-difference-between-grain-b...
You're measuring a force. There's no real reason not to interpret it as one.
There's a great quote from some movie that's stuck in my mind. I'm paraphrasing slightly, because my memory is fuzzy, but it goes something like: "Wow, it's so wonderful to see how you've all expressed your unique individuality by dressing exactly alike."
not to be too nitpicky, but the article doesn't say don't use higher order functions; the article says don't wrap higher order functions into something that hides it higher-orderness.
So many questions: Why two hops and not three, like Tor? Also, Tor routes only TCP; what does Apple Private Relay route? And how is it related to iCloud - is it just branding? Finally, why aren't people on HN raving about it? Based on a first impression, it's a fantasy come true - a major company is creating an anonymizing network for its users traffic!

From a prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433871

More details here.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90643627/apple-privacy-wwdc-priv...

>This is where iCloud Private Relay comes in—and puts VPNs to shame. iCloud Private Relay uses a dual-hop architecture. When you navigate to a website through Safari, iCloud Private Relay takes your IP address, which it needs to connect you to the website you want to go to, and the URL of that site. But it encrypts the URL so not even Apple can see what website you are visiting. Your IP and encrypted destination URL then travels to an intermediary relay station run by a third-party trusted partner. Apple would not name these trusted partners, but says the company is working with some of the largest content providers out there. Before getting to this relay station, however, your IP address is anonymized and randomized, so the relay partner can’t identify you or your device. Then at the relay station, the destination URL is unencrypted, so the third-party provider can send you on to the website you want to go to.

>Because of this dual-hop architecture, neither Apple nor the relay station knows both who you are and where you are going. Apple knows who you are (because you are using iCloud Private Relay), but it doesn’t know where you’re browsing. Its third-party partner knows where you are browsing–but not who you are.
That's the paradox, we have the fewest people per house ever, but the houses are the most expensive they've ever been.

"You think it’s harder being a homeless person with a phone vs not having one?"

I dunno, have you tried freezing to death, does it feel better if you can distract yourself with candy crush?
Argo is extremely capable at its focus — coordinating workflows on Kubernetes.

I had used Airflow for a few years, and looked into Prefect; in retrospect I'm very happy we chose Argo.

Use Argo if:
- Your tasks are containerized.
- You're using Kubernetes, and can benefit from what it can offer — individually sized containers, autoscaling, fault-tolerance.
- You have loosely coupled tasks — which pass at most pass files to each other, rather than python objects.
- You don't have tens of thousands of tasks / streaming / etc.

Airflow can run on Kubernetes, but with Airflow we ended up having equally sized workers up 24/7 — whether or not it was running an expensive job, a query on a remote system, or nothing.
Not a (real) scientist, but I think unlikely. The concern I see from scientists are bodies buried in permafrost, but ice preserves in a way basements don't.
>> From the viewpoint of a healthy young person, the risk/reward ratio of taking a vaccine is bad.

You are right, all those children 60 years ago shouldn't have gotten the polio vaccine, look at them now, being disabled and whatnot, that vaccine was super risky /s
It's not always appropriate, but sometimes a verbal kick in the ass is useful. Shame is a powerful motivator. Shame used to keep the majority of racists and morons quiet in public, and slowly they were dying out since it was so hard to find their fellows. We need to make willful ignorance shameful again.

And when you're dealing with things that endanger lives, I have no room for politeness, myself.
That is so cool
thank you for follow up !

on b) Yes, you understood correctly.
Perhaps I did not think of one-to-one mapping between PDL and Excel calleable functions, as such.

But a sort of a PDL-to-Spreadsheet transplier that looks at the PDL as an input syntax and transplies it into something that runs on excel/libre calc runtime.

While at the same -- if the transplier's build target is Perl -- it produces something that runs under 'perl'.

This kind of multi-target 'transplantation' would allow (in my non-expert thinking) the same computation 'source' to run in backends (eg under Perl, distributed across multiple machines (as in (a)),
while portions that require interactivity, or allow 'one-workstation' kind of runs would be executed within a Spreadsheet run time, on a workstation.

The dissonance between spreadsheet flow-oriented language with
a well-understood interactivity model but a small dataset, and 'batch/program' oriented expressive language like PDL for large datasets-- perhaps could be solved, with something like the above.

In most settings that I was in, things that run on a single workstation are used for 'modeling' or testing or troubleshooting.
So in that setting a spreadsheet program (Excel/Libre Calc) is used more like a 'repl'.
While things that run in productions deal with large data sets and quicker.

So this duality of usecases created, and lack of a unifying technology -- created whole organization/people profession shifts.

I know that Julia is trying to solve it by creating a language that is as interactive as a spreadsheet, while as performant as a backend language.

But another approach, may be, is to look at PDL and make a transplier that can facilitate this duality of use case.

Apologies in advance for the long reply, and may be taking the thread of onto a tangent!
AFAIK, FLoC is only for third-party cookies, which don't really add any value these days other than tracking you across websites.
I don't see any analysis of what you're getting for your rent vs. your mortgage.

For example, if the cost of renting a 3 bedroom SFH is significantly less than the cost of owning the same home, there's a problem in the market, but if the median rent is for a 2 bedroom apartment and the median mortgage is for that 3 bedroom SFH, you're not making a useful comparison.

In my neighborhood (in a major metro area), rents are a little cheaper than mortgages, but there are plenty of nearby areas where they're about the same or it's even a little cheaper to buy.
One doesn't have terribly much to do with the other. Smallpox was introduced to the Americas in 1520. The only recorded attempt to deliberately infect Native Americans with it was in 1763 by a British officer. By 1803 the US government was already running smallpox vaccination programs for the Native American tribes with which they had contact. Not that the later Manifest Destiny actions weren't horrific and devastating, but they had nothing to do with creating an idea of a clean continent using disease. 19th century Americans were more than happy to invade and seize land that was fully inhabited.
Ah, I thought you were talking about the area for the loops.

The idea behind this is because running conductors through the substrate has its own issues that ironically makes it a lot more complicated than little transformers like this. It's all material science kind of stuff about how the extra steps to bond the layers conductively runs into yield issues. They also thermally flex in weird ways reminiscent of 2007 era BGAs that had problems with the shift to ROHS detaching themselves from boards. But way more fragile and you can't fix it by a run through the reflow oven.

Obviously they've gotten past some of those issues in the past few years.
Last update:

The environmental conditions within the affected Availability Zone have now returned to normal levels. We will provide further details on the root cause in a subsequent posts, but *can confirm that there was no fire* within the facility.
To be fair he started with the word "please".
I have a 9mo old in day care. Day care keeps these kids constantly sick regardless of C19 - I just spent two nights on Memorial Day weekend in the hospital with my son due to RSV. Anyways, out of curiosity how did C19 end up effecting the infant? I [was] an LEO and my wife is a health care professional so we have both been vaccinated since the beginning of the year, but I still think about my son with everything starting to go back to normal here in the Midwest.
I agree 100% and it's quite scary.

We've moved past the "information age" where facts and science and raw data are used to drive decisions, and we're in some kind of "selfish wants" age.

I don't know if it's a problem with democracy though - we've known for a long time now if you let regular folk vote on it a huge number would vote for absolutely zero tax and society would fall apart because of it, but they'd go down chanting how free they are because they're not paying tax.

I wonder if it's a lack of education about critical thinking, or maybe just a few decades of being told we can have whatever we want, making (most/some) people very entitled and self-centred.

I'm locked in a quarantine hotel for 14 days right now (entering Australia) and I'm live vlogging it across social media. I'm getting a TON of comments from people who are outraged that this is a violation of my rights, etc. etc.
It doesn't occur to them that I had to agree to this quarantine long before I could even book a plane ticket, and I personally think it's a very good protective measure and I'm happy about it. Their outrage about what is happening to me is apparently more relevant and important than my own thoughts about what is happening to me.

People seem to think their own personal rights are more important than the rights of society as a whole.
Indeed that is true that for most cases WiFi can do the things users want. My note was that not everything you can do with Ethernet frames can be converted to WiFi frames.

One such example is Ethernet multicast.
it might not be the fire itself, but the fire suppression system might uses gases fatal to humans and so they must wait for those gases to vent / dissipate.
I understand the need for convenience, I really do.

The problem with Chips is that they're starch, and in the USA, we overeat starches. There's pretty much no reason to be snacking on starch.

Instead, you should snack on fat and fiber: nuts and fruits. Dehydrated fruits are as easy to store and eat as any chips (Raisins, Pineapple) and will instantly increase your dietary fiber intake. Canned / Processed fruits are extremely easy and incredibly healthy. Apple Sauce, canned pineapple (since its cooked, no worries about it dissolving your tongue), canned apricots, canned peaches. You've got a lot of options for a quick-and-easy fruit snack that's as convenient as chips.

Nuts are a high energy source of healthy fats. Almonds, Peanuts, Cashews, Pistachios. Plenty of good stuff, and they balance well with fruits (fruits are low on fat/lipids/protein, nuts are high on fat/lipids/protein). There's also a different set of vitamins you get from them, so the variety is key to healthy eating.

In theory: if you were low on starch for some reason, Potato chips (or corn chips) probably would be fine. But... that's just not what the typical American has problems with.

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Just watch your sugar intake. In the USA at least, a lot of these canned / dehydrated fruits have added sugar in them (yeah, we like our things sweet).

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Frozen stuffs just have too much sodium in my experience. Frozen Pizza doubly-so, because cheese often is made with amounts of salt. Still, I understand the need of a convenient dinner every now and then if you're busy, but definitely don't make a habit of it IMO.
I don't understand, you're not archiving the website, just the shortened link to the website, right? So if the original website (or Archive.org, or w/e) is compromised, aren't you screwed no matter what?
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect if you want the actual term for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann
> I got a D from my professor. I questioned why and was told that it was unreadable, and that the solution was inefficient.

That is such a bad faith argument, how can a brute force solution be efficient or inefficient?
History of Computer Animation
I agree with piping into case statements. It's awesome. You're a better person than me. I'll never stop doing it no matter how loudly people complain. :)
exactly.

it’s amazing to me that the mainstream media (eg cnn) is making such a big issue about this when it’s literally all about unrealized gains (ie not “income”).
That's what an option is on the stock market. It's not so much trading stock, as it is making a bet on whether the stock goes up or down by a certain date.

You don't have to exercise the contract, you can just sell it to someone else.
I normally find his replies offputting and yes, rude. I don’t even find this one rude. Exasperated for sure, as much as many of us feel confronting bullshit that’s killed an absurdly large number of people that could have lived longer and kept more of us in isolation longer than we should have been.

I rarely feel this way, but I wish I had the grace and patience and fortitude to express this the way Linus Torvalds did.
Getting a design right the first time is hard, getting a design right without any users is really hard.

Also look into how many massive libraries basically started as someones weekend project for fun. I posit that the quality of the open source ecosystem would go down, not up if we tried to somehow enforce these kinds of standards on public projects.
don't feel too bad about it: It would probably have gotten fewer eyes if you had named it more mildly.
I wasn't aware it was even supposed to be able to support Chromecast :o

And yes, the library management is pretty arbitrary, I gave up on that pretty quickly. I recommend sonarr/radarr/lidarr for that!
Well, I'm afraid I have to disagree that I'm not at all shocked about this level of ignorance brewing within the tech community. These people are very susceptible to snake oil health claims about things like nutrition, "nootropics" and the faux medicine of infinite dilution. So why wouldn't they also be susceptible to misinformation about real biotechnology?
Because there’s no penalty or cost, and little to no competitive advantage. Only programmers ever see API documentation, and they are not in a position to force better documentation. If good API documentation provides a competitive advantage companies will pay attention to it. Until then they will continue to concentrate on dark mode and emojis.
Big sale on Frankfurt spot instances coming soon!