skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kafka is very configurable .. and teams struggle to optimize the production deployment configuration and tend to second guess their decisions. Getting a managed deployment from Confluent etc. mitigates these issues as you can count on proven SMEs to deliver a well optimized solution. However, if you were to DIY , you might not be so blessed. Disclosure: I never did a DIY Kafka prod deploy -- my employer was already a Confluent customer.
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Cached version of the write up https://archive.is/VgHkW
Could you provide two statements with equal Gödel numbers but distinct proposition orders, and a detail of how you compute the Gödel numbers?
Is your code actually correct, efficient, and maintainable? Does the rework improve its correctness, efficiency, or maintainability?

There are members of my team whose PRs are rarely approved without rework. There are other members of my team whose PRs almost never require rework.

It's just a gut check question. This guy could be totally wrong and a jerk. Or he could be right and a jerk. If he's right and a jerk, then internalizing that feedback might help you (even if he's still a jerk.)
Can we talk for a second how absurdly good a user experience the text site is? It's 9kb over the wire, the whole thing is one request, it does everything it needs to do to get me the article and it happens instantly and without waste.

The full site is 88 requests, takes 5 seconds to complete, transfers over 300x more data and brings me no additional value. The article doesn't even begin on the first screen, I have to scroll to start reading! The text version gives me the first 7 paragraphs without any user input.
In my experience, using a VPN will get you the captcha every single time.
The basic way a con works isn't by presenting itself as not-a-con but by presenting you as being in-on-the-con. Lots of overlap there with semi-legit (though taking advantage of stupidity) companies.
The jump is substantial because the Fed raised the interest rate on overnight reverse repos from 0% to .05%, so the demand skyrocketed.
Not OP, but it's definitely the incredible flexibility of the system, especially the databases.

I basically track everything, from sideproject progress, CRM, personal challenges, workouts, books read, personal expenses, whishlists and todo with Notion in an unique way. While I'll be the first one to admit that the flexibility can be overwhelming sometimes, for basically every common usecase there are templates or YouTube tutorials
I completely agree that a model that fits all data ever thrown at it is still not 'the truth', and that there is in fact no way to access ultimate truths about the world.

Unfortunately in the past I have seen people using this type of reasoning to then argue that, if truth is illusory, so is falsehood - that everything is a matter of opinion and utility (for example, Peter Jordan has argued this in the past). This does not at all follow from your my and your beliefs about ultimate truths, but it is tempting for some to extrapolate.
I recommend having 2 note taking apps.

#1 geared towards speed and simplicity - the one you reach for first when you just want to jot something down without thinking too much about it.

#2 geared towards organization and power - this is more like a wiki - more structured, organized, and thoughtful.

From time to time, you can pull important information out of #1 and put it in #2 in a much more structured/formatted/organized way.

This 2-tier system has worked the best for me and I no longer have to keep looking for the one app that will magically do it all (I don't think it's possible). I use Apple Notes for #1 and Notion for #2.
I think we'll eventually find a balance point, but these boundaries are being moved in the opposite direction. Psilocybin decriminalization then recreational use seems like the next leg of the race after federal/all-state legalization of marijuana. Then the next thing to be pushed is only a little more controversial than psilocybin. I doubt we'll ever reach that point with cocaine or heroin though and they'll never be up for medical/recreational consideration.

If it seems unbelievable that there could be significant support for the War on Drugs, remember how many voted for Trump the second time around.
That's part of it.

We do also have differentiating features on the company side. It's not like we're abandoning the idea of building features for companies or anything.

The job search, like other matching problems, is often not zero sum. So building (say) a better search interface for companies benefits engineers as well, because both sides of the market have an interest in a good match. What we're saying here is that in the cases where things -are- zero sum, the power - and therefore the incentives - lie with engineers and not with employers.
I think the problem with this statement is that, if not read generously, it can be an easy way to demonize any opposition. “If you don’t agree with X govt policy intended to combat inequality, you are immoral.”

It’s possible to agree with the moral intent but also disagree with the policy. (Not saying this was your frame of argument, just thought it an important distinction).

Edit: downvotes are fine but please add to the discussion. Maybe you’ll change someone’s mind.
>This system makes the person arguably _least qualified_ to understand the situation the single arbitrator as to which answer is accepted.

What is the argument for the OP being the least qualified?
> #2 SSH keys are configured in cloud-init, there's no reason they can't be read from SecretsManger and rotated out of the box.

If you didn't know it, you may be interested by ec2-instance-connect (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-inst...). It's sadly officially only supported on Amazon Linux / Ubuntu but ephemeral ssh key authorization based on IAM has nice properties in terms of security / auditability / access control / revocation etc.
New tech lead pushing switching an existing product from infamously-cargo-culted MongoDB, of the much-hyped-but-now-passed Document Databases Are The Future wave, to either of a couple products in the current "X database architecture is The Future" wave? Does that not read like it could just as well be straight-faced parody, as real? The products may be fine, so far as they go, that's not what I'm trying to puzzle out here.
Is that really THE Julian Assange?
I don't think people recognized it as parody, but no one took http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz seriously
iOS Reader Mode is a godsend in these situations
No, I have no issue or interest with finding restaurants near me. I'm talking about researching stuff, finding solutions to technical issues, old manuals, stuff that is a little bit more challenging than the basics. I used g! constantly because most of the times the results for non trivial stuff are worthless
You will need to exit the internet if you want a civil conversation that goes beyond punishing buzz word narratives and could possibly lead to useful changes in policy.

But to answer your question, by "war on drugs" they mean the heavy handed nature of police enforcement of drug related laws. Petty drug crimes become life ruining felonies and leave poor families struggling even more than they already were.

There is some very legitimate police activity stopping major drug dealers though, and there are many criminals whom can't be convicted of the crime they committed because of lack of evidence, but can be nailed to the wall for possession of drugs. Overall, the landscape of how to treat drug offenders becomes very muddled.
Note you are off by a magnitude:

"as it raised the rate on its overnight Reverse Repo facility from 0% to 0.05%"
This documentary is an absolute must-watch and shows how devastating the war on drugs is and was from a race perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
Nondeterministic Turing Machine has only bounded

nondeterminism. That is, for a given input a Nondeterministic

Turing Machine can only explore the number of alternatives

bounded by its input. Actors do not have the limitation.
You raise a good point about the limits -- although the contactless limits have been raised here due to the pandemic. But I think you're underestimating the physical security of the payment infrastructure. Card terminals (here at least) are extremely secure. They are highly tamper resistant; they cannot access the network if they've been tampered with.

These NFC terminals on the other hand, I have my doubts about many of them. Especially the ones that are basically glorified phones.

Stealing a PIN and a card would be a targeted attack (or an extremely lucky break). When that happens, depending on the bank, taking out money might even be dumbest course of action. Many banks have online services that can be accessed using a card reader (and the card, and the pin). Limits there tend to be much higher, and there won't be an ATM camera filming you.
I didn't know that about music education in Detroit; that's great and an important story.

> poor kids can be pretty resourceful

They are, in fact, like every other kid!

> Out of all that came Motown, a strong rock scene (Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent and more) and the birth of electronic music.

And punk (MC5, Iggy Pop & the Stooges) and funkadelic (George Clinton, etc.). Also, to nitpick, it was the birth of techno, not electronic music.
There's no "language to rule them all". Java already tried and almost ruled the world, but reality is that with options languages take here and there to whats important to them, they will never expand to a certain level.

Languages compete in their axes, which for me there are mainly 4 big ones:

a) System/Performance/Control: C, C++, Rust, Zig

b) Application: Java, C#, Swift, Go, Kotlin, Nim

c) Script/Casual: Python, Ruby, Lua, Javascript

d) Domain specific: OCAML, Scheme, Haskell, Matlab

I've never seen a language ruling in two axes at the same time (as in you can use it for the same goals), let alone in all four, or at least three.

The a' axis are very hardcore languages with insane amount of control, but they will never be as productive as the b' and c' axis.

Meanwhile the b' axis is the most popular one, as they allow you to create big and complex application while being productive. Their runtime are not far away from the languages on the a' axis.

The c' axis is most productive and easy to pick up, with languages that feels more natural, but they dont have the performance of the a' and b' axis and also its hard to compose big applications on them unlike the a' and b' axis.

Maybe a successor of languages like Rust and Swift might be the on to do this, but i cant hardly see Rust in that position because programming in it have more or less the kind of productivity that C++ gives you.

I relax much more when i can write something in Swift instead of C++ or Rust for instance, and i would mostly choose it given the perfect match to the problem i'm solving.

I think we are going for a more polyglot world, not less, and i mostly use C++, Swift and Python when i can, where you can replace C++ for Rust, Swift for C# and Python with JavaScript according to your personal tastes.

But using something from one axis trying to reach for the goals better served in another axis is mostly a "when all you have is a hammer.." kind of paradox.
Part of the reason why jails are overrun in recent years is that we've closed a large number of asylums who would have housed and treated these people. Sure, that sort of thing leaves a bad taste in the mouth, but psychological care has certainly advanced leaps and bounds past 1950s standards for mental illness and addiction treatment. There's no reason why we couldn't have effective asylums today like they have in Europe for their mentally ill and addicted.
Sharing the codebase between all apps would definitely be an explaination for the occasionally unpleasant desktop experience.
You do realize you can vape flower/concentrate and eat edibles, right?

>Marijuana is a gateway drug, I strongly believe this but open for changing my mind if there is data supporting otherwise.

The burden of proof is on you to show this. What you strongly feel doesn't matter.
Similar to company scrip, this reminds me of "Charles Robin and Company" from the Gaspé region of Canada. The company was an exporter of fish that abused its monopoly position in the market. Fishermen were independent businesses but Robin's company was both buying the fishermens' catch (thus setting its price) and also the mortgage lender for the fishing boats (so they controlled their debt too).
You are intentionally misunderstanding but I will explain for others.

To correct your analogy: We have a destination in mind. We know it's down this dark and rainy road. I can't foresee every twist and turn on this road and I am able to be at peace with that.

This makes me a better driver because I am able to focus my heart and soul and energy on the road on front of me, without being distracted by what I don't and can't know.

I control the controllable and I know the knowable - and I do that no less well than when I was areligious. The difference is now I give no thought to the uncontrollable and unknowable - that's on G-ds hands. I focus on what's in mine.
Exactly, I've been thinking about making a hyper-simplified super-fast "input" app that connects to the Notion API for thought-capturing...
I love to explore the concept of color as an example. Color represents regions of a continuous EM spectrum. "Green" represents a photon between 495-570nm, but the concept of only exists within the human mind. The color I call green might be the what someone else calls red if we ever had a brain to brain interface.
Sure, but it doesn't change the fact that your findings will be as useful or useless as your premise. If you're trying to use statsitics to prove pseudoscience, well, it's still pseudoscience at the end of the day. (NB: I don't mean that psychological sciences are pseudoscience.)
Adding to the counterpoint: Bill Clinton once said "If cocaine were legal, my brother would be dead."

Drugs ruin lives. Drugs end lives. And the War on Drugs ruins lives, and ends lives. The question is, if we change, will the total damage go up or down?
>power of the free market

A government controlled or subsidized competitor doesn't result in a free market.
Our build times for our ember JS app went from 60 seconds to something like 7-8 minutes since including tailwind. And TailwindJIT introduced some odd bugs where we had to leave it off. So far it's made the dev harder in some ways that have nothing to do with all the actual CSS benefits we realized. We'll try 2.2 to see if it helps.

I am really hoping someone is working on a go or rust version of the tailwind compiler, and we'll see those speeds come down from multiple minutes down to 800ms and see just how utterly silly JS tooling performance is.
For more stories of pot in rural areas, I can recommend "Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers"[1]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Freaky-When-They-Look/dp/0922820...
Because there’s no meaningful way to answer that here. It’s like asking what’s the difference between trawler fishing and open cast mining.
Anti-Drone Weapons at Biden's Meeting in Brussels
There's a subreddit for this: /r/DesirePath
This might be an unpopular opinion, but the economy we have right now feels quite fake, for lack of a better word, in the sense that the official numbers that are reported don't seem to reflect its actual health. I find it deeply concerning that every warning sign is summarily dismissed as "transitory" and the government and the Fed continue to drive full speed ahead.
Not only this, but in many cases felons permanently lose their right to vote, even after they serve their sentence.

Edit: I stand corrected, this is true in some states but not others.
Kodak – The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
Forget "central actors" or whatever.

A ponzi scheme is a description of a certain type of fraud. We can reduce it to it being the fraud of claiming new capital as investor dividends. It's a little more complex, but at its heart, that's what you got to do.

If there is no lie about the source of the money, it's not technically not a ponzi scheme.
the problem with this is that I think few people care enough to enter their preferences, let alone to come back and check. not to mention that most people don't really expect politicians to follow through on their promises, and anyone who does will probably figure out how they want to vote via other methods. the only way I see this idea actually becoming useful is if it starts being displayed somewhere people already go, like in a google results page
A one-sentence summary of my policy goal is "make sure all addicts get heroin, from a place where they have access to help in quitting if they can".

So any dispensary would have addiction specialists on hand, anyone getting heroin would have a card and a database. "Casual" and light users would pay, a known hard-case addict with limited means would get it subsidized or free.

The goal is primarily to kick the bottom out of the black market, with a close second being keeping addicts healthy and alive, where quitting heroin is the best case scenario.
I'm an engineer at Notion. We don't use React Native (I worked on the rewrite of our apps to remove it). There's still a bunch of code that refers to our mobile app platform as reactNative, which is what you're seeing.
Is "unthought" some trendy positive-vibes-only newspeak for "didn't think"? Or just an artifact of non-native english?
Grafana Labs acquires load-testing startup K6
This looks really impressive. Congrats on the Launch!

Minor nit: On the `div`s with the class name `code`, I see the curl demo is overflowing its contents. It could be fixed by adding this to its css:

```
overflow: scroll;
```
I’m a big fan of these kinds of improvements. They can be a bit dangerous politically though. 5 minutes might be something the manager can get traction to implement a fix to get it below 1 minute build times. At 1 minute the manager may never be able to make a political argument to improve.

This may also be why the manager chastised the person fixing this. Such a drastic improvement can completely undermine any efforts to make even bigger fixes, as well as make the manager look foolish that they couldn’t make these improvements already.

I tend to believe the perfect is the enemy of good, but I’ve certainly worked in some orgs where I might take an improvement like this to the main champion of the problem first and ask if it’s a useful solution. I might even be willing to shelf the solution if I can be convinced it’s not in the long term best interest of the org. If I’m not, though, I’d likely become a champion of this short term pain relief knowing that things may not ever have much chance to get much better.
Not just "fine" with it, it's the current driving force behind the Republican Party.
>Here's a better question: Why?

A calculated risk is that you put money into something which may end up losing all of its value; not that your collateral becomes locked in a safe with an accidentally lost key. They had a reasonable expectation that even if the value was totally lost, they wouldn't have their collateral locked forever. Their investment, yes, but not their collateral.

Sure, one always has to account for extreme scenarios when doing anything, like the risk of a critical flaw in the code. But to give another extreme gambling scenario:

Let's say you put your car up as collateral for a huge gambling bet. You of course take a calculated risk that if you lose the bet, you lose your car. Then let's say you back out of the bet after putting up the collateral, or you even win the bet, but there was a mixup at the casino and they thought you lost the bet and they took your car without you realizing it and it's on another continent now.

In both scenarios, you hope that you can at least get some kind of compensation from the people you entrusted the collateral to, since it was just a complete fuckup on their part. You know you're not guaranteed to get anything, but I think it's reasonable to try to ask for compensation. If you just took a bet and the value plummeted, then you know it's tough luck for you and just a standard high-risk high-reward scenario that you ended up on the losing side of, but this is something else.

(At least if I'm understanding this properly and the collateral really was purely collateral. Seems to be a bit complicated because they were attempting to make a... stablecoin... pegged to an intentionally volatile asset, somehow.)

>This is exactly what crypto-enthusiasts claim is going to happen to the US Dollar

It's mostly just Bitcoin maximalists who think that, and they're a small subset of people who own Bitcoin. This is Binance Smart Chain (basically a copy of Ethereum), and I'm sure some BSC/Ethereum users believe something similar, but it's a much smaller percentage than even Bitcoin's small percentage.

Also, I don't think they think every dollar is secretly embedded with nanobots that'll encase the bill in titanium after someone at the Fed trips and falls on a big red button, which is what would be analogous to this. I think they think the dollar will lose most or all of its value due to hyperinflation. I think that's a completely unfounded belief based on an unfounded philosophy, but it's a different and entirely unrelated thing.
Many-core computer systems and networked computer systems

depend crucially on indeterminacy in order to gain

performance.

See the following

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3459566
I worked at Triplebyte several years ago (but way before any of these changes were being discussed - this blog post is the first I'm hearing of them). I'm an engineer, but I spent a lot of time with the account management team talking to companies. And the biggest thing I remember is how much those companies pushed back on our "rules". They were all eager to talk to the top .1% of candidates, but otherwise just seemed to want an unfiltered firehose of resumes.

So while in theory I like the idea of this meritocratic minimum bar granting special privileges (I liked it enough to join Triplebyte!), in practice we seemed to be fighting an uphill battle with all but a few candidates each month.

On the other hand, I have wasted a lot of time in conversations with recruiters only to be let down at the end by mismatched expectations. I'm interested to see if this new approach can make a meaningful difference in that problem.
That's Roam.
>Why would it be any more of an issue than calling a blocking exec?

Now you turn everything doing fast I/O into something that's essentially an easier rwx situation WRT memory corruption.

>Much nicer

In other words: the runtime should handle it because the kernel doesn't need to.
that doesn’t really explain why they’d give the fed money for 0 percent interest if they are worried about inflation
Companies do pay us. But I think that our real long-term incentives still pull toward building what engineers want, not what companies want. I think that platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed have just gotten this wrong, because they focus on all jobs (not just engineers), and because demand for engineers is stronger than it has ever been. Take a look at this thread from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27501675

Our bet is that LinkedIn is going to fragment. They are just not creating a hiring process that most engineers like. People tend to either get ghosted, or overwhelmed with low-relevance inbound (almost no one gets the "right" amount of attention). Companies need to go where the best engineers are, not the other way around. So I think our long-term incentive is to fix these problems.

In any case, I'm committed to giving this a try. There is danger that we get pulled toward building for companies. I want top guard against this by being public about what we're doing, and "showing our work" as we go.