skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it would be interesting if copilot could generate the code based on your unit tests
In response to something you didn't actually say - news is a classic example of when a free market may be bad, but all the alternatives people tried were much worse!

And on what you did say - total agreement. The news has always been terrible. The internet has brought the cost of broadcasting so low actual honest or expert opinions and can make it out as well as the orthodoxies of people who can afford media companies.
Electrical distribution plant generally follows the same code everywhere in the country. Also when SJ was first electrified it was a rural area.
Some places on the coasts bury them as well. My wife grew up on the coast and it wasn’t uncommon to go a few days or more without power each year because wind storms would knock over trees onto the power lines. They’ve since buried a lot of their lines.
> you get to fire the devops person, which saves $150k+ a year.

You are deluded or extremely short-sighted if you believe you can actually fire the devops guy. From my experience, the more you stray away from the conventional "dedicated server" paradigm the more you need a devops guy and you are in a very precarious position if you do fire him and something goes wrong.
Well, to give you an idea, I am working on an service that implements rather complex business process involving fetching data from multiple sources, parsing binary blobs with market data in proprietary format, saving results to a database and so on. And it does around 10k requests per second on a single relatively normal node (8 cores, 64GB ram, etc.)

And no, it does not require any special tricks. It is regular Java / WebFlux / REST / MongoDB backend service.

CPUs can do really a lot and if your node processes 16 requests per second on a multi-core machine then you are using billions of clock cycles and gigabytes of possible transfer to memory for a single request. Something is not quite right...
> https://www.warpnews.org/green-tech/

This site is mostly press releases for products. Purchasing even more new things isn't going to stop climate change or its consequences. We need broad regulation to make an impact.
I’ve sold a car to carvana and I have to say it was the easiest it could possibly have been.

Fill in a web form, get a number (higher than the other guys), set a meeting and their person comes out, does paper work and trades you a check for the keys and title. (Later someone comes to get the car.)

So I’d say at least part of their success is developing a really nice input side.
Opendkim as a daemon as something added to an existing smtpd with postfix is not that complicated.
Beyond that they have dedicated service offerings for this kind of compute. Severless, managed service to execute specific framework, etc. Like I don't see how this is anything less than a feature-light sagemaker notebook.
The electrical grids in general were fundamentally designed differently from country to country, including the voltage difference.

That took into account what was cost effective from the perspective of large scale deployment, and then individual elements are designed from (and are intertwined with) everything downstream from that. So even if two cities (one US and one UK) were/are nearly identical, the resulting grid is going to end up being laid out very differently.
That all requires me to setup my own infrastructure (such as a database) which I'd like to avoid. Otherwise yeah, the list isn't bad!
> they just stopped spoofing our address.

This also means that emails from your domain is less likely to get marked as spam, which can be a significant win for smaller domains.
I just use a real domain name, so I can easily obtain LE certs. Only the internal DNS server will actually return internal addresses.
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What I read: Not the quiet american
>All we got was the entirety of human knowledge in our pockets, functionally for free.

No. What you got was a subset of knowledge, that which can be articulated and is transmissible via audio, video or text. The overwhelming amount of human knowledge is tacit, that is to say it is embedded in practices, cultures, crafts, traditions, institutions, and so on. Which is why there are still billions of people living in poverty despite the fact that you have wikipedia on your phone.

>On most metrics (infant mortality, poverty, violence) - things are massively better than they were thirty years ago.

There are countless of points in time at which things are better than before, this is virtually a truism. Things in the 1920s were perceived to be better than in the 1890s, yet in the 1930s, they were not. This strange belief in some sort of fatalistic progress is just bad Whig history.
I just set static IPs for important things and put them in my domain. There's also MDNS although most of the MDNS responders are pretty fat for what they do. I tried hacking some basic MDNS stuff into busybox a few years ago but never cleaned it up and sent a patch.
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Not so much idioms as much as APIs imho
And for that matter, G.W. Bush is the worst president in the US as he occupied two countries for no good reasons. His occupation destroyed lives, weakened American economy, and fostered generations of anti-American extremists. It's a forever shame on the US and its people.
Pity they don't layout some of the ones like the Coca Cola ones that were meant to be in a specific layout:

https://imgur.com/a/NjNM8oo

Now I need to see if I can dig up any of the 10 minute ones that were used in an office I worked in to send little voice memos around before they moved to a digital system.
I read alot of news on my computer, but for longer reads, the presentation of PDFs (e.g., a scanned book) makes a noticeale difference.

Should HTML+CSS really be able to do everything PDF does? And is it commonly implemented that well, at least by well-resourced sites?

> reading pdf's on a phone is undeniably terrible

I actually find it to be fine, but I am thinking of book pages, so maybe 8 x 6 inches. What I miss are efficient tools such as markup, bookmarking, etc.
I would kind of like Pine to focus on the supply chain for their current products. I’ve been looking to buy a pinebook for a while, but it’s been out of stock, or reserved for some kind of thing or another for a while now.

That’s not an uncommon occurrence when landing on one of their product pages.
Expected a Rickroll but got an ad for a mobile game.

Heh
To the extent it’s considered good practice now I think FP deserves a lot of credit.
curious if anyone tracks software engineering metrics like this anymore?
defects identified, defect fixed vs. time
You acknowledge that APL looks complex until you get used to it. So then how can you objectively score the complexity of code written in it? Won't the precise numerical value inevitably depend on the internal state of the individual reading the code? Ignoring this inconvenient fact would seem to lead to fairly useless metrics.

I can see where the notion of scoring overall complexity can be a useful cognitive tool when working alongside people with similar backgrounds to yourself but I don't think there's anything objective about it at all. In fact, I don't think that an objective measure can exist in the general sense.

Note that all I'm arguing here is that any useful software complexity metric will inevitably exhibit a dependence on the individual. I agree that intentional obfuscation adds complexity in an objective sense but would argue that there's no objective way to quantify how much it adds and that any such score will inevitably vary between observers.

I think Code Golf is a relevant example here. Programs of minimal size whose textual representation often looks almost like line noise. They are simple and elegant in the sense that they are small; the meaning per character has been maximized to the best of the author's ability. However, they are also highly complex in the sense that the typical human will find them incredibly difficult to make sense of.
Efficiency of a production electrolysis plant today is about 80%, which really doesn't seem that bad.

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2017/7/5/hydrogen-made...
Now they need to complete the evacuation from the Kabul Airport.
Visit India or South America, 10x worse now than the US was in the 80s.
Only the person who uploaded a distribution can schedule it for deletion, and yes, anyone could do this with currently-indexed versions of their modules. Relying foremost on the goodwill of authors rather than the intervention of PAUSE overlords is a feature of CPAN, not a bug.

I'm not sure what you tried with ADOPTME, but transferring first-come permissions to ADOPTME would remove your ability to maintain them and allow anyone to adopt the permissions. Permissions for future uploads are a rather separate concern from the currently indexed latest version of the module that dependency chains rely on. The index does not include distributions on BackPAN, so such distributions are only available via manual intervention.
Completely agree.

The problem is the population never owned the country. They didn't liberate themselves. And they're at home as conquered populace.

Someday the west will learn that Democracy can't be "gifted". People have to want it. People have to fight and die for it. And then, and only then, maybe, you'll get democracy.

The only chance that women in the article will see any freedom again, is if she take up arms start shooting the people who say "you can't".
> What is wrong with having another competitor coming in with an alternative

Nothing at all, but generally a competitor has to be better to dislodge the incumbent.

I don’t see much here yet that would make me consider this over Remarkable.

Price point is what generally makes me consider a lot of pine stuff over other things, but it doesn’t really apply for this one.
Earthquake or flood so severe that it damages underground power line, damages water and sewer pipes even sooner. So in that case digging must be done anyway.
A source language does not mean a representation meant for human consumption but a language that is intended to be translated.

You say that transpiling does not carry any additional information, but that is only supported by your implicit assumption that transpiling only produces idiomatic code that humans will edit.

You say that domain experts do not use the word transpiling. From this one infers that you believe you are a domain expert and others are not. In the best light, you are taking your personal experience and applying it globally. You present that as an argumentum ad baculum, which is a fallacy in its own right, but it is really the conjunction of an availability bias couched in a hasty generalization. Plus, your statement is false - domain experts do use the word transpiling, just maybe not people in your circle.
The apron is just the asphalt ("tarmac" for the British) area in front of the station.
You make up things randomly as you go. You never thought ahead of any thought. Every thought you’ve ever had is essentially a procedurally generated prompt based on your biased models.
This is a really nice article! Just so you know, it says that Postmark doesn't offer a DMARC service, but they actually offer two: Free DMARC Monitoring (https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/) and DMARC Digests (https://dmarcdigests.com/)
Wow! That's it!

It just looks like they are offering there services mostly for non-developers (low-code / no-code) and I couldn't find anything about whether they have an API that I can use from my own code to check for registered users and if they paid etc.

EDIT: nevermind, found it: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3613332/outseta-rest-...
> I realized I had no idea why we were ever over there

If you want to change that, you could do worse than read this:

https://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Al-Qaeda-Personal-Account-...
Paul Farmer's "The Uses of Haiti" is a great read about how the US (and other countries) actively prevent Haiti from getting a break: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10234.The_Uses_of_Haiti
Maybe try running a business?
It's hard to shrink the Master File Table (MFT) on Windows/NTFS. Each file or directory consumes 1 KiB in the MFT. So this is similar to the ext* directory-shrinking problem, but at the level of the entire volume instead.
I led dev teams at DriveTime and Bridgecrest and worked regularly with Carvana devs. The relationships between everything legally and technically is definitely tighter than most people realize.

That said, The folks I worked with were all really great people. There's just a lot of interesting history. Fun fact, DriveTime used to be Ugly Duckling Car Sales.
Uncanny valley territory. Definitely will be a more subtle but significant “oh my…” strangely off but can’t put your finger on it. That Ben guy the female robot and her brother having a debate was essentially all of that. Sophie maybe?
Average ownership duration is up to 10.5 years in 2021.
A big advantage of that method is that the same tech works for sequestering lots of carbon. At the current state of the art though, I don't think it's a given that it'll be cheaper than green hydrogen.
> I think the seated woman is Pauline Neville-Jones, who was leading the UK's delegation.

It is her: https://www.c-span.org/video/?68521-1/bosnia-peace-agreement
What we know is that we started to have increasing amounts of "policy is too big" errors in AWS APIs. Not IAM APIs. But things like Sagemaker being unable to start an EC2 instance because the networking system couldn't evaluate IAM policy (the error messages were annoying in both being quite specific and not helpful ultimately).

The computational complexity of the policies wasn't high (in fact, they were pretty much key-value things, as the only time we had something more complex was in AssumeRoleUsingWebIdentity calls - btw, that API sucks, embarassingly so - everything else was plain list of what a role could access).
Looks like arithmetic if is now just a comparator operator, like `<=>`.
For the languages that have considerable feature velocity (so let's say I'll include even C++ and Python there but not C) you'd want to have a way to update idioms to match the current language. You might in some cases want to split out a previously idiomatic solution too.

For example IntoIterator wasn't defined for Rust arrays, and then one day Rust 1.54 implemented IntoIterator on arrays (and hacked things so that this doesn't cause old code to do something unexpected, Rust 2021 will remove that hack since old code wouldn't claim to be Rust 2021, thereby unlocking the new behaviour for syntax that once meant something different). Anyway this changes the idiomatic way to do various trivial array operations, since previously you'd have created a reference to the array, that has IntoIterator so that you can iterate it. That still works, but it's no longer idiomatic.

for &x in &[2, 4, 6, 8, 10] /* needed until 1.54 */

for x in [2, 4, 6, 8, 10] /* makes more sense */
The “sensible limit” is 1024. That’s what the standard is saying.
The CPAN upload and the commit message are two separate incidents, but to your point, things can be removed from BackPAN through some effort, and efforts are being made.
Maybe true about campus, but there are a lot of Amish and Mennonites up there. Cornell has pretty big Ag and Vetinary schools. Would be surprised if there wasn’t some reachout there.
> Python is not astronomically inefficient.

Well, it is. It is a fact.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/03/07/costly/

> Clubhouse is not a tech company.

When you spin 1000s of nodes you need some tech competency.

Or in other words, if it blew one day and there would be a link to writeup on HN, people would be asking "They had 1000s of servers and nobody competent to maintain it?"
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Can post comments on reddit in your name. Should bé better than Google Ads.
The part of gcc that translates one source representation to another transpiles, yes. That is not mean that the word compilation shouldn't be used.

It's similar to saying that all children are people, but not all people are children.
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For simpler queries I suppose it is. Select, join, filter, group sort... maybe a secondary sort on an aggregate (HAVING). Full on DBA work is much more complicated, as are complex queries, especially against production databases.

But against denormalized data and fact tables it can still be pretty accessible from a natural language standpoint, at least in my limited experience teaching a few people.
This is slightly off topic, but is an honest question: Would physics and math benefit from a reworking of flat mathematical expressions into something that looks more like code? Additionally, I wonder why more functions aren't given names like sin and cos so that it's all more like an API than constant rewriting the same equation.

For example, Black-Scholes is complete nonsense [1], but the C implementation is pretty easy to parse [2]. Yes, the code is 100 lines longer, but just like in programming, you'd just use it by name.

1. https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/d856...

2. https://gist.github.com/codeslinger/472083/0acc95f745def15a3...
I think it'd be risky for Carvana if they tried "cornering the market" on used cars - unlike houses, used cars fall in price pretty quickly and new-car production has the potential to increase as car manufacturers respond in a way that housing production does not. If Carvana buys up all the inventory to drive up prices they'll need a plan to unload as well - while keeping prices high.
Generators isolate themselves from the grid (unless they're installed extremely irresponsibly.) Part of the point behind solar is that it feeds power back to the grid because the operators are the only ones with the infrastructure to deal with the excess.
My understanding is that inverters are required (by electrical code among other things) to disconnect from the grid when grid power is lost.
Malfunctioning (or illegally installed) inverters are possible but shouldn’t be a common problem.
The readability. I'd have to do some experimenting to determine what factors have that effect for me, but layout, typography, etc. I read a lot of HTML text, but for books the readability of professionally laid out books makes a difference to me.

I haven't tried Mobi though and would like to. Any suggestions would be appreciated: I am reading books, often scanned. I need efficient markup tools (bookmarks, highlighting, annotation) using a separate editable markup layer (so I can edit my markup and easily strip the markup), the ability to copy blocks of text (for notes), and preservation of content and my markup across Mobi applications and decades into the future (e.g., like PDF/A). And complete end-user control - the book is mine, stored on my systems.
n8n (Nodemation) is an excellent self-hosted source-available replacement for Yahoo Pipes with a similar drag-and-drop UI for workflows. You also have the option of using arbitrary JavaScript for data processing.

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n
He retreads an old song we're all familiar with and like, but this guy obviously has a persecution complex:

>The other day when Cuba erupted in protests, numerous stories explained the riots, confidently, instantly, as demands for COVID vaccines. The accompanying photos didn’t support this claim; they featured ragged American flags and homemade signs demanding freedom.

When someone writes about a variety of abstruse topics, I can only draw on my limited experience with a few of those to judge their reliability about the rest. In this case, I happen to read Google News sometimes. So I know he's talking nonsense. I was deluged with stories about Cubans protesting for freedom. Sure, there were a few mentions that they weren't happy with the slow vaccine rollout, but the overwhelming majority of articles trumpeted the neoliberal party line and crowed about the protest song Patria y Vida.

This kind of selective attention to what must feel like a personal insult accompanies that other signal of a persecution complex, the Poor Lost People Like Me trope

>the anti-bullshit universe of alternative media sources. These are the podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, newsletters, and Facebook pages that regularly vanish from circulation for violating “community standards” and other ineffable codes of conduct, oft-times after failing “fact-checks” by the friendly people at Good Thoughtkeeping. Some of these rebel outfits are engrossing, some dull and churchy, many quite bizarre, and some, despite small staffs and tiny budgets, remarkably good and getting better. Some are Substack pages owned by writers who severed ties with established publications, drawing charges of being Russian agents, crypto-anarchists, or free-speech “absolutists.” I won’t bother to give a list. Readers who hunt and choose among such sources have their own lists, which they fiercely curate, loudly pushing their favorites on the world while accusing those they disagree with of being “controlled opposition” and running cons.

What he fails to understand is that the cliquishness of "his" group and the "narrative" of the "mainstream" are really one and the same phenomenon. Humans naturally try to find, redefine and support a cause or movement, which apparently reflects some primal culture-forming instinct. The idea that this is an external phenomenon -- that some outside, manipulative force is making people arrange into mobs -- is paranoia talking. Humans are natural mob-formers.

The media will always seem to be pushing a narrative because it is made of human beings who feel powerful when they support a narrative. What is necessary is to see the world as it is while aware of this phenomenon, not to delude yourself into thinking you can outrun your own nature.
We have unrealistic expectations of news publishing. Modern TV and movies has made certain professions far more glamourous than they are (journalists, police, doctors) because it makes for good media. But most doctors are not ER doctors. Most journalists are not breaking news. Most police never fire their service weapon.

But to somehow think the moral distributions of people are superior from the average population, just because of career selection, is dubious at best. Something being protected by law doesn't somehow make its practice exalted.
I don't know anything about photography but your clear-eyed writing made my day.
A controversial headline and a bit of opinion creates controversy and gains views. Once this sort of information would be written in a plain text HOWTO and posted to usenet but now we have to clickbait everything so it gets posted to HN.

SMTP is hopelessly naive by the standards of today as it was designed to work in a much smaller and more trusted environment. The additional reputation protocols are well intentioned and work well if the receiver acts on them and are not at all silly or unholy. They are not difficult to configure but neither are they as simple as a redesigned protocol might be.

If you don't need to setup your own mail servers or have a desire to develop and maintain skills in that area then use a pre-configured service.

Otherwise I am fairly sure that configuring these things is far simpler than most trade skills. I don't think there is any comparison between the time it would take to read some docs and add a few lines to a config file and learning to become a proficient welder. If you work with servers and want to be good at your craft I think email is still one of the services people should know how to configure and secure.
I'd probably

1) hardlink all the files from the old directory into a temporary new directory, and

2) rename the new directory to the old directory's name.

I'm no Unix guru but I believe that this should be completely unintrusive to even running processes, or at least less intrusive than your approach. Also failing in the middle seems more graceful.