skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few people would want to make a call to shoot down two full passenger jets over a city. With hindsight it would have been the right option, but at the time it's unlikely it would have happened even if there had been fighters with missiles available.
Substack is better for building an audience for sure, but I think Medium is better for less “known” authors. You would probably go to Substack for someone you personally trust/value, for analysis. Medium is more for evergreen content, casual reading, less “current events” stuff.
If your IDE didn't use color to indicate syntax, would you want different information conveyed through color-coding? Using color to indicate syntax, which is already directly visible in the code you're reading, does seem like sort of a waste if it could be used to convey more useful information.

Using different colors for sync vs async calls could be helpful. Or pure vs. impure. Or how many times a function or variable definition is used elsewhere in the code base, exercised in tests, referenced in the documentation, etc. I think I would find this sort of non-local information more useful than syntax highlighting.

There was a blog post linked here a couple weeks ago that used color shading to distinguish levels of nested parentheses, with color shift on mouseover, which was interesting.

The article suggests marking "=" and "==" in different colors, which doesn't seem very useful unless the font shows adjacent = characters with no space between them.
Isn't the big banner only if the author opted into paid reads?
It's a dry climate and aluminum doesn't just rot. It would obviously take some money and work to bring planes out of mothballs, and probably in some cases unrepairable damage would be discovered, but I would expect most of the planes to successfully reactivate if the need was great enough. Those that couldn't be reactivated could be cannibalized for spare parts.

Consider that the Iowa class battleships spent some decades deactivated, sitting in salt water, before being reactivated several times.
Oh thanks!
> Much like how nobody clicks the 'Reddit is better in the app!' button, you should be conscious that most people nope-out when they click a link and don't get your article.

I think you should be the one conscious that you're a small minority and not representing "most people" at all.
How the pandemic is changing the norms of science
Regional stability ‘at risk’ from China’s growing use of military drones
I do the same. If I receive messages I don't want, I disable the address they are sending the message to. (Then they will get a error message from the SMTP server when trying to send the RCPT TO command.) I run my own email server and just use the /etc/aliases file to list the names that are acceptable. (I also have it configured so that real user names don't work, only aliases will work)
> You are not the intended audience.

A site full of programming articles (Medium) probably wants its articles to be read by programmers.
> This means no closures, which K implementers consider a feature (I don't).

having not touched K in about 15 years, when did this change? in k3:

K 3.2 2004-09-23 Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Kx Systems
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Isn't software development currently just going and picking up what is the big popular name today. Be that platform, database, language or framework. Picking Medium fits perfectly to this mind-set. Move fast break things. Don't reinvent the wheel... Or do when it makes CV better even if you are writing same product again...
I'd suspect it's the opposite, they may be too sensitive to color.
Unless you have highlighting rules for specific function calls (and share them with your team), I don’t see how it this problem has been solved.

Your mutex_lock(&mutex) will be colored exactly the same as any arbitrary foo(&bar), so you’d still want to call it out somehow.
Well… it’s ubuntu
Theyre doing that with substack, which is way less naggy than medium.
Burst CPU and IOPS has bitten me a couple times over the years. In fact, it’s basically the sole cause of nearly all our downtime in recent history. That’s frustrating. I get that it’s a technical solution to the problem of resource utilization at scale, but they could’ve spent some time making it easier to observe — for example, rescale the CPU or IOPS graphs so that 100% is your max sustained budget, and anything over 100% eats into your quota.
If you're a developer comfortable with working with Markdown, I strongly recommend Hugo as this page recommends, and deploying it with something like GitHub Pages.

For themes I recommend Wowchemy (https://wowchemy.com/), which has many features necessary for a modern technical blog albeit a bit of a learning curve as a result.
Correct. They failed at monetization without pissing off their users. Partly because they did it earlier. Youtube was ubiquitous by the time they started pushing intrusive ads, so people either dealt with it, paid, or used an adblocker instead of just leaving.

That doesn't change that the "idea" behind Medium is good and that there's a market for a blogging platform that gives authors easy access to a large audience.
Many things don’t have a neutral middle ground. What can governments or other employers require of their employees?

Can cops lie to suspects is another tricky one. At one end is a flat no, at the other is misrepresent themselves as the defendants lawyer or pretend to offer immunity in exchange for turning on other suspects.
> We have hundreds of millions of users. 5000 people complaining doesn’t represent the majority of users”

That's incredibly naive. Only a tiny fraction of people who don't like it will complain. Others will just switch to another browser. And most will probably put up with it. And if that happens once, it might not hurt you too much. But when you do something like that over and over, you are going to bleed users, including the ones who initially put up with it as the list of things they don't like piles up.

> People don’t use Firefox because of add-ons. Our telemetry shows 80% of users never install any add-ons

Uh huh. You know why I started using Firefox over a decade ago? Because of addons. And as has been mentioned before, a lot of users disable telemetry, especially power users who are likely to install addons. So how reliable is that telemetry? And how many Firefox users are only using it on the recommendation of a friend relative or IT specialist that does use plugins.

I'm not optimistic for the future of browsers. I still prefer Firefox to chrome, but I'm not happy with the direction things are headed.

One final thought. Here's an idea for getting some funding independent of search engines: a Kickstarter like program for users to pay to get some of these features back. Though on second thought, maybe that would give Mozilla even more incentives to rip stuff out...
Agreed - the "three strikes" and mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines have had judges forced to issue sentences which they, and their communities, felt were absurdly high.
Wow. thanks for sharing.

"This is going to be a big turning point in the history and character of this country, I think."
posted by Doug at 6:51 AM on September 11, 2001

Doug was more right than he could have known.
Perfect. I'll give it a go. Any specific recommendations? I figured mastodon.social just because it's the largest, is that bad reasoning?
I recall a big anthrax scare in the weeks following. Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses.
It’s not sneaky to own that much address space; just inertia. Remember that the Internet is an outgrowth of ARPANET.
This is my process to learn a new skill...

1. Research on the topic using multiple sources.

2. Collate all the interesting and useful information into one location

3. Condense this information into a blog post/article(optional: publish it in a 1. learning in public system - there might be errors in this)

4. Create a plan to use this knowledge in a project

5. Do a retrospective after using the knowledge and seeing results - What worked, what didn't work, what can be improved.

6. Add these points to your article

7. Use the knowledge in another project(ideally, in a different contexts) and do the last 3 steps. You might have to do it 3-4 times before you have a decent understanding of it.
I wonder how many folks use Storybook primary as a component library or primarily for its regression testing functionality.
>do not forget the >360 000 dead civilians the war on terror has cost so far.

Most of them killed by the same people the US targeted. Funny how all responsibility is always given to the West even when the people doing the killing are their enemies.

>the taliban back then only refused to hand over Bin Laden without evidence presented

Also after he publicly confessed, not to mention his previous crimes. Their refusal had nothing to do with 'evidence'.
Also, the contrast is not great and the letters are really thin. I'm not a fan of Medium but the text on it is usually readable without effort.
Is there any summary of what's changed between K versions, or their lineage, for someone who's not "K-fluent" but a tiny bit familiar with array languages? What changed between K6, 7, and 9?

Since Kx is the proprietor of the main toolchain I assume such any such description would be more of an oral history rather than a technical document with a changelog, but I'm curious either way!

EDIT: There is a wiki page for this but it hasn't been filled out (yet) unfortunately. Sad trombone. https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/History
Do you have to use federation, or can you create your own little bubble and everything is self contained?
To fix the broken timestamp in the upper right, open your JS console and set timeZone.diff equal to your negative UTC offset.

I'm in US Pacific Time, so I ran

timeZone.diff = 8
Abortions in the USA are mostly the avenue of poor, and non-White women. For example the abortion rate compared to live births is about 50% for African-American women:

https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/usa_abortio...

It seems strange that conservatives would oppose abortions, when the women/children will likely go on to use the welfare services that Republicans loathe to support.
medium was a great platform, you can make you own subdomain and mange what you want, then the focus change from make a great blog experience from a modic price for non tech-savy to, try to become a premium buzzfed, the ui is the same but the home screen is full of crappy shit first post(The Real Way to Figure Out How Smart Someone Is it work every time), and you are force to premium or kick like happens to hackernoon and freecodecamp
> C was chosen by Microsoft for DOS and later for Windows

Maybe for Windows (but then again, PASCAL was the supported language for the Apple Mac in the same timeframe), but MS had both PASCAL and C compilers for DOS. (And of course BASIC compilers, plus whatever weird stuff their Fox Pro thing was about. No it was not a hypertext browser, just some weird programming system that I can't find more info about.) The early Windows 16-bit ABI was rather influenced by PASCAL conventions, which introduced some awkwardness when trying to code to it from C.
HSMs typically will have a fixed number of login attempts that reset only on successful login.

If the password verification attempts are passed through directly to the HSM, then yes, this is standard.
yes I run my own email server, but essentially forward to fastmail. I have a small script that generates a new forwarder. I add a note to remember what’s the purpose of the new email, and it also sends me an email with the note for quick lookup later on if necessary.

I think there are some services that lets you set up forwarders, and even some domain registrars will give you this for free or a small fee (although I guess the script part might be something you’ll have to figure out)
Imagine masks, distancing restrictions, etc becoming the knee jerk response every year there’s a bad flu scare or something like the Ebola cases in 2014 happens. This pandemic will be remembered not for the virus but for the massive and permanent social changes it brought to the west.
As the linked page explains there will never be an automatic update from 9 to 10, they are too different. You have to do it manually.
It’s proprietary but free for personal use and worth trying out (the download is absurdly small!)

Download + licenses are at https://kx.com/developers/download-licenses/

The Q for Mortals book (free online) is a good place to start, as is https://code.kx.com/q/learn/tour/

The licenses aren’t cheap but are worth it for the right problems. Definitely worth adding that the relatively few people skilled in k/q are very much in demand and paid accordingly.
This is good. I love Texas in general and have many close ties, but the hypocritical directions they’re taking are too much. We love Austin as well and as a startup actively looking to open its third office, Austin is a really attractive target. Although I don’t make the official decisions on such things, I cannot see any way I would do anything but strongly advocate against opening our next office in Austin because of all Texas’s nonsense. Denver seems like a good alternative.
Congratulations, you posted something that appears to rebut my post but doesn't actually contradict anything I said.
Yeah, but at least most DOS apps behaved well under it.
Why not write on medium and have a Hugo blog? You can publish the same post on both places and link Medium readers to your blog.
I think I found a way for the USPS to fund the pensions for all their future yet-to-be-born workers…
And if you believe that then I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you.

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Look at those downvotes. You people are so protective of your little social media nipple.
You'd be more likely to damage enough of the cooling and control systems to cause an issue but it most likely wouldn't lead to a meltdown since Indian Point was a PWR reactor and those use the liquid water as a moderator so if it starts to overheat it naturally lowers it's own reactivity.
Trying to implement something without a framework can definitely teach one a lot, but it probably will stop him from learning quickly once he understands how server and db driver work. My opinion is that Flask gives one just the right amount of abstractions to be able to iterate quickly and having a full understanding of all processes.
There are often mini-saunas at the local swimming pools which have similarly underwhelming temperatures.

They're nice, but they're not as nice. (Though I suspect in my case at least partly because if I go to a pool I often have a five year old with me, and he wants to leave very quickly - plus I've come to associate drinking beer with being near a sauna!)
Software engineers are engineers in the sense that we employ the same scientific methodology to design systems to a target level of reliability.

However, because the majority of software does not affect the safety of human lives (the exceptions being software that operates critical medical equipment, avionics on aircraft and rockets, etc.), the target level of reliability is not nearly as high as in the engineering of objects that do affect the safety of human lives (like buildings and bridges). Humanity also has centuries (indeed, millennia) more experience with the construction of physical objects, although rigorous scientific design of them only began in the last few; and even modern era engineering fails to account for all factors (e.g. the Tacoma Narrows bridge that collapsed due to oscillation induced by wind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) ). Modern engineers operating today still make mistakes that cause death, such as the collapse of the construction crane in Seattle in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_crane_collapse (due to wind and unsafe operation IIRC).

If you're building a website or app where people can order food from restaurants and creating a market for couriers and consumers to connect, then no aspect of your software has any affect on human life. (The software might tell the courier where to drive, but they are responsible for driving safely to those locations.)

When we consider software that is responsible for the operation of autonomous vehicles, or the avionics on aircraft or rockets, then the level of engineering reliability is targeted to match or exceed the reliability of the physical systems. A great article on the software engineers who worked for NASA on the Space Shuttle's software: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

A software engineer is a person who can build software to a target level of reliability. That the targets are not always as high as "responsible for safety of human life" does not mean it's not engineering. I would give AWS's automated theorem-proving about the correctness of their TLS implementation as an example of a feat of software engineering that targets a high level of reliability: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/automated-reasoning-an...
shameless self promotion:
parsel[0] is a python script in front of the identically named python lib, and extracts parts of the HTML by CSS selector. the advantage of it compared to most similar tools is that you can navigate in the DOM tree up and down to find precisely what you want if the HTML is poorly marked up, or the searched parts are not close to each other.

[0] https://github.com/bAndie91/tools/blob/master/usr/bin/parsel
U.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94%
DB2 LUW (Linux/Unix/Windows), DB2 iSeries, and DB2 z/OS are three different databases. With the same name - I guess for branding.
Not an electrician but I think the bigger issue is appropriate electrical outlet, say 220V in US homes.

So I think even just having/mandating that, just like they do for electrical dryers today, would be huge win so that

1) attaching a new charger becomes trivial

2) you’re not limited in case new chargers/standards come in future.

But overall a step in the right direction.
Would you eliminate sales of Internet-connected security cameras? Or just the sale of the data they collect? I am trying to understand how you think this is a genie that can be rebottled.
The law is significantly more expansive and covers anyone assisting in the abortion services, including providing things like rides to the clinic, etc. not just the person or provider.
At the risk of diluting the discussion here, do we know where they got the "TV Tuner" footage? I've been tuned to a channel with "WJLA" at the upper left (I think, aka "ABC 7"---I don't know I'm not American) for some time now; it started with a clip that is related to the 9/11 attacks but after heaps of ads I'm now watching relatively mundane news (traffic and weather updates, anyone?).

On one hand it's just impressive to me that they have this footage and it made my curiosity itch. On the other hand, a project like this can only gain from having verifiable sources. So do we know how/where they got all these footage?
a quick search shows that about ten percent of Europe are vegetarian, and about 375 million people world wide. Please note that "vegan" has a narrow, specific meaning; there are fewer vegans.

The definition of advertising is to change behavior, it is done daily for lots of reasons. Why not let people choose? Let's not prescribe outcomes, but instead enable evolution.
This isn't 'some bad data' vs 'no data'

This is 'some bad data' vs 'systemically biased data' and the latter is much worse. Most datasets will contain some bad data but it can be worked around because the errors are random.
I don't think anyone will successfully limit these systems. That is why it is inevitable.
At my work a few years back, we did quite a lot of prototyping using Qt, QML and JavaScript. It can get you surprisingly far for a GUI. It’s probably not the “right” way to do it, and Qts approach to QML is that it’s for UI. It app logic, but it’ll work in a pinch and it’s pretty easy to pickup.

That said, QML and QtPython sound like a really great combo
What I meant is that you can't produce all source material from your head, you have to consume some data before you synthesize your own conclusions.
I think the main reason is distribution. Desktop apps were/are difficult to distribute. To get an desktop app into organisation, you either needed to tell people to install something, and they need disk space, RAM, different versions of Windows, might not work on Mac, almost never on Linux. Then they need to update the app regularly somehow, still not solved for all apps. Bigger orgs have managed distribution, but then smaller groups can’t install things without going through IT. Then you’ve got servers, which require someone to setup, maintain and have their own lead time. Webapps, especially free ones, have none of these issues an individual can just start using it. Webapps mean everyone using the latest version straight away.

Phone apps seem to be modelled on webapps, typically the server is run by the app maker, installs are easy and updates are automatic. Additionally, phone apps automatically go on the home screen and have notifications, which means you’ll open them more often.
If my kids were late coming home from school, and I asked you if you know what has happened, and you either:

1. Don't say anything because my neighbour tapes your mouth shut

2. Lie and say, "They were brutally murdered by your neighbour", resulting in a dead neighbour followed by my kids showing up unharmed from school

...can you explain in this scenario how censorship is worse than misinformation.

I'm not trying do be a jerk. I hear your argument a lot (especially on tech-heavy web sites) and I want to understand it.
Would be a lot better to reduce the number of cows... I'm doing my part, I'm eating less meat.

It reminds me of people that work out to loose weight... much easier to reduce the amount of calories you take in.
I have my hottub at 40C which is hot when you get in but comfortable to sit in for a while.
Substack tends to annoy you for your mail rather obtrusively.
When you’re confused, that means there is something wrong with your model of reality.
Societies for millennia have had intuition about what men and women are, and have always defined marriage to reflect that. If we're suddenly enlightened because we've unshackled reproduction from sex and anyone can have a married relationship with anyone else, that is new, that's not some ancient natural right.
AFAIK it works exactly as Oracle. Doing something barely similar would probably introduce some very expensive bugs in production.
As a reader rather than a writer, I find Medium to be so bad that I stopped going there entirely. If it's only on Medium, it doesn't exist to me.
Can you not do this with browsers? Turning off JS should get rid of most of the egregious stuff, and I think at least Firefox lets you strip out CSS and inject your own (or if not, then via plugin like Greasemonkey)...
I am sorry, I might be missing something, but I call bullshit. How much does it cost for Amazon to store several bytes that make a key? 5 cents per decade?

“Yeah, so uhm, you hit zero, so we deleted all your keys in an irrecoverable way, sorry not sorry” — is not a circuit breaker. Make all services inaccessible to public and store the data safely until customer tops up their balance. That’s how VPSes have worked forever.

I don’t argue that “cheapo” clients are worth retaining for AWS, clearly they are not. But this kind of hypocrisy really triggers me.

Edit: a helpful person below suggested I misunderstood the parent, and I now I think I did.
Yeah, this should be emphasized in any linear algebra course as a primary way to think about determinants. Otherwise the determinant seems like just some math formula to memorize that keeps appearing for some reason in other math formulas.
> speaking of that, would be nice if github provided rendering of music notation :)

https://opensheetmusicdisplay.org should fit the bill, though you may need a tool to generate the MusicXML.

I'm using it on my website a little bit, e.g. https://nixpulvis.com/musings/my-sound