skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting Started with Step Functions for Serverless Workflows
Depends on the situation in my case, but the last two were like this:

1. Got hired at a company right before COVID. They promised $MONEY per year. Then when revenue dropped they gave me the option of taking a pay cut of $MONEY x 0.6 (so they cut 60% of my salary, leaving me only 40%) or layoffs. I took the former because I'd just been through _hell_ trying to get that job for over a year following major tragedy. I couldn't afford a layoff.

Fast forward about 2.5 months. Company CEO says money's back and flowing good, everything's great, and they're hiring again. They proceed to keep hiring new people at full salary, but never restored my pay despite my requesting it.

All the while, the company co-founder is managing a project and screwing it up REALLY badly. Takes off for 2 weeks without notice dumping the whole thing in my lap, managing 4 college grads on an enterprise financial app in a programming language none of them had ever seen before (Go). And when he gets back he takes a ton of pot-shots at me, some passive-aggressive and others outright accusatory, basically trying to get me fired and claiming everything's a mess and it's my fault.

And they're not even paying me half of my salary, _for this_?

2. The other one was because the day-to-day of the job was a massive pain in the ass. Huge degrees of security theater, total paranoid neuroticism. Turn on the VPN to access a k8s cluster. Now toggle off the VPN because it blocks access to GitHub. Now toggle it on again to issue the next command, and so on. And nobody cared to fix this at all. I spent an entire week of wasted time because of another unwritten, undisclosed, badly configured network restriction policy in production designed for "security" before I figured out they were blocking the ability for a container in prod to reach certain hosts in the outside world (e.g. GitHub, again). On top of that there were a ton of management overhead things, constant monitoring and micromanagement, the company demanded all work on THEIR laptop (even though remote), and no they wouldn't let you set it up the way you wanted even though you're a developer with 20+ years of experience and know damn well what you're doing.

So yeah. Bad management plus huge pay cut and getting screwed over, along with rampant stupidity in the name of "security" that made the actual work damn near impossible to do. That's why I left both those dumpster fires.

Up next: privacy invasions. I told my boss last week that if the company demands anything that I consider a major privacy violation (cameras in the home, remote monitoring/administration, etc.) and they won't discuss or entertain alternative approaches, that I'm out. Privacy is a non-negotiable necessity. I'm willing to go jobless for a while to escape that hell if I have to.
Leave one or two stints off your resume and say you were having a sabbatical at burning man and never left the desert until the universe aligned you with that specific founder’s mission, problem solved
VSCode did more in a few years than emacs did in 40 years.
Building a Tectonic Resilient Cloud
If this pricing model described in these tweets is actually accurate once R2 is released and once AWS responds (assuming that R2 doesn’t suck for other reasons) then this is business-plan-changing good pricing.

Imagine a competitor to YouTube. Storing tons of video content is expensive. Serving it to users is also expensive. Especially with those egress pricings. 1M * 1gb of egress costing 54k is completely undoable profitably unless that data is very valuable. Meanwhile <$1 is “put this MVP startup product on my credit card while applying to YCombinator” affordable.

If R2 could point to Backblaze instead of S3 as a compatibility layer (S3 compatible so should be easy), the you could have CHEAP redundancy and low costs without any egress fees.

I can think of several niche video sharing use cases not wel serviced by YouTube that just aren’t profitable enough to host so haven’t seen any startups succeed and I can totally see it now happening. Maybe I’ll try to make it happen…
Best thing when argumenting is to do it for the sake of truth seeking. Not to reinforce whatever beliefs you may have.
The difference between filtering out a virus, vs filtering out volumes of a particular substance: all it takes in a tiny amount of the former slipping through the cracks to render the filtering in effective, for the latter, reducing the deserved volume of the necessary substance is enough to make the filtering system have undesirable effects. With the mask we get the worse of both world. Reduced breath, and no stopping infection.
100 years later than most mentioned but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral is now the largest gothic cathedral.
In the paper you find a link to a GitHub repo that should have all results being reproducible
> PRC SCS islands, US indo-pac bases, carrier groups are no brainers.

PRC SCS islands are sand piles with a couple of barracks and a landing strip, that would not be an equal trade for a carrier group.

> US/USSR were prepared for theatre level nuclear engagements, as long as not on USSR or US soil.

I dunno what America was prepared for, but I was in USSR at the time and the public message was any nuclear confrontation will end up being a total one.
Now what about something like this from the game industry. I guess they're deleting traces as we speak.
> if you want a sum type, define an actual sum type

> the language should support you in not doing that rather than silently breaking when you do.

You do realize that we're not talking about a programming language and its type system, right? Nothing is stopping anyone from creating such a sum type in the languages that support such. Places that don't support rich type systems, such as C and even assembly, need to be able to support floating point semantics. That doesn't change the fact that in such a system, the NaN type will, by definition, define a comparison operator that always returns false and expose some other means to determine if a value is a NaN.
But this is orthogonal to the equality property: the commkn alternative to using null/nil values is to use algebraic types (e.g. Option<T>), and with them too None == None is true
They were an intern, but I think it leads to a bigger point I was thinking about as I was reading this:

In every org I’ve been in, we’ve had interns do these kinds of things: build big intrusive things that suck and no one uses. The problem obviously isn’t the interns. It’s the projects we give them, which are meant to be basically “throw-awayable”, and the complete lack of actual guidance and oversight.

Why are tech companies so bad at actually mentoring interns? They _should_ have had someone teaching them about user experience 101, and they completely let them flounder. How are we supposed to continue to grow and evolve as an industry if we make make every neue klasse start from scratch?
> You can’t stop intolerance with tolerance, you will lose every time. Full stop.

[citation needed]. Popper's personal opinion that you linked to (and that is now used in a much more absolutist way that originally intended by its author, who never intended to cheer for censorship and crackdowns in name of democracy) isn't data and Full stop isn't a proof. Yes, Popper was smart. No, he wasn't an oracle of unquestionable wisdom.

Tell me, how was legalization of marijuana in the U.S. won? After all, chucking people into prison for decades is quite some intolerance. Did the MJ lovers stage an insurrection?

No, they won at the ballot box, which is the tolerant way. Not by reverse oppression of their enemies.

To disprove a sentence that says "every time", one example to the contrary is enough. This is your example. For another, take gay rights. There wasn't a gay revolution that would smite the religious conservatives and crush them.
"Are you happy risking death because I don't want to wear a seat belt?" doesn't seem like it needs much "working out".
FDA and CDC are ignoring safety signals from VAERS [video]
So far, JS has beaten C++ in speed on a lot of topics.
And here is the relevant notebook for animal shapes: https://github.com/Ranlot/single-parameter-fit/blob/a065af75...
Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth [1] deals with this subject, the building of a cathedral in the fictitious city of "Kingsbridge" in the middle ages. It is, of course, heavily romanticised and weaves the tale of the construction of the cathedral through with a number of family tales but it nevertheless is an interesting read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth
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No, since way before the end, blockbuster was loosing money. That makes it a mediocre company. Except somewhere after the start.
Count me in the long line of suckers :(

Probably one of the largest technical blunders of my career (or at least the largest so far!) was pulling a team down into ES hell on a greenfield project.

Turns out, growing an event sourced application is fantastically hard[0]. Ours eventually became a twisted opaque mess which was terrifying to modify due to (a) the sheer volume of code it took to do so, and (b) eventually losing control over who read which events and where as the team grew.

[0] https://chriskiehl.com/article/event-sourcing-is-hard
I think, for one given moment in time, Event Sourcing is the hottest thing you can have.
Evolution is where the trouble's brewing.
You add a column to a table with maybe a default value, all is good.
You add a property to an event's payload, you suddenly have to deal with versioning.

Event Sourcing with its current ecosystem and frameworks mainly add technical complexity with very little added clarity of business.
Users are terribly unreliable when it comes to suggesting feature adds.
Post-exposure rabies prophylaxis can cost north of $10,000 in the USA [0]. The article is remiss in neglecting to mention this (leading the reader to draw uncharitable inferences about the victim).

But I won't assume uncharitable intent on the reporter's part: they're just a hapless intern (per the byline).

[0] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/7/16851134/ra...

edit: Related HN thread,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28697894 ("The high cost of surviving rabies")
Are you sure this was not part of the changelog which was publicy available prior to the iOS 15 update?
I Patched Python to Include This Ruby Feature
My wife was diagnosed with PCOS (poly-cystic ovary syndrome) and we learned that it reduced her chances to get pregnant.

Few weeks later we were sitting against this famous reproductive endocrinologist who were explaining us our options:

- Yeah, going to a fertility clinic is of course an option. However, you should at first perhaps consider a more traditional approach instead.

- What is the traditional approach, some medication?

- People seem to have forgotten how to have sex these days.

However embarrassed we were at that time (BTW he then laughed and saved us from the awkwardness), trying the obvious, easy solution and taking care of problems as they come became a conscious thing afterwards. I love over-engineering, but asking myself and the other stakeholders "what are we actually trying to accomplish here" is the most engineer-like thing I do nowadays.

I'm not suggesting just winging it all the time, but looking for the easiest solution first, not last. That's all.
Good news. Thanks to COVID wearing a mask is no longer weird.
Inversely, 10 years of software built around a software bug. I'm not sure why I'm seeing so many Tweets being pushed to the top of HN?

Why not just link to the actual presentation and not the arguing hivemind that is Twitter?

http://josuttis.de/cpp/210929_rangebasedfor_p2012r2.pdf
Funny, I came here to insist that you guys try Svelte. They took the best parts of Vue and React, made them so much better, and baked reactivity and state management into JavaScript itself with near 0 overhead or boilerplate. You could learn it in an evening! Anyways, amazing job with this project!
E2e is not a second class citizen, and it is now enabled by default. And it works seamlessly across all devices. It's worth pointing out the seamless functionality because none of the other popular supposedly e2e encryption messengers actually are e2e. So matrix is superior now to skype/whatsapp/signal/telegram on that front.
The gentleman is not suggesting that quantized information cannot be fully represented in a continuous function, but the opposite. That the continuous functions of life (his muscle example) and consciousness (AI example) cannot be simulated in any meaningful way by a discrete nomenclature or algorithm. The idea is impossible by definition and can be dismissed immediately.
Gajim Development News September 2021
I find it a little strange to put the date 1913 on this title, when it’s actually a fairly recent article, about something from 1913.
Misquoting Einstein Is Fast and Stupid, but Not Accurate
Delayed or even skipped notifications is still a thing. But a lead from matrix posted recently on another thread that these bugs have become a priority for their team. One can expect the bugs to be tackled as we go along.
The Eastern Roman Empire fell in 1453 when the Seljuk Turks conquered Constantinople. The Ottoman Emperor's titles included Kaysar-i-Rum. I can't remember the dates but when the Greeks were conquering Crete their co-linguists described the conquerors as Hellenes while they were Romans.

If you go by the criterion of (primary) self-identification there were Romans until the 1800s at least. By unbroken institutional continuity with the bureaucracy of Empire you can argue over whether it ended in 1453 or 1922.
Two examples of systems that use a variant of event sourcing:

- relational database systems (their journals and async replication in particular)

- git

Perhaps not so shit. Perhaps a bit practical. It's just a bad fit for some problems and architectologists like to say it's good for everything for obvious reasons.

And it's should be pretty obvious that architecture doesn't matter at all if it's implemented poorly.
I can't comment on the dominance of either framework on production-level deployment, but when it comes to academic work, Pytorch is unequivocaly winning. There were some studies showing the number of mentions of deep learning frameworks in the top ML conferences (ICLR, NAACL, ..etc) that demonstrated this. I'd expect that to trickle down to the industry in the coming years.

There's Andrej Karpathy's (chief of AI at Tesla) endorsement too:

I've been using PyTorch a few months now and I've never felt better. I have more energy. My skin is clearer. My eye sight has improved.
Robert Fripp released a new playlist, in youtube[1], named Music For Quiet Moments. It is an instrumental album and quoting from the description:

`
Robert Fripp's "Music for Quiet Moments" series. We will be releasing an ambient instrumental soundscape online every week for 50 weeks. Something to nourish us, and help us through these Uncertain Times.
`

1. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnpw-XH5DOFvCUsuoNNb...
As I said elsewhere in this thread (and linked to an article on similar topic), success isn't measured by sheer numbers of lukewarm sympathisers alone.

It is not as if George Washington or the Civil Rights Movement recruited masses of followers online. They started with relatively small but cohesive units. Yes, it took them longer than it takes today to assemble a flash mob. But the efficiency measured by capability was higher than today.

For an example, if I were a German cop, I would be much more concerned about the mostly-offline groups such as the Reichsburger or the Grey Wolves (Turkish nationalists). They linger around for decades and are hard to penetrate, unlike whatever wild crowd you can put together on Facebook. That Facebook group will look scary, but it won't have much pull after 5 years, because it competes with a ton of other Facebook groups for attention.
The point you missed in your argument, is that those 700k deaths were from the disease and the 8000 were most likely caused by vaccine legal mandates. The point of trolley problems like vaccine mandates are a type of, is that its not ok to kill 8000 to save 700,000.
Hey, I think it is a fantastic idea! And I am really excited which blogs I will discover with this.

HOWEVER,

3 things I noticed:

- Why do I need to register?

- Why cannot I disable twitter? I don't want to see twitter recommendations.

- It is incompatible with dark mode extensions because the css is somehow not inverted correctly (not sure how much you can do about that).
Also if you're using android, Youtube app can be replaced with NewPipe(FOSS) by exporting the YT subscription list to it[1].

No ads, No notification pollution & recommendations require manual action(Separate tab).

[1] https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/import-export-data/
Ok, so why does it matter if it's a "drug" and not a "vaccine"?

And by the way, J&J and Astra Zeneca <<are>> "vaccines", even by your silly definition.

You're just being contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian. As they say, don't make a mountain out of a mole hill.
I'm a senior engineer with over a decade of experience. Most engineering jobs I've left, it was because the manager viewed themselves as an authority with power to force me to do things their way rather than as an enabler who would trust my expertise and help remove blockers to getting things done. In those roles, I'd spend more time chasing the managers' scattered thoughts through endless link trails deep in the bowels of Slack and Jira than actually doing engineering work. When I left, and the managers asked me for feedback, I always told them that everything had been great and I had just accepted a new opportunity. Leaving is not the time to burn bridges.
Was working on a client's stack and this one critical piece using ES (written by "experts" who had since left the company) was throwing an error every week at 2 AM triggering alerts and chaos.

After investigation I found nobody understood what it was doing or why. I thereby found the safest approach was to delete the ES implementation.

After that everything worked and everyone was happy.
Space time is something that appears to you, the obsever, and only to you. There is no universal shared perception of anything or any event and therfore no common "reality" to try and suss out.

It is quite likely (rather obvious, really) that what we call reality is continuous in design, infinite in abstractions, relationships, and descriptions, yet at the same time cohesive in a single entity.

Those type of systems are not representable in computers.
This is probably my last iPhone and I'll just switch to a dumb phone after this because I can't deal with 'features' like this I can't turn off.
most of this doesn't sound or look like french cuisine at all, but I find the concept interesting.

is this just "machine" that is filled everyday with pre made food or actually fully automated? One would actually be impressive.
I'll try to answer in two parts. First you seem to have missed the point that (1) the Church was no (or rather accidental) arbiter of science—they largely deferred to the prevailing consensus. Thus in the conflict with Galileo, they were upholding a status quo which itself was upheld on the foundation of "many scientists believe that …" ie scientific consensus. You have a point if you say that Galileo wasn't a lone dissenting voice but then you'd have to explain what it was exactly that silenced Rene Descartes from publishing (as he confessed). He self-censored out of fear of contradicting the Church's position. If you bear in mind that the Church conducted no scientific experiments, Descartes essentially wasn't comfortable going up against the consensus.
I don't think it will have any affect on Lambda's, but with TeamCity spinning up cloud agents. A t3.medium instance with Ubuntu takes about 1m 20s to begin a build from starting. The t4g.medium with Ubuntu takes around 37 seconds.
I'm in your camp too, but would it be fair to say that Node-RED is not designed for us?
Neat, but when can we get GPU lambdas?
You confound complexes and sums. (The preamble and the article comprises the web page, but the web page is not a complex of the article and itself.)
The fact that they regularly ban accounts and publishers kinda of goes against that.

And I am a customer, I pay for their services.
I'd rather they be transparent with the data they collect.
No. If a know liar tells you one thing, you should discount the fact that he might have an agenda different from yours.

That is independent from your own research if those claims are true or not.
TCO is coming to V8? Is there a source for this?
DRY Way to Manage Subscriptions in Angular Components
Cloud providers simply charge insane markups on very cheap bandwidth.

You or I can buy transit from e.g. he.net for ~$0.15/mbit/mo. 10Gbit transit @ $1500/mo will transfer 3PB/mo.

3PB egress on AWS = $157,491.11/mo.
I was on a trip with my wife, and we had a two-hour layover in Köln (Cologne). We decided to make a run for the cathedral during that time. We sprinted from the airport to the train station, and rode all the way to Hauptbahnhof (central station) which is right next to the cathedral. We got maybe 15 minutes to gawk at the size of that thing before we had to run back to the train station.

Definitely take a day to go see that thing if you get the chance. It's impressive. I'd be sad we didn't get to see it if we were not already so exhausted from seeing so many amazing things in Europe on that trip!
It is all marketing. It was sold to people. Mainly as a symbol of a good life.

Because it is hard to prove to others, and especially to yourself, that your life is quite good. You can buy expensive clothes (with huge logos that can be seen from a mile) but how expensive can they get, they can be fakes; you can have expensive house (but not much people can see you comong in/out), etc.

So car becomes a perfect proof. "Everybody sees how big and how new and how powerful and loud it is". You have succeeded. Look at drivers sometimes. They are even acting like driving in a movie of some sort. Doing faces when accelerating and etc.

It is the same with plastic surgery - you don't want it to be subtle anymore. You want it to be visible. So anybody can know that you can afford it.
You just described how music is compressed on youtube.
Ask HN: Market/Customers for No-Code Products?
My former colleague reached me out recently with offer to join his startup to build MVP of no-code web development platform. Such products might look interesting at the beginning, but I'm sure many tried and many failed, hence I want to understand:

1. Who are the customers of no-code products?

2. Do these customers stay in the long-term?

3. What are the top challenges that killed such startups?

4. In 5 years time, would we have more and significantly successful no-code products?

5. At what extent a customer might prefer a no-code tool over signing a contract with consultancy?
But isn't multi threading the target environment for ownership analysis?

Js is mainly single threaded.
Thoughts on Facebook funding the longest deep sea cable
As we delight at the thought of bringing misery to our fellow man, let's take a look at this intriguing report from UK, specifically the covid cases table at page 13 and covid case rates at page 17. Something strange: covid case rates among vaxxed/unvaxxed are roughly the same for >30 age group, showing a 2x-5x decrease in the vaxx population only for younger ages. Me thinks that this data warrants forcing all older people, vaxxed or unvaxxed, take a covid test every living day of their lives to prove their cleanliness and gain the priviledge of walking amongst the rightful. Hmm...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...