skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not. The process that allowed this to occur was broken, and critical changes should only occur when you've confirmed someone is on site and available in the event you need a crash cart hooked up to a piece of gear (or perhaps automated rollbacks in the event of an unexpected state I suppose is the new hotness with software defined everything).

If you're making a change where you're unsure if someone can perform a physical recovery, you're flying without a chute. It works most of the time until it doesn't.

(infra/physical colocation/hosting/sysadmin in a previous life for ~20 years)

EDIT: @mprovost (HN is throttling me, so I have to reply to your comment here):

Absolutely. It's a combination of experience, context, and wisdom. I myself have made changes that I believed were trivial but, because I lacked context, data loss or an outage occurred. These are painful lessons to learn. A culture of psychological safety and commitment to continual process improvement are key, with shared responsibility between contributors and the org. You are going to fail, but you shouldn't get cold sweats when you do as long as you did your best to derisk.
I think that #1 leads directly to #2 and #3. If you have the funding, you can pay people to work full-time on creating the library and the documentation. Without the funding, those things come very slowly.

And it's not just Rust and Go. Java was an earlier example.
> We should just ban all ads

Please define what an ad is.
Anyone have any recommendations for a beginner who would also like to learn what's meant by ARP, NDP, ethernet, and basically everything. I've been a developer for decades, and I understand the top level of http[s] well enough, but networking is basically a mystery to me.
I like the idea of Gemini, but there's so much it's missing. There's no accessibility features, no compression, syntax is even more limiting that Markdown or AsciiDoc, etc.
Ok, can we do this?
Python interpreter can understand if it is running on 1 core processor (assume 1 core = 1 HW thread) or multi core processor. Then use GIL taht suits. ie, if the code uses multiple SW threads, use GIL that suits needs... something like possible? Any reason why experts are not doing this?
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Collaboration on unique resin spurs creation of the Ocean Plastic Mouse
Yeah, that was my first thought, about the argument against building new nuclear plants.

Opponents: "Yeah, in theory nuclear is better, but it's just too expensive and would take too long to scale up compared to the timetable of global warming, so it's not a viable option."

Also opponents: "Shut down existing plants, where that money/time cost has already been paid."
I'd like to disagree on IPv6 sucking and would like to steer this blame towards whoever decided to not be persistent. Firewalls can handle changing prefixes by masking it. Hosts can request certain addresses. Cheap dual-homing is something that IPv6 does not quite do, because that requires NAT66, which is controversial. Also, RIPE tells us to do persistent delegations:

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690#5-2--why-non...
Making a lucky investment is “abusing the intent”?
Load Shedding is the planned rolling blackouts.

People unexpectedly lost power for up to 2 days.
Why does the Sun's surface contain lithium?
Is this what you're referring to?:

> In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the developing brain, specifically the embryonic diencephalon; thus, the retina is considered part of the central nervous system (CNS) and is actually brain tissue.[2][3]

From https://www.britannica.com/science/retina

> Retina, layer of nervous tissue that covers the inside of the back two-thirds of the eyeball,

Anyway. I'm still not convinced eyes = retina = brain so ill leave it there.
This is only tangentially related (images vs fonts), but a small pet peeve of mine that kept me from migrating to Chrome from Firefox on my Windows machine back in the day is the fact that Chrome uses an internal text antialiasing engine that is, as far as I can tell, impossible to disable. Firefox, on the other hand, honors the system antialiasing settings.

So, for example, if you disable cleartype on Windows, you will have crisp aliased fonts at default font sizes on Firefox, but you will still get blurry antialiased fonts in Chrome no matter what.
The consequences seem foreseeable and I don't understand why the DNF would do that. The difference between copyright licensing and copyright assignment is a big deal. If you think it makes strategic sense to transition (which I don't understand either), to my mind you'd better be loud and bold, overcommunicating in order to maintain trust — with project founders, contributors, and the broader community (including outsiders like you (?) and me).

FWIW, this would never happen at the ASF. The 800 or so Members of the ASF (who elect the Board) are drawn from the projects, so the kind of people who are upset at the DNF would be in a position to take action at the ASF (by electing a different board).
Repression is criminalisation of
Solidarity Strikes, entrenching corporate power.

Everything else is a waste of time, plastic straw ban of lawmaking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action
This is the kind of backward thinking that the wealthy hypocritically espouse. There is no shortage if you have too much money. The wealthy dont need a covid test from a (poor to middle class as Dave Chapelle mentions in Closer) mediocre everything store when they have a personal physician.
> …deliberately avoid Paddle to keep my privacy…

Can apple still dictate things about the payment systems, even if they can’t force you to use theirs? As a consumer, I sure hope apple forces some kind of privacy standards compliance.
Do the math. That's enough for 5K/person/year.

You really think that's enough to replace the oil sector?
Pedantry alert: As ELO ratings follow a logarithmic curve, "gaining 600 points" is a dimensionless metric.

These are good tips for beginner to intermediate growth. The things that definitely help the most are:

* Pattern recognition - the best courses for this level are things like "Common traps in <some random opening>", applied with Woodpecker method. Once you've memorized all the mistakes in the Scandi or London system, you can really crush a lot of people who play haphazardly.

* Study your own games and games of people at or just above your level. Four simple methods:

1) during the game, write down (Lichess has a notes section on the left) 3 candidate moves for every move in the middle and endgame, why you're making a particular move, and what you think the opponent's response will be

2) use the "Learn from your mistakes" button after each game during analysis

3) check the most common moves in the opening that are different than yours, play through a couple of masters' games to see why those positions are preferred.

And my last tip which helped me a lot just with the "meta" of playing chess ...

* Use more time. Be okay with losing games because you run out of time thinking. Always, always, always try to play the best move, even if it means spending a lot of time.
>How would you know? And how do you measure it?

I measure it by the number of opportunities one has or had in the past.Your practical education happens later because you did not have access to computers in any form.

You can't travel not only because of your passport but also because you simply cannot afford it.One cannot simply just go from Ukraine to a richer country in Europe like you can in the US.

It's simply the lack of available opportunities that hinders any progress.Even for world class engineers like Michal Zalewski that was the case: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/03/on-journeys.html

>It was harder to grow up in Kiev because you were in worse poverty than blacks in the US. Possibly. Were you also discriminated against in Kiev? Was your family broken, and your community broken? Did you have a failing school system relative to others in your community?

You were always discriminated in Eastern Europe because of your lack of connections and corruption.Inept people have always had an upper hand here.

I dont know what you mean by "family broken".Many EE families were broken.I come from such family.After the fall of iron curtain i grew up in relative poverty where my mother had no job and she was constantly harassed by her drug addicted partner.My father dumped us long time ago and simply did not care.

What do you consider a broken community? You mean one where mafia runs free and where you cant go to the police because they are corrupt? Yes those were the times of 90s.

>The point is there are many systems that make up "black in America" that doesn't translate to only family income.

I think you dont understand the reality here.Being "already" in America makes you incredibly privileged.I remember EE STEM PHD engineers earning better wages frying chicken in the US than doing what they have actually studied for back home.

I am glad americans are finally acknowledging this phenomenon (BBT scene with russian janitor/physicist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd8sDquNYw) but since this is not their problem it is overshadowed by your racial wars.

It still makes me angry and sad though...
I've been really disappointed by the politics around nuclear energy and renewables. The two should not be treated as opposing choices. In all likelihood, we need a diversified strategy. There are downsides to renewables as well (https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/finally-they-adm...), like peppering our lands and natural marine environments with solar panels or giant turbines. The fears around nuclear energy are overblown, particularly with the newest generation reactors. We need to move quickly to make them at least just a part of our overall energy strategy. The window is closing quickly, since all signs point to America and European nations losing the ability to construct such complex things entirely from the collapse of the nuclear industry.
The purpose of tax advantaged retirement accounts is to reduce the number of destitute people in retirement. It achieves this goal by providing a tax incentive on regular investment for people who would not otherwise invest.

If you won the lottery on crypto then you aren't going to be destitute in retirement. Pay the capital gains and enjoy your wealth.

Similarly, if you are a high earner and can afford to take advantage of things like the megabackdoor then you aren't going to be destitute in retirement. Pay the capital gains and enjoy your wealth.
Don't you find that there's a fair bit of irony in the statement you just made?
Without Social Media, Where Is Your Life?
> I am not bullish on new nuclear. It takes too long to get a plant up and running, and from a cost perspective renewables are cheaper today and will only continue to get cheaper over time. Plus, no risk of irradiating a city.

All valid points, and I'm less anti-nuclear now more than I am anti-20th Century Nuclear these days. Still, I too see the net benefit for renewables to increase it's ~33% Market share over the years in CA. It's incredibly foolish how little CA has spent in water reclamation and aggressively expanding renewable energy given it's ROI to the entire grid.

> That being said, decommissioning existing nuclear plants instead of doing whatever investment needed to keep them running is astonishing.

I's not astonishing, and you should really understand the nature of how corrupt, incompetent, and myopic the NRC are. Look no further than Mitsubishi's and SoCal Edison's handling of San Onofre Nuclear Power plant.

I lived through it and that along with how TEPCO/Nuclear Village/Edo Government poorly handled Fuksuhima in 2011 it became clear that this technology, while holding a great deal of promise is simply not regulated or managed properly and that in it's current state could not continue to be allowed to operate without posing an immense risk given it's location along the San Andrea's fault line. You know, that active seismic area that every Californian has been told will eventually create the next 'big one' that will make Northridge look like a Sunday picnic?

While I do not like the idea of activating more fossil fuel based plants, it's with the understanding that we will never be 100% on renewable as the challenges of storage and 24H capacity will always require to have a source for base load energy during inclement and unfavorable weather.

The goal is to keep the fossil fuel based plant active while renewable continue to grow.
For scammers as soon as I ask a question that shows I'm not a mark they hang up. How on earth do you get the company name?
I bought a Tushy bidet recently. Works very well. Very pleased with it. I have found that I don't need a hot water hookup, even though the model has the capability.
Because FB doesn't have a habit of leaving money on the table?
Thanks for correcting me. I'm sure you'll excuse my confusion.
I think you may not have tried Orion for Mac yet ;)
> Their base is very adamant about the Bill of Rights.

Bullshit. A lot of their base is adamant about quoting the bill of rights when it serves them and looking the other way when it doesn't. Highly doubt most of them can even list all the amendments of the bill of rights they claim to be so passionate about. There's amendments in there about due process, yet you'll see the right defend cops using excessive force on people they arrest even if it ends in death. That's effectively a death sentence without a trial.

As far as speech, the right's embrace of "free speech" is recent and superficial. It wasn't so long ago that conservative groups in this country were trying to ban portrayals of gay people on mass media, with the same "think of the children" excuse that another comment on this thread was complaining about. That has only receded because they lost that culture war, but I'm sure they would gladly erase LGBT folks from popular culture if they could.
Python will always be important to me. It's the first programming language that I've learned, and it allows me to support my family. It's awesome that almost any problem I have, there is a library or wrapper ready made for me to use. I can google just about any error and get a solution right away.

But I've found that I really dislike maintaining larger Python codebases. Whenever I've tried to develop packages or libraries, or create executables it always felt really clunky. And when it comes to personal growth as a programmer, I find it's just too easy to stack ready made libraries on top of libraries, without ever coding things from scratch.

But I'm glad to hear that there has been more focus on improving CPython's performance. I don't disagree with the things that the Python Devs have chosen to focus on, and I don't think anyone can really say it hasn't been successful for them. I use Python for work, so I won't forget it anytime soon, but for programming at home, I'll use other languages that align more with my opinions of programming that I've developed after having used Python for an extended period of time.
> Chinese people

John Cena?
>> It's important to keep in mind that there is a distinction between wealth and money...

I think this goes astray here. I think the operative distinction is between "wealth" in the abstract "wealth of nations" sense and the aggregate of wealth in the "net worth" sense.

The first definition is pretty closely related to value. The second is more closely related to the value of assets. If real estate, shares, bonds and such have a high market value then we have more wealth in the "net worth" sense.

The gross market cap of the education sector is not high, but it does generate value, for instance.
Python's Sum(): The Pythonic Way to Sum Values
"While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping. Why?"
It restricts you from doing them within retirement accounts. But the purpose of retirement accounts is to effectively save for retirement. Congress is basically saying we want you not to need us but we don't actually want you doing well with your investments.
I don’t really get this. Chess isn’t fun if your opponent is much worse or much better than you.

My suggestion is to take advantage of LiChess Zen mode, which hides the ranking of both you and your opponent. This orients me more towards the game rather than rank, while also providing evenly matched opponents.
I have a hose with brushed nickle nozzle that looks like a small garden hose [1]. It takes a while to learn how to aim (hint: ease in with low pressure first). I still use TP to dry off, but like a few squares.

It looks kinda like this but with a curvier handle:

https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Toilet-Adjustable-Pressure-F...

You don't need a fancy motorized electric thing (I don't trust cleaning all those little nozzles and angles). I started using this after I stayed with a Muslim friend in Morocco years ago. I had no choice but learn, and now I'm hooked. My partner thinks it is gross, tho. /shrugs/
The thing I've always liked about nuclear was its reliability of not fluctuating based on the weather outside. Wind/Sun power is fine, but we need storage of that power for use later when wind/sun is not available. I always liked the idea of water resovoir batteries using wind/solar to pump the water so that it could be used for hydro generating. However, California seems to be a bad location for hydro like that as there's no water.
First off, yes they are. Second, the CCP use "disinformation" as a reason for censoring too.

Americans aren't orchestrating this, Democrats are.

The Taliban comparison was in relation to the FB Myanmar issue the "whistleblower" brought up.

Just as the TikTok comparison was in relation to the girl's study.

The point is, the Dems are laser focused on Facebook because they want to silence conservatives, not because of some virtue to help people.
I wasn't using scare quotes, I was using literal quotes from your previous post. You said "This is the same state-run media company that said objectivity is 'potentially harmful'", but your link points to a University professor who doesn't represent CBC or any state-run media company as best I can see.
My only problem with anonymous is you have no idea if the person on the other side is 1100 or 2200 ... I just use Zen mode in Lichess, I know the other person is about my level, but I don't care what the numbers area .....
Same thing for me, except with the Wall Street Journal.
We call that capitalism... this is my biggest concern from the “universal basic income” argument.

Effectively, we are seeing what happens when people stop working. The system starts to falter and honestly it looks like it could collapse.
These shortages are clearly caused by Brexit! The British left told me! No, ah, wait...
what a pipe dream!
Remember that a huge part of this fall out was that FB staff couldn't talk to each other in a moment of crisis. Not just the people trying to manage the crisis, but the entire company faced a work stoppage in one way or another.

If you do the cost benefit of allowing people to work from home vs the cost of this one outage, I bet the outage is more expensive.
The most precise one I’ve ever used was the “butt gun” style, but there was a learning curve and it’s not suited to every toilet. Toto makes a nice integrated-seat one, but IMO it changes the geometry of the commode and makes doing the job less comfy. Ymmv
That pretty much sums up what's happened to the CBC as of late. A far left activist organization, pretending to deliver news, funded by the state.

It's a real shame, given that the CBC used to be quite a respectable organization, and would work hard to represent perspectives from all over Canada (given the constraints of the time).

I'm ostensibly in the group they're pandering to, but I just can't tolerate the obvious agenda setting. I can't imagine what the more conservative Canadians must think about it. Rex Murphy (a former CBC reporter) doesn't have much good to say about his old organization.
There are dozens of words for snow in American English. If you have ever skied you've probably at least encountered "powder". If you regularly backcountry ski you will have a huge vocabulary to describe snow, snow conditions, and the snowpack.

I don't think it's all that surprising that Inuits would have so many words to describe snow, if you spend any amount of in snowy conditions you will too.
There is no policy change - RTO in January 2022 was already the policy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/facebook-delays-return-to-of...
Microsoft went flat for a decade after their antitrust trial. They lost many markets where they had significant footholds, struggled to attract and retain top talent, and struggled to enter new markets.

They kept making money from Windows, Office, etc. But the tech industry exploded in growth around them, leaving them behind in many ways (technologically, financially, culturally).
This is entirely the media's fault. Sadly most journalists no longer know the word impartiality. They instead focus on creating narratives that fit their views and push them onto the masses. Nothing is more infuriating and disappointing than seeing simple established facts being distorted and twisted into something it's not. And this includes reputable media such as Washington Post and NYTimes. I think Reuters might be the only news agency keeping sensationalism and bias to the minimum.

This a global problem. Journalism is no more.
World View (Stratospheric Balloon Rides)
Relevance of Theory for Contemporary Research in Atmospheres Oceans and Climate
> removing all the peasants from the market so that the big dogs can have it to themselves.

Bingo! Wall St wants a monopoly on ALL your retirement funds. Your typical employer 401k plan offers only mutual funds run by Wall St. No investing in alternate assets such as real estate or crypto. The big boys get their cut AND make sure you are not crowding the field in lucrative investments.
The big thing I heard about is this ends QSBS, which stinks for founders: something like 15-20%+ of your company's value. Worse, it's a retroactive tax, meaning taxing founders who started the journey with that in mind.

Talk about rich senators punching down vs encouraging company formation!

PSA: If you are starting a US company and haven't heard of QSBS.. look into it at the federal + state levels, as that's a good chunk of your potential net worth.
This seems like a very large change as a response to the outage. What about employees that have already migrated to different locations? They are expected to move back within 3 months with the housing market like it is right now?

The subset of people that could fix the issue that caused the outage was probably .1% of the engineers at FB.

Was FB looking for an excuse to end those rules?
My understanding is that Dropbox has been building performance-critical parts of their services in Go since 2014 at the least. https://twitter.com/jamwt/status/629727590782099456

Like many companies, they had initial scaling successes with Python,hit performance bottlenecks and looked for a way out with faster languages.
You just defined racism.
I'm super happy with my Toto Washlet C200 (SW2044). Not cheap but it has the main features you know from Japan. The only tricky bit was fishing the electrical down the wall and using an angle grinder cutting wheel to make the hole in the tile for the outlet box.
+1

Would be cool if some experienced dev could share some estimates when the Python scaling issues start.

When you build a backend using Python + Django/FastAPI, I assume in most cases the DB and not Python is the limiting factor. Moreover, you could always spin up more workers to mitigate scaling issues.

When you train ML models, your Python code just calls C++ functions. Python is not a limiting factor here either.
Without the wealthy (who run the company), we wouldn't have great products, and jobs, and pursuing our careers and self interests.