skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm remembering correctly, I'm pretty sure the Vault provider for Terraform was originally contributed by an outside company rather than inside HashiCorp. My guess would be that it has encountered what seems to be a common fate for software that doesn't cleanly fit into the org chart: HashiCorp can't decide whether the Vault team or the Terraform team ought to own it, and therefore effectively nobody owns it, and so it falls behind.

Pretty sure that's the same problem with CloudFormation, albeit at a different scale: these service teams are providing APIs for this stuff already, so do they really want to spend time writing another layer of API on top? Ideally yes, but when you have deadlines you've gotta prioritize.
> I wonder if Unix might have become the "standard" for desktop OS's

Microsoft is pouring buckets of money and human capital into WSL2. Today, it's their way to drag cloud developers away from the Mac and Linux ecosystems into the corporate-blessed Windows ecosystem. But tomorrow, maybe developers and server admins will demand more Linux compatibility and, who knows, maybe they will reach a point where the only way to improve performance is to "port" Windows services and applications to the Linux kernel. The open source community has already proven that much of it can be done via Wine.

One of those things that doesn't look terribly likely now but might prove obvious in retrospect.
I don't think you're being honest here in the way you're construing my point. It looks like you've re-framed it, made stuff up to make me fit the form of a right-wing malcontent.

Can you point to where I said this was an indisputable fact? If you can't, then that's likely because I said the opposite, which you can see in the line you yourself quoted me on:

"which is arguably a career limiting move dressed up as virtuous political posturing."

Basically, all this says is that "I think publicly denouncing your employer for political, social, or other reasons might not make you look good in future job applications", and that someone telling you to do so on a highly political podcast might be motivated by more than just warning everyone about a bad boss.

When you remove the stuff I didn't say, my point is less easily shoehorned into the right wing perspective you want it to be. It's pretty clear here that this is an opinion, not a retelling of fact. If you don't think this podcast is a little on the hard-line left side, and you don't think encouraging people to publicly quit is a risky move, that's fine. You could argue for that like I argued for this.
Smartphones doesn't replace computers though, every office worker needs to know how to use a computer since computers has an inherently more powerful UX. Smartphones has simpler UX, but computers has a more powerful UX.

Applications being able to assume that you have a keyboard, mouse and big screen really allows them to create way more powerful interactions while any tool made for a smartphone will be severely hampered by its UI limitations.
> had some amount of data collected

Ratio of followed people to total connections.

I think it makes no sense to ban an extension for that, and I don't think that's why they banned it. Instead, it could have threatened their bottom line, that's the problem.

It's reasonable important to get some tiny insight in if one's extension works or not.

They could have communicated with him and the University about what data to gather, for those who opted in.
I think part of this is the slow time control, it's hard to tilt for more than a few games on rapid, since games can last up to 20 minutes. The other part is I think I was chronically under-rated, because of my ratio of studying to playing games.
I can't go past the general tone of this article.

The article acknowledges that Facebook made mistakes, and that its internal reports prove the company knows the harm it can do to vulnerable teenagers. Then these issues are discarded. Apparently, Facebook even had some growth after all...

But lying to advertisers? This is deemed as unacceptable, and flagged as a possible beginning of the end.

I know this is the Economist, but when it comes to reputational points of no return, I think that vulgar remark regarding early users' trust did the job.
I just loved how the tracing implementation found the root cause for an issue, where we had some random annoying missing webhooks during our test runs.

Since we run hundreds of tests daily, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The tracing helped us greatly!
I think your argument is begging the question as it depends on a prior belief that Facebook is actually harmful. Replace Facebook with a gym membership, or a charity, or some other thing that one does not presume is harmful as the premise of their argument.

Would the leadership of a gym be compromised and hypocrites if they banned someone who used their gym to tell others that working out is harmful and they should stop exercising at the gym? Would banning that member indicate that the owners of the gym don't care about the health of their users and instead put profits over well being?

Your argument only works and sounds credible because most people on this site believe Facebook is harmful. If people don't share that belief, then it doesn't follow that Facebook is being hypocritical because they are banning someone who is using their product to defeat the product.
Honestly, I've never really understood the appeal of Tabletop Simulator for 2-D games. Seems like a lot of overhead (computationally and conceptually) for something that would be more clearly and simply recreated in a 2-D world.

I've stuck to boardgamearena for my online playing.
Don’t worry, when cars will download more self-driving software, you can bet your butts it will restrict you from driving some places or in some manner.

Drone manufacturers already do so, you can’t fly drones within 50km of an airport or whatever, can’t fly them above 30 meters depending on where you are, and the software enforces this.

Books on Kindle and Movies on iTunes can be yanked away as you read or watch them.

Now, when it comes to software that isn’t even hosted on your computer, what do you expect?
All adults learn to use Word, Excel or whatever they may need for work, I'm sure they are not hampered in this by not having used computers when young.

I mean, what's the societal benefit from young people "knowing how to use computers"? It's not like they won't learn when they enter university.

Also, I don't think the claim is even true, where I live kids have to use computers every day in school from around 10 years old.
Though I have absolutely no proof of it since that era is both a black hole for usenet and before calc-ti.org, I believe I can claim to have published the first fake-grayscale demo in asm for the TI-85. This would have been in maybe 1993 or 1994 I think. It was a 4-frame animation of Bevis and Butthead headbanging, and since it was essentially stored as 16 uncompressed bitmaps, it took the calculator's entire memory.

Getting grayscale out of a mono LCD was obviously not a unique idea, but at least I independently arrived at the notion that it could work. I hammered out the TI-BASIC version and proved it sorta worked, but only if I could make my program run fast enough.

I should mention that I was 12.

Before zShell existed, my only programming as a kid had been things like BASIC and Logo; the closest I ever got to anything more fun was some type-in programs that used a whole lot of opaque POKE and PEEK statements, and I got frustrated trying to get C64 programs I got from a book at school working on the Apple ][. I was shit at porting software in middle school.

Going from this straight to z80 asm was insane, but the naivety of youth gave me confidence. My programs would be harder to write but they would run faster. Naturally the fastest program would be the hardest to write, so z80 asm it was.

I was hooked. I became a software developer.

I remember specifically in those early days emailing with Magnus Hagandar, Dan Eble, and Mattias Lindqvist. Thanks to each of you and to all the other early TI fans who helped me along and put up with me. In later years I learned most of this community were also basically kids playing adult on the early Internet. What a time it was!
If you have something positive, not social media outrage bait, not a red herring, and interesting to contribute to the conversation, let me know.
I used to teach computer science first semesters a few years ago and I got tons of emails from people who couldn't manage to boot and/or install the linux distro we gave them on an introductory usb drive. These were intelligent kids with plenty of education and many of them couldn't figure out how to do basic networking or formatting stuff either.

My working class dad who had like 8 years of formal education in his entire life taught himself visual basic in the 90s through magazines and books. Getting emails from students who could theoretically just type stuff into google at 1 am was a genuine shocker to me.

(this is Germany in my case)
I see a different future.

As a side-effect of pushing "automation" agenda corporations will not have needed workforce to accomplish the task.

The marketing delusions and wishful thinking are popular methods of self-destruction.
Sadly in the corporate world, the more you climb the less oxygen you get. And with lack of oxygen human brain is prone to malfunction.

You can have some form of automation, but the need of competent programmers will not vanish into the thin air.

>Is PHP worth learning in 2021?

The first google result:

PHP is an open-source programming language that is completely free, and because it supports all the main browsers, it is highly scalable. ... PHP is not dying and is definitely worth learning in 2021 and beyond. There are still thousands of jobs available for new PHP programmers

https://www.google.com/search?q=Is+PHP+worth+learning+in+202...
The UK legal system, at least, recognises property rights, but offers varying degrees of exclusion.

For example, the right to exclude certain classes of people is different renting a room of your house vs. renting a whole apartment.

The ability to exclude is again different for service providers. It sometimes also depends on their size. e.g. larger banks are obliged to provide a free basic bank account.

If social media monopolies are seen as excluding people without good reason, their monopoly status might attract attention for regulation in the same manner.
Servo was a research project to write those various Rust components that did made it into Firefox not an alternative reimplementation to one day replace it wholesale.
For some reason (presumably because I'm tall or because I have too much body fat (thanks Taco Bell!)), I have an extremely high tolerance to alcohol, despite the fact that I almost never drink. It can take upwards of 600ml of whisky for me to really "feel unsafe to drive" [1], which is part of the reason I don't really drink to begin with...If I don't have much fun with it, and it's not healthy for me, I don't really see the point in partaking.

[1] Don't worry, I've never tested this theory, I don't even own a car.
I hear that quite frequently whenever somebody says they want to build more to reduce the housing shortage.

The first step is kicking out existing residents, and the second step is buulding, and the the third step is bringing in new, richer residents.
Weird, it's breaking Vercel builds too.
Determining the sweet spot is a fun thought. I'd argue for the Windows 7 era. General purpose computing is still the norm. The web & apps have almost as many services as now, but with less bloat and less tracking. There's social media but it's not completely dominant. Linux for desktop is beginning to be in good shape. Smartphones are available for those who want them but they're not dominant yet either.

That's my personal one. I'm sure it'll be different for everyone else.
I also have nothing to complain about AWS paid support
35. Total saving of approx €20,000

I won't be able to retire. :)
I've seen an alcoholic down half a bottle of whiskey for breakfast. Literally.
In reality, neither do most people in our group, if you can even call it that. Just like all the other times an exodus from Facebook was declared, a year later it's as if nothing had happened and we come to find out that everyone still uses it to some capacity. Not to fault anyone, but all of this has been said before. Frankly, if these issues mattered to people, they would have left Facebook a long time ago. None of the blown "whistles" so far have tooted a message everyone didn't already know.
Can't speak for others, but I downvoted because the OP's explanation is absurd. Yes, Trump's absolutely a liar, but the absurdity lies in the claim that the media's "outmoded norms" (i.e., honesty, objectivity, neutrality, etc) inhibited it from calling out Trump's lies is ridiculous. Honesty doesn't inhibit an institution from pointing out one side's lies, on the contrary, honesty demands it. However, honesty also demands pointing out the other side's lies, and therein lies the rub.
Very much missed the point with a motivated reading of the intent behind what I'm saying. Nicely done!

My comment wasn't directed at 0.1% pile. It's directed at mid-tier, good-not-great CS programs that FB is both targeting in ways that other FAANGs don't, and also have put on heavy marketing programs at. Signal or noise, hard to say, but they wouldn't be doing it if the need didn't exist .

What matters more is the self-fulfilling prophecy of if the PMs/EMs with the cultural sway decide to check out. It's incorrect to think these types don't matter due to the externalities tied to them, not just their management talent (there are a lot of good managers). An example is will the future Sheryl Sandbergs work, or not work at FB. These dinner table conversations are what starts to decide that, and their decision has a material impact on the company's future.
I'll give you that one, I ought have phrased that better.

Maybe something like, every poll outside of America and maybe one or two other countries that have benefited greatly from those wars since 2001.

I would like to believe that if Americans were actually informed, by a media that worked on their behalf, they'd nearly universally want to prosecute Bush and Cheney as well. How sad, if I'm wrong on that.
This is nothing new. Here is post from 2013 saying almost the same thing:

Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you [1]

[1] http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
"Oh great," I thought, "Now my bicycle needs a battery."

Then I remembered that ebikes are getting extremely popular these days... I also remembered how much I hate dealing with cables on my bicycle. It would be very cool to see one of these in action.
In what way could an article about fuel subsidies be construed as Chinese propaganda?
I ask people on the internet.

What I'd love is a search engine where queries are actually answered by people. Not something like Stackoverflow, but rather questions that are structured such that there's a single canonical answer that is either a link or less than some arbitrary number of characters.

Rather than up or downvoting things, these queries, questions and answers respectively are made available and by selecting an existing query mapping to a question and answer strengthens the relationship.

Since involving actual people all of the time would be slow, the incentive would be that your questions are prioritized if you answered questions yourself.

Obviously easier said than done, but I think it's the future of search.
> Each example just calls out to a very fast c library…

No.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I’ve always wondered if one of the reasons was to protect the Union. Would be a lot easier to prevent states from seceding, and defend US borders when you can quickly transport soldiers (plus equipment, food, etc.) to where they’re needed.
Every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters
That might be unrelated to the audit database change as NPM is currently having a service outage.

https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/7pqfqvkwvb58
Well, obviously.

People can wax poetic about freedom of speech, the right to bear arms etc.

But if there is a large separatist group that has historically wanted to destroy your country the first chance it gets, and members regularly commit violent acts to do it, would you really fight for the right to arm them all to the teeth, and then let them organize larger and larger rallies and shows of strength?

Freedom ain’t free, and sometimes the cost can be a little too high:

https://xkcd.com/1499/
I believe the humor and novelty and interestingness of this standup routine is related to the _density_ of information conveyance.

I read this paper a while back, it was so good I wanted to make it more sharable:

https://josh.works/driven-by-compression-progress-novelty-hu...

The title is:

Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes

And... it's really good. It argues that a common thread among many different domains (as listed in the title) is how much information can be compressed into the information stream, like the bit-rate. Higher bitrate, more interesting information.
Bing same thing
Sure, yes, there's no reason this should be hard for your ISP to arrange. I guess it might be slightly painful for large ISPs say if you're a huge American ISP and customers can just up and move all their gear from San Francisco to New York and expect the IP addresses to stay the same that's kind of annoying to implement and the service for those customers will either suck (a user in New York finds all their data routes via the West Coast) or cost you more.

But in the general case, for a customer who is just using the Internet from the same place as last time, there's no benefit to changing their IP addresses and clearly there's no reason static addressing shouldn't be free, it's just like one database entry for them to do it.

I could imagine them explaining OK, you get static BUT it might change if you move home or something, and that feels pretty acceptable to me.

For what it's worth I get static IPv6 and IPv4 (although of course the IPv4 is a tiny block, only a /27 IIRC whereas I have a /48 of IPv6) but I'm in the UK and with a specialist ISP that cares a lot about this stuff.
It affects the spouse, too - you get used to one way of living (eg - spouse is gone from the house 50-60h per week), and when that suddenly changes ... it takes serious adjustment by all parties
Are grievance-driven persons more or less likely to produce serious content than, say, greed-driven persons?
if you don't want pop science articles did you try scholar.google.com instead?
When you’re getting paid millions in equity giving up your salary doesn’t mean much.
I've also had good experiences with the paid support when a deployment went horribly wrong. However, the support costs real money so it's back to Google for us. Luckily we're running on EKS now so it's probably easier to diagnose without a paid customer support rep than CodeDeploy.
I know the term is in that Pullum essay, but please stop using the term "Eskimo". I know Americans still use it, but it's a racist epithet that really needs to go away.

The people are the Inuit, an individual Inuit person is an Inuk. Those are the terms that should be used.
You don't have to in bash because you can just declare that your array is global inside your function. In fact, this is the default behavior.
Excellent idea. I think it would require someone with a good level of soft-skills so nobody on the team feels inadequate when their drawing is juxtaposed with the drawings of their colleagues, but I think if this ceremony were done right it could work great to strengthen social bonds and shared understanding. I’d love to try this.
Depends on the country, where I live there is no direct debit (Banks have just now begun to replace the old cards ) so most people use credit cards to buy stuff online.
Just want to point out using the word "rape" in such a casual and nonspecific way is not okay.
Most decent road bikes have electric gearing these days
I've seen a massive uptick in those lately.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now fully powered by faster Xbox Series X hardware
It sounds like BK channels interact with NMDA receptors, which are glutamate receptors. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter. My understanding is that inhibiting glutamate is partly what makes alcohol relaxing (the other is it's interaction with GABA). Bodies have an amazing way of keeping themselves in equilibrium and when someone is introducing alcohol into their system on a regular basis, I figured that the body regulates this by increasing levels of glutamate (although maybe also via downregulating GABA receptors), so that the person stays awake even with higher doses of alcohol. I do think that this can lead to someone having a higher "tolerance". I also think that's what contributes to what some people call hangxiety, i.e. there's still extra glutamate floating around that wouldn't otherwise be there.

However, an enlarged liver helping someone process alcohol better sounds bizarre to me. I thought a liver being able to process alcohol faster was due to increased enzymes since the body again is trying to balance itself and is dealing with what is being introduced by upping certain enzymes, whereas in a non-drinker, those enzymes wouldn't be at elevated levels.
Nitinol is cool
SUCH SYNERGY! SO PARADIGM!
Microsoft controls all of NPM since NPM is owned by Github.

https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
I don't think that metaphor works. On roads, other people already limited your options: where you can go, how fast, where you can park, etc.
I work in the Node ecosystem, and while they break compatibility every once in a while I can't say I've ever even really noticed. There's a way to do it without it being a catastrophy.
It depends on the topic. Sometimes reddit, sometimes on here, etc.
No mention of a battery, only a generator in the crankset. Maybe a simple capacitor would suffice.
> Any article about husbands could be equally criticized (and should be).

No - it shouldn't be criticized for being "one-sided"

It's completely and 100% fine to have an article that only addresses a single issue - trying to wedge everything in everywhere is moronic
It hurts innovation that something this simple is able to be patented.
Pretty sure that this is not going to work very well -
Time taken to heat a wire is probably slower than a servo motor.
Energy taken to heat the wire is also likely to be more than that required by an electric motor.
Also, this seems to be for a front 2 ring derailleur - which noone even uses anymore.
If you tried to make this work for a modern rear derailleur, you'd need a lot of wire.
Azure P1 ?
Yep.

Good performance.
No license fee.
Long term support.
Large talent Pool.

Oracle is very costly and I won't touch SQLServer with 10 feet pole.
I often wonder if chess players have a natural "peak"/"optimal" age range in the way that professional athletes do. Being a thinking game that requires strong brain functionality combined with accumulated experience, I wonder if there is an age range that is best for most players.

Trade offs may be something like in yours teens and early 20's your brain may have the most plasticity and ability to visualize (plan 10+ moves ahead) but you might not have accumulated enough experience.

I'm purely speculating here and just wondering aloud. (I bring it up in response to this comment because Magnus' prodigious talent is so noteworthy I wonder when Magnus will stop being able to "beat" Magnus of 1 year ago.