skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AAVE appears hard to trust that since they offer their own tokens.

If you're a wall street investor, you want a bank to have an accounting firm that is completely independent from the bank it's auditing -- no side deals, no consulting services in either direction.
If you can’t explain why a so called “Best Practice” is useful in a specific context, and what the pros/cons are, then you should honestly just keep quiet and wait until you have more experience.
A microservice is deployed independently, has its own hardware and can scale independently from the rest of the system.

If there are multiple services and they all share hardware, they're not really microservices.
Thank you for the information. Yes, I was talking about the proxy pattern. My mental model was that this was the classic approach.

I did not know that popular major projects were using immutable smart contracts.

This seems crazy to me, but it does at least address the question of centralization (while introducing massive bug risk).
After 2014 they expanded the volume of that putative reactor by a factor of 100. Also, fitting on a truck was always assuming no neutron absorbing blankets (which have to be ~1 meter thick.)
Are you asking for 3D specifically (based on the example you provide).

I'm not a professional, but I'm learning digital painting. I use procreate on the iPad (It's way easier than connecting the graphic tablet to my computer) and I've made some good progress recently. I learned a bit about 3D, but did not really pursue as I got interested in programming instead.
I am emphatically not saying you shouldn't tailor your technical questions to your audience. Commits to the kernel can be prime-facie evidence that someone can code. A good shell script can be the same.

I have no degree. I don't write code for a living. I'm actually almost precisely the opposite of the stereotype of the stuck up software engineer, aside from being a white dude in my early thirties.

What I am saying is: I have met many people who can configure a database, but cannot talk to developers as equals about how to write code about it, and there's really an interesting split of reasons why that doesn't work. The fact remains that it doesn't. You can build operations teams for some tasks, and you should - you can't run your own large hardware or compute or database clusters without having some entirely operations focused people. You should not ignore their opinions or pain points. You shouldn't call them SRE, though. The point of SRE is to build systems and run them, and you want them to have feet on either side of that line.
> In the beginning nobody knew how dangerous the virus was, so risk management should have been much more strict.

That won't work. Right now we have a pretty good idea of how dangerous the virus is, and plenty of US citizens don't want to participate the risk management of wearing a mask or even vaccinating. Hell many governors are outright forbidding vaccine mandates. Those same people aren't going to go along with strict risk management when the risk is unknown.
The reason for the US' success definitely does not revolve around the scale of the US market. It revolves around the scale of the US within the global market and the relaxed regulation building and freedoms of the US onto all markets.

The US was the largest scale market back when tech companies were starting in the 80s and 90s. Not any more though. But the momentum is already there.
Given the fairly stateless nature of slack apps like this, what does mongodb give you that dynamodb doesn’t? Seems like you could fit into the free tier quite easily.
Ok, it sounds like you don't have a specific claim on the part of the Japanese imperial family to falsify.

Now there is an additional claim that belief in such power is not good for the Japanese people. Japan as a nation seems to have done pretty well for itself. If belief in a supernatural power is present in a society that seems otherwise well-adapted evolutionarily, what is "not good" about it? Maybe they would do better without it? How would that claim be different from a claim that they might have done worse without it?
It's always fun to read peoples drive-by opinions about the only decent language IMO. Ada is highly compatible with C code. For dynamic allocations with "ownership" there is the concept of memory pools which CAN use a GC if thats how you choose to implement the pool allocator.
I don't think this is quite true. I posit that only a minority of people will be satisfied with the most popular option when there are a large number of options. If your category is 'all viewers', the most popular choice will be poor for the majority, because 'all viewers' is too diverse. You need better categorization of the viewers before you can meaningfully suggest content beyond 'shovel more of this profitable content'. It is starting to happen with the 'people who liked X also liked Y' categories, but is still pretty poor (eg. recommending content a user hates without giving the user a way to teach the system that they hate that content or why they hate it). Machine learning would be a nice solution, but doesn't seem to scale to large numbers of users.
> They will clean up any food you spill

I don't think they are cleaning, but eating that food.

> the alert you to danger

They alert when they are scared and looking for your help.

> they will fight off bears or other attackers

Not really. Some trained breeds are powerful enough. But smaller and non-trained dogs will run for their lives.

> They can smell cancer, covid19 and contraband.

No. They can be trained to smell them, though. They just happen to have a strong sense of smell like many other animals.
For millions of years that rock was going to hit that person. Just. Waiting.
Ha, I thought Friendster was gonna be around forever! It's eye-opening that something so successful could be sunk by a combination of such mundane mistakes. For many years there was a Friendster graveyard of countless profiles no longer being updated. Half a decade after its demise, when it was a distant memory, I actually found a use for it! Someone wanted me to go on a blind date and I really wasn't excited about the idea, but they told me her name and when I found her profile on Friendster I reconsidered. :)
I don't see how a biotech revolution would bring great change.

The immediate potential for biotech is in disease prevention and cure, and to a limited degree, lifespan extension. Cures for diabetes, obesity, dementia, hypertension, COPD, cardiovascular disease, congenital and genetic disorders, various cancers. Possibly even regrowing organs.

Cures (and better management) of any or all of these would be life-changing for the sufferers. Of course it has to be attempted.

The macro effect on society would be to increase lifespan, and therefore the proportion of old people. Old people tend to be socially conservative, they have all the money, and they vote more than younger people do. Wealthy people obsess about loss and risk avoidance.

I foresee an ossification, rule by methuselahs. So life would change less quickly than it does now. NIMBY on steroids.
In order to make this possible you need an entirely separate chain of command for SRE like what google has or very influential SREs either of which is exceedingly rare so not surprised op thinks sre doesn’t scale
> swap out the commit

What's the method for doing this? Does a "git push" replace objects with identical hashes on the remote? Or a "git pull" replace identical hashes on the local repo?

I suspect finding a hash collision is only the first difficult part of actually pulling this off. You may need direct write access to the file system of the target. And even then everyone else that has already fetched the repo may not be impacted. At which point collisions becomes moot because you can rewrite the entire git history however you want.
States did that, and still not on the timescales we are discussing.
My hypothesis is that her dog didn't necessarily observe the meteorite, but began to bark as a response to other barking neighborhood dogs who did see the flash.
This is an English subtlety. There is an implied negation of the other condition and an implied independence.

“If my wife tells me to eat cauliflower I will. If you tell me to, I won’t.”

A literal interpretation is that if you tell me to eat cauliflower I will avoid cauliflower altogether. The natural English interpretation translates to “Your endorsement of cauliflower will mean nothing to my choice of action”. Funny, eh?
“…an object forced to move faster than its terminal velocity will, upon release, slow down to this constant velocity.”

https://www.britannica.com/science/terminal-velocity

IIUC, the meteorite was forced or “released” into its “high magnitude inertial vector” initially, and would continue to decelerate as it approached to the surface… whether it did much of that on the way down is a different story!
Anecdatum time: a friend once worked at a company that had separate teams building small services in a small variety of common languages (mostly python and golang). One individual decided that a particular new service that was going to be really critical just had to be written in erlang, and went ahead and did it.

Fast forward to a few years later, when my friend started there. The erlang dev was long gone, and nobody knew erlang or OTP or anything about the service well enough to take ownership of it. My friend was constantly awoken during his on-call weeks because the damned thing kept repeatedly tipping itself over now that the company had grown. He couldn't maintain it other than restarting and praying, and couldn't rewrite it- the company had bigger priorities.

That was the shortest lived job of his career so far.
When the study authors themselves say that the results should be taken with a grain of salt because they used a "novel sampling methodology", that's usually a sign that you want to take the results with a grain of salt.
I love the "did someone see it fall?".

Answer: YES
Outcome: Not a meteorite
When did he stump in your fictional scenario? When you asked him to prove that the number is indeed minimal? It's trivial too but may be an unreasonable thing to ask during SRE interview.
I used to be skeptical of the idea there were any meteorites of martian origin on earth but it turns out there is copious mass exchange between planets.

Note that people routinely find meteorites just hanging out on the surface in areas like Antarctica
How about backups? I struggle with it a bit for our home office.
Used to be that Windows allowed programs to hook into each others’ event busses. (It might still, I’m not sure.) This might be why a few of my Highschool’s computers would interpret every 5th right click in minesweeper as a left click
You left out the matrix on the other side of the equation.

What is the cost of not fracking? Very, very debatable.

On a case by case evaluation, the risk from any single fracking well seems much higher than the risk of not using that well. On the aggregate, the calculation may be different. But again, it is all very arguable.

In an argument of this consequence, the side that says, "That's secret information" should lose.
If two engineers leaving means that much trouble for a company the size of Facebook, the project was already in trouble.
not just 3D, it's just what I'm familiar with :)
Git Documentation on How to Educate Users
I totally agree. I like reading Watts's work in the rare cases when I don't like his science.

> Understandingly frustrating if you just want to charge through and find out what happens.

"the device of art is that of ‘making things strange’ and of making form difficult, increasing the difficulty and time taken to perceive, since the process of perception in art is an aim in itself and must be prolonged" (Viktor Shklovskii, 1914)
>He can’t do it today.

I'd argue he CAN indeed do it again today. Perhaps not in the exact way as the DAO fiasco, but lets be clear, the fundamental transgression was selling one story "the code is law" and then not abiding by that law when it affected him and his friends aversely.

So can he still commit such an egregious breach of trust in this timeline, despite having done it before? Absolutely, though that and the DAO instance may indeed look different from one another.
Enzymes are proteins. Proteins degrade. Anything is possible, but this seems unlikely.

More worrying would be the by-products of the plastic degradation reacting and producing something harmful.
It convinced me to keep a reasonable amount in reserve at least. I don't expect another run on it like before, but toilet paper isn't likely to go bad sitting on a shelf. I can keep a few extra packs around 'just in case' and I can't see the price of toilet paper doing anything but going up in the future, so getting a little extra now makes sense.
Blindly doing anything without first having tried to understand what the pros/cons are and in which contexts the advise applies and where it doesn’t is crazy.
24/7 ATMs can be found at any convenience store, but there usually are fees associated with using them. Fees that vary depending on time of day and/or day of week. The ATMs anywhere else that is not a convenience store are also still, for the vast majority, not 24/7.
I've looked at the evidence regarding vitamin D, it is not nearly as clear cut as you suggest.

To me, it's pretty clear that the driving force for these changes has been 700k people dying, not pharma profit.

I'm not going to continue replying, just an FYI.
..or it's sending a clear message that white nationalist groups tend to be violent and militarized?

The very fact that this issue presents itself to you as anything other than a damning report on the state of the union is itself telling.

Perhaps instead, think of it this way: *even Facebook*, whose Zuck repeatedly dined with the architect of Jan 6, clocks this country as having a white-nationalists-with-guns problem.

Like.
It is not like a continuation, it is exactly a (typed) continuation, or better, an infinite list of continuations (invoking the continuation yields, in addition to a possible value, the next continuation in the stream).

In your example of reading an int the EffectHandler and Effect are simply switched (better names are sink and source). And yes, for IO you will need a scheduler, but streams are much more straightforward.

I have reached my limit of pure functional language knowledge, but I can offer you a working implementation [1] in an imperative language.

I've actually implemented these typed continuations in c++ years ago, and I'm trying to understand how they differ from effects (aside for the whole imperative thing).

In the C++ implementation, for convenience the continuation object is replaced with the next continuation when invoked, but internally actually invoking a continuation function returns the yielded value and the next continuation as for my EffectHandeler example.

https://github.com/gpderetta/libtask/blob/master/tests/conti...
> A microservice is deployed independently, has its own hardware and can scale independently from the rest of the system.

Nicely articulated

> If there are multiple services and they all share hardware, they're not really microservices.

You just described most microservice deployments on Kubernetes ;)
An interesting hypothesis, somewhat damaged by the fact that trust in the CDC was uniformly high across political affiliations pre-pandemic: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/04/09/public-holds...
That's a common issue with distributed systems.

Something has to be "the leader" and you need a system for choosing a new one once the old one is offline for a certain amount of time.

Add in a sprinkling of how to figure out if you have more than one leader active at a time.
Not hard to explain. Hard to agree on.
Most of the folks that lost faith during COVID are the ones consuming online rightwing disinformation and also mostly listen to a cable news network and political party that is lying to them for their own political gain.
Vast majority think life in SF Bay Area getting worse, want to leave, poll finds
Why the world is running out of sand (2019)
I would agree with this for the most part, but I'd also note that I think the case the author describes is uniquely bad and that probably necessitates some investigation. IDK, maybe their org doesn't follow the rules, or maybe the product they're responsible for doesn't have enough unit tests, so breakages can slip through, or maybe their (or my) bullshit radar is tuned badly and one of us is out of touch with how most people experience the churn.

(I should also mention that there are recognized issues with the cost of churn at Google, but this isn't really one of them)
Back in the dinosaur age, I built a WiFi hotspot billing system using PostgreSQL. MySQL had a larger following, but was less reliable and lacked transactions. PostgreSQL was a competitor to Oracle, which was seen as the undisputed leader for large-scale databases containing mission-critical business data.

Fast-forward to 2021 and I am not surprised at all that PostgreSQL now seems to be taking over everywhere. The ethic of the PostgreSQL team seems to revolve around correctness and reliability rather than features and speed. I congratulate the team for sticking to their mettle all these years and achieving such success.
500MW of heat from 620MW of electricity seems far from useful. Interesting, but not useful.
Can we get one supplement pill that merges all of those that need to be consumed? Kthx.
Quick follow-up. They are now offering Spanner at < $700/month (which was old pricing I think for 1 node). Ie, you can do something like processing units in increments of 100, so maybe $70/month.

Kind of weird, google paying attention to what users want!

What's next, google home / assistant will support google work calendars? Alexa has supported google work calendars forever, but google's own devices did not - despite plenty of requests.

I always wrote google off as so disconnected from users / developers wasn't worth dealing with them, but this is interesting to see some changes that look user / developer directed (vs just wowing with google fu features with modest uptake).
Yes the probability of hitting a house is low. To begin with assuming uniform sampling over the planet (asterisk here) hitting land is lower than hitting an ocean / large water body.

The asterisk here is that from my knowledge asteroid belts in the system are almost co-planar to Earth so even accounting for dispersion my expectation is that the dostribution to the Earth surface hits is not quite uniform.

But to partially answer your last question with a quick Google search: https://www.newsweek.com/meteorite-nasa-fragments-1003713?am...
To be clear, this is not merchant-customer relationship for payment, or for any interaction at all.

It's something that stores post on all their entrances so that visitors can record their visit in the appropriate check-in application.

The merchant has no access to the data, it's sent to a state government datastore. (Although questions over it's security still remain).

It's also supposed to be able to operate in offline mode - where cellular and wifi signals are unavailable.
For instance, a shopping centre's entrance in the middle of an underground carpark.
+1 for docker-compose or Swarm as executable (always up to date) infrastructure documentation
Wasn't me, but I think people are getting tired of this bizarre crypto optimism. You think crypto is going to redistribute wealth to the masses? People with all the wealth also have all the power and control all the weapons. Think they'll just give it all away? The currently powerful will either make crypto serve them or will make it illegal.
What does this buy a user over running local docker and pushing to docker hub?
There are plenty of “best practices” that contradict each other. Which shows that you need to think and understand the pros/cons of each “best practice” and not just blindly follow the latest advise you happened to read on HN.
Based on the five or six "variants being monitored" that present actual threats, it seems like the virus adapts within 18 months, which is pretty fast for researchers to find new solutions, test them in a population safely, and then get the FDA to safely approve them.

Are we going to get to a situation like the annual Flu vaccine, where it is tested and released in (what I'm guessing) less than a year? Otherwise, it seems like we'll be chasing this virus with outdated solutions forever. Moderna and Pfizer are both currently testing a vaccine that is specific to Delta, but by the time it's approved (my guess: January/February) the current wave will be long behind us.
How would it be different from the monoclonal antibody treatments already available?
One only need look at Sweden and their results. They took minimal action, allowed the youngest to remain in school w/o masks, and only canceled large events. We are now starting to see the all-cause mortality stats and they are proving Sweden's approach minimized the most harm.
> Good luck replicating that server setup

It is easy when the server is regularly backuped.
In middle school all classrooms had their own printer. They were also shared on the entire school network with no security. We had a lot of fun printing stuff to other classes and never got caught.
The laser produced 1.3 MJ from fusion in an instant using only around 250 KJ of laser energy. We have already created machines that fuse hydrogen and from only 3 KJ of electricity, produce 10^10 MJs of energy out of it in an instant.

I never got the appeal of the laser experiments, they must be covers for weapon research.
Surprised not to see anything about sociality here. I imagine this is a large determinant of health and life span.
A generic selling platform can go under, delist you, censor you, change terms, get hacked, accidentally lose all content, can change content, they can do (almost) anything.

A NFT is on chain and immutable. Further, they can have smart contracts where artists dictate advanced terms.

So you have more freedom and control in general. As to whether this leads to more monetary success is another question.
What you are saying makes sense in a limited context, however, applying it to changing mask guidelines does not make sense to me.

I think rationality is also figuring in all the factors, like an evolving pandemic and supply chain issues, but that's just my opinion.
I wasn't sure so had to ask. Where you making a joke? Did the sde have actual measurable perf problems?
https://archive.is/5zWSa
It's worth noting that the one version policy is a technical requirement for linking compiled languages together. Yes, there are organizational reasons to require exactly one version of a project. But compiled languages, especially C++, will do Very Bad Things if you have versioning inconsistencies. It's possible to be intentionally ABI compatible in certain ways for certain lengths of time, but scaled over time, number of concurrent versions of a project, and number of downstream uses, you're just waiting to be burnt hard.

That being said, it's possible to do version pinning carefully at the executable level, just so long as each executable has exactly one version of each dependency in its dependency graph. But then you have a combinatorial explosion of dependency sets to evaluate and support. Theoretically possible, but not very practical. ABI stable languages and languages that ship as source code have a much smaller analysis space since compatibility can be assumed in many more situations.
Agree. “Best Practices” often disagree with each other. So you need to understand the context and pros/cons to pick the right one or decide not to.
Pretty much.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
I’m from Sylacauga. This is our claim to fame. All I can say is I’m glad it didn’t hit the woman from BC. Mostly because I don’t want anyone to get hurt. But I’d be lying if it weren’t a little bit about losing our bit of trivia!