skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is it desirable for Congress

Humans are dumb and they buy it, and it sets the precedent. We have to make laws sometimes. You can barely even buy a TV without smart features now and yet everyone that knows about such features that don't want them still HAVE to buy them if they want a gd tv.

Should we just make it legal for oil companies to have no consequences for oil spills because it doesn't really affect much, we can just stop eating fish in the sea. There's still plenty of food elsewhere.
OtterTune looks very cool.

I see you can setup using CloudFormation. Any chance terraform is on the roadmap?

On a personal note, thanks for everything you do. I’m a subscriber to the CMU Database Group channel and advocate of keeping it real.
It is only detectable if anyone is looking, and getting audits done that cross state lines (each state effectively runs its own election) is not something we are currently equipped to handle.
Big rich guy, if you're so smart and good, why do you need a bailout?
Ah OK. So now it makes sense why this woman renounced her USA citizenship

She wanted to still be an American, but didn't want to do the yearly paperwork to keep her citizenship.

Got it.
Ok so there are a narrow range of students who require a high end machine, and for them a framework laptop might be a good choice, assuming they can’t get a similar benefit by simply selling their existing laptop and buying a new one.
I think you’re right. Not to sound crass, but a coal plant that explodes (and isn’t rebuilt) seems healthier than one lasting 30 years.
This seems like a really interesting project. I work at a patient engagement healthcare technology company and I think everyone in the industry recognizes the need for a system that treats doctors as a "first class primitive" of the healthcare industry as opposed to EMR/EHR processors and insurance companies.

@dang could we change possibly the links to include real hyperlinks?

Could help to make the post more readable.
So only public universities count, but not private ones? School ID's are not considered valid identification for any other government form, (I-9, W2, etc), so I don't think it makes sense to say they count here as well.
lol @ Huawei quality being anywhere close to Apple in hardware, software, or in ethical corporate operation. Maybe quality of marketing?
People have been predicting a population disaster calamity since the 1960s. Having more people on our planet has actually made the human species much more efficient because of the combined brain power of all of us working together to solve problems. The people trying to shut down population growth have led to horrifying policies like China's one child policy that deeply hurt many parents.
> and there is no obvious preexisting mental model shared by non-specialists

Strong disagree. Looking at the URL bar in Firefox vs Chrome is a great example of how Chrome nailed an "obvious preexisting mental model shared by non-specialists".

We can look at things like the design of door handles, and clearly see how the shape of the human hand influences the design. If we had tentacles, door handles probably would look more different.

The same thing applies to human minds (as opposed to hypothetical alien minds, or AIs). Humans all have a hippocampus, a prefrontal cortex, and other universal biological factors in cognition which influences HOW thoughts are formed.
I did see that, I was saying skip the first suggestion of sanitizing input, and just use the second suggestion. The first suggestion is just asking for trouble.
Lots to unpack here.

> I'm a little curious why AWS is free/cheap, but anything other than AWS ends up in the "Enterprise, contact us for pricing" bucket. It might simply be based on your costs. I don't know if the on-prem stuff is expensive since your software needs to be in the same datacenter or if it's just a pricing differentiator.

The expensive part for us about on-prem is the amount of custom code that we have to write for the agent to deal with how the organization maintains their config files. For example, one customer that we talked maintained TerraForm files for their MySQL confs in Github. So we had to modify the Github repo, push to main, that would then trigger a Github action that then pushed the update to database. Then we had to know when the updated config was deployed so that we could bounce the system (if it required a restart). Restarting the DBMS is tricky too, since everybody does it differently.

> I'm also wondering if you've thought of going the DBaaS route.

There is a lot to running a DBaaS (backups, configs, upgrades). At this point I think it would be very difficult to compete with Amazon/MSFT/Google/Oracle/etc if it was just stock Postgres/MySQL. You need a killer feature

> Speaking of ongoing benefit, would there be a lot of benefit to paying for more than one month?

You are asking about a floating license. This is a potential for enterprise customers. For now we track RDS databases by their ARN. So if you try to switch that on OtterTune, it treats it as a new database. This is necessary to make sure that the ML models don't freak out if there is a dramatic change all of a sudden.

The demo video was with TPC-C. The workload is stable. We've seen workloads that evolve a lot over the course of months, so it is unlikely that the same configuration would be optimal during this entire period.

> I guess it's just hard to try if, like me, you're not on AWS.

Reach out to us and I'm happy to talk to you about your setup: https://ottertune.com/contact

> Really cool and congrats on VLDB!

The science comes first.
And rocks I'm sure
Has anyone else noticed what a large add campaign Facebook has launched featuring Millennials asking for new and re-vamped Internet regulation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kur94OyXf3U

What is this all about?
Assuming your life is spent in a virtual world consuming media, that is. For people who want to live in the physical world with maybe a few augmentations here and there, AR could be around forever.
"Weakness: since ESBuild doesn’t expose its AST, plugins are often slow which can undermine the benefits of the tool"

I think by the time we even care about the performance of a plugin being "golang" fast, we will have rome built in rust.

Rome will be the full kit and caboodle at native speeds (bundler, tree shaking compiler, linter, type checker, etc...), whereas esbuild will be the rome-lite for when you just want to bundle some code and have it done.
I prefer Blind over Glassdoor to check the company's scores. Glassdoor removes bad reviews.
How about the freedom to use your property, electronic or otherwise, as you see fit?
In Norway, it's all public (I think).
Even the ones that don't fail usually don't work out that well for employees because of liquidation preferences. It only takes one down round or mildly successful acquihire to wipe out employees.
You can add a catch all field that captures those in a map. You can also choose to ignore things you don’t explicitly mention. It is up to you how strict you want the parsing to be.

So you can define a struct with one status field and the right annotations and you will get exactly what you describe without having to write the code and it will still be almost as fast as doing that parsing yourself.
Sure, but that’s deeply misleading since Apple contributes most of their code to trunk. The fact they ship private builds for their own machines is a complete red herring.
>"The same way nobody wants to spent $35k on a honda when they could have a tesla."

Depends on who's that nobody is. The only things I personally value in cars are:

1) It *reliably* gets me from A to B

2) It accommodates my vacation stuff so I always get van.

I would not pay one single penny for car's "coolness". If I was getting car instead of van Tesla would not be in the picture despite the fact that I could buy it if I valued different things in car.
Only for lower income earners. A great health plan is $1k-1.5k/mo, which is crushing if your savings or excess capital are in the 5 digits or less.

If you’re financially independent or wealthy enough to be (independently) doing a startup or taking on a business venture, it’s a rounding error in the books.
No, laws of physics will not be changed just because customers want it. You want a more detailed photo - take a bigger sensor, better lenses. The software can improve something, but not create the details.
> looks like it’s leetcode time
Haven't searched for a job in a few years, but would consider based on TC.

Are all these good-paying software jobs behind the "leetcode firewall", even for non-FAANG? I guess my willingness to practice on leetcode would be partly driven by potential TC reward, but I really would like to be judged on the merits of the development I've already done for previous companies instead of having to memorize solutions to esoteric problems I'm never going to have to solve on the job.
I'm no corporate shill, but corporations are groups of people, so anything you think it's ok to take away from them because they're a group and not a person, you could logically take away from, say, a union or a farmer's market. If it was wise to make that law regarding facebook, would it be wise to make it regarding an individual as well, or should individuals be allowed to do it because they're not groups? And if individuals shouldn't be allowed to do it, then it's not really about the distinction between corporations and individuals.
Just like how TSA went away after we ended global terrorism?
Imphenzia's channel is an incredible resource, even if you're not into low poly style he's just great at doing tutorials for both Blender and Unity. Plus just watching him do his modeling challenges teaches lots as you see all the little tricks he uses to get through them.
Sure - just like anyone else who contributes to LGPL projects, Apple willingly chose to do so.
Engineering salaries are somewhat trimodal, and this piece helps shed some light on the completely different spectrums the three different categories companies can fall under: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
Summary:

The naturally-occurring nucleoside analogue known as Cordycepin (a.k.a 3’-deoxyadenosine) is found in the Himalayan fungus Cordyceps sinensis and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for hundreds of years to treat cancers and other inflammatory diseases. However, it breaks down quickly in the blood stream, so a minimal amount of cancer-destroying drug is delivered to the tumour. In order to improve its potency and clinically assess its applications as a cancer drug, biopharmaceutical company NuCana has developed Cordycepin into a clinical therapy, using their novel ProTide technology, to create a chemotherapy drug with dramatically improved efficacy.

Paper:

https://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2021/09...

Related article:

https://newatlas.com/medical/himalayan-fungus-compound-poten...

Nucleoside Wikipedia definition:

Nucleosides are glycosylamines that can be thought of as nucleotides without a phosphate group. A nucleoside consists simply of a nucleobase (also termed a nitrogenous base) and a five-carbon sugar (ribose or 2'-deoxyribose) whereas a nucleotide is composed of a nucleobase, a five-carbon sugar, and one or more phosphate groups.
Exposing the ineptitude of officialdom is a great crime in the eyes of officialdom.
a quote from the tv show bojack horseman:
"The universe is a cruel, uncaring void.
The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning.
It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead."
Because freedom can be infringed upon by more than just the government. The market is not infallible, and must be curtailed in order to protect individual rights.
I wonder if they’re looking back.
If you do not currently have residence, your registration to vote is no longer valid. That is why an ID which proves residence at the time of voting is considered important by proponents.
Y Combinator company “skip the interview” reaches top ten of r/recruitinghell
British millennials have a particularly bad combo of low wages and world beating house prices to contend with.

Older people will vote conservative, and block as many new housing projects as possible to ensure they keep "theirs".
Not to detract from your larger point, but Elm isn't created by a big company or org. It was created by one guy, Evan Czaplicki.
Facebook is also aggressively expanding in expensive markets like NYC. So it looks like they aren't all-in on arbitrage.

Google too: they just bought a large new building in NYC, yet they're also growing a lot in markets where they pay much less (e.g. India).

Very curious how this will play out over time.
Canada imposes Covid-19 vaccine mandate on federal workers, transportation
seems tautological.

If you accept that there is such a thing as a 'ruling class', then presumably the only way to define them is 'the people who get their policy goals accomplished'. Because that's what 'ruling' means.
Not to be pedantic, but the Model T has a very different control system than modern cars.

There are three pedals and a throttle pusher on the wheel. The brake is on the right, the middle pedal is reverse. To accelerate, you work a combination of left pedal to select gear, handbrake/clutch, and a pusher for throttle on the steering wheel.

You would need retraining to go from this to a modern car or vice versa.
This is the most depressing/soul-crushing thing you discover if you're passionate about programming your entire life and then finally break into the industry.

You realize you're the weirdo, and after years of everyone else being blatant about really not caring, it starts to wear on you.
Isn't it great that you can refute any analogy by finding a literal difference between the analogy and thing being explained?
c) should just pay their taxes that they legally owe.

Optimizing taxes != Tax Evasion
Where are you getting your information from? None of the projects listed there were started by Apple, all of them are used in successful Apple products, and all of them have been used by both competitors, and the community.
I hate to break it to you, but Idiocracy wasn't a documentary.
As far as I understand, unmapped fields are simply ignored, so you can write your code like

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Response { status: u64 }
Taking a shit is a multi step process! The absurdity of the phrase is boggling my mind.
It would be hard to find a job that pays $400k cash (yes I'm aware of Netflix) so there isn't much need to put a specific cash value on the RSU component for comparison. You're typically comparing two job offers which both have an RSU component.

RSUs have a volatility component (so discount the value for that, depending on the value of the grant vs your net worth), but also RSUs generally appreciate over the vest (it's not too common for a stock to be down over a 4-year period) which is a plus.
And if you do happen to be part of the 10% that make it odds are you won’t get paid out as much as if you had just gone and worked for a FAANG.
I'm not so sure, Facebook did just invest a bunch of effort in getting AirLink working to allow wireless PC VR support and they seem to keep improving it.
How many YOE do you have? Any suggestions for finding these re mote jobs?
An "entire" Rust struct containing a single string field is just a struct with a single field. You don't have to specify the fields you don't need and it's unlikely your handrolled parser would be faster than serde (unless you are using memchr or something, then in that case you aren't parsing JSON).
Check out postmarketOS, Mobian, and NixOS Mobile. They support some OnePlus phones and a few others in addition to the PinePhone and Librem 5. pmOS has the most devices supported (although amount of stuff working varies per device).

Sailfish uses a proprietary UI, so I hesitate to recommend it. There's an alternative that replaces their UI, can't recall the name right now.
I think there might be someone else on this thread you mean to direct this to, because it's not responsive to anything I'm saying.
> what kind of tooling

A private Git repo where all the work happens, and a public repo where everything is 3 months old, but history rewritten so the dates are up to date?

And a cron job and scripts to automate it all
I'd love to see Ubuntu being the defacto standard for OS, far better than the fashion-driven MacOS and telemetry-driven Windows. But, I am pretty much against the self-congratulating rhetoric in this thread. Everytime I use Ubuntu, it hangs up. Just today, I tried to install new fonts and the Font manager just froze. The basic UI framework has so many hangups that it is impossible to imagine saying anything positive about it unless 1) People have no expectations 2) Haven't used MacOS or Windows 3) People have low standards for excellence.

That said, this is an open source effort by volunteers. The fact that we have OSS that even come to compare with commercial offering spending billions is amazing and also an indictment that it will never surpass it. Especially with Big Tech making their own custom chips with close integration in the OS.

Someone in SV should start a Gitlab-like venture, but for operating system instead of git. VC-backed and open source.
Alvaro! Good to hear from you. We really like the Ongres conf management tool. We just haven't come across anybody using it for on-prem DBs in the wild.

As I said above, everyone that we've talked to rolls their conf management tools because they are doing more than just DBMS confs (proxies, networking, kernel params, middleware, etc). Lots of Terraform.
If you are a ruby/js/go shop and you turn someone down because they only know C you are making a big mistake. If you know how to program you can learn any tech stack.
Naive question here, but how much more resolution can we ever expect to get out of pictures like these? If it gets 100 times better will we be able see what the planets look like?
This doesn't solve your problem out of the box, but I think most reverse-proxies have configurations that can protect the services behind them from these sorts of attacks.
Conversely, it can work out great for you.

For example, Amazon stock used to go up 30-40% a year reliably. Compensation model was "conservative" and estimated 15% a year.

So if you stayed at Amazon for a while, you could be paid very very well, thanks to stock appreciation.

For the risk adverse, a strategy is to sell the stocks as they vest, effectively treating it as cash. Companies will also issue additional RSU, if stock tanks too badly, as they'd be losing people otherwise.

Personally, I worked for Amazon and Microsoft for a number of years, and have kept all my RSU. It has worked out great for me (at least on paper).
Isn't the correct response to high costs of living to have fewer or no children? And if one willingly has children knowing full well they cannot provide, isn't that wrong? With reports like these, I feel that it makes sense that population growth is slowing considering homelessness and the like are rampant. Genuinely curious about your point of view.
> just don’t buy their product.

That works in theory, but in practice when all the products from all the vendors work that way, you no longer have a choice.

Plenty of examples like that - Try buying a TV that's not a "smart" TV nowdays, you basically can't. If you want a good quality picture, then it's also coming with telemetry and in many cases advertisements, too.
How much experience do you have and what sort of work do you do?
Use a secure service to report these things.

For example here is one from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/securedrop. Here is one from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/anonymous-news-tips/
I'm not saying you can't do anything with this bug, just that it's much harder to do something with it than with a drive by vulnerability. It is a little surprising to me that Apple's bounty sort of implies they'll pay so much for a bug like this.
I wonder if a bimodal genealogy could be a long term outcome?

Essentially splitting the human races into two separate species.

- Homo Sapiens Alpha

- Homo Sapiens Beta

Seems farfetched but many species have diverged due to sexual selection so not totally ruled out.
Absolutely not. "T" prefix stands for "type" and has its roots in case-insensitive Pascal

/* eg common C style notation involving type identifier and var identifier is illegal in Pascal */
Rect rect;
(* so Pascal requires some distinct identifiers eg *)
rect: TRect;

the other common prefix is "P" which stands for pointer type
This is a VR headset. It’s hardly a basic necessity
Yes, the Reed Amendment as passed is as you describe. However, see the section in the linked page on the SAFER Act.
Developer Support at Internet Scale
If I spend $50,000 on a tractor that also has a cloud component that drives the tractor around for me, is it also not fair to expect that I can use that tractor just as a tractor if I don't have internet access at my farm?

It's a different story if it's eg. an Alexa device thats primary purpose is to be connected to the internet.

If a device is in a class of product that doesn't necessarily need a cloud connection/account/whatever, it shouldn't require it.

Often it's not practical to switch to a competing product. Sometimes it's not possible at all. Consumers should have rights here, and it's legislation's job to provide them, in a just society.
Time will tell. If he manages to auction it off at a profit some time in the future, something is definitely up.

In London Ontario a few decades ago, there was a furor over a million+ dollar painting purchased by the museum. The artist wasn't and still isn't famous. It was entirely blue with a single red stripe down the center. But at least it was a real thing.
That’s true, good piece on it here: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
Would you define late stage as Series B? Where do you draw that line?
So now you’re suggesting horrifying policies in the other direction? I live in a country where most birth control was banned til the 80s. It wasn’t pretty, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who wants to go back to that.
So backing up out of that for a second. Are you saying there are individuals (not part of a group, or a corporation) that are dead set on making computer peripherals that require an account?
Then the question is who is doing the "supposing"? I'd say if every government I've ever seen or heard of routinely engages in suppression of opposition, I'm going to suppose that the next government I encounter will as well. It's not like these are random government employees doing the suppression unprompted: they are in roles expressly intended to suppress opposition.
I was mostly responding to:

> the recent 'they need to return to the office'

Which is counterfactual, unless I totally misunderstood the statement.
I don't get the argument against having less children. It would be different if the human race was really dying out. But it seems like most of our problems are caused by overpopulation.

If the future generations only have 3.5 billion people, 1 billion, 10 million, I don't see how we'd be worse off. Fields like production, retail, maintenance, etc. would have less workers, but also proportionally less demand. Fields like research and academia would also have less people, probably leading to less discoveries, but how much? and how much would it matter? We lose resistance to extinction if there's a deadly disease that kills almost 100% of the population, but we gain resistance from transmissible diseases.

And I know there are tons of people who still really want to have kids. And smart / talented / skeptical people who want to have kids.