skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to know why the author (I've seen that elsewhere as well) would aim at not writing some plpgsql? Is it for the "tour-de-force" bragging rights? I've found that a plgpsql routine can be so much more efficient and faster to devise; especially with good use of triggers. Executing schema-related logic in "ring-0" is way faster and the transaction guarantees integrity? Isnt guaranteed integrity with some logic "vagrant-ish"? :-)

BTW awesome products Hashicorp, way to go!
"If you have frequently asked questions, it's because you haven't answered them in your content."

Errr.... no. You have frequently asked questions because some questions need to be answered frequently. If you have the answers in one place, the user doesn't have to waste as much time searching for it.

Here's some examples of frequently asked questions:

Q: Does God exist?
Q: What is the meaning of life?
Q: How can I be happy?
Q: Why do hot dogs come in packs of 10 but buns come in packs of 8?

I'm sure you could tell users to search the entire web and hope they pull together the right answers. Or you could just do the research, summarize the answer, and provide links, all right next to the question you know lots of people are asking. This will save the users valuable time and ensure they get the correct response.

Here's a point-for-point rebuttal of the article's reasons:

1. "They’re too slow" ... "questions take longer to scan and understand than simple headings and you can’t take any meaning from them in a quick glance."

It doesn't take a genius to scan the list of questions above and find your question. If the question you have is in the FAQ, it is almost always faster to read the list of questions than reading all of the documentation. And the meaning is found in the question combined with which specific category of FAQ it's found in.

2. "They lead to duplication"

Yes. Duplication is the most efficient way to ensure important bits of information make it to the right people. Different people look for and absorb information in different ways. Some skim, some hunt, some meticulously read. Some are in a hurry, some are calm and contemplative. And some people just miss critical information when it's buried somewhere. Duplicated information increases both the likelihood and speed at which the information makes it to the user. Of course, it's a pain to maintain for the content manager, but that's the content managers' job. Don't make the user's life worse to make your job easier.

3. "They’re tonally wrong" ... "The best way to do that, is to write simply and clearly and remove all duplication and superfluous text."

Oh, piss off. Duplication is fine, see point 2.

4. "Twitter agrees"

Oh, piss off! See point 3.
Something over twenty years ago, I met my father and stepmother at Dulles. He had adhesive tape all over his nose from a fall on vacation. I wonder how that would have worked.
As a youth, I remember being strongly instilled that neither politics nor religion were appropriate topics for "polite conversation". Instead you generally talked hobbies, plans, family, etc.

Conversations are a bit of a puzzle. You are trying to identify the overlap of two parties interests.

Now I see a lot of people who start right out of the gate with politics and immediately become hostile when you disagree on some small element. I don't even mind politics or political debate, but political opinions aren't a substitute for personality.
I always think that too many web servers have IPv4 addresses. People don't seem to realise that CDNs - which everyone surely runs behind - will happily proxy IPv4 traffic to IPv6, so you don't need an IPv4 address to serve web traffic - only your CDN does.
One reason you may want to self host your fonts vs Google Fonts is to respect your users privacy. Google Fonts downloads are used for fingerprinting and browser identification: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy...
Certainly. I do have friends and family who show me love, and I try to do the same. We're all inconsistent and imperfect in showing this love, and that is okay, but I think part of the problem is that our current way of life almost sociopathically doesn't value exploring and expressing love between ourselves, especially between strangers. Not sure whether there should be any cause for optimism that this societal structure will change soon.
I remember this one, thinking it was isolated prior to knowing about the Pearl Harbor exercises. Is declaring “unfair” tactics just a US Navy tradition or do other branches do the same thing?
It's enshrined into our oldest myth and stories as a form of wisdom and then repeated again in modernity as an obvious 'lesson'.
Right. This is total FUD. I’ve been running my own email for about 20 years and have no reason to change. Maintenance is close to zero. Postfix and Dovecot are superb pieces of software engineering.
Thank you very much! I've been running my own clobbed together version of a Django + Webpack configuration, and I'm very interested in learning from your code how you manage to run only one container with both Django and Webpack on dev mode.
I think the YAML syntax is definitely one of the weakest points of Ansible user experience, especially if you're creating complex books/roles. It's extremely long, and when you try to do anything slightly more complex in the YAML syntax itself, e.g. handle an error of a module, it gets very hairy.

As a side note, Bash + Ansible tends not to be an amazing combination, unless you can write idempotent Bash scripts, IMHO. That sounds like a recipe for false safety, where you think you wrote strong automation, and someone that is used to pure Ansible will quickly realize that it does not work in specific conditions, e.g. after second time or after specific conditions are run multiple times in a row.
Vimeo seems to have found a good niche – professional video hosting.

YouTube is a social network as much as a video hosting service, and for professional applications, embeds in websites, portfolios, etc, it's often a bad idea to include things that will detract from other content or take users away from the site. YouTube embeds are still fairly branded, may show ads, etc.

YouTube has no interest in this market, so I think Vimeo will be fine.
It's interesting that TikTok is a formidable competitor that focused on a different experience and a slightly different format (short form). Tiktok seems to work by choosing for you and only showing a single video at a time (esp on mobile, which is where it's really most at home), but allowing you to quickly reject that choice and learning from your rejections.

Is it possible to beat YouTube itself with a different experience but the same, longer-form, format? If so, what would that experience even look like, especially on mobile?
This is just silly.

It reminds me the time I went a meeting of the MIT nanotechnology study group at the MIT AI lab and the president of Alcor (the "frozen heads in a bottle" company) showed up... If I remember right he'd been charged with murder because he'd been accused of freezing somebody who wasn't quite dead yet and had just been acquitted.

In addition to the usual crowd we had a large contingent of middle aged and older rich women who seemed offended that the people at the study group asked tough questions of the speaker.

My feeling was that these people didn't feel like they'd gotten enough out of life and wanted to pretend that biological immortality was possible. Lately I came across this TV episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L59EubHFGk

about someone with this attitude. Death is certainly not some tyrant that came recently, but it's something that's been part of life for at least a billion years.
> The politicians know a law mandating a vaccine is a non-starter

A vaccine mandate is a non-starter only in the current poisonous US political environment. There is historical precedent for vaccine mandates in the US: polio. What else are reasonably careful policy makers to do if a very vocal minority has the ability to block any progress?
Yeah. New Order are still making good money from Blue Monday from 1983, and clearly there’s a lot of interest in The Beatles still.

Maybe a shorter period of time with an option to extend it like a snooze feature on an alarm clock.
What software that anyone actually uses does this, except for docker (which has well documented ways of using it properly that are tragically not the default)?
>> Causality isn't nearly as central to physics as it may be to your worldview

No, but locality seems to be a sacred cow in physics. They'll latch on to just about anything to explain violation of the Bell inequalities, but nobody is willing to part with locality.
Agreed on whether or not the Japanese would have come up with their own strategy like this; it seems like the Japanese admiral was focused on air superiority anyway / if anyone studied the island for an extended period of time, the direction of the attack would make sense.
I think once you get out of the habit of these things, and there is nothing forcing you to do them, they’re difficult to find the motivation for even if you know they might be good for you. I know for a fact I would be happier if I went into the office every day (but still had the flexibility to work remotely in situations where that was necessary). But despite this I can’t find the motivation to go. The carrot doesn’t work, I need the stick - but it no longer exists.

I think tackling loneliness is like most other things that are good for you (eating healthy, exercising, budgeting) - they’re hard to do even though you know they’re good and they’re relatively simple.
Another product killed by Google!
Warning: Learning how to design PCBs can be habit-forming (hehe)!

It is ridiculously cheap to get say, 5 boards made and fully assembled at a place like JLCPCB. However, due to the chip shortage a lot of components like microcontrollers have stock that comes and goes. I recommend checking the PCB manufacturer's inventory (e.g. https://jlcpcb.com/parts/) before designing anything because there's nothing more annoying than spending hours making a PCB and then finding out you can't get it assembled because some part you chose is out of stock.

You'll probably also want to regularly check the inventory of the parts you're using while you're in the design process (if it takes more than a few days) because it happens quite frequently that a part with say, 3000 in stock suddenly drops to under 1000 and then to 0 over the course of a few days.

I highly recommend getting into PCB design. It's super rewarding (and satisfying/zen connecting traces) and it's easier than you'd think. I say, "it's like the adult version of connect-the-dots."
Yeah people seem to blame this on housing, the economy, etc. but the reality is we can squeeze just enough satisfaction from streaming, internet and video games to keep us going. The second you cut that off people will emerge again. It is also annoying to me when people claim they are fine being "alone" but then sit in front of a screen for 10 hours a day. Watching an entire Netflix series alone in one weekend doesn't show some kind of zen level of self-contentedness.
Google Search does video search across multiple platforms relatively well.
There’s another way to get over being lonely and that’s to be ok being alone for stretches of time. It can be recharging, for some.
I've used the python and bash versions and they both were slow. If you keep on scrolling down list of processes, it used to get stuck from time to time during cpu usage graph updates. It was so annoying for me that I never really used bpytop instead of htop which was much more responsive. current c++ version feels really responsive like htop
does the Charleston
Can't wait to finally sample Thomas Edison on the phonograph for my Soundcloud tracks, and not having to worry about the police knocking at my door!
Chernobyl happened during an event of staggering operational malfeasance. The design was 30 years out date when built and know the world over to be dangerous. It was particularly know to be dangerous in low power situations. The brain dead party appointees installed a lever to put the reactor into a know worst case possible state artificially for the “test”. They build a water holding tank under the reactor ensuring a steam explosion in a meltdown and didn’t build a containment building. They were also forbidden by the state from sharing accident information with other plants, which could have prevented the incident. The whole thing was an engineered tragedy. To called the act of depraved hubris a “test” seems incorrect to me.
I do think public discourse is often rooted in either people or events, which are a product of the past(even current events/living people). It does take special types of people to discuss and dissect ideas and think about the future.

In fiction writing I think happy-go-lucky stories don't evoke that much of a response. There needs to be conflict and resolution, or some kind of tension. On that note, I just watched the new Dune movie and would love to read through the series now!
When was having a partner a precondition for buying a home? Furthermore, what’s the point of finding a partner when the cost of a permanent place together might exceed both your incomes put together, much less a place big and safe enough to raise a family.
The awarding of contracts is not a right of an individual. All a government has to do is ensure they have got the best deal in a legal way. Ergo, no individual rights have been infringed.
"A partner and a baby won't suddenly make you less lonely or more happy, more likely you'll just have two unhappy people who have to work even harder to make a living, and a child that requires therapy."

There's nothing wrong with being single, but as a statistical matter, I'm going to go out on a limb and say there are many people, even flawed people who haven't found themselves, for whom a partner and a baby will make them feel less lonely and more happy, otherwise wouldn't our species be extinct? The fact that humans continue to be born suggest nature predisposes us to certain behavior which we see as being in our best interest.
How is reliability these days?
Making a difference without millions – how Americans give
Back in the 60s, people were buying homes in their early 20s or even late teens because it was that affordable. Obviously that is a bit of a historical anomaly, but it's almost a necessary complement to the idea you're supposed to become an adult and mature and grow up after age 18.
YT seems to think so, they've basically made a mini-TT experience with the shorts.
I do get almost everything assembled, from JLC or MacroFab, but I've been tweaking precision analog stuff and I need a fast turnaround and JLC doesn't have the parts.
I buy all my glasses online so I usually end up only paying like $250 but that's still a lot to just test this stuff out. I'll give aliexpress a go since it's so cheap.
cmd://calc.exe

Nobody said URL handlers should offer any security guarantees. There is no clear amount of things that a clicked URL should be able to do. In some circumstances, the full permissions of the logged in user would be appropriate.

The security onus really ought to be on the application which sourced the URL - it knows where it came from.
The first definition is "very stupid or foolish" which seems quite apt given the context. The second one talks about a disability, which does not really seem applicable since we're talking about monitors and not people.

So where is the issue exactly? He used the word correctly as far as I can tell.
First Sphere (https://www.sphere.me), now Quill.
Twitter is obviously planning something in this space, but to me, Twitter's magic is in the ability to really consume a lot, from experts, in a short space of time (240 character brevity!).

In depth conversation, spaces, voice, don't really belong on Twitter in my opinion, but I'm sure Twitter knows better than me... I have no skin in that game!
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No, Chernobyl was only possible because so many design features specifically meant to prevent exactly this scenario were deliberately disabled, and then on top of this many more failures both technological and human had to coincide. Seriously, if you did not know it really happened, the reports would read like bad fiction given the huge numbers of obviously bad decisions and ridiculously improbable coincidences.
Oh - interesting, I never knew that was a claimed levied against him - that his history wasn't necessarily accurate. That is a bummer. Still like what he is doing for getting the concept out there that history is worth studying and should be "cool," and you can't blame a generalist for not being 100% up-to-date on the latest findings / understandings by experts... so if its just that, I get it - if its more storytelling and embellishment - that is unfortunate.
Classic example of the Do Stuff / Tell People You Did Stuff balance. This stuff is arcane and invisible by default. The coordination and communication tasks that surround the direct work are important.

One was to strike a good balance here is a security roadmap. Write down the adverse outcomes that would be a problem for your business. Write down the possible mitigations, how much they cost to implement and how strong they are. Propose a plan that continuously improves security in a cost effective way. Highlight significant things you can’t defend against yet, and explain how you could address them sooner with more funding. Show the plan to leadership, get it approved, and get to work. Every month / quarter / sprint, write down what you did, show where you are the roadmap, and adjust the roadmap to reflect any changes in business priorities.
What do you advise instead, Linux?

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...

Or macOS probably?

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201222
You've already got your thumb by space after hitting ~. Pretty natural to just tap it.

Swedish QWERTY has a lot of awkward symbols, but ~ isn't anywhere near the same class as something like {
No, because the original is still in the public domain. Copyright law is pretty good about defining “derivative works”, and someone’s remaster is not going to hold up as a copyrightable contribution.
Back to USSR? Yet another war coming?
I thought you said being able to map multiple physical knobs to the same virtual knob, but I actually found that there was a bug last night. Normally a single virtual knob should only map to one physical knob. This is fixed now! :)
>> Can I export my team’s Direct Messages (DMs)?

> No, we do not allow the export of Direct Messages.

>> If I don’t export, will you delete my data?

> Yes. On 1pm PST, Saturday, December 11th 2021 we will delete all user data, whether or not you’ve exported it.

Fantastic service.
Does anyone know how Python/Django compares to something like Elixir/Phoenix?
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So, they picked Python because it is easy to learn by noobs. Yeah, this changes everything.
Solitary confinement could drive someone to think differently, but the point was that solitary activity, not confined, is totally tolerable by some and not necessarily a bad thing.
No longer preinstalled on iPhones. Not for a long while now since Apple’s app was discontinued in favor of Google’s own app.
Funny, the rest of us are "demonizing" evil spyware and the evil military-industrial complex that uses it. If you see that as "demonizing Israel", that must mean that for you Israel is synonymous with evil spyware and the military-industrial complex. The rest of us can see that they're two different things.

Why do you have such a negative view of Israel; isnt that a bit anti-Semitic?
Why not? Couldn't you just assign e.g. 192.168.0.0/26, 192.168.0.64/26, 192.168.0.128/26, 192.168.0.192/26?
I think this is coming from one particular government department, not all of gov.uk
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Hmmm, another red flag. Knowing the difference is just as important as naming it correctly IMHO; it demonstrates both familiarity and reasonable investment, the combination of which reassure me that there is soundness of judgement and competence.
I don't disagree. I think people are looking for change regardless.
Yeah, didn't want to go into all the details in my original post. But over 50% of mined gold is actually used for industrial or jewelry purposes.

Also you can't create "Gold 2.0" out of thin air. Or flash sell millions of ounces of physical gold tanking the price in a matter of minutes.

Bitcoin is only valuable because it's called Bitcoin and has a cool origin story, yet the Blockchain mechanism backing it has been replicated quite exactly many times.

There is power in shared belief, but something without a strong cushion of intrinsic value will inevitably get sold off when the hard times comes.

Not that I'm big on gold for investing purposes...
But that triggers different accounting/taxes paths that can be problematic. Not everybody is a freelancer.
@dang why is this flagged?
It’s not unusual for a CEO to be hired specifically to orchestrate an acquisition.
Nothing in IPv6 says you have to stop dividing at the /64 level.

There has been some hardware that takes a bit of a performance hit when doing route lookups that are longer than /64 in the past, but if you're doing this all in software on an end host, that's not an issue.

Go ahead and divide up that /64 to smaller blocks for your classification purposes, you'll still have plenty.
i think this is fair and we will likely see it extended further.

the media works of today cost way more than they did before. some songs cost millions to produce. some movies hundreds of millions. some video games billions of dollars. and the longevity of media has increased over time.

we may not watch much 1920s movies but we do watch movies from the 50s and 60s. and i think recent movies will last even longer since the production value is so high

i think we will see this in video games the most. they will continue to be revenue sources in digital formats and companies will be defensive over losing them
> So there were lots of examples to draw from

Pretty much confirmed by my memory (my father-in-law was a retired Italian Navy Admiral, and knew war history very well), as well as by Wikipedia [0]:

"It is likely the Imperial Japanese Navy's staff carefully studied the Taranto raid during planning for the attack on Pearl Harbor, as both attacks faced similar issues attacking a shallow harbour"

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto
But it's not all or nothing. You can have videos on two websites.
Oh, interesting - from wiki -

"The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, employing 21 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the Mediterranean Sea.

The attack struck the battle fleet of the Regia Marina at anchor in the harbour of Taranto, using aerial torpedoes despite the shallowness of the water. The success of this attack augured the ascendancy of naval aviation over the big guns of battleships. According to Admiral Cunningham, "Taranto, and the night of 11–12 November 1940, should be remembered forever as having shown once and for all that in the Fleet Air Arm the Navy has its most devastating weapon.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto
Daily Motion seems to be a place where people just upload Jeopardy episodes and random movies and they don’t get taken down quickly.
I absolutely support Alex trying to make a living - I bought his cookbook! I know he has a Patreon and branded gear. I really hope he gets advertising deals from companies whose products he uses to share things he genuinely believes in.

But no one really believes in scammy Youtube-advertising VPNs...right?
Off the grid is too extreme, IMO. I have relocated to a small town, under 10k urban population. The grids are OK, for the electricity the average downtime is couple hours / year.