skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your thoughts on engaging in social media (say this comment thread), it is so easy to forget there is (probably!) a living and breathing person on the other end. I made friends in gaming who have different worldviews and sometimes debates came up (say covid and vaccins) and the debates really changed attitudes and understanding. It has been such a difference than many debates here or on worse on reddit, or anywhere else.
I have a ladder in my garage, with safety notices in English and Spanish. The English is dated May 20xy, the Spanish is dated Puede 20xy.
"...impossible to act on information from the future..."

Might want to read:

Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive
Influences on Cognition and Affect
Daryl J. Bem
Cornell University

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/psp-a0021524.pdf

This work has been replicated many times by others because no one believed it.

Also look up Decision Augmentation Theory.
> What a windfall it was for them and how silly of IBM to outsource their OS to another company.

Silly in what way? It's hard to underestimate the value of timing, and IBM knew it was a race against the clock to get market share. To Jack Sams credit, he knew that IBM could not get the software done fast enough. Realizing that limitation helped IBM avoid the software tarpit that most of their competitors (think big computer companies from the 60s and 70s) made when they entered the microcomputer market. Those competitors included DEC, TI, Olvetti, HP, Zenith, and many, many others who entered the market with their own hardware and OS who couldn't keep up with the PC industry. Many ended up making clones in the end.

There were so many computers in the early 80s that had custom oses, and most all of them were washed away by IBM and as the decade marched on, the clones. IBM didn't lose the initiative in the market until the OS/2 era. Their decision to outsource the OS was brilliant.
should return an error, the select part is read last by the DB, so whatever you define in the select part (employees_no) is not available to the having clause.

SELECT department_id, count(*) AS employees_no FROM employee WHERE gender = 'F' GROUP BY department_id HAVING count(*) < 10;

The logical order in which the DB processes the query is:

FROM Employee
WHERE gender = 'F'
GROUP BY department_id
HAVING count(*) < 10
SELECT department_id, count(*) as employees_no

so you apply count(*) < 10 after you filtered by gender and after you grouped by department_id
Disclosure of funding is kind of important for academic research, as money can influence results.

If there’s nothing fishy going on, then why lie about it when asked?
> and did not have to show my ID at all at the border

Yes it's not exactly a physical checkpoint anymore. The "douanes" (border patrol) can control you on their whole national territory: for example they patrol and control a lot of people in train stations and on highways.

> Trains do start to ask for IDs, but this is unrelated to borders

I don't think it's unrelated to borders. Nation States across Europe are building their social control arsenal, and knowing who's going where is certainly part of it. Not many years ago you could buy a train ticket without having a name attached to it. Now for the past decades or so there's strict regulations forcing telecoms/transport providers to register information about everyone using their services, to fight terrorism they said (cough cough).

I can at least speak for France where i know the politics pretty well. Since the late 80s there's been a resurgence of racist politics (lois Pasqua-Debré and the first massive waves of deportations) that's only been rising ever since. Government control everywhere (eg. Vigipirate armed military patrols, border patrols, cameras, asking for papers to get on a bus/train) is not just about border control, as the fucking psychopaths running the intelligence services want to know everything about everyone.

But it's certainly related: border checks which had almost disappeared (except for drug smuggling) are now very common if you're not a white person, and there's thousands of cops (regular PAF and riot police CRS) employed at all times to ensure nobody's crossing the border into France, and that if they do they'll get caught somewhere else on the territory, imprisoned in inhumane conditions in one of the CRAs (for up to 90 days, up from 45 before Macron's presidency) and duly deported.

Small example to prove my point: in the big cities in France (but also in Belgium and probably others), ticket checks in public transports are used as a means to arrest undocumented folks. They usually don't have money or ticket, so when they get checked the agents will call the police who'll get them arrested simply for failing to have papers. It's also become common in the past ten years to see actual police officers (not transport security/controllers) establishing checkpoints in metro stations and directly controlling the papers (not tickets) of anyone who's not white enough despite this being clearly forbidden by law.

You may be interested to take a read at some articles about what's happening at the French borders (Calais, Ventimille, etc). Thousands of cops attacking people's camps, raiding squats and private properties, detaining people for "assistance to undocumented people" (a crime)... So many easily avoidable deaths, so much easily avoidable suffering. Usually french politics is a good barometer for how fascist Europe is on average (spoiler: very bad and it keeps getting worse).
I always hate that aliases thing — after seeing query builders do it I've taken to using column numbers (eg. GROUP BY 1, 2, 3) in my own code if I'm grouping on a lot of computed columns. More foolproof.

SQL is not a great language. Serviceable, but not great.
That's not what you said. You claimed it was a lie referring to Time Machine, not local backup options on iOS. macOS backup solutions are pretty much irrelevant, because it's obvious you can backup macOS using any tool you like, it's a desktop operating system where the user can run binaries with administrator privileges, unlike iOS. The compelling inference is they were talking about iOS, making Time Machine irrelevant to the discussion.

And there is a significant difference between offering an ill-informed opinion and lying. One can be reckless or negligent, but not a liar. To be a liar, they need to positively know they are wrong but post it anyway.

I was hoping you'd say it was simply used for rhetorical effect. I must say, I'm a little disappointed you're maintaining your position. Sometimes, it's best just to assume good faith.
Lorenzo LMT on Personal Touch Massage
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-bbcs-hebrew-boo-boo/
Industrial espionage is different from ignoring IP laws. I would be fine with China doing away with IP as a concept, but that’s not what their doing.

I don’t support the Chinese government due to their active genocide along with the horrific subjugation of the population, but it’s a judgement on a case by case basis.
Shouldn’t it be:

1. Bottom 90%

2. Next 9%

3. Next 0.9%

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Not in the South Bay where this company was. Plenty of machine shops, mechanics, etc with workshop bays imo. What was true at the time was that investors were throwing money hand over fist at self driving car startups, even to young founders fresh out of college. I would not discount the psychological appeal to a 20-something founder with millions of dollars a to burn to set up shop in a mansion.

The point of my original comment is not to say that doing so is objectively bad, but I had just left an abusive startup run by a young and inexperienced startup and I wanted something more stable. I ended up getting a job at a Toyota research branch in a boring office park and I played with a cute little robot. It was just what I needed at the time.
Thank you for adding a line to explain what the project is. So many releases are posted here without explaining what they even are.
Sending your best abroad while you hold their family at gunpoint locally is how you cultivate absolute loyalty and subvert adversarial thought and nations. The best way to defeat your enemy is to understand them.

That's why you consistently see Chinese born, US citizens with decades of time in the states prosecuted for espionage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...
They expect Amazon to allow people to set maximize spending amounts on their accounts. They have steadfastly refused to implement this.
> Ah, a fellow economist lol. Lack of clarity is a strategic advantage because (1) (as you said) it looks impressive and (2) it's hard to validate that it's correct.

Reminds me of the old "there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
By keeping the wrong secrets, DC misses the real threat
Big of WaPo to write "Democracy Dies in Darkness" on a paywalled article.

WaPo WaPo WaPo WaPo WaPo WaPo
What kind of black magic debugging?
Write, test and execute automation scripts from browser's developer tools
FWIW the solution is to disable OCSP support in Firefox. Not exactly best practice security-wise (how are you going to know the certificate is revoked?), but will let you access the problematic Microsoft sites again.

Go to "about:config"
Change security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling to false.
Is there a good list of major health issues associated with space flight?

Would be interesting to see what still needs to be solved for multi-year stays.
It must be difficult to learn that everything you thought you understood about banks and loans and money creation is a lie based on a scam.

Here is an article explaining how banks create money for loans, search for “The money creation process”:
http://www2.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/eco212i/lectures/ch13-1...

> banks create money when doing their normal business of accepting deposits and making loans. When banks make loans they create money. remember from chapter 12 that money (M1) is currency (coins and bills) AND checkable deposits. When I got a loan for my boat the bank called me up and said that they deposited the loan in my checking account. This new deposit is NEW MONEY created by the bank. they just turned on their computer, logged into my account, and changed the amount that I had. They created money.
Would be much better than getting locked in to a company you have no control over.
70th Anniversary of the First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Nuclear Test (2015)
It's true but being noble was its own thing with its own particular risks and costs. If you were to choose undeserving nobles across history IMHO J C would be among the worst sells.
In my eyes, the situation is simple: human beings are fallible. If there's a chance of your credentials leaking and being exploited that way, that will most certainly happen to someone sooner or later.

I recall a VPS that i had years ago being hijacked due to Docker socket being exposed publicly (when i set one up for testing and was just learning about Docker), which was mining crypto throughout the night before i noticed it.

Imagine what would happen if there had been some sort of auto scaling in place and i had used a managed Kubernetes solution (many of which didn't yet exist back then)...

Is it Amazon's problem? Not really, apart from the bad PR that charging private individuals exorbitant sums (for them) might cause, so sometimes these bills are waived after people mess up. For the corporation at the size of Amazon, that's probably not too much in the grand scheme of things, but it's also understandable why people might be appropriately upset about not being able to set hard spending limits, merely alerts (which aren't enabled by default).

That's just the reality that we live in for now, however one can also think about why a corporation that cares a lot about uptime might not necessarily want to implement functionality that'd let resources be easily cut off when spend limits are hit or something similar, since most businesses that utilize their services might just swallow the occasional expensive bill like that anyways.
Just the fact that a code path exists that can disable the device would scare the shit out of me if I were a developer for that company.

What if its hacked?
What if there is a bug?
What if there is a Ops fuckup that mass disables devices?
What if there is an Accounting fuckup that mass disabled devices?

I would prefer such a code path not even exist to worry about.
Oh now I will read the article.
Yep, as others have said we've got some Macs for building and testing on Apple platforms. Also Windows, but those are virtualized.
It feels a bit ironic to have a big "Signup with facebook" button on a website about social responsibility.
To the author's point - if you have a strange charge on your credit card your credit card company will reach out to you and let you know. AWS should have similar controls - if your spend gets out of control within a X amount of time period they should reach out to you. Many of the CFM platforms have this as part of their suite of tools (usually called anomaly spend or something similar) and AWS should offer some native tooling.
You must literally only know and experience truly awful human beings, or! You might be one.
> The thing I hate most about Apple products is these secret member handshakes that are completely non-discoverable to anyone outside of Apples precious alumni. I’ve been using Apple products for years and I still haven’t figured out hall of these tricks and nor can I recall them when I need them. In fact I’ve even got as far as accidentally triggering gestures and thought “that’s handy” but then been completely unable to figure out how to re-trigger that gesture.

True, discoverability is an issue. Sailfish OS suffers from the same. I guess any gesture-based UI does, and on top of that iOS, Android, Windows, macOS... they all have features which the user is unaware of, and when they discover it its like 'why didn't you tell me, Ben?'. Programs do, too. Heck, you could say the same about programming languages. But in the end, it is you, the user's fault. Or is it? Perhaps that is part of the problem?

> I really don’t understand the hate for menus. Everything is named and categorised. Ok it doesn’t translate to a mobile phone all that well but I also don’t see why desktop UIs have to mimic smart phones and tablets.

Because designers instead of two distinctive UIs want a UI which is mostly the same for non-touch and capacitive touch. I saw this in the Maemo community as well. You had three types of apps (ignoring resisitive/capacitive focus, Gtk to Qt transition, CLI apps, web apps (as far as they existed) etc etc): normal/traditional desktop apps ("ugly ports"), touch-optimized apps, and stylus-optimized. That's a mess. And if you take for example iOS, that's where the majority of Apple applications are targeted for; not macOS. So they added a portability layer in 10.14 Mojave.

We may safely say stylus-based is not in use anymore. Back in the 90s it was used for resisitive based touch. Nowadays, if one uses a stylus, its on a capacitive touch screen, and it resembles a finger. So, ignoring web apps (agnostic due to CSS / responsive design), CLI apps (niche) we got two remaining: mouse/pointer based UI (traditional/normal) and capacitive touch-based UI. The one which became popular since iPhone is capacitive. It has taken over the world, so to say.

As a desktop user I use Rectangle on macOS, Power Toys on Windows, and on Linux I would like to use Sway with KDE in the future but right now I am sticking to Gnome. Gnome did spatial file manager right back in the days. Sometimes it was annoying, I think a tiling WM is a better solution nowadays, and KDE allows for that (on top of that Qt > Gtk).

Anyway, neither Windows nor Linux have an Apple Magic Trackpad 2 with gestures which work. macOS does. They're consistent. They work, both hardware-wise and software-wise. But it is not an iPhone with capacitive screen, and given the removal of TouchBar I doubt Apple will go towards such a path. You see, that the fingers cover part of the screen of an iPhone is a disadvantage of the device; not an advantage.
I think whoever sold high density housing policy as a progressive issue needs the get an Oscar for propaganda as it seems to be working extremely well. It has been so entrenched in the minds of people that this is a progressive solution. Only real estate groups can finance housing like this and it would create a situation where most people pay rent to their own detriment in the long term if you also criticise wealth divide, because this particular position would most certainly increase it. Of course real estate would love nothing more than high value cities zoning land for them to build thousands of housing units. That is like printing money if you have the capital to invest. I firmly believe people reject progressivism because they feel they would end up exploited and positions like this make that seem sensible.

Public transport is a classical progressive issue, also trying to curb police violence. In general I would agree, but the "progressive" strategy for policy makers seems to be more talk than action.
"basic techie with little appreciation for the fine arts"

Why would interest in technology negatively correlate with interest in art?

That presumes a very specific correlation between chosen profession and cultural interests.

The document is very fun! But just trying painting will quickly educate a person of the pragmatics. Starting painting is really simple nowdays with IPad, Apple Pen and Procreate. There are tons of resources and courses available - and the problematics in digital art if using traditional art analogues map quite far into oil painting (even though physical medium does have it's specificities).
Ah yes, the identity politics caused by people who are Republicans is the problem. Not at all the people trying to push unlimited genders, actively destroying our common language, or advocating for a person’s “live experiences” over actual reality.
winget or chocolatey can help with that. Just keep an eye on the versions served up sometimes they can be a bit old.
It is absolutely a threat if it can be weaponized. It’s also a threat to give an authoritarian country that has every ambition to become the global superpower, our scientific discoveries. Let’s be real, what info is China sharing with us? Or is it really about China amassing information and not really about sharing at all?
> I don't have good answers how to deal with wrongs of the past, but it's clearly not simple.

But definitely voting for less shitty politicians won't fix it right ... I mean god forbid someone puts a stop to the uninhibited looting from your political class who are elected time and time again with legislative majorities or super-majorities. Definitely xenophobia is a much better solution ... lynched any Americans lately, maybe that will solve it, or is that something South Africans reserve for other Africans and Pakistanis?
> "won't fix, we just reboot servers when they crash".

Where are you getting this?

The article is about a tool Facebook made specifically because they have teams doing deep-dive analysis of even rare bugs that occur in their systems. This suggests the opposite of Facebook being the type of company that looks the other way when crashes occur.
That sounds right to me. It creates counts of female employees in each department, and then only outputs the departments that have 10 or more.
Using exceptions for control flow etc. etc.
If you are curious to see some of their art, I’ve made a website which will show you a random object from their collection per button click: https://randomrijks.com
>As much as people don't want to hear it money is meant to be spent, only the perverse hedonic treadmill effect brought us in this scenario where it's used to keep the score

Well, in theory it just means that owning money is a leisure activity for these people. People like spending money on leisure. According to Austrian economists interest rates simply represent people's time preferences. For some strange reason they believe that interest must be positive because time preference is always positive (people want things now instead of later).

They clearly ignored that people might want money/capital (not things) now and things later. If that were the case, then their time preference would be negative and it would also mean interest rates must be negative. So even by the weird Austrian economics logic interest rates must become negative as more billionaires accumulate capital for the sake of accumulating it, rather than for the sake of production.
> My heart breaks for the South African masses;

My heart used to break for them, but really, why shed a tear, this is what the South African masses vote for, and this is what they get good and hard, and god forbid anyone stands in their way of them getting it as good and hard as they possibly can get it before civil war finally burns the country to a cinder, at the very least they can find comfort in knowing south africans would have burned most of the county down before a civil war erupts:

- Why are South Africans burning schools in Limpopo?
(https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-36225502)

- Why Cape Town's trains are on fire in South Africa
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45990981)

- South African university set ablaze in student protest (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/25/south-african-...)

Burning their country down seem to be their national passtime, or at least while they are not lynching foreigners. But I'm sure one of them will come along to blame the west for this also.
I'm still absolutely blown away we tolerate an industry model with uncapped cost. The fact that anyone will even do business with a cloud provider built like this absolutely blows my mind, like every CFO all collectively lost their marbles.

Fortune 500 companies have literally just decided handing blank checks to Amazon and Microsoft every month to make their technology needs disappear was good business sense.
Do journalists not need to eat?
Nothing of essence in this post. I had a look at the other posts they all look similar. I greatly dislike this new trend of "doc-spaming" where everyone makes a blog writing walls of text explaining trivial things, crowding out the actual docs from search results.

I swear to god whenever I search for something in the python standard library I have to scroll past a bunch of sites like this before i find the actual docs.
An article that regurgitates Gartner talking points is a tainted one to begin with. Gartner even famously said that Apple should quit the hardware business:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-does-the-it-industry-conti...

https://www.horsesforsources.com/gartner_fail_automation-AI_...
Don't you think it's a good thing if public money from the BBC is used to develop interesting programs instead of subsidizing Hollywood blockbusters? Who cares if i can't watch Spiderman on BBC STREAM? I've got torrents for that :-)

More seriously, Netflix business model is deeply broken. Trying to replicate that at all cost with public money is doomed to failure. A decent alternative would be the Global License [0] which was at the center of french public debate 15 years ago. It's more or less the same model, but without trying to feed ~parasites~ shareholders on the way, and without stupid competition between 5 different streaming services you all need a subscription for.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_globale
You might also be interested by what appears to be a perfect decompilation (leaked source code?) of the IDE of Turbo Pascal 6.0 written in itself using Turbo Vision and the internal compiler/assembler/debugger : go to http://www.exmortis.narod.ru/index_eng.html in the "Compilers" section and search for "tpascal.zip"