skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's hope that it gets proper docs until then, that actually lay out its syntax before trying to compare it to other languages. From what I gather, it's branching off of Nix and assuming familiarity with it. What does the `in` keyword do and why is it everywhere?

From everything I can see from the code examples I highly doubt that it will reduce the number of complaints NixOS has about using a weird language.
> Some people ask how much money I can make from this book. The answer is ZERO. There is not a single penny that goes to my pocket. Why do I do that? Textbooks today are just ridiculously expensive. [...] Education should be accessible to as many people as possible, especially to those underpreviledged families.

B r a v o ! A free, quality education is the foundation for social progress and economic prosperity.
I think both arguments are at extreme ends of a spectrum, and I'm probably somewhat moderate on the point now. I too was once super into the minimalism kick, KonMari method, etc., but I eventually realized that it had simply become its own form of limiting dogma.

Perhaps the best way to look at it is: pursue only those experiences *and* things which truly enrich your choice of lifestyle. In other words, don't get the fancy car _or_ go on the fancy spiritual retreat or whatever just because it seems cool/trendy/culturally-significant/etc. Ponder carefully how you want to live overall, and then make sure your current lifestyle matches what you decide to buy/do and where you decide to go/live.
The Night Watch (Rembrandt) hi-res scan. 1 px = 5μm
"I'm sorry, we can't put you in the system without it.. it wont let us"....

I always omit SSN, but often can't get away with it.
There's a similar image that's essentially "what if it were Mt St Helens?" .... it covers WA and OR
This should be the grand compromise.

The US will convert to metric, however everyone else has to convert from commas to decimal points.

Places using decimal separators and the metric system are the real winners here.
To the author, if he's reading this. I wish you luck! To get this adopted, try to make it modular so maybe it can be made a core module of PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL. If you somehow get into those 3 I wouldn't be surprised if Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 integrate it themselves just to keep up.

Ah, Presto could be another popular target.

It's a huge effort but something which could have colossal payback.
I'm literally paying for the VPN product they have because its the only subscription service they really offer. I never use it because the linux integration is terrible. lol
It's about SEO. Taking down competing content.
SMB or indie developers are not the first/primary customers for Azure/AWS that they design their application for.

Any enterprise will not want any limits because of spends, they would be lot more pissed if service was pulled because spending cap set by someone sometime in the past is now exceeded. Likely is why such feature is optional not mandatory.

Excess/unexpected billing would be negotiated in typical sales cycle discussions. Making a default hard cap however would result in a lot of senior people are going midnight calls for emergency budget approvals, management would get annoyed by that.
Show HN: I wrote a book on Site Reliability Engineering
Hello! I just published a book on Site Reliability Engineering.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QNZC2LL

This book is a collection of 28 chapters on SRE concepts, such as observability, monitoring, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), alerting, resilience and debugging.

I adapted each chapter from blog posts I've written over the last 4 years.

Most of the chapters detailed concepts that I applied while working at $dayjob, so they are 100% proven in real business settings :)

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Some info on the backstory. Last year I started writing a book on my software development methodology. I put in ~80 hours and am ~25% done. I began getting discouraged and I wanted the practice of actually shipping an entire book from start to finish. I took 28 blog posts and combined them to create this book. I put in ~20 hours editing the book myself. I'm really happy to have this experience and am looking forward to resuming my other book.

I used leanpub to generate the pdf and epubs. Leanpub has its own markdown flavor called markua. I was originally drawn to leanpub because it has a pretty popular tech listing website. I didn't actually list on leanpub because they only pay using paypal, so I listed on amazon KDP instead.

Thank you!
How does it differ from https://jsonresume.org/
Stocks mount comeback with Dow closing in the green after 1000-pt loss
You know, I started out thinking that very bad language should indeed be censored. But considering what I see -- how eagerly language is used to eliminate one's political opponents from the public sphere, and how expansive definitions become over time (e.g. what happened to "literally violence") -- I now believe in complete freedom of speech, even down to fully genocidal rhetoric (and yes, that includes freedom from civilian consequences, not just government-imposed consequences). As a free speech absolutist, I now believe that the government should perform a proactive role in ensuring that the 1st amendment is obeyed -- not just a passive one.
Hey spenczar5, https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/ would like this a lot :)
Can a New Line of Work Help Save These Wild Welsh Ponies?
This is not really newsworthy. Anyone remotely familiar with BTC trends will know this happens every once in a while and so far we got back higher after every single crash. It was likely to happen at some point and it will happen again unless something major changes about the crypto market. Otherwise it's "the thing that happens once a year or so without long term effects happened last week (again)".
We also heard it while tramping on the thousand acre plateau just north of Murchison. It was very quiet, so we were lucky to be where we were with no noise pollution to drown it out.

Though at the time we had no clue what it was, we joked about being in the Tomorrow series timeline.
I'm not so sure: now we have academies which tries to codify language changes..
> As someone who dealt with identity theft, SSN should only be collected if contact with the SSA is needed.

You wanna tell that to phone carriers, internet service providers, electricity providers, and even water providers?
> there is something profoundly weird about [numbers]

you should hear John Conway (RIP) talk about numbers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eAmxgINXrE
And you would be told that it needs to go live because of a customer contract and failure to deliver would be a 1.5 million euro penalty fee.

Sometimes you need to spend lots of money on tech debt. I think it's nuts that was required but it was.
yes please!!
"A review can not be requested for this restriction."
To clarify the rationale: I have a hunch that men spending time on Mechanical Turk are either less financially secure or care more about maximizing the money one earns from spare time. This may cause these men to prefer male friends who can help them make more money or raise their social status to help them find better work.

Therefore, a sample of men who do not need to worry about money (and thus do not feel a want to use Mechanical Turk) may not feel a need to choose friends based on their usefulness to their financial or social status, and instead prefer male friends who are trustworthy and provide a higher level of emotional support.

My hunch is backed up by this segment of a review paper from 2017 [0]: "Further, half of the MTurkers are employed part-time or unemployed. This is consistent with past findings (e.g., Ross et al., 2010; Behrend et al., 2011). A population of unemployed or underemployed participants offers a potentially interesting sampling opportunity for research questions related to job search behavior, underemployment, and unemployment (Roulin, 2015). At the same time, this could explain why MTurkers have a lower income on average as compared to nationally representative samples.

"Taken together, our conclusions echo the conclusions of other researchers (cf., Behrend et al., 2011; Buhrmester et al., 2011; Berinsky et al., 2012; Casler et al., 2013; Brandon et al., 2014; Woo et al., 2015): MTurk samples are not representations of the general population."

[0] From "Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations" published in the Frontiers in Psychology journal: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01359
Wondering if any ships were destroyed by the eruption the scale makes me think there had to be?

Could Volcano eruptions be Earth's way of stabilizing climate change? i.e. sea water gets warmer and is no longer keeping the eruptions from occurring. Then the eruptions causes a drop in temperature due to the ash in the atmosphere?
> What kind of criticism have you read that is wrong due to a misunderstanding of the scale of the US?

The main one is just not understanding how difficult transit and logistics is here. I've heard British people complain that we should just put high speed passenger rail all across the country like they did while not realizing that their country is literally 1% of the size of the US and more than ten times the population density.

The most sadly hilarious one I see fairly often is Europeans planning vacations to the states and intending to drive across the country in a few days so they can see all the big landmarks on the east and west coasts. It takes a lot longer than they realize.
JWST is solar powered. Sun-Earth L2 is in permanent eclipse and may have unstable lighting or heating conditions. A halo orbit about L2 is extraordinarily boring and always in full sunlight.

Maintaining L2 or an L2 halo requires propellant.
Well, yes. Employers need to talk to the Social Security Administration regarding your social security withholdings...
Decentralization at its finest… except for as always it’s more centralized than the traditional art market and with the added bonus of irreversible single points of failure.
Ah, that's a good point. The limited death data itself was (I assume) not significant, but we don't need it to be given the size of the effect earlier in the "conversion funnel".
I think a more meaningful catchphrase that works on both sides of the things vs experiences spectrum is "buy quality, not quantity." My best vacations have also been some of my less expensive, because I spent a lot of time picking and choosing. Likewise, a good pair of shoes or a quality office chair can change your life while a quick Amazon Prime purchase of the same thing can be thrown away quickly.

Drinking coffee is an experience that also requires things. It doesn't always require spending a lot more money or even getting a lot more equipment, but a great cup of coffee always involves focusing on the quality and little improvements you can make.

I think you'll find any real minimalism practice is more about minimizing low quality things and experiences to allow the things and experiences that remain to be maximally enjoyable.
As a general surface, I agree with you. But for specific purposes, cold stone is really the best working surface. Making pastry would be the canonical example, and marble has often been the preferred stone. But that requires a dedicated pastry prep area, so most people would just settle for a marble board they can pull out when required.
Archaeology’s Sexual Revolution
It really was necessary due to some silly people not listening to me 2-years ago and ignoring technical debt until it got to the point the service they sold with a 1.5 million penalty fee for failing to deliver was needed to be delivered and load tested.

And that is literally the largest AWS Elasticsearch cluster option. So clearly that will be deployed for multiple orginsations. Otherwise they wouldn't have created a default node that size.
Whole Foods store locations are neither PII nor juicy information—especially not sufficient to justify Amazon responding unprompted, encouraging the poster to delete these tweets.
There may be a taxation issue at hand, depending on what country you are in, or what country you are presenting your CV in.

I once hired a guy from India for a temp dev gig, and we both joked that he could have stayed home in India and did it from there instead of having to trek all the way over here. He was already here, and his intention was to stay... it was just a fun joke because of the lack of hand-holding needed for the gig. I literally gave him a big desk and a computer, and then let him do his thing without stepping on his toes. It was just after Y2K when offices were de rigueur, and I just happened to have one.
Meditation is a tool that cuts both ways. It must be used, like any tool, with respect and careful practice. The Buddha analogized it to a poisonous viper in the wrong hands.

I'll give you one example from my own practice. When I learned the Mahasi style of vipassana (mindfulness) meditation, which has you note sense objects as they arise, I noted everything, including conversation. I noted "hearing, hearing, hearing" as I'd listen to the story of my elocutor. This brought me no closer to awakening! The act of hearing and awareness of hearing is so very far from understanding the content of conversation.

Small misunderstandings like these lead to big consequences.

"What is abstruse, subtle,
deep,
hard to see,
going against the flow —
those delighting in passion,
cloaked in the mass of darkness,
won't see."

Abstruse and subtle! Difficult to discern. Difficult for anyone, even monks in their monastic redoubts.
I've talked to nearly every PhD scientist I've worked with about multi test corrections. It's one of my favorite things. I didn't really understand it, and totally ignored it for many years until it was pointed out, and after that, I noticed that nearly everything I saw published did multiple tests without corrections (combined with very, very large numbers of tests, and fairly loose p--values). I don't think anybody mentioned multi test corrections until I voluntarily took an intro stats class in grad school.

BTW, I strongly disagree the quote you have about statistically insignificant data. It cannot be used to say there is no effect, or anything about the direction or magnitude of the effect. I'm not sure what a statement like """somewhere in their schooling they were falsely taught that results need to be “statistically significant” to be “real.”""" even means, significance is a mathematical/probabilistic formalism that has nothing to do with underlying reality, just with the event system you're working on.
The issue isn’t any different from using closed source NVidia drivers with FreeBSD kernel.
This language transpiles to SQL, so it can be implemented entirely client-side. No need for modules for the database engines, just wrappers round the clients.
Yes. And to put it in further perspective, the entire EU is still only 43% of the area of the US.
Good advice. This is why I encourage anyone with sensitive digital data (photos, important receipts, etc) to set up a 3-2-1 backup:

3 copies of the data,

2 of which are on different, local mediums (i.e. hard drive and a thumb drive)

1 of which is offsite (cloud storage, safe deposit box, salt mine, etc)
You can actually change your social security number in the circumstance of "victim of identity theft continues to be disadvantaged by using the original number":

https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02220

It's a huge pain, obviously. Especially when you get to all the systems which blindly assume it isn't possible. But you can do it.

They ought to just open it up and let anyone who requests to change it once a year no questions asked.
If you're not already aware, there's Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/
Your nice shell-scripts in /etc/rc.d just won't handle a service crashing for any reason, at all (systemd does that)

Your nice shell-scripts in /etc/rc.d will start EVERYTHING and ANYTHING just in, case, even if you don't always need it (systemd does support socket activation)

Your nice shell-scripts can't handle parallelism (systemd can)

Your nice shell-scripts can't reorder stuff at boot, you have to specify it by hand (systemd can via Needs/RequiredBy etc)

Your nice shell-scripts are worthless if you need to run more than one instance of a service per server (with systemd having many instances of the same service is a feature, not an after-thought)

Your nice shell-scripts won't help you troubleshoot a failing service (systemd will, via systemctl status AND journalctl).
This might have the opposite problem:

Suppose you own an NFT of your favourite monkey JPEG. At some point however, browsers drop support for the JPEG image format because it is outdated and has long since been replaced by better formats. Of course you could easily convert the ape JPEG into an ape PNG, except the hash would still only be valid for the JPEG. Suddenly, it starts getting unclear what kind of "ownership" the token really represents: Ownership of the bytes of the JPEG file? The pixels on the screen? The "concept" of an ape with that particular outfit (whatever that should mean)? or just an URL?

Maybe you could solve this partially by defining some sort of "transform" operation which is documented on-chain? Something like "If I own token X then I can call external service Y to transform the token - after which, X will be destroyed and I'll own a new, different token Z instead" (i.e. one with the hash of the PNG instead of the JPEG)

That still wouldn't solve OP's problem though as that transformation would have to happen off-chain.
Your description is fine, but it’s missing one crucial detail: it’s specific to Linux. In FreeBSD this is already taken care of by rc infrastructure; there is no need for the user or sysadmin to mess with it.
I have the same experience as you, and it's one of the main reasons why I try to call places for takeout instead (or use a local app).

I (idly) wonder whether they're optimizing for the wrong(?) things: throwing a bunch of garbage up front maximizes the amount of time that I spend in-app, which is probably one of their key metrics. What they don't(?) realize is that I'm spending all that time filtering through the dreck, and so the metric is really measuring my frustration and not my engagement.
This is like you leaving your tap running slightly as you go on winter vacation so the pipes don’t freeze over.

But the water company does not actually allow you to install proper taps to regulate the water so you use duct tape to do so, and due to an earthquake something falls on the tap causing your duct tape solution to fail leading to a massive surge of water, leading to your massive water bill.

Did the water company cause this? No. Your duct tape solution wasn’t resilient enough because it didn’t factor in an earthquake. But I would be justifiably mad that my water company does not allow me to install actual taps, and allows unforeseen and unpredictable situations to make me run up huge bills that could otherwise have been avoided with a proper tap.
One of my wife's assistants likes McDonald's. A weekly reward for no products breaking in shopping when she does packaging is lunch. The cost of having McDonald's delivered is far less than the opportunity cost for her to pick it up (and obviously for us too).
Maybe we can add anon accounts at some point. The main reason right now is to make the feedback process easier since it starts an email chain that we can follow up on. All of the best improvements recently have started with these email chains and follow on conversations.
"But what if at some point they decide to be as "open" as OpenAI (ie., not)?"

Aisde from some of the academics and the "gain and share knowledge for knowledge's sake" types they hire why would they care?

For the record, I don't like the idea of scientific research becoming proprietary. At all. But is there anyone credulous enough to think these organizations would willingly risk their bottom line for principles like "openess" and not just play the PR games to make themselves appear open and concerned?

In other words "Don't LOOK evil but do evil when no one's looking".

The Frances Haugen already shows how damaging such openness can be.
Becquerel Daguerreotypes
>You seem to assume SELinux is the end-all be all of Linux security.

Never said or implied anything of the sort.

>I recognize, based on your other comment, that you are fairly new to the field(a whole decade, go you!).

I've been implementing secure, hardened UNIX and Linux probably longer than you've been alive. I just specifically worked on DoD TS+ systems for a decade.

The rest of your Gish gallop is nonsense. Linux also has capability based security ON TOP of all the other aspects of security, SELinux included.

>If you want to have a reasoned discussion about security

That's not possible with you. You instantly showed how little you know about security in general when you flouted your lack of SELinux knowledge, then you proceeded to Gish gallop and sealion because you've been called out.

Stop it.
It reads like this was a form letter that was to be sent out to all their actual paid partners, and after the massive game of telephone that is corporate hierarchy, it somehow became all dependencies they had contacts for. And somewhere someone filled out a form, probably years ago, with his email on it as the maintainer of a dependency they use (because leaving it blank isn't allowed). And he got caught up in that mass email, totally dumb, but also could easily see how it can happen.
I never used to believe that sort of anecdote, but then some years back a woman my wife knew paid at least US$100k for a kitchen remodel/renovation despite the fact that to a good approximation, she never cooks. She literally wanted it all just for appearance. Mind blown (I cook almost every night, and will do so more or less regardless of the kitchen facilities).
Not even wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
My gut reaction is that if we have "from first" then maybe we should have to "to last":

from employees
sort tenure
take 50
as newest_employees

from newest_employees
join salary [id]
select [name, salary]
macOS’s best POSIX-level innovations are probably sandbox, xpc/launchd, and libdispatch. These have been copied elsewhere as Capsicum, systemd, and libuv (TBB?), but the originals are more consistently used.
Thanks to Equifax, SSNs are effectively public anyway.
I doubt it; it's a short-lived effect and probably doesn't really fall outside the normal range of year-to-year temperature variances.
The way the system works is a block reward is paid every 10 minutes, currently 6.25 bitcoin worth about US$220k. This money then gets spend on mining costs, mostly electricity and mining hardware. The reward drops in half every 4 years so in 16 years it'll be 1/16 as much in bitcoin terms and if at that point bitcoin is around $500k the money spent on mining will be around the same as now.
I'm not aware of any cost-effective switch that permits scaling all v all to arbitrary sizes. THat's my point. modern infiniband uses nearly all the same tech as previous supercomputers, but with faster interfaces, and more of them. For example the facebook cluster is a dual-layer clos network, which is one of a few cost-effective ways to get very high randomly distributed traffic, but all v all communication scales as n*2 and n*2 wires gets expensive fast.

Better to find algorithms that need less communication, than to make faster computers that allow you to write algorithms that needs lots of communication. Otherwise you'll always pay $$$ to reach peak GPU performance.
Here's WeRide testing in an urban village area of China.[1] The system is being very cautious, but is doing fine.

Here's Waymo, dealing with San Francisco streets.[2] Right now, Waymo is offering some rides in SF on a trial basis. Fully autonomous. No safety driver. 29 cameras, some radars, multiple LIDAR units. Full hemisphere coverage for each sensor.

It's getting steadily closer.

[1] https://twitter.com/i/status/1400772458991407113

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVInKMz9cA