skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted that an EXPIREAT triggers a deletion if the timestamp being set is in the past and could lead to an increase in memory and disk pressure during script execution. Worth checking if the behavior there differs in any meaningful way since y'all made the change. EXPIRE usually just marks a key and relies on either subsequent operations to the same key or garbage collection to actually excise the entry and do the subsequent bookkeeping, I believe.

It's been a while since I had to deal with this kind of problem though, so please tell me if things are different now.
> Disagree. Fear is not the only motivator, and it's a particularly bad one, because it spurs immediate action rather than exploration.

For many problems, the longer you let them sit around the worse they become. Linearly accelerating problems, yeah, you can usually get by with sitting them out.

But exponentially accelerating problems (climate change, infectious agents, consumer debt) require immediate and harsh response, otherwise they become so much more difficult to resolve. The key issue is that most people lack the basic education to understand exponential functions, even after two years of a pandemic.

> What "fear" motivated the construction of the LHC at CERN?

None.

> Wasn't it fear that caused a lot of people to advocate loudly against turning it on and performing experiments?

Indeed, but that one was a "false equivalency" media issue. Crackpots got a lot of media presence despite their claims being outright invalid from the start or being absolute niche opinions, simply because their unfounded fear brought in a lot of clicks from an ignorant and uneducated public.

Coincidentally or not, we have seen the same media issues in the COVID crisis, particularly with Fox "News"/OAN/"News"max in the US or the Axel Springer/Murdoch tabloids in Europe.
See also cloud.gov for the US Federal government.

https://cloud.gov/
https://github.com/cloud-gov
Speaking of tape lifetimes, my old cassette CrO2 tapes seem to have survived my parents' house: https://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/in-which-i-switch-on-30-year-ol...
Why spend more to clean it up if this approach is cheaper?
No, that is pretty rare. It os mostly books which works like that.
All you need to succeed in tech are sucker investors and a sucker to buy you out. The idea is almost irrelevant.
If you have not worked on any topological sorting for the past 15 years you will not remember how to do it under the pressure of time. in a new language etc. you will need some time to remember the correct algorithm, how to adapt the data structures to the current language you are working on etc. And unless the problem is specified exactly as such, the most difficult thing is to come up with the idea that a given problem can be formulated as a topological sort problem, that is 80% of the solution. I am sure that most Experienced engineers when given this problem as a home task will come up with a correct solution even if they fail the time pressured leetcode.
It's interesting to compare that photo to the photo in the article about Rusty n Edie's BBS that was posted here recently: https://web.archive.org/web/20051102202650im_/http://www.pix...

This one looks to be set up much more professionally.
> since he selects his guests based on what he thinks the audience will like

What makes you think he does that? And if so, isn't this exactly the same thing that MSM does?
Watching Delos made me realize that the actual mix of activities in this lifestyle is about 50% boat maintenance and tinkering, 40% sitting at anchor somewhere looking for things to do, and 10% actually sailing the boat.

The Delos folks have some presentations on their channel about the finances of it and the #1 message is basically “this only works financially if you do all the work yourself.”

My takeaway is that it seems like a fun lifestyle for people who like to tinker with things constantly, but it’s maybe not as relaxing as it seems from YouTube videos (which are edited, after all).
I don't mind those sorts. They're a breath of fresh air and a fun time.

Anything but boring.
I do know people who have taken swords to programming conferences, and I've personally been given a knife with a belt sheath for presenting at the same programming conference (possibly a different year). Admittedly neither the swords nor the smaller knives were strapped to our arms, just our waists.
You can’t cover every usage possibility in docs… having the code available allows you to check expected behaviour
I have to admit I haven't checked out her recently, but I'm not accusing her of anything - I'm just saying that even if she delegates a part of her work (which is what all successful business people do) it is not a cause for condemnation.
Are you US based?

Here in Europe this sometimes happens (candidates can't code at all), but _very_ rarely, maybe 1 out of 100? Especially as you move eastwards, the base coding abilities start to improve massively for the average candidate - in the UK, if you are stupid you can easily get by on the social welfare system, in Eastern Europe, if you are stupid, you starve. As simple as.

There was a time I used to ask Fizzbuzz-style warmup questions on interviews, but then I stopped because the signal it gave was pretty much useless. The only positive case I can remember was when a tester applied for a dev position.
As someone who has spent the last 7-8 years working on declarative infrastructure tooling: this is only better if the tool can work out how to get from where things are to where you want them to be without being destructive. It’s not like these tools are composing pure functions, sadly.
>These solutions don't necessarily have anything to do with the concepts as you name them.

Why not? A "GROUP BY" syntax is -- relatively speaking -- more declarative than handwritten imperative code looping through a cursor and dynamically adding to a keys-values data structure to accomplish the same idea.
> Encryption is more critical on tape because there is no easy path to wiping a tape.

I used to work for a government agency. We ran backup tapes that rotated out through a degaussing machine that spun them around for like 10 minutes to wipe them. It’s not common to have, but it’s definitely easy.
So nurses & doctors are banned from buying groceries then? (Putting the article and your comment together)
This is incredibly well researched & well made. I was hooked for the full 2 hours!
They’re interrelated - YouTube is an arm of the media industrial complex as much as the New York Times is. What it chooses to broadcast or not affects the public consciousness.
"presumptuous" straw man?

>he is mainstream and provably wrong most of the times he opens his mouth

I mean, this is your stated opinion.

But he's not mainstream or we'd be seeing his show on the televisions in the airport - instead he's only available on special platforms that have to be sought out .. and your opinion that he is wrong most of the time is also specious.

But lets assume that both of these points of view are 'true': now that it is okay to start cancelling 'mainstream shows' because of the disinformation they spread, do you support the winding down of CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and the New York Times - who have each been found guilty of spreading disinformation multiple times in their history?

The issue is, at what point is 'your side' more informative than 'the other side'? When it becomes mainstream? When it has the approval of known, entrenched establishment entities who stand to profit a great deal from their disinformation campaigns (as is the case with CNN/MSNBC/etc.)?

Mostly, I just want to understand why cancelling mainstream shows should stop at Joe Rogan, in your mind.

I'd LOVE to see CNN and Rachel Maddow - and Tucker Carlson, too - get cancelled in my lifetime over their quite clearly profit-motivated propaganda activities .. so if that is the inevitable end result of the "Cancel Joe Rogan Movement", then - sorry Joe - I'm in.
Kubernetes vs. WebAssembly
Alright, I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the tip!
> It's not until you sit with someone and nut out what they mean by "authoritarian" and "censorship" and so on that you realise you're completely morally and politically opposed to them.

Shared enemies makes for strange bedfellows. If some group in power is threatening groups B and C, even if B and C otherwise hate each other they will band together and fight for their own survival.

Creeping censorship will ultimately always self-defeating for this reason. You'll win some early victories against the extreme fringe that no one supports, but it never ends there.
In that case couldn’t you give an automated test that more pertains to the job requirements and the applicants’ prior experience?
I wouldn’t blame the hospital too much — they were responding to the economic incentive of lockdowns and lack of actual patient pressure by closing entire wings of the hospital and laying people off. I.e there wouldn’t be this nurse shortage at the hospital if the lockdowns never happened.
You can use home assistant and HomeKit together pretty seamlessly. We have all our lighting automation as a zwave network though hass, and the lights are also included in HomeKit. We can use Siri or hass app or the native home app/widgets in iOS without any issues. And everything runs locally too.
Just because you're in the woods does not mean you can ignore the law.

Where do I find this mythical wilderness where no laws apply to me?
It's the oldest known land animal in modern times.

For example, a tortoise could have lived a couple thousand years ago and lived a couple hundred years. The people of that time may have known about it over the generations. Yet, we today have no record.

"ever" is said a lot but it's hard to substantiate.
At least you didn't use your old FoxyAndroid16@lycos.com address, you'd break the prude sensors.

/s for anyone wondering, I can only hope someone is still using some dumb Lycos e-mail today.
To take part in society in any meaningful way you certainly have to work.
For the record - the point you appear to be making is that language and culture are the only two components of societal acceptance.

I am arguing that in a society based around ethnicity, ethnicity is another important part of societal acceptance.

This is not harsh, this is reality. Do you remember the reaction from French media and even the French ambassador to the US when a comedian pointed out that Africans won the 2018 football world cup? The defining characteristic of all their reactions was an attempt to erase or deny the African origins of footballers like Pogba, Kante, Kounde, Ben Yedder etc.
A billion butts? Do 10M Swedes really average 100 butts chucked into the environment?

I've known a few smokers who get through 40+ cigarettes a day. That's almost 15,000 a year from one person. Obviously they're not throwing all those butts on the ground, but it's certainly believable that a huge number make it into the environment.
Some of us are already living an authoritarian nightmare. One that we weren't living two years ago, regardless of politics.

It's not up for debate, it's up for acknowledgement.
It already is, by spinning disks. Cheaper at the low end, faster the whole way through, random access beats linear access for end user expectations.
What's interesting to me personally is that no matter where someone stands on their political spectrum, they may interpret Substack's guidelines http://substack.com/content very differently.

I find myself standing with what Substack are saying in this post, and yet after reading their guidelines, I can see someone attempting to forge an argument for censoring the topics discussed in their post (promotion of vaccine distrust and misinformation) in the name of preventing harmful activities.

Of course, on the other hand, and this is where I believe to stand with Substack–what someone may find to be the promotion of vaccine distrust or misinformation, another may find as healthy discourse on the topic.

Ultimately, in my opinion, we should let people decide on their own and not let tech companies masquerade as arbiters of truth.
This is an interesting take on the summary I read that this is just another shitty, useless app including some CCP-censorship.
Tell me: do you know to whom the myriad of ad-networks and apps you use send their data? I don't. And even if you look at the privacy policy, you don't, because according to meta, for Whatsapp they store your phone number, a list of blocked contacts aaaand nothing else? (which I honestly do not believe...)
Redshift lets you create UDFs in Python (2.7), and via Lambda functions (for any language runtime supported by AWS Lambda).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/user-defined-...
Interesting, what is your take on Neil Young with regards to GMO?

>Young sings, "I want a cup of coffee but I don't want a GMO"
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/arockstarbucksacof...
ECS or EKS?
If you go through that Twitter thread, it seems like her videos pretty consistently get demonetized, even if the channel as a whole is not.
I think we all do but we should recognise it as an issue and come up with strategies and processes to ensure objectivity and reduce discrimination.

I was once told in an interview for a statistician role that the questions were designed for male candidates and I shouldn't worry if I struggle with them. And this was a big FTSE 100 company.
Topological sort implicitly comes up anytime you implement a depth-first search on a graph that isn’t 100% guaranteed to be cycle-free. Checking for cycles in a depth-first search is basically the same as topological sort. Having to implement something like that comes up roughly every 3 years for me.
He was handed a global pandemic in which it was completely permissible for leaders to take on unprecedented, unlimited emergency powers, and yet he did nothing. He was actually criticized for not using his emergency powers to implement an (unconstitutional) national lockdown. If his true goal was to become a dictator, why did he do nothing when he was given the perfect opportunity?
generally we spend a lot of time policing other folk's bodies and attire, and for what?

I'd guess it stems from some feelings of insecurity.
Unfortunately the Postgres implementation is marked unsafe for a reason. There's not a sufficient sandbox in place to prevent shenanigans.
*their bosses.
What makes a clinical psychologist qualified to speak about climate science?

It's like a heart surgeon claiming architects have building design all wrong.
This purpose could be accomplished with a cryptographic signature of the plain text. Thin clients would have the option to just take the Internet's word for the provenance of the data, any system capable of running encryption algorithms can confirm they received the exact bytes the author intended.

This would be an example of progressive enhancement, which has fallen out of favor.
A truly novel approach to labour shortage - more of this please!
The squirrels will eat all the reward food.
I mean the description is correct, just not the most relevant identifier. If Ronald Blaylock (investment banker and another board member) made a statement like this, I doubt anyone would care.

But yeah, having our required health treatments controlled by a group of Goldman Sachs et al executives and former regulators collecting large payouts from a company they previously regulated isn't ideal.
Why do people care what anyone thinks about politics? Being a famous rock and roller does not exempt one from having a political opinion worthy of consideration or debate. It shouldn't give more credence to one's opinion, but it shouldn't take away from it either.
Why are you so bitter about devops people?
It does not work with recent versions of Postgres, it segfaults in some cases, and it has been mostly abandoned. Otherwise, it would be (and it has been) a great way to develop FDWs.
It's WordPress with a custom built theme.
Honest question (am a prof. of Maths for engineering at a Spanish Univ. and am wondering about this a lot):

What is the point of explaining, say the QR factorization or iterative methods like Gauss-Jordan to engineers? I think of them as the method of integration of rational functions (the complete method, not the basic cases): totally useless today...

I understand, for example, the Jordan decomposition theorem in a Linear Algebra course because it gives a clear-cut description of a linear map and the meaning of eigenvalues/eigenspaces, etc.

Anyone cares to share? Thanks in advance.
It really sounds like you've misunderstood Gemini and what people like about it, and are now working backwards to demonstrate that your gut feeling ("Gemini <<< Web") is correct.

While in reality, most people using Gemini are using it to blissfully ignore parts of the Web that they are tired of. Gemini was intentionally designed to discourage complex experiments and additional functionality.

Sometimes, I just want to ride a bike, not an airplane. That doesn't mean cyclists believe that bikes can replace air travel.
Why not do both? That may be what you are saying.
Do you have funding? Have you launched a version of your product?
Throw money at the problem of if have funding. Talk about your product if it is solving an interesting problem. Hopefully that will make some noise to attract some talent. I'm based in UK too and would love to see people crack this problem the bootstrapped way. Would you mind sharing what you are building?
Why are intl payments such a hassle for minors
Hi HN,
Im 15 years, wanted to request funds from overseas, and all of these payment gateways are really irritating with the amount of details they ask. I have a prepaid visa card for context, but apparently thats not enough. Are there any specific platforms you know of?
Because documentation is what is needs to be: A simplified and necessarily incomplete description of program behavior. It's a trade-off, since a complete and exhaustive description of all intricacies of potential program behavior would be at least as complex as the definition (= its source code) of said program.

If you happen to have a question that ends up on the wrong side of that trade-off between documentation's completeness and accessibility, you will have to descend into the depths that lie beneath. I believe the redis documentation actually strikes a rather OK balance in that regard.
In other words, be inconvenienced and get by with other methods?

Seriously though, there's a winter flock of crows near where I live, and I wonder how they find enough to eat. There are thousands of them. But clearly they get by, and have enough energy to fly around a lot and have huge, noisy parliamentary debates.
If they're anything like Finns, they probably do. Why get the ashtray in the car dirty when you can just throw it out the window?
The claim was always about undocumented immigrants voting and the Democratic Party gave up on that because even immigrants started hating them lol.
The Inside Man is entertaining, but as the "show" progresses, it becomes progressively more a standard sitcom and less about security training. Past the first season, there are entire episodes which are mostly like a Netflix show, with a last minute message of "oh, and remember: never leave your laptop unlocked" tacked on.

Entertaining? Yes. Useful as a training? Ehhh...
You can speculate but anyway there are all kinds of reasons a person can fail to do something that they are in fact capable of doing.

Sometimes people who have DECADES of walking experience just... fall.
I'm in my 40s doing the leetcode grind, but weird thing is, I'm actually ENJOYING it. I get a little high when I solve a problem, and I feel good about re-learning / re-discovering data structures and algorithms that I just don't use on a day-to-day basis. I paid for the premium version and enjoy reading the solutions and maybe learning a new trick or algorithm technique or whatnot. And who knows, maybe something that I learn when grinding on some leetcode problem will actually be useful in my day job? Thinking about it, if I ever do land a MAANG job, I don't think I'll stop doing leetcode problems. Sure, I won't go crazy with it like I'm cramming for mid-terms or something, but I'll still hack on them for the pure joy of problem solving, for the sake of problem solving.

I guess where I'm going with this is, maybe change your thinking about leetcode? Don't think of it as a necessary evil in order to land a high paying job that you dread doing each night; look at it as a fun little hobby, with the nice side-effect that you're keeping your data structure knowledge, algorithms and general problem solving skills sharp.
It has essential features, like a better than google maps street & building maps, for the average day to day needs of one in China. Not running these apps would be like going to meet someone, but you have no face or hands. These app are that integrated into their society, without them you are not really there.
The course is really neat.
Some of the candidate projects involving 9p virtio integration are suoerb ideas.
Did the CoW lab exersice for one of my courses.
The xv6 manual is very detailed as well.
It's also carrier dependent, depending on the FB CDN and the local telecom carrier, the traffic may not have been routing properly.

I can talk with Philippines from direct experience, but the two big players, Smart/Globe telecoms do try to grab "load" for the free experience even though you're on the right plan for Facebook Lite.

There has been much conversation about this too, on local media in the Philippines.

While I'm not a fan of FB/Meta, I can see how this is 100% the carriers telecom fault since FB runs similar campaigns throughout all of SouthEast Asia.
Actually, a lot of people saw it coming. Michael Burry was tweeting non-stop about it for a while. Jack Dorsey w/ his "hyperinflation" tweet as well. Even CNBC had regular guests who talked about it coming. Mohamed A. El-Erian being the most prominent.

I also believe that the housing market bonanza last summer was an indication that the average American instinctively knew that things are going to get more expensive.

As far as the academic economists, well I think the quote "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" applies here.
If you go on blind and ask about interview processes the vast majority of high paying companies where TC is over $200k are going to ask LC questions. So I'd say yes, being able to solve LC gives you good odds for landing high-paying jobs.

You can go on LC (I think it requires premium) and see people post similar things (may be biased there). There's an entire category in the problems where you can see what companies have asked certain Qs and their frequency (6 months, 1 year, 3 years, etc).

I myself am starting the LC grind, the only thing I've honestly regretted in my career is not getting a CS degree (mine is in Maths). Never having a solid foundation in DSA makes LC prep painful, also the first time I'm prepping LC in general.

I'm a frontend developer for the last 7ish years and it kinda sucks that I have to do LC to get these jobs. I know some companies are starting to give different tracts for frontend roles but the vast majority still seem to be LC problems.
> and it is pretty much incontrovertible by now that the only way that a society can remain open and tolerant is to not tolerate intolerance.

That is literally NOT what Popper says. Your own link refutes that point in Popper's own words.
Interesting. Are your experiences in Texas too?

I imagine local styles would contribute here. Also, just how many keys a person has.

I have two keys. My FOB is round unless tge key is exposed, and a single house key. So number of keys is important too.

But why would Texans have more keys? Are keys more important in Texas?

My work "key" is a card. Are there fewer cards used for entry in Texas? Do Texans dislike tech and cards?

Is there a law against cards vs keys in Texas.

Oh man, I have so much research to do now. Damned crows!
Explicit loops are only more readable in languages that suck.