skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone enlighten me whether Apache Airflow is suitable as a business process engine?

We have something like orders. So people put orders into our system, some orders are imported from external system. We have something around 100-1000 orders per day, I think. Each order goes through several states. Like CREATED, SOME_INFO_ADDED, REVIEWED, CONCLUSION_CREATED, CONCLUSION_SENT_TO_EXTERNAL_SYSTEM and so on. Some states are simple to change, like few milliseconds to call some web services, some states are 5 minutes from operator, some states are few days. This logic is encoded into our program code. We have plenty of timers, every timer usually transfers orders from one state to another. This is further complicated by the fact that this processing is done via several services, so it's not a single monolith but some kind of service architecture.

Our management wants something to have clear monitoring, so you can find a given task by some property values, monitor its lifetime, check logs for every step, find out why it's failing, etc.

What I usually see is that Apache Airflow is used more like cron replacement. I've read some articles but it's still not clear whether it could be used as a business process engine. I had some experience with Java BPMN engines in the past, it was not very pleasant, but I guess time moved on.
The title article and all of the responses here don't capture the argument that if abortion is illegal that means that it still happens, but young women will die (and the poor young women who can't be quietly flown to another jurisdiction where it is legal).

And I think the bigger problem is that we allow people to have nonsense opinions in polite society. The idea that human life begins at conception and that undifferentiated cells are human life worth more than the life of the mother is just garbage. That isn't really defensible. And that isn't my problem and I'm not going to be particularly apologetic about it and I don't need to see eye to eye with anyone else. They constructed this ridiculous argument that I can never in a million years agree with and so I won't. I literally can't compromise with that position, and it is a position that I would argue is crafted deliberately to avoid compromise. Ain't my problem. And if you're going to argue that it should be my problem and that I don't get how we need civility and tolerance I think you're the bigger problem.

Keep punching the wrong direction though.

And where's the outrage over the anti-abortion activists painting their opposition as supporting abortion uncritically into the third trimester? There's nobody reasonable out there who believes that. Yet you'll find people who find abortion troubling and want it done quickly and can't agree with it being in the third trimester except to save the life of the mother who consider themselves to be against abortion. They're actually pro-abortion/pro-choice because that's the way everyone thinks. Make it quick and easy and get it done in the first trimester ASAP (and use contraception so ideally it never gets there and stop using the rhythm method or pulling out because that's how you wind up needing abortions, and use the morning after pill in the case of contraceptive failure or rape). Most pro-abortion/choice people already ARE at the compromise point between the two extreme endpoints of the possible debate.
Taxes have to be, yes, because humans can be freeloaders, especially the wealthiest.

If only the decent participate, it is ineffective.
> Humans overwhelmingly learn meaning by use, not by definition

Preliminarily and provisionally. Then, they start discussing their concepts - it is the very definition of Intelligence.
... and to witness the downvoters so that their cowardly disgust towards truth could buy them some extra time in hell :)
Uh. Yes, they do. Can you help me understand it, then. Why do you think the author felt the need to ask the ADL for comment on an article about "Consortium" and "Mint News"? There's an outright implication that the ADL are responsible for those outlets' PayPal experience. Which I am happy to summarise as - they're blaming the Jews for these facists losing donation processing
(Disclaimer: Please take what I saw with a grain of salt - I'm just a stranger on the internet, not a doctor. No disrespect intended to you or anyone.)

Have you checked if you might have other possible conditions? I too "thought" I was mildly depressed for several years (I'm in my early 20s now). Turned out to be (undiagnosed) ADHD that held me back from working "properly" (due to procrastination/planning issues) while making me ambitious, hence making me sad/disappointed/frustrated. (I hope to get a formal dx soon, apparently medication can help a very decent bit)
This seems like a really great project; it's well-designed and supports quite a variety of different MCUs (although host mode seems to be "not implemented" in anything except the rPi).

I wonder how much work it would be to create a no_std sys crate to use this from a rust context. (I see some interest from Tock users in the GitHub issue discussions.)

The github repo for the TinyUSB project: https://github.com/hathach/tinyusb

EDIT:

I spoke too soon, there's already a tinyusb-sys crate here [0]!

[0]: https://lib.rs/crates/tinyusb-sys
For me, it seems to just give my eye a quick target to lock onto, from there I see the entire word (as well as the surrounding letters) in my peripheral vision.
The interpretation that always interested me was that, when speaking of heaven, Jesus was referring to an enlightened state of mind and way of living here on earth, not some magical place you go when you die. It's obvious to anyone that you can create hell on earth without much effort; I like to think we can create heaven as well.
Unlike ordinary cloth masks, which act to protect others from you, the Dyson snot spreader not only provides no filtering for exhaled air, but actively propels your exhalations so they go further and hit more people. Want to make absolutely certain everyone else in the train gets what you have? Then this is the product for you!
The irony is that as warfare increasingly goes in the direction of technological signals and controls, the meaning of "direct involvement" diffuses such that belligerents cannot be pinned down on the nature or degree of their involvement. If the US provided people that deployed in Ukraine to do reconnaissance, that would be "direct". But if it's satellite data or drones, they're shielded from blame; and yet, the generals would in almost every case prefer more technology over more troops, because it automates away a slew of logistical and operational issues and gives them more options moment-to-moment, even if it creates a larger dependency on having the best tech.

If the trend towards use of technology continues in this way, future wars between nations will be stopped before they go kinetic by reframing the entire coordination problem that causes them into something addressed through information warfare instead. At worst, you might see low-level stochastic violence.
There is a huge difference between confiscating a bunch of cocaine and confiscating a car.
But I do agree that crossing a border is different than not crossing a border (and should be different than simplyb being within 90 miles of the border)
Get offline and talk to people in meat-space. You're likely to find them to be much more reasonable. :)
>The remaining funding comes from the private sector

Again, that does not follow. Adding students means more students will apply for government aid, so more aid will be allocated. Lots of places get paid $X per student from the govt - adding students adds public cost.

So yes, more students means more govt cost. Any student can apply for govt help, and if they meet requirements, they get the aid. They're not told sorry, you're number N+1 and we only fund N. You have to go private funded.

>That is better value for money spent overall.

Germany, (and pretty much all countries) pays far less for all advanced jobs. You cannot hire professors in the US for what you get them for in other countries (Baumol's cost disease, for example), so again this is not an accurate comparison.

>That is better value for money spent overall.

Such things are not linear - educating the last % would cost far more per person than educating the first 1%. Just like making something 50% burglar proof is not half the cost to make something 100% burglar proof. As you reach deeper into the pool of candidates they will take more effort, more time, and more money, per person to educate to some fixed level.
GTP-3 was an erotica virtuoso before it was gagged. There's a serious use case here in endless porn generation. Google would very much like to not be in that business.

That said, you can download Dream by Wombo from the app store and it is one of the top smartphone apps, even though it is a few generations behind state of the art.
I don’t understand the significance of this. What if we found huge quantities of sugar, what does it mean to me, to the oceans, to the environment? Not trying to be flippant, I am not able to make the connection, but can someone dumb it down and spell it out for me?
> If he has the money, fleeing before charges were laid was probably even rational, as there is no reason to expect the legal system is equipped to deliver justice in something so new.

TFA claims he was originally offered to keep 10% (over a million dollars) from this hack, free and clear. Not agreeing to that deal meant willingly putting himself at the mercy of said legal system. Talking about a single decision as rational in isolation is disingenuous.
This is completely normal lots of today's sustainable companies have been operating like that for a while. As long as you use those $100k/month of spending to keep growing fast, everything will be fine. This doesn't mean that you don't have a good sustainable business model, just that you need to invest a lot into growth.
How I wish that there were something in the Bill of Rights that said "these rights are for INDIVIDUALS only, and not collective legal entities." It's up there with getting election day off as a holiday for things that should happen, but don't because the powers that be WANT the system rigged in that way.
The Clean-Power Megaproject Held Hostage by a Ranch and a Bird
My point is that they are (probably) not operating completely independently of the overall market, which is influenced by these macro-economic events. Including what options start to become more interesting for them over others due to changes in the level of competition in the space and available options.

They aren’t constrained in the same way as someone with a 401k, but they are part of the same market and influenced by it, even if in a contrarian way.
I know that I'm very lucky but have still yet to meet one of these PMs. I'm an engineer.
I somewhat support this idea. I think it will not work -- none of the right people will join the list, because I think they actually don't care at all, but it probably won't make anything worse, and might help shine a light on their hypocrisy maybe.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe#note-1
> Copenhagen ethics (used by most people)

The idea that most people use any coherent ethical framework (even something as high level and nearly content-free as Copenhagen) much less a particular coherent ethical framework is, well, not well supported by the evidence.

> require that all negative outcomes of a thing X become yours if you interact with X. It is not sensible to interact with high negativity things unless you are single-issue.

The conclusion in the final sentence only makes sense if you use “interact” in an incorrect way describing the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics,
because the original description is only correct if you include observation as an interaction. By the time you have noted a thing is “high-negativity”, you have observed it and acquired responsibility for it's continuation under the Copenhagen interpretation; you cannot avoid that by choosing not to interact once you have observed it.
Is TI's toolchain still godawful?
> sad. In the US, I have never known a kind Christianity that espoused these ideas.

And for contrast, I’ve never participated in an american church that has espoused anything but, and haven’t found that aspect of the faith to be particularly difficult in meeting.

I know that the “pie in the sky” churches are out there, i just don’t attend them.
Frankly, I don't think it's up to you to pick a lane. It's the wild-west at the moment because the technology is new. But it won't be long before the law catches up and crypto will be subject to it the same as everything else.
They were impressive: a four tube electronic device that could survive being fired from a gun.
Absolutely, very few people are going to willingly pay money. What reality are you living in?
Yep, the meat-space is generally a bit less woke than HN, so thanks for the reminder ))
This is a fresh perspective, and a DUH moment for me.

I know quite a few PhD(s) and researchers, and a few PhD programs dropout. My takeaway up until now was "PhD = politics", but now I see that I was looking at it all wrong, I was looking under the wrong lens of pick_a_school->get_an_advisor. The reverse is true, when the student is read, the master will appear; the place comes with the advisor (not the other way around).
It's not meant to prevent offence to you. It is meant to be a "good product" by the metrics of their creators. And quite simply, everyone here incapable of making the thing is unlikely to have an image of what a "good product" here is. More power to them for having a good vision of what they're building.
Nice one, I like the coloring, it'd be nice if it was dynamic or things could live on it, maybe next step? I have a few random for fun projects lying around:

map gen and hydrology project hydrosim:

http://aperocky.com/hydrosim/

pet map gen and having "people" living on it:

http://prehistoric.tech/
You're aware of nothing but creativity from its users. The people using the technology unethically intentionally don't advertise that they're using it.

There's mountains of ai-generated inauthentic content that companies (including Google) have to filter out of their services. This content is used for spam, click farms, scamming, and even state propaganda operations. GPT-2 made this problem orders of magnitude worse than it used to be, and each iteration makes it harder to filter.

The industry term is (generally) "Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior" (though this includes uses of actual human content). I think Smarter Every Day did a good videos (series?) on the topic, and there are plenty of articles on the topic if you prefer that.
> for data scientists

> Let's assume I write a really inefficient way to find primes

let me stop you right there
Because it's, by far, the most popular model (once it's being produced locally).
"irrationally excited" - what does this phrase mean? that there is no basis for your excitement? sounds so cheesy
That only lasts until the community copies the paper and catches up. For example the open source DALLE-2 implementation is coming along great:
https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch
Figure A.4 in the linked paper is a good high level overview of this model. Shame it was hidden away on page 19 in the appendix!

Each box you see there has a section in the paper explaining it in more detail.
Check https://github.com/multimodalart/majesty-diffusion
or
https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch

There is a Google Colab workbook that you can try and run for free :)

This is the image-text pairs behind: https://laion.ai/laion-400-open-dataset/
I have catchup=False set in the DAG but that hasn't stopped Airflow from back filling missed tasks, not sure why this is the case?
Thank you! I will definitely take a look at that - looks great.
This, I would imagine this heavily correlates to things like income and gdp per capita.
FWIW, I just ran that query, and got what looked like materially better results.

That being said, I've seen the same sort of useless results elsewhere (so maybe someone saw this particular case and intervened). I have been told that part of the SEO industry works like "take this sample post and rephrase it with the following keywords and product links". So you get the same warmed-over results on the topic, and it's hard to find the posts that drill deeper.
Agreed. They are valid points clearly stated and a valuable contribution to the discussion.
I'm excited to see the wheels turning, but it feels a bit like the best feature of Next.js IMHO (SSG) is going to get more difficult, or possibly become unusable. A deprecation feels incoming. It could be confirmation bias as I've been a little worried about that for awhile since people using SSG aren't as likely to buy cloud services, so there's some incentive misalignment there, but ever since the Image component was only supported with SSR it's felt like SSG was going to either become less usable or disappear. Am I the only person who loves that feature? It really revolutionized how I approach web dev and enlarged my imagination of what was possible, so there's definitely some emotional attachment for me :-)

Am I correct about SSG's future?
I don’t care whether it reasons its way from “3 teddy bears below 7 flamingos” to a picture of that or if it gets there some other way.

But also, some of the magic in having good enough pretrained representations is that you don’t need to train them further for downstream tasks, which means non-differentiable tasks like logic could soon become more tenable.
A lot of times this is used for data warehousing so product managers and otherwise can query the database of one app joined with another, especially in an environment with microservices. You might join a table containing orders with another table that was from a totally different DB, like payments, to find out which kinds of items are best to offer BNPL or something.

The author also mentions that it’s used for machine learning models which will ultimately feed back into Shopify’s front end, for instance.
TinyCheck: Capture Network Communications from a Smartphone
I did that a week ago, just stumbled across the option in the accessibility options. Now I wish I had done it many years ago (is it a new option?). There's not a single animation that is better than its own absence.

The worst thing is that it isn't respected by many apps and browsers.
You think it degrades human life to seek a deeper understanding of the abilities and experiences of other species? What kind of twisted idea is that?

And when we consistently learn that we underestimated them, and researchers suggest to be less self-centered and more empathetic to other life, the only logical response you can produce is that the end of times is near?

You're an excellent data point to support the study.
Solving the climate crisis with Future Tech is nice and all, but the word "future" does have a meaning.

More practically, we should we be building the last generation of nuclear reactors to cover us for the next 50 years until the Future Tech actually exists.
This sounds like descriptivism vs prescriptivism. In English (native language) I’m a descriptivist, in all other languages I have to tell myself to be a prescriptivist while I’m actively learning and then switch back to descriptivism to notice when the lessons were wrong or misleading.
this is much more complicated than it seems. To a large extent, there's no meaningful difference between "a corporation using its power" and "a group of like-minded people getting together to amplify their voices"

Well, there's a big difference, because we grant special limited-liability status to corporations -- but the big tech platforms don't really benefit that much from limited-liability because the corporations have more wealth than their owners/officers anyway (and virtually all of the wealth of the owners/officers is in their ownership stake anyway)
WhatsApp to drop support for iOS 10 and iOS 11 devices, iPhone 5 and 5C
You can make a program to convert it to some human-readable number then. You have to do this because it's binary anyways, so you're either representing it as octal, hexadecimal or binary.

I don't know about you, but if I am trying to reason about hexadecimal numbers then I just separate it into 0xDEADBEEF = D*16^7 + E*16^6 + A*16^5 + D*16^4 + B*16^3 + E*16^2 + E*16^1 + F*16^0. The endianness only changes the order of the bytes I start reading at. What we ought to do is make a new prefix for reading the hexadecimal numbers in little-endian order like 0xDEADBEEF = 0yEFBEEDDE. Of course, this doesn't really fix the problem (wanting to read the number with smaller symbols first) as bytes are still considered to be in big endian if you consider the semantics about left/right shifts, which play on our preconceived notions of big endianness in everyday decimal math. You would want a system where everything is treated little-endian (bits within bytes, bytes within arrays)
Most VC-backed companies don't have other VC-backed companies as their primary customer segment.
The "Gender Equality Paradox"... there's a fascinating episode[0] about it. It's incredible how unscientific and ideologically-motivated one side comes off in it.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XsEsTvfT-M
How do you know this? Because you can, in your mind, divide the function of a nurse from the statistical reality of nursing?

Are the logical divisions you make in your mind really indicative of anything other than your arbitrary personal preferences?
For posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31438134
Also access to oil was a big deal. Hitler attacking the Soviet Union was at least partially to secure access to oil.
There's a lot of work going into blue carbon efforts at the moment .. better understanding and utilising seagrasses and algaes, mangroves, etc. as carbon sinks.

That said, what I've never understood about the potential of seagrass as a carbon sink (and this sugar thing might go someway to explaining it), is how it works given how short lived individual plants are, and how fragile - and shallow - seagrass ecosystems are.

CO2 / methane (?) released by decaying biomass at depth may stay trapped in sediment, but how realistic is this at depths of 20-40m? Does anyone have any more info?
I'm sure you are capable of steelmanning the argument.
True, that'd be a decent way to approach it. Though at that point perhaps you may as well actually release all the versions too.

Or you could bump every time as you describe, but on every major/minor bump make sure the parent commit is released first (which would be >=1 commits since the last one and have at least a patch bump). And I suppose you'd never need to bump patch if that was just a lone thing that happened post-release in prep for the next.
> GPS could be degraded or shut off, but of course everyone noticed that weakness so we now have Russia's GLONASS, China's BDS and EU's Galileo.

All of which use the same very small, very narrow, band of frequencies—sometimes the exact same frequency of GPS:

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/GNSS_signal

You jam L1 (1575.42 MHz) and you take out a whole bunch of services out.

It's one of the reasons why there's L2, L5/E5, and E6. But everything is in the Aeronautical Radio Navigation Service and Radio Navigation Satellite System bands.
> I think that the parents' job is to undo all of the harm done by society and instill in their children the "correct" values.

Far from being too cynical, this is too optimistic.

The vast majority of parents try to instill the value "do not use heroin." And yet society manages to do that harm on a large scale. There are other examples.