skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't know? If you thought Michael being the angsty human stepsister of Spock who somehow was a better Vulcan than Vulcans was unrealistic, get ready for Adira.

Adira is a human non-binary girl who was in a relationship with Gray Tal, a transgender male Trill. TL;DR Gray gets hurt bad, and his symbiont gets passed to Adira (despite TNG establishing that humans aren't compatible hosts), becoming Adira Tal. The symbiont holds the memories of all the previous hosts, which somehow allows her to chat with Gray as a separate person. IIRC it even got to the point that Gray's vision can go and experience things independently of Adira.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Adira_Tal

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gray_Tal
Assuming you want to be talking to investors. Some people prefer coding, and may want to do it in a well-vetted startup.
https://ir.mit.edu/research-expenditures#block-yui_3_17_2_1_...

2020 numbers. DOD is 17%
Problems with monkeypox testing mean the outbreak may be bigger than reported
Thanks.
I like settle up or something along those line.
Where I work the "URGENT"/"PRIORITY" emails have been abused to the point the words have lost all meaning. Every time I see it I just skip right over it. There is probably a 1% chance it's something I actually care about and in that case someone else always brings it up in a meeting.

What's worse is when people do this to your calendar. We have teams that send out a meeting invite to hundreds of people every time they do a deployment, and block off several hours or days. I don't care about their deployment at all, nor does it have any impact on my schedule. In these cases I'm forced to take an action (declining the meeting) or else my calendar is just a mess.
> It's high school printf debugging all over again

If your C++ application is even semi complex or uses Qt you are basically in printf land again. I mean sure go ahead use the debugger for stacktraces and such but anything beyond that is finicky.
When talking to startups, a question I love to ask is what are you not working on.

The basic premise is Startups have limited resources, so in many ways what are you consciously not working on is as important as what you are working on. While not indicative on it's own, if a early stage startup tells me they're working on say AWS, and Google, and Azure, and on-premises, it creates an area to probe further that they might not be careful about selecting the right thing to work on next which does become a red flag.
When I started out at Activision there was a guy doing research so that we would be ready for when Microsoft Network rolled out. It did seem like a cooler version of AOL to us that had like APIs. But no one thought it was going to make it.
IBM Zurich Research Plagiarized Paper and got it published on CVPR 2022
Couldn't you simplify that by asking what a blockchain can do that a traditional database solution can't?

From what I understand, the one property a blockchain has that a centralized database hasn't is that it is effectively append-only for most of humanity: On a low level, a blockchain is a p2p network, so it can't easily be taken down as a whole, and on a higher level, the mining process ensures that data that is once added to a chain cannot erased by anyone - including companies, states or the developers themselves.

The problem is that this property sort of competes with the monopoly of force of the state: Traditionally, the problem of immutable, globally visible records is solved through the state and the court system: You make a traditional contract and have the courts enforce it.

The one difference between the traditional way and using a a blockchain is, that with traditional contracts, one party can modify records, which is the state: Contracts can be nullified, bank assets can be frozen or seized, etc.

Which leaves the only set of usecases that exclusively a blockchain can satisfy in the realm where you want to work against the state itself: Create an untraceable, unseizable currency; create a trading exchange not constrained by protection laws, etc. - in short, do illegal stuff.

This seems to me the core reason why the search for legitimate web3 usecases is so awkward: Web3 wants to build a legitimate, law-abiding business ecosystem all based on a technology which is fundamentally about disempowering the law. I don't want to imply laws are always without failure and should never be challanged, but the business proposition is paradoxical.

It's like trying to advertise the non-combat uses of a tank. Sometimes, there may be legitimate defense reasons why you'd want to use tanks - but if you use tanks for anything other than destroying things that don't want to be destroyed, you are likely using the wrong tool.
When you ask people about The Internet, the parts they describe were mostly funded by the NSF and venture capital. DARPA has been largely out of the picture for a long, long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_...

Notably NCSA, which provided the first telnet client, web browser and web server that most people used prior to the DotCom boom.
Dolt Is a Merkle-Tree Database
Historically, I don't think you could call something that sits on top of Apache full stack if you didn't also control Apache, so maybe, depending on whether you're just dropping on some webhost?

If you get to ignore threads/forks and number of workers as well as memory management of them because it's someone (or something) else's responsibility, then that's not full stack. The stack is OS (slightly, and can often be ignored), webserver, application, and client (HTML/JS). If you hand off responsibility of any of that then it isn't "full".

The term originally came from referring to people that handled all these things. You could be a back-end developer, dealing with the OS and webserver and maybe application, front-end developer where you dealt with HTML, JS and maybe some application code, or you could do both and be a "full stack" developer.
> a mainframe environment may be too big of a learning curve

Yeah, "curve" might be a little generous here. It's more like a cliff from what limited I remember of my short lived mainframe stint.
Google Joins Progcap $40M Funding Round
okbel, thanks for the reply. I am interested in translating a Cloudflare Worker (and I know that's the tech underneath Vercel Edge Functions, as leerob indicated last year) that, on my site on Cloudflare Pages, manipulates headers for assets-caching and a Content Security Policy. This is framework-agnostic — I've used it with Hugo, Eleventy, and Astro. Thus, any headers-related examples which *don't* start with `import { NextResponse } from 'next/server'` would be very helpful. :-D Again, thanks, and congratulations on today's launch to GA.
> It is _your_ responsibility to configure your mail filters and use your tools to organize your workflow in such a way that you do not miss important emails. Your failure to do so is your own failure. If you fail to see my email because you have a laughably amateaurish gmail-based workflow consisting of a single 100k-message inbox, then please, kindly fuck off. You're not worth my time. The notion that a message "must not be important because they only sent one" is absolutely hilarious!

I do this and still miss emails. Checking my email is mixed in with other activities and inputs in my daily life:

- Coding

- Scheduled meetings

- Unscheduled meetings

- Organizing the team

- Providing support for customers

- Responding to chat messages

- Responding to emails

I've had people try to moralize my inbox, the way you did here, and when I tried to think of ways to make it better I realized the only way for me to do that is to subtract from other activities. Personally, I think your take is fairly selfish, but mainly because you moralized it - and to the degree with which you did, not because you're advocating filters.

Personally, I'd suggest taking a step back and thinking about that communication is the result of a system of incentives. You can't moralize/pressure people into adhering to your preferred communication. It's about finding somewhere that someone can be reached and being persistent enough to reach them.
What is the data from those of similar groups who got covid? There are multiple classes of vaccines, and I wondered whether this is unique to the mRNA vaccines? Perhaps the different classes are preferred for younger people who can get serious covid yet who get it less often…
Really wish the major clouds had a “I’m experimenting. Kill it if it goes over 1k usd” mode. Not some crappy alerts - actual halt (and delete if necessary)

I bet that would increase profits too by encouraging people try experiment more
Look back a little further, to 1981, which was when AIDS was first identified by modern medicine, and then how nobody gave a rat's ass about it until people who weren't gay men or junkies started catching HIV.
> Or do you expect them to live up to your communication standards that are not in alignment with the industry standards?

The parent IS talking about standards by saying:

i. If you miss an email because you don't manage your inbox, then it's not my job to follow-up.

ii. If I don't respond to an email, then don't expect a response.

Of course, there are exceptions [to the standards] if you need to follow-up with your CEO or if your mom calls.
1-200 year for collapse is not really very specific. I'd give any country on earth 1-200 years for them to collapse.
Massive eyeroll
Not only that, the easy mode we all doing now is "run the application in a major cloud". Besides AWS, They all promise 99.999% or above durability for their block storage offering.

Of course you still need backup for other incidents.
Unfortunately, the COVID graph started out looking like that too: a rapid exponential growth followed by a slightly slower exponential growth.

It probably represents the limits of diagnostic capability rather than increased effectiveness of test-and-trace efforts.
https://softology.pro/tutorials/tensorflow/tensorflow.htm, "important points"
Firefox decline started long before they switched the extensions-system, In fact they lost majority of their share before that point, and seem to have gained a bit momentum back because of it, temporary.

> And I don't want to hear the "it's chrome's fault" again from the FF brigade,

Sure, who cares about facts when you can have guts-feeling...

> IE had more marketshare in the IE vs Netscape days than Chrome has today, and it didn't stop Firefox from eating at IE's shares.

IE had no marketing at that point, while Firefox did had significant marketing at the time. Chrome then started also with big marketing, while Firefox was busy with dying projects. Coincidence? Seems like marketing is a major factor for success even here.
That’s literally the point I made :)
Unless, of course, starting a company is not something you want to do.
Thanks for the details. Department of Defence is listed at 18% MIT-wide, which is not close to 60%, true. It is the #1 source of research funds.

Curious what the Department of Energy grants are about, and what overlap it ends up having with defense purposes if it's nuclear. That's the second biggest source of research funding at 15%. 18+15==33%, still not 60%.

> That also is false. It's nowhere close to "most" across all US CS and IT research.

I'd be curious to see numbers for that too, for MIT CS department(s) specifically, and in general in the US. I have definitely known a lot of CS professors and projects with DARPA and other DoD funding, it is quite common.
MNT shrinks its open source Reform laptop into a 7-inch pocket PC throwback
The title of the article makes it seem like it's some mysterious, unknown rocket that could have come from anywhere, but in fact (as the body of the article admits) there's just some uncertainty as to which of two specific missions it comes from; it was initially thought to be from a SpaceX launch, but further analysis indicated that it was probably a Chinese launch. China denies this and says that the rocket stage from that launch re-entered and burned up, so that's pretty much the mystery.
Is mRNA really better? My impression (not based on high quality data) is that the mRNA COVID vaccines are rather more unpleasant to receive than a flu shot. Of course, there is a distinct lack of other mRNA vaccines for comparison.
Show HN: Hasura GraphQL Data Connector SDK to add GraphQL API to any data source
Riddle me this, is making flour from acorns murdering oak trees?

Are you murdering potato plants when you eat french fries?

Does munching on peanuts make you peanut hitler?

If I have caviar, am I responsible for the murder of thousands of fish?
This reminds me of people who spend an inordinate amount of time talking about and reminding everyone of how busy they are.
Hacker-News.news
Most of those can be avoided with a bit of foresight. Take Balrogs, for example: by the Third Age there weren't all that many of them left, and on the off-chance that you do run into one, you can lure it into a trap made from one of those extremely deep pits that Dwarves are so fond of digging. Just make sure the pit is narrow enough that it can't spread its wings (if they have wings) and be careful that the pit doesn't have water at the bottom to break the Balrog's fall -- you may need to use bilge pumps. Perhaps consult with someone who managed to beat one in a fight; Glorfindel is still around, and making regular visits to maintain friendly relations with the Elves is just good business sense. And of course you should make sure that certain key sections of tunnel can be collapsed; you'll want this anyway to deal with the nameless monstrosities older than the world itself that you start running into at a certain depth.

The other threats are analogous. Giant spiders? Creepy but overrated. Someone with decent aim can one-shot most of them with a thrown rock, as demonstrated by a Mr. Baggins of Hobbiton, and their territory is a fairly small portion of Mirkwood. Dragons? Definitely an issue, but one that can be mitigated by storing your treasure horde in a maze of tunnels too small for a dragon to crawl through -- or, better yet, use multiple geographically isolated hordes. And again, the ability to collapse certain sections of tunnel would be both technologically unchallenging and very helpful here. Arguably it was the Dwarves' lack of innovation that led to them having such persistent dragon issues.
Inductor resonance and self-resonance experiments
I was about to write the same thing. When I saw the title, my first thought was "because Tolkein would have had that happen over his dead body, and that's kind of the whole point." I thought this was common knowledge, especially among nerds.
Not a bad thing IMHO. Take the best parts of PHP but use the language you already know and like (modern JS or typescript).
If that was its purpose it failed. Many (most?) companies have no progression path other than management, but they'll happily call you an IC.
"NASA unable to release space situational awareness information due to classified sources and methods. USSF has no comment. News at 11."
I wonder how I get stuck and how to fix it. I wonder where these people with the superpowers to identify it are in my org.
That is extremely off-base, it's unfortunate you felt that way.
Don't ask a question that you could search for and easily find. It will not reflect well on you.

Think of those questions in advance, do your due-diligence, and ask questions based on what you couldn't find, or follow ups from your research on the company. It will set you apart from other candidates.
Reminds me of swine flu; it's not kosher / halal.
Yeah I miss when programming felt cool and badass rather than like I was in a HR training seminar
We have a new menace, China. They really do want to control the world (through soft economic power they say - but: they are trying to pick off small countries in the Pacific to build "relationships" with and later bases. They have money, organization, power, determined leadership that will have at least some successes.
I struggle to come up with something that can unite, say, California and Alabama other than a credible external threat. Their paths seems to be quite divergent at this point.
I think I am the only person in my office who religiously keeps their unread message count to 0.
This is where the fun begins for some of us. Coming in to a codebase that has been growth focused for 10 years but now needs to be rock solid and yet also allow the next 10 years growth.
Tracking where Russia is taking Ukraine's stolen grain
This is a good way to kill yourself if you are new to foraging.
CEO of a $68B investment firm quits, going to sit on the beach and 'do nothing'
> HIV/AIDS research had a hard time during the 80's since it was considered EXTREMELY homophobic to ask if a person had a homosexual experience

You're confusing the cart and the horse. Homophobia was mainstream, to the point where it was extremely dangerous to honestly answer that you had a homosexual experience.
> the behaviour of mice was altered( higher memory flexibility and reduced anxiety levels).

Notably, this isn't the first time there was a success in murine cognitive enhancement via genetic engineering. There was a promising line of research targeting NR2B overexpression: [1][2].

There seems to be an unfortunate lack of funding and research in this area.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/43432

2. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Red/Rebol is one of those languages that throws down a gauntlet for other languages. (Factor is another, as is Elm.)

You can be so productive in Red with so little experience that it's almost irresponsible not to use it and promote it.

If you could write a program that replaced you, would you?
> You can make a pretty good guess that if they don't answer you, they either don't want to talk to you (in which case you should leave them alone), or they have some kind of weird power complex and get off on you begging (in which case you should run far away and find ANY OTHER WAY to get what you need from SOMEBODY ELSE).

... or, as the article says, they're just busy and/or have poor inbox management. It even has real examples of repeated follow-up emails working.
> Streaming is a tiny portion of what the web is used for.

By bandwidth, streaming is what the majority of the web is used for. PDF warning: https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/downloads/phenomena/2018-phen...

> Video is almost 58% of the total downstream volume of traffic on the internet
Come on, are you serious? COBOL is still being used exactly because it does not have a high-churn ecosystem. Same for C and C++.

Of all languages, js is by far the most volatile.
Indeed. Hence the Nunnery reference I made. That one (being of school age at the time) made me chuckle
The evangelism is mostly about stuff that nobody outside the USA cares about.

It just looks like the browser is made by crazy people.
Why shouldn't government officials understand how private investment firms may contribute to societal problems? Their job is to pass laws that may impact the firms. Should they be ignorant of what's going on?
Yes, same here. Hate JSX/TSX. Would love to have choice of templating engine so can stick to pure HTML/CSS as much as possible. I still prefer simple template engines like Mustache which respect HTML.
It can, but as the concurrency increases you'll start to see errors indicating that database is locked.
Hahhaha, I love good sarcasm. My favourite: the spinning wheel delay at the beginning.
We'd write assembly, hand assemble it to binary, then toggle it in, whee!
This is literally the Conservative ethos at play
Good timing! https://github.blog/changelog/2022-06-28-fenced-block-syntax...
I don't get it. We run a production headless workload on Vercel and it is slower, has fewer features, yet is more complex and expensive than traditional LAMP server stacks.
I didn't understand half the things you wrote.
What's a company in the mid market? (nm I looked it up)
What cruft? Not a native English speaker, you way of expressing yourself is hard to understand for me.
DX?

Are there really things built by 100 people, if so, why do you need 100 people?
Why can't you do with 1 lead 1-2 database guys 1-2 code monkeys?
Why can't this be done in a monorepo and a monolith?
Why does it have to run -in-the-cloud- on other people's computers?

I had a project that was ranked in the top 1000, according to Alexa, on a single server.
But it didn't bring in enough revenue and took up most of my time so I shut it down.
I re-launched it 15 years later but it's dead. No one knows or remembers the domain anymore save for bots who keep hitting those "fkk-sex-nude-porn" etc spam links.

Back then you could make a site popular with 1€/day on Adwords, nowadays ... lol, this won't even lead to your ads being displayed, anywhere.

Go can handle 500 million visitors per month on 10 year old hardware (= 1 server).
Which "mid market" company has 500 million visitors per month?

Writing websites/apps isn't complicated. For me anyway.
You figure out the data models, write the use cases and you're half way. The other half is writing the display layer to make use of that data.

You make it all sound like the requirements or the product is different. It's not. It's all the same. You can have observability without k8s. You can scale without k8s. You don't need a managed database.
Man this stuff is simple. It's people how are trying to sell you cloud and microservices and whatnot that make it all sound so hard.
A good software developer if spending his knowledge and lifetime to build something for you that is built to last, because you can't apparently do it yourself or don't want to.
It will last even when he isn't part of your company anymore. He could've built the same for himself and monetize it, instead of bowed down to you (not your personally) and opted for steady income.

I understand how, let's be honest, when we talk DevOps we mean k8s, so I understand how sweet a siren's song k8s sings. But it's ultimately a waste of resources. It's a solution asking for a problem.
Until you reach proportions that require k8s you'll be completely satisfied with a 3 server setup, that is Go and pick a database. I promise, I guarantee.

That 5-7k/m project had 30 people concurrent at most. It had 30TB/m outgoing traffic at most. How much does 30TB egress cost in GCP,AWS etc? It used to be about 3k, I believe it's 1/3 of it now.

Why would the principles that are valid for a "small" project not apply to a "mid market company"? More features? So what? The principle remains the same.
Boring, same old. Data models, wrappers, display layer.
It's the same for all, your beloved FAANG, mid market, small business, single owner.

Whatever.