skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone think Republicans / conservatives actually give a shit about unborn babies? I don't. What I think they do like is having plenty of workers available who have no choice but to accept bad working conditions, low pay, multiple temp jobs without insurance, etc.

Yes, definitely. Do you a very homogeneous social group or something? The alternative would be that all pro-lifers are conniving bad faith actors. I shouldn’t have to say more for that to seem very suspicious and certainly incorrect.

Pro-choice and pro-life positions are both quite logically consistent, internally. Try and reckon with that.
from a Tool song (won't write the name):

And in between
Sips of coke
He told me that
He thought
We were sellin' out
Layin' down,
Suckin' up
To the man
Well now I've got some
A-dvice for you, little buddy
Before you point the finger
You should know that
I'm the man
And if I'm the man
Then you're the man, and
He's the man as well so you can
Point that fuckin' finger up your ass.
> You shouldn't need to use lock files if you're using semver properly.

I think this issue is unrelated to semver.

I've had so many issues over the years with Python packages, even very polished libraries like Flask and Celery.

For example, you could install something like Flask 2.0 but end up with a major difference in versions of its sub-dependencies depending on when you installed it.

That's because Flask has its own dependencies defined like this:

"Werkzeug >= 2.2.0a1",
"Jinja2 >= 3.0",
"itsdangerous >= 2.0",
"click >= 8.0",

The above means installing Flask 2.0 could one day in the future install Jinja 4 or Click 10 unless you lock your entire dependency tree.

I've also had all sorts of things break because Flask installed Jinja 3.1 which wasn't a problem 6 months ago when Jinja 3.0 was the latest release. I've also had cases where installing a specific version of Celery in the past worked but failed in the future because it didn't lock one of its sub-dependencies down well enough (vine) which caused a breaking change.

This stuff happens all the time and it's a nuisance. I never experienced issues like this with Ruby and other languages that have the idea of a lock file built into their package manager. IMO it's a desperately needed feature that should be built into pip.
Toward understanding the communication in sperm whales
The family of "big and eats grass" I guess.
True. But their logistics were also stretched, and sabotage of railroads by Belarusian railway workers stretched it even farther.

This compounded the general fact that logistical troubles are one of the great weaknesses of the Russian military machine.
Compared to SOAP, this was pretty minimalistic and a pragmatic way to talk to a server from a browser. And of course people actually used SOAP as a really convoluted way to do RPC. This was the lightweight alternative. Json rpc also briefly was a thing.

I had the "pleasure" of dealing with a few SOAP web services a few times. That stuff was just completely horrible and unusable.

HTML5 became a thing when W3C began insisting that XHTML should be a thing, complete with namespaces and other nonsense. That was peak XML basically. Developers rejected it. Browser vendors and content creators basically stepped in and fixed HTML and CSS properly because w3c could not be bothered to step over the semantics and actually define how that stuff was supposed to behave in the real world (i.e. specifiying the semantics of their semantic HTML).

Come to think about it, there was a whole bunch of things that came out of w3c that essentially was about using namespaced XML: web service architecture, RDF, semantic web, XHTML, etc. All that stuff seems to have faded away into obscurity.

XML namespaces sound like a good idea until you realize that it just means endless verbosity that doesn't really serve much purpose and that really complicates things like parsing. Thankfully, people simply refused to apply that to json. Most json continues to be free of that nonsense. Same with yaml and similar formats. Works great without a lot of namespace urls.
They’re transparently trying to exploit people not knowing any better and being horribly afraid about losing their jobs in a recessing economy. It’s despicable.
You parse it as: "The title of the article doesn't match the content."
This is only true for native stock Americans. Immigrants do very well here, and it's far far easier to become rich in America than it is anywhere else. The American dream is as real as ever. Income mobility could be a bit easier in Australia, I guess, but I'd be hard pressed to think of many places where it was as possible to climb the social and income ladder. Of course, in America we don't have much of a safety net, so if you have ambitions to climb you gotta be careful not to fall.
Yup, pretty much, yeah...
You may be happy to know, then, that Gary Larson is making new Far Side comics.

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
I'm curious what you mean by "arbitrary command to make a row." Could you give more of an example of a potential use case?
Well, I find that when a project is chosen by me, and belongs to me, or when it’s something me and a few friends are doing together by choice, it’s very very easy to feel motivated. I only have problems when I’m doing tasks chosen by someone else, which benefit someone else, and are owned by someone else. And you know, if you’re working class most of your projects fall in the latter category. Whereas if you’re in the ruling or owning class most projects are in the former category.
So, practically none.
This is a reddit-type urban legend that has no basis in reality.
You don't need to go as far forward as the 90s and grunge. Rush was skewering musical sellouts at the beginning of the 80s:

"For the words of the PROFITS were written on the studio walls. Echoes with the sound of salesmen, of SALESMEN (sung with the highest levels of disdain)"
I doubt he’d want to put up with the garbage fire of technical platforms and the hellpit of online “community” management either.
Data centers use so much energy that they need their own enormous AC systems to remove that heat from the building.

Also, have you considered all the labor enabled by AC? Economic development would not be possible in tropical regions without AC, as people simply cannot work effectively in suffocating heat.
For some, they sure as hell do.
> Compensation levels in tech are still higher than most other places.

Compensation levels in tech vary extremely widely by company, location, etc.

> It'd be pretty difficult to change careers into something tech-adjacent later in life and still maintain the same compensation.

Depends on how much later in life.

> Men have far more incentive to tough it out in tech than women do once at the point of gaining the financial benefits of living together, for quite a few reasons.

One reason would be if tech favors men in hiring, compensation, and promotions. If your wife is making more money than you but leaves anyway, that would be a little different story.
Related:
Here is an article describing the speech Watterson gave railing against licensing. Note the different approaches of the two cartoonists on opposite sides, Bill Watterson vs 'Beetle Bailey'/'Hi and Lois' creator Mort Walker.

"Walker and Watterson also had very different approaches to dealing with the public at the three-day festival. Walker agreed to numerous requests to do autographed sketches and pose for photos, while Watterson declined to give autographs and requested no photos and no taping of his remarks."

http://timhulsizer.com/cwords/cdiffer.html
Nice backpedal! It's nearly believable, so i give it a 7/10. Next time, if you want to be truly believed you should try this:

1. Include hints you might be joking or presenting a "tongue-in-cheek" argument.

2. When called out, don't go with the "no really om a supervillain and tricked you into helping me make a completely unrelated argument" trope. It's well known as a scramble response to an unexpected retort.
If the jobs were to come back to the US, they'd need to pay $18+/hour, since they're worse than a warehouse job, and Amazon pays so well.

At that point, the factory owner is going to be focused on automation and robotics, so most of the jobs they offer will be for highly skilled positions (and pay more than welders or machinists make).
Cannot somebody reverse engineer it?
Yes, a big chunk of the labor shortages in hospitality, child care, etc. we’ve seen the last two years is a direct result of Amazon hiring lots and lots of people. And as shitty as the conditions of those jobs may be, they’re often still better than where they’re coming from. Sticking labels to boxes and moving them around a warehouse all day may still be better than dealing with handsy bar hounds or screaming children.

I’m not here to say that Amazon is doing a great job and we should all be singing Jeff Bezos’s good graces. But I will say that unionization does come with a cost that is borne not by Amazon’s executives or their shareholders, but on everyone who could want to work at Amazon but can’t because their jobs are more scarce, and by everyone who buys things from retailers (Amazon or not) in the form of higher prices.

Unionists like to talk about how the labor movement provided a lot of basic protections for workers and the 40 hour work week. What they like to talk less about is American unions’ frequent associations with organized crime, it’s history of racism and sexism, all of the environmental bills it has fought against. I could go on.

A union-free Amazon has driven up wages for workers throughout the economy. And it has helped keep prices low for everyone else so that even if you don’t earn as much as a Amazon warehouse worker nor shop at Amazon, you can still afford many basic necessities. So yes, I’m saying we should be singing the good graces of competition.
The very concept of "the Middle Ages" in Europe tends to muddle our thinking.

Life in 700 AD was completely different from life in 1400 AD. Cities, population density, building styles, international trade, weapons and warfare, agricultural methods, secular institutions - almost nothing stayed the same.

People tend to even forget that the official definition of "the Middle Ages" stretches back into the Dark Age, where kings were more like chieftains, castles basically unknown, even most of the clergy struggled to read and write, and a typical member of the elite warrior class looked nothing like a stereotypical knight.
An actual live stream: Boulder’s Tube to Work Day returns after pandemic hiatus
Wups, typo. Corrected.

Thanks.

Point remains that FB extracts a real and significant direct monetary cost.
great insight on generational change, shifting allegiances and the emergence of a new ethnic identity. I wonder how long it generally takes for an ethnic identity to emerge, once a people becomes separated into different jurisdictions - perhaps only a single generation, if the propaganda is effective
Hi, I'm the 2nd Founder of SF. We have identified this potential arena and been discussing expanding our ways to help project owners find that 2nd Founder, and not just a platform to sell a side project. Thanks for the validation.
Typing this from a MacBook Air 2013 running ArchLinux :)

You just flash the installer of your favorite distro (don't use ventoy) to a USB and install as usual.
Mary Oliver: “Wild Geese”
In Europe, they did get more greedy. There has been some noise about legislating them, but so far nothing has happened.
I think the same

Some tools, like poetry do add value to your development process (namely, better management of dependencies)

pipenv really does sound like something for people that are too lazy to activate their envs before running stuff
She Code Africa 2021 report
Yeah, that’s the one I use. Unlike Comcast here it works on Windows.
http://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
When I moved in to my house the only available option was AT&T DSL at 18/1 mbps. Comcast quoted $210k to run cable despite everyone else on my street already having a connection. It took me a year, but I organized with a bunch of my neighbors on the two streets behind my house and we trenched to get ourselves connected.

Being in a wealthy area is no guarantee of service. I currently pay $155/mo. It's symmetric 10 gbps. My router isn't grunty enough to deliver that.
Rabbits fed the same kind of market that chickens do, but chickens have been engineered to produce absolutely massive amounts of meat for cheap, and rabbits haven't kept up.
Why should males be asked to change their communication style to be more feminine? Especially in a majority male working environment? Shouldn’t the women be the ones to adapt? Is there something inherently wrong with how men tend to communicate? It actually seems more sexist to make these changes because supposedly “fragile” women can’t handle the existing environment.
by tropics I don't mean something like the bornean rainforest. many cities like Dubai, Lagos, Mumbai, Cairo, Bangkok, Jakarta all exist in the tropics.
Not to mention that most state/local teachers unions are branches of the NEA/AFT, two of the largest unions in the country. Also, two of the largest political contributors, to strictly left-leaning politicians. Neither are shy about admitting that they support Democrat policies exclusively.
> I’ve worked with and for them

That is just one very narrow window into an entire class of people. Do you can’t any of them your friend? Or your rival? Or family? You’re magnifying a single type of relationship into a general description of a class of people.

It would be like writing three paragraphs about Hispanics based on the many taco trucks you frequent.
It doesn’t need to be. Giant companies that threat their workers worse than average face much stronger unionization efforts.

Which pushes markets to increased efficiency rather forcing working conditions into a race to the bottom.
Async Rust: What is a runtime? how Tokio works under the hood
Yep, been waiting on the next chapters for years now. Will probably never happen.
Annoying subscribe pop-up. Bye!
I find the initiative somehow formidable, commending hope and thus the fear of seeing it fail.
Tell HN: Outlook App copies external email data to Microsoft Cloud
I just tried the Outlook desktop client at home for the first time with my Fastmail account. This screen [1] pops up during the Add Account process, saying that all my messages will be synced to the Microsoft Cloud for "better experience".

According to the linked support article, there are no options to disable this "feature" aside from removing the account. I used a new account to test it out, and was unable to find out where the data was synced to and there's no way to verify it was deleted completely after I removed the account.

[1] https://postimg.cc/SXjMjWCL
If by "large" you mean e.g. "under relatively high load" then you can simulate this load and learn to deal with it.
Populate your databases with a lot of generated data. Use load testing tools. Add latency and faults to different parts of the system (you can even inject errors into storage system (e.g. device-mapper)).
At some point you even can rent some big servers (e.g. cloud) to test you problems and ideas - the cost of learning can be very effective.
Make some checklists and iterate over all the components:

- what happens if this stuff fails (and how to test it, how to analyze it)
- what attack surface that stuff has
- how to scale if it receives x10 requests or becomes x10 bigger
- how can you explain to a new coworker how it works, how all the decisions were made

It will rapidly give you the real understanding and practice. System design is about dealing with problems, making compromises. It is very hard to make an effective book (probably even impossible - it should probably be an interactive course at least) that will walk you through this process, not just throw a bunch of "patterns" at you (which is not useful and can infect you with the shallow cargo-culting that our whole industry is so full of).
So the chemtrail conspiracy theorists aren't so crazy after all :)

I assume silver-iodide is safe to release into the atmosphere and if Lake Mead is any example, there is certainly a need to generate additional precipitation over the Rockies.

I would like to see extreme transparency with this project. Flight tracking of permitted seeding for example (with details of how much seeding was done by volume of silver iodide), and public record keeping of all seeding efforts in addition to flights.
I'm not entirely sure I'm following.

There's the is-ought fallacy.

There's also wishful thinking: believing that what you want / would prefer is what should be, or that a realistic but unpleasant appraisal is wrong or false because it is painful to consider. (Truth and reality don't much care about your preferences.)

Or are you referring to something else?
This would only be true if there was a technology to automate and it was just too expensive.

For jobs that Amazon hires people there isn’t a technology to automate right now.

Such technology is being developed (better AI and better robotics), but increasing the budget wouldn’t necessarily speed things up.
Don’t get me wrong I badly want to get my hands on an M2 Air, but I strongly agree that the M1 Air still kicks ass and might be the better value for money.

The thing is you want different stuff from the CPU arch up through the kernel for responsive interactive use than for compiling a big Rust program. Apple have fucking killed it on the former, and Intel’s Gracemont stuff has made a kickass machine for the latter cost 1000 bucks at Best Buy.
It's obsession with technological advancement. There was a time when people were resistant to even 720p, saying that 480p is more than enough and they can't even see the difference.
Nice, just submitted my game Qubes. There were some people trying to buy it from mean few months ago but the offer was low.

The game right now is free to play with no ads, so it generates no money. But it has over 7k installs, which is pretty neat.
I can confirm that. You can get it from specialised butchers, often at weekly markets.
I mean cows are made of meat and horses are made of .... bone I guess?

It's mainly perceptual. I don't begrudge people wanting to eat random animals, but I'm not going to go out of my way to get or try it.
it's the clear policy objective for sure. The effectiveness might only be temporary - China is big enough for domestic competitors to emerge or get stronger - the US response to this is further escalation of suppression. The end will probably be war - US has decisive the advantage here and it makes sense to engineer a global conflict to maintain hegemony
I dont know about unusable but annoying for sure
I would argue horses are different than dogs. Dogs a are bred to attach to and love humans. Horses.... tolerate us. They'll fall in line if you demonstrate you're the leader, but they don't bond like dogs do.
As opposed to either a snippet in a REPL or a comment on hacker news.
As I said, it probably has to do more with our aggregate personal connection to animals in a given culture, because that will influence how we perceive their intelligence.

If you've read the studies I did, they're not very good. For instance, the test that asserted a pig is smarter than a dog was where they were tasked with moving a joystick designed for a monkey that controlled a cursor that they wanted moved into a blue region on a screen. I'll let you make your own judgements about how sound the testing with respect to the assertion is. My dog certainly has eyes that can be tuned to manipulate me, but she also has a sizeable vocabulary, a lot of tonal intuition, and this little heat seeker in her nose that quite literally syncs her heart rate with mine. There's a good amount of theory that says this adds up to empathy.
So three failures:

- The load balancer lost its connection to etcd and did not reconnect

- The load balancer had no healthy backend and did not un-advertise itself

- The load balancer did not report either of those issues to monitoring

Honestly this is a little concerning. Are they using their own load-balancing software? If yes, why?
America left in ‘73 and the last coup was in ‘63. There was no “coup after coup until America left”.

And LBJ did offer a Great Society funding scheme to the North and it was rejected as “trickery”.
Since our first alpha version, we've had a lot of help and received great ideas from the community. Thank you!

Logto is now in public beta. We're working hard on more improvements, SDKs, and connectors. Feel free to drop your comments or needs.

Hope the official release of Logto will meet you soon.
Yeah, if they can get 50% of employees on legal record saying they support the union, it is obvious that they don't need an election.

Your language, IMO, is value-laden. Card-signing is a common "tactic" for unions like the presidential election is a "tactic" for deciding the next president.
Yes, and the quality of life for a physical worker is much higher than for someone from the US. What's your point?
Well, we live in a world where it isn’t considered sociopathic to refer to and think of yourself as a “brand” somehow.
> I still remember the times when computers for private usage didn't have fans yet.

What time was that? I remember fans going waaaay back, at least to the 386 days. Maybe the 286 days.
Venv, yes. My Dockerfile's build stage creates a venv and installs all our dependencies (some of which need compilers because they are source wheels that need to link with C++ libraries). Then I copy the venv over to the release stage and install only the release dependencies.

Maybe that could work with a `pip --user` install, but at least the venv guarantees that all Python packages and data will be in one self-contained folder.
That’s not true at all lol, complete BS. For one, the amount of grazing required for that is absolutely larger than anything we have today.

We exited an ice age, which created conditions which helped to create pastures. Climate change has been happening far longer than humans have impacted it (not saying humans aren’t impacting it).

Further, grazing makes fields more robust if done property. Grasses will grow faster to compensate and the poop enhances the conditions to create fields.
I second the Capuchin crypt - it was very cool.

I’ll add recommendations for good gelato - Frigidarium and Gelato del Teatro, both near Piazza Navova / Campo cello Fiori (areas worth a visit as the side streets there aren’t as insane as most of the center, often quite peaceful).

Also, if you can get reservations, Armando al Pantheon is super good traditional Roman food. We also love a small hole in the wall across the Tiber called Il Miraggio. It’s a small local trattoria that is popular with all the local families and has good basic Roman staples.

There’s also a church called the Basilica of San Clemente which is kind of near the Coliseum, and it’s super cool because it’s actually three churches built on top of each other. The first one dating to the earliest days of Christianity, then one more middle ages and one more modern. There is also even an ancient Roman cult temple under all that. You go down way deep into the ground to see it all, it’s very interesting.
It may have to do with rehearsal of memories. Some people go over and over their past, recount it often in stories told to others, discuss it with people who were there at the time. Others don't dwell on the past, don't often review it, and focus on now. It may require some repetition to engrain memories long term and keep them fresh. Although other research suggests that every revisit of a memory alters it somewhat, is a rethinking of it, and the rethinking is remembered instead of the original. Eyewitness testimony in court is notoriously unreliable. Everyone has their own contexts and remembers events in light of those contexts, rather than what actually happened. One person remembers it was a fun party, another that it was a dreadful party.
this is the most interesting possibility but the recruiter said it was the video interview I fell down in.