skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right - that's why I think just doing "immersion therapy", where you have the opportunity to talk to a bunch of people about tech things would help. You clearly have the skills in you based on how you write, you just need to unlock them orally through some practice. You could also just go out and talk to strangers or whoever, but it would probably be most beneficial to do tech-talking, since there is a lot of unique lingo involved.
If you are looking for a better way to run your team meetings, worth taking a look at TeamRetro. They have some great ready to go templates as well as some great features that help you facilitate your retros and health checks.
Goff's Gaffes Wrt Panpsychism
But if they turn off at your nominal bed time, isn't that bed time based on the clock, which is affected by daylight savings?
The question, though, is why are you presenting live in the modern age in the first place? Perhaps 100 years ago there wasn't much choice but to form an assembly in a meeting room to present your information, but with all the technology we have today – and especially when you are working from home – that is completely unnecessary and counterproductive.

A meeting can be very valuable, but only when the meting takes place after the participants have taken in the presentation and are ready to discuss it. After they've understood the material and have gathered any additional context needed to relate the information to the bigger picture.

In my experience, when you do this the people involved will be much, much more engaged and you will see far more productive results from that. The "Let me bombard you with new information without the full context. Any questions?" meetings never go anywhere because the attendees haven't come prepared with the context they need. The people generally want to be engaged, but when something is sprung on them, it is hard to work with. Even when people do speak up, you can hear that they're struggling to relate it all together. Things are very different when it is an "after the fact" meeting.

I suppose it is fun to reenact the past once in a while, but it is strange that we want to do it so frequently when it so clearly falls flat.
CUE is far superior to Jsonnet from my experience. The Validation and abstractions feel much more native
Its not google play store forcibly replacing the app. I think its when automatic update of google playstore is happening to your kindle app that its getting replaced.
Just disable automatic update for in play store for.
Brownsville is still dangerous? For some reason I thought they were calming down there and East New York was the dodgy place now in Brooklyn.
And Yeah Harlem seems to be on the up and up.
> I wonder whether you'd be willing to go into a meta-discussion on that, perhaps not public? I seem to hit this kind of stalemate too often and need someone's help to close the gap. I can see your email address in your profile.

Feel free to email me. I'll be offline for part of the next two weeks though.

> I don't see how consistent and repeated "can't work" answers can lead to a collaboration on an actual solution. I'm not even the proposer of the optimization, but I can see it has merit and doesn't have high intrinsic complexity.

Well, it's easy to say that something doesn't have a high intrinsic complexity from the outside, if you haven't spent years in the guts of a system.

> > always packing columns would turn an operation that doesn't currently rewrite into a rewriting operation

> I don't think this is necessarily true. What is the operation that would rewrite that doesn't already, assuming the same shape of solutions already used?

Adding a column to a table. Right now that doesn't require a rewrite, if it were always optimally packed it would (or alternatively increase the per-row overhead).

> > The per-row overhead would be too large - we already have problems with that.

> I read this as "the proposal can't work because [...]", on another thing that feels like a technicality. There are likely all sorts of bit-packing and other options that would make the overhead low, and the Postgres per-row overhead is already so large that it seems doubtful that it'd be that big a deal.

Shrug. I've spent a lot of time working on postgres, including heap storage. Within the constraints of where we are, I am quite confident that it's not realistic to add that. There's larger possible redesigns (and I've spent working on attempts) that could make it more realistic, but it'd be a lot of work - and I'm doubtful it's the most productive way to spend the effort.

I think time would be much more wisely spent removing the need for most of the alignment padding - for by-value types that's solely needed because of an ancient design choice, namely that system catalogs need a C struct compatible layout. That can be addressed in less harmful ways (two things discussed so far, 1) only pad by-value columns in catalog tables 2) auto-generate mapping code to/from the catalog tuple format to struct format). With that a lot of the padding overhead vanishes - many by-reference types have lower alignment requirements.

I might also be a bit overly sensitive around this - I hear "why don't you simply do this [immensely complicated and fragile sketch of a proposal]" a LOT.
Sweet, turning 40 soon.
Isn't CUE basically that?

https://cuelang.org/docs/about/#history
Yeah, woke rhetoric is a preferred tool of a certain type of bully these days; it’s often used to reinforce privilege hierarchies (especially class based ones) rather than deconstruct them. Which is unfortunate because people start to tune it out, allowing genuine misconduct to fly under the radar.
30 seconds, very impressive!
This layout is challenging to navigate with a keyboard.
From https://aptera.us/faq/:

>Is Aptera a car?

>No, Aptera is not a car. We call it a Solar Electric Vehicle, because it’s powered by the sun and also charged with batteries when plugged in. Technically speaking, Aptera can be classified as a motorcycle or auto-cycle. A helmet is not required because Aptera is enclosed, and the vast majority of states only require that you have a regular driver’s license to operate Aptera.
the Curve USTw-3CRV pool "failed"
The point is by the time you reach mid 40s, ensure you don't have to depend on a salary to run a family.
I mean if this definition was applied consistently, I would be happy to use it. But when speaking about e.g H-1B visa holders working in the US and taking jobs or raising house prices, they are called immigrants not expats. In fact I have never heard the term expat being applied to any immigrant to the West, even though many do return home eventually.

More fundamentally, it seems a bit silly to define different words to describe essentially the same people with the exception of their long term plans years into the future. Those plans can change for many reasons.

In your example of someone who stays for 10 years and then moves home, do you think they planned to move home all along? Did they even know what they would do 10 years later as a 18-22yo coming to college? Most of us don't. They were seemingly immigrants for 10 years right up until the point they decided to move home..
If you had a point you wouldn't be so flippant.
That's only the obvious ones.
A text adventure. Touches data structures, parsing, data representation. And then you get to have fun picking up the lamp and dropping it somewhere else. :)
The author is affiliated with Virginia Governor Youngkin. There is definitely an agenda being pushed here, probably for Youngkin. Interesting that the author is calling for an end to political games within the CDC when he's playing one himself.

Pandemics are hard. If the CDC doesn't present a unified public voice, then a large chunk of the population will latch on to the people they agree with, and no policy would be effective. So I can understand how it came to this.

Ultimately we need someone we can trust running that org (I'm not taking a position here). And not everyone is going to trust them and they will be blamed for any mistakes. Sometimes there isn't time to do the science, so it ends up being an educated guess at maximizing reward vs risk. It's not a position I would want to hold.
I think that's a more complicated explanation than necessary. If their private valuation is higher than their public valuation it means they can raise money more cheaply while private.
Sounds like an easy case to win.
> several founding members of Rocky were responsible for starting CentOS in the first place

Hum, that's a subjective view of the history of "CentOS" told by Greg Kurtzer...

In practical terms, Greg just helped setup the legal structure around the distribution that Rocky McGough created.

In the 20 years history of CentOS, Greg Kurtzer stayed 2 years at the beginning, doing mainly PR/legal/community stuff, then left when Lance Davis inherited the ownership of the project after Rocky committed suicide.

I'm not sure anyone is calling Greg a "CentOS founding member" except himself, everywhere.
People said the same thing when they invented the printing press and the radio and pretty much any other time it suddenly became easier for people to get their message out.

On the whole I tend to view it as a good thing overall rather than a negative.
China's economy contracts in Q2, global risks darken outlook
It creates nested data without looking like the end format of the data (why I really can't get into jsonnet), it's just obviously its own language but is pretty minimal.

Despite the minimalism it is not necessarily simple. There are features like inheritance and late binding. They can be quite complicated, but the thing that really stands out about GCL is it's not complicated to use. The simple cases are easy, straightforward, and readable. The complicated cases are made possible.

I've used it extensively to store and transform data that has to be manually edited by humans. It's a really great format because I can define all the translation rules which can get pretty complicated, but the complexity I expose to the humans who are writing the data is minimal. But if they need to do some transformations on the data or even just, like, string substitutions...the language is there and they can use it. That's what makes writing your data in a configuration language nice.

(Honestly though I think jsonnet is at least vastly superior to skycfg and the whole starlark ecosystem. I swear I'm so sick of languages that intentionally look like Python without being actual Python!)
That is not a correct use of ad hominem. Translated literally, it is "against the person," which is what an ad hominem attack is -- an argument against the bearer of the idea that does not argue against the idea itself.

An argument against the idea was almost presented (anonymous staffers whose quotes cannot be independently verified) but was let down by its conclusion (it falls to the reputation.)

There was nothing in OP's argument that contradicted the claims that were made other than those that go against the reputation of the author, ergo even if they are valid, they are definitely _ad hominem_.
The fact that the messages are gone is pretty good evidence that they're incriminating.
Even better, a text adventure writing system. Doing that was how I learned C++, yea many years ago.
I have the strange opinion that US COVID policy was terrible, but it wouldn't have made much difference if it had been excellent.

The choices that mattered were mostly those that expedited or delayed the vaccine. A canny gambler might have gotten us the vaccine several months earlier, maybe blunting the horrible toll of the first winter. But the type of human who would have been willing to try that never gets anywhere near any real power in today's federal government. The system is incorrigibly biased against change of any kind, and would rather be gored by a charging rhino than risk stepping out of the way.

Maybe universal masking with actual masks (not cloth rubbish) would have helped slow the spread better prior to the vaccine deployment.
Sure, it works for a narrow use-case like a pure function that just queries and returns data. What about stored procedures/triggers that mutate data on insert/delete etc?

With one-box, you can assign a specific set of customers/canaries to be served by the new 1-box and validate your results. If there is a problem you rollback and only your canary data was affected. It is just not very simple IMO.
His people are still in charge.
It certainly helped change my mind on the matter.
Thanks for that. I wasn't even aware that I had an option to get one that wasn't sending all my winter heat out.
Cue doesn't resemble GCL at all.

From that link:

> However, the early design of GCL went for something simpler that coincidentally was also incompatible with the notion of graph unification. This simpler approach proved insufficient, but it was already too late to move to the earlier foreseen approach. Instead, an inheritance-based override model was adopted. Its complexity made the earlier foreseen tooling intractable and they never materialized. The same holds for the GCL offsprings that copied its model.

Needless to say I disagree with the Cue author. I think the inheritance-based override model is fantastic and has made for a great and straightforward configuration language.
Nice to see the Alternatives section of the documentation! Talking plainly about options and tradeoffs is so useful.
Blair being Orwell. It amused me to think of Tony Blair saying what you quoted though.
Might be relatively easy. I dont think you need to classify anything in the sense of speech diarization; just gotta check mike levels and do some stats to estimate starting and stopping. Time to learn linux audio apis I guess.
Yeah it doesn’t strike me as good journalism. Good journalists are typically very reluctant to publish unattributed quotes - they often look for a compelling reason to let someone speak anonymously and, if they find one, they explain that reason to their readers. Heck, even most bad journalists (e.g. from biased publications) at least attribute their quotes. This article is filled with quotes that have no source and therefore no credibility.
This is every company I’ve known. It’s a pain to do the write up and mostly just used to shop around.
Actually excellent observation (ignoring agency of Ukraine as an independent nation state). First time that I see it in on English speaking forums.

It's common russian rhetoric those days: they flat out deny that Ukraine is an independent state. It comes in a few variants

- After 2014 Ukraine doesn't have legitimate government therefor they are not a state

- Ukraine was never a state, it's just mistake

- Ukraine is just a project of communist party after 1917 revolution and it failed

- Ukraine is managed by USA/Anglo-Saxons/Collective West, hence it's not a real state

- Mix of above

It's also rather common instead of writing Ukraine to write 404
We discovered a 7-year old performance Issue in Elixir (2020)
Another big difference is how much pressure COVID can exert on the hospital system. The COVID hospitalization rates are magnitudes larger than the worst ever flu season.
And even worse is that there is no appeal process available.

Absolutely disrespectful.
It of course has numerous allusory and whistling characteristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense

It certainly has populist appeal, and is consciously used to evoke same.
I'm surprised, if the website isn't overselling this could actually be pretty good for the commuting I already do by train (zone 2, daily average of 20 miles). It's less ideal for where I'd rather live (zone 4, probably a higher daily average, with much less train access making a vehicle a better purchase) but still doesn't seem too bad at all.

My gut feeling is "it's too good to be true". I wouldn't pre-order, but I will tentatively await to see early results.

Also I part of me wants to pronounce it "a ptera" as in "a pterodactyl" rather than "ap-terra".
A long time back, for me it was Wolfenstein-style 2.5D rendering. I first wrote it in Perl 4 - MacPerl using quicktime (quickdraw?) on a pre-OSX Mac (System 9 probably). Just a "move around in a space" type demo rather than a game. The "2.5D" referred to the tricks that let you go up and down stairs/ramps, but you could never go above or below another navigable space.

Rewrote it in at least Java (applet and standalone), Z80 assembler, Pascal, PHP, Python, JavaScript, C - and from memory gave up and failed to get it working in 486 assembler and 68k assembler.

It's been at least 10 or 15 years since I tried. Maybe I need to see if I still have the chops to get it working on Arduino or RP2040 or something...
Ah ok .. thanks for that details. Puppet was also called a configuration manager and it had the capability to generate configuration files of any format in a dynamic way (via support of variables, parameters etc).
Hot reloading is a user(/developer) facing tool. You open up the application and put some of your own code in it. Platform vendors have almost universally rejected this model because it takes away control from them, but just like all apps load system libraries because they’re signed and trusted the solution here is to allow the hot reloader to add their own root of trust along with the one in the OS. Then you can just sign your own interpositions and load them safely.
Agreed, but we'd better zip up our flame proof suits before the chalk fans arrive. Look, I appreciate dark mode as much as the next guy and the chalk bouncing trick is super slick, but my god, the sound.
C++ parsing being undecidable, and C having the Most Vexing Parse, are the classic arguments for developing a grammar using a parser generator, and only when the grammar is mature, write a handrolled implementation using the grammar as a reference.

I happen to think generating useful software from declarative grammar specifications is, hmm. Not limited to what such frameworks have been capable of to date. Although if you've only worked with yacc/bison, and never ANTLR, you may be underestimating the quality of a generated parser with respect to error recovery and messages. The state of the art has advanced, I don't think anyone would claim parity with artisanal handcrafted softwares, but we can get a lot more than "barf: shift-reduce bunchanumbers" these days.
> Sounds dubious. Can't imagine you're getting much power from an extra panel on the hood over the course of a drive?

It's not primarily about charging while driving, it's increasing the range added from charge time while parked under the sun. Think parked all day while at work. It will increase the range of your commute to/from work, assuming it can charge in sunlight throughout the workday.
Which parts are those exactly? Even the strictest countries like Germany no longer have any entry restrictions.
I would disagree that the kind of data being talked about lends itself to misuse. Management in general, and especially in well run companies, tends to be responsible and judicious in their use of various metrics and getting a good, holistic view of employee interactions and engagements is vital to ensuring that high performers are identified and adequately mentored.
Ideally, this type of data could be paired with a sentiment analysis engine and an emotional identifying model that could help coach negative employees toward more positive and beneficial interactions. This is an area that would require a delicate balance to prevent misuse, but, given most HR departments hesitance to act without strong background information, it would likely be a net positive in nearly every case.

'scuse me I need to go wash my mouth with soap. I just gamed the metrics that would be produced with this and I feel dirty.
I'm not a scientist with a publishing history, so we can't tell.
A 1 square meter solar panel generates 200W (when aimed perfectly at the sun).
Since the car's top is a flat surface (as opposed to tilted towards the sun), that's cos(30) * 200W, or 173W.
A typical compact car (Honda Civic) has a surface area of about 8 square meters if it were a perfect rectangle.

That's 8 * 173 = 1.384 kW, or 1.86 horsepower under wildly optimistic circumstances.

I call bullshit.
> Can't imagine you're getting much power from an extra panel on the hood over the course of a drive?

It's not just over the course of a drive. It's charging while your car is parked out in the sun all day long.

> Website also states that me, living in boston, driving 40 miles a day would only need to charge 6 times a year? There's just no way that's accurate.

Back of the envelope, that seems reasonable enough:

700 W * 12 hours/day * 2/pi (to account for sun angle over the course of the day) = ~5.4kWh/day.

Cut that in half to account for lousy Boston weather, and you get 2.7 kWh/day.

If they can get 10 mi/kWh (a Tesla gets ~4 mi/kWh), then that's 27 miles/day, which leaves you 13 miles/day short. Their battery provides 1000 miles of range, so you'd need to charge every 76 days, or about 5 times per year.
> There is no crime wave.

People who live in this city disagree with you. See the DA recall.

> There is a lot of drug use and mental illness visible on the streets in two small neighborhoods in the entire city. The Tenderloin and Soma which wrap the now, post covid, more vacant downtown.

And Mission, and Haight, and countless other areas. Sure some of these are not absolute disaster areas like some of the others, but I think you've become far too accustomed to the utter disgustingness of much of the city.

> The rest of the city is as clean and safe as ever.

That's not saying much. Don't worry, Pac Heights and Mission Bay are nice and clean!

> Here’s the real thing to consider. I’m sure you, like most people that voted to remove the DA and support this insane surveillance initiative, do not live in the affected neighborhoods. You won’t be now subjected to 24 hour police surveillance just for the crime of living in the wrong zip code like myself and my neighbors will.

I live close enough to the Tenderloin to be affected by it daily, and yes I'm very happy the insane DA was recalled.

> We tried broken windows policing for 30 years. And all it did was balloon the criminal records of young males who were unlucky enough to live in the zip codes and neighborhoods that received the majority of police attention in cities throughout the country.

Oh please. We've been coddling criminals here for decades. There is massive amounts of crime here because criminals know that they can act with impunity.

> The reality is that once downtown recovers from the office vacancies caused by the covid remote work shift, things will return to normal. With or without putting me under 24 hour surveillance.

People have been complaining about how dirty the city is, and the crazy drug-abusing homeless for a long time at this point. It would be nice if we could improve on that instead of going back to that.
For those wondering, this pertains to Google's ads division.
We use it for mina (https://github.com/MinaProtocol/mina). AMA
Yeah, and I really don't find Teslas all that interesting.
mine was, rising in 96, is that self taught stuff takes a while to understand, even if you do not understand
Can Bristlecone Pines Survive Climate Change?
Which measure are you using?
Backend dev. I enjoy implementing UNIX shells or simple lisps. Sometimes I'll pick an RFC I also want to learn about and implement that protocol as a client / server / both.
Might be dangerous, might not be. It changes with the antigen and if the vaccine is adjuvented (not a real word, but if it has an adjuvent in it, mostly done in a pandemic situation like 2009). The dose probably matters too, but I don't know much about that. Flu vaccines in the past have caused GBS, etc. permanent narcolepsy (no one uses that one anymore, but there might be something else that has the same issue). The whole thing is a fuzzy statistical risk calculation, so what's the risk of getting vaccinated vs the risk of not getting vaccinated. Nasal mist flu vaccines could be better for children, because it produces a better T-cell response and LAIV4 at least has no adjuvents.
Just because it doesn’t match your own political alignment doesn’t mean it’s wrong.