skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They still require external connections to be made over HTTP and not other networking protocols. This is part of why this new driver is useful. Before today, it would have been impossible to use PlanetScale directly from a worker without it.
Strong Static Typing vs. Weak Dynamic Typing
Stupid idea: Generate ~8 words... and shove them into GPT-3 to create a ~100 word novel, and make that your security code. Suddenly your security code is about a bearded elf, riding a cucumber, wielding a unicorn to defeat ice cream. Try guessing that.
The automaker analogy is a better fit for the “practice” of not handling errors on the assumption a function can’t return an unexpected value.

TDD is actually quite good at manufacturing methods to reasonable tolerance, which the Japanese did require.

Higher level tests ensure the functional output is correct and typically don’t have built in any reliance on unit tests.
I'm not familiar with relevant English vocabulary so I'm confused because authors' names mix with clothes names in the titles, not sure which is which. Also apparently nobody likes polo shirts.
Yes. Agree about TDD being more suited to low dependency software like CRUD apps or self contained libraries.

Also sometimes even if the individual parts aren’t right, the whole can still work.

Consider a function that handles all cases except for one that is rare, and testing for that case is expensive.

The overall system however can be written to provide mitigations upon composing — eg each individual function does a sanity check on its inputs. The individual function itself might be wrong (incomplete) but in the larger system, it is inconsequential.

Test effort is not a 1:1. Sometimes the test can be many times as complicated to write and maintain as the function being tested because it has to generate all the corner cases (and has to regenerate them if anything changes upstream). If you’re testing a function in the middle of a very complex data pipeline, you have regenerate all the artifacts upstream.

Whereas sometimes an untested function can be written in such a way where it is inherently correct from first principles. An extreme analogy would be the Collatz conjecture. If you start by first writing the test, you’d be writing an almost infinite corpus of tests — on the flip side, writing the Collatz function is extremely simple and correct up to large finite number.
Yeah this is exactly what happened to me, although I didn't report to phishing. It both looked real and like a phishing attempt and after independently logging into my Paypal account and not seeing anything I concluded it was definitely phishing. Pretty terrible of the Paypal system to allow this to happen though.
No _why still owns the copyright on them and if you try to republish them in violation of any license they put on them (like requiring attribution, etc.) then you are in violation of their copyright and the law.

The files and such may live forever, but your ability to publish them, reproduce them, etc. is only allowed if you were granted a license to do so.. i.e. if _why published them under a permissive or open source license.
Full stack is a valid term, but it tends to focus on the 'Übermensch'[0] type who specializes in many areas. Also see the Great Man[1] (or woman!) theory.

Personally I don't try to spread myself too thin across disciplines. If a certain prescribed set of requirements is made out by a potential employer, I reject the employer, not the other way around. Luckily we have that choice. It wasn't the case earlier where you had to fit into neat little boxes to get employed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory
You can't take back what you publish in public domain which is what happens when you publish content on the internet. You may own the copyright in technically but it would be freely shared and distributed on the internet with your only recourse being submitting DMCA notices to platforms. Youtube does this very well but only because they are required to by large corporations that can litigate.

The average HN user who posts blog content and deletes it is not going to be able to stop it from being distributed. Technically they own the copyright to its content but the end result would be identical to if he or she had announced it to be in public domain. Anybody anywhere could freely share and publish its content on platforms without any consequences unless you notify the platform with DMCA notice and it would be largely up to the discretion of the platform to comply or not as many hosting services explicitly advertise such "bulletproof" hosting.

Your own take on what's moral and not has no bearing here since we don't know how the author feels about his work being shared. Yeah I get it that he has copyright to it but its not exactly enforceable on the internet.
The parent commenter is spreading misinformation. The authors are not the same. They don't even have similar names.
There's plenty of worse things you can do in eg the chemical industries or in public relations.
Medical diversions (a passenger gets too sick) are by far the most common type. I find this interesting how the planes are so much more reliable than the passengers on board.
I avoid debuggers because if I can't debug something without them, said something is too complicated for me to understand now, let alone in the future. Moreover, if said something is that complicated, it is almost certainly wrong in several subtle ways.

One nice property of asserts is that they keep working even when your attention is elsewhere.
lol, that's one of the easier things to check on the internet, actually, given who you're asking. ;)
> will be ready to spend a big chunk of it to lobby and keep themselves relevant

Or worse than just lobbying?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32511170
How do you find Saas ideas?
> Corporations are run by people, and people are very easy to target and easy to break, especially when you have powers of an epic scale central government.

This is true of governments too. Tech lobbyists doesn't sway the people who make up the government that much. But oil, guns, and real estate very much do.
The Pyramid of Clarity
I wonder some of the time what role self deception can play in finding meaning. If we only have so much agency to make a difference in the world, how much should we beat ourselves up over the inability to change it?
The writing on currency doesn't have to be. In this case it is. Or rather, the federal laws that back up that particular writing are.

In the US at least.
Nah. Arsenic is also on the package. I've read it.

Fat-ass chunk of the table of elements, honestly. Yeah polonium like someone else said...I think. Radium for sure. Like the tobacco plants have these weird sticky hairs that suck in radioactive elements, suck in poison.

And they could filter all those poisons out. But they don't. Although like I said before, it's the only legal form of suicide. Shrinks can say nothing against it. That gives the toxicity legitimacy.
The database listener in this version of Realtime uses Postgrex - it's great
But You Told Me You Were Safe: Attacking the Mozilla Firefox Renderer (Part 1)
> (seem to remember these transactions are settled instantly interbank at the BoE, so good tech if I have remembered right)

No, participants have nostro/vostro accounts with each other, and payments are immediately settled using those. Participants shuffle money between those, including via accounts at the Bank of England if necessary, to maintain sufficient liquidity; they do that throughout the day, with a big cleanup at the end of the day, but it's not part of the transaction.

Which means that banks need to keep track of their balances with other participants, and not send customers' payments if that would take them overdrawn. Obviously this would be highly undesirable, so they work hard to keep those accounts topped up.
> the large PRODUCT NAME on top of the product is a little much

if OP's on the fence, remember that this year's MacBooks don't have white lettering that says "MacBook" below the screen anymore. You don't need an icon if you are one :)
The punishment should be more than a fine it should be jail. If you can pay for the consequences then there are no laws. Take away their freedom and make them lose time in their life.
What a shame that BNP Paribas is currently one of the most egregious greenwashing companies in the world. https://www.hdinvestmentcontent.com/post/enough-of-the-bulls...
The grid in California is run by a problematic for-profit company that has a history of starting deadly wildfires.

People should generally be willing to make sacrifices to help the greater good, I’m sympathetic to people who don’t feel obligated to do their part.
And hope that won't realize they're destroying their battery without enough compensation?
You're missing the point. Under US federal law, if I owe you a $100 debt and I hand you $100 in cash paper money then I have settled the debt. You cannot then sue me, demanding to be paid via Visa or PayPal or whatever. But this applies to debts only, not purchases.
There’s another famous 14, but at 14k feet, the Nolans 14 in Colorado: http://mattmahoney.net/nolans14/
And you know Nims personally?
Things like 'rivers down the middle' [0] [1]

Because SQL has so many opinionated style guides rather than the One True Way I really enjoy spending time, if I have it, on making my SQL as Uniform and legible as I can. Sadly this is all closed source code nowadays. But my SQL files look almost like a table with clear 'rivers' along keywords. It makes my OCD brain go a little fuzzy inside when I finish :) Also having worked on a MONSTER of a financial system powered by stored procs and autogenerated SQL, I'm talking million line SQL files you can't load in a GUI, I am very fond of legible small SQL scripts nowadays.

[0] https://gist.github.com/mattmc3/38a85e6a4ca1093816c08d4815fb...

[1] https://www.sqlstyle.guide/#white-space
Wrong thing or just not the main thing? The prevalence of private prisons is unrelated to whether or not they should be closed, never mind that they still operate within and are funded by a public system.
Esentially something like this:
https://www.xilinx.com/htmldocs/registers/am012/am012-versal...
I'd love to compare it with a 5nm x86 chip, but thanks to Apple we can only make conjecture. You can agree with me or say my approximations are wrong, but I acknowledged that there's an architectural difference (which is why I used Geekbench instead of comparing useless numbers like clock speed or memory bandwidth). x86's performance on 14nm seems to correlate with ARM's performance on 7nm. Again, if you think that's a BS conclusion; fine. I'm painting funny-numbers with Geekbench scores and approximate power scaling. You'll just have to be contented with waiting until we have a 5nm x86 chip to compare it with, because apparently we can't make ballpark estimates on HN without getting pitchforked.

Apple's chips are fast because they have lots of money. If you disagree with that, then you're no different than the kid at Disney Land who thinks Splash Mountain got built because some genius invented it. We can fight about exact figures until the sun sets, but I think my approximation was fair.
The scale of the Internet makes it, in the general case, impossible to prevent such re-hosting somewhere, at some level of publicity.

Of course, as per the laws of most countries it is also a copyright violation and the copyright holder can absolutely sue for such behavior, with penalties ranging from a legal obligation to cease to host the content to damages.
I don't see anything about the prison being sued, just the judges. [Edit] Oh I see it now. No need to keep on downvoting :)
There's already a lot of tourism. Kilimanjaro is one of the seven summits but it's accessible to anyone in decent shape and who doesn't have altitude problems. It's a tough hike, it's not mountaineering. There are debates as to exactly how to measure continents and thus which peaks qualify. Taking a narrow view of continents you get Kosciuszko (Australia) as one of the seven and it's no meaningful accomplishment--summitting it was a task on The Amazing Race one season. (Although it wasn't mentioned as one of the seven summits, just the highest point in Australia.) The only other one that someone who isn't a mountaineer can aspire to is Aconcagua (South America) and it's *far* harder than Kilimanjaro and conditions are far more brutal.
I believe they meant pay-per-use.
Yes there are definitely courses that would help with the kind of thing you're talking about. Probably the most accessible would be Khan Academy. That will explain all the "whys" of foundational stuff.

Another approach that I recommend to people all the time is the Open University. Enrolling in a course is obviously a pretty big deal because they're expensive, but you can usually find used copies of the books on eBay etc. I'd recommend MST124 for the kind of stuff you're talking about. They're hands down the best, most comprehensive maths books I've ever seen. They're written for pure self-study, so you'll rarely have questions that aren't answered by the text or by the solutions to the exercises.
That's fair but let's not pretend QA is even in the same ballpark as tests, QA is about a billion times more useful. First and foremost because they didn't write the code.

I believe strongly that developers make horrible tests because it's a completely different mindset that is not easy to switch between and near impossible if you wrote the code yourself that you are testing. We tend to lean into the "happy path" and don't even consider "outlandish" things a user might do. I have immense respect for a good QA person and I've had the privilege of working with a number of them, some I'd hire in a heartbeat if it were up to me.

I'm not 100% anti-testing but the only testing I've seen produce real results was automated browser testing, and that was only after 2 very large attempts by the development team to do it. Finally we brought in someone whose sole job was the automated browser testing suite. In a very short amount of time he had something working that was producing useful results, something our 2 previous attempts never did. I believe it was in part since he didn't work with or write any of the code, he had no preconceptions, he didn't "think" the way we did since we knew the inner workings. From this and other experiences I think QA and Dev should be 2 seperate groups/teams without overlap (don't have devs do QA, they don't like doing it and they just aren't good at it).
Is there some rationale being implied here that I don't understand?

7 flight diversions over 3 weeks doesn't sound like some type of natural disaster or geopolitical conflict to me.

Not that I know anything. Genuinely curious.
The article was literally about judges getting kickbacks from private prisons. They aren't blaming the wrong thing: This wouldn't have happened without the private prisons existing (and even more issues solved for taking away other financial incentives in the system).
Isn’t arrogance a practical requirement for attempting to best a world record by such an audacious amount? I don’t hold that against him for the same reason I don’t hold it against Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or any of the greats.

I haven’t read about him not reaching the true summit of Manaslu. I just found an article on ExplorersWeb but it doesn’t say he didn’t reach it, just that photos hadn’t been released showing it. Is this now confirmed?
Pretty sure a guaranteed 5% real return in perpetuity doesn’t exist. My understanding is that annuities are generally very vulnerable to inflation?
When it generates sentences like (from the video) 'according to the research in 2012' and 'MIT and Harvard developed Tissue-Bio', is that (intended to be) accurate? Or is that to be taken as suggested boilerplate for real facts to be replaced there?
How does this differ from instrumental? https://instrumental.com/
SAK is controlled by group policy since Windows 2000 and is disabled by default on client SKUs that are not domain member.

On the other hand all current iOS devices have some hardware level SAK-like gesture that directly confirms the user intent to the secure enclave. The overall UX design is such that it is not especially noticeable unless you know that there is such a thing.
We don't have a really effective way to make this kind of corruption stop. Increasing the fines won't result in the money getting collected. We used to have social and religious ways of dealing with those near the end of their lives who just want to burn the world for personal gain.
I haven't read the article yet, but you can pass the emitted Wasm back to the top level JS and have it instantiate a new module, potentially using the same heap.

A Wasm trampoline-continuation.

I assume this is what v86 does.
> four keys to the left of the spacebar...thank you

Hah, my gripe is that it is like this, instead of three keys. shrug
Author here, hope you like it!
I use debuggers all the time. Don’t repeat yourself and keep it simple stupid goes a long way. I’d much have something readable and easy to follow than something clever.
There is prison time. Arguably a small amount.

Ciavarella, 72, is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Kentucky. His projected release date is 2035.
Seems logical for China to just fund political parties and DEI initiatives. Cheaper than building a blue-water navy.
Deer will eat small animals.
> I should reveal that I'm an anti-monarchist and a believe that states should strip any and all powers from from their monarchies, even if they are quaint and historical anachronisms.

Curious why? Would you hold that position even if the monarch has present widespread support from the population?

Do you think something has changed to make that form of rule more objectionable than it was in the past? I.e., do you have an equally negative view of historic monarchies?
I use bookmarks extensively and the bookmarks experience on Edge and Chrome is so horrible that they have been relegated to 3rd class citizen in my workflow, I ONLY use those browsers when I MUST. All the bookmarking for me happens in Firefox, it shines in this regards (can it be better, of course, but it is leaps better than Chrome/Edge!). I think the problem is the Instagram-mentality, where everything is ephemeral and very short-lived, preserving long-term is always an afterthought, if at all.
With every firefox update I can't help but fear that they'll gut the bookmarks feature-set to bare-bones :-|
They also don't take a fee for usage. The component that takes a fee is the Relay network, which simply forwards withdrawals to wallets that don't yet have any currency (and therefore cannot pay the transaction cost of withdrawal itself), and take small fee for the service. They're just gas forwarders, not anything really special to Tornado Cash's function.

But you can use the Tornado Cash pools themselves without the relayers.
I've chosen to interpret TDD as "test driven design", based on the idea that systems designed to be easily unit-testable tend to also be easier to understand, maintain, extend, compose, repurpose, refactor, etc.

I deviate from some proponents in that I think this kind of TDD can be done while writing zero unit tests, but in practice they keep you sensitized to good design techniques. Plus the tests do occasionally catch bugs, and are otherwise a good forum to exercise your types and illustrate your code in action.
Kramer would most likely become a billionaire in crypto.
> This specifically is targeting environments where a MySQL client isn't able to run.

Oh, absolutely and I didn't mean to imply it wasn't useful, I was just saying I went down the Prisma path and will be sticking with that. Even so I'm glad this exists for times that I don't need the full weight/power of Prisma but do want to talk to a PlanetScale DB.
It's because of the redundancies. I have heard "Master Caution/Alarm" blaring on (IIRC two of) my flights, mid flight, and nobody said anything.

We just continued undisturbed and landed as we should. I'm sure the plane went to technical hangar, tho.
Sorry I meant while coding
Third-polarizing-filter experiment demystified (2004)
That's awesome. I've shared your comment with the team - they will really enjoy your feedback. Good luck building
and "when in doubt, Charlie out" is well-enough known that you can google it, so probably whoever's writing the test knows it...
> [...] and raise you a 72 page report prepared under the direction of eight prominent conservatives - people like retired federal judges, former senators, a solicitor general, an election lawyer, etc. [0]

Well, what's their reddit user names?
This is just after I left. And after me saying (in not the public channel) that samuel is maintaining Tow-Boot, other developers are helping (like me) but that didn't matter.
100% disagree with your comments on tax preparation. Something like 80%+ of tax payers could have their 1040s automatically generated by the government because they only have stuff like wage and bank interest income. The proposal was just to have the government send these taxpayers a summary that they can accept or amend, the default being they wouldn't have to do anything at all to file their taxes.

Intuit et al fought tooth and nail against this, because they knew it would cost them big time.

These companies aren't benefiting from "the free market", they are rent-seeking regulatory capture organizations.
With pieces like this you have to wonder why they include the number of two eagles projected to die each day due to windmills but no number for how many windmills they’re expecting and using as a basis for that calculation, or any numbers on the other causes of death they mention.
Everything on the internet is not assumed to be public domain. In fact if you don't put any license on it then it is assumed to be de facto copyright material and other people can't republish it without your explicit permission.
The new, certainly exponential variable, is the viral media growth in popularity of eating bugs. Viral(exponential) adoption of consuming bugs will increase the risk of (apparently already great) transmission of deadly diseases as an increasing rate.

This very conversation stands as of evidence of exponential adoption of disease transmission from bug consumption due to online media growth on the subject.
Now that's a constructive idea.
I still like my Page up and down though but that's not a bad idea either.
Without hyperbole, these two are monsters.
His Wikipedia entry reminds me of this quote from him:

"programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more"

... and I can't help but think that this experience is disproportionately part of the Ruby community he was embroiled in. I did some Ruby-on-Rails development back in the day, and yeah... It's all completely un-runnable now. But that mostly seems to be a Rails-specific issue, where the ecosystem was downright hostile to calcification of APIs, workflows, and core tools. A person could publish a whole book and have 50% of its recommendations obsoleted within two years. That has to be demoralizing for an educator and communicator. Contrast that massively with Windows binaries that still run that were built against operating system versions that existed before college graduates were born.

Various other ecosystems lack the high-speed code churn problem. I think even the Ruby ecosystem has cooled from its white-hot molten state a decade ago.
So sad. Such a waste. Won't even make it before the invasion. Trying to be valuable for a worthless president-elect of America.

It is not 3 nanometers according the Metric System anyway.

Oh well.

Mainland flags on the Taiwanese monuments. How many months away, let me check my predictions, I think 70 days or so, give or take 15. Shit getting real hot real fast.