skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly agree with you. I used to be as pro-Israel as it gets but after my visits to that area I think the burden you mr average Joe Palestinian has to bear to for example just to do normal things such as going to work or driving to see the family or take a flight that we all take for granted, is too excessive. A Palestinian depending on where he works could have somewhere between 3-5hrs commute depending on the number of checkpoints they have to cross. Now checkpoints are realities for even Israelis too but you noticeably see the difference between checkpoints on the other side and on the Palestinian side - if you have a name that even remotely sounds Arabic, even if you have an American passport you get treated harshly. Your average Joe Palestinian just gets treated like trash. Now you might say checkpoints are necessary to keep this and that safe but the reality is hundreds of thousands of people if not more are left hostages for the fault of a few bad apples who genuinely pose the threat of terrorism. Most of the average Palestinian people are good hearted people who would want to do nothing but live their lives but I can see getting treated like trash for years and going through so much hassle just to do normal things like going to work can turn them to radicalism someday. It’s a great strategy to perpetrate generational hate from society in the name of “keeping everyone safe and prevent terrorism” - and it’s visible, younger generations are significantly more radical than older ones.

Now the Palestinian leadership is absolute trash as well as they offer no real service to their people and are busy with endless corruption. And it’s visible everywhere- even areas they fully control. The other thing is there are areas in Palestinian controlled zones (C) where you can’t even go if you look white as you genuinely risk your lives. The other way around is not generally true, even though you may have to go through checkpoints.

At this point I don’t think there is any solution to this crisis unfortunately.
Thanks. Regarding the first point, I remember that he was very adamant that functional decomposition was a catastrophe, but I didn’t reach the part where he presented the solution, which based on your comment seems to be decomposing on volatility.

I suppose it is another tool in the box, however in the video it was about to be introduced as nothing less than a magic bullet.

Regarding the second point, I’m not sure I agree. An architect could get involved in staffing decisions and any project has a list of risks, for example I’ve maintained such lists as part of the architecture description. But I would define these these are side-tasks and not as core tasks.
I don't believe I'm overacting as in my case the evidence is there with broken zippers (and that's many over the years). And I'm not alone, hence the quote from the story connected to these posts where the author has had similar experiences.

Moreover, zippers often fail at the most inconvenient times and that stands to reason, as zippers are involved at either the beginning or end of some more important process and the interruption to said process is often highly inconvenient.

Let me give you an anecdote (it's only but one of many nevertheless a notable one). Years ago, I worked alone in an office with three young women, one was my secretary and the other two were helpdesk assistants (I was always well behaved and it's something I'd never risk doing these days).

One day they all left the office together for lunch leaving me alone to continue working. During that hour I went to the toilet and my pants zipper broke necessitating a quick retreat to my office where I would attempt a temporary fix. Back there, the only practical and quick solution I could come up with was to take the very large paper stapler capable of stapling a half inch of paper and staple my fly back together - note, this was done with my pants still on as it was too risky to do otherwise.

Anyway, in the middle of the process the women all arrived back from lunch. Fortunately, they all broke out in hysterical laughter. I'd hate to think what would happen if that were to happen to me again today, I'd likely be charged with harassment.

That never happens with buttons, one may come off but in such circumstances that's hardly the drama of a broken zipper.

I'd add, it seems that from your experience with zippers that you've been unusually lucky (perhaps you can afford more expensive clothes than me).
Depends how it holds up and what their warranty program is like.
The level of self-perceived vs. actual competence in the crypto space never ceases to amaze.

A mea culpa of “The one thing we purport to be good at we actually have literally no understanding of and when shit doesn’t work we just run it a few times with different arguments.” My god.
I got an iFixit Mako set for less than 60 or 70 USD on a Black Friday sale a couple of years ago. Should I get this screwdriver instead, or is the Mako set suffice? AFAICT the Mako set is better bang for the buck, but I don't know the pros and cons of this LTT screwdriver.
As usual with all these trite dating app articles - not a single heterosexual man is represented. It’s always the plight of gay men, straight women, and so forth. Often for these groups - they have abundant choice and are just unable to settle down with the idea they won’t get to date an Instagram model.

For most straight men - dating apps are a form of purgatory and Sisyphusian efforts. The difference is so starkly different compared to all of the other people I know who aren’t straight men. Only straight men I know who don’t have these issues tend to be incredibly physically attractive to the point where they’d have women come up to ask them out on dates everyday. (Unheard of for an average man)

My advice is to pickup activities where women are and that have a natural social element. There are almost none of these btw. Social dancing is about the only one that exists still. The rest of activities out there that are social and involve meeting new people are completely dominated by men. Just brutally so. Most women I know don’t go out to meet new people via social activities like dancing. They go to insular parties, hang out with core group of friends, or stay home and watch Netflix. Very few are truly outgoing and willing to take the leap and meet new people by themselves. I can count on maybe one hand all the women I’ve met who are like that - and I’ve met thousands.
I’d be really interested in this as well (disc. – I work on Wagtail). This feels so similar to our vision for the CMS aside for the fact the project has been running for a while and is in Python land.
You know nothing about china. I suggest reading up on the different Chinese dynasties before making uneducated statements
For what it's worth, it looks like Jewglers is a name the group calls itself [0]. It doesn't appear to be some racist phrase the employee made up.

[0] https://www.seroundtable.com/photos/google-jewglers-menorah-...
No, this is a first hand account of the repression inflicted by the world's leading Marxist state.
The tide is turning quite rapidly in Australia. New government held an “EV Summit” a few weeks ago outlining their hopes and will release a policy discussion paper late September. We will get to 5% of new car sales as EVs faster than any other OECD country has - just a shame we will be last to do so, haha.

I’m not convinced EVs as grid response or virtual powerplants will be as important as people think. No EVs on sale right now can do it except the Nissan LEAF and the hardware required (a rectifier) is not cheap (approx A$10k). I’m also sceptical car owners will get much value out of it. Is it worth the hassle just for a few bucks on your electricity bill every month?

Fleets however represent much more of an opportunity. Buses, heavy vehicles (garbage trucks, delivery trucks, etc) and general fleet cars that are idle at night in a depot could be quite lucrative.
Precisely! I saw an NDC Cooenhagen talk recently. I think it was called “Biggest mistakes in programming” or something like that. In the talk the guy mentioned at some point fixing a db problem.

The way he described it, he was contracted to describe the problem and provide guidance on how to fix it. Not to actually fix, just analyse and describe the solution. But the problem was so simple he just made the fix and offered to do it there and then. They didn’t accept that, they insisted on getting a report and steps to fix. So he does that. He sends them a document and doesn’t hear from them for a while.

Six months later, he gets an email “Can you please come over to discuss your findings?” The “discuss your findings meeting” he describes as being easily a £100.000 meeting.

All this could have been avoided if they just did the fix there and then. But there is a culture a bureaucracy and ass covering.

I have no doubt, this sort of thing is prevalent in other industries as well. It’s not always reasonable safety regulations. Often times it’s bureaucracy running in circles and driving up costs for no reason .
Not simultaneously. One or the other, and I think it depends on context, especially if one comes after the other. Together with 3, 7 is almost always orange, but alone it can be yellow. 3 is orange on its own sometimes.

And orange here is more like butterscotch the flavor than it is the color. Gah, no wonder I trained myself out of it.

I envy those who have a 1-to-1 mapping of sensation to concept. For me it is just a big ol' inchoate mélange.

Do you enjoy it?
For sure.

The majority wish is peaceful reunification, with a small (but growing) wish for independence.
This is the type of image that is commonly found on paperback book covers. The figures and setting suggest a rich backstory to entice someone to buy the book, there is no deeper meaning to be gained and no self-respecting art critic would waste their time on this.
You need to insert a limited lifespan alongside "don't die"... and maybe also reproduce as much as possible
Not really. Right in the paragraph above that one:

> Recipients of cash wired in error are typically required to return it.
If our arguments can be so pedantic, then I can say: sure, Haskell is forever a research language. But that's irrelevant to me, because I use no-longer-really-Haskell.
Today's mainstream religion is something entirely different from yesteryear. I'm a Muslim, who has good friends who have faith in any and almost every religion (excl. extremists).

The subject is completely invisible to us except when we discuss interesting parts of the religions we believe.

I for one believe that religion is an ethics and conscience system, and when practiced correctly, all of them points to the same direction, albeit with different narratives and paths.
This thread is full of people commenting along the lines of "I have been able to manage my weight successfully, so other people must be fat because they're lazy idiots."

HN is full of people who will accept nuance and complexity in technical discussions. Why not in this area as well, where individual biology, cultural expectations, economic incentives, and environmental factors intersect with personal choice?
The currency was USDC, which is a stablecoin pegged at $1 by Circle (www.circle.com) who are generally held to be reputable, so it very much was real money.
It is the core issue.

The importance of TSMC has been vastly exaggerated. In case of war their factories would be destroyed anyway. Remove TSMC and the importance of Taiwan remains exactly the same.

If the USA doesn't protect Taiwan it'll be their Suez canal moment. The moment the British and the French realized they were not great powers anymore.
> or keep rotating your wrist back and forth regardless of whether you have a normal or ratcheted one

What goes away with the ratchet is the continuous clench/unclench action. While I don't normally have any other RSI-like issues, that movement just kills my wrist after 1 or 2 screws. I've got a ratchet screwdriver with an option to twist/bend it in the middle to get better leverage and the difference is amazing.
I screened a candidate last month who insisted on keeping the camera off. Gave perfectly worded answers. Several things were off, e.g. not knowing certain industry acronyms etc.
Sun has a good warning banner on their ZFS appliances. It made you thing twice before proceeding. Shown here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195007
That sort of argument is just silly. Do you have a job you get paid for, where the primary output expected from you is code? Congrats, you're a professional dev.
Project Nimbus, costing $1.2 billion, will transfer Israel’s data into six cloud-based storage centers over the next several years. Koren said the project would enable surveillance of Palestinians.

Bit of a stretch, isn’t it? You could theoretically claim that these cloud centers are responsible for anything that Israel does that you’re not a fan of, by her logic. In reality, they’re just cloud centers, she hates Israel, and will take any excuse to hurt them in any way possible.
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> Colossus gives you append-only files, halfway between a file store and an object store. This is not an abstraction that most developers are comfortable with.

Most of the files I use are append-only (or in fact write-once).

The only files that are random-access are database files (but I prefer using the filesystem as an approximation to a database; not sure to what extent Colossus can serve that usecase; e.g. does it provide transactions?)

Do you have other examples of files that are not append-only or write-once?
>"X wants to do X, Y, Z, Q, E, D, A, B, C on your device. Is that ok?"

That's NOT capability based security. (Like Java/Javascript, there's confusion)

In a capability based system you use a power box (a system supplied dialog box) to select files for a program to operate on, just like users do already with file select dialog boxes. It's just that the program ONLY gets capability to operate those files and nothing else. There's no complicated flags or anything like that to mess with.

You pick the photo to print and the printer to send it to and you're done.
Someone who is also from South Africa who lives in Israel disagrees with you. [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/AcEL-NlxBk0
> In the latter you can spin up a new service in a couple of hours. In the former a couple of months is a blistering pace.

In the latter you can harm society in ways that take a couple of hours to fix. In the former, you can cause harms that take months or years to fix (and, with enough lobbying, you can make taxpayers foot the bill).
I did, both the video and the pictures on their website. It is too bulky for my taste, sizably larger than what people tend to use here in Europe. It must also be heavier, due to it housing the metal inserts. But then again, I'm probably not their target market. It's a niche product.
Question: How are migrations handled? Can I rename fields without losing my data? Can I change a relation without losing the underlying data? Are there other edgecases where I lose my data?
UX is not about putting the blame on someone, but to prevent errors. For this reason confirmations are not really the best practice. Sure, they reduce the number of mistakes by some margin, but they never get it 100%.

The better alternative will be instead of asking for confirmation to ask to explain the intent by picking one of the options or writing it down. Ideally, an alternative must be suggested. This will avoid automatic reaction, because there's no one clear path to the goal.
What is a great developer? Are they people who single-handedly deliver memorable products of such scale or in such short times as to be amazing? Are they people who raise the level of their team to significantly higher levels? Either way, such people are known by production -> reputation. Once there, some write about the path (bell labs).

I am unaware of a coaching analog as in pro sports - for development, one must do the work.
How many countries did China coup, bomb or invade?

We're all painfully aware of how many countries the US did that to, since most of were born in one.
The A100 isn’t a miner. It trains machine learning models. It’s being replaced by the H100 shortly, which is part of the ban, too.
>Airlines do well

Isn't airlines one of the worst performing industries, with companies which often require subsidies, and are always on the verge of collapsing?

And that has been this way, way before Covid...
It is absurdly scalable in contrast to other filesystems, and extremely reliable. Also, you get per-file control over replication level (file-level durability/availability), plus comprehensive permissions management.
> Even if they do they are far away from fabrication.

Where do you think most of the electronics is manufactured?
Cash, being paper, would probably float.... Sadly for oceanic finance transfers, it's mostly gold, and that stuff sinks fast.
Most are indoctrinated. They do not understand the consequences of such a war on their country.
Since Gmail allows this.

Not all providers are Gmail.
It's a meme. But that aside, two groups can both do bad things.
The best comment on this issue that I've heard so far[0]:

> Out: Art that makes the public mad by deconstructing the idea of art

> In: Art that makes artists mad by deconstructing the idea of artist

There's space for various forms of art competition. You could have pure competitions with stricter constraints on what is or isn't allowed.

I love that humanity has developed so many new highly advanced tools which allow greater artistic expression by a broader range of people. The creation of the synthesizer didn't kill the guitar, it just opened the door to a whole new world of musical expression.

If I wanted to capitalize on the AI craze that's currently happening I'd host an AI-generated art competition / exibition. I'm surprised nobody from the companies that are developing these AI tools has tried doing that. It would be really interesting to see what kinds of works people are coming up with after investing dozens or hundreds of hours into these AI tools.

I suspect a lot of AI artwork will end up looking kinda same-y after a while, but a few people will figure out how to hack around with prompt engineering to get really interesting and unique results.

[0] https://twitter.com/C_Harwick/status/1564948225781555202
> The fines are generally in the order of $100k-$250k.

Seems like the budget for a F1 team is around 140 million Euro/year. Not sure these fines make anybody feel uncomfortable.
plus 23,000 $250 backpacks in the last few weeks
That was one of the basic questions being looked into for long duration missions.

One idea was to use higher gravity areas to reduce the need to devote time to exercise on Mars or in space etc.
Google’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid: How Google Weaponizes “Diversity”
Apple decimated Meta's ad-tech empire. Now, it's targeting its advertisers
People have pointed out numerous factors to you that are beyond one's control - including your control - and your response continues to be to deflect and to rudely deride their abilities. What exactly are you trying to establish? Everyone is just pretending that email is difficult?
To the author... I'd suggest a rewrite of what you're trying to communicate because your usage of "good-argument-driven" is a textbook example of Begging The Question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

For discussion's sake, let's go along with excluding data/metrics/science in pushing for arguments. In this framework, what exactly is a "good" argument based on? Gut feel? Opinion?

There was a famous quote by Jim Barksdale, the former CEO of Netscape: "If we have data, let’s look at the data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine."

(So the tie-breaker in competing arguments in that case was "hierarchy-of-arguer-driven".)

So Jane and Bob disagree on the next action to take. Jane thinks her argument is a "good argument" but has no data. But Bob thinks he has a "good argument" but no data.

How does this thread's blog post help resolve the above scenario? (Blog's answer: you're driven by the one that has the good argument.) ... which is circular.
In all languages, sometimes you want eager evaluation and sometimes you want lazy evaluation.

If things are lazy by default, you simply need to put a "!" before the term to evaluate in order to get eagerness.

If things are eager by default, you need to rewrite the algorithm as a streaming algorithm.
A lot of the gee-whizz stuff about EVs and grid focuses on the car powering the grid. But most of the benefit comes from opportunistic charging to help renewable rollout.

You can look up the details of what a home charger needs to do to get UK government funding support. I'd imagine Australia will follow suit.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulations-electric-vehicle-sma...
Transible – your way to “Infrastructure as Code” with Ansible
Cloud resources management might be tough for big companies, small companies that start their cloud journey, or companies without much SRE and DevOps expertise, or even with it. Although there is no way to avoid working with clouds today, it's never easy and cost management and vendor lock remain the most complicated problems.
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Use playbooks generated by Transible for easier management and full automation of your cloud.

Automation of cloud provision
Use Transible which will generate an automated playbook for you at once, and since then all you need to do is just change the code there to maintain your infrastructure, automation is done!

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Reproduce your infrastructure (for testing purposes for example)
Use Transible to generate a deployment code for you and just run it on a different environment to duplicate what you have.

How about to move your infrastructure to a different region, zone, or cloud provider?
Deploying to a different region or different cloud provider, like transferring resources from AWS to Azure, from Azure to Openstack is going to be much more challenging and this feature is currently under heavy development in Transible.

How to use Transible?
It's just simple as it is:

git clone https://github.com/sshnaidm/transible
# For AWS (make sure you have your credentials in ~/.aws/config) so far EC2 and VPC services are supported.
./transible.py --from aws --to ansible
# For Openstack (make sure you have your ~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml)
./transible.py --os-cloud my-cloud-name --from openstack --to ansible

And find your playbooks in a 'aws_generated_playbooks' directory for AWS or 'os_generated_playbooks' for Openstack. See the demo: https://asciinema.org/a/Wsad95zocPJIMp4bJV0dnklaA

Please report any feature requests or bugs in Github repo: https://github.com/sshnaidm/transible/issues
Thanks!
The primary employee responsible for the screwdriver seemed to be a production engineer with 10 years experience. I’m also aware of experienced product designers they employ. Linus himself has product management experience, and probably employs some PMs too.
I thought dark patterns were user interfaces where you e.g. want to deny all cookies but there is only a big green button to accept everything and only a small light-grey x that opens the settings...

On the other hand it IS being critizied that air lines or online dealers set different pieces depending on e.g. if you use an iPhone or an Android phone.
Oliver Schmidt had an engineering degree, but he was a Volkswagen AG executive and was the manager of the Volkswagen emissions office in Michigan.