skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the movie "Crumb" he moves to France.
I think you're thinking of Firefox.
I think "why" comments are the most useful, but "what" comments are a bit undervalued. A few types of "what" comments are, I find, very useful:

1. Comments that are effectively headers:

# If the user is foobar, do thing
user = User.find(current_user_id)
user.preload_bizbaz!(cache: false)
is_foobar = user.bizbaz.foobar.status == "yes"
if (is_foobar) { do_thing(user) }

Yes, you can read the 4 lines of code to see the "what' - the comment is duplicative. But when I'm skimming through a large codebase trying to find or understand something, these headers can be invaluable.

2. Comments on dense code

# Matches any email like foo@bar.com (only .com, .net, .org email addresses)
return email.match(/^.*@.*\.(com|net|org)$/)

Yes I can that regex, but I can read that comment a lot faster.
Dylan Field (Figma co-founder) rapping
It's not the foreign part that bothers me- it's the adversary part.
An old discussion arose about the need for backups. We had backups for most databases but no process was implemented for ElasticSearch databases. Also, that database was a read model and by definition, it wasn’t the source of truth for anything. In theory, read models shouldn’t have backups, they should be rebuilt fast enough that won’t cause any or minimal impact in case of a major incident. Since read models usually have information inferred from somewhere else, It is debatable if they compensate for the associated monetary cost of maintaining regular backups

My biggest concern about restoring that Elasticsearch backup would be that the restored backup would be inconsistent with the real source of truth and it might be hard to reconcile to bring it up to date.
Nothing honestly, but FB/Google/Twitter are under the authority of the United States government. Thus it is less of a threat to the US government, which is what it means to be a national security threat in this context.
Building Workflows, Part 2 – the executor and evaluation
https://incident.io/blog/building-workflows-part-2
Seriously. I just skimmed through a youtube playthrough. I've definitely played it (3 i mean). Still don't remember what it was about.
That's one of the many reasons why we abandoned the crypto idea after some initial optimism and research.
To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Have to Increase the Housing Supply
Its your analogy. If you think it is misleading, maybe you should have chosen a different one.

Maybe check your internal biases on why you chose one which includes murderous intent.
Where was the performance tested?
I respectfully disagree with the author.

Once you put stuff on someone else’s servers, they can do whatever they want to the package as long as it doesn’t break the license. That includes marking the package as critical or even making a fork the canonical repo. If you want that kind of control, you need to become your own package provider. Or distribute your code with a more restrictive license.
I listened this podcast when it first came out, so I’m probably misremembering this, but the key thing about the case to me was point 7:

They had detailed witness testimony which fit the evidence AND the witness was able to show the police the location of the victim’s car which backed up his story. So it is hard to explain another version of events where the witness was not actually involved in the crime. I’m curious if any of this new evidence points to him as being involved.
Yep! It's really helpful to see where people find problems and want to jump in.
I can see the mainboard being replaceable. The SoC's become slow after a few years on smart TV's and makes using them a pain because of how sluggish and unresponsive the UI becomes

That's wishful thinking though, I don't see this happening.
A magic bullet, here, is simply any matter of public policy which a majority of Americans want, but which their elected legislators will not enact. There are so many of these majoritarian "magic bullets" (drug legalization, health care, etc, etc) that one might question the extent to which the U.S. is actually a representative democracy.

That, to me, is the more interesting story. Why is it that no one has simply started a "majoritarian" third party that simply adopts a raft of these never-to-be-enacted policies that people actually want? (There are probably at least 50 reasons why not).
«We had backups for most databases but no process was implemented for ElasticSearch databases.» - that’s all you need to know
Hey RadioJasper! More so just solving my own need, but I'm curious if there other options out there. I really like nomadlist and am in a couple big telegrams. Curious what you're using. I've also tried indiehackers but it seems pretty dead for meetups
Nothing about PDAP is web3, or crypto based, though some community members have suggested it (especially last year among all the Web3 hype.) Turning into a web3 company is not happening.
It's more profound than that, I'll restate:

Cultural change that addresses behaviors or focuses on other external factors can't work; that's outside-in cultural change.

But if you want to fix issues on a systemic, national, or worldwide level (which is the goal here), you do need some kind of cultural change.

Cultural change that focuses on inside-out psychology (not the movie) is what I call "psychological change"; the cultural element is just the "trojan horse" through which any systemic change must happen.

Example:

- banning magazines that show excessively thin models, because girls "become insecure when they look at them", is the thinking I denounce. If they had high self-esteem they couldn't be affected by a magazine cover. If they have low self-esteem, they will be. But the magazine is blamed, and legislation and activist momentum focuses on that. The self-esteem problem doesn't get solved, just displaced. Exactly the same with the "Instagram harms teen girls' mental health" viewpoints. That's only a problem because 80% of the population has low self-esteem and is unaware of it. Shouldn't that be fixed?

Implement a culture where people, for example:

- know the signs of low self-esteem

- know exactly how to address it in themselves, without pop-psych quakery or needing to pay for therapy sessions

- know how to address it in others

- know what assertiveness looks like, and how to do it

- know how to problem-solve personal or relationship problems

- know how to effectively interact to defensiveness, depression, argumentativeness, egotism, insincerity, power struggles, irresponsibility, prejudice, whatever; without getting upset at the other person; how to assert boundaries when faced with people like that, and how to help them

- how to evaluate others' emotional health, so people can make more informed choices in mates and spouses

- know how to evaluate if their relationships are healthy, and what to do about it if they're not

- how to grieve effectively

- could go on, and on.

So many of society's problems come from psychological illiteracy. Again, people's obsession with pop-psychology proves that people see a big need in learning more. Sadly, the pop-psychology craze mostly focuses on superficial things like self-talk, or on trying to, for example, "spot" signs of Narcissism or psychopathy in other people, to try to "protect oneself" from these people; it's not deep enough and doesn't get people to actually understand themselves and each other better; just to project various medical labels onto others and themselves (self-diagnose). What I'm proposing is outside that framework of "mentally ill vs normal" and focuses on empathically learning more about oneself and others and ultimately being able to help each other.

The cultural change is just meant to address that; it's a change in awareness and knowledge, not in behavior.
I wonder if it is legal / possible to record police radio traffic and associate it with the records?
> says Clifford Rechtschaffen, commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission. “If all the EVs in the state plug in during these peak load times and feed power back to the grid, they’re acting as giant batteries. We could use them to greatly relieve stress on the grid during the periods of greatest need.”

And every responsible citizen shall plug its power bank in the wall socket to give the power back in times of great need. /s

Paying attention in school is hard. Or as J.T. Gatto said, the purpose of the school is not to teach children.
> Can you expand on this? What do you mean by "psychological purpose"? Is it just something mundane as "symbol of support in a political rally"?

It's collective, coordinated, and directs attention toward an individual on stage, as opposed to an individual expression of support like clapping or cheering - which many people might do simultaneously but isn't normally coordinated outside of a music performance. The 'as one' hand slamming you mentioned emphasizes the coordination here; it's novel, but basically an iteration on the original gesture.

> The complaint is that the twitter poster decided to sensationalize that rally by calling something it's not.

The tweet is somewhat hyperbolic and sensationalized, but while it's not exactly the same I really think it's more similar than different - it's a choreographed gesture of support for a political figure at a political rally involving a straight arm salute. As I said earlier, harping on the cosmetic differences sidesteps the very obvious question of 'does this look like a nazi rally to a casual observer?' And that matters, because political rallies aren't intellectually rigorous exercises in philosophical inquiry, they are theatrical performances designed to motivate political behavior through emotional arousal.

> That's all well and good if you want to demonize those groups, but what do you call people who actually want to systematically murder jews?

Groypers (this is an in-joke). We also have open neo-nazis who are explicitly aligned with the historical national socialist movement to the point of fetishizing it. The broader right wing authoritarianism that obtains in multiple countries at present can be generally described as fascism without any loss of precision or clarity. This doesn't have to refer to the-Italian-party-once-headed-by-Benito-Mussolini. Obsessing over typologies is sometimes a coping mechanism to avoid engaging with an issue, like having an argument about meteorology to avoid admitting you should have brought an umbrella.
Yes, that's my point. Tools are tools, and there's benefit in making them good whether they're used by 1 person or 100 million people.
I am convinced that TikTok is addictive to a subset of the population by using the same methologies that video gambling machines employ - colour, movement, dopamine fluctuations and ease of use.

I also think that the use of infinite scrolling is unethical.

Facebook and Twitter drive user engagement differently as they have discovered that illicting negative emotions makes their offerings more "sticky".

Then there is their algorithm. It's good. Extraordinarily good. One day they will tweak it to sow narratives that the US or western governments find offensive and I'm guessing this is the real reason for it being a "national security threat".
Well you see... supporting a democratically elected candidate for American president is a reason to be banned. Supporting a communist, one party state currently engaging in genocide is not, apparently. Because money.
You’re right - except I don’t think there are many countries where national movie industry can seriously compete with international (predominantly American). Therefore, subtitles are a standard for your movie going experience.
If it's delivered at waist level, how is it high?
Maybe all countries should block all foreign apps. Back to the isolationist ways George Washington wanted.

Let’s skip all of the hand wringing and get to the conclusion here.
Having played and enjoyed the originals (1,2), this is a disappointment to me. Not because it's terrible, but because we've seen it all before. It feels empty and a rehash of the past without reaching the same heights. A hollow cash grab if you will (those who played thimbleweed park will maybe understand what I mean).

But then again, Monkey Island was never really my favorite LucasArts series or even top 3. Day of the tentacle and Fate of Atlantis are for me the absolute pinnacle of the genre and the best of Lucas with Loom and Grim Fandango close behind.
A parent could sue doctors for the babies pain though. I suspect doctors then said "babies can't feel pain!" in order to not get sued, that way surgeries gets cheaper.
I am trying to get the developers paid, so I am not waiting to buy but to play the games. Yes, having the bugs fixed and DLCs available is a great extra. But buying overpriced GPUs with power consumption of an electric car is a showstopper for me.
Double jeopardy only prevents you from being retried after a not guilty ruling. Since Syed was initially found guilty, it does not apply in this case.
Then build your own. I mean it... good luck. You should absolutely advocate for your countries to limit their influence, and perhaps ban them from your country. Best of luck, but as an American, there's little I can do, unless you want me voting in your elections.
Oh come on. The backside is made of glass and costs an astonishing 570euros to replace. That’s not striving to do right.
“Phinn ruled that the state violated its legal obligation to share evidence that could have bolstered Syed’s defense. She ordered Syed to be placed on home detention with GPS location monitoring. The judge also said the state must decide whether to seek a new trial date or dismiss the case within 30 days.”

He wasn’t ruled innocent… there was something technically wrong with the trial proceedings.
Or you can get "quality" (or support) by paying the author (or some other developer) to support / improve said software within the legal terms of whatever license that software is released under.
Ready to host like 4000 folks?
I'm not so sure.

A ton of apps and sites and businesses in the US collect a ton of information and sell it to data brokers. Even many state governments give or sell plenty of personal data to data brokers, such as voter data and driver's license data.

There is little to no regulation of the data broker business.

Stopping Americans from using foreign owned apps over fear that foreign governments will get too much personal data seems pointless because those foreign governments can just buy data from American data brokers.

You can't realistically expect to have personal data largely unprotected within your country and at the same time expect to keep that data within the country.
In any case, there is already an ancient, general, and perfectly serviceable epithet Panoptes.
> you either call yourself russian or get marginalized. It's so pervasive that people stopped noticing it.

There is massive racism in Russian society, the various awareness movements that happened in the West never happened in Russia. One could compare the way USA has treated native people, and many issues would be similar.

Additionally, some of the ehnicities have beef with each-other that sometimes sparks into armed conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prigorodny_conflict
They are human beings. People underestimate the human factor in chess. Someone can simply have a bad day or fall apart under the pressure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_197...
To be honest I don’t understand how it’s thought that police have to much power. Especially since every case makes it’s way in front of a judge.
Not that i know of
I'm a US citizen and am more concerned about the US government than the CCP, particularly because of the amount of power each entity can hold over me.
I've been playing for a bit and it's glorious
Have you looked into home biogas digesters? They can turn waste into cooking fuel.
This is just nitpicking over the fact that a specific metaphor doesn’t map 1-to-1 with the target domain. No metaphor does, that’s not the point of using one.

The metaphor in this case is pretty straightforward as are its limits, and it doesn’t appear to be causing confusion with people misidentifying attributes of the metaphor that don’t map to the software domain.

(And to boot: there are actual software supply chains with a traditional supplier/vendor relationship…)
Or maybe seeking status isn’t the way to go?
Or the “somebody else”, geopolitical rival with unfriendly motives.
'Are There TikTok Employees... Who Are Members Of The Chinese Communist Party?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meWM8d4Uz7Q

--

It's a fascinating video in the sense that you can clearly tell that this COO is hiding information.

I mean it's so blatant I am surprised the platform is still up and running, anywhere in the West to be honest.
Yeah, I have personally made that experience and received the same feedback directly from hiring companies and headhunters.

A close friend of mine had to emigrate to another country after successfully exiting his startup with tens of millions in the bank. Top recruiting firms in the US didn’t know what to do with him and considered him not “specialized enough” for the US market.

Other markets such as Europe hire very differently. There, employers aren’t necessarily looking to fill narrow roles with “bandaid employees”, but want people to have breadth and grow within the business across future roles.

In fact, this is precisely the feedback I also got from a top headhunting firm where I worked with the head of US tech recruiting and the EU counterparts.

Put differently, the “founder penalty” isn’t as much of an issue overseas.

I’m still baffled by it…
Ask HN: How do you manage the high number of configuration properties?
We use Terraform to provision most of our infrastructure. The configuration values are stored in TF vars. Our JAVA-based microservices use Spring Cloud Config to manage environment properties, and GO-based microservices use environment var via Viper. Then our mobile apps use Firebase, while our web apps use config files in the repo where either direct files are stored or are somehow interpolated between kustomization YAML templates. Some teams also store configurations in S3.

The values for these configurations across all environments are just spread all over the place. A new developer joining the team spends a high amount of time understanding the existing configurations. Triaging live issues has also become problematic. More recently, we added a new cloud, causing a drift in the property values across these clouds.

How has your organization solved this problem?
I don't understand the claim you're making in this response. Can you condense it to 1-2 sentences (and cite source w/ link if available)?
Also heard my 17 yo nephew call a fist bump a 'knuck touch' which I loved and I am trying to repeat.
Oh sorry totally missed that 5AM here :)
And if that version has redstone, then we know what needs to happen next.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’m not an expert by any means.

But something just doesn’t feel right when you’ve got unicode with a character with one known use from forever ago.

Doesn’t this open up the flood gates to just a ridiculous amount of work or else biased gatekeeping?

How much work would it be to implement your own font of the entire unicode set? Or is that not actually a thing and fonts implement as-desired subsets?
> I mean, what you say is all interesting and stuff, but you created this account today

Their profile says it was created in August 2011.
Not All That Glitters
This is a good question that I hope someone will answer. Maybe TikTok's biggest crime is imitation.
Congrats. My battery change took them 2 weeks, had to send it. Came back wiped.

I guess it depends on where you are (Central Europe for me)
And yet you're talking about it despite replying to someone who clearly wasn't gatekeeping. They were offering suggestions.
I host my blog using GitHub pages and hugo. Its all still markdown, but it also allows people to go to my vanity url and see stuff formatted exactly as I want it to be.
So it's better to be dominated by an even bigger hegemon from further away?

>natural friend of small countries resisting regional hegemony

Consider Cuba or Venezuela and their relationship to the USA.
I never enjoyed these types of games as a kid, and I never beat them. I'm thinking specifically of Myst, its sequel, and Monkey Island. I'm not an idiot, but whatever particular type of problem-solving skill is required to enjoy these games, I just don't have it. I can enjoy the most complicated and convoluted strategy games or RPGs, but somehow those skills don't translate to knowing which thing to click on with which other thing. I can't be the only one, right? A reasonably smart person who outright fails at point-and-click puzzle games?
What happens if I am working with 3 or 4 different values?

This duplicate calculator method doesn't scale too well. A history tape is a better option --- just as intuitative but more capable/flexible.
Check out R. Crumb’s “illustrated Book of Genesis”. I thought for sure it was going to be a spoof or parody. Nope, he plays it straight and it’s even creepier than his other work! I love it!
> Now this is reasonably well understood, but it wasn't when BART was designed.

absolute nonsense.

nevermind that the shinkansen opened a decade before BART, the pioneer zephyr hit 112 mph in _1934_. while the dynamics of the wheel-rail system are complex and still the subject of active research, the need for conical wheel profiles was well-known when BART was designed. the choice of cylindrical wheel profiles was purely a symptom of not-invented-here syndrome, and BART being designed by aerospace engineers. the best excuse they could come up with for that decision is, uh, muni did it first.
HN is always frothing about WFH so wouldn't it contradict the central HN tenancy being with other human beings is bad?

Once upon a time HN was about creating things.

Create a meetup and see what happens? There's a lot of cool stuff you'd learn doing that.

See what other locations people around you use for meetups. Run one and iterate. Start as open as possible.
Linear Regression: A Visual Introduction
Cause PRs aren't presented very upfront to visitors and are far less frequently abused. A lot of the open source world relies purely on goodwill, just like the author says.

Also, blogs are on your own domain name usually, which at least gives the illusion that it's your own website rather than just your little tenancy on a blog platform. Some platforms don't give you a domain technically but a / instead, like FB Pages and Reddit, and they explicitly assign you the responsibility of moderating your own page. If their own moderators have to step in, it often leads to deletion.
but I never actually trust that documentation to be accurate or up-to-date

This is like saying food is bad, because it can spoil. Sure, but we have ways of preventing that and figuring out when it happens.

A simple git blame or history (or the equivalent) should quickly answer a number of questions. Is the code significantly newer than the comment? Who can I ask for verification? etc.

It's not perfect, but significantly better than the alternative.

Similarly, presumably code changes are approved by reviewers, who should be preventing the merging of code that invalidates its own inline documentation without an update to the comments.
The last shitshow I worked at insisted on 192.168.x.x for their corporate VPN. I'm not sure what they were smoking, but there was no way in hell I was going to reconfigure my entire home network so I could use their shitty VPN, so I just found another way in. Dumbasses.
A bit like the heli-copter | helico-pter thing.