skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be missing something here. https://carefulwords.com/fast gives back 349 results, starting with "Barmecidal feast, Encratism, Friday, Lenten diet, Lenten entertainment, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Sabbath, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, Sunday" and also containing "ecclesiastical calendar, extravagant, firm as Gibraltar, hell for leather, hell-bent, promiscuous" and many many others which, I believe, are nowhere near being synonimous with "fast".
> If we're talking about distributed systems, then one thing is guaranteed - network is not going to be reliable. And if we have 10's or 100's of services, this policy means that at the smallest blip the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.

With RPC, I believe the author is talking about retries at the application level. There are already enough retries in the TCP layer below it that happen with exponential backoff. Tuning that and also your HTTP library's timeout settings is possible if you happen to have a unique enough network that the defaults don't work.

But very likely, your slowness or problems will exist in the application layer – either on "your" side (your service is tied up doing something too long) or on the other side (their service is tied up doing something too long). The correct fix is to "Fix the flaky service!" as the author recommends, and this can take many forms – spin up more copies of the service, or fix any CPU or I/O resource problems.

Slapping on another layer of "just retry" on top of all the other retries at the application layer is what the author is recommending against – this is because you will end up inventing a newer, complicated model of a distributed system.
My guess is the domain has some anti-bot detection and HN checks for redirects which messed up your url. That’s just a guess though.
Weird but I still think Elon’s idea of needing confirmed identity for a checkmark is solid. If anonymous users then are nicer than checkmarked users, I guess the filter will work in reverse? The elimination of bots will be nice if they can do it.
Tagging content as "misinformation" and/or "conspiracy" are 2 massively successful weapons of suppression of dissent. Don't be fooled by the innocence of the words.
So in my case the comment didn't desperately need unflagging - someone could wave the comment guidelines in my face and I'd probably concede that such an open confrontation broke at least one. But yeah I guess you can overturn a flagging more easily than being downvoted.
Synesthetes with perfect pitch and strong associations to musical keys report associations consistently. The associations aren’t universal, though/not everyone would agree with Shubart.
To be fair, the Netherlands has very tight controls on metamizol as well, and for no clear reason except small-c conservatism, and also a tremendous reluctance for doctors here to give out painkillers.

No, I have never asked for painkillers myself, so it isn't personal! However, if God–forbid I came down with pain issues that were treatable by painkillers, you better believe I would be on the dark markets PDQ.

(My RSI is no fun, but I deal, and it isn't amenable to painkillers except in mind-numbing doses.)
You don't actually need to be a billionaire to have a platform. It helps to quickly own one but you can always build it yourself.

Those who felt censored just created their own social media. Some prominent figures in extreme right community are blue collar workers.
Not unless they were estranged (but even then, a sample of one is not evidence).

If someone spends a lot of time with their father—who is a chef—and they themselves become a great cook, does that mean cooking skills are genetic? No, it means that having frequent access to a professional is an effective way to learn.
For those curious about the inflection points for the combination of math, psych, and economics:

* in 1960, women were elected at a ratio of 1:30 vs men (3.3%)

* in 1980, women were elected at a ratio of 1:2 vs men (50%)

* in 1988, women were elected at a ratio comparable to men (100%)

* in 2000, women were elected at a ratio of 9:5 vs men (180%)

* in 2020, women were elected at a ratio of 9:2 vs men (450%)
Their apps are also published on Google Play [1] for anyone who can't/won't install f-droid.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=479730765079191737...
> There's a reason why most FAANGs developed their own packages management and deployment system and keep using them. They are simpler, less bloated, easier to debug.

Most FAANGs developed their computing infrastructure before Kubernetes gained popularity. After all the investment into building it and fine tuning for their software services (like ads), they probably have a lot more reasons to not migrate to something different. Not just because their systems are "simpler, less bloated, easier to debug".
Annoying edges perhaps but as far as reliability goes, this MacBook Pro is the most reliable thing I've had since windows 2000 on an old Intel 440BX board. That's been a hell of a long journey of crap.
Yes, HN follows redirects and rel=canonical markup
In my experience, if you have more than a small complexity to your data, and you're a medium scale business (or are going in that direction), you're going to end up with this issue. And then it becomes really painful to get out of the situation as migrating data and splitting things up is a real PITA.

While you are correct, not everyone is going to end up with this issue, those that are thinking of getting to a medium sized business should be working to avoid it, which unfortunately means solutions such as hasura lose value. It would be good to see more ability to collect data from multiple sources (please reply and correct me if you already do this, I'm not super familiar with the service).
Kanye was banned? I thought they removed your content if you were banned.
“You aren't gonna need it” is ordinary colloquial British English.

“I aren't…” is not.
> Nevertheless obvious (although not to everyone) absurd, blatant lies and manipulations shouldn't be covered by the free speech umbrella.

"Capitalism is the problem", "modern employment is wage slavery". These are absurd, blatant lies meant to manipulate. Would you have statements like that removed?
Yeah but the entire episode was meta and breaking the 4th wall.

He even references scenes that they do in Seinfeld when pitching it.

And I wouldn't call it fluff, its observational humor and his style is to do 95% detailed setup and a quick punchline connecting it altogether.
What you’re saying is pure fantasy. Russia is hitting whatever they can, not any specific targets.

Generally speaking US, and now Ukraine, have precision guided weapons available. Russia doesn’t, because they lack technology.
You have to look forward to what in the plate post C23 like lambdas, improved constexpr, more _Generic support, and so forth.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/wg14_document_lo...
Most of the "teslas are safer than other cars!" stats are severely biased because:

1)Teslas are "luxury" vehicles, much higher-end than the average US car. A base Model S, or average model 3, costs twice the average US car cost. They are as a result significantly better equipped with safety features and have better crash engineering. In terms of driver assistance, the auto industry was pretty belligerent about backup cameras being mandated, just to give one example.

2)Teslas are on a whole significantly newer than the average US car. The average age of a car on the road in the US is twenty years old. Of course a Tesla with safety features not available until ~10 years ago (or less) is safer than a 1999 anything.

If people said "my electric Mercedes is significantly safer than the average car, so Mercedes should be allowed to beta-test their software, which despite after many years of development is proven to randomly slam on the brakes, or drive into the back of emergency vehicles, and is shown on numerous videos to violate traffic laws, suddenly veer at poles and barriers and pedestrians and cyclists"

...they'd be laughed out of the room on a number of points.
Needs (1986) in the title. But if you add references to deep learning and metaverse, replace the font with Helvetica, and add a few flatly shaded hand-drawings of a cute animal mascot, this could actually be printed today.
The claim that most people training models make is that what they are doing is sufficiently transformative that it counts as fair use, and doesn't require a license. That means putting something in a software license that prohibits model training wouldn't do anything.

In this case, what the model is doing is clearly (to me as an non-lawyer) not transformative enough to count as fair use, but it's possible that the co-pilot folks will be able to fix this kind of thing with better output filtering.
It is about the origin of the term/field.

You are right that the field of genetics is of course applicable to humans, with a lot more muddiness when it comes to the ethics - not the point.

The term "eugenics" describes a certain philosophy/set of ethics which directly grew out of racist narratives at worst and some very loose interpretations of the scientific methods two hundred years ago at best. Furthermore it can argued that the "field" of eugenics never really attempted to shed this, even as of today. Thus, calling eugenics pseudo-scientific is considered fair game. At least that's my understanding.
> it's probably pretty hard to enter your password in an apple store

Don't do that. There's a guest account for that. Unless you're debugging something very specific, you don't need your actual account available.
Wikipedia has citations for a system from 2010 that is mechanically controlled ("movable shadow masks shifted inside the headlamp") rather than using LEDs. Nothing from 2003 though
You see this argument over and over again but it’s the exception that proves the rule.

Most of the time when it’s made it’s just papering over yer another situation where a surplus is being squeezed out of a transaction by a parasitic manager class using principal-agent problem dynamics.

The people who invented this stuff are always trying to tell you they’ve invented the cotton gin or something when in fact they’ve just come up with a clever way to take someone else’s work and exploit it.
> "Nah man I aren't gonna" <-- this is wrong

Well, yes, because the first person singular of to be is am, not are. It works fine with I am or you are.

> I'm not gonna do that <--- looks good to me

> You aren't gonna need that <--- also looks good to me

'You aren't gonna need it' looks weird because it deviates from the stock phrase YAGNI, but it's not wrong.
Requiring validated identity is anti free speech.

There's been so many words spilled online about how terrible of an idea it is to require confirmed identities for online.

Recently, see https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1576274615231401984 or more casually https://www.garbageday.email/p/oh-cool-were-talking-about-an...

> Generally, if your solution is virtually indistinguishable from one of the systems the Chines government is using to keep people in line, your solution is bad.
>The only way to do that is through more discrimination (i.e. relatively penalizing the least historically discriminated-against people).

Which is done by creating opportunities for historically discriminated groups, not blindly handicapping white people for being white. I'm not white, but it's really worrying to me that that's allowed. Today it's them, tomorrow it's me, then it's you.
Considering it (like all C/C++ Compilers) provides extensions to the languages it implements, yes?
If they have a mechanically well-functioning A/C, why create more waste by replacing it?
Where on e.g. Twitter or Reddit would that be disallowed? Isn't r/antiwork/ hitting the front page regularly?
Like the famous space shuttle Columbia destruction, blamed on powerpoint: https://nicholastoole.wordpress.ncsu.edu/disaster-archive-ca...
Freedom from overflow, and noise floor stays level-dependent. Meaning that when you multiply your float signal by a certain volume the quantization noise is at most -140 dB RMS. If it were integer, the quantization noise would depend upon how loud your (signal x gain) is.
Besides, top-level compressor/reverbs use double :)
In development since 2001! Impressively familiar to me
This is cool but I don't trust it to not spy on me
Perfect pitch can most definitely be learned. The parent comment echos a common belief that mentally prevents people from distinguishing key signatures (even under equal temperament), which not insignificantly has a knock-on effect in music education.
maybe if you're a really big company with petabytes of data but I wouldn't' say its worth the operational complexity for 90% of tech companies out there. Seriously, design your schema so you can have tables optimized for aggregate functions. you can use materialized views or have them populate via triggers. Either is still going to be an order of magnitude less work that dealing with all the edge cases that are ging to come up when you try to build a distributed data pipeline. Thats a death by thousand cuts for any small to medium startup that doesn't already have a team of engineers experienced in making such systems work.

Plus you can stream db changes from postgres to kafka for those edge cases where you really need it

TLDR: if you're in a startup and thinking of building a distributed system.. DONT. stick with a monolith and spin out services as NEEDED.
Legally speaking, many companies will have as part of your employment contract the stipulation that you cannot work in the same field in your off time. Also that all your intelectual property created while under employment, including non-work hours, is primarily the company's to monetise, unless they are not interested in a specific piece and explicitly give you permission to monetise it separately.
Although, not bad as Saudi Arabian murders killing a journalist in their embassy, this should be condemned. The Chinese officials have been openly insulting and threatening several nations. However, they can't seem to take any criticism. All dictatorships (Russia, China, Saudis etc) are quite similar in many ways.
Your function doesn't solve any of the issues I mentioned, you still need to switch to another file, still need to think of a sufficiently explicit key, still need to handle plurals and masculine / feminine variations, etc.
Nah. A lot of it is is protectionism. For example, european cars came with significantly better headlights in the US but they put less light above the road, which didn't meet a standard designed for non-reflective road signs.

The manufacturers tried to get the standard updated, but the US auto industry blocked it, which resulted in car companies having to make US-specific, shittier, headlights - at significant expense - because GM and Ford didn't wanted more competitive advantage.
A platform that hosted both objectionable speech and regular speech together might be tolerable to read. But the most of the regular speech ends up on popular platforms than ban objectionable speech, so the free-speech sites are left with mostly the objectionable stuff, which makes them pretty unpleasant to read.

It makes it hard to start a new platform. People start free-speech platforms with good intentions of having open debate about controversial topics. But they quickly get overrun by hate mongers and trolls, and become too noxious for most people to read. Intentional or not, it's a good strategy by the existing platforms to kick out the nasty people, ensuring that they're first to sign up for every new social network.
Well polite people at least say "please". Otherwise you just go buy more SDRAM and ALU chips and be computer scientist.

Curious thing is, you yourself dropped into gcc studying tool discussion clearly having no idea what I was criticizing in it.
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. It's the story of the Sackler family, but reads like a thriller and deals with policy failure, addiction, family, greed, capitalism and corruption.

I've been recommending it to everyone who'll listen since three chapters in.
This list is probably intended for someone playing under well temperament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament

Also this is only the case for the differences they describe between different root notes (A vs G); major versus minor is still totally a thing.
Lambdas and some other complicated looking extensions have been on the plate for quite some time, and it seems like none of them made it into C23. Lambdas in particular have been promoted for the most part by a single person AFAICT. "C is becoming into everything C++ has" is a drastic misrepresentation.
I find immigration to be a net negative. Sure some people get a better lot by emigrating, but in the process there is brain deain and such. So instead of them helping their own country to better themselves, their own country gets worse.

and thats why allowing immigration to give them a chance of "a better life" is IMO unethical.
It was, but later years (at least for me) it was FrexxEd [1,2] which was written by another pair of Swedish dudes, one of which then went on to do some (I guess) hair-related piece of software ... whatitsname ... shampoo? no ... wig? naah ... ah, yeah, curl! :)

[1]: http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FrexxEd

[2]: https://github.com/vidarh/FrexxEd
Yes, the news recently that the FBI monitored Aretha Franklin?!?

The same powerful people that targeted socialists or civil rights leaders also influenced or even owned the media. It’s almost like the internet, at least early on, kind of broke that grip, and the rise of hard right media funded by billionaires with social media promotion weapons/bots/coordination is a response to that.
> When the real problem to address is that working conditions in science are, often, terrible and that our society punish people in many different ways for wanting to be scientists

My wife was certainly smart enough to bail on science for the corp. software world for this reason, so count that as one data point in the women are smart category
I don't know the man, but what I see is that he is, ultimately, dissatisfied with his work. There is an effortfulness to what he does that belies an underlying cynicism about comedy. He is a tragic figure in that sense, all that success and yet not quite content. I can believe that he micromanages everything. Maybe part of it is that he really wants to do standup, but the show was much better than any of his standup. The standup pieces he does for the show are undoubtedly the weakest part of Seinfeld. It is notable that in the Seinfeld reunion episodes in Curb Your Enthusiasm, all the old cast gets skewered but not Jerry [1]. I suspect Larry knows that deep down, Jerry can't take that kind of joke. Still can't.

[1] I just want to say that the scene where Larry impersonates George is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
>sold by emotionally exploiting people in rich countries under the guise of “fashion”.

only emotionally crippled people like fashion, if they were healthy they would all dress in gray unitards and march in formation towards the glorious future!

hey I too have often been carried away by my own rhetoric but come on!
I have read this story quite a few times, but I just realized that the default Grapher app on macOS is not the same as the Graphing Calculator. I was inspired by the demos and the story to buy the latter (on the mac App Store) even though I don't have any immediate use for it!
The wasted potential of CSS attribute selectors
On Windows speech recognition or dragon naturally speaking, there is the mouse grid functionality. It divides the screen into a grid of nine tiles, then you type a number to select one of the tiles, then the tile gets divided into nine tiles, which recurses on down until you have a single coordinate selected.

I just wish I had an easy way to do that from the numpad. That way, to move the mouse to an arbitrary location I need it to be, I could type 19432 enter and know that corresponded to the coordinates to refresh the page I am reading, that way I could use the mouse less and less as I started to memorize the 80% case of where I need the mouse to go and just bang it out on the keyboard.
You gotta earn a living somehow, but you don’t gotta do it by making retro computing content with misleading titles.
> He called his show the “show about nothing”

He most certainly did not, he specifically called it the opposite (see point 4): https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/10-facts-a...

Calling it “about nothing” is a meme with no basis in reality. That misconception even came from an episode which is about pitching a show. Seinfeld episodes are so clearly about something; they hit you on the head with the theme right at the start of each episode.
The front page seems to embody alt university courses. This seems like another agenda driven project.

Wikiversity has been a long project. I saw this back on 2006. Much of the original vision behind the project is gone. Instead of a learning and certificate course of existing public courses, this is a Frankenstein version of some other vision I don't seem to understand.
If they actually agree to let an unstable, anti-semitic [1], petulant bully [2] with no tech experience take over their platform, then doesn't that prove them to be rather stupid?

They're really agreeing to let him be their boss?

[1] - Latest tweets saying he's going "death con 3 on jewish people" and "who do you think created cancel culture?"

[2] - ongoing drama with Taylor Swift

[edit] Dropped the reference to bipolar.
I’m sure security is a priority for him, considering his iPhone password was 000000 when he visited Trump in the Oval…
Do you listen/read/write in Morse, or use a computer to translate?
They're a philosopher (Kastrup) and physicist (Hossenfelder) who have been having a long going back and forth internet debate about super determinism and hidden variables. Google it and you will find plenty of YouTube videos from both of them. It's quite interesting if you're into that sort of thing
> Not really comfortable with the direction this technology is going when it has to be paired with an app

Even worse is that the app appears to only be distributed on either the Apple or Google store - thus requiring an account with a third party.
Yep just clarified, restricted/locked, not banned.
I agree that we can't have a perfect solution but let's loose a good solution in the pursuit of a perfect one and I think there can be a good solution by implementing some of the real world social dynamics into the virtual one.

Jerks and BS artist are nothing new but in real world we do have some tools to deal with them. IMHO, changing how some things work can create an atmosphere of healthy interactions.
The size of the heater is very small and thus it takes up very little space in your bedroom or living room.
Use double tones/knocks if you don't have long.
The iron law of data is that there should be one source of truth.

It’s always better to enforce constraints statically (in this case by the schema) than dynamically at runtime. Because avoiding inconsistencies is the human’s job, the computer sure as hell won’t know what to do about it.
These are opinions. And I lean to agreeing with them (except I don't think anybody knows a good solution to the problem). Blatant lies/absurd are things like all (or almost all) people of specific race are inherently evil or stupid, they control the state for their wicked aims and there is a gene for specific preferences which ought to be eradicated or we are doomed.