skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how much you know about Elixir, so apologies for stating anything obvious.

* Elixir sits on top of the BEAM (the Erlang VM), which has several decades of being battle tested.

* Elixir is at its core a functional language, with immutable only (not just by default) data, and comes with built-in processes and OTP, a library that provides ready-made abstractions on top of processes. It's very, very good at concurrency.

* Elixir has Mix, Hex, and ExUnit, which provide great tooling and package management.

* Elixir's ecosystem is rather vibrant and active. Phoenix, LiveView, Livebook, Nx, Axon, and more. Elixir generally takes the approach of building things on top of Elixir from scratch, which frees it from having to deal with impedeance mismatches. See Livebook (the Elixir notebook solution) and Nx/Axon, and all the other machine learning stuff going on in Elixir right now.

I highly recommend the presentation The Soul of Erlang And Elixir by Sasa Juric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE

It really gets at the core of what makes Elixir and Erlang special, but I'd say Elixir has a lot more quality of life improvements over Erlang.
Haha I always thought it was Spotify who enforced this requirement on their end
It also incentivises them to do pretty much nothing and just sit back and cash the repeat payments :(
Even those who opted-into this data collection certainly didn't opt-in to it being posted publicly on Facebook?
Lots of good advice in this thread. Only thing I would say is: don’t rule out the wife and kids if that is what you want. As a man, you are not on the same biological clock as women and many men have had families in life’s second act.
It's like the time he was on a podcast and promised that the next tesla would have "cold gas thrusters", literally a tank of pressurized gas that it was going to use as thrust to make it accelerate faster. Plenty of engineers worth their salt recognized right away that this is on it's face stupid, and has no point. Even if you didn't feel it in your gut, a back of the envelope calculation shows how stupid it is.

And yet, stupid people fawned over it, saying crap like he's putting rockets in the tesla and other hyped up nonsense. Some tried to backpeddle "oh it was a joke". It wasn't a joke, elon has been spouting bullshit, often technobabble for decades and whenever somebody calls him on it he handwaves it away and sicks his fans on them. Of course he genuinely thought that was a genius idea.

It's always been laughable and disgusting to call him an engineer. It's an insult to people who actually went through school, who didn't fake their degree, who didn't shirk classes to do whatever instead. An insult to the people who sometimes have to sign their name to a structure on pain of lawsuit. He should have NO credibility in any educated field.

Of course, devs often like for exactly that reason, since they love to cosplay engineers too, as if our bubble gum and duct tape plumbing industry could be considered engineering.
It would be interesting if the US set up some kind of Freedom Bank specifically for people in China, Russia, Venezuela, Argentina, Nigeria, etc. to access US dollars and dollar-based investments. Those countries wouldn't appreciate it though so I'd expect a lot of diplomatic blowback. Until then, there's crypto for better or worse.

[Insert conspiracy theory here about Tether being a CIA op to dollarize the developing world.]
As others have said throughout these comments, as long as you keep the temperature high constantly, it won't be an issue.

Bacteria won't survive in simmering water, so time alone will not cause it to go bad. The toxins that bacteria produce can survive, which means tainted ingredients being added might spoil it, but as always, the poison is in the dose. With a large enough pot, a couple pieces of spoiled food likely won't cause illness.
They're not bang paths, but rather the standard user@host of email. Imagine the absurdity of arguing "if you want to give someone your screenname, you just say SteveCase instead of having to say stevecase@example.com"

What I don't get is why all of these services with the similar format have to adopt their own quirky address formatting, rather than piggybacking on the same format as email. I should be able to just tell people that I'm "someone@example.org", and have that work for email/matrix/mastondon/etc (and be autodiscovered!) with the appropriate hosting setup.
You can use the "linkstatic" feature on the cc_library level. Then that library will be linked statically while other cc_library's will be dynamically linked.
This is mentioned in passing in the article, but the Solera system used for Sherry and other things is similar in concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solera
There are many others here (on HN) and elsewhere that are in a similar situation of struggle, confusion and doubt. You asking this question has triggered almost 600 comments so far that have provided feedback, support, and personal or anecdotal evidence that it is possible (to turn one's life around). That is now hopefully benefiting those who also needed to be a part of this conversation (whether they knew it or not).

I wanted to thank you for that. I can say I'm personally benefiting from reading much of this. I hope it's helping you as well.
YouTube’s testing out Courses, multiple audio tracks, and easier search
Meh, I always pirated music before Spotify. Then I got a free test account and now am a happy paying customer for forever. As soon as someone with a reasonably similar library and better linux integration than a half abandoned electron app comes along i'll switch.If Artists feel so bad about they should form a union and collectively bargain for a better position.
> He quite explicitly dehumanizes the women who work at the club when he realizes that buying them a few drinks isn't enough for sex.

You fault him for not knowing "there's no sex in the Champaign room"

> I expect better from someone with his intellectual prowess.

I recommend that you don't look into the sex lives of famous and admirable thinkers through out history.

> He always seems to know better than all the idiots out there.

He's a working class guy as am I. This is an essential conceit and source of humor for many of us. We take pleasure in out-smarting the our so-called superiors.
History is replete with examples of people who have found measurable success later in life. I might recommend starting with a review of those people and their lives and looking for any parallel that may suit you. Let me just leave one example from my culture, Rabbi Akiva, one of the most influential and revered Rabbi's of all time, that I often think of at times like these:

"When Akiva married the daughter of Ben Kalba Sabua,[a] a wealthy citizen of Jerusalem, Akiva was an uneducated shepherd employed by Ben Kalba Sabua. His wife's first name is not provided in earlier sources, but a later version of the tradition gives it as Rachel.[2][6] She stood loyally by her husband during the period of his late initiation into rabbinic studies after he was 40 years of age.[2] and in which Akiva dedicated himself to the study of Torah.

A different tradition[6] narrates that at the age of 40, Akiva attended the academy of his native town, Lod, presided over by Eliezer ben Hurcanus. Hurcanus was a neighbour of Yosef, the father of Akiva. The fact that Eliezer was his first teacher, and the only one whom Akiva later designates as "rabbi", is of importance in settling the date of Akiva's birth. These legends set the beginning of his years of study at about 75–80."

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi_Akiva
Too bad we cannot embrace the humanity outcomes due to ancient unsolved legacies such as war and poverty.

This gives more hope and boost on further development.
Sydney CBD is bringing back pedestrian “beg buttons”
Potentially great music is not being made as a result of people not devoting time and energy to the craft I guess. Also just general empathy.
It comes out a lot like conventionally cooked brown rice, but with more of a toasty flavor from the roasting step.
Four novels stood out:

- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

The novel explores aging, careers, and relationships. As I plod further into middle age, I felt like it was written for me.

Amor Towles is a brilliant writer. I enjoyed all three of his novels:

- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Rules of Civility
- The Lincoln Highway
I wrote a blog post about Transport for NSW removing full automatic operation of the pedestrian buttons (aka "beg buttons") in the Sydney CBD, evaluating each of their stated reasons why.

You may recognise Australia's parking button sound from a sample in Billie Eilish's hit Bad Guy, I've linked a video at the end of the blog post!
This is a rhetorical question, right?

If you consume music then surely, you want the artists and musicians you support to be paid fairly for their work.
Is there statistical proof that paired up promotes deescalation? Seems more like an arm-chair hunch.
Yeah I agree. I think the problem with checked exceptions in Java is a combination of misuse on both the consuming and the throwing end. They're amazing when they provide a compile time checked way to make sure consumers handle stuff they actually definitely want to handle, but if you add too much noise then all the consuming code is just going to catch and rethrow even the important ones.
> So the Russian and Iranian people who are not at fault for their governments misgivings are supposed to be shut out of the global financial system too?

... Yes. Just like how the former are currently being conscripted to fight their relatives in a stupid war, started by their government.

Life isn't fair, and people generally suffer when they allow bad governance to ruin their country. Ultimately, any government, even a repressive one can only function when the people it governs believe it to be legitimate. I hear that this sort of thing is being protested in Iran[1] these days.

[1] The thing they are protesting has little to do with the cause of the sanctions, though, but that's another story.
Correct. A wide-column database like ScyllaDB is still a row-based store. Usually described as a "key-key-value" because it has both a partition key for data distribution and a clustering key for sort-ordering within a partition.

Not the same-same as a "column-store" like Druid or Clickhouse or Pinot.

[Disclosure: I work at ScyllaDB.]
Toward a unified theory of “millennial cringe”
I like flipping questions such as this around. The topic question suggests two alternatives:

1. What (recently or distantly) acquired skill(s) have proven most useful to you?

2. What skills don't you have but you regret or year for most?

I like @bckr's guidance (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055079>), and suggest that there are abilities with greater persistence which are often underappreciated.
Dominance is really only good for the people who run the country. The people are better served by excellence. Contrast the dominant US to the comparatively pathetic Nordic nations in terms of standard of living. Being #1 has been ruinously expensive for the people.
I don’t remember when, but at some point I tried to watch the then-most recent season and it didn’t seem to be available anywhere legally.

Now, there are some places you can watch it, but AMC isn’t one of them.

I also checked another flagship AMC show, The Walking Dead. Not as critically acclaimed, but huge ratings. You can watch only season 11 on the AMC+ service.

Netflix has the old seasons of The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul. I’d hope AMC is getting paid handsomely by Netflix for the rights, and that may be the right move financially. But selling the crown jewels seems incompatible with a successful AMC+. I recall reading that Netflix found that the first two seasons of a good show help subscriber numbers, then the benefit of additional seasons drops off (and costs increase) such that 3+ seasons only pencil out for the most popular shows. From that perspective, the AMC+ offering of limited runs of recent episodes from their most binge-worthy shows is a doomed strategy.
> Piracy is a major issue for the entertainment and creative industries. Pasting internet images into your social media, password sharing on streaming services and accessing the latest films, tv series or live sports events through kodi boxes, fire sticks or Apps without paying a subscription all break copyright law. Not only are you breaking the law but stopping someone
earning a living from their hard work.

Jesus. Soon, quoting something will be piracy.
I'm sure someone will find a use case for this. For example, a long time ago I hooked up a Raspberry pi to my receiver/speaker system and used mplayer to keep a persistent connection to a remote Internet radio stream. Whenever I wanted to listen to it, all I need to do was turn on my receiver and select that audio interface.
The merkel tree can be separated from the block creation. See aws qldb.

https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/
I mean I'm not surprised. Everyone knows that congress is a joke and these "committee investigations" are the biggest partisan frauds. These congresspeople are a bunch of incompetent morons who care only about political point-scoring and have no interest in actually getting to the truth of any matter. The DoJ on the other hand is far more serious... if the DoJ indicts Trump then I'd say he's actually in legitimate trouble. This committee report is a stupid media charade, nothing more.
Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit – Lessons for Building Horizontal Products
What do you guys use that for?
While your intentions may be good, it's worth noting that these things can have negative effects on some people. For example, they can disrupt sleep patterns, lead to feelings of failure and low self-esteem, and drain energy levels.
Free tier on Google Cloud. You can use the free VM instance they provide (1 micro per month) and do an actual cron or use App Engine's cron thing.
Since Scale.ai provides labeling services to the US Department of Defense, how do they address the issues presented in this article? Have their labelers go through government background checks? Provide labeling software but not the labor?
Yes, the binary thinking unfortunately continues. Masks were/are/will never be 0% or 100% effective. Reducing the number of viruses transmitted at once could mean the difference between life and death for covid though.

Closing the beach however, was 100% BS.
"In Seattle, new developments in certain areas have to include affordable housing units or the developer has to pay the city an amount of money based on the floor area of their project — to fund low-income housing preservation and production elsewhere — as a condition of receiving a building permit.

Adams has two options: Add two extra affordable units to her project and rent them at below-market rates to income-restricted tenants for 75 years, or pay a fee. "

Yeah... good intentions and all that.
Password sharing sounds like using a false identity to obtain a service by deception... which is identity fraud under British law.

Nothing particularly new here, though the police would need to be involved in order to test this.
Well, I use crypto to bypass currency controls so there's your "imaginary freedom"
Why is that “surely”?
Yeah, that’s what Inslee wanted to do last year — open up denser housing and remove city-level zoning laws preventing denser builds, at least within a short distance of mass transit. Couldn’t even get that done thanks to local pushback. It’s a shame IFJ didn’t show up for that fight.
Really both. I'd prefer to be a bit more familiar with the underlying infrastructure and also I'd like to use GCP products, BigQuery is definitely a big one though!
That’s BS. I’ve been to the hospital plenty of times in USA and have never been asked if I’m ready to leave.

Patients get discharged when doctors say so.
What's the Deep Meaning of Probability?
The friend could have purchased a stablecoin. For instance, as of writing right now, he could have bought USDT and had the same amount of money after 6 months. Obviously, the stability of USDT is rightfully questioned. But the stability of storing many liters of petrol in your house should also be questioned.
It took the article a long time to get to the actual issue, but here it is:

> Building a new four-unit structure

Seattle had a light up-zone a few years ago to allow all SF-zoned lots to add two ADUs (one detached and one attached). Going that route would make this a non-issue. The owner could build a unit for each child without paying any MHA fees.

FWIW, I would love to see the city up-zone across the board to allow multi-family on every residential lot, but that's not happening thanks to an unholy alliance of NIMBYs and anti-business zealots.
FYI, the way Germany works is that it has a very high threshold for "combat ready". Does "technical malfunction" include things like a headset breaking, or a radio link failing to sync up or other things?

It's probable that in an actual conflict, Germany would be able to safely and reasonably field more vehicles than what they usually list as "Combat Ready" because maybe the tail-light doesn't really matter if you have to actually defend your land.
They build outward, not upward. Huge difference. (NYC is 7x as dense as Dallas)

They already need a highway expansion in Austin because of it
>No one would be happy if you tore down a block of apartments in NY to put up a cute little Craftsman with room for a private dirt bike track.

If you own the land you should be able to do what you want with it. If you want a single family home, that is fine. If you want a 10-plex, also fine. Cities are making development and renting as painful as possible then being shocked when people opt out of being landlords. If it is more desirable to have a craftsman and a dirtbike track than a multi unit building then the city's incentives are horribly skewed. One of those effectively prints money so we have to ask why someone isn't opting to do it. At the same time, it is their land and they should be able to use it how they wish.
Structured slightly differently in Australia but yes there is a voting body of owners. Problem is the owners don't live here and don't give a shit if I have working waste disposal outside of receiving their rent payment. That's the entire point of my post :) People who own things (and therefore control them) and people who use them are becoming less aligned.

Real Estate agent says to contact building management, building management ignores you, real estate agent says there's nothing they can do about that. Perfect denial of responsibility.

Move elsewhere? It's all the same in other buildings.
> If Artists feel so bad about they should form a union and collectively bargain for a better position

They can't, major record labels and major artists are working with Spotify to fuck everyone else.
A landlord in Seattle wants to spend $1m to build apartments, discount them for her children but not be on the hook to extend that discount to meet local building regs around affordable housing.

If you are building big enough to need to hit the affordable housing regs, then you should commit to either providing affordable housing OR pay to make sure someone else can.

This is a story about a landlord trying to avoid having to help their community.
These are internet-connected devices with cameras. A firmware update could be sent to record everything you do and stream it on youtube all day, and another later applied to remove any remnant of what happened. Any privacy you have with a device like this comes from either the benevolence, a lack of a profitable opportunity, or a fear of being caught by the company that has root on that device.
Eh.

I tried to do Chromium/Puppeteer based scraping this way.

Building a Dockerfile took ages due to the low compute. (Rust was a non-starter).

I also had (foolishly) only bought the Pi with 2GB instead of 8GB so RAM was an issue.

Disk was super slow.

I'm not sure how viable this is, especially with how hard it is currently to source a Pi, let alone its computation/memory constraints.
>>They should have had a plan for uninsured fires nearby, and been able to execute it.

They did have a plan, and they did execute on it - exactly as they advertised.

...and if they decided to risk it, and put out the fire anyway - and tied up all their pumps hoses ladders and trucks, and then another call comes in a few miles away - from someone that did pay for coverage - how much liability would they have for tying up all of their equipment at a fire they are not supposed to be fighting, and thus unable to respond to the fires they are supposed to be responding to?

People in this country should be free to make stupid decisions - and free to suffer the consequences of those stupid decisions.
I am sorry to read about your struggle. Thank you for sharing and I wish you a full recovery.
Ah, that makes sense. Appreciate your help!!
Why would adding a middleman make anything better?

If society wants more people to be able to watch more TV, then society should just give people cash so they can buy access to more streaming services. Or reduce copyright terms to something reasonable like 10 years.
There's only room for so many streaming services. Sample size of one, but I literally don't know anything that's on Shudder, and AMC+ I can name The Walking Dead, which I gave up on after the first season; and apparently the Ann Rice-iverse? I've read a few of her books, and saw Interview with a Vampire 30(?) years ago? That's not compelling.
> Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan

Seconded. Great storytelling, great voice, very interesting (and often heartbreaking) subject matter.
They usually go to a black market currency dealer and keep the money under their mattress, or at least that's how they did it in the USSR.
In the US we prefer our "death panels" to be handled by insurance companies, hospital administrators, and pharmaceutical companies. Rather than having public discourse about rationing of care we privatize our death panels and they operate in relative secrecy.
Meta has no shareholders only suckers that own non voting stocks
> It because apparent over time that the lack of types and the other features provided by Clojure resulted in much smaller and simpler codebases compared to those previous languages and frameworks

Totally agree. My very initial motivation that caused me to get interested in Clojure was my study of various API clients generated I think by Swagger Editor? All clients were littered with generated boilerplate -- except for the Clojure one which looked clean and exactly as you would imagine some intelligent programmer writing it. As I already had experience with Common Lisp I immediately understood what is happening here.

> Recently, I was doing some work on a Java / Spring project and was dismayed with the proliferation of classes and packages; really the complexity of it all. And remember, I am solid with Java experience, so it is a result of those types of languages and architectures IMO.

I also have over 20 years of experience with Java and I also share your experience.

Recently I have started mixing OOP with functional and FRP. For example, most of my code is now FRP (ReactiveX/Reactor) and for some strange reason Java is superbly suited to it. It is not a panaceum but I found that I can frequently write what would normally be large features even in minutes.
These companies would have a lot more of my money if they let me pay them for *.mkvs a la carte. I still pay the subs for a couple of them but my default is to just pirate the file, even if it's on a service I pay for. I'm not claiming this is a solution, but it would definitely earn them more money from my end.

Piracy is generally really quick and frictionless, but even so I do have to wait a couple minutes sometimes before I've found enough peers to start streaming something. If I could pay a couple bucks to just get the file off a fast CDN I absolutely would.