skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got maybe a more exhuberant way of saying it, but I've got a similar outlook anymore. I've always been awkward and no good at fitting in with the "popular" crowd. I take some getting used to and people who don't know me misunderstand my intentions. I stopped trying to fit the imaginary mold where if I just speak this way and talk about these things, people will like me. I try to be a good person, I work hard, help people out, and if the way I look at you and the way I talk are so off-putting that you don't want anything to do with me, then it's your loss.
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Rust didn't originally have borrow checking. It was bolted on later.
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This is not a problem with all ORMs. This is caused by lazy loading the related data when it is accessed, which is not how all ORMs work. If your ORM requires you to define the included related data explicitly, you won't have this particular problem.
I think its gross to try to inline a multiline anonymous function usually inside of what should just be a function call.
Being able to get feedback can be both a pro and a con, depending on the nature of the feedback.

Sometimes you can use information asymmetry to your advantage; thinking in public may work against that.

For sure thinking in public can be a form of marketing, especially if you are self-employed, like I am.

Having said all that, I've been writing a public blog since 2006, and have 39 repositories in GitHub, most of which are public, and that is a form of thinking in public as well. So I guess I cast my vote on the issue a while ago. I try to be authentic, honest, true to my values, open to change, and be the best person I can be, when I share my opinions.
> the oils that are removed from items could be repurposed as fuel

This is maybe the dumbest, mundanest Poe's Law situation I've ever seen.
Don't you get it? You're supposed to trust a third party company that does this as their only job even though you're increasing the threat model by 50% with no guarantees whatsoever, duh
> it has been reserved to our own time for a soi-disant instructor to perpetrate—at his own expense—the monstrous joke of publishing a Guide to Conversation in a language of which it is only too evident that every word is utterly strange to him.

Times aren't that different!
This kind of thing still happens today. For example this reminded me of the Scots Wikipedia story, which took many years before being discovered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273851
well there could be more scope for playlist-style content. this especially applies to reddit and HN (and twitter I suppose, although I’d probably exempt Twitter from my criticism in the first place as it’s supposed to be a bit ephemeral and shallow). users could collate content into “playlists” which would then be voted into a no-or-slow-decay alternative frontpage

in order to allow new content to rise, you’d either need a pretty complex algorithm, or just another “new” page
It's not a question of whether someone who is already settled would up and move at the drop of a hat, but whether someone who is already in the market for an apartment would choose to rent a cheaper equivalent unit.

It's definitely true that things are more complicated in the real world, but that fact doesn't have-wave us into "Z is non-negative" territory.
And where is that raw methane going to come from? Its not like there is a lake of methane you can just suck up on Mars. What about the oxygen needed to burn that methane?

You are going to need to produce 10,000x more energy than your fuel contains to make the fuel, and that energy has to come from somewhere.
I sourced it from your link. I disagree that the above commenter is describing "PKI" and is specifically describing "DH Key Exchange" as evidenced by the image linked from the article you referenced.
Increasingly fewer people are interested in scamming people after the FTX debacle, from what I can tell
The best way is to become famous - then let museums and other cultural institutions store it for you.

The next best way is to realise that things like wedding videos get watched maybe twice - and your descendants likely won't care.

You could save the video in a variety of open codecs on multiple media and hope that at least one of them is compatible with machines in 10 years time (good luck finding a contemporary machine which reads minidiscs!)

Ideally, you would set up a legal trust which is tasked with shifting the media onto new formats every few years. That's complex and costly. And, even if you do find a law firm which isn't going to go bust, get bought out, or simply forget - you don't have any standing to sue. Because you'll be dead.

Finally, and this is similar to the first suggestion, you could create a tradition in your family to watch the clip every Xmas / solstice / anniversary. Keep that tradition alive for the next 50 years and I dare say it will become part of your family legend - similar to https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2017/jan/0...
What happens when AI is a more effective parent/teacher than humans?

It's never away or preoccupied with work, never loses its temper or fights with the other parent, never too tired to play or engage with questions, the list goes on.

I'm not even suggesting heated robotic caregivers. Humans could still be employed to carry out its instructions in the real world, from hugs to diapers.

As dystopian as it sounds to us today, it's possible that such a system could consistently raise more well-adjusted adults while also being cheaper and freeing most adults from the burdens (as well as most joys) of parenthood.

In the future, AI may be so much better than humans that raising a child by hand is borderline illegal, except for a few religiously exempt groups.
Why does it need to have a point? You and I will die, humanity will one day end and later so will the universe, so there isn't really any point to anything.
Tiny Face
Why don't you ask ChatGPT that question?
One of the pros (and cons) about thinking in public is being corrected about mistakes you make in your content. One on hand, it can be embarrassing to be wrong about something. On the other hand, being corrected is a great way to speed up your learning process. Strangers who comment on your content can teach you things you didn't even know you didn't know.
Personal rant: the solution to fixing a broken k8s installation made by a previous team in an attempt at some sort "enterprisey" lock-in is, apparently, wiping the clusters and creating a new k8s from scratch.

This isn't the future I wanted, let's solve these problems in some other way. K8s seems to be the second-system effect in all the worst ways.
> The "microservices by fad" based architecture usually comes with a huge decrease in performance and an even large one in reliability.

Good point, that one was a big mess.

> The NoSQL for no reason fad came with horrible performance and some very bad data losses.

100% agreed. My perception at the time, though, was that it was largely driven by frontend folks who'd come to the backend via NodeJS buying (especially) MongoDB's marketing hype. There was a real "finally, all those barriers the backend folks had for no reason whatsoever are gone and this is easy now—better, even, you dinosaur, have you seen the marketing, it makes it so clear that this is the future—so I can be full-stack without having to learn much!" vibe to the whole thing. But maybe that's just what I happened to see and that wasn't really the main cause of that going as far as it did.
Yes, we have known, untapped, oil reserves.

The problem with those is that Someone needs to front the billions to get them pumping - and with the current state of the world it's not guaranteed that they'll get their money back.

It's better for business to raise the price of existing oil production. C-staff gets their bonuses and stocks go up.
I definitely think you’re on to something.

Chess rating, with sufficient number of games, over a long duration, is an excellent measure of progress or lack thereof.

It could also serve as an early warning indicator for Alzheimer’s or neurodegenerative diseases, especially bullet (1 minute) chess which relies both on motor coordination and rapid thinking ability.
What 2023 has in store, as predicted by experts in 1923
My points may reveal something about my politics, but they absolutely are not just belief or ideology.

I already pointed you to a rigorous academic paper to back up one of them. I don’t have the same to hand for the others, but something like this is a good start: https://theconversation.com/why-britains-private-schools-are...

I don’t see that your anecdote has much bearing on the argument. I certainly agree that all state schools should be excellent and some of them surely have room to improve.
another good test is "Steve Jobs was fired from Apple"
Huge fan of his style and dedication to detail. His early work on those Stripe landing pages, like Checkout, was ahead of the time.

You can see his latest work at https://increase.com, another finance API.
I would bet that increase in revenue has much more to do with the skyrocketing ticket prices than actual attendance.

For example, U2 ticket prices have gone from $17 in 1985 to around $130 today. That's way more than can be accounted for by inflation (if inflation alone were responsible, you'd expect ticket prices around $44).

https://gametime.co/blog/how-u2-concert-ticket-prices-have-c...

I know I rarely go nowadays, and that's entirely due to the outrageous ticket prices.
Yes it needs to stay open. if that’s a problem, I thought of building an extension for continuous indexing.
You know what does take a registry hack though? Moving the taskbar to the left, or right[0]. As the screens have much more space horizontally than vertically, it would make sense, at least for some people, right? Well no, according to Microsoft.

[0] https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-move-taskbar/
I always wanted to run WinPE, or a custom bootable WIM file, from a USB stick. AFAIK, one can only create this using full-blown Windows, which for me defeats the purpose. I have also seen Microsoft go as far as time-limiting PE so that computer continuously reboots automatically after a short elapsed time.

"Windows PE is not a general-purpose operating system. It may not be used for any purpose other than deployment and recovery. It should not be used as a thin client or an embedded operating system. There are other Microsoft products, such as Windows Embedded CE, which may be used for these purposes.

To prevent its use as a production operating system, Windows PE automatically stops running the shell and restarts after 72 hours of continuous use. This period is not configurable."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
The advantage of including everything, or the problem with trying to cherry-pick, is that many problems are only the result of the partial but incomplete sets of interoperating components.

If service A is always trying to use service B, but you removed service B, you can have annoying problems caused by service A hanging and timing out behind the scenes or presenting buttons that don't work etc.

One way to avoid that is never remove anything, but another way is to remove both A and B.

One way to get both A and B without knowing what they are, is get everything.

And this particular method, using an actually fairly managed and graceful command (managed/graceful meaning not just removing files and editing the registry, but only running a user-facing command and interface) is like an automatic filter to include only things that don't actually break the OS.
These are a class of mistake mainly made by native English speakers, but I've ended up using words like "irregardless" and "misunderestimated" unironically because I used them ironically for so long that I forgot
The only physical check I have written in the past four years was to the US Passport Office. They refuse any electronic payment method.

The next most recent paper check was a wedding gift. But modern wedding registries accept digital payments now.
I've never set out to implement russian doll caching, so I could be talking out of my butt, but I've worked on several projects that arrived at RDC by just throwing more and more caches at everything, and the fatal flaw there is that nobody ever goes back and determines if Cache C is undermining the effectiveness of Cache A, or if Cache C obsoletes Cache A, and should have been presented as a replacement instead of a supplement. Each cache is another failure point, and if you go down the caching rabbit hole then the appropriateness of each cache is a question that is never definitively answered. The answer changes with new features, every time your cluster grows, or shrinks, or upgrades to new instance types. It becomes a tax on your project that is either paid as you go or all at once when your complacency results in a production issue, or magnifies one.
Anecdotally, I was part of an organization that was all in on Beanstalk (hundreds of apps) that did a full migration to Kubernetes and we ended up reducing our spend, deploy times and pipeline complexity by half. We're talking a total yearly cloud spend probably near 9 digits. Moving to Kubernetes vastly simplified our lives and developers were able to learn it pretty easily. Development team was in the low hundreds.

So for every story I hear about "it was better back then", I just remember how much it was a horror for us and find it really hard to believe people voicing these options are actually arguing in good faith.
Using methanol to make synthetic gasoline is just bonkers.

You can just use the methanol to run cars. CNG/CBG cars have existed for well over a decade.
Yes this is exactly what they do, and what happens with many Amazon items as well, and for Booking.com

It is not really a big cost because you only really need to pay the platform fee (you control both sides of the transaction do the only real cost is the middleman).

Reviews are super important and it is hard to get booking when you have 0 reviews so it is not surprising that some hosts would spend some dollars for 3-4 fake positive reviews to kickstart their property (many people will bounce off the ad without at least a couple positive reviews, so it changes your business radically)
Bell Island Boom
Yes but how often. What if you are driving/on a public transport, or you have to deal with people?
Location: Northern VA

Remote: Yes. Willing to do hybrid 1 maybe 2 days a week locally.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Geospatial data and related python libraries, Postgres / PostGIS, FastAPI, Django, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9U2QPWVdB3gOLDD_JT3apfR4XJ...

Email: See resume.

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I have a MS in Geospatial Intelligence with 14+ years in the field. Including 10+ years in Python backend / data engineering and ETL work. Lots of REST APIs in Django, and more recently moving to FastAPI. Along with data science and imagery analysis.

Only looking for opportunities with a geospatial component. Especially interested in opportunities in climate tech or renewable energy.
Didn't mean to correct you, just that I didn't get one until 2008 (checked my email).

And yes, they were great. Region free and HD up-conversion to full 1080p built in, along with digital 5.1 audio as well.

Was a really nice DVD player, and from what I remember, pretty good value at the time too.
What indication do you have that such a policy is even remotely in use at Airbnb or another company?

Nobody writes their spam detection algorithm as policy, but there is also no evidence whatsoever that social media presence was in any way shape or form used to make the decision here. Airbnb at no point mentioned it, nor would it have been something that crossed your mind if original commenter didn't mention it as a fact about themselves.
It's not a problem until it is.

I was brought in to a problem to help with a migration gone south. Main dashboard page was taking 'too long'.

A system had been acquired, then 'moved' to the 'new cloud architecture'. The main dashboard code made an assumption that all db queries were 'localhost' but after it was moved, the db engine was across a network (a google MySQL database and app code on GCE instance, IIRC).

The dashboard was making around 8000 queries. Yes, that's sort of overwhelmingly bad. When they were all 'local', most were a fraction of a millisecond. Dashboard load time was typically ~1 second or so. Going across a network, this ballooned to 20-30 seconds (again IIRC) - some clients had load times of more than a minute. Each db connection was 2-3ms, and the code was so bad that each section of code was making its own connections - single screen might make a hundred or more database connections.

A few weeks of code tracing, rewriting and lots of data caching, I got dashboard down to 5-8 seconds for most clients (who were still angry about it).

To be clear, the entire process of acquiring/purchasing this system. Very little due diligence was done on company A's part. Company A bought company B, and company B staff was all let go.

In any event... I'm a fan of db/app talking on 'localhost', but you can't always assume that will always be the architecture, and you should still aim to be aware of 'too many queries' and guard against when you can.
I mean, per [1] Wickard v. Filburn (1934), growing wheat on your own farm to feed to your own animals is interstate commerce. And by that logic, any intrastate stuff done would be considered interstate commerce if it could affect the market outside the state - for example in Gonzales v. Raich (2005) the supreme court ruled that growing your own marijuana for your own personal medical use could be criminalized on the federal level using similar logic

> The parallel concern making it appropriate to include marijuana grown for home consumption in the CSA is the likelihood that the high demand in the interstate market will draw such marijuana into that market.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
Concert tickets represent a small slice of the music scene. Parties, bars, etc don’t pay that well, but there are vastly more people at the bottom of the music pyramid making near minimum wage than superstars.
But if your children's children's children decide not to have kids then you'll already be gone so you won't care. We can talk about worry about the future without us while we're still alive but once we're dead it's kind of immaterial what we wanted.
I'm trying to do something musical every day, doesn't matter what it is. Two days down. So far I've just been sitting at the piano playing through lead sheets of songs I've written and some jazz standards.
I do fault them, a bit, philosophically, but that’s not even the core of my complaint here. I may not like Microsoft releasing proprietary software, but I hardly feel surprised or cheated when they do.

On the other hand, when Microsoft creates an interoperability standard to solve the proliferation of wheel-inventing in IDEs, actively promotes it as such, creates and supports an open-source implementation of it for Python as part of said promotion, then abandons[1] said implementation in favour of a proprietary one that deliberately speaks the interoperability protocol in a slightly non-interoperable way, then yes, I do feel like I’ve been conned, and maybe I should stop treating Microsoft’s open-source efforts seriously even if they’re good software at the present moment. (Whether my level of cynicism regarding Microsoft should have been high enough that I wouldn’t have been surprised, I’m not sure.)

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/python-language-server/issues/2...
> A few bad police apples

A few bad apples spoils the bunch.

Rotten apples produce gases that accelerates fruit ripening and turns everything else in the container rotten more quickly.
We've been surviving for thousands of years in very small, sparse groups.
As I hit reply, I realized we're talking about different fingers, but that actually works very well amongst my coworkers. There's a nice break where every laughs their asses off and then you have the floor.