skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing deeply troubling about it is how fanatics like to pretend it isn't true. All I can say is, jury trials are open to the public. Come on down and watch some time.

Until you actually take the time to understand the true elan and effects on target of this virtue-signaling drivel, you're really not in any position to express an opinion one way or another. Those opportunities are plentiful and free, so there's really no excuse.
Nuclear waste storage site.
I prefer using completely unfangled languages, thank you very much.
> inevitably overseas investors, such as US based entities, will lose out more

As they should. US-based entities speculating in China thinking the CCP had their back falls squarely into play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Milk cartel.

> The dairy sector is different because since the 1970s it has been subject to supply management. Basically, it’s a government-sanctioned cartel: The Canadian Dairy Commission dictates the precise amount of milk produced every month in the country and uses this top-down control to keep dairy prices artificially high. Similar systems are also in place for chicken, turkey and eggs.

> The Canadian dairy sector can do this without fear of international competition because foreign imports are subjected to prohibitive tariffs of up to 300 per cent; this is why border guards will often explicitly ask you if you have any cheese in your luggage (and why the police keep busting cheese-smuggling rings).

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-why-milk-...
true, but insulation isn't equal to being completely isolated from the public. Judges are still ultimately human and bound to the same overton curtain as any other member of society. Even if a particular justice wants to repeal the 13th amendment, they know better than to say or even write that out loud, despite it not affecting their job security (or at least, they should).
It's more a question of, which hedge funds over-invested in Evergrande and similar real estate over the years as development was shifted to China?
I know that this is the time to say "you should have tested your backups", but I never tested mine.

How does one test a (personal) backup strategy?
Like Lua, where comments can be delimited by `--[==[`..`]==]`, where the number of equals signs can be anything but has to match in order for the comment to actually close?
CommonCrawl…
Thank you for that insight, which, thanks to my ignorance, is surprising!
It may turn out that Ozempic has all these negative side effects that we just don’t know about yet.

But irrespective of that, what Ozempic/Wegovy/etc have clearly shown is that this isn’t a moral problem. It’s not a will power problem. It’s a freaking chemical problem.

If a simple drug that isn’t even designed to help people lose weight can help them lose weight so easily, it strongly indicates that the idea that obesity is a biochemical problem should be the front runner in explaining weight gain.
In elementary school in Wisconsin in the 70s, we lost our milk cartons in favor of the bagged milk.

Although it may have been sold as eco-friendly, the real driving reason was cost reduction: it was less expensive to package and transport milk in plastic bags than in small waxed cardboard cartons.
What service do high frequency traders provide?

Hams are weird, but at least they're hurting anyone. Theres a good argument to be made that HF trading should be banned.
For small programs, dynamic typing can be faster to write (not read). As soon as your program grows: "uh oh". Once you add maintenance into the cost equation, dynamic typing is a huge negative.

To be fair: 15 years ago, people were writing a lot of Java code that effectively used dynamic typing by passing around Object references, then casting to some type (unknowable to the reader) when using. (C#: Same.) It was infuriating, and also very difficult to read and maintain. Fortunately, most of that code is gone now in huge enterprise code bases.
Formal hats were popular in an era where hoods and umbrellas were seen as unfashionable, and people still needed to protect their heads from sun and rain. In modern times, hoods and umbrellas have largely co-opted their role as rain gear.

Today, hats are more about expression and communication. For examples:

- Baseball hat: I'm a simple, practical person.

- Snapback: I'm young at heart. I might like hip hop or rap music.

- Mesh Trucker hat: I'm a blue collar worker and proud of it.

- Bucket hat: I enjoy spending time outdoors.

- Panama hat: I'm fun loving, relaxed, mentally/spiritually somewhere the sun always shines.

- Fedora: I'm either cringey or clueless. Avoid me.
Social media. /S
Berkeley Mono looks good and fairly priced (for personal development), and I like that they offer both ligature and ligature-free versions. Might add to my collection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-centered,_Earth-fixed_co...

In a previous life I had to implement conversions between ECEF and WGS84. If you do it, make sure to use at least 64-bit floats, the Earth is so big that 32-bit arithmetic will introduce errors on the order of meters.
How do I avoid this in my career?
Yes, absolutely. They were very knowingly taking the stereotype to the extreme. They didn’t wink at you while doing it because that would have been totally opposed to the angle.
Are traits and mixins the same? If not, can you please provide a trivial example. It would be useful to better understand what you mean. When I was very young, learning C++, I thought multiple inheritance was so cool. Now, I know it is like sleeping in the open jaws of a saltwater croc.
What website was used for the exercises?
Unfortunately instances need to make money to be sustainable to cover the hosting costs as they get more users. A common way of doing that is donations, but that is not even viable if they start getting more users (increasing hosting, bandwidth costs) and to compete against Big Tech.

The parent comment has recognized the problem:

> Between that and all the "donation-funded instances" that never seem to be in the black (and the ones that do can only say so because they are getting all free labor from volunteers/moderators) I really start to wonder if we will ever make a dent on the Big Tech and VC-funded companies. The resources being given to the developers is ridiculous small, and no one wants to admit it.

The first step in tackling a problem is to recognise and acknowledge that there is a sustainability issue that needs to be solved properly. In the end, the only instances that will be around are the largest and most centralized instances that have the most users.

Thus, even if that happens, donations will not be a viable source of revenue to counter the increasing operational costs as an instance gets used by more users.
In southeast asia (like singapore, malaysia), drinks from a kopitiam (coffee shop) like tea, coffee, or milo are sold in plastic bags with a straw[0].

https://www.burpple.com/f/Lo7v4Tuo
Nobody is forced to buy work from someone, but with a State sanctioned cartel you are forced to buy from the cartel instead than from whomever you want.

The weird statement is yours when you say they don't stop me from programming. They do!
Seems obvious that the reason bagged liquids are less common is because it's awkward as hell to hold and carry, especially at larger sizes?

Even with some kind of handle, a soft, floppy bag is less ergonomic to carry than a hard-sided container with a molded handle. The only use case for a soft-sided liquid container that makes design sense are the flasks that fit inside a running vest and therefore flex to the shape of your chest along with the vest material.
That somebody had simply taken the bag from the cardboard box it was sold in, for some reason (maybe space).

These are called cubi in France (from cubitainer) and used to be hard plastic containers but have been bags in cardboard boxes for maybe the last 30 years or so.

They have a reputation for being used for the cheapest wine possible (which was likely the case if you were students) but can also be used for better wine, it's actually a rather good storage device as it still excludes oxygen once open unlike regular bottles.
It's against the HN guidelines to comment on whether someone read an article, but I find it interesting that nobody has yet commented on section 3 of the article, which, um, stands out, calls attention to itself. The elephant in the room, as it were.
Sadly, ting.com does not provide service in any towns in Texas.
Thanks, that was a silly oversight. Your comment is appreciated, as it saved an instruction in my game engine's JIT compilation :)

https://github.com/ArmageddonGames/ZQuestClassic/commit/0a78...
agile is fine (ie delivering features incrementally) but the scrum process around it is useless.
The point is that the data show that the few incidents you’ve witnessed firsthand are not indicative of a larger trend.

I don’t really see how your framing here is coherent. Social media is corporate media.
I thought hats were about covering up the fact that you are going bald...
> Is there some weird toxic subculture in the vector database space

(I work for Weaviate)

Unfortunately, some players in the space (who are on this list) are cheating and playing an unfair game. I guess that this comes with a rapidly growing space.

I hope we can all quickly go back to focussing on our respective communities and educating the market (together) on the awesome things one can do with vector DBs.
I wonder if it has to do with mismatches between -as-cattle and -as-pets philosophies and usecases. From the post, it looks like they were using k8s. It's hard to tell given the, you know, total data loss, but it looks like the instance had at max triple-digit users. In my experience running small community stuff like this, the -as-cattle tooling, even though I'm familiar with it from work, is way overkill and introduces far more brittleness than it prevents. My go-to for stuff like this is -as-pets: gimme a box, a daemon, some rc scripts and maybe a backup client. Admin complexity and burnout are huge problems for volunteer sysadmins, and IMO the burden of -as-cattle tooling unnecessarily exacerbates both.

I've had an irc daemon running on the same metal for almost 15 years now, uninterrupted besides occasional OS upgrades and patches. There is basically nothing else happening on the host. It is dumb simple and just works.

Some of that may be on devs, actually: distribution-as-docker-container at the expense of real packaging seems to be on the rise.
What I found really strange when I went there for a few weeks, was that the entire network ground to a halt before midnight. And this for a city of 25 million people.

Which I guess is why I found people sleeping in their suits near Shinjuku station. I still wonder where all the bar staff and their customers went to after closing up for the night. I asked the hotel staff and they said they could sleep on-site.
Is it obvious though?

Maybe it is when they turn the store they're "closing" into an "independent" store "owned" by the previous store manager who then enters into an exclusive purchasing contracts with the previous owner. But then they'll do the nearest thing which is less obvious.

How does a rule like that even work? If an independent store makes wholesale purchases from both Walmart and Target, are its employees supposed to be employees of Walmart or employees of Target?
>Deaths of despair are linked to economic system configuration,[..]

Sure there is a correlation between deaths of despair and poverty. However, the argument here was that healthcare advances won't tickle down with the evidence being declining life expectancy. That's a totally different claim. As of 2021 over 90% of Americans had health insurance coverage and AFAIK the vast majority of proven, legitimate treatments are available to those insured people. (sauce: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...).

>pushed by the wealthy to remain static

What class war, conspiracy nonsense is this? Do you think "the rich" get together once a year, smoke cigars and discuss what policies to convince everyone of in order to keep the poors down because they are idiots who believe the world is a zero-sum-game?
Mine works great as edoc reader but the pencil doesn't have full mouse functionality and the mechanical switch BT keyboard i need to do non trivial inputs adds a lot of bulk.. so still has a lot of potential.
#3 is the actual article and has almost nothing to do with weight loss... goddamn
The link in my comment is a long read but links to lots of original sources.
Interesting phenomenon happens at my place which is scrum + Safe. Our team gets publicly dinged if we "carry over" tickets between sprints, so if we finish our work with 2 days left the manager asks not to start anything new.

The process is a performance within a performance, literally getting told NOT to do more work. This is what happens when you have chart-oriented-development (particularly jira's toxic charts).

You might think this is nice to have free time to sit around, but frankly it also drains a lot of the joy out of my work, takes away my sense of autonomy and pride in my work and leads to some resentment.
> How does one test a (personal) backup strategy?

Boot into one. (Clone it onto a spare drive and use that as a boot target.)

If it works flawlessly, there's your backup. If it doesn't, fix your backups so they're bootable.
>I won’t personally be bringing back outdoors.lgbt or firefish.lgbt. Being an admin has been one of the most fulfilling things I have done in a long time and you all have made it such an amazing experience., however, I need to take a step back. I would love to hand the domains over to someone with a similar passion for creating a safe and welcoming community.

I hope the author isn't only quitting because of a feeling of guilt or shame. If that's true, it's certainly ok to give it another try. Tech is toxic enough depending on where you look, and that's not even counting the self-hurt that some of us do to ourselves.
Personally my personal files like important docs go to:

- iCloud (automatically)

- Local nightly rsync to a zfs share from local Docs folder
- Backblaze

- Some crit stuff to OneDrive

- TimeMachine on a local Linux server at home

Periodically I check them all, verify file counts and sizes, spot check files. Periodically isn’t that often, but I’ve actually needed backed up files and used it.

Data volume are low though.

I keep Photos libraries similarly backed up. That’s harder to verify, although sizes is pretty good. Even if the library metadata gets fried the raw files still exist in the folder structure.
In Python, except for mutability, is there any difference between tuple and list? In my experience: Pure Python people get so excited about tuples ("oh, it's so Pythonic"); others: much less.
This all seems way overly complicated for what could probably be a few services running on a VM or four. Why does Kubernetes/Argo/Helm need to get involved? Why couldn't the whole architecture diagram look a lot more like HN? I feel like we've entirely lost our way with complexity.
From Peopleware: “In the 1985 Jeffery-Lawrence study [from the University of New South Wales]…they investigated the productivity of 24 projects for which no estimates were prepared at all. These projects far outperformed all the others…Projects on which the boss applied no schedule pressure whatsoever (‘Just wake me up when you’re done.’) had the highest productivity of all.”

I read 20+ books on management and leadership[1], and none of them mentioned anything like Scrum. I agree it's BS.

[1] https://tuckerconnelly.com/management-leadership
No problem, you can have that opinion. I would in turn say that in this case you should take most things child psychologists say around this problem with a ton of salt. If you look at the welfare of children, they have been utterly incapable of helping their mental state as a group. Thus we're seeing ever greater prevalence of depression, autism and sexual identity disfunctions.

Just a few years ago the established opinion in that field that smart device use was not particularly affecting their minds.

This is as if climate scientists would look at global temperatures and the co2 amounts and then claim that it's just the sun going warmer.

But it's understandble in a way: this situation brewed up pretty fast and took everybody by surprise. We tge parents were the first line to fail since we got the kids their devices abd did not pay enough attention what they were doing with them.
Scrum gives me the same impression as liberal economics. An intellectual tradition centered around quantifying things that can't reliably be quantified, as well as projecting incomplete models on top of reality in service of economic interests and insisting that they are correct.
"That night, you deadlift your body weight. You sneak a photo of yourself in the mirror and email it to yourself with the subject heading “You Are A Warrior”."

I can see why she left him...
This is a very unsatisfactory answer - but you have to grow a culture. Working with people to match their personal goals with organizational goals. High degree of mutual trust. Cooperative design. Group ownership of the codebase and rotating responsibilities. Lack of 'magic knowledge'. Sufficient infrastructure development to reduce rote workload on developers.

All of these are organic rather than formulaic. They require limited rates of growth to enculturate the new hires, and a seed group that understands this.

That works. But you can't hire a consultant to build that, or write a book about it. And bad elements in the mix can mess up the whole thing.
In theory, being a socialist utopia, everyone should just get their house because of market failure which is outside of their control. (which is kind of what I think should have happened during the GFC, bank failure in your favour so to speak)

But lets see how the utopia holds up to reality. Yay, we're living in interesting times.
I haven’t used their particular tool (ArgoCD) but the ones I have used include an option to keep specific pieces of infrastructure around even when it’s deleted from the description. That’s absolutely what you should be doing for anything that stores data.
I doubt lower sperm counts or health, if true, have anything to do with lower fertility rates.

The topic gets danced around because the biggest change is women achieving independence and being able to completely control when and if they have a child, and incentivizing them to want to have children means quite a bit of wealth transfer, or rolling back their independence and access to birth control. Obviously, men would also need to be convinced to have children too, but that seems secondary.
Nothing. Type hints are only paint on the bike shed. By default, there is no function in the language, e.g., raise exception for incorrect type.
The modern Chinese li is defined as exactly 500 meters.
> That doesn't answer the question... what makes it thoughtless?

Have you ever heard anybody discussing the downsides of densification? Pretty much _everything_ has upsides and downsides (yes, including sparse cities).

But if you listen to "urbanists", then it will seem like humans should be sliced, diced, and restacked into a Human Cube. While wild animals will frolic and dance outside the walls of the Dense City. With absolutely no downsides whatsoever.

This is what makes it "thoughtless".

> I was certainly happier and had a better time balancing my budget living in a small apartment in Japan than trying to find out how to budget to live in north america.

Now imagine living in a small apartment in a suburban location. For about 1/5-th of the price of a Tokyo apartment.

> I think it is inseparably tied with density - a city of 2million might be the turning point in a land constrained country like Japan

We're seeing that Japan is not so land-constrained, as it literally has houses sitting empty.

> This is a poor proxy. Capital budgets might be better, or ratio between median taxation and median income.

I tried that, but I gave up. First, the data is a mess. Second, even for several cities where I decided to dig in, it gives even _worse_ results. Third, a lot of capital funding happens through the Federal grants in larger cities, and it's not clear how to account for it.

> Boise and NYC both have transit, zoning, etc so that alone doesn't make any difference

Boise barely has zoning and transit, so it doesn't need a lot of employees. It doesn't have (or need) a subway. And to give you a perspective, one mile of Manhattan subway costs about as much as 1000 miles of a modern 6-lane freeway.

> Additionally, you mention zoning - most of the smallest municipalities in the US have much more restrictive zoning than cities in Japan.

Ironically, the only large metro location without zoning in the USA is the Greater Houston Area. The lack of zoning allowed it to build an extremely successful car-oriented city, that has commutes that are FASTER than in any large European city (or Tokyo, for that matter).
The union wasn't taking 5% as their dues before you had one, and getting a 7% raise against 10% inflation is the level of negotiating you can achieve as an individual who is not very good at it.
> They then claim that pure "Scrum" or "Agile" has never been implemented anywhere.

They are right, however the conclusion that should be drawn from this is that the most likely outcome of your organisations implementation of agile will be equally as poor, and that it should prolly be skipped.
"Not shown to be safe" is about the weakest claim that you could make.

> Absolutely not. And the fact that people think that kind of thing after reading sensationalized articles like this causes real problems.

Are you trying to say that this study did show these chemicals to be safe, or were they not shown to be safe? Believing the first would be a real problem.
Two stores sell glass milk (same milk) like that around here. One would just not charge the deposit if you gave them a bottle (the Ace hardware, natch) - the other had a complicated refund process involving the customer service desk, quite a hassle.
Kudos to the admin for writing this up and making it public.

Everyone’s lives will involve an irretrievable loss of something, on some scale, at some point. A friend, partner, parent, child — those are the big ones. Your home, job, your pet, a precious object (or in this case, data), or an enjoyment of something: the accumulation can be a lot to handle as time goes on, but it’s also human nature, and it’s important to learn to tackle grief without ignoring it.

Grief is so core to being human that, thankfully, it is an aspect of life where you can find a lot of support. Religious communities, for example, can provide a lot of help that at the same time will be orthogonal to their core mission of worship. You can benefit from the former without having to engage with the latter. Don’t worry about being transactional in looking for help — people will want to help you.
Did this at insurance company back in 99. They'd been running on desktop pcs with tops off in a closet (server room) with carpet floors.

Built a cluster in two full racks and Friday after COV started migration. Failed all though Saturday and Sunday to restore data. Has tested backups (DAT drives) after backup which passed but something corrupted. Found another backup tape, and had it up at 0745am on Monday. Zero sleep all weekend had to call in some other admins to get it done. Was both stressful and exhilarating. Became extremely cautious with backup testing since then.
It was. Fortunately the usual suspects have now been mostly deprived of power and tamed.
I've never used Ada, and I also don't really do systems stuff, but it does seem like it's a pretty neat language, at least compared to C. From what I have seen, it looks like it has better memory guarantees while still being fast and low-level.

With be the popularity of Rust, it makes me kind of wonder why Ada isn't more popular. I should give the language a go.