skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an organizational structure that is common industry-wide.

Core IT (not Infra - Infra often means DevOps/Platform which is part of R&D), like any other shared function, is placed under the CFO/COO org because it is a shared internal function that's used to keep the lights on.

These are functions that by definition are a cost center, and as such R&D really doesn't want to own it, as it distracts from the core mission of delivering forward facing features.

The whole point of the DevOps/Platform Eng model was to incorporate operations under R&D, but having R&D own and manage physical assets is a major distraction, and a major reason Public Cloud became popular among plenty of companies.

Cost of compute isn't the only variable that comes to play - depreciation, hiring/firing, security, redundancy planning (because these are physical assets), etc are all significant headaches operationally and financially.

Technology is a tool - you choose the tool that works best. In some cases Public Cloud is the solution, in other cases it's a CoLo. It comes down to your specific organization's needs.
>Does this paywalled article even contain a definition of "processed" in this context?

Or worse the ultraprocessed level. I dont think the article adequately defines either, but one can see what they are attempting to explain.

>I've never understood what that word means in the context of food. I have something in my kitchen called a "food processor". It spins around and chops things with a blade. Is the product of a "food processor" not "processed food"?

I think the author is not talking about food processors or doing procedures on food exactly. But rather suggesting the problem is industrialized food. "Soy protein isolate" is not something you're making in your kitchen. Or various other chemistry lab foods are allegedly a problem.

>The closest I can figure to the media definition is that it is food that contains a lot of salt. Perhaps also preservatives. So are we really talking about the health effects of salt and preservatives?

Preservatives do come into it. But it seems to me the diet folks are really struggling to figure out the correct diet.
I imagine in the future DRM is directly embedded in the viewers brain and if it detects pirate content it just fries you.

I genuinely can't imagine any other form of DRM being successful.
This is impressive work, especially for a one man show!

One thing that stood out to me was the graph of the sentiment analysis over time, I hadn't seen something like that before and it was interesting to see it for Rust. What were the most positive topics over time? And were there topics that saw very sudden drops?

I also found this sentence interesting, as it rings true to me about social media "there seems to be a lot of negative sentiment on HN in general." It would be cool to see a comparison of sentiment across social media platforms and across time!
But hyperventilating sounds scientific and reductive circles are mystical and sell well! And we gotta separate our ancient shamanic yogi breathing school from those damn box breathing gurus!
Navinder Sarao: The Reclusive British Trader Behind the 2010 Flash Crash
Send frigate updates to various notification services
See https://github.com/laktak/tome

It lets you manage playbooks, interactive scripts that keep your recurring commands (or what you would otherwise search for in the bash history).
there are a few wrist devices like that

https://dhamasport.com/product/cool-wristband/

https://embrlabs.com/products/embr-wave-2

I was looking at them to deal with Raynauds Disease but the Sony device might be even better.
It is more natural because creatures in nature do it. Together with mating, hunting is one of the foundations of life itself for the predator or omnivore class of animals.

All the behaviours that we have in common with other mammals are natural and eternal. They can never be legislated away, even though many have tried and they have died. Including kings trying to ban hunting certain game for commoners and having them for themselves.
Because when you try to throw junior developers at it who had OO concepts in Python, Java, or C# drilled into them in college, switching to Elixir/Erlang feels like learning Martian. I had the fun experience of it being the second language I used in my career after PHP, and it definitely took strong mentorship and smart seniors who were really into Elixir for me to get up to speed.

At least when we used Elixir about eight years ago, we had to also learn Erlang as many libraries running on the BEAM VM that Elixir and Erlang share were only written in Erlang. So that made my brain melt further.

Once I got into the flow, I really liked it, and am glad I got the opportunity to learn it as a junior developer, but I've largely dropped it as there aren't many jobs in my area looking for Elixir.
Because most developers struggle with functional programming.
In a representative democracy, the will of the population isn't so directly represented in the laws that are held. Given the role money and lobbying have in politics, there's no way to conclude that any given law has the broad support of the people vs "this isn't important enough for me to get worked up over vs issues that are more immediately pressing to me" or even "powerful economic powers are acting to sway the opinion of the general population". There's even [1] which adds credence to the idea that laws are passed by the will of the wealthy, not by the will of the constituents. Also immoral laws can be passed when the people in power are immoral. Immoral people can gain power through alternate ways than following the will of the constituents.

More importantly, we have ideals and principles that supersede the will of the public. Arguably the most sacred ideal in America is the First Amendment with respect to protections about speech & this is pretty adjacent in that the law is criminalizing speech for something that should arguably be a civil matter at best. Laws like this are not dissimilar to passing a law protecting employers from employees trying to document unsafe working conditions.

So the idea that the law is purely an expression of the wishes of the constituents is nice but not borne out in the structure of modern democratic governments, not borne out in practice because of how power & money intermix, & invalidated by the idea that we have principles that supersede the wishes of those constituents.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
It doesn't need to work, it needs to be a clearly demarcated legal boundary. If it's hard enough that it takes effort to cross, you can prosecute.

Someone who wanders in the woods might not be blamed for trespassing. But someone who hops a fence with a sign on it doesn't have much defense.
FTX Will Return Money to Most Customers
Fasting for Survival [video]
Very interesting and engaging. Most people think fasting is about calorie restriction as a means for weight loss. The truth of the matter is that one could argue fasting is about far more than that and most of the value comes from the biochemical changes and processes it triggers.
> I've known C for almost 20 years

The author is only 19 years old. I feel really dumb now.
So a GPT4 wrapped Bing?

Doesn't bing chat already do this?
some people are very aware, and actually get a lift from the confrontation.
Enough iron in your gut, yes. You can swallow rouge from a woman's powder cabinet and get your "daily dose"

Bioavailable iron? Much harder. And, since humans are not the same; some of us have guts that really don't absorb vegetable iron well.

For dudes, who care if you cant digest iron?

But for women? For me this is a fundamental woman's right issue [1]. Lacking iron life sucks. Literally, your vitality plummets and you are groggy and sleepy all day every day. The ability of a woman to enjoy life when she lacks iron is significantly reduced.

For me, people who argue for veganism to reproductive age women (or children), are no different than those who argue for female circumcision as both destroy the ability of women to enjoy a rich life.

[1] and, admittedly, personal, since I have at least three loved women who have suffered devastating decrease in their quality of life from their inability to digest iron. My wife, I fixed convincing her to drop veganism.
> That's not going to be true. It might be true when things are running well, but when it fails, it'll either be at most once or at least once.

Silly question as somebody not very deep in the details on this.

It's not easy to make distributed systems idempotent across the board (POST vs PUT, etc.)

Distributed rollbacks are also hard once you reach interacting with 3rd party APIs, databases, cache, etc.

What is the trick in your "on message received handler" from the queue to achieve "exactly once"? Some kind of "message hash ID" and then you check in Redis if it has already been processed either fully successfully, partially, or with failures? That has drawbacks/problems too, no? Is it an impossible problem?
The ad in question was a bad choice. Apple's marketing is usually very celebratory of the creativity of humanity, but this ad seems like it reveled in the destruction of some of the most beautiful tools of creation that humans have made. It didn't make me feel happy or want the product at all, it made me actively think worse of the iPad.
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that so many people are so unbelievably thoughtless about those around them and the impacts their actions may have on them. In other words, self-centered.

See what I did there?
Yes, El Nino is a natural phenomenon. And the earth has been warmer than it is now in the past, amazingly before the Industrial Revolution.
Their name is ClosedAI
> for public health policy it's easier

Your entire explanation seems to rest critically on this point.

After COVID, I cannot support what's "easier" for public health policy. Do the work.

"Easier" got us "N95s don't protect against COVID" and then it was "oh wait, actually cloth masks do!"

A lot of this stuff relies on trust.

I won't sit here and try to pretend that you will find health eating Doritos or McDonald's Big Macs. But is something like a low-sugar protein bar a decent option? How about Soylent?

These are the nuanced questions that are actually useful to answer. Nobody actually thinks "ultra processed foods" are good for you to begin with.
I think we are safe in describing the pre-columbian bison range as not marginal, and the post that started this thread is about how most of our cattle grazing is on marginal lands. The way Americans do this is the worst possible way: grow feed on the excellent grazing range, and feed it to an animal that spends most of its life either grazing a desert or standing in parking lot. We'd get more of everything, easier and cheaper, if we just grazed bison where we currently grow corn.
I think lots of us did hehe. But I'm glad it wasn't for a change.
This is true.

I have a niche e-commerce in this space. People loved it so much that the app went down for a few seconds and then we got A LOT of angry calls!

The app is made for on-the-street salesman so it is optimized for fast invoicing.

To avoid the problem that the manager's needs for reporting and dashboards overshadow everything else we split that from the main app. i.e: we have no report capabilities in the transactional. app interface and have instead integrated metabase for the managers.

So, we split OLTP/OLAP as ux measure.
certainly it is preferable to have actionable test failures, but also it should be very easy to rerun a failed test with additional prints or debug code if not. It is important that the way tests are run is not so heavy and inflexible that it takes more than 30s or so from identifying a failed test to rerunning the same test and seeing additional output. Putting effort to make all tests actionable is probably in reality a strategy to deal with terrible, inflexible, very high latency cloud CI setups.
I guess it depends
https://m.youtube.com/@ZDFbesseresser

Best cocking show ever. German but still watchable. You will realize that you must be nuts to eat processed food
How many people are needed?

If Google is addicted to reduction in personnel through automation, Microsoft is addicted to disposability. Almost all the work done on Microsoft-developed titles like Halo Infinite is performed by temporary workers who are employed for a period of months and then terminated. Microsoft thinks creative success is a commodity to be bought and sold, and it isn't.
Inertia: curly braces rule the world. Imperative/OO programming are ubiquitous, FP not so much.

Corporate sponsorship: even with curly braces and mutability, Go probably wouldn't have gained its mindshare without Google.

Performance: It's getting much better, but the BEAM was never designed for maximum performance. People don't like slow platforms, despite the other advantages.

Scale: much like one of the databases written in Erlang, Riak, you typically don't need a BEAM language until your solution is large enough that you've already written it in something else.

I love Erlang, but I'm a lost cause.
Good lord. A bunch of tweets on X of people being huffy and indignant. What a quality article.
If you take away one of the profitable reasons to chop down the Amazon, it’ll reduce people doing it at the margin - that is simply facts.

> Poor people from eating meat

Yeah and a carbon tax will stop poor people from using as much gas, etc. - if we want to solve climate change we cannot just insulate all poor people from externality pricing.
Ideally that plastic gear would be a standard size and shape that you could find described in a parts list somewhere in the manual. I'd much rather be able to buy one out of a giant surplus bin somewhere in mainland china than trying to measure it and find/make a bespoke replacement.

Replaceable fuses make great failure points for things like motors that can draw silly amounts of current when stalled.
Never underestimate management incompetence.
TS narrows union types cases based on conditionals like "if" (called discriminated unions in the docs in the past), and supports exhaustiveness checks. How do they differ in functionality from sum types?
If you take the capitalistic lust of the corporate executive to its logical extreme, given the massive costs of the DRM tech you'd think that at least one of them would realize that they could make more money if they didn't have to pay for something that doesn't work. The economics of distributing the copies are such that it doesn't actually matter if it's easy or hard for 1 or 100,000 people to break the protection.
Yes, it has undergone revisions since which caused function name mismatch (EDIT: fixed). The execute_activity there uses start_to_close_timeout which is per attempt and will retry forever by default (customizable).

This is more of a primer on the Python part of Temporal rather than an explanation of all Temporal concepts in depth. Definitely would recommend reading the fundamental docs at https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/. For more exact samples, see https://github.com/temporalio/samples-python.
Looks like a blatant ripoff of Linear. The UI is virtually identical.
Enterprise and National have always been top notch, I will die on this hill.
take a look at the Who's Hiring threads - despite the love the BEAM gets on this website, it seems very few folks are brave enough (or public enough) to hire Erlang/Elixir/Gleam/etc engineers. I've seen one or two Elixir jobs each posting and zero Erlang jobs in the last 6 months or so of Ctrl-F'ing the posts as I see them.
the legal term is constructive dismissal, and that term has real weight in labor disputes
ChatGPT4 has basically replaced Google for me when I'm looking for a quick answer and not additional resources.

That said, I'm curious how this is going to go from here because right now the values of LLMs is that they've been fed the entirety of human knowledge. What is the quality going to look like a few years from now when half the new content on the internet is AI generated and the snake is eating its own tail?
How much do you believe that the MoA actually matches what is happening in the underlying reality of a disease and its treatment?

Vioxx is a nice example of a molecule that got all the way to large-scale deployment before being taken off the market for side effects that were known. Only a decade before that, I saw a very proud pharma scientist explaining their "mechanism of action" for vioxx, which was completely wrong.
I’ve had consistently good experiences with Turo so far. Once it gets bigger it will probably go downhill, but currently the hosts remind me of AirBNB hosts from around 2013. Like normal people who are actually trying to do a good job. I haven’t had any issues though so not sure if they handle dispute resolution or damage well.
Related to obesity

Are plastics killing us?

https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/are-plastics-killing-us

I think very highly of ugo bardi
Zenolith: An Interplanetary Time Device
It depends on how the client was written. If you build around asynchronous operations, you can get good throughput, and if you always stop and wait for a reply, you'll get bad throughput. If you buffer your output and don't actually send it for a while, that can also make the experience poor. Xlib pushed you in both those directions, but you can make terrible clients with any library.

My personal experience with Oracle products has always involved terrible UX, so I'm not surprised they built a terrible X client.

I've run browsers over X, sometimes actually remotely, and it's OK, but not great. I wouldn't recommend it for video, audio is out of scope, and start up can be very slow sometimes. It's something that used to work better, IMHO. Sometimes you need to try a couple browsers and see which one works better. As a sibling notes, it all feels untested, and I'm sure if developers were testing, they'd fix some of the things that are easier to fix.
Because embarrassing little in coding is controlled by these imagineers. There’s no much real difference in programming languages anymore, honestly I’ve never met a good programmer that cared about these, it makes your code fringe and inportable.
TAI makes sense on Earth, but when it comes to separate cosmic bodies (like Moon base), my mind does not work well enough to understand how it would work, when time physically is different from the Earth time and even might change if we're talking about accelerating rockets. And how one would design a software and protocols exchanging instant values between those bodies.
Makes sense that this is coming out of Hong Kong. I visited there in late July a few years back and it was unbelievably hot and humid (and I lived in Louisiana at the time).
Why would someone ever use “WAN” and “cloud” in an interchangeable manner?
I have a daily updated dataset that has the HN data split out by months. I've published it on my web page, but it’s served from my home server so I don’t want to link to it directly. Each month is about 30mb of compressed csv. I’ve wanted to torrent it, but don’t know how to get enough seeders since each month will produce a new torrent file (unless I’m mistaken). If you’re interested, send me a message. My email is mrpatfarrell. Use gmail for the domain.
Rather than assuming anything about me, just ask. That's what an online forum is for.

> I claim that religious scholarship and religious fundamentalism are one and the same

This is straying quite a bit from the original claim, that Al Jazeera was wrong to have the scholar on the air. But if you believe, as you claim to, that religious scholarship and religious fundamentalism are the same, then you can't really begrudge the network for having him on, for they could not have any religious scholar on who was not a fundamentalist, according to you. And at least they picked a very mainstream one, no?

That logic out of the way, what do you describe as "fundamentalism"? If the idea that the Quran is the literal, unchanging word of God is fundamentalist, then yeah, all Islamic scholarship will be fundamentalist. If non-fundanentalisn is described as beliefs not orthogonal to the fundamental beliefs of the religion, then yes, you'll be right.

It depends on what you mean.

> The book contradicts itself

In what way, relevant to the discussion we are having where you seem to be most concerned with Qaradawi's anti-Semitic remarks? There's a whole litany of irrelevant arguments we could have about contradictions in the source material, but what specific contradiction do you think he can exploit to make questionable claims in your mind about Israel and/or Jews?

> is Shari'a to annihilate the Jews, and used his general credibility to deny the severity of the holocaust.

So the clip you linked does not say that. Sharia is law. What he's echoing is the belief that sometimes calamities in the world are punishments for moral failings of groups of people. Many religions believe this. It was even insinuated by Muslim scholars that loss of dignity and faith by Muslims was what led to the calamity suffered by the Palestinians. [1]

Is it anti-Muslim to believe that the moral failings of billions of Muslims can cause many Muslims to face calamities as we see today? I don't think so. Many Muslims believe that. Likewise, I don't think it's wrong to believe this about any people, and that's what he's saying in this clip.

If you believe people are not collectively punished by God as groups, that's fine, but there are very clear examples of this happening in religious source material (Sodom is the main one). And as such, I think the only questionable element is him saying "they exaggerate" when referring to the Holocaust. And yes I disagree with that. But it's not an Islamic scholarship issue, that.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZdPxihcKEIk
Show HN: Mixture of Models (MoM) LLM Experiment
Cool!

You have a typo in the word ‘presicion’

Ironically
If you have your own garage, or even driveway with a charger, a Tesla is amazing. And their super charger network on highways is amazing, no logins, apps, credit cards, not even a screen on the device. Just pop it into the car, wait 10 or 15 minutes for 150 miles range then drive to the next one.

It's a shame the rental cars are giving EVs a bad name.
Building with Django: 500% slower to run but 200% faster to build
Yes if a particular group gets to externalise / socialise the costs of maintaining a protection then obviously from the perspective of the protected group then it's worth it.

The question is, is it good for society overall. Who or what is being protected and what impact does that have on everyone else?

Speed limit / stop signs represent a decent point of discussion I think.
To be honest. I like the at least once constraint. It causes you to think of background jobs in a idempotent way and makes for better designs. So ultimately I never found the removal of it a mitzva.

Also if you don't have the constraint and say it works and you need to change systems for any reason, now you gotta rewrite your workers.
Yeah I was programming from way before Stackoverflow existed and I simply call BS.

No one learned Java or C by reading either of the following documents:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se10/html/index.htm...

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

It's cool to romanticize the past though.
A tree visualization like this one would be great as a complement to tabs in web browsing, especially on a monster display.