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by civilized 3y ago
I was a fan of dbt for a while, but the shine wore off when I saw one of my smartest coworkers try to use it. His development speed was about an order of magnitude slower than what I expect from data scientists using dataframe packages like
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by civilized 3y ago
Okay, then in your terms my question would be "why is the best language for configuration not an existing language?"
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by civilized 3y ago
I have seen many of these posts now and I have a simple question. Why do we need special configuration languages? Why not just use existing languages? I understand why data formats like JSON and YAML are valuable, and I understand why it wo
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by civilized 3y ago
> It is truly baffling to me how something that holds so much genuine value can be driven into the ground while making decisions left, right and center (and the whole community trying to tell you exactly what you're doing) that dest
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by civilized 3y ago
Well-covered ground in public choice theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
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by civilized 3y ago
Ordinarily I would agree with you, but the case of Boeing includes some extraordinary context. This company's incompetence killed 346 people in 2018-2019, and the postmortem revealed an unethically cozy relationship with their regulato
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by civilized 3y ago
It's not that I think it's acceptable. I'm thinking about how to reduce the harm of people doing unacceptable things that we can't stop them from doing. I would be very transparent about this. I would say this is harm re
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by civilized 3y ago
I agree with you about security theater. The only reason I'm favorable to this approach is because it seems to provide accountable harm reduction in this case. It would stop many typical attacks while being very easy for any random g
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by civilized 3y ago
A lot of critical responses here are saying "this distracts from getting people to do the right thing". I'm open to that, but what is the plan for forcing organizations that are doing the wrong thing to do the right thing? We
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by civilized 3y ago
> Stopping SQL keywords is a distraction dressed up like security. It's harmful. We are talking about how to mitigate harm from people who are already doing the wrong thing . Saying that this distracts from doing the right thing mi
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by civilized 3y ago
It's not like all humans are born knowing how to read and write Markdown. A standard that is slightly less flexible or intuitive for (some) humans while enabling vastly more machine applications could be a win.
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by civilized 3y ago
What you're recommending is the status quo. The status quo has led to me receiving regular letters informing of massive security breaches where all my PII is disclosed and I have no recourse of any kind, other than possibly spending my
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by civilized 3y ago
It (partially) protects against the attack vector in which the system was badly coded and simply does not do what everyone with basic competency insists all systems must do. I strongly suspect that this is the most common attack vector in c
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by civilized 3y ago
Many people in positions of great responsibility don't do what they should. What do we do about that?
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by civilized 3y ago
Counterpoint - however pathetic it may be, it's better that they publicly owned up to their lack of confidence in this way. The question is, what do we do about it once we see something like that?
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by civilized 3y ago
Because you are lazy, irresponsible, and/or incompetent.
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by civilized 3y ago
I expect this will attract a lot of criticism, but I actually think it's a good idea, at least in some cases. There are a lot of people writing bad code and bad system architectures for their organizations. There are not enough peopl
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by civilized 3y ago
> Natural joins also encourage standardized naming conventions, which has longer-term benefits. This is a very positive spin on "you have to manage column names very rigorously for this strategy to be sustainable".
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by civilized 3y ago
There is more than one way to feel about this situation! I watch my finances, but the hours I spend on it feel wasted, and I am resentful of the people whose parasitic attitudes towards my bank account make this necessary. It's as if,
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by civilized 3y ago
Your theory predicts ever-climbing unemployment rates, but the prime-age labor force participation rate is near its all time high [1] and unemployment is at an all-time low [2]. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LN
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by civilized 3y ago
Has anybody proved that transformers are just kernel SVM yet?
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by civilized 3y ago
This post probably has some kernels of value, but it suffers from the XY problem: it's a note taking system which provides the solution, but not the problem it's solving. Let's invert that and focus on the problem first. Belo
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by civilized 3y ago
According to widespread chatter on HN and similar forums, nuclear will soon be irrelevant because renewables are becoming so cheap. I assume this is a much more thoughtful analysis; it would be nice to know, briefly, why this team does not
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by civilized 3y ago
I meant that the drive to solve problems at all costs can be self-defeating if you overextend yourself by making unreliable code that produces false results.
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by civilized 3y ago
These patterns appear in many fields. I take it as a sign that the tooling in the field is underdeveloped. This leads to a split between domain problem solvers, who are driven to solve the field's actual problems at all costs (includin
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by civilized 3y ago
I'm not aware of any requirement that anti-competitive behavior be in response to competitor behavior, but maybe you know more about the law.
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by civilized 3y ago
My understanding is they also ban third-party text message applications, but I could be confused on the details.
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by civilized 3y ago
Apple's behavior seems much more anticompetitive because, for example, they ban third parties from offering apps that interoperate e.g. with iMessage. That's worlds worse than just making sure your app is the most convenient optio
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by civilized 3y ago
It contains factual claims which you can dispute. "I am personally not convinced and dislike your tone" doesn't add anything to the conversation.
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by civilized 3y ago
The guy from Rochester is Ranga Dias. He is a fraudster. Here are a couple news reports on his behavior: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/controversial-phy... https://www.nytimes.com/2023&#x2F

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