skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, people experience changes in accents during their own life; they hear recordings from themselves from the 70's and think "did I really talk like that?".

One thing though, take older movies with a grain of salt; in old movies, actors were taught a specific accent (called the Mid-Atlantic accent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent).
> Also when i try to pre-order for Germany the ETA is Mach 29, 2022

What are you complaining about, Mach 29 is really, really fast! That's 10 km/s, enough to achieve orbit.
In a few words, when dealing with kernel modules and drivers (and I guess every low-level implementation), ensuring that the upper (Rust) layers are safe is still the job of a person: a person, with a great understanding of both worlds, writing the unsafe functions that glue safe-land and the rest of the kernel together.
False positives (this program could access these file locations) seems like a reasonable tradeoff.
This is also true with silences. When we switched from analogue phone calls to digital phone calls in the 90's, SIP began to ingest white noise during silences due to discomfort perceived by the users thinking they got hung up or the network has been disconnected.
> This story doesn’t likely have a happy ending.

And that's exactly what you would expect when extrapolating from the economic argument above!

To come back to the analogy with dot-com companies:

In a field where a winners might give you outsized 100x returns, you expect perhaps 99 out of 100 companies to be total garbage losers that go bust. So that the average return from investing in all companies in that field is something normal.

Otherwise, rational investors will keep pumping money into that field and funding more and more companies until that's true.

Same here: even if you believe that in 20 years cryptocurrencies will dominate the world economies (just like 20 years after the dot-com boom and bust, internet companies like Amazon and Google dominate economies), still most almost all cryptocurrencies will fail.

The political risks, that you are alluding to, fit this argument just like any other risk would.

Thanks to eg bitcoin futures, it's not relatively easy to go shortsell (something like) bitcoins, so I expect the market price to be roughly in line with the best forecasts possible.

(Only 'roughly', because the market for bitcoin is still pretty tiny, and not very developed, compared to eg US inflation forecasting markets like https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE )
What could string.chars().count() possibly be used for?

At least .length tells ypu how much memory the string will occupy - not likely to be very important in a memory managed language, but at least it has one potential use. I don't see a use for the number of code points in a string.
He found his co founder on Reddit in the end

Brian used to give everyone he met who didn't have bitcoin $10 worth so I guess that was who you met
What I've noticed while working on most continents is that when people learn just a little English, they can communicate better than I can if I try to learn their language. The reason is, I think, that English grammar is, in a way, so redundant that even if the speaker use wrong grammar all the time the meaning often doesn't change. You can say "I is", which is wrong, but there's no problem with understanding (at least not for non-native English speakers who are so used to hear all kinds of wrong grammar).
But make a single mistake in a Romance language like Italian, and suddenly your sentence "I'm stupid" now means "You're stupid". The grammar matters. In English the grammar, for the most part (not for everything, of course) is about correctness more than meaning - which is why the language is so robust, which is one reason it works as a lingua franca: A little English knowledge goes a long way.
My friend doesn't like to admit to things that might be considered a crime, it's just how it goes in a police state.
This is a very nice project, well done!
"There is plenty of free/open-source voice data out there"

No doubt about that, but you need validated transcripted voice data(no errors) and this is harder to get.
International issues get in the way of policing now. We have some extradition and similar agreements for the worst crimes.

I am not convinced "online police" are the right solution, but if we want to avoid walled gardens everywhere, if we want public spaces, we need public peacekeepers.

In most cases, a quiet word from a police officer, who s enough to move the situation on, usually enough to prevent it escalating anywhere.

The rest is likely to be slowly dealt with as part of a society wide system of mental health.

A quick example - a long time ago I got a note from @dang saying my 2am comment was "racewar" (turned out he mean the comment above me) but it contains most of the issues we discuss here - a dumb comment, a quiet word from an official peacekeeper, a process of escalation / complaint and a just resolution - certainly left me thinking harder about my 2am comment habit.
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Ask A1h about that. The first automated database on this planet was made by IBM to sort the Jews for the Holocaust.

Make sure your transaction “semantics” aren’t “anti-Semitic”
Countries, not nations. There are many nations living in Argentina and Venezuela, some do have political representation, some do not. e.g.: the Mapuche nation in Argentina lacks political representation.

Then, Argentina is working extremely well, except for themselves, that is.

They are in a treadmill of unpayable debt that works in the following way:

- The left is tasked with buying people's complacency with borrowed money.

- The right is tasked with giving away sovereignty: privatization and military bases.

People are expected to pick a side and stay busy fighting over which side is right. Meanwhile, the country is taken over. Divide and conquer.

It is working extremely well. There are now US military bases near Ushuaia, Neuquen and the Guarani acquifer, the 3 most strategic locations in Argentina. Everything that can be privatized has been privatized, and provisions have been made so that Argentineans can never pay off their debt, so that they can continue to lose their sovereignty. What should they privatize next? the sky is the limit.
> HN has a different focus, and many of us (myself included) would like to keep it that way - because that's literally the basis for the whole value of this place.

That's where we differ. To me HN is valuable because of the people and the continued success in maintaining a good standard of discussion. To me HN is not what we discuss, but how, and with whom.

HN guidelines say that what's on topic is what a good hacker would find interesting, but who is to say what that is? The guidelines basicly say that what's on topic is anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Again, what I think is that the "good hacker" is us. We shouldn't nitpick topics. We should take care to have good discussions. We consider technology important and relevant, so we discuss it. Same for everything.
With finite memory and no external inputs an observer can enumerate all possible states.

In real systems external inputs provide an infinite source of "memory" to read from.
Are psychedelics connected to dreaming? I mean, maybe dreams are supposed to somehow reset or recalibrate brains, but on some people it's not working for some reason. Also, there's a connection of what you eat and what you dream, so my wild hypothesis is that gut bacteria is responsible for recalibrating your brain during sleep. There's also quite strong evidence for correlation between gut bacteria and mental health. Somehow these are connected. Also, exercise, especially running has a mental health effect. Maybe it just mixes your gut bacteria.
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I still consider a serious discussion to be one where you can be right and I can be wrong - politely. It is then up to you to enlighten. Next round you get to be wrong and ill be there to point it out.

That still goes on here. It just is a smaller percentage of the discussion than it was when I originally joined in 2009. It's less obvious, but still possible to find that here.

There are more people here who don't participate that way, so you need to be a bit more careful about whom you try to engage that way to avoid having it go pointlessly sideways.

It's harder to stick your neck out about such things than it used to be and I don't know how to remedy that. It used to be much more possible to have a vigorous debate and have both sides remain civil in a way I have never seen anywhere else.
Indeed, I see TF mostly as an automation/idempotency tool for setting up and maintaining infrastructure components like Kubernetes clusters, ECS clusters, load balancers and all that. Something you would normally do with gcloud or aws-cli or by clicking around in GCP/AWS web console.

Yes, the "provider churn" is real: defaults on cloud platforms can change and platform-specific TF providers can change as well. The way I usually deal with that is to make sure my TF repo's stays in shape by applying them regularly. If you haven't applied a TF repo in over a year chances are real that your repo has rotted. In a similar way to an old Ansible playbook that has rotted because some apt packages have new dependencies. Keep applying them regularly and manage changes in small chunks instead of once a year.

Auditing is really useful. I would recommend preventing developers from applying TF to production directly, and have it all managed by a CI pipeline.

Also with some careful planning and structuring of your TF repository. It's pretty straightforward to duplicate environments: for example: spin up an extra development environment to experiment with a newer K8s version, or to validate some infrastructure changes.
One write, infinite read. Per file (which matters, since you can have many files).

Writes can wait for one another. So you can still handle multiple writers, but serialized.

BTW, most people vastly overestimate their concurrency and write frequency needs. For example something like a CMS is 99.999% reads and 0.001% writes (yes, I pulled this out of my behind, but it's close).
You can also fetch cloud resource state with terraform, without running plan - I can’t remember the exact command. You can use this to import new resources into tf
> SQLite is a relational database management system contained in a C library.

This got me thinking, had someone done a rewrite in Rust yet?
In what way were their minds ruined?
Yeah probably most of the mass is aluminium sheet which melts quite easily hence Starship and the MiG-25 switching to steel, and also can burn quite well - it was the fuel in the shuttle's boosters.
Welp, Twitter says Apple was using a 2003-era fork of this code.
If WAL is enabled it's easy to backup your sqlite db by using VACUUM INTO <file>.

More detailed docs: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html#vacuuminto
Remove the tech-specific words from your comment, and you would probably find people saying the same thing throughout all of history.
and in 2021 finally is able to remove the environment that was actually deployed and not the one located in your current directory.

I wouldn't call TF garbage, because real garbage is the native provisioning tool gcp has. It is just waay over-hyped tool.

Reading comments here it is clear that the biggest proponents at most maybe used CF once or not at all.

TF was great when it was released, it was superior to CF back then. HCL was much better then using JSON, but things improved dramatically. No need to worry about storing state, imports/exports where you can share values between stacks. CustomResources (where you can create a lambda function that does anything you need to), I used for example to configure AWS integration with DataDog, where it needs to create resource in AWS then make setup on DD side that create more resources. Combine that with managed stacksets and BOOM, now every account in the organization automatically sets up the integration. Imagine doing something like that with TF.
Why people forget that less is often more
The nature of psychedelics makes it difficult to overuse them.

Your body will actually build a tolerance to them and they'll stop working if you use too regularly.

You also don't establish a physiological addiction like you do with drugs like nicotine and sugar.

Finally, the dosage required is absurdly small and would be extremely cheap to mass produce. You can grow mushrooms relatively easy in your damn closet. It's not like it's a patented designer drug.

Will people created patented designer psychedelics? Certainly. But it seems to me like it would be a similar kind of problem to people buying Fiji water when nearly the same stuff is flowing out the tap for damn near free.
> Most things that are legal aren't outlined in the law anyway, they're omitted.

So for slavery, you would expect the laws to eg deal with run-away slaves etc, not so much with slavery itself.

> I think it is reasonable to conclude they were referring to the bulk of the law that is administrative/procedural/etc. There are 53 titles of US code, and one of those (title 18) is about criminal code. The rest are predominately not matters of morality.

Yes, exactly. And I am presuming here, that there is a presumption in morality that all-else-being equal, it's more moral to stick to these neutral laws, just because it makes living in a society with other people more bearable.

Eg in a moral sense it doesn't matter whether people drive on the left side of the road or the right side. But if there's a law about driving on the books, you better follow it.

(No clue whether this is strictly speaking something about morals or more about ethics?)
That's a weak statement, because it's easy to demonstrate that popular opinion can be misguided.
It's a sequence of shifts. I guess, significant numbers of people get to experience maybe one shift in a chain.

Modern example. Router. Two forms, the British one rooter is being deprecated strongly for rowter.

Etc is etcetera. Now, its etsy.
A good read, thank you.
Use of "whom" is a great example of this. If you use it correctly (proscriptively) then people thing you sound strange.

There's not just descriptive and proscriptive approaches: utilitarian and apathetically approaches seem distinct (perhaps they're a different axis).
It's a bit shit that they had to jump through so many hoops, with HN being the only one that actually worked (after 7 hours) in order to get in touch. Serious kudos to you for helping them but I know a lot of people who wouldn't touch your company with a bargepole for these kind of reasons. Having to kick up a fuss on social media in order to get service, how very 2021..
Over the last few weeks I built a Rails app, after a ~10 yr hiatus. I love Rails.

Rails switched to SQLite for at least the development environment.

As soon as I started to test the app with multiple clients ( browsers, websockets, embedded websockets ), I was hit with concurrency errors.

So I switched to PostgreSQL ( which I love ). But I had to.
It makes things very convenient for hackers.
Not just WAL, there are other files like SHM too.
I don't know how "at some point you end up in a position of diminishing returns" in this case is an argument against EA. In the book Doing Good Better one of the core ideas of EA is defined as investing in problems that are neglected, which prevents investing in diminishing returns. Whenever the malaria nets run into diminishing returns I am sure that GiveWell will start ranking AMF lower. If you are arguing that we should not invest in problems that have diminishing returns EA strongly agrees with you.
I feel like there will also people that have way too many prejudices towards these kinds of "drugs" because that's simply how we learned it. "Don't take drugs kids".

These studies are very helpful especially when shared over general media, but the consumption has to be supervised and controlled to not have overdoses and ruin the whole reputation again. It should be treated like any other anti-depressant, since they are just "drugs" in the end
That's painful for you, but a good thing to know as a community. Is it possible to prevent sending to premium numbers?
At the time it felt astonishing that central banks allowed non-state currencies to exist on national ground, for the first time. It still feels astonishing.
In Germany you can get a 9k€ subsidy on an electric car.
You can get 0€ subsidy for a L7e electric light vehicle that goes 45km/h max, uses vastly fewer resources to build and operate and uses less parking space. Many of these vehicles (like the Renault Twizy or the upcoming Microlino) could replace cars used for short distance commutes.

I hope it changes soon.
All this energy and griping by people. Don’t get it.

I’m excited for actual obfuscation. I’ve always thought tf cloud is probably the juiciest hacking target of all. All those keys.
> Apart from Sydney having almost perfect weather and being one of the most stunning cities in the world there are the political aspects.

The first thing that comes to mind of many people when thinking about Australia: what about the scary snakes and spiders? How many encounters will I have with them while living in Sydney 'burbs and is it more than zero? What is the chance of randomly waking up with a giant spider on my face?
Everything is not stored as string. You set a column to number and pass a number, it's stored as a number.

SQLite doesn't enforce it. But people forget the major reason for DB enforcement is multiple application on one database.

This pattern has fallen out of favor in general for all databases (we prefer one service layer in front of the DB, and then multiple apps use that service layer).

And when you have one app or one service layer, that's where the enforcement can easily come from.
> In the end, I always come back to Postgres. It's unbelievably powerful, lightweight and there's not much it can't do.

Well, depends on how wide your definition is:

Filesystems are also databases. (And eg inside of Google, they are using databases to store filesystems.)

These days, we often think of relational databases. Filesystems are more like the hierarchical databases of yore that Codd (also) talked about in his original papers.
How the the fraudster make money, not familiar with the concept of premium numbers. EDIT: Oh premium numbers charge the sender
Yeah, that article is pretty weird. To add on your last point:

> > One could spend at most a few tens of millions of dollars on anti-mosquito bed nets before returns start dramatically diminishing because everyone who can be helped by them already has one.

That's a feature. It's half of what makes "effective" part of "effective" altruism effective. The fact that charities aren't infinite money sinks allows everyone to donate by a simple algorithm of:

do {
let charity = runQuery("
SELECT *
FROM charities
ORDER BY effectiveness DESC
LIMIT 1;")
donateTo(charity);
} while(charity != null && hasMoneyToHelp());

The idea being, charities that can do most good now get the funds, and as they saturate and hit diminishing returns, they stop being the most effective ones, so other charities takes their place. Repeat until there are no more charities remaining, thus no more problems to solve.

(People may have slightly different definitions of "effective", or one may prefer to do e.g. LIMIT 5 and pick one of the top 5 at random - the idea still works, the slight variance is a hedge against uncertainty.)

It's an obvious idea, and it's how people approach other aspects of their lives if they care about the outcome, so why not donating too?

The article continues:

> > This points to the limits of the individualistic consumerist approach to ending poverty. The best – most beneficial – choice you can make as an individual spending $50 or even $5,000 is different from the best choice you should make if you have several hundred billion dollars to spend.

There's only one entity with several hundred billion dollars to spare, and that's US Government. Other than that, this is why people donate to charities: charities exist to pool money, to turn ten thousand $50 donations into a single $500 000 force that can be better used than if everyone tried to apply their $50 directly at the problem.
> If and when Kuiper actually becomes a real thing, or oneweb (the UK government investment and ownership stake is encouraging, there), I don't see them sole sourcing to starlink either.

Starlink has far greater capability than Oneweb, simply due to having a much bigger constellation. Oneweb can't compete with Starlink in terms of constellation size, because unlike SpaceX they don't own their own launch vehicles.

What is the motivation for having a second-source to Starlink – technical, economic, political? If it is political, Oneweb may have the disadvantage of being a UK-headquartered company not a US-headquartered one, so that gives the US military a political reason to prefer Starlink (on top of its technical advantages). Unless the US is particularly interested to gain the UK government's favour – and the Biden administration doesn't appear to be particularly interested in that

OTOH, Oneweb has a good chance of getting the UK government and military's business, being UK-headquartered and partially UK-government owned. But the US government/military is a higher value customer than the UK government/military – the US military's annual budget is over 16 times that of the UK's.

I think Project Kuiper being US-owned has a greater chance of getting US military business. But they haven't launched anything yet, and it isn't clear when they are going to start. Their launch costs are likely to be higher than SpaceX's, and SpaceX has a big head-start in the market, which put them at a disadvantage.
SQLlite is awesome right up to the point where it corrupts everything and leaves you in an unrecoverable state. At that point you need to have working backups and a plan to migrate to a real DB server. Actually, if "working backups" is a thing that makes sense for your use case just figure out how to use PostgreSQL now.
There are quite a few regulars, and funnily enough most people on the sub are quick to call out possible astro-turfing. It seems unlikely that it's thoroughly astro-turfed.
The PO-33 is clearly nowhere near as powerful as the OP-1. That said: they are great fun to mess around with. My current favorite is the PO-20.
I use Gitea(Github clone) locally with SQLite running on ZFS where I can take atomic snapshots of both the SQLite database and git repositories.

This would not be possible if I used a remote database, as there is no way to do a atomic snapshot of both the remote database on another filesystem(even if its ZFS) and the git repository.

Developers of multiple services, please support SQLite and don't lock yourself to a single database like PostgreSQL and MySQL. Even if the service is embedded in a Docker Container it is still painful to manage.
>I'd assume the same courtesy would be extended to any customer

Unpopular opinion.

You see, I dont want assumption. I want guarantees. I also dont want a platform owner to remove you without some days if not weeks notice. I mean your landlord and court give you time for eviction. At least I hope that is true, I am not sure if time to vacate is universal across the world. They also give little to no time to solve any dispute.

I also dont like it when media spin that AWS is at least helping them move their Data off the platform as if it is something good. I dont know why it is perceived that way in the US, but that was absolutely the least they need to do and expected in EU or UK.

It is increasingly a worry sign. I have been yearning for an iOS Time Capsule for more than a decade. And the recent event makes it even more important. I want to own my things.
> I have no doubts that a simple redesign could bring the BOM down to sub-$200

lol gotta love armchair HN
Honestly, the best applications tend to be native applications. That’s my experience at least.
The .wal file shouldn't be backed up though.