skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, that is a fair point. I'm specifically talking about the type of requests that always take 500ms. Almost every HTTP request from Australia to the US takes ~500ms.

This is meant to decrease the unfixable latency, it's probably not a good way to solve app level latency issues.
Did I miss in the article what the author plans to do about this? It is one thing to poke fun at patent trolls, but when you are the target of the troll legally you need to do something. What's their response going to be?
I really like bookshop.org to support local bookstores.
DockHero
Once the security apparatuses and their methods are entrenched it's hard for them to go back.

Congress was spied on, a US presidential candidate that we know of was spied on... So imagine plain old American citizens... what can we expect?

If congress isn't willing to take back what they allowed, they aren't going to stop all by themselves. If congress tried, they'd get a lot of pushback. Just like the Armed forces would push back on a spending cut back even though the cold war ended over 30 years ago and our budget dwarfs any one else's.

But you see that same phenomenon in run of the mill operations like homelessness non-profits. Their heft and momentum keeps them going and if you wanted to dismantle them they'd put up a big fight and tell you that while homelessness has gotten worse without them it would be doubly worse even though they never made it better to begin with but their directors live well.
You can preemptively sue them, albeit not for infringing on your IP. It’s called declaratory relief.
Pretty common in financial modeling, which I'm told is all done in Excel.
What it's time for is a change to the laws so that informing the public about what their public servants have been up to can be accomplished without fleeing the country afterwards.
I wonder why ? Could it be because of all the spyware M/S has on Windows 10 ?

Nice for one stop shopping
I read that line as poking fun of the fact that RAM is not capitalized because the lawyers that wrote this think "ram" is a word, not an acronym
this is why we should burn all the money in a big pile and start fresh :/
Most normal people, whom you will not find on hacker news, will think you a tinfoil hat wearing lunatic to suggest anything remotely like mass surveillance being real in ky experience.
> Limited admin practice isn’t just to save money. It’s a security practice and it’s a good one.

And it's a red flag. Means that IT is running the show, not engineering.
GitHub Copilot VSCode Examples with Node ExpressJS, NestJS and Cucumber
I think the point is that people focus too much on the tech solution and not enough on the system into which the tech solution will be introduced.

There's this idea of "problem holder" that Walt Beleyer at Sandia National Laboratory talks about. Holding the problem and deeply understanding is sometimes neglected in the rush and joy of building. Fwiw, I wrote a post about that here:

https://vonnik.substack.com/p/a-building-complex
In Vancouver we had over 480 sudden deaths over the last 5 days. Mostly heat related.

It reached 40 degrees on Monday with humidity around 60%. It was still 32 by sunset. I lived in Panama for ten years. I've never felt heat like this.
>The overall bent is a hand-wringing about link rot, which I thought we mostly got over a decade ago. The Internet is fundamentally ephemeral. If you see something you like, save it so you can repost it later. If you rely on someone else to keep in up indefinitely, you're being foolish.

Did we? Should we?

Acknowledging the current state of affairs doesn't require accepting its flawed nature.

Imagine a world where gasp the BBC, NYTimes, etc. kept all versions of their articles available and online. Where the "pretty URL" shows the most recent version of a page, provides a permalink, and provides permalinks to all previous versions of a page.

I don't expect most sites to do this, but since someone else mentioned the BBC, I am targeting journalism as an example.
Can you elaborate? https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-co... seems to say otherwise.
Also, the caliber of engineers at Google might not be the same as RandomCo where admin access isn't allowed for engineers.
From the name I was assuming this was going to be growing olives, turning them into a spreadable butter product, and then burying it underground.
Even if I disagreed with you on another comment I'll have to say that I find myself much more in agreement with you here.

Erlang / the BEAM did indeed make a lot of good innovations and I can only be angry at myself for being an idiot pressured by employers and never looking beyond it all for something better (until 5+ years ago anyway). But I agree that some of it is starting to show cracks.

In terms of language design, Erlang (and Elixir) aren't anything special. I can't fall in love with syntax anymore because I've literally never seen a language I completely like (LISP included, although it + OCaml are fairly close to ideal languages if you don't stray too much off of the beaten path and venture into their more arcane constructs, of which OCaml sadly has plenty).

To clarify, I believe Elixir is one of the most solid contenders for writing highly available and reasonably performant Web / GraphQL server apps but the lack of compiler apparatus tooling, tooling to modify AST and a few others are definitely starting to hurt it. Having standardized introspection in the language helps it reach higher levels, e.g. have tools that can manipulate an existing project a la like TreeSitter and/or SemGrep can modify/query language-specific constructs. Elixir doesn't have that and I am starting to get annoyed with it because of that.

RE: Using an external messaging bus makes sense but let me point out something important that seem to be often not said in discussions about Erlang / Elixir:

The BEAM gives you a lot of good training wheels and the truth is that at least 90% (if not 98%) of the commercial projects out there don't require much more than that. As shared in the other comment, I was able to get away with not using Redis for a long time and had zero trouble. I only yielded after we needed to share various message queues and events/streams with other apps (not written in a BEAM language).

So I'd say the BEAM ecosystem gives you a lot out of the box, plus the Elixir community is small but fairly dedicated and they have libraries of excellent quality. But, as you alluded to, when you need to throw those training wheels off, other much more dedicated and focused technologies like Redis do exist and we should reach for them after the circumstances change enough.

Would you agree with those assessments?
i hate chinese sellers
> The Laffer Curve demonstrates this value to government revenues.

No. The Laffer Curve says that if humans were rational - which they aren't - and if tax enforcement is 100% effective - which it isn't - then the expected revenue is zero at both 0% taxation and 100% taxation.

That's all it says. Every other point on the "curve" is arbitrary, and in practice Laffer uses this worthless conjecture about a hypothetical world that doesn't exist to justify cutting taxes on the rich, saying it will result in higher revenues. It doesn't of course, but as someone who benefits why should he care?
I believe NTFS has support for 32767 char filenames (but 255 per level), but yes, Windows Explorer does not. Maybe in Win 11?
I am an American ex-pat living in Australia. I had been using TurboTax for the last decade and this year it kept messing up the forms for my foreign tax credit so they were getting rejected by the IRS. I tried heaps of things, phoned their support, etc. for a total of 5 rejected returns. Finally, in desperation, I went and tried H&R Block's online offering and put in the same numbers and it not only was less expensive AND had me paying less tax but the forms it created were actually accepted by the IRS when I e-filed. To add insult to injury I paid TurboTax for the bad return (I tried for awhile to get them to refund it with this anecdote but it proved impossible and not worth more time trying) AND they sent me a nagging email every week for months telling me my return has been rejected and I need to refile it.
My mom grew up in Guddu for part of her childhood and her cousins lived down the road in Daharki at same time. I wonder if those get as hot as Sibi/Jacobabad
There are some pretty obvious followup questions:

- What are alpha particles made of?

- When an element undergoes alpha decay, its atomic number is reduced by two. Where do the protons go?
Somewhat amusingly, Amazon doesn't let you include HN URLs in abuse reports, it errors out with "Please don't include personal info": https://i.imgur.com/7nFbL3l.png

I'm guessing because it contains the string "ID".
Avalanche: Streaming Postgres to Snowflake
I'm sorry, man. Unless those wings can fold in, that's a fucking plane.
The planet has been ice-free in past interglacials, e.g. the last interglacial (before the current Holocene) was warmer than the current. Earth becoming like Venus would take far more terraforming than it would take to turn Mars into a new Earth, probably comparable to turning Venus into an Earth-like planet - i.e. it is not going to happen. In "a few thousand years" [1] the temperature will drop precipitously and we'll be heading for the next ice age if the pattern from the last ~2.5 million years holds. In other words, enjoy the warmth while it lasts, it is sure to get very cold again sometime in the future...

[1] which can mean anything from "soon" to "100.000 years" depending on who does the talking
Google has the opposite problem. They make infinite money from ad platforms and hire people just for fun so nobody else can have them. They're working on AI because they need to stop them from getting bored.
This statement could mean just about anything. My understanding is that desalination plants often have a fairly-sizable fairly-dead-zone around them, taht the salinity is a pretty pronounced local issue.

Sea-water is about 3.5% salt by weight. Are you saying that the brine water coming out is 3.5 * 1.025% salt, or that it's 5.5% salt? Do you have anything you can cite? What % of the water that goes in the inlet makes it to the "brine" outlet?
>if that 20 was earned from interest in stocks and re-invested, I'm not taxed on it....

By "interest" do you mean dividends? If so they're most certainly taxed.
Missing: sector, popular consent, self-interest, elite

Further, the dictionary definition of "system" does not match the one you provide. Groups of people are not "systems".

220 dict.dict.org dictd 1.12.1/rf on Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 <auth.mime> <46521789.8886.1625096684@dict.dict.org>

150 84 definitions retrieved

151 "System" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

System \Sys"tem\, n. [L. systema, Gr. ?, fr. ? to place
together; sy`n with + ? to place: cf. F. syst[`e]me. See
{Stand}.]

1. An assemblage of objects arranged in regular
subordination, or after some distinct method, usually
logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related
by some common law, principle, or end; a complete
exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a
rational dependence or connection; a regular union of
principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system
of philosophy; a system of government; a system of
divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military
system; the solar system.
[1913 Webster]

The best way to learn any science, is to begin with
a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of
that science well drawn up into a narrow compass.
--I. Watts.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as
forming one complete plan of whole; the universe. "The
great system of the world." --Boyle.
[1913 Webster]

3. Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to
have a system in one's business.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Mus.) The collection of staves which form a full score.
See {Score}, n.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Biol.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal
or plant, essential to the performance of some particular
function or functions which as a rule are of greater
complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as,
the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive
system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
[1913 Webster]

6. (Zool.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of
intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or
scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many
compound ascidians.
[1913 Webster]

{Block system}, {Conservative system}, etc. See under
{Block}, {Conservative}, etc.
[1913 Webster] Systematic
.
The turbines do but you can recycle much if not nearly all of that water by cooling the steam and condensing it, which you could use sea water to heat exchange to for it.
I know that this may be a shock to technical types here.

Back in the stone age, we filed taxes with paper and pen.

For most people, it really isn't that hard to use paper/pen/envelope/stamp method.

I did this method of filing for decades. Take the time to learn the basics and you will never have to worry about random ass programs.

My tax returns were never "simple" but filling out the forms was not hard - it never took me more than an hour or two.
Same with me. Full aphantasia and SDAM.
Thanks! This is really useful feedback. To date, Meltano has been geared towards data folks who are likely to understand these concepts and acronyms, but there's definitely a need to explain it for folks who aren't as familiar. We're going to be working on the website copy in the coming weeks to make it easier to understand with as little digging as possible. If you think of anything else please feel free to reach out to us.
It has nothing to do with GitHub being exempt from anything. It's that users are bound by the terms they agreed to in a ToS. If there is a conflict between a user-created license and a site's ToS, the burden is on the user to resolve it.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting this is some kind of loophole GitHub is using to trample on users' licenses, even though maybe they could. It's probably completely legal for GitHub to use even the most super-extra-double-GPL-licensed code because copyright law allows it.

The author of the Twitter post's suggestion that Copilot's output must be a derivative work is based on a naive understanding of "derivative" as it's defined in copyright law. It's not hard to find clear explanations of how this stuff works, and it's obvious she didn't bother to do any homework. Several criteria would appear to rule out GitHub's use as infringement. e.g.:

'In essence, the comparison is an ad hoc determination of whether the protectable elements of the original program that are contained in the second work are significant or important parts of the original program.'

https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech5.html
Eh, shrug. I don't think so.

In any case, the fact that SparkFun doesn't even do semiconductor design makes this whole lawsuit even more ridiculous. They put chips onto boards, they don't design ALUs with special configurable control bits!
Yes. Not so long ago it was possible to download system6 disk images directly from a simple html page hosted on apple.com This was quite handy for emulation.
You can only try that if you know they exist.
> Allowing trusted sellers to be hijacked is not greedy behavior

Depends entirely on how much the sellers are selling. It’s entirely possible they like the idea of making a ton of sales for a bit. It’s not their reputation that gets destroyed.
Very interesting, it's like a fish cheese! Looks good, I wanna try it some time.
A better experiment, IMO: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/cpwimq/ball_on_...
It seems that if most accountants want to use Quickbooks, this would open a market opportunity for accountants willing to integrate with other accounting software.
How does that compare to the heat I had today? We are 90 at 75% humidity. 60-70% humidity is normal for our summers with 80-90+ weather.
That very much depends on to what degree people pad their resumes with keywords to not be filtered. And I suggest the best ones with this information are the companies. I'm not ruling out that you are wrong, but this is a quantitative question in which I doubt job applicants have access to more information about candidate behavior than job screeners.

Interestingly we can think of other solutions to make the interview process manageable. This is where something like an IQ test would help a lot but it would get slammed by the equity crowd -- Thomas Edison historically gave intelligence tests to candidates that could be screened quickly, and I suggest he had a lot more efficient hiring processes than we do today. But once you rule out any kind of objective measures of raw skills, you are left with a need for a replacement if you want to do better than average, and as you point out, it's hard to find one that can't eventually be gamed.

Another option is to require payment, say $50 for each application. That alone would help reduce the problem of ob application spam and would create pools that are smaller and made by more serious candidates. But this, too, would elicit howls from the equity crowd.

Another option is to have some sort of escrow based service of verifying references, so the burden is not borne by each company. Think of a pgp-style web of trust. LinkedIn is trying to accomplish something like this with its endorsement feature, but I'm thinking of something a bit more complete, in that people with good recommendations have their recommendations weighed more, e.g. something like pagerank but for recommendations, with the authenticity verified by trusted third parties. Then someone with a high recommendation score would go into the smaller pile.

You can brainstorm many other options, but as long as it is illegal for companies to try to measure the raw intelligence of candidates, they are going to go by past accomplishments and this actually shuts the door to newcomers and makes it harder to break into the job market.
Right. I was pretty surprised and amused when I was learning nuclear chemistry and realized: an alpha particle is also a helium-4 nuclei, a beta particle is an electron/positron, and a gamma ray is just high energy electromagnetic radiation.

This is sort of because the discoveries were made before people were really aware of helium nuclei, electrons/positrons, or high energy EM, they just ran physical experiments in a lab and saw there were different kinds of radiation that had different physical properties, and under close inspection of those properties, the nature of the radiation was deduced.
For an extra $20, you can run Retroarch on that Xbox (or for free on the Switch if you have a paperclip, steady hands and 2 hours of free time). From there, you could emulate your own Intellivison console and have a much better time.
I'm concerned how this article speaks about setting records. Setting new records aren't always a good thing. Setting a new record in climate change destroys uncountable organisms affecting the nature system, and eventually humans. By staying ignorant of our impact on the nature system, we dig our own grave.
Also check out https://irata.online/ which has terminal clients for several 8-bit machines, like you can log in from your C-64 or NES.
Let me see... Microsoft wants me to have a Microsoft account to use a computer that I bought. They nag me every time I log in because I gave them a bogus email address.

And then you read something like this. All those abstract privacy concerns just got a bit more concrete...
Just random but that's a very interesting link, thanks!
NIST to Conduct Technical Investigation into Collapse of Champlain Towers South
You are not the work you do
I agree, but I would also not compare investing in stocks and starting a company.

Starting a company is not for everyone. It's a calling.

Being able to invest and get competitive returns should be democratized. It is a known fact that the richest have historically been able to invest their money and get high returns while the rest of us had to settle for savings accounts (0.5% return currently). And the trend is accelerating[0], inequality is growing. This is not sustainable and should be addressed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
Yes that's true. I forget about the Dry Side, having never visited there. I'm a transplant to the wet side :)
> . I’ve been a senior leader at multiple very high profile and successful startups. I’ve also founded several VC backed startups.

What startups? I can't square your attitude towards PG with a history like that. Something is off.
Ah no we are a company of two.

The company interesting in buying a stake in us is a multinational of about 25000 employees globally. That is also my current employer. Hope that clarifies.
How else would they make you look at all those ads? A lot of the paragraphs were repeating themselves without really saying anything.
Here they explain nuances of getting an FCC approval:

https://blog.flipperzero.one/review-and-producing-plan/
This is a good point. According to this

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035521/popular-votes-re...

The Republicans have won the larger percentage of the popular vote once in the last seven elections. Most Americans prefer the non-denialist party but they are denied equal representation at the state and federal levels of government.
It does, and we need to update our docs with this.

We buffer up to 1mb of request data to be possibly replayed. We can set that arbitrarily high, it just seemed like a reasonable starting point.
Yeah but it wouldn't have been tempered by growing attached to Pratt's character and we would get to experience the same feeling of confusion as JLaw's character.

NerdWriter on youtube has a good video on how the change would look, does a better job of selling it than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
They're not claiming people are not needed.

They say that instead of being developers writing codee, they should be non technical product managers using no-code.
That's interesting information.

"there's little financial incentive to make that fight with the regulators"

Global warming will be the incentive in this case. If Empress tree lumber is that much better for carbon sequestration, and from what I've read it is a fantastic sink and converting sequestered carbon in trees into lumber in construction is a decent long-term strategy in this case.

Really my only interest in pushing empress tree lumber here is the carbon sequestration. I'm not some empress tree farmer or some other scam. The other advantage is that empress trees are pretty hardy from a soil/arable land standpoint, leading to more opportunities to sequester carbon in areas that don't easily forest over like, maybe, Texas badlands.

The other angle is that rapidly replenishing lumber sources prevent old growth forest from being destroyed, which ties into biodiversity and habitat destruction.
I wonder why the downvotes? This is absolutely correct. I’d be interested to know how many similar requests Apple and Google get.
Likely creating and debugging http endpoints or web pages within the limits of popular frameworks. Those are the jobs like 90% of developers works on.