skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's break down the phrase:

"Conspiracy": A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful; the action of plotting or conspiring.

"Theory": A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

What you're offering is a conspiracy theory. It's a possible explanation for an event that alleges a conspiracy (either the cover up of an accidental leak or malicious intentional leak).

Adding "do your own research/it's up to you to believe" at the end of a conspiracy theory doesn't make it not a conspiracy theory.
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Hi Humans of HN

This is a very simple server in NodeJS to accept a document upload (or a URL) and convert that document (using ImageMagick, LibreOffice and GhostScript) into a series of images, one for each page of the document.

The point was originally to allow people to view documents securely (such as email attachments) without needing to run nor download said document to their own devices. It was successful in doing that, but its use grew to becoming ad-hoc document hosting where people were attracted to the ability to access a page of a document, without needing to download the entire document.

The code is shared as something you can build upon and adapt to your uses in the open. It's not meant as a finished solution, it's meant as a starting point, something to give you ideas for how to implement your own version, or something to plug in to your own open-source work. The project was originally called "p2." for "PDF to ...", but it works on a wide range of source documents, including DOCX and (often but not always) XLSX, and so on. It doesn't work on HTML or TXT.

This is the only comment I'll make in this thread. If you have any questions or need to license it feel free to email me cris@dosycorp.com. Have a good day
People also want teleportation, immortality, and unicorns. I’d say the general public do imagine wild things all the time.

Never liked that quote. It never made any sense to me.
If anyone is also interested in sorta psychedelic 70s progressive things, and likes a faster more punky slant, I would highly, highly recommend checking out Cardiacs. Their music is magical.
Now if I only could remember how to convert a JSONB string to a normal string (without quotes)...
4) FSD. Have you seen the videos of the FSD beta? And you’re not impressed, right? Thing is: This is technology that did not exist a few years ago (just like electric cars with the performance and safety at the level of a Model S, X or 3). “BUT”, I hear you saying, “they are behind schedule”. Well, who cares? Some things take longer than a human expected. Not exactly news. Give me a log of your previous five projects along with the estimates you had how long it would take. Then we can compare it to Musk. Also, when was the last time you built something that nobody has ever built before? Are you going to see all obstacles in advance? You fault Musk for being too optimistic. But how would he have started Tesla and SpaceX if he wasn't? There's a large crowd of people who feel inspired by that optimism. That's why they forgive Musk and Tesla when things take longer. Because they can see how hard the team is working to achieve what they have said they would do.

Really, if the things Musk promises would never happen, I'd be right there with you snickering about this "marketing genius". Yet, so far, pretty much everything he said he would do he did. Based on that track record, I have zero doubt that FSD, the Cybertruck, the Semi, and all of those things that are "late" will eventually be there. And when they are, they will be best in class. Again.

It really, really puzzles me. Here we have a man who works like crazy. Who revolutionized not just one, but several industries. Who has created billions of value. Whom you never see on a yacht or at the Taj Mahal or at a beach with a trophy wife. And yet you compulsively have to bet against him, and explain away anything he does by saying that he's just doing it for the attention.

Musk has a surplus of attention. And he has a surplus of money. These things, by definition, cannot be his motivation. If you think they are, be careful that you're not just applying your own mode of valuation - seeing the world not as it is... but as you are.
If you buy a quest 2, you will then be entitled to call support and they can help you recover your account in some cases. This has been exploited recently so I'm not sure about the success rate, but it seems like it would work for your case.
LGBT has become political not to the preference of a lot of its members. But the flag has become a political instrument for signaling. Abused against, I guess.
Like the keyboard shortcuts, and miss the old design. Would love these shortcuts with the old design; if it ain't broke, go fly a kite and be with your kids instead.
Share sheet supported in Plain Org (I’m author)

https://xenodium.com/plain-org-for-ios-a-month-later
When I had a similar business model years ago, the monthly fee included hosting and maintenance. I assume this does too
Lighter connections would finally allow for using lambda functions that access a Postgres database without needing a dedicated pgbouncer server in the middle.
For a software project, you need 2 main people to run it effectively:

- a tech lead who is intimately familiar with the code being written, who keeps the code design/architecture on the right path, and oversees all the work being done. This person can make great strategic decisions about how to schedule the work to find opportunities to group common work together, divide the work so that people are not working on top of each other, and make decisions taking in the long term health of the codebase and short term delivery pressures.

- a business/product expert. This person prevents the tech lead from being in endless meetings. They sit down and figure out the requirements for the product/project. The clearly communicate these requirements in documents condensing the endless meetings into a coherent clear vision for the product with the long term vision and short term priorities being made clear. The tech lead uses this condensed information to plan the software development.

You cannot have one person do both of these things. The tech lead cannot be in endless meetings and keep the needed level of intimacy with the codebase and properly direct the work being done. The business/product expert needs to be an expert communicator, to make that interface between the tech lead and business/product requirements effective. They need to be able to ask the right questions to get the information about what needs to be built, and then clearly paint that vision to the tech lead. The business/product expert does not create tickets of work to be done! They just communicate the vision. The tech lead breaks the work down strategically.
How to Decrease Bureacracy
It's conceptually interesting. I'm curious as to what you believe a manager does, and how you think the 40-60 hours of work should be distributed throughout the organization.
I find it so interesting how their self titled album has just been zapped from everyone's minds. The other day somebody said to me that every single album they've made has been fantastic, so I brought up the self titled and they'd never heard of it! Same with you I assume.

I think most people who are really into the band prefer the B side of OS and consider Congratulations their magnum opus.
You can see the current parent comment on top in the white box as soon as you navigate 'into' a comment. It is truncated by default but you can toggle it with the P key.

Thank you!

Oh and page up / down is noted and will be added soon.
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I’m too drive to drunk.
Mixed with keyboard tabbing, it gets really confusing.
Would you mind expanding on what's so appealing about Supabase (i.e. Firebase).

I feel like I live in a cave because I haven't quite understood what problem Supabase/Firebase is solving for.
That is... Unique experience.

I have two pairs of 15y sennheiser that are pristine and used all the time. And they seamlessly plug into any audio device I own or my friends do, are never out of charge, and I can listen with two headphones from one tablet when wife and I watch a movie on airplane or tent with kids.

Bluetooth will sooner or later loose battery - never mind the lag of 15y old Bluetooth standard.
And now the wait for RDS to support it. Thanks PG team!
It doesn't really matter which perspective a manager comes from people or technical-oriented, their job is shield you from disruptions and remove roadblocks. Some of these are going to fit certain skillsets better but I think it's a mistake to define one or the other as universally "better".
Ampere Altra Max 128-Core CPU Is Priced Lower Than Flagship Xeon, EPYC CPUs
My theory is that there must be someone who works at the lab and disposes of animals.

Considering that theres a wet market nearby and the person disposing of animal corpses is likely not earning much money they flogged them through the market as a side hussle.

Wildly speculative and nothing to back it up, but that makes more sense to me than some severe breach of protocol by staff actively working with samples etc.
Now I'm confused: is the manager supposed to solve technical problems?

>Easiest way to lose a locker room is having a manager/director who is technically inept.

For example, there are plenty of excellent soccer coaches that have never played soccer.

This type of thread shows up every couple of months here, and people use their anecdotal experience to define a whole role (which is different within itself and between organizations), which just feeds prejudice about a particular type of people, non-dev managers.

When in reality you have great managers from both technical and non-technical background.
One of the first things we did on Solaris installs was install the GNU userland (it's been so many decades, I forget the specifics - packaged somehow, not ./configure; make) so we could get GNU sed and awk (and bash and vim) amongst all the other things. My anecdotal experience matches yours, we wanted those GNU features on our Solaris experience, they were/are useful extensions.
I suspect management job descriptions are based on the output of the team to be managed rather than the requirements of being a good manager.
If you consider that earphone in general are not that much durable and a wireless earphone has more environmental impact to be produced (battery, bluetooth components) while the old audio jack is simpler and still a standard.
PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful and reliable pieces of software I've seen run at large scale, major kudos to all the maintainers for the improvements that keep being added.

> PostgreSQL 14 extends its performance gains to the vacuuming system, including optimizations for reducing overhead from B-Trees. This release also adds a vacuum "emergency mode" that is designed to prevent transaction ID wraparound

Dealing with transaction ID wraparounds in Postgres was one of the most daunting but fun experiences for me as a young SRE. Each time a transaction modifies rows in a PG database, it increments the transaction ID counter. This counter is stored as a 32-bit integer and it's critical to the MVCC transaction semantics - a transaction with a higher ID should not be visible to a transaction with a lower ID. If the value hits 2 billion and wraps around, disaster strikes as past transactions now appear to be in the future. If PG detects it is reaching that point, it complains loudly and eventually stops further writes to the database to prevent data loss.

Postgres avoids getting anywhere close to this situation in almost all deployments by performing routine "auto-vacuums" which mark old row versions as "frozen" so they are no longer using up transaction ID slots. However, there are a couple situations where vacuum will not be able to clean up enough row versions. In our case, this was due to long-running transactions that consumed IDs but never finished. Also it is possible but highly inadvisable to disable auto-vacuums. Here is a postmortem from Sentry who had to deal with this leading to downtime: https://blog.sentry.io/2015/07/23/transaction-id-wraparound-...

It looks like the new vacuum "emergency mode" functionality starts vacuuming more aggressively when getting closer to the wraparound event, and as with every PG feature highly granular settings are exposed to tweak this behaviour (https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/detail/360/)
IF they can resist the urge to jump in the pool with the developers, IF!
PostgreSQL is one of those tools I know I can always rely on for a new use-case. There are very few cases where it can't do exactly what I need (large scale vector search/retrieval).

Congrats on the 14.0 release.

The pace of open source has me wondering what we'll be seeing 50 years from now.
The audio jack sounds weird in terms of sustainability, but supposedly it's to make the phone itself last longer:

> A notable downside compared to previous Fairphones is that the Fairphone 4 no longer includes a 3.5mm headphone jack, a choice that feels at odds with the company’s otherwise customer-first approach. Fairphone tells me it made this decision in order to be able to offer an official IP rating for dust and water resistance, which was missing from the company’s previous phones. It’s only IP54, which means it’s protected from light splashes rather than full submersion, but that’s impressive in light of its removable rear cover and modular design.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/30/22700014/fairphone-4-rele...
There is no dictionary that contains "all existing words" for any giving language.
Is it? I have a notice period of three months, so I figure if I were to try and switch jobs I would have to tell my future employer that I couldn't start any sooner than that. Else, I am potentially liable for any costs my current employer has due to having to replace me inside of those three months.
I mean Google/Alphabet has an entire division whose job is essentially to be an adjunct of the US State Department. Searching for job postings requiring security clearances at any BigCo always yields some interesting data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(company)
I'm a big fan of walking. I had to quit running because of my knees, so walking and hiking became my new exercise, when I lived in NYC, I would average 100 miles per week, when I moved up state, a lot less, but still 50-60 miles per week, and then I moved to back to Texas last week and now I feel like it will be closer to 20 miles a week if that. I live on a major road, there aren't many places to walk around me, so might end up in the Apartment gym on a treadmill staring at the wall for my morning, lunch, and dinner walks.
I agree with you on amazon, but I think the author does have a point.

Take FB as an example. FB have 60k employees, 12X the 2012 IPO number. It also costs 12X to run facebook today. They don't do that much more today than in 2012. They mostly just do things a more complicated way.

IMO, the reason for that is actually revenue. Beyond a point, there's no market discipline reason for mitigating costs. FB is profitable enough with its >30% margins. Investors don't want them to cut the salary bill. They want FB to hire people, invest, do more stuff & grow.

If FB revenues had plateaued around $10bn, I'm pretty sure FB would still exist. FB would have 90% fewer employees and users would not experience much difference.

Once you have all these extra people, and basically the same set of tasks at hand... sluggish ways of doing things and inefficiency are basically guaranteed. If 500 devs are now working on an area that 50 people previously ran, it's going to look like ineffectiveness at the ground level.

A lot of the software industry is like that. Half the industry, like most internal dev orgs are not very capable or motivated, and things look sluggish at ground level. The other half is flooded with cash and great devs, but teams are bigger than actually necessary.
However, it's impossible to read longer comments this way. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28705415 in this very thread is too long to fit in my browser window, which is maximized on my 16" laptop. So far I'm just pressing O, but it still takes time. A scroll for long comments would be really welcomed.

Other than that, it's a very cool UI! I can see using it full-time and press O only when I want to reply. Actually, I just did :D
I don't see that. Bureaucracy is why everything is so hard in a large organization. This does answer the question.

If they want to dig into why large organizations have bureaucracy, or what that bureaucracy is made of, then a different question can be posed. The prisoners dilemma is only a small part of this.
Gridlock, new Ethereum wallet app, has just launched
Safer and easier than existing methods of crypto storage, Gridlock is changing the game and bringing storage into the future.
Any suggestions to learn and go deep in PostgreSQL for someone who worked mostly on NoSQL (MongoDB)?

From the few days I have explored it, it is absolutely incredible, so congratulations for the work done and good luck on keeping the quality so high!
If you like nomograms, you might also like the Nomographer YouTube channel.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCOLYtsL4ge6QfaAvBDeG1IA
The article states that the first cases were connected to the wet market in Wuhan. But there is some evidence of earlier infections (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sars-cov-2s-spread...). Not sure how credible that evidence is, but IF someone tried to cover up a lab leak, it would also make sense to claim that the first infections have been found at the wet market in Wuhan.

Personally I think we will never find out what happened, at least not in the next decades, unless there is some whistleblower leaking confidential government communication.
I can’t upvote this comment enough. It really speaks to something I’ve felt for so long about AOL. You are right that it was a different Internet, one where we teens could make mistakes while coming of age on a new communications medium without lifelong consequences we see so many young people fall into now. AOL got me into programming and tech in general. I also met some great people who, despite perhaps never meeting them face-to-face, made an impact on the person I came to be. It’s a shame that nearly all of those relationships ended, but it is what it is. I love when stories like this pop up once in a while because it feels good being reminded that I’m not alone in my experiences.
Occam's razor says it came from the same place as bird flu and SARS -- animal contact.

A lab leak is possible, it can't be disproved. But the fact is that people want it to be true in excess of the evidence we have.
I'd probably see my team isn't too burdened by my departure. But on my terms.
No, an "owner" in this context is an object/function/closure. Threads come into it but they aren't the central focus.
Just happened Ampere has released [1] their "listed" price.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28706131
This is a pretty generic and non descriptive title but they're launching a WebRTC TURN service and some higher level libraries for using WebRTC.

Having to run your own TURN server is a notorious barrier for building serious p2p apps so I really welcome this development!
Trolling old electronics magazines from the 1950's or so I would encounter nomograms to compute various electrical properties. Seems like a cool use.

I wanted a nomogram to compute volume from l x w x h to make fast work in calculating speaker dimensions but spent only a passing amount of time trying to create one. The point of the nomogram for volume was so that I could compute one of the lengths based on a pre-determined cabinet volume I wanted and two of the other lengths.

Somewhat related: I created a kind of "digital slide rule" with logarithmic scales and all for an iOS app that computes Ohm's Law. It is so much more fun to play with then typing numbers into text fields and having the software compute the result. I think that is the appeal with nomograms for me as well, you can just real-time play with numbers in an interactive way. Not "turn based" like text fields.

Old electronics magazines here: https://worldradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm

Ohm's law with sliding rules: https://apps.apple.com/ec/app/perfboard/id465951871?l=en
Let just say Clinton, Obama, and Biden could have honored what their party strive for. They didn't. This is why the other Presidents are better as consistent with their message rather than being "dicking bimbos", orator of lies and "hope" or "greatest fraud".
It’s currently in a limited preview, not accessible outright to any AWS customer even.
You're clearly not the manager that this article is referencing.
Was really hoping an article titled 'the greatest resume I've ever seen' would show me the resume... darn
Scope negotiation and changes happens at every org.
I understand that covid is infectious, however, for the people at risk for whom the risk-benefit balance is clearly in favor of benefit, then they can get vaccinated, right?
The vaccine response is directly proportional to immune system function. It is not as strong[1] in older people, who are also most at risk from the disease.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03739-1

This isn't mutually exclusive with the vaccine being effective. However, we're heading towards less than 70% effectiveness (95% with fresh booster) against severe cases in the older age groups[2]. These cases add up.

[2] https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
The title is misleading. It was previously submitted with another title "CRISPR Gene-Editing Experiment Partly [Partially] Restores Vision in Legally Blind Patients"

It's common for news source to change the title now, so my guess is that they changed the title.

I added here [Partially] because IIUC they don't get perfect vision, neither close to perfect vision. They only improve a lot, that is a very good new if the study is reproduced and confirmed.
I don't think I'm speaking for myself looking at the industry. Most people do indeed replace their phones much faster than 5 years.

Instead of trying to make phones last longer I think recycling is the better option.
It's linked in the post! https://dsresume.com
> instead discuss _where exactly_ we draw the line then I think we are finally having a far more honest discussion

There doesn't have to be an agreement, on the contrary there cannot be an agreement because that depends on the community. But what we currently see is that people push into established communities that want their lines realized. So I see no advantage to discuss this topic.

These lines are subjective, even by culture, country, region, age, gender or whatever. There is no universal line.

> instead discuss _where exactly_ we draw the line then I think we are finally having a far more honest discussion

There doesn't have to be an agreement, on the contrary there cannot be an agreement because that depends on the community. But what we currently see is that people push into established communities that want their lines realized. So I see no advantage to discuss this topic.

You animosity towards free speech advocates already tells me that we probably don't share a common line at all.