skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adult humour, not sure how hackernews will like it. But this sketch tries to touch (in a sarcastic way) some of struggles of going back to office. I think they did a great job, and raise some thoughts/discussion around new ways of working
The Benefits of an HTAP Database
> People get mad when their cheap stuff breaks, too

No, they don't. They just buy another iDevice with again non-removable battery.

> I'm using the existence of some antitrust in one sphere as evidence that some antitrust might also exist in another sphere.

Not really -- you are assuming the entire "another" sphere is entirely a big trust, since that is what would be required for your claim of not a single lab making long-term vaccines / claiming that they know how to make long-term vaccines / leaking that they don't make long-term vaccines for non-technical reasons. This is not a minor specialized market, it is the friggin vaccine-of-the-year market.

> I'm defending the legitimacy of some very critical questions. Far as I can tell, you're arguing that my skepticism is flat-out unwarranted. Of the two, from a logic perspective, yours is the harder position to defend, because you're trying to prove a negative.

This is ridiculous. You are the one making the claim, you are the one needing to provide the evidence. Most specially if it is a dubious claim that requires a big conspiracy of a significant amount of people (but you'd still need to provide the evidence even if it wasn't). Otherwise, this is just Russell's teapot all over again.

How are you going to disprove my very critical questions of there being a perfectly safe and very long term vaccine hidden inside a porcelain teapot which is floating around in the Lagrange point of Earth that NASA (and Elon Musk!) is hiding from us, for god knows what reasons? Aha! Unwarranted skepticism much, eh?
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Truth hurts, I guess.
Monopolies die too, see railroads.
>tobacco, alcohol, soda, fast food, junk food, gambling

They all provide a value...it's called FUN, too much Fun is never good but a little bit is.

Your comparison lacks the basic understanding of having a good time.
France to give Abomey Palace artefacts back to Benin- Macron
> Even those who support qualified immunity should find it difficult to support continued qualified immunity for those repeatedly breaking laws.

If the logic of QI (the “qualified" refers to the legal clarity of the violation) applies at all, it applies to every offense that meets the qualification. There is no coherent argument otherwise.
Smart robots do all the work at Nissan's 'intelligent' plant
Or you rewrite you queries so that you can use prepared statements. You’re right that we should avoid gluing strings together, but in most cases we can use prepared statements.

There’s also a middleground where developers learn to use the ORM better. I’ve seem people get terrible performance using the Django ORM, but after a rewrite, redesigning the queries and using the more advanced features performance would improve massively. The problem is that need to be able to write the SQL and then mentally backport to the ORMs syntax.

We’ve had customers complain about poor database performance. When we find the horrible queries generated by their ORM it’s frequently easier for the developer to just request more hardware or ask if we can: “performance tune” the database.
Why the capitalisation of 'black' and 'latino', but not 'white'?

Is there a grammatical rule, or is it just politics?
About Georgians compared to rodents -
from hist official blog - https://navalny.livejournal.com/274456.html

About migrants compared to rotten tooth - from his official youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICoc2VmGdfw
I'm not arguing about politics, I'm putting in question the whole idea of making voluntary (not sure if that's the correct term - definitely not elective as I was corrected above) medical procedures available through insurance. Insurance is meant for unpredictable and unforeseen exceptional events. Wanting to have beauty surgery, or contraception, or lasik surgery, etc. isn't such. You could still argue that these should be covered by insurance, but that's simply economically inefficient - you're essentially paying for a subscription service, with the middle man taking a cut - why not just buy it yourself?
Why U.S. decline does not mean the end of globalization
I would guess that India is too large to meaningfully include in such a statistic. On average in the country English literacy could be quite poor while in the relevant tech hubs it is quite good. But that's just a hypothesis.
Well that is flat out wrong. FB has plenty of competition since they're competing in multiple markets.
Researchers announce photon-phonon breakthrough
Sure, but then all their real estate, cars, etc is also there and tied to a business. They never have to take money out for any reason, and if they do it’s just forever rolling over low interest loans. Besides, the money amount never goes down unless there’s a big crash.
Wtf.. is that a parody video? The US is insane on so many levels, it never ceases to amaze me.
> journalists have found a credentialed home on Twitter

This.

Twitter made a deliberate decision to recruit opinion-formers early on.

The face of Faceache is Zuck, with his blank expression and absurd haircut (surely after 20 years, he could find a decent stylist). The face of Twaddle (in the UK) seems to be Stephen Fry - a comic that I used to admire. Now, not so much.

I think Twaddle did a better PR job than Faceache from the beginning. I think they're still doing a better job.

/me never used either service
A tiny tweak to Zomato’s algorithm created havoc for delivery riders
Changed above from https://github.com/pfusik/cito. Thanks!
In the case of the TechEmpower benchmarks, i'd argue that it's actually pretty much the same thing as real world applications: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks

For example, look at a full platform Java Spring Boot example here: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...

The controller code, the model code and even the repository code are all very reflective of the primitives you'd find in production code.

The only differences would be when you add additional complexity, such as validations and other code into the mix, such as additional service calls etc., but if even the simpler stuff in Python (as an example) would be noticeably slower, then it stands to reason that it wouldn't get magically faster on the basis of less overhead alone.

The exceptions to this which i could imagine would be calls to native code, since the aforementioned Python has an amazing number crunching or machine learning support, but that is hardly relevant to web development in most cases.

Otherwise we risk running into the "No true Scotsman" fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

In such a case, we'd adamantly claim that these benchmarks are simply not good enough even for educated guesses and we'd have to build out our full system to benchmark it, which no one actually has the resources for - in practice you'd develop a system and then would have to do a big rewrite, as was the case with PHP and Facebook, as well as many other companies.

On the other hand, premature optimization and dogmatic beliefs are the opposite end of the spectrum: you don't need to write everything in Rust if using Ruby would get your small application out the door in a more reasonable amount of time.

There are no easy answers, everything depends on the context (e.g. small web dev shop vs an enterprise platform to be used by millions) and the concerns (e.g. resource usage and server budget vs being the first to market, as well as developer knowledge of tech stacks, for example market conditions of PHP vs Rust).

Regardless, in my eyes, there's definitely a lot of value in these attempts to compare idiomatic interpretations of common logic for web development primitives (serving network requests in a known set of formats).
> Not just technically: essentially all code covering "this usecase" -- operating peripheral cores -- is today C++ or C code.

How about you break "essentially all" down between these two different languages?

You must have good statistics on this, to have such confidence to say "essentially all" here, and yet for some reason you lump together C and C++ as if they're the same when you know they aren't. Might it in fact also have been true to say "essentially all" are C?

> Most of us would rather have access to all of that,

Which notable embedded systems did you program ncmncm? Or is "us" here based on a survey you can point us to about other embedded systems programmers who actually have practical experience?
> Right now it's illegal to transmit encrypted data over the air

does this include caesar-shifted morse?
IMHO Blobs usually turn into a mess though. Some VP will ask "what weekday do users comment the most". With blobs this is drama. You end up parsing all these blobs and creating relational tables anyway. Sure you could do metrics separately -- but good luck predicting what stats you will want in the future. Need an admin portal? With blobs you are coding all these custom admin pages.

With mysql, I love when new people join and they can see and play with actual tables - slap in a good sql viewer and BAM you now have an admin portal. VP wants stats? give them mysql access and slack any sql they want: done .
with the recent trend of bringing up race everywhere from shampoo ads to Netflix series to fake news to fake elections I can't trust anything which mentions race in the title.

If this is true prove it in court.
Compared with modern UIs where you don't know where an UI element begins or ends or with gray font on gray background (or like this text field on my phone where the cursor does not advances when i press space) those UIs were a blessing.
All: I understand that when a post like this shows up, everyone's first reflex (including mine) is to react to the name. However, reflexive reactions like that tend to be shallow and to lead to boring, generic discussion. Here we're going for reflective discussion, not reflexive—which takes longer but ends up being less predictable and therefore more interesting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

The idea here is to let the quickest, shallowest reactions go, and wait for the more interesting ones to show up. With a post like this one, that would mean focusing on the details of the language. It's not that names are irrelevant, but we shouldn't focus on the surface at the expense of the depth—doing that leads to exciting-in-the-short-run, but boring-in-the-long-run results.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is getting fairly off topic, but since you ask... My impressions about people born in Latvia post-1991 are numerous, but obviously anecdotal:

- Most native Latvian language speakers born in Latvia post-1991 will have low or non-existent Russian language skills, especially in the west (Kurzeme) or north. Very few native Russian speakers there. The situation in and around Riga is a little bit different. Try getting a customer-facing job in the private sector around Riga if you don't speak any Russian...

My significant other is young and speaks Russian fluently by accident. Native Latvian language, but raised in a "Khrushchevka" (Soviet apartment block) full of native Russian speaking families. Playing with the other kids meant learning Russian...

- Very very large differences amongst native Russian speaking youths in Latvia's three largest cities. A significant number hardly speak any Latvian. I've asked kids for directions that had trouble finding the words for "left" or "right". Which is somewhat surprising, given that officially, they're taking a significant part of their school in Latvian. Another group speaks both languages fluently. I've had chats over lunch with people I could hardly detect their native Russian background.

- Surprisingly, _a lot_ of young people in both groups speak abysmally bad English too.
> Its so strange to think of rainwater collection as illegal

If you take a few gallons, it's fine. If you and 10,000 other people take a few gallons, that a problem. So we need to regulate it a little.
Year after year some of the most interesting long-form material arises from Usenix and FOSDEM. Does anyone have a list of conferences similar in quality? Ideally related to computing, but really any conference of experts talking about interesting ideas would be nice to know about. Some people might mention Strange Loop, but I think the quality is a lot lower.
Maybe it comes out like 3 deals the BH way where one gets bad, versus 1 deal with the standard due diligence? Of course that won't work on naivete alone. But using keen business (Buffett) and psychological (Munger) sense, why not?
They are expressed in dollars, but converted to stocks at the grant-time value, and vested in number of stocks.
How is Facebook monopolising social discourse? Have you not heard of Reddit, Twitter or Instagram?

> A lot of the industries you mention don't try their hardest to get my attention

Huh? You don't think those industries run any advertising campaigns?

> there's no way I can communicate with Facebook users unless I am also on Facebook and accept the ToS and "privacy" policy.

This is the strangest complaint I've ever read. Are you suggesting anonymous people are able to message Facebook users without agreeing to any terms of service? I definitely can't see anything going wrong with that. Why not ask them to message you on one of the 1000 other messaging apps? No one's forcing you to sign up to Facebook, it just sounds like it's being successful at providing an easy way to message between friends.
Perhaps you're thinking of graphene?
Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device
Software engineers earn pretty fat paychecks; they don't have to check their ethics as they enter their workplace.

I once refused to work on a project for the USAF, and I think that decision limited my pay and promotion. But I still own my own home, and have an adequate pension.

Isn't "I'm just a cog" what the defendants at Nuremberg have usually said?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805964.
Ukraine to produce Turkish armed drones: Minister
No I'm not missing any point. You are making up a point that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual situation at Coinbase.

The political debate at Coinbase was never about "safety net" at all. It's about petty identity politics. You are trying to make the discussion about "safety net" when that discussion has nothing to do about "safety net" at first place.

What do employees demanding a company makes a statement about "Black Live Matters" or "Free Palestine" has to do with "safety net"? Absolutely nothing.

We're talking about US Tech workers here, which are already well compensated by their employer.
Presumably related:

136 Countries agree to minimum corporate tax rate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28801599 - Oct 2021 (170 comments)
They can add a new rate for products sold by companies in non-signing countries.

"Paying" £1,000,000 for intellectual property in the virgin islands? There's a 12.5% tax on that, not VAT, so no, you can't offset it, thanks!
The point is that grocery shopping is very inefficient and a waste of time, so it is worth it for people with more money than time to spend some of that money not wasting time shopping.
>> (...) the development of mathematical logic (before and arguably better eventually than Gottlob Frege) (...)

Frege and Peirce worked out similar aspects of mathematical logic in around the same years. Peirce's work was better known for a while through the work of Ernst Schröder, but then Frege's work became equally known through the work of Bertrand Russel. It's difficult to say which of the two influenced their contemporaries the most, but it's clear that no one person (and not Frege and Peirce together) fully deserves the credit for "the development of mathematical logic". "Arguably" one could claim such "firsts" all the way back to Leibnitz, but what is the point of that? In my opinion, in the paragraph you quote, the linked article indulges itself with some hero worship which ultimately demeans the value of its subject. It makes Peirce sound like some kind of famous guru. In my experience, this kind of thing is common in American writings and almost entirely absent from European work, an interesting divide that it may be worth exploring in depth.

The following article is an attempt at a timeline of the development of first-order logic by different authors:

The Emergence of First-Order Logic

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-firstorder-emergenc...
Don't know how it works in the US but here if you own property or cars etc. through business you can't use them for personal reasons and if you get audited this is considered tax evasion. I would be surprised if the US is any different.
I've worked on a real-life product built using MyBatis, which you'd think is supposed to be best of both worlds - non connected DTOs, seamlessly filled out from SQL statements you write in the mapping configuration, etc etc.

In practice the developers go overboard with SQL - the native-first SQL actually makes for quite confusing data model. There is value in clarity that limitations of Hibernate model brings or promotes.

With MyBatis approach the underlying DB can contain incredibly bizarre joins, crazy FKs, you find aggregation functions in queries trip you up, massive views used under the hood, triggers make appearance to confuse you, the list just goes on.

(The reason this happens is as years tick by, extra requirements get fitted into SQL model by doing these "clever hacks" and avoiding re-architecting. The kludges pile up, it's done because it's possible to do so, and every little decision seems like fair tradeoff when made in isolation. End result = massive pile of confusion.)

You think staying close to SQL is the salvation, but really it's just another way to hang yourself. I will not argue it's possible to do excellent work, but in no way it's guaranteed.
Dublin is also going through a housing crisis right now. The population grew 400k in the last 10 years and they built virtually no apartments.
The concept of “capital gains” in the U.S. is a joke, unless you buy stock directly from the company, or buy when the company goes public, there is no capital investment. Once the company sells stock to the public, further purchase or sale of stock is nothing more than buying/selling goods. When I buy stock on the stock market the company doesn’t get the money, the person who sells me the stock gets the money, and that’s not capital investment.

Sale of stock should be taxed at each states tax rate, because it’s the buying and selling of a good, it’s not capital investment.
What everyone seems to ignore, because the discourse is all so cynically partisan, is that lockdown laws are enforced by the exact same police and courts that do things like jailing black kids who never committed a crime. (Countries like Australia are definitely no better.) There was even a high-profile case in the UK where a police officer used the restrictions as pretext to kidnap, rape and murder a random woman who'd done nothing wrong and none of our the folks who'd been loudly campaigning to abolish the police questioned giving them those powers. Instead the press attacked our justice secretary for not criminalizing "misogyny"...
You send your SO.

I doubt single parents can afford to pay for extra delivery.
I can't seem to think of any instances where that is the case. So my conclusion would be that it can not really be done. Or can you give some pointers?

(not saying there is no room for improvement)
This is yet again the same thing as when youtube-dl was being "mirrored" not long ago. What is the point of mirroring this extension?

Facebook only needs to change ONE SINGLE LETTER in their website and it will immediately make all the "mirrors" of this extension useless.
“The Streisand effect is idempotent”

Only on HN
I fully you agree with you here. But that's not the core idea in the post you're referring to. The core idea in that post was that beliefs should be chosen based on utility, as opposed to truthfulness. I disagree with that idea, because I think truth has inherent value in and of itself. I want to believe things that are true, even if those beliefs are harmful to me.

Furthermore, the poster has very clearly expressed in subsequent posts that they don't believe talent ("innate ability") exists. I strongly disagree with this idea as well, and there is a mountain of evidence to support my position.
So it's a social act to keep the computer running.
VAT comes close to that and is common outside US.
How much time and money would someone who knew absolutely nothing about ham radio and had no equipment have to invest to get a license?
Don't be silly. In California the homeless do not live under highways. They live anywhere they damn feel including your front yard

Don't you dare complain about it and when they shit on your path just call up the local poop patrol who will come out in 2-4 weeks to clean that up
The American people worship their rich. There would be no outrage no matter what. See Trump.
I can make a guess: GP does not know, he started working on the software and pointlessly duplicated existing projects, but with worse quality, because he neglected to survey the landscape.

I have noticed that happening regularly and out of curiousity interviewed those fellow programmers. I found out it's not because of lack of diligence, or because they attribute no value to a survey, but because of a risk-loving psychology trait that expresses itself in staking out ground and claiming it as one's own. (Armchair psychology warning, I am not qualified to make that conclusion; leave the real work confirming this hypothesis to the scientists in the field.)

IMO, this behaviour is harmful and we should work together to socially shun it like we already do for compulsive hoarding of physical objects. We have trouble finding a piece of software that works well because we spend so much effort to repeatedly sift through the mountains of published software that is mostly garbage.
I haven't used mysql this way but we do lots of reporting on jsonb data using the provided json functions of postgres. It is very easy to extract a (nested) key, or extract a set of key/values to a table value that you join to just as if it were a separate table.