skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! It’s cloud because I assume that a lot of people who want to use it will run into issues installing all the dependencies (yt-dlp and ffmpeg), and there’s also the bonus of being able to use this on any device (phones or work computers).

I made it open source so that anyone who wants to run it locally can do so, but maybe there’s a better way to do an easy to install local version?
That isn't the argument here. The argument is that giving people guns is not going to solve violent people.
> My first recommendation would be to question whether you even need a caching plugin.

My first question to you would be "Why wouldn't you bypass PHP and MySQL if you can?".

For some really basic site sure, you can go without caching, but for any reasonable degree of complexity not using caching is a foolish waste of hardware and end-user patience since we can be talking TTFB of 100-200 ms vs up to seconds.
Thanks, it's good to know that you're considering alternatives.

As you have a number of people with ADHD working on your app, I would be curious to know if any of them raised concerns about these specifics of your subscription model, during planning and development of the app?
This post radiates an idea that Django is a dying framework. I cannot emphasise how wrong the entire premise is.

I’ve used a bunch of frameworks all over the python/nodes/jvm ecosystems. But every single time I come back to Django, it’s a breath of fresh air where I don’t need to plumb common patterns for my case. It’s so mature that any use case I run into, the solution is just a google/documentation away.

If at all it’s true that Django is dying, I’d really be sad to see such a mature framework go :(
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Absolutely adore the fact that they were able to simply ignore the irrelevant NIMBYs and incumbent neighbouring homeowners.

So you're saying that the descendants of the original indigenous owners, who had their land basically stolen from them by some combination of deceit, force, and outright genocide ... are "irrelevant NIMBYs"?
At the moment you need massive sharding options with Postgres, you've got a lot of options. I'd assume by the time you get there, you can probably budget for them pretty easily as well.

Citus is specifically designed for it.

Timescale appears to have the use case covered too.

Ultimately though, sharding is one of the easier ways to scale a database out. NoSQL just does it by eliminating joins. You can do that pretty easily with almost any solution, PG or otherwise.
You’ve not addressed my point. If we are going to penalize one side for failing to engage in a good faith debate 100% of the time, we should hold the other side to the same standard as well.
I know what I'm recommending.

Bear spray creates a cloud, rather than a stream that must be accurately directed at an assailant (like, e.g. pepper gel). In a situation where the one goal is "escape, alive" bear spray is a reasonable choice for an untrained, likely panicked individual.

You may yet be right! I'm not a self defense professional. But I was not mistaken in my understanding of the products.
You get an advantage launching closer to the equator. The velocity of the Earth at the equator is higher so less deltaV is required from the rocket itself when compared to launching somewhere closer to the poles.
A lot of these people have become convinced that there is a massive conspiracy of elites to deceive and control them. They're not necessarily anti-science as such, they simply believe anyone telling them things they don't want to hear is an enemy trying to cheat them.
I received a Pinephone in the latest shipment, about three weeks ago. I also got the convergence dock to be able to attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I am extremely motivated to get off Android on my phone, and yet my Pinephone has already been discarded (and I never even put a SIM card in it).

There are far too many out-of-the-box bugs and glitches to consider this a usable product. For example, the convergence dock will not display on a monitor. Firefox browser displays too wide for the phone screen, so unusable. A dozen other issues on first day.

Even a development board should work better than this, have documentation of the known problems, and have some support mechanism that works.

I don't think better/more expensive hardware is the problem. It's software, caused by lack of users, lack of investment, and too many "competing" distributions of Linux.
A really excellent survey on the prospects for mRNA technology from Derek Lowe: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-mrna-good-and...
Most software I use is not built and packaged by the person who wrote it.
Multiple studies have shown they tend to narcissism and sociopathy. For example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8035125/

They've also been farmed and radicalised by Q-like coordinated anti-vaxxing campaigns which use emotively loaded disinfo to legitimise violent beliefs.

The disinfo includes claims that the vaccine kills children (it doesn't) and causes lasting side effects (it doesn't.)

The combination of emotionally disordered people and lurid claims about a vaccine "threat" promotes violent outcomes.

News from the UK is that an MP was stabbed in his office today. The anti-vaxxers on Twitter seem delighted about this.
The fact that it's closed source doesn't help either
Sigh, another day, another blame of Facebook for destroying Snap.

Fundamentally, products are always gonna get copied. Google tried to do it to Facebook, back when FB was the size that Snap was at the time, how well did that work?

Fundamentally, while competing with a megacorp sucks monkey balls, Snap shot themselves in the foot with their boneheaded product strategy.

They literally didn't invest in their Android app because they wanted to be exclusive. Given that the vast majority of countries are majority Android, this gave FB the space to clone their product and put it in front of hundreds of millions of users who'd never seen the concept before.

Ultimately, while I do agree with most of the articles points (breaking up the internet behemoths would probably be a good idea), I really dislike the Snap analogy, as they could easily have beaten FB to the punch if they'd had an effective growth strategy.
Side note: To my knowledge the only plugin that supports fragmented caching (specific non-cached portions of PHP) is W3 Total Cache.
Yeah, I did kinda argue next to your point. haha
Hmm. Removed and reinstalled from f-droid and android/data is still inaccessible. Will do a bit more research and see if there are known problems with it on my device...
Zero snark, but you confirm parent somehow IMHO. Two more tools.
If you want to read more about it, I would recommend reading Pine64's Monthly update:

https://www.pine64.org/2021/10/15/october-update-introducing...
As Wu and others have rightly pointed out, the straightforward Chicago School standard overlooks, among other things, the stifling effect monopolies can have on innovation. As a case in point: when AT&T was broken up in 1984, a torrent of new products came on the market, everything from the first answering machines to early ISPs.

This is a oversimplification and wrong.
AT&T was controlled by the government until 1984 and only because of this we were able to got technical innovations like UNIX, The C Programming Language and reusable open-source software. This formed not only the foundation of Linux and C but also later the Internet. And all of this happened because AT&T was actually controlled instead of split up. They were not allowed to enter new markets and therefore we benefit all. What happened next? UNIX-Wars, Lawsuits and disastrous situation which enabled especially Microsoft.

The lesson learned here is that - just mere splitting up - doesn't fix anything. The government subsequently did actually nothing against Microsoft and it's contracts with PC-Manufacturers. What I cannot say is whether the government still doesn't understand what software is and it's influence?Especially mass gravitation through user. Or if just no market regulation happens since the 1980ies.

I wonder how Personal-Computers and the handling of source-code would've been evolved if BSD and SysV were have been better friends? The appreciation of source code availability? And maybe an simple option at the store which sold that IBM-PCs with the 386 processors. If you got that "UNIX" thing on our PC with the source - you would probably wondered a lot that the spreadsheet application doesn't came with the source...especially when you pay for it.
Photoshop was never really a standard for the kinds of work Figma is used for. The closest Adobe historical products would be Illustrator, or the now defunct, Fireworks.

Adobe doesn't really have a product to compare to Sketch or Figma. The closest currently is Xd but it's only a partial replacement
For me the main pain point of the current PinePhone is not its performance, it's the driver and firmware issues. Mainline Linux does not work well with the current PinePhone and various patches are not upstreamed or not even written yet to fix the remaining bugs. The cameras don't work with most software, the out-of-tree WiFi driver has stability issues to the point where I rather use LTE or USB, the USB-C firmware is flunky, the modem firmware crashes and needs a lot of workarounds.

I hoped they chose components for the PinePhone Pro that work out of the box in terms of firmware and having no downstream Linux patches in the near future, but it seems quite similar to the current PinePhone, only slight improvements. The camera OV5640 is the same (hopefully someone came up with better v4l2 integration since the second camera is different?), the modem EG25-G is the same, no info on the used USB-C chip, but at least there is a better WiFi chip.
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"zero knowledge encrypted cloud storage solutions" that still enable the state to inspect that data for illegal content or evidence of illegal activities, are an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy.

And that might be true.

The practical reality is you can't both have perfect privacy/security, and enable state surveillance. It's one or the other.

The question is, what tradeoffs are we willing to live with?

It's an incredibly hard question with no good answers.

So this article explores the question: is the answer Apple come up with better than what we have today: either content scanning of naked data in the cloud, or total information opacity for law enforcement as a result of high quality, easy-to-use encryption.

Personally, I think the encryption cat is out of the bag and I'd rather have better privacy over enabling digital wiretapping capabilities, whether they're happening in the cloud or on my devices.

But that's just my opinion and I accept that it comes with a lot of tradeoffs, including much more difficulty in identifying and breaking up CSAM distribution networks.
> DNI is compulsory after 16.

The US doesn't require citizens to have an ID just to exist. That's part of the "freedom" Americans like to talk about. It sounds like every citizen in Spain already has a DNI so they should be able to vote without additional hassle.

It's the additional hassle to vote that opponents of voter ID laws cite as the crux of the issue. If you pair mandatory voter ID laws with strategic ID office closures (among other barriers), you can influence who can vote. This has already happened; it isn't hypothetical.
Well, here's an anecdote from the past that might or might not help you. When AT&T was broken up, the lawyers literally went to Bell Labs and put a piece of tape down the middle of the carpet and said "everybody on this side works for company A, and everybody on that side works for company B". Kinda like monopoly bondage, if you're into that sort of thing.
WP admins don't have much control (granularity) over the nginx cache. The options I've seen simply have a single "Purge" button.
Almost exact same boat here, other than treatment; only diagnosed, still awaiting and finding treatment. But I think I can answer that question. Perhaps we assume that others are the same as us and have the same mental environment and are just better at navigating it? I assumed I was lazy. And considering the amount of substance abuse among adults who have ADHD, people often look at that as the problem rather than a reaction. Mental environments are invisible. The higher functioning people tend to work hard or be lucky. The folks on the margins or who are failures have no voice.
If that’s tolerance, I don’t want any of it.
https://www.pine64.org/2021/10/15/october-update-introducing...

They go into it there:

"The decision to maintain the original PinePhone’s screen resolution of 1440×720 was made early on; higher resolution panels consume more power and increase SoC’s load, resulting in shorter battery life and higher average thermals. A few extra pixels aren’t worth it."
The article also fails to mention that they're also developing a passive device specifically to plop in rivers and collect trash before it ever reaches the ocean.[1] The Ocean Cleanup has also specifically addressed the "why bother with what's already there?" question in a blog post they published a while ago.[2] Disappointing that the article didn't even bother to mention either of these.

[1] https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
[2] https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/why-we-must-clean-the-oc...
You can't just take one quote out of context and use it to paint Einstein as altogether disinterested in religion -- he wasn't.

To him, there was a difference between believing in Your Own Personal Jesus™, or some variation of Abraham's fickle, meddling god (as in Judaism, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam), vs contemplating religion as a social/moral force and a line of philosophical inquiry about the origins of structure and organization in the universe. The whole point of him mentioning "Spinoza's God" is to underscore that difference.

Einstein wrote about religion on more than one occasion, and his views weren't as straightforward as "religion is dumb, I don't think about it." Far from it; he recognized the universe as something inherently profound and beautiful and drew from it a philosophical sense of spirituality. No one is accusing him of being a Bible thumping Jesus lover, but he was definitely interested (on the side) on questions of spirituality, purpose, etc.

More info in the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_vi...

Or this blog:
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Parallel%20Uni...

I'm not saying this to defend Christianity; I think it's an absurd religion. Just pointing out that Einstein, like many scientists, thought about these questions frequently. Why wouldn't they? Religion can be approached scientifically too, and many practicing scientists are religious -- to a lesser extent than the general population, usually, but far from zero %. Three random data points, lots more if you search for them:
https://phys.org/news/2015-12-worldwide-survey-religion-scie...
https://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/
https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...

My own personal take is that Einstein recognized the limits of our understanding and drew peace and inspiration from the boundless complexity yet to be understood. He found it powerfully spiritual, but he did not attribute it to a "personal" god the same way a follower of the Abrahamic religions would. Nonetheless he was interested in these questions, even if he didn't have the answers and didn't believe the Christians did.
Sure, some people hate admitting when they're wrong. But I have to imagine that pales in comparison to how much they hate being evicted, risking having their families split up, not being able to afford food or medical care, etc.

It just seems oblivious for the author to say that people complied because deep down they knew it was right, when that author's colleagues have written about the actual dangers these people would face if they lost their income.
BFT 9000?
I know somebody who's very personal to me who took the vaccine because they were threatened with termination of employment.

They live paycheck to paycheck and have a wife and 3 kids to support. They're going to have to live with themselves violating their own personal bodily autonomy because they didn't want their kids ending up on the street.

I personally find it morally reprehensible for any level of "seniority"/"authority" (be it employer, government, peers, etc) to use threats of violence (threatening with loss of employment _is_ an act of violence, I'm not swaying on that).

I don't like how society has gotten very "us vs. them" in the past couple of decades.
Battery efficiency?
People with presbyopia [0] rarely do. This is a pretty common condition with older folks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia
And relative to the galactic center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center; actually only a galactic center out of many billions), the solar system is about 320,000,000,000 km from where it was 44 years ago.
> direct production and injection of tailored antibodies instead of going around the corner by having ordinary cells express proteins that then trigger the immune system

Triggering the immune system does a lot more than produce a single wave of antibodies.
Consciousness is nothing more but the final arbiter of attention. As such it must have a way to evaluate situations, including our own internal state and this is done by emotions. Emotions are our default approach interpret a given situation.

I think the 'beast machines' analogy is a good one. We're reproduction machines. We're not thinking machines. We do not evaluate our environment using logical thinking and although some may learn to use this tool (logical thinking) to justify paying attention to something in particular, it's emotions that guide our eyes and our attention.

Anything that has attention to guide has a consciousness. It might not use words or other symbols to reinforce attention but the basic mechanism, the cycle of emotion, evaluation and attention stays the same.
Scary that anyone with a gun can bring down 200kgs on people or buildings. But people probably said the same thing about cars and planes.
This is interesting, but I believe a big point of LISP is actually having a live system that can be introspected, and GC is part of making that work. In the end isn’t this just <insert sys prog language> but with s-expressions?
I feel like our's is the product of management not wanting to staff up our team or another team to handle different tech (not willing to pay up).

It's possible it's intentional though. It's hard to leave the team or company when you're just ok at a lot of things, but not an expert in anything.
> NASA is no longer a space launch company.

Good. That was never the point of NASA. If they can contract out the launchers to SpaceX, ULA, etc., they can focus on the scientific aspects. Funding launch platforms via CRS and Commercial Crew was one of NASA's smartest and most cost effective decisions.

> Where's the new?

Quite a bit of it is on Mars actively exploring right now.
How do you propose that they feed and house themselves? Has someone got a GitHub repo for that?
They're probably unfamiliar with the sheer complexity of the monorepo at google. Carving that up is going to be so juicy. I realize that it's not everybody's kink, but wow.
> restore the mine afterwards

Cue the laugh track.
How are Google and Facebook considered trusts in this context but not Apple? I really must be missing something here.
I think there are far more important aspects to a phone than pixel density. If somebody told me I could get better battery life and performance with lower pixel density, it would be a no-brainer for me to say yes.
I own an original PinePhone. Most people are aware of its issues by now, but I always found the screen (and by and large, the general build quality) to be oddly sufficient. It isn’t overkill, but I don’t think it is terribly limiting either. I suppose a higher DPI screen would be a nice luxury, but it can definitely wait for the SoC to catch up.
In the same vein, adding more guns to the equation isn't going to solve violence/crime either
The key is not to go overboard. As a first-time founder, you don't know when to draw the line and focus on valuable stuff. It's very, very easy to get sucked into minutiae that don't matter at all (been there, done that). That's why I think first-time founders should ignore most engineering best practices and ship the prototype as fast as possible.

> primarily because it's one of many "quick wins"

Be careful with that, though. You might have an illusion that you're making progress, while in reality, you aren't.

I'm with you on having the fun part!
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This is ridiculously black and white thinking. It's like saying "Oh, you support seatbelts? Well how would you like it if the government had a camera in your house to make sure you're wearing PPE every time you use the table saw!"

> Get a vaccine, and whether someone else has or hasn't is not anyones business.

If only that were true. Unfortunately I don't like lockdowns and new and exciting COVID "variants".
The problem with "fact checkers" is you can design them any way you want to get the answer you want. Here's how this is done with this one:

Yes, the claim that Pfizer's new pill is "just repackaged Ivermectin" is certainly verifiably false, so the second line of the article can claim false followed by a supporting expert quote to drive it home. Statistically something like 95% of readers will stop there. Case closed. They're convinced.

But it's not hard to find lots of front-line doctors who are seeing success with Ivermectin. Even the 4th-to-last paragraph in the factcheck article (that I cited) admits that Ivermectin "acts like a protease inhibitor" which is how the new patented "covid pills" will also act.

If you follow many of these voices like I do, you see patterns that they aren't really even claiming that the new drug is exactly like Ivermectin. So even framing the question like this is a failure and doesn't capture the actually-useful voices out there. Probably just the Twitter mobs which always seem like the majority these days, but are far from it.

This doesn't prove anything, nor am I claiming that Ivermectin works, but advancing the conversation is so much more nuanced than framing something and then calling it false. We, dear Hacker News readers, should know this better than most.
Ask HN: How much does “purpose” matter in a job?
I am at a point in my career where I don’t really care about my work that much. I am successful, have full autonomy, get recognition, make more money than I need, I work on things that are intellectually stimulating, in a field that has some direct benefit to humanity. But still feel unsatisfied…

Many others in my field (aerospace) have a lifelong passion for it, but I don’t particularly care for it either way. I am envious of the enthusiasm they have for our work, that I cannot muster up.

There are other areas outside of my chosen profession that I feel more strongly about, and wondering if I should pursue those.

I feel like I have ascended up Maslow’s hierarchy of job needs, and now am faced with a lack of purpose in my work. So I am curious, has anyone changed jobs/careers to align with a greater sense of purpose? How has that gone for you?
I love Zig! I started rewriting xv6 in it last year (I should probably get back to that). Just in my day to day I don't want to manage memory, but I still want performance. I'd write Go, but I'm just not a fan of its general approach to anything.

I do agree D has a problem of a split community. You see it on the forums with 50% just wanting better C++ and 50% going GC. I'm actually looking forward to C# AOT sometime soon.