skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest benefit of HA architectures is IMO not resilience from crashing or overloaded systems, but more that it is often a prerequisite for doing zero-downtime updates and partial rollout of updates.

No more emergency revert to last version because the new version didn't start up, only to realize there was a schema update so you also must restore your data from a snapshot, which nobody knows how to do. All this under stress from the service being completely down.
Perhaps it’s offensive to the other side being forced to accept someone born the opposite sex as exactly equivalent? Perhaps it has nothing to do with judging them or their lifestyle? Perhaps by the same logic they shouldn’t care about grouping themselves forcibly into a group their offending at least some of the members of?
What's the point? You can tell if someone is using Tor anyways from their IP.
My partner and I lost a good chunk of our clothes and lots of time to a cheap $300 mattress. The fiberglass in the firesock leaked, and the first symptom was a very itchy running t-shirt. It took us almost a week to figure out what was going on. The tiny fibers are essentially impossible to remove, and very hard to see unless you know what to look for.
Way better than my rate at bfi, which fbo?
I don't think any quotes are required around the research performed by Rushton & Jensen (2010)[1] and others that they build on. Doesn't it seem perfectly plausible that, much like other physical characteristics (height, body composition, heat tolerance, etc.) the meat in our skulls also varies between ethnic groups? Shouldn't this be researched and investigated like every other observation?

Once you start studying groups by linguistic origin (not "race") things become much clearer since people historically didn't really move around that much, and genetic markers are quite visible (a la 23andMe). I don't think you need to be a Nazi or a troll to be interested in any of this.

1. https://openpsychologyjournal.com/contents/volumes/V3/TOPSYJ...
Hopefully they approve IO-550s soon as well.
> Sleepnumber stores look (and probably are) gimmicky

this is why i never considered them. I hate hard sells more than i love sleep.
What bothers me is the advice you find all over the internet that "you are probably overwatering your plants" is only correct if you assume the reader knows nothing about plants and just keep them soaking all the time. Overwatering is NOT a Hofstadter's law where it happens even if you try to correct for it. Reality is container plants are a pretty complex system that an amateur is likely to mess up but not always in a particular direction, and the answer is to be anal about watching all the time.
I hadn't run across that story before, so thanks for sharing it.
Agreement on outcomes before solutions [1]. Done: Someone's need was met [2].

[1] https://www.agendashift.com
[2] https://www.agendashift.com/done
Piracy is an extremely rare event, and keeping it that way is important for ensuring the global supply chain works.

At the same time actively preventing piracy is expensive. Having a significant armed security force on a boat is effective, but paying for them when 99.999% of the time when their not needed isn’t cost effective. Making it clear that attacking a ship is pointless on the other hand is a great way to avoid getting attacked in the first place, but you need to be willing to carry through.
Just as an aside, even if it turns out to be a Winmodem, many of them can still be used under Linux. Towards the end of the modem era there were a couple of open source efforts to create Linux drivers for popular Winmodem chipsets. LTMODEM was one of them. For reasons I don't understand, most were unable to do 56k/v92bis though.

The other interesting thing about Winmodems/softmodems, is that they could also be used for stuff besides serial data transmission. In particular, you could use them to send/receive faxes and handle voice calls. This latter ability was particularly neat.

No idea if they're still supported, but the Asterisk telephony package could even use inexpensive PCI modems as part of a PBX, to connect to analog devices on either the internal (wired phones) or external (POTS phone line) sides. This is a bit less impressive today, when you can buy a cheap SIP ATA for $20, than it was in the late 90s / early 00s when I first heard about it.
> Given the design of EF

There's nothing about the design of EF that relates to how connections work: you can let the DbContext manage connections for you or can provide your own. (I assume you know that a DbContext is meant to be short-lived with a single owner) - so I'm very hesitant to say the issue is with EF's design or that the design of EF means you can't mitigate any issues with the PostgreSQL library for .NET.

Do you have a StackOverflow or GitHub post for this? I'd like to know more about this precisely because I'm thinking of switching from Azure SQL to Postgres for its superior data-modelling features (deferred constraints!)
Usually with runtime checks, but it can also in some situations be done statically, such as with SPARK.
Its been a while, Ill have to check it out again. Thanks for the suggestion.
> The paradox of tolerance arises because (neo)nazis want to abolish free speech

The argument you're making is that free speech is important so we need to protect it by censoring people who advocate imposing censorship.

But then you're advocating imposing censorship, which implies you should censor yourself. Which is why it's a paradox.

You still have to choose between "don't censor things" and "censor things" with the knowledge that if you choose "censor things" it's not just you who will be adding to the list of banned knowledge.
If your modem was US Robotics, your parents had money. If it was 3Com, your dad was an executive. If you had a WinModem, you bought it at the computer show along with some Microsoft Office OEM CDs with no license key.
If your quick prototypes as a rule require complex interactions with other team's services, the problem is your architecture. Try to find the smallest step toward an architecture that allows you to prototype in relative isolation. Take that and repeat.

Yes, prototypes have to be deployed. That goes for everyone's prototypes. That's how you get feedback on them. If it's a big deal that you have to deploy your prototypes, find the smallest step you can towards deployments that are less of a big deal and take it. Then repeat.

Paper engineering is never better than just trying out the thing in the real world. Most engineering professions have transaction costs that make this impossible. We have the ability to lower those transaction costs, if we just make the right effort. Come on, do it! It will be fun.

(And "that doesn't work here" has been debunked so many times. It does work also for you.)
I picked up the Three-Body Problem due to the hype, and similarly found myself put off by the wildly fantastic photon magic.
Stross's Accelerando might be particularly apt
Yes! DuckDB (not WASM DuckDB) has a JDBC connector that works with DBeaver.
Worm soul would be a good name for a band though.
One of the amazing things about doing stuff like this is the forum discussions, tutorials, irc logs, and mailing lists that detail every step and exploration and tool. Cracking a keygen, creating trainers, using hex editors, and so on down the game piracy, cheating, editing, and modding rabbit hole is incredibly rewarding and occasionally useful in the real world.

It's worth doing at least once for anyone, but I think it will get harder for people as more content ends up ephemeral, unsearchable, or locked inside walled gardens.
Even agents randomly screwing up would produce higher reject rates - 99%+ approval rates practically means no one is even looking no?
I wanna know who selling 87,000-hectares of land for $1
why "highly unlikely"?
The first time the Nazis imposed censorship so that people couldn't do that. We should be wary of following in those footsteps.
That does actually make a lot of sense.
sometimes things are interesting because they are counterintuitive, however irrational
I particularly appreciated the "Why use dialup" section...
This is just how the CCPA works. If you want to tell them to avoid selling your personal information in the future, you have to identify yourself so they know whose information to not sell.
a kids game yes, but worth 50B
Pretty sure millions were already in Soviet gulags with Pravda and Izvestiya cranking out official propaganda before anyone became a Nazi.

If you want to understand the terror of total state censorship practiced "the first time", then look to Lenin specifically and communism more generally.

Alternately, one can argue this climate of fear and systematic repression was present during the French revolution, but not localized to the entire state.
I don't know of any instance when someone has threatened to close the company, in the UK (but then again, these notices aren't public knowledge, so just because you don't hear something doesn't mean it doesn't happen).

Noncompliance with a data retention notice lands you in court, but it's a civil matter, not criminal - though if you then ignore an order of the court, you could be facing some jail time and/or a fine for contempt of court. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/25/section/95/

Regarding compliance costs, there's a vague provision in the IPA for contribution to your expenditure: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/25/section/249
A little more detail, although not much, can be found in the accompanying Communications Data Code of Practice

I am a lawyer, but I am not YOUR lawyer.
"Accident"
With hundreds of GA flights per day this will add up over time. One of the terrible things about lead is how hard it is to get out of the environment.
Libpmemobj-Cpp – Lessons Learned
I almost want to buy one and get a landline just for the nostalgia of it. I’m sure there are still some dial-up BBSes out there.

A couple years ago I came across a post about someone who runs a packet radio BBS in San Francisco: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/cuxso3/packet... I connected to it over VHF a few times and chatted with the operator once. That was fun.
> Richard, Jerry, and Robert are going to share 60 cherries. If Robert has 30 cherries, and has 10 more than Richard, how many more cherries does Robert have than Jerry?

"and" here is kind of inexact, it implies a sum, so something else. "If Robert has 30 cherries, 10 more than Richard" would be better.
William Bernstein: ‘People have forgotten the excruciating market pain in 2008’
Weed control can come in many forms. Some plants do better in more acidic soil vs basic, and native grasses tend to have a range of optimal pH different from broadleaf plants. As well, cutting strategy can help via shading--if the grasses are taller than the weeds, they get more light and grow taller still and choke out the weeds from getting sun.

Part of the problem with lawns in general is the ideal lawn, like the magazine lawn, tends to be a monoculture. But a really healthy, low-maintenance pasture tends to be a polyculture of many grasses, a few legumes (e.g., clover), and the occasional broadleaf (dandelions are great for instance when it comes to improving soil structure--their roots can really help aerate compacted soil).
I'm curious what year their statistics came from for "In North America alone there are 28 billion dialup transactions, which make up over 60% of all the transactions". The oldest Wayback snapshot of that page is from 2014, and while it's surely gone down since then I still run into them from time to time especially in rural areas or those little standalone ATMs in places that don't otherwise have POS.

They might still be installed in lots of those places even if a faster connection is usually used. I've experienced that even within the last year at a gas station when their satellite connection went down and there was a big line due to every card transaction taking 40+ seconds.
You should have used a sledgehammer. No pun intended.
Show HN: Floppsyhash – Floating-point hash that's v slow and v good quality
Link to the SMHasher results: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/blob/master/doc/floppsyha...

And a little live DEMO using the JavaScript port: https://88e9g.csb.app/
There are a lot of elitists on this thread that apparently cannot fathom the indignity of not living with their aesthetic preferences. Well, that and a lot of armchair PEs that think they know more about the NFP code than the AHJ reviewing the plans and the architectural firm that’s proposing them.

It’s doubly funny given that this building is situated in perhaps one of the best climates in the world, right next to a beach… and all residents have to do is go outside for some sunlight.

This thread must be dominated by east coast Ivy league grads, where going outside in the winter is unthinkable and an extra 10k/ month rent is a triviality. Given the comments referring to natural light as a human right … must be Yale.
Not everyone on Earth uses an ascii-compatible language, though.
Here's a link to a more complete explanation from the primary developer of GrapheneOS: https://teddit.net/r/GrapheneOS/comments/du23la/rooted_or_ro...

Basically, you don't log in to your Linux box (or Windows, Mac, etc) as root for day to day use and same thing goes for your phone.
It's pretty funny to argue that "government action is required" when pretty much the reason that aviation piston engines largely are still based on designs from the 50s is precisely that the government will not let you use anything else.

In order to sell an assembled aircraft, with very few exceptions, it needs to be certified by the FAA, and convincing them to allow you to sell a new engine is sufficiently complicated and expensive that the very small airplane market does not make it worth it. (The total number of piston aircraft sold in 2020 was 1300. The best-selling aircraft, the Cessna 172, sold in the 200s.)

The only development of new piston aircraft engines are for experimental aircraft, where no FAA approval is needed. In that market you find electronically controlled engines with the same features as automobile engines, and not requiring leaded gas. But those airplanes cannot be sold except as kits.

Even engines that need 100-octane gas would benefit from unleaded fuel, because the lead deposits are very bad, forces the use of inferior, non-synthetic oil, makes valves stick, fouls spark plugs, and is generally nasty. Believe me, no one wants to use leaded gas if they can avoid it.
I've been seeing this executed a lot in the energy sector in TX. Lots of remote locations running on excess energy. Highly recommend to get connected to people that understand these projects - feel free to reach out if you'd like to speak with anyone that's done one of these projects.
I dont think that's a useful answer. They consider the lightbulb to be supplementing their heater, not replacing it
Do any adults play Roblox? Is it fun?
I think of it as the Metastasize.
Be this as it may, the neatest modem ever made is the Novation Apple-CAT II:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II

https://web.archive.org/web/20190115080818/http://www.jammed...
The state of the art is described in this blog post (shared by moyix above): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brai...

Basically, while the structure of the network has been known for decades, they don't yet have the technology to figure out how the neurons behave (the weights of the neurons) nor how they learn (changes in the weights), so they can't "upload" data from a real worm.
Or you got into carding so you could be a courier...

US Robotics was the Cadillac of modems back in the day, that's for sure. I never had one, but Zoom gave you pretty nice bang for your buck.
One point that I'm surprised the article didn't make: despite the findings of their experiments, Airbnb & Ebay still advertise.
Check out "designer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqjUlmkYr2g
Remember, if you're against mandates to have genetically modified worms injected into everyone's bodies, then you're anti-science.
Pascal had subrange types before Ada, not only for integers but characters too.

var day : 1 .. 31;
letter : 'A' .. 'Z';

And you could specify ranges on array subscripts as well:

var weight : array[-5 .. 5] of integer;
It’s not a great channel. Just watch the garum video — he basically just boiled fish bones and called it a day.
You're talking about the differences in averages. But that's meaningless. If the median Asian man is 5'8" and the median European man is 5'9" (or whatever the numbers are), this tells you nothing about any individual Asian or European males, because like 40% of Asian males will still be above the European median and half of Europeans will be below it.

And it's a completely arbitrary line. If Swedes are on average taller than Austrians, are they different "races" then? It's balderdash. There are genes that affect height and whatever else, but they're widely distributed throughout all "races."
Just until 3Com actually bought USR. A friend of mine helped the USR founder with his taxes from that deal.
Covid booster mandates? NJ hospital is among first for those who got J&J shots
They worked fine on Macs. Ran a Mac BBS off of one.
Yea, it's AOL value-add all over again. It will be around for a while and fizzle out, especially with the hardware requirement.
I want to offer APIs in the next version.

You can send me your requirements with the contact page rollideo.com / contact
One of the designers was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize fourteen years later. He was not allowed to collect it in person. So he didn't.

Yes, later on in his life he actually saw what he'd been. It seemed to have transformed his life. [https://history.aip.org/exhibits/sakharov/intellectual-evolu...] I don't accept that as an excuse for what he was willing to be part of.

Later on, he said, 'In 1948, ... no one asked whether or not I wanted to take part in such work. I had no real choice in the matter..."

Yes, he did.
Ah yes, it's been a while since I've touched pascal.. Good times
Ada on the Raspberry Pi Pico
It's amazing to me that Roku has the plurality of the US streaming market (37%), yet its development ecosystem is so terrible. For those who don't know:

1. The only public development API requires the use of their proprietary language BrightScript which is poorly documented, and for which no official compiler, interpreter, or runtime environment is available. Enthusiasts had to create an interpreter for it (https://github.com/sjbarag/brs) to speed up development time. Previously you had to push your app to a Roku to run it before you could learn of any syntax errors.

2. They do have a C/C++ API, but they limit access to big orgs and require an NDA to use it.

There are plenty of cool projects, like a Prince of Persia port (https://github.com/lvcabral/Prince-of-Persia-Roku).

That they are finally shoring up their poor developer ecosystem with C/C++ and JavaScript APIs is great, but it's unfortunate that they aren't allowing these apps to be distributed through their official store.
I'm sure Facebook is really excited to build a space they own and control completely, as well as have the ability to take a cut of all sales in it. Building a digital company town is right up Facebook's alley.
I think that apply to most professions/professionals unfortunately.
Idk… seems intrinsic in so far as waves are intrinsic to Quantum Mechanics.

Check out these visuals from “the orbitron”:
https://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/
Looking at TAO just as a data-model (instead of as a database system) and I'm really liking its simplicity.

But when you have a huge system like this, there's always engine-level rules (e.g. referential integrity) and business-rules that need to apply: for example, a Location-object can't "follow" a Comment and a PM cannot "check-in" to a User, and Human Users can't "friend" a declared bot User (I think?), given their overall design I assume the rules about what objects and associations can and cannot exist are enforced by the Association APIs when an association is created - so rejecting an invalid create-association request is straightforward, but how does it handle ever-changing business-requirements that can retroactively apply to existing objects and associations (e.g. supposing that FB decides to allow Human users to befriend bot users, so suddenly Mark Zuckerberg suddenly now has real Friend associations (shots fired), and then they decide to undo that policy change, how is the rule-change applied? What happens to the existing objects? What happens if two different physical FB servers running different versions of the software want to apply conflicting business rules?

Another thing I don't yet understand about using MySQL (or any SQL-first RDBMS for that matter) as a storage layer for an ostensible object/document system (hierarchical structured data) is that now you run into the object-relational impedance mismatch problem - which has many unpleasant solutions (e.g. using the EAV anti-pattern, which defeats the point of using an RDBMS in the first place - or going all-in with Codd's normalization and ending up with a rigid, strict data model schema design which is very difficult to update when business requirements change (i.e. using a table for each Codd relation (tuple) type to for each TAO object type and having to run ALTER TABLE ADD/DROP COLUMN every time you want to update the TAO object schema - which obviously does not scale. I assume each TAO object can be treated as a keyed blob with type-name (i.e. a 3-tuple of (id, type, blob) ) - in which case using an RDMBS is overkill and introduces many overheads, so why use an RDMBS? Especially as I understand that pretty much every major web-service will disable things like referential integrity constraints for the sake of performance (and you can't have a constraint w.r.t data in a blob column anyway).

...so I assume I'm missing something, but what?
I still have a Psion 5mx with a USR modem connected via a null cable. This thread intrigues me to try connecting via dial-up again and see what/if something works with Psion browser
I worked in Medicare claims EDI years ago, but still in the modern era. 2008ish? Anyhow, back then at least, ALL claims were required to be submitted via dial up modems. These doctors offices with fiber optics were befuddled, and rightly so. The biggest complaint was that they couldn't even find modems to buy anymore, and USR is where we pointed them to.

Between that and the magic of modem commands, it really felt like everything you learned at that job was useless. Turns out, it was.

No idea if it's still the same way today, but it wouldn't surprise me.
SQL operates on sets of records, so it's up to the user to specify and restrict the set.

One can form a set by specifying just a table, or tune more by JOINs and further with WHERE clause.

Well, of course a JOIN is just one way to say WHERE. Still, when properly joined, the resulting set may not need a WHERE in UPDATE.
When you make housing an investment, by definition, it has to become less affordable in the future.

Until a country decides to stop making policy to support this notion that a basic need should be an appreciating asset and not a depreciating one like food, transportation, etc, this completely unsurprising trend will continue. It is a strange world we live in where we collectively believe that a basic need should increase in price over time.
Metaverse will be bullshit up until avatarism arrives, then it will be boring and normal. But people like this will still be very confused and upset about what is happening. (Maybe I will too.)

The first mainstream passthrough AR device that can stitch out and replace humans will be an eye opener for many people. This will happen next year. Most likely at least Meta and Apple’s will do this. And probably a few others. It will be rough but it won’t be hard to connect the dots.

https://gfodor.medium.com/the-rise-of-avatarism-b7ecfa7c42bc
But it seems to be an all-new API, so existing sideloadable apps are not trivially migratable?
Is Otter.ai's tech any better?