skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I know that.
But do the people looking for a professional photo editing program know that. I'm just saying if you want to make it big or attract developers, maybe naming your software Gimp is not the best thing either..
Corporate departments you do NOT want to be in: Innovation, Ethics, Trust… unless of course it’s corporate doublespeak and the department is doing the exact opposite of what its name implies.
Towards the bottom of mine was: "A cheeseburger stabs a cheeseburger."

Delphi: It's not so clear
According to the Wiley website:

"E-books offered from Wiley.com are delivered on the VitalSource platform. To download and read them, users must install the VitalSource Bookshelf Software."

So no epub, you have to read it through some other third-party software.
Just for what it's worth, I wasn't attacking the content of your argument - mainly just defending GP while attacking the tone of yours. What you said wasn't wrong, but it was in response to an argument nobody was making.
Great article.

I see this trend too: the systems powering the modern world are increasingly featureful, complicated, centralised into a few hands, and this will likely continue.

I'm a keen developer and user in this world, and recognize the vast users this world provides for.

At the same time, I appreciate a back-to-basics approach that emphasizes systems that can be understood and controlled by individuals and small communities:

* Hardware that has open specs: Pinephone, Pinebook, Raspberry Pi, ...

* Open source OSs: Linux desktop, Linux mobile, Lineage OS.

* https://reproducible-builds.org/ and https://www.bootstrappable.org/, allowing trust to be distributed.

* Monorepo based OSs: NixOS, Guix.

* Gemini, rather than the web: web browsers are now beyond reasonable understanding/control for small communities.

* Mastodon rather than Twitter.

* Projects that are community driven.

* XMPP/Matrix over Signal/Discord/FB.

I choose to live within this world for my personal world where possible. It's not as featureful, and that's fine.
Forgot to set up a custom exception hook? Perhaps it is not too late
Really great post, thanks for sharing. I spent a lot of time a couple months ago researching 'DBaaS' offerings (for fun, not business) and found it difficult to find any posts outlining the architecture of a DBaaS. Really cool to see CRDB putting this out in the open.
there are some great projects that present an http api for postgres that you could use with CRDB I think. I'm thinking of something like https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-http
Why do you expect the rural taxpayers to pay for urban/city only improvements like transit/subways or money to fight guns/gangs but balk at the thought of paying for electrical hookups in rural areas.
> And we know the official death counts is under-counted by a 4x-10x factor.

Not even California undercounted that much and they are among the worst under counters in the western world, if we compare Covid deaths to excess mortality. Death undercounts are closer to 30% at worst.
Assuming it would stay limited to billionaires (that is unlikely) this would have a chilling effect on investment.
Because of client-side interpolation and prediction, the client isn't on the same game state as the server, just an approximation of it. It's the tradeoff you have to make for a smooth game experience.

The server can do a best effort attempt at rewinding the game state and take into account how the client is interpolating the world, but it gets very complicated as game complexity goes up.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Source engine does that for the attacker and the victim, but ignores all other entities for the ray casting (so it can only really prevent shooting through the map walls)
Yes, that is a possibility. But given the data on excess mortality, it seems unlikely.

The Economist has a model worth checking out:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

Also, I agree that focusing on the face-value numbers is a good call, practically speaking.
Kopete

https://apps.kde.org/kopete/
AI oracle of Delphi uses the problems of Reddit to issue dubious moral advice
The great imbecility pandemic of 2020-2021. People who have experienced severe symptoms, hospitalization and deaths of relatives came out smarter than those who didn't.
‘hyperecessionalism

hy·per·e·ces·sion·al·ism

lack of optimism or optimism and typically resulting in reckless or even illegal speculation’

So many new words
We shouldn't have laws that target N number of people. The law should be fair and unbiased.

Suppose for example that N=1. Would it be ok to target one person with tax increases? What about 10, 100, or 1000 people?

I'm not part of the 1% and never will be. But we should make just laws.

Some people will think "yeah, but the rich people don't pay taxes" which is exactly my problem with it. Again, we've created a situation in which the law only applies to some. The solution isn't to reverse the situation, but to balance the law.
You wrote a lot of words about how others were "tired of learning" and "not being very good" and "kicking out the DB guy who'd stop their bad ideas" and then finished it off by congratulating yourself on keeping several languages in your head. I can be rude but you should think about how this would be perceived by others.
Steak tartare is one of the most underrated dishes. I prefer mine after a few minutes over a flame grill, a piece of cheese, and a round roll. That can turn it into something that I really think would catch on if people tried it.
There's convalescent plasma in the study we're all looking at.

Looks like a similar difference.

- People given AZ required 8.8x the concentration of their serum to neutralize A.30 vs. B.1

- For mRNA vaccines, this was 4.6x.

- Convalescent plasma-- those infected-- this was 4.4x.

- AZ dose 1, mRNA dose 2 was by far the smallest difference, 1.8x.

I'd caution in reading too much into these numbers. Comparing titers in general between the groups in this study is problematic because of vastly varying times since infection/administration. And the size of the populations is small.
mid-2012 MBP 13 inch, used OCLP and Monterey works at least as well as Catalina (better in many respects)
Googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about this.

I wonder if this was Google's response to the chip shortage? Maybe the cost/benefit (and just sheer inability to get certain parts) made them hold on to hardware for longer.
The Impoverished Language of Business
Maybe losing the AI race to China isn't such a bad idea
> Although I like the spirit of this idea, I don't know that I could trust it in practice as it will be companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that own the actual hardware.

This is the point that the author makes in the second part of their post. Quote:

"The dutifully critical part of me wants to shout: you shouldn’t trust these slabs! Their operators, G — and A — and M — and the rest, will surely betray you. The very signature of the corporate internet is the way it slips from your grasp. The leviathans swim off in pursuit new markets, and what do they leave you with? Deprecation notices."
Mine was "deauthenticate". Very surprising it isn't considered a legitimate word.
Net income up 68%, that's terrifying high for a company that size. Good job everyone at Alphabet/Google.
I came wading through the comments specifically for this, totally agree.
clever! hadn't thought of combining this with hstore.
I don't think the workloads would have much to do with this, probably saw that they were having less failures than anticipated or memory/chip shortages have them keeping equipment around longer than they planned.
I have one of those at home. The idea is to stuff a Pi in it and use it as the terminal access for my local "NAS" (two hard drives connected to the Pi).

One of our local entrepreneurs, Xavier Niel, first made its fortune by selling pornographic services through Minitel.
I imagine that's more of an issue now than during the Great Depression. Back then you could easily put that money into large pools of labor, whether assembly lines at factories or agriculture or infrastructure projects and gave a pretty good return on investment. Now a large pool of labor at a company is treated more like a liability, and yeah just putting money into real properties may get you a better return than anything that directly benefits any meaningful number of people. Even if the money goes towards something like infrastructure - the cost of equipment is one thing, but I imagine there are plenty of instances where a handful of lawyers and beaurocrats involved in a project get paid more than some massive crews that do the actual labor combined.
Indeed. Also, using the generic web.dev domain to market Chrome reminds me a lot of Project NERA.
I would expect the academic attackers being interested in other aspects than the criminal attackers.

How 3d is a fingerprint - do the sensors really measure the depth of the creasing, and it is a significant distinguishing factor?

I think there are plenty of places to leave a print. For example my slim and elegant smartphone is covered with a "protector case" which probably doesn't have such a sophisticated coating.
I have a usecase where I could use a diff of records changed, and what was changed. I don't see how HSTORE solves this for you. Could you explain more?

In my example, say a user edits their document and saves it (to a row in the DB). I want to be able to tell what their previous row was, what the new one is, and basically git diff them.
There are a number of submissions relating to the author and their blog, though from numerous sources. Informative, entertaining, and cautionary.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Works for me. Used to be you'd surf the web. Facebook is the epitome of the modern web where you stand there haplessly while getting bags of poop thrown at you.

Good riddance
Thanks that's insightful.

> My dad is a pharmacist in France where we treat drug addicts who want to recover as victims and help them get alternative subutex or methadone for free: he told me he never saw someone truly stop. They can reduce and live with it, but they cannot possibly stop. In the US it's different: opioids became a for profit pharmaceutical entreprise, and most of the crisis there is due to opium sold hidden as painkillers totally legally on a large scale.

A refinement might be to tax legal painkillers that pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors and hospitals are prescribing to the populace from which they make profit from. The tax proceeds could then be used to pay for the inevitable rehabilitation of the certain percentage of the populace that is going inevitably get addicted to it.

The refinement is that the general taxpaying populace doesn't have to pay for this out of the general funds, its explicitly the people profiting from the negative externality.
My assumption is the hardware was more reliable than expected. If it was about slowing workload growth one might expect them to switch to a usage-based (instead of time-based) depreciation schedule.
A snide comment like that coming from you is a strong reminder of why stereotypes exist.
Yeah, but then again most Western news organisations call Xi the President of China.

[Hint: the Chinese language has a word for President - which they use for Biden, Macron, etc. They don't use it for Xi].
I can't help but read all the interjections from the core developers as a strong indication of why all these sorts of things tend to fail on the vine. From Unladen Swallow onward there have been these groups off doing interesting and awesome experiments to try and make Python faster, and they never actually make it into something that Python end-users can use (yes, I know US had shortcomings).
This is the work of one (admittedly super smart) guy over two years. Just like Nuitka, something else that was supposed to be impossible but just keeps making steady progress. Maybe I'm just seeing design by committee?

The lone geniuses can only go so far. Maybe the problem is that Python can't quite decide what it wants to be because it's too many things for too many people already.

Is the concept of Python the language, as opposed to Python the ecosystem, valuable enough so that a Python that broke backwards compatibility with all the C extensions would be useful as its own multicore-capable runtime?
PyPy seemed to think so for a while and now has gone hard in the other direction, reimplementing (faking?) a bunch of the CPython extension API so maybe this approach would never work. I don't know, but seeing things like:

> there is a large number of “dark matter” Python (and C extension) code out there that isn’t open-source. We need to be careful not to break it since it might not be feasible for its users to make required changes, or to report problems back upstream to us. In particular, some C extensions protect their own internal state with the GIL. This is a big worry, and might be a big hindrance to adoption of a GIL-free Python.

really make me wonder if the community as a whole would conclude the same on these critical sorts of decisions which shape the future of the language if they were put forward and not just made by a couple people in a closed meeting.

Would you prefer to support some weird arbitrary nameless closed source extensions, or have a multicore Python? This obviously depends on who you are and what you're doing, which leads us back to Python being too much for too many, but even here we can get a feeling for how many people do what with the language.
Seemingly the latter. Less benefit between generations and more stress resistance in hardware compared to earlier data center practice
I’d also recommend this write up from JMP Waveran (really anything by JMP)

https://mrelusive.com/publications/papers/The-DOOM-III-Netwo...
If lag exists this creates a fair - but really unfair feeling game. Clients will constantly be reporting shots at enemies that were quite accurate when the shot was taken but are now extremely off the mark.

As the article mentions - fully server authoritativeness works great in lan situations and for single player content but can really fall on its face in multiplayer.

If I, as a user, am constantly moving in random directions and have a lower ping than you (and thus my movements are reported to the server before you can actually observe them on your machine) then you should never hit me except through pure blind luck - in fact accurate shots could be the only shots that are guaranteed not to hit.

Games want to feel bad at a range of reasonable pings - and reasonable pings usually stretch into the range of 100 or 150 ms - that leads to up to a half a second of lag between when I dodge left and you, as a shooter, would have the earliest chance to actually register a shot with the server at my new position.

Additionally, the server can reconstruct what it thinks we saw at a given moment in time - but the server doesn't know what data has been lost[1] and whether the client might think it was right - or even whether the client might be misreporting dropped packets to engineer an advantageous game state. Also, this whole time we've been discussing latency as if it's a fixed number - but it is constantly changing and the reporting of the latency is something you need to trust to a client since clients can always artificially inflate latency figures.

Due to lag correction either you're able to shoot me after I duck behind cover, or you're never able to shoot me - and both options suck for one half of the players involved.

1. See the two generals problem - proof of delivery is actually a hard problem.
How to compose middleware then ?
Yeah and you can write code as well. That doesn't mean it's a laptop replacement.
That would be an interesting adjustment
Uncertainty is a fact of life and decision making under uncertainty an important skill to be successful.

And in case it is not clear, in this thread I am not advocating neither for or against vaccines, so we can end it here unless you have something of substance to add.
Just ordered!
If I remember correctly, that number is true of the US. Globally speaking, The Economist has it pegged at 3.9x. A far cry from 10x, but also a far cry from an undercount of 30%.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
Threads are currently under active development :)
Shutting down the service is not mentioned in the article but many avenues to improving it are.
How long are your power cuts? If you keep it shut, a freezer is fine for 24-48h
Everytime this "the insects are dying" thread comes up, people come out of the woodwork with anecdotes like this.

But I am one of them! I remember getting my first car in the late eighties and scrubbing tons of splattered insects off my windshield every time I went to the gas station.

Now I barely even notice them.

Antecdote is not data, but I certainly believe people when they say the insects are dying.
https://archive.ph/IDShC
Model Fs deserve a shout too
gassler

a person who maintains an attractive appearance by striking or beating up other people
"she's been a good ass gassler"

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/gassler/eyJ3IjogImdhc...
Habitat is definitely a factor with fireflies. For years we had none. Then we let some of the landscaping and trees grow out so parts of our yard became more forest-like. 2-3 years ago we started seeing fireflies for the first time.
I professionally use a vector editing program all day long, in this case Illustrator, and absolutely will not consider mis-affording pirated software.
Isn’t the US government discussing taxing unrealized capital gains for a similar impact and purpose?
"have hundreds of billions in cash."

And so what if he does? The biggest issue I see is that so many confuse money/wealth with actual stuff.

It's the stuff - the goods and services that add value to our lives - that matter. Consuming stuff takes from society: the time, effort and material to produce it. Simply having wealth, in whatever form, is totally neutral. If Rich Guy has a trillion Dollars in the bank, it doesn't affect anybody. But if they spend it all on potatoes, then that is what would impact society by subtracting all of the potatoes and limiting their use by others.

Consumption is what takes from society. Wealth doesn't subtract (or add) anything.
Looks good! Why did you decide to do your own Filesystem Routing instead of introducing a dependency to vite-plugin-pages, especially as you mention upstream contributions?
I actually got a real word, albeit with an incorrect definition.

adjective.
nonexclusionary
nonex·clu·sion·ary
of or concerning people or organizations that don't receive due respect
"nonexclusionary criticism of religion"
a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.
Not sterilising, but they do reduce viral load and hence also the probability of spreading.
Thanks for saying this, and I agree with you - lots of people making uninformed statements as fact. Drug Addiction is terrible, but stigmatizing drugs, labelling the user as a "druggie" or "junkie", and calling for tougher restrictions make the problem worse.

For those who wish to inform themselves better, I recommend reading "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari.
man... web technologies are not getting simpler are they lol. it just keeps gaining more layers and layers
Ask HN: Best resource to learn HTTP 1.1 / 2 / 3
HTTP is the backbone of the internet, but I haven't found a gentle and up-to-date guide that covers it in depth from A-Z. OReilly had 'HTTP Definitive Guide' but its almost 20 years old.

Beside reading the actual specs, what is somewhat more gentle primer?
Now it would be awesome if we could use Prisma against an open standard like this.
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife...
Sounds like they recently hired their first MBA.
This seems like exactly the kind of centralization bitcoin is trying to avoid.
> But it wouldn't matter if they instead formed jug bands, devoted themselves to restoring antique furniture, spelunking, translating mayan hieroglyphics, or trying to set the world record for having sex at an advanced age.

How optimistic. You don't think some of them are going to prepare for the next January 6th insurrection?

What happened to the near universal assessments of various conflict theories (mostly recently, those purporting to explain the emergence of Islamic extremism, 1980s-2000s) that pinned the emergence and expansion of violence on the idle hands of young men (and increasingly, as with ISIS, young women), mostly from working- and middle-class backgrounds that weren't threatened with starvation or homelessness.

Are we going to recapitulate Facebook and general techno-anarchy optimism all over again, where we deliberately ignore pathologies in contemporary human culture in favor of narratives that fit the peculiar desires and anxieties of the technocratic elite?
All? No.
Conspiracy theories and disinformation existed before the internet, too.

But we can at least try to get rid of the things that make the problem worse.

Moreover, minimising hyper-addictive patterns on such platforms would have a host of other benefits too.
The irony here is truly staggering. The whole point of cryptocurrencies is to eliminate the need for trusted third parties, and especially to eliminate the need for trusted third parties who are so heavily regulated that they are essentially arms of the government, like banks. Still, it is far from clear (at least to me) whether the FDIC chair is being clueless or devilishly clever here.
Next level: use these words in definitions of other words, not just examples.
Is there a source or research around humans following this pattern?
Gotcha, will ask Wiley if they have other options
"If you're overdue according to your itinerary, and you start getting repeated calls from an unknown number..."

Or maybe search-and-rescue can get a clue and realize most people don't pick up calls anymore.

"If you're SAR, and you don't get an answer after repeated calls to a number, send a fucking text message instead of lecturing people on how they're doing it wrong." If for no other reason than SMS stands a better chance of getting through than a voice call when coverage is spotty.
In the article it's "toxic dump of garbage" and then it discusses how to make the service better.
More like the pandemic is good for pushing activities onto the internet of which Google takes its slice.
Flying as a GA pilot in Montana, I can't rely on VOR for two reasons: signal interference from terrain and the fact that the FAA is actively decommissioning the VOR system. I can't rely on ATC radar because of terrain, either.
I hadn't even considered their CLI. Thanks, I've been digging around at other repos examples a lot.
SARS-CoV-2 mutations: why the virus might still have some tricks to pull
> but the search is still anonymous

Is this verified though? I ask because Brave is known for some shady things, like pushing their alt coin or sneaking affiliate links into internet browsing.
> Crown corporation in Canada isn't running any industries though, it is just an organization for providing government services

Incorrect.

> But they aren't which is the point. Just because they could do something in theory doesn't mean that they would do a good job if they did.

See: SaskTel[1], SaskPower[2], SaskEnergy[3], Saskatchewan Government Insurance[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaskTel

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaskPower

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaskEnergy

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Government_Insura...
It would be very surprising if death counts were overcounted by a lot, because excess mortality rates have spiked massively since COVID-19 hit the scene, and in general are higher than the COVID-19 reported death rates.

So, for it to be overcounted, you would need to have an explanation for the reason that not just the recent excess deaths not attributed to COVID-19 have jumped so much, but that the 'real' causes of death have overshot and bit into the COVID numbers.