skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally love stored procedures, and Postgres, MSSQL, Sybase and Oracle all provide pretty good languages to implement them in.

In my experience the most reliable and long living projects treat the DB as its own separate product, whose interface to data mutation is via stored procs. The db can then be sanely designed with good data integrity rules (foreign keys, unique indexes and data column constraints).

Then external callers use the stored procs as their API, and then mostly don't have to worry about the internals. You can easily create a web based client, REST calls or a native GUI app that all work directly off the same db.

However they do have to worry about :
-connection timeouts
-query timeouts
-deadlocks

But that's the same for all distributed systems.
I agree with this general sentiment, but I'll add that it's worth reading most posts about Nix through this lens.

Finding your sea legs is rough, and IME people who completely deny this are few and far between. The reward is a pretty impressive lever.
The three books of the southern reach trilogy were the most creepy read I’ve ever had. Because of the dense and meandering writing style I felt like I was slowly losing my sanity together with the main characters of the books, trying to hold onto details and losing the fight.

The movie was ok to watch if taken by itself, but indeed not the same thing.
> This would immediately go away if they just posted a tarball of the almost certainly unmodified sources.

No it wouldn't. NOTHING short of shutting down would ever satisfy the people going after Trump.
> They should have tried to get them license compliant

That's precisely what Mastodon is trying to do. In fact, that's _all_ they're trying to do, as the article made clear.
> food with high amount of preservatives, food additives, heat treatment, cold treatment, grinding, emulsifying, and other mechanical force being applied.

I.e. the kinds of steps you cannot perform in your kitchen yourself, because you lack the necessary hardware and expertise. Home cooking is amateur-level food processing. It's still details of the individual steps that matter for whether the end product is healthy or not.

As a shorthand, it has nonzero informational value, but it's really blaming the wrong thing - it's not processing as a concept that's problematic, it's particular decisions made by companies releasing food products. The closer you are to raw ingredients, the less opportunity there is for businesses to screw with the food (optimizing for profitability over nutrition).
> For what it is worth, I am not speaking out against the restrictions

Why? If they have negatively affected child development then that's a problem that was never considered by the powers at be.
It would be nice to have some laws around subscription services. Something along the lines of

1. Services have to inform the user (text, email...) every time they charge their card. Even better would be to inform 48 hours before, so users have a chance to cancel.

2. Any subscription service should provide the user to choose the duration, when they sign up. If I need LinkedIn subscription for 3 months, then I should be able to choose at the time of subscription, and it should be canceled automatically after three monthly payments.

And so on. These are all trivial to implement tech wise.

But hey, who am I kidding. These are never going to happen
I'm sticking with the show but as a huge Foundation fan, it's bitterly disappointing so far. For me the reason comes clear in the accompanying (official) podcasts. The writers are so enamored with their own smarts, that the story takes second place to literary navel gazing. Rock bottom for me was when Brother Day - a supposedly omnipotent figure - travels across the galaxy to quell a religious uprising but just stands silent as a new leader takes up the mantle with an overwrought speech, one of many in the show. The taking of terminus was another example of characters that speak with great intelligence and then act dumb. Ugh. I'm only hoping the writers take the feedback from Season 1 and change course.
A permacomputer exists only as long as there are people hosting it. Bittorent files are famously impossible to take down....only as long as there are any seeders remaining. You don't need to shut down the entire internet to stop a distributed system from working.
I read the first Foundation book years ago. Some good ideas but meh on it overall.
I haven't seen the latest episode of the tv show but the best parts of the show by far as the parts about the empire and the most boring are the parts about the foundation.
That is the argument of Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley.
Would love to hear if there’s any reason in particular you say that. Like have you been thinking of trying a different way of living, is your current situation untenable for some reason (financial or otherwise) or maybe you just mean it as a way of complimenting the design/build?

And regardless of the reason thank you for making a fellow HNer feel good about their side project!
TV maker Vizio sued for GPL infringement https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/vizio_gpl_lawsuit/
'Backing' via reserves doesn't actually matter much in practice.

What you want is a thick equity cushion.
They violated every other clause of the license.

a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.
b) The work must carry prominent notices stating that it is released under this License and any conditions added under section 7. This requirement modifies the requirement in section 4 to "keep intact all notices".
c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.
d) If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display Appropriate Legal Notices; however, if the Program has interactive interfaces that do not display Appropriate Legal Notices, your work need not make them do so.

From my understanding, they didn't do any of these, and claimed the code as their own.
Very nice write-up and illustration of Bloom filters.

Something I didn't get though, is why pick k=27 instead of say k=20, which seems to have similar size, but would be faster to query? In fact, varying k between 20 and 30 doesn't seem to have much impact on size, so why not reduce it even further?
He has to be an absolute inspiration to everyone.

What's more he's now 13 years older than the age at which Einstein died, so he's shown us that pursuing one's desires and goals at any age is a worthwhile venture.

I wish him well and hope he continues to get enjoyment from his new expertise in physics.
We are looking at an example of just how bad a mismanaged central database can be. I don't want an ID card that gives someone the ability to delete my entire official existence; either accidentally - or deliberately.
IRC has always been for serious communication to me at least and the people I knew... ever since I was 9. I am surprised it was associated with malicious stuff.

I have no idea why Tor is associated with malicious stuff. I mean sure, I do know, but people are people. Cash is associated with malicious stuff, too, or can be, because people buy all sorts of illegal stuff off the streets with cash. People are just being people, they always find a way. I hate it when things are ruined because of people who may do malicious stuff. Tor represents freedom to me. There has been anonymous chatting websites anyway, and it has nothing to do with malicious stuff. Or well, it may have, similarly to say, Omegle. If we banned everything that is associated with malicious stuff, we would have literally nothing, we would have no Internet, we would have no cash, we would not have anything for real. In any case, I hate this kind of thinking, that is for sure. :/

> Apart from all the red flags you're raising by using tor though..

Yep, I wish this was not the case. I am on IRC to which I connect using Tor. Now, both IRC and Tor is (or was) associated with malicious stuff! Imagine being on a shit list for this. :D I do it for my own privacy and security, but the reason is not that I am doing anything malicious. Sometimes I even use OTR on IRC just because I do not want the server to possibly know what I am talking about (no clue about the protocol right now, so I am not sure if they can actually read it, but I do not think it's P2P).

So yeah, people should stop with the false assumptions and silly heuristics. I mean, come on, I bought coffee and groceries with Bitcoin before, and many people bought illegal stuff with cash. Thus, I will never understand the argument against Bitcoin related to "Bitcoin is used for illegal stuff" bullshit. Both Bitcoin and cash has been used to buy illegal stuff, so what?! People are being people, stop blaming the technology that has benefits to many people who are not doing illegal stuff.
Samsung has been my goto for SSDs but even they're swapping chips on the same SKU.

At least Intel hasn't engaged in this shitfuckery.

Are there any other good guys in storage these days?
Not if it runs out of nitrogen in the soil - and we're already supplementing that for our crops. Then there are also limits on water, sunlight and space.

Sure, life will adapt and overcome - over time. But evolution won't save us here, as we're altering the climate orders of magnitude faster than natural selection runs its OODA loop.
Always sad to see the old guard tech websites shutdown.

It looks like the owners are working on a new venture, though. I also respect their decision to end the sites rather than sell their traffic off to clickbait farms:

> We could have easily found a buyer but look at what other publications have become when sold out to the highest bidder. Click bait farms with bought articles. We owe ourselves and the readers more than that.
If all software was licensed that way, 5-15 years would pass then suddenly there'd be a whole bunch of "Wow, Stallman was right again! We should have been using free software licenses!" style articles.

Restricting software use to only people approved by the creators is a terrible idea. Society has to operate with some level of trust that even people we disagree with, using methods we don't approve of, have the potential to improve the world. Otherwise the situation will get worse.
I don't think that's what 01100011 is saying though.. he's saying he'd love to see a movie that didn't adapt the material in any way, it just completely faithfully translated every line of dialogue and action to the screen.

Presumably that would lead to a 42 hour Lord of the Rings movie with horrendous pacing issues etc. Which would make it a terrible business proposition for the movie industry now (literally: why?) but if an AI could spit it out cheaply a whole lot of LoTR fans would watch it avidly.
If you want package managers, go Linux.
This was intended as a joke: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/amazon-zombie-clause-lu...
Brother Darkness' "ascension" scene was pretty good imho and of course it was not in the books.
It's a shame that the parties don't think ahead. When one party pushes for better election practices, the other should roll over, because next election it will benefit them and this election it won't matter.
The First Step Act was a major push towards criminal justice reform - something all parties claim they'll do but don't deliver on.

Also his tax reform led to lower and middle class families paying significantly less federal income taxes while at the same time increasing treasury deposits.

Tax reform and criminal justice reform were part of his agenda and those were accomplishments.
Congratulations. I was exactly your age almost 20 years ago and in a similar situation. The dotcom crash was just breaking and partly by luck and partly by judgement I had chosen that moment to exit and divest myself of those shares. My advice would be that you do the same, get a good financial advisor, stay grounded, take care of your future and lock that down, then think about what you want to do next. Spending hours somewhere like Reddit will rob you of the time you have. Ultimately I switched to investing in startups before eventually returning to “the trenches” myself when I was ready. Good luck to you.
Because P2P doesn't scale well when you have tens or hundreds of people transmitting video and consuming the video on different devices (mobile vs desktop) across different regions. You can't guarantee the experience is good when you don't control the distribution. Also P2P had potential to expose user IP's
How to stop Bittorrent without stopping the Internet?
Tesla haven't implemented Plug & Charge for non-Tesla vehicles yet.

With the current implementation, you download the Tesla app, set up your payment account, then manually select your stall number in the app to begin charging.
I've used these in Python programs but unfortunately they are only defined on some platforms. Would be nice if there were fallback values for when the platform doesn't define them.
I find their rationale curious. Rather than attempting to have some level of standardization, they are denying any standardization because:
- You should send something to stderr (why not both?)
- Choice is ambiguous (and so something non-standard will be better?)
I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky kind of guy and I'm just focusing on raising my kids.

For all of you who shared your success stories. I admire your passion, love, and luck! I hope nothing but the best for you in the future.

For those who are down in their luck at the moment, I hope you can get the help you need and ride thru the bad times.
Con man who made his money (when he made it) stiffing contractors, running a fake university, and abusing bankruptcy laws stiffs software authors. Big surprise.
SLAPP is a mechanism to short-circuit certain attacks on freedom of speech, it has nothing to do with intellectual property.
They should be brave enough to do their own take on the concept without using the title and clout of the original author. It would allow them more freedom in rewriting the parts that they need to and would transform the whiplash felt by readers of the previous work into possible delight at seeing a new story with new characters riffing on the original concept.
> Disarmament happened only to the extent it didn't threaten the MAD doctrine, and it reduced ongoing maintenance costs for everyone involved.

The U.S. and USSR were the only countries embracing MAD. The other nuclear powers embraced flavors of what we now call minimal deterrence [1]. (Think it's helpful to know deterrence theory has options other than MAD.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_deterrence
The key issue with P2P is that you have many more total connections in the system, so the service itself usually takes a hit. You get N^2 in stead of N streams. You can also easier optimize the video quality per peer with a centralized system, possibly saving even further amounts of streams, because (as an example) you don't have to send out a 120p + 240p + 480p + 720p and so on, you only need to send one 720p stream, however this could conceivably be solved by smart compression. With p2p you would have to send the same stream to all participants. It becomes impractical very fast, and the quality of the service goes down quickly.
+1 on this. Maybe it's because my laptop usage predates trackpads?

First thing I do when using a laptop for any length of time, is break out my wireless travelling mouse, and plug in it's dongle, and disable the on-board trackpad.
This notion of incomplete proteins is outdated and not very useful, if not quite wrong. It's really hard to eat a diet so restrictive that you end up deficient in the way the theory would predict.

Further, there are actually "complete" vegetarian protein sources. Namely soy beans.
Geo SVG in PHP
Midwest, bigger city.
Sr. Linux Admin - $113,196.00
(company claims $125,666.89 with benefits)

More people need to talk about salary.
I think two of the coming applications that has me most excited (of which there are many others on the horizon), are permission-less stock markets where shares are fully accounted for at all times in real-time (an actually transparent financial market), and proper third party markets for digital goods whereby goods bought online can essentially be treated like you do physical goods.

Both are applications of NFTs and both have significant players developing them.

I can elaborate more on these two applications if you want. Currently on mobile.
I'm getting "Video is not rated. Log in to watch."
Few countries have obtained nukes only to later relinquish them.

South Africa did, because the outgoing government didn't want to hand nukes to its successor government.

Ukraine, well, see how that worked out.

Kazakhstan, Belarus... seems ok for them so far.
I have reasonable experience with macport, just remember to enable multithreading, or it can be exraordinarily slow.
Also, following the very link from the website you sent, there is (I assume your) comment from 269 days ago that says this:

"I will have to deplatform any site which does not follow the terms of service."

That's a pretty nice double standard you have there, complaining about deplatforming on an article about someone breaking terms of service.
I don't even remember the original books, other than that I liked them.

I do not like the show. It's a decent scifi environment, but the actual storytelling is pretty awful, IMO.

The only thing I like is the mysteries. I'm not very far in, but they're few and far between, and wading through all the crap to learn about them is tiring. I keep trying to force myself to watch the next episode, but it doesn't happen.
They abandoned it for two reasons: the reason above (automatic saving of family photos doesn't exist), and notifications not showing up.
I'm not sure they have a weak history, though. They enforced their license just as aggressively against Gab.
If you consider the US to be an empire, then the statement is legitimately true. In terms of modern era “empires” it could only be compared to China or Russia, and the US is certainly more peaceful than those countries. If you want to look back through history, then all 3 of those countries are more peaceful than any empire that’s come before. The Roman Empire was kicked off by defeating Carthage twice, making them pay war reparations for 50 years, and once that was done going back and erasing their entire society from existence just to make sure they were never a threat again.
> I would say the US drastically changed a few ways: 1) the public’s perception of the media, 2) the US strategy with regards to China, 3) a significant adjustment of tax strategy and offshoring of profits, 4) healthcare regulations.

These are ephemeral changes, the type that flap back and forth frequently with presidential changes.

That's why things like ACA are far more monumental - they're codified, much harder to undo.

Trust in media has been in steady decline for decades now.
It was strictly an aesthetic choice and as another commenter points out it doesn’t impact the livability if you build it with proper insulation.

You can read about the performance of the exterior black color in high temperatures on the website where we listed all the materials we used to build the house, how much they cost and details about the construction: https://www.weshelterpeople.com/materials-and-costs
The greater San Francisco area is specifically referred to as the "Bay Area".

When I see "San Francisco", it is not unreasonable for me to assume you are only talking about San Francisco.

If you were to refer to the surrounding areas of Oakland and San Jose as San Francisco, you would potentially upset those residents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area
I guess that's what made Twitter rise in popularity as a source of news: difficult to stuff much filler in 140 characters.
Ruby and Rails Engineer here, for a decade now.

I had the fortune to be part of new startups that chose RoR for all the good reasons, but also because at the time it was trendy.

Nowadays I keep finding RoR jobs but I see more and more legacy applications that need to be maintained in order to move to a new technology.

I've had some discussions with founders and they always mention the same problem: there are not a lot of Ruby developers or they are expensive. So they choose to go with another technology, aka Javascript.

I like the language but I like others more, but Ruby brings bread to my table and I'm sure it will keep providing as long as Ruby engineers become founders or companies keep mantaining legacy projects built with the tecnology.
They're really just doing it to themselves at this point. When will public opinion tip over in a way that keeps people from putting money into scam crypto?
The rest of the queries https://gist.github.com/qoega/32c4f54da6b0324aef8cd8d910dd7c...
Authorization and Policy Scopes for Phoenix Apps
I don't remember the specifics, I had a presentation on PhDs during my license that mention this system, and CIFRE-funded PhD thesis seem to fit it, but I don't know if it's the only mechanism that exists.
Reminds me of the dispute between Douglas Crockford (the inventor of JSON and writer of JSON2 parser) and the open source movement…

The parser had a cheeky requirement that made it incompatible with various software licenses:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693108

Also the same Douglas Crockford on refusing to change JSONLint 2’s strictness:

https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/43086204350119936?s=21
Can anyone recommend a Google-free AOSP based phone with solid specs? Looking to jump ship from iOS and want something privacy focused but flexible and functional.
I don’t understand how defending their work and giving a link to their help page is marketing. Cloudflare is constantly on HN front page, I never saw one person saying this.
Bittorent is a protocol, that's like asking how do you stop the English language or poetry or musical notation - it doesn't even make sense in context. You can absolutely stop individual people participating in the network however and stop them from hosting or make it difficult for them. Just like with bittorent, it can be more or less difficult depending on the infringement, but again, if the software you host is breaking the licence then I'd hope enforcement would be effective against you.
I'm really enjoying it, and I read the books so long ago that I almost don't remember much from them, so I don't have any problem with the story not being faithful to them.
Why? In what world does using software to marginalize people or mislead the public create a better world?
Technically, formatting rules like these can be described using SGML short references, which then serve to replace those tokens by start- and end-element tags into angle-bracket markup (SGML, XML, HTML). Works for block quotes, too, as tokens scanned for replacement can be anchored at line beginnings (can include "record start" and "record end" characters).

Though I'm not aware of a modern MUA employing SGML ;(
Prayaan(a) is traveling/marching in Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada. No vehicle involved. Sanskrit and Hindi aren't exchangeable.
> Just because the US isn't perfect, doesn't make it a war machine

I don't think the article claims it is. The U.S. has a war machine. And Silicon Valley wants to sell to it.