skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had people make arguments like this before. Sure, it could be used but if it offers no benefit over a traditional database, or in some cases, drawbacks, what’s the incentive?

Someone made a similar argument about Steam adopting NFTs a while back, which made no (business) sense to me.
Youngkin just won the governors mansion in Virginia in part because the CRT boogeyman got uneducated suburban moms all riled up. Literally, that demographic swing from hard left last year to hard right this year.
And then there were the superstar slaves, such as champion gladiators and charioteers. They were idolized by the masses and they likely lived more comfortable lives than the majority of the capite censi and maybe some of the poorer knights.

> These were mostly enslaved men, because they were cheaper and could not say "no"

Huh, that's new to me. Did enslaved women have some kind of legal right to opt out of the mines, or was it just that other uses were found for them?
Since when Zionism is fascist or narcissist? Same as the article itself, it is just another way to say, we are the progressives are good and anything we don't like is bad. It is not even lazy science, just simple and useless propaganda
The pandemic has taught me that rational relative risk assessment crumbles in the face of personal fear.
I suspect that is a myth. Treating lung cancer isn't cheap.
> We reached out to Apple for comment, but they did not reply.

OK, they didn't reply to ifixit, but they can't keep silent about this forever. Some major media outlets will start asking this question and it would be interesting how they argue this time.
'repair' is a bit of a fuzzy concept when you're talking about an archaeological site, though, still more when we're talking about a site that was caught up in a volcanic eruption.

You can literally never repair it to the state it was in before the robbery, in the sense of restoring it to a pristine condition as it was left by the eruption.
Well, the RTX 3090 apparently has 10496... But I'm not aware of how to use them to optimize garbage collection.
Rust’s generics feels a lot more rigid than C++ templates. In C++ template programming works more like a duck-typed dynamic language (with very esoteric “runtime-like” compile time error messages), while Rust’s type system feels a bit more rigid probably due to its influences from ML-like functional languages. Though there are tradeoffs with each approach: C++ has gained an incredible notoriety for all sorts of wacky template tricks (SFINAE, template metaprogramming, etc…) Thankfully they developed features like constexpr and concepts to remedy some issues with it (the one part of recent committee decisions that I like, though I generally don’t like where the language is going overall)
Lockfiles get commited to the repo and used everywhere to avoid version differences. Upgrade dependencies as needed and have everyone reinstall when they change.

I'm amazed anyone wouldn't do this, it's the only sensible course of action.
I remember an amusing (too me) picture, Pakistanis on a tractor in a field of pumpkins.
To understand the state of Wolfram Alpha, you have to understand the guy behind it.

Wolfram Alpha was a pet project of Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Mathematica. He had grand visions for it. And for the first few years, it seemed like he was doubling down on it.

But then he got bored and started tackling a bigger problem: his own solution to the "theory of everything" problem -- something that has eluded the world's best physicists for decades.

But he was confident that he could best them all. Because he created Mathematica.

The scientific community wasn't having it:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-critic...
Flying is highly subsidized by the simple fact that their externalities are allowed to simply be pumped out to the atmosphere. Rectifying that makes electrified trains a lot more competitive.
IMO there is way more money, like orders of magnitude more, to be made from successfully branding the iPhone as the most secure and private smartphone, compared to the repairs market.
At least for Iran, all ISPs are upstreamed through the state (TIC, ITC, etc, see the map of AS12880 and related), they can just drop that one choke point and everyone is offline.

Ethiopia only has one AS/provider apparently: 24757 ETHIO-TELECOM
I'm very happy with mbsync and mu4e. The only drawback is that email fetching+indexing can be very slow (10 to 30 seconds), compared with the instantaneous gmail web interface. I'm not sure if this is poor configuration on my side, or some other bottlenecks (mbsync, mu indexing, IMAP protocol).
I bypassed the checks and installed in a Virtualbox a month or so ago, and it's been updating just fine.

I don't see them seriously blocking non-conforming installs as it would essential rule out all virtual machines.
What I gained from the article wasn't that the dev was unaware of indices, it's that he didn't realise indices were missing due to how planetscale's database disallows foreign keys.

I never worked with a database that doesn't have foreign keys and it's not unthinkable to forget when you do for the first time, that foreign keys were what created indexes for you automatically.

A little bit of planning could have prevented that though :/
Looks that you don't have any idea of ISO/IEC 27001. ISO/IEC 27001 is actually a standard which forces you to think about your security practices and goals.
Well, I guess Windows 11 isn't for you! I'm glad you're happy with Windows 10, or perhaps another operating system that runs on Industry Standard platforms. For the rest of us, this is an interesting option.
A language is not just the sum of its features, it's a composite whole. Features interact, and if a language is to be good, those interactions need to be designed rather than incidental. Adding a new feature can very easily deliver net negative value!
I use it exclusively when I'm drunk, to calculate how drunk I am

"4 drinks in 3 hours at 64 kg"
You're right, electrified lines are very good. The majority of Amtrak's routes are diesel.

I don't keep notes on where I read what, but this BBC article is fairly thorough, and puts electric trains at 40 grams carbon per passenger mile, diesel trains at 90g, long haul flights at 102g, and short flights at 133g. It mentions that occupancy is a factor but doesn't say if those numbers assume full occupancy or are averaged out over actual ridership.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566
If the pandemic has taught me anything, it's that the strangest thing about a zombie outbreak will be the Umbrella Corporation supporters. ;)
Many aristocrats could be captured as war prizes, enslaved, and used to tutor the children of the winning army. They weren’t all forced to pick cotton or worked to death.
Yes we really should not accept this. The ability to impose limits on spending is key to control an enterprise. Whole security certification guacamole is based on having established controls. But where the bit hits the fan control is absent.
Well, that's great for you, but the systemic realities are nonetheless a very real problem.
'Accidents' Will happen...
Russia’s Nuclear-Powered ‘Skyfall’ Missile:
A Real Doomsday Weapon?

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/07/russias-nuclear-powered-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/12/europe/russia-military-bl...
It's not about the number of keystrokes, it's about the number of keystrokes pressed simultaneously - this where Vim makes a lot of difference. All that Ctrl-Alt-Shift-X stuff is what really harms hands.
Once too often I've filled someone in on why we need to talk before we actually talk, only for them to use the email to cause grief before the actual meeting.

I did also once have a manager who chronically used "we need to talk" for every conversation out the usual routine and got everyone stressed out for no good reason.

Best thing to do is to not work in ane enviornment where things are so toxic to begin with.
The tradition is old, the out of context form is new.

Ancient soldiers (for example) found it practical to use flatbread as a dish to eat its topping, then the dish itself. The origin of the tradition is in the need for a dish, and in the advantage of not wasting the remainders that savour the dish itself, when edible.
Fawkes died 31 January 1606.
So nothing's changed? :-/
Police Justify Killing Drivers: The Vehicle Was a Weapon
Since nobody is mentioning it, around that time Wolfram Alpha started paywalling a lot of the more useful features. I used to use it in school and stopped when that happened. I'm not sure if they changed course since then.
WA will give you answers your TA can't!
The American system is designed to keep the power balance by making it easy to get another job.

Yes, there's some economic power difference - and sometimes it is out of balance. The idea that your boss has control over you is silly; your boss has the control over you that you give them in exchange for compensation, and you can always just quit - I wish people would do so more, because many of the worst attributes of the modern workplace are because people don't just quit.
It’s not really an important distinction, because all deaths are deaths that would have happened later anyway.
mu4e is mail on steroids. If you need to automate anything you can grok a small script in an afternoon (much less if you are familiar with elisp) and have it work for you in ways no other mail agent will.

My need: write personalized exams for my (50-ish) students, send an email for each with his respective exam, and upon receiving the replies, save each attachment in its own directory.

Some perl+latex+mu4e+elisp ans voilà.

Edit: I refuse to use my Uni’s version of moodle for long-reply exams. Also using pdftools has changed my life.
That sounds like a stretch to me but to each their own...
I started work one day to find a message (with no prior context) from my manager saying “if you had to choose one other person on the team to keep working with, who would it be”. I panicked thinking there was about to be a slew of redundancies and messaged back saying I don’t feel comfortable answering that and that I was worried why I was be asked. Turns out it was just some random thought on her mind and thought I had over reacted. She never really seemed to understand it from my perspective.
I'm not against blocking government level physical security attacks on personal devices but I am against the idea such a thing warrants or truly requires every user to be blocked from all but first party repairs.

If whatever infallible repair process and repair techs Apple is using internally can truly not be open to 3rd parties without compromising against such nation level attacks then at the very least protections against such attacks should be an option you enable which tells the security processor to never accept new hardware, not a forced default for all consumers which just happen to need repairs over time and are given only one place to get them.
Masks are not whole wafer , except in some packaging cases. The mask illuminates a 25*35 area, for both 300mm and 200mm.

Masks are not a significant expense for most processes. Nor is the bare wafer. It is all the process steps that drive the cost.

300mm qafer
WSLg worked just fine on Win10
The Casteism I See in America and American Tech Companies
what is TS?
Development of the RISC-V Entropy Source Interface
TypeScript...
As the author touches on, the main problem here isn't learning about indexes. It's about "infinity scaling" working too well for people who do not understand the consequences.

In no sane version of the world should "not adding a db index" lead to getting a 50x bill at the end of the month without knowing.

I am a strong believer that services that are based on "scale infinitly" really need hard budget controls, and slower-scaling (unless explicitly overidden/allowed, of course).

If I accidently push very non-performant code, I kind of expect my service to get less performant, quickly realize the problem, and fix it. I don't expect a service to seemingly-magically detect my poor code, increase my bill by a couple orders-of-magnitude, and only alert me hours (if not days) later.
I'm not sure if the gmail interface is instantaneous or if it's just using tricks to make it seem that way.

I've regularly waited up to a minute for an email I've just sent to arrive on someone else's account. A large part of this delay seems to be for some weird undo feature they've added which you can no longer fully disable.
The rich are as poor as the poor are rich.
I appreciate the conversation around WA this Ask HN has started, but yeah you've basically completely answered the original question by pointing this out.
Thanks! The decision making process was pretty unsophisticated tbh. Basically I spent the last couple years working at GitHub as a security engineer and had been pretty comfortable with MySQL so wanted to stick with that. I had heard from our database team how annoying migrations were and I had previously locked a postgres database multiple times in production trying to deploy a migration, so MySQL + safe migrations + some of the best engineers I've worked with pouring all their time into PlanetScale, made a ton of sense. So basically a combination of proven underlying tech + believing in the team.

The migration workflow is really cool, basically when we create a PR we branch our production database and apply any migrations that are included in that PR and then that branch is used in our per-PR review environment. (Just Heroku Review Apps), then when we merge the PR, we also merge the deploy request in PlanetScale. Database branching is a super powerful concept once you've leaned into it.

We don't really do any sort of load testing in a dev environment. We have one customer who is also a co-founder of our company so we just deploy whatever changes we're unsure about (after automated testing) to his application and see what happens. If anything looks off in Grafana we'll make take a look but it's usually "good enough" or "totally broken", very rarely do we take time to make something 25% better if it already works. The time to fix vs speed of shipping features tradeoff doesn't make sense for us.

In this specific case, the query was taking place in a background job so 10ms - 500ms didn't really matter to us so we didn't really measure the timing, if we had we may have noticed it was slow but kinda a testament to PlanetScale that we didn't even notice ;)
what, I'm just supposed to know that?
If the CDC said that, it is just carefully worded ignorance. The US’ NIH supported a research that confirmed it: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...

Just because “we the CDC” didn’t fund it doesn’t make it any less true.
Yeah, it's great for these types of things. It also has a bunch of values built in, so you can do things like:

(day length of jupiter) * 80
Consider the Pharmacist
Here's a version that resets the input field when you hit enter: https://dash.deno.com/playground/careful-toad-72
Uh, do you know what COPD ICU end of life treatment costs? I have first hand experience. It’s not cheap.
I still use it regularly too - even more so after listening to Stephen Wolfram’s 3 part podcast [1]
with Lex Fridman where he discussed the latest developments in Wolfram, Mathematica etc

[1] https://youtu.be/ez773teNFYA
Right, as jitl suggested. The BroadcastChannel is used to allow cross-datacenter messaging. So every script instance has its own set of clients and forwards incoming client messages to other script/datacenter instances.

I suppose this is not limited to multiple datacenters, but to multiple script instances in one datacenter as well.
Agreed. What I mean is people need to stop fighting these pointless battles.
I think it's not unobvious if you open the link
do they still put Humvees on the silo just in case, seem to have read that somewhere, what a clever fail safe, I'm sure every other bit was engineered just as well.
HTTPS is garbage, but you can put a HAProxy with SSL in front of it if you want to waste energy... :D

I made my own secure user handling using this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289
You ever read Guns, Germs and Steel? It's a somewhat controversial book, but it has some fascinating discussions.

The intro says it all. Jared Diamond is a damn smart cookie. I don't know if he still works there, but he used to be a Harvard professor, so he hung out with a lot of smart cookies.

He wrote the book, because he was hanging out with New Guinea hunter-gatherers (I believe they hunted and gathered heads).

He realized that a lot of these folks were every bit as smart as his peers, and wanted to find out why they didn't come out of the scrum as a more advanced society.
Acela on the NEC is literally the single best Amtrak route in the entire country, but even it is pathetically slow. Acela's average speed from DC to NYC is only 75 mph and NYC to Boston is even slower.

We desperately need true high speed rail on that route.
And yet making them mandatory does not mean they will suddenly appear everywhere, so it's still a good idea to have a backup plan (npi).

It sounds to me like you think I'm against backup cameras, but I like them. My concern is that they are not always going to be present and working, so it's still a good idea to learn to safely reverse a vehicle without a camera. Speaking as someone who frequently drives fire trucks, ambulances, and large RVs, it's simply incorrect that it's somehow impossible to safely reverse a vehicle without a camera. Cameras are helpful tools but training and care should still be a driver's #1 safety priority.
Not even a thing in my country. Likely easy to avoid in others.
Well, secondhand smoke is not an issue when one smokes only outside away from others or only in the company of other smokers, and I think a significant portion of people who try to quit smoking do so because of the potentially overstated risk pointed out in the comment you're responding to, or the artificially inflated cost due to sin tax imposed and justified by that potentially overstated risk. Would those people try to quit if they calculated the cost more accurately?

That said, I'm an ex smoker, and I'm glad I quit, and I will never touch a cigarette again. To me it was not so much the risk of very early death as it was the impact on my health for however many years I will remain alive, the financial cost (imposed by governments) and the fact that I came to hate smoking cigarettes and got no pleasure from it whatsoever (which is not the case with nicotine in general or other forms of tobacco such as cigars, which I do enjoy once or twice a year).
Samsung has been doing the same thing.
At least they die peacefully and not danger other people. Alcohol causes way more harm. Let people smoke if they want. It doesn't bother me as long as they do it respectfully and away from non-smokers.
They’re from Hong Kong. https://allthatsinteresting.com/cage-homes-hong-kong#9

>Cage homes were initially constructed for single men coming over from mainland China in the 1950s. As poverty rose and housing supply fell, the demand for cage homes grew.

>Incredibly, the 16-square-foot cages rent for around $170-$190 USD, which if calculated by cost per square foot makes them more expensive than the most posh apartments in Hong Kong.
That sounds plausible on the face of it, but when I went looking for counterexamples they weren't hard to come by. Supermarkets, big box stores like Walmart, and online retail giants like Amazon all run centrally-managed logistics operations of staggering scale, and they do such a solid job that people hardly ever think about it. Airline companies suffer from weather issues and operational hiccups, but still manage to transport huge numbers of people all around the world, quickly, while surviving on slim profit margins. America has a lot of giant factories that actually do manage to have high manufacturing throughput. All of these are centralized, and all demonstrate truly impressive amounts of competence.

(One thing these companies all have in common is that they have competitors and need to cater to their customers and shareholders. If they were poorly run, their customers would go somewhere else. Amtrak gets federal funding whether they're well run or not. This is probably a factor, though probably not the only factor.)
HODL Umbrella?
My favorite early airline reservation system (mainly because of the name) is the 1952 “Magnetronic Reservisor”, which was (IIRC, I read a paper about this a few years ago but can’t seem to find it now) an electromechanical system built around a magnetic drum, but with special-purpose control circuitry rather than a general-purpose computer. Reading about the design made me very grateful that I can just use a SQL database rather than having to design my schema in hardware.
Haha yep, I was like wait I'm used to getting feedback from the system telling me I messed up and this I barley noticed. PlanetScale has Query Statistics that are really useful for spotting slow queries but don't expose the "rows read" so you can't really tie this view back to billing. I think they're aware of this though and might expose that information.
I would say slavery is as old as or nearly as old as the species and nearly every culture has been subjected to it.

Quite a shame. I do wonder if we'll ever eliminate it from the planet. Likely not in my life time.

And then there are the animals we hold in slavery well need to address as well.
It just can't answer the questions I have. Last time I tried it, I was looking for buoyancy of various gases, but it insisted any such question necessarily referred to stuff on water.

It did OK figuring the fake "temperature" of LHC beams that fusion people like to quote because they sound more impressive than GeV.
DC to Boston is basically one continuous urban area, yet we still don't have high speed rail on that route.
And access to nature is pretty much non-existent when you compare it to cities like Munich.
How so? https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#pre-requisites It used to be on the insider preview, but that has moved to 11.
Or we could live less energy dense lives, take the bus, grow more vegetarian food closer to our homes (food gardens, no suburban lawns!) quit building homes in places that are hostile to humans, etc etc etc.

Nuclear Energy powered electric cars only cuts emissions by about 50%, we need a lot more than that. You have an easy solution to a complex problem -- you're as bad as any activist you're bad mouthing now.
This is the most ridiculous thing I read this year - and I've read a lot of mad stuff. Let's assume your justification is true and Apple cares so much about the privacy that they implemented this feature just to protect them and that they don't care about the money from repairs.

So, in your scenario, someone would have to steal my phone, disassemble it, and replace the face unlock recognition chip with a custom version. Let's assume this is easy technically, i.e. you could actually do it in the iPhone 12 and the phone would happily accept the modified version (not a small feat if you ask me). Now, while I don't think it's absolutely impossible, the means to accomplish this are usually available to nation-state actors, and in cases like this one the xkcd 538 comes to mind.
The reason: Rust has a different view of how to design type systems compared to C++. They want their type system to be logically more grounded (as the tradition in ML languages like Haskell) rather than the “screw it” template approach. So they’re trying to make const generics logically sound (basically a very limited version of dependent types) and integrate well with the rest of the type system, which is why it’s taking so long.
Great advice and this extends to being a public figure and branding. Create a void and others will fill it with whatever they like, and that may be negative. Be communicative as a brand or individual and you get to choose what the space is filled with before others can fill it. And if they choose to express an opinion, there is already a well established foundation of perception there that they have to compete with.