skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of booking systems, here's an interesting video about a campground in Germany which has been using an Atari ST with custom booking software every day since 1985:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxPEz9x2fs
This. China faces it right now, where they are rich, but not rich enough yet
The tech we invent for ourselves and our one-offs is usually the jankiest we have.
Well, yesterday I made a rather significant change to the code. Essentially, a reimplementation of an existing function in a completely different way, to avoid a memory consumption issue that cannot be solved in the old approach. 68 insertions, 15 deletions. It, unexpectedly, worked correctly and passed all tests from the first attempt, even though there are threads involved, and they are my weak point. But I didn't have a "Huh... that's pretty cool" moment. I had an "I don't like this code, it's too complex, it must be wrong somehow" moment.
Huh? I understand "sanitation" to mean "a transformation of data that makes the data safe for use in the subsequent program". Escaping is one way of doing that transformation, and it's good because it's not lossy.

Another example: A "transformation" that's a "sanitation" but not "escaping" would be replacing all occurrences of "<" with "&lt;" (among others!). It surely doesn't add escape characters (e.g. \), but instead replaces the problematic substring with a replacement string that makes the string safe to display on a website. Of course you'll want to replace user-supplied "&lt;" with "&amp;lt;".

(btw, thanks for that it's "sanitation" and not "sanitization" ^^).
> hate to say it but the Afghanistan withdrawal really showed what happens when Americans stop giving a shit

America as a country never really gave a shit about Afghanistan. Nobody was standing in a ration line or anything. The military was at war, and that should actually give you confidence because if America can sustain a 20-year war in Afghanistan which turned out to be completely pointless while also fighting a war in Iraq which they also do not care about imagine if the U.S. did care. Unless you were in the military or knew someone who was if you turned off the news there was absolutely 0 evidence that the United States was at war in Afghanistan or Iraq or even both.

And I'll also say pulling out of Afghanistan was 100% the right call. We spent 20 years there and it collapsed in like a week when we left. That should be all the evidence you need that it was time to get out. It was a money and attention pit and we gained nothing for it strategically. (Not commenting here on the atrocities committed by the Taliban)
Depends on what you mean by rich. India’s per capita income is more than 3 times what it was 30 years ago. So it can easily support significant social programs for the elderly, though not to western standards.

On top of this western productivity is linked to low birth rates enabling a larger percentage of the population to work. So low birth rates may be required for a wealthy country rather than being just the result of a wealthy country.
Situational Awareness is largely separated into 3 levels -- first level (perception), 2nd level (comprehension),and 3rd level (prediction)

Understanding while not completely described by situational awareness definitely has some relationship to it and you could probably use similar constructs for defining it
Maybe you’re not the target audience.
Also in Turkey and Argentina.
Wow, thank you. Totally forgot about FHE, this is the underlying principle of why FHE must work theoretically.
Perhaps your reading comprehension needs work. Abandoning my citizenship doesn't mean I can't already be living in Austria and become a full citizen because of what I perceive to be gross violations by the Australian government .. or want to move to a non-bootlicker nation.

>Russia annexing Ukraine (might) isn't right. ???

Well, that depends if you think fascist Ukraine should have access to ex-Russian nuclear-armed naval bases or not. I personally would rather have Russia have control over the significant population of Russians in Crimea than have fascist Ukraine gain access to those nukes.

But, we peons rarely get what we want. I guess we should learn to wield our democratic power better ..
The Java space though unloved but the younger crowd is still super strong and Spring Boot gives all those competing platforms a run for their money leveraging the enormous JVM ecosystem. Java may not be the most concise of languages but I think many people would be surprised by how little boilerplate there is in modern Java and Spring.
There is A LOT of slack in a population of that size. Most women don't even work yet. Even if population declines, the labor force will continue to rise for a long time.
Yeah, screw social mobility. Stay poor!
I think it's fair to say that you essentially need text messages (in the US). However, I question if you need a smartphone beyond that--although a working individual may. I don't need to do any of the things you list with a smartphone although e.g. COVID vax status may in some places. (Just a piece of paper has been sufficient whenever I've needed to.)

I don't really disagree that we're moving to a place where a smartphone is universally needed because of apps but I'm not sure we're universally there today.
Frankly, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Seems more like because you don’t like Metaverse you don’t want it taken seriously. But it will be serious business.
AZ has some reasonably accessible data: <https://azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#hospital-bed-usage>

It looks like ~40% of all ICU beds taken by COVID patients recently. Doesn't break down by age, so doesn't inform this question completely, but it can speak against the 75% number quoted elsewhere in this conversation (and my anecdotal experience as well).

In AZ at least, certainly 75% of all ICU beds can't be taken by young unvaccinated COVID patients if only 40% of ICU beds were taken by COVID patients.

EDIT: UT also around ~40% <https://coronavirus-dashboard.utah.gov/hosp.html>

Duration of admission is something to consider as well though. Nobody likes to let young people die, and the odds of keeping someone with a very grim prognosis on the vent for weeks or months is higher if they are young and otherwise healthy as opposed to old or unhealthy; one young ventilated COVID patient could occupy an ICU bed for quite some time while the neighboring bed is turned over dozens of times and while dozens of other patients may expire or be flown hundreds of miles away (to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars for the flight alone) for lack of an ICU bed.

Difficult to answer (for me at least) ethical considerations on all sides.
> Students who received vouchers in Louisiana learned less than their peers: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/artic...

Looks like that study wasn't peer-reviewed, and compared voucher students with those of the general population. A later study compared voucher students with those who applied for vouchers but didn't win the vouchers, and the bad effects largely disappeared:
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2017/6/26/21107301/students-given-...

With school choice, bad schools are finally allowed to die and be replaced with good schools.
I don't think it is, in general, but that description seems to apply to what's submitted to HN. For example I've seen quite sensible articles arguing that vaccinating children under 12 is counter-productive and/or better not done, but not submitted here. So maybe the question can be changed to why is that kind of thing submitted to HN so much?
I can see this. I worked with Rails for years and recently switched to an all JS stack (serverless, React). I have fun with it in general. TypeScript and the intellisense I get with that in VSCode is great, but overall I feel like I've gone way down in productivity. At first I thought it was due to my being new to this ecosystem but it has been a while now and I've concluded that there definitely is some extra burden with this modern stack. Perhaps it will turn out that the extra work and headache will lead to a more performant and maintainable codebase than we might have achieved with Rails. Time will tell for that one but at the moment it feels like we drown a lot of developer time on tooling, strange issues, and reinventing things that have come with battery-included frameworks like Rails.
I remember it was nearly impossible to download the free version of RealPlayer back in the late 90s. They'd do everything they could to hide the link or obscure its location in an attempt to upsell you. Funny that the beeb would rely on the free one, too!
> replacement cost

I got fed up with replacing my phone, so I've started getting those rugged phones marketed at construction workers. They're pretty amazing. I've submerged mine in water, dropped it in all sorts of surfaces (including concrete, gravel), gotten snow on it, gotten mud on it. The screen is immaculate. I've owned it for a few years and it still has something like 40h+ battery life. Best phone I've ever bought.
For ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/rh7anj/pelosi_rej...
We’re still not at the point where the larger language models can be banged out by college kids on their laptops. Maybe we’ll be there soon, but that’s a different point. And we want openai to hasten that future?
Managers ;)
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I'm not aware of any direct evidence, but I think there's plenty of indirect evidence that should prompt an investigation.

Senators dumping stocks prior to the pandemic shutdowns, for example.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/488593-four-senators-sol...
>I simply cannot understand why people care about "fast" anymore with cheap containerization, CI/CD infra and no more dedicated servers. Who cares if its fast?

People who pay for those extra boxes? Not everybody has your budget (especially when they're building things themselves, on the side, so they aren't even paid).
Don't leave us hanging - how far over budget did it end up? ;)
Mobility != GDP
No. You're saying the opposite of Clausewitz. Clausewitz says that the goals of war are political; that political success in war relies on military success. I agree with that and think it's nearly self-evident.

You're saying the opposite. You're saying military success relies on political success. That's an entirely different proposition and one I disagree with.

> The only way for the U.S. military [to succeed] would have been for ... the commander in chief to follow that advice

The only way the U.S. military could guarantee such a thing would be a coup. I don't think we should be blaming the military for not carrying out a coup. Not carrying out a coup does not constitute military failure.
Not my area of the law, but I don’t think he’s right.

I think the general consensus is essentially “fairness” for utilitarian reasons. Markets are important, and insider trading discourages investment because it creates an impression of unfairness and increases uncertainty.
reddit is probably the trashiest social media site around today(for it's size).
IBM just spun out a $19B annual revenue managed infrastructure business, Kyndryl. [1]

Doing some back of the napkin math on the remaining business, by revenue it is roughly 45% consulting, 40% software, and 15% hardware. IP revenue represents 1% ($626M) of its revenue. [2]

What does it actually do? At a high level, help companies deal with the complexities created in a world of heterogeneous infrastructure (data and AI across environments, common management/security, automation, etc.).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl-officially-launche...

[2] https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM_Annual_Report_2020....

Disclaimer: I'm an IBM employee, but my opinions are my own and I'm just using public data.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819136
What a horrible sensationalist headline. It reads as if the malware was baked into the PinePhone.
Oracle. I'm not joking. I've seen actual companies use this stuff as a database server.
The DotCom Bubble/scam led to investor losses in excess of $5 trillion.
My dad has a smartphone but other than using it as a phone and for entertainment/games, he really doesn't use the "smart" part of the phone.
Thanks for the explanation. What are some of the other techniques?
Well I agree that those work as well. I am afraid your post is too pithy about "does not work" to credit that bit though.
People demanded uncensorability, they can have all the scams they want.
I am surprised to see MediaTek as the second largest customer.
Doesn’t HN run on top of firebase? Which ties it to Google? People seem to imply its run on a dedicated instance.
Highlights from Women’s Online Safety Week 2021
Perhaps more likely than the scammed. For example, the scammers may purchase equities.
Why deep-learning methods confidently recognize images that are nonsense
>IMO Ruby has faded because it never found its niche. Java and C# thrive in the corporate world. Python already exists as a dynamically typed server language. As much as people complain, writing server-side web stuff in JS does make sense given it's what you're using in the client. So where does Ruby go?

In the web server side, helping you build web apps faster. That has been it's niche (with Rails) and it's still doing well there.
I looked all over their website, but could’t find a link to download the source for the Wolfram Language so I can compile it. Do you have a link?
Not really, because devs would have to put up with what the likes of people like myself actually made available on the servers they had to telnet into for development.

The only big UNIX where I actually did install GNU stuff was on Solaris 2.6 via the GNU packages repository, because I was requested to do so.

All our HP-UX and Aix boxes used the vendor tooling (including the C compilers).
? I'm using it right now and it's fine
Another Tech CEO Dies Suddenly from Vaccine Complications
Yet Google is going to start firing people that won't take it.
In most cases, I just updated a few exception handling statements.
I'm interested in the opinion of people that have experience in both the "classic MVC" frameworks (Rails, Django, Laravel, Spring) and in the "frontend first" frameworks (React, Vue, Angular). If you had to build a web app that's a subset of Excel, sold as SaaS, as a solo developer, what would you pick and why? I know that you can use both together, but I worry that by doing so you lose part of the productivity that's associated with MVC frameworks.
Hm yeah, Blenderbot v2 does sound great, but as far as I can see, Huggingface doesn't support it yet.
The Strategic Intelligence Value of Ransomware
I had read the LOTR several times, but it wasn't until I listened to it as an audiobook did it click for me just how much of the spoken dialog in the movies is pretty much word-for-word from the books. I get what you and others are saying about Tolkiens narrative style, but a lot of the dialog transitioned well to the big screen.
The optimal level of fraud in society is not 0, as combating fraud costs money.

I'm not sure if the current level of crypto-enabled pump and dump is the optimal level though ;)
If you put money into an obvious scam you deserve to lose it. Hopefully they learned something from the experience, but I doubt it
not worth reading , Summary: baseless claims I love <X> and it much better compares to mainstream <Y>
If the country does not get richer faster than it gets older, the increasingly older population will suffer, having to work till they're older and getting less financial support (healthcare, pensions etc) because there would be proportionally fewer healthy young people to pay in to the system.
You lost me at "selling their right". It is important to understand that "selling" and "right" should not appear in the same sentence when the said right is being addressed as a basic right. It opens room for abuse even in well administered jurisdictions.
I really don't agree with the Title. If you absolutely "need" a phone. You could get a simpler, cheaper one. That is not the problem.

But, Smartphones are "Tax on the Poor" in a totally different way, it's a Cognitive tax. There are people in my country (India) who are already in poverty and would have to work a lot more than the elites to break away from poverty gap. But all these apps, that monger on attention are taking any hope of them getting out of poverty and making them stay in there. It's almost impossible to break people away from the phones, Most of their waking hours is spent on the Screen.

As someone who comes from a family of farmers and having a lot of my childhood friends and relatives stuck in poverty. The negative effects are alarmingly high. I hope there comes some regulation on these apps.
yeah, but the 7.7B is only the scam part - I'd suspect the bubble part of cryptocurrencies and NFTs will be much higher
GDP == The room available for mobility.
Pelosi should be arrested. She has repeatedly violated the mask mandate in San Francisco (and now California state-wide) multiple times with impunity.
>Given the popularity of rails at the time, if node.js was unproductive like you say it is, it would have never caught on.

Never understimate the power of fad, tech pop culture, hype, and trying a shiny new thing...
I really hate to say it, but I have little sympathy for the victims here. They wanted a moon shot, wild west, libertarian paradise and got ... robbed with no recourse. Many more than once.
Didn't check the details... how would bandwidth and responsivity compare to a regular SSH connection? Or MoSH?
I am very suspicious of that supposed relationship. There are tons of productivity gains to be had, and nothing like a tightening labor market to force them.
The way I see it, spaghetti code is actually a very wide spectrum, with amorphic goto-based code on one end, and otherwise well structured code, but with too much reliance on global singletons on the other (much more palatable) end. While by definition spaghetti code is not modular, modularity entails more. I would define modularity as an explicit architectural decision to encapsulate some parts of the codebase such that the interfaces between them change an order of magnitude less frequently than what's within the modules.
Yes, I agree, it all depends on the power rate. A savvy owner will install a home power bank that can be charges at the best rate, and have a faster charge capability. I expect many stations will be converted to the highest best use for the property. Chargers do not need prime strip locations because the cars will come to them, so they can spot them in here and there as the power distribution grid warrants.
Of course, power sellers greed will want to grab some of this, so I anticipate regulators will also have a role.
Highly recommend A a thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins if you’re interested in this

https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theo...

He basically argues we all have 1000s of little, but interacting models of all sorts of things going on in our brain all at the same time. He calls them reference frames and it’s those that create intelligence.

‘Understanding’ would come naturally out of having those.

Fascinating book which I’m probably explaining much less well that he does.
The introduction of parallelized Parquet reads coupled with s3Cluster is really awesome. I feel ClickHouse is one step closer to unlocking the ephemeral SQL compute cluster (e.g. Presto, Hive) use case. I could imagine one day it having a HiveMetaStore read-only database option for querying existing data in companies...very fast, I might add.
I don't know, is it really harder to deploy 10 services? Isn't it all automated? The organization overhead is lower because you can leave most of the app untouched and only deploy what you need to.

You could screw it up and make it harder for yourself but its not guaranteed either way.
... Because nature is a good engineer?
Zero-touch deployment kiosks, plug in and go
I hope by "modest proposal" you mean "satirical take meant to show how awful people are being", which is the whole point of the original modest proposal.

The big issue isn't the number of people, but the amount of energy and resources they require. The carbon emissions per 1000 people in India is 0.922 metric tons a year. For the United States that number is 19.86 metric tons a year. That's a difference of over 21 times. To put it another way, preventing a single US birth is the equivalent of preventing 21 births in India.

Focusing on the raw population is, and always has been, a distraction that high consuming countries use to ignore their own role in our current environment. This isn't to say that populations should rise forever, but it's pretty common for countries that reach higher levels of developments to have their population growth level off. Reducing poverty is by far the best and most ethical way to combat booming population growth.
I get what you’re saying but it’s just different philosophies no?

Seems like pass wants to use the Unix philosophy of “do one thing well” so it relies on gpg for encryption instead of rolling its own.
There is an auto-warming option -- we keep it warmed up every 5 seconds so it's always super peppy -- requests served within 100ms generally, sometimes much faster. Appdex hovers around 0.996 but some webhooks are included in there so it's probably faster in reality.
What's your proposal for handling births that exceed allotment?
At the same time, you have to be at a pretty huge scale before resource over-provisioning really hurts the bottom line. You can buy a lot of compute for the price of a single engineer's salary, and it usually takes more than one engineer to support a microservice architecture. Most applications hit problems scaling the database vertically long before they exhaust resources at the application level.
Would be quite funny if the scammers were hard-core Bogleheads dumping everything into ultra-low-fee index funds.
there are more videos about that:
https://youtu.be/QYZTzQLsXY8
https://youtu.be/PWnJm_ckcJE
It's on-par with OECD countries, per-child.
So, the question is, what's the scalability of this like?

- is there exponential growth still to go, so that we might expect $70bn lost in 2022?

- or is there a finite amount of victims to be scammed, after they've lost all their money the rate of scam will decline?

- or is it more likely that there will be some kind of intervention?
Completely agree. You want the libertarian paradise, then you should accept the risks that come along with it. Personally, I'm fine with having it being the wild west, and I only invest money I can afford to lose.