skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I greatly dislike this new trend of "doc-spaming" where everyone makes a blog writing walls of text explaining trivial things, crowding out the actual docs from search results.

The thing is, documentation is (usually) written very dense, with a lot of assumptions about knowledge. The PostgreSQL documentation on WHERE vs HAVING is decent (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/tutorial-agg.html), but the MySQL documentation (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/select.html) is ... a lot to read and not very explanatory for someone who only rarely deals in SQL.

Documentation writing is an art and most projects don't have the resources to have actually working documentation, much less understandable documentation - which is part of the reason why w3schools, stackoverflow, quora and random SEO "blogs" get so much traffic.
I just clicked the hamburger menu and then the logo to go to their homepage.
That could be a neat feature! It's already possible to get notified of changes via this link https://ascii-collab.app/notify-me but it's for all changes. Before posting to HN this site didn't get much traffic so this was enough but creating a notification area could be a good idea if a lot of people stick around.
Mortality per year for 20-25 year old men is 1 in 2650 and for women it is 1 in 4000 in Switzerland.

The mortality would be lower if you add life experience and some risk aversion to it. An average life expectancy of a few ten thousand years doesn't seem unreasonable.
If what is slowing your iteration speed is testing, I'd say you are in a somewhat happy place. At least you can write test, speed up the build, or somehow improve the situation.

What drains my soul is when you need to use legacy or poorly designed tools that slow you down and you can't do much about. Here are real examples of times I wasted entire mornings: tools that, if you make a mistake, leave the environment in an inconsistent state, and then you need to manually fix it (it isn't documented and changes on a case by case basis). If you miss anything or make another mistake, start from the beginning again.
37 minutes and already hugged to death :(
To any experienced Python dev, it's obvious from their description of what the problem is. And it's understandable that anyone inexperienced with Python would blame Python.

They were returning a large number of rows from Postgres (which, if the DB is properly set up, should take at most tens of ms: of course, depending on the width of the rows too), and most (well, I know of none that don't) Python ORM libraries (SQLAlchemy included) have a huge "serialization" cost (turning raw data from Postgres into objects). I've done a benchmark once, and things like Django-ORM or SQLAlchemy were like 10-50x slower than fetching tuples with psycopg directly. SQLAlchemy-core was fastest when fetching tuples if you wanted to not do raw SQL (IIRC, a performance penalty of at most 100%, translated to a factor, up to 2x slower), but Django's fetch-me-tuples functionality was also a single digit multiple of psycopg.

So, the solution to that problem is to fetch tuples, and then pass them in for rendering the page.

Of course, this also points at the problem with all the ORM implementations in Python: they are being too "smart" and dynamic for their own good (if all are bad at it, it also means that Python is not doing something good either, so criticism is warranted).
Hey I'm very sorry to hear that. Sad way to go, I hope you find peace with it
> American Airlines pilots earn about $23,750 for 85 hours of flight time each month, and they have a maximum of about 30 hours of flight time in a seven-day period. With overtime at 1.5 times, they can earn up to $33,330 per month.

Isn't this a really low wage in the US? Even here in Spain this is only an office worker salary. Not something as high-responsibility as an airline pilot.

No wonder they have a shortage :)
There's a substantive difference between none and "not 100%". Medical professionals didn't warn anyone about zero effectiveness < 12 months after deployment. They said, repeatedly, that vaccines were 95% effective and anyone who had any concerns about the trials were just crazy and unscientific.

Probably hospitals and care homes are actually the worst-case scenarios for viral transmission because they're full of people who are already sick or have weak immune systems.

You've ignored the point about illogicality completely.
The main data point from the success of reddit is that quality interactions in large scale online platforms require an interest based user interface.

Other than that it is almost guaranteed now that its buggy (feels like its held together with tape) and ad-ladden overall experience will be locked-in and get worse (like it happened with facebook)

People might want to hedge their bets and look into open source lemmy and federated versions of the reddit concept https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Okay, okay okay..

Last 2 months I spent heavily in the NFT space, specially Solana. Joined over 90 Discord servers, invested a lot, learned a lot, and laughed a lot because of that video.

When I first time saw the video on some Discord chat, I thought it was a real guy complaining. Then I started seeing it a lot, and my thinking was, okay this is some crypto influencer.

But after some time I figured it out it's just some guy from Cameo, got paid to say those things, and it really resonates with the NFT community. The projects go down, founders (DEVS) rug, abandon or not deliver it. The price of NFT goes below mint and all that usual stuff going on in NFT/Crypto world.

Anyway, the idea came yesterday while I was repeating this guy's words, and then my wife Jelena said, check if the domain name is available. I checked it out and bought it instantly. We built the site together in an ~ hour and here we go.

To me, this is so far the best NFT meme. What do you think?
I think the main reason was that I already have a dedicated server, so it made sense to use the already existing infrastructure for cost saving purposes.

I've also looked at Cloudflare and BunnyCDN's options. Could be worth thinking about if I ever move away from owning my current server.
As I understand it, the SA population is quite young and we are waiting for more data to come in on the effects of omicron (says so in the link you provided as well)... let's not forget we dismissed the whole virus as "just a common cold" at the beginning of the whole story as well.

The problem with letting others deal with their consequences is that they are overworking the medical staff, and are disregarding the population that cannot be vaxxed due to medical reasons.

I agree we should move from this fear, but I understand how for some the fear is still too real.
I don't think it is a good idea to use disabled-like styling for enabled inputs. Especially for "classless" framework that targets simplicity and basic html standards.
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_in...
Don't tend to use those for development. But I imagine they would end up mounting directories inside the vm. You could get to those via scp or something like that.
It’s a ragged array that you can work with in python code, but also Jax and numba code.
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The old interface actually solves all those issues. I used to be in disbelief how anybody could survive using the new design for more than 15 seconds but then realised that the way people use Reddit is completely different nowadays. It turned into some sort of 9gag/instagram amalgamation where people scroll through an endless feed of images, enabled by the instagram-like format that is the default with the new interface.
And everything that has avatar and chat will be used for mingling eventually.
This is sad to see. I’ve played about 300 Rapid games on chess.com and there’s only one banned player in my game history. Am I just lucky?

I’m not good enough to instinctively suspect cheaters, and running post-game analysis on all of your games seems like a big time sink for little gained.

Another possible (dark pattern) solution would be an option to only play against other paying customers. I’d assume players who have paid would be less likely to risk losing their account. This would probably be a revenue boost for chess.com but might also upset free account holders.

Also, if chess.com shadow-banned accounts by only matching them against bots instead of real players maybe they’d be less likely to immediately create a new account.
> I learned how to design things people actually want.

I enjoy designing and making things I actually want. If someone else 'gets it', that's okay. If not pfffft.

> won’t amount to much.

Don't want to sound crass, but very very little of anything truly 'amounts to much', not in its own time, or ever. Now and then (rarely enough) it takes decades or centuries for creative work to find its audience. What's behind 'what people want'?

"You see, ya can't please everyone / So ya got to please yourself." And if the world ever feels lucky? Lucky them.
I would rather prefer doing it the Ricochet way, yes:

> The recipient can calculate the sender's contact ID based on the public key, and authenticate it by verifying the signature on the request. This proves that the sender can publish the hidden service represented by their contact ID.

This is using IDs. For convenience of sharing and receiving: could be copy pasted (share button works on smartphones, too), and QR codes could be used.

Ricochet is metadata-free, and it can (or is, actually) be resistant to traffic analysis, too. No one knows who you are, and no one knows who you talk to.
Maybe their mama didn't raise it right? They should raise it on information from good people. Now, how to find those "good people comments"?
Leaking Personal Phone Numbers of All Registered Indian Voters
Can you expand a little bit on how the galaxy rotation curves were explained from standard Newtonian physics? From some Googling it appears that dark matter is still the dominant favourite theory, followed by some kind of MOND.
The Physics of Why Bouncy Castles Take Flight (2016)
And in addition even if you're in the server and find what you're looking for, it's very hard to concentrate all the responses to a specific post, so you might find the question but need to scroll for ages to see if someone answered.

Not that either of these issues deterred people from using IRC.
https://archive.md/hT0aa
People entering this post may enjoy Larry Niven's short SF story 'Grendel' in which, if I remember correctly, the protagonist solves a murder partially by realizing that a female antagonist was actually much older than she appeared, due to using an immortality drug, and that the need for novelty was a driver for such people.
Thanks that was very informed and helpful.
This JNDI "feature" is 8 years old. It was merged in 2013 from what I have seen, and has been defended by some as an "useful" feature. It has been known since at least BlackHat 2016 presentation that this is an incredibly dangerous and stupid thing to keep.

cricket noises nobody reacted until now when minecraft servers got hacked.
I use Mailbrew, which combines Twitter, RSS, newsletters, podcasts, whatever into a single daily digest sent to my email. Worth every penny.
Don’t be too scared by all the TODO’s in the docs, most of that stuff actually works – the docs just haven’t been written yet. Admittedly those docs have had TODOs on them for over a year.

To see how it works, you’ve got to look at the repo or any of the talks. The developers are also quite active on the tracker, so do just ask if something is unclear.
How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk (2014)
Outright trivial since Starlink uses local ground stations.
I wonder how do you calculate 8% costs. Also is it possible to include in the calculation the "discovery" service that twitch provides?
Plenty of hardcore pornography on Twitter, and not just legal one, which got me wondering why their app is getting a pass on IOS when Tumbler didn't. At least Facebook does not permit any form of pornography.
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He he, an optimist.

log4j is in widespread use, directly or indirectly.

Most people don't give a crap about the exact Java logging library, the only places that actually care are those that bike shed, since functionally Java logging stuff is generally quite robust and full featured.

The worst part about my previous phrase is that the places that don't care about the Java logging library frequently don't do security audits, so prepare for a ton of exploits and data leaks in the following months and years.
Working for me, although it did take a while to load.
the main issue with micro-services these days is that people write small applications and think they have a micro service. whereas in reality, they have SOA. a true micro service is a mere worker to process a queue, like send emails. create thumbnails for uploaded images. or delete obsolete data from database. so the truth is in the middle - have a monolith and if one machine can no longer handle your workers' load, move them out into separate MICRO services.
https://burrow.jollo.org (view source to see controls)
> You shouldn't need to pour over code to figure it out.

It's not just your code that is vulnerable.

Our in-house software doesn't use log4j, but a number of third-party components we use do and needed to be patched.
But Reddit is a monopoly now. Digg was never a monopoly, or had near the number of idiot customers.
This one from 2005 used pixels, and sold them for $1/pixel:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
I have a DevOps at home who barely finished high-school and now receive double the pay than me with an M.A. - but I am 100% sure he studied, read, practiced, explored a looooot more than me! So it's not enough to just do courses, you almost need to devote your life to it...
Schools (formal teaching) perhaps give you a more structured learning path, you don't waste time (if it's a good program) searching for answers... it can be a good foundation... and everyone must realize - in IT, your learning never-ever stops...
> - DB is not an obligatory part of microservices.

If the microservices don't have their own store, but are all mucking around in a shared data store, everything will be much harder. I wouldn't even call that a microservice, it's a distributed something. It can work, sure.
Model-Based Machine Learning (2019)
I don't think that vein people could go on forever, quite on the contrary. I think those that keep a young spirit i.e. keep curious and engaged could endure longest.

but I think we as a species are not designed to go on forever and I doubt any sentient being would be or rather the perspective would be so different it would be difficult for us to grasp.

In fiction this is a recurring topic- just see the Elb or Eldar in "Lord of the Rings"...

the die and fade from the world as they have seen everything and do not continue to have children (how many children can you see dying before going insane?)
There are plenty of modern opensource scalabale monitoring systems:

* Cortex https://cortexmetrics.io/

* Thanos https://thanos.io/

* VictoriaMetrics https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

* Timescale https://www.timescale.com/

Choose any which fits your needs.
Also, for "thousands of APIs and minimum interval could be 10secs" one Prometheus server might be more than enough.
I can't understand why a blog has cookies and has facebook hooks at this point in time but then teaching architecture undermining whatever the main argument was at the moment of landing.
It also came with an add-on video capture "word processor": https://youtu.be/OpZ2AKfOw2k
This [0] is the incident report from the McDonald's. And this [1] is the referenced website post by Crawford. This [2] is the still intact place where he wrote under the pseudonym of "Jonathan Swift" (among others).

The McDonald's incident report clearly points out he believed an officer had a personal problem with him, and points to where he did a write up on it, which would not happen if it was just a cover up. It makes no mention of programming, let alone anything else. Nor do any of his writings after his release talk about planes.

Whilst his other writings are somewhat hard to follow at times, and there are places where he makes claims such Al Qaeda not existing as an entity, there is nothing about planes anywhere.

In point of fact, the only place at all, in any of the archives, or the circle of people who frequently wrote around him, the only place I can find mention of planes is this HN thread, that you have written.

I believe at this point I have been beyond generous at researching, but the simple fact is it was never related to Boeing's software.

[0] https://www.scribd.com/doc/81649240/Crawford

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120531183316/http://www.softwa...

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/softwareproblem
I actually enjoyed a maintenance project I was on. There was less time pressure. Finding and fixing a bug is a logic puzzle in its own right.

So things can be largely a question of perspective.
> ubiquitousness that no offering so far has achieved.

The internet does
Isn't it a natural course for most industries ? it starts like a wild and creative jungle, then settles on a small set of solutions.
Hey, thanks for making yourworldoftext! Drawing an ascii town with friends on your site is what inspired me to make this.

In regards to dealing with spam, by far the most effective trick is to get very little traffic (how foolish of me to post my site here!)

The site also saves old changes even if they have been covered up so it's possible for me to remove vandalism and restore what was underneath.

Lastly I have a theory that people are more likely to spam if they see that there's lot of spam already and they are less likely if it looks like everything so far was written with intent. So I try to stay on top of removing spam as soon as it appears.
Yup. IIRC, everything felt paged through `more` and you had to hit PF3 to move to the next page.

It was interesting though that this approach allows the mainframe to work continuously where a more traditional Unix machine would get a hardware interrupt every time any of its users pressed a key.
> How do you prevent AI being an A grade jerk.

Invent synthetic consciousness and ask it to be nice, easy :) I'm only half joking, we probably all have thoughts ranging from bad to horrible, but we just don't say them because we are aware of the consequences. Language models aren't aware so they'll spit out the most likely combination of words. If there would be a process to limit these or try again, it could act as a filter, but I think that requires it to be self aware.
Starlink requires hardware on the ground that cannot easily be hidden, which enables corrupt governments to tear that hardware down or put pressure on the maintainers of that hardware in other ways.
Is there a comparison to Numba?
Sure, but that does not solve anything.

That does not help your relationship, because interpersonal relationships where you can't express your honest feelings and ideas are hollow, fake – worse than useless.

That doesn't help anything about COVID, because they're still acting recklessly based on their delusions.

And that doesn't help their deteriorating mental ability as they succumb to propaganda, because their idiocy is left uncontested, only reinforced by their self-selecting ingroup.

At some point you gotta choose what you actually love about such people – their meat and bones, your nominal connection to them (e.g. blood relation), your past shared experience, their personality and ideas, or something else? Because some of those are unaffected by their progressing stupidity and selfishness, but others are poisoned more and more as time goes on and they sink deeper.

I don't have a solution. I just wish people would stop pretending that this brainwashing can be solved by talking, understanding, or simply by ignoring its existence. Often it can't. As a society we're in deep shit, and it has little to do with COVID. It will stay with us well after the pandemic too.
It's a bit sad that most of those links are now dead.
I'm going on 2 months now, where I cannot login to my account on 3rd party android apps. I can using an alt account. I'm not banned, or anything. It's just a known problem -- probably dealing w/ a cookie, or setting, or variable...

I've tried turning on/off 2fa, resetting my password, etc... nothing works.
i've contacted reddit and submitted to their help sub, crickets.

So yeah, taking shots at the engineers imho is fair game, this is a major issue. I can't even go to /user/prefs/apps to enable/disable apps attached to my account which seems like it could be a security vulnerability. I always get "You broke reddit"..

when I try logging in on Relay or ANY other 3rd party mobile app it hangs after I'm logged in and can't handle the token exchange part of the oauth flow where the data is passed back to the app.

If you call this stable.... I'd hate to see unstable. The mobile app is a no go... I like to be able to change views between small cards, gallery, and large-card depending on what I'm using reddit for...
My longest compile times were when I was doing iOS development (native), and even then I couldn't kick the habit of relying on quickly looking at my changes and using logging for debugging. Not the best.

On the other hand, at least it's a motivator to look at the build pipeline every once in a while and see if there's anything that can be improved.

That said, working in a typed language with good IDE support definitely helps build up the confidence that things will work as intended before you hit compile.
This is interesting. I've not read about this before. Any blog posts/articles you'd recommend?
I use the old UI, which is lean, fast even on my old laptop, and not buggy.

Fortunately I still have a setting for my account to do so. I would stop using it without this setting.