skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I meant it more as a joke as every year we expect it to be a year of Linux desktop.

Ha! Didn't realize you were joking on this one since your other predictions seemed serious.

> Nevertheless, I am quite happy with Linux these days.

Me too.
- Build muscle

- Level up my career

- Take a nice long trip to Europe

- Learn music theory and write my own music

- Buy the supercar I've been wanting for some time
> More importantly, it's _not a good idea_, because that semantic separation between data on one side, and the machinery of acceleration and validation on the other side, is critical to the value prop of the relational model and a big reason why it's been so hyper-successful.

Constraints are part of the logical model just like the types of columns are. Indexes on the other hand is part of the physical model and should be transparent to the logical model. Database engines tend to couple foreign-key constraints with indexes, since you usually want an index on a foreign-key. But in principle they are separate.

So I don't see any violation of the relational model in this proposal. I do like the general idea of extending SQL with metadata-aware abstractions, although I'm not a fan of this particular syntax.
OK for American cities, but otherwise the proposition is very valid. I've been doing it for years.
There’s some complexity to this though. Gold watches are much more conspicuous than steel watches, but steel watches are often considered far more desirable and retail at a huge premium compared to the more conspicuous gold watches.
Take a look at Docs for Developers (https://docsfordevelopers.com/) if you want to brush up your documentation writing skills.
10B Years from Now (2013)
Isn't Google going to move to always having the user agent be the same anyhow? They've already decided to break that contract with the tech community, so I don't see that they have much room to talk there.
Are there any odds you would be interested in betting on whether this will happen?

If so I would probably be happy to take the other side of the bet :)
This is why I wait in the longest to apply updates on my phone or work computer with Windows.
> Dereferencing a runtime-known NULL pointer is UB in the standard, but is well defined to trigger a segfault in pretty much every arch with an MMU.

This is incorrect for C/C++ though. Modern compilers definitely treat null dereferences as UB, with real consequences (e.g. eliminating redundant null pointer checks). The compiler is part of the architecture.
So what if you are incorrect? Is that what you mean to say?

What about double spending allows miners to control all future transactions afterwards? Double spending is of course undesirable but its hard to imagine its profitable to organize such an attack when it immediately begins burning money once word gets out, and if it didn't it would devalue the miners' own infrastructure when people lose faith in the currency.

You can dream up many a scheme where it can happen, and renting hash is certainly a problem down the road for many coins, but you're exaggerated presentation of the 51% attack is clearly flawed and stemming from your simple understanding how the network reaches consensus.
OpenSea delisted the Olive Garden NFT
Show less appreciation?
"Consume less, create/learn more"

That is the crux of one of my goals this year. I have already deleted Facebook, Tiktok and Instagram from my phone in preparation.

I'm excited and optimistic about 2022. Happy New Year HN.
'Amazon knows more about you than your best friend or your doctor'
Simply reuse a local webview
Or maybe I could get a family member/friend to buy it and sell it back to me when i'm ready haha.
yes you're right, although I think my example is more likely to exist than the previous.
I stayed away from crypto coins despite having a lot of friends get into this very early and I even refused gifted bitcoins. I still have zero interest or regrets.

That being said I have no ideea where this tech is going. Maybe it will tranform enough times it becomes useful to me. A better analogy for me is the gold rushes. A lot of bad things happened during those but it also encouraged migration and settlement of some unexplored regions.

If I don't get involved it doesn't cost me very much that other people try. Let them do the work and take the risks. If they produce anything useful I will profit. If not...

(I know about the environment cost)
Clojure's slow start – what's inside? (2018)
I didn't know that was a problem. I run all my services in containers (only service on the host is ssh) but it's all from Debian repositories and so would run on basically any architecture. I guess it depends on how specialized the software is that you require but what is built into Debian is quite extensive in my experience.
"They "applied a coupon" and the price magically became $35"

This makes NFTs and drug dealers look honest. Oh, wait, they kinfld of are drug dealers.
The miners are interested in making money. Why would they mine a fork which the large majority of users and traders value at $0?
Left day job, going forward with new company, will see how it goes.
Also want to learn more embedded stuff (robotics).
Hopefully not end up broke.
When web2 twitter ban an account, you are screwed,

When web3 openSea ban a collection, you can always go somewhere else

https://zora.co/collections/0xfEe84e716845ec7423c863fc728818...
So basically web3 is the solution to money-hungry super companies centralizing power? Then why is it that we only seem to be discussing it after big names on Twitter decided to talk about it?
Again, both NVMe modules are likely to fail simultaneously when used in a RAID-1 mirror on the same chassis, controller and PSU, under the same workload, especially if they are the same model and age.
I’ve often wondered how my career would have turned out different if I’d learned to love learning earlier rather than being forced into it.
With a baby daughter I hope I can keep an eye out for some of these flags.
Happy new year HN.
I am going to figure out new ways in which to apply myself in CS so I can move past the current slump I am in. Not sure if it's burnout I can't recover from or my interests changing as I grow.
I think your absence due to death is irrelevant here. People feel good when they do nice things for others, and one of those things can be preparing an inheritance. That all happens before death.
I do the same, unless it contains sensitive data that I don't want to leak to Google. Then I just use Sublime. I wish ctrl+shift+v was more common to paste without formatting.
It's still worth a read; understanding eventually-consistent K/V stores can help with data design for many NoSQL databases.
I'm thinking of resigning first thing. I took the Christmas break to mull it over and came to the conclusion that I'm not happy where I am anymore, even if it is comfortable and decent money. Once I'm settled into a new job I'm hoping to get on to the property ladder so I can have my own space. I'd also like to get a bit fitter so if I can find the courage I'll try going to the gym. In the meantime I'll continue with my software projects.
I believe the English term for this may be “bio-dynamic”, which is a movement similar to the organic movement but with stricter standards, and more emphasis on what farming techniques you should use (crop rotation, etc), rather than just what you shouldn’t do (e.g. use pesticides). From what I’ve seen, there seem to be a bunch of good ideas in there, along with a lot of ritual rubbish.
In case you're serious about not understanding it and revisit this:

It allows you to drag and drop files into an interface to rename them according to a pattern you've provided. Or to drag and drop files into an interface to optimise them for size. Or to drag and drop files into an interface to do mostly anything. All of the actions are plugins.

Basically, it's a desktop app (for Mac/Linux/Windows) that accepts drag-and-dropped files to perform your chosen actions, like renaming, optimizing, etc.
It’s a good setup, but the question is why run this many services on one machine? The risk profile is too great in my opinion. The software/uptime maintenance effort to keep all users happy would far outweigh the cost of using essentially the same setup with a Kubernetes layer over a few servers. This setup only makes sense for experiments, portfolio, etc.
Maybe a Freelancer site? If You were to provide the specifics and bounty offered I think it would be a simple matter to process payouts through one of these sites.

EG: Fiver

Here is a startup listed on YC companies page

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pangea-app
You can buy MSG in any store. Why Amazon?

It doesn't have much effect. I make fried rice with and without it and can't really tell the difference.
Yes that’s the correct explanation: 1/120 speed for 220mm focal length equivalent is far too slow, at least 1 EV. The stabilization is probably not on par with big pro lenses and SLR so you might offset 1 more EV. Now the way the AI is fixing this seems obviously wrong but it’s “best effort”. I’m guessing it has taken several pictures and merged them. This can’t be right 100% of the time. Maybe they should add a “no smart self-similarity merges” option, I would use it most of the time.
Of course, I find that to be a given these days. When people talk about encrypted chats in 2021, it's not about transport encryption... installing let's encrypt for your api is the easy part.
Agree, the NPS aggregation is mostly BS, but getting a signal from median/mean, e.g. by comparing trends across some dimension, and reading complimentary feedback is quite useful.
If they used cronet, they could get past these checks.
"Man Returns To Work After Vacation With Fresh, Reenergized Hatred For Job":

* https://www.theonion.com/man-returns-to-work-after-vacation-...
I read through the links. The oversimplification of liberal by Cato and the references it has is quite a thing. To have a range of different conservative grouping and then liberals is also quite a thing.

The other link brings up Rand Paul. Do we really have to go over how Rand Paul as a senator has not been libertarian? His focus is on taxing less. Especially the wealthy and corporations. Otherwise his views frequently wildly divert from libertarianism into default conservative Republican views.

My original statement remains. Your links have at best given support for both of us. At worst it gave support to my “coping”.

> moved on from that

When? Unless this is clever satire where you shift and move the conversation as you please. Show the issue with people like Thiel and Rand Paul identifying as libertarian whilst enjoying conservative authority quite a bit. Bravo if so.
Hey, lumost,

I agree with most of your assessment. I particularly like the focus on fatigue. I think this tiredness (in oh so many ways) has yet to be fully understood - not to mention, addressed. If I may be so bold, I'll go one step further: something has got to give! People can't be tired all the time. Something has to (and will) change. Here's hoping that in 2022 it'll be largely for the better.

As for the whiteboard, I humbly offer our team's answer: https://sharetheboard.com
We too couldn't bear to be whiteboard-less and have come up with at least a partial solution. If you have time to kick the tires on it, I'd love some feedback.

All the best in the New Year!
Instead of arguing, they should have used that time to make a slight adjustment. Their hubris caused them to make a last-minute change which wasted significantly more time. Races of any type are almost always subject to external factors.
I was under the impression he was trying to consume less online content rather then less goods.
Looks like three weeks into 101 probability theory.
There are a few of these that don’t really feel like pivots to me. For example Netflix changing from delivering things via DVD to doing it by streaming just feels like evolving to suit the market. Would we consider a publisher as pivoting because they now sell ebooks and run news websites instead of printing books and magazines?
Before we mostly had to deal with people emotionally invested in a new thing, now they’re all financially invested as well. It makes for a different conversation.
I didn't want to do new years resolutions this year, but when contemplating not doing any, I came up with more than any year before this... I have them jotted down in great detail, but basically;

1. Make 100k$ with creating and selling something. I have done this a bunch of times before but became complacent working on my main project. So that I want to attempt.

2. Build something VR. The Quest 2 (both because of Immersed because someone here on HN said it was great); as a long time follower of VR (headsets in the 00s that gave me feelings of strokes, vrml, the kickstarter first Rift, psvr etc) this thing is a gamechanger and now vr has arrived.

3. Walk. A lot. This year I did 2021 km so next year 2022 at least.
Curious what makes you think k3s is the better choice? The only reason I ended up going with k0s was that I had problems getting k3s working well behind a locked down firewall. With k0s that was pretty easy.
Maui Shell Is Here, Ushering in a New Era of Desktop Linux
I also have a tonne of stuff running on a single, fanless server via docker compose. It is amazing, barely breaks 20% CPU, better uptime than aws ;-) ... One overlooked aspect is that if you use something like my Streacom db4 case, beautiful, fanless, noiseless, you can put it in a living area. Depending on where you live, the power usage can be fully offset against heating costs for your home, making it very efficient.
> How do we get rid of crypto entirely then? Stop everyone using it, shut it down and ban all of it?

Govts around the world could start treating tokens and NFTs as just another kind of security. Bitcoin and Ethereum would also qualify. Free speech never allowed anybody to issue ownership in projects for future gains without satisfying the regulations.

https://www.seclaw.com/what-is-a-security/
Or every car company that started as a company that made gasoline consuming cars and now is producing rolling electric computers.

Or every other company, which now essentially makes computers.
I paid £200 all-in for an initial check-up, and then a second appointment where a single tooth was removed here in the UK (this was a non-NHS dentist). I imagine they’d have charged more to remove 4 teeth, but not 4x more.
"computers" used to be like that: they gave you the freedom to create.

Now they seem to have evolved in rigid walled gardens where the prospect of riches make it even worse: you are surrounded by people who do not really care about doing a great job, but just want to strike down tickets.

I seriously hope the author is right, and that indeed, "the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
I think just the typical evaluation of someone with expertise in doing something, it's easy if you're a real devops kind, then just put together a bunch of things, do some config files, write a make or two, take two or three hours to do something that the rest of use take a week to do. in the same way that I might set up a service to scrape XML files and fill up my ElasticSearch search instance, and take a couple hours to set up a working service that I can keep expanding and other people might be like - easy, is that a joke?
"A better analogy would be you're walking in the street past a neighbor's house and notice their front door wide open with no one around. You can see a purse and car keys near the door. You phone that neighbor, and tell them their door is open and their purse and keys are easily visible from the street. Would Parson consider this breaking and entering?"

This was only a few lines below that.
One big hairy one: the financial crash finally arrives. I predicted this a few years back but covid and money printing postponed the bubble burst a little longer. With inflation rising and govt debt already sky high (worsened by rising interest rates), there is finally “nowhere to go” but down.

The triggers will be multiple, unlike 2008. Crypto crash will play a big part, but also housing market crashes, the end of the retail stock boom, inflation-wage price spiral, structural problems with the Chinese economy, and geopolitics spilling into economics.

A good time to ensure you have savings to weather the storm, hopefully get ready to invest once the crash is done, and if you can then take advantage by taking time off, studying for qualifications, or starting a business (recession is a great time to start up).

Hang on to your hat and get your finances in order, even if that means downsizing your house.
The conflict of interest inherent to NSA has been a thing since data security first was a thing.

It is very rational to follow their guidelines, while at the same time being wary of backdoored products. You could have done a lot worse than picking AES during the past two decades.
The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Preserve, formerly the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, is the site of a major weapons munition factory, a Superfund toxic waste site, and lies immediately adjacent to the presently-burning Marshall Fire near Boulder Colorado.

See related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29742659
- Short (3-5s) photorealistic video generation from text prompts.

- Stronger priors / Pretraining for Neural Radiance Fields allowing photorealistic one-shot novel view synthesis.in static scenes.

- Scene Flow Fields or equivalent start just-about-working but weaker performance than unstructured video synthesis outside of rigid camera transformations.

- Some variant of WebGPT exposed to public, users realize it's already smarter than most people.

- Semi-parametric text generation gets terrifyingly good (eg 50x+ improvement for dense parameter equivalent model, not counting lookup table as params)
Great article! I’m developing Machine learning systems and my partner is working on psychiatric use of Deep-Brain stimulation, so a rare moment that we can share.

Very minor point: the King - male + female = Queen is a good example, but widely decried as not true by specialists. I don’t have much better examples (I haven’t been able to tell if Paris - France + England = London, for instance) but if you reuse that story, it makes sense to investigate that myth. There’s a lot there too.
Fundamentally, the ritualistic behavior harms belief in science. Doing things because we believe in magic of any kind is fostering belief in other magic - for example healing by similar magic, the roots for both go back to Rudolf Steiner.
We track performance: https://perf.rust-lang.org/

I assure you it's not an afterthought. We track performance changes every week, going as far as reverting highly desired features to avoid regressions. The only reason we accept (small) regressions is for correctness fixes. This regression was only partly exercised by our perf test suite. That's how we grow it: see bad behaviour in the wild, add to the suite.

The source of rust compilation slowness usually boil down to excercising a part of the language that has O(n²) behaviour, like match arm evaluation, trait bound evaluation, or huge expansion due to monomorphization or macro expansion, and the resulting huge linking times from that, or the bottleneck that proc-macros introduce (they get compiled before they can get executed, only relevant on fresh compiles).

The regression was (partly) fixed by adding caching: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/90423/files and if I recall correctly was introduced by a feature change that fixed a bunch of incorrectly rejected deeply nested trait bounds.
I'm well aware of that and I don't have WhatsApp because of its privacy problems (much to the annoyance of some family members, but I imagine it saved me from a lot of printer queries, and if they aren't willing to switch then why should I).

What I think you're underappreciating is that Telegram was built on the premise of privacy and they've neglected that from day one. It was better than the status quo on day one (at release), but have fallen further and further behind ever since.

Telegram was launched when Whatsapp sent messages without transport encryption over port 443 (this was fun on public wifi!) and got big when Whatsapp was bought by Facebook because Telegram was independent and had proper end to end encryption (with air quotes around "proper" if you like; it wasn't OTR-grade but at least it was better than the status quo). Since then, nothing happened whatsoever on the privacy front. Even the legal compliance is a complete joke (gdpr data exports only work in a few clients and not very well at that), but more importantly to me, they need gdpr data exports because the servers still know everything. Whatsapp moved on, Signal got a lot more mature, Wire has also come onto the playing field, and Telegram has done nothing since before Snowden told us to turn on https basically.
I certainly view Netflix as a pivot. The things the company has to do, day to day, are just drastically different.
Wishing a malediction on any specific individual is questionable.

Kamala Harris is not a member of the leftmost wing of her party, which is not a particularly left party by global standards. That party has, in the last couple of years, deliberately gone back to the centre (of US politics) with their candidate choice (i.e. Biden not Bernie) in order to meet the voters and present a "safe, reliable, moderate choice" to contrast the other party.

In this specific circumstance, why would Ms Harris have the inclination to, and mandate for, "push through extreme left policies" ?

I'm sure that some media figures would be pushing this idea for their own purposes of rousing emotion, but that doesn't in itself make it a prediction that makes any logical sense.
Woman isolates in toilet for five hours after positive mid-flight test
> 2 - https://github.com/Granitosaurus/macos-compose

> Mac os doesn't come with a compose key feature built-in

There is is pretty handy, built-in, text replacement tool.

Settings -> Keyboard -> Text

Here are my top "compose" shortcuts "_shrug -> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" and "_stare -> ಠ_ಠ" :)
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Yeah and now every messenger uses encryption by default - in groups, mostly with multiple devices.

Telegram is still at "open a secret chat" with worst UX
Insightful comment, thanks.

It has been added to the "Drawbacks / Tradeoffs / Remaining issues" section of the proposal.

https://gist.github.com/joelonsql/15b50b65ec343dce94db6249cf...
I buy one of the Demeter-certified brands of milk. It’s just the best you can buy, taste wise if you ask me. It still irks me that I have to choose between good milk from ethically raised cows and not supporting belief in magic.
Crypto promised to revolutionize payments with cheap, fast and secure transactions without relying on 3rd parties.
Just call it lobbing.