skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If, on the other hand, the database is an open public database that is not controlled and administered by a single company, but instead is a truly open system available to all, then that kind of market power cannot be built up around a data asset.

But it's a crap database. It's incredibly slow and incredibly expensive. The benefits we get from using a slow, expensive database need to be absolutely enormous for this to turn out to be worthwhile.
Upvote here :) https://github.com/maxkrieger/voiceliner/issues/6
I suppose they don't really have anything about this acquisition that they want to share with us, but it'd be weird to say nothing at all.
Clemens Non Papa
No need to be condescending when I'm trying to learn. The premise of using SQLite because it was easier and to save fractions of a second didn't make sense to me as a tradeoff for potentially losing data
I’ll give you some examples of some legitimate notes/reminders I’d take:

- check this thing that opens tomorrow at 6pm

- talk to the lawyers about x before friday

- Fill in my PLF some time tomorrow so it’s ready for my trip

Etc.
For people on mobile like me, can someone explain what this is? The name and URL alone makes me intrigued.
Autoformatters are a thing
Thats not the same thing.
Don't forget one-click payday loans!

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-buy-now-pay-la...
Many many years ago. The initial designs for Bitcoin had a 'pay to IP' feature, probably to approximate traditional banking IP to IP transfer. It has not existed for almost 8 years now.

"This feature has been removed from Bitcoin Core as-of v0.8.0[1]." (Feb 2013).
This argument is simple, but forgets that the Internet has essentially had permission-less databases before, notably in IRC, XMPP, and email. Anyone can run an IRC or XMPP node, anyone can run email. The protocols are open and free (as in money) to use. But time and again the masses of Internet users choose centralized alternatives.

It's interesting to see this already playing out in the Web 3 space. Users concentrate transactions on a few (< 50) sites. The space is considered investable by VMS because they expect companies to be able to create lock-in similar to what Slack did with chat or Facebook did with Web forums.
I should have said ACK storms aren't a thing if whoever specified the protocol you are on was not an idiot. If you don't have any choice about the protocol you must use, you must endure whatever horrors have been inflicted upon you.

Starlink will not have that problem, anyway. They could invent their own horror story, and then have no one to blame but themselves.

A more complicated modulation scheme could enable cheap hardware in the terminals to see only a fraction of traffic, which might be worth the RF complication. That probably depends on how much of the protocol work they are willing to do in the terminal's FPGA. Certainly the CPU cores in the terminal won't be up to sorting through the whole pile.

An FPGA configured to watch for a small number of packet headers of interest, and decrypt and deliver just those packets, ought to be able to relieve the CPU core enough.
Verizon Rejecting Twilio Error Message as Violating Carrier Guidelines
So I was sending an SMS to my friend using Twilio. And it got rejected as violating carrier guidelines. It was about masks, not even controversial. I tried to send my friend a copy/paste of the twilio error message and this was rejected as violating carrier guidelines.

--edit to clarify rejected/accepted messages

This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against Verizon carrier guidelines."

This does not get rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines. Verizon"

This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Verizon Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines."

The only difference is adding the word Verizon in various places.

And by the way Verizon, why is a Twilio error message considered harmful enough to filter?
If the app is designed correctly, then the thousand employees would write to their own temporary databases, and a background job would pull their changes into the main database sequentially.

If the app is not specifically designed to do this, then SQLite would not be an option.
I am not sure about Snopes, but Politifact sure has several like the OP's example
Can confirm that SmugMug and Flickr people love their users and customers. Every single person I interacted with during my time there cared a great deal about the people and photos the service supported. Most people there were into photography themselves as well at some level (personally or professionally).
Attacking another user because of their ethnicity will get you banned here. Please don't do anything like this on HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Check out k6s: https://k6.io/
They were great before the Grafana Labs acquisition, and they still are.
> Calling it a fact check (even implicitly) causes people with poor critical reading skills - to wit, almost everyone - to interpret the expert opinion as being undoubtedly true.

In my experience, people with poor critical reading skills don't read. Instead they just regurgitate what they heard on FOX, which is that fact check websites are a liberal scam.
I just explained why it is. A one line response of "nuh uh" is not convincing.
I was just talking about this with a coworker. I think the hardest part about creating a dream programming language is that dreams are subjective and everyone dreams of different things.

For example, I'd rather write code in a functional language than an OOP language, but others feel the other way around. Elixir is currently the closest language to my dreams, but my coworker hates working with it due to its functional nature. On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of Go (and would most likely choose Crystal over Go if I needed a compiled, single-binary something-or-other), but my coworker loves it.

I'm just glad that there are so many high-quality languages to choose from nowadays, and good paying jobs to go with them. That wasn't the case when I started my career 30+ years ago.
Flickr was a mass market social network back in ~2007 if you squint at it in the right way.
From 1st hand experience there’s a lot of (IMHO) confusion in these sorts of organizations between maintenance and new features driving this kind of entitlement.
At which point, I would say we have successfully deflected off of the word "terrorist" and allowed ourselves to get stuck in in the non-impactful rut of fixating on "convicted".

Which circles back to my original point that the fact-checkers often resort to manipulating language in order to arrive at the verdicts they present. I find this kind of misdirection incredibly dishonest - both intellectually and ethically.
If you read the post he recommends from his partner, that is covered in detail by comparing it to the PC, which compared poorly to mainframes, but was cheap. And, that Clayton Christenson remarked that having a singular facet that is unique and very different, is a good starting point for a revolution.
My experience has been their right arm doesn’t talk to the left. Still mostly good people inside. Except for some enterprise sales.
I remember doing some math on youtube forcing vp9 on hardware without acceleration was wasting as much power as tiny country.

All because licensing.
So you're saying 2022 is the year of the linux desktop?
Oh wow, and your pcopy / ppaste combo is a similar set up to my other project, https://reg.t0.vc

I use it like this:

cat example.txt | push
pull > example.txt

Maybe we are long-lost brothers!
It's not necessarily off topic. Past explanations here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Thank you vary much I'll try to explore TRAMP functionality and what it would mean in my case.
It's still a long way off - have a look at the recent Linus Tech Tips challenge where he and Luke had to daily drive Linux for a month.

They're technical people, and yes, LTT is hammed up a bit (I call it the Top Gear of Tech), but the number of issues they ran into that you just don't on Windows (in most cases) was illuminating.

I have no troubles running a Linux home server, but I don't have time to fiddle around so my gaming desktop is Windows, and for work it's MacOS.
Notice periods are custom, not requirement. You are free to stop showing up at any time if your employer starts giving you a bad deal.

It's hard to make an argument that you owe them notice if they didn't give notice of a significant change in working conditions.
Alas, in unix, there's {mkdir A a;touch A a} Which is sometimes useful, but I see what you're saying.
I have to agree, despite my occasional pro-Windows comments.

Here are two more nice pieces, despite VS being a WPF application, the team that owns the installer decided it was a great idea to rewrite it in Electron.

And C++/WinRT tooling is so back to the 90's that even using MFC feels more fun. Apparently no one in WinDev can afford C++ Builder or Qt licenses to get how pre-historic they live.

So we get Forms, WPF, WinUI/UWP and WinUI/Win32, MAUI and then Blazor not happy with WebAssembly also tries to sell itself as Electron replacement on top of all those stacks via WebWidgets.

Clearly the cat has left the house and the mice don't know what to do.
The economic value left on the table by volunteers is consumed not by the ones who need it most, but by people who need it the least. This breaks the 2nd principle of justice as formulated by Rawls. Shall I say more...
Young people need to realize that the things we love about science: the uncompromising search for the truth, its international and no-boundaries character, the ability to bow down to evidence, the ambition of the ideas, are just a very distilled fraction (basically the highlights) of a what it is a very mundane, fragile, political human activity, full of petty and lame characters, absurd situations and pathetic developments.
I've asked a lot of people what cryptocurrencies are good for, and read many articles on what people think cryptocurrencies are good for, and they never give a satisfactory answer. So: either I haven't asked the right people, or nobody has a good answer. My current prior is about 90% that a good use for cryptocurrency in their current form has yet to be invented, and may never be.

Answers I've seen:

- you can do various crimes.

- you can gamble in many ways.

- you can send cryptocurrency to people in places which have reliable electrical, computing and networking environments but no Western Union or equivalent, and they can use that in place of the local currency with other people who are similarly inclined. (Why you would want to do this is rarely specified.)

- you can have fun being part of competing/cooperating cults.
Coming soon! https://github.com/maxkrieger/voiceliner/issues/17
> What prevents me from creating new NFTs with the same or slightly modified underlying digital asset?

That one seems like a classic supply and demand thing. Make too many, sell none

Having said that, that does actually seem to be the business model in this wave. At least for the ones people are heavily pushing that get on on my radar. Maybe not hues but "accessories" (procedurally generated png layers, flattened)
But Estonia has vote by internet, which guarantees that it’s possible to forge an election. Just this item brings them back to pre-democracy times.
It's not the threat of an outage with data loss that is concerning to me- I just want to understand use case that needs fractions of a second shaved off of query times by using SQLite in this way that is also ok with the possibility of data loss.
The issue is that decentralization is orthogonal to the supposed problems to be solved.
Amazing. Not only you don't even bother getting sources, but when someone finds a source that directly contradicts you, you end up distorting the figures you read to fit your twisted view of the world.
Enough already, flag this crap off the site.
Legally obligating each studio to run a centralized service for license verification would be no better than requiring the publishers/distributors to run such license-verification services; in both cases, the backends would die with the economic actor.

The nice thing about an NFT (per se, a deed), is that you still own it, and it still has legal effect, even after the entity that originally created it ceases to exist. A distributed ledger will remember that Ubisoft granted you an IP license for X, even after Ubisoft stops existing as such, with all their assets sold off or lost. And any games built to check that distributed ledger, will continue to find your license there, and start up just fine.
As a user, I want to be able to easily manage all of my subscriptions from one place in my device's Settings app and not have the experience I recently had trying to cancel my NYTimes subscription where I had to call, remain on hold for 35 minutes, and then have to:

1, submit to the rep's questioning about why I want to cancel,
2, argue with them over how sure I was about wanting to cancel,
3, refuse their discounted offers,

before I was permitted to finally cancel.

As a developer I get why other devs want more freedom regarding how they get paid for their apps/services, but as a user I have absolutely had it with these kinds of abusive practices that will surely follow if Apple allows them to happen.
Here's a good collection of tricks like that:

https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line
Does an event sourcing architecture help with this? I'm thinking a bunch of client piping events into a queue with a single writer working through that queue. Might be stretching the eventual part of eventual consistency if the latency gets too bad, but I don't think SQLite is top of mind for most SaaS solutions anyway so more of a thought exercise.
Unrelated. Stumbled upon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686142 and would love to hear how you feel about your 20s now.
Reading this whilst waiting for Unity to finish importing.. yeah. It's my holiday, and a piece of me can comfortably think that I'm improving my skills, making something that might one-day sell for a bit of money, but realistically just cheers me up to make something pretty.

I guess you gotta ask yourself if it matters whether anyone else ever sees it.
Technically, when an option expires, its value goes to zero. However, normally you don't let an option in the money expire; you exercise it first. Some brokers do that for you at expiration.
No, it's because MongoDB is a crap datastore that will eat your data.

It's insane that new projects would choose it as a backend over a reliable datastore, of which there are many good ones available (postgres comes to mind).

Mongo's being not-open-source anymore doesn't affect using it as a backing store in a service.
> TETR.IO is a modern yet familiar online stacker. Play against friends and foes all over the world, or claim a spot on the leaderboards - the stacker future is yours!

From: https://tetr.io/about/
I agree that 'reliably' would be a poor choice of diction when considered in your context.

The user group of our product is effectively only professional bankers and their managers. No one in the general public has any direct access.
Interestingly, Szabo seems to have disappeared since March of this year, though he used to a prolific twitter [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/nickszabo4
It's just a multiplayer Tetris clone. Not a "mass" multiplayer like some other .io games, just one with match making.
You are making a distinction here between the author of the work and the rightsholder. Are you suggesting part of the reason for the backlash is that the author should be granted extra rights over their work which can't be transferred to a third party? Because that isn't a particularly right-wing view either.
Oh, please. Up north, like here in Finland, you’d be hard pressed to get by with 3 months of storage.
Oh you're right, good distinction. And that makes this story even more of a nothing burger. It wasn't the authoritative and unilateral decision of a librarian. Tax payers brought forward a concern, made a case explaining why they were unhappy and the district agreed with them. That's the system working.
Yes. This does require all of the network devices between the nodes to also implement PTP (otherwise you fall back to NTP-like behavior) but this isn't a problem if you're greenfielding the implementation.
Well, afaik energy produced from wind & solar is being sold with higher priority on the common EU market.

So Germany is making tons of cash selling their energy and when they close all nuclear plants, they plan to import energy from other EU producers. That includes brown energy which is cheaper.

If you ask me, this makes perfect economic sense.
so much this. as another commenter posted, you can configure emacs to just "be a vim" with evil mode anyway, so you can treat it like it's vim, and when you see a package somewhere that does something cool, add it. the thing that emacs gives you that vim doesn't is limitless extensibility. as an editor, vim probably has better bindings (it does in my opinion at least), but there's no reason you can't have all the cake.
Yes. Worst case, lithium can be extracted from seawater: https://electrek.co/2021/06/04/scientists-have-cost-effectiv... - but it's currently cheaper to get it from somewhere else. And lithium can be recycled. In the near future, I think most cars will use LFP batteries.
> Emails are decentralized and the telephone network is much less so. It's controlled by a relatively small number of companies

E-mail is largely controlled by a small number of companies. The vast majority of people use Microsoft, Google or Yahoo Mail. The reasons it's not centralized is the same as with phone numbers - interoperability.

As you note, all the major e-mail providers already implement SPF and DKIM which is more advanced than anything the carriers are talking about implementing. Spam remains a problem. I think spammers will evolve the same techniques of attacking and taking over "valid" endpoints and routing traffic through them as they do with e-mail today. Of course, this is a good thing. It raises the expense and risks associated with spam phone calls. Still, I think the claim that any technical measures will stop these calls is unhelpful hyperbole.

Ultimately the only way to actually stop these is to starve these services for funds which will be lobbied against heavily by large players who rely on these services (knowingly or unknowingly) to drive sales.
Serious question, is this just a "how do I get SQLite to work in this scenario?" thing, or is there actually some other benefit to having this sort of data architecture?
It’s easy to fork the code but not the user base.
The year in inequality in 10 charts
I've never seen FAANGMULA used anywhere except ironically, my earlier comment included :)
Data and community can save Zanzibar’s mangroves
Actually action is not required. In the medical field if you aren't legitimately confident about the effects of a particular action, both positive and negative, then it's better to sit back and do nothing (while conducting additional research).

"First, do no harm" is a fundamental principle of medical ethics. Unfortunately iatrogenic harm from over treatment is still a serious cause of injuries and deaths. The default should always be to do nothing unless there is clear and reliable evidence to support intervention. That applies equally to pandemics as to other situations.

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9728/to-err-is-human-building-a-...

I understand that politicians might sometimes have to take rapid actions based on political factors. But don't deceive the populace by falsely claiming those actions are supported by scientific consensus.
That is not at all what that law is saying. You can absolutely pay differently based on "bona fide factors" such as experience and job performance. Do you really think everyone with the title "software engineer" at a huge company varying from 0-20 YOE is going to be paid the same? No, they will be positioned differently within a salary band based on experience and job performance. You have clearly never managed a large team or organization and done comp planning for them.
Can you not buffer the audio and then send the buffer to the transcription service, allowing you to keep the original?

If this were all on-device I'd use this in a heartbeat. I'd even pay for it. I worry about privacy though - I appreciate you went with Azure instead of Google, however!
That is certainly a factor to consider in the decision!

I, for one, wouldn't use any security-critical software where the client isn't open source.

(The server side doesn't matter for security for the same reason trust in the company shouldn't matter. No secrets should leak to the server.)
I was hoping for one big play area where everyone controlled their own pieces in real-time.
Hypothetically your on a team with a bunch of junior devs.

Your doing a PR review, assuming this dev is sloppy, would you rather it be in C++ or Python ?

I didn't like Python or Ruby at first, but now whenever I need to write a small tool, it's Python. Before Python I was using JavaScript, but I've fallen in love with how clean Python is
Just another propaganda spreader… keep reading these kind of books whilst we build a new economy
> .. solving none. It's offloading critical judgment skills and knowledge .. and offloading it to people that don't know better

Are fact checkers any different than people who contribute to Wikipedia? It serves a purpose, but does come with a lot of disadvantages.

> .. and may be subject to mass-producing them to satify the massive amounts of misinformation online, or they may be voluntarily or not following certain agendas or philosophies that may not reflect reality, and I believe this ends up with a tendency to extremism and marginalization.

Isn't this the case already? Without "fact checkers" you still have the current population of people spinning stories and framing them in their own desired ways. I don't see how fact checkers are necessarily making the situation worse in that manner.

> It'd be more useful to divert all fundings and investments they get into teaching rational thinking and information validation to people of all ages.

You still have the problem of scale that you need to solve. There are a lot of controversies now-a-days. I imagine this proposed individual (or even a current, motivated individual) does not have time to investigate some of the more nuanced disputes.
If you're okay with your voice being piped to Google instead of Microsoft.
Is this perchance inspired by https://www.yourworldoftext.com/? I remember reading an interesting technical writeup when that went out -- it was early days for websocket. It might be interesting to compare how both are built.
Am I wrong in remembering that python indentation a choice made loosely, "to force noob programmers to write well-organized, legible code"?
FYI 11 minute Satoshi infomercial with ads. mentions Szabo @7:30
"If you compare email to snailmail, the same argument could be made. That it's over the internet is just a preference, why care about email when normal mail works perfectly fine?"

This is nonsense. Email is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than snail mail. Talk to any business owner who made the switch from physically mailing bills to emailing their clients invoices and ask them how much time and money they saved. The value proposition for email is obvious.
damn time flies.

I haven't bought a bitcoin since it went from $20 to $400.

the change in my tumbling accounts are worth more than everything i had bought since then combined.

thanks china!
Wouldn't the author be different if you just minted a copy? So if the original is from a trust/known entity (like an IRL company or suitably famous artist) this doesn't work. The list of trusted entities could be centralized, crowd-sourced, hand-managed, or anything else; let people decide who they trust to make those determinations and let them switch between them at will.