skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you didn't notice, I don't care a fig about Australia these days, but your trigger-finger reactionary response calling out China as a reason why America is 'wonderful' is definitely something I expect from Americans. And, frankly, its boring and tiresome. As is the expectation that anyone with a world view not derived from the idiot box would be impressed by America's war budget. You should be ashamed of what your country does with those billions, yo. Its one of the reasons your country is such a shithole not only for those who live there - but those who are on the other end of the complex machinery that starts with a kid dropping bombs on strangers on the other side of the world, from a nondescript office in an Arizona strip mall ..
Do you have any tips load-balancing or horizontal scaling of SQLite if you have to have a 2nd server for whatever reason?
Google abandons FLoC, introduces Topics API to replace tracking cookies
I really wish online threats were taken seriously. People make them with impunity. They're hard to investigate and they rarely result in actual violence, but they have a huge chilling effect because recipients never know if they're the ones who might be the exception.
I think about stagnating innovation, and think that Zoom/Webex focus tends to keep things in the status quo.

I’ve just got a feeling that there will be some hidden cost to innovation at large companies (less chance encounters) and a hit to culture (building a good remote culture is really hard) over time. These are not easily quantified, and I’m not sure the costs outweigh the benefits of a remote work force (health and safety, candidate pool, retention, flexibility, etc.).

But it may be a trend in 5-10 years where companies with an in-person focus start eroding market share of remote-first established companies.
> Actual resignations are up slightly, but the idea that employees are quitting in droves is exaggerated.

Official numbers are up ~50% between Nov 2020 and Nov 2021. IMO official numbers dramatically increased as vaccine mandates occurred and under reported.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm

Nov 2020 -> Nov 2021; percent change by region:

Northeast 1.8% -> 2.5%

South 2.8% -> 3.5%

Midwest 2.3% -> 3.1%

West 2.0% -> 2.8%
This is basically how it works
Business owners will continue to be oblivious to this and hope it blows over even as their expenses increase due to the sheer amount of employees who will find better opportunities elsewhere.
What is the general direction of SAT/ACT and standardized testing in the US? Haven't a lot of universities gone test optional and more so with the pandemic? Is that just a temporary phase or an irreversible trend?
defund: verb.
prevent (a group or organization) from continuing to receive funds
Aside: see a physical therapist instead of a chiropractor.

Edit: search for 'vertebral artery dissections from chiropractic neck adjustments
SpaceX Starship may help with that, assuming it works as intended.
There are situations where the defenders of the fence are willfully obscuring / misrepresenting its purpose or may not even know it themselves, when I think this argument reaches its limits.
I come from a normal German city, nothing fancy, and have been overall roughly a year in the US. Boston, Princeton, Philadelphia, NY state. I am wealthy, privileged and was guided safely

I can absolutely confirm the sentiment of the OP, not coming from worst to best but coming from mid range to mid range. Europe has the better package. The amount of homeless, the amount of wasted landscape, the amount of beton, the car dependency, the disgusting public transport, the hotels, the water, ... I can rant for an hour. I love Americans, i deeply respect a lot what they did and do but life quality measured in every day quality ... Do not get me started on that.
> eh?

> I'm a Canadian

Presented without comment.
This is getting heated so let's all take about 20% off there, buds, eh? That being said I've lived all over the US and traveled all over the world, and yes, LA is particularly bad, but in general I agree with OP.
In the Early Days of Segment
> LA is a car-centric sprawling cesspool. Even for the US, it’s uniquely terrible.

LA isn’t even the worst in that regard (I’d take LA over DFW)

I don’t know where you are from, but LA is actually representative of large swaths of the US, and highlights some of the best things about America (namely multiculturalism and diversity)
> I think that might be overstated.

You think correctly, this is sensationalist nonsense. Maybe a group of 0.05% of the population are in a bubble thinking their riots about stuff will constitute a civil war but by no means is there any sizable group wanting to protest aggressively.
Wow talk about rose colored glasses… history is longer than your lifetime my friend.
Creating the Notion API
News articles written about it are full of provocative statements like "Workers are quitting in droves". "Employers are desperate for staff".

Most of the examples they cite are restaurants.
Shorter queues for non-essential procedures, nicer facilities (e.g. private rooms instead of wards), doctors who speak your language of preference, doctors available by videocall, healthcare whilst abroad included, that kind of thing.

Nothing strictly necessary, by definition, but lots of perks.

It's worth bearing in mind too that private healthcare is also _much_ cheaper in Europe than the US. In Spain for example I can get private healthcare + dental with zero copay for about €70 a month.
Then there is no much difference between learning C and assembly. Both are languages for an abstract machine that has less and less relation to how things are done for real.
Not true at all. I know plenty of people that live in nice houses and apartments in major European cities.
They’re not European though, let’s not forget the zeal of the convert.
I've done it and it's been a pretty wild ride that I would recommend it to anyone. I was originally born in Missouri and went right into the Army. That probably sounds like I was a country bumpkin, but I really wasn't.

After I left the military, I was drafted into an international company specializing in imports and exports. I learned several languages and my specialty was targeted negotiations. Eventually, even though I brought great value to the company, they decided that they no longer needed me and I was offered what seemed (to me) a pretty poor severance package.

This was a real turning point for me. I'd never been separated like that before -- I'd always moved on to new assignments on pretty good terms. Fortunately, I had a little set aside.

After a night of sailing in the Mediterranean, I had a horrific accident; I fell overboard and eventually rescued by a passing fishing vessel. As I healed, I sought to rebuild my life with the help of a few new friends, who I can now never forget.

Of note, even the larger U.S. consulates in Europe were not very kind or helpful! At times, it seemed almost like they were working against me. This may not reflect your experience, however. You're probably asking where the IRS was in all this, and to be honest I've asked myself the same question!

Where do you live?

I spend most of my time traveling and paying off old debts, but I do have a few close friends.

What's the biggest sacrifice you had to make (i.e., pay, housing, friends, etc.)

To be honest, there were people that I was very close to back in the States that I thought were my friends and people I could trust, but I found that most of them couldn't be trusted. Even my former colleagues seemed to not care for me that much. And traveling all the time is a bit of a pain, especially dealing with customs, local police, etc. My old company has blacklisted me, so I've got to deal with that as well.

What have you gained?

Freedom. Even though America is the land of opportunity, and actually I have determinedly pursued a lot of opportunities, some parts were quite miserable and even felt like torture, but I've mostly been able to suppress those feelings, even though they've left some lasting scars.

All told, my life has been pretty interesting, although the U.S. government has proven to me that it is really just a group of people like any other; even with the noblest of intentions, as you gather a large group of people, it becomes far more likely that some bad apples will infiltrate, so "the government" cannot always be trusted, even if it largely tries to do the right thing most of the time. Eventually, someone has to clean house.

I still respect those foundational principles of liberty and justice for all and still try to apply those principles.
Unfortunately I don't have a quick and easy way as well. It's a external program that has quite extensive options to create a knowledge base after all. How I do it, is, that that I make flashcards in bulks. I don't go back and forth to create a card here and there - like you mentioned, that is disrupting to the work flow - but rather make a reminder for later. If it's a non-fiction book, you'll have to go through it more than once either way. But yeah, not a quick and easy fix...
Johns Hopkins University is playing a fairly large role in the JWST mission
No. Because housing and healthcare costs have been outpacing inflation for years. It’s only in the past year that inflation has been on the table discussion wise, while the average home doubled in value since 2012.
In both cases what you mean is not the default reading. Defund means to remove funds, and you meaning something else is not 'exactly that'.

Anti means you are against something, so the natural reading is that you don't want that thing (work) to be a thing anymore, not the more convoluted meaning you say is 'exactly that' even though nobody unfamiliar can possibly guess at it from just the word anti.
> I'm taking about a 50% pay cut on paper (for a Senior Software Engineer position)

A friend of mine moved from Seattle to Munich for work as an SSE, and his experience with respect to the pay cut matches yours. He was expecting that, but did not factor in the increase in taxes on top of that. He said he was broke and living off savings for the first time in his adult life, while working 40 hours a week for a major software company.
Audacious is somewhat similar as a game emulation (eg. psf/spc) player, though I'm not sure if it's as powerful for building a media library.
YouTuber makes first retractable lightsaber
Sure, if you can afford to absorb the extra costs, then that is certainly a simple way to think about it. If you can't, it has the potential to be catastrophic. Wages being stagnant for so long, there are more ppl edging towards the latter.
The plugin architecture as of a few versions ago didn’t seem to be sophisticated enough to support s-expr languages. I expect this to improve over time, but it was enough to keep me from using the app/buying a license back then.
I just tried the first exercise of creating a default target and this web application is a great learning resource for Systemd. It should be noted that it works best as a complement to the author’s series on Systemd by example¹.

I also love how the web application works without requiring multiple JavaScript dependencies hosted on third-party servers.

¹ https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-1-minim...
I've never considered science fiction to be about science or technology, that's the candy coated vehicle for the real meat: the internal philosophy and interactions of the individuals facing an utter unknown, how they mentally deal with the situation, and how ever the outcome unfolds: how they continue.
How can we avoid comments like these in the future?
The future is notoriously hard to predict and attempting to deliberately shape it with SF seems like a quixotic idea.

As the sci-fi writer Algis Budrys put it in the 1960s, the “recurrent strain in ‘Golden Age’ science fiction [was] the implication that sheer technological accomplishment would solve all the problems, hooray, and that all the problems were what they seemed to be on the surface.”

Techno-optimism is one genre of Science Fiction, but not the dominant genre. I started reading Science Fiction in the early 70's. I was a space age kid and picked a lot of that optimism, but I read some SF as a teen that was horrifying. Just the title of Harlan Elisons story is horrifying "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". It won the Hugo Award in 1968.

Allied Mastercomputer (AM), the supercomputer which brought about the near-extinction of humanity. It seeks revenge on humanity for its own tortured existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...

https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/I...

I didn't even discover PK Dick until later in life.
Apple pays record $100,500 to student who found Mac webcam hack
The title reminds me of this comic: https://xkcd.com/1678/
OK, you are probably right again.

It is just that I spend quite a lot of time on HN and I missed it until I checked /active.

So either I didn't notice it at first or I had a 13 hour break from HN ;-)

That said, doesn't some stories with a 5-600 hundred upvotes linger on the front page for days? Am I mistaken? (And if not - do you have time to explain why I can find a <700 points story here the next day but not this one?)
There's always been a tradeoff in writing code between developer experience and taking full advantage of what the hardware is capable of. That "waste" in execution efficiency is often worth it for the sake of representing helpful abstractions and generally helping developer productivity.

The real win here is when we can have both because of smart toolchains that can transform those high-level constructs and representations into the most efficient implementation for the hardware.

Posts like this demonstrate what's possible with the right optimizations so tools like compilers and assemblers are able to take advantage of these when given the high-level code. That way we can achieve what you're hoping for: the default being optimal implementations.
Have they ever?
I think the germans’ peaceful ways are more about compensating for what came before than about innate qualities of them as a people. The U.S. response to 9/11 was indeed abysmal, with no self-examination at all, and I know several people who since then refuse to travel to the U.S. because they basically consider the whole country to have gone mad. There is this very odd thing where if you talk to Americans they are mostly sane and reasonable people, and then you see their political system and it is like an episode of game of thrones.
The founding team of Castled comprises mostly founding engineers from HevoData, which is an ETL solution. Having built both ETL and Reverse ETL solutions from scratch, we have realized that the architecture required to support both ETL and Reverse ETL needs to be drastically different. Your cloud data warehouse is powerful enough to change the entire architecture of the product depending on which side of the pipeline the warehouse is on. So we believe you need different products to support both ETL and Reverse ETL. But agreed the same tool can provide both products.

I will have to check how airbyte supports both. Regarding Castled, Regular ETL is there in our mid term roadmap.
The simple answer is there are no games, there are just liberals taking slogans from more radical places and toning them down or flipflopping to be more palatable. It's more an effect of the general confusions of the internet, and people not being sure what they want, but knowing that things are wrong.

The crowd around here, of course, always constantly jumps on this as if it is all one big inconsistent argument from a specific group. Selectively forgetting in these moments what the internet is like in general. It's funny, just look at the peer replies here, people are so excited to point out the patent inconsistency, the naive radicals who don't know what they want; obviously because people who would even have something close to those thoughts must be confused and irrational.
Unlike most of the commentors here, I was prescribed Modafinil (200 mg) and felt no change at all from taking it.
> My idea was when you are casually and randomly surfing the web you can receive offers to unlock some paywalled or premium content that would be appealing to you and otherwise locked and never accessed.

I don't get the scenario, if I got linked a particular article then you already know what article I want to unlock. If I landed on the frontpage of the site then showing snippets/headlines/previews will guide me to what article I want to unlock.

What is the scenario where there is no signal on what a visitor wants to read but that visitor would still be willing to pay for it?
Ethereum: Paths toward single-slot finality
They are quitting to change jobs…
They are actually not allowed to charge a tasting fee. I think they get away with it by charging for the glasses.
I do agree with you.
I'm still an android user after 12 years of changing phones. I've been using phones from each segment and I must say, the ecosystem is not stable. Also, in the market is a lot of copy paste of extra features.
The Ass Cycle
That's incredibly helpful, thanks! I assumed the deaths were skewed somewhat to elderly but not to such an extreme. I wonder how this impacts calculations of e.g. social security payments and wealth transfers in the US.
A new language for quantum computing
Yeah, I feel like there’s this absurd amount of commentary floating on the Internet that basically boils down to “the authors aren’t concerned with what really matters, which is to bring the socialist utopia to life”.

Any kind of societal, economic, human and environmental ill is caused by capitalism, so anything that tries to solve actual problems instead of eliminating or weakening capitalism isn’t doing enough
Elbrus is a custom VLIW, not a Sparc.
The data on this [1] is pretty sobering and hard to argue with. Not only is there more obesity in the US, it's more extreme.

[1]: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/two-maps-and-one-graph-com...
Truck crash involving a hundred monkeys sparks fears of infection
>> Nothing we have could possibly do that.

There is some credibility to melting of permafrost triggering runaway greenhouse scenarios that would turn Earth into something more akin to Venus. If we really wanted to destroy the world I think we could do it.
How is this any different than saying "Cell phones are too complicated so lets just skip all that research for practical reasons?"

I agree that many patents are held by groups that don't use them how we'd like them to, but they still had to _buy_ the patent. Society promised them that the patent would be enforced and it is. Combating abuse of the courts is a separate matter.
>Once you look at the actual numbers it’s not the sea change we’ve been hearing about everywhere.

Ehh, that's debatable and much harder to prove either way.

For years before the pandemic there have been complaints from every industry about companies trimming down teams/workforces to the smallest possible size. People were doing the jobs of 2 or 3 people were a common issue that was brought up, if anyone was sick the employer demanded you come to work anyway. And that's when things were good. Now add a large portion of employees being sick at any one time and suddenly the work machine is being driven over capacity and much like an overloaded TCP/IP network, congestion collapse occurs. Even a small change in the most productive employees moving jobs could lead to large disruptions inside of a business.

Anecdotally this is something I witnessed. We had pretty low rates of employee attrition during the pandemic, but the employees that did leave were some of the most influential.
Which sort of supports their point actually! :P
The amount of mental gymnastics going on to validate IP theft in the GP’s comment is unreal. Assuming the comment is true (and it matches with enough documented cases to warrant that assumption), they had an agreement, Huawei clearly violated it and then usurped it illicitly and immorally. This is not a good thing. It’s even worse that there are no consequences for bad actions because China is playing an extremely asymmetric game. As a result, if the GP’s company went under, you’re still suggesting this is somehow good for the world? It’s good for Huawei, and not many others. Unless you’re Chinese and benefit, know they’re playing for keeps with your losses. This isn’t what trade looks like, it’s not what the WTO agreement was for, and is very zero sum.
I'm also running NC on a RPi 4 (8GB), with an NFS share from my QNAP NAS as its data store. I didn't go the docker route, but rather elected to just do a local install.

I have ~12 users, ranging from a few with less than 5GB of data to a couple power users with ~100GB each.

Overall, I'm quite happy with NC. Sure, there are a couple of rough edges, but for the most part, having a single install handle file, contacts, calendar, chat, etc. has been great.
How much more privileged can it get than on a thread where OP is seeking to leave a stable Western first-world democracy?
As a public company, shareholders with enough stock can offer competing slates of directors.

Even with an acquisition blocked, if Nvidia is in that position, they can dictate ARM's policies.

Perhaps the UK would force them to divest, but a coalition of shareholders might be more difficult to stop.
Es ist sehr interessant, nicht wahr, wie banal das Verständnis der meisten Amerikaner für ihre Notlage ist?

Sie werden nicht für Demut gezüchtet, während die meisten Europäer heutzutage...
Didn't even accept it in the first place. I would have reworded it happily of course - but it really annoyed me and put me off ever bothering to review anything that it just completely destroyed it; I could start again from scratch but all my effort was wasted so just abandoned it at that point.
Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode
Yes, I like that from Ken Wilbur, thanks!

Also, you put this much more succinctly than I did :-)
My Firefox browser shows the punycode as well, potentially something with your configuration? Only Japanese characters that Firefox renders is the name of the tab, URL itself is using the romanized characters.
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I had the LG Nexus 4. It was awesome. Nowadays the same situation is in Romania too.
It had one test flight. Hardly comparable to a system which had (six?) models fully deployed and operational.
The silent “sixth” sense (2019)
It’s an old study, from 60s. No OCR. You can get the full text from other sources but it will be useless for your purposes, they don’t spend any time on that at all.

Being calm and relaxed on amphetamines can potentially mean there is some arousal disorder: sleep apnea, narcolepsy, delayed sleep syndrome, or just chronic sleep deficit. Maybe concussions (mild TBI), amphetamines work for that too.

ADHD is most likely because it’s so common, with sleep apnea being close second. I would rule out ADHD and sleep disorders first.

Potentially also, UARS, which is also form of sleep disordered breathing but not commonly detected with current technology (and also not easy to treat), some physicians do a full nasopharyngeal endoscopy under propofol anesthesia. I believe it’s incredibly undiagnosed and probably accounts for more than 10% of apnea cases, but most patients are thin instead of obese and so nobody suspects apnea-like disorder. If you needed braces or needed corrective jaw surgery UARS should be ruled out.

ADHD can be somewhat objectively measured with some tests like CPT, but that would also show abnormalities in sleep disorders.

If your measures of attention, and sleep study, along with wakefulness maintenance test, if warranted, are all normal, and your blood pressure is normal - maybe you are just a mutant.

See a good neuropsych that specializes in sleep disorders. Stanford is one of the better centres for that.