skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We rarely use them where I work although we've recently had some devs who are trying to get us to adopt it.

Personally I think they should be used sparingly for things where you have to be able to configure the same software on different environments differently, for purposes of A/B testing or other such things.

Using them a lot increases your code complexity and is basically just tech debt imo. The gain is that you don't have to run a deployment to turn on a feature? If you invest the time to make your build/deploy process not suck, this isn't a very big win.

I'm honestly surprised to see so much love for them here. I'm going to take some time to read this thread, see if there are compelling reasons to take on the extra complexity that I haven't considered.
Totally, or maybe a canary clause.
What doesn't work with IPv6 on Azure? I understood they were first to support it of the major clouds, though maybe it was just in preview support for a long time.

I think in 2019 I was able to use IPv6 VNETs.
People don't work as much as they say
What could Malone do that would lead to legal payouts like these?[1][2] Are Malone's misleading claims comparable to those of Pfizer's regarding Bextra, for instance?

I also have to wonder how "tight and regulated" they are that these payouts in the hundreds of millions or even billions end up in court, repeatedly, for actions that look remarkably similar.

I simply don't know what your objection to Malone's words could be if your going to take the position you have on Pfizer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer#Legal_issues

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_v._Parke-Davis
Because Test Flight already exists for this purpose.
I think there’s something to be said about this sort of approach on communication and the site guidelines, but I’m sure someone else would word it better than I.
To paraphrase, Facebook may own the platform, but you shouldn't let them own your relationship with your fans / customers / club members.
You never want these interfaces on public internet. All my iDRAC ports are on an isolated management vlan that is only routed to from certain internal networks.

1. You don't want the device even considering requests from anyone but the sole person(s) responsible for accessing the mgmt interface. Someone might not be able to get in, but they could enumerate your hardware characteristics, or perform a denial of service.

2. Don't confuse SSH with secure. You don't know what version/brand/make/model of SSH is running on the embedded device. It might be ancient. It might not even be OpenSSH.

3. If an exploit becomes known for your management interfaces on your machines, you are screwed. First because someone might have already exploited you. Second because now you need to patch your boxes, and that might require a hard reboot of the entire machine. If a patch even exists.

Really, it isn't worth the trouble. There are too many risks.
Yes, sounds like he is trying to reach a different audience, versus trying to reach the HN audience in a different way.
He's not the only one. The autonomous car industry is on a swift downturn. Very few startups making real progress right now.
> Call Facebook.

Have you tried obtaining phone support for a Facebook support issue of this nature?
Therein lies the challenge.

As far as blockchains themselves, I feel that Algorand is a very legitimate serious project. There are others, like Harmony, but with both projects you can have scam coins built on top of them.
Your "Accept: application/x-Gemini-markdown" might as well be "Accept: text/html-without-ads-or-scripts-please" and then there is no need to write an additional document parser.
Why is it much less plausible? It's important to explore alternate possibilities when we aren't 100% sure of something. For way too long we've thought that Earth was the center of the solar system and the universe, only to later find out that it's just one of the planets in one of zillions of star systems.

Also I'm somehow pretty sure JWST would change our understanding of the universe. (we'll see in a year how well this comment ages)
> you have an alternative method to reach out.

You could simply put up a web page with a RSS feed.
> Google replaced the Datastore with Firebase.

False.

They replaced the Datastore with Firestore. A new database system based on datastore but using parts of spanner so it is transactional und not eventually consistent anymore.

Firebase (Realtime Database) was a garbage single mysql instance marketed as "real time database" which Google indeed bought but it wasn't able to scale in any way so it was reinvented and resulted in Firestore. Firebase != Firestore
Well, yeah, sure. But that's not what I meant. The "Optimize for finishing work before starting new work" could be such a heuristic. Contrast two positives with an "even over" statement. If you have heuristics such as "maintainable software even over new features" (this is just an example, this could just as well be the opposite) that apply to the entire team, manager included, people don't need their manager to tell them whether to work on X or Y each time and they can prioritize their own work.
But you write the code via the ORM, so I don't see the difference between you writing the SQL with knowledge of the table statistics and you writing the code via the ORM with knowledge of the table statistics.
Asking genuinely, how many crypto/NFT folks are you following? Because any mention of that stuff brings the bots out.

Follow any normal non-celebrity account that isn't talking about the latest moneymaker and you'll find less spam.
If you collect the info for just this specific purpose (maybe something like "Facebook takes down pages all the time, please help me keep in touch with you by subscribing to this email newsletter! I promise to use it only in the case that Facebook takes this page down or it becomes otherwise unmanaged by me") then I don't see why it would be complicated, just as long as it's something they intentionally do and you're clear about how you'll use the data.
I'm unclear that it correlates to iteration speed or design complexity.

Actually, performance too.
> their entire objective is to trick you into giving them details so they can sic the police on these people and ruin their lives with an involuntary hold in the psych ward

This is 100% untrue. Their objective is to prevent suicide. If you intend to harm yourself, and nobody is around to make you safe, yes, they bring people in to enforce safety and yes that is often law enforcement. They will take the suicidal person to an ER, where the ER staff will do an assessment, and then may opt to put you in an involuntary hold if a licensed psychiatric provider deems it is necessary. But it is more likely that even if you do need hospitalization, they will recommend a voluntary hospital stay. Most care providers look to give people the least restrictive care that still gets the job done.

It is also important to note that you called on behalf of friends but refused to give out any info. There is very little they can do in that case. You are not the one at risk. You do not control the environment of the one at risk. You won't tell them who is at risk. I can understand why they got frustrated. I can also understand why you are frustrated. But none of those frustrations make your assertion true.
Some random comments: I'd say this is something that wouldn't have happened for Signal. The comment I linked didn't make it sound accidental. In the linked issue thread, they talk about aggregation done by the server, which means that the server would still be able to tell that person A, B and C reacted with the same emoji. That sounds like a lot of information leakage to me, e.g. for people who do votes via reactions.
That sounds like a lot of access.
Learning opportunities, work/life balance, other non-financial perks like PTOs and parenthood support, just to name a few.
It wouldn’t be great for him if he was easy to live with but his roommates were not.
Wow look at the British crank out those bombers.

I look at that and wonder how they sourced all the CPUs and components... oh right, they probably had centralized domestic manufacturing and only imported raw materials.

Global Warming is going to trigger large scale wars, simply far too much disruption, including the likely displacement of a billion people or more.
Convert wordpress website to Android and iOS apps
What an ego shattering revelation it would be if it turned out just about everyone can be good at coding. Being able to code is what qualifies us to know everything about everything!
The level of negativity on HN around hard engineering problems like data stores...it's really unforgiving here.
I would use Brave if they didn't use chrome as a backend. We need more diversity in rendering engines otherwise things like FLoC happen.
Today is yesterdays tomorrow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30102240
Charming story, but only an American would think 1942 was early in WWII. I’m tempted to roll out the old joke about US foreign policy but I’ll save y’all …
> To test this out, just Tweet something like “my Coinbase account isn’t working”

Oh, well there's your problem. Unfortunately the network of people you're following are very close to giant network of scammers that has grown around crypto.
Vendor lock-in
> For a view from the other direction, "How to be a God", by Battle. This is a game dev who became an academic and spent too much time thinking about philosophy.

For anyone else who was struggling to locate this reference, the author is Bartle, not Battle.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-God-Would-Be-Deities/dp/095564...
Aren’t they bad examples? There’s a distinction between an extremely rare occurrence of biological factors like being 7 feet tall in order to succeed, and that of needing a decent education in order to think critically.
Your point is well made... The other thing you need to think about is that all those extra services can come with a reliability cost if your provider is not 100%. Most outages we've encountered have been because the HA infrastructure has decided to have problems rather than the underlying hardware or actual service we need to run.

Having all that "best practice" service is great if it works well, but when it becomes a checkbox on the purchase order then it can cause far more problems than it solves.

I have found that a lot of the push to outsource hosting is simply an attempt to deflect responsibility for problems rather than in expectation of actually providing more reliability.
I use vim a ton, but I guess never the complex movements as much, because if I want to do anything ever so slightly complex, I've got to sit there and think about it more than I really should... There is just too much for it all to end up as muscle memory, there's no way everything gets used enough for that to happen.
Does it actually reduce the risk? Sure if you audit, its easier to identify the risks, but a windows 98 program is going to be full of vulnerabilities while being small. Being small doesn't remove the vulnerabilities
Bonus the servers keep the house warmer in the winter :D
Do rockets sometimes blow up on the launch pad? Yes. Does that mean they shouldn't have tried to build a rocket ship?

Have you tried to build a data layer engine?

This kind of attitude is so one dimensional from my perspective... they are trying and it's hard to always be perfect when it comes to data. Inevitably if you're in the data game sometimes data loss happens, that's just the nature of the game. It's not black-and-white like you portray it.
If I can still be charged for accidents performed by the "self-driving" feature, I'm not interested.
Why Holding a Grudge Is So Satisfying
How does that protect it from criticism, let alone mean that one should not voice their disquiet about its effect on them? I live in Japan and I think it's a disgrace how much of this stuff is around.
Exactly! Who needs a kitchen in their home, it's better to just order in all the time. All that complexity of cooking daily, preparing and storing food, cleaning dishes, etc, etc. I mean, who's going to even do the cooking!

See... anyone can pick <random thing>, and describe how people don't do it. Of course, you cite a generator, others use solar cells, right?
None, but it's an interesting case study of a widespread concern (not necessarily problem)
I'm curious, what do you expect to find in the replies under massive accounts like Associated Press? I've long since stopped following accounts with more than a couple thousand followers, unless they're super funny or insightful. No raw news. The replies transform from discussions into animated gif spam or actual spam past a certain threshold.
And the GDPR advocates claimed it wouldn't have devastating unintended consequences. Using coercive state power to forcefully regiment voluntary interactions is always wrong and causes severe adverse effects.

GDPR is also harming European scientific research:

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/data-protections-rules-harm...

If central planning worked at making society function better, the Soviet Bloc would have flourished and leapfrogged the West. It doesn't.
Wait what?

> put down a returnable deposit of .157 ETH (about $400)

and

> Users receive $50-$100 a month worth of the token

Isn’t that the definition of a pyramid scheme?

Also

> Extremely high transaction fees—sometimes higher than a month’s worth of UBI—also make it hard for UBI users to take money out.

Oh so your initial deposit is refundable but you have to pay a quarter in fees if you want to take money out.

And

> We want to use the wealth and incredible power of the blockchain to to really address social problems like poverty or marginalization

But isn’t taking $400 upfront (when 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 a day) the very definition of exploitation?
Yes exactly - it is critical that it be designed properly with individuals’ privacy baked in and safe guarded otherwise it risks turning the current slight-dystopia surveillance internet into a full blown dystopia.
Almost all media is owned and controlled by corporations. So obviously the media will always be on the side of the employers. No 3 letter agency required for that to happen.
Do you mean generics? Go has had reflection for a long time.
Don't take it to heart that people will happily create a narrative just to get karma points.

Could you have better optimized your personal brand? Maybe. Could you have also done the engineering you've done if you had? Who knows. Don't over think it. State is hard
30 years later:

"
Why optimize a binary that's 109GB? That's too small to matter."
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All the more reason! On the cloud, you're often paying per kilobyte.
It's that kind of belief that gives a founder drive tho
Yeah, NetBSD is the same everywhere. Partition, configure, set the network, pkgin, pkgsrc, repeat. CTWM today will run fastly enough on almost any X supported arch. It's really useful, and because of that, it's boring :).

With OpenBSD the same, too. Except for some webkit browser, a DE with CWM and XTerm plus ksh's will not differ at all from a PC with the same config.
Sometimes an artist is so influential that to go back to discover them for the first time, from a modern perspective, they can sound cliche ... when in fact they invented the cliches. Right?

I have chatted with coworkers after "The Lord of the Rings" films came out who had not read Tolkien but after seeing the movies thought that the story was fairly derivative. Maybe not such a surprising take if you allow that nearly all fantasy since Tolkien has been so heavily influenced by him that his fingerprints are everywhere — in D&D, films like "Willow", etc.

I remember hearing Raydio's hit "Jack and Jill" [1] back in 1978 when it came out (I was 14 years old) and it was probably the first synthesizer I had ever heard in a song. I cannot even describe to you how alien and wonderful that sounded when I first heard it. Electronics in music would become so mainstream of course that it is hard to "shock my ears" any longer and even harder for someone used to it to go back and hear this song from over 40 years the way my "virgin ears" heard it.

[1] https://youtu.be/43OVNx4EXQg
The righteousness of a riot (or 'civil protest') is as described by the storyteller.

If the media decides it's a 'mostly peaceful' protest, then acts of violence are not emphasized. Participation is not demonized.

But if the describer calls it 'an insurrection' or 'riot', then acts of violence are magnified. Being present, even without participation, is demonized.

The real truth is that no act of violence is acceptable.
Well this escalated quickly
> As a practical goal, you should be able to recreate your host with a single Bash script.

I think this is ideal, but I've yet to be able to do this or see a solid example.

At my old job I had to do exactly this, and it was really hard to get things right.

I'm much more seasoned now, but I still don't think I could do it lol
Yea!! This!

I’ve been working with a therapist for a few years. And that’s one of the things we’ve discussed that’s important for mental health.

We need to digest, reminisce, retrospect, whatever you want to call it to get closure. If you don’t get closure then you have open loops that are mentally taxing.
I think an issue with dgraph is their "open core" didn't include a lot of things you'd expect in a "core" DB (iirc backups, multi tenancy & acl). I'm not familiar with confluent & co. but imo for "open core" to succeed you need a product attractive enough to gain market share, and then you can have extra features for commercial use. But then why not just make it completely open source to gain even more market share and offer support contracts (eg redhat & co)?
No, it won't. There will always be the problem that the digital identity cannot be linked with 100% certainty to an actual human.

You don't know if the person creating a digital identity (or authenticating as one):

- is actually a specific individual

- is the same person as last time

- was telling the truth when setting up the identity

- doesn't have many other identities

This is already happening: wash-trading scams are rife in crypto because a single person can create many wallets and trade between them, making those assets appear more valuable and liquid than they are.
And you are free to do whatever you like with the hardware including installing any software you choose.

Apple is under no obligation however to compromise the security of their device in order to help you.
All this assumes that life had to form on the surface. But that's not the only possibility. If life formed deeper in the Earth and migrated to the surface later, the fainter sun might not have been an issue. Geothermal energy is small on the surface, but not deeper down.
Honestly we’re already working towards that. Between excel and no-code tools a lot of the grunt work can now be handled by the people who need it.

The majority of stuff out there will be commodity software implementing some simple business logic and software engineers don't want to do that stuff anyway which is why we’ve been writing ourselves out of those jobs for decades.

I have a very nontechinal marketing friend who routinely dives into WP sites to diagnose dependency issues after upgrades because her work no longer thinks she _needs_ programmer support. Or connect a up web/email forms to CRM in going or outgoing and needs no assistance to create complex conditional filled marketing campaigns.

And mostly they're right. She's bad at it. It takes at least 10x as long to fixes these issues, but they occur quarterly or less. And if she can not fix it then they hire a consultant/contractor to fix it.
Not everyone can be a successful novelist, but we all can read and write.

It is OK to have basic literacy, and the educational system is quickly adopting coding as part of basic literacy. That, in turn is making more and more people good enough to do basic coding, even if they will never do it as a professional career.

Just like people play basketball in their drive. Just like they drive their cars around town.
There are no "hidden costs". They're well known.

Factor them all in, and "the cloud" is 1000s to millions of times more expensive than bare metal. I've seen people pay $100k/month, for services which could run on an $140/month bare metal server failover pair.

Meanwhile, people still spend enormous resources managing "the cloud", writing code to deploy to the cloud, dealing with edge cases in the cloud.

There are no savings, time wise, management wise, or money wise, with the cloud.

You are paying for ignorance.
mostly yes. I think humans can only work on one thing at a time. If you hire a worker it is common sense that you should be able to identify that upon which he should work.
Everyone deserves a safe space
Is blockchain inherently bad?

Asking a tangential question, is a data store like Oracle DB, Postgres, or MongoDB inherently bad?

If you answered yes to one and NOT the other, please rethink about how you view blockchain or any data store. Because perhaps your intention was to be extremely polarizing, which is fair, but I also think your wording is dishonest.

> the entire scope of these technologies is promoting fraud, scams, and Greater Fool schemes

I agree there are endless frauds, scams, and Greater Fool schemes every single day, but these types of generalizations are almost always strictly false, especially when talking about a global multi-trillion dollar industry.

The stock market has had its fair share of scams since its inception, but that doesn't mean EVERYONE who traded in the stock market in the 1700/1800s was a scam, hack, ponzi-schemer.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/09/hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stock_Exchange_Fraud_of_...
https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/385...

Yet here we are today with several stock markets.

Do people get scammed in the stock market? every day.
For millions of dollars? definitely.
Is there a lot of GOOD regulation to help with that? 100%

And guess what - that GOOD regulation that exists to help control scams doesn't exist in crypto, so it's like we're back in the 1700s where the stock market is brand new and people are figuring out what you can and can't do.

But don't blame the technology, you're being completely dishonest with yourself by doing so and dishonest to those who read this.
That is awesome information, thank you! I've been working with the datastore for over a decade and didn't know this.
By all accounts, Rogan had far more listeners before moving behind the Spotify paywall. So the irony is that if Spotify dropped Rogan (which no one, including Young, thought would happen) his podcast would be reaching more listeners again.
My favorite Orca fact is that they eat the livers of Great White Sharks. There may be no more metal animal on the planet.
I believe self-modifying virus is a thing back in MS-DOS/Win95 era, not sure if it is still relevant these days.
I've heard it said that Excel is the world's most popular IDE.

Given what I have seen of some spreadsheets, I am quite glad we don't push those people into programming who aren't interested in doing so.
Well, this makes me feel old. It's no revolution, but a reversion. It was the norm, not that long ago, that anyone could do minor programming. The era of Lotus Notes and the like.

You would still hire a programmer for the big stuff, but office workers would build little scripts, or look under the covers when something goes wrong.