skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is easily a few thousand dollars worth of advice. I use PostgreSQL regularly but I would never have been able to come up with this solution myself.

Having queues on Postgres is going to be such a great addition to my tool belt especially since there's always a Postgres instance running somewhere anyway.

I know the first use case that jumps to mind is a job queues, but I feel like the method described in the article is quite low level which means it can be used as a base to solve many use cases.

* I won't have to reach for Kafka/Redpanda unless the rate of events/messages reaches 100k-1000k per day.

* I can add one column called queue_id where each unique queue_id refers to a new queue which means I can use a single table for multiple queues.

* If I add a new column called event_type, then I wonder if it's possible to create a composite event queue, where for example the query must return exactly two rows and one row must have event_type=type_1 and second row must have event_type=type_2 and both rows are locked and processed exactly once?
Exploitativeness is not necessarily ill-defined. It's just that when you define it rigourously, it either never happens or happens too often for the definers' ideological persuasion.

And by the way, your statement is also extremely ill-defined. If you say that most transactions are not zero-sum, you are presupposing some kind of value system, which you didn't specify, and the value system for which that is true are also very ill-defined.

It's also true that a positive sum interaction could absolutely be exploitative. So the actual amount of exploitative interactions is strictly higher than the number of zero sum or negative sum interactions.
In that sense, crypto is exactly the same as forex, money markets, equities markets, futures markets, derivatives markets, etc. We haven't been coupling markets with labor for like 300 years now.
> It's like a microservice, but with the footprint of an operating system.

What? It's 100mb vs 25mb, like 75MB of data more... Who cares about a binary being 75MB larger in 2022?
Haha my mind cannot believe this to be true and yet it'd take some 4D chess to have made up such a strange, specific lie.
> I will confess that English grammar and spelling is kryptonite for me

English is an amalgamation of about five different languages from at least three different families at this point, so I think we can all be forgiven for getting these things wrong every now and then. :)

(Linguists: Don't take "five" and "three" too literally.)
What is bullshit measured in? Displeasing incidents per year?

Thus 1 incident per 3 or 4 days = $285,000?
No, I am on iOS and all I see are the options. I didn’t vote in order to refrain from polluting the poll. Maybe when it’s closed I can see the results.
Isn't that what Meta is trying to do? They claim to pay in the top 5% of salary and talk a ton about how much better it is to work there compared to Amazon. There seems to be a ton of Amazon folks moving over there all the time.
You can get nearly all of that on your bare metal if you use something like OpenStack. I know a couple people that run vmware on home lab also.
People like reasonable inflationary designs because it means they actually have money. If everyone ran on crypto they would prefer a reasonably inflationary coin over BTC, which will naturally get less useful as people lose parts of the supply when they forget their keys, or as the population using it grows.

(Who says the money supply of USD wasn't too small pre-money printing?)

Actually, if Austrian economics youtube videos were real and inflation was horrible, then switching to crypto would not make you safe - because your government can't control what currency citizens trade in anymore, it can't stop someone else from inventing a popular currency and then suddenly inflating it.
Seems like part of the question is missing. Why specifically three dimensions of what? Dimension means: a measurable aspect of something; and it's a conceptual tool we use for things. If we're talking space (defined as a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied), we can define and measure length, width, height. So 3 dimensions. If we're talking area, 2 dimensions. If we're talking universe, we can measure aspects of other phenomenon (such as relative movement of objects). You could combine it with space, and could say we live in a 4 dimensional universe, 3 comprising space, 1 time... and call it: spacetime. Do 4 dimensions accurately model all that's observable in the universe? That depends on what you consider as the necessary aspects that make up the universe.

Anyhow, in short, why 3 dimensions? Because it can be modeled that way and seemingly makes for a good model.
Just wanna say thank you for your work.
Basecamp Updates Code of Conduct
All I see on Twitter is spam. I question their engineering ability
Extremely lazy MSPs will port forward ports to BMCs instead of using a VPN or SSH tunnel.
> Crypto so far is largely a vast space with little intrinsic value.

So was pokemon. By my definition that's a crap game even without crypto. But millions of people have fun playing it and its a big part of their lives, so who am I to judge?
The diff between 4k and 1080 is not nearly the jump that SD to 1080 was. Like, we couldn’t believe we could actually see the puck in a hockey game now.
Killer whales also often target grey whale calves. they separate them from their mothers and drown them. Scientists suggest they do it for sport and entertainment, as they rarely consume the meat.

Trigger warning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBeoqVN0c
I can give you a practical reason, legit even. Say you provide your clients with a demo version of your program, that after 30 days will expire and clients either register to continue benefit or have a demo version that no longer works.

Sure, you can employ a simple scheme where you write stuff in another part of the OS (like registry in Windows) and then rely on goodwill of your potential clients they will register your demo. But such a scheme is easy to abuse. So how about one that's a bit harder like having a self-modifying demo that will write stuff onto itself and check themselves to stop running after 30 days. Bonus points if your demo also has some database that is hosted inside the executable so it has legit reasons for doing the self-modifying bit. Even with a debugger attached you made to eventual cracker life 100 times harder. Sure, anything can be cracked but it's all about your hours vs cracker hours in the end.
we don't know its a scam (or joke?), and its not like HN needs to be cautious on this because of who comes here.
They now have a mostly functional interpreter. This should turbo-charge tight write/test/write/test loops. I wish I would have had it when I wrote my last mid-sized Crystal project.
You realize that a simple explanation is just "Amazon has higher standards", and thus exits more people. I'm not saying that's true, just that it entirely fits the model. Another explanation would be "Amazon is worse at filtering on entry", e.g. "Netflix has a better intake with fewer false negatives". Of course, "Amazon is a shit place to work" is also a possible explanation.
(For clarity: the device being jailbroken shouldn't and honestly usually doesn't make it less secure, and in the past we have sometimes been able to fix bugs and patch them to be more secure than stock; but, to be jailbroken means the device was jailbreakable, which is where the core insecurity lies: a jailbreakable device--which is an older device or one running an older operating system version with some unpatched exploit that can be abused--whether or not it has been jailbroken is dangerous to be using, and the jailbreaks have become more limited in their ability to fix these bugs.
it said so as it's HTTP not HTTPS
I've been using Debian for 20 years and Arch for 5. Lately I've been trying to reconcile the traditional skills I have with more kubernetes oriented things. I've got a vague plan to write a helm plugin to talk to systemd and deploy everything with podman. After seeing the appetite for both approaches lately, I'm inclined to actually do this.
That's like saying a chef put a lot of effort into a meal so you can't say they did a good job
Fine, “considerably less painful” then.

The worst thing I’ve had to deal with recently is debugging some faulty RAM sticks and NVMe failure. Obviously hardware quirks are still at play and there’s not much that can be done there, but in terms of making life easier on the software side, NixOS and reproducible config definitely helps over traditional distros.
Thanks for sharing this! I tend to forget but there are people who love servers.
The intrinsic value of pokemon is the enjoyment you get out of playing. Thus people are willing to pay money to play it.

"Investments" in crypto tend to have value because you can sell it to somebody else for more, not because the intrinsic value increases over time. E.g. like a cashflowing business increasing their cashflow, or raising rents on a rental property.

This is self referential, people aren't paying more because it provides higher intrinsic value, but due to speculation.
AAPL pays dividends in another currency.

TSLA theoretically could, plus they can repurchase shares anytime they want. (Or issue new ones, since their shareholders seem desperate to give them money.)
> that clearly listed the destination URL as homedepot.com

Does anyone have an explanation for this? I've heard such claims before, but I'd like to see it to believe it. I could perhaps imagine yet another unicode "feature" (non-printing characters or some very subtle combining characters or a font variant?) being abused for this. On the other hand, part of me wants to believe that despite all their failings, there's no way Google wouldn't have thought of that and prevented it. Right?

EDIT: Somewhat recently I tried to find out if this is true after someone claimed they had had a legit URL lead them to a phishing site, but the only juice I found is the same old: typo-squatting. Just now showing up in big G's results. Apparently e.g. homedopet.com leads to a site that uBlock doesn't want me to visit (badware risks). On the other hand homedepet.com and homodepot.com took me to the right site.
I'm sorry to hear you had these shitty experiences :( FWIW, I agree with some others who say that it differs between hotlines and it does depend.

I volunteer at one (working at software doesn't provide enough meaning as far as activities go, and this does, as a side thing), and we are very strict about not forcing advice (or rescue) on anyone. (I had to go through multi-month trainings, practice, then supervision etc., we have ongoing seminars and equivalent of QA, etc.) The primary goal is provide emotional support and to give the caller a safe space where they can be heard, openly express and talk about their feelings and thoughts. We are there expressly not to solve any issues they are having. If they need it and consent to it and give an address (the calls are anonymous), we can call an ambulance; but even then the preference is if the caller does that.

I can tell (with some statistics and also lots of feedback) that the support does address the callers' emotional needs to be heard (sometimes to organise thoughts, understand their emotions, to speak to a real human and feel less lonely, etc.)
I agree that malware and such should be dealt with but at the expense of your own property rights is far too far.

Secondly, if apple just allowed loading your own signing key it’s not like malware writers can sign their crap with their own key, and expect it to run.
Yeah, that's the sense I got in that context, too.
I agree, when you get to a larger scale. 3-5 RPi's won't make to much spaghetti.
Sharing the computer screen in Gnome – Fedora Magazine
very cute logo!
Sega quits arcade business after 50 years
You can use something like Amazon DocumentDB.

Or understand that MongoDB's license is kind of a necessary evil that I guarantee DGraph will likely implement at some point. Amazon's embrace and extinguish approach is too successful to ignore.
Seems like this will cause unnecessary discord. But, overall, I'm happy for things to become more competitive - I do think we should have national lists that can be searched for how well you scored on the SATs and your high school GPA etc., all stack ranked against each other.
HP Microserver Gen8 with iLO from 2014 also had generated admin password.
It depends if their infrastructure is a mess, which it probably is because it's the oldest and biggest public cloud. In that case if they are having high turnover and it means no one really understands a lot of nuances that have snuck in to their systems over time, internal implosion can lead to catastrophe eventually.
Humorously, the source in one of the Reddit comments is quoting a source linked from the Spanish language wiki page for Orcas which cites, as justification, a 2007 version of the English language wikipedia page for Orcas.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070630040841/http://animals.ab...
Did you ever had the courage to tell, that you lacked courage, once?
Yes, and that will make you an expert, possibly even a master, but not a genius. Genius isn't skill or technical competence, it's potential. Ramanujan was a genius even without formal training. Van Gogh died a genius before anyone cared about his art. Einstein was a genius daydreaming in the patent office. Shakespeare was a genius when he was writing dirty jokes.
Thank you for laying out all that, but what do you think of the usages?

> Encomiums: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone highly. Lou Reed, not noted for his gushing encomiums about fellow artists, said, “They just made the songs up, bing bing bing. They have to be the most incredible songwriters ever - just amazingly talented.”

As I understand it, it's not 'praise highly', but "A formal or high-flown expression of praise; a eulogy, panegyric." (per the Oxford English Dictionary) Reed's praise isn't that.

> Antipodean: relating to Australia or New Zealand (used by inhabitants of the northern hemisphere) I wondered if [Get Back] was the result of a man who, locked down in his Antipodean editing suite, had waded too deep into his material and lost control of it, a Kurtz in the Beatle jungle. Peter Jackson is from New Zealand :)

But so what? Clearly it is meant to say much more than geography, but what? Why should we think Jackson's tools or process or ... (or what?) are somehow upside down? What is upside down? How are they upside down? Why use a word, one that stands out, if there is no way (afaict) to understand its meaning? One (at least) suspects it means nothing.
I still don't see the fraud? Just because your friends/associates aren't using cryptocurrencies for that purpose right now, doesn't mean that other people aren't, or that they won't be in the future.

This is akin to saying that seat belts are fraudulent because they aren't saving your life every single day. You might not need the properties of censorship resistance, privacy and so on right now, until one day you do.

I would much rather live in a world where such currencies are available in case I need to rely on them.
Well covid helped spread people out ;-)
Windows 11 with Edge. Nothing else /s

But in all reality, laptops are really, really powerful these days.
I'm fairly sure you must have gotten a fake f-droid store that installs malware instead. I didn't know those were out there.

The real one can be found at: https://f-droid.org

You can also download individual apps (APK files) from the website, so you don't need the store if you don't want updates. Also note how Spotify is not listed if you use their search, because (like others already said) it's not open source and thus not on F-Droid.
People buy expensive art because its popular. They also do nothing but stare at it every once in a while. Is that intrinsic value? Because if that is, then so is crypto.
> So far every metaverse project I've seen has zero idea what they are going for. I don't even get Facebook's concept.

Neither did 99% of those who jumped on this World Wide Web thing about 20-25 years ago, and yet it turned out to be a big deal after all.

Not saying this is clearly headed in the same direction, and I couldn't think of a worse steward than Facebook, but there's a chance this will also be a big deal so people (and companies) are staking claims, associating themselves with it and hyping things up. It sounds like a load of bullshit, but hey, I've been wrong before. On the other hand, I have been wrong about being wrong before, too.
NYTimes story had a telling quote: [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/us/pittsburgh-bridge-coll...]

" Greg Kochanski, a software engineer, was walking his dog under the bridge about three years ago when he noticed that one of the X beams that stabilized the bridge was so rusted that it had disconnected from the column to which it had been attached.

"He reported this to the city in a tweet and, several weeks later, he said, noticed that the rusted beam had been removed."
I don't think anyone cares. They could make the binary 15kb, no one would notice. Most of the times runs inside a pod that will feature a 500+ MB operating system anyway...
According to https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/... the lowest unused ports are currently 4, 6, 8, and 10. I think these were originally the port numbers for the opposite direction of data transmission for services on ports 5, 7, 9, and 11 (RJE, echo, discard, and systat) but that function became obsolete with the switch from NCP to TCP in 01983. I may be misunderstanding this a bit because I don't really understand NCP.
Not most countries, but it is illegal in some... see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation

In NZ I do know the cops like to kick you when you're down. Let's say you've climbed a scaffold that's around a building and you want to jump but you are saved (as you had been on the phone with a suicide help line, and they passed the details to the Police), you get done with a trespass charge and can be convicted. I really hate reading stories like this - way to kick someone while they're at rock bottom, potentially making them actually do it so they don't have to go to court, get publicly shamed and potentially getting a criminal record.
I would argue that, while both crypto and stocks are speculative assets whose value continues to grow due to greater fool theory, stocks either pay dividends or come with the expectation of eventually paying dividends. This means at least part of the value of a share of stock can be accounted for as the summed present value of all future dividends from that share.

Most crypto assets don't pay dividends, and those that do usually pay by devaluing the currency through some staking scheme, instead of by extracting profit by selling something valuable to people.

Given those premises, I'd argue that stocks like AAPL or TSLA are part speculative asset (what you're calling a Ponzi scheme), while most crypto is all speculative asset.
God. Thank you for this. As an incipient biomedical researcher with still 2 years to finish training, I feel like every time I google or pubmed my subject matter of interest I'm being scooped. Just yesterday I was quite mad as a company looking to solve the problem I am working on opened with a bunch of researchers from other institutions. I felt like I was late once again.

The final paragraphs make me think of David Epstein's Range, and how training or even basic understanding of methodologies outside one's area open conceptual frames to better tackle questions.
I pulled this reply from the most recent Associated Press tweet. Yeah, I'm sure they've mentioned Bitcoin at some point, but it has nothing to do with my Twitter usage.
Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch can be extradited to US, rules Priti Patel
can I get in? I have fond memories of the old SDF shell accounts
Perhaps Musk will choose to take credit when there is sufficient public will to credit him, and when it is clear that taking credit for the invention will accelerate time to civ on Mars.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-G_PUU25wjCwBfPjAbp77_r...
The entire crypto landscape is dirty tricks and frauds already. The blockchain is just an immutable data structure (a hash or vector commitment tree). It works like ink on a paper, but it's publicly verifiable. What happens on it, and how that's interpreted is a different question.

A blockchain is like having an append-only log in someone's house. Everyone can look at it, nobody can erase from it, and everyone can buy an expensive pen to create a new entry. The people who own the house can replace the log with an older copy if they wanted to, if they don't like the new entries for example, which is what happened to Ethereum, but the real opportunity is not compromising the blockchain, it's running scams with it and on it. With no oversight, no fraud detection, no customer protection anything goes. All the blockchain can do is setting the fraud in stone.

We already have better cryptographic tools for verifiability supporting transparency and censorship resistance, and they are much faster and more pratical.

You can't replace existing things with a Merkle tree and proof of whatever consensus, because the powerful will always have more of that whatever. Once they do you get a centralized system worst than any existing one.
You don't need to pay to talk about Linux, silly. There are plenty of people (Including trans girls (hey that's me)) who'd listen for free!
Thank you, ketzo. Unfortunately I'm no longer with the org and can't say for sure that they wouldn't ever try to do something like this. I'm working with a new group now on open source peer support software that also values privacy.
White House Wants Crypto Rules as a Matter of National Security
> the scene where McCartney literally creates Get Back out of thin air in a few minutes time

Scene starts at 1h02 in Part 1. His talent is depressing.
> Exploitativeness is extremely ill-defined and often used to push an agenda that is not really aligned with the interest of the party "being exploited".

One could say something similar about "betterment" in your original statement.

> Capitalism/free markets do not guarantee that humans are not shitty

Obviously.

> but I challenge you to find a social system that does.

We shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It irks me when "capitalism/free markets" is presented as some kind of "best possible economic system," or that it cannot be challenged unless the challenger is perfect. It's a set of trade offs (advocated by people with their own agendas), and I see little reason why different people shouldn't advocate different sets of trade-offs.
Is there a single institution left in this world that isn’t corrupted?
This is exactly what many of the really big enterprises do. At their scale the cloud becomes laughable. But as a backup, it's the clear way to go. Primary on prem with automatic failover to the cloud.

I worked with a large customer to help build this for them. OpenShift running on-prem, but they had some failover equipment that would ansible them an OpenShift cluster on aws. Depending on the nature of the failure it did take a little time to fail over, but 15 to 30 mins of downtime in the event of a catastrophic failure is often worth it to save hundreds of millions per year.
Yeah I just don't understand how any of those things are bizarre or non-obvious. People want to be entertained, have power over other people, have more resources, etc...
ActiveX was what sprang to my mind as well. But I only gave the website the most superficial look.
In New Mexico we have a non-profit staffed by volunteers trained in listening. It is not a suicide hotline exactly, they welcome anyone who feels like they need to talk. It's anonymous. I had several friends who volunteered there some years back; they'd get calls from old people who were lonely, stressed out students, all kinds of people. I don't think you have to be New Mexican to call.
http://www.agoracares.org/
505-277-3013
855-505-4505