skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Postgres wire compatibility does not imply Postgres compatibility.

I recently got bit by this, I wanted to convert a mail address database from MySQL Galera to CockroachDB, because CockroachDB was just a bit easier to deal with.

Unfortunately, Cockroach only support UTF-8, and Postgres only supports LATIN1 for the database (compiled into code). I believe that there are reasons for both sides to make this choice, unfortunately it turned what I hoped would be a slam dunk into a round peg in a square hole.
And with a 0% loan it us even better
I believe the name "chatty" is also a chat program for Phosh, made to run on the Librem 5 and PinePhone.
You can get 8% on stable coin deposits with Gemini Earn and BlockFi. After taxes it’s probably still a slight loss.
Simple Analytics absolutely does receive identifies (namely IP address). They claim they do not store these address, but that depends entirely on trusting them and their closed source software.

This is very unlike the accounting firm, which never receives any identifying for cash transactions and thus couldn't store it even if they wanted to.
I think this one is overblown. If Gates wanted to learn about viruses all the worlds bleeding edge experts are in his reach. I would be charitable and assume he took advantage of that. If so he can be a lot more educated about the subject than any doctor.
>But yet if you call these services while the person is still employed, they absolutely will divulge titles.

Is that actually the case?
Taking this to the logical conclusion: This is the fault of US Intelligence Services for overreaching to the point where it impacts general trust in US companies, and should be solidly blamed on them for being legitimately untrustworthy and exploitive.
With an eZ80 and color screen, it’s much more like a feature phone without a SIM card than a pure calculator.
Whoops, indeed. Guess you'll have to modify the code that made the jump. Ugh.
Kubernetes Validates Custom Resources
> Right now, we are routinely creating neural networks that have a number of parameters more than the number of training samples. This says that the books have to be rewritten.

Confused by this statement. Double descent with overparameterization is exhibited in "classical settings" too and mentioned in older books.

> In their new proof, the pair show that overparameterization is necessary for a network to be robust.

What is important to note here is that many of papers this paper cites prove or show this result in certain network architectures. This paper adds universality.

> The proof is very elementary — no heavy math, and it says something very general

The most elementary part was clever use of Hoeffding's inequality. Some people are really fast readers haha.

I don't even know how you pick up the fact that isoperimetry holds in manifold settings with positive curvature while also playing with all those norms and inequalities. A few years ago I mentioned on here all the maths that I knew or wanted to know to read more papers, and others critiqued that the list was too long. Well, this is why!
> Rental affordability is 100% correlated to asset pricing.

It's not, though.

In a very simplified toy model, maybe there should be a direct 1:1 link, but empirically in reality there isn't even close.
How about make up your own mind, there are thousands of videos online across all the different versions of the FSD Beta. It's very apparent that it doesn't work _yet_. Musk's claims is that based on the number of disengagements going down over time, if you plot that curve then it should be at L4 end of this year. I doubt it myself, there are just too many edge cases to fix, but give it 2 or 3 years and it might be more realistic. If their approach will work eventually or not, the research community seems pretty split on that. I think this year will be indicative though on the approach. If it hasn't improved pretty massively by years end, then it might stay L2 for a long time, or L4 geofenced to easier areas.
Ask HN: Domains that are popular now?
Some domains have started to become popular in the tech world.

Apart from .com the common ones are .io, .so, .dev, .app any others?
Why are Europeans the bad guys here? It wouldn't be an issue at all of the US respected the privacy rights of Europeans.

It's the same with cookies. Instead of blaming sites which spy on you, some blame the EU for protecting its citizens.
That ruling declares that a centralized solution is no good.

The predictable outcome from that ruling is a decentralized solution: a few libraries attempting to build frameworks that are compliant, everyone implementing their own one-off versions of permission-granting and cookie consent using those frmeworks as a basis, and the Authority chasing mom-and-pop sites that are out of compliance until the sun goes cold.

In a sense, that may satisfy the goals: the data will be decentralized, stored widely, and harder to aggregate. On the other hand, what we learned from the virus era and the Windows OS monoculture is thousands of nodes running the same software (but not centrally maintained; maintained by people who have a job other than maintaining a website and are therefore slow to patch security holes) will be vulnerable to scripted attacks against frameworks.

My prediction is a net increase in stolen PII and, while individual site-runners will get screwed, the number of sites collecting the data won't go down. It's just too valuable, and the odds you will get hit by a hacker are too low.

In any case, it'll be a hell of a ride.
A CRUD API doesn't mean "just talks to the database and nothing more", a simple example and one of many is how PDF generation can f*ck up your event loop.
They run the background checks, but they might not take any action on the result of them. A friend of a friend is a registered sex offender who drives for them. They stalled him for about 6 months, but ended up allowing him to drive when he was still willing to after the long delay.
It's fine.

I've quit three jobs at this point because they made me use software I don't like.

I'm just about to go back to a company that 15 years ago wouldn't use the software I wanted. So, I left for another company that did. Now a days it's industry standard and the whole department there works solely in that software. And thanks to the pandemic we're all remote and I don't have to move. AND they're hiring for my exact position. I'm so excited.
I recently watched the reenactment video of a King Air flight in Florida where the pilot died mid-flight and the passenger had to land the plane (with his family aboard). Pretty gripping. Something aesthetically pleasing about the King Air body, too.
https://youtu.be/aqPvVxxIDr0
I can't believe people are still citing shadowstats and expecting to be taken seriously.

It's been known bullshit for a decade and a half.

https://econbrowser.com/archives/2008/09/shadowstats_deb
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

It would be good to have a way to reproduce these results on modern versions of browsers.
100%. The hidden part here is "DigitalOcean-level of complexity" is actually "DigitalOcean-level of features."

The big cloud providers have a variety of offerings of different complexity. Using GCP as an example: want k8s with all it's flexibility and complexity? You have GKE. Want to still run containers, but abstract away all the cluster resource management? CloudRun. Abstract away the container itself? CloudFunctions. AWS has EKS, ElasticBeanstalk, etc.

I understand people get overwhelmed the first time they're dropped into the console of these cloud providers but really it just takes a bit of reading to figure out what you should/shouldn't care about. And the benefit of doing so is enormous.
I've seen some people use a combination of payslips and offer letters as evidence to submit to USCIS but its rolling the dice, since it really depends on the immigration officer looking at your file. Some are OK, some aren't.
They will have no option but to raise rate.

I don't think this is meant to be a balance act or achieving that is possible at this point.
Unix: On the Path to BSD
I think this is basically a fat EU lie - that if you pop up a cookie popup most users say no to cookie banners.

I've heard that if you do a non-modal cookie banner, 75% of people just ignore it rather than go into it to deny cookies. About 12% (half of remaining) click accept all cookies. The rest close it again without taking action if they can.

I realize there are folks who go into things and customize everything on every website - most users I think don't care enough.

What's funny -> your ISP might be selling your browsing history. Your TV is selling your watching history and no one cares. But cookie pop-ups everywhere is all these privacy idiots can think about. It's performative privacy, that annoys the heck out of a lot of users and wastes a ton of time.
Pretty much any wasm language will require a JS runtime somewhere if you’re going to do substantial things with it, so might as well learn it either way.
Well, it's not necessary to process any personal data in order to calculate that.

Can you ask your bookkeeper to tell you the top 3 best selling products for your top 5 customers without declaring that the purpose of the data transfer to the external bookkeeper is also to run sales analytics?
Agreed. Are there any resources you recommend for getting good at solving problems with relational databases?
Are you saying advertiser's influence is somehow making the fulfillment problem worse?

This kinda assumes our own thoughts and desires aren't influenced by outside factors (bad habits, intrusive thoughts, etc), and without advertisers input we are on our own jolly way.

There could be an argument made that we face challenges for fulfillment from the inside out. Therefore objecting to one external force misses the forest for one tree.
The cnil.fr page hosting this article seems to use self-hosted piwik, which is a good sign that the regulators think it's ok.

(I wonder why they need to collect analytics information for this page at all.)
There was also https://liftweb.net in Scala…
“The US is structurally sympathetic to Neo-Nazis” is a different, and more difficult to refute, argument than “the US doesn't ban groups”.
Sure, but they weren't able to execute on that greed to the same extent that they were in 2017. Look at the profits of big tech in 2021 compared to 2017. In a well-functioning free market, most of the surplus is captured by the consumer rather than the producer. So excess profits are a sign of an inefficient market, and thus the drum beat for anti-trust enforcement against Google/Apple/Amazon/Facebook.
"I use to be against sharecropping until I started making money from it"
>My reply: asset prices don't matter to ordinary people.

Home values matter enormously to people. So does the value of their 401k, especially those aged 50+
Total bank credit jumped 5% in about a month when the pandemic started and is continuing to grow at a very high rate historically. This is in addition to personal savings rate jumping from around 7% to over 30%.

There's a lot of money and credit is amplifying it

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTBKCR

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
Overall, the worst experiences I've had have been the three (or is it four?) failed google interviews

I've never applied to Google

But have interviewed there several times

The last time was for a cloud architect / customer onboarding presales enigneer role ... and (though they contacted me, with my resume in hand) they were upset I didn't already have GCP experience

The other times, though, I failed their tech screen because I asked clarifying questions and/or answered in a way that wasn't on the script

And the people who did the interviews were completely incapable of providing clarification, or understanding that what I told them was not only valid, but could also be superior to what they had on their script
Yeah, and that's the thing; I have nothing against visiting landmarks, but they blend together after a while and there are only so many of them.

I think the vividness of modern media also ruins things like the Eiffel Tower. It's one thing to see a photograph and aspire to one day visit Paris, but I'm pretty sure I've absorbed views of the Eiffel Tower from just about every angle in UHD drone and helicopter footage. In another era, I might be tempted to repeatedly visit it in my lifetime. As far as my brain can tell in this era, I've not only been to the Eiffel Tower but I've been higher than it. So biiiig deal.
the Polynesians may well have been the first from the old world to make it to the new world in South America, maybe a group got shipwrecked off the coast. The Polynesians were very good sailors who knew how to sail between far flung islands in the enormous Pacific Ocean, as can be attested by their ancestral travels outwards from Asia to Australia, the last being the Maori who made it to New Zealand in the 1300s.
Is leetcode a type of engineer? In terms of ROI in finding a new job that’s what I recommend specializing in.
That article was written in 2012, it just happens to be a good guide. It’s widely supported today:

https://caniuse.com/css-media-interaction
Apple lying to the federal or state government etc doing background checks is quite different than sharing incorrect information to private systems.
To add on top this. I started by supporting other DSL such as Json. Then I realized it was adding burden on me in terms of documentation since people would ask me for different examples.
If your workload is actually CPU-heavy, Node’s solutions for this are several:

- worker threads
- child processes/IPC
- native bindings (n-api/gyp/etc)
- WASM/WASI

Maybe so many as to cause choice/research paralysis. If you’re primarily interested in writing JS/TS, worker threads are a great option. And for most use cases you don’t need to worry about shared memory/atomics, postMessage has surprisingly good performance characteristics.
I've got 3 (almost 4) small kids

If you can't stay active with kids around, you're doing it wrong :P
Only when you're living a EU urbanites lifestyle. And who the fuck are you to speak in term of "need" ?

You don't need an iphone when a 10 that's old piece of crap hardware does the same job (albeit much less efficiently).
Do you fear that one day your child might be something greater than you yourself ever could be?

No. There is no greater accomplishment humanity could achieve than to make itself obsolete.
I never really think about it, although I imagine the chip shortage is putting a big dent in the production of HDD's / SSD's.
Loading modules over https because why? are dependancy attacks currently too difficult? Thanks I hate it.
Hah :) I've also had a recent blog-post length thought about this entitled:

"Technical Debt is really Software Debt. And it’s a AAA-rated CDO." https://www.evalapply.org/posts/software-debt

Context:

> I’ve long struggled with the Technical Debt metaphor. It was immediately useful when I first heard it. I still think it is useful, albeit as a starting point. The more I worked with software, the more infuriatingly incomplete it started to feel.

> One source of my unease is that I think discussions of Technical Debt don’t sufficiently examine the nature of the Risk of the underlying challenge. The other is that the concept skews and pigeonholes the Responsibility part of the underlying challenge.

(More at the post. And if I sound like an idiot in there, may I be an AAA-rated one. :)

Edit: add some context from the blog post.
This is a great response to OPs comment.

At the end of the day we should be doing what is good for the People and somehow its always assumed that they will/should be the ones impacted when policies like these are enacted.

But Europe has leverage here - I don't think Amazon would want to miss out on a giant market base out of some moral principle and there are probably other levers to be pulled here to encourage that.

Anyway, not adding much to your comment other than kudos.
> That data is theirs not yours.

I fundamentally disagree. You can't come to my house with a red hat then demand I never tell anybody you have a red hat and forget I saw it. That's absurd.
Not bad, but right at 9:10 in the video, you have white text on a bright translucent background with terrible contrast (in the widget list). This is not an issue with this particular theme... Building a theme that looks great across the operating system, including common third-party apps, is an endless game of whack-a-mole that requires a dedicated team.

I guess I wish Ubuntu had picked KDE as its replacement DE, I really liked their theme around 20.04, and they put a lot of work in the details (like just getting desktop icons back).
You are describing how you want the world to be. Can you accept that other people might like being introduced to new products?
I’m just letting you know that even in NYC the ratios are still not in mens favor. 18-35, there are still more men in NYC than women. You’ve been sold a lie for a long time - lol.
Interesting! I'm not a Node expert specifically, just a general systems programmer, but I might be able to give you some pointers.

Is your application I/O-bound, or CPU-bound? i.e. what's the bottleneck, which you would have to increase in order to speed it up? Your comment is a bit ambivalent given your remark about adding "more and more CPU processing".

If you're I/O-bound, then you're free to do more CPU processing. If/once you're CPU-bound, there are a few questions:

- Are you using all your cores? Node is single-core, so you may need to run one Node process per core. This obviously depends on how parallelisable your program is. Edit: u/eyelidlessness has given some more Node-specific suggestions that may allow true shared-memory concurrency, or even shared-memory parallelism across several cores.

- Are you able to increase your CPU's clock speed? (This obviously assumes a cloud environment or something similar, where you can easily swap out CPUs. I'm not talking about overclocking.)

- Have you profiled exactly what is using so much CPU? Is there some wasteful computation you can remove? Try `node --cpu-prof` to generate a profile. If you're unfamiliar with analysing profiles, Brendan Gregg's blog is the place to go. This article from the guy who wrote Sled is also a very good longread: https://sled.rs/perf.html

I'm surprised if you're really using so much CPU in a Node application, at least if it's a typical CRUD one. I'd strongly suppose that you're doing some wasteful computation, either in an algorithm in your business logic, or else in inefficient JSON parsing. Let me know if you can give any more info :)

Edit: It looks like u/eyelidlessness has given some more Node-specific tips for improving CPU saturation. I'd definitely check out the pointers that he/she gave.
Agreed. I don't think this a cosplay, especially within the context of all the work his foundation has done to save lives around the world from a pragmatic numbers based approach.
>When you use an ad-supported service, you're not "the product," you are the customer.

It's not the ads that make you the product but the tracking for the ads.
Heh, GTK has a "Broadway" backend for running in a browser, though I don't think WebKitGTK will work on it…
It's been used as long as I remember for high-end custom garments. I've also seen it for a long time related to firearms in the US - but only very specifically when talking about custom, extremely high-end English rifles and shotguns. How high-end? Well, the Wiki page for Boss & Co. cites a quote by King George VI: "A Boss gun, a Boss gun, bloody beautiful, but too bloody expensive!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_%26_Co.

Basically, "bespoke" has been used in the US in reference to goods desired by or consumed by the English gentry class.

Recently I've begun seeing it used to describe anything where you'd paying more for ostensibly hand-selected products. The example that comes to mind is "Bespoke Post" (https://www.bespokepost.com/) - which is, ironically, pretty much the opposite of the historical meaning of the word.

It seems like the long-term impact of the "Hipster" culture on the SV world.
It's first important to note that 'Modern western countries with christian historical traditions' are NOT for the most part Christian states [1], but secular ones. This is important. Secularism and the separation of church and state are relatively modern, Enlightenment values, not Christian ones.

Together with the idea that certain human rights are fundamental and inalienable, secularism has allowed quite a lot of states (not just Western ones) to progress, at least nominally, to a more inclusive and moral view of humanity.

GP mentioned that Christian (presumably secular majority Christian) states have an obsession with equality and are extraordinarily welcoming to other cultures. This is patently false. I provided a series of examples, both historical and current.

> What the crusaders and christians did centuries ago in the west is absurd as a criticism of TODAY'S western states

I addressed the claim that Christian (so not modern secular) states are extremely tolerant etc. For that historical examples are pertinent. Christianity, like all major religions, can be leveraged for good or bad, for tolerance or exclusion, for peace or war.

> Pointing to boats in the Mediterranean is a case of finding the worst, extreme examples when they don't even closely represent the whole

Tens of thousands of people have died in the Mediterranean in the past years, often with the complicity of EU or other national authorities [2] [3] [4]. Hardly isolated incidents.

> Take even a brief look at demographic information from nearly any western european state or any of the anglo/saxon countries in the world

Immigration, in reality, mostly has to do with the economic needs of the host country, not so much with their unimaginably charitable desire to allow everybody in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_state

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_migrant_vessel_inciden...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/18/e...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/world/europe/frontex-migr...
I would love to ditch to ditch apple for everything given a better alternative (its not android or windows).
I lost almost half of my hearing due to otosclerosis and had an operation on my right ear that changed almost nothing, now it's worse. I wasn't aware that we are such a large group.
Buyers' cost tolerance is driven by the cost of their mortgage, which is extremely sensitive to interest rate hikes, which typically rise as a way to curb inflation.

No cheap mortgages means a lot fewer eligible buyers.
Organic meme spread is extremely random and unpredictable. Yes, rich people (and conglomerations of not-so-rich people) have better access to advertising. So what?

Facebook and Google are just mediums, like "television" in the abstract. The social value of advertising comes from the people doing the advertising. Like everything, some of it's crap and some of it's great.
I moved from the US to the NL. Love it but I can’t get dual citizenship and getting permanent residence requires knowing the language well enough to pass a test, so why stay? It’s kind of a bummer because my son speaks native-fluent Dutch now. Next up will probably be Ireland.
> we are giving you a 500 USD Apple credit and extending the time you can use it to get a new M1 Mac through the end of the year

So we are in agreement it was $500 that Apple ultimately offered? Great. Glad we cleared that up and what I said was correct.