skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of questions:

1. Which parts are open source? Will it require a commercial license?

2. I once worked on an already-existing credit card chargebacks system that was horrifically complex, with all kinds of variations and rules and states that play out over weeks or even months. The logic was scattered all around a Rails app, sometimes in clear chunks of business logic, but sometimes something like an `expired?` accessor on a chargeback variant would know the expiry period for that type of chargeback, etc.

I toyed with the idea of trying to pull all the logic out into some kind of non-code representation. Possibly a state machine diagram, possibly a giant spreadsheet (because with real-world payment processing, you can get just about any response when you're in any state, whether it seems valid or not, and you have to choose to do _something_!). Possibly a state machine diagram for the normal path but with a spreadsheet representation for the full cross-product of weird state transitions. Alas (or thankfully), I moved to a different project before I could undertake anything ambitious.

Would Stately let me do that? Move the knowledge of a hideously complex real-world, extended process that had been painstakingly gathered for years and encoded in logic scattered around an application, and let non-programmer, business-level people use that representation to understand and even tweak parameters of the process?
Pgbouncer does have stats, you can get them using the `SHOW STATS` family of commands. You can then either manually scrape them or use something like pgbouncer_exporter[1] for Prometheus.

[1] https://github.com/prometheus-community/pgbouncer_exporter
Same for me when I was first learning. I just wanted to get to whatever version of BASIC we had (I have no recollection now what specifically it was, but I asked my dad and he showed me how to use the DOS prompt) so I could make pictures like they did in my math textbook (end of chapters had lessons on BASIC and programming). Making pretty pictures was play, and then simple games (a hobby I continued with to pass the time in science classes in high school with my TI-85/86). And at some point in middle school I realized I could use these programs to solve problems and started doing that, too.

Just like there's recreational mathematics, a lot of programming can be "recreational", something for play not for "serious" work (even if it happens that the serious bits follow from the play).
I think it matters on perspective. That funding might be considered rational if you were a congressperson who have a vested interest in certain lobbies. Not saying it's necessary moral or optimizing for the right thing for society as a whole, but it may be rational.
Glad he was able to take it in stride. I bet it was funny when you realized who it was
I think they can also do useful things like traffic maps and album art over nrsc5
Unless they wanna keep the "and it’s unclear where it goes" part of course, which seems like they wanted to. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that there can be multiple reasons, and it's not that obvious of why.

In any other way, social media applications surely are the ones that extract the most data, and TikTok being on top of that list makes it to the top of the list of total applications too.
These people will always be interesting to me. They "won" the game, they accumulated wealth and made a comfortable life for themselves. Yet they usually live frugally and die with several millions just because they never actually spent the money.

Some of my relatives were like that. Lots of money in the banks, 70 years old, yet his wife would chastise him for buying a small $16k Mazda truck to replace his +10 years old $12k Ford truck.
"Influencer" in the Instagram sense is probably very power law. I'm sure the vast majority make squat.
How We Deletes Streaming Data in a Distributed Vector Database Cluster
Probably an OS for an upcoming piece of VR hardware, if I had to guess https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/3-reasons-why-apples-upcoming...
Related question - is there an FGPA simulator / designer which works on OS X?
This is as real as Linus Torvalds' "delete linux because it sucks" commit:

> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

Edit: Explanation how it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24976138
Dude.

The New Republic isn't a GOP outlet, sure. It might even occasionally slightly hurt centrist sensibilities, which would put it left of the NYT. But if you think that's "hard left", you haven't seen hard left, or even moderate left.

Try something like wsws.org, or The Jacobin. The New Republic isn't remotely that.
As far as I'm aware, programming has been my favorite toy since age ~13.
Of course the kid is not being forced, I interpret this as "hey kid, does this sound interesting?"

Exposure to things is key.
I'm in Pakistan and on the rare occasions I browse Twitter I mostly see anti Pakistan propaganda by Indians and not much else.

Same is the story with Quora.
Just wait… it’s kind of a tired trope, but I still think there will yet be a “War on Climate Change.”

/s
Really? I’d have thought they would be out there inventing the world of tomorrow.

The entire clothing industry is applied biochemistry. Electronics is applied physics and chemistry.

How can there not be a demand for that?
California bullet train estimates a $5B cost increase
The delayed bag has happened to me a couple of times. When it's at your destination, it really sucks. But when it's at home, it's great, because you're not missing anything important and are eligible for free clothes: https://airpassengerrights.ca/en/practical-guides/baggage/de...
It’s absolutely real. I was diagnosed with it even growing up before internet and without TV.

You could have learned this in about five minutes of Google searching.
What Can Catholic Theology Say About Extraterrestrials?
Mine regularly crashes on me during meetings, it freezes up and fails to load convos or attachments, and the notifications don't seem to work for me. It truly holds me back in some form or another when Slack did not.

It's a matter of tooling, will the company provide the tools that are best for the worker? Or will they provide tools that are cheap to acquire but not as good as others. It's not a good sign if they start skimping on tools.

If I were to leave my position I have now, it would primarily be because I spend at least an hour of my day dealing with Teams problems or waiting for Teams to load something.
I check the "new" page multiple times per day generally. I don't claim to have looked at (even a glance) every post that gets submitted, but I look at (and possibly upvote, vouch, or flag) a pretty good portion of them.

And yes, I also have ShowDead turned on.
I just have a hard time accepting that the people who made every website implement a cookie warning that is equivalent to the “don’t use in bathtub” stickers all over appliances know enough about to write airtight laws that would actually solve any of this.
the link or realityOS?
> Did we finally learn how to extract more energy from a fusion rector than we supplied to operate it?

No. The issue is that most people only report the gain over the plasma (i.e. how much energy was put into generating the plasma) rather than the full amount of energy put into the process (i.e. superconductors, magnets, generating the deuterium/tritium, maintaining the sun-like heat, etc).
If you add this to the computation, you end up having to have a "fusion-gain" of around 50x to break even. The reason people report the plasma efficiency instead of the actual operating efficiency is to get funding and hype.

Don't get me wrong, this result is still impressive, but it's still orders of magnitude off of the required efficiency.
Good question. I'm also interested. My use case would be:

- a have an nginx server load balancing traffic between N web servers that talk to one DB. Everything is inside a VPC (I'm using digital ocean), and only nginx is public to the internet

One approach I have read is that I could terminate SSL at the nginx level, and handle normal http between my web servers. Question would be: how secure is that? Can I (should I) trust that everything within my VPC is only accessible to me? Is terminating SSL good enough when handling, let's say, account creations and payments via Stripe?
read here: https://webreader.app/?url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar...
Yes, it is inaccurate to the point of being the reverse.

Muscles are controlled through the software, with pattern of activation uploaded from an iPad via Bluetooth and generally managed by am accompanying person. The patients absolutely do NOT control the muscles with their brain.
"Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life" is also a great read. Here is short video demonstrating 12 basic principles of animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGY0qiy8fY
This is why I only install a few absolutely necessary apps, and mostly from fdroid. It makes me anxious to see friends install 3 different electric scooter apps in the space of 10 minutes just to try and unlock a scooter. I doubt those apps ever get removed once no longer needed.
> So make sure the "do it wrong" is cheap. And the "do it right" compounds.

That’s still really simple to type and hard to do.

> Frameworks make "do it wrong" extremely expensive. If, after four years, you find that Symphony really was the wrong tool for your highly event-sourced bookkeeping

1. It’s pretty simple to determine a framework’s architecture and design decisions a few months in, if not a few weeks or less

2. A “book keeper” application is such a basic commodity CRUD app, that it was exactly what a commodity framework was built for. Virtually every web based CRUD application is a conventional commodity.

Using a framework is optimizing for “cheap failure”. Creating your own inverted private framework feels like the exact opposite. All of the expensive mistakes possible with an open source framework, equally applies to your homegrown framework. The difference is that it took a lot more work and time to get to the same starting point.
I've heard some web developers use GNOME Web, which uses WebKit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Web

It's not 100% the same, but it's close.
Are you kidding they did this from nearly nothing
Her University Celebrated Her Inspiring Story. Then It Started Asking Questions
Archive link: https://archive.fo/jg3Ib

A summary of the major points:

- Mackenzie Fierceton got into UPenn as a FGLI student (first-generation and/or low income) when she wrote an entrance essay on ending up in a hospital as a result of abuse from her mother

- The Philadelphia Inquirer plugged her as some sort of inspirational story of a foster youth who grew up poor and made it to attending Oxford as a Rhodes scholar

- They got an anonymous tip that Fierceton actually grew up solidly middle class and attended a private school. She wasn't 'first-generation, low income'; her mother was a radiologist.

- The university launched an investigation into Fierceton and is withholding her degree

- The Rhodes Trust had their own investigation and recommended withdrawing their offer; she voluntarily declined the scholarship after this

- What's the truth? Well, apparently she never claimed to have grown up poor - that was the work of journalists. She was very open about having graduated from a private school. While her mother was charged with child abuse, those charges were dropped and the prosecutor said he wasn't certain about the case. But she was definitely hospitalised for three weeks, and after that spent a year in foster care

- The university's objections seem incredibly petty. She didn't really have her hair caked in blood as she said in her admissions essay (one of the nurses recalls washing blood out of Fierceton's hair). Her mother didn't actually abuse her since the charges were dropped (her mother said she just tripped and fell, and I suppose she spent a year living in foster care as a ruse to get into an Ivy League university). She misrepresented herself as being a 'first generation student' (UPenn's FGLI program bizarrely has a definition of a first generation student being the first generation in their family to have attended an 'elite' university).

- Why is UPenn doing this? Fierceton alleges this is because she is one of the witnesses in a wrongful death lawsuit, and that the anonymous tip sent to the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Rhodes Trust was from an official at the school who is trying to discredit her as a witness.
This is great. Years ago I did something similar in the US market, but since there isn't a centralized tracking authority, I resorted to grouping cars by drivetrain and scraping Craigslist/Autotrader as a proxy for mileage. Any chance of having a browse by make/model/trim option instead of just registration?
"Fusion is always 30 years away" is a heuristic that almost always works.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
Thank you for your comment. I would have missed that detail, and it brought me joy.
Nowadays though the research is secondary to grant funding, so hiring and promotion committees don't even care about that.

I was on a promotion committee where someone had a large grant but was not publishing. This went on for years and the response from significant segments of the department every year was literally something like "they have a large grant, it's fine, of course they'll publish".

Publications are seen as a dime a dozen, and open access and issues about replicability and so forth have just added to the sense they're not worth much. The attitude is more along the lines of "if your ideas are really that important and high impact, it will convince the federal government to pay for them." It's very much the classic betting market idea, that true value is revealed only when money is on the line.

I'm not saying this is good or bad, just my experience, in the US. I personally think the current funding system creates distorted incentive and reward systems, and that the original idea of academics was to insulate from that a bit or at least provide an alternative to traditional for-profit models.

If something doesn't change I think this trend will only accelerate. Journals will maybe become seen as irrelevant, with grant or funding receipt being seen as the actually rigorous form of peer review. Everything will become a form of seeking VC funding, either from private or public funders. Again, whether that's the best model for funding anything in the US, private or public, profit or nonprofit, is a different issue.
Brilliant work
This reads like a manager who has ignored feedback for years and when criticized expects a formatted list of every problem they ignored.

I don't see any point in doing this on Twitter other than this dev wanting confirmation bias their product is good. Overwhelmingly only apple users whom like apple are going to be following apple employees and participate in their discussions. This by its nature excludes a significant amount of criticism. It's a poor forum for actual content.

Take something that works on Chrome. Does it work on Safari? If not, fix it. There you go. I googled and found plenty of contemporary css bugs, js oddities/lack of support and feature differences.
It should be noted that, despite the culprits never facing justice, there were widely-shared suspicions: https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/cesena/cultura/2012/08/10/7...

In short: after the murder, Pascoli Sr was replaced by a local proto-gangster in the management of some land. The Pascoli family strongly believed he was the instigator.
Uh, ad revenues?

As far as I can tell, the NYT and Facebook have the same ‘share content, sell ads’ business model.
> HR is complaining about not being able to hire people

Perhaps HR was complaining about not being able to hire those people for the $50k/yr + unlimited PTO budget that they have?

because I can bet that if HR was willing to pay $500k+/yr + sensible PTO, a few of those GCP engineers right out of Google who literally wrote the first few lines of code for GAE might consider joining.
>I have a hard time thinking the next generation, growing up in a more multicultural, tougher (economically), progressive time will share the same values.

I think you're forgetting these were the free love dope smoking hippies. People's values change as they get older.
This is the real dyld-940, no mention of RealityOS: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/dyld/blob/9a9e3e4...
https://www.bitsfordigits.com/ might be another option. Not a loan though.
And unfortunately the effect flows both ways. I'm having a heck of a time finding a simple, modern log aggregator not designed for kubernetes and infinite scale.

I have 4 load balanced VMs and literally just need to pull the logs into a central location sorted by time. There's a shocking amount of complexity around all the popular tools in this space.
Let’s Face It, LinkedIn Might Be the Best Social Network
My apologies, i did google it and it seem like something i need. A bit ware about amazon and their prices that can sky rocket. seem to be a post on HN about it every other month.

Im new to this part, gotta start somewhere right? https://xkcd.com/1053/
The nanos are persnickety because it's so hard (many times impossible) to replace the battery, and they start to swell after a lot of use. Definitely inspect it and make sure the battery is good before making a purchase.
No, it's because the safari developer tools are crap.

Also, I can't get things like the vue dev tools in safari. I'd be more likely to switch to firefox
Alternately, there are a lot of things we can improve, and doing something small that's easily accomplished gets something done now, increases visibility, and add momentum to do bigger things. I know some states are banning (or limiting) plastic bags now.

Does that solve the big problems of container ships burning bunker fuel, oil wells leaking methane, and the huge amounts of plastic caused by drink companies? No, but it definitely makes them look worse, and adds pressure to help make bigger change.
I don't see how that addresses the GP's key point about the cost of replacing wastewater systems in literally every household. If I imagine, say, replacing all the walls in every house with modern insulated walls, windows with double-pane glass, roofs with solar panels, etc, a variety of environmental and economic objectives can be achieved. With regard to the very shiny "up to 47%" reduction in GHGE, this appears to be relative to the wastewater system, not the economy as a whole:

>Urine diversion consistently provides improved environmental performance
relative to the conventional system for each scenario for all
impact categories, except AP, as shown in Figure 2 (see Table
S17 for data plotted in this figure). Both diversion alternatives
reduced the GWP, CED, freshwater use, and EP categories
from anywhere between 24 and 63%.

As a reality check, there are still tens of thousands of homes in the United States using lead pipes for drinking water. The current regulatory and economic climate has made it infeasible to replace infrastructure that literally poisons people. Any reform that proposes to alter the physical structure of the vast majority of existing residential buildings must necessarily be situated in the context of laws, costs and politics that define what is possible for those buildings, and compared in terms of realistic costs and impact to the scores of other proposals to do similar things.

This is a painful and depressing reality that anyone who has studied American urban development for more than a few months comes to understand.
Yeah, but that helped out a lot of US companies that have significant lobbying backing and districts where those companies are located. Similar to how some NASA things get funded.

The outcome itself is not nearly enough, if it even matters (see Afghanistan, it's not like the outcome was a surprise): What needs to happen is that the money river* needs to flow through areas that have influential congress(wo)men and senators who benefit both financially (campaign contributions) and politically (good headlines, get something they can use in deals, etc.).

This is for anything where the outcomes are far away and/or uncertain. In those cases the money flow itself becomes the actual target. It is something concrete, with impact right away, compared to those types of goals.

A politician will probably support military spending in case the homeland is actually really threatened, but when it's not it's all about the benefits not of the military equipment for the troops, which are questionable (even when it works, do they actually need it?), but the benefits of the spending itself, pretty much disregarding the final products.

Example Afghanistan, which at first glance seems to fit my claim less than military spending for hardware:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/11/us-afg...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-won-in-afghanistan-private-... (paywall)

> One-third to half of that sum went to contractors, with five defense companies— Lockheed Martin Corp. , Boeing Co. , General Dynamics Corp. , Raytheon Technologies Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. —taking the lion’s share, $2.1 trillion, for weapons, supplies and other services
Saw videos of that car at the time and would love to know more details and some experiences!
I use an internal subdomain wildcard certificate (e.g., *.internal.example.com) and traditional methods of configuring ssl for internal services / sites on the internal servers.

For cases where the service or site doesn’t natively support ssl, I run a local reverse proxy with the above certificate.
This is a good summary of the UK's Prime Minister's character.

Jonathan Pie: 'Boris Johnson Is a Liar' | NYT Opinion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7kUqKeg_0
You should add double line drawing characters and shadows (remember the DOS version of Norton Utilities?)

Maybe make a theme set - Turbopascal style, QBasic style etc
It's an older RPG anime about people laying in bed playing a game in a virtual world via a BCI head set. It wasn't like today's VR, their eyes were closed.
What exactly is the existential threat? If population is at all time highs, if lifespans are at all time highs, if crop yields are at all time highs, if deaths from natural disasters are at all time lows, what is the existential threat?
Another fun fact. When I installed my PV array, I got the alignment of one of them wrong by 1 degree (from due south). I looked up how much power I lost from this mistake ... not much, about 1%. Then I used the same tool to check what would have happened if I had installed them facing due north. To my surprise: only 15% less power!