skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should presume you all enjoy hearing members of the public explain how easily [your domains of competence] can be understood through intuition and cursory 'research', and that you yourselves are more serious about [critical systems you are responsible for] largely due to some sort of amorphous nefarious evil or incompetence on your own parts?
All the commercial enterprise database performance consultants are busy spending the money they make from fixing these critical apps and expensive problems ;-)

Edit: Can’t speak much for MSSQL and DB2, but there are lots of similar problems in the Oracle world too, sometimes due to an app design that works against the intended use of the DB/optimizer, sometimes due to a database optimizer bug and sometimes just due to the complexity of estimating the optimal plan based on limited statistical summaries of the “shape of your data” and expectation that the optimization won’t take longer than a few milliseconds.
Damn it seems there's a gaping hole in my culture.
No it doesn't damage anything. You are suffering from bias. So anything challenging your world view will be suspect.
Well, to provide a different case, compare the situation of the US corporate space to the US government. Both are flawed efficiency wise, but boy does the one with no incentives behave as expected.
Ubisoft Celebrated Its Employees' Hard Work by Giving Them NFTs
A lot of judges are somewhat corrupt, the difference is how much.

But make no mistake, the power/influence they yield is enormous and i would certainly restrain myself for ever doing this.

A judge ( in Belgium) stopped a documentary about his criminal doings, pledged psychological issues ( and his brother is a shrink) and is now happily drinking beers and enjoying ( forced) early retirement.

He accepted briberies from anyone to influence cases fyi. Some cases are pretty nuts too.

Oh yeah, "there was no proof of any briberies" was the result of many cases. But people who live nearby know a thing or two and there is exactly 0,0% chance that he was "clean".
Now if we could pay someone to read it and tell us what data was collected.
What.. how? Why? What's the vested interest for the Mali, Bulgaria, Brazil, Lesotho, Nepal authorities in promoting vaccines no matter what?
Thanks for your original thread, obviously it stuck in my mind.

It has been great to read all the responses again. I've probably spent a few years worth of upvote budget, assuming I haven't tripped some upvote spam detector ;)
“Thank you for your dedication and hard work. Here's a jpeg.”
I contacted my representative, as it takes ~1min.
Please I urge all to do it!
p.s. I am Computer Security expert and urge all from point of understanding this both technically and as a value to all of US citizens!

Crooked forces are behind this trying to misrepresent this as ability to read all messages that will allow them to "save the children" which is just an excuse for the "foot through the door" or capability for the totalitarian rule (remember total power inevitably corrupts totally)! If we let our representatives, which do not understand this, vote for this, then we all will regret and have much much harder time to restore right for privacy.
There are other both better and cheaper ways that government agencies can protect the children and destroying encryption (or criminalizeing it) will not help them, since the real criminals will then use encryption only for their business and we law abiding citizens will be stripped off the ability to use it to preserve our privacy!!!
My cat gets out often, and an AirTag allowed us to find her several times over the past year; sometimes notifying us before we even realized it.
This is wrong because inflation will eat into the size of monthly payments you can contribute to your mortgage, and thus lower the total dollars of house you can buy. Imagine if groceries and gas take more and more of your income.

If/when interest rates go up, it will also decrease price of houses because the cost of borrowing will go up, and thus lower the total dollars of house you can buy.

If you’ve already bought your house then great, but expect to sell the home at a huge loss when interest rates hit 20 percent.
That's only true if the vaccine reduces the chance of myocarditis in patients that go on to get Covid.
You can override it. I had to provide such an override so that my C++ module files would be reckognised as C++.

A .gitattributes file must be present with something like,

*.ixx linguist-language=C++

More info here, https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/docs/override...
Pity Dremel didn't follow the Prusa paradigm. Lost an opportunity there I guess.
I am Computer Security expert and urge all from point of understanding this both technically and as a value to all of US citizens!

Crooked forces are behind this trying to misrepresent this as ability to read all messages that will allow them to "save the children" which is just an excuse for the "foot through the door" or capability for the totalitarian rule (remember total power inevitably corrupts totally)! If we let our representatives, which do not understand this, vote for this, then we all will regret and have much much harder time to restore right for privacy.
There are other both better and cheaper ways that government agencies can protect the children and destroying encryption (or criminalizing it) will not help them, since the real criminals will then use encryption only for their business and we law abiding citizens will be stripped off the ability to use it to preserve our privacy!!!
How much and how hard does your mom party?
Doesn't seem too irrelevant. GP talks about this being an American right-wing funded proxy war and should be defunded. You claim that it's actually a legitimate protest and then I refuted your claim that the protests are in fact illegitimate and should be defunded as well.
I built a social media platform called Igloo - https://igloosocial.com
I wanted a platform where I could share like on Instagram, but with restricted people that I can change as I wish so not all my followers have to see all of my content.
Been a great learning experience, the first time I built a proper app and a backend of this size all by myself. Don't care if anyone else uses this, I had fun along the way.
Maybe. There is a reason gcode exists. Sometimes you really are controlling a single pen.
I mean it isn't even a sticker or something.
Agreed, I'm pretty annoyed with nyt for unnecessarily destroying that (and I do think they are in the process of destroying it). I was just pointing out that the idea it would have failed/died if they hadn't bought it is wrong.
I personally think "encapsulation" as us used in OOP, is a misnomer. State is usually not encapsulated, it is just hidden. Proper state encapsulation would be to use mutable state internally for efficiency, but for that state to be unobservable externally.

OOP does unfortunately encourage introducing mutable state into the domain model. The canonical example being the back account, with a mutable back balance!

The good parts of OOP are interfaces and first-class modules. Obviously we should try and keep those.
Who's the football player with heart failure after getting vaccinated? We have multiple instances of players getting Covid and having complications from that ( Kimmich, Aubemayang, Davies, the first one of which is certainly unvaccinated, no idea about the rest), but i haven't heard of heart failure after vaccination. If you mean Christian Eriksen, he wasn't vaccinated at that time.
In my mind "Think of the children" is synonymous with "ulterior motive". After reading the comments here, I am adding CSAM to the list of synonyms.
Earth has so much land that you could plant trees in though?
Programming Needs to Evolve
Ah. I now see this comment too. I think I understand your other statement about "scientifically supported" better. I have also read the book, and I feel it makes a lot of sense. Like I said in my other post: most discourse only acknowledges nominalism or platonism. Neither sat well with me.

Now following Hume and Locke "induction" is often treated as something "invalid", a problem to be solved. If induction is however is not a problem (see for example, Groarke, 2009, An Aristotelian Account of Induction). Aristotelian approaches are reasonable. Hence, numbers and other mathematical concepts can be very real.
What is super annoying is getting the AirPods traveling with you notice when you’re around family that live in the same house or when you’re traveling on a plane or anywhere else crowded. It’s completely useless.
At the US Senate Web site at URL

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3538/cosponsors

on

S.3538 - EARN IT Act of 2022

I saw in part:

Cosponsors: S.3538 — 117th Congress
(2021-2022)

Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey
[R-SC] | Cosponsor statistics: 19
current - includes 19 original

* = Original cosponsor

Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]*

Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]*

Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]*

Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]*

Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]*

Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]*

Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]*

Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]*

Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]*

Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]*

Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]*

Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]*

Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]*

Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS]*

Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]*

Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]*

Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]*

Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]*

Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]*
C# can call into WinRT async APIs as naturally as ones written in C#. How does Go handle this scenario?
That's not a bad way of putting it. It reminds me of "It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators."
This is nonsense. The crazy gas prices had two main causes: insufficient gas buffers during the uptick of the economy after Corona, and Russia closing part of its huge gas supply to Europe.
Government can not stop criminals to use end-to-end encryption.
With this bill only regular internet users loose privacy!
This is not how it is represented to Senators and instead they are offered a lie while they do not understand, so we need to act.
Crooked forces are behind this!
ever hear the term "mouth watering"
idiocracy was a documentary
With mutable state, your function mutates state somewhere in the environment (typically a global variable or the class in which the function resides).
With immutable state, your function returns an immutable value, never modifying anything. I program Java for the most part, and this is how I do most things. Mutable state is the enemy, not OOP. Some people think mutable state and OOP are inseparable but they are just looking at a definition of it that is easy to criticize. If you make every object immutable , OOP actually becomes a much nicer model to work with.
Tree farming is probably one of the biggest issues in the pacific northwest today. They spray Glyphosate (round up) after every forest fire to prevent Aspen from growing (a natural firebreak), and then they plant GMO pine monocultures. This + pine beetle + putting out any small forest fires, lead to massive fuel build ups, which leads to massive forest fires (and subsequent flooding in the winter). It's definitely not sustainable.
We have to keep the carbon sequestered in the harvested wood. I suggest fleets of oceangoing megarafts, in preparation for the Waterworld apocalypse.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30293297
Ooh, this is something I have contemplated making for a while. I think a really good way to get sophisticated filtering is to allow filters to be specified in snippets of JS (or LUA) that are then executed by a sandboxed interpreter that presents the filter with a very restricted “DOM” representing the post+feed metadata. Include things like author and title and body and links, and let the user do whatever filtering logic they want. And if you really wanted to make it user friendly, instead of having them edit the code, give them a blockly UI for the filter editor. You have to limit the CPU time given to a filter to avoid runaways but that isn’t hard.
This is probably a bad habit, but I've been writing tests so that I don't have to actually navigate though my app, put it in the correct state, and push a button to see if the feature works or not. Writing the test is just faster.
And if you don't store the answer in some kind of state, it's lost and computing the pure function was useless.
He also did Delphi, and you can actually see quite a bit of it in the original design of C#.

Even more so when you look at stuff like WinForms - someone coming from VCL would see many familiar things.
> Proper state encapsulation would be to use mutable state internally for efficiency, but for that state to be unobservable externally.

This is literally how private/public keywords work, so I think your criticism is unfounded. However, I do agree with the overall sentiment that OOP implementations tend to "leak" way too much state than they need to.
>This engine makes everything else possible.

I have seen lot of tweets ( from highly intelligent people and engineers ) suggesting Starship is not possible. Raptor 2 is not possible.

But now it seems it really is coming.

It is easy to fault him for robotaxi and FSD, which a lot of people do. But sometimes he really does the impossible.
I'm working on an rsync app for iOS that will allow me to sync files from my laptop or server over ssh.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who feels that all existing file transfer and cloud apps suck. They are either too slow, or don't allow syncing everything for offline use.

Even if I end up the only user, I'll be happy and my time would be well spent.
Not for me, it repeats the same top ~20 posts over and over when I use i.reddit.com

And it's functional like a WAP site in 2001 was functional. It's incredibly barebones to the point of being useless. I reckon Reddit forgot it exists at all.
If neural networks have shown us anything, it's that not all neurons are born the same. After all, even in nature there are multiple types of neurons.

I imagine it's 100% dependent on the cardinal rule of neural networks:

"Choice of training data is 10 times more important than the actual model."

What we have over elephants are opposable thumbs, excellent eyes, and vocal cords. And crucially, we're generally speaking pretty slow, weak and useless.

Except for our elaborate methods of I/O.

Our entire success is based on a feedback loop. "If human uses their IO this way, human will get more food."

Thus, we become ever more sophisticated at this. We are nothing if not a vehicle for using our high dexterity, low gross force, opposable thumbs in inventive ways to get food.

Plus, we have a biological imperative to pass these techniques on as knowledge.

A baby elephant can probably feed itself by eating green stuff at 1 year old (I know nothing about elephants).

A human child realistically cannot independently scrounge up enough solid food to sustain themselves, until they're what, twelve? Twenty-two? Certainly no younger than eight.

We have, almost certainly, the most useless progeny in the animal kingdom.

Hence we invest an enormous amount of time and energy in education to make them able to feed themselves.

So the tl;dr is

1) Human brains are pretty similar to the animal kingdom's.
2) Human opposable thumbs are world class. Pretty close to as good as it gets. Sight is also top notch, many animals have useless eyeballs.
3) Most human food is obtained by doing creative things with thumbs. This is very complex, and takes a lot of practice.
4) Human birth the most useless children in the entire animal kingdom. These children take decades to fully grow, hence we invest an enormous amount of time educating them in opposable thumbs.
5) Over time our education system gets better and better, and our list of clever things we can do with opposable thumbs get longer and longer.

Essentially what we have over the other animals isn't neurons.

What we have over the other animals is a data collection/cleaning/utilization cycle.
> Oh, it goes much deeper than not writing joins. There's no single ORM out there that can implement a TypeScript query builder like ours, see the example in [1]. This is only possible because of EdgeQL composability, but that composability required us to rethink the entire relational foundation.

I don't understand this claim. Can or does? This all just compiles down to SQL right?
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but this is not the fault of the book but of bad teaching.
Yep, when the app code and the schema/partitioning/index design works _with_ the database as intended, not _against_ the database engine’s intended use, a whole class of SQL performance and plan stability problems tends to go away.

Yep, agreed, hints should be temporary workarounds (or just experimentation aid when developing/testing SQL performance to validate some hypothesis). But many of these temporary workarounds end up being permanent temporary workarounds :-) That’s why Oracle now has hints and parameters to make the optimizer ignore all other hints in the SQL code :-)
Classic for-loops create state and ask you to manually manage control-flow using an arbitrary conditional expression. They open the door for a whole lot of subtle mistakes that for..of can protect you from in the cases where it applies (which in my experience, are 95% of the cases where you’d use a for loop at all)
Do not let US become China! (or worse)

Government can not stop criminals to use end-to-end encryption. With this bill only regular internet users loose privacy! This is not how it is represented to Senators and instead they are offered a lie while they do not understand, so we need to act. Crooked forces are behind this!

I am Computer Security expert and urge all from point of understanding this both technically and as a value to all of US citizens!
The original C# + Visual Studio was very similar to Delphi in many respects. Whipping up UI in particular; it even used the same anchor system for resizable widgets.
Rust Type Conversion (Part 1)
One has to be incredibly lucky to not get Covid at some point, now that it has become endemic.
Or, for that matter, both presidents Trump and Biden?
@dataflow but then you are dipping into the issue of artificially modyfing biomes. Putting forests where they didn't exist before, again, i don't know, but i would assume this could alter the local ecosystem and it should be done with care. Not just make the whole planet a forest. That's why i was concerned with using the same space.
Vaccination status?
And Twitch are well known for applying their rules fairly and consistently, to streamers big and small.
/s

At this point the divergence between the rules-as-written and rules-as-applied(-in-each-case) has become so apparent that I'd treat Twitch's help pages like comments on a decades old poorly maintained code base - any match between them and reality is almost accidental and cannot be relied upon.
Cryptotreasuries
All an NFT is at heart a JSON blob like

{
Id: some unique namespaced string (aka, the part that is a non fungible token)
Owner: reference to who currently owns it
Payload: data that defines the content of the NFT
}

You can put this in a database if you want, or use a block chain as your data storage. I expect many of those teams you mentioned are solving their NFT issues by moving their NFTs from block chains onto postgres tables, or putting them in databases from the start. The listed problems have somewhat straightforward solutions by doing so, and many companies have offered NFT marketplaces based on databases for years and years like the Steam marketplace for gaming. They work fine at scale, too. I expect that most popular digital ownership systems do not use a block chain as their back end, though I do not know what the top 10 are {apple, amazon, google, the us government?}. The most advanced team solving the listed problems is without doubt YouTube though.

What block chain NFTs have over database NFTs is hype. There's a lot of wealthy people with money tied up in crypto investments that want to be able to.

The other feature is that the audit history of changes to the Owner field is guaranteed to be public instead of optionally public, and that guarantee is what of questionable value when "crypto people don't deliver anything new" is mentioned.

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If somebody's managed to make solve identity using a block chain that's quite interesting re: "unique physical access".

I'd expect the block chain to be uniquely incapable of guaranteeing unique access to anything, since access is based on knowing a password, and it's easy to make copies of a password. At best id expect a blockchain to guarantee limited access to people who know one at least one of a set of possible passwords, and a bouncer controls unique access by doing a separate identity checks.

Is this some facial scan? Dna +epigenetics check? Is it trivial to link all your accounts together? What kinds of attacks has it been tested against? Can your twin get in if he knows the right password and borrows your id? Can your spouse get in if you're in the hospital? Next of kin when you die?
Yeah I agree. I'm trying to get my initial users before I open the gates for everyone else.

Maybe just straight up opening the gates is the way to go forward - I'm considering that.
Holy crap that was brilliant.
If it is Christian Eriksen you think about, then yes he has a heart condition. But it apparently did not have anything to do with topic in this news.
> If I have two acorns I know I can potentially grow two very real trees.

There are 2-seeded acorns. And you can get more than 1 tree from 1 seed in some species by asexual reproduction. I guess it depends on how you count trees. All the possibilities I see (number of trunks, distinctive DNA, unconnected cliques of cells) are fuzzy and have unintuitive counterexamples.