skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Technically, these are the differences: Libdill is idiomatic C. Whereas libmill takes Go's concurrency API and implements it in an almost identical manner in C, libdill tries to provide the same functionality via a more C-like and POSIX-like API."
So a lot of the scalability complaints arise from the fact it's written in Python, but as far as I can tell they're largely newer developers trying to grow some web app they made rather than people presenting at PyCon about why it's awful. Fortunately I am not trying to bootstrap a business from this thread, but I agree that it's far better to spend a few weeks getting my hands dirty with some framework or language that I'm familiar with than just reading about all the cool things I can do in some other language or framework that I need to still learn.
Thanks for the explanation! I Googled a bit and found the topic fascinating (especially the ones regarding malwares that are particularly difficult to remove)
This looks great and super approachable. WorkOS[0] seems to be tackling something similar but more enterprise focused.

[0]: https://workos.com/
"The package of military assistance will include anti-tank missiles and more of the defensive weapons that the US has already been providing, including Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles..."

Javelins and Stingers are hardly defensive-only weapons.
Nova is absolutely gorgeous. I'm so done with Electron apps, even ones "done well". There's a lot to be said for fast, native apps that look and feel like they belong on the platform you're running them on.

That said, Nova's Python support wasn't in the ballpark of VS Code's. But testing it for a while soured me on VS Code, and I ended up switching back to Emacs (which has outstanding Python support via LSP these days).
IDK what your experience is, but in my experience at Google it would take about 6 months before I could consider someone "reasonably productive". Or maybe it takes about 6 months before I'm confident that they are actually underperforming.

A week is just enough time to get a cursory understanding of the product and tooling and fix a newbie bug.
Midwestern US has lost 57.6T tons of soil due to agricultural practices
In most cases that I’ve seen, it’s not React that’s difficult to ramp up on, it’s the overly complicated codebase.

Now you could make an argument that React/Rails/whatever shares some of the blame for encouraging/allowing the state of the code.
Same situation here. Even a small risk of drive failure due to lack of experience with such systems is more than enough to keep me from giving it a try. If you can afford to lose the information on the drive though, might give it a go.
Yeah I do ignore those.

They are nice to wear for this reason.

But when I'm wearing them I do have a proper mask.
I thought I understood how to interact with ebay and use reviews and history to avoid the scammers until I run across one in January. They know just how to avoid ebay issuing refunds and then even worse is that ebay didn't even keep the negative review. The reviews on ebay are fake, they are at least sanitized and the negative reviews removed because I saw it happen and I wasn't informed.

Everyone gets scammed on ebay and its also true of Amazon, you will get sold fake products on there and the search is getting worse and worse very quickly.
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The identity politics of 1860 denied base humanity of black people. The identity politics of 1920 didn't allow women to vote. The identity politics of 1960 didn't allow black people to vote. The identity politics of 2010 didn't allow gay marriage. The identity politics of today persecutes parents of transgender children, forbids abortion of life-threatening ectopic pregnancies, and censors educators who would talk about the history above.

What's wrong with 'contemporary politics?' Are the politics of yesteryear actually preferable?
Theoretical efficiency limits are well known.

The maximum is, of course, 100%. Much as with Amdahl's Law, this imposes a diminishing returns to efficiency over time, and long-term efficiency curves over multiple cycles of technological development exist and are well known within the field. I strongly recommend Vaclav Smil's Energy in World History and Energy and Civilization for multiple instances of these . Typically what's seen within any given technology is an asymptotic approach toward limits, punctuated by newly-introduced technologies which boost the potential efficiency to a higher level. Over time, those also asymptotically approach theoretical maxima.

For energy and motive systems, Carnot, Rankine, photovoltaic, and wind energy conversions all have well-known limits. In cases where efficiencies are high (hydroelectric and pumped hydro), the problem of limited potential sources and/or sites (for generation or storage) emerge.

Thermodynamics means the house always wins.
A Wall Street Lifer’s Quixotic Quest to Build a Nonracist Bank
I agree with the first paragraph’s notes on Russian incompetence and Ukrainian capability. I said as much.

APS is a must but it’s not a panacea. You need to emit, detect and survive a second or third shot. I expect loitering munitions are probably outside of most APS system’s velocity gates+engagement envelopes. I also wonder how survivable and jam resistant APS sensors are.

Finally the way this guy is talking about it…it sounds a little too good to be true.

Again, not discounting APS, the Israelis do this for real - APS makes the problem harder but not unsolvable.
Russian devs to launch 'Rossgram' photo-share app after Instagram blocked
Before Amazon was Amazon, I had described to Jeff my own vision for the browse/explore "tool", which would have been based on US Library of Congress classifications (remember, not-yet-Amazon was only a US company at that point). You would have been able to "dial in/out" on progressively finer and coarser categorization, and switch to "adjacent" LoC classifications.

Sadly, the source of the company's bibliographic data at the time flattened the LoC 3-level heirarchy in a way that made it impossible (or at least very difficult) to recover, and I had to abandon the idea. I still think it would have been lovely.
“Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” — Paul Harvey
Bring back harems where the well off have multiple spouses? I feel like the way inequality is going some places might end up like this or already are. Its usually religion that prevents this. Would sugar babies fall into this category (pay for a relationship and them using that money for school). Maybe a slightly more modern approach would be group relationships, each person specializing in a different life area/role? Anybody watch The Expanse?

The problem with such setups is that they are often rife with abuse in some form or another. The person who controls the money controls the group/harem. Isn't this how the world worked before women gained voting rights and ability to work in the labor force. Seems the best way to have an equal partner relationship is to make similar amounts of money with similar amounts of education.
DRM paper?
In this polarized time you are going to quickly be faced with choices of which causes to platform ... or not. This is bringing much conflict to other online hubs. Do you have a plan for how to makes such calls? Will they be your personal editorial decisions?

If so I suppose your policy can simply be that you accept causes with goals consistent with those you have already accepted, and prospective submitters can read about those for more clarity.
Nature vs. nurture: Does parenting even matter in child development?
As fuel for a reactor? And just colliding it with normal matter, driving a steam engine would be enough.
Tesla fires employee who posted YouTube videos of Full Self-Driving accident
The answer is air resistance which increases with the third power of the object speed. Airships are fairly slow which allows this type of design. Passenger or freight jets are supposed to be fast, this being their major appeal over ship and rail transport.
Im more interested in that 300km range bicycle they mentioned in the article
Deprecation of the MinIO Gateway
Oh how I envy the luxurious life you must have had to reach this conclusion
NSA and CISA: Here's How to Improve Your Kubernetes Cluster Security
Same, their recommendation engine was incredible and it helped me find so many books I loved. I don't bother with the recommendations today its full of garbage. I have really noticed how bad the search has become in the past 6 months as well, its very hard to find what you are looking for on Amazon, many products listed don't contain the keywords you listed at all.
That's great. I don't know if they hid the comments I was referring to or what, but all the top comments at first were these really disgusting academic takes on torture and debating its value. Even for HN – which I often find to be pretty skewed toward the libertarian like others mentioned – it was appalling.
>However, it's the hundredth, or the thousandth just today. So, cumulatively they present a big obstacle...

Okay. I think you have a valid point and this does get annoying over time but I find in my own usage that it is easy to spend a quick second scanning the page looking for an easy bypass and if, as in this case here, one is provided then I don't hold that against the author. I go ahead and read the content unless I find the content to be not worth the exercise to read.

In this case, all one needed to do was to click an X in the pop-up and they could read the interesting story laid out by the author. If you elect to just be annoyed you will need to make a click somewhere anyway to get off of the page so I don't think one extra click constitutes an insurmountable obstacle.

It's quite sad that these pop-ups have become ubiquitous. The blame for this has to lie with some of the people here on HN who work in the industry and who had an opportunity to steer website publishers away from stuff like this but instead chose to normalize it.
Counterpoint, I made a recent shift to Android from many many years of iOS development. It's not the language that I struggled with, it was the completely different engineering culture surrounding the platform. Yes there are many similarities, things like concerns for battery life and thoughtful network usage. However, that's where the similarities end. The APIs and appropriate architecture decisions are completely different, so I needed to build all new instincts.

Then, you have the tooling that are completely different. Where it would normally take me 5 min to jump into Xcode to profile an application, inspect for leaks or other performance issues, I spent a few hours going through Android documentation learning how to do the same thing.

Last, and this one is a bit nuanced and sort of hard to explain. As a senior engineer, you're typically expected to help mentor others and maintain the foundations of your product so that as new people join they have a template to work from. If you're switching to something so different, you could end up hurting the team (or company) by using the wrong patterns and promoting incompatible ideas. People need to trust you and if you break that trust at the beginning of your employment, it'll be really hard to earn it back.

No regrets though, and I'm grateful to my employer for giving me the space to make the shift. However, I do not believe in the idea you can hire someone at a generalist level and then expect them to be productive anytime soon.

There is a saying, "Jack of All Trades, Master of None," and although very cynical, it's just an honest statement when it comes to these things. Hire the right person for the role you need filled first, then if you want to make room for engineers who are looking for big career changes, make sure your product and team won't suffer for that and you have the right culture in place to encourage that kind of growth.
I don’t particularly like any of those, but I honestly think we should bury the hatchet with Venezuela. MBS is the worst and honestly, this is unpopular, but I think Saudi Arabia is more problematic than Iran.
The stranger case is really the electron, which just sits there and never falls to the nucleus (that's the original conundrum of the model of the atom as negative electrons orbiting a positive nuclear center). Physicists applying QM to the hydrogen electron found that the electron could only exist in certain energy levels, and drew the analogy of standing waves to explain it, hence 'wave equations'. The electron is no longer a point orbiting another point, but a wave function delocalized over the entire orbital.

These electron quantum rules don't work the same for an antiproton, which is 1800X more massive than an electron. There's probably some other factors, like the antiproton can get close enough to the nucleus for strong force effects etc.
Appreciate it! PropelAuth's authentication is powered by PropelAuth which is definitely confusing sometimes. I try and think of them as two different services (APIs/hosted pages as one service and an internal configuration service as the other) which helps me.

The plus side is everything we build for ourselves we can release to customers.
No one is asking Amazon to curate. Just a simple filter option to only show stuff sourced by Amazon itself (which they removed years ago), that is NOT commingled with other random sellers’ junk, would be sufficient.

In other words, do the job that a retailer should be doing.

Of course, Amazon does not want to be a low profit margin retailer, which is fine, but then it also deserves to be called a more expensive Aliexpress.
Do a significant % of users realistically read stuff like this? We've had exactly the same ongoing problem for over a decade, and walls of text, FAQs, etc just don't allay concerns. People are just too cycnical to believe it, maybe rightly.

We found the best solution was to claim that pricing kicked in at certain usage tiers, whereas everything is actually free all the time.
One would expect a sufficiently large amount of antihydrogen to form an antistar.
Free until it isn't. If anyone could eat the cost of a free tier it would be Google but they decided that the Google apps for business free tier has to go after 12+ years.
HOLY CRAP!

That poem is epic. I LOVE IT!

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That's one of the best things I have read.
That is the best indicator of a monopoly that I can see; you see it with utility and cable companies as well, basically they are not worried at all that the customer will go somewhere else because there really is very little competition
First editions, probably. The current ones not so much.

Although I guess Volumes 1-3 haven't yet had their MIX code replaced with MMIX, so perhaps even the current ones are vintage.
Talk to airlines, not international shipping.
I think the difference is that air launched missiles could carry nuclear payloads but usually don't, while ICMBs could carry non-nuclear payloads but usually don't. All kinds of countries have been using air launched missiles all the time which at least on average tells us that every time one is fired it won't(shouldn't) have a nuclear payload. ICMBs on the other hand have never been used against anyone, and their stated goal for existence is carrying nuclear payloads - so if you see one coming your way you can assume it's a nuke, even though technically it doesn't have to be.
We could end desire with various combination of drugs, brain surgery, or generic engineering.

This seems dystopian to me.

I don’t know which is less dystopian though, that, or a Malthusian crisis in a K3 civilization, or any of the other ways this can go wrong.

I am hopeful for the future in many ways; this may well be solvable.
Unfortunately Nova didn't work on a large project for me with a lot of generated type definitions. It was a gigantic mobx project and that would make Nova really really slow to the point of being unusable. Somehow VSCode could still work with that.
"imo" is the right word. Majority of people that are not so computer literate will think it is real.
If my enterprise network managers could buy a Tailscale Box, they'd readily consider it. As-is, this is a bit far-fetched relative to their current modus operandi -- `Advanced corporate VPNs like Tailscale can abolish concentrators completely: every server can run Tailscale directly, and individual clients can form point-to-point connections to each server it needs to talk to.`

Anyone figured out how to bridge the gap from legacy here?
I would be surprised (but not totally amazed) if they had fixed it in the hour since your comment was posted but...

I now see separate selectors for maximum flow, minimum flow, and graduations here: https://www.mcmaster.com/flowmeters/
Most superstar pop singers have fantastic singing voices and great pitch control. Autotune shows up because of some mix of 1) the modern pop aesthetic demands superhuman tuning, 2) some degree of autotune artifacts are expected as part of the modern sound, and 3) it can intentionally be used as an effect (T-Pain).

To give some more detail about both 1 and 2 -

Pitch control is more than just hitting the note; its about how well you can onset at the right pitch, how well you can hold the pitch once hit, how well you can jump each pitch interval and land on the right pitch, how well you can pitch through different articulations, different vocal ranges, etc. The modern pop sound has accepted that superhuman levels of pitch control that lock the vocal into tune with the perfectly tuned synthesizers/samplers are more important than a natural sound.

Also, since we've been using autotune for so long, it has almost become natural. We expect to hear it to some degree on every track, especially in more difficult vocal areas. If it wasn't present, one might feel the song sounds "indie" or worse, dated.

Lastly, one thing that fascinates me about the autotune complaints are that it's just one stage of a very long vocal processing chain. To my ears, the tweaks provided by dynamics processors are much more dramatic than autotune when applied to a reasonably proficient singer. Autotune is just one step of a processing chain that can easily run through 10+ processors to end up at the right sound.
Wow, that does suck. And where exactly are do you think we are getting? Use enough flops to raise the temp of the planet slightly to make banal doggerel? Seems like quite the wrong thing to do with GPT-3.
This is the first I have heard of Tailscale. Who uses it? Is it appropriate to put something like this together for a family household?
Are you questioning whether European countries grant asylum/refuge on the basis of sexuality/gender identity, if those are persecuted in applicant's home country? That is indeed a thing, a quick search away to confirm…
It clearly can be handled, the question is what's the procedure to handle it correctly and do you trust your procedure? Manufacturer or someone regularly working with this kind of thing does know and trust, if you suddenly realize it wasn't quite what you signed up for backing off is clearly the better choice than trusting your guess at procedure. But risk can be managed a lot.

Although certainly over-confidence can also happen on the other end, e.g. if something that's quite similar to other dangerous things you work with suddenly has an additional trap. And Safety Datasheets are notorious for not necessarily representing actual in-use risks well.
I am very skeptical they will be able to get the efficiency numbers to a place where it makes sense in the timeframes they're throwing around unless oil goes up like 4x in price. Storing hydrogen is really hard and the related tradeoffs are much tougher than with a room temp liquid hydrocarbon. I imagine burning it in turbines also comes with some new issues but I know less about that. I think it's a decent path forward if we can figure it out, and I imagine the engine related problems are likely much more surmountable than the storage issues.

There's also the related fuel infra that will need to happen before this is viable. It's far away unless something truly drastic changes the calculus on fossil fuels. (which would be great)
Art's a little weird, because the price of a lot of million-dollar art pieces is driven in large part by the need for an appreciating-on-paper vehicle for tax evasion. (That you can lend out to art galleries.)

And the last thing these schemes need is a living artist who can - upon his work reaching stardom - simply make more of it.

In this respect, dead poets are much safer to bet the farm on.
Using Tailscale is like using Dropbox back when it was new: it's "just X but without the setup or maintenance", which shouldn't be so gosh darn satisfying to use, but by jove, it is. It makes you feel less shackled by the constraints that defined your world before. Awesome.
Why would you build such a thing if you didn't intend to use it?
I just mean that most elements besides hydrogen are made in stars, theoretically with a very large amount of hydrogen you could make an antimatter star, but without doing that, what elements, molecules etc would we be able to make, if we had access to a large amount of anti-hydrogen that was contained so that it would not annihilate with our matter.
I only have one rule: I only contact an open source developer if I believe resolving the problem would make the product better unless I am willing to offer them reasonable money to do it.
I agree that it looks confusing, when you combine those two.

What you can do is to show the best matches on top, and add other results, which are not an exact match, but visually separate them ("You might also like these..").

That is how we usually do it. You can use this approach also when recommending visually similar products to the one you searched for.
> ICBMs are expensive. Probably tens of millions of dollars each

For sub-launched ICBMs (like the UK's nuclear deterrent) you also need to factor in the through-life costs of the launcher platform, and the fact that once it starts launching, it has given itself away. We only have four subs, not all of which are on patrol, so it would be barking to compromise these to deliver a conventional payload.
Aha I had no idea it worked like that, with the GDI calls. That makes sense. There is definitely a performance advantage I've seen that's not matched when you run RDP on Linux. I assumed this was because of implementation issues but of course Linux doesn't use GDI so this makes sense, so it has to revert to block pushing. Thanks for pointing it out.
Good article on what's possible and how to do it, but is row level security scalable in any way for a production application? Not so much on the performance impact of any one query but maintaining the definition of what a role can or can't do (if a db user = an application role). It also seems like it would complicate managing db connections as well, separate pools for each db user? If you have 10 roles, you have to open up at least 10 connections to avoid connection opening latency.

Leveraging most RDBMS security features seem to be geared for an ever shrinking set of use cases where a mostly static set of users are given direct access to a SQL prompt, or a simple record to GUI application interface.
Simple Load Testing with GitHub Actions
I publish books on KDP. Not low/no content, though.

I really wish amazon would charge $5/month/book you put up on KDP. It would eliminate a TON of garbage, and any half decent book would more than make up the $5/month to pay for itself.
Yep, my Amiga 1200 does exactly this. It’s very tempting to put it on the internet.
Its not great for family because the free tier is limited to one user.

It's also not super great for some workplaces because tailscale kinda...gets superpowers in your network.

It is definitely something smaller companies are using though.
I'm trying to avoid airlines. There are too many risky variables that could leave me stuck on the ground without a home or ticket. This is based on what I've read on their websites about pet transport.