skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're mistaking an electoral Catch-22 for "willpower" and desire.

Because the Republican party tends to line up with rural voters, they have a statistical advantage in both the Senate and the Electoral College; because of gerrymandering, they actually have a statistical advantage in most House races, too. (That last one is more complicated, but the short version is that when Democrats are in charge of redistricting they tend to favor putting nonpartisan committees in charge of drawing district lines, while when Republicans are in charge of redistricting they tend to favor drawing the lines themselves for partisan advantage.)

The upshot of that means that Republicans can and do win elections by appealing to their most partisan voters, but Democrats literally can't do that. Republicans can get rid of moderate Republicans and still win enough elections to maintain or even gain power; Democrats cannot get rid of moderate Democrats and get the same result.

So, actually, no, the Democrats can't "block, blacklist, and crush" campaigns of moderate members. They can do that to progressives in districts that are still swing districts, whose voters seem to be largely centrist. Maybe that's good, maybe that's bad, but statistically speaking, when centrist Democrats run in those swing districts they win more often than progressive Democrats do. Joe Manchin is not from a swing state; he's from a state that went for Trump by 35 points in 2020. He's a fluke, and if he loses his seat, he ain't gonna be replaced by someone who votes with Democrats nearly as often as he does -- which is, IIRC, about 70% of the time. This is something else that often gets lost: the truth is that the most conservative Democrat still votes with Democrats a majority of the time, just like the most liberal Republican still votes with Republicans a majority of the time.

Maybe this balance will change; maybe it'll change sooner rather than later. But there seems to be this pervasive idea on the Left that Democrats would be able to pass all the legislation they wanted if they just had enough strength or willpower or something, and that just isn't true, no matter how much we might wish otherwise. If you only have 51 people on your side, counting the VP, and a single one of them is determined to keep the filibuster, then you're going to keep the filibuster. There is no amount of pressure you can put on that person that's meaningful, because you will need them on your side for other battles, they know it, and you know it. And if you keep the filibuster and there is no way you will peel 10 people off from the other side no matter what the bill is, you're not going to pass anything that can't get around the filibuster. Period. Full stop.
Open source data orchestration and scheduling platform
Yes, and given that being without employment (really, without income, but those are equivalent for most people) for long enough is literally a life or death situation, you're fully justified in that by lying about it in self defense. If you're privileged enough that not having any income for an extended period isn't a big deal, then, so what? But, if you aren't, lie.
Sqlite replication via litestream has bascially no overhead. It's a great choice if your database only needs to service one client.

It sounds like you're essentially arguing that people should always use the most robust data store available regardless of cost or requirements. Their needs were served just fine by a json file ­for quite some time — if that's all you need, then maintaining a full Posgres cluster is the "crazy" solution actually.
Agreed, it's a bit of a shame for HN imo. I see a team who is being brilliant and understanding their domain down to the core with as minimal resources as they can get away with.

There is incredible value in incrementally adding complexity only when needed.
Twitter is quite different from most of other social networks out there. It’s much more immediate, which has a lot of benefits but also a lot of drawbacks.

You might not like it yourself, but surely you can see the appeal?
Do kids talk to their grandparents more as a result of Roblox? What ever the answer is for that platform I believe the answer will be the same for whatever the meta verse is.

Probably "No".
The Cuba situation was perhaps a little more complicated because the US implemented a naval blockade of the island (disingenuously labelled a "quarantine"), which, to many, didn't look like an act of war.

Therefore if the Soviets had tried to exercise their sovereign right to dock their ships at a Cuban port, and the US navy had opened fire, then there might have been uncertainty about whether the Soviet breaching of the blockade was an act of aggression that the US was merely defending itself against.

No such ambiguity exists in Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine, despite their label of "special military operation". Their covert invasion (and effective military occupation) of Crimea and the separatist regions are better examples of ambiguous acts of war, though.
I would like to add a video on XRF from Applied Science, as the device is not very well known (at least in .cz, I have learned about it only recently).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdfHVcU8U7U
Any of them with nearly as much ethnic diversity as the United States.
It’s kind of funny, but IB (the chat function) was basically slack 2 decades before slack ever existed.

It’s a chat function that can connect any Bloomberg terminal user, and you can also run “bots” on.
I don't think it's a sneering to point out that if most people who talk about something lack the direct experience of having it, they may not represent it well. Personal experience gives folk's different perspectives. Autism certainly seems to.

And whether the struggles she enumerates are common or not, if suffering is normal and near universal as you suggest, I think it's good to ask, does it have to be so? Are there things we can do to make the world better?

I think not talking about something is unlikely to change anything.
for those who are unfamiliar, the acm risks mailing list is a pretty entertaining read and comes in digest form.
I don't think your suggestion works for Web Development.

Imagine an application that talks to a Postgres DB, a Redis cache, several AWS services (e.g. S3, Lex) and also has to be able to parse excel documents. I've worked on applications like that. That's a whole lot of libraries you'll need to include. But I don't think you should include all of them in some "standard library", most people are not gonna need most of these dependencies.

I agree that left-pad is ridiculous (over in the JVM space, there is apache-commons, which also provides e.g. left-pad but of course it's not the only functionality that it provides), but using only 2-3 libraries isn't realistic either.
Working on an extension to visually organize links, aka custom "new tab" page

I want to make it more dev / b2b focused, e.g. with dev tool integrations. Currently brainstorming. Borne from my own struggle with link management

If you'd like to try it out:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dailylauncher-cust...

Or
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dailylauncher...
Let this be a lesson to whoever comes next: cute and distinct names for your cryptographic algorithm make it easy to distance yourself from people who create similar algorithms that turn out not to be secure.

RSA is fundamentally a trick of modular arithmetic, but it's not called that, so if someone else fucks up their modular arithmetic, it doesn't immediately bring shame and doubt upon RSA.

Meanwhile the ECC community is using an algorithm that is basically 'Curve' plus a five digit number. If this name isn't already being openly mocked, it will be at some point in the future. Normal people don't have lists of 'good' and 'bad' numbers in their heads. If Curve#### is found to be bad, then they'll think Curve##### is the one everyone is talking about.
What are you talking about? We pay way more per capita to educate kids and give people healthcare in this country than in a lot of other well developed countries where these things are more unified by government directive. Dysfunctionally, of course, but we pay a lot for it.
“There are 121 fleeting black dots in a day”
The author claims that they do, so long as the microwaves resonate with a frequency in the emission spectra of the atom in question

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/e266e5e7-739c-437c-89c3-eed...
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The author has neglected to mention that you can find the engine by shouting "Gerald! Gerald!" at the top of your lungs in all directions.

This will summon the ancient, exhausted hamster that powers the vehicle.
They aren’t a monopoly.

Nobody puts everything as well together as they do. And obviously they have a massive library of unique data and functionality.

But there are thousands of competitors of all sizes.

It’s just very hard to see any of those competitors providing a free/open source alternative because the code is not a very large part of the value they provide.
That is what I was wondering. Does ‘energetic’ just mean extroverted? Are there energetic introverts?

Regardless, seems like a bad idea as blanket advice for all roles.
or at least they now sell their labour time at a higher rate
That's not true at all.

Those union members are perfectly free to create was is called a members only union, which only represents its own members who voluntarily join the organization.

Doing that avoids any of those conditions that you are talking about.
The Cargo Cult of Good Code
We didn’t discuss the session extension. That extension solves a different problem of having multiple primaries that need to merge their data. I haven’t used it personally but it looks great for that purpose.
The compiler checks that you don't write code where the caller disobeys that restriction :p
Methylation is a metabolic chemical reaction your body does, facilitated by enzymes, that sticks a methyl group onto stuff. There’s different genetic mutations for more or less copies or less efficient copies of the relevant enzymes.

The idea is some people are genetically very low/poor methylaters so they’re methylation impaired. Generally the solution if found to be a poor methylater is to take forms of vitamins that are already methylated, like methylfolate
What are oneNote alternatives that dont require cloud or signing in?
So, I really like OneNote at work. It is easy to organize different things and takes notes or plan stuff with.

I want to use it on my personal computer. HOWEVER, I am not a fan of using anything cloud related from my personal computer to Microsoft. Sorry, its just a personal thing. I don't want anything backed up on something I have no control over. That is what external hard drives are for (at least with personal computers).

So, given that, what are my options?

I've tried looking into ways to using OneNote without signing in, but doesn't seem like that is an option.

I have also searched for alternatives, but not really seeing any.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Mainly looking for a tool that is quick to access like OneNote, that doesn't require signing in or using some cloud service, and overall is just great and easy to organize stuff like OneNote.

Does anyone have suggestions?
> In terms of the number of lives saved and improved

But Bill Gates did that after he already had status. He didn't gain status by doing that.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. You're right: running databases isn't for every team! Reach out for a managed database if you can.

But tailscale isn't some random group of engs. They've probably got the chops to pull off literally anything they want to. I mean TFA casually mentions online cross-database transfers, multiple zero-downtime schema migrations, inspecting litestream's replication code for feasibility, deftly modifying sqlite WAL checkpoints... all in one breath.
Injecting equity into the Carnegie classifications
In this thread, there seem to be two situations: (1) A VC (venture capital investor) evaluating the founder of a startup and (2) a manager hiring a subordinate.

For (1) the VC, my summary view is that the VC criteria, what VCs pay attention to, is growth in traction -- they want the graph of traction over time to be "up and to the right". For more, they look at the size of the market. For one more, maybe consider if there is a "Buffett moat", that is, a barrier to entry for would be serious competitors. Maybe they look if the startup is in a field, space, they are interested in. Finally, if all these look good, they look to see if anything is seriously wrong.

At times I have suspected that some VCs write essays on their investment criteria that, really, are intended broadly to get attention, have their name better known, and in particular to get applications from founders, that is, "deal flow".

Then I would insert into this thread that, once a startup looks good in the above criteria, "energy" will not receive serious evaluation. Or, the above criteria are the real ones and will NOT be ignored or overruled, and if a startup has done well on those then other criteria, e.g., "energy", must be close to irrelevant. Or, if a startup looks good on the above criteria, then passing up the opportunity for a unicorn for relatively subtle reasons will be regarded, by the VCs partners, as foolish.

For (2) the manager, I would hope that he (or her, here and elsewhere) has a situation, that is, some work to be done, has that work fairly well defined, regards currently his team as too busy to do that work, so wants to hire. In that, the main criteria should be, can the candidate do the work the manager has in mind?

I would insert into this thread: That situation should be rather clear and definite and not subtle or complicated.
It’s funny you say that cause this screams HN content to me.

I’m a long-time project car builder and this post strikes all the chords of a labor of love.

Clever content, technical concepts but written in plain english, relishing in the almost hostile user experiences that some engineering can produce. It smacks of everything HN is to me.
There's a real classic called Binary that's even harder. There's even a metagame, "Bughunt", where you get a fly swatter and travel down endless corridors of tubes searching for bugs before they land. Urban legend is there's a game that is the most perfect grind ever, called Unary. It's basically the Platonic Ideal of Grind.
That's still too many formatting bits for me.

My weekly todos look something like this:

It uses a simialr format:

YYYYMMDD

- Task to be done

- Subtask

* Note about task

/ Task started/half done

x Task completed

ie:

20220328

- finish baselining instances for ami creation

x server 1

/ server 2

- server 3

* Make sure RH image is being used vs AWS provided AMI

/ verify routes exist for all subnets

x snapshot instance X before users are added

-- Dave
A First-Person Tunneler would probably also make for a boring video game.

Wait, does the word 'boring' come from the drugdery of digging tunnels?
SQLite is the most deployed database in the world
If you're into the occult, you can also become a saucerer and put a Hex on people.
I see, in that case yes Go does have more tooling for being able to install the minimum vs the latest of all packages, using their `update` command if you want the latest. But it would also be trivial for Node to add a command to grab the minimum of all dependencies when installing new packages. They just haven't felt the need to add such a feature. Because again, it comes down to which side you want to encourage: installing minimum versions to prevent malicious updates, or installing latest to patch security vulnerabilities.
I'm trying to download the high quality ED Map and I keep getting "Endpoint request timed out" errors. Any ideas on how to get around this?
I have in fact seen Inflex already! And I must admit to being quite surprised at seeing pretty much exactly the same UI I had imagined, already implemented. But I suspect there are still some major underlying differences between Inflex and what I’ve been doing. As a Haskeller, my emphasis has been very much on strong typing and associated language features: mine uses a Hindley–Milner variant with subtyping, allowing some information to be stored at the type level (e.g. units) and functions to be automatically broadcast to higher dimensions. The user can explicitly specify the type of each cell, allowing for more control over data modelling. Basically, I want to make a tool such that the user can create arbitrarily large spreadsheets, without running into the scalability problems of Excel etc. By contrast, Inflex seems to have a somewhat different and rather more minimal focus: simply making an easy-to-understand analogue of traditional spreadsheets which solves their biggest problems, without worrying about extraneous stuff.

That being said, I will confess to not having tried Inflex all that much, so I may be misunderstanding it. I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on this topic.
"You might as well hop on one foot and turn in a circle while making the sign of the evil eye."

Any evidence to support that?

I've run my wireless on a schedule for about 10 years. I've never had any problems, nor has the workflow been ridiculous. The wired network stays on, which is what I primary use for everything except the phone or occasional laptop use. What exactly do you envision needing the wifi for when waking up in the middle of the night?

That's part of the logic - if you're looking to reduce exposure then designing your network to be primarily wired is part of that, which is usually easy. Generally it provides better performance (eg gaming) or options (PoE cameras) anyways.
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I understood reading comments. I turned off that iOSesque thing back in Lion or whenever it was imported.

Key repeating is important, I set it to the slowest delay possible. Hate that thing.
Nope. 12 years ago, College Humor pretty much pegged it for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTN9We8unmU

I still think it applies.
> Moreover, RSA key generation is massively slow--

Not only is it extremely slow, but it's also non-deterministically slow -- there's no constant-time way to randomly generate an RSA key, because searching for suitable primes is a "guess-and-check" process.

ECC key generation, on the other hand, is so fast that it's perfectly feasible to use it as part of the session negotiation process (e.g. in ECDHE).
Or at least thoughts & prayers.
How do I buy you a coffee? I'm going to try this next week. Looks fantastic. If you could libnotify me a little nag (maybe you do and I just haven't looked yet) I'll buy you two!
Ahem. There was this little indie game that sort of took over the world in 2010 and made its creator a billionaire…
I don't see how CockroachDB ends up in your list of DBs that lead to vendor lock-in or being unable to run a cluster locally, because it's open source and you can run your own cluster. Is there something about it I haven't spotted that puts it in that list?
I started doing whar I do before I knew it also pays money. So yeah I’d probably keep coding and writing about coding.

Would be nice to not need money though. Then I could go coding things that are less certain to result in money. I miss the days when I could just work on projects for no reward other than working on the project.
When they are proven to be considerably safer (a question of "when" and not "if" IMO), I highly doubt many politicians will want to stand in the way of allowing them on their streets... nevermind if Apple ever comes out with a car, it could quickly become a highly sought after experience.
The remaining cofounder appears to have bought them out and the leaving one appears to have accepted. That's by mutual consent and the furthest thing from a hostile takeover.
Note this is fake news.
Auto hide makes them work fine, IMHO.
I travelled down endless paths searching for the cake.

I learned endless maths to understand the cake.

In the end, to my great wrath, I learned that cake is a lie.
Migrating Apache Druid web console to Blueprint4- video
I am here for your z-machine on Pico-8! I'm doing a z-machine in python 3.x this week (month? year?) as well.
> Also, out of curiosity, why is your laptop keyboard covered with paper?

I came here to ask the important question, but you asked for me. Seconded.
Exactly, so it's a trade-off, do you want to encourage updates at the risk of malicious updates (like with node-ipc). Or do you want to add friction to updates and thus risk security vulnerabilities persisting for longer. Node chooses one approach, Go chooses the other.
Scientists to Broadcast Earth's Location to Aliens, Ignoring Stephen Hawking
Why? I'd much rather unbundle and just get additional cash comp and buy my own.
Yeah. Getting teleported was almost the first thing that happened to me in the game. Way befor getting a horse
One of the obvious primary social purposes of public education is free day-care so that both parents can work. People who claim that this isn’t (a major part of) the mission of teachers and schools are just wrong.
> Is that liberal democracy thing some time in the past

No, it's an ideal that some countries claim to aspire to, and some seem to be moving away from. (Those lists of countries are not as disjoint as they might seem).
I thought they have already been proven safer than human drivers. And yet people are still wary.
I think the problem is just that almost all prebuilt machines come with Windows and nobody ever gets exposed to alternatives. And most people just dont care.
WOW. That's a special sort of asshole right there. I'm reminded of the time years ago talking to a couple of "VC" (really, smalltime angels) dudebros with Rolex's and Mises Institute wristbands who spent the whole pitch talking about how to make sure the startup employees got shafted on equity and how the wait staff at the restaurant didn't deserve tips because they were 'too stupid' to go to a 'real school' and get 'real jobs'.
Mafia bosses have high status in their orbit, so yes.
Nope. That’s such a terrible idea.
I agree that morocco would never really let WS become independant and would only let a referundum happen if it is sure to win it. So I think you are totally right on that.