skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these problems are created by the developers.

I have created many on-the-fly mini-PHP frameworks to use within existing legacy code bases to avoid all of this.

Easiest way to avoid manually requiring files is to use classes with the auto loader. Done.

The second easiest solution is to have different constants that has the full path to a directory and then just you use the correct constant when doing a require. No relative paths required.

You can even have one require constant per file if that is your game.

Raw sql is fine, just don’t scatter it in every file, instead put sql in specific repositories, e.g ArticleRepository, and do all article queries in there. Now it is easy.

An ORM actually creates more problems when refactoring because entities are spread out everywhere.

If you use something like Phpstorm IDE it can help refactor raw sql too.

Problem is that many developers doesn’t think this thru and even worse they accept the situation and don’t do anything about even if they can. Instead they go to forums and complain. I’m sorry but I have zero tolerance for that.
Don’t forget how much streaming services struggle with classical music meta data.
Dishwasher in the US and Canada are using hot water instead of cold water that is managed by the dishwasher.

Because of the quality of the water heater and the time it take for hot water to reach the dishwasher you have inconsistent washing.

Also most US brand of dishwasher rely on plastic components so I'm pretty sure they can't heat as well as full aluminium one.
Which countr(y|ies) is the USA considering invading at this point?
I guess don't put on Steve Reich's "City Life" when driving in NYC.
lol, same here lad
MD Nichrome: On Spacing and Sci-Fi
Same Tweet on Nitter: https://nitter.net/Trezor/status/1510558771944333312
This. Dominance hierarchies exist, but aren’t alpha, beta whatever. We aren't wolves, we’re more like bonobos.
I provided ecommerce services for a wide variety of U.K. and European fashion brands from 2006-2016, and one thing that always stood out was that about 10% of the customers of each brand would make up >50% of the revenue - be it shoes, garments, or accessories. This applied across other verticals, too, but in fashion the concentration was far more pronounced.

The reason these customers had a higher per capita revenue was that they bought something pretty much every week of the year.

The thing is, this kind of behaviour is akin to addiction - I recall in more than a few cases concerned partners or parents requesting intervention, and blocking or limiting of accounts - it was up to the retailer how they handled that - we just heard about the ones where they wanted us to do something.

So - clamping down on fast fashion is no bad thing, however it addresses a symptom rather than a root cause, which is principally addictive shopping behaviours bought about by saturated and predatory marketing and depressed populations seeking solace in that momentary rush of dopamine when they hit purchase, waiting for a parcel to arrive like an addict waiting for a fix.

I mean, hell, I’ve lived the behaviour. Never to the extremes that I’ve seen, but compulsive consumption is an easy if temporary quick fix for a hole in the soul. Fashion is the pinnacle of this, as it gives you not just the purchase rush, but the potential esteem boost from wearing your new garments.

The problem remains elsewhere, and more fundamental.
Yes, that's the trade off. Let someone else manage the control server, or manage it yourself - not self hosted vs self hosted
Foreign Exchange Without Microservices
https://contrachrome.com/ContraChrome_en.pdf here pdf version.
You mean just like websites need to ask for consent for nonessential data processing and about a hundred and fifty different ad networks are forced enabled as legitimate interest in the consent screen?

Seems to me that GDPR wasn't strong enough to actually beat adtech
What, Google's behaviour? Or the fact that this is the society we currently live in?
All creature will die and all the things will be broken.
OpenSea to Allow NFT Purchases with Bank Cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay
>I remember when I first went online in the 90’s the vision of the internet was decentralized content, where information would never go away once it was pushed online.

This is incredibly bizarre, I can't imagine where this "vision" came from. Storage was extremely limited and bandwidth was expensive back then; things were being deleted constantly. The first web forum I participated in (in 1996) only had the last week's worth of messages available, the older ones were permanently deleted. Back then if you were using Yahoo Mail or Hotmail you had to constantly delete your old emails because you'd run out of space. I would download stuff and then run out of hard drive space, so it would just be deleted and lost forever - nobody could afford more hard drive space.
Paying a fair price for the supplied good or rendered service is my preferred option anyhow.
> it is consistent with the belief that history's long arc does indeed bends toward justice.

Then why do inequalities keep rising according to most metrics? Just because the poor fare relatively better (which is debatable depending on which metrics you take) doesn't mean justice is rising.
With WAL it's a generally smooth experience. Really depends on your use case though.

https://sqlite.org/wal.html
> Assume good faith.
Why are many of you still working for Meta and Google? I imagine you're well aware of all the harm they've been causing to society.

We may never be able to counter or reverse the effects of their relentless efforts to normalize corporate surveillance.

I'm sure you haven't ended up working for Meta just because you couldn't find a job at a less destructive company.

You have a leverage, you could refuse to participate in this, so why are you still writing code that harms people?
It's twitter! He is going over the countless hurdles one has to successfully jump. Each has been designed to do something sensible but may turn out quite senseless. Twitter has room for a single example of that not an elaborate write up. He also illustrates how frustration grows and one might not have the patience to sensibly respond to the thousand cuts.

There should be a single government body that deals with the hurdles in a timely, professional and affordable way.
When I have to worry about bit packing I often keep the data out of line (i.e. not in the object (in fact the object may not even have contiguous storage at all). This can improve object packing (how much you can get in RAM, cache line impact, etc).

Here's a contrived example (I don't work in e-commerce): let's say I have a boolean to indicate if a user is a premium customer. I don't care about that when they are buying something but marketing wants the info to send them special offers and such.

Define the customer record this way (sorry, this is C++; haven't used Java in a while):

class cust {
private:
int id;
string name;
public:
auto get_id() { return id; }
auto get_name() { return name; }
auto get_is_customer();
}

Then store the is_customer info in a vector of ints, indexing off the customer id.

This takes up a lot less space, and in fact most of the time the is_customer info need not even be fetched from storage; it's only needed when marketing is running a non-time-critical function.

One nice thing is that a refactor like this is transparent to the call sites (at a source code level -- you still have to recompile)

You can do further speed ups, for example storing name/address info out-of-object since it's only needed when completing the order (just pre-fetch it when the user views the shopping cart).

Realistically this is silly for this e-commerce example where you just fetch from your SQL database and have different bottlenecks to worry about.

But until recently I was working on symbolic computing with neural networks; it mattered a lot to get a lot of the working set into core, yet different algos were looking at different parts of the objects. In fact this approach made it easier to parallelize some computation. It also made streaming data through transforms a lot faster.
Is there any raw data posted to show to what percentages was each vendor? Is this a residential or a commercial area?
The problem with the housing crisis we are facing is one of supply, therefore we need to build additional housing stock.
What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows
I live in the US, never pre rinse, used cascade platinum or some homemade mix of washing soda and essential oils I received as a gift, both work great, dishes are very clean in the machine.
The same was true in the west, but it was codified by religions. We let go of both the bad and the good parts as we shrinked or eliminated the roles of religions in society, often without replacing them.
My whole generation is brainwashed with a shopping addiction.
Do you run the dishwasher as soon as you put items in it, or do put items in throughout the day but not run it until it's full?

I wonder if some of the disagreement over this is because food becomes more stuck on the longer one leaves it, and so rinsing is needed if you are not going to start the dishwasher for another 12-18 hours?
To be nitpicky, the process you described won't necessarily reach a Nash, as it may cycle. But if each player best-responds against the average of all opponent strategies so far, then said average strategies will converge to a Nash (fictitious play).
I switched from WP to Hugo 5 years ago, and am very happy with that decision. Now, if only there were a good and simple Web UI for it so I could switch my wife and daughter's blogs over, I could ditch WP and PHP altogether.
> It looks like SQLightning got adopted and has been worked on by the SQLite team under the name LumoSQL.

Sorry about this misinformation, it looks like Sunday morning sleepiness got me.

It rather looks like LumoSQL is maintained by an independent group of engineers who seem to be quite familiar with the sqlite codebase and tooling.
By far the most important feature that ngrok provides, I’ve never used ngrok for its ability to replay requests
I think you're being a bit too sensitive about what I said. There was nothing hostile about it, but a simple matter of fact. Even if they don't have that intention now, they will have to discuss it because their roadmap will dramatically change what WordPress is and what it can do.

Which is why I said it will take a long time, but it is heading in that direction.

They already released Patterns[0], which is very tiny inside look on where they plan to go with Gutenberg. Yeah, they might look cheap and not so attractive, but ultimately the ability to customize "blocks" is already there - it's just a matter of time before the capabilities of that customizer get cranked up to the max.

[0]: https://wordpress.org/patterns/
> Regardless of any internet-level understanding or resentment, the millennial/zoomer understanding of mental health is completely destroying people's lives.

> I work and have worked in mental health for my entire adult life (late 20s now). I have my own mental health diagnoses. I was diagnosed with severe OCD when I was 11. Since then I've gone through periods of generalized anxiety, agoraphobia, panic disorder, you name it. It has destroyed my life once every three or four years without fail. Losing jobs, friendships, my grades in college, everything. Just utter ineptitude and catatonic inability to take care of myself. I have been blessed with the most supportive family anyone could ask for. I do not fail to see the differences between myself and those who I now serve. But there is an intense illness that is permeating through our younger generations that is destroying the possibility of recovery for these people suffering through legitimate mental health issues.

> I have met and helped and treated numerous individuals now who are my peers in age - anything from 18-early 30s. And so many have internalized a generational "understanding" of mental illness that is toxic and worthless beyond condemnation. Our youngest generations' understanding of mental health enables, encourages, and at worst glorifies mental illness. I can not understate the number of times I've met a young woman who has made being mentally ill, and polysexual, and queer, and autistic, et cetera, their identity.

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/a-broken-model-of-broke...
With apologies to Shakespeare...

This was a tale
Told by a ideologue, full of hype and hand-waving,
Signifying nothing.

I love the mental gymnastics it must have taken to write this:

> By nature of running on a blockchain, Hyperstructures can run forever with no ability to stop them. They can continuously function without a maintainer or operator

And then about three paragraphs later, write this:

> It is worth stating while the Hyperstructure runs exactly at cost, someone still has to pay the gas cost to operate it at that point in time."

And not realise that you just entirely contradicted yourself. That aside, after reading the entire blog post, I still have no idea a) what a hyperstructure would actually look like if it existed and b) what it's even good for.

Oh and c) I regret spending 10 minutes of my life reading it.
Albini, like many greats of rock & roll, should always be taken with a massive grain of salt when he speaks. In the end they'll always go where the money is.
The theory doesn’t claim that Russia is a purely reactive state, that’a a nonsense interpretation if I may use your own words. It claims that when certain things happen, they are forced to react. E.g. regime change in a neighbor that’s typically not NATO-friendly that suddenly starts training with NATO with the hope of joining someday.
He is producing a mass market product not art for arts sake. In this case how much money the product makes directly and indirectly (future sells of other stuff in the brand) is the measure of it's artistic value.
None of these require crypto.
This is a fallacy.

Which is closely tied to the fallacy that using crypto(currencies) gives you anonymity.

Cash gives you better anonymity than any crypto currency currently in wide circulation for the applications you listed.
Thanks for flagging this! I changed my time zone to Sydney, and it's indeed 1hr ahead of schedule. I'll look into it.
I'm not sure how accurate it is but I hear that at a time US salaries were high because the bar was low on starting a farm. Employers had to bid against that life style.

Today employers are looking for different abilities but those do seem to [greatly] overlap with what it takes to run your own shop.

Another thought I had was how poor job interviews still perform. There are lots of people who consider themselves capable but would have a hard time convincing others.
This emulator apparently has builds for the Vita, though it looks like it doesn't support the carts that rely on the latest pico-8 features (this is a common issue with pico-8 emulators).

https://github.com/jtothebell/fake-08
There are a few excellent UK-made brands out there, although it's on the expensive side it's definitely quality stuff that lasts : Mackintosh, Drake's, Barbour (depending on the price range), Sunspel, Private White V.C., John Smedley, Colhay's etc. I'm personally a huge fan of S.E.H Kelly.

And of course there are still the venerable shoe makers of Northampshire which in my opinion remain the best industrial ready-to-wear shoemaking in the world (with a few exceptions, namely Carmina and J.M. Weston) : Edward Green, Crockett & Jones, Cheaney, Church's, Grenson etc. I'm myself a regular Crockett & Jones customer as they make the only size + width combination I've found in ready-to-wear that matches my feet really well.

Of course it's a rather militant way of looking at clothing and it's all pretty expensive stuff but :

- Frankly it's affordable if you've got an engineer's comp.

- It keeps its value well on the second-hand market.
The data for the CDC Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES) are here:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/abes/tables/index.htm

The survey was conducted in the first half of 2021
Mid/high six-figures (sometimes low seven ones as well).
I wonder if consumable fashion is mostly a women's clothes issue??? I see this narrative told often, but I bought a couple pair of carharts and a few pair of jeans, a couple flannel shirts, and own 6 or 7 gildan cotten t-shirts. All of these I have owned more than 3 years and use one or two times a week. The t shirts are also my gym shirts. I have two pair of running shorts that have lost an almost unbelievably long time given the fact that I wear one or the other almost every day.

None of my clothes look like they need replacing anytime soon. Except for socks, which for whatever mystery known but to god periodically vanish. My wife's clothing situation much more resembles your daughters

I'm curious if other men here have cycle through clothes continously, and if so, how?

Edit: spelling
The WAL doesn't work with shared directories (NFS/SMB) though.

Found this out when I tried to store the Plex data directory on a NSF share in a VM and it had really weird issues. Turned out Plex uses SQLite with WAL enabled.
For the last ten years I have been anticipating that Europe would become the Switzerland of the world, at a larger scale. For the worth and better. Sustainability is a big part of it and this kind of move as well as the platforms regulation give me hope.
I think Bleach was amazing. I remember exactly where I was when I heard it first, Newbury Comics in Harvard Square in 1989, and I had to ask the staff what was playing in the store PA because it was so visceral. What was the recording budget, $600 or something?
Ah yes, the “meeting sandwich”. Everyone’s favourite way to spend an entire afternoon…
Half-OT

Fast fashion seems to be one of the problems the metaverse could solve.

In the pandemic, many people moved more and more of their social life online. Not 100% of it, but quite a bit more than before.

If less people would buy real clothes every season and just show off digital clothes online, this could solve the overproduction issue.

You can still signal being wealthy or stylish online, but nobody would actually have to sew all that stuff.
> there is a massive difference between the cultural imperialism of megacorporations and hard-power imperialism of, say, invading Vietnam.

True, but one cannot exist without the other. How would the US invade Vietnam (or Afghanistan) without industries to manufacture weapons and surveillance tools? How can they pillage all their resources without predatory industry collaborating with the occupier?

> For all that Facebook and Google and the NSA know so much about us that they’d make the Stasi drool with envy, they’re not the Stasi.

I guess the major difference is the Stasi was working for a single Nation State, whereas the 3 entities you named perform political-repression-as-a-service for many governments around the planet. The Stasi was pretty bad for east germany but they held no power elsewhere: now every political police on earth is equipped with stasi-like superpowers thanks to Silicon Valley.

> that persecution predates the birth of Zuckerberg, and Facebook didn’t have any triggers to pull or boots to put on the ground.

True, but Facebook had a choice: from what i read it was founded as a stalking/girl-rating site by geeky sociopaths, which is already pretty dark. But when they early on censored breastfeeding women and torrent links while letting nazi/misogynist content go rampant was a very political choice in favor of very violent ideologies, and they should be held accountable (not talking about the US judicial system which is just as bad if not even worse).
But he also mentioned in one of his popular books about his own experiments in this regard that he stopped playing with these things because he considered the health of his brain too valuable for that.
Haha you would think. These actually are the new teams.

I've been in my current position for two years. During that time: I've had 4 managers. The team structure has changed majorly twice (lost about 1/3 of the team because they got reorg'd to a different team/project, then lost 1/2 to posting or leaving the company). We also had app ownership change majorly 3 times.

They're having such a hard time retaining and finding people that they're having to combine teams with 50% losses to make one whole team, start a new office in a new region in the hopes of using a new labor market, start up an offshore team for owning mature products (prod support), and they're finally investigating full/permenant remote jobs to see if they can get more people that way.
>only stable in fiction

And in fairness, Orwell himself was quite optimistic about 1984-world's prospects. IIRC in an appendix he opined that the innate human desire to innovate with language could not be suppressed without losing language entirely, and so humans would (slowly, painfully) eventually find the cracks and destroy the system from within.
they are victims of social media influencers, who encourage this behavior

unsustainable and wasteful consumption

the reason fast shopping exists, kids can’t afford new fashion item every week, but SHEIN and others make it so cheap and nice looking that makes this behavior possible
Heh, I haven't seen or read NR but added it to my wishlist after watching Terry Davis mention it [at 8:15] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25hLohVZdME Seemed to work well enough for him.
Blaming it all on the pandemic is an absolutely hilarious misdiagnosis. Everything seems to be on the brink of collapse all the time, housing prices are absolutely bonkers in most cities and wages are, in the best scenario imaginable, same they were 20 years ago for your average professional who lives paycheck to paycheck. Politicians have no vision, they are just parasitic entities that benefit electorally from violent asinine confrontation between voters on pointless cultural issues that never find any satisfactory or permanent resolution. Mass media are fully immersed in a two decades long psychic war against the general public that only seems to be accelerating.

There are too many structural weakness in our society to point out without having to write a full essay, but this mental health decline is the direct result of our failing political and economic systems and our apparent impossibility to challenge them in any productive way.
Right, yes, they added patterns. It's a very important new feature that reflects the change in the way people can lay out rich content.

But -- considering patterns can be used by every third party theme in an open source CMS -- how do you get to talking about developers unionizing (that is, under threat from some corporate entity) and Automattic taking over that business from there?

The reason I read it like a corporate big bad wolf fantasy is that you wrote it like one.
> In Utero is a FANTASTIC rock record

Mh. As a teenager at the time, I always thought Nevermind was the real deal. Then the whole media phenomenon took over, so In Utero could have been shite and still sell bazillions - it was promoted massively. That's not to say it was shite, but IMHO it wasn't as perfect as Nevermind.
If you care so much, just leave. You can't change anything unless you're top management. You can salt and sabotage at most but if you don't pass your malice for incompetence you're out.
Does the law seem to discourage these types of updates? Are there any know products that didn’t get an update like this just in Australia because of the law?
Ah, I see. You're not insuring the current structure really. You're insuring the cost of the larger replacement structure.
> Manufacturers will have to ensure their clothes are eco-friendly and hard-wearing.

Very little of substance in the article. I wonder if this is a “baptists and bootleggers” moment for greens and Euro clothing industry?