skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if conspiracists "knew all along," normies were genuinely enlightened by the Snowden revelations. That's why it was such a significant event.
The symmetry of NATO being involved in the named countries is hard to view as a threat to Russia.

Yes, those countries are all in Asia, same as Russia, but apart from that it's a really weak argument that Russia should feel threatened.

In no way can the invasion of Ukraine be justified and yet here we are, nobody can tell if Putin wants to invade Georgia or Moldova.

It requires a paranoid person such as Putin, to think NATO has a master plan for attacking Russia.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31328939/
> the zoomers need to stop with their nintendo simping, it's cringe, the same people who promote the cancerous pedo-anime culture from japan

So this is not hate to you? Basically insulting a complete generation, fans of a franchise, making dubious comparison with unrelated things and accusations of pedophilia?

Are you a joke?

> Bring arguments please

Read siblings comments, I already explained my point of view.
Unfortunately not everything compresses well with QOI. I have considered using it for our company but then did some tests with real images from real (noisy, low-res) cameras. The result is that in many cases QOI did not offer much compression at all over just storing all the raw bytes and in some cases it even increased the size.

The sample images that come with the download look well selected. I encourage everyone to try it on real data and see for themselves. Personally I was quite underwhelmed by the format and we are sticking with PNG for the time being.
That has worked well for digg, reddit, wikipedia... not
Russia has no reason to fear NATO - it's ridiculous. No one is going to invade the country with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.
Oh for the love of God, don’t introduce confusingly named variants of widely known licenses. If a new license is really needed — fine, if lawyers think that’s necessary, it probably is — but don’t name it that. No one will bother to check whether MIT and MIT-7BZ3/2 are slightly incompatible.
On some OpenCL implementations (as in, the ones supporting the SPIR-V OpenCL profile instead of just OpenCL C), this is possible.

Intel has a cleaned up variant of OpenCL for the purpose of running SPIR-V binaries called oneAPI L0, and Zluda can run on top of it. https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

AMD used to support SPIR in their driver, but they removed support for that in 2018. As such, you won’t get anything useful out of that one on AMD GPUs.
UK judges should be sanctioned for this outrageous act against freedom of speech!
The punch that changed Mortal Kombat history
It depends. I was in a demo call from Blaze, a CDP (Customer Data Platform), Segment.io competitor. Their underlying db seems to be MongoDB and for a CDP makes a lot of sense. In a CDP you collect all kind of data on n hard ids that identify 1 person interacting with your web assets, schemaless and json first is a lot easier to reason in this context than SQL. This is because you keep enriching your profile with additional attributes over time. Can PostgreSQL do this? Absolutely, but it’s not its main feature.

Things are complex, especially in data, I think it’s important to evaluate use cases rather than going with generic assumptions like “use boring tech”.
Russia moans about NATO encirclement, but it's being encircled because literally no country around it trusts Russia not to conquer them. NATO isn't a conquering alliance it's a mutual defense pact. The history of the Soviet-era is one of Russian genocide and racism towards literally every non-Russian soviet state, and millions dead in purges and legislated famines.

Russia's national identity has been that it's a victim, because it helps them ignore the fact that it's a national embarrassment that a country with that much natural resources wealth has a GDP smaller than Italy.

Ukraine is being invaded to the satisfy the ego and delusions of a despot who fears democracies and can't conceive of the idea of a free election. Recent events are a real good litmus test of who is worth listening to and Mearsheimer turns out to be yet another pundit running the DC track who spins happy fantasies that everything is "under control".

Quote from him prior to 2022: "If you really want to wreck Russia, what you should do is to encourage it to try to conquer Ukraine. Putin is much too smart to try that".

Another useless DC circuiter in the social sciences with nothing useful to say.
I don't think unblocking would be good (if I'm putting myself in Google's shoes). But it would at least then be reviewed by a human with sense and influence.
Please readers following this advice: make one of those multiple professional interests you cultivate be better communication skills and public speaking. The number of developers that can only explain weakly, or one way, or get confrontational when questioned is far far too many. Learn how to communicate and doors open, as far too many developers simply cannot explain to others such that they can then duplicate or follow or want to.
I think you're mixing the cost of your purchase with the cost of transflective display tech itself.

The famous 100$ laptops (OLPC XO) had a very high end transflective display from Pixel Qi (now defunct).

The tech itself is not expensive it just seems it cannot compete with the marketing of colorful glossy display, even when those glossy displays are impossible to use in the sun.
This is still true for young people in countries with strong unions, So it might be more of an effect of the population pyramid inversion.
The reason for posting that link was b/c it contains a short perspective on the study in question. A TLDR; of sorts.
But here's the study itself on the main authors ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279863242_Oxidative...
Even if you do show compassion, it is usually extremely one directional. Eventually that gets hard to keep doing so, and you just give up on them.

I found trying to deal with them with compassion was a cast of setting yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.

Sooner or later you just have to leave them to their world views, and just accept that it will go badly for them.

As Keith Ng put it

"You can't just keep saying we have to acknowledge the hurt and the sense of alienation that the antivax protesters have felt without acknowledging the feelings we have about them

A sense of betrayal - the idea that a national project to defend ourselves is being actively undermined by them, for either entirely crazy or entirely unexplained ("it's my choice") reasons.

A sense of threat - they used violence and intimidation to assert their power.

A sense of provocation - when they keep insisting that we are stupid, cowardly, blindly obedient sheeple, that they are the smart ones, the brave ones, the ones who are truly free, yeah, that makes me angry.

The Big Clean-up was my way of addressing that anger and frustration without giving into it.

That anger is unproductive, but it's not unwarranted. And it needs to be acknowledged, every bit as much as the protesters' feelings of hurt, isolation and abandonment.

But when you acknowledge their feelings and not ours, say that theirs is legitimate at some level then be silent on ours, and not acknowledge all the things that they've done that have led us to this place of anger - that's not reconciliation, that's digging the hole deeper.
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I’ll shamelessly plug my own agenda.

For the free world to be truly free we need total energy and resource independence. We have unlimited resources laying around our planet yet we depend on autocracies or outright dictatorships. If i had the money or the know how i would dedicate my life and career to this cause. People don't realise but many conflicts arise from scarcity of resources (and of course human nature, but what makes us war witch each other usually has a resource motive behind it). Manufacturing and automation are also crucial. We can tax robots by taxing high profit margins and boost progress to a level not known before. Otherwise we’ll be stuck with a repeat of -isms and a gradual degradation of freedoms.
If you're running zsh, I suggest using powerlevel10k[0]. It is stupid fast, and extremely customisable.

[0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
Amazon workers declare victory with the first Amazon union in the United States
I think you just thoroughly disproved your HN user ID.
> The target audience just wants to get some kind of website up and running and if there's some plumbing to be done with no-code tools that's just part of building a website.

"up and running" is different from "I want to continually build and grow on top of this".

Had someone last year reach out to me re: webflow. They'd chosen it to migrate stuff to, but... hit some walls and wanted customization to their process and capabilities, and were needing to have to rebuild because webflow wouldn't be able to handle it. This was a group creating dozens to hundreds of new sites per week. The initially loved the drag/drop "so easy and flexible" aspects of webflow, and assumed "get up and running and we'll figure the rest out later". "Figuring the rest out" meant months of head banging and many more months of having to rebuild something else from scratch.

I was met with "hey, we need to rebuild all of this and have it ready for Q2". This was... Feb or so. I said "so... you're needing to build a custom web site builder to be used by half a dozen folks concurrently to collaboratively build websites based on the a directory of themes, and you also need a theme builder to let another half dozen folks build up hundreds of themes with customizable commerce and misc functionality, have the ability to scrape/import the existing 400 sites you have now, and you need this done in 6 weeks. Do I have this right?" "well... doesn't have to be 6 - we could live with 8 or 9, but we're planning some new marketing campaigns to launch around that time so the earlier the better, so we can work out any kinks we find".

I had to pass on that.

I think my point here is that it isn't always 'a website' that people consider using these tools for - often they're trying to build large scalable businesses on these types of tools. Trying to be 'lean' while building on someone else's platform without planning for what might be essentially a total rebuild under the hood (and hitting that point more quickly than you think) has to be part of the planning, and rarely seems to be. Once you hit any success or traction with the initial piece, "rebuild for the future" falls off everyone's radar, and the tech folk may often be left with impossible tasks.
Lydia Davis: "The Dog Hair"

The dog is gone. We miss him. When the doorbell rings, no one barks. When we come home late, there is no one waiting for us. We still find his white hairs here and there around the house and on our clothes. We pick them up. We should throw them away. But they are all we have left of him. We don’t throw them away. We have a wild hope--if only we collect enough of them, we will be able to put the dog back together again.

Davis, Lydia. Can't and Won't: Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition. 2014.

https://theyalelit.tumblr.com/post/84167301273/the-dog-hair
Smile that dominate smile while indicating the anaconda in my pants.
What is their profit margin again? About 30 % right? They definitely are profitable enough to offer proper customer service and if they don't do it on their own I bet there will be a day when regulation forces them to.

Some things don't scale well and guess what that is cost of business. Imagine a company suddenly removing seats from cars just to increase their profit margin. People would think they are crazy. So why are we accepting this when tech companies do it with customer service?
The People, United, Are Not Going to Get Far
The basic economic theory is that externalities are inefficient. The market's invisible hand is not pointing in the right direction.

Why is this controversial for fossil fuels or lead in gasoline?

Why is the simple act of insulating your house or driving an efficient car considered part of a global communist plot?
> Personally I never really understood the benefit of thinking in functional terms about things that are conceptually more naturally thought of as persistent objects.

Like the vast majority of software developers world wide, who just want to get things done and/or earn money.

The simple truth is: A minority prefers purely functional programming. The vast majority prefers procedural programming with functional elements.

For some reason, those who prefer pure functional programming often try to convince everyone else their way is the best way in an obnoxious way.
You say 'sometimes', I think it should be the default position.

When you want to deviate from the boring software and technology, there must be a very sound 'business case' for it.

If you are building a planetary scale business, OK, maybe that warrants something more fancy.

But how many companies really need that? I'm not limiting myself to the HN unicorns, but looking at the whole market.
Not for this kind of applications. Same as Java being on 13 billion of devices, it doesn't mean anything if it's some config store underneath some mobile or desktop app.
In Germany it is illegal to school your children if you don’t like what the public institutions are doing.
Amazon workers win battle to form first US union
There needs to be a cheap way for consumers to take this to a small claims court, so companies are forced to offer a proper review process.
Yep.

IMHO MySQL becoming boring (fast, pretty reliable, non-compliant quirks being ironed out, decent backup tool availability, credible admin tools, JSON and CTE support) is one of the most important long term trends on the internet.

Along with the parallel evolution of PHP.
Post-soviet political systems do not seem to converge on anything stable. In this case a president may plan to become a prime minister and so he needs to limit presidential power - this was seen in Russia, Turkey, etc.
>They are definitely moving away from being beholden to Russia.

That's one way to you find your post-soviet country attacked by Russia's army in order to "protect Russian minorities there" and "liberate your country from nazis".

Though Russia is currently too busy in the west right now to register Kazakhstan on the radar, so now is probably the golden opportunity to break your chains from them if you have any.
That's not true.

What is true is that democracy mostly exists in the west currently. But it's not colonisation if a country becomes a democracy. That could happen without "the west".

Ps. A sign of not a democracy is leaders in control for > 20 years.
I remember stumbling upon a website which did this, but instead of just taking 100 years it prompted the user to select his country and gender. The algorithm then used data about the average lifespan of the selected gender in the selected country to tell the user how much they have left to live.
Once the drop is significant enough for Google to notice it's likely too late. If people have found something better they won't be back.
How many developers even pair program regularly? 0.1%? Maybe?
The thing about the tooth isn't completely wrong, though. There is acid in most soda and it does destroy teeth if you leave them in it, just more slowly (source: highly scientific experiments on YouTube).
I'm disappointed that all the credit in the article goes to the architechts who designed this. I'm much more impressed with the actual builders who were able to accomplish this. No way something like this would ever be able to be accomplished in America.
That’s outrageous - social media should be informed!
It doesn’t. Given that it periodically dumps the WAL to an S3 bucket for actual storage this sounds like async replication. Async replication is prone to lose last bits (last by time) of data when the node goes down. They’re probably more or less fine if the SQLite file is stored on the EBS though, it means they’ll just have to restart that node that failed or reattach EBS volume to a new healthy node. It does mean downtime though.

On another note I’m using Tailscale and it’s a wonderful service and I get it for free.
The things you are mentioning are bad decisions that favor the government and there are likely be ulterior motives, but there is no overt deception. What's driving distrust IMO is overt deception which is becoming increasingly normalized and regular.

One of the most extreme examples was the death of Officer Brian Sicknick [1] during the January 6th riots. The media ran a nonstop narrative (for months) that he had been brutally killed after being attacked by a rioter with a fire extinguisher: a visceral and discomforting image that helped to frame the riots. Politicians, up to and including the president, exploited this by having an honorary ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda historically used to honor the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, and RBG.

The problem is that not only was he not killed by a fire extinguisher, he wasn't killed at all. He died of a completely unrelated and preexisting medical condition (blood clot in the brain leading to stroke) well after the riots had ended. He texted his brother long after the riots stating he was feeling fine and had no problems except getting pepper sprayed twice. The media tried to pivot to claiming that he died of an allergic reaction to the pepper spray, but there was no basis in reality for that whatsoever and it was also completely dismissed by the medical examiner whose report was publicly released only months after its completion.

Events like this emphasize that the argument of scale against conspiracy theories simply doesn't hold. His family knew what happened, the examiner's office knew what happened, many politicians exploiting his death knew what happened, and I expect there's no doubt much of the media also knew. Yet they all ran with the same story because it helped advance the desired narrative. Efforts at countering it were effectively squished by a mixture of censorship and labels (such as conspiracy theory). And of course this event also emphasizes that the political establishment are more than happy to carry out amoral conspiracies even over such absurdly petty things, and that our media is now more of a tool for political manipulation of society than a balance against it.

So after events like this, what reason do I ever have to now believe the media or politicians on pretty much anything? Even science is now starting to go down the exact same myopic path with things like the famous open letter published by the Lancet [2] declaring any consideration that COVID may have come from a lab leak as being an unjustifiable conspiracy theory. Most of the scientists who signed that letter had direct ties to the Wuhan Lab. They declared no competing interests in the letter, and the Lancet editor who chose to publish it clearly didn't see it as a conflict of interest either.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Brian_Sicknick

[2] - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
I'm no expert but I'd imagine it's similar to getting put under for surgery, the drugs are similar at least, and the most painful part of that is the needle. Once the IV is in, there's no pain, just a slow and warm dark moving over everything.

I watched my mom slowly lose all faculty as she was reduced to a muttering, unintelligible, bed ridden shell. Over the course of a month she lost the ability to move all of her limbs except her left hand. She quite abruptly began having trouble finding and forming the right words and I never got to have the final conversations I wanted to, I was going to interview her about her life but one day I came back and it was already too late. She lied in that bed for weeks, stuck in the now permanent reality that she was going to die, slowly, as everything was ripped away from her one by one. The cancer took over the rest of her body. Nobody knew it was going to happen, we all thought she'd come home and be okay but she never walked again. It was distressing in a way I cannot communicate.

She deserved the warm dark, and it had been far too long by the time it finally came for her. One needle prick is nothing compared to the potential suffering at the end of life afforded by our current medical advancements.
Agree. DynamoDB + S3 seems like a good choice from my side. S3 will store the data - whether it is images or videos. DynamoDB can store the metadata associated with which museum uploaded the file, what date, type etc. NoSQL suits the dynamic nature of content which you are storing. You can build a website on top of it to support whatever you want.

Also a simple dropbox may also work if the goal is just to aggregate information and nothing else.

All depends on what you want to do with the data.
Lexicographically, MIT comes before MIT-0.
Conspiracy theories are the price of freedom. Either we crack down on whatever the government thinks is wrong, and then they either get it right or they use it to push their own propaganda, or we let people say whatever they want and allow that some people can't figure out the facts.

We could go after flat earthers, burn their books, and imprison their prophets. There wouldn't be many flat earthers if we did that. But we would probably also be oppressing people who have the wrong opinions about how to run the economy, along with a number of other issues.
Apart from both being NPF, having some symptoms that can be misinterpreted as similar, and high levels of comorbidities, ADHD is not related to autism.

We with ADHD absolutely do not have the same issues of interpersonal understanding, so of course you wouldn't because you wouldn't have that impulse in the first place.

From what I know I'd say autism (light or not) can definitely be an excuse for saying hurtful things, due to limitations in getting why something "merely factual" could be hurtful.
> I watched with dread how the MongoDB fiasco played out a decade ago.

Could you elaborate on this? MongoDB as a company is worth $30B, so it looks like they did at least some things right.
I agree with you and I also wrote:

> If you do this for the money, investing in tried and true (but boring) software should be the default solution.

Meaning if you are just playing around, then by all means evaluate new and shiny stuff.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but our team has like a few dozens of PostgreSQL RDS running on AWS for the past four years and the ops is... Basically zero?
What is the objective in saying that the USG is the shiniest turd of the bunch? What is you told you that the USG has, over the course of its relatively short history, destabilized and created power vacuums and installed puppet governments in countless countries?

There's no divisiveness to fall for. The public's loss of trust is legitimate and if anything, calling it KGB psyops propaganda is rich.. I suppose you think America doesn't engage in the exact same tactics?