skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a matter of time, even if it takes a couple of generations.

Globalization only works when most countries on the same side.
Not really - but I think its a message that bears repeating.

Most people have been through the governmental education process and have been taught that the government is the only fair/legal/possible answer to all our ills. That 10+ formative years of propaganda to counter. Even more if you go to university and licensed to do your job - you are now vested in an exploitative system, that initiates harm against others.

Understandably people will want to stick with the devil they know until a/ they have worked through the alternatives and b/ understood that the problems commonly blamed on people are actually the natural outcomes of government policies.
My then-5yo built rollercoasters single handed. I helped embellish it with trigger driven fireworks and other stuff for some combo quality time and screen time. Minecraft is such a perfect game for little kids and it works "offline" pretty well.
Pretty sure we have a legacy product using MongoSB, but for certain processes we ETL stuff into SQL Server first.
I kinda stumbled into rare books over the years, and at some point became aware of how many important texts just disappear because of lack of reprints and copies. It's really sad and remarkable.
For people who are forbidden to compile C++?
I don't see any problem with /su2. Or /su3.
When I was a kid, we were flying somewhere for a family trip. I remember seeing a man with a laptop with a screen full of code. I had never seen this in person before, and I watched with genuine interest. Much later in life, I found out that I loved coding. I love problem-solving and find programming to be very engaging.

I don't think we need to force every kid to learn to code. We ought to expose them to it, though. Kids who show interest ought to have a way to learn more.
Ine the same way designers discussed above try and big dick their designs, clocks when through some EE big dicking on trying to minimize battery usage. Same thing with LCDs.

They got them to really low power usage. Some of the ones today would basically last your whole life on a single button cell.
Your password was probably reset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31255450
It's part of the Cloud Vision API which supports (g)RPC and REST. Used it in a trading bot to detect if a tweet image (from Elon Musk) contained any mention of the text Doge or Dogecoin, or even a real dog.
Bollywood was/is basically Urdu too.
As indicated in the thread via his own words and pictures this is an off-brand switch controller, not a Nintendo official one. They don't have the same requirements for even features as the official Nintendo Pro or Joycon controllers.
The Soviet flying beast that never took off (2021)
Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years (2021)
Yeah, my explicit mention of kitchen scales and calipers was intentional, they both become much more useful if the user can choose to zero the readout at any time.

This is less true for a bathroom scale.
There's a deep love for cooking in many people, raising the de facto salary of being a chef. For the most devoted it raises it astronomically high. So competition drives down prices in the only way it can-- nominally and through intangibles like negative perks and job security. You can see at jobs where it's the opposite those same things are through the roof.
There's not going to be less computers in the future. Learning to program is like learning to read.
"DevOps" roles are sysadmin roles. The role name changed but the job is identical. I've been doing this for two decades. My title changed but nothing else did. We went from programming Puppet and building packages to programming Terraform and building containers. Actually I end up pointing out bugs to the software developers now because they're worse than developers 20 years ago.
Unfortunately, eBay is still THE place most small time sellers are going to auction stuff off.

I collect 16mm film reels (classic movies, shows, curiosities, propaganda, etc.) and eBay is really the only place to get those besides the rare estate sale.

Many people sell homemade products on eBay because it's far easier to get started and keep the price down. For example, a specific tool I used for beer kegs, far superior to any of the ones on Amazon, was made by some dude who sold it on eBay.

eBay is a mess, though. I swear there's interfaces from at least 3 different design eras. I have problems with images randomly not loading. It seems like the quintessential result of risk averse management milking the cash cow. Seems almost unsurprising how badly they are treating users such as the OP. I don't think they care.
It’s been a while since I used my iPod Video/Classic, but I think I remember being able to turn them off by holding the Play button on the dial for three to five seconds. Maybe that was just the hard reset; I don’t remember.
This might help: https://microservices.io/patterns/data/database-per-service....

Varies by actual DB but: with this architecture, if the DBs are NoSQL then you didn't lose as much by splitting up the databases, but if they were SQL then among other things you lose transactions across those DBs (or now need costly distributed transactions), effectively making the collective SQL system behave more like a NoSQL DB.
As the owner of a whole passel of shitty third party Switch controllers I have yet to encounter one where the pair button didn't turn it off.
Having an off switch on a life saving device like that sounds like a profoundly bad idea to me, so not sure why it would be brought up in this context. I personally would’ve used an example of something you might actually want to turn off, but it would just be a bad idea, not a potentially fatal idea, if you failed to turn back on.
Oh, I agree, I just ran out of time to say it which you said in a better way then I could.
WASM is a form of FFI.
Having a basic understanding of how computer work and think will be vital to navigate society, as more and more parts of it are digitized.
I'm not saying that everything becomes crystal clear after programming 101, or that IT systems can be understood after learning "Hello World" and IF-THEN-ELSE, but it will become more and more useful to navigate the modern world.
Probably not great. The understanding is that having keywords in the URL is valuable. This makes sense since these locations are "more expensive" so if the keyword is there it must actually be relevant. So it would make sense to weight keywords found in the following locations in decreasing value:

1. Public Suffix Domain (costs money to register).

2. Subdomain (255 char limit in domains)

3. URL (generally URLs aren't too long)

4. Content (basically free to stuff keywords into).
My first experience of programming was walking up to an Apple II in grade school (this was in the 2000s, those were some old machines) and punching in code listing from a book. The machines didn't do anything when you powered them on, just waited for you to enter code or commands. It was so simple, and it just begged you to start writing programs.

Now people talk about getting their kids started with programming, and end up talking about raspberry pis and Linux distros and whatnot. Granted the tools now are so much more powerful, and a determined kid can write a best selling iPhone app, but there's something wonderful about a machine that shows up to you as a blank slate, awaiting instruction.
This is a major blow to some of us: the free version of Nightscout has been relying on Heroku and they had an insanely meticulously detailed guide to set the whole thing up. https://nightscout.github.io/nightscout/new_user/ I will need to ask them what's next :(

Of course, I could figure out hosting myself, I do have a server but I don't need any more tamagotchis :(
In general I don't use a websocket unless there is a "live" component, like a news ticker, or feed. I don't use React unless I am billing hourly.
That's the spirit ... /s ... pun un/intended ...

I'd rather embrace something I hope for, despite a possible bitter taste, rather than roll my eyes which seems to be your preference ...
No offence to the author, but to give a song that was part of Coke Studio Pakistan the credit of uniting India and Pakistan is quite silly. Coke Studio is almost exclusively listened to only by the urban-ites in India, and Coke Studio Pakistan has even smaller listening audience in India [1]. A quick check of Youtube to see the current trending songs shows a lot of national and regional music, but no mention of this song anywhere in the Top 100 trending songs[2]. Mark this as just a publicity piece.

[1]: Yes, there's a Coke Studio India as well, and an eternal raging debate about which version of Coke Studio is better. I gotta admit though, the Pakistan version has a lot more memorable tunes. :D
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffaqVXuWO9o&list=PL4fGSI1pDJ...
> not surprised

> finally reveal

You’re talking as if you know something others don’t?
I experienced this in programming when I got into Scala 13-14 years ago. For an outsider, it looked like the community was more interested in impressing each other than solving real problems.
to be pedantic, is that an actual off switch? one that disconnects the battery? or a software defined low power mode?
New Wayland Protocol Proposed for Fractional Scaling
I got a culinary degree after high school and worked for a chef for nearly a decade before I changed careers to CS. I actually read Bourdain’s book while I was in school and he described life in the restaurant industry, and it just fueled my desire to do it more. I wanted to prove myself, I think.

I have a lot to say about those days vs. now, but I can’t emphasize enough how much I love my job as a software engineer. I’ve been doing it now for as long as I was a chef, and it’s better in every single way (for me) and going through those years has given me so much perspective and so many more ways to appreciate what I have now. I’m just so happy.
Agree. Years ago when I saw Taco Bell with a 4-star rating I knew Yelp was not going to be very useful to me.
We need more hardware buttons and dials. Things like power, mic etc need a hardware switch
In contrast to users who look for one but don't find it, who don't call support?
Open Source Managed Components for Cloudflare Zaraz
> Rechargeable AAAs are crap though.

Not compared to alkalines, not since about 2005. Voltage regulation (i.e. a boost converter) plays well with NiMH rechargeables too, though not with alkalines.

That's assuming one of them is an appropriate size and voltage for the application. If more than one starts to seem like a good idea, consider a larger cell, higher voltage chemistry, or both.
Hello there. I can't speak to everyone, but I can speak to my personal journey. In my late teens I was working in food service, both of my parents had run restaurants or been bartenders/servers. I had seen the issues that came from that, and when I went to culinary school in my mid-20s, on the first day they asked everyone "Why are you here, what is your goal?" Most people said "I want to be a chef-owner, I want to open my own restaurant, etc.". My answer: "I want to work in an industry where there is always demand and never open a restaurant on my own dime". And that's what I did.

I worked at some of the best restaurants, with some massive multi-unit restaurant groups, and some of the shittiest dives. I loved the work, and the fact that I was never the one scrambling to figure out where the build-out money would come from. I could go to work and focus on making great food.

My point is, it doesn't make sense for you, but there are thousands of people out there right now running restaurants they don't have an ownership stake in, and being happy with that choice. Jobs are different things for everyone. Some people want control and power and to show the world their vision, and some people just want to convert time into cash in a way they don't hate.
This comment is needlessly condescending, and you're already describing a ton of system administrator skills that you need to have, plus a good internet connection, plus hardware, which makes a lot of assumptions already.

> Never hot "hacked", never lost important data.

You got lucky. I'm not saying cloud providers are better, I'm saying you got lucky.
Tend to agree ... it's seems to be just ok. But I'll take the unity stuff ... on the surface, that bit reads like rubbish but reading loads of comments bringing peeps together. I'll take it.
> I’m not sure what it is that’s stopping the city from actually doing anything about it, like the truck issue it seems it would be trivial to enforce.

Law enforcement in NYC has a revanchist attitude towards the actual citizens of the city. Most of the city's police live outside of the city[1][2] and drive into work, which puts them directly at odds with the average resident.

This attitude extends into every facet of NYC's law enforcement, which is why most of the city's actual petty crimes (illegal parking, dangerous driving, obscured plates) go unreported: everybody knows that the police simply don't care.

Edit: So that I'm not just kvetching, here are some things that I think would improve the situation:

* Allow citizens to report 53' trailers and other illegal vehicles (e.g. obscured plates) in exchange for a cut of the fines, similarly to how the city uses citizens to report idling violations[3].

* Require all uniformed NYPD to attain a post-secondary decree (rather than a partial degree at a rock-bottom GPA, as currently required). Similarly, require them to pass a fitness test similar to the NYFD's.

* Require all uniformed NYPD to live in the city, and restructure their patrols to emphasize the neighborhoods they live in. Minimize in-car patrol time in favor of foot patrols and Japanese style police booths.

[1]: https://gothamist.com/news/majority-nypd-officers-dont-live-...

[2]: Notably, civilian employees of the NYPD (and most NYC civil servants) are actually required to maintain residency in the city. This is purely a carveout for the police.

[3]: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/nyc-anti-idling-la...
Multiples to a bedroom or rent control and hang on for dear life.
The unit economics of "free" work well if your product fits - if you have something that nets you a large operating margin, a good level of conversion to paying users after trying out the free tier (eg people have a reason to upgrade), that most people don't fully utilize their quota (eg you can oversell without killing the service), and, most crucially, is hard to abuse then free tiers can work brilliantly.

I have no idea if Heroku fits that model, but plenty of businesses run it very successfully.
In the .com days, I was active in the e-commerce space, using public-key cryptography to solve problems. We had digital certificates, digital signatures, etc, which we used to solve various problems like authenticating and securing access to websites, creating encrypted and signed emails, etc.

One thing was non-repudiation, i.e. if I send you a digitally-signed email with a purchase order, then you can legally rely on it. There were some attempts to use similar techniques to allow trusted third parties to register documents, but nobody was willing to pay for the service.
I've worked over 20 years as a DBA, mainly Oracle but also with Netezza, Teradata, Postgres, MS SQL Server, DB2, and Mongo. I would say DBAs are still in demand. I recently was laid off from a place that wanted to outsource DBAs and it took next to no time to find my new job. The pay is stellar, imo.

Having said all that, I could see it would be hard to decide right now, as a new IT person, to get into being a DBA. We wear so many hats, and are generally looked to for anything that needs to be done. As others have stated, a lot of companies don't seem to care that their queries are absolute shit, they just throw more hardware at the issue.
I don't know, but the ratio will be much higher when judged by others than with self-identification. No one considers himself an ideologue. Also, people on the right (left) are more likely to identify people on the left (right) as ideologues.
Cool idea. And I like how it’s implemented.

But the UX is hellllla confusing.

https://lumiask.com/node/04489cef-4daf-449e-b85f-459a99e78fc...

“Answering $1.10” ??? I get $1.10? This person already received $1.10?? I’ve no idea.

Share & Request Engagement. They sound similar. Like they’re both things I’d do by send the link to someone. But they appear to be completely different.

The message box is followed by two buttons. But the “request engagement” button appears to have nothing to do with the box.

It’s not ugly. It’s a simple, but nice design. But the placement, copy and naming is all really confusing.
I just replayed diablo 2 a month ago, but since I don't have a windows computer, I went for the Path of Diablo[1] mod. This is an excellent mod that stays pretty close to the original experience, but makes the game a bit faster and more comfortable for the 2022 gamer.

[1] https://pathofdiablo.com/
When I made it with WebGL (with no clue what I was embarking on, I just wanted to try it), I ended up with 8 substeps. Looking at it now it confuses the hell out of me, but IIRC it had to do with with checking each cardinal direction both ways ("both ways" meaning both "do I want to swap positions with this other pixel", and "does this other pixel want to swap position with me").

edit: I don't have a good video of this atm, but just to demonstrate it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rItnlDmGALU

it's not visualized in the video, but the pixels also have temperature, and materials a sort of stickyness (basically sand that takes longer to form into a pyramid), that's about it.
I wish more people would write about how to do this.
Maybe hackers appreciate the power of music.

"Anybody practicing the fine art of composing music, no matter how
cynical or greedy or scared, still can't help serving all
humanity. Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or
she would be without it. Even military bands, although I am a
pacifist, always cheer me up. - Kurt Vonnegut"

Coca Cola and other junk-food corporations latch on to art and artists
like flies, hoping to infuse some authenticity and meaning by
association. When I worked in that business it was Coke and Pepsi
behind every awards ceremony, and they were highly influential
over the record labels.
Until my first programming job I was a bus boy and eventually worked up to a fine dining waiter. IMO, it doesn't matter if you work front or back of house, it will give you a huge appreciation for how much work and stress it is to be in service.

I also learned a lot about how to deal with people, not only customers, but also the chefs.

Even 20 some odd years later, I have enormous patience when eating out and always tip well.
I can listen to -- or rather read -- Bourdain's takes on literally any topic (especially his expertise, the restaurant industry).
We moved our projects to fly.io and didn't look back
And we become dependent on it as well.

Also, I for one miss serendipity.
PowerToys is fantastic. So many great utilities. Another MS tool that I love is Microsoft Garage Mouse Without Borders. Someone mentioned it here on HN once, and I now use it all the time. Such a simple tool to use one mouse/keyboard across 2 or more computers. It works amazingly well!
Adam Savage's Rant on Laser Printers [video]
I mean I would understand if they wanted to do some rebranding, but even then I'd rename it to e.g. "Heroku by Salesforce" instead of sunsetting it entirely. It was a good brand, and any brand damage is of their own making (see other comments from insiders).
These differences aren't the results of taking less risk. They're the results of the technology being low-hanging fruit.

The low-hanging fruit is gone now. There could be some revolution that comes - but physics is at a standstill and has been for decades. Most of the gains are coming as evolutions, not revolutions, focusing on optimization.
From a practical standpoint, WASM is "pure JS" insofar as if I am browsing libraries and see one advertising itself as "pure JS", by convention that to me means "no FFI" or "potentially works in browser".

The only place I've seen "pure JS" used in the JS world is differentiating e.g. a Postgres client implementation that does or doesn't depend on the specific version & configuration of libpq you have on your current system. That's about runtime deps, not about source language.
Should Google have an opinion on the "India-Pakistan partition in 1947"? Is that their role?
> I've heard this before. TBF, there is a lot of idealistic portrayals of Greek society and philosophers in western media, and Egypt and Persian peoples are usually the bad guys.

Sometimes nations (Greek, Roman, Persian, etc...) killed and pillaged and from the perspective of someone writing what is now histories, yes, those people doing the killing would be termed "bad guys".

> Whether you believe that is a deep set prejudice and active discrimination campaign or a natural tendency re the history of one's continent is up to you.

You can actually measure sentiment to some degree. It sounds like you are trying to mind read. Don't do that.
Even if a person is not interested in the tech industry, it's still a highly valuable skill.

I know someone who has a lot of tedious work to do. If they could program they'd be able to do it much more efficiently. They can use that time saved to do anything else they want to do, perhaps they could have earned a promotion rather than slaving away on a repetitive task.

The world moves forward through efficiency, and automation is one of the major factors in that.
I'm not an expert here, but my understanding is that South Asian pop music tends to be (primarily) based on non-Western music theories like Hindustani classical music. These theories have different ideas of which emotions are associated with which keys or scales.

Assuming you're not familiar with Hindustani classical music, it's quite possible you're just not picking up on some of it, while many South Asians who grew up on it do understand it (even if they haven't had formal training.)
Issue dependent.
Not quite the same thing, but https://www.amezmo.com/ is great for PHP/MySQL apps.
There were no foreign key constraints at the database level - the application must have been holding and enforcing the relevant constraints.

A bit of a pain when you are looking at the SQL database trying to understand how it is structured so you can extract data in a meaningful way.
Definitely. It often feels a lot more calmer and thoughtful e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMPr0UZObY (came up as a recommendation after watching the article video)