skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Australian government does the same thing; and also permits BNPL.

BNPL has been thoroughly, thoroughly investigated by the Australian government because people have the same conclusion as the HNers here - 'they must be doing something wrong'

But if anyone does what I do, which is to look more deeply into the topic, they'll discover that this is actually the least predatory form of consumer debt (if not the least, close to it), and for this reason governments are content to continue with it.
There’s actually many variation of those Peter and Simon/Sally problems. I’ve seen with two, three and up to four numbers. Often, one of them claim they (finally) know the answer after a certain number of interactions and _then_ the other claiming that they either can, or can’t figure it out. “I knew that” or “Oh, really?” respond the one who knows, and finally: “Then I know what those are.”

One can include certain clues, like “Those are three beautiful numbers” to indicate those are different, or “You would like them” if either of them is presented as a fan of prime numbers, perfect numbers or something like that. With children’s age, they might be in school, boarding school, went to university, or have children, to indicate they are below or above 6, 14, 18, etc.
Well you dont have free speech in Europe too.

Because everything against the current narrative is "hate speech".
Use of geometrical methods in Babylonian mathematical astronomy (2016)
Shogun had been made into a TV miniseries with Richard Chamberlain c. 1980
I had the same exp. One I bought in the mid 90s. That original battery that came with it lasted nearly 10 years. Then another 5 with the new battery. I retired it when the plastic casing came apart. The LCD never turned off. That thing was a tank.

The newer ones I am lucky to get a year out of the battery. Even using the on/off switch.
Being the person who everyone turns to for database/query issues is a decent niche. If you work with Postgres it's pleasant for the most part as well. I don't think the type of places hiring a "DBA" are typically high caliber employers, it tends to be a lot of enterprise type stuff, so I'd focus on being a software engineer/architect that just happens to lean heavily on the use of database features to accomplish your job rather than trying to specialize.
You are probably under-estimating the size of Harvard. That isn't to say that large organizations tend to be ... well large organizations, but Harvard is huge.
I think I will add a configuration flag to allow for viewing all files in the pull as well.
Well, the US military might is reliant on a resource it does not actually produce locally (in sufficient quantities). If the govt. did not exert control over other sources, it would quickly lose access, rendering much of the heavy machinery useless. The Navy is the most vulnerable to an oil shortage.
The whole quote makes your clip sound different: Some of the most advanced programming, as Clive Thompson notes in his 2019 book Coders, was pushed forward by long-haired weirdos who hung around university labs after hours, hackers who considered themselves as much artisans as logicians.

And it was not said in relation to agile.
> Get Vernier calipers! The scale is easy to learn

Yep.

> and use

Nope, not once you get old and tiny things are increasingly difficult to read with or without assistance.
Wow. The city commisioner says "No, yes, No. The police have not been aggressive enough with enforcement, because we don't want them to."
I must be very old. I still put my name in the footer of all my personal websites. Which reminds me: must update the copyright year in those footers!
Trying to understand and trying to enjoy are two totally different things.
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name.
Thy programs run, thy syscalls done,
in kernel as it is in user!
Give us this day our daily cycles,
And forgive us our GOTO's
As we forgive them that also use BASIC.
Lead us not into FORTRAN,
But deliver us from COBOL.
For thine is the for loop, the while and the switch
For ever and ever,
Amen.
Are you suggesting that the only way to avoid anthropogenic climate change is a massive die off humans?
ha! Made me laugh, this was me 10 years ago
And coated windows. Sounds like the way forward.

Does a smart fridge still work if you rip the modem and Wlan boards out?
I'm sure you had an array of considerations when buying an electronic safebox, but this is the bottom line as to why I would never buy one.

As a programmer my day job is "this isn't working the way it's supposed to, lets figure out why and fix it." I can't fathom ever wanting to deal with that stuff when I get off work. A lock and key have been working just fine since the Roman times, it's relatively easy to conceptualize how it works, the things you can troubleshoot on it is a relatively short list, the UX surface area is small and predictable (it's just a lock and a key). I could go on for a long time. If something got along just fine before bluetooth and wifi existed then I never want to own a version that requires bluetooth or wifi.
The "joke" is that you can determime whether a number is odd or even with a modulo in half the code and a fraction of the storage space of a library. There is no use case for it because it's a built-in feature of the language, and in the age of inane web bloat, supply chain attacks and Javascript cargo-culting, I think laughing at stuff like this is perfectly warranted.
Unfortunately governments can also fail in settling externalities. For example, making it hard to extract oil domestically only shifts production to other countries, which are often bad authoritarian states.

Better way is to tax consumption, but that has never been popular in US.
It's kinda wild how alien the Linotype layout looks compared to a standard QWERTY keyboard, despite them being relatively contemporary with one another.
This article is a combination of a straw-man argument and a bad analogy. The authors say [personalization] = [3rd-party data categories] * [appeals to non-universal emotional associations]. They show that 3rd-party data categories are crap. Anyone who has worked with those sources knows about the bad quality, so the criticism is an easy sell. Then they use an analogy of Disney/Pixar movies to argue that messages should have universal appeal. Most everyone feels all the feels when they watch a Disney/Pixar movie, so this is also an easy sell.

Pull the straw-man apart a little bit: 3rd-party data isn't the only data out there. There's at least one solutions (full-disclosure: I'm building it) that uses high-frequency communication channels like push notifications as a factory to originate 1st-party data that's tailored to your business needs and exists at the individual level. In other words, saying personalization based on 3rd-party data doesn't work is like saying a car that with water in the gas tank doesn't work. Of course it doesn't. Stop putting water in the gas tank.

Now look closer at the analogy: like a good movie, a good marketing strategy will expose customers to a wide variety of reasons to engage, so they can take what is personally meaningful to them and leave the rest. You can't fit the whole strategy into a single message. Of course you can't, just as Disney/Pixar can't fit every emotional association into a single scene scene. The authors point out the obvious fact that personalization can't fully happen at any single point in time, and miss the point that personalization necessarily happens progressively over multiple points in time.

I don't mean to come down hard on the authors of this post. They're reacting to what most marketing platforms call personalization. The problem isn't that personalization is impossible and doesn't work. The problem is that so many platforms have implemented something that doesn't work and have called it personalization.

For anyone interested, my co-founders and I have written several blog posts covering both what real personalization should look like, and many of the technical aspects of how it can be both possible and effective: www.aampe.com/blog
I get that you're pissed, but there's plenty of technology that you seemingly forget about (being pissed off makes you a bit irrational) that works most of the time. Saying nothing ever fucking works is just a dumb take
> I think people really don't want e-waste. They don't want oceans (and now bodies) full of plastic. The industries have just done a great job of convincing them nothing can be done about the problem.

I think it's a bit more complex than that; a lot of properties that distinguish a "solid product" from "e-waste" are not at all obvious when you buy it, and it's not illegal and it is cheaper, and people got to make rent too, so... yeah. I agree: in the abstract most people don't "want e-waste", but they also look at costs and other factors, and they do "want e-waste" once you factor that in.

It probably shouldn't be strictly illegal too, but now you have a situation where:

1. Consumers blame industry and say that government should do something.

2. Industry says they're just producing what consumers want and that it's not illegal.

3. Government says they want consumers and industry to have free choice and call for different consumer actions and "self-regulation".

So basically, everyone is pointing at everyone else, and nothing gets done. And the arguments from the various sides aren't necessarily bad or malicious either: regulation does come with a cost, and cheap stuff does have its use.

Personally I think factoring in external environmental costs in to the product price would be good, but it's not so easy as it will make things more expensive, and already enough people are struggling to make ends meet (as the current high inflation rates show) so it all ties in to a lot of other issues as well.
If you have a super high write throughput table (say a constant stream of sensor data) foreign keys and extra indexes can slow it down to too much. Besides that, you should always use foreign keys.
That must be frustrating, but was quite funny to read.

I would happily invest in kitchen appliances that have a silent mode for apartments and shared living spaces.

My microwave beeps at the end, and then beeps again 10 minutes later once the food has been removed. My old toaster beeped 5 times when the toast popped, which is unnecessary when the popping action is loud on it's own.
A long time ago I did a pair of articles about recursive descent parsing [1] [2], from very basic theory to a crappy programming language. As a side effect I also made a cantankerous parser generator [3] that produces a backtracking recursive descent parser from EBNF.

[1] https://reindeereffect.github.io/2018/12/08/index.html

[2] https://reindeereffect.github.io/2019/01/16/index.html

[3] https://github.com/reindeereffect/tools-from-blog/tree/maste...
On the other hand, trying to understand forests by counting trees in them is a well accepted practice. Including manually counting trees in a small area and extrapolating to a larger one.
The need to support third parties is exactly why we ended up embarking on a phased deprecation of our websocket implementation.

As it turned out barely anybody wanted to learn how to open a websocket connection and relearn all the oddities of a bespoke websocket connection (error handling, etc.) whereas with REST all these things are just more or less standardized.
Changing - do I have to learn something new to do the same thing today as I did yesterday - is different than adding new capabilities.
I use the kitchen scales (and a smaller set of digital scales) for measuring out things like resin where you do need a reasonable degree of precision, especially when you're measuring out small amounts e.g. 5g of A and 6g of B.
You're quite right, and it's something that has basically caused me to stop talking about my vipassana practice to people I befriend unless they bring it up first. When mentioning meditation or mindfulness practice, there are 2 types of people: those who say "yeah, that's nice, I should probably try that out some time" and nod along, and those who say "yeah, I did 16 self-affirmations today and visualised a new car, and listen to how it lines up with my horoscope..."

Mindfulness practice at its core is super simple, there's not much to talk about, but it's been completely associated with the self-help movement to the point that most people can't distinguish it from nonsense.
An IED? As in an Improvised Explosive Device? I suspect you're not comparing like with like here
I'm an educator and right now, I'm evaluating the crypto space.

A huge problem here is that it's very fast moving.

Take the fast moving Web of the 90s and multiply it by how much more people use the Web today.

At Eth Amsterdam I talked to many engineers from that space and didn't get a satisfying answer to many questions devs usually ask about new tech.

"Where should you store your data?" - "It depends!"

Back in the days, and even today, in Web2, you would spin up a relational DB and it would be good enough for 99% of use cases.

I know, that changed with the rise of NoSQL, but in Web3 it's even harder.
I just went back to the office and commute is one of the reason. The walk or bike ride is what I have been missing the last months. Of course that means you need to work and life in some city that doesn't force you to have a long train ride or even worse take a car.
> The world of blockchains and cryptocurrencies and "web3" feels vastly more opaque and esoteric by comparison and therefore untrustworthy to many of us

For me it's more that we can already do everything web3 does without the blockchain sprinkled all over it

The only thing web3 adds to what we are already capable of is a participation fee, which sounds like someone was tasked to implement the worst possible version of the internet
> "solve world hunger"

I think the idea WFP promised to "solve world hunger" for $6bn originated with Musk or his fans, not with WFP. WFP's original claim was that they'd be able to prevent 42 million people from starving (a much more achievable goal). I'm struggling to find the original interview rather than dramatized reports of it, though.

Disclosure: I've done contract work for WFP.
That code could be copied directly from some real-world examples - sqlparser-rs code looks pretty much exactly the same.

https://github.com/sqlparser-rs/sqlparser-rs
Accumulation of capital is prevented by the misperception that equality is desirable in and of itself.

Is it better that we allow the capital in society to be commanded by elected bureaucrats or by people who acquired it in a competitive process, even if that means that they will have more pieces of paper (called shares) with their name on it? Is the billionaire who only spends $100k on himself every year to be viewed the same as the billionaire who throws a party every weekend with bikini models on his mega-yacht?
Labor hours fails because some jobs need more incentive to get into. Why would I study in school when I could make just as much doing basic unskilled labor, with careful savings the unskilled laborer can retire earlier since he starts sooner (also likely doesn't have to pay off student debt)
Well, right mindfulness would allow you to see that self perception arise as distinct mental and physical sensations, and appropriately calm its fabrication. But, most people aren't practising correctly, I would think.
Ok groomer
This. DBAs are being replaced with a mix of Devops and Data Engineers.
Not so fast. Entropy is decreasing. There might be more energy, but useless energy. Energy low enough, spread out enough or with too little temperature differential that you can't do much or anything with it.

The Earth is getting solar energy sure. But it also emits energy. And a lot of what stays here is just useless heat.
Yeah, and everyone is trying to normalize their mongo schema. The only thing the cloud got us is faster provisioning, and perhaps greater reliability due to that. It didn't magically solve scalability and integrity.
They have abused their need to conceal methods by not having proper customer service to resolve situations where innocent people are banned. Internet and banking services are too important to our lives, much like utilities, to allow this abuse to continue. If they wanted secret methods, then they needed to provide adequate customer service to offset their failures.
The history of EBay is long (in internet commerce terms) and complicated. At one point 100s of millions of customers on a single oracle db. A colleague of mine was working on this around 1998/9

https://web.archive.org/web/20070104021557/http://www.addsim...
> How do I add a headline to a webpage?

I vividly remember that time in 1996 when I had to explain to my schoolmates what a _webpage_ was.
(Whithout really having an internet access yet.)
This is a thing on some large fire trucks. At least for this application it requires someone steering from the back of the trailer. See this one in Seattle for an example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhuSwHni0jc
> The fact that you can bring up two books to support your opinion
doesn't mean I agree with it.

Of course. Besides, they are faulted books (and thinkers). It's not
really my "opinion" I'm trying to get across so much as the "Western
Ideal" (the thing we're all assumed to believe in and accept as a
foundation of life). A pillar of that is shared responsibility through
the proxy of the State.

Namely that the "State" is there to serve us because it is us.
The ideas of a General Will, Social Contract etcetera are the reason
we give legitimacy to parliaments, congress, politicians, local
councils and even monarchs. They are servants.

Otherwise they're just "people in power to be fought". The only
alternatives, understood since Aristotle, are undesirable forms of
tyranny where armed revolution is the latent objective of all free
men. The deal/contract is that we are also those servants ourselves
)we share power and responsibility* to a proxy or figurehead in which
we invest loyally/trust and some temporary decision making
powers. That's the sense in which the state takes away the burden of
daily politics, freeing us for work and living.

> You can't do serious politics spending 5 minutes on Thursday morning
every other month.

Not literally. I was joking a little. That's a metaphor for the small
effort required by all people to maintain a democratic government of
the people.

If anything, internet communication has saddled us with the worry of
global affairs and economics that the social contract was supposed to
unburden us of. You spend far more time concerned with the affairs of
monolithic governance than enjoying nice dinners out - just by reading
the "news", and a give it much more mind than a peasant from 300 years
ago ever would have.

Another problem is that people are told they have ever more
responsibility (through markets) and are stripped of ever more power.
Our governments shrug while we are helpless to change things.

In that sense the "Social Contract" is broken. In order to fix it we
ought to to know at least what it is (because we've forgotten), hence I
make the effort to explain that where I can.
Some of it sounds similar to now defunct Crux Linux https://crux.nu/ but with rolling release
Can you tell whether you work in a product design company, or an engineering company?

Does that come from clients?

I used the same 3-in-1 latch circuit for power on/off, pairing, and software power off for 12 years.

A good enhancement mode NMOS FET can be as good as a physical switch at low voltages.

If you really need nano-amp level leakage current AND very low drop, you can consider turning to beefy depletion mode devices, which gate the user will discharge with the button press. A nice benefit is that you can directly sense the button press with an MCU.

I once even did a bluetooth mouse with this "hardware" switch, and a graceful shutdown: we sense voltage on the buck capacitor, and detect when the battery disconnect triggers.

The few microfarads in the capacitor are enough to send the last update with the 0% battery level, and a disconnect command.
That would be even odder.
HP Distributed Smalltalk [pdf]
> In the mean time there was also a desktop application available to read out the NFC chip of an identity card. This app is only available through the Windows 10 app store. With all my computers running Debian or Ubuntu, that was no option for me.

I fear this isn't a temporary oversight but a sign of the long-term trends towards governments only supporting the major platforms. Those platforms will then complete the quid pro quo by "voluntarily" banning apps that the government doesn't approve of, like bittorrent, Tor, E2EE messengers, VPNs, etc.
eBay Architecture Evolution [pdf]
> a coal mine in Bosnia that is known among train enthusiasts

https://www.farrail.com/pages/touren-engl/bosnia-kriegslok-s...

> Perhaps it was exported to countries that couldn't afford the latest technology?

In 1978 that could been happened. By the '90s nobody would bother, though.
> Leaving it unencrypted exposes my data to all other users of the system.

This would be an issue if we would offer access to block devices. That’s not the case. The pod can only see the files and not read at the block level. Else every shared hosting setup would have this issue.

I’ll still look into it and see if there is any action needed. And the potential overhead for encrypting only the mounted user files. My feeling is that it’s pretty doable.
Sandstorm is an open source platform, and this sounds like it is not. But Sandstorm used to offer managed hosting and no longer does, so they fill different niches. I can't run PikaPods in my house and you can't subscribe to Sandstorm right now for someone else to run. (Theoretically you can, but nobody is selling.)

It'd be cool to see a service like PikaPods built around Sandstorm as the platform layer, but there's a LOT of work to do to make Sandstorm a good idea to run commercially, and since we aren't running it as such, nobody's really working on those things.
If you get a chance to try it, or maybe you already have - you get this odd sense of presence when using VR. It's not quite the same as playing a normal game. Even just perspectives of things like size seem much more real in VR. Even with today's early hardware it's pretty good at tricking your brain.

This combination of presence and multiplayer create these crazy (to me) experiences where it's like you're stepping into the internet to meet people and explore it with them.

VRChat is one of the more popular examples, but most of it stuff still needs to be built in the first place.
There used to be a system like this that doesn't get mentioned much, I think it was called things like 'apprenticeship,' 'cadetship,' 'technical school' and such.

If governments are going to fund anything, education and research should be number one, the returns are not even complex to realise and it removes, or at least competes well with and provides alternatives to the corrupting incentives of privately funded research.
So I am looking at what you are asking for here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/3585928?gh_jid=...

And the first line is: Experience as a professional programmer with operational ownership of the software you’ve written.

I never came across a DBA which has more than scripting experience.
Web3 as it is known today is a term coined by Gavin Wood, cofounder of Ethereum, and all of his notable work is related to blockchain technology, and that includes web3.

Despite all the vague talk about freedom, really, web3 is all about cryptocurrencies. That is, web3 needs cryptocurrencies to work and it has no reason to exist without cryptocurrencies.