skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you have to ask if you have big data, you don't have big data. When you have big data, you know you have big data."

Seriously, you can launch a server that has almost a terabyte of RAM! Is your business doing enough to make that database even blink? "My sources say no".
Thanks! I haven't noticed it.
It's a mess. Looks like that Miss Heard promised $3.5m to ACLU and $3.5 to a children hospital but didn't pay anything to the hospital and only donated like $350k herself to the ACLU. It's pretty wild when Miss Heard told on public television that she donated the full $7m to both parties (in 2018). You wonder what else she is lying about.
Engineering Student Creates Custom AirPods with USB-C Charging Case
life is not fair. favoritism is real.

maybe there will be a form in which previously banned user can apply to be reinstated.
HiGHS: High performance open source MILP and QP solver
> "for many the worse the news is the more addictive their attention becomes. "

That is both terrible, and so accurate that ad driven media builds the business model around it. I wonder what the underlying mechanism is... maybe some sort of hedonic reversal happens, like people who enjoy cold showers/polar swimming?
SPACs themselves need to float before they can make an acquisition. The investment bank provides the primary markets support for this, sets up a syndicate, and markets the spac to the institutional investor community.

There may be a level of underwriting going on also, as is the case with a rights issue or IPO, but it's probably more the marketing and access to the bank's client base that the spac benefits from.
Ted Nelson remembers Englebart 5/11/2022 4PM-5PM Pacific
>The account has over 2 million videos. Approximately 0.2% of ALL videos on the ENTIRE platform of YouTube can be attributed to this account,

This isn't accurate math
Might be an effort by VCs to sell their own lifestyle. "Start a company in your dorm and become a billionaire by 25." Is possibly more compelling than "Start a business that might make 5M a year in 10 years and then live a relaxing well funded life."
Identifying a cog (really a nut) in the React logo is almost as banal as saying that there is a hexagon "hidden" in the Star of David. It kind of pops out naturally whenever you intersect three pairs of parallel-ish lines, or two equilateral triangles.

Equating this with the negative space arrow in the FedEx logo is a stretch.

Here is a logo that manages to hide a negative space lightning bolt inside the name "zzap", which is a closer analogy to the FedEx logo:

https://dribbble.com/shots/6141892-zzap
Reasons not to start using PGP
I've personally found Postgraphile to be fantastic. Nicer to use than Hasura and fully OSS: https://github.com/graphile/postgraphile/
A killer solution is to run OPNsense in a virtual machine, and then adjust the virtual<->physical NIC mappings when moving between hosts. Its super powerful and has plugins galore (haproxy, nginx proxy, dynamic dns updaters, openvpn etc). I run two VM's in high availablity mode and can take down any virtualization host without any downtime(important with WFH).
I could never have read Atlas Shrugged if not for the audio book. I've always struggled with staying focused while reading a book. I'm too easily distracted.

If you are actually interested in learning more about the ideas presented in the book, I suggest you get a copy of the audio book. You might be able to find it at your local library ... thought I can't imagine how many CDs that would be. It's on Audible too, and other less official online sources.

For me, it's was sort of eye opening to read the book. It smoothed out some chips on my shoulder that drove my cynical view in life. Even though it was fiction, I still empathized with the character's struggles. I could connect it to real world events and human behavior that I had observed.

There are some books that help you see the world through different eyes. For me, Atlas Shrugged was an effective one.

The Fountainhead was similar. I connected with the frustration of young Wynand's attempts at grade school, only to find himself surrounded by dumb children and incompetent adults.
This looks like a scare-story.

Firstly, the EU produces directives and regulations; it doesn't produce "laws".

Secondly, the phrase "child pornography" is in quotes, as if there's no such thing. There is such a thing.

Thirdly, the imputed "law" requires service providers to scan encrypted messages. That's impossible, unless the proposal is to ban properly-encrypted messages. If that were the proposal, then surely that's what should be in the headline? Like, I already assume anything that isn't properly encrypted is going to be scanned by someone.
Well my kitchen scale does. Though I don't know many people who weigh less than five pounds.
i indeed flew with dbrb and had many gate drinking nights. but i realized the game was irrelevant at some point
Web3.0 Must Be Destroyed
UTF-8 encoding of U+FFFC ("Object Replacement Character").

[1] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FFFC
? I don't get it, it's the easiest thing to understand.

Terrorism, human trafficking, 'high treason' (i.e. nuclear secrets, spying).

Those are very real things and I think it would be relatively easy to convince the population that some degree of oversight is necessary. Because there's legitimacy.

I fully support the idea, nominally, except that I don't trust the bureaucracy at all, and so I'm pretty much against it, other than in careful situations with a ton of oversight. To the point where I think a national committee ought to validate every single surveillance request, not even a local judge.

And FYI the issues is far more nuanced - it's going to be politicized to narrow the range of acceptable behaviour and thought, as various groups try to designate 'the others views' as 'hate speech' etc..

We've always had high common standards of morality, but there were always many escapes - nobody cares what 'the guy said at the beer hall / pub'. It was just some boozing up. It 'didn't count' so to speak. Now we record everything everywhere and context is lost.
Anyone know any good supplements that are not soybean/corn oil? Pretty much everything at grocery stores is.
Some obscure unicode character U+FFFC, represented in the url bar as the %-escaped sequence of the bytes of its utf-8 encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)

No idea where it comes from, but it randomly peppers some people's comments and posts for no obvious reason:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%EF%BF%BC

I'll paste one here between double quotes: " ". To me, it shows up variously as either "[obj]" or as invisible whitespace.

edit: It doesn't work -- HN removes that unicode character. (It filters out large ranges, particularly emojis). So how the heck did it get in those peoples' comments?
I stopped giving to ACLU years ago when it became clear their mission to champion a grab-bag of lefty causes had superseded their free-speech defending goal. This pivot has lead them, at times, to actually defend the government against citizen requests for public records! I never thought I'd see the ACLU fighting on the government's behalf against FOIA/open records type requests but here it is: https://www.womensliberationfront.org/aclu-lawsuit-public-re...

In the above case, some female prisoners in Washington state wanted to know how many male prisoners had been transferred to women's prisons. The state didn't want to share that information (even in aggregate) and the ACLU defended the state's assertion that this information should be kept secret from the public, including from the imprisoned women whom this policy impacted directly.

Why the government would want to keep this secret is a good question, but the main point here is: did people donating to the ACLU realize their money is being used to fight private citizen information requests & defend government secrecy? How the mighty have fallen.
So the draft hasn't been published? Have there been public committee meetings? I'd like to know more about the actual content of the bill.
I have an older iPad mini for this purpose (but an old iPhone without a data plan would work too). I setup a separate home@<domain> iCloud account under my family plan and use it exclusively for streaming music vi AirPlay, cooking w/ recipes on Paprika, HomeKit controls, reminders, timers, etc. - no Slack notifications, no calls, no calendar reminders. The AppleTV goes on the same account too. It's really been a great solution.
From StackOverflow-

These look like corrupted URLs being inserted by a piece of Malware/Adware called "Adpeak"[1]

[1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25222973/weird-character....
Damn I love these devices. For me they were a sort of very mini iPad in an iPhone form factor and I loved how they didn't have a baseband processor. Always laughed when trying to download Whatsapp onto them and got an 'Incompatible' message in the app store.

Apple never released new versions frequently though, meaning certain apps became incompatible over time, since iPods couldn't be updated to the latest iOS. My fifth gen device was stuck on iOS 9 for a number of years now and it basically became unusable (and very insecure since apps couldn't be updated along with the OS).

I will be snapping up as many devices as I can from AliExpress & eBay though. Still worth having a few to toy around & tinker with.
I feel like product defects are .. a thing everywhere. Holding it wrong was just bad choices related to it, but it's not like that's unique to products tailored to specific use patterns either.
So what happens with self-hosted or decentralized services? Like matrix.
I don't think there is a "best".

I think Firebase has the lowest barrier to entry and if you don't exceed the pricing tiers, its a very pleasant experience.

Hasura and Prisma are both awesome, but after having worked in GraphQL a lot, I now try to stay at least 10 feet away at all times from GraphQL paradigms unless their hidden costs can be justified for the project.

I haven't used Thin, but it looks like its React only. If there was a Svelte or JS agnostic option Id give it a try.
I don't disagree that our media sucks and chooses to cover things that I don't think are important.

I have a very clear memory of a fox news headline disparaging obama for taking his jacket off in the white house, because apparently that was against the custom or whatever. And I thought, who cares, and it was then I knew that I shouldn't take fox seriously. But then, when trump was elected, I saw cnn spend a whole day talking about how trump got two scoops of ice cream and everyone else only got one, and had the same realization.

But I have to disagree with the idea that these stories were spread to the same degree. Go on twitter, go on facebook, go on snapchat - name a platform, and that platform will promote ideas against a republican significantly more than stories against a democrat. And you can argue that "that's just the algorithm" or whatever, but it is what it is, which is biased.
You mean "brisling sardines", i.e. "sprats", right? Because warm-water fish don't have much omega-3s! What's wrong if the sardines are in olive oil?
My plan was to get a MSc in Math, but I figured that no one (= employers) would care in the end, given my career in software development already. When I realized even I didn't care about the degree, I just stopped.

But I do think the material is interesting. So I want to learn in my spare time. I think that's the best alternative for me, as I don't dream about working in academia etc. I was never a stellar student (in a university setting) anyway.

I want to build a stronger foundation in statistics and probability theory. The goal I have in mind is to try and dabble with systematic trading.
These pathetic fucks should stop pretending to worry about children. What they really want is subversive populace living under the constant threat of being made criminals.

FFS China, Russia, India etc are proud of you.
Perhaps going back to one representative per 10,000 would help? We'd have to use technology to hold a quorem though.
Plus built in UPS.
I’m a big fan of Ruby and yes, Ruby handles this elegantly.

However, some variation on n%2==0 is idiomatic in a large number of languages, both modern and old [0].

This includes Lua, Java, Python, Scala, Perl, PHP, Swift, and many others.

It is true that there are numerous languages with built in convenience methods in their standard libraries, but that does not by itself mean that n%2==0 is problematic and certainly this idiom is deeply entrenched.

There is nothing preventing a developer using those languages from wrapping this in a function, and indeed this is probably a good idea if it’s something you find yourself using repeatedly throughout your code base, just like any other often-repeated code snippets.

- [0] https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Even_or_odd
Isn't krill oil the safest choice?
NeXT had already done the work to support M68K, Sun/SPARC, HP PA/RISC and IA-32 before Apple acquired them. They have been architecture-independent for quite some time.
Florida Youth Soccer League
A startup is notionally providing a novel or best in class service that VC investors are gambling on. Netflix's best days are behind it.
Were you affected in any way other than being upset?
IMHO you should still take it the other way round.

What Conway wrote: You can use the development of the software as one tool to learn about the social interactions in the organization.

Only doing microservices and then saying: Hey look, this matches our organization is offering very little overall.

So what if the different managers, their deadlines and priorities is the cause of many more problems not only the wrong decision to do micro-services (exemplary)?
So say a science writer reviews peer-reviewed literature to write about some technology or technological claim (let's say CRISPR) but has done none of that direct research themselves...are you saying they are just writing hearsay?

Now maybe you can qualm about where he gets his information and how reputable it is, but I think your standard for journalism differs from most.
Dedicated music players has become an audiophile market. That means volumes are too low for a company that sells enough Airpods for that business alone to be almost 10X the revenue of Snapchat, while being under 5% of Apple revenue. You have to use a microscope to see the iPod numbers.
I've also used Miro. It's good for gathering information, but not so good for synthesizing/creating/collaborating on a design diagram that you can do with a whiteboard and marker. Maybe it can work better with a large tablet device--I haven't tried.
My point is there are reasons for both those things. Yet the system isn’t honest about them.
Why not just get a mini PC and 2 wall warts? I wouldn't mind hauling this thing around [1], or a mac mini for matter. I'd love to see something similar with a battery so I can hibernate in between locations.

[1] https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat
I have not felt the need for a very fast laptop given reasonable internet. I just do any heavy computation (builds etc.) on a remote server.
Google had this down to a science. "An update on..." was the best possible business euphemism for cancelling something, and they did it every time, so you didn't have to read the rest of the article/blog post. "The music lives on" just isn't as good. I know Apple didn't want to copy Google here, but they should have. "An update on [the] iPod Touch". Easy. You know what the update is.
That's probably worse.
Here's the uncommon opinion. Google/FB, by extension US government, already performs mass surveillance.

There are actually 2 solutions to this problem. One is stopping Google/FB. The other is making mass surveillance more common, lessening the impact of mass surveillance.

In that sense non-US govs taking mass surveillance is a boon to power balances and competition amongst nations and economies.

Does this opinion have any issues? what are they?
Not when it comes to the second amendment. They cherry-pick the Bill of Rights to suit their donors’ politics. They also seem to ignore the 10th as well.
There were times when that was going on that I honestly wondered whether Trump was a genius. I can't thing of anything he did from a legislative perspective that was really problematic but he exerted almost total control of the media cycle 140 characters at a time.
> I genuinely don’t understand why Google got it right with Circles

Do you mean on google plus? (Or did that feature make it to other parts of the gooverse?)

The feature on Plus that I desperately wanted was "squares", or facets of your online presence that people could individually subscribe to. Just for instance, if Noam Chomsky had been an active poster on all kinds of topics on Plus, I would not subscribe to his updates because I only care about his work in linguistics, not any of his political activism.

But, the way all the current social properties are set up, the poster either has to have multiple accounts and log in / log out or keep separate browser profiles etc, or just posts everything under one account.

It could be better. It could be pretty seamless: allow the author to tag the post with a click or two just before posting, encourage them to tag posts that aren't tagged before posting, learn what tags they use most and analyze the content of each post to prominently feature in the UI the tags that look like they apply. Allow subscribers to subscribe to author+tag pairs instead of just authors. Done.
When it came out, I had one requirement for an MP3 player: It had to play without skipping while I ran.

The iPod was the first MP3 maker on the market that crossed this bar.
It reminds me a bit of what happened to the National Rifle Association honestly. The money is in being hyper-partisan, not being objective and standing for some principle. The NRA is now basically a far-right Republican lobby group that is only incidentally about second amendment rights.

Seems true in media too. Look at what happened to Joe Rogan when he got his big deal. His move down-market and toward a more partisan position is just going where the money is, I'm sure at the behest of his new owners.

Objectivity doesn't pay. Standing for principles doesn't pay. Selling out to partisan or corporate agendas pays.
The doctoral candidate didn't "dedicate their life" to the topic, merely wrote a thesis on it. So, just an intense part of their life. Perhaps they'll remain focused on bells, perhaps not. Probably all PhD theses are 'hyper-specialized', unless they're surveys by an author who won't be continuing as an academic researcher. It's not surprising that people would want to understand these complex inharmonic sounds we've been making for centuries.
> In software engineering, continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developers' working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. [1]

That certainly does help with avoiding conflicts. There are only so many conflicts that you can pick up in a few hours of work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
Hey, Lee from Vercel. I lead the Next.js community. We do encourage folks to use monoliths, if they'd like! That's partially why we believe in Turborepo so much (happy to share more on that if you'd like).

Are there specific lifecycle methods you want to tap into with Next.js? Open to feedback there. The reason the "custom server" is not recommended (it's poorly named, I'd argue it's an "ejected server") is because the main use cases folks were ejecting for have since been merged into Next.js core (like internationalization).
The ACLU is not above criticism. Is there something in particular you object to in this article?
Can be easily improved by using the HW crc32, it's just SW crc32.
Tips on how to become a better Data Engineer
I thought you could set iMessage up to use an email address. I did that before but it's been a while.
Within the sphere of education, FIRE (https://www.thefire.org/) is pursuing this mission.
> (Or maybe there's a better term for that bit of "personalization" that dangled like a tassel from all the cool, urban Japanese flip-phones.)

I believe the Japanese call it a "strap", transliterated directly.
yeah the guy who made them a big deal "ira glasser" basically chose some guy he had known for not that long as his successor. mostly because he was gay and latino. and that guy ended up not believing anything that the ACLU stood for and taking it to just be an arm of the democratic party. (Anthony d romero)

https://nypost.com/2022/01/31/ex-aclu-head-ira-glasser-slams...
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the modern counter to this would be juicy targets (freighters, starter ships full of plex etc) afk/unaware in 1.0 getting popped by jihad destroyer fleets. but it was a good meme people who didnt explore what the game offered liked to perpetuate
Haha, that's what I used to do. It works reasonably well :)
Only difference is now the government says "give me your stuff or I beat you" rather than your neighbor
> better access to healthcare

If you are an entrepreneur under say 40, can’t you just roll a D10 and hope you don’t get a 1? Surely most people before middle-age won’t need expensive healthcare?
Disclaimer: I work at Supabase on database security.

The link you posted is a great guide to sensible security practices with Supabase. It's worth noting that the feature highlighted, Row Level Security (RLS) is a native Postgres feature and not Supabase specific in any way.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html

One immediate benefit of using native security is that it applies to all types of database clients and tools uniformly. we're not blocked in the future adding more integrations. And it works both ways, if you are using RLS in an existing postgres deployment you can migrate to Supabase and your existing trusted policies will come with you.

It also means that we can avoid creating a whole class of security bugs by starting from scratch, and take advantage of the millions of collected human-hours of work that already exists. Security is hard because it is adversarial and it is hard to reproduce or even conceptualize a truly threatening environment without experience.

One of our guiding principals is to stand on the shoulders of the core developers and not implement our own core security model, but to use the native one as a foundation for even more powerful security concepts to come. We're actively discussing a lot of ways to make this even easier and safer for customers.
> “If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension—a temporary suspension—is appropriate, but not a permanent ban,” Mr. Musk said.

Isn't this in direct opposition to what he has been saying? He's going to censor wrong and bad tweets? I thought he wanted free speech?
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