skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one stance on security but its so baffling that there are two Apple's here. There is the apple that gives you the ropes on macos to install your own software and run unsigned code, knowing that this doesn't lead to macos users regularly being pwned or the world burning down or anything like that today. And there is also the apple that thinks that letting you do this same thing on a much less consequential device than your home computer, your cellphone or your tablet, would infact lead to the sky falling down and users around the world being pwned and the stock price no doubt crashing into the depths.

These two things can't both exist. The fact that the sky isn't falling on macos leads me to believe that this position of apple's, while spoken in terms of privacy and security publicly, is really all about dominating what software runs on their devices which i remind you have to pay a hefty fee on profits to apple in order to be installed on users devices through official means. That is pretty user hostile, but obviously shareholder friendly, which explains why it perpetuates and why apple share prices have reached the stratosphere since the iPhone.
This man has clearly never seen our database schema.

Show me either flowcharts and/or tables, it doesn’t matter, I’ll continue to be mystified.
Are you advocating a mode to remove iOS and boot another arbitrary system in its stead?
I feel like everyone should find a balance between being liberal and conservative. There is no one size fits all approach to life. Sometimes one needs to be conservative and other times progressive. Explore/exploit if you will.

Moreover, I don't blame people for NIMBY. A house is extremely expensive. It only makes sense to be conservative and protect that investment.

Not sure what the solution is, but I have found it very comfortable in smaller cities. Less commute and hassle than living in a big city, well worth the sacrifices.
Or just support Opus, the IETF standard?

(To be fair, they technically even do support Opus… just in a way that makes it incredibly unusable.)
Maybe that’s true, but it’s not like Salon would ever pass up an opportunity to blame Republicans for something.
It's almost like the research side and the trading side of a big firm can have different views?
I've noticed semi-recently that macOS always flags "their" as a mistake, suggesting "there" or "they're" as replacements. I find this extremely annoying as there is seemingly no intelligence to it. I find myself constantly going back and double checking, just to find that I used the right word and it's being needlessly flagged.
Love these kinds of problems.

I've always felt for very critical equipment you'd be better off designing a PCB to be physically cracked in two, such that you need both specific halves for it to operate at all, and then ship each half separately. E.g. the electronics version of tearing a dollar bill in half and matching the two halves to verify the identity of the holder (something I've seen in spy movies). You'd probably want to make sure the recipient got the first part before shipping the second, just to make sure.
the cars vs public transit thing is a distraction though;
the existence (& public costs) of cars is not what makes our public transit bad.
Amazon app is actually a glorified webview.
The plan is to finish https://dlang.org/phobos/std_experimental_allocator.html

Once finished, everything in the std will be able to make use of it

If you can't wait, you can use this package already with the allocators: https://github.com/dlang-community/containers
> and allow changes to the implementation

From my perspective this is a negative. You don’t want your queries to change after deployment.

Procedures are also quite hard to type.
thats a long bow..

More likely low fertility and small houses are caused by the same thing, rather one by the other
I'm confused, what platform does Apple ban other browsers on?
With the difference that they are typically not allowed to have mobile aerodynamic surfaces.

That's why fan cars can be considered cheating. The fan is made of mobile aerodynamic surfaces. The Brabham BT46B try to circumvent the rules by saying their fan was a cooling fan, it didn't work.

If you allow mobile aerodynamic surfaces, indeed, you are going to have aircraft. It is easy to imagine a car with actual wings, with flaps, ailerons and elevators.
Yeah, things may differ b/w countries. But the Wikipedia article you linked mentions this:

> In regard to collections of facts, O'Connor wrote that copyright can apply only to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc.—not to the information itself.

So, a list of facts still can be creative and valuable to the society. INAL, but such works should be protected by copyright, or what's the point of copyright in the first place.
If Crypto Was Food
I agree with "Don't defend a point to win an argument or double-down on a mistake.". I disagree with the juxtaposition that ego is bad, i.e. "no ego". Ego is defined by Oxford as "a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.", I agree.

Ego isn't bad. To use it in a context directly indicating it's bad is wrong. If the world agrees to do away with the word ego then it must be replaced by something that also means "a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.".

A coder without any ego is a coder who doesn't care, at all, about anything.
I see Nintendo hoodies 5 or 10 times a day here in Boston.
What is the best way to contact libraries/librarians for API access to their library?

I want to build an app which will dump me in random pages of my checkouted books, instead of me gathering energy to do it. I have other features planned.

I am stuck with how to interface with my local library, like Libby does. Any ideas ?
Postgres is the Post-Ingres database. Originally it used QUEL (as in PostQUEL as in libpq) as a query language. When SQL support was added the product name was changed to PostgreSQL

Postgree isn’t a thing.

Postgres or PostgreSQL are acceptable. Postgre or postgree are not.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/history.html
> this denies me from using an actual Mozilla Firefox web browser on iOS.

If Chrome became as dominant as IE was then using Firefox on any platform might become impractical.
According to this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Prim... there is no encoding in separate digits, only the whole number being odd or even has meaning.
E.g I-10, I-14, I-30, I-70, I-72 etc are east-west and I-25, I-45,I-65, I-83 etc are north-south.
This isn't totally consumer but its successful tech

https://skytruth.org/
Complement some aspect of the implementation, then politely rip it apart with enthusiasm
That's not level==Linus; for that you'll have to tell something like:

"You wrote the code, and you seem to be unable to admit that your code was buggy. It's not a compiler bug. It's your bug. Stand up like a man, instead of trying to flail around and blame anything else but yourself."
I wish, but while some people are in jail, that minority very likely still votes from seats in congress!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exclusiv...
For a while my iPhone would autocorrect die -> sue. I've also iced various bugs in both Android and iOS, where backspacing will completely break and start suggesting non words that consist of the word you deleted, concatenated with whatever you started typing afterwards.
Ideally it would be a hub and spoke model. I don't know how much swarm hammers etcd but k8s in my cluster produces >1kIOps on my SSDs doing nothing at all. Just health checks and cascading effects
>Should I first engage in other people's comments before submitting some of my own stuff?

I find that engaging with, and understanding, a community before posting is generally best. Otherwise is just seems like a person is running around to every site spamming their product for cheap click and traffic... which no one likes.
It’s like. If the database doesn’t perform well, nothing else performs well either.

If your database is great, at least you have the option of a fast backend.
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Using "socially retarded" is a huge red flag to me, about you.
How I got started was reading all the "soft" articles, because they were fascinating and slowly work my way up to actual hardcore technical stuff.
It really couldn't.

https://kotaku.com/sex-pong-and-pioneers-what-atari-was-real...

> Over the last week, Kotaku interviewed 12 of Atari’s earliest female employees, in the hopes of hearing their stories—good or bad—about working at Atari in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. The culture they told us about was certainly, as Playboy described it, one of “sex, drugs, and video games,” but one in which all 12 employees say they freely participated, if they participated at all. Many interviewees said it was the best job they ever had, adding that news of Bushnell’s rescinded award struck them as shocking or unfair.
Right. There really isn’t a clear difference between the two, so attempting to draw that line is foolhardy.

That said, the lethality advantage of semiautomatic weapons over manually operated is obvious.
While it has its issues, I'm not altogether convinced that the nuclear family is a bad thing.

We seem to function best at tribal scale. Jokes aside, most family units are functional.

Family scales well. Large-enough families invite dysfunction jokes, but they have a shared genetic interest. You can always coerce or compel family to do things like share resources or settle disputes against their own self-interest.

More than a few families together become a community, and this is where the problems start.

We look to colonizing space as the solution to overpopulation and resource depletion. Space is not a forgiving environment.

When water is running low or other critical challenges arise, a colony bound by blood will figure that shit out quicker than the space equivalent of your HOA.
Nobody said it was copyright specifically. However:

"A database right is a sui generis property right, comparable to but distinct from copyright, that exists to recognise the investment that is made in compiling a database, even when this does not involve the "creative" aspect that is reflected by copyright.[1] Such rights are often referred to in the plural: database rights."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
I had a similar experience when I first arrived here.

I found that If you're here to participate in good faith discussion, you will be welcomed. Eventually.

I see your username in green (not sure if "green" is supposed to evoke "greenhorn" or new), but that means you're a relatively new user.

I would point out that even long-time users have their submissions ignored/flagged pretty often too. There's been some discussion here (and posts elsewhere) that discuss "how to get your submission to the front page of HN," with varying degrees of success. You might search for some of those.

That said, as you mentioned in your "Ask HN" submission (I note that it has not been flagged or ignored):

I submitted a couple of posts on a website I'm building,
but I'm unable to see them on the "new" section when I'm
logged out of my account.

Submitting your own posts (presumably as marketing/shilling for your site) is often (not always, "Show HN" posts are mostly just that) not well received here.

All that said, welcome to HN!

I hope your experience (as mine did, after a short while) becomes a positive one that allows you to qualitatively add to the discussions here.

N.B.: I speak only for me and wouldn't attempt to do so for anyone else, including HN management.
Doesn’t really matter though? Even if the ORM is changed, the actual schema is still in the database.

I’ve migrated ORM several times, and the only thing that changes is the entity definition. The database remains the same.
lines credit aren't assets, they don't add to assets, except in the sense of short term liquidity. They don't create solvency.

They are deeply insolvent because their lines of credit are far in excessive of their assets.
Hi, I think this qualifies for Show HN (despite being my wife's company, not mine, but I can relay and answer questions) since you can hold them in your hands.

I figured it was slightly more topical than usual since lentils, beans, and colored rice are in the discussion at the moment. If anyone wants some pre-colored rice she says she could put that bin back in stock.
Also Casey
Yes, but it's still true that the cost of forgetting to charge is just way too expensive (currently).
First your statement is unfortunately just untrue, the idea that any behavior can be relied upon when performing an undefined operation is why to this day we have very buggy software written in C and C++ that lead to security vulnerabilities. There is nothing reliable about undefined behavior.

Second, even if we accept for the sake of argument that your statement is true, the entire point of my example is that by the time you get to the dereference which produces a segfault, it's already too late. Any operation prior to that segfault that assumed a non-null pointer (such as the print statement) will have already been executed and produced potential side-effects. There is nothing local about this, it's simply that for the sake of an example I wrote a small code snippet, but in the article I linked to there are examples of very non-local bugs both spatially and temporally that would not be something you could reliably track down in a debugger.
Is your company looking for other people? It sounds awesome.

Email is in profile :)
w.r.t the "good part", there is a difference between games as toys and games as a story.

a lot of games today are "story games", even if there isn't a fixed story, there is some progression and different parts of the game open up at different times and result in different emergent gameplay. even something sandbox, toy-like like cities skyline and minecraft has a progression.

i am reminded of gta V, which i thought had a really good story, where the game jumps you into a bank heist in the first scene of the game, it was a huge scenario with lots of set pieces, a lot of mechanics are introduced right away, it's pretty intense, and thwarts the RPG baby-crab-killing trope, thank goodness.

games as toys, like pong i guess, where you begin the game immediately having access to every single feature of the game, still exist - apex legends, cs go, rocket league. but you still won't be able to jump into it at a decent competitive level right away. in most popular competitive FPS games, you will be rocked for a good first 20-50 hours of gameplay until you build understanding.

w.r.t to what nolan means when he has to go through an hour of things before he can start playing the real game, sadly that's a historical era. games today have so much more features, so much more complications, a mix of meta thinking, hand-eye coordination, and mechanical practice that it's hard to simply jump into a game and be comfortable right away. a lot of games today need some amount of practice, whether 10 minutes, 10 hours or 10 months.
You have more than five years, but realistically five years of being able to do long trips without fretting about school hassles. How you survive long trips with a young kid is a different thing! At the early ages, you are travelling largely for yourselves, and the children are challenging baggage. Can be helpful to time trips when you're paying out most for childcare ($100+/day where we are) rather than public kindergarten/school which are cheaper.

From 3-4+ they'll have fond memories of your adventures so the balance shifts to the holiday serving all of you.

We have 4-9yo and are about to do a 2-3 month trip. This will be the first major trip where all three of them will have a decent idea of where we are, what we're doing, and the memories of each place.

You have to make the travel happen though otherwise the routine of schooling and work will have its way!
A lot of the messages that are valuable exist as regular idioms that are pretty simple. 'Don't believe everything you read.' for example is only a few ideas away from 'the government, media and corporations are manipulating you for their benefit.'

One is probably generally considered good advice, the other is likely dismissed as conspiracy theory nonsense.

We probably need a few more simple ideas like for modern times. "Facebook profits most when they make you depressed"
"Tiktok is exploiting your sexdrive to influence your personal politics"
"Google is telling people what you masterbate too for money"

They'd have to be less direct of course. I guess one modern one is, "if it's free, you're the product". But that tragically overlooks the generosity of the FOSS community so I'm not a fan.
Basically, and this is my moderately self-educated layperson understanding:

Immune escape is the process where viruses basically evolve to either evade antibodies that your body has created, or do things to prevent your body from creating effective antibodies in the first place. This is a really common thing with a lot of viruses, including some other coronaviruses. We were pretty lucky that, until omicron, Covid didn’t have the greatest immune escape- but now it does. For whatever reason, omicron infection alone doesn’t give you great immunity against omicron variants or other variants. Having been vaccinated before your first omicron infection helps some, but not as much as it did with earlier variants.

Now, the thing about the immune system is that even when it can’t completely stop a virus, it can often help make it more mild over time. Unfortunately, for Covid, and especially for omicron, the opposite seems to be true. On average, reinfections are worse than earlier infections. Again, the vaccine seems to make this a little better, but not a lot.

The fact that reinfections are worse isn’t unknown in other diseases either. Antibody dependent enhancement is a known thing, and we know a lot of the effects of Covid seem to come from the immune system- so maybe ADE is the cause? It seems like that’s unlikely because the vaccine worked so well- but also, it seems like there are a bunch of other diseases that get worse for someone after they’ve had Covid. That would make it seem like whatever is happening to the immune system after an infection might be bigger than just Covid itself.

There are a bunch of ideas about why this might be- including reservoirs of virus lingering in the body, damage from Covid making it harder to fight off other infections, and the lockdown just generally making our immune systems a bit less effective for lack of use. One of the ideas for why this might be happening is this idea of “t-cell exhaustion” which, as I understand it, is basically just a kind of broad term for “t cells don’t seem to be working like they should and we don’t know why” with a few specific hypotheses about the possible mechanisms. I don’t think this is something that’s like, broadly accepted and well understood yet so much as it is a plausible non-specific idea for one way to explain some observed data.

At any rate, whatever is happening seems to be related to a natural Covid infection and either the spike protein encoded by the current vaccines isn’t enough to cause the immune system problems, or vaccination doesn’t produce enough of them over a long enough period of time to cause the problem.

I know that “ the data is weird” isn’t a very satisfying answer but it seems to be where we’re at.
My tank costs about $160 in Canada. You guys are paying like half what we pay.
I will often pick something "expert" on their resume to dig into, if nothing else than to gauge what "expert" means to them.

Recently I interviewed someone who emphasized databases on their resume, and later mentioned they were very highly skilled in that area, so we started talking about indexes. I think I asked something like "Why wouldn't we just put an index on every field?" and the best I could get from them was "it might speed up, it might slow down" but they couldn't articulate why.

Another one I will sometimes ask: You're an expert in language / framework x and have been using it for 10+ years? Cool. What recent additions have you most excited about it? What things about it do you hate/disagree with the most?

Not being able to answer these things don't mean you 'fail' the interview of course, but to me it's a strong signal that our definitions of "expert" are different, and so I'll make that assumption about everything else on your resume.
Yeah, if you've chosen a contrived and extremely narrowly defined market as the one you base whether something is a monopoly, of course it's going to sound like a monopoly.
Atari was acquired in 1996 and I still see Atari t-shirts regularly. The brand has notoriety with generations that have never used the console. I don't think it's comparable to an active company like Nintendo.
> Society would very quickly believe none, rather than believing all.

Authoritarians benefit from a society-wide lack of trust in there being any sort of consensus/objective truth. When people don't know what to believe, they either turn to conspiracy theories that claim to offer a peek behind the curtain, or more likely just tune out and hope that their favorite strongman can simplify the chaos.

There's been speculation on Twitter that the conflicting narratives from Russia itself during the invasion aren't really a political problem, since confusion makes it more difficult for the public to rally behind a counter-narrative.
I’d be curious about this as well, my personal experience is I think a lot clearer alone, just can’t be isolated for too long
I don't think there's a clear answer to this question.

Stereotypical corporate Americans of course would use the first two, but in Australia using language that tiptoes around peoples' feelings too much (e.g. making sure to point out positives even when someone clearly fucked up) can make it look like you don't trust them or think they're incompetent.

The only other time we'd hear that level of "compassion" is when we have way too much to drink and are acting like a knob.

I've heard Europeans make similar comments about American corporate norms confusing things.
nokia will always have a special place in my heart
> ...then I presume they were taking their information from an aggregator - and seems entirely fair that you should "pay the aggregator"

This seems to be what they are doing. From their FAQ:

"Maintaining this data for over 200,000 products is a costly endeavour and asking them to offer this for free would be a huge ask. We appreciate that the data company is absolutely entitled to request compensation for their work."

In the UK, the aggregator holds the IP on their aggregation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
Hmm, it’s the other way around for me. The crazy friend may be fun to go drinking with, but I’d never rely on him for anything.
That will explain a lot probably about many things!
The biggest crime - and I blame Google for this - is making basic web-components, even a Hello World mandatorily need Javascript. There was no need for mixing up web components with JS, except it didn't fit Google's agenda.

Custom tags using HTML+CSS with no JS would have been utterly amazing for web fundamental development.
If I were actually going to use a method like this in real life especially for international shipping etc, I’d probably avoid using rice or beans or other plant material to avoid unnecessary inspections at customs. I feel like this would definitely get stopped and inspected, where a block of multicoloured plastic or resin might not be.
iOS, where Apple only allows WebKit-based browsers, so basically Safari.
Huh. Nintendo is a very American thing, I guess.
The problem is that if Tether is under-collateralized, redemptions bring it closer to bankruptcy.
Why would you expect coca cola to be the same everywhere? The US version with high fructose corn syrup is different than with sugar. Fanta is basically different in every single country