skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mockery is never OK.

That said, their experience probably reflects my own: using SQLite on a personal project for config or something, loving the simplicity, loving the "ditch all that complexity" hype, then trying it on a more demanding project that according to their mental model it should have excelled at (a central job tracking process), watching it completely faceplant under load (20TPS? Surely it just needs an index or something? Maybe a ramdisk? Err.....), panicking when they realize that perf and monitoring and diagnostics and optimized backends were some of those "bells and whistles that nobody needs," deciding "fine I'll do it myself," throwing far too much time and effort at co-debugging python and C, recompiling SQLite with debug symbols, sprinkling printfs, running profilers, reading the source, and tracking down the issue... only to find that it was a bad default which people had been unsuccessfully begging the maintainers to change for years, which was guaranteed to torpedo perf under a wide variety of common workloads, and which the maintainers had been resisting based entirely on inertia and the misguided idea that this setting was easily discoverable. Yikes.

That's how someone picks up rules of thumb like "SQLite is for preferences, not perf, and definitely not prod."

Now, this experience is a decade stale. SQLite bit me in 2012 and the particular bug was fixed in 2015 IIRC. The people begging to fix the bad default finally won. Time passed, SQLite got better, and now, based on these new stories of SQLite doing well under load, I think it's time to lift my "once bit, twice shy" sanctions regarding perf. I had them in place for a reason, though, and if you had YOLO'd when I had YOLO'd, you would have faceplanted when I faceplanted. I fully defend the use of sanctions like this in general. They are the only tool we have against overenthusiastic marketing.

To be fair, the SQLite site is pretty good, it's the fans that tend to take things too far.
Even worse, it'll be some senator's niece and nephew who all of a sudden create a startup that "is just crushing it on the funding!"
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I see, so you're saying that social media is exacerbating an already moving shift.

Crime on the rise in insulated communities could be a statement from those fed up. It could be a deterioration of mental health conditions. It could also be that we're growing and growing in population and getting ever closer in proximity to each other making it impossible to insulate physically. It's probably all of those things and more but I'm on your side now.

>I'm an older Millennial / Xennial, and I've definitely seen the lack of self-respect in people in Gen X, as well as folks in my age cohort. This is not me saying "those damn kids and their TikTok",

Yes and I don't think pointing out a shift in "fuck you behavior" is crotchety, I just thought that the specific example was not up to par because it didn't show a reflection of that shift. I've had poor and wealthy classmates do all of those things in the past and have heard stories from grandparents exhibiting the same behavior in that age group.

>The people I interact with (regardless of age) who spend most of their time creating, producing, and doing, and have high levels of self-esteem don't spend very much time on social media pandering for imaginary points and validation from strangers, because they have no need of any such validation from strangers due to their self-esteem and self-respect.

That is your microcosm, and it sounds like a good one. Most creators, producers, doers that exist, live for attention and validation.
That is ancient classic - it is naturally for bronze (copper + tin) to be resurfaced with tin.
It is entirely possible to fix those mistakes (one at a time) on Wikipedia.... if you do the research work to find out what happened.

But this takes significant effort (like, a half-day of research to sort out one claim), and then sometimes back and forth with other Wikipedians to convince people that you actually chased down the real story.

The problem is that for every mistake someone is willing to put effort into fixing, there are another 100 that nobody ever notices.
The problem is that engagement is a poor proxy for preference.
https://archive.ph/Ngntu
Thanks for making me aware of the existence of furigana. Unique corners of language are a pet interest of mine and that was a fun rabbit hole to go down.
TBH, for me this is already happening. I am mostly using Youtube as a source of news and information. News, there are many local news services of places that I lived in that I can't watch on "normal" TV and can now enjoy in this way.
Summary of sport events check). Opinion panels on video games and movies (check)

The discovery algo is still terrible. But the content is there.
hah yeah I noticed a minute later, the link is right in the comments, and I'd already linked the paper in my article! I feel like this is one of those things I re-learn every 5 years
>Just make it illegal to possess, buy, or sell them

How do you enforce that? This would just drive everyone to KYC-less exchanges.

>corporate interest vanishes

I welcome the abolishment of corporate investment. This wave of corporate dollars have only served to distract, hijack, and pevert the true purpose of cryptocurrency.

>the exchanges disappear

The exchanges disappear? It seems like it would be pretty simple to set up an exchange as an onion service.

So long as there is a easy route to a single cryptocurrency (be it PoS or otherwise) then there is an easy route to any other cryptocurrency via Crypto-to-Crypto pr P2P exchanges.

>Sure, some people would still use them but it'd be a rounding error compared to current adoption.

Rounding error? I think you'll find that we're actually the majority, despite what the mob of custodial money-chasers would have impressed upon you.

Besides, those investors are bound to leave after they lose enough money on the shell game. It's inevitable.
Mattermost is what my company uses. It can be self-hosted on-site, configured to keep an auditable log of changes and conversations, and many of its features that are not compliance-friendly can be turned off.
> The main reason for this is taxes

The reason doesn't really matter. What matters is that it's happening.
Yep that always works out great
>There's something about the way you phrased this that just made me just realize there's a very real possibility that the internet could turn into television part two.

My friend, we're already there.
+1 on glass. It's so purist about not having algo or becoming destroyed by influencers it's actually hard to find other photographers currently. Paid by users and no ads. I hope they work on some human-curated suggestions in the future!
Similarly the WHO is now issuing the report that says it didn’t come from the WHO lab.
It was in direct response to the comment. What are you talking about?
Care to say which part specifically? And, is this more nonsense than most discussions of soul?
> I dream of a SQLite-like embeddable database engine based on Datomic’s data model and queryable with Datalog.

You can have this today by running XTDB[1] on top of SQLite via JDBC.

> Written in something like C, Rust, or Zig.

And then compiling your application into native executables with GraalVM Native Image[2].

[1] https://xtdb.com/

[2] https://www.graalvm.org/native-image/
The debt pile won't notice an extra $50 billion. To make a meaningful dent in it, spending on entitlements needs to get cut or taxes on the middle class need to dramatically increase. Neither of those things are going to happen.
We don't need the most cost effective way, something that costs a bit more and will make it happen (faster) is preferable
at big corporations (not bay area) i’d say brilliance is worth zero because the playbook mgmt is running is to basically cargo cult what more successful companies are visibly doing. AWS worked for X leader in space? sheep follow. creativity and individual thought is punished
I was very happy to learn that I could "Snooze suggested posts" for 30 days. That we can't disable them is, well, perhaps predatory, but here's how to do it.

There's an X at the top-right of any suggested post. If you click it, an option appears to snooze those posts for 30d.

Mosseri is right to be concerned about supporting creator-discovery, which is a huge problem on the supply-side of IG's creator/consumer marketplace. If suggested posts were only a few percent of posts and didn't favor eye-catching Reels, but rather content in the same spirit as a user already follows, quality content could again rise to the top.
I've had my eye on "Twist" (from the same developers as Todoist). Seems like a cleaner, thread-focused version of Slack. If I were starting my own business tomorrow that is what I'd use, but sadly I'm stuck with Slack and Teams.
There's an Intel ABI specification that GCC closely follows. The gcc implementation is called libitm and their specification is just listed as a diff of intel's specification.

Here is gcc's doc on libitm https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libitm/
Here is intel's document (much more useful): https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/TransactionalMemory?action=AttachFi...

I'm not sure what the support story is like on clang.
Democracy doesn't mean everyone gets what they want. You are not the only constituent with a voice.
They have the cash to make the hardware, the capital-intensive side, work. On the actual product experience I'm unconvinced. But all Meta needs to do is be competitive in the space not win it. If they're in the top-3, that's still a huge revenue generator.
Yes!

Why would a human being feel that feeding children is NOT their responsibility?

Clearly you have never had to be the "free lunch kid", or idealize your childhood independent of the cruelty of "different". You are extremely privileged.

The idea that we'd limit what kids we fund for meals, education, etc. is just gross and bifurcates any moralistic or democratic ideals.

The US has a serious problem with "bootstraps" and whatnot. Which really means, survival of the sh1tt1est.

If you feel that investing in the future of your community is BS, stop living in a community.

You don't have kids? Cool!

Meanwhile, you don't feel like you need to contribute to the future you wish you had secured for yourself without struggle? F*ck you. Your community is an investment in the continued existence of a people with similar DNA as yourself.

It is beyond my understanding to fathom how in 2022 we're all still trying to deal with false scarcity as some sort of reality.

There is MORE than enough for everyone, but we don't really care about that beyond a family or clan directive. That's a shame for any culture.
>>Also, giving every kid the same treatment is a good idea in general as it reinforces the idea that they should be treated equally.

Actually what it does is teach kids they should depend on the government for handouts - even if there families can easily afford to pay their own way. Not a message I would choose to send.
TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations (1994)
But you could say the same thing about random people in the street that you don't like the look of: it's stupid to wait and see if they're going to murder your kids, so the best thing to do is murder them first.

And no, someone who breaks into a house with the intention of burgling is not an attacker, they're a burglar, regardless of whether other people are in the house. Someone who breaks into a house with the intention of attacking people is an attacker.
Some countries are in the habit.

The Russians are building VVERs (their name for the LWR) in many countries, they just signed a deal to build 4 in Egypt. For that matter the Russians have a fast breeder running too, they are not so scared of Sodium fires they just put them out. (Which is what The DoE in the US says they did when they ran SFRs.)

China is also building LWRs at a high rate.

Two AP1000s are in the final stages of commissioning now in Georgia, a similar project was abandoned in South Carolina. Those projects were delayed because they were waiting for the first AP1000 to be completed in Zhejiang, China which was waiting for a Chinese factory to make parts.

There are no forges in the US large enough to make LWR parts but they do have them in China, Japan, Russia and France and these are planned in Czecha, India and the UK.

Some reactor types like the HTGR are lower power density than the LWR but others, particularly fast reactors, are higher density and could be physically smaller for the same power output.

Back when people thought fast reactors were inevitable they believed the capital cost of fast reactors would be inevitably higher than the LWR but now some people think a sodium cooled fast reactor could be cheaper if it was coupled to a gas turbine power set which is a fraction the size of a steam turbine never mind the size and cost of associated heat exchangers. Moltex particularly believes they can build a (salt cooled and salt fueled) reactor for much less than an LWR.
In terms of market position, you're right. But in terms of creativity and innovation, they've got the algorithmic news feed and little else.
It's ironic that there are still a ton of people in the America who are currently in prison for the same crime Griner supposedly committed in Russia (Cannabis)
> Same. I keep hearing that people have had bad experiences with microservices, but I'm not sure what those bad experiences are. I certainly don't relate to them.

Likewise. When I see people complaining about microservices, more often what I see is actually poorly thought-through strawmen aimed at distributed systems, which boil down to "having to do network requests is bad".

I wonder why attacking the "microservices" buzzword gets these people on rage mode but the sight of a web app calling a dozen APIs somehow doesn't make them bat an eye.
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Sure (Sorry was mobile earlier, normally my grammar isn't that bad.)

Fossil doesn't show much unless you perform a open or a checkout against the repo file. Generally, it only shows the location of the config database ($HOME or $XDG) exmaples below. The added benefit is that you can do this open/checkout anywhere on the system. For instance, if I'm making changes in my /etc, I can commit a file from there without having to move the file. Another nice feature is they have an unversioned [1] mechanism as well, which allows you to commit files that you want to save but don't care about the history.

Ran from my $HOME
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$ fossil info
config-db: /home/$USERNAME/.config/fossil.db
fossil: /home/$USERNAME/.local/bin/fossil
version: 2.19 [1e131febd3] 2022-07-21 16:10:55 UTC

$ fossil status
current directory is not within an open checkout
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I still prefer git, and all my career and personal projects reside there. But every tool has its place, and I think that even though fossil doesn't fit my other SCM needs. What I'm using it for is perfect for fossils design.

Used several times to back up some critical configurations (3rd/4th paranoia backup right before maintenance) on a few servers because the commit/open from anywhere. It doesn't pollute the file system as it's a single file.

With the untracked files: It's a little different. The git way you usually use do the dot file backup is with an alias `--untracked-files=no` so you don't see them unless you override it. At least most of the examples I followed the processes I've experimented with over the years recommended.

With fossil you see them when you consciously issue a fossil open in order to do a commit. I'd rather see the untracked files, when I'm ready to commit then to not see them at all and miss something. Out of site. out of mind is something I personally struggle with.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/help/uv

* Edited for formatting.
I'm a bit disappointed in myself for how long I spent watching that video thinking "this looks a lot like a NileRed video" before realizing that yes, it is in fact NileRed
The GoogleOS? (2008)
At the office, power lines cross the parking lot. Birds like the power lines. I've been hit between the car and the front door. So, the office isn't perfectly safe on this front either.
Oh dear. Can’t say I’ve had that problem...really ever.

How many squirrels have you had to chase/escort out so far?
When it was Wikia, it was alright. It has evolved into something atrocious that I actively avoid.
The Palo Alto school meals are by no means healthy. At least at my kindergartner’s school last year, nothing’s really prepared onsite, it’s mostly microwave-in-a-bag fast food (factory made burritos, pizza, 2-ingredient sandwiches). Often this would come with a side of fruit (canned and sweetened) and crackers.

My kid would always bring a lunch from home but often return with it uneaten, because when you pit healthy home cooked food against microwaved pizza and crackers, for a six year old, it’s no contest.

I’m still supportive of the program - if there are starving kids in our community, of course having free options is great, I just wish they’d managed to have a cook onsite so it wouldn’t be so factory-made and artificial.
>But there is likewise nothing preventing court packing right now except the concern of some democrats right?

Right. FDR threatened this during his administration and bullied the SCOTUS into deciding his way. He was quite Machiavellian. For me, doing something like this would neuter one of the tiers of the check and balance system.

https://www.history.com/news/franklin-roosevelt-tried-packin...

>I'm not a historian, but it seems like the filibuster was already a hack around intended operation of the legislature.

Yes, but it's procedure that the senate had agreed on for quite some time. There's nothing in the constitution that says how many votes are needed to pass, the senate decides that, and for most things, it's 60.

>require 60 votes on absolutely everything.

Depends on how you look at it. Do you want a political party to make laws of the land with only 25+ states supporting it? It sounds good when it's something you support, but doesn't sound great when it isn't. The idea of the 60 vote rule is the federal government can't enact legislation that a supermajority of the country isn't in favor of. Regardless of your party affiliation, you can imagine what horrible legislation would be passed if the opposing party was allowed to pass anything with just 50+1 votes in the senate.
I don't think it's very hard to argue that fiat is worse on those timescales; few if any fiat money systems have ever survived for a period of 195 years, like 01776–01971, without succumbing to at least one episode of hyperinflation. These are localized but generally worse than the Great Depression. We have numerous examples going back to the Yuan Dynasty, including four already this century: North Korea, Turkey, Venezuela, and most notoriously, Zimbabwe.

You could of course argue that Turkey isn't the US: there are important differences between the countries. And that's true, and surely the differences are relevant to the risk of hyperinflation. But the US today isn't the US of 50 years ago, either — economically speaking, it has a lot less in common with the US of 01972 than with today's Turkey (PPP GDP US$37000 per capita).
The Tor Project dropped support for tor v2 from their software in October, 2020. At that point in time there were still far more v2 sites and traffic than v3. Probably there were attempts to spin up a bunch of v3 stuff to make the forced drop of v2 support seem more reasonable.
pretty cool! Wish to know what's next (the story) :)

I tried dalle2 for comic drawing. not very good. it works better on other styles (oil painting, realistic photography)
I get what you're saying, I just don't see how it's substantially different from Microsoft buying Bungie. And even if it's the same and we've decided we don't like that practice today (which I'm OK with!), I'm struggling to imagine its the best use of their resources.

Ultimately, Meta bought an application developer for their walled garden device, not a competitive platform in itself. Purchases of this nature seem to happen fairly regularly in the b2c space without attracting regulatory scrutiny (Apple buying Siri/Shazam, Microsoft buying Minecraft).

Am I harmed as a consumer because Siri is not compatible Android, or because Halo is not compatible with the PlayStation? I guess so, but it doesn't feel meaningful enough to merit FTC censure.

Maybe the FTC is changing it's mind, and thinks that acquiring neutral studios and making them platform exclusive is now anti-competitive? But I don't see that in their press release -- I just see claims that Meta is going to make the "VR fitness" niche anti-competitive, unless the FTC steps in.

Basically, I guess my question is: is this niche big/important enough for the FTC to be allocating resources towards after?

Personally, I'd rather see them shooting at bigger targets.

Maybe they have leaked information about Meta executives' detailed motives for the purchase, akin to the WhatsApp emails/memos, that will make this an open and shut case that doesn't require much attention.

And I do appreciate that they're trying to keep Meta from dominating VR the way they dominated social.

However, I can't help but feel like it'd be more impactful to prosecute Meta for refusing to support non-Meta Oauth identity providers for creating a headset account, for example. Tear down the walls in the garden, rather than tsk-tsk the garden constructor for imprisoning some company inside the garden.
I have a failure of actual data of problems occuring.

We all deal with "sky is falling" person on our development teams, and it's pointless doomsaying then as it's pointless doomsaying now.

When the bad things happens, we can react. Until then, let's try to stay reasonable.
OCaml has Mirage (https://mirage.io) for example, and ReasonML is just another syntax for the language.
Facebook will die, Meta will live through Instagram and whatever else it can purchase.
> I have no memory of the whole thing and was apparently "conscious" throughout. Great stuff; would have that again if the need arises.

"Twilight anesthesia"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_anesthesia
Rust memory is not manually managed though. At least not in the sense where you have to remember to free things or not use dangling pointers. The amount of memory management in (non unsafe) Rust code, at least in my experience, is minimal.
Snarky only comments aren’t in the spirit of HN…

That said I laughed out loud to this. I’m not a FB fan because of all the dark patterns.

Edit: Added “only”
They changed their name to Meta... They need to win it or become a footnote. The market won't accept them going from a world leader to an also-ran.
Wonderful catch!

This was an unfortunate error on my part. The initial claim was based on this source:

https://www.listerineprofessional.com/products/oral-care-rou...

Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. I have amended the article, and have included a footnote reflecting the initial error.

Fortunately, I don't think that this altars the approach to the valuation portion of the analysis.
Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened
This was a Distributed Shared Memory system, briefly popular in the early 90s. The idea was that with a network of, eg, Sun workstations you could create a large area of shared memory (much larger than the physical RAM of each machine), and have the machines work in parallel on problems.

It was implemented by changing page protection and trapping segfaults when the program accessed those pages, then bringing in the page (for read or write) from whichever other workstation on the network currently "owned" the page.

Unfortunately TreadMarks itself was proprietary software, although it was relatively easy to write something equivalent.
Maybe they could do this in like RV parks where there'd be a lot of Starlink users - force the individual dishes to connect to a local network then have one big dish on property that links to the sats.