skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, if 100 years ago some scientist wrote a paper about how being a certain race made you more prone to violence or how lobotomies are safe and effective.. there would be people saying you don't believe the facts of you don't agree. So, before you judge people maybe reflect on history a little and see that people have reasons to distrust government. A single paper doesn't prove anything. It must be reproducible throughout the scientific community.
I'm willing to consider what you say is true (earlier you said violent crime, so I'm going to revert back to that here rather than just homicide which is harder to hide). Also willing to consider it is not.

Ultimately recorded crime data should be used as an aid to guide our decisions, in combination with other signals. I would consider your view reckless in light of deciding how to go about my life in the city, but ultimately it is your decision to make and I hope it guides you well.
Sounds like Datalevin https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin

Embeddable, check. Datomic data model and Datalog query, check. Storage written in C, check.
Maybe you are just fundamentally wrong on all those points?
You can enjoy the architecture and art (Notre Dame) without necessarily endorsing the artist (the church institution). Other examples:

- Roman Polanski is a bad human who made good movies

- The Pyramids of Egypt are grand structures but accomplished with slave labor

etc. etc.
The Surprise of Reaching Out: Appreciated More Than We Think [pdf]
Thank you!! I wouldn't call this a launch though, I was expecting to post into the void xD
And I think this view is irrational. Privacy for its own sake is effectively hoarding, and as you clearly show, hoarding can be caused by fear, which you have for Google and the justice system.

A numerate person would know how rare these things you're afraid of are, and not let those fears drive how they live. I (hopefully) follow that path, and I recommend you check it out!

I read what you wrote in the same way I suspect you would read someone who is afraid of space because meteors have killed people (as a rough example).

It just doesn't seem like the rates at which the things you're worried about are happening in a volume that would actually matter to a society.
He watched or read 'Ready Player One' and got really hyped on the vaporware.
No, median/mean are bad metrics due to Price's Law.

For reference, look at https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Facebook,Amazon&track=Softwa... for leveling reference.

There's a fat pipe of people in the E3-E5 range, but it starts to drop at E6 and even more so at E7, and E8/E9 are unicorns. The median is going to be in the E3-E4 range as there is a tremendous amount of churn there for performance reasons.

This is why the question of "what is a senior engineer?" is so important. FANGs are thirsty for E6+ and they hire plenty of them, but there are not enough of them in the world as it's hard to become one without credentials from another FANG.

Part of the reason for this is that there are not many big tech companies that marshal similar forces. For instance, a E6 may be responsible for designing a $50,000,000 system which is definitely a rare skill.

Unfortunately, the senior title is basically useless across the industry. Does it mean time spent doing stuff? Well, time spent doing what? With what kind of budget? What kind of responsibility? What kind of operational burden?

The cruelty of reality is Price's Law comes in for a double whammy. First, for humanity, there are only so many big tech endeavors that investors/customers support so the scope is limited in the number of companies that have big challenges. Second, within a company, there are only so many big-tech problems.

The hardest part of my job was creating scope that was relevant for the business, and I left as an E8 where my great pride was helping two people achieve E7 and a swath of people achieve E6. I was not creative enough to create the scope for another E8.

I tried, failed, and bounced to create room for someone else.
It happens. See "Milli Violini: I was a fake violinist in a world-class miming orchestra", a review of Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440333
Really excited to see how this affects the Geoguessr[0] meta. This will be up there with Russia, Brazil, Turkey, USA, and Canada in that it can really make or break competitive games. Since the countries are so large and it can be difficult to tell which region you're in

[0]: https://www.geoguessr.com/
I'm seeing "504 Gateway Time-out" so maybe it isn't still alive?

So yeah, I have a sad feeling for a moment about that, and then it passes.
What does a successful YouTube video look like?
All of a user's device still go through the one "homeserver" which is the only party doing the federation. If the multi-party stuff is client-to-server, again the Merkle tree is useless.
My last sentence was more wishful thinking than a proposed solution. I am obviously aware the world isn't as utopic as the sentence would require.

The main point I wanted to get across is that it's baffling that companies aren't blamed in these conversations. It's always the user who is blamed ("well you read the ToS didn't you!"). And that's dumb, because the vast majority of users aren't lawyers and don't have CS degrees -- both of which are becoming increasingly required to provide informed consent to a ToS. (edit: in every other contract I sign, a lack of informed consent is grounds to void the contract, exception being tech-company ToS contracts)

If you still want to blame my 85-year old parent for not understanding what Google is doing with his data, go for it, I guess. Just seems stupid to do so, because he barely can open up a web browser but is somehow expected to understand the complexities of data aggregation and what impact it will have on him. And as time marches on, it's equally ridiculous to suggest that he just never use a computer to avoid the issue.

>And we have to be hyper aware of long term implications,

Without post-secondary education in niche fields, this is becoming impossible. Especially across multiple services with changing terms, in countries with changing laws, in a world where technology evolution outpaces curriculum changes.
You're comparing two things that are actually quite different. In your example, the other person thinks that you are being honest, and is mistakenly trying to help you overcome your unlikely sequence of obstacles. In the example you're comparing it to, they are trying to confuse you out of your principles by showing off their verbal skills. Here is an example that I think gets at what you're going for:

"Quit making fun of me for my big nose."

"Hey, that's a legitimate form of humor dating back to the third century BC, when Prodigious wrote..."

"That doesn't have anything to do with my feelings, could you just stop?"

"Facts don't care about your feelings."

And so on...
I love this.

I have been a fan of SQLite for years, and it makes me genuinely happy to see other people have the same enthusiasm for the software.

A couple of years ago, during a job search, I came across a couple of companies that I thought were a good match. I went through the interview process with all of them and, due to similarities in the interview process, we ended up talking about the same thing: databases. Oh the horror in the interviewers’ eyes whenever I mentioned SQLite. Experienced software engineers from The New York Times, for example, went as far as to mock my engineering choices in 3 out of 5 interviews, despite the success of the products my team built on top of SQLite.

The experience made me feel awful and I stopped talking about SQLite for a couple of years. Instead, whenever someone asked a question about databases, I would answer with the PostgreSQL equivalent, knowing that the basic features are all the same.

That is why, whenever I see projects like Litestream [1][2] used by excellent products like Tailscale [3], it brings me joy.

A friend of SQLite is a friend of mine :-)

[1] https://litestream.io

[2] https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/

[3] https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/
I live in Chicago. It’s not uncommon for police to just not show up when you call in a non violent property crime. If that happens you can go to the station and fill out a report but they won’t actually do any investigating. Sometimes they’ll be honest and say this isn’t going to go anywhere, but usually you’ll just get ghosted.
It doesn't seem to be available for the Mac app store however :/
They were necessary back then to keep an open space interior. With modern building techniques they're obviously not necessary.

That said, most people love them
Four unsupported hyperbolic assertions don't make an argument.
Was talking about this with my friend's grandmother just last night.

Easy bake ovens even, so much fun!

Then one kids does something stupid and of course the parents blame and sue the companies and now here we are.

Caution small parts, don't put in mouth, hot, et al.

One idiot ruins it for the rest, as always =(

Im so glad to find these videos so I can show my kids what fun we used to have w/o cell phones =)
Agreed. My dad always asks me what would happen if Maps was shut down? Do we have any alternative service? And I'm not able to give a concrete answer to his question.

Sure there is OSM, but apart from pure locations (which are community led afaik) I don't know of any good reliable service for navigation not reliant on Google.

Edit: Apart from Apple Maps as well. Just in case someone points out the major competitor.
I mean 0 in terms of yourself. If nothing exists after death, the way I view it is that upon your death, from your perspective, time ceases to exist and everything essentially dies, sure the world may continue existing around you but, but from you're perspective, it has effectively ended thus 0. The "greater effect" thing is off less concern to me and just seems to sidestep the fact that the objective you ceases to exist.
hmm, isn't that what happened to Sun - the managers/mbas took over, then the engineers revolted
"Someone else's computer" would be misinformation in any other medium SOLELY because it makes it sound like it's being stored on the same kind of computer that an average person has - that another average person is using. There was a smear campaign in 2013 for cloud computing under this very message.
You might like to look into papers/books on Integrated Information Theory by Tononi et al. IIT essentially explores the consequences and math of this type of emergence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theor...
Sure. It’s also super-unrealistic to expect me not to criticise the article for being boring.
Valid but you gotta realize they do this to weed out bad developers.
I think it is respectful to address someone by the name they go by. I have a friend who's named William and would get annoyed if someone kept calling him Willy, and goes by Bill. People also get married, and it's respectful and customary to address them by their new name.

At the end of the day, I wouldn't want someone making what is probably a tough situation more difficult and hassling me about a name change if I were in that position. I have a really long name, and I'd be annoyed after a while if someone kept addressing me by that name, rather than the shorter name I choose to go by as an adult.

None of this is political, it's just being a polite southerner. You treat folks how you want to be treated.
All the notes about supported languages are very superficial, it reads more about “we adopted Rust” than anything else. Someone clearly felt the need to say it out loud.
In USSR we didn't have much of all that, so we melted lead out of batteries and sea cables found at the dump and poured it into various hand shaped clay/sand molds thus making us toy cars, soldiers, etc. We didn't have guns, even airsoft weren't available, so we had to do it ourselves, and the first primitive fire handgun i made in the first grade. A bit later i made my first airsoft and crossbow. The explosives, handmade as well as various unexploded WWII munitions, was a fun period i went through in the 5th and 6th grade. That was the end of the toys period for me as other interests came in.
You'd still need to update the card's expiration date.
It is not scaring, because you do not experience anything at all. Time under anesthesia does not exist: it feels like you wake up at the same time you lose consciousness, with nothing in between.
One problem in these kinds of investigations is that nobody involved really wants the truth to be known. The lab isn't going to let anyone poke around and see what it was doing until the CPP falls. And even then records have probably been wiped already.

The problem is that there really isn't any evidence. SARS-COV-2 has never been detected in any Chinese land animals associated with the market. We know that birds can transmit it, but it needs to come from somewhere. There's no reservoir of the stuff found in the wild...unlike viruses like Ebola, Marburg, MERS, etc.

There were two variants in the market...but given the speed at which SARS-COV-2 variants have mutated in humans, well, how likely is it that the market was the source? SARS-COV-2 went through millions of humans before the first variant popped out. Is it reasonable to assume that some progenitor virus went though millions of iterations to become SARS-COV-2 in the market, then did it again and again?

But however unlikely, this is where we are today. Was it just bad luck that some virus entered an immuno-compromised animal at the market and mutated...twice?
Something I'm kinda interested in is how one might make a semi-complete, even locally, alternative to street view.

It seems like something that could potentially be made much cheaper with a collection of drones with 360 cameras. they could all be programmed to fill out areas relatively quickly I think. It might not be street height which would be a bit of a loss, but an open dataset (with appropriate face/license plate/etc filtering) would be worth that I think.
Splitting the services up, solves one of the most irritating things about older windows releases. That is the problem that some service running in svchost is hogging CPU/RAM, or just keeping the machine from going into suspend, or reboot. And its difficult to figure out which one short of running process explorer or a debugger of some form against it. In the reboot case, there is another registry tweak which shows the services that are taking a long time to start or shutdown, but again its not as easy as it should be.

But really microsoft (and android too), need to start clamping down on background tasks which in the case of windows just exist to collect telemetry and provide popups. Just about the first thing I do when I get on family members/etc PC's is go into the service control manager and disable 1/2 of the running services, which exist to handle cases that aren't appropriate. Usually just by setting their startup type to manual, but sometimes in the case of things like the google "update service" (which is actually more like spyware) by setting it actually to disabled (and a few other things to keep it from running, because it likes to re-enable itself).

Like an android permission setting, there should be a "This program wants to install a background task to perform $THING" do you want to allow this?
For my dialect at least they sound the same, so in my brain they are the same.
Probably Erlang because of Whatsapp, IIRC it's backend was written in Erlang.
>contain sensitive information and I fear people might be tempted to push to GitHub

Nothing can really protect someone from this level of insanity.
From what I gather, languages don't necessarily get simpler over time, but they do tend to get simpler as the number of speakers increases, particularly if the speakers learn it as a second language.

Russians tend to drop articles in English, Indonesians don't really distinguish between "he" and "she", many learners forget the -s in third person singular verbs ("he make"), irregular forms get regularised ("teacher teached me").

Some of the most complicated languages are spoken by small groups in Africa or Papua Guinea, with features such as an evidential aspect (different verb endings depending on whether you saw something with your own eyes, heard about it, concluded it, etc.) [1], or Mother-in-law-speech, where the language you use changes when you speak to your in-laws [2].

Pidgins tend to be very simple and regular, by contrast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance_speech
Pure emotional argument without substance.

You made no effort at all to criticize the methodology (which looks pretty standard to me, consistent with methods used to pinpoint the origin of other disease outbreaks besides COVID), or the raw data. Not one of the listed authors is Chinese, nor do any of them have any Chinese institutional affiliations.

What is your actual argument for why I should disregard this, beyond 'CCP bad'?
Downvote all you want - the evidence is widely distributed. Failure to acknowledge reality just makes you delusional.

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252245
> My own death, of course, which I learnt will come when I least expect it, when everything is going right for once - that when no threats are apparent and I feel I can relax a little, it will be then that I choke over a tin of spinach, or mistake a blue e for a blue o, or a pink h for a pink h.

Just recently my wife developed a sudden and very aggressive infection. She's healthy and it totally came out of left field. Then it spread to me. It was definitely humbling. I don't believe in living in fear, but it's funny how everything can change in an instant.

I have to commend the title though:

> You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes

Coming to understand the ephemeral nature of emotions is what finally allowed me deal with them. They're still real, but they always pass, no matter how strong they seem in the moment.
Heavier stars might not explode as supernovae, just quietly implode into black holes.
What would you do with the truth? I tend to try to not work hard on questions whose answers are immaterial to me.
That is a witty comment.
I tried. It's not easy because of how limiting SQLites indexes are. You have to build your own indexes using `TRIGGER`s or in a software wrapper and tables.

You can see me prototype here: https://git.sr.ht/~chiefnoah/quark
I'm not the person you asked, but it's trivial to host your own git repos on a server.
TF Serving has been unavailable for 8 days
I anesthetized myself to the point of complete blackout for 24 hours

I walked to the store and purchased things

Dead people don't walk to the store and purchase things

Therefore being anesthetized is not like being dead
You're not wrong that what IPFS and BitTorrent have done is impressive. I'm not a zealot, and I'll be the first to admit that there are lots of things that don't need a blockchain, including things like a hypothetical decentralized Google Docs. But the difference is that those tasks can be solved using clever tricks that make it so you don't need to be too concerned with the order of events.

For example, when designing a google docs clone with collaboration, the naïve way to implement that would be to have all the users' computers be sending messages like "insert character 'a' at position 43", etc. The problem with this approach is that it makes the order of events very relevant - you'll get a different result depending on the order you process the messages. The trick is to give each character a unique ID, and then send a messages like "add a character `a` after the character with id 29239810", and then the order is irrelevant.

It happens that not every problem can be expressed in this order-independent way. In general, the ones that can are those that can be expressed in monotonic logic. For some problems, there's no way not to care about the order of events.

If you're unlucky enough to have one of those problems where you have to care about the order of events, you need some degree of coordination between all the nodes in your network to make sure they agree on the order of events. For a high-security project like uniswap, you also want the additional guarantee that the order of old events that the network agrees on is unlikely to change - it's bad if an event that happened yesterday gets reordered or dropped.

Additionally, we're talking about something decentralized here, so we don't want to assume that everyone on the network is honest. If there's a way that a dishonest person can easily stop the network, or cause honest nodes to get out of sync, or cause the order of old events to change, that's really bad.

It turns out that all the good ways to do that look a lot like a blockchain. I'd be eager for you to prove me wrong here.
There's a lot more Python which is somehow not considered "server-side use" even though it's absolutely essential for standing up a new service. You can't do configuration or alerting without at least a little bit of it, for example, and those are mandatory. There's also some Ruby, because chef, but TBH in 3.5 years there I never had to touch more than a couple of tiny bits personally.
Looks like no backend support for JS/Typescript (node.js/deno). This surprise me for a company like META.
There is a cultural angle as well here. Unlike America, it's quite common and acceptable in India to just ask someone directions which helps with the last mile directions so India doesn't need a perfect map solution, just a good enough one.
So many memories I'm crying right now omg erector sets and vertibirds!

I remembered the JC Penny's and Toys R Us catalogs but forgot about the sears toys sections!
Do you really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
If you go the "Eugenics was racist..." route you're going to be met with the "but what if we do non-racist eugenics.."

Or we can just nip the whole thing because failure and racist failure are both just failure.
Do you think the people OP was complaining about would say, "Yes, that's a fair summary of what we think"?

This is how you turn a useful discussion into a pointless shouting match - you caricature and exaggerate your outgroup's position. "You're a bunch of religious extremists!" "Well you just want to be biased and get away with it!" "Stop trying to be thought police!" "Stop being so racist!"
You can’t search for code across the entire GitHub without signing in. You can search in a single repo just fine. That’s a three orders of magnitude smaller concern. I do research on GitHub in incognito windows daily.
Could you please specify the country, so I don't accidentally move there?
Because it's not an argument, it's just lazily recycling language tropes.

> Rust is immature

I recuse myself due to fanboyism.

> C++ is intractable

Except to all the firms and people successfully using it.

> Python is fundamentally unusable at scale

Except to all the firms and people successfully using it.
Hello, I’m not the person you replied to, and I hope its not against the rules, but: I’ve had a terrible couple of years with debilitating anxiety and fear of physical illnesses after a panic attack one year into covid (diagnosed OCD, and talking to a therapist, and orders of magnitude better now w/o medication thankfully). One of the triggers that I still have is this (fear of anesthesia wearing of, and feeling painful procedures) so thank you for the post. (Sorry for the elongated ty note xD)
The build tool they use, Buck, is written in Java, although a rewrite of it in Rust is in the works.