skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had some append-only tables in Postgres and only recently realised that Postgres' system columns (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/ddl-system-columns.html) already effectively enabled some Datomic-like structure for such append-only tables! Specifically the xmin column allows me to identify the rows to treat atomically as a unit, and to ignore if I'm querying for a historical view.
What's the language that was allegedly removed?
It's always worth 15 seconds of time to find and put on the safety glasses for a lifetime of having both working eyes. I'd ruminate over "if I had just found my safety glasses" for the rest of my life if something flew off what I was working on and destroyed one of my eyes.

Same with ear protection. It's not worth being deaf (or even partially deaf) to get a job done 15 seconds faster.
Eh, it's exactly what you expect from America though. Ie the embodiment of short term thinking. Economy, environment, politics, etc - not that America is entirely unique here, just that the population seems to embrace this as a foundation in my experience.

Privacy to tech like this is very hypothetical till it happens, and it'll rarely happen. If it's not in our faces we won't vote against it.
The ad revenue is mostly on App Store searches, where the intent is provided during the request.

That Ads devision can operate in a privacy first mindset while still seeing huge growth YoY. Where-as if Google operated in a don't be evil/privacy first mindset, they'd loose substantial revenue and likely no longer be profitable.
I've noticed this more and more. What's strange, is that Safari is often more compatible with such websites than Firefox.

"Is the website down, or is it just Firefox?" is a question I ask myself several times a day nowadays.
I think NASA's commercial cargo and crew programs were another good example, leading to the SpaceX Dragon and Orbital Cygnus. Of course, the Boeing Starliner's been having issues, but that's why competition is important.
The IE reference was specific unreasonable technologies, forced defaults and restrictions placed on developers by the browser vendor. Not related to popularity.

Safari is the new IE by any measure.
Wikipedia deletionism has become a serious problem, given the sheer reach Wikipedia has accrued over the years.

Something should be done about fair representation of various concepts in our common encyclopedia.

The decision-making behind Wikipedia stewardship should be more transparent.
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Maybe stop defining cultures and simply define the rules?
Don't you he stupid amounts of ads with chrome on android? I wouldn't want to miss uBo
Why aren’t you a fan of the Gaia Theory? It isn’t really much of a theory. The Earth adapts to our foolishness and outsized impact. It will survive in some condition or another even if life as we know it is extinct.
Yep this is why I stopped using firefox for android, they restricted the list of extension they support. I had extensions I didn't want to stop using so I stopped using firefox on android and moved to chromium

Too bad
No it doesn't lead to different conclusions. The lower right one is where the bat experiments were conducted rather than the one in the middle. That is far from the epicenter.

If people would actually read and digest the article before spewing out their own biases, then you would see that the article addressed this very contention.

The article pointed out several facts. One was that there were two strains already. Having that come from the virology institute doesn't make sense. It makes more sense if the virus was spreading and mutating amongst the animals in the market.

Second, is charting the concentration of early spread. Again, the market was the epicenter.

Third is looking more closely at that and seeing this same epicenter pattern in a specific part of the market. This again points to the market being the epicenter.

Fourth, there is no such pattern of infection around the virology institute that was conducting the bat virus research.
No, the real question is, if the mind can exist independently of the body (and the brain), why does consciousness stop temporarily during certain phases of sleep? If the mind can go on even when the body dies, then it stands to reason that the brain being unconscious should pose even less of an obstacle.
It's just so silly -- we can do genomic analysis to figure out the lineage of every confirmed sample. "There's the possibility" is weasel wording that obscures the fact that there's literally no evidence for earlier cases.
He can be had a lot of good things in the past, but this not ensuring that he has crazy idea right now. Think about Luc Montagner: he was a Nobel prize scientist, but his position about vaccines and COVID was crazy.

And if he want to exit from Euro, he and the parties that supporting him, they must say it explicitly in front of the Italians, instead that be foggy about the topic and prepare hidden plans to be implemented overnight.
Obligatory link to Project Mentat:
https://github.com/mozilla/mentat

No longer actively maintained, but maybe a nice starting point for hacking on your dream!
Fascinating that his Gaia hypothesis came after his research with Royal Dutch Shell. It’s amazing how early we knew fossil fuels were destabilizing our biosphere.

This man knew we were heading towards an uninhabitable world and screamed at the top of his lungs, but corporate growth was more important. Persephone, indeed.

He may have walked back his prediction of earth being largely uninhabitable by 2050, but I have a feeling he was only slightly off. The sad truth is that 50C is coming faster than you realize, and this man was crystal clear on the subject in the 1990s.
In the West, Orwell was wrong and Huxley was correct.
Sadly, the art of Speaking in Capital Letters has been lost to the Ages.
The article:

> It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces. I don’t think it should be, but I don’t get to make the rules.

The comments:

Controversy about talking about basic civil behaviour.
The website says "prove that you don't control this computer or I don't serve you"

As does every financial or government website for 'security'
It's not that life ends in a *0 - it's more that we don't get to know what effect our life has. The not-knowing is the hard part. But a little imagination is all it takes to see that life could have some undiscovered long term effect.
I'm sure this is well-thought and serious response, but I thought it was pretty funny. Why indeed, although I'm pretty sure most folks in psychedelic (shroom or DMT) would have sworn they're in the spiritual realm and that an omniscient deity deigned to commune with them.
Sure, but they also have a pretty repressive regime where you might get executed for watching the wrong tv show.

I think it's better to compare to other developed countries.
For blind internet users, the fix can be worse than the flaws
If I leave my garage door open, the mice come in and set up shop. Takes a couple weeks to trap them all. Sometimes I even see them running in.

I don't leave the door open unattended even for 5 minutes.
All conclusions are weak because all theories are at least possible and there is no conclusive evidence. Instead of accepting we will never know, people will now tell you with 1000% (1e4) certainty that it was definitely X. They will queue to die on whatever hill their brains have randomly selected. It's like lemmings only they don't actually do that.
I think this is a very HN phrase and sentiment

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
How did the CEO affect rendering performance?
Ugh. This wouldn't have done anything for the current (but almost over) chip shortage because it doesn't pay chip makers to maintain excess capacity. I agree that there are risks with TSMC and China, but TSMC factories in any western-allied country (Japan, Mexico, Germany) would meet the strategic goals. This is just political grandstanding because it's easy to sell the idea that if we build it here, there won't be a shortage, and it makes it look like politicians are doing something before an election.
The US has a lot of Apple products relative to the rest of the world. Perhaps this is why the US numbers are dropping.
30 years ago (which was the early 1990s, eek!), analog CCTV was all the rage. Costs for cameras and VCR units plummeted, tapes became cheap commodities, and multiplexing video became trivial. With time-lapse and multiplexing, you only needed one VCR for four cameras, which could record for 24-48h on a single tape. It became cheap enough for businesses, hotels, apartment complexes, and the like to install them everywhere. Private CCTV became a staple of police procedural shows like Law and Order (1st season was 1990), which made people expect to be able to "check the tapes" after an alleged crime.

Edit: This same issue was also a problem in the 1990s with private CCTV! If a police officer or detective tells a business owner that a crime has been committed and there might be evidence on the tape, the owner doesn't have to show the police the tape without a warrant. But they usually did, because it looks suspicious if they don't.
He didn't label it as "news", it was an opinion. Regardless if it was said before, who cares? He's not allowed to speak on his experiences because it offends your MO?

I think the opinion he had was justified by his own experiences, which mimic my own - and many of those working at smaller agencies/dev shops (you know, the vast majority of the workforce). It was nice to read something not entirely in the perspective of a Silicon Valley developer drunk on his own ignorance of the rest of the world.
don't worry: I'm not actually insulted. I just think it's funny that something intended for development debugging turn out to be actually useful (as I said I still use them too, and not for debugging bfd).
I don't like it. It sounds too close to "we've always done it this way" which is often a terrible answer to someone challenging the status quo.

"We don't do that here" is very easy to abuse.
IE. I mean, Edge.
The hacks I've done to make facebook kind of useful

- Turn on every privacy setting they have available and "serve me up generic ads only"

- Unfollow EVERTYTHING and EVERYONE, cut your friends list down too, or click on the "follow" only of your real most frequent friends of concern except your core groups of interest, pare it down to less than 20-30, and more so if your groups are active.

- Turn off active status except for your top 10 friends/family and treat messenger like email otherwise (I do the same with do not disturb mode on iphone)

- Use the "Most Recent" button on the left and make it a habit so you don't see the same posts over and over.

It become a lot more useful of a tool after that. Everyone whines but like a lot of things for it to be useful you have to put in a little bit of time and trim your hedges instead of letting them grow into amorphous blobs. or delete it, there's not much in between. Also I hate hate hate tiktok and this whole video thing, I don't think they bring very much more useful info to the social media conversation.
Ask HN: Why do you have to touch a USB security key?
Why do you have to touch a YubiKey and similar security keys? I get the "something you have" principle, but by the same token (pun intended) I can have something without touching it with my bare finger.
Nostalgia product aimed at 40+yo with disposable income, I guess. Depending on the build quality I might bag one for myself!
To be fair as an outsider to both Rust and Js they seem to have pretty robust package management between cargo and npm, although npm is kinda cheating as collating scripts isn't quite as complex building binaries whereas PIP's absolutely unberable with all the virtual env stuff.

I've been quite lucky with CMake, after the initial learning period I've found everything "just works" as it is quite well supported by modern libs.
At least it's not owned by American company, so doesn't technically _have_ to give the government institutions whatever they ask for. It's Chinese though, and that's not much better.
"Eugenics was a failure because it fundamentally misunderstands human development and behavior. We now have strong evidence that nurture and social expectations play a bigger role in behavior and outcomes than your genetics" is a much, much, much stronger answer than "we don't talk about eugenics".

The semantic stop sign betrays weakness, like eugenics might maybe have some secret kernal of truth. The thrashing of it is both scientifically correct and demystifies it.
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Assertion with no explanation works great right up until you are wrong. If you changed the situation slightly the person saying "we don't do that here" would sound awful. Turning the clock back a couple decades for example,

"My pronouns are he/him."

The authority figure, thinking that trans issues de-legitimize feminism: "We don't do that here."

Or two decades before that:

"My boss is harassing me, I'd like to complain."

The authority figure, thinking that dealing with harassment claims is worse for team cohesion than taking them seriously: "We don't do that here."
Here's a quote from Max Headroom (of Pepsi commercial fame, for people old enough to remember Pepsi), from 1987:

Edison Carter: Security Systems has its tendrils into every element of our society - the government, our homes, the police, the courts - I'm not gonna spike this story just because it deals with dollar amounts beyond your comprehension! It's too important!

Murray: ...cerebral...

Theora Jones: Murray, we're trying to play this takeover as a threat to our average viewer. Nobody knows who's doing it. I mean, we all deal with SS every day - what if some really dangerous people got control of it?

Murray: Who do you think controls it now?
Ask HN: Good RSS Feeds/Blogs run by individuals?
I discovered RSS a few days back and have been searching around for good blogs to fill my feed.
I found a few great blogs here on HN:

[1] https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/
[2] https://acoup.blog/
[3] https://scholars-stage.org/

Are there any other active blogs that fill this template of long and deep discussions on a particular topic by an individual?

I'm particularly interested in books, philosophy and electronics blogs though any topic will do as long as it's not deep level programming.

It doesn't necessarily need to have an RSS feed because I'll try some workarounds if it is interesting enough.

Though not particularly related, old-style one-man informative sites (and not blogs) are also welcome.
I work at a big tech co. IMO the market has been somewhat poisoned by the disconnect is that in big tech usually has a higher than usual bar to be senior in a specialized role (e.g. frontend) and hiring managers wants full stack engineers to be senior in all of those roles. I've had a lot of conversations with managers from these companies that they'd love a full stack dev but every time they hire one they find the developer can only really cut it in 1 layer.
But the point of the autopilot system is that there doesn't need to be a driver right?

So here you are saying, "Hey, we have this great system that is such a better diver than the human. Here are the statistics that show it." and then turning around and saying "Hey human, why were you not a better driver. You need to be paying attention."

A bit of wanting to have your cake and eat it too, isn't it?
I really wonder what the future of browsers looks like. Personally, I prefer my apps to be fairly simple, but it feels like every browser is constantly adding new features to try and stand out somehow. All really I want is a way to browse the web, use some extensions, and maybe do some dev work. Feature bloat is really starting to annoy me, and I wish there was just more focus on things like performance/security updates, or additions to the engine for supporting new technologies.
Especially of importance is the market hypothesis was initially propelled by Peter Daszak with huge conflicts of interest as analyzed in excrutiating detail and sourced in Alina's Viral [2] book. I recommend this book, worth reading it as it strong arms every other hypothesis of COVID-19 origin and shows how unlikely it is.

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

[2] https://www.harpercollins.com/products/viral-matt-ridleyalin...
> I have had to embrace highlighting my nationality-by-birth even though I have lived in Switzerland as an expat for over 10 years.

You may have lived in Switzerland for 10 years, but by your own account, it seems like you've chosen not to adopt Swiss culture (at least this particular aspect). Culture emerges to facilitate communication with shared expectations; how can you be surprised that people will have difficulty communicating with you if you choose to disregard their communication norms, which you seeem very aware of? To me that feels like some person A complaining that he's lived in Germany for 10 years and is saddened that the average person has trouble understanding person A when he speaks Chinese.
Overall, I think I like this approach quite a bit, and the rational behind it.

Though I have no doubt it will run afoul of people who believe there's some inherent virtue in running around acting like Mindy from Animaniacs.
That's a fallacy. The average "listening device" it's not constantly recording and uploading audio. We would notice if it did.
I'm on about episode 108 of the podcast "The History of English" https://historyofenglishpodcast.com, which taught me about ampersand's origins. I highly recommend the podcast!
Not the guy you were replying to. Why are we assuming any of the impact would be a drive to live and should be of importance to anyone?

Isn't the reason why we live just steering through the unknown and finding what will happen next. Some do more and some do less to affect it, but people usually just wonder what will happen tommorow, what will be in a year, some what will be in 50 years.

We only want to do something impactful when we want to experience the consequences in the future.

I think the not-knowing is what drives us to live. The same thing why we await death so peacefully. It's really the gate we don't know anything about and we just await to sail in.
Nobody is "checking the details" in this thread - they're just wildly speculating based on their feelings and asserting that the absence of evidence about the virus originating at the WIV is very clearly suspicious...
By control, I mean, create, replace, destroy, etc — I would never create keys based on “identity and a random nonce” selected by a third-party.

Also, since you brought it up, appears Ed25519 vulnerability has been reported:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ed25519+exploit

Also, are these HomeKit “keys” in iCloud backups unencrypted? Meaning that the HomeKit data is encrypted, but the keys are not; to be clear, not saying they are, asking if they are.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does ISA mean?

> WASM runs in quite unusual environments

Why not just use regular Rust/C++? For the isolated environment of execution?
I've been having fun with https://glicol.org/demo, which drops you right into an environment you can start hacking at.
You'll also need to provide a phone number, with the usual BS of the requirement appearing after you've migrated suddenly for "security reasons". They know people would bail on the conversion if they made this requirement so instead they take your account away and hold it ransom until you cough up the goods.
"This water is only 90 degrees, you're fucking crazy, the pot's notgoing to boil."
It makes clear, though still implicit, that was has been transgressed is a social norm specific to that context. It communicates that if you mean to oppose it, you're opposing the social cohesion of that context rather than the value of the thing itself.

It doesn't address the feelings of the person or help their defensiveness, no. It just makes it less likely they'll continue to push against it.
I think it's mostly down to Chernobyl and the cold war. Speaking to people in their 60's (anecdotally) they seem to overestimate the risks of nuclear power and underestimate climate change. This is probably because there's such strong visual evidence for problems with the former.

I'd also say that fossil fuels are very simple to understand; burn thing, generate power. Nuclear is much more 'magic'. And I don't doubt that the fossil fuel lobby is drastically larger than the nuclear power one, just so much more money in it
Ask HN: When a credit card expires why does the bank not issue a new number?
I recently ran into difficulty at multiple sites updating an expired credit card with a new card that has the same account number but new expiration date and code. Is there some industry reason to not simply get a new account number?
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Minecraft. I try and get to the nether. It's enough of a distraction for my consciousness to take my immediate attention off the problem, but while I am playing I find I'm having dialogs with myself fleshing out the problem.

I find minecraft to be at that very sweet spot of just complex enough to divert my attention, but simple enough for me to think about other tasks while I'm playing
Well done Nikon :)
This shall be the industry standard.
> But why? Why does it HAVE to be the existing syntax or nothing?

Because time and again userland implementations of useful functionality are better, more ergonomic and practical than anything committees come up with.
This is really quite excellent. His thoughts on primary keys and the number of issues that Gitlab has are dead on.
"We don't do that here" is way to shut down communication.

For team leadership, it's much better to open up communication, and create team practices called ways-of-working.

Team values are big-idea statements of what teammates hold as important. Example: We value courage, collaboration, respect.

Ground rules then make the values explicit, by describing the team's expectations. Example: We reject slurs and pejoratives.

Some people who hear about this respond by saying it's too much overhead, or rigidity, or handholding. To me, these people sound much like the people who used to say "using version control is too much overhead, or rigidity, or handholding".

It turns out that in my direct professional experience with many teams, teams that create ways-of-working improve because of it, and work significantly better with many more stakeholders.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ways-of-working
Just thinking out loud...

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Initially it smells a bit like fascism to me, not sure why. Maybe some unspoken assumptions based on unquestioned privilege.

> If no one has told you yet, as your career in tech progresses you will eventually become a “custodian of culture.”

There it is.

Will I? progresses over time or progresses up the ladder? I'd have to assume the latter.

>... but I don’t get to make the rules.

IMHO enforcement is 10/10ths of the law. If you're enforcing it you're making it, you're taking personal responsibility for it. Being an authority is being as good as an author. Letting something die is the same as killing it. Omission is as good as a lie.

> a tool for ending and defusing situations when other approaches don’t work.

And that's the lede, buried. An argument of last resort. I would have started with that. That's why it smelled like fascism. It is, but it's got an on-by-default safety on it.
Wasn't it obvious what OP meant then?
India really needs its own Google Maps alternative. I spent a while living there and found the near universal dependence on Google Maps to get anywhere a scary amount of reliance on a foreign service. I worry a Google Maps outage, accidental or intensional, could have big consequences on many people's ability to navigate around. (Eventually people will get directions by just asking on the street, but that's gonna be really tough for drivers) Developers in India could make some really cool solutions to the different address system, provide more interesting sources of realtime data, and better support for local languages.