skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm originally from Kenya. We used to have a joke

"If it happens in Africa it is called corruption. If it happens in the US it is called lobbying".

I remember seeing a chart of how much money a Senator had to raise every week for their next race and it was stark bonkers (and this was in the 90s, before Citizens United). I just checked and the figure is even worse now.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/02/state-of-money-in-p...

From that article, victorious senate candidates have to spend an average of about 16 million. So if you are already a Senator looking forward to your next race you have to raise about 80k a week!. And you are not getting that kind of money from the average citizen.

Money in politics is the root of most of what ails the U.S political system (not all, but a very big part).
Show HN: Distributed SQLite on FoundationDB
Hello HN! I'm building mvsqlite, a distributed variant of SQLite with MVCC transactions, that runs on FoundationDB. It is a drop-in replacement that just needs an `LD_PRELOAD` for existing applications using SQLite.

I made this because Blueboat (https://github.com/losfair/blueboat) needs a native SQL interface to persistent data. Apparently, just providing a transactional key-value store isn’t enough - it is more easy and efficient to build complex business logic on an SQL database, and it seems necessary to bring a self-hostable distributed SQL DB onto the platform. Since FoundationDB is Blueboat’s only stateful external dependency, I decided to build the SQL capabilities on top of it.

At its core, mvsqlite’s storage engine, mvstore, is a multi-version page store built on FoundationDB. It addresses the duration and size limits (5 secs, 10 MB) of FDB transactions, by handling multi-versioning itself. Pages are fully versioned, so they are always snapshot-readable in the future. An SQLite transaction fetches the read version during `BEGIN TRANSACTION`, and this version is used as the per-page range scan upper bound in future page read requests.

For writes, pages are first written to a content-addressed store keyed by the page's hash. At commit, hashes of each written page in the SQLite transaction is written to the page index in a single FDB transaction to preserve atomicity. With 8K pages and ~60B per key-value entry in the page index, each SQLite transaction can be as large as 1.3 GB (compared to FDB's native txn size limit of 10 MB).

mvsqlite is not yet "production-ready", since it hasn’t received enough testing, and I may still have a few changes to make to the on-disk format. But please ask here if you have any questions!
Bingo! Here's some of that first customer base:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cookingforbeginners/comments/vbgqq6...
Well, at least AWS has not increased the price like GCP did: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing-announce
Are you sure you understand their uptime claims? They offer a 99.99% SLA for regional availability, but only 99.5% for individual instances (and even then, they only owe you a 10% service credit for affected instances)

https://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/

99.5% availability allows up to about 3 and a half hours of downtime a month. 99.99% means around 4 minutes a month. So if you can't handle hours of downtime, you should definitely be multi-AZ.
Counterpoint: FOMO is great marketing strategy for companies
If your application and infra can magically utilize multiple zones with “a couple lines”… then I would say you are miles ahead of just about every other web company.
Ya I didn’t dig into it but reading the FBI’s records on surveillance writers in the 50’s (some writer published them into a book), not a great look.
This is really difficult to do. Ratings tend to be done mentally by managers by comparing peers. Meaning every group has top and bottom performers. It ignores the fact that the absolute level of performance of each team is likely very different. The bottom performer of a top performing team could be way better than average. Will that be caught, who knows? The inverse is also true. That someone shitty is on a great team and it's hard to observe that.
Too Much Coupling
For sure, my callout above is really irrelevant to your point of “who the regulation benefits” (which seem good to me). I’m a bit saddened as well “crypto is being regulated” because it seems to cut across the grain of the whole point of decentralization - but I don’t know how any of this stuff works! (web3, taxes, financial regulation in the Gov. etc)
I do, however, feel that if crypto exchanges are being marketed to the public as “the future” via Super Bowl ads there should _probably_ be some sort of “safeguards” in place. But have no suggestions for what that may look like.
Political txt, email and calls are (mostly)protected by the first amendment as free speech. It would be unconstitutional for the government to restrict it with very limited exceptions, mostly related to imminent threats of violence.

Commercial speech can be regulated provided certain requirements are met that are more widely applicable, a four part test is used. See Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission. Also under Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel the government can compel commercial speech, require advertisers to include factual disclaimers.

So laws like the CAN-SPAM act prohibit unsolicited commercial advertising via txt or email if certain requirements are not met.
Human biology is not programmed to abide conflict of interest. On paper things can be written just so, but what’s on paper does not stop feelings, friendship, and connection between two people from forming given biology. Pointing at some philosophy to equivocate away physical laws is the simple con leveraged against the people.

The big players leverage their understanding of science and well
paid lawyers to play a cognitive game where investment in storage is set aside, as storage is “a solved problem”, they collude to focus government spend on new things they can charge consumers for after charging us via taxes and agency, to build it.

Good luck finding a VC willing to compete against Bezos. They’re not going to target the guy managing the infra risk, providing a cheap platform key to their cheap startup gambling. They’re going to target naive college kids to try and build a rocket for them. Because VCs are smarter than Bezos; do none of the work, own the reward.
What is budgeted is different than what is spent.

Budget is what they ask Congress to put in spending bill which is signed into law. Then funds are appropriated. Then funds are spent. Pentagon spending audit is overdue by a couple decades.
https://text.npr.org/997961646

Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech and pledged to get to the bottom of the missing $2.3T. He even created office space just for that effort and put everything there so the bookkeepers could get the job done. Guess where the Pentagon was hit the very next day?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-on-waste/#app
That's correct. Unexplained Wealth Orders target amounts in excess of £50 000 (usually far in excess, they've been used four times so far, with total targets of 143 million pounds).

The UWO must target an individual who is either: Politically exposed (e.g. (ex)leaders and senior officials of a country and their families) or Reasonably Believed to be involved in Serious Crime (e.g. bank robbers) and whose wealth lacks an apparent explanation. If the target either can't or won't explain their wealth it may be seized.

UWOs are supposed to be reformed to make them work even when you've paid lawyers to make the apparent ownership very opaque. Right now if you're benefiting from an opaque "trust" arrangement maybe spanning several countries it may be impossible to show how that wealth is really "yours" legally, without the co-operation you would have been required to show as part of the UWO.

In practice it often happens, as I understand it, that the UWO target decides the best way out is to just hand over the wealth, because the real answer to "Why do you have this wealth?" is "I did a bunch of crimes" and that is a confession of crime, for which you might do prison time, and either they don't trust lawyers or the lawyers they hired couldn't come up with another story that would hold water.

Sadly the current (Tory) and former (Tory, Tory, and Tory back many years now) UK governments have been much better at talking up their commitment to transparency than at actually taking any steps to prevent the UK (and especially London) functioning as a laundromat and dormitory for crooks to wash their dirty money and sleep comfortably knowing the people they stole from can't reach them...
I'm 99% percent that washing ground beef is a wrong answer -- what we teach NOT to do is just as important as teaching what to do. Same way how it's more important to know the ways a startup fails than to see what the successful ones did.

But if it isn't, mea culpa and I'll get that fixed.
im hesitant to bet the horse against something this young. I can see the allure of it but there are just as many equal me-too ORMs on top of postgres. The idea of graph-relational is interesting but I'm not sure the pain points it describes (having to use JOIN) is enough to get me to use EdgeDB since it's not really an issue for most use cases unless you are doing very complex queries across dozens of tables.

There would also be some friction as to having to learn this new ORM language and having to rely on it completely whereas if we just stick to SQL and traditional ORM that is more popular (SQLAlchemy and SQLModel) we could more or less achieve the same level of productivity (Relational Classes in SQLModel) and still be close to the PostgreSQL, using SQL when we want to etc.

Again this is not to bash on EdgeDB just saying its rather tough to have to constantly shift attention to the next shiny thing when the boring way is still a solid ground for majority of use cases.

My first impressions were that this is some type of Prisma + Graph/SQL hybrid language but uncertain about introducing more obfuscation for limited productivity gains that I can find.

What I want to see are large established companies using a tech for a while, not startups.
Those are pretty great!
I think a good trade off, if your infra is in TF, is to be able to run your scripts with a parameterized AZ/region. That way you can reduce the downtime even more at a fraction of the cost. (assuming the services that are down are not the base layers of AWS, like the 2020 outage)
The unfortunate existence of copyright; browsers shouldn't get their users prosecuted. If copyright wasn't a factor, yes, browsers could absolutely support and contribute to mirror networks.
"Democracy" is only democracy when the people vote for what the political-intelligentsia class supports. Otherwise it's dangerous populism.
> but the requirement to provide non algorithmic alternatives for content feeds.

"Non algorithmic" means "some human creates the content feed by hand". This is also not free of lots of biases and what news portals in the web did in the past.
Glad I wasn't the only one having that thought. This is cool, but I'm bummed because my expectations were about multi-account containers on Android.
Or by learning the meaning of the word "scrambled".
Well. His admin did have some astoundingly incompetent and insane people.
Jackson would've had to make an interpretation about his presentation, not about his nature. I see no reason a similar approach to his literary description couldn't be achieved cinematically.

Fwiw I would've cast Tom Waits. And had musical scenes.
This tweet is just linking to an expensive PDF from a lawyer, this is basically an ad
> No definition of stupidity is given

From the article:

“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
This interview with Scott Holdaway from 1999 has more on the OpenDoc/Gobe transition: https://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/bos/int_holdaway.html
I have a public collection on GitHub of "technical" acronyms with their definition for this reason: https://github.com/d-edge/foss-acronyms
Russia and China behind ‘high-risk’ mid-Atlantic tanker transfer hub
this whole story makes me so mad I can barely see straight.
Not only is CASP not "unwinnable," it's not even a contest. The criteria involved are rated as "moderately difficult." Alphafold is a significant achievement but it sure as hell hasn't "revealed the structure of the protein universe," whatever that means.

Which top labs have changed direction? Because Alphafold can't predict folds, just identify ones it's seen.
If you think one is a Ponzi scheme, they both are.

To prove your point, all you need to do is create a company and get it listed on a major stock exchange with zero assets and the sole stated purpose and objective being to print and sell stock. Be sure to explain to the exchange that this is no different than any other stock.

Let us know how it goes and report back with your listing symbol so we can all buy in, help you inflate the stock price and get rich quick.
why you think you are shadowbanned?
CoCoRaHS Volunteers working together to measure precipitation across the nation
For 22 years, all TVs sold in the US have the ability for parents to configure them to block violent content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-chip
Ruminates like cows produce B12 through their gut bacteria. That's synthesis.

And before you say "that's the bacteria, not them", then we technically digest anything because gut bacteria is essential for digestion. We are gestalt organisms. Always have been.
lol <3.

Forensic analyst is clicking on a Reddit username and looking at what kind of poster OP is?

I just do not post often on this site and this is not "weird".

And if you want to talk about "weird" accounts, just look at yours. Only two submissions and lots of nonsensical comments.
You're making it political with your comments, then you are surprised it is political? Hah
Aztec pyramids have a characteristic stair-stepped design, which when viewed from atop probably looks reminiscent of a tiling. A similar story probably applies to Aztec Codes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Code
That's true, when only dealing with 1 server, you technically double the cost by adding a second server. My original comment was about "popular sites/services", that should be able to tolerate the costs and are most likely dealing with multiple servers.

For a single server deployment you can still reduce your downtime (with minimal costs) by having the ASG redeploy into another AZ on a failed health check.
> perhaps we should consider the well-being of a user and bake that into our algorithms. It might not be as profitable

The problem rather is: how are we supposed to algorithmically measure the well-being of a user?
also inter region replication costs bandwidth money
As the other threads dog pile on critism, one would probably do well following the implied advice of avoiding what oneself considers a stupid person, rather than granting them the benefit of doubt. Their poor decision making will side effect you.
Hello, stranger! Hope you're well!

Please don't do anything rash like overdosing on mediation. There are people who care about you!

Where are you located (country, city)? If you're in the US, please visit https://988lifeline.org/ and talk to someone.

Or post your phone/email and I will get in touch with you. Please, talk to me, us, or whatever!
Probably a waste of time. Drill down on talking to as many people as you can about your thing. I hate the phrase "network," but yeah, expose your surface area to things you're looking into.
Twitter has developed norms which prioritize anger. Some fairly prominent folks on Twitter can go weeks without tweeting anything positive. This isn't going away. Much like Reddit has developed norms around downvoting to disagree.

I think you're laser focusing on Twitter because of your experiences on the platform. I only started using Twitter recently as I felt the non-technical content on HN became too one-sided or rage-filled, so I can't offer much observation there, but I've been on non-algorithmic social sites for decades. I've been on HN for over a decade. Heck, you can hop onto Usenet today and see hellthreads still spawning. A Raspberry Pi group I'm in had a (crossposted) hellthread about Apple products.

People respond to rage whether there's algorithms or not. People give others online much less benefit of the doubt than they do in person. I've seen this constant on every non-algorithmic social site I've been on. Mastodon, despite being a much smaller network, also has huge chains of posts spawned by angry toots/posts. At this point I'm convinced that this is just a modality of failure in human discourse. I'm cautiously optimistic that humans will develop norms around socializing in the large, but it took centuries of political instability for the printing press to be normalized, so it may take (turbulent) decades for socializing in the large to be normalized.
At least in eu-north-1 the three AZs are located in different towns, about 50 km apart (Västerås, Eskilstuna and Katrineholm).
If the internet isn't for free speech... finish the sentence
I went through the app, and I've answered like 30 questions now on food storage/safety and it feels like I'm taking a tedious course. Weird. Is that all it is, food preparation trivia?

Please don't lead with this stuff. Teach me how to make tasty things!
> If you're setting the ability to crystallize as the single point of failure endpoint, that logic applies to every subfield.

I agree that there are other fields with similar issues. What baffles me is how long protein crystallization has been a problem.

I’ll use your example:

Nowadays, sequencing a gene is unlikely to yield a single publication by itself but is no early point of failure. It’s a solved problem with protocols that have been thoroughly developed and explained to boredom. New early points of failure arise (sample related, maybe?).

Nowadays, determining the structure of a protein is unlikely to yield a single publication by itself but has a clear, early, unsolved point of failure. No understandable protocol other than buying $creening plate$, fetching cat whiskers, drawing a theoretical phase diagram that tells you nothing, and pray that your crystallization tray doesn’t show a scrambled egg tomorrow or in six weeks. This has been an issue for more than fifty years and almost 200k published structures.
The jump you mentioned in sequencing hasn’t happened yet in protein crystallography and might never happen because our understanding of macromolecular crystallization is lacking and thus we cannot predict proper crystallization conditions.
VR is new. But, I don't see it growing into the next big thing. do people really wanna wear a headset all day?
Instead of building fast native application delivery and sandboxing we're taking the longer way around and reinventing OSes inside a document (!) browser.

Can't say that it makes me happy.
I guess you get what you paid for but how much of a difference is there? The cost saving it advertises is quite alluring.
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bet Is Working, Finance Minister Says
I literally used this module in a project at my day job. We had to deal with geospatial data in WKB representation, a binary format that supports both endiannesses. Turns out deserializing that data as a struct is easier than dealing with wild bits *shrug*
At least in my experience, AWS downtime also only accounts for a minor share of the total downtime; the major source are crashes and bugs in the application you're actually trying to host. Being completely HA and independent of AZ crashes/bug is extremely hard and time intensive and usually not worth it compared to investing that time to get your app to run smoothly.
My EEE was probably my best laptop purchase ever.

Dual core atom with 2GB memory, became my BYOD dev machine at work (with external keyboard and monitor, of course). Handled dev tasks in Ubuntu like a charm, weighted almost nothing.
I would love the same sort of "kit" available for CANSPAM.
The sounds of crickets is deafening!
Thanks, perfect +1 explanation.

You might find this useful:

Blackrock, Zillo, etc. cornering residential housing market. Sorrelle nails it: https://youtu.be/pwmEJWKCLF8

What I find so interesting is that the super rich don’t even seem to be trying to hide this mischief.
I think it would be better to have chromium or brave installed of chromium, since you use FireFox.
I still have my EEE Pc 701 from 2007. Still works well with 2GB of RAM, Void Linux+DWM and an extended filesystem in the SD Card. Good for experimenting and for note taking with Emacs+org roam or Zim. Still good for reading wikipedia or stack overflow articles with netsurf or seamonkey(sites with JavaScript). Remember searching open or crackable wifi networks with the little fellow in the palm of my hand. I have another with NetBSD, works well too.
Your comment reminds me of this[1] video from sorted food where they make a recipe from an old professional cookbook. Instructions are very high level and without the context of 100 years ago it is difficult to know if they were successful in their creation. More detail recipes or at least pictures alongside might have given some of that context.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWoI923LnY
Three families can....
question to OP.
The company who owns Parsnip is Seed & Stone? the same who sells weed online?
Which raises my question: Is there some open source github project that lets you create an S3 API compatible with underlying heterogeneous VPS hosts clustered? I'm guessing even with this storage would still be expensive, so how does Backblaze pull this off?
What kind of losses? Loss of what? If a majority of people incurred more losses than gains in their lives, we'd all have starved to death tens of thousands of years ago.

OK, fair enough its a sort of definition or has the superficial form of one, but it's not actually saying anything.
> The endurance cuisine: designed to show that the cook has time to spare, the endurance cuisine requires that no ingredient is pre-processed in any way. Grind your own grain, bake your own breadcrumbs, chop your own veg. Using grapes? You should have peeled them!

This makes no sense to me at all. Where does it stop?

"You didn't use pre-peeled carrots, you're doing this for status"
"You actually made shortcrust instead of using pre-made, you're doing this for status"
"You made your own pesto, you're doing this for status"

Like, this is just some subjective line you're laying down and I do not see the point
>English sounding name is teaching lessons on racism

They didn't "teach" a "lesson" on racism, they said an entire 15 words in an edit and gave a range of "sheltered" to "at worst, practically racist". A bit hyperbolic? Sure. A lesson? No.
This is persistent disinformation, but has been debunked years ago.
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...

It really tells you more about the credibility of the ALA and associated organizations. They're in parts a symptom of a profit-oriented healthcare system, where harm reduction perturbs vested interests.
OT but same. jobs was right, it all belongs in the browser. apps pose too much of a privacy and security risk.
Settling for $1200 with predjudice is a mistake... get a lawyer experienced in the area. You should be able to get roughly 2x the statutory amount by playing hardball!
How religious worship is boosting tree conservation in India
What I'm saying is I think it _is_ a step too far. I also think it violates people's constitutional rights. But I don't think it's so different from already monitoring people's transactions.
Funding conservative causes as a wealthy private individual does not make you a threat to democracy., American liberal progressives seem to repeat that notion and get hysterical about this any time it happens, while forgetting the sheer number of extremely rich billionaire progressive supporters of numerous causes they do favor. Are these people then not also threats to democracy? Or does this definition only begin to apply once a billionaire supports a thing you don't approve of?