skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Side note: I love the attention that SQLite is getting now. It's so refreshing after the dark ages of misapplied technology: microservices, Docker, NoSQL, and countless front-end frameworks.
I share the same view of the situation as you. A consequence of the increase in demands for justice, political correctness, and stuff like that seems to be that every community has to be focused on a oppressed group or it will be considered right-wing and thus attract people like you said.

The incel label is a good example of how bad men are treated sometimes. If you treated poor people like this by saying they're involuntarly not rich and then proceeded to say that it's mostly their fault because they don't work enough, think they can just show up to work, do their job and become rich, shouldn't expect money to be given to them, most people would react by saying that you're wrong. And when some parts of the population have trouble having sex/companionship like some trans people, it's called discrimination. But the same rules don't apply to incels it semms.
This is the common way in Norway. Have the toll thingy or get a bill.
>> If you're comfortable using a 10 yo version of Final Cut Pro and it does everything you need it to do then you're going to be more effective with it than you might be trying to use a new version.

This epitomizes the point, I believe.

There are high level hip hop producers who are still using, say; an MPC-2000 mk2 to produce top ten hits.

Let’s say Dr. Dre, or DJ Shadow, etc - with decades of experience with this tool, suddenly try to move to newer technology. Nothing can trump their experience with that. Dre is going to be better on a decades old piece of hardware than almost anyone, because he’s had all those years of phenomenal experience.

It took me forever to swap to Logic Pro X. For years and years I primarily used (and released my 2019 mixtape, with half a million listens on Spotify, produced with) Logic Pro 9 and an ancient version of Pro Tools, both of which I had legit licenses for. I have a quad core G5 with 16GB of RAM and 2 1TB SSD’s whose performance easily matches my 2016 15” MBP for producing.

I finally moved to Logic X during the pandemic. I still am not sure it’s the better tool; but having portability is so key for me.

Point is - you nailed it. Your experience with the tools you use is way - way - more relevant to how well you will do than the features of the tools.

Hand Van Halen a sitar. See how well he does. Hand him even the shittiest guitar ever and watch him fly.
Are you implying that the TLAs follow the law?

Because their track record says otherwise.
There's actually a clear solution to this problem. It's called URA. I think what's actually happening is that URA goals are falling short, because managers are failing to meet them.

It's war time, managers. Time to sharpen those axes...
Good point. I couldn’t say, but I think most people never even consider the possibility of bringing the stuff back for repair.

Hence, I guess the demand for repair work is probably very low, and they might not have good processes in place to do it.

From a pure transactional perspective, it’s nice that they are essentially selling a clothing service for which you pay only once per item. But from an environmental angle, it sucks that they might not really be fulfilling their promise.
I have to question those large "boxes" and their true motives.

Homeless People have literally DIED trying to get things out of the bins.

If the goal is to get the clothing to those who need it, why build the bins in such a way that removal is impossible?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-...

"At least seven Canadians have died after getting stuck in clothing donation bins, and the latest fatality has prompted an advocate to call for the "death traps" to be immediately fixed or removed."

It seems the true goal is to accept donations (free) and then turn around and sell the clothing?

So you build bins in a way that they are "one-way" doors, and only those with keys can remove the goods?
Tech work isn’t just labor though. It’s about deciding what to do, influencing others to agree, and getting other people on board to the extent where they are enthused and compelled to want to see through a new idea you’ve brought to the table.

Regardless of your feelings towards the abstract entity that is The Company, all these day to day issues are to do with relationships with people.

The art of alignment and persuasion is so much more than just showing up to Slack / your desk, cranking out three more UI PRs based on tasks assigned to you, then clocking off at 5pm.
This question always breaks my brain. It's the ultimate question. I physically jerk back after thinking about it. The initial conditions of this universe are perfect. Maybe there are others that weren't.
> agile makes you iterate through pseudo productivity

In most companies agile/scrum meetings are make-believe work.
> So we have Facebook destroying lives on a massive scale by knowingly wasting people away glued to the screen

If you want a proper "Facebook is evil" point, there's always the Rohingya genocide[1] -- "Facebook has admitted that it played a role in inciting violence during the genocidal campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar"

[1] https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/r...
Worth noting there is a good way for one-handed clove hitch in the air:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qSoIY6FPc

With some practice it's very effective, fast and don't require to watch at the rope.
One thing that surprised me while attending a music festival this summer was the dozen or so 20-something women were wearing crochet tops. Nothing nearly as dazzling nor intricate as Bjerke's work. But the few who opted for that look definitely stood out.
Exactly. People can be so ungrateful sometimes. You help them enthusiastically, talk to them about good computing habits like not opening spam email links and not installing 20 untrustworthy browser extensions (the modern day toolbars!) only to get blamed when their computers fall into disrepair for the exact same reasons. It got to the point I'll pretend to be technologically illiterate just to avoid these situations.
"watchlist" seems to be an altogether incorrect term for this in the first place.

I guess they probably didn't want to use the term "blacklist" but I'm not sure what the correct term should now be.

Watchlist evokes the meaning "this person is being watched by [authorities]"

Edit: The BBC article (linked here in comments) did in fact use the term "blacklist". GIFCT calls it a "hash-sharing database". The use of "terror watchlist" by NY Post seems to be more clickbait rather than accuracy driven. (Not that this issue isn't pretty terrible).
Go on a hiring spree inflate salaries, kill startups while having no infrastructure to actually manage this newly aquired workforce, then claim it's their fault for not being hungry enough.
Bah these guys are such psychos
Check out Śūnyatā: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81

Here's how Mitta summarized that page: "The term 'nyat' is used in Early Buddhism to refer to the emptiness of all things. This emptiness is seen as a meditative state, an attribute of objects, and a type of awareness-release. The term is used to emphasize the deceptive nature of all things, and to show that they are all ultimately worthlessness and vacuous."

Now we ask it directly to compare it to a monitor (I'm pastel-mature-herring):

pastel-mature-herring~> Discuss this likening emptiness to a blank computer monitor.

victorious-capuchin*> One way to think of emptiness is to liken it to a blank computer monitor. Just as a blank monitor contains the potential for any image to be displayed on it, so too does emptiness contain the potential for any and all things to arise within it. Just as a monitor cannot display any image without the proper input, so too does emptiness require the right conditions in order to give rise to anything. And just as a monitor will eventually return to its blank state when the input is removed, so too will things eventually return to emptiness when the conditions that gave rise to them are no longer present.

pastel-mature-herring~> And if someone understands this, what does that say about them?

victorious-capuchin*> If someone understands that emptiness is like a blank computer monitor, it suggests that they understand that everything is ultimately emptiness and that everything is ultimately impermanent. This understanding can lead to a sense of detachment from the things of the world, and can ultimately lead to a state of liberation from suffering.
Totally fair. But we're in that weird spot where we've been trying to find a concrete example of dark matter (testable hypothesis that would apply) and so far we're not coming up all that hot.

So I guess "unlikely" is probably too strong even in my opinion. I just think it hints that we have a structural problem in the house, and continuing to add wall paper is probably not going to fix the issue, we need a shift in understanding somewhere else.
Law and order:

Laws are made and signed by the ruling class (not saying all laws are bad, we need them), and they (hopefully) reflect which values the people wants their justice system to protect.

Order can be interpreted in two ways; keeping society stable, but also keeping the order (the status quo) of the social classes as they are.
Shouldn’t they have been only focusing on mission-critical activities for a long time?
Can someone explain how does Starlink go about using the electromagnetic spectrum efficiently? 4G (and 5G even more so) relies on small cells to spatially partition the spectrum, therefore increasing the maximum bandwidth available in the system. Need to serve more users without compromising per-user throughput? Split the cells.

Now, the cell of a satellite is enormous, and there's no way to reduce the tx power without getting out of range of the surface of the planet altogether. Not to mention that those satellites are pretty damn fast so they stay over any particular user for a very short amount of time.

What am I missing? Or is this supposed to be a low throughput system (when added up over all concurrent users)?
What about NewSQL?
That's how you lose to hungrier competitors. TikTok engineers don't work 4 hours a day. Back in the day when Google Plus was coming out, FB engineers didn't work 4 hours a day either [1]. That's how they killed it in the cradle.

If you want a chill work life balance, 20 hour weeks, etc. then you can have that. But maybe you won't have the $400k salary that big tech pays anymore.

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-...
waif, I thought it was an hydraulic steam machine
SQLite is exploding on Hacker News
Open in
[X] Firefox Focus

and it forgets everything when you close it.
I'm not familiar with FIDO2's changes, but FIDO1/U2F stuff.

What happens is the browser signs the request to the security token with the website URL. The security token's response based on the secret includes this as a result. So if you try to login to d0main.com instead of domain.com and get a U2F 2nd factor auth, the browser will generate a request based on d0main.com. Even if the malicious site, d0main.com, copied/repeated the public key info for the second factor auth request from domain.com, the browser would hash and sign the request as coming from d0main.com as a result. The resulting login token would not match up with what domain.com expected. The login would fail.

So the beauty of this protocol is that, by having the browser be a trusted intermediary, you have to login to the correct website for the 2-factor U2F token to create the right response. You cannot be phished unless you can trick the browser as well into signing your malicious site's request with the real domain/url.

This does not work with 'enter a code', sms, or those apps that prompt you to say you approve of the login. All of those are subject to an attack where the legitimate login system gets proxied by an attacker.

Unsure how FIDO2 stuff changes this.
No shit! Instagram tracks what I do in the Instagram app!
What I mean is, I see a ton of resumes of people who have a background of "DB Guy". Perhaps they've taken a class or two for coding, or writing airflow pipelines. Or maybe they've done a project or two in something buzz worthy. But they still pretty much just know how to operate, manage, and interact with DBs in the same manner as someone from 2005. That's not a bad skillset, those people are valuable. They're just not what I need.
Managing that can quickly get cumbersome, especially when you deal with software that wrecks easy mode of "just install mod-php from distro packages". Ensuring resource allocation was also much more annoying.

Letting scheduler handle allocation of many services onto few servers is how I managed to pay only 10% of what was the previous cost.
An fsync() failing doesn't necessarily mean there is a disk corruption. I agree all logging and recovery protocols should have different handling for a corruption vs a torn tail of the log for example, but I view that as mostly orthogonal.

I'm talking about exiting the process if fsync() fails and letting the distributed databases normal failover processing do its thing. This is a normal scenario for a failover (i.e, its the same as process crashing or getting OOM killed by linux, etc).
I'm in London and I'm on 400k/year.

See how easy it is to just lie on the internet? :P
Based on voting patterns most people in rural areas don't like government spending and handouts
Supabase has more than just solid positioning -- I don't see how they don't put almost every postgres-as-a-service company out of business and also remove the need for frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Django, etc. They're basically solving an absolutely massive pain point for developers.
one always follows another
I don't want to speak for him, but I suppose I am until he pipes up, but I think bobsmooth was being sarcastic.
You just need a bucket with a lid that will keep light out of the hydroponic solution (to prevent algae growth), some sort of strong light (the sun works, obviously), nutrient mixture, and I'd highly recommend a small air pump and aquarium air stone. You suspend the plant in the top of the bucket by cutting a 2-3" hole in the lid and using something called a "net cup."

Hydroponics are a lot more pleasant than soil indoors, in part due to the lack of pests like fungus gnats.
Anyone who thinks that performance ratings aren’t dog and pony shows have drunk the corporate Kool-Aid. Either you have a manager that likes you and will play the game to give you the best politically feasable ratings because it’s the tool they have as middle management to keep you around or you will toil to meet whatever arbitrary expectations someone with authority but no power has and you should run.
Can't they also say "Steve is a Nazi" and let other site owners ban him as well? That's the same thing happening here (albeit with extra steps).
Right, but those clients weren’t “Novell netware”.
Let’s look at the flip side. If an engineer saves Google/Meta $10 million annually by better resource utilization, is this reflected in their salary or bonus? Answer: fuck no, it is not.

Maybe engineers should turn up the heat a little. Maybe they should leave and start their own businesses. Haven’t we made Zuck, Pichai, Page, Brin, etc. rich enough?

Answer: yes, we have made them rich enough.
Those cords usually are replaceable, but involves opening and soldering the brick, which usually means damaging the information sticker to get to the screws.

Still not as good as having it pluggable.
Yes I think in app browsers should still follow parental controls, and I don't see why that wouldn't already be a thing on devices. If I can use a VPN on my phone and have that block sites for me, it seems like it should be pretty trivial for the phone to respect parental controls across all apps, not just specifically web browsers.

That would be an additional capability. But having to force a website to give specific apps permission to display them in-app seems like a removal. Some people are also suggesting removing in-app browsers which also seems silly.
That information is out there but it's scattered and hard to find. The real bottleneck right now seems to be that the number of beams per satellite is higher than the number of cells per satellite.
I think the fundamental issue in the digital world is that you compete with the entire damn world.

When I open a bakery, competition is limited to just a few miles of space. Provided I provide a decent product, I can exist. This idea allows for millions of independent bakeries to exist around the world, which is awesome. It provides great diversity in products, genuine creativity, cultural differentiation, meaningful local employment.

When you need to compete with the entire world, it's a different game altogether. Everything you do digitally can fairly easily be replicated at low cost. This creates an unstoppable force of centralization fueled by capital but also consumer preference: they rather have one service that has it all.

So even if you found a way to pay for data use (via crypto or not) all power will continue to flow to a dominant party.
Of course that's really broadband and it's fine for what most households use the Internet for. Maybe once you get into multiple 4K streams you start to run into limits. But once you get past some fairly modest point, it doesn't change the Internet experience for most people.
MidJourney is fantastic when it comes to creating AI art. DALL-E is better at some things (it seems to understand depth better, can draw hands, better at cartoon characters), but Stability looks fantastic and I'm really excited to try it.

I think I heard the Stable Diffusion folks call DALL-E the McDonald's of AI art, and based on my experience, I agree.
He wants ppl to quit. He said it.
He wants other ppl to pay for his mistakes
I don't see the content policies[0][1] as much different, but perhaps it's a matter of opinion regarding the individual points. I don't know how strictly the policies are enforced, so perhaps there is a difference there as well.

What I find strange is that StabilityAI doesn't outright ban using actual living people in prompts (where I can imagine wide usecases for abuse). At the same time both OpenAI and StabilityAI block sexual content/nudity/violence. I don't see why such content is supposed to be harmful.

Anyway looking forward to the model, thanks for informing me about this project.

[0] - https://stability.ai/stablediffusion-terms-of-service

[1] - https://labs.openai.com/policies/content-policy
What does it matter for, exactly?

It matters if you equate success with total domination, or think that something is only worth doing if it can create a huge gathering of people blindly supporting it.

What if we simply don't care about that? Here we have a system that works well, that can do all the things that I need and that respects my freedoms. I've mentioned it to other people already, all of them simply said "ok, cool" and went on with their lives.

Do you think that the name was the reason that it stopped them from changing it, or do you think that the main thing was "wait, but I want to continue using Google/Apple"? Do you think that their indifference made the product any less useful to me and the other thousands of people who use it? Do you think that my identity is tied to the OS of my phone?

Honestly, can you make a solid effort of explaining what matters so much about marketing, and why?
Haha, thank you, and yours has a great name too!

Both our projects are ML-adjacent. I don't want to cause any confusion, and will start thinking of some alternate names for my project.
Is degrowth incompatible with improved middle class and poor living standards if the rich didn't take so much?
>You'll find the odd developer that's maintaining some internal app by themselves

This.
What do you think is more likely? That your child will stumble upon, correctly identify and successfully exploit an in-app webview, or that they will simply type "4chan" into Google on a school/library/friend's computer/phone?

Unless they are under constant supervision, they will find a way to access what you're hiding from them. And if they are, well then you don't need technical blocks in the first place, do you?
I mean, weren't people also addicted to tv in the 90s? Like, over consumption of media really doesn't seem like a good thing...
and you can always just pretend to be an early speculator in a new token, using clean money you earned from employment

but that token was pumped by all your tornado cash withdrawals to virgin addresses you control

just sell your clean money tokens back into the liquidity pool and walk away, this is indistinguishable from everything that happens today. who cares if Chainlink was pumped by Tornado Cash funds, for example of something relatable.
The job market for top engineers is supply-constrained, as demonstrated by the rapid increase in SWE wages in the past 15 years. If you agree that top engineers are the primary input to these companies' success, then it makes sense for them to adopt a "hoarding" behavior.

In other words, these companies have over-hired as a way to prevent competitors from hiring these same engineers. Although this has created a situation where the company has hired past the theoretical "productive" point, it was still a rational behavior.

Now that the tide is turning, the productivity goal becomes relatively more important than the competitive goal. In the long run though, I don't think the job market will fundamentally change - there is still a shortage of top engineering talent in the US.
Well originally it was only about storing it, until you replied comparing prices, of course beans are cheaper. But the thread was about efficient long term storage.

But either way I recommend storing and buying both. Definitely not going on a crusade against beans, they're great! (and so is meat)

Another user recommended eggs if you're concerned about protein to price ratio, but it's harder to store efficiently without getting creative.

You could farm your own eggs as I do, but it requires a lot of space (and a love for chickens, they can be a hassle).
I've seen this one a couple of them, it's a known weakness. Some were made with poor quality microswitches. Interestingly, the very first one I bought is still my daily driver.
If you were paying taxes, wouldn't this count as income, not capital gains? A programmer doesn't have to deal with capital gains if they buy a laptop and then use it to earn money.
> People used to subscribe to fire service, or ambulance service. It doesn't work, and is also bad for society.

That's interesting - FEMA says that 70% of the fire departments in the US are all-volunteer, and >90% have a volunteer component.

https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/registry/summary#g

I've lived in areas with volunteer fire departments that paid for their operations primarily with "fire dues" for most of my life. As far as I know, most volunteer departments operate like that.

I had no idea they didn't work. I wonder if anyone has told them?
autopilot has been rear ending motorcycles, and has a history of not detecting them properly. also, a rename at this point will not change behavior, owners have already become accustomed to paying lax attention.