skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard that the scuttlebutt is that San Onofre had lots of problems and needed to be decommissioned, but the decision to decommission Diablo Canyon was a real travesty. Hopefully it goes on providing safe, reliable, clean power for many years to come.
Lately I've been wondering if the army of 100% remote folks realize their shift to entirely virtualized interactions creates opportunity for AIs to compete on equal grounds.

An AI assistant won't be taking your place in the office anytime soon. But the writing's on the wall for AI assistants to start appearing in your Zoom meetings [0]. Once they can churn out code 24x7 without eating or sleeping, glwt.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=14700s
> your air conditioned car..

I would rather drive the car through a beautiful landscape (that I pick), instead in rush hour trafic that I don't have a choice in..

>Then work in an amazing office..

That I did't choose...

>with fellow gifted engineers and civilized people.

That I didn't pick..

There is a poem in Malayalam with a portion that goes like this "Bhandura kaanjanakkotilanengilum bandhanam bandhanam thanne paaril". It means, "bondage is bondage even if you are in a golden cage".

So the point is that office work is vastly less freedom (thus a kind of oppression), even with all its perks (that is for the few that indeed have those perks).
SQLite is targeting a different application space than PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle Database, or SQL Server. It's intended to be embedded in applications to provide easy, rapid access to structured data. Both iOS and Android, for instance, embed SQLite and apps use it for storing things like text messages and contacts. Even Microsoft UWP embeds SQLite and provides an API to access it from .NET applications (which is weird because it's more on-brand for Microsoft to embed, say, the Jet database engine from Access).

It's a serious database for anything that doesn't require concurrent multiuser access.
What about continuing to sketch out on paper or whiteboard and just pointing the webcam at it in the meeting? Works fine for us.
> and we hear a lot of stories of ppl from other "free healthcare" OECD countries having to come here for decent care

You'll hear that in both directions, to the point where the CDC has a page for Americans seeking care abroad, typically due to exorbitant costs here. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/medical-tourism

> i'd rather a system where i can get better by paying more than a system where i'm at the mercy of some bureaucrat or waiting list.

There are very few countries in which this is the case; you can opt for private healthcare in Europe, Australia, etc. if you like. There's simply also a specific, reasonable level of care available to all. (The idea that the US lacks bureaucrats and waiting lists is, incidentally, funny to most folks who've tried to see a specialist on short order, or had insurance deny coverage for something.)
Came over this article as I was looking for interesting resources in the SQLite ecosystem. I'm building mvsqlite (https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite), as an attempt to turn SQLite into a proper distributed (not just replicated) database. Check it out if you are looking for this kind of stuff!
Can you elaborate please? I'm interested why you think this. Nobody in the UK really thinks free market rail, free market water, free market gas, free market electricity has been a good idea. The overwhelming majority of consumers want renationalisation, its just about for how long really. Scotland, which retained significant state control over infrastructure is faring better.
It’s not normal for compressors to be regularly tripping breakers, I’m curious what the explanation is?
I've had this happen once so far in my 2-year ownership. A reboot resolved it and it hasn't returned (yet). Feels like it could be a display driver bug.
You get cubicles? Fancy. My last corporate gig was one step away from hot desking us. Everyone in non-engineering roles had already been moved to hot desks and a generous, adorable little cartoon bear decorated cubby to store your personal items. Engineering raised such a fuss about setting up monitors and whatnot they we stalled the full rollout for a spell, but the writing was on the wall.

Imagine that. Forcing employees into an office, but not even guaranteeing a desk. It’s hardly better than going to a cowork or even a coffee shop.
FWIW the AR is fundamentally a platform, although in its pure form it does refer to the "underpowered" variant. Hunters might chamber 6.5 grendel, which is a nice intermediate cartridge commonly used to take down larger deer and elk. People who own firearms love the AR in part because it is so easy to change configuration and even caliber like legos. There are even AR chambered in .50 cal (but not that .50 cal).
Where do you draw the line with compatibility? There's lots of small, DB specific differences like this between all the databases (mysql, sql server, postgres etc).

For this particular one, you can replace interval with something like `last_at < DATETIME(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, '-10 day')`

> Hosting small postgres databases on things like GCP are ~$8 a month... why not just save yourself from future pain?

I think this is a fair point, if you think you'll run into sqlite's limitations in the future. litestream and friends make sqlite an option for some non-embedded use cases.. though they're hardly a panacea.
The Case of the $5k Springsteen Tickets
Because what if other people use the same software?
If its a recession why are you spending money on overhead like an office when you have plenty of potential employees happy to work from their home, an office you the employer are basically are getting for free?
Because opens and clicks are tracked.
A company (read: the employer class) != what employees would choose if they designed an equitable workplace for themselves
As an employee, I appreciate it when my employer sends birthday/holiday/etc gifts (think corporate gift boxes, there are many third-parties in this market), and they make me feel more appreciated than, say, a straight reimbursement for office equipment or something I'd otherwise pay for out of pocket.

That probably makes me a sucker. But a happy sucker!
Can attest to this, we've been pleasantly surprised by the unbeatable performance and value of SQLite + Litestream combo [1] that we expect it will become a popular choice for small/medium or multi-tenant Apps in future.

[1]: https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/litestream
Weird comment. Don't use a DB that doesn't fit your use case. In this case if you plan to scale or want PGSQL features, don't use SQLite. But SQLite is great if you need to embed a db in an app or are just doing some local stuff.
https://archive.ph/429MV
Plenty of WFH jobs at Amazon. Looking at a couple myself. Apple just removed themselves from my list. Actually said this was coming and they were already off my list.
Not from within Gmail's web interface.

I personally use Thunderbird and AWS SES to send mail, but many people who grew up on web interfaces are intimidated by Thunderbird.
Idk, I've been dumb enough to do this twice now.
The egg_irl post you picked. Sigh. Picking apart meme content and comments is stupid. But sure, lets do this to support this 'child grooming' nonsense transphobic discussion.

What you're criticizing isn't someone making a major life decision based on feedback from internet strangers. Its a person who has made a major life decision reflecting and joking about the experience in a space assumed to be for trans people trying to deal with (via jokes and memes) the overwhelming hatred they've dealt with.

A) this is clearly a stupid meme post that IN THE MEME itself indicates the person is no longer 16 (in fact if you look at post history they're now at college so > 18).

B) was responded to with a meme in an of itself. The idea of an LGBTQ+ pipeline is well known to LGBTQ+ people. Yes they'll make fun of it in response to a meme post. In ACTUAL discussion, they will earnestly discuss that transitioning isn't for everyone; don't stop because of other people, but also if you're not comfortable or transitioning isn't make you happy, you learned something about yourself (you might not be trans).

But to put a fine point on it: Telling children that they have options for self-expression besides the default gender binary isn't child-grooming. Full stop. And in marginalized communities, you may only have internet strangers to deal with (if your family/friends or local community have no safe spaces). Obviously, for such a large decision you should be working with a therapist (if there's a non-transphobic therapist in your area AND you can afford it/its available) to work through this rather than internet strangers; and that is OFTEN discussed. No one is under the impression that these are small decisions. They're just demanding that they be understood as VALID decisions.

But to boil down a trans-support group (with your 'I call it how I see it'/'won't somebody think of the children' type bullshit) as 'castrating young people' means that you're not as logical / unbiased as you think you are, you clearly DON'T know what you're talking about, AND, as the OP stated, you are transphobic.
I wish there was some sort of an Access-like form/app builder tool for quickly building GUIs around SQLite databases. That's the one thing I miss. I'd love to reach for SQLite instead of Excel or something.
The fine article was about the efficiency of cells vs. their geometric footprint. If the cost of the footprint is considered, smaller GaAs cells might be more economical than the larger (but cheaper) Si cells. Also, conentrators might be nothing more than a few mirrored/angled surfaces at the edge of the cell, which would increase cell illumination independent of cloud cover. It's not rocket science.
YCs startup school has a founder match section you can put what you want and looking for as well as filter out by hours willing to commit. There is a lot of people looking for developers but also a good chunk that has some off shore investment and MVP going and pretty exciting to see.
The 1980's MSX Personal Computer Standard from MS
I think that people's experience with the privacy and significance of their phone number varies a lot by demographic.
> If you're going to force employers to give more, a lot of them will just close shop and you'll end up with massive unemployment.

Strawman argument. See: countries that already have said 30+days of paid vacation -- without "massive unemployment" (read: France, Germany).

> You can propose all you want, but if you want it to have the desired effect, you actually need to think through it

I'd say the GP has done this and explained it well... but you have avoided its main proposals.

> and consult experts.

Of which, you are definitely not one (read: an expert).
OP does sound like a salesperson.
https://archive.ph/TlnCQ
Why not, looks like a great project for people building on SQLite who may want to migrate to a distributed solution who determine it's a better solution than replication for their use-case.
he stopped summarizing methods at some point- now its just results
Well, HN could stand for Hubris News. There do seem to be a lot of people around that seem to think that they are smarter in every field than actual experts in those fields.
Our technician caste dislikes religious doctrines. Most of these doctrines discourage--or even prohibit--our most treasured creature comforts, so of course, we take the easy way out and shun these doctrines. And we pay for this. Boy do we ever pay!

Such people have spiritual holes, which they deny, but are there none the less. They try to fill these holes with material comforts--food, sex, pills, money, et. al. The problem is: you can't fill a spiritual hole with material substance, but in our ignorance we keep piling-on. More restaurants, more drugs, more trips, more money, more hookups--metabolizing the earth, degrading the body, poisoning the children. None of it will ever be enough, because we are using the wrong medicine & operating on false premises.
SQLite is a powerful SQL query engine. When combined with a rock-solid distributed storage layer, we get a distributed SQL database, just like what systems like Aurora and Neon have managed to build on MySQL and PostgreSQL.
I think its a vicious cycle - No one supports it so services don't implement it, and because no services implement it people use hacky ways to do what MQTTv5 does out of the box or use services they normally wouldn't because the ones they want only support MQTT 3.1.1.

We use NATS for pretty much all of our MQ / Service Bus type stuff, we were using GCP Iot, AWS IoT and recently moved to EMQX as it has native MQTTv5 support.

NATS would have been a much better choice for us but the support wasn't there.

Build it and they will come :)
A shared housing model like umm ... WeLive ?! .. would love to experiment that model of minimalist living for a few years.
You could ask the same thing about alcohol, or gambling.

But people have been doing these things since before there were industries for them, so there’s apparently something besides marketing that causes humans to want those things.

The better way to combat these “evil” industries would be to fulfill that need as well or better in less destructive ways, making the industry obsolete.
Magnets separate oxygen bubbles produced by hydrolysis from a liquid in simulated microgravity.
I wonder if Twilio corporate culture has an aversion to or outright not-implemented or banned more secure methods of MFA such as security keys because of their $$ acquisition of Authy. Anyone have any insight?
Loans for campus? They do have some debt but have ~$100B net of their debt
This. There is a reason Win32 foiled every single attempt from Microsoft to kill it, and a reason Intel has consistently failed to successfully market anything besides x86 processors.

The reason is the PC world at large is a mountain of x86 and Win32 code piled sky high by decades of developers and users. Replacing all that takes money and time that nobody wants to spend, and chances are the replacement won't be a 1:1 drop-in replacement either which will necessitate further money and time nobody wants to spend.

The average computer enthusiast might scoff at being able to run half-a-century old x86/Win32 code and binaries on modern hardware. Professionals consider that backwards compatibility their literal lifeblood and will pay handsomely to ensure nobody violates it (and refuse to pay anyone who does).

I expect the ARM world will also be singing a similar tune in several decades' time, when backwards compatibility with ancient ARM binaries become steadily more important than pursuing the next new shiny at any cost.
Buffett’s Alpha (2012) [pdf]
AOL was one of the first large corporate users of SQLite.

"... the next tech giant to reach out was America Online... They needed a database on that [AOL] CD, and they had some ad hoc thing and they wanted to use SQLite on that. They had limited space, and so, “Hey, we need to put this on the CD.”"

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
Secret Military Antennas in Central London
This part has been great. Unfortunately "networking" at remote conferences has been terrible. Most of my conferences are predominantly about networking, so overall it's been a net negative.
A lot of devs seem to have an obsession with using the tech that only just works for the use case. Like you pointed out, Postgres works in everything from tiny apps to global scale SaaS. I really just can't see any reason you would want to use SQLite outside of local apps. Sure, many web apps can run on it, but they can all work on Postgres.
Apple’s solution (mandating Tuesday and Thursday) solves the consistency issue.
It does by not exposing the ports that aren't meant to be and only routing the traffic intended down to the local network.
We debated buying an MSX or Commodore 64. The C64 was cheaper.

Colecovision Adam can have MSX games easily ported to it because it uses the same Z80 chips.

MSX USA fans can visit a site here for more info on the MSX in the USA: http://www.usamsx.com/
My expectation is that hot desks will become the norm, as companies will (in time) decrease their office space in line with the % of the workforce who are actually in the office on an "average" day.
While in the USA at the moment, I would agree that most racism that's seen is based on clearly-visible skin color, I would argue that's a fairly new development.

My grandparents were born in the 1920s. One side is Polish, the other side is Italian. With the exception of my Grandfather who looked extremely Sicilian, none of them would have their ethnicity readily apparent to someone in the late 30s who may have posted a job with "Poles need not apply". Until they mentioned their surname, of course.

There's plenty of racism still against Jewish people as well, and I would argue that the vast majority of Jewish people are utterly invisible, unless someone jumps through very similar hoops to the Indians you mention, asking about family name etc.
House arrest is good. Now I can actually get to things around the house in my downtime instead of wasting it on watercooler talk
Not sorting by (and making visible) a popularity count or a preferred client per platform presents a potential interested person with an arbitrary decision. Rather than "let's experiment and see if I like the default experience," the marketing would have needed to win me over enough to make the work of researching a good client appealing.

Googling "matrix client" leads you to the matrix website clients page rather than Element or the domain of the most popular client. I have to scroll downward before I even see Element. Element showing up after 2 "best 10 matrix apps" articles is an ecosystem failure and to me communicates immaturity.

When I see signs of immaturity, I immediately assume weak/untested security. I want to know other people are trusting something before I trust it. Signs of immaturity also make me cautious about making recommendations to someone else because I don't want to become someone else's tech support.

FWIW, if you google either e-mail or SMS, there are client(s) in the first 3 results for both.
Also worth mentioning rqlite: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
We're maintaining a rapid dev solution for building Apps for SQLite + other popular RDBMS's at: https://www.locode.dev

You just need to create your API definitions and you get APIs + Auto management UI for free, here's our most recent video showing how you can build a multi-user Bookings App in minutes [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/rSFiikDjGos
I don't think anyone has questioned sqlite for local databases. But there is a lot of talk around using sqlite for web app databases where it may work, but seems clearly inferior to any of the alternatives.
Lack of native support for SQLite in modern browsers is what is holding it back.
You don't. Register with Signal using a temporary number.
It would be epic to make something for this guy.

https://www.instagram.com/foton_automotive/
Seems reasonable. I wonder how it compares to existing things in the space? It'd be cool to bring the test suite into the distributed world as well, I guess.
I believe that Libreoffice Base supports SQLite.
Ask HN: Did Facebook just stop fighting adblockers?
One of my hobbies is writing userscripts, specifically adblockers for sites I frequent. Facebook in particular proved a great and worthy adversary on that front, thanks to their attempts to thwart my userscripts. Until very recently, they employed a unique combination of obfuscation techniques to prevent adblockers from programmatically identifying and removing their "Sponsored" posts.

Anyway, until recently I had a working (albeit hacky) adblock heuristic for Facebook that did the job. However, sometime today I noticed that my script stopped working.

Upon further inspection, they seem to have gone back to simply embedding the word "Sponsored" in plaintext, making it trivial for userscripts and adblockers to select and remove these elements.

Is it a fluke, or did Facebook just give up fighting adblock?
You could have a VNC in LAN without password but forgot to limit the source IP.

And the way you say, you need a "decent OS" to avoid flood attacks without tinkering, whichever OS that is.
It does support remote connections, but at the NFS or SMB level.
Stop lying. I specifically stated that we should do more to reduce the price of insulin.
Since the US is laid out horizontally, that’s the only way for everyone to be in the same time zone.
I didn't have a problem with Signal wanting to provide a way to restore people's contacts. The problems I had initially were:

- No way to back up this information without cloud storage: why not let users backup their settings and contacts and profile to an encrypted file stored locally that can be copied to SD card, transferred via USB, or even uploaded wherever the user wants?

- No way to opt out entirely: What if I don't want this functionality at all and I don't care if my new phone doesn't have my settings and contacts and profile picture?

They've stated that they have plans to expand the data they're keeping in the cloud for other things down the road. It's not clear yet what they will do with it, but I get the impression that the reason they chose to start collecting user data was to enable them to grow into whatever they become.

There are lots of ways Signal could have improved their data collection and storage practices to better protect their users. Requiring strong passwords instead of pins would have been great! Not depending on the security of an enclave that has already been proven to be vulnerable to attacks would have been even better. Not storing user data at all would be ideal, but yeah, I get that they are within their rights to change the scope of their product to include data collection and cloud storage in order to offer new features.

My real issue with Signal is that this change was so poorly communicated that a lot of people (as evidenced by many in this discussion) aren't even aware that they are collecting data at all. All of the this confusion is entirely Signal's fault, and it'd be a bad look for any company, but this is a product where trust is critical. Where literal lives are on the line. Anyone using Signal deserves to know what their risks are, and Signal has worked to make that extremely difficult.

The fact that they are being deceptive, even after all this time, makes me think it's possible the service has been compromised and they are communicating to users to avoid using Signal as loudly as the law will allow. Not updating their privacy policy works wonderfully as a canary.

For what it's worth, I was a big fan of Signal. I loved the app. I recommended it to everyone! One of the most disappointing things about this entire fiasco is that there's no replacement I've seen that is as good! I've been playing around with a few alternatives, but Signal had the polish that made it ideal for both secured communications and plain old SMS/MMS. It's damaged goods now though. If I were fine with using an app I couldn't trust I might as well use whatever shipped with my phones.
I don't know that the re in "red" and れ really sound nothing alike, though. If you want to reduce it down to something simplistic, "ray" would be a lot closer, if still not actually all that close.

For the r sound specifically, it's like 60% r, 30% l, 10% d. Most people don't struggle with getting it passable once someone teaches them that it's more about tongue positioning than anything. Have someone say "la" and "da" back and forth a few times, tell them to position their tongue touching the roof of their mouth in between the position it is for la and da while trying to make an r sound, and they'll probably be pretty close. And once your understand where the difference is on pronunciation vs an english r, you know what to start tweaking as you try to match native pronunciation.
Then how do you hand the marker to someone else?