skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi mrkurt!

Litestream/LiteFS are amazing projects. The FUSE-based approach is interesting (I'm implementing something similar in mvSQLite, thanks for the idea!)

> Graceful failure

mvSQLite is designed to continue to operate under degraded network (there is a fault-injection test specifically for checking this property: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite/blob/1dd1a80d2ff7263b07a...). Network errors and service unavailability are handled with idempotent retries and not exposed to the application.

> Good for caching

mvSQLite caches pages read and written, and does differential cache invalidation (only remotely modified pages are invalidated in the local page cache). The local cache is just a regular KV store with invalidation strategies, and can be moved onto the disk. So it essentially becomes a consistent local database snapshot.
Increasing fertility won't do much for the next ~20 years. It takes a long time to raise a taxpayer.

Automation is the way.
What unintended consequences are we talking about here? The problems in the article don't stem from lockdowns, they stem from delays caused by capacity problems in the healthcare system.

So, if anything, the article describes the unintended consequences of those who deliberately kept fighting all measures to curb the spread of COVID.
Physically based rendering (PBR) is a computer graphics approach that seeks to render images in a way that models the flow of light in the real world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically_based_rendering
> Yes! That was my intention—I wasn't advocating for a purge of content but a leaner and more practical version would be amazing.

Your piece doesn't make that obvious at all, and given how many people here are misunderstanding that point, you might want to update it.
I'm not citing evidence for that I'm showing how both sides of the political divide won't dare touch the holy cow that is the NHS.

It's interesting how every time you show there's a problem with a political party everyone assumes instead of damning the system your trying to politically point score. I think the real change needs to be made in the civil service and certain powers striped from Whitehall but it'll never happen.
Dehydrated is good for this, too https://dehydrated.io/
Oddly, things kind of flipped around (in very broad terms). The left is where some of the well-off urban middle classes are, along with the far-left socialists. The right is where the less well off but working are, along with some non-urban upper- and middle-class voters. Because for a lot of working class people (primarily those who work, and aren't living off state support), they have been entirely abandoned by Labour after being treated as guaranteed votes for decades. This is a big part of what the so-called "Red Wall" is. It's socially conservative (small "C") workers from traditionally Labour constituencies. People who have aspirations and don't want to be held back.

While this wasn't previously the case, the spatial and socioeconomic patterns are increasingly similar to that of the Democrat/Republican voters in the US, from what I can tell. The leftward travel of the Democrats is a large part of that. But the left/right inversion in the UK has been slowly coming for decades, but the FPTP system hid that in the outcomes.
Teaching pays nothing compared to CS, finance, basically most things you need a degree for. Those brilliant individuals who would like to teach have to decide if their passion is worth making less money than some warehouses are paying around here. Those who don't have the grades or abilities to reach for the higher-paid fields have less of a dilemma. We're actively selecting against the candidates who have more lucrative options. This is where the issue comes in where people start saying they should do it for the joy of teaching. That's easy to say when you're drawing a comfortable salary. Being tight on money sucks and passion doesn't pay the bills.
> There's no way I would trade what I'm doing now for money.

So what are you doing?
Yeah Apple’s Board of Executives put all profit motive aside and are sacrificing for our privacy.
Hold them back a year or two so they are bigger than everyone else in class and are a grown man/woman by the time they are high school sophomores.
There are many people who have bought FSD from Tesla, and have had their car reach end of life without ever getting to enjoy FSD.

It's possible after being "less than a year away" for... a decade... that it may be less than a year away now. But it looks like a bit of skepticism has been earned.
I've been dreaming of a book decompiler that would some newfangled AI/ML to produce a perfectly typeset copy of an older book; in the same font or similar, recognizing multiple languages and scripts within the work.
I'd prefer to use a C, Go, or Rust app at this point. I love shell scripts because it was one of the first scripting languages I learned, but I'd trust a developer capable of writing C, Go or Rust to do a better job and make something more optimized than what is within the scope of Posix shell scripting.
This isn’t Google being “evil” just incompetent. During their entire history, they’ve had one successful product - advertising.

No Android has not been a financial success. It came out in the Oracle trial that Android had only made Google $27 Billion in profit from its inception through the trial start date.

For comparison, Google pays Apple a reported $14 Billion a year to be the default search engine on iOS devices. Apple makes more in mobile from Google than Google makes from Android.
I wish I had that kind of coach for my process
The Machine Learning Model Library of Babel (2020)
But back then you could install another web browser.
On iOS it's more like another skin for Safari
I once built exactly what the author proposed and it worked but confused users a lot because they’d have never experienced it before.

There was a lot more leak in the signup funnel as people would just leave once asked to do something besides giving their (usually auto filled) info.

So I tend to believe trying to generally match the flow they are accustomed to is the best way, even if you think it’s not the best way.
He could probably find a lawyer willing to take the case on contingency. A jury might decide that he deserves millions in punitive damages and courts are probably the only way to force a human at google to provide support.
Yes it SHOULD be. But the anxious leaders want more data for no other reason than to look at it and think they're more informed, when in reality they are not. It's like being addicted to looking in the mirror. It's good if you can notice the chocolate around your mouth, but more than that isn't helping, it's just a hobby. Only in this case your hobby is destroying everyone else's joy and productivity.
Maybe it’s getting closer but a lot of people bought this thing for their own cars, never getting access and some already sold the cars again.
You can use Caddy to automatically fetch certs and keep them renewed without much hassle[0].

Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with Caddy

[0]: https://caddy.community/t/using-caddy-to-keep-certificates-r...
Is a centrifuge considered to have potential energy, or kinetic energy?
"The hardware lottery" describes roughly the same phenomenon: https://hardwarelottery.github.io/
I've tried to listen to this guy in other contexts, and you're right. So much cynicism and arrogance of his supposedly grand intellect. It's just such a turn off.
I use this API in a few places such as a custom New Tab extension I made for myself on Chromium based browsers:

https://github.com/overshard/newtab/blob/master/newtab.js#L1...

Haven't had any issues with it!
This is the joy of static linking!

In the end does anyone really care if it’s a 10MB tarball versus a 330kb tarball?
At some point, you just accept that people get to make important choices about themselves, and will sometimes make ones that don't necessarily make sense.
> The more eggs you have in one basket, the more likely the basket is to break

This. Use Yahoo for your email, Verizon for your phone number, Dropbox for your backups, Facebook for your socials… It doesn’t matter which you choose, but fragment your digital life. When one part goes bad, it won’t infect the others.
I just switched to Mac for work, and the app/window switching experience has been frustrating me so much I sent this to my coworkers:

———

Going from fullscreen App A to App B back to fullscreen App A:

Brain on Windows:

1. Alt-tab -> App A

2. Alt-tab -> fullscreen App B

Brain on Mac:

1. Cmd-tab -> App A

2. Cmd-tab -> Random App C

3. Cmd-tab -> back to App A

4. Cmd-tab -> other App B window you weren't looking for

5. Cmd-` App B windows a few times, nope not here either

6. Triple finger salute -> fullscreen App B

Why. Why?
He literally defaced a public good, and this cost the intervention of more sensible adults. A small cost, but still.
I try to live by these two codes:

Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Lead by example.

The first was drilled into me by my mother that was raised as a church going midwesterner. The second came from Boy Scouts but has been reaffirmed throughout my life through observation of others and seeing the results of doing what I feel is right. These are the two lessons I try to instill in my children and the children I coach. If I had to choose a third it would be "only you are responsible for you happiness and success" but that lesson takes some shit experiences to really internalize.
How cars are hacked. Just like in Mr Robot
Right.. Apple isn't playing 4D chess to challenge Facebook's Ad business. https://www.axios.com/2022/08/21/apple-advertising-privacy-t...
To keep you in as long as possible, to wring as much money out of you as possible.
Coinbase, Flexport...
Does it work in rain, snow, and/or night? How about country roads and roads without clearly marked lanes or misleading lane lines?

It's like hiring a plumber who can only flush toilets, not install them. Self driving in pristine conditions is a party trick. Until it can do the hard part, it's nowhere near human-level.
> I'm not entirely convinced with the approach. It seems that there should be some significant discounted concern as you project into the future.

I agree, my objection to the serious (say, Bostrom's) version of the argument is exactly along that line. When we add new entities to our set of those worthy of moral consideration, we don't imply they should all be given equal value. In less abstract terms, it's perfectly consistent to hold the following two moral positions: "animals should not be mistreated gratuitously", and "it is morally permissible to eat meat"; this would amount to having an utility function where animals have some nonzero weight, but not enough weight to offset reasonable human desires.

Likewise, that averting existential risks should trump all other considerations would not only require that future humans have some nonzero moral value, but that their moral value ought to be high enough that everything else pales in comparison.

Something like "my concern with future humans decreases exponentially with time", like you propose, still leaves us with a "normal" position: "sure, we should care somewhat about the future of mankind, but not, like, above all else". Both the premise and the conclusion of this "boring" position seem much more reasonable to me.
I don't think it's unique to scientific academia, but it felt like they were suggesting the scientific community is immune to these kinds of problems
I think one of the problems is the lack of a good open source PDF compressor. We have good open source OCR software like ocrmypdf which I've seen used before, but some of the best compressed books I've seen on libgen used some commercial compressor while the open source ones I've used were generally quite lackluster. This applies double so when people are ripping images from another source, combining them into a PDF then uploading as a high resolution PDF which inevitably ends up being between 70-370 MB.

How to deal with duplication is also a very difficult problem because there's loads of reasons why things could be duplicated. Take a textbook, I've seen duplicates which contain either one or several of the following: different editions, different printings (of any particular edition), added bookmarks/table of contents for the file, removed blank white pages, removed front/end cover pages, removed introduction/index/copyright/book information pages, LaTeX'd copies of pre-TeX textbooks, OCR'd, different resolution, other kinds of optimization by software that reduces to wildly different file sizes, different file types (eg .chm, PDFs that are straight conversions from epub/mobi), etc. Some of this can be detected by machines, eg usage of OCR but some of the other things aren't easy at all to detect.
I think if you’re forced to go private due to long nhs wait times the money you have spent on paying for the nhs via your taxes should be refunded to cover private care cost
Don't worry, in 5 years we will likely read how those in charge then spoke out but we're silenced and how they knew all along and fought the good fight for us in their ivory towers...

It was a simple mathematic close airports not schools of you're so concerned but the past is now behind us.

Oh and did you know the GBD was secretly funded by evil big right wing oil against the family friendly big pharma with asbestos in the talc and roundup in your food...

(Sorry I think I got a bit cynical even for this topic)
Scammy practices?
It's definitely not its design goal as far as I can tell. However we the people in general have addictive tendencies and we're just kind of turning HN into every other compulsively scrolling social media.

But that's on us.
I expect attrition is priced into the pension at some level, or worse, it needs these contributions to function at all. This is perhaps best for the profession, but it is systematic theft from another point of view.

Even if you don’t contribute to the pension with cash, capital is still allocated on your behalf into the fund that could have been paid to you directly.
As of today FB owns Giphy and Beat Saber
Only if you or the user refuse to use federated auth. And even then do you not have 2FA? Then your 2FA is reduced to 1FA by email?

"There is no way around it" is such b.s., yes there is, pretend email does not exist, how would you do it? I think you skipped over parts of my post, there is a myriad of messaging applications if you insist control over some external account is the way to go. But really, the ideal way to do this would be have two sets of registration time challenges set. You can go with secret questions but also picture/emoji combinations, pins,patterns as the firsr piece and a second would either be a payment card for $0.01 charge or have them print one-time codes at registration time (second challenge skipped if second-factor auth is good).

"I refuse to change" is what you are saying, you can think about this longer than a minute and come up with more and better ways than what I just mentioned. Not only is email based password reser unneccesary, it is dangerous and lazy.
one of the bigger problems was telneting between VAX and UNIX systems.

there was content back then, but no curation.
we would telnet from one machine to another using CLI.

the reward was a wall of ASCII highly formatted with extended fonts.

you could lurk in the login areas trying unix-fu or find a mud or a BBS.

there was always tin for reading usenet as a method of content search.

there wasnt so much content fiefdom, you could share links or post content with little oversight except numbers of attendance.
I think the skepticism is reasonable, but that’s not really what my comment is about.
Cut the administrative overhead, cut a lot of the federal requirements that drive up costs and put that money into classrooms directly.

This is the stuff that advocates for vouchers and private schools have been saying for years. It’s impossible to change things in public schools due to the channels involved.

Private schools, on the other hand, can operate and adapt much more efficiently. My kids go to one. They love it, we love it, their teachers are happy and well respected. Because by sending our kids to that school we made a choice. We evaluated our options and decided this was the best place for them.

When kids are forced into a school due to zoning or because their parents can’t afford either a private or home school option, or moving to a house with different options, the parents have no recourse but to grumble about everything that they don’t like. It wasn’t their decision.

Is money part of the problem? Sure. But it’s not just the teacher pay it’s the money for options that parents can choose.

So much of this goes away if a school can simply tell an unhappy parent, “Maybe this isn’t the best school for your family?”

When parents make a choice themselves, they own it.
>send a 4-digit confirmation code rather than just a link.

The wording is unclear, so I will ask for clarification: Does the improved email contain both a 4-digit code _and_ a link (URL)?
I've worked on surgical robots where we used Xbox controllers to control the robot.
There are some parents with delusions about their kids being pro athletes, but many are just providing their kid the opportunity to do something he likes, and can afford to do it.

There is a whole industry around youth sports that is designed to extract money from parents. That doesn't mean that the kids don't enjoy it though.
The initial velocity just replaces a rocket's booster stage, not a whole rocket.
Some of the greatest coaches of all time start every season by going over the basic’s like ‘How to tie your shoe’. Drop your ego at the door.
I read the OP slightly differently. I think there's an expectation that science is about a pure-ish pursuit of knowledge. In that context, careerism works against the philosophy and goals of the effort. In growing commerce/industry, the expectations might look different (competition, plus ingenuity or high EQ, or both). In large companies (Google, MS, Ford, JPM) and government, expectations collect around careerism, managing perceptions, and stability/predictability.
This is ultimately why I believe Elon Musk isn't the right guy to lead Tesla anymore and hasn't been for a while.

Car companies live and die by attracting new customers but also by bringing back existing customers. Lots of car brands bend over backwards to keep you coming back. When you fail to deliver what you've promised or significantly raise prices without delivering value in return, you're not building a loyal customer base.

Between this kind of thing and the way Tesla handles service, it's very clear they don't really give a damn about you as a customer after you've handed over your money.
If this is true, for the OP, please provide raw linear values!
Oh sorry yeah, you are right! I just went with the Xbox controller as I figured it would map most closely to what the game expects
Chin tucking is associated with snoring and apnea, as it closes off part of the airway. Try it for yourself, it's much easier to snore when your chin is either tucked or your head is tilted all the way back, but it's harder when your head is simply upright.
>I think you are living in a bubble.

I am not, considering I am the only defending 5G and Ericsson on HN. But you should say that to the rest of HN.
It's also the attitude that's endemic in a lot of Mac forums, so good luck finding out answers when everyone rolls their eyes because you should already know.
Drinking water is the tiny part of overall consumption. Almost all water humankind is using, is used in agriculture, so the need is very, very distributed just as the farmland where stuff grows, is.
This will definitely work. I can't say how I know, but someone in the intelligence community told me they are banking on it.
I’d hazard to guess that the nuance is how they process data.

Google actively inspects and analyzes data, and does so with their cloud services. Microsoft does as well. They have a reasonable means to know that a user has problematic content. Other services that sync but don’t process data do not.

In many US states, you are legally compelled to report child abuse and are subject to criminal sanction. In New Jersey it’s a misdemeanor for anyone who fails to report child abuse. In New York, mandated reporters are compelled to report and have criminal and unlimited civil liability if they do not (and immunity from liability if they do).

For a company like Google or Microsoft, the risk assessment is very complex and the smart, and arguably the morally righteous move is to report.
Sure but it depends what you're after, in my case I was really just curious to play the game and take a look at the graphics etc. and this worked fine for me. Probably better than mouse and keyboard would anyway
Ex‐Siberian prisoner welcomes 2 daughters to his native US (1977)
FSX is from 2006 but that’s not the one you meant. It’s relevant to the graphics you mentioned though. Graphics comparison of different versions: https://youtu.be/CchRwnTorjY 2.0 was the first one I saw and 3.0 was the first one I actually owned. You can have fun flying around even with those graphics. FSX was fun but definitely seemed more like a computer world. 2020 blows me away since it feels like you’re exploring the real world (although it’s funny when a building I live or work in that is only a couple years old is a construction site in the game). I built a new PC in 2020 to play it and it’s closer to $1000 not $10000. I had to wait until this year when the video card shortage ended to buy the video card I wanted though. And I bought a nice yoke: https://flyhoneycomb.com/collections/honeycomb-flight-sim-ha... so somewhere around $2000 total I guess. I’m sure MS Flight Simulator 2035 will make 2020 look like pong, but no reason to wait that long. :)
Flight sim. Not drone sim.
The assumption made in using a resistive network as a matrix multiply is that D/A and A/D circuits are available at the speeds and resolutions intended. For running a network a few times per second, to utilize a trained network in an application, this is entirely reasonable. However, if you're going to be running hundreds of Mhz of samples at 8 bits or more of resolution, power goes up very quickly.

Typical values are 100millwatts/channel for 8 bits of resolution at 100 Mhz in each direction.
Why is everyone acting so apocalyptic? Netflix is offering a cheaper tier with ads. If you don’t want ads, keep paying for the tier you have been paying.
What if you attach the payload to the projectile with a bungee cord, at exactly the moment it is released?
Let's list off software that is $15k per license that cannot transfer to a new machine.

(I own FSD on two cars because I like toys)
can you name even one service that uses login links and allows you to configure an address that is exclusively used for login links and not any other communication?

i'm not talking about unselecting all other types of communication, but rather having the service store 2 different emails for you. one for logging in and one for communication.
Maybe cross reference religious claims with the scientific method

Ex: https://trendguardian.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale...
Also https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

It’s supper cool as it does change sqlite.
"opt out" is how conservative parties kill public healthcare systems.

Because the public healthcare system winds up subsidizing the private one: private insurers dump bad risks onto it when they get too expensive too insure, after years or collecting the payments that don't go to the public system.

It's the definition of privatizing profits and socializing risk.

You want to opt out? You get to opt all the way out. You don't get to come back, it's a one way street. Still keen?