skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While there are solutions here, generally an app needs to have the actual database password or the ability to create one. A bcrypt of the password just won’t let the gitea server connect.
There's a meta effect where commiseration around narcissism and being a victim of it is its own form of self-indulgent thinking
It's basically the same as https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf than, plus lisp for config?
Last weekend I was sitting in a car while my son who needs hours to get his license was driving. We were in the middle of nowhere in Ohio with nothing but cornfields around us. On my iPad, I was watching real-time 1080p stream of my other son playing hockey half way across the country. I still remember the sound of modem connecting though I wouldn’t claim anymore I can whistle myself to get the connection going. Heck, I still remember the time when you had to schedule long distance (anything in another town) phone calls in advance and wait for an operator to call you back when the connection was ready.

Never used WordPerfect and don’t care much. Turbo Pascal on the other hand is still a high bar for modern IDEs.
Air to water heatpumps exist for this purpose.

https://www.hpacmag.com/features/heat-pump-interest-growing-...
Basically: xhtml is fast and verifiable?
I just tried this on my Pixel 6 Pro and it unexpectedly worked (by defaulted to showing the notification pane). Hidden indeed!
Why corporate apologism? We are talking about a trillion dollar company that just publicly unvealed a new feature that has shortcomings: do we need anymore justification to voice the shortcoming and hope that trillion dollar worth of resources may improve the feature?

[Edit] to clarify: trillion dollar company or not, a new feature was just released a someone noticed what seems to be an edge case where does feature isn't providing value. Feedback is good.
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Grants Police More Surveillance Powers
Magical Bitboards and How to Find Them: Sliding Move Generation in Chess
Beancount, software written by the author of the parent piece, is a terrific "plain text" double entry accounting system. I've used it for more than a decade on both personal finances and non-profit treasury projects. It was many tools in its ecosystem for reformatting (single entry) transactions into double entry.
Excel PowerBI would easily handle millions of transactions, but it's arguably a completely different product hidden inside an excel menu.
Could this be used to synch an in browser ephemeral SQLite to a server?
are u srs
I like the surprise of finding these nuggets when I do discover them over time. Why does everything have to be so freaking obvious that even a toddler can discover it with eyes closed?
1. The disabling threshold could be set well above "buzzed" or "the legal limit" if that makes you feel better. Or, instead of being disabled, the car could be speed governed, hazard lights forced on, or something of that nature. Heck, if you want to teach us why things are important, implement the system without any disabling functionality and notify the driver that they're over the limit (a lot of buzzed drivers don't even know they've done something wrong in the first place).

2. Implementing a system to disable restrictions during major emergency events would be trivially complicated and inexpensive. We already have a national emergency alert system that pushes out to every cellular connection. Newly built cars very often have integrated cellular capabilities and always have some kind of software-based infotainment system.

3. It's not legal to drive drunk even on private property in a number of states, and being on private property doesn't make it any better of an idea even when it is technically legal.

4. Medical emergencies like the one you describe are more of a straw man argument than a concern with a lot of relevance to this topic. I could construct a similar argument: what if you live alone and have a medical emergency that prevents you from driving? The problem here is that rural areas have less access to fast emergency medical care in the first place, and that's just part of living in a rural area.

5. Rural areas have worse crash fatality statistics in the first place, so this system theoretically helps rural areas even more than urban ones. [1]

6. Let's say even after all this you still don't want it to be mandatory: the system could be offered as an insurance discount incentive and a lot of people would go for it.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/urban...
An electric water heater does NOT help the environment - quite the opposite, it makes things worse, since 38% of electricity is generated from natural gas, which is less efficient than just burning the gas at home.

What should we do? We should build nuclear plants, at least a hundred of them.

> almost like they hope CA fails.

The California Air Resources Board (CARBS) is responsible for forcing everyone to use special gas nozzles that spill tons of gasoline, while pretending to prevent spills. See: https://fee.org/articles/the-epic-failure-of-the-government-... and https://fee.org/articles/how-government-wrecked-the-gas-can/

The do not exactly have a reputation for intelligent decision making, rather they have a reputation for emotional decision making.
I know another English word that comes from Indonesian, as my friend from there likes to proudly tell everyone, "Orangutan". The original meaning is something like "the man of the jungle". I found it really interesting since it's the same word in Spanish, so basically this word has come all the way around the world.

Though TBF a "species word" is a bit of a cheat, since I'm sure there are many more local species like that where if you know the name it'd be in the foreign language, it's just "orangutan" is a fairly common word compared to more specific species names.

About the rest of the article, agreed, the best relationships I've ever had (friends, flings or girlfriends) have always had that curiosity factor strongly present. Though I guess it depends and you need to be a curious person for you to care about it first? Non-curious people might find curiosity boring or even immature?
It comes down to resulting cost and resources required to reach SLOs of your services. Major factors for such are the quality of support for arm64 by your workloads and specific optimizations available for such (running code that has AVX512 optimizations vs something that likes SHA256 + AdvSimd tricks).

Overall, compiled languages like Rust, C / C++ have very good support due to years of dev effort invested in LLVM/GCC to support arm64 will, C# will also become one of the better running platforms starting with .NET 7 (6 is ok but 7 improves perf dramatically and vectorizes many code paths). Can't say anything about Java though.

All in all, Graviton 2/3 on AWS is supposed to provide cheaper and denser compute which are its main selling points at the moment.
I actually think it's time to be "tough on government."

Article V is really looking good right now. None of this is working for us.
I tested this recently, my 6 year old Dell runs Ubuntu 2022 and has 16G RAM and nVidia with 4G VRAM. It runs a 2G VM running Ubuntu 2022 running Apache, Dovecot, postfix, MySQL and Postgres, for multiple domains. The host also runs all of those for local email.

Both the VM and the host runs Docker and containers. The host also runs k3s (Kubernetes single cluster) continuously for me to do various container running comparisons vs plain Docker.

With me logged in watching Netflix in a browser full screen it gets around 1.5 - 1.75 hours.

I guess if I were to just stream full screen without the VM running it'd run somewhat longer.
> a long history of shipping devices pre-infested with malware and backdoors,

Lol thats rich. They did it like 2 or 3 times for the windows laptops they sold most of the time not part of the thinkpad line. So yeah. Long history it is. You also have a long history of making bad comments then?
> Little interesting things are all around us. But the uncurious will never know.

Says a lot about a person that they are curious about “ketchup” but so incurious about a person. Even if you do t go on a second date, there is still a lot to be learned by talking with a person. You might have learned something about her life or her experiences. But, “ketchup” was more interesting to the author. I wonder, in the grand scheme of things, who was actually the more incurious person?
The past doesn't actually give the info it teases, so here it is.

> Ketchup comes from the Hokkien Chinese word, kê-tsiap, the name of a sauce derived from fermented fish. It is believed that traders brought fish sauce from Vietnam to southeastern China. The British likely encountered ketchup in Southeast Asia, returned home, and tried to replicate the fermented dark sauce.
Finding little gems like these by accident gives an impression of something bigger, something mysterious and grand. Seems like the author wants a giant red arrow saying gem here on a treasure hunt.
I understand your frustration. On the other hand, this reachability seems to be a form of spontaneity. Isn't a text from a friend with an imminent plan pretty spontaneous?
Yeah, wait till you've spent a year on a major project, turning predigested niblets of a requirement ("stories") into snippets of code ("implementations"), and your boss is breathing down your neck because your niblet->snippet conversion rate per sprint (as reported by JIRA because everything at work fucking spies on you) is not where the OKRs say it should be. Your life will feel changed all right.
Once true for Google, as well ;)
It's been half amusing and half depressing to watch so many people espousing the freedom of cars, and the moment the government says it won't force homebuilders to include parking spaces, they are all up in arms decrying the loss of their perceived freedom.

What does freedom even mean here?
Yes, because Google’s advertising based revenue model provides the right incentive scheme to discourage use of personal data to increase revenue and profits?
> regulating agencies for accounting happy

That is not really what the accounting standards are for. The people that need to be kept happy are the users of the accounts. The standards are there to stop me misleading, or defrauding them.

Here is a list of some users of my accounts:

Managers: need to know how their business unit is performing so they can take action

Shareholders: need to know how the directors are managing their money

Banks: I borrow money from them, and they want to see that I can pay it back

Tax authorities: I collect sales tax for them. I collect payroll taxes for them. I have to pay taxes on my profit

Creditors: I need suppliers to advance me credit. They need to work out the risk of giving it to me.

Employees: before I joined the company I wanted to know it was solvent

Imagine how I could manipulate them if there wasn't a standard way of communicating the accounts.
good luck finding any on the used market
Won't happen, Judges, DAs and the police are on the same team. It'd be like suing...yourself.

An amazingly high percentage of judges are former prosecutors. The last stats I read had it at around 66%. The remainder were primarily criminal defense attorneys in their previous life.
Hoping one day soon I'll be able to use Gnome on my M1 MacBook with full hardware acceleration and unchanged power efficiency/battery life.

MacBook laptops feel great to use, their Keyboards, their trackpads, their screens, their battery lives are unparalleled - but MacOS is such a compatibility nightmare. No Vulkan support makes gaming difficult, no kernel support for containerisation makes using development tools like Docker cumbersome.

Apple are total dicks for locking down their hardware so tightly and refusing to support efforts to extend support to other OSes.
I’m glad you brought up Andrew McCabe, because we have public knowledge about his party affiliation!

> “I have considered myself to be a Republican my entire life,” albeit “a moderate Republican,” McCabe said. “I’ve voted for every Republican candidate for president in every election, except the 2016 one, in which I did not vote. And I chose not to vote because of the political nature of the work that we were engaged in.”

He’s Republican. So was Robert Mueller. And James Comey. And Christopher Wray. And John Durham of course.

We might not have overall numbers, but what are the odds that almost every high ranking FBI official you recognize is a Republican, but that the overall leadership structure doesn’t lean Republican?

It’s not a far-fetched concept. 90% of police chose Trump over Hillary. The people going into federal policing are not dissimilar from local police. Likely more educated and more urban than your average local officer, so I’d expect them to lean more Democrat than 10%, but it would be a stretch to believe that they dominate the org structure.
having trouble locating the actual white paper. does anyone have a link?
"I like that crouching brooding quality in Keats - squatting on the moss, crushing a petal, licking his lips & rubbing his hands, 'counting the last oozings, hours by hours.' I like him the best of them all, because he doesn’t beat his fists on the table. I like that awful sweetness and thick soft damp green richness. And weariness." (Beckett, The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929–1940)
So basically very primitive security compared to say how banks are handling client data in jurisdictions like Switzerland (one of my daily tasks). The fact that dev can have access to PROD logs just by himself unsupervised (even if for obviously good reasons from his/company point of view) is a big fat red flag.

That all mentioned here clearly means google doesn't have data privacy at the core of their priorities and this won't change unless forced by fines/regulation, just like banks. Slightly disappointed when reading this, but I guess I shouldn't have expected more.
Ask HN: How to do the bare minimum when not valued at work?
I am a senior individual contributor in tech. I got the signal that I am being managed out. However I am still giving my best as I am honest and passionate. Only consolation is that, a lot of colleagues are also being managed out. (The product is making good money though). The environment has become very toxic with a lot of politics across all the levels. To make matters worse, I am working on some legacy technologies. I know that sooner or later I will be laid off. Questions
1. Have you been through situation? How did you overcome?
2. How to implement the do the bare minimum?. I am finding it difficult. In fact, I keep checking office mails all the time.
3. What should your strategy be?. (I have been playing around with new tech though. But there are way too many fields in tech). Searching for another job is not an option at this point. I would rather wait for them to fire me.
Well I should say some push back. I mean I have been complaining ( or ranting ) about it since ~2005ish and I would only get downvoted into oblivion in nearly all major forums, with little to zero comment ever agreeing. At least now we see some agreement with that on HN. So that sentiment is growing somewhat, no matter how small it is. It then takes more time until a large enough force to recognise it as a problem, and even more time for people to actually do something about it.
Is the source available to play with? I wanted to fool around with hosting a whois server but couldn't find any software out there. The server would be completely useless for anyone else but would be fun to use some time learning about this old protocol/tech/etc.
> For me, every OS has rough spots and it's about which ones I can tolerate the most.

+1 if you're looking for some anecdata. The thing that finally pushed me from Windows to Linux was a privacy setting not actually being persisted (after a long battle to find the relevant settings). The fact that some wireless network cards don't work yet is definitely a rough spot, but I can also just buy a new one or write a driver, whereas getting Windows to care about my privacy or MacOS to care about basic usability with respect to keyboard remapping or window positioning seems unnecessarily daunting.
My neighbor is a sergeant in a small city's police force. Roughly 300K folks in our burg. He pulls in an average of $140K/year due mostly to overtime. Cry me a river about our poor overworked police who face deathly threats on a daily basis.
Nay, my thought at seeing John Keats was, John Keats; or e'en The Pot of Basil
It should come as no surprise that this summary is the opposite of what I said: I didn't count those deaths as gun violence, even though arguably I should have, and my conclusion depends on not counting them. If you count them as "gun violence" you will instead come to the conclusion that most deaths from "gun violence" are inflicted in peacetime by governments on their subjects, which is the opposite of my main thesis.
Google signed an agreement with the EU that said we wouldn’t. Bad things would happen if they did.

As a Googler that has access to some Fitbit stuff, I have to sign a form every 30 days that indicates I understand this.
So aren't articles about developers and work-life balance.
> Still waiting for a refund of the additional fees they charged for my “second rental car”. The way it was handled by Hertz customer service and the location manager was an absolute joke.

Went to rent a car with a company card from Hertz. For some reason the franchise decided they needed to do a credit check on me ("not a score, just a general check") personally, which I "failed" (had only been in the country two years).

"We're going to be unable to rent to you." (I started typing "sorry, sir, we're going to..." when I remembered at no point did they apologize).

Okay I say, figuring out a taxi to the Enterprise dealership, since my patience was already thin. "Just refund my prepaid rental and I'll be on my way."

"Prepaid rentals are not refundable."

"..."

Huh. Take someone's payment. They show up to rent the car. They have a valid credit card and ID. Refuse to rent to them. Refuse to refund them the rental amount?

That got sorted, but like you, not there. Nearly a week later with corporate. Who still acted like they were doing me a favor.
Software I use the daily

Apptivate - set global keyboard shortcut for Mac.
Firefox - been using it for 20 years and still loving it.
Vimium - vim binding for Firefox. Make web browsing more productive.
At the time it was missing features I needed, but it's no longer the case.

I tried Caddy (on my robot vacuum!) and it was a breath of fresh air.
Start making mistakes.
I use to have a very reliable but simple python script that asks the whois server for the TLD then gets the whois server from it and asks that server the whois of the apex and if it gets another whois it asks that server and so on recursively. It was more reliable than any service I found because a lot of TLDs that aren't mainstream or run by random countries have their own finnicy whois with some custom weird webui bur whois on port 43 is always there and contains a lot more info than RIR whois which is what most services tend to show.

Some parameters are reliably there and in a way it is very easy to parse since it is key value separated by a colon (cut -d ':' -f 1,2) but there is no "schema" you can follow and sometimes I saw unique and extra additions by some servers and missing critical fields by others. "Your domain is compromised, bad guys are doing bad stuff with it" how do I reliably find out the right contact for example? That last bit was always a manual excercise.
then why not just install Nix in the first place??
Doing it as a virtual camera is not ideal at all since the video conference software won’t know you’re sharing and won’t highlight you. Initially I thought this would work by creating a special window or stage which you can share that then contains one or more windows + web cam.
That's complete nonsense, Hetzner has large data centers.
I have the tendency of pick no so-popular options (among the large dev population) but with eye to be as productive and rock-solid for solo dev.

- PostgreSQL + Sqlite (PG is not that uncommon anymore!) as the main stores. I refuse to add anything else as far as I can, ie: Any other NoSQL thing, so I try to go with in-built functionality like FTS, Json, etc. Decent RDBMS usage is super-efficient and scale well for most workloads

- Rust as main lang. Speed is nice, but having a language that reduce bugs and maintenance cost is BIG plus. In the long run, is better ($$$$$) to have a little of "slow development" to offset "so much bug hunting!". Go "fast, break things" is only viable for very rich, very big companies that are after very fast growth. Most of us, take slow and methodical is much better, IMHO.

- htmx + tailwindcss for front-end, hands-on the BEST combo in my +20 years doing web stuff.

- Simple http://vultr.com hosting with cloudflare on front. Thanks to Rust/PG I even have very small ones too.

- nginx + nixos + circleci as the operative backbone. NixOS replace all my custom docker/scripts/ansible-like setup in a single thing.

The only thing I hate to do that have only cause problems, all the time, is Android. I wish I could do only iOS, so much easier and sane for solo dev.
This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019)
> I expect our government to do NONE of what I described.

Me neither, more than half your suggestions would increase geopolitical tension with zero tangible benefit to the general populous.
So the way I did the self-image thing was, a bit of context first, I had been exploring this idea of infinite parallel universes and timelines. So every time you make a choice, you create two universes, two new life paths based on which choice you made. So there's also infinite parallel versions of you, each one having the personality and character shaped by the sum of their decisions (values) and experiences.

So after I did a personality test and realized that my repeated failures in life were likely the result of my 0th percentile ( ! ) conscientiousness (which the test humorously explained as "if you were one of 100 people in a room, 99 people would be more conscientious than you") I decided I either had to do something about it, or continue to suffer stupidly.

So I decided I would become conscientious through sheer force of will. But I realized that my entire identity was holding myself back. It felt like "not me" to act hardworking and well-organized, because I had become attached to the idea of not being that way. I'd be pretending to be "someone else".

So using this "parallel universe" version of me, that is highly conscientious, was a loophole. I imagined that our timelines were coming closer together until they merged and we became the same person. (I later learned that visualizing an ideal form (eg. a deity) and merging with it (to absorb its qualities) is used in the tantra tradition!)

From then on it still took constant conscious effort (in fact, that "constant vigilance" is actually a big part of conscientiousness--you don't let anything slip under the radar) but it was much easier after that powerful intention and visualization.
For me, it's $0.67/kWh in peak hours, and $0.12 during super off peak (12am to 4am). I will, obviously, continue to charge at night. All electric cars, that I'm aware of, and most charges, have scheduling built in.