skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A handful of grumpy old gits know that if you pick the right languages, and the right tools, you can build something to replace this 2nd level system in the same types of tools as the first level system, and that you don’t need all the fancy scaling infrastructure because one modern box can support a million concurrent users no problem, and a few such boxes can support tens of hundreds of millions of them, all in something in the corner of one room, with an uptime of decades and no need for any cloud.

I suppose I am a grumpy old git, then, although I did not think of myself that way until recently. In the past decade or two, I've seen computer science lose its collective appreciation of the staggering potential of hardware. This has steadily resulted in software being built with tremendously over-engineered, hyper-complicated, cloud-first architectures that barely match the throughput of a single box running a high-performance platform (and for the record, "high performance" can still be relatively ergonomic via Java, C#, Rust, and so on).

The scale of hardware, clock cycles, bits per second of bandwidth, etc., being squandered on modern cloud-first highly complicated architectures boggles the mind.

I fear there is no strength behind any pendulum swing back to architectural simplicity, appreciation of the available capacity of hardware and how to use it, and local-first.
I am Orthodox, but it isn't limited to Orthodox thought. A common way by which people come to Orthodoxy is through Buddhism or related easter mysticism, and then realize that Christian thinking combined with true mysticism is the way for them.

Self-knowledge is really the core of a good life, and I'll happily die on that hill.
To make the irony worse, the pension returns are dependent on allocating their capital to monopolies which are able to capture excess returns. Re-allocating profits from shareholders to workers de-funds the pensions (and retirees more broadly.)
I don't know about the other Google services, but geolocation for YouTube TV seems to be pretty difficult to defeat.

We have a YouTube TV family plan but we don't all live in the same city. You can travel temporarily, but if anyone accesses it from a different city for more than a couple weeks, their access is disabled until they return to the home city.

I tried having a family member in another city watch YouTube TV via Wireguard to get an IP address in our home city. That simple trick failed because Google uses their phone location to determine their real location.

Is the UK traveler routing their phone through Wireguard, such that the phone's geolocation is being linked to your home IP?
Shasta dev here. We're releasing an update soon to the enhance feature that does exactly this!
"dot beats trademark"
> German putting some nuclear shutdowns on hold

... or at least we "want" to do that, but it turns out that some operators of nuclear power plants have delayed some much-needed maintenance in light of the upcoming shutdown, so at least Isar 2 doesn't seem to be ready to operate longer.

And all the Bavarian politicians have "accidentally" failed to disclose this until far too late (in Bavaria, CSU is the dominant political party, and they aren't in power at the federal level right now, so don't feel compelled to play nice).
The social experiment backfires one again. You can't fight nature. Fight nature and you will lose 100% of the time.
The radar tapes show something impacting the plane and then "spiraling away", sounds like it could easily be a collision by a missile without a warhead.

> For example, Dr. Stalcup obtained several FBI records never released to
the TWA 800 families or the public. One described an “original [Navy radar] tape”
showing an object “heading straight for TWA 800.” Another describes an object on
radar “impact[ing]” TWA 800 and “spiral[ling] away,” while also stating that witnesses
described seeing a “flair (sic) going up. . . . , orbit/circle another object. Subsequently
debris fell from the sky.”
I like the way Bandcamp works (don't want to talk about the business model of their new owner, just about the service they offer in general): bandcamp nags me to pay after spending a decent amount of time on sth. I could use an alternative client app and never pay, but I do not.

I love digital libraries for the fact that I am able to quickly look into a book without going through some tiresome payment and DRM stages only to discover that I wasted money. Also I like that I can buy hardcopies (even limited ones) . Further I can support creatoes with subscriptions.

To add to that Bandcamp triggered quite a few archiving efforts and releases of remastered obscure music. Artists like atom TM are releasing there whole back catalogue easily accessible...
Agree 100% with the thrust of your argument but isn't the challenge still there today for a Cortex-M0 equivalent say?
Bookscan numbers are highly inaccurate and represent a floor.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/just-how-accurate-is-bookscan-any...

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-...
Cost of living increases primarily affect day-to-day spending while a PS5 is a luxury purchase.

If you can’t afford it at the new price, it probably wouldn’t have been a wise purchase at the original price.

Sony is a business. Their costs have gone up markedly and when the hardware is already subsidised, it’s unrealistic to not expect increased costs to be passed on.
Given we have stagnant or declining populations any defined benefit pension plan will fall short of the promises in the coming decades. Not only is deferred compensation unappealing to many people because of present time orientation, it's a riskier pension than a defined contribution plan. You also lose out on the ability to negotiate better compensation by changing jobs.

On the whole the lifetime employment model was abandoned by the private sector decades ago for many good reasons, namely the impossibility of funding defined benefits after population growth stalled; as usual the government is the last place in society that makes necessary changes.
...that says exactly what I said in my comment. I'm not sure why I deserve a "half true".
Even the CIA refutes that it’s a hostile power doing this: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cia-hava...

Just because one doctor says it we have to believe them? Doctors are not at all infallible and are flawed like everyone else. I mean just a few years ago, doctors were heavily subscribing opiates. I’ll remain skeptical until actual evidence is presented.
I googled your name and this is the only book that I could find, so maybe this could also be a reason for low sales.
True, but we’re not talking about generally available information like wikipedia, we’re talking about people’s work who didn’t expect it to end up like this. Should they have a say in it? If not, why not? And if you just mean information, does that mean you think fiction for example should be excluded from this sort of initiative?
Windy Wyoming as it's called. I live in the east side of the state - few hours away from where they did this.

While Pinedale is generally less windy, don't kid yourself, it changes constantly. Add in they did this test at like 8,000 ft elevation. The temperature is constantly changing.

I find it impressive they found a 4.4 mile stretch that was unobstructed, no risk to hitting something (person/critter) in that area. They found a ridge that allowed them a way to somewhat see the target.

No real world application for what they did, but the effort, the science, the planning - impressive.

I'm guessing they must have used GPS to find their location, and calculate the rotation of the earth. But even small changes - like repointing 1mm to the north or south would be huge over that distance.
Little bit of devils advocate little bit of Sunday boredom.

Im actively trying to find another book you've written and am having trouble. Are you sure it's not a marketing issue?
There are many more examples of good things for society as a whole vs rights of minorities/individuals.

But somehow it doesn't work as intended and the end result is poorer less developed society, tyranny, war, etc.
I have pretty bad allergies, the pollen messed with me quite a bit.

The real harm I think is giving too many perceived privileges to something that is currently a luxury.
If there was a missile test that went wrong, there would be a considerable number of people involved.

Even if the authorities swore everybody to secrecy, they can't prevent a retiree from making a deathbed confession.
Ask HN: Why should I learn PostgreSQL(MySQL to PostgreSQL switch)
Hi!
I want to start a tough discussion: why should I learn PostgreSQL, spend time on that & migrate all my projects to PostgreSQL over MySQL?

Currently, for years I'm fully into MySQL. What makes it worth the time to jump into PostgreSQL? How does it help you? Is PostgreSQL better than MySQL? Why?

What's your experience with that? Is there anyone who switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL and wants to share their thoughts?
Yes but lights are turned off, factories are turned off, trains aren't running and many other things as well. And most people don't cook during the night.
> I have screenshots from the billing system, and I can easily prove that.

Unless the billing system tells you explicitly "you see the lack of people here compared to last month/year/some other time period? well, we actually possess the technology to find out who these potential people would have been, so we reached out to them and asked if they were going to buy your book. they all said 'yes, but not anymore, since I can now pirate it' and that's why your book stopped selling as well as before", how can you be sure you were going to make that money?
I don't get why everyone assumes that Havana syndrome is fake. I mean it could be fake but it doesn't seem implausible that it is real either. I seems like everyone jumps to the conclusion it isn't real though.
As a response the houses will be artifficially split into two. What counts as a household is not that deterministic.
I sort of agree with where you think we are, but not where we're going.

> Expect inflation, financial system struggles (collapse?), higher taxes but also wage increases and the working class getting larger chunk of the pie.

The Fed is clearly going to engineer a massive recession and financial crisis to throw enough people out of work to get inflation under control and make people continue to work for peanuts.

They're not giving the working class a larger chunk of the pie without a massive fight (and what remains to be seen is if how far they'll go before they realize they're harming themselves in the process, and even if they capitulate before they destroy everything).
tomorrow your boss says to you he’s gonna reduce headcount in IT by 50%. what is your boss gonna do short term? is he gonna plan how he is gonna manage your promotion when you will be one of the few not fired or is he gonna focus on firing the 50% he needs so that shareholders are happy with stock price?
Wow this is exactly what I've been looking for, thank you! I just wish with these transformer models it was possible to extract a structured set of what the model "knows" (for e.g. easy search indexing ). These natural language question systems are a little too fuzzy sometimes.
I've been using Ali G. Rudi's pdftxt with my own shell wrappers. From the homepage: "uses mupdf to extract text from pdf files; prefixes each line with its page number for searching."

Usually I 1) pdftxt a file and 2) based on the results, jump to a desired page in Rudi's framebuffer PDF reader, fbpdf. For this, the page number prefix in pdftxt is a particularly nice default. No temptations with too many command line options either.

https://litcave.rudi.ir/pdftxt-0.7.tar.gz
Weightless on Earth with Vivaldi
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They only require a free account, no subscription necessary.
Honestly, congratulations on your talent and good fortune.

Did you have the choice in giving your work away or was it made for you?
As if the brainwashed general public in the US needs an excuse to want to hurt foreigners?
This is a detail, but it's imo illustrative of how refined Apple UI is and how easy it is to get it wrong.

The design of how the Dock scales and animates follows a very simple principle: if the mouse is outside the dock, and you move towards an icon vertically, entering the dock does not shift that icon around. Because that would make it feel "jello" and uneasy, like this imitation.
Re Poland locally mined - i dont know wtf went wrong but we went from having huge reserves to buying from India within a year... A lot of homes rely on coal to be available by the time the winter comes and apparently they are left with nothing. People stand in line for a few days (literally, husband/wife/kid rotation in the queue) just to get the ticket for the coal. The ticket guarantees you to get the coal once the previous orders are filled. My friends waited in such queue a few weeks ago. Eta for coal delivery for a private household if you went through all this hussle: April.
Civil torts definitely (can) have statutes of limitation; for example, you can only be sued for bad debt for a few years.
Yeah. lol, I was thinking about how it's said "five five six" and paid no attention to what I wrote.
Just like the moon, we did not attempt to land there on the first go-around. Neil Armstrong was on Apollo 11. Apollo 4-6 were unmanned launches, 7-9 were testing the hardware with humans, mostly with "free return" orbits where even if the engines didn't start again, they would land back on earth in about a week. Apollo 10 was a wet rehersal that did everything except land on the moon#, including "parking" in lunar orbit, then starting up the engines again and going back to earth; finally Apollo 11-17 actually were "boots on the ground"

A venus flyby would be similar to Apollo 10 where they would go to another body, and then do a free return fly-by, maybe with engine assist, and return back in a year. Regardless of if/when we go to mars, there will be at least one "free return" mission before they attempt future missions that have a "parking orbit" around mars.

Going to Venus would allow us to simulate a mars free return trip, but in only 1 year (which would mean for a mars-class ship, a minimum safety factor of 3 (really, six) for fuel, water, air, food, medical supplies etc), instead of a 3 year mission with only a safety factor of 2.

#Apollo 10 was functionally identical to Apollo 11, to the extent that the only difference was that they did not provide enough fuel on the lander/ascent module to return to lunar orbit, to deter Apollo 10 astronauts from "going rogue" and attempting a landing ahead of schedule

Also, for completeness sake, Apollo 1 crew died during testing in a fire; Gus Grissom, Edward H. White II, Roger B. Chaffee
Also...

https://youtu.be/t039p6xqutU

https://youtu.be/Hi5q3Gq6UhI

https://youtu.be/4VgLkk_drx4

https://youtu.be/hvJhQfeBDCo

https://youtu.be/pO1HC8pHZw0

To be sure, nuclear annihilation is horrible, but let us not miss this opportunity to appreciate 80s pop about armeggedon.
According to official sources, Russian forces were dislocated to guard important objects which allowed Kazakh forces to quell the terrorists and take situation under control. So Russian forces did not engage in the actual fight, but rather backed up Kazakh forces.

What really happened is that Kazakh military did not want to obey the President orders when this chaos started. It's speculated that this was act of treason by some high officials in an attempt of coup. That's why Tokaev asked Russia to intervene. After Russia confirmed that they actually do support Tokaev with some symbolic forces sent, Kazakh military started to obey the orders and started to actually do what they must. That's my opinion.
which has nothing to do with immigration, and just with the post-industrialisation boom.

growth was so large that society could accommodate such immigration rates
While agreeing with post, I wish SD software was more affordable. Major players (Stella, for example), charge 4K$ for a single license. With that entry barrier, it's no surprise that SD is still a niche thing for nerds that tend to fall in love with their models.

Imagine that in any govt, non-profit or commercial organization, people use some sort of well-known extra user-friendly and smart SD tool for quickly building and visualizing their mental models (not just about software teams, but on any problem domain). Instead of clumsy drawings on whiteboards we'd have SD visualizations that anyone in the room can argue about and collaborate.
There is the columns CSS property: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/columns

You probably don't want to apply it to a whole document because then you need to scroll back to the top to read the second half. But it can be effective to columnize text sections between headings.
What levers would you use?

In the article Powell says:

>"I wish there were a painless way to do that," Powell said. "There isn't."

Maybe you should email him your idea.

Also, I don't think it is accurate to say that the Fed sees worker power as a "lever" to control inflation. Their "lever" is interest rates. The problem is that hiking rates has the unintended side effect of increasing unemployment, in addition to fighting inflation. And this unemployment increase is due to a generalized economic slowdown, which hurts both labor and capital -- that's why the stock market is falling.

Recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Introduction-Economics-Two-Ma...
>If we had Spotify for eBooks, would that solve problem for everyone?

Something like Kindle Unlimited but not limited to just Amazon? Count me in!
The book market shows people DO buy books, just like OP said. Clearly their book was worth something. Just because people will take it for free instead doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have paid for it.
I've been doing an exhaustive review of my diaries from the last 6 odd years. I am amazed by how many sentences start with one idea, lapse in the middle, and conclude almost as if another person had taken over. Evidently, some thought had transpired in that interval, but I failed to transcribe it to the page.
Yikes, I was so excited for modules back when I was still writing C++17 and a bit of early 20. Sad they have so many problems with them and/or are just plain not implemented still. Honestly I'm happy I'ved moved on from the language
This is fake indeed. And it is strange and bitter for me to see it unflagged on HN
> working class getting larger chunk of the pie

I don't see this happening as a net result. There are just too many powerful (wealthy) interests working multiple angles to ensure that a vast majority of any gains go to the top.

There will be faux gains or benefits which appear substantive but are either offset by some new life cost (such as inflation, but not necessarily so great and complex) or are outright new expenses.
It would, it just would look different and it wouldn't be able to create a monopoly stifling creativity and competition in the market
ok. Go easy in the kool-aid.
Happy with Fastmail here as well - but if you're using your own domain name & are concerned about being flagged as spam, make sure you read up on how to add SPF and DKIM records into your domain DNS records. It's pretty much essential now for functional email. SPF & DKIM are basically a list of IP addresses you authorize to send mail in your name, and a public key for authenticating/signing your emails. Since you're here on HN, setting those up is definitely something you'll be able to understand & do.

The interesting side effect of having SPF/DKIM setup is I can receive reports from Google & other mail providers when someone tries to send spam spoofing my domain name. Seems that China Unicom & ChinaNet are running an enormous botnet that continually sends phishing attacks to Japanese Amazon users, while using my domains in the From field.
Google could also provide free access to their algorithm for people to tweak and improve, as well as their raw index for others to provide better search on top of it.

But they like free distribution with other people's intelectual products, not theirs.
Hindsight is a lazy excuse. Securing your energy and making yourself depend by and on a more than questionable regime isn't just stupid. It's beyond that. You don't need a lot of brain cells to understand that that isn't a great idea.
Indeed, Fr. Seraphim Rose is a great modern example of this exact process. His essay on Nihilism is like reading the last few centuries in reverse order.
Of course. The Gutenberg Copyright. :-)
If you're a paid iCloud user or an MS365 user, both have ways to use a custom domain and tap into the storage you're already paying for at no extra cost. MS365 locks you in to GoDaddy as a registrar and I'm on Cloudflare, so I use iCloud. I'm not sure what your threat model is, so you may not be willing to consider either of these options. For me, email privacy is an oxymoron and I prefer communication methods with forward secrecy like Signal. For email, I'm mainly just looking for a vanity domain I can share with my wife for spam and mailing lists.

Growing past the above suggestions, at the cheap tier, I'd recommend Migadu, MXRoute, or Zoho.

If you're willing to pay what I consider to be Too Much For Email, then my favorites are Proton Mail, StartMail, or Fastmail. You'll want to research these heavily before transitioning though, as they may be missing features you're used to from Gmail that you find you can't live without.
The GP said CO2 “in the atmosphere” meaning that if you count all the industrialization in the 1800s and 1900s then China doesn’t look so bad.
Bold statement on this particular community ;)
What would I do without zlibrary this project is awesome
When you hear that your government is going to do a groundbreaking reforms. Every few years. After a while you'll get some tolerance to those claims.
That's so insane that I thought you were making it up, but then I looked it up and it really did happen.
No? I think you're trying to be clever, but literally, no, it wouldn't be a massive loss.
Play Commander Coke against the aliens
You can thank CERN for that and the mirror-black-hole they created ;)
This is not about russophobia, I have plenty of Russian friends and have respect for the culture - though I think that every intelligent Russian left years ago, or at least between March and now.

This is about avoiding having the kind of people who will scream "THIS WILL BE RUSSIA ONE DAY TOO" into your face at your hometown (not an unusual thing before the war). People are being turned back to Russia now because they don't even peel off the Z signs from their cars...

There's too many of them now to sort properly - so sorry, but we can't take them. We offered humanitarian visas to anybody before now, they should've thought about where this is going.
> Well if they're reliable, why is France in this world of hurt right now?

This an exceedingly intellectually lazy argument which shows that you're either horribly biased (and never engaged with the reading material properly) or didn't even spend a minute thinking through what you're asking. It's somewhere on the level of "well, why is there snow in New York if global warming is happening HUUUUH?!".

(Not to mention that the French nukes are in process of being started already.)
The porn industry became easily pirated. They pivoted to live shows and pay per minute (micro-currency tokenized payments), which can't be pirated and is easy to pay for (buy blocks of tokens).

Now, the recorded shows are effectively advertising for the live shows.
read this interesting article[1] about the O-1 process for a writer the other day, it's worth a read. i did the H1B --> Greencard route as a unix guy from the UK. took a long time to get all the bits & pieces aligned, but worth it.

[1] https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-goods/2019/2/26/1823534...
I think the Google Apps for a work aka gmail for your own domain has recently put a limit that "free" legacy accounts can't buy storage. The regular @gmail, and paid domain gmail users can still buy any storage plan.