skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Will I have the grit and the passion to pursue one topic for the next 5-7 years.

I will say, I was able to get my company off the ground and white labeled it for a much larger company. I ended up hating the product in the end, 10 years later - because I was sole founder and every single thing I had to do myself.

I think you will be able to stick with it ( especially when there is no other choice ! ) , but you might end up hating it.
> workers should own the means of production

Or even believing a worker performing work and creating wealth should not have his surplus labor time expropriated by some idle class heir.

The hunter-gatherer bands roaming the Amazon are communist, and free of such exploitation (if they avoid mining companies trying to kill them) - I suppose these hunter gatherers are equivalents to the Nazis.
I personally have owned 5 phones with worn out USB micro-b ports, where to charge them I'd have to lay a book on the cable or position the phone at an odd angle.

I have never seen anyone do this with a USB-c port. I have never heard anyone complain their USB-C port wore out.

USB-C was designed for far greater durability & reliability & IMO it clearly & obviously shows.
> what encoding is it in?

UTF-8. Unless you've got clear directions that it needs to be something else, the correct choice is always UTF-8. Stop emitting things in other encodings, "Doctor it hurts when I stab myself with this knife". Yes it does, so don't.
> This is a good example of the Uncanny Valley just before actual interesting writing.

I had a strange feeling while reading the article, and this describes it so well! This is what I imagine writing generated by an AI to sound like if you give it the prompt “pretentious”.

And that’s coming from a self-described lover of pretentious writing.
Agreed. Even when you "buy" a DVD or Blu-Ray, you are actually just buying a copy of the media with a limited license to use it for certain purposes.

It's still copyright infringement if, for example, you buy a Blu-Ray disc and then open a movie theatre and start playing that disc publicly. The license you bought with the disc doesn't extend that far.

Whether you "buy" a movie via a disc or a streaming service, you're really just buying a limited license to display the movie along with either physical or digital delivery.
The timeline is off. The antitrust complaint was about xerography, which did not come out of PARC.

There IS a connection, though: Xerox settled the suit by licensing its patents, which led management to think "holy shit, we're losing the monopoly, we'd better do something" and start up PARC.
Maybe gun buybacks ain't so bad after all.
No, it's a huge danger. It means you have a product that you will be pressured to be put into production, but it is saddled with technical debt and will likely become a huge hassle to maintain. Your second version will come as a painful set of patches against a mostly running system that is increasingly complex because it has to work around old bugs and design misfeatures.
And yet a plausible threat of negative consequences is the only thing that could possibly distinguish a mandate from a suggestion.
this is risky move. lot of artist already moved to Vimeo because of quality in the past.
... and God granted zoomers homoiconicity, macros and parenthesis.

"No," said the zoomers, "we want to write XML, build scaffolding tools and eat shit."

"Your language will never be a LISP," was the God's reply.
Spark email client goes subscription path
Many users are complaining that existing features are not free any longer.
It's a common misconception for the less tech savvy but you can just buy a USB-C to Lightning cable for a few bucks. In fact, here's a 3-pack for $7: https://a.co/d/1WFoRGZ
> There was little doubt that fence cutting would be criminalized, but what was to be done about ranchers who were fencing over public roads and lands? Here the Texas Legislature stood with the rich, making fence cutting a felony punishable by two to five years in prison, while for the cattle barons who encroached on public land, the punishment was a misdemeanor and a small fine of $10 to $100.

an early american example of the facade of rule and order, laws protecting criminal behaviors from property owners and weaponized against workers
Not only this: the more they hold out, the more lightning cables they put in circulation.
How do you, if you do at all, manage scale ups and load balance?
Denmark has the smiley face plug. It works fine if you don't need a grounded connection, but still.. they have a lot of sockets that don't follow the EU standard.

I think France has the one where the ground pin sticks out? That can be a problem depending on which cable you have.

And then there's UK of course, though they're not part of EU anymore.
Got recommendation?
Disorder is the better word, but it's still a condition defined in relation to how it affects your capacity to function in the target society
> I doubt that we're changing power plugs because there's hundreds of millions of them out there.

Could be done, with adapters.
You don't even know what else could have happened if there was no standardization. Maybe the industry must have progressed without the need of outlets in the first place.
The Assassination of Equibit
I always thought the point of organic chemistry was to be a weed out course for med students.

Most doctors I know don't know jack shit about organic chemistry. They're operating at a level of abstraction much much higher.
Will it be possible one day to have as much agility in hardware as in software?
I've seen many projects (from start-ups or big companies) that couldn't scale up their embedded system because of a lack of agility.
An update of the robot already sent to the factory, a lack of components (breakage) and bingo!… A cascade of problems.

When you have an idea for an application, software, or a web application, you don't even think about what hardware is running behind it. It is transparent, fluid, and adaptable over time.

Some projects are set up to gain agility, but would you have any advice to give to these projects?

Tips to implement or mistakes to avoid?
As someone who has personally litigated cases, even gotten judges to issues orders by phone, I have every right to present reasonable claims; as do you, unfortunately you’re not doing that.

Case you referenced is scheduled for hearing on January 2023 and I don’t see any reason to review it until it’s finalized.

If I am missing something, please feel free to explicitly state what and why it is related to current topic.
If you tell me that you believe in democracy, does it make sense for me to accuse you of supporting the horrors perpetrated by USA in Vietnam, all of latin America and the middle east?

Soviet union and CCP were never communist, they used the term communism for propaganda purposes. Communism stands for workers owning the means of production. Your local labor union is more communist than the CCP. The collectively owned Amul dairy(India)[1] is more communist than the Soviet union. Communism at a state level has never existed.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul
I was wondering how it went from "Fuks" to "Few-Sha" - and apparently that was via Latin:

> Leonhart Fuchs (German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈfʊks] ... sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as Leonhartus Fuchsius

TIL... that flower fews like Fuschius?
Both Lightening and USB-C have similar failure mode where a tab can break. It’s not common but trouble when it does. Neither one is clearly more durable than the other though both are definitely more durable than Micro-USB.
Galileo will be pleased to hear it. As will Socrates.
Apple can just include a little USB-C to Lightning adapter like they did with headphones. They’ve already adopted USB-C on iPads and Macs.
At first I was a bit confused about why The Onion’s spin-off site had a cloud offering, but that one is called ClickHole.
well. as stated many times, you are upset and don't find this funny, but many people do find this funny. So is that comedy?

Also, jokes that are about literal things are, well, usually more boring. Have people called me a fascist for saying Merry Christmas? Nope. But... have I seen legitimate news outlets using the word fascist and Christian in the same article? Yep. Did it indirectly draw a connection between the two? Sure seems like it to me. Hence, the joke.
I'm not interested in what-aboutism, I'm simply outlining the $100+ million dollars invested by DNC Super PAC's into weaponized shaming/trolling.
Who's writing the software ? Humans

1 human error in the software = millions of people affected

1 human error by a pharmacist = 1 person impacted
That's a great guess, but my point is that it's a guess. It will sometimes be wrong, and when the guess is wrong you will have articles like the above written complaining about the fallout.

These types of errors are guaranteed specifically because of the policy of guessing and loose heuristics you're describing.
When you hire a lot of talented engineers, they tend to keep themselves busy
It's a euro-centric term. The West of Europe has a historical bias towards freedom of expression, democracy, religious freedom (arguable) etc, and that got extended to include America when it got big enough to join the party.

The East of Europe, by comparison, tended to authoritarianism, and that extended to include China when it got big enough to join the party.

Of course, it depends on where you draw the line on East vs West - Germany could be either, or both, and historically has been all flavours of political spectrum.

As others have said, it makes no sense from an American viewpoint because geography.

The christian evangelic movement is very authoritarian, which makes them Eastern. Christianity (or professed christianity) doesn't automatically make them Western.
Care to leave another prophecy we can check in a decade before you go please?
Nvidia Is Making a Digital Twin of Earth’s Climate
Explorers of Quantum Entanglement Win 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
We're a company that has been using the private beta of ClickHouse Cloud.

IMHO, the unique value-prop of this offering is that it elastically scales reads (compute), like Redshift/Snowflake/BigQuery/other cloud data warehouses do, while also "being Clickhouse", and so giving you very traditional SQL querying capabilities (where those others all ask you to bend your SQL to fit the DB, sometimes in pretty ridiculous ways.)

I would suggest not thinking of this offering as "ClickHouse, but in the cloud"; but rather, thinking of this as "a cloud data warehouse, but rather than using its own proprietary query engine, it's just ClickHouse."

If you haven't evaluated other cloud data warehouses as alternatives to solving your problem (and found them wanting for one reason or another), then you're likely not in the niche that would see a positive profit margin on using ClickHouse Cloud.
The solution to this is more centralized planning of course
There should be a class that traces the history of team based software development and criticism of it. Hopefully this class will provide impetus for something better than what we have today. The class should discuss things like:

> NASA and IBM's early software development efforts
> Mythical man month.
> Rise of the tech giants. IBM. Microsoft. Google. Amazon. Meta. How they approach team based development.
> Team based tools. IDEs. Version Control. Now github rules them all?
> Why data was neglected for so long. The "OO database impedance mismatch". Or why OO doesn't believe data should exist.
> Prototype approach. Prototype and refine first. Then a mad scramble to complete.
> Requirements approach. Detailed documentation. Then a mad scramble to complete.
> Agile approach. <We still don't agree on what agile is>. Then a mad scramble to complete.
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but the peer-reviewed literature actually does support some beneficial effect of homeopathic remedies for some very specific conditions.

Simply go to pubmed and type in homeopathy and you'll find the first few results showing meta-analyses of the available literature (which is actually quite a lot of studies) and you'll find evidence for the effect being more than just placebo.

I think unfortunately homeopathy has been demonized because I'm sure there is plenty of snake oil being sold as homeopathic remedies, but this has led to people dismissing it entirely. I guess the biggest reason people dismiss homeopathy is we don't have an understandable mechanism for its effect, but it does seem that there is indeed an effect greater than just a placebo. People can dismiss the science, but that doesn't seem very rational to me.
That's good. Some people seem to have issues with Dolby Vision. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/rw6mn3/what_is_the_cu...
FWIW, the Svalbard government actually does have somewhat strict alcohol rationing [1], although perhaps the Russian parts of the island aren't subject to it. I think the quota averages out to around 2 drinks per day, although I suppose if you saved it all for the weekend you could still get drunk.

[1]: https://www.sysselmesteren.no/en/alcohol/
> What does this mean and how is it relevant to the article or the parent comment?

Freedom of speech does not exist outside the Western tradition.
It's the Pimoroni Inky Impression (ACeP not Kaleido).
So this is how people get bombed based on phone metadata!
Your "different" and my "different" are different :)

I also have issues with COBOL.

Sometimes a language is just too inelegant to pour time into learning it.
Rigor vs. Value in Industrial Research
Another one turning to the rent-seeking subscription SaSS grift model for just a basic email client.
If I was choosing a language to base the tech stack for a startup on these days I'd be very reluctant to pick anything that didn't have a local user group. Slightly more esoteric languages that enable you to write better code faster are brilliant, but if you're successful enough to grow quickly, or you can raise funding, you'll need to hire devs relatively early on. If you've chosen a stack that's too esoteric then this will be a huge blocker to making any real progress.

When I did my last startup we switched from a Python API to Node for this reason. Python is a great language but there are no devs available where I live. I can't even imagine considering Clojure unless I was in a major tech hub.

The move to remote work is probably going to be a massive benefit to building in less mainstream languages.
I thought it was the other way around? All the springs and movey bits are in the male usb c connector. With Lightning, those bits are in the phone. I’ll agree Lightning has the nicer “feel”, that’s for sure.
I think a lot of it is just about "trust". They don't trust the government so they definitely don't trust FDA approved drugs or Big Pharma. I mean there are people who actually believe that the Covid vaccines contain nano transmitter trackers put there by Bill Gates. When you tell them there is some root from Chile that solves their issue, they trust that more than something built in a lab.

I think the thing we need to change is that all of these homeopathic "medicines" and vitamins need to go through some clinical rigor. They should have to show the actual benefit of taking Vitamin XXX. We also need testing of these items at random. There are lots of these items that don't even contain the thing they claim they do. It is $40 Billion industry that has marginal benefit and is an outright scam in some cases.
Redis in the Browser WASM
Redis in the browser with WASM.
go and chess are infinitely simpler than drugs, humans and their interactions.

it's like saying autonomous driving is easy you just have to follow the road and read the signs, we have the best minds and unlimited money working on it for a decade+ and it still suck ass
Yes, ClickBench results are presented as Relative Time, where lower is better. You can read more on the specifics of ClickBench methodology in the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/

There are other responses from ClickHouse in the comments on the pricing, so I'll defer to their expertise on that topic there. Thank you for your feedback and ideas, as normalizing a price-based benchmark is an interesting concept (and where ClickHouse would expect to lead also given the architecture and efficiency)
Just to back myself up here: consider childhood ADHD. Homeopathic pills have an effect size over 0.5 (half a standard deviation). Now, sure, maybe it’s a sugar pill and sure, maybe Ritalin is a better choice. But I think this example shows that homeopathy has an ethical place in human medicine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-022-02127-3
Xerox Star was $25,000, and came with all the software they had: WP, spreadsheet, file manager. Coded in Pascal.

Apple Lisa was $10,000. Same, otherwise. ("Clascal", compiled to bytecodes interpreted by 5 MHz 68k.)

Mac was less, but a toy. A little later, Mac 512 (i.e. 1/2MB RAM) was kinda usable, with a pair of 140kB floppies. $2000? Had a monochrome 1bpp paint program, no WP, no spreadsheet. You bought MacWrite separately ($125?), and Multiplan (a proto-Excel) from MS.

The LaserWriter came out pretty quickly after, making it radically more useful. That had a computer inside much beefier than the Mac driving it; they could have put a keyboard, mouse, and monitor connector on the Laserwriter and had a much more useful product much sooner.
To be blunt, no you won’t
I needed a new iPhone desperately as my old one was screwed. I was really disappointed to find the new iPhone lacking USB-C. So glad about this.
Sabine Hossenfelder had predicted the winners just last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNT9Hn-96rM&t=619s
The fact that you dismiss herbs, the very basis of most modern pharmacology, suggests to me that you have an axe to grind.
How to Become a More Effective Leader [pdf]
For context, there are multiple Clickhouse companies. This is the one that spun out of Yandex and took the Clickhouse name as their namesake for the company!

Altinity has been in the space for a while offering Clickhouse services as well: https://altinity.com/

EDIT: brazenly was the wrong word here :)
Posted on website dedicated to raising money for mile-high teetering tower of grifts.
I don’t have the tools or time to recreate something like this.
It’s too bad I can’t just throw money at somebody to make this for me.

But perhaps that’s the point…
This benchmark focuses on analytical query latency for representative analytical queries, so yes - lower number is better.
Listenbox: Listen and publish YouTube shows as podcasts
This is the magic of American propaganda that workers will lash out against you if you hint that, perhaps maybe, workers deserve a slightly bigger portion of the pie.

Americans today have no idea why they celebrate labor day. It comes and goes with the media and government glossing over it as a "long weekend".

My original comment is at -1 now, downvoted by employees of corporations because I argued for them.
Translations Considered Harmful
Great post and I’m glad to see someone else spotted the obvious similarity to Smalltalk.
> Fly is innovative in the same way Heroku was when it launched

I've not had a chance to play with it yet, what are they doing that's innovative.

(Genuine question, not being cynical).
>For cable connectors, there's all kinds of subtle tradeoffs that could be taken into account: data transfer speed, electricity transfer, size and weight of cable, how easy it is to connect and how secure it is when connected, its role in waterproofing, stability in heat and challenging environments, security, etc.
>Are you really comfortable with some parliamentary committee vote picking between the right design tradeoffs?

Are you comfortable with the USB-IF picking between the right design tradeoffs?
Wright Brothers Built the World’s First Military Airplane
> It's actually a good measure of a site's journalistic worth: did they publish this fake story? Then they are probably not worth your time. I wonder if there's a list anywhere?

Was there a list in the 2000s when these sites were just called 'blogs'?

You don't need a list. You can simply look at the stories they post on their sidebar, judge the cadence of the writing and decide if it's for you or not.
:s/b/w/
DeCSS was "cracked" because Xing accidentally included an unencrypted key in their firmware.

The encryption wasn't cracked, it was subverted by poor security practices.

If Xing hadn't screwed up, it may have been another decade before it was possible to rip a DVD, waiting for some other manufacturer to screw up.
Xerox really hated selling equipment. They wanted to lease things for MRR.
I groaned out-loud at this. Bravo. :)
I was referring to things like Maven, WebPack and NPM. I should have made that clearer. What I have seen is in general supply chain in more mature tech and certainly OS tool chains doesn't have that issue or is certainly more aware of it and Bazel is great and all that but dev teams building business apps that are all Devopsy use plug and play and any friction to the velocity is rarely a trade off they even discuss.
ADHD is at best greatly overdiagnosed, and the business of providing ADHD diagnoses is quite analagous to the opiate pain pill clinic debacle, in which 'physicians' got kickbacks from the industry for providing opiate prescriptions.

With ADHD, it's 'the medication' that is being sold. Often, the doctor's client is actually the amphetamine derivative supplier, and the product being sold (on a commission basis) is the patient.

Amphetamine addiction results in the patient feeling bad when they run out of their powerful stimulant drugs, and the resulting feelings of malaise tend to confirm the patient's belief that they have a neurological disorder (rather than just suffering from the standard set of problems that come with regular amphetamine use).
In the United States (but not necessarily elsewhere), public officials have a very high bar to overcome if they're making a defamation claim.

As First Brother Billy Carter once put it, "You can call a congressman a no-good sumbitch and he can't do anything about it."
Ughh what a priss post, couldn’t even read without getting a migraine.

Char is short for character, people are going to pronounce it closest to the actual word, charred as in burnt. I don’t see how you can correct someone on a word that doesn’t officially exist in a dictionary, it’s a weird take.

These days people like to make petty rants and wrap “it’s a joke” around it. I don’t think it really divides wit from whining.

You don’t find this style of humor away from a keyboard often, it’s obnoxious, belittling, and boring.
Wait, wasn't Clickhouse itself spun out of Yandex anyway? I.e. Yandex opensources Clickhouse, then later starts Clickhouse (the company)?
Pg_squeeze: An extension to fix table bloat
It does for me. When I travel, I only travel with my laptop's USB-C power supply. That charges my phone, my laptop, my Switch, my wife's phone, her headphones, and her e-reader.
600 comments on the frontpage right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33078596
There’s an entire satire site that categorizes parody articles they wrote which later became reality.
The fact that they chose to operate at a loss for decades in order to unfairly monopolize market share is their own self inflicted problem.

You reap what you sow.

I'm not paying YouTube/Google one single dime. They already monetize all my private data and viewing habits.
Are they grandfathering customers in to the pricing that they signed up under?

This looks like a product from a very small team doing price discovery. Is your stance that they should need to take 10 years of annual pricing changes to discover their optimal price point?

Edit: and they have a self hosted version for free? Nothing to see here.
How is running an "random" script any different than running a "random" binary? With a script at least you CAN look at each line. With a binary you have no clue what the fuck it is doing.
Because scaffolding by itself is an anti-pattern and you shouldn’t do it. The proper way to factor code is libraries/packages, not automated copy pasta.