skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, as someone who was in the midst of planning a migration of a multi-billion $ revenue platform to using CosmosDB...

Alternatives? LOL

Basically just looking for geo-redundant, high read & write throughput. Our intention was to leverage Azure Event Grid/Kafka Connect to have event streaming used to coordinate writes between Redis (cache), Cosmos (transactional DB), and our systems of record (legacy). Majority of read/writes would occur via our API, but some would occur via the systems of record, hence the use of a log-based architecture.
My gut feeling is that this hasn't been true for a long time, unless you're really implementing a small test. Even then, using CLOS is quicker than deciding that "CDDR" refers to attribute "X".

Modern CL is referred to as a multi-paradigm language, and I almost always start a project by starting with "defclass" and "defmethod" like in any OO language.
Zipcar sent me a "zipcard" (a credit card sized card with an RFID chip) that I keep in my wallet. I find app unlock to be convenient but it doesn't work everywhere.
> It's a wave, period, it's just that high-frequency waves can look like particle propagation if you squint, as seen in optics and acoustics

Based on the normal definitions of particle and wave, and based on things like the double-slit experiment, I think we'd have to conclude the behavior is closer to "neither" than to "wave".

If you define "wave" based on quantum behavior, then you're really just begging the question of what to call it.
Contract rates are down though, less than what you would expect to earn as a FTE.
I have a strong preference for first novels. Typically someone's first novel has significantly more polish than later ones. And it's a new voice.

Anything else is likely to be either sequels or dressed up leftovers and also-ran ideas.
I'm sorry but markdown and backlinks are boring

That is the intention. I don't want excitement with my note-taking, I want plain, boring, open-standards that will survive the test of time.

Chances are high that your startup will:
1) Fail
2) Get acquired and gets shut down
3) Aggressively monetize leading to poor UI/UX (i.e. Evernote)

The whole advantage of Obsidian is that it relies on an open format, and makes it easy to transition to a new platform

I want a system that I know 20 years from now I can still use (or can transition to a better one).

Maybe I'm in the minority but I've tried at least 10 different note taking apps over the last decade, and none of them have staying power because they all fall into the three issues I outlined above.
I use libedit. I am used to NetBSD sh; dash is similar, derived from the same source. I wanted dash to behave more like NetBSD sh, so I changed it. Anyway, I am not a huge fan of "packages". (The problems described in this thread are one reason why.) Of course I use packaged binaries in some instances, but normally I only install them when needed, use them and then uninstall them when I am done. I prefer to compile the kernel and userland myself. That includes the shell. Simply compiling dash with libedit does not provide tabcompletion. Need to make some small changes.
Now that, ladies, was a very good movie.
No, because the people of the US absolutely do not want to decrease their living standards to the extent it would require. The government would most likely be promptly fired if it went the austerity route.
Perhaps, until we have practical solutions or the will to embrace the existing solutions lowering carbon solutions is itself a "moon shot" with the potential for unintended consequences of its own along with many known but serious consequences we choose to ignore.
It’s a little bit of both: incentive structures are both established and strengthened by profit interests.
To be fair, this is a pretty bad issue. I've used two other car sharing services, and neither of them had this problem, only requiring cell service only when you picked up the car:

- One issued keys which worked independently once activated

- The other worked via bluetooth.
> they are relics of the past, a reminder of what might have been if they had continued to be maintained

How do you “maintain” a computational algorithm that was carefully designed and withstood the test of time over decades?
> I feel like Im supposed to be schmoozing with them for work to do which I've never had to do before at other jobsc and I'm not really good at.

I would suggest that you hone in on this, and given the size of your company, I would also hazard the suggestion that you ask HR if they have any supplemental training that they can provide to help you grow in that area.

There are a tremendous number of resources on the internet for how to improve your social skills, such as https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It would be disastrous if this went ahead.

Failing to draw down atmospheric CO2 ensures increasing ocean acidification, threatening the basis of the whole ocean ecosystem.
With these high speeds, it makes taking advantage of them difficult when it comes to torrents over VPN providers. Most VPN providers do not offer this kind of throughput. I haven't given it much thought but I almost feel like setting up a bunch of docker containers, each with a wireguard connection to a different VPN provider then allocating one torrent per container to take better advantage of these high google fiber speeds could be a fun experiment.
Jokes on them, I never read the articles and only ever read the comments unless the comments indicate the article was interesting enough to read.
> Telling someone that you downvoted their comment is extremely toxic.

Why so? "Extremely toxic" seems at the least an exaggeration, but I don't see why it's "toxic" at all. Rather than just merely downvoting, the replier is also indicating why they thought the comment was inappropriate, which to my mind sounds constructive.
Notion or Paper who have millions of users who trust that their data is secure, private, and accessible

Until those services are inevitably hacked, as we've seen most of these companies play fast and loose with security.
And some companies don't even have a "staff" title, just several levels of "Senior Engineer." Makes it hard when applying for a staff role at another company.
It’s amazing to me that we may be so deep in the climate feedback loop that this is literally the only way our civilization survives, and someone has already spent years promoting an insane conspiracy theory to make sure a chunk of the population opposes it. Stuff like this makes me think the human race is trying to kill itself.
AI Image Generation Is Advancing at Astronomical Speeds. Can We Still Tell If
> But my guess is that this happens at runtime, doesn't it

Macros would be evaluated at compile-time (or arguably _right before_ compile time).
Resembling FANG: large, high-paying consumer tech co. My guess is it could be Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, something like that.
Two people who also had a baby in the middle of this app’s explosion. I can’t imagine pulling that off.
I think you are stretching the meaning of 'meaningfully impacting' to near absurdity.
I have 16 yoe and have been a senior software engineer since forever.
The article mentions the cards wouldn’t work, either.
Bun v0.2.0
How do you feel your blockchain/etc history is impacting potential recruiters?
In one society power is concentrated in the church, in another the military, in another the rich, in another who can kill the most game, in another who can build big statues and then bury them waist deep facing the ocean.

It's the concentration itself that matters, not what it's concentrated in.

TL:DR; unchecked power concentration eventually leads to being overthrown by 200 spaniards with "horses" and "gunpowder"
Yep, I'm probably going to have to accept yet another paycut if I want to keep working. Peak of earnings for me was at about 13 yoe. Now it's downhill until I'm better off working retail.
But guns are okay?
Wasn’t this the plot of Highlander 2?
Putting solar panels in deserts is a very stupid use of those solar panels, in any case.

The only reason solar farms are placed in deserts is that pig-ignorant investors love the idea, so there are oceans of money earmarked for it.
Engineers keep the lights on. You can lay-off some, but you’d likely spend more money than it’s worth.
"Linkers and Loaders" John R. Levine,
https://linker.iecc.com/
I feel like a lot of people here are taking the point of this site much too literally.

It's not saying "never ever ever ever use 'very'" or "if you want to use 'very', these are always the words you should use, no matter the context".

It's a gentle nudge to remind us that often "very" is something that we reach for because we are too lazy to come up with a more expressive word. The words the site comes up with won't be appropriate for every context where you'd otherwise just prefix a "very". That's fine. It's a starting point, not the end-all be-all. And sometimes a "very" ends up being the way to go. That's also fine.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to...
This is great. I think CouchDB kind of has a db per user kind of model. I was wondering, what's the best way to persist a session. This kind of per-user model I think is super useful for local-first, decentralized apps.

An example case might be to write in a notes app locally, and collaborate on it, and then have it saved and backed up to re-use on different machines. I'm guessing that'd probably be a layer on top of this, or outside of it.
I had the opposite experience with Syncthing + Logseq. The way Logseq is designed, refreshing the entire graph is a must before you even consider editing your pages in another device. I forgot to do it once and after some time editing my pages, I realized that I lost a good chunk of my notes from several days back.
This administration is so far off the rails at this point that I wish they'd just say screw it, print another trillion dollars EACH for everybody who wants to build nuclear reactors in the Nevada desert, and just call it a day. We're heading for a massive depression anyway, might as well get some nuclear reactors out of it.

Absolutely f off with this absurd nonsense. Look at what this idiotic climate engineering crap did by introducing asian carp.

The answer is in front of you. Nuclear power. FFS.
Why? They are going to be the least surprised, although perhaps a bit miffed no one listened.

Their main points were all the patents, whitepapers, and testing which indicated the government had a secret program to inject the stratosphere with various substances to partially block the sun. They literally used the terminology "stratospheric aersolized injections", because that's what all the documents called it as well.

Why do you think they would go nuts? Because the government is now openly admitting they are going to do the literal exact thing they accused them of doing the past 15+ years?

I would think the people completely oblivious to the entire concept and body of research would go more nuts.
Exactly. This essay [0] was going around for a bit some time ago, and it's what the guy calls "law of having an idea" or something. The media and Hollywood often make it look like ideas just come to people that weren't involved in that field before, but in fact almost nothing was invented like that.

[0] https://danielfonsecayarochewsky.medium.com/can-we-stop-the-...
I was 14 and living in Cleveland, Ohio in 1973. My dad had our house converted from oil heat to a ground source heat pump, with resistance heat backup.

Our water well was 220’ deep.

It seemed to work fine.
>While plausible, it hasn't really been proven that he ever even looked at his google Analytics

This is not true. Evidence was shown in the trials that InfoWars looked at and responded to traffic analytics.
Yes, polynomial factorization does have a specific meaning. You should learn it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization_of_polynomials
I used to get compiler warnings for this particular problem (getting a warning tag in Vim, not when compiling). Sadly the warning stopped working after some update and I have been bitten by this several times since.
Awesome feature. Saved the day for us some months back when an AWS token was accidentally committed and pushed. (AWS itself also immediately notified us.)
we're building cloud-hosted dev environments (choice of VM, container or full k8s) that engineers can connect to using their existing tooling (keep your IDEs, environment config, etc) but code in a production-like environment

from a pure software development perspective, the goal is to not just code in the cloud, but to also get a plethora of benefits around having dependent cloud resources, sampled message queues/databases, etc alongside these ephemeral dev environments

we're still in closed-beta but would love for folks to try it out and provide us some feedback: www.devzero.io
See, sulphur and iodide are things I was thinking we should avoid adding to the atmosphere of at all possible
I don't know how the science side of it works out in the real world, but the Snowpiercer take on this is pretty terrifying
Are there _any_ ways to uniformly put a geolocation in a Markdown/note/txt file?

Seems like there should be a general answer for this, as sometimes I'd like to put a geolocation and notes in a file, and some uniform way to parse this later, whatever the tool.
iOS/iPadOS, sure. But macOS apps can be written in any language that can compile or run on macOS, and you can cross compile from any OS assuming the compiler is available on that OS (that is, you can cross compile on Windows or Linux for macOS). It's producing and distributing iOS/iPadOS apps that Apple has kept locked down.
Oh cool, will take a look. Thanks!
In fact he was just doing his show, showing the verdict being read, and mocking the father of one of the slain children's reaction. I can think of no stronger proof that any apologies given were not genuine.
Not really, unless there’s something about the quality of life in most of Europe that you fundamentally wouldn’t find acceptable.

In other words: your perception of your quality of life would have to have unreasonable roots (such as a large, disproportionately wasteful car and needing to consume large amounts of relatively low quality chicken and pork) in order for you to actually experience a decline, rather than just change.
Well the first step would be to tell the NRC to stop blocking companies like OKLO from building their demonstration reactor.
When narratives collide. I hope someone does the math on how much this will degrade solar panels.
Why assume the only alternative to American overconsumption is a a primitive existence?
People who want to stream using a web browser, or their roku, or just their iPhone, and have it "just work" by clicking on a video to play, but want higher quality video without porn spam.

Many of the piracy methods you use to get (better than) streaming quality are a little finicky especially if you aren't technically inclined. The big time pirates I know drop thousands of dollars on equipment. Streaming is dead easy, you just need to find a site and click through ads. The latter bit is why Netflix was a better experience, but now?
Closing nuclear in Germany while increasing coal 'a mistake', Greta Thunberg
Most ads seem to be written for the unicorn engineer with 10+ years of experience in every part of the company's stack, but realistically any place you'd actually want to work for is going to be happy with a few years of dev experience in a similar domain + ability and willingness to learn new stuff.
> we're not in a recession yet.

Yes, yes we are.

> The Bureau of Economic Analysis, an independent federal agency that provides official macroeconomic and industry statistics, says "the often-cited identification of a recession with two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth is not an official designation" and that instead, "The designation of a recession is the province of a committee of experts at the National Bureau of Economic Research".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession

Q2 2022 (3rd) -0.6%

Q1 2022 (3rd) -1.6%

https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product

To be clear, I’m saying the political apparatus of the government can’t dictate terms of a recession. The definition used in the industry for decades is two quarters of negative growth —- I’ll use the industry standards, not the politically appointed group.

Regardless, the UK pension funds just had to be rescued by the Bank of England. Bond interest is exploding and what’s about to happen is all the government debt is going to have high interest rates.

To the point, credit is about to become VERY expensive. Idk what’s about to happen, but it’s going to be painful.
You can shut down coal plants by simply providing power more cheaply than they could afford to continue operating.

Renewables achieve this, and just need to be built out. But building out takes time.
Why did Firefox implement it? I was talking about extensions. uBlock Origin could (does?) already do it and, IMO, this domain is much better left to a third-party with no financial incentive to track people or to make exceptions for "fair" trackers.
Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer pay for satellite services in Ukraine
Can I store the data on my local windows machine on a google drive i.e in a folder that is synced to Google drive.

I ask because there was one other note taking app that couldn't cope with the semantics of Google drive's write activity (been a while and i've forgotten which one) and consequently I lost data
Yep. After algorithmic improvements, tracking (and limiting) the use of malloc in a program can improve performance by an order of magnitude or more. Not only is allocating slow, but having data spread all over main memory is terrible for the CPU’s cache and branch predictor.

I’ve gotten a lot of massive performance wins by rewriting code in rust because I can control memory allocations more closely. Some people I’ve talked to about this seem to just hear “rust = fast”. I’ve seen expensive rust rewrites which somehow end up running slower than the equivalent Javascript code. Turns out if you write rust like you write javascript, with boxes, vecs and .clone()s everywhere it’s going to be slow.
Keep in mind that what's being done here is research, not a US-only geoengineering campaign starting tomorrow. The interventions themselves wouldn't happen without some pretty serious diplomacy first. And of course we're already playing with the climate, with disastrous unintended consequences. Leaving the climate alone is no longer one of the options.
That's... just... wrong.
What if I told you there’s now CosmosDB for PostgreSQL.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/distributed-postgres...
Yeah, the issue with pre-commit hooks is you have to remember to set them up client-side. I tend to push to GitHub through a gitolite mirror, though, so I could probably put this in the hooks in my gitolite middlebox.
Always have. Always ends up being back to Chrome or Edge next time I get my hands on it.
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An Overview of Multi-Signature and Multi-Party Computation
From MultiSig to Shamir Secret Shares and Threshold cryptography; How they work, their evolution, and their importance
The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica? There's an example.
Ask HN: Stable Diffusion – commercial/industrial applications
Trying to communicate the achievement of text-to-image models with industry (think energy/mining) leaderships.

What sort of commercial / industrial applications could materialize in the near future.
To prevent accidental leaks perhaps Github et al could implement a mechanism analogous to the Eurion constellation [0]. E.g. A commit containing a file with a specific text pattern should always be rejected. Most fileypes accept arbitrary comments (ahem Json) so it should work for most files.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Right, but, don’t they want to sell their product against SAP? They would learn so much and then be dogfooding. I’m not surprised Microsoft hasn’t done this, because Microsoft. Microsoft doesn’t build products for users it builds products for its program managers.
This does read kind of odd. Reads as if the algorithms don't work anymore. Which... is at sharp odds for my understanding of why folks still use the basic linear algebra subprograms.

If anything, my understanding is that too many of the newer languages and runtimes are made with the idea that they must have the full tooling in the language and runtime. As opposed to in the past, where many of these subprograms would be written to be called from whatever software was being written for the machines.
Very cool article. So it is a famous quote!
Beat me to it lol
We need to strip CO2 out of the atmosphere too.
CO2 is a known cognitive retardant [1], ocean acidifier[2], and plant nutrition degrader[2].

Iron fertilization seems like a good option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

[1]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200421090556.h....

[2]: https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

[3]:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5....
I was going to say "very cool", but instead I'll say "ceaseless!" ...
Piracy isn't just a "nerd" thing, I literally saw EVERY sibling and classmate doing it growing up because they had no money. Using these sites is not rocket science, they're designed to be usable by the average person, they just have to click through 6 ads on the way to their video.
this is all extremely helpful thank you so much for taking the time to write it all out!
Well up until today I thought it was 'likely', but today given the preponderance of evidence that pointed there the last 15+ years, I now feel OK saying 'clearly'.

You can nitpick and get pedantic on that point if you want - that doesn't change the fact that the 'conspiracy theorists' in this situation were literally pointing out all of the research on "stratospheric aersolozied injections" that indicated the government wanted to do a global experiment to block out the sun, and today they are openly admitting it using the exact same language.

I personally find it incredibly unlikely that they have done 0 research and testing on this prior to this announcement, so I find it reasonable to believe they have clearly done it in some capacity in the past which led to this wider decision. You may not agree, which is fine.

That however does not change the fact that the conspiracy theorists were at least right about the method and mode the government was planning to use to block out the sun -- the only thing you can nitpick about is whether or not it has been done in secret on some scale prior to this announcement.
Why would we do that when clean energy + carbon capture is cheaper than fossil fuels were?
I generally find using an app to unlock a car less convenient than a key.

I think the use cases where the reverse seems true are pretty subjective at best. Or maybe I just grew up before cell phones ruled the world...
If only we had some sort of glare reducing technology that can be strapped to our faces.