skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem to forget that TikTok was originally a pharmaceutical startup…
Got it, thank you! CockroachDB is the only one I know offhand that does what you're looking for. Another comment mentioned Vitess, which might also work.

It seems like there are a lot of options for large scale analytics, but I don't know a lot for high throughout geo-redundant transaction processing.
“ there is almost nothing better for the indie hacker, bootstrapper, or startup than cloud services.”

heroku, a vps or a dedicated server are all in the cloud, not sure what you mean by this.
thanks for sharing. don't panic is the theme of this thread and just hearing that helps. i have to remember my position in this whole scenario is to just be available and take whatever problems as they come.
At a certain scale you have more negotiating power so it probably makes more sense from that perspective.
The people who have the most to gain from it. Boss is a blurry concept. Someone who has ownership over the proposal.

If it's some bit of refactoring or performance improvement, then the tech team or engineering manager.

If it's a feature, perhaps the designer or product lead.

If it's marketing related, then the marketing team, mostly to see how they work and whether it affects them as expected.

If it saves money... then not finance, but whoever takes credit for cost cutting.

If you've been turned down, why? Is it not helpful? Unnecessary? Are you misunderstanding the situation? Are you making them look bad? Do they not trust you?
Alan Bromley and Doron Swade's rebuild of the Difference Engine, done using metals and techniques that were available in Babbage's time, seem to have put paid to that idea.

These days it's Babbage's poor project management that's cited as the cause. He had a stormy relationship with his engineer, and couldn't settle on a design long enough for it to be implemented.
Let's not forget Leonardo da Vinci's studies around 1500 or whatever flight the Babylonians or Indian vimanas were supposed to do...
Asking for help also shows you're a team player that can reach out to get help in areas you're not an expert in. This is a good pattern to develop and can help you in the future.
Hum... That's clearly not the case.

That's why there isn't a lot of it around.
Thanks for that reasoned reply
I think it genuinely depends on how extreme the speech is. Alex Jones arguably profited by spreading lies knowing it would ruin the lives of specific people who already had tragedy happen to them. I genuinely don’t know how to defend that behavior on principles of free speech and genuinely wished Alex Jones was stopped years earlier.

Michelle Carter convinced her boyfriend to commit suicide over text messages and was convicted for it. I don’t know if I disagree that trying to use speech to convince a sick person into suicide shouldn’t be legal.

But at the same time I’m generally a free speech proponent and find jailing people for speech abhorrent. But I struggle to believe all speech should be legal if it knowingly ruins lives or causes death.
i think this is something that is very very important and never thought about until now.

i will actually bring this up ASAP because i think it will be beneficial for me and for my boss.

i appreciate your insight
IMO this misses out on how to create deep connections with people.

What I often do is meet people through Grindr and try to get a short term romance. The relationships that ensure are quite profound and it creates a very special connection with the place. Maybe through the eyes of the person that you've met.
And for a comparison of timeframes, Stephenson's Rocket was 1829.

Early steam engines for work (not train) The Newcomen Engine in the 1700s (though fairly inefficient - and you can see that it could be made without precision parts). By 1800 (when Watt's patent expired) there was an estimated 450 Watt engines (totaling 7,500 hp) and over 1500 Newcomen engines in the UK.

The first high pressure steam engine was built by Oliver Evans in 1801 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Evans#Developing_the_hi...

By the 1830s, you had this - https://youtu.be/zoBWAE0win0
> This industry is nothing like the factories.

You seem to ignore both the trend shifts in factory jobs and software jobs. Factory workers once had exactly the same status as you describe here:

> 99% of these people will be able to take two weeks of free time and find another job for the same (or often better) pay

Also, software engineers (at the big scale) are slowly but steadily loosing the glorious position in the workforce market they once had.
Another benefit of packing light is that you can rent a motorcycle and carry your kit cross-country without much trouble.

I like covering a lot of ground and coming and going whenever it suits me.
for android use RedReader - opensource - lightweight (in PlayStore)
What percentage drop in solar conversion will PV panels have after the change? If I have 40x400 watt monocrystalline panels rated at 22% efficiency what will my power reduction be, approximately? Or in other words, how many panels will I need to add to maintain 16kw? Not delivered yet queued up with a vendor, may change order
Please stop the attitude of pandering to low-IQ redditors when proposing plausible theories with self-deprecation and incorrect use of the word "conspiracy"
Which would be useless in context because even for quadratic polynomial problems in middle school, very often the solutions are irrational.
And it was a resounding success! (Not)
It handily wins a beauty contest among TUI IDEs, though. The only reasonable alternative that even supports a similar workflow (with CUA-style keyboard bindings and all) is Emacs, and text-mode Emacs while fully supported is quite clunky.
I think most of O365 is check boxes, except for the desktop apps (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). OK Exchange Online seems OK too.
Words get more precise as they get more exotic, and that is not always what you want. I saw it too much in college--students whipping a thesaurus to make their papers seem 'smarter' but in reality making them incoherent.

I agree, "very" is ok, but it is a crutch. In many of these cases, just dropping the 'very' would be better than picking a new word.
Apple AR/VR headset includes iris scanning for authentication and payments
I love the adaptation for the season. ECB in halloween candy! The horror!

https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1578783337442938882
Probably because not all of them are interested in setting their own vim/emacs/etc.
And in the US and much of Europe, school and general vacation schedules play a role as well. September and October tend to be really good times to visit a lot of places that are packed in July and August--and the weather is often even better. Get into the winter and it's at least a different experience out of doors and may not even be really doable for the casual visitor (though of course cities are always visitable to some degree).
The author in fact did spend some time in Indianapolis[0]. I'm not really sure what your point is, besides that Indianapolis is a hinterland town with no public transit (the author was mainly on foot, anyway) and its height of cuisine being chain restaurants?

Have you been to Indianapolis?

[0]: https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-america-part-...
Heh, that's probably where that scene was from.

The development of interchangeable parts, precision parts, higher performing weapons (which often is a driver of innovation) and the steam engine have more than casual linkages between them.
Seriously? It's not the 1990s.

You will never convince me that Equifax could not have hired a CISO with decades of relevant IC and leadership experience and appropriate educational background. Perhaps Maudin at the time she was hired, I'm not sure the length of her tenure. But there was certainly no excuse for choosing an MBA without IC cybersecurity experience for her replacement. (Who, btw, is a man and also wildly unqualified except for a string of other executive positions that he also should not have been in... happy now?)

>> The article is about Equifax. I am commenting about Equifax.

> 1) It's not a problem

You have got to be kidding me.

1. Equifax majorly shit the bed on cybersecurity, and the buck stops at the CISO.

2. Why is this not the case for CFOs, CMOs, CLOs, and literally every other technical chief officer position except CTOs and CISOs? Again, it's not the 90s.
Why would you assume no conflict exists between the goals of all the worlds peoples "living like Texans," and preventing environmental catastrophe? The Earth is facing serious climate change just from a plurality of humans living rampantly consumerist lifestyles, I don't think more of that is in the cards unless the number of humans drastically shrinks.
These are rather unusual definitions. Where I come from, porting to a new platform would mean rewriting platform-specific parts of the app, not coming up with a compiler that magically supports both targets. The choice between forking and refactoring the app into shared and platform-specific modules depends on many factors. Though I'd really like to see a compiler, not wrapper library, that supports both Apple's Core Whatever and your choice of Linux libraries.

On extreme end, porting something from let's say Commodore 64 to Spectrum ZX would be more a complete rewrite.

I also don't really understand the point of this project. Since it's compiled from C, it doesn't get any of possible benefits of using a language that is not C.
If you visit Chicago in the winter, the absolute worst part of the year, you’ll miss what makes Chicago great.

The beautiful summers are so great it makes the winters tolerable.

For example I always take visitors on a river/lake boat tour. Even though I grew up here it always blows my mind mind. The problems is those are completely shut down in the winter.

If someone wanted to visit me in the winter and “act like a local” I don’t know what I would suggest, maybe stay indoors where it’s warm.
I also like https://technicshistory.com/2021/02/18/the-age-of-steam-intr..., which points in part to metal purity and engineering tolerances.
>that this would result in a reduced chance that people who caught the virus but were vaccinated would transmit the virus

Shouldn't they have at least tried to study this if that was the expectation?
After Long Last, a Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System
the bits i have learned so far leads me to believe you are right. but oh well, take what you are given...
I'm really curious about this.

Hypothesis 1) Tik Tok believes AI/machine learning algorithms themselves are converging across fields, and the company is finding that its internal AI innovations can be applied to biology and materials sciences algos and, possibly, vice versa. We'll call this one the "data are data" hypothesis.

Hypothesis 2) Tik Tok has decided that it's an AI company, not a content platform company. This is subtly different, as the locus of intersection between social media and materials sciences is in the company's human capital, not the algorithms used. Call this the "Data Scientists are Data Scientists" hypothesis.

Hypothesis 3) Tik Tok, as an avatar of the CCP, is deliberately adding fuel to the narrative that its a national security threat, thus baiting Biden to shut it down, which would be hugely unpopular with one of his critical voting blocks. Call this the "Troll Biden" hypothesis.

All of these hypotheses seem really important from a geopolitical perspective. If social media companies become our primary engines of applied sciences, that would be a pretty huge shift. If the CCP is using Tik Tok to use cultural popularity to play chicken in the trade war with the US government, that's a pretty major development as well.

Any other ideas? Am I missing something obvious?
Another data point, I was reading just yesterday on a HN post about fake qualifications about many male director level people without proper education.

They were criticised too.

I guess we all see the world as we wish.
That's testable. That's already the case in some places, or close to it. Do those places also have rising suicide rates?
We enjoy accessible and safe air travel in no small part due to the strict regulations by FAA and EASA.

Aviation is an industry where new products absolutely should not be fast tracked into deployment. The rules and regulations that are in place today were written in blood.

If anything it's the weakening of these regulations (i.e. manufacturer self-certification) that enabled the MAX disasters.
Thank you. The worst part is that this is planned carefully. You don't notice it but they strip away each right you have slowly and gradualy until you can't fight back. It is kind of like 1984 in real life.
I wonder if the Google Graveyard is full of things that proved to be too hard?
I worked with a Japanese chap, who was a 3rd Degree blackbelt travel ninja.

He had one Zero Halliburton carry-on case. Had about three changes of clothes, and all his tech gear in there.

He would travel for months at a time, but always used just that case. In many cases, he slept on the plane, and never even got a hotel room.

Once he became a VP, he had to pack a suit, so he had to add a suit bag.
> Only Typesense and MeiliSearch properly handled mis-spellings (the "suprman" query).

That's where trigrams come in. pg_trgm can fix mis-spellings, and even compound words ("super man" to "superman"). I opt for performing the search as entered, and use trigrams to offer suggestions to the user, e.g. do the search for "suprman", but show an option to search for "superman".
The gang violence exists precisely because these drugs are black market substances, making your argument that this is a good reason for their continued illegality as absurd as it's always been when put forth by lawmakers. Also:

>but for heroin and meth I think stopping production and importation is an important step to fixing things.

Yes, exactly what authorities worldwide have invested untold billions in doing since decades ago to such effective, violence-reducing, harm reducing results...

The drug wars are an unmitigated idiocy and always have been, for ALL drugs. Worse things than these are legal and though not perfectly managed or free of harm, much less harmful than the entire shitshow that anti-drug crusades have produced. How can people not see this after 50 years of drug war disasters and immense financial, social and legal losses?
They hired a friend who's a neuroscientist who specializes in reading minds.
At least I know what they're up to.
TikTok, Facebook and Twitter are pharmaceutical companies. They peddle quick dopamine hits. We're all junkies that can't/won't pay for the hits so they wrap up the drugs they give us in ad-paper.
Ok. But why don't they operate under a different name?
For people interested in random selection of representatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
You don't need "AI" to deploy the cutting edge "hire the black fella" algorithm.
JEP 431: Sequenced Collections feels like it is inspired by Clojure's Seq interface / abstraction:

https://clojure.org/reference/sequences

Sequenced Collections: "Introduce new interfaces to represent collections with a defined encounter order. Each such collection has a well-defined first element, second element, and so forth, up to the last element. It also provides uniform APIs for accessing its first and last elements, and for processing its elements in reverse order."

Clojure Seq: "Clojure uses the ISeq interface to allow many data structures to provide access to their elements as sequences. The seq function yields an implementation of ISeq appropriate to the collection. Seqs differ from iterators in that they are persistent and immutable, not stateful cursors into a collection. As such, they are useful for much more than foreach - functions can consume and produce seqs, they are thread safe, they can share structure etc."
UTC, of course: the only sensible timezone to store date and time in.
This is not pandering. I don’t have any information to categorically claim any of this, so why would I say it in any other way?

I’m self-deprecating because I’m on the fence on whether or not this is real or just some fictional plot I want to believe.

Chill, alright?
I've found this to be an issue with Thunderbolt docks generally. I've tried Cam Link 4K with the Caldigit TB3 dock (TS3?) and the OWC Thunderbolt Dock (the big ass one with the power adapter the size of a Volkswagen bus) and some Anker TB3 dock.

All of them glitched, compared to plugging it straight into the Mac (albeit via a dongle since it was always MacBook Pro models which lack the regular USB port and only have the Apple fantasy-world ports). This kind of soured me on Thunderbolt docks.

The other problematic device was ATEM Mini (which is like a Cam Link except it has 4 HDMI inputs instead of 1) so perhaps it is some kind of HDMI → Thunderbolt → USB fuckery?
Cutting out drinking completely is easier than trying to drink "moderately." One thing that helps is to view what you're doing now as practice, not failure. When you're learning something, you make mistakes (because you're still learning, not because the lesson is a failure), and you are learning not to drink.

Not having alcohol in the house is a good step. Having an alternative at hand — I make tea, a mix of shredded hibiscus and green tea and drink that — is helpful. I strongly recommend the book Changing for Good, by Prochaska et al. (https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=Proc...) They found that changes of this sort (quitting smoking is another example) is a 6-stage process, and at each stage certain tasks must be completed to move on successfully to the next stage. If some tasks are skipped, the result is that the change doesn't take.

One thing to keep in mind: any amount of alcohol is harmful to health. Some studies found that those who drank a small amount (say, a glass of wine a day) had better health outcomes (e.g., lower all-cause mortality) than those who did not drink at all, and that gave rise to the idea that a little alcohol is more healthy than no alcohol.

However, this finding was due to bad study design: the "no-alcohol" group in those studies included both people who never had used alcohol and also people who had to quit because of health reasons. (This became evident when, for example, some in the "no-alcohol" group died of cirrhosis of the liver.) Once the studies were rerun, restricting the "no-alcohol" group to those who never drank, the illusory benefits of a little alcohol vanished, and the relationship between alcohol and bad health outcomes was clearly a direct relation: the more, the worse; the less, the better. Period.

AA has now been found to be effective, and you might try that. The benefit is that you have someone to talk to when you get the impulse to drink (and it's free). My own abstinence from alcohol came about gradually and indirectly as I worked on getting control of my budget (in part by focusing intensely on staying within my weekly budget after setting aside the money I'd eventually need for periodic expenses — alcohol is relatively expensive, so I stopped buying it, and after a while I didn't miss it, and then I realized I really didn't like its effects).
I understand where you are coming from and agree that we need to know more about this to do it properly if required. However, I think some of this reflex is jusified by the known side-effects (not even the potential unintended consequences).

Greenhouse gases heat the surface and the atmosphere, but solar radiation management (SRM) mostly cools the surface. If you use SRM to get the surface temperature 'right' that atmoshpere is still warmer that it would have been. This means you get less rain. Many places care more about rain than temperature.

This is a well understood consequence, but the specifics are where it gets very tricky. There is a non-zero chance that using SRM to cool the planet may also kill the Amazon rainforest by reducing rainfall. This obviously makes things a whole lot worse and no longer buys us time. [0]

This is not even an unknown unintendend consquence, it is pretty clear already. Obviously this doesn't mean we shouldn't look into it, but we already know the consequences of geoengineering are ... not good.

[0] - https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/12/10887/2012/acp-12-108...
The cynical take would be that it was very much intended to coincide with their own expanded advertising offerings
This format does a lot of things correctly conceptually, in my opinion.

1. It supports data tables with named and typed columns.
2. It supports types in the header that can be referenced elsewhere.
3. It supports lists of stuff as well as types and nesting.
4. It uses a format header to easily declare what format to decode/encode.

Unlike lists of JSON objects, the data can be represented more compactly. I've done something similar when I encode tables as an array of header names, then each row is also an array, where index is used to match the name.

It would be fairly easy to make a binary version of this if you needed more compact representation, and make a lossless conversion between text and binary.

Why would you want a format like this? Many use cases. Every DB wire protocol essentially re-creates something like this, but often poorly. Writing multiple tables that include headers and types as well as data to disk is frequently useful.

The problem with xml schema is XML is really really complex when you add in transforms and namespaces and everything else that XML can include.

The only thing I might suggest is to be able to add meta-data about a specific type, or create specialized type based on type+meta-data (like max length, etc). This could also help with the issue of timestamps (local, second resolution, offset).
Alex Jones spouting some conspiracy theories didn't ruin any person's lives. The chilling effect of attacking "desinformation" on the other hand, does.
>the human reactions to those are probably evolutionary too, don't you think?

I don't know. Caffeine I'm almost sure is not evolutionary even though it is positive. Regarding THC, wikipedia has this to say about cannibis:

>The oldest pollen thought to be from Cannabis is from Ningxia, China, on the boundary between the Tibetan Plateau and the Loess Plateau, dating to the early Miocene, around 19.6 million years ago. Cannabis was widely distributed over Asia by the Late Pleistocene.

So if it was evolutionary we would expect Europeans and Africans to be unaffected by it. Unless there are other plants that do the same. Simmilarly, tabaco is native to America, so unless there are other plants that have nicotine it doesn't really make sense. Just a guess. But in any case the usage and effect of both thc and nicotine is so different today that it doesn't matter. If humans evolved to use and respond to these drugs it would only be in low doses. And it's also not as important of an adaptation as playing and eating, especially given that Europe and Africa did not even have these drugs and got along fine. There is also no inaye drive to smoke or take drugs as there is with playing and eating. Children play with and try to eat almost everything. I don't see any children trying to smoke (not sure what an evolutionary drive for finding and consuming drugs looks like honestly). So to answer your question I don't know but I don't think it matters.
Can this be used with pikvm? https://pikvm.org/
Passthrough to physical monitor instead of "virtual" monitor would be ideal for my use case. I wish I could mirror in software but I have not found a way to do so.