skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MeiliSearch doesn't seem secure enough for my needs, so I'm opting to use Typesense instead. E.g. no encryption at rest in MeiliSearch and they have no intention to support it.
PHP-FPM has been extremely reliable in my experience.
How else do you think they built the Pyramids?
Why? Why do you say "it drove you up the wall"?

A contractor owes you exactly what's on the contract, usually a certain amount of work delivered; what she/he did outside of that is (or should be) of absolutely zero interest to you, unless it's some kind of corporate spying or other illegal or unethical behavior.

A full-time employee is usually working based on a certain number of hours, so they owe the company exactly those hours, no more no less; if during those hours they perform satisfactorily, again, anything they do outside those hours should hold zero interest to you.

Your coworkers are right: if they can successfully deliver results while juggling multiple jobs, why does that drive you up the wall?
Yeah... modern graphics cards have really limited text mode implementations and even worse, often broken ones that don't display the correct colors even (can find many complaints of those running "classic" games etc). There are/were a LOT of basic text modes that were supported up until they were largely deprecated and only very basic implementations exist now... and often are slow to render walls of text. It's kind of wild.
This proves that wealth as a metric is imperfect (like any other metric), especially if we are ignoring all other metrics (we're not). In no way it indicates that wealth is useless.

Still waiting to hear which metric is more useful. It looks like you brought up life expectancy, but it does correlate with wealth. Unlike wealth, it's is extremely hard to measure due to enormous lag.
Single wind turbin produces 359MWh during 24 hours period
It's kind of an obvious dog whistle, come on.
let me know when we figure out how to reverse mass extinction
99.9% of the time it is not worth the bother. Squatters who sit on "premium" (very subjective term) are ime never willing to sell them for a reasonable price. If you make them a generous offer they reply that should add at least two zeros to the sum. Since renewing domains is so cheap they sit on them for years hoping to catch a dummy that will pay them what they think the domain is worth.
Still can't get over the power draw for the 40 series. They recommend an 850W PSU for the 4090? A 750W PSU for the 4080? Who is the intended audience for these cards?
Of the 4 U.S. Boomer presidents: Clinton used an educational deferment & Rhodes scholarship to dodge the draft, then enrolled in ROTC when the law was changed, then pulled out of ROTC once his draft number was high enough that he wouldn't be drafted anyway. Bush enlisted in the Air National Guard, which was never called up for Vietnam. Obama was a child. Trump had "bone spurs".

There's a long, recent history of draft dodgers doing well in high places.
Wind+solar+battery is here today, and the faster we deploy it, the more we will save. Every day that we delay the transition is another day that we are overpaying for energy.

If fusion can compete once it happens, bring it on. But it should be targeting a cost of $1-5/MWh instead of $50/MWh.
For many searches I use site:reddit.com, because Google's results have declined massively since the easy-days of 2015; Reddit has a large userbase and I can find what I'm looking for most of the time much quicker by appending site:reddit.com than wasting my time with the sponsored-blogs on Google.

If anybody knows of any better forum/site for this, I'd like to know. (Currently I use Google/DuckDuckGO, Wikipedia, Reddit & hackernews, libgen/z-lib, some torrent sites, and some niche wikis & forums to find what I'm looking for).
Fentanyl is a legal but controlled substance in the US. It is not malicious for a company to supply fentanyl to US hospitals.

But the bottom line is that blaming China or its government for private companies selling chemical precursors that may end up in street fentanyl is like blaming Canada for supplying US with deadly firearm precursors in the form of aluminum. Blaming Canada for our gun crisis is analogous to blaming China for our opioid crisis. Meanwhile, the Sacklers are sleeping soundly on piles of blood money.

It is a deeply unserious, and 100% politically motivated narrative. Just because it is incessantly regurgitated does not make it any less unserious.
TSMC Taiwan says Destroying TSMC in a Chinese invasion is unnecessary
Yeah, this is the same thinking that calls Unix with it’s incomprehensible set of pun-filled commands with thousands of conflicting flags “the bazaar” and the relatively-easy-to-use and discoverable GUIs of the world “the cathedral”. It’s elitism at its worst.
dude, I've been reading posts like this since the nineties (on Slashdot.)

Terminals have been 'going away' for longer than I've been alive, and they will continue to diminish long after I'm gone.

The reason they don't ever get there is that the market as a whole is still increasing in size overall, even as the stock of TUI-natives dwindles. There are simply so many more people working on e.g. neovim, kakaoune, and himalaya (an email client) that the fact that there are even _more_ more people using GUIs simply doesn't matter as much.

Put another way: the increase in absolute numbers of TUI/CLI users is the statistic to watch, not the relative percentage of users.

Finally, terminal chops are a nerd status symbol -- a form of conspicuous consumption of time and muscle memory. Humans tend to drop status symbols _last_.

I don't brag about my use of VSCode, but I sure talk up my neovim config in interviews ;D
I really wanted to give this a try but the lack of WAL support has prevented me from using it. With the recent addition of WAL support[1] in litefs, would it be possible to add the same to mvsqlite too?

[1] https://github.com/superfly/litefs/pull/120
Meanwhile in Germany: https://switzerlandtimes.ch/world/german-greens-remain-firm-...

Welcome to The new dark ages in Germany. Leading politicians even do not have any higher education: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricarda_Lang It’s scary how these people decide about topics they have no idea about.
This is a fantastic and vastly underrated book
The bitter irony is that it was indeed "solved" - not by HTML5 as (the original) Opera dev team implied, but by Chromium being in a ~90% market share.
Realistically, the site can be re-used for another power plant. Or cleaned up and used for something else. It's not particularly different from any other industrial activity that deals with hazardous materials.
Portuguese fisherman were the big thing off the coast of Canada. Definitely not unique to China, although they seem to use fishing boats as a political tool like Russia uses little green men. But that's closer to their shores.
Agreed. I never really thought about how you needed a compelling usage of the "crappy" versions of steam engines before you would spend the time and resources to engineer better ones.
> Lithium is one of the most abundant materials in the Earth's crust.

Sure, and rare earth metals aren't really all that rare. The problem is that the processing cost is well beyond economical for most of it.
What we have with CAD and robot aided assembly is making precision affordable.

Which is probably a good reason the early steam engines didn't take off. You could build something in the lab, but there was no way to affordably mass produce a usefully efficient version.
China does not have a judiciary independent of the ruling party.
Most environmentalists would argue that we've been far too calm, leading us to not take the issues seriously and not make the requisite drastic changes to our civilizations.
Thanks, that was quick and easy to test. I will use this for the time being but willing to try more if anyone knows of any.
There is another more simpler layer to this:

Most people on HackerNews remember when they were the target demographic for most software. And they no longer are.

If you're under 40, this is how we all started. The target demographic since the explosion of the internet is no longer software engineers. That feels bad for people, and they lash out conservatively.

Because they're not wrong - the software IS worse. For them (us).
As if HN isn't a gigantic echo chamber filled with a very similar demographic of people to Reddit? Just like any social media site, there is a lot of good and a lot of bad.
Pretty sure you are wrong. Let's see...

All Nazis are bastards. Yep, that works.

All pedophiles are bastards. Still works.
Saw an elderly lady freaking out at Walmart because they no longer could pay capital one credit card in person with a physical check.
Sea urchins are a problem everywhere in the pacific, and that's because their main predator (sea otters) were nearly wiped out.
We didn’t invent this workflow, it is mandated by high assurance software standards like ISO 26262.
4k +144hz gaming or VR. This is probably the best GPU ever for high resolution, high FPS VR.

It’s cutting edge technology for sure.
That's how all space debris tracking works. Luckily orbits are rather predictable paths, but there's still atmospheric drag, lunar and solar gravity, non-uniform Earth gravity, solar photon pressure and measurement imprecision to deal with.
Every conflict has publicised atrocities that go completely unpunished or barely punished.

The list from just the last few decades is very long.

How do you square that with your view that there are consequences for bad behaviour?

I’m sure there are lots of petty power games and actual enforcement of rules back at base most of the time, but armies have a record of behaviour that is probably worse than any other profession.

Even your description of ‘extreme punishment’ sounds like it may be crossing into something that isn’t acceptable or legal. Hazing and such like isn’t discipline or rule enforcement.
Probably because rich people love his work
The new coalition government has pledged $40B (approximately the market cap of Twitter, heh) in loan guarantees for nuclear power construction.

They have also pledged to create legal guarantees that future politicians will not be able to shut down functioning nuclear power reactors without suitable monetary compensation to the owners/operators of these reactors.

In addition to this, they are commissioning an urgent study on how to rebuild Ringhals 1 and 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringhals_Nuclear_Power_Plant, about 1 GW each), two nuclear reactors that were prematurely decommissioned by the previous social-democratic government and shut down about 20 months ago.

Personally I'm really happy; I think massive expansion of
nuclear power is the only realistic way to fix climate change.

The first reactors built will be modern but traditionally large. From then on: There has been a lot of interest in small modular reactors (SMR) from the political party that is driving all of this, and they actually got the nationally owned energy company Vattenfall to begin building prototypes at Ringhals a few months ago.

In summary: Lots of champagne bottles popping tonight in Sweden in the homes of clean nuclear power proponents. We have been waiting for this for a very long time. Cheers!
I don't see a 4090 in stock anywhere in Germany (big PC gaming culture), except for scalpers on eBay.
There’s a lot of methods of grid scale energy storage that don’t have anything to do with lithium.
Here is an article that highlights this change. Just scroll the pictures, don't need to read the words.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...
Since when does rebutting an article's lede amount to "tu quoque"? I think you have your logical fallacies mixed up.
Markets disagree: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium
That's not correct, it can block and does block USB keyboards. If your main keyboard was totally dead and you needed to whilelist a replacement keyboard you'd do so by booting into single-user mode.
There's GitHub repos and research papers on this topic.
and if you do do it (speaking from experience) people get offended that someone be looking at their code (as if existence in source control guaranteed absence of bugs...). It is all the more surprising since simple inspection of never-reviewed code usually has a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of bugs.
It's hard to say off the top of my head, but I think having stablecoin options is important, ETH, BTC (harder to do with bitcoin wallets). price should be configurable by the seller, so it's just a simple buy button for the vender. most of the POS crypto stuff I've seen is very overbloated, I think the whole thing could be simplified to an iframe button that opens metamask. This is sort of an idea I've been toying with for some time and built a prototype some time back. that's my 2 cents
If the government did such a thing, what power would I have to stop them? And if I don't pay my wealth taxes, the state of Texas will indeed put me out of my house, but they won't bother to give me a tent or any beans. So it goes.
The claim was not "relatively safe compared to other forms of energy". The claim was bug free. Which -- if you want to use past history -- is false.

> climbing on roofs and towers to install wind and solar is dangerous, yo

Climbing on the roof of a two story house to install solar panels is considerably less dangerous than building a nuclear power plant. Yo.

> without a single fatality to a member of the general public.

No immediate fatality is the only accurate claim you can make. Over 150,000 people were evacuated from the Three-Mile Island disaster. Due to the stress, there were some increases in consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, and tranquilizers immediately following the accident. The eventual long term effects of those behaviors surely resulted in shorter life spans for at least some of the people.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003801...

> for over 70 years

That's a short time. Unless you can show the US is somehow exceptional in its quality controls compared to Japan, then a huge disaster like Fukushima is inevitable, and life will be lost.

No one complains about the dangers of the neighbors who use solar energy. No one wants a reactor in their backyard. And it has fair reasoning behind it. You'll never have to evacuate 150,000 people due to your neighbors' solar panels failing.
translated from https://www.espreso.co.rs/vesti/hronika/197603/umrla-mila-st...

Mila Štula is mostly remembered by the public as one of the leading media poets of the Milošević regime on Serbian Radio and Television from the beginning of the 90s of the last century. She became famous for her famous comments in the daily Dnevnik in which she disqualified the opposition and its leaders. Her statement that Vuk Drašković has a villa on Lake Geneva is particularly noteworthy, which has never been proven.

The other side saw her as a victim of Tuđman's regime, who became unwelcome in Zagreb after HDZ came to power, as she provoked, or asked unpleasant questions, to the first president of independent Croatia at media conferences. She was a journalist for "Danas" in Zagreb. The Croats, among other things, accused her of working for the counter-intelligence service of the JNA. This led to her moving to Belgrade in 1991.
> observable metric

By who though? Our entire existence could very well be a tree falling in an empty forest.
The displayed size is over 1000 times larger than they actually are.
The numbers here are very confusing. The quoted 30-40m in gross margin across ~70m chickens (yearly sales in 2015) is only around $0.50 per chicken, perhaps a little more accounting for decreased sales at higher prices. The quote also doesn't support the claim that they are "probably not" making money, just that they're bringing in less than they could.
nit picks on this:

Humans are capable of detecting extremely small details with their fingertips[1] anecdotally, this can be trained if you use your finger tips for precision work a lot, you can easily feel things that you can't see without significant magnification.

Additionally, I would push back on "many centuries", the Machine age came about in the mid 19th century, so if were being generous, 300 years[2].

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130916110853.h...

[2] https://archive.org/details/englishandameri01roegoog/page/n2...

[2] is cited on the wikipedia page for micrometer. Cool book though, might read it.
The answer is yes, but you have to make friends with the employees and plan to marry a local.

See this documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
> One nice point he makes is that there is no definition of what a drug is either. If one says "a substance that affects how the brain functions" then coffee, alcohol, sugar, milk, and even water are drugs.

Honestly, that sounds like nonsense. Not having some compact math-like definition for the category doesn't mean there's no definition for it.
Ask HN: How to get a job at Jane St., Two Sigma, etc.?
I’m a full stack software developer with about 10 years of experience building things like APIs, mobile apps, various backend services, SDKs, etc.

I’ve long been interested in finance and am always mistaken for working in finance (guess I just look the part).

I’m wondering if anyone here has gone from the world of software for the stereotypical Bay Area startup or large tech company to world of NYC quants and hedge funds. I don’t have a PhD in mathematics or some other extreme traditional qualification, but I do have lots experience building stuff.

I recently moved to NYC and would love to join one of these companies, especially considering the earning potential versus other companies.

Has anyone here made that move?
Good catch! The questions were canonical, the answers were voted on the by community. I edited my post to use the right word.

Canonical questions: https://meta.serverfault.com/a/1987
> Realistically, the site can be re-used for another power plant. Or cleaned up and used for something else.

Re-used for another power plant, sure. But cleaned up and used for something else? Has that even been done once?
Run the numbers, time tracking throughout the day, on how you're going to run an entire grid on nuclear. Calculate how much storage you need in order to convert baseload into something that matches demand.

Do the same calculation for renewables. Both need storage, and renewables need a bit more storage, but their primary energy is also 5-10x cheaper than nuclear.

Calling something "naive" or "fantasy" requires evaluating the current state of the tech, and where the tech is going. From that perspective, especially with the data coming from the nuclear build at Vogtle and Summer, thinking that nuclear GenIII+ reactors have any place on the grid is completely unrealistic.

We can not even build four of these nuclear reactors . We started plans to build about a dozen, started on only four, and had to abandon two mid-build. Nuclear is not a good fit for advanced economies, anymore than complex Victorian style wood carving is a fit for advanced economies. Nuclear requires way too much skilled labor, too much construction versus manufacturing.

We no longer live in the 80s, we have much better tech, 40 years of advancement, and we need to use the best tech, not the one that was best in 1980.
PHP-FPM is very easy to debug. It's as simple as setting it up to use a listening socket in www.conf (located in i.e. /etc/php/8.1/fpm/pool.d) and then running a packet sniffer (i.e. ngrep) to listen on that socket, all messages back and forth are visible at that point.
If you need to sync it to anything non-Apple, then yes. If you don't, then iCloud Drive is just fine.

In my case, Obsidian syncs just fine between my laptop, iPad, and iPhone. I use Sync.com for everything else.
Point still stands: there was no good reason to make the statements because those are obvious. You said nothing of any value: "bad people who do the thing which we as a society have deemed bad are bad!"
That'd explain the changes to Location Services on Android over the past several years.
doh -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177705
> we recently shared an update on how our External Data Misuse (EDM) team works to safeguard people against clone sites

Is this what they're calling interoperable competitors now?
Absolutely true, it was all Soviet Nations.
Musk says SpaceX cannot fund Ukraine's vital Starlink internet indefinitely
Dr Angela Merkel holds a PhD in quantum physics. she stands by her cabinets decision to leave nuclear energy in densely populated Germany, as per a recent interview.

renewables will provide for 80% of Germanies energy needs by 2030, and close enough to 100% in 2050.
re: sink washing...

I spent most of 2019 in SE asia, and full-service laundry was just too good, universal, and cheap to pass up. About a euro/kg everywhere. Never any problems.

Sink washing and dealing with damp clothing was a time suck I always ended up regretting.
Ok. You know it all. Have a great day!
So Germany's inability to deal with their nuclear wast excuses them from spewing waste(CO2) out the end of a smokestack that we all have to deal with?

How is France dealing with their waste? Can Germany pay France to take it?
Record-Breaking Gamma-Ray Burst Possibly Most Powerful Explosion Ever Recorded
Sweden shuns formal joint investigation of Nord Stream leak, citing nat security
That this complaint is pointing at Firefox when it's not Firefox at all, is interesting. How many things do we associate with one thing when it's actually something else entirely.

It's a shame, really.
> to prevent economic losses and massive unemployment

So sad to see how easily long term catastrophic damage is justified by short term gains.
Even humans can't beat pong:
https://larsdu.github.io/PongRust/
Since it's not using PSR-7, does it mean that you could even run WordPress?
No it isn't. And why does the hn title differ from the "article" title?

So yes, you can call yourself a software engineer in Canada if you follow the rules. And not just because you are a programmer
I really just enjoy using i3wm tiling window management for terminal multitasking.
There are so many more tools to allow the incompetent to "deliver" a reasonable-enough result. There's a certain amount of "don't let perfect be the enemy of the good" in there, for sure, but like the grandparent poster, I've walked into many gigs where "long-standing problems" turn out to be easily fixed. Nobody with sufficient background knowledge and experience ever looked at them and they just festered.
If you’re sending 3 kids to private school for $1000/month each, you could afford instead another $400k of mortgage or so on top of what your mortgage already is with todays interest rates.

That’s almost as much as the median home in America. So assuming you already live in the median home, you could send your kids to private school, or you could buy a house that’s twice as expensive.

Where I grew up, the median home is less than the national median, and the public schools are pretty good.
Climate change (warming waters) has been directly implicated in this (edit: Gulf of Maine cod) situation.

https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aac9819
+1 on PSP after v7, especially after the Corel buyout of Jasc. It was hands down a favorite before, after it just got worse. Kind of wish I still had my v7 and serial number, though I could probably find it... I've been okay with Pinta and Paint.Net for most things I need such a software for. I still liked PSP better.
Interesting what is and isn’t available. Because I clicked this link to see not recognizing the name Finest Kind and was like, oh they play that on the folk program pretty often, I know that song.
A Look at Postgres 15: Merge Command with Examples
Being on the homescreen increases DAU/MAU by about 50%.

Push notifications increase DAU/MAU by multiples.

Those are the killer features for social media.

I'd also assume that the walled garden of the app store cuts down on a lot of bots/other shenanigans going on.