skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the tip, but what word should I use instead? Progressive? I think just about everything being done on the left today is regressive. Liberal? I think the left in general today is about is illiberal as it gets. Non-conservative? I think it includes too many people, because I do believe there are moderates, independents, and people who could care less either way.

I agree that "leftist" can be divisive, but I haven't found a different word to use that doesn't also convey what I believe to be a falsehood. I also carefully use the word "conservative" instead of "Republican", because I don't think those two are the same thing either. It's also hard to use equivalent language because, while you can say "leftist", you can't really say "rightist".

Fundamentally, a conservative wants to preserve the status quo because they think proposed changes would make it worse. A progressive wants to change the status quo because they think they can improve it. But often when we use these words we are instead referring to a set of political ideals and beliefs supported by a group of people. There are lots of things conservatives would want to change today because they think we've gone in the wrong direction, and there are plenty of wins the left wants to preserve that are under assault by conservatives.
Musk hates bots mainly because of all the єɭ๏ภ ๓ยรк wants to give you free money scams. That isn't really caused by the API
> Sqlite updates are solid and as far as I know, do not break your code.

Almost every major SQLite release has a few minor releases after it which fix bug and regressions, including things like queries returning the wrong result.
Trump University was a scam - it didn't stop Trump from being elected.
SPARQL has some really not nice properties.

For example it's very easy to build non-monotonic queries with OPTIONAL,
which really messes with reactively streamed query results.

There is a certain sweet spot in conjunctive queries + regular path expressions, with a nice syntax.
people with apartments who move
Ligma? As in that age-old "ligma balls" joke? Did no one catch that?
Even if Fuji designs them, from a total dollar and cents sort of way, the better Fuji's sensors are received in the market and the more they sell, the more money Sony makes.

(and once Sony makes the money, it uses the same profits from Fuji to compete against Fuji.)

It's a sort of reverse competition, where by Sony is guaranteed victory simply because they participate in their competitor's victories.
Red Bull F1 team receive $7M fine and 10% aero research reduction
Seems to be one of those plainly obvious things. Probably valuable in a scientific sense as a factual basis for other research (in which you should never just guess things) but for the public… well duh?
Doesn't this make it a race to see how everyone can be like the peasants in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"Help Help I'm being oppressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!"
Another thing I've noticed in Youtube on the smart™ TV, is that the app does not adapt the suggestions based on previous searches anymore. Now it's almost entirely generic crap all the time (Seriously, I am so sick of those thumbnails with the surprise face. I hate them!)

Between the ads and the poor content, I feel like Youtube is pushing hard to become the new public TV.
I don't think that they were have to be new or innovative for Tesla to have a strategic Advantage relative to others with them.
It is game theory. Consider what happens in the real world - it is strictly easier for Iran or any country with a competent infrastructure to just shut down the big internet pipelines for retail customers. They don’t do that. China has spent untold amounts of money creating a stupidly effective surveillance state which is still technically open to the internet. Why?

So your assumption that “dictators will do the worst they can” is wrong. They will keep pushing the boundary outside the current Overton window but can’t do it in a snap. You force their hand by not providing alternatives and suddenly they’re stuck. They can’t just restrict feminist websites and claim that it is harming the social fabric then expand the net slowly. It is all or nothing as the OP explains.
> I didn't know that. That sucks. Unfortunately it is an underreported issue because of the stigma.

Almost like men are subject to gendered expectations and discrimination, isn't it? The feminist superposition of simultaneously totally caring about those issues (toxic masculinity!), but also attacking anyone who talks about them, is quite tiring.

> The media presented it like he was a genius stating the obvious in the middle of his isolationist speech.

I doubt any mainstream media outlets outside of Fox News presented him as a genius. More likely they took the same mocking tone as the other representatives at that NATO dinner. He's a broken clock, but he was 100% right about energy dependence and NATO defense funding. How you read that as me "idealizing" Trump, I have no idea.
How are we this far into the modern trans rights movement and people still haven't wrapped their brains around sex and gender being two distinct concepts?
The missing piece here is to cross-reference with a failure/reliability reporting service to produce Price per TB Hour.
> it has no API

> isn’t accessible via an email standard (IMAP, etc.)

> it’s $100/year

This must be a joke.
They have no stingers and, if you hold still, so will they. Fascinating to watch, although one did once try to crawl into my ear.
The downside of that is that application developers would have to use the minimum supported version of SQLite.

If every site embeds their own version, the application developers can choose their own version that runs the same across every browser. Or even compile it themselves if they want, so they can use extensions. The download size is unfortunate but remember - unlike javascript, wasm bytecode loads almost instantly. Having a 250k wasm module is more like having a 250k image on your site than 250k of javascript. (Though it might still affect time-to-interactive depending on how the site is built)
Ask HN: Where can I go to become a VPN configuration ninja?
I have lots of time (months) to learn/study, where do I go to learn the ins and outs of VPNs? IPsec, IKEv2, Phase1 v Phase2, BGP, ASN, overall structure of protocol session from first handshake to final goodbye? Firewall implications?

Preferably not solutions that cost more than $10.

Thanks in advance!
I was impressed many years ago to find this was illegal in other countries. ISPs can't just raise rates for services, so the only way to grow is by getting more customers, typically by innovating or improving service quality.

In the US, all ISPs have to do is capture the regulatory market so no one else can compete, especially not municipalities.
Maybe shareholders was the wrong term, doesn’t he have a duty to like the banks and Saudis and other investors
Do you have any example of an open forum that only removes illegal content and nothing else that isn't also a complete cesspool?
A lot of comments from a couple of days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348716
That appears to be limited to WD and Amazon, or am I missing something?
Yeah, I experience the same thing on YouTube. It's entertaining, so I'm not really complaining, but it's of course wasted money for an advertiser to try to sell me a subscription to a local streaming service or buy shampoo that I've never heard of.

It shouldn't be that hard to realize I'm only visiting a place and that they should keep serving me whatever ads I would see at home (or maybe tourist related stuff).
NY Post employee fired for posting violent, racist tweets on newspaper's account
It's funny, that's pretty much what I said...
Musk is going to discover (and maybe admit?) that fixing Twitter is harder than he thought.

Yeah I think he's going to intensely focus on Twitter for ~6 months, not change much, get bored, and then move onto something else.
As an European who doesn't use Twitter that much because it seems that every other post is about US politics, how much should I care about this?
Have you spent any time researching it at all? Do you have any curiosity about it? You're delusional.
Babylon Bee was never unbanned (because they were never banned in the first place, just suspended and continue to be suspended) and Ye was unbanned before Elon Musk ever took over.
I thought one of the leaks someone mentioned charging a subscription for blue badges? Might be misremembering.
1) Well assuming data is stored in the SQL as the transactional store, how do you move data safely from SQL to the eventstore? You at least need the postbox pattern. It is not clear to me that the postbox pattern is less hacky than listening to a SQL change feed.

E.g., with Azure Cosmos DB -- you would not use the postbox pattern there. You listen to the DB change feed -- since that is provided and is easily accessible.

2) In our case the schemas in SQL are mostly event based already (we prefer insert over update ...even if we do business logic/flexible querying on the data). So using an event store is mainly a duplication of the data.

An event store is a database too. What exactly is it about a database that makes it a "proper event store"?

I honestly think the focus on duplicating data you have in your DB in a separate event store DB too may be something of a fad that will pass in a while -- similar to NoSQL. It's needed for volumes larger than what a SQL DB can handle, but if you don't need such large volumes why introduce the extra component. Event sourcing architecture is great; but such thinking on an architecture level is really orthogonal to the storage and transport chosen.
As a maintainer for https://ec2instances.info I absolutely love sites like this. Nice and clean. Just like that site this is statically rendered into a large HTML file and delivered to the client, with data updated every 2 hours via scraping.

And sure enough if you search 'disk prices' or 'harddrive prices' this is the #1 result which I am certain helps with their Amazon Affiliate revenue.
> while the other is about a thief ripping people off

Is that what happened? I can imagine all sorts of scenarios where that's not true. You got some better info than the above comment on this?
The thought is that compiling to WASM results in less overhead than wrapping in a container.
Replies >>> likes + retweets

Implying that people are dunking on you for being wrong instead of amplifying what you said.
> In this instance the "hate crime" is merely saying someone's biological sex is x, even if they say they are y.

That's mischaracterizing what was said. Here's the actual article: https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year...

This is ridicule, quite clearly. I won't get into the "is it or is it not a hate crime" bit, but this isn't "merely" stating anything. The term "biological sex" doesn't even appear in the article. The point the reader is supposed to take from this article is quite clearly not "mere" information about Rachel Levine's gender and/or "biological sex". It's that Rachel Levine's presented gender was very funny to the authors and that we should laugh at her for it.

> Would I want someone intentionally misgendering them just to get to them? No, I think that's cruel

Seems like you're putting an awful lot of weight on the distinction between "hate" and "cruel" to me.

What about here on HN? Do you think it's OK for users here to be "cruel" to others, or should dang ban them? Because HN bans people for being cruel, probably every day. Why is Twitter different?
Most are marked "renewed". Many probably are near new. But yeah, I was a bit dis-illusioned to see the EXOS drives I love's prices were too good to be true, were "renewed".

I did pay $379 per 16TB EXOS back in early COVID as drive prices were spiking (it got much worse!). That they are $250 not-renewed is still great. But yeah, the $189/per price is renewed only, too good to be true. Still, I'm tempted. 25% off. These drives will probably be fine. Three riskier drives plus a free "spare"? That's a tempting trade off versus a real warranty. And if it does fail very early, I can probably get it sorted, probalby.
The Pleasure of Accidental Communities
Setting Up LXC on Debian Desktop (2020)
Cherry: ClojureScript to ES6 Compiler
That is not groveling. It's an excellent message to his advertisers.
> I expect he's never going to allow calls to violence or incitement type things; who exactly thinks this is a bad decision? … Is giving the republicans their voice back and allowing them to speak really such a nightmare?

Well let’s see… last time the former President was using his voice on Twitter, he was inciting and directing an insurrection against the government. So if Musk wants to reverse that ban, and Trump decides to continue his rhetoric which already caused violence (which he will because he hasn’t stopped since 1/6), then yeah, that’s a nightmare.
And that one reminds me of https://github.com/kmarekspartz/yapl/ :)
I suspect confirmation bias, and a desperate desire for these events to be true (the Musk takeover of Twitter must be bad) led to overlooking an obvious prank seemingly designed to invoke this very reaction from the media.

Hook, line and sinker.

However, the real damage is done. How many people saw the headlines and now will forever assume this event actually transpired?
I highly recommend anyone who wants to know about Vijaya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ

>Gadde did more for free speech on the internet than almost anyone else I can think of.

Call an ambulance! Medical emergency! I'm dying right now of laughter.
Did they live and breathe what they do? Just working for FAANG or whatever doesn't mean that they do.
This whole thing is about some people being more equal than others.
Explaining machine learning pitfalls to managers (2019)
Ah yes truly manifest destiny worthy laws and regulations. The british empire would be proud of its children and the battles they pick.
Looking at all musk has achieved so far - despite (or because of?) boards of experts adamant it couldn’t be done - I think it’s immensely clear a plan is something he clearly has and works very hard towards.

Obviously many people will disagree with his plan, though I’m 100% certain he has one, and will make it happen.
> Twitter added a Topics feature, where it promotes popular tweets.

I have never seen this. It turns out to be buried under a "more" menu, so I maintain that this is a niche feature that you'd need to go out of your way to suffer.

> You'll also see such "popular tweets" when you click on any tweet and scroll past the replies.

No, I don't. I don't see anything like that. I just get to the bottom of the replies. When do you see this? I don't even see it on a tweet with zero replies. No random tweets, just blank space.
Maybe they will do for Twitter what they did for driverless cars.
Kids upset about moderation are not logical.

Every scenario you can imagine happens.
Biologists just won't allows us to have any fun. It is always this kind of rhetoric: "what, are you modeling the brain without considering the influence of <insert obscure type of cell> on the hormone regulated blood flow around ion pump circuits during chinese new year neuron firing patterns? you are obviously bounded to fail..."

This whole AI field keeps on failing because people like to overthink things. Did Michelangelo need to know molecular chemistry to make sculptures? Why do people pretend there is no artistic component to building AI? Rant finished.
Also, <sportsball>
That's pretty much entirely devoid of the context of everything else he tweeted and the rest of his actions and you can pretend that none of that matters but it obviously does.
They added this a year ago:

https://blog.twitter.com/common-thread/en/topics/stories/202...

I have not seen many obvious bot accounts using it, even the “good” ones.
I don't see anything in Elon Musk's past operation of businesses as CEO that suggests to me he's going to have a better sense of how to run a social network than the previous operators.

I predict the best case scenario is that he does no worse.
So much for quiet quitting.
Right, Norway has very high taxes on gas vehicles which encourages EV adoption.
So, create a court system basically that decides on free speech issues. Got it. Likely will arrive at the same conclusion as the legal system that’s been operating for over 200 years.

There’s a reason the legal system said free speech is out to the point of direct imminent harm. It was the arrogance of 20 year old programmers in silicon valley who thought they could create a better legal system.
It’s a distinction some guy just made up not too long ago. I can see why some people might not consider it a fact of the universe.
Nvidia are doing something like this now advertising their CUDA TOPS as double their actual value but with a footnote telling you this is for "sparse" multiplications. Here "sparse" means each dot-product can assume half of each input vector is zero.
Are you familiar with the product?
To groom is to "prepare or train (someone) for a particular purpose or activity."

It also has a more specific definition: "the act of deliberately establishing an emotional connection with a child to prepare the child for child abuse".

Today, I think people are using the word to mean a hybrid of the above two definitions, namely, to train or indoctrinate a child into sexual deviancy, even if the person doing the grooming does not take part in it directly.

I think some uses today are also just synonyms for indoctrination, which fits only within the more general definition of grooming.
Journalists should not be afforded legal protections for publishing un-verified, demonstrably false information.

We need a system where it's dangerous to not thoroughly vet your story before throwing it over the fence.

Currently, they just say "oops" and move on like it never happened... but the damages caused to the public and it's discourse are permanent. The past decade has shown us that much at a minimum.

Years from now folks will still howl about Musk marching loyal twitter employees out the front door with boxes full of their belongings... despite it being completely untrue. Heck, there are still folks that feverishly assert the "OK" sign is racist...
Eh, likely the same brand of boardroom “vision” that led to both companies being so far behind starting to develop EVs.
I would say that data is "encoded information". But then again is there any other kind?
New York has a similar GDP per capita to California but only has about 6% of new car sales as EV.
I would love this if it added if the drive is a Shingled Magnetic Recording or Perpendicular Magnetic Recording. That's a key difference between drives.
I love the optimism, but regret to report that this simple aspect of natural selection is anything but widely understood.
Weird how you ignore the point where he describes how if you work more than someone else who is also getting paid more than you, then you are getting a bad deal...
Fyi Profit is after expenses. Twitter can make 0 profit and still pay the loans.
I came across this article just two days ago: https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/jerry-lee-lewis-misreported-de...

I was glad that he was still with us. Today I mourn his passing.
Legal according to who? Different countries have different laws. As we see with India and Signal this week.
>> Why is there a such a large disparity between California vs "rest of US"?

I just moved back to CA from the eastern midwest. I pay $1.50-$2 a gallon more for gas than I did in the East. At that increased price, it starts to make sense to consider EV+solar if you are commuting 50-100mi a day.
It depends on you use case but, for example, if your db is not super large you could dowload it and use it locally istead of having to connect to an app server for every query or transaction. You could synchronize in the background with the app server. The app speed and responsiveness would be way better.

Or maybe you could use a sqlite replication tool in the browser for near realtime changes in the master node db.

And for single user apps developped with tools like Electron having your db engine in the browser makes the app faster and life easier for the dev.

Node as app server and db backend for a single user app is inefficient, slow and resource hogging.

Using Sqlite you could get rid of node and therefore, reduce memory usage, speed up app loading and execution, have a single code base in the browser that makes debugging far easier, reduce code complexity and app size, reduce cpu cycles, energy usage and CO2 emissions, save precious life time, etc... :-)
Browser engines have regressions too. SQLite has a better test suite than any browser. It's not going to be a major source of regressions compared to the rest of the platform.
There's a cluster of things around transport and then... also Twitter? I get that in the end you want to do everything but what makes microblogging a more important day 1 feature than food delivery or gaming or online dating. It's like if Amazon did just book delivery and online photo storage.
Nerve impulses converted to light for next-generation prosthetics
‘Ah yes. We can give your child with locked in syndrome a communications path with the rest of the world, but it can only be through the twitter API. Also his ventilator? Also needs twitter API. Yes, that’s right. His life support and all communication in and out relies on a flimsy message board. Connection outages? Well, it can’t happen. We’ve got starlink on the back of his wheelchair. Tunnels? Oh no, don’t go in tunnels’
YMMV.

I use very, very cool language tricks in my unit tests.

Not in the production code.
Fingerprinting is possible if you know what's in the cache before you use it.

If I make a request for a given dependency, and am allowed to so much as time how long it takes to resolve, I can detect if it was already there and there's an information leak.

Sure. At some point though, a malicious site's gonna end up making some very weird requests - obviously polling the cache.

You could specify the dependency set in a static context and limit the ability of a site to measure how long dependency resolution takes.

Is there still an information leak? Yes.

Do I think it should stand in the way of a functional internet? Not really.
This is how Julia works today. We sometimes like to call this "Just Ahead of Time" compilation as a riff on "Just In Time" compilation since most JIT languages are operating very differently.
Okay -- thanks for being patient; appreciate the link to the paper and additional detail.

I see the "question begging" emerged from me misconstruing the quotes from the paper above. I think I was especially skeptical because I wanted to believe the conclusion.
> Do I think it should stand in the way of a functional internet? Not really.

We have a functional internet. I'm using it to communicate right now.
What do you think is the fundamental joke the article is making?

The only joke I see is "a trans person exists". The article isn't about her policies, her performance in her job, or even complexities in our evolving definition of either sex or gender like you are implying. The joke is that this person is trans. The message of that joke is the existence of a trans person in public is worthy of mockery. Therefore the only way to stop the mockery is to stop being trans or retreat from public life. I think refusing to stop that mockery until the target does one of those two things qualifies as harassment.
Musk is famous for paying meager wages relative to other companies in exchange for being able to say "I worked at Tesla". And those are on public companies where you have to keep up with the quarterly earnings rat race. Normally you'd expect to see better wages in a private company, but given that it's Musk who knows.
The linked tweet and article claim that PayPal can pull money out of your bank account. There's no way to interpret the ToS like that; it clearly says this possibility only applies to your PayPal account and any money in there.