skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely the actual work is mostly being handled in the database, with the ruby code mostly acting is glue code? I'd expect to run into database scaling issues (or data model issues) long before running into issues with the relatively easy to scale horizontally ruby code.
This is delightfully esoteric.
I'm surprised people are still writing stuff in Ruby. I thought it was one of those obsolete languages like D or Forth or ALGOL.
"The chairman of FBH is Jean Chalopin, who, along with being a co-creator of cartoon cop Inspector Gadget in the 1980s, is the chairman of Deltec Bank, which, like FTX, is based in the Bahamas."

ahaha, i loved Inspector Gadget. but also: what the hell.
Markboard – A keyboard-centric markdown+mermaid virtual “whiteboard”
Molex 63811-1000, full stop. I do this professionally (automotive harness prototyping), and this is the first tool I reach for when I have open-barrel terminals to work with. If they have a wire-grip section longer than 2.5mm, this is your answer. That means Dupont, most styles from Molex, TE, Sumitomo, Yazaki, etc.

(The second is the Iwiss IWS-2820M, for open-barrels with a short wire-grip section, 2mm or below. That's basically most JST styles. The Iwiss crimper has all the same nest sizes as the Engineer PAD-11 but is much better made, smaller, and cheaper to boot.)

There are, of course, countless $300-and-up official tools for specific terminals, but as far as generics go, these two are the cream of the crop.

Beware ebay triangulation scams with the 63811-1000. It should cost $55-65, any less and you're being lured. Safest to get it from one of the vendors listed on Octopart. For the Iwiss, as much as I hate to say it, just go to Amazon.
> There was an incident recently in which someone removed an obstruction from a license plate[…]

Fortunately, the incident seems to only have encouraged him, and he’s continued to “fix” plate obstructions.

https://twitter.com/gershkuntzman
Imagine twenty ethernet cables plugged into a switch, and you need to remove one. You unplug it, pull it slightly to see which it is below the bundle, grab it there and pull.

You will then discover that an uncovered clip magically catches on EVERY SINGLE other cable on the way through. It will also catch on the rack, any other devices within reach, and somehow the power switch for the entire installation.

In fact if you ever lose your car keys down a drain, simply poke an ethernet cable with an uncovered RJ45 plug through the grate. Your keys will be firmly attached to the tab, along with five other sets of lost keys, several rodents and the grate itself.
>Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg — whose company acquired Tumblr from Verizon in 2019 — suggested the user “come to Tumblr” as the site would soon “add activitypub for interconnect.”

I'll believe it when I see it

too easy to say this kind of thing in the hopes it will lure people in and get some press, and then to just quietly never do it and when asked about it again say "it didn't work out because of technical reasons"
Thing is - Our doctors visits already feel like DMV visits?

I've lived all over VA - Richmond, Fairfax, Alexandria. All felt like DMV. In Michigan now. Feels like DMV.

Thing is, too - by all accounts I can tell - people are largely satisfied with their State Healthcare, in those places that have it (Whichever form it takes). Sure people have critiques. But some people saying something can be an issue is not the same thing as the entire system being broken + in the other system everyone gets good instead of just a few + no reason to try + instead keep this system with the same problems but also costs more.
As someone not from the US can anyone shed some light why deodorant and other personal care goods are so expensive in the US? The prices are so ludicrous compared to the UK that on my trip I had to take a photo as friends would have thought I was exaggerating when telling them!

Take for example Dove Men+Care antiperspirant. In the US what is a rather compact can 3.8oz/107g was on the shelf at $9.55 (plus sales tax). I've just checked a well known UK chemist (boots) and 150ml of the same brand is £1.70 and 250ml is £2.00 (both including sales tax). Not really sure why the US measure aerosols in g and the UK measures them in ml but the price difference alone is jaw dropping.
A lot of things can require a lot of work and still be anti-social. I'm sure serial murderers work very hard.
Often while doing planks at the gym I'll think of the things I'm grateful for. It helps pass the time, and helps simplify my thanks list.

Clean air, four limbs, water, an abundance of food and to live in a peaceful country... if I get really into it I'll pick an object and think of all the things that went into creating and getting it to its location.

There's a lot to be thankful for, especially when you're doing planks.
How do you handle different opinions from yours and disagreements in general?

This seems like you're asking a question about basic social skills, and it's only tangentially related to development. I'm not saying that to dunk on you, but it seems like maybe you're framing the entire issue incorrectly?
> What I find a bit unfortunate about Takahe is the coupling with Docker.

While I don't love it, it's very understandable for a single-dev application. Anything else involves blizzards of questions and bugs filed against people using their disto version of Django vs their downloaded version of Django and the many versions of distros and the many conventions for Python environments and...

Exhausting.
Book wise, I strongly recommend co-reading Richard Scarry books. They are picture books, choc-a-bloc with characters engaged in various activities. You can play “I Spy,” naming games, invent stories, talk about the activities, hypothesize about what will happen next, etc etc etc. The possibilities are pretty much endless. They are hugely advantageous for developing vocabulary, reading skills, and connecting with your child.

https://www.richardscarry.com/
Not sure I quite understand why chopped up sweet potatoes need an hour in an instant pot. It takes about 15-20 minutes in a pot on a gas burner.
> I thought it was one of those obsolete languages

Not really when it powers most of eCommerce, services in and around Asia; within Japan it's far from obsolete.

It may not be a thing in the Western World. It is over the pond.
Yeah, that sounds about par for the course for Google.

I don’t understand why anyone would ever choose them for anything critical.

Free support for AWS is better than anything Google has (at least based on my reading, for obvious reasons I have no first-hand experience).
It's not just you. This comment claiming better performance than Google Maps is baffling to me. OSMand has been slow on every phone I've owned (OnePlus 2, Pixel 3a and Pixel 6a). Enabling OpenGL and restarting improves panning/zooming framerate, but tiles are generated at the same slow speed (maybe even slightly slower).

What really matters is the amount of data. In my local town I can scroll around no problem, but in a more actively mapped area like Amsterdam it takes at least couple seconds to load.
For Damn Interesting (the site where this article originated), our approach is to offer our catalog as a DRM-free eBook, downloadable as a reward for certain donations (we are ad-free and user-supported). As a consequence, there are theoretically thousands of copies of this article (and our others) on our readers’ devices.
> it's also worth considering that they probably get the tradeoff right a lot of the time

How did we arrive at this conclusion? No argument or evidence was put forward!

My persobal experience on both Google and Amazon has declined to the point where I now prefer aliexpress - most of the time its the exact same item but cheaper
Aerosols are expensive but you can get a stick of anti-perspiring or deodorant for $2 at most Walmarts etc
This seems to also validate the feelings of black Americans who themselves may not have experienced segregation but were born soon after from parents who had. And I wonder how many generations it can have effects. E.g. could there still be markers from the effects of slavery?
Oh I hadn't thought about whole - I always cut them into roughly even sized.

60 min definitely seems off.
Thats a whole lotta hype in one article
No feedback / discussion on why didn't get accepted.
A Golang implementation https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
If bankers can get away with treble damages, then maybe shoplifters should to.

Even if you are super cynical, throwing a shoplifter in jail accomplishes what? If they have a job, they'll lose their job. If they have a home, they'll probably get evicted. They'll have to go through a court system that has to deal with this. People will have to do a bunch of work to move this person through the system.

And at the end of the day someone goes to jail a bit and leaves, and there's no safety net, so they're just permanently worse off. Congrats, you not only wasted an outsized amount of resources for petty theft, but now the person is back in society with less means of getting anything done in a legal way.

If you consider people to actually be people who you want to see improve, there's a hell of a lot better things to be done than putting people in jail for petty theft. At least in the US system.
Witchcraft beliefs around the world: An exploratory analysis
Does this use Stable Diffusion 2.0?
Hey Cole,

I think the site looks great and is very useful. The one suggestion I have would be to add a bit of space to everything to give it some breathing room.

These are the changes I made: try them out and see what you think.

body {
padding: 10px;
background: #f0f0f0;
}

#groups {
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(350px, 1fr));
}

.group {
padding: 10px;
margin: 4px;
}

.group > span {
margin: 0 20px 20px 0;
}

.gmatch {
padding: 6px 0;
}
Help : Facebook Support Is Useless
I am not sure if I have seen posts like this here, but I figured someone here may help me reach the right contact and/or may have technical suggestions as to what to do next as I think I am facing a unique (I think) issue with my Facebook account.

I haven't been on Facebook for more than a year now. For some reason, today, I decided to send some messages and lo and behold my password wouldn't work. I am reasonably confident that I have not forgotten the password. After a few tries, I did what any sane person would do - hit the 'forget password' workflow. OK, I got the recovery code and all and was able to reset and log in. And this is where things got a bit weird.

Facebook dropped me onto a completely new profile. The email message I got subsequently said that they have "reactivated an old account".
What is even weirder is that the two email addresses differ by a "dot". (Thank you gmail!)
Anyone who uses gmail would know that dots don't matter in the address. So, if my original email, to which my OG account was linked was 'john.smith@gmail.com'; the new account has been created as 'johnsmith@gmail.com' - and no I did enter the dotted email as the recovery email. It doesn't seem to matter for facebook recovery process. The email I get is being sent to the one without dots and that email is linked to the new account now. This new account is now showing up for even the dotted email (If I try the forget password flow wherein it shows 'is this your account?')

I checked my OG profile and it does exist. Fortunately, I have one session still active for my OG account on chrome that I hadn't opened in a long time. I tried checking what email was listed on the account. It is blank! I never gave my phone # to facebook. So, I have a situation wherein my OG account seems to have no email and no phone number on it. And any attempt to add those is asking for the old password - which is not working! I am kinda stuck!

I reported the new account as 'fake'; 'impersonating me' as there seemed to be no other option in facebook support to address this issue.
Despite clearly indicating that it is an impersonation of me, facebook auto support says 'no community guidelines have been violated' and everything is kosher!

Well, no, it is not!

I am half inclined to just use this as a sign from powers above, and start deleting my photos etc. from the OG session I still have access to; and then deactivate both the accounts for good - but was hoping I could fix it first. Does anyone have any real human contacts in Facebook who could help?
I've just read an article on the topic[0] as I was so fuzzy on the details.

It's much worse than I remembered.

I never really saw the importance of Snowden but he should be a modern day democracy saint after blowing the lid on this type of surveillance.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...
You have completed ignored my question and the explanation of why I asked. I have to assume you just want to rant a bit here. Sorry for your bad experiences, but they are hardly representative.
Nope. The biggest bottleneck is in the async Sidekiq workers. I have 7 Sidekiq processes using a total of 5GB of RAM and as much CPU as they can get, but my database server is at around 5% CPU and IO.

If the Rails part scaled as well as my DB, I believe I could trivially handle 10x the number of users I have today.
Speaking of gay marriage - a gay club was shot up the other day and the intolerant celebrated on Twitter.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/libs-of-tiktok-colorad...

Speech isn't some high minded abstract thing, it has real life consequences and the kind of speech that gets people killed needs to be suppressed.
There's a reason there aren't that many serial murderers, and why we don't orient society around catching those at the expense of everything.
This is really sad. I feel bad for you and hope you manage to rebuild
your base somewhere else safe - hopefully with technology that you
control.

You won't be the last person to get screwed over by the callous
machinery of dehumanised big-tech (AWS or Microsoft would be no
better, sadly I think you are rationalising loss). We must all wake up
to just how horribly precarious the lives of ordinary people are
against the arbitrary whim of opaque, unassailable power centres that
masquerade as "Free services".
So looking forward to Emacs 29 being available in standard package repositories!
I wish this thing had a screenshot
The article is not about Mastodon, why bring this up?

Imagine people complaining about HTTP being inefficient on every submission of a web service just because you happen to know one slow web service.
Unsurprising. I keep seeing this story over and over. I use google for nothing and have for years.

For me, the key factor is that there's nobody to call. Want support? You had better be famous on twitter.
Yeah, I know ruby is slow but is it “dominates over architecture and software design”-slow?
I don't know if you'd call it a "metaverse" but I think any organization that owns a license for Dassault 3DExperience could afford 20+ Quest Pros. That's a better application of VR than in an expensive and inferior replacement for Zoom.
It's sad none (I think?) of the big cloud providers doesn't allow for prepaid account, it would solve both "our idiots thought that blocking long-term paying customers with no human intervention is a good idea" and "I woke up this morning with $20k AWS bill" problems
Both can be true. Being the street-level operator for a crime gang isn't exactly a union job. The people doing the actual shoplifting are variously unhoused, mentally ill, substance dependent, and desperate. It kind of depresses me how people think it's Kurt Russell with an eye patch stealing Ensure from Walgreens.
Why would you think this is on-topic for HN?
Years ago I had a Customer who complained that the Wi-Fi in their conference room “always” failed during a midday meeting. The conference room was right across from a break room w/ a microwave. Sure enough, employees heating food correlated with the outages.
The first owner may not drive them for literal decades, but they should absolutely stay on the road that long.
Ugh, McMaster, Grainger, Digikey and Mouser are such a treat compared to Amazon.
No it's a cheap Android.
This!! It's also given me a lot of insight into industrial design. As in how do you make something strong in the right places yet not use too much material. I'd seen the result of such choices when opening up devices but the "why" never sank in.

Obviously this is not a super important thing in the scope of our world and my day job. But still, it feeds my curiosity (as does this site) and that alone is more than worth the investment to me.

Also, being able to design and manufacture a plastic part in a matter of hours any time of day or night has become a really useful tool. Only a few days ago the window latch on the front door of our apartment broke off and we've already had too many break-ins. It was too late in the day to go buy a new one but the printed one works really nicely.
The way I've fixed it is to reset the Network Settings on the iPad. Brutal, but it works. I hate that this stuff is hidden with no way to change it.
> I wish I chose AWS.

Well... AWS has better support IMO (like actual people you can talk to).

But I still chose to not tie myself to any of these platforms for anything critical. It requires additional upfront effort, but I can migrate all my applications off of AWS in a moment.

There is no easy way around Google and Apple when it comes to your app staying available, but I am trying to minimise any chances I could be flagged for anything (basically not linking those accounts to any other services).
I highly recommend the one that I am currently reading: Proofs: A Long Form Math Textbook by Jay Cummings [0].

There are two lists [1][2], one by Mark Saroufim, another one by Susan Rigetti that I have been following for quite some time now and intend to follow for the next months and years.

[0]: https://longformmath.com

[1]: https://marksaroufim.medium.com/technical-books-i-%EF%B8%8F-...

[2]: https://susanrigetti.com/math
Is there some better alternative to Knuth-Morris-Pratt or Boyer-Moore? Both can easily be adapted to regular expression matching and as far as I know there’s no faster algorithm that doesn’t do preprocessing.
Doesn't everyone use words to mean what they want to mean by the words?? I seriously though your post was a defense at first. Why would their rule not protect you from liability also?

If it's legal it isn't vigilantism. Isn't it the law in some states that you are allowed to use force to prevent theft? I assume that's what they meant. Yes it has its drawbacks but I think the current pacifist course has us headed for 24/7 surveillance.
This is very frustrating to experience, as someone who was invited to the technical preview early-on, and paid into the annual subscription on the day it went GA.

More than anything I'm just curious why I spent $100, and my account was deactivated. What's the post-mortem on this going to look like?
I would rather have a colonoscopy than go to the DMV here. My last colonoscopy was easily scheduled, had excellent communication, showed concern for my experience, and took a little under 2 hours on the day of. Few of my DMV encounters go that pleasantly.

My regular doctor’s office schedules appointments easily online, keeps to the schedule, communicates well and answers questions online within 24 hours, will follow simple instructions to help me get a script or something else basic, and clearly explains my situation and makes relevant recommendations based on test results. The DMV is (and most government services I’ve had to interact with are) pretty much whatever the relevant opposite of that list is.

We switched doctors in part because the previous didn’t have their shit together in terms of these basic interactions. The new one (4+ years now) is great.

Merely being able to fire your doctor and find another is reason enough for me to want to keep a significant private aspect.
The prices here vary wildly depending on where you're shopping. In a Manhattan CVS I wouldn't be surprised to see prices three or four times what you would see in a Nebraska Walmart. I live in the Seattle suburbs and $9.55 for deodorant makes my eyes bug out. I don't think that's normal.
Then the mocha latte industry will crash and somehow it will also be the people's fault.
max shoplifting penalty in nyc is a year and thats for repeat offenders. its mostly fines. you are right putting people in prison for years for shoplifting is bad. it doesnt really happen
It's not mastering mechanical engineering that it teaches you. But just a basic hands -on understanding that is very useful in the life of a maker with a broad range of interests.

Becoming a wizz at industrial design was never my goal. There's universities for that. But it's wonderful to see how everything comes together.

Also, imagining something only in your head and then seeing it come to life on the screen and then in the real world is a magical thing.

I guess carpenters and sculpters etc get this all the time but I totally lack the manual skills needed for that. The 3D printer solves my handicap of having two left hands.

Most people that buy a 3d printer download some models from thingiverse and then get bored with it. It's when you learn design that it really becomes amazing. And it's not all that difficult at all.
Heh. That reminds me of the time in grad school where I needed a liquid disposal system for an arraying robot. We had this great ($$$) robot, but the liquid waste needed to be manually emptied every few hours. It was non-toxic and just went down a sink.

A quick trip to Lowe’s to get PVC fittings and pipes, and I suddenly made my own scientific equipment and saved me some time!
How about this one:

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/21-U...
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#server-to-server-interact...
looks to be in the time zone of the current browser's locale. it says the correct time for me and i don't live anywhere near the middle east(or perhaps the person that made the site is also in my timezone so double check)
Your kidding right? Anything IO bound like an server isn’t going to be remotely affected by the speed of underlying language. There’s almost no compute required for a mastodon server just take HTTP requests and store and retrieve data from a database. The CPU is going to be active for a fraction of a millisecond before it becomes blocked on either the database or network.
I got Usenet access as a young kid, first through BBS gateways run by various datacom people, and later by working at a Tektronix spinoff in my teens.

I learned so much from the 'Net, and (for better or worse) it helped me grow out of much simpler socioeconomic class circumstances. The general cooperation and altruism of early 'Net people also matched my expectations from decent humble religious upbringing.

(Though it didn't prepare me for the Web gold rush, and what would happen when huge numbers of people weren't benevolently onboarded into 'Net culture, and who didn't tend to have the same general awarenesses. Before, certain founders and pre-existing megacorps, who arguably ended up remaking Internet culture in their own image, might've stuck out like a sore thumb, and people would've taken on-principle stances against that.)

It's great to see in this article some of the names of net.personalities, along with some of the backstory I wasn't aware of.

I also miss the great UI that I eventually had for Usenet. I was just thinking that yesterday, while trying to get an interesting feed in Fediverse with Mastodon software; and a few days, earlier while skimming various forums for Rust. The closest to what I want might be old.reddit.com and HN, but both are primitive compared to the UI that I used to have.
Here's a blog I found had an easy introduction: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...
> it is known in Holland as “peanut cheese” which I guess is a testament to the power of the Dutch butter lobby?

Surprised that both the (tree) nut and (dairy) butter lobbies aren't up in arms against (this so-called) peanut butter, demanding that it be called legume spread!