skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so to make that explicit: If I want to do 5 parallel queries on my serverless function I should still have a connection pool size of 5 in my application, which will be fine as PgBouncer ensures there are plenty connections to open and use from the database server side. Correct?
This is nice. I often find myself trying to recall specific HN links for a variety of discussions.

Just recently, a PDF link was one of those. This site made it very easy to find again. Plus, many comments had been added since I first saw it on the front page. Nice work!
Last time I used conda I found that bzip2 decompression was unacceptably slow but to be fair I was unpacking huge packages I made that made it possible to have more than one version of CUDA installed simultaneously.
Heh, oops, yes. :)
Thank you all for helping me find a new email service! Based on what I’ve read here I’m considering either Proton or Fastmail but I will research them a bit before I decide. Thank you everyone for taking your time to help! :)
I know someone that is an executive at a F500 who does this with his team. According to him most divisions similar to his require a staff of 150-200 but he gets in done with 50 distributed around the world (mostly Poland & US). He tells me that he still has to argue for his budgets despite massive success and other adjacent coworkers get very toxic once they find out a division in the company pays good wages to their workers. Not only do they get good pay, but the SWEs love working in the org because their leaders regularly listen to them and employ solutions they suggest. There is very very little turnover in the rg.

You'd think the success of his model would be used elsewhere to reduce employer costs and increase retention (no SWE has left his org in 4 years). Instead other petty executives get pissy and poison the well.

Something is extremely off with modern corporate America.
> But maybe I'm just stupid

No, I believe the cloud stuff has evolved in a way that is just strange. I know I'm not stupid, and I look at this stuff with suspicion. This is why I'm going vertical by owning my entire stack (except Amazon S3 because it is awesome...)
I had in mind "late modern period" as frequently used by historians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_modern_period

And for china specifically (and also very much india) I would definitely include the 19th century victorian famines. They were driven by distinctly "modern" forces like global grain market prices, and bureaucratic/political prioritization of exports over sustaining the local population. Pre-modern famines were usually more directly caused by regional failure to react to specific climate events and crop failures. Or, traditionally, just local military aristocrats hoarding the grain.
There was a US branch of FTX that SBF has been saying "has funds to make people whole" but is still under Chapter 11 "because he made a mistake declaring bankruptcy", and that branch in independent of the international exchange. US customers still can't withdraw their funds. I am not sure people want the US to "lead" everything as much as they want, as people that invested money on a US company, for the government to help them get it back after it was, allegedly, stolen.
Your piece addresses what you claim to be a basic "unfairness": You (if it's really you) say someone "didn't treat me as a friend".

Most of the comments are reflecting on whether it really was or wasn't unfair.

So I'd say it's also an interesting worldview that you make a claim about fairness and then dismissed any conversation about fairness (the topic _you brought up_) with a glib statement asserting that anyone who ponders this as being "blind to any emotional" concerns.
Thank you for the suggestion and info!
Is there anything to prevent him from moving to a country without a US extradition treaty in the meantime? That seems like a pretty big risk of waiting too long.
That I understand.

But of course for the user of the driver it might be fine if that is 2 or more HTTP requests. I expect that is how PlanetScale does it in their transaction implementation, https://github.com/planetscale/database-js#transactions, and I know that is how Prisma Data Proxy handles it - the transaction is identified with an ID which is returned to the Client and then included in further requests for the same transaction.

It's valid tradeoff to make to prefer a persistent connection to keep the overhead for multiple queries in a transaction as low as possible - which seems what Neon has done here.
> Well, they payed for this text to be included in the game (for further distribution, obviously).

They paid for the deal they agreed on as described in that first email. We don’t know the contents of that email, so it’s impossible for us to know if it they agreed on just including the poem in the game, transfer of copyright or anything else.
How is Coder going to compete against GH/MSFT?
Exactly. When I know I can get a real live helpful person, it is awesome. When it is a bod that will just try to find information in the FAQ that I've already read, it is not very useful. When it is a live person who only knows how to give me the phone number and say, "please call during business hours" it is very annoying.
The reason the boss man doesn't want to hear your thing is that it's basically super hard to get.

"Good developers" are hard to find. Average developers aren't even easy to find nevermind ones that are actually good. The paying them a good salary and treating them well, companies are right onboard with in my experience. The tech department has better working conditions that most other departments. I worked at one company and one of the marketing teams once had to leave a resturant before eating because their lunch time ran out. So they paid for their food and left without it. All the techies just looked on in shock. We came and went as we wanted.

But the thing of finding good developers is hard. Even if you target just the folks in the top 50% of the bell curve, it's still going to be hard. And in my experience you get a few lower quality developers in and the next minute you've got someone saying their AWS lambda solutiuon can scale to any level 10 minutes after their solution took down the whole system in cascading failures because it was returning 500 due to the non-serverless database not scaling... I swear to god, even the non-technical folk knew the guy was talking nonsense. And the thing is, these people can and will pass your tech tests because honestly tech tests aren't really good at showing you how good a developer is actually understanding things. They can write quicksort but have no idea, how to figure out the best way to scale a data export feature that is crashing because of memory limits.

And the thing really with no-code, you encounter a bug, you're possibly dependent on a third party to fix the bug. Not a good place to be in because they never care as much as you do.
You're assuming that the severe undervaluing of natural resources in the US will simply continue. Try taking a field trip to a place (including the US), where people can't drink the water that comes out of their tap, and you'll get a better idea of where this leads. In no universe can TSMC use bottled water, much less Evian, and be competitive.
If you take the feds at their word, they seem to consider 'reckless disregard for the truth' as a stand-in for intent.
People don’t realise that it powers the majority of sites on the internet. It’s got a bad rep from security flaws in the late 1990s. Things have moved on since then. It does the job.
Association vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity with mortality
Thanks for pointing that put, I will look into this a bit more
Also SBF or FTX is not big existing financial institution with multiple layers of connections in network. His parent might be somewhat influential, but I don't think it goes too deep. And donations don't really matter if money doesn't keep coming.
I've been a mobile dev for many years now. Every team I've been on either largely avoided Swift for the first 3-5 years, or was burned hard due to the constant churn.

It's much more stable these days, but personally I'm still wary of the team's (past?) proclivity to make sweeping incompatible changes.
Then why are people suffering depression packed full of stress response hormones?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
Who would create a language that only has ASCII strings in this day and age?
Apparently "AOC" is also this electronics warfare advocacy org, and definitely not a Batman archenemy secret society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Old_Crows
For instance some of the money may really be gone but if he has tries to hide any of it he can get busted for that act. I don’t think it is safe for him to travel to the US or many other jurisdictions right now.
Ah, three strikes law. Well sentenced then. Some don't belong in society.
I would wager anyone in academia right now wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole for the risk to their own well standing. He is a pariah at this point.
I'd hardly call that an attack. It's emotional and raw, and definitely not vindictive. I really enjoyed the honest writing. All too often people hide their feelings so they don't get misunderstood or misrepresented.
Elizabeth Holmes was pretty well connected. She heads off to jail in April.

Also, contrary to popular claims made here and everwhere else, the prison she's going to does in fact seem to have fences. With razorwire even.
I think you identified the use case:

For services that are using the "append-only log as your source of data" then you need a tool that manages the "expensive to reconstruct it" side of things. I think that is what this does: it materializes and abstracts interacting with the reconstructed view of the data.
One advantage with low/no code I have seen be successful, is allowing non IT teams to do the work themselves therefore reducing the load on IT teams. Notice I said reducing as oversight and training is still required.

It also helps the other teams understand the complexity of there problems (sometimes), and helps IT teams understand the use-case or idea.

I have seen project lead times reduce from month's to days.

All said and done though technical oversight and management is still required.
He just has to skip up and lie to the feds once. Then he can and will be prosecuted for lying to federal agents.
Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?
And Fourier continued in that tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Jos...
Thanks for letting me know, this is really one of my biggest concerns right now so it’s great hearing from someone who actually transferred their inbox in the same way I intend too :)
There’s also temporal modeling or bitemporal modeling.

It’s verbose and can make table length pretty large, but eh..

- https://martinfowler.com/articles/bitemporal-history.html

- https://hdombrovskaya.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/bi_tempora...

- https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal
If it is clear I'm talking to a chat bot, then I have the option. But if you make me jump through hoops to get a human and then give me a bot, I'm going to be pretty annoyed at you.
Go and Rust each do have exceptions - in both languages they are called "panics". Both can (usually) be intercepted and recovered.
I might be using the term incorrectly, I realize that.

The author's behaviour is that of the spouse that's "totally not mad, honey" but you still feel uneasy afterwards.

I'm not sure what term to use to describe this behaviour. English is not my native language.
RHEL is used by companies that need the support Red Hat provides. RHEL and it's derivatives have less packages in the repo due to Red Hat willing to support every package they ship.
I’ve found they are particularly effective when the chat option only pops up on the “contact us” page, and it goes direct to a human (with a max of one question to route the request).

Amazon gets points for having the worst implementation I’ve seen. Although it doesn’t pop up and spam you, if you click through on the website or app, it connects you to an incompetent chat bot.

Third parties provide direct links to Amazon’s competent chat bot that can actually handle basic requests.

Seriously, WTF are they thinking?!?
Does it make sense to use Numba with Django / Flask / FastApi?
Thank you for the info! :)
> Then they'll monitor and if you manage to actually be successful, 3 months later there's an Amazon Basics version of your product.

How is this different than Walmart doing the same thing with their house brand? Or a sporting goods store, or any other store for that matter?
Sure. Advocating for your own needs is good.
I think you (and some commenters) are missing the reason on HN’s fixation on the legal and corporate issue, so I should spell it out: the reason people in corporate follow those legal methods is to NOT screwing everyone. Emotion is good and all, but does not work at scale of more than half a dozen people. You can’t decide the best course of action that will benefit everyone based on your judgment of their emotions. And actually in this case it is even simpler: everyone at Mojang will be happy with the buyout, so the singular focus at the time would be to release the game (in first part), or to get bought by Microsoft.

Even if Carl and Notch considered you their best friend, at the point of the Microsoft buyout, they will still have to a) Keep their mouth shut and can’t tell you about that (yes, it was leaked, but they might still can’t talk about it) and b) force you to sign the paperwork. The alternative is risk letting the deal falling through, hurting everyone involved, owners or employees.

It’s not heartless or emotional-less, just purely ultilitarian. Anyone who has to deal with management of some capacity will have to think of the same sort. Carl might have thought a lot about emotion and friendship, but it’s not just yours. He has to make sure everyone’s are considered too. It just happened your priority is different
Babashka is great! I've used it for doing some munging of csv and xml files.
This doesn’t provide any value to the conversation. Imagine having good intentions, working in web3, and always seeing this type of comment on HH. Would you want it that way in whatever field you’re working in?
Because nobody can put the boot on this kids neck like the US Government
5 dominant oral bacteria and what they mean for your health
Damn, was right all along - thanks.
Doh, it should say revenue increased by $5.
I understand why they've done it, but I now consider this DOA. Open source without self hosting capability is just crowdsourcing your engineering team. Documented and supported or bust. The cloud is a prison.
> Historians have long suspected that the authors of Christian holy books were inspired by several other religions

I mean, Judaism is basically a mashup of Egyptian and Mesopotamian religion while Christianity is that + Buddhism...
I wonder how having evidence of fraudulent transactions publicly accessible on the blockchain will affect the investigation time. It seems like once they figure out exactly which addresses to look for, they'll have timestamped fingerprints that trace back to all sorts of irrefutable evidence.
Thank you for the advise!
Ah. The link answers to this question under "Advanced Data Protection and iCloud.com web access"

> When a user first turns on Advanced Data Protection, web access to their data at iCloud.com is automatically turned off. This is because iCloud web servers no longer have access to the keys required to decrypt and display the user’s data. The user can choose to turn on web access again, and use the participation of their trusted device to access their encrypted iCloud data on the web.

Then they explain that if you turn it on again, your devices will send your keys to Apple's servers for the duration of the web session. Technically this leaks your keys to Apple forever, but they promise that they keep it for the duration of the session.
Does anyone have experience with Tinycircuits products? My 9-year-old daughter wants the TV and arcade for Christmas.

How hackable are they? I'm afraid it's just going to become a toy she plays with for a day and gets bored.

...

Oh, also since this is a Doom post, I'll selfishly mention that I always wish these ported-Doom-to-hardward-x projects would demo using the Ultimate Simpsons Doom 2 mod that I helped publish.
https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimate_Simpsons_Doom
Thank you. I am glad you liked it.
I've had a lot of luck using Invoke.AI's solution. It allows for a lot more control over what the AI model is allowed to modify and lets you tailor each prompt for each individual edit.
I believe SBF is exactly a case that will be end up thrown away. Despite donations and connections. No more money coming in and he is on top of too much media. Useful idiot that can be cut.
I don't know. Having the theoretical and experimental physics talent was a necessary condition for producing the atomic bomb, but was not sufficient. What was lacking was a government willing and able to commit to a crash program building the novel industrial base for isotope separation, radiochemical separation, and all the other things detailed in Rhodes' (and others books).
That is nothing compared to the buzz you see elsewhere. It's like HN just doesn't care about a major advance in computer tech
NodeBB prototype pollution flaw could lead to account takeover
Thank you for the info, I will give Proton a closer look!
I skimmed the actual legal filing [+]. The TLDR; is that the Tesla repeatedly portrays the technology as (1) better than it actually is (2) closer than it actually is to being fully ready.

The basis of relief is violation of implied warranties and false advertising.

I think its going to be interesting if this case actually proceeds forward.

[+] https://www.classaction.org/media/matsko-v-tesla-inc-et-al.p...
While there is a correlation to pay, I'd say it's more true to say it's more about hiring for that mindset, and cultivating a culture that understand quick hacks are the slowest/most expensive way.

You can pay more for crap engineers if you dont know what you're looking for.
Make a list of the countries that don't have an extradition treaty.

Then cross off the countries that have people you screwed or governments that might find it politically advantageous to prosecute you. And then cross off the countries that might send you back even without an extradition treaty.

And then cross off countries that have worse internet than prison.

What's left?
What does this have at all to do with crypto as a whole? SBF is a single individual. This was a centralized exchange. I'd say CeFI is not really crypto at all. After 2008 was every single U.S. bank corrupt? Downvote.
But, for apples to apples sake, if were using equivalent examples - SBF is Epstein not the clients of Epstein.
Strong agree. Pete Holmes has a great bit about how google makes 'knowing' and 'not knowing' are the same thing.

"You don't know something now? Wait 2 seconds and you will know it. There's not time for mystery and wonder."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ4o1N4ksyQ
Yup, it is. I'm glad they have finally made their mind up if they are a on-prem company or a SaaS company. Who you hire and how software is built (and sold) is a fundamentally different approach to market. For example - it doesn't make sense to hire product managers from Slack if you are building on-prem (they don't have experience // product managers from RedHat should have been hired for an on-prem play)...
Wow, magical linux distro that cut Firefox memory usage in half.
I think this is exactly where the value is - I commented similar on this thread (didn't see you comment..)
I want to take your comment and frame it. Honestly, the state of public political discourse these days makes me want to become a hermit and live in the middle of nowhere, primarily because it is extremely rare to see any good faith arguments. Instead, you have each side already knowing their desired outcome, and the only mental work going into the argument is "how can I pretend this event proves my side." And folks can say what they want about looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, but the sheer amount of conspiratorial nonsense that gets play at high levels, where it really shouldn't, is so much worse now than in the pre-Internet days.

The thing that makes me particularly annoyed is when people's conspiracy theories don't make sense even if you believe all of their (usually false) points. I mean, if you believe that all politicians have 0 morals and only act in self interest, the idea that a politician who only cares about self interest would for some reason put their reputation on the line for SBF is insane. There is practically nobody, in public, sticking up for this villain, so even if a politician took money from him in the past, they have no reason to help him now. It's just totally logically inconsistent and makes absolutely no sense.
Thankfully stupidity is even less a defense for crime than ignorance.
And you don’t have the culture of controls that exist at real financial institutions. Often you hear a story of some firm like Amaranth or M.F. Global that blew up and what you always find is that the basic controls that prevent an organization from taking on disasterous positions are not in place.

It’s a simple truth that an investment fund that is getting more deposits from withdrawals can vaporize the money and not have any problems until people ask for the money back. That is why financial institutions need strict controls.
No, people think that if self-custody your private keys carefully, nobody can steal your coins.

If you participate in actual DeFi where you keep your keys and participate via smart contracts, nobody can steal your coins.

All of this was true and is true. What happened is that corporations adopted the language of cryptocurrency to mean something totally different to trick consumers, like calling FTX a DeFi platform.

You want a villain, it ain’t the maxis who kept repeating “not your keys, not your coin”. It’s VCs like a16z, sequoias, and paradigm who lended credibility to centralized exchanges that defrauded people who ignored the cryptocurrency advocates.

The FTX story only strengthens the facts and narratives the cryptocurrency advocates have been saying. The real fraud is happening in venture capital which is rotten to the core.

And by the way, bitcoin is down this year but not nearly as much as VC darlings like Carvana and Affirm.

VC is the scam. VC is the engine of pump and dumps in both TradFi and crypto centralized exchanges. The real voices of cryptocurrency have been vindicated.
Madoff was also involved in a highly regulated industry. That's one thing that confuses me about all of this. A main selling point - probably _the_ main selling point - for crypto has been that it allows users to avoid the current legal framework. And that was also the main reason FTX gave for moving to the Bahamas - there was much less regulations.

It's strange to see people actively seeking a space outside of the government's legal jurisdiction, and then getting incensed that the government isn't entering that jurisdiction more quickly to protect them when things inevitably go sideways.
> I know some people aren't going to like reading this

Sure, just don't push your preferences on other people. That's really the issue of work remote or not.