skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating article, but I'm surprised at how non-relatable it is to me in some places where it clearly was supposed to be. For example:

> We can see this in dreams. Those disturbing dreams which wake us from sleep are purely graphic. No one speaks.

Either I'm misunderstanding something, or that's not what I have (ever?) experienced. My dreams (and nightmares) are stories; people talk to me and I talk to people there. I "hear" my thoughts forming into words as usual. Sometimes I may see myself from a third person perspective, or there may be some unspecified narrator, or perspective may suddenly change from one to another... but there sure is language, there are sounds, there are thoughts and it's definitely not "purely graphic".

Other people often describe their dreams as similar "stories", so why does the article seem to assume that no one speaks there? I never heard someone describing their nightmare as just "falling" or "snakes eating their tails", but rather something like "we were at this event together and you were very mean to me and my parents that somehow appeared there as well were even worse and then I suddenly found myself driving a car and crashed".

Movies also seem to depict dreams in this way, and there are common tropes such as "this was all just a dream" or dreams where you dream of waking up and starting your day as usual, so what's up with this paragraph? Does the author only have non-verbal dreams?

Another example:

> A picture can be recalled in its entirety whereas an essay cannot.

Can anyone really recall a picture "in its entirety"? I can recall a ghastly thing that has some overall characteristics of the whole picture. No details whatsoever except some specific things that somehow caught my attention. This is absolutely not unlike an essay, which I'm also able to recall in general ideas and maybe some single phrases that caught my attention. I may learn to remember and recall a specific highly-detailed picture if I put a lot of conscious effort into it, but I can also learn to recall an essay the very same way. Why does the article assume that one is obviously not like another?

Anyone else had this kind of cognitive dissonance while reading this article? (there's a working link in a sibling comment) It seems to somewhat undermine several of the points it makes, so I'm not sure what to think about it.
Does Sergey Brin not use the shift key, or did Google just remove all of them because it's a Googley thing to do?
The Phoenix Project is the same company but earlier in time and following a different team.
I too live in Mexico and have for over a decade. If you say you feel physically safer here, it's because you live in a bubble of safety that's probably the result of having enough money to carefully choose where you reside and having picked a place where crime and insecurity haven't quite filtered to yet. Despite this, it's grossly mistaken or even dishonest to paint this country as a safer place than the U.S. The police are almost uniformly corrupt throughout, and where they don't engage in frequently criminal levels of corruption and extortion, they're often simply inept and unresponsive. God help you if a family member should be a victim of a serious crime or kidnapping here. You will very likely receive a terrible if not outrageously corrupt police response. Exceptions exist, but they're not at all the norm.

Now moving onto crime: Though certain parts of the country are safer from it and some places are remarkably peaceful, no honest person should understate how generally pervasive violent crime of many types has become throughout a growing percentage of the country. NO, IT IS NOT about just drug cartels or people involved in the black markets. Extortion, kidnappings, assaults and murders have reached a point where they affect many people from all sectors even if they're often careful.

Now obviously, Mexico isn't some caricature from a Hollywood movie in which one dodges bullets just by stepping outside, and it's possible to be fairly safe in many parts of the country. However, danger and an inability to respond effectively to crime if you are a victim of it go hand in hand and are much more common than many bubble-ensconced expats claim. The murder rate in the country is 6 times higher than it is in the U.S as a whole, in 2021, murders have reached their highest levels since the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century, and this not to even mention forced disappearances, unreported murders or the numerous types of lesser violent crime that are widespread.

To claim that you're physically safer in Mexico than in the U.S is an exercise in extraordinarily selective thinking or very particular, completely non-general circumstances.

Again, I live here, have for many years and have many friends throughout this country from all levels of the socieconomic ladder. Many of them have been victims of crime in many situations. All have at some point been the victims of police corruption.
> a major part surely must be that there's no "leveling up" economy to move to

You could go to Switzerland or something. Maybe it's more of a case that emigrating from one of top economies means that those people are realizing that economy is not everything for them.
As long as it doesn't damage those things by itself, either it will help them or we're totally wrong about what causes them.
> And yes, in finance, the correlations between asset classes shoot up toward 1 in periods of crisis (black swan event) . Hence, the research for tail-hedging strategies...

Related to what you said here, I was surprised there wasn't a comparison with Vine Copulas in the paper or thread! But this is pretty far outside of my realm of expertise, so maybe it shouldn't be surprising.
SQL based OpenAPI client for cloud and SaaS providers
We are working on a new project called StackQL, which makes it easier for developers to query and manipulate data from cloud and SaaS providers using SQL grammar and semantics.

StackQL is an API client built on top of provider OpenAPI specs with future support for GraphQL and gRPC/proto defs.

Some links are here:

https://github.com/stackql/stackql
https://github.com/stackql/stackql-provider-registry
https://registry.stackql.io/
https://stackql.io/docs
https://stackql.io/blog/

StackQL can be used to query cloud resources (including cross-provider JOIN queries) as well as provisioning and de-provisioning (using INSERT and DELETE) and lifecycle methods (like starting or stopping VM instances - using EXEC).

There is a client mode and a server mode, which serves over the Postgres wire protocol; this is not a Postgres server - nor does it require one. It is not FDW based; we implement our own parser, planner, and executor. It is a self-contained dev tool that could be used in GitHub actions, standalone, or with a visualization solution (such as Tableau, Superset etc.).

We seek feedback and suggestions for features and improvements (and contributors).

Thanks for your help!
Interesting that they say the number of tellers is up because the amount of branches is up, because where I live (New Zealand) it's practically impossible to find a bank branch now days, they've all been shut and replaced with internet banking and ATMs. I can't remember the last time I used a cheque, for instance, probably 20 years, so the requirement to physically go into banks is low, but when you do need one they're not around.
To defeat the relay attack, you need tight restrictions on time-of-flight. That restricts the allowable distance between the vehicle and the actual real key fob.
Debian 11 goes EOL in August 2026.
Key information here is

> But don’t think filming Lego will guarantee you high earnings. There are many, many creators who release Lego videos continuously and have no subs and get no views. Too many. Hundreds, maybe thousands of such creators. It is kind of heartbreaking to see people put so much time and effort for (supposedly) nothing

OP got lucky to get a lot of subscribers and made themselves known in the subject, 10 M views per video in average is a good performance.
RPC is a fundamentally broken concept because it relies on both server and client being synchronized, which is brittle and requires whole system upgrades.

Protobufs and things like optional fields etc help, but not that much.

One of the problems is that RPC is procedural and treats the data as parameters to the function.

REST says that the "data" (the resource) is the primary element and is oriented towards the original OO concept of message passing.

RPC has been bad since the days of XDR and SunRPC, has repeated the same problems with CORBA, WS-, XML RPC, JSON RPC, Java RMI, etc etc.

Programmers love it because it looks* like a standard function call, but the problems are hidden under the covers (versioning, network failures, idempotency, retries, etc).
IMO it's because the bar has gone up, especially from customers.

10 years ago, your social app didn't need to have sub-second response time worldwide while collecting literally everything about user journeys to drive engagement and serve ads, thwart DDoS via scraping or client-side crypto mining attempts, be compatible with mobile and desktop browsers, or be insanely visually appealing and deal with even bigger markup and stylesheet languages that, again, must seamlessly work on mobile and desktop. you didn't really need to have a mobile app that communicates well with frontend.

Also, consumer internet bandwidth, disks, and computers are way faster and cheaper now in the US and Europe than it used to be (and even in developing countries with the proliferation of Starlink). we have facebook machines AND PHONES running m2/a15 Apple Silicon that rivals workstation-class compute at a fraction of their CPUs TDPs. So customers will demand more because they can demand more.

Could we collectively just stayed frozen in 2013 or 2010 when life was simple and browsers weren't operating systems? sure. but clearly the push for more things is working as every tech company is worth more than they used to be back then, even after accounting for today's climate.

TL;DR: capitalism?
It's fantastic to see. Nice that there are success stories like this, and others like the phaseout of leaded gasoline (last country in 2021 for land vehicles, hopefully general aviation soon). It's great that we finally seem to be making progress on PFAS too, but still many more substances to tackle (I hope things like phthalates will be the next ones to be eliminated).
Does Theranos getting investigated, circa 2015, mark the end of that period?
I think that Oracle was well-known as being proudly led by One Real Asshole Called Larry Elison long before Steve Jobs was ever called a dick.
This, exactly!
I think what they're saying is they could simply get your DNA the next time you go to the DMV and have database if they really wanted it.
I'm told most of the rollout was data centers outside North America: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608324539779551232
> the compactness of the mining and processing, and the energy density of nuclear fuel

Like every other comment claiming renewables cannot decarbonize and must be stopped in favour of nuclear, this is just a lie.

A mine like Inkai or Rossing digs up or leeches ore that is around the energy density of coal and occupies areas that would produce more energy as a solar farm thna the mine ever does.

Then a nuclear plant requires a site with a large quantity of water and complete control by the owner of a region that could also produce roughly as much power as a solar farm (thus preventing it from being sited near where it is used and requiring transmission).

The raw uranium extracted after milling produces about 1kW/kg for 3-6 years and the fuel it is enriched into is about 10kW/kg (but requires many times its weight in handling and storage containers) where the polysilicon going into a solar panel produces an average of about 1/8 kW/kg for 20-40 years.

Both mining/milling and enrichment leave vast quantities of heavy metal laden waste which is just left for the following generations to manage.

Capitalists love nuclear because there are endless opportunities for grifting whilst promising that this time it will be better and different and all the lies they told last time are in the past. It's just the marks can only fall for it so many times.

It only really ever actually happens when states want some plutonium and enrichment/separation facilities built and want to charge the public for it. After there is enough for those purposes (about 200-500t of U235 just recently placed into a reactor at any given time) then the military backing stops.
Predictable finalisation. To build say, an operating system, you need to know exactly when memory is freed. If you don’t know this at a fundamental level, how can you schedule work? This IMO is fundamentally why no one has built a modern OS in C# alone.
I think a lot of modern "philosophers" and "religious" people like to think of humans as nothing special and that likely everything would be much better off if we returned to seeking shelter in caves and under lean-tos. I mean it's all relative, but I've only seen a very few ever actually turn their back on modern conveniences or live an ascetic/minimal life.
gender is also biological
That’s really not an issue, as pointed out in other parts of the thread.
Even more interesting is it did in fact make me re-read the entire story twice, after which I understood the message.
Founder of dubverse.ai here. As someone who has done production level TTS(deployed on India's largest news network) I can say there is alot of room for improvement in terms of intelligibility. Most of these open source toolkits/models offer only a certain quality of TTS which is IMO good to play around with but damn too tough to make it sound studio-quality
But they both used webkit lol
They are gonna eat xata.io's lunch, xata is dreadfully overpriced.
Mozilla was in no shape to run on mobile or embedded devices (and still isn't afaik), while WebKit ran quite nicely on mobile and embedded devices, thank you.

And as we all know, Android is as important to Google as iOS is to Apple.

So there was really no chance of either of them (or any other of the many companies interested in mobile and embedded devices, like TomTom for example) ever building on top of Mozilla/xulrunner.
>Sousa was right.

Sure, but so was Thamus [0]. The invention of the written word was met with the same skepticism. People feared the loss of oral tradition. No more bards memorizing epic tales to be passed down from generation to generation, just passive consumers reading the thoughts of others and mistaking it for wisdom.

But ultimately new technologies unlock potential that can't possibly be dreamed of at their inception. Beware the one-eyed prophet who sees any technological innovation as strictly good or bad.

[0] https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept12/2012/09/30/what-was-the-j...
If you think that's crazy, try depositing $10,000 in coin
I'll continue to go through books, docs, courses, and other resources on programming, CS, and math topics and share the best ones on https://bestresourcestolearnx.com to help people learn more effectively.
Elon Musk Is the New Trump: You Either Love Him or Hate Him
The filth, garbage, and trash on the streets of NYC in the 70s matched the filth in the harbor. Congrats on a great cleanup on both land and sea!
Another datapoint for “jobs was an asshole”.

Literally going out of your way to prevent your employees from having a career if you’re not involved. Such an abusive behaviour.

I’m not happy he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.
Adderall and other stimulants activate the chemoreceptor trigger zone in the brain and that can mediate feelings of hunger, nausea, trigger vomiting etc.
People were forming bands long before recording artists were popular. It wouldn't look like the beatles though. It would be you on accordion and your friend on upright bass taking turns singing polka songs for weddings, funerals, in bars, at war, or anything really. If you wanted music back then you needed a musician, which probably meant there were more musician jobs overall. Maybe in some ways, back before the rockstar era, it might have been more realistic to set out and make a career as a musician in a band.

These days though, you don't need a couple musicians in each and every bar in town every night for drinking music, you just open spotify, and if you actually do hire a local musician to play the drinking music you are something of an anomaly.
American military might is arguably the sole reason we live in a stable, peaceful world.

Yes, terrible things happen, but the alternative might be even more terrible. I think of this often. Vietnam was a terrible war, maybe a senseless one, but then again, maybe the war on communism was right -- after all, no ex-communist state is a paradise of civil liberty today, and none of them are even particularly prosperous. With no counter to Russia or China, we could be living in a communist world.

How far into Europe would Russia march if America could not write the check for Ukraine?

What would Europe look like had America not funded the victors in the world wars? What would Asia look like had Japan not been castrated?

I would like to live in a world of global peace, liberty, and cooperative prosperity, but if I can't have that, American hegemony is preferable to some other hegemony, at least so far as we know or can infer.

If men with guns didn't force you to pay taxes, would we have interstate highways or weather satellites or top-notch hospitals, public schools, sewer systems, or a covid vaccine?

In fact, I pay taxes so they can buy guns for the men who make you pay taxes. In return, I get to live in this beautiful, modern, prosperous, scientifically breathtaking world.

It is imperfect, I admit, but it is much better than anything else we have had historically. So much better that it's hard to even understand.

Not long ago our president was in a wheelchair and our nation starved; Americans no longer starve nor does polio cripple them. Would those things be true without federal taxes?

It seems likely that less taxes would only harm us. There is still room to improve what we spend on but...

We just achieved fusion, thanks again to taxes.
Never heard about this Ken.
Genuinely, thank you for your service. A real archive doesn't delete a collection because of public pressure like "The Internet Archive" does.
Dulaglutide is a drug in the same class that has been around longer there is a modest improvement for cardiovascular events.

5.4 years on the drug:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31189511/
The context isn't Linux (an UNIX clone, ioctl is endemic there, no hope).

It is fatfs, a tiny fat library for embedded use, which most of the time will be used w/o an OS.
Sigh, as a T2 diabetic that's been on this for a while, the lack of supply is becoming a real problem. This is in Australia, where the drug is available on the PBS for T2 Diabetes.
Hyatt never worked for Google—he's still at Apple as far as I know. Might be that Google ultimately retracted their offer, but knowing Steve, Hyatt would probably not have remained at Apple no matter what happened.

I don't have any inside info here, but I'd be willing to bet Darin Adler was one of those other REDACTEDs. He was an early Safari guy, as well as tech lead for Mac OS 7 and worked at General Magic, so Google would probably have been pretty happy to get their hands on him.
It causes thyroid tumors in rats, and thyroid tumors are among the most curable cancers.
I've noticed the flag "--deterministic" but couldn't find an explanation. What are the reason someone wouldn't want a deterministic build from this?
So five hours invested in the project would break even for him after five years. Probably not worth it from the time saved perspective, but the experience was likely worth it. Plus the youtube video will likely bring in some income, and he'll likely miss less monthly trash pickups.
I had forgotten there's an effort to maintain the open source version. I don't know how well-maintained it is, but the transition only happened in 2021, so it's probably not too out of date even if nothing has happened since. So how does free sound? http://www.openxtalk.org
> seem to be making progress on PFAS too

It’s in your dental floss, too. Switch to silk or another natural fiber for flossing.
So we should stop designing new drugs because only future generations will benefit?
> It can write logic with JS (The more logic in DB the better.)

why the more logic in DB the better?

It's not visible to all devs, we can't put it in git, we can't write unit tests for the same!
Few months ago I found out that there is such thing as tinyML. The popular introductory material is a book by Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake, and free edX course with paid certificate. Arduino has also released a kit for that course. Santa read my letter and now I have one laying on my desk. I know a little bit about DL but exactly nothing a bout microcontrollers. I have a simple project in mind that should help me become more familiar with the topics, once I will be done with the course. I don't think unfortunately that I will be able to use this knowledge anytime soon at work but building things at this level of complexity should not be expensive and I hope the inspiration for the new projects will come once I will get my hands dirty.
Harassment and toxicity on Mastodon is a very real thing indeed.
Umm no the practice stopped because of antitrust action against these companies by the DoJ. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L....
It might work better in terms of bandwidth/performance, but developer experience was a priority (for myself) for me in this case.
Your source is like the weekly world news of medical information.
Why do people tailgate? A psychologist explains this common driving habit
Tech, labor, civil, criminal, all of those...?
print "goodbye, sweet prince"

I've been slowly porting a lot of my legacy code from 2 to 3 on an as-needed basis, there's a few bits though that are just too huge/crusty/etc that they will never get ported.
McMaster-Carr is for "I need a very specific thing right now at any cost", not for projects like this. Use it as a guide to discover what is available, but only order from there if every day your project is held up is costing you real money.
Posting on Twitter or Mastodon is the equivalent of shouting on a public street. If you don't want to face the consequences of what you say, don't say it publicly (or at least don't do it with your real name).
If you're living a healthy lifestyle, then you probably don't need pills to lose weight. We know diet and exercise (with an emphasis on the diet) will yield weight loss, if it's maintained.

However, that's a big if. Behavior modification is hard. There are both physiological and emotional factors that need to be addressed, and cause many attempts at weight loss to fail.

The drugs are a second line treatment when behavior modification fails.

(And that said, exercise is still important. Overweight or not, it has a massive impact on longevity, physical health, and mental health.)
Thank you, I could not have stated it better myself. When there are many real-life examples that contradict an idea, and only theories and logic that stem from certain questionable assumptions to support that idea, then at very least it is a very poor idea on which to base public policy
They're mostly arguing that it's dangerous to buy because transactions could be rolled back... but nobody in the chain has interest in doing that
No, hangouts is now google chat, meet is what was previously google duo.
> This is not simply a matter of “greed”; it is also a policy choice made by society as to who pays for bank services and where. Different equilibria prevail in different places, partly anchored on historical practice and partly in response to the usual factors which shape public policy.

Fair enough, but I was still shocked by it. I know Japan's "checkerboard" ATM schedule, but (except for normal fees charged for withdrawing money from your savings account) I didn't really expect banks to double-charge you for domestic transactions.