skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that relational dbs like both Postgres and SQLite are extremely battletested and reliable, incredible pieces of tech, with tons of features. But what I’m reading here is a minefield of footguns, for fairly trivial logic, so I’m wondering if these tools were really designed for these use cases.

Now, I don’t know if every server-side app NEEDS to run in 10 regions, auto-refresh session cookies, notify when someone starts typing a comment, report metrics every time the user moves the mouse pointer (or whatever else the kids do for fun these days). But let’s assume for a moment that's the common case.

My understanding is that these relational dbs require a lot of config, awareness of the difficult distributed issues, and other layers such as caching, batching and so on, all of which is incredibly error-prone.

In fact, the most important parts of the ground laws of data manipulation isn’t even part of a schema! I could worry less about enums and nulls, in a world with orders of magnitude more dangerous creatures: losing writes because I wrote to a replica, reading or writing inconsistent state, duplicate writes etc etc. It feels like we have a lot of structure around the easy stuff, but no structure around the hard parts.

As a mere a dabbler with databases, can someone help calm my nerves?
Anybody else having a problem loading the site? I'm getting Server Not Found
Besides the refraction, there's also a geometrical effect. An observer is not on the line of the Sun-Earth-Moon centers; he's offset from it by Earth's radius at Earth's surface, so he's at one point of a triangle and sees a Sun-Moon angle of slightly less than 180º.

The refraction is a larger effect, but even an airless planet could have an observer seeing the centers of both the Sun and Moon at eclipse time just above the horizon.
Researchers don't need access to the data. They need to be able to run analyses on the data and get results. This can be achieved without handing over the data and in the UK the NHS actually built a system to do this. And then the corrupt Tory government handed the data over to Palantir anyway.
The central repository is TCGA and dbGAP. It's pseudoanonymized but some datasets are restricted acces. When I worked for Google, we applied for access and downloaded the whole thing (petabytes) and then got an email from NCBI that we had to delete it all. Our idea was that we could serve a copy of it "for free" for researchers (internal to Google or external) to use in the cloud (without having to redownload it). This morphed a bit and became Public Datasets with User-Pays access. And AWS hosts it as well. Far more people use the data on AWS than anywhere else.
Interesting! I overlooked that reference.

Another, more polemical book on the subject would be Christopher Caldwell's Age of Entitlement, which I haven't had a chance to read yet, but from what I understand makes the argument that the 1964 Civil Rights Act caused these issues.
Putting aside product strategy and Howard Hughes for a minute, it's worth paying respect to the Revue team. A little group of good humans in the Netherlands, creating a slick and well designed product in an otherwise competitive space. It's a testament to a lot of good work and the kind of energy that makes this industry such a joy at times.

It's also one of endless examples of the downsides of acquisition for users (if not the founder/team with equity, who know the game they're playing). I often think of the analogy of rich kids from dysfunctional families who buy a lot of cool stuff and don't really do much with it after their social signal moment. Been on both side of this to some degree in the industry and it's never fun to see the users let down at the end of it.

While this is part of what keeps the industry going, it would be nice to see more open source outcomes for such well designed products. But to end on a positive... well done team, hope you all go on to make awesome things again.
Netflix is famous for its all cash compensation packages.
Yeah the "you could be an archeologist or a historian" was such obvious bullshit that I can't believe any adult could say this with a straight face."

They always listed the jobs you could have with a degree instead of the jobs you would have with a degree.

My wife got a GIS degree. They told her about all the map making jobs. They didn't say 95% of these jobs were oil and gas.
Do they still use the old PT model for fitness upkeep?

According to the General in the linked video from 2012 they have tried to make some improvements, though there is only so much they can do with someone that has been eating poorly and sitting still for most of their life leading up to enlistment. I have not kept up to date with what they are currently doing but there are others here that I believe are still in the military.
But isn't espressif's main "value proposition" the included wireless stack?
Is this comment on the correct thread?
I don't think that's entirely true, but the 'p' is pSRAM does stand for 'pseudo' and does have refresh circuitry and is slower than true SRAM. By how much, I have no idea.
Exactly. Absolute crazytown.
Made for a good Cary Grant film.
What exactly do you mean? Very few, if any, hosts of health research data have the data, network, and compute infrastracture to make use of their data. It should be in the cloud so it's actually useful.
Then we'll just have to invent yet another, slightly different, form factor.
It's the other way around. Younger generations have discovered that the busting of the ass in and of itself does not lead to financial comfort or stability. At least going to college and working an office job kind of still holds that promise. Why stand 10 hours a day at a machine, when I can work 7 at my desk for better pay and better long-term prospects?
Agreed. Based on what I've heard from others at Netflix, it is plausible that some engineers are making $900K cash comp.
The personal cannot be separated from the common, the community is itself a collection of individuals. The common good is not only pertaining to happenings in public spaces. People who mistreat themselves and others privately still pertains to the common good, eating unsafe food in private will still degrade society and healthy foods should be encouraged (this has not been done in the United States, I've heard it's better elsewhere but I can't be certain).

We could say drug addiction is a "personal" evil, it should still be combatted (I oppose [most] drug advertising for this reason). I've known people who harmed their bodies, irreparably in some cases, without harming anyone else. But that's not the whole story. Their family relations are degraded, they cost public resources, they have worse relations, and not to be forgotten is that they are people who deserve love, help, and support. I apply this to other evils other than drugs, such as pornography.

Pornography is sold, provided, promoted to the general populace. It has an affect on real people and is typically spread socially. Discouraging and disrupting this helps individuals and groups by helping discourage immoral and unhealthy actions from spreading. Pornography affects an individuals outlook on not only themselves, changing their own view of their sexuality, but also changes how they view others, this is especially important in children who are developing in so many different ways.
Having to right click and select rename drives me nuts
If you manipulate strings in code using "+" (string concatenation symbol) from a user input you'd be in a world of hurt where you either do a lot of regex (which is ugly and unmaintainable) or you limit the user input to known characters only (which would be a bad user experience and later on your manager would ask you to lift such constraint anyway because they want to support a new feature from now on). Therefore you use, for example, a stream and simply dump your user input in the stream buffer, as they come, and go with that stream in your code from that point on. This way you're future proof too if your manager wants a new feature to support, as example, Chinese and/or Japanese keyboard
That’s a standard admonishment given to the accused when they are accepting a plea deal. The only thing the prosecution can offer is a recommendation to the sentencing judge. Usually the judges agree, but they don’t always.
TL;DR: Yes x55
With what provider? That part is talking about some unnamed alternative, not letsencrypt.
No idea. I think there's a real problem with the whole design of premium numbers because I'm not sure how one is even supposed to know when payment is required or meaningfully accept it, though at least the API apparently allows this.
Why does the physical location of the mining rig matter?
It still exists ello.co and I remember the same another FB/MySpace killer that didn't kill anything lol.
Same with retail management. Maybe things are different these days, but as of ~2010 the highest position at Target you could work without having a degree was team lead.
Ask HN: Why Read Books?
Obviously as a student, books are important. But later in life, as a source of entertainment, books can't compete with bars, chatting with friends, television, movies, sports, social media, all of which hit quicker. So, why should one read books?
How to Host a Ghost Blog for Free on Fly.io (2022)
Wow. I will always remember when I got the AWE32. I had a SB16 which was still great before that. I switched to the AWE32, and remember fighting with my computer get any audio going at all, and wanting to play Day of the Tentacle [1] with this new upgraded magic. After messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat for hours thinking this was some kind of IRQ "LOTR issue I would defeat", I found my speaker to be just not plugged in correctly. Fixed that in shame. I then started to play DOTT in AWE.

One of my best memories growing up. RIP.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BRXmgcBHBM
I fucked up my back regularly until I'd had enough and started doing a lot of back strengthening exercises, which virtually eliminated the problem. Been doing them ever since. The doc who helped me with this told me that back injuries come from weak backs. You have to specifically work on those muscles to avoid injury.

I found out when waterskiing that you don't get strong waterskiing, you get injured. You have to spend a lot of time in the gym so you don't get injured waterskiing.

Back when I was younger in Seattle, lumberjacking was still a thing. They told me that the limiting thing was injury. They'd work into their sixties. There aren't many jobs harder than lumberjacking. I wouldn't mess with any of them, either, they are freakin' strong and I'm sure they could cleave me from head to toe with a casual swing of the axe.

I'm not in the least surprised that people working in trades mess up their backs, nor do I doubt that they do. But injuring one's back is not the same as wearing it out.
The reason why I was asking is I've seen claims thrown around a lot about automation revolutionizing manufacturing, but that revolution has already been underway for eight decades with notable companies moving away from from it because humans are several orders of magnitude more versatile than any machine. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of room for improvement to make machinery smarter, but I'm just not seeing anything like an industrial revolution coming because of it.
Never bothered to learn the other ones. All I do is insert, find, find/replace, start/end of line, save, don't save. Only for when I'm on a server via cli. On my local, I use VSCode, PHPStorm.
You don't check off list items to get into some predetermined upper band, you make them want to hire you even if they have to top out their budget for the role.
In the US, Verizon offers (sometimes includes for free) a battery backup unit for their ONT for FiOS service, in the name of providing only the phone services during a power outage. In general there’s nothing stopping any customer from using an off the shelf UPS.
given the low pay and general low-status of walking-based jobs, I'd wager it's either one or the other
>The minimum salary paid for a position is useful information

Is it? I found SWE roles with a salary range from 50,000-50,000. But in reality I doubt there's any engineers at Netflix making 50k
I'm not promoting vi just that I never felt the need to move away from it. I'm sure I'm missing tons of goodies that would make me more productive
I think this comment is the first time I've realized how out of touch I may have become with the world. I had no idea that kids wants to be influencers and Youtubers instead of say, rock stars or sports stars.

In a way I find it a little sad, as a reminder humans keep getting more isolated with tech. Where 30 years ago we wanted people cheering us on, chanting our name, etc... people now seem to desire views, likes, and whatnot.

I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just really hard for my brain to process as I don't understand it.
It's so nice of you to grant people posthumous permission to have been cynical about Hitler's promises of peace or Nazi ideology in general, provided they were deeply committed to making Nazism actually awesome.

You seem blind to the difference of being lazily cynical about something flawed but ultimately beneficial (and with flaws that you could help address) and seeing through cons dressed up in edifying language about noble causes. Ignore it at your own peril. A lot of very sincere communists met a sticky end under communism as a reward for the sincerity of their beliefs, and very sincerely trying to embody "googly" (etc.) values as espoused by HR may well proof equally terminal (if only to your career). Especially as a slightly aspergery nerd prone to take policy statements at face value.

> inaction is responsible for a lot (arguably most) of the world's problems

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves
I hear you!

I found the link from noodling around in a code base posted to the GPTDuck post earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34263525.
> stopped reading here

Your account is 5 days old. Either you need to learn the culture instead of telling other people, or you're a coward that won't voice their real opinions on their main account.

Or you've been banned already and need to take the hint.
Ye ... Imagine 'Passion of the Christ' in English. It would have been so much worse. What other examples are there? I can only think about the other Mel Gibson movie about Azteks. He seems to have a thing for proper languages.
who is “you people” here
> That said, it mostly exposes SQLite via its HTTP API,

How does it compare to PostgREST in this regard?
I don’t understand why the cartel would put these in such an obvious location. (But I also don’t understand why anyone would…)

They seem to be in obvious, high traffic areas. The one mentioned in the video is a short hike from the Utah capitol building. If you hike at all and live in salt lake, this is where you go. Especially in the winter. It seems like they were asking to be found.

It’s certainly less in the winter, but in the summer hundreds of people would hike or bike past this everyday.
Strongly disagree. That theory says that any criticism of anyone is "outgrouping". The word loses all meaning.

I can say that people who, IMO, teach children these harmful falsehoods are doing the wrong thing. WITHOUT saying they should be treated badly as a group, or jailed, or that they have bad hygiene, or anything else.

If we can't disagree with specific behaviors, I don't know what's left.
If they did that, then there would be no incentive for customers to choose arbitration over filing a dispute with their credit card.
> only so much they can do

It's curious though. We also live in a couch-to-5K world now, so it'd be interesting to know how far "only so much" might go.

It also seems strangely commingled with lack of motivation, the way people complain about others sitting around, which teasing those apart is a good way to attack such problems.

(Especially factoring in the actual, likely fitness needs of a given individual in a given MOS being at war and maybe charging drones most of the day while periodically jogging for cover, or whatever the numbers show is likely-activity vs contingency-plan.)
Previously Netflix only had 2 levels: software engineer and senior software engineer. I heard they were going to change that but I don’t know to what extent that was changed.
Please keep making little rock formations unless it’s explicitly verboten. I love seeing them, they’re delightful little surprises even on the roadside on interstate road trips. Please also continue to shelter yourself as needed, again unless your presence is explicitly verboten, or if you just need to survive. Those are excellent examples of good use of public land, and mostly explicitly verboten is key. Otherwise the land is for your use the same as it is for anyone else.
> it has become simple to use for the masses

It has? I use gnome bits daily and it's a mess of inconsistent and zero-ux-background-so-i-came-up-with-my-own paradigms.

There's no reason why the gterminal, for example, should replace the top most item in the right click menu with hex/oct representation of a number you happen to have selected, or every gnome app keeping affordances in "fun" new places:

Compare gedit vs gnome-weather vs gnote vs gcontacts - sometimes there's a hamburger menu, other times there's contextual stuff under an icon, or a button, or a button with a contextual menu. Variety is the spice of life, right?

If you're crushing it usability, you certainly can gloat about my way or the highway type of philosophy, but gnome is in no danger of that.
That's not what I said.

I was pointing out that there is a significant difference in quality of life, and lifestyle, between a person on 70k and 100k.

Which the poster in was responding to seemed to think was not the case.
That article is specifically called out as being misleading and clickbaity by Search Engine Journal. I don't see what linking it again is adding to the conversation.

>There have been click-baity news reports stating that “Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct” but that is not entirely accurate.

>Google has not removed that clause. Google has removed it from the preface, resulting in more attention to the word respect. But it still remains at the end of the document as before.
Trakt.tv lets you bookmark, rate, and keep track of the sites and movies you watch. They also have an API which is used by other apps, such as kodi.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-young-is-too-young-for-chil...
Microsoft's response to liberating the ending to Minecraft
Discussion on the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33904251
I would be happy if they stop opposing server side decorations in Wayland. Weston and Mutter are probably going to wind up being basically the only two Wayland WMs that don't support it, making GNOME an unfortunate and avoidable edge case.

I think the CSD initiative is fine if it's a choice. However, I can't choose to not use GNOME on behalf of my users. Libdecor is a bad and C-centric solution to the problem. I know Mutter is designed in such a way that makes this hard; that was a pretty big misstep in my opinion.

Likewise for other things that GNOME Project pushes.

Here is a great example. Wayland has a protocol for inhibiting idle called inhibit-idle. GTK won't use it. Instead, they want you to use a DBus interface from the enormous XDG Desktop Portals API. They refuse to have any kind of discussion about it. End of story.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2202

This pattern repeats for even silly things. Like the size of the mouse cursor on HiDPI screens? No problem bro, just use this bespoke DBus API.

This is all assuming you want to use DBus. Why? Wayland is already the thing that you speak to talk to the display server. Why use another protocol for basic functions like this? If DBus is so great, why do we even need the Wayland protocols in the first place? (Dbus is not great.)
That's weird, it never asks me that.

Does it only do that in very long conversations?
More accurate title: The oldest evidence we have for humans swimming is from 100k years ago.

The operational word about is "evidence"

It's inconceivable that humans or the evolutionary ancestors of humans did not swim before 100k years ago. After all, most mammals are able to swim to a certain extent.
I just read all 4 parts and I have thoroughly enjoyed them. I am curious to hear if the debug console (TEPPOU, or gun in Japanese) works. Please keep us posted!
These questions are optional, in my experience. I’ve never seen a form in a job application where these were required.
Skin care isn't a huge market? Health products aren't a huge market? Google would love to be able to personally target you with ads for your exact skin condition, and be the only company with the data to do so.
I work largely from home, so it's important to come up with reasons to get out of the house. If I have an errand to run I'll do it on my bike. Often the errand is mostly an excuse for a ride.

I enjoy trail running in the winter, when there's nice soft snow on the ground and sweating isn't an issue.

Some days I don't feel up for a run, and just going for a walk is great. I always feel better after, mentally and physically.

I also like going to the bouldering gym, which is a good social environment as well as a place to get some exercise.

I prefer strength training in the evening, I feel exhausted after, I just want to eat and sleep.

A right-sized Cardio workout is energizing, and It's a good way to start the day.
I do think failure modes related to skateboards and plain roller/inline/ice skates are more likely. Ask any skateboarder about The Pebble of Death - it's surprising how such tiny obstacles can instantly stop small hard wheels carrying a lot of weight! Also, proper foot-mounted skates come with strong ankle support for good reason; the added weight and applied leverage are at least fatiguing, sometimes dangerous. And that's unpowered skates - how much more weight do a motor, battery, drivetrain (the reduction is clearly audible in that Wired video...), and additional wheels add?

That's my biggest red flag. Skates strapped to whatever random shoe that users from the full spectrum of agility and fitness are wearing looks a lot like a liability mine field.
The L5 thing is weird because the listed minimum qualifications would apply someone 4yr out of college (which doesn't usually correlate with L5) and the rest of the listing is very much worded in a way that is seniority-agnostic.

Depending on how many of the requested qualifications (i.e. you come from a background that gives you little to no experience on most of them but a lot of depth on one specific ones) you hit 90k may be reasonable.

This really just looks like a boilerplate job description with the bare minimum tweaks. Not surprising that the salary range wasn't tweaked.
> Is it not enough for you that he went out of his way to improve other people's lives?

How did he went out of his way?

> How do you know? Have you ever been in that position?

I don't think snark is necessary here; probably there are no 100B$+ users on HN.

But it's not hard to extrapolate from where am I. I have comfortable tech job, I could easily give away few thousands bucks to some charitable cause just to show off (and my quality of life wouldn't change). Would that automatically make me a good and trustworthy person? I think the answer here is no. I also guess if for some reason my net worth went up a few orders of magnitude, I could also give few orders of magnitude more. Would then I be a good and trustworthy person?
Because you served to help your country and then call it a day, not have your medical legacy live on in a Google product after you’ve left. Just another thumb in the eye for vets from a public that doesn’t care beyond a NFL game. That’s where the simple exercise could lead.