skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the biggest advantages is re-use, extensibility and being robust to change, because you define things bottom up. Think of aggregates as "hashmaps with typed keys" rather than "structs with places in them".

Aggregates are implicit groupings, not explicit slots. This wards you from risk of change and speeds up your feedback loop of making changes and experimenting with ideas. Plus you can compose new aggregate variants out of the same primitives (attributes) which is a fairly typical use-case.

Another is query composition. I'm more familiar with SQL and I'm somewhat comfortable with writing nested queries. But we all know how both query builders and similar are often hard to re-use and compose. With these datalog dialects, composition, refactoring and extraction of logical units is much more straight forward, even as a beginner. Queries are "flat", and consist clauses that can be moved around and composed. Think of having more associative and commutative operations.

On top of these, the mentioned technologies (in the article) are temporal and support time travel out of the box. That's something you can do on top of SQL of course but it's quite powerful to have it in-built as a primary feature. Whenever you have an application that does things like (non-exclusive), reporting, undo, revisions etc. You might want that.
And assumes a 50 year life time. That sounds optimistically long, although I have no idea how long a conventional container ship lasts.
If I'm not mistaken Stockfish has it's own neural network implementation as well correct?
How do you get around it though? Genuinely asking. I guess you try to source your own parts outside of controlling companies and only work on open source OS's and software run by super transparent groups? It just seems like a ton of work for something that might not even be viable. I don't know how I could possibly operate outside of apple, microsoft, google, etc. all of which have massive ethical issues.

To be very clear I'm not saying "it's hopeless why bother you're wrong" etc. I'm just curious what your solution(s) is. I'd love to decouple myself from these groups as much as I can over time.
It's ~5000 people per year, 1 in a million humans per year (and of course most humans aren't interested in going)
It isn't so simple, because what makes google (and facebook in its own ecosystem) so valuable are all the data they gathered about you. If you make ads context-sensitive, google is not bringing anything better on the table than any startup in that domain could bring, maybe some minor cost optimization due to scale.

But they can sell customized ads stating that they will be very well targeted regardless of current content. Which seems to be what advertisers want much more, and reason why facebook never opened up their apis to google+ IIRC, your social graph and its use is basically the only worthy thing on whole facebook.

It of course brings all this tracking evil, why google stopped being morally OK company etc. But the money are there.
> All of this just smells of greed.

Apple is a for profit company.

I could turn this around and say that it's greedy to expect a company to offer these tools for free. There's an investment on their end as well.
There should be a browser extension, similar in principle to the old "https everywhere", that attempts the solar page first, falling back to the coal powered one if the solar one is down.
> How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?

Late 21st century? Put wheels on the bottom of it...
I mod down anyone whose comment is essentially nothing but "in mice".

It's just a way of being smugly dismissive without adding anything of value to the conversation.
Cities: Skylines is great, but I do feel it leans a bit too strongly on the agent simulation. So much that a lot of the game is about traffic planning. You are almost required to mod the game (with TMPE) to make the most optimal traffic network, which involves manually planning each major intersection, micromanaging road lanes and configuring timed traffic lights. I've had a lot of fun with it, but I wish I could let the computer handle all the road planning details and I could get on with designing the city, but past a certain size, I feel it forces me to start doing road planning more than city planning. Almost wish there was a "Traffic Manager AI" mod to do all that for me.

Alternatively, you could use it to build dioramas. With enough mods it is one of the best tools for building digital city dioramas and best of all, the simulation still mostly works, so you get to watch people live in the city.

Overall definitely a fun game, lets you build much more natural-looking cities than Sim City, with the only downside being that the road network has a greater impact on the simulation and requires more micromanaging than I would like.
Nothing, it's Musk drones rushing to defend their god. The parent leaves out that Musk fired an engineer in a meeting where he demanded to know why his tweets weren't getting enough engagement.
They do this to discourage users from installing 3rd party apps.
I know it is still greedy, but that's the reasoning behind it.
It is, but OpenID didn't have this problem because requests were always initiated by the other party.
> Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with this idea when it comes to apps that I plan to distribute. I’m using their servers, and their infrastructure to handle updates, reviews, payments, etc.

Even when you do plan to distribute it it's hard to justify that it's for a good purpose. The review process is so broken and infuriating that I often find myself thinking that _they_ are the ones who should be paying us to go through the stress of trying to publish an update to an app.
Preface this by saying I don't know how I feel about this line or reasoning, but this is the ethical arguments I've heard against "curing" and/or preventing psychiatric disorders (ASD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, ADD/ADHD, etc.)

The argument goes - These disorders are incredibly taxing for both the individuals who suffer these conditions and for their family, friends and colleagues. There is real suffering and pain, and alleviating this pain, and potentially preventing it through germ-line edits could eradicate these conditions for ever (glossing over the incredible ethical concerns there)

At the same time, these conditions _can_ provide incredible gifts to both the individual and society as a whole. History is littered with famous artists, scientists, etc., who have all made important and unique contributions to the human experience. Would they have been able to do these things without their condition? In curing the disease, are we missing these non-linear thought patterns that are common with these disorders? And what cost does that have for society?
America's Largest Railroads Are Ruining Our Supply Chains [video]
He also has a great Twitter account here: https://mobile.twitter.com/GrugBrainedDev/with_replies
Some links for these:

• https://retream.itch.io/quod-init-exit-iio

• https://protovision.itch.io/sams-journey

• https://csdb.dk/release/?id=212190
The damn copyright cartel. They want their insane laws everywhere.
It's way worse than DMCA actually. With DMCA you can get takedown requests when one of your users uploads copyrighted works. Comply with the takedown requests in reasonable ways and you're fine.

The EU legislation means that platforms are liable beforehand.
The South Pole is also closer to the center of the earth than the equator. Not sure how that effects altitude:temperature relationship .
Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

That penguin walked to his certain death, while his mates swam and caught fish, to their certain death. Sadness for it and his supposed insanity only exists for a fleeting moment. In a long enough timespan, it lived and died like any other penguin has or ever will.

Nihilism is not necessarily pessimistic. It presents our universe, and life itself, as a glass half full, but it's up to you to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Thanks for this evening philosophical reflection.
If you fire 1000 people and just 0.5% go crazy over the firing you got 5 people abusing their remaining permissions. Being strict makes it easy for the company. Especially those where employees are just a number for the executives.
Depends on what he's using it for. Ventoy won't boot on lots of intel Macs and certain questionable EFI systems. If they're refurbishing machines and time is more important having separate USB sticks for each OS is worth not having to fiddle with it.
I am a founder and some of my work is content marketing related.

I think it's a great position in general, but I wouldn't want to do it all day.

Some more or less random thoughts:

- Content creation is hard, especially in the beginning.
- The content is always marketing, so it has to align with the overall business strategy.

- Creating content on linkedin is a great way to get to talk to many people with different backgrounds.

- Is your name attached to the content or do you post in the name of the company? Very different in my opinion.

- How do you stay sharp technically? This is a real challenge. After 6 months you already out of touch with a lot of the day-to-day work as an engineer. So find a way to stay close to tech, try new things, learn about tech as well.

- Talk to the founders, product management or whatever they have about their vision and strategy for the company and the product. Do you align with that? if yes, content creation is much easier.

- Not sure how easy you can move out of content marketing. It seems like it's a great way to be stuck in a dead end. You need to leverage conversations with your customers and other people to influence company strategy to open up a way into management. Maybe someone else can give some more insights here.

There is probably a lot more to it. Feel free to ask more questions.
It has a pattern: all women. So I guess the motive might be "women = good".
Microsoft Git Server
Lexus entering Japan started the slow decline of Toyota-badged luxury sedans. The Alphard is still an upper-middle class status symbol, but the people who saw Toyota as a luxury brand bought their last Crown ten years ago and are fast approaching 80. I suspect that is also the reason for the unification of Toyota badges and the Hail Mary design of the new Crown.
Hearing more. Appears some C-Suite and VPs have resigned in protest. Earnings call tomorrow. Maybe Gabe finally brokered the Microsoft acquisition that everyone has been joking about since he joined. Seemed like a joke then, but now.....
I agree that the $99/yr stops me from making side apps (that could blow up into the next big thing, who knows) for Apple, I’ll just focus on the web platform instead. Sorry to go on a tangent here to the bird site, but I can’t help but think how hysterical it is that the bird site wants to charge developers 12x the cost of the Apple developer program. $100/mo for twitter api access
Aren’t these called drones, and haven’t they been around a while?

Predator drone entered service back in 1995 per Wikipedia, and it’s use only skyrocketed since (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) There are other models like Reaper

Turkey, Iran also seem to be big players here, among others
I don’t understand products like this. If you don’t own the model, what value do you provide?
Maybe for high functioning, fully self-sufficient autists whose condition is more of a personality trait. But I can't imagine it being the case for those who essentially can't survive without assistance.

It would be like the "net negative" of someone in a wheelchair who can now walk again and therefore lose access to welfare benefits and handicapped parking spots. Now maybe some people in wheelchairs think their handicap is part of how they are and want to keep it, but I would be surprised if it wasn't at best a tiny minority.
Reading comments sums to: management is useless - they fail exactly on what they suppose to do - no value added to company.

- flatten org chart

- make CEOs talk to low level workers a lot so things will came up

- hire yo-corporation-domain specialists as managers, not suits specialists
That doesn't bother me as a customer. If the company is laying people off it's probably also getting more efficient and therefore cheaper.
I think you misunderstand my point slightly. Here’s the difference: in JS everything that needs to be async is actually marked async. So when you use a browser api or library function you know for certain. I agree I like that and want it for Rust. In Rust the standard lib is not async aware so it cant be used safely from async code, period. And tons of Rust code uses the stdlib and it’s not super practical to just not use it so you’re stuck asking whether something is safe to call from async code or not with zero help from the compiler. So we agree not having the compiler do this sucks.

(What I meant by partially skirting the colored function issue is that you don't have to call await on the result of a function if you dint want to. So you can call a blue function from a red function just fine and do stuff with the result. You just can’t await it. This adds back lots of flexibility that some async impls in other languages don’t allow for.)
Show HN: I'm building a new Bubble – for tech and non-tech people
Website: https://codesmash.studio/schema

Demo: https://youtu.be/aBT0qPnl42U

Okay guys, I'm building a new No Code platform. The biggest problem with current No Code app builders, from what I can tell, is the lock-in.

That's why I'm making sure to build a No Code platform where you will have access to all of your code, which will be saved in Git repos by default. This way there will be no lock-in. The devs will be able to access the code with VS Code, so they can work in sync with non-tech guys, who will be using the UI.

You can think of it as NPM for fullstack apps. Users will be able to compose apps from repos. Repos will be provided by the community, so any frontend, backend or infrastructure code can be reused in building new apps.

Currently, I'm working on supporting Terraform to create composable AWS infrastructure. Feature requests are welcome and I'll add them to my roadmap!
Seems like sociopathic tendencies are a requirement for C-Suite Execs
Maybe it’s just me but I find the SQL much easier to read in all the examples given.
I'm not blaming anyone, I'm advising people not to introduce single points of failure into their business. You need to either ensure that any dependencies can be replaced easily (which is hard) or diversify these dependencies in a way that failure of one of them is not catastrophic. For example, if you rely on advertising you need to diversify to Facebook, Google, Bing, Amazon, and other online advertisers instead of relying on only one of them. As I've said, it's common sense, so my apologies for stating the obvious.
> the subject of “female safe spaces” was brought up as an argument against allowing people to transition

No, it was brought up as a counter to your claim that single-sex spaces have no value (“the ‘wrong’ bathroom… arbitrary bullshit” in your comment).

Nobody in response mentioned anything about transitioning or trans people at all.

You are welcome to make the case that the strength dimorphism shouldn’t be taken into account for individual scenarios, but the idea that it doesn’t really exist or is generally insignificant is frankly gaslighting and insulting to people born female.
I mean, Alexander was if nothing else a pretty bad guy to be be around. Just ask his friend Cleitus who saved Alexander's life but would later get killed by him in a drunken fight.
Well yes it makes sense to criticize the government effectively subsidizing your competitors when they failed to innovate. This reduces the willingness of companies to innovate like Tesla did because they know they can sit on the haunches and wait for the government to bail them out with tax payer's money.
My understanding in the US is that the Executive can sign international treaties, and those are not subject ot veto by the Legislative

> In recent decades, presidents have frequently entered the United States into international agreements without the advice and consent of the Senate. These are called "executive agreements." Though not brought before the Senate for approval, executive agreements are still binding on the parties under international law. [0]

An EU law is an international treaty. Can the Senate kick out the US president and refuse to agree to the treaty he signed?

[0] https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/treaties.htm
> why would anyone believe that's inevitable let alone possible?

Because I'm a materialist so I believe computers could completely accurately simulate a brain. An artificial brain would necessarily be conscious.
Per the "boring rod"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boring%20rod
Gross Profit isn't a helpful number as it doesn't account for any fixed costs like offices, wages, sales and marketing, etc. Operating profits is a better indicator (EBIT or EBITDA) and also much closer to the holy grail of Free Cash Flow that companies need to keep an eye on to make sure they make payroll and fulfill their interest payments obligation, among other things
Nile Red made chocolate recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaCZcdWk1DU

I have no idea how an ancient culture might randomly stumble into this process.
> I appreciate the enthusiasm of the modern AC teams (hi Larry!), but these are not good boats.

I liked the AC class more when it was designers + crews + conditions fighting it out not just programmers.
> Datalog has great compositionality, which is one of SQL's big weaknesses

There's a good write-up on this aspect (amongst others) here: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/

> recursive queries are completely natural in Datalog, whereas in SQL they are bolted on with recursive common table expressions

And similarly: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2022...
Apple is extremely hostile to anything that isn't "get the app from the App Store".

Hell, deploying your app to your phone without a developer license used to require that $99...
> It could ruin thousands of lives.

It's not "could". It has ruined thousands of lives. How many depressed people out there have had their last little connection with humanity severed because of a dumb algorithm? How many small businesses have died because a random business account was shut down overnight with no recourse? I'm convinced that there's been at least some suicides over the problems caused to peoples' lives from the deliberate decision to not provide human customer service in some fashion from these Silicon Valley giants.

The really infuriating part is that this isn't even a selfish decision about money, which would be evil, but at least understandable on some level. Customer service can be revenue neutral or even a profit center if these companies were willing to charge a fee for actual good, human support to resolve the most important issues.
Is it though? Isn't the enforcement authority in Norway still the Norwegian government and not the EU? Can't Norway vote to rescind that bilateral agreement?
Hyundai is definitely doing well in terms of charging speed, but they're still a bit slower than Tesla (220 kW vs 250 kW). The marketing is confusing here, as Hyundai cars need a "350 kW charger" to achieve their max charging speed, and so they like to mention that 350 kW number, but they don't actually have the ability to draw anywhere near 350 kW of electricity.
At least we can thank DO for training ChatGPT on high quality content
The government of the member states is not the parliament of the member states.

Also between the date something pass at EU level and during the delay to transfer directive governments changes, parliament electives can be reelected, etc.
> what is the difference of a few extra million market cap to handicap your ability to grow during the next expansion phase?

For an executive, it's a big difference in stock based bonus.

The executive level at corporate america tends to filter for status and financial obsessed sociopaths, so they make sociopathic decisions where they are content with making decisions that harm many (layoffs) but benefit themselves. That's how we got the enron, the great financial crisis of 2008, and many others.
Wonder what it does to human health if the microbes on your skins surface are constantly exposed to Far-UV?
The China/US link is frequently overestimated it’s only 14% of total US trade. China isn’t even the US’s largest trading partner, it’s 3rd after Canada and Mexico, with a small lead over the EU. Really though the top 4 spots are all fairly close to each other.
Great, now it'll become even less usable
Seems like many superchargers are already overcrowded with Teslas alone in my experience, so this will reduce the appeal of Teslas. The biggest advantage Tesla has and the main reason I chose it is due to its dedicated charging infrastructure which is way better than other systems.
ShopifyQL Notebooks: Simplifying Querying with Commerce Data Models
This seems to be targeted to OEMs. There is little information regarding supported underlying hardware.

Some Rockwell (Allen-Bradley) PLCs, for example, now use commodity Intel hardware like i7 processors and Ethernet modules. These PLCs and I/O modules also provide deterministic time guarantees, especially important for motion applications. Since the OEM has control of the hardware, the software is tightly coupled to ensure deterministic performance.
I wrote an Android app for my little programming news aggregator, and published that on the Play Store because it was basically free (IIRC there might be a one-time signup fee). $99/yr is a ridiculous sum for the "privilege" of publishing in Apple's walled garden, and it's just not something I'm willing to do.

The arguments for paying for review, distribution, advertising, search, etc feel so disingenuous when the company is worth so much money and these apps are contributing to its bottom line.

I really hope that the EU is the one that finally breaks down this annoying wall. I might consider using an iOS device at that point, but absolutely and definitely not before that.

I don't know where Apple went wrong -- third-party software made them as big as they are today, and they decided to turn on developers at some point and make them jump through hoops for nebulous "reasons". And yet the app store is still just filled with so many low-quality apps, scams and the like. They just look semi-pretty on launch and don't crash within the first minute or so.
AFAIK, the optimization undermined the only use case that -fno-omit-frame-pointer actually had on x86_64. Is there a real use case that benefitted from allowing the frame pointer push to wander? Why why why
As someone with ADHD who just (about 5 days ago) discovered how magical the right stimulant is for instantly vaporizing all disordered symptoms, I'm pretty sure giving patients the choice will always be better than treating or not treating them based on ethical implications.

Choosing not to treat someone because "they may contribute to society", even if they are suffering and wish not to suffer from their treatable disorder, is always unethical imho.

However, forcing treatment on someone who either doesn't want to pursue treatment, or has tried treatment and decided against it, would also be unethical.
The current White House has been anti-Tesla since the beginning so I've got no clue what you're talking about.
As a Model Y owner I just rented a Polestar to do a 72 hrs, 800 mile trip -- just to evaluate the experience. I missed my Y for many reasons however the trip went well overall but the Electrify America charging infrastructure leaves much to be desired. HOWEVER, their rate pre kwh can be 30% cheaper at peak times so I just bought the CCS adapter so I can optionally use those chargers -- even when cross country driving in my Tesla.