skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. And as such your further elaborations don't make sense.

The classifications board refused classification for the console ports of the game. The reasoning is as follows:

> The computer game is classified RC in accordance with the National Classification Code, Computer Games Table, 1. (a) as computer games that "depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified."

Drug use is common in video games in Australia, although most games would be classified R18+.

The RC was appealed successfully, and the game was classified as R18+.
They do business in the US right? There is an expansive extradition treaty right?
Did some digging - it was killed in 2002 but "Biden reincarnated the legislation (now called the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act) and inserted it into the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today (PROTECT) Act -- the home of feel-good laws like the measure creating a national Amber Alert system. President George W. Bush signed the PROTECT Act into law on April 30."

Nothing more classic than government overreach sneaking into legislation marketed as protecting kids.
Related:

https://nyansatan.github.io/lightning/

https://github.com/nezza/SDQAnalyzer
What's the relative exposure to each?

How many people fly daily? How many use an elevator or escallator?
Do you have any information on the VR issues? I'm getting really weird issues if I really push MSFS2020 on my Ryzen setup.
I really appreciate you taking the time to respond with these details. I do go deep on application-level tech (CSS, HTML, JS with and without frameworks, iOS dev, etc) and it's always disheartening for people to claim that choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being.

The other thing that's going completely over people's heads here is that I made this repo with the intent of helping other people who know less than me. I know I can figure out all the deployment bullshit, but I mentor folks who can't, and also don't have much money, and yet still need to deploy their portfolio projects to the Internet in order to find jobs. I was trying to find a balance of ease-of-maintenance vs monetary cost. If there's an even simpler solution with an even lower cost, that a random bootcamp grad could maintain, I'd adopt it in my template in a heartbeat.

If any of these people claiming it's easy want to work with me on a reboot of the "deploy a web site easy and cheap" template, I'd absolutely collaborate with them on it. I think it's important to democratize all the cheap computing power lying around these days.
The pc platform is standardised and open. Everything else is a fragmentary shitshow. It will clearly be superseded at some point, but I pray it takes its time.
For real time I mean it will not severely slows down a game from 120fps to 40fps, this kind of real time
You can certainly put a SQLite database on a Fly.io persistent volume. You can use Litestream to keep that SQLite database backed up, transaction-by-transaction, on other volumes or in S3; soon, you'll be able to use LiteFS to replicate that SQLite database as well.
That sounds counterintuitive. I have a leak-free water supply yet bet it wouldn't be Helium thight.
> Migrations are just writes

It is possible to change the schema of a SQLite db as "just a write"?
> If you read their tone, EU political integration is a negative aspect.

> I'm saying that a) it was always the plan and b) it's good.

As someone who thinks the EU's mission of political integration is a good thing, I think jumping from "someone seems not to think that it's a good thing" to "they don't understand the history of the EU" is less than civil. Even if you and I both agree with the program, surely it is possible to understand it and yet disagree with it?
Fwiw, I’ve used all of those in my career, extensively here and there. I’ve written many thousands of lines of bash scripts. Even written my own php-for-bash-script style code tags that support arbitrary shells. I’ve written my own log based distributed kv store, gone down the YouTube trail of writing my own db, gone through the angular and react iterations, deep dove in docker, docker compose, k8s, crds and custom handlers, and handled infrastructure via infra as code and with a control plane.

I also have a wife and a 2.5 year old.

It’s certainly possible if you don’t stop yourself.
Flouridation has been studied and scuritnized pretty heavily since the 40s. No one is just assuming it's fine. It is.

The positives of flouridation far outweigh any of the negative consequences that could occur. But I have never heard of anyone with a flouride problem in my life.
When I read lowest common denominator, I think "backwards compatible".

Which has been hugely beneficial to technology. Imagine if WiFi standards weren't backwards compatible.

If technology wasn't built to the lowest common denominator, whilst you might accelera progress, you would do it at the cost of convenience and ease of functionality.
> That’s quite the walk-back.

No, it’s not. I still do think the donation would be monstrous, and that if there were a murder or kidnapping enabled by the doxxing, that it would be on the donor’s conscience for the rest of their life.

That doesn’t mean I have to help ceejayoz derail and inflame this thread, more than two months later. Phrasing my position less aggressively was an intentional choice.

Also, taking the most extreme snippet of what I said in an extended conversation out of context is not an accurate representation.

A key part of what I said is the conditional you quoted from my post that ceejayoz removed. I said, if there were a murder or kidnapping caused by the doxxing activity then the money donated in support of it will have…supported it.
Now that it can search the web it can use the web as an external state that it can use.
Kids don’t have 20 years to wait for some voucher bill to pass, and then new schools to open up and then bad ones close down and better ones open up, all while social infrastructure develops to circulate good information about outcomes so parents can make informed choices, and backstop laws and bills to prevent islands of no-schooling or no-good-schooling to be passed either.

Both solutions take time. One solution injects a whole lot of the worst capitalist incentives into education (grift, hype, profiteering), the other doesn’t.
I wish I lost that much money.
And yet it has been done just about everywhere I have worked in the past, The justification is usually that VMWare will move the machines to another host if it goes down.
I was just going off memory. You are right that it was that specific message and not the previous messages.
WebKit Supports Nested CSS
No, it's not quite like that.

With pipes there's a linear (or quadratic for turbulent flow) resistance, low pressure still results in some flow.

With membranes you have a threshold pressure below which you get no flow at all.
Tesla to expand supercharger stations to all electric vehicles, White House says
The OPs point is that the single process ACID semantics of SQLite don't provide a durability guarantee that includes replication.

Other databases have a commit level that makes sure logs have been shipped.

For me this is an edge case in just about everything except financial transactions (the performance penalty of distributed transactions is pretty high!) but it is correct to note it.
Since the M1 release I have really soured on x86. I had no interest in anything else for the last 30years...and certainly had never purchased a $3000 laptop before.

I purchased a MacBook Pro last year...zero remorse.
I offer you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
And so it is, but I have never gotten that as an answer when asking.

edit: I feel like I should be more specific here. I would only call it a considered technical reason if it was actually considered. The fact that it is possible to come up with good reasons is not relevant if no thought went into it at the time of design/development.
I'm curious why you would be "frustrated" by a crash in beta software that hadn't reached the RC stage.
I’ve argued this before and I’ll argue it here now:

Modern computers are fast enough that in many cases “the only database you will ever need” can be files on the filesystem. For example “1 row = 1 file”.

It brings additional benefits as well: for low-write applications you can use git to get a history (+transactions if you store them in the log), backups are super easy, replication is trivial. For higher-write applications it gets more complex but you can still plan and implement most of the traditional DB scaling techniques (and even implement them one at a time as you go grow).

Computers are “stupid fast” now that we’ve gotten off platters.
rust is supposed to be a systems programming language, so... yeah expect to have systems programming problems to deal with. you want the safety of high level languages, use one...
I hereby coin the linkage between Dark Energy and Dark Stars ... "Dark Synergy"!

Unfortunately, the Dark is scary, as far as I can tell. If black holes masses keep increasing, and the universe keeps accelerating in size, we end by stretch of by crush.

Or does one of these effects ever win? Is there any hope for a middle case where we get through?
Any task that suits the Actor model. FoundationDB famously employs an actor model as it's a nice abstraction for creating distributed systems.
You imagine this could at least be used as material for a 90 minute tutorial somewhere in a logistics or packaging training course.
Sorry I don’t follow your question. The pandemic resulted in both closed factories and ships not leaving port. A double whammy for JIT.
If the data structures that represent your edge cases are simple, maybe QuickCheck can generate your edge cases.

There are equivalent libraries in a lot of languages.
$30k seems grotesquely high, although I do agree with the point. I'm not sure how much of it is to do with supply vs demand (there being a lesser quantity of software engineers experienced in capable of making apps vs plumbers) and how much of that is just artificially inflated, but I imagine it's some combination of both.
Maybe I will revisit this policy. Thanks.
Theoretically, separated port for AC/DC is good to make plug smaller, isn't it? I don't care much about charge port implementation surface area on car.
Everytime I try to use SQLite I run into db locking issues where I seemingly have to try to run my query in a retry loop. Am I doing something wrong or does SQLite just not play nice in multi threaded contexts?
> when we have complete knowledge of the state of a model involving many particles (e.g. gas)

We cannot have complete knowledge of the state of a gas. We cannot even have complete knowledge of the state of a single particle because the positions and velocities of classical particles are real numbers but our knowledge is constrained to be finite, so there will always be some measurement error, and so chaos theory applies. (And physical reality is actually quantum, so we have the uncertainty principle at work as well.)

> This problem is symmetric towards the future and towards the past.

Only because you've carefully crafted this example to have this property; it is not true in general. You have constrained your knowledge of the present to exclude that which is needed to reliably extrapolate into the past. But it is possible to change your scenario and collect data that allows reliable extrapolation into the past, for example, by looking at the coin before it is flipped and remembering (or writing down) what you saw. But for the future this is not possible. That is the essential asymmetry.

> See e.g. this Jaynes' paper

I have a lot of respect for Jaynes so I'll take a look but it may be a while before I have the time to give it the attention it deserves.

One thing I see right away that he gets right (well, mostly): in section 6 he observes that there is no such thing as "the entropy" of a system, which is correct. Entropy can only be measured relative to a state of incomplete knowledge. But calling it "anthropomorphic" is not right. It's not a function of human ignorance specifically, it's a function of ignorance in general.
The person you responded to didn't mention anything about wanting people to stop talking about it.

>Prove it? Or just desperate to convince yourself?

I don't even know how to respond to this. The people who developed the thing and actually work in the field will tell you it's not intelligent or self-aware. You can ask it yourself and it will tell you too.

Language models are not intelligent or self aware, this is an indisputable fact.

Are they impressive, useful, or just cool in general? Sure! I don't think anyone is denying that it's an incredible technological achievement, but we need to be careful and reel people in a bit, especially people who aren't tech savy.
I think even that was seen as a potential “guilty conscience” risk if things went into litigation, so best to just let people suffer and die, that’s less expensive.
And not get fired ?

In my experience you can defy management, accomplish the impossible on schedule and under budget and still get a bad performance review from your manager because by doing so you made him look bad.
It's not about knowledge. It's about convention.

You set the convention where you were - great! I honestly prefer that too, but it's just a convention and not some kind of hard truth.

Before I was even realized as a possible future software engineer, I remember being fascinated by easter eggs.

https://www.stuff.tv/features/hatched-best-easter-eggs-tech-...

As a welp, I remember learning all about the jargon file and how important it was to sound 1337.

http://jargon-file.org

As disoriented, newly-hatched engineer in far-away Redmond, I remember learning about the Windows Registry and why loaded packages were called "hives" (dev was harassing a coworker with a fear of bees).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030808-00/?p=42...

These things are part of hacker culture. Welcome to HackerNews!
I've realized that this whole thing comes down to the word "most" doing too much duty here. I don't think it's true that most applications just run a single db-and-application node. I've never worked on such an application. You and the author do seem to think this is true. It would be difficult for either of us to support our intuition empirically, so this is where the divide comes from.
Right, you don't have to trust the good faith and intentions of these huge companies, just that they don't want to get sued to hell and back by the other huge companies that rely on their products. You can't trust them to do (or not do) anything that they haven't legally promised to do (or not do), but outright lying isn't as profitable as people think.
I can do that basic $300 plumbing job as a developer, but the plumbers I know couldn't do a 30k development project.
It's fun to use on medical reports too. My wife is the type to google every medical term. I just OCR-ed and copied it into ChatGPT and it does a much better job of explaining things, especially when given the full context of a report.
That's why those are examples of why it's subjective.
Transactions, really? How do you lock rows, how do you have relations, how do you do joins? In fact, ext3 can only handle about 50,000 files in one directory. So you'll have to split up your "primary key" into letters like abc/def/foo like we do
Crazy that none of the major companies hit by ransomware haven't thought of that...
Long Covid Looks Like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors Focus Treatments
The spoken word is still vibrations though
> test all my drugs for fentanyl

How?
Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas
Is this sarcasm, or is there a subset of people here who truly believe that the Twitter “files” prove the significant investigative effort, offensive actions by US Cyber Command against the IRA, direct acknowledgement of the activities by Yevgeny Prigozhin, additional investigation and confirmation by private security companies that all echoed the same, highly-believable conclusion were fabricated in a coordinated effort by US intelligence to deceive the people into believing that a nation that has been openly hostile against US cyberspace has… continued to do so, this time in a new way?

If this was indeed a sarcastic comment, I would consider dialing back the subtlety so you don’t inadvertently appear to lend credence to misinformation currently being spread among less scrupulous portions of the population.
Maybe he wants to spend more of his time with his wife and floating point child.
http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/letters/

> Name: Edward
I'm using grep and find and the Unix file system

> Name: Toni
Why do you need a database? I'm using CSV files!

> Name: Carlos
I came after a long journey to your website to seek enlightenment : am I fucked? And it didn't answer that question clearly. Let me re-phrase it: I first search an LDAP directory, then I remotely execute a quota status, after that I query a PostgreSQL database, and then I generate a .txt file with the timestamp as its name or a .csv file with an hash as its name, and then I look up the files from a web page, load it all to a multi-dimensional array, and generate a nice report, re-loading the entire file every time the user wants to, say, sort by another field. Something this complex can't ever possibly fuck up, can it?
try elixir. It has a lot of the same semantics but the tooling is great and consistent. the libraries are descent and the developer experience is one of the best I've ever used.

You can model a lot of problems similarly to clojure. you get immutable structures, agents and a very freestyle ecosystem for getting things done while havign enough opinions laid down to be able to get started pretty quickly
> in how widely they've missed the boat on EVs.

They delivered a well-liked pure EV in the 90s that had a queue of people who wanted one. Chevron bought up a company with key battery patents, sued the RAV4 out of existence, wrote licensing arrangements such that no vehicle battery could be more than a couple of kWh in capacity, and went to court to have the results of their legal action kept quiet.

Toyota's hybrids have had the maximum battery allowed by that Chevron lawsuit. I am not surprised that they would be reluctant to get involved in being on any kind of electric leading edge again given that the evidence is that their entire product line could be destroyed on a whim.
That's sad. My dad had a subscription to these, so I read them quite a bit when I was younger. I think I still have a few lying around.

At the same time, there's more exciting stuff than ever happening in the astronomy world these days. Plug for Anton Petrov (https://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath) for those who like consuming news in video format.
>>Finding fault is part of Science

Finding RELEVANT Fault is part of Science

Of course the rate has changed, but that level of precision is irrelevant to this question. If it was a steady change to this level, then it is off by 50% (straight-line-average), which is irrelevant; if it is a hockey-stick curve that only makes the point stronger, i.e., humans are super-rapidly producing that scale of greenhouse gasses.

The entire point is a very rough estimate that humans are outputting greenhouse gasses APPROACHING THE SCALE OF the greatest climate disaster in the 4.5 billion year history of the planet.

Despite the ordinary expectation that the Siberian Traps' gigantic volcanic activity for more than a quarter-million years dwarfs anything humans could ever do in a few centuries, the fact is that the scale of our output is now in the same playing field as that disaster.

I'm pointing out that we do not have a gnat in the room, we have an elephant. Yet you want to argue that I didn't specify Asian vs African elephant.

I'm not trying to weigh the elephant to the gram, I'm pointing out that we need to do something before it tears down the house.

Your comments about the minutiae, whether or not they might be technically correct, are not science; they are a distraction.

Have a good evening. I'm done here.
I'm paraphrasing:

> cmh89: The right wing is trying to get this through to lead us towards a christian nationalist theocracy.

> haunter: This is happening in France which is not left leaning.

> cmh89: The person proposing this in France is right leaning.

> DrThunder: We're not talking about who is doing this.

But that is literally what cmh89 and haunter are discussing here. I would agree your argument could be applicable to cmh89's first statement, but at this point in the thread the very argument being had is around who is proposing this and what their motives are.
For this argument to follow, you'd have to know that Angry Birds did not use tests.

I know I would have gotten tired of manually launching Angry Birds before getting the physics right.
It's crazy how eager American doctors are to prescribe opioids. Over the last few years, Ive gotten narcotic painkillers for serious stuff like surgery, but also for more minor stuff like dental work or joint injections. In most of those circumstances I would take one or two of these pills and then be just fine with non-narcotic over the counter pain medicine. But every time, I am highly encouraged to take the narcotics "just in case" the pain gets bad.
Why Jargon Feeds on Lazy Minds
how do you do joins?
> you could be 'TTTTT'

Sometimes referred to as "Paint Drip People".

Apologies for linking to a repost, but the original is behind a FB auth wall: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paint-drip-people-jack-many-t...

> “Moving the brush” is the curious exploration. Keith reports that he tries a project a week or so, but that most “don’t go anywhere” (I beg to differ). The drip rolling down is an area of specialization. Once it starts rolling, it’s not clear how far it will go. In any case, the brush keeps moving. Eventually the last drip stops and a new one starts."
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The problem is that people keep getting upset at 1) and use 2) as a justification for why it's "morally wrong" for 1) to be happening to them.

I have genuinely never seen anyone calling for 2) outside of nations run by theocracies and dictators, with the exception of the UK.
Yeah I've realized this is just a disagreement over the word "most" which won't really be resolvable empirically. It doesn't fit my experience that most applications are single node with lax uptime and failover requirements.
Linux is generally good enough for soft real time, where you can miss a deadline but really would prefer not to. Think "noticeable glitch" not "explosion". Soft real time and low latency are what this is all about.

As far as I've read, consumer variants of x86 CPUs themselves are not ever capable of hard real time, there's "management" stuff that'll just decide to pause the CPU sometimes.
Sure, you can do all that, but have you also written video games, UI frameworks, compilers, Twitter bots, localization tools, and web-based whiteboards? Have you ever made a music video or gotten a novel published? If not, why not? I'd say it's because you had different interests and spent your time elsewhere, which is completely fine and not a problem at all. People are allowed to have their own interests and explore the amazing world of technology in their own ways.

It's weird to say that people aren't learning these things because they're "stopping themselves." They're just going in other directions. No one in my life has ever accused me of learning too few things and failing to learn by building things.

Edit: I think I misunderstood the parent comment, sorry for the defensiveness here
Someone who has access to O'Reilly and other free source to learn ML/AI e.g. Fast.ai, is there any advantage of buying this?