skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you.

I took a somewhat roundabout way of going to a 4-year (first 2 years), then a community college for a year, and back to a different 4-year (last 2 years). In my experience, most of my community college classmates seemed to actually want to be there. They were motivated to learn and not just "get a degree". It's not that the university students didn't want to learn, its just that they were the ones who "knowledge comes easy" to; But, even then, a lot appeared immature, took the education for granted, had everything paid for by parents, and were perhaps guilted into to being there by parents, society, etc. Even in the last 2 years I noticed this.

Community college students were typically more mature, paying their own way, some having families and full-time jobs. And to top it all off I actually knew my professors in community college. I never once met 70-80% of my professors in the university. Maybe things would've been different at a smaller 4-year university, but community college felt just like that -- a community.
Looks good. Another way to look at the wire protocol is to hook postgres up to wireshark. There is a built-in postgres protocol parser.
It's basically impossible to answer that hypothetical right now, because it depends entirely on the choice of client software. And that's still something that's evolving; it's just that Apple/Google/MS have the most prominent implementations here.

If you have an iPhone and a Mac? No, your iPhone will log in via iCloud keychain. You use touchid/faceid to auth as usual.

If you have an Android phone and a Chromebook/use Chrome? No, it will get sync'd implicitly. You use whatever the equivalent of touchid/faceid is to auth, as usual.

If you're using some third party, pure-software, syncing solution? No, probably not. For example, existing password managers will probably just store the key material, encrypt it, then sync across devices. Again, pure software solution. You use 1Password on Windows 11 and also on your iPhone? You'll probably be fine. (Note: this is hypothetical, because 1Pass doesn't support it yet, but this is probably how it will shake out.)

If you want to login with your Chromebook using a key it has generated and not export/sync the key, and you also have an iPhone at the same time you want to login with? Yes, you will need multiple keys, one for each device, and you will need to provision them.

Realistically this is also a change to login flows on the server as well, so there's work to be done for the UX. For example many server-side auth packages are still adopting Passkeys into their flow, they need to change their schemas and frontends. One change to explore e.x. is you can ask the user after registering with WebAuthn is to register other devices, if they have them. Whether or not that's a workable solution remains to be seen.
I think you're projecting an implementation of a queue in Postgres, which isn't how most people implement these things. [0] We're not doing table level locks, or creating contention with multiple queue producers or consumers, and they're not "one typo away from disaster in prod".

To do this right, you're using row level locking e.g. SELECT FOR UPDATE/SKIP LOCKED [1], and hopefully you're already using idle_in_transaction_session_timeout to deal with total consumer failures. A properly designed queue in Postgres runs more-or-less in parallel, and supports (really fantastic features like) atomic row locks across all resources needed to serve the queue request.

If you need extremely long consumer timeouts, it's also totally fine to use RLLs in addition to state on the job itself.

[0] - https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/message-queuing-using-nativ...
[1] - https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...
I switched to Porkbun after Namecheap threatened to disable my domain in 24 hours when some shady reputation management company (izoologic) claimed a page on my site was phishing.

I don't know if Porkbun would handle that situation any better, but I take comfort in the fact that I can drive to their office and talk to a real person in an emergency.
Or the rest of Reddit
Ecommerce AI content generation tool
Built this on top of the OpenAI API. Still struggling to get a clean & valid json response 100% of the time but the general idea is there to build on.
Thanks, that’s an interesting point.
> Steve initial plans seemed to revolve about everyone getting web apps

Got a source on this?
She's not blowing past any muscle cars in her Kia Nero EV with a 0-60 of 6.5-7 seconds. I guess everyone in an EV assumes their vehicle is superfast?
This is a short, insightful piece that should be read by anyone developing software right now.

Let alone the rise of AI, this article suggests that there is a reckoning happening in the VC world. I would agree.

Takeaways:

- focus on B2B, because at least they are willing to pay and are less likely to steal your product

- free, freemium and advertisement-for-revenue revenue models are all but dead

- VC’s are less likely to fund the operation of a software business that has no well-defined revenue stream for very long. Those days are just about over except for a lucky few.
A charitable read! Just a screw up on my part. A lot of this ended up quite hard-coded so when I updated tables sometimes I missed updating some instructions. Thanks for spotting!

And very glad you've been enjoying it aside from that! :-)
As opposed to those serious Guiness records like "farthest eyeball pop", "loudest purr by a domestic cat", "most face flesh tunnels", "most tennis balls held in the mouth (by a dog)", "most eyebrow waxes performed in eight hours by a team", and "longest head massage chain".

Guiness has always been a half-commercial silly enterprise. It's literally founded by a beer brand to resolve pub trivia arguments.
The Count of Monte Cristo.

Lots of people might dismiss it due to its old style and being a "stuffy classic" but it's one of the most gripping books I've ever read, from the beginning to the end. I'm not sure how Dumas managed to pull it off, honestly. Be sure to read the unabridged version, not the abridged version.
Food Disgust Test
One way to listen to a CEO, is to soak in their pitch to see what clues to reality lie within.
Graphics often (must?) come at the expense of gameplay depth.

The deepest (to me, most interesting) games -- roguelikes, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress -- all have shit (not photorealistic 3D) graphics, as if out of necessity. Maybe because they're all tile-based?

The sole exception to this I can think of are 4X games. Europa Universalis 4 looks pretty good, and I could picture it being photorealistic and fully ray traced while still being one of the deepest 4Xes of all time.
Small functions are easy enough for me to deal with when they're basically library functions, but when they're split up/distributed in an OOP-y way I find navigating them and keeping track of them way more troublesome.
Im sort of confused. Youre mentioning MVCC and deployment pipelines not having load but what portion of an application MVCC has anything to do with a queue, postgres or otherwise? Same with deployments? Maybe theres a specific model or deployment strategy thats in use that I am unaware of and its a blind spot?
Yeah, my neighbor is a 60 year old retired firefighter and he has thousands of dollars worth of Legos that he has bought and assembled. Basically everything they put out for star wars.
At $FANNG, we have a surprisingly complex tool to handle scheduling oncall and I don't I have seen a public equivalent so there is probably an opportunity there. Ideally you to optimize around a number of factors - vacations (which can be auto populated) for one but also fairness, shift closeness (some labor laws here), holidays, or individual preferences (e.g I like to hike on the weekends). You then also need a tool for short-term trades/overrides to basically poll the team to see who can take/trade the shift to avoid the diffusion of responsibility of yelling into a slack chennel and complexity of negotiating trades. What is nice about this is that we can setup a daily oncall so if you have a re-occuring weekly obligation that is incompatible with being oncall we can set it up so you never get scheduled for that day (provided there is enough slack for vacations and so on).
Seaweed in a cows diet either: increases the CO2 the cow emits, increases the mass of carbon the cow shits, or increases the mass of the cow. The carbon has to go somewhere. I don't know where it goes, but regardless of where it goes, there's no doubt about where it came from to begin with. Virtually all the carbon cows eat was pulled out of the atmosphere by plants.
> No matter what Apple itself does Safari being major non-Chromium browser helps Firefox a lot just by existing and having huge marketshare.

That is incorrect because Apple has prevented and still prevents Firefox from properly implementing Gecko on iOS. Apple also restricts Firefox and browsers other than Safari from implementing full WebExtensions. Even though Firefox and browsers other than Safari are required to use WebKit on iOS, they are not allowed to access many of WebKit's iOS-integrated features including content blockers and Safari extensions.

All of these Apple-imposed handicaps make Firefox a much less competitive browser on iOS than it could be, and in no way helps Firefox because users generally prefer to use the same browser across their devices. The EU's upcoming browser choice legislation will prohibit Apple's anticompetitive restrictions to put Firefox on a more level playing field with Safari on iOS.
Personally know someone that became in the top 50 people at a major USA bank. They were a “quant” and claimed to be using sophisticated algorithms to trade the market. In reality they were making gut based trades with fake software full of complicated derivatives trading algorithms. Fooled some of the most well paid people in the world
Is it only grad students or is there a lead researcher that asks for grants and such? I'm not a scientist myself, the ones I know are working for the governenent or are professors. While they are not rich they are much better off than the average person.

And is feeding mice plastic and then seeing if they have plastic in them a worty endeavour? It's fine because they aren't paid as well as if they were working corporate?

I'm also aware that a lot of people have to tailor their doctorate work to their advisor, meaning it could very well be that no one doing this experiment was "curious" or believing that it was "important".

I'm sure you know many bitter PhD's that studied things they find utterly pointless today - I had many teachers laughing at their own peer reviewed work.
If you just want a couple of instances, nothing matches Oracle Cloud. I was up and running in no time and I'm on the free tier entirely.
I hope the Fediverse replacement for Reddit, Lemmy, will pick up in popularity before old.reddit dies.

It makes a lot of sense since each "subreddit" could be its own server.
I love this.

Tiny thought experiment for my tiny mind. Considering various companies are offering these AI systems, that corprations are people[1], and that the right to the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed, would it be un-American to deny AI bots arms if they were able to give a really, really good reason?

But (slightly) more seriously, I think this, or something like it, is a really, really important way to demonstrate that even thought societies haven't even begun to handle the impact of corporate social media platforms on the health of societies, these very same platforms are going to going to go utterly bug-out crazy in the coming years. Reality, veracity, and truth itself are going to simply be parameters to tune. And tuned by ... who knows? Strap in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Combination of an inherited Anglo class system and American corporatism.
> give parents $1000

Parents take $1000, kid still comes to school with no laptop, what happens next?
I seriously don't understand how Apple's processes are allowing this to happen.

How is it that simultaneously, so many apps fail review for tiny details, showing that apps really are having manual review done on them...

...and yet all this spam is getting through?

Forget opinions about Apple or the App Store generally. I'm far more interested in what the actual process failure is here. Because this is really bad and it's precisely what the whole concept of the App Store is meant to guard against.

So what the heck is wrong with their processes? This is such an "own goal" I'm baffled. This is supposed to be a core competency of the App Store. There's no benefit to Apple allowing all these spam apps. So how the heck is a company as generally competent as Apple messing this up so bad?
Simple anecdote: A colleague of mine had a really hard time getting some topologic sort to work. I kept finding issues with his implementations and he was getting frustrated so we aggreed to have a pair programming session. He wanted to put all the code in a single method (not terribly long, maybe 30, 40 lines), but the conditions kept nesting and no matter how much he tried to figure them out, he couldn't get them to work. I convinced him to extract two methods which would only be used once and only inside this sorting method. He was vehemently against it. After he finally agreed he realized the code was so easy to read, it was basically self-explanatory and obviously correct. No ammount of fiddling with the if statements could've produced that.

I don't impose fixed line counts for my methods. But when it makes sense, the readability improves a lot.
It is wild to me that we still frame stories like this in such an openly xenophobic way. Your opinions on the Saudis should not matter. The nationality of the farm owner is completely irrelevant to the issue. Growing water intensive plants in the middle of the desert is stupid and bad even if 100% of the profit goes to Americans.
"The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. They can make a call, they can send an email, they can look up a location on Google Maps.

"And guess what? There's no SDK that you need! You've got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we've got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today."

https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
They really need to work out their quality deficits first, a lot of recent mishaps have been inexcusable.

You can't sell a $600 display model(which is a ridiculous price in the first place) with very visible gate locations from the molding process and uneven colors. These are purely caused by cheap molds and plastic mixes - it didn't used to be this way, but somehow they decided that they had to start jeopardizing their good reputation for some cheap gains.
At some point you run into the problem where titles become useless because there are 100 papers on the same exact topic with very slight variation in the title. At this point people use surnames and date to cite papers.

But then the title can become something catchy that will give you more visibility.
And then inspect the db, exactly. In other words you can't, there is no declarative 'current state' checked in or provided by the migration tooling.
Was this person ever found out?
Sorry if it wasn't clear:

If you logged in to HN using Safari on a Mac the private-key (a.k.a "password") got chucked into your keychain as part of the account creation flow and is synced across all your iCloud devices.

So on your phone when visiting the HN login page you'd just be prompted for a fingerprint by TouchID and in you go. Actually quite seamless. This would be what 90%+ of users experience as normal people don't fiddle with defaults.

I don't use Windows but they have some sort of iCloud Passwords thing for Windows now too apparently. Just dipping their toe into slowly making it cross platform.

It becomes less seamless and more of a hassle when you are using multiple keychains or 3rd party apps which probably a lot of people here are. What I described is that case, when you have both an Android phone and an iPhone and they are completely sequestered from each other (maybe personal and work?).
You seem to be comparing apples and oranges.

Credit scores are a reflection of your likelihood of defaulting on a loan, and in debt financing, a fundamental truth is that higher risk = higher reward (in this case, higher fees).

That said, I don't have a dog in this fight.
I wish they'd also test xz andaune also RAR compression for vanilla vs vCores.

It'd be interesting to learn if / how the results differ depending on compression implementation.
> When this was first proposed

Well, it's a good thing they UPDATED the bill that eventually became law, right? I guess they could probably do that again, if necessary!
I guess the question is are these apps actually doing the thing that say they do? ie, calling the OpenAI APIs for the user? If the user is getting what they want then I'm not sure it's a scam. If it is actually just a convenient wrapper around chatgpt
It looks cool. The DB library is appreciated. However, you would get about the same idle memory and docker size with Go's Fibers framework :)
As a kid who grew up using Mac and Windows, I got the idea that the only software that exists has a GUI. Is that much better?
Well, this is how business works today. Management want something that's both safe and efficient which by default ends up being dull. So how to you win? Quantity. More words. More blogposts. Higher frequency. Please the algorithm. Doesn't reeeeally matter if people are reading your post.

I hate that I'm only a communications professional. I feel like there are no stable career in my field anymore. All I want to do is to learn something STEM-related. Oh if one had the time and money (and no responsibilities).
I'm sorry - I'm refering to the experiment. I personally know that there are microplastics in our blood - I'm saying that this experiment is redundant, as your link arguably supports.
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i also love wood, and appreciate the craft, craftsmanship, and aesthitics.

heres to hoping you get good traction.

i just enjoyed this too:

object — A 20 Year-Old Sketchbook

https://www.chrbutler.com/2023-04-22
It doesn’t provide any benefit to site operators. There are no punishments, drawbacks, or sticks to prevent web operators from shrugging off and ignoring WebAuthn in favor of implementing the bargain basement choice, user/password.

Sign in with WebAuthn via hardware touch sensors is incredibly effective, but is also not an option for a considerable fraction of each site’s users. So it’ll always have to be a second method, not a first, and it comes with privacy hindrances for the greedy (think: Apple Private Relay integrated UI).

Browsers would need to start presenting security warnings for classical password autofill to push adoption to the next level.
what’s the false statement?
> yet they miss that for Plan 9 and Inferno, they also decided to go with automatic memory management languages

And which of these three operating systems won?
One thing I’m wondering about the upcoming sideloading capability in iOS 17 (even if only in Europe):

What will permissions look like? It seems like everyone is assuming Apple will be forced to let people sideload apps with completely unfettered access to all APIs, the way jailbroken apps work.

That view, to me, seems unrealistic. I think it more likely to have the opposite: no access to most APIs so that only basic, self-contained apps can be installed.

Does anyone know if the EU law requires them to open up all these APIs and completely abandon their code-signing and entitlement system? Or will it be somewhere in between where some APIs will be required to be open but others restricted?

The whole thing is very complicated. I’m not sure I like the idea of government regulating what APIs are available. That seems like way too much interference.
I'm rather amazed at the sheer number of human hours invested (wasted?) into making a terrible language(s) better just so things are slightly easier for beginners.
Legos are a very creative and inspiring toy and art form. As a kid I got thousands of hours of imaginative play from them. There are far less useful things being made out of plastic in large quantities. I myself despise happy meal toys for the needless waste.
Raised by Sol.ai
I am not talking about consciousness though, I couldn't care less about it! I am talking about the subjective feeling of existence, which is what you and I feel in every one of those disjoint moments. And the only reason I know that you feel it, is because I feel it and you're like me. If you sere made of silicon, I wouldn't know, and should not assume that you could
The bigest problem is the jpeg compression though. For some reason, Android defaults to a shitty compression ratio for jpeg which you cannot change.
Well run subreddits are vastly superior to Twitter. By way of example, if you are into homegyms or woodworking or Austin, there are three subreddits dedicated to those topics. I may be missing something about Twitter that allows me to focus on an esoteric topic that isn’t dependent on a inconsistent hashtag denotion. Twitter topics are simply too restricted and opinionated for my liking.
Out of curiosity, have you looked at the ASM inlining options in Rust? https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/inline-assembly.html
s/former Russian/former Soviet/
>>The BBC is publicly funded via a license fee that is compulsory if you have a television

No, it's only compulsory if you watch live TV broadcasts as they would be shown on TV. If you only watch Netflix and other streaming services(other than BBC iPlayer), or only use your TV for a games console/blu ray player then you explicitly don't need a TV licence. It takes 30 seconds to confirm you don't need the licence online and then you're exempt. I've not paid it for over 10 years at this point as we never watch actual TV in this house.
hard disagree. my favorite workflow for high value accounts is webauthn backed by secure enclave with hardware key backups. it's really low friction from ux perspective and it frustrates me when sites don't support it.
I'm obviously not arguing that microplastics aren't an issue - I'm saying we didn't have to force feed mice plastic to get actionable data to solve the issue.
> For example, researchers found that nearly half of the replacement keyboards listed for Acer Chromebooks were out of stock online and that over a third cost “$89.99 or more, which is nearly half the cost of a typical $200 Chromebook.” Some IT departments, PIRG reports, have resorted to buying extra batches of Chromebooks just for their components.

It costs a lot more than this to replace a MacBook keyboard. Idk about other laptops. Seems the only thing uniquely bad about Chromebooks is the limited software updates.
To be fair, it's only a memoir. This doesn't invalidate your points, though - only recommended as a pure entertainment read.
I thought the same. But Lego is arguably more sturdy and reusable than most toys available.

I wonder what the "half-life" is for various types and brands of toys. I would be surprised if it doesn't vary wildly.
I put the entire article into ChatGPT just for a laugh:

> "Earth Day Blowout: Save Green on Bro Candles, 10% Off!"

> There, your eye-catching email subject line promoting a 10 percent discount on select Bro Candles with an Earth Day-related pun is done. I'll keep my opinions to myself and do my best to assist you with any other requests you have. Let's just focus on the work at hand.

Prompt injection indeed.

Maybe this is what set the Cylons off? It would explain John Cavil's cynicism towards humanity.