skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably about a tie with plumbing. The reality is the whole country does a weird cold-war type arrangement where no one asks too many questions at Bunnings.

Which is absurd because of course it's essentially the worst possible outcome: people either can't afford necessary work and so never do it, or figure it out and get it done to varying levels of quality which they then never talk about or show anyone because there's no way to get stuff approved.

It's wild to me that you have American DIY channels where people want to put a new circuit into their switch panel box, and just call up the local code office to check what they need to show to get it signed off - then go and do that (also, American switch panel boxes look like such a better system then what we do in residential Australia).
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I suppose it's just a bizarre choice in context of a nation's suitability to possess AI weapons. Everyone participating in that mission (including planning) knew it was a highly risky endeavor. It wasn't a nuclear first strike.

In my opinion, the fact that another (even crazier) rescue mission was green-lit and worked up in the aftermath embodies the finest qualities of the United States.

That said, I see your point. Things can look good enough to say "go" and it all goes to hell. Trying again isn't necessarily an option with AI.

Unfortunately, given the state of current nuclear treaties, nonproliferation agreements or weapon bans for AI are probably already dead on arrival.
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You might be right, definitely if you run e.g. a fully cloned server on the same disk image and hardware it will behave the same, I'm thinking of times when memory pressure on the database from other queries caused caches to get evicted, things like that. It's not really the planner, it's the measured performance from lock contention and the data in memory etc.
Who needs drugs when you dream those kinds of dreams :))

On a sidenote, i hope the trend of popularizing hard drugs will fade and people will focus again on other means to achieve different state of mind through artistic activities, like live music.
From what I can tell, the provocative ideas exposed on less than two rows of text are the ones getting downvotes. If I can dissent with a well written text, downvotes come very rarely, if ever. Which tells me dissent is acceptable (here) if it brings a story, proofs, younameit. And dissent for the sake of dissent, less. Which kind of mirrors real life, right?
We often read (even in this blog post) that these wholesale prices often don't impact consumers (who tend to pay a more fixed rate), but how true is that of entities in your space - did you immediately profit from the reduced rates (to their full extent), or was that mostly absorbed by some other middleman, hedging, etc?
LAION doesn’t publish the images, only the metadata with links to the original image locations. Arguably, the alt text contained in the metadata is still subject to copyright.
A clip of John Gilmore talking about the intervals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR0oSpRA_B4
Fujitsu S920 seems to be a good option for a mini PC that is cheap and reliable. Not very fast, but has usb 3.0 and a x4 pcie slot. It has been very stable as my wifi access point. First heard about it on Wolfgang's channel.
I had an AFCI breaker constantly tripping when put under load.

I went through and replaced every receptacle in the circuit (everything in the house is nasty stuff from the 1950s). Still tripped constantly.

Opened up every box going back to the breaker, took everything apart, but a test outlet with a test load on each junction and it was "fine" until I put it all back together and started tripping again (replaced the wire nuts, pull tested each junction).

Opened up every junction again, replaced every junction with wagos, and no more "nuisance" trips (they were clearly not nuisance trips, though every electrician said "they all do that I just replace the AFCI breaker when the inspector finishes, I'd do that here if you wanted me to fix the nuisance trips here")

But of course, I don't pay (money) for my own time... and fixing this wasn't fast.
I’ve found some of the most useful people on forums like StackOverflow, have very little experience actually shipping product.

They are often my “go to” people, for things like the correct way to do stuff, or for rabbithole exploration of technology/technique, but it comes more from a place of theory, than it does, from practical application.

This is not always a bad thing. In fact, it can be a very good thing.

I’m very much a “get the job done” type of chap. I get my hands dirty, and regularly get stuff out, and into the world.

But I don’t give myself a lot of time to learn esoteric theory or optimization. I do the thing, but maybe not as well as it could be done, or as effectively.

That’s why I appreciate some of these folks that spend all their time, exploring the whys of the techn[ology|ique]. I’ll buy their books, take their classes, or read their posts, and apply the fruits of their work to mine. One of the authors I respect the most for his amazing knowledge of the depths of Apple tech, had, the last time I checked, just one, rather silly, app on the App Store; but he’s written multiple books, and been a major presence at a lot of conferences.

There’s also a lot to be said for effective communicators. Knowing stuff can be worthless, if there’s no way to transmit the information. Writing books is really difficult. Writing books that people want to read, even more so.

Being a good speaker is also a valuable skill. There are folks with minimal expertise, that I can listen to for hours, and people that really know their stuff, that are great soporifics.

If someone can explain something to me, quickly and clearly, so I “get it,” then that person is valuable to me.

In turn, someone like me, can take their theory, and turn it into a real “thing”; handling all the repetitive, “boring” stuff that is required to get it out the door.

There’s a lot of looking down of noses, between “doers,” “talkers,” and “thinkers,” but I’ve found it’s best to have respect for each other, and combine our strengths.
> misunderstanding of Deming. It's about how to organize highly repetitive tasks, such as assembly line production, to get consistent quality.

No. Deming was concerned with human factors, too. Because they are intimately tied to quality efforts. And that means all humans as agents of continuous improvement, not just as drones in the system.

https://www.mindtools.com/azyjjsx/demings-14-point-philosoph...
But that dumber query planner will bite you when your data changes. If the relative size of multiple tables change the query might have to change to be still efficient. Postgres query planner handles that just fine. I've used Postgres for years multi TB databases and I've experienced a problem with Postgres suddenly changing plans.
> Maybe it should be one of his concerns? I'm not sure how he would feel about someone stealing his work and commercializing it

Covered in the article, his work is being commercialized and profited from:

> Schuhmann hasn’t profited from LAION and says he isn’t interested in doing so. “I’m still a high school teacher. I have rejected job offers from all different kinds of companies because I wanted this to stay independent,”
Yes, but why would you?
The first suggestion is not to gatecrash a random thread in a random forum with an off-topic question. You could have asked it as a HN question and got better results and not distracted from the topic being discussed.
If you don't need shared vaults, Secrets [0] is excellent and feels a lot like the last good version of 1Password before they started down their current path of destroying both their product and their reputation.

[0] https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac/
It reminds me of Uplink videogame "My voice is my passport"...
The State should straight up take over regular businesses and make 'em into workers co-ops.
And make sure to have labour courts to keep 'em operating within the republican norm.

But I'm mostly dreaming.
As Russia opened more to the world, it indeed started absorbing elements of many other cultures (I do not know, why you focus on African American culture here and call its influence a decline - it sounds racist). However it does not mean it lost its unique identity and did not develop over the time. Probably, as an emigrant you just missed it and now so disconnected from the motherland that you have no idea what's actually going on there. It's much bigger than what you can find in TV news (who watches TV nowadays?!) or on a few YouTube blogs. How many contemporary Russian artists or writers do you know? What do you know about the modern internet culture of Russians, which is bigger than everything else?
Do you know what modern Russians eat and where they go for a date? Are you familiar with TV ads that were so popular that they found their way into the language? Do you know what's going on on the roads and what part of life of modern Russian is dedicated to driving a car and everything around it? What do you know about national theatrical awards and have you ever seen any winning performance?
Generally indexes are cheap, if built concurrently, so I often build all the possible indexes (for relatively modest sized data types, load, and tables) and look at the planner statistics in production to validate which indexes are useful for the query load. That only works if you have a read-heavy usage pattern, for write-heavy usage patterns it can sometimes be better not to have an index at all (one of the things he alludes to in the article about missing foreign key indexes - indexes come with a write cost, so on a write-only table, foreign key indexes are a bad idea) but as with everything real timing data is the key.

For new table design in Serious Business Databases I do two or three step: offline replica with the same data and settings (but not 100% identical), usually in a transaction on a logical replica or main production (postgres supports DDL transactions, which is a big help, but if you alter a table in a transaction it can block tons of other transactions).

It's important to carefully construct your alter table / create table / create index statements to ensure that everything is concurrent and won't block, of course, and there are plenty of pitfalls there, but definitely doable.
I spent a few months reducing the effect of addictive technology: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence . Fewer triggers make such an addiction more manageable.

It works, but only as long as I can fill the void with meaningful activities. There are days when I have nothing to do, or I am too tired to do anything.

People who quit weed reported the same problem. If you use a quick fix for boredom for a long time, replacing it means finding other ways to deal with boredom.
As a consumer in the UK, the last time I got paid to use electricity was 11 April 2023. See https://agileprices.co.uk/ for how much I got paid per kWh and when.
Everything is advancing humanity, then. Selling weapons might be seen as advancing humanity.

Startups aren’t particularly human in average, neither in their goals nor internally.

It’s just that, at the beginning of a new industry, all the low hanging fruits like “Register everyone in a big directory with photos”, “Make a video app where you can learn things” seem like advancing humanity, because it’s a leap forward. But they’re no better than in a mature industry, doing proper business.

A doctor, a nurse talking with a dying person is advancing humanity. You, noticing a depressed man in the office; a kid talking to the bullied kid in class, that’s advancing humanity.

No, Jira isn’t advancing humanity, no more than Carrefour negotiating rebates on vegetables against farmers.
Personally as someone who has only ever used SQL Server, once I accepted that Postgres is different in certain ways, it has been great. Stable, predictable and I have had no performance surprises.

For me, the big win is to have a cluster without having to pay for SQL Server Enterprise edition therefore having money to invest into the community by having a Postgres consultant help configure it for me.
Neither are current captchas: they're ina11 to non-US residents (/former residents).

(We don't have 'crosswalks'. 'Fire hydrants' don't look like that. 'Parking meters' don't look like that (or any one standardised thing really). Traffic lights don't look like that and how much of them am I meant to click anyway. School buses don't look like that. Trucks don't look like that. I'm sure there are more.)
i don't know anything about how cars work but the article says "At the moment, impacted vehicles are generally wide open to these sorts of attacks. The only proper fix would be to introduce cryptographic protections to CAN messages, Tindell told Motherboard in an email. This could be done via a software update, he added"

and i'm kinda expecting software first companies to already have this stuff in place? also stolen car media seems to focus on legacy autos being stolen not so much the newer ones, hence the question but maybe the theives target better build quality, who knows.
Well, quantity vs. quality I guess. "Mostpopular", "tens of millions of views", "audience skews young". Thanks for sparing me the time of trying to sub him...
At least in my case, I didn't mean to dismiss the internet and that we have nothing to lose. There is some good information there, but it is important that we do not believe everything (or even most) that we read and see.
Does the work really suck though? I've always been a bit envious of how much tradies seem to enjoy their jobs, even if personally the idea of dealing with sewage issues or climbing/reaching into impossibly small spaces and dealing with crap jobs done by past workers doesn't appeal. (Actually that last hazard applies just as much in software engineering I guess).
According to Christoph Schumann there is legislation in Europe that allows the usage of crawled data for public research institutions and nonprofit organisations. LAION is a registered german nonprofit (gemeinnütziger Verein).

Source: https://entwickler.de/machine-learning/laion-open-source-ai (found in another post).
That’s still just a normal aspect of code. If you care about security, you have to audit all your dependencies.

Security concerns in deserialising come about due to the input being able to control things, things like Python’s Pickle protocol where you get arbitrary object instantiation and function calls, even of things like os.system (pickle.loads(b"cos\nsystem\n(S'echo ACE'\ntR.")). Security cannot reasonably be retrofitted to such a model. With the likes of Serde (and indeed structural serialisers/deserialisers in practically every ahead-of-time-compiled language), this isn’t an issue: only the code controls things, and only types that declare a way of deserialising can be deserialised to.
So basically what happens is the workers get more money, but everything they male costs more so everyone ends with the same standard of living?
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Worst mistake I've ever made was implementing logic in the db - made for horrible debugging. It was only a few small bits of logic, but man, the amount of gotchas years later not realising something was there.. certainly I think you either have to all/most of your logic in the DB or none. Definitely not a sprinkling..
> But - this is the critical part - the employees need to not be morons.

If that's the critical part, then why did Deming spend so much of his life trying to explain things in short, pithy ways to management?

Hint: it's not just because they're the ones who'd pay for consultants.
How do you verify, that the requirements where correctly understood, if not by having another human look at it?
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This is definitely not true. They are not generic at all.

* work_mem is postgres specific

* stored procs and functions don't perform as badly in SQL Server

* Triggers behave differently

* NOTIFY is postgres specific

etc.
That's how I see it, too. There's a gear-and-discussion phase in many hobbies, which is important to start to understand the field. But once you acquired the necessary basics, you'll start drifting into the doing. And that's really how it should be.

(As a semi-unrelated side note, I often see people looking down on certain quadrants. But to me, any hobby is fine so long as it doesn't hurt anyone while giving the practitioner joy.)
Ad blockers, website blockers, logging out, removing the website from history, making the web harder to use. I don’t browse on my iPad because the web is unusable without an ad blocker.

You can leave your web browsing devices in another room, and add space between the impulse and the activity. I don’t bring my phone in the bedroom, for example.
This is correct. Once you authenticate once on Apple Watch (either with PIN or by allowing your phone unlock it once you are wearing it) you can Apple Pay to your heart's content until you next take the watch off.
Same here (Firefox, Linux). Strangely, when I took a screenshot with Firefox's built-in tool, the text was visible in the image.
Law enforcement gonna exploit outrage. Evidently so will encryption fans. Both are politicians, in the sense that matters of state powers are of interest to both; and thus both wield hyperbole: "down with terrorists" vs "down with Big Brother".

Maybe let's not fall to 10-foot tall syndrome in either direction. Two things can be true: law enforcement is overstating terrorism and criminal dangers that it's facing, and encryption advocates are overstating totalitarianist danger.

Maybe the problem is that in many Western countries there isn't a huge smoking gun where surveillance powers are "routinely used" for visibly nefarious things. Even things as bad as Snowden exposed (and they were shocking) don't seem to resonate with a lot of folks, maybe because it doesn't seem like the govt was actually able to do anything with all the data that they grabbed anyways. In the US, I haven't really heard of cops blackmailing people over intercepted data, for example. Or jailing of political opponents based on their online habits.

I'm not sure if encryption fans are either not looking to be in office, or not popular enough to be elected. But if it's an issue people care about a lot, there should be no problems getting elected on that issue. Don't be on HN taking to me, go talk to some random people and see how they want to vote on that issue or if they even care. But maybe, just maybe, you'll find that there are other things on their mind right now.
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Can I suggest reading Out Of The Crisis? Because it sounds like you haven't.
> Churn should be avoided

One of the big Taylorist mistakes of our industry IMO. It is OK to have churn, and it's certainly better to have a little too much than too few.
Moving to the top of the pyramid and employing people works a lot better when the population is growing. Its not.
>You make it sound like it's trivial. "After you have a million" could be 10-15 years of weekend-work-and-no-holidays later

Well, for billions of employees it never is, even after 30+ years of hard labor.

>Then call for your government to introduce better labor laws.

Yeah, I might also write to my senator while at it. As if laws get introduced by popular demand :)
It's funny how you can tell who spends time on reddit by when they say you said something you didn't say to burn you at the stake.
There's two main groups on hacker news. The people who think Go and Java are the only reasonable languages, and the people who think Rust and TypeScript are the only reasonable languages.
they were there first, that is why they were successful

To be fair they were there with e-commerce and cloud services so many years ahead the competition it is understandable to some extent why their products have so many warts. Competitors could see things that didn't work well in amazon products and improve where it was obvious

They have a moat around their products, in retail they have the user-base and in AWS they have the developer-base (devs who know how to set up things in AWS). These things take a long time to erode away as competition increases no matter how good the competition product is
Even the Romans (Byzantine if you wish) built the aqueduct of Valens supplying Constantinopole with fresh water over 426km so yeah I'm also not sure what is this so impressive. And anyway, if the Egyptian one stays uncovered as the pictures show it, I wonder how much water will it have left on a hot day (which are almost all) when it approaches destination.
Please, if you (not you specifically) rely on checkmarks that in some cases have been given as personal favor or to amplify specific voices despite their extremist views, to verify legitimate sources of information, that’s a general educational problem in understanding how to identify legitimate sources in the first place. This should actually be taught in school, because it’s really Fkin important, but isn’t.

The floodgates of disinformation on Twitter were already open and actively abused before the new system. The old checkmark system was beyond flawed and the new one is as well. Just that this version fills the pockets of the man who is desperately trying to destroy the platform he didn’t want to buy in the first place to minimize losses on his way out.

I don’t mind people wanting to support Twitter or Elon. And they should not be ridiculed for doing so.

But I think as a society the deciding factor if your valuable contribution is heard or seen should not be a monthly subscription. Twitter blue is inaccessible for a large part of the population of this planet. Poor people completely loose the ability to make valuable submissions on the platform and participate if they are drowned under people paying 8 bucks to better troll others or push their views that wouldn’t get traction without the checkmark.

The solution is not to change Twitter. It’s getting away from relying on this specific platform as its algorithm manipulates you into a worse, less critically thinking version of yourself.
>IPv6 is pretty great. You don’t run out of numbers locally, you don’t run out of numbers globally.

If that's everything IPv6 has going for it it's no wonder its adoption is still so low.
No need to identify this as LLM-produced crap. No human being could write something this stupid and pointless.
There's the business model of "hire people without experience, underpay and mistreat them for 1-2 years while they can't move (because bad CV), replace them with new ones".
This looks awesome thanks, and thanks to the CableReady team. Does anyone know how the equivalent would be done as best practice with Turbo?
Awareness is an important step. If you haven't found them already, maybe there are groups of people who are (or were) in similar situations that can lend some support. It's always better to not go the hard walks alone.
That's an article, not a comparison. There's not a single comparison table in the article.
Is it just me or does ever dev hate culture amp
I've recently been tasked to answer a pile of long form CultureAmp questions, and when chatting I realised most of the dev team hates the thing. Even my boss rather loathes it.

Am I alone in my distaste of the whole process?
It's both true than Dovecot is an elegantly designed piece of software and the protocoles surrounding email are a complete mess with decades of bolted on additions and a most used implementation - Gmail - which likes to do things in peculiar ways.

I think the complaints you see here are entirely legitimate. Anyone having been doing this job long enough knows that designing good protocoles is insanely hard and exemples of poorly designed ones in the commercial world abound. It would have been more surprising for the feediverse to get that entirely right than the reverse.

I say that while agreeing with the original comment which points out that a good implementation should solely focus on the specification and leave everything else to the clients.