skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through a time when I was pitching a "boxes-and-lines" data processing tool like

https://www.knime.com/

which more-or-less passed JSON documents (instead of SQL rows) over the lines and found that the kind of people who bought and finance database startups wouldn't touch anything that couldn't be implemented with columnar processing.

I thought that this kind of system would advance the "low code" nature of these systems because with relational rows many kinds of data processing require splitting up the data into streams and joining them whereas an object-relational system lets you localize processing in a small area of the graph and also be able to reuse parts of a computation.

Columnar processing is so much faster than row-based processing and most investors and partners thought that customers really needed speed at the expense of being able to write simpler pipelines. Even though I had a nice demo of a hybrid batch/stream processing system (that gave correct answers), none of them cared. Thus, from one viewpoint, architecture is everything.

(Funny though, I later worked for a company that had a system like this that wasn't quite sure what algebra the tool worked on and the tool didn't quite always get the same answer on each run...)
I strongly disagree. This is just big companies artificially separating their market segments to argue against too large of a market, and preserve their enormous profits with their huge percentage take. The world would be much better off with multiple stores. It will take legal action by the eu, and it will be hard, these rich companies are very influential. In the us we have too much capture of federal politicans, I only hope the eu can push it.
You run a lab on $1M/year (grant money?). When I was a PI over a decade ago, that's enough to employ at best 2-4 research scientists.

What I actually meant was salary- because if you live in an expensive city, it's almost impossible to buy a house on an academic salary. Certainly you could buy in the worst part of town, far from your institution, with higher crime rates and lower quality of houses...
There are roughly a million buses, total, in the United States. Compared to auto electrification, it would take a relatively minuscule effort to replace them all with electric vehicles — that's roughly the number of vehicles that Tesla alone sells in a single year. By contrast there are about 280 million cars in the US. In general a new bus costs about ten times as much as a new car, so you're looking at a much lower expense.

In practice, it's my understanding that most municipalities are buying new buses electric anyway.
Embarcadero is in the business of milking this dead product for all the juice that's left in it. I'd in no way _start_ a business using embarcadero, it's pretty much strictly for legacy products.
I'm glad you got to show off your neat quote and link. But I wish you would have given it more thought.

You could have started by finishing reading my comment - it wasn't very long, and it highlighted [housing] density.

You could also imagine that in 2009 we didn't have viable electric vehicles, but in 2023 it's easier to electrify a bus fleet than hundreds of thousands of cars in a given metro area.

You could also wonder why buses are so underused in America, the land of underinvestment in bus routes and overinvestment in car propaganda.

Lastly, you could consider why you chose to lash out at buses when I said "mass transit". Is your point to vilify all mass transit by picking on the weakest member? Do you only have a single data point on buses and zero on other forms? Or was it just the fact that you didn't really read my comment? Perhaps it's something else. I'm being meaner than I need to be. It's just that I get a little prickly about watching cities and ecosystems die for the profits of crooked car dealership owners.
I love how on mobile Brave browser you can add YouTube videos to your Brave playlist and then play them while your screen is locked.

Also I switched from StartPage to Brave search, but I do wish Brave search had a translator feature. Like on StartPage I just search "translate" and get an input box. I find it better than most other browsers' translators.
Names are a hard problem though. How would it know how "Bach" is pronounced? It seems you would need pretty advanced multimodal AI, some sort of GPT which is trained both on text and audio.
To me, the selling point is that it's the pure Twitter experience that was there before Elon started fucking about with Twitter in his attempt to a) make money b) turn Twitter into the everything app.

Hopefully we'll have some good third-party apps to go alongside it (again, something that Elon fucked with).
All the big hotel chains will usually give ~5% off for reserving directly since they pay ~15% to OTAs. They will require you to be a “rewards member”, but that is just checking a box since you already have to give them your personal information.
This is basic soft realtime programming 101, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be taught in schools much. Nor do many managers seem to understand that it's even a thing, much less a desirable thing, much less a dealbreaker if it's not done.

I also suspect many of these in-vehicle infotainment systems are using a non-realtime OS like plain-vanilla Linux without PREEMPT_RT.
This is absolutely unreal. They want it to execute battle ops. As in, kill people. Using chat prompts. What could go wrong?
Maybe the extra 1700sqft for the 9 cats? 9 cats in 800sqft would be awful.
I think the point is: App Stores for iPhone and iPads are in reality one and the same. Apple tries to artificially split them, so they can avoid regulations for at least one of them.
I am still trying to understand your point.

While I agree these systems are highly complex, I am not sure why farmers need to mess with source code to perform a repair? If farmers are messing with the code (disabling sensors or whatever), then I'd have to assume the farmer knows they are taking on this risk that their tractor will not function as expected.

If sensors can be safely disabled, then why not provide an easy to do that?
youtube did, but google didn't buy youtube until three years before the end of 'the 2000s'
It's also surprisingly unaware of how poorly it's performing. I have recently noticed that when you ask it to send text a text message for you, it follows up with a suggestion that you turn on auto-send for siri-dictated messages, even after it took you six tries to get it to understand you.
I'd argue allowing farmers to fix their own stuff is way better (and safer) than them having to seek out sketchy foreign vendors/hacks in order to fix their own equipment on the black market as an alternative.

Obviously the majority of farmers aren't going to be going into the software and editing it themselves, but instead paying reputable companies in the industry to do the programming/fixing/debugging for them.

Companies like John Deere could embrace this by releasing a ton of guides and self-learning classes to teach these same farmers how to do basic coding, repairs, debugging and etc. themselves. Could start a whole new wave and generation of tech-literate and educated farmers which would be better for all involved.
And if we had less cars, buses would be less of all of those things.
Because they’d make significantly more than they could in their home country. (The same reason programmers and nurses do it).

The goal isn’t to convince you, but to convince the many others who would make 2-4x from in their home country (see the chart I referenced).

And pay isn’t shit tier in the US even as it’s above the median salary. It’s not the highest paying, but it pays more than most jobs in the US.
I think the driver of Theories 3+4 will be that with high interest rates we are heading into a recession. A major driver of this recession will be a massive collapse in commercial real estate and CMBS. As the recession really gets underway then the back-to-office movement will flip on its head and companies will start to really get aggressive about cuttings costs and shuttering offices in order to survive, which will only accelerate the commercial real estate collapse even more.

The headcount reduction in tech so far has been literally nothing. Mostly that was just readjusting for the post-pandemic hiring explosion in tech.

It'll still be 6-12 months though (at least) before higher interest rates really start to bite. There's $162B in commercial real estate securities maturing in 2023 which is going to be the first real substantial detonation in the economy.

That should set us up for having a really horrible economy in 2024, we'll probably be diving into the recession or hitting the bottoms around Nov 2024.
Would also love a BSKY invite code if anyone has an extra one to share!
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OP could've told his anecdote without linking to his website
Interesting!

What are you using SQLite for? If it's analytics, perhaps DuckDB WASM might be an option?
I Don’t Use Dating Apps
Genital surgery typically isn't performed until the child is at least 16 years of age, usually older, but 'gender-affirming' breast removal is being done to female children as young as 12 years old.

There's increasing scepticism as to whether social transitioning is reversible in practice (see the interim report of the Cass Review for more detail on this), and the long-term adverse effects of puberty blockers are currently unclear.

This is part of the reason why the health authorities in many countries are starting to halt or restrict the gender-affirming approach, as it may be causing more harm than good to gender non-conforming children.
Yosemite closes parts of park as warm weather raises flood threat
This doesn't sound as bad as OVH's 2021 fire.
> I use it to set timers

Yeah, literally all I use it for is to set a timer when I've put warm beer in the freezer.
Assuming that there is some sort of sensor that’s measuring these turn radiuses? What happens to the machine when the sensor malfunctions? Does it shut down (requiring work to stop), keep going (being a huge liability) or is there a box of them under the chair the operator can swap in and keep going? I think what’s being asked for here is option 3, not so much being able to modify turn parameters.
> Rust marketing is the best.

This is not Rust marketing. This is some MS systems programmers detailing their experience with Rust.
This isn't even a hacker, though! This is a person who isn't capable of doing extremely basic electrical calculations. It'd be a totally different topic if it was a person who I thought fully appreciated the danger of what they're doing. If you can't calculate the voltage drop over a length of cable you should not be wiring your own deadly AC voltages. I'm willing to die on that hill.
They have API access to Google but there is clearly a sprinkling of magic and logic between.

How can I know?

The magic is proven by the fact that Kagi mostly respect my queries (or accept my bug reports if I can prove they didn't) despite being built on the shaky foundation of Bing and modern Google.

Also there is some good old fashioned engineering there, like allowing me to pin, prioritize higher or lower or block certain sites.
It is artificially held down by their government.
Moral of the story is never reveal how you produced a particular art work.
You would think that the company that literally wrote the book on “Site Reliability Engineering” would actually follow their own recommendations.
Solution: put the cannabis in the chocolate.
Handling Secrets in Kubernetes
A lot of people want to hear anti-American rhetoric, indeed there is money to be made in it.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ccps-increasingly-sophisti...
It's been a long time since I read Democracy in America but one passage in particular has always stuck with me.

It's where he contrasts New England (aka Vermont etc) with the South.

He essentially says:

- In New England, it's almost a Greek democracy b/c everyone is seen as equal and everyone is required to work together for the common good

- In the South, they tried to recreate the aristocracy. That was only possible if there were multiple classes of society with the lowest class being the primary manual laborers. In other words, if you didn't have serfs then you needed slaves.

Year later, I was reading a comparison of the US vs Argentina. Similar size, similar resources and similar weather yet vastly different outcomes politically and economically. The thesis of the comparison was that Argentina imported the Spanish aristocracy model whereas US had a more egalitarian model.

It was interesting to see two somewhat similar comparisons made hundreds of years apart and coming to similar conclusions.
It's difficult to say that the chapter "Why Great Revolutions Will Become More Rare" was proven wrong by history. Tocqueville isn't saying that revolutions will become rare period. He says that in societies with social equality (that is, without a caste system), revolutions will become rare, even when other forms of equality exist such as wealth/income inequality. All the revolutions you talk about in this thread are in societies with social class delineation. In countries like America, we can witness first-hand how extreme wealth inequality has not produced revolution in the same way that social inequality has in the past.

He also argues that there are great incentives against revolution in societies when people possess things they could lose in a revolution (his main example is property). I think an example of this is May 68's failure to bring political change due to the Communist Party's nonviolent stance/cooperation with the Gaullists. We can debate back and forth why they took an antirevolutionary position but consensus seems to be that they at least did not want to surrender what political power they had won through elections.

He also makes other predictions about how equality in social conditions causes people to be more individualistic and less communal, but at the same time less unique. Again, I think we can witness this first hand in America. Maybe he's wrong about other claims, but I wouldn't say this essay is wrong based on the title alone, since the actual essay reads spot on.
EU sets out patent rules for smart technology to limit law suits
On my phone, I've somehow gotten into a situation where I can't type "butt" without it autocorrecting it to "Butt".
writing software is about writing the hard-to-write parts one time, so that users aren't confronted with the anomalies all the time. Computers are our servants, we need to let them figure things out for users, and take care of the headaches, not simply declare "here, this is a headache".

yes, what you are pointing out is the challenge. solve it, don't slough it onto the user.

However, the same app can appear on different sized screens with different skins, it doesn't have to be a different app.
Don’t forget the not often talked about Colombian Conflict!
I don't think it's that simple.

From the Catholic perspective, it is primarily a theological identity, as evidenced by the way the New Testament uses the word. Jesus, his mother Mary, the Apostles, the first so-called Christians, were all "Jews", and so in some sense, we can speak of the Jews who accepted Christ as the Messiah, and those Jews who did not. The New Testament describes the latter as "the Jews", and since there is no ethnic difference between the former and the latter, it follows that "Jew" in this context is not an ethnic, but a theological concept[0]. This isn't to say there is no ethnic sense, but the theological concept is the real focus.

Among Jews, Jewishness is taken to be communicated matrilineally, and the interpretation of such phrases as "children of Abraham" (or "seed of Abraham") is understood in carnal terms. Most Jews today are not observant, yet they still view themselves as Jews and are viewed as Jews even by observant Jews. Cultural Jewishness might seem like one way to be able to maintain Jewish identity without the theology, but because Jewish culture in the traditional sense is so theological (and frankly, all cult-ure ultimately is), one has to ask what kind of Jewish culture are we talking about? Once the underpinning and sustaining beliefs are gone, the culture loses its force and meaning, even if it takes a while for the old attachments to wither to completion. Some new theology would need to take the place of the old while maintaining the old name. Without the old theological basis, carnal identity begins to take on an even greater importance.

I might also touch on the civilizational definition of "Jewish", though because civilization is ultimately determined by religion, the question is ultimately a question of theology. Koneczny's definition comes to mind.

So the word is overloaded. But generally speaking, we are very much living in a period of identity crises. Some claim that the uptick in racial politics is the result of the decline of religious identity in the West.

[0] Incidentally, this is why some of the accusations of antisemitism that are made of Catholicism are wrongheaded and involve some kind of modernist projection of categories alien to Catholicism. "Antisemitism" is a term coined in the 19th century (conventionally attributed to Wilhelm Marr) that has in mind a racial and ethnic meaning of "Jew", but the conflict between Catholicism and Judaism is not ethnic or racial, but theological. The Rabbinic Judaism that emerged after the Crucifixion, with the destruction of the Second Temple that left the Jews with no temple sacrifice and no priesthood, is taken to be defection from the Faith, something analogous to Protestantism (recall that the Old Testament is a history of such defections, and is the history of heretical Christian sects). Judaism is taken to have transformed from a faith centered on sacrifice to one centered on observing the law. The sacrifice and the priesthood are taken to continue in the Church--the New Israel--and in the mass, now bloodless and perfected[1].

[1] https://catholicexchange.com/church-new-israel/
I'm thinking about buying a manual grinder because there are more selections of beans out there than grinded ones.

I'm sure if there is hype for "high quality" beans. What do you think? We don't drink much so price is not a big issue.
I don't think that they are reimplemented for every car. But the lineup for 2024 will basically have 90% rewritten code from the, say, 2022 lineup.
Could you do boosting with Typesense, like favoring more recent results?
Heroin is nothing like cigarettes, don't conflate them. Keep in mind I've had family in living facilities for months at a time over addiction.
Articles like this seem to fall just short of the goal line. For instance, this line:

> Like Wordpress, the best way to use Mastodon is to pay a company to run it for you.

Why didn't the author just go one more step to realize that most people don't run their own Wordpress instance, and Wordpress is thriving?

I use Wordpress daily, and my company uses it - but it's hosted, not a self-run thing.

The author is most likely right in that most people either will stop running their own instance, and out source it. But this is a time-honored pattern in IT. Many of us used to run our own email, web servers, Wordpress, etc. But for most of us, we've replaced that with services to do the same.

There is no reason that there can't be a successful mastodon ecology just like there is for Wordpress.

It makes sense that there would be many mastodon.example.com sites run by all sorts of folks, but hosted by different providers.

Why can't articles like this see that?
Problem is they first sell you the car. The later they tell you they can make it even better with a subscription, and you realize they are just double dipping.
Good because I've about had it with DuckDuckGo. Bing has downmodded a ton of Wikipedia (probably to trick people into using their stupid AI). Feeling trapped with both Google and Bing being terrible.

What's the business plan though?
I live 20 miles away from work. 3 times a week, I have to go in. For a while, every morning, I ask Siri directions to [name of my company] to gauge how bad traffic is and how long it will take. Every time, she gives me directions to some pub in Saskatchewan, 18 hour drive away, that shares no part of their name with the name of my company.

I just gave up.

Alexa is not much better. I set up voice recognition to turn on my espresso machine (Rocket is the brand). Every morning I wake up, I tell her to turn on my Rocket. For about 3 months, things worked perfectly. All of a sudden, half the time, she instead starts playing "She's a Rocket" by Robert Ealey, a thirty year-old song.
I really love this podcast: https://wherewegonext.com/episodes
This is so weird. Can artists who splash paint randomly at a canvas not copyright those artworks? Or ones who attach a paint bucket to a rope and swing it over the canvas, giving it just one push?
Nostr reaching almost 500k active users
It’s not that difficult to make anonymous (usually pseudonymous) usage stats. Of course you don’t store IPs, computer names, user names, emails, detailed geographical data etc. I think in the past this was a lot messier but these days with GDPR it’s quite easy to draw the line. Basically store nothing that is individual, nor enough data (entropy) associated with one pseudonymous user that they could be identified as individuals.
PSA: If you use Devuan, check your root password
They're a *backup* service.
Sad to hear. In an alternate timeline they would have accepted the $4B+ Twitter offer and had a nice exit along the way.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/07/twitter-said-to-have-held-...

The hard truth is software can't be patented and Twitter could copy the concept verbatim without paying them a penny.
It's a pretty low bar. I think if you know SSN you are good to go to do anything at Tmo, including a number port. Which means phone as a 2fa is very easy to beat.
I'd always heard noses and penises (being extrusions) were prone to incidental breakage, so I had to look this one up.

Deliberate breakage of the nose seems to be an Egyptian thing.
And could theoretically cover the vector space of all 'reasonable' interpretations of 'art' within a small 32x32 image space. (That is, it would not need to cover all 32x32 pixels. Simply a subset of these that are within the realm of what humans might recognize as art.) Then own the copyright on all art that could ever be generated.
Well, we had pictures very quickly of the OVH fire. Google seems to be not very transparent on what is exactly happening...
Emergent Ventures FAQ
"well" and "we'll" here
Vivaldi user here. Excellent browser.

But I still really miss Opera from the old days. Vivaldi is the next best thing.
I am surprised how quickly the HCI researchers jumped on chatgpt / prompt engineering.
My experience has been the opposite. I wish Brave was more like Firefox.

I have Brave installed as an alternate browser (originally because sites like Twitch and Netflix performed poorly on Firefox, not so much the case anymore). And there's a noticeable lag when switching tabs that's absent in Firefox. And the memory usage - Brave uses as much memory with 10 tabs open as Firefox does with 100. It seems like "unloaded" tabs are not really unloaded at all, and continue to take up memory (which makes you question what unloading does) as long as the browser remains open.

I'm not sure what you mean by ergonomic, but I've been spoiled by Firefox's openness to customization, it was shocking to find that you can't even customize the toolbar on Brave to have your frequently used features handy.
Unless they’re in us-east-1 and it’s an Amazon software/service fault.
You can also probably decompile it