skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is for all applications, but for many it might be.

We are looking at using Az Hyperscale SQL, but the single writer thing might cause some friction. Trying to figure out if their txn log cap is sufficient for our business at ~1000 customers:

> Transaction log throughput cap is set to 100 MB/s for any Hyperscale compute size. The ability to achieve this rate depends on multiple factors, including but not limited to workload type, client configuration and performance, and having sufficient compute capacity on the primary compute replica to produce log at this rate.

Having some constraints like this might do good for our engineering moving forward. Today, we are pretty sloppy with data storage representations because every client gets their own dedicated SQLite database and bandwidth/storage are mostly a non-issue at scale. If we knew we had a global limit on DB writes, we'd get way more deliberate with direct schema representations (as opposed to plopping JSON blobs into various "data" columns). Each user interaction today usually costs a few megabytes of IO with SQLite. In theory, we could reduce this to a few hundred bytes per on average.
If you've done it right, by 40 you have children. If you've raised them right, they're fun to be with. Even if you haven't, they require enough out of you that you want to go to bed by 9. Social gatherings are about spending time with other families and letting your children play. Your partner is a collaborative team member in a complex dance, and while the passion for that person is not as fiery as the lust-fueled early days before you realized they were a real person with flaws, it's no less significant in magnitude.

Travel with a family takes more planning, but millions take significant road/flight/cruise trips every year. Budgeting (of money and, if applicable, vacation time) is key.

Changing jobs or starting ventures is similar. It's easier to get a job if you already have one, it's easier to survive a job change if you have savings. Planning remains key. It's not as low-risk as it would be for a bachelor(ette), but you have the time, stability, and mindset to start slow and minimize that risk as you go.

As your kids grow you have more time to pursue your interests. Eventually, if all goes well, you get the joy of grandchildren (all the fun of having children, but you can give them back). Retirement, if you've planned well and have your health, is a return to childhood (less money, more fun, most of your playmates are children [at least relative to your age]).

There are another 40 years after 40. Plan accordingly.
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you have a massive database built through illegal domestic spying...
*as a depressed 22 year old
Support and parts are hard to evaluate before a purchase but if it is big enough you should at least try.

Get the parts list if you can (search model number parts or similar) and call support and see if you can order them.

Sometimes you can find price lists online, but be aware that they can be effectively insane (washer costs $500, control board costs $400).

Consider checking eBay to see if parts are sold (this person could sell their mower without the charger for parts, for example).
For 99% of use cases webserver speed is rarely an issue.
> but it's incomprehensible to me that Google doesn't do this themselves.

How is it incomprehensible that they don't give a shit about what you want to see and only care about what's profitable to them for you to see?
Coworking in general is a hideous working environment. The offices are fishbowls. There's no privacy. It's worse than open plan offices, because at least at the office, everybody works for the same company.

The only times I've found decent coworking spaces, they've been ad-hoc affairs to make use of an old building on cheap real estate. No software startups, nobody chasing VC money, no espresso machines, no free snacks (or maybe just a few sad granola bars for emergencies), just a solid wooden door, wifi, and natural light from a window. I don't think arrangements like that last, though.
Because their cars lacked an immobilizer, which most other manufacturers have included as standard for a long time (and Kia and Hyundai only stopped using them recently). Some countries require them in new cars as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser and linked from there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge
Blockchain with Proof of Authority and distribution of said authority across geographic and (to a degree) professional boundaries might help. If the institutions with authority are, for example, every legal depository, W3C, the IA, a UN agency, and selected non-Western institutions, performing a 51% attack would be very difficult. It'd be more centralized than people think of with blockchain, but it would be decentralized among institutions and geography which means that if there was a war in Canada/the US in 50-100 years, we wouldn't have to worry about losing our digital heritage. It also means that if the US or Canada do turn into authoritarian states in the next ~100-200 years that they can't start scrubbing the archive.

I respect the IA greatly, but it's currently a single point of failure and vulnerable to geopolitical disruptions on a long enough scale. They're also playing a dangerous game in mixing their archival work and political activism. (That I agree with said activism doesn't keep it from being dangerous to the continued existence of the Archive).
They sent sales people to call me after I signed up for their cloud. Only once for me though since they determined I was just a nobody.
trying to construct logical statements using [N,L] stuff is sometimes mind-bending and sometimes plain impossible.
If laws were broken by a law enforcement agency, the responsible parties need to a) either lose their jobs or, minimally, be reassigned to a department where they can never make that “mistake” again, and b) be prosecuted to the full extent of the law with and be sentenced to a punishment that discourages future “mistakes” by others from occurring. Why are these laws in place if they are not enforced?

In recent cases, all levels of the FBI were complicit. Removing funding may only take away resources from useful areas while guilty parties are free to continue their bad behavior at the risk of only a stern talking to by Congress every few years when they promise this will certainly be the last time this happens. Throw some agents in jail along and see if the behavior continues?

Imagine you or I caught lying to the FBI, lying to the courts, and then lying to Congress. What would our fate be? Certainly not continuing on with the status quo.

Since DOJ has no interest in keeping itself accountable, what can be done? Can individuals who were caught up in this file criminal or civil complaints with any hope of relief? For someone not caught up in this, how can they prevent tax dollars from funding ongoing criminal activity?
Well we blame guns when someone uses them for murder and let criminals out without bail to repeat offend over and over again, so why not blame TikTok instead of the people that are committing grand theft auto.

Personal accountability for your actions has long been out of style.
You truly think housing and food have anything to do with it? We live in the richest society in history, and also the most suicidal. Why don't people living in true poverty around the world feel depressed and kill themselves like we do?

Why do we kill ourselves? It's because we have no communities anymore. Many of us are alone. Some call it a loneliness epidemic. And we've replaced community with social media. Our society is sick, and it has nothing to do with needing more housing or whatever your pet political issue is.
I feel this way about the GBA. It's modern enough to offer things like a 32-bit pipelined CPU that can be targeted with a modern C[0] or Rust[1] toolchain, but you are still extremely close to the metal. Even decade old PCs can run emulators that focus on accuracy rather than raw performance, and the physical AGS-101 has pretty nice backlight without any mods. Plus many of the games have aged extremely well, with the graphical style of e.g. Pokemon Emerald still being closely followed in modern indie games.

[0]: https://gbadev.org [1]: https://docs.rs/gba/latest/gba/
Ask HN: Any proved observations about how HN karma works?
I have two:

1. HN does not let to downvote to more than "-4 points" (anyone who can log into my account can observe this).

2. There is a topic [1] which has 245 points right now, and the author who has none of other contributions (other topics/comments), but its author [2] has only 114 points.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009774

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=notjoemartinez
The way people in Brazil see suicide is ridiculous: https://suicidio.com.br/
Not a chemist but a MechE. How is aluminum insanely reactive? Aluminum oxide is significantly less prevalent than iron oxide (aka rust). Even on a sheet metal part, you might get a couple microns worth of aluminum oxide. Hell, we purposely anodize it so we get more aluminum oxide.
...everything looks like a web frontend!
I said losing money doesn't destroy wealth. Destroying a city absolutely does.
> Money doesn't travel back in time.

Correct - the transfer happened when you bought the stock. What you have lost is the expectation of getting it back (or at least the expectation of getting it back today.)
Any extreme software development ideology is at least partly wrong and lacking the introspection to see that fact. Real world dev shouldn’t be subject to any ideology, in my opinion. Scrum master just sounds like some bad management books advice from the 80’s.
In the real world, large projects and large teams are rarely efficient and focused, it’s the nature of the beast. One can only hope to improve upon what one has, not solve all problems with a hammer you happen to really like, because most problems aren’t nails
Competitions like these raise interest in small-scale, and thus more humane, sheep-raising, as well as awareness of products from their far more expensive wool.
When we hear these stories, we never hear about the end result. We only hear about the act. It's like hearing a gun was fired. It was fired, but what did it hit?

The data that is in these databases have a high probability to be abused. Blackmail and intimidation are easy to hide. What number of the people that had their location data exposed through this database were shot soon after? What number of people had their identity stolen? What number of people lost their jobs? What number of people had their families or friendships destroyed by secrets being spilled?

The dots are never connected beyond the admission of violations.
i think this opinion is simply wrong. a lot of people do kill themselves out of a feeling of hopelessness. and yes, for some death seems very appealing at some point especially given a painless method. every time i read something by dfw i get the impression that he was just a little bit too infatuated with his eloquence and putting style over substance.
They make life harder for the poor and middle class, while the existing elites carry on with their lives at a higher cost.
Bacteria have been warring on us since time immemorial. We’ve only just noticed.
"Chinook" is the term I've heard used for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind
Uber has made losses every year, and only works because it is supported by VC money: https://fourweekmba.com/uber-losses-by-year/
I've been using Zephyr lately and have been really enjoying it. It still has the vendor HAL libraries available (e.g. Microchip/Atmel ASF), but the devicetree-based HAL has been fabulous to work with. I've tried a number of different embedded frameworks/RTOSes over the years, but it's the first that I actually feel happy using. There's a few sharp edges for sure, but it's at least an order of magnitude better than anything I've used in the past. One thing that's been particularly good is that the abstractions feel right, and it's allowed our team to collaborate on firmware without constantly tripping each other, because the module boundaries and abstractions are good.
Might I suggest that instead of working on "the most important functionality first" you consider identifying the riskiest aspects of the project and working on those first?

Some times those are the same, but often the part of a project that sinks it isn't the core functionality but some prerequisite that turns out to be much harder than anticipated.
I myself never liked agile or this idea of "iterating" towards a better solution.

Every time I've designed a software system that ended staying in production for years, it was a system that I'd thought about a lot up front before implementing it.

I think we could benefit a _lot_ from doing a bit more design up front. Nowadays it's almost as if people think it's impossible to get it right the first try.

It's not. Professionals can do it if you let them.
> who took advantage of the Dutch Euthanasia laws, to end his life ... it sucks, no matter what opinions we hold on the matter

His brother disagrees with you, explicitly answering an anti-euthanasia protester with: "I am just glad my brother did not have to jump in front of a train or live a few more years in agony before dying of his abuse"
27 Megaton sized warheads would be a significant problem for the USSR assuming their penetration aids helped them avoid the ABM system protecting Moscow. Also, France had more than just their IRBMs; they had submarine launched missiles as well as nuclear weapons carried by aircraft (primarily the Mirage IV, eventually the Mirage 2000N).

France has always valued this Force de frappe; the idea was to convince the USSR that "France is not a prize worthy of ten Russian cities".
Ketamine treatments help people, because ketamine is a dissociative drug. It makes you not feel your suffering, also makes you not feel the positive feelings. That’s why you’re not eg doomscrolling. It doesn’t feel good for you anymore.
If you’re not getting treatments regularly, you will be back to suffering in a few months likely.
In my opinion, there are better alternatives and more effective treatments than living a life of disassociation.
I for one would like to enter that mystery with clear eyes and calm heart. No soul-grinding suffering for me, thanks. I've seen it. Crawling on the floor in your own filth, hissing and snapping at the nurses.

I hear that starvation is good.
It's simpler than that! They just need to charge more than they spend. The fundamental economics of WeWork never worked because they were a con by its founder, who used WeWork to buy buildings in his name and rent them back to WeWork, amongst other financially boneheaded decisions. WeWork was never meant to be a successful business, it was meant to enrich the founder.

Post founder, WeWork was finding itself as a scalable office provider, where companies were willing to pay a premium for a flexible contract, and add or remove seats as needed. It was an interesting idea, and there were signs of growth. Then COVID happened. I'm surprised they are even still operating.
Sure, we generate user stories based on requirements, personas based on needs/goals - and auto generate user journeys.
We also use AI to generate detailed acceptance criteria for user stories.

Customers have saved days using Userdoc, whether that's to help them flesh out the requirements they already know, or generate requirements they couldn't come up with themselves.
AKA the "man up" argument. You know people who survived worse, thereby somehow invalidating the people who didn't make it when they were suffering less. Because you have experience with it and can therefore judge others.
Believe me… the thought has crossed my mind!
Unfortunately, none of this is actually surprising. When was the last time such crime was actually prosecuted? It is very hard to have any trust in the legal system when there are many that curtail ot through sheer influence.
This not only goes for cars but for almost all devices involved either in human movement or health: vehicle dashboards, headphones, lamps, public transport interfaces, avionics, medical devices and equipment, etc.

Any device that involves moving or healing someone without actual physical buttons puts human beings in danger in some way or another at some point specifically because of said touch interface.

The reason, in my opinion, why we observe so many devices turning button-less, is not ergonomy or usability. It's one particular community of users who is so much attracted to touchscreens that they would pay a premium to get rid of physical buttons and a touchscreen instead, even when that design decision can put their lives in danger.

I can't even mention these users explicitly here because I would probably be downvoted quite aggressively, but I guess some readers will recognize who I'm referring to.

I remember very well the moment Tesla cars arrived on the market and people reacted to the huge screen installed next to the dashboard. It was clearly obvious at the time that it was a very bad decision being happily welcomed by a specific category of users. Manufacturers of all sorts have been favoring these users in particular for the last fifteen-ish years although they know their products to become less durable, and less resilient to the unexpected.

I'm glad this problem is starting to be acknowledged and recognized by manufacturers.

p.s. the community I'm referring to, it has nothing to do with gender, age, race or religion.
It takes skill and effort to abstract from these detailed wishlists into generalised primitives which remain somewhat constant.

100% agreed. It’s well worth doing it if you have the chance, though. Understanding how your customer sees their world and what problems they’re really trying to solve is valuable both for building a useful product and for keeping that customer happy!
"You didn't think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?"

Hopefully this is the explanation.
The typical waterfall assumptions are very overblown. We are doing ourselves a great disservice by throwing it away. Hardly anyone developing today has ever used waterfall much less agile.

The waterfall:bad, agile:good trope is really tiring. Like listening to a teenager that knows jack shit explain how the world works.
It never had that much value but it has taken $22 billion of perfectly valuable money and set it on fire:

"WeWork has raised a total of $22.2B in funding over 23 rounds."

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wework/investor_fina...
I would say: run with it. Assume the model's output is always untrusted. Assume that no rules can be applied to the model itself, only to the container it runs in. What kind of sandbox does the model need to be placed in given those assumptions?

Simple rules can be followed like: never take a potentially harmful action based on the model's output unless the user has had the ability to review the action, clear the context and apply whitelist validation to the action's parameters before using the model itself to ask the user for confirmation, never put data in the context that you don't want the user to find out, etc...

I think it's mostly a matter of UI design, not of prompt engineering.
Man honestly, washing dishes was one of my favorite activities in the mid of the covid pandemic. It was like a therapy, where I would not be caring about looking at any screen or listening to all the (valid) drama.
I still have doubts. Google uses anchors heavily in search, so it's hard to prove if a result is due to matches in captions or in a website linking to the video. Would be good to find proof one way or another.
The small claims analogy works for May 20th 2023. I can't remember when I first heard about word vectors and the king – man + woman = queen. That was so mind blowing and now look what we are talking about?

However long ago a person first heard about king – man + woman = queen, project that amount of time forward. Any prediction for that date on how things are going to be is pointless. A good bet though is that making complex software is not going to be harder on that date than today.
>Why wait?

Because I live in an apartment and don't have a place to put one, but that's my own thing

Thank you for all that info!! This is why I love commenting on HN
And the debug adapter protocol IIRC.
Yup. Their free cash flow is positive, but that's because it ignores share based compensation (which is pretty crazy for a tech company).
No raise children in your early 20s. When you're forty they'll be adults.
I’m generally skeptical of pharmaceutical weight loss solutions as a bandaid over the underlying problem, but for this statement to mean anything you’d have to compare it to traditional methods of weight loss.

If you simply eat at a calorie deficit and aren’t taking specific steps to preserve muscle (resistance training and high protein), a lot of the weight you lose will be muscle mass.
In the article the unit cubes have side length 1. So isn't the volume always 1, whatever the dimension?
Do you know of any other metrics that result in more intuitive properties?
I think I started being very mean to myself at age 12. It's weird to find someone else who ended up in this situation. I hope I can go back like you did, one day :-)
I wish IPFS was better. It'd be an obvious solution to this. Content hash the YouTube ID and then distribute hosting.
Nope, 100% of my external users go through CF tunnels. The downside is that the caching results in the entire file being cached immediately if the user is not using transcoding, but most of my users are utilizing transcoding. I put a bandwidth limiter on my Cloudflare tunnel to limit it to 100Mbps

I don't have any actual stats, but there appear to be about 10-20 hours a day of remote streaming, mostly at 3Mbps. So we're only looking at 400-800GB on average per month.

Also, you can use Cloudflare unregistered free tunnels just like the article, but using registered tunnels makes it so you don't have to update the Plex url every time you reconnect. I used unregistered tunnels until Cloudflare made tunnels available on free tier accounts with no bandwidth charges.
It matches my Boy Scout handbook from 20+ years ago. We had hand pump filters and chlorine tablets. But we weren’t drinking industrial runoff.
https://archive.is/jPHTO
Interesting, do you have any references or examples? Some brief googling around hasn't found anything like this. The fact that overloading was an issue makes me think that TF1 was doing something different because Typescript generic type parameters allow you to do "overloading" galore (by only specifying constraints rather than enumerating every possible call format).
QNX is where I initially learned my Unix-like ways. Because of that exposure, I was never enthusiastic about what I saw as extreme limitations of Microsoft DOS and then Windows when I discovered them.

One thing that really set it apart at the time, is that you could have a fully functional desktop environment boot off a single diskette. So much power in so little space. And it had features I still never see in current OS's. (For example, in QPaint you could save graphical images as a C header file. Weird perhaps, but awesome if you were making a graphical application.)

It's all arguable nowadays I suppose, but I've grown so much with Unix-like OS's that it's a very hard sell.
Why address it? This is part of the fun of these online games. Ultima Online had similar issues, except you could straight up kill people.