skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like more of the "BOTH SIDES!" dilemma that's plagued politics and journalism for the past decade. Frankly, I don't understand how one distinguishes this from good ol' fashioned nihilism. If we're treating potential "compassion for animals" as a conflict of interest, there's not a study in history that could be completely free of conflict of interest.

Not everything has to be a both sides equivocation . Degree and severity matter. "Compassion for animals" and "receiving funding from a party with a vested interest in the outcome" are not equivalent conflicts of interest.
It's probably more about how visible gross stuff can be on a menu because you're holding it up in a reading position and staring at it for a few minutes.

That said, menus spend a lot of time on the table, some of that while food and drink is being consumed - apps/drinks are ordered and people continue to ponder their meal choices as they munch. The drinks splatter, the food drips sauce and grease, etc.

Because of the visibility factor, you're confronted with this information far more than you would be for a doorknob or chair. That's going to cause some to consider the menu more gross than those other features.

Finally, tables and chairs and doorknobs and railings all get cleaned from time to time, with tables and chairs often wiped down between guests. Paper menus don't take well to being wiped down with water or cleaning solutions. You can laminate, but laminated menus tend to be associated with cheaper / lower class establishments.

At a place with a continuously changing menu this is less of a factor as menus are reprinted often, sometimes daily. When the menu is static, paper menus might stick around for a while, accumulating residue and getting more visibly dirty over time.
To get your domain out, you may need to send a demand letter from a lawyer to their legal department. Your account is probably long gone, but they cannot confiscate your domain.
I've worked with SAP in two companies: for the end user, it's slow, ugly, hard to use, and full of idiosyncrasy.

I've used two open source ERP, both as end users and as maintainer (granted, in smaller companies). Both were objectively better. Props to ERP5 and the composition it allows by the way, especially for the web pages that are easy to modify without prior knowledge (controllers and the database especially are a pain to work with however, but unless you want to create a new module yourself, you won't need it).
PG 11 is end-of-life, right? So you won't be getting new security updates.
What's worse, libraries will stop supporting it over time, so you'll find it difficult to stay up to date in other places in your stack.

If I was running PG 11 in production, I'd be looking to upgrade sooner rather than later. Being on older-but-stable versions is good risk management, being on end-of-life version is not.
Do you think that this warrants discretion?

I don't, but the powers that be do. If you read the occasional submission with that site that documents HN's behaviors that aren't listed on an HN page, you'll see it lists certain things like needing 500 karma to downvote but you may note that some behaviors repeatedly reported in the comments are never added to the site. Is that on purpose? I don't know.

HN is a good site with good discussion. You just have to accept that sometimes you're going to get muted with a "you're posting too fast" message even when you've only made two comments in the last twelve hours, neither of which are flagged, and both of which have positive scores.
That sounds like an awesome trick to write tough female chracters without having your tainted brain trick you into sterotypes. Just random all genders up after writing.
You can pack 3 letters into uint16_t, 5 bits per letter.
While I understand that argument, I imagine most regular readers do not have the down vote privilege and may not for a long time, if ever. (I'm not sure in fact what the threshhold is, but it seems to be high.) To post enough and get upvoted enough to achieve it probably takes years on average.
you could also call it 'the halo effect'.
Visiting a website and running Javascript vs. running a native application aren't equivalent. Browser sandbox exploits are "a thing" but that doesn't make the situations the same.
Perhaps the dog is no less happy for it.

I've been around dogs all my life, both farm and suburban. My wife and I volunteer at a dog shelter on a weekly basis, working with a variety of breeds. Over the decades I've concluded that most dogs need a job. It would be hard to convince me that a suburban Australian Shepherd (popular these days) that's lucky to get a walk once a day is any more happy than one that is generally ignored by humans but gets to herd sheep all day. I'd go so far as to even say that sticking a herding breed in a house for the majority of the day is more cruel than ignoring a farm dog that gets to do what she was bred for.
> There's nothing you can do in an index for a table with 350 rows

I meant if you have 100s of indices -- it might be slow even on small tables.

I actually had a production issues from using a lot of indices, but it's not apples-to-apples with current discussion, because the table sizes, DBMS and update rates were much larger, fixed by removing indices and splitting table into multiple.
FUD alert.
Or at least several different eurozones. Germany and Italy or Spain are rather different economies to say the least.
I was just breaking my head over deploying my simple stupid Django app last weekend over Render and other PaaS. While I eventually deployed it, it took quite a bit of time and it's still super slow.

That being said, it's unbelievable that you managed to do this alone. The site looks very well built, at least for my non-developer, noob-programmer eyes. I'll definitely give it a try.
I think a flag like that shouldn't have to exist. It's complicating and bloating the runtime more just to gain more adoption, not to make Deno actually better.
Depends on the chain. At one restaurant, the waiter still came to your table to take the order.

At another, the restaurant's entire menu was online and expected you to place the order through the website so that it was nearly indistinguishable from a carry-out/DoorDash order. The only difference was that you specified a table number in the order if you were dining in.
I misrembered the PyPI mirror system (pre-Fastly) being more similiar to Debian[0], I didn't realize it had so many problems.

Debian managed to solve all of the concerns you listed, what makes PyPI unique?

[0]: https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
This is a heartening affirmative use. The negative of this image, creating biological warfare agents with extraordinary virulence and/or infectiousness is terrifying. Not really sure who would or how to begin reducing those risks.
That appears to have been during an active conflict, not a precision strike. I’m not saying no civilians have ever been killed. I’m saying Israel takes great pains to protect civilian life.

You cherry picked a paragraph that makes it appear that Israel bombed a school, instead what actually happened was Israel returned fire at a location near a school, and the UN agrees it was fine.
“ 80% on useless clients, who have no knowledge of how their current system works,”

I tend to think that’s true. I have been involved in some process improvements at my company and it was almost always that:

* Nobody really knows how things are working now

* A lot of people don’t want to adapt to new processes

* Execs give you a lot of verbal commitment but don’t do anything to really help

It’s really hard to implement a good software system within these constraints.
I re-watched recently and man, that movie is even more epic to me than when I saw Star Wars in the theatres the day it came out...

And, Sigourney Weaver is an insanely beautiful woman...
Ah, back in the days of bipartisanship.
You understand these things have a very very wide interpretation scope here that has yet to be tested in court. I wouldn’t make these statements so confidently as courts tend to reinterpret the law significantly for the balance of societal factors when serious technology changes occur.
For pizza, I have a pizza steel (I know, way overpriced for a sheet of metal) and preheat the oven for a LONG time, then use an IR thermometer to check its temperature.

But you're right, oven temp controls are crap.
downloaders also received legal letters.
He's the Jim Cramer of geopolitics...

> We've yet to hear him really explain in a coherent way

It's hard to explain geopolitics in a coherent way in a five minute video...

I listened to one of his videos on China, and as a long-time China-watcher, I was not impressed. In fact, I closed the tab and wrote him off. He identified most of the factors influencing China's political situation, which he confidently extrapolated as actual fact. Much of what he said was not unreasonable as a working hypothesis of what might be going on specific to that area, but it was certainly highly unlikely to be accurate. The whole picture was definitely not accurate.

Compared to the clarity of thought of, say, John Mearsheimer or Ian Shapiro, who are scholars, I found Zeihan to be a waste of time.
I'm not sure about modern implementations, but it's not actually required to remove the old index at the end. It's perfectly legitimate (and somewhat safer, though the index should be reconstructable via a linear scan of record headers within the archive) to just append, and the old indexes in the middle of the archive will be ignored.
Accept that in very short order your work is going to become obsolete, useless, and only extant on a tape backup in a mislabeled box.

After that, it's easy to graduate to the next level: _memento mori_.

Perspective heals many wounds.
This is a lazy, bad-faith discussion of AI doom. It asserts that the belief in existential threat from AI is exactly equal to traditional religion, then it makes dubious claims to "prove" that assertion. And to top it off, the article boldly claims

> I’m trying to steelman the case the best I can

That's not believable - the author has cherry-picked examples that they think serve their purpose (and, in my opinion, they really don't), and either ignores or is ignorant of actual "doomerist" reasoning.

For example:

> AI doomerism as a religion ... Yudkowsky outed himself as being somewhat religious albeit in a non-traditional way

The actual quote:

> the religion that I actually picked up was from the science fiction books instead, as it were. I’m using religion very metaphorically here, more like ethos

The author then continues to make parallels to traditional/actual religion, doubling down for another few hundred words without much critical thinking.

It is a misreading (intentional or not, I am unsure) of Yudkowksy's quote to form a basis of "doomerism [and/or science] as a religion." He is clearly saying he inherited a worldview, which religion often provides to people, and that he does not feel his beliefs are genuinely religious in nature.
This is why I'm really excited about Titanic II - Zombie Sub
FusionAuth Review
It was on time, because they forced it on us before it could actually work.
Regarding on budget that's not really true anymore as:
"The institution has confirmed implementation partner Inoapps and software company Oracle will see the price of their contract rise from £25.4 million ($31.1 million) to £33.5 million ($41.12 million), owing to changes in requirements and additional work orders by the customer"
But it's been a big debacle.
Great explanation of why CI and CD are different
Also the alien spacecraft set was made with lots of animal bones. But where HR Giger used old, dry bones for his sculptures, for the set they went to the local slaughterhouse and collected fresh bones. Those bones were still full of bone marrow which started to rot and stink. Apparently something similar happened on the set of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Alien has aged increadibly well, much better than Star Wars with its grotesques creatures that look too obviously like a man in a suit.
We recently showed DiffEqGPU.jl generating customized ODE solver kernels for NVIDIA CUDA, AMD GPUs, Intel OneAPI, and Apple Metal, where for CUDA it matches state of the art (MPGOS) which is about 10x-100x something like Jax/PyTorch (where the performance difference comes from inefficiencies of using vmap vs actually writing and calling a kernel). It's all in https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06835. So this stuff exists and people are using it. Of course the caveat here is this is the context of engineering applications so someone would need to do similar for LLMs to fully relate back to the article, but it shows the tools are ready to a large extent for someone to step up in the ML space.
I took compilers twice— I had to drop it the first time because I chose to use a different language and tools than the rest of the class, and the parser generator I chose didn't accommodate the kinds of error messages we needed to produce. The issue only became clear to me a few months into the class.

The second time I took it, things were relaxed a bit— the curriculum was designed around working in a high-level language (Java) and we got to write an interpreter for a nice intermediate form based on a simple VM instead of compiling all the way down to machine code.

So there were definitely some differences and they did make things easier! But I still remember this as one of my favorite classes, and I'd love to take it again and go 'all the way'.

Why do you say it was a 'long semester'?
> the shut down of nuclear power thanks to the Greens

The decision to shut down our nuclear reactors came from a conservative government, where the greens were in the opposition.

The prices have not been rising due to the shutdown of our nuclear plants, but due to price gauging by electrical companies, and due to russia falling away as a cheap gas supplier.

Nuclear only made up 5% of our energy production 2023 and 11% in 2021, with ~4.3Gw and ~8.5Gw respectively. Germany installed 7.2Gw of PV and ~2.4Gw of Wind in 2022. Replacing our entire nuclear capacity with renewables within a single year.

The conservative government of the last 20 years spend an insane amount of effort to stop renewables by limiting the yearly installed PV capacity by law, and introducing NIMBY friendly limitations on where wind turbines can be build, bloating the documents required for clearance from a couple dozen pages to a full binder.

The conservative government were also the ones starting the NordStream projects and overseeing their construction. They are directly culpable for our dependence on russia.

The greens have to spend a lot of effort on reversing those legislations, and they had to do this in addition to handling the Ukraine crisis, and while constantly fighting a conservative/neoliberal party that is part of the government but has made it their stated goal to sabotage everything the greens propose. (They are basically a lobby arm of the german car industry, with several scandals.)

The fact that they managed to push for this much renewable energy, and for this much energy independence is a small miracle tbh.

Also if the conservatives hadn't sabotaged our "Energiewende" and had guided our car industry towards EV, we wouldn't have the issues you pointed out.
Looks great. Thank you.
> I don't buy it, you can already use stuff like skypack or other bundling CDNs to import npm modules in deno just by their URL.

It's not that simple if the project you are importing uses Node-specific APIs. By the way, this is an area that can really confuse newbies.
Would the Super Museum count as niche?

Superman Museum in Metropolis, Illinois: https://supermuseum.com/
Cosmicenergy: New OT Malware Related to Russian Emergency Response Exercises
Really interesting. Is it because people sell the property and get a new mortgage for a new place or they outright pay it off after 11 years?
Alien is great because it's realistic expectations about space travel is such a stark contrast to the swashbuckling romanticism of popular space operas like Star Wars and Star Trek.

Space is bleak and enormous. There is no technology that will shrink it which means travel will take decades at a minimum and the most palatable way for humans to travel in that environment is in some kind of stasis. And it's going to require massive space ships that are going to be funded by huge multinational corporations. They will enforce their will through AI that have absolutely no empathy for the humans on board.

Depressing, but I think it's the most realistic portrayal of space travel in sci fi and the amazing art design reinforces that feeling of bleakness throughout the film.
Then do it. Why not? You'll have to start small and short.

This looks cool - https://www.grottedelasalamandre.com/en/balloon/

I went on an aerophile and they were fun https://www.aerophile.com/en/

If you are chasing a transatlantic mission then you've got a wait and it'll cost far more than a first class airplane ticket.

I think the longest atm for passengers is 2 hours €‎1000 - https://zeppelinflug.de/en/
Long-term Covid-19 booster effectiveness: a population-based cohort study
Do you typically say ageist and sexist things online?

If you work IT support in any capacity, you should accept that your job is to solve problems for people who are doing things you either can't do or don't want to do.

Their experience is outside of your wheelhouse, and you are there to make the technology transparent to their job function. If you can't do your job with a glad heart then find a different one.

Have some humility.
You wrote "Windows 3.1" twice there so I'm not sure exactly what you meant.

I deployed and supported 3.0, 3.1, WfWg 3.1, WfWg 3.11 and Win 3.11.

AFAICR after some 30y, none of them included Win32S as standard.

And no, I don't recall any earlier 32-bit binary or API support.

I think there were some dozen versions; 10 are listed here:
https://www.classicdosgames.com/utilities/win9x.html

... and that does not include 1.0.
That's a very interesting question. I always assumed most daily users do, by a wide margin, but I never actually had any data to base that off of. I even thought this before I had the 501 karma needed.

By absolute user count I'd definitely expect most to not have it but only because most accounts aren't regularly used (many even abandoned).
I didn't see it mentioned here but if you watch the documentary on Alejandro Jodorowsky attempting to make Dune - the collection of folks he brought together (for a project that didn't happen) ended up being key folks in making Alien. Talk about bringing the right talent together

That said - love Alien and will occasionally rewatch it. It's "space trucker" environment with low tech interiors really took on a different approach compared to other works in scifi. It's tranquil scenes and score are also pretty unique. Even the trailer feels a bit ahead of it's time when compared to trailers today.
That’s really high, unless there is part of the story that we are missing.

I could see it costing this much if there was extensive copywriting needs, detailed SEO needs, super-high performance requirements, and/or highly-stylized design.

Otherwise, that’s way overpriced.
Generated Adventure – The Postmortem of a Game Made with ChatGPT and Midjourney
There are only two global superpowers left [FT.com]
https://archive.ph/AYpE3
Inflection – A Personal AI
If you ever get to Hamburg, Germany, pay a visit to the remarkable Miniatur Wunderland [0].

... and if you really enjoy niche museums, don't forget the German Museum of Additives [1]!

[0] https://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/

[1] https://www.zusatzstoffmuseum.de/
AI generated work is not copyright-able. I guess the courts later could disagree though.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/
> you have to run your own k8s, figure out how to manage persistent storage, figure out how to replicate your dat

I think they have option of standalone cluster, where all of this kinda easy to configure.
Just checked out Temporal...

I don't know how I didn't know about it before..

I literally implemented a whole system to do what it does.

Thanks for bringing that up!
Downvoting doesn’t work that well

The main issue is that if a comment gets downvoted when newly created, it looses almost all visibility (gets shown further down), and it mostly dies, just from one downvote

This just creates and echo chamber where only the most accepted/mainstream opinions bubble up

It would be nice if we could “sort by controversial” or “sort by new”, so that we got more variety of opinions
Microsoft Improves ChatGPT and Bing as Part of a Larger AI Product Push
You wouldn't need any of these WHERE clauses if you have all the premium users in one table. Even managing the users in both tables in pretty trivial when you just add someone as they pay and remove them as the premium account expires.
Navigating back used to be instant before pages became so bloated that browsers had to evict them from ram so soon.
Well, technically, this depends on the environment and is also working in proper terminal. But all the proper terminals are AFAIK GUI-terminals, so it's a thin line I guess.
Typically, you create a large number of test records and see how your expected access patterns perform.
Oh it's definitely a great movie, arguably better than Evil Dead 2, but I will say that a part of me wished they had kind of pretended to take themselves seriously more.

Let me explain: part of why I like Evil Dead 2 so much is because it does a great job of walking the line between "horror" and "comedy". At some parts it's pretty goofy, but always in a way that kind of feels like it could plausibly be in a regular horror movie. Stuff like the moose head laughing, or Ash cutting off his hand and replacing it with a chainsaw are silly, and even slapsticky, but still kind of works in the tone of a "regular" horror movie.

Army of Darkness on the other hand is basically a just a comedy. It has no pretense of being anything else, and there's nothing wrong with that at all, but a part of me wonders what it would have been like if they had kind of kept the goofiness into "potentially plausible in an action movie" territory.
Ask HN: Do you know anyone building an AI startup in Canada?
If you know someone, please send their contact information to my personal email p.delfino01 [at] gmail [dot] com

I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Thanks.
Big Kale is infamous for its propaganda
Reminded me of etcd, which is exactly this - Raft-based key-value store written in Go.

https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd
Kind of ironic that the Writers Guild is on strike... "Hey guys, I get your plight on the strike - but how about you go write something that isnt a big Ego-Dick-Swinging-Contest-Amongst-Producers"
So why not incorporate blocks as a signal for the ranking algorithm? The simple version is every person that blocks $USER causes a -n modifier on all of $USER's content; more complex versions could scale the modifier with the number of people (or the combined "reputation" of the people) blocking $USER or shadowban them once x% of posters block them.

Open to abuse? Potentially, but so are a lot of community voting features, and reliably muting serial trolls would be a useful feature for a lot of social sites.
https://archive.today/cmHCP
> PG 11 is end-of-life, right? So you won't be getting new security updates.

Not quite yet https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ - the final release will be November 9, 2023.
A centralized host can't ever be the only reasonable option for trust. They can be manipulated, technically or socially, and that makes everything vulnerable at once.

Both are useful.
I recommend also watching the movie "The thing" (1982).
> Too many long panning cuts, too much staring at a wall, too much space between dialog, too little action.

You might as well have described Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, modern universally lauded productions.
The term for ginormous software packages like SAP and Oracle ERP is HostageWare:

Some people inside these customer organizations are fanatically committed to it, since what choice do they have? A disaster like this?