skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used Google Adwords pretty much since it started. You used to be able to get a fair number of very targetted clicks very cheaply in Adwords by targetting 'long tail' search terms. But Google have made that harder and harder over the years, for example by eroding things like exact match. Now it is pretty much highest bidder gets all the clicks.
Why are you running cluster orchestration software on a single machine?
In Rust you have convenient escape hatch with a default allocator. It's similar to say "you can do safe applications using C or C++".
Is this for the virtual consoles (the screens you get to with CTRL+ALT+F1..6)? If so is this for scrolling back to see errors that have been written the console, or for scrolling back once you've logged into the console?
To be fair to BE focused folks the Web exploded from being a bad document environment you did ugly hacks and cargo-culting on to make something interesting, to an actual platform at quite a high speed.

And additionally to this during the time it became viable a lots of FE folks still had to continue battling IE6 in their daily lives so online documentation still lagged and had a clear smell of the cargo-culting. Heck even today you see people complaining about Javascript here on HN.

But being left behind today, you gotta blame yourself. Early realtime Google-suggestions using AJAX came already back around 2005 (?) and if you didn't take notice and still missed people were doing decent realtime games by 2010 you were doing your best to live under a rock.
This precisely the niche Cloud 66 tries to fill, it caters for the growth businesses, providing initial ease but without sacrificing control. This allows companies to grow without being forced out before they are ready.
(Disclaimer: I work for Cloud 66)
"Free to access" in highly limited ToS is not free in a reasonable way when it comes to data.
The industry and governments of the time torpedoed itself by insisting on secrecy and, especially in the case of the UK, doing stupid things like building the reactors on SSSIs (sites of special scientific interest, for instance Torness) instead of building them near where the power was needed.

As someone else said in this discussion: presented properly many people would vote for nuclear power. However, you need to have some substance to the presentation too.
> ActiveRecord is Ruby's nigh unassailable superpower for webdev

Django guy here so unaware, what makes it so great?
"The goal of this project is to offer a fallback in case Reddit does continue with its plan to charge app developers fees"

So you created an API to bypass the official APIs, promoted it on Reddit itself, and wonder why you got banned? Color me surprised.
Frankfurt am Main ;-)
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Not sure why you are being downvoted, that is something that struck me as well. In particular Vanilla strains were milder than beta/delta.

Don't get me wrong, Covid is a deadly disease with a lethality of 1-2 %, but the typical symptoms for a 30 year old are mild.
I disagree, they are very much so related. I would even go so far as to say the majority of human qualities are interlinked.
WIV doesn't work on its own, and the GoF research was mostly funded by Fauci & NIH
Yep, can confirm this took me by surprise when working with chinese colleagues in our company. Eg. I would read someone's out-of-message saying "OoO, going to hospital today" and be freaking out. But then they would be just out for couple days sick leave for fever or something. Only after like 3rd time that happening it clicked to me that 'hospital' for them means something completely different than I would have thought.

Whether that is just a misunderstanding of language or actual difference in healthcare system I never thought about.
Modern QuakeWorld has the option of enabling ‘air step’ which allows surfing up stairs. I don’t think the deathmatch purists use it, but it’s become standard in FortressOne (modern QWTF fork).
> The leaders of the CCP have everything they could possibly want in this world. They won't risk it all for an uncertain outcome attacking Taiwan.

They don't have Taiwan. Historically, they think Taiwan is not a distinct country, but a splinter off of China that needs to be brought back into the fold again.

Just the same bullshit Putin thinks about Ukraine (and most probably also about Belarus). The only thing saving Taiwan from a Chinese invasion is just how bloody Putin's nose got in Ukraine - and that's without the defense pact Taiwan has with the US.
I do agree those people are good in hard sciences. I did those exams and they're hard.

About your comment about putting people in positions because of those diplomas, it's also because of the network you acquire at those kinds of schools, and cronyism. Granted, this kind of cronyism is less worse than in others countries where it can be more pernicious and less official :-)
Actual ER doctors disagree with you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36336615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36337227

Classic HN to confidently dismiss something in areas we're actually clueless about.
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Google et al. are God's punishment of our hubris? I would rather say Google is the hubris.
I’m still writing Oracle off. It might be profitable but it’s not influential or innovative, and because of the later it will eventually die.
Really do not share your experience with CosmosDB, some of it's attributes that currently make me miserable include...

- Scaling is not infinite, it's up to 20gb per partition key (1), which can't be changed after document creation.

- One set of global indices, no equivalent to DynamoDB's secondary indices.

- Still can't run their docker container on mac (2) natively.

- Weird SQL-like dialect that's required for all but the simplest queries. JOINs are spectacularly awkward.

- Tooling is horrific. Based on the previous point, no existing tooling works for it (and nobody is building tooling for a DB with such minimal market share). For example, I needed to manually deleted 30 or so documents/rows yesterday - only way to achieve this is with 30 separate click-to-deletes in their UI.

- Minimises analytics options. There exist a plethora of business intelligence type tools that will happily sit on top of most common DBs. None of them like CosmosDB. So you're stuck with synapse link or whatever MS calls it now.

Overall it seems to combine the worst aspects of both RDS and document stores, with the worst aspects of both traditional and serverless infrastructure.

(1) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/partitioni...
(2) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/local-emul...
Good chance it was John Carmack, probably one the top 10 programmers of all time. He basically built the Quake engine himself. There is a pretty decent analysis of it here:

* https://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/index.php

I recommend checking it out.

EDIT: i was thinking of the analysis done on Quake 2, which is more about the engine:

* https://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php

while the one about is regarding the multiplayer system, which is still an amazing bit of dev.

Github:

* https://github.com/id-Software/Quake
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Yes, this. Single lines don't often have the same two characters in a row (or if they do, then you can get to the one you want fast with ; ). Even large paragraphs don't often have many of the same two characters.

Sneak is amazingly fast for moving around without gumming up your search history (since one can do similar with / ).
> Also I think about 50-60 years ago the medical profession lost interest in respiratory viruses. So much information is absent, out dated, or the result of 50 years of telephone.

Wait what? Really?
HN is for everyone, trying to have 1:1 real-time conversations in a forum like this is selfish and rude to the community.

I come here largely to avoid people that want to “have conversations”

The rest of the community does not want to read your conversations, they are interested in good information.. and the only way to have lots of good information is to get rid of the cruft.

Or put another way, the discussions are good because back and forth is discouraged.

When you make a comment you should ask yourself whether this benefits the community.

If it doesn’t then you want to hold off on those type of comments.
Ask HN: What Could the Technology Trends of 2024 Be?
I think artificial intelligence and web3 will definitely happen. I also think there may be space technologies. What else could it be? Let's brainstorm.
I get the approach of stylistic advice. I think that people in this thread have two separate conversations, one about an empathetic style and one about empathy.

Empathy means sharing (and often uncomfortable) emotion with another person.

If what the text represents is true, i.e. the model helped you express you really feel, but you're too tired to write it, that's sounds like a net positive.

Although in my experience if I'm too tired to sound empathetic on my own, I'd rather avoid messaging people at all or put whatever message I have for them in context, e.g.: "Hey, It's been a long day and I'm knackered, so I'll be brief: ...". People appreciate being direct and honesty, but I don't work much in places like large corps any more where communication is already very formalised and "templated empathy" just follows the existing practices. (not saying that you are, just giving an example here).
Yep I’m in this code base a lot, and there’s a lot of this. Some of it by John’s own hand. But you know, if it works, it works. I’ve added plenty of my own bugs in the same spirit.
... while quite a few understand the fundamentals of infrastructure they consume, and end up in undesirable places (with major impact on performance, costs, or a combination of both). I fairly recently worked for a few months in a web3/blockchain/NFT/<other buzzwords>/crypto-wallet company, and the fact that I had to explain in ELI5 mode how diff types of databases (and how critical such a choice is), name resolution (a.k.a. DNS), global vs local load balancers of different types work, which measurements and logs to enable, and where, reality of redundancy and recovery times, on prem(NO - you cannot rely on moving VMs over L2 connected DCs!) and in the cloud, etc., to "app" (whatever end) folks, with no understanding how these fundamental services [kept] impact[ing] their clients, was an experience I would certainly not remember too dearly. Even a comprehensive explanation of email client headers reading, to an office full of FE and BE engineers, who failed our security tests (joyfully clicked on anything having a link, in a message, 'cause it was presented as an "API PoC"), was revealing in regards to the missing basics. /rant
So to fix it do they isolate part of the electronics from main power?... Add more caps

Oh yeah someone else mentioned caps hmm
Greatness, another word that can join "genius" on the scrapheap.
> I’m no longer able to tolerate the clowns that saturate our field

I looked up Event Chain Diagrams and it is probably overkill for the scale of projects I typically work on. Nevertheless it's much more reasonable than the kind of MS-Project based things I've been forced into working with over the years.

Perhaps the worst part of this journey for me has been that I've supposedly been in positions of authority when this has happened. The gravitational pull of what is essentially waterfall project management is so hard that refusing to do it expends significant political capital.

So the clowns are out in force even in my little patch, and I laughed out loud when I read your comment.
I guess my country regulates this pretty well - employer is forced to pay at least half of the salary for the duration of non-compete and on top of that the onus is on the employer to prove that an ex-employee is engaging in "direct competition" if they are going to sue for damages. Which, I tend to believe, captures the purpose of non-compete agreements quite well.
holy shit are you 12 or just slow?
> "Western economies are obsessed with why their productivity has flat-lined."

Their productivity hasn't flatlined though. It is increasing. And increasing share of the productivity gains has been going to the richest ones.
Though for any such distribution, there is a point on the curve where the numbers _do_ sum to 100. Surely 0.0001% of customers provide less than 99.9999% of revenue, but surely 99.9999% of customers provide more than 0.0001% of revenue. Somewhere in between, assuming continuity(*), there's a ratio that sums to 100.

Not to detract from your point at all — just a curious observation.

* In a way assuming continuity is weird because the underlying numbers are discrete. But in approximation it's fine here if the number of customers is large enough, I'd say.
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Yet legislators are in the grasp of associations, who want no such legislation to occur and either block it or never allow it to be proposed. They are in the clutches of corporations & oligarchs.
Our terraform config for RDS is about 50 lines of configuration. We get a much smaller instance for our money, but ultimately figuring out all of what you posted isn't a good use of my time (yet).
That's hilarious... if parsing GPT's JSON fails, keep asking GPT to fix it until it parses!
I remember Carmack announcing that the scripting language for Quake will be "interpreted ANSI C". Never checked how standard he made it though.

That was back when he posted dev updates in his .plan file.
Your analysis is not likely correct. The bill appears to be aimed quite generally at restrictive covenants, outlawing any contract restraining a covered individual's employment.

This would void any agreement predicating the terms and conditions of deferred compensation on employment restraints.

It would also likely defeat any gardening schemes since contracts could no longer prohibit a covered individual from practicing their profession.

(I am not an expert on NY Law and it is possible that I am wrong and this bill isn't really intended to cover finance or tech professionals making solid money.)
Isn't seeking a second opinion something you usually do when the first opinion sounds fishy, doesn't seem to match the evidence, or when the doctor giving doesn't seem to be doing his job seriously (e.g. dismissive, preoccupied etc)? Or in cases where it is known to be a difficult situation which makes you think multiple diagnoses are needed?
The latest, but it was a few months ago. The results were off by 50 meters or so, and many persons have the same problems : https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/8976
Or you could use sqlite until you need postgres. I have to admit I reach for postgres immediately when in many cases sqlite would have served me just as well.
Yes. The capacity factor is a blatant lie given that units 1 & 2 are about 60%, and the costs are an old estimate of overnight cost without escalation or inflation.

Comparing overnight costs to final all-in prices is one way nukebros love to lie.

You're also pretending operating costs don't exist.

You're also pretending that costs for a solar project in 2015-2019 are costs today. This is another blatant lie.

Longevity is another lie. The median and mean ages of the plants that actually get completed is around 30 years, not 60. The average for nuclear plants that are paid for is even lower because so many do not open at all.

Thankyou for demonstrating.
If it were a criminal case you could be right. But you cannot sue a nation state, you cannot imprison an institution and culpable people may be hard to come by.

But actually, civil liability is more relevant here, since worldwide damages were extreme and changes in how virus research is handled are obviously necessary. So if one were to sue relevant parties in a civil court for damages or to force their procedures to be changed, the standard of proof is just "more likely than the other explanations". And I think one may get there, at some point.

Also, for a civil case, intent isn't necessary, negligence would also suffice.
Exploring the Benefits and Use Cases of PDF Watermarking
Ensuring the security and authenticity of documents has become increasingly important today when information is easily shared and accessed all over the place. The million dollar question here is: “ How can someone really protect the security of a document?” One effective method that has gained popularity is (PDF) watermarking
While I think journalism has a lot of issues this is not one of them. How a layman journalist could parse a scientific paper and compress it for a wide audience without giving some false impressions I can not imagine. "The devil is in the details" in a inescapable law.

For reporting on science the trouble is with the readers, not the papers. People want to draw conclusions applicable to their lives, or at least for having the upper hand in an argument. These studies are narrow in scope by necessity and are observations rather than predictions or prescriptions.

The reality is that most studies like this can not be used as self improvement guides. Not the ones about achieving mastery in your field, not the ones about mental health, nutrition, exercise and so on. But then why would people bother to read about them? The human mind is on the lookout for shortcuts, the elixir of eternal youth, happiness , love is as in high demand as it always has been. Hundreds of years ago these where presented as vials of exotic substances. Now we're rational and educated, we want the elixirs presented as science bits. So what's a journalist to do? He too has to pay for rent and food.
A more fitting title would be: "46 Books that American Intellectuals and Academics Talk About the Most".

When it puts Diamond Sutra on top, I thought that this list is going to be interesting.

But then I saw it didn't include Bhagavad Gita, The Quran, or anything from China or Japan- I was disappointed and saw this as another list.

There were other books that moved more mass of people, changed history in more profound and lasting ways thatn the ones listed here.
Canva announces developers platform and a $50M fund for app development
Very pleasing experience, though I wonder what I'd think after 10 minutes of using it.
Link to the developers pg: https://www.canva.com/developers
All while the government still subsidizes the accident insurance. Lets remove that as well!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...

Compare the $15 billion funded by the industry with Fukushima looking to cost at least $150 billion to clean up.
I would love an explanation of Tribes' skiing bug presented in the style of this video. There have been so many differing explanations of it in blog posts over the years which haven't completely sat right with me.
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About 20 years ago I had two computers at work: a Windows PC and a Sun workstation. I used Vim on both. I knew about the vi ]] command, and I'd learned some Vim script. I thought it would be great to have a key binding to take me to the innermost surrounding curly braces, so I wrote a vim script to do this. I picked ]} and [{ as the key bindings.

One day I used the key binding and then realized a few minutes that I hadn't installed the script on that computer yet. After some searching in :help I realized that I'd not only reimplemented a feature that already exists in vim, but I mapped it to the exact same keys.
Total cube positions is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000.

And any position can be solved in as few as 20 moves, aka “God’s number”

https://www.cube20.org/
Reading the comments I realised that:

- people are having two separate conversations: one about empathy, another about an empathetic-sounding style

- many commenters use different definitions of empathy and compassion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy
Also Ariane 5 maiden launch failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88
He's implying the same laws that say you can't drive trucks on a Sunday, also restrict other labor, or make it uneconomical (e.g. having to pay mandatory overtime for weekend hours performed).

He's wrong anyway, there's no ban on general trucking on the weekends in Belgium, only oversized loads. He is right about strict labor laws, you'll barely find any open stores on a Sunday, besides restaurants, bars and some other forms of entertainment.

But yeah, God forbid you can't go to the European equivalent of a Best Buy on a Sunday, so some retail worker can enjoy their weekend.
> Among the many absolutely bonkers things in there, Elon appears to believe he just doesn't need to pay for things.

I just really really hope his hubris drives him into the ground.
All companies will eventually die. I'm not writing Oracle off, as they don't care about innovation at all. They care about those governmental and corporate contracts that innovative companies shun.

The world is big enough for both to exist.
The blog post about verifying ChatGPT code with Kani is very interesting. [0]

It introduced me to model checking with Kani [1], which seems to be very similar to fuzzing, but with a different goal and underlying algorithm. Fuzzy testing involves random byte sequences whereas Kani's approach is exhaustive, while using some techniques to reduce the search space if possible.

[0]: https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/check-ai-generated-code-perfe...

[1]: https://github.com/model-checking/kani
Since chimpanzees can rip a human apart limb from limb, yes, they could create (not even a cage but) an open perimeter which, when crossed, initiates an attack on the human.

This is also why analogies like this are not useful, these aren't comparable qualities in the subject the analogy is talking about.
Get a 403 Forbidden when I visit https://www.tanda.co/
PS: I'm not calling out Railway specifically, I just like to laugh at how the second biggest public cloud is just a figment of our collective imaginations.
The complex stacks are insane to operate yourself but very simple to operate if you use a managed offering instead, and they do provide genuine value.

I can set up a new golang app on ECS with a load balancer and database, with a CI/CD pipeline, with 0 downtime updates in about 30 minutes. Most of that time is waiting for AWS to give me a load balancer. Our work applications have been running with this setup for over 2 years and the only thing Ivs done with infra in that time is adjusted instance sizes and bumped a MySql version.
The diameter of the cube group is 20, but speedcubers go for natural/memorized sequences of moves they can execute extremely quickly ("fingertrick") over technically shorter but awkward move sequences that require grip adjustments, have hard to visualize side effects, and so on.
> But the worst Digital Ocean incident we ever had was when they turned all our droplets off all at once. The credit card entered into the account had expired, there was no backup card, and the contact email on the account went to a shared inbox that was not monitored. So for probably a month we were getting and ignoring billing alerts, until we really paid attention when everything was offline and not responding to SSH. This wasn’t totally their fault, but at the time it just all felt like a dodgy, shaky setup.

This wasn’t *at all* their fault and there’s nothing dodgy about it. This was entirely your fault, and even mentioning this as a „partly“ negative for DO is imo very wrong. I imagine any other service provider, including Heroku, would have acted the same way. You can’t expect to mooch off a month of service without paying and without consequences. If you don’t pay your bills, service will be interrupted. It’s as simple as that.
Did you actively decide against applying independent per-column scrolling?
If yes, what was your train of thought?
Tech is like a septic tank. It's the really big chunks that rise to the top.