skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you are saying, but .. this is not "nerd bait" I really mean it.. what is your suggestion then?
Compared to what? I'm not going to Roche Bobois for a whole house full of furniture. Ikea is vastly better than the typical big discount furniture store.
Yeah, I don't disagree. The notes I'm putting in Google Docs usually err on the side of being blog post ideas or things that I'd want to share with people at some point after I refine it. When it comes down to privacy for sensitive thoughts it's kind of hard to beat local files (and the inconvenience of mobile is just the price to pay).
Having been using and administering a lot of PostgreSQL servers, I hope they don't lose any stability over this.

I've seen (and reported) bugs that caused panics/segfaults in specific psql processes. Not just connections, also processes related to wal writing or replication. The way it's built right now, a child process can be just forced to quit and it does not affect other processes. Hopefully switching into thread won't force whole PostgreSQL to panic and shut down.
As far as I can tell I think the company involved hasn't released a passenger list.

edit: An earlier version of the BBC's article said it wasn't known if people were on it at all; clearly there were, but I'd bet this is why the headline is so unclear.
It would be such vengeful bliss if Apollo were to help start an alternative to Reddit by changing over to another service/creative another service.
Yes I know, the back end is difficult, but Apollo currently has a huge reach and moral advantage it feels too good an opportunity to squander.
I’ve forgotten what drug but I recall a lot of people being salty about five years back because there was a much more effective treatment in Europe for some chronic condition and the ETA for FDA approval was still multiple years. It’s not often such a large time lag that but sometimes the deck gets stacked against you.
The article says it's better for the environment (maybe less energy consumption or waste products?)... Either way, that's one way to get permission for the using a more hazardous process.

Edit: any other interesting John Drury Clark style anecdotes?
Went through this for an autoimmune condition with extreme nerve pain. Support forums are full of people that say LDN is a fantastic drug and works wonders.
I was on opioids begging doctors to let me try LDN so I could get off the opids. All Refused since they weren’t familiar with LDN.

I was finally able to get it online. I no longer take pain medication. Life is basically back to normal.
Why were they laughing about it, do you think?

To me, it'd be like someone saying: "Oh, you're curious and like to look at the stars? How droll!"
Correct. However, I feel the specific companies you mention didn't aim for hyper-growth, and had space to diversify their product portfolio. Discord, much like Reddit, is a one-trick pony. The weird thing to me is, Reddit feels like it should've been in the Google/Amazon/Meta/Microsoft bucket - yet somehow, through all these years, it failed to diversify.
> There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time. While we believe it is important to be open with the AI community and to share our research to advance the state of the art in AI, it’s also necessary to strike the right balance between openness with responsibility.

Yeah... I mean there definitely are ways to misuse this (especially the style transfer!) I don't think you're going to do anything except delay the inevitable Facebook.
Yes, I mean it usually happens like this

(a) Some dude is making $500K/year at Google or $250K/year elsewhere or whatever

(b) They start a privately-owned company and hit $1M/year personal income and are pretty happy, at least happy enough to not want to go back to working for someone else

(c) But then soulless conglomerate offers them $20M+ in one go for an acquisition

I don't blame them for taking the $20M. It can be a life-changing amount of money.
Maybe, but I sort of doubt it.

IC -> mgmt transitions are a messy thing, and I've never personally experienced working at a startup where anyone had enough time to help the new manager get their bearings effectively. (I include myself in that group of people who made the IC->mgmt transition, and flailed.)
Is there a reason this is more important than say on consoles? Why does no one push for sideloading on Switch and PS5, what's the difference?
The number only seems small because we use notation to make it seem small.

Most combinations of nucleotides aren't functional, or even capable of being synthesized by natural processes. This limits what can be created quite a bit. The true odds are still extremely high, but not nearly as high as these calculations guess.
I had my first child when I was 38. Not as part of a well-conceived strategy, just, like, that's how life turned out. My wife was 33.

All in all, I'm happy that we did end up having kids, but if I could go back through my life and rearrange things in some godlike way that let me still marry the same person and have the same children, I'd definitely have kids earlier.

I feel like it's hard in my 40s to have the same energy that I did 10 years ago, and raising kids is definitely something you have to pour energy into. Also, my mother died a year and a half ago, in her mid-70s, and I really feel like both she and my kids would have benefited from having longer together. My father is 80 now and while he remains healthy, it seems very unlikely that he'll actually see his grandchildren grow up. My father-in-law died when his first grandchild was an infant.

I think it'd also be nice to have my late 40s as a time when I could really heavily concentrate on my career because my kids were old enough to handle a lot of the small day-to-day things by themselves, since this feels like probably my prime earning time.

None of this is stuff that makes me say, "I screwed up, I should have made any sacrifice to have it different." Overall, life is great. But if you're 28 and you're thinking, "I could go either way -- wait a decade to have kids or have them now," I'd personally recommend "have them now."
They should allow sideloading too, but phones have more scale and reach and create an effective monopoly for getting apps onto customer's devices.
A rewrite is almost never the right choice.
Can you please not break the site guidelines like this? Your comment would be fine without that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines so frequently that I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
This is silly.

I love Ikea stuff.

I bought an Ikea kitchen, nobody else will give you a 15 year warranty. I have read stories of kitchens being completely replaced because Ikea no longer made a certain design.

If the cheaper furniture lasts me 10 years, I will most likely be ready to replace it anyway, as my taste changes.

I guess if you are going for a certain historic style and plan on keeping it that way forever then obviously solid wood is a superior choice.
I think I would have benefited from upskilling before graduating, so I'll go against the grain and say it might not be a bad idea.

I graduated in 2012 and had to spend a year after graduating upskilling, because my program left me woefully unprepared for the job listings available, and my GPA wasn't very good, so I wasn't qualified for any internships while I was studying.

My situation might have been a bit different though; I spent 9 years getting my bachelors part-time while working full-time in the service industry. I never learned more than the bare minimum to pass my classes and didn't realize how important it was to do that while in university. I also never really absorbed the knowledge learned; because I wasn't applying it while learning it was all very abstract to me.

After graduating, I realized every entry level job expected a bunch of knowledge I was lacking, so I spent a year doing online MOOC courses and working on personal projects. Then after a year, I met someone at a conference who gave me part-time paid work that we called an internship (I was very marginally productive during that time, as I was still playing catch up, but I wasn't making much so I think it worked out OK for both of us)

Taking time to apply the knowledge and build personal projects before graduating would have been a boon to me, as a lot of opportunities for things like internships were no longer available after graduating. I think the whole situation set my career back by 2 or 3 years.

Also, considering this is one of the worst economies to graduate into, you need to be able to hit the ground running once you graduate, with as much experience as possible.
A corporation is just a group of humans. There's also clear governance. The CEO makes the decisions and the board of directors has oversight. The shareholders elect the board members.

It's ultimately still a group of humans making the decisions, and they are almost always rational decisions, may just not look that way from the outside with only a partial view.
"The government and all major parties, except for the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, had called to vote in favour of the bill."

Imagine having more than two political parties...

Still, this seems like genuine uplifting news.
As mentioned in the blog though, the UK has a law (Consumer Rights Act) covering this. California (where I am) seems to generally have strong laws as well.

Also, I can't believe it would be legal for a Facebook employee, for example, to use their position to harm a public figure, journalist, critic, politician, etc.. That seems very illegal.
Well, yes. That was my point. When companies say they want you to perform at the next level before promoting you, it's just something to say that's semi-friendly and still means no.

Believe the no, don't believe the reason.
Prompting with "harsh noise wall" resulted in some cool industrial breakbeats instead of raw noise. Looks like AI will not be taking Merzbow's job any time soon
How exactly has Sony using FreeBSD for its consoles impacted my ability to go to FreeBSD.org and download their source?
Anyone know what tool is being used to create AI singing voices/renditions of Mariah Carey singing Whitney Houston to other popular songs?

Here's a bunch of results on YouTube and some are really good

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mariah+carey+ai...
With modern French the interesting one trying to fight this sort of natural evolution by defering a lot of language changes to their Academy and intentionally replacing calques and borrowings with "corrected" versions. Their Academy isn't always successful in getting French speakers to conform to their "corrected" words, but it is fascinating that they still try.
"Natural Key" actually refers to column(s) already available in the dataset you are turning into a row that is unique by row, and thus a candidate for being the key. (Subject to all the normalization, etc.).

An artificial key is a column of made-up data added to the rest of the column. It has no use other than to provide uniqueness. In most cases there is already a unique candidate key in your data.
And now it's VC-fashionable to have S3 as "object store" for "serverless" databases. "offload to S3!"
Each set of globals is in a module it relates to, not in some central file where everything has to be in one struct.

If anything, it's probably easier to understand.
Phones have a higher impact with regards to malware
While cute this is really close to call/cc and/or algebraic effects as an abstraction for control flow, which isn't as much "cute" as it is "a powerful way to express programs in as few expressions as possible"
As a general principle, any set of circumstances which results in net increased influence of people who are demonstrably amoral with regard to the public welfare, should have as many barriers as possible put up to obstruct the success of such people.

Bad money chases out good, increasing the fraction of money in bad hands by billions or tens of billions is going to have a palpable effect on the stability of the world.
Olestra
I think it’s common practice to give life saving treatment to the control group after there is some measure of confidence that the drug works.
As long as you don't remove any of the "wood screw" elements (edit: that is, the screws used in the cam locks), they're perfectly ok to disassemble. They won't go as flat as the original box, but you can certainly transport them in pieces (with care).
sorry, bad title in the USA. I think the word FREE gives more ammunition to critics than assists for advocates. LIBRE is an alternate word
> Another point I’d like to make is that modern European lifestyles exist partly due to American military hegemony, which has allowed European nations to redirect their defense spending to social programs.

I agree with you on your main point, but I'm not sure this one holds. Per NATO, defense spending is supposed to be around 2% of GDP, with most European countries spending 1-1.5% [1]. This is while the average European country spends ~20-25% of GDP on social services [2]. So if the US were to defund the military to 2% and leave Europe to their own devices, the budget shortfall would be a small portion of the amount European countries currently spend on all social programs.

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[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/584088/defense-expenditu...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...
Packaging and Selling a Node.js App
This is the original title:
Japan law will require Apple to allow alternate iPhone app stores
> The annoyance to me is that like all scope / defer constructs it gets wonky when paths split between a success and a failure path, and you do want the resource to escape in the former case. That's an area where RAII really shines.

Is this even supported by the proposal in question though? I don't see anything here that indicates any sort of escape analysis or object tracking is performed—resources are always cleaned up lexically so `using foo = handle(); return foo` will always call foo to be cleaned up, just like the equivalent `finally` statement.
Yes one of my favorites also, I’ve watched a couple of series in it and quite like it!
My experience in C# has been that almost all library types that require resources to be released will implement the same IDisposable interface provided by the System namespace.

I'm sure there are examples of libraries that don't do this but I can't think of any off the top of my head and I'd assume that they're fairly rare.
The second way is fine and not that distracting, just gets people reading the comments into the "they're filtered by the owner" mindset so there's that. Not that literally any social software can be
Great writeup of your first impressions! Looks like your questions are mostly answered, or at least you have starting points for most of them, so I'll leave those aside.

Thanks for giving such a detailed writeup of your early experiences with Nix!
Apparently a tab with that hack consumes a ton of energy, even when hidden. Weird. Google Chrome, MBP M2 16".
I think it's a good mentality for a lot of things, education for example, or starting a business. It's kind of terrible that we've decided that learning ends at 25 and a lot of people feel bad or out of place when they attend university at 40. Makes no sense at all especially in the current age.

But having kids is the one thing where age matters. If you have a kid at 50, there's a good chance you are going to need assistance when they're barely in their twenties. I've had a few friends like this whose parents were very old, and they needed to take care of them when they didn't even have their own stuff together. I think it's better to either have kids early or not at all.
This is a marketing pitch for a cloud storage company and it shows:

> - System hardware: $500,000

For one PB? Gold plated HDDs and cases I guess…

> Assume 15% annual system maintenance over five years

Do not run your hard drive cluster on the same floor as vibration-inducing machines, folks. /s

According to Backblaze, even a 8 year-old hard drive is still twice more reliable than this, and 15% failure rate is what to expect over 6 years of consecutive use!

> Assume the space needed to store 1PB is between 25%-50% of a standard rack (42U)

You can fit almost 10PB in a rack though, so that's another figure that they've inflated.

> Assume personnel costs to manage a 1PB system are 0.5 IT/storage admin FTE

This one is probably true (and it's even an underestimation) if you have only 1PB of data, but it's not going to scale linearly: you're never going to need 130 FTE for 260PB.

Overall, if a supplier (who's going to use the same kind of off-the-shelf tech as you would) claims that his price is 4 times cheaper that what it would cost you to run it by yourself, he's probably just lying to sell you stuff, just saying…
> See voicebox.metademolab.com for a demo of the model

They are not releasing the model (yet?) but demo samples are available across many tasks
Sometimes how epic an idea is takes precedence over how risky something appears.

Were that not our inclination as a species we'd never have left the Earth or sailed the seas.
I like this a lot and it would end my importing the good sunscreen from Europe because the FDA is reeeeeally slow.
What percentage of a non-negligible amount of fresh water pumped/dumped into the ocean is returned to the freshwater ecosystem/loop given, say, 10 years?
KeePassXC Vulnerability CVE-2023-35866
The number of colors defined by software will not represent exactly all the colors a system can display; the software colors are arbitrarily defined and at discrete levels.

I expect that any system can physically output colors in addition to the software definitions, including in-between colors and especially, assuming the engineers left margin for error, colors at the extremes of brightness and hue could be generated.
Possibly but not likely. It specifically said “she” couldn’t get pregnant. Not “they” couldn’t get pregnant.

My interpretation seems to be the most correct one based on the juxtaposition. He finally found the “right one” but “she couldn’t get pregnant.”

Of course, he could have lied or not looked into his own fertility issues. Being skeptical should always be a given when reading articles like this.

But also, what you’re saying goes against what many other people here have been commenting (i.e. “it’s well known that men can have children late in life”).

And let’s say that he did have fertility issues. My point would still stand, the mentioning of her age wouldn’t derail the discussion. (Which I think you’re agreeing with)
The negative consequences of their choices impact all their loved ones or everyone in their social circle.

Also if you work in the hospital you may have to deal with some very disturbing shit if things go badly. People don’t just turn into smoke when they die, and anyone who lived through the Pandemic should remember what a horror show a not dead patient can be.

I had a running argument with a friend who was terrible at money management who got very grumpy when anyone addressed the issue of money. It was his choice and none of our business. Except group activities are affected by one party being broke all the time and bringing up money problems. People who care about you are affected by your decisions. You getting defensive about it is all about you, not us. See also our friend with health problems who would stay up late the night before or not eat well/prepare for an event and result in us having to manage them or bail out in the middle. That gets old really fuckin quickly.
> If you have a hammer and screwdriver, you can build Ikea furniture.

I never had to use a hammer with Ikea furniture.
oh okay, so this is what they were recording me for...

hehe, fun world we live in.
Right to try is a cruel scam:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cruel-sham-of-right-to-...

> So-called “right-to-try” is a cruel sham that holds out the false hope of survival to terminally ill patients and their families. In return, all they have to give up is patient protections and agree to pay to be guinea pigs to test a drug company’s product. The product of an ideology that uses the terminally ill as shields to hide the ideological motives behind the law, which are to hobble the FDA, right-to-try is a terrible idea.
More importantly, it does not allow distinguishing between successful completion and a thrown exception. Which may or may not be such a great feature in the first place, but still.
> I have no business being able to do either ...

Why not?
Heh, it's easy to model when you have a few generators, especially when one is much bigger than the others on the grid. But what's fun these days is you can have an absolutely huge number of generators. Keeping things in phase just seems insane to me.

Practical engineering has a great video about power black starts that give some insight into this complicated machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w
Ugh, gnome. I wanted to move from TWM to "something modern" in ~2001 when running FreeBSD on a DEC alpha as my desktop. I submitted patches to both KDE and Gnome to let their configurators accept my shortcuts. KDE took the patch, Gnome rejected it because it violated their human interface guidelines or some such. So I spent the last 20ish years with KDE.

Its not FUD. They took a stable, working desktop environment and made it more shiny, and less reliable.
> So what happens when yo invent/create a thing, attempt to commercialize it, and an established corporation just rips you off because there's no barrier to doing so?

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. As of right now, the answer is: nothing happens. The established corporation profits, and you suck it up, because what else are you going to do? Sue Apple?
This shit pisses me off. This goes against the language design anti goals. And there’s way more stuff from other languages that is far more valuable than using.
Corporate events may pay some outside headliner who they think will attract people and maybe they'll cover some travel funding for e.g. some student or community attendees they want to highlight. But, in general, company-run events, foundations like the Linux Foundation, etc. don't pay speakers or cover costs. (A free conference pass for speakers, media, analysts is pretty standard.)

Aside from a requested talk at a sales conference once for a client, I've never once been paid for I'm sure well over a hundred conference talks.

I have had conferences wanting a CYA signature that says they can use my image/recordings/etc. for marketing purposes and so forth but even that is usually just covered by some conditions you have to agree to when you register.
Anyone who’s ever finished putting together a piece of IKEA furniture only to realize they missed a few parts knows you can take it apart and put it back together perfectly fine.
The pay isn't as much compared to a hyperfocused CS to FAANG/startup track. It's not bad though.
instanceof only works for inherited types, usually expressed with the class keyword by TypeScript users. It's entirely worthless if you're not using them. Class is the only construct in TS that is both a type and a value.
> would’ve turned the discussion into East Palestine

I guess you’re right about that. There’s so many illogical people on the internet without reading comprehension. I thought you speaking about a specific kind of discussion.
People do horrible things on the Internet without accountability all the time.