skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to worry about the tiger and think the village warriors will take care of it. It's much harder to fight the tiger yourself, especially when the tiger is an amorphous slow-burn.
Looks very interesting!

> The switch is made by putting the user on the source database in READ ONLY mode, so that it is not accepting any more writes and waits for the flush lag to be 0. It is up to user to kick of a rolling restart of your application containers or failover DNS (more on these below in strategies) after the switchover is complete, so that your application isn't sending any read/write requests to the old/source database.

This does mean that there will be a "downtime" during which the DB is in read-only mode, right? I understand this period can be really small, but that depends on how long the app deployment takes.
100% agree. These are the real issues with Lemmy that need to be discussed. I feel like I've seen your comments before... my understanding of you is that you'd probably enjoy the https://programming.dev, although the signup process there is a bit harder.

The admins at https://Lemmy.world continues to fix various bugs / performance issues.

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It looks like Beehaw.org curated the strongest community "before the #RedditBlackout". based on my browsing there, they're more focused on their various topics (anime, technology, programming), rather than the RedditBlackout... which is a much healthier long-term community feel. Alas, they have only kept that because they have made signups difficult.

Hopefully, Beehaw.org opens back up as the RedditBlackout wave subsides. They do plan to refederate in the long term, but only after new moderation-tools are created. No idea how long that would take, but no one seems to expect this particular defedization to stay forever.

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The communities that focus on... well... community... will win in the medium term. I recognize that most people are using Lemmy because they're angry at Reddit (and that's fine enough to create a short-term community). But people need to start thinking about what kind of community they want to create on Lemmy now, and not just be part of an angry protest.

Its happening, but slowly. Its harder to community-build than it is to just get angry and protest a webpage.
The title says "zero downtime" but the GitHub tagline says "minimal downtime"

Zero... data loss maybe?
It is a tragedy of commons that requires federal action but they are too scared,
We could see the glint off giant cities on alien worlds, suggests paper
The people downvoting you are the ones also likely voting for these politicians. There’s a real problem in this country and the trend needs to be reversed or our problems will grow exponentially.
What Happens When the Lights Go Out?
Use quick replies to send customized responses to text messages and messages from certain apps with Fitbit Charge 3, Fitbit Charge 4, Fitbit Charge 5, Fitbit Inspire 3, Fitbit Ionic, Fitbit Luxe, Fitbit Sense series, or Fitbit Versa series. This feature is currently available on devices paired to an Android phone . Devices paired to an iPhone can respond to Fitbit app notifications, such as messages, cheers, taunts, and friend requests.
> Fuel cell cars already are in the range of normal cars in terms of cost.

I'm sorry but evaluating production cost when only a few 1000 are produced is pointless.

No independent company has done a public costing of these cars.

The sales price is not reflective of production cost on such low volumes.

> The simple fact is that a FCEV is very simple car to make.

You are just straight up disagreeing with every automotive engineer that I have seen talking about this topic.

It literally has every interface a BEV has plus a lot of very, very complex stuff on top of that.

> Once it hits mass production, it will be no more expensive than ICE-powered cars.

Assertions without evidence.

> Making it a far better economic choice.

The fuel cost alone will make sure its never the economic choice.

> Like I said elsewhere, the BEV is older than internal combustion.

The lithium ion battery is the innovation and that has been commercialized in 1991. Fuel cells have been commercialized for far, far, far longer.

> It is not a new idea and everything about them is a repeat of the early 1900s.

Except you know, like totally different batteries, far more advanced electronics and so on.

Its just an utterly silly comparison. The range was the issue with BEV in 1900 and now we have better batteries. And as a bonus far better electronics.

> Its fundamental weaknesses have not been solved.

Exact that the fundamental weakness was that batteries back then were heavy, short range and slow charge. And now batteries are comparatively far lighter, have a range that is more then sufficent and charge rates have gone up by a gigantic amount.

So quite literally ever issue has been addressed.

And reality reflects this, as today millions of EV are sold every year.

> FCEVs offer the true revolutionary idea

Yeah a revolution from 1960 rather then 1920. How advanced.

> A vehicle with the upside of an EV, but without needing a giant battery.

FCEV do need a battery. Jesus have you actually at how a FCEV works in the real world?

> how loudly you boast about the BEV

> That fact doesn't change no matter how loudly you boast about the BEV. So it is only a matter of when that FCEVs replaces BEVs.

I'm not 'boast', I'm just point out basic facts.

The real world and the real world has already decided. The technology race is over, you are like somebody advocating for Betamax in the late 1990s.

We are not even talking about a 10x difference, not 100x difference more like a 1000x difference in total sales. Pretty much ever car maker except those in Japan have made up their mind. Research in FHEV has essentially collapsed.

You are literally living in a delusional fantasy land you have constructed in your had that is just utterly devoid of reality.
So nothing of value was ever lost.

Every mod who decided to attempt to move a sub has now been shown exactly how much their "power" is actually worth, and has been instructed to either comply or lose their moderation rights.

The result is that they're complying, because this never had anything to do with a third party API. They just wanted to be seen participating in something.
Like three people went to mastadon.
BlackArch vs. ParrotOS
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Yes, they have setup a false dichotomy in their arguments and have limited themselves to only two options. It is a real problem with most discussions today.
You might be interested in AdNauseam: https://adnauseam.io/

It's a uBlock Origin fork that behaves as described.
Google, Amazon, & Microsoft are all in Detroit. I'm pretty sure Facebook is, too. Plus it has a decent startup ecosystem.

IBM has tons of jobs in upstate NY - offices in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse (not exactly a dream employer).

And remote jobs are always an option...

The nice parts of Denver are quite expensive. Detroit has much more to offer in terms of jobs than SLC.
Why is Windows using only even-numbered processors?
Not so much fun for a fish, but that's the way the cookie crumbles, I suppose. Existence itself carries a cost to those around the being that exists; should it be feasible for a datacenter and fish to coexist it ought to be done, but were I to pick one over the other, I'm afraid the fish has to go.
Appears they only trade BTC, ETH, LTC, and BCH: https://edxmarkets.com/trading-resources/
In my opinion it's significantly more meaningful than blockchain hype. Blockchain doesn't add any value whatsoever for 99% of the use-cases that companies were advertising it for, but AI can immediately and cheaply create output that previously would have been expensive, time-consuming, or impossible.
I was banned at r/beer because I critize Bud Light marketing, also the mod told me he did not like my Reddit Avatar.
Agree, PostgreSQL enum is really just for mapping with an enum in application code. And just like you should not remove an enum or change their ordinal in application code, don't do that to a PostgreSQL enum
These "unsexy" jobs may not grab headlines, but they offer stability and decent pay. It's important to find fulfillment beyond societal expectations.
I think it's a lot better than it used to be. From 2001-2005 I walked from work at 2nd St to home at Guerrero and there were only a few blocks on that walk when I wasn't braced for action. With all the new buildings and the BRT on Van Ness and other changes it seems way better now.
Was just going to comment this. It's specifically:

> This ensures zero data loss and minimal downtime for the application.
I thought PSA already had that. But maybe I was wrong.
Someone will figure out a way to mathematically map personalities out of a social profile and optimize for certain outcomes, and while posts like the one above may be made in jest, there will be someone who’ll put it in practice.
> Please don't generalize "Europe" when you aren't sure. (Also goes for the GP.) I have three-phase power in an 80m² apartment, as that's standard in Denmark.

Now now kids, play nicely. ;-)

I think the underlying question we should really be asking here is not willy-waving over whether you have a three-phase supply or not, but rather how large your main fuse is (there's a euphemism for you !).

I'm not familiar with Denmark, but I suspect even your fancy 80m² apartment with its three-phase supply will still only have a (relatively) tiny main fuse.

TL;DR you're still not going to have a supercharger at home any time soon.
Ask HN: Contrast-Aware Terminal Emulator
I've long been annoyed by unreadable color choices in command-line apps. Dark-blue-on-black. Bright-yellow-on-white. I often find myself squinting or leaning into the screen just to read some text -- or worse, subconsciously avoiding the terminal altogether.

Even `ls` on an fresh Fedora install has bad color defaults. In the dark theme, normal dirs are dark-blue-on-black. In the light theme, sticky-bit dirs are black-on-dark-green. Neither is easy to read.

Tweaking the terminal's color theme isn't a solution, because different apps use colors in different combinations, and colors that make one app look better will make another app look worse. Some "modern" terminal apps use 24-bit colors which aren't theme-able at all.

I think a better place to solve this is at the terminal emulator layer. I'd love to use a terminal that checks the contrast between the foreground/background colors for every character, and adjusts colors on the fly if the contrast is too low.

A couple kind commenters here pointed me to iTerm2 and Windows Terminal, but neither are available on Linux. Are there any Linux terminals that have this feature?
I've never really been invited to a lot of meetings. Just avoid places where they expect developers to work on all phases of the development lifecycle. AKA scapegoat.
> hopefully the people installing them don't accidentally connect the lines to the wrong distribution (it will happen inevitably).

They can already make that mistake. And they can do that with electricity too. If you employ idiots, there is no way to be safe.

> No way to capture the economies of scale

Does this sentence mean anything?

Does a water reservoir "capture economies of scale" in a way that purifying wastewater of aan entire city doesnt? Does building a giant canal to readistribute water?
This really spoke to me. I also love traveling alone but especially love road-tripping alone. I think part of it is the focus. When I'm driving, I'm doing exactly what I need to be doing, right when I need to be doing it. There aren't bills to pay, laundry to do. There isn't the feeling that I "should" be doing something else. I can enjoy the scenery, and listen to music or podcasts. My mind can wander, a little bit, but it can't wander too far from the task at hand.
And yet not ever area in the US has literal piles of human sh* laying all over the sidewalk.
Most of the time, we can see farther if we're on the shoulder of giant.
Having a good memory allow you to have a big memory of snippets you can reuse and adapt. You will need to be wary of not being a simple copy machine, which is require attention.
I know some like to explore on their own the world though and re create the wheel by themselve, in the hope of finding a new way. I respect that, it can lead to great result if you have enough courage to endure this path.

I find that mixing both is the best path forward - put yourself in strange land, but with some solid foundation to help you.
Carbon got this right from the start.
Consider building a ChatGPT plugin that helps with language learning, offering vocabulary practice, grammar explanations, and conversational exercises.

If you need GPT development services, feel free to contact us! https://www.ratherlabs.com
25% of that traffic was asking questions answered by a glorified markov chain. I dont think stackoverflow lost any valuable users or interaction unless they're looking for newbies with syntax errors to flood the place.
Yeah, I often think that "just" is code for "I assume everybody else's experience is exactly like mine". I had a period of significant back problems and I can't count the number of people who said, "Why don't you just..." and then pop off with something painfully obvious. I never actually shouted, "Oh, having just arrived on the turnip truck, I was unaware of stretching. Thanks so much!" But damn, I sure did consider it.
That’s not a location specific effect to it doesn’t really affect the relative statistics much. Comparing SF to actually dangerous US cities shows stark differences.

What hurts SF is a perfect environment for people to be homeless, and thus all the associated problems from homelessness. Rather than murder, rape, home invasion, etc it’s a host of lesser but still unpleasant things.
Yeah I clicked this thinking it was a poorly made intentionally meta humour site...and I still have no idea whether it is or not because I can't interact with the rest of it because WebGL, at least on my computer, is the most annoying experience of all.
The shell rules can be called many things but "basic" is not one of them.
> Neighboring tabs is what we call the technique that allows GitHub Copilot to process all of the files open in a developer’s IDE instead of just the single one the developer is working on. By opening all files relevant to their project, developers automatically invoke GitHub Copilot to comb through all of the data and find matching pieces of code between their open files and the code around their cursor—and add those matches to the prompt.

That's cool, I have wondered to what extent the rest of my codebase is being used for context.
I think either 5x6 or 4x8 are the way to go.

Personally I would prefer 4x8, but my guess is that I would be more productive 5x6?
Google domains is a license to print money. It's just not very sexy. It's not going to get anyone promoted.
Thanks for taking a look!

Thats right, it was a typo. Mean't zero data loss and minimal downtime. There are some strategies in the readme like using weighted based DNS failover to reduce the downtime even less without requiring application deployment.
Closed as duplicate of "how do I do that using X" even though on close inspection that!=this
Yeah, as a fellow ultra-high dpi lover I'm just disappointed by the market offering a lot of things but not higher framerates.
When the road to hell is paved with good intentions, it's not cynical to point out where the road is going.
They might be delicious but they probably don’t hijack your serotonin and dopamine levels the way that junk food can.
It is somewhat true for the few blocks around where the author lived. But it's confusing to me when people say it's worse now than it was in 2016/2017, say. The pandemic made everything worse for a couple years, but I think we're just back to the same level of misery that had me avoiding many blocks in that area back in 2016. That part of the city was clearly already gone and neglected then.
$800 for a Mac mini 16GB for me with a 1 year warranty.

I had a previous gen chromebox. I bought it for $180 and ended up doubling the storage and upgrading the ram to 16GB and installed ubuntu TLS when chrome OS hit end of life. It was used for almost a decade.

Was plenty fast for normal browsing, youtube/netflix full screen, and other normal/light web usage.
Meta P92 and the Fediverse
Just like wealth redistribution and inequality, I'm seeing this migration of "programming discussion" moving from open forums like SO to closed systems (guarded silos of GH Copilot, ChatGPT, Phind and others). We are preferring to ask the nitpicks in their chatbox instead of as a public comment on Stackoverflow.
The thing is, if something went very wrong like that, the default would be to cut the ballast (which in this case is held on by electromagnets) and surface naturally. Same with power loss or pretty much anything else.

There isn't a LOT that could happen that wouldn't lead to either them surfacing pretty rapidly, or imploding almost instantaneously.
I'm actually in favor of what you're saying, but would attribute that contribution to putting the onus on government (not businesses). To me businesses taking responsibility looks more like 1% for climate change and social responsiblity, which I think companies do poorly due to (seemingly) conflicts of interest.

I think we agree in principal on a good path forward, but I disagree that the study says people think the government should regulate more.

btw here's a lead for those wondering "why 100 companies?" - https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
I don't get the "most consumers wants their media in', it's an alternative and what you find complete mess?
Would prefer mainline DB engine like Postgres or MySQL
Yes, but it's not just that there's only "a chance" that the collision is avoided - that would be enough if it was actually just a random probability (after all, everything about hashing and collisions - in the best textbook case - is just chance). The problem is that there are methods for obtaining what we call "seed-independent collisions" where by analyzing the hashing algorithm itself you can actually determine a priori values that will collide regardless of the seed.

If you have half an hour to spare, I really recommend you take the time to read this: http://emboss.github.io/blog/2012/12/14/breaking-murmur-hash...
> I'm a bit shocked by the gay thing though.

Yeah. Of all the comments I have made, I least expected it to be that one. As it was a complete Reddit ban, not just a subreddit ban, it is possible that it was just Huffman doing his usual round of trolling and not really about the comment at all. I had participated in a discussion about the API changes earlier the same day said comment was made, so I was "on the radar".

Either way it was pretty funny.
Just remember, Oreos were a ripoff of another popular cookie, Hydrox. Now, most people consider Hydrox to be off-brand Oreos, if they even know about them at all. Originality is overrated.
after using expect and TCL heavily for years, I can firmly say they suck at scale.

Ruby https://github.com/ytti/oxidized/blob/master/lib/oxidized/mo...
or
TextFSM https://github.com/google/textfsm

are much better options if you need to do a /lot/ of parsing
We're not interested in accounting in units of water/tree, but water/foodstuff, where the denominator could be nuts, calories, or else some generalized nutrition index.
> while wages rose and stimulus reigned, measured inflation was low as were rates.

Investors have been walking away with more and more of the productivity since about 1970 or so. Young people are less likely to own a home due to insane asset price increases during that time and the fed kept lowering rates in spite of this. They raised interest rates specifically to prevent a "wage price spiral" but had no problem with the price spiral around housing because wages weren't going up as well.

If CPI was accurate you'd have the same standard of living your grandfather had. A decent house on a single salary, pension, new car in the driveway. The modern young professional class lives in overpriced apartment blocks, a lot of them don't even own a car. The iPhone doesn't make the mandatory two income household with no assets lifestyle equivalent to what we had previously.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG
> You can just split infrastructure into a separate company which does not sell power itself.

The largest energy conglomerate in the US is basically that. The distribution and generation companies are 50 feet from each other because they used to be the same company. (They might work out of the same building too, I forget) But of course the state doesn't own the infrastructure (hey, this is the USA!).

The history of our energy market is like that of 10 countries combined. Texas by itself is a weird case study, as deregulating its market (Texas has its own power grid, because... Texas...) shot prices seven times higher, though they eventually stabilized again. Deregulation by itself isn't going to fix things, but more public ownership probably would, as the incentives would be towards stability, safety and stable prices, combined with increased funding toward sustainable energy.
The parent wasn't objecting to KYC. They were objecting to "once you fail automated ID verification once, you're banned from attempting it again, and Google keeps the several thousand dollars they owe you."

This pattern of facts doesn't look like a terrorism prevention system, it looks like theft, you would have a good case in any court with this pattern of facts.
How would they know the answer was gotten from ChatGPT though? If I ask ChatGPT something, test it and confirm it’s correct, I can answer it in a simple way.
Yeah this pisses me off because the ADHD Lemmy community lives on lemmy.world , but I’m signed up to beehaw, which recently announced they’re “de-federating” from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works for reasons… and now I have to keep multiple accounts with hopefully my same online handle just to see all my communities I’m subscribed to in a single feed like Reddit does? Ugh… fucking headache. Or run my own lemmy instance? I don’t want to do that… I want a “front page to the internet.”
Exactly, I have no beef with Discord, but it's the same funding model as the rest of them and that's the part that's broken.

Reddit for its part could have contacted the 3. party developers and asked them to switch to a model where users authenticate with the API individually and billed the users of the apps individually if it's a cost issue. They didn't, because that's not actually the "problem" they are trying to fix.

The majority of Reddit users don't care though, just as the Discord users don't care that search engines can't find the content. Louis Rossmann was right, the Reddit blackout is a joke and Reddit has already won. The people who are moving is the minority and perhaps not worth much in Reddits ad financed doom scrolling reality.

It's a weird time where things that could be a service would rather sell ads, things that should be a standard alone products is a subscription and the products that used to be ad supported is dying because ads space is cheap.
This is similar to an idea I've been kicking around but haven't had the time to work on. Will definitely give it a try as soon as I get a chance, but FWIW it looks like the requirements.txt is out of data, as the code mentions llama_index but requirements.txt does not.
What a city where you need to be careful about which neighbourhood to live in.
I will say, without knowing the ins/outs of it, that bellevue looked appealing for the variety of roles I could hold and live there.
Also, gamers are often more concerned with refresh rate than pixel density.
Benzene also causes aplastic anemia when exposed to chronically, like in the case of some gas station workers. This is a pretty well known phenomenon.