skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the conversation in this thread is "cargo cult justice." The rituals of justice are being performed, but justice isn't to be found.

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

> In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he's the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.

You don't get democracy for participating in a voting ritual. You don't get justice for just following precedent. These things are a summation of the beliefs, norms, and actions of a society as a whole.

It is myopic to frame the conversation around precedence or individual cases. When you frame the conversation around justice, it becomes clear why it's OK to break precedence to protect rights granted by nature, but not OK to break precedence to enrich some business that pollutes the environment.

Here is one of our great founding father's (Thomas Paine) take on justice:

> Man, with respect to all those matters, is more a creature of consistency than he is aware, or than governments would wish him to believe. All the great laws of society are laws of nature. Those of trade and commerce, whether with respect to the intercourse of individuals or of nations, are laws of mutual and reciprocal interest. They are followed and obeyed, because it is the interest of the parties so to do, and not on account of any formal laws their governments may impose or interpose.

> But how often is the natural propensity to society disturbed or destroyed by the operations of government! When the latter, instead of being ingrafted on the principles of the former, assumes to exist for itself, and acts by partialities of favour and oppression, it becomes the cause of the mischiefs it ought to prevent.

Our government was acting on behalf of the citizens with brown and obergafell and is acting on behalf of corrupt individuals with citizens united, this, the overturns, or any other number of things our federalist society junta is doing.

So when the court operates on behalf of the weak and oppressed it is fulfilling it's purpose, but when it operates on behalf of the powerful and corrupt, it is denigrating the institution it claims to be and spitting in the very face of justice and crushing the idea of rule of law.
“One of the goals of our architecture is to have it be completely transparent to software, because software is hard to change.”

Software is hard to change. How ironic, and yet of course completely true.
I've had great success with an old Dell Optiplex computer running xcp-ng with PCI passthrough of the NIC to pfSense. I was considering a protectli box, but for $300 on ebay + an old NIC I had laying around I got something much more powerful (Intel I5-8600 w/ 16GB of RAM) than even the most expensive protectli offering, which was ~$1500 last time I priced it out. I calculated out the power draw and the Optiplex ends up with only a cost of about an extra $1.10 on my power bill per month at high usage, which was the deciding factor.

As a bonus I have xcp-ng spin up a ubuntu server with Portainer running things like pihole / unifi controller / plex / a terraria server. I also decided to randomly throw in a cheap nvidia GPU for some extra oomph. Highly recommend it for tinkerers, and the only reason I would spend more for the protectli is if the fan noise of a mini PC might be a nuisance.
Why would the reading be harder?
I meant spectroscopy in general, not this particular instance.
Sounds good in theory, until you are on the receiving end of a mob which, thanks to unmoderated free speech + misunderstanding and exaggeration + pre-existing hatred of your kind of people and pre-existing violent temperament, have decided to bludgeon you to death.
Does anyone know the culture surrounding use of these drugs in non-obese people? Even “healthy weight” people often want to lose some weight. Retatrutide in particular looks promising as a general life improvement.
The audiobook, narrated by Jim Norton, is also great. His delivery is quite engaging, and any parts that might be a bit impenetrable while reading flow over you, and you can hook back in later.
>People freak out at the start and complain but no one cares and life continues on.

And what are we supposed to do against this, raise in arms?

In my country we have two big parties but they are in cahoots (practically have the same progressive opinions on everything) so we can't even vote to have these authoritarian policies removed. There obviously are other parties but it would take something big, or reaching a tipping point, to break this cycle. It's not as easy as "no one cares". Many of us care but are powerless.
Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI risk are “ridiculous”
Nice!

Would be great if it is being built with security in mind.
Swipe the bills to make it rain
It is relatively uncommon, but nothing new.
> they might temporarily kick up a bunch of dust

To me, this is why raking just makes sense. I can’t stand the dust from leaf blowers. And often, just mowing over the leaves is adequate and better for the environment.
Scale and high availability wont be easy. They will cost $$$. So you need to be a business, probably get funding and before you know it you are a corporation trying to make money from
non-paying users as the server bills come in and any hifalutin pure morals you had have to slide a bit. You have become just like your dad, i.e. Reddit.
> 4. Prefer walking over any other transporation

Sure, for walkable destinations. Having a bike is more efficient (calories per mile) and hugely increases the practical range. Commuting, even grocery shopping, and being social is hugely more practical on a bike then walking.
/? 2003 linux:
https://www.google.com/search?q=2003+linux&tbm=isch
Porphyrios (Whale)
The company that made the ones I'm talking about is called Haidenhain and they were making these long before then. I think they go back as far as the 50's but I can't document that. But you'll find them all over old CNC gear.
Don't underestimate the overconfidence of your worst performers.
If you’re not migrating from one database schema to the next database hotness at least once a month, are you even alive?
ugh, the “look better” part is highly subjective.

I’m 29, so sort of young I guess. The main problem I have with modern UIs is the fact that they make icons flat and monochrome. I personally dislike the monochrome part a lot and there’s plenty of UX research showing this type of design makes things harder for older folks.

I tried to teach my dad how to cast YouTube videos to the TV using his phone once. I found it weird he struggled so much with it until I realised the problem was the “chromecast” icon in the YouTube app. It’s just a flat rectangle with some decorations and he has a hard time distinguishing that.
You have to work it even within tech companies.

I have been working remote for years before the pandemic made it mainstream. In one of the companies I worked for, I was not the first remote worker. The first person in the company pioneered the tech, practices, and culture to make it work as a hybrid. After I came in, bit by bit, the engineering team went remote. So when the pandemic hit, the company had already had a mode of work that more or less helped out the rest of the company.

These things were not free. The pioneer had to really put himself out there to implement the remote best practices. By the time I got there, most of that was in place.
Eloquent is one of the worst ORM I worked with. It works until it doesn't, there is too much magic and it mixes SQL/Entity in the same class. Since then I use doctrine and/or repository pattern which makes the code more extensible and testable, it's also trivial to do your own raw SQL request and map it to your entity if you don't want to rely on an ORM.
I feel that these Office365 pushes for 'save file' to onedrive are just halfway steps to get people confortable with the idea of cloud based persistence.

It's pretty clear that the revenue for Microsoft will be coming from Cloud + ads. Accelerating that makes total business sense.

Computing as a service rather than a personally owned device. I wonder if at some point they will just lend the hardware as an access point to complete the vision of a no longer personally owned device/software.
It's easy to fake projects and commits. And when they aren't faked, you can't have an expectation of every candidate having these because it's so much work. And if you decide to bypass some of your usual interview process because a candidate has a project, now you aren't assessing all candidates equally.
An ESP in Your Mini TV
Right on the main page under a Pricing subheader...
There is an entirely theoretical possibility for this to happen in some universe. It doesn't particularly concern me. Its arguing about how many angels can dance on a pin's head.

The messianic prophecy of the imminence of the in-silico birth of the AGI is based on extreme, simplistic mental models: the brain is a computer, everything is input and output, there is some neural net black box "learning" inside etc.

The stance reminds me of the arrogant ignorance displayed by Laplace's demon [1]. Laplace postulated that if someone (the demon) knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed - they can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics.

Alas, he completely missed quantum mechanics, the very basis of how the universe works. It was discovered a hundred years after he died.

In fact Laplace's overconfidence sin is probably orders of magnitude smaller than what the breathless AGI enthusiasts currently commit: Classical mechanics and quantum mechanics share some formal mathematical similarities [2].

It feels very unlikely that anything resembling AGI will share much mathematical form with current machine learning models. The evolutionary, in-principle agnostic and general purpose "wiring" of the human brain, assuming it can abstracted somehow, lives on a different mathematical plane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon

[2] In fact the process of conjuring up the formal apparatus required for quantum mechanics is one of the most dramatic examples of the versatile abstraction powers of the human brain.
Never heard of buildroot. Interesting!
Berry Amendment
It’s live on Product Hunt.
Places where people sit at the bar, as opposed to tables, are the best for this, especially if they are in places frequented by solo (e.g. business) travelers.

Bars in hotels, airports and train stations (or onboard trains!) are often the most social places around. I've had many good conversations with Germans at hotel bars in various parts of Germany :)
What a story, and what a teller. If you have a blog, I'll read it!

Also, if you haven't already read this, you should: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43349
I prefer a screwdriver to my bare hands when i need to drive a nail but no hammer at hand. Speaking about real tools and not metaphorically though.
8 -> copper is toxic. People with some genetic traits will suffer cirrhosis and shouldn't use it for water storage. Cooking on copper pots specially should be avoided. Iron and Aluminum are safer.
Pompeii had snackbars as well. People bought their food on the street.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/26/exceptionally-...

In some districts in Rome, they had large apartment blocks (insualae) several levels high, and fire was forbidden, so people had to buy food on the streets.

From wiki: The insulae could be built up to nine storeys, before Augustus introduced a height limit of about 68 feet. Later, this was reduced further, to about 58 feet
I think we should be subsidizing plastics that end up in landfill. It's the best place for it, as it's both safely contained and impractical to take out again, making it a reliable form of carbon sequestration.
I've been WFH for three years now, since the lockdowns began in 2020.

I am also a tenant in a one-bedroom apartment.

Awhile ago I had some maintenance issues, and I began to think that I was utterly bonkers to believe that I could WFH as a mere tenant renting space.

My landlord has every right to enter the premises whenever they want, as long as they give notice, or if I file a maintenance request, they're gonna show up, and then they're gonna interrupt me at work, and start making a lot of noise somewhere.

I've had my bathroom disrupted; all water/AC is shut off during the day sometimes; I've had pest control issues where I had to shut down my kitchen, remove everything from it, and vacate the premises for an entire day, not knowing when it's all clear to re-enter.

The library has pretty good facilities as a "Site B" when I need to get out of here, but I really don't like leaving the apartment.

In the past two years it's been quiet and I've been largely undisturbed at work. But I still think it's mostly bonkers for any renting tenant to try to WFH, considering that our rights are subordinate to those of the property owners.
Where they ever an anti-patter?

I would say no.

But most implementations have issues of varying degrees of servility. And the important part is understanding this issues and deciding weather or not this issues are worth it compared to the benefit a _specific_ ORM might provide.
Sub $100 USD is a pretty good price. What comparable products have you seen for less?
I have in front of me a reprint of Pellegrino Artusi's famous "la Scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene" (1891). It has a recipe for "Pizza alla napoletana" (recipe #609) which is a shortcrust filled with a cream of "ricotta, sweet almonds, sugar, lemon peel or vanilla, milk", about which he comments "... a me sembra che questo riesca un dolce di gusto squisito" - a dessert of exquisite taste.

He mentions two other pizze: "Pizza a libretti" and "Pizza gravida", both of them sweet. "Our" pizza is completely absent.

It is intriguing that the above 19th century "pizza" recipe is called alla napoletana given that Wikipedia states that "... modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, in the 18th or early 19th century."
What is the best VPN service? What do you use? & how does it compare in pricing?
What is the best VPN service? What do you use? And how does it compare in pricing?

Some popular VPN services with good reputations and features include ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark, CyberGhost, and Private Internet Access (PIA). Each of these VPN services has different strengths and weaknesses, such as speed, security, user interface, and server locations, so it's important to compare them and select the one that meets your needs.

In terms of pricing, VPN services usually offer different pricing plans, which can vary based on the length of the subscription you choose. For example, if you sign up for a longer-term subscription, you may get a lower monthly rate. ExpressVPN is typically the most expensive of the popular VPN services, with plans ranging from $6.67 to $12.95 per month depending on the length of the subscription. NordVPN and Surfshark are both relatively affordable, with plans starting at around $3.71 and $2.49 per month, respectively. CyberGhost and PIA are also relatively affordable, with plans starting at around $2.25 and $2.08 per month, respectively. However, keep in mind that pricing can change over time and may vary based on promotions and discounts.
As Gavin Belson once said, there's no new Microsoft. There's just Microsoft.
I've been setting up PM sensors in my home since installing a log-burning stove last winter; I've found a couple of interesting things thus far; Notably, despite the FUD, air quality _in_ my home isn't affected by it.

What does affect air quality in my home massively, are the people parking their vehicles surrounding my home morning and afternoon as they drop off and pick up their children from the nearby school. I see a 10x ambient measure at these times. I was starting to think about how I could use BLE monitoring to track this somehow (the other thing my home is surrounded with at these times is devices broadcasting Bluetooth "beacons"(?)); could be an interesting experiment.

The next step for me is really knowing what and how something can be done about the pollution (generally speaking); Monitoring is great, but what's the next step?
I am also a Firefox fanboy but I don't have any hope Firefox will improve its market share in any meaningful way without significant changes at Mozilla. At this point I am convinced Mozilla is the biggest obstacle to Firefox's success.
Get a life dude
To add to that about Slack — speaking is a distinct skill from writing, engaging in different part of the brain. The skills you use for speaking in person does not automatically translates to writing, let alone the various social nuances that comes with text based communication.

The skills you might have picked up to be someone effective while in person doesn’t mean you will be effective working through Slack. Zoom is not a perfect substitute — much of the non-verbal communication that happens in person is no longer there; plus, if you’re not using the Zoom chat as the backchannel, you miss out on effective use of Zoom.
The obvious solution is to use nor ORMs or raw SQL generated with various helpers in your language, but to open up DB engine to execute low level bytecode. Think: DB=GPU, SQL=GLSL, what's actually executed -> compiled code.
"9. fuck sugary drinks."

Especially when they come in plastic bottles and not glass ones.
I would agree with your points.

But my point was that renters and landlords get the same number of votes each, even if they use them at different rates.

Playing the long game is difficult and benefits people who aren’t starving or trying to hustle just to make rent this month.
today's wordle contains a C, but the game doesn't know about roman numeral fractions :(
So? Just wash your hands with uranium soap afterwards.
Les Alsaciens m aimerait avoir son mot à dire.
All of those will be worse off by hand-made “solutions”. Especially that you are not forced to use ORM for everything. Use it for like 90% of your generic db usage, and use its in-built escape hatches for the rest, like native queries or go straight to the db driver if needed.
I love the DynamoDB mapper model of the ORM. It only handles object serialization and deserialization but everything else you write code as if you are working with the native DynamoDB API. I want an RDBMS ORM that does only that - translate a ResultSet to a Java POJO and convert a Java POJO to an SQL insert/update statement. I would gladly handle everything myself.
I saw a production of Ulysses twice in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on two separate runs. I had already read the book, but seeing it performed was a completely different experience, like seeing a Shakespeare text performed in film or on stage. Similarly, I saw an adaptation of the Cyclops episode in the New Theatre, which was incredible. I know Ulysses is unfilmable, but I'd like to see someone like Paul Thomas Anderson try.
I can imagine what would be/is valuable is type checked embedded SQL queries.
unbelievable ??
the line between an ORM and a query builder is a very blurry one

your query builder isn't just string based to avoid a lot of potential bugs which are easy to introduce and miss in tests? It also has a simple way to (de)serialize row from/to POD structs? Now you already have a thin ORM.
All I see from your comment is that candidate evaluation requires too much effort, so you exchange one bias for another.
Very impressive. I looked up that Bosch device: https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/environmental-senso...

Then, I found a board from Adafruit. The chip is so tiny in the Adafruit photo!

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3660
Twitter Users Being Restricted for “Spam” for No Reason
I agree. We'd be better off with data structures and functions that work on those data structures, and packages/modules/namespaces (with public/private exposing) to do encapsulation.

OOP comes with the banana-gorilla-jungle problem, which I consider the fundamental issue with it.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3687...
I see this attitude a lot and I now kind of categorize it within "contempt culture", which I think mostly just falls out of insecurity. I've been guilty of this myself and I try pretty hard to not do it now, but life is a journey and all that.

I do two things to dig out of this particular hole:

- Have some (relatively) objective standards by which I judge code/a project

- Have some empathy for people who were probably just doing their best, in the most multivariate sense ("I wrote this in Clojure so I didn't burn out", "I had to ship this in three days and I was just back from paternity leave", "I was onboarding a junior engineer and dumped this spaghetti in a spare 3 hours to mollify an important client"

#2 is very useful because it snaps me out of contempt and helps prevent me from spreading that culture to the engineers around me. But #1 is actionable in that when I do get time to "do things right" I have some values to aim at. Mostly they're:

- Does this code build/respect a coherent mental model of the problem space

- Is it possible to represent invalid state

- Are surprises/pitfalls noted (I'm not a big commenter in general, but this is a case where I find them useful)

- Does this code consider likely engineer workflows (e.g. is it easy to add another case to handle, is it easy to enable debugging, etc.)

Notably none of these are like, "methods are too long" or "variable names are too short" or whatever. I find orthodoxies like these just serve to create in/out groups and have no impact on code quality. Or, another way to say this is that if you're building a coherent mental model, your methods are probably the right size.
> A startup is designed to grow fast, and the best metric to gauge that growth is revenue.

I get that this is YC, but there is more to success than money.
Everybody uses glass for water even if it does not kill bacteria. Shouldn't be the main factor to choose one over other. People must filter their drinking water and remove the pathogens before filling their bottle in any case.

If this is not possible, take in mind that your immune system can take care about bacteria. In 99% of the cases after a learning period, local bacteria will stop being a problem. Unless your live in areas with very unsafe water sources or particularly dangerous organisms this shouldn't be a main factor in the choice.
> European aristocrats

I think you will find the French rather famously did away with their aristocracy.
Embrace extend extinguish; Or rather not extinguish, but control. Everything in this world is about money and control, especially for corporations. There is no mechanism that guarantees that a tool will not be abused.

E-mail IMAP, SMTP and POP3 are also protocols, but given that Google maintains dominance over it, you cannot effectively host your own server [1].

[1] http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.htm...

Open source will only work correctly with open source. Not with corporations. Corporations will abuse every protocol.
Next step: Self-hosted.
Flammkuchen got already mentioned, but there is also "Dinnele/Dinnete/Dünnele". Both sweet and savory.