skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use DMS in continuous replication mode, which appears to use CDC under the hood according to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/CHAP_Task.C...

In our setup DMS pushes Parquet files on s3. Snowflake then loads data from there.

We’ve occasionally had to do a full table sync from scratch, which is painfully slow. We are going to have to do that in the very near future - when we are upgrading from Postgres 11 to Postgres 15.

The S3 step also seems unnecessarily complicated, since we have to expire data from the bucket.

How does PeerDB handle things like schema changes? Would the change replicate to Snowflake? (I’m sure this is in the docs, but I’m supposed to be on holiday this week ) Thanks for the quick reply.
Can someone help me understand what functionality this gives to the website makers over, say, checking your user agent and denying access for FF/safari users?
No? Ruby ridge and Waco made it pretty conclusive that any american response to that situation would be MORE militarization of police. When has any sovereign country responded to violence with a reduction in police authority and power?

Hell, for two decades we have taught our cops that the world is a warzone and all citizens should be considered threats. They're itching for a "war", for a chance to play with all their toys. There's a significant amount of literal right wing militias in the american police.
This stood out at me as well.

It's obvious that the author is very considerate and was hoping for the best, and even after being let go she has a nuanced and (to my reading) more positive stance on the company than I would expect.

And yet, there are several hints here that Elon himself is isolated in ways that I think most of us could never really relate to. When it comes to running a social media platform - something designed to connect people - this isolation might make it difficult for him to make the right decisions.

You can see this in actors, politicians, athletes, etc as well - being at the top of their game and being in the public eye makes them... weird. Their lives are far removed from the way most of us live, and it's impossible for us to really imagine ourselves in their shoes - and, maybe, vice-versa.
Local overrides are super useful for testing site speed:

• Your local setup is likely different from production (not serving from production domains, not using image resize services, using different HTTP compression...)

• You might not be able to run tests on localhost, e.g. if you're an external consultant or working in technical SEO (who often want to give specific recommendations to devs as dev attention is scarce and expensive)

There are still some limitations of testing changes in DevTools:

• Testing a fresh load is a pain (need to clear OS-level DNS cache, need to clear the connection cache in Chrome, need to clear cookies/service worker)

• DevTools throttling doesn't represent server connections accurately (you need to throttle at the OS level for accurate data, which slows down your whole computer and requires admin rights)

WebPageTest [1] and my own tool DebugBear [2] now support experiments to make it easy to try out content changes in a controlled lab environment.

[1] https://product.webpagetest.org/experiments
[2] https://www.debugbear.com/docs/experiments
I’ll admit, it’s somewhat comforting to see Tesla owners are treating other Tesla owners poorly. I thought you guys only treated everyone else badly.

Seems like so many Tesla owners drive like complete jerks.

Drive way too close to people (tailgating).

Drive way too fast all time, even in neighborhoods.

Drive way too aggressively.

Drive way too entitled.

I’ve seen some crazy stuff from people driving a Tesla. Driving on the shoulder when traffic backs up. Zipping around people to steal parking spots.

Tesla owners posting videos online of anyone that walks by their car.

We won’t park near a Tesla at all these days. I guess that campaign is working to their advantage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35468855
i too determine if code is good based off its naming conventions and other things like
my linter is set to enforce MiXeD_SpOnGeBoB-KeBaB_CaSe as the default casing
Does Ruby have a nice component based framework? HTMX is awesome, but for very quick internal apps, I'd want something thats an analog of Primefaces (component based framework).
I really love it when foreigners visit this country and pick the absolute worst possible traveling conditions imaginable. Presumably so they can go back home and share their "authentic" American experience with whoever is stupid enough to listen. It's like they enjoy wearing this badge of honor that they witnessed the misery that is America or whatever.

Were you expecting something better because you're a "white European"? I don't really get why that prefaced the story. I'm not white and I've never had such a bad experience as you in any country, let alone America, am I doing something wrong?

How would it be if I visited wherever you're from and proud of, and intentionally stayed in a terrible part of town and got around by bullock cart, and then went back to America and bitched incessantly about your shithole of a country?
No one wants to talk to your chatbot
Do you have any proof, that they were not everywhere? On next sentence you literally admit, there is no evidence for such claims! Much of the archeological sites were not explored! Another white supremacist manufacturing evidence!

All land in US was used, there is no "higher land usage" now. Single hunter needs several hundreds of miles of territory! They fully used the land. Until they were genocided, and colonizers called their land "wilderness"!
I like the idea. It looks like something that I would use for work.

The side looks like something that has a paid plan. Sadly I can't find any information on pricing (and if it's free, why can't I find that info?).

It's too bad I work in the public sector and due to date privacy we can't use tools like this for work, as the data is not under our control.
Who the hell is this scientist?
Yeah, we should give the author the proper chance to replicate and full peer review before making a final call. I sympathize withe the frustration of work being seen prematurely, it's hard to undo the initial bias.
I'm wary of kicking the hornet's nest here, but just as a note, a lot of the highest-profile "just cause" cases have a lot of disagreement around the actual details. Thanks to the PETA principle[0] (section III is about exactly this), the events that make it into mainstream media almost always have intensely divisive details that do make an impartial ruling a lot harder. People that disagree with you would probably also disagree with how innocent/guilty you find the people involved.

I think pretty much everyone wants police accountability, but the cases where the police are most unambiguously & egregiously wrong on every level aren't divisive enough to stay in the news as long as divisive ones. (Not necessarily always true! Please do not take any of this as a strong personal opinion any any particular case(s)!)

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
That was a post-9/11 thing, and came from the US side as I recall. Used to be able to enter with just a driver's license. Then you could only do that at the land border. Then it was passport only.

And at each point the volume of hostile tone from US homeland security guards has increased. It can be quite stressful crossing at times and I generally avoid it, even though I'm only 45 minutes from the border.
https://cc-techgroup.com/data-center-energy-consumption/

"the amount of power needed to run data centers on a global scale, which amounts to 416 terawatts, or approximately 3% of all electricity generated on Earth."

"Making massive-scale changes to data center operations to enhance the efficiency of energy usage can be a complex, costly, and time-consuming venture. But changes don’t have to be extreme to be effective, and they don’t need to happen all at once. By utilizing the following sixteen methods, data centers can quickly start to efficiently lower their power usage without significantly impacting their bottom line."

More at the link for a more detailed explanation.

Personally I think this is Thames water looking to shake down the IT sector. Good luck with that considering the brains that run the IT sector! LOL.
Ah.

This would require adding a script to the image itself, for each image. No go.
To answer some questions:

1) I always carry. Everywhere. I live in a very rural area. Police response time is 15 minutes or more. But so what? They have zero obligation to protect you, even if they could show up in 30 seconds. I will never willingly abdicate my right to self-defense to anyone.

2) I do not have a place to secure my gun in my car, so that was not an option. Leaving guns in your car is not a good idea, so I usually avoid going into places that require me to disarm.

3) The camera was a result of the harassment by my neighbor. I did not mention that one of them is a cop. They filed a false report against me and then tried to have me arrested under those false pretenses. I started recording everything that I did, to provide an affirmative defense against accusations in situations without objective witnesses. Basically, everywhere and always.

4) I went there as a routine errand, going about my daily business. I never expected a confrontation to ensue. I never expected to be treated like a criminal from the start of the conversation. I was friendly and open in my interaction and sure as hell was not trying to provoke this kind of encounter.

5) I don’t have video because the first thing that they did was intimidate me into stopping the recording. They insinuated that my recording there was illegal and that was why they they approached me. My gun then became another lever for them to attack me.

6) I believe that the main thing that saved me was thinking quickly, knowing my rights, and articulating that understanding and resulting position in a way that made it clear that I was not going to be an easy mark. I use big words and seem intelligent, which I think intimidated them a little bit. That, and I luckily happened to have a friend with me who watched it all go down, and that could have been inconvenient when they went to tell lies on an arrest report.
So does that mean the video would exclude honest mistakes from the researchers? Either it is indeed a superconductor at room temperature or the makers of video actively faked the result.
I find myself torn between my STEM-educated skeptic mind and my numerous DMT-induced visits to hyper-reality and communication with unfathomably advanced hyper-dimensional beings mind. I find it difficult to accept that these experiences were just the products of my own subconscious or imagination, as they were far beyond the capabilities of my wildest dreams and just felt too real, too alien, and too consistent. There has been some recent breakthroughs by Andrew Gallimore that have allowed researchers to extend the DMT experience indefinitely via the DMTx project, and the first trials have been completed by a group of serious researchers, all PhDs. They report extended contact with hyper-dimensional aliens/beings, on numerous sessions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myq_Hc_39aI&t=1898s

Now, I find it difficult to believe there isn't a plethora of intelligent life out there in the universe. There are just far too many star systems. I also find it difficult to believe that any have to come to visit. There is no evidence to support it, and think about it: the time, energy, and technology required to travel the vast expanse of space to reach Earth are unimaginably huge. And if they had that kind of technology, it would seem unlikely that they would routinely crash once they got here. Furthermore, we've only been producing radio waves for a short period of time, nowhere near long enough to signal a remote civilization that we're even here (I'm not sure our radio waves would even be detectable at those distances). And why would they even want to? At that level of sophistication, we would be nothing more than ants to them. Bacteria in a petri dish.

Yet, even we, as humans, spend a lot of effort researching ants. And bacteria, in petri dishes. And if the collective DMT community's experiences are to be believed, and we have contacted and communicated with advanced alien intelligences, they usually seem to be quite interested and curious about us too. This is a huge leap, but maybe the universe isn't what it seems. It could be data, data that could be manipulated from outside the confines of the simulation. Or, maybe there are higher dimensions of reality, that we are currently (mostly) incapable of detecting from our vantage point. Maybe the aliens exist in higher dimensions, and use these UFOs as lower dimension probes, that don't have to travel vast distances of space because they don't originate from other star systems. Maybe they crash because they're SUPPOSED to be found, maybe they want us to reverse engineer them to learn something, to accelerate our technological and scientific advancement.

Or maybe it's all poppycock. Maybe we're the first species that will possibly achieve interstellar transportation, and it will us that are the aliens visiting other primitive worlds. Only time will tell.
"I'm experiencing a weird bug where after clicking on a result and going back to the results page the order of the results change."

This drives me crazy.
A very astute observation. Everything is free, happy, and philanthropic as long as cheap Fed money is pouring down from the heavens.
> but not for all and even when we do it sometimes looks different in various ways

Personally I'd like to know if that means "we have a manual list we re-added". I think what myself and probably many people are most interested in is "do you rely on bing for < 95% of word match searches (no knowledge graph)"

> when we do it sometimes looks different in various ways

IMO this is also vague - I assume this means they're knowledge graph augmented? I really want to know if they have their own indexer (vs a manual list + caching bing results) for text matching.
So much for lead-free electronics.
The article somewhat downplays the historical understanding of this. (It's understandable! This is a dense topic!) The impact of spin states has been known for a looong time. My first introduction to the topic was Zener's 1955 paper The Impact of Magnetism on Metallurgy.
Show HN: lilo, A CLI to download GCP logs to a SQLite db
https://github.com/emadda/lilo
I saw the title and instantly thought, of Suffolk, England.

Quite pleasing to see it referenced in the article too.

Proper Suffolk that, like little pink cottages and good quawlity tea towels[1]. :D

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7hcPXwpBQ
At least when I tried Llama 2's response was always the longer one so it was hard to remain unbiased.
Doesn't even have to be dynamic, Docker engine knows the IP of the host, so it can just directly configure `/etc/resolv.conf` with it.
Indeed, and it's the truly semantic understanding that is so impressive.
Like photonerd mentioned, yegg (The Founder of DDG) is answering that and similar questions in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898661
I don’t see any examples of new/delete there?

Also they do make heavy use of managed pointers in the codebase.
Yes. The trick is that Elon is paying for people to open a thread, because the reply ads are monetizable by the authors. So these are tailored specifically to open the thread. Groundbreaking claim, but vague and "to be continued" in the thread. Gotcha.
I do not think anyone would be surprised to discover that these alternatives were released in the 1970's.
Sure, the inductor conduction losses would go away (and that's a substantial improvement!), but I'm not sure what you're talking about with regard to reducing switching time. I don't think the MOSFET gate drive is limited by the wire that connects to it.
To me the advantage of eSIM is coupled with dual SIMs, something that wasn't very common in the US until the arrival of eSIM. Now when traveling I can purchase an eSIM instead of pay my operator a ton of roaming fees. But I can still keep my main SIM active, just with data disabled.

It's not that any of this was impossible without eSIMs but it's created a new market of online-only SIM sellers. Before eSIMs I'd have to be without data when I first arrived somewhere new while I buy a local PAYG SIM. Don't have to worry about that any more.

> What is the advantage to the customer here?

Outside of dual SIM applications I don't think it's a whole lot more complicated than online retail being considerably more convenient than in-person. When switching providers you often have to time it correctly: make sure the plan is expiring on your old SIM when you put in the new one. Having a SIM arrive instantly makes that a lot easier. Plus it's just a lot easier to make a spontaneous purchase.
I explicitly mean that some of these people know they get better ad revenue by being rage bait and getting the cops to do something to them, and are willing to cross lines that are fuzzy. That kind of stuff provides fodder for those trying to paint the entire movement as bad faith.
Just point him to the source code to fully grasp the implementation details.
Sorry, was on mobile typing that, and turns out I was wrong.
The UPI over credit card is only for Peer to Merchant transactions.
To be a merchant (As against a peer merchant), you must have a month over month inflow of atleast 50,000 INR, for 3 months after being onboarded as a peer-merchant. [1]

I think you were talking about registering as a peer-merchant, not a "proper" merchant! MDR etc cannot be charged on peer-merchants[1], and are essentially peers, but with restricted purpose codes that they can accept money for.

[1] https://www.npci.org.in/PDF/npci/upi/circular/2019/Circular%...
Thanks for sharing my blog! Appreciate it :)
Show HN: Wall of Gratitude – a place where we can share gratitude in public
Gratitude deserves to be seen.
Each of us can point to individuals who've impacted our lives in significant ways. Perhaps it was a mentor who guided us, a friend who stood by us during challenging times, or a family member whose love was unwavering and unconditional. However, they don't get to hear our appreciations, especially in public.

In many organizations, we've embraced the practice of expressing gratitude to our colleagues through karma points, kudos, or similar recognition. While these gestures are valuable, they often happen behind closed doors.

Therefore I made this little website so that we can share our gratitude in public and inspire others to do the same.
I've always been concerned about the accuracy of the degradation of the range/the range in general.

There is no real concrete way to tell if they are lying because the source raw data is obfuscated.
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
I feel the same. For my own projects where it's only me working on the code it can be really nice, powerful and big productivity boost. But if you start having multiple people on the codebase it's not going to be fun to debug.
The effect of living in a city all your life and reading about the countryside through the news
More recent but one can see lots of daffodils around old homestead sites in various places in the Willamette Valley. Also old apple trees in the middle of nowhere .
Is there a reason not to tweak it slightly so that companies have to assume, unless proven otherwise, that users are children? That way it'll default for everyone here to the "privacy enhanced standards" for lack of a better term and those who want to opt out can be the ones to hand over their identity to the companies?
Fair enough, I wasn't familiar with that feature.

Seems like introducing unnecessary overhead to me, but I'm also sure there's a reason it exists, so...
Is there anywhere people can report clearly bad results? I don't have any on hand right now either, but I do know I somewhat regularly encounter DDG results that are just "wtf?!"-level, whereas Google does return good results for the same. I'd be more than happy to report these things when I encounter them if that's helpful.
it's a document that needs to be prepared ahead of time, costs money, and can be denied. what is your definition of a visa if not this?
Can they implement some new web standard in a shifted away codebase? Or fix a zero day?

You seem to vastly underestimate the complexity of a browser engine. Just letting it stay afloat is a huge task in itself — remember, Microsoft itself decided against doing so. They can maintain a soft fork, but from a much smaller company, it is not a trivial feat at all.
I feel like they would love to be able to do that.

One potentially relevant line from the article:

>I love that first one. Microsoft, a company with a $2.5 trillion market cap, “may not have enough resources” to crawl and index Techdirt? Cool.

I have to imagine DDG's valuation wouldn't quite hit 2.5 trillion if it went public. It's not absurd that they aren't able to fully duplicate those efforts (or that they don't need to in order to have a decent product).
Or put up something yourself made with GB Studio.
I recently traveled to Poland. Instead of paying T-Mobile like $50 for limited data and minutes, I bought Orange prepaid plan.

I did not have to visit a physical store and it cost me about $5.

I landed. Opened the app. Got the esim and was on my way. I then could alternate between sims easily.

I imagine if I had to travel between other continents same steps would apply. Cell service is quite expensive in the US.
> Saying that a mtf transexual is not a woman is hate speech according to these terms.

More importantly, a prohibition on stating this silences feminist women who need to speak up on issues of female-only spaces and services, and the necessity for all males to be excluded from such.

So the definers of "hate speech" in this instance have managed to bake misogyny directly into their definition. And they think this is progress.
It's a bit difficult to cover as it is highly dependent on the queue system you use.

You'd usually want your queue system to fail the enqueue if it is full, and you'd want monitoring to ensure the queue isn't growing at an unsustainable rate.

It also forces you to think a bit about your message payload (rich data or foreign keys the worker loads).

RabbitMQ, Redis-based queues (ex: ActiveJob or sidekiq), Gearman, and others will all offer different mechanisms to tackle full queues.
No, the opposite. High power long distance power lines do. Solar panels are much less likely.
I don't see any answers on why tens of thousands of techdirt.com pages aren't in the DDG index.

It's not some random unknown blog with zero traffic.
eSIM has been working great for me when traveling to the UK and Canada from the USA.

I have an iPhone 13, which allows up to two eSIMs or one physical SIM and one eSIM to be active simultaneously.

The first time I did this, my primary account was a T-Mobile Connect SIM that didn't allow out of USA roaming. By the second time, I'd transferred to a Boost Mobile eSIM, which, again, doesn't allow out of USA roaming.

When traveling I just bought a data eSIM from a random provider ('BNE' and 'GlobaleSIM'). They have different pricing for varying combinations of data vs. time - a fixed amount per day, a fixed amount with a month time limit, a fixed amount with no time limit etc. They're very cheap compared to how things used to be (I think I paid about $15 for 3GB over two weeks in the UK, and $9 for 1GB of data with no time limit in Canada).

One thing I did not expect is that my US number kept working! With WiFi calling switched on, the non-roaming T-Mobile and Boost accounts just kept working by using VoIP over the data SIM's internet connection.