skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I would have been a mechanical engineer if I were born 20 years earlier or 20 years later. Software was just new and shiny enough and it let me build things with my mind, at a time when I believed I was clumsy (I actually have always had excellent fine motor skills, it's macro motor control I lagged behind in). One of my better friends in college was an ME. Learned all sorts of things about metal fatigue and oddly enough picosecond lasers from him.

I don't know if I found Lego or Lego found me, but I definitely think in terms of shapes. I was past my midlife crisis before I realized that I don't have a large working memory (smaller than average in fact) it's just that I've been doing mind palaces without pictures since I was very small. When I'm thinking of large computer systems I'm essentially thinking of them as physics problems.

I really should figure out space to have a bike again. I never rode when I lived in Seattle (Seattle drivers are nuts) but I don't live there anymore and I need to catch up on 20 years of tech.
my voice is my passport
Lean manufacturing in Japan has been a thing since the 50s, with a focus on kaizen, flow, pulling, etc, yet lots of companies still do work in batches today, to their detriment and waste.
This might sound like common sense but the opposite is more true.

Police may walk away from just about any interaction with the public, even if they know that death or serious injury will happen unless they intervene (though there may be states that have legislated exceptions to this).

Most working people may be fired for not engaging a potential customer, client, vendor or someone else they’d normally interact with as part of their job. They can even be fired for simply not being friendly enough in one of these interactions.
> I just wish there was a way to get the powerful to understand that it's not a one way relationship

I guarantee you, they do understand that. This is not a matter of changing individuals by teaching them and "getting them to understand". The system as a whole must be changed. The mechanisms that allow those people to exist in the first place must be destroyed.

FTEs rely on executives on the current system, but it doesn't have to be that way. The opposite is not true, tho. There are no executives without workers.

As Abraham Lincoln once said:

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Tips for the Apple Vision Pro Labs
[Sir] Richard Branson has been a pretty vocal opponent of the death penalty for many years now. To exemplify: it’s literally a part of his Wikipedia page too.

Besides, the article is from the BBC, so there’s always going to be a slight British touch in the reporting.
Care to share "what we know about Graeber"?
The rate of change is what matters here. We are causing the climate to change at a staggering rate. Faster than anything ever seen in nature except during cataclysmic events (massive volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts, etc).

The biosphere will not be able to keep up with these changes and we already know that we are causing a mass extinction event and destabilization of the biosphere. Our food system depends on the biosphere.

Our society also depends on the conditions that have been relatively stable for the last several millennia. Sure, there was a mini ice age, but we're talking about a smaller change in climate and far more gradual in that ice age, than what we are currently experiencing and causing. And that mini ice age was enough to cause mass disruption to human societies in areas most impacted by it.

Our current human caused climate change - if allowed to continue unabated - is likely to cause disruption on scales that lead to the death of billions of humans and the likely collapse of societies. We cannot ignore the cause of it (us) and simply adapt to the new reality. The way we adapt to this is by changing the behaviors that created it in the first place: We stop burning fossil fuels. That way it stops getting worse, then we work to return the climate to what it was previously, or we work to adapt to our new (now, hopefully, stabilized) reality.

We're quickly losing the window to even do that, however, because we're triggering feedback mechanisms that make this change self-replicating. So we likely need to go heavily into carbon removal and fast as well.
I worked my way back through their catalogue and I have to say I love each of them in such a particular way that I couldn't call any one the best, including Elden Ring. Which was the most fun I had in probably years.

While one starts to recognize repeating themes (and assets), I was shocked to find out how much the original Dark Souls feels like the predecessor to Elden Ring, just more intimate and simpler (for better and worse).

All that said, I'd still recommend Elden Ring to any first-timers.
Atwood and Spolsky themselves boasted repeatedly that SO, for a long time, was just a Windows server and a SQL Server with some C#.

The key element in the success of SO was not technical: it was Spolsky and Atwood leveraging already-established (Microsoft) audiences they had, to create a virtuous circle of sharing that snowballed for years.
Nah they both understand it. One of them is just arguing to show off.
Hooray, non-repeatable transaction reads in billions of databases where previously that was not an issue!

I really hope browsers/apps/etc don't enable this... but I'm sure many will. A fully sequential database is trivially safe in a way that is absurdly difficult to replicate with concurrency in the mix, and people consistently come to rely on that safety and not realize it.

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I get the desire, and honestly putting it in sqlite is probably the right choice. With enough care, this seems like a very reasonable set of tradeoffs, and there will almost certainly be good, impactful uses of it. I'm just lamenting the inevitable human decisions this will lead to if it hits the standard feature set, because obviously concurrent is better and faster.
Thanks. I'd appreciate your thoughts on sverona's comment if you're able to share. (Not the particular scenario, but the general concern that KOSA could be weaponized by anti-LGBTQ AGs.)
I understand everyone wants concurrency because that's the way everything else in programming works these days, but SQlite in memory or on an SSD (in WAL mode) writes so fast that it makes infinitely more sense to dedicate a single database "write" worker that deals with the dB itself while allowing multiple "read" workers to access the database concurrently. Other workers are spawned to process their data and shovel their writes into a queue to feed that single worker.

In my experience, the CPU utilization of process workers preparing data into SQL statements is generally the chokepoint in most/script programs instead of SQlite write speeds themselves. Of course, this is dependent on numerous factors such as the existence of indices, compexity of write operation, etc., but--as a rule--SQlite is much more efficient if I dedicate one process to handle all writes and optimize that process for speed (i.e. batch writes, etc.).
I don't think that TSMC is really in a position to Sherlock their customers:

- Buyers of leading edge fab services have patented features in their chip designs which TSMC would violate by simple cloning.

- If TSMC wanted to profitably manufacture something like "a modern GPU, but avoiding existing patents" they'd have to expand massively beyond their current core competency of fabrication. They'd need experienced chip designers, software engineers for developing drivers and APIs, retail partners... it's a much different business.

The key thing that makes "Sherlocking" easy is that it's just imitating third party software with first party software, from a first party that is already good at making software.
I was forced to give private medical information while visiting restaurant. War for privacy was lost long time ago.
> As I understand it since the Obama first administration DOJs stance has been to not pursue cannabis crimes in any state that has legalized it (“Cole memo”) which was rescinded by Sessions, but with no follow through by prosecutors

The Cole Memo stopped being the important bar to prosecution with the Rohrbacker-Farr Amendment erecting a statutory bar since 2014 (which DoJ initially tried to dodge hard but got slapped down by a trial court in 2015 and the Ninth Circuit in 2016, and seems to have mostly given up after that.)

But that amendment is a provision of spending bills restricting prosecution, not a legalization, and could easily be dropped and expose conduct to prosecution back as far as the statute of limitations.
The difference is Microsoft owns the model and they have control over the processes that work with our data. We have to take it under faith that you are protecting your users from the undisclosed third parties our data is being submitted to.
Until space above and below ground is completely filled, and we engineer massive super-AI spaceships (i.e. The Culture series).
Covering for whom? He didn't believe the accusations against McCarrick, and Bernard Law was never charged criminally for enabling Geoghan (though he should've been).
what happened to that startup that was trying to do this in humans?
But still: congrats! Seems like a fun ride, a lot accomplished, money earned, and if I understood correctly they still have their current customers, just no new customers. So they are still getting that MRR. Maybe raise prices since the customers have no other options :-).
I once had to go to my local station to get a copy of a police report that resulted from harassment by a neighbor. I was legally open-carrying my sidearm and had a camera on my hat recording the interaction.

While I was waiting for the report to be printed, two uniformed officers emerged from the back room and started interrogating me; they obviously were trying to intimidate me and get me to say something that would allow them to arrest me. It was incredibly unnerving and put me off from ever wanting to set foot there again. I felt lucky to not have been arrested and charged for no legitimate reason.

As far as I am concerned, the police are a gang of thugs and crooks. They cannot be trusted.
This is why I think the problem is ultimately UX. The ideals of crypto are sound, but an appropriate UX for mass adoption is just not achievable due to inherent traits of the underlying tech. As someone familiar with crypto, I would never consider managing my assets on the blockchain in the current product landscape.

It seems the entire industry is filled with builders who are just dog-fooding janky products to each other under the guise of traction.
All evidence points to it not being inevitable on the timescales it is happening on. On some timescale, obviously the planet melts from the sun. Doesn't mean we want it to melt soon.
I was sweating just reading this!
If you have time to research Lisp implementations until you gather ten that don't have compilers, you might want to take a few seconds to visit https://clisp.cons.org to find out what Clisp means.
Give him some prescriptive formulas. He can look up the magic incantation for each task he needs to do.

Deeper understanding of git can happen gradually. For now he just needs to be able to do a basic workflow.

################################
# download a new project to local disk
cd ~/projects
git clone someUrl

################################
# get latest code
git pull

################################
# observe the general state of things.
# Run status liberally, before/after any git operation.
git status

################################
# commit changes and push them up the the server.
# This is the bread an butter of your git usage.
git add .
git commit
# good idea to pull in the latest changes before you push up.
git pull
git push

################################
# resolve merge conflicts after a pull
git pull
# alert merge conflicts! git status will tell you which files conflict.
git status
# edit each file with conflicts. Conflicts are flagged in file with ">>>>"
# replace the ">>>>" sections with the final resolved code.
# now check them in and push up the the server.
git add .
git commit
git push

################################
# develop in a feature branch
git checkout -b featureX
# make changes like nomral. add, commit your changes.
# if this is a private branch on your local box only, you do not push.
git add .
git commit
# periodically pull in the code from the parent branch so you don't drift apart
git fetch origin
git rebase origin/master
# feature complete. Merge feature back to master.
git checkout master
git pull # get latest master code
git merge featureX
git push
Well it's quite different isn't it, because you can't leave your retinas or fingerprints behind, these are irrevocable details about your personhood. These details could be abused by a foreign or domestic government and could also be leaked in any number of ways or used to target individuals.
> He sounds rather bitter and arrogant.

That might be your interpretation of it. I think the Germans would call it being straightforward.
It can still be a great business strategy, as long as you're aware of exactly the points you outlined. You just can't run a normal startup strategy of subsidized growth, instead you have to rush through the product lifecycle towards cash cow status and make hay while the sun is shining. Once $bigcorp kills your business by implementing their backlog you pivot to something else, with the advantage of already having a huge database of people willing to pay extra for such features.
https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/certif...

Notable big boys are Wells Fargo, US Bank, JPMC, and BNY Mellon. Also, the US Treasury (“U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service”).

Both counter parties need to be onboarded for the capability to be available.
You drive 100 miles and spent hours charging? That makes no sense. We're you towing something?
Was this with or without fine-tuning?
Hi, one of the authors here. BlazingMQ depends on two other open source C++ libraries: https://github.com/bloomberg/bde and https://github.com/bloomberg/ntf-core. I believe documentation writer wanted to highlight that BlazingMQ does not depend on frameworks like ZooKeeper, etc.
World’s first flying electric car headed for US dealerships in 2026
What is this article championing? An infinite universe? I thought that was already discarded, it certainly should be since it isn't logical. But aside from that, doesn't the theory put forward by this article violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics? It's just shifting the "nothing->something" equation from The Big Bang to "oh you know, whenever. a little bit now and again adds up you know". And seems to be doing it by saying that "Well see, the universe will never truly be empty, so before the Big Bang is wasn't empty either". Without ever really explaining how this isn't just kicking the can backwards down the road.
"Not up to date" is putting it mildly, idk if there is anything in nag2 that's still relevant these days; I get the feeling that it will just confuse more than inform at this point unless you already know the stuff and history.
Yes, my Mazda does the same. It will happily report a 450 mile (725 km) range on my 13.2 gallon / 50 L tank, when I have never gotten more than 380 miles. Sometimes much less. To be fair, if you cruised slightly above the speed limit on the highway in fair conditions and drove it to truly empty, I think you would actually get that. But the gauge reads empty when there is easily 1.5 gal / 5.7 L in the tank, so in practice there is no way you're going to get the stated range.

However, the key difference is that my gas car can be filled up anywhere, and worst case I'd need to get a gas can. Running out of charge is a flatbed tow, that's a huge hassle. The range being accurate is a big deal on an electric!
That's a great question that nobody knows the answer to.

Again, the last time this planet was positioned as such radical technological world-changing innovation happened (Industrial Revolution). Rewind a few hundred years, and we see it happen again (Scientific Revolution). Another revolution is incoming.
Naturalized means you immigrated.
Academics are not calling for genocide dude. If you can point to even one non right wing academic figure that calls for the genocide of any race of people, I’ll donate $100 to Doctors Without Borders that moment.
I have no problem with the way windows work in Gnome right now. Using the window switcher is really convenient. The only things I would like to be better are 1) It's too hard to find my way back to the right window in a window group, for example if I have 4 IntelliJ-windows active and want a specific one, takes too much time to find it and they also look alike. Perhaps naming them and using some ex command (dmenu-ish) thing? 2) The window switcher is only shown on the main display. I know the Gnome devs are quite fixed in their opinions about this, but imho it would be better to show it on the active display, which I would define as where the pointer is or where I interacted last. Solve these two things and I see no need for either mosaic or tiling.
Sanic v23.6 Released
all the shorter answers were from GPT-3 - if you like long answers you pick llama 2...
So I guess it’s almost like the “Scrum” of the design world. It can help you focus on the right thing, but just following the process won’t magically give you good results.
I'm guessing a little, but they probably meant IRC or, less likely, ICQ
I've read that when visiting the Vatican, you can pay extra to be allowed to walk through before regular admission starts. Which seems totally worth the cost, but a) keeps it out of reach of most people, and b) kicks the can down the street until there are enough people willing to pay the higher cost.

But overall the system seems like the best we can get... one portion of the day with limited admission (maybe a cap at a very small number of visitors), auctioned so that those who are willing to pay the most get in. Then that money is used for upkeep & supporting general admission, where anyone can pay a low price to come in with ~no cap.

I die a little inside to discuss limiting a full experience of some of the world's best-known works of art to the wealthy, but I genuinely don't know of a better way to allocate a scarce good.
> only thing I've ever seen from "climate action" types

Not surprised. This topic should go across political spectrum. Unfortunately for several decades, instead of proposing solutions, right spectrum was denying that there is problem.
So innovation only counts if it's in tech and is a recently founded company? Agree to disagree on the definition then.

The innovation Airbus is doing is a million times more important (because it can drastically reduce carbon emissions in an area that emits a lot of them and is crucial for a big part of the world) than 99% of US tech startups "reinvention" or "disrupting" common things nobody needs reinventing. Do you count Juicero in your "innovative tech" metrics?

Yeah, hotels sucked in some places, but Airbnb is not a solution but it's whole can of worms aggravating housing shortages.
Liberal doesn't mean liberal anymore.

Liberalism has been coopted by authoritarianism and branded as a weird sort of "friendly fascism" [1].

Instead of recognizing the historical dangers of that sort of philosophy, it's wholly embraced - with an illusion of legitimacy pasted on top that exploits our better natures by channeling good intentions (anti-racism, anti-discrimination, self-ownership, public health, environmentalism) into a mechanism for certain people to gain more power and control.

The part of this that I've found the most disturbing is the absolutely bizarre pivot the "left" made from being deeply suspicious of Big Pharma, to a sudden (almost overnight) support of government regulatory partnership with megacorps, with all of the actors in the scenario receiving big money and little scrutiny.

Even asking basic questions and pointing this stuff out gets you shouted down and cancelled (I'm burning lots of karma just posting this viewpoint).

The over 6 billion dollars [2] per year that pharma spends on direct-to-consumer ads on TV, and how that influences the content that's shown on TV and which politicians the media supports are completely ignored.

Somehow the folks that have traditionally been the champions of civil rights, anti-war, and watchdogs against the growth and abuse from corporate power, have instead become cheerleaders for an authoritarian state controlled mostly by the military industrial complex and big pharma.

I don't think it's unique to the "left" - the "right" is certainly guilty of the same stuff, it's just particularly painful to watch coming from the folks I grew up believing were the ones that were supposed to protect us from that sort of abuse.

We live in interesting times. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

[2] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/healthcare-industry-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...
Pulled from a Field in Albania, a 2,500-Year-Old Statuette Comes to Getty
What is an Edge Database, and why do you need one?
The fact that the line is associated with Jay-Z (it's an Ice-T lyric he stole) AND people think it's actually about a dog is one of the most impressive PR accomplishments in music. Bravo, Jay-Z's PR team in the #metoo era.
Is tailwind going to become the new bootstrap?

(If it does, I hope it matches bootstrap in it’s accessibility features too)
Chrome dev tools are an engineering marvel; the downside is it’s quite hard to find the perfectly shaped tool.

I spent about a week tracking down a memory leak in our web app. About 5 days in I discovered you could compare heap snapshots which led to the root cause of a chrome bug with hidden classes. The fix was to move object spread to the bottom of an object literal.

Here’s the bug. It was a fun one to hunt: https://crbug.com/v8/13303
For battery powered IoT devices, time-slot protocols are the answer. See my comment above.
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Most will stand unless they need high wind resistance (or are buttressed).

There are many practical cases for a straight wall of bricks, it's not an "impractical case."
From the Hacker News guidelines[0]:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> For example - in my country gay marriage was made explicitly illegal with a constitutional amendment in 2005.

Are you referring to the US?

Many US states passed state constitution amendments (some in 2005) to limit legal marriage and its rights/ privileges to heterosexual couples; it wasn't illegal as in a crime, nobody was getting arrested, but folks were being discriminated against by the government.

In 2010, then-President Obama repeated his opposition to same-sex marriage. It wasn't until 2012 and running for re-election that his position "evolved".

Same-sex marriage was not mainstream until very recently, even in supposedly liberal nations.
This is some minimal write concurrency for people who correctly see that they don't need much write concurrency, but perhaps have one tiny situation where they need more than zero.
That's just buffering. A lot of people use Kafka this way, as an impedance adapter for a producer with an internal architecture that can't tolerate blocking on production. Of course this requires you to unrealistically assume that Kafka is a zero-impedance message sink.

But what I think the other post is alluding to is the fact that in-order delivery is often not a requirement, and can be an anti-feature. I know that in every use of Kafka I have personally encountered the relative order of messages was quite irrelevant but the in-order implementation of Kafka converts the inability to process a single record into an emergency.