skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the result of NIMBY, but for education. Same as the housing market - once you're in it, you're invested in housing prices not going down (and certainly not build-build-build as we should be doing).

What we should have done is expand access to elite colleges commensurate with demand, and thereby dilute the status of the "elite" college. Harvard still accepts ~2000 people, around the same as 40 years ago, even though demand has skyrocketed. That is basically leading to more and more competition over the same slots, same as the bidding wars in the housing market. And all of the alumni of the University get to ride the wave of more and more exclusivity (they benefit from a low acceptance rate), so this is unlikely to change.

Artificial scarcity rules the day.
This is devolving into a "word definition war" so I'll leave aside what you call static types and dynamic types and get down to specifics. Type info is available in these flavors, relative to runtime:

1. Type info which is available before runtime, but not at runtime (compiled away).

2. Type info which is available at runtime, but not at compile time (input, statistics, etc.).

3. Type info which is available both at compile time and runtime (say like a Java class).

When you have a JIT optimizer that can turn [3] and [2] into [1], there's no longer a reason to have [1], except if you're micro-optimizing embedded code for some device with 64kb RAM or whatever. We've carried through legacy practices, and we don't even question them, and try to push them way out of their league into large-scale distributed software.

When I say we don't need [1], this doesn't mean I deny [3], which is still statically analyzable type information. It's static types, but without throwing away flexibility and data at runtime, that doesn't need to be thrown away.
>I think most people would be fine with reduce work and reduced consumption (to a point)

The covid lockdowns and their effects were not popular.
Your log tables don't have timestamps or line numbers on them?

More generally (and formally) speaking, multisets violate normalization. Either you add information to the primary key to identify the copies or you roll the copies up into a quantity field. I can't think of any kind of data where neither of these would be good options.
Show me a non-cherry-picked example of highly visible hate speech on Twitter. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
But Google is again deliberately stupid with them, like, just goddamn.. sell it.. in Europe. I honestly can’t even understand that there are like 3 Eu countries I could buy it, if I wanted to..
Obviously this depends on the age of the child and the cost of the replacement, which are outside the parent's control, but how quickly the toy is replaced can be a factor too. When a toddler drops a toy behind some furniture (on purpose, multiple times) you can leave it there for a week or two, and they will learn not to do that with things they care about.
My theory is that MS pays deep cover moles to infiltrate GNOME and sabotage it from within.

It's less sad than thinking that they do it to themselves.
I think the problem with this thesis is that Walmart can combine the downtowns of many small towns into one Walmart in between them. It's actually only in the cities where you have enough concentration of wealth to kept niche departments alive.

In the cities the only reason why the big-box model works is exactly because it inverts the urban paradigm with a suburban one. Walmart's model would never work in an urban core exactly because the costs of property (and taxes) to build such on inefficient marketplace would be way too high, and could never compete with the cheap, edge-of-town model that they have built.

The irony, of course, is that much of the value of the suburban model is exactly in the form of subsidy capture. So while folks are happy to get discounts at Walmart, they will likely have to pay the difference 30 years later in taxes on an inefficient suburban wastewater system that must be developed to support this type of infrastructure.

Urbanism is more efficient, thus it should be cheaper, but it's the second, and third order effects that will eventually cause the rustbelt-ification of much of the United States. At least this is the thesis of books like Strong Towns that focus on the acceleration deterioration of finances and bankruptcies in many american municipalities.
Using row values in PG:

SELECT count(q.*)
FROM (SELECT a, b FROM table_a a
NATURAL FULL OUTER JOIN table_b b
WHERE a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NULL
OR b IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NULL) q;

This looks for rows in `a` that are not in `b` and vice-versa and produces a count of those.

The key for this in SQL is `NATURAL FULL OUTER JOIN` (and row values).
After bedtime, I would grab a book, creep into the bathroom, and hop into the dry bathtub to read. I preferred this to a flashlight under the covers.

Mom would find me, send me back to bed, and shame me for reading. Then I was further shamed and humiliated when I was fitted for spectacles in third grade. Of course my parents blamed myopia on reading books in poor lighting.

That bathroom was actually the site of innumerable playtimes for me. Battleships and Cartesian divers in the tub, Rubik's cube maintenance, trying to get my alligator lizard to drink from the tap. It was a dingy, dusty playground where I felt kinda safe and clean.
Yeah, as long as every RDBMS has a JSON serialization method now (do they? I'm not up on SQL standards or where each RDBMS is implmenetation of them). Otherwise if we're shipping our own serialization as a procedure from core SQL functions, something simpler might be sufficient. Replace backslash with double backslash, replace pipe with backslash pipe, concatenate with pipes.
What companies? Every company I've interviewed with in my loops recently have me coding in the first technical screen. I've had five of these interviews so far, various sizes. On-site is multiple levels of tech screens. And this isn't even for FAANG-exclusive companies. FWIW, I'm interviewing in a HCOL area for companies that pay well, so it may be more competitive.

People often speak of the mystical company that doesn't make you code in the interview, but I haven't come across it once in the current market.

I also don't know how comfortable I'd be joining a team that doesn't make me write code in some capacity during the loop... but I also recognize the ridiculousness of expecting correctness, optimal solutions, or the types of questions being asked. Discussing those things, sure, but expecting regurgitation is nonsense.
Well, he just states that, and then explains it with reasons that are similarly shady...

It sounds like a bar conversation.
Adam Mosseri mentioned their intentions to get an MVP going. It actually runs smoothly and iterating quickly. Web version probably coming in few weeks.

It's already surpassed Mastodon and Bluesky easily.

and there's no conspiracy theorists on there.. like qanon or white nationalists.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet...
Agree, they rolled out the "Following" tab and it's a ghost town. Shipping it with the algorithmic feed at least made it look like a lively, if somehwat chaotic place.
> Android isn't _that_ bad

From a support after the sale perspective? Yes it is.

The $399 2016 iPhone SE is still getting security updates today.

The original Google Pixel is also from 2016 but stopped getting any sort of updates at the end of 2019.

If you want a basic phone that will be supported as long as possible after the sale, the support length per dollar spent proposition of the SE models is pretty unbeatable.

I think this is a major factor that is driving market share towards iPhone.
Can't forget "The Danbury Shakes" [1] (clinically known as Erethism).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danbury_shakes&re...
Voice Enhancing AI
Whats up everyone

I just Lanuched Musicfy a platform that allows you to enhance your voice's singing or speaking capabilities by effortlessly transforming it into the artistic style of your preference, all while ensuring consistency with the desired aesthetic.

All the AI music covers you have seen are made with the same tech

It would be awesome if yall checked it out
Right, it's the first point brought up every time in rebuttal. But, when have we not had to make adjustments to policy when circumstances change?

The argument against a sustainable population basically boils down to, "but, then we'd have to make adjustments to policy!" Which is not the slam-dunk some seem to think it is.
Sometime between before 2008 until ~2019 (!), Citi (then Citibank) had a virtual credit creation Flash-only widget that could create virtual cards with optional limits of amount and/or time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/ifc95c/citi_fi...

There were a couple of startups to produce physical virtualizable credit cards.
DNS concepts are pretty straightforward, but I agree with the article that there are a lot of little holes to fall into. No mention in any thread on dig vs /etc/hosts. Or of ISPs with bad actor DNS behavior... etc..
No doubt iOS has great exclusive apps, however, Android has some gems as well.
Newpipe, Buzzkill, the ability to have any browser engine you want, 3rd party app stores, 3rd party launchers, I'm sure I'm forgetting some other perks.
Both platforms have their strengths.
The Far Invisible
An exegesis of the relationship between technology, theology, and society in the works of Thomas Pynchon.

> Whatever his religious belief or unbelief, theological elements are central to his imagination, and over the course of his long career have assumed a distinctive shape that is worthy of our closest attention, above all because these elements so powerfully address American culture today: a culture that wants to be thought spiritual but never religious, to use history as a weapon but never acknowledge it as an inheritance, to worship its own technologies while simultaneously lamenting their tyrannical power.
To be fair, iPhones almost have caught up with Android features.

Still the lack of control is poor. Maybe in 10 years they will give users control.

However, the security is a dealbreaker. I have something quite important on my phone, I can't trust Apple's lack of security.
Mastodon has been really cool recently. It was bare at first, but I've been back since November and there's a critical mass of awesome shit and cool people imo.
13b q5 llama report „total VRAM used: 8321 MB” so 3bit will most likely fit into 8GB.
> the fingerprint scanner is on Pixel 4 was so much better

Are you sure you're talking about the right phone? Pixel 4 doesn't have a fingerprint scanner.
Having no contact with anyone except convicted criminals and prison guards for a long time has to change a person.
In other words, enabling precise tracking of your internet activities. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but I'm pretty sure it does many others (myself included).

(BTW, the "server" is very often a reverse proxy hosted by Cloudflare that decrypts your connection to the actual server by design. In all likelihood, there's more data mining done there than we're made aware of :)
Hypothetically, if generally adopted as a standard: it would enable any site to decide that it only works on a specific (cryptographically-signed) hardware / software configuration.

So "Your bank will require you to login with Edge on Windows 11, or with their smartphone app."

The social concern enabled by the tech concern is that we might see, say, Google go "GMail can only be accessed by a browser running Chrome," and they lock-in their market dominance not on quality of the application but on network-effect necessity of installing it to access your data.
Samsung is the Apple of android.

Big marketing budget, mid performance at best.
As a Canadian, for L-1Bs adjudicated by CBP at a Canadian port of entry, how long does it typically take for USCIS to send the I-797 approval notice after processing? CBP officials have not shared the tracking number for USCIS tracking (WAC #) during the border processing and hence there's radio silence on the processing. Do you recommend international travel and re-entry to the US with just the endorsed I-129S, passport stamp, and current I-94, without any problems?

Thank you!
I have a couple home VHS tapes like that. They're mildly interesting.
It should be noted that this brings AWS in line (slightly above) with GCP ($0.004/hr) and Azure ($0.0036/hr). It's still a frustrating change, though.
FULL OUTER JOINs were added in SQLite3 3.39.0. I've not checked if that includes NATURAL FULL OUTER JOIN.

https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_39_0.html
Yes, that's the main problem, that captchas are "invisible" to users logged into Google account. Not to mention some smart developers who are putting recaptchas on government websites, even when you authenticate in with your digital ID.
Yes I'm trying to frame it in terms the audience of HN can understand.

I'm not sure what's wrong with that.
> The real issue is just SMS vs data.

From what I understand (I am European, so never met anyone using iMessage) the real issue is that Apple refuses to distribute its application on Android, forcing instead communication from and to Android to travel via SMS. It's not a problem of SMS (which nobody really uses anymore), it's a deliberate choice. The genius is to allow enough communication between iPhone and Android as to not force iPhone users to switch app, while making it as uncomfortable as possible for both sides.

If it were possible at all, the best solution would be for Android to just block SMS from iMessage, citing some bogus security reason. Then iPhone users would be forced to switch app to communicate and the spell would be broken.
That's a weird game to play with those words.
I kind of went the other way, I have had androids since 2010ish, then tried an iphone at the beginning of corona since my old sony phone couldn't run teams properly. Had it for 2 years and hated it so much I went back to android.

I couldn't even install a separate browser like firefox that was not just a skin and the ad-block on safari drove me crazy. It only prevented items from being displayed but not the network requests etc.

Also, it was nagging me a lot, constantly asking for me to sign up to icloud and other things.

Back on a pixel phone now and couldn't be more happy really.
Steve I have read your blog posts sporadically for years and am running a startup working on a wicked problem area (fully autonomous food preparation, retail and logistics) and would be happy to provide a case study in practical approaches we have used. Incidentally I will be in CA in the next few months and we are raising.

Frankly our best strategies to date have been common ones: business-level modeling as a means to ensure strategic validity, in-depth study of predecessors and competitors, commitment to rapid iteration, brainstorming, first principles thinking, breaking down the problem, broad and dynamic base of contributors (different professional skillsets and mentalities), extensive documentation, looking at the whole problem, investing in developing required specialist skills, etc.

After seven years of hard work according to public sources we are now the world leader in our space by multiple objective metrics, from which I would suggest we have been successful technically as well as financially.

IMHO there's no secret sauce. It takes a lot of time and money and concerted effort. A lean / startup approach just allows more efficient execution.
I suspect people enjoy being offended.
I think you’re confusing things a bit. Of course someone will be more successful at doing thing x if they are scheduled to do thing x.

That is good for planning/preparing for the future.

Being scheduled to the gills means that the ‘now’ is constantly filled with planning/preparing/doing things for the future though.

And with no time for the present or for being able to think/daydream.
You're not supposed to come with the intent of both getting married and then staying afterwards on a non-immigrant visa. Getting married is fine. Getting married and then changing your mind is acceptable. Immigrant intent on a non-immigrant visa is what leads to 7A1 refusals.

Your friend's real problem is the 88 days. Long stays like that on ESTA are not a problem until suddenly they're a problem. They raise eyebrows. How did he support himself for 88 days in the United States? Does he really have strong enough ties to his home country if he can just stay away for 88 days? I would not do it again if I was him. Come for a couple of weeks, or get an immigrant visa.
What’s mid performance about an iPhone?
Or any other “thing” that uses your camera/mic. You will get a clear indicator that it is being used, and touching it brings you to the app in question.
The wiki entry for Paris syndrome debunks the entry in the article. The article seems low quality.
It seems @zenhack maintained the Haskell bindings as well.
>They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads.

Not sure this outweighs people's desire to actually obtain the handle they've always wanted but was already taken on Twitter, which is a substantial reason to sign up for any new platform at this point. Either way both of these groups were ignored by not allowing custom handles in the first place.
Linux4Space(SpaceCraft)
I tried using Threads religiously for few days alongside Twitter:

* The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre.

* The feed is jumpy with tiny accidental refreshes. You could be reading the thread and do a deep dive, and come out to find the timeline slightly/significantly different.

* No message/DM. No bookmark feature. No topic suggestions - Just pure Instagram-like scrolling.

The good part is no ads. But that could be a matter of time. Overtaking Twitter in engagement will be hard. Social networks have some inertia & needs some key users to remain successful (I forget the paper name - but it describes growth/implosion of network graphs when some key community members used/left. Like a hole in the graph. If any HNer knows about it - It came about 7-8 years ago.)
I did read the link and I was at Google at the time people started arguing for that. With respect, I think the argument was and still is incorrect, that the wrong lessons were drawn and that proto3 is worse than proto2.
Well, they certainly view phones as appliances, rather than general purpose computers. Personally, I’m fine with that
People forget, but Apple faced a massive backlash in 2012 when it replaced the 30 pin connector with Lightning.
People called it a ploy to make money on cables. Tons of e-waste.

USB C devices started shipping in 2015, so one can see why they didn't want to put themselves through that again.

Adopting USB C in fall 2023 iPhones is smart, because by now everyone has USB C cables already to charge their iPads, Macs, and Apple TV remotes (yes, even that recently switched from Lightning to USB C).
I hope you are kidding. Tell you what, why don’t you show yourself and search for common racist language or homophobia?

https://counterhate.com/blog/fact-check-musks-claim-about-a-...
Kids don't need a college degree to avoid homelessness or starvation. They do need valuable skills, but that could be HVAC, electrician, carpenter, mechanic, any number of things that don't take anything more than some community/vocational college or just working your way up from entry-level to get into.

People who are homeless or starving are mainly mentally ill, or simply have no skills to offer any employer and no desire to do any better.
It was, I believe in the professional organizations and also in a cover letter.
Text entry on my android phone was much more reliably good than on the iPhone, and the ux was better. I've had to disable a bunch of stuff to make it work reasonably on iOS, and it still gets stuff wrong far more often than I'd like.

One of the things i unticked removed the words list you get for editing its errors, so i have to edit the mistakes by hand. Very annoying. (And the suggestions were crap anyway.)
Meta has a history of churning out MVPs and doubling down on what works. Launching with a desktop client, EU, etc are in direct opposition to a lean MVP. Meta definitely has some missteps but not sure this is one.

Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience vs all the other Twitter clones. Carrying over the social graph was a wise decision imho.

The Starship analogy makes little sense as well. Starship is not an MVP and well on track to continue to push forward the state of the art of rocket engineering.
I've found church organs that were probably 100k+ for free before as well. You just need a giant place to put them...
That works if someone isn’t frantically trying to get from point A to point B, or so overwhelmed they are trying to find some time to stop and think. That’s the challenge for most Suburban parents around here anyway.
First letter from the Latin for Speed.
> You have a single back up option which is the iCloud.

That's false. You can backup to a computer, including to Windows. https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph3ecf67d29/io...
Forging a Copper Damascus Katana [video]
All meats. Real meats, none of that fake plant-based meat.

Some roasted garlic would be nice too.
The BBC does not do themselves any favours

From a recent weather report their temperature color code:

10C(50F) below, green

15C(59F) yellow

20C(68F) orange

25C(77F) very dark orange / light red

30C(86F) and above, several shades of red

So people in UK like to live below 10C and risk dying at 25C, clearly they are pushing it

I mean I will gladly wait for a pleasant apocalyptic red to go to the beach

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+weather+repor...

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1547640116432080896
Is this sarcasm?

If not, maybe wait more than 3 weeks before declaring it Twitter's successor.
Neutral bystander here, I didn’t get any of that from op.
Why do you judge me so? What do you know of my regrets?

The only One who is in power will judge me justly, and I eagerly anticipate that with joy and thanksgiving.
> I wish Unity didn't die

Hi from Unity on Ubuntu 23.04.

I am running the Unity flavour:

https://ubuntuunity.org/

It uses the latest Unity 7.7, released earlier this year:

https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity-x/unityx

I run it on 3 or 4 machines, one of which has 2 screens and one of which has 3. Works great, scales well, handles modern Ubuntu just fine.

I use it with the Waterfox browser, which integrates natively with the Unity global menu bar, without any addons or config. I am currently on -- (hits alt-H, A) -- version 5.1.9.

https://www.waterfox.net/
In other news, man-child wars between tech bros end with both failing to find product fit and alienating all their customers.

Facebooks growth was because it was where your friends were posting. Twitter growth was because of where influential people posted that you were interested in their (brief) thoughts. X was a failed payments platform that eventually became PayPal and sold to eBay (due to eBay being their only true partner at the time). Facebook/Meta keeps buying their way into the cool club only to realize they’re not cool. The bodies of friendstr, MySpace, phpbb, and even reddit now, as the tech bros learn that “features” aren’t what bring people in. People do. Make it friendly to people like the growth days. Not friendly to corporations so you can milk more advertising dollars. I’ll stay on the “I deleted my meta and I’m not coming back” fence.