skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this has opinionated answers.

if you ask Amazon, they might suggest that you design around a single table (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/creating-a-single-table...).

in my opinion it's easier to use join tables. which are what are sometimes temporarily created when you do a join anyways. in this case, you permanently create table1, table2, and table1_join_table2, and keep all three in sync transactionally. when you need a join you just select on table1_join_table2. you might think this is a waste of space, but I'd argue storage is too cheap for you to be thinking about that.

that being said, you really have to design around your access patterns, don't design your application around your schema. most people do the latter because it seems more natural. what this might mean in practice is that you do mockups of all of the expected pages and what data is necessary on each one. then you design a schema that results in you never having to do joins on the majority, if not all, of them.
So, they disabled it because it was basically equivalent to today’s share mega.nz link, download and play. Or sharing it on soundcloud or something similar. There was no bypass of anything or sharing copyrighted material through their servers, and it wasn’t even convenient. I don’t get it.

And that “all iTunes 4 users should update to 4.0.1”. Should users even care?
perhaps that is true in the abstract - but the budget for the City of San Franisco is +$1Billion US dollars Per Year. Add to that, they routinely cheat small business and tourists on money (traffic tickets, multi-year payment terms for services rendered). Thirdly, the largest population group of the City is ethnic Chinese, some of whom are quite good with money.
This is perhaps an obvious question to some, but I'll ask it anyway: How is the power generated here converted into usable electricity?

I know for conventional fission reactors the heat of fission is basically used to run a steam turbine. Given the extreme heat of the plasma, and that it must be magnetically suspended so that it doesn't even touch the sides of the containment, how is that heat transferred to some other medium to generate electricity?
Honestly in my original comment I almost tried to make a joke about how this website calls conspiracy on far less. But I didn't know how to properly do it and so removed it. But yeah, you're not alone in thinking this looks like astroturfing. But I'm not entirely convinced it is not-natural. FF did fuck up in the past, but I think people are still angry about the browser 10 years ago and not updating their beliefs. I think there is also a bias because Mozilla is 501c and so their fuck-ups and everything is out in the open. It's like comparing a democracy to an autocracy, and thinking the autocracy is better because you hear that the people are doing well and never hear about things going wrong.
>> The words "the people" mean the government, just like it means in the First Amendment (properly understood). I don't know how anyone with a functioning brain could interpret it to mean that individual citizens have a right to own military-style guns.

This very question was settled by SCOTUS in District of Columbia v. Heller:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
just go to his twitter, good luck find those old tweet
Guess that is what I am asking. The original post was highlighting it is easier using non-strict types. Like Python. So I was asking, what would that look like, you still loose data, have problems. At least with static checking, the compiler will catch it and then you can add explicate casting.
That seems amazingly cheap! Are we really down to that low level of cost?
Strongmen can get voted in and tilt the scales to stay in power. In the face of that, it is rational for the minority in disagreement to acquiesce, so I am not sure the causality runs in the direction you suggest.
In our overly connected times, it can feel like there's always two tribes, ours, and the one with the immoral charlatans & savages.

Buying into that leads to unpleasantly toned one-man morality plays, based on obviously false claims, like there were people claiming to be experts and then they claimed it was guaranteed it was a room temperature superconductor.
Bankman-Fried’s Bail to Be Revoked by US Judge over Leaks
An interesting point!

It's as if we've been taught if we don't want random notifications, FB, IG and all that garbage, then we have to use a flip phone.

No, it seems stupid to punish yourself with a system that forces numeric keypads into the alphabet (hit 1 three times for the letter C) versus just turning off notifications.

Also how weak are individuals' willpower? They can't resist the temptations?
Beyond Default Messages: Mastering Custom Errors in Solidity
Custom errors in Solidity can improve the transparency and effectiveness of smart contract code, providing more insightful feedback for developers and smart contract consumers, for instance, using a Web3 library. Adding them to your toolkit can be highly beneficial and reduce gas costs.
Thanks for sharing this, I like it alot.
Sam Bankman-Fried Sent Back to Jail After Leaking Diary of Ex-Lover
Krystal Nacht being a prime example
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U.S. unveils plans for large facilities to capture carbon directly from air
“logically-minded and clever tech folks” is even too generous. Keep in mind the only barrier to entry to post here is the ability to write moderately complete sentences.
> transform it into a Class-A trophy office building with exceptional design and hospitality-driven amenities.

What is a trophy office? "Come look at this office I'm renting out because it makes me feel special!"
Seems like SBF will be going to jail pending trial after all
IMO, the meat of this paper is in section 4.3 and 4.4.

And I cannot say for sure, but the formal proof of 4.4 basically summarizes the same points pointed out in 4.3.

Most of these are not inherently mathematical problems but a social one.

> Verifying sentience is a fuzzy concept. While they can be bound together momentarily as we see in [66 ], the binding is very easily decoupled.The verified user might choose to sell off their uniqueness identifier at time period 𝑡 + 1 if the verification which binds sentience with uniqueness ends at 𝑡.

Basically, people can sell identities

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What really concerns me though, is how much and how often this paper discusses DRM, or in their own words, a "trust anchor"

> With the assumed threat model in our case, the lack of inherent trust in the user only compounds the unreliability of the model without any trust anchor.

> Assuming a proof of location is for a mobile device, rather than a particular human being, then associating the proof of uniqueness obtained under such a condition, i.e., without the involvement of a trust anchor, is unreliable.

I know that the authors aren't directly calling for more centralized trust. But given recent development at Google, we all know how the readers would think
It's an informational RFC. A few of them exist and their purpose is mostly just to document context and history.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3245
I completely realize this, but simply the act of assembling that DAG in an imperative language adds a layer of cognitive load that is undesirable in something that's supposed to _declare_ configuration. Pulumi YAML looks tempting but it's simply not powerful enough to do a lot of things.

The other aspect of this is how it adds another requirement to your project - the setup and management of the language environment for the target language. Suddenly you've got another npm/bundler/etc. lockfile to keep up to date, your CI container images are double the size, your developers have another thing to fight homebrew to cooperate with...
Denormalized transactions are not trivial unless you are using serializable isolation level which will kill performance. If you don't use serializable isolation level, then you risk either running into deadlocks (which will kill performance) or inconsistency.

Decent SQL databases offer materialized views, which probably give you what you want without all the headache of maintaining denormalized tables yourself.
The first plant is going to be more expensive, and the next gens after that will benefit from things learned.

The first TVs were for the very rich, and had 4" bw screens. Now they're 80", thin, and insanely cheap.
Can you give some book recommendations, please?
If they had just thickened the continuous bar connected to the tab a few pixels I probably wont even have noticed. Instead introducing a gap between the tab and its page completely changes its look making it seem like its floating separately and the tabs are independent buttons. But the point is either of these makes no sense at all. What even was the point of this weird change from the perfectly functional and normal looking tabs before?
> Alphabet doesn't generate revenue from Go.

Hashicorp doesn't generate revenue from Terraform.

(They do generate revenue from Terraform Cloud, but that's a backend for Terraform, not Terraform itself)
If a Hollywood screenwriter were naming a crazy science device, they would come up with something like Wendelstien 7-X
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> regular homeowners

for years there have been fewer and fewer of those "regular homeowners" and increase in offshore money speculation, purchase-to-AirBNB, and other non-obvious transactions. A recent examination of US Tax filings (posted on YNews IIR) show that +1 million adults in the USA have the financial ability to purchase a home, and have not done so.
> the added cost to me is really minimal. And yes, I do realize carbon offsets are sort-of a scam, but willingness to pay for them is sort-of a signal as well

Do you not see the contradiction? They are minimal because they are a scam. And it isn't that some are legitimate and others are scams. Carbon offsets fundamentally misrepresent the actual costs of carbon. The cost of getting someone to promise not to cut down trees that would have emitted 1T of CO2 if clear-cut and burned in the open air is fundamentally different from the fractional cost of redesigning air travel to not emit 1T of CO2 in the first place.

Think about it: Are there enough trees about to be clear-cut and burned to offset all the other emissions we need to cut? If so, we could just prevent climate change by saving all the forests. We can't. We have to actually reduce emissions by far more than offsets are saving. In the meantime, offsets create incentives for people to actively plan to burn carbon that they otherwise wouldn't have burned, so that they can be paid to not burn it. This doesn't reduce emissions, it is just an accounting trick. It doesn't lead to a net reduction in carbon.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/climate/offset-carbon-foo...:

"But the biggest problems are structural, related to something called additionality.

That’s technical jargon for a simple concept: A carbon offset needs to fund reductions that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. If you pay someone to preserve a grove, but they were never actually planning to cut it down, then you’re not offsetting your emissions. And it’s difficult to establish the facts in these cases with the level of confidence required for offset programs to work.

Part of the appeal of carbon offsets is the notion that it’s possible to meaningfully combat climate change while living our lives and structuring our society in the same way we always have. For that reason, some experts see carbon offsets as actively damaging, inasmuch as they give people cover to avoid reducing emissions at the source."
Show HN: Stylus based animating monochrome drawing app in only TypeScript/DOM
Yeah, the apple air tags do something similar, the more devices the more accurate the location
- it will produce OOM if file is very large

A well designed API won't give you an OOM it'll throw a 'this file is too big'

- not sure why you would want to have path and filename as separate params

Throws path not found. Throws file not found. Why does the programmer need to deal with twee-fiddly path magic for say each file in a directory of config files?

Iterable<String> Files.readAllLines(String fileName);

Oh sure that's totally more readable.

I think in python it will lazely iterate through the file,

I wrote a program to suck in a list of log files and generate a bunch of metrics and display them. Users liked to select a dozen 100MB log files. Lazy iteration was way way too slow. Fastest was suck each one into memory and call split.
There should be a calm AI voice stating what they should be doing based on some heuristics. Based on angle of attack, engine power and the last recorded reliable speed, I feel a simple system should be able to make projection of the current speed and throw some warning when pilot input are becoming real stupid.
https://archive.is/k0D5I
I get the hate on elon and his decisions around twitter/x, but the comment quality here is leauges velow what I expect from HN. Why are we enshittifying our own spaces out of spite? Dang, do you not care about this? While I agree with most posters sentiment in general, none make any good points or express anything but adhoms and insults. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard, particularly when we are critical.
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It’s 3% and growing quickly. Also that’s only the burning of kerosene, it excludes extraction and refining as well as all the support services air travel requires.
I have some bad news for you about Tylenol/Paracetamol....

The science is "We did many double blind studies on a large population and observed these effects to a degree statistically significant compared to placebo"

We can reproduce the effects reliably, and the side effects are similarly predictable. We've also researched the pharmacokinetics to see what it's doing, but we don't necessarily understand how those changes cause it's effects.

Just because we don't know exactly how it works, doesn't mean we didn't observe what the effects are. When the good effects out way the bad effects then it's a possible treatment.

I'm not saying all studies are of quality, that there aren't unknown effects we haven't observed yet, that there aren't problems etc. What I'm saying is we have at least attempted to measure the effects and determine them to a statistically significant degree.

tl;dr - If we've measured effects to a statistically significant degree - that is not a cargo cult. How many people understand the electrical wiring in their house yet use a light switch daily?
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> BSL does not prevent simply using the products, it prevents packaging them into a competing offering.

The problem is that "competing offering" is poorly defined.
> "Undefine Function"

That's the key; if you delete a function make sure to undefine it so it's not sticking around in the image.

In slime you can use `C-c C-u` which is bound to FMAKUNBOUND.
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I would argue (and have previously) that BSL is open source, it's just being held in escrow. So it has been released to open source... just that source hasn't been released to the public. (BSL triggers after a max of 4 years into irrevocable OSS).

I think the real issue is that people want more community driven OSS. Stuff that is collaboratively built and not built for a commercial purpose. They want something I think along the lines of KDE where there are paid people to work on it, but it's also contributed to by a community and there isn't someone constantly trying to a make a buck off of it.
https://archive.is/f2FRw
Also GRiDCASE 1510 https://www.griduk.com/products/rugged-laptops/gridcase-1510... (albeit admittedly a niche device as well)
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried jailed
You still get heat transfer from uncharged elements I guess.
Ask HN: Any platform to hire good technical writers?
1. The government is not spying on you - that's a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory.
2. OK, the government is actually spying on you and here's why that's a good thing.
Does anyone know where Sam Trabucco is or what happened to him? Leave as Co-CEO a few months before a total fraud collapse and everything is fine? There is 0% chance this was only happening after he left.
Not everyone believes taking Bill Gates’ money and sending it to random drug addicts in SF is very good policy.
Who has enough money buy a house?
I'd say "self-reflection"
> Design your application's hot path to never use joins.

Grab (uber of asia) did this religiously and it created a ton of friction within the company due to the way the teams were laid out. It always required one team to add some sort of API that another team could take advantage of. Since the first team was so busy always implementing their own features, it created roadblocks with other teams and everyone started pointing fingers at each other to the point that nothing ever got done on time.

Law of unintended consequences
Distributing Solely Under the (L)GPL

Once a file has been distributed under both the (L)GPL and the MPL, recipients of that file can later distribute it solely under the terms of the (L)GPL, in accordance with the terms of that license. If a project wishes to do this, and not to allow others to use their version of this file under the MPL, the project can indicate its decision by deleting the MPL headers described in Exhibit A of the license and replacing them with the standard notice recommended by the (L)GPL. Copyright notices indicating authorship of the file should be retained.

... So you combine with GPL code, and then, say "I don't want to use the MPL."

Is this really so complicated? All updates to be done in the future are licensed under the GPL.

The only firm that benefits from the MPL here is Hashicorp, which is the company that the fork is being done against. Fork it and be done... It isn't like the MPL code can integrate with the BSL code.
My hometown (Paarl - Western Cape) is in the middle of the valley surrounded by granite mountains which seems like heat radiators at night - great for growing tobacco, fruit and grapes for wine but unbearable during summers (45C).
Beautifully written. 120 years later and people can't write formally and poetically without either mocking something or willing to be mocked. We've lost something.
I see the argument that people need to be accountable for leaking secrets.

I also see that if a organization holding too many secrets gets too big, something is going to leak. If you drive from BMI airport to Washington DC at the wrong time of the day you might encounter one of America's worst traffic jams when everybody gets off work at the NSA headquarters.

I remember reading a non-fiction account of certain intrigues from the early 1970s where a private eye says: "If I know something there is 1 chance it leaks out, if two people know it is more like 11, if it is three people, like 111, etc" and given that increasing difficulty of keeping secrets, if you really want to keep something a secret you really have to keep it a secret.

The author of this book

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Company-Diary-Philip-Agee/dp/0...

was faulted for revealing specific names, dates, etc. of CIA personnel that directly put them in danger. I wasn't surprised at all that the NSA was doing the stuff that Snowden "revealed", in fact it would have been a scandal if they weren't doing that because the whole reason the NSA exists to do exactly that. Snowden can be faulted not so much for revealing the big picture, but revealing lots of details that affected specific activities and programs.

Of course, without all those details people wouldn't realize what a house of cards a non-encrypted internet is. Back around 2005 I turned on a Wi-Fi packet sniffer on an academic network and immediately saw email passwords for about 15 people (I deleted them right away) It is not just the NSA hoovering up data but governments like France, Israel, Iran, Russia, China not to mention high school hackers, organized crime organizations, etc. People never seem to take security seriously enough and unfortunately it took Snowden to wake up to the possibility that the NSA can do that but so can everybody else.
It is profoundly disturbing, but we do live in an age where everything is simulated, including expertise. How much time did Captain Dubois have to save the aircraft once he was on deck? Seems like Bolin had mostly doomed them by then.
I'm not sure if it's the case for this specific reactor, but the common answer to this question is that you need cooling in the surrounding walls and the coolant that runs through the walls transfers the heat out where it can be used to do useful work.
Which doesn't imply anything about how fast the operations can be implemented for fixed size numbers.

Also, did you even read the article you linked? The lowest complexity for Multiplication is an open question, absurd to say that it "has the same big-O complexity".
https://archive.is/5CuvU
There are situations where it makes a lot of sense - for example, we just visited family where it made sense for my sister and I to share AirBnB houses since there were 3 young children and having a kitchen and separate play space was important. The problem is a lot of people got into real estate speculation thinking it’d be free money and they didn’t spend enough time thinking about what they were giving you over a hotel room.
I'm highly skeptical of the benefits of containers in the embedded space. The inertia required to set them up and maintain them, and train customers to use them is massive. I'm sure some people benefit somewhere, but in my experience people want a zip file of your code base, platform support package version, and compiler version, ... that's 99% of it. Working with ARC/MSP430/ATMEL/PIC/Cortex-M devices for decades I have rarely seen a codebase over 10 megabytes of customer C code.
It took me a minute to see the /s.

Nuclear power is a great idea. With heavy heavy heavy shielding that is. Maybe even worth using it to synthesize fuel for airplanes. But don't stick it on a plane.
Would it be possible to return the favour and hack Russian satellites?
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More often than not, making money and making good software are complimentary outcomes. Its difficult to do the former without the latter.

Infisical is an open core business model. While there is a proprietary crust, the core is truly open source.

Disclaimer: I run an open core venture
Making your own firearms has always been cheap, easy, and legal. Look up 'hardware store slamfire shotgun'. I made a few as a bored teen. This is not anything new or newsworthy. The 'ghost' moniker being the obvious political spin here.
What a great idea Dopplio is!

Without giving away any secret sauce, would you be able to generally speak about your ML stack to create the content? Very broad stuff, like what frameworks you used, if you rely on readily available models, etc.

Thanks!
But honestly as engineers, we should follow the advice of making the stilted constructions. We're already trained as users to expect that anyways from all the other apps.

I do the opposite.

Instead of training my users to accept a kludge, I take the time to make it correct, even if it's hard.

I have the luxury of full-time professional translators on staff, and I know that not everyone else does.

But I've always believed that computers are supposed to work for people, not the other way around.
I enjoyed the economics answer and comment by Mark Booth:

> If generic floating point division were more important to modern CPU's then it might make sense to dedicate enough silicon area to make it single cycle, however most chip makers have obviously decided that they can make better use of that silicon by using those gates for other things. ..

> CPU manufacturers would only dedicate a large swath of silicon to a low latency floating point divide unit if they couldn't use that silicon more effectively to speed up the CPU in other ways. Generally speaking though, having more long latency FDIVs are a more efficient use of silicon than fewer shorter latency FDIVs