skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd second that. We have stuff on both Digital Ocean and Hetzner, and switching between them I'm constantly reminded how much better the ux on Hetzner is. The fact that they now do hugely capable ARM servers for stupidly cheap is a bonus, and if they ever open a London data centre I'd probably drop Digital Ocean immediately.
It's possible that the backup restore/test process was still 'automated' to some degree, like a manually-run pipeline or playbook etc.

Obviously there were mistakes made in process design and tools deployment but I don't think this is 'baffling incompetence' more than it is a couple of small mistakes that compounded each other to have a pretty spectacular impact.
I suspect that many parents these days would not be comfortable with their child biking anywhere for an hour if they're under 14 or so. In the US I have found that things have changed dramatically for kids over the past 20-30 years.

Anecdotally I was walking half a mile to school in the second grade on my own. My nieces and nephews are the same age and aren't allowed to leave their yard (despite having cell phones!).

There's also the question of "why" — kids today are adept at video calls and tend to play lots of video games (many of which only have online multiplayer modes anyway!). They're generally not spending a lot of time playing outside. Their parents are also spending more time inside.

I'm sure there are a preponderance of reasons for the changes, but I've always suspected that the access to an infinite news cycle (e.g., some kid 2 hours away went missing last night) has made people overly cautious. This could be entirely anecdotal, but I feel like the world was a lot smaller for parents before the internet and this has altered perceptions (despite the fact that most places are actually safer in terms of violent crime rates than they used to be).
Loved that game. You heard right.
I'm not opposing, just adding more context.
Yeah. Cooperative pizza is an entire thing. Arizmendi is also worker-owned, as is Nick's in Oakland.
> Such an odd thing to call it "silt". Did they measure the grain size?

I mean, I doubt many people will appreciate or care whether it was actually sand or clay instead. The only reason I even know that you're talking about the soil texture triangle is because of Dwarf Fortress.
pg_basebackup is, like any physical replication of Postgres.
Do you guys also feel insecure with your MVP?
ASK HN: Hey HN I am building Widgyy (https://widgyy.com/) .

in simple words, you can implement a feedback widget on your website and collect all the submissions to your dashboard. you can also integrate it with Notion,Zapier and slack.

I just launched the beta (https://beta.widgyy.com/) with the basic features

- implement the widget with just one line of code

- collect all your submissions directly in your notion dashboard

- send custom data objects with the submissions

- the widget automatically captures all important data like user device data and sends it with every submission

but honestly,

- my dashboard or should I say setup page looks like shit, I built it in a few hours and just did everything to make this shit work

- some important features like the Widgyy dashboard is missing in the beta.

- it's a very unpolished product, it works but not looks professional

Now, I am trying to get some beta users by cold emailing/dm-ing Indie Hackers, but I feel insecure about my product. How do I cope with this? Is it good enough to put it infront of the world? tbf I only launched it so quickly because i'm in a startup building school and they asked us to do it.

what are your thoughts? I've read alot of content about early stages of a startup and most of them say that you should launch even a broken version of your product asap infront of the world.

I need some good advice
But somehow having a freeloader at the top that siphons off profits is totally fine? I would much rather have someone that I quite literally worked with, and the rest of the staff interacted with freeloading, than some franchisee owner who literally does nothing for the business. Not only would it be much easier to identify, it would be easier to socially address, or remove this person. I couldn't fire my project mates in school, in this scenario you could.
A security researcher checking on Firestore permissions is basically the equivalent of an electrician walking into a grocery store and noticing sparking wires dangling and taped awkwardly, and imminent fire hazards that could result in catastrophic damages to people shopping at the store.

It is absolutely the right, and IMO, the duty, of security researchers to test every website, app, product and service that they use regularly to ensure the continued safety of the general public. This is too important of a field to have a "not my problem" attitude of just ignoring egregious security vulnerabilities so they can be exploited by criminals.
In the response, no doubt.
Yeah, I've used the Ruby one, and the results were... painful.
It's really though to follow without units in the plots.
It was never the biggest hurdle for guile performance. I do believe guix has the potential to hit the GC wall, but for most programs I think it has served guile well.

With that said, the upcoming immix collector is really friggin exciting.
I used to use water all the time to slide earplugs in, and never had any issues with ear infections. But I always had a nagging voice inside my head telling me it wasn’t a good idea.

Did I get lucky? Or maybe I’m just less susceptible to infections? I always made sure the water was clean, but I suppose if there were bacteria on the outer surface of my ear, the water would carry it inward easier than a dry fitting would?
Vacation weight gain/weight loss studies
I tried to deploy GitBook in 2017 IIRC, and left it alone after seeing how it's shared to prevent re-deployment. I didn't know they abandoned the idea of "Looking Like Open Source" in 2018.

VSCodium may be open source in theory, but it's designed to be deployed in a less functional fashion than VSCode, more like a "Freemium", hence the "Codium", ringing me like "-ish", or "looks like". It's designed as a funnel. Yes, it's there, and it works, but it funnels users to Microsoft's closed version. Or you can embed it as an editor to your project, but not much more. I'd rather use KATE, Eclipse, Vim, Emacs, etc. Instead of it. Heck even Atom or its current incarnation is better.

Zed is also like VSCodium. The tool is "Open Source", with a proprietary backend and egregious data siphoning capabilities. It backstabs you, and being open source changes nothing.

I have given Elastic and HashiCorp as examples of companies using open source as a way to get support and traction in the early days, and back-pedaling when things didn't go as their plan. Whether this is calculated or not is another matter, but they look like they didn't fully think it through.
IANACarMechanic, but I think the difference is that a "real" immobilizer would work regardless of whether the car doors are locked and regardless of whether the alarm-system is on, it is always looking for a "proper key", and will trigger the alarm if it detects anything else is being used on the steering-column.

In contrast, this new firmware workaround is exclusively based on a "digital fob layer" of security: It takes effect when the user locks/alarms the car with the fob, and only goes away when the fob's unlock button is used. The car still cannot distinguish a correct key from a fake-key/screwdriver/usb-plug.

Two scenarios might help illustrate the difference:

1. You park the car, open the door to step outside, lock the doors by using the in-door button (no fob usage!) and close the door before leaving. That car is still just as vulnerable as before, an attacker could smash through the window and use screwdriver/pliers to drive off because there's no immobilizer to recognize a key is fake.

2. You sit inside the car, lock+arm it with the fob, wait 90 seconds, and then insert and turn the legitimate key. The car will refuse to start and the alarm will go off, because the fob-status is still armed and there's no immobilizer to recognize your key is real.

[0] https://www.hyundainews.com/en-us/releases/3768
If I'm understanding this correctly, it's only 14%. It was much higher like you describe in the past, but China's massive internal buildup probably reduced that number significantly

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2#:~:text=For....
Then it wouldn't be my network anymore.
While an elaborate prank can not be ruled out, I think that is actually significantly less likely than the contents simply disintegrating due to external moisture and 200 years of time.
We usually change such titles to something like "$Acquirer aquires $Acquiree" and I've done that above now.
>Because it can be hard to get everyone in the same room, most votes are held via a Discord server. People respond to proposals with a thumbs-up emoji for yes, a thumbs-down for no, and a monocle to signal they want further discussion — a closer look, if you will

I would love a retrospective on the role of Slack and Discord as tools of revolutionary politics in the last decade or so. Seems like no matter where you fall ideologically, there's a Slack channel or Discord server for you and it's doing the emoji vote thing.
>> One thing that I never understood was, if an employees wages are tied to the success of the company, would that not incentivize better work ethic as a whole?

It would probably incentivize you to ensure everyone else's work was up to par. This doesn't seem that different from a small startup with heavy equity comp -- everyone is incentivized to work hard, but there are also plenty of times where people want everyone else to work hard but not themself.

In the extreme case, imagine two co-founders. It is common for each co-founder to try and take distracting side jobs / consulting or not quit their dayjob, while the other puts in the hard work to grow the value of the startup. Generally this is a hard-NO from an angel/vc investment standpoint, but outside an external party clamping down, there is an incentive to cheat.
Things like Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ and such are packages and not the products. Think distinction between Linux distro and Linux kernel.

E.g. my former team used to ship "IDE" - that is, use new project wizard to setup your folder, use editor to write the code, press a button to build, debug and profile. We also shipped standalone "visual profiler" - that had custom configuration for window layout/toolbars and stripped down list of included plugins. You open an executable, profile it, see per-line metrics in the read-only editor (that was a complete editor from the IDE, just in read-only mode).

So, does dropping a bunch of plugins (that noremally should not activate unless used) suddenly convert sluggish IDE into fast editor.

I feel like the negative perception of IDEs usually comes from busy UI. Devteam needs to balance discoverability (e.g. adding UI for configuring build and debug) and perceptions of the lightweightness.
Usually it's not zero though, like it's base pay + the promise of a maybe-payout down the road if things go really well.

But part of it also hinges on the organization being small enough that individuals can actually make a difference. Otherwise it's back to just being a prisoner's dilemma / shared commons, where the incentive is to slack off and let everyone else carry you.
Jensen Huang is probably the only founder that's still at the CEO job since the company's inception 30 years ago. What a ride!
It depends on the mix on the front page for the day. There is often a kind of "topic of the day" that happens. If that's a topic I'm unfamiliar with, my understanding falls.

But on the whole, I'd say my understanding runs 50-60%. I find HN stories are often great at pointing me towards things I should study in greater depth to maintain or expand my education.
? There's obviously more than one relevant result about this topic.
New dark pattern just dropped – PayPal payments goes through immediately
Paypal payments goes through immediately and the redirect page is just the "order successful" page instead of the way it used to be (even a couple months ago) where paypal would just authorize the payment and on the redirect back to the website would be the "submit order" or "complete order" button to finish.
Hiring Fortran programmers is risky because there's so few and those that claim to know it might either be exaggerating or simply not good at it. It's not just the language, anyone can learn the syntax. It's making sure that whoever you bring in can actually do the job
I suspect it was already opened sometime in the last century. Either officially or as part of some student prank. Who knows what became of any original content.
You might enjoy the This American Life episode called NUMMI: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015

It looks at how Toyota took GM's worst plant and made it one of the best using the same workers. And how GM's management refused to learn lessons from that.

I think the current antagonism is something that started with management many decades ago. But now it has a lot of momentum, such that people on both sides are used to it and will carry it forward. I remember reading a great zine piece from a video game tester who'd had a variety of shitty jobs. He finally found one that was really good: good pay, good working conditions, nice bosses. But he felt compelled to steal office supplies in bulk because that's what he'd done at his shitty jobs. He was sort of mystified by it, but he couldn't stop.

However, there are alternatives. I live near an Arizmendi bakery [1], which is a worker-owned co-op. It's great. The food is really good, it's sanely run, and the people behind the counter seem serene and present. It's inspired by the founder of the Mondragon co-op [2].

Or you could look at companies that shift to employee ownership later. Bob's Red Mill was actually started by a guy named Bob who sold the company to his employees in 2010. [3]

I don't think those are going to be utopias. But I do think they lack some of the structural disincentives against sanity and compassion that you find in the typical corporate structure, where every dollar in a worker's pocket is a dollar less in economic rents for the owners.

[1] http://arizmendi-valencia.squarespace.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Red_Mill
You die anyway at some point. Not sure what this obsession about maximizing lifetime is about. I rather live like I prefer to and when I die I won't care anymore anyway.
For cars like Waymo/Cruise/etc, those are Level 5 to my knowledge (with restrictions for location, I guess). You can't sit in the drivers seat, so how can the passengers possibly pay attention or do anything? This study is talking about drivers (in the drivers seat) and Level 3/4 technology. So, what Mercedes is advertising and other car manufacturers are aiming for in the future.
Perhaps you can check the big warning sign on the page about the poverty number:

> Estimates are not comparable to other geographic levels due to methodology differences that may exist between different data sources.

Here is a better source with comparable numbers also by the bureau for 2021, same year we are talking about:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

Relevant numbers for states can be found on page 77.

As for the "why"...

Officially, poverty level is counted by triple the cost of food compared to income. Of course, that is now obsolete since people need more than just food. They need housing, utilities, etc. Most of those are much higher in CA than TX.

That is why the census bureau has SPM which accounts for these needs. Based on the SPM calculated by the bureau, CA has higher poverty rate than TX, 13.2% compared to 10.4%.

Using the official, i.e. the food cost only, then CA is 11% while TX is 12.9%.

Here is a nice SPM figure by states on reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/123s1k3/oc...

Up to you how you want to take it. I was wrong in saying "everything" is double the price so let me take that back. Only housing and utilities are double or more, everything else is still more expensive but perhaps not to the 200% depending on where you live or get them from.
or more bluntly, the loose-lipped, female blonde middle-aged Bay Area suburban City Council member making national headlines with anti-housing law statements. It is just as simple as "speaking out on topics that effect an entire population" in naked self-interest. The USA has bred a population of not "Me-First", but now "Me-Only" and money is the stage to stand on.. To be more serious, actual analysis is done by civil-society minded people often at University, by serious real estate professionals and urban planners such as the UCLA Ziman Real Estate Center, and by analysts at major investment firms. But those people are not getting to the modern "front page"

The current local news cycle is toxic -- surprise
Fortran still has a big fanbase and people actively fighting to keep it alive and thriving as much as possible. Maybe the crown will remain with C++ (in terms of fast languages), and maybe Rust will eat some of its lunch, but there seems to be a resurgence in the Fortran community to make sure it remains an important language in this space.

Julia has something similar but to a lesser degree. Its main problem has been the developer experience - the latencies (slowly getting better), lack of a great editor/LSP experience (the VS Code plugin is decent, but not yet great), lack of accessible how-to resources (people are starting to write more of these), and things like that.
I read it as “hosted AWS version coming soon, we will email you when it’s time to migrate”.

If it was just acquihire there probably wouldn’t have a big blog post tying it to AWS. Just negative publicity for acquirer when they could shut down quietly.
If you pull up on the opened corner and then squeeze it shut with your fingers, it will stay closed until you pour from it again.
On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe
Wait, they are a company called Fizz, that was formerly called Buzz [0]? Talk about on the nose.

[0]: https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/01/opinion-fizz-previously...
You're just a fount of unconventional wisdom, aren't you? Today I learned that:

- All men, except maybe defective gay men, are ticking time bombs who will commit violent felonies if their whims are not catered to consistently

- While we punish murderers and home invaders, rapists are a special class of criminal that deserves accommodation

- Suggesting that rape is something that men can and should choose not to do is illogical

- Admitting on a public forum that if you reach a certain level of sexual frustration, you may fail to uphold your "ideal" of refraining from committing a violent assault--that's totally rational

- In other news, Freedom is Slavery

I'm convinced. I think that we should radically reorient society so that it's focused on catering to the sexual needs of straight men. Otherwise we'll just be awash in rape and there are absolutely no other solutions. I wish there were another way, but a very stable genius on HN told me this, and they are a man who works in tech, so they're obviously an expert on everything, except self-control apparently.

What's so striking about your argument is how utterly pessimistic you are about men's capacity for moral action. Essentially you are saying that men are a criminal class too large to kill or control and that the best we can do is to try not to provoke them. If a feminist expressed that level of hatred for men, we'd be rightly pilloried. But then, maybe I'm expecting too much of the rape enthusiast community.

Call me a traditionalist, but I'll stick with Feminism and Christianity which tell me that I get to make my own choices whether to rape or love.
This process of language love and hatred over a short period is what's called language fad. Ten years ago, people wrote articles praising MATLAB over established languages. I do not recall any of those writings ever mentioning Matlab's licensing as an issue. MATLAB is now >1000 fold better than ten years ago. Yet, the new generation throws it under the bus daily because it's not their favorite. Change is the only constant in the world of programing fashion and language fads.
maybe this? https://github.com/microsoft/chat-copilot
SQL is code.
In my account it now says "Advanced Data Analysis" instead of "Code Interpreter". Looks like it is the new name.
I'll echo this. I've been legally blind my whole life, and I received a ton of assistance throughout school and college. This was mostly via my state's Commission for the Blind but I think most states have something similar. They not only can provide assistive technology devices, but also things like Orientation & Mobility (O&M) training to help with navigation, life skills (like cooking), etc.
Commercial leases tend to be much longer to prevent the landlords from raising the rent. Which of course, also makes commercial landlords picky about who they rent to.

Land value tax would solve this. (We have property taxes, but they're not as good, and in California they're capped.)
Except people just hearing about Fig now can't sign up.
Perfectly legal, but unethical. The motives are clear, they want to threaten/bully someone into silence who has information that could hurt their business. I don't think lawyers that engage in this behavior should be allowed to practice law, that's all.
An example of a constant would be a literal, such as "Hello, World!" or 4 or false

You can see that not only can't you change these values, it doesn't even mean anything to speak about doing so, they're not variables which have values, they're the values themselves.

Whereas an example of an immutable variable would be the std::vector we're being asked to check the length of in a call to size() - this certainly is a variable, somebody else can change it, but we must not.

If we name a constant in Rust like { const TIMEOUT: u32 = 1234; }, we're not saying we want a variable with this name TIMEOUT and then we mustn't change it - instead we are giving a name to this arbitrary constant TIMEOUT (and it has to be constant, Rust won't let us make constants unless they actually are) and then any time we say that name, we get the same value, not the same variable, there is no variable, the same value, the constant one, as if we'd written it here.

So for example the C++ trick where you "cast away" the const-ness doesn't make any sense in Rust because those aren't immutable variables, we can't even try to make them mutable, they're not variables. It's not Undefined Behaviour, it's gibberish, even C++ won't let you write false = true; for example, that's just clearly nonsense.
How does the landlord know how much money the restaurant is making? All they would know is that the rent is paid on time and the restaurant "looks busy," which really isn't an accurate picture of income at all.
Bags are more environmentally friendly than cartons or jugs, even if the bags are landfilled and the jugs and/or cartons are recycled.

Source: https://theconversation.com/milk-jugs-cartons-or-plastic-bag...
I've been modding games of EA for over 10 years. I even helped out with a project associated to Battleforge, which was shut down in 2013. But when people tried to go near Microsoft oh wow... they go nuclear and they do it fast.
Wages tied to success of the company, ie profit sharing; how much more profitable could a restaurant become if every employee gives it their absolute best labor output? A few percentage points here and there? Certainly not orders of magnitude. Maybe theres no improvement in some situations at all? I don't see it as much of an incentive, especially if the variable compensation is partly in lieu of fixed compensation.

The startup scenario you mention offers the potential for huge payouts (of course this plays out wildly across a spectrum). A far easier sell to employees, IMO.