skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone coming from a low class family, living in an underdeveloped country, I concentrate my attention on what's positive.

Imagining a glass ceiling will only undermine my efforts and confidence.

If you look around, I am absolutely sure you will find positive things that Canada provided and keeps providing you that 90% of the kids in my country can't even imagine.

Focus on that. Build confidence. Think that you can break this "glass ceiling". It's in your mind, bro.

As about intelligence and hard work, I think it's up to the people around us to judge ourselves and the results of our work. We need to understand others and be useful to them. That's how we can grow.

To me, it seems you have a mindset that is limiting yourself, making you feel sabotaged by others. This prevents you from learning what you need to do in order to improve and grow.

You might not like what I said. I might be wrong. You might ignore it. Anyways, those are the most honest, hard earned 2 cents I can offer.
Did GPT4 Got Retrained?
I noticed that in the “Advanced Data Analysis” mode, the responses to questions with a potential to require up-to-date data are “As my knowledge is cut-off at 1 January 2022”, instead of 2021.

Also, the responses are generally better compared to the default GPT4.

Did I miss the news of one additional year of knowledge added? The effort would make sense though, considering they are now actively trying to attract business customers.
Airlines have large fixed capital costs. The marginal profit of an individual ticket purchase is very high, certainly a lot higher than 5%.
> when you hover over or click on domain names, an additional WHOIS check is done to verify availability

This causes so many duplicate requests, like 5+ per domain
Your preferences are your prerogative. My point was in response to mvdtnz weighing in on something while being explicitly ignorant on the subject.

Its like going to a book club meeting, telling everyone that you obviously didn't read the book because you're not some unwashed heathen, and then proceeding to confidently give your analysis based on what you half heard someone on the train say about chapter 2.
It wasn't unreliable, and what alternative did they have? Do you know of one where they can get the same amount of energy at the same cost? Because Germany would love to know, quick.
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You only need to look at the US presidential runs to see why it might actually need to be explained.
Paying for the service does not give the right to spam. Any spammer would be kicked out on the first report, which would make the whole operation expensive and impossible to automate. You can not generate valid credit cards automatically like you can simply generate a bot that signs up for free.
I've clarified this on the site now. It’s $5 for each year of images you want to download. For example, you can find and save all your photos from 2004 or 2010 (or any year) for $5.
I'm surprised when people notice fonts. If the font is weird, or very decorative then sure, I would notice a font in Papyrus or Comic Sans. On my kindle I set it to the modern sans sarif font because its easier to read, for me. If there was no option to change the font I probably wouldn't have noticed, though.

I don't want say this in a way that comes off as insulting, but I'll just say it and please don't take it as a put down: if my kid came to me and expressed this much frustration and difficulty because of a sans sarif or monospaced font I would be concerned they had a problem with their vision or an issue processing what they saw, and I might research and/or take them to get checked out.
The service is solid, but there are a lot of caveats and compromises they make to achieve their differentiating features. For one thing, the encryption means you can only use their frontend/app to access your email. Unfortunately the app doesn't get notifications reliably, search is utterly broken, and the app can't show the subject line in toasts for security reasons, so I never know if an email needs to be read now or whenever's convenient.

You also need to be on the paying tier for a usable product. I evaluated a number of options when I was trying to decide where to park my domain long term. Cue an incident at a border crossing where immigration wanted to see a hotel booking that search insisted didn't exist. Turns out the booking email was a few days outside the free tier search window, and that limitation wasn't obvious in the pressure of an immigration queue. Felt like I had been gaslit once I realized.
I'm not sure what you intend to say. Nuclear supporters are far-right? Vote for a Nazi-like party because roads are blocked?

Shutting down nuclear makes sense, we have much safer ways nowadays to generate (transform) energy. Storing the nuclear waste is a unsolved issue that is passed on to our children.
I'm not addressing those things because we are in agreement there.
Well, as a Brit, I agree with the surveillance society bit although the police don't even have time to go after the crims, so I suspect that most surveillance footage is ignored unless you're a political figure.

As a devout atheist, I have a particular view of Christians and from what I can gather, the Christo-fascists in the U.S. trying to grab power are Christian in name only and represent almost the exact opposite of the teachings of Jesus. I think it's more of a fascist movement that picks on the most gullible and easily led of groups for their support base.
They don’t mind doing it when the ship is signed for the US navy though
The first iteration of my comment was actually: "Looking at this issue, the developers are clearly clueless."

But that wasn't constructive. It seems to be just volunteers working on this so it makes sense that they ask for help because they can't pay their way out of this by actually having people with experience on their team.
It's marketing. The dumber and more obnoxious something is, the better it is, because people talk about it. Just look at your own comment - as much as you dislike the name, it's you who brought up X/Twitter into the conversation, reminding us about the brand at this time and place. The name is working as intended.
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From my limited perspective (non-German software engineer working in Germany), Germany is still a great country for people like me:

- prices are not that expensive like in the nordic countries. If you cook at home most of the week, you can easily spend only around 350-450 EUR/month eating healthy food

- renting is still hard (it's not so easy to find an apartment), but you can get a decent place for around 1.5K EUR/month (or less). I pay 1.2K/month for a 80 sqm (not city center, but not outside of it neither)

- if you have > 10 years of working experience, you can definitely reach the 100K EUR/year (not FAANG). It's not easy, but not insanely difficult. Reaching 80K EUR/year is even more standard. This puts you on the top 10-5% of earners in Germany, so you get to save a lot of money per month

- electricity/gas bills are getting more expensive, but still you won't notice with your kind of salary

- health insurance is good enough

- public transportation works just fine (not the best, but surely good enough). Tons of options (bus, tram, trains, bikes)

- big cities in the west are welcoming to people who don't speak German

Compare this with the situation of other european countries like France, Italy (a bit cheaper than Germany in general, but salaries are way lower in IT: around 30-40% lower) or even the Netherlands (not cheaper than Germany, and salaries are usually ~15% lower in general for IT). So, if Germany is doing bad, I cannot imagine how other EU countries are doing.

The only thing Germany needs to fix is the winter time (you cannot expect to have healthy people when the sun sets at around 3-4pm in winter).

P.S. And I love the work culture: "9-5 -> work. Outside of working hours -> don't even bother reaching me, I won't answer"
Postgres 16: The and the Unnoticed
I'll just throw in that I volunteer for an organisation that often deals with children, and in many ways safeguarding has been a disaster. I can totally see how good intentions following the 'Baby P'* case led to laws like this. But the reaction from many organisations has been to completely reorient themselves, and at all costs.

This is quite natural given that ultimately the law poses the greatest threat to the leaders of charities, schools etc. You really don't want a high profile failure on your watch.

When I was trained to lead shifts of volunteers, it stood out to me that the only instruction I received was in safeguarding...

My first thought was that something simply isn't quite right, since safeguarding is far newer than the organisation itself.

But actually I think this is just the way of things. If you have enormous punishments, then you will have commensurate reactions from management.

We've lost a large number of volunteers because we can no longer guarantee anonymity to young people. Initially we were reassured that we would only be expected to report things when identifying information was willingly given to us. This has since been revised to instructions that we are to actively seek such information.

The law itself was brought in following high profile instances of horrific abuse that went overlooked by social services. However, the scope of the law is surprisingly wide.

For instance, this would all apply to a 17-year-old who mentions that they were being bullied by peers.

I myself do feel conflicted - abuse is terrible, and it's worth tolerating other kinds of indirect harm to prevent. But it's still shocking to me that the second order consequences don't appear to get discussed at all in the public sphere. I do worry that this has been snuck in as a "Save The Puppies Act" without proper deliberation.

I'm unsure if there are other countries who have pretty much identical laws, or if it is just the UK?

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Peter_Connelly
There's no secrecy about it, the app, who has access to it and why is explained here:

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/social-care-and-health/...
Actually not trained but seems like they have made some changes in the policies and that's what has affects. It was sept 2021 but now they have put that there.
Food deserts are more about human health than people living on the margins. Easy access to healthy food doesn’t guarantee people will eat it, but it dramatically increases the odds. If the closest and most convenient place to buy food is a grocery store then it’s a moot point.
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The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
Does anyone ever look at this type of problem - Shipping, ingesting, retaining, searching gigabytes of log files - and stop and think - what if there was another way?

In other words, what if there were no log files?

Intended as a thought experiment.
F# is nice but seems like a fairly conventional functional language. My first reaction to some of the features of Koka (also MS) was I didn't know that was even possible.

https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html
Sure, and it'd be kinda neat if I could, say, use DNS records in a way to allow specific servers to post as my identity, thus, both proving that I'm me (from the me@mydomain.com sense), but also the server can post as me (maybe what I have to put in the record is me countersigning their sign-as-me key).

We don't have that yet. It'd be nice if we do someday.
What is egregious is that Equifax isn't some random company. Equifax is a credit reporting agency and is a goldmine for identity thieves.

After the Equifax breach, I just assume now if an identity thief gives a half assed effort, he can pull up the PII for any American resident. How Experian/Equifax/Transunion can honestly say they have accurate data without physically verifying driver licenses, identity cards, or passports is beyond me.
Examination of a Human Heart with 3D-Printing and Computational Technologies
Interesting. Maybe you don't want us to know who "we", are so that you become a big server, and as such bad for the ecosystem, but who are "we" exactly?

Would you also know if it's commonplace for instances to deny by default, and then use whitelisting?
You seem to conflate publishing a book with some kind of legitimacy.

And also determining that if you can’t see value in “note taking”, there is none.

The piece your analysis grossly overlooks is the ability to handle many more things at once using a pkm as second brain.

It’s unfortunate you may not have enough experience with GTD and what it has evolved into.

If you approached this post again with an open mind and heart and said you expected a lot of authors and instead people seem to manage knowledge .. why, and how are people using it for value.. it might be a conversation.

It is entirely possible to publish knowledge products at any time.

In the working world they might include meeting agendas, notes, okr reports, emails and updates to projects.

All can be both specific and esoteric knowledge but many orders of magnitude better organized than their peers.
Comcast would drop all the error logs for all the cable boxes in the country into splunk. I then queried this to figure out the error code count in a given period. It's really the only thing that can handle the volume.
So many tragedies happen daily because of human imperfections and limitations. If we develop and put a monitoring collar on the neck of every human being from the day they wre born, we could save so many of them.

How far are you willing to go?
I had a buddy with multiple felonies for selling drugs when he was younger get a job at Facebook as a SWE. He was promoted to Senior while he was there. He had no college degree, and his completion of high school was the GED.

If you can prove you can do the job, you will get the job.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) vs. Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC)
I had/have multiple Twitter IDs: one for me personally, one for a particular topic, and one for brands and even other for IoT experiments. One of the brand accounts was handed over along with other assets when company IPR was sold: it was a role account,

The first two I have replicated on Mastodon. I have stopped using all the Twitter accounts, so I have now 'slimmed down'.
Maybe that's just not a place for large-scale human settlements and we should accept that instead of wasting energy on a lost cause?
Yes, I agree. I realize this isn't feasible everywhere, but having access tied to a user account (and then auditing and limiting that access) can serve as a replacement. E.g., want to select a single row? Fine, but if they're dumping the db something is phishey.

Ironically, user accounts are in one sense more secure (than a system account with a shared password) because they can use 2fa (and there's no inherent need to distribute the password).
I guess the fundamental is that pornography is embarrassing for the adults (as in, the collective of adults). So we try to hide it?
Well put and thank you!
> host your identity on your own server

This gets the closest to having control over your online identity but, honestly, the ROI for self-hosting your own Mastodon server just isn't worth it. The requirements are too demanding for just a one-person (or a few more) instance.

Even with Pleroma/Akkoma/[other platform], you still have to jump through some hoops of complexity for someone new to the fediverse, let alone a Twitter refugee (even on the more tech-literate side).
OP is not aware that expert publishing can also be short, concise and illuminating.

Using a PKM frees up time for other pursuits.
Having used INIs already, it seemed TOML didn't really bring enough to the table to be worth switching to it. But I imagine switching from YAML to TOML might be an improvement.

Date support, and general type-awareness and nested sections also seemed like anti-features to me.
in 20 years of doing SIEM and SIEMlike solutions, I've yet to find an engagement that said 'Oh, yes...our volumes are XX and YY'...mostly it's a /shrug and a less than educated guess.

There's even reluctance to turning things on and _watching_ it for 10 minutes. An activity that would immediately give you a much better idea of volume. Folks just don't like doing it.

Then you get the things were setting up a redundant logsource is just unwise. DNS logging was 2 orders of magnitude greater than everything else a SIEM was doing. And Email was about the same size.
Biomimetic active sites on monolayered metal–organic frameworks for photosynt...
Author here. I was only staying in hotels and obviously it is a lot quicker to cool a hotel room than a whole house. However passive cooling of houses has been a thing in hot parts of the world for hundreds (thousands) of years. As far a I can tell, it isn't a thing in Florida. Why? No incentive for the builders?
Just updated the pricing details - You can get all of year's photos for $5.
Alaska airlines, hawaiian airlines, Breeze, Avelo, Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant.

There are tons of airlines. I can often have my choice of airlines to fly to a particular city, nonstop, within a given hour. Where's the lack of choice? Economy tickets range from cheap to very cheap, unless you need to fly somewhere like Guam. Renting cars and booking places to stay are both significantly more expensive pieces of traveling. As long as that's true, it's hard to justify flights getting that much cheaper... unless you're flying a family of 6+, in which cases you're part of a small market.
The single use plastic bag bans are a drop in the bucket compared to overall plastic waste generation. In my view, plastic grocery bags have become a popular point of regulation because they are notorious for accumulating in public spaces, notably parking lots, parks, and other places that city leaders are pressured to keep clean. So long as plastic items end up in waste receptacles, it’s out of sight, out of mind.
Configuration files usually are only read by one piece of code. Besides, the article is correct in that the type system from TOML is completely inadequate for fully parsing the files anyway, so it will necessarily depend on implicit agreement on the semantics from every reader.

IMO, configuration file formats should only ever have text as primitive type. Anything else should be defined in another layer. I completely agree with that part of the argument from the article.

Then the article goes to argue that the quotes are harmful... And no, if you have a whitespace sensitive language, you need a damn good representation for strings that won't allow for ambiguity to creep in. And INI is just horrible on this.
Sure, AI is great. But the real highlight is them finally bringing back taskbar ungrouping!
I don't like to be negative but every time I deal with Cisco I get a massive headache. With them, nothing is ever easy; from dealing with support to getting firmware updates or getting documentation. It's all a PITA.

What other properties have been purchased by Cisco recently? How did they fair?
Next step is Nobel Prize for Demis and John. Well-deserved.
Spot on. You can only go so far with vertical scaling. While you can't just Willy nilly shard and hope to scale, modelling is key as well as introducing and embracing eventually consistency (and read your writes) all the way across stack especially on the front end experience.
And here's a uk government report about the data sharing mechanisms for the app https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Comments prescribing example configurations resolve most of these issues. Even if the ideal config format is found and Internet debates settle the issue decisively, README.txt will still be a good practice.

There's very little which isn't permissible if we presuppose users will read the source to understand a config file or software generally.
I'm curious how well a GDPR challenge would fare. There's specific exemptions around data gathering to detect fraud and to solve crimes, but this database has a lot more detail and the lack of consent from families is concerning.
This reads like a love letter to shareholders; of which, I am not. The reason i say this? love em or hate em: Murdoch leaving the helm means fiscal uncertainty for shareholders. I wish him and everyone else well (of course i always have so this comment is as much drivel as the "news" article)
I saw a similar business, which was run by someone with a severe physical handicap. Orders with them could basically get around most purchasing card or procurement issues, and they added a percentage. Seemed like a really nice business.
There's still a few nice things about XHTML that I miss.
It's really helpful in debugging and catching mistakes. I'll actually force it on for dev and test systems just to quickly identify errors. I've caught hundreds of issues with templates that way. Sure there are markup validators, but the always on strict was nice. And still usable with XHTML5... So long as the web page is being generated by your code, the strictness is a win I think. And you can turn off strict in browsers by serving XHTML5 as HTML5 with text/html content type.

The responseXML in XHR for XHTML is really nice, and still available though mostly useless. I wish when XHTML was abandoned that a responseParsedDOM was offered to avoid some of the exploitable hacks people came up with instead.

XML transforms using XSL could do some pretty nifty tricks with static docs and no other processors but your browser.

So, yeah, don't feel it was wholly a mistake. Sure for random content or user generated isn't a good idea, and it'd be nice if there were clean ways to handle that (not iframes), but saying that your app shouldn't have a strict rendering is like saying JSON should be forgiving of misplaced braces... If you're feeding bad JSON to your modern JS driven app, well, that's your fault and there should be errors and it should be fixed. Similar for XHTML for your server side app IMO.
> Compare this with the situation of other european countries like France

What's the problem in France?
Cory Doctorow made a pretty good case that carbon offsets are a market for lemons, where good credits will inevitably be driven out of the market by bad credits. After all, it's always cheaper to do nothing than to do something (if you're not considering negative externalities, or the long term). https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/12/fairy-use-tale/#greenwash...
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Great post. I really like the idea of explicitly enumerating all state possibilities for a correctness guarantee. This seems spot on for how I want to think about distributed systems.

Am I right in assuming this solution is somewhere in between distributed tracing and Workflow definition, like event based programming, but the possible states are always strongly typed / defined?

I've also been thinking a lot about node-based programming, in a creative context. One piece I keep coming back to is that node trees are really helpful when the logic is straightforward, but can be a bit visually overwhelming for first timers when the logic is nontrivial or it generates complex artifacts as an output. Does State Backed support grouping nodes, a la Blender or Houdini? Or how do you think about information hiding for this type of thing? Looks like right now the nodes represent functions, so you don't have to think about what sendWelcomeEmail does, eg. How do you think about representing the state within that logic then?