skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always disappointed to see this kind of tech noir voted to the front page of HN. Sure, there are phonies and grift shift is a cute term, but anybody who uses the term "terminal" to refer to our economy (similar to "late-stage" capitalism) has no idea what he's talking about. They're a quack doctor offering the sole prognosis of death. The capitalism we are living is complex and adaptive, and that's why it's still running and morphing along. There's nothing terminal about it except in the mind of socialists, nihilists and people who should get outside more.

One of his main beefs is that people who don't know or care much about technology suck a lot of oxygen out of the room. Well, sure. Very little to do with capitalism and certainly not specific to tech. Loud people with dumb opinions have opined about important subject in every age. Today, they do the same about politics and finance, too.

And this has nothing to do with the abstraction of content, which he invests with too much power. This has been going on since before the printing press, and the daily grind of content has been very real for well over a century at most newspapers, I can assure new. YouTube did not create it.

His weird take on VCs is typical of people outside tech who don't understand that many investors have long careers as builders, and have contributed more to the industry than their critics. PG and Andreessen come to mind. They don't need consultants to tell them what to think.

Everyone is signaling, because we are a social species, and some things get talked into existence. So what! So-called influencers signal. Tante himself signals his virtues in this bio "De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Comm(u|o)nist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him." Which, frankly, contains terms that attract a lot of grifters, too.
I agree with this. What many people do not realize with the ease with which anyone can spin up thousands of bots that absolutely sound human nowadays, spamming has never been more difficult or less rewarding.

All Twitter would have to do is invent and maintain software that reliably detects ai-generated text with zero false positives. Done and done.

Should they do that and the spammers still seem motivated, they would have to do something outlandish like employ large amounts of humans to replace the bots, which isn’t something that has ever been feasible for spammers.

People really underestimate quite a few things, like Twitter’s ability to simply invent bot-fighting software of heretofore unseen power and complexity, the difficulty spammers have accessing dollars and other resources, and how unmotivated and prone to giving up spammers tend to be.
Feel free to open an issue if you can't get PDF import working. This is something I am interested in improving. I have tested with few PDFs and they are hit/miss based on how the data is encoded.
That whole series of blog posts is an ad for fly.io.
Haha I totally forgot about that aspect of the Internet
Jellyfish show how you don’t need a brain to learn, say researchers
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Talking about customer service, the best I've _ever_ experienced has been with Sweetwater, on online music store. I seriously rave about them to anyone that will listen. Someone should do a case study on their CS program.
Similarly, I'd stopped playing computer games as I couldn't be bothered/find the time to go and use my desktop windows PC. As soon as the Steam Deck was announced, I put my deposit down, but was a way down the queue. However, I was on holiday when I reached the front of the queue and missed the notification, but instead saw the refund three days later of my deposit! Somewhat annoyed, I paid the deposit again and joined the back of the queue, but luckily they were ramping up production and I didn't have to wait too long.

It's the sheer convenience of it that makes it a winner. You can just pause/resume it and even just play a bit of a game during a TV ad break. It's great for exploring old, unplayed games from my Steam collection.

Now, if I can just figure out how to enter a cheat code to get me past a Half-Life 2 save point (in Ravenholm) where I don't have enough health (or more likely skill) to survive.
But just as rant-y and opinionated as you might be lead to believe from the sweary title.
> Steam Input and Steam Play both work fine with games bought elsewhere, you just have to add them as non-Steam games to your library.

I've talked about this in a sibling comment more, but as far as I can tell, no they really don't. Valve does ownership checks for a nontrivial number of games before downloading workshop mods. And I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that 3rd-party games can be linked to the workshop, I am not aware of any mechanism to do that. I'd definitely be using it if it existed :)

Steam Input partially works with 3rd-party games but won't work with things like glyphs and seems to (in my experience) have very limited support for searching for existing configs.

> The most probable alternative scenario is that these features wouldn't exist at all.

I strongly disagree with this, and I think if we slip into thinking in this way, you can excuse almost any abusive behavior. It's just as plausible to say that without Epic's exclusive sponsorship a number of indie games also wouldn't exist -- and in fact many developers have outright said that Epic is the reason their games were able to be funded at all.

But I'm not going to give Epic bonus points for doing timed exclusives, it's still abusive behavior. And similarly I'm not going to give Valve bonus points for building services that are arbitrarily tied to a specific storefront. There is no reason Steam Workshop and Steam Input couldn't be debundled from Steam.

We're on here praising Valve for upstreaming code to Wine through Proton. If Wine wasn't already Open Source and Valve had built it from scratch, I don't believe they would have Open Sourced it. What I'm asking for (particularly with systems like Steam Input which could be standardized outside of Steam and which are heavily reliant on clientside APIs that run entirely locally) is for Valve to not conditionally engage with Open Source communities only when they have to or are they working with codebases that are already Open Source.

"We wouldn't build this if we weren't able to use it for lock-in" is how companies get away with a lot of consumer-abusive behavior. And I just don't buy it -- if anything, the opposite is more likely true; we might have standardized on more Open mod platforms and might have gotten true platform-agnostic controlling binding support within libraries like SDL much sooner if Steam Input didn't exist and games/gamers weren't able to just ignore the problem and stick with Steam's solution.
The very fact that companies are doing everything they can to bring people back into the office refutes your comment. Do you really think if people were as/more productive at home that companies would throw that increase in productivity away? It's so funny that half the comments on the topic are about how evil and money hungry companies are, but at the same time they're supposedly choosing to throw away free money? It's nonsensical. Just another political echo chamber social war.
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Yeah, that's fair. I personally am not a fan of The Band and the only guest of theirs I listen to is Muddy Waters (and maybe Joni Mitchell), so I guess the historicity of it is lost to me. I do know people love the whole thing though -- a friend of mine MD'd a complete tribute show in SF years ago with a bunch of great musicians -- so maybe the whole thing hits different for fans of that sort of music.
Probably just as much a wonderfully successful effort at commoditizing their complement[1] as altruism. But the fruits they gather are good, so they get my good will regardless.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
> In the early days of IPv4 many big companies did not NAT IPv4. I was at a company that did this. Our workstations all had routable public IPv4 addresses.

A lot of big universities did this and even still do this to a large degree. They got huge IPv4 allocations early and there was no scarcity.
BEEGOD is an interesting one
Does it add stdint style names for integer types, unsigned integer types etc?
You realize the effect would be to drive businesses out to foreign jurisdictions that don't have that carbon tax.
Commuting,as a neccessity, is also for the policy makers to fix imo, after they have put billions (trillions?) into road infrastructure. Channel it to public/mass transport if you are serious about decreasing carbon footprint of individuals in that aspect.
Yea that’s going to get a cancellation from our house.

No thanks.
I bet valve makes more off the hundreds of thousands of $2 transactions than the occasional $100 or $1000 transaction. I mean think about it...
> Offices are not the meccas of productivity the RTO crowd would like us to believe.

Indeed - just today I joked with my manager that being forced on-site has perks; aimlessly wandering/engaging people looks like productive work.

You can run a gambit with this; nobody expects you to be able to really prove Useful Conversations happened.
I think your analysis is sophomoric. You need both antibiotics and microchips in a large scale war.

We (the US) don't make a high volume of weapons ammunition such as artillery shells because we have a huge stockpile that is carefully managed and rotated. We make new shells, they go into storage, and the older shells come out and are used for training.
Production went from about 14k shells per month a few months ago to over 30k per month today, and will flex up production to over 100k shells per month in the next year. That is just a relatively mundane engagement of our production capacity, if military planners believed they needed 2 million shells per month we would be able to reach that level of production do that in less than a year.
Yes, and forcing business to pay people the further away they live further subsidizes the sprawl.
This is the reason I think about the Roman Empire at least once a week!
Ahhh, that makes more sense. Their wording is unclear.

Looking at it again, the "Expected Dates of Service" line says from 21st September to 15th October. So 25 days.
Android was the prime helper of LTS kernel maintenance. They're the entire reason that LTS kernels even exist!

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/jiky5j/linux_510_is_...
The amount of real engineering that must have gone into a system like this is incredible. They didn't have the benefit of being able to iterate on an existing technology -> this is real hacking.

Having worked on the streets dataset for a FAANG, I'm blown away at the ingenuity here.
Why not:

The poet is a man who feigns
Who's so good at his act
He manages to feign as pain
The pain he feels in fact.
It helps if you assume that every political action group lies about its name. Anybody who lives in DC knows instinctively that "Saving America’s Family Enterprises" is about enormous, usually publicly-traded, companies. You don't even need to know who the donors are; your guesses are usually right.

(The political groups that are actually there to represent the people doing actual work usually have dull, on-the-nose names like "Society of Paper Towel Manufacturers", or occasionally the personal name of their founder.)
I remember a time when police used to stop people who they thought did not "fit" into a particular area of town. This both affected thieves (and non-thieves) from poorer areas driving in affluent areas and it also affected people driving up-market cars into poorer areas (usually looking to score drugs or a pick up a prostitute or sometimes just visiting relatives/friends).

This is not done as much any more. I recall getting pulled over over the years and being asked by police "where are you going?". Obviously one does not have to answer, but it gave them the opportunity to smell for weed or alcohol use and also see what was in the car (possibly prohibited or hot goods in the car)
> Why compare the latency of a remote Postgres database with a local SQLite database?

The SQLite DB is just a flat file that can be packaged in a lambda or whatever cloud's object store. It makes sense for fast access to read-heavy or read-only data. Even a shitty query can return rows in less than a millisecond where a remote DB that same amount of data is tens of milliseconds away.
Postgres vs. MongoDB in 2023
The problem is that employees don't have a limited spectrum of employer choice in the modern world and a good chunk of those employers mandate a commute. If the employer is forcing the choice on employees they should be the one to pay the tax - rather than the employee.
Not only have I never heard that definition used, I don't see how that definition makes any sense in context. The older, more commonly used meaning is clearly the one being used here.
No other cloud provider has that issue. I do not believe their motives are altruistic. If they were, they would support creating something better than IPv4 and IPv6. IPv6 is a privacy nightmare, I don't plan to debate it, I was simply stating that AWS lost me as a customer and now Amazon Prime is losing us.
Humans don't use IP.

Computers do.
That's how I interpreted as well.

"Electrical transformer without any formal training in electric engineering" is basically how the title read to me. Followed by a lot of confusion when the article was not that.

Good on him, it's just... an odd way to phrase it :)
> I don't think the discussion is of value.

The "the discussion isn't valuable" tactic has always been incredibly lame.

> shockingly poor

If you had actually done any research, you would have known that this is not in fact due to any "reputation loss" from scammers; that is utter nonsense. India wasn't always poor, but after the Portuguese and British invaded it (history lesson, somehow I get the feeling you're gonna need it) that its relative wealth began to diminish. Even after independence it remained a largely socialist society until 1991. It has mostly enjoyed spectacular growth since then

> endemic corruption

Like most of your statements, you have provided no source. Interesting.

> twisted national pride

If I have a twisted national pride, at least I use sources and facts to back up any opinions I base on that pride. Your twisted racist side doesn't do that.

> hilarious PPP

Again, no elaboration on why you think the PPP is hilarious. I will have to assume that you have nothing else to add and therefore jumped on the lowest hanging fruit. I also mentioned that India is the 5th largest country based on nominal GDP. Pretty comvenient, skipping past portions of my comment without addressing them.

> Canada, a country 1/35th the size, in economic output

Canada wasn't invaded by multiple countries, who systematically oppressed its residents and suppressed their trade for their own profit, was it? Oh also did I forget to mention that the aforementioned invaders stayed in the country for 500+ years [0], ruling it for 89 of them?

Also I'm sure the UN would use GDP based on PPP in its human development index because its so hilarious, right?

> actually spelled it correctly

Red herring much? English is my fourth language, which I started learning about 5 years ago. I actually think I'm pretty good at it, but maybe I'm not. I tried to type in everything that I quoted so I must have mistyped.

Also no, I'm not bragging. A lot of Indians know a lot of languages, because of the diversity of the country. The language you speak (or at the very least, its dialect) changes every few kilometres depending on the area. I know 4 languages (2 Indian, 2 foreign) and thats not a lot for an Indian.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
> The fairphone 5 [...] still clearly misses the mark

How so? Comparing [1] and [2] shows the geekbench scores between the fairphone 5 and the pixel 7 are pretty similar.

> missing some fundamental quality of life stuff that other phones have offered, usually for years

I'd argue that statement is backwards: the non-mainstream phones have been offering quality of life stuff that the mainstream phones have abandoned years ago, namely user-expandable storage via microsd cards and user-replaceable battery.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1891321

[2] https://browser.geekbench.com/android_devices/google-pixel-7
Postgres is great at what it does, but it is extremely inefficient for storing a small amount of data, e.g. kilobytes or a few megabytes. sqlite, on the other hand, scales nicely all the way down to a few kb.

This matters for cloud in that it means with Postgres you cannot take a "lots of small databases" strategy, e.g. database per user or database per document. You pretty much have to group a lot of data into one big database.

Many apps want to do that anyway! For them, Postgres makes sense. But in the growing world of global deployments and edge compute, the lots-of-small-databases approach is getting popular because it means you can store than data out on hundreds or thousands of edge locations, rather than a single central location. And many (not all) applications actually fit pretty well into a database-per-user or database-per-document model. Centralizing their storage only hurts performance for no benefit.

As a bonus, if you are able to run sqlite compiled directly into your app, not making any kind of network connection, it can be much faster than Postgres, especially in "N+1 select" situations (which are well-known to be a problem with most SQL databases, but are not a problem when using local sqlite). Postgres does not support running as a library like this.
Option 1 is required if you want to have steps on different runners, add approval processes, etc.

I always opt for option 2 where possible though.
99$ isn't really a "bargain" in the absolute sense. I encourage you to look at eBay buy it now listings for used/refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre NUCs, for example. You can get an entire computer with 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and a Skylake+ CPU for that kind of money.
The sunk cost fallacy in full effect, except in some of the big companies that involves actual investment in real estate they want to recoup somehow.

I don't know how long it'll take, but I expect less offices built, and less office floor area being leased in the long term.
SQLite not supporting "stored procedures" is a deal-breaker for me. The idea for stored procs is not to "put the process as close to the data" but simply that we have a single place for language-agnostic encapsulation of data procedures.
Looks like the theme might be a lightly modified version of the GitHub Pages Hacker theme[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/pages-themes/hacker
Uh, you want the Internet without Internet Protocol?
Yea if they do this we’re going to cancel. Live is bad enough, but we don’t do ads in our house. Period.

Everyone should have this bias. Then we wouldn’t have this shit show.
You’re not wrong, that’s why I prefaced it saying their services are lacking. I was just pleasantly surprised that EC2 supports it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g
> No other EC2 instance, no extra charges.

Think Lambda (or equivalent) instead of EC2.
[I work at Plaid] I don't know if we explicitly write down in the docs that the free Development tier isn't guaranteed to have the same SLA as the production environment, but if you're not paying Plaid there is no SLA (I mean, the usual recourse for an SLA breach is a rebate, but you can't give a rebate to someone who isn't paying you in the first place). That said, in practice the differences between the free and paid tiers for a personal finance app are not really such that someone doing a hobbyist app for personal use would notice them.
Should You Get a Full Body Scan? [video]
The person cleaning the office being too poor to live near the office is a separate issue, solved with wealth redistribution and more high density housing.
In this video, a cardiologist from UK directly addresses the problems that full body scans cause for both individuals and healthcare systems on aggregate level.
I think this answers questions on how additional information could be detrimental to peoples health. He talks about several biases that are involved in measuring the effect of medical screening.
"Greater Police Presence [..] only ever prevents crimes [..]"

"Police do not prevent crime"

So which is it? In one sentence you say police prevent crimes of opportunity, then in the very next sentence you say police do not prevent crime.
My only issue with Tailscale was that it can't seem to stay logged in longer than something like 45 or 90 days.. making it a fun toy, but not for enterprise use.

As someone who travels a lot with machines all over the world, if a node goes offline I can ask someone to reboot a machine .. but there is no way I am giving random people credentials to my machines and network to fix issues.
EU member states still cannot agree about end-to-end encryption
To be really fair, a "wealth tax" would be a nightmare to administer.

If someone has some income they can sock some of it away to pay the IRS. If you look at the case of Twitter, for instance, how do you tax it? Is it worth $44 billion, $22 billion or is it a Superfund site that has negative value? How does the owner get the cash?

(I think of how the business model of Premier League football seems to be something like: buy a team for $300M, lose $30M a year running it for ten years, sell it to someone else for $1B, at least you can tax a $700M capital gain - $300M of operating losses.)

The manipulations that people can make with capital gains are already bad enough but when you sell something there is a real price, there will be all kinds of crazy games with a wealth tax.
I remember the days of non-NAT IPv4, though I'd forgotten until you mentioned it. I'd be OK with NAT IPv6, though the addresses are still ugly and difficult to reason about.
Adding immobilizers to Kias and Hyundais is probably easier than solving fatherlessness.
I love that Apple is doing this. Making thieves not want to steal my phone is 50x more valuable to me than having a slightly easier time repairing my phone.
AFAIK, most areas in the U.S. have wireless ISPs available.
and very centered about America (except Al Jazeera)
Since some action depend on the branch / tag you are on this is not always possible.
As I said elsewhere, I'm referring to people doing harm. They should stop making things.
Yes, I think this is the major difference. LC are specifically geared to test DS&A knowledge: trees, graphs, DP, BFS, DFS, greedy, etc. AoC are more about iterating fast to solve it however.
According to the University of Washington report, high speed rail is in competition with metro-to-metro air travel, which also involves arriving without a car. I don’t know how this particular route rates on that metric, but I do remember that it was one of the routes described in the report.

Edit: A quick web search revealed 18 flights from Miami to Orlando tomorrow. That’s presumably 36 flights including the return. 32 trains is inline with the demand, and is almost certain to be a more pleasant trip—quieter, no TSA, smoother, more space. At 30 min, it’s also more than twice as fast as flying.
That's odd! Do you have anything installed that would prevent from storing the session?

Also happy to debug further if you don't mind jumping over to discord: https://discord.gg/W6jYq46Frd
What’s a printer? Does it make cheap iPads?
Ditch That Else
Based on what can be seen behind him at 0:46 (DWIN screen) it is a significantly modified Ender 3V2 or Ender 3 S1/S1 Pro. Based the design of the gantry, I think it is the Ender 3V2.