skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know why people would communicate in public spaces if they don't want to interact with the public. Isn't that the entire point?

I broadly agree with you, but, a minor counterpoint: Depending on the social network in question, setting the privacy of a reply-chain is either tricky or impossible (RIP Google+, too good for this world...). If Person A posts something intended-as-public and Person B wants to respond to it, it is unreasonable to expect the average-Joe Internet-user to start up an appropriately-privacy-scoped discussion thread for it. The "in public" aspect of their discussion might not be by choice, or may not even be something that is in their mind at the time they make the reply. "They should just learn to use the tool better" is not a helpful observation - a tool that is routinely misused is, by definition, a bad tool.
I've been seeing a few different vendors do this already. MongoDB's ObjectIds are inherently timestamps (so you can actually generate generic MongoDB IDs to query based on time). There's also Discord's Snowflakes as well. I'm sure there's loads of others. All it tells you is when something was generated, not much else. I do love how MongoDB has it stored in such a way that it is easy to query against. I wonder if any RDBMS' will allow you to query these timestamps as well.
americans do want to live in such places. the most valuable real estate in the country is filled with exactly that kind of construction
How did that user get to such a website in the first place? Through a link in an email message? The ability to receive such messages from random people should be locked down, if a user or their IT security guardian has so chosen. Through a website? Maybe that user or their IT security trustee would prefer for their browser to be locked down so they can only access a website from a whitelist that's been customized for them. Maybe they can still access their local hair salon's website, but not the site linked to fake warning page that shows up on that site.

Not every user needs to be able to go to any corner of the web on a whim. Maybe my elderly future self needs to have less freedom of inquiry, as much as it pains to think of that likely future.
If there was a reason it would be directly linked to immediate intuitive operator response to turbulent winds near rock faces.

I'm not sure how well a distant operator can handle a remote drone in poor conditions close in to cliffs and trees.

It's a challenge for experienced pilots who are right there.
Ah we will have to agree to disagree here :)
Can you take the first portion of the UUIDv7 string, and decode it to figure out the exact date and time that record was created? I'm wondering if there might be security/privacy concerns in some situations if the UUID codes are visible in your app?
What are the benefits of using the Postgres uuid type (versus using TEXT or VARCHAR)?
Its not open enough. If it was open enough I could feed it any signal I want into the audio interface, including from any bluetooth device to MUX them how I want.
This statement assumes a special spark or special magic. Stop assuming that, and what remains of the problem?
> That's an interesting take that seems so obvious now that you've said it. I've spent my whole life in single family homes and never quite "got" the "go work in a cafe" and similar stuff. Seems like a pretty rich tapestry of possible experiences to miss out on. Huh. Will be chewing on that for a while.

The only way to find out if it's worth your while is to try it. I tried it, and it wasn't for me.
If this is for the project I think it is, my understanding was that you all didn't strictly require matching decomp for what you were doing. But I could be wrong about that. I was a bit unclear in my message above in that I really meant matching decompilation in and of itself isn't a career.

Your example is a cool case though. Maybe someday for me :)
Yup this is one of the reasons I put together a light extension for this:

https://github.com/VADOSWARE/pg_idkit

There are a lot of options for UUID extensions (lots of great pure SQL ones!), but I wanted to get as many ID generation strategies in one place

Also note that native UUID v7 is slated to land in pg17:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/44/4388/
> I personally think anxiety and unspoken stress regarding climate collapse and other forms of society degradation we're experiencing and seeing accelerate are responsible for a good deal of this.

That's a fair point.
Yes but if that machine with sequential data receives 100x the traffic of other machines, it can be worse than splitting this traffic evenly across all available machines.
Another option is to build your own. You could buy a small ARM board like a NanoPi R6S (<$100) with 2.5GbE ports and run pfSense on it.
Depends on the use case. If, for example, you store things on disk ordered by these IDs, and access patterns to your dataset are related to time (e.g. more recently created data is accessed more frequently), it will help a lot to have this data ordered by time.

This is especially useful when your underlying database stores data in large "chunks", such as LSM-trees you find with e.g. rocksdb.
wait! did this just this violate Betteridge's Law of Headlines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
This is one of the many externalities associated with private car centred infrastructure that EVs will not solve. In fact, the added weight of EVs make the tire and brake emission problem much worse.
You min/max for engagement, but get a local max with negativity, so you increase your variability to find another peak
12 "blades" (individual computers) to a chassis that has 2 PSUs to power 6 at a time.
Not everyone has a B.S. detector and even sophisticated users can be vulnerable to sophisticated scams. Education can be helpful, but I'd prefer to rely primarily on structural solutions that could even protect the woefully uneducated.
I think for the pre-vaccine period, there's at least a couple issues that are still very unclear:

- how well did official policies map to actual behavior? I expect a lot of people still masked and distanced, regardless of what their particular state's policies were

- what specific behaviors actually made a difference? (Well, maybe it's really just a question of how much difference masking made -- I'd expect it's pretty clear that avoiding other people was pretty effective)

So for me, a more interesting and, I'd argue, practical question, is really about how effective _policy_ is. There were definitely a lot of costs, as it helped politicize things (who would have guess masks would become a partisan issue?).

I think of the case of Sweden, for example, where IIUC behavior was pretty cautious although policy was pretty loose.
Because that is basically what you have to do if you want a truly rich editor that works and looks consistently across browsers and operating systems.

Maybe today you could get something to work using a combination of contenteditable and canvas, with code to handle the inconsistencies between browsers. But I know that at least a few years ago, rendering to a canvas was a necessity for rich web apps like this. Google docs at least used to be canvas based as well. I'm not sure if that is still the case.
The link goes to the press release. The actual advisory (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...), linked from the press release, contains quite a bit more detail. They detail how they have observed Cisco routers being backdoored but don't limit the issue to that manufacturer.
What supports the argument that people overwhelmingly prefer using cars over other transportation methods?

There was some study done in past decade that found that in the US only about 60% of 18 year olds had drivers licenses. Is that because of preference, or other factors?

Real estate located where it is possible to live without owning a car tends to be priced much higher than comparable real estate located where it is inconvenient to not own a car. Is this because people's preferences, a significant under supply relative to only a portion of the market's of demand, or other reasons?
I've been receiving sales calls lately from companies offering services in my industry. Very annoying ones as well, the kind where they will call multiple times even if I tell them I am not interested. The only source I can think of that they got my number from is LinkedIn. This prompted me to check if I have it publicly available but turns out I didn't. Being unable to confirm the source from the sales people themselves unfortunately means I cannot take any action to protect my data privacy. Therefore I would advice against giving your personal phone number to LinkedIn.
It's 16 bytes versus 36 bytes.
911 might get them home but it can be a traumatizing experience
As someone who has had both a physical death experience (flatlined, no heartbeat for several minutes) and psychedelic-induced death experiences, my experiences of the two were quite different.

Physical death for me involved no "white lights" or life-flashes. It was just pure, black nothing. Like a dreamless sleep -- you go to bed, and then next thing you know you're waking up. Everything in between was a blank, black nothing, with no sense of time.

Psychedelic death experiences were a thousand times more intense and I still retained some element of base level consciousness.
It sure isn't going to help with all the other things we are doing in parallel.

Soil exhaustion, poisoning, and erosion; groundwater depletion and poisoning; deforestation; wild ecosystem destruction and food web destabilization; coastal sea surface and seabed destruction; river and lake poisoning; acid rain; carting invasive species around the world willy-nilly; anoxic ocean zones; hunting fish species to extinction; the ruinous effects of mineral and sand mining... all in parallel with the effects of extra carbon in the atmosphere.

Just to put things in context.
Given the current state of phone network security, "You can trust I'm a real doctor because your phone rang when I called you" doesn't seem like a good solution.
FYI: Requires Google sign in.
Solid state microwave ovens (that avoid standing waves/dead zones) do exist, they are just very expensive.

Dumping kWs of ultrasound into food would be a bit tricky.
A bunch of geniuses have wanted to replace email, but somehow that never seems to happen. Making email more secure may be very difficult, but still seems much easier than replacing it.
To be fair, COVID's death rate has such a strong association with (very) old age, that not accounting for it is quite questionable. In the article, Nate mentioned himself that Mormon population is 100x higher in Utah and that's a significant effect. The COVID death rate of over 85 years old is more than 100x higher than the very young.

I'm not questioning the results, just that accounting for age when analyzing COVID is definitely a reasonable question to ask for any conclusion.
99.999...% of us don't work or seriously touch in AI in any way. At best you make an API call to something that might do some AI, but at that point its just another service.

So for the vast majority of people doing dev work, boring choices are correct. I've had a lot of junior devs come to me with proposals for microservice architectures that can autoscale, be orchestrated, have 0 downtime with red/blue deployments, etc, etc, when at the end of the day it could be done with a boring, single server (plus second for resiliency, but not needed for scaling) with just a few endpoints. It will be done much faster & simpler, which means it will be cheaper and less likely to fail.

My guess is that the same is true in a lot of AI work. Yes there is core stuff that needs to be performant, scalable, and modern, but I'm sure there is also a ton of boring old regular internal corporate infra that can be done 'boring'.
That sounds more like correlation than causation. Places with decent public transit are almost without exception very dense. Of course you wouldn't want to drive there. But if you live somewhere not as cramped, the experience is quite different.
That's a nice business you got there. Shame if something were to happen to it...
Also, this isn’t really anything conceptually new or nefarious as it’s made to sound.

Canada has long had a requirement that a certain amount of content is “Canadian”. I have no doubt that without it we wouldn’t have any homegrown content—everything we consumed would be imported from the US.

The CRTC’s mandate, by statute, is to administer and enforce this. As we’ve seen a shift away from traditional radio and cable TV, they need to change their approach to fulfill the mandate they’ve been given.

This isn’t the government suddenly deciding they want the address of every podcaster so they know where to send the gestapo when they say something politically inconvenient—this is a government agency responding to the changing landscape and applying the same regulations to new media broadcasters as they have been to traditional media.
I'm simply not interested in person's later claims, the post does not contain any conditionals. That is exactly what I argue, let me repeat if it wasn't clear enough: if somebody "sees" them where they aren't it's due to their assumptions existing independently of what is actually written in the post.
I started to get into music synthesizers and actually got all the parts to create the Atari Punk Console [0]. An analog synth is super fascinating to me and being able to get all the parts needed to make a basic analog synth for under $20 was too enticing to pass up.

[0] https://sdiy.info/wiki/Atari_Punk_Console
Scratch is amazing. https://scratch.mit.edu/

And a slightly different direction than what you describe. Nowadays a complete "basic environment" on a computer (say a Raspberry Pi, sure why not, but perhaps simply a used laptop) feels too complicated. Far more complicated than DOS was.

Scratch is actually both interesting for kids and a seriously competent programming environment. They can explore; they can implement basic games; they can implement ambitious games or other directions like story telling. And possibly (but not all that easily) open for cooperation, cooperating on larger projects with others.
One if by land, two if by sea.

Either way, let's wait for the video, I don't believe Paul that the Brits are here.
It feels like the significance of this is lost on many people.

My understanding is that complex things like statues were not supposed to be possible 12,000 years ago. I think it’s supposed to be more like 6000 years ago. The fact that it has been carbon dated to 12,000 tears should means that we have to rewrite the theories on the start of human civilization.

These statues needed to be carved out of tools and the educational techniques for carving it off stone and the social structure to support art were not supposed to exist at this time. This is pretty huge in terms of figuring out the birth of human civilization.

And the fact that the same site also has these huge stone megaliths that also weren’t supposed to be possible and were also dated to 12,000 years so just solidified the idea that our current theories are completely wrong.
Recent and related:

Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701803 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

also:

Show HN: Bruno – open-source API Client (alternative to postman)) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33241941 - Oct 2022 (6 comments)
The companies doling out thousands for workers' holidays
As someone that lives in Perth, our experience as a while through COVID was actually a net positive. Not to take away from anyone who lost loved ones, but Perth basically gained the benefits of COVID (WFH shift, better health funding, better remote technologies) and very few of the negatives.

It is an extremely rare situation though, and would not have been possible if it were not the most isolated capital city in the world.
You can Google around and find lots of (these things of course will always be subjective) comparisons where people claim they can hear a difference.

I think my point is that for people who have a hi end setup and are used to listening to music -- don't come under the classification of "most people".

I agree with you for that for the average listener with $200 headphones or a club DJ, MP3-320k is fine.
Captchas - esp pure audio or visual captchas are so easy to break with the latest image models.

I understand Google doing crazy mouse and activity tracking throughout the internet to determine whether you are a human or not.

But I chuckle at the image captchas asking you to do some math. That’s pretty weak nowadays.

I’m kinda surprised how dum most voice call spam telling me the IRS has an audit and I need to pay by credit card.

There should be a fun challenge for who can build the most scammy, deceptive and most human like call marketing AI. The AI that makes the most money selling a literal brick.
Google’s Bard conversations turn up in search results
The Turris Omnia is pretty great. Open source.

https://www.turris.com/en/products/omnia/
It seems to be a central Europe issue from my anecdotal experience.
I think the whole point is that you only have a limited “cutting edge budget” so if you are somewhat forced to spend that budget on cutting edge ML models then don’t overload your team _also_ using cutting edge languages or infrastructure or databases.

So save your budget for what will really make your product unique instead of “wasting” it on things that in the end won’t give you a real competitive advantage.
check out the Clockwork uConsole - fun piece of hardware to mess with.

https://www.clockworkpi.com/
It’s 2023. Why aren’t we using more characters from the utf-8 keyspace to make things like UUIDs use less characters?
There are definitely many cases where it isn't an issue since you were going to tell the user the time anyway (like sent time on a message)
PM10 is a misleading and unhelpful metric.

PM10 is basically woodburning stoves. PM2.5 is much more hazardous to your health, and produced by industrial processes to a greater degree. Using PM10 is just artificially tipping the scale to make less-industrialized locations look worse.
The only good reason to buy gold is to make an extremely expensive set of dumbbells.
>Our private beds have 40% more room than typical bunk beds, and come with individual lights, privacy curtains, temperature-controlled fans, and other essentials

It does not even come with a door? Or a lock? So it is just communal living with novel bunk beds? Why is there no drawer to stick a laptop/phone/charger/backpack?
From the screenshot it seems moot really did call trips on that post too.
I think an air fryer or toaster oven solves 80% of your problem using off the shelf tools.
We had WYSE dumb-terminals with orange plasma displays in my high school, with an empty slot to upgrade them to smart terminals. The keyboards were very reliable. They saw a lot of use for "WordPerfect 1.0 for UNIX".

The most unfortunate thing was that if you didn't stagger logins, the poor little minicomputer they talked to would slow to a crawl. Try getting 40 people to sign in at once, and the mini would became unresponsive for all or most of a 45 minute class period. But groups of five, and you could get ~50 people signed-in in few minutes.
you mean buy it from China? Guangzhou,GuangDong China. That's great advice.
I haven't seen much art from that era either and was pretty surprised to see the statue. However looking into it, I'm even more surprised to learn of the Venus of Brassempouy.

I've heard that much of the ruins from Ancient Greeze were likely brightly colored and painted. I can't help but wonder if the Venus I mentioned had been painted as well. It's possible that they did have detailed faces, and that they simply weren't sculpted.

I'm the furthest thing from an expert of course.
Academic application processes are often informal, because nobody wants to deal with university bureaucracy unless they absolutely have to. Even when there is a formal process, the standard practice is usually contacting the people first, to see if there is any point in subjecting yourself to the process.

Application fees can be substantial barriers to some people. The academia is international, and international payments are often difficult outside the trivial cases. For example, there are plenty of Iranian grad students around the world, but sanctions make many things difficult for them.
> Thought experiment, grab a random USB C cable, now tell me

Oh, easy. Apple already solved this one; if it has the Thunderbolt logo, it's maxed out. If it's anything else, you're usually getting at least 5w charging and USB 2.0 speeds. In other words, the worst-case scenario is usually slightly better than Lightning.
Something else is being done, there are sanctions, there is ostracizing, there is building awareness, exposing misinfo, etc. Effectiveness of those stopping russian murder is fairly low however.

Ask yourself what would you do if a brute would show up under your home window and start shouting: “you are a nazi, some babtism happened in this neighborhood centuries ago, therefore I demand your home belongs to me”.

Then breaks down your front door, occupies your kitchen, kills one of your kids, rapes another, flings stones against your windows every night, cuts your electricity regularly, tries to set the house on fire etc.

Would you fight?

Would you ask for help?

Or would you appreciate a neighbor few streets down telling you ‘all this commotion is ruining my vibe, give your home to the bully and accept them as your new head of family’? Maybe they will not kill you, also maybe they will not starve you in another holodomor?

If you have any viable ideas of bringing peace, let’s hear them.

If they involve denying agency to the people of Ukraine, telling them that from now on you must live under russian tyranny then this is not a viable solution for ending killing nor bringing lasting peace.
Or better yet OPNSense.
Why do you assume LinkedIn is correct? I've seen multiple social networks pull the scam where they claim you've violated their ToS only to demand your phone number and other personal information for "verification", and then after they've slurped your data, they don't seem to care about the so-called "violations" anymore.
Not only training. Inference as well.
More like saying “how can we draw a 1mm dot with a pencil bigger than 1mm”.

Though not a perfect analogy as you can do stuff with interference patterns to get sub-single wavelength resolution IIUC, I think this is used in silicon wafer photolithography.
Build a PC, install Linux on it, then figure out how to play Windows games on it with Wine (or Lutris). Show them what total ownership of their computer really feels like (or at least as close to that as possible while playing 3rd party games). I think that feeling of ownership of your computing environment is the real analog between what you describe back in the 80s and today's equivalent.

Good place to start: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/
Show HN: Interactive Online Climate Model
Hey HN,

A little while ago, I made an interactive online climate model. It takes into account greenhouse gases, axial tilt, albedo, and some other physics factors. I thought it was interesting how a relatively simple model is able to roughly reproduce the temperature variations that we see across latitudes and times of year, as well as the effect greenhouse gases could have on our planet.

I thought this might be fun to share. Enjoy!
So brass tacks, these articles have been circulating for the last year or so. Microsoft literally put out a study showing the 4-day workweek led to an increase in employee productivity. They aren’t going to just give us a 4-day workweek. The articles have become an echo chamber of non-change.

The trend is going the OPPOSITE direction- corporate overlords want us all back in the office where they can see us.

Change won’t happen through writing and sharing these articles… we already all know 4-day workweek is a no-brainer. Strike. Resign. Unionize.