skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I was gonna propose each HN user go door to door and began seizing peoples computers and forcefully installing ubuntu on them.. but shucks, maybe we should stick to just telling people how awful Windows is and that valid options that let them still play games exist and are free.
I worked mostly in closed source RDBMS so I do not have so much experience in those open ecosystems, my question is why MariaDB still a thing in a world with Postgres or MySQL?
Agree the disk format is much nicer with MyIsam, but don't you have a much greater chance of corruption in the case of a power failure? InnoDB has some annoying shortcomings, but in return it seems nice that you get your data consistency.
You have a point that incentives makes people mostly obsessed with speculation and money machine scams. At the same time, even if it’s clunky buying a crypto hotdog compared to a paypal checkout or a international money transfer it’s been ahead for a while.
MIT license. If the product is success and has significant devs following - they will just fork it from the commit before relicensing.
Not specifically devoted to schematics or drawings, but manuals used to include those types of resources and they’re relatively easy to find:

http://bitsavers.org/

https://archive.org/details/computermanuals

http://www.retroarchive.org/

https://vintageapple.org/
> This sort of gray area is one for a court to figure out. If it were me? "Court records and reporting on governmental proceedings, including civil and criminal proceedings, shall not be included unless a court determines there is no prevailing public interest."

Okay but the hypothetical above doesn't include any court proceedings or any other government records. It's just a video of the person doing something illegal. It doesn't even have to be limited to videos/photos, it could also be verbal accusations (eg. of sexual harassment).

>Barring that? I think erring on the side of the vastly more numerous set of decent people who may be affected by parrot farms is probably wise.

I don't get it, are there websites out there dedicated to posting false information about random people?
Firefox supported FTP until a few months ago. Not sure which version though, but it is fresh in memory: I had some such URLs in my history that couldn't be displayed anymore
Jeez - can't dial 911, randomly dials 911.

I don't understand why these devices can't even do the most core feature of a phone properly.

This will sound crass but the development teams (right up to CEO's) should be dragged out to the gallows and flogged.

If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping, and not rested for a minute until any bugs were solidly quashed - up to and including recalling all sold units and overhauling the flakey architecture if needed.

This is life safety we're talking about, not only for their users but also everyone else impacted by their blatent abuse of the emergency services system. Would we tolerate bridges that collapsed with equally ambivalent consequences for those who engineered them?
You could also do

innodb_file_per_table=ON

InnoDB supports database transactions, so you/an update/insert can use rollback,
which MyIsam and Aria tables can not do (they work like auto commit)
Uploaded PDF is fully processed inside a browser. I use Posthog analytics, so there are definitely requests to analytics sever
Most of the chains that solve this do so by making certain compromises (around security, decentralization) that Ethereum core develops are unwilling to adopt. Other chains are simply cheaper to use because there is less market pressure (ie: fewer users).
As an investor, I would very much prefer them to focus on what's profitable. I can invest my dividends/buyback cash into long-term successful renewable energy businesses, if that's what I want to be in. There's no need to have Shell make those decisions for me.

Now, if there's a synergy in there — somewhere where an oil company is uniquely positioned to implement renewables — that would be nice. I'm not sure if any such thing exists.
Why?

>50% of oil is extracted by oil states like KSA and Russia which aren't going to do that.

You're just going to become more reliant on oil states.

You need to fund realistic alternatives first (which we are doing).

Rome wasn't built in a day. But we're moving in the right direction almost as fast as possible.

It probably took 10-20 years too long to get started moving in the right direction, but we are - solidly - now.
A library is a reachable entity. Do we ask them to purge their catalog of metadata that indicates a particular source contains particular data about someone? The premise is absurd.
And did you miss all the reasons people gave why that interpretation is itself naive?

C's unchecked memory access is the problem, and modern languages have solved it while still allowing writing byte-level code. Claiming that any other language that allows reading and writing raw bytes would have the same issue simply shows you do not understand the problem or the many solutions already available.
I work on a Postgres fork in my day to day job. Something I’ve found incredibly useful is how adept gpt-4 is with the Postgres code base. So much so that I can ask questions like “show me the definition of to_char” or “explain the fields of RangeTblEntry to me”.

If you ask llama2 the same question, you’ll get something incoherent about how RangeTblEntry is a private part of Postgres’s code and that it is ethically wrong to talk about what it does.
Doxxing from a government employee should get him life. If they can do it to Trump they can do it to you and me.

And how do you know it hasn't been modified?
Why is MySQL still a thing in the world with MariaDB?
they work like auto commit

Which makes the code way simpler and performance way higher.
It’d be neat if benchlib was published as a crate. Criterion could use some competitive pressure.
Every extensible blockchain converges on shitcoin (or "defi") projects as the basis for existence.

Whatever blockchains could have been, the establishment prevented actual utility as much as possible while simultaneously scammers and no-value-marketers proliferated.
Quite understandable.
Honest question, would anyone in their right mind choose Azure? Is it that folks are forced because the company's locked in or stuck on that platform?
> what is the fossil fuel industry going to look like in 20-25 years

Probably much like it does today, just a bit bigger. At least based on world demographics and current projects under construction.
Interesting. I would like an onion potato.
Depends on your definition of "much greater chance of corruption".

I have yet to see a single instance of this happening. And I have been running a bunch of servers for decades, each serving complex web applications to hundreds of thousands of users.
There was also a piece in the nyt this morning [0].

Seems like someone was rushing for a scoop (what scoop? This is old news.) or someone’s PR firm is getting results.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/business/the-harvard-prof...
Atari 2600 sees its future in retro gaming
> The open letter, written by two employees

Number of employees 86,000 (2022)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_plc
For typing without looking at the keyboard, of course physical is better. However once you’re already looking right near the keybord like on a phone, the advantages diminish. The main thing about a screen under glass is all the other stuff you can do with it. Changing the keyboard for emojis and different languages, or just getting rid of it entirely to free up screen real estate etc.
Honest question: what is the consequence of visiting an HTTP link rather than HTTPS for a site where my interaction is read only? Is there some security issue? Or is it privacy concerns.
How often does one work with the files of a database to care?
Extremely difficult, yes, but loads and loads of complexity is not a sign they are doing a good job solving it.

Adding complexity to solve problems is mere cleverness. Removing it is intelligence. Huge reductions in complexity without loss of function — or even with gain of function — is the definition of genius.

The more complex a solution is, the less intelligence is evident in its design.

I think this is related to how data compression is central to the way intelligence works.
I'm not sure I understand what you want; you want to get crypto through a loan to buy a car, but you want to post eg. fiat as collateral?
I'm curious if anyone is using their non-CDN or security products in production? What kind of things have you been doing?
How many turds should i filter though until I suddenly find gold?
The Global Victims of FTX’s Collapse Won’t Get Their Day in Court
It’s fashionable to crap on tailwind in some css circles but nothing else has improved my CSS knowledge so quickly - it’s specifically when used with the tailwind plugin in vscode, it shows the underlying css in popups and it’s addictive to guess what the underlying css will be for a given utility class and then quickly check.

That said, flexbox froggy and the other grid garden game were fun. Also find myself regularly going for the css tricks reference page for both of these.
> The costs were moderate, not colossal.

Care to point out any concrete example? Just pick the absolute best example you can imagine. So far none was provided. There's all this talk about "cost" but apparently it's so costly that even providing a concrete example is prohibitively expensive.

> In the case of Kubernetes, I suppose those terms were chosen from the beginning so there was no cost of switching. And hence why no one complained about it.

What's there to complain? Absolutely nothing at all.
Are you trolling? Both MyIsam and Aria are not ACID compliant. May as well use /dev/null.
Knowing Apple, it's more likely to trace if the factories are selling the parts to independent repair shops without Apple's knowledge.
This is a frank discussion about "search advertising", probably from someone at google. If it was not already clear to anyone, this explains it clearly:

"... we could mostly ignore the demand side of the equation (users and queries) ..."

In other words the people who use google search and what they want to know can mostly be ignored.

Instead the focus is on "advertisers" where advertiser is a euphemism for anyone who wants to target people for any purpose. This purpose can and does include disrupting our social order, promoting extremist causes, selling products that are unfit for use or products that are prohibitively expensive.

In case you have not been paying attention, welcome to clickbaitnet.
You’re right, OS subscription isn’t a bad idea.

It’s a horrific, intrinsically anti-user idea that should be loudly and aggressively smothered every time it rears its ugly head.

There is no version of reality where OS-as-a-service does not become a n irreversible hostage situation, leaving users at the mercy of “line go up” corporate self-enrichment. We’re practically there already.

Look at the trajectory of IoT products. Even if you pay extra for a product that is sold as no-subscription - like the PHILIPS Hue line for example - one day you will inevitably discover the hardware that you already paid for is being held hostage until you accept the new Terms of Service and pay a subscription fee.

This isn’t hyperbole - it has already happened dozens, even hundreds of times.

OS-aaS is a cute idea for a world where the free market is working correctly, bolstered by strong consumer protections and effective enforcement of regulations.

There must be a line.
1. I didnt mention Tesla.

2. I didn't mention batteries. Cobalt is used in many components in EVs

3. Clearly my example was illustrative, generally, of the exploitation of children for mineral resources the country didn't use. The children in Congo is child exploitation writ large.

The kids in Congo are mining something for some application and for someone and that someone is us.

> Russia vs Ukraine

I think you misread my comment. I did not pass judgement at all on the war (on this comment at least). I was just pointing out that whether you take Kiev's numbers as true (450 000 dead Russians + 50 000 dead Ukrainians) or Moscow's (450 000 dead Ukrainians + 50 000 dead Russians) the number of dead is curiously the same.

Half a million dead souls in Donbas, no matter their nationality is a tragedy being comprehension.
Oracle happened a year after Sun acquired MySQL and the original developers were a little bit unhappy about the license model change.
Work. – Historia Civilis [video]
> So you're "only" talking about censoring/destroying conversation, phone calls, letters, messages, newspapers, paintings and such?

"Destroying a person's data" and "destroying Google's copies of that data" are two different things.

It's quite possible that Aunt Sally could keep her conversations, poems, paintings, macaroni pictures, or what have you, without allowing Google to index those things or make its own copies.
I love all of the openness of the AI technology and the whole Geist of Open Source and open debate. Said that one downside of this is that as a whole AI has a quite low barrier of entrance that you can have tons of grifters capturing (or trying to) the whole discussion.

Maybe I am overreacting but when I worked in way more critical industries if someone with no credentials or track record came up and say that is a “Financial Safety” to people in Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank or Ing people on those places would call those charlatans out in less than 10 seconds.
Indeed, I had two double check the authors before finally quickly browsing over it in disappointment
VSCode vs. Vim [video]
I used to have a Pixel 2 XL and then later a Pixel 5a. Went through them really fast as the hardware was pretty bad and the phone would just decide to stop turning on at some point. Same thing happened to a relative I gave a Pixel 5a. Phone didn't last a year.

Don't get me started on the Pixel buds. I got tired of contacting customer support for replacements.

That's when I decided not to buy hardware from Google again, and also stopped using Android. Experience in iPhone has been great so far. Phone's fast despite being several generations behind, don't have to worry about not getting security updates.
After I retired my last smartphone, a Nokia something, the same thing happened. I used it purely as a mp3 player when walking the woods and it would randomly call the emergency line (not 911 in my country)

I barely could cancel the call before it went through as of course I was walking and had headphones in.

I figured it had something to do with a button... it got more annoying over time so what I did to fix it was: change the emergency number to my girlfriend`s
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Interestingly (though maybe this page is old), AWS seems to feel pretty strongly that MariaDB is the better choice.

https://aws.amazon.com/compare/the-difference-between-mariad...

Or maybe that's just how I read paragraphs like this:

> MariaDB is more scalable and offers a higher query speed when compared to MySQL. This makes it good for managing large-sized data. You will also find more features in MariaDB that MySQL doesn’t have, like sequence storage engines and virtual columns. You can also use multiple engines in one table.

> However, MySQL has been around for much longer than MariaDB. Some organizations prefer the enterprise support that MySQL offers.
It’s not just security updates though is it? It automatically pushes unwanted feature updates.

I had a powerful windows development system running windows 11 pro. I would RDP to this system to work, a while back it wouldn’t connect. The machine was online but I could not RDP into it. I physically went to the machine and connected a monitor to see what was going on. I was presented with a screen urging me to create a Microsoft account to log in locally with. This is what prevented me from getting work done. An advert for a Microsoft account.

That was the last straw for me, I replaced windows on that machine the same day.
A great sequel to the lesser known "Tables Tarantula" of 1999.
My mistake. I cant edit it anymore so let me write it here.

I don't think we're living in a more peaceful era at all
https://web.archive.org/web/20230930132321/https://www.justi...
Who’s in charge of pens to make sure nothing harmful is written?
How bad do you want the gold?
API parity with your competitor is hardly a viable, long-term strategy.
The entire AI safety culture inside the corps is driven by abject terror of our modern cancel culture. I can't say I blame them. There is already talk of regulating AI by Congress. The premise is that we can't be trusted with this information but the AI is really just regurgitating information that's already a few google searches away.

This article is a perfect example. I picture a journalist getting giddy when they are trying out Mistral's AI and realizing there are no "safety" controls. It gives them the perfect opportunity to write an alarmist masterpiece on the evils of AI.

They then go find people on the fringes who are "outraged" and make it sound like the entire world is up in arms about AI being unsafe.
Users decide what the purpose of a blockchain is, simply because the blockchains that gain the most market share are chosen by users. Users follow developers that provide quality services, and developers pick the chain that meets their application needs closest.

Of course it’s great when people experiment on their own hobbies, I’m guilty of that pleasure myself all too often! Just please don’t use it as an excuse to attack people doing something different from you, as we see the btc and eth communities doing sadly too often.
I too, am a sucker for a good technisized metaphor or analogy, and do not wish for any technical language to vanish or stall.

However, when scifi-esque terms flow over into the real world and affect the livelihoods of real people, jargon only benefits the few who have the luxury to dabble in its lexicon. Why not make it as accessible by default?
Parasocial technology fetishism. Gross.
There isn't one Linux model for installing software. There's your package manager, sure, and I'd agree not everything can (or needs to be) in there.

We have flatpaks and snaps. We also have AppImages. The last one feels the most like the experience I had in my Windows days just downloading software from random websites, except it's still better than Windows, because it doesn't leave random garbage all over my system and require a potentially buggy uninstaller to remove.

Ten years ago I wouldn't have advised most people to run Linux on their desktop. Windows has gotten worse since then and Linux has gotten better. If we assume your hardware is 100% supported (basically you're using a desktop PC or a laptop model with explicit support), and you don't need any Windows-only apps... I don't see why Linux wouldn't be the better choice.
Looking into source code of a program is offensive and AI abuse!

Do you usually look into insides of your human friends?

/s
All cell phones with 911 functionality should have a way to periodically test that the 911 feature is fully functional. The reality is that I rarely even make a phone call anymore... but I don't even know whether being able to make a call implies 911 works? And I don't know if its still true but there used to be pretty significant fines for calling 911 so I'm not just going to dial 911 and say "making sure this still works!" The phone should just be doing various deadman switch type tests on the network/911 health-checks and report to me whether it is working or not working. It has a freaking GPS and can identify cell towers, so it should be pretty trivial to maintain test data and schedule. Relying on life-critical devices that can't be tested seems really sketchy.
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> Is it that folks are forced because the company's locked in or stuck on that platform?

Bingo.
IME Microsoft offers so many free credits to businesses they wish to entice to their platform it becomes impossible to ignore.

The CFO wants free shit. The CTO … also wants free shit.

Every one else is left dealing with Azure.
> I don't get it, are there websites out there dedicated to posting false information about random people?

Yes. And also prurient and invasive things that may be true (which is why we have laws against things like revenge porn, which Google also removes from its SERPs in some jurisdictions.
I can give you one reason: Amazon is also a competitor to many online retailers. Putting your business in the lap of a competitor is not something you do lightly.
If this is how so called consultants use AI… they should be very concerned.
A moderately skilled intern with GPT Enterprise connected to data will make them quickly obsolete. Maybe they have some potential building their own fine tuned model but surely they will screw that up
You can tax imports FYI
Can you explain this in more detail? That’s not my admittedly limited understanding of the consensus mechanism BSC uses.
Expecting these companies to 'do the right thing' is very confusing to me. They've know about this for decades and not chosen to do the right thing.

Dealing with fossil fuels isnt actually that hard, if our society was able to muster any political will. Since we still need fossil fuels in the short term, ideally very short, these companies should be immediately and thoroughly nationalized, then the government can manage their decline. Companies arent going to intentionally manage their own decline, and there isnt really reason to believe theyre in the best position to pivot, which is clearly the Shell CEOs sentiment as well
This. Please do not do this on a production DB for reasons like "I like the file layout more" without knowing what you're losing. Write performance on MyISAM is often worse than using SQLite, for instance.
Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories
I have a Samsung Note10+ and I also have to try often 2 times to make a call. The first time there is mostly no Sound.
Excuse me sir, would you have a moment to discuss about our lord and savior, Richard Stallman?
Because they did an analysis of what was offered and what it cost and determined it was the best fit. Coupled with the fact that it’s run by the company with the best reputation in tech for backwards compatibility and you have a pretty compelling case.

Also AAD.
You don't know how to change the main branch name in git? You shouldn't be in charge of hiring anyone.
The people paying for the horse manure aren't the people who have to wade into the horse manure every day...
In case anyone hasn’t read it, the Datacolada article demonstrating Ariely committed fraud is a great read and extremely convincing.

https://datacolada.org/98
Who is going to threaten them in the energy sector? Their main competitors are other fossil fuel giants with a similar strategy.
Ask HN: Why does HN adore Postgres so much?
Postgres is very capable and its support for SQL is very complete, but it’s also clunky and hard to manage beyond the simplest use cases. Setting it up in HA configurations is intimidating to the point that even experienced admins fear doing it for serious use cases and rely on managed Postgres at cloud providers instead.

Pg really feels like 1980s or 1990s “hand cranked” Unix software.

MySQL/MariaDB and especially CockroachDB and TiDB are alternatives that are massively more approachable especially in HA setups. Then there are NoSQL databases, graph databases, etc.

What is it that makes something as arcane and clunky as Postgres such a darling?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-exec-said... has more discussion of the context.

> probably from someone at google.

Specifically, it's "meeting notes that Google’s vice president for finance, Michael Roszak, created for a course on communications."
What's wrong with them? If you happen to have some sort of microsoft dependency, they are a good choice for you. Not perfect, as any other cloud provider, but a good choice nonetheless.