skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have supported a microservices environment where each service had its own database, and indeed "foreign keys" were mostly application-level concerns. A real pain, and I don't think any of us would have chosen that approach in hindsight.

I hope there are better ways to design microservices.
Xerox C315?
C of course generally does not require as many of these tricks, which is why people reach for it first.
Yes, it wouldn't allow more users, which would've been fine back then. They'd focus on getting everyone onto the v6 protocol first, then open up the new addresses for use. That's the transition period that never happened.
from the article:

The most common pitfall I see on the bivocational path is when work consumes so much of your time and attention that you don’t have the energy to pursue art in your spare time.

One common pitfall of the integration approach is what I call the “bakery trap.” It goes like this: someone likes to bake pies, so they decide to open a bakery. A year in, they realize that they’re spending all their time bookkeeping, managing staff, and trying to market the business—and don’t get to spend any time actually baking.

these are really very similar.

especially with your followup example of travelling for work and never making it to the beach.

because that is actually choosing your work so that it aligns with your hobby, and not making your hobby into your job.

that is fine, it's just different from directly integrating your interest with your work.

i once worked as a developer evangelist. i got to travel and give talks. i never made it to any beach either, but that didn't matter because going to conferences and hanging out with tech folks was the very thing i enjoyed doing, and here i got paid for it. perfect job.

so for integrating, you really have to make sure that the thing you enjoy doing is the very thing that pays you. or realize that while you managed to align your interest with your work you didn't integrate them and you still are on the bivocational path.

EDIT TO ADD:

and the key for the bivocational path is to set proper priorities.

i never let work get in the way with spending time with family, meet with friends or other activities that i'd do after work. don't work over time. don't allow work to become more important than your other activities. if they do, fight back or switch jobs.

and if anyone questions your priorities, straight out tell them that your family is your priority. (while you are single, this means building a family and finding a partner, which requires time to spend with your friends and on your hobbies)

unless you intent to never get married. then you may need a different excuse.

related discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37760706
And for California, don't forget "Exhibition of speed" which is a rather nasty ticket to end up with.
Completely agree. Now if they would just add a meta key to the bottom row of the keyboard I'd be a happy user. Ctrl and Alt are not enough. And seriously, they are comically large on every chromebook I've owned. Give me a meta key in all that wasted space.
Scaling Large (Language) Models with PyTorch Lightning – Lightning AI
> how to achieve practically unlimited throughput like S3 does

> like what kind of hardware would be optimal for S3's workload

> how to support strong consistency like S3 does without impacting system performance

I think most of these questions are first and most importantly _hardware_, _money_ and _physics_ questions.

I have no expertise in this matter, but I think this would be a good proxy answer: you make a system _seem_ to have unlimited throughput by interconnecting _a lot_ of the fastest available storage solutions with the fastest available network cards, putting it as close as possible to where your users are going to be. All of this is extremely expensive so you would need to have deep pockets, as amazon has, to make it possible (or a lot of investment).

I suspect with the right hardware and physical deployment locations you could fine tune Ceph or MinIO or whatnot to similar performance as S3. S3 is an object storage so the distributed system aspects of its implementation should definitely be a lot easier than, say, distributed SQL (not saying either is an "easy" thing to accomplish).

If you are interested in which hardware to use for a SAN, I found these benchmarks that may be exactly what you are looking for :-) [1]

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1: https://www.spec.org/storage2020/results/
This is WAY too early to tell. They were decriminalized less than two years ago! That's less time than most of the convictions in question would have taken!

In comparison, it took nearly 20 years for the opioid crisis to develop!

> While overdoses didn’t go up in those states because of decriminalization, they still went up. Oregon’s went from 18.7 per 100,000 people to 26.8 per 100,000 people while Washington went from 22 per 100,000 people to 28.1 per 100,000 people in 2020 and 2021, respectively. But the study compared the states’ increases with a control group made up of data from similar states that didn’t decriminalize drugs and found that the differences weren’t statistically significant.

This also isn't the most confidence inspiring data. "ODs are way up, but they are way up everywhere". Keep in mind that the sort of possession that has been decriminalized may often be de facto decriminalized in many parts of the country - the vast majority of drug users need not worry about prosecution.

But again, I wouldn't expect to see significant changes for a decade or more. The legal system is pretty slow. If people are going to start changing their behavior in response to changes in the law, you would have to follow a few generations of addiction and recovery programs to start to see people actually respond to them.
Google should invest in ChromeOS as a serious PC/Laptop OS. It is ridiculous that Google made the choice to make ChromeOS the "cheap" OS.
Right now? Short term t bill holders. They rollover so fast that interest rate hikes don’t affect the principle, since you just wait for them to expire then immediately grab the new higher interest rate.

Tether (issues usdt) is winning big right now because they mostly hold short term t bills.
Behind U2's Residency at Sphere Las Vegas [video]
Hey @presson,

I signed up as dev to get my webapp listed. I stumbled upon your priced plans, and was wondering what a 'direct download link' is and why I would pay $10/month for it.
gijames1225 said:

I'm a little curious as to why this is even an article. It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people.

I get that it's low hanging fruit from a reporting / research perspective (sort of like the 'Twitter users blah blah blah' articles), but outside of the 'publish or die' mindset of churning out content this is pointless and continues to make 4-chan and these people seem much more relevant than they are.
USA:

Polling shows that US voters favor climate bills – yet assume fellow Americans don’t

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/01/us-vot...

UK:

> The UK has some of the highest levels of concern regarding the climate emergency in the world with 81 per cent of people ‘believing’ in the climate emergency, with over three-quarters (77 per cent) saying we must do ‘everything necessary, urgently as a response’.

https://www.ippr.org/blog/as-some-politicians-seek-to-divide...
> Chrome, Edge

Gratuitous data harvesting, and Edge in particular has gotten really spammy with Microsoft promos.

> Firefox

Very slow/power hungry for me, especially with extensions which I need for dark mode, adblocking and such.

> DuckDuckGo

Probably good?
IIRC someone put a turbocharged 7L smallblock V8 in the back of a Lotus Exige, though they had to lengthen the chassis to make it fit.
If you don't need iOS, WebUSB should do the trick.
ChromeOS is my x-window. Debian is my terminal. Google has done a nice job of integrating the two. The only real constraint is the hardware.

Disclaimer: I was a pre-release beta tester for ChromeOS.
>they hold the record for software updates on smartphones - 10 years for the iPhone 5s

This is such a disingenuous comment. Claiming that it got 10 years of updates because it received a recent security update is not telling the complete story. It's a phone stuck on iOS 12 and Apple chose to release a recent security fix.

The Pixel 8 is going to receive 7 years of OS Updates, 84 months of monthly security updates and quarterly feature drops. This blows the iPhone away.
Rebuilt Microsoft Teams app promises twice the speed and half the RAM usage
When someone buys a house don't they look at all the payments they will be making as the price and not just the ones they have made?
I like the level of thoughtful discourse, The sometimes-interesting sidetracks, and that the dopamine drip of upvotes is minimal.

I don't like downvotes (in part because it makes upvoting difficult on mobile), and would prefer a flag-for-review (to further tax the mods, I assume), but if the fade-out from downvotes helps reduce spam and low-quality responses, I can live with that.

I also don't like that there's a dopamine drip of upvotes at all, and find the number near my username distracting. This is the only social media platform I use, and most of the time I'd rather be reading a book but this is so easy to browse.

Posts like this are a helpful kick in the pants to go away and read a book.
Vespa, the Italian scooter, is named after vespa, the Italian/Latin word for wasp.
Ah, fair enough. I think I prefer it as a cannibalism joke though lol
The article mentions 1991. 1940 is better, but not by a large extent and definitely not enough to justify the use of "ever".
Any hosting provider running cPanel is running on Perl
I don’t ink it makes sense to argue against consumer choice because consumers might go out of their way to choose something worse than safari.
I think it is common. But the partner occupations you list are very different. It also depends on how advanced you are in your career. The stages are also quite different (early career, young kids, and so on).

What particular part are you having issues with?

General advice is to realize your partner will be employable a lot longer than you. So if you make a shit ton more at the moment, it is wise to realize it is not a forever situation. Also, residency/student life is tough (but we had a lot of fun in those child-free days). My spouse had to adjust to the reality that my studying is till the day I retire (maybe the day I die .. lol). It is really nice when my spouse acts as a first responder in a casual emergency (I am just watching helplessly) and when friends ask my spouse for free advice. Good and bad with everything I suppose.
Long ago, I read that OBLs main goal was to drive the US to destruction not by the 9/11 attack, but by the cost of the retaliation.

Unfortunately, even though OBL is dead, he won the war.
The matte-black laptop they shipped out to beta testers for ChromeOS is still the best laptop I've ever owned. Maybe not processing speed-wise, but the size and everything else was perfection.
I program in my head, and yes, I often do see the code in my head. In some sense, it's like a spatial experience, where each file is a different "room", and those rooms have contents of the code.

When I imagine programming something, I make mental plans of what code goes in specific rooms (Files, or directories), and what that code will roughly look like - At first a rough shape, of a class with particular methods, and over time that resolves into more and more detail such as what the methods will do and how they will interact with other parts.

My memory is really bad though, so if I try to come back to this a week later I will have forgotten the whole thing unless I make very detailed notes.
Sounds like they have something pretty powerful swamping out that band.

Even though the ISM (2.4 GHz) band is unlicensed, there are still regulatory limits to the maximum emission levels. Devices that exceed those levels are illegal to use. The FCC can apply hefty fines in certain cases.

Fun story, I used to live in an apartment building and my car key fob wouldn't work when I parked close to the building. It would work on the other side of the parking lot though. Turns out someone was using a jammer because they hated the noise that cars make when they lock and unlock. They tried to blame a nearby military base, but I had some RF test gear and located the culprit. They turned it off pretty quick when I showed that they could be fined $10k per day.
The subreddit linked on the page has 3 posts in the last year
Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains
How do you generate enough income to survive?
My wifi password is "there's a space in it".
That's a good post, reflects well on you, please never delete it.
Sorry it's nonsense. You're basically saying:

1. Anything existing is considered a fact.

2. Stating a fact doesn't infringe copyright.

The only conclusion your logic can infer to is copyright doesn't exist.

For example, I can say "the first sentence of A Song of Fire and Ice series is <insert the first sentence>, the second sentence is <insert the second sentence>, the third sentence is...". It's still just a list of facts, so no copyright infringement, right?
I am, my gf is a doctor and I am an engineer, but tbh... what is the question about? Are you in relationship with a person or with their job?
To hell with progress. I don't want to live in the future where corporate black box AIs generate everything society considers "art" and "culture", where no one knows how to so much as code a for loop or draw a stick figure because human expression no longer has an outlet. I don't want to simply be forced to adapt to a life where my only option is to blindly consume what the machines feed me like I'm in a tube in the Matrix.

Yes. It does make me mad. And I should be mad. Everyone who cares about anything but the bottom line should be mad. The wholesale commoditization and destruction of human intellectual skill and creative talent in service of the relentless pursuit of capitalism through automation is a bad thing and you should feel bad for cheering it on. "Adapt or get left behind" isn't what someone who actually cares about the quality of their craft says, it's what the Borg say before injecting their nanoprobes into your brain. "we only want to improve quality of life." Fuck that.
> judging by the images’ default square format, the uniform 1024 x 1024 resolution

This is also the default for Stable Diffusion XL.
How do you generate income - income enough to survive?

- rifd 1/23 after 13 yrs - 25 yrs exp
That's a Stratum 0 server since it gets its time from GPS. Stratum 1 server is one that gets its time from Stratum 0 servers.
protip: if you’re spending more time bug fixing code that AI spit out for you, ask the AI to do smaller problems

Yes, it absolutely will spit out the answer to something as complicated as your take home interview problem from description alone, but you wont know how to fix it for a presentable touch up, or adding more to it

Instead break it out into smaller problems and do many of those
Funny enough DMT is the only psychedelic that's ever given me real, true insight and legitimately changed my life after a single breakthrough dose, 99.5% of which I didn't remember even immediately after 'coming to' (and still don't). I was suicidally depressed and had been for a number of years, struggling with drugs and depression, had all but given up on life. I did it alone not meaning to break through.

Immediately after my breakthrough, I was so overjoyed and happy and couldn't help but bellow out "there is so much love in the universe!!" over and over -- right after a run to the washroom to purge a rainbow from my mouth. Thankfully I was home alone. I immediately called my loved ones to talk to them and tell them how much I loved them. My sister (psych major) thought I was going to end my life soon because I was suddenly so happy and unburdened. Suicidal ideation ceased for over 5 years, and still has only come out in the rare circumstance I was under extreme emotional distress. The majority of the lessons I learned -- many obvious in retrospect, I feel I was almost purposely blinding myself from seeing them because it was easier not to -- came in dreams and waking daydream 'visions' in the days after my trip, and my sudden ability to notice my problems weren't so serious, I just needed to look at them from a different viewpoint, of which there are many.

The only person who noticed (or mentioned) any difference right away in me, was the wife of a client -- a devout Hindu woman. As soon as she saw me a few days after my trip she said "MyName, are you alright?" with a concerned look on her face. I still wonder what she noticed or what concerned her.

I haven't felt the need to do it or any other psychedelics since, but for some reason I felt I'd share a quick tale of my story since the topic of machine elves and insights came up.

I was also, coincidentally (common as it is, apparently?) obsessed with digging a tunnel as far as I could as a 12-13 year old boy until it collapsed on me after about 5ft because I'd started on an unstable hill. That was the end of my tunneling, although I suddenly have a strange urge to grab a shovel.
I have been poring over a large amount of data for debugging purposes recently and discovered “facets” which provides a quick and easy way to compare and explore datasets.

https://pair-code.github.io/facets/
And yet, we are talking about X. Which currently shows a cover photo and nothing else about a link, so you have no idea what the link / article / page is about.

Many people share links with commentary and without clicking on an article you would have no idea other than a photo, about what the commentary is referring to.
The one thing Powershell has going for it is, that does treat output as objects or output of commands can be objects, so that there is no need to re-parse everything in the next command.
Having lived in a few countries without freedom of speech and freedom of press, this article looks extremely familiar. The basic line of argument is that a blogger/journalist/gadfly may not have done anything but amplify existing publicly available information without alteration, but this amplification influenced a third party to act illegally. Even if there's no direct incitement to any illegal activity, it becomes implicitly and self-evidently no longer speech but a criminal conspiracy.

The last line of the article is "How much are we going to tolerate?"

This framing seems to muddle concerns between someone's else's speech, policy violations being brought to the attention of someone's employer, and illegal activities. Harassment, defamation, concrete incitements to violence and credible threats of violence which meet well-defined legal standards are already illegal with both civil and criminal penalties.

Now of course TikTok is a private company and legally there's little obstacle to having a content policy which is more restrictive than the law. Even so, advocacy of censorship in the name of public safety because of potential second order effects on third parties is a fundamentally authoritarian principle.

The way I've seen it advanced in other societies is that first the government leans on the private sector, then implements rules in the public sphere broadening the definition of material and moral support for violence until it's so broad as to be totally discretionary. Finally, it becomes both legal and accepted within the mainstream political culture to punish anyone critical of arbitrary censorship as such.

It doesn't matter if it starts on the "right" or the "left." Once this achieves fixation within the political culture, whoever is in power currently and typically whoever takes power next (even if nominally their political opposite) will use this erosion of norms to treat opposition speech as criminal.

Failure to anticipate the shoe being on the other foot one day is extremely short-sighted, regardless of your political views.
Hard earned and useful wisdom here, thanks for sharing.
I use Linux professionally and personally. Out of all of my peers, at work and my personal circles, osx or Windows is preferred.

Our senior-most devops guy even claims that Windows is the best Linux, because of wsl2 (he knows windows itself isn't a Linux, but he likes to get a rise out of people).

Windows is still the best average-user OS after Chrome OS (not exactly Linux, IMHO) and maybe osx.
I think I found those more insightful in some ways than the linked paper.
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Original Twitter allegation from 2021: https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/145969644480214221...

Nitter:
https://nitter.net/phuckfilosophy/status/1459696444802142213
I have a website that is just a few black text on white HTML files I maintain in whatever text editor I have at hand. Loads lightning fast, and if you cannot view it, its not a web browser. Last I checked, the total site size was about 60KB.

As time goes on, even the amount of text I am putting out get trimmed down. Make the words count, don't count the words.
They had to use some sort of material for the fire, and every tree not on the ark would be soaked
Would working on it bring you joy? Because the world could certainly use more of that :D

I personally lean on people to help stay motivated. For your example, I would find a game dev meet up or some discord community, talk shop & share what I'm working on on a regular basis. Validate or give feedback on the work of others, and get some of my own.

It's a process of constantly pushing back the thoughts and community makes it easier
MGM Says Computer Hack to Cost $100M in Lost Profit
> It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people.

I dunno about that. 4chan memes and attitudes have diffused out into wider US politics.

Not that I disagree with the jist of it. "Oh no, internet dwellers are posting something horrible... I am shocked!"
Tax was being collected, on top of the $350 being told to the buyer.

Ebay told me $300 for the completion of the auction. There was the normal fees associated with listing, which again, are understood.

This $50 discrepancy was not accountable anywhere. It just went poof into Ebay's gaping maw.

Like I said, we both compared notes and what our respective screens said. The numbers absolutely did not add up. And Ebay reallllly doesnt want the buyer and seller to talk directly. It's why the "ebay mail" is so limited and crippled, to prevent actual conversations like this from taking place.

I talked with them over text and email proper. There was no filter, or daddy ebay censoring all my messages.
Uh, no. Generative AI does not have a standard of truth. It generates text according to the probabilities given what it learned from its data set. There is no systematic modelling of a world that it can test its assertions against. What are called hallucinations are a fundamental property of the approach. The hallucinations are probable -- just not true. The model has succeeded but the assertions are false. This has to be understood or the models will mess stuff up. A lot of checking is required.

Humans always assemble information according to a standard of truth. It is a big part of how humans learn. No method is perfect but the human method results in fewer routine hallucinations.
Star observatories you can visit in the United States
I've come to the same conclusion. I became a programmer because in school I loved programming and saw myself loving the job, and I do.

If the job changes that drastically I'll just have to quit and find something else.
I hope that we can agree that the pattern of needing regulation to keep meat safe at the restaurant is congruent with needing to keep parts safe in the aircraft.

Also, the mods seem testy on this thread.