skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are also good points you've raised.

On scaling, yeah a single postgres server can handle a lot. For us we were well past the million user mark before running into serious issues. However, a lot of how we were able to keep postgres working for us as we grew was by shifting work from postgres to our stateless services like I alluded to before - e.g. making our SQL queries as simple to execute as possible even if it means more work for the client to piece the parts back together.

If everything had been running inside the database we wouldn't have had that option and we'd probably have hit scaling limits much earlier - I guess we could have split off the traffic to the highest traffic endpoints and have those handled by a separate service calling the PG db, but then you get into issues with keeping the authentication etc consistent.

Re security - yep, PG is already using C to parse untrusted inputs from the network, which is also scary, but it's (hopefully) well reviewed and mature code - and even so, I wouldn't want to expose PG's usual wire protocol port to the internet, so it's hard to imagine exposing HTTP from postgres to the wild west.

Ultimately it probably is just a question of the sort of project it's being used for - if it's for something that's not going to get need to get to larger scales, handle a lot of complexity over time, or pass security reviews and your main goal is simplicity, then maybe an approach like this is a good option. I've just found that things tend to start off looking small and simple and then turn out to be anything but, so I'd rather run `rails new` and point it at a standard PG server - which would be just as simple and productive when you are starting out, and can keep scaling as your customer base and team size grows up to the size of Shopify, Github, or Kami (shameless plug).
Overclock it to ~7MHz using Doug Severson's 1985 PC-Sprint https://github.com/reeshub/pc-sprint :)

Epictronics: Overclocking IBM PCjr, 5150 PC, 5160 XT, 5155 Portable. Introducing the Skinny Sprint! + PCjr repair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v46DFLBlxzw
I have had OLED and AMOLED screens on my phones for years and yes back in the first we generations this was an issues. Even my old smart watch had this issue but since the last 2 generations of phones and watches this has no longer been an issue and I don't have a fancy flagship Samsung but some mid range Asus phone that is also already 3 years old.

Aren't all of these screens made by the same few manufacturers? Why does Apple have these issues? Is it software/driver related?
> If women choose not to work as hard as men, then we shouldn't try to equalize their participation in senior roles

This is a myopic, reductionist take. You're missing the forest for the trees. It is not a matter of women choosing not to work as hard as men, it is a matter of society being structured in such a way that men are disproportionately not involved in raising a family, and women being delegated to the task of caregiver even though they themselves would like more equality.

Economically, women are pressured to stay out of the workplace for 6+ months, whereas men get a couple of days-weeks to stay at home.
I was terrible at this task as a kid. When asked to describe an image I usually volunteered single piece of information about it and I had to be prompted multiple times and asked leading questions to observe and describe more of it. GPT-4V beats me even now. There were a lot of information in the descriptions I wouldn't notice or include without being specifically asked about them.
> All of this is explored in detail in the later books, which maybe the author hasn’t read?

If you mean the Brian Herbert prequels, a lot of fans don't really consider those to be canonical. I don't remember much exploration of this in the later Frank Herbert books; if anything most of the restrictions are eventually abandoned.

> Computers are banned (for good reasons)

It's at least _hinted_ that this was more about a moral panic than anything else.

Dune's technology setup is contrived to produce a particular type of society; it's one of the most extreme examples of this approach. There's nothing wrong with this (and it's very common in sci-fi) but it is what it is.
It has had a bit of a visual refresh, so it's not as bad as it used to be, although the underlying structure is still very much the same.
Personally I use AWS Workspaces for this, especially if your site's DNS is hosted on Route53. Everything is taken care of automatically. It's been a breeze so far.
> The alternative would be some sort of joint venture between all the banks. The result would less fees for the banks but no benefits for the client as the bank would keep the margin and it would still be a privacy hell.

This is what happens in India. UPI (unified payment interface) was launched by NPCI which is kind of a joint venture between the regulator and banks. In an abstract sense, the bank processing the payment does connect with every other bank via NPCI.

The underlying rails are an older infrastructure of IMPS[1] which is the interbank money transfer system.

I do not agree with the privacy hell part. When bank transfers happen, they anyway have to do the required checks with the other banks. Frankly, people in my circle never even cared if it could be a privacy issue for us.

On another note, there was always incentive to launch NPCI in india because 1/ The infra is relatively newer so it was easier to do (java I think) 2/ Almost all banks' software was built by Infosys/TCS etc. (in java) and that meant the ones integrating would be the same parties who practically used the same architecture 3/ Visa/Mastercard did not have that kind of penetration in 2010 so settlements were a real issue faced by every bank.

In US or European case, the issue seems bigger because the problem is half solved by Visa/Mastercard, so there is a bit of inertia to solve the same problem again.

[1]: https://www.npci.org.in/PDF/npci/upi/Product-Booklet.pdf
> There aren’t a lack of generalists, organizations are just blind to their existence and have no understanding of how to use them.

A generalist is a threat to the organization as a concept.

Organizations rely on power and information flowing in well defined ways. Information flows up, control flows down. A generalist might disrupt that by passing information and instructions sideways. Which is why, no matter how often leaders go on about cross team working and matrix organizations, things tend to revert to micromanagement every time.
The issue isn't the number of hours, it's the stagnant wages despite increased productivity.
"electronic intifada" unbiased? you got to be kidding me..
Many good points, but I think there are some major errors.

> For the salary cost of 4 employees at 40 hours, you get 5 employees at 32 hours.

The real costs of paying 5 people 80% salary is much greater - benefits, many overhead costs, etc. do not get cut by 20%.

> You get the combined experience of 5 people instead of 4.

At most margins, having more human beings is NOT a clear win. Communication overhead, diffusion of responsibility, etc. create major diseconomies of scale in the sort of office work that this post was framed to be about.
Does the law require unanimity, or just a majority? This page[0] seems to suggest only a majority is necessary, but I can't find anything else to back that up; but I suppose we'll find out in a week or two.

[0]: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-eu-governm...
Here is the code: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/tree/main/apple/Omn...
I agree, those are all existing problems. But I would say the don't detract from the benefits.

Maybe peer review should be time limited, but have the reviewers comments be immediately available for the authors to respond to, rather than having to wait for them all to come in.
No, those are different chips entirely. RP1 is an entirely new chip that serves as a southbridge on Raspberry Pi 5. The original Raspberry Pi had a BCM2835 SoC. Raspberry Pi 5 has a BCM2712 SoC.
Stranger than speaking out loud with your headset on?
Possible and usable aren't the same thing. You can run it on an android watch as well, but would you?
Wrapping Meshes with Geodesic Walks
I never deeply understood economics to be honest. But if we people wages start growing, won't it automatically mean that there are more money circling around which means inflation, which means we're back at square one?
There is such a thing as too much specialization too, even in science. It can be helpful to get inspiration from knowledge of disparate fields. Things can come together with this cross-disciplinary approach. There's no one sized fits all answer to this.
They're hatpins. And they apparently had some interesting secondary effects on society, per Wikipedia [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatpin
This isn't about RISC-V, but specifically about the BeagleV-Ahead board. They have an OSHW certification[1], and provide schematics and design documents[2].

Whether that will provide tangible benefits to the consumer is hard to say, as it will depend on how popular this design ends up being, among many other factors. Unlike with software, most end users don't have the capability to build their own versions, and have to rely on other manufacturers to do that. Still, this is surely a step in the right direction, and is more consumer-friendly than traditional closed architectures, platforms and products.

[1]: https://certification.oshwa.org/us002535.html

[2]: https://git.beagleboard.org/beaglev-ahead/beaglev-ahead
Looks like you hit the rate limit, was this happening while trying to setup an account?
I spent many years in a company without documentation culture. There were project plans for managers, but no single technical document. All the requirements were gathered during meetings verbally. So the guys who were for decades in the company were hiding information from new hires and that way were controlling everything. It was super toxic since nobody could advance without kneeling before all mighty old dude. This company couldn’t exist without office.
porque no los tress
Because some of the governments in TFA have given positions opposing it?
World's first off-road solar SUV drove across Morocco powered only by the sun
One viewpoint character clearly thinks this as well.

I think most of Banks' 'villains' were quite appealing in their way (possibly not the pro-Hell side in Surface Detail; I think that's the closest he came to pure incomprehensible evil.)
> The only way to fight back is to self host DNS, HTTP and SMTP at home.

Agreed, but DNS at least needs to be shared via encrypted p2p, to avoid congesting someones broadband with million requests and prevent the inevitable hijacking by malicious actors.
Yeah not actually this post, but another post that generated a lot of user's running huge imports of their libraries from other services, which unfortunately are not 100% isolated yet.
Google search is cratering from what I see, and that probably means context for their ads, too.

After all, this is all related.

Lately, I've been messing with wifi and hostapd. I get massive maps images, and pictures of hotels in the first 1/2 of my respones. I presume "hostapd" is a close mistype to "hotel", and people are searching for high speed wifi, so they may be searching for 80211ac or some such. Or likely google just sees "wifi thing -> wifi", and now I'm apparently searching for "hotel wifi".

Great. I can't get anything meaningful, unless I add -hotel.

They've gone so overboard with loose context matches, that I can't imagine their ad placement has much value.
Thank you. Now why can't the service be used without a phone number?

Phones leak data that remove privacy.
Spain, inheriting Franco's legacy, likes their own secret internal police and abuse of power. For exampel, Madrid was using Pegasus spyware to spy Catalonian politicians and separatists

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/catalonia-ban...

From this background, it's more understandable they want to all possible methods to spy their own citizens.
I would guess it's not different exposure levels at the time of filming but rather different uneven deterioration of the film stock.
Chrome isn't really a moat though given that it's been forked by Microsoft, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and others.
I think Diablo 4 is really well made but I keep getting surprised by some goofs in what I would consider the most important parts of the game.

Like even when I make a small scale RPG, my damage formulas and scaling and so on are my bread and butter. I obsess over them. I would accept being wrong about the resulting experience and having to adjust, but to me it's really unacceptable to have oversights and mistakes there.

So something like how broken resistance was, or different types of scaling implemented wrong. That's not disagreeing about the outcome. That's clear oversight in what I consider the heart of the game.

Or for example how the mount's controls with mouse were just remapped from joystick and you have to put your mouse at the edge of the screen to go fast.

I don't understand how to reconcile such a big and well made game with many baffling oversights in the game's core systems. Feels competent and amateurish at the same time.
> I started burying cones from my Douglas Firs, which aren't nearly as big as the Mountain Ashes you planted

Just want to note, this is definitively not true. Coastal Dougs routinely reach 100m in height, and there's some anecdotal evidence[0] of a Doug which would likely have been the tallest tree ever recorded, if we believe the measurements putting it at 142m in height (and 10m in circumference!).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nooksack_Giant
Nobody's trying to ban cars. The elderly, disabled or unfit would actually find it easier to drive with less traffic and bikes having better separation from the road.
They recently joined, here's their verified account:

https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation
afaik that's their next step- introduction of usernames. Or you can use Element/Matrix, that is based on signal encryption protocol but does not need phone nr
Any reason why you can’t use a traditional lithography machine to create these masks?
The last Google service I'm likely to always use and pay for is YouTube Premium.

I should be able to move off everything else after I retire.
>Once it seems like a company is arrogantly putting itself above "the government"there is the danger that it is perceived as a competitor to the ones deciding public policy which in turn can lead to a swift smack down.

I think the rubicon has been already crossed on that with the defence contractors and big oil. US gov seems beholden to both and those industries have massively influenced US domestic and foreign policy.
I like my work and I like my life and I like my hobbies and I like my family and I like my friends and I like learning new skills in my free time. I chose to work 80% of the time for 80% of the pay but I'm fully aware that most people don't have that option (either because it is not offered to them or because it is not financially viable). Which I think is unfortunate.
Says you.

Some media companies are experimenting with it right now: https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-dec...

It makes sense for media companies to self host.
I can't imagine myself using this. One more port open, one more attack vector for those restless bots to scan for vulnerabilities, one more service I need to keep up-to-date. But I understand it would help Linux servers become more approachable, especially people that are switching away from PHP-based shared hosting to a full-featured VPS, don't have much knowledge about servers, and want something similar to cPanel or DirectAdmin.
The LLM isn't creating new information, only packaging existing information.
1/ each additional employee comes with additional costs: management, communication, onboarding, HR, office space, etc..

2/ People in a 40 hours contract usually work more than that. Employers can try to seek out employees that don’t mind working more than paid for.

3/ People who’d look for 80% jobs are (from employers perspective adversely) selected to be people that will monitor their hours worked and not give away their time for free.
That's what the Accessibility Subsettings page is for
I guess the question was referring to how do we know it's e2ee and not simple server-client encryption? Ideally, it would be nice to be able to add additional custom encryption on any client, so that ppl that really need it will be extra protected
Not the whole world, this is mostly in the United States. In Europe its more like what you describe, banks are the card payment provider and we have (near) instant online transfers. Credit cards are relatively unimportant here.
Interesting! Note, though, that according to the restored version [0], the scenes with his daughters was for Twain's personal use only and was not seen by the public.

The others parts with him in the doorway and walking around the house probably were very carefully choreographed as you suggest.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaSOw1WhjI
Do you have a good reference(s) that starts from the basics all the way to CTC loss? The distill.pub article is good, but personally doesn't provide a good enough intuition...
hmm, iRedMail author (Zhang Huangbin) here. :)
Why not actively root for that one specific law to be reverted? Sounds like an easier change.
Only if supply can't meet demand
which also has to do with distribution of wealth, where the US are especially bad at.

just an example: you do not pay for education in europe, much less for childcare (in most countries), much less for health care and so on...
Why Mentorship in a Remote Setting Can Thrive and Support the Future of Work
And they can keep opposing it if they really don't want it.

However I agree that EU can also be used as a scapegoat when implementing unpopular policies, unfortunately. They can claim that they totally didn't want it but EU mede them accept it.
Android and YouTube. Secondarily I would say Workspace (Gmail, Meetings, Drive, etc for teams) and Cloud.
yep, should have enabled 2fa by default
I'm not familiar with Apple Card, but aren't all privacy measures only point-of-sale facing? As in, you pay with a random card number and the shop can't track you, but Mastercard obviously still has a record on you. So unless Apple is a middleman able to issue Mastercards on their own behalf(?) for their customers, I don't see how much more privacy they can offer.
The solution there is political, not technical.
micro-USB 3.0? Why?
This architecture has lots of potential for prototyping and internal tools. I would think twice before exposing some app built with it to the world, though.
Also, people like the discounts they get from their loyalty cards, and also the free stuff on the internet.

What they don't know is that they pay twice, once with their data and once with money. And the prices they pay now include the cost of the adtech too.
and that's only one issue. Paris is the only place where the taxi driver picks the passenger (and not the other way around)... if he doesn't want to go to your destination, he will refuse to pick you up :)

Agreed, this market is ripe for disruption, or at least de-regulation (like giving out more (free) taxi licenses in Paris).
>They started forcing 7 users to upgrade to 10 without user input or consent.

They never did that. But let's not let the truth get in the way of a good clickbaity FUD rant.
With none of the forks removing any of the harmful features. Except possibly Brave, which replaces them with their own.
Not a lawyer, but I would expect sentencing considers at minimum the details of the conviction. Maybe at that stage a lack of explanation under pressure presents as a lack of remorse.

But before conviction, not having a motive furthers certain defenses, and those possibilities can be useful in the context of plea bargaining.
> Comparing those numbers with a similar api built using fastapi and asyncpg, there was if i remember correctly at least 4x to 5x throughput increase.

I wonder to what extent this improvement comes from not using Python, as opposed to using this alternative solution? For example after Python to Go migrations it’s common to see this kind of speed up I believe.
> It's for people who want to point and click, can't do a bash for/while loop, don't understand pipe chaining commands, and don't like using vim.

I hate the mouse so much that I've got a script to move it off-screen (it follows my focus), and I usually live in my terminal. But trying Fedora on one of my Pis I tried cockpit since it was installed by default and I'm surprised how much I like it.

I think the lack of features is a good thing, there's not much bloat and it recommends extra packages I could like. While i love my terminal cockpit has been nice to get a quick glance. So far the only thing I'm missing is support for doas.

Every tool does not have to be able to do all the things.
He has though: that "youtuber quality" can be misleading as a criterium for iPhone video quality, as major youtubers nowadays use high end devices.

If you don't have video experience, then you might find it subpar when actually you compare it to impossible standards and 10x more expensive gear and lenses.
Wages in the USA have not stagnated, actually
Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
> Many people now prefer not to even use search if they can help it, because it's got so messed up.

According to what exactly? Journalist speculation?
This reminds me of https://scrapingfish.com/blog/are-most-rust-jobs-in-crypto :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg_aUOSLuRo
Come on. Is every remote worker really working 40 hours a week?
Well, it shouldn't be too surprising that a literal dictatorship would act this way. It may not be a dictatorship at the moment, but it was not too many years ago, and the only reason it's not a dictatorship today is only because the dictator died of old age. Spain does not have a very good track record with democracy, so of course such a culture isn't going to value freedom and liberal (in the classical sense) democratic values.
It is not null, I'll tell ya. It's a bit of a tradeoff between cpu cycles and ability to do actual tasks.
You can't really investigate much a server with it unless you're investigating a machine in a cluster from a main broker because the panel can and will get sluggish to navigate(there's no good alternative to physical access or ssh in extreme cases), but hey, at least it won't drop you easily, because the frontend responds well to high latency.
> If MemGPT is as spectacular as you suggest then I think an honest, down to earth title would have gotten you a lot more attention.

The fact that the current title got onto the HN front page suggests otherwise when it comes to incentives for picking submission titles.
This argument makes sense, but I am not sure I agree with it.

When I read a book in a modern typeface, it does not remove me from the story in the book. I do not need to read a world war II history book in Fraktur to get into it. Maybe, like typography, it has more to do with what one is used to?