skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4 years ago I wrote an internal tool to serialize records of our hierarchical database to a bunch of hierarchical json files, which are then managed in a normal git repo.

This was/is a very specific solution to our very specific set of problems. So not applicable to the general problem of "versioning a database".

It is still in use and still under active development – I'm actually fixing a few bugs with it just now.

I wrote much more about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005993
> That may be a terrible decision, but it shows the extent of resources a CEO of a $6bn organization commands. This is one choice out of tens to hundreds of 8-figure choices that this “super manager” will make in a year.

This argument sounds a lot like it doesn't matter what decisions they make as long as they're in charge of a lot of capital.

> If you’re on the board of an organization like that, settling for a second-best CEO to save a 7-figure sum just doesn’t make sense.

If this is the only thing checking bad decisions, we have to consider that when there's a little oligarchy of buddies controlling an immense concentration of capital deciding each other's compensation, there are different market forces at work.
I think I'd go with velcro.
Nothing is destroyed; the person who wrote the article can ask an admin to get its text back so they can publish it elsewhere. I don’t get this "Wikipedia should host everything" mentality: if you disagree with the rules, just publish your work somewhere else. The number of articles need to be manageable, so rules are needed.
Some people are talking about OFX, and yes, there are tools for a lot of banks (for example) that convert their various export formats to OFX. However, I prefer it a different way: CSV.

When loading a CSV, GnuCash lets you map each column to the GnuCash-equivalent field. Column mapping configurations can be saved for later reuse.

One nice addition is that you can select columns that contain the _accounts_ related to a transaction. It's pretty easy to have ChatGPT write a script that takes a CSV and categorizes transactions into accounts using some matchint logic.

Splits are a bit trickier as you have to use multiple rows, but doable if you enter a sample transaction first and export it to GnuCash CSV format to see how it should look.
Bun: First Impressions
I feel your pain, except in my case it's the crippling inability to use SQLCLR in Azure SQL, so we can't even do things like use a Regex to clean-up data in-situ. Yeargh.
I don't think they implied that's the only time a DA would do that, just why they would maybe do it in this situation.

Why would a DA want a case that can be beat or dismissed? At best it's more work taking away time for real cases, and it's possibly a defeat if it goes to far, which they definitely don't want. All to punish someone the DA has no reason to care about because it wasn't even anything to do with the DA's authority or the authority of their job?

A corrupt DA might knowingly prosecute an innocent person if they think they can make it stick because winning a car is good for thrm, but why would they go out of their way to do something possibly detrimental without reason?
That's really interesting. I found a StackExchange answer on this

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/24427
Interesting, I didn't know the rates used to be that high.

I don't understand fully how loans evade taxation either. What I've read is that it's a combination of:

- They can be carried forward into other loans.

- They don't repay them, they only pay the interests.

- They aren't close in amount to their actual net-worth.

So most of the money they own is not liquid and not subject to those taxes. Unless we're talking about a wealth tax, which I'd be interested in seeing an argument for as well.
Any interest in hacking on sol reader with us?
This is an interesting topic because if we are talking about ones airspace or private property then I think this might get a little complicated as it has to also fit within peeping-tom laws and FAA laws. If someone is parked on the road and filming me then I can call the cops or go talk to them but I can not force them to leave and it is unlikely the cops would make them leave unless they are posing a threat. Perhaps stalking or harassment? Intimidation? The cops can log their ID. The most I can do is film them with my surveillance cameras and notify my neighbors and local community. Beyond that I would have to decide if stand-your-ground comes into play and that comes with a lot of legal risk.

Likewise if a person is filming me from a drone at least 400 feet AGL and their drone is at least 500 feet away from me then I do not see any laws they are violating. They can use stabilizers, expensive gimbals and optical zoom to "get closer". So if we are adding laws to require a warrant then peeping tom laws would also need to change to prevent recording from outside of ones property, I think. Maybe laws around stalking, harassment and intimidation would have to be amended? Now if they are closer than 500 feet to me that is an FAA violation and below 400 feet AGL over my property that drone is now a clay pigeon.
I still miss the Trivia sections.
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Revolutionary how? Why would you ever want to "talk to your computer" rather than just.. press a button?

There's a reason secretaries aren't really a thing anymore.
Don’t worry, anyone involved would likely rationalize or deny it if any of those consequences occurred.
Speaking of "secrets":

We didn't create an open-source project for the atomic bomb. Quite the contrary: it was one of the best-kept secrets for years.

Sooooo...

if LLMs are as revolutionary as some claim, shouldn't there be significant effort to keep new advances and developments secret and lead competitors astray? That is, if I knew something that would provide a 10- or 100-fold improvement in LLMs, my tendency would be to profit/benefit from that rather than publish it. And to mislead competitors? Has LLM technology development gone "underground" yet?

And what is the role of the 3-letter agencies and the government in this radical development?

Or is LLM technology all unicorns with rainbow farts where the entire world benefits and the creators get only thanks? Somehow I don't believe so.
I'm having trouble parsing this line of thought. Are you suggesting that merely talking about tyranny is inducing tyrannical behavior; that not talking about the elephant in the room could make the elephant disappear?

Taking it a step further: should police not be educated about corruption laws, or should corruption laws simply not exist?
I find "your salary is too much and we're taking it away from you" to be extremely reductive. (Even, dare I say, maliciously obtuse.) This isn't some radical policy change, it's more or less how our current system was designed, if we chose to enforce it. Instead, you and your wife probably pay more taxes than our ultra-rich. Offloading that burden onto everybody else does not feel right to me.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
Very true. It's a pretty common misconception even among more experienced software teams.
Computer techs are very underpaid in Canada. One place I got paid around $30/week.... that was in the 1990s though. (the coworkers were awesome but the employer was abusive as all anything)
I've worked at a few places since though and wouldn't recommend that work to my worst enemy. Better pay and hours in fast food, and less customer abuse typically.
One of the things rarely mentioned is that there's two people who get blamed when tech fails - the user themselves, and the tech who comes in to fix it. Not a great recipe for happy encounters or healthy cultures.
Please, please, please, make sure that it uses a context-free grammar. For the live of Knuth, correct that one stupid mistake he made and allow other people to parse your syntax. Good things will follow!
The General Availability of Private Integrations for Netlify Core
Fair enough, though my understanding after watching at least (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BfxUiF58Co - 8-Bit Guy warning), planning your route becomes important whereas with ICE, it's an after-thought as long as you get to where you want to go.

And I get charging stations are becoming more common/convenient. It just doesn't work for me and where I live (there is one non-Tesla charger in town), though my next car will be an HEV.
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I like to consider CEO salaries by the amount they’re getting paid, per employee in the company.

There was a bunch of complaining recently about GM CEO Mary Barra, whose annual compensation is around $30M. GM has around 167,000 employees, so this corresponds to about $180 per employee.

The average employee compensation at GM is around $100,000 per year.

I wonder, did each employee get more than $180 of value from Mary Barra’s leadership?
If we measure a leader's potential value by their potential impact/damage radius, then it follows that their actual pay should be proportional to the actual impact/damage they cause. The problem here is that leaders seem to be compensated in proportion to their impact, but not penalised in proportion to their damage, even when their success is indistinguishable from chance.
And instead of just looking it up yourself you decided to do the same as them, spreading outrage about nothing? Love the dissonance.
I think in this context second-best CEO is euphemism for crook. Having those could be a multi-billion dollar liability.
“Burns down Synagogues” and “reads NPR” are probably largely disjoint sets of people.

I’m Jewish, and I’m exceedingly sensitive to the volatility of the situation. My relatives’ lives depend on it. I do not find NPR’s language particularly objectionable.
(Sorry uBlock user here so I Saw no ads)

Maybe you can try to setup a custom t-shirt with the desired number in the Pi sequence, like the original article has.

Thanks again for the site!
The CEO is elected by the board and the board is elected by the shareholders.
I gave an example of enforcement. It takes an editor to flag the article for deletion. Chances are, like the women's footballer stubs up until an editor decided to go through all of them, there hasn't been an editor motivated to do so.
Aside from the fact that the Laffer curve has never been proven accurate in the U.S. based on actual empirical data, it can be proven trivially false, because it implies the closer your tax rate gets to 0 the more tax receipts you will have. So you’re gonna get far more tax receipts at a 0.0001% interest rate than at a 10% interest rate, which would require a GDP at 0.0001% which would be beyond any actual possibility.
> The real ones though are very reliable indicators that something fucked up went down.

Any numbers on how much more reliable they are after the initial order kicks you out of the spousal home and asks you to get a lawyer while navigating being homeless and losing access to assets in your house and any evidence inside? It's hard to believe the short hearing a couple weeks later with pretty low standard of evidence with you now at a severe disadvantage is that much more accurate.
> However, to demonstrate actual malice, you have to demonstrate that the defendant knew of just how different the two things were, which is frankly a pretty tall ask

If I was a defendant in such a thing, I'd point to numerous cases where police departments have claimed, and courts have agreed, that police are not expected to be experts on the law.

"If law enforcement officers can be held by the court to not have to have a nuanced understanding of the law, how could I possibly?"
Imagine going through customs in a foreign country and they screen your social profiles
Then you just missed that non-AI means human depending on context.
No Wikipedia policy is applied consistently. They're applied when editors want to apply them to justify a decision. That's how every individual decision on Wikipedia works; precedent doesn't even apply.
Could it be because of the Budapest Memorandum? Ever heard of that?
nope, but that's the neat part (well, neat in the "morbidly scary" sort of way). They don't need to. If a topic is niche enough there won't be enough wiki editors well versed enough to argue for nor against the obviously asinine requirements. they can quash women's football for lacking a national mainstream source but then pull out some esoteric source for their own pet project uninhibited (again, assuming the topic is niche enough to go under the "mainstream editor" radar).

Classic lawful evil behavior.
Even Super Mario Bros. Wonder's approach to difficulty is playful
> I was writing Oracle queries that could make your head spin

Absolutely, and some of the things Tom Kyte (Oracle's resident DB performance guru) could do with Oracle were spectacular.

As you say, its a shame about the Oracle baggage, and in particular the steep price tag. Otherwise I'm certain it would be far more widely deployed as database.
I wish there could be an intelligent conversation about this. I feel like whenever I bring it up, i'm immediately mentally labeled a doomer, prepper, or Gingrich era republican, when the way I see it, this is totally apolitical and just 6th grade math.

It's clearly not sustainable to be growing the national debt at 2 or 3 trillion per year, and especially not at 5% interest rates. People bring up Japan as some sort of model that GDP/Debt can go much higher than the US is currently at, while missing that Japan is paying 0.76% on the 10-yr notes today. In many ways, Japan is lucky that their economy is so tepid and impotent because if they had caught the inflation bug like the US, they would have had to raise rates significantly.

Needless to say, debt levels at 270% of GDP with 5% rates would cause a fiscal catastrophe in Japan. Their interest payments alone would exceed all government revenue. They would have to cut 100% of government services (military, medical, pensions, administration, legislation, the courts) AND raise taxes, or issue mountains of new debt in some sort of horrible debt spiral until there was no more demand for yen bonds, at which point there would be sovereign bankruptcy I suppose? IMF bailout of Japan?

At current rates, US government debt will hit $41 trillion this time next year. It grew $604 billion in the last thirty days, and every bond sold is at 5% interest or more. It's just not something that can be done forever unless the US economy starts growing 10-15% per year, or unless rates can be pushed down to 0% indefinitely with no negative consequences.

One thing is for sure, your current tax rate you are paying is as low as it will be for the rest of your lifetime.
Not if you're in one of the other islands.
Tell me you didn't bother reading the substance of my comment without telling me....

JFC, you're in a mental prison. Hate.
Maybe I'm outside the norm, but as a YNAB user of over 10 years, I've never needed this. We split transactions across multiple categories all the time (shopping at Target for groceries, clothing, household goods, etc), but I expect that is very common.

I don't think YNAB philosophy would have you tracking reward or gift card balances, so you'd only track the amount that hit your CC, in this example. In that regard, YNAB certainly isn't a tool to track all of your monetary assets.

Is it common to split a single transaction across multiple accounts?
One that's a lot more interested in sex, or at least the sex industry. Also it is interested in topics that are on the frontline of the tech industry, enshittification and all that.

I added it to YOShInOn's RSS feeds three weeks ago. (If you need to ask what YOShInOn is, suffice it to say that YOShInOn posted that link to HN on my behalf.)
> Why is it everywhere suddenly?

Astoturfing.. I mean "growth hacking"
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> A "real" one is issued by a judge after interviewing both parties (or by default if one doesn't show up) and those are very reliably real.

Why? Based on one party being able to tell a more convincing story than another?
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The Russian government exists to serve the oligarchs of natural resource extraction. There is nothing you can give them that will make them lose interest in acquiring more natural resources. You can deter them by showing strength, and you can delay them by depleting their resources. The US is doing both of those things.

Rewarding their actions can delay them, but at the cost of strengthening and replenishing them, which creates bigger future problems.
Probably the most helpful idea around what is superposition is related to spin of orthogonal axes.

|+z> = 1/sqrt2 (|+x> + |-x>)

I think superposition only makes sense when you are thinking of some basis to measure in. Otherwise it just feels like "how did you glue together the alive cat and dead cat, surely its one or the other, not some fuzzy alivedead cat"
This didn't get the comment it deserves: "LOL" :))
We at Broadcom use "https://strong.network/" which gave lot of flexibiltiy and platform/resource control as well boost to productivity for our development community. A part from data loss prevention (IDE, web apps) and security that this platform provides, it helped us to Host , scale , delegate within our organization which is also a cost effective solution that other current solutions availble are lacking .
Sidenote: I thought Brave was BS because I had the first impression it was purely funded by watching ads and earning crypto. You opt-in to this, it's not the default. They actually have an extensive list of modifications to disconnect the Chromium base from Google and provide better security. I would be using it if not for Containers in Firefox.
Reasonable to who?
These jobs were never even in the office, at least in the states. This is largely companies that use these bargain bin “offshore“ consultancies, etc.
> I don't even understand what you're arguing for.

I don't really think they were arguing for anything, but there's a clue what they'd argue for right there in the bit you quoted

"lowering costs for patients"
>End-to-end encrypted communications, such as OMEMO, OTR or PGP, are protected from the interception only if both parties have validated the encryption keys. The users are asked to check their accounts for new unauthorized OMEMO and PGP keys in their PEP storage, and change passwords.

The attacker would need to set up a separate MiTM for the particular E2EE scheme used. Some of the XMPP clients I have encountered will not let you use a particular cryptographic identity unless you have explicitly claimed to have verified it.

Still a good reminder. If you have not seen and dealt with a ridiculously long number (or equivalent) you have not achieved end to end.
>If you’re on the board of an organization like that, settling for a second-best CEO to save a 7-figure sum just doesn’t make sense.

You're falsely associating higher pay with performance, when oftentimes they can be inversely correlated.

https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/CEOperformanc...

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/when-ceos-are-paid-bad...

https://www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay-still-not-related-to-perfor...
Wasn't that how war worked in 1984, the book?
> (bi-)temporal versioning

I once spent some time trying to find a way to do bi-temporal versioning in Postgres.

The only thing I found was a half-dead abandonware external project and an associated presentation PDF from some conference the author once spoke at.

I was unaware that they previously had some form of temporal queries and deprecated it. That is a great shame.
> have there been any reported cases of law enforcement changing DNSSEC (e.g. adding a DS record)?

It's not like anybody is watching or using DNSSEC like that. Also at best you might be able to detect a change but it won't prevent the attack and neither will it leave a long-term mark like CT would.
Of course it’s not 100% consistent, just like any rule in any project where tens of thousands of people work together. That’s what makes Wikipedia great: you don’t have to get your article validated by some random comitee of 20 persons; you just read the rules and try to respect them. It won’t be perfect, but you can always ask someone with more experience to review the article.
Using hints is typically a sign of failure. The DB optimiser should typically not need them.
Why don't you mention 700 real photos and videos of children killed in Gaza?
> Border and Customs especially depends on this and somehow have succeeded to this day in maintained regulations and laws that block you from accessing recording devices or recording when in the indoors secondary inspection. And of course that is the place where they fabricate all their lies and warrants.

As a paramedic, I've routinely taken prisoners from our county jail (run by the Sheriff's Office) to hospital. One thing that always got me, when we were in the sally port, and wheeling our gurney into the receiving area, the big printed sign on the door in, telling officers to "Turn off all body cams and recording devices in this area."

Why?
Yeah that’s an interesting angle. I don’t think buying secondhand books is cheap, because you are paying _someone_. Good question as to the morality of it re: author incomes. Paying no one and still getting whatever you want is what’s cheap.