skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dude masterminded the embezzling and frittering away of billions of dollars, and there is plenty of documentation and testimony from his lieutenants that he knew what he was doing. It's not like some slightly more coherent testimony will prove it was just a wacky misunderstanding.

His only plausible strategy is confusion and delay to buy time. A shame that it ends up burning millions more dollars of prosecutor resources.
"this site just has too many blacks on it"

see how that's problematic?
> What I do think would be awesome would be an embeddable Postgres library/binary that could use a single state file on your local filesystem for development and use a networked database in production.

Absolutely! And also, short of that but incrementally building toward it, some sort of simplification of initial db setup and configuration, including really solid, thoughtful defaults (many of them are but I am guessing they could be substantially improved).

I feel like half of people’s attraction to SQLite is the easy setup and first deploy story. Postgres will never match that but could get closer.
That's a bit different, it's got graduations on the knob. I'm thinking of a pure encoder-based system, where the absolute position doesn't matter but the change in position (and rate of change of position) do. Think like a mouse scroll wheel, but with acceleration.
There was once a specification for diagrams called UML. It got laughed out of existence by the egos of developers unfortunately with the dawning of Agile.

I believe Dilbert had a comic about it...
It's one of the most famous Freakonomics stories: https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t.... It intuitively makes sense but I don't think you can draw any universal conclusions from just this study.
Re: the negative reviews – it is interesting how many parents of disruptive kids don't seem to notice that their kids are being noisy jerks.

I guess your aspirations drop to the level that you feel like achieving
I strongly suggest following Molly White's (of web3 is going great fame) coverage of this trial for additional fun.

She's here on Mastodon https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff and also did live stream on her YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@molly0xfff/streams.
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You definitely do have a say in whether to make things and what to make. I’ve made some copyable things for reasons other than money. Bullets on a resume, scratch own itch, fun, learning, etc. One has to accept that copyable things will be copied, and freely choose (you do have a say) whether to spend your time making them or not.
I think since the GFC he has taken a bit of a turn in that he sees the traditional economy/financial markets/players as rigged against the little guy.. and taken a sort of oppositional defiance disorder approach to the whole thing.

So any Don Quixote will look like Robin Hood to him.

Flash Boys was just taking sides in a dispute with no real good guys, but the upstart/little guy to him was default "good guy".
He took some more explicitly political positions in some of his other books.
And now his SBF/FTX fanboyism falls under the same category that "the little guy" has to be the good guy.

The Big Short is probably his last great book / and film.
Note that meta has A/B tested their ux to death. Any opinions you have don’t hold water to the aggregate opinion
Choosing cheapskate tech stack for my new side project
It's ineptitude. It's always been ineptitude.
I was going to say the same thing. Low-quality content creators can get away with too many ads and subpar work because they don't rely on repeat business. It's like a tourist shop raising prices and selling fake merchandise because they know their customers are unlikely to come back. In contrast, creators who cultivate a loyal audience must consistently deliver value.

This reflects the cooperation vs betrayal incentives analysed in game theory. Agents are more likely to be loyal to agents that can extract payback, and one-time interactions are free of consequences. Google is to blame for sending people on deep links, they won't form a long term relation with the website. Not advocating against Google, just observing this second order effect.
"Authenticity in an Attention Economy"

Is that anything like Authenticity in an Advertising Economy?

I have to admit, I've never really understood (or used) Twitter/X. Short form posts lacking depth but very, very timely? The only time I used it very much was early on when I was living in Boston and it was useful to find out if there were subway outages. Lacking depth, timely, but pointedly useful. Somehow that function stopped working after a while. I've no idea why.

I suspect I simply don't understand Twitting. I've never figured it out. Facebook and Youtube figured _me_ out, and they both provide stuff I'm actually interested in. (And yes, I find it mildly disturbing as I use something that I don't really control or understand. But FB and YT actually do work.)

Twitter/X despite several attempts on my part to play its game, simply has never produced much attention or engagement for me.

Hell, I've gotten more use from Instagram than Twitter. Though not much.

For what it's worth, I'm older, in my mid 60s. I do note that FB tends to skew older. Or at least my FB experience does. Possibly an artifact of it's algorithm. But when I click on it's recommendations for "friends" I find the older users active and the younger users accounts a ghost town.

My suspicion is that the changes we are seeing in how social media works with people, especially people of different ages, is a kind of societal immune response. To hark back to my initial reaction to this post, advertising has certainly evolved, and evolved its audience over the last century. It's still here, and still pretty deeply embedded. But what it does and how it does it has changed. Insert your own viral analogy here...
You can use EBS Local Snapshots, can't you? It stores in your Outpost S3 storage.
And how are they expected to determine each user's needs?
> The way this post leaves no room for debate about how the decision was good and paints all of the people who disagree as ignorant outsiders feels very disingenuous.

Agreed, I went to look for these thinkpieces to see what the arguments were since the guy with footnotes longer than some articles didn't cite any. Searching Google News for '"effective altruism" ( "castle" OR "Wytham" OR "£15m" )' netted 10 total results:

- Three articles about a DIFFERENT castle in the Czech Republic also bought by effective altruists (What's the marginal utility of castles?)
- One article about EVF (formerly CEA) claiming FTX funds weren't used to by Wytham Abby
- A smattering of anti-EA of anti-SBF pieces that make single line references to the castle

Even just googling for the same you get one New Yorker article that makes offhand mention, then mostly forum threads and a couple blogs that are debating (pretty fairly imo) about whether it was an effective use of money.

I'm sure I could have missed some pieces but this looks like the classic and all too common "got mad about some random hyper-niche tweets but can't admit it"
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"Just starting a postgres" is possible but it's a lot harder than it should be.

Generally, you can just run the `postgres` command, but it creates many unnecessary hurdles:

* Just want to invoke `postgres`? Not possible, you need to invoke `initdb` first. Why can't `postges` do that for automatically you if the DB dir doesn't exist, like other servers do (e.g. `consul`)?

* Depending on your invocation, you're likely to run into errors mentioning "initdb: invalid locale settings; check LANG and LC_* environment variables". Why isn't there a simple UTF-8 default?

* Postgres refuses to run as `root`; that's unoverridably hardcoded in its code. So you can't "just start it" when you're `root` inside a container or VM in which only postgres runs. It can't run well under `unshare` when you want things to shut down reliably on cancellation in CI. This constraint should just be removed; no other software refuses to run as root. This mindset is indeed from 27 years ago.

* You can't start an in-memory postgres for quick testing or CI. This feature does not exist.

All of this is fixable, but it currently creats the "oh you can 'just run' postgres, but not in random conditions A, B, C and D".
> you need to create a new table instead of modifying a column

If modifying the column's type, yes. But you don't if you're just renaming, adding, or dropping a column.

> column types are not checked and you can easily insert a string into numeric column.

Can be fixed with CHECK constraints in the table definitions.

> Also it doesn't allow you to use multiple application servers.

This is mentioned in OP.

> So it can be used only with small, simple sites.

It can be used in a large variety of applications, but it's more appropriate for some than for others.
I think AI shouldn't get to have its cake and eat it too. If you train on copyrighted data because you don't believe in copyright, then you should also open-source the thing you trained.
Allow the user to decide if encryption should be applied to files or not.

I have files that are already encrypted.
Have you never used your legs to kind of hold the wheel or even steer in a car when you've taken your hands off for a moment? That's what I'm going to guess was going on here.
Many of the problems are the result of active attempts to dismantle or dilute the foundational systems America is built on.
Many books Americans own – and how they organize them
Bosnians can refer to themselves in various ways. They have identified as Bosnians, Bosniaks (depending on the extent of their territorial claims), Turks, Muslims, Bogomils, and more over time. I don't particularly mind; believe in whatever you wish. However, it's somewhat ironic to instruct others to learn history when your own identity only stabilized around 20 years ago.

No one, except for you, has mentioned 'dobri.' Furthermore, you seem to have overlooked the fact that Tvrtko considered himself the heir of the Nemanjić dynasty, which was Serbian.

Interestingly, you also assert that Tvrtko conquered a part of Serbia, specifically Trebinje, which is now part of Bosnia. I'm not sure this supports your argument very effectively.
Great. Then ship cars with CCS and a (not quite ready for supercharging) NACS port. A programmable PHY that’s adequate to speak the protocol should not be especially complicated, especially if it’s essentially the same thing as the CCS part. We’re talking about maybe $50 for the jack, a few dollars for muxes, and some relays.

Sure, this would add maybe $100-$200 in BOM cost during the transition period. But I think that’s better than failing to produce credible cars at all. And then the cars could be sold as “already compatible with Tesla level 2 chargers and ready for Tesla-compatible supercharging with an OTA upgrade”, which is a lot better than “not compatible, and we’ll probably have an adapter available next year for an unknown price.”

(The adapter will surely cost more than the added parts for an extra jack. An external adapter would need to make all the protocols work and may also need a relay to switch between AC and DC modes.)
>A kid watching a tablet is definitely not going to disrupt other guests

I don't know about you but I've definitely been sitting next to a table of kids, each with their own tablet, with the volume completely unrestrained. It's incredibly annoying to hear Bluey, Flappy Bird, and Fortnite going all at the same time.
Oh to be a fly on the wall for the first Oxide<>Oracle partnership discussion…
Beyond the fact that just telling people to do so is ineffective, my experience is that most people have a very poor idea of what is and isn't calorie dense (I've been there!), how many calories they consume in snacks, or how to eat in a way that leave you feeling full without gobbling down calories.

I've been around people who made legitimate good-faith efforts to diet and eat "healthy", but have no idea that "just a bowl of rice to go with it" and "I need my afternoon milk tea" and maybe another snack are like 500+ extra calories each day, that hardly even leave you full.
To clarify this, active ground effect was forbidden in 1982. What is the thing the GP is talking about. The prohibition has no relation to Senna, but it was because of another accident.

Ground effect in general has been in use since the F1 cars first changed shape, and is used everywhere, not only on race cars.
Unless a lot of money is paid out in campaign contributions, I suspect you're right.

I'm worried about a time when the _statistical_ safety of AI driving is better than humans across the board, but there are horrifying correlations between AI induced accidents, like "Children on tricycles are not well recognized" or "slight fog in Seattle induces 150 car pileup". Or, AI causes worse accidents less frequently than humans. Whereas humans have lots more fender benders and minor injuries to older adults.

Not saying this is true, but it's a scenario I think about a lot.
Its weird how actors and musicians who regularly work for a living get singled out for their wealth. However already wealthy investors who make money with their money and do not actually work, these people never get any criticism.
Serverless is just someone else's bash script.
The resources spent aren’t wasted. They are setting an example. Think of it as legal framework marketing expense.

slaps hood “These gears turn slowly but watch how fine they grind!” Money well spent imho.
Microsoft at that time said they are moving Skype to centralized server from distributed to reduce code complexity.
There's nothing really wrong about UML, but I find that its association with legacy software development kind of hurts it more than its actual spec and intent.

I think the biggest thing a diagram should show you is the way data can and cannot flow. People tend to overcomplicate them with detail that's better suited for a corresponding text document. It's a visual, it should convey things quickly and without much noise.
I wondered how much she could give back to her fans by watching YouTube videos all day long.

At $2 per 1000 views [1], and assuming ~100 views per day, that would lead to $52 per year, assuming she takes some time off during the weekend.

[1] https://www.thinkific.com/blog/youtube-money-per-view/amp/
4 car pile up. it's foggy and wet and no one can see jack.

40kph cars slam into each other. gas leaks out, maybe eventually starts a fire.

meanwhile the hydrogen batteries, some already fragile, just explode. on the plus side the blasts and fire make the pile up a lot more visible.
Sounds like the Soup Nazi [0] - good soup, but...

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAmaJkME2m4
Read the replies elsewhere. GDPR doesn’t care about whether a http request containing an IP is necessary or not. The GDPR is not in any way regulating how or why any PII is “transmitted” out of your system.
The number of people who altruistically donate kidneys per year in the USA is like 1-200, so the fact that Scott knows multiple EAs who did so (and that the kidney donor people are used to EAs) is pretty high-tier evidence that either there are a LOT more EAs than I thought, or they do it MUCH higher rates than the general population.
I expected something nicer looking. This looks like the kind of place I would normally expect to be a good place to take kids.
> outright discrimination against males in tech

I'm sure you've seen some things here and there, but truly, saying "discrimination against males in tech" is a problem is quite ridiculous.
A bit of unfair comment. These steps apply only to ALTER statements that are NOT supported natively by SQLite.

The natively supported statements are as easy to perform as in MySQL or Postgres, for example.

> "The only schema altering commands directly supported by SQLite are the 'rename table', 'rename column', 'add column', 'drop column' commands shown above. However, applications can make other arbitrary changes to the format of a table using a simple sequence of operations.
A very small proportion of obesity is secondary to hypothyroidism which isn’t supplemented with synthroid/thyroid hormone, hypothalamic/pituitary axis dysfunction, adrenal corticotroph, or exogenous corticosteroids. If viruses are blamed its going to be pseudoscience to sell pills.

An accepted rule of nutrition/diet/physiology is that an excess of 3,500 calories will lead to a gain of 1lb of fat.

The basal metabolic rate for an adult in the United States is 1,731 calories (numbers based on averages returned in google, 38.1 years old, 5’11, 181 lbs).

So 1,731 calories for a sedentary person is really easy to surpass. If they surpass that by a few hundred calories a day then they’ll gain a pound every 10 days(ish). After ballooning up they can jump on the ozempic train and lose weight. Or just stay obese.

If you don’t know anyone on ozempic then I’ll share - the weight loss appears mostly due to discomfort. Eating what they used to do becomes very uncomfortable due to abdominal pain/nausea and constipation. So they calorie restrict and they start to lose weight because they’re below their BMR.
Ellsworth M Toohey?
You will run into compatibility issues almost immediately. Running a local Postgres container is really the only option.
HN crowd can absolutely be a target market too.
> As an interpreted language, daScript typically outperforms everything, including the blazing fast LuaJIT

According to https://dascript.org/ when calculating the geomean of fibonacci, primes, particles and n-body daScript interpreter claims to be 3.5 times faster than LuaJIT and 11.7 times faster than the PUC Lua VM.

Did someone verify this? What's the trick? How can daScript be faster than the tracing LuaJIT (or even than the LuaJIT interpreter, if that one was used instead of the JIT)?
Usability.

On my iPad for instance, when I want to visit Hacker News I open Safari and type "n", it gets autofilled, and I hit enter and I got there. Want to use my RSS reader? I type "1", it autofills, easy.

I have no trouble looking at a Desktop icon and interpreting it but for whatever reason all mobile app icons look the same to me. Although I have only two pages of mobile apps on my iPad (thank goddess!) I have several that have an icon based on an "N" and several that have an icon based on "H" and my Remote Desktop Protocol viewer is the same shade of orange as HN. Hard.

Mobile apps are frequently spyware, they frequently spam me with unwanted notifications, hide important functionaly behind hamburger menus. Just ask yourself, when you go to some site like Reddit and they put up a popup telling you to download the app because it is "better" -- do you really believe it will be better?
I had my own copyright infringed multiple times and honestly I don't care.

It's a natural market tax for being popular, which likely means you are making plenty of money in sales as well.
Of course I'll try to reduce the ways people can get my product for free so I can make more money, but

I'm way more pissed about income tax, let's make that one illegal (as it once was).

I can understand condemning the breach of contract of someone copying something they received and promised not to copy - but making simple for massive corporations to track and go after users is downright criminal and the nth demonstration that governments are corrupted and serve only the wealthy and powerful.

Also, if I copied from someone else and I never accepted a contract with you, why should I limit what I can do?

This is definitely not the pressing problem which needs a solution.

While we're at it, let's get rid of patents too and allow copying ideas in our own country - so that we won't have to wait for a chinese rip-off in order to get cheaper products.
See what the VC market in Brazil is saying
I've just talked to this VC, who owns a Billion dollar company and he said "it's fishing time, the valuations are a lot more rational now, so it's time to invest, not time to retreat."

In my point of view this is the right approach
> This is what I mean by the (imo) unfounded cynicism about SpaceX. Failed 3 or 4 times, kinda sorta got one. That's a bad record for a certain type of engineering;

I wasn’t saying that the failures indicate that the process isn’t working. You’ll notice that wasn’t my initial point at all when I expressed my skepticism.

I only brought it up to respond to the point: “They have already flight tested the belly flop flip and had no problems with it.”

That isn’t true. They have had problems with it. That’s why I mentioned those tests.

Could they continue to iterate on it and work out those problems? Yes! They could. Could they continue to iterate on it, and find the problems to be very hard to overcome? Yes, that kind of thing has also happened in SpaceX history.

I’m not saying they’re doomed to fail. I’m saying there’s something that seems to me relatively high risk, and a core part of their plans. I don’t think that aspect has been fully de-risked, and I don’t understand what the alternative option would be if they can’t make it reliable enough.

If you call that unfounded skepticism, then I’d turn around and say you’re being overly optimistic.

> It took _20_ launches to get a successful Falcon 9 upright landing.

I know. I watched every single one live. As I’ve watched every single Starhopper test live. I remember exactly where I was for their first successful landing of each.

I’m not hoping they fail. I desperately want them to be successful. If you asked me to bet on it, I’d say more likely than not that they get it sorted. But I’m less confident than I was for the F9 landings.
I can navigate to the post from their homepage but the direct link is returning 404
I know it's heresy, but could you defer the decision by sharding? E.g. customers with an email that hashes to a positive number goes to instance A; others to instance B. That might buy you some time.
Which social media app was that?
Administering an RDBMS server is only part of the problem. It's also mentioned quite clearly there that by having data locality (just disk I/O) you get massive efficiency gains in queries and effectively don't have to worry about the N+1 query problem. Queries run in the order of microseconds, not milliseconds because of network latency.
Thanks, will do! It is not relevant for the discussions as such, but still an interesting aspect of HN to study, IMO.
This is correct and the naysayers either have amnesia or are hopelessly optimistic that central planning works.
Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution
The aesthetics of those diagrams strongly remind me of whimsical: https://whimsical.com
i use it everyday and i'm nowhere near silicon valley. i've also noticed a lot of startup hiring posts for django developers. we are both speaking anecdotally, but here is the HN hiring post from october 2023 that includes 9 posts: https://hnhiring.com/search?q=django
I'm not seeing that mentioned in this blogpost, was it mentioned in one of the other ones?
After some editing, aye. But you use emojis on your website and you can't even type your first name with 7-bit ASCII. Ö isn't ASCII.
What if the restaurant wants only well behaved kids there?
Ah, thanks for that.
Musk and Gates received some criticism here and there.
What does authenticity mean here? It is an ideological term - meaning, no one will assert they are trying to be inauthentic.
The actual authentic content is going outside and use internet only for work / entertainment.
I am glad to have the whole scheme laid out, which wouldn't have happened if he'd just pled guilty.
Funny, 10 years after running a startup powered by Django I still think of the admin as one of the most functional “out of the box” features of any framework I’ve used. Didn’t matter that it wasn’t “beautiful!”