skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, "fail over" will always fail. Any multi-data-center architecture should actively utilize all data centers, all the time, maybe dedicate more traffic to one or the other. But, if you've got a "passive" data center that you wanna activate during an outage, you're gonna have a bad day. Every time.
one of the great books on understanding corporate management too.
I had originally addressed someone saying most of their hard earned money goes to welfare, which is incorrect. I pointed out much more goes to profits instead. That’s all.
ClickHouse UDFs with RowBinary in Python
When Charles Darwin (1880ish) created memes I doubt he thought they would die off in 2021...
Riposte to the 23
> It's also not our jobs.

> Now it's my job

I think the reality is, it has always been up to us. Collective action is important but we need to understand when the status quo is insufficient and act accordingly. Certainly I agree government action would be very helpful here, requiring accountability and living wages, but these structures are always vulnerable to abuse by the powers that be.
Browsers enforce Certificate Transparency by rejecting certificates which aren't published in CT logs. A certificate that is published in CT logs isn't necessarily legitimate, but at least it's public so domain owners can detect it and raise the alarm if the certificate is illegitimate.

Unfortunately, Article 45 states that certificates issued by EU-mandated CAs "shall not be subject to any mandatory requirements other than the requirements laid down in paragraph 1" and paragraph 1 does not allow browsers to reject certificates not published in CT logs.

Thus, EU-mandated CAs will be able to issue undetectable MitM certificates.
> All weight loss is because of a calorie deficit; that isn't (or shouldn't be) controversial.

It's very controversial, which is part of why the SMTM blog exists in the first place. If running a calorie deficit were sufficient then any diet in the world should work, and we have so much evidence of obese people struggling with quality of life even living on extreme calorie deficit diets. It's not willpower, not all calories are equal, and there's a lot of questions about how useful calories are as a metric in general.

(I'm of the opinion food calories are the last bastion of Phlogiston Theory in any of the sciences. The Standard Calorie Model was invented at the bizarre Sanitarium at Battle Creek by vegetable-hating vegetarians who religiously thought grains were the one true food from God, and were designed to sell more cereals [Dr. Kellogg and his brother that founded the Kellogg Company], crackers, and even cookies [Dr. Graham who helped found Nabisco]. Food Calories are a poor metric of chemical content. Exercise Calories are worse metric of human energy output: The human body is not an ideal spherical furnace and the moments of highest heat output are dangerous conditions better known as "fevers" and "strokes". The Standard Calorie Model is "replicated science", but most of the replication studies were done by German scientists in the 1930s and 1940s and any replication crisis that involves possible war crimes makes other sciences' p-hacking crises look positively quaint. There is a lot of unsolved controversy around Food Calories.)
Net wealth is basically the value of all the assets you own, minus all the debt you have. The data ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf ) just doesn't support what you said. Even within the bottom 25% of households ('bottom' with reference to their net wealth), the median net wealth increased from $400 to $3500, and this is adjusted for inflation (all in terms of 2022 dollars). Source is p18 of that PDF I linked above
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

-- Francis Jeffery
There is also no recourse when you never get called back. Better to just leave the call on hold until a human appears.
1) The market will self correct. Not everyone has the long term vision or efficient capital allocation like Buffett. If this encourages more Buffetts then it's a great outcome for the society.

2) Corporations absolutely should pay 0% taxes.
Why do we tax entities that provide employment, innovate and provide goods and services? It's so backwards. The amount of time, money and resources spent by corporations avoiding taxes can be used for other productive purposes.

All taxes should be captured at an individual level.

Corporations should only be taxed for usage of non-renewable, public goods so that they are incentivized to optimize for that
sounds like an eminently responsible response to potential political sabotage of the economy
Just wishing there was no mismatch between idiomatic SQL schemas and idiomatic programming data structures (join (join (join ....

Working directly with SQL does feel a bit like peppering your modern codebase with COBOL.
"Mesopunk builds on the sense of family, community, and the structure of society for the benefit of all." It seems pretty light though, although it's possible based on their examples that this is mostly a Spanish language genre.
i.e. they are really, really lazy

As of two years ago when i dumped fedspace, the agency i was tied to had the phones legit mdm locked down and usage was actively monitored. It sucked so hard that phone was effectively unusable, but when the site youre at makes you leave all personal electronics outside the fence, its better than nothing.
The breaking happened before European colonization. There are (as always) a lot of reasons, but most historians point the finger at Genghis Khan and the Mongols. The fall of Baghdad in 1258 is often cited as the end of the Islamic Golden Age.

The area was dominated mostly by the Ottomans until the 19th century. Only then did Europe begin to colonize it in earnest. (They'd been focusing on the Americas instead.)

So European colonization plays a big role in what's going on now, but it's distinct from the end of that period from the 8th through 13th centuries where Islamic scholarship far outstripped anything going on in Europe. Unfortunately, all of that broke down, and the world was much the poorer for it.
Why? Ultimately we're talking about a web app with a thin wrapper desktop client that hopefully has an API between the two.

Does Java have a killer framework for this? Something that builds super fast, creates a small executable that doesn't gobble memory like crazy?

That's what devs in this space care about, not the language (as I think this post indicates).
Neon will stay true to Postgres. Our storage is sharded and bottomless. You can get a ton of TPS scale with large Postgres compute plus read replicas.

Shared nothing architectures are useless for 99% of the market and break compatibility with the single node databases.
What is the recourse if nobody picks up the hold?
is the modern pedigree/provenance of value because you don't want to buy stolen coins? or is it faked coins? or something else?

I favor provenance, but my primary interest is ancient provenance.

Authenticity of course, but I find coinage of obscure satraps with brief reigns interesting just because they nail down a small geography and time period, as opposed to say an Alexander the Great coin which, who knows, there were a ton of them everywhere.
> The author didn't say it is a bug.

The author's title literally refers to it as a bug.
Lots of industries with low barrier to entry have their 'rock stars' who people aspire to be and will work hard towards, at least for a while. Carmack or Bowie or Ramsay.

But they're the 0.1% of the 0.1%.
this is great. now we can get traffic lights and left turn arrows quicker?
Yeah I played it without playing either. I did watch an AW1 recap halfway through. But its basically all so crazy its fun not knowing stuff too.
He also paid $300 million for a minority share of a website for finding someone to walk your dog and invested $375 million in a company that failed to make robots that can make pizza.

It was not just WeWork that set his reputation as an investor.
Thanks for the awesome links.
The answer is already in the submission.

They would gladly facilitate an option the Treasury pursues in its role as fiscal agent, since they can always claim that it was the Treasury’s decision and they had no other option as fiscal agent (which happens to be true).

The end result is the Federal Reserve would be forced to follow its unwritten 0th commandment: maintain the integrity of the payments system. As a consequence of that imperative it would be operationally forced to continue to ensure Treasury auctions and payments continued to go through. Presumably accounting gimmicks would be employed to avoid “technically” exceeding the debt ceiling, like simply allowing Treasury to overdraw. But at the end of the day there would be no constitutional crisis. At least not a forced one. Of course we shouldn’t underestimate the power of stupidity so it can’t be ruled out entirely.
Please see my sibling comment to yours for three reasons why this is a terrible justification for spying.

> The most powerful country in the world should have an inside track on whats going on in important markets, by hook or by crook

We can get a pretty good idea of what's going on in important markets with publicly available information. Why is this the job of a spy agency and not its economics departments? I would like the U.S. to have a strong understanding of upcoming weather patterns, but that doesn't mean we ask the CIA to spy on everyone who's using aerosol sprays.
So this article helped with that? The rave wasn't regulated properly. By the way, NFTs are bad.

I guess it's a reminder that your redditor from yester-decade is now old enough to do that as a professional gig.
If I had to guess I would say that willingness to stand up to institutional corruption is negatively correlated with being in 5 figures of unforgivable debt.
I see it!
The amount of back seat dev that happens whenever Gnome does anything is amazing. You have no idea what the challenges are or how the development process works for this project. The workspace switcher could just be some drive by PR, who knows. Tripple buffering and fractional scaling are hard problems. If you don't think so, feel free to show them how it's done and implement it yourself.
Do organizations and governments have rights?
Isn't Greenplum intended for OLAP style workloads? I believe Vitess is intended to be used for OLTP workloads.
It's also the title of the best album by The Police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q73LMKKxbc&list=PL6vwnon3sI...
It's nice to see the emphasis on performance. Google didn't have to do that, but they did. Even though I'm sure this will indirectly contribute to Google's revenue, it seems to me that the web users are the direct winners here. The web Vitals metrics seem reasonable as well.

Ironically, adding gtag.js/Google analytics to a website brings the speed score down significantly in my experience.
I really hope this is a joke lol. The amount of paperwork required today is far in excess of anything required pre-GFC. Basically any wealth acquired prior to then is up for confiscation, and this happens all the time. But again, nobody cares, because injustices delivered upon the rich are fine. Imagine you inherited a property from your parents, how do you imagine you’d be able to prove the provenance of that asset? Or the cash used to buy it/pay the mortgage on it? You can’t.
Having tried Neon, it’s not really a replacement for Planetscale. PS’ in-cloud features are hard to replace. In my review, PS won on a feature and cost basis.

I think PlanetScale is the most mature option on the market right now by far
China Is Lending Billions to Countries in Financial Trouble
120 fps at 14-bit, no rolling shutter or flickering, down to 1/80000 sec captures (hence, super short flash duration), 1 second of preshoot, autofocus basically everywhere, a ton of ports and custom buttons
> Snowden knew this when he leaked the documents and he now resides, ironically, in one of the most surveilled countries in the world

Just to put the end of that sentence in context:

"Privacy International's 2007 survey, covering 47 countries, indicated that there had been an increase in surveillance and a decline in the performance of privacy safeguards, compared to the previous year. Balancing these factors, eight countries were rated as being 'endemic surveillance societies'. Of these eight, China, Malaysia and Russia scored lowest, followed jointly by Singapore and the United Kingdom, then jointly by Taiwan, Thailand and the United States."[0]

There are many, many reasons to criticize Russia - now more than ever - but those of us in the West should reflect on why we rate so poorly on this, too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance
https://archive.ph/AXBMz
I am ready to declare it the best OS. I've never been more productive since getting Fedora.

0 Forced reboots. With windows, forced reboots were a multi-weekly occurance. No dealing with autosaves and reopening anything.

Its so fast, you click and something pops up. With windows, there seems to be like a 0.2s delay on everything. This adds up.

I think I did some of those linux commands that everyone is afraid of doing. But I did that month 1, and I havent done anything since. I don't care if the rest of the world discovered The Year of Linux Desktop was 2023, but I surely figured it out.

Linux Desktop is ready for the big time.
Not nearly as big a problem as the positive spin they feel compelled put on everything. When everything sounds like a win, nothing does.
Are you implying that someone from Softbank was getting kickbacks from him?
What is your assessment outside of the unfortunate Boomer mis-reference?
She is overly obsessed with big tech when there are much more insidious anti-trust cases like banking, media, and broadband infrastructure. She only goes after what is hot and politically popular (exactly like a lot of founders). Big tech is now the easy punching bag because they made newspapers lose money and politicians blame them for the whole Biden/Trump/Clinton election issue. They are a good distraction from the more entrenched interests. If I were a lobbyist for Goldman/AT&T, there is no better candidate than her.

Her appointment in this case is politically charged. People don't usually go straight from academia to one of the highest seats in the executive unless they are put there by the incumbent administration to be an attack dog/push a very specific view of the world. She gives off opportunistic "during a gold rush, sell shovels" vibes, just on the regulatory side.
> susceptible to offline-dictionary attack and the cost is quite low (less than $10)

Only if it's a common password... you're saying this like it's a given, like you can break into anyone's WiFi for less than $10 after capturing a correct authentication challenge+response from a legitimate user.

If you have a stupid ISP in the area that uses crackable passwords, or tech-savvy users that change the password to something stupid, perhaps you'll have a decent recovery rate, but otherwise I'd estimate it's far below even odds whether this gets you into any given network.

Putting a dollar price on cracking a hash is like putting a dollar price on fresh air: if you have a laptop standing around, it's practically free to try a few million passwords; if you need a GPU farm, it may cost ten thousand euros; and it may be impossible if it's just not crackable (27 chars alphanumeric is just not possible, also not with a quantum computer in a thousand years, but you don't know that when all you've got is the challenge-response hash).
As a user of PlanetScale I don’t know what distinction you are making here and why.

I’ve never had compatibility issues with single-node databases. It “just works” in the cloud and locally thanks to MySQL support in vitess.
I hope it's just the name "Zero Punctuation" that he doesn't have the rights to, since he started making what was essentially Zero Punctuation but without the name "Zero Punctuation" before he was hired by The Escapist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWS9_nrKOPA
What can be done as an ordinary people to abolish this system? I firmly believe these types of systems are gross violations of the 1st amendment
Funny enough. Whenever possible, I round all my tips to cause the total to generate a particular two digit cents amount - so that I can easily detect fraud when I scan my statements. It’s my low tech error code check.
I believe OP was an employing a rhetorical device called hyperbole to emphasize their disapproval of the situation.
What prompt did you use? (Besides the transcript itself)
Right, none of that is the responsibility of the developers to provide. That's for the city to provide.

What's going on, however, is that California has hamstrung its ability to charge its existing citizens the costs of the services they are incurring thanks to Proposition 13, hence why expensive taxes, fees, and required public improvements are levied on new development. The wealthy older people who already own property (and aren't paying much for it) are being subsidized by the younger generation, and are paying out more than their fair share.
Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50k Prize (2007)
the tone of this article makes me question who paid for all this
For me it is best to work on important problems that are hard to solve
Capital will never let either scenario occur. It's all just theatre. The US will never default on debt, it's a convenient negotiation tactic to waterdown more progressive legislation. Just like how there's always 1-2 democrats that just can't get behind progressive legislation.
Under the heading of Type Safety:

Golang and Rust both offer type safety, but Golang is statically typed and uses a garbage collector to manage memory (as mentioned earlier).

Why would they word it that way? Is Rust any less statically typed than Go?
> I work with banks on, um issues, without disclosing too much. Occasionally we find issues with their software workflows, and this isn't related directly to monetary stuff. We're not allowed to have the end result change in any way most of the time.

I think this is a good constraint in general for banks to have, and its definitely harder to change a workflow under these constraints.

> Every single department is in deep blame avoidance mode. It's not "find and identify problems" mode, it's "It wasn't me" mode.

This tends to happen in large organizations, and is incredibly toxic to productivity. The most extreme form is when you get fired (or otherwise censured) for fixing something because "You were in charge of the thing that was causing all this trouble?!"
> Do humans generalize outside of their training data?

Obviously they don't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg7WchZCW0c It’s because it worked too well. People saved and intuit makes more money from debt. From winning TC40 in 2007 and then being sunset 16 years later because, well, money.
By that definition The Fast and the Furious franchise entries qualify.
I wish the people of the past hadn't forgotten to tell us that the robots of the future would collect our private data and store it on the computers of some gargantuan corporation so that they could profile us better.
Because the people in charge are mainstream publishing professionals, who can't even come up with a good explanation
If you need NBC news to help you decide on a lifestyle, you're in far worse trouble than marriage could ever put you in.
Agree, plus let's avoid having the CI pipeline creating commits in the remote repo. I like CI/CD to be stateless with regards to the files in the repository. I tried to plea for this today with my colleagues with very mixed results
For anyone else interested, the paper he's referring to is "The Reversal Curse": https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288.
Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models: A Survey
Your only point is that people disagree/downvote his point? Literally just a textbook example of ad populum and nothing else?
Optus cell and internet down across Australia
FDA Proposes to Ban Food Additive, brominated vegetable oil
I think it deserves a lot of praise, but also some criticism:

* While it may keep their creative vision "pure", the lack of lower graphical settings makes it run pretty terribly on an RTX 3080, which is very frustrating. You can brute-force this problem away with DLSS, but I like native resolution and I'm sick of DLSS being used as a crutch.

* The difficulty is all over the place. "Story" mode is likely too easy, while "Normal" varies between being reasonable and damn near impossible. A weaker enemy can take 2 bullets in Story, and 10 in normal. That's frustrating when ammo is so tight early on. In general, the game lacks a good "progression" of difficulty. It's a roller-coaster instead of a curve.

* To add on to the difficulty, the mechanics do not feel as consistent in AW2 as AW1. Why do some enemy types have a shield you need to burn away, while others don't? (Despite looking similar) For others, it's unclear which ones will vanish with a little light and which ones require an intense light - and what exactly gets them to disappear. Why can't the flashlight have a bit more grace when a target leaves the crosshair for 0.1 seconds? Why do so many enemies have extendo-reach and teleporting? Why isn't dodging timing better telegraphed? Etc.

* The story, at least so far, hasn't hit the same highs for me. It feels a little like we're doing the same thing over again, and it doesn't hit as hard the second time after the reveals and twists from AW1 are already used up.
Bit trickier in the EU. The countries themselves have constitutions that can be amended, with varying ways in which they can be enforced.

In theory this should give sufficient protection, but it becomes a bit complicated if the EU enacts regulations that contradict national laws or even the constitution.

The EU derives its power not from a constitution but from its founding treaties. As best I can tell the EU claims these treaties have precedence, but honestly it's a bit unclear how it could overrule the constitutions that gave the signatories the power to ratify the treaties. I do know that the EU wasn't happy when Poland ruled some parts of these treaties unconstitutional (which is really part of a much bigger political fight, but is illustrative).
SBF used a random generator to generate the insurance report.

Holmes straight up lied about the result.

Neumann lost company's money too. WeWork is not a success. What are you talking about???

Still, they are not comparable to Neumann.
I think I might be the only one on the planet that tries to avoid tooling like this that's tied to a subscription. If it's a local app and there aren't any ongoing operating costs, tolerating subscriptions for stuff like this seems insane to me. I'll happily buy an upgrade when HTTP changes versions.

If you were a plumber, would you rent your pipe fitting tools forever just to have the manufacturer frequently changing the way they work to justify the subscription model? The software development industry has gone crazy.

I'll never in my life pay $30 / year for something like this, but I wouldn't hesitate to buy a perpetual license for $150 upfront if it were useful to me.

I have Java projects that are 10+ years old and I can check out the repo, install IntelliJ IDEA v7 (perpetual), install all my other tooling that had perpetual licenses, and have everything "just work". It's so frustrating to try that in modern times where there's no hope in hell a project that's been idle for 5 years is serviceable without a bunch of tweaking due to the rolling release, subscription software everyone's been suckered into using.

The software industry is going backwards IMO.

/rant