skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This system was developed from 2008-2013, a very different time when hardware was "cheap" and the Cloud was not not a thing.

Event Sourcing dictates that Events are never deleted which means that the data volume keeps growing and growing. There is - in this system - no way to delete old events. When I brought this up, the response was "Just add another hard drive". In the modern Cloud era, adding a hard drive is extremely expensive.

The system uses CQRS and all events generate reports that are stored in Elasticsearch. Data is never deleted, only an extra event gets added /saying/ it's deleted. The data is still cached in Elasticsearch. All of it, all the data back to 2013. Added an extra 32GB of RAM just to keep up with it is ludicrously expensive.

We're in Europe. Guess what a system like this does to GDPR. Can you tell me which events I need to delete when somebody says they want to be forgotten? Yeah.

I can't delete old data. It's impossible without collapsing the entire system like a house of cards.

Finally, and this is the piece de resistance, the developers decided to develop a relational database structure ON TOP OF EVENT SOURCING. We're talking primary keys, foreign keys, cascading and non-cascading deletes. Importing an Excel sheet of 10000 rows takes TWO WEEKS because it generates hundreds of events per Excel cell that is being read. We brought it down to 10 minutes and there is plenty of room for improvement it's just that we have other priorities right now. Currently, simple flat "tables" with no foreign keys take several seconds to import (just like in a regular RDMS).

Oh yeah note that this is a system that is used by 4-5 users at a time, not hundreds or thousands of users.
This already exists too
For my own knowledge, if the options were between using SMS for 2FA or not having 2FA at all then what is better? I've heard mixed things about this.
Do you know what he's up to?

I remember he was working on some super encrypted FPGA phone ages ago.. and then I haven't hear his name in .. years?
you are delusional if you think you can offer "real peace" to people who behead and torture, and chant "death to you". this is not an option, and is not an option for anyone seriously discussing the subject. I asked you what to do about rocket launches, daily ones, that kill people. Peace process can’t occur out of nowhere, by just extending a hand.
The fact that there is something, just something can drive me crazy. Why is there something and not just nothing.
SSh hosts have supported certs for at least a decade.
It's a really great alternative to firebase for mobile apps. Works pretty nicely with Realm so you get offline first db with powerful syncing. All the benefits of realm on the edge device with the power of the mongo platform. I dismissed mongo atlas for years because "mongo", until I finally gave it a chance. Overall been pretty pleased.
I use it on-prem (well, on a VPS). It stores JSON documents, and it's easy to work with. If your data looks like a tree, it works pretty well, also for large documents. If you depend on relations between documents, you're better off with an SQL database, but note that for many cases --I'd say practically all mundane cases-- there's really no need for relations the SQL way. MongoDB also does relations, but a bit more convoluted.
Primarily K focuses on applying functions to vectors. If using “each” can be avoided, it is.

It’s a wonderful language to work with.
There are five in the GPs post:

- Strawman

- Ad Hominem

- False Dilemma

- Hasty Generalization

- Appeal to Emotion

One more for free; Begging the Question...
>There are gains to be had from exhibiting private artwork in an internationally renowned institution; inclusion within a curated major exhibition lends it credibility and legitimacy, which can be added to an impressive provenance trail, making it attractive when put up for sale.

We gain putting things that are "hidden gems" and telling people it's good, for prestige, and/or leading up to sales. Art collectors that care about money aren't usually art appreciators. It's just a slow version of bored apes.
This is not what people mean when they say a "company town". It's about that same company being your employer.
Muslims recite that Allah is “lord of all the worlds” every day. Think they’ll be fine. This is true of every religion I think, it’s only the non religious projecting that state it would “upend widely held beliefs”
> While I'm not an Apple fanboy but I don't think it's Apple's fault that the ecosystem _they_ invested in became useful to them as well as their people.

It kind of is. They replaced the standard messaging app with a proprietary alternative, and then othered and ostracized users of non-Apple platforms who tried to use the standard.

> Argument such as "everyone uses phones..." don't seem very conductive to a fruitful discussion. For an example, similar case can be made for all AI tech (ChatGPT, Gemini etc) as all major tech companies are doing AI development these days.

How so? What similar case?

> "Everyone is doing AI. One AI organisation shouldn't be able to ostracize customers of every other AI organisation, punish them, and deliberately cripple the experience for its users."

How is OpenAI punishing people using alternatives to ChatGPT?

> The above is the same argument from a different perspective and is making a similar case as yours but for ChatGPT and Gemini. I hope that am I able to contrast the similarities sufficiently.

I don't see the example you gave as matching at all, but I look forward to your clarification. I'm not being sarcastic either, I know it sounds like I am.
I'd almost say if you were going to go down to 2 coins it might actually make more sense to have and $0.10 and $0.50 pieces. I.e. force all prices to a multiple of 0.1 instead of 0.01 but leave a larger coin to make larger totals or scrounging up more than a dollar when you don't have a bill go quicker.

Or even just go straight to quarters being the only change at all. A penny CPI adjusted from when they got rid of the half penny in the US (1857) is already worth $0.35 today.
Mongo is the main nosql choice. Mongo is great if you think a flexible schema is good. Mongo is not great if you think a flexible schema is bad. That sums it up
True, but my point is that the unethical company town model, and our modern system of HOAs that are typically outsourced to management companies, is an increasingly fine line.
Do they publish the questions/data anywhere? Would love to have an informal competition among similarly minded friends.

Of course, I would try to do it in Pandas and get crushed.
I don't really understand how any crypto is "unregulated money" and it's intrinsically the most tracable money store

[Edited for some horrible mobile autocorrect attrocities]
Thank you just went live with my AI Chat/Art site https://netwrck.com all the best

Great Service.

Interested to do a ICO with NETW token on the platform too.
That article is paywalled, looking at the numbers I got this:

> the first half of 2023 witnessed a total of 168 million inbound and outbound individuals passing through China’s immigration

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-tourism-in-2023-o...

Seems fairly decent.
So nothing has changed in the 3 years since that article?
Your points are great but SSH is extensible so openid connect support doesn't mean much since you can do it with existing ssh.

"Security by obscurity" is only a thing if you're relying on that mechanism for security. People already configure SSH port knocking as you noted. It can be considered attack surface reduction and is a good feature given they're not using a secret link for any security control.

One benefit of their approach might be how you can use TLS pki now instead if setting up ssh-ca's. Potentially you would need to manage less pki.

But a criticism I have is how http* has much more vulns and new attack techniques being developed all the time unlike ssh. I can imagine LFI or request smuggling on the same http/2 web server causing RCE via their protocol.
Large New Dataset 220k AI Art Text to Image Prompts
Have you looked out of the window recently? Noticed anything odd?
> "This really is exclusively about Apple's bottom line."

I'm unconvinced. Like I said further up the thread, the evidence to the contrary of the 'misery' of using other apps is abundant, especially given the standing of iMessage on the global scale.
Fair enough. On the other hand, to my ear the title "NASA finds life-sparking energy source and molecule" sets the tone, as though life was sparked, or that we even know could be sparked by the presence of these ingredients with some degree of confidence.
How is Arena toxic? There's basically no opportunity for the players to converse besides bland preset options which rarely even gets used outside of a greeting at the start of the game.
ABS pipe?
How do I bring up non-negotiables with a hiring team?
Not really. `unsafe` is the footgun.
I've noticed that dollar bills are cheaper than wallpaper. Wouldn't it be fun to do a room in dollar bills! My very own Scrooge McDuck cash vault!

But there's probably some killjoy law that makes this illegal.
Has consistently been selling, but yeah quite a big unload https://archive.is/aPcRF
This guess is definitely wrong, because Google has never felt the need to choose between messaging apps - the more the merrier! They’ll die off on their own in a few months anyways.
On the contrary, I am convinced many taboos that persisted for millenia had very practical reasons. The world has changed dramatically since the industrialization. Therefore many reasons don't apply anymore. But that doesn't change the value propositions of those taboos in the dark age or the stone age.
HomePad!
My favorite solution to this is probably ENS (Ethereum Name Service) - you can link your public key to a domain name, essentially, and it's extremely verifiable and widely adopted.
Miles and kilometers can be estimated by the Fibonacci Sequence. The conversion (mi -> km) is very nearly the golden ratio (1.61 and approximately 1.62, respectively, IIRC). For any number in the sequence taken as miles, the subsequent number is the distance in kilometers. Your way is probably quicker, but it’s a fun bit of information.
You're right - I should have clarified that I'm talking about new projects - as in "Why would someone choose Postgres over one of these distributed SQLite providers for a new project?"

(I'm sure those use-cases exist, but I'm not sure if they exist inside the use-cases Supabase supports)
I applaud your sentiment. If I didn’t already fear a general collusion from the big players I too could get behind this idea. Sadly, the logical outcome of company towns in the kind of monopsonistic environment we’re in in the US is that there will be even less incentive to making housing easier to build outside of these company towns, and wages will continue to be depressed, with less mobility for workers.
This is too reductive, you can essentially have flexible schemas with most modern relational databases and without the downsides of document-based DBs.

In 99% of the cases, even if you need a flexible schema, PostgreSQL will remain the best choice.
Finding You: Network Effect of Telecom Vulnerabilities for Location Disclosure
My understanding of crypto (having worked in the industry for years) is that it's not about decentralisation so much as it is about reliability and transparency.

The decentralization aspect was mostly necessary in the early days to avoid being shut down by government. Now that crypto is widespread, it is not as important. What is important though are things that are missing from our current fiat monetary system; transparency and reliability.

While the fiat monetary system appears to be very reliable for the individual, it is in fact extremely unreliable due to its lack of transparency. Governments can easily manipulate the supply (and therefore the true value) of currency behind the scenes without your knowledge and that is one of the primary mechanisms via which it steals wealth from individuals and deprive them of opportunities.

Arguments against cryptocurrency are essentially saying that these individuals who are being robbed and deprived of opportunities don't matter because the system only needs to work for rich people and fool the poor into thinking that it doesn't harm them.

Unfortunately, many poor people understand exactly how the system robs them.

- It devalues our salary contracts via inflation of buying power.

- Centralized currency creation centralizes opportunities due to the Cantillon Effect and this creates an asymmetric playing field which unfairly benefits corporations and large organizations.

- Given that income tax is levied against each transfer between individuals, newly issued currency cannot travel very far from the government money printers as each hop away from the printers incurs a significant additional tax in the remaining untaxed amount which keeps shrinking. This exacerbates the Cantillon Effect and punishes regional areas and individuals who are far from the centers of money printing. It keeps all economic activity on a very short leash which is held tightly by the government.
SMS 2FA is better than no MFA at all, despite the very valid concerns about SMS. It at least protects against credential stuffing and similar automated attacks.
Ironic that you describe what's been going on in gaza for years.
I used to do that. Almost no cashier could do the math in their head, they needed to type it into the register, and then they go "oh".
Why not aluminium?
There are fully anonymous transactions in some of the cryptocurrencies, like in Zcash I believe. I thought such innovations would overtake and make the original bitcoin obsolete, but I've been very wrong, because bitcoin is still popular.
>disable Bluetooth when you're not using it (but you'll be vulnerable while you are

As someone with bluetooth devices (Smartwatch, buds, headphones, glasses etc) this is...difficult lol
That’s my practical understanding of the term as well.

Me: English, living in Australia for >20 years
I see this Jepsen link posted all the time. People: PLEASE don't use outdated software. MongoDB has made mistakes and they are public about their data issues on https://www.mongodb.com/alerts. MongoDB 4.2.6 is old and I believe it's approaching EoL based on https://www.mongodb.com/support-policy/lifecycles

I'm not going to push for you to use MongoDB but am merely trying to provide some context around that Jepsen analysis.
in CA, that is when demand spikes (people come home and start AC) and supply falls off from solar.
> The Chinese auto market is a small one compared to US however

Uh no...
https://www.factorywarrantylist.com/car-sales-by-country.htm...
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/passenger_cars_sal...
Interesting so with you your level of visualization remained similar just boosted.

Same as me. Except I typically have a vivid minds eye so it was turned up to 11. I still remember the barn and farm path leading to it that was built from mind association freewheeling from an Apple to a tree to an orchard to a barn it was one of the most interesting experiences of my life.

I’m too old to move in circles that would sell me mdma now, I’ve got ‘narc’ written all over me, but I’d love to do it again and still hold out hope LSD will find me!

One old hippy once told me ‘it will find you my friend when you need it most’. Then he disappeared in a puff of (pot) smoke wizard style.
Is it though? HOAs are close to becoming the same company as your employer?

It's not about companies owning and renting out/selling property, it's about directly tying your housing to a specific employer.
Another good WaPo article about marketers and copywriters getting laid off due to ChatGPT:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taki...
That's pretty alarming. It is more than the entire population of Canada.
That number is counted whenever citizens travel to/from Hong Kong and Macau. There are people making day trips to/from Hong Kong every day.
"Pay $5000 for a normal airline seat"

Dude, Corona is over. Tickets have never been cheaper.

China is an amazing place.
Classic cast iron drain pipe was connected with by pouring molten lead into the joints after packing them with oakum. Real medieval technology.

I'm not super-fond of the so-called "no-hub" joints for cast iron. IMO, the rubber is just waiting to deteriorate underground and cause an expensive nightmare 20 years down the road.
He is still working on it, the precursor, they're just starting development of the messaging app that will run on that dev platform and eventually run on the betrusted final device.
each is a necessary evil of K. It can often be avoided by more thoughtful use of vectors.
What doesn't make sense about that?

Even if you don't owe me any explanation, if you freely give me a bad one I'm allowed to say there's something weird going on. Especially if you chose to make a fully public post about it.

Read the comment again. "perplexed" "It only communicates" "Am I reading too much into this" "curious". I don't see any implication of being owed more. It's a criticism that the post is not leaving the message that is intended.

It's not the same, but it reminds me of the quote: My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
It is going to being very interesting to see all the prosecutions that result from this. The feds know how to make good use of the access they're about to have based what they've been able to do with other exchanges' records.
We store each user's individual mailbox as its own encrypted SQLite database file on an encrypted volume. Even if the volume is decrypted, mailboxes can still not be read. This is the main reason and we detail this in the link we shared.

Another requirement was full text search on the mailboxes with the data itself being encrypted at rest (SQLite fit our needs for that too; not many others provide this). We have a comparison chart at https://forwardemail.net/blog/docs/best-quantum-safe-encrypt....
> But you have setup SMS 2FA enabled

No. I did not. Nor do I now.

I had a TOTP setup in 1Password and Mongo was telling me MFA _wasn't_ set up and sending me through the MFA setup flow again.

All options, SMS included, were failing in that MFA setup flow they pushed me in to.

They're back now and my existing TOTP token is generating one time use passwords that work now.
For a arbitrary Apter Tree, a linear scan is unordered. You can impose additional constraints to get a ordered traversal (in the same way that, eg, you can sort a assoc-list/JSON-style key-value table by keys to get a key-order traversal), and the result is still a valid Apter Tree (respectively valid list of key-value pairs).
Yes. Which is bad.
SoA form also lets you trivially store additional data at every node, eg. if an algorithm needs a flag for each node, you just alloc an array for it.
The three and a half facts you listed (life may have started earlier if it came to Earth from Mars or elsewhere) do not logically lead to your conclusion.
Is this what inspired the idea of "Monster Isle", where giant monsters dwell?
Readily obtainable hydrocarbons are lost for the forseeable future. However, haven't we made it easier for future civilizations to obtain minerals and metals? We have extracted, refined and placed them all in concentrated surface areas all over the planet (i.e. city limits)
How/Where did you sell them? I am one of the millennials you mentioned and would love to know where I can keep an eye out for this stuff once I can afford it.
When I was in college, it was a thing for students to design and build a digital LED clock out of random logic. A friend of mine wanted to make one that would tell time only in 15 minute chunks, as nobody needed more precise time than that.

Yes, I did a digital clock, too, my first digital design/build. It never did work right.
Copper is perfectly viable for interior small diameter pipe. Home owners aren't typically DIYing a cast iron main sewer.
> The least capable workers are going to be displaced first

The most automatable jobs aren't perfectly correlated with the least capable workers. Moravec's paradox: what's easy for us is hard for computers, and vice-versa. First job to disappear to silicon? "Computer": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

Right now, ChatGPT is doing a good job of being a free intern-level worker in basically any task that can be performed purely in writing, which kinda-is-kinda-isn't a high bar on the skill level, but it's wild on the breadth of tasks affected.

On the other hand, physical robotics is still hard. Real-time perception is hard. Tesla's gathered a few billion miles of real-world experience, and it's still not good enough to avoid legal battles over the name "autopilot".
Was the same with chat control. Suddenly hacking systems was alright as long as a judge looked over it.

Its just framing.
Just inorganic material combining at random and eventually, over about 10 billion years, randomly creating something that self replicates in some way, beginning the process of evolution through natural selection and inevitably progressing to life as we know it.

I don't think religion is needed at all for this. I also don't think this has to be a common thing (after all, here on Earth it only happened once, but it's also possible that once life is widespread it makes it very difficult for emergent new forms of life to take off).
Oh I wanted to implement a virtual table to do the same thing in Go (access a remote DB, with where clause push down).

Will have a look at your code!
If you are a tech worker in America who is in the progress of immigrating from India, is in America on a work visa, and can only afford rent in San Francisco from your tech salary; the only difference is formality.

But if there was a formal recognition that the housing is employer-provided, there might be a greater incentive to uphold standards than letting the employee live under a bridge.
> But the blockchain’s entire purpose is political. If crypto is no longer about teh magic of decentralization, then why would anyone want to use it?

Making big $$$, obviously.

It's very clear that the whole decentralization tech angle failed a long time ago. I had a passing interest, but completely lost it around 2017-ish, when BTC blocks started filling up.

It seemed completely clear to me that a "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" couldn't tolerate such dysfunction. Usage as cash wasn't working. In the end capacity had to be promptly increased, or obviously there'd be huge problems for everyone.

The first nail in the coffin was that blocks weren't expanded. The second one was that while there were plenty alternatives, BTC retained dominance, and that even forks that theoretically were superior because they did what they were supposed to do far better, BTC still won out.

So clearly I was wrong, BTC wasn't functioning as a "cash system", and this obviously didn't matter to the BTC users, and didn't matter to the world at large either.

Thus eventually it dawned on me that there were maybe a few people out there that had some interest in a "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and the "tech", but the vast majority out there were only interested in a world-wide game of hot potato, where the only point is to accumulate coins early, then sell them to some fool on the top, and cash out.
> Chimera is a general-purpose OS born from unhappiness with the state of Linux distributions. It's built around the core idea that a simple system does not have to require endless setup and customization to be practical.

This seems disingenuous at best.

Many distros already supply this feature. Debian is the most notable but there are many others. Install it, make any tweaks you want from the base install, sit on it for many years unchanged.

Considering the next paragraph goes on to describe OpenBSD userland, LLVM compiler, and musl libc, it appears the aim is actually to build a Linux distribution without GNU.

I usually steer away from projects which are defined by what they are not. It seems to build a community whose roots are based in hostility.