skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a project where we decided that event sourcing was the way to go for a variety of legitimate business needs. We then implemented it with ACID transactions—an application-level framework writes the event to the Postgres database and in the same transaction updates all the computed views. At the scale we were working, this was totally fine performance-wise.

Most people who have had bad experiences with event sourcing were actually having bad experiences with eventual consistency. All that event sourcing means is that you treat the events as the source of truth and everything else as computed from those events (and you could theoretically recompute it all at any time). Eventual consistency is an implementation detail and not a necessary one: you can implement event sourcing in a single Excel file if need be.
In the realm of generative AI, CIOs are exercising caution, carefully balancing the potential for innovation against the risks to ethical integrity and security. This cautious approach involves a strategic implementation that addresses the technological promises, ethical challenges, and skill gaps within their teams, all while redefining their roles to navigate the transformation that generative AI brings to the enterprise landscape.
The benefit of rearchitecting the code would have been high. As it stood, the status quo was blocking progress on other initiatives and making it difficult to meet the needs of customers. If we had ignored the fence and nothing broke, we could have immediately made major improvements that our customers had been begging us for.

The reality is that we don’t know if it worked. It’s possible that our conclusion that this had no reason to exist as written was accurate, and that doing nothing didn’t actually prevent anything bad from happening. It’s also possible that we saved ourselves from something we didn’t understand.

I’m not disagreeing with the premise of the fence, just pointing out that at times, even doing all of the due diligence to understand the fence isn’t enough to remove it.

Edit: I can't really respond to your response in its current form without these comments getting really difficult to understand. I disagree that this has nothing to do with Chesterson's fence. It's essentially a failure mode that can occur when applying the ideas behind the principle, i.e. there are times when learning everything we can about a barrier and believing with a high degree of confidence that the barrier isn't needed still isn't enough to remove it due to other factors. This points to the fact that this is a guideline, not a law.
Maybe you should start using cash sometimes. Even if you don't have a direct need to participate in the economy without letting the credit card companies know where you are at several points throughout the day, you probably benefit in indirect ways from the fact that such a thing is still possible.

It's worth keeping cash around.
In case anyone is curious, it uses Scryfall for the card art https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge/blob/forge-1.6.59/forge-... and I wish they'd offer a torrent (or IPFS) because I can't imagine the amount of bandwidth it must cost them and I would seed the hell out of any such thing

Now, one possible reason would be copyright something-something but as it currently stands it's not like one needs to log in to download the card art one at a time, so ... I struggle to think of what risk they're driving down
I wouldn't call that a consistency issue. That's just lag. The aggregation is valid for a specific time point. Caches aren't the source of truth. The source of truth remains consistent here.
I got it when it was in limited beta. It's underwhelming. First problem is that it's another app on your phone instead of using the Wallet app. It's not clear why you wouldn't just use the Android/Apple app.

The second problem is that even the SFO airport doesn't take them as legitimate IDs.

For the folks who are worried about giving your phone to the cop - I guess I am not worried about it much. The cop has the right to lethal force and probably knows more about the situation when you are stopped than you ever will. So they take a look at your phone? I don't assume they will just take and keep it.

If you need to call your mom, probably best not to call her when the cop is right in front of you. If you need to call your lawyer - you are permitted to do that by law. If you are Googling for what your rights are - you are doing it way too late.
Wouldn't you be able to only store the diff of every version to some base version instead?
It started as JustinTV, but it wasn’t for adult content or anything.

JustinTV started just as a single channel website showing the 24/7 irl livestream of one of the founders, Justin Kan. Then they slowly opened it up for others to be able to host their own livestream.

Bit by bit, some people started streaming games rather than irl. Very quickly, gaming became the most popular thing to stream there and overtook most of the platform.

JustinTV staff then spun-off gaming channels on JustinTV into its own new gaming-only platform, Twitch. For a while they were running side-by-side. But as Twitch started becoming more generalist and less gaming-only, yeah, it became clear there is no point in keeping JustinTV alive, if Twitch became their all encompassing superset of JustinTV.

I think the main difference is that Twitch and JustinTV didn’t have that much of a boundary in terms of content as SFW/NSFW split would. Their difference was mostly thematic, so it made sense to them at the time to eventually pool it all into one streaming platform.

But that’s where we currently are with the problem of what’s allowed in twitch and what isn’t. Unlike with SFW/NSFW separation, Twitch wasn’t created for the purpose of hosting content that wasn’t allowed on JustinTV. It was created because gaming started overwhelming any other content on JustinTV, and they wanted the original irl livestreaming content of JustinTV to not die due to it all being games. Games were allowed on JustinTV just fine before that. JustinTV was rendered truly pointless once Twitch introduced IRL and “just chatting” categories, as that was just essentially a “justintv section”.

Note: not disagreeing with you, you are correct. Just wanted to provide a bit more nuance to how it went down, as well as some context for why I don’t think that their separation approach would have the same type of an outcome as a SFW/NSFW spin-off would.
I've read this quote recently of GK Chesterton sounding like a revolutionary as opposed to conservative.

From Orthodoxy:

"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.

But you do not.

If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post.

If you particularly want it to be white you must be always painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution.

Briefly, if you want the old white post you must have a new white post."
Pokémon Yellow Total Control Hack: https://youtu.be/p5T81yHkHtI
Backup and convenience potentially.
The Estonian e-ID system and Qualified Electronic Signature in the EU are good ideas. The government issues you a signed identity. You can use that signed identity to counter-sign challenges in places you'd otherwise (in the US) need to use a Social Security Number and a convoluted private market identity-verification system (for example, the stupid "were you associated with this address 4.5 years ago" things). Like opening a bank account, insurance, paying medical bills, taxes, etc.

Replacing driver's licenses with QR codes for physical interactions, on the other hand, doesn't seem to solve for much. We have a similar system in Colorado and I've never found any value in it; bars and liquor stores are under no obligation to accept it, so they don't.
There’s a big difference between doing basic shit in your pajamas from the home office and doing it in a remote location while contending with all of the accompanying complications.
Yes they do, and people would ask for their change if they didn't. I don't know why.
Going throught iq84 right now, but apprently it's one of the easiest.
> we assume that every amount of hange b etween 0¢ and 99¢ is
equally likely

As the paper admits, this is a bad assumption. Curious to see the number given actual price data.
I think you think that price is directly proportional to quality. It's not. Luxury goods are made luxury through a process of branding, pricing, and scarcity. Rolex is an excellent case study. They've been sponsoring athletes since the early 20th century when they sponsored Mercedes Gleitze to wear an Oyster around her neck when she swam the channel. You'll continue to notice the brand at F1, premier golfing events, and so on. And when it comes to purchasing, you literally can't walk into a Rolex dealer and buy a Submariner, for example, because they are made artificially scarce.

If you were able to buy a sub, you'd buy it at around $13K and then immediately be able to sell it for around $18K or more. Rolex own the luxury category when it comes to conferring value on the brand and its products.

So if you can't even buy a Submariner, what the hell is the strategy? They have a much larger range of second and third-tier watches that they'll sell you then and there and once you have a "relationship" with them, they might hook you up with something worth far more on the used market the moment you buy it.

It's just a big fat hustle that relies on some specific psychological triggers. It relies on what Cialdini would call "social proof", meaning that others think it's cool so you think it's cool. It also relies on scarcity conferring value on something that would otherwise be valueless. It relies on our innate desire to hero-worship, as a species, which is where sponsorship comes in.

So back to the comment I'm replying to: No, thinking that a luxury brand is simply quality at a high price is far too simplistic a world-view. You can buy great quality at a very reasonable price, and if you don't have time you can employ a professional shopper. But it's not about that. It's about laziness and signaling.
I disagree. It's a self-contradictory point. I was being charitable to call it "negligible" considering the article also refers to the gain as "non-existent."

>"What gain do colourful feathers on birds really have except to draw attention"

When drawing attention gives you a disproportionate advantage to attracting a mate vs. attracting a predator, it's a very important (and non-neglible) gain.

>We should expect some reasonably broad degree of randomness around the value of risk taking.

I don't think this negates the point. Just because the there is a distribution in the value doesn't mean there isn't a statistically significant directionality of that distribution. I can say there's a distribution of individual player height in the NBA, but that doesn't mean we can't draw conclusions about height having generalized value at the population level regarding the chances of making it to professional basketball.
I don’t know about tech getting better every day. If I look at what Apple itself is able to do with SwiftUI, especially compared to Cocoa, for example with the Settings app or Journal (which I assume is SwiftUI, I don’t know though)… it’s kinda pathetic.
Ssh hostkeys offer no solution for first connect to ephemeral hosts.
And what algorithm did you use to find that? As per the comment you replied to, the greedy algorithm no longer works, and you have to exhaustively search through all possibilities of coins.
Open-Source, self-Hosted. Needs a computer, Java, PostgreSQL and some historical market data (which you usually need to purchase, at least options data).
Thanos was wrong and Malthus was right
A perspective on population growth that I haven’t seen before. It’s very long, so the tl;dr as I understand it is:

- Humanity has always survived through technological progress to support an increased number of people. Technology changes the carrying capacity of an environment.

- Whether or not we’ll be able to do this forever is unknown.

The underlying article itself has a lot more history and nuggets of information beyond this summary!
Webp is like usb-c in a way, multiple different capabilities in one package. Might sound good on paper, but gets annoying.
This was one of the most enjoyable HN comments I’ve ever read - you should write more about this on your blog.
Can you explain how they are better? Just curious what aspects you would determine that from, since I assume you’re not referring to nutrient content which would be pretty tough to judge.
Sounds like you don’t.
The goal or Unified Push is that you have one push provider you install (Conversations, NextCloud, ntfy) that ofher apps integrate you. Apps register a callback URL through the provider on your phone, report that to their own servers, and when it becomes time to notify the user, the server submits a POST request to the app server.

If set up right, there will be two persistent connections at most: one to Google/Apple, one to the provider you have registered. The app will inform the other applications on the phone of the notification, so there is no need for any other individual connections back home.

This is an alternative for what happens now when apps can't make contact with platform notification services (either because of network failures or because of the push service being disabled): suddenly, every app falls back to their own custom notification socket, or notifications stop showing at all.
Show HN: Node.js CLI Time Tracker
Hi everyone, I revived my old time tracker project and added several new features. It has proven useful to me personally. It supports natural language input for time sheet entry start/end dates and offers commands to visualize your time sheets in various ways.

Any feedback or comments would be more than appreciated!
It's like growing your own food. In the Age of AI, hand coding websites brings you closer to nature.
You could, but in practice essentially no one will do this.
I can't tell (neither from the website, nor from using it) how this is different from any other flashcard software?

You mention you focused on "speed of review". How did you do that?

There are apparently no hotkeys? (My speed of review is therefore lower than Anki, due to needing to use the mouse.)
If someone wants to do something like this, I hear the Red Cross has pools of technical experts for emergency response situations. Does anyone have experience about that?
> _Ordinary_ FT is the uncertainty principle.

Yeah, I was about to jump in and say the same thing.

More precisely, in Fourier theory (_regular_ Fourier Theory, not fractional), there is an inequality that can be proven independently of any physical interpretation and which directly implies the uncertainty principle as it's called in physics and QM.

In other words, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has basically nothing to do with physics or quantum mechanics, it's a basic property of the Fourier transform:

As soon as two physical quantities are the FT of one another (the FT being almost an involution, i.e. the FT and the inverse FT are almost the same thing), they have to obey the uncertainty principle.

Stated simply: the more localized a function (e.g. a small hump and almost zero everywhere else), the more spread-out its FT.

And conversely: the more spread-out, regular and slow moving a function, the more localized its FT will be (all energy concentrated in a small region of the freq domain).

Which, if you think about it for 5mn is quite intuitive: a function that is almost zero everywhere and suddenly exhibits a hump has to have a sudden rate of change. Which - very visually - implies high frequency components (high rate of change = high freq components).
The basic idea behind accounting is recognizing when value comes in and out. E.g. if you get $100M up front to do work over 10 years, you don’t get $100M in revenue and nothing over the next 9 years. You spread the 100 over 10 years. Even if the cash comes in immediately.

Capitalizing a cost means you’re saying this is a cost that is needed to build an asset that will provide value over time. If you build a factory or an app that is expected to help generate revenue over the next ten years then its dev costs should be allocated over the next ten years.

Companies want to say all of the cost belongs in year 1 so that they can avoid paying any taxes in year 1. It is not taxed “more”. Capital gains tax is a separate thing not relevant to what’s being discussed. The salaries are not being taxed either (payroll tax is a separate idea here too). The question is which years should the salaries applied against revenue.
Polars 0.20 Released
This may be controversial, but I liked coins back in the day. It feels more "human" to me.

Inflation targets will ensure coins are worthless soon enough tho. I'm a fan that governments can't impose these targets on crypto.
> Then simply share your TruAge QR code at checkout at select retail locations in Sacramento to safely and securely verify your age, while protecting your privacy.

Right now, bars/clubs will scan my ID and have all my information (name, birthdate, etc). They don't need that. all they need is a yes/no that I'm over 21.
On a somewhat related note, does anyone know of a web based SQL client app that we can install as a sort of proxy to cloud based DBs?

Company policy puts all kinds of restrictions on desktop connections to DBs but all the data scientists want direct client access so they can use robust software instead of using psql from a jump box.

The objective is mostly logging DDL actions and limiting certain DDL operations.
Yup, paying them helps restore the database:)
It doesn't help that greed means that even though electricity is everywhere and is the most fungible form of energy, we're putting arbitrary limitations to buying it, way more than gas/petrol despite the latter actually requiring significantly more infrastructure.

With a gas car I am confident I can drive up to any gas station and get fuel with my credit card. I'm not confident I can do the same with electric cars - even if I do find a charge point, I'm worried it's not going to let me pay & charge until I download a stupid app, provide a ton of data to hundreds of data brokers and still remain stranded when all this mess of moving parts breaks down somewhere and doesn't let me proceed.
> I'm pretty sure the scientist that time knew that fat on its own is not the issue(wet to getting more fat) when calories are controlled.

The calorie model was well established, so yes, they knew that you'd still get fat if you ate as much calories.

But both scientists and doctors absolutely did believe that reducing fat consumption would directly reduce the incidence of heart disease regardless of body weight. The same thing happened later when it was believed that consuming cholesterol, or even later LDL, would increase the risk of high blood cholesterol and thus atherosclerosis. This led to things like doctors and large medical bodies recommending margarine instead of butter as a health food(!).

There has been plenty of terrible advice coming directly from nutrition science and medical bodies influenced by it. Most likely even current advice will turn out to be nonsensical as we learn more.
Your perspective makes sense if you accept as good that massive political effort must be taken to do obviously good things against the wishes of special interest groups. But most people would think that the US Mint churning out worthless coins every year at the expense of citizens is an undesirable state of affairs. Wasting other people’s money is inherently despicable.

Not that worthless coins are anywhere near the top of the list of bad and wasteful policies. But if we can’t even solve the obvious low-hanging fruit, we’re not solving those bigger problems either.
We’ve had this in Colorado for several years now. On an iPhone, you can use guided access to restrict interactions with your phone… just triple press the power button. But there’s also a barcode they can scan to pull up the info on their own device.

I rarely carry a wallet anymore… Apple Pay, Colorado state app and my insurance company’s website (or pdf of my card) has all of the info I ever need.
If you don’t have meaningful revenue, then you don’t have meaningful taxes.
I was going to recommend Drood and am not surprised someone beat me to it. I love a number of Simmons books but was going to skip Drood because I didn't really enjoy the Dickens I read in school but a relative convinced me to give the book a shot and it was well worth it!

For anyone who likes Drood, Simmons has many other excellent novels worth checking out. In addition to the ones already mentioned to others I really enjoyed Illium (scifi take on the Illiad) and The Crook Factory, which is based on a true story about Ernest Hemmingway running a spy ring in Cuba during WW2. He uses actually historical documents in the story which is pretty neat.
Although not relevant to my post above, tunneling WireGuard over SSH sounds like an interesting challenge...

Because WireGuard and SSH are at different layers of the network stack, it might be necessary (though slow) to bridge two WireGuard networks through a single TCP socket port-forwarded by SSH. I'm actually curious now what tools would best be used to accomplish this, how much effort would be needed to configure things, and how badly performance would suffer when faced with normal internet traffic congestion.
Interactive Bioinformatics Tutorials
I can because I've worked in the space. You have to build a model for every key word that you are looking for. Those models take up space and lots of compute to train. That's why you can't set an arbitrary wake word for your Alexa/Google/Siri and you have to choose from a short list. Because those are the only models they have trained.

It would not make sense to train a model for every advertiser and then upload that to the phone. It would only make sense to capture the audio and send it to the cloud for generic speech processing. But that would also not make sense because it takes a bunch of compute to do speech processing, not to mention you'd see all the data being uploaded from your device and the cost of receiving, processing, and storing all that data.

I'm 99.9% sure that this is not happening today, but we are on the verge of the tech being good enough to do local speech processing, and then there is no bandwidth limitations, no storage issue, and the consumer pays for compute.
Though he did not explicitly state to not forget to bring a towel, he has implied that he does not count on a hotel to supply him with a towel.
Quoting the paper, "In short, my English Lit friend, living in a mental world of absolute rights and wrongs, may be imagining that because all theories are wrong, the earth may be thought spherical now, but cubical next century, and a hollow icosahedron the next, and a doughnut shape the one after."
Now imagine they are under obligation to accept it, and you can get to the point where you can leave your wallet at home. With car keys being Bluetooth, I now don’t carry keys in my pocket. To not carry a wallet to drive to the grocery store either would be a joy. I like a physical lightness.
A Roguelike in Haskell
This would fit my expectations of a classical 1990s antivirus, however I would expect modern ones to also employ heuristics against behaviours.

Are you referring specific'ly to a limitation ClamAV?