skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but the level of abstraction "anti-capialist" ideologues are operating at isnt one where a non-pareto distribution of wealth is a necessary consequence of any system in which wealth accumulates simpliciter.

All policies which affect the wealth distribution do so by moderating the gini coef, ie., the specific shape of the power-law -- they do not make it normal, uniform, etc. or however the ideologue would wish it to be.

The "natural mechanism" of "fair procedures" in the case of systems wherein parts attach to other parts based on their current size (, success, etc.) is spiriling inequality in the extreme.

All sane policy conversation is about how extreme. That bigger things get bigger isn't "capitalism's fault", as far as anything could be said here, all modern systems of economics and government seek to make the concequences of this process less extreme, rather than more.

Eg., in the case of capitalism, it is essentially a mechanism for managing the extreme impact of risk (via limited liability companies), and a mechanism for addressing intergenerational rent-seeking (the historical way pref. attachment was "fought").
> I don’t doubt that the system has produced some academic success stories but it must be the exceptional case.

I'd guess the opposite. IMO, too much attention gets put on the top tier of athletes in the most popular sports.

I'd guess that well over 50% see education as the primary benefit. Most of these students realize that they don't have a professional playing career ahead of them.
To be honest I didn't live through that "even older days" era. I went straight from a Commodore 64 to a PC XT clone, and by then (the 80s) "PC" meant "IBM PC" to everyone I spoke to.
Another horrendous scandal in the UK was Operation Ore, twenty years ago. Thousands of people were falsely accused of purchasing child pornography because their credit card numbers were stolen and used by fraudsters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore#Controversies
Panel video is public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzZ5R1x8L4&list=PLMLurvdlOp...
> if you forget

Does this happen? Is there any data on how often error checking is forgotten?
Why is HN being overrun with easily googleable questions?
Is there a reliable overview of all such evidence that you can recommend?

>I know you’re all gonna laugh at this

Alas it is this attitude itself that might become laughable. I don't get what is so incredibly unbelievable about EMF interacting with biology, and I certainly hope we don't discover this the wrong way.
Did anyone else think this was satire for the first few minutes of reading it?

Calling databases global state and arguing why they shouldn’t be used was ridiculous enough that I wanted to call Poe’s Law here.

But it does look like the author was sincere. Event Sourcing is one of those cool things that seem great in theory but in my experience I’ve never seen it actually help teams produce good software quickly or reliably.
you are limiting computation to discrete computation.

Biology is analog, which is a whole different ballgame compared Turing completeness. And extremely hard to replicate with digital paradigms
I can't think of a case where austerity wasnt successful. In the UK's case it was overwhelmingly successful.

That it didnt meet the goals given to it by opposition parties and newspapers is irrelevant.
> bond-buying and tax-paying are the exact same thing, real consumption forgone by current workers

No. US Treasuries are one of the most liquid and easy to borrow against assets in the world. When institutions buy Treasuries, they use them as collateral to borrow against with new money created by the banking system. This money is then spent in the real economy. That’s very different from taxes.
Introduce SCrypt: A Layer-1 Smart Contract Framework for BTC
I started using the smallest VM I can that's free. On google cloud it's 1 GB RAM, 30 GB hard drive, small CPU. I run apt install -y postgresql after I create it and run my golang app and the database ON THE SAME VM! It's amazing how much you can do with that all for free.
Well yes and no if you had enough resources imaging something like Spanner but highly optimised for multi-tenancy. There will be higher latency because inactive tenant's data got purged from caches but it would be nowhere near the latency of spining up a postgres instance. You could even have a smart stats layer that tracks usage and keeps some minimal amount of inactive tenants data in memory to minimize latency.
My childhood memories of advertising was:

• Slushy machine!

• Buy our cereal, it has a buff friendly tiger with a dashing neckerchief!

• Buy our chocolate, the sexy cartoon rabbit lady/ambassadorial guests say it's wonderful!

• Here's a small man made of butter playing a trombone!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGHLriHhvtg

• This anthropomorphic telephone wants you to get a loan!

• Weird adverts that turned out to be for perfume or sometimes beer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mp646_H_xo

None of this seemed to be aiming at getting anyone depressed.
Alaska flight incident reveals another feature Boeing didn't inform pilots about
> I'm a big fan of OpenWRT. I switched to it after running pfSense for a lot of years. Anyone can donate to the project here: https://openwrt.org/donate

Would you care to go into why you chose it over pf/Opn Sense? Considering that you have to reinstall so it's not automatic, what makes it enough better to make the change worth your while?

I'm currently running OpnSense for my personal routing and firewalling needs, and considered OpenWRT a few weeks ago (for linux driver support, but that's another story). In the end, I changed my nic and kept opnsense.
Newspapers are not the place to find research on the effects of policy; yes, even the FT
YouTube will now direct you to the right first-aid videos during an emergency
> I remember when Mongo / NoSQL was peak hype cycle, and every new project "needed" to use it despite being a big step down in terms of features, ability and maturity.

It one for one reason and one reason only - performance over everything else. Any time I'd suggest using MySQL or PG during this period the reactions were as if I'd suggested storing data in a cucumber.
"There is however one detail, what is passed must be internally consistent with other legislation otherwise it will fall at Judicial Review."

Only certain legislation, and that is in doubt after the Act of Union with Ireland case.

Generally the rule of Implied Repeal applies. Later statutes trump earlier ones.
>The Mississippi is also the open sewer of the Midwest.

Shouldn't be a problem. Might I interest you in some new water?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater
It’s not just the materials in the phone itself. It’s the whole production process.
Show HN: Evervault Enclaves – Confidential Computing made easy
Hi all,

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We encountered a number of challenges as we tried to build, deploy and scale Nitro Enclaves. Fundamentally, we think Confidential Computing and Secure Enclaves are one of the best ways to ensure data security and integrity for sensitive data. That being said, there are a number of bottlenecks preventing widespread adoption — namely, crafting a great developer experience so any developer can go from a normal Docker container to a Secure Enclave with ease.

After a months-long beta program, we're delighted to finally launch our new developer primitive: Evervault Enclaves[2].

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Would love to hear any feedback/suggestions from HN!

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Reifying execution, the interactive programming missing piece by Juan Monetta [video]
The provided link jumps directly to the flowstorm demo, while the initial 15 minutes provided an overview of the problem statement.
note: if you are interested in racing, id definitely figure out how to do a couple non-competitive HPDE days before anything else. You could start with lemons, but having your first driving;track experience be on track with 100 other cars at the same time doing a 1-2 hour session might not be the best plan for everyone.
Did Wacom use AI-generated images in their latest ad?
how about Netflix and co.?
M5 hosting which they use (I think) reported ddos: https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251...

cloudfare is probably being used for this
We need skilled manual laborers here in Seattle. Move here live in a van make 100+k a year while you study. The cs courses even at community colleges are decent because we have so much programming talent. The only real issue is housing
Well, that is amazing news!!!
https://imgur.com/g0mlTP5
Understanding bridge-based ranking
Full disclosure isn't something for _companies_ to do. It's what _researchers_ do.
Full disclosure isn't compatible with the monetization incentives offered by companies. You're publishing in public and immediately.

I think you clearly do not understand what full disclosure is.
People can't take television everywhere as easily as we take social media apps with an ever increasingly refined UI in our phones.
A country that issues its own currency never has to default. But Russia chose to default on ruble denominated bonds in 1998. Sometimes default is preferable to high inflation.
But even just assuming 0% interest rate on that debt is still a lot better than ignoring it entirely. For simplicity you can add Toyota's $200 billion debt to its market cap to do a more apples to apples comparison with Tesla (since tesla only has ~$5 billion debt). So now we're talking $700B for Tesla to $500B Toyota assuming Toyota's debt is interest-free.

As for political factors, it seems that would only benefit Tesla vs the other automakers as Tesla only makes electric cars which is where many governments are trying to push consumers to. Other carmakers have to figure out a way to convert their ICE assembly lines to EV lines if we assume that we'll be moving towards a mostly electric future (which I believe, regardless if it's Tesla or someone else who takes us there).
What should they have cut in your opinion?
I think there's a bit more to the background mental framework. Postmodernism (as best I understand it) says that all truth claims aren't actually about truth. Those who believe such things need not concern themselves with whether the facts support their position. So far I'm restating what you said.

But postmodernism says more. It says that truth claims aren't actually about truth, but are assertions of power. Those who believe such things are likely to have that intent when they write. Keep that in mind when you evaluate what they say.
An encyclopedia is a place where secondary research on a topic by disinterested professionals is summarised.

You could not submit to an academic journal with most of your controversial claims referenced to newspapers. An enclopedia operates at a higher standard of research than academic journal articles -- it should summarise books/etc. about those articles.

This article is essentially poor-quality primary research which quotes MPs and newspapers to argue a case about austerity. That's fine for a BA sociology degree -- it's bad for a MSc, it's disqualifying at PhD level, and has zero plac e in an encylcopedia
https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251...

m5 hosting reported a "DDoS attack against a popular web site we host"

another submission notes that the https cert is newly cloudfare so looks like HN is using it to avoid the DDOS
Almost any SQL workload you can move to DynamoDB
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Or that certain "minimum delightful product" features can be abandoned when they are inconvenient to provide.
My five minutes of research suggests that it's cheaper to buy (as bottled water, in a store) all the water you need for drinking and cooking than to buy, install and maintain a purifier capable of removing lead.
Berkey doesn't have NSF/ANSI cert.

They claim its because it's not thorough enough and too expensive. But you can make up whatever reason you want to avoid standardized third party testing.
Also did CI/CD on OSS projects and highly agree with this - CI/CD is not free, especially if it involves anything hardware related, which is likely in at least some subset of OpenWRT's cases.
> I think a lot of computer scientists assume that their model of the world (binary logic) is the most abstracted version possible

This is a giant problem with software engineers, which makes us quite obnoxious.

We have mental models that work for understanding computers, and then go misapply that those models to everything else in the universe. Frequently that turns into arrogance, by insisting the right way to think anything is in computer-terms, and every other way of thinking is inferior and wrong. Then you get stuff like Engineer's Disease, where you get some software guy lecturing actual experts in other fields about how they're doing it all wrong, or declaring alien fields to be nonsense because they're different.
Wanted to bump this. It's the book I recommend when someone asks, "How can I learn networking".

My next favorite is the Top-Down book everyone above mentions. I like that it starts with loading a web page, instead of bits on a wire. And they have pcap files so you don't even need a lab.

The Stevens book is the standard text for programmers writing network code.

Beej's Guide (https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/) Is how I learned.

By the time you get here, you'll know enough to know which book to read next.
Hopefully you would actually be able to get a full speed transfer between the Ethernet ports; I had to go back to the factory firmware on my router in order to take full advantage of my 1 gigabit Internet connection.
> I get to choose if I want to write my name wrong ... and definitley get the package ... or write my name properly and get my package in 90% of cases.

every time i walk into a coffee shop i have to judge how much trouble spelling my name 'correctly' will be and will switch to "Y" in those cases

like, I thought Joachim was supposed to blaze the trail for the rest of us soft J's :(
Not yet. Dynamodb is killing it
Always gotta watch what you say on Hacker News or the CEO of the company you're talking about might just arrive outta nowhere with the elbow drop of justice.
Complex goals often require complex solutions.

Keeping it simple is probably a good policy for most people most of the time. But for those who want to break through the plateaus that simple solutions will inevitably lead to, they can look to posts like this one.
Another source that are common are emails entered in on physical point of sale devices
IF lactose is present in the extracellular environment
&& IF glucose is NOT present in the extracellular environment:

Activate the lac operon and transcribe the genes for lactose uptake and metabolism, entering a while loop:

WHILE lactose is present: Keep transcribing those genes.

However, this is not the DNA acting alone, it's just a component in the cellular system. The cell (E. coli in this case) is always generating a minimal amount of lactose and other sugar transporters, which act as sensors in the cell membrane that trigger feedback loops (otherwise, how would the cell ever know lactose was present?). If glucose is present, E. coli uses it preferentially and downregulates other sugar uptake and metabolism genes. This is all fairly analog rather than digital, i.e. genes that are 'turned off' may still be transcribed at a very low level.

DNA is probably more comparable to RAM, and the CPU perhaps comparable to the transcriptome (DNA -> mRNA) and the ribosome (mRNA -> protein), and overall the cell is running something comparable to a parallel multi-process fetch-decode-execute cycle.
Indeed, but and to me it seems there are "fewer" styles currently in music than in visual arts. (Even though I spend a lot more time listening to music than looking at visual art, even including movies/series.)

Of course this is a super bad n=1 qualitative study with very bad response coding, but maybe this is simply because I haven't spent enough time with musical style copying LLMs (if there are any), and only spent about a minute listening to that forever death metal youtube AI channel.
Animal Behavior in Psychedelic Research (2022)
Scaling from zero did use quite some seconds so there would be some leeway for an alternative implementation.
> If all adults, including the weatherman conspire to lie to me for no actual gain

Some adults enjoy playing pretend with kids, and some kids enjoy playing pretend with adults too. I would not characterize it as a no gain situation.
Did you have hardware acceleration enabled on, i dont think it is by default as most people dont need it and its not always supported.
The title includes Postgres, but if I’m understanding correctly it’s actually both flavors of Aurora - Postgres and MySQL
which one of these is closest to human milk? or maybe you can add that
I wouldn't call it random and Americans aren't the only ones who use things that I've worked on.
Social media is an amplifier of negative aspects of social interaction. We've not had anything like that before.

The algorithms are aimed at farming attention for the paying customers; advertisers. To do that, the algorithms shovel outrage, instant trends, negativity, and massively amplified in-group out-group dichotomies... They do all of this on purpose. This is new.

None of today's teenagers are impacted by the Vietnam war, by Reagan, or anything from the 80s at all. Gen X felt those things. But a teenager today was born between 2003 and 2010. Most of them don't even know who Jack Welch is or that Chrysler used to be one of the "Big 3" (and used to be called Chrysler). But they know what TikTok is, they know Twitter, and Twitch, and YouTube, and Instagram. And they suffer from interacting with a system designed to manipulate attention. These systems are far more immediately detrimental to mental health, especially for someone entering adolescence when negative emotional complexes arise naturally as a neurological consequence of maturing, than any of the business or political activities of the 80s.

Zuckerberg's own company had studies that showed this to be true. Studies that showed dramatic increases in suicidal tendencies among teenage girls on social media as compared to those who avoided it, for example. They know their systems are harmful. Social media is this generations Big Tobacco.

If we have to blame someone, maybe we're looking at exactly the right people in 2024 when we cast our gaze at Zuckerberg, Pichai, and the government running TikTok.
Penn & Teller did an episode years ago where they tried to debunk the claim that there was any difference between tap and bottled water. They colluded with a New York City restaurant where the waiters told customers that the restaurant was trying out several new waters and asking customers to taste test each one before deciding which one they should ultimately go with. They made up fake bottle labels such as "Arctic Mist", "Himalayan Snow" and similar (I can't remember the actual names), and in reality Penn and Teller were filling the water bottles from a garden hose in the back of the restaurant with New York City tap water (though admittedly NYC water is very good).

Not only did the customers like the waters, many of them claimed that one was much better than another, expressed a preference, and justified the preference with comments along the lines of "I can really taste the difference in this one, it's more XXX". There was even one customer who refused to believe Penn and Teller when they revealed that all of the bottles contained NYC tap water, and insisted that the waters were different from each other. A true testament to how the mind can fool itself.

The episode in question used to be available on YouTube, but now appears to be paywalled by Paramount+ unfortunately.
Best solution for small scales, doesn’t work anymore when you need reliability (unless you want to be always on call to restore from backup and are willing to accept data loss)
I admire the reaction of BambooLabs! They could have taken an aggressive stance, push a firmware to block rooting, take legal action or whatever… but instead they are giving the user a choice!

It’s quite opposite to a lot of other business that are addicted to taking away user choices.

It also seems to me that them being able to give user that choice points to a healthy business model, at least a sustainable one. Their hardware makes them money and is not just a platform for their cloud or support business to make money off.

I appreciate that!
"Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases" - https://assets.amazon.science/dc/2b/4ef2b89649f9a393d37d3e04...
Nice app! I've rolled my own custom solution inside of Notion, or else you'd probably have another signup.
They only separated in 2012.
Nonsense. Privatization has resulted in the coverage, quality, and liability of services to plummet while the price of those services has skyrocketed.
That might still be more comforting emotionally than whatever painful uncertainty about something they didn't feel control over from the past which led to the self-medicating in the first place.

Knowing what you can avoid to stay safe is a lot more tolerable than never knowing when you're going to get pummeled. Just that sense of control is huge.
So their work is to check if it's conforms to state ADU law?
This line of thinking always confuses me, obviously there is at least one other option: Just let them in. Immigrants, even badly educated ones, are a resource a smart country knows to use and there are a ton of options how to do that. Look up "immigration keyhole solutions" for a selection. Next time some fearmonger tries to activate your flight or fight response you have a better answer than hiding behind a wall.
Even cheap BMW had this over 5 years ago
This is my exact concern when new corp of developers try and learn operating systems using languages further away from the building blocks.

Unpopular opinion: It is still good to learn enough C + system programming & their gotchas before starting with a more fancy higher level language.
Start thinking about a different domain name as I am sure it's only a matter of time until someone sends you a cease and desist letter from OpenAI...
One could also say, that Finlands refusal to take the refugees in, and the EUs failure to come up with a slotion for migration ans refugees that doesn't involve letting people drown for ten years, enable Russia to use refugees. Hence, it isn't Russia posing a national security threat, it is Finland's and the EU's policies towards refugees that pose one.
I have a feeling most people chasing "serverless" postgres or mysql with the ability to scale to zero are perfect candidates for sqlite.
> based on a misunderstanding of how houses are actually built/designed/engineered. Most of what you see being built today is dimensioned based on available timber. It's part of why all the houses look the same

It's worth pointing out that this is a UK-based project (where typical houses are concrete construction). A lot of the comments dismissing it are suggesting it should conform to American standards on the assumptions that those standards are universal.

As an open-source initiative it should certainly have a broader perspective than being purely UK-centric, but replacing that with a US-centric one isn't the solution.