skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this, very fun to play... I can imagine my younger cousins having a good time using this!
In the french dub, they say jigowatt.
Current stats do not predict future outcomes.

Especially since the FAA and transport dept are getting more corrupt/captured as time progresses.
Pedantically, modern humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years, so all recorded (ie within the last five thousand years) wars have been caused by us.
I am not clear where you got "destructive to," but I would guess that meant more that they are a large part of why we don't know the history of some places. They didn't leave survivors and were more than willing to destroy cultural artifacts that we would find valuable today.

I honestly suspect more in the current world would be willing to destroy cultural artifacts than many modern perspectives would believe. Not just outside of "the west," either. Though, I can't but feel that it is heightened there.
> Nobody is going to shut Private Eye down any time soon.

I believe, based on my admittedly shaky memory of the PE podcast, that they said it did come close at least once due to court costs and judgements.

(I'll have to go through the episodes and see if I've gone mad.)
> Outsourcing has definite limits and potentially catastrophic results - as does the demolition of corporate technical capability.

A lot of what seems apparent in this case is that contractual and commercial factors weren't set up correctly - they were set up to deliver predictable prices (loved by public sector clients), but not necessarily to deliver good outcomes.

An example - it appeared much of the rush to ship the point of sale terminals was to get through customer acceptance (and presumably the payment milestone), despite scope creep and quality issues. And there was a cost for PO to access audit logs, and limits on capacity of these logs which could be handled. Presumably this delivered a lower headline price for an accountant negotiating the price down, but it ultimately made a poorer solution that wasn't for for purpose.

It seems like (from what I've seen of the evidence) nobody internally in PO really had full understanding and ownership of the project and they'd outsourced that (but kept the suppliers tightly commercially managed, creating the incentives for shipping poor quality code, rather than spending the time to polish it, as some had tried to do in the development team).

Some interesting evidence here in the inquiry on software development practices and low competency and quality of code - https://postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk/phase-2/2022-11-16/#d...
Why? Profit is the difference between revenue and expenses. Samsung could simultaneously see an increase in expenses and a reduction in revenue. Only the latter shows a true market slowdown. The former shows Samsung either investing in future R&D or experiencing larger inefficiencies.

If the story is that the market is slowing, a revenue forecast is more helpful. If the story is that Samsung is investing in R&D, sure, profit works, but it requires an explanation of where the operating income is being spent. If the story is Samsung is poorly run, then profit works, but an additional explanation of where the inefficiencies are is required.
Falling birth rates _is_ a good thing and in my view its the only viable solution to global warming. Less people is less energy use and pollution.
A while ago I came across a website with a video player that gaslights you with a logarithmic progress bar. It had me fooled for a while into thinking the video has only 2-3 minutes left, before I finally clicked the pop-out button in Firefox and realized I was only 20% of the way through a 45 minute video.
That Teenage Engineering is collaborating on this makes this a very interesting device. But I would not call it a phone? A pocket assistant maybe?
> However, storing data normalized can increase the work to perform queries by requiring more joins. Oftentimes, that extra work is so much you’re forced to denormalize the database to improve performance.

Databases have materialized views though, that solves this problem.
…or buy a cheap digital picture frame from <mass market retailer>.

When my g-parents passed, and the family moved away, we bought everyone a cheap digital frame linked to a shared family album. They’re like 50-200$ depending on size. My grandmother was always bringing the family together, and we wanted to honor that with way to see each other across geographies.

Our chosen company’s albums have an email address that you email a photo to, and it displays on everyone’s frame. Very easy for everyone to contribute.
Trying to communicate about @[d; i; f; y] works once you know what that does. Like with any mathematical notation, it's given a name just like '+' has a name (plus).

I don't know if it's "inherently" superior (everything is subjective preference), but @[d;i;f;y] seems more amenable to algebraic manipulation. Also, just the fact that it is a function that takes four arguments vs some property of d means along with k's projections (similar to currying in functional languages) you can leave any of the 4 arguments empty to create a curried function.

For example you could do something like @[d;;:;x]'(a; b) which will replace the items at indices a and b with x. Or any number of other possibilities. Compare to python where to cover all possible behaviour you'll need various lambdas + for + zip + map + ...
Did I miss something, or does that post completely omit concepts like concurrency, isolation, constraints and such? And are they really suggesting "query topologies" (which seem very non-declarative and essentially making query planning/optimization responsibility of the person writing them) are a superior developer environment?
Ultimately, most good ideas were first implemented by Fabrice Bellard.
meh++
Twitter is a simple product that only has value because of the eyeballs that look at it, not the depth of the product.

I fundamentally disagree with the premise of your blog post but not the premise of your company, so why don't I make an ask for you to write a much more practically useful application. Design a basic shopping cart using your system and compare and contrast it with a well designed relational equivalent. A system that allows products to be purchased and fulfilled is a far closer match to what the majority of companies are using software for compared to writing a Twitter clone.

Here's my take -- at a certain point in scale and volume using a database, it actually does make sense to rewrite all of the following from scratch:

- query planning

- indexing (btree vs GIN, etc) and primary/foreign/unique key structure

- persistence layer

- locking

- enforcing ACID constraints

- schema migrations/DDL

- security, accounts and permissioning

- encryption primitives

But more crucially, my belief and experience is that most companies making lots of money from software products will NEVER remotely reach that scale -- and prematurely optimizing for that is not just the wrong decision but borderline professional malpractice. You can get very far with Postgres and JSONB if you really need it, and you'll spend more time focusing on your business logic than reinventing the wheel.

I'd like to be proven wrong. But I get sinking feeling that I'm not wrong, and while your product is potentially valuable for a very specific use case, you're doing your own company a disservice by distorting reality so strongly to both yourselves and your prospective customers.

I'll round out this comment by linking another comment in this thread that goes very well into the perils of event sourcing when the juice isn't worth the squeeze:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38930591
I wasn't clear. Right, you never use a PIN for a credit card payment in the US. You're sometimes required to "sign" but basically that can be an X these days if you like. Mine is an even lazier scrawl than my illegible signature.

My comment was that I have been asked to enter a PIN in Europe which is why I requested one. But I've never used it since.

You're covered for fraud by the credit card bank so, as a consumer, I don't really care about the level of security.
In addition to stupid questions, Quora also seems to be an unceasing fount of tall tales in the answers.
Did you account for calories? Beef has ~3-4X the calories per gram of tofu.

I would guess plants have more microplastics as they just pull things out of the soil and store them (why many plants have a ton of heavy metals). Animals at least have some systems for filtering and processing unwanted items.
The age-standardized death rate from cancer has declined by 15% since 1990.

https://ourworldindata.org/cancer
Someone missed the "exfiltration" product features bullet point
Seems like a bunch of buzzwords and such. I've been working with databases for years for one of the largest companies in the world and no one has ever said "topology" before.

Any time I would save with this is wasted on learning java and this framework.

There isn't anything wrong with databases.
And driving home is still more dangerous than getting on the flight.
By that measure of energy, burning oil or gas also has >>100% efficiency, as you only need energy to get it out of the ground, transport, and to light it. The energy stored in the oil is analogous to the "outside heat" for heat pumps.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_API...

> Safari proactively evicts data when cross-site tracking prevention is turned on. If an origin has no user interaction, such as click or tap, in the last seven days of browser use, its data created from script will be deleted.
Successful people come from bimodal distribution: 1. people who have good safety nets
2. people with absolutely traumatic backgrounds

In both cases you “have nothing to lose” in the sense of, if your attempt fails, you’re back to where you started.

For the middle-class person failing hard, but having no safety net means you do get a reduction and so most people who fall into this category are the most risk adverse.

On the other hand, people who have been homeless or in excessively traumatic situations are basically like it’s never gonna be that bad again, and I survived it so I can handle basically anything.

I fall into that second category, which is why I start so much stuff including building communities, literally everywhere I go
I've experienced a ton of issues, but it's likely because almost every aspect of our operation depends in someway on GitHub -- the repo itself and basic push/pull, or PRs, or webhooks, or actions, or some aspect of status updates, or random API tasks, etc. We use a lot of GitHub.
Would you say of the latest release (v1.10) that Julia is painfully slow until it gets “warmed up”? If so, what exactly does this mean?
Small enough that I would carry it in my shirt pocket or back pocket for anything. Looks very slick and at a very good price. Will buy three for my siblings this christmas.
Jd.com Unit Dives 46% After Disclosing 'Suspicious' Revenue
This is completely different from no-sql. Much more than just a different database..
A discovery in the muscles of long Covid patients may explain exercise troubles
Could be pervasive malnutrition, generally poor-to-nonexistent health care, and generally polluted environment.
This seems parallel to the discussion of how NBA players shoot foul shots. From what I've read, experiments show that basket percentage is measurably higher if you shoot with the underhand "granny shot", compared to the conventional way of shooting.

Why, then, don't we see players shooting this way? You'd think that the coaches would tell players to do this to help the team, and that they'd want to, to boost their own stats. But it seems like doing so seems un-cool enough that it conflicts with other priorities about building their individual "brands".

edit: learn to spell "basket"
Squarespace specifically is positioned much more as a "website for your business" than for your personal space online but they do seem accessible enough.

I think you are still overestimating the average user. Is the guy running a pizza shop with pictures of the menu on Facebook going to sit through learning about domain name registration?
US Military Veterans Are Increasingly Turning to Extremism: DoD Report
He doesn't seem to be exactly eager to comply with various European laws:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/eu-investigates-x-over-po...
Technically Odoo is an ERP system (not CRM, which is only one part of the ERP).

We are in the process of implementing Odoo for our ~50 person company.

We're in the wholesale natural stone slab space and the incumbent was industry specific but not super modern or flexible with terrible support.

Odoo has an opinionated way of doing things, so unless you're open to changing processes slightly or open to spending a large amount customizing, you'll have to take what you can get.

I personally dabble in Python, so it's an awesome upgrade for me. However the larger team is still a grumbly.
Why not just clone the repository, do sentiment analysis, and show us?
Yes, our cities were overrun and we were enslaved, but for a beautiful moment in time, we experienced state formation.
Do we know an ETA on those?
I think the complexity gets really crazy at high scale, but the complexity caused by databases is still significant at low scale as well. For example, needing to use an ORM and dealing with all the ways that can leak is pure complexity caused by not being able to index your domain model directly.
> For example the recent crash in Japan. Airbus isn't getting railed for that.

What a bizarre comment to make. Why on earth would Airbus get railed for what happened in Japan?
I guess, let me alter my question. What I gather from the comments is that a cultural shift is needed in order to really make a difference. Can a tool do that? Maybe, maybe not.

What do you all think is a starting point to facilitate that cultural shift? How do you start getting the right behaviors started in the easiest way possible?
Collaborating to Improve the Assessment of Scholarly Outputs
Maddox is on threads and appears to be the same person. I on the other hand am now a nearly 40yo man with a family and house and career, and not the lol-southpark 12 year old I was when he started.
Select Star SQL: Interactive Book on SQL
Where did you see them mentioned? For sure makes it more real!
It’s $199. At that price it could be a viable cool toy like product to have in addition to your normal smartphone.
I'm not suggesting people need to write books to introduce their projects, but that landing pages should be more accessible to newbies if you want to build a big user base. A lot of projects introduce themselves by ticking off a list of currently-desirable buzzwords ('performant', 'beautiful' etc.) but neglect to articulate clearly what their project is and why someone might want to use it.
One issue is npm will allow arbitrary code to execute as part of an install script for a package, which allows a class of attacks that aren't possible in the maven world.
Elon Musk on Lex Fridman, very soon after the latest violence started, made comments that appeared pro-Palestine, something along the lines of "Israel should safeguard Palestinian civilians and draw them away from Hamas with kindness." Soon after, they tried cancelling him, there was the infamous "go fuck yourselves" during that interview, and he visited Israel.

Hard to say where he stands and who is pulling the strings, but it's interesting to follow.
Really just beautifully crafted, nuanced humor, will only get better with time. Nice job!
France had some innovative concepts along these lines. Youtuber Mustard takes a look at the Coleoptere. Not a ducted fan but it has a duct in lieu of a wing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unz6mfjS4ws
We've had mass use plastic for decades. Baby boomers were likely born with plastic in their veins. I certainly was.
No.

> Seventy-eight percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, according to one estimate.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

> About 34% of the emitted coarse TWPs (tire wear particles) and 30% of the emitted coarse BWPs (brake wear particles) (100 kt yr−1 and 40 kt yr−1 respectively) were deposited in the World Ocean. These amounts are of similar magnitude as the total estimated direct and riverine transport of TWPs and fibres to the ocean (64 kt yr−1).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17201-9
> in what areas can Boeing still be trusted

Look at the data. Over more than 22 years of flying in the U.S. we've seen one fatality aboard a major carrier. That one, single fatality was caused by an entire engine rapidly disassembling itself mid-flight. The engine mostly—but sadly not entirely—contained this failure. That engine was not designed or built by Boeing, but by CFM.

The next prior fatality aboard a major carrier was when an Airbus A300 crashed on takeoff in Nov 2001, killing on on board. The pilot overreacted on the controls, causing catastrophic failure of the vertical stabilizer.

The last time we saw a fatality in the U.S. due to a design and/or engineering error of a Boeing plane was in 1996 when a 747's center tank exploded due to a short circuit. Globally, Boeing and Airbus don't have meaningful differences in their track record of safety. Both have had experinced design and engineering flaws. Both have worked to fix those flaws.

Should we accept the ongoing regulatory capture in the U.S.? Of course not. Should we continue to hold these companies accountable for improving their designs every time an incident like this happens? Of course, and we do.
It is definitely useful, but not as a direct proxy for demand.
They are paying out roughly 150k per prosecution. That seems low if most of those resulted in fines and jail time. Does anyone have a source for data on the outcomes of these cases?

(If pressed on “seems low” I couldn’t exactly say, but if ten million is the actuarial value of life then every year of adult life in prison should be worth at least 175k, on top of the difficulties of enduring prosecution and career and reputation being harmed.)
> 1. You have no right to hate speak.

you have the right to hate speak. Hate speak all you like!

>2. Companies don't have to give you a platform.

they dont!

> 3. It's not censorship unless the government is doing it!

you can use the word "censorship" anywhere, it's just if you are going to claim First Amendment rights, then only the government is involved there.

> How about instead we learn that if we censor and silence critics that the same tactics will be used by the other side, and a civilized society this does not make.

Re: hate speech, Popper would disagree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Interesting.

How big is the operation for which you're doing accounts this way?
Yes to both. Our bank transfer example in rama-demo-gallery is a good example of this. https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-gallery
> you'd hope he'd be more worried about it in general and not only when he thinks it happened to him personally.

why? this sounds exactly like something he'd do. "if it happens to me it is bad, but if it happens to others then it is just free speech" or some such
Are you a lawyer, by chance? Because this is the exact argument I keep making and the part that I really don't understand at all at the anti-Apple positions people take. If they were truly a monopoly, I'd be all for breaking it up but they're really not and I don't see how this falls into that definition for exactly the reasons you've stated.
Bookmarking this for the future when everyone just assume Rabbit was an instant hit everyone just assumed would succeed.
Nice project, have been following this project casually for a while.
The standout feature is to trace RPC flow across network connections, through packet tracing.
More complicated in what ways specifically? I think the relevant thing is wether building an app with Rama is more or less complicated. Rama may be more complicated than mysql in implementation, but that doesn't affect me as a developer if it makes my job easier overall.
I don't have a good answer, but I have a French client who also employs an American guy whose health is very weak (but I think it's more bouts of 2 weeks without being able to work), and my client just patiently waits for him to be able to come back. He even gives him French healthcare perks out of (the corp.) pocket, because it'd be more complicated to involve an external insurance (in France the salary is insured too, not just the medical bills).
I use waveapps for my 1 person company as well.

Are you using it for a larger operation? Does it scale well?
> A singular incident where nobody died would also not be on the front page.

Sure it would be. Commercial jetliner incidents are so rare that incidents with zero fatalities are routinely headline stories.
Clearly, there's some truth to this perspective. On the other hand, which alternative actually makes this easier? If your schema is non-enforced, and/or your data (and its schema) are in loosely coupled distributed silos, and/or as in the articles case indexes are essentially little programs... Then broad scale schema evolution goes from being difficult to often being effectively entirely infeasible.

It's possible that in turn forces users to adapt and split their changes into smaller chunks, but that's pretty speculative and they might simply fail entirely in the attempt.

Which data stores are more easily evolved than a relational DB with a fairly restrictive schema?
CPP?
Basically I’m optimizing for viral growth, otherwise the business probably isn’t worth it. I haven’t launched yet but I estimate that at 100k DAU vertical scaling/using a single instance would become a nightmare because of throughput and latency rather than data size.

I’m admittedly using a strange architecture for my use case and I realize now commenting here opened too big a can of worms as explaining exactly what I’m doing would derail the thread. Suffice it to say, my db doesn’t contain just “Bob ordered 5 widgets to Foo Lane” data.

But yes, using a more horizontal database strategy makes it very easy to manage data across realms. That’s one of the main benefits. A single DB would be much harder as far as isolation and separating test/production traffic (assuming this is what you mean by views) than having multiple separable dbs that only talk to dev/staging. And I can easily wipe out and isolate dev and staging this way. I’m frankly shocked people would advocate a single db that doesn’t allow you to do this.
Oh, so Twitter ban-wave is a thing in the English world too? That has been a problem since long before the takeover, and I think it's also one of reasons why rather few aside from spammers use human names and sign up for paid plans.

Twitter the system bans prominent accounts in frequency and amount for no discernible reasons(it's "Twitter Rules"). That had completely normalized ban evasions to the point even its support personnel sometimes suggested it in the past.

Users won't pay to get banned[1]. Businesses can't rely on ID provider that unexist hard earned customers. People flee to competitors when the platform does this and require social graph reconstructions. It's not a new phenomenon, it's a plague somewhere within the system that needs to be fixed by a major re-architecture.

1: Anecdotally, but in fact I've seen users signing up for the paid Blue program when it was first introduced, hoping for preferential treatment for paid accounts with regard to bans, only to report back in disappointment - and I've seen it precisely because those users had promptly gone through the ban and evasion process and came back in the buzz.
https://ai-chatbot.one/
Forums work really well for this. I personally avoid using Discord because chatrooms are too much of a time suck. There's far more chaff to sift through and trying to keep up with everything leads to FOMO.
Smart phones are closer to smart cameras. I use the phone app maybe once a month. I'd argue it might be viable to build a smart phone that has no phone.
You have a blood sample analysis indicating that's the case?