skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean by aliens using neural nets is that we don't know what percent of evolved intelligent species would have neural nets as an integral part of their cognition like we do. And we don't know what alternative paths there are to the evolution of intelligence.
Dart was dead on arrival because it was controlled by one browser vendor and everybody else refused to support it.

If you wanted a non-JS alternative what would it be? Everybody has their own opinions, so… chaos.

Yes, there are giant frameworks all over the place for JavaScript and the browser environment is generally feared or loathed. That is not a technology failure. It’s a training failure. You can only fix a tiny bit of that with any alternative technology. Without proper training people will find a way to fear and abuse any alternative just the same.
Barely working in 1 case in a 1000 is hardly a good track record, plus the border is about to reopen again in 4 days because appeasing the UN is more important than national safety
That's like saying a human and an amoeba are basically the same because one is a micro-organism and the other is, well, also an organism. They've both got inputs and outputs within an ecology! Surely the rest is an implementation detail...

A psychologist doesn't learn anything useful from studying amoebas. A macroeconomist can't apply lessons from individual household economics either.
Don't waste your breath on these people, either ones writing this blogspam garbage, reading, or upvoting said garbage. It's fashionable to use terms like "I/O bound" or "denormalisation" to the point where I'm longer sure the majority of commentators really _think_ these terms, or just _say_ them compulsively, almost mechanically, only to later fit/re-arrange the remaining sentence so as to accommodate them. I/O bound this, I/O bound that. Data access patterns, normalise here, denormalise there, best tool for the job!! No, please, you're not fooling anyone with your "measured" take that is claiming nuance all the while making no actual nuanced statements. When it comes to SQL, I'm not sure they even understand how it's not about performance, or "data access" for us, but rather a matter of sanity! I don't want to implement ETL routines for hours on end any time I'm tasked with data integration. Instead, I would probably just use Postgres foreign data wrappers, write some SQL queries, and be done with it. If I couldn't use temporary tables, or materialised views, I would probably go insane doing any kind of data work. (Not to mention a bazillion other things that make a modern, relational database.) I straight up wouldn't do my job because why, I would have to figure the tools out when I could really be doing analysis.

Oblivious as they are, the key takeaway from interacting with these people is; they're probably not doing real data work and don't really care about data, or analysis, for that matter. And this becomes even more obvious with all the talk about "audit tables" and such nonsense. No, please, no. We know how to manage data that is changing; there's Type 2 dimension, or whatever you want to call it, append-only, select distinct on. Downsample it all you want, compress it all you want. I digress. The best we can do is ignore these people. Let them write their shitty blogposts, let them get upvoted, and then when the time comes, simply make sure not to hire these people.

I say, never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. One man's blogspam is another man's saving grace.
Are we reading the same article ? "The survey found that two-thirds of heat pump owners and 59% of gas boiler owners were satisfied even without extensive energy efficiency upgrades."
I read this paragraph

>> lets examine a recent large crisis we had in Finland - the border crisis, in which Russia systematically weaponized migrant waves - where the democratically elected government was initially unable to act with any measures on, because it would've been in violation of a UN convention which was agreed on in the 60's.

just like that, yes. Finland is in the EU and NATO now. Russia didn't invade and society didn't colapse because of refugees (for some reason Ukrainian refugees are different from those other refugees, but I digress). So it seems, so far, democracy won.
The irony of your comment should not be lost. But sure let's all join the HN Small Minded Club and comment before we read the article and think. It's all the rage here...like rock music once was. Get it?

Apology accepted. Next time just move along. Thanks.
Once you've bailed out the banks, then what? You're going to bail them out again? (No, because they're now publicly owned). There was no reasonable scenario where that was not a one-off increase in the debt.

We were borrowing at 1% (basically free money because inflation was higher) and we might have spent that on growth policies, but George Osbourne thought this was a good way to reduce the size of the state, a political decision.
Obviously.

A big problem with rails, though, is how easy it makes it to "do the bad thing" (and in rare cases, how hard it makes it to do the "good" thing).
A has_many/belongs_to that crosses bounded domains (adds tight coupling) is a mere oneliner: only discipline and experience prevents that. A quick call to the database from within a view, something that not even linters catch, it takes vigilance from reviewers to catch that. Reliance on some "external" (i.e. set by a module, concern, lib, hook or other method) instace-var in a controller can be caught by a tighly set linter, but too, is tough.

Code that introduces poor joins, filters or sorts on unindexed columns, N+1 queries and more, are often simple, clean-looking setups.

`Organization.top(10).map(&:spending).sum` looks lean and neat, but hides all sorts of gnarly details in ~three~ four different layers of abstraction: Ruby-language because "spending" might be an attribute or a method, you won't know, Rails, because it overloads stuff like "sort", "sum" and whatnot to sometimes operate on data (and then first actually load ALL that data) and sometimes on the query/in-database. It might even be a database-column, but you won't know without looking at the database-model. And finally the app for how a scope like top(10) is really implemented. For all we know, it might even make 10 HTTP calls.

Rails (and ruby) lack quite some common tools and safety nets that other frameworks do have. And yes, that's a trade-off, because many of these safety nets (like strong and static typing) come at a cost to certain use-cases, people or situations.

Edit: I realize there are four layers of abstraction if the all-important and dictating database is taken into account, which in Rails it always is.
Bottled Water Can Contain Microplastics
3DS is mostly independent standard from Visa and Mastercard. Yes they’re responsible for authoring, but the technical systems underneath are pretty much independent of standard card processing systems. 3DS is basically implemented as a standard set of REST API and html pages, with a standard around how the 3D flow is initiated, and crypto tokens exchanged via standard card payment ISO messages.

Nothing would prevent you from strapping 3D onto any other payment system of your choice.

Merchants have to choose to perform 3DS, but EU Strong Customer Authentication rules make it mostly mandatory for EU merchants to use 3DS. They can only really opt-out if they can consistently demonstrate they’re capable of detecting and preventing fraud, keeping it at levels that are basically equivalent to fraud seen on 3DS transactions.

The card number alone is not enough to perform a card transaction. There are some merchants out there that are capable of performing card transactions with only the 16-digit number, such as Amazon, but you need to be a very large merchant, and demonstrate you’ve got effective fraud controls in place to prevent abuse. Any smaller merchant attempting something similar will find their merchant accounts quickly closed, and all transactions automatically refunded.

> Many webshops kinda do something like that by handing payment off to their payment provider, but their payment provider isn't my payment provider yet still needs a credit card number. And what if a merchant uses a shady payment provider?

They mostly don’t exist. Becoming a payment provider on the Visa and Mastercard networks is expensive, difficult and very time consuming. Additionally Visa and Mastercard monitor all network participants, if they’re seen to be misbehaving then they get disconnected from the network, and their collateral payment is seized. So running a shady payment processor isn’t profitable.

The system isn’t perfect, but most of things you’re concerned about don’t happen in the EU. They happen a lot in the U.S., but the U.S. has a very different culture around money to the EU, and their payment systems are a bit more bonkers. Which is why EU banks tend to get a bit trigger happy with their fraud rules when customers travel to the U.S.
Artemis: NASA delays crewed return to the Moon's surface
Its better to see gov debt in cost-of-repayment terms rather than an absolute figure. The total is really irrelevant.

Atm in the US, it's 16% of the budget goes on repayments, or ~3.5% of GDP.

Likewise in the UK, it's ~12% at ~3.5% GDP

I suspect it's fairly easy for a society to this level
Aren't college students too old? There hasn't been a 20-year old Olympic all-round gymnastics champion since 1972, they've all been 14-19.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics_all-around_champion...
Materialized views are not a full solution without updates. Some databases can update incrementally, but not the popular ones.
yesn't to some degree it's the round trip back to "let's put a ton of application logic into our databases and then you mainly only need the database" times.

Just with a lot of modern technology around scaling, logging etc. which hopefully (I haven't used it yet) eliminates all the (many many) issues this approach had in the past.
Intel's modern compilers (icx, icpx) are clang-based. There is an open-source version [1], and the closed-source version is built atop of this with extra closed-source special sauce.

AOCC and ROCm are also based on LLVM/clang.

[1] https://github.com/intel/llvm
Maybe I could provide some context here. This is not "snow-white", is survival.

Mice have "mice paths". They locate the more direct routes from its home to the feeding areas and travel this routes often. This paths are a 3-D maze (can run over or under obstacles), and they memorize it by heart.

If something happens they will jump to safety fast light, without even thinking about it. They will use a sort of escape algorithm ("jump left, climb, jump, jump, fall, jump right, hole") and don't need to see the path. Can retreat in absolute obscurity and experiments show that even blinded mice manage to do it without landing on sharp tools. They will even jump over ghost obstacles if removed by researchers in the middle of the night.

This mouse is not tidying up; Is keeping its safety route safe. Those annoying random obstacles could became fatal if stand in the way. This way, it does not need to reset and memorize a new (and longer) escape route each night; and also reduce the risk to be ambushed by predatory rats.
if you listened to the press at the time you would imagine any leavers reading this would now be begging to get back in
They do, but applications on these matters can easily overwhelm the financially weaker opponent. Interesting comment in one of the Post Office judgements:

"10. Finally, disclosure is very expensive. The court will be astute to guard against it becoming either satellite litigation or a weapon in the interlocutory arsenal."

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3408.html
I'm Out Of DA loop, can anyone explain...
I never thought I would see a poet put Kipling in his place. This is a masterpiece.
You do know, that a simple border closure wouldn't do anything anything against a Russian invasion?
You can also do Ctrl-Z to pause the running process, and then `%1; say done` (or whatever) to restart the first queued job and then run the new command. Avoids the interactive issue
This industry is way too much of a fashion show. And too many devs are consumers of new technology in a similar way.

After 20 years I am actually getting a bit skeptical behind the "you should constantly be learning" mantra. If you are constantly learning new, tech, you will never be an expert in anything. (That statement is very much a generalization and I am sure there are tons of people that will point out issues with it).
>Also, HN used to think this was cool now there are 20 posts blaming the hacker…

I'm not sure whether it's HN thinking this is uncool (it is cool!) or it's HN taking the unfortunate realistic position that this type of stuff only gets the reporters into trouble, after seeing it happening time and time ago. People doing cool stuff get in trouble, and it's sad to watch.
2x6 is becoming more common for framing walls. The extra depth allows for more insulation.
> absolutely necessary to gauge the severity of this misconfiguration

Possibly. But what's the legal basis that allows random external parties to make that determination? Report the leaked credential, and let the company assess impact.

The problem is that pivoting to accessing user passwords may cause the companies to spend money notifying customers and harm their reputation. If they want to pursue legal action, those are clear damages.

> Chattr.ai must contact every affected user, not MrBruh.

Agreed, a pentester directly contacting impacted users would increase the risk legal gets involved.

> There is no telling whether and how many outside of this disclosure have previously accessed this information

Typically the company would review logs to determine that.
The rest of them (particularly the Return of Fitzroy Aungersell) are also phenomenal. I started with Return (which is apparently a bad choice), and it was marvellous, even without the context of Hands.
Austerity is result of reckless state money printing and waste.
Another source/discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38923811
Gold standard wasn't great but in hindsight it actually worked better what we have now.
Brb, about to go make 100kg of Donkey Chedder
Music groups such as amateur orchestras, brass bands etc are still a bit of community. Admittedly quite niche, you need to know about them, find a way and have the ability to learn an instrument. There are informal ad-hoc communities e:g at my local leisure centre the regular swimmers chat to each other quite a lot. Kept a lot of people going mentally through lockdown I think. (swimming was allowed subject to restricted numbers and booking ahead)
> No rules or laws that require it

It will just be FTC knocking on your door…
Why did the gold standard fail?

Was the inflation observed with the gold standard ever as bad as what's seen with government/central bank-issued money i.e. fiat?
Yes, but they probably couldn't decide to swap and crack out a Parmesan or a Camembert next week instead.
Nice to see someone pursuing something like this. I wish you all the luck.
Limiting the money supply plus price controls plus deregulation of imports and production.
When do you think this switch has occurred, though? I mean, British debt-to-GDP ratio was 200% in 1815 [1], for example, and there are several other examples that suggest that most countries had their national debts peak before the past 10 years [2].

Ironically one major contributor to government debt today and 200 years ago were war expenses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_nationa...
[2] https://data.imf.org/?sk=806ed027-520d-497f-9052-63ec199f5e6...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity is my definition, as it's the one that actually gets talked about in the press (as opposed to the nebulous "productivity" beloved of tech people (including me)).
Reducing the Balkan Wars to a single referendum in a single country is so simplistic, I'd even call it ignorant.

But since you are on the journey of learning about all of this, continue. Use Wikipedia for startes, and not some other sources a quick search turns up so.
> Round homes fare best in windstorms

Yes, it's about 4x less drag. That's why nomads have round yurts.
It amazes me that people drink plastic bottled water.

I ensure my little boy uses only metal water bottles.
I think you are very wrong.

You are mixing regulation, intervention and austerity, which is so broad, it cannot provide a distinct explanation for the declining public services, which enforcing regulations is a part of, btw.

Budget cuts set a hard upper bound on the reach of public institutions. Nothing else you mentioned achieves this.
Every company I've worked for, and every pentest contract I've done has found plaintext passwords or credentials stored somewhere they shouldn't. It's unfortunately very common.
> However in my opinion, there is a great lack of "class consciousness" from the people who vote for these parties

After those voted come to power, nothing prevents them from flipping on their agenda. I've seen it happen countless times, and probably so did you.

If only there were mechanics (a la Liquid Democracy) to recast votes in collective actions without the initiative of the government, but by way of constitutional rights. Politicians would be more interested to keep themselves aligned to their electorate, or lose their comfy job before their term would normally end.

Politician as a career, and unconditional 4 year terms seem like a problem imo.
I think even people against Austerity agree that governments may have to temporarily rein in some spending following a crash or time of economic hardship.

In the UK, however, austerity has been a persistent policy for over 13 years. Low taxation, low spending, persistent erosion of workers rights. No spending even when times were better, leaving it all the more fragile the next time.

Compare to the US, Canada and elsewhere, which performed strong austerity measures immediately following the 2009 crash, then dialled them back - as per economists recommendations - and recovered much faster than the UK.
The book "The Capital Order" by Clara Mattei is recommended.
Subtitle is "How economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism".

It's a study of WW1 and the early 1920s from an economic and social POV.
It’s also not a bad idea to provide an unsubscribe option for shipment updates.
> It's been around in R-land for a while with dplyr and its variety of backends

Only for SQL databases, so not really. Source: have been running dplyr since 2011.
What are those values precisely?
Too bad TFA started from rust instead of c; this behavior is all explained (in fewer words) in K&R.
Left wing parties have various labels for people/things they don't like too, it doesn't mean either side is wholly incorrect though, especially when whatever it is becomes a real problem, like borrowing flagrantly based on the assumption there'd be no wars, extremely low interest rates, and stable employment. Whoever in that case said something like "forgive me if I'm not concerned about finances" might look a bit silly later, while the right wingers banging on about the budget might look silly if they cut funding to scientific research in times of prosperity, but didn't cut oil subsidies, and then wind up with climate problems.
Because Apple don’t use 3DS, also it impact things like in-store payments, and also Apple Pay setup. Cards are added to Apple Pay using a special set of payment network transaction messages, which to the networks systems just look like normal card transactions. Unfortunately the network fraud rules aren’t smart enough to differentiate between thousands of cards being added to Apple Pay, vs thousands of unexpected transactions that all appear to be coming from the same “merchant”.
The Met's had an investigation open over this since 2020, all that seems to have happened as a result of this popular four-part series is that they've confirmed they're looking into specific possible criminal offences by the Post Office or its employees that we didn't know they were looking in to before. It's not clear that this is something which started investigating because of the popular TV series, but most likely not and they were just pressured into revealing more about the existing investigation - the police here don't generally give running updates on criminal investigations to the media.
But behind a paywall, so few people would have read it.
The article seems to consist mostly of abstruse legal wrangling, is there a TL:DR of the actual bug(s) at hand? There was some mention of Fujitsu rabidly denying remote access only for it to be revealed they actually did have this, was it some kind of sync error or something more malicious?
The current interest will wane too, once journalists tire of mentioning that the two leaders of the opposition are tangentially involved (Davey arguably more than Starmer).
*wasn't exclusive

Typo apologies
The thing is, the abstractions you're offering is sugar on top of a well-known, well-understood old architectural pattern. The Twitter / Mastodon comparison is unconvincing exactly because both Twitter and Mastodon seemingly totally ignored the well-known, well-trodden ground on this, for no good reason.

If you can convince more developers to apply what is effectively canonical store -> workers -> partitioned denormalized materialized views as a pattern where it makes sense, then great.

But you can do that with just the tools people already have available. Heck, you can do that with just multiple postgres servers (as the depot, and for the "p-stores" and for the indexing functions), and then you don't need to ditch the languages people are familiar with for both specifying the materialization and the queries.

Part of the reason we use a "hodgepodge of narrow tooling" however, tends to be that it allows us to pick and choose languages, and APIs, depending on what developers are familiar with and what suits us, and it allows people to pick and mix. Convincing people to give up that in favour of a fairly arcane-looking API restricted to the JVM is going to be a tough sell a lot of places.
A new type of device, a pocket companion
I would point out that your adversary there was actually Russia, not the immigrants or the UN or NGOs etc. (by the way, does that convention have an exit clause?). The problem is that the actual adversary is largely untouchable for Finland.
While I understand what you mean, you gotta be extremely strapped for space for that to be a true argument. For the 500 bucks a Meta Quest will cost, you could get a pretty decent 4K TV or display. Definitely not the best thing around but its potential uses case and potential future usefulness infinitely better ?!

Personally, I still think VR is mostly something like 3D TV/movies where you end up paying a lot more for nothing of real value, just a novelty factor.
Midjourney is on of the most sophisticated tool for AI art I have used so far.
Azure DevOps Service Disruption
Boards, Repos, Pipelines, and Test Plans are down across multiple regions.
I think I would enjoy something like this (or pinboard), but with comments.
Sort of a smaller version of Hackernews, where I could see what my friends are bookmarking and then write comments on those links, so we could chat about the content not necessarily with random people of the internet but with your smaller community (or maybe with everyone too, but in a different section).

Maybe someone here knows if anything like this exists already? I've taken a look at some of the options out there, but didn't end up trying them because it seemed like they didn't do anything like this, and were more focused on simply storing bookmarks (and maybe sharing them with upvotes, but nothing for conversation).
truth be told, to have tabs and auto restore not a feature that I personaly dislike.

But for the rest.... it's fluff that's not needed for notepad.
Now watch it get to much development and ultimately killed/scrapped.