skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume the parent was ironic since 4K/Dolby Vision versions of top Netflix shows are actually released by pirates on the very day they are available on the platform.
> Google only focusing QA on Chrome and Safari

FWIW, over my time at Google (2012-2022) we had massively better testing on Firefox than Safari, because you can run Firefox on Linux on arbitrary hardware while Safari requires MacOS which requires Apple hardware and is automation-hostile. We did eventually get some tests on Safari, but they were slower and flakier.
My biggest problem with databases is that they are very hard to evolve. They accumulate a history of decisions and are in a suboptimal state. Legacy is widespread in enterprises. Oracle is still milking $ 50B+ annually, and the databases are the primary driver of why you need Oracle and why they can upsell you other products after a compliance audit.

The schema changes are hard (e.g. try to normalize/denormalize data), production is the only environment when things go wrong, in-place changes with untested revert options are default, etc.
"It's reading a quadruple failure - that can't happen! It's, it's got to be instrumentation."
I was just about to post this. And am I reading the situation correctly, did the note that he was complaining about get removed? I don't see one on the parent post.
True, Rama does have a learning curve. It's easier to explain why its indexing capabilities are so powerful, as data structures vs. data models is fairly relatable to most devs. But I actually consider its dataflow API to be the bigger breakthrough. Our Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation and examples in rama-demo-gallery are demonstrations of this.

Also, Rama has a first-class Clojure API (I should probably update the website).

https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon
https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-gallery
> (mostly because of my subscription I am sure)

I enjoyed this, thank you.
A couple years ago, I did this with an old Chromebook.
Interesting. I have never thought about it like this. To me it always feels like bliss if something finishes instantly,
I've definitely been feeling like I'm battling my todo list more than using it recently - but it's still the best system I've used to date. I just come to accept that anything that doesn't have an explicit priority is going to end up bumped off to next week, sometimes repeatedly.
BRICS is also not an actual political or economic union. It's nothing.
Sun had a similar thing!

>According to Sun documentation the "... coprocessor card is not just PC-compatible, it is an actual PC that is constructed from real PC components and follows the de facto and emerging PC hardware design standards."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunPCi
This seems to be squarely aimed at Gerrit fans, which is difficult for me to wrap my head around. The projects I'm on which are Gerrit-encumbered all seem to regard it as a necessary evil rather than a selling point. Still, the project is well-thought-out and I hope it's successful!
"not-negative" ?
Airbus will profit because the site went up.
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A lot of these same problems were solved in a similar way with Datomic and xtdb.

https://www.datomic.com/
https://xtdb.com/
What other countries have meaningful residential solar and haven’t had to deal with the problems? Can you cite anything because I can’t find any good resources online, but AFAICT the US and China are leading the world in solar and it’s possible that the US is leading for residential solar on normalized terms (haven’t checked).

California is probably one of the places in the world with the largest solar residential install and therefore has the most experience with this vs some dark propaganda conspiracy to keep residential solar down? Trust me, residential solar is hugely popular because you basically have free electricity and the government subsidizing the install cost on top + forcing utilities to buy your electricity generation during the day? The political incentives are for more residential solar, not less. The utilities aren’t popular and you can accuse them of shady shit (& they do engage on it), but in this specific instance it does seem more sincere that people are acting because of the threat that residential solar placed to the financial stability of the grid. And no, residential solar doesn’t remove the need for the grid.

https://www.builderonline.com/data-analysis/california-snags...

https://ilsr.org/the-states-of-distributed-solar/

4 of the top 5 solar cities in the US are in California. California has stopped with the explicit rebates to fund residential solar and it’s not just because solar prices have dropped - it’s bad policy. Other places are still lagging because they don’t have enough residential solar installed to make it obviously a bad idea. The residential solar market has seen a massive contraction since the state government stopped forcing utilities to subsidize them as much - they’re still subsidizing a bit but they switched from buying back electricity from residential at retail rates & now instead use wholesale which is what they’d pay any other generator (T&D costs are subsidized because the monthly grid hookup rate is still too cheap for these kinds of houses).
Basically, "it's ok if we have disinformation on this site, it will have a community note attached"

Most of the top 10 accounts with most community notes are plain disinformation accounts. No action is taken against them.
The MCAS crashes have been on MAX 8s, and those are not grounded. I have been avoiding all MAX models since that grounding back in 2019.
What an horrible language..
Sadly this was a totally foreseeable outcome. How else could this go in a country where regulation is communism and shareholder value is God.
No. Many real domains like natural language are too complex and fuzzy to accurately model with tuples.

To be truly universal, your model needs to be computationally stronger - it needs to be turing complete. For example fractals could never be modeled by any number of tuples, but can be perfectly represented by very short computer programs.
Dude. lol.

There are numerous tweets and clips of musk himself stating he is a free speech absolutist.

This whole “within the confines of the law” only came out after he bought twitter and after advertisers left the platform out of fear of absolutist free speech.
Mongols never reached Novgorod, and it survived as a republic that paid tribute to them. After the decline of the Golden Horde, they were involved in power struggles with other regional powers, such as Muscovy, Tver, and (Poland-)Lithuania. After a century of shifting alliances, Muscovy became dominant and took over both Novgorod and Tver.
> people aren't just dropping dead inexplicably

Another pretty decent hypothesis of plastic contamination's effects is obesity (it's been seen both in vitro and in non-human animals). People absolutely are dropping dead en masse of obesity and related complications, and while obesity is proximally explainable (calories), the explanation of why people are consuming so many more calories is contested, at best.

So I don't think we know enough to say confidently that people aren't just dropping dead inexplicably.
Human fetal brain self-organizes into long-term expanding organoids
Indeed. British politicians have not infrequently been crooks or shaggers (or like Boris, both), but we don't see the authoritarian tendencies that have seized the Right across much of the world in recent years.

Private Eye's biggest threat is likely the death of print, apparently the reason you can't get it at all except on paper is cited by the editor (Ian Hislop) as a success factor. I admit if I could pay the same and get it online (instead of a package through the door every couple of weeks) I'd do that, but it would significantly reduce their visibility.
AWS was not implemented by an offshore team. The link you pasted implies that EC2 was implemented by an offshore team - which is not correct either.
EC2 had two teams, one of which was in Cape Town. The other team was in Seattle - and larger than the one in Cape Town.
The rest of AWS at the time (2007) consisted of S3, SQS, DevPay, CDN, SimpleDB (AWS' own DB implementation at the time) etc... These teams were all in Seattle (in the red brick building by I5).
Interesting idea, kudos. Definitely advances the conversation, even if it doesn't ultimately emerge as the winner
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That's just not true. A lot of judicial systems give leeway for judges to rule using the spirit of the law and not just the letter of the law. Especially for obviously fake arguments, or when laws need updating to newer norms or unforeseen technologies.
If the accounts were suspended and almost immediately restored after Musk's intervention, couldn't the explanation be that some actors managed to trick the system into getting them banned (for example through a flood of reporting) rather than something initiated in Twitter itself?
> i was able to travel the world from money i earned myself ... if all else fails i can go back home

It sounds like "not"; that their support was the system of people governing their home country.
he's trending because of the harvard plagiarism stuff, he was one of the annoying ppl on twitter about it. but apparently ackman's wife plagiarized too? idk the facts, just the headlines, i choose to ignore all that stuff bc culture war makes for bad political action
I'll throw my hat in the ring:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_AD-1
I think there is some "Turing-completeness" for this category as well, that is quite trivial to achieve, though the practical usability may be negligible.

One hacky equivalence I can come up with is that you have a tuple with a single string value, and encode something in that string.
I've worked in the UK, Europe and the US. From my personal experience I haven't seen any difference in the amount of effort, productivity or skill level.

Maybe I've just been lucky with the people I've worked with. In one company we had a representative of pretty much every major European country working there along with quite a few guys from the US. Everyone worked hard to get stuff delivered.
The problem is that:
* CPython is slow, making extension modules written in C(++) very attractive
* The CPython extension API exposes many implementation details
* Making use of those implementation details helps those extension modules be even faster

This resulted in a situation where the ecosystem is locked-in to those implementation details: CPython can't change many aspects of its own implementation without breaking the ecosystem; and other implementations are forced to introduce complex and slow emulation layers if they want to be compatible with existing CPython extension modules.

The end result is that alternative implementations are not viable in practice, as most existing libraries don't work without their CPython extension modules -- users of alternative implementations are essentially stuck in their own tiny ecosystem and cannot make use of the large existing (C)Python ecosystem.

CPython at least is in a position where they can push a breaking change to the extension API and most libraries will be forced to adapt. But there's very little incentive for library authors to add separate code paths for other Python implementations, so I don't think other implementations can become viable until CPython cleans up their API.
He's a puzzle. He's more than smart enough to understand that for someone in his position, the only winning move is to STFU. Yet his rational side always seems to lose these battles.
The MAX 8 killed more than 300 people due to Boeing's culture. This incident is a fair indication that this culture hasn't changed.
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The nice thing about the "decoded" syntax is that it's extensible - you can design your own operations like "encode" and "reshape". But if you don't care about that, then a terse syntax allows you to read more code at a glance once you've become familiar with it. (Of course APL-like languages have other pitfalls, such as most operators being overloaded based on arity, such that meaning can change completely depending on the context. This is barely acceptable for a "terse" syntax where every operation has to be denoted by a single character but becomes quite silly otherwise.)
Even Spirit shows you your plane during booking.
The device is an eReader. The majority of battery power on tablets goes to keeping the screen on and updating it 60 times per-second.

The eInk screen is low power to change, and requires zero power to stay on.

The device sleeps between screen refreshes, and the WiFi power use in minimal.

My nook art screen lasts over a week with refreshes over the day. I don't know of a tablet which has a screen-on time for that long.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/turning-an-eink-screen-into...
From personal experience, no. I ended up writing rust bindings to call from python that turned minutes of loading into seconds.
Look at pictures of a hydro power plant reservoir. Look at the water edge when the water level is lower. It’s like a desert.

When the water level goes up and down it kills all life along the edge. That life is an important food source for fish.
> Fundamentally, [the things you deal with] are materialized views over an event sourced log.

This is also true of most of the main SQL database engines, no?
Prosperous for some.
This is the answer. It's just way easier to hire here than in the Bay Area.

Now, unlike a lot of other shops, actually the people Google hired were mostly top notch, regardless of where they came from.
> My mother is terrified.

This is more or less equivalent to the little old lady in this comic saying "I'm wearing this to ward off A." Laypeople are notoriously crap at judging any kind of risk.

https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd051809s.gif
The Python language server in Visual Studio Code will catch this if type checking is turned on, but by default, in CPython, that code will just work.
Adding a date of travel and checking the scheduled tail number would be much more accurate.
Why are you avoiding them now?
The twitter meme of putting replies to ELO's "Mr Blue Sky" for every lie Elon has told would probably make the song go on for hours
I think the jeans thing is just because most people want their jeans to feel and stretch like yoga pants and not jeans. The selvedge denim cult still is usually 100% cotton, and about the same price as stretchy designer jeans, but most people don’t want this.
Which of those integrate with iCloud? Generic picture frames tend to either use USB or their own cloud services/mobile apps, and the exceptions are things like this guy had to do making the album public which many people aren’t willing to do.
Late to the party but I'm flying a 737-900 next week. I was concerned, so I looked up if its the "plane", turns out, it is not.

Boeing naming is so confusing.

737 naming:

[1] The first generation "Original" series: the 737-100 and -200, also the military T-43 and CT-43, launched February 1965.

[2] The second generation "Classic" series: 737-300, -400 and -500, launched in 1979.

[3] The third generation "Next Generation" series: 737-600, -700, -800 and -900, also the military C-40 and P-8, launched late 1993.

[4] The fourth generation 737 MAX series: 737-7, -8, -9 and -10, launched August 2011.

I read a funny quote from a pilot today, "737, flying yesterday's plane tomorrow".
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All valid points, but I wonder if you've overshot your response to this (very slight) increase of risk to your personal safety.

The statistical safety of aviation is the best it has ever been - 2023 set yet another record low for commercial aviation deaths and injuries. Your automobile trip to the grocery store is far riskier.
You are obviously not seeing the problem. The problem was not that some dev used sscanf which lead to slow code. The problem here is that this was undiscovered for YEARS and it literally cost minutes of every single GTA online player. Management did not prioritize literally burning lifetimes away. That is the problem.
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Because it took 10 years to have Python 3 being as fast as Python 2 while being more strict. 2-9% means it will be another 10 years to have Python 3 being significantly faster.

Ref: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-November/1...
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> A terrorist intentionally targets civilians, and non-terrorist does not. That's it.

When a leader targets their own people, we don't call them terrorists. My point is that the distinction comes down to whether the state is recognized as legitimate or not, and it's really just arbitrary.
Battery won't help you in winter. Just a waste of money ( At least in Baltics). It will help at nights by using electricity you made at day, but is useless in winter. My solar panels at november generated 0.00kW/h, because it was under 40cm of snow. Got some double digits at December... anyways, where it snows, don't count on your panels. Even if it didn't, the energy it produces in the period when the daytime is scarce is minuscule compared to summer. Nov-Feb inclusive (~120 days) gets me about as much as I could get in 5 ideal summer days. Or a third of what I require to cover a single month electricity usage.

Of course it all depends on options government offers and in what place you live - however Poland I suspect also gets snowy. Just sell excess solar electricity and re-buy in winter. Just trying to save you some money on batteries.
I think he was referring to his home country, with the strong safety nets?
first discussed then flagged here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38927699
Brew has security audits and mechanisms in place to prevent bad actors. I trust OSS volunteers more than I trust corporations, does that make sense?
> Hold politicians accountable for what?

Well, ideally, in a liberal democracy, hold politicians accountable for whether they do what they say they will do. They are elected on a certain set of promises ("I will do x", "I will support value y") and, ideally, people made informed decisions based on that when voting. Whether they get reelected is a way of holding elected officials accountable in a blunt sense. One way for voters to be informed of whether politicians are doing what they said they would do (even, really on what politicians are doing at all) is to have journalists write accounts of what politicians said and then did, because normal everyday people are not paid to follow politics all day figuring out whether they're actually doing what they said they would do---journalists do that for us. They report on what happened.

> That depends on your vision for what America should look like.

That's also why I think people are way too hung up on things like "neutrality" and "objectivity" in their news. It's not clear cut and not a science, journalists tell stories which are factual to the degree possible by them. They are useful. When they don't do that well, or dishonestly, they lose credibility as stand-ins for us following politicians around. We hold journalists to account in the same way. Ideally, they do the same by retracting or publicizing their errors as well. That's also why a diverse news environment is a good thing. But, as we know, it can also easily become hyper polarized to the point where it stops really becoming useful at all, just comforting, and in some cases practically a blatant ideological tool in service of certain politicians, which for many years was considering deeply embarrassing for a journalist.
I'm reading chapters in Coders At Work and thinking about who should be interviewed in a 2nd edition. Jose Valim should be at the top of this kind of list. His work on Elixir has been as profound as anyone in Coders.
That seems unlikely given that both Apple and Google have been employing the world's top ML scientists for years, have unlimited budgets, have better access to customers than any startup (to find out what customers want), and ... need I go on? Yes, it's nice that "Rabbit" is exploring this area and being innovative, but unless their particular take on mobile phones catches the world unexpectedly by storm, nobody will mourn their passing when the money runs out later this year.
In the US it is called an operating system. You pay about 30% to the people creating them. Sometimes they let you run your own software on the side but that bug is being slowly patched.
Asiana is not in the set of "major US airlines".

Separately, major US airlines can reliably fly a daytime visual approach with a fully working airplane into a major airport.
It's also entirely practical for everything that's not twitter-like, i.e almost everything. But the most noise comes from people with the (admittedly more interesting) use case requirements at the data store level.

So long as your application doesn't throw space and performance away at every opportunity, vertical scaling goes really far these days.
It's plausible that state actors would try to game community notes somehow. It's hard but no system is perfect and there are very refined actors out there.
A decade ago, as I was stressing out about an upcoming go-live, my boss at the time (a wonderful, caring, thoughtful person) provided well-intended advice; he said something like "My wife is a doctor; when she does her job poorly people die! Cheer up, we just move code around".

It was intended to a relatively junior architect to provide some perspective; and perspective is indeed important.

But I think in IT, much more often we commit the opposite error - we are too disconnected from consequences of our seemingly abstract, technical, impersonal work.

I currently work on a massive Payroll ERP. In many ways a boring, uncool system. But if we don't do our job right, people don't get paid right, and while that may not have the same immediate impact as a doctor mistake, it's... very much a real human impact. And more of us could probably draw a line from IT error to human impact if we consciously actively tried to.

Devastating story, every time I read about it. Should be taught in Computer Science universities alongside the Therac-25 and few other choice cases :|
Same here. I switched to Guix and never looked back.
There is a decent related question for how many of those followers are legitimate?

I think it is somewhat likely that any account with a lot of followers has a lot of bot followers. I could easily see any "clean up the bots" script being wrong on taking down some legitimate posters that are in the neighborhood of a lot of bots.
Well, if your program domain requires X level of essential complexity, you will have to achieve that somehow. You can either let it live in someone else's code, that's already written and battle tested, or you can rewrite it yourself, which is time consuming and the results might be subpar. There is no free lunch.
It's laundering bitcoins
I don't really understand why the legacy media keeps reporting on X.

Not only were they COMPLETELY wrong about X being days away from shuttering, these idiots are paying Elon for corporate subscription to keep using his platform.

These are unserious people and should be regarded as nothing more than clowns. That's all they are.

I can see why the talentless scumbags of Gizmodo are so terrified of ChatGPT taking their job, especially when the most broken ChatGPT results are more congruent with reality than the likes of their self-proclaimed journalists.
Thank god for procrastination!
the statistics are talking about first time entrepreneurs, so they didn't fail in their 20s because they didn't try until they were 40.
I've got an app that uses that to upload to S3. It's pretty straightforward.
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Journalists need to fine tune their words to smaller nets. Free speech does not mean any more what it used to mean.

Change headline to "... in latest assault on political journalism." Or Pro-Palestinian journalism.
"Twitter is a ghost town."