skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is linkbait-ish and the author is ideological, but the book reviewed in the OP, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism," by Clara Mattei, is truly worth a read.

Recommended by economists as different as Tyler Cowen and Thomas Pikkety, the book won Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times.

Ignore the OP's review of the book. Instead, read the book itself:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo181707...

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Order-Economists-Invented-Aus...
lol, ok, never mind all the countless people those "values" drove their childhoods, adolescence and lives into the ground or worse
So if I understand correctly, we're (economically) back at the classic model of continuously running a db in a process, right?
$100 a month for a single Postgres instance is insane
Stupidly, "Royal Mail" and "Post Office" are separate organizations.
Governments have to take on debt for there to be a net money supply. There's no two ways about it. The right wing certainly wouldn't want all their savings to disappear to pay off the "national debt".

Moreover, government spending pays for itself - from each transaction a proportion comes back in tax. It can be considered as a geometric series that tends to zero.
Not in the sense that the debt can be pushed further for something an individual could not do for a more long-term return.

But at the end, you have to measure gow much you are risking.

I would say it is the same, just the scale is different and allows states push for policies probably not at the reach of normal people.

But even those should be managed with care, because what someone should be looking for long-term is sustainable services. Meaning that debt cannot be infinite.

At the time your creditors do not believe you... you have a problem. Just look at Argentina in the last 20 or 30 years for an example.

What is particularly evil is the fact that people who take our money have basically no responsibility on the results and can take it from us through laws but they benefit from those in other ways.
The Crypto World Is Losing Its Mind over the SEC's X Debacle
Marx hasn't been around for a while. With the corporate world sucking so hard on government teats, in the US and Europe in particular, austerity has a more distributed but still intensely negative impact. I strongly recommend Mark Blyth's book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea as a more modern and nuanced take on what is going on.
Even what you describe is an incredibly poor method of consuming information. There's no reasonable way to say you wouldn't have otherwise learned about something just because you learned about it in the way you did.

I learned far more quality information about my hobbies when there were vast Internet forums of users dedicated to discussing them.

Facebook groups and other social media has supplanted most of those forums but presents the information in a much more inferior fashion. However it creates far more engagement by exploiting the same principles as gambling addiction or animal training. Variable expectation of results and the level of work required, scrambling the feed, burying information, creating an inconsistent expectation of experience. That in and of itself wreaks havoc on brain chemistry and brings forth depression just like gambling addiction.
Thank you i'll check it out. It's free?

If I wanted to pay, looks like 1password also does it. (Or if I already had 1password which I should prob have anyway).
Seems like even those systems might be causing additional harm:

> Ironically enough, the most commonly detected plastic was polyamide, a material commonly used in water filtration systems and "the most popular membrane material used in reverse osmosis … a common water purification method shared by all three brands [of water tested]," the team wrote in the paper.
As I said in another submission, people sent other people to jail through negligence and deliberate cover ups. People were bankrupted and had money extorted from them. The only remedy for this is jail time for those involved. They should lose liberty, have their name dragged through the mud and gave financial ruin. Make the time fit the crime

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931792
The requests are parallel and therefore complete in the same(ish) amount of time as a single request, so the latency isn't increased.
lol, ok, never mind all the countless people the absence of these "values" are driving their childhoods, adolescence and lives into the ground or worse

edit:
Right, sorry, that was quite a reactive response on my side. I'll try to be constructive and foster conversation instead of just resorting to sarcasm: what's your point? are you seriously implying marriage and family are overall negative values?
Yeah agreed. It's about tradeoffs. If you want scale to zero with low latency DynamoDB already exists and provides that. The tradeoff is you give up all the nice features of a RDMS.
Austerity also causes increases in asset prices. The UK property market is a good example so I'm not sure your point holds.
The top income tax rate was 90% for decades until it dropped to 75% in the 70s (although you could still end up paying 90% in some cases even then). Today it’s 45%

Since 1965 companies pay a much lower corporation tax.

Tax to GDP has been a little bit up and down but only recently did it breach the 1970s peaks.

I don’t think this matches with “ Taxation in the UK is currently at the highest levels in recorded history.”
Exactly. Everybody just immediately jumps to their pet theory without actually digesting the full set of data that needs to be explained. The article very clearly lays out why those other explanations are less plausible than social media, and the cross-cultural nature of it is a big point.

All that said, the authors who publish on that site are also very pro-unsupervised free play and think its decline has caused mental health issues of its own (see Haidt's The Coddling of the American Mind).
It's pretty much a personal project of Ian Hislop these days, who is a mere mortal. And it would only take a few libel lawsuits going against them to bankrupt the business.
Ignoring the taste differences between bottled water and non-bottled water, don't you think water overall can have different taste? Water from different places in the world have different contents, why wouldn't that affect the taste?

And if we can agree that different water can taste different, why couldn't some bottled water taste different than non-bottled water?
See https://github.com/google/clspv for an OpenCL implementation on Vulkan Compute. There are plenty of quirks involved because the two standards use different varieties of SPIR-V ("kernels" vs. "shaders") and provide different guarantees (Vulkan Compute doesn't care much about numerical accuracy). The Mesa folks are also looking into this as part of their RustiCL (a modern OpenCL implementation) and Zink (implementing OpenGL and perhaps OpenCL itself on Vulkan) projects.
The first time i did a commit, knocked myself off the system, and it automatically rolled back its config 5 min later because I didn't do a 'commit confirm' was kind of mindblowing.
this is what i don't understand

how did they get convicted with flimsy evidence?

why is no one in the post office or fujitsu (including the directors) being prosecuted
Inflation is never anywhere a monetary phenomenon. It's always a lack of competition that allows someone to put their prices up. We need to dump the Friedmanian nonsense before more people get hurt.
Cork is oak, which is carcinogenic (in different amounts in different parts of the plant). Of course for some things one doesn't usually care about that because drinks such as wine are also stored in carcinogenic oak barrels and contain carcinogenic ethanol among other harmful things, so it doesn't really matter.

Also, corks promote microbiological contamination of various kinds, leading to e.g. the common failings in wine (there is actually a multitude of "cork" faults, not just one): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_fault

I'd prefer any metal or plastic to cork actually. Just because it is "natural" or "traditional" doesn't make it any good.
> I guess it just means "you'll never have to SSH in and upgrade anything"?

To me that is just "managed". I agree, serverless means scale to 0 (compute and costs). I'm so glad I left AWS Aurora Serverless after how much I disliked v1 and never considered v2. If I was still stuck on them my costs would double or more for my dev/qa environments (which I had scale to 0).
(CEO of neon.tech here)

Scaling to zero is tricky. In order to make it work you need to

1. Separate storage and compute which aurora has done

2. Have a proxy between the user and an actual VM in which you host Postgres

3. Spin up this VM after authenticating a connection, stand up Postgres inside the VM and run the query

You need to do all that very quickly- ideally in a couple hundred ms. This can only be accomplished with having a warm pool of VM or having extremely fast microVMs like firecracker.

I believe AWS aurora just uses ec2 and that’s why scale to 0 is turned off
I don't know. I think you could perhaps align incentives such that any bounty claimed via the government program is competitive, public, and companies are ranked by the number and severity of bounties. Then the company would have an incentive to run a bounty program where they had a chance of controlling the narrative a bit.
> whole thing was negotiated in secret and key deals were made by Ursula von der Leyen using deleted SMS messages.

This is completely different from the British system, where key deals are made in secret using deleted Whatsapp messages.
> This is the kind of worldview that comes from years of navel-gazing in a therapist's office. "Why do I beat my kids? ...Because my father beat me! Now that I understand why I do it, I can stop beating my kids..." Or, you could just stop beating your kids.

Which of these approaches is more likely to result in someone changing their behaviour? Is there any evidence that advice to “just stop X” is as or more effective than causally aligned methods?

What an unusual attitude for an engineer to have. I suppose you fix bugs by “just not writing bugs in the first place”, too.
This is funny because most therapists these days practice CBT or one of its variants, which is explicitly focused on behaviors and outcomes and gives minimal weight to investigating "root causes" like that. The kind of worldview that comes from never doing therapy I guess.
I would really like most of you see how people live in other countries so that you can compare how lucky places like USA or Western Europe are.

I lived in Vietnam for almost 12 years. Luckily as an expat.

Most people in the world live like people in Vietnam, not like people in USA or Spain.

I do not mean we should live in worse conditions. I mean: look at it with perspective because we are a privileged minority.
We're making some big improvements to Zapier plans
Looks like we understand it enough to say it's all a big ball of mud[1], at least based on that SO comment. Or are you saying that the comment is wrong? And yes, the effect is more complex than cloudflare. Then again, it is a ~6Gb (~0.85GB) executable blob[2]; this doesn't include the training sets and it took a bit to get there. Who knows, if cloudflare spent 4.5 billion years and a whole planet of resources on their next version, the result might have exquisite UX too (plus an ability to write tangental HN comments, and many more).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern#Big_ball_of_mud

[2]: "In humans, the total female diploid nuclear genome per cell extends for 6.37 Gigabase pairs (Gbp)", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA#Amount
I have a 3G device still able to watch YT and a very old Kindle Fire that has NewPipe [1] installed for watching YT in bed (whilst my phone is on charge).

I don't see why not either - if the device was capable of H264 when it was released, why not now?

[1] https://newpipe.net/
You can get 636 pixels per byte with a 256x256 pixel, 103 byte image. For example: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/smallest-png/

And they're used in real production systems :)
We're also back to table layouts with grid, albeit a lot more usable this time around.
I think you are correct, that the law says that.

I think the law is pretty wrong.

It means I can break law by just accidentally browsing to something. Can be breaking the law just by seeing it, before knowing I'm doing something wrong.

Basically, just see something and be guilty before being able to look away.
How to pay for the open source commons is far from a solved problem, but I'm glad individuals are trying to make it work for themselves anyway.

I wish we wouldn't act like producing software and making gobs of money are inextricably linked. Yes, we absolutely need to find a way to fund people who are building critical infrastructure. But sometimes, "I quit my job to work on open source" can be more akin to "I quit my job to hike the Appalachian Trail." I wish tech had a lot fewer people who were here for the money.
Thats wild to me. Payment data is like, the most relational. You need to learn 20 different data models and all their many interconnected relationships just to implement a custom API integration. Maybe thats why it sometimes feels like pulling teeth to get the data you want out of a particular Stripe flow.

I used a document db for our side of the billing integration and I really, really wish I hadn't.
Don't know why you're downvoted. Same. It's $2. Lasts a good week.
You can't technical your way out of a social problem. It doesn't matter how many best practices you define if the management aren't going to follow them, and get their mates to award them a CBE for services to misconduct.

> Are modern capacitative touch screens immune to this failure mode?

No, this is basically impossible.
What alternative does someone need to make to compete with AWS?
Some of these emails are legally required for online shops. Doesn't matter if the user wants to receive them or not, they _have to_ be sent and actually delivered to the user's inbox.
> If you want to posit an explanation for this phenomenon, you have to be able to explain two things: what changed abruptly in the early/mid 2010s?, and why did it uniquely affect teen girls?

And that it's cross-cultural, so three things.

> and yet it's much less clear now that there is any gender difference in technology uptake.

There are definitely well known differences in how the tech is used by the different sexes. Females are typically far more social than males.
DNA is a lot more like an FPGA than a traditional programming language. Basically, everything is wrapped in a while(true) that has conditionals as to whether or not it engages. Promoter sequences are the condition statements, and transcription factors are very similar to variable states, where the concentration of the transcription factor is essentially its value.
What’s the one thing that never changes in the Data World?
Keir Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service in those years. Some (but not all) prosecutions were likely picked up and carried out by the CPS. How much the head of the institution is (or should be) supposed to intervene / interfere in specific issues like this, though, is very debatable.

Ed Davey, more damningly, was a minister with responsibility for postal matters at the time the scandal was really breaking. He basically made no effort to help the victims, and just parroted the Post Office line. He now says he was lied to "on a massive scale" which, as a line of defence, is a bit weak. Tbh, the LibDem record, in that government, is pretty bad anyway; simply reminding people of that "Coalition" government is probably enough to blow a few holes in their electoral boats.
> It's a claim about the nature of an argument. Do you believe it's not possible for an argument to be idiotic?

No, I believe that an argument is either valid or invalid. Any other characteristic is meaningless in pursuit of truth.

Consider the meaning of the term "idiotic": something that only an idiot would say. Therefore, "that is idiotic" means "that is something that only an idiot would say", which in turn implies that the person saying it is an idiot.

> Idiotic arguments exist. So do spurious arguments, disingenuous arguments, bad arguments, pointless arguments, dishonest arguments, and so on. Which of those adjectives would you like to ban when discussing the quality of an argument?

The only one I'd like to ban is "idiotic", since it's the only one that insults the person. "Dishonest" is a little tricky, since it's hard to prove someone's intentions or honesty, but depending on the context it might be okay. All the other adjectives are only describing the quality of the argument, without insulting the person - and while meaningless by themselves (what does "bad argument" mean?), I'd consider them fine to be used, as long as further elaboration is included.

Some examples of other adjectives I'd ban are "retarded", "stupid", "foolish", "lazy", "malicious", since they all insult a person or imply bad motivations, without providing any information.
I had a roommate like this. So I set up a blind taste test. I set up 10 tests with two glasses each, most of which had one of each type, but I think 3 had either both bottled or both tap. Regardless, it came out int he end, that he couldn't even tell them apart, let alone have a favorite. For some reason, even after the test, he continued to drink bottled water.
I Found David Lynch's Lost Dune II Script
At this point, I'm not even going back to piracy. Over the past ~2 years I canceled Netflix and AmazonPrime and haven't missed them. Maybe it's me, maybe I'm old and all, but nowadays content seems to be just that, content.

I feel like streaming services strategy is just to create these buzzy shows to get click-baiting headlines, have as many of them as possible to boast a bigger library than the competitor and that's it. The "failure" (at least from my point of view) comes from more than just "let's charge more and put ads!!"
> [..] but 2g was launched in 1991.

For me that's the value - a low bandwidth network that is reliable and continues to be supported.
There is more variety to peoples reception of the psychedelic experience than one might think.

https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Ibogaine.shtml
The best form of open source houses are free and complete framing plans with material and cut lists and detailed instructions that don't assume the builder is a professional. Add some guides on exterior and interior finishing, basic plumbing and electrical and walk-throughs on how to obtain permitting and being your own general contractor and you'd have something genuinely useful for everyone.
I built a Chrome extension that integrates with Gmail (and other sites) to write emails, messages, etc using ChatGPT. This is my full time work and I'm living comfortably from it (for now).

https://chatgptwriter.ai
Global Risks Report 2024
You were definitely browsing the entire web well before 2012 on smart phones. And even before then there were internet enabled phones.
For me it is not really that. The logic that starts from the small applies to the big. In other shapes and with different scale limitations, but at the end if you spend more than what you have increasingly accumulating debt things get bad. It can take 5 or 50 years.

At that time services stop working. I also refuse the idea that everyone can permanently get more than what they produce. If you give someone some push it should be for them to be able to become autonomous, not for living from other people permanently.
causes are a mix: smartphones, social media, doomscrolling habits, carbon climate crisis (and its dire implications). and the rise of the so-called Woke/DEI propaganda cult in academia. all add up
I’ve been in places with bad tasting tap water. Today I live in East Bay, CA and our tap water is amazing.

If I were faced with the sludge coming out of the pipe in some places, I’d stock up on Brita pitchers. Here, I never go out of my way to filter it.
I think the problem is that we're trying to take paradigms that are designed to be serverful (is that a word?) and shoe-horn them into working in a serverless way.
I use TiDB Serverless for some smaller projects I am working on.

https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-serverless/
Roughly spoken, there are 5-10 million active streamers, but only 5-10k who even make a significant amount of money. So even while most of them neither see a relevant number of viewers, or any viewer at all, they still create a huge baseline of costs just by existing and streaming.
Violent agreement here, I think -- I also feel that the criteria are being applied arbitrarily and capriciously and we accept many things as ETF members that have far less liquid spot markets than Bitcoin. But incidents like this don't help.
https://archive.is/VlH3X
IF : Transcriptional activator; when present a gene will be transcribed.
WHILE : Transcriptional repressor; gene will be transcribed until repressor is not present.

as stated, IF and WHILE are equivalent (the WHILE is some variation of a contrapositive of an IF)

secondly, it doesn't make sense that a "repressor" would cause transcription unless it is absent, since "
A transcriptional repressor is a protein that regulates gene expression by inhibiting the initiation of transcription".

It is a repressor's PRESENCE that inhibits expression, not it's ABSENCE. Hence it would make more sense to say "Transcriptional repressor; gene will be transcribed until repressor is PRESENT."
I find that water flavour has a strong context-sensitive component. For example, I find water tastes really good when I'm really thirsty or after a workout. Any flavour differences between water sources are completely overpowered by this effect for me.
Much of the calls for AI legislation have been based on fear of the technology. Instead, we should establish rational policy goals for AI regulation that align with the technology's usage, not our fears about the future.
There is a good alternative, https://neon.tech check them out. Really good bunch. Product is great and it's open-sourced https://github.com/neondatabase/neon
https://systemsapproach.org/books/

Bruce and Larry's 6th edition of Computer Networking: A Systems Approach is free to read online, or you can buy a copy. Both have a long list of achievements in the networking space.

Recently they've been publishing smaller more focused books on many topics.

(full disclosure, I helped write the Edge Cloud OPs one)
Show HN: Spliit – Free and Open Source Alternative to Splitwise
Splitwise now only allows to enter 3 expenses per day for free accounts. I thought it was time to offer a free and open source alternative.
nope, chemistry/physics involved & dna processint doesn't work that way. (Msc Comp.sci&Bioinformatics / sw engineer here)

it's very much about physical environment and chemical reactions happening (all in parallel) and molecules with different sizes/shapes interacting in specific conditions not instructions for specific computer architecture being executed.

ps. i'm not saying its not possible, it's that it doesnt happen that way in living cells.
I think that there's a tendency to think a technology is "a toy" if it is in a sense too good or elegant.

In the case of databases, I can well imagine Oracle or even Postgres people thinking that SQLite must be a toy because otherwise all the faff they do to set up and admin (and pay obscene amounts for) the databases is actually pointless.