skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a unit of DBAs, the original enabling team

My experience of DBA teams (at a bank) was that they were desperately slow at approving anything (and all changes had to be approved by DBAs).

We had a DB query in the software for the Fraud Department that was very slow - it was taking several minutes to run, leading the fraud team to take frequent coffee breaks. I added an index to the schema, which led to a 1000x improvement in performance. It took 4 months for the DBAs to approve putting it into production.

Sure: adding an index could have hit performance in some other system; and the index was on the main Customer table. The change did need wider testing than I could do myself. But 4 months? That's not an "enabling" team, that's an "obstructing" team.
Downloading a file or a loading screen is also a value in linear space.

The only difference, in my mind, is that:

• Progress is expected to go upwards as the underlying task is completed. It can, however, stall on a value or it can reset back to zero if the task fails and is restarted. But in the normal, common case, the trend is upwards towards completion.

• Meters reflect the current value of some metric and so can go up and down as the underlying value changes through time, e.g. room temperature, or disk space used of a disk space quota.

You could use a meter to indicates progress. As such, I think progress is a specialised meter, where we don't care so much about the underlying value, just that we're working steadily towards the goal.
Nothing really ever helped me get out of the mindset I was in until I felt like helping myself. It is the nature of the beast in my opinion. Although I agree with you. I was being a bit dismissive. I think it's because the original poster simply dismisses what everyone has to say no matter what they are saying.
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This sounds a bit out there. It seems like it would be very saturated to be able to do this by just making a website with AI text. I could only imagine someone being able to make money from it if they are a content creator with decent following who stands out with that.

OP could possibly make content of their struggle, but it would still require certain personality and passion to do that.
In my time I have had a roughly 50/50 split between projects that failed and ones that took off.

The ones that failed tended to be 'passion projects' where I was led by what I wanted to do, or what seemed cool, and became obsessed with 'finishing' them to a high standard rather than releasing (or abandoning) them. One failure was a puzzle game for early iPhone (iOS 5 I think) - it took 6 months, but ultimately was far more fun to build than to play. Looking bad, I was kidding myself - it looked average at best, and there were far better people and games out there than the one I was building. I learned some fun things but I probably should have stopped after a couple of months, whereas I think I threw 6 months at that one.

The success stories were the ones where I was led more by a sense of market demand - e.g. there was a problem that needed solving, and I had some awareness that existing solutions either did not exist, or weren't a good fit.

I built one of the very first apps in the transport tech space and that was a big success, both in terms of adoption and profitability. That was a combination of skill and luck - i.e. 'right place right time'.

While I have now had 2-3 'success stories' in terms of products that took off / gained significant adoption, I must say I haven't fully learned my lesson and I do still have the same obsessive tendencies! Coding is addictive huh. I recently spent 3 months building a full stack React app that I just did because I wanted to "finish" it, and I'm not really sure if there is a market for it. But I had the time available and I think the older I get, the more I can self-police and know when it's time to step away.

Also, if you only spend a small amount of time on something, even if it doesn't get used, as long as you've learned new skills or experiences, then it might arguably have been worth it.
Milton is also critical to the intellectual history of certain Western ideas which we take for granted. His Aeropagetica articulates the first (at least in English) full-throated defense of free speech, and his proposal and defense of (effectively) no-fault divorce acknowledge perforce the essential equality of men and women.

(Don't be distracted by Milton's own inability to demonstrate fidelity to either ideal - especially not the second. The logical consequences of his assertions are radically modern, whether or not he fully appreciated them.)
Yeh RDBMS is probably the wrong choice for most apps. It was good for crunching sales data in batches back in the day. Everything today is pipelines and reactivity.

My dream is to have a tool to model my logical data model and then it will organize my data into the best storage and caches.

I don't think any existing database today is useful.
Ask HN: Can anyone DDoS the whole internet infrastracture?
Internet is a set of routers around the world that forwards the packages to target destinations.
Imagine a situation where some actors try to send a massive amount of data per second, and they are doing this worldwide.

Could it slow down the internet because the main routers would be busy with forwarding DDOS packages?
> The green lockers that are set to be decommissioned will have one charge point per cabinet, which provides two charging sockets.

So at most 2 cars per cabinet. In addition most of those cabinets are not located so that cars can park next to them, usually quite the opposite, in fact. I am wondering where the funding comes from, because this seems more PR than an actual solution and outside of BT's business.

> The initiative has been awarded an innovation accolade for outstanding design and engineering at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Yes, so great PR.
You may be overestimating the real amount of truly focused work that was done by many technical employees back in 2010s.
Sure you can, the denominator of both numbers is GDP.
In capitalist systems, you and your buddies are free to opt out and sign over all your property to a commune. What you aren't free to do is rob other people who don't consent to your commune of their stuff. Because they have the right to not join you, this is the fundamental sticking point that makes communists (literally) murderously mad.
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To be fair I did that too when I was still in school and regularly shared files, just for the simplicity. However I rarely used more than default formatting so it didn't really matter
I flew them recently and was amazed at how low quality the English text on all their websites/emails was. It's about as bad as you'd see in Asia 15 years ago.

They did let me prepurchase a pretzel though. (And then never gave it to me on the flight.)
The games were designed for Windows, using Windows APIs.

It is 2024, and yet almost no studio targeting Android/NDK cares about GNU/Linux, in spite of the same game development APIs being available on both platforms, leaving Windows emulation/translation as the only way to get modern GNU/Linux games.
Trac is still around, too. 1.6 came out a few months ago.
Assuming the owner knows how to use their phone features, they can mark it lost in Find My with contact info. Or you can ask Siri what their address is.
i think the problem here is that their retirement was represented by a 401k, not that it was in Enron. But I suppose that is a different conversation.
> At some point, an LLM will learn the complete rule set.

Even if it does, it doesn't know that it has. And in principle, you can't know for sure if you have or not either. It's just a question of what odds you put on having learned a simplified version for all this time without having realised that yet. Or, if you're a professional chess player, the chance that right now you're dreaming and you're about to wake up and realise you dreamed about forgetting the 𐀀𐀁𐀂𐀃:𐀄𐀅𐀆𐀇𐀈𐀉 move that everyone knows (and you should've noticed because the text was all funny and you couldn't read it, which is a well-known sign of dreaming).

That many people act like things can be known 100% (including me) is evidence that humans quantise our certainty. My gut feeling is that anything over 95% likely is treated as certain, but this isn't something I've done any formal study in, and I'd assume that presentation matters to this number because nobody's[0] going to say that a D20 dice "never rolls a 1". But certainty isn't the same as knowledge, it's just belief[1].

[0] I only noticed at the last moment that this itself is an absolute, so I'm going to add this footnote saying "almost nobody".

[1] That said, I'm not sure what "knowledge" even is: we were taught the tripartite definition of "justified true belief", but as soon as it was introduced to us the teacher showed us the flaws, so I now regard "knowledge" as just the subjective experience of feeling like you have a justified true belief, where all that you really have backing up the feeling is a justified belief with no way to know if it's true, which obviously annoys a lot of people who want truth to be a thing we can actually access.
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Part of the problem here is America's shitty privacy laws.

You can get ID scanners for nightclubs which check dates, parse dozens of different designs of ID correctly, detect some types of fake IDs, and record banned patrons. That's a thing you can get in Europe as well as America.

But only in America are they allowed to save the patron's address and use it for marketing purposes.
You're beating up a strawman. No one (sane and uncorrupt) is arguing for life+70.

However, a mechanism which works for Star Wars and Mickey Mouse, but not for a short story, a play, or a specialized piece of software written by a single individual which e.g. generates $20k / year, doesn't work for me.

The length of the copyright shouldn't be proportional to the effort invested in the work. If a book my parents wrote is supposed to move into the public domain, so should Star Trek: The Original Series.

That doesn't preclude mechanisms like:

- Required (free) registration. I go to a government website, get a code, and from there on, it says: Copyright (c) 2022. Registration number 5f902b0a-f56c-402a-95fd-47f12f40e538

- Required (free) maintenance. I need to renew this to maintain copyright.

- Anyone can look up the copyright owner (even though it might be Copyrights By Proxy, which is okay too -- anonymity is valuable).

- Reasonable limits on duration.

This handles your forum post, abandoned works, and to be frank, a majority of works under copyright. Most things move into the public domain. However, most things isn't the same as everything.

I'd also be supportive of a radical expansion of fair use doctrine.
It's in an Otterbox and might have an extra screen protector though.
The trick is maintaining a full graph of all data dependencies through the entire codebase. Then migrations can be done with ease. But no one does this. They shovel data from one database to the next, with tons of little adhoc data stores along the way.
People who's significant other isn't abusive would also get mad at you insisting they were (and rightfully so, if your accusation is wrong then what you're doing is gaslighting), so the other person getting mad doesn't mean that you are right.
I don't think it has much to do with being American. Cycling worships the greats no matter where they are from (take Pantani for example). It's an extremely tough sport with people who historically came from tough backgrounds. When a cyclist gets badly injured and you see them cycling on - it's because they have no other choice. They will lose their livelihood if they don't. None of this excuses drugs but it might explain why people identify with and often admire them no matter what country they come from.
Something that wasn't really addressed in the article is that smooth operation of the economy also saves lives.

To put in terms of the infinite trolley problem: The longer the trolley gets, the bigger the probability that one of the passengers is an EMT commuting to his shift, where being late could cost a life. You can add many such passengers, with various levels of complexity, where being late could end up costing a life or a livelihood.

So at some point, not hitting the brakes becomes worthwhile even just in terms of lives saved. The problem is that it is very hard to measure the exact impact of "inconveniencing" the 8 million passengers. I expect many lives will be lost if you stop a train with 8 million passengers for ~15 minutes. I would probably not stop the train with even less passengers, maybe a few hundred thousand.

Edit: added the last paragraph, to drive my point home.
I was inspired to write an article concerning multipart upload to S3 explaining how the bytes are sliced and uploaded in parts in a concurrent manner. The implementation featured aspect such as slicing file into chunks/part and uploading them concurrently using Promise.allSettled and also managed failed upload. Recently, i discovered a way to upload using multipart-like manner using @aws-sdk/lib-storage npm package from AWS and in less code.
have anyone try to do bonding? 5 x 10 Mbps = 50 Mbps over 1km
These days it'd be transferring the eSIM rather than porting to a new SIM.
It does explain it and likely adds more weight to it too.

Encoding additional videos takes a lot of processing power. When you upload a video to youtube, the higher-quality versions aren't available for sometime. There is likely a queuing system, maybe even a minimum weight time before a video is processed.
>And I struggle to see how you can't read a gauge which resembles real world as close as possible,

I can read them, eventually given sufficient time. In the context of driving a car, though? I want and need to devote as much of my time to driving the car, not figuring out what the car is telling me.

When I read a meter, I first need to see where the needle is pointing; that's one step. Then I need to read the start and end of the meter's range or the closest delimiters to the needle on either sides; that's another step. Then I need to mentally calculate the proportional percentage the needle is showing between those two numbers; that's another step. Then I need to convert that proportional percentage to a number between the delimiters (or ends of the meter range) that I read earlier; this is another step.

At this point I can finally read what the hell that bloody meter is telling me.

Compare this to a number: I look at the number and I read it. Fin.

The difference in time and attention spent is enormous.

Whenever I'm driving with just a speedometer, I can't maintain a constant speed because I can't read the meter properly while driving. Whenever I'm driving with a numerical speed readout, I can maintain a constant speed because reading a number is next to no effort.

Give me numbers. Please. If you insist on meters, give me the number over or somewhere near it. Just give me the bloody numbers so I don't have to spend so much god damn time and attention that I do not have. Meters are a safety hazard on par with touchscreen controls.
I have no doubt that China's renewable energy additions outweigh its nuclear additions - that's covered in the IEA report I cited.

The claim made above that I responded to was:

And nuclear construction has slowed down noticeably

which I've yet to see supported by a credible reference.

Even if the awful chart is correct in it's raw source data it only addresses recent nuclear power coming online and not the amount currently under construction ... which may be more, less, or about the same as past construction.

If it helps I'm ambivilant about nuclear V solar other than pragmatically recognising that renewables need a small constant baseload given human consumption (which is a whole other discussion), however I'm always alarmed about figures thrown about with no credible cited data .. and awful awful charts make me queasy.
> Is this an American thing?

No. My (UK) bank will decline purchases if they look suspicious and send me an SMS with the information and ask me to yay/nay them. (For 4 years running, they did this for my early September purchase to Apple. Most annoying.)
That is forward compatibility and is much more difficult to maintain.
> Of course that assumes it’s falling facing its largest surface

That was what I was thinking: surely it wouldn't be stable falling face-first? Wouldn't it be more likely to either tumble or settle on an edge?
Considering the fascinating bility of the brain toearn and adapt I wonder how hard it would really bee to read those numbers if we were surrounded by them all the time. (Doing maths in Roman numerals is more complicated than Arabic decimals,though)
I've never understood the use case for them.
Careful with that analogy. Russia has been talking about using nukes as part of their attempted conquest of Ukraine.

I agree with your general point though.

(I guess that’s another reason to not want more countries to get nukes: they might seem reasonable now, but they could be batshit insane by the time you start drawing your pension.)
It's included in the ticket price on more expensive airlines.
and you have identified the problem. web dev tooling, despite the extreme churn, is still absolutely poo-poo to use the technical term.

of course, mostly because very few oh-new-shiny-woah-such-modern tools doesn't even attempt to solve the problem of backend-frontend state sync. sure, maybe you get a piece of the puzzle (eg. a library that conveniently rerenders on state change, React, or one that you can wire up with all the fancy observables, Angular, or one that's super simple, sleek, even has magical runes that help with only rerendering the things affected by the state change, Svelte ... and maybe on top of these you get a state manager library, and then you still end up writing a thousand mutator/reducer in Redux by hand).

So we are still nowhere near a nice end-to-end full-stack tool that helps model both backend and frontend changes and then helps to design and implement an efficient API between them. (Because, obviously, it seems that this is not obvious to most people. Hence we get solutions like expose your DB as REST API and ship your DB via WASM sqlite, and so on.) That said, even those might be better than one more frontend-only state management lib.
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In Notepad I like to turn off word-wrap and make sure everything looks right before saving the file each time after I edit.

Basically without word-wrap each paragraph will be one long line of sentences.

With "paragraphs" separated by blank lines.

Then copying the non-word-wrapped text from Notepad, and pasting into an email window or message box allows the target window to display using its own word-wrap without the extraneous line breaks.

Then the receiver's email window can usually handle it when it is scaled differently than the sender, and it will be OK in both places.
The word "meritocracy" was popularized by a book whose point was that it's a bad idea that can't work. Trying it is eg how you get Peter Principled.

Sortition or other random promotion methods are actually the most theoretically correct afaik.
It seems like you should still have an auto lock to 30 minutes? Events way less drastic than an airplane door blowing off can cause you to not be able to lock your phone, like someone just snatching it out of your hand on the subway (where in theory they could keep it awake indefinitely with a 30 minute timeout but they very probably won't)
Is AI generated porn or adult content more or less ethical?
I read some past threads on whether porn is an investable startup industry and whether there is any real innovation in porn. I recently came across getidol.com which uses LLMs, image gen and video gen to build a storytelling adult content chat/game site. Just wondering if AI-generated porn can be considered one of the biggest innovation in the sector in awhile, and whether others see it as less exploitative than real-actor porn?
You can find Word 2003-2007 and use that to convert it.
The way I see it, you'd use <meter> when there is a known max and min value, and if what you're indicating isn't "progress".

So if your computer fan can go from 0% to 100% fan speed, use <meter/> to visualize that. Same for volume control, for example.

But, if the value is unbounded, then it still doesn't make sense to use <meter/>
I have 0 idea about the new software they failed to make, but let me guess:

-- Machine has to be connected to internet at all times for no functional reason whatsoever

-- Account has to be created for every employee to login to "cloud"

-- Software had "smart" in the name

-- Monthly subscription, the more accounts the higher the cost

-- Completely bugged and broken web interface at all times. Make sure the style and behavior of UX components is unlike anything else and broken.

-- Hosted through Azure with the most elaborate and complex infrastructure setup possible. At least 100 mb upload per served webpage and 1 GB of RAM useage at the client side.

-- Machine serves the website/API from the smallest possible microcontroller for no reason.

-- Webapp / client runs in Microsoft Edge only.

-- Tracking sent to ASML servers for "no reason"

-- Everybody at ASML working on the cloud software had to work on-site in Eindhoven for no reason whatsoever and was paid as little as possible by forming renumeration fixing cartels with other companies in the area.

I hope that I'm completely wrong.
Makes sense, so this is confounded by the number of people in the building.

30% for a CC3 seemed high to me initially (hence wondering if 0.3 really meant 0.3%). But since it actually means "in 30% of structural failures in CC3 buildings (e.g. a stadium), at least one person dies", it make much more sense because there are probably lots of people in the stadium.
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