skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sortof unrelated, I've been looking at moving some data from SQL Server to Postgres, and one of the big reasons is replication. SQL Server replication has been super brittle for me - it's always silently choking, getting desynchronized, or exhibiting weird locking behavior with no indication of the issue until you notice something downstream is broken. It's been tough to test Postgres replication though, since a lot these issues only occur at huge volumes of data. Anyone have any experience with the two they can pass on?
They have been lighting hundreds of millions on fire producing content that isn't good that people don't watch, because they have ideologues running the asylum with no controls, who don't produce good content nor have good taste nor pick material that is popular but rather checks political boxes and makes their Hollywood friends happy[0]. This isn't sustainable, and frankly it is surprising it has gone on this long.

[0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ins...

[1] https://archive.is/f3YPu [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38846097]
I have the opposite experience.

Talking with people in real life is stressful (for someone like me with social anxiety.)

Rarely do I walk away from an encounter with a random person in “meat space” feeling any better than I did when I walked up to them. And even when I do, I replay the interaction over and over again until I’m sure I didn’t embarrass myself.

Plus, where I live, there is no tech community. It’s just not popular here, but it’s what I’m interested in. (I even tried starting a meet up, but got 0 turnout, then the local startup accelerator closed in 2020)

I only get to talk shop online.
Three small LLMs in a trenchcoat.
For what it's worth, the landscape of Web development was much, much different in 2014 or so. Ruby on Rails was still a huge player, and most major OSS projects meant to enable Web development took a lot of cues from it.

Projects like Angular, Ember.JS, and Backbone (and for that matter, Rails' own Turbolinks system) very much expected you to build your entire application in them from the get-go.

The gist of React saying "this is a view library" at that point was largely about what you should expect React not to do for you. For example, two-way data binding, where the framework managed a fetch lifecycle as well as plugging the result into a view. "React is a view library" was letting devs know that they shouldn't expect React to do this- they should expect to make calls themselves and re-render the view accordingly.

I actually think it's still fair to say that React *itself* is still "just a view library", but that's sorta like saying Linux is "just a kernel". Sure, it's technically true, but at this point when we're talking about React we're talking about the whole ecosystem surrounding it as well. That wasn't the case 10 years ago (damn, has it really been that long?)
The Soviet Union collectivized the farms, and famine ensued. Then they allowed farmers to be capitalists again, and famine ended. Then they collectivized again, starvation followed.

Finally, the Soviets allowed farmers to farm small plots of land, and sell the result. This became the backbone of food production, not the collective farms.

In the 1980s Kansas became the "breadbasket of the Soviet Union" as Reagan sent huge quantities of Kansas wheat to the USSR.

As for the US, the never-ending specter of famine ended around 1805 or so. Since then the height of Americans shot up. It was not do to any humanist thinking or modern logistics or government programs. It was due to the free market.
Sincerely asking - how does this solve the problem? I could generate a bunch of dog-shit and then sign it and publish it. Even with user attestation services provided by Apple, Google, et. al - couldn't I even automate generating a bunch of AI junk and signing it?
Are you nostalgic for a way of building websites gone by?
He probably just meant that younger people grew up with emoji so they might not be aware of the vast array of text smileys we used to do
> I think something is wrong with me

I am so sorry to hear that. Have you discussed these thoughts with your psychiatrist? I am sure that she has an arsenal of prescriptions to treat you with.

On second thought, during your weekly runs to the pharmacy for a stack of frozen pizzas and a fistful of prescriptions, your 16-hour workdays and 12 hours on social media consuming rage, fear, and paranoia, did you ever stop to think that there's a better way?

Have you considered eating an organic apple once in a while? 30 minutes of meditation, clearing your mind and listening to your Higher Power? What about disconnecting from the Internet and your phone for a few hours a week, at least? Getting outside, taking a walk, making some Vitamin D?

Sometimes the best cures are perhaps not as easy as popping a few pills; they're not subsidized by your insurance company, and they require forming better habits, but they are truly efficacious and have long-lasting, proven effects. Those are effects that are proven by science, by knowledge, by experience.
Same with the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. I got a System76 machine, and it is really good. Nvidia card for GPU / local inference.
welp, when you are coordinating things it's often a tremendous simplification to have a centralized source of truth and then present representations of that truth in the form of hypermedia to hypermedia clients, using hypermedia as the engine of application state

of course, it's not right for everything and there are alternative approaches that work better or worse, depending on context, but i'd say it's hard to not call it a pretty successful approach to distributed systems
> I personally have wondered if I should start systematically favoring bad grammar/punctuation/spelling both in the posts I treat as high quality

I feel like founders embrace this, slack messages misspelled etc. but communication that is straight to the point
Parent didn't say that they don't still get made, just that they are now much more difficult to discover which you repeated
You are making a logical fallacy here. Inserting a compromised USB drive into an industrial environment is harder than a remote attack, but it's still not particularly hard. Just because there is a noteworthy case of such an attack being mounted by one nation-state against another doesn't mean that a state actor is required to mount such an attack.
On issues regarding the global south (like TFA), The Economist is one of the most noisy and unreliable narrators.

I'd recommend a diverse media diet that complements mainstream Western media (Reuters, AP) with non-Western English mainstream outlets like AJ, SCMP, CGTN, RT, TRT.

State/oligarch controlled media is only harmful if you think it is objective truth and not propaganda. This applies to RT, CGTN but also to Reuters, AP, Wikipedia.

We actually live in a very rich+diverse English-language media landscape, which "reputable", low-signal, vibes-based tabloids like The Economist, The Atlantic, etc. do not represent well.
According to the IRCG media, “this tanker whose name was changed to St Nicholas and carrying oil in the Oman sea was seized in retaliation for the theft of oil by the American regime".

Any information about the when/where/how for this oil theft by the American regime? Maybe something to do with "freezing assets"?
It's just a graphical divider/bullet that the designer of this specific business card chose to use.

The heading of that corner is just the pronounication of "m-take design" written out in katakana. The first line under the heading talks about the type of products the person works on (direct mail, leaflets, pamphlets). The second line talks about their specialities, as in the industries they focus on (cosmetics, health food), and then the last mentions they'll also do logo design, homepage design etc. I guess they wanted to emphasize the second line.

You'll sometimes see kanji-sized single circles used in Japan to indicate omitted characters (and you might see them on business card _templates_ as a sort of lorem ipsum, but unlikely on actual business cards), but this double circle doesn't have any specific meaning as far as I know.
My same thought. The software I'm required to write isn't necessarily fun anymore. I find more fun writing tools when I need them. I'll find myself needing a helper tool, I start writing, I enjoy writing it, then I realize I went off the deep end and made a really cool thing and completely lost track of time.
It can be.

It seems that everyone wanted to be Game of Thrones, with huge budgets on sets, CGI, etc. That also means less episodes per season.

Some of the best episodes of Star Trek (all of the series) were just the actors in the usual sets with minimal special effects. The new Star Trek shows are all big bombastic productions with large budgets. The writing on Discovery was poor. The writing on Strange New Worlds is pretty good, but the limited amount of episodes is a bummer. They could spend 40% as much per episode, set aside some extra for more writers, have more episodes, and everyone would love it even more - in my opinion.

All you need is good acting and writing. The rest is just support.
Many sub-contractors right now are "naming their own prices" — but from my POV (as a construction consultant, retired electrician) being a residential GC right now would have been "a tough christmas bonus."

Hoping things swing better, but everything is in cycles. I definitely do NOT believe that AI has NOTHING to do with this (double-negative)...
I mean, sure, it really depends on who is providing the VPN. With Proton, you're already using them for your email, so if they were a bad actor, you're basically fucked already. If you have ProtonMail, then the choices are 1/ No VPN, so your ISP will collect this data, 2/ a popular VPN provide who will collect this data, or 3/ Proton who say they won't and they've already got you email too if they are liars. Option 3 is the lowest risk of event if they are good actor, but also the potential damage of an event, if they are bad actor, is much higher since they have more data including email based 2FA.
They are enough to run the Ally, and they're closely related to the one in the Steam Deck. So maybe they're extreme in the segment of integrated graphics??
I’ve had an ‘instrumental’ mindset for as long as I can remember. Almost my entire life after being a kid.

>I need to do this because I need to know that to pass my exams, get a good job to… etc

I feel for a lot of 30 and under people today it’s the same. I managed to capture the ‘playing around’ feeling very fleetingly earlier in my 20s but it doesn’t last long before some little productivity demon starts gnawing at you.

Even resting has its purpose: mentally recharge to work more, let muscles repair themselves to lift more.
>> blindly trust MS

We were sold on (in my mid biz) Microsoft being all-the-things compliant: HIPAA, GDPR, etc.. and this is why we put all our data there. As long as they keep touting this, businesses will keep on feeding them data.
Yeah I think the study I was drawing on has been debunked, so nevermind.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/money-happiness-study-daniel-ka...
OR... Wait until your doctor orders the colonoscopy and drag your feet until you say, without letting them know of the FIT results, "I'm ready to do it now". Doctors in the US will almost always order a colonoscopy starting at 50, and often starting at 45.

The cost of the FIT tests is negligible compared to the cost of the colonoscopy, so it makes sense that you do these on your own outside the insurance system.
don't think so. Google is the distant 3rd in the Cloud, so hardly a subject to antitrust. It is more likely that failing hard on their goals for the Cloud set to that division about 3 years ago (and it was rumored that either they achieve the goals or it is "or else" for the Cloud division) they are starting the blame game whining about licensing/unfair competition/etc. (whereis they should blame only themselves as they would never bend over to the enterprise customer like say AWS would do who for example developed MS SQL (Transact SQL) interface to their own db - that is how you deal with the competition and software lock-in instead of whining (reminds that phrase from Babel - "that is why Benja is the king, while we are sitting on the cemetery fence"). In this case for example I remember how AWS was hunting down laid off Sybase (where T-SQL comes from) engineers whereis being an experienced enterprise software developer is viewed by Google is more like a disadvantage and results in meager offer (several my acquaintances had similar experience), so GCP losing enterprise game doesn't look that surprising to me. And now that enterprise customers are starting to add huge AI related workloads the GCP is hardly ever mentioned)
So yeah, when I was a youth around 1995 I wrote a Turbo Pascal application for my local post office in the the North of England. On the house, no payment - mainly to hang out in the back room and see the world go by. The application tallied up the days ins and outs and then printed the results on dot matrix printer which were used to help with the book keeping. The post master and mistress were very happy with it. Once they were invited to the post office headquarters in London for some award for their services and I tagged along for the trip. After some years I heard the post office shut down due to some financial scandal and the post master lost his job and was forced to become a taxi driver. Never found out the details until now. Blows my mind thinking how much money goes to people who don't actually do shit and actually hold back others trying to earn some peanuts. I remember fondly those times, especially watching the post mistress hypnotised with my built-in psychedelic screensaver. She was well impressed.
I can just imagine this in his voice (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc)

Feynman is my favourite physicist. Of course you could pick someone else, you could argue about the relative importance of each person's contribution to scientific knowledge, but it was his aimiability, playfulness and curiousity, combined with the fact that he _did_ break new frontiers in quantum physics that make him so inspiring for me. His famed series of lectures at Caltech were a great introduction to physics.

I was hoping to see more of his time at Los Alamos in the Oppenheimer biopic, but he doesn't even seem to be in it. There's supposedly someone playing him, but I don't see it; I assume the two-second silent shot of someone from behind playing the bongos was meant to be him.
Because there was a point I was trying to get across.
I'm not a mental health connoisseur or anything, but removing your own pressure to perform seems like good advice regardless of your circumstances. If you're tired or stressed or whatever, labeling yourself as "a burned out person" seems to me like the only good thing it does is add more pressure. Because how can you do well if you're "damaged" in some way?

It's important to not just do old style sweep it under the rug when it's serious, but I do think the current zeitgeist over indexes on being a good person equating to being hyper aware of all your struggles and anxieties and so on, and I don't see how all that extra pressure will help, specially for young people. Most times "it's not that big of a deal" is really the best thing I can tell myself. That being said, asking for help from someone that knows what they are talking about also seems like a good idea, if you can't overcome it on your own. The universe doesn't give you any extra points for doing it alone.
If you think that a business can remain in business after its revenue shrinks by a factor of 8 without wage costs adjusting accordingly, you need a reality check.
Go and meditate. You will never find truth in thoughts/words/code/beliefs. It can be in trillions of possible combinations. You can keep churning it out for infinity and not reach anywhere.
Thank you! Amazing how difficult it is to keep up with all of the new jargon given how fast it's evolved. I had no idea that mistral-medium was so great.
This isn't really an accurate comparison. Email and text messaging are, well, messaging platforms - they're used for direct communication and crucially, anyone can come knocking on your door. After a certain threshold of spammers begin taking over inboxes, people move onto something else.

The internet as a whole isn't that. By and large, you can curate your experience and visit only the places you want to visit. So why exactly would the mere existence of generative AI make an average high-quality website suddenly do a 180 and destroy itself?

I won't debate that garbage data will probably be easier to generate and there will be more of it, but the argument feels one-sided. People are talking like the only genuine use of generative AI is generating bad data and helping scammers, despite it opening a lot of other possibilities. It's completely unbalanced.
Plus, at worst, human writers simply regurgitate/summarize info from other articles. It's more work to intentionally write something false.

AI writing has no idea what is real or fake and doesn't care.
And to be fair, I've rarely found ChatGPT to give useful answers ... so I guess it produces perfect StackOverflow-like answers?
Is this article suggesting that all platforms allow json export of data? Like who would actually want this??
> The once ubiquitous phrase “let me Google that for you” is now meaningless. You are as likely to return incorrect information as you are complete fabrications, and the people who put this content on the Internet do not care. The people who hold the purse strings for Sports Illustrated are more interested in gaming Google search results and the resultant ad revenue from that practice than actually serving their readers.

The last part of the conclusion to this article is true: people who put shitty content on the Internet don't care, and are only interested in ad revenue. (Incidentally that's why advertising is bad: it gives the wrong incentives. It's possible that ad blockers will save the Internet.)

But the first part isn't true: Google is still useful, especially when used as it was first meant to be used. Google started as a search engine, meaning: a tool to find documents in a corpus. It wasn't an oracle, and still isn't, despite how much it wants to be, or users want it to be.

Search for documents, go read them, evaluate if what they say seems to make sense and who wrote them, try to do a comparison between different sources to see where they converge and where they diverge, and then draw your own conclusions.

> If that means the rest of us get information about inflamed penises when we’re trying to know how long sinus inflammation is supposed to last, well, I guess we’re shit out of luck.

If you can't be bothered to know the difference between a sinus and a penis then sorry, not sorry.
XML is a pain, and I'm including JSX in this. Writing open/close tags, and then using wakas (<, >) everywhere seems unnecessary and creates ugly files. I feel the DOM should also expose other languages to interface with and browsers should detect that. Imagine web apps written with python and YAML for templates (on the client side, without transpiling).
OR is easy: a rod that is fixed to stay horizontal but can slide up and down. There are rods under it at either end for the two input bits. If either input goes up, the horizontal result rod goes up.
Do you really think encumbered car companies are going to let that happen? They will lobby against it heavily. Hell, look at Texas where laws say you have to buy a car through a dealership. It should’ve been repealed, but dealerships won’t let it happen.
The link you're referring to only goes to next year, whereas the infamous pessimistic graphs tried to extrapolate for around a decade. I suppose capitulation would count as an adjustment.
What I said is that wage growth in the West has been kept lower than it could have been because of their policies, including massive financial deregulation. Here is a primer in case others are interested [1].

> (Also, how is quality of life lower for Americans than Canada/France/Germany when the median worker is so much richer here? And I said median- not mean)

There are multiple indicators for that. A very neutral and uncontroversial one is that life expectancy is ~5 years higher in those other countries compared to the US, a phenomenon that has only gotten worse since Reagan [2]. But we could also talk about work hours, parental leave, vacation and many other things that are much more favorable for the median worker in all of these other countries.

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/causes-of-wage-stagnation/
[2] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...
would love for more STEM folks to have spent time reading through the historical development of various non-STEM -isms. At least try to understand what Marx et al. have theorized even if you know you don't subscribe to their solutions.
Motherboard prices have increased pretty significantly. First comment on this hardforum post a entitled:
AMD and Intel motherboard prices skyrocket past surging inflation rates thanks to 35-40% ASP increases[1]:

"Motherboard prices is why I haven't upgraded my CPU. More important things going on right now."

[1]https://hardforum.com/threads/amd-and-intel-motherboard-pric...
>renewables are at a point they can survive and grow by themselves without being artificially propped and prioritised.

Yet oil was at that phase over a hundred years ago.....and we still to this day prop up O&G companies with massive tax breaks and other benefits.

I'm all for cutting resources to Green Energy to make it more able to stand on its own economically. But we MUST do that for Oil as well, and thinking that we don't spend insane amounts of money securing oil (think wars) and developing its efficiency is just crazy. I'm all for spending the same amount $$-wise on Green energy as we have oil.

Oil was given plenty of time and money to develop into the industry it is. Green energy should be given the same.
I haven't reached the 5 year mark in my entire career. I have been working in the software industry over 30 years.
More government is not the solution to all problems.
That’s just not true.

Look at function guards
The issue isn't the role oil plays in society, but the financial effect changes have on publicly traded oil companies.

After all, horseshoers still exist, but that career path was mostly obliterated by the automobile.
Google Cloud has ~10% market share; I don't think this is an antitrust avoidance play. More likely, it's removing a concern companies might have with bringing workloads onto a relatively smaller player. Especially one that has a history of discontinuing products.
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Wikipedia has some more details:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Rajan

"In April 2023 the Greek-managed Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker Suez Rajan was seized by US authorities, for breaching US sanctions against Iranian oil, which fell under US jurisdiction due to the use of US financial services. The US then confiscated and sold the carried Iranian oil."
You can just open it straight into steam with proton and that's it, there's no effort nowadays. And being old games, the compatibility might even be better than Windows 11...
Just about all companies have performance evaluations. This is not an explicit tactic in most companies.