skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On top of that, a lot of discourse seems to happen with an assumption that you only make the tech/stack choice once.

For the majority of apps, just doing basic CRUD with a handful of data types, is it that hard to just move to another DB? Especially if you're in framework land with an ORM that abstracts some of the differences, since your app code will largely stay the same.
I'm building a chatbot (API + frontend) to transcribe natural language questions into SQL query for a Snowflake database.
I got a copy of a David Attenborough signed book in a similar way. It was a used book about wild flowers with an introduction by Attenborough bought very cheap about 100 INR in a used book store in Mumbai. Only later while looking at the book I realised it was an autographed copy.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I think it's crucially missing what comes before "wherever you get your podcasts". Often, it's something to the tune of "Please rate and review [wherever you get your podcasts]".

They're asking because they want to raise their visibility. The podcast itself can be delivered from anywhere, but they still need to be discovered, and that's a significant bottleneck. Many will specifically call out Apple Podcasts. I infer that it's the most prominent podcast source, and that's how many people discover new podcasts.

The web has a similar phenomenon. Creating your own website is easy and inexpensive, and you don't need to rely on anyone because DNS will point to you. The problem is less about being hosted and more about being found. The people who control discovery control you.
DotSlash: Simplified Executable Deployment
DotSlash is a new, open source command line tool that makes large executables available in source control with a negligible impact on repository size, thus avoiding expensive clone operations.
You get exactly once when you consume with pgmq and run your queue operations inside transactions in your postgres database. I can't think of an easy way to get some equivalent on SQS without building something like an outbox.
The near c component of the velocity remains near c with applying 90 deg acceleration, hence that the velocity vector will remain towards this near c regardless of 90 deg acceleration characteristics. For a significant change one need to apply acceleration that has very significant deceleration component to this near c velocity vector (significant amount of >90deg acceleration applied, best to be close to 180deg).
Good documentation and metadata like this is necessary for corporations to truly be organized.
One cool thing if you are running off Postgres - DDL is transactional so you get clean deploy of your new code version (stored procedures) with precise switchover for free.
Drastic harm may mean something different to you, but numbers aren’t subjective.

Why do you think DDT killed millions of people?
Solvespace has a nonlinear algebraic equation solver:

https://solvespace.com/index.pl

It's what underlies the geometric constraint solver which you don't need for what you're doing. It's probably worth a look under the hood. You might also read this post from Michael-F-Bryan implementing something similar in Rust:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/geometric-constraint-solvers-p...

He based his work on what he learned from Solvespace.
Knowing the market value of a person (including oneself) is a business skill, and distinct from the skill of software engineering. Being bad at this means either overestimating or underestimating the value. Most people are going to underestimate their own worth if they need a job, but it shouldn't be too shocking when people err in the other direction sometimes.
I've never used it although I've been aware of its existence for a long time. It's great to see a tool actively developed that uses a boring-yet-great-and-well-known framework (Django + Templates). Ironically, it's refreshing to see that stack in a world of JS frameworks, microservices and what not.
There is some level of a fix to this: which is to have an option that turns icons into their alt text. The camera icon becomes the word "camera", to flip the camera becomes the word "flip", the call icon becomes the word "call" and so on.

It's low effort to implement: just add the appropriate tags if they're not there, throw some i18n at it, then test it on different screen sizes.

This can probably happen on the OS level with some design guidelines.
Tiddlywiki might be interesting.

https://tiddlywiki.com/
Yes. That's my assumption: a sufficiently advanced race won't send members of its own species into the inhospitable furthest reaches of space, but rather probes that can report data back to the home-world. That was always my issue with the Kardashev Scale: isn't the technological level of a species better dictated by how little energy they use to accomplish some goal?
That attitude is why they're now behind in the AI race despite a 10 year head start...

Stop larping as an academic and actually start working as an employee, you know what they actually are.
time-series data? Maybe include timescaledb
I am far from convinced that the price of drugs in the US means that the US subsidises the rest of the world or that they would be fewer drugs if they didn't. The market overall would still be huge. For instance the pharmaceuticals market in the Europe only is forecast to reach $250 billion in 2028, that's a big cake in itself [1] even if the American 'cake' is currently much bigger.

The only thing that seems clear is that Amricans are cash cows in that area.

Certainly, though, the US are not subsidising defense in Europe and East Asia. What they are doing is to prevent rivals and to ensure those countries remain dependent on them. So this is obviously done in the interests of the US.

[1] https://www.statista.com/outlook/hmo/pharmaceuticals/europe
It depends on your definitions, but if you took psql and Postgres and compared it to something like an OS on a 1980s microcomputer, you're kinda there. You can run arbitrary commands, you can program it, you can debug those programs, you can run programs, and you can access storage. If you're talking more like Linux or Windows, you have.. a bit more work to do ;-)
No love for Astro[1]? I've been using it and like its easy setup and extensibility.

(I host it on Netlify with a custom domain for free and Netlify builds a new release every time I push to main).

https://astro.build/
> The U.S. effectively subsidizes drug development for the world by paying higher prices.

To clarify a bit, the U.S. *middle class* effectively subsidizes...

This distinction is important given the currect sociopolitical climate. In short, the shrinking (implosion?) of that middle class is no longer sustainable. Is curing the rest of the world worth the sociopolitical illness we're imposing on ourselves?
Iontronic energy storage via osmotic effects and electrode redox reactions
Regrettably. Yes, it was a very very optimistic dream.
It's been literal decades since I saw it, but the premise of K-Pax always seemed neat: aliens move their consciousness around through some sort of superliminal signal[1], but it looks an awful lot like madness to us humans.

Until he starts solving cosmological problems . . I sort of felt like the truth of the matter should have been more ambiguous than was presented. More Shining, less Friday the 13th.

I remember the premise being far superior to the film, but maybe the novel is worth a look.
The Trial over Bitcoin's True Creator Is in Session
there ought to be a sitcom about this
The “we’ve made no progress!” narrative is ridiculously counterproductive. Slavery was orders of magnitude more atrocious than the modern judicial system.

The US was certainly “gentle” in how it reunited, which I am not sure was the correct move. Doesn’t mean progress wasn’t made and it doesn’t mean prison == slavery.
I actually used this when it first came out in 2016; it was developed by a DevOps person at DigitalOcean as a hobby project (IIRC).

My use at work was just a subset of features (IP and hostname), but I ended up using its Postgres DB as a source for SSH key deployment scripts (these days (maybe back then too) much easier to do with Ansible).

Glad to see it's still actively developed and has a ton of features, yet seems to still be great at its core features!
The gold hydrogen rush: Does Earth contain near-limitless clean fuel?
Was talking to coworker yesterday about a spectrum of where code lives, and the differences from where I started to where I am now in understanding.

Start after college and backend web dev was fully in scripting language, Python or Ruby, and ORMs that completely fogged where any of the data was stored. Rails and ActiveRecord is so good at shrouding the database to the point where you type commands that create databases and you never see them. Classes are written to describe what we want the data to look like and poof! SQL commands are created to build the schema that we never need to see. On this end of the spectrum, the scripting language will stay the same, but we want to be agnostic to where the data is stored.

On on the other end of the spectrum, Postgres is enough. More than enough. Like in the link, it can do all the tasks you ever care about. The code you're writing for the backend / data is about data, not about the script. We care where it's stored, that it's clear the structure, the reads and updates are efficient. We can write all statements in SQL to create tables, functions, trigger, queues, and efficient read queries with indexes to make the data come back to the scripting language in the exact form that's wanted. On this end, we know and optimize how the data is stored, agnostic to the scripting language that uses the data.

I went from the first end of the spectrum to the second. Everything can be done in Postgres. Audibility, clarity, efficiency is much better there than in Python, is my position. The only thing holding it back is that people don't see development from the data side yet, and if you're deciding on tech, it's not easy to use a tech that people don't have as good of development ability yet. There are no Postgres bootcamps right now.

But There's more and more adoption of this I'm seeing, and the money and development of Postgres leads me to trust that it'll be around a very long time, only getting better. Posts about the power of databases, Postgres and some SQLite for example are becoming more and more common. It's a cool change to follow and watch grow.
That seems like a poorly run company. Idk. Maybe we’ve worked in very different environments, but devs have almost always been aware of the criticality of the app, so convincing people wasn’t hard. In most places, the answer hinges on “is it customer facing?” and/or “does it break a core part of our business?” If the answer is no to both, it’s not critical, and everyone understands that. There’s always some weird outlier, “well, this runs process B to report on process A, and sends a custom report to the CEO …”, but hopefully those exceptions are rare.
When sorting your data costs more than cracking AES-128
Adam Neumann Is Trying to Buy Back WeWork
Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web
They have added a new search bar.
Also, it has all the encryptions functions one would need to implement authentication mechanisms, in pure SQL.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgcrypto.html
Cosmo Kramer: It's a write-off for them.

Jerry: How is it a write-off?

Cosmo Kramer: They just write it off.

Jerry: Write it off what?

Cosmo Kramer: Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything.

Jerry: You don't even know what a write-off is.

Cosmo Kramer: Do you?

Jerry: No, I don't.

Cosmo Kramer: But they do. And they're the ones writing it off.
In case you were struggling to find anything meaningful on the site regarding what netbox actually is:

>NetBox is the leading solution for modeling and documenting modern networks. By combining the traditional disciplines of IP address management (IPAM) and datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) with powerful APIs and extensions, NetBox provides the ideal "source of truth" to power network automation.
Not only that, but it strikes me as "secondary" law making. I.e. Bureaucrats, politicians, police chiefs, etc get the power to "repeal" laws by simply not enforcing them, under the cover of "lack of resources".

Using a software dev analogy. It's like each case is a feature ticket, and then constantly grooming the backlog so any feature related to say "GDPR" is marked as too-large and pushed to the bottom.

Rather, case-files should be completed FIFO with very clear rules and thresholds for when it can't be meaningfully resolved. Same goes for prosecutorial discretion.

In summation, commentary from my side: "WTF is wrong with these people, I'm surprised society hasn't fallen apart."
How did you figure this out? I used to work at ExodusPoint (left about 3 years ago).

It wouldn’t surprise me if it was ExodusPoint, but I’m not sure how one could make that connection from the article.

ExodusPoint had an OMS 3 years ago, so the part in the story about starting trading makes me suspect it’s either an OMS for a new asset class, or a replacement of an earlier system.

Unless the OP joined a portfolio team, and the OMS he’s talking about was to connect that teams strategy to the internal firm wide OMS. I did that for my pod, and I can see a Portfolio Manager making a decision like this.
Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups
It does not say that in the article - this one and on a previous HN submission where I read about this.

However, you are right - if you go to Tutorials and Scanning there is reference to the creation of a 'campfire scroll'. And now we have some detail..... and the detail is problematic.

In tutorial 3, halfway down this page (https://scrollprize.org/tutorial3) there is a before and after comparison of the scroll. They ask a question "If you look back to the last page of the campfire scroll (before carbonization), can you see which area of the scroll this segment came from?".

This is mean to be obvious to answer - and one does have the 2 images to compare.

My thoughts on the comparison is - yes at a glance the there is a section that appears to match up - the 'angular squiggle' next to the @ symbol. However, if I look more closely at the 'angular squiggle' I see features and spaces in the generated image that do not correlate with the photo before carbonisation. The troughs are too deep, the spaces are too big. It seems to be a superficial similarity only.

I wish I could show what I mean by referencing the images.. But I will provide links for others to see what I mean when I say there is a superficial correlation only.

https://scrollprize.org/img/tutorials/vc-segment.png

https://scrollprize.org/img/tutorials/campfire-last-page.jpg

Final thought - why not map the 2 images one over the other on the site? Why ask a leading question rather than provide a proof? I hate that kind of presentation - it smacks of providing enough information for someone to make an incorrect snap judgement.
The Apple Vision Pro
It's not hard to imagine circumstances in which the police get involved because there is initially some suspicion of a crime, the police do some investigations and then stop investigating because, although many aspects of the case remain mysterious, it really doesn't look like a crime any more. (Alternatively, if it was a crime then the main suspects seem to be dead anyway so we have better things to do with our limited resources.) In fact I'm fairly certain I've read about many cases like that. Journalists might continue investigating in order to sell books and articles and satisfy the punters' curiosity but the police are no longer interested.
I've noticed anything copyleft-related will have edits in favour of not copyleft (e.g. MIT-style licensing) reverted, even if the pro-copyleft arguments are patently false in that case, or otherwise biased (e.g. mentioning specifically copyleft, but not alternatives).

This is typically done in under the guise of notability ("GPL/copyleft is notable, other alternatives aren't").
Exactly. Presuming a 50% tax (highest end worldwide) rate and a full write off they spent 50 mil to save 42.5 mil on taxes.

Usually it’ll be capital gains income where they would be writing off which is a much lower rate. Example 20% in which case they saved 15 mil in taxes for 50 mil investment.

first 20% goes to gift aid in the UK so some countries you wouldnt even get full tax band.

Now tax free storage of art usually in ports is interesting but not some 100% write off scheme.
For node based workflows, check out Max or Pure Data.

https://cycling74.com/products/max

https://puredata.info/
If you only care about web, Markdown has always supported inserting raw HTML. Unfortunately, these lightweight markup languages cannot emulate all of the features of all of the underlying output formats, because different output formats have incompatible features.
I’m pretty sure it’s staged. The hand gestures are wrong. Similar, but wrong. There’s a certain set of gesture and some of theirs are not part of it. And you can keep your hands resting in your lap. No need to fumble around like this. My guess: Made for Internet fame. Luckily nobody got harmed …
Something like this happened to a roommate of mine back in the day. A female ended up accidentally calling him, and he took it as an opportunity to flirt with her. They ended up dating for several months.
They are mad they will have to maintain 2 browsers (one for the EU and one for everywhere else), that's it. I'm not sure what they expected. I don't doubt that Apple will be forced to allow third-party browsers in more regions now that this exists. Now countries can just point the DMA (or parts of it) and say "That, I'd like that please" and Apple can enable it in their region (I know it's not that simple but it is built now, more countries are going to require it assuming the EU experiment doesn't fall flat on its face).

Of course we are still waiting to see if the EU accepts Apple's proposal. Anyone that's ever submitted an app for review (to Apple or Google, but let's be honest more-so for Apple) know this feeling of uncertainty and it's a bit a schadenfreude in that for sure. As much as I like Apple's products I can't but hope they get a few bad "reviewers".
I’m with you in general, but what about vector search?

It really feels like the DB industry has taken a huge step backward from the promise of SQL. Switching from Postgres to SQLite is easy because the underlying queries are at least similar. But as soon as you introduce embeddings, every system is totally different (and often changing rapidly).
The schwarzchild radius of the observable universe is indeed roughly the size of the observable universe.

Now, since the universe doesn't appear to be a blackhole, we assume there's an equal amount of stuff outside of it pulling it back into flatness.

The hoop conjecture doesn't apply in a small region of a very homogenous universe
> [...] sqlite is the 80% case and is also dead simple to get going and genuinely performant.

I don't understand this. PostgreSQL is ALSO dead simple to get going, either locally or in production. Why not just start off at 90%?

I mean, I get there are a lot of use cases where sqlite is the better choice (and I've used sqlite multiple times over the years, including in my most recent gig), but why in general?
That sounds US-y: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/coroners

E.g., this bit: "The Coroner is expected to open an inquest where there is reasonable suspicion that the deceased has died a violent or unnatural death, where the cause of death is unknown or if the deceased died while in custody or state detention as defined by section 1(2) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009."
They let untrusted people in on the trusted network, basically. Telcos are no longer considered national security. Privatization has given us a cheaper and better communication, but security hasn't always kept up.

The authencation above is between the terminal and the location registry (simplified, there are several other components involved). Not internationally between the telcos.
What happened with the Web Monetization API?
Curious why you think that?
I grew up in a prison town, adjacent to their corn and cattle fields. It began about 1910 as a reformatory where Wash DC convicts would be sent to rural Lorton and taught working trades, from brick making to farming.

I've been reflecting how this and similar prisons all (AFAIK) elapsed into the same dismal hellholes that 19th century sanitariums did. Eventually reformers die and are replaced by politically driven, officious beancounters.
Well it is obviously not enough as most of these are addons.
Most of these are already built into MariaDB.

Excerpt from the motivaion of "PostgreSQL HTTP Client":

> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to write a trigger that called a web service?

Rather you than me.
> But I don't need the idea to die, I just want better transparency in app stores so I can know ahead of time whether an application is native or just a wrapped webapp.

That’s a great idea. Or a simple “Native App” badge for native apps.
Linux and NAS Devices: LUKS, ECryptFS and Native ZFS Encryption Compared (2021)
Dean of Engineering at University of Nevada wrote a paper that’s bad
The gentle strategy was the only way to make things work, at all. Otherwise you would have seen an insurgency worse than the Klansman.

Similarly, Japan and Germany post Second World War.

For contrast, look at how well our De-Ba’athification policy went in Iraq, disenfranchising a largely uninvolved military trained, fighting aged male population for the crimes of few at the top of the pyramid.

For the life of me I don’t understand the fools intent on retrying a 150 year old conflict they no party to.
If you wonder about command-line argument parsing with C and C++, getopt() is built-in:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Getopt.html

That said.
I think CLI programs are user friendly for professionals. Because they support input-process-output. Where input is STDOUT read by human, process is thinking by human and output is keyboard input to STDIN by human.

UIs for the general audience?
TUIs! TUIs are easily to parse, succinct in organization and fast input - all for humans. Humans can parse TUIs. And they can make up a mental modal.

GUIs fail often with a lack of organization, information overflow and distractions by weird metaphors.
The Windows 95 desktop metaphor is an example. It doesn’t make sense. Same for Windows 11 and its file-browser which makes it hard to recognize the filesystem or even just the home-directory. Now open Nautilus on Linux, it opens by default your home-directory (in most cases the place to be).

I like the CLI but TUIs are my love. GUIs are okay if are like a TUI.
True. I like the analogy. The sad thing is that this is purely a software limitation. The hardware would be capable of so much more, it is more powerful than desktop computers of just a couple of years ago.
Whether this researcher is correct or not, it certainly seems like the potential side effects of putting such large quantities of electronics and conductive particles into orbit is something that we should be seriously studying sooner rather than later. Are there inter-governmental agencies working on this problem?

The other thing that came to me is maybe companies like Starlink should be required to retrieve their satellites when they reach EOL rather than let them disintegrate.
Not sure why this is making people upset.
My experience, not my opinion. I personally tripped over the checks many times, back before they got institutional authentication smoothed out.

I regularly hear bio researchers claim firtshand experience that there are no checks, but then it turns out they were using institutional names, credit cards, and shipping addresses the whole time, so what they actually experienced was a lack of false positives rather than an absence of checking.