skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is that it really depends on your application work load. Is it read-heavy, or write-heavy? Are the reads more lookup-heavy (i.e. give me this one user's content), or OLAP heavy (i.e. `group by`'s aggregating millions of rows)? Is read-after-write an important problem in your application? Do you need to support real-time/"online" updates? Does your OLAP data need to be mutable, or can it be immutable (and therefore compressed, columnarized, etc.)? Is your schema static or dynamic, to what degree?

I agree with others that a good simplification is "how far can you get with the biggest single AWS instance"? And the answer is really far, for many common values of the above variables.

That being said, if your work load is more OLAP than OLTP, and especially if your workload needs to be real-time, Postgres will begin to give you suboptimal performance without maxing-out i/o and memory usage. Hence, "it really depends on your workload", and hence why you see it's common to "pair" Postgres with technologies like Clickhouse (OLAP, immutable, real-time), RabbitMQ/Kafka/Redis (real-time, write-heavy, persistence secondary to throughput).
getopt is not built in.
The users phone, via a Bluetooth connection?
> That possibility can be debunked using a simple fact - Nigerian Americans perform comparable to Asian Americans.

Do you have a source for that?

> Instead, economic and social factors make more sense (poor people do worse at exams due to less resources, sadly most African Americans are poorer than other similar groups due to historical traumas).

Results of trans-racial adoption studies contradict this theory:

https://twitter.com/PaoloShirasi/status/1553024354312757250

> [...] In transracial adoption studies, such as the the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study, the familiar average IQ gaps between children of different races typically remain even after their adoption by high-IQ white upper-middle class parents able to provide optimal environments. Studies show that by the end of childhood, Asian adoptees end up with higher average IQs than white adoptees, white adoptees with higher IQs than mixed-race (mixed black-white) adoptees, who end up with higher average IQs than black adoptees. [...]
Is that enough though?

It seems pretty clear that putting people who commit crimes in jail definitely reduces their chances of commuting crime at least while they're in jail.

White collar crime is the root of all evil in our society and we should be putting white collar criminals in jail.
Apparently no one is obliging you.
I would love a side-by-side comparison of AT and ActivityPub. Shouldn't it be possible to build a translator between them?
I think the implied solution is to find another position if possible. You can always work for a bad company while attempting to be hired by a better one.
Ads are the most frequent answer, but it's not the only one. There's also the team getting acqui-hired, or getting bought by a competitor & shut down, or just plain old going out of business and sold for parts. None of those are good for users, obviously, but they are all viable paths for repaying VCs in absence of a business model.
I am not sure I follow. unsigned types in C are residues and not binary polynoms or Galois fields (also you can of course store them in unsigned integers).

The conversions work, e.g. conversion to a smaller unsigned type are reduced. That some other conversion work does seem convenient to me and not a problem.

One can, of course, define types in C for Galois fields and access them using functions that do the correct operations (and by wrapping it in a struct one can also prevent regular operations to be used on such type). In C++ one can overload the builtin operators, but I am not terrible sure this is even a good idea.
That's a strange thing to say, why do you think that? I know a lot of people who don't have anxiety disorders who had an anxiety attack when they first got high, and yes they might think they need to go to the hospital. The physical experience of weed can feel like you're dying
"people looking for solutions linked to problems" very informative
How does Iceland end up with Nazis? Isnt Polish your largest non-native ethnicity? Don’t think they were exactly fans, by and large.
I see you're trying to drive a wedge between India and Canada, dirtyid, or Chinese citizen who lives in Canada who loves China and hates western world. It really doesn't matter what you're doing you know, China is a Great Depression and will stay there for 20 years.

Also proving the point that Canada and US should not be importing more Chinese pinkies into the country
In the long run (30+ years from now)? Or just for the few years they are in office?
I like this simple implementation.
> every technology goes through a period of experimentation before
it's clear how it should be employed.

Sure, but as I said here yesterday [0] experimentation is something
that has far reaching consequences, and that's why professional
scientists have codes of ethics that seem quite absent in the tech
world.

Also, as far as the Internet goes, we've had maybe 40 years of time to
"experiment". There comes a time for results, conclusions and some
sort of maturity in outcomes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39253045
While I don't doubt that there could be a link, it seems ridiculous that they don't (at least as far as we can tell from this article) do anything to tell if this is causation one-way or the other. Not hard to imagine that people who are starting to suffer from chronic anxiety may try self-medication before they try the emergency room.

Again, not saying there's no causation the way they imply, but basic experimental principles should tell you to try to control for this somehow, for example by looking at overall anxiety rates before and after it becomes commonly available in a given community, or comparing similar sized communities in different areas with different availability.
If I take Apple's goodwill (which in this specific case to me is plausible, but whatever ...) the issue with alternate notification channels is that it's quite tough to attribute for users if there are 10 push daemons doing it their way. But the bad press about bad battery life time hits Apple.

Especially if Apple allows others to move it from application layer to system layer (by providing a Kernel interface?) which is required for being really energy efficient.
I don’t see how that follows. Solar panels and batteries have become massively cheaper in the past few decades and that has all relied on new materials science. I guess you could argue that windmills could have been made cheaper at scale with the right efforts 40 years ago.
This is very true, but also the Native Americans didn't build their houses in the forest (for this reason). The white man likes to have his cabin in the woods. This is perfectly fine in northern Europe and the NE U.S., because due to the different climate, wildfires aren't so common, and wood on the forest floor there is more prone to rot instead of burn.

Now that there are so many cabins in the woods, there's probably an opportunity for a startup that makes robots to clear out the forest floor. The only problem is that the forest ecosystem has evolved to have periodic fires, but perhaps this is still the best of a series of bad options.
If China didn't support Russia the war would have been over by now.
Same problem with my Norwegian phone number just now.
I'll throw my own anecdotal evidence in here. I found weed to be fun when I was younger, but after few years I started getting really paranoid when I smoked, like a switch was flipped in my brain. Probably after some edible overdoses. So now I mostly avoid it, or use alcohol to dull the paranoia.

I also have a lot of friends with the the same story where it was fun at first, but later just anxiety, paranoia and over thinking things. Looks like in this thread there a lot of similar stories as well.
On the other hand, Jack Dorsey has proven himself as someone who can be very successful founding a large microblogging social network with no business model.
Swift Tricks
When I said "allowed," I meant at a mass scale, at every level, uniformly in a centralized system, not some funds for specific purposes here and there. Now, certainly, there have been times when that sort of federal funding has been specifically intended to more centralize policing in the US, but in general the structure of the state is such to prevent that, unless there is a serious change to US law.
'Formerly, all the world was mad,' say the most refined, and they blink...
I've got a few colleagues around the industry. Layoffs are super common, but so are the hiring sprints. And they generally use the same tech as any industry with a few exceptions. A lot of them never bought into the cloud because they have their own datacenters and their own bespoke compute and storage.
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No we don't. It's nice it being a little warmer. Anything else is unjustified fearmongering.Historically good times coincided with warmer temperatures.
No promises but maybe. At 16 my family was breaking down so it's all a bit too personal. I'll see if some are worth sharing publicly. If I do I'll respond back here again to let you know.
Wouldn't one have to give the toothbrush your wifi password so it can connect?
I don't doubt that, but for all major companies you'll be able to find a long list of bad things they did.
I don't like combined single-hyphens for a different reason: sometimes they accept arguments, and it seems strange to me that `-a0` can variously mean `-a 0` and `-a -0`. (I think some insist that argument-having options are long, and short options can only be flags, which sort of solves it, except for the existence of the others which makes it still confusing.) That said, in a script, which is the main time I'd have to read the way someone else has written it anyway, I favour everything being --long --anyway --to-make-it=really-clear. (Though there are a few that are so common I won't insist on, `cut -dX -fY` say.)

You must like `find`.
Heh, okay I guess what I wanted was going to end up as the worst of both— fixed amounts off the top to some particular people/causes, and then the remainder divided into shares for my kids.

I guess there's an understanding the being an executor is a best-effort role, but maybe you could specifically codify that +/-5% on the individual shares is fine, just to take off some of the burden of needing it to be perfect, particularly if there are payouts occurring at different times and therefore some NPV stuff going on.
> Though we don’t have the finer details of the DDoS story, it serves as yet another warning for device owners to do their best to keep their devices, firmware, and software updated; monitor their networks for suspicious activity; install and use security software; and follow network security best practices.

Maybe they should only allow qualified consumers with required certification to purchase such a smart toothbrush.
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work with Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
I was an SDE2 at AWS and I got denied a mortgage on a small apartment in Vancouver. I was deemed too high risk.

Reading stuff like this is demoralizing.
Welcome to University IT, where organizational structures are basically feudal (by law!). Imagine an organization where your president can't order a VP to do something, and you have academia :)
Except that the losses are rarely passed on to investors. The issuer (the bank) typically retains first loss (that changed after the 2008 crisis). So it's typically more a tool to get cheap funding than selling mortgages.
That makes sense, how are you guys approaching breaking down what should be present and what is expected in contracts? I've seen a lot of chatbot-based apps that just don't cut it for my use case.
Unironically using R as an Open Source Alternative to Excel [video]
> My fridge is capable of being connected to the internet, so is my
oven, garage door opener and my dishwasher. WHY?

Because you bought them dude! :)
I'm genuinely unsure how to translate your question into, hmm. Anything actually.

The snarky answer is "By writing it in source code, in a GUI text editor", a thing I do frequently. But the problem is that I have no idea what you're getting at in the first place, so that's just an attempt to recover some meaning from what you wrote.
It's a little hard to tell from there - I get the impression of a one-man shop where you perform multiple roles, with heavy emphasis on the technical? This might be a little hard to digest for your average recruiter, I feel they're rarely looking to hire entrepreneurs.
> My thermostat updates itself OTA.

I can't tell if you're being intentionally obtuse. It's pretty obvious from the discussion I am not talking about anything that has updatable software, I'm talking about things sold with the promise to be able to add broad new functionality in multiple fields. A thermostat may be able to add new methods of scheduling, energy saving, other means of control, integrations with other smart devices, but all with the singular purpose of controlling a radiator, under-floor heating or other heating device.

But if we're gonna entertain the notion somewhat, yes, if the thermostat allowed installation of non-thermostat related things like video streaming services, games, Twitter, or other apps that were allowed to run on the device to give it more use than at point of sale, and it was also marketed as such when sold, then yes, it was being sold as a (rather silly) general-purpose computing device and should be required to give users access to what they need to build their own software and run it on it, sans manufacturer control.
> there is no "singular you", just a swirling multitudes who bob to the surface for attention depending on the context

Sounds a little like “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand” have you read that one?

Also,

> In my teens it didn't hurt that it had some pretty intense pornographic sex scenes

For me, that book is Lockpick Pornography - it’s a fairy horny story, but the main character struggling to figure out what to do about gender and sexuality, and the way that struggle starts out seeming like it’s about systemic oppression and heteronormativity but quickly spirals into the character just having a series of self destructive meltdowns is so so compelling. It even manages to have a bit of a happy non-ending.
Can you elaborate on what type of anxiety it unlocked?
If you need a GPT to explain your lawyer's explanations to you, you need a new attorney.
16 year old me got more right about the world than I ever predicted he could. I encourage you to read it. Especially to see how much about your younger self your current self gets wrong! The opposite effect of depressing.

At the end of all of my reading even though my younger selves couldn't hear it I whispered to all of them: "You turned out okay little one. Rest."
Genuine question, are these things really the norm where you live? I don't have a garage but none of those other appliances are capable of being connected to the internet for me. I am well aware that there are "smart" models out there and their prevalence is probably on the rise but it surprises me that someone so opposed to everything being internet-connected has so many such appliances.

I'm in the UK, are these smart appliances way more common in the US or something?
If you’ve ever tried to use these extra “connected features”, you’ll notice that they are completely useless.

Aside from the small detail that these things don’t really solve any problem, these companies are not… let’s say software savvy.
Sure, but it's the whole reason this model was set up in the first place! It's like we built a school for the kids and banned them from it for being uneducated.

There's enough forests in the US west for loggers to log bits and pieces of it and not return for a hundred years. Perfect for biodiversity. They have been forced onto dense monoculture lots out of necessity.

Unless we want to want to go back to the 80s and pretend plastic is more environmentally friendly than paper products (which was a real argument of the time), we shouldn't be so hostile to forestry concerns.
USA population has increased ~10% in the last 20 years. Why has that small increase in population caused a humongous lack of housing? It feels like something else is going on other than "we need to increase supply by 10% but can't"
I simply don't understand this result - it takes ~4,000x as much energy to raise 1kg of water 1 degree compared to air. And how could this trend have started in 1850 (a clear trend from 1850-1900 is observed in the data in Figure 5b)? The sponges were collected at 30-100 m depth too, so this isn't just a surface effect.
At present all the DIDs issued through bluesky use plc for resolution, which is a centralised directory managed by bluesky
China absolutely has supported Russia, now it hasn’t given weapons (as far as we know). But it has provided ample material support in terms of western chips, heavy vehicles and parts. Without which Russia wouldn’t have lasted as long as it has. Not to mention the diplomatic cover.
Because it's nonsense. All based on models with no history of being accurate. It's pseudo science as the Nobel Laurette for physics pointed out last year.
Yup, absolutely, that is what I meant - the useful output from the command, the thing you were looking for, that it's actually doing/retrieving.
You completely missed my point. I could have replaced "stalking" with "murder" or "fraud" or anything.

If people are not able to have a principled stance on right or wrong without calibrating their response based on who the victim is, it's sad.
Wonder what they were after? Upcoming sanctions? ASML?
So the world needs 1/5 as many attorneys ? or 1/100 ? How will 6-figure attorneys replace that income?
When those "critics" are accusing you of child molestation, yeah, you have something to fear.
Why is this being downvoted? Agreed. They have acquired so much talent [1] in this space, it's exciting to start seeing things come out of that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9Jg4WldJg
Anxiety is likely to get worse as you age, unfortunately. If you have it when you're young, the prognosis isn't good.
I know HN is cynical but really: the headset ships with the ability for immersive environments that replace the entire user’s surroundings, and apps already exist that are fully immersive.
You might be curious to look up how Alembic and Django accomplish migrations. Even if Python's not your jam, the concepts/semantics are language/framework agnostic.

Basically, you store each migration in a file, and you "squish" the migration history down to a table definition once you've decided you're happy with the change and it's been affected across all the different deployment environments.

It's not perfect, but it works reasonably well.
Nobody in the US has to starve with the current social system.
It isn’t that surprising that Google isn’t bringing us to the post-ad web, but I’m surprised Apple isn’t. The idea of an app or something asking the OS for a payment, and then the user trusting the OS to handle the details behind the scenes is already conventional on iOS, right?

They already have a nice way of doing subscriptions to podcasts too. So it isn’t like Apple is totally allergic to giving content providers with a way to offer their users premium services. It just hasn’t happened for websites for some reason.
> The death of a Mastodon node is inconvenient, but not identity-ending (especially if one uses static indirection to link your abstract Mastodon ID to a concrete instance).

Can you tell me more about that? If you just redirect webfinger requests, don't you still lose everything if your current instance disappears or you move to a new instance?
- "A rolling loan gathers no loss."

As long as real estate prices continue to rise, you won't see large scale missed payments because they will be able to sell the assets, refinance the loan, or even successfully rent it out.

We've seen this dynamic in 2008 and in the S&L crisis before. Bad loans drive the bubble, the expanding bubble hides the bad loans, but when the bubble stops, there is a massive large scale loan failure.
Great tool, we‘re heavily relying on it for our network automation and have some custom plugins running.
What would you use a pulldown resistor for in this case? That SSR has a must-release current of 1mA. It isn't a FET that can charge up with micro/nanoamps until it turns on.
First steps with ruby.wasm: or how we built Ruby Next Playground
More legal malpractice? No, because they aren't attorneys and you cannot rely upon them for legal advice such that they'd be liable to you for providing subpar legal advice.
We paid $14k/mo on GCP's VertexAI :)
Renewables affect electricity production, not oil consumption. The renewable share is up to 41% in 2022.

Oil consumption in 2022 is below 2005. It is increasing since the dip for the pandemic but it is below 2019. The population has grown since 2005 so the per capita usage has dropped significantly since 2005.
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AAC has licensing / patents:

> However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC "end-user" codecs.[52] The terms (as disclosed to SEC) uses per-unit pricing. In the case of software, each computer running the software is to be considered a separate "unit".[53]

[…]

> The AAC patent holders include Bell Labs, Dolby, ETRI, Fraunhofer, JVC Kenwood, LG Electronics, Microsoft, NEC, NTT (and its subsidiary NTT Docomo), Panasonic, Philips, and Sony Corporation.[16][1] Based on the list of patents from the SEC terms, the last baseline AAC patent expires in 2028, and the last patent for all AAC extensions mentioned expires in 2031.[57]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Licensin...
The article suggests this is money laundering. It would make sense to have fake borrowers with fake incomes as part of a layering operation.

Someone wants to get $large_sum out of China. They can't do this without raising lots of flags in both countries. So they set up an army of fake borrowers, have them take out fraudulent mortgages on real properties in Canada, pay down the mortgages, and sell the property to obtain clean money on the other end.

All the better if the property rises in value in the meantime due to enormous fraud.
Sane or not, shells are programming languages, and in early Unix this was quite a bit more prominent and obvious, the fanout into sh, bash, ksh, and csh being exemplary.

To me it makes total sense to think of the standard POSIX toolkit as the standard library of the various shell languages, that seems basically correct in fact.
"One" is definitely a trend.
> tattered reputation among Canadians

Hardly just Canadians; I first started hearing tales of huge HSBC corruption 20 years ago.

FTR: I bank with First Direct, which is an online banking service of HSBC in the UK.