skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is excellent.

I will have to travel there to see it in real life once it is done.
Construction over such a long span is impressive.

The design looks fragile.
I will have to find some better photos.
> It's amazing if you haven't gone, especially when sunlight streams in through the windows.

I have been to Barcelona 4 times since I was a kid (1998, 2006, 2009, 2014), and every time the Sagrada Familia looked a little more finished, but still far from being completed. It blows my mind that it will finally be completed in 2 years.
No one is arguing it's a guarantee engineers are always good executives. Also looks like Welch was a chemical engineer before GE, so not sure how much of that knowledge transfers.
Poor souls still don't understand the why choose Firefox. If I remember right opera now funded by some chinese company
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
But users are demanding choice in browsers, and they are picking the least private, most pro-advertising one en masse! What’s its biggest benefit? It offers a suite of native-replacement, in-the-standards-process-but-not-finalized APIs so developers can write slow, bloated applications once and run them everywhere! This is what users want!
SR-71 "Ichi-Ban" – Buried in the Deepest Ocean on Earth
TLDR: From what I can tell, the "consent" to cloud backup from Google Authenticator was misleading at best and blocked access to the tool until it was given. IMHO this is another example of Google forcing decisions on customers in order to extract even more data. Thumbs down!

It looks like Google didn't make clear what was happening... There are almost no settings in Authenticator and there is no place to turn "cloud backup" on or off. I found this article that described the feature when it rolled out.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-authenti...

If the screenshot is accurate, they blocked access to the tool until "consent" was given to backup codes to Google. The text itself is clear in retrospect but, in my opinion, implies that there will be a choice to backup to Google and that choice was never presented.

"Google Authenticator is Upgrading... You can now sign into your Google Account and backup your Google Authenticator codes to the cloud."

A button is presented labeled "Get Started" and, if you click it, Authenticator will backup all of your codes to the cloud.

I don't remember being presented with this screen but I don't remember a lot of things. I suspect I needed to get a code and simply clicked the button to get to the list of codes. If I read it, I likely thought there was a new setting and I could manage this "backing up" from there. Clearly this was not the case and I "consented" to let Google have all of by 2FA codes.
In case it wasn't clear, I want software engineers in the finance industry to implement sqlite import and export in their various pieces of software, not too give up on lucrative, existing contracts, obviously.
I wonder if the monetary values will be regularly adjusted for inflation. If not, then it’s only a matter of time, waiting for money to be devalued and then the platforms qualify.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilicas_in_the_Catholic_Chur... indicates that there are four major basilicas and almost 2,000 minor ones.

Seems like the four major basilicas have historical (maybe even pre-Schism?) associations, while the minor ones are designated by the pope.
https://asdf-vm.com/ ASDF is better because it works with many more languages, other than only Python, like Rust, Go, Node, etc, and other tools, such as AWS/Google/Firebase/Azure CLIs.
Revolutionary Memory Technology: The Development of GST467
The Wish library for Go tries to provide a similar experience for the modern world (using SSH). It may be worth a look for anyone feeling nostalgic about the decline of telnet.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
Resumable exceptions are really cool though: on error get the interactive debugger, go to the bug, recompile the function, come back to the debugger, resume exception, see execution pass. Another CL thing that speeds up development, is more fun, and is extremely useful when working with long scripts (but for common tasks too, really).

(also kuddos to anyone using Factor in production^^)
Because the 'just buy everything from china' strategy is risky and shortsighted. If you have zero local manufacturing capability you are under china's power.
Almost as if he's human. Better replace him with a bolshevik committee!
What you said sounded in my head more like you’re describing a cooperatively scheduled OS rather than a novel hardware architecture.
A lot of Boeing's defense revenues come from military aircraft that are based on civilian airliners.
I have no criticism of it, it just feels like a different evolutionary path versus my journey to as-pure-as-reasonable FP.

Most metaprogramming can probably be described as somewhat bonkers!
This looks great, I love the design! Especially your solution of "importing" known vocabulary by simply scrolling through word lists - very smart and intuitive!

Although it would be even better (for me) if one were able to import their Anki decks and have your app figure out the level of "competency" for each word. This is the biggest gripe I have with adopting a new language learning app: Having to re-learn vocabulary that I am already 100% confident in.

Also, I would love to be notified when the Spanish version comes around - is there any way for that?
Even that isn't true. Lots of original models/drawings have been lost, new designers interpret or reconstruct what they think Gaudi wanted to do, based on incomplete plans or where decisions weren't fully made.

Not to mention new materials are available today that are being used and new processes/workflows which change the results slightly too.

Sagrada Familia isn't a 100% implementation of the original vision, as even the original vision was incomplete when Gaudi died.
You can use --copies if you don't want symlinks [0].

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
And for those of you that are already on asdf-vm, it is compatible with most of those plugins. I have not yet made the jump but I'm tempted.
> SpaceX didn't start with an existing knowledge base, talent and facilities either.

This is just plain wrong, look up Tom Mueller's history.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815408
I a tech-type and multiple founder I second this. A good software dev at Google or Amazon is likely not great for early stage. Basically, early on you have to load up tech-debt just to ship something (it's the one you'll throw away) and that's hard because it works against the discipline of the trade.
Moving Fast Breaks a Lot of Things
More than friendship, I think this is more a case of dependency. Sometimes it goes one way, sometimes both ways especially in the emotional part.
right here! lol
It serves as a good signal, it makes it easy to know who you can simply ignore.
> There's some pushback

Quite understandable as well. The thing is big enough as it is. Bought at a discount or not, bulldozing that many homes in an overpopulated city that already struggles for space due to its geography is a little ludicrous.
Works fine here on Firefox/macOS.
I think this is a bad take. He comes across as someone who is proud about his previous work at Microsoft and I find his videos engaging.

I'm not interested in hearing from god-tier programmers, rather ordinary folk that can tell a tale.
>>Is that really the case?

No company want's that kind of headlines. And YES, that ist part of the buy decision of an airline.
Yes, but only decades.

The main form of subsidy that these particular buildings enjoy is the construction and repair of roads on sliding hillsides. A further subsidy is their overrepresentation in the budget of the fire department, since this area is served by relatively more fire stations per capita than the central city. Finally, the topic of this article: in cases of fire, the owners of these buildings will expect the rest of us to bail them out.

FYI, these buildings are also directly atop the Hayward Fault.

> What about Paradise, CA?

It should be obvious that as a matter of public policy nobody should be allowed to build a dwelling inside a forest the way Paradise was built.
Who wouldn’t? The board of directors can get rid of him today if they wanted.
Only meaningful competition does. For example, competition with Comac is not meaningful due to politics, but competition withing the country with Douglas and Lockheed was.
There are always new developers coming onboard that might have missed this handy tool. It's worth firing up the conversation on occasion.
To be even more fair, US is still buying uranium from Russia...

Anyway, that's how it is. The german economy profited quite well from the cheap gas. It was actually a strong decision to drop it, as the economy has a lot of heavy industry that apparently requires gas/oil. We will see how it goes in the next 5-10 years.
You have stray dogs where you live or what? Cant say cycling has affected my views on dogs.
They bailed out GM of all companies what do you think?
Ask HN: Any hardware/electronic blog recommendation?
I really like hardware/eletronic blogs that brings some good content about historical hardware, like the blog posts by Ken Shriff's blog (https://www.righto.com/) and Ben Eater YouTube channel.

Do you have any good suggestion of resource around this theme?
Is there a typo in this? I've done some searching and not found anything. tomo.im resolves to GitHub Pages but isn't linked to a site.
What does poetry deliver beyond what pyenv gets you? I haven't used either tool super extensively.
A country’s energy production is driven mostly by demand. Your argument is “Germans use less energy, therefore it’s going badly”. I think this is a very outdated worldview, equating energy consumption with growth.

There’s been lots of technology development across the board that lets people have the same comfort, or businesses the same production, with lower energy consumption. I don't think you can just assume that those are a rounding error.
In addition to things mentioned by other users, electricity production is also misleading there because Germany's grid isn't a closed system. It's strongly coupled to the wider european power grid. Germany's international grid connections are so wide that it's not even that abnormal for Germany to import or export more than a third of their total load from neighbouring countries.

A better metric would be to look at the total load on the German electrical grid, and if you look at that, you'll see that load has decreased a little over the past couple of years, reflecting the real economic downturn, but the dip is quite small compared to how much electricity generation has decreased.

Germany is simply exporting less electricity, and also importing more of it.
Won't work, errors on a single-element list. I think the solution would be the same as it is in CL: to just use vectors.
FAQs about Promise Theory
If you are paying rent you don't have any money to invest in the stock market, because that money is being paid in rent. If you can pay that money into a mortgage instead, at least you're paying into your own equity. If you already have a lot of money or huge income, it definitely can be a better idea to rent and invest the surplus in the stock market. Or purchase your home outright.

Repairs on your own home means you are paying into your own equity, increasing the value of the real estate. HOA fees and property taxes are lost money yes, that you have to pay as a homeowner. If you are renting you will always pay those fees and ongoing expenses as well, either outright or baked into the rent. Just as you have to put gas in a car whether you own it or rent it. The landlord is going to make sure that the renter foots every and any bill.

That is why, as I mentioned earlier, you can only compare the interest part of a mortgage with the rent. And I agree that there are very special situations when renting is better than buying with a mortgage. For example if your income is very high compared to rent prices where you live. Then you can have a sustainable surplus to invest in more lucrative ventures such as the stock market. Or in another case where home prices are going down faster than rent. Ie, the price of a home equivalent to the home you are renting is falling more each month than you're paying in rent. Or you expect that it will have fallen in price more by the time you want to purchase, than what you will loose in rent during that time.
The thing that a CEO does that matters is set tone, which is more than just a hat. A CEO with the right background will set the right priorities, and for Boeing right now, that's probably more quality than bottom line. These days it seems that Boeing chasing the bottom line is sacrificing quality, which unironically then hurts the bottom line.
Naw, Sun never liberated it.

Sun did announced "NeWS is Free (only $1000)" which was kind of a kick in the balls and abuse of the word "free".

"Free (only $1000)" discussion on usenet:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.windows.news/c/-G1l_372AP8/...

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.windows.news/c/YtZzYMZ587M/...

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.org.sug/c/IXcXK7hKgUQ/m/nf8...

A couple of my flames about the situation:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/Explanation.txt

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/sevans.txt

And to cleanse the palette, DSRH's epic "Sun Deskset == Roy Lichtenstein Painting on your Bedroom Wall" flame (David SH Rosenthal was one of the original authors of NeWS, with James Gosling, and also wrote the X11 ICCCM):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768724
I think the main point was that it is bad that Germany produces less energy over the decades. And that manufacturing in Germany might disappear as a consequence, which would be bad for Germany.
Wait, why does the suit need to stimulate the user's muscles at all? If anything I would have thought that it should go the other way around, the user would move their muscles voluntarily and the suit would reinforce that motion.
Copying from a comment I made on Ars:

Where scoop differs, which might be good or bad depending on your point of view, is that it installs software to its own location, and self-updating apps don't self update. So, tutorials and programs have to take Scoop into account[1] since they won't be installed to their usual locations (bonus: scoop itself can be installed to your users home directory, or to C:\ProgramData\scoop).

Another wart is that maintainers of scoop recommend using scoop + winget[2].

I think it's neat, but personally, I just use winget to install things, and a variety of portable apps on a secondary drive (in fact, winget supports installing one-off programs to random locations). Another nice thing about winget is being able to update and manage software that wasn't installed with it too.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/123205#issuecomme...

[2]: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/3691#issuecom...
Instead of just raising the price of the console so it makes a profit?
Love this book.
I feel like the only person in the world who was thoroughly underwhelmed by it and really don’t see how its future space requirements for a staircase can be justified.

This isn’t me trying to be edgy, I like cathedrals, this one (and his general style) just left me cold. Duomo in Milan was far better imo.
> I am driving an electric car in Germany now and I built a new home

Most people in Germany can't afford to buy an apartment let alone build a new house and you're taking as if your situation si representative for the average German.

Just because you're wealthy enough to afford a new EV and to build a new modern house, doesn't eman Germany has no problems.

You're proving the point that ecology is a tax on the poor, as the wealthy can afford to buy EVs and build new well insulated homes with solar panels and heat pump making their running costs super low, while poor people who can't, will own older ICE cars and older homes that are much worse energy efficient meaning they'll pay way more in running costs than the rich despite having less income leading to ever increasing wealth inequality.
I know. But the person above made its point that the christians only eradicated other cultures/religions, when they were cruel and sacrificing humans. So my point was: no, obviously not.
I literally couldn't care less, but I'll wade into the depths of pedantry with you. It did not refer to the "cathedral of Barcelona", it just called it "the cathedral". Cathedral has an official meaning in Catholicism, but the colloquial use of cathedral in the US means "large fancy church building" and not "Capitol of a Catholic jurisdiction”.

Pitt didn't call their big building the Cathedral of Learning because their equivalent of a bishop in their organizational hierarchy sits there.
Per Capita is a lossy indicator, and you bring up a key point a lot of people on here seem to forget - you cannot analyze economic metrics in isolation.

Economic Metrics are sort of like the dashboard of a car - you need to analyze the speedometer, the odometer, the gas gauge/battery level, tire pressure, etc when driving.

Concentrating on one metric alone is useless as it is a dynamic system.

There are changes happening in Germany. That said, it is slower than in other countries, but then again, better late than never.

There are some very prominent issues with Germany, but it appears that Germany and the US seem to get the brunt of bad takes (often by Americans and Germans respectively). I've found both countries to be so similar in personality and outlook that it leads to clashes ("I hate me" - Jerry Seinfeld)
Yeah, fully agree with that. To me this is akin to writing line numbers in old BASIC dialects. The language makes the user do something that ought to be automated.
Nice post that ultimately revolves around cost-benefit analysis.
Where I hoped she was going with this was into human value decisions
behind those analyses.

There isn't such a clear cut between safety critical life and death
systems, and ones that can afford to fail now and then as a practical
compromise. People's weekend projects get purloined by big corps and
used in critical systems they never anticipated or would be
comfortable with. Nothing stands alone and seemingly innocuous
components in complex systems cause domino effects.

That is to say; our intentions as coders, including levels of care,
are seldom respected a few steps removed.

As always, what bugs me is when practical engineering - learning from
failure - crosses boundaries into reckless engineering. The cavalier
engineer sees production (other people's lives) as part of their test
lab. That is never okay.
I went 20 or so years ago and again 3 years ago. Really, really worth the visit.

Also great to see Christianity's best days of building cathedrals (basilicas) didn't end 500 years ago (and I'm not even religious).
Is this one of the longest running construction projects of all time?
Far. As in, really, really far. We started out with Postgres because it was just the simple and sensible option for a production prototype, and when somebody came around telling me we need something more scalable recently, I calculated that there's not even enough addressable market in the world for our business for more than 4x our size. That's exactly the two remaining vertical doublings of our DB instance (to ridiculously looking RAM & CPU numbers) we could still do in case we need it.

Other than that, thanks to a lot of the recent work on connection handling and concurrency since PG 11, Postgres is getting better and better actually using these additional resources well: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/performance-comparison-maj...
IIUC:

It's bullet chess (1 minute per player, no additional time per move).

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw5zBnhgqgk tl;dw: usurprisingly it's not very long

I'm waiting for the https://www.youtube.com/c/GothamChess coverage ...

PS: Is he still the official World Champion?
Why is this being posted in 2024?
He'll be out in three for the most part, with the last six months being for show and to not give the impression that the decision is related to the ongoing legal stuff.
'Buy manufacturing from China' is a bit like 'buying gas from Russia', or so we will all say once that came crushing down too.
The other hard retrieval problems
Presumably they were just giving an example. The huge spike in German energy costs absolutely did push manufacturers to find ways to be more energy efficient in a very similar way it pushed regular consumers to also be more conscious of their energy use.
They should have built nuclear plants instead of ripping them down.
It is in the interest of the public that Boeing remains competitive in this space. Otherwise, companies like Airbus would no longer be incentivized to pursue technical excellence as a competitive advantage. For them too it would become a sensible business decision to count beans and cut corners. Overall, everyone would be worse off.

Market-dominating companies have problems like that. If we strike them off for this, that’s not sustainable.

Public bailouts are unsustainable, too. But it would be worse if the company isn’t kept around. It would be good if there was a way to somehow penalize the people at Boeing for acting this way, with total negligence towards lives of their passengers. So that this would stand as an effective deterrent for the future. I think this is what everyone wants, not the downfall of
Boeing.
From personal experience, it scales very well vertically. Have a system in production with tens of billions of rows and north of 12 TB of storage total. That system is read-heavy with large batched inserts, not many deletes or updates.

Biggest limiter is memory, where the need for it grows linearly with table index size. Postgres really really wants to keep the index pages hot in the OS cache. Gets very sad and weird if it can’t: will unpredictably resort to table scans sometimes.

We are running on AWS Aurora, on a db.r6i.12xlarge. Nowhere even close to maxed out on potential vertical scaling.
Are you saying the cost etc. allocations in Boeing are underrepresenting the importance of commercial? Not quite sure I understand.
Calhoun was a Managing Director at Blackstone which, sure, isn’t a hedge fund but surely is not a glorified accounting firm. If he can be called a bean counter, so can Anonymous Hedge Fund Guy.

There are plenty of extremely strategic CFOs that began their careers as “bean counters.” The terms of all this discussion and theorizing are purely in-group out-group confirmation bias nonsense.
>EU is telling Apple how to design and run its App Store, music, Pay, etc.

Are you 5 years old or just a delusional Apple fanboy? That's how it works everywhere: businesses need to comply with local regulations or fuck off.

When VW and Toyota came to the US they also had to design their cars as they were told by the US legislation. It's why the Cybertruck can't be sold in Europe and why the Porsche 959 couldn't be sold in the US: they weren't compliant to legislation abroad.

Similarly, nobody's forcing Apple to sell it's products and services in Europe, if they want to do that, it must adapt them to EU legislation. Simple. Why are you having difficulties with this?

>China isn’t.

lol OK.
Totally agree on that, at best they should have a phone that just does calls and sms to inform their parents. No need for anything else.
Realistically, the US government would nationalize Boeing before they let Boeing outright fail (and they'd probably only do that if bailouts didn't work). Boeing is a huge strategic asset for the US, and I don't think the US is willing to deal with the consequences of Boeing shutting down.
Yes, they were apparently not succesful. But as late as in the 20. century christian schools in south america largely forbid the use of native language.
Go to local events, hackathons, etc. Don't just stick to the first level of your network, ask for "friend of a friend" type recommendations. Find out if any of your contacts know any hyper-connector "knows everyone" types.