skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a look and it looks good. You've clearly thought about the platform. However I foresee problems for you to get traction.

1. You're one (young) person.
2. You're based in India
3. You're asking people to spend a large amount of money, with no guarantee that you'll be around in 6 months.
4. The 'dev hit by a bus' syndrome.
5. One demo does not make a product.

Solutions?

1. Get and show a team somehow
2. Get some connection with US/EU somehow (only if you want to market there)
3. Do something with your pricing to make it easier for people to test the system.
4. Start to give away accounts to gain testimonials, community and other proof points.
5. See if you can partner with any org. Maybe an Indian university, or a well known YouTuber in education or something which again will give you launch credibility.
6. Think about approaching an incubator, which will give you credibility, network and hopefully users.

Good luck!
It is important to disguise between:

1. capitalism as a form of free market.
2. capitalism as a form of corporatism, the kind that practiced by German conglomerates before and after the WWII.

We can argue that 1 has never being tried any where. As markets are never really free currently.

Number 2 is what the author and most people who don't like about capitalism. It is a form of authoritarianism rather than capitalism, just as how Soviet and China pretend to be communist while they were just practicing authoritarianism.
> If Eastern Europeans are both better programmers (even if you disagree, at least concede that programmers/workers may generally be "better" or "more efficient" or whatever in some region that's not yours) and much cheaper, and it's not relevant in which geographic location your product comes from, why would you keep your production in a less efficient and more expensive place?

The reason why we disagree is because I disagree with free competition on a global scale, and in turn disagree with economic efficiency as a good thing in absolute terms: there is a limit, past which if we become too efficient, it implies too great an abuse of the commons.

I don't think we should have global competition for programmers: we should be more locally self-sufficient and face the consequences of our actions in our own backyard. If Eastern European programmers are better, well that is all well and good, but then that IMPLIES that people in your HOME country are NOT becoming programmers, and eventually this chain has to end somewhere, likely with SHIPPING something overseas, which in turn is unsustainable. At some point, this is likely to result in abuse of the common good (biosphere), much more so than if we stayed local.

Think about it economically: the only reason why you can even PAY eastern europeans is because your currency can be exchanged for theirs, which means that they probably want some physical product of yours.
The Japanese entered the Second World War with a fleet of aircraft carriers and submarines. Before the war, they were importing Swiss machine tools and exporting watches to Europe and America. A craft-made lathe would have revealed no secrets to a country that already had a highly developed manufacturing industry.
> React as a whole and state management became many times easier over the years

This to me is exactly the problem actually. React was an object oriented framework; it leaned into that for managing state for components. Then they introduced stateful functional components in 16.8, and React became an entirely new paradigm. 16.8 should have been an entirely new framework, and yet it was merely a minor version bump. I can't find myself blaming users for finding it difficult to keep up with the whims of Facebook.
Another neat aspect of this machine was the hype around it at the time. AT&T took out ads in most magazines and pundits thought it would overtake the IBM PC because it ran UNIX and had some great software, including the first version of Microsoft Word (which was originally written for UNIX, specifically Microsoft's Xenix).
> In a capitalist system, with enough bad decisions, your company might go bankrupt.

Or your company might lobby against regulations that safeguard public health. Your company might make carcinogenic products and pressure government groups to downplay their effects[0]. Your company might consistently resist efforts to install better safety measures for chemical transport, resulting in hundreds of gallons of extremely toxic chemicals spilling and catching fire in your neighborhood[1]. Your company might contribute to pushing humanity into a doom loop of global externalities that we can't escape.

In other words, the separation of "money" from "physical power" cuts both ways. Where it breaks down in capitalism is when corporations are able to use their money to evade or neuter the government's physical power so that they can continue doing harm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine,_Ohio,_train_de...
utf-8 and code page 437 are identical for all the characters <127.

Typical source code doesn't use characters outside that range anyway?
The truth is:
- Company can work with government to put someone in jail. And the company has the important resource for that: money.
- A google account blocked, so someone lost their income because their Adsense or developer account is not accessible anymore. This is a violence in my opinion.
- Once you have an agreement with a company, the company can change the rule without your agreement.
If capitalism wants to avoid putting money in with power, then what is lobbying?

And there are plenty of examples of companies having and using violence. That in more civilized countries it happens less than before is because of the struggle of previous generations and not out of the good design of capitalism.

Mind you, I’ll take capitalism over any of the existing alternatives any day, but I think your view is very naive.
Apparently there are some types of plants (like lavender, mint, rosemary or catnip) which mosquitoes don't like being around for whichever reason. Having some near the micropond could be a pretty elegant fix if it works.
Are hard coded quantum simulators even the same thing though? Like, if we’re saying that the goal of a quantum simulator is merely to run a high dimensional problem and exploit the nature of qubits to make it simpler to handle those imaginary vectors and what not…

Does that actually follow the same framework as “traditional” “quantum computing”, e.g. struggles with error correction / problem formulation specifically designed to avoid unnecessary calculations?

It feels like although a quantum simulator could viably work to simulate a specific system, it shouldn’t make it any easier to actually understand the system it is simulating and could maybe just indicate how complex by the amount of variation in simulation outcomes (which isn’t useless). Is that accurate?

Excuse my terminology here
> Some of those could be batched offline and verified when the connection is back up, but others can't.

One of the things that can be batched offline of course is card payments, which sort of negates the OP's point.
> I just wish they were intelligent enough so we could ask them not to stand on our clothes.

Just because they don’t speak our language doesn’t mean they aren’t intelligent enough to understand. This seems like a case for basic training and positive reinforcement.

You can try setting up an alternative perch for them. Then when you see crows on that perch, go over and feed them something they like. But offer it only to those on the “right” perch, not the ones on the clotheslines. They should be quick to pick up the rule.

But you may start to get other crows coming over too, so unless you have dreams of becoming a Disney princess or Marvel villain, perhaps consult with a professional first.
And for that experience, you'd impose on everyone else the wearing of a 650 gram strap-on face computer? I don't want you as a co-worker.
Is the name a riff on a similar google-internal tool?
Can we get some screenshots of the dashboard? I tend to judge book by their covers
They're small in the sense that their dependency on the rest of your codebase is small.
At this point it really is Our Lord and Saviour the Blockchain all over again.
> * Seamless internationalization. If you're a native English speaker you probably never experienced the "fun" of dealing with French and Russian in the same text document. Pre-Unicode supported English + one other language, if that other language wasn't too weird.

For some programs, that hasn't changed.
I use OneNote heavily to write some sort of personal info database I always look up when I forget something or need to reproduce a command verbatim quickly. The act of writing it and organizing the data also heavily reinforces my ability to memorize thing in my mind in and of itself too. So I'm quite fond of that little program.

When I tried to use it while learning Chinese I ended up having to turn off the spelling/grammar correction. It just can't function with two languages in the same notebook. All the Chinese text had the red squiggly lines warning you of a mistake and I found no way to enable the support for more than one language. You must select /one/ language for the spell checker in that program.

Or disable the spellchecker, which is what I did in the end.
Or Canadian or Aussie rules football?
I have. It's near impossible to get to the top without a hunger for power, which, I agree, starts when these people are in middle management - so not as much in founder-led companies (although not uncommon there either).

Scheming, lying and political maneuvering at the expense of your peers is how you become the fake-friendly "Bob" or "Mike" calling the shots at the top. Non-founders who raise through the ranks largely depend on these traits. Feelings and empathy are selected away as they lead you to be passed over in promotions.
> Company can work with government to put someone in jail

Yes, but that is very unusual. It requires a lot of checks and balances to get past.

> This is a violence in my opinion.

Understood. We strongly disagree here, but it's interesting. I've never considered blocking an Adsense account to be in any way similar to being locked in jail for 20 years, for example, but I'll bear in mind that this is an opinion some people hold.
Entirely agreed but they still must query the national database of filled scripts (to prevent dr shopping e.g. opiate abuse) and that requires at least a phone line.
Looks like a very good tool to integrate with Knowledge Graphs or just RAG (llm).
While I have heard about the 3B1 for years, even if AT&T is an unknown foreign company in my part of the world, I'd never heard of the MiniFrame. Thanks for this.

http://cholla.mmto.org/computers/miniframe/index.html

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/2963/Convergent-Tech...

The original brochure for the MiniFrame Plus:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_convergentmePlusProduc...

A blog about its big brother the MightyFrame, with pics:

http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/
What do you think of a solution where it's headless (i.e bring your own charts / components) but with a no-code builder that gives you the benefits of an off-the-shelf tool to manage and update easily? (that's what we're building at embeddable.com)
Net worth tracker? Here I come.
Check out my GitHub for no reason
here's a German company instead

https://vroptician.com/
> If capitalism wants to avoid putting money in with power, then what is lobbying?

Lobbying is spending money to try and pursuade people with power to do something. That's not the same as having power. And lobbying is not a particularly capitalist mechanism. It's people talking to government.
Any chance that works for crdb?
> It's kinda crazy

It's called Cognitive dissonance. False notions meet the hard surface of reality and are shattered. The criminal (fact) PM of that "only democracy" gave public command to his US stooges (our representatives) and immediately the Israeli-trained dogs are let loose on Americans exercising "free speech".
> Having corporations limits the blast radius of what malicious/incompetent employees can do

Only if the state cares to reign them in. If it doesn't, or joins up in cahoots with them...

For example, the Cuyaml Fruit Company's private army staging a coup d'etat against Honduras.

Or the Iraq Petroleum Company assisting the Sultan of Muscat's invasion of Oman because of the bountiful hydrocarbons in the area.

Or the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal accidentally poisoning 500,000 people.
> but the realpolitik is that (for example) the water company pouring untreated sewage into the rivers has much more power than the people affected by that practice

This is true, but it's purely a problem of lack of state oversight and competence. That company isn't capitalism. That company is a group of people making decisions, and not being held accountable by the state. A state-owned water company could be in exactly the same situation.
Malicow Dockerized: `version` is obsolete warning
Are you saying that the open border is unintentional and somewhere between Trump leaving and Biden taking office (probably the moment the "kids in cages" became "minor detention facilities") the border patrol suddenly became incompetent?
The line between large corporations and government is thin at best. If individuals can comfortably enrich themselves from the private sphere while in public office, if companies can modify or introduce legislation to their benefit, if even foreign policy can be influenced to benefit parts of the private sector, how can we conclude anything other than power is the outcome of enough money?

That’s as an aside. Big companies trend towards authoritarian, communist style bureaucracy due to a desire to centralize decision making (or concentrate power). This is no more effective for a corporation than it is a government. Complexity theory shows us that all the interesting stuff happens on the edge of Chaos. Big companies suck because the desire for control kills the complexity dance.
This actually has significant practical importance, because it is hoped that using this transition of the thorium nucleus it will be possible to build atomic clocks even better than those using transitions in the spectra of ions or neutral atoms, because the energy levels of the nucleus are less sensitive to any external influences.

While in the best atomic clocks one must use single ions held in electromagnetic traps or a small number of neutral atoms held in an optical lattice with lasers, in both cases in vacuum, because the ions or neutral atoms must not be close to each other, to avoid influences, with thorium 229 it is hoped that a simple solid crystal can be used, because the nuclei will not influence each other.

The ability to use a solid crystal not only simplifies a lot the construction of the atomic clock, but it should enable the use of a greater number of nuclei than the number of ions or atoms used in the current atomic clocks, which would increase the signal to noise ratio, which would require shorter averaging times than today, when the best atomic clocks require averaging over many hours or days for reaching their limits in accuracy, making them useless for the measurement of short time intervals (except for removing the drift caused by aging of whatever clocks are used for short times).
Lemongrass too, not sure it could be grown on a window sill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citronella_oil
> In which jurisdictions?

The jurisdictions that have sales tax. Sales are revenue.
Which is only an argument against VoIP, nothing else :-) Phones exist since a rather long time...
Also, the reason people go bankrupt in the US are very different than the reasons people go bankrupt in Europe. 2/3 of personal bankruptcy in the US is linked to medical debt somehow. That is not the case in Europe.
Experienced same, it was faster to not multitask, do one thing a time. You would think launching 2 tasks would take 2x time with same resources, but it felt more like 3-4x. Disk was 1GB back then. I blame it on disk seek times and less advanced IO scheduling.
A little nitpick about

> To those who still tend to use int4 in surrogate PKs, I have a question. Consider a table with 1 billion rows, with two columns – an integer and a timestamp. Will you see the difference in size between the two versions of the table

Wouldn't the important thing be an index size, not a table size? Table size already has 23-byte header + alignment padding. So 4 byte difference doesn't do much for table size. But fitting more of an index into memory could have some benefits. An index entry has 8-byte header.

Secondly, 1 billion rows (used in the example) are far too close to the maximum for int4 for comfort.

Great article nonetheless.
> > companies today hire workers to make money from their labor. In other words, they generate profit because they pay their employees less than they’re worth. If everyone could trade their labor for exactly the amount of money it was worth, the corporations that employ them would have a much harder time making money. Instead, in modern corporations the shareholders and the executive team - again, the central planning committee we so despise - make the majority of the money

It's frustrating to see so many thinkpieces keep basing themselves upon the Labour Theory of Value, while it has been long debunked.

To use a stretched analogy, it's like a blog on vaccines basing themselves off Andrew Wakefield's work. It should not be taken seriously.

> The labor theory of value leads to obvious problems theoretically and in practice. One critique is that it is possible to expend a large quantity of labor time on producing a good that ends up having little or no value. However, a closer reading points to the fact that commodities conforming to the LTV would have both a use-value and an exchange-value, and be reproduceable. Therefore something that has no demand in the market or with little or no use-value would not be considered a commodity according to the LTV. The same would go for a unique object such as a work of fine art, which would too be excluded. It may take one person longer than another to produce some commodity. Marx's concept of socially necessary labor time does also get around this problem.

> A second critique is that goods that require the same amount of labor time to produce often have widely different market prices on a regular basis. Moreover, the observed relative prices of goods fluctuate greatly over time, regardless of the amount of labor time expended upon their production, and often do not maintain or tend toward any stable ratio (or natural price). According to the labor theory of value, this should be impossible, yet it is an easily observed, daily norm.

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/labor-theory-of-value.a...
Get some White Cloud Mountain Minnows (usually just called White Clouds). These small fish love to eat mosquito larvae and tolerate cold water quite well (down to 41F/5C). If you later decide to remove them they shouldn’t be too difficult to catch. They’re also quite beautiful and come in a variety of colours.
i heard many times about hell joseon, mate. seems like working your back off without decent remuneration cannot support living a decent life.
EU would need 50% tariffs to curb imports of Chinese electric cars
ksh/bash can abbreviate $(cat x) to $(<x) although this syntax is not in POSIX (and it should be).
You are not getting old, you simply met reality.
What you are describing is a functioning, mature and high performing company vs the opposite. It has nothing directly related to Agile vs Waterfall.
> I've never considered blocking an Adsense account to be in any way similar to being locked in jail for 20 years, for example, but I'll bear in mind that this is an opinion some people hold.

I think it's the concentration of power in just a handful of players that carries the similarity, they control what you can do (not unlike the state but through economic means instead of violence).

Being imprisoned is of course much worse than losing access to your Google Account but if you depend on having a Google/Amazon/Meta account for your work (let's say, as a small business owner selling online) it will be crippling to lose access to Adsense and Instagram/Facebook Ads while losing access on selling through Amazon Marketplace. In some markets you simply wouldn't be able to compete with others that haven't lost their access, you are essentially blocked from participating in the market. And those companies' processes don't have checks and balances like a functioning government provides.
Not just German conglomerates, see the Korean Chaebols and their Japanese equivalents. They're nearly as powerful as the state itself.
Either put machinery in your schema migration tool to create indexes as a separate step, so they are easy to re-apply. This makes keeping indexes in sync between production and staging a lot easier. Or you can use "CREATE TABLE_B (LIKE TABLE_A WITH INDEXES);".
The immediate tension is some people are unhappy for the second time that NixConf has accepted defense contractor Anduril as a sponsor, after a similar blow up last year was resolved due to the venue's rules banning military sponsors. I think the community took away from that the conference had accepted it was a bad idea and wouldn't do it again, but what the conference had taken away from it was "better check the venue's rules closely next time".

The longer boiling tensions that have led to this point:

- Flakes. They're largely promoted as the solution to composability but don't handle all use cases, and this has caused tensions with those that prefer more flexible but less ergonomic tools

- The decision making process that led to flakes being a thing. There was a community process established to replace the previous de-facto BDFL process with a community driven process, and then the previous de-facto BDFL merged flakes in and started promoting them without following said community process. Later attempts to engage with the community process have had the issues where flakes now have a lot of genuine community support, but also some resistance from core contributors due to either the genuine feature gaps, or the fact that they're now presented as a fait accompli.

- Moderation. There was a significant contributor who was up to some hateful conduct in (mostly) non-Nix community spaces that was banned across all project venues. There were groups unhappy that they were banned, and groups unhappy that they were not banned quickly enough. The project tried to navigate this with an attempt at middle grounding their moderation policies, which annoyed both groups.

- Corporate influence from Determinate Systems: Newer initiatives from the former BDFL have mostly been announced through the company they founded Determinate Systems, and include stuff like a centralised repository in the form of Flake Hub. You can either see that as "proving it in the wild before bringing it to the community process" or "bypassing the community process to make it a fait accompli", but either way the ex-defacto-BDFL seems to see the community process as too slow and is end-running it with his new company.

- Corporate influence from other parties: DetSys is getting the most hate right now due to employing the ex-defacto-BDFL and still having enough leadership positions to be seen as responsible, but other groups like Tweag or Cachix have also been seen as attempting to commercialise parts of the ecosystem at time.
> Only if the state cares to reign them in. If it doesn't, or joins up in cahoots with them...

Yes I agree a corrupt/incompetent state is the cause of almost infinite ills.

> Or the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal accidentally poisoning 500,000 people.

No form of resource allocation can prevent accidents. This is about the deliberate apportioning of power, not (horrible) accidents.