skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your advice at the end is just common sense advice for anyone using any tool.

Common sense isn't so common. I've met a handful of devs across many separate companies who care at all how the DB works, what normalization is, and will read the docs.

> It doesn't mean you should spend time implementing your own custom backup process with ability to go back to a specific point in time, configurable in 1 minute.

If by implement you mean write your own software, no, of course not. Tooling already exists to handle this problem. Off the top of my head, EDB Barman [0] and Percona XtraBackup [1] can both do live backups with streaming so you can backup to a specific transaction if desired, or a given point in time.

Or, if you happen to have people comfortable running ZFS, just snapshot the entire volume and ship those off with `zfs send/recv`. As a bonus, you'll also get way more performance and storage out of a given volume size and hardware thanks to being able to safely disable `full_page_writes` / `doublewrite_buffer`, and native filesystem compression, respectively.

> If there's a good enough vendor, you're just stroking your ego re-implementing these things when you could move on to the actual thing the business wants to release.

Focusing purely on releasing product features, and ignoring infrastructure is how you get a product that falls apart. Ignoring the cost of infrastructure due to outsourcing everything is how you get a skyrocketing cloud bill, with an employee base that is fundamentally unable to fix problems since "it's someone else's problem."

> Ps: we got rid of hbase, do yourself a favor and stay away

HBase and Postgres are not the same thing at all. If you need the former you'll know it. If people convince management that they do need it when they don't, then yeah, that's gonna be a shitty time. The same is true of teams who are convinced they need Kafka when they really just need a queue.

My overall belief, which has been proven correct at every company I've worked at, is that understanding Linux fundamentals and system administration remains an incredibly valuable skill. Time and time again, people who lack those skills have broken things that were managed by a vendor, and then were hopelessly stuck on how to recover. But hey, the teams had higher velocity (to ship products with poor performance).

[0]: https://pgbarman.org

[1]: https://www.percona.com/mysql/software/percona-xtrabackup
Filing submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40543408

https://stackdiary.com/ticketmaster-confirms-data-breach-wit...

Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000133525824...
Telephone Switch Created to Bypass Love Connection
I would nit be surprised if this is lobbied from openai, msft or google
You're imputing a huge amount of intention found nowhere in the link.

> A set of common UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look. These can be used for wireframes, mockups, or just the fun hand-drawn look.

You made up all the stuff about users and feedback. It isn't on the page and it isn't in the README.
But you are competing with the National Association of Realtors. One of the largest spenders on lobbying in America - https://www.opensecrets.org/industries?cycle=2022

The US is a FIRE economy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization
Paracetamol is an anticholinergic isn’t it? It’s bad for your brain and its usage is associated with dementia.
Cool project, it speaks to me! And I dig the emojis.

I like the chain able queries, like:

```
const cats = await manifest
.from('cats')
.where('breed = siamese')
.andWhere('active = true')
.andWhere('birthDate > 2020-01-01')
.find()
```

What is it inspired by?
Makes me wonder what SpaceX schedule looks like...

This trip was going to be to part of Artemus contract correct?

Prove Starship is capable of moon orbiting with humans aboard... Before gateway?

How far off the schedule is this project? When will humans orbit the moon again?
Who is claiming that this style improves user feedback? From the OP, “these can be used for wireframes, mockups, or just the fun hand-drawn look.”

I like the style for its aesthetics alone
see also: https://ethw.org/Electromechanical_Telephone-Switching
> I would be delighted to read about opposing opinions, provided they are presented + supported by provable facts

Looking back at the output of certain major media outlets during the pandemic, I'd suggest it might an idea to hold everyone to the same standards, regardless of whether the opinion is seen as "opposing" or "mainstream"...

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
It's always correct for any slightly mature system.

That's not what I mean, at all.
Low-latency automotive vision with event cameras
Tbh I agree because at least with the hindsight we have now, so many apps both desktop and on phones are just wrappers around web browsers anyways.

Back then there was some value add in having access to native APIs but over time we've just added more and more web APIs to bridge that gap.
I was putting a lot of effort into starting a career in the music business in the middle of the 90s. Thankfully I was not successful and „pivoted“ to IT in 1998.
> Utilities typically have to build a rate case where they have to justify the price they are charging based on the necessary costs (like the price of energy and necessary investments into the grid).

Which is jacked up because its a collusion between all these players: generation, transmission, distribution. Everyone makes bank by increasing the costs (except the consumers).
There ARE ads in gmail
You had to read pretty far to get to the reason for mounting upside-down:

"The way to solve that problem was totally placing the aircraft upside-down. With antennae on the belly of the plane and the belly facing the sky, we could rotate, tip and spin the plane any way we wanted and the pedestal would be safely below the aircraft and out of the way."
I think you have a very skewed perspective of assets, let alone physical assets (which housing is).

A store that owns its own real estate isnt generating cashflow with it. This is the equivalent to a Homeowner living in a home.

If you are deadset on using intangible assets, it is the same a company holding a drug patent and producing the drug. Cashflow comes from sales, not the patent.
Not exactly. The "web uis" are actually products built around these models. There are some truly outstanding examples like comfy, automatic1111 and ollama. But what's been even more impressive to me is how the open source community use these models to create new workflows like texturing in blender. There is just so much to discover yet.
> Unfortunately, more people means more competition for housing.

You're explicitly assuming "1.1X new residents" but the point of YIMBY is to increase supply fast enough to maintain housing affordability. You're making the case for YIMBY rather than disproving it.
Chinese Spaceplane Releases Mysterious Object in Orbit Months After Launch
Yeah, it's a gcc extension. Details at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-14.1.0/gcc/Statement-Expr...
My guess it is partially addressed in the Non-Latin names section of the "Help Wanted" section. ...because I want to celebrate the fact that computer science is a fantastic worldwide enterprise.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/help.html
> If I'm understanding correctly [something else]

This is incorrect.
There is no such conscious entity as "the US government". Said entity is a legal vehicle. It can't consciously seek to profit, nor does it care whether or not it profits. However, the point of legal vehicles is to benefit people. My point is that I disagree with the characterization that the primary benefit is "for the people".
The "killer app" of K is KDB.
What do you mean? It says it right there on the FAQ:

> 高德纳 is my Chinese name, given to me in 1977 by Frances Yao.

A quick search indicates that Frances Yao is a colleague of Knuth's:

> Frances Foong Chu Yao (Chinese: 儲楓; pinyin: Chǔ Fēng) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. [1]

As for why someone might assume a Chinese name, consider how many Chinese people in our industry assume Western names for the sake of working with us. Perhaps he's just returning the favor. It might also be compared to linguistic accomodation. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Yao
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_accommodation_th...
After Bollinger's no longer making cars, what's a good EV with no BS at all? No spyware, touch screens, etc?
Did you take your electrolytes? If you don’t supplement on Magnesium/Potassium/Sodium you’ll have to deal with severely unpleasant effects on any water fast that spans beyond 2-3 days.
It's right below that:

@ @<If direction |k| allows a move, |return 1|; otherwise |continue|@>=
{
for (ii=i+deli[k],jj=j+delj[k],l=0;board[ii][jj]>=0;
...
“We never imagined a scenario like this could play out and that no regulator would step in and help,” he said.

Hoo boy.
IHNVLFP--"I have no verve left for peacocking."

A bittersweet symphony I share https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74?si=OaL8ZjSTlCDuHjis
Absolutely love Balsamiq. So quick and easy. IIRC there used to be a post-processing tool by a 3rd party that would turn Balsamiq Mockups into code - wonder if it's still kicking around.

Edit: it was called napkee. looks like it was open sourced but hasn't been touched in almost a decade
Given the name chosen, was permission sought?

https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/
A few pieces get through the filter, but they zap it as needed.
I have been curious about this for a while, particularly in relation to the increasing cost of training LLMs.

I was recently talking to a friend who works on the AI team for one of the large tech companies, and I asked him this directly. He said that each generation is ~10x the training cost for ~1.5X improvement in performance (and the rate of improvement is tapering off). The current generation is ~$1 billion, and the next generation will be about $10 billion.

The question is whether anyone can afford to spend $100 billion on the next generation after that. Maybe a couple of the tech giants can afford that, but you do rapidly get to unaffordability for anyone smaller than the government of a rich country.

It will likely be possible to continue optimizing models for a while after that, and there is always the possibility of new technology that creates a discontinuity. I think the big question is whether AI is "good enough" by the time we hit the asymptote, where good enough is somewhat defined by the use case, but roughly corresponds to whether AI can either replace humans or improve human efficiency by an order of magnitude.
CashScript Playground
Thanks! I already got an invite though :)
Creativity in the Age of Crush
Thumbs up, thanks!
I did something like this for a while when I was messing around with my personal website, but with one node in Hetzner and other in Linode. It was a really nice way of managing services without bringing a full kitchen sink factory factory.

The only thing I found lacking was an easy way to share volumes across nodes. There's plugins and stuff, but for me it was not worth the effort.

I ended up just ditching Linode and having everything in a single Hetzner VPS. I can do this because it was mostly experimenting and didn't really need to have more than one server. But for this specific case, the volumes thing was what ended up tipping the balance in favor of only having a single server because it wasn't worth the effort.
My AWS pet peeve is that there are edge cases where the console does some bit of magic but the AWS CLI team is allergic to including it.

Protip: If it’s useful enough to appear on the console, it’s useful enough for the command line.
The author is talking about base64 sucking, not base16.
FASB defines an asset as:

“A present right of an entity to an economic benefit”.

“Essential to the definition of an asset is a right to an "economic benefit" —the capacity to provide services or benefits to the entities that use them. Generally, in a business entity, that economic benefit eventually results in potential net cash inflows to the entity. In a not-for-profit entity, that economic benefit is used to provide desired or needed goods or services to beneficiaries or other constituents, which may or may not directly result in net cash inflows to the entity.“

It also says “incurring a cost to acquire an item does not in itself qualify an item to meet the definition of the asset”

https://www.fasb.org/Page/ShowPdf?path=Concepts_Statement_8-...
Well, in the case of this analysis, the authors creatively left out at least two important studies that show harm from red meat, namely PMID: 19620159 and PMID: 32011623. I don't know the full extent of their bias in study selection, but it's evident to me that it's a creative way of producing any desired conclusion.
> Apple [...] is also explicit about tags not to be used as an anti-theft device
> The word "theft" doesn't appear even once

That's pretty much the definition of implicit. You know, the exact opposite of explicit.
If you're hosting your site on your 15kb flat file CMS, it seems to have fallen prey to the load HN brings.
> It's "small" only when compared to full-scale PWRs

And mines and tailing pools, to say nothing of acres and acres of panels and wind farms.
> The vast majority of journalism is accurate

How do you get into that one conclusion?

Anyway, the GP used a 20 years old example because it started a large scale war, killed thousands of people and got close to braking the government of the largest economy on Earth. Are you claiming things like that happen all the time and the GP is remembering the one that was wrong?
Best part of Napster was searching for that one song you were interested in, and then looking through all of that user's shared files. It was an amazing discovery mechanism which I missed dearly with all the subsequent P2P apps. Spotify now fills this void, but it's not quite the same.
1) Nvidia's just bad on Linux because Nvidia doesn't give a shit about open source support, or about doing things the way the open source folks do. And while the Nouveau driver is an amazing technical feat, it's also amazing any time it actually works, given that it's totally reverse-engineered with effectively zero help from Nvidia.

2) If I were using a batteries-included distro,

Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "TearFree" "on"
Option "VariableRefresh" "on"
EndSection

would have been dumped into '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d' for me. But because I'm using Gentoo, I had to do it myself. Not a big burden.
Nah, your memory serves you well. It really did take three hours sometimes.
I run 2 rails websites with hundreds of real daily users on a single shared 2cpu/2gb vps, inlcuding 1 staging env, postgres db, memcache for caching.
Generation is very competitive

These price of energy sent to customers is controlled by regulators

“Increasing cost” means investing in the grid. For example, to avoid your catastrophic forest fires in CA.
> How "biologically recently" are you talking about ? In India, milk has been there since the first domestication of cattle 8000 years ago

10,000 years. See top comment.

North Indian lactase was inherited from the Middle East. (I’m Northern Indian, in large part.)

"Staple" has a specific meaning: it's a significant source of calories. For North Indians, this is true of dairy. For India as a whole, it's not true even today [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_milk_cons...
I agree meat is not a topic that draws very interesting comments generally, but the article itself is unusually good. It's funny seeing all the uncited bold assertations on a post about how even many studies in combination are not necessarily strong evidence.
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Next.js and farspeak open source GitHub repo
Beer CSS – Build material design in record time, without stress for devs
the amount of times I googled 'taxis' with predictable results
The progress bars should really be filled out like if a person was doing it, rather than re-rendering the whole contents
I like the fact that he doesn’t use email anymore. If I got to his level the first thing I’d do would be to hire an assistant to deal with all phone calls, emails and letters
Right, but the parent comment seemed to imply that the same was true for caddy. I was asking what caddys language runtime was (besides via plugins like frankenphp)?
I think having Haskell bindings to it will be quite valuable .For implementation of core structures, though, it's better to stick to C++ to max out on performance and have a finer control on resource usage. Haskell isn't particularly good at that.

EDIT: there's one at https://hackage.haskell.org/package/HROOT
Does anyone else get the sense that health research is flawed because the scientific process struggles to be holistic e.g. changing multiple variables at the same time is not commonplace or even really realistic?

Sometimes I read these studies and it feels a bit like someone reverse engineering a car without knowing what a car is supposed to do. Like - if you don't use oil, the engine is preserved quite well, unless you rotate the wheels, then it gets ruined, but only if the clutch is engaged. But then we do a study, we hold the clutch position constant, say it's disengaged, and then rotate the wheels at different speeds, and find that it doesn't make a difference, and publish that, and then it makes its' way into general understanding that you don't need to use engine oil.

People seem to want to seperate the effects of diet, exercise, social interaction, etc, but I don't think this is possible in a complex system like a human being. They all need to be balanced.
> GenAI can be great for pop art, but try to create something unique to you or another person, and it will fail miserably.

GenAI is just a tool. Creating unique art with unique perspectives is going to be more accessible to more people.

Not everyone will put the work in, but there's a new opportunity in a world full of opportunity cost.
This article is about misinformation, not dissent. I don’t know how many times people think fake news means dissent rather than misinformation, but the term is defined to mean misinformation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

It is a pretty common tactic for the spreaders of true misinformation to claim their position is dissent rather than lying, that they are the underdog and being ostracized for dissenting…

Getting you to question everything is part of what they want. The goal of misinformation is mistrust. It’s too difficult to question everything, see e.g., Brandolini’s Law.

I don’t know what the solution is, but I personally know highly educated people myself who are stuck in the misinformation rabbit hole. The problem with mistrust and conspiracy theory is that once it takes hold, it breaks people’s ability to evaluate trustworthy and even scientific sources. Don’t assume education is the key. Fake news is very, very effective, which is why they are doing it.
For work, Windows is not it for me anyone; it's a constant and distracting cesspool of ads for Microsoft services. In contrast, KDE wins here, by far, and not just because it's not distracting.

As for night time, I don't want or need my computer; I'll grab a tablet and consume all the content I want.

As for package management, let me know when I can type a single command on Windows and have my entire system and applications up-to-date.
Could it though?
Knuth got the memo—he wrote a well-known rejoinder to it; it's not surprising to find him using goto.
Don't mistake my annoyance with this "discussion" for rage. Github history can be manipulated (I'm not saying they did, just stating a fact). Why would Eich himself claim it was a bad judgement call and apologize? He calls it an attempt at monetization not a mistake. This is not the kind of code your cat types, it was 100% intentional.

Use Brave if you want I don't care but what's the point in making up all these far-fetched excuses? Anyone can read the articles themselves and make up their own mind.

You don't know what biased means, I have an educated opinion on the matter, bias is something else.
> Salamanca stated that there were “20 or 30” false online accounts dedicated to citing him and, in just two minutes, he offered two contradictory explanations: that they had been created by former disgruntled workers to harm him, and that “a young man” had created them to demonstrate that ResearchGate could be rigged. Next, Corchado assured that he had deleted those profiles thanks to his knowledge in cybersecurity. A ResearchGate spokesperson, however, explained that they are not aware of any computer attack and that only the creator of a profile can delete it with their password.
( emphasis mine) I laughed so hard at this. Also, him going out claiming that it's all baseless and just check Scopus to see how awesome he is, to then have el pais do exactly that to find more obvious fraud is just priceless. If it wasn't real it could be comedy.
Integrated Digital Engineering on AWS (Idea) 3.1.7
Homes are and should always be an investment because they are. They dont have to beat the stock market, but a well maintained home should track inflation at least. They have real and huge replacement costs in materials and labor. If my house burnt down, it would cost $1M to rebuild.

Im all for cheap simple houses for those with less money. However, unless they are so cheap as to be disposable, they too will be investments.
I didn’t say AT&T decided to reduce long distance rates, just that those rates fell 90% while AT&T was a monopoly.

Breaking them up was very likely a net positive, I am simply referring to nuance that’s often glossed over.
This is a blog post, not a paper. Of course it does not have literature review etc.

Now I don't work in the field of transformers, but generally when I see a piece of original work being presented as a blog post, the most reasonable conclusion is that the work is not sufficiently interesting to be a paper.

Good scientific blogs are the ones that summarize papers after they have been published, or at least written up and posted in full technical detail on a preprint server.
Not sure how is an accounting book relevant. I'd rather ask a tax consultant - the definitions are slightly but significantly different.

Anyways, even by your book's definition - later sale for a higher price is economic benefit, protection against inflation is one too.

This link considers your viewpoint too: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset.asp
Indeed. Many of these pirates are the most devoted fans of the music they store and distribute. They go to gigs, buy merchandise and vinyl editions, and otherwise support the artists directly.

In contrast companies like Spotify don’t care about the music at all. They would just as well sell you white noise if it would somehow give them the slightest improvement in growth or margins.

Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, regularly makes statements that suggest he’d rather see professional musicians disappear. Most recently:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/music-fans-and-artists-hit-ba...