skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true but the conditions won in the recent bargaining made a huge quality of life difference for train crew members. My family has been railroading for 4 generations and I currently have a close relative working on the train crew for a huge US railroad.

Before the agreement, when it looked to all the trainmen like they were gonna get fucked again, there was a lot of anger and frustration with their near total absence of control of important things in their lives. They were literally meat to be shuffled like rolling stock up and down the tracks at the whim of their employer. As the terms of the agreements became more clear they realized that the railroads had to back off on their most destructive terms such that trainmen can now have a predictable work schedule, a higher rate of pay, better benefits, etc so it is definitely true that a lot of shit on railroads was broken and contributed to unsafe rolling stock and working conditions, some of that has been corrected simply by insuring that crews have sufficient manpower to manage the longer trains that are running and that the crews are more likely to be rested before they get on the trains. There has been a total attitude adjustment about employment conditions such that there are fewer trainmen looking to change jobs.

This whole collective bargaining exercise began with a majority of trainmen feeling like they had no opportunity to change anything and has resulted in a new-found respect for union leadership in effecting changes that benefit the people doing the work. The railroads, the FRA, the unions, and the administration sat down and worked through problems in a way that gave the employees tangible concessions and that was one thing that most employees would never have counted on happening since the unions had been nearly neutered since the previous collective bargaining agreements were signed around 20 years earlier.
It’s because of the constitution. The most fundamental laws of the land are expressed in the constitution, and nothing else can override them. In the US, the 26th amendment establishes the minimum age of 18 for voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_...) and Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the constitution establishes the age of 35 for presidency. However, a constitutional amendment (which is difficult to pass with today’s political divide) could theoretically change that.
>Boardgames night with friends

Which board games?

Interested to know.

I've only played a few in my life: Scrabble, Monopoly (for very little time), Careers, carrom if that counts, chess (very little, I usually lose soon, although I won a few games), a 3-D version of tictactoe, with four points on each axis, IIRC. That last one I enjoyed a lot.
I think the headline statistic negates the claim that these are "niche" uses of database.
Personally I love that ollama gives me a really simple API that I can code against in any language and on any platform that I care to. I can `docker run ollama` on my gaming rig and then hit it up from a Raspberry Pi running anything, Python or not.
> In terms of total data, probably not.

> In terms of important data, 100% not.

Choosing not to focus upon quantity or quality is likely the reason why SQLite is so popular. It is a lot easier to manage and develop for SQLite than it is to do the same for large databases that require high availability and reliability under heavy loads. There are many more applications for small databases that contain data that is important to the end user even though that data may not be important to anyone else.
I wonder what happened to bdb. I guess maybe authors lost interest/sold to Oracle and the license changed development just didn't keep up with the times. Bdb used to be the sqlite before sqlite existed and ended up used by various embedded applications or even graphical interfaces e.g. to index file thumbnails and such. I'm not sure but I think MacOS at one point used it this way.
One of the interesting technical questions is how these vendors will choose to reflect the forbidden DNS entries in protocols like DoH where they have a choice. For example a reasonable thing for a DoH server to say when asked a DNS question it has been forbidden to answer truthfully, is HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons.
Irradiance of a surface is lower at the same time of day (think of shining a flashlight perpendicular to the ground vs at an angle) and the number of hours the sun is above the horizon is also less. Lower power at any given time of day and for fewer hours of the day.

Here’s a figure to demonstrate that:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Monthly-output-from-sola...

Any basic irradiance analysis of a surface in any day lighting simulation software will clearly demonstrate this.

Additionally, in winter, the peak energy usage will often be well past sunset in many locations around the world (and it will get even more pronounced with heating electrification). This is why batteries+wind will be very important.
Maybe we just stop viewing the internet as the ultimate human end and return to the culture that existed for millennia before: local interactions; live performances; physical media; in-person elections on a single day with physical ballots.

Ideas so kooky that they could succeed?
That's what's weird to me also.

I honestly don't understand? Clearly the problem is incumbency, why are we going after age? It doesn't make much sense.

The law is clearly unconstitutional and would be overturned without a change to that document. And a change to that document won't happen.

But we can make laws to diminish the power of incumbency that would be in complete compliance with all constitutional parameters. I'm not even talking about the constitutionally questionable things like term limits. (Which, clearly, we could also try since people don't care about the constitutionality of the laws apparently.) I mean, why wouldn't we?

Why are we nibbling around the edges? Let's go for the jugular.
I love SQLite. It’s pluggable interfaces and concise C code make it enjoyable to use (and sometimes to debug - as long as you don’t have to go through the single file version!).

Unfortunately, I wish there were multiple implementations of it, and that the file format was documented and stable.
Decentralized and global consensus are contradictory properties, in order to have an otherwise arbitrary ASCII string resolve to a particular machine EVERYWHERE, you need a central authority to say who's who.

If you just want to prevent other central authorities (e.g. France) from barging in on the existing central authorities your computer expects to get answers from (e.g. ICANN, Verisign etc) there are plenty of projects for semiuncensoring DNS in a distributed way. But nobody is stopping, say, the US from doing to ICANN or Verisign what France is doing to CloudFlare and Google.
And for Wayland, and macOS, and windows!

Edit: also, "Espanso"
Personally I think it’s more important to increase the voting age than to prevent elderly candidates. Democracy is only as good as the participants. And the human brain does not mature until closer to 30. That’s also when people have gone through more of life’s big steps and can have better perspective on the world to make better decisions. I simply don’t understand the push from some to lower the age, as it will result in worse decisions in our system. The only reason I can see for lowering the age is to favor one side or the other at that time.
As I said, my rear drive gives what seems like high torque to me (I think bike's at about the power you mention). I've only taken my bike off-road a bit but it seems like the force on the rear hub and the bottom bracket are things that simply have to be designed for. The bottom bracket experiences both frame flex and the rider pounding the pedals, so it's subject to punishment and the rear hub is cushioned by the tires, spokes and any rear suspension present.
How Messages via Satellite will work on iOS 18 and how much it will cost
Pointless law as the Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot add qualifications for national office beyond those in the Constitution.
If someone is doing a good job why wouldn’t we want to keep them around? If a 30 year old is elected to congress I don’t see why they couldn’t serve for 40 years if they are competent.
Right. In terms of installations, I bet textfiles still win. Doesn't mean much, does it?
It would be even better if the C-level suites in the corporate world were staffed with people who had direct experience doing the work that those they are supposed to manage are doing so that there is no cultural disconnect between those doing the work and those who are getting paid to manage the company.

Shareholders can get in line behind employees as far as I'm concerned.
Term limits on the presidency have nothing to do with age. You could be 35, serve two terms, and you’d still be banned from being president again … at age 43.

The ND ban is nothing but ageism.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

The key, as many here have missed, is authentication and authorization. You may have authorization to log in and view movies on Netflix. Not to rebroadcast them. Even the question of a VCR for personal use was debated in the past.

Distributing your own scripts and software to process data is not the same as distributing arbitrary data those scripts encountered on the internet for which you don’t have a license.

If someone wrote an article, your reader transforms it based on your authenticated request, and your user would have an authorized subscription.

But if that reader then sent the article down to a remote server to be processed for distribution to unlimited numbers of people, it would be “pirating” that information.

The problem is that much of the Web is not properly guarded against this. Xanadu had ideas about micropayments 30 years ago. Take a look at what I am building using the current web: https://qbix.com/ecosystem

LEGAL ANALYSIS

Much of the content published on the Web isn’t secured with subscriptions and micropayments, which is why the whole thing becomes a legal battle as silly as “exceeding authorized access” which landed someone like Aaron Swartz in jail.

In other words, it is the question of “piracy”, which has acquired a new character only in that the AI is trained on your data and transforms it before it republishes it.

There was also a lawsuit aboot scraping LinkedIn, which was settled as follows: https://natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-prop...

Legally, you can grant access to people subject to a certain license (eg Creative Commons Share Alike) and then any derived content must have its weights opened. Similar to, say, Affero GPL license for derivative software.
Why are you not generationally relevant after a certain age? Would you say the same to Noam Chomsky, Leslie Lamport, and Donald Knuth?
software architecture is like regular architecture but civil engineering does not exist because there hasn't been an Isaac Newton of software. I'd say the closest so far is Claude Shannon
Wouldn’t the reduction in atmospheric density due to warming make it easier to reach orbit, etc?
AI wanted you to write code in GoLang so that it could absorb your skills more faster. kthanksbai
Unfortunately for you, the vast majority of people who riot are between 18 to 30. And they'd be right to riot.
Hard when he has 100x more money than the younger guy.
The notion of "space with mean" from that paper seems to be of independent interest; nice.
What if the Constitution might be bad?
House passes defense bill automatically registering men ages 18-26 for draft
I have a growing disdain for "_ considered harmful" articles. I swear I see at least one every month, and it's extremely cliche and pretentious.
I don’t think incumbency is inherently a problem. Having representatives that have experience is an advantage.

The real problem is gerrymandered districts that essentially mean it’s impossible to lose, even if you aren’t doing a good job.

And age is still a separate problem, there’s a different between a 40 year old wanting to serve 20 more years and a 70 year old doing the same.
Nope. "All rights reserved" is a term of art that predates © but means the exact same thing. One of those rights is the right to license the work as one sees fit.
Autoformatting is so nice. Crazy to think that formatters only became popular after `gofmt`.

I also found this related quote from Russ Cox intriguing: "Most people think that we format Go code with gofmt to make code look nicer or to end debates among team members about program layout. But the most important reason for gofmt is that if an algorithm defines how Go source code is formatted, then programs, like goimports or gorename or go fix, can edit the source code more easily, without introducing spurious formatting changes when writing the code back. This helps you maintain code over time."
Another irony is that according to Wikipedia [1] Bloomberg maintains a fork of BDB.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
Privately-owned ebikes are enormously popular in Chicago and surrounding suburbs fwiw.
It’s not strictly necessary. And Congress has seated people younger than the minimum on several occasions. So in practice it doesn’t have much effect.
Yeah. I had the beginning of some thought about C vs assembly, but that is already well discussed. This seems like another iteration of that topic to me. It has inspired me to try to replicate a Dockerfile using bash and these "lower level constructs" at some point.

The article may have been more convincing if it contained examples of Dockerfiles and an equivalent shell script. There were some links that I think went into this, but they looked pretty verbose so I didn't look into them tonight.
At some point, such local usages were sufficiently non-niche that the temp file extension was changed from "sqlite" to "etilqs" to stem the flood of angry emails about local application databases taking up too much disk space.

(cf. Daniel Stenberg getting angry emails because everybody and their dog embeds libcurl, sometimes multiple times in the same app)
I'd guess most programs ever written are single-process programs with no need for the benefits postgres provides over sqlite. Postgres doesn't even have analogous functionality for eg an in-memory sql instance!
There’s always the primary
It's also the default database used when creating new projects using many web frameworks, like Rails or (IIRC) Django.
A user-agent requests the file using your credentials, eg a cookie or public key signature.

It is transforming the content for you, an authorized party.

That is not the same as then making derivative copies and distributing the information to others without paying. For example, if I bought a ticket to a show, taped it and then distributed it to everyone, disregarding that the show prohibited this.

If I shared my Netflix password with up to 5 others, at least I can argue that they are part of my “family” or something. But to unlimited numbers of people? Why would they pay for netflix, and how would the shows get made?

I am not necessarily endorsing government force enforcing copyright, which is why I have been building a solution to enforce it at the tech level: https://Qbix.com/ecosystem
Boeshield T9
It’s meant to prevent the emergence of an autocrat. That doesn’t apply to a member of Congress for obvious reasons.
The parties manipulate who runs in the primaries. Voters regularly just don't have the choices.

The present ages of all of the candidates who won delegates in the 2020 democratic primaries: 82, 82, 81, 74, 41

I didn't want to vote for Pete Buttigieg.

Amy Klobuchar wouldn't have been my choice for a candidate but was the nearest to someone I'd actually want to vote for and she dropped out after the third state.

So yeah the Democratic party can go to hell. Donald Trump was their doing because they/Hillary pushed everyone off the ticket years ago and they haven't fielded a desirable candidate since Obama, and he was, all things considered, mediocre.

These days the bar for a politician to get my vote is to still have a child in university (or younger) and to not literally be a Nazi. It is disturbingly difficult to find someone to vote for.
Ubiquiti G3 Instant and G4 Instant to a local Ubiquiti UDM Pro SE with an 8TB spinning rust drive. The G4 Instant claims the following: "Smart Detections: Includes person, vehicle, and motion detection, as well as smoke/CO alarm detection on cameras with a microphone."
They were selected in primaries. Who did that selection if not “real voters”?
What’s mdraft?
You would. Congressional politics is closer to a complex game than a cognitive exercise. A game that is only learned and won with experience.
Then it still doesn’t mean that this law is a way to change it
People with obsessive tendencies may believe (less than consciously) that avoiding mistakes is the only way they can be loved but that it is okay because they can become perfect 'eventually' with enough work. Finishing a project induces anxiety because it means admitting (to themselves) that it is the best they can do. On team projects this may manifest as hostility towards declaring anything done, criticism of acceptable work of teammates as shoddy, excessive work hours, not finishing things they work on, constantly blowing past deadlines, preoccupation with organizational tools and techniques, etc.

It seems like it is about logic, rationality, being optimal, etc., at the surface, but it is fundamentally an emotional reaction (fear) accentuated by a blindspot as to how their emotions affect them. People with these tendencies frequently declare that they are completely rational and not at all driven by emotion, which is due to the blindspot (often denial to maintain the fantasy of becoming perfect so that they can be loved).

In short, if children are only loved in highly conditional ways they may learn that they have to be good enough to be loved, and as adults not get anything done because the terror of not being good enough means they cannot accept their own work as good enough.
Sometimes precedents get overturned. The original decision was 5-4 after all, not exactly a safe bet.
Military Draft
There are several mechanisms to amend it.
Don’t most people under 30 not vote anyway? I don’t see how this would matter much in practice
Same concern here.

Also, the phrasing in both, but especially the HN title made me think Cloudflare chose to do something, but it turns out the French court is forcing all of them.
Yeah and the GitHub for .cpp links directly to ollama - it’s literally advertised by the core maintainer as a good project.
Here's the commit from 18 years ago explaining that change: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/fd288f3549a1ab9a309a...

** 2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then
** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it
** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder.
** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a
** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the
** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain.
** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite"
** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but
** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart
** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid
** of the file.
We could demand amendments or a new Constitutional Convention. In practice, though, the US Constitution is pretty sclerotic in comparison to other nations'.
you're reading what I say in the worst possible light

if anything, the parallel I draw between AI learning and humans learning is all the opposite of narrow and logical... in my intent, the analogy is loose and poetic, not mechanistic and exact.

AI are tools, if AI are enslaving is because there are human actors (I hope....) deciding to enslave other humans, not because of anything inherent to training (if AI; learning if humans)

but what I really think is that there are collections of rules (people "just doing their jobs") all collectively but disjointedly deciding that it makes the most sense to utilize AI technology to ensalve other humans because the data models indicate greater profit that way.
I thinks a federal law could set a maximum age. Just a state law cannot.

Although again, the SCOTUS decision was very close (5-4) so we can’t say they would rule the same way again.
This is my concern about buying a used vision pro!
You may be shocked to learn how much of the world's "important data" lives in Excel files.
Almost all US news sources now have either a paywall, an article limit, or a demand that ad blockers be turned off. A notable exception is Fox News.
Thats the reputation, but there are a lot of recent short term actions in the businesses owned by that Berkshire that make me think that the values of empire are crumbling to shorter term outlooks
I think Sqlite's accessibility and ease of use definitely help. However, the fact you can distribute an entire db with a single file is something that shouldn't be overlooked, nor sqlite's legendary reliability and insane test coverage. Finally the fact you can embed it in memory makes for an amazing testing story.
The most frequent use of it is local storage of application data. Postgres is overkill for that.
If I'm not mistaken, Apple's CoreStorage is based on SQLite, so pretty much every Apple device for the last years (or decade, probably) is constantly using tens (or more) SQLite databases, per OS. That includes Macs, Phones, Watches, AppleTV etc. That has got to be more than 3 billion devices (since there are at least 2 billion of the phones in active use).

SQLite is also quite often a CI/CD default when building and testing software where you might want to do some tests without starting an entire RDBMS server.

But I suppose it's different if we think in terms of networked databases, or multiuser.
The evidence is that the current crop aren't doing a good job though; and despite that they have shown remarkable staying power. The last 50 years of political leadership have led to ... vast amounts of capital being built in China, Trump leading in the polls [0] and while civil war looks unlikely it is an option that comes up from time to time in the discourse. Happily the US population has had lots of practice from a series of disastrous foreign expeditions that may have achieved nothing (or the achievements are too unpolitic to talk about, maybe). The US Congress has a lot of trouble pointing out the genuine wins they have presided over if their popularity polling is a guide.

The 2-term limit on presidents seemed to do great things, more limits on the congress is probably a good idea. There are 333 million people in the US, even if the candidates are drawn from the top 10,000 instead of the top 1,000 the results would be good in practice.

[0] Love him or hate him, symbolically the man isn't an endorsement of the status quo.
Getting rid of the external gears also allows you to use a fixed chain guard. Less pants with a hole chewed in one leg = profit.
The point is profit is not a measure of wealth creation. It's neither necessary nor sufficient to create wealth.

My university recorded a bunch of lectures for remote students a decade ago when I was there. They could release them to the public (in fact, while I was there, anyone could go view them for free in person in the library) at essentially no cost, creating a large amount of wealth but no profit. But they haven't and likely won't.

In 2020, the government artificially tanked interest rates, causing asset holders (e.g. homeowners) to profit greatly without creating any wealth.

Anyway, the other poster's point was that profit generating activity is not the only activity or the most important activity. And in this very moment you and I are doing that with our discussion. There are other benefits to having a good communication network, and it makes sense to measure the coverage and capacity of the network, not the amount of money people make using it, which is just one small part of its use.