skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm waiting for bitwarden or aegis export capability before trying this out.

You cant easily export your codes into a different format using this app, meaning that it is difficult to migrate away once you have already moved your codes over.

Other than the (hopefully temporary) lock-in, this is a great app.
yeah, pure spam, not even self promotion
The article doesn't do a good job of explaining what they determine the actual crisis is. Complexity in and of itself isn't a problem. The problems you listed, however, are.

But I don't think that's the real motivation for articles like these: the real motivation is that things just seem out of hand.

But I think as an experienced programmer you have to balance that feeling of overwhelm with what needs to be done. It's taken me a while to arrive at this conclusion, but I believe it's important. Things will never be completely figured out and you have to be okay with it.
7-Eleven is reinventing its food business to be more Japanese [video]
If that’s the case, then what happens next and on what timeline?
> The thing that is unique about software is the lack of physical constraints which serve as a natural forcing function or filter on quality.

Completely agree with this. The number of good+reasonable solutions is almost infinite, and the number of bad solutions is also almost infinite.

What makes it even worse is that we really don't have a good method of communicating the design+structure of our models to others (tech and non-tech). As the system gets more complex the issue gets worse.

We carry so much info in our heads about system models, and that info is painstakingly acquired through inefficient communication methods and trial and error and thoughtful analysis.

It would be amazing if we could create tools that allow us to describe the essence of the model and make it directly available to our brains so we could all collectively reason about it and manipulate it collaboratively.
i wonder if you can use this to make a viral video of someone screaming like a lunatic by erasing the loud music they were trying to be heard over. like the dean scream video that sunk the howard dean presidential campaign

it's disturbing to me when youtube permits post-publication editing of videos like this
It was a port, not a pipe
prescribe distilled water.
Ask your accountant instead of trying to get free tax advice from internet strangers.
Substitute photo for 3D model of building for VR consumption and it works better.

Also some music may be/is intended to be heard live. So the recording/model analogy can certainly fit.
> “To give a flavor, the official inflation rate since Covid has been around 21%. But fast food menu prices -- a go-to indicator for Foreign exchange investors -- are up between 35% and 50%.”

Seems like yet another blog post based on anecdotes instead of actual data.

Bloomberg just published an article featuring its own industry anecdata about how fast-food prices are now going down:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-05/mcdona...

“Executives at fast food companies are now prioritizing volume in their strategies, experimenting with lower prices and new value bundles to see what boosts growth the most. This isn’t a sign that prices overall are headed back to pre-pandemic levels, but we should get a long period of stability as competition for diners and market share once again becomes the measure of success for companies, rather than the rapid price increases of the past few years.”
some related stuff:

- https://commitfest.postgresql.org/48/4388/ (original patch created live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPq_hiOE-N8)

- https://postgres.fm/episodes/uuid

- https://postgres.fm/episodes/partitioning-by-ulid

- https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgresql-consulting/postgre...
> Why do developers only work on ticket-sized portions of the actual requirements? To put it succinctly: because they are simply too dumb. They cannot wrap their heads around it. They cannot grasp it.

I think the reason is entirely different: ticket-sized portions of requirements are the only thing that one can hope to estimate in any useful fashion. Business side needs estimates, so they create pressure to split work into pieces they know how to handle.

Put another way, it's not that developers are "too dumb" to wrap their head around actual requirements. They're not allowed to. The business prefers devs to consistently crank out small improvements, keep "velocity", even though it leads to "organically" designed systems - i.e. complex, full of weird edge cases, and smelling of decay. The alternative would be to let the dev talk, design, experiment, take the project holistically - but that also means the work becomes impossible to estimate more precisely than "sometimes next year, maybe", which modern businesses can't stand.
That's a good catch.

Edit: just realized the blog is called csg-govtech, so that makes sense in hindsight.
Incentives Matter, Even When Making Babies
Obligatory Mitchell and Webb: Homoeopathy Accident and Emergency Ward

https://youtu.be/HMGIbOGu8q0
Sounds Line they're trying to get into vapes or some other alternatives to smoking. If I had to take a wild guess, it's not because they "should", as they put it, but because they've seen the writing on the wall. Smoking is on the way out in the long run and best be prepared when the time comes. By positioning themselves like this, they gain _some_ credibility.

Don't know how reliable the research they fund is going to be, but I'd be wary of any tobacco/smoking substitute regardless
I mean the same happens with GMail, sure.
> While teak is an awesome material it's also one of those hardwoods that's hard to source ethically (if you care about it).

The recommended wood-based product is from Teakhuas, who have a bunch of information on their sourcing:

* https://teakhaus.com/blogs/why-teakhaus/tagged/certification...
Thanks, a lot of these Tech Influencers on Twitter really like to post screenshots without giving source to the original link (and shamelessly promote their stuff once it goes viral)
Yeah, homeopathy works due to the placebo effect and further boosted by people that subscribe to the anti-allopathic or Western medicine religion. I think it should be studied similar to how people go to Godmen for healing and report success stories - placebo effect + religious faith / belief.
Lock the facts behind a paywall or privacy invasive account system?
Then its the oldest complete text. Fragments aren't themselves a book, just evidence of one.
ChatGPT's much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text
One of the reasons function calling seems to need better parameter names and descriptions is sneaky: if your function parameters are nested, descriptions aren't actually seen by the LLM. It only sees the names.
The best advice I can give you is to use bigserial for B-tree friendly primary keys and consider a string-encoded UUID as one of your external record locator options. Consider other simple options like PNR-style (airline booking) locators first, especially if nontechnical users will quote them. It may even be OK if they’re reused every few years. Do not mix PK types within the schema for a service or application, especially a line-of-business application. Use UUIDv7 only as an identifier for data that is inherently timecoded, otherwise it leaks information (even if timeshifted). Do not use hashids - they have no cryptographic qualities and are less friendly to everyday humans than the integers they represent; you may as well just use the sequence ID. As for the encoding, do not use base64 or other hyphenated alphabets, nor any identifier scheme that can produce a leading ‘0’ (zero) or ‘+’ (plus) when encoded (for the day your stuff is pasted via Excel).

Generally, the principles of separation of concerns and mechanical sympathy should be top of mind when designing a lasting and purposeful database schema.

Finally, since folks often say “I like stripe’s typed random IDs” in these kind of threads: Stripe are lying when they say their IDs are random. They have some random parts but when analyzed in sets, a large chunk of the binary layout is clearly metadata, including embedded timestamps, shard and reference keys, and versioning, in varying combinations depending on the service. I estimate they typically have 48-64 bits of randomness. That’s still plenty for most systems; you can do the same. Personally I am very fond of base58-encoded AES-encrypted bigserial+HMAC locators with a leading type prefix and a trailing metadata digit, and you can in a pinch even do this inside the database with plv8.
When Shall We Use Our Heads Instead of the Formula? (1957) [pdf]
Was there a radar on that site or did they destroy a bunch of launchers that had already fired? (not sure I understand what I'm watching)
Hi HN Community,

Today I've asked myself: what are the best communication methods/channels required to reach a maximal audience of people in a minimal amount of time?

As I come from a multilingual and multicultural background, I'm trying to research communication methods/channels/tools for bigger groups of people online.

Currently I'm trying HackerNews, Reddit and Instagram.

Planning to connect with github & others. Let me know if you know communities interested or of interest.

Thanks & bestest of bests!
Once weed is federally legal I'd guess they'll be big into that.
A lot of insurance plans require you to get a referral from your general practitioner before you can see a specialist. If the GP wants to handle it, I’m not sure what else you could do.
Usually the managers rely on the TL's opinions when it comes to technical abilities, in my experience.
Try on paper originating it from a corner on a rectangle where the initial path is just offset from the diametrical corner.
> 128th ‘German Medical Assembly’ recently declared that: “the use of homeopathy … is not an option that is compatible with rational medicine, the requirement for the best possible treatment and an appropriate understanding of medical responsibility and medical ethics”.

I find this interesting because it was a German example a few years ago that demonstrated that homeopathy could be ethical in a specific case.

My mother in law (in Germany) had cancer, and eventually things reached the point where any further chemotherapy was pointless. So she went home. But they stocked her up with homeopathic "therapies" and she was quite diligent in taking them in the morning and thropugh the day. At first I was appalled, but then I realised that they gave her a sense of agency over her care. I think this had important psychological value over the beginning of the terminal phase of her life.

Now I can't believe this works for everyone -- I can't imagine I would waste my remaining time on such nonsense. But I don't think she had a good grasp of science (she always wanted one of her kids, or me, to go with her to the doctor and to explain things to her) and she never had any access to the Internet to look things up, so she was probably the ideal candidate to benefit from this nonsense. Drinking water out of tiny bottles isn't any different from praying at that stage of your life and that's considered acceptable and even unremarkable in certain circles.

PS: The Ukraine war made me think of her cancer -- it was a very unusual one and I have always believed it was due to some Chernobyl fallout.
Yes, here's the original URL which should download a full multi-page PDF:
https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/...

It's mostly speculative narrative with a fair number of data-driven charts. I wouldn't spend much time on it unless you like financial analysis with hand-waving.
This interview by Adam Conover, really is a wonderful discussion on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ByoAt5gCA I was pretty amazed with GPT when it came up, but increasingly find it makes to many mistakes. I full use it as a tool in writing code, but it needs to be treated as Intellisense plus, or something to that affect, not something that will handle complex tasks. GPT and Claude make many mistakes and unless they can solve it from completely making up stuff (which I don't think they can) will not advance much more beyond waht they currently are.
I made Highscore (https://github.com/jsdw/highscore) just for the purpose of keeping track of high scores with somebody on a few karaoke games that didn't track individual peoples scores.. never been used for anything else :)
What if everything is conscious?
Probably NumbeR.
I think doctors do this when they want to give you a placebo. Pharmacies don’t carry placebos but they sure do carry a lot of products that don’t do anything except make you believe you took some medicine.
A recorder is a flute, more specifically, a fipple flute. But there are other fipple flutes, such as tin whistles. (One distinguishing feature of a recorder is the use of the thumb hole to control octaves.) So calling a recorder a "flute" isn't exactly wrong, but is under-specific. Also, nowadays transverse flutes are often called just "flutes", inviting confusion if you call a recorder a flute.

The etymology you reference seems speculative, not really contradicting the article's claim that the etymology isn't clear.
Yep, most of them crap out right around 350°F. Many of the circuit board epoxy resins go a little higher, but not much, and I presume they have their own issues for composite layups. They're certainly not structural adhesives.

The highest temperature ordinary structural epoxy adhesive I know of is Lord 310, which claims to be good to 400°F (205°C). No idea if it's any good though, that project went another path so we never opened the tube I bought.
indeed good catch, though "All the 22.0.0.0/8 block belongs to them." would be better as "All the 22.0.0.0/8 block are belong to them."
The latest in a long line of utterly stupid decisions by Roku demonstrating their lack of competency.

Why anyone willingly choses Roku anymore is beyond me.
Emerge Tools (YC W21) Is Hiring a Product Engineer (iOS, Full-Stack)
> studies under the name "Foundation for a Smoke-Free World" that show smoking is not harmful

Is that what the studies show? I was looking for that in TFA but all I saw was secrecy and suspicion (not that suspicion isn't warranted, given past behavior, but also the tobacco companies were required to fund smoking-cessation research as part of various settlements, were they not?)
Your app will be held back by requiring to create an account with email and password.

Most of the users just use "Login with Google" or other well known OAuth providers and also want to try the product before creating an account.

When I switched from user / password to OAuth I couldn't believe how many users choose it. I could deactivate traditional user & password login and nobody would notice it.
What I've noticed is that most issues are at the leaves. Abstractions that have existed for a long time and that are used heavily tend towards being more solid over time. (And more documented, well known, etc)

It's the stuff at the edges that appears to be less reliable but that's mostly because it's new. It doesn't really feel like that is getting worse though. We are constantly interacting with more and more software than ever before but it's not like everything is broken. The fact that you can reliably make a phone call is far more significant than the fact that the vibration doesn't stop. Both are build on ever-increasing stacks of abstractions.

The difference in that example isn't some emergent complexity -- it's just that one is more important than the other. There are lots of analogies in the physical world where less-important things are crappier than more important things. We don't consider that some crisis of abstraction.
There is a difference. Adderall is a combo of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, while "meth" is typically mostly methamphetamine (with other "enhancements" or impurities). They are chemically different.

While Adderall isn't the same as meth, there is a ADHD medication that is pure methamphetamine: Desoxyn, and it's significantly more difficult to get a prescription for, and comes with far more warnings about its use since it is pure meth. I've never tried it, nor have I ever had a doctor recommend it.

The doctor who I was seeing when I was first diagnosed with ADHD explained the differences between Adderall and meth by saying "Adderall is like a bright line painted on the ground helping remind you of where to go. Meth is like riding a bullet train. It'll lock you in tight and take you for a ride, hurtling at full blast whether you want to be a part of it or not until you and everything you love shakes to pieces and you die. And it'll tell you it's fun while it's happening."

I had a friend who'd been addicted to meth and is in recovery say "Adderall is like taking a comfortable stroll around the block, while Meth is like travelling to the moon and back. Yeah, they're both 'getting you somewhere', but they're not remotely the same activity."
It's forked from https://github.com/f4b6a3/tsid-creator. While this is also in Java, it has many reimplementations in other languages.
I was going to try it but when presented with no explanation and an account sign up, clicked out.

Great idea, could benefit from more upfront info.
Hey, you can migrate your data in bulk to a plain text / encrypted[1] file.

There is also an option to view / export individual QR codes.

Let me know what we could do better, would love to do better.

[1]: https://help.ente.io/auth/migration-guides/export#how-to-use...
> So far my impression is that there are a whole lot of other things I need to worry about in Postgres before I spend time considering serial vs. random UUID vs. ordered UUID. Am I wrong here and this is something that really matters and you should invest more time in?

Like any sort of optimization I believe this will depend on your workload and what's important.

For me when I switched to UUIDv7 a few months ago, it was basically no effort to switch v4 to v7 on a relatively new system. I was observing much higher batch insertion latencies than I expected, and producing inserts that touch less of the btree on an index created a very noticeable reduction in insertion latencies. But my workloads and latencies may look nothing like yours. On amazon RDS instances with EBS volumes and relatively low memory, insertion latency stood out, so using strategies that reduce the number of disk blocks that are needed has an outsized performance impact.

This of course would produce different results on different hardware / system sizing.
When did I say organized? And evacuations can happen before and after an emergency. Evacuating just means leaving the unsafe place for a safe space, it doesn't define the order of things. I've evacuated before and after major storms depending on the circumstances at the time.

Leaving a burning building is still evacuating the burning building. Evacuating a burning building doesn't mean it's an orderly thing before the fire starts.
Very fun and responsive but I ended up in a chain of "off-by-one" where there was a country/flag whose partner was NOT visible at the moment but was the next to pop up.
there is also a problem of data locality and blocks present in caches (page cache, buffer pool) at any given time, in general -- UUIDv4 is losing to bigint and UUIDv7 in this area
very bad compare to perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai/

I asked the time and it is 6 days late: I wrote about the delay and it says I may be pregnant

please note that this is not a free service

but, most of all, who wrote the bot? who will read what you write there? where is the privacy page? the EU privacy regulation ecc ecc?

the web page is not Telegram owned, and the
https://www.telegrambots.ai/privacy-policy I read there does not formal enough to me.... plus,... how can they offer you to add your bot, and at the same time have that privacy policy ? they control the code of my bot ? that "verified" sounds not formal too..

if it is an experiment fine... but it does not looks like it is
In terms of logistics, you wouldn’t need to raise genetically modified pigs. You could potentially scale production on demand and it doesn’t require the environmental footprint of livestock.
I feel like I’ve been seeing more and more of this lately.

Most recently somebody talked to me about a genAI video firm, which doesn’t need to be mentioned by name but which had an elaborately produced brochureware kind of landing page—aspirational quotes, scroll-hijacking, the whole shebang. Now mind you, when I went to check it out I was motivated, since it was prompted by an IRL relationship.

Not only did they require a signup to view anything about the product, but they required that you upgrade and pay before you were allowed go view any examples of what they have generated for themselves or other users. I still don’t know if the product is any good or not, and I probably never will.

Is this a generational thing? Or is it some kind of wisdom getting passed around the “growth hacking” kinds of circles?
The experience is pretty poor in Australia too. Texts are more common than calls, but the rate is roughly 1/day.
I never considered it as a text that attempts to show how quantity is always a kind of quality, so no matter how much you do something, it won't change how you exist in the world unless you change how you do it. What people are really after with weed and psychedelics is that kind of qualitative change, especially at the level of consciousness. But with dependent origination, changing how you in particular perceive the world does not actually change the world that you are a part of, and therefore doesn't lead to qualitative change of experience. What must be done, instead, is to change the world. True liberation is absolute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus
If homeopathy "theory" says that the water retains an "imprint" of other chemicals it encountered, clearly the tap water coming into your house is horribly contaminated with the fish pee, ozone (from UV purification treatment) and the pipes themselves.

I briefly considered selling a device that would "reverse" those consequences so the water from your tap would be homeopathically neutralized. But it just seemed unethical to take advantage of the poorly educated. It's bad enough there are people selling crystals, bibles, and magic charms -- selling a scam-device like this is just as unethical.
Just because a volcano eruption can cool the planet doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. The cooling would only be temporary anyway.

Check out the Year without a Summer for a historical example:

> The year 1816 AD is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.

> Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in April in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
I have dry eyes, and years ago my optometrist basically ordered me to buy a particular brand of homeopathic eye drops to use every day. All the drops have to do is wash off the surface of my eyes, and we don't want them to do anything but that. His point was that because they're homeopathic, they won't actually do anything, and because they're a reputable homeopathic brand, you can be pretty sure they don't contain anything that accidentally does something. Homeopathy as a way to ensure you're not getting medicine. Interesting way to look at it, I thought.
So "blue" - looks like sky. When the truth is a sickly sticky brown, tar stained lung.

Neat / sad how colors in marketing can impact sentiment.
I wouldn't call that 10 rounds.

1 phone screen and 1 on-site, followed by another couple of phone screens.