skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being able to stop production database for a very short window once in a lifetime is another exceptionally rare business case.

I've seen architecture astronauts make their business pay unreasonable tech insurances by adding complexity to avoid simply pausing production for some minutes when it could have been much cheaper this way.

And from my understanding, in the case I mentioned, they chose to stop production to simplify the process. But they didn't have to.

A mixture of replication plus code changes to write in two databases could also have solved the issue.

Most business die because they can't move fast enough. Not because their production database stopped for a few minutes.
> mine is way too trusting towards strangers ( the way I used to be I suppose ) so I need to correct for that.

Why does it need to be corrected? Most people are decent and trustworthy. Odds of something nefarious happening are extremely low.
Apple unrejecting Fortnite third party store approval
I wonder how much of it is "think of the children!" and how much is "think of the litigation!"
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This is excellent — do you have any content around the performance affect here over using SQLite directly? I could see DuckDB's engine being faster for some cases but the SQLite storage format might hinder it. Curious if there's any analysis around this
I think people have very different tolerances for low variety in food.
California to make financial literacy classes requirement graduate high school
I like C++ as it gives you direct access to many libraries both C and C++.

For machine learning you have the pytorch C++ API:
https://pytorch.org/cppdocs/
I've heard a lot of German ads on Nigerian stations. Turns out they were all served by zeno.fm ("The easiest way to create and listen to radio stations and podcasts") which seems to proxy local stations, making money from cramming ads into the streams.
I've never heard of him, and I'm glad to see an article that calls someone (or something) "forgotten", where it's not an exaggeration for dramatic effect.

Sure, Ford Dabney does have a Wikipedia article and he appears in various music databases, but otherwise, well, I tried searching the internet and it's a wasteland. His songs get less than 1000 views each on YouTube and there seems to be hardly any mention of him on social media.
It was like 30 secs the back-n-forth
The same happened when the tab was left opened for a long time and chrome auto-refreshed it or something to that effect. Again, it was counted as new search. This doesn’t seem like a good use of resources or how one would expect to spend « credits »
It’s like being charged for a page view
Ads aren't the problem. Ad companies go out of their way to ensure their ads don't exceed the cultural average in terms of content and messaging. The problem with social media is the content kids are being fed. Communicating with their friends isn't the problem, its that they are consuming content not just from their friends, and their friends are also being influenced by content outside of their social bubble. It's the wide connectivity and the foreign ideologies that come with it.
Right, which is why I said “pay out their cash in dividends”, which go to any shareholder proportionally.

Tech stocks are weird compared to most company stocks because many of them have never issued dividends to shareholders, which is what companies traditionally do with excess cash.
Can you talk a little about the pain points you encountered, which this presumably solves?
I grew up in Scotland. We studied American History in school. In fact we didn't study English History, except as it pertained to Scottish History, so to this day I'm hazy on Magna Carta, turbulent priests and so on.
I never even heard of this Authy issue but people seem up in arms over it.

What I have seen though are Microsoft and Google trying to maneuver their own auth app and hiding the generic OTP option to lock people in.

As long as I can use any generic OTP app I'm happy, and Aegis is definitely my current favorite. I mean I'm a person with close to 50 OTP codes at this time, this is a serious tool in my life.
You usually know it from context, and if not, 12 noon or 12 midnight is quite common.

But I do wished people would stop writing schedules in the 12 hour system. You get weird stuff like bold means PM etc. to compensate for the space inefficiency of 12 hour system
as always imho.

may not be recognized by most people as such, but

* debian testing ( atm its "trixie" :)

i use it for my "internal" systems - like backup, NAS, etc.etc...

yes, its not "your default" rolling distribution, but it rolls ... and breaks things from time to time ...

but this shouldn't be a big problem, if you know a thing or two about debian - otherwise: see this as yet another possibility to learn something use[full|less] about debian/linux/...

if you want debian testing but somewhat "moderated" - to avoid the biggest "riffs":

linux mint debian edition (LMDE):

* https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

just my 0.02€
95% of the world uses Celcius without problems because they're used to it. You'd either also be fine with it or you belong to a sub-5th percentile which couldn't figure it out, take your pick.
Safetyism in particular is the main culprit:

From "How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?":

https://archive.ph/jVOl3

> In a book entitled “The Coddling of the American Mind”, Mr Lukianoff and a social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, posit that overprotective parenting in the shadow of the war on terrorism and the great recession led to “safetyism”, a belief that safety, including emotional safety, trumps all other practical and moral concerns. Its bounds grew to require disinviting disfavoured campus speakers (see chart 1), protesting about disagreeable readings and regulating the speech of fellow students.
Heavily armed psychos have been charging into schools to slaughter innocents regularly, for decades now, and those in power have done nothing to stop it.

But the kids must be anxious because of phones.
it's more like 'kids should do and believe what i want them to' if he were being honest. the smartphone is irrelevant
Arch.
Many years ago I tried Gentoo (2010) and it was bloody frustrating. Encountering kernel panic was really damn easy, not sure what mistake I did.

On the other hand, Arch was much easier to setup.
> From the software point of view, perhaps laser projection TV technology might be better suited to what you want to achieve.

Laser projection TV is boring. I've got one, and it's more or less the same as any other tv. Hook up an HDMI and go. It doesn't give you a laser light show, even if it is technically laser, light, and a show. Technically they're pretty boring too, they're lcd or dlp projector with a laser instead of an incandescent light source.

The OP clearly wants an x-y servo mirror / galvonometer setup plus some way to modulate the laser. Some people experiment with scanning mirrors in one dimension, but then you end up with a rasterized display and not the smooth curves or a true laser show.
Not without some simulations of proto human societies with resources scattered. We are far from that level of simulation such that we could place any weight on it.
You can take a guess on the average frequency that this currently #8 bestselling book on Amazon is getting picked up by an HN reader.
It isn't a user choice though is the App could be on the Apple App Store and is choosing not too. As is the case with the emulator example. it is available on the US App Store but is not available on the EU App Store since they have an alternative. That is developer choice not User choice.

Admittedly Fortnite is an interesting situation, since Apple did remove Fortnite after Epic tried to get around the App Store rules. It is however not clear to me if Epic could have just stoped trying to get around it and could have gone back on the store.
Right, stereotypical suburbia is actually pretty good for walking and biking around, hanging out at the park, etc.

What's not so good is "rural" suburbia, where every road is either a stroad or a country through-road with no shoulder and 35+ MPH traffic.

Equally bad is "urban-ish" suburbia where you have high density housing neighborhoods with few parks or other amenities, sliced up by stroads and through-roads.
I don't "start a new project" in Perl, but I certainly write a lot of Perl. Mostly one-liners and small scripts, and mostly throwaway. Perl is a very efficient language for string processing, thanks mostly to its built-in regex engine.

Once it grows a little bit more and starts requiring maintenance, I tend to rewrite it in a more maintenable language. Preferably a statically-typed language.
Best practice in Postgres is to use always use the text data type and combine it with check constraints when you need an exact length or max length.

See: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_This#Text_storage

Also, I think you're misunderstanding the article. They aren't talking about storing a uuid in a bigint. They're talking about have two different id's. An incrementing bigint is used internally within the db for PK and FK's. A separate uuid is used as an external identifier that's exposed by your API.
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> corporate copyright holders are happy with the setup since they can basically strike down anything they want without worry of legal repercussions (which DMCA addresses).

In practice they never have much to fear from legal repercussions. There are countless examples of DMCA notices sent by corporations in error, or sent for reasons such as suppressing criticism, or to find out a blogger's identity, or to try to extort money, or as an attack/DoS but I'm not aware of any CEO or corporate lawyer being charged with perjury.

Even if someone wanted to fight a corporation in the court system they can't just prove that the DMCA notice wasn't valid, they also have to prove intent (that the corporation knew it was invalid when it was sent) and even if they manage to win, they'd be lucky to get enough money to cover their legal expenses (http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2010/02/court-nar...)
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I would suspect that the JIT treats a reference as a call to somewhere else in memory, which can have considerable overhead in extremely tight loops. By copying a pointer into a local variable, it may hint to the JIT that you want the pointer in a CPU register with faster access.

Or might be something much more subtle. I know C++ can behave this way, but I don't have in depth experience with C# JIT or x86 assembly.
If it were 400BCE they'd blame writing

this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness
in the learners' souls, because they will not use
their memories; they will trust to the external written
characters and not remember of themselves

- Plato, quoting Socrates
> I’m curious to know if anyone knows of any similar tools or approaches to composable GUIs!

I believe the emacs architecture is the answer. emacs is not just a CLI, it's not just a GUI, it's a wonderful (but archaic) matchup of both, where they integrate seamlessly.

I am currently working on some ideas on this as well, my idea even looks superficially similar to yours, but I would say you should look into how this works in emacs as I feel like your approach is not really very "composable" (though I haven't looked very deep, sorry).

EDIT: perhaps this may also inspire you, in case you don't know it: https://gtoolkit.com/ (Smalltalk environment where literally everything is programmable, just like in emacs but kind of the other way around: the GUI is language itself, not a result of its commands).
Hmm, interesting. What advantages do you see of using JSX for querying over the old jQuery-style $("#id").append(...)? Did you consider doing something more like that, but allowing JSX instead of HTML strings like it was done in jQuery?
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> If we accept the fact that the web is inherently imperative, then I believe we can resolve most if not all of the above problems. We don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater though, because JSX is fantastic.

Also look into SolidJS for dropping the "functional" component model while still retaining JSX - it looks similar to React but works more like Vue, running components as setup functions only on initial render and doing state updates with mutations via signals.
Whenever I hear VRML, I am reminded of this Aptiva commercial from the 90's with the "3D San Francisco" site. Was always bummed as a kid that I never actually could find it online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROOSUiLEesA
I'm in BC, with BC Hydro. The smart meter means that everyone can see their own daily usage and trends. I'm sure most won't look, though I do. What I found more useful is the paired device from Rainforest Automation, e.g. https://www.rainforestautomation.com/rfa-z114-eagle-200-2/.

I had to buy this, but it's paired to my specific meter. Basically it gives me a means to see my overall usage in real time, so that I know how whatever we are doing, affects the usage.

BC Hydro has had programs such as a voluntary one, where you get an email about a 3-hour period the next day. They'd like you to drop your usage for that period by 20%, and you get a few dollars per successful drop at the end of the season. With our heat pump for heat, we just switch it off for that time, and skip using the clothes dryer then. At the end of the season, we got maybe $50 off our bill in credits.

They have proposed a time-based plan, with discounts for night-time. I have not elected to try that out, because it also came with penalties for daytime usage.
I hate SEO, it ruined the Internet
For anyone interested in the origins of jazz I recommend the book Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Schuller. It covers mostly 1920-1930 and a bit of its origins is west Africa.
It’s been tried. The “rational” calendar reform was something of a failure.
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These types of videos are great.

Here was a comment on another one that I feels sums it up nicely:

> @braxy29: baby doesn’t have clear words yet, but he has body language and gesture, eye contact, prosody, shared attention, the give and take pacing of interaction. baby has picked up a good deal about how casual, comfortable conversation with the guys or a close family member works!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GNh5EOBC-lA

https://youtu.be/CejhQC9hUO8

https://lemmy.world/post/17261680
Wikipedia should be taken with a huge grain of salt when it comes to even slightly controversial topics.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/

https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/wikipedia-george-floyd-...
That's funny, I had the same issue. I always update then factory reset new phones after I buy them. The 4a was the only one that bricked after doing that. Returned it, and haven't really trusted the brand since.
Yes, very few naturally-occurring foodstuffs are blue.

But Also: Historically, beyond some narrow contexts (blueberries, blue cheese, ...), "blue food" would almost always be a red flag for spoiled/contaminated & probably dangerous food. So natural selection would favor "Avoid Blue Foods" instincts.

Anecdote: Back in the early '60's, my youngest sister asked mom to make her a blue(berry) birthday cake. Mom was an excellent baker...but my sister's visceral reaction to the color prevented her from eating any of the cake.
I remember being in France with my 18 month old daughter, who couldn't speak much at the moment¥ but for some reason picked up the French way of speaking and started parodying it.

¥ She only learned to say "yes" towards the end of the trip, which made conversations possible; because it's quite hard to converse with someone who can only say "no".
Strongly stated and flamboyantly expressed opinions that confirm the biases of the OP.

Zitron's posts have been hitting the frontpage regularly this year [0]. They don't tend to stand up to any kind of close scrutiny; the facts are made up or misrepresented or the logic is faulty. Why would they stand up? He's a PR flack turned influencer, not somebody with the expertise to actually reason about technology. But a lot of people (on HN and elsewhere) hate big tech, and Zitron will happily tell you that big tech is doomed while simultaneously engaging in a lot of entertaining name calling of tech execs.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
This is most attractive about c++. But the huge syntax and several versions is daunting. Which version of C++ would you recommend?
The fun factor will be relatively high
Also, conveniently, freezer temperature is 0F not 32F.
The age of the CPU is of little consequence, except to the extent it reflects the underlying development practices. (Imagine joining a commercial project with a first release in 2020 and discovering it uses SourceSafe.) The age of software, though, is relevant, when that software is as sprawling as a Linux install.

The thing about devices with a web interface is that they will end up Internet-exposed, and the thing about weak Internet-exposed hosts is that they will be assembled into a botnet. Mirai is probably a bit atypical because surveillance cameras are perhaps more likely than others to end up exposed, but I think it’s still worth applying its lessons to other appliances as well.
Thanks! Honestly, I wasn't all that surprised given there are 30,000+ med spas and weight loss clinics in the US. So 10% seems about right. And I suspect that number will climb in the coming months...
Would you recommend a resource to learn about such practices?
Say what? That is exactly what a high school essay is. Many of them are of poor quality, because students need to learn. Learning algebra in school and getting a bunch of problems wrong doesn't mean you are not learning math. You don't learn to do anything without failing at it initially.

ChatGPT has a "waffly" style of writing because it is incapable of thinking, it's simply trying to predict the next word.
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Can you please share an example of one such difficult problem? It will be useful for me, thanks.
Show HN: I made an open-source minimal blogging platform
Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognition and education
Cropped from "Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment"

Non-aligned highlights include:

DNA-based predictors of IQ also predict political beliefs within families
Infinite recursion coming to a terminal near you soon!

I'm kidding tho, cool little project.
When it appears, AGI will certainly either be comparable or incomparable on the other direction.

Computers are a comparable innovation. The internet is a comparable innovation. Or, if you decide to go back, mechanical engineering was comparable too.
Sad state of affairs that people downplay this part of the problem. The energy usage is insane
Aka the farmer who plants the trees will bulldoze the land or not water the trees then bulldoze the dead saplings because it is an efficient use of land.
I can appreciate that there are some well intentioned parents looking at tools like this, however there is a massive amount of difference between built in parental control tools and tools like this one that (seemingly) gives complete access to everything.

A parent does not need to be able to read every message sent, every email, every photo, etc etc. You cannot convince me otherwise. Just like any sane parent would not put a wire on their kid so they can hear every conversation they have in person. I am sorry but when I hear a parent say "well I bought the device" or some stupid argument like that, well I hope you enjoy our kid not talking to you once they are an adult or always having an "at arms length" relationship.

Instead of taking a heavy hand and invading their child's privacy why not instead focus on education. Expose them to the dangerous parts of the internet and have conversations about it. Make your kid feel safe enough that when something does feel wrong, they can come to you without risk of judgement or punishment.

While I can agree that there are some well intentioned parents that may use a tool like this, it is the lazy option that will do more harm than good.
I don't see how, unless you start with the assumption that more software is inherently a bad thing.
> "Within a week of actual research, we just threw out the term information literacy," says Yasmin Green, Jigsaw's CEO. Gen Zers, it turns out, are "not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything." Instead, they're engaged in what the researchers call "information sensibility" — a "socially informed" practice that relies on "folk heuristics of credibility." In other words, Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don't care.

Learning has an evolutionary structure, so the "organic" quality of how they've learned to evaluate information matches up.

But now this means there's a real incentive to start fabricating comments with AI to start "capturing" Gen Z in the wild.
That seems like the opposite of what he's suggesting? I think he's saying that, in the physical world at least, kids should do and believe whatever they want, independently from their parents.
I don't think this is quite the same.

Newspapers were largely uninteresting to kids, and if anything would have helped literacy at that time which was still a struggle.

Early radio and TVs were often family bonding time, as households had only one.

Video games kickstarted computer literacy for an entire generation.

This is a targeted exploitation-driven market now that has been so much more refined by technology that it's beyond addictive. It's also targeted in a way none of those other things could have been to a specific individual to double down on that.
I use "the 1900s" to mean 1900-1910.

I understand the difficulty, but I don't think it is too terrible for us to get used to it and we aren't gonna change the past 500 years of literature that already did this.

Also, it's ironic for a bunch of people who literally count arrays from zero to be complaining about this... :-P
https://netlab.tools/

https://containerlab.dev/
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I have a solution that would work in writing, but not sure how to pronounce it:

1700s means 1700–1709

1700ss means 1700–1799

To go one step further:

2000s means 2000-2009

2000ss means 2000-2099

2000sss means 2000-2999
Using the 5S Principle in Coding
"Anyone who has played around with an LLM would agree that they are able to demonstrate some level of both knowledge and reason"

Completely disagree, having used them quite a bit. They are able to regurgitate knowledge, but have no ability to reason
That’s why I always say “12 noon” when writing out scheduling instructions for something at 12PM.
Not at all, water off a duck’s back.
That's an interesting mixture!

I know our child with only English and Finnish-speaking parents always preferred to reply in the local language (Finnish) for a long time. He would understand English questions and conversation, but if I said "Do you want to go outside?" the answer would be "Ei!" (no).

It took a year or so before he was consistent in replying to speakers in the appropriate language, and even then sometimes the languages would get mixed up , mid-sentence at times.

Even now I think it is apparent that Finnish is his real native language. Although his English is basically perfect there are rare lapses in grammar that make it obvious he's constructed the sentence in Finnish and translated to English rather literally.