skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, shit. Fixed that one.

Would you believe I don't have an editor?
https://veilid.com/
I've been told by a number of my attending physicians that it is unlikely that acetaminophen would have received FDA approval if it was being reviewed today because of it' small therapeutic window and unknown mechanism of action
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Mockae is an open-source fake API that uses Lua for dynamic response mocking
I don't know why you are interested in a niche BaaS/Investment bank. The customer facing "fintech" is N26 and they used Wirecard as a BaaS(banking as a service) provider before they had their own banking license. If you are interested in another BaaS then checkout SolarisBank instead.

We also have our own fancy pants multi billion dollar delivery companies like "Delivery Hero/Lieferheld" or Zalando that Silicon Valley types are so fond of.

SoundCloud is a German startup. So is ResearchGate.

Or how about Hello fresh that so many English speaking YouTubers tend to have sponsorships with?

By the way I was mostly trying to think of Silicon Valley esque startups with a strong internet presence. The moment you talk about things like semiconductors, digital twins, robotics, basically any manufacturing related technology, Germany has a long list of major "tech" companies. I know, I know "tech" is actually American slang for software, not hardware, technology but still.
I’ve been told that a local wealthy fellow turned his preferred racing car into a sim rig when he got too old/rich to risk racing it for real. It’s in his garage and is up off the ground. The car has been completely redone to make it a realistic sim machine—screens in the windshields, vibration motors, pedal sensors, the works. The person that told me that didn’t know how much they’d spent but it was in the six figures.
You are basically referring to the "Boring Technology Club" [1] by @mcfunley.

[1]: https://boringtechnology.club/
Xapian is nice. I've used it before to add interactive autocomplete to a Python web app, since my previous favourite, Whoosh, is unmaintained and somehow slower than grep on a folder (I remember it being pretty fast years back, I'd love to know what happened).

I'd say my favourite thing about Xapian is that it's just a simple library you can embed in any app, no need for a separate database and JVM tuning. For simple usecases and small-to-medium datasets, it just works.
The fact that you use Postgres-specific features extensively is a design decision that many people would never make, regardless of their trust in the engine.
I’ve only ever seen one month in both Europe and Japan. With no stipulated penalties for leaving immediately (beyond, you know, being an a*).
I use old cheap cellphones and connect stuff using an OTG serial port
That’s processor intensive. What’s the minimum number of cycles required to detect a vblank?
I've also had US bank wires be nearly instant. It all depends on how much and if it triggers additional fraud checks.
There is a new 5G non cellular standard namely DECT NR+ that is more open, reliable and has higher bandwidth than LoRa [1]. A communication device similar to this Lilygo T-Deck running the new DECT NR+ that's backward compatible with the old DECT standard will be very exciting for off-grid and off-network adhoc wireless communication.

[1] What is DECT-2020 New Radio (NR), and how big a deal is it? (2021):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849335
I read that as him trying to move his money to another bank that would allow him to make the transfer. His current bank suspected this and wouldn't let him even close his account. So they confiscated his money to prevent someone else supposedly stealing his money - pretty Kafkaesque I think
I don’t like that the Xbox adaptive controller is necessary for this. Microsoft gets praise for how it enables alternate controllers - and it’s great for DIY - but that is only necessary because they use a cryptographic protocol to disallow allow unlicensed controllers in the first place. There’s no reason home brew or third party USB game pads should not work on the Xbox in the first place. Sony is the same. Nintendo at least, while they don’t ‘support’ third party pads, don’t use cryptography to disallow them.
This project has been around and maintained for more than a decade! Small footprint, good speed. One downside might be GPL v2 for commercial use.
> GMaps is better for up-to-date commercial data like stores and their opening hours

Not in my country. They don't even keep track of national holidays, and very often keep listing establishments that closed down years ago.

Also, you might be standing in front of a restaurant and when asking google maps for nearby restaurants, if that one isn't blessed, you'll get directions to a 3km restaurant instead.
> basically every human can learn to drive cars safely in novel neighborhoods

You sure about that?

I was raised in the UK; both my experience of cycling the Rhine and being the passenger when my brother was driving in France, was that we each picked the wrong side of the road once per day.

I doubt either of us has any intuition for a moose or a kangaroo on the road.

A previous partner was American-ish[0], her parents visited the UK and had no idea what this sign meant and so were driving on 60 mph roads at 30 mph: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UK_traffic_sign_671....

Also, she crashed her car in start-stop traffic, a write-off at about 20 mph. And I was cycling to work one day, and a driver, who had stopped at a minor-to-major junction, didn't look my way and pulled out into me as I was passing in front of him — wrote off my bike, probably around 10 mph or less.

I've been in places where red lights are obeyed, and others where they're treated as suggestions.

> Some humans struggle with symbols, but that doesn't make them dumb, symbols are so far off from our native way of thinking. To an LLM however those symbols is its native mode of thinking, that is all it has, if it is as dumb as an untrained human at symbol manipulation tasks then it is really really bad.

I disagree; a computer can be perfectly symbolic, but an AI has to learn those symbols and their relations from scratch. This is why ChatGPT is so much worse at arithmetic than the hardware it's operating on.

[0] It's complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid
You got me to click, thinking there would be some kind of insight, but then I was greeted with people arguing over "last night" vs "that night" typo.
I have a nix flake that builds an ISO for the Pi. It is a readonly system and only does network bridging between the wifi iface and the ethernet (bc. my internet acces is... difficult). It's pragmatic an probably not best-practice, but it works:

https://git.sr.ht/~tobtobxx/gatetobtob
Are you focusing on remote or are you able and willing to go on site at least part of the time in a major metro market?
Really? It’s absolutely not that Ukrainians are cooperating with western lunatics trying to undermine MAD by deploying nuclear capable weapon systems all over the Russian borders?

MAD prevented WW3. What do you think happens if the US thinks it can cause significantly more harm to China and Russia through first strikes?
Well add the information yourself…
For companies like google, I feel like the opposite of Hanlon's razor applies, which makes:

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
The 6th largest Software-Provider in the World (SAP) is probably the most notable global german software firm. Deutsche Telekom, maybe.
As far as I am aware, there are some bigger gaming companies as well.
But this is, of course, a singular counterexample.

Germany has a large "Mittelstand", so medium sized companies and much stronger antitrust/cartell-laws. One could argue, that the lack of extremly large tech-companies is, for better or worse, by design.

Wirecard was a disaster for a multitude of reasons: The company itself [lost|stole|defrauded] a billion euros, their auditors (Ernst&Young, now "EY") failed to notice a billion euros of irregularities and lost their auditing license over the debacle. The german banking authorities failed in some capacity I cannot remember right now.
Check out the filter in the top right corner menu. I think its too subtle and most people are missing it.

The content is focused on modeling though, now that it has a tag system I might add other sections like sculpting, animation...
That's one way to get a workout. Without the engine, there's no power steering, right?
It could the part of their effort on purging of low quality apps[1], announced last month.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41018292
I’m asking: why didn’t Russia invade them? Why Ukraine?
>> tend to drift out of version control

Old wives tale.

Modern IDEs are very good at version control over all database elements.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/datagrip/databases-in-the-ver...
> The consequence is that the cost of stupid, scammed, customers is passed to all customers, including those that do not send money to scammers.

What you conveniently left out in that cost calculation are the thousands of elderly and mentally ill people falling victims of such scammers. And who are these "stupid" people you mention anyway? Everybody knows social engineering is getting harder and harder to identify, considering how technology advances (spoofing SMS/caller ID, deepfakes, AI etc)
https://www.realtor.ca/on/ottawa/real-estate

There are loads of houses well under $1M Canadian, the average price would likely be 700k.

In USD that's about 500K. a far cry from the 2 to 3M USD in Palo Alto. 1M CDN (720kUSD) houses in Ottawa, are what you'd pay $5M for in Palo Alto.

Inflation is not unique to Ontario, you'll see the same sort if thing in SV too
I think Gates was a brilliant programmer and how he used it would naturally reflect on his priorities.

On the one hand to all of those who have achieved prosperity beyond their wildest dreams, completely as a result of his & his ex-wife's philanthropic efforts, I would say he is like a savior.

OTOH to everyone who has ever used a PC, more like a villain.

If you compare the multitudes in each category, along with the relative financial involvement in either direction, this should give a fairly revealing picture of his priorities.

That may be a good way to make an informed judgment.
> still make a few thousand $ per month, years later

How did you find out? Apple doesn't reveal anything about how many are paying to an app, do they?
Ah, the labels come again! Can respond so we label!
That's like saying I use Rust but I don't want to use any Rust specific features because I might want to port it to Python someday.

It's complete nonsense.
what, no firewall?...some bots would be happy to know ur ip address

about git, yes a server is the answer
As an interviewer, I tend to be very candid when the interviewee asks questions about the company, culture, role and fit. After all, if the candidate joins, I would be their colleague and wouldn’t want to start the relationship on a dishonest note.

When interviewing, I would expect the interviewers to be the same. If they are not, then that already tells me a great deal about the culture.
> I also think they are underrated

Not sure if one can call a set of drugs that are so in demand as to be basically impossible to get at times underrated. Possibly random people online say otherwise but the market says the opposite very strongly.
Still nowhere near Postgres from my experience, full of nasty surprises like arbitrary missing features and weird defaults.
Well said! However, people are different. None of the things you mention matter to me, so I could be using Librem 5 if it wasn't for:

- ability to run apps from a (well stocked) store
> but a superior strategy is letting other people make mistakes and then learning from them

If this was a superior strategy that was so obvious no 1 would be making mistakes so how does this work? Not everything is strictly better.

And by that logic...

>> the superior strategy is letting other people comment (and make mistakes) and then learn from them

i.e. don't read the post until years later to ensure you have all the mistakes and learnings. Sorry, this thread is still live.
You can guess from the number of reviews and downloads as they change over time. Everyone says it "doesn't work" yet people still download and try it, which means they paid for it. Granted some might chargeback and refund, but not all. Also my personal experience as the owner of such listings is that you get about 1 review per hundred customers (unless you have a very pushy review process). I've made thousands of sales with only a dozen reviews. Also I'll admit to once having an app on a marketplace that was never updated and barely worked still making hundreds of dollars a month almost a decade later.
> You don't need to maintain, secure and tweak postgres any more than you would with SQLite.

That's not true. Postgres is another standalone process, SQLite is a library. Even if you have your service and Postgres on the same box, you need to account for yet another process that can independently go down, that is competing for resources etc...
Like Leo Nardo, Don E. Telli and Raph A. El. All masters of their chosen marital arts.
I was going to type something like this. I don't know how the interviews are in your country, but in mine the interviewer doesn't take this well.
Google keeps removing "unused" developer accounts and "low quality" apps, but if I want to remove my apps from Play Store and close developer account, but it is impossible to remove apps when developer actually wants to do it, only "hide" them. And there's no button to delete developer account either. Double standards.
The X user base has shrunk dramatically, which is the main reason major consumer companies have dropped their ad spend there. They were getting far less for their money and effort and hassle. It’s also why Trump has not bothered to come back to his (now un-banned) account there.

X also receives far less media exposure than Twitter used to. For example in the U.S. about a decade ago, it was common for every ad and news broadcast to include the Twitter icon with their Twitter handle on the screen. Entire movies were made with Twitter as a central plot element (e.g. Jon Favreau’s Chef). Reporters were hired and fired based on the size of their Twitter audience.

None of that happens anymore. X gets a bit of news coverage primarily from random controversies and that’s it.
Not everything is black and white
thanks! If a fallback is possible, I'll put it in.

Any pointers how to go about the lazy loading? I want to keep it simple
Apple makes significantly more money on the sale of gambling to children that epic does
> not wanting to deal with table schemas or SQL.

In most cases you're not even removing the concept of the schemas, your just moving them from your database to your application. Which in a sense is worse, especially if multiple applications needs to access the same database.

As for SQL, I have yet to see something solve the problem for querying a database in a simpler manor.
Yes, the quality of comments on HN have gone down considerably over the years.
It's also a shady technique some companies use to preemptively soften up a candidate they genuinely want for negotiations. They really want you but don't want you to think that so they can get you to accept less in the negotiation. Needless to say, the antidote is to interview as widely as possible even when you're in demand, to get a more objective view of your market value. Also needless to say, it's a huge red flag for company culture. If they don't think you're great, why are they making an offer? Are all your coworkers and managers also going to be people they don't think are great but settled for anyway? Or is it that they're not very profitable and can't afford to pay for quality? Do you want to work for someone who may not be in business much longer?
I used to follow a famous photographer who wrote a lot on his blog. His writing had some grammatical problems but I loved reading his blog because even through the errors (and perhaps because of some of them), he had his own style.

He recently started using an AI app, ChatGPT or some other thing I can't remember, to correct his writing and make it into standard English. Although his grammar errors were gone, so was his unique style. The writing became flawless and boring also. I stopped reading.
That’s not remotely the point.
Okay, I am very sorry that I got Rick Houlihan's name wrong.

In my defense, I hadn't watched his talks _recently_ and we've all been Berenstain Bear'ed a few times.

But also the comparison of DynamoDB/Cassandra to MongoDB comes directly from his talks. He currently works at MongoDB. I understand MongoDB has more of a flowery API with some more "powerful" operators. It is still a database where you store denormalized information and therefore is inflexible to changes in access patterns.
You're right, this needs regulation. We're already seeing the reaction in the EU with the DMA, I hope it continues.
Given how easy it is to get a refund for an app purchase, I would be really surprised if this results in a significant revenue stream, but I don't actually know, of course.
Why Go programming language is on the rise (again)
This largly depends on the location you are referring to. In many german places / cities, OSM data is often more accurate than Google Maps, even for commercial infos like opening hours. In the end it is up to people to ensure data is up-to-date. Apps like StreetComplete can help with that. Organic Maps also allows for some editing.
Thanks for pointing that out. As one says, the devil is in the details. That's why I tend to use a scale for confidence.

Take this example of how I think: OP said, TIL that pigs are immune. This gave me misgivings.

I found a counter-proof from a government website I tend to trust, even if the material is not from them. So my confidence in the statement that pigs are immune went way down. In other words I am not sure that this statement isn't misinformation.
It’s the same bits, just with feature flags for things like eligibility to install third party stores.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio...

This brings the app to your apps settings page which includes the permissions toggles. We use it in our camera app when the user has denied camera permissions (kind of vital) and need help turning it back on, it brings them right to the correct toggle
It's about how many apps you install, my phones get laggy as well, but when I format them they're back to being as responsive as day 1.
because it is understood youll regulate the volume with the headphones/loudspeakers own control
Why do we just dismiss what the Russians keep saying? They keep saying they don’t want US weapon systems on their border. I agree that there is lots of propaganda. And who knows if the elections in the autonomous regions were legit. But I think it’s kind of obvious that the core Russian desire is to keep nato far from its borders.

If we dismiss everything the Russians say and accept everything said by those arming Ukraine there is no point for debate on this topic: we can only accept the mainstream media narrative that Ukraine must fight and we must support it endlessly.

All I can say is we had similar situations in the past and decades after the fact we realized we were lied to. Too bad millions died I guess?
> Is it because you got used to it?

No, I know what you mean, I've seen this happen with very cheap (or not cheap but just rubbish/spyware) brands/models that quickly filled the system partition over time with bloatware during updates.

Being cheap, the system partition was already tight on purchase, so the bloat/spyware quickly turns it unusable. The cheaper models tend to have inadequate storage to begin with and install bloat/spyware to subsidize them.

I just don't think it's an "Android" thing, most of those can be revitalized by installing a custom ROM without the spyware (but the crappiest brands are probably not even FLOSS-supported).

What is your device brand+model?
Probably a good number are scalpers, but also some really disorganized people too. You can get stuck with extra theme camp tickets if you're not careful.

If you're part of a theme camp you normally buy as many tickets as youre allotted during the theme camp sale. This sale happens before the public one and the reason you buy as many as you can is because for the last 10 years getting a ticket in the public sale is a lottery. After the public sale you normally redistribute your extra tickets to people who want to camp with you.

The public sale this year was probably pretty easy to get tickets, so people might be stuck with theme camp tickets. Also, BM delayed mailing physical tickets this year to try and boost sales during their final OMG sale. BM did their best to try and screw people too.
Australia "up-to-date commercial data like stores and their opening hours" is about all that appears on Google Maps :(
You'll be surprised at how many people don't know or don't bother to refund.
Excellent work. At first glance, I'd say this is The Right Way to do documentation for complex GUI design applications.

I hope it catches on, because the lack of quickly accessible/searchable info like this is part of what keeps me from learning new GUI tools. One example is Fusion 360, which seems like a great way to design 3d printed parts. Instead I just keep plodding along with openscad, because it takes me more time to learn one design step in fusion, than to just quickly write up a first draft in code.
That's a symptom of law enforcement having dropped the ball for over a decade. There is no way in hell anyone would dare send a taxi "sent by the bank" to pick up scam proceeds in a society with a functioning law enforcement system because the scam victim would be a honeypot most of the time and whoever shows up would be arrested & jailed (and likely rat out the rest of his crew).
I agree. Sqlite is fine unless you need concurrent write connections. I use it for everything.
Games written with Vulkan can run on MacOS with the help of the MoltenVK [1]. You don't need to rewrite the game, just recompile for MacOS. The game can use Vulkan API but loads the MoltenVK shared library at runtime. It acts as a translation layer for Metal which is very similar to Vulkan. There are some gotchas, such as you can not use geometry shaders because Metal does not support them.

[1]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
What actions are you or have you taken to improve your character?
Iranian group used ChatGPT to try to influence US election, OpenAI says
Ah yes, Multi national corporations ruling the world, what a dream come true!
Ringboard: The infinitely scalable clipboard manager for Linux
Thanks! I wasn't aware of tools like Lighthouse, will have a look into how it rates things.

Will also take a critical look at contrast again, thought it would be sufficient, and it quickly gets overwhelming in this layout.
Zombie Wells: A $280B Problem the U.S. Can't Ignore
The latency advantage is nothing compared to the advantage you can get with a better query planner.
> But what if the PHL-ATL flight were delayed and American decided to fly the ATL-PHL flight as scheduled with a different plane

Unless the PHL-ATL flight is more than 40 minutes late, I don't think you'd necessarily have two planes moving through air traffic control with the same code at the same time. While the PHL-ATL flight lands and goes to its terminal, the ATL-PHL plane can be boarded, cargo can be loaded, and such. If PHL-ATL is less than 40 minutes late, you wouldn't even cause a delay for the ATL-PHL flight.
Yeah, you can still get the job, however you will hit a glass ceiling in terms of pay.