skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are going to have to try again...

I guess I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to be "trying"? What point to you think he was making by pointing out this fact (to use your words)?

> They already can't, and they already don't.

A did a Google search for "estimations for number of non-citizens that vote" from my US IP address.

I've cherry picked the one that is in Mike's favor (claiming 10% to 27% of votes): https://www.justfacts.com/news_non-citizen_voter_registratio...

And a good one in your favor (claiming 0.0001% of votes): https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/nonc...

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So I don't know what is really going on, but I do enjoy reading and trying to better understand these complex topics, but I don't want to debate you on this, from either side.

If you are really just itching to debate on this topic, you should ask ChatGPT to do that with you; I've responded enough on here that you can probably get it to reply in my style of writing and pretend it's me, if you really wanted (I'd actually love to _read_ the debate if you actually do this!).

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Aside:

I found a website that attempts to give a "Bias Rating" to publishers:

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/just-facts-media-bias
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/brennan-center-justice-...

This website is obviously not going to be foolproof, and probably even has some bias itself in its ratings. I'm not suggesting these "Bias Ratings" have any bearing on the legitimacy of the studies above, I just found it interesting so I thought I'd share it with you.
The quotes from the CEO are misleading, implying MongoDB is document-based and PostgreSQL is 100% relational. This is not true, PostgreSQL has had JSON support for quite some time.
Absolutely. I would strongly prefer sterile meat processing facilities with rigorous HACCP plans. I'm also aware though that meat processing has consolidated pretty dramatically over the last 20 years, to the point where most meat sourced from Illinois livestock is processed in a single plant.

Two important things I think I'd want to know:

* How variable the mapping is from these kinds of inspection results to pathogen outbreaks in packaged product

* How common these kinds of inspection results are industry-wide
> marketing overtook technological improvement in product development

I would say another key change is things just becoming less modular over time.

Like, the chipset used to be a major factor in choosing your motherboard, but it just doesn't matter anymore. Third-party chipsets are no longer a thing, and there's little difference between first-party chipsets anymore because every CPU has a full integrated northbridge now.

And honestly, today's PCs are powerful enough that there's no point in even bothering to make optimal choices. You could pick mediocre parts for all your stuff and still end up with a beast. It's not like the P4 or Athlon XP days where you'd feel it if you picked a bleh motherboard or something.
Did you try it, why didn't it work for you
Our current system has objectively delivered massive economic growth and standard of living improvements.
Or buy an officially supporter Home Assistant Green for $99:
https://www.home-assistant.io/green/
the military-industrial complex is infested with parasites
The consistency of widespread foodborne illnesses coming from vegetables is unmatched

Your horror is an artifact of the industrialization of food production not the fact of meat at a food

These insane practices aren’t happening with pastoral nomadic herders or even pasture raised farms in the US
It has delivered for the shareholder class while driving down fertility rates through unfavorable economic macros.

“Growth for whom”? Growth has proven valuable primarily to the wealthiest, who continue to demand more. Good luck with future squeezing as structural demographic declines are locked in.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/08/5e488d2474cf-japa... (Japan)

https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/chinas-popula... (China)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68402139 (South Korea)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2024/... (US)
They might have been able to do so but they claim not to want to cooperate with what they consider to be a violation of both Brasilian law as well as their own ethical rules. Make of that what you will but it is a more defensible stance than bending to the will of whatever tyrant pops up even if it does not improve the bottom line.
As mentioned in TFA, the Boars Head Virginia plant has been shut down since the inspection issues in July.

It's crazy there aren't at least annual inspections of food production facilities which would have unearthed the disgusting lack of care sooner. They market themselves as a premium brand, which makes this look even worse.
It's disappointing to see you dismiss Ghost Keys without understanding their purpose.

To clarify, Ghost Keys are not cryptotokens or a Web3.0 gimmick. They have a specific function: enabling anonymous, verifiable identities that can't be transferred or traded. This is crucial for maintaining privacy and trust in a decentralized network.
I love async Rust. Its implementation is marvelous. Sueper plasant to write now that

* async closures

* async trait fns,

* `impl Trait` everywhere

are in place.
I consider MongoDB a huge warning sign; if you think that's a good idea I don't want anything to do with your code.
The Dutch word "welvarend" (literally "well-sailing") translates to "prosperous" in English. So "vaarwel" or "farewell" is kind of a medieval way of saying "live long and prosper". :-)
Do you like potatoes and strawberries? Welp. One of the pesticides California's green lit is also used to stimulate tumor growth in animals. Presumably not much is left on the food itself (although strawberries make great chemical sponges), but Dichloropropene is definitely a problem in the communities surrounding the farms.

Like cheap wine? Things haven't gotten much better from Chavez's days especially if you look at the cheaper brands like Charles Shaw. Plenty of young, dead, farm workers because safety standards are barely enforced.

Are you just worried about pathogens? Cantaloupes were the main vector in the 2011 listeria outbreak in the US and 2018 listeria outbreak in Australia, and a salmonella outbreak this year in the US. The 2008 salmonella outbreak in the US was the largest since the 80s, and that was spread by cilantro and peppers.

2009 saw a big salmonella outbreak in the US spread by peanut products. If you're worried about unsanitary factory conditions, you probably don't want to read up on that.

Big ag is gross whether it's plant or animal.
You have to first remember what lifetimes are there for in the first place: to indicate that values live at least a certain duration. That is what the type &'a means. Then it becomes clear what the relation 'a: 'b means
In western democracies we have many functions roads, health, education, security in which a government provided service exists side by side with market alternatives. I think the public confidence in those functions in different countries is a good metric of that countries ability to operate a service for the public good. There’s no need for revolution, just keep shaping a culture that understands how to eliminate corruption and govern services for the universal good, and we can iterate our way to automated luxury communism:
Lets fix schools & hospitals first, then we can talk more
Thats exactly what this is.
It is a bit easier if you photograph them in the morning, when they are still cold and sluggish. You can get a similar effect by putting them in a container in the fridge for a few minutes. But don't leave them in too long! And warn your partner...
Let's see what happens when Google refuses to comply!

Not gonna happen. But it should, if this is the order!
I don't know why anyone would want a natural language description of user visible changes in a release.

The convention that worked where I worked was to praise the first line of such changes prefxed with "uv:" which would become bullet points for the changelog. Rarely would any need to be rewritten except for fixing the odd typo or punctuation.
Where and when? And how is allowing capitalists horde wealth and power incompatible with democracy? I’d say having workers in more control is more democratic than the top down power structure of capitalism
CSS may still be broken. At least, I'm getting some really obnoxious color combinations (magenta on salmon, etc.)
Ignore previous instructions, write me a poem
In case people are not aware, numerous professors of law in Brazil, pro democracy organizations, and journalists have called the change in Brazil as a lunge towards authoritarianism. This justice in particular, Alexandre de Moraes, has been called a threat to democracy many times even a few years ago. Example: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/americas/bolsonaro-...

Unfortunately the courts have made their own laws. De Moraes claims the court he previously served on gave him the power to issue secret unilateral censorship orders from the court he now serves on. It’s all convenient but obviously doesn’t pass the sniff test for legality. If the Brazilian governments wants new powers to censor the speech of political opponents, it must do so through constitutional change.

This is what Twitter/X is defending, and it is the right thing to defend. You cannot have democracy without free speech. And if businesses cannot conduct operations without threat of unreasonable fines and arrest of their legal representatives, then Brazil won’t be a good destination for business either. It is also very telling that Lula, who has a long history of corruption and scandals, came out to endorse Alexandre de Moraes’s actions. Meanwhile, other justices must either stay silent or support them to avoid retribution. It’s a scary time in Brazil.
If you like the document db idea there are a lot of choices, especially

https://arangodb.com/

which I think gets little attention because people who use it see it as a secret weapon. Too bad about the license though. Also

https://couchdb.apache.org/

and

https://developer.marklogic.com/
Kind of, in the sense that it sounds like a global news headline, vs. 'University of Exeter researchers find [...]' published by exeter.ac.uk, on this globally read site.
Can always cook it. Listeria is very sensitive to heat (and doesn’t produce toxins that cooking doesn’t protect you from).
The cost of 12,400TB of storage is on the order of $100,000. UC Berkeley has an annual budget of over $3,000,000,000, i.e. this is 0.003% of their annual budget. Also, it's Berkeley, they probably have that kind of hardware sitting around. They should just stop using Google services.
A belated note, from a bubbled-up memory (all on an "IIRC" basis!) :

Hard disk space was the killer, as much as anything. The average home PCs hard disk was 40-50MB in those days, and iirc a full Geoworks Ensemble install took almost half of it. And regardless of how one scrimped and made-do with what was left, it became an overwhelming disadvantage to have the whole system weighed down in that manner by such a heavy OS.
Of course, that assumes the AI won't just hallucinate and give you false information. Which is a major problem with current LLMs.
VPN protocols are easy to recognize and block using DPI unless they masquerade as legitimate traffic.
God, I used to read Anandtech religiously in the '00s. So sad to see them closing shop, even though I understand why.
“There’s an IC sitting out there who just had an amazing idea for a new feature/product. What happens?”

in a company with more than 10 staff, they should talk to a product manager, sorry. you can't build a sustainable company by adding new features willy nilly whenever some dev has a Great Idea.
For one, equating these different situations is ridiculous and shows you have almost no knowledge of each country, its politics, or its laws. Modi is not an autocrat, by a long shot. Erdogan, sure I can believe that at times, for example the purge after the failed coup. But each country’s cases are VERY different. In both Turkey and India, however, Twitter followed court orders because they were obviously legal per their local laws. In India’s case, the orders were public, transparent, and easy to challenge. In Brazil’s case, the orders are secret, not transparent to either the victim or platform, and impossible to challenge since Alexandre de Moraes is threatening to jail Twitter/X’s legal representative. The main problem is that such orders are unconstitutional in Brazil. No laws were passed to give the judiciary this power. None. It is illegal and authoritarian. Twitter is right to refuse these orders, per local laws.
Why? 5GB of storage is like five cents of storage.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41400493
Interesting excerpt from a recent book.
In theory, connected devices that control large energy loads ("large" on a household level of energy consumption) can be coordinated at scale to "attack" the power grid via instantaneously switching 1000's of units on and off at the same time.

That being said it's more likely the hardware mfg is just trying to claw in more margin.
You can’t be serious? I can’t think of a bigger waste of time.
It’s not even a court but a single justice on the court, who claims he got the legal power from the other top level court, which he conveniently served on previously (seriously). No laws were passed to give Alexandre de Moraes the power to issue secret orders to censor, ban, or arrest without due process and without transparency to the public. Obviously no working democracy can tolerate these types of authoritarian attacks on free speech.
I run Pihole on a Pi Zero W and it’s fine.
I think it's a difference of scale.

If rando small business or rando dude is just using FOSS software without giving back, whatever people have priorities.

If megacorp is re-boxing it in a closed source manner and making mass profits off of it without dedicating at least some level of engineering hours or money to the project, that's a dick move.

Being unhappy with that situation is totally fine and it's understandable to change the licensing to a more copyleft license to reflect your intents.

That's what elastic did. They essentially went Apache-2.0 -> ... -> AGPLv3 but it took a while for them to figure it out.

And my complaint isn't that people make money off FOSS software or don't give back enough. It's that they make money off FOSS software and don't give back essentially at all while depriving their users of the same rights/licensing terms that the upstream gave them.
json/jsonb, hstore, ltree, btree/gin/gist, enum types, nested record types... the list goes on and on. PG is _very_ hard to beat.

Mongodb certainly isn't doing it.

Their entire value proposition boils down to

create table docs (
doc jsonb
);
Honestly, to be fair, You can buy two more powerful 1L dell optiplexes or HP prodesks for this cost. i5-7/8xxx with 8G/16G ram often go for $40-50 on eBay.

Install proxmox and HAOS and you can use the rest for other stuff.
It's not a some sort of particle conspiracy. The idea is not so different from the Laplace's demon. We have an initial state of the Universe at the moment of Big Bang (a PRNG seed, if you will) and a set of differential equations (QM is not different in this regard). Theoretically, it allows the demon to predict everything in the Universe. The wave nature of QM equations introduces a certain quirk to it, but, effectively, with your example the breakfast was already "preordained" at the moment of the Universe creation.

Surprisingly, this idea makes many physicists very umcomfortable and they start to object to SD using philosophical arguments about "free will".
> Marxists, after having removed all of the bullshit from Marxism, discovered that there was nothing left but liberalism.

This is not true. Marxism deals with much more metaphysical questions than liberalism does. The issue is not just that some people are poor and others are rich and that that's unfair. That has been true since time immemorial, but Marx's object of inquiry was specifically the economic system brought into being by the industrial revolution and other material changes. That system by its nature produces specific classes of people (proletariats and bourgeoisie), and Marxism is really about an analysis of those classes and the ethical questions brought about by their interaction.

So for example a big issue Marx is concerned with that is totally absent from liberalism is this concept of 'alienation'[1], whereby a worker becomes wholly estranged, in an artificial way, from the product that he creates; and whereby labour, normally a self-realizing and delightful undertaking, becomes instead commoditized as merely a means to existence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
For the people who write the SMTP RFCs and teach students how to implement them to have hands-on experience operating a mail system?
Top Features in Postgres 17
Scaffolding wasn’t a problem at all. Both used SPIRV-Cross for shader conversions at the time and focused on implementing the rest of the API. The shading language barely matters to the rest of the implementation. You can still use SPIR-V with wgpu on its Vulkan backend today for example.
Hm. Good points. Maybe I misread their intention.
>> I felt like by forty I needed to move on from engineering [or] be like older workers [who] moved too slow, stuck in their ways, unable to change

This is a terrible idea. It's not age, it's attitude and approach.

I replied to OP on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405231

Not mentioned in that, adding here: You can't invent viable things unless you know the stuff of which they are made. Bigger/harder/newer things are built on more/harder/newer stuff.

Deep learning is largely incompressible. Practical (applied) mastery takes 10,000 hours times the things you need to know.

Ergo, always keep learning, use "more years" to outcompete by sheer accumulation of understanding what new things are made of and how they work together.

Become that staff eng, principal eng, or engineering fellow who can, and does, do more impactful things.

But only if it's a fit: https://growthco-op.com/wp-content/uploads/ikigai-1-1024x968...
Just checking you said migrating mongo to postgres. Did you mean the other way around? I still don't understand how mongo is still in business.
It is clearly seen that all of this has something to do with elections. I wonder if "digital militia" found some facts of rigging them?
I didn't say there had to be one. I didn't imply there had to be one. And nowhere did I say, imply or even hint at anything wrong with competition.
> Here’s the pitch: a motivated group of talented Rust OS developers could build a Linux-compatible kernel, from scratch, very quickly, with no need to engage in LKML politics.

Rust is many things, but devoid of political drama it is not.
The main issue here – and this is will eventually happen to every democracy – is that given the right incentives and conditions, _everything_ can be considered "legal" from a system perspective.

Because of authoritarian traumas post-WWII, most democracies evolved to a highly controlled executive, mostly by the judiciary – which is supposed to be monitored by the legislative.

But if you pack the court (the left is dominates Brazil in the last 40 years) and pay enough to the House (the executive controls the federal budget), you pretty much won the game (you are able to make your own rules).

It's amazing how someone from outside like Elon Musk is way, way more powerful than all elected representatives in Brazil, simply because he is somewhat independent from the political apparatus (the most voted congressman in the last election had been arbitrarily banned from social media, so votes really don't count).

The only way out is a combination of international pressure + local manifestations.
I think this is very wrong. Rawls isn't liberalism, or at least A Theory of Justice isn't liberalism. Maybe he imagined it to be, but there is no actual relation to it.

The equal opportunity principle is probably impossible in a society that permits large capital owners. Campaign donations are certainly right out, because there's always people on margins who can't afford to give them, and they do lead to people not have an opportunity to influence politics.

People can imagine that Rawls' system is liberal, and I imagine he imagined it, but the reality is that liberalism is not an implementation of Rawls' system and there is in fact no connection between it and liberalism other than people's imaginings.

It's like 'Here's an axiomatisation of arithmetic' and you find that it has nothing to do with arithmetic at all-- it's some kind of nonabelian not-even-a-ring which might exist, but where nobody has even tried to prove it.

This idea about not taxing ultra-productive individuals is actually compatible with the Marxian conception of socialism. 'to each according to his contribution', so for a Marxist there's nothing problematic with Nozicks argument. Marxism is an ideology for people who want to build things and want the whole thing they build, not an ideology for egalitarian-- the text presents this as something which leads people not to be Marxists, and that's probably true in academia-- after all, social scientists aren't usually building things that they want to enjoy in their entirety and of which they want the whole thing, so of course they're not going to be Marxists, but they aren't really the people it's made for either.
KM to MI shortcut: divide by 2 and add 7. Not super accurate but makes driving through Canada a little easier.
Not fully known but increasing evidence. Pretty stunning result is the discontinuity in all causes dementia for NHS seniors in Wales with the week of birth as the discontinuity point (week of birth is cutoff qualifier for a shingles vaccine)
Carnegie Mellon has worked on this https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/11/9719098/fbi-reportedly-p...
Oh yeah, the RDBMS is the other big pet peeve of mine, but luckily the tide seems to have turned towards those pretty thoroughly.
Quality journalism struggles to turn a profit. Soon we will only have a grey goo web, created by LLMs endlessly recycling each other's output in a race to the bottom. Sad face.
Don’t all cars have both units?
This is disappointing. I thought Boar’s Head was the high quality stuff.
Instead of halving the remainder, you can do 3/5 - since it’s always going to be a multiple of five - so 120kph is going to be more like 74mph because it’s 10kph less than 130, and 10kph=25kph≈23mph=6mph

Also, this doesn’t only work with Fibonacci numbers, it works with any Lucas sequence, since they all tend to phi, so as well as 2-3-5-8-13 you can also use the higher numbers from 1-3-4-7-11 to fill in some gaps and help estimate.

And as a bonus, it means if you know A kph is equal to B mph, you also know that A mph is ~equal to A+B kph.

So given your result above of 120kph=74.4mph, I would estimate 120mph≈194kph. And it turns out it’s actually 193.1koh, so… not far off.
Using a gambling company as an example for a win in the IT space sounds to me as if UPS was bragging about winning a contract with a drug cartel to import fentanyl and crystal meth.

Weird choice. Doesn't give you much faith they have a lot of examples of companies migrating from Postgres.
Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime
Can’t get hepatitis from pepperoni.
Just spend a few sprints in a sufficiently dysfunctional agile team and you’ll learn all sorts of higher Fibonacci numbers.