skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a best seller but if you like Continental philosophy, The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille is profound and disturbing.

The central thesis of the book is that eroticism and death are inextricably linked - that the most intense erotic experiences often involve elements of sacrifice, and the transgression of taboos. The author argues that this connection between Eros and Thanatos - the drives of life and death - is a fundamental part of the human condition which he sees as a means by which humans confront their own mortality and the limits of their existence.

The conclusions are often questionable but the scope of the work and the historical deep dive makes for quite a ride.
OP is using Iridium SBD according to the article, specifically this modem: https://www.groundcontrol.com/product/rockblock-9603-compact...
So maybe surveilling everything everywhere at all times has its downsides, TLAs?
I read it in high school and I probably would've picked it at the time. Fun note though: ~3 years later when I was learning Lisp it hit me that my understanding of GEB had been very shallow.
PiDAR – a DIY 360° 3D Scanner
> I've found that using the websockets extension really helps with automatically keeping the frontend in sync.

I choked reading this imagining people thinking they're doing something simple (as in not complex) by introducing websockets so they can keep state in their Go backend and sync it with their front-end, ya know, to keep track of the # of TODOs checked.
I was like you. Plowed through it a couple of times but most of the book didn't make sense.

Then I read a big plot summary I found online and read it again and I really enjoyed it.
This is a super useful thing to know and I'm thankful for this article highlighting this aspect of Postgres.

But I would disagree with the takeaway to focus on optimizing your indexes and not your tables. The reason is that the order of columns in a multi-column index is highly meaningful and intentional in order to support match on a range of values for the last column in the index. The way databases work you can only utilize a multi-column index on (customer_id int4, date timestamp) if have an equality match on customer_id, like "WHERE customer_id = 1 AND BETWEEN '2024-01-01' and '2025-01-01'". If you reorder these columns in the index to put the larger date column first, then, sure, you save space in the index, but you also make it worthless – it will never be used by the query above. As such, optimizing a multi-column index is only useful when all the columns are queried for equality rather than a range.

In contrast, when you are creating a NEW table you might not think hard about the order of the columns in the table, and especially not about the data-sizes of each column and their alignment. But doing so at the time you create the table can be tremendously beneficial if it is going to be very large. It is important to note that you not only save space on-disk, but in precious RAM when the tuples are loaded.
The FTC won the case against Google did they not? Which monopolies would you like to see them tackle?
Rust is not the MIT approach, because an important aspect of that approach is that it's conceptually simple. Rust is a leviathan of complexity both in interface and implementation. Common Lisp is an MIT approach language, and approaches the same problems like memory and type safety by doing "the right thing" by default and offering more advanced options like type annotations and optimization levels in a "take it or leave it" manner. Rust will force you to program the way the compiler wants in the name of safety, while Common Lisp will allow you to program safely and freely, and decide which parts are important. An observation of this idea is that Rust compilers are terribly huge and slow because they use static type-tetris for everything, while Common Lisp compilers are very fast because they do most type-checking at runtime.
Our constitution established a republic, not a democracy. The drafters famously despised democracy. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6371
I’m going to note you down as a manipulator and not only keep myself away from you but anyone I care about.
Htmx - the hipster tech of the decade, honestly
To Worse is Better I'd say, careful with what you wish.
Because Anna Karenina is already listed,

I'll plug Scandal by Shusaku Endo. It is by a Japanese Catholic novelist and was written near the end of his career (lifetime achievement award timeframe).

It is about a Japanese Catholic novelist near the end of his career, who is accepting an award when he is accosted by reporters asking about rumors that he has been seen carousing in the red light district. He decides to investigate the rumors, but he isn't ready for what he's going to find.

It's a kind of meta, semi-autobiographical interrogation of the author and the pillars on which he built his life, that in some ways would be impossible to adapt to any other medium.
Thomas Covenant is only acceptable to readers who will accept a protagonist who rapes an innocent girl quite early in the work.
We've known SSNs are broken as a secret for a long time. At this point, the fix would be for the government to publish everyone's SSN on some immovable deadline so that SSN becomes worthless information. There would be a lot of other work, of course, to support this future where everyone's SSN is public information, but the pressure would be there to discontinue its use as a secret.
I presume that "franchise" here is meant as voting enfranchisement, i.e., women having the right to vote?
Performance is one thing but there's also maintenance costs and the cost of servers. Also potential for future scaling.
Why single out legacy media for this specifically? This isn't something newer media is better at.
Most of the Reddit content is now[0] fake.

[0] Gradually for several years already.
Only fair.
Bolt.new: AI-Powered Full-Stack Web Development in the Browser
Throttling or deprioritization is a thing, but it's definitely not "nothing" across the board. How usable a deprioritized connection still is heavily depends on the network and location in question.
Generated Checklists Improve LLM Evaluation and Generation
I don't know about the kind of web apps you've been building, but most of the ones I've built over the last 10-15 years have had too much interactivity to be done with simpler server side rendering.
I'm adding onto this: I think that the whole SPA concept is wrong most of the time. You want most of the time some sort of state persistence in the url, so that you can bookmark/pass around something that is meaningful, not something that is always the starting point of everything.

If I'm seeing a list of todos and I've filter actives there's really no benefit into not having the filters reflected in the url. The same goes if I'm navigating some data in the form of some table and I'm, let's say, at page 2.
'preserve this element when my state is one way, but not in other states'

You could send the state back to the server with the request and respond appropriately on the backend. Or check in the db without sending it, if it lives in the db (it probably should?).
Is AWS S3 having an outage?
AWS status https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status shows all green but I am having internal server errors returned from S3. Anyone else having this issue? Downdetector has spike for AWS outage coincidentally https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Microsoft's market "decided" that I wanted to log in to a computer with a Microsoft account, not me. The car manufacturer market "decided" that everyone wanted their every trip tracked, not me. The phone duopoly market "decided" that I didn't want a headphone jack, not me.
Is the any GCP documentation on that? Sounds like a far bigger risk going with GCP than AWS if all zones in a region are in the same building.
I'm so tired of this argument. AI is a blurry term as it's used in the world. Who the fuck cares if this is "officially AI" or not? Can we just stop having this discussion?
This guy literally got root using a cigarette lighter, and your attempt to debunk it is to suggest that physical exploits don't count?

If you only care about remote exploits, fine, but don't go scolding others for accomplishing things you can't.
Oral History of Pat Gelsinger (Intel CEO) [video]
I actually started with The Glass Bead Game, but I found it too dense. Perhaps I'll give it another try!
The government was no more or less inept than any other organisation - government or private - anywhere in the world.

When faced with pressure to save money but still deliver, weighed up against a very low risk of catastrophe in their time, they did the mental math and cut corners, found ways around the safeguarding policies previously put in place and kicked infrastructure spending down the line.

The big problem with nuclear is not technological, it’s guaranteeing that whoever is responsible for it will be competent, capable and solvent for hundreds of years.
Oh really? What's the operator for adding two floating point numbers then?

The solution to type confusion is not separate operators for every type, it's static types!
<< But it also intimidates folks into not sharing some really good stuff.

That is probably the saddest part that good things don't have enough time/chance to spread. I like to think that there are more Adams, Pratchetts out there, but they remain largely undiscovered due to this society pre-approved list of things you can 'consume'.

And good here does not automatically mean "Ulysses" ( which I hated -- and quite possibly misunderstood ). Some stuff can be just lazy popculture level navel gazing, but it does not mean it can't be fun as it revels in excess at the same time ( Rick and Morty comes to mind -- yes, it is not a book, but I am making a point.. how many kids you see reading for fun ).

<< People are trying to posture and prove all kinds of things.

Agreed, but it still does not seem as bad as other internet locales. And maybe it comes with socialization. At certain point we learn no one really cares. I know I stated some mildly pretentious stuff before. Seemed like a big deal then; now it is just an amusing memory.
At least in the US such costs are factored in. First of all, after Fukushima, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) performed a huge "Lessons learned" exercise, and asked all the power plants to do various upgrades. Here are some links [1], [2]. The ask was not "pretty please, can you do this if it's not much of a trouble for you", it was "you have to do this by this date if you want to continue to operate".

Second, it's the nuclear insurance. The scheme is codified in the Price-Anderson Act [3]. Basically, all the nuclear power plants need to purchase insurance for $0.5 BN per reactor. If anything happens, and the cleanup costs exceed this number, then the rest of the industry has to chime in, and the total is up to $16 BN per reactor. So, if 3 reactors were to have a core meltdown, the industry would have to pay close to $50 BN. The total estimate of the Fukushima cleanup stands currently at about twice that, so one can say that $50 BN is too little, but it certainly is not nothing.

Edit: the efficacy of the Price-Anderson Act was tested at the Three-Mile Island. Virtually no taxpayer money was used in the cleanup [4]. Of course, there were other costs incurred, such as in collecting data, doing investigations, upgrading regulations and enforcing them, but that's how Government should work.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2132/ML21322A288.pdf

[2] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/fukush...

[3] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10821

[4] https://www.gao.gov/products/117345
Also seeing Cloudfront failures on my end, both in us-east-1 and us-east-2.
Computer vision is a field of AI. But this is just an algorithm without any sort of learning or training process.
I still use Stephenson’s definition of “failing an intelligence test” from those books. I’d heard the term before, but the example he uses is concise.
Your presumption is correct - the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, amd its passing allowed women to vote in the US
I would seriously have to consider her _The Lathe of Heaven_ as my nomination.
Haha, I didn’t get it until your last sentence
Maybe just owning a Cybertruck is evidence enough that you're an aggressive driver. It's heavily marketed as being so strong that in case of any collision, it "will win". Someone who dropped six figures on the Cybertruck is going to want to drive it to the limit suggested by all the advertising.
Hey, author here.

> Indexes are, by nature, a tradeoff where you give up space to gain time, so this mindset doesn't really apply there.

I agree that (re)aligning indexes are a different beast entirely, but (as mentioned in my recommendation) ideally the developer should keep this in mind when creating the index initially.

Factors like cardinality and even readability should take precedence over perfect alignment, but all else being equal, aligning your indexes from the very moment they are introduced in the codebase is the ideal scenario IMO.
You are right that youtube is better but so much of that content is also biased towards sponsors. At least the good instructional content with high production value tends to be very heavy on sponsorships. The indie stuff can be great, but you are gonna have a 720p shaky camera with terrible lighting and lots of umms and backstories about why I am redoing my vintage farmhouse (a-la the recipe meme where every recipe page has a 32 paragraph preamble before the actual recipe)
My customers aren't running my software, I am. They don't know if it segfaulted or not.

If your customers are running your software you might have a business model problem instead of a software quality one.
I just have to say, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" shook me for a really, really long time afterwards. I'm not saying it's a bad book, it's quite thought provoking, but I took about 99 points of psychic damage from it.
Space elevators involve climbing up a 30,000 mile long tether with electric motors, not being fired out of a gun. Volcanic gas eruption velocities are much slower than what it takes to go into orbit. The fastest large-payload HARP shot was 3.6 km/s, but it takes more than 9 km/s to launch to low earth orbit. If we could build a gun barrel out of magic handwavium it might work, but unfortunately we only have steel, titanium and cobalt to work with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verneshot
Yawn-inducing attempt at sleight of hand. Despite being a republic, we nevertheless select our representatives democratically. I vote directly on state-level constitutional amendments.
>I don't like Atlas Shrugged and you can't convince me otherwise.

> I lost too much time in my youth trying to keep people, who I thought were my friends, like you happy.

This is pretty much a summary of John Galt’s long speech.

Also,

https://fablesofaesop.com/the-fox-and-the-grapes.html
tbf I've never seen expiration dates on fresh produce in the US. Maybe some packaged salads and things (and it's never accurate, of course), but nothing fresh.
No vi editing mode :-(

> The new REPL will not be implementing inputrc support, and consequently there won't be a vi editing mode.

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/118840#issuecomment...
Ask HN: Does fixing bugs hinder your creativity as an indie game/app developer?
Maybe you should minimize bug fixing until you're fully satisfied with the features or game mechanics of your app or game?
I agree, but I think it'll take far longer to happen than people expect. Kids are making it all the way through college (at state or regional universities) without needing to adjust this approach at all.

These kids are going to be convinced that it's a valid strategy. I'd be surprised if many didn't claim they were being unfaily discriminated against in their first couple of jobs instead of fixing the behavior.
> and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps

That one feels a step too far to me. It seems like it should be the developer's job to share their app with third party stores, not Google's.
Yes. I can't tell if listing/reading is fine but putting (uploading) for sure seems to not be working (500 error).
I've heard of it many times but never gotten around to reading it. Apparently an audiobook version exists, so I'll bump it up my list and read it soon.

Thanks!
They say you should try to never finance more than 20% of your annual income on a car.

Make $60k? Find a car for $12k or less. Find a perfect car for $13k? Pay the extra $1,000 down.

Hard sell but cars are such a waste of money in almost every aspect. They shouldn't tank your ability to afford your life any more than they absolutely must.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Linux, AIX, Docker, Golang, .Net, Java, HTML, CSS, JS, Node, Angular, Python, Rust, React, Postgres, SQL, Git, EC2, S3, WebXR, Lua, Bash, Perl, P$, VBA, etc.

Résumé/CV:

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Email: heather@fucci.dev

I'm a software engineer that is tired of attempting to transition into the industry by taking adjacent jobs in tech. My decade long career has been defined by me taking a role on an IT/tech support team and finding ways to create software solutions for my work in order to demonstrate my engineering ability. This strategy has been unsuccessful aside from exposing me to software development at every layer of the stack with a large variety of disparate systems.

If you need a software engineer who's not going to shy away from any technology you put in front of her, I'm your gal.
Money makes you more of what you are.

If you are bad you will continue to be so before and after money.
us-east-2 seeing tons of S3 errors.
Yet we've had Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Sellafield and many others (military ones too). Unforeseen accidents happen. Wars too, which tend to destroy safety equipment.

Artillery was fired around Zaporizhzhia when the reactors were still online, Ukraine is currently invading Russia near Kursk where two of the mad-graphite RBMK reactors are still operational today. I hope they try to avoid those when blowing stuff up. Because they don't have containment vessels.

And then see how difficult it is to clean up an accident like Fukushima where the containment mostly held. It feels like playing with fire.
linksys.

linksys everywhere.
I remember reading about this in this book, about the hacker named Pengo who was known for adding credits to arcade games in the same manner.

https://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Fr...
I know she's on the right track because the ghouls here are calling her political.
Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, and CloudWatch returning errors for us.
us-east-2
Revival of the curators.
Cloudfront is: my small, not even yet profitable SaaS landing page and javascript frontend, served by CloudFront, are down since about 17 minutes ago (3:28 US Eastern)

the API whcih sits behind ELB is working fine

edit: us-east-2
And they participate in the Bandwidth Alliance, where they offer free egress to traffic that goes through Cloudflare.
But you do get that if you said "The best book I've ever read was Mein Kampf in 8th grade. Changed my life." then some people very reasonably won't want to be your friend, right?
very useful feedback. Thank you!
We're seeing CloudFront and S3 issues in us-east-2 in multiple accounts. No errors in us-east-1 or and ap-south-1.
Three men on a boat.

With four cigarettes, but no lighter.

How are they going to smoke?
It's generally hard to say what's a "front" for what, unless you mean "what can you get someone to grant you research money for when you really expect to parlay the learnings into another topic."

Everything about the rocketry needed to get to orbit started from warfare purposes, for example. And ARPANET was a foray into how to build a disruption-resistant network for military purposes.

Science and knowledge are a bit of a soup.
> Under the same conditions, a Subaru Crosstrek has the same 3,500lb tow rating.

While not being all that much smaller than a Tacoma, aside from length. And the tradeoff for that shorter length is that you lose out on a bed.

> I pay the guy $50 to use his dump truck to dump 10 or 15 yards on my property

And if you don't need 10 or 15 yards of gravel?

> Sometimes in the trunk, but sometimes in a small hitch mount cargo carrier.

So in other words: either stinking up your interior or reliant on an extra piece of equipment. If only your vehicle had a built-in exterior storage compartment.

> There's a lot of space but the trunk opening's just not that tall.

One of the perks of a pickup is that the "trunk" is infinitely tall. I don't have to cut boards or disassemble furniture or what have you. I don't need a trailer, either. I just need ratchet straps.

> I'm really not sure why this is a benefit

A trailer is an extra burden that's best avoided if possible. It complicates maneuvering, it's an extra set of lights and (possibly) brakes to maintain, it imposes different chain control requirements when driving in ice/snow (very relevant where I live), some places impose different speed limits when towing, etc. You also need someplace to park it when you're not using it, which ain't always possible - that, or you need to rent one, which means extra costs, and extra time/fuel to go to U-Haul or whatever to pick it up and drop it off.

Meanwhile, I just put stuff in the bed and call it a day.

> Again I find in my life it's pretty rare that I suddenly and unexpectedly need to haul large pieces of furniture.

Cool. Meanwhile, for me it's a monthly occurrence at minimum. If it ain't for me, it's for a friend or family member.

> This was the newer study that was sourced from, though I mixed some numbers up: https://www.justintyndall.com/tyndall_pedestrian.pdf

An interesting conclusion of that study, to your point, is its claim that replacing all "light trucks" (pickups, SUVs, minivans) with "cars" would reduce yearly pedestrian fatalities by almost 500. And yet, that'd be less than 7% of the approx. 7,500 yearly pedestrian deaths - which suggests to me that blaming big(ger) vehicles for any significant uptick in pedestrian fatalities is a red herring.

> an increased likelihood of being hit in the first place due to worse visibility

My Tacoma has significantly better visibility than any comparably-new sedan I've driven.

> an increased risk of death in a collision while driving because physics

That's the opposite of correct: https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight
Thanks. I'm not sure it is going to be necessary. I checked the ISC diary site again yesterday and I think they have corrected their 'link rel="canonical"' header. I will try to submit one again when I see an interesting one.
https://archive.is/FCKfn
FTX Clear to Repay Customers as Firms Seek Slice of $1B
Why is it so common for Chinese sellers on Amazon to have uppercase company names?
https://archive.today/eZWdF
I tried it and it was 95% relevant images. Not sure what you mean.