skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it was really bad already so good on EPA for making it a lot worse. ("miniscule" is not applicable to this disaster and casual readers may see it as emotion-based hyperbole.)
We’re already past that point. If you thought connections were important before…they’re even more important now, as the volume of noise on both sides is deafening.
I think part of the issue is that it’s multi-lane. So if you’re in the right-lane to go to one road, and miss it, staying in the right-lane forces you onto the highway. If there is a car in the left lane you can’t get over to avoid it without causing an accident, or stopping, which would backup the whole circle and also risk accidents. So you end up paying the 9 mile tax. There is no way to miss your turn and easily recover.
we lock them up, and someone else steps in to do the same thing

Crime isn't an internship program.
When I lived in a condo in San Francisco, I had a storage unit for my camping and outdoor gear. The alternatives would have been: a) buy a new tent/cooler/propane stove/etc. every 2-3 months, or b) not go camping regularly. I absolutely did not have room to store a kayak at home, and my neighbors would have been annoyed with me dragging muddy/dusty gear through the communal hallway to my unit.

When I left SF, I spent about 18 months traveling before permanently moving in anywhere. I did the math on "cost per cubic foot to store vs. cost to replace" then, and interestingly, furniture and most housewares didn't make the cut—except for a few sentimental items. An unexpected bonus of instead donating that stuff to Goodwill was that when I moved into my new place, I got to outfit my kitchen with much nicer stuff than what I had previously accumulated.

(Now I live in the Midwest and have a garage for the outdoor gear, which in addition to vehicle storage, also doubles as machine/metalworking/woodworking shops.)
Answers so far are scattered. I'd suggest thinking back generally:

If the problem had been stated as "publish content that lives forever", then we would need to look at ideas with eternity as the purpose. archive.org, bitcoin embedding, at least semi-successful for-profit publication as a book, Long Now - that kind of thing.

But the poster asked for "my great grandchildren". In this case (1) this is short term, (2) this is aimed at an extremely specific set of target people, (3) there is already a structure in place: the family. It can be something as simple as "publish photos and writings as periodical PDFs and distribute and entrust to current family members." If there are not enough current family members for redundancy, then include some family friends. With a notice in each volume that you want these volumes to be communicated to your great grandchildren. Let each one worry about hosting or storage. If they loose theirs, they can easily rebuild their stash from the others. If none of them cares to, that's an answer too, but you can fix that by hiring and paying a trustee to maintain sets in 2-3 of the digital platforms mentioned elsewhere (perhaps including archive.org).
All that you say is true, and people who do that are THE LESS capable of becoming better at the MUCH harder challenges of microservices.

I work in the ERP space and interact with dozens and I see the horrors that some only know as fair tales.

Without exception, staying in an RDBMS is the best option of all. I have seen the cosmical horrors of what people that struggle with rdbms do when moved to nosql and such, and is always much worse than before.

And all that you say, that is true, hide the real (practical) solution: Learn how to use the RDBMS, use SQL, remove complexity, and maybe put the thing in a bigger box.

All that is symptoms that are barely related to the use of a single database.
I haven't actually worked with Tauri, but shouldn't every web framework be Tauri compatible out of the box?
I know what you're saying. It must work though — it engagad both of us for different reasons, rose to front page of HN. (Perhaps you would rather it did not though.)
> the house always wins

Well, until Lloyd’s did lose a lot of money in 1991, and the Names had too much exposure. Berkshire Hathaway cover them now, I believe.
I guess it's this MySQL bug: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=101369 which seems to have stalled after request ti sign an OCA.

Anyway, I have no idea what would it take to do something like that in Postgres, I'm not familiar with this sfuff. But if someone submits a patch with some measurements, I'm sure we'll take a look.
Nope. I said that refusing to learn something will leave you stunted. I did not say that using an LLM will leave you stunted.

The OP said:

>>> For example my Python knowledge is limited and I don't really use it often, so I don't want to spend time to better learn it.

And I replied:

>> Respectfully but that's a bit like saying you don't need to learn how to ride a bicycle because you can use a pair of safety wheels. It's an excuse to not learn something, to keep yourself less knowledgeable and skillful than you could really be. Why stunt yourself? Knowledge is power.

"It's an excuse to not learn something (...) Why stunt yourself?".
Then I'm not sure what you mean by "deterrence". Both of the linked articles argue against increasing the severity of punishment, but they also say that the certainty of getting caught is a strong deterrent.

This doesn't seem to be in conflict with what the GP said ("supporting laws and politicians that catch and punish criminals effectively"). It seems to me that many people have a problem with thieves not being punished at all.
Reminds me of the album Chinese Democracy by Axl Rose. It was rumoured to be out for years when it finally came it was pretty good but the entire landscape changed and made it an after thought.
I mean, the x.99 prices make more sense in places like the U.S. where state and local sales tax cause the final prices to be somewhat unpredictable anyway. It would be weird to advertise $9.99 when you know that that’s going to be the final price.
The point is to ask "who" encoded that byte as the value of 10. If you're writing a parser and you parse a newline as the escape sequence `\n`, then where did the value 10 come from? If you instead parse a newline as the integer literal `10`, then where does the actual binary value 1010 come from?

The ultimate point of this exercise is to alter your perception of what a compiler is (in the same way as the famous Reflections On Trusting Trust presentation).

Which is to say: your compiler is not something that outputs your program; your compiler is also input to your program. And as a program itself, your compiler's compiler was an input to your compiler, which makes it transitively an input to your program, and the same is true of your compiler's compiler's compiler, and your compiler's compiler's compiler's compiler, and your compiler's compiler's compiler's compiler's compiler, and...
The comment you replied to is talking about incapacitation, not deterrence.
Unions Are Trusts
I know your website by heart, so it is low-tech-bookmarked for life :), and I check in fairly often. Your work and general views are very inspiring.
I never considered that awk was a precursor to JavaScript but I can certainly see that
100% of us could sustain a life changing head injury that renders us more violent and aggressive than we were before, and that could happen at any moment

Then I should be imprisoned if I present a threat to the public. I don't understand what your point is.
The Naming of America (2023)
The survival skills of Helena Valero
The Positive Freedom Problem
nothing wrong with this. if you live in a small town you know everyone anyway. this is the same thing on a larger scale. if i see my waiter's great great grandfather owned slaves at a glance thanks to this technology i might leave a smaller tip than usual.
AGREE! The author's point is very well argued. Beginning a transaction is almost never a good idea. Design your data model so that if two pieces of data must be consistent, they are in the same row, and allow associated rows to be missing, handling nulls in the application. Inserts and updates should operate on a single table, because in the case of failure, nothing changed, and you have a simple error to deal with. In short, as explained in the article, embrace eventual consistency. There was a great post from the Github team about why they didn't allow transactions in their rails app, from around 2013, but I can't find it for the life of me.

I realize that you're staring at me in disbelief right now, but this is gospel!
Not to mention the time value of haggling on Ebay, dealing with scammers, etc.
Anybody know the year of this essay? I put 2001 above because it's the latest date I could find in the text.
Could you cite examples of these claims? For the purpose of distinguishing good role models. I’m not an academic, though the topics I have followed have been informative and interesting.
The green area of Antarctica according to the graph in this link is 12 km². The area of Antarctica is 14,200,000 km², i.e. 0.0008% is green. Seems like a noise data point.
It sounds like it was temporary. Did you stop? Did it stop working? What happened?
About six years ago, my seven year old son passed away: he had liver cancer at a really young age, had a full liver transplant at six months, and lost all hearing as a side effect of the anti-rejection medications. It was a sudden turn -- he was participating in his school's holiday program on a Friday (spending the rest of the afternoon with me at work on his iPad because neither mom or the babysitter could pick him up) and had passed on a Wednesday.

My job at the time gave me three days off before calling to ask me if I could come back to work, with my boss and HR on the line telling me that they also 'gave me the weekend' (since I was on-call when it happened). When I said that I needed more time away in order to deal with it, they fired me, then begged me to come back as a contractor a few months later.

I was so upset over the things that happened that I turned them down -- it wasn't what I wanted to do and it wasn't how I wanted to be treated: I'm much more selective about where I'm working at these days.
The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)
Are companies like Larian Studios or other competent game companies hiding how much their devs work overtime? I feel as though articles like this are meant to be hit pieces, but from all of my coworkers who work in the game industry overtime work is expected.

Personally, I think that with devs, we have a lot of work mobility, so generally people can leave to find other jobs with similar or better pay if they wanted to. So really see this as a "soft choice" at the least. If you work in games, you expect overtime. Many devs now have on-call schedules that wake them up at 2am for support calls. It's apart of the life that we sign up for and agree to when we sign on to orgs. Why is overtime here seen as terrible? I mean its not fun, but its agreed to and generally devs are compenstated at least fairly if not well.

To be clear I'm not "rooting" or trying to "defend" the corporate overlords here, it sucks that the devs need to work overtime, and its likely due to poor management choices made months ago. But I don't think anyone working on star citizen should see this as a surprise.

If the devs are compenstated unfairly for their time, or don't get to be apart of a games success, thats a different story and should be discussed, but overtime two weeks up to launch doesn't seem to me to be a big deal.

Am I tone deaf?
A fair number probably handle it by leaving the industry.

I recently learned some women I work with have their own group that meets up outside of work.
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This comment is manifestly made in bad faith.

I want the police to arrest, and DAs to prosecute, organized theft rings. Someone with several stolen bicycles is not a small businessman, he's a fence, and should do several years of time.

It is in fact quite easy to tell that person apart from the guy who bought a bike on Craigslist and oops, turned out it was stolen.

You're pretending this distinction is unclear to you, and insinuating that I'm proposing Soviet price controls. In reality, you are perfectly aware of the distinction and know that I'm not. That is arguing in bad faith.
>Privacy friendly

>Releases it as closed non-free software No, thanks.
The k code at least isn't doing any heuristics for the iteration order, and is just doing a fold over the indices of zeroes in index-ascending order.
So your definition of busy work isn’t “work AI can do”. It’s “work that accomplishes things that have already been accomplished before”.

The latter is even sillier. Your position might be indefensible.
I mained dwm some years ago and I like it, but if I just need a quick environment I usually go back to Xfce. My family's computers (my dad's, my mom's, my sister's and my media PC, because I was lazy) are all Xfce. I will consider switching to Wayland when Xfce will support it.

I still remember seeing a video of Xfce (I think it was version 4.0.4) and being amazed how simple and reliable you could pick your own launchers and widgets on the bar. For me it was much simpler than Gnome at the time.

Modern KDE looks sometimes like Xfce for me (just my feeling, don't bite me), but somehow I always get a lot of strange bugs when I try to change things. Xfce had its own problems (I remember when Thunar was quite unstable), but it still is my go to desktop for simplicity and reliability.
The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement:

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I have some friends in Germany who have been using much cheaper Spanish pay-as-you-go SIMs for the last couple of years. Admittedly not as their daily drivers though - they use them intermittently for hotspots when they don't have access to decent wired/wifi
Best book: Snow Crash

Best short stories: Borges
And wasting all that money on shipping and sales tax with each transaction.

Because yes, you have to pay sales tax on eBay, even for used items that already had sales tax paid on their original retail purchase.
> I’ve never had this happen so far. What makes you think it’s likely to happen?

You've either been lucky, or just havent noticed. Spotify used to be really bad for this, instead of it greying out in your library they used to remove every trace of it ever existing in your library, which massively sucked if it was an accidental or short term removal as it would never come back into your playlists.

Music is removed from streaming platforms all the time, it's not a rare thing, or a surprising one. As the other person said, google it and you'll see its a regular occurance.

> This assumes you work on the principle that you’ve found “enough” music vs. that you lost interest in investing in new music because of the cost of buying it.

(UK here so working on our pricing, convert as necessery)

Lets say you've bought/paid for your 2k songs. You put away the £10/month it costs for a streaming service. 6 months in you find a new artist, you want their album. You hop on ebay or wherever to buy a CD, you pay between £3 and £10 for their album (seriously you can get second hand CD's for even relatively new stuff on Ebay for a couple of quid).

In that 6 months you've put away £60 to spend on music, but have spent less than £10, and you own the copies. Nobody can take them away.

Streaming = convenience, thats really all you gain. But if you intend on having your music long term, it ends up being a massive cost.

10 years of Spotify costs £1200. If all you've listened to in that 10 year period is roughly the same few thousand songs thats a heck of a price to pay for conveinence, especially when that £1200 could've been turned into £2663.57 by sticking it in a managed account.
Trellis – AI-powered workflow for unstructured data
>"Maybe to save space"

You see, this is the one size fit all argument they can use when nothing else sticks properly
>"we can't have the federal government imposing a cost on the citizens / corporations"

same kind of moronic non-argument for why the US gov can't invest in healthcare, or housing, or education; none of these things are "costs" and all of them are very high ROI investments, but Americanoids are incapable of thinking more than one fiscal quarter into the future
Yeah what a world that would be
XFCE being stuck on X11 was what finally made me finally move to KDE when I installed Linux on my machine at work a few months ago

When compiling code on a remote machine, a terminal on one window would cause YouTube videos to lag on the other! As far as I could ascertain, there was simply no hardware accelerated playback going on. Both Chrome and Firefox had seemingly abandoned X11 for a Vulkan based render backend on Wayland

After leaving KDE 5 to "marinate" overnight (I use Gentoo, so compiling an entire desktop environment like KDE can be time consuming) everything "just worked"

I miss the visual simplicity of XFCE and I'm hopeful to return to it one day, but in the interim, responsiveness is key
> Success is never really enjoyed for long, there is always next target to chase.

That's a reason to carefully choose the next target, but frankly sounds awesome to me.

I don't want to sit around and luxuriate recalling past successes that I'll never repeat. I'd much rather savor that for a short time and then set off for whatever is next in my short life.
AM is mostly news, talk, and sports for many years now. When I was a kid most new cars didn't even have FM radios yet and the AM stations were more varied, many played music, top 40, etc.
If you think that there is a distinct group of people who commit all the crimes (as was suggested), and we can solve the problem of crime by locking all of them up, than you are mistaken. Or rather, that group is "everyone."

It's an easy trap to fall into for two reasons. It would appear that you and those you know aren't capable of being criminals. This is more comforting than it is true. Everyone, including good people, has the potential to do something horrible; the problem of evil isn't that it's present in a certain group who we can imprison, the problem is that it's present in us all.

The second thing which makes "lock them all up" a seductive proposal is that it's cynical. Cynicism can feel like the opposite of naivete, so it can feel like you're being clear eyed and realistic about the situation and that the people you disagree with (say, prison abolitionists) are naive bleeding hearts. But cynicism is actually just another form of naivete. It's making the same error - blinking while staring into the abyss - with different aesthetics.
Why not just give kids MDMA if they feel lonely?
Have been seeing “include ‘some_code’ text somewhere in your resume” requirements in job postings lately.

Wonder if bots and AI would pick up on that. Maybe bots and AI are the reason those requirements exist
Expected is one thing, that's a toxic work culture. But mandated is another, that's (probably) illegal in most countries, and absolutely an abuse of power by the employer.
> users in spain will have to go through the same procedures and configurations whether they are in italy, spain, germany, france or any other eu member state

"The same procedures", really?

Can you use a wifi hotspot anonymously in Italy? I mean completely without the need to authenticate or provide a mobile number to receive one-time SMS code...

I know for certain you can in Germany. Join the hotspot, tick a box to accept the T&Cs, off you go....
The power of these tools rests in how common certain patterns of text are in both immediate and superstrucral ways.

They force us to admit that with 8B people in the world, many of the questions we have and tasks we pursue have already been approximated countless times. They reveal that much of what we do is not so original.

Understanding -- human or machine -- is something different, and enables invention/originality/reflection in a way that recent innovations are still not yet able to acheive on their own.

Importantly, though, students and juniors are specifically being assigned challenges that are already known not to be novel or inventive, which is why these tools can so easily do the work for them. But when when they let the tool do so, they sidestep the unique growth opportunity they were given in the first place.
They want you to use wireless as much as possible. Their dream is 0 physical ports. And I say this as an iPhone user and someone who generally likes using Apple products.
It’s possible to learn literally nothing when using a gen ai. You can copy paste stuff without even glancing your code. For student work sized projects I’m sure it’s very doable to have a working product without knowing anything about how it works.

Today I wanted to try to create a tool for a game: snapshot a picture and a program recognizes the clipboard event and does image recog things and gives me data. I had a working poc in 3 hours and learned nothing. (Tbf I knew what I wanted and how to do it in general terms so the process might be different for a beginner.)
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Agreed. The Dark Tower series works very well as independent books exhuding their own exotic charm.

As a canonical series, it's a jumbled mess of barely connected themes tied together only by Kingcs own ego (maybe that's the point, but its still narcissistic).

At some point he even tries to take credit for Harry Potter and Star Wars, albeit in a vague "everything's connected" type of way.

I tell anybody who wants to read the series to simply read the first book, and the last chapter of the last book.

He's a brilliant writer, but his strength lies in leaving some things to mystery, instead of micromanaging his worlds.
Do I understand correctly that they are building on top of wlroots? If so, I am pretty happy about this development as I might get to enjoy the solidity of XFCE apps in other WMs / compositors like Sway or River.
Maybe the answer is the usual answer, whether we like it or not, that the power of tools cuts both ways. Your own glasses or other device of some sort tells you if you know them, and/or if other people have labelled them as a scammer, or if they have too little reputation at all.

It's only really a problem during the transition period when some people are using a new facility and some are not.

That's kind of depressing to think that we will all be forced to engage with ai bullshit, but I think it's not so bad in the long run because there is more than one way to use any new tech. Eventually there will be forms of ai tools that aren't gemini etc, controlled by someone else for purposes other than yours.