skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sure you understand that I gave one, namely the latest, example of my experiences with ORMs over more than a decade and a half in various projects and tech stacks.

They all ended the same way and whenever I have a say, I'll oppose ORM, because of my subjective experience.

You wont change my mind, especially not with any snarky comment that starts with "I am sure you can understand"

Maybe you're just a way better engineer than me, maybe you could work on other projects where ORMs were a lovely fit and you didn't end up having to join half a dozen to a dozen tables because of ever changing requirements and a very convoluted domain. In either case: I am super happy for you. For me ORMs have never delivered on the promise. The easy things are easy, but the complicated things are severely underperforming and depending on the tech stack one cannot even fall back to raw queries (yes, you heard that right) within the framework. To me the easy mappings are nice, but the downside is that my colleagues are sometimes lazy (depending on the project) and don't even see an issue with "Well, then the client has to wait 2 minutes for this simple Webapp to render" (again, this EXACT thing happened twice to me now. Once I was finished with the refactoring the client had to wait 8 seconds with 10 times the data - really)

So while it may not be the fault of the ORM, it certainly didn't help the project as a whole, with the team members as they were.

With that being said: have a wonderful day/night and a lovely start of the week!
Related:

Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957829
Learning the radicals is maybe the first 10% of the effort in learning how to read and write Chinese.

After that, you still have to learn how to combine the radicals in pretty much arbitrary ways to form several thousand characters. The way you combine them is sometimes related to the sound and/or meaning of the radicals, but it's not systematic at all.

The grandparent comment is massively downplaying the difficulty involved in learning to read and write Chinese.
Agreed. You put your finger directly on something that's always bugged me about optimistic code optimization strategies. The code I write is supposed to have deterministic behaviour. If the determinism changes, it should be because of a change I made, not a flag in the compiler. The behaviour is completely opaque and uncorrelatable, makes it very hard to figure out if a given change will lead to better or worse performance.

"Abstraction violation" is a good way to put it.
If you were asking for examples and said "involving Red Hat [Enterprise Linux]" then yes, that would be "involving Red Hat [Enterprise Linux]".

If you meant "caused by", then maybe use that instead of "involving"? ;)
That's understating the actual number of distinct components you need to know, but even so, just memorizing the individual ideograms still isn't enough to allow you to read Chinese with meaningful fluency.

Since the sound changes that had taken place over the two to three thousand
years since the Old Chinese period have been extensive, in some instances,
the phono-semantic natures of some compound characters have been
obliterated, with the phonetic component providing no useful phonetic
information at all in the modern language. For instance, 逾 (yú; /y³⁵/;
'exceed'), 輸 (shū; /ʂu⁵⁵/; 'lose', 'donate'), 偷 (tōu; /tʰoʊ̯⁵⁵/; 'steal',
'get by') share the phonetic 俞 (yú; /y³⁵/; 'agree') but their
pronunciations bear no resemblance to each other in Standard Chinese or any
other variety.

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

Or, consider 亭 (ting2), 叮 (ding1), 成 (cheng2), 打 (da3) which all supposedly derive their sound from 丁 (ding1) per the analysis at https://github.com/cjkvi/cjkvi-ids/. You can't just memorize the components and read all of these as "ding".

And beyond that, that doesn't help with being able to write. You can't just say "oh, I don't remember exactly how to write this word, but I'm just going to throw in some ideograph with the right phonetic component next to the radical and my reader will just know what I mean." You can't just take 瓦 (pottery) + 平 (ping2) to invent the word for vase. 瓶 (ping2) instead uses 并 (bing1), not to be confused with 井 (jing3).
Fundamentals of Scanning Electron Microscopy (2006)
(Therefore, this has a one-way function of improving the status of haunted domains and why I think anything is better than nothing unless it blocks a better strategy.)
Related to the playful vs serious, I got a lot out of this essay

> The Playful and the Serious: An approximation to Huizinga's Homo Ludens

<https://gamestudies.org/06010601/articles/rodriges>
I tried deploying PiKVM on a research vessel so I’d have remote access via Starlink to some systems I was administrating. I didn’t have a seamless experience, falling into a rabbit hole of framebuffer kernel bugs and troubleshooting STUN over Tailscale. I was also surprised by the price tag. At $70 the JetKVM is less than 20% the cost—incredible if it works.
thats really interesting. did your a1c numbers go down too?
There was an alternate timeline where RSS went on to prosper. Instead it turned out like OpenID - a standard most aren't really using and it's all just SSO instead.
Yes. Airplanes are complex, high value products with military applications. The skill set to successfully develop and field a fleet of planes is an obvious upskilling of labor which will bleed over to other fields. China cares about economic development so they will build planes over and over again until they master it. Aviation firms are one of the few industries which closely protected their trade secrets making knowledge transfers tough.
> I'd like to see Microsoft implement something like TCC in Windows.

> https://book.hacktricks.xyz/macos-hardening/macos-security-a...

I think there is something equivalent to that, although I don't know that it's part of a specific framework.

There are privacy protections in place for accessing various hardware and permissions needs to be granted [1]. I think the rest of what that link covers is handled by UAC.

> ASLR on macOS has gotten a lot better, with full randomization down to the kernel since El Capitan I think. Fixed page offsets (the worst offense imo) were also removed.

Nice!

I do think Apple was lagging behind but these days I suppose there would be parity for what have become basic features. I still think macOS should have some sort of MAC implementation though, but maybe they just need a little more time ;)

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-desktop-...
The author skips right over the real heart of the definition: The difference between illustrated books and graphic novels is that the graphics are essential. Any text can be aided by illustrations, but one cannot understand a graphic novel without its associated graphics.
Agreed, any system that allows people to discover content needs to protect them from stuff they don't want to see, whether it's annoyances like spam, malicious attacks like DDoS, or extremely harmful content like CSAM.

Centralized services don't do a great job of this but I think we can do better with a decentralized approach.

We won't have a perfect solution overnight but we've already built important components of such a system (eg. ghost keys[1]).

[1] https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/
It is true that some farms exist where the animals have fairly decent conditions. Factory farms probably are the norm tho.
I have worked for some time in Germany and this is how some coworkers pronounced it, but I do not know where were they from.

From what you say I assume that the literary pronunciation is also with long "i", which is good to know.

Perhaps they were influenced by the different spelling, because I have seen this phenomenon in other countries, where despite a mostly phonetic writing some words were spelled differently than pronounced, for etymological or other reasons, and then the pronunciation of those words by many people has shifted, matching the spelling and not the traditional pronunciation.
Paraphrased, "I was driving home, stuck in traffic, and this thought occurred to me, now I know this is bad, but I thought, if half of everyone in this city died, I'd be home by now." - Paul Reiser
This is not about handwriting, the key thing is that this really sounds like Chopin - a true signature is there even if not written by hand.

I can't recommend more Alan Walker's "Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times", which I happen to be reading now.
> Does not the article say that these are "declared allocated" but not yet dispersed?

Not sure where you're seeing that in the article, it doesn't use that language at all. It actually directly contradicts what you're saying in the first sentence:

"Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices"
I hate to defend such a despicable human being, but it’s a legitimate point: Not only does he have a right not to self-incriminate, he also has a right to hide his defense strategy against the crimes with which the state has charged him from the state.

(Note that I’m speaking broadly when I say “right,” in the sense that these are human rights that should be universally respected. The UK certainly doesn’t seem to respect the right against self-incrimination, given that it charges people with a crime for not allowing a border agent to rifle through their phone.)
ThinkPads of that era used some kind of rubbery coating material, that over the time absorbed something from the environment that caused it to became this weird goo. I would not be that surprised that this weird icky goo also emits some kind of vapors that some people find repulsive. I would recommend just washing that off with 1:1 mix of acetone and isopropyl alcohol (but well, if you find the smell coming from the goo repulsive, get an FFP3 mask when you do that, as the vapors coming from that mixture are in completely different ball park)
This is a semi-fake study. They attribute emissions from investments to the person investing, this obviously leads to a lot of double counting.

I'm flagging this.
This might not be taken well over here, but where is the "limit" to be in the "richest 1%"? Everybody thinks of bills gates, trump, elon musk, etc... But looking globally, i'm willing to bet that half the people here are in the "top 1%" group.
This was a big deal in my memory, and is rarely mentioned in the modern tech news. So this article caught my eye.

Wafer Scale was super ambitious, and in ways paved the road to modern system on chip.

I would liken this to how Jorodowsky's Dune paved the way for star wars and other well known scifi, but is itself relatively obscure:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/How-much-does-Lucas-owe-to...

Two totally different topics with the common theme of an obscure predecessor setting the stage for subsequent large scale development.
oh hey you're welcome! <3
The excuse for this is that performance is not considered part of the behavior of the program. So it doesn't matter to the question of whether your program is deterministic.
> I don't think that's true: Confucious, Jesus,

Jesus had a relatively small band of followers that abandoned him at the first sign of unpopularity with authorities, pissed off more people than followed him, and was murdered by the public authorities at the demand of the local population. He got a bigger posthumous following after (actually or in a myth created by people seeking their own influence) rising from the dead.

Says a lot more about the respect for miracles than respect for humility, however much one might read what is written about him as calling for humility from his followers. Meanwhile the list of historical figures whose rise to influence was fueled by the exact opposite of humility is...not short.

> every president before Trump,

Very many of the Presidents before Trump were...not known for humility in their time. Some have had that added to their popular myth afterwards, but, I mean, plenty not even that, and probably the most recent one that was (I'm...not young, and Carter is probably the only one in my lifetime you might make a case that it was something he was particularly known for.)
I've self hosted listmonk for a side project for quite a while now and absolutely love it! Excited to check out v4!
And if yes then so fucking what? Are we any special?
It doesn't have to be self directed but it can still be individualized. One on one teaching is the goto solution for the rich and wealthy. With AI that can be extended to everyone.

Schools don't really adapt to the individual currently. It works for the average student but there are lots of students that don't do well with that. And it doesn't really get the best out of people.
I think most Strongbox users did not notice it turned proprietary. It's not like Strongbox advertised the change :)

Context: https://github.com/strongbox-password-safe/Strongbox/issues/...
Clace is meant to be portable and easy to operationalize. It runs on Linux/macOS/Windows. The only external dependency is Docker/Podman for starting containers. Depending on particular filesystem features would make it much more difficult to setup, I did not explore that. There would be use cases where using filesystem features would be more appropriate.
And I know an American who spent years trying to get through a degree program that he never ended up completing because he was too burned out having to work multiple jobs to live at the same time. Just like I know plenty of Swedes who have and continue to study, developing their knowledge and curiosity for free while being enthusiastically productive members of society. We all have anecdotes.
One of my last weekend projects was something similar: convert youtube playlists into podcast-compstible URLs:

https://github.com/cquintana92/yt2pc
His argument against being charged with a crime for refusing to provide access to his phone contents is actually reasonable. (Unlike virtually every other argument he has ever made, whether in court or out of it; he’s an idiot and a racist.)

If his planned defense against his other criminal charges was documented on the phone, that would make it information the state cannot legitimately seek or possess. And that’s not even considering his inherent right to privacy.
shure!
How do you know it’s risk-free?

I’ve heard the budget battles between the Navy and Air Force can get particularly severe.
We're in a 5 year slump for gaming. The best games are improvements on known formulas.(Elden ring, Wukong : Dark Souls, BG3 : Divinity, etc, GOW, Last of Us : Sequels). Alyx & Flight Simulators are exceptions, and neither are games in the traditional sense. Now culturally, the gaming industry has been broken for a while now. This slump was a long time coming. But, I didn't expect it to be such a grand collapse.

I'm speculating, but the writing on the wall was there since the mid-2010s. A much needed reckoning during #MeToo opened the flood gates. It broke a clearly abusive, yet stable equilibrium. The subsequent instability saw a panicked pivot into faux-inclusive corporatization & an exodus of the talented few who made these miraculous games happen. Artistic endeavors can only sustain so many MBAs.

Look at the top studios. Ubisoft & EA have yet to take risks on a single 'inspired' original IP since 2020. Both tried to pivot to mobile, only to realize that East-Asia & gambling studios had that market cornered. Blizzard & Bethesda crumbled below a pile of scandals. Post acquisition by Microsoft, neither have produced a single decent game. Sony's existing IPs are doing doing ok; eg: GOW, Remakes, Souls-like games. But, they haven't produced fresh IP or face planted with (non)releases like Concord.

We are in an interesting Liminal space for gaming. Hyped games like GTA 6 & Elder Scrolls 6 are too far away. No recent AAA game has taken over. And the choke-hold of long running games is waning(Dota, LOL, Fortnite, CS, Pokemon Go). I see a 2 year margin for a new game to take over the scene. Black Myth showed how wide-open the arena is right now. If 2077 had managed their release well, they'd have won out....but alas. For mid-sized indie game developers (eg: Supergiant Games), this is their shot at triggering this decades Fortnite/LOL moment........Or, it'll be a roblox game. It's going to be a roblox game isn't it ?

__________

P.S: I'm confused why costs for AAA games have ballooned. Machines, engines & tooling have improved many fold. At the same time, consumer expectations haven't changed since Crysis released 15 years ago. It should be a lot cheaper to make polished games. That's ignoring all the benefits of gen AI too.
When will Apple stop supporting Intel Macs?
Pretty sure that CEO was not just bad at accounting. In fact, he was pretty good at it, since all the "mistakes" were designed to benefit him.
So no need to worry then. Exterminate the rich and we are safely below the threshold ;)
Switzerland's neutrality is long gone, they also sanction Russia.
Seems like Boeing made the right call when they canceled their own plan for a new superjumbo back in the 90s. The A380 is cool, but not economical to fly. The future is more planes like the 777X.
Java doesn't have it yet, but they are making progress,

https://jdk.java.net/valhalla/

Yes, it was a bummer that Java didn't take up on the ideas of Cedar, Oberon linage, Modula-3, Eiffel,... even though some are quoted as its influences.

Still I am confident that it might be getting value types, before C++ reflection, networking, senders/receivers, or safety gets sorted out. Or even that we can finally write portable C++ code using C++20 modules.
Node.js server with best-effort completions on functions
> argument against being charged with a crime for refusing to provide access to his phone contents is actually reasonable

Sure. We have no evidence that is (a) true or (b) what happened.

> that would make it information the state cannot legitimately seek or possess

It might make some of it privileged. That's miles apart from "information the state cannot legitimately seek or possess."
>Meanwhile airports haven’t gotten bigger and more people are flying.

many smaller market airports have spare capacity and point-to-point flying from one to another reduces demand on the large hubs, which is what Boeing (lol) told Airbus (i am very smart) before they even started on the A380.
Interesting that the new freenet is written in rust.

I always thought the worst part of freenet was that it required java.

I haven't used freenet in a long time. Last time I did I'm pretty sure satoshi was posting the og bitcoin releases on the message board (freechat?). Crazy times.
Arc isn’t unique for it, but vertical tabs would be a boon for most “ordinary” people I know. When I look at others’ browser windows, they usually have so many tabs open, they can only see favicons, and sometimes not even that. Vertical tabs fixes that—but it’s a feature, not a product. If that kind of feature caught on, absolutely nothing would stop Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc. from implementing it.
This may just be one small point, but I recall reading that visual clutter signifies a good bargain while lots of white space gives the impression of luxary. Most consumers want a good deal.
I had a basic idea of what Lisp was before getting into it some 25 years ago. It soon became obvious that, no, I actually had no idea. It's not that what I thought had been wrong, but it had no content.

I knew Lisp the way I know that that guy walking down the street is my neighbor Bob. But since I've never had a conversation with Bob, I actually have no idea who he is.

When I see Korean writing in hangeul, I know it is Korean writing, but can't read a letter of it (nor speak a word of Korean).

These examples are like knowing what Lisp is.

The thing I had not expected was how the knowledge in the Lisp world and its perspectives are very informative about a whole lot of non-Lisp!
And yet, given the definition and language of origin, most high-level spelling bee participants can make a pretty good guess at spelling a word they may have never seen before.

English is phonetic, it just borrows its pronunciation rules from many differing (and sometimes directly opposed) other languages.
Another thing to remember is that the piano was very much an instrument being developed during Mozart and Beethoven's time. There's a reason why most of Beethoven's sonatas don't utilize the uppermost and lowermost part of the modern piano: he didn't have those keys then.

So, in a sense, these composers weren't writing for the same instrument.
What?

If you're gunna post a blog, at least choose one that writes well.
Back in 2000-2015 I used to think badly of Italy for how Silvio Berlusconi somehow was allowed to corruptly cling to power. "Good thing that could never happen here", I thought.

After the next several disturbing years, I've come to believe that the complacency of "that can't happen here" is perhaps the surest sign that it could. Sometimes the most important prophecies are ones that prevent themselves from coming to pass.
What’s the evidence that this only takes place in individuals with arterial wall injury or without the ability to repair damage?

These factors may increase the effect of high LDL-c on CVD, but I’m not sure on what basis we should assume that those without them aren’t at risk from high LDL-c.
How?

The press release asserts this statistic, but I can't figure out what exactly the 1% are doing that's causing this pollution...

There's a vague reference to "plundering" the planet, which makes me think they're saying the actions of polluting corporations are the responsibility of the 1% (and not, say, the 2%....)
When did WINE start doing this? I always love a good read on ptrace hacks.
> see the documentary he created, it's eye opening, scary, true

How can you trust him given his personal history of violence, fraud and lying? Are his accounts corroborated by someone reputable?

From his record on Wikipedia and the facts in this article, he's either an idiot with impulse-control issues, or a provocateur who repeatedly gets himself in trouble to play victim for views. Neither suggests a reliable narrator.
Arc and the Browser Company are a great example of the zirp phenomenon. If you look at the offices and the rightly called out hubris of the company which makes a Chrome skin, you would think they are at least Stripe scale.
Freenet and Hyphanet aren't blockchain, although the original Freenet did pioneer the cryptographic contract back in 2000 (we called them "signed subspace keys"), which a few years later would form the basis for Bitcoin.

Freenet is designed to be a general-purpose platform for building and distributing decentralized systems like group chat[1], social networks, search, really anything that people use the Internet for today. Some people think of blockchain this way but blockchain is much more specialized (eg. group chat on blockchain wouldn't scale).

[1] https://github.com/freenet/river
Just stating the obvious: Finland was allied with Nazi Germany and a Fin has no moral high ground it that fight.
Not to mention that in this day and age this blatant form if racism is allowed.
> This is genuinely a good waltz

I thought that waltzes in classical music were meant to be danced to. Listening to the performance from the Times article, I'm not sure how one would dance to this. I'm not hearing anything that tells me which notes I should be syncing movement to.

What makes it a waltz instead of some other form that happens to be in 3/4 time?
19 out of 20 thinks being in the local neighborhood doesn't sound that crazy.

In the last week, I think I've been to work 5 times (bicycle), the supermarket twice or maybe three (foot), the doctor (foot), a bar (bicycle), a restaurant (foot), a fast food place (foot), visited a friend (train, 35 minutes + 10 walking) etc.

90% might be a better target then 95%.