skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline suggests a very broad subject while the contents proper only concerns Kessler Syndrome specifically. Quite misleading.

Nothing to blame the poster, mind. The author went for clickbait, so may he be tarred and feathered for it.
The basic feature set is at-most-once thread-safe initialization of values, which can then enjoy the same constant folding and other JIT optimizations one would get from `static final`, but can be initialized at any point during the program's run.
Ask HN: How did you scale your analytics workloads (Postgres)?
Our product has some reporting features that require aggregations / analytics functionality.
Some of the analytics workloads are time series, others are not and we generally expect these analytics queries to resolve in ~2.5s

We've recently decided to move these workloads to snowflake because we want to protect our transactional workloads.

The snowflake devex has been pretty bad because we'd need a snowflake "instance" for each dev's postgres localhost, and we like that localhost postgres to be ephemeral. Additionally, it'd be nice to have this work all locally.

One interesting piece of software I came across is DuckDB. It's lightweight. There's no additional storage needed. It's an interesting direction for me to test but I don't know if it'll satisfy our latency requirements.

How have you separated and scaled out your analytics workloads from postgres?
"Escape Hatch" is also commonly used.
Smitty didn't get in the way of scripting, you could just craft up what you wanted and was F9 iirc you could press and see your options all as they would execute in the command line. So could just go thru smitty to set what you wanted and instead of running it, just crib the command line sequence and pop into your script without even having to learn AIX nuances.
My comment was relevant to the article and the post to which I was responding. If you want to interpret the rules to preclude any generalizations about people from different cultures when talking about those people as a group, then you should ban any discussion of immigration. Because any discussion of immigration that requires pretending groups of people are culturally fungible is simply misinformation--ignorant people talking to each other based on shared ignorant assumptions.
It's comparable to most Call of Duty games at the minimum, many of which have maps in completely residential and commercial areas. Russian airport terminals, Ukranian apartment blocks, etc.

Also- considering the plotline of the game, in which the protagonist is fighting off an invading IDF military, is that flag you see Israel (Israel) or Israel (Occupied Palestinian territory)?

> Missions across real places in Palestine

Seems like the latter, with no evidence for the former.
Yes you're correct, the idea is that they're not adding any keywords or bytecodes, just some new standard lib APIs that will get some special treatment by the JVM.
Thank Big Data for Killing Off the Worst Part of Thanksgiving Meal Prep
My first job out of uni was with an IT recycling company that was trying to extract itself from the rest of its conglomerate. I wore so many hats I could have started a store. Our highest security priority was preventing the other members of the conglomerate from seeing our customer list, for instance.

My tip is to try and best practice everything. Locate the correct method online, especially if theres applicable vendor best practice. Every time the director asked me to do something new, I would go away and find out what I should be doing, and then made that the basis of our negotiations. I didn't win every one of these fights, but I managed to spin the job so far that I did IP telephony, Security Cameras, built the company's ad forest and hundreds of other small relevant to my career wins. I ended up with 2 direct reports. And in the process I took a very immature business and injected a large amount of maturity that they kept with them for more than a decade. And I did them correctly, or as correctly as I could without support. By the time I looked to move on I was immediately made a senior in my next role.
SpyLoan: A Global Threat Exploiting Social Engineering
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/thank-big-data-for-killing-off-...
you forgot "2024 New Version"
- Satellites below 500km altitude already have ~5 yr lifetime before re-entry. It is enough to limit mega-constellations to stay below this limit to ensure safety of future operations. Still, the collision probability will increase with the growth of such constellations. Introduction of more automated collision resolution protocol, similar to TCAS in aviation, is at least being discussed.

- Biggest accumulation of debris happen around 800 km altitude, primary from ASAT tests and derelict satellites. Something should be done about this, but salvage operations are not feasible due to lack of regulatory regime. Things will slowly get worse until they hit the rock bottom. Only then we will see some kind of action.
It can't affect any significantly higher orbit.

Because of overlaps in orbital altitudes and the possibility of weird dynamics causing some fragments reaching a somewhat higher orbit, it's possible that the effects could cascade slightly above the altitude of the original impact event.

The scariest things are a dead object like a rocket stage in GTO hitting the debris field. But even then, substantially all the debris will re-enter in a few months: perigee remains roughly the same.
>must necessarily be of average or below average intelligence

Literally yes. A mind too dense to see he was drafting his arguments in support of whatever happened to be personally convenient.

Considering he had to pen this screed in the first place, we can tell his view wasn't the exclusive one.
Yeah, while looking reasonable at first the whole article is just bollocks in the end.
It literally takes the functionalities from all 466+ languages and lets you utilize them inside the usl file as though they were their own scripts. Sorry if the description was too hard for you to follow, I’m very tired. It is a new language that lets you use any of the 466+ languages within and their extensions as though it were one language. I didn’t make up a thing. I’ve finished the first draft of the book this morning that teaches you how to use it and if you go to GitHub.com/jordan-townsend/usl it will help you understand. I’m week three into building my first language, cut me some slack. It’s not “inspired”, they literally utilize them all if needed and allow for translation into a universal scripting language that can then run everything. I’ve also built the translation software. What’s hard to understand about a master language that controls all languages it comes in contact with? Seems pretty basic.
I'm left handed and all my life people need to decode painfully what I'm writing. Most lefties write like trash that's reality
I assumed low-code meant something less bulky like Sinatra
Men's Sheds if you're in Australia.

https://mensshed.org/
How the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet Was Finally Found [video]
Typosquatting Cryptographic Libraries: Malicious NPM Packages Threaten Crypto
Nathan Taylor on Liquid Type Systems [video]
Completely untrue.

https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/IDF

https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/SEAL_Team_6
https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/GSG-9
https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/FBI
Copyright, at least in the U.S., is automatic.

He would have to actively assert that he was releasing it into the public domain (and IIRC, although my last discussion on the topic was ~20 years ago, such a release had not yet been tested in court).
The readonly property in PHP would fit the bill quite well as it can be set once and only once, no?

Plus the new PHP 8.4 version actually has asymmetric visibility for properties so you can have public properties that can not be mutated from the outside but still allow controlled mutation on the inside. The feature was borrowed from swift. I am super excited about it.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/asymmetric-visibility-v2
Banned C++ Contributor Speaks Out [video]
> based on playing as bad guys.

You gave it away.
Do you work for the site or something?

> It's not? It says the CMS is free and open-source and they have prices listed for the paid services they provide.

You brought up the CMS. I didn’t. I don’t have any point to defend regarding it. ‘bagpuss was wrong about what they said about the site, and I replied to that.

> Simply saying that something is open-source is you painting yourself as a "savior"?

It’s called marketing.

Are you unfamiliar with what scammy means? The site feels scammy to me. So I said so. I don’t think you can demonstrate that I don’t believe it’s scammy, and you haven’t convinced me either.

> Obviously, if they did provide it then there would be no reason at all to pay.

I don’t have any reason to pay either. ‘bagpuss can defend the scammy site, but I won’t so I agree there’s no reason to pay, for different reasons.

> No, not an entire site, just the current HTML document and the accompanying files for it (e.g. scripts, images, etc.) If you want to sit for hours manually doing that for thousands of pages then feel free.

I have no reason to believe a scammy site will do any better than that either. You haven’t demonstrated that the site even works, and their marketing doesn’t inspire confidence.

As I didn’t introduce the site, I’m not beholden to supporting it or not. Take ‘bagpuss to task if anyone.

I don’t think you know what you’re even arguing about or for because none of your arguments or claims even go anywhere, they all revolve around this scammy site that you didn’t even bring up. Nothing about your argument makes sense.

That you haven’t made any effort to correct ‘bagpuss by replying to them directly is curious.
Yes, exactly, print it's own scaffolding. Sounds very challenging.

Imagine this robot printing a human sized David statue and the necessary scaffolding to raise itself to every position necessary to do so.

The next level would be to design the scaffolding in such a way that it's easy for the robot to disassemble and either directly reprocess into filament or to store for later reprocessing.

The next level would be coordinating a swarm of these robots.
Also, watching videos full screen and scrubbing around in the video requires backing out to the smaller view. Then you get to fast forward/rewind. Then you have to tap to watch full screen again. Everything about this experience has gotten worse. I can’t even come up with a use case in which this is an improvement.
A Strange Shape on Google Earth Found to Be the Mark of an Undetected Tornado
This is a question for someone that has been playing star citizen for a long time. How close are we to an actually playable game? How good is what they have built so far?
"Look at this use case (Amazon) with tons of objective data that shows that trucks [do not fit Amazon's use case for X]"
In the spirit of nerd-sniping, it turns out that one needs to specify the encoding of those bytes, too, since it defaults to charset=us-ascii for some horrible reason https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Schemes/dat...

data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,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
The author appears to be a crank. Judging by the breadth and usual focus of his screeds^W posts, he has no particular insight or special expertise, other than catastrophizing things.

I'm willing to entertain a discussion of the dangers of Kessler syndrome in the near future. But not a crank one.
Consider that lim -> inf does not mean “It goes to infinity”. Its actual definition has nothing to do with infinity. So your argument about infinity is a red herring.

Or try it the other way, tell me what mathematics works better if 1/x=0 than 1/x=5. If there’s an aesthetic preference displayed here, it’s for mathematics as a tool for reasoning.
Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month
I had it go boom on Tumbleweed (when the drive filled up) less than a year ago.

I tried accessing and fixing the fubar partition from a parallel install, but to no avail.
Better headline: The framework you know intimately is better low code than low code.

What programmer “believes” in “low code” solutions?
What is Soma? I see there is a video game (link)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(video_game)], but have no idea what it means in this context. Are you saying there is some kind of add-on for that?
> What I didn’t see is any discussion about taking the fixed coordinate system defined by a printer’s volume and translating that into the larger space,

That's because the creator didn't make it do that. I was looking for this as well but a careful reading shows that the print volume is the same as a normal Prusa Mini.

It's a Prusa Mini on a Roomba, that's it. It can drive to a spot and then print there normally, nothing else. What you are describing would be a far more interesting project, in my opinion.
> to clarify, i have nothing to do with this site, i used it once, years back and there was a free tier or at least a free/crippled version at that time

posters, enhance your calm

- bagpuss, fat furry cat puss
70 years feels so long for movie or book.

I get it’s important to protect the right of authors and companies but damn it’s 3 generations. Something my grand grand father may have seen, that’s insane.

25 year, a single generation would make sense. I’d argue that by then all the money would have been made and you would allow new generation to grow up with the greatest art from previous generation, it would be like a virtuous circle. Next generation would improve based on previous one And so on.
Most Starlink's new generation constellations are around 550 km where the orbital decay time is 50 years. Some constellations will be 1000 or above.
the key is to not generate huge big spurts of code blocks but incremental, reviewable code blocks in dynamic typed languages. Also,

“LLM”s are a constantly updating product, the new DeepSeek coder model with GPT-o1 like reasoning and chain of thought just came out, and its a lot superior than LLM models from even 1 month ago, especially when trained on internal docs, and files, and synthetic LLM generated metadata on those files, all accessible under an effective hybrid search engine.

It’s perfectly usable with Dynamic languages like JS and Python, and perfectly doable to write bug free effective code, is one is restrained and thoughtful in its use, which builds up as muscle memory over time anyways.

Especially if one considers linters and type hints enabled in js (as ts) and python type hints, then it becomes even more doable, if you’re insistent on static typed only language code with LLM.
This can be generalized to - whatever language and framework you are very familiar with is best for the job.
Reminds me of a diner where I grew up. Not fine dining but no real menu. The waitress brought you something and assured you “you’ll like it.” People went there when they were hungry and didn’t want to make any decisions. Maybe it reminded them of their mom’s kitchen at home. You get what she cooked.
Here's quick summary:

- game exists (similar to it's current form) since 2022. No civilians. Military styled players. Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

- no one bats an eye

- developer adds a cut-scene of a military styled player paragliding into a base

- everyone looses their mind
South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco.
> We hold AI to a pretty high standard of correctness, as we should, but humans are not that reliable on matters of fact, let alone on rigor of reasoning.

I never understood this line of reasoning.

1. Humans can't run faster than 30 mph.

2. Therefore we can't complain if cars/trains/transport always go slower than 30 mph.

These comparisons also hide that we are comparing best of AI (massive LLMs) with median/average human reasoning.
I’ll add: Siri somehow gets in a state where the pulsing circle appears and responds to voice, and it stays in that state apparently indefinitely and never actually transcribes any words or does anything. It’s possible this happens when music is stuck?

iOS 17 seemed to break Siri pretty badly when the phone thinks it’s in a car, but the damage seems to be spreading in 18.
1000% #4. No thought is even required to answer that.
My thoughts exactly. I was thinking it maybe genuinely unfair treatment, but then I read the developer's own description of the game.
Anyone who describes their own work as 'basest of all time' is clearly going for shock value, and not as a protest, but as a selling gimmick.
I don't necessarily agree it should be banned, I just... can't think of a downside.
What "opinions" are you talking about? It's so customizable that it is SO much less opinionated than a standard keyboard.

This seems crazy to me. I program with my Ergodox perfectly fine. It's so much better for programming because all the silly symbols I need can be wherever I like.

You can put the [] keys wherever you like. You can have a brackets/symbols layer activated by holding another key, so you don't even have to move your hand to get any symbol you want.

I don't do this for brackets but I do have a movement layer which puts the arrows and pgup/pgdn/home/end right under my right hand on the home row. So I hold my thumb on a thumb key and then I can use arrows without even moving my hand.

I also have other keys on that layer send the higher Function keys that aren't even on a standard keyboard (F13-F24), so they are picked up by Autohotkey and I can run any kind of script I want from that. I use that to move windows to certain locations. I have a key on that layer to immediately bring up the calculator. I also have media controls right there. Really it's limited only by your imagination and how much effort you're willing to put into making things happen.

It's 1000x more flexible than a standard keyboard because I can put keys that I need regularly either on a layer linked to a thumb key, or basically any crazy setup you can possibly think of with tap layers or whatever. https://docs.qmk.fm/feature_layers

If you can't find a place for brackets, you really should think about it a bit harder, because that's the absolute weakest argument ever for using a standard keyboard. The symbols are absurdly laid out on a standard keyboard!!

Even the moonlander default Layer 1 is so much more logically laid out for symbols: https://configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/default/latest/1

Have a look at the Spacefn layout for some ideas, they mention parentheses here: https://kbd.news/The-SpaceFN-concept-2315.html

Here's a guy specifically discussing coding on a moonlander https://anniecherkaev.com/principles-for-keyboard-layouts

I guess if all you wanted was a standard keyboard that is split, then it's not that, but I'm never going back to a standard keyboard, and you can't make me!
Oh I missed the rendering capability. Thanks for the link!
Well they recently arrested a jewish son of holocaust survivors for hate speech after he denounced Israel as behaving in a genocidal manner: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-police-arrest-israeli-...
>...Specifically, prion proteins do not change the sequence of amino acids; they instead transmit their pathological shape to otherwise “healthy” proteins, causing them to misfold in the same way. Prion diseases do not alter the validity of the Central Dogma because they don’t alter any genetic sequences.

...did you read it?
I like this free site written by a CPA. https://www.accountingverse.com/
"Ghost jobs." Would anyone even notice, if this is already occurring currently?
I bought a Steam Deck because I'm no longer young. I could rave about the haptics and build quality, but honestly, I just like that I can tap a button and pick back up where I was weeks or months earlier.

Plus, it was $300 (on sale) for the first fully equipped computer built for Linux in a handheld form factor. Even if I barely use it, that's /cool/.
The Lotus Sutra connects people with the universe rather than estrangement from it and its laws. Rather than condemnation, it shows that people have infinite possibility for improvement. There are communities of equals in Buddhism, namely the ones who broke with hierarchy.

Of all the communities I have seen, they are the most accepting of all people.
Because if a web site were not able to fuck with all the things, that would make web-site developers less impressive and less useful to prospective employers.
First-Hand Account of "The Undefined Behavior Question" Incident [pdf]
Obligatory reading: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Dealing with a defect right now in production where an external system had assumed that a person always has a first name and a last name whereas the person just has a name, which is neither the first name nor the family name – it is just a name.
I don't think this is always true, so they are saying something here. It might not be super profound but:

> the advantage of 'low-code' is an essentially flat learning curve, if you have expertise in the field you're being asked to prototype in your strongest stack will be faster and better.

It's at least actionable by developers who might feel tempted by these tools for a throw-away project.
Per se is latin for "for itself".
The Photos change was bad enough for me to decide to never purchase any Apple device again except for MBPs until they realize how bad the design and quality of their software has gotten across the last 5-10 years.

It legitimately kept me up at night thinking what kind of company process is required to greenlight this.

It is especially a night and day difference when compared to consistent UX improvements to watchOS and how much more stable it has gotten. Certainly a team that cares about it a lot and are capable to realize that are working on it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kin...

I know Google is hard but you can just look for yourself.
Genes that promote improved written communications could have been selected for even if you use cuneiform as the starting timeframe you are considering. Of course that isn't the real starting time. Cave paintings are 40k years old. How long ago did we begin drawing in the dirt with sticks?
It's in a quantum superposition of being really good and unplayable, and releasable soon and infinite scope creep.
Erm, I think somebody missed a power of 10 somewhere in the title. Their funding is definitely not $750 million.

Although, $75 million is still impressive.

Edit: I stand corrected. I simply looked at the website which listed the stretch goals to $65 million and missed the $750 million total. Cowabunga.