skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This line of argument is untethered from reality.

You had a business that was acquired by Amazon. I don't know if you're giving this a fair assessment.

When the copyright holders of large open source infrastructure projects want revenue from their hard work, Amazon forks them or provides funding to their direct competitors.

Amazon can strategically launch free and open source competition to commercialized open source products as a means of keeping more of the cloud spend budget for themselves.

The hyperscalers want to commoditize anything that impinges upon their margins. The software should be free, it should run on their clouds, and it should lead to increased cloud spending. Other companies shouldn't dip their hands into the pot.

Moreover, hyperscalers get to hoover up "managed" versions of open source software and collect even thicker margins. Redis, Elasticsearch, etc. fly in the face of this strategy, which is why they attack it so relentlessly.

The Linux Foundation and CNCF serve its industry contributors. The microservice ecosystem is booming business for AWS, Azure, and GCP.

I don't see how this is "untethered from reality". This is cutthroat business, and it's how the trillion dollar companies throw their weight around.

If you build open source infrastructure products and don't have an anti-cloud provision, you'll get picked clean by the hyperscalers.
I think antirez has made very rational economic decision. For Open Source Redis/Valkey community though it would be better if he had joined Valkey of course.

Note though it is not certain he even could - the Non Compete when you have significant compensation in cash or equity can be much stronger and run a lot longer than employment related
Ten people halving their meat intake has more positive impact than four people going full vegan. Unfortunately the idea of "less meaty" dining is entirely unknown where I live, it's either completely meatless or meat as the defining element with some sides as fillers. Meatless is high status (even if hated by some), meat-heavy is high status (even if hated by others), but simply does not happen, except perhaps behind closed doors.
Doctors are paid for the service they provide so they are incentivized to prescribe things that arent effective. This is a large part of why americans consume so much more healthcare than other countries where doctors get paid per patient on their panel. I agree doctors should determine health care prescriptions but we need to align incentives first.
If you live in a town with a major industry that industry tends to get a lot of free PR from local news who eat up all their releases at face value. AI writing would surely do the same but globally.
Yeah, I mean, the sky is blue. It's not a rare color.

It doesn't really matter if people didn't have a unique name for it -- I can distinguish tons of colors I don't have names for.

As you grow older, you learn learn the importance of color terms like "salmon" and "ecru". But you can be guaranteed you were perceiving them since you were little...

But claims like that are made as part of the everything-is-relative-and-culturally-determined movement. That denies men and women have any biologically determined average personality differences whatsoever, for example. Or that "harmful" emotions like anger are culturally imposed rather than innate, and all we need to do is "unlearn" them and maybe we'll get world peace.
A simple way to remember, I think by Devops Borat: Redundancy/Replication fix hardware problems. Backups fix stupid human problems.

> And, does restoring from backups always mean losing more _recent_ data than replication?

This depends on the archiving technology and what you're archiving.

Our file and object stores take one full backup every day. This means, we could lose up to 24 hours of data changes on these stores if something happens within these 24 hours. If this is acceptable or not depends on the RPO - the recovery point objective, or the "maximum acceptable data loss". However, especially for documents, 24 hours can be acceptable, because users and customers do tend to have files they uploaded to the system around for a few days. Especially if you have a chance to identify the lost documents.

Both on MySQL with the InnoDB driver, as well as on postgres, you can use PITR backup solutions - point in time recovery. With this, pgbackrest or e.g. xtrabackup store a full backup of the database usually once a day at our place, and then keep archiving the WAL / transaction logs of the system. And we, in turn, archive snapshots of these into the longterm archiving once a day.

If we need a restore, we'd first restore a pgbackrest or xtrabackup state from the long term archiving onto a system. And then we can use the PITR recovery mechanisms to restore at a specific point in time.

Technically, we could precisely recover down to the last transaction before the disastrous transaction to minimize data loss. In fact, I've done so one or two times after some database migrations went haywire. That involved scrolling through transaction logs with a viewer to identify when the migration tool starts running, noting down the transaction ID of the transaction tool starting it's check and then restoring to the transaction before. Very cool tbh.

This is important for an RDBMS, because the data in the relational database tends to be much more volatile than the data in a file or object store. With a filestore, users upload a file and then move it to their recycling bin or their "done" folder on the local system and can easily drag it back out tomorrow. With the database, the user spent 30 minutes to an hour writing up some text or a comment and expects it to be saved and sound once they hit "Reply". Losing this kinda data creates a lot more work & effort for our customers, because then they have to figure out what state the data is in and what to redo. This may also cause their business processes to run haywire and... it's not great.
if EA wanted to set it up so you could sell them for real money, with ea taking a cut, I think they could. of course they don't really want to let you do that, but even putting aside banking steam let's you sell cards for steam wallet money (which goes back to valve) and let's you buy cheap games for "free".

it's never really seemed like a limitation that needs a technical back end to fix it, it needs people to want to set it up.
> To complete the puzzle, we wanted to deterministically test the behavior of the database when interacting with the operating system and other components. To do that, we are partnering with Antithesis

Are there any open source DST projects, even just getting started? I don't even know how/where to start if I would want to do the same on a small app, but can't afford nor want to depend long term on a commercial license.
Congrats on 3333, that's awesome and fun.

Can it deployed embedded within, say, a node app, or does it require deployment as its own docker image or docker compose stack?
> By fictionalized, I mean to say that certain aspects of the anime are inconsistent with historical record. I don't just mean the thinly-veiled references to Poland or the Catholic Church. For instance, one glaring anachronism is the Pear of Anguish. While the inquisitor in the show refers to his as a "prototype", no such device in any form existed until some two to three centuries later. The Pear in the show is a literary device that gruesomely establishes the stakes faced by the characters. It also operates as a visual metaphor for the Church's desire to silence dissent. But in no way or shape was it an instrument of torture in the 16th century.

I can somewhat empathize with this—the torture that did exist at the time (crushing someone to death, breaking their bones on the wheel, Schwedentrunk, flaying people alive, and far too many other practices I'd like to avoid mentioning at all) I would be more than happy to never see visualized. The historical record is important, but sometimes inaccuracies are useful in conveying symbolic power and threats. Some translation and interpretation is always necessary if you want to produce a coherent narrative.

Realistically, with history-as-entertainment, if you can capture some things well you're doing far better than many even try to. I love Ridley Scott but his depictions of history are far more of a discussion about how the west views itself today rather than even trying to translate something from the time to today. Which is fine! It's entertainment. And many do far better than he does.
https://archive.ph/v7TRe
they can keep failure to deliver forever until the market moves in their desired position to actually send orders to lit market.

they use derivatives and heavily recycle buy/sell shares to keep kicking the FTD can down the road for as long as the market returns to their desired position.
> But something far more valuable was lost: the community's trust.

But before that the community turned its back on Redis Ltd., when it let those cloud offerings from others thrive. Once the “community” got that going, these consequences were inevitable.
I pay for a couple that I usually do visit, but I wouldn't be able to do the same for others.

Also, ads got ridiculous real fast, and started doing a lot more than just show a picture. This was really the breaking point for me. I happily pay for the couple mentuomed earlier, and donate to OSS projects even but more than that is unfeasible.

There are lists one can use for filtering out only the "bad" ads, mostly community driven. What we really need is a standard way of doing this, one that is enforced. But no ad company wants this, at least from what I gather.

Blaming ad blockers is the same as blaming video game piracy, you aren't tackling the real issue. The issue is that ad blockers provide a better service than not having one (i.e. not filling your screen and preventing you from seeing the content, not being a security nightmare, etc...), even if you need to go through the trouble of getting one. Alas, in this case it generates a perpetual cycle, which further puts people over their breaking point.

I guess what I'm really saying is that ad companies, and websites filling their pages with them, did this to themselves. The public tolerates it to a certain point, but I wouldn't see it it's their fault if normal web usage continues to deteriorate.
From a purely technological standpoint, a boring database does everything an NFT could for transferable digital assets.

This is the classic "solution looking for a problem" you see so often with NFTs and blockchain generally. The proposed problems (in this case verifiable and transferable ownership) already have mature, satisfactory solutions.

NFTs don't benefit consumers (because the tangible value exists in a centralized server somewhere anyway) and they don't benefit publishers (who can already implement those features if they cared to). They benefit people that want to get rich speculating on NFTs.
Bugs are fixed along with regression tests. Here's a recent example: https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/289daf6cee39625e

As far as I can see, these tests come with the same public domain dedication as the rest of the code.

You may be referring to the TH3 tests (https://sqlite.org/th3.html). The main goal (100% branch coverage, 100% MC/DC) would not be achievable for a Rust implementation (or at least an idiomatic Rust implementation …) because of the remaining dynamic run-time checks Rust requires for safety.
I see the open source movement as being about developers sharing their work in order to raise all ships and dramatically accelerate the rate at which participants in that community can build cool software.

A lot of that benefit comes from not having to worry about licenses: pick platform components with known open source licenses, build cool things with them.

I think the rise in not-quite-open-source licenses (especially projects switching to those licenses) undermines the things that I value about open source, and further encourages more projects to make those decisions in the future.
For reference, TSMC spends around $30 - $40 billion a year all by itself for R&D
> I’m sure you never do anything because it’s enforced by the systems you are a part of.

I mean, I can quite confidently state I've not received tens of millions of dollars for my role in denying medical care to millions of people.

> You’re also comparing an insurance CEO to nazi organizers. Reality check.

I'm saying "I'm just a little peon in the system!" isn't a good defense. Doubly so for C-suite level folks. This wasn't some call center drone following a script.

> The serious point is that blaming individual moral character is not going to fix healthcare. We need systemic change.

Systemic change often requires individual people to be ashamed of the current setup.
Are multihop queries in graphdb slower than one hop?
Just 4o.
Key leaders behind Google's viral NotebookLM leaving to create their own startup
Can we please just move to using OSS licenses with a clause namely targeting cloud providers? e.g this MIT license is applicable to everyone except for the following companies: Amazon, Microsoft, Google.

Leave the rest of us poor folk alone so we don’t have to seek expensive legal counsel.
It's easy to say ${new_thing} is going to take off (takes a while to be disproven), it's even easier to say ${new_thing} _isn't_ going to take off (takes a while to be disproven and most things don't take off), but it's hardest to actually have a clue when you're talking about something which changes life forever (like the internet), a curiosity [for now] (like Google Glass), or just a scam from the ground up (pick a scammy cryptocoin) immediately when you see it.
Note: these changes were signed into law in 2017 but came into effect in 2022
As in ETFs that include no oil or oil processing companies
It seems to me that the market is kinda segmented between "people who read mostly physical books" and "people who read mostly ebooks", with some people consuming both, but usually doing some kind of segmentation for them as well (e.g., fiction vs technical).

I only want physical books. For me, book time is away-from-screen time. So: any book I may want to read?
yes, they are slower depending on graph size, and other multiple factors
> SQLite’s test suite is proprietary

This is literally the first time I've ever heard of this, for any project anywhere. I suppose Android is built a bit in this way, but that's a whole other can of worms.
Maybe for some people. Personally I find the concatenative calculus more natural to think about/in than the lambda calculus!
Games Workshop reaches final agreement with Amazon for Warhammer 40K adaptation
they kick the can down the road every day, until the market price returns to what they desire and only then they send order to a lit market.

also heavy usage of synthetic shares and derivatives to hide naked shorts
I had the same issue, so I pulled in the SDXL refiner. Night and day better even at one step.

https://gist.github.com/deckar01/7a8bbda3554d5e7dd6b31618536...
Let your child explore a world of color with our easy-to-use Coloring Games! With themes like animals, food, vehicles, shapes, geometry and nature, young artists can enjoy a creative adventure that sparks their imagination. Plus, kids can create their own masterpiece with freehand doodle drawing on a blank canvas, giving them the freedom to draw anything they imagine!
What led to the 95% decrease in fixed fees?
18th out of 50 is not excellent for a HEGEMON country that essentially rules europe, south america, and half of asia. I imagine Britain was better than 18th out of 50 during the height of the british empire.
If I’m not mistaken this seems like something that would be possible in Bend/HVM
I've built a custom planner/calendar generator targeting e-ink tablets like the reMarkable, Supernote, and Kindle Scribe. Revenue is highly seasonal, but now consistently over the $500/mo threshold :)

https://hyperpaper.me/
This is wonderful, thank you!
A relieve for devops/YAML engineers that need to reason about many key/values coming from many places. Because in the end this is all there is for the user interface of IaC/XaaS, k8s and all cloud apis.
There was some effort for "configuration management" but few realizes the complexity, the many layers and aspects there is to "it". YAML ain't mearly enough...
But the space of "configuration PLs" (Dhall,Nickel,Pkl,KCL,CUE,Jsonnet,etc.) is still young. Biggest problem I see is usability, CUE focuses on it so people shouldn't be afraid. But it is also little behind the others in term of features, but also have the greatest potential!
IMO any new tool in the cloud space that uses code abstractions cannot be serious by not thinking about the language. Transitions may be though but they ough to happen.
I may not know what wealth feels like, but I know I am a rich man compared to the author, as I don't work on Sundays.
Towards Safety Cases for AI Scheming
The report: https://timss2023.org/results/
Spare GPU Upgrade: AMD WX 3100
Turning Postgres into globally distributed database using Cloudflare Hyperdrive
As far as I understand it so far, the idea that the trees are "unlabeled" over simplifies.

The most common kind of binary tree is defined as

binary-tree = nil
| node of binary-tree label binary-tree

for example

empty-tree

node nil Alice nil

node nil Bob (node nil Carol nil)

node (node nil David nil) Edward (node nil Fred nil)

node (node nil George nil) Harold nil

If we erase the labels, there remains an implicit label Alice = 00, Bob = 01, Carol = 00, David = 00, Edward = 11, Fred = 00, George = 00, Harold = 10 encoded by the pattern of empty trees.

The trees in the article seem to be doing it slightly differently, with implicit labels 0,1, or 2. Edward is erased, leaving an implicit 2 and the erasure of both Bob and Harold leaves an implicit 1 for both of them, removing the distinction between 01 and 10.

Edited to add: I'm up to page 27 (pdf reader says page 39 of 176) and some nodes have three children. 0, 1, or 2 children represent "values". "It follows that trees containing a node with three of more branches is a computation that is not a value, and so must be evaluated."
In 2023, I started selling solid wood rolling trays designed by my little sister and I on Etsy (The Stoned Craftsmen).

Almost immediately I was making $1200-2000 per month. Some months can be big months (especially around Thanksgiving/Christmas) where I'm getting $75-200 a day in sales, but some months can be dogs (July and August this year were literally $0 months - the only 2 on record - I think an algorithm changed on Etsy and we got punished or something). When the sales were growing, the work was fun, when they plateaued then dipped, it made it hard to feel energized to do the work.

The first year I spent a lot of time optimizing everything on the manufacturing side. Better tool paths, less tool changes, better speeds to not break everything, better use of materials, better use of disposables. I tried optimizing my Etsy store, but I couldn't get anything to increase sales, and moving to my own Shopify was a waste of $40/mo for 6 months because driving my own paid traffic from social media (which has rules against paraphernalia) was hard, so eventually I dropped that and stuck with Etsy and tried to wholesale to dispensaries and headshops around me, but my wholesale price is too high, and I don't want to offshore my manufacturing to get my price low enough.

I had grand plans on growing the brand. I was in talk with major brands in the space for collaboration, but our wholesale price point was too high, and 1 celebrity brand said the gap was too large, the other never got back in touch after sending them our wholesale sheet.

So I think I'm just going to have a nice side biz as a niche maker of solid wood rolling trays.
"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"

A SAR does not deprive you of life, liberty or property.
Systemd 257 Release
Culture and chemistry are separate entities.
Golioth Adds Network Positioning Support
FWIW it took at least 30 seconds for the images to show up, first I thought it's a collection of white papers before it populated.
According to this ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10778 ), there are no branches, just decoherence (minus the "collapse").
If you invested hundreds of hours into a game and accumulated a significant pile of rare items with in-game utility, and then decided you were done with the game, would you rather a) have the option to sell them for real money or b) have the option to sell them for in-game currency (which you will never use) or c) not have any marketplace options?
I agree on a level that SQLIte is a master class in testing and quality. However, considering how widely used it is (essentially every client application on the planet) and that it does get several memory safety CVEs every year there is some merit in a rewrite in a memory safe language.
Fun project! A few comments:

* I tried to edit language preference after taking the quiz, but it only let me change the strength of my preference, not the preference itself. (There was also a single checkmark with no label for some reason.)

* I was a bit surprised that "Not Important - Skip This Question" immediately went to the next page. I think it should work the same as "Somewhat Important" and "Very Important" and wait for the user to click "Next".

* It should be possible to check any country against your quiz results, not just the top 4.

* If possible, secondary language availability should be more granular. For example, in the Netherlands, around 90% of the population can speak English. This should be weighed higher than Belgium, which has around a 60% English speaking population.
EELS!
Reading that post was a waste of my time.
Os performance depends upon the overhead imposed over workloads.
Being that a compilation, a computation or a communication task is a different topic.
Comprehensive Data Catalog Comparison
The people behind it are quite popular SWE YouTubers, so that might explain the reach :-)
The standard TPC-C and TPC-H benchmarks are available online at https://www.tpc.org/tpc_documents_current_versions/current_s...

They aren’t fully open source but are free to use, including use with open source software. They may be a bit on the complex side though.
It is perfectly general, but the error rate is too high to operate all qubits simultaneously for more than a few tens of gates without error. This is why error correction is needed but then you need orders of magnitude more physical qubits to deal with the overhead.
Strange, any phone today would be better than most hardware we had 30 yrs ago. In the 90's I had monitors with resolutions of 320x240, limited info on the screen. Things were slow. If you gave me the option of using a phone from today or a computer from then, back then and today, I'll definitely pick the phone. We don't code at the speed of thought, we poke at the computer one key at a time, one register at a time.
Note: Mathics is an optional Sage package - https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/mathics.html...
I'm currently making about $1K a month on my book/course Atomic Note-Taking which has sold in 69 countries—something I didn't anticipate!

https://atomicnotetaking.com

Along side this I'm build a note-taking app—flowtelic that aims to help you get into flow and have an autotelic experience. It's to put into software the goals of my note-taking book where I feel other apps are missing the mark.

I have a waitlist if anyone is interested

https://join.flowtelic.com
It looks nice and I might try it out. However I kinda hope OpenAI to stay as an API provider and let third parties do the UI.
Thank you for looking it up! My personal hunch is that COVID related disruption in schooling is responsible for most of the within-group drop, and the rest is mostly a result of changes in educational policy, where many places deemphasize objective measures and standards, causing students to care less for these on the margin.