skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps TFA could explain what happened to math between 1977 and 2024. Because the meaning of "atomic" didn’t change, nor did the meaning of 1NF. The author pretends to explain 4NF, but never actually begins. He calls himself an "historian", which he might be. But he betrays very little knowledge of the relational model.

Repeating fields, which he proclaims as some kind of innovation, violate 1NF. They’re not atomic. Maybe the easiest way to understand it is that the list of languages can’t be used in SQL. If one teacher speaks Italian and French, SQL won’t find WHERE LANGUAGE = ‘FRENCH’. Nor will SQL join two teachers on that column.

SQL doesn’t recognize repeating fields in a column because it already has a way to represent them: as rows. That a teacher speaks two languages is not one fact, but two; not surprisingly, those two facts appear in two rows. ‘Twas true in in 1977. ‘Tis true today. Thus ‘twill ever be.
My family is doctors. Parents, cousins, aunts and uncles. Don’t know one user of this service.
The drones only appear after dark and bright exterior lights blunt efforts to see beyond. It's no accident they only appear at night.
It's not, considering the scale. The projected image of reliability and trustworthiness can't be than more of a facade, with only 'some' humans shepherding an endless army of 'zalgorithms on crack'. If any of their spasms is hitting YOU for whichever reason, you're usually out of luck if the expectation is normal, casual means of interaction/recovery.

For me that began with the necessity of providing a SMS-capable mobile phone number for recovery, which I won't ever give them.

They have alternative e-mails, fully verified, which were sufficient for opening that account.

Depending on where you are, that behaviour could even considered illegal, because they are weasle-wording around that necessity in their TOS, letting you make an account without that in earlier times, then changing that somewhere in their TOS later, which you have to agree to, or else...

But still just not explicitely stating that necessity when you're opening some account somewhere in googleverse right now, instead weasle-wording around in some of their fora, and censoring questions about that in there. No matter if in german, or english.

While having my full 'Ladungsfähige Adresse' ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladungsf%C3%A4hige_Anschrift ) with POTS/Landline for other reasons.

(Imagine endless stream of CENSORED cusswords here...)

edit: If any of your services require a SMS-capable mobile-phone to operate, even if only for authentication/recovery, then F....... say so loud and clear, right from the start, for every service, any place, anywhere, any time!

But that would be too obvious, innit?
Sodium has a gravimetric energy density of ~4 kWh/kg for complete oxidation (lithium has ~12 kWh/kg and gasoline has ~13 kWh/kg), so there's still plenty of room for improvement.

Dr. Shirley Meng has done some interesting work on anode-free solid state sodium ion batteries - current samples have 350 kWh/kg of gravimetric density, but only retain 70% capacity after 400 cycles.
Yes, but so is Chrome and many other browsers.
But won't all the scripts break?
> A lot of WhatsApp's features are enforced client-side, which means on Web they just break with DevTools.
This is true. IIRC, there is also a "bug", I think it's unfixable due to WhatsApp's
nature at the time, where you can send a message with a tampered quoted reply. It's
also done in the DevTools by modifying the quoted message ID to something that
doesn't exist.

> I wonder if stuff like this would be eligible, I don't see why it wouldn't.
I just reported it, let's see if it's eligible
Do you feel that by using an AI-assisted editor you are doing less of "the work" of building a product than you would by delegating it to another developer? That is not my experience at all.
Welrod and its clones are bolt action. There's a knob at the end that needs to be twisted, pulled, then pushed back in and twisted back to lock again. They're also rather tubular looking, ironically unmistakable at this point.

Any suppressed mag-fed handgun will have a similar geometry as a Welrod/VP9, like how every laptop will look like a MacBook.
AI Agents are already at a useable level - they're able to not only tell you what to write, you just have to tick a button and it's all done. They'll write the commands on the console and run them. They can do many things that are accessed via CLI. They still make mistakes, mostly on an architectural level, and it's best to treat them as a junior engineer who got straight A's.

The bulk of engineering work these days is product-architecture work - engineers have to fully understand the purpose of the product and engineer the code on a higher level to optimize it for what it's meant to do. In the past, you'd need a team to handle a part of a feature on a platform. Now individual engineers can own the entire platform or feature.
Woah!, cool website Saksham! I loved the video clips that makes it very friendly to understand or get a quick hold of what you made.
Kind of. Im pretty sure “public endpoint” is to disambiguate from virtual network functionality like VPC Endpoints and VPC Peering etc which are specific to your account/VPC.

To your other comment, not many companies own the “layer 0” physical infra long haul. But yes, this is almost absolutely going over “dark fiber” that AWS is leasing from someone like zayo or L3. Since 2016ish effectively all AWS regions and DX POPs use this model to interconnect. The LAX & NYC sites are almost definitely the same DCs & TCs used for “local zones.” So yes, a few hundred gb to tb of leased lines back to PDX and IAD. Search for “aws backbone” content. And for security Im not sure whats public these days, but fiber taps are a real and known threat.

Source: ex AWS PE who spent some time in and adjacent to edge networking.
> the parts to build them should be available pretty much forever

I find that's the most interesting aspect of this board. It's an excellent addition to permacomputing-optimized designs. It's a simple digital civilisation landmark for the ages. Or if you're pessimistic, the ultimate fallback computer.
Given the text:

> Thanks for choosing SA-Ware for your packet spreading requirements!

It's probably short for "packet spreading"
I loved Köln Cathedral. It's a must see in Germany. Equal to any castle.
> You are making a distinction without a difference.

I think it is obvious that your objectives are very different from mine. What's "without a difference" given one set of objectives is a key difference given another.

> That you do so with such voraciousness, makes it seem like you are keen to defend those labeled fascist/authoritarian/etc.

No. I'm interested in having a historical argument about how to define "fascism" as part of "history for history's sake". You seem by contrast primarily interested in defining words to rhetorically assist you towards some political end.

> Split hairs all day, the gulag doesn’t care.

I've lived my whole life in Australia. I think it is very unlikely that the current or any foreseeable future Australian government is going to start putting people in anything resembling gulags. To suggest otherwise is rather alarmist.
Don't get too attached to it... it's a running joke that they make a new chat platform every other year. There's already been Talk, Voice, Buzz, Plus, Chat, Wave, Spaces, Currents, Hangouts, Meet, Hangouts Chat, Hangouts Meet, Hangouts again, Allo, Duo, Messages, RCS, Chat again... lol.

There's only one thing on the internet that decays faster than Javascript frameworks, and that's Google chat apps.
Once again: this observation is inapposite.
Product launch when will you launch demo startup VC! VC! Demo product launch eat sleep code repeat cringe what's your stack hacker congrats on the launch website just a website not working at NASA just crud crud crud standup grooming review retro LinkedIn engineering@fuckly so excited to share! Occam's razor
I am all for eliminating mortgage interest rate deductions. It primarily benefits upper-middle class homeowners. They borrow money from a bank and somehow get a tax break for it? Yet, even a wealthy person that pays cash for their home doesn't enjoy that benefit?
Workflow management. The disparate flow of actions is a nightmare.
I've been trying to reconcile a few observations that appear contradictory:

1. Inflation was significant. 150-250k is just the cost of a white collar with experience.
2. The skills required to be a top software engineer have increased. The field is much more competitive and has some extremely productive people at the top.
3. A significant number of my peers in software seem to think they can earn very high salaries forever, while working mostly remote, never touching weekends, never studying. That cannot continue forever.
4. Most engineers do not have any risk tolerance, and are not navigating the "7 years of plenty" for the "7 years of famine".

So what happens? Maybe inflation lowers everyone's standard of living, but they keep jobs, and nothing dramatic happens. Maybe there are big layoffs and rude awakening? Maybe it's the bottom 50% of quality that gets hit hard, and everyone else is fine?
>However, we reduce benefits as wages increase which means workers have reduced incentive to seek minor changes in wages.

>This system partially reverses that effect. A company paying an extra 1$ out of pocket increases the wages of a worker by 1.3$/hour so when they lose 0.3$/h in benefits they still see 1$/hour in higher wages.

This still feels like you're playing shell games. The only reason your example works is that prior to that marginal dollar, you added a 30% premium to the cost of labor, so you could return some of that 30% when wages go above some arbitrary amount. There's no free money. For people earning exactly the minimum wage, the effect to employers is exactly the same as hiking the minimum wage by an equivalent amount. Moreover, this is arguably a tax on the employee as much as the employer. For people earning exactly minimum wage, employers are forced to pay $3/hr (or whatever) in employee costs, but none of that went to the employee. Had the minimum wage simply been bumped, the employee would be free to spend the money however he sees fit, but with your scheme he gets nothing. Sounds a lot like a minimum wage bump to $3/hr, and then the government immediately clawing it back. In other words, a tax.
I was just going to say this, but you said it better than I would have!
A definition of spam includes unsolicited bulk mail. I know it's a very lax definition, but I get a tingly spidery sense this cold email handbook is describing how to send unsolicited mails, in bulk.

Is it just me? I mean sure, it says how to do spf, dkim, dmarc, so it's not unidentified. But as a future recipient I think I'd be filing these into spam, come what may.
Here's the Facebook group of his supporters [1]. Looks like this article isn't changing their minds.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/736339123587229/
The idea is you look at the source and if you want to make money from it you negotiate a license that allows you to do that.
Watch carved from meteorite that hit Earth a million years ago
The types of questions that an AI gets right are still bad questions to ask in 2024, regardless of being remote or in person.

If you're allowing your programmers to use AI on the job you're not getting particularly useful information if unaided someone fails a question that they would answer correctly with AI assistance. Sure, being able to answer the question in person may still correlate with being a better applicant, but that doesn't mean it's a good question.

Interviews take time, you should make good use of the time by asking questions that tell you a lot. Questions easily answered by AI (this also goes for questions easily answered by studying interview questions by the way) are not good questions. Measure the things that matter.
TFA says "Some ammunition can take out a helicopter ..." which is true enough. I merely pointed out that most anything can "take out a helicopter".

Attachment of this discussion to the Ukrainian conflict and DOD is your imagination.

Of course people can’t throw rocks as far as a firearm can shoot. But to state that "people can’t throw rocks anywhere near normal firearms distances" is contrary to most gunshot assault statistics, especially for handguns:

"The True Distance of a Typical Gunfight"

https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/the-true-distance-of-a-ty...

(tl;dr - 3 to 5 yards)

While a firearm can shoot farther and more accurately than most persons can throw a rock, human encounters usually occur at short ("rock-throwing" or less) distances. Most conflicts occur at distances correlated more with the range of the human voice than with the range of a firearm.
Hacker.txt (1993)
Cold acclimation with shivering improves metabolic health in obese adults
How would letting some accounts stay with channel partners entice people to stay? Can the partners charge less than Broadcom itself?
Had to whittle the title down a bit; “Cold acclimation with shivering improves metabolic health in adults with overweight or obesity”
Aaah, I love to use it, but my friends and colleagues don't now that it even exist. So I am unable to use it.
I was just helping someone with this. Attackers captured the account at night time his hours, and updated all of the recovery contacts to their own. The account recovery process is deliberately secretive to prevent attacking the protocol.

Eventually you get escalated to a team that reviews your govt ID. have you hit that point yet?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6294825?
Make a simple one in Airtable?
There's a lot of quality advice in here.

The section on tone is good, IMO.

Also, this type of messaging applies to more than just spam. Even recruiters or startup founders trying to reach candidates could learn from this on how to write effective cold emails so candidates open and engage.
I wonder what that was _actually_ like given that it took 200 years to build. A lot less pollution so maybe it really did look _all_ shiny and new :-)
I have never heard someone calling Github code reviews anything close to optimal. Here is where it falls short for me - do you not hit these?

- Main view is not the code, nor can I approve from that view, so it’s always half a dozen clicks to review even something trivial.
- The main conversation view is very broken for me. Conversations always get lost or forgotten.
- Any long conversation gets hidden behind another button and trying to load or find something at that point is very hard
- There is a concept of resolving threads but no way to see if there are any unresolved threads

I am probably missing some but these are the largest issues for me
For others in the thread: it's a good time to run Google Takeout (every 6 months) and copy your content to your own drive. Google Takeout now supports other clouds

Review your security and recovery settings. Hackers are very aggressive right now.

1. third party apps
2. 2fa activation
3. family member settings
4. recovery email & phone contacts
> I don't know how I convinced my parents to get me this in elementary but not a single other person I ever met had heard of it.

It was an interesting almost niche thing. My cousins had a unit and the service which I played all the time, but trying to describe it to other children at school years after the fact was difficult because nobody had ever heard of it. Honestly it was a toss-up if they even knew what a Genesis was at that point in life. I didn’t even know what a Sega Channel was called until I had finally found a solid description online with an accompanying picture at some point in high school.
> Half a million dollars a year is a lot of money even in the expensive cities.

Absolutely. But depending on your perspective it may seem like an unfathomable amount of money where you start to drive lambos and have a private chef. It's not.

> If you make that much and don't save a significant part of it, you're rather lacking in foresight.

Agreed. I expect them to max their tax advantaged accounts, have significant equity in their house > 1.2 M house. Maybe have a rental property.

> Go talk to the people earning five times less who live in the same city

100k in SF or Manhattan? Sure that exists. But in some ways nothing lower than that exists. Anything lower is likely:

- an immigrant living a similar life style as their home country, which would not be accepted by the native population. (Many tenants in one apartment, possibly not legal housing, etc).

- workers who commute from a neighboring city.

- Students who are poor on paper, but have a financial safety net through parents.
How the F are people so confused about the definition of this simple term for this simple concept? Go find a dictionary or something FFS.
Similar experience for me. In my company adopting nix paid off in weeks with no prior experience. Very happy with it almost 10 years later and at much larger scale. The difference between things working reliability or not is too big to overstate.
Unreal Engine is free with a huge ecosystem to learn from.

Jetbrains IDEs are worth every dollar.
> Then someone else is incentivised to build a new building, undercut the competition while still making profits since the existing stock was overpriced.

Not when there’s a glut of housing. Undercutting by a new complex results in those same algorithms lowering prices and people aren’t going to move without any incentives, so you end up with a largely vacant complex...

Don’t get me wrong rents aren’t completely uncoupled from reality. But they rarely fall because renting 80% of your stock at historic prices is better than a price war resulting in you still renting 80% of your stock at new lower prices.

> spot overpriced rentals

When prices are manipulated all you’re going to see is the manipulated prices.
The problem is: which shell? Bash is far from being universal. Also, there is usually not much you can do with a shell without commands (find, grep, sed, cat, head, tail, cut...), and commands have their own portability issues.

Targeting busybox may be your best bet, but once you are leaving your typical Linux system, writing portable (Bourne) shell scripts becomes hard to impossible.
Every single person involved in this operation through the entire chain of command should be dismissed, named publicly, and barred from any future law enforcement role and face criminal charges. All victims should get complete restitution, and the assets of offenders should be used to finance additional compensation. Ditto for all other instances of armed robbery committed by law enforcement, whether they branded it as “civil asset forfeiture” or some other bureaucratic euphemism.
Same. Mildy curious about the homeless life, just paid the last rent I could afford when I found a job. The main concern at the time was worrying my parents.
Welcome Please note, Bring4th has become a read-only archive
Mostly I preferred the aesthetic, the menu and sessions system, and how I could configure it easily to handle my tab containers strategy.
They were indeed!
Hard to believe his company was okay with paying for all of this, but neat! I’m jealous.
Recommend you read the beyond the fold section, it's interesting. I've quoted a bit here as a tease lure to encourage you to read more:

- Click here to continue reading....

If interested, here's our predicament and perspective:

Webmaster Conundrum

As some of you may have learned through the forums, the website has exhibited growing pains since its September, 2021 upgrade. As time revealed, our volunteer Webmaster Steve became increasingly overwhelmed with the technical needs of the forums. Along with the technical hurdles of merging the original forum system into a newer mobile-friendly version, Steve's personal availability had also changed dramatically since launching Bring4th in 2008. No matter how strong an intention to be of service to the forums, his efforts were ultimately not enough to resolve an outcropping of upgrade bugs and to sustain the ongoing evolution of the Bring4th platform, as he lamented about in the forums.

We presently have no means to replace him. The Bring4th Webmaster position is one that not only requires a highly trained skill set due to the complicated merging of two code bases and disjointed database systems, but also requires an administrative acuity to maintain servers and security protocols to minimize the possibility of destructive incidents from hackers and bots. This requires a strong foundation of trust, and it's not something we can outsource to an uninterested third party. It is a big ask from a volunteer and we do not currently know anyone with the combination of available time, skill, and an established relationship of trust. Also, the means are not in the budget for bringing on a paid webmaster for Bring4th.
Thanks!
I guess strictly you'd have to include this page, which would put the total internet data in the (roughly) ronnabyte or quettabyte range, with nearly all of it being this page.
I know of only a few other people that have managed to get "real" fiber to the home.

I am jealous of them save for the "your monthly ISP bill is similar to a car payment" aspect.
Hey! That's my setup as well! I have one DIA connection and a backup VPN over a shitty Comcast business connection that gets terminated in a nearby datacenter.

Getting an ISP to even _talk_ to me required quite a bit of sleuthing. And I was saying from the outset that I was ready to fully pay for the fiber run.

Apparently, ISPs in my locality actually divide the city into the service areas. How the heck this is legal, I don't understand.

Some tidbits from me: my ISP installed a big honking ADVA optical line terminal on my premises. Getting them to move it to their side and just provide me with an SFP connection is still my work-in-progress.

The support is also outsourced into India, and getting them to understand what you want over the phone is... painful. Fortunately, the web ticket system is good enough.
The gun used in the United Healthcare CEO killing was not a Welrod but instead a poorly set up semi-automatic pistol.

To get suppressors to approach the kind of quiet operation you see in the movies in real life, the shooter needs to use subsonic ammunition. That's because suppression of the firing noise isn't beneficial if the bullet immediately breaks the speed of sound, making a loud crack.

9MM rounds (the caliber used in the United Healthcare CEO Killing) are supersonic by default. Subsonic ammunition can be purchased or made for 9MM guns, but the way to make the round subsonic is to use less gunpowder on a heavier round.

A downside of this is that using these rounds in a standard unmodified semi-automatic pistol will often result in the gun not cycling. That is to say, the kinetic energy of these lower gunpowder bullets leaving the weapon is not enough to cause the gun to eject the spent round and load the next round.

So, the round will fire, but to eject the spent casing and load the next round, the shooter needs to manually cycle the firearm, as seen in the surveillance video in the recent incident.

Welrods are bolt action, they intentionally don't attempt to cycle automatically after each firing. The weapon in the video shows gas escaping the chamber, something a bolt action weapon would not do.

Someone with serious firearms training and expertise would have modified the weapon to cycle with subsonic ammo or used a .45 caliber weapon that is subsonic by default.
We basically get back to pre-photo era, when all you access your information based on credibility of messenger.
> Sounds a lot like a minimum wage bump to $3/hr, and then the government immediately clawing it back. In other words, a tax.

Sure it’s a shell game, but reducing benefits when workers now make the new minimum wage is just as much a shell game.

Reducing benefits sounds like government savings not a Tax, but at the end of the day money is money and this money isn’t ending up in the workers pockets either way.
Did strike me as a bit odd. Musk won't be president until January 20.