skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My local transfer station has a large glass deposit the same size as its plastic one.

In Quebec you bring your glass bottles back for their deposit and at least for the beer bottles they are cleaned and reused many times.
Yeah I would suggest against using a ccTLD unless you have a strong connection to that country. Don't buy .io or .ai because they're trendy. Buy .com or .net or .dev or something else generic, or buy .co.uk if you live in the UK etc.
I think top prize has to go to the first book I read in 2024 - 'Dark Matter' by Blake Crouch. It's a little different from the sci-fi I usually read like Liu or Banks, as it reads more like Stephen King and is weirdly terrifying in places.
Cherry on the cake was finding out that it was being made into a TV show and watching it several months later. And the show being almost as good as the book, which was unexpected.
The rest of my 2024 reading has been tech books like:
SICP:JavaScript Edition.
WebGPU sourcebook.
3D Math Primer - which is now an online book - https://gamemath.com/
Beej's guide to C programming, also a free, online book - https://beej.us/guide/bgc/
Computer viruses are already a thing.

Some of those viruses shut down hospitals, some damage uranium enrichment facilities, some mine or steal bitcoin, some steal normal money.

Polymorphic viruses have been around for decades, so it's not inconceivable that there's already some almost entirely evolved (simulated evolution is a kind of AI training mechanism) virus on the internet already, even before LLMs.

Right now, I'd expect an LLM to be fairly mediocre at writing a virus. But it doesn't need to be an LLM that does the writing, just as it doesn't need to be an LLM that is the payload once the infection has happened.
Six months ago, I ventured into front-end development for the first time. Having spent many years working with back-end technologies like Java, Kotlin, and Python, diving into the React ecosystem, Node.js, and TypeScript was an eye-opening experience. I've summarized my journey in a brief post
> I would argue that likely the sales are despite this. Not because of this.

Unless you have evidence, you could argue anything. The evidence is that it's selling really well with these rules.
I don't know about elves and dwarves, but just about every race could be a human hybrid.

But it came with stat hits. Half-elves were more like humans than elves, etc.

And from what it seems, they're separating stats from race/species. Which is probably an overall good. I'm going to use the older terminology as this was the issue with the older game. If you wanted to be a wizard, you should be an elf. If you wanted to be an elf, you should be a wizard. And things like that. Certain classes just worked better with certain races.

But now, if I want to be an elf barbarian, that's better supported. I'm not fighting the game rules to play the role I want to.
The population may or may not be small relative to other groups (I don't know), but their impact on Florida culture is substantial. At least in the Miami area and surrounding counties.
Should be good enough for a personal tablet used for mail and browsing. If I drop it and someone curious finds it, I'd like to make it impossible for them to extract anything useful.
Why Spinoza still matters (2016)
That's almost exactly the split they made actually, with things like feats and flight still species based, but statu bonuses and backgrounds (with maybe some small exceptions) not being species based.

They did some work to balance it, but really species have never been the biggest balance issue, it's always been class stuff, or magical vs. martial issues, or the fact that ranger is thematically cool if you like LOTR, but sucks mechanically compared to other classes.
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Doesn’t directly answer your question but at least in Postgres I am curious about UNLOGGED mode and see if it results in faster specs. Trade off being, crash recovery doesn’t work but that’s fine in CI.

There is also something to be said about keeping database transactions atomic (no 3rd party network calls, etc) to keep flakey specs to none. I have some ad hoc thoughts on this, will try to frame it proper in a post.
What's the difference between yours and https://github.com/SecretiveShell/MCP-Bridge
As per usual Elixir does this correctly and even has a setup that allows all tests to run against the database in a pristine way in parallel: https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_sql/Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox.html
"I like to see the capabilities of a team I might be on."

- Not bad.
I've learned that Akamai has a service that deals with this specific problem, maybe this might interest you as well: https://www.akamai.com/products/content-protector
How about, "what are some questions to ask an interviewer that can only have honest answers?" Force the interviewer to tell the truth and maybe they'll continue to tell the truth. Is there a psychological basis for this.

Maybe, "tell me a secret."
I'm getting downvoted simply for giving examples, thus proving my point. But if you need a concrete example, I once had a DM include a drag show in-game.
Oh boy.

Ohkay, look:

Natural buffers can take a long time to "reset".

Broken natural buffers can take a long time to *set* ( back ) to a natural state they never been in. That only sounds "unscientific" until we cracked the whole genetics translate via messengers and pathways into bio-electricity that each cell communicates or transmits to each neighboring cell al the way to those cells that have less neighbors or something.

There's some cool videos on YT about algorithms to find cells and collisions and neighbors and paths and stuff and it kind of works ( brutally simplified ) "just like that" ( kinda ) ... except when it's broken. Because Mom, or gran'ma, or gran'pa followed some shady people's advice and lifestyles or got entangled with some really shitty people or governments or trashy, manipulative, the disgusting kind of dirty wanna-be titans of industry.

People, sensitivities and auto-immune diseases are too individual to even philosophize about in bulk.

When I say "a long time" above, I mean months to years NOT eating specific things while doing specific exercises and using specific methods to stimulate specific pathways, messengers and nerves!!!

Yeah. Great. Fuck you, mate, that's not vague at all, is it, you fucking genius.

Yeah. I know. I agree, if I got paid for that kind of shit, I could give you actual specifics; if I spend lots of time in fun conversations with you while analyzing you and all that biomarkings and genes stuff in cool machines but that won't happen anymore because you are happy taking a pill that offsets the very things that happened to you prenatally and even before that and definitely after you slipped into the light of day. Con-gratu-fucking-lations, let's see how your kids' bodies and brains will turn out.

Wait, I VAGUELY remember something about core sperm, no wait, core DNA, third generations hereditaria, heredity, he-re-di-ta-ry, yeah I think, that's it but again, don't matter. So it might happen further down the bloodline. And won't be your problem.

Oh, you already have kids? And you are not gonna have more and it's in everybody's personal responsibility to not do that/something, that/if there are hints or even proof what crazy ass bad shit some/your/those pills actually can do (later)?

Oooooh, ok, so what the fuck is all that subtext and all those ambiguous, unambiguous?, sorry, not a native speaker, advertisement and marketing about then? Exposure, teens, anchoring, priming, is that a teen superstar? Are those dark patterns? Is that RGB?

Is that a black swan flying? Or the work of a multi-billion dollar industry? WAIT ARE THOSE CHEMTRAILS?? Oh, they are vapour trails? Mostly water, you say? Holy cow, how long have we known? Didn't think we could trust science and engineering. Guess we can, after all. Wait, why are all those Pharmaceutical corporations getting sued? Oh, they mostly, settle, you say, ok.

Let's switch topic, I guess. Is that waste flowing directly into our rivers? Oceans? Ground water?
Sorry for your loss. Like many others QModem was a huge part of me getting into computers. I loved the shit out of QModem, ATH0 ride or die.
We have written language which can do all that with no technology at all.
I wasn't really trying to comment on what Apple could or could not pull off. Just pointing out that Notebookcheck seems to be misunderstanding what they're reporting on from Ming-chi Kuo, and the headline itself seems to be something Notebookcheck made up rather than something from Kuo's rumors. So this whole thread is even more baseless than it appears at first glance, but it would still be interesting to have an informed discussion about the pros and cons of unified memory for consumer SoCs, and alternatives.
Why a separate DB for each test? Just have only one DB and each test opens a transaction and then rolls it back when it's done. That way you also achieve isolation of tests so they don't interfere with each other.
+1 for this being common knowledge but there is still decent bit mocking that happens IME.
network topologies don't lie (usually). What I mean is, there are many ways to locate someone if you have enough visibility.
I got a 3.25% loan post-divorce in a part of the country I hated, and ended up selling and relocating. I do not plan on buying again soon, current prices combined with current interest rates make it unappealing. If home prices come off or stagnate long enough, I will once again consider buying. Right now I can set aside $1000/mo renting, which is enough to pay someone else for the hassle of maintaining a house.
The classic phylogenetic classes are a fantastic model, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong :)

Phylogeny is the study by which things relate to one another. There is a divergence point at which point it becomes impossible to relate two sequences to one another. Obelisks, Zeta-Elements, Deltaviruses, viroids all veer towards their own divergence point into infinity, but their are higher-order genome organization traits which are consistent. We don't know if these traits are the same by origin, or the same by chance. Interestingly Ambiviruses also have this genome organization, but they have a protein which is de facto of an RNA virus.

My opinion is that these simple genome layouts (structured circular RNA elements with ribozymes) are like a cauldron of mixing simple genes, and when they come together just the right way, we see those lineages take off. Think of it as an ocean of ancient primordial RNA replicators, ready to fire off, and this process is ongoing even today.
I prefer to think of TPM as equivalent to the chip in a smart card.
You can parse and encode JSON without dynamic memory allocation. You can encode base64 without dynamic memory allocation, and you can even decode it in-place. You just need to know the appropriate buffer sizes for a valid payload. For base64 this is a trivial function of the input size. For a streaming decoder you don't even need more than a fixed few bytes of state.

I am not arguing that either of these are appropriate for your application, particularly not base64, which doesn't address the basic problem of representing structured data, but it isn't true that they require dynamic allocation, which is good to keep in mind if you ever find yourself in need of these encoding schemes in a resource constrained system.
Recommend this deep dive article to understand some of these issues: https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
You generally need to practice a talk a lot to be able to free yourself from the slides, especially if you don’t often do talks. For a one-off talk it’s not always realistic.
I don't want to come across as harsh because the idea is neat and I'm sure creating this helped the author through their own study/understanding of the subject. But if you want to learn it would be better to study a textbook written by a mathematician.

The preamble already contains multiple errors (conflation of general and special relativity, assertion that category theory formalizes the common diagram, assertion that mathematical reasoning underwrites thought itself, assertion physical models are unnecessary/curve fitting is all you need ...)

The intro reminds me that V.I. Arnold once accused his algebraist colleagues (quite unfairly), especially in France, were primarily driven by their inferiority complex with respect to the hard sciences. The book would be much better if it didn't begin in this manner. It's valid to study mathematics (or anything of beauty, anything indispensable) for its own sake, of course.
The title of this article is “6 Best Cities To Be Homeless in the US”. The article also says that two of them have made little to no progress with their homelessness (san Diego and Berkeley). And the others are still struggling with the problem.

The article seems to answer the question of: where is it easiest to live on the street, as it mentions Berkeley and San Diego having good weather, therefore, being easier to live outside.

The only success story seems to be Houston which famously has a low cost of living. I’m not sure this qualifies as a solution to the problem.
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I agree. Maybe it would be neat if we could criminalize the theft part instead of the homelessness and drug addiction?
Not nasty, a fair observation even if over generalizing. Let’s not shy away from the reality. Yes, mementos of past lives and paperwork do exist as a fractional though important part of the whole, but the point that by volume much of the material in an encampment is stolen is not nasty, but reflected by any visual tour. If you’ve been through the experience of having anything and everything gradually stolen out of your yard and car if it’s not bolted down, with the police not giving a flying F about your loss or the problem systemically, it’s annoying to listen to such deference and enablement. That frustration isn’t the best guiding light for policy, but being dismissive of it or shaming the contributing elements of society into not expressing the frustrations they live with is not a healthy way to address the problem either.
I was responding to the comment regarding "how about the top 0.1%". H-1B isn't designed for bringing the 0.1%, there are other visas that already do exactly that. Also, it is not so high bar, I know people even without a degree who got O1, it isn't even a requirement. But you need to have a public track record of various kinds.

Also, I am not against visas intended to fill labor shortages. But it needs to be done in a way that incentivizes hiring local talent over foreign. Currently the H-1B works the other way around. This has to be dealt with. Like raising the minimum salary, making it significantly more expensive to hire an H-1B worker than a local one, and removing the exploitative leverage employers have over visa holders — people shouldn't have to fear negotiating for better terms due to the threat of deportation. That would likely fix it.
An OoO design is qualitatively different from an in-order one because of renaming and dynamic scheduling, but the pipelining is essentially the same and for the same reasons.
I think the main reason is that it kind of pigeon-holed certain races and classes. There were just objectively correct choices. In a game where there should be no "correct" choice. And it was mostly benefit, very few drawbacks. And the drawbacks that existed could easily be circumvented.
Very few people seem to understand what a free market is, although it is very clear what it is.
Yeah, and for a lot of earners in high tax states, the effective interest rate you pay is essentially almost half off thanks to the mortgage interest tax deduction. If your marginal tax rate across federal / state / local is high (mine's 46%), then you can get back almost half the interest. Which shortens the gap between a 3% vs 6% mortgage, the effective difference being more like 1.5% than 3%.
Funny how the companies doing the scanning to enforce copyright are also the same ones building generative AI capabilities off the copyrighted data.
> But there should be very few of those if you're using a framework that abstracts away the database.

But I really want that database-specific behaviour. :) PostgreSQL does so many amazing things (recursive CTEs, jsonb, etc) that actively make our system better. If there was a fork of Django that optimized for leveraging advanced postgres features, I'd use it.
What part of "no advertising or self-promotion" are you struggling to understand?

Look at the subreddits you're posting to: do you see any OTHER posts that look like your "From Calendar Frustration to Productivity: How I Built My Own App to Solve it" post?

I know nothing about the guts of Reddit's filters, but I wouldn't be shocked if there's also an accumulative penalty for posting identical content that's already been removed over again.
I don't know what kind of magic fairy dust Django is but I've found the differences between SQLite and PostgreSQL too big to be worth it, in at least 3 other programming languages that are not Python.

Sounded good at first but we were quickly overwhelmed with false positives and just opted for Postgres in a VM (this was before Docker was a thing).
I reread the books after watching the show, and I have to say that I am in complete agreement with this take. I think there are 2 things that impact why people hate the adaptations.

1. Some people just don't like adaptations, and they need to understand what different mediums limit in terms of story telling. If you think of WoT as being 10,000 pages of content, and how you would shorten that to make it finish-able within a single human lifetime, then they have to change some things. But I gotta say, I think they capture a lot of the good of the books within the show.

2. Most people just have a picture in their head of what the thing is going to look like, and when that picture doesn't match up to what's made they're unhappy. And they don't understand why they couldn't just do the thing in their head because they don't understand the limitations of the medium.

2a. I think a thing that's important to a lot of people is the characters looking like the characters they imagine, and when casting is more diverse than that, people have a pretty negative reaction to the characters not "looking" like the characters. I think this ends up being more true the further from the description people feel like the characters are.
^This is a thing that has been hurting LoTR for a lot of people, in my opinion. I don't think it's a reasonable thing to expect.
Show HN: MCP Hubspot – Access Hubspot from MCP Client ( Buryhuang/Mcp-Hubspot)
I opensourced an MCP hubspot server. It allows my sales leaders to query sales activities seamlessly from any MCP Client.

One can do:
What's happening lately in my sales pipeline.
Teen alcohol and drug use keeps declining
Because "too big to fail" produces moral hazard. Followed by bailouts. Like 2008.
Two points:

1) The subtle issues with constraint violations, default values and indexes are part of the RDBMS, not the testing strategy. The article suggests stepping on these rakes in test so that you hopefully don't step on them in prod. Another way to avoid them in prod (and to also regain the speed/reliability/simplicity of your test suite) is to not use an RDBMS in prod.

2) If you want to persist something, ask yourself if what you really have is tabular data. Do you have a lot of nulls and/or default values? Catch-all json fields? You probably have objects, not relations. Postgres may have a lot of wonderful features that relate to relations, and an ORM might have a lot of wonderful features (which appear to save you time). But if you stop requiring your objects to be relations at rest, you don't need the features, which is even faster.
This is not only about databases. Mocks are almost always a compromise.
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Going to the future could be interesting, exploring a bit more of sci-fi, a more Star Trek-y society where social justice isn't as large of an issue, new technologies of terror from a Bond villain marrying with Black Mirror-esque future.

I could see this working broadly without triggering the neo-cons sensibilities about whatever they call "wokeness" but being able to explore cultural acceptance, horrors of new technology, etc.
I don't know...

How if you rely e.g. on CASCADE and foreign keys, which are not on by default kn SQLite? I think then things start getting complicated and testing that layer gets difficult.
> I'm still baffled why local and state govts aren't easing into a public option.

Because socialism is well known for unsustainable costs and poor service.
In my company they use it to store a large number of varying sized jsons. You can create indexes to make search queries lighting fast. It's also been extremely stable.

I wasn't involved in setting it up tho, so can't say anything about how difficult it is to work with on the technical side.
Be worried then
I've discovered the same thing: can't use SQLite to mock PostgreSQL. PGLite looks super promising for this, but I haven't tried it yet at scale.
Real wages are up, especially for lower earners. Unemployment is low.
What would you recommend I do instead? Deploying a Docker container on Cloud Run sorta seemed like the logical way to deploy my micro app.

Also for more context, this was the app in question (now moved to streamlit cloud): https://jreadability-demo.streamlit.app/
Cut to a few years later and the cost of things has risen faster than my income and my brain is still "COVID rich", I can see why credit card balances are higher and defaults are more common.

Add to it the rise of buy-now-pay-later schemes like Klarna and Affirm, which for a long time would allow you to make your payments with a credit card, allowing people to run up more debt faster than ever before.

It's my understanding† that making payments with a credit card is no longer permitted, so now these companies are pulling cash out of already over-extended people's checking accounts, keeping them from paying their credit cards.

Fintech wins. Traditional credit cards lose. Human beings lose harder.

† I have never used any of these services, but I know people who have, and it all sounds like loan sharking to me.
The point is that it can easily be overridden with statute

"business owners meeting definition X are only liable in conditions Y"
When the company has an unprofitable business model, it goes out of business.
Mocks are great for testing specific code paths, but if you need to do that, there is usually a better way of doing it. Mocks hide contractual incongruities. For example, a function that returns either "fizz" or "buzz" that gets mocked out. If it gets changed to also return "bar", and you forget to update the mock, you've got a time-bomb in your code.
The code being tested also uses transactions internally at times, so it'd mean additional complexity in the code being tested to allow for unit testing, which is not great. In my experience throwing up a database including all tables in an in-memory SQLite db is extremely fast, so it's not really a major concern.
I'm surprised you say so btilly. I've found the differences in between SQLite and Postgres to be large enough to bring up issues that are hard to find. Timestamp handling, non-trivial indexes, etc.
Refillable bottles and plastic are not incompatible. The bottles just need to be durable enough. They will still be lighter than glass which will save fuel used for transporting them.
A lot of this data is quite hard to find if you don't have access to a data provider like Bloomberg (and costs money to quote) so I can understand why they don't bother, even though they should obviously.
There were lots of cases where covid unemployment pay was better than better than minimum/near minimum wage.
Tesla replaced laid off US workers using H-1B visas