skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think that there' nuances to crypto. But even bitcoin has some ponzi like properties:

1- high reward to early adopters
2- needed to be shared to have value

Although I will make the important distinction that the asset doesn't lose value once it can no longer be shared, which is typical of pyramid schemes. Quite the contrary, it reached critical mass and gained first mover monopoly
As a life long englishman, this thread is the first time i've encounterd "gaol" as a word. Not an english spelling.
There are options missing from the admin panel or the dashboards that intuitively seem basic. Some examples:
- excluding certain data from your report (such as localhost visits)
- setting a default time range
- on the 'overview' of all your domains, setting a time range that applies to all and not just one domain individually (this particularly felt really counterintuitive)

There is more I'd come up with if I actually pulled it up, but the overall throughline is that it just feels 'too basic' at this moment. Especially for something that goes beyond tracking visits on your personal blog and/or hobby website.
The core problem imo is there is simply not good enough treatments for addiction (yet?). For opioid addiction there is methadone and buprenorphine etc. But I suspect these have became even less effective with so much fentanyl around now, requiring much higher doses. But these all really work (simplifying massively) by replacing the addiction with something that is easier to eventually titrate down.

For meth, crack, etc there are effectively no pharmacological interventions available. And many (most?) of the street homeless have dual addictions to a stimulant and an opioid, so even if they did manage to switch from fentanyl to buprenorphine they would almost certainly be extremely unstable with their stimulant addiction.

Obviously there are psychological interventions and peer support groups, but these require quite a lot of stability to stick to and get to, which I think is extremely difficult for someone in a very chaotic addiction cycle.

To me, it seems some of the billions that cities spent on social services for homeless should be diverted (or in addition to) to pharmacological research. There is so little funding available for this - I read Prof David Nutt was doing an interesting PET study for kappa opioid response in addiction but ran out of funding. The funding requirements were low-medium hundreds of thousands of dollars and couldn't find it to continue the research.

The current status quo seems a bit like trying to treat TB without antibiotics. The treatment back then was basically similar to current 'rehab' programs - send them to a quiet place and give them care and help. Obviously not a bad thing to do; but once you had antibiotics the prognosis improved by many orders of magnitude almost overnight (and a lot less costly to provide).
I wasn't clear. By "afford a flat" I meant outright purchase property, which the government would need to do to actually solve homelessness.
Programmers have control over things product owners and management don't care about. Frankly, those are things nobody but programmers cares about. When it comes to meaningful decisions that would either improve or harm the user experience, I have only ever seen programmers treated as advisors at best and obedient little foot soldiers at worst. And why wouldn't they be treated this way by MBA types? Programmers are a necessary evil that management would rather not exist at all. Just because there are startups founded by programmers doesn't mean that's the reality of the vast majority of the software industry, or that said startups won't soon replace their leadership with MBA bozos whose only goal is making it to the next quarter.
> But when it comes to leftist activists specifically, it's war for Musk. His son transitioning didn't exactly endear him to the ideology.

It isn't just a left issue. Liberatarians also don't really care about LGBT people expressing themselves.

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

So Musk isn't libertarian nor left on social issues. He is conservative right. Although his exact philosophy is hard to pin down because he isn't really a supporter of the traditional family.
That's an interesting question, would we rather have our president be a scammer or scammed.

Similar question, is it better or worse if our country commits war or war is committed upon us?

And perhaps a different question, regardless if whether it is better or worse, which would we rather be if we had to chose.

Also let's remember that 'neither' is also an option. And oops just happened once but let's not make it a habit, is too. No need to go to extremes.
> Correct, they can talk about it all they want but cant act on it.

"Election".

Action very easy. They do it a lot. Did it this time, even, despite what they say.

> He didnt.

He did.

Here's the lawsuit that X Corp. filed: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.38...

That is him doing the thing.
I've yet to find anything that competes with the combination of easy to use, powerful, and affordable as a cPanel/WHM setup.
Well this is a new kind of Bitcoin mining!
> Professional sports is a meritocracy that for decades excluded other non-white races from participating

I’m sorry, you don’t get to argue that modern sports aren’t a true meritocracy because of policies that existed 80 years ago. You’re also putting too much into the selection process, implying that there’s active efforts to exclude, for example, blacks from hockey. I’d argue it’s more a result of cultural preferences - basketball and football see much higher participation and enthusiasm.
I might be totally wrong about this, but I thought that South Korea and Japan have taken steps to have friendlier relationships with China, while maintaining ties with the USA?

EDIT: for what it is worth, I just asked Gemini Flash 2 and ChatGPT this question and indeed according to these “sources” my perception seems correct.
When to Stop Testing: How Much Testing Is Enough?
I disagree, democracy is literally the power of the people. A dictator who serves the people's interests is effectively concretizing that power, as opposed to a corrupt/inept elected official who will deny it.
I'm not sure if you are serious or joking. "6 degrees of separation" is the famous radius for how many steps are needed such that everyone is connected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
I've been taking fluoxetine for several years and haven't died of sepsis. So that's one more data point in its favor.
As far as I'm aware, any online identifier, even a random number created by me, falls under the GDPR. This answer lays it out pretty well

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/82133/are-auto-gener...
When financial times get tough, all philanthropy feels the squeeze.
I find your way of downplaying the worries of other citizens way more disgustng then the comment you replied to can ever be. This "your problems are a joke" attitude is very condescending and patronising.
Generally to scale reads appropriately (to >10k readers) you need things like connection pooling and effective replication of some time readable secondaries (which can maintain transaction guarantees if you do synchronous writes, which... maybe not great) - I dont think SQLite has either of those.
I upgraded from Kindle Keyboard to Kindle 2023 last year. Backlight is very nice and I appreciate its lighter weight, but otherwise it's pretty much the same.
Governments can't censor what their citizens say. That's the only protection covered in the US constitution.

Private citizens and companies can censor. Twitter can have rules of conduct or terms of use, for example, and you have to play by their rules when posting on their service. The government isn't involved at all (twitter files not withstanding).
> Thats like saying why do we need json we can represent it also in a textfile but accessing values can be more tricky.

If your text processing stack works good enough, and JSON only solves edge cases, then I think its a legit argument against adding another tech to the stack.

Its not like everyone immediately switched over to JSON even if they could have.

And the analogy may not be the best - in the case of graph databases, they don't do what RDBMS can do, at least not as efficiently.

So if we need some graph functionality in our RDBMS, do we split the database and use a "real" graph database or just incorporate the graph functionality into the existing DB? The choice seems quite easy for me, because there are whole host of issues in splitting DBs (duplication of information,
inconsistency, etc.)
I think that there are two problems here: one with physics and another with society. I'm somewhat familiar with academic world, and what she (and the letter) say about career scientists who optimize for formal metrics without any regard for any real scientific value strikes too close to home. They value complacency above else, original ideas and challengers to incumbents are driven away, and nobody really cares if studies replicate or data is massaged, whereas being even remotely ideologically impure kills your career instantly. I think society across the globe slowly starts to realize this state of affairs, and the backlash against science as a whole will be enormous.

In the eyes of the taxpayers, there's not that much of a difference between particle physicists who have been spending billions of dollars on bigger and bigger colliders, and psychologists who popularized non-replicating studies based on a sample of 35 university students but refused to touch IQ (one of the most, if not replicated psychology concepts ever), or biologists who invented new species out of thin air based on the most minuscule differences between population just to stop a development project they oppose for ideological reasons. All of this will cause severe backlash. Baby will be thrown out with the bathwater, trust and funding for science as a whole will suffer for decades.
lol its cool. I believe now you might consider yourself a vim chad. you migrated to neovim yet?
Always is too strong of a word but if you look at the history of human development I'd say that in general each generation is an incremental improvement over the previous one.
I don't think it's true that funding for services for the homeless have been consistently cut in Chicagoland (or San Francisco) during your adult lifetime. In fact, I'm not even sure that would be true for public housing --- again, a different problem than the one we're talking about --- I think if you look you might find that we spend more on housing assistance now, in constant dollars, than we did in 1980.
I wonder what the % breakdown is for domestic vs imported drones for Ukraine?

I read recently that Ukraine was producing a lot of drones and ramping up production too, as well as using fibre-optic controlled drones to overcome electronic warfare/jamming.
I'm surprised containers aren't mentioned once.

With mass virtual hosting (not virtualisation, think in terms of vhosts in Apache) resource sharing and security issues that aren't easily fixed with some UID/GID quota tricks and as such we got chrooted FTP, SSH and SCP, then OpenVZ at some point, and LXC. Later down the line we got container sand cgroups and even later, cgroupv2. All of them with similar goals in mind: shared resources, but strong enough isolation to not have unwanted side-effects.

This is still something that exists, but isn't really used this way (as far as I can tell - only ISPConfig seems to do this?), because containers were then also used as stateless packaging methods where you don't edit anything in a running container, but rather just re-deploy the whole thing. That is of course not a good match for the article, but there is nothing preventing this from being done in a container. Heck, if you have classic shared storage (i.e. NFS) you could get any container hosting company to do this without them knowing it.

But you'd still be on the hook for managing the container lifecycle...
I agree, but I was pointing out that the promised benefits of working there were not a given but rather highly contingent on delivering serious savings. If that fails or turns out to be a pretext they never planned to deliver, the engineer who thought they were doing something good is going to be left with all of the blame and none of the money the billionaires in the room seek to gain.
Technology won't fix the issues described in the article, which include scam, african countries not receiving antivenom designed for local snakes, shortages, delay to get to treatment centers, and expensive products.
This feels like a prediction that's been made many times before.
Sure, that's fine. Tricky wasn't a great fit there, I meant tricky to define or agree upon. Difficult works better there.
Yeah, the fact that you need an exploit just to get full access to your own property is pretty ridiculous.
On the ChatGPT Android app, they don't have the autocomplete feature (I think?). Which supports the idea that it's targeted at people who have never used an LLM chatbot before.
I think GP's point is that academics who have 20+ papers are basically running a paper mill; there is no way they are participating meaningfully in the papers their names appear in
You cannot. Because these aren't simple "URL parsers" or such. They commonly use heuristics, bayesian logic and complex statistics (the word AI has become so conflated with LLMs and GPTs, and infected with politics, but it is a form of AI).

The output isn't reproducible, not even predictable. The whole idea of a system like this is that it adapts. If only by simply collecting more data to "do the stats on".

What systems like this need, is different layers towards which stuff is leveraged. This is how your spam folder in your mailbox works too (to some extend). Basically: if it's clearly spam, just /dev/null it, if its clearly not spam let it pass. Everything inbetween will be re-rated by another layer which then does the same etc. One or more of these layers can and should be humans. The actions of these humans then train the system. If gmail isn't certain something is spam, it'll deliver it to your spam folder, or maybe even to your inbox. For you to review and mark as ham or spam manually.

Knowing that Elon fired a lot of teams of humans that fact-checked, researched fake news, a lot of it manually, I'd not be surprised if exactly the "human layers" were simply removed. Leaving a system that's not tuned nor checked while running.

(Source: I've built spam/malware/bot etc detection for comment sections of large sites)
Thank you excluding localhost is a feature I didn’t know I needed till your comment. Makes total sense.
...Do you honestly think somebody's gonna get up on the floor of the United States Senate, and ask for billions of dollars for a couple of forgotten ghosts?

Trautman: Men, Goddamn it! Men... who fought for their country!

Murdock: That's enough! Trautman, I'm gonna forget this conversation ever took place.

Trautman: You bastard!

Murdock: And if I were you... I'd never make the mistake of bringing this subject up again.

Trautman: Oh you're the one who's making the mistake.

Murdock: Yeah? What mistake?

Trautman: Rambo.
What’s the saying? Twice the work, half the credit?

In all seriousness tho, I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard to solo-achieve things in most complicated work environments. Saying you’re part of a group effort means more to those more interested in collaboration, good groups know to select on that criteria.
Proper text justification (hyphenations + no ragged edges), auto toggle between day mode (black text on white page) and night mode (white text on black page) at sunset (via your location), compact progress display, customizable taps any gestures… it takes a little it to configure but it’s worthwhile.
I didn't argue that modern sports aren't a meritocracy; the exact opposite. Modern sports are a meritocracy at the player level precisely because of the efforts to make it inclusive in the 20th century. Look at the sport of baseball, basketball, and football in the early 20th century. Look at the history of racism and exclusion in each of these sports and the efforts by extraordinary individuals to shift them towards merit and not race. The Negro Leagues were a thing not that long ago.

It might behoove you to take a quick recap of the history of racism (exclusion) in sports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson#Negro_leagues_...

Modern sports at the coaching level is a more recent shift to meritocracy through a concerted effort to include minority candidates in the hiring process. It is only a meritocracy today because of extraordinary individuals like Jackie Robinson breaking the barriers and decades of integration.

> ...there’s active efforts to exclude, for example, blacks from hockey.

Exclusion works in many ways. Two of which are access and socioeconomic stratification. The reason why there aren't many minority hockey players can probably be easily traced to access and socioeconomic reasons. Go on Google Maps and search for ice rinks and then basketball courts. Find a "free" community ice rink. Now go find free community basketball courts, soccer fields, or any open space for football. There simply aren't as many ice rinks where there are minority populations are concentrated and the cost of access is high compared to alternatives like soccer, football, baseball, and basketball. The process is self-selecting and exclusionary through lack of access and cost.

Tiger Woods would not be Tiger Woods had his father not had access to Navy golf courses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods#Early_life_and_ama...

Is there a specific reason why Carribean islands produce so many great baseball players and not so many hockey players? Think about that.

Jeremy Lin's story is also an interesting one because he talks a lot about how many schools, coaches, and scouts were prejudiced against Asian basketball players. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Lin#College_career
Er... there is no woman's name that sounds like that.

In English, it's "SOO-zuh" or "SOO-se" if the speaker isn't native and doesn't turn final vowel sounds into schwa like most natives tend to.

In German, it's "ZOO-ze"

/ˈsuːzə/

It is not Susie, or Suzy, or Sooz, or anything like that, and that pronunciation tends to annoy the company. Souce: me; I worked there for 4 years. The company has Youtube videos on how to pronounce it, and even a song making fun of people getting it wrong.

Think of the American march composer John Philip Sousa. Like that. As in the musical instrument the sousaphone.
> I don’t think it’s an accident that all the people I hear complain about contrast being too high are 20-something engineers

Well, maybe that's because it isn't an accident at all! Maybe it isn't just them being a bunch of hipsters!

- Light sensitivity reduces with age, so those 20-year olds are actually more sensitive to light than people who are older than them.

- They're engineers, so there's a good chance they are looking at a screen 8+ hours a day. This means that they're greatly affected by anything that makes looking at a screen less comfortable.

- They're engineers, so they know how software works and that the color scheme isn't set in stone. My parents just accept that some things don't work how they want them to work. I try to find a tool to make it work how I want it to work, because I can.
I bet the whale thought this was funny.
It's not made up.

He's said so in speeches I've listened to. He claims his dog Conan (deceased) gives him advice from the Beyond. You can also google the myriad of interviews with him that mention this (and note: not all of them are critical, some found this touch of craziness endearing!).

He also claims his dogs (all clones of his revered Conan) are his "children", because they are the only "people" -- along with his sister -- "who will not betray him". Note that very few people have seen these dogs alive (very few recent photos or videos), and there's concern they may also be providing him comfort from "the Great Beyond". He gets enraged if people question him about this.

The guy is mentally unstable.

> Milei has certainly been smeared as right-wing so I wouldn't be surprised with other smears as well.

Sadly, in this case the truth is stranger than fiction.
I don’t know if you’ve read Project 2025, but this is the current plan .. to break up NOAA and privatize and paywall weather data (sell to Accuweather)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-pro...
"No amount of evidence" does not equal "no evidence".

In case of Hunter laptop there was a grand jury, an FBI investigation, a criminal case, a joint investigation by two Republican committees against Joe Biden etc. etc.

What evidence has Musk provided?
So might it be useful to have some mechanism to check if the 'maintainer' (owner/principal committer/?? - what Peter Murray-Rust used to refer to as the 'Dr Who') changes?

Like, when bumping the version on a dependency, the security system could check if the maintainer has changed, then you could go and double-check any changes.
It does mention doing load shedding:

> By default searchcode prioritizes system survival (hey its a free service!), and as such might do some load shedding, which can mean you don't see results you expect. You can do some things to help with this.

I don’t know whether that explains the results. Some similar queries, e.g., searching for `math.ceiling`, do return many results.
That's not true! The poverty rate went from something like 40% to 55%. Now it's back again to 40%. Not good, but not horrific either.
Wow, your counterpoint is about discrimination in sports 80 YEARS ago. Barely anyone alive even remembers segregated baseball firsthand. You seem to be backing my point even more that sports have been a true meritocracy for many generations now.
> The fact you know multiple billionaires and a president means any VC fund would give you money to do anything

It might give you some contacts, but that’s far from a given. Just because Musk found you useful doesn’t mean he’s going to show loyalty to you, and that’s especially true if the venture blows up politically and you are one of the scapegoats. People don’t get to be billionaires by giving away money to everyone they meet.
>This comment thread has very little to do with Elon Musk, please direct your rage somewhere else.

Backatcha.
If it's about twitter, specifically 'x', musk has a lot to do with it...somewhere in the region of 100%. It may be unfortunate, but that's just the way it is.
And he's the reason many stay away from it.
As another poster asked, why do you (continue to) use it?
Similarly, someone (else) is highly likely to mention a certain brand of vehicles but not me.
I mean there is a lot of extensions and optimizations that you can pull on a postgres instance before you truly have to abandon it.

For timeseries I'd argue with timescale there is very few use cases that ever outgrow postgres. But I might be biased.
My personal opinion is that nobody should touch OrientDB with a 10 ft pole.
> Just because there’s not a single definition of a word does not mean the meaning of the word is unclear.

So, from the opposite direction, I have the same issue as the other commentator but with the divergent use of the word "woke" by those mostly on the right (and sarcastically by those on the left) — if the person hearing/reading it doesn't know what to expect, it's not a useful word.

Therefore, while I know what I mean by "hate speech" (demonising/dehumanising a group), I tend to avoid using the term as it doesn't successfully replicate my thoughts into the heads of other people.
I believe that it works with LVM snapshots as well, but then you've traded the problem of Btrfs for the problem of LVM.