skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed that while the website says /kʊtʃ/, wikipedia's page on Welsh orthography suggests that it should be /kʊtχ/ or /kutχ/, Google Translate's automatic audio seems to produce /kotχ/ [not a typo], and the pages on Welsh orthography/phonology together suggest that /tʃ/ should be spelled "ti" [if a following vowel exists, which it doesn't here] or "ts" [regardless of whether a following vowel exists, with examples, both loanwords from English, of "tsips" [chips] and "wats" [watch]].

But I don't know anything more about Welsh than what wikipedia offers. Do you know what's going on with their suggested spelling/pronunciation?

(Wiktionary has /kʊtʃ/ for the pronunciation of the English word "cwtch"; the Welsh word is given with the same pronunciation, but the spelling "cwtsh", which is equally weird as far as the material above goes. The etymology does tend to support /tʃ/ in cwtsh - it's a loan of the English word "couch".)

> it's pronounced more like "cutch" (well, for me it is anyway)

I would have to pronounce "cutch" as /kʌtʃ/. /ʊ/ exists (put / foot / look / nook ...), but there isn't a conventional way to spell it so it's unlikely to be used for unfamiliar words. But /kutʃ/ "benefits" from not being unfamiliar to anyone... and one of the very few things I did know about Welsh is that "w" represents /u/.
Also, according to Peter Zeihan (I know) a significant part of that trade consists of the US's exporting the light sweet crude oil produced by fracking, which is easy to refine, and importing heavy sour crude oil, which the US has a comparative advantage in refining. Clearly, the US could switch to refining the crude oil produced in the US with very little disruption.
Counter-sloganeering is still sloganeering. Billionaires could publish books about you. Would you be okay with it?
Actually doesn't work particularly well. I suspect signal reflections destroy the signal.

You get similar problems in other larger metal boxes, eg caravans. In a caravan, short high data rate packets are transmitted properly, but bigger packets get lost because they interfere with a reflection off an internal wall.
After reading this thread it’s apparent that our immigration laws and regulations are just as sordid and obtuse as our tax code.
You mean the substrate of our entire economic engine? I think that's a bit dramatic.
Unfortunately, iOS simply does not allow apps like Briar to run reliably in the background[1]. Unless Apple changes its thinking about iOS, Briar or other similar apps would never work reliably.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/685525
Love it :) Glad to hear there are others who appreciate things like this
The techno optimism has morphed into VCs and tech founders lobbying Trumps governments to self-destruct the US government so they can lord over techno-feudal city states

The arrogance and narcissism of the Silicon Valley elite is going to result in horrible outcomes for just about everyone. These people do not know a single thing about responsible public administration, they can only see dollar signs.
I would never transfer my data to OVH without having ALL data backuped on some other service of another provider.

Look what happens to one of OVHs datacenters, with wood ceilings and floors … completely destroyed some companies because their backups were also there.

When you search for it, you will see how negligently they managed this datacenter.
> Waterfox is a browser that began in 2011 as an independent project by Alex Kontos while he was a student. It was acquired and then un-acquired by Internet-advertising company System1. Its site does not, at least at the moment, have enough specifics about the browser's differences and features to compel me to take it for a test drive.
Are the others that much more descriptive in their features on their website?

IMO Waterfox being around for 14 years warrants a bit of a closer look as to why it’s still around after so long…
Poverty is the default state of any society. To survive and thrive specialisation is needed to grow productivity. If a field doesn't produce people working on it would starve and die.
In primitive societies old and sick were not treated well at all. To care for the "non-productive" members there should've been enough resources for them too. If you don't have enough to eat, the weakest usually died or in some circumstances left behind on purpose.
So to take care of these members you need productivity to create enough resources for them. Productivity grows from specialisation and tools. When a carpenter builds a house he can't grow the food for his family. So he needs to swap his work for food. Bartering is easiest done via a proxy medium like money. The most efficient bartering is when the two parties voluntary swap goods and services. This is the free market. Keeping your stuff is "private capital ownership" and owning your tools to produce is "ownership of tools of production".

This is the way groups of people get wealthy and have enough for all members of society. Free market capitalism creates the wealth for that, because of the ruthless market forces that penalise useless work for which no one is keen to swap their own work/products/money. This is why capitalism produces enough to share around if/when society decide to do so. All other systems have so much inefficiencies that they can't produce enough and there is nothing to share.
That's a good article. I won't try to fully summarize either, but I'll mention two key differences from the method suggested above:

1) Kenji says to start with eggs cold.

2) Kenji says that baking soda doesn't make a difference.

Both articles agree that the water should be boiling when the eggs are put in, and that shocking them to cool helps.
Wow that's scary, they updated tons of tags to an offending random commit. With the way repositories are included in automation and the fact that this adjusted the tags of older versions (so not requiring an upgrade) this sort of attack can have a huge impact very quickly :(.

Maybe GitHub should have some kind of security setting a repo owner can make that locks-down things like old tags so after a certain time they can't be changed.
FWIW, when Waterfox was part of S1, I’d make sure all work we did was open and there were the odd times I had our dept push upstream patches if/when needed.
https://archive.is/nycxV
That is McCarthyism[1] in a nutshell. You find someone or something you don't like then work backwards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
> tl;dr; sub-200 dollas GPUs are dead and will be replaced by APUs

that already happened like 5+ years ago. The GT 1030 never got an update, so Nvidia hasn't made an entry level GPU since. Intel kinda did with ARC, but that was almost more a dev board
If html is a markup language and mardown a ... mardown language, then org is all of this and much more.
I wish there was an org-mode for everything non-textual, as org-mode solves the textual part of my life quite well.
SpaceX launches new crew to the space station to replace NASA's stuck astronauts
Only in the exclusively literary tense that is never used in normal speech.

Edit: below you say you’re French, so you know this already, I guess.
I did say “almost always” goes up and the to right.

Look at the graph. Sometimes there may be year over year decreases, but the trend is very firmly up and to the right.
> I like my kerning to sit in that sweet spot where people don’t notice it but once you point it out it gives them an unsettling feeling wherever they see it.

I’d love to see some examples of this.
When you hear the AI folks screaming about "AGI" (Which is a scam), this is what they are really talking about.

The problem is that there will be less jobs and it won't recover and nothing to replace those lost jobs. Not even "UBI", which is unsustainable at a larger scale and really doesn't work at all.

Remember when the whole industry also was screaming about Jevon's paradox? Well, as AI gets more efficient, it benefits the LLM providers (not you) and creates more job-destroying AI (not more jobs). It enriches AI use-cases for companies that own LLMs or the systems that run them to keep you out of a job.

Even if 1 job is available, a growing list of candidates per job to compete and will just continue to increase.

You see, I hope you realized that the bullsh*t in AI, over-valuations and the the rapid race to zero are all factors that have not only caused this decline in SWE jobs, but will also cause a crash like it's the year 2000 + another AI winter.

Right now we are in late 1999 and just need a new surprise to reset the industry. Likely to happen before 2030.

So I'd prepare for that and you are 5 years early to do so before the "intelligence age" advances far into 2030, which is the dealine. [0]

[0] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...
TiDB, 200k inserts per second; 200b per row on average. Bursty insert pattern, e.g., can have 200k inserts for an hour, then almost 0 for days. 8k reads per second on average, mostly reads by primary key. 20 hosts; 16 threads x 128GB RAM, 8TB NVME RAID 10. 60TiB of useful storage with replication factor of 3. Keyset pagination is the key. Also using rocksb for inserts batching. Costs around 20k on ovh
What evidence do you have of Biden clawing taxpayer money back from Trump's friends?
Flag if you need to, but the question is genuine.
I dont see much systems thinking applied here given what follows this sentence
That's the intent ... of the sales pitch, you're meant to believe in, yes.

The reality is however quite different. Frankly for tariffs to work, you need a clear battle plan. There isn't any. Chaos has never been good for business and cherry picking one (positive) example isn't statistically relevant either
You'd hope, but the one thing that proves durability is the fact of endurance.
Indeed, this is very much a limitation for all apps on iOS that don't want to rely on centralised services, such as a push notification server other than Apple's.

See also: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/685525
Ya the wording was not quite … satisfactory. I think they meant , it could tell X and Y, but not Z.

But all three are important.

Related - I’m not clear how the article can describe that landing as “not crashing”. If that was not a crash, what was it? Will they call it a crash only if there are Hollywood-style explosions?
I appreciate that feedback! I'll fix those issues up. It's definitely a v1 sort of thing but my daughter's seemed to love it. And yeah UI is hard, this is my first go at that as a mostly backend engineer.
$2500 to book an appointment. Pricy
The EQ settings should depend on what you device you are using to listen - your headphones or your phone's internal speaker - according to their natural response curves.

I don't think major music listening apps will switch your EQ automatically settings based on your listening device. So either you are doing that manually every time you switch devices, or you set your headphone EQ directly.

In any case, the software around this is not clean, and has lots of room for improvement.
> Disney wouldn't be happy with

... and something like half of the companies comprising the US GDP.

Much of the value that the US exports heavily depends on foreign nations enforcing intellectual property rights for the US.

If the world decided that the US is hostile and stopped enforcing US trademarks, patents, copyright, and trade secrets... it would be over for the US economy.

Any software could be "stolen" legally by anyone and sold under the original name and the US could do nothing about this except stomp their feet and threaten military invasion.

China and Russia already do this to an extent, but if everyone else did it too, it would be curtains for: The entire US game industry, movie industry, music industry, software industry, and more. Pharma and manufacturing would take a hit too.
Yeah, "I didn't die taking a jump in a wingsuit" isn't actually a recommendation that's a safe thing to do. Or, hey, plenty of people survived climbing K2.
I think most American christianity is actually fake christianity or derived christianity. To understand real christianity, once must read tolstoy.
WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your monitoring and fan control apps as threat
In my e-reader I changed the font to Roboto Mono and completely forgot it was monospace. It's not like reading feels any less efficient. Idk might even feel more efficient or comfy somehow.
"Using an internet tool to access local resources is using the wrong tool for the job."

Browser technology stopped being internet tech only quite a while ago.

It might not have been the best idea, but that's where we are. So my first choice would nowdays also be webusb if possible.
yunwal has provided one example. Here's another using much smaller model.

https://chat.groq.com/?prompt=If+a+person+from+Ontario+or+To...

The response "If a person from Ontario or Toronto is a Canadian, a person from Sydney or Melbourne would be an Australian!"

It seems mighty unlikely that it chose Australian as the country because of the 'an', or that it chose to put the 'an' at that point in the sentence for any other reason that the word Australian was going to be next.

For any argument that you think that this does not mean that have some idea of what is to come, try and come up with a test to see if your hypothesis is true or not, then give that test a try.
I was told new egg might have problem to peel. Eggs that have been stored for few days (without refrigeration method) are easier to peel.
Can not understand what original designer(s) intent / thought process was unless there's documenation (physical and/or comments). As software complexity increases, using educated guesses / testing becomes more difficult to do in way that doesnt' introduce other issues. (vs. relevant documenation / explaination). Lot of times easier to start from scratch than do guestimate thinking/approaches.

NASA has a long term/historical projects with public documenation about supporting long term project issues.

TX company that still uses punch cards (2013): https://www.chron.com/news/article/Conroe-company-still-usin...
One can extract hydrogen from fossil fuels. So if a hydrogen break through is coming, they already have a cheap source for the material.
Not really green though...
It's hard, I can imagine the average kinetic energy slowing down, but can't imagine heat halving since there's no halving we can feel without dying.

Humans should experience something within -50°C to 50°C for most, if not their entire lives, but that's just 223K to 323K, maybe that's the range we can understand as a warmth difference, so getting to that temperature might feel like that super wide, in human warmth terms, drop in temperature twice, which still feels unimaginably cold.
Specifically SumUp, in order to use their app to accept contactless payments on-device instead of with an external reader.

Of all the things one might want to do with one's device, this is probably the most reasonable to gate behind integrity checks. But I don't have to like it :P.
You have no evidence but have already made your mind up and are parallel constructing.
It works for bands, it can work for brands. I’d rock a jellyfin shirt for $30.
Oh, I'm not denying this is the way things are done. I just don't think it should be legal.

Price segmentation was more palatable a few decades ago, but technology has enabled us to push it to this absurd (to me) extreme where individuals get different prices at different times of the day.

It feels wrong to size up your customer and pick the highest price you think they'll pay.
And yet the Bible has numerous stories where it seems people don't have free will, with God either "hardening their hearts" or laying out what they'll do in the near future. It's obvious from the Bible that either God plays an active role in the lives of people, whether they ask for it or not, thus negating their free will, and that there is some level of sight into future actions. All that is without discussing whether God is omniscient.

The Bible is not very clear about what happens with an afterlife. The book of Revelation is where you find the most intimations of divine judgement, but the OT has little to nothing and many Biblical scholars agree that the idea of end leans heavily towards the Jewish idea of a literal heaven on earth for the chosen people and that's all.
Even if the attackers used a fully broken since 1980s encryption-how many organizations have the expertise to dissect it?

I assume that threat detection maintains a big fingerprint databases of tools associated with malware. Rolling your own tooling, rather than importing a known library, gives one less heuristic to trip detection.
I’m working with several Postgres databases that share identical schemas, and I want to make their data accessible from a single interface.

Currently, I’m using Postgres FDWs to import the tables from those databases. I then create views that UNION ALL the relevant tables, adding a column to indicate the source database for each row.

This works, but I’m wondering if there’s a better way — ideally something that can query multiple databases in parallel and merge the results with a source database column included.

Would tools like pgdog, pgcat, pganimal be a good fit for this? I’m open to suggestions for more efficient approaches.

Thanks!
Mechanical Turk As A Service
Or if people backed up more often.
> You’re now arguing the assumption without a precedent you don’t have the right to do something. That’s not how the law works.

I mean copyright law has always been "You can't make full copies for any reason (almost)". And you were the one saying "it absolutely is fair use [to make full personal copies]", which is quite a strong statement to make in the absence of a precedence.

An archive could argue fair use to make full copies of physical works, because that's their role, and by keeping the copies locked away they don't harm the market for the works. These fair use factors don't apply to individuals. But IANAL and maybe that's wrong, who knows? I do know if it comes up the copyright mafia will fight it tooth and nail, and I'd put my money on them winning.

> the potential damages would be so small that you could sensibly do it in small claims court

The publisher would sue the infringer in small claims court? This seems very unlikely since the publisher would prefer to scare or bankrupt you into submission.

Or would the defendant have the lawsuit moved to small claims court? Are defendants allowed to do this?
For clarity sake, this is what "Do not send voice recordings" used to do [1]:

"Here’s how it works: When you turn on Do Not Send Voice Recordings and say your chosen wake word, an on-device algorithm will process and transcribe your request to Alexa from audio into text. The text is encrypted and sent to Amazon’s secure cloud where we can fulfill your interaction. After processing, the audio of your request is deleted."

So they transcribed the voice and sent the text to the cloud. Surprising that needs to go to allow GenAI to work?

Here's the email they sent: https://imgur.com/ZGPBwgZ

[1] https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=23727313011#:~:text=He...
I’m not going to pile on with “these are bad questions”.

We serve a few hundred concurrently online users of our web dashboard which visualises data from our ~100k online IoT device fleet.

With respect to our time series systems:

We store around 1M fields (kv pairs) per second, around 10k rows per second i.e. almost a trillion rows per day and almost a hundred trillion new data points per day.

We compress this down to around 1TB of data per day using Clickhouse and store and make available the last 30 days of data for “online analysis”.

We also store all the data we’ve ever ingested in BigQuery for M/L purposes. I shudder to think of how much this costs.

Our queries are all pretty simple and fast, just scanning and aggregating with filtering, all under 100ms.

This costs around 30k USD per month on AWS, not including networking which is too hard for me to separate from our non time series workloads.

Our infrastructure is all python and microservices, using Kafka, and under 1000 cores for the whole pipeline excluding databases.

Our databases are I believe low tens of the largest graviton instances that were available the last time we upgraded.

This is maintained by a backend team of around 15 people, and a total engineering team including hardware, data and software of around 45 people.
He's quoting a 7 ton chiller for a spacecraft with a 100 ton payload, so it's a lot.

I was thinking the other day that the once-every-two-years launch window for Mars could get rather crowded, particularly considering you'd have to launch 10-20 Starships to get one to Mars.

I'd think you could extend that launch window for cargo by stacking Starships in an HEO (highly elliptical orbit) which means they'd spend another 6 months - 1 year in a holding pattern needing to be chilled.
Thank you. I absolutely hate fun, silly or cutesy stuff in serious programs. I’m probably in the minority on this — lots of people say things like “why can’t we have more whimsy in the world?”. But personally being involuntarily conscripted into participating in someone else’s sense of humor really annoys me.
It can be great, depending on your schema and planned growth. Questions I'd be asking in your shoes:

1. Does the schema have an obvious column to use for distribution? You'll probably want to fit one of the 2 following cases, but these aren't exclusive:

1a. A use case where most traffic is scoped to a subset of data. (e.g. a multitenant system). This is the easiest use case- just make sure most of your queries contain the column (most likely tenant ID or equivalent), and partially denormalize to have it in tables where it's implicit to make your life easier. Do not use a timestamp.

1b. A rollup/analytics based use case that needs heavy parallelism (e.g. a large IoT system where you want to do analytics across a fleet). For this, you're looking for a column that has high cardinality witout too many major hot spots- in the IoT use case mentioned, this would probably be a device ID or similar

2. Are you sure you're going to grow to the scale where you need Citus? Depending on workload, it's not too hard to have a 20TB single-server PG database, and that's more than enough for a lot of companies these days.

3. When do you want to migrate? Logical replication in should work these days (haven't tested myself), but the higher the update rate and larger the database, the more painful this gets. There's not a lot of tools that are very useful for the more difficult scenarios here, but the landscape has changed since I've last had to do this

4. Do you want to run this yourself? Azure does offer a managed service, and Crunchy offers Citus on any cloud, so you have options.

5. If you're running this yourself, how are you managing HA? pg_auto_failover has some Citus support, but can be a bit tricky to get started with.

I did get my Citus cluster over 1 PB at my previous job, and that's not the biggest out out there, so there's definitely room to scale, but the migration can be tricky.

Disclaimer: former Citus employee
You are deliberately ignoring the fact that Hamas, and their supporters chant “death to America” and hold AMERICAN CITIZENS under captivity. This is no the same
Keep that Musk copium going, man!
I conceived of something similar a few years ago.

Blockchain and DHT are perfect for this.
I think there is a strong argument to simply not checking certificate expiry dates in embedded hardware.

Just keep using the expired certificate forever.

Sure - that means if someone leaks the private key that everyone worldwide needs to do a firmware update to get security.

But that's probably less user harm than everyone worldwide needing to do a firmware update to replace an expired cert, and having a dead device otherwise.