skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love postrgres, and obviously this is just a test, but for anything where I would use a pi sqlite is insanely good.

I use sqlite for full fledged websites with millions of rows with no issue, fast, easy to deploy, easy to move.
OK, how about "it's a way to make sure people who need the road most are the ones who get to use it"

Kind of how parking meters are FANTASTIC because they mean I can finally get a damn space for the rare occasion when I rent a van or car and need to park in front of my flat. I just wish they'd raise prices on my street because it's still tough sometimes.
All these people complaining about social media, on a social network called Hacker News...

Every platform you use to communicate with other humans is a social network, they're not new. Slashdot was an early 'modern' social network, after regular old forums, as was Usenet and the BBS. All these networks had very similar properties to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram - they just didn't have pictures, and were restricted mostly to computer nerds.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is what happens when you open up these services to the whole world, add media, make it easier to share, and more addictive to use. The 'highest upvoted story' is a picture with a quote and a lot of likes. Our old flame wars about text editors and OSes are now caustic rants about vaccinations or politics. The only significant change is the subject matter, and the number of people involved.

As a 'disease', FB, Twitter and Insta are just a more evolved form of something that's always been here. They reflect and amplify humanity. You can focus on the bad, or you can notice the good. But it's a mistake to think these products are somehow uniquely different than everything else, or even inherently bad. They're inherently human.
On the contrary, congestion pricing cannot come soon enough. Something needs to counter the rampant culture of entitlement that characterizes the majority of drivers. We've rationalized tens of thousands of deaths annually as "this is how it is". We've accepted the gradual and seemingly inevitable decline of quality of our environment (air and noise to mention the obvious ones). The costs have been distributed unfairly across all, and it is time to make it EXPENSIVE to wheel about.
Grassroots group calls for ‘shared streets’ in New York's FiDi
>I think in the future they will consider us in the past complete idiots for using lead for anything except /maybe/ radiation shielding because of the neurotoxic effects

Lead has a bunch of important uses, such as for solder (lead-free solder has problems with growing tin whiskers and is more brittle, so leaded solder is still used for safety-critical applications). It's safe as long as it's handled safely (e.g., don't do things that will make it airborne and then breathe it!), just like any other toxic substance. There's many, many materials that are highly toxic and dangerous, but are extremely useful, so you just need to handle them safely.
Does it truly do? Or does it go towards MTA the same way lottery and gambling revenue goes towards education budget, i.e. not really except as an accounting trick?
> good proxy for

The idea that it's good or clever to use rough proxies for things is one of the worse ideas to spread kind of virally through various intellectual communities in recent years. I feel like it may have spread via Less Wrong or some similar place but I'm not sure and it doesn't really matter.

Proxies for things are something you use when you can't get at the underlying reality directly. All proxies hide something and all proxies confound by mixing inputs in often non-linear and unknown ways.

In the human realm the use of proxies is a source of unfairness and injustice, so it's particularly important to avoid them there whenever it's possible.

Not using proxies means dealing more directly with reality. "Reason from first principles, not by analogy."
You're suggesting that there is no other appropriate handle they could have come up with beyond "sussexroyal"? And beyond that, what gives one person the right more than any other to a particular handle? Even with your POTUS example.

So yes, I think they should have at least asked first and tried to resolve it amicably.
So your family member is across the city, I'm assuming there will be a minimum amount of time that you would take to visit them even if there was no traffic. Presumably, when you originally made whatever living arrangements you are in now, you factored that minimum time and was probably okay with that. That is, you essentially curbed your own freedom of movement based on some physical limits and other priorities.

Presumably, that limit is a function of the way the roads were designed, and a straight road directly from your apartment to your loved ones would have been faster. Though you probably didn't complain then how the city wasn't designed to enable your freedom of movement.

How is this new congestion pricing any different? Did it discriminate against you personally in any way? In fact, it probably reduced your commute time, by making you pay more. Im guessing that Sydney probably has some assistance for people who actually can't afford this price, which you probably didn't qualify for (guessing since you're here at HN), so I'm really struggling to sympathize with your argument of how it curbs your freedom of movement (unless you're poor and there's no assistance from the government for you).

We all have many freedoms but almost none of them are free. In fact they all come at great costs. 30 dollars doesn't actually sound that high all things considered.
This is made up bullshit part of US trade war against China, either provide proof or fuck off.
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lol, I thought the exact same thing
Here's how to handle the situation you are in right now:

1. Work with the team to identify what item in the current sprint will be delayed.

2. The EM and Scrum Master should communicate the delayed issue to their leadership.

3. Identify any long-term objective that will be delayed and communicate that as well.

If there's a question about why a delay will occur be honest: either the critical issue affecting customers gets fixed now, or the new thing customers don't yet have gets attention.

Going forward, allocate 1 day per person in each sprint as capacity to address bugs. Do this explicitly if you have mature leadership who understand how development works, or implicitly by padding other estimates if you haven't. Addressing bugs should be an implied task every sprint. When there are no important and urgent bugs, that capacity should be used to address tech debt instead.
I feel like it's a way to weed out developers from developing countries like Bangladesh, because they won't be able to afford the cost of the bids.
Thanks for the list, great taste
In an electrical circuit you have the defined path a current is supposed to take. A short circuit is when the current takes a shorter path to the ground.
So A->B is the normal route a request would make. Short circuiting in this regard means A->C for that one ip. The goal is to reduce load on your server (IE you return a page that the attacker think is still valid, but has reduced load on your infra).
>> It is an intentionally light week and many people may simply take the time off to paint or surf or whatever.

And the next week will be spend on meetings where management is trying to explain to the returned (hopefully) surfers what was decided to implement on the previous week meetings?

And it will turn out something was missed out and needs re-planning?

Another week, another iteration of planning and surfing?
Yeah, I know. And I've read the book. But I work in enterprise devops. This is the reality of many, many teams. Which means there's a lot of unnecessary process that needs to get tossed and a lot of automation that needs to be built in order to do short iterations and get out of the 3-6 month window.
You missed the point. The article shows the reality that direct costs to consumer would have resulted in fewer auto sales. Instead we have sprawl and more cars than children.
Thanks for the reference. It's just hard for me to parse out how bad it is for me to continue running these kinds of distances.

One could easily write a list of scary side effects for being sedentary too... but which is worse? I'm just guessing (hoping) that the benefits of marathon running outweigh the costs.
That's what is so insane about this system. It was put in to make the thing act like a 737 within a very small part of the flight envelope. It never should have kicked in in normal flight.

But AoA sensors freezing is apparently common enough where this system is frequently kicking in when the plane isn't in the situation it was designed for.
Instagram doesn't specify a time for an account to be considered "inactive".

> An account is determined to be inactive based on a number of things, including the date the account was created and whether the account has been sharing photos, commenting on photos, liking photos and logging in.

https://help.instagram.com/397846020286683?helpref=related&r...

From the article:

> Kevin admits that he didn't have that many followers and didn't post often - but he would use it to like and follow other people's posts.

For all we know, he hadn't logged in or posted anything for a year.

But, still, Instagram should be a good landlord here and at least inform the user before just yanking their account handle.
I would say that retrospectives are the biggest waste in agile in my experience.

For one thing, retrospectives often come at a time when everyone has been busting ass for a long time and they just want to go home. If you put it off till next week then it seems like another distraction.

Like the planning meetings, the timebox for a retrospective is often wrong. In some cases things went smoothly and there is a little to say. That is where you should be. In some places you budgeted 45 minutes but there really is a day worth of material.

On top of that in many (most?) firms there is no sense of psychological safety. Often the real message is that the process is 99% bull but you can't say that in a meeting which is claimed to be about continuous improvement but is really about how to rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic.

In his book "Good to Great", Jim Collins points out the use of the word "alignment" is a bad smell. In a healthy organization there is alignment, naturally, built into it. If you feel like you have to paint alignment onto it after the fact you are just causing more misalignment.
Ask HN: Remote Workers, how do you get paid?
Hi,

I have been a remote worker for a year now, and tax season is coming around.

I was wondering how do you get paid and why? (Paypal, ACH, Venmo, Transferwise?)
Love the typo, I guess everything can be bought for a price.
> It's centrally administered by people outside your community who have a profit motive

The only thing that the administrators outside your community do is the shitty redesigns of the UI (big thanks to them for the "old.reddit.com" option though).

Everything else is done by the community of a subreddit.
Tor's Kindle books are also DRM free, although IIRC the process of exporting the DRM free files outside the Kindle app is somewhat non-intuitive.
Estimates are always wrong only if they are concrete estimates as if they were certain.

If, instead, they are 90% ranges (I am 90% sure that this will be done between x and y) then it is much easier to estimate accurately. It is also easier to spot bullshit (if the spread doesn't go up as your time to completion moves further from now, it is probably a bullshit estimate).
1) Now that video deepfake is a thing, I currently only allow videos as primary sources in rare circumstances (such as the video being published by a verified account of the subject).
2) Only primary sources are accepted. Currently anyone can start contributing, but every claim is still reviewed by a team of verified fact checkers. I hope to scale this long term with a fact checking reputation score.
I read HN, drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and short Tesla.
I'm so sad for you and the company you own.
I have a pair of NB Minimus Trail. They're great for what I use them for... short runs on vacation, usually on mixed terrain. And walking around casually (weekend errands, etc). I don't think I'd ever run in them as my primary trainer. Even if I didn't fear injury, I'm just not convinced they'd be any faster than a good trainer, plus a road race shoe for race day.
Yes. Your point being?

I've DJed on vinyl, CDs and Ableton. My most creative sets have come from Ableton as I've been able to mash up music from genres I simply couldn't have if I were beat mixing them on vinyl (which was actually the reason I learned Ableton in the first place). However I'm still ostensibly just playing other peoples music.

There is a lot of ego amongst some DJs where they liken themselves to musicians but it is a great deal harder to write music and perform that - live - than it is to DJ (this I know from experience as well). Which is why I objected when the OP made the comparison of himself to a band performing.
> Too many people on sidewalks in NYC making them almost unusable

One, pedestrian congestion doesn't exhibit traffic congestion's negative externalities. (You have to get to trampling-risk densities before that occurs.)

Two, "sidewalk passes" have no precedent. Congestion pricing has lots of precedent [1].

Three, this is a problem getting attention [2]. America has spent decades throwing lanes at traffic. Not all of that was a waste. Similar effort has yet to broadly benefit pedestrians.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing

[2] https://www.thevillager.com/2019/04/grassroots-group-calls-f...
> What I'm trying to do is keep tweeting therefore they can't take it if it's active.

Good luck with that, Twitter has a long history of taking handles on behalf of brands and celebrities...
I love my Kindle but because of similar reasons I am usually reluctant to buy any book on it. In my mind, whenever I buy a book for Kindle I assume it is long term rental and one day it would go away.

The things I like about Kindle are:

1. Reading at night. This is number one reason for me. With Popsocket on back, I can hold Kindle for hours in bed. Without Popsocket, it is awkward to hold while laying down.

2. Waterproof. You can read paper books in hot tub or pool too, so this is not that important.

3. Personal Documents. You can send pretty much any text/blog post to your Kindle via browser plugin. A lot of reading I do at night is blog posts.

4. Text to Speech. When I really want to be lazy, this is great then.

A few years ago when my Kindle Keyboard died, I tried going back to paper books 100% but I didn't read as much as I was reading on Kindle. So I am back on Kindle with the assumption that I will lose all my books sooner or later.
We might not have been so exhausted if the process itself was not in the way of makign realistic plans.
Now is a good time to buy put options.
I'm not sure the author is advocating for no developer presence during the planning period.

> The first week of each month is spent with project leads and stakeholders defining the upcoming sprint

At the very least, I'd suggest that developer leads or engineering managers are stakeholders and therefore involved. They should be liaising with their development team (also stakeholders) during the planning phase.

Perhaps this sentence is overstated:

> It is an intentionally light week and many people may simply take the time off to paint or surf or whatever.

People should perhaps take SOME time off to relax, but likely not the whole week.
>Disappointingly enough, the Marines only just adopted the M855A1 in 2018, and the USAF has no intention to do so.

To be fair, the USAF doesn't do any ground combat with small arms that I'm aware of. Most likely, the only thing they do with that cartridge in deployment is to give it to their security forces, who are basically just guards and almost never use their weapons in combat these days. I'd be a lot more worried about what the USAF uses in much larger rounds, which they fire from aircraft.
Hopefully nextgen raspberry pi will take sata or some other storage interface. I think SD cards are the main problem with the platform right now.
Oh, loads of power. The CPU is spec'd for 125W and would be completely outclassed by a 65W Ryzen 5 1600 (150% cores, 300% threads, each thread probably 2x performance) and the rest of the system likely draws another 100W or so. It's irritatingly reliable and my house server needs really don't encompass a lot of CPU power, so replacing it hasn't been a priority.
Is there any chance Chinese phones will stop working too?
Like with nuclear energy, we are stuck with bad options because most people see two options with pros and cons and decide to ignore all cons of one option, and all pros of another.

There is nothing without pros and cons. It's just a matter of picking your poising. Most people don't want to think about that. So we get ruthless manipulators to sway masses. The masses meanwhile are adamant about making decisions and having a voice... while completely ignoring the reality out there. They want decisions made from the vantage point of what they feel with no real care about the real world consequences of what they choose.
Is there any evidence that these two companies aren’t Chinese government operatives?
Always ACH.
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Congestion pricing is an admission that the fuel taxes are being used for other purposes than roads.
Of course we don't know for sure, but there's a little precedent.

While the Pentium 4 team was churning out ever more power-hungry space heaters, a separate team came up with Pentium M. It became the basis for the Core architecture that gave Intel a 10-year monopoly.

If anyone knows that having separate teams reinvent their own wheels can have a massive payoff, it's Intel.
The freedom of speech analogy is pretty good.

Yes you can talk freely, but if you want to say something louder than everyone else, you typically have to pay for advertising or a platform.

You can move freely, but if you want to move faster/farther than others, you have to pay for it.
Are you saying that if another Pavel Lishin ascends to the office of U.S. President, you'd support him just being able to take away my Twitter handle?
Do your best to break tasks up so that all tasks are the same size

That is estimation, in the Scrum sense.
Twitter did the same thing to me a few years back. I registered @machinima back in 2006 or so and would semi frequently post links to interesting machinima videos I liked. After a couple of years I stopped posting for a while and I guess you could consider the account “inactive” even though my Twitter client was authenticated and checked it daily for activity via api (or so I thought). A few years ago I went to post something and found I couldn’t log in.

Never got an email about it or any form of contact. They just up and gave my account to the machinima.com company.
This is why I bike rather than run. Crashing is your primary risk there but otherwise, it's stupendously hard+ to hurt yourself unknowingly.

I'm not fully aware of all of the possible long term risks to cycling but I know pollution from cars comes up a lot. I believe the prevailing consensus is that the benefits still outweigh the harm done.

+: May be overstating it. You can hurt your wrists through a bad fit and your knees through using too high a gear. In both cases, your body will probably let you know about it soon though.
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I think what pisses me of about Spotify is how they still want to pretend like they are the small startup, full of designers with their cute hand drawn graphics, being bullied by evil corporate American shills. It's all bullshit. They are just as corporate now as anyone else.

Fantano actually investigated this: the record labels rejected a higher artist % of streaming revenue from Spotify in favour of the labels owning more Spotify shares. Spotify is literally (to the extent of that ownership) the record labels.
I think midtown manhattan is a pretty good example of what self driving cars will look like. Most of the vehicles are taxis, ride shares, or delivery trucks. Very few of them ever park longer than to drop something off.
Was it an issue with Passenger and the number of concurrent connections it could hold?
True, but then the Lib Dems were succeeded by UKIP as the third party and the electoral threat they posed to the Conservative Party was a significant factor in putting moves to leave the EU onto the Conservative Party's agenda despite its leadership's reluctance.

Of course, without skewed vote shares due to FPTP and with a limited choice of realistic coalition partners for a future government, that third party can achieve exactly the same thing through coalition bargaining anyway.
Also probably determined by how much the PR firm is paying who want control of the account.
The idea is that good journalists can stand out by making their fact checking open and auditable
Yeah, I kind of agree. If you want 12 weeks of vacation a year, you have to plan spectacularly. I am not sure 2 hours a month is enough.
Typically, the price of books is largely a function of the costs of manufacture and distribution. There are some fixed, up-front costs that don't vary with print run (editorial, typesetting, proofreading, cropyediting and so on), which is why a bestseller novel is way more profitable than a complex academic book that is expensive to produce and limited in sales, even though you're probably spending more on royalties and marketing support for that.

For ebooks, you can reduce your distribution costs (there's some cost of creating the file and distributing it, but you don't have shipping costs or returns), but of course you still need to make back your fixed costs. I manage ebook production for a university publisher (but I have no say on pricing decisions, only the technical stuff), and for us, the savings for ebooks doesn't really translate into a big price difference, because our fixed costs are such a large part of our expenses. In our market, ebooks still don't amount to a big percentage of sales, because the reader technology doesn't provide enough support for complex books.

I do argue as much as I can against DRM, but so far I have lost that fight.
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How do the ingredients get to the restaurant for preparation?
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"it's a way to make sure people who need the road most are the ones who get to use it"

It is too regressive to achieve that end. If you have a lot of money, it is a trivial cost for convenience. If you are poor, but would really benefit from road access, you still may not be able to afford it. You could easily frame this as "keep the poor off the road so the rich don't have to deal with traffic".
I don't even think it's a good rule because if something critical/high priority comes up it could be because of planning or it could be because of multiple external forces and or a bug.

Maybe it's a good general workflow but as a hard rule it seems rather silly... but I would love to work somewhere where there wasn't a flipflop on priorities every week or so :)
Amazon has more credibility in terms of delivering big projects than the other ones.
Not all developers are gold platers. That seems to be a more common behavior among inexperienced developers.
Two reasons would be that ealking doesn't pollute and is healthy activity.
Ghidra source code officially released
looks really interesting!
> Always do the simplest thing.

Can you clarify? If you meant "always search for the simplest solution" I agree. If you meant, "always do the easiest tasks" I don't.