skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know... I grew up with them, they are called 'Flachspüler' vs. the now common 'Tiefspüler'. From personal experience they were common up to 1990 or 2000. After this not so much anymore. Anyways, it had pros and cons, as everything.
Pro:
- no splashing up to your behind from stuff dropping down into your piss.
- acessability for getting samples for medical 'shitworks'
(not much of a factor, i had that maybe 5 times in my life?)
Cons: Stinky, because 'open air', could be compensated by flushing early, multiple times.

Just for reasons of anti-stinkiness i prefer the 'modern' ones, and where i once placed a leaf of toilet paper into the bowl before using it to avoid too much cleaning, i now place a leaf of toilet paper into it to avoid 'upsplashing'.

Regarding cleaning, they usually were connected directly to high pressure piping, which roared liked the Niagara Falls trough it. Solutions with some tank up the ceiling with gravity assist were seen as inferior, and i may have seen them only a few times?

Never mind, back to topic:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale
Sour grapes from an underachieving researcher.
Easier said than done. How do you programmatically define "genuine" in a way that can't be easily spoofed?
As a mid twenty year old, I have to say there are a lot of similarities between professors/TA/office hours, and recruiting/working.

When I was in undergraduate, I desperately needed to get help at office hours many times, but never felt comfortable doing it, sometimes feeling I would annoy the professor. Likewise, that’s how I treated recruiters for the most part. Like they were some robot that doesn’t understand my situation and are only helping because they have to.

Fast forward to the working world, suddenly your manager and peers are all trying to work together for the most part. Likewise recruiters are constantly hitting you up, some causally too. It changed my view of what school could have been once I realized that my bosses and recruiters were just peers at the end of the day.

I could and should have been more confident going to as many office hours as needed, but you know, hindsight is 20/20.
Never retire. If you retire, you're just waiting to die.

They'll have to pry my keyboard from my cold, dead fingers.
Fortran can read and write arrays to disk so I think that satisfies Turing equivalency.
Yeah, that was my first question: Is this not just a hopelessly confounded correlational study? I was disappointed that the article didn't seem to talk about this.

Well, at least it links to the paper, so here's a starting point: "In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of the NRPS program on cognition among individuals ages 60 and above. The expansion of the program affected an easily identifiable group, as the policy was introduced only in select areas. Our identification employs a triple difference (DDD) strategy. We exploit the staggered policy implementation between 2009 and 2013 and compare the cognitive outcomes of individuals 60 years and older who live in areas that implemented the NRPS program to the cognitive outcomes of individuals of the same age group who live in areas that did not implement the NRPS program."
And why do you think that?
They won't... I tried back when I was still a student.

It was a pretty awful support experience, including patronizing responses and being accused of just demanding free credits from DO.

"It appears that you have already tried out our platform and decided that you did not wish to pay to use it."

"I was attempting to introduce you to what I'm faced with here and a bit of a background on why other people have forced my hand toward being skeptical of people's intentions from time to time."

"The bottom line is I have people begging for free credits outside of the promotion rules constantly and I wanted you to give me a reason to skate around those rules for you."

All this over $50 of credits... cost them a lifetime of recommendations and lost business.
So the universe would be composed of infinite energy?
"You're rich when you earn more than you spend!"

Exactly the sort of thing only truly rich people say.
And I'm totally opposed to paid-for-degree American style College. It is a stupid system that favorise social jails and reward people based on their parent's income, not based on their work.

Education is the cement of the society, allowing anyone to have a chance to succeed in life whatever their social origin.

This is the European model. And when I see the current status of USA/UK student debt and USA Universities entrance fees: I tend to think it is a much more sane model than the American one.... even when I see my taxe bill.
I respectfully disagree that this is the case.
No, the whole point of U2F/FIDO is that phishing sites can't extract a usable credential from the key because everything is tied to the origin requesting the authentication.
What if gravity isn't always relative to mass? I mean, all of our scientific evidence suggests it is... but I suppose it's possible that's not quite right.
Luckily "free will" as would fit a layman's interpretation of the term is already incompatible with physics, so the existence of CTCs doesn't pose additional problems.
You know what; apart from that floating box in the corner right, I’m okay with the rest of the ads. Yes, they’re there, but I can still see all content, so it doesn’t bother me that much.

But like I said, they have to be there on page load, not do this weird thing that causes content to jump around.
So many projects....
The funny thing is that I don't know which way you are shocked. If they aren't mirror-biased, which one is more biased?
I hear the research has been looking up.
I change the location of my gravitational field every time I move my body. I modify my gravitational field with every breath as I breath out heavier gases and breath in lighter gases.

The thing about gravitational energy is that it's the weakest of all fundamental forces. Nuclear energy is more about releasing the energy stored in the Strong/Weak Nuclear Interaction than it is about gravity.
Is Pakistan?
The relevant section is category 4 A. 5. (page 79)

>4. A. 5. Systems, equipment, and components therefor, specially designed or modified for the generation, command and control, or delivery of "intrusion software".
Please don't respond to a trollish comment by breaking the site guidelines. That's actually one of the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I was super surprised to learn AWS will only allow you to register a single FIDO token - the inherent lockout risk pushed me back to using OTP with the seed stored in multiple Yubikeys.
What are some custom rules you would like to write in python ?
I avoid subscriptions. My household pays for Amazon and Netflix. We have no other recurring services outside of utilities. If I do sign up for a trial, I add a calendar reminder to cancel the service a day before the trial expires.
Lots of things were understood to be impossible until they weren’t.
This. This is why I am happy to use security keys at work (if I lose all of them, there is a way to be issued new ones using a manual identity verification method plus another person's security keys ) but I've been too nervous to put them on my own account.

Also, if you are adding support for security keys in your app, please make sure there are ways to add and remove multiple keys (so I can have backups, and per-device keys).
We looked at Alembic and our main issues were that

1. we don't have the entire database modeled into SQLAlchemy and we don't plan to

2. we have A LOT of views, triggers and functions and they are not very well supported by SQLAlchemy/Alembic (? I may be wrong)
I have used sqitch http://sqitch.org/ in the past and found it good for postgres. It supports revert and verify too.
Brand new skin please!
Reread the comment. Nowhere did I make any statement about the current state of gender split among educators in the US (or elsewhere).
I've never understood why "paradoxes make cause-and-effect-reasoning difficult" concerns are a valid argument that something could not be possible. Does physics care whether the workings of the universe are accessible to our logic?
The article is about the United States.
> Just because everyone knows that it's normal for someone to always get bullied by the larger group doesn't make it okay.

Hmmmm. I think you managed to sneak in another subtle error:

If that was your idea then, at least in an Internet context, you should probably write about how Atheists are bullying Christians.

I'd avoid this example at all. It feels contrived and either you intended it or not it smears a good number of innocent people.

Use something neutral instead:

Group a and group b or something.
The Race for Quantum Supremacy
Let’s All Stop Mindlessly Clicking and Sharing Zombie Links
Indeed, a large part of my wall decorations is photos from travelling... not a single selfie, though, most are entirely devoid of people :)
That would be a horrible comment to post here, but please don't do the internet thing of bringing the worst thing someone said (or the worst you can find) into an HN thread in order to make that be the topic instead. This is not the way to improve signal/noise ratio or serve intellectual curiosity on this site.

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Could you please provide more info on how you’d do this? I have built a CRM for internal use that does this with maxo.com.au . Is the open source PBX just astrix?
Independent political action committees (both PACs and Super PACs) need to report their spending to the FEC, tied to the candidate their independent expenditure is in favor of/support.

That covers most political spending on the national level. Political spending for state offices (which dont have to report to the FEC) is a whole other story.
Ask HN: How much equity when joining a 1M revenue startup?
I consulted for this company since inception and now they are doing 1M in revenue per year.

They are bringing me in as CTO for 1.5% + salary

Do you think this is a good deal?

Thanks.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. What serves the value of the site is rather to ignore provocation and invest energy in what's intellectually interesting.

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I'm the author of an open-source schema management tool, Skeema [1], which uses a declarative infrastructure-as-code approach: you track your table definitions (and procs, funcs, etc) in a Git repo of *.sql files, typically one CREATE statement per file.

Instead of writing migrations, developers simply add / remove / modify these CREATE statements, going through the same pull request and code review process as for code. The tool knows how to diff the desired state (expressed in the repo) vs the actual state of any database environment (prod / stage / dev, etc) to generate the appropriate DDL.

It's a bit of a paradigm shift relative to traditional mysql and postgres migration tools, but it's an approach that has been used successfully by Facebook internally for nearly a decade. It's also a common approach in the SQL Server world. I've written a blog post [2] describing some of the advantages of the declarative approach.

Skeema currently only supports MySQL and MariaDB, but some declarative tools for Postgres include sqldef [3] and migra [4].

[1] https://www.skeema.io

[2] https://www.skeema.io/blog/2019/01/18/declarative/

[3] https://github.com/k0kubun/sqldef/

[4] https://github.com/djrobstep/migra
That's a big problem, and if true would probably invalidate the results. I would guess that AlphaStar was giving unrealistically complicated orders, or more likely tons of orders on opposite sides of the map simultaneously, a feat that would be all but impossible for a human.
It's really quite unusual. I'm not sure what password managers these security experts are using, but there's no way it works like mine (bitwarden). I've never had it fail to recognize the domain, which is good because that seems like really obvious functionality.

I have had it fail to autofill due to site implementation, and the couple of times it happened I was extremely on my guard and triple-checked everything before proceeding.

I think that's the important part of this, the manager has to be reliable enough that the bypass mechanism stands out _a lot_, and the user has to be aware.
> The Web existed before them, the Web will exist after them.

That's a bit more black and white that my view. I don't care if the web "exists" per se, I don't think I'd use if very much if it was still like it was in 1995.

>I don't think ad-block users are sensitive to changes in ad speed, that they wouldn't be able to notice in the first place on account of using an ad-blocker.

Wait, so you are only considering in the equation people who are currently already using ad blockers? Ummm, ok.

It seems weird that I have to say this, but I think the idea is that every person who uses an ad blocker was once a person who didn't use an ad blocker, and that there is some threshold of annoyance that must be surpassed before they typically install an ad blocker.

I don't think Google's attempt to speed up ads is intended to improve the experience for those who are already using ad blockers. Is this not obvious, or am I missing something?
Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise
I find MS Access not as intuitive as the other siblings though. Wish there was a "You Suck at Access" video like this one [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c]
Is this article just a derivative of the patents that were discussed on HN several weeks ago?

I liked that discussion. Plenty of varying perspectives such as "Bob Lasar was proven right!" and "in an arms race, keep your enemy busy [with disinformation]".

Is there new info here?
"If you look at it too hard all "truths" become false eventually"

My opinion is that many apathetic people become that way because of being treated unfairly (in their view) or feeling helpless, and way less people become that way because of thinking too hard.

"Or worse, change their position thanks to millions of dollars ..."

Well, I see new data: lobbying $$$ that could make a previously trusted politician biased. Time to update my simplistic model on his related political ads to being less likely to true. There might be another politician who changed positions based on new or emerging body of evidence - maybe this person is more trustworthy this time. New data -> updated evaluation.

"the masses believe the lie, doesn't it become the truth"

I'm not familiar with post-modernism or Stoicism. But I sure hope that the proportion of people who believe one thing does not ultimately determine its truthfulness. The way I would initially simplify this is to rely on the likely proportion of unbiased people who hold one position versus the opposite. And by unbiased, I simplify that by not trusting greedy people, or people who have not studied the policy or history of it or other places who've tried different approaches. I think these initial simplifications will already cut down many viewpoints and voices that I do not need hear, in order to make an informed voting decision.
Ask HN:  You have one week to bring the USA to its knees, how do you do it?
A thought experiment: You have one week (7 days) to bring about the fall of the United States of America, a country of 300 million people and the world's largest economy. Your aim is to create mass chaos and civil disarray. By the end of it, you want a full collapse. What do you do?
Minecraft RTX is the poster child ray tracing needs, but it's a brute to run
Nothing new or innovative here. Side skirts like a first gen Honda Insight and tiny mirrors. I’ll take a slightly less aerodynamic car that has bigger mirrors. As a person who drives trucks, absolutely no desire to have the worlds smallest mirrors. Doesn’t make a difference in fuel economy. The more I can see the better.
Seriously they aren’t saving even a mile per gallon this is just more bullshit.
> Group a and group b or something.

I referred to the groups as "The Larger Group" and "The Smaller Group." I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Fox News obviously.
The thing that was lost quite frankly was most of the value that desktop productivity software used to provide before Microsoft consumed the market with Windows. It's not that client/server couldn't provide the same (or even better) value, it's that the companies left standing (think Microsoft, Oracle, IBM etc.) had no interest in providing maximum value to customers. They wanted to extract maximum value from customers.

Access was created to compete with and replace those single-user and workgroup dBase-era software solutions from the 80's and early 90's. It helped them to cover the bases of the 'professional' desktop use cases as they won people over with Windows. With that mission complete and all competitors long gone, Microsoft now needs to kill off Access to get more people migrated over to SQL Server solutions which will allow them to extract more value from their customer base.
Fair enough!
They started charging the 10% on all imports recently, which I know killed a few peoples side import/resales
I used to teach students MS Access, as well as the entire Office Suite.

At the time I questioned the validity of teaching them to use Access, as I was pretty sure that it was little more than a toy program, and would never be used in the wild by proper businesses.

Then at a mate's wedding one of the guests turned out to be a database admin at a large financial institution. I mentioned my opinions on teaching Access to students, and how pointless it was, and he laughed at me.

His response was that he'd often be asked to build a database to do xyz by management, and his reply would normally be something along the lines of...

"Sure, we can get a secure database, that talks to the other systems and does everything you need, with a web interface in a week or so."

Management would give him disapproving stares.

"Or I could knock you up an Access database in a couple of hours that'll do the job."

Management's response - "Yeah, just do that."
Database migrations for RDBMS like mysql or postgres, we use knex or laravel's database migrations tools.

For bigquery, we wrote this nifty tool https://github.com/SplitmediaLabsLimited/supermigration
I'm assuming that this is so obvious that it's considered not worth discussing, which is fine. I'd just like to know how are we sure that it's his body? What is the evidence for that? Is it just too hard to fake it and get away with it? Too James Bong (well it is, sure) but how do we know that's not possible?

I'm prepared to believe it but I'm suddenly just really reluctant to believe anything about this case without evidence.
On the other hand, we have many primal and ancient behaviors that can be contextualized on evolutionary timescales so that it can be reasonably said that, yea, a lot of our behaviors have common heritage with even plants.
I agree, in general, it's a relatively thankless job, where you are constantly cleaning up after other people's messes. Many developers don't think how their decisions impact downstream processes, deployment, or operations. You get to fix build and deployment errors all the time, from either your own problems, hardware problems, upstream problems, or other developers on your team. Work is thrown over the fence all the time at you, with no warning.

I don't think there's much need to come up with your own abstractions, and those that do like to write a lot of devops code seem to dig themselves into a hole. Simplicity is key.

It's a lot like development, in all these ways. It's just even more annoying, since people call you when it stops working, rather than just waiting until tomorrow to barge into your office.

It's not just politics that keep people from being responsible for their own messes. It's honestly about ability. Those who can't solve hard problems that pop up randomly are the ones who get to write features, leaving head-scratching bugs to those who have the ability to fix them.

But then again, I might just be feeling jaded today. I'd consider myself both sides of Dev and Ops, and been called everything in between (usually when they try to convince me to take on something).
I didn't intend to contradict your post, but rather add to it, or have a conversation.

> A lot more social stuff is learned than most normal people want to admit

People tend to have an innate ability to socialize with their immediate surroundings: family, friends, coworkers, and other people they personally know.

Beyond that, things are harder, and more learned. Fiction probably plays a very large role in this by the way.

> High empathy is not a good thing for being a soldier or a surgeon, both important roles in the world.

I'm actually not so sure about this; empathy isn't some sort of binary toggle, or uninfluenced by intellect; we have some control and choice over it. All other things being equal, a surgeon empathic to a patient's concerns (rather than indifferent) would make for a better surgeon, and a soldier highly empathic towards their fellow comrades would probably be a better soldier.

> The origin of that idea I that we had escaped entrenched class structure in Europe. America was conceived of as the land of opportunity.
>
>This was a positive thing, not a way to blame poor people for their poverty.

I appreciate that, but that was almost 250 years ago and things have changed rather a lot since then. Especially in modern context, "it's your fault if you're poor" seems to be a natural (though often unspoken) consequence of "you can be rich if you work hard enough".

> For a lot of people, that proved to be true for a long time. Those ideas aren't fundamentally broken, but we some things have changed and we aren't coping so well with some of those changes.

I think they are, because at the end of the day what a society needs if a fairly small group of people doing knowledge work, and a fairly large group of people facilitating that. One reason we can work as computer programmers is because other people do our food growing and construction and cleaning etc.

None of this is unique to the US, but in a lot of countries there seems to be more recognition of this in the form of worker protection, better social welfare, etc.
2019 - Mavic Mini --> 2020 - Mavic Micro --> 2021 - Mavic Nano --> ... ... ... --> 2049 - Mavic Atom --> 2100: Mavic Dark Matter
Totally understand where you are coming from. My wife and I tend to see modern feminism as a way to tell males that being masculine is bad while simultaneously telling females that being feminine is bad. Seems like the same pay for the same work aspects of the movement are where they should instead focus.

Likewise politically, I’m for individual liberty for all adults but not for an anemic taxation system for the rich.

I guess that makes me a centrist these days?