skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really nice achievement!

I wish more parents were involved with their children's education, some just expect the government to educate their kids while they just work or stay at home. Some aren't even really aware of charter schools, which some are way better compared to the local public school. Got to be accepted, but at least it doesn't cost like private school since the funds are moved from the local city school to the charter school.

There's a family who sold their house to full time RV, and their dad is a web developer, but him and his wife have already started teaching the kids to read and write even though not even at age for school yet, which they are homeschooling anyways - but kinda forced to if traveling full time. Looks like there's some company that sells you a package with the curriculum. I guess that doesn't work for every family, but I really love to see when parents are more involved, and get a bit jealous. I feel like that gives them a head start.

Then some kids don't even go to preschool. I feel like the education system is one size fits all too. Kinda wish we had more school choices, and then not everyone has the same learning style. I remember seeing on the news once some school started as a experiment to teach via games. Forget what it's called. Some kids who are told they are ADD or ADHD, when really it's the style of educating that's the fault, so the lazy teachers tell their parents to put them on drugs so they are labeled as disabled just to get more funding for the school to pocket.
I can't read the full article, so this might be incorrect. The summary seems to indicate that they're only considering vision loss, but most of the reports that I've heard of about lasik problems aren't vision loss as such, but the introduction of artifacts.
> a Costco-sized box of 1,500 Legos for $40.

Man, you can't just put information like this out there. I can't be trusted with this knowledge.
> No offense, but could you please calm down?

First you write an extremely detailed hypothetical example that is based off entirely incorrect assumptions and then you go on with another assertion in your next post that shows you have no understanding of what the system does.

It would be one thing if we are having a private conversation, but you are posting your uneducated FUD on a public forum. If I don't respond to dispel it, then other people can easily be led to believe what you are saying.

Please take a little responsibility. You doing this is causing a lot of harm, and yes, you should be called a blockhead when you're acting like a blockhead.

> I have actually done some research -- to the point of knowing how to implement lightning.

You know how implement lightning, and yet you don't understand the basics of how it works? I can't see how that is possible, unless you are trying to say you ran some code or have interfaced with a library, which all I can say is, good for you, I guess. Maybe read the white paper next time.

> However, it is a long time ago and things may have changed.

Again with this bs. No, things were never designed in the way you describe.

> I'm asking you for more information because you seem to know more than me.

But you're not doing that. You are asserting conclusions without doing any basic research into what you are talking about.

> I'm trying to understand what I'm missing. It's totally fair if you don't feel you have the time or patience to explain it to me, but for both your sake and mine, it's probably best if you just say that and I won't bother you any more.

If you were simply asking questions, I'd have no problem with it.

But, the issue is that this affects more than you or me when you go about spouting FUD publicly about a good system that actually would work. You do harm to everybody, by preventing it from potentially being adopted.
Show HN: Scaledger, an Open Source Ledger API in GraphQL and Postgres
Scaledger is double-entry accounting database with a typed GraphQL API, supporting:

* Immutable entries

* An API introspected directly from a PostgreSQL schema

* GraphQL subscriptions for real-time updates

It does so with a Node server written in TypeScript (with the excellent Postgraphile library), and a PostgreSQL database.

Scaledger is designed to be used as a service for recording transactions (called postings) between accounts, and reporting their balances through an entity called ledger. This is particularly useful when you have to track the balances for thousands, or even millions of users. You've taken a payment, but now you've got to keep track of who is owed what? Scaledger is good for that.

The basics are pretty simple, but I've tried to be thoughtful about the kinds of details that most startups get wrong when they're trying to do things like track user balances: using floats for money, making transactions mutable, etc.
I would be interested to hear more about your "selective algorithm" or what makes your content "the best"..

In other words: Why would I give you my email address?
Software helps planners design walkable cities
> Running a successful business is not necessary to live. Housing and > healthcare are. They should not be treated the same.

Maybe not for you, but as a small business owner it's my livelihood.
I've been asked to literally test that values are incremented. Like, does ++ add 1 to the value in C, just to be safe, for the sake of 100% coverage.
When people report their salaries, I always wonder how we can know they're telling the truth.
The article just mentioned they are blacklisting material based on political views (as far as I can tell the great majority of the censored stuff is right-wing), can’t see how they’re not “politically leaning”. The Republican-led backlash will come back hard on them.
I'm excited for your shock when you _actually_ meet a leftist in that case instead of these milquetoast liberals.

Hint: Google still supports and enforces capitalism.
Former Yelp engineer here (I left recently). Clusterman was built about ~18 months ago for our primarily Mesos and Marathon based workloads. At the time, the Kubernetes cluster autoscaler was in its infancy and there was no comparable solution that worked for Mesos.

Yelp is currently migrating to Kubernetes which is why support for Kubernetes autoscaling was recently added to Clusterman.
Disappointed to see that Scheme is the only lisp mentioned and the author spent too little time to be able to see past the parenthesis and realize the model lisps represents. Interesting to see the different combinations he thought about but really thought lisps would be mentioned more.
It turns out that that's a completely different meaning of "homology".

"Homology" really just means something like "correspondence". So it has, among its meanings,

1. the one in the article here: a way of associating topological spaces with algebraic structures, so that you can study one by studying the other.

2. the biological one: instances where two (parts or aspects of) living things are similar on account of common descent.

It's not 100% impossible that the two notions might come into contact with one another. DNA can become knotted, and there are enzymes called topoisomerases that enable DNA strands to pass through one another to unknot them. (Maybe something similar happens with proteins?) Knots are topological objects and homology is one of the tools mathematicians use to study them. Perhaps one day it will turn out that particular DNA or protein sequences tend to lead to particular sorts of knotting that are biologically significant (e.g., maybe they control the transcription rate of DNA or the shape of proteins), and perhaps it will turn out that they are selected for, and then perhaps from time to time biologists will find regions in two organisms' DNA or proteins that exhibit mathematically similar kinds of knotting because they're descended from an ancestor that found that kind of knotting useful. In that case they would have homology in their homology.

(Probably (k)not, though.)
Because I don't like several of their business practices, nor the impact they've had on communities in my area.
Agreed, especially because this new code may have unintended consequences. For example, if the heap grows extremely fast in that 500ms sleep time then it can get dramatically larger than you'd like, when instead we want to run a GC right as it hits 20GB used.
I hope you can identify the irony in your statement.
Usually around dinner time in our big metro areas :)
That is, unfortunately, how businesses are organized under capitalism.
Allocating 10GB per the original twitch blog, to tune GC specifics, does feel like a bit of a hack around missing API knobs - but it's elegant enough. The fact that it relies on the specifics of the underlying GC, when trying to tune the specifics of GC behavior, isn't much of a drawback, so much as it's just sane performance tuning.

This proposed alternative of just toggling the GC on/off outright in a sleeping loop feels like a pretty big sledgehammer - and just as much of a hack. The 500ms sleeps are enough to see 5 GC cycles, going off of the original twitch blog's 10 GCs/second numbers, which would also concern me - as a potentially unwanted latency spike. I'm also curious what happens when the GC is toggled back off mid-GC. It's more code, and feels brittle. That ReadMemStats sync point may be worse than the GC spam in the first place!
I have an account on Medium and I do follow people on Medium. Weird.
I'm not convinced the economics work out that well.
Rough guess, Disney now has call it 60 top flight movies, from Snow White to Star Wars (top flight as in have been either box office smashes and/or perennial money makers).

If I could buy all the DVDs (I'm not sure I could) I would be paying 15 quid a shot - that's 900 pounds. At 9 quid a month subscription that's 8 and a half years before I break even.

I am fairly sure I lost most of the DVDs I had 9 years ago in our last house move.

Yes it is likely to be bad economics, but it's not that bad.

Edit: I wanted to check my 60 movie count and I think I am under estimating - (1) lists 57 "Classic Animated Movies" - and some are obscure but I would lay good money that most people you know have seen at least 40 - and that does not include any Pixar (20 movies?) Marvel or Star Wars (must be 30 by now).

A family (and yes that's the target audience) could have a Movie Bight once a week for ten years on this subscription.

I guess only time and competition will tell

1) https://reelrundown.com/animation/all-50-disney-classics-mov...
https://wordpress.com is relatively simple, prevents SPAM, and has tools to discover and follow other blogs.
Quite a few. Both the Berkeley grad program and working at Google will put you in touch with a fair number of gifted people, plus a few more through social and family circles.

Regarding my own children, this is complicated and I don't really want to talk about it here, but I'll say that their mom and I made sure to make opportunities available, but put a lot less pressure on them than I had when I was growing up.
I'm unsure how I could explain but I would love to try. My newsletter gets popular content that many developers found interesting. I then try to make sure that content is relevant and provides insights to the users. This project is still in its early stages but that's a simplified version of what I am trying to do.
It doesn't work when you're using a case. I regret buying Samsung.
I don't know why you have scare-quotes around diversity, but practically every company has diversity initiatives (random examples)[1][2]. The existence of such says nothing about the company's politics, or those of its employees, one way or the other.

I have no clue what you mean by "diversity" (with scare-quotes), so I can't really answer your question. A simple search for the words "diversity" or "diverse" turns up nothing on the Wikipedia page for left-wing politics.[3]

1. https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/about/company/beliefs-and-cu...

2. https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/who-we-are/global-diver...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics
Talent does come naturally to them. Instead of arguing about labels, it's better to think about talent quantitatively. If the USA's IMO contestants were generally slackers, they'd still be comfortably in the top 100 in their birth year (in the entire country) in the AMC/AIME combined score, just by showing up when the teacher told them to. (Well, back in the early 2000's. Maybe competition is stiffer nowadays.) And the gulf in talent between them and the worst kids in that top 100 list is large.
They are never easier but they are convenient for serializing/deserializing from the DB to the data structures of the language. I'm currently working with Rails, Django and Phoenix. For a polyglot developer having to learn how to do SQL in many different languages is immediately a stupid thing to do.

I wish I could write my queries in SQL and the ORMs be smart enough to handle them without making me parse the results manually.

On the other side, I like ORMs for managing the databases with migrations.
archive.is also breaks if you use Cloudflare DNS.
Well seeing that your question doesn’t have anything to do with the thread...

My post:

“ It’s not about the regulations, it’s about whether the executive branch chooses to enforce them and how much.”

And the response to:

“ That's really not true, you can't run a giant public company and start breaking laws because you think 'the current executive branch won't care'.”

What does it have to do with “changing” the executive branch?

The “executive branch” is not just at the federal level. It’s also at the state and the local level where the president/governor/mayor has a lot of influence on what gets enforced.
Argument in the past: Because the best alternative is a complete audit of all past commits for IP issues, trade secrets, keys, network internals, ... It's just much easier to remove that hurdle from the process and only look at the current state of the code.
Finding Private Adams
Bill.com Files for $100M IPO
A git alias I found somewhere that I really like for displaying a history graph similar to bitbucket's:

lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
I was looking through this last night. So awesome.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-reco...
I can see the benefits when thinking about consumers.

I think the difference here is to do with who's responsible for keeping things "working".

In a business environment there is a whole IT department who go to a lot of trouble to guarantee that their colleagues can continue working. But when Google take that control there's a clash, and it hinders the IT team's capabilities.
Sounds like a clear hit on some dark store. I mean, digital reputation is one of the most sought after 'commodity' these days, what with paid likes etc. This is next-level fake reviews!

I wouldn't be surprised it's eventually become a business in and of itself, like some shady companies in eg China farm games to sell accounts and items to rich players who'd rather pay money than time.
I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with that - it’s a form of community building. The problem in my experience is slack’s over enthusiastic notification defaults. If Sue and Joe are chatting about an upcoming office party in a general channel, that’s great - just so long as my devices don’t tell me about it until I explicitly open that chat channel.
Voyager Probe: What Are the Contents of the Golden Record?
My comment was a tongue in cheek reference to early Google. I can't tell if you missed the joke or just one upped me on a heroic scale.
Isn't that PageRank? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Or did I miss the subtle joke.
We're not social, we are tribal, we need to show dominance on our peers and in person it works best.

Being the king of slack serves no purpose.

What Bezos does (if it's true) is just apply common sense (let's solve this real issue and only this one quickly by talking about it an only about it because we are the ones who can solve it and no one else) to a workplace where people are payed so much that it shouldn't even be possible to have non meaningful meetings.

But this is the kind of world we live in nowadays...
Thanks for this.

'Why we Sleep' was one of the books I was reading before reading your analysis, and you saved me from wasting any more time on that obviously inaccurate load of hyperbole.

More importantly, you saved me from wasting even more time trying to apply any of the advice by what seems to be sensationalism passing off as science (and maybe even jeopardising my health in the process).
Yikes. Makes me appreciate my SWE career.
Has low-code programming arrived? These five companies think so
Not sure how easy it is for children to organically socialize outside of a school setting, especially in today’s digital age where socializing is becoming an even rarer occasion as it is, and socializing outside of school almost necessitates very intentional effort on multiple parties.

Not saying it’s not possible, but a school setting is definitely one very easy organic path to socializing children.
"Boeing has changed the system to include data from two sensors."

"Boeing also has to to bring airline pilots into 737 Max simulators to assess how cockpit alerts and other factors affect pilot workload."

"Boeing needs to conduct a certification flight with officials and regulators also still have to sign off on new pilot training, which the company expects to have in January."

"Even after the planes are fully cleared to fly, airlines will have to train thousands of their 737 pilots before they can operate commercially. That process can take more than a month."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/11/boeing-expects-to-resume-737...
This is probably controversial, but I generally disagree with the popular HN sentiment that great progress is accomplished by groups of people working together in teams. My view is that the greatest work is done in isolation by individuals, with the occasional conference to stay up-to-date on new ideas. This isn’t to say that individuals accomplish great feats entirely on their own (which undoubtedly is almost never the case), but merely that almost all productive work is done independently.

If I ran my own company, I would ban almost all meetings and limit the most crucial ones to 15 minutes tops. And while my company might fail due to a misplaced sense of schadenfreude, it’s a risk I’m willing to take to get experimental verification of whether meetings are actually as valuable as everyone claims they are.
> It's all under one site so it's easier for people to find a new community to join

In theory you can find new subreddits starting from the main page, but it's more often because of people cross-posting things from somewhere you weren't previously aware existed.

There isn't any technical reason why a decentralized system couldn't work the same way. Basically just need a standard way to designate posts as permissible to repost on other sites with a link-back, and then a button on the site that makes it easy to do that.

> You only need one account and it doesn't require an email address so if you have a one off woodworking question you can ask it without having to register on a new forum

Small sites should go the other way and use an email as the login name (distinct from the public display name if you want). Then you don't even have a password, to sign in you get an email with a token in it. Paste the token or click the link from the email and you get a cookie that keeps you signed in. Lose the cookie or want to sign into another device and they send you another email.

Then "signup" takes five seconds, there's no login to forget (it's your email) and no password to forget (it doesn't even exist), so doing this on a hundred independent websites doesn't matter. You don't even have to use the email you actually read, you could use one exclusively for this type of account and then ignore anything that comes to it that isn't a site login token.
> [All of the comments here that say "How can Amazon not be aware/not fix/not police this?"]

Amazon has learned from Google that past a certain size, it pays to be a non-servicing opaque monolith.
Although I would definitely consider HN to be a social network, the number of comments here disagreeing made me look into it a bit more. According to Wikipedia both Hacker News and Reddit are "social news websites".
Small point of clarification: the DC/OS SDK works well for these applications when running on DC/OS. It did not work well when run on open source Mesos, which is what Yelp uses.
What would they gain from anonymous lies?
Lets assume you've been living under a rock because otherwise your comment is immensely condescending. & star was is for kids.

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

or more specifically movie franchises

https://entertainment.ie/cinema/movie-news/heres-an-almost-c...
I think I can see both sides of this argument - the "ballast" method is hacky not just because of it being a sort of magic thing that might be tricky to remember later, but it is relying on undocumented behavior that is not part of the contract Go provides and could randomly break later.

The method presented in the article does seem better in that it is using well-known and documented parts of Go's runtime api, but I think it might be problematic for other reasons. Fiddling with GC behavior is always a little risky because it works fine until you hit some weird corner case and it blows up.

For example - What happens if that goroutine doesn't run for longer than you expect and you leave GC turned off while another goroutine is creating a ton of garbage? Might never be a problem, but it depends on allocation behavior and how much headroom you have.

So it feels more correct, but also seems like it requires a lot more tuning and testing to feel confident about it.
For soft contacts there's two primary types in use. Regular hydrogels and silicone hydrogels (SiHy's). Most doctors will prescribe SiHy's now as they provide some key benefits. Those being: better air permeability (dk/t number) and the ability to be used for continous wear (overnight).

The SiHy's had a bit of a tradeoff though, despite being able to let a lot more oxygen through (which the corneas need, they can directly absorb it), they are not inherently wettable. Silicone is hydrophobic, it naturally repels water. So 3 generations of silicone hydrogel are in use. 1st gen has an external wetting agent that rubs off over time. 2nd gen has an internal wetting agent that some people are allergic to. 3rd gen has the molecular structure arranged in such a way they are inherently wettable.

I wear 3rd gen SiHy's now. Cooper Biofinity is the name brand. These are approved for extended wear up to a week. I have done longer than this but risk of complications increase. However, these were a huge improvement over the regular hydrogels I used to wear. If I had them in over 17 hours or so my pupils began to dilate from my eyes being oxygen starved. They are a little stiffer (and hence, slightly less comfortable than my regular hydrogels were). They also have a slightly higher chance of feeling dry due to higher water content than most other SiHy lines.

Anyways, hope that helps. There's a lot of options on the market and for you it might be better to look for a higher water content with lower stiffness, if you need to wear them when sleeping that really limits you to 4 or 5 continuous wear brands. Don't wear a non-approved regularly for sleep, it'll screw up your eyes in a mess of different ways (vascularization and such).
Considering stuff like

> Covering up Epstein's crimes to protect the Clintons

I guess this whole thing is absolutely meaningless?
Depending ones feelings about AGI, you might have saved the humans from extinction by keeping it to yourself.