skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are organizations using AirTable with LDAP or Active Directory? I see there are some connectors, but it does not appear to have first class support.
Quite interesting, thank you!
Like Street fighter yoga fireball?
Mixing human curation with crawlers is probably something that'd help with search results quality, but the issue comes in trying to get it to scale properly. Directories like the Open Directory Project/DMOZ and Yahoo's directory had a reputation for being slow to update, which left them miles behind Google and its ilk when it came to indexing new sites and information.

This is problematic when entire categories of sites were basically left out of the running, since the directory had no way to categorise them. I had that problem with a site about a video game system the directory hadn't added yet, and I suspect others would have it for say, a site about a newer TV show/film or a new JavaScript framework.

You've also got the increase in resources needed (you need tons of staff for effective curation), and the issues with potential corruption to deal with (another thing which significantly effected the ODP's usefulness in its later years).
this made the rounds a while back, but there’s an heirloom maize strain from mexico that fixes its own nitrogen from the air with a slime membrane:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-future-hu...

really mind-blowing stuff.
I love this idea - caught gently with the ship immediately turning back for home, like something out of James Bond.
> There are no cross-platform APIs for something as simple as "blit a bunch of pixels to the screen" anyway

SDL? Has ports for more obscure platforms, too
CRS-7 started as a failure of the second stage, at much higher altitude. The cloud of gas from the ruptured upper stage tanks would have obscured much of what was going on with the booster.

It was a very different "failure", which would naturally look different.
The Man in the Iron Mask. Q-VPN
I am from Zimbabwe, the area around the Victoria Falls. I have lived in South Africa for the last 15 years though.

By way of example say my brother in law gives my mother a present or does something for her. Typically my mother will accept the gift and then after supper when the whole family is seated she will thank my brother in law in front of everyone in our family. It is not uncommon to have the present if is is a present shown to everyone. The point here is to ensure that the whole family is aware of this good deed my brother in law has done. She will thank him then ask the rest of us to help her thank him. The rest of us will also thank him. The point being here we all acknowledge and see what you have done for our mother. The thanking itself can get poetic.

Last year I delivered some money sent to some rural aunts of mine by cousin working in the US (about US$ 20 each) . I made a video of each one of them saying thank you. One of the videos ended up being close to five minutes and I had to ask my aunt to stop because the file was going to be too big to send. Hope that gives idea of the old culture of thanking.
It’s not built in, but Drone has support for Gitea. I just host my own drone instance with runners in addition to Gitea.
I can also attest that lots of “modern C++” code exists in Windows.

There is code in Windows that was written yesterday and code in Windows that was written over three decades ago.
Haven’t tried it myself, but what about postgrest? https://postgrest.org
Was crew dragons plan back with normal propulsive landings to always fly back to ground and just load more fuel?
The webcast hosts explicitly said the FTS wouldn't be triggered.
Still no okd 4.3 though. Waiting
IIRC, Qwant piggybacks (-ed?) off Bing.
I'm here to talk to you about our lord and savior Linux
Why not dismantle the armies instead?
> Did you ever get asked by your teacher to write a story about anything? I always found that totally impossible.

You could have written a story about writing a story.
The distinction whether one entity does something or another entity does that is still valid.
Three laser diodes in series, electrically?
There is a third group: (iii) individuals who hope that some sort of chance nepotism will benefit them someday and don’t want society to move away from it before it does.

If someone has to decide openly between allowing or denying an instance nepotism, based on a secretly-held belief that it’s acceptable because it could benefit them, then they are able to take the stance that “nepotism is bad, but anti-nepotism has gone too far” in order to extend the life of the benefit (and their chances of benefiting from it).
I think the hate has gone too far on PHP. I work in Laravel for work, and it continues to impress me. Such a pleasure!

Also, Laravel collections are amazing. They make working with arrays and transforming data a breeze.
Generally speaking: I really liked “The obstacle is the way”.

But I have a question: is there any particular part of your life you notice especially low self-esteem?
I'd recommend anyone watch Becky's video¹ on the development, she had to basically redo it three times! Boss kept demanding more with less hardware. She's active on twitter too, I'm sure you'll see her discussing this article there too²

She also did the 3DO and Apple IIgs ports

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiq0OL8rzso

2. https://twitter.com/burgerbecky
If the reason you know your Maybe T is a Just _ is that you tested it locally: in any language that favors the Maybe pattern, the idiomatic way of performing that test makes the result available to the type system (destructuring / combinators / 'nads). On the other hand, if you know your Maybe is a Just because of non-local information, you will eventually turn out to be wrong :)
> They are studied in literary fields not because of the literary value of their writing, but because of their criticism and aesthetic positions.

That's pretty hard to distinguish from "just" literature; of course not all literature is fictional or journalistic. But neither criticism nor aesthetics are particularly bounded in their ability to make negative or positive claims due to the flexibility of interpretation of background assumptions that both pancritical + justificationist disciplines rely on. It's inherently subversive of any central and stabilizing intellectual tendency and I think most critical theorists admit their goals as being such.

This is why I doubt the claim that there is a central truth that critical theorists are attempting to discover when their methods are designed to be as disputative or ambiguating as possible. Even if we're in a position where no assumption can be taken for granted in the end, productive operational work (in science in policy or otherwise) always has to maintain some initial set of working goals and assumptions to guide and rationalize action, and perform interventions which can maximally orient the institution towards further action. Subversiveness stalls except in how it wants to prevent such institutions from prolonging themselves.

> Critical theorists are studied and used by philosophers, legal scholars, and sociologists

Are they all trained out of the Frankfurt school by any chance? Yes they're sometimes worth responding to, no they're not worth taking seriously except as a means to an end.

> They wouldn't, because critical theorists can recognize the truth and falsity of claims. Your criticism would be better aimed at the so-called postmodernists (and it'd still be wrong).

I am earnestly interested in learning more about non-postmodern critical theorists. The pragmatists of the freshwater school (Sellars and Brandom mainly) are the only people on the top of my head that sing that note due to the way they deal seriously with the problem of interpretation in foundations and the way they want to internalize Hegel, while still having the aims of scientific inquiry in mind. But that's analytic philosophy assimilating continental philosophy rather than the other way around, which I'm more sympathetic to precisely because analytics tend to want to bound critique rather than produce more critique for its own sake (i.e. subversion as an ends).
I have a file under ~/bin called youtube-mp3 which has this one-liner:

exec $HOME/d/youtube-dl/youtube-dl -t -x --audio-format=mp3 "$@"

(Edit: I'm sure this script does a lot more, but making ytdl download only the audio is fairly simple. Note the above command converts the file to mp3 which some people may not want to do because it's lossy.)
Almost 200 comments in "Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027315 last week.
A general principle in a complex system of components is for each component to accept the widest range of inputs is reasonably can (and generate the narrowest range).

This improves reliability and minimizes the scope of changes needed for the system to continue to work when something changes. This is particularly important in distributed system, where you can’t generally update the system coherently and instead need/want to update it piece-meal or progressively.

Strong type systems tend to encourage you to specify strong constraints on the typed values. While you’re specifying your types you need to be careful to not over specify, making assertions you don’t need to make, ending up with a brittle system what will break unnecessarily.

There are nice advantages to strong expressive types, but the advantages are all within the local component and it takes some extra care to avoid imposing inflexibility on the system.
A dead PC game that can't come back
Thanks for pointing that, it's obvious now that you say it. The next question is why didn't they just explode booster using the self-destruct sequence while the capsule is still attached to test a more realistic scenario?
There are EU countries that are not in Schengen (although the most notable one is about to leave).
Federation would help with both breadth and potential corruption, compared to what we had with ODP/DMOZ. A federated Web directory (with common naming/categorization standards, but very little beyond that) would probably have been infeasible back then simply because the Internet was so much smaller and fewer people were involved (and DMOZ itself partially made up for that lack by linking to "awesome"-like link lists where applicable) - but I'm quite sure that it could work today, particularly in the "commercial-ish" domain where corruption worries are most relevant.
For the tweetbot, do you at least hace the option of not using iCloud, or is that not possible?

With the Apple store, I don’t really care if they know I own a product. I just don’t want them tracking what I do with it or what files I save with it. I assume Apple doesn’t do this? I know Microsoft can depending on things.

Was there anything you saw with littlesnitch that hinted some telemetry stuff was being sent that could be “personal data” that a person who likes privacy would be concerned about?

I’m leaning heavily towards getting a Mac now. I find it hilarious given that windows literally could have simply not done this telemetry thing to prevent it, but i guess they couldn’t help themselves.
Five Members of Joe Biden's Family Got Rich
Humans body temperatures are mysteriously getting colder, study finds
Why do film critics hate movies that audiences love? [video]
> I was trying to logically explain the reality

So was I. My logic is simple to explain:

Pre-CRA - 100% of employers (small businesses, large businesses, medium business, non-profits, governments) could discriminate, and many did.

Post-CRA - < 100% of employers could discriminate

Therefore, the number of jobs available to everyone (minorities and non-minorities alike) went up. It's simple math.

I don't understand what your logic is. Because you've said both:

"Small business owners do not hire minorities because they risk being sued when they fire them."

and

"If I want to sue my employer for firing me due to racial reasons, I have to prove in court that they have a practice of discrimination. This is easier to do against larger employers [than]...a small employer. That establishes a difficulty for minorities to sue small businesses, which allows small businesses to discriminate."

So minorities find it harder to sue small businesses, but, also, small business owners don't hire minorities because they risk being sued. What? And small businesses only worry about lawsuits by fired employees, but not ones by candidates who feel illegal bias was a factor in their rejection. Why?

> I would have a hard time trying to find sources that are going to admit to discriminating publicly

Don't necessarily need that. Economists have all sorts of ingenious ways to tease out this information from other labor and employment data, EEO surveys that many employees and candidates fill out, and other things. If there's any evidence of what you're suggesting, there would be clues in that data.

> I'm done.

Me too, friend. Take care and a (slightly belated) happy new year. :-)
France has a more capable and experienced force than Russia. Also, while small individually, the combined forces of the EU far exceed that of Russia. And the US has troops stationed in Estonia, they would most certainly not let that slide. Russia can't defend its population centres either, the whole discussion is quite absurd.
> I don't know why this being downvoted.

tbh, it's one of those "Are you sure you're not an idiot?" replies.
There's a whole industry around this - they're called low-code environments.

https://www.g2.com/categories/low-code-development-platforms
Thanks for pointing me to Unison, I have yet to dig into the details, but its core idea is something I've been thinking about lately and it's fantastic to see that it exists!
This article is just dumb...
iTunes, while a bit bloated, worked just fine. Music replaces it well for music stuff.
Mostly seem to complain about the removal of Apps function from iTunes, which was actually harder to manage your home screen with then just doing it on the device.
Haven't used brew before. I'll look into it when I'll get some free time.
This looks like a great HN comment, but could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community and we want it to remain one. For that, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

You needn't use your real name, of course.
Surely most engineers want the power of strict searching and less of the comforts of being always getting filler results, right?

So... is there an internal service at Google that works correctly but they're hiding from the world?

It might be useful for Google to make different search engines for different types of people. The behaviors of people are probably multi-modal, rather than normally distributed along some continuum where you should just assume the most common behavior and preferences. \

It would even be easier to target ads...

Or maybe this doesn't exist and spam is too hard.
I always loved this game on Amiga. Flashback too.
I’ve tried Linux mint and looked at a couple other distros. The customization of hiDPL is pretty much lacking in all distros I looked at or tried. You either get “normal”, which is simply too small or “double” which makes everything too big. This makes Linux unusable from an OS perspective at home for me. Do to my screen size and eyesight, it doesn’t work for me. I really want Linux to work btw.

I see how Linux is great for server stuff. But, the OS experience I had so far had been horrible. It feels like there are simply too many distros and not enough focus on just making a few really great ones. Instead, it feels like you have lots of just OK distros instead.
Well... no. It actually does, but what's your point then?

That LGBTQ people attending the conference ought to shut up and put up?

That these policies are harmless, and therefore justifiable?
(I think we can be certain the only justification for a policy like this is the intent to cause harm, because why make them a thing otherwise.)
Isn’t that similar to a roller coaster?
Stylish suburbs: how ancient Mexican metropolis dodged inequality trap (2019)
An anabolics course?
If you look at CO2 lasers, at 40W ($350 on eBay) you can cut plywood, at 150W ($5000 on eBay) you can cut metal. Both of those are 1040 nm.

The 450 nm modules you can get up to 5W ($100 on eBay), but those can hardly cut anything, they're more like engravers.
The search bar on reddit.com only searches through post titles and not comments. Using Google/DDG/<any other search engine> seaches through all content posted on Reddit and not just post titles. Until Reddit implements proper search, people will keep using search engines to search for content on it.
What do you get when you search for that? Did a test right now, and apart from the Wikipedia page, I get videos about piano music/pianos, shop pages for buying pianos and local businesses that sell either pianos or piano lessons.

So I'm curious whether the issue is that there are too many shopping/business related pages (which is fair, but at least those seem to be piano related), or whether you're getting something completely different.
As someone who is also suffering from low self-esteem issues for long time please see a therapist (not CBT therapy, I'd argue a lot of self-therapy books philosophically are some variations of CBT techniques).

My self-esteem issues are the products of childhood abuse and trauma. I was in denial about my trauma, but therapy helped me accept the reality and work on treating the root cause, not the the symptomps. Your self-esteem issues might not root from abuse. But it's a good idea to get help from a professional. Otherwise you might be just treating the symptomps, not the disease itself.
Why your best idea may be your second favorite (2019)
Listing Austria, the country that has been hosting the Life Ball for almost 3 decades by now in your list doesn't exactly strengthen your argument.
Is nuclear fusion worth the research?
I Am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter. The book he wrote many years before, GEB, is well-known. However, he was frustrated that so many people didn't get what he was trying to convey, so he took the central point and distilled it into another book. It's a really, really good read.
If you speak french only because there is sadly no english version :( :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flash-Grand-Voyage-Ldp-Litterature/...
Definitely.

Your comment proves my point though. You don't need experienced 'java' programmers but simply experienced programmers.
I totally agree with this article but I still think it didn't add much to my "knowledge base". In other words, it was quite obvious: who actually thinks domain knowledge and long term vision aren't important? For me these are skills that are necessary by all programmers, and in fact any skilled human working in any field should have these traits.

The rest of the article is quite high-level and abstract but also quite dull to the point that any of the points can be applied to anything.

Nonetheless I appreciate the writing; just wish it could have more compelling information or evidence. But also I'm being sunday grumpy so don't take me too seriously :)
Hopefully this is not a submarine for Scribd- the only location where I could legally find a pdf! :). The library system appears to have copies as well. I’ve always wanted to really learn music theory, but it’s gonna have to wait til I really learn Leetcode algos, my primary goal for this year.

My contribution:

Richard Dawkins called Julian Jaynes's 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, “either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius”
We don't know enough about the brain/mind to give anything like a measurable answer to this. It's all speculation.

However something rings true about the concept of analogies being instructive in idea formation. I often think about it as adjusting the assumptions that the mind uses when planning. In that sense, it looks just like improvisation or what we call exploration in Reinforcement Learning.

Good mental models of the world will result in more accurate simulations when you mix and match the assumptions/starting points. Some of those simulations might not be extant and you can take action to test whether they work in the real world. If they do, then boom you've got an idea made real.
Not sure if DDG patched this, but querying DDG w/o the month based tick results in a result that'll point you to the correct subreddit for finding which phone to buy in <current month> [0].

Although it's not using the "This Month" dropdown, doing the vanilla search still gets you the "most correct" answer imho.

[0] https://jszym.com/dl/imgs/20200119-ddg-example.png
In addition to this. The Air Force has personnel that can jump out of the plane with flotation, medical equipment and food in order to survive for an extended period of time on the ocean while it may take a few hours to get fast boats and recovery teams there.
How to get lucky by Gunther. Based on the premise that luck is very useful for getting what you want, and that there are very practical techniques you can follow for generating results that look like “luck”. Absolutely excellent book.
Have airlines cancelled orders of the 737 Max?
If yes the will they be canceling orders of this one too?
Norway is horrid and corrupt. They where one of the biggest bombers of Libya; in my opinion the country is even downright evil. Their child "protetion" services are currently getting smashed in EU court for breaching basic human rights. I was born there; I don't support "my" country at all.

edit: Oh, and the salmon produced in Norway is poison -- and the government is trying to hide it. The government workers (many from the same family) own huge amounts of stock in these companies. There is an endless list of corrupt, evil madness going on in Norway. I've left the country for good and moved to a low tax country as I want no part in supporting or funding (the taxation and fee levels are also
evil) such a place and such people.

Here's what Norway and similar countries will do tho: they will force Norwegians to pay a shit ton of taxes then give the money away to rich corps who hire people for pennies in Poland etc.. Pretty funny, huh?
Off topic, but I like to hear about the experiences of tech people living in Maine. If you’d like to chat, send a message to my username at gmail.
I think the reason for static types is up to the user of static types. There may be multiple reasons or motivations for static typing. In particular, static linear type systems are useful for, in addition to other reasons, the ability to fully specify the creation, usage, and consumption of resources. This is a direct performance benefit. Incidentally, this can be said of substructal types in general. Types equipped with Algebraic effects for the management of ‘side-effects’ and uniqueness types also are useful for direct specification of several things, one of them being the soundness if updating data structures in place. Again, a direct performance benefit.

I agree that there are more reasons than performance to advocate static typing, I just don’t understand why that would not be a point of advocacy in a discussion about the pros and cons of typing systems in general.
Which is why we need to change how compensation works. Large salaries and bonuses should be paid out in corporate stock over a period of years. At the time it was awarded it would be a set number of shares (subject to splits and the like) but paid out over time. That ties their income to the long term performance of the company, not the short term results.
Searching gibberish to try to get as few results as possible.

I got down to one with "qwerqnalkwea"

"AEWRLKJAFsdalkjas" returns nothing, but youtube helpfully replaces that search with the likewise nonsensical "AEWR LKJAsdf lkj as" which is just full of content.
Probably sunsetted like their bio track.