skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you get some advantages with a large language, but there is no coherant harmonizing force even with a BDFL like in Perl and Python.

Arthur's work is seriously impressive and something to motivate me to write my own tools.
This rent-seeking behavior is amplified in its ridiculousness because of how expensive DoorDash is to begin with.
The "Arab Spring" was just another power projection project, you only need to examine how many so-called NGOs that ran the social media campaigns were directly or indirectly funded by intelligence agencies.

But more to the point of the GP, to think that only the military industrial complex profits from American global dominance is incredibly naive. All the U.S. interventionism in South America for the last century (i.e. armed insurrection against democracies to install fascist dictatorships) was about opening markets and resources for exploitation by American (civil) corporations.
>So far China doesn't look very interested in climate change either

I disagree with this, I think it's easy to paint China as the villain across a cultural, lingual divide in an attempt to make the case that one's own obligations to reduce emissions don't matter. China has a carbon market now and produces more nuclear power than any other country. Climate change is a very real problem for a country with an encroaching desert.
Linux 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL (2012)
Thank you so much I've wanted something like this for years but never invested the time into finding or building it.
This is pedantic, but service workers in the US are generally payed the legal minimum wage.

The distinction is that a different law exists for that category of workers, not that they aren't paid legal wages.

Other countries do make exceptions to their pay rules. For instance, younger people that are likely to be working temporarily may be excluded from benefits rules.
I think the point a lot of posters are getting at is, maybe reducing boilerplate for JavaBeans is a more useful goal, given the huge ecosystem of tools and code that assumes the JavaBean pattern.

That's what Kotlin did and it's been very successful, so there's no fundamental reason why not. It's a philosophical objection of the form "mutability is bad", which feels somehow Haskellish and un-Java-like. What happened to being a blue collar language?
Impact of a Panic Attack in Pregnancy
2016: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/norway-s-...
Amazon has no control over who can visit what website, for the most part. They just host your site. Cloudflare on the other hands acts more like a gatekeeper. They have more control over who can visit.
I think it correlates with the "blue light" studies that were released lately. As far as I know they weren't conclusive, but both Microsoft and Apple implemented Flux-like screen dimming, dark mode seems like a logical step.

Personally I prefer light themes, I just turn the lights on so that I don't sit in the dark.
Total bullshit. This is the same excuse they used when they courageously got rid of the 3.5mm jack.

The easiest explanation is that there is a vast accessory market for lightning and it creates stickiness within the Apple ecosystem.
Just start the satellites from another country.
I think you are in denial about human nature if you think that money is not a motivating factor for many (most?) capable professionals, and bringing the question of fairness into it and the fact that rewards at the higher levels are exponentially out of whack does not affect this initial point. To flip it around would be to say that things are so unfair and people are only taking the money because they can, not because that what really motivates them, so let's make all salaries the same because that won't affect peoples' choices. I have some knowledge of the dental profession through my partner. Her opinion is that money is the main motivating factor for entry into the profession in the UK, with altruistic concerns far behind. If one accepts this as having even some element of truth (and there's no small amount of evidence of rich, showy dentists on Instagram etc.) do you really still believe that altering the incentive will not affect behaviour? Qualifying as a dentist is hard. Becoming an expert on root canals is harder. People do not do it out of the goodness of their heart, or for social recognition of their career success alone. Material rewards are an essential component of the motivation.
> What specific and concrete unjustified harm has ever come to someone as a result of public facial recognition?

And what specific real benefit? If they are going to implement facial recognition, then I would like to see real (not just numbers of) prevented crimes, terrorist attacks, caught criminals, etc. I want to see what my liberties were given for.

If there is 100% facial recognition in every public centimeter square of Europe, then there should be not a single "bad guy" on the loose.

PS: why downvoting parent? Even if I don't agree at 100%, in my opinion it's a very valid PoV and not formulated in a trolling/flaming way.
World Challenge? Yeah.. On sign-up, the children seemed to think the organisation was a charity, which felt a bit more acceptable. The company didn't hide the fact they were for-profit.

To be fair, they are doing more than a simple package holiday offers, but it is still not a cheap expedition.
We already have L4 cache, but we call it RAM. It caches our shared libraries, and swap. Its line size is 4k (8k on POWER).

This was all understood perfectly even in the original von Neumann paper in 1948. There, registers cached RAM which cached drum, which cached tape.
Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
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React Admin is awesome. Combine it with Hasura (automatic GraphQL on top of PostgreSQL) and you can build an entire back office admin suite (API endpoints and admin front end) in a matter of hours. You end up writing more SQL than react as react-admin is basically a CRUD form generator.

This adaptor connects react-admin with Hasura: https://github.com/Steams/ra-data-hasura-graphql
> ... I really like the current direction of providing a lot of tooling with only SQL necessary to use them, ...

Everything old is new again!

Database Backed Web Sites:
The Thinking Person's Guide to Web Publishing
Philip Greenspun - 1997

http://dannyreviews.com/h/Database_Web.html
I am a geek too but Instagram and Facebook ads have been on point much more.

The creepy thing to me is sometimes they are a little too good. I suspect anyone with FB Messenger installed is also letting Facebook crawl texts. They were showing me ads about crap I only texted my mom about. Its just a little too sketchy.
They also dropped Persona, giving facebook and others primacy on SSO identities, at a time where they could still change the landscape.
> The cost of running existing coal plants has exceeded the cost of building new solar & wind power plants. Over the next few years, demand for coal is likely to implode.

That article cites a report written by climate change activists who want coal to be banned as fast as possible. If their fantasy were a reality, market forces would achieve their goals without intervention. Naturally, they're going to argue that government intervention is necessary to speed things along.

Federal reports suggest coal will decline slightly over the next several years, but won't disappear. Some forms of renewables are competitive with coal (onshore wind, hydro, geothermal), but they cannot be used everywhere. Solar and offshore wind are still not competitive with coal, nuclear, or natural gas.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/aeo2019.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
Yes for example let kids use a real mouse, and then they can practice hitting the "x" on all the ads that pop up. /s
I think you're right for most cases. And that's OK. We still end up with an investment climate that's fossil-investment-averse, and that's good for the atmosphere/ocean in the long run[1] conducive to H. sap's continued existence.

i.e. People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is just fine. The right thing ends up being done.

[1] for some value of 'long'...
> They will invest that money somewhere,

and keep some of it in off shore tax havens.
Nice article - one nitpick is that I absolutely do /not/ make the checks mandatory as part of the build process. Rather there are some "opinionated" checks that are run when code is pushed for review (which can be skipped), and then strong checks run as the first step in the CI/CD pipelines. This means that the tools stay out of the way when developing and running locally, but still enforce standards where required. This leads to fewer developers disabling or @ignore-ing rules to test things locally and then forgetting to remove them.

This article also reminds me of a talk I saw from Neal Ford about architectural fitness functions: the idea being that if there is an architectural pattern that should be followed then the best place to put it is in an automated step as part of your CI/CD. I thought it was interesting to take the concept normally limited to linters and apply it to a more abstract principle
I don't really measure but I also wouldn't label it "an intuitive feeling" - it's an observation (not just a feeling like when you're stoned and feel genius), although not scientifically credible. I have a well-developed self-observation skill and can always tell when my cognition is less (for an extreme example - avoid sleeping for some 36 hours, drink some booze and try to be smart - you'll notice it's hard and you don't really do well, no need to measure digitally) or more efficient. I believe I could measure if I knew a good way [to measure fluid intelligence] and was interested enough but that's not the case.

So, I recommend everybody to try n-back exercises for some time [and see if it helps them] and I usually mention that's kind of proven to help scientifically (at least in some papers) and empirically but avoid saying its efficiency is anything close to an unquestionable fact. As a result people (including very smart and educated already) immediately report feelings like stains have been removed from their brains and their mental gears got greased.
I'm interested in the controls for this analysis, which I didn't notice in the article. Might've missed them.

I'm mainly talking about how the device was mounted - because if it's simply kept on person, a lot of this vibration is muffled, right?
Which first principle is opposed to taking VC bucks?

Because that's the model. Let's make a story good enough to be funded and then pay ourselves with that money. The business just has to appear to be a good enough bet to sell it to the money.
I guess this is as research-backed as movies are based on a true story.
and - the nilometers have just been fired up.
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ISTR there is no scientific basis for “children learn in different ways”. If a child has dyslexia or something like that, sure, that can affect things, but good teaching strategies should work for the vast majority of children.
Indeed, because there aren't enough iPhone users to begin with.

87% vs 13%
> "if surveillance is outlawed only outlaws will do surveillance."

This is a valid argument when speaking of encryption, but I don't see how it makes any sense in this context.
> To be fair, "civil war breaking out somewhere in Africa" is news in the same way that the tide going out is news.

Remarkably complacent view, and undermined by the fact that other channels will report on this stuff, but not the BBC. The point is firstly that the signal to noise used to be far higher in the UK - I've been watching it for 40 years - I know what I'm talking about - and secondly that it's extremely unlikely I'm going to learn anything new from Stormzy's poorly informed opinions. And yet the latter is prioritised over the former.
It’s really archive.is acting up here...
Does this mean GitLab.com will become unusable via Tor?

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-U...
I'm talking about BBC news.
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That's a single scenario (focusing on the 'obsolete' part), and android users buying iPhones has the same effect (additional cables for no functional difference)

There's an infinite number of cases where getting rid of the lightning spec would reduce the number of cables.

A household with an iPhone and an android user would also buy an extra set of cables that could be avoided. Even having an iPad in the mix generates cable duplication: the iPad Pro is on the different connector, android users buying an iPad is also more common than one would think.

Broadening to charging stations in waiting rooms, shopping malls, cafes etc., including other portable devices like headphones, portable batteries, cameras, etc. and the iPhone having its own non standard and connector is more and more a waste.
> If you have a good team which cares about the project, then you don't really need them IMO.

I strongly disagree. It's not about caring or not, it's about making mistakes.

A human can easily forget to run some test, or generally one step out of many in a complicated procedure, especially if they're new to the project. A reviewer can miss a mis-formed identifier. The more is that automated, the fewer manual steps need to be remembered, and the more safety the project gets. Automated tools like CI/CD should not be considered supervisors to humans, but helpers and safety nets.

That being said, there are certainly cases where teams don't set such tools up because they come with an implementation cost. And depending on project complexity and their use case in general, it may be more economical to do things manually.
Those repairs are the deeply-embedded, systemic problems that creep up and ambush you one day before work, forcing you to decide between a $1k car repair -- often the barest minimum-cost repair you can find and negotiate -- or forking over a few times that much for an entirely different car to drive.
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Cue a bunch of HN articles whingeing about victims of false positive flagging with no practical recourse...
How to Generate Sales Without a Marketing Team
Works for me. Very interesting and thanks a lot.
C++Cast: Conference Organizing
If you want poor people to be able to eat, give them money.
> I usually mention that's kind of proven to help scientifically (at least in some papers) and empirically but avoid saying its efficiency is a strict fact.

All good but I must disagree with “kind of proven”. Things can be either proven or not proven, and this is not proven.
Wise words! One other thing to this is to always deload properly after a break. Just let the first session back be easy as, way easier than you might feel like. Letting go of the ego of pushing out numbers is key to learning to listen to the body.

You'll probably still feel it the next day nonetheless, when you can go again with a slight increment.

Keep this up and before you know it you're back to where you were.

Also this whole thread is great. Weightlifting is the best medicine bar none for this middle aged mostly desk bound programmer. It has immense mental health benefits as well.
There are a huge number of problems with that plan. It will cost a fortune and on net more Australians will be worse off than if the government does nothing.

And that is just in Australia. The customers of our coal markets will lose out as we unilaterally try to cut them off from the raw resources they need. That is probably a cost you are willing to bear, but it is still a problem.
Agree with that, but must be noted that Eucalyptus has 700 species and not all make fireforests (I like that definition and we don't have any for that so I'll coined it).

> either they don't know what introducing or ...

Is a monoculture. They don't care. Is hard to claim ignorance still in the age of Google.
English is also unable to avoid the issue of having multiple semantically distinct and unrelated words being spelled the same, for example "stock" or "light" or "scale". I don't know enough about languages to say which ones have avoided this issue.
Regarding your second point about not having to maintain distinct orthographies, could you explain in more detail how English avoids that?
Why wouldn't banning tipping help anyone? It would certainly help the patrons who no longer have to agonize. And it would bring more dignity.
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Although I mainly agree with you — I pretty much take exactly that minimalist approach with my own site — I think you're being a bit unfair on Bootstrap. Using just your example tags in conjunction with Bootstrap is perfectly acceptable, and it would only really take a single DIV (container) to wrap the content. Bootstrap gets more complicated when it comes to layout, navigation, and additional content, though, but this also becomes an issue in plain HTML anyway.

I would, though, like a really good 'minimalist' framework that just works — almost as a reset — with no classes at all. '<table class="table">' has always bugged me in Bootstrap, and there are other examples with certainly feel overengineered, that lead to spaghetti HTML.
Until recently my daughter was still using a 30pin cable that came with a first gen iPad. So "the chance of a cable lasting 7 years doesn't happen" is patently false.
> Experience proves otherwise, to the best of my knowledge.

It's very hard to say that it does in programming, at least. Even though we could easily come up with value metrics for programming languages, we don't really know what they are for any particular language. However, that, in itself tells us something. The software industry is an environment with strong selective pressures. That big difference in "quality" (i.e. some metric with a bottom-line impact) will go unnoticed is hard to believe. It doesn't make sense from a theoretical perspective -- adaptive traits should be detected in a selective environment, and it also doesn't fit with observed reality. We observe that technologies that truly provide an adaptive benefit are adopted at a pace commensurate with their relative adaptability; often practically overnight.

So we have reasons to believe that it is not true that "better" languages lose, at least not ones that have some measure of adoption at all.
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I believe admin panels are the MVP implementation for this idea.

Almost every business software is a select/insert/update. If you can do it over a view, or you have a trigger on insert/update/delete you are able to have a customer facing product with minimal manual operation.
Part of my Musk Hypothesis:

It's not where technology has advanced, per se, but where he can find a niche that provides an excuse to not be constrained by existing burdensome regulation, or where he can shape and use regulation as a competitive advantage. So far this has mostly been by advances in tech, but the tech isn't necessarily the key component to the formula.

In the case of the boring company, I suspect the initial plan was the same (a la hyperloop), but have 1) discovered hyperloop is not cost feasible, 2) discovered that the same skills for negotiating regulation is itself a major advantage in subsurface construction, and 3) can use the Elon marketing hype machine to overcome NIMBY opposition, whether that be publicly or via politically (whereas people generally view mega construction companies as untrustworthy, and these companies are unlikely to be able to sway public opinion, except by maybe buying politicians.)

It's sort of an Uber approach to dodging rules, but in markets that limit competition by being relatively capital and knowledge intensive.
Can you link a source for this?
> he only brings more welcome publicity for the author and his books.

That‘s obviously not true. Spreading the information that the books were written by a person who is falsely claiming his qualifications and that the premises of the book have no scientific confirmation is surely not supporting their acceptance.
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Great, so now I have 100,000 duplicate bug reports to sort through because I forgot a null check and the logger automatically created an issue each time that error occurred (with different timestamps, causing duplicate detection to fail).
Large scale deforestation of Ireland began in the bronze age but present day rural attitudes towards trees, the dynamics of EU farming welfare and a population of 3.7 miilion hill maggots (aka sheep) ensure that woodlands have almost no chance of re-establishing themselves in our time.

Its quite sad because much of the land is so wet and compacted now, yet when Ireland had higher tree coverage, as much as 80% of the extensive precipitation that the Atlantic throws at us never even penetrated the soil. Much of the elements that make life harsh today were at one time regulated by forest ecologies to people's benifit.

A possible solution would be a long term compensation of farmers in exchange for their grazing rights on the 1,050,000 acres of commonage. With the sheep off the uplands,20 years could be sufficient for natural woodland revival. Given that sheep farming is essentially a subsidised activity the financials could be feasible... But you try saying that in a pub in the west of Ireland and making it out the door with both your arms still attached to your torso.
So I made something similar to this at a couple of my jobs. We could basically add a SQL script as a file to a folder and it would automatically have a new report, downloadable, formatted, run on-demand. Even a pretty basic one is pretty handy, as they only take a day or two. I hadn't got round to adding variables, I like the solution.

One of the things I added is that you could add column formatting in the field names, so a $c would turn it into a currency field, there was one to turn it into boolean checkbox, etc.:

SELECT o.amount, p.price [price$c], p.price * o.amount [total$c]
FROM orders o
JOIN products p

It had other features too like you could set column widths by using @ like [amount@75] or even column grouping by dot notation [online.sales], [online.total_value$c], [instore.sales], [instore.total_value$c].
I had always wondered if the catch phrase "eat the rich" was meant literally. Thanks!
This is cool. I built something similar awhile back for a side project. I had a folder that I would dump files into and each file would have a title, description, and SQL statement.

When I visited a specific page on my site (password protected) I had a bit of Go code that would read all the the files, execute all the (read-only) SQL statements and then dump them into an HTML template that created a table for each one.

Made it dead simple to keep track of some simple metrics like daily sign ups, number of users currently on the site, churn, etc.

Hopefully I can just reach for this next time and not write my own hacky tool :)
Doesn't sound like a legitimate usecase. Sorry.
Uber is aiming to be a big player in the future autonomous space, but seeing how difficult a problem level 5 autonomy is proving for cars, they are looking at the sky taxi thing instead because autonomy is going to be actually achievable in that space.
> Kids from low income families are screwed over - again.

No matter what, there will be disadvantages, but it's not the end of the world. At least they have less screentime at home right?

> Tech parents are always like "f yea, of course you block youtube"

"Always"? I highly doubt that. Actually, I bet most tech parents guide their kids on which youtube channels to watch because most tech parents watch youtube.

> I don't want to have to sit next to them all night making sure that they are only doing 'productive' work.

They are kids. Why are you concerned about 'productive' work. Sounds like you are dealing with a company and employees rather than a family and kids.

Calm down. Everything will be okay. People really do turn into their parents.
Yuck. I've refused to see any of the LoTR movies, so this looks like another thing I'll refuse to watch.