skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but after a point it doesn't make sense to write queries that return so much duplicate data anyway

This is what I'm constantly wondering. At what point does it stop being good to return the user table results again and again and just switch to, for example, an IN query to get the posts?
> But the argument still applies then [...] a human will be installed as a failsafe for the failsafe.

Surely this will depend on the cost of failure, and the cost of the human failsafe.

Spellcheck in an email client helps prevent the minor embarrassment of typos and spelling errors in emails, and few emails are so consequential that it's worth having them carefully manually vetted.
Apparently there is a protocol, they name it in the FAQ:

https://autocrypt.org/

After the second message, if that user is also using an app based on autocrypt, it should be encrypted.

If I understood right it's just a way to asymmetrically exchange keys. Just instead of you manually sending a pubkey or pulling it from a registry like in PGP they do it for you.
> Fun fact: it requires more delta-V to hit the Sun than it does to leave the Solar System.

Isn't that the delta-v needed to reach a stable orbit? That is, to slow down and counteract all the kinetic energy you gained from the sun's gravity. To just hit the sun (with high velocity) you wouldn't need to do that.
"The ideal tech stack..." goes on to rattle off half a dozen or so components, ranging from languages to libraries.

Ugh.

It's a personal blog. A small amount of mostly static text and images served on demand in a couple different formats. Maybe some search/tag capabilities and maybe a comment section.

This problem is essentially the foundational problem that the web was initially trying to solve twenty-five years ago. And to be honest, twenty-five year old server-side solutions still do a pretty good job of it. (Although admittedly, the format of the resources served by those solutions are now far richer than they used to be.)
I do Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in and kill from there :s
there's probably a better tradeoff than a format that only gives you "print this character at x,y coordinate".

Websites have been able to produce "ready to print" html for a while now, and html (even with a lot of restriction) would be hundred times better than PDFs.
These developments are indeed reassuring, but we're still not sure what Wiki's "universal" code of conduct will look like. It should go without saying that CoC's and related initiatives have also led to quite a bit of tension in other software projects, even recently (including w/ devs resigning as a result), and I don't think anyone clearly understands why it is that Go and Rust have fared so well wrt. these issues.
Ask HN: What tech stack do you use for quick web side projects?
La Paz, BCS. Mexico. Cheap, has nice beaches, is really calm and has good access to GDL via airport for when you want big-city things.
The article does mention it without using the specific words "delta-V"
> yet is doing great financially

they might have a high valuation, but thats about all the financial success they have.
> Having more diverse editors will lead to more diverse content.

Can you elaborate what content you'd expect to see more of if the editors were "more diverse"? This gets thrown around a lot here, but nobody actually says what exactly they mean. There are more than six million articles on the English Wikipedia.

What would change, which topics would get more, which would get less attention if Wikipedia editors were swapped out to represent their attributed groups (along some axes; most likely gender and broad ethnicity, I'm guessing, but not social status or education) of the American society at large?
You need artificial parity first to create models to have, on day, accidental parity.
an amazing journey and a great read. Good insight for people in the same boat or inspiring to do an MBA.
Every esport event streamed on Twitch has delay like this, and many competitive players too, just to avoid stream cheat.
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I've always kinda "known" that, in a joking way. And never bothered to actually check. So thanks :)
OK. I didn't realize you were being tongue-in-cheek.
I created an account back in mid-2018, when I wasn't exactly happy with my employment situation. I didn't use Triplebyte to interview anywhere, but I left my personal information on the site. Fast forward to the present, I now work for a different company where I am actually happy. The post on Friday didn't sit right with me, and neither did the obtuse response by the CEO. I wouldn't like my profile to suddenly show up in a job hunting site.

But, the damage is done. I ended up deleting my account over the weekend. The process to do so wasn't as convoluted as some said it would be, it only took 1 hour.

P.S. I didn't receive the apology letter, so at least I got taken off the mailing list.
I figured it is most likely too difficult. For the amount of work it would take I could just buy an Apple watch and be done with the privacy concerns I have with cheaper trackers, but once the seed of an idea is planted it starts having a life of its own.

I think this is an idea I shouldn't water though ;).
> Probably the most famous is the space elevator but that's actually a bad solution for many reasons and possibly not even feasible since we'd have to invent a material strong enough.

That's true, after all we are still stuck trying to invent materials light enough to make areoplanes actually fly /s

Sorry couldn't help it :)

Pushing what is currently impossible is how we got where we are. We already have viable tech to capture asteroid that could be used as counterweight for space elevator.
All this debate of electric vs internal combustion when the article is about a theoretical design that has yet to be proven.
I don't like the proprietary protocol, but actually there is a good reason for this communication between the charger and the laptop.

There are multiple charges with the same barrel jack, but different wattage. You plug a low wattage power adapter to a high powered laptop. Without the chip: The laptop can draw to much power and in the best case scenario it damages your power adapter, in worts case damage your laptop or burns down your house. With the chip: the laptop can throttle, so it draws less power.

USB Power Delivery does the same thing, just without the properitary protocol.
Spamming thousands of people can be detected without knowing the content. And if you accept messages from other people than those you are following, you have to accept you will inevitably get some spam. It's like getting PGP encrypted email - you can't expect server spam filter to catch it based on its content and if you report it as a spam, server spam filter doesn't see the content.
I hacked this together last year, and changing the rendering bits should be no trouble: https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-durable-functions-node-blog-...
It's a shame there's no way to globally set the default StringBuffer size. I bet if you optimize it just by dumb binary search, on your average project you could save on both runtime and memory usage.
How is that different from a typical human given a routine boring role? Specifically in regards to adversarial input, humans are often the weakest link in terms of process security.
It’s not a cool factor issue. It’s an issue of bloating the system catalogs, inability to use the buffer pool, and having to run database migrations for each and every separate schema or maintaining concurrent versions of application code to deal with different schema versions.

It’s be just as dumb to do it in Rust as it would be in PHP.
Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so
Should we care about enterprises?

It looks like the setup they want will be pretty crap for home users if that got implemented by ISPs.

You won't be able to tether if ISPs / Mobile networks decide to use the DHCP to give you a single IP.

This stance of Google's benefits consumers. Howv many consumers are there of mobile phones and broadband are there in the world compared to workers in a corporate LAN?

I feel like the question that needs to be asked sometimes is:

Will this enterprise feature negatively affect normal home users.

Imagine your mobile phone network gave you 1 IPv6 address rather than a subnet.

That is bad. But Google standing firm on not implementing the ability to do so, has meant that they gotta implement prefix delegation.
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Aren't Wordpress and Ghost heavy in a way that it has some number of CSS/JS that we don't need?
I've started using 11ty recently and can recommend it as a Jekyll on steroids (and maintained).
Is it 64K that made the difference on your system? From benchmarking on Linux few years ago the gains after 16k buffer were in the noise.
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What do you mean? It is Jamstack, you only need CDN to serve it.
Could someone explain why the guy who pointed out Bump existed and was discontinued after acquisition by Google got downvoted into oblivion, aside from the fact it was apparently more tooled for facilitating NFC file transfers?

Seems a bit odd.
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Instance banning is neither silent nor invisible. Every Mastodon instance has an About page (no login required) listing all instance bans and reasons, anytime. I would be in agreement with you about silent/invisible censorship, but that's not what's going on here.

This is a categorically different problem than MITM.
The claim that it's bigoted or racist is nonsense, not being bigoted or racist.
Disagree that it's not interesting. It's just that the message is "sscanf is not necessarily the best tool for hot paths", not "sscanf is currently poorly written".
Like creating your own DSL, or programming language, or game engine lol. It is the fun that counts.
This can get you a part of the way, extracted from my PowerShell profile:

##
# PSReadLine, see https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine
##

## behaviour of Tab key autocomplete
Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete
## From docs:
## With these bindings, up arrow/down arrow will work like PowerShell/cmd if the
## current command line is blank. If you've entered some text though, it will
## search the history for commands that start with the currently entered text.
##
## Like zsh completion.
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key UpArrow -Function HistorySearchBackward
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key DownArrow -Function HistorySearchForward

These will allow you to autocomplete previous commands from the tidpids you already types, so it no longer searches linearly through the history.
I also use:

Import-Module posh-git
Import-Module oh-my-posh
Set-Theme Agnoster
Did I truly read it that way?
Hmm, you're right, but I do use the nginx as reverse proxy for some of the other sites which are not static :P
I'm also running everything in docker containers, so I'm closet-hipster I guess xD
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Notifications on my laptop or phone about DMs or @‘s. There are certain people or channels that I want to get notifications from. Since I can’t trust the notifications I end up having to leave Teams open and check it constantly. This is distracting to me.

Most messages don’t have an expectation of a timely response. But of those that do, I need to be able to rely on notifications.
> Why is it taboo to say on average, one sex is more likely to take on a specific kind of work than another? Despite evidence [0] [1]

It really depends on why someone is saying it. If one is saying it as an observation of statistics, then it's fine (usually. There are contexts where it is not; it's not a set of facts you should point out to a group of students about to take a college entrance exam, for instance). If you're saying it in the context of a causal inference, such as, for example, the Damore memo, then it's falling into the trap of conflating correlation and causation that has traditionally unfairly banned women (and men) from entire allowed modes of participation in society.

> Yes, at one point in time oppression from one sex against another was real in intellectual pursuits, be it academia or certain areas of interest. And there are instances of it today. But it’s not as pervasive as so many commentators or inclusion boards want it to be.

I agree. Many commentators want it to be far less pervasive than it is. Unfortunately, it's still very pervasive. We are no more than two generations removed (in the US at least) from women being generally overtly barred from working in most industries. We are only a scant 100 years out from women in the US being allowed the right to vote. It hasn't been enough time for the difference of fact to permeate into a difference in opinion; old prejudices die hard.

For example, the rest of your comment indicates you believe that the differences we see in society are biologically rooted. That's precisely the question the jury is out on; we used to believe it was true, but psychology has come to understand much better how profoundly deep cultural indoctrination and phobia of new cultural patterns run. Before we make claims like "Men and women on average have widely different personalities, based purely on biological sex," we need to be extremely sure we isolate out cultural effects, which is damnably hard to do.

Your example of knitting, specifically, ahistorically excludes the Celtic culture [https://www.thefencepost.com/news/when-men-knitted-a-surpris...]. Any discussion of biological imperative to knit needs to explain why men knit in Celtic societies, not only why men don't knit as much in Western societies now (and given that we know how quickly genetics change, it's going to be a real chore coming up with a genetic explanation that distinguishes Celts from the rest of humanity).
Wow this is amazing! It is exactly what I was looking for except for it being on Android only, but at least I now have a whole code base to learn from. Thanks!
Whatever happened to the plausibly Twitch-killing, super-low-latency startup "Beam" that won TC Disrupt circa 2016?
You're underestimating how much value there is to companies in setting precedent on defending their trademark with an easy and practically guaranteed win. Companies need to proactively defend their trademark when it's being infringed upon or they risk losing it, and this is a really easy way to defend it.
Of course, this is why I wrote "catastrophic" above. I also would not call an email spellchecker a business use case. Regarding spellcheckers per se: I have worked with book publishing companies in the last few years, and I can assure you all major book publishers employ real humans for the final spellchecking before a book goes into print.
Before reading the article I was planning to complain that a tractor pulling a few wagons in a, well, train does not an off-road train make.

But after reading the article, you know what, I’m willing to concede it’s an off-road train.
It’s the most obvious one. But I don’t need to explain myself to you further. I prefer JRE video podcasts.
> VPC Create your own VPCs within AWS

Not particularly helpful if you have no idea what a VPC is!
Of course it takes 2 seconds to search this for yourself, but still.
Yes, moving towards sun/ any body that is inbeteen sun and earth you actually 'slowing down' (after reaching earth's orbit). When you reach zero V relative to sun you will just drop to its surface (same with any other planet).

Anything on the outside you 'speedup'.

That's why its called delta-V as its relative change in V needed to get somewhere. And its independent of size, type of craft etc.
RLS seems like a simpler solution.
The rules were somewhat ambiguous, which allowed him to break them (on the "childcare exception").

But his account of his actions is so untruthful. It is obvious to most that being on a remote farm would be a nicer environment to isolate than a house in central London. This simply _must_ have been a factor in his decision.
He did not even contemplate seeking childcare support at home, he stated this himself in his press conference, it hadn't even crossed his mind.

His trip was not safe, and should have been used as a last resort. Is that the impression you got? That he had exhausted all other options?

If you had, then I would say you are even more political motivated than those you are saying are looking to give him the "boot".
Train two AIs and have them check each others work. This must have been done already? No?
Interestingly, loom patterns are direct progenitors of software. QI discussed this in series J:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7r1GnG9cQ8
This is true if your application is running on a shared servers - however if you have fully isolated application and database deploys then you really do benefit from a security and scalability perspective- and by being able to run closer to your clients. I'd also say that it works better when you have 100s, rather than thousands of clients, most probably larger organisations at this point.
Whats the advantage of a flow battery over a fuel cell which has higher energy density?
Yes. And?

I mean, sure, that sucks for people in the local labour market, but if you cannot find work that covers your cost of living, then you either have to change your work or lower your cost of living. This is the same in any type of work, in any location. For example, you might make enough money running a small town bakery, then big office opens up, local cost of living rises (like it has in San Francisco, for example) and suddenly you can’t sustain yourself anymore. You either have to do something else or move somewhere else.

My point isn’t that things don’t have an effect, just that companies want to embrace remote, that location shouldn’t be coupled to compensation, outside of implicitly due to locations effect on what an employee would accept. The employee can then make a decision on their own worth and values and choose whether they would rather do their location-non-specific work from a high cost place (that presumably has other benefits[1]) or if they would rather move to a low cost place. This shouldn’t matter to the company and shouldn’t have any impact on how they value the employee.

[1] If there is no benefit to living in a high cost location, for a given individual, then its not exactly smart ir prudent for them to stay there and keeping the prices high (due to higher demand) isn’t benefiting anyone. (Proximity to friends and family is, of course, part of the equation). I can’t expect my career of choice to pay me more just because of my personal choices or preferences, though. Why should one employee subsidize another employees lifestyle?
I disagree. If you're interested in the product and want to give it a try because you know you get a free trial, that's exactly what you're going to do. It doesn't seem bad at all to me.
Why dump billions of dollars then? Nowhere else to spend it? Effective marketing?[1] Is no one asking this question?

"... and critically: there's no one to hold responsible for getting it wrong."

Could this be part of "AI"'s appeal? A dream of absolving businesses and individuals from accountability.[2]

1. "What's more, artificial research teams lack an awareness of the specific business processes and tasks that could be automated in the first place. Researchers would need to develop an intuition of the business processes involved. We haven't seen this happen in too many areas."

2. Including the ones who designed the "AI" system.
Because it comes from the stock markets. FAANG were hot tech stocks, Microsoft was boring at the time.
It seems like you have enjoyed your current job while working from home, but you just said:
> my job requires to be in the office
which doesn't seem true (you been able to work remotely during the lockdown)

Maybe the easiest way would be to talk to your manager and negotiate working remotely in your current job?
I agree with this basic idea, though I understand why some people have a difficult time seeing it. VI and Vim are advertised as "modal" editors, but in fact they are just editors that accept a rather terse command language.

I originally never wanted to use Vim but had to use it often at work (especially in the server room), so I got used to mechanically entering and exiting insert mode as many people do. That was the extent of my knowledge, but then during a slow period at work I took the time to learn Vim thoroughly by reading "Learning the vi and Vim Editors" from O'Reilly. It changed my view of VI and Vim to the point that (as I had said) I now think of them as command-based editors rather than modal editors. Once you realize that each key press is a command in a very terse language, you can see the power and expressiveness of the language, but it takes some practice and time to build up your intuition.

For example, I often find myself typing something like "79a-ESC" or "79i-ESC" to put in a horizontal rule in text or Markdown documents. To somebody thinking modally this command makes little sense, since I leave insert mode immediately after typing a single character! But from a command language perspective it makes total sense, since I merely instruct Vim to append 79 dashes to the current line. Once you see that it's a language, you stay in command "mode" much more, since that is where the power is.