skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geopolitics isn't determined by comments on Internet forums. It's determined by mutual interest between governments and how their administrative officials think. YouTube and Reddit comments don't mean anything given that a vast majority don't understand nuances of geopolitics.
Renault does have some electric vehicle.
You type “replace iPhone battery video” into Google? Then after watching, should you feel comfortable eBay have plenty of well reviewed kits including the screwdrivers.
Social Capital 2019 annual letter
Who said unicorns are good?
Money =\= value.
It's just a proxy, which doesn't always work.
You know how you can prevent regulation? Don't be excessive and greedy.
I imagine at some point a reputation like this affects hiring ability.
Ask HN: Are Jetbrains products a good choice?
I like the idea of knowing an IDE well and being proficient with it. In the recent years I've been playing with a bunch of editors (VS Code, emacs, atom, etc) as well as a few IDEs (VS, JetBrains ones, using editors as wannabe IDEs, eclipse).

I've reached the conclusion that I need a light text editor for quick edits (currently using lite) and a full-blown IDE for actual bigger projects developments.

Question is: Do you think the JetBrains products would be a good choice since they offer consistency across products and also I enjoy their looks?
The critique is that the Economist has a single solution to all complex problems and is confident to wave that wand even thou the reality - in most such transitions - is enormous, disastrous instability and war. It utterly ignores the hand of empire in the affairs of the petro states and their repeated failed interventions to prop up the leaders that fake democratic reform while chopping up journalists.

It is analysis governed by imagination and thus is hardly worth detailed consideration.
You can use something like https://getpocket.com/
The OSS version is going to fill a vital role that SaaS just can't do, and we view it as a critical component in what InfluxDB provides. I don't think we're ever going to get away from needing on-prem and on-device deployments when dealing with time-series data, especially for emerging IoT/Edge use cases.

No, the company recognizes that the success of the SaaS is inevitably tied to the success of the OSS product. The only reason we were able to give the SaaS more focus recently is because we already had a working OSS product in the 1.x line that was meeting the needs of existing customers that we were and are continuing to invest in.
maybe this is because Zuck flies between Hawaii and SF about 2 times every month? (just guessing based on his freckle count)
"The system is perfect; it's the humans that are flawed!"
ThinkPad X13 AMD
No matter how hard you try stuff will happen. One of my kids tiny glass diamonds (not even really sure where it came from) somehow managed to get underneath one of the felt pads on the legs of our couch. I discovered it recently when someone moved the couch and left a three foot fairly deep scratch across the floor. That paled in comparison to what was actually going on under the couch leg.

I'm pretty good at matching/refinishing, and i'm going to tell you, our floor has a bit of built in stylistic distressing, but the filler+ careful matching/etc I did in that area is never going to match the rest of the floor sufficiently that if you look at it you won't see the scratch. Replacing 5-6 boards in the middle of the floor is really the only choice to make it look like new, but that would use up a good number of the spare pieces I have.

I guess at this point its "character", but in another decade or two the 2->3 major scratch issues a year + likely the high traffic areas will start to add up, and the floors will look like many of the houses I've seen with older wood floors. Worn out.
I've worked at lots of companies where the product isn't optimized, it didn't handle Chinese or Arabic queries, or there were organizational issues. These things don't make a company fall apart suddenly, although they could be impediments for growth.
It's easy to look back with the benefit of hindsight to say that doctrine needed to change faster, but the realities of the war made that a challenge.

The lessons of 1940 should have been "build long-range escort fighters ASAP!", but it's also understandable that USAAF planners looked at the weak defensive armament, lower altitudes, and poor formation planning of Luftwaffe and RAF bombing operations and thought their equipment and tactics would perform differently. There is also the "what else can we do?" aspect to this strategy - 1943 was too early to mount an invasion of western Europe, the campaign in Italy beginning to stall - and the US and UK were left with few means of tying down German resources to prevent them from being sent to the eastern front. There was definitely some sunk-cost fallacy "we've spent all the time and resources building the 8th Air Force, so we're going to use it", but on a strategic level there weren't a lot of clearly better options prior to 1944.

The strategic bombing offensive didn't really get up to full strength until 1943, and by later that year it was finally clear that unescorted bombers would suffer unsustainable losses. Long-range escort fighters simply didn't exist in-theater in quantity until late 1943/early 1944. Once those fighters were available, tactics absolutely changed, first with close escort of bomber formations, and then by freeing the fighters to range ahead of the bombers to strike air defense targets and break up approaching fighter formations.
I was testing out both TimescaleDB/InfluxDB recently, including maybe using with Prometheus/Grafana. I was leaning towards Timescale, but InfluxDB was indeed a lot easier to quickly boot a "batteries included" setup and start working with live data.

I eventually spent a while reading about Timescale 1 vs 2, and testing the pg_prometheus[1] adapter and started thinking through integrating its schema to our other needs then realizing it's "sunsetted" and then reading about the new timescale-prometheus[2] adapter and reading through its ongoing design doc[3] with updated schema that I'm less a fan of.

I finally wound up mostly-settling on Timescale although I've put the Prometheus extension question on hold, just pulling in metrics data and outputting with ChartJS and some basic queries got me a lot closer to done for now. Our use case may be a little odd regardless, but I think a timescale-prometheus extension with a some ability to customize how the data is persisted would be quite useful.

[1] https://github.com/timescale/pg_prometheus

[2] https://github.com/timescale/timescale-prometheus

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e3mAN3eHUpQ2JHDvnmkmn_9r...
I admittedly have not been using it long enough for it to come into its own (when the connections should start to do more heavy lifting). But my impression so far is that the "low tech wiki" description is essentially accurate, although since I keep all my files in one folder, I find it easier to get an overview of what topics I've already covered. I guess there's probably a page for this in most wiki systems as well, but I'm not a wiki power-user.

The reason I'm a convert is that it seems like the best of both worlds between raw note-taking and a wiki. The advantage over raw note-taking is the links that enable you to "crawl" its entirety. The advantage over a wiki is that it's tech-agnostic and you can do it however works best for you.

On the other hand, a wiki may be better for someone who wanted to embed media in their notes (such as audio recordings).
How would you update on it?

(But you could just as well s/constant speed/average speed/, I don't think it makes a difference.)
My 2019 gasoline truck can.

(Dodge Ram)
> Rather than trying to generate hypothetical ideas for "how can we make our search better", we spend a lot of time analyzing our data to find where we are failing. Many of our biggest relevance improvements have come from tracking and understanding the types of queries where we consistently fail to generate results or user engagement.

This sounds a lot like the 6-sigma approach of driving improvement by focusing obsessively on eliminating "defects".

There are certainly huge wins that can be obtained by identifying and eliminating bugs or corner-cases with undesired behavior. But it's scary to imagine a world where this is used as a replacement for innovative thinking - ie, "how can we make our search better". If Steve Jobs had focused all his proverbial efforts on minimizing flip-phone defects, the world would have missed out on the smartphone revolution.
Nuclear reactors are also have the added capability of driving desalination plants with the waste heat.
In case you don't want to click-thru, the label was "Voting Info", not a fact check label.

I honestly came here ready to say "well, if they at least fact check Trump once in a while, maybe I can overlook the general horribleness and leave a nice comment", but I can see now the optimist in me was doing the thinking in that moment.

It's pathetic that these manipulative liars are in power, and that the rich people who already have it made prop them up so they can have it even more made at everyone's expense. But it's no surprise when Zuck is first in line.
Evidence of Beijing's concentration camps 're-educating' a million Muslims
Deliverty from USA to Russia
Why is mail-forwarding still a thing? I thought Amazon and ebay would deliver to final customer cheaper then middleman forwarders.
Ask HN: What happens to your passwords when you die?
I’ve been looking into setting up a will and a way to pass down accounts and passwords, but I’m not sure what the best way to handle that is.

Has anyone set up anything like this before?
So it's working as intended then.

It's a bit weird to comment on this as if it's an oversight or unintended downside. Suppose you keep going into someone's house and they don't want you to, so they do something to dissuade you (like putting locks on their doors). You then complain that you can't get in. Their likely response? "Well, yeah..."
I find the graph at the top of Sandi Metz's article "Breaking up the Behemoth" (https://sandimetz.com/blog/2017/9/13/breaking-up-the-behemot...) to be poignant.

If you agree with her hypothesis, what it's basically saying is that a clean design tends to feel like much more work early on. And she goes on to suggest that early on, it's best to focus on ease, and extract a simpler design later, when you have a clearer grasp of the problem domain.

Personally, if I disagree, it's because I think her axes are wrong. It's not functionality vs. time, it's cumulative effort vs. functionality. Where that distinction matters is that her graph subtly implies that you'll keep working on the software at a more-or-less steady pace, indefinitely. This suggests that there will always be a point where it's time to stop and work out a simple design. If it's effort vs. functionality, on the other hand, that leaves open the possibility that the project will be abandoned or put into maintenance mode long before you hit that design payoff threshold.

(This would also imply that, as the maintainer of a programming language ecosystem and a database product that are meant to be used over and over again, Rich Hickey is looking at a different cost/benefit equation from those of us who are working on a bunch of smaller, limited-domain tools. My own hand-coded data structures are nowhere near as thoroughly engineered as Clojure's collections API, nor should they be.)
Facebook and Twitter continuing to allow this wannabe-autocrat to continually spam the country with misinformation is pure cowardice.
Not sure if this is a joke? What does it mean to say the government will buy a dollar for a dollar?
Show HN: A usable, fast Gitlab CLI written in Rust
Simpler yes, but potentially more dangerous. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that electricity can kill you awfully damn fast and without any warning. This is usually not a problem for hobbyists because the total amount of energy in a typical battery is low and the internal resistances are high. But when you're powering a vehicle, especially a high-performance vehicle, those usual safeguards are intentionally removed. So caveat hacker. Caveat mucho.

Also, LiPo batteries can explode if you're not very careful with charge and discharge discipline. Even the small ones in cell phones can do significant damage that way.
Trains would like to have a word.
"In addition, Saarland is a special case as half of the deaths, unlike in the other German states, occurred in only a few long-term care facilities where a high number of people were infected in a short time and all deaths during the episode were attributed to Corona without autopsies being made."

wow.
I think you should read more about the licence before criticizing it so harshely. AGPL was created as an answer of this exact loophole that existed in the original GPL.

Not saying that those licences are perfect an there is definitely grey areas, but what you are stating is not true.
I've been using GitLab for a while, and just started learning Rust, so I thought I'd have a go at putting together a user-centric cli tool for Gitlab as a personal project. It's still under heavy development, but is now just about stable and functional enough to use.

Lots of work still to do, not least of which porting to BSD/MacOS, broader API coverage, and probably some improvements on usability of what's there already.

Feedback and PRs appreciated!
The even sillier split-audience course in the mid 2000s was CS121, the intro CS theory course.

More or less a math course, but required for CS students, the audience included a mix of advanced math students (including e.g. some IMO winners) and programmers without any math background.

The result was that half the class felt it was incredibly easy and slow-paced (at least for the first month; later the problems got tedious and fiddly for everyone), and the other half was completely overwhelmed.
Seems to not be a problem for Facebook
CS51 in 1997 (to specify the version to which I was exposed) was a great deal of work, but it wasn't beyond the capability of the average Harvard student. After all, as mentioned ITT, the Great Pointer Winnowing had taken place in CS50. Maybe I'm speaking from privilege, since I had coded some BASIC in 8th grade...
>Blog about each topic/micro topic/learning.

Any recommendations for this? I've always wanted to make a blog but I never have anything to write about. What I work on is trivial so it doesn't seem worth the time to write about. I've thought about researching interesting topics and writing a "research paper" for each blog entry but that feels like cheating and using another person's work.
Does yours? Why are you so aggressive? Where does the need to call him out comes from?
Got it, glad to hear you’ve thought about this. Can I also say I’m glad you’re deciding to charge the company instead of the individual users or the charities themselves.

Whenever I see companies targeting the nonprofit space but planning to monetize on the nonprofit side, I’m always skeptical.
This might sound naive, but I would like to advocate for more employment than less. Optimizing jobs from 10k to 500 as some people in the thread are advocating seems horrific to me.

The ideal is that you would have 500 people that are efficient enough to perform 20x the work, and optimize the work efficiency, and automate some things.

What I have seen personally is that employers just overload staff. They reach a crisis point and have to hire more people. That just hurts employees and there families.

I do not want to make baseless assumptions on who was laid off. People could be laid off for something as trivial as a site consolidation and the person could not relocate, or an acquisition where multiple people had the similar roles. Using laid off status as a scarlet letter is a worrisome trend and only serves to harm all of us in the long term.

I personally do not want to live in a zero sum economy.
This feels different to me. Apple released a detailed, concrete ten year roadmap that other companies can follow - this already indicates serious commitment. There are enough in-flight initiatives that if carbon neutrality is deprioritized it will have to be an explicit decision from high-up in the company. Also, this is Apple we're talking about, not Google :P
Nothing, but everyone quickly figures out they would be better off if they exchanged BTC for USD (or other national currency) before tax season when almost everyone must sell BTC for USD.
This case seems to apply to public officials, I assume it would be different for private citizens?
My mistake, I wrote it from memory instead of copying or looking at the parent post. Edited and fixed.
In my jurisdiction, at least, the intent "to govern" doesn't make much of a difference in whether an item is a public record or not. My public records training would cause me to assume that Twitter DMs created or received by the government entity I work for, irrespective of their intent, are public records.

It would be nice if elected leaders at all levels of government were held to the law w/ respect to public records. I was absolutely outraged at the lack of law enforcement response for Clinton's private email server, just as I was outraged at the lack of response on the private email server that George W. Bush's administration allegedly maintained.
I saw someone who was posting close-ups of nipples without specifying a gender to make the point that it isn't really that simple.

Is a trans woman's nipple OK? What about a trans man? What if the trans man has large breasts? What if a cis man has large breasts? What about the tattoo nipple of a cancer survivor?

Nothing is simple, there are value judgements at every turn. The implementation is absolutely making judgements.
I don't think it's just a matter of people being illogical, (although it's certainly the case that all people will be illogical at least some of the time.) How people interpret what they observe is fundamentally subjective.

> "Facebook didn't say they would be moderating discussion in that way."

Sure, I'm responding more to the notion of "Unfortunately, not everyone is willing to believe facts" My point is that video doesn't always make it clear what the facts are. It's not merely a matter of 'some people don't believe facts' because in many cases different people can view the same video and, with a large degree of confidence and in good faith, have different opinions on what the facts are.
Your argument sounds recursive. What does it mean to say the government will buy a dollar for a dollar? A dollar is only useful if it can be exchanged for things other than itself.
I don't even think it's that much. Most of the work could be done by robots anywhere in the world. It's not like much of it is being done by hand as it is - the SMD components on the PCB are barely visible to the human eye nowadays. To their credit, they are moving some of their production to India, after India forced them to. Maybe the United States should do the same.
But "no footprint" seams pretty far away if not impossible. They claim _carbon_ neutrality in 10 years. There will still be pollution and resource over consumption which product lifecycle extension could work to improve up on.
Mapdreamer (AI Cartography)
I'm in Canada I urge you to start a new trend and call it a << Canadian Plunger >> or something like that. lol
yes no doubt it is impressive. But some people are speculating that a lot of cherry picking is done for this demo. I have access to gpt-3 but I am unable to reproduce such results.
If it’s for marketing and you need a hand setting it up, shoot me an email through my profile and I’d be happy to share an overview of setups I’ve used.

It took me a bit for it to click also, but now that it has I can’t imagine using any other tool for our marketing team.
Egypt fought the Europeans. Egypt fought the Romans. Egypt fought the Asyrian Empire.

The middle-east has been a powerhouse since before Europe was a thing. They have been fighting each other for tens of millenniums.

I don't think oil was that big a factor before WWI though. You have to remember that until cars come along the entire industrial revolution is powered by coal and the UK had plenty of coal. Oil only becomes important after the first world war -- at the same time the Ottoman Empire that had ruled most of the middle-east is broken up, so you have a bunch of new countries with new civil infrastructure getting massively wealthy from a seemingly endless gift from the group - and all of those countries are ruled by tribal people and strongmen, if only because they were set up that way by the British and French.
YES, YES, YES - jetbrain IDE's is all you need.
> due to all of the modern safety regulations.

People love to say this is due to regulation, but it really isn't. Safety regulations in the USA for automobiles are not terribly strict. It adds weight, for sure, but you can buy a 2100lb Mitsubishi Mirage with a stick shift. So mandatory safety aren't the biggest contributor to inflated curb weights.

Size inflation is predominantly driven by NVH and interior volume requirements from consumers. Dodge doesn't have to make the Challenger Hellcat a 4500lb two-door car. This car isn't fat for safety reasons, in fact, it score pretty damn low on safety tests.

Manufacture make heavy cars it because customers want gigantic, comfortable cruisers, with big engines, all-wheel job, 20" wheels on 265mm-wide tires, heavy duty lifted suspension, and full-length under-body trays.

Honda isn't immune to this, they don't even sell a car today that's as small in volume as your 88 Civic. The closest would be the discontinued CR-Z, which was a hyrbrid, or the no-long-sold-in-the-US Jazz/Fit, which is still quite a bit larger but only 2600lbs with a stickshift.

I love old Hondas, and you're right, they have a driving sensation that's impossible to get with modern cars. But don't blame regulations for Honda changing their ways, blame consumers. If people wanted a Civic with a 90hp engine, stick shift, four-wheel double-wishbone suspension, and 13" wheels, they'd sell one. Mitsu still does (for now).
That guarantee is sort of like the spark plug of the economy - because it exists (and because the US government was a thing) people initially believe in the value of a dollar (and the same thing happened with every currency) but the currency continues to have value (and has a value exceeding that initial US valuation) because other people will buy it as well.

Also, just for a moment, the statement: "Dollar has value, because even if no one will want dollar, government will buy it for dollar." - that's a fair bit of nonsense, outside of the dollar having an exchange value the dollar has no value - fiat currency (and even precious metals TBH) only have value to to the continued demand for them and if that demand falters or if people stop valuing a dollar at as many whoppers as it used to be valued - then bad things start to happen really fast and the government is pretty powerless to stop it once it starts.
A 15" 1080p panel has the same pixel density as a 32" 4K panel.
Thanks for the comment. I took the previous poster's comment at face value (seemed like common sense). My internal db has been updated.
I agree. That's a problem, too.

The reason it became so pronounced is that social media got very good at it and then taught the lesson to traditional media. They, too, now use metrics of engagement to choose what they show.

It is true also that it is a weakness of people. But there are other weaknesses that we regulate in the interest of a healthy society.

I'm not a fan of regulation but a general awareness of the core issue would go a long way towards a solution.

Right now, the talk about the issue seems misdirected. I can only see the proposed solutions putting immense power of controlling narrative in a few hands.