skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have one pair of designer sunglasses that I picked up on sale. They are comfortable to the point that I can barely feel them. They also look really good.

I also have a ton of $10 sunglasses from street vendors and online stores.

For my taste, all the mid-range sunglasses are super boring and make you look boring. Great for going out and meeting other boring people. Everything cool is either some cheapo monstrosity that you find from a street vendor or online store for $10, or from a designer brand.

If you don’t care about fashion then go ahead and buy boring sunglasses.
Another good reason to wear a face mask other than protecting yourself from Covid-19...
Great story! Thanks for sharing
> Mental concepts have a high degree of correlation with the real world, otherwise we could not explain how we are so capable of navigating and manipulating the world to the degree that we do.

This is obviously a strong association from human mental concepts to real world objects. The question is if the opposite mapping exists as well - there could well be infinitely many non-human concepts that could map onto the physical world. They could have some level of similarity, but nertheless remain significantly different.

For a trivial example, in all likelihood an alien race that has some kind of eye would perceive different colors than we do. With enough text and shared context, we may be able to understand that worble is some kind of shade of red or green, but never understand exactly how they perceive it (just as they may understand that red is some shade or worble or murble, but never exactly). Even worse, they could have some colors like purple, which only exists in the human mind/eye (it is the perception we get when we see both high-wavlength and low- wavelength light at the same time, but with different phases).

Similarly, alien beings may have a significantly different model of the real world, perhaps one not divided into objects, but, say, currents, where they perceive moving things not as an object that changes location, but as a sort of four-dimensional flow from chair-here to chair-there, just like we perceive a river as a single object, not as water particles moving on a particular path. Thus, it may be extremely difficult if not impossible to map between our concepts and the real world back to their concepts.

> Fear, for example, correlates with states in the world such that some alien species would be expected to have a corresponding concept.

Unlikely, given that most organisms on earth have no semblance of fear. Even for more universal mental states, there is no reason to imagine completely different organisms would have similar coping mechanisms as we have evolved.

> Machetes, for example, are mostly used in the context of "hacking", either vegetation or people, rather than precision cuts of a knife or a scalpel.

Well, I would say hacking VS cutting are not significantly different concepts, they are a matter of human-specific and even culturally-specific degrees, which would be unlikely to me to be uniquely identifiable, though some vague level of understanding could probably be reached.
> Any suggestions for alternative services that outperform Google’s?

Yes. Which one? This page seems full of people recommending DeepL, which is one I can personally recommend for Spanish, and others can swear by for any of the languages it supports. OpenStreetMap is great for more detailed and more frequently updated map data. The article shows how pathetic multiple competitors make Google Flights look https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-sea... (and it seems the industry rate 10+ other services above it https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848046-the-10-best-and-w...). DuckDuckGo's search results are as good for me (not everyone), and it invented the instant answer (IIRC), has 2 click dark mode, bangs and other features, and is a good place to find more alternatives.
Very few downsides to Next.js generally. I’d say for smaller projects I really love leveraging Gatsby’s plugin system (specifically the image transforms), but it’s not as useful for anything dynamic where Next.js comes out ahead.
It may not have been a paragon of freedom and free speech like America but it was also very much not East Germany or the USSR.
As a parent of young children and former math teacher, yes, we do absolutely memorize those sums. It usually happens at an early enough age that the process of doing so evaporates early in life and becomes part of your base mental code. I spent a significant part of my teaching life teaching high school math for college students (and occasionally grade school math for college students) and there are very much people who never managed to get that memorization step completed. What's really fascinating is that it's an orthogonal skill to higher mathematics. I've seen students who needed to use a calculator to do 6+5 and yet managed to be able to solve algebraic problems. This is, I must add, uncommon, but it's less because one skill depends on the other but rather because the failure to gain the basic math skill leads to an unwillingness to try to gain the more abstract math skill.
Thanks for the heads up. I did some quick tests and it’s much better than DDG and 2020 Google, at least for my use case.
Autogenerating Kea's TypeScript Support
> I know you didn't intend on sounding like this, but you're veering into COVID denier territory, the kind of nay-saying that Trump et al are fueling on Twitter and Facebook

You're trying to sound like you're being reasonable, but you're trying to discredit someone as being a "COVID denier" and Donald Trump, neither of which are necessarily true, and certainly don't seem true about the OP. The use of "veering" is simply guilt by association. Your thinking that you're more intelligent than other because you've read papers just comes off as you being full of yourself.
Online shopping is better
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So a minority of a minority when it comes to actual voting power.

Not incorrect? Yes that was directly disputed btw.

Gun ownership and gun influence in the US is vastly overstated.
I once forgot how to write a simple join in SQL during an interview. Full blank. It is like forgetting how to tie your shoes. The second I walked out of the building, I instantly recalled the insanely simple task.
There have been race riots before in the US... every couple of decades or so we get major ones. Thinking that this time marks the end of society is perhaps looking at the “blip” that he’s talking about.
Just read your first blog post, I signed up.
But +1 for the screenshots on your website, it does not work as an illustration of the product.
How do you ensure two long-running heavy cpu workers don’t end up on the same isolate, interfering with each other for the life of the worker?
Back when I was a postdoc I talked to my advisor about GPL and BSD. The advisor (who was a supremely intelligent person) said the simplest, clearest possible thing I could imagine: "I wouldn't license software under GPL because I read the GPL license and couldn't understand what it was saying. I read the BSD license and it was totally clear. I want to license something using a license that makes technical sense to me."

The fact that we see pages and pages of hackers arguing over what the implications of a license family (GPL and AGPL) are based on the legal text suggests that many people don't understand the GPL.
Well, one cup (volume) of flour can vary pretty widely in weight (108-138g in my notebook). Bleached, whole, Rye, AP, etc and even same type across brands. A variance of 15% is not too odd from my baking experience.
> There certainly did used to be competition to Google Translate but Google crushed them by promoting their own services (which came later)[1].

Yahoo was the search engine that crushed altavista, then ultimately bought babelfish and let it rot, all several years before google translate came out.
That's what the photographer was shooting and it is definitely not big enough to pull back and crop in later.

The only way to get files big enough is to shoot medium format, but you can't because the files are too large for rapid-fire.
That you had to go back to the 60s and 70s to make your point demonstrates how out of the ordinary these "mostly peaceful" protests are.
Anyone know what kind of depth measurement they are making? It looks like some kind of radio widget
Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019)
Plus https://ottomotors.com/
I don’t think any of those store cards actually require you to register them.
Yes I was skeptical too. Just saying what he told me.
Tell us how you really feel scott
The horologist community holds the F-91W as a classic for Casio. It's a good starting point in the affordables category. It has a lot of features for less than $15 USD. I guess that's why terrorists use them.
> Of course, this comment will get downvoted, which just proves the point.

No, it really doesn't "prove the point." Your entire comment is violating HN guidelines[1] left and right, so of course it is getting downvoted (and flagged), but not because you've uncovered some grand conspiracy.

The cloudflare posts that get upvoted are just actually interesting to the HN target audience, myself included.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>The continued investment implies that the market has spoken: Your data has value.

>Your data has value.

Does it. Harbor Freight already knows it's customers are cheapskates and Whole Foods already knows it's customers barely look at the prices? Backing that up with data is nice but how much value does it really have?

FOMO is a big thing at the corporate management level. A million here, a million there to run pilot programs and do partial roll-outs seems like cheap insurance against getting blindsided by something you wrote off as a fad.
We are currently working on Node.js integration. It's not quite ready for prime time but let me know if you'd like to help us test it!

Are there any other languages you'd like to see?
Source code from big-name companies leaked online
I think it's based on how often you visit Medium. If it's your first time visiting in a ~month, you just see the article. If it's your ~third time, they ask for an account.

Just open the URL in an incognito window when you get that -- it's what I do.
Need security audit of our mobile app
Do you recommend anyone or any service? We want to do a security audit before we release the mobile app in stores. Our tech stack is React Native and Firebase.
Can last decades, or you might move. Your income might go up or it might go down. The house might appreciate in value or it might go down in value. If you have the best house you can afford, you’re “locked in” and might have to turn down otherwise exciting opportunities because they don’t pay you enough cash to make mortgage payments.

Plus, I know enough people that bought a big house, don’t use it, and just end up buying furniture for rooms they don’t use.
Never choose a tool before you've seen the job. If you need the things Next does, use it. If you don't, don't use it. Just dragging whichever tools you've recently used into your next project is how some of the worst projects I've seen got built. There are many valid solutions to any problem in web dev, and they ALL have tradeoffs.
An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test
Well for sure if you compare with USA's history, many things are older.
We write .NET Core on Mac to overcome this, but I'm very glad to see full tooling for developing .NET Core for Linux across the board. Tooling and advocation from Microsoft for Linux in production is vital to .NET Core's future I think.
But you already know this, so you've probably played for a while.

I think the meaning is if you start playing tennis, use the 20$ one. Then if you manage to wear it out, buy a good one. You shouldn't buy a 2nd 20$ one, ever.
Great study and presentation!

And an impressive website for a publisher. The average publisher is full of advertising, calls-to-action and several MBs weight of external scripts. This one is so simple, fast to load and clean. Congrats!
Testing out the demo:

SELECT * FROM trips
WHERE tip_amount > 500
ORDER BY tip_amount DESC

Very interesting :-)
He has a unique perspective, I've heard on a couple occasions him talking about his father dropping dead of a heart attack changing planes. I can't find the exact video or I'd link it, but he's clearly thought a lot about risk and is pretty interesting to listen to even if you're not enamored with his exploits.
That's a very broad generalization that covers millions of people.
Momondo, Skyscanner, TripAdvisor, Expedia.
Companies do all sorts of insane, crazy things that waste inordinate amounts of money with very little return on investment.
2020 Smartphones
I’ve run FreeNAS as well, but I found there was something strange about the involvement of iXsystems I couldn’t put my finger on. It just didn’t seem professionally done on the web site, or the web GUI. It was 98% of the way there functionality-wise, but the GUI was just overwhelming. Personal preference I guess. Perhaps there are other themes, and being open source, I’m sure it can be configured to my liking. I am glad the project exists, all that said. I just don’t know if it’s something I can sell to a client. I am more than comfortable running it myself, and have done so; to catch network scan jobs for SMBv1 only MFPs, for instance.
hCaptcha's accessibility is poor. You have to make an account to login and set a cookie if you're unable to work with their image captcha.
From the article: 9/10 searches in the US come from Google.

There are lots of great search engines. But when Google has the largest share of web analytics and can literally track you around the internet, how can other search engines who respect you as a user even have a chance? Give search engines a level playing field. Google is the default search engine on the most popular web browser. Google is the default search engine on the largest mobile operating system. Please stop defending Google. They have a monopoly on search, and its time for them to get the MS IE treatment.
Create a Commute Time Map
Freeze the video at 1:47 and you'll see K352 4SDYU from STMicroelectronics. Dug a little and came up with M24SR16-YDW6T/2 which can be found in DigiKey here: https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=M24SR16-YDW6T%2...

That one is only a 2Kb though. They also make an 8Kb 4SFYU: https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=M24SR64-YDW6T%2...
Do you think it's justified to bring in the use of government force and coercion in a situation where no one is being injured, no one is being defrauded, and people are voluntarily going to the private property on which the events occur?

It would be much more ethical to personally stop going to the store and giving them business if you object (which is a valid opinion, imo). Encouraging others to do the same, spreading news about the practice, etc, all seems good. But once you start calling for people with guns to coerce the property owners you're doing something unethical.
Sendgrid Is Down Since 6am MT
As a landlord, this is not true in several ways.

First, in every municipality I've leased in, a landlord is only entitled to the rent from a broken lease up to the point where they find a new tenant.

Second, landlords can't typically collect rent after a date of eviction (same reasoning - you can't charge for a service you haven't rendered).

Third, rents are dropping across the US. It's not a given that they'll find another tenant immediately.

Fourth, the cost to recover rent is high, and usually not worth it.
This is actually an underrated question.

Time-series databases offer better performance and usability for dealing with time-series data (think DevOps metrics, data from IoT devices, stock prices etc, anything where you're monitoring and analyzing how things change over time)

They allow you answer questions where time is the main component of interest much more quickly and easily:

eg 1: IoT Sensors) Show me the average of temperature over all my devices over the past 3 days in 15 minute intervals

eg 2: Financial data) What's the price of stock X over the past 5 years

eg 3: DevOps data) What's the average memory and CPU used by all my servers of the past 5 mins

A normal database could be a purely relational database (e.g Postgres) or a non-relational database (e.g MongoDB). In both these cases, while you could use these databases for time-series data, they tend to offer worse performance at scale and a worse experience for doing common things (e.g real-time aggregations of data, data retention policies etc)

For more on time-series data and when you'd need a time-series database, check out: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-time-series...
> only work 15h a week or less and there was discussion if this would become a problem for society (because people typically want to work). However, this did not happen, why? Because the benefits of improved efficiency etc. flowed to fewer and fewer people.

That’s one possibility, the other is that productivity has no bounds and increased efficiency just means further productivity, not a lessening of work to achieve the same productivity as before.
Ah, well, parent post said "So you want to "flush out" about 50% of the American electorate? "

I thought that meant parent was saying about 50% of the electorate voted for Trump but I could have misinterpreted.

OK yeah that's a good point. I was wrong.
I've never worked somewhere that uses Linux dev machines. Almost always Mac these days, but otherwise it's been Windows. At least a good option exists for *nix tools on Windows now.

And WSL2 is good enough for personal development that I use it on my desktop as well -- I don't want to waste time fucking around with drivers or dual booting for something I do infrequently anyways.
It’s always been confusing because that 50ms is actual CPU time, not to walk-clock time.

Whilst it’s great to be billed on actual usage, it’s hard to tell how expensive a function is going to be.
As you said, performance is the main differentiator. We are orders of magnitude faster than TimescaleDB and InfluxDB on both data ingestion and querying.
TimescaleDB relies on Postgres and has great SQL support. This is not the case for InfluxDB and this is where QuestDB shines: we do not plan to move away from SQL, we are very dedicated in bringing good support and some enhancements to make sure the querying language is as flexible and efficient as possible for our users.
Could do with a little css to make it more readable on mobile though. Wouldn't take much, one or two lines.
It's the same way speaking on stage. There is absolutely nothing natural about getting up on a stage with hundreds or thousands of your "closest friends" looking on. And, yes, good speakers are acting at some level. But many/most of them are acting to get back some of the authentic interaction that would be there if there were talking to you individually over a beer.
Today wasn't the best day to launch a no-password, email based sign in app, apparently....
DNS-over-TLS vs. DNS-over-HTTPS
I am having difficulty following this. Your son felt vastly better after consuming zinc/cheese. What was wrong with your son?
Many government websites use reCAPTCHA. I do not have any choice in using it. If I were to block Google to avoid tracking, I could not function in society.
Unless there's a medical need it's not ethical to give a c-section as it creates greater risk of complication (including and especially death), more long-term effects, worse effects on the child, and just so happens to make the hospital more money. Of course if there is a medical need then they should be done, but it's not like tonsilectomy.
AMD is not that much better, unfortunately
My first thought was that it was from something like an airline/travel upsell team that somehow sneaked through, but my interaction w/Google convinced me otherwise (sorry I don't recall all the details, as it was years ago).

Google definitely made clear that if I wanted to accept them auto-populating my calendar with the flights in my email, I also had to accept the fake hotel bookings and lying "...confirm?" messages and manually delete them.

I'd be mildly ok with Google sending an offer email resembling: "Here's a potentially good hotel for your trip, would you like to book this, confirm, and insert in calendar?" (ya, it's spam, but at least sort of on-topic).

But what Google was doing is highly offensive and dishonest.

They presume to make a booking, populate it into my calendar, then send an email & alert in the calendar claiming that I failed to confirm the booking that they claim that I made -- flat-out lying to me, hoping I'm just in too much of a rush to notice that their booking was not one that I'd intended.

That was just so far beyond crossing the line that I want nothing to do with any such feature.

Sadly, it is also another bad example to magnify the stereotype of technology people with no ethical grounding (broadly, I don't think it's true, but it happens enough that it smears all of us).
I was just thinking that...or some type of invisible (to human eye) laser setup. These systems all rely on cameras so why not take advantage of the camera weak spot. Would be awesome to build something that makes you look like a blurred out blob on the camera, but doesn't render their system useless while you're using it.

The quick solution for retailers would be banning use of IR/lasers in-store and they'll play the "if you don't like it you can shop elsewhere" game.
(really not sure why this was down voted ... it is a good comment)

Thanks. I'm aware of others struggles. I figure that my story could be a cautionary tale for some, and others may take lessons from it.

When I say in other fora, never, ever take debt financing of anything if you can avoid it, this is coming from personal agonizing experience.

If I go back into the startup world, I'm going with a very clear perception of what is what. No rose colored glasses. No "if you build a better mousetrap" mentality. I know how things can go horribly wrong. I know where the traps and mines are.
> Shouldn't the wage raise until you attract those people willing to do the work and stay? In turn, the cost of landscaping would rise to the customers.

Utterances like "Americans won't take these jobs," "We can't find people for this req," are incomplete. The complete characterization is "Americans won't take these job FOR THIS PAY." I did think that for a time, that if everyone was willing to pay a premium for, say, landscaping service, any kind of service really, the premium would pay for the value-added, and the entire industry would slowly be pulled up. I was willing to pay a premium for landscaping, to a company that paid good wages, that hired ethically, and purportedly did excellent work. I paid the premium and got shitty service all the same. This has happened so frequently (tried to be a conscientious consumer, paid the premium, got shitty work that engendered more work for me to fix) it eroded this thinking in me. How do I adequately price X when X+premium still gets me substandard X? The safe action is to default to market price, and the gig economy wage is sliding downward. I don't know how I can individually influence this.
or you can buy it yourself. budget for it like any other expense. it's not necessarily cheap, but it's not something so astronomical that no one can afford it at all. Many people somehow find $700/month for their favorite SUV, but $700/month for health insurance is unattainable.

I'm not saying the system is great - I'm in favor of single-payer system overall. But tying access to health insurance to employment as a default mindset really has to be stopped, somehow.
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