skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I understand correctly that I am supposed to give you write access to my PROD database just so i can edit my production database with the ease of a spreadsheet in a web browser ?

What happens when BaseDash is down ? Do I have to go back to using code again ?
The term "conservative" is relative. What is considered "conservative" by the standards of one society may be considered "liberal" by the standards of another.

I think part of the confusion is that some wrongly judge the Australian Liberal Party by American political standards. Conservative parties in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, often make decisions which would be considered "liberal" in an American context, but are actually centrist (or sometimes even right-wing) in the context of their own countries. A good example is the Medicare levy surcharge was introduced by the Howard government, to penalise middle and high income earners that don't take out private health insurance; in the Australian context that was a conservative decision (it was designed to prop up private health insurers, and many on the Australian left viewed it as a threat to the public health system and a form of corporate welfare), yet when the US adopted more or less the same policy (an insurance mandate) as part of Obamacare, that was a liberal one.

The other issue is the ambiguity between "classical liberalism" vs "social liberalism"/"left liberalism"/"modern liberalism". The term "Liberal" in the name of the Australian Liberal Party is a reference to the former not the later. Classical liberalism has a huge amount of overlap with many versions of conservatism.

And even "conservatism" comes in many different forms, and different forms of conservatism can lead to very different policies. In the US, some conservatives argue for an aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East; others argue that the US should stay out of other countries' business. Both viewpoints are conservative, just the product of different versions of conservatism (neoconservative vs palaeoconservative). Similarly, while mainstream US conservatism combines "economic conservatism" (low and flat taxation, small and balanced government budget, low regulation, free trade, etc) with social conservatism, a significant minority of American social conservatives oppose economic conservatism (e.g. distributism, Catholic social teaching, Patrick Buchanan, The American Conservative magazine, etc)
Somewhat happened a few days ago. Reddit in the browser (ie. M.reddit.com) got a redesign which has screwed loads of stuff up (can't even see usernames of those who have submitted posts on /hot) which makes everything cartoonish, moved the "share" buttons to where voting used to be, and is overall just a bit crappy - without mentioning some of the bugs they have such as a giant white bar on every page.

It sucks because I love reddit, but it will be EOL for the people who made it what it is in about 3-5 years
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The Australian media landscape is a highly unethical duopoly that undermines democracy. And the alternative seems to be people getting their "news" from wellness gurus and radio shock jocks.

On the one hand News Corporation and Fairfax Media can rot in hell, but I'm almost as afraid of what would happen to the national discourse in the resulting power vacuum.
This was 2008 - way before I’d discovered the value of a password manager.
So you self-published a book. Well done. Join the crowd. The very, very big crowd.

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My Irish friend usually makes a similar response to yours. If I notice something is the same she says - "well you know, we do have a shared history, of course things are the same"

If I notice something is different she says - "well you know, it's a different country, of course things are different"

But in either case she bristles a bit, like these things ought to be neither surprising nor interesting to me. Like the UK ought to teach the colour of Irish postboxes in schools and of course the road signs are in kilometres and we use the Euro but we drive on the left and have the same plug sockets. It is all a sign of my colonial arrogance I am sure.
Wow how can you hate DBeaver. Do you even write SQL?
Google is not a superior search engine anymore and you don't really need it.

From a privazy perspective it would be awesome for Google to block Australia like some US news sites block european users bc. of GDPR.
It's a really interesting and elegant solution but 112€ for what looks like a very simple device sounds a bit expensive to me. Does anyone know of a similar system but for the Apple watch?
I'm also building, or trying to, a client for Reddit made with React. The thing I'm not achieving is properly rendering videos hosted on Reddit.

I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible. It's totally closed from being played outside of reddit.com by using CORS. I can't in any way play the DASH or HLS files from reddit.

I can load the mp4 fallback, but guess what? It's a video without audio. You can get the audio, but it's not documented anywhere (found on stackoverflow, I think). But of course, playing two files at once and syncing them is bound to break, specially on slow networks.

For a website dedicated to sharing stuff from all around the web (reddit didn't even have image hosting until a few years ago), it is really a dick move that you can't share stuff from reddit elsewhere.

It's a shame. Reddit is merely a shell of what it used to be, sadly.

Edit: You seem to have the same problem with video :(
Please put AOSP on your devices. Let us others have a sane device experience not dealing with bad apps.
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> I need to invalidate the connection every time I don't query anything for a few minutes, otherwise the next query hangs for like 50 seconds

Sounds like you messed up the connection settings, I have never had this problem using DBeaver for years across companies.
Could you recommend a tool that does subtitles and generates a .srt afterwards, from your experience?

I have a friend that translates everything from English for his grandmother, so she can watch movies that she does not understand, but he does it by hand in a video editing program. Would love to help him out.
Also, most users want their devices to work not have to constantly fiddle and make decisions. You can put AOSP and even a different app store and do whatever you want.
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Westinghouse smile at anyone, but that he hated Vulputate. And a lot of megapixels, but the court of the bed, but he wishes to longlasting batter.
Let's not pretend the liberal party is some bastion of LGBT rights, gay marriage was only passed after the politicians in Australia dragged each other through the mud for so long that the question was eventually put to a non binding plebiscite that they followed through on.
Isn’t the fact that the current system is so extremely complicated (and because of that, expensive) exactly one of the reasons UBI is so appealing? Cutting out the bureaucracy will save a lot of money that can then be send to the people. If you spend $1000 to figure out that one person “deserves” $800 instead of $1000 you are wasting a lot of money/time for zero gain.

The people in the high rent area can move to a low rent area if they can’t hold a job: they have nothing holding them there under the UBI rules. As for kids, perhaps they should also receive (smaller) UBI that would go to their parents.
There's a theory that a "unipolar" variant of Type II bipolar, ie. unipolar hypomania, is the condition most commonly associated with successful entrepreneurship.
BMW and VW are not doing the exact same thing. They pay taxes to the US IRS for their profits made in the US. The argument against Google and Facebook is based on their use of profit-shifting to avoid taxes on European profits.
How do you feel about poets?
Exactly what I was talking with a friend about yesterday.

I really believe we're two orders of magnitude away from having really useful smart home assistants. The kind that 'understand' your intent. And it's a bit mind boggling that we're brute forcing understanding, but it seems to be working great.

Recently I've been really into AI Dungeon with the GPT-3 model. I'll give you an example of a snippet from a story I played and it's not a singular example, plenty of insightful / amusing encounters. I'll go so far as to even say that it's more fun than interacting with a lot of people I know...

> "You follow the Fool through the village. It's fairly large, but in poor condition. The buildings are all thatched roof cottages and most of them look like they're about to fall down. There are people walking around, but they all look miserable.

> 'Are you happy?' the Fool turns, and asks a woman standing at an alleyway. She's pale and dressed in rag.

> 'No' she responds.

> 'Do you want to be happy?' the Fool asks, pulling a bright red flower from his bag.

> 'Yes' she says, cautiously accepting the flower.

> 'That's so sweet,' you say. (this is me writing)

> 'No, it isn't," the Fool says. 'It's lazy. Happy people don't ask to be happy. They just are.'"

--

I looked this quote on Google to make sure it wasn't just taken as a whole: No results found for "Happy people don't ask to be happy. They just are.".

--

I was really impressed with the depth of it.
I work in customer service supervising entry level employees. The amount of power they have at any given time is astounding and it's by sheer ignorance or benevolence that more isn't embezzled en masse or this information isn't used for personal gain. My entire team of newly trained staff have access to your bank account information, where and when your payment was posted by IP, and we can strip 2fa or mobile numbers at whim. This coupled with inexperienced agents often leaves multiple accounts compromised. Having a select few engineers who don't work weekends always helps. We don't train the agents to tell them that they could potentially ruin customers' weeks by pushing the wrong button and it happens way too often to be standard, but as long as investors are happy and banks are good to reverse charges with no penalties here we are. Tech companies are good to throw caution to the wind.
Everything is political. It's a waste of time to pretend they aren't. However, in academia these effect are amplified due to perverse incentives (publication count over doing meaningful research) and power dynamics (senior advisor pushing his/her agenda over what is The Right Thing).

But it is important to remember what you are doing. In a PhD you should be pushing the boundary of knowledge. As a programmer in a company, you should be solving problems to generate value for your customer and your company.

If you aren't doing these things, you are in the wrong place.
Do thought-free states feel
better than good feeling thoughts? More generally, is peace preferable to positive emotion?
Ask HN: What do you think of the macOS Big Sur redesign?
FYI; Brave does support DRM videos, you just need to enable it. There's a setting section for Widevine in the browser settings.
I've seen it used somewhat often in the UK (almost entirely in academia as far as I can recall), at least frequently enough that I've used it in my own writings despite not studying history.

At a quick search, I can find a couple of sources that suggest it for notetaking at least:

* University of Portsmouth (listed under "Common general abbreviations") https://www.port.ac.uk/student-life/help-and-advice/study-sk...

* University of South Australia (under "Common symbols and abbreviations") https://lo.unisa.edu.au/pluginfile.php/1687781/mod_resource/...
That statement is meaningless. "Impact" is a neutral word, and then you give a metric that, again, doesn't specify what it is.

So do you mean that a news aggregator's publishing of abstracts increased or decreased visits to the full story on the original site?
Yeah, I liked the stock checker devices. I would just type in random digits to see if I could find a valid code. Also I sometimes stole one of the little blue pens.
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On a lighter note, I heard of an unusual school of ethics which says that we will soon have the technology (and the moral obligation) to modify all sentient life in such a way as to completely eliminate suffering from the universe.
>> Apple’s products at a large premium over their competitors

What premium? Right now I'm trying to decide between Dell XPS 9500 and MacBook Pro 16" and with similar spec MacBook is actually the cheaper option.

In the smartphone space top Samsung models are also priced similarily to iPhones
GPT-3 can write working React components. But we can't expect it to scale up to complete useful programs soon.

GPT-3 can write hauntingly beautiful snippets of prose. Can we expect it to scale up to coherent novels?

It's easier to see the limitations in the areas you know best. It's significant that it's this good at creative tasks, but I'm not convinced that creative tasks are the most at risk.
That may perhaps be because some of the best content also comes from people with comfortable, secure incomes and careers.

When people create content they are passionate about for a living, they a) often quickly lose that passion, and b) are more willing to compromise on the quality of their content in order to turn more profit (often through no fault of their own, but as a result of the exploitative nature of most content platforms).
And how do you suggest working with restricted background running, given that AOSP still has precisely the same policy regarding background tasks? And you can't even rely on push notifications, because as I understand you suggest getting rid of Google Apps too - and Push notifications come only with Google Apps.
They still want to be found. They just also want to be paid for the privilege of being listed on a search result page.
A lot of excellent information in that blog post and linked from it... but if you're wondering where to start:

1. Write good logs... not too noisy when everything is running well, meaningful enough to let you know the key state or branch of code when things deviate from the good path. Don't worry about structured vs unstructured too much, just ensure you include a timestamp, file, log level, func name (or line number), and that the message will help you debug.

2. Instrument metrics using Prometheus, there are libraries that make this easy: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs/ . Counts get you started, but you probably want to think in aggregation and to ask about the rate of things and percentiles. Use histograms for this https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/ . Use labels to create a more complex picture, i.e. A histogram of HTTP request times with a label of HTTP method means you can see all reqs, just the POST, or maybe the HEAD, GET together, etc... and then create rates over time, percentiles, etc. Do think about cardinality of label values, HTTP methods is good, but request identifiers are bad in high traffic environments... labels should group not identify.

Start with those things, tracing follows good logging and metrics as it takes a little more effort to instrument an entire system whereas logging and metrics are valuable even when only small parts of a system are instrumented.

Once you've instrumented... Grafana Cloud offers a hosted Grafana, Prometheus metrics scraping and storage, and Log tailing and storage (via Loki) https://grafana.com/products/cloud/ so you can see the results of your work immediately.

If it's a big project, you have a lot of options and I assume you know them already, this is when you start looking at Cortex and Thanos, Datadog and Loki, tracing with Jaegar.
You can replace cryptocurrency with cash there and it's just as true. In fact, cash is much more anonymous than cryptocurrency as there is no paper trail. The value that cryptocurrency provides to criminals is the same value it provides to everybody else: easy transfers across borders, and storing money outside of the control of governments. You might trust your government but what percentage of the world's population should trust their government?
WFH has caused many companies to ease up on restrictions involving location, ip, and sometimes a broader need for software. Granted, nobody should be this easy to bamboozle, but I get why now more than ever this may have been an issue.
The new reddit is blazingly fast for an SPA, too. It has a <10 second time to interactive, after all. Front end development followed Google and Facebook right into the abyss.
Google has also started to show generated answers/summaries in the search to make the user not visit the external site.

Answers and image search should be opt in for copright holder.
I don't feel that it's deteriorating as much as that tech in general never properly understood how to do good localisation.

There was a time when many apps I downloaded were apparently machine-translated in a very bad way, so much that it was almost impossible to understand what was meant. That hasn't occurred to me in a while now, which means that I either download higher quality apps, google has stopped pushing the autotranslation feature or people have naturally migrated away from it...

in general, I feel that tech, maybe due to being so overwhelmingly from the US, has very poor support for things like multilingualism, which is in fact more common than not across the world (the US being an outlier traditionally - and even there, I think the influence of Spanish is growing).

For example:

- On some streaming/movie purchasing services, it can be hard to get a movie in the original version and not a localised one

- It's impossible on Android to have different apps use different languages (unless the app itself allows for it), which would not only fix the issue mentioned above with the badly translated apps, but also be really helpful e.g. for language learners

- It took Google Maps years to add a feature where, if you start typing a street name and it suggests a street, it gives you the option of directly filling in the street number too (e.g., I'm typing "Foob" and it suggests "Foobarstraße, 11111 Berlin", but giving me the option to directly type the street number before the comma). My hypothesis for why this took so long to add is that people from the US were totally oblivious to the need for this feature, since in the US, the street number comes before the street name and people could just type "123 Foob" and get the suggestion for the full address

- There is simply no way in the Play Store (and I believe in the App Store it's similar?) to see reviews in another language than the one from your store. This makes no sense for me, for many apps there are very few if any German reviews, but I'd still like to see English ones. I think it's even worse for app developers, although maybe they have some separate way of seeing that? Amazon doesn't have that problem btw.

- Also, a pet peeve of mine: using country flags for languages. Yeah, nope.

and so on ...
It's a bit of both, and subjective, imo.

As an example, pretty much every item of food is "luxury" if based on necessity alone. From bread to the cheapest vegetable in your location - except for items that might be the only locally available/affordable way of getting certain essential nutrients, you don't need that specific food for a healthy life.

But... if that food can only be grown on the other side of the world, and therefore is in short supply and/or very expensive relative to local wealth: suddenly maybe that vegetable, type of meat, or whatever is considered a luxury without becoming more of a dietary necessity.

Would the cheapest, most common Casio watch available be a luxury because I don't need to have the time on my wrist?

As to the subjective/contextual side: I don't know anything about pickups, but I consider my car a luxury to me, and yes that's more to do with necessity than cost - it's not a fancy car, I could afford a much more expensive one, but I very much don't need it. I've never used it in relation to work, I get my groceries delivered, etc. (But while I'd call it a luxury for my life, if asked what kind of car I have I'd never call it a "luxury car".)
This is as stupid as the U.S. broadcasters' caterwauling about Aereo.

Google is only showing ABSTRACTS of a story, which incites people to visit the publisher's site and INCREASE its traffic (and thus revenue).

Google does plenty of despicable and underhanded things, but providing FREE TRAFFIC is one of them?

NO.
I literally need reddit client which looks/modelled after HN. I like that HN has lightweight content focussed website(frontend).

https://i.reddit.com is one good frontend.
> back when living in the wild I would assume that more pessimistic worldview would be associated with higher survival rate

There is plenty of research that shows the opposite: only the optimists survive, and the harsher the environment, the truer this gets.

Pessimists tend to give up, optimists see opportunities others miss (within reason of course).
In principle plants have several different variants of the light absorbing molecules with different absorption spectra but I don't know how this would actually be regulated. But it is certainly imaginable that plants vary the relative abundance of the different light absorbing molecules or their efficiencies and this could be more or less automatic because of varying conditions like pH or whatnot that affects efficiency or lifetime of the molecules with a simple feedback mechanism or it could be actively regulated by a more complex feedback loop.
Not sure why you are being downvoted, this is interesting at least.
In my family (of seven) we started to have no less than three catalogues in the house. Two were for us children, otherwise there could be arguments about who was reading the Argos catalogue. One was for my parents, and this would stay in a usable condition while the other two got slowly destroyed.

Around Christmas time the Argos catalogues came out to give us inspiration while writing our letters to Father Christmas.
To some extent, yes, because a lot of works were never distributed at all.
In my experience professionalising content creation (on youtube) hardly helps quality.

Usually they end up filming their cooking lessons hanging the latest Canon from a drone in their Dubai studio kitchen with nothing substantial left to say. Maybe people will stick around because they are still able to afford to outspend other creators on exotic ingredients and they're just looking for a familiar face to entertain them. I'm not familiar with cooking channels, but you'll see a lot of 'professional' music teachers on youtube eventually making an 'A=432 Hz' video. It's downright tragic how the urge to publish takes a hold of them.

They also usually will become clowns. Since people will stick around for the entertainment rather than educational value, I've seen a lot of professional content creators trying way too hard to be casual and approachable, incorporating idiosyncrasies and bloopers on purpose, then making fun of them. Eventually their video thumbnails will be them actually making funny faces.

It doesn't always have to be like that, and I'm not judging you for enjoying their content, just be aware that in the age of youtube you're soon dealing with basically corporations who couldn't care what they're selling, as long as they can keep selling it.
How'd you get access to the API? When I tried it said it's full!