skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>as you suggest

FYI, if I suggested anything at all it was that industrialization under capitalism is bad, and more people living a sustainable lifestyle will show that there's a way to survive without industrial capitalism. It's a baby step that shows people that it's possible. Not the end goal.
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The boss mod addons are still king, but over the past couple expansions a tool called WeakAuras has been getting really popular. It lets you make little displays that pop up or disappear based on in-game conditions. There is a whole ecosystem of these, you can share them via in-game chat, and they are pretty fun to put together between wipes.
Consider that most efforts are on slowing spread, not eradication. This is a bigger problem than most people realize.
>doesn't industrialization allow for...

You tell me! How are we doing as an industrial society?

From my perspective I see slavery and persecution of underprivileged people and pillaging of the Earth's natural resources in order to sustain an upper class lifestyle for a small percentage of the total population.

And trust me, I am very comfortable due to industrialization, but I also know that it's because we make a lot of other people uncomfortable.
Probably because your optionality is so low. If you invest the time to learn this and then don't get a $350k job, what's your recourse? Furthermore, the applications of KDB+ in broader industry are few, so you won't come out of finance with a valued skill. The practitioners of this obscure skill are therefore bimodal in their distribution of pay: those who get a job working with KDB+ and those who don't and wonder why they wasted their time. I think a better relatively obscure language would be a functional language like OCaml or Reason or Rust.
It's the same here in Denmark. We've also had a lot of failed tax related IT projects through the years though. But when i hear how tax collection is handled in the US, i can tell that we are really lucky with our system.
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Let's address the elephant in the room: Working from home is a lot less efficient than an ideal office. It's harder to debug things or pair program when needed, it's harder to grab someone's attention, it's easier to miscommunicate, and communication is a lot slower. You also don't get the same camaraderie as you would face to face, but the upside is that you also don't get distracted by attractive coworkers.

However, few offices are ideal. Traffic and commuting is one of the worst little things of daily life. It's dangerous. It ruins the environment. Parking sucks.

Good offices are wide open spaces, with good air, good climate, and cheerful environments. Many offices are bad environments and overcrowded.

There's a balance that COVID has tilted. Some will learn that they don't need offices anymore, especially when people have decked out their home offices. It's likely we'll see employers double down on home offices where they can. Some, like Airbnb or Apple might find that morale is better in their offices. Some smaller companies might set up theirs out of major cities, where lifestyle is cheaper and less crowded.
Install EVERYTHING and pin it to your taskbar. Its a windows search software.
I think that's what he's saying, that if the latency is equivalent on best ddr3 and lowest ddr4 and ddr3 is cheaper or you already own it maybe better to wait.
> I strongly believe we have lost the war for privacy and security

You are mistaken counselor (c) The Descendants. These three easy things improve your privacy by 10x:

- Incognito / Private browsing by default. Clears cookies used by trackers and platforms. Staying logged in is bad. Login, do your thing and close the tab. No Chrome, it has its own Id.

- VPN. Hides your browsing history from ISP and your IP address from trackers and platforms. Smartphone too, and disable Location and Background app refresh for most apps.

- Adblocker (uBlock Origin / AdGuard for Safari, iOS too). Prevents trackers and malware from executing.
For delayed tasks, it sends those tasks to the underlying broker, and one of the workers then consumes then without acknowledging the message. That message gets held in the workers' memory until it should run.
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> A post-viral syndrome can follow many types of viral infection, from the common cold to influenza and pneumonia. Yet no one has compiled and publicised data sets for those suffering from such a syndrome, let alone anointed it Long Flu or Long Cold ... There is a reason why the threat of Long Covid is being talked up right now, when the serious but manageable nature of Short Covid is becoming increasingly clear. It provides the often draconian response to the pandemic with the justification it increasingly lacks – that is, something for all of us to fear.
I practiced qwerty touch typing in school, but never really used it myself, rather using two-three fingers on each hand and letting them move around a lot across the keyboard.

I switched to dvorak over 10 years ago and since the letters on the keys didn't match, and because it's designed to make it easy to touch type, I quickly learned.

But after a year or so of dvorak, I grew tired of being extremely slow when I had to switch back to qwerty when using a shared keyboard in a conference room (imagine reading and hitting single letters in a meeting in front of people), so I switched back to qwerty. I thought that my new touch typing skill would transfer, but it didn't. I still try now and again to properly touch type, but it's slow and with a lot of mistakes. So this practice site looks very interesting to me as well!

Some people say that they can easily switch back and forth between qwerty and dvorak, but it turns out that I couldn't. I still miss the speed and ease of dvorak, but I also enjoy being able to quickly use any keyboard now.
Author: The term is 'overengineering.' You used thick wood and heavy bolts to compensate for the stresses placed on a structure which gives exceptional amounts of leverage on the joints. Overengineering isn't good engineering.

This thing is a nice first prototype, but it looks like a death trap. There is absolutely no reason for the giant lever arm coming up from behind you and all the way around.

Look at the altwork design. It's a lot lighter and more robust. It doesn't place a ton of weight overhead, and there's a lot less leverage on the joints. Or look at ErgoQuest. The monitors are stationary, and only a lightweight desk/keyboard tray moves.

I appreciate your confidence, but I'm afraid it's misplaced. I've been doing woodworking and engineering for a lot more than 15 years. A couple of things to consider:

"When you want to build this kind of structure, I'm not sure you can plan everything beforehand, there are always things that will happen that you didn't expect." You absolutely can. It just takes practice and experience. When I build something, I plan out what I do, and 9/10 it comes together on the first go. For my mentors, it's 10/10. The first few years I was doing this, it was 0/10.

"After a few failing choices, I ended up with a main pole of 7cm x 7cm." You generally want about a 10x safety margin for dynamic loading and similar issues. If you had a few failing designs, you're way too close to failing in your current design.

Back to the overengineering point: Simply using massive beams of wood and bolts doesn't necessarily make things robust. A 7cm x 7cm piece of wood weighs a ton, and puts that much more strain on everything. That's true for all the pieces. I could build a more robust design with normal-sized boards. That has the distinct advantage that if there is a failure, what falls on me my hurt me, but won't kill or cripple me.

I'm glad you're trying, but by overestimating your expertise, you're putting yourself at risk. I'd encourage you to keep trying, but to also take this sort of constructive criticism seriously.

Think through how the desk ought to move so you don't need the giant lever arm, whether you want the monitors to move at all, and where to mount these so you can get in and out easily. I can think of a half-dozen designs where there are no massive lever arms, where nothing moves or just the keyboard tray moves, where if things break, I don't die, and generally simpler, lighter, and more robust.
Great idea, very nice UI. It can be a "learn to type tool" but also a new way to experience literature. I like it :)
I think the real question is, why is this trending on HN at this particular moment in time, as opposed to six months ago, one year ago, etc, seeing how Oswald Spengler has been around for a minute, and, I’d imagine, had books written about him before.

What change has caused interest in Oswald Spengler to increase?

Forgive me if I’m being sensitive. It’s just, you know, the whole democracy thing, that little anti-semitism thing, and his support of just slightly questionable politicians like Mussolini.

;)
The processor in the Fugaku supercomputer uses HBM2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer)
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> Can I use Tailwind UI in open source projects?

> Yep! As long as what you're building is some sort of actual website and not a derivative component library, theme builder, or other product where the primary purpose is clearly to repackage and redistribute our components, it's totally okay for that project to be open source.

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> Rails is optimized for day 1, .net core is optimized for day 1000.

Sure, that’s a standard argument for statically-typed kitchen-sink enterprise-marketed languages and platforms like Java/JVM and C#/.NET. But having come in to maintain things on day 1000 (or, in some cases 5000) for projects in such languages and, also, languages that are far less strict and have less features designed to require/support tooling, it's not been my experience that there's really that much of an advantage in practice.
>A call for deindustrialization is so far fetched it's pointless.

Can you show me who in this thread is calling for this?
>I would say that people use Excel because they don't understand how to set up a relational database. It's usually non-technical users that set up Excel,

I disagree that lack of db knowledge is the primary reason. I'm a programmer and I usually use MS Excel because it's easier than relational databases. I prefer Excel even though my skillset includes:

+ Oracle DBA certification and working as a real db administrator for 2 years

+ MySQL and MS SQL Server programming with raw "INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE" or with ORMs

+ SQLite and programming with its API in C/C++/C#

+ MS Access databases and writing VB for enterprises

The problem is none of the above databases (except for MSAccess) come with a GUI datagridview for easy inputting data, sorting columns, coloring cells, printing reports, etc.

Yes, there are some GUI tools such as SQLyog, Jetbrains DataGrip, Navicat, etc... but none of those have the flexibility and power of Excel.

Yes, a GUI frontend to interact with backend databases can be built and to that point, I also have in my skillset: Qt with C++ and Windows Forms with C#.

But my GUI programming skills also don't matter because for most data analysis tasks, I just use Excel if it's less than a million rows. Databases have a higher level of friction and all of my advanced skills don't really change that. Starting MS Excel with a blank worksheet and start typing immediately into cell A1 is always faster than spinning up a db instance and entering SQL "CREATE TABLE xyz (...);" commands.

Of course, if it's a mission-critical enterprise program, I'll recommend and code a "real" app with a relational database. However, the threshold for that has to be really high. This is why no corporate IT department can develop "real database apps" as fast as Excel users can create adhoc spreadsheets. (My previous comment about that phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15756400)
Cool! I had been toying with the idea of writing something like that db, but never executed on it. Glad someone got that started.
One wonders why Excel doesn't store data as strings (or equivalent lossless format) and process it as numbers like SQLite does for instance.
When I get close to the monitor the # of stars that appear to spin is greater than when I move my head far away. That is, the area of screen space with spinning stars increases as I get closer.

Do other people get the same effect?

I thought the opposite would happen.
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For those that think Dylan is another new hotshot language to compute with the Rusts and Erlangs of the world, there's a bit more history here. Dylan is nearly 30 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Dylan_programmi...
Anecdotal, but we use Celery in a large scale production environment without too many issues.
I'm certainly not singling out excel, this thread is just about excel so thought I'd share my frustration with that. I've had similar experiences with pandas certainly. I've not used the rest of your examples, but do have similar issues with libreoffice calc. Regards pandas it is certainly easier sorting out the assumptions independent programmers make by including 'dtype=str'.
"This means that these infintesimal mixings have even less impact than you'd think. A modern Japanese person could have a European ancestor who traveled to Asia a thousand years ago, but have zero genes from that ancestor. Which means that while that European is technically an 'ancestor', this is just a bit of historical trivia, it means literally nothing about that Japanese person's biology."

It also means that a modern Japanese person has thousands of "Japanese" ancestors from whom they received zero genes. Of course, this is a bit of misdirection, as the genes that one receives are not unique, but drawn from a pool of possible genotypes common to humanity. The matter of how closely we resemble each other is not one purely of ancestry, but of the size of that pool - our overall genetic similarity. From what I gather, it's not an exceptionally large pool. I may not have gotten whatever gene controls the formation of the human prefrontal cortex from the same nth ancestor as you, but I got it all the same.

Also, where does dominance play into this, I wonder?
It's an intentional limitation. If you want that data, go with Google Analytics or some other option.
Those are all negative. Lots of HN comments are positive.

Can you think of any other community where someone can discuss the damage of a CRT monitor falling into your face with terms like "scale linearly" and everybody just nods in agreement?

I think it's delightful, one of the little pleasures of hanging around here.
ddr5 will be useful for some of the high core count desktop cpus we are getting, assuming you run software that uses all those cores!
That worked, thanks!
> in order to sustain an upper class lifestyle for a small percentage of the total population.

But this seems to agree with industrialization itself not being the problem, but the way we make use of the "industrially produced" resources we have, no?
I also checked out this one! Can't run it on multiple servers unfortunately which disqualifies it for my use (https://github.com/arteria/django-background-tasks/issues/10...)
Don't worry, electron apps will soon compensate for that.
I haven't been able to find any specs on latency, and whether it has improved or not. I assume it hasn't, because it doesn't tend to, but does anyone know for sure?
I don't think I could retype the whole novel, maybe short stories would be more suitable. I remember back in the day when I wanted to be a writer I used to retype short stories just to get out of writers block. After rewriting first few paragraphs I started to change things up and transform into my own story, meanwhile mimicking the rythm and the flow of the original author. It's a good exercise just to get the right feeling.
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Yeah, quest variety has increased a ton. Lots of other kind of stuff than just fetch/kill. I don't think there's really any "Collect 30 bear asses and also only 3% of bears have asses" quests left either. Maybe in like the Burning Crusade zones?
Exactly as I commented too. This ruling could basically make mass surveillance legal in the whole of EU and UK as long as the states set some unspecified limits themselves on how long they keep the data.
I’m interested to know what issues you’ve encountered with the built in keyboard in iOS. I found the virtual web keyboard weird to use and it missed a few keystrokes. I also do most of my typing and my reading on iOS, so, even if an uncommon use case, I would like to practice using this keyboard with maybe even autocorrect and swipe enabled to master typing in this environment.
There will likely always be people impacted by this. For me, human faces are generally not the interesting part of the screen. I'm looking at clothing, set design, fx, etc. I noticed this constantly watching avatar in 3D.

I happen to also struggle with human face recognition, so it's likely I'm just wired different.
If its memory usage and execution speed are deal-breaking bottlenecks for you, then you're working at a scale few people actually work at. Here in the line-of-business web app electron mines, I get to optimize for developer productivity and simplicity.
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Soros is also for higher taxes for the wealthy, hardly something with which would the Reagan coalition with its 'trickle-down' con agree.
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I often see this "both sides" argument and don't agree.

Google has Google Analytics, YouTube, libraries, or even fonts in almost every single webpage. They have billions of email users, which means all human email users can have a profile built about them without having any relationship with Google.

If that weren't enough, they have a near-monopoly on low-cost smartphone OS installs and are a massive chunk of all installs. Android is the most-used operating system.

The scope of Google's reach is breathtaking and inescapable.

Microsoft can only track via Windows, which is diminishingly important to consumers as Android wins the OS wars across platforms.

Also, unlike Google, Microsoft doesn't rely on AdTech and tracking for its survival. Google has no businesses that can replace tracking for them.
it's a completely different game to even how it was in Cataclysm/Pandaria

it's now a single player game for nearly everyone (unless you're a higher level raider)

the vast majority of players will push a button, the game then automatically forms a group, teleports you to the dungeon/raid, which is then completed without anyone saying a word (and it is almost impossible to lose)

the other players might as well be bots

loot is now dished out individually and automatically by the game: no interaction with other players is needed

higher level raiders experience the same content, just at a higher difficulty (which does require an organised group)

Blizzard has optimised out the massively multiplayer part of the MMO, and with new "features" like PvP/mob scaling they've obsoleted the RPG elements too (leveled up? your character is now weaker!)

sadly: what's left is a skinner box collection game with many infinite grinds to force you to play by exploiting the fear of falling behind your peers
Depends upon what you pay - certainly the second market will see a surge and drop in prices. If you can tech on top end 5 years later, it's not that bad and sure wallet friendly.

Also factor in that it usually takes a few years until the full potential of a platform it tapped, so the PS4 in it's prime days for games.
Can someone with experience with this help me understand the point of a PR team to talk to press? As an outsider, it just looks like another form of marketing—-never confirm or deny anything and just put out press releases that are filled with business jargon. And when it’s actual a sticky situation, any communication is going to be drafted by legal or execs. Maybe I’m wrong though.
Curious if Whitney agreed to a non-compete when he formed Shakti[1], or if Shakti is supposed to complete gracefully against Kx Systems when it's finally ready.

[1] https://shakti.com/executive-team/
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You can format the column as text before you paste or you can load data from text and set the types for every column. Excel has features to handle all of these issues. I think it's biggest problem is that it's just too easy to use. It will allow novices to do all sorts of things with their data without providing guardrails for common mistakes.
seems like a worthy correction/addition to your top post that you have lower ping to a cf-pop in your city over cables than to inhouse devices over wifi.
> A basil plant which lives on your windowsill and regrows the leaves you pick to add to sauces with essentially zero labour is certainly more efficient than buying a plastic bag too-full of perishable leaves for 80% of the plant cost from the supermarket every time.

... until you get thrips, spend hours investigating the best natural remedies and buy jugs of neem oil to start mixing natural pesticides, and end up having to throw out the thrip-infested basils (which is half of them by now). Then you spend a few more hours investigating why you now have fungus gnats all over the house, and start looking into alternative soil media, hydro, and semi-hydro, and you start filling up the odd corners of your house with various liquid fertilizers, and you spend a few hundred on grow lights because you live an an apartment with no balcony and your windows don't get enough light.

Source: started growing herbs over the summer

Still a fun hobby though! I wouldn't give it up for anything, but if I valued my gardening time at a pay rate equal to my work time, I've spent thousands upon thousands of dollars for probably < $100 worth of food
Well thanks to that hyper-efficiency lot of people are going to be jobless. And giving people various routes to purpose is a good thing. I feel we will/should see many more such projects.
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Here are instructions for the Windows installation. Unfortunately additional libraries are required, there is not a single drop-in executable:

https://github.com/justinethier/cyclone-bootstrap/blob/maste...
These aren't fixed-width fields with a known length. The length of the field is unique to the person sending the file and they don't tell us how long it's supposed to be.
That's a terrible form of vendor lock-in.