skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how did you do?
Their very first release was v1.0.0 [1]; four years later they are at v10. It's official, v10 is the new v1.0.

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases?after=1.0.2
Your response almost proves my point. All those YC companies are super young, and are incentived to go into technical debt in the interest of first becoming profitable. They do all sorts of things the industry has decided are bad ideas in general, in the important (but short lived) interest of speed. They are in the experimentation phase, trying to figure out what will work long term while also not being held back by history with a working product.

Matlab SimuLink is a no code solution that works well. It does so because its users, mostly academics, fit a similar profile to YC startups: both are in the business of making stuff that doesn't need to last long/"writing throwaway code". In both cases, experimentation is important. After all, the YC startups don't know what is profitable yet.

Once profitable, they will want to make much more minor changes. After all, why change something that makes money?

It is this field of fine grained changes where code thrives.

I'll be convinced of no code when banks start using it.
Proposal: Go 2 error handling with “pass” keyword
The president can just fire people. There's hundreds of agents and state officials in Russia. You're falling for the journalist's framing of the story while only having an extremely tiny window into the big picture and all sides of the story...and you're extrapolating from there.
PostgreSQL is quite good about DDL being transactional. So I was surprised (tbf, I shouldn't have been) when Redshift autocommitted after a TRUNCATE. But DROP TABLE is transactional, go figure.
A Theory of Software Architecture
there are likely too many variables to control for just by taking people off the street. If you had universal testing of every citizen and could then compare that across countries with varying level of sunlight (say Norway vs Israel) then you could probably make a great educated guess.
No, but neither is that an issue of bodily autonomy.

Bodily autonomy is about being in control of what happens to your body — it does not mean you have carte blanche to do whatever you want with your body.
Have you actually done (or read) a study to show that grip training doesn't increase lifespan?
On the one hand, this is a fascinating perspective. On the other it's clearly historically incorrect. The Bible already talks about land ownership, and at least by the time of the Talmud they had rental and sharecropping, long before feudalism.
Ending death would require us to be perfect beings. We are not. Death is part of the solution to the problem of evolutionary adaptability. We are born, we mate, we die, the cycle continues with our children. If circumstances change, our genes can too but we cannot. As much as we want to stick around forever, I don't think our biology does...
People aren't computers, but even without the computational analogies, what you're saying is still true. We spend a lot of our time and energy on unimportant problems while the world is full of real problems that could use our help.

I think what it comes down to is access. It's easier to buy a chess board and books about chess strategy than it is to buy the tools you would need to do cancer research. The chess community is open to anyone who wants to join; to join the cancer research community, you need years of school. There's an institution sitting in front of the problem saying "trust us, we're working on it" -- and if you want to work on it too, you have to do it as part of that institution. Most people aren't motivated enough to climb this institutional mountain. They'd rather stay at base camp and enjoy themselves.

(This is one nice thing about software, by the way. You don't need a degree or an expensive lab to play around, learn, and contribute.)
Totally tangential.. But as you mentioned Vidalia onions, do check this post out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
Why Artificial Life? Exploring Learning Systems with Researcher Olaf Witkowski
My point is that the last party to have had possession of his merchandise claimed it was counterfeit. The evidence is he shipped the merchandise to Amazon, Amazon said it was counterfeit and if he didn't product evidence to the contrary, they'd either destroy it or he could retrieve it, and he chose not to retrieve it.

I really don't see why insurance would pay out under these circumstances.
It's not that it's favoritism, it's just a way to trigger a manual review...
Courts have consistently held up Amazon's arbitration clause for sellers.
Excel is one of the most powerful tools for business ever created and the vast majority of SaaS is providing some specialized behavior of it. That said, I’d hesitate call it the ultimate no-code tool mostly for mundane reasons: no version control, no comments, unconstrained with multiple ways to do something, limited scalability past a certain size or data, no user facing “front end” (e.g. an online form). I’m therefore very hesitant to say that excel is the best we can do. In fact I’m quite sure there’s a multi hundred billion dollar low code product waiting to be built and no shortage of people trying to figure out what it is.
Don’t assume hallucinogens when stupidity will suffice
Its not a monopoly over all ecommerce. However there are certain markets where the sellers, for example book publishers, are totally at the mercy of amazon because they have become the only de facto distribution channel for certain products like e-books (there are others as well). So its great for customers but it still has severe negative consequences for authors and publishers. Technically this is known as a "monopsony" but it's bad just in the same way a monopoly is.
That's why you buy from a top 10 nutritional supplement company and not the cheapest thing that pops up on Amazon.
I am considering building a PC for programming and am genuinely curious if WSL2 can be considered a replacement for dual booting Linux and Windows? I am currently rocking a dual boot system (with legacy bios) and haven't had any issues so far.
Why does this website change my mouse pointer though? I have it set to a different color and bigger for a reason. Visiting this page makes it small and black. For what purpose?? Is this the design they are so proud of?
Great resource. Thank you. From his "Design of Edison" book:

"programming languages cannot be expected to support complex abstractions, but should instead make it reasonably convenient to adopt programming styles which use simpler concepts to construct the more complex ones"

This was in the context of demonstrating Edison's ability to express both safe and unsafe concurrency (pp. 16-17).
This isn't really a 7th option because it overlaps with some of the previously mentioned ones, but perhaps individuals who don't supplement with vitamin D are more likely to catch Covid-19 because they also don't take other precautions like wearing masks.

Anecdotally it seems those I know who are most concerned about Covid-19 know all about the possible link with vitamin D and are taking supplements while also being careful by wearing masks, sanitising etc.
Google gives special preference to AMP sites in search, images and google news. Google is also removing non-AMP URLs from Google News. fucking everything is loaded from their servers nowadays
> My speculation is that this gives Xilinx an alternative high performance AMD64 (and possibly lower performance & lower power x86) "hard cores" to displace the Arm cores.

I'm trying to imagine an x86-based Ultascale+ style processor.

Hopefully AMD can help fix the mess known as vivado and the petalinux tools. lol.
Some will but the percentage remains to be seen. I hope we get to a place where people can choose what they want and aren't forced to adopt someone else's preference.

It also all depends on the office setup and where people reside. If someone has a casual bike ride to an office they probably don't mind the commute, v.s. if someone has to take an hour + BART ride without seating, packed like sardines and some homeless junkie smoking crack, they probably feel differently.
There is a considerable volume of literature indicating a positive correlation between daily vitamin D supplimentstion and reduced respiratory infections. The quality of the studies isn’t great, but generally a positive impact was found for small doses, especially for children.
"request builder"? This makes it sound like some dsl library for making request
So staying at home actually gives the opposite effect
The Development of Robotron
> And because common queries can be processed within fractions of a millisecond, often 500 busy connections can be handled by a few cores.

If even 500 (out of 4500) connections are busy, what's the catch? Isn't this just a lot of scheduled CPU work trying to run concurrently when it would be faster if queued? Fast NVMe IO, or the fact that the queries are a few ms each, are just factors that makes the workload more CPU intensive (vs IO bound), the scenario would be more plausible if you had slow disks :)

I guess being bottlenecked by the network can be one scenario if your DB and app aren't close and/or your queries involve bulk data like GIS shapes...
Sorry, this isn't helpful at all, and I feel the need to address it.

> I have zero interest in anyone who changes jobs regularly.

I've been on this job for several years. I don't change jobs frequently.

> Grow up, focus on your life

Considering I was married and raised a kid, I think that covers the growing up part.
The therapy part covers focusing on my life.

> The first thing you should do is work extra hours to make up for the slacking

That'll just be extra hours of not doing anything productive. I've tried it multiple times over the past months.

> A proper diet and exercise is extremely important.

Check and check. Already taken care of. Not making a difference. Sleep is also fine.

> After that, get a wholesome hobby you can pour yourself into.

That used to be my sport. I've picked up a few things that interest me and they're fine. They don't make a difference wrt job situation.

The main issue right now is that my life is falling apart around me (there's even more to what I wrote in my post but I don't feel like sharing everything) and I have a job that demands that I care too much about things. It's very hard to care about a handful of online services that bear no impact on my life, when almost everything else is falling to pieces.

I need a less demanding job for my present situation. One that doesn't require emotional involvement in what I do. Something task-oriented: do it, call it a day, do the next thing, call it a day... collect paycheck. Repeat. I'm just not in a position to decide what's the best tech out of five options to build our next service AND mentor two junior devs AND review code from seven different people making sure it's all coherent with the existing code base. Too much going on in life to care that much about things at work.
Yeah, kinda reminds me of how Apple’s App Store icon morphed from three clear overlapping objects into just... matchsticks? Why must things become so flat and abstract that they look like nothing at all!?
> it’s just coming from the place of being a reasonably educated person

That appears to be a non sequitur, given the author is also, objectively, a "reasonably educated person", as well as being a talented engineer/programmer and a successful entrepreneur, indicating a somewhat broad range of capabilities.

What is it that makes it utterly impossible for an educated/intelligent person to hold the view that US/Western politics is so dysfunctional and corrupt across the board that even a crazy-seeming rank outsider like Kanye could be better than the status quo?
According to this guy's various interviews over the last few months he's trying to integrate a lot of G-Suite services together into a single offering, so it won't just be the icons that are the same. Who knows, by the time the antitrust case comes close to any sort of conclusion they might actually have a single product that can't be easily split anymore. He's even trying to add in "anticipatory experiences" (his words)[1] that make the product feel like it just gets the work you're trying to do. This obviously plays directly to Google's strengths as an engineering and ML powerhouse, and who knows maybe that'll be an argument they can make too.

1: https://www.protocol.com/javier-soltero-google-microsoft-int...
Why /s though? It is a huge pro for some people.
Amazon in Australia is not very good (yet). It's nothing like America or Japan, which have huge inventories and same or next day delivery.

This is a really really bad look for Amazon, which is in the process of expanding in Australia. Retailers are already nervous about their expansion plans here and this does further bad for their brand.
I think my cat can count to two.

He only goes outside a leash, and we walk together 2-4 times a day.

The harness has two plastic clips, and he will sit still until the second clip is secured. After that second sound, he will stand and walk to wait near the door.
I’ve had a lot of hope for wsl2, so much so that I’ve been using it as my daily os. However recently some directories under wsl2 are just empty and seem to be unrecoverable. I’ve filed a bug, however I can’t find a way to reproduce it so I don’t expect much motion. So far it’s just random directories are empty and I can’t delete them due to the resource being busy, and unfortunately the Linux utilities to check the locks on the directories error out.

I hope I’m just the exception here, but I’ve had to start re-evaluating what I’m going to do longer term, the short term is easier (push all).
You know you’re good at marketing when your terms of service go viral.
Not tangential at all. Actually directly answers the question, above. Had you not posted it, I likely would have.

From the article:

They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do.
A little bit disappointed that they didn't have a photo of cutting open that bread.
People who live in sunnier places tend to have darker skin which limits vitamin D production.

There is a high correlation between skin pigmentation and the average UV index of a location.
The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why
In the USA in 95% of restaurants and households you'd be told to take it outside :)
From the end of the article:

And Blackley fantasizes about one day selling ancient Egyptian bread commercially.

So keep your eye out. You may get your wish.
I think phones have largely become good enough for a while now. Apple is selling less phones every year because people are holding on to them for longer. The strategy now seems to be getting users to get all the accessories / ipad as well as a phone.
Thank you.
I am Danish, into coding, and living sort of just down the road from the quondam HQ of Regnecentralen where PBH worked, and yet I barely knew about the man, and much less his writings.
Also, everybody, do check out the entire site. Or sites, rather - there are subdomains, and the author present them as seperate constructs. Troves of stuff. Homepages like we used to know them before the world went bonkers.
I think people focus too much on money. Yes, someone could take a HCOL salary and move to a LCOL area but they might not actually like living there. Quality of life does matter and I don't see a meaningful number of people moving to a place they hate just to save some dough.
I solved for this by simply giving Windows and Linux a hard drive each. The boot records are completely separate, and neither one tries to read data from the other. (Personally I have no need, my NAS handles any file level syncing, but that's minimal anyway.) Both Windows and the Linux boot are registered in UEFI, so I asked my BIOS to disable the hard drive preference and pop up the boot menu each time, letting me pick which OS to use manually.
> So now it's not just apps and services, they're killing off brand recognition. I don't understand it.

Well, that's fine, next manager now has chance to improve brand recognition and impress top management.
You’d be surprised how often this works - especially when there’s a wide discrepancy of expertise between the person doing the work and the person approving and/or paying for the work and the latter feel compelled to put their stamp on the work.
> Hoping to have his account reinstated and continue selling on the site, Govani put off the decision. He received a total of 11 emails from Amazon each giving him different dates at which time his inventory would be destroyed if he hadn't removed it.

> "After being unable to resolve the matter following several appeals as part of our dispute resolution process, we informed this seller six separate times that they needed to remove their inventory from our store by specific dates or it would be destroyed," she said. "The seller failed to request to remove their inventory by the dates provided."

I understand the core point here -- Amazon does have the upper hand when making deals with 3rd party sellers. But this is on the seller: he stored his inventory at Amazon, who decided they want to break their deal -- then he failed to move his inventory after what seems like a very lengthy communication, so they ended up doing what they said they would.
That would fuck over any relative time calculations in calendars (including meetings in google calendar) though wouldn't it?
If you are a home brewer or even just interested, Patrick McGovern's book Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created is a must-read, he re-creates a number of beers and alcoholic beverages some of which have gone into production from the Dogfish Head people. The original recipes were analyzed from residue and remains on potsherds and historical accounts, then he provides a home brewer's guide at the end of each chapter so you can make something at least quite close to the brew at home.
https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
> There were several factors to account for that scenario including fragility of the software product, fragility of the work requirements, challenge communicating tasks, and so forth.

This definitely plays into why I'm feeling overwhelmed. I get these big projects assigned to me with zero clarity on what exactly needs to be built. I reach out to the people who'll use it and not even they know what they want, they just want "something." It's very hard for me to make progress on things because all our infra is managed by an operations team, so anything I want to explore needs to be done by "human proxy".

Communication is a huge issue for me as I'm in the spectrum. How I wish neurodiversity was as recognized and catered to as gender and racial diversity! There is virtually zero empathy for those of us that are quite challenged when it comes to dealing with other people who are not immediate team members who we've gotten used to.

Are you in the US armed forces? I have considered enlisting and not trying to move up the ranks as a way to basically give up my life for a bit and be ordered around without having to make big decisions.
Windows is broken spyware.
I did a similar thing with a Star Trek program many years ago. One of the commands (22? 23?) was to detonate the warp engines in the hope of taking the enemy with you.

After hitting the wrong number once, I added a confirmation that presented a random six-digit number that you had to enter before it accepted the command.
I strongly approve this use of excessive, decadent wealth, connections and so forth. This is fantastic.

Beats the hell out of most indulgences I see people pursue using the kinds of resources someone like this has access to.
Amazon fits every definition of a monopoly considering they have >50% market share, tyrannical control of the supply-chain in which they can flex their muscles with no repercussions and life-and-death control over sellers.
If you make your own wild yeast culture you might have a much older one.
They could have just changed the color scheme up a bit though. These icons barely look like what they're meant to represent. They're just too simple and too colorful and at a glance look like each to the point that you have to stop and think about it. Terrible, terrible aesthetics and functionality.
Problem with me sometimes is (in the context of your example) reproducing the bug is such a hassle and so boring that I don't want to do that even.
I grew up hearing stories of the long lost Amelia Bedilia onion that you’d eat like an apple. As the story goes that variety was lost.
> ZFC was never intended as a language for practically doing mathematics in, so that's a weird criticism.

Isn't that just the point? Currently we do metamathematics in an esoteric language where your normal mathematical tools won't always have the meaning you expect them to have - HoTT is about enabling us to do it in something much closer to normal mathematics.

> Could you give an example of how definitions from, say, probability theory and algebraic geometry might be merged in a useful way?

A lot of category theory is "this theorem from this context can be translated to this theorem in this other context". Do I know any specific equivalences between probability distributions and multivariate polynomials? No. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if we found some. At one point the idea that arithmetic could tell us something about geometry was a surprising and novel one.

> I think this comment misunderstands the problem with the ABC "proof," which is (speaking roughly) that a certain lemma asserted something that was crucial to the argument, but which was never actually proved. Peter Scholze and others spotted this pretty quickly. Formalization wouldn't really have helped at all.

The fact that it was disputed for at least two years whether that lemma was or wasn't valid is the fact that formalisation would have been helpful.
Walmart was long known for its strong arming of its suppliers. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there glad to see Amazon beating them.

https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know
All else equal, I'd say its a good thing when user interfaces don't change.

The simplicity of the collaboration features was a huge game changer at the time, and it's still best-in-class and very easy.
How did Travis Kalanick end racism?
From the Wired magazine explainer on CA:

"That data was acquired via “thisisyourdigitallife,” a third-party app created by a researcher at Cambridge University's Psychometrics Centre. Nearly 300,000 people downloaded it, thereby handing the researcher—and Cambridge Analytica—access to not just their own data, and their friends' as well."

https://www.wired.com/amp-stories/cambridge-analytica-explai...

re: "the exact opposite", you are putting a lot of weight on the intention behind this use. After the public response to CA you might appreciate why FB is going to strictly apply the rules.

But I generally agree that users running an extension in their own browser is a different situation than an app developer subject to the FB ToS and am not sure why FB would be allowed to block this.
You're probably right that the code Webflow produces is decent for maintainability, but the Webflow website (made in Webflow) does not inspire confidence. At 100% zoom on Firefox/MacOS, content does not actually fit the entire width of the page. Even the headers don't stretch from edge to edge, leaving white bars on the side of most pages. Maybe this is what they intended, but it makes it look like the CSS is broken.
Some iOS and Android games support keyboard/mouse I think. You can also potentially map mouse movement to joystick movement for relative games like shooters. There are people who play pubg mobile on desktop with BlueShift or whatever already. Barring that maybe there will be a market for apps that make playing iOS games with keyboard and mouse easier.