skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of beginner developers who have somehow not yet ran into problems that a proper relational OLTP would prevent, and love the initial ease of development that Mongo provides for small projects. Some of them go freelance as web developers and complete quite a lot of small projects for small clients without seeing any problems.
The CVRA (and subsequent rulings) has also forced adoption of single-member districts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Voting_Rights_Act

Sunnyvale just switched to single-member districts because of this.
How do you get home?
NASA Posts Breathtaking Photo of 'Einstein Ring'
How would becoming jaded to corruption come before corruption?
> This was the first sign that YouTube’s algorithm systemically directs users toward extremist content. A more neutral algorithm would most likely produce a few distinct clusters of videos — one of mainstream news coverage, another of conspiracy theories, another of extremist groups. Those who began in one cluster would tend to stay there.

> Instead, the YouTube recommendations bunched them all together, sending users through a vast, closed system composed heavily of misinformation and hate.

Wouldn't such a "neutral" algorithm lead to the criticism that people who start watching a video on a conspiracy theory only get recommendations for other conspiracy theories, rather then mainstream news?

And how would such an algorithm be neutral? How would an algorithm define conspiracy theory? In truly neutral terms what this author demands is tighter clustering, that youtube keeps people in their bubbles, which seems like a horrible idea.
Top AoE2 players can play and talk. They get quiet during the micro intensive battles, but it's a small part of the game.
Thanks for links.

Our future Garden Earth will need a lot of labor, investment.

I recently observed a couple dozen volunteers working on restoring some local woods (in a park). Removing rubbish, culling invasive species, restoring top soil, planting saplings, etc.

It was real work. I couldn't believe how small the targeted area was. Less than an acre.

Doing restoration, biomediation at scale would give a lot of people a lot of jobs. At this point in my life, I'd definitely do it for minimum wage and health insurance. My neighbor "retired" a few years ago, now does landscaping. He claims he's never been happier, more fit. He certainly looks it.
I wouldn’t say editorialised so much as summarised, and without the casual tone. I didn’t get any more information from reading the original than the one posted, despite the length of the former.
If you missed a talk there is relive where you can rewatch content.

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/relive
> that people who borrowed the money now don't deserve it then

Do you mean "people who loaned that money"? That is a lot of foreign governments who will refuse to keep loaning us more money which would mean we'd need to balance our budget pretty quickly, or face inflation.

Also, please realize that it is also lots of pensioners and also anyone expecting social security in the future [1].

What you're talking about isn't even Keynesian economics, it sounds like a form of monetary nihilism. We've been down that road before, and hyper-inflation is a real thing proven by history before [2].

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
Do they just build their own images for open source things? I have never seen a dockerfile that does that.
I'm going to say I find this a very poor POV.

The Christian POV is basically, "it doesn't matter how bad your life is because it will be great in the after life". In other words the good parts are ahead, period.

But if you don't believe then there is no guaranteed good parts ahead and the line above has no meaning.
Python uses `not`, `and`, and `or`
The Santa Clara Principles (2018)
Making Digital Todo Lists Better than Pen and Paper
I think gendering language is dumb, but women do tend to use more expressive language like exclamation points to “soften” our communication. Not that men never do, but I do think there are different standards of “professionalism” depending on how you are perceived to fit into the social order.
As a pilot: good. This kind of behavior needs to be stamped out before it gets someone killed.
We can check the gender ratio [1] of the subreddit /r/hackernews (assuming the two have the same audience distribution). Unfortunately, the subreddit does not appear on the gender ratio page.

[1] http://bburky.com/subredditgenderratios/

If you check related subreddits,

/r/startups - 86:14

/r/sideproject - 91:9

/r/programming - 93:7

/r/webdev - 89:11

/r/cscareerquestions - 83:17

/r/netsec - 96:4

/r/technology - 85:15

Based on these numbers 10:1 seems like a good guess.
It's unfortunate sentence construction on my part. I think it's the opposite; somehow toy drones are regulated to have geofenced no-fly-zones but cars can accelerate to 100mph and beyond in cities.
...in America. Other countries have populations mature enough to handle the button.
Writing a Ractor-based web server: part II
mRNA Vaccines Are Not Going to Affect Your DNA
Honestly I think Zachtronics games are much better for this because they have discrete levels. You have many places you can just stop, and each level has a pretty solid definition of "optimal" (for whichever metric you're optimizing for), so you can actually be done with it.

Factorio presents a significantly more complex problem at a vastly increased scale.
Your complaint isn’t about the idea of personalized ads, per se, but about current implementations or, possibly, about the data you feed them. How would any system know you want new interesting stuff if you keep searching for not-new, uninteresting stuff?
We need a browser extension to change "Not Now" buttons to "Hell No!"

Intrusive popups and slideovers demanding you sign up for a spam list are definitely on my antipattern list.
Describing this as "memorizing" seems wrong. Humans often repeat things they heard earlier, and they will (honestly) swear up-and-down that the thing they're repeating is an original thought. If we succeed in making AGI that has human-equivalent intelligence we should expect this sort of behavior.

The stuff about whether or not models should be destroyed if they contain copyrighted work gets kind of chilling if models actually achieve sentience someday. If I could make a faithful copy of my consciousness, my consciousness can reliably reproduce numerous copyrighted works. As can anyone.

Of course, most of those I deliberately memorized. I think it's a crucial thing here that the model is not actually memorizing anything - if we assume for a moment that the model is a consciousness, these are all half-remembered snippets leaking into casual conversation. And I think it's most likely any truly conscious entity is going to do that sort of thing from time to time.
The videos don’t appear to be monetized, which is just as well, since that would be another violation - unlicensed commercial drone flight.
Is that going to help them improve or just gather data to support firing them?
You aren’t “supposed” waste your youth. Those who waste can’t stand seeing others doing it differently.

It does not mean that you live right, but people’s opinions are often reflections of their own insecurities.
Cars are different than drones because we built our country around cars, and can't go back now. Drones are neat, and a good photography tool, but not quite as useful as being able to move around the world at 60 miles per hour. That's why we tolerate cars -- the upsides outweigh the downsides.
Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories
Algotraders get notified about 100 technical indicators
It feels like I live in a country where every level of government is unbelievably corrupt, but also completely unfixable. How are you supposed to address the sorts of issues that lose $200,000,000 of state money if the people who try to do so get fired? I don't see a way out of this mess, and it makes me want to move somewhere... better.
A single SuperHeavy can put a loaded Starship weighing roughly 360,000 total pounds into low earth orbit, SaturnV could only put 310,000 lbs total payload into low earth orbit.

There, is that the comparison you wanted?
Isn't that the point the poster is making? States have enough independence that they could introduce proportional representation themselves. The only voting reform that I know of in the United States is Maine introducing ranked choice for Governer. Other changes of voting system such as everyone votes for every city councillor seem more designed to keep certain groups out of power.
For those interested in the topic, especially point 7 and 8 (root cause and hindsight bias), I strongly recommend Dekker's "A Field Guide to 'Human Error'". It digs in on those points in a very practical way. We recently had a minor catastrophe at work; it was very useful in preparing me to guide people away from individual blame and toward systemic thinking.
A close friend of mine is in one of the double-blind trials here in the US. He experienced symptoms 36-48 hours after the injection that have him convinced that he got an active vaccine dose. He has (by my judgment not his words) altered his routines as a result. That seems a mechanism by which the blinding can be undone (though in this case, it would seem to work against computed vaccine efficacy rather than for it).
My intention was to provide terse framing for the posted quote, rather then muse at length about the author's life, let alone that of her erstwhile husband, in their own regard.
Ah, when I tried to install it, nix loudly warned though a terminal message that it was entirely unsupported and bailed out.

At that point I had enough issues that I bailed out at it's not practical yet for my pet projects.
Northgard is a quite popular game that proves a semi-casual RTS can be successful. It's designed like a mix of Settlers and a board game.
Oooh, now that does raise some spooky time-delayed consciousness vibes.
Prestigious university good, pharmaceutical company bad.
Given 1/3 people infected are asymptomatic there’s a decent chance you have had it and didn’t know.
> Btw is rss a thing now? I was having an idea of creating an rss reader, but gave up because rss is almost dead

I provide an RSS feed for my blog at https://susam.in/ . From my access.log, I see there is a decent number of subscribers to my feed. Here is the data I could pull from it:

Feedly 56 subscribers
Inoreader 17 subscribers
Feedbin 6 subscribers
NewsBlur 4 subscribers
The Old Reader 3 subscribers
BazQux 2 subscribers
WordPress 2 subscribers
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Total 90 subscribers

I get about 4000-6000 hits to my website on a normal day. It increases by 5 to 10 times if a post hits the HN front page but I will talk about ordinary day traffic only here. From the HTTP referer (sic) information in the logs I can see that about 30-50 of those hits have a feed reader in the referer field, that is, at least 0.5%-0.75% of the total hits are coming from users who clicked on a blog post link in their feed reader and landed on the website. It is a very small percentage but 30-50 hits per day from users consuming the feed and 90 subscribers to the feed are reasons good enough to keep the feed alive.
"missing" is so misleading,
"uncollected" would be so much more honest
Firsly, regulation isn't the same as punishment. It's a very necessary part of how the economy works.

Secondly, "agree" is a strong term for what actually happens with terms of service. What really happens is that people are forced to accept them or else. Since there is no other option, people rarely even read them. Why bother, especially when they can unilaterally be changed at any time. The power imbalance between big monopolistic companies and regular customers is just too vast to even suggest that TOS are some sort of negotiated "agreement".

Lastly, even if you take the no-regulation, TOS are binding, standpoint, the article is about Twitter not even following its own policies and guidelines. That his main beef. That twitter isn't even following its own rules and still there isn't anything that can be done.
It's as much a derived work as the user who posted the anecdote here. They were trained on the same data!
Bitcoin used to be an alternative currency that was anonymous, but with a current $7 transaction fee it's clearly not going to be used as a currency to buy a morning coffee (i.e. it fails the transferability requirement of a currency).

Not sure why bitcoin skeptics keep pointing to these transaction fees. As I write this, it takes 3 sats/byte to get into a block in 30 minutes and 1 sat/byte for 1 hour.

And as I write this, 1 sat = $0.00027210. A typical transaction is about 250 bytes, so to get a transaction into a block in 30 minutes costs about 7 cents. If it's more important, you could pay $1 or something.

Of course, Lightning Network is faster and cheaper than using bitcoin's blockchain for every transaction, which cost a fraction of a sat for every hop the transaction has to travel.
I feel like this would be a worse version of a symmetric spinnaker, which you generally sail in 100-180
Let me first say, I think all of the criticisms I am reading here are valid. That said, partitioning in PG still isn't great, and though it's better now than in say, v9.x, I'm not sure it's ever going to get where multinode NoSQL is without sacrificing core ACID that makes PG so great. I know it's not in keeping with the general HN dislike of Mongo, but if you have large scale data that has a stable partition key, data that you write and store authoritatively elsewhere like a relational DB, that you don't have to update with real time writes, but you need to do a lot of heavy reads of most of the fields, I think Mongo makes a lot of sense. To be clear, ALL of those things have to apply. And when you factor in ease of setup, adding new nodes, and training new devs that, doubt you will find a better solution.
Digital currency =/= cryptocurrency. The ability for state to wield digital currency to surveil and sanction are why central will win over crypto.
Quitting a job after 9 years once I realized I wasn't happy there anymore. I'm not the type who likes change, but this was the best decision I made in my life. I now work at a company with a much better culture, with a significant salary bump (over 4 years here and still happy with it).

This taught me to not be afraid to make significant changes, even when the outcome is not so certain.
Kite surfers are the assholes of the sea according to some sailors. I've seen them zip in and out of navigation channels and between boats. Also had a few get dangerously close and cross our bow as we were sailing on a reach.

Also, I do enjoy the sport. It's similar to endurance swimming and nearly every muscle in the body is worked. I found kitesurfers in some really remote banks and wondered how the hell did you get all the way out here.
Good stuff, thanks. Subscribed to your podcast.

My two cents...

Due to this pandemic, I'm finally eating the way I've always intended to. Beans, legumes, brown rices, chilis, stews, novel flours, baking.

I've dropped 30lbs, now close to my ideal weight. I'm also eating non-stop, so it's not due calorie restriction.

To maximize social distancing, and maybe reduce risk of food shortages, I've been buying bulk as much as possible.

Another unexpected benefit is my food waste is now super low.
Recipes aren't typically copyrightable

In general, I think the question is unsettled
This is something that has repeatedly bothered me while playing with GPT-2. It retains too much "long-tail" knowledge that seems counterproductive for a generic language tool. I would think those one-off associations should not be present after training has "digested" them but there they are.
I started doing a demo rewrite of my app in Postrgres from Mongodb. The reality is that even though Portgres seems more stable etc, making queries in Mongodb is much easier and fun.

Postgres JSON operators are cryptic and made my head hurt every time I wanted to accomplish something more complex.

To express it differently, if mongo and postgres where identical operationally, I would choose mongo every day. More friendly and fun. But there are so many horror stories that I am still not sure that it is the right choice for a safe production environment.
You might be right - that said, there's no comparison when it comes to poverty between where I live now (east germany) and where I come from (London). Poor people in London are simply far more poor, even though London is far more wealthy than east Germany.

What I was initially pointing at was, if you think about the portion of pay one gets, and the portion of pay that goes to the state, I think high taxation is often worth the money in terms of quality of life, because it delivers goods that are simply beyond anybody's budget otherwise. Jeff Bezos can't go on a 4am walk through LA without a shadow of worry, but I can do that in my city. That's a tangible freedom that I can buy with my paycheck, and he cannot really buy with his.

Obviously money on its own doesn't solve deeper issues - and Europe has a lot of problems, especially around questions of nationality and belonging. But I think in the narrow sense, of what you get for what you pay, high tax - welfare state societies are generally competitive even for very high earners, just because they deliver a lot of things that you literally can't pay for, no matter how rich you are.
I don't see why any earthly government would want to pour a lot of money into Mars. From what history has shown us the Mars colony will likely declare independence from any earthly government once they are self-sustaining which would void any "claims".
I am not sure where in the 47 pages you are reading that, I can find that the report is reccomending a european internet like the chinese to have higher growth in EU, and to foster european values "such as democratic values, data protection, data accessibility, transparency and user friendliness." Which I see rather pependicular to what you are saying it is telling. It should also be said that this report is not made by the european union, but for the european union by a 3rd party that got paid to make research for them. What it says, may or may not be influential to the future decicions of the EU.
From what I can tell there is no absolute rule that one economic theory always applies. You can consider these interpretations to be a collection of tools in a toolbox.

Some salesmen try to sell their own tool box set as the best that will solve all your problems when the truth is you must use the right tool for the right problem.

For example Austrian economics can be the right tool if you have an economy that is suffering from high inflation. Let's take a look at Greece [0]. Inflation peaked at 6% in 2008. You can call that high but most economies that suffer from the negative effects of inflation have double digit inflation. Inflation fell straight to -2% in 2014. It certainly doesn't look like the type of economy where Austrian economics would be the right tool.

However, if you were to use Austrian economics in say Argentina [1] you could certainly speed up the economic recovery. It certainly has a place on earth but not in most first world economies.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/greece/inflation-cpi
[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi
The unprecedented new crisis the world is tipped for
MongoDB is really easy to set up and the library API is really good. This provides the affordance in the start of a project where you don't have to think that much about system load from users.

You don't have to think that much about your relational model, so you can postpone all kinds of nasty questions about data integrity and multiplicity early on. This enables a team to move fast and break things.

The switch to something like Postgres comes later in the project where you know your requirements better and you need a system where you have more control over your data. You might even have a person responsible for maintaining your data for you on the payroll.

Personally, I usually just grab Postgres these days and use `json` columns for the documents and loosely fitting data, then drag out things into a more relational model as we go.
Reminds me of this story I read yesterday. You can't question the system. Or the system questions you. So illiberal.

"Michigan’s Democratic attorney general vowed Tuesday to pursue legal punishments against attorneys who have challenged the state’s election results"

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/22/dana-nessel...
It's not the ads themselves for me, it's the entire tracking infrastructure necessary to make that type of personalized ads possible. I could accept it on a purely opt-in basis, but that'd be too easy when you're facing parasites whose only goal is to worm their way into your mind despite your solid efforts to keep them out.
On the other hand, one might describe proof-of-work currencies as an attempt at corralling a market by offering something entirely unfit for purpose, but marketed really aggressively.
This goes both ways to an extent. Any data that you can model in Mongo, can be modelled in a SQL database. There's often the argument that documents aren't structured, but in many cases, there's structure if you categorise them well. If one is storing truly randomly-structured records in a document-database, I would question why, as they could store the documents as files instead.

The other way is that you could store documents that fit a relational structure, into a document-store. It depends on use-cases, and those use-cases exist and are valid.

We can store KV structures in a SQL database, but we're seeing projects using Cassandra and co.
You'd be right, if my copy left my house. It's the physical vs. digital theft argument.

If I leave the house I take on some risk, but most of the time I'm in control.
Here you go! See the tip at the bottom about finding “cassareep”, the cassava syrup you’ll need.

https://www.chatelaine.com/recipe/dinner/joy-of-cooking-guya...
Thanks for your comment. I use rdflib frequently but have never tried the SQLAlchemy back end. Now I will. That said, Jena or Fuseki, or the commercial RDF stores like GraphDB, Stardog, and Allegrograph are so much more efficient.
I am a big fan of something similar, if less visible: writing as I work. For each project, I keep an Evernote [1] note. If I ever need to think something through, I'll add a new, dated entry at the top and just describe what I'm doing and considering.

This is sometimes useful to refer back to. E.g., to find a specific command, or to remember the factors behind a choice. But honestly, most of the value is that it requires me to linearize and structure my thinking. The advantage to me over self-speech is that I can put something down and pick it up again later. If I take a break and reread an entry, I come at it with a little distance that helps me see things I was missing before.
I don’t know I was exited to use json for a couple of months but then I needed the same data for analytics and I quickly missed sql.
Ah yes. And if your name is included in an accusation of murder, well, I guess you shouldn't have published your name.

This is infantile reverse justification from an end. GPT style corpuses are clearly problematic without a lot more smarts on figuring out what's appropriate and what's not.
> The world seems clean-split between people who have everything and people who have it even harder than me, and I always just feel alone in this middle ground, where I have all the material elements to be healthy

You're not alone, there's plenty of people who prioritized career over all else and 10-15 years ended up with plenty of money but otherwise no life.