skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone does everything the best possible way.

Almost all people will immediately balk at the idea of using leverage in investing, despite the higher backward-looking risk adjusted returns. This is especially true when it might be statistically better, but in various stretches (eg. Last March) it does worse.
Maybe. That would have economical benefits also by lowering crimes related with lack of food or shelter (therefore releasing money to spend in other things and contributing to social peace). The plan would deserve a closer look.

The difference between an apple being stolen by a homeless and an apple being given to a homeless, is that you don't need to pay for fixing the broken window.
Good point. I was thinking cars, but Europe seems to have every cab as a Mercedes.

That's a lot of cars.
You should get more information than just from mainstream media.

Otoh the real issue probably is that information does not even matter, only group affiliation does. You'll just believe what confirms your world view and filter out the rest, and so does everybody else.
> Lastly, one of the main reasons these people are getting violent is because they are suffering, in poverty, without jobs, and recognize that something is seriously wrong society.

Yeah, if you look at the people detained and identified in the Capitol riot, they aren't people who got violent because they were suffering, in poverty, or without jobs; they are largely middle class and up, currently employed, well-established. It's violent defense of privilege, not a desperate response to poverty and suffering.
If it’s not included in their privacy policy, would sharing with Facebook not be illegal? Are you an EU resident by any chance?
I know the gh cli tool helped me find some stuff a lot easier than pointy-clicky through the UI. Maybe it would work for this use case?
Ask HN: How can our SaaS offering providing reporting?
Our customers are large organizations who sometimes want very specific kinds of real-time reporting about their data in our application. We can develop one-off reports for each requests but this is not a scalable approach.

What services or products exist which a SaaS platform can use to offer their customers flexible reporting?

Can things like PowerBI or Tableau support multi-tenant scenarios?
No, it shows how incredibly stupid Parler was. The Commercial Internet hasn't ever been a free place. Welcome to the real world.
It was useful for multi-volume archives that would fit on floppy disks.
We've have many instances of armed protestors / rioters over the past year. Many where figures of authority were targeted. Where the people burning thing in the hallway of the Portland Mayors house, just being nice or was their goal to burn it down? Were the individuals inciting riots with ACAB and other slogans, followed by aggressive assaults of police and small businesses just innocent aggrevators or was their intention to "burn it all down" as they proclaimed over and over.

This issue isn't that this is a dispicable situation, it's that the media is treating it as if it's a bunch of fringe right wing people (and lumping all trump voters in the list) when the same far left extremists were and are still using teh same tactics. Lives have been threatened for the past nine months plus.. and yet that was ok because it fell in line with what one group wanted?

It's all insanity on both sides and until people own up to it on the left as well, the country will keep being pushed further. The demonization of anyone not toeing the line of the extreme left these days is CREATING the thing they fear.

How many lives were lost last year, innocent lives? How many injuries? All due to the same actions and tactics.
Kids who went through foster care frequently fail to remember entire years of their life, schools they attended, and families they lived with. There are multiple reasons for this, from trauma causing decreased working memory and formation of longterm memory during childhood to social factors such as lack of the same stability of and reminders of their life that a child who goes to one school for years and then has photos of themselves from that time to cement the memory will have. Most people do remember their life before 11 - the vast majority can name their school and neighborhood from back then without thinking, could tell you if they had a bike, if they liked school, etc. Some of these memories are indeed formed retroactively through stories, but they still exist.
The author seems like an academic and doesn't seem to have practical engineering knowledge.

Engineering is the process for solving problems, usually at business scale.

Mechanical Engineering solves problems of moving widget A into widget B, at scale of thousands or millions of widgets.

Electrical Engineering solves problems of moving electrical power form point A to point B, at scale of generating and delivering electrical power to millions of customers.

Software Engineering solves problems of moving digital data from point A to point B, at scale of collecting Billions of user data into databases and generating metrics reports.
No. This is explained in the article. That's only true for hydrocarbons which don't contain oxygen atoms. The energy comes from the O2 consumed. Sugar contains oxygen atoms, but those don't contribute to the energy released because burning sugar consumes less O2 per unit mass than burning hydrocarbons.

In your example, 9 moles of ethanol produces the same heat as 2 moles of isooctane, but the combustion products are substantially higher:

Ethanol: 9C2H5OH+27O2→18CO2+27H2O

Isooctane: 2C8H18+27O2→16CO2+18H2O
I’m trying to figure out if anyone actually want to heal societal schisms? And the measure of that is what folks are willing to compromise on?
Exactly. Some 23andme clones are aiming at insurance companies and national healthcare systems. I know at least two of them personally, with investments from big pharma.

If you convince say, NHS, that this service would make their medical practice more efficient they would totally buy it! For this you'd need to hire MDs and play lots of regulatory tricks. Plus, after that, probably private medical offices would follow the lead.

Companies doing genetics-based prediction are trying to fight the same uphill battle, and I think it's one worth fighting. So don't give up!
I knew that Phil drank himself to death, but I did not know the other tragic details of his life. It's silly that System Enhancement Associates sued him when they themselves had lifed the "LBR" archive format from CP/M, but greater examples of legal travesty exist in computer history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBR_(file_format)

I still have a bought-and-paid-for 3.5" floppy disk of PKZip from PKWare. I am the only one I know who ever actually paid for it.
it's probably even more fun for people who were legally declared dead, yet were alive elsewhere.
Can you expand on the excluding the apple telemetry from VPN? Not something I was aware of
> Successful in what

Successful in killing/hold hostage those elected officials they deemed against their cause. This could have ended so much worse than it did.

For example, what do you think would've happened if AOC or one of the other congresswomen maligned by Trump ended up in front of these maniacs? Do you think they would have stopped at stealing podiums/laptops?
It was quite common to depict them as a) human like, b) dimwitted, c) living in caves, d) living in small social groups, e) larger and stronger than humans.

You're right that there were other characteristics that were associated with them in some folklore that was not consistent with the Neanderthal hypothesis.
Yeah...because income inequality goes by %s. When America's 0.01% has so muuuuuch wealth, the lower class is still going to be FAR different from the upper class, but still have higher net wealth than other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#/media/File:G...
I've seen a lot of industries compared to programming, like construction and manufacturing. For example, people trying to apply lessons from the Toyota Production System to programming.

This doesn't make sense, because we have systematized the construction of executable programs with extremely high reliability and predictability: we call it "Copy File"

It's the design that is the hard part, and the process of coding is the process of iterating on the design. Even turning the design into an executable is extremely reliable, either running via a VM or scripting engine, or compiling. Those are all very repeatable and reliable.

There are other disciplines that focus on creating and improving designs (like writing, painting, architecture, 3D modeling), but it's not like they're reliable or predictable either, unless you're designing very similar things over and over again. That's true of coding as well, but you don't really end up doing that, because once you've done it 3 times you should make a library and then never do that part again, just the unique bits.

In short, yeah, coding is its own thing, and I doubt it'll ever be predictable unless you're wasting a lot of time and effort doing very similar things over and over.
Maybe. I got some pretty accurate results in situations I would expect, like "beer."

Piss, unlike dolphin (for reasons you note), I would expect to return pretty close to the correct color, but I didn't go check the google results.
Worse than being torn to shreds. Ignored.
> What could actually erode the democracy is nation giving up on free speech.

Can you expand on this, concretely?

Most democracies in existence - including thr US itself! - emerged from jurisdictions that did not have strong protections on free speech. I would also bet that most current democracies do not have US-strength protections on free speech, either. (Is the UK a democracy? Is Germany? Is Spain?)
We can end the madness simply by banning most types of targeted advertising.
Big-O Notation Explained
loved the self-deprecating humor... loved the style..
I'm not sure they're densely populated enough to easily know which X multiplier to apply to the positive rate. People speculate infection rates as high as 10x, I would speculate that multipliers of that sort will be positively correlated with population density, meaning a lower multiplier rate and further from herd immunity.
Professional software engineers develop and sell solutions. Code by itself is meaningless, it's the application of code in certain parameters and delivering expected results, which results in solutions.
> We're taking about a mob attempting to topple the actual seat of government by an incursion onto the floor of Congress

They weren't trying to “topple the seat of government” in a destructive, undirected manner, they were trying to redirect the process being executed there of officially determining the winner of the Presidential election to their preferred outcome, and to retaliate against opponents (including the Vice President) who failed to play the role the mob and the President they saw themselves serving preferred they should in that process.
You really think these people weren't armed?

edit: to be clear, there were a number of people pictured and arrested carrying firearms.
And people (try to) live there. Just not officially. So some some blocks might contain people which e.g. "secretly" live at their working place or similar.
that's a very sharp edge case.
It certainly looks much different from what we would historically label coup attempt. Usually a coup has to at least be theoretically possible. It also would seem to require some level coordination. I have yet to see evidence of that. I really do believe that some of the protestors might have been there to peacefully protest, not overthrow the American government. Ymmv
I have to say, this sounds to me like trying to market an expert system for experienced woodworkers to choose the best chisel for a particular task based on the type of wood, size of the cut, etc. Practitioners have strong opinions regarding the implements they use; they use them in concert with other implements and modalities; and the small differences that may emerge from this kind of analysis are likely to be swallowed up by differences in copay or other things besides pure efficacy.
Enterprise customers, of signficant volume, do indeed get custom agreements. (Or at least, they used to be able to do so.)
Day 10: not shooted.
I think you should read this blog (popular on HN), he explains it in a historical context better than I could. Basically this type of thing happened a lot in ancient democracies and even then it often seemed silly and harmless, until it wasn't.

https://acoup.blog/2021/01/15/miscellanea-insurrections-anci...
So what about rioters burning the entrance and exit to Ted Wheelers home in Portland (which he wasn't even present at)?
Would you agree the actions there were also attempts at murder and destruction of property of a duly elected official?

To act like the past year has had nothing in comparison to insanity .. is well insane. Theses Capital idiots are just that Idiots and they'll see time in court. What's not clear is why all of a sudden people that were supportive of aggravated protest to prove a point all of a sudden are surprised when the other side used the same tactics.
I agree with this statement. No matter how smart or experienced you are every project is a novelty unless you are copying and pasting. Learning is the lowest common denominator in this field.
HN is very well moderated through human effort and they consciously resist updating the site design which is good. The barebones appearance naturally repels people with different interests or temperament.
This is so removed from reality to the point that it’s hilarious. Doctors evil. Doctors bad. Doctors corrupt. Doctors rich. That psychiatrist in the article sure must have been bribed to prescribe those 30-year-old drugs, right? There’s this thing called evidence-based medicine, go educate yourself.
> If that worked, everyone would do it, and so it would no longer work.

This simply isn't true. Sometimes there are dollar bills on the ground. It takes a lot of years for everyone to pick them all up.

Keep in mind that the efficient market hypothesis disproves(TM) starting a successful business just as well as it disproves finding a successful trading strategy. ie: if that were a good startup idea, someone would have already started it, so it can't be an opportunity any longer. EMH is a useful tool but in reality it takes a long time after a fundamental shift creates an opportunity for it to be arbitraged away, and sometimes the opportunity ends due to another fundamental shift, not due to people arbitraging it away.
I remember when my buddy was trying to get me to use the JS framework of the day. I was just floored with how much JS was required for very simple things. I couldn't help but think to myself, "This whole thing could be a couple dozen lines in a JS file."

I am sure that some people really need these massive frameworks with build chains and universal rendering. I am just not one of them. I use JS for small logic here and there, mostly form validation and a bit of dynamic content. Most web software I know fits this description. I don't know why, but web developers are obsessed with making their jobs seem more complex than it really is. It's like everyone is scared that if someone realizes they just used HTML, JS, CSS, and a small set of scripts that people would find out they weren't real programmers.
I used to work at a company that primarily hauled for an automaker, as one of these "sequence" drivers myself. It can be as little as 15 minutes late and you're causing down time, and without a really good reason, the fines are astronomical; I've heard ballpark figures around $8-12,000 per minute (from reputable sources, but could never personally verify).

For what it's worth, the company that assembles the dashboards for these vehicles started causing a lot of downtime, to the tune of 30-45 minutes in many cases, starting around August. "They simply can't get the parts" - I feel like this article is the explanation why.
it does seem very plausible that undetected cases are several times higher than confirmed/symptomatic cases. and/or, perhaps when things start to spike locally people begin to take it seriously and change their behavior a bit -- distancing/masks were not very common in the Dakotas before the post-Sturgis wave.
Enough democratic members of congress are killed that the election doesn’t become certified. The remaining members elect a new republican speaker of the house. The constitution declares that if no winner to the Presidential election is declared the speaker of the house becomes President on Jan 20th. The speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress so the remaining republicans could have voted Trump speaker, keeping him in office another 4 years.

And that is how democracy dies in America.
Well, isn’t that the kind of thing researchers ought to be researching?
What I tell people is that if you're not eating as much fruits and salads in lockdown as before, you need a multivitamin.

Vitamin D3 is nice, but of more immediate concern is Vitamin C and others. I'm willing to bet that much of the population is on the verge of scurvy. If your gums aren't 100% since lockdown, that's a symptom of scurvy.
I don't see it preventing Lincoln's assassination, no. Jim Crow laws? Possibly not, and there were better ways of preventing them. But we wouldn't be seeing angry mobs fighting over statues today if they'd never been put up and we wouldn't have seen a mass membership second Klan if the first one hadn't been ruled constitutionally protected shortly after it had been forced to disband

The post Civil War US is an experiment in taking the precise opposite stance to postwar Germany: positively encouraging the losing side to romanticise their cause so long as their revisionist history downplays the slavery bit. Some northerner presidents even paid tribute to General Lee. I think it's difficult to argue reconciliation and race relations have been helped the resulting counter narrative that it was actually a pretty noble thing to defend their way of life against other states who only pretended to be concerned about negroes though.
I think there is a big difference between building something totally new versus a modification to an existing system. If you are building something totally new, I do not think there is much value in estimates with granularity lower than a month.
I'm just curious. When you see a link from the Daily Mail, does it change how you view the credibility of the headline?
Like every single riot over the past year? How do you justify the destruction, assaults, murders, deaths, and overall chaos there? Hold these assholes accountable 100%.. but let's also stop pretending people who want to hold the left accountable as well aren't crazy.. and maybe see it as just as damning.
> Suffice it to say that quitting isn't really about willpower.

I found this to be my experience as well, which is why I was so interested when I heard about naltrexone therapy. More specifically, a course known as The Sinclair Method. [1]

The idea is to use the drug an hour prior to drinking (and only then, so if you abstained from drinking that day, you would abstain from naltrexone -- this is where it differs from standard naltrexone therapy that would have you take it every morning regardless of your plans to drink). Naltrexone blocks endorphins associated with drinking and helps to reprogram your brain to no longer seek that neurochemical response.

I found it to be highly successful the first week -- I didn't even want to finish 2 drinks. After the first week, it still worked but not as well. And I also realized that the anticipation of drinking was almost as powerful as drinking itself, in that I would feel a "rush" even on my way to buy alcohol.

It took about 6 months of naltrexone therapy to finally quit. The funny part is, during that time and when under emotional distress, sometimes I would drink without the medication but it still seemed effective in that I never quite got the pleasure I used to have.

I'm coming up on 3 months sober, but unlike past attempts to quit, I have no urge to fight and no desire to drink again (and I am going to keep it that way).

I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice, just my story. The other interesting part to me is how rarely naltrexone is used for problem drinking (vs something like AA, which is faith based in more ways than one), and even more rarely is it deployed the way The Sinclair Method instructs (deliberately, right before drinking).

> Over time, your brain learns not to associate alcohol with pleasure, resulting in reduced cravings and improved control over alcohol use.

[1] https://www.sinclairmethod.org/what-is-the-sinclair-method-2...
Seems like taking a moment to think about monetization before beginning would have saved some trouble.

When you run a service that provides information you either make money through ads or direct subscriptions. And if it's B, you better have an airtight value proposition and an intimate understanding of your competition.
Jay Leno's 100 year old electric car
If you don’t have the time or energy to list something for sale, take photos of the items, deal with the headache of meeting people (perhaps 5 people just to sell a piece of baby clothing), what is the harm in someone else spending their time that way?

I routinely see items at the curb that are worth $20 or more used (like espresso makers or exercise equipment or furniture) with a sign FREE. I assume whoever picks it up just sells it.

So what? If you want to spend your days selling used junk for a few bucks, and I don’t, more power to you. My time is more valuable than that.

I understand why you’re upset and it does seem like this person took advantage of your good will. I guess I would not get too upset about it; you don’t know how much work that person put into selling these things. Could have been a lot more time than made it worthwhile.
I post on https://dev.to

Gist is not very good for publishing articles in my eyes
On the other hand, imagine the tsunami of lawyer-shit you'd be drowning in if you started a record label called "iPhone Corp" today?
We sell a hosted one[0] called Miki with all those features.

http://miki.mimix.io
Your experience is different from most. The problem is that most managers have no clue how to be a good manager and/or they turn into little Nazis once promoted.
Kudos on the quit. After my child passed away, i went through a similar spiral. It took my spouse, our community, and a new life to save me. I'm not great, but doing better
That does sound horrible.
Ask HN: Do you feel like you “think like a computer?”
I find that as I've grown more and more as a computer scientist, my way of thinking has shifted. It's in the little details.

It's as though I see processes I have to undertake in my life in terms of "maximizing" or "efficiency."

I don't think this has been bad for me, since I often think of maximizing my enjoyment, health, and other general good things.

Do other people in tech notice this shift, or am I just growing up? Or is it just me?