skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Telling people to be different is simply not a viable mechanism for making the world a better place.

Perhaps. However this reminds me of the credit cards that are offered on college campuses. They're signed up for like hotcakes sometimes. Later in life people learn that perhaps it isn't such a good idea. Can't people be given information showing the potential effects of decisions that then helps them better make choices?

>You can inquire after however many chickens and eggs you like about why the world is the way it is, but I think most people are more interested in what can be done to improve things.

My point exactly. Let's stop talking about social media, which takes advantage of a root flaw. Let's talk about the root flaw.
> The big problem is what to do with all of it

Which is why the primary way to deal with the CO2 problem isn't capture, but by reducing the amount emitted in the first place, via renewables + storage, more and better mass transit, EVs replacing ICEVs, heat pumps replacing furnaces, etc.

Compared to the CO2 reduction potential o
They probably don't mean "incremental progress towards a better job elsewhere", and yet that's the real fast track (though somewhat less so at the >=Staff level).
App Nap is definitely a MacOS thing - but it hasn't traditionally behaved in this way.

I'm aware it will be a form of virtual memory management - but given im currently (and actively) running safari, chrome, firefox, affinity designer, affinity photo, slack, mail, a handful of terminals, a couple of ios apps, an iphone 11 simulator, 2 android emulators, 4 instances of vscode recompiling code as I type, and a bunch of utility apps theres definitely more than just a traditional swap going on here. Its an 8GB machine, and it really feels like it has unlimited RAM (until i open figma, as mentioned before - theres something about that app that the m1 really doesnt like).

Of course, if it is a bug, ill be happy to have it fixed :)

Also, I just realised you are the OP :) And the guy working on asahi (awesome!). Would love to know more if you get to the bottom of this behaviour - intentional or otherwise!
If you boil water, you see an amount of water changing state from a liquid to a gas, not individual molecules simply gaining momentum.
Ah, interesting. So this way I will not end up running the same virtualisation in software mode?
The features are listed, but they're not clickable for further details.
Things like "light and dark theme" could show screenshots. In fact, I can't find any screenshots at all on their site, except for the one on the front page.
This comment really resonated with me, I found myself in this exact situation at 25, in a "very prestigious and selective place" for AI nonetheless. It took me a couple years to realize the smart people are just playing the game, the unsuspecting losers are "playing it straight" and getting endlessly frustrated. I found my balance by, frankly, taking advantage of a system that is FUBAR. Incidentally, I also took some art classes and because they were not for credit, I just flowed and drew ( https://lingxiaolingdotus.firebaseapp.com/art ). Tbh I felt more alive placing some hasty marks on paper than I ever did doing "research" in a lab.

"I'm only up to age 25 and already there are such conspicuous patterns. Here I was, yet again about to attend some august institution in the hopes of learning about some prestigious subject, and yet again about to be disappointed. The students and faculty in the painting department at the Accademia were the nicest people you could imagine, but they had long since arrived at an arrangement whereby the students wouldn't require the faculty to teach anything, and in return the faculty wouldn't require the students to learn anything."
I found 1password on windows to work just great. It's not as great as the Apple version but it's way better than the alternatives.
I don't like BTC but if Nigeria prohibits cryptocurrencies, this is +1 for them, not -1
Colossus was (while extremely important and criminally underutilized after the war) not turing complete by itself.
I used to think the same thing, then it was pointed out to me that most air comes from engine bleed air. That is, it’s air that has been compressed by the engine and can contain aerosolized engine oil. Oil that has been heated to really high T (that’s really bad). There are standards to filter it before it goes into the cabin.

Some aircraft (Dreamliner?) have separate pumps to avoid using bleed air (improves engine efficiency). But even that pump will need lubricating. However for that pump you can probably use a safer oil and also not expose it to extreme heat.
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I tried to switch from MySQL to SQLite for my Postfix/Dovecot installation but I ran into a very annoying problem: every now and then I lose an email because the "database is locked".

This is a show-stopper for me because the problem happens very rarely, only once every couple of days, but it's catastrophic: when this happens, the incoming message is not bounced, it is actually lost. The only reason I even realized it was happening is because I noticed there were emails in the root account, which is the error-reporting mechanism of last resort.

I've searched the web in vain for a solution. If you have any suggestions, I would love to be able to stick with sqlite, but at the moment I am about to begin migrating back to MySQL. :-(
My theory:
The amount of leverage computers give to us as programmers is not seen in any other field.
Yesterday I saw on Cardi B's stories she did a paid post promotion for a game that is literally a slot machine..

It's designed with childlike graphics and her followers are very young. It's marked as teen in google store.

God even the first review shows how blatant this is:

"I'm really not big on games but this game is the truth. I cant stop playing it. I go to sleep to it. Wake to it. My day is filled with ways of finding new ways to get coins and spins (mainly spins, lol)"

I'm all for legal, regulated online gambling. This not even disguised style of game should be called what it is. Some type of Pachinko in that you don't get money back but some other token. But even worse since you probably can't walk around the corner to exchange easily for real world value.

Call it gambling, verified 18+, and regulate it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moonactive...
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I worked for a VP in mobile games who described the central loop as “giving the players a job and having them pay us [the makers of the game] for it”. I respected his candor on what we are doing, but this was past the point when I had realized it wasn’t something I was proud to have spent time on.
As you refer to, it's the presence of FANG's. I wouldn't be surprised to hear movie stars are paid more in America than the world. Los Angeles is the world's entertainment capital. A lot of the answer to the question stems from 'Why is the US a hegemony?'
(Threads about this article certainly are: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=danluu.com/bimodal-compensatio...)

If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337434

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12588202
I think that's probably a big part of it - and certainly in Silicon Valley. Part of the whole idea of the place. It might not require that much extra power on the side of labor (which this is) to create a large effect.
Hi @rochak. I've been wanting something similar for a while and have been working on my own solution with a focus on privacy and open source. For this reason all image analysis (AI/location awareness etc.) is done locally and it can all run within a Docker container. This is the site so far and there's also an online demo: https://photonix.org/
They are paying no more than what they are legally required to, just like everyone else.

Would I want to see Google pay more? Yes. Do I expect them to be charitable and suddenly start paying more than the law requires them? No, this is unreasonable. What I expect is for lawmakers to make changes to the tax code, so that those tech giants end up paying more. Until that moment happens, that's fully on those lawmakers, not on Google or anyone else.
He's voiced support for Trump, which is why he has no idea about anything programming-related anymore.
Cool. Another tool in the space - https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery open-source framework to ask questions about your cloud infrastructure with SQL.
I always thought an interesting version of this might be to have a marginal clock circuit that would fail randomly about 95% of the time if manufactured to spec but the 5% (because of design variation) that worked could send out backdoor information. Prime candidates would anything that's in the network pathway. I'm sure anyone doing it would be more sophisticated than me though :)
Agreed.

However, I’d rather smell kerosene than baby-bottle plastic - plasticizers known to be endocrine disrupters
Same. I also get headache and nausea from it. I'm totally fine in old cars.
>Around this time, in the spring of 2000, I had an idea. It was clear from our experience with Viaweb that web apps were the future. Why not build a web app for making web apps? Why not let people edit code on our server through the browser, and then host the resulting applications for them? [9] You could run all sorts of services on the servers that these applications could use just by making an API call: making and receiving phone calls, manipulating images, taking credit card payments, etc....

>The language for defining applications would of course be a dialect of Lisp. But I wasn't so naive as to assume I could spring an overt Lisp on a general audience; we'd hide the parentheses, like Dylan did.

Well you damn near gave me a heart attack. Built the beginnings of something like that, a web app that builds web apps and a stream processor that builds stream processors, with apps/stream-processors defined in clojure: https://github.com/acgollapalli/dataworks
That would make my day. I have a 64GB RAM PC because I work on 2 or 3 angular apps at a time and since my PC is the fastest I also use it for CI builds on occasion. It's a nightmare to wait 20 minutes for an optimized prod build. And having to upgrade everyone's RAM so they can contribute to the front end is horrible. We are past 10GB of RAM required to start the dev server.
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So, this is essentially a script to mess up your AWS resource permissions by using a privileged account to an extent that a) might surprise folks who haven't thought too deeply on the matter, and b) will be challenging to uncover using AWS's own audit facilities, is that fair to say?
Thankyou for demonstrating my point.
"P.S.: no opportunity is lost. There is always someone else who seizes it. :)"

I'm sure these corporations want a random person in HN to provide service to 12 customers?

It's false to suggest that material barriers to providing services are only contextually relevant. It's a permanent tax and it's real.
Just changed to BitWarden, seamless export from Lastpass and import into chrome. Syncs across devices and is free.
Seems pretty normal. Every few years Ford has new cars, Frito Lay has new flavors of chips, Coca-Cola markets new drinks, Corning has a more resilient glass, and Taylor Swift has a new album.
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I’ll just add that I agree - I also implore readers to read sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the link because it explicitly and unequivocally backs up and confirms what I said about the “woke vocab” critique.

I hope people will read it, because a direct reading of it does support my position and does not support your position.
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I understand that, I'd always allow users to export their data before shutting something down.

Don't understand the second part? You mean I should try to source quotes from Amazon reviews?
AFAIK that's only for general aviation (aka. people flying their cessnas), rather than jetliners.
I recently migrated from LastPass to 1Password. Honestly it's been great. The UI is better, sharing vaults is easier, they have integrations with haveibeenpwned.com, and integrations are seamless. There's no free tier, but the cost feels worth it to me. I was able to get my whole family on 1Password without too much hassle.
Who the F is Paul Graham?
Rich nations should move to '100 percent synthetic beef'
for me, my environments are in different AWS accounts and can be torn down and stood back up rather quickly. so it wouldn't be a big deal to let this destroy a dev environment in the name of science so that i could implement improvements.
It IS the same category when it makes you suffer. Be it sneezes, running nose, coughing, swelling throat, burning eyes, sometimes itching skin, feeling unwell in general after being in contact with or near that stuff.

Maybe our bodies have different tresholds for exposure to that stuff, and after oversaturating them for some time, there is no buffer available anymore?

Resulting in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_chemical_sensitivity
The language never said you could do this.
That wasn't a sports story. It was a political story. A political story should not be relegated to People or the lifestyle section just because it happens to involve famous athletes.
> What's going on with all the Uncle Bob hate nowadays?

Sensible people have always hated him and his bullshit - what products has he ever produced? I remember when he started posting his nonsense on Stack Overflow - boy, did he run out of there with his tail between his legs.
I'm afraid you are wrong. This document reads like the Nigerian central bank is barring banks from serving as on/off ramps between Naira and cryptos.

Banks have no ability to prevent crypto trading itself. This is by design.
This is a good concern, and one I mitigate by keeping a file with trusted people that is to be used in case of my death.

I think I’m better off relying on Apple’s business of protecting my identity (and selling me more apps, music, phones). And the effort spent on this by Apple is likely better than the primary purpose of a much smaller company. I also don’t think the incentives for a password as a service company that makes money off a monthly fee are lined up with mine. In time, I think they will only get worse as they layer on “features” to grow revenue from a fixed, and shrinking, market.
The underlying point people miss is that you might have the best tool in the world, but without any discipline to start using it and continue using it, it will go unused. Discipline matters.

Edit: relevant to the other thread, this is a pattern with writings about Uncle Bob. When you read him directly disagreements are usually not so clear-cut as detractors make them. Clean Code is the tech book that I've argued with most, still worth reading, as opposed to certain other tech books. But I grant that he expresses himself increasingly poorly when moving from books to blogs to tweets, and even his books are written in a 'school of martial arts' style (admitted to in the preface/intros), i.e. presenting His Way without the side detours into alternatives and innumerable context-sensitive exceptions. This makes it easy to mischaracterize him as saying things like "don't ever comment code, comments are bad!" but if you read his book/code you will in fact find some comments. Perhaps his beliefs are slightly more nuanced?
No, RISD - which is about as "art school" as art school gets.

The middle section of the essay describes PG's time in art school, which he attended after graduating from Cornell and going to grad school.
Tell me this -- do casinos fail?

If you look only at examples of successful things and say "it is addictive" but don't look at the same principles as applied to failed examples of the same thing, then you're being intellectually lazy.

In order to establish some facet as "addictive" it needs to work both ways, otherwise you're just using "addictive" as a synonym for "successful" -- Edison's light bulb was "addictive" and people were "addicted" to Pullman cars. But you get to carry all the negative connotations of "addictive"; you're trying to let the informal do all the work while positing nonsensical equivalences.
It's been six months. Time to beat on Uncle Bob. You may think I'm joking but it sure seems like HN likes to beat on a few select personalities every couple months. I guess it's Uncle Bob's turn again.
apparently there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube#Vacuum_tubes_in_th...
Teslas, gift cards.
He started a Covid-19 vaccine company. Then he hosted a superspreader event
What is your point? That I shouldn't communicate to people I'm close with about about harm they're doing to themselves and myself and help them change their ways?
How would that work?

Companies can't easily switch to crypto because they need to pay all kinds of taxes. (E.g. somebody buys a $100 jacket using Bitcoin. How is sales tax collected and paid if there are no crypto off-ramps?)

Employees will of course get paid in the accounting currency of the companies that employ them. How do those salaries get converted to crypto in this vision of a separate crypto economy?
Hi thank you for sending it. I'm getting those in Sentry and still trying to figure out what's causing them.
Sounds more like investment banking vs retail banking?
Not weird, it's early, messy development. Perfectly normal (for me anyway)
That's not really a fair comparison because you can only accumulate car crash risk when you're commuting, but you're accumulating cancer risk for every moment you're alive.
This attitude is why 98% of software is absolute dogshit. Have some pride.
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Think of the kitties! It's good for them too!
A lot of people forget how many years people were using cryptocurrencies for when banks did actively close your account if they found out you were messing with them.

People still bought and sold and traded bitcoin on IRC. Even robots were still able to do it. The whole thing still works it's just that some use cases are more annoying.
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/who-accepts/

Prices are pegged to fiat but the merchants accept BTC directly.
No, I would describe this quote as a giving the story the illusion of truth. Adding a 3 letter agency does nothing but add sizzle and sensation instead of substance and truth. I have no way of knowing if that meeting happened. I do not trust the FBI or any other 3 letter agency to tell the truth at all times.
We moved away from LastPass for the reasons you mentioned and for the problem that I couldn't recover the password of a business account. The account was just not usable and they couldn't even delete it, so once someone made a mistake while opening it, their email address was blocked. I think they fixed this since we moved, but 1Password is not standing in my way and does everything reliably and quietly.

They have apps for all (mobile) OSes and even a native Linux app, what I really appreciate. I just saw they also have a CLI, I have to test this, too.

I'm just a happy customer with ~60 users and not affiliated.
Great blog, thanks for sharing.

It’s true that leetcode is a unfortunate fad of the times, and a lazy way to select candidates. I also know a number of people at Microsoft that couldn’t answer any of the leetcode problems I was given, yet extremely talented developers nonetheless. Fortunately because the system is automated, you can just reapply and take another test. Seems the questions are plucked randomly so with some luck you’ll pull a triple easy set.
Wow I was just looking for this :D and up it pops on hackernews. Proof of Baader-Meinhof in action.
This style of rebuttal article has me too jaded to focus on the topic and see behind the hegemonic politics.

I would have ignored the post and not commented except that the referenced R. Martin article is the same style of immediate reference invocation diatribe and they both suffer from the same short comings. Turtles all the way down.

Alas, this comment is more of the same, shame on me. Please learn from our mistakes.
It's just another example of feel-good legislation that does more harm than good.
They didn't tell lies about Nixon.
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Yep. It's not "this is less likely to kill you", it's "this has a better UI and some sort of ML process that's supposed to check you're looking at the road". Somehow they score it highly for telling you when you should and shouldn't use it for a product whose disclaimer says you shouldn't really be using it at all.

It's a bit like declaring your bike outperforms cars in crash safety because a magazine gives it 8/10 for handling and 9/10 for the visibility of your yellow jacket and your rear light having a "flash" mode.
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Not sure what airport smell refers to but I actually like the sweet cabin smell. I think it’s equal part mix of residues from years of sweat, detergents, anti-corrosion chemicals and lemon-soaked paper napkins that were all carried along.
This is only true for a tiny subset of possible flaws.

Toyota was found legally responsible for its unintended acceleration bug from the mid 2000s when "the driver should pay attention 100% of the time" wasn't even something you would think to say because there were exactly zero driver assist features.
Yes, in a sense. :-)

I'm making the decision, because it is difficult to assign the decision to any small group of things at a lower level. The quarks are part of that process, but are just doing quark things.
Name one product he has successfully created. The dripping self victimization is disgusting.
He's been really active lately pushing his methods and insulting people who don't agree with him. He's also thrown a few tantrums over the last year or so that gotten him more negative attention.
> store and index it by tiles

Options include the https://sqlite.org/rtree.html module, and building an application-specific mapping from geometric indexes to an integer keyspace (https://github.com/google/s2geometry or similar).

We're using SQLite archives of many GB successfully without issue. As long as the primary keyspace is well-designed (see also https://sqlite.org/withoutrowid.html), ranged queries are extremely fast.

> I'm never sure how to properly copy raw struct binary data from sql, directly in ram.

BLOB columns and an application-specific serialization/deserialization step work well. memcpy to a struct works if you are absolutely certain that you know what the layout will be. All of the standard perils apply - alignment, internal padding, platform-specific layout, endianness, etc.

We're using Protobuf with success. I imagine Flatbuffers would also work well. I'd put Protobuf/Flatbuf and their competitors on the front of the tool shelf.
Slightly tangential, but I really love the minimal but effective site design here. It is minimal, responsive and easy to read. Is this a theme or just the author being very effective and throwing together a documentation site?
No, Pageturner is also about discovering new books by seeing what other people are reading. Afaik, everyone reads the same book in a book club, please correct me if I'm wrong.