skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A strong sense of purpose in life. When every productive day brings me closer to realising a wonderful goal, I can endure even the shitty client I am unfortunate to work with.
I’m guessing based on the username OP is the original author, caught a typo that could trip a novice up if they’re reading :

This becomes useful though if you send a request including a Except: 100-continue header. That header tells the server you expect a 100 response, and you're not going to send the full request body until you receive it.

I’m guessing that should be Expect?

Overall interesting article, thanks for writing it!
Nowhere in my comment does it say or imply "any criticisms are smears." All I said is that people do use bad faith smears.
Yes, please, yes.

It doesn't matter what anybody says, if some users love you and it is sustainable then keep building and make it a big success. Don't listen to the weirdo-naysayers here.
You can say that about anything, like real quantum mechanics isn't just real numbers, but also functions, equations, operators and a lot of stuff like that.
No need to be confused or galled.

Info asymmetry in society will keep growing as Info keeps growing. On the other hand that 6 inch chimp brain we have, has no way to keep up no matter what tech is produced within our lifetimes.

So only thing worth doing is point people at things you know and keep walking, sort of like two ants passing each other in the universe.
Europe: The Shock of Covid-19 and the Fear of Accelerated Zombification
Running safe database migrations using Postgres
> Note, however, that when options are presented clearly and feedback is appropriate and timely, learning how to use a program should be relatively error-free. This means that frequent alert boxes are a good indication that something is wrong with the program design.

Too many applications suffer from alert box overuse leading to alert fatigue, negating the effect of an alert box.

Similar, one thing I've always liked about applications adhering to these guidelines is that actions that are not possible should be disabled (greyed out), instead of punishing the user with an alert message when the clicked a button. "Didn't you know it was wrong to click the delete button when no item in the list was selected to be deleted, you stupid human!".
And the body contains the brain. Not sure why this is as weird as people make it out to be. Where else is it supposed to be?
I feel like it was greatly due to the WWII. Those and so many other discoveries were the direct result of programs like project manhattan.
Maybe the human species really needs to be pushed to extinction to further tξhe human enterprise or maybe it was just the crazy funding similar to bell labs.
I think that is set by mods. Some subreddits default to searching that subreddit.
It's different when working remotely during a pandemic or not. Yours (and mine too) lack of motivation are likely due less to remote nature of work than to our isolated limited lives in general.

I'd say try to enjoy this, focus on things other than work for now.
i understand your point.
i was just asking what do you appreciate on the other tool - as i expected you know that tool better than gleek.io diagram maker. we will certainly look closer on graphviz.
I urge you to read the below: https://sites.psu.edu/evolutionofhumansexuality/2014/04/07/g...

TLDR: males castrated at birth and raised as females still had a male gender identity.

There is no controversy behind this in science. Most of this controversy exists in gender politics. But the politics is so strong one of my repliers just assumed I didn’t do any research when the opposite is true. Research indicates gender identity is biological if you don’t know this you didn’t do the research. You can still choose to hold a different conclusion then the entire scientific community... that is your right.

Now I’m not here to start a debate. I couldn’t resist replying to you but for the sake of not starting an off topic gender flame war and violating HN rules I’m not going to respond. Just read the evidence and take what you will from it is just information to add to your existing knowledge.
I was actually still using Sequiter CodeBase (dBase/FoxPro/Clipper) until last year, when I upgraded to 64-bit and couldn't compile the CodeBase source. There were 64-bit flags in the code, but it failed to work. Switched to SQLite, should have done years ago.
I have a Ph.D in Cognitive Neuroscience, and my dissertation was on the neurophysiological correlates of consciousness [0].

I can assure you that Philosophy of Mind is part of the curriculum. About a third of my dissertation deals with Descartes, Helmholtz, Ryle, Dennett, Searle, and others.

The general consensus among my peers is that philosophy is an essential part of scientific inquiry. Studying philosophy of mind is regarded as the only way to ensure the empirical questions we're asking even make sense, or that our discoveries are non-trivial.

It bears repeating: the cognitive neuroscientists I frequented have a deep respect and genuine interest in philosophy.

[0] Specifically: I presented evidence that attention was a causal mechanism in conscious access. We were able to take stimuli that were initially not consciously perceived, and induce a conscious percept after the stimulus had disappeared by manipulating exogenous attention.
What are they useful for, though? The usefulness of wrong models, and why they hang around so long, mainly seems to be to provide income to people selling solutions.

Solutions offered based on bad simple metaphorical models have the benefit of being intuitive, so they stick around.

Theory-theory is the Efficient Market Hypothesis applied to common sense.
You can find cheap housing, the problem is it's all in places where most people don't want to live. For example, Detroit, or any of thousands of small towns all over the US.

Not picking on Detroit, it's just an obvious example of a large city that used to have a much larger population.
I was active in guitar forums on the late 90s, early 2000s, and the brown M&M thing and its purpose was known then.
Sorry to be that guy, but vim might fit your needs well if you're ok with working in a terminal
GitHub: Active Entry – Authentication and Authorization for Your Rails App
Those GUI web layout tools were good. It made it so simple to make a webpage.

I made a site for a car workshop in Netscape Composer for like 20USD that they hosted on the ISP homesites you used to get. A friend made one for his dad's carpentry. We knew nothing about the web or programming.

The web has degenerated as a practical tool for the common man. It is programmer and SaaS lock-in nowadays.
"That's the problem when there is way too much "dumb money" floating around to be invested for even the most minuscule returns - it will inevitably flow towards high-interest, high-risk stuff."

And that's by law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

In an environment dominated by information asymmetry, the "bad investments" drive out the good ones. When we say, "dumb money," we're describing information asymmetry. The dumb money isn't as knowledgeable about the value of investments as the so-called "smart money."

But the net effect of a market being dominated by dumb money is that good investments either vanish, or get turned into bad investments to compete with the other bad investments for money.
If you are referring to the "hide" link that an ordinary HN user sees (I have no idea what the non-ordinary HN is like for mods et al), I believe that just hides it for you, not everyone else.
>Consciousness, which nobody really ever defines clearly,

I think this is really the core of the problem. My non-scientific belief is that when learn enough about the brain, we'll learn that "consciousness" is a good descriptor for the human experience of having a mind, but not really a meaningful word scientifically.
In that case, push_back to emplace_back changed the semantics (as construct + push_back made a move construction, whereas emplace_back did not).
When you watch the price of the same unit grow over time, it's not usually because the owners are building more. :)
I don't know where you get your definition of a vegetarian.

Eating meat 1.6% means your NOT a vegetarian, it just means your 'mostly' vegetarian.

I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with people eating meat, but most vegetarians I know (myself included), who are in it for moral reasons would take offense at that definition.
Hi -- I'm the co-owner of Alinea... the restaurant and group.

While they are in different industries, I owned a derivatives trading group for years, run a tech startup (Tock), and am getting a bunch of emails from folks thinking I started this or am affiliated in some way.

So... while I dislike conflict, I really don't like be associated with something I have no control over. There will be an incoming email shortly.
A Simple SAML Identity Provider (IdP) for Testing SSO Interfaces
I live in South Africa. Myself and all my friends are sitting on around 100 Mbps up/down uncapped unshaped, no fair use policy each at around $100 USD monthly. A few of my friends are on Gigabit down, 200 up.

How is America behind on this? Everything is hosted there and cached there. Is it big business lobbying politicians to prevent them from having to compete? In South Africa we have dozens on ISPs and as an economy we're probably not far off from one US state. The competition has been great for consumers.
Hmm, 'no-cache' meaning please cache it in reality may have been the problem in the past why those damn internet explorers cached ajax responses and the only way to solve it was to append a random query parameter?
Just be sure to look at the moon, not the pointing finger.
"woops, you punched down!"
Trader Joe’s rehires worker who was fired after letter raising Covid-19 concerns
Just curious, in what way did pomodoro because unsustainable? I don't use it all the time but mostly when I don't feel the "spark" to work.

I've tried many things but I've come to the conclusion that I will never have the same motivation for tasks I'm not interested in.

I've found that if I sit around and wait for that motivation to hit, it will never come so it basically boils down to "just doing it".

I know how that sounds but I have to just force myself to do it. I have the opposite problem with my own projects... I work on them to a fault so I'm not sure how to resolve this other than to start my own business.
That sounds a bit backwards to me. If anything, negative numbers are the generalization (as is 0), and we should have a concept of multiplication that works for such generalizations. Euclid's approach to arithmetic always seemed strained to me, something motivated by a religious view of math where a compass and straightedge were the only tools anyone should need.

Repeated addition is just a technique for multiplication. It is one of many techniques we teach children, and we should leave it at that -- a technique. When we get to multiplication by negative numbers or fractions, we teach children other techniques, and we do not feel any need to try to "define" multiplication in terms of those techniques. Why should we "define" multiplication in terms of repeated addition, and then do circles around ourselves trying to generalize that "definition?" We can just say that multiplication is one operation we can do on numbers; addition is another, and they are related by the distributive law (and it from the distributive law that we can derive the various techniques we use for multiplication).
I agree with the first part of your comment but there wasn’t really a middle class prior to the 20th century.

The petite bourgeoisie would probably be considered upper-middle class today. Even the industrial revolution was only a small period of humanity.
There is also nothing preventing someone making a hardware RISC-V core from including additional hardware, custom instructions, or proprietary blobs.
In the short to medium turn expect RISC-V to make far deeper inroads against embedded cores where roughly all code is custom than against application processors with their need for binary compatibility and countless optimized libraries.
Years ago I read many complaints about how the U.S. government handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to telcos (in what form I don't know or remember) to build out their fiber networks, but they just never did it... and kept the money.

Now I can't find any reference to that at all. Does that scenario sound familiar to anyone?
https://archive.is/YRVWM
The ideology you're describing is fascism. Power for power's sake, enemies for enemies' sake.

That these look like the politics everywhere should scare the hell out of all of us.
You can now, not sure if that was available at the time (in the volume sensible for a green room): https://www.mms.com/en-us/shop/single-color

Amusingly the UK version does not offer brown ones.
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The only solution is having fewer babies worldwide. National borders don’t stop people from moving where opportunity is.
That takes you from Online>Offline to Hiding. Not offline, not nothing or null but hiding. That is very biased and loaded way to implement the feature.
Yes, in today's age of liberal democracies, we can take lessons from the past, like the value of free speech, innocent until proven guilty, not being deprived freedom without due process of law / habeas corpus, abolishment of debtors prisons, private property / not being deprived of property without due process of law, etc.

It seems like we have a lot of infringements of basic and fundamental rights in which we are forgetting history and how we got here. However, I haven't seen a significant effort to revive colonialism. So perhaps this isn't the highest priority example of where we need to learn from history at the moment?

Even America's expeditionary wars don't have the intention of changing the lines on maps. The only nation that has done that recently that I'm aware of is Russia. Trying to fly today's wars and examples of exploitation of peoples under the flag of colonialism seems rather forced to me. Why not just say "bad stuff" and tie that to colonialism?
I would suggest to take a look at https://gather.town

It wouldn't replace being in an office but some of their features definitely helps create a sense of being somewhere else such as having a desk, meeting areas etc.

What I am currently trying to do is to find a office space just for myself close by but that has proven pretty hard since everybody is expecting to write contract for > 6 months.
I'm working on my pilot's license and think about this all the time.

My instructor is insistent that I learn all my flying fundamentals in a 1940s-era Aeronca Champion (stick and rudder, no flaps, no electronic instruments) on the theory that it's much better to learn the fundamentals with the least help possible so that when we add complexity with things like an artificial horizon, VSI, and eventually an EFIS and autopilot, I won't have to depend on those tools to fly.

On the one hand, my flying now is certainly less safe than if I was learning with all those modern safety advancements, but on the other hand I'm learning how to fly purely with an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, a tach, and my own eyes. It's a little scarier, but if god forbid I ever had an electrical system die on me mid flight I can still fall back on my basics.

Ultimately, safety systems paradoxically make you more likely to make bad choices if you don't understand what they do. Autopilot doesn't make you a safer pilot, it allows you to reduce some of the load while you're flying by reducing the amount of fine motor skill you need to engage. A GPS doesn't make you a safer pilot, it allows you to reduce some of the load by not having to fiddle with VORs or rely on ground references for navigation as much. But you have to be ready for either of those systems to fail and still finish your flight safely. I feel much more confident that I could do that now than friends of mine who learned on fancy brand new aircraft with glass cockpits.
I would be careful not to take software/CS metaphors too far. I don't mean to say one domain's concepts can never be applied to another domain, but developers hold certain assumptions about our domain that may not apply elsewhere. Even basic observations can rely upon more deep-rooted axioms.

I only say this because it's something I've been reflecting on lately - I've found that by being too immersed in the context of software development, I've often fallen victim to this mindset:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
When I was at MIT, the Op. Research Center was working on globally optimal decision trees. That is, a simple, single decision tree, that is devised by an optimization model such that it is going to be the best possible tree you could make with a given training set (vs. regular trees which are trained in a dumb greedy way). That always felt like the holy grail of actual useful business "ML" to me.

But either way, you're often correct. For anything but the simplest decisions to be made, the bulk of the value will come from better decision making. ML can help refine the estimates of the value of each decision, but making the final choose is an easily overlooked and super important step.
Sounds like you're suffering from mild depression; one of the common symptoms is lack of motivation. If you try powering through your symptom, there is a good chance it will make your anxiety rise. And that's arguably worse.

Let me ask you: How often do you exercise? Do you meditate? When was the last time you lost yourself on a good walk? Have you been taking vitamin D supplements (important for us northerners during the winter)? Lastly, when was the last time you met up with a few friends for coffee (if viable in your location)?
The name is going to have to change to avoid confusion with the restaurant.

Also, you've mentioned "value based investing" in a comment reply here.

Is this the same thing as "value investing"? Or is it something new that you're introducing?
> The intent of this feature is to drive greater engagement amongst our users and encourage more posts and comments across the site.

So, they want to generate more posts and content, as if it'd be a good thing in and by itself. What happens when people generate billions of useless shitposts ? Ah yes, the engagement metric goes up, the ad networks are happy, investors are happy. OKay.

But then again:

> During this initial phase, users will only be able to see their own personal status indicator. No other user will be able to see your online indicator.

This's gonna be a really short initial phase I suppose because not much engagement will come from that :].

Can't wait for the private public homepage/profile with your own posts on it à la twitter and then friending and then we have facebook.
I don't think this is an accurate statement, and I also do personally have my own theory. I would be quite shocked if NO ONE had a theory of what consciousness is for.
Darknet marketplaces are selling Covid-19 vaccines for $250 to $1,200
Your analysis of his sentence is completely incorrect.
The Cold War seems to have evaporated entirely from the collective imagination. For nearly half a century, people had a not unreasonable expectation that a nuke might end the world at any moment.

Prior to that, you had WW2, the Depression, WW1, slums and brutal industrial factory jobs and before that mostly subsistence farming. The idea that life today is so precarious and difficult is absurd. We just aren’t used to difficulty.
Right, that's why criticizing the companies who shamelessly pushed opioids is actually wrong too, because it's punching down at the people who enjoy using the opioids who often tend to be low-income and yes, women. Woops, you punched down!
Reminds me of the sscanf thing that popped up a few days ago (in fact I assumed this was about that at first): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302744

I wonder (genuinely asking, not being snarky) what it is about C/C++ that seems to make these issues more common? It's also possible my perception of "more common" has just been inflated by seeing multiple examples in a single week
Whats the % chance they start to lay the initial ideas down for a decentralized music ecosystem?
I think the biggest problem is the hubris to known knowledge.

One thing I liked about the author was the acknowledgment that Freud made mistakes, but shouldn't be 100% dismissed either. I like relating this to modern atom theory. How vital is the understanding of electrons to atoms these days? It's borderline impossible to imagine how atoms work without knowing anything about electrons.

Dalton developed modern atom theory in 1804. Electrons weren't discovered until the 1890s. 90 years of people probably saying, "it's impossible to get tangible results from testing atoms". Freud's theories are almost 100 years old now. We've come a long way... but how more advanced is atomic theory an extra 100 years after electrons were discovered? We are still stupid when it comes to psychology, thus unable to really make tangible results... yet. The faster that concept is respected, I truly think the faster advancements can be made because people won't get hung up on bad pop science declarations from innocent studies that are doing to their best to just discover some grain of truth.
Hydra: Cardano Blockchain's Scalability Solution
Show HN: Secure SQL queries from web/mobile clients
Summation is an open source database/API gateway that lets you get the data you need, without having to wait for your backend team to write APIs for you.

You can:
- query your SQL databases directly from web/mobile apps without risk of SQL injection
- make API requests to third-party APIs (stripe, twillio, etc.) directly from web/mobile apps without exposing your credentials

Benefits:
- you get the full power of SQL, which most developers already know (instead of having to learn graphQL)
- supports all major SQL databases/warehouses, and any JSON REST API
- Client libraries exist for Javascript, iOS, and Android

How it works:
- the gateway authenticates your users via JWT tokens you pass it (supports Firebase/Auth0/Okta/Cognito)
- only specific queries/API requests that have been approved can be executed in production
- any parameters you pass in get bound to the query/API request (so you can filter queries to the logged-in user's JWT user ID, etc.)
- credentials are encrypted in PostgreSQL (open source version) or your company's cloud secrets manager (cloud version, currently in alpha)
- you can chain together multiple queries/API requests, with parameters securely passed from one to the other server-side

https://github.com/summation-app/docker

looking forward to your questions & feedback, thanks!
When my workouts, diet, or sleep start slipping, I find working more difficult. When I do all three right, work usually seems easy and enjoyable.

1. Exercising well (45-60 min of strenuous exercise, 4-6 days per week, walks for sun exposure)

2. Eating well (limited junk food, no alcohol, no eating outside of a fixed time window, home cooked, mostly veggies)

3. Sleeping well (8 hours, consistent timing, early to bed, no caffeine after noon)
Ask HN: How does one get a “Launch HN: ” spot?
After I saw some of the "Launch HN: " posts I was wondering on how i would get the chance to post my own Launch that will be happening next week. Anyone got any info on how i go about this? Should I be writing an E-Mail to HN themselves?
> Reddit, like all companies, needs to grow or die.

I disagree with the base premise. Not all companies need growth in order to survive, or to thrive.

Companies seeking highly speculative investment are not all companies. I don't think they're even the majority of companies.
The original simulation featured negative weight areas.
It is known you can remove parts of brain, thus reducing ability to think, sometimes abruptly (but not completely). One of the abruptions will be fatal for ability to stay conscious.
We Need 4 Waves of Climate Action
aha - so is it a call for FOSS community participation ? Is it worth packaging in Debian or other?