skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every social place has its own "traditions" if I dare use this term.

Twitter is not really a place for debate (more for rants IMHO), but HN is. And not every one wants to debate and that's cool.

What I enjoy the most on HN is the often insightful content (based on years of experience), but many threads bring "hype wars" or some kind of tech-related drama, what I remember the most is:

- C/C++ is evil, every one should do Rust
- Kubernetes is evil because it's complex
- Your business is failing if it's not generating 100k MRR

I do not even bother anymore to argue against that.

NB: I exaggerated intentionally to make my point, I know there is more nuanced opinions, and some real/justified concerns about those topics.

IMHO, While HN is a "social place" (there are people who can talk), this is not a "social network" (I will probably never remember your nickname even if we talk again together in another thread).
To be fair, it's not like Twitter is useful to society. You cant expect people who got a positive feedback loop for building useless to switch to building a bridge, water treatment plant or a mosquito net.
This and most everything else you'd want to know is addressed in their official Unsplash License guide and FAQ: https://help.unsplash.com/en/articles/2612329-releases-and-t...
> Right now they shouldn't be selling anything that isn't an M1 or some other Apple Silicon.

They can't because TSMC is overbooked already.
But it's not practically usable for transactions, which means if the economy tanks tomorrow and you have bitcoin, you won't be able to spend it. In fact the increased demand to spend it combined with fixed amount of transactions allowed would mean all of the new demand would cause massive inflation in bitcoin transaction fees as more and more people need to use it.

This isn't anti-crypto. This is anti-bitcoin as a practical asset if things hit the fan.
> Furthermore, why is the hero-image generic? A picture of the sea? doesn't exactly spell animals to me.

I refreshed a few times and suddenly the sea was replaced by a polar scene:

https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1614597388646-fea96377eb91...

This was the first image I found that I liked on this site.
I see xtracto's point. You are "paying" to pursue a PhD in the form of missed additional revenue that you could have achieved by starting in the industry earlier on. Or pursue other paths that could be more industry-focused (MBA). It's an intellectual investment, sure. But for most PhDs, it will be a net negative on the financial side, and a potential hyper-specialization trap for moving to the private/industry sector.
The entire point or posting this article is to shame Venezuela. “See those ignorant socialisrs! Hahaha!” And you know this. You cancel any comment which goes against the conservative/libertarian status quo. Pointing out the hypocrisy of free market capitalism only being for people who suck the dick of American ahthority is ban worthy then go ahead and cancel me.

My conscious is clear and my hands are blood free. You cannot say the same.
I like this approach and have successfully used both table partitioning [1] and (if necessary) foreign data wrappers [2] to keep my main database small and fast. There is a pretty old blog post that clued me into it [3]. It works really nicely, allowing for such things as old data stored on spinning disks and newer data on NVMe drives. You can query the main table directly with query parameters that limit which partitions you hit, or you can query a partition table if you know that's where all the data resides. It's pretty awesome!

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.htm...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-foreign-data.htm...

[3] https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-11-sharding.html
It’s real chutzpah to complain about coup attempts against a regime that came to power in a coup.
Professional project management (PMI) embraces critical path, iron triangle, risk management. Iteration was always The Correct Answer™.

Kids today conflate "throw it over the wall" with waterfall.

Agile rejects planning, foresight, vision, end goals. Agile was explicitly concocted to manage upwards, in those organizations unable or unwilling to do proper planning. Unfortunately, the originators wrote down their survival tips, which were then misunderstood by noobs and embraced by profiteers. Just like every other religious text.

Agile is not the victory of iteration over some imagined dark ages of project chaos. The Agile Methodology is to argue about the Agile Methodology. The cult(ural) spread of Agile is no different than any other vacuous self-help omni-fix content-free dogma.
No, scorched earth policy is top down, systematic destruction of the strategic assets in an area to deny their use to an enemy, either to make the logistics of invasion more difficult (Russia during Napolean's winter expedy), to punish the inhabitants (Sherman's March during the US Civil War) or destroy the assets that made invasion worth it (burning oil fields, or Taiwan's bombs under TSMC).

This is just angry folks not want their family homes occupied by a national enemy. If we were seeing scorched earth, there'd be widespread destruction of roads, the power grid, any industrial facilities, and probably chemical posioning of any agricultural land
Do you mind posting brief notes indicating how far the reading group has progressed after each meeting?

Thanks for taking the initiative to host this.
Could NFTs be used somehow to cheaply transfer money between different foreign currencies? Currency exchange charges have always been absurd for no obvious reason besides banks controlling access...I feel like that market needs to be disrupted.
Nextcloud with OnlyOffice integration.

e.g.: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/docker-onlyoffice-nextcloud
Unexpected Ronnie Coleman reference
Sounds a lot like reading the comment feed on hn. A panel of experts that have better forecasting abilities than FANG combined.
Youtuber Stefan Milo has an excellent video on the neolithic life in this region (with a mentions of the burning of houses):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pnv3jelAO4

I can’t recommend his channel enough. His narrative of how normal people lived in the ancient times is really interesting.
Actually, electricity is so easy to understand that mathematicians are thrilled when they get to use electricity as a metaphor to gain insights into more abstract systems. The poster child for this approach would be the spectacular book:

Probability on Trees and Networks
by Russell Lyons and Yuval Peres
https://rdlyons.pages.iu.edu/prbtree/

As a comment on the style of "Why is electricity so hard to understand?", mathematicians get inundated with crank missives claiming simpler proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem, and many other hard problems. On one hand we try not to judge the delusion, as it takes a certain amount of delusion for any of us to find the confidence to overturn old ideas. Yet there's a balance here. With cell phones, the ability to self-rescue in the woods has gotten lost. Even the most delusional serious mathematician knows how to "self-rescue". Part of commanding one's work is understanding it in context, and to see how one might critique it, more incisively than any potential reader. This is not unique to math; "writer's block" is a writer losing control of this balance, just as insanity is anyone losing control of their inner chaos.

"Why is electricity so hard to understand?" is indulgent; it doesn't even try not to read like a crank missive.

I often reply to crank missives with advice on how not to be immediately coded as such. The world would be more fun if we were unable to tell the crazies apart from everyone else. Alas this advice rarely takes.
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You also 10-gig ethernet and 4 TB3 ports which is pretty nice as well, given TB3 is only way to expand the computer if you want PCI-E devices (more likely if you are a serious customer for a 5k computer...). The standard iMac only has two, of which one will likely be used up powering an external monitor in a professional workstation. For a "Pro" machine, these kind of things often matter. My current top-of-line iMac (non-pro) setup has both TB3 ports consumed with just an eGPU and a monitor, but I would otherwise agree for cost conscious buyers its the better machine.

I'm not sure if the updated 2020 non-pro iMac ever got the T2 line rate encryption feature the iMac Pro has either.
>The server side is being broken up into micro-services which makes all server a client/server roundtrip as well. Your DB was always running seperately making it a client/server roundtrip, etc.

The backend is likely all in the same building with a reliable and high-bandwith link between servers.

You can't compare that to a round-trip from the client to the backend.
Yes the AfterBurner card for acceleration of ProRes content
Although debts in a foreign currency can certainly make things worse (like in the 1997 Asia crisis), when we see hyperinflation, it’s often due to a collapse in supply.

If the country isn’t making what it needs to either consume locally or export in exchange for foreign goods, it’s operating in something like siege conditions and of course prices are going to go through the roof as people (and often the government) try to outbid each other for what little remains.

Venezuela’s exports of everything but oil collapsed in 2008. By 2012, 96% of exports were oil. Then the oil industry collapsed due to severe underfunding.

(Of course at this point, due to sanctions, trade is even harder, but the crisis started before that.)
$1500 barely covers rent in most US cities too. Meanwhile, median rent in Vienna is about €900, which I’m not sure can be replicated anywhere here (maybe Pittsburgh?)
The more important distinction is not to treat it as if the activity itself has magical properties that automatically translate into a better life in some form.

Ask yourself what you want to read and what you want to get out of that.

If you read casually but don't actually enjoy the activity beyond the satisfaction that you are reading and that this is a Good Thing, there's no point. If you underline passages and study but nothing really comes out of that study over time, there's no point either assuming it is not an activity you inherently enjoy for its own sake.

That's why just having a vague goal of 'reading more' is a bit of a trap
> I'm still frustrated that they took my money knowing they've got this in development

I don't think a Mac Mini M1 replaces an iMac Pro right now. The Mac Mini M1 maxes out at 16GiB of RAM, which means it will aggressively use swap for certain workloads that require a lot of memory. The speed of swap tends to mask the fact that you're swapping a lot more, but I think it puts a lot of wear on the flash. You don't want to do that because that can decrease the lifespan of your storage, and you can't swap the storage out once it's past its useful lifespan.

Because of longevity concerns, if you're running memory-intensive workloads, I'd suggest getting a previous-generation iMac Pro with more memory. There's no published timeline on when Apple will release an Apple Silicon-based iMac Pro that can be configured with higher amounts of RAM (i.e., 64GiB). It might happen this year, or you might be waiting more like 2 or 3 years for that to happen.

I don't think anybody who has purchased a previous-generation iMac Pro with more memory has gotten any kind of a "raw deal" from Apple.
Can you download webp photos? That’s something missing from Unsplash, which is a pain as they’d prefer you hotlink.
There are cryptocurrencies with anonymity features (e.g., Monero, Zcash), but I recall reading that users often leak information.
The US could reach herd immunity by summer through vaccinations alone, CNN finds
The US is imposing not just US sanctions but a blockade on Venezuela, with one goal to block Covid vaccines from coming in (unless Venezuela bows down to a list of US demands). The US, UK etc. have pilfered Venezuelan money deposited in US and UK banks, also removing funds for vaccine purchase. It's akin to what the US did to Iraq in the 1990s (prior to the two invasions and current occupation of that country).

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15086
Too much power for small devices like earbuds or iot devices.
That is 100% Stephanie Kelton's core assertion in MMT. But it's not not widely supported amongst economists.

In Venezuela's case, they haven't even been paying their debt, so it's hard to make the case that it matters here.
Yes yes,yes
This has everything to do with American excetionalism. We have funded four failed coup attempts because the leaders won’t play ball with American ideology. Just like us funding the coup in Iran which let islamist extremisrs overthrough a democracy because they would no longer let us control their oil resources.

If Venezuela and Iran could sell openly on the free market, texans, alaskans and opec oil riches would plummet.
I guess so, but that's a weird question. It's not even a programming language and you can learn most of those in a week or so. It's just a simple library, learning everything about it should take max few days. You can probably learn it as you go whenever it becomes necessary.
This is a pretty standard treatment. What remains unclear is whether E is what the free charges generate (and what brings the mysterious D into existence), or it is what acts on the probe charge (which is calculated from D).
Indeed, the arts-and-crafts style furniture that my parents bought when they got married is still in use today, with minor repairs and some refinishing. The Ikea-style furniture that they also bought (veneered particle board) is gone.
While Bitcoins are not tulips (of the Tulip Mania fame), NFTs are.
While I agree, Apple's interest in satisfying those "pro" audiences is waning, as is the interest in the pros to continue using their products. Apple has realized that it's much easier to market themselves where talent and personality intersect; aka, "the pro-sumer". For every Mac Pro they sell, they sell another thousand iPhones and a hundred Macbooks. Long-term, it makes much more sense for them to optimize around these audiences.

With that being said, I've noticed a startling increase in Linux use among pro workflows. The other day I visited a mixing studio that was entirely driven by Arch and Reaper if you could believe it, a really neat setup to say the least.
> That argument makes no sense to me, do you think you'd change your mind on Electron if access to it were restricted only to very intelligent and motivated people who made very good apps then?

but that's not the world we live in - everything has to be considered in that context and not in the abstract, in order to make any sense. Consider musical instruments - you can technically make great music with literally anything. But if, say, 80% of what people are doing with a given instrument ends up sucking, the problem lies more in the instrument than in the people, even if a very talented (and dedicated) 20% is able to make symphonies with it.
If-Else-Switch
How does a PS/2 keyboard interface work?
The gain is fake. The tax benefit from the donation that is based on that fake gain is not.

It’s like making a million dollars in counterfeit money, then donating that to charity. You reduce taxes by $370,000, and are out $0.
It’s because Venezuela has external debts, which must be repaid in an external currency. Printing money as a way of paying those debts is ill advised, because since the debts are in an external currency, they become harder and harder to pay. But Venezuela appears to be doing just that, probably out of desperation. They could just default, but they have refused to do so, perhaps because they are worried about even more sanctions or a possible coup.

Edit: they are in default on many of those debts, and that’s why the sanctions happened, which caused further damage. And we already tried to coup them. And now confidence in the currency has been lost, causing the death spiral to accelerate. Sorry, had my timeline wrong
From an individuals perspective it doesnt matter if other people have it or not. If you have something and others think it is of value, you can trade with them for things you want.. I'm talking about maintaining physical gold.. point is, no matter what people coverge to, you'll still have plenty of 'that' stuff.. it's about stashing value in a place that the govt can't dilute away by making more of the same thing..
Since you're responding with more of what I asked you to stop, I have to conclude that you don't want to use HN as intended, and have banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Even the worst article doesn't justify setting fires and provoking war in the threads. This place is fragile and needs to be protected.

"You cancel any comment which goes against the conservative/libertarian status quo" is a tad silly, since anyone who glances at HN can easily see otherwise. Passionate partisans on all sides feel that the site is against them, but that's a function of their passions, not a real assessment. We hear the same kind of thing from the other corner:

"HN socialist apologia", "the mods are SJW", "socialist-leaning mods" ,"Hacker News the SJW Hole", "you can't be anti-liberal here", "radical leftists appear to have taken control", "tends to be more liberal so you will be downvoted", "a liberal echo chamber identical to all other social media", "this SJW cesspool", "it's ALWAYS the case in HN that any opinion that's not 100% politically correct && strictly SJW standard compliant is suppressed", "HN in turn, are left leaning, socialist Democrats", "you fucking insane sjw", "leftist filter bubbles", "left-wing propaganda", "leftist totalitarianism prevalent on HN", "anti-western and extremely anti-capitalist", "Dang is a totalitarian liberal thought policeman", "banned every single prominent right winger", "extremely left-winged", "most people on HN are liberals", "socialist hell-hole", "this site leans left", "leftist bots", "always politically left", "skews quite left", "Obviously this website is rigged for the liberal agenda", "the level of wokeness is just absurd", "leftist ideological echo chamber", "run by radical leftists, so no surprise", "You aren't allowed to go against the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party", "ideas here are ignored, down voted, flagged, shadow banned if they question the left ideology", "a very anti-libertarian echo chamber", "a heavy socialist lean, you are not allowed to have a differing perspective", "only liberals are allowed to express their political opinions on HN", "capitalism bad", "flaaaaaming, communist level liberal", "shows how much of a leftist website this is", "dang is an SJW cunt"

(pilfered from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870)
Money printer go brrrrrrrrr
I'm not sure if this counts as #2, but I've hired a number of good people on HN via the monthly job postings. It's a good community, and not even just people who blog.
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China alarmed by changing gender roles, proposes teaching masculinity to boys
The good thing about industry vs academia is that it's fairly easy to change things in the industry and to beat your fists on the table when things go wrong.

Simplest case: you switch jobs. Harder case: you sue your employer.

This is not the case in academia, where things are basically transactional: either you pull through the whole thing and get out with a PhD, or you basically wasted n years of your life. Yeah you can sue people around, but I've hardly seen people lose their job even on serious issues (eg: a professor saying racial slurs during a lesson, recorded via microsoft teams. some generic apology by the university dean headmaster and it ended there, no real/actual consequences. she's still there teaching, afaik).

A lot of smart people smell this during their 'thesis-in-the-lab-with-the-prof-and-the-phd-candidates' and politely decline the invite to apply for a phd-candidate position.

Not sure this answers your questions, just wanted to add my 2¢.
Speaking as a corporate programmer working from home indefinitely, I'd kill for IDEA Viewer. My laptop can't have code on it, so I'm forced to remote desktop to my workstation to use IntelliJ and CLion remotely, which is a middling experience at best. A light protocol for synchronizing the frontend with the IDE backend would be excellent.

You can look at my profile and various papers we've published about why code on laptops is both hard technically and draw your own conclusions beyond that.

As an aside, I also use IntelliJ on my own projects for Rust. The Rust LSP is getting there, but nothing beats IntelliJ Rust yet, and that's been my experience across the suite. JetBrains tackles the hardest 20% of the problems (like partial compilation and indexing) and executes extremely well.
Culture war does permeate everything, including any time you see something that's perfectly balanced demographically, which is how you know it was contrived and is probably an ad or other obsequious sanitized corporate communication designed not to be cancelable.
It's them shilling - propaganda.
Sure.

I hit your (2) criteria a while back.

In general though, for me, it's a case of finding out additional tech/science things I wasn't aware about and reading what are generally informed opinions about said things. Sometimes I get to be one of those informed opinions.

That became useful to me when I ran across a post about H3 spatial partitioning. I actually had a use case that I'd been working on using DGGRID for a few months, and that was turning out to be computationally expensive, and I couldn't make it work in near real time for my specific use.

This in turn led me to developing a project I've been working on for a while that has expanded my skill set in a handful of disciplines, and if I hadn't run across H3, I'd probably have thrown away my project as a lost cause.
Got interested in compilers & Programming languages. Also variety of other CS topics. (The links and few top comments are very good).
> iMac Pro wasn't used by people who ran Geekbench, but by people who benefitted with bespoke accelerator card,

The iMac Pro never supported the afterburner card - that’s a Mac Pro exclusive. I think you’re getting your products mixed up here…
I already happen to run an EAP and Linux without mitigations (they're less bad on AMD CPUs anyway). I guess I'll try increasing the heap, but I hope it doesn't need 16 GB for itself.
Ex MS employee (and former intern).
Somewhat new to Go (and using VSCode full time) - but it's the language of choice for my job right now. Go seems to be popular in backend apps (non windows mostly) where concurrency and performance are important. The tooling around go for performance profiling and optimization are rather good IMO, and quite friendly if you are accustomed to Unix style CLI tools.

I do agree with the other comments that the language server is buggy but it works quite well when it works. I may be a bit bias when dealing with tooling since I came from Xcode where workflow breaking bugs was the norm.
Yeah, I had a hunch something like this was going to happen which is why I opted for a refurbished base model iMac Pro over something new. Still expensive (~$3500), but not nearly as bad for the period of time I was able to get use out of it. Will probably trade it in along with a 2017 MBP 15" to pay for the majority of a Mac Pro Mini or ARM MBP 16" and hopefully one of the lower-cost displays they're rumored to be releasing this year.
They don't prefer that you hotlink, but they prefer you use their API if you hotlink. In any case there's no requirement or expectation to hotlink, and their license explicitly allows you to distribute Unsplash photos in whatever format you like.