skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"If you're talking about classes, methods, inheritance, and so on, then it's just a syntax equivalent of training wheels."

Everything above microcode is. Abstractions / paradigms when applied adequately help to see the forest beyond the trees.
> The parallel statement would be "If you believe that flat-Earth advocates don't actually care about whether the Earth is flat or not, they just want to prevent space exploration to keep us trapped on Earth"

But...isn’t that statement either true or false, just like the statement “the Earth is flat” is either true or false? What’s the difference between the two statements? Is knowledge about one statement possible, but not the other?
Please can people stop using absolutist epithets like this.

Managing your attitude, emotions, and the stories you tell yourself will help a lot.

If you do it badly, it will increase your chances of failure.

Doing it well will not determine your success. That’s just magical thinking. It will predispose you for success if the other conditions are right for it, but nothing more.
Though they’re already laying the groundwork for “premium” features like admin tools, role based permissions, kanban and calendar views which would be paid subscriptions for self-hosted options too.

I always worry that essential features for tools like these will get bumped into one of those paid tiers.
I agree that a lot of political discussions boil down ultimately to values. But along the way people make irrational evaluations that could be improved or corrected, and that may lead to different politics even if the values remain stable.

A good concrete example of political zealots being detached from reality is the George Floyd/BLM situation. Floyd had high levels of drugs in his system, COVID-19, and was complaining about breathing in the car before there was a knee on him. Chokeholds are also a very standard and typically non lethal form of getting a suspect under control. There’s no evidence of race playing a part in this incident (no evidence of motive) or it even being an instance of police brutality (standard and typically safe procedures were used), because of these complicating factors. The news media focus, social media virality, sustained legal protests, and sustained violent rioting have corrupted people’s ability to judge this situation rationally, to the point that people overestimate the number of unarmed black people killed by police by over 50x (https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/poll-44-of-liberals-say-...). Better rational thinking from the general population might have changed the last 10 months, and also avoided the embarrassing and dangerous cycle of Minneapolis first defunding and then refunding their police department.

Then there’s the possibility that people’s values are variable as well, but I’ve not put much thought into that. I suspect however that sustained rational thinking over a period of time can affect values and so it would change politics.
I always like Avery's "Software Engineer Simulator":

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213 (on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15912929)
Written policies don't change that quickly. Policing, aka the execution of those policies, can be swayed by firings, appointments, executive order, and political pressure. Trump used these avenues more than most.
If you can reset your password via email it’s effectively a login mechanism - you’re right. I guess passwords are quicker so it’s another more convenient login mechanism. There are a lot of other “prove you are who you say you are” mechanisms: SMS, rotating auth keys, hardware tokens, biometrics. All with upsides and downsides in security and usability.

Passwords that humans remember are on the low end of both security and usability, so I understand your frustration! Password managers work fine but really they’re duct tape pretending to be something like a hard token.

I’ve seen websites do what you say - always log in with an email verification. It’s not bad. My favorite is a push notification to my phone + watch.
No there certainly is a chance for ML to improve here.

Let’s take the classic example of enhancing a blurry photo to get a license plate.

Humans may not be able to see much in the blur, but an AI trained on many different highly down-res’d images could at least give you plausible outcomes using far less data than a human brain would be able to say anything with confidence.

You wouldn’t hold it up as the absolute truth, but you’d run the potential plate and see if it matched some other data you have.

So yes, it wouldn’t magically add any more information to the image, but it could be far better at taking low information and giving plausible outcomes that are then necessary to verify.
Run on consoles only. Keep PCs for productive work and single-player games.
Gorgeous landing page. Is it a template or did you handroll that? Kudos either way.
Page 37 (PDF numbering) of this 1958 research paper reproduces a version published in an 1883 issue of 'The Athenaeum':

http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1958/...
I guess it depends on the person.

I hate swimming more than running.

I love lifting weights but hated it for the first long while.

Walking, sure but I never considered that exercise, again depends on the person.
Why should the perception of speed have to be based on deceit?

I bet I would perceive a progress bar that progresses with constant speed as faster than one that stalls and stutters even when both of them take the same time to completion. Even more if the alternative would be an indefinite progress indicator (hourglass pointer, spinner) that just goes away when the task finishes.

On the other hand if the result is that a user is less annoyed by a process, I do not see why it should be wrong to convey that feeling artificially by setting up a situation in which the same result makes them feel better than in a more "honest" one (as you might call it?).
find any transalations into modern hebrew script?
Could you share the link to that podcast?
This is already the case. I rarely have a need to take out my SLR - it's just too bulky to have a reason for it, unless I'm going on an adventure where photography is one of the or the main purpose.

I've gone on hiking trips where my "challenge" was to only use my phone camera. It wasn't much of a challenge for landscapes.
When I was a graduate student, one of my advisors tried to steer me away from focusing on periods of history where textual sources are/were more, shall we say, fluid. (In my particular case, this was Warring States China - I ended up pursuing early medieval Chinese literature so it was moot anyways). The point here is that academic careers are made or broken and some research is totally discredited while other research gains more prominence on the back of the vagaries of archaeological finds and determinations of authenticity. Within that the world, the stakes are extremely high.
The Chinese vaccine passport uses relative prices
> [who] gets all of their hopes and dreams fulfilled

Well, not the citizens of the country, which is kind of the point.
The commute doesn't have to tire you, if you do it only 2-3 days per week. Increased workspace flexibility might be one of the biggest wins from this period of forced WFH. I know the thing that tires me most is the boredom from a fixed routine.
I'm not Ben, but I have worked with him for the last 2+ years at Sentry. The whole Toronto office is super positive, and I love working with them every chance I get. Not to derail the thread too much but thanks for giving us a try and hopefully checking out the jobs page Ben linked to :)
This was awesome. I loved it so much.

Personally I'd even pay good money for a series of these style of puzzles.
Alan Kay provided the first definition of OOP. That is not the same as using the word “object” for the first time.

As that article clearly shows, at least once you’re past its clickbait title, Kay acknowledges his influences. That isn’t a lack of clarity, it’s an awareness that we all build on the effort of our peers and predecessors, that ideas do not spring forth fully formed from the void.

This does not discredit anyone’s work, far from it; context is an aid to understanding.
1964, IBM 1620, 1311 drive. McCracken text.

I remember the day the prof was late to class and came in looking much the worse for wear. The drive had experienced a head crash.
How I Deploy Projects to My Hobby Server
I wouldn't call it unfair, but if you're giving the candidate the option to solve a problem in their language of choice, you may run into this. You can either constrain the problem (we work with languages X, Y Z, so pick either of those) or still give them the option but use it in another way.

For example, I work in front-end but I do most interviews across front-end, back-end, devops, always together with someone who's familiar with the domain or the specific stack we're recruiting for. In that case I'm there to test more on softer skills, but also its a good test to see if a candidate can discuss their domain with someone who isn't familiar with it.
Yeah. It's kinda funny. Due to extensive F# -> C# -> Java feature bleed you can consider them beta channels of the same language. Java being LTS, C# - main, and F# - Dev Builds.
How do Silicon Valley Techies Celebrate getting rich in a pandemic?
Semantics I think. I do not see much difference for example between Pollock's artwork and some of computer generated stuff.
Ask HN: Domain Adapted/ Fine-Tuned Language Models as a Service?
more & more orgs are looking to leverage domain specific pipelines like seq-classification, NER,summarization & text-gen but few have the internal resources to build them in-house or using AWS/ Azure/ GCP. Do any of you see value in an end-to-end service providing data curation, labeling, model building & implementation all as a service? Can anyone recommend companies like this?
Or “eerily premium”
I use it regularly (for my personal photos) and it depends on the photo. My observation is that pictures of natural elements (clouds, water, stars) tend to yield better results than for example a family picture in my house.
This is something that could be useful for guild pastebins etc imo, are there plans to filter access by specific roles as well?
It talks about iCloud sync, so this means anyone who knows your iCloud credentials can now download your second factors.
The benefit of having the self hosted always free option is your data isn’t locked into the service.

Price is important, but data sovereignty more so imho. If a vendor is no longer meeting your needs, or the deal becomes less fair (you know the whole “raising prices once your business relies on them”), you can export and bounce.

More of this chef kiss
In their defense, their upcoming 'premium' features are clearly labelled on the Feature Roadmap. I really like that.

Great job OP!
They are, media sites are also free to opt out of google indexing.
Yeah, I've recommended https://docassemble.org/ to a lot of friends in the lawyer space. They use it a lot to generate some automate template software.
In my experience, the hardest part of estimating how long a project will take is estimating how much time things OUTSIDE of the project itself will take. How much time will be spent maintaining other projects? How much time will be spent helping other teams on things they need? How much time will be spent on random other things?
It’s possible that I’m a teapot.
>(a common argument used by urbanists when it comes to road infrastructure)

This just proves that you don't know how housing works. I'm not even talking about the market itself. I'm just talking about the concept of being allowed to live in a building for money. You have to pay rent to live in a house/apartment. Alternatively you pay a mortgage or you buy the house outright.

None of this applies to road infrastructure, you don't pay toll to use a wider road. It's a direct subsidy to people who like driving. You would have to be extremely stupid to not understand that wider roads will lead to more driving. There is nothing preventing you from using public infrastructure wastefully precisely because it's free. Free suffers from tragedy of commons, everyone knows that.

If you use housing wastefully like by keeping it vacant you personally pay for this loss yourself. You're on the hook for your own behavior. People also get to decide whether they want denser apartments meanwhile the city planner forces road construction upon you whether your neighborhood really needs it or not.
You are not required to trust exchanges. But in reality, it's them who rule the Bitcoin's world. And they are much worse than governments and banks.
This looks more like what Arch Linux used to be before the switch to systemd.
> From web searching, North America is 120V but two phases. So you could redo the socket to 240V without running new cable through your walls.

You'd need an extra conductor of wire than is there in the cable for a standard 240V outlet. (Hot1, Hot2, Neutral, Gnd).

You can run a Hot1/Hot2 240V circuit with existing 14/2 romex, but odds are that whatever feeds the outlet in your kitchen also feeds many other outlets, and you don't want them all to be 240V.

Note North America doesn't use ring circuits like the UK.
Someone can come out with it and then someone will wrap a dashboard around it and advertise it as "look - you don't even have to write code!"

The biggest enemy of programming languages as general purpose tools for business is the idea that code == hard, and coder == expensive specialized labor.

If we reach a point where programming is taught as a basic skill like arithmetic or writing then maybe we can apply standard PL tools to basic business tasks.
Show HN: LaunchSong– Meritocratic Music Discovery. Find undiscovered indie gems!
In the old days, a balanced portfolio consisted of stocks, bonds and maybe some real estate.

Today, bonds yield very little, and as we've seen in recent weeks, they can decline in value rapidly with small increases in the interest rate. You can lose a lot of money buying bonds.

Stocks are at all-time highs even though the economy isn't doing so well and many are unemployed. Are stocks a safe store of value right now?

Companies are shifting to hybrid work-from-home models that require less office space. And not just tech companies, yesterday Target said they're not renewing the lease on an entire building in Minneapolis because of more flexible hybrid work. Is real estate a safe store of value?

As trillions of borrowed and printed dollars and euros were pumped into economies the last year, gold was the worst performing asset of them all. So is gold a safe store of value?

And inflation isn't the only enemy of wealth. Political disintegration destroys wealth much faster, just look what happened to the ruble after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The probability of that happening in a major western nation is low, but not zero, and higher now than 10 years ago.

So if you're a high net worth individual looking at the twin threats of inflation and political disintegration, exactly how do you protect your wealth?

It's easy to see how Bitcoin might be getting a 5% allocation from a lot of family offices right now.
Good. We really need more self-hosted open source alternatives like Baserow.
She's preparing the daughter for med school or law school, and maybe a career with an MBB.

Daughter's got to learn the Six Sigmas somehow:

1. Teamwork

2. Insight

3. Brutality

4. Male enhancement

5. Hand-shakefulness (post-COVID)

6. Play-hard

Devil's advocate: Without getting caught, one has to ponder the malice vs. the expedient and rational considerations for competitive genetic advantages conferred, socially and scholastically.
Lawsuit filed in 2014. Deepfake then, not so much.
A non-tech muggle's jaw hitting the floor is practically par for course. I'm so tired of reading these breathless assessments from people who don't know any better
“but weren’t they willingly paying the mob?”
Is the Rottweiler particularly anxious to be in the room?
exactly. I get the point that corporations tend to "extort" users by offering supposedly-core features only under premium, but on the other hand this one is a startup and gotta make ends meet somehow. so far I'm fine with that
Loved Loom on the Amiga, always felt the lower color versions of Monkey Island and Loom looked better.

You can tell the color limitations led some of the atmosphere direction. Same deal with both the island at the start of Loom and the town at the start of Monkey Island, the EGA versions feel like they're night but the VGA feel like early evening.
Open-SaaS!
>> The short of it: Turchin advocates for a field of 'cliodynamics' which tries to apply math to meaningfully describe and predict social trends, especially large ones such as collapse.

I seem to remember that cliodynamics is really Asimov's psychohistory, but pursued in ernest, no?
I've never thought about it this way. To me it's more like, many different paradigms and cleverness are the forest and as well the trees.

When I see an object-oriented codebase that makes me jump between 5 or more files to understand the simplest codepaths (because inheritance), and that is not browseable without a properly setup IDE and jump-to support (because of heavy namespacing and non-telling method names), it makes my shy away.

On the other hand for example, larger open source projects written in C are often really easy to read. Local ("coherent") code paths, fully qualified function names in calls, no extra foo that gets executed implicitly on data data declaration or cleanup. Nothing hidden, every line just works to solve the actual problem.
Not being forced to choose "work or death" every day of their lives would free people to actualize the fuck outta themselves
I love C#, but they seriously fucked up Span<T> and Range by restricting them to 32 bit length, which by the time when the features were concepted was already extremely niche.

Now language is very clunky to work with in ML/"big" data space.

Technically, that is the fault of the runtime, which does not support 64 bit arrays, but naturally teams must be working together.
That was a lot of fun. It can help solving this puzzle if you are familiar with techniques for solving picross (AKA nonogram) puzzles.
There’s a grain of truth in there somewhere.
They provide much more value than what they capture, and what they capture is pretty much necessary to serve those services (in the search space, not Android etc). The only way to make them capture less value is by tax, as we have seen. Other big tech companies are much more rent-seeking and can actually unlock swaths of value with proper regulation.
So what happens if you take a tiny 10x10 image and run it through "super resolution" about 8-10 times?
I measured. It takes fully twice as long on a gas range burner, with a wide, flat-bottom kettle.
>>I am not sure what you are showing other than that you believe our population growth from mass immigration needs to continue despite the negative outcomes.

Perhaps to put a more human perspective, I graduated with a STEM degree during a recession and it was horrible. Many classmates had their careers set back by many years.

If I have to choose again between prosperity and economic growth that seems to be strongly correlated with a growing and educated population via immigration vs. affordable housing coupled with few economics opportunities, I'll choose the first option almost every time.

There's no point being able to afford housing if there are no economic opportunities in the area. Detroit at its peak in the 1950s had a population of 1.8M and was the 5th largest city in America, but is now a shadow of its former glory due to various factors and it's population only 680K (37% of its peak). Incidentally, nearby Windsor seems to have experienced very gradual population growth (less than Toronto) but its economic prospects still look pretty bleak.

It seems like you believe something like that could never happen to Toronto because the Golden Horseshoe is one of the few habitable places to live in Canada, in which case we'll just have to agree to disagree on this counterfactual.
You have to expose the generic in the enum though. Rust doesn't have existential types at the moment.
Why would I ever haul anything to my place? It's far easier to have it delivered.

A couple of years ago I did maintenance to my garden. I ordered planks and bags of cement from Amazon for next day delivery because I couldn't even be bothered to order from a specialist store.

But if I wanted to, there's a store with bulk construction supplies literally at the bottom of my road, and a more retail oriented one 20 minutes away.

But I don't even have a drivers license. Never felt worth the time.
it's an interesting thought experiment to try and make sense of what it is about a website that makes it seem ugly, or not ugly. at what point does an 'ugly' web site become beautiful? is there a threshold?

i'd like to see an example of a site that you feel is not ugly, not so i can be a contrarian and say 'well, i think those are ugly!' but, just to get a feel for what you believe is exemplary of beauty.
For sure, can't risk handbrake failure.
I used to have a 10 minute walk to work, and it was great. I'd take 1-2 days WFH a month still because there was some work that simply needed no interruptions/distractions.

Now I have a 60-75 minute commute over underground, and I'm not looking forward to the return to the office. There's definitely aspects of working where I long for the office, but others where I'm glad for the solitude.

If we have to return 5 days a week I'll probably have to move and pay much more or have a tiny living space.

I value my time more than my comfort so am accepting of this, but it still frustrates me after living the afore mentioned dream.

I'd also note that I regularly start work an hour or two early since working from home - with >2hrs of commuting slashed from my day, if I get a good thought at breakfast why not bash it out?

When you're facing 12hrs as a baseline for your working day it's much less appealing to contribute outside that time.
Does "SaaS" read as "Self as a Service"?
Is there a translation of the text anywhere? Search just brings up alternatives for this news article.
Work on something else, until I forgot that I started a build (that could take up to 40min) and then go back to it when/if I randomly remember what i was working on.
I just use a bit of tap water, the Δt is about the same and it's less wasteful.
Obama continued being a middle east warmonger. He just got a Nobel peace prize for it instead of being vilified