skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You just learn not to worry about it

I don't know why but a lot of people my age do worry about it and get very uncomfortable guessing at a pronunciation of a new word. Doubly so for names. I guess it's an insecurity thing? I have no problem just going for it, with a little question tagged on or just an upward tone if I'm really unsure.
How is not apples to oranges? You are comparing a library that implements a database (with a specific binary file format that any sqlite instance understands, and a query language, among other functionalities) to a programming language!

With sqlite, creating an index is a one-liner. How do you cover that in clojure?
With sqlite, a whole database fits in one file that can be read by almost any macos / linux machine. With clojure, you need your specific program created on top of clojure installed in the machine.
Etc.

At the end of the day, you can reimplement sqlite on clojure, which basically proves that we are talking about different abstraction levels, thus apples to oranges.
And the gaming industry that may be holding off their PS5 releases.
Thanks for the feedback! (author's here)

Sorry to hear that it could be confusing. I will look at its contents once more soon looking for some improvements.
SambaNova raises $676M at a $5.1B valuation to double down on cloud-based AI SW
If it's B2B, it's easier for business customers to get a once-a-year expense paid than to get authorization for a monthly charge to a corporate card. Many organizations don't like having their corporate card numbers enrolled in open-ended recurring charge plans.
Sarah Taber covers this very well on her Twitter (even though she has a particular anti-dairy ax to grind)
Peter Singer is one of the Editors.

Other well known names in the editorial board: Lawrence Summers, Philip Tetlock, Jonathan Haidt, Susan Blackmore.
Yes, the woman's voice definitely has that NPR way of finishing sentences.
The Marvelous Money Machine a fable of finance
Anti-semitism exists and is reprehensible. That having been said, using it hand-wave away what could be legitimate examination and discussion of a person whose behavior may be controversial is dangerous- and could encourage true anti-semitism. Over-use of accusations of anti-semitism in such a way that discourages discussion encourages bigots to say "All <insert a people> are <insert a pejorative>", particulary if the discussion topic is a figure whose actions may be controversial at times, such as Soros. I'm focused on Soros here because he came up in discussion; this is but one example of over-use of claims of racism, anti-semitism, etc. being used to stifle legitimate discussion.

I can remember 4 controversies surrounding Soros off the top of my head. There is (or there should be) room to discuss the statements below without redirecting off-topic by raising a curtain around the subject through claims of anti-semitism:

* In the late eighties Soros was convicted of insider trading by some French regulatory authority. If memory serves, his appeals of these convictions failed. Some people claim the conviction and fine was politically motivated, some claim the conviction was true as written.

* In 2009 a Hungarian agency fined Soros Fund Management LLC for manipulating values of Hungarian OTP bank stocks. The same arguments were made for/against the justice of the conviction.

* There are claims that Soros took advantage of the British screwing up when they pegged the Pound against the Deutschmark under the Exchange Rate Mechanism, and that he gamed a lot of value from the British economy as a result. I probably don't have the details right, I've heard people say that he sucker-punched the British, and others say that it actually helped the Brits in the long run.

* There are claims that in the 90's Soros manipulated the Maylaysion economy, society and currency for his profit, and that many suffered as a result. Some believe Soros had nothing to do with the Malaysion troubles and call this a conspiracy theory- it's still worth discussing.

My point is that the use of labels that identify real problems to distract from or avoid altogether a potentially controversial discussion has the potential to make [real] racism, [real] anti-semitism, etc. much worse, and should be avoided.

EDIT: spelling / grammar
Google has invested quite a bit into decarbonizing their data centers. They do a lot better than AWS for example.
In my practical experience having worked with SPARQL and GraphQL, I would very much prefer GraphQL.

SPARQL is really nice for querying graph data, but I'd argue that for most applications tree-like hierarchies are good enough. Also GraphQL and associated frontend libraries are written to be consumed by browsers and results are much easier to handle than results from a SPARQL query, JSON+LD is not the easiest format to handle. The tooling around SPARQL is not great compared to GraphQL either.

Furthermore I'd argue that SPARQL queries are really hard to statically analyze / optimize on the Backend. Different SPARQL engines behave differently and whether you run your query against e.g. Stardog or Virtuoso can have vast performance differences. SPARQL being hard to analyze statically actually becomes apparent once you start thinking about authorization of resources, it is not a trivial problem to know to which resources a client should have access to or not.

And while it is true that you can model provenance, authorization and all kind of other niceties in SPARQL as well, you will likely be on your own building all those tools yourself.

I believe SPARQL is a great query language for public / open data, e.g. Wiki Data, Government data, etc, but in a business context I'd rather choose REST or GraphQL over it.
This is reminiscent of the strategy of displaying nasty images of the effects of smoking on cigarette packaging, but much more mild.
60% of Americans (roughly) own real estate. It’s by far their largest asset. What proportion of Americans own crypto and how much of their net worth does it comprise? That would show you how significant the wealth effect would be.
I agree, ineffective policies just cause unintended consequences. If the Fed or us government had done its job we wouldn't have to print so much money in the first place.
Very painful due to the lack of support for importing npm packages.
I used to work there and left on a bad note. So, I'm not a fanboy (anymore).

There are a few things Amazon is doing better than industry standard, but because of their scale the things they don't do well have a huge impact and I believe that also increases their responsibility.

I would say "We are going to be Earth’s Best Employer and Earth’s Safest Place to Work" is a complete 180, so I believe it, when I see it. It will take years of hard work and culture shift, if they are actually serious about it.
What metric confirms that correlation?
Keynote on SambaNova's hardware architecture at the CIDR 2021 conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHhHHBuk3W4
It's a totally fair game.

> I'm not a trump supporter but he did the right thing on this front.

It's a shame you have to admit that. I'm a liberal and think we should be putting a hard squeeze on unilateral trade. This policy makes sense for the US and other countries regardless of your party.

You can see that the US is starting to ramp up hard core. With international navies now sailing into the South China sea and a deafening rise of anti-CCP news and (admittedly) some propaganda, player two has finally entered the game.

I live near an air force base and over the last few weeks have seen (and definitely heard!) an almost daily fighter jet exercise. This hasn't happened in years.

China is going to be in a very tough spot soon.
I'm always a little sad how poorly these can work:

https://imgur.com/a/mCLZVwp

I'm sure there's some amount of font twiddling and changing to a different terminal that'll fix this, but using these characters out of the box is problematic.
That is incorrect. GDP is typically calculated using an expenditure approach. Just transferring 185MM would not impact GDP.
Speaking of, this is a blog post that I really liked on factorio from a functional programming perspective.

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2021/02/16/functorio/
Semi orders are made years in advance with pricing fixed in the contract.
> right-wing conspiracies based on outright fabrications

maybe on that one point, but the fact the democrats trade way more on the markets is not a conspiracy theory, it's an outright conspiracy.

why are you defending these people? because they're democrats on paper?
There is another debit card here in Germany.

I have such a card and it is neither a MasterCard or Visa card. It looks like a Credit card with a Chip and magnetic stripe, but it has my IBAN on the front instead of a Credit Card number. These cards are the standard here in germany. If you have a german bank account you get one of these.

You can use it pretty much like a Credit Card and you can even pay contactless with it, but I think you can only do so here in Germany. Though it does not work if you only support credit cards.

Since these cards are standard and free some people do not bother with a credit card.
Thanks for the feedback! (author's here)

I promise to be more careful when picking up the title next time. I hope that the article's content somehow compensated that ;)
Hopefully people spend their money and corporations invest their money to meet the demand.
Even 2019 i9 MBP can't do that without extreme overheating and throttling, measured with pmset -g thermlog.
The level of doom and gloom and misanthropy

I's not misanthropy to note that we're not so different from other species and that our growth/behavior is in many respects similar to other natural phenomena involving complex systems. Our long term success is correlated with our ability to shift resources away from negative-sum behaviors so as not to exceed the carrying capacity of our environment.
There's a Chinese company selling robot dogs for under $10K. This is an unboxing video from a buyer of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAN8F9tjUmg I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of them soon.
Washington State Plans to Phase Out New Gas Cars by 2030
In no way, shape or form would a crypto implosion be anywhere near the financial crisis in impact. It’s just not systemically important. It’s essentially “phantom wealth” not underpinned by any economic reality - even more unglued from reality than esoteric derivatives.
Too fat for Apple these days, sadly. And not pc.
Almost half of Shopify's top execs to depart company: CEO
How to Fix Web Search
How I made a profitable Vim course
I got a $180 Surface Pro 3 a few years ago that can still do 10 tabs each in 3 browsers, and image editing.

What issues did you bump up against?
> So yes, I kind of know the value of my time, I'm willing to pay $x not to be bothered with some things, e.g. a washing machine

Yes but that’s an arbitrary value you’re assigning to your time not the the value someone else is willing to give you for your time.
Most important is nitrogen-based fertilizer, that can easily be produced from any kind of electricity. Most of the other stuff are minerals that are cheaply mined anywhere and won't run out for the next few thousand years.

The most important oil consumption is for driving farm implements, but that can easily be changed to rapeseed oil in the short term and other green energy in the long term.

So no cause for panic.
Australian Consumer Law Got Nintendo to Repair My Joy-Cons for Free
I don't see this being any different from any other highly mutative Zoonotic disease, e.g. influenza, with a large natural reservoir. We can't eradicate Covid-19 through human vaccinations and we know that new strains with new properties will arrise. Yes this makes Pfizer money but as mRNA vaccine production technology matures the cost of the vaccine will drop.
Congrats on releasing it. You definitely see how much work went into Calendly once you parse Calendso's source code. But where there's a will there's a way. Super excited what's possible with Calendso.

I made a quick video to explore the open source project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIQhG8AL0w
Also, but not only. Yearly subscriptions in itself guarantee that the user commits to 12 months and can't cancel during those 12 months
This conclusion in particular is probably something that I've assumed in the past:

> On a whole, Democrats seem to love tech and Republicans seem to love oil and gas.

But I hadn't really thought about the wide-reaching implications until now; perhaps its more than a coincidence that the current cryptocurrency bull run really took off shortly after Biden won the presidential election.
> your investment in an index fund doesn't increase the number of productive assets in the world

Eventually, some rich people will notice that they aren't getting as much money from buybacks and dividends as they used to and will place their money elsewhere. It would be relatively more attractive to invest in developing countries or buy PR in the form of charity.
Well, the laws around insider trading and similar practices changed throughout history. Many things used to be considered okay, look up Joseph P. Kennedy's biography for example.

You are right that if the officials actually cared about companies, it would not make sense. I was thinking more like hedge fund-like cold speculation. As people guessed correctly, the point is to make the job very appealing but with little ties to powerful interests. Of course is not a serious scheme, but I'm amused by the concept I guess.
Depends if you're a pianist or a violinist...
Here's a recent Pelosi options trade with the Microsoft AR contract announcement. [0]

[0]: https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/nancy-pelosis-h...
Interesting. Have you ever seen this happen in your practice as a lawyer?
They work just fine, until they don't.
Try accessing the URL of the resource directly in its own tab and then restarting the tab where you're seeing the issue. That works for me.
yeah, you'd think so - but these days with so many 'blogging engines' arising out of open source, alot of activity in that space, jamstack etc, everyone like expects everything to have an associated git repository. A bit weird, but is the state of things. He mentioned he had multiple inquiries about it too.
I was reading that testing often happens on men for medications because their biochemistry is fairly constant in a month. Fluctuating hormones complicated drug testing.

This seemed to me to miss testing a scenario that affects about half the population.
There are still voters on the fence / differences in voter turn-out that mean politicians worry about scandal. The main effect is that these politicians will probably be replaced by different ones from the same party. Moreover, other politicians, hoping not to be replaced, might stop doing blatant insider trading.
Old-new stock and "unofficial" chips and parts has been a thing for like ever. Now I hear of more "mainstream" projects having to tap into that market but it has always been there.
There is more than one twitter account that comes up when you search for that name. I assume you mean this one (whom I happen to be following already and didn't realize it):

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww
How do you explain missing funds then ?
I guess that's why Kotlin became so popular in the Android world - all the new & shiny features are present but you still can target older bytecode versions
Hear hear. Amazon cost me my mental health and relationship. If they're treating us like this, I can't imagine how the folk working at FCs are treated.

Amazon's "Customer Obsession" comes at the expense of their employees.

Also the hypocrisy:

> Despite what we’ve accomplished, it’s clear to me that we need a better vision for our employees’ success. ...We are going to be Earth’s Best Employer and Earth’s Safest Place to Work.

Heh this is coming from a company who refused to release the data from their internal survey about WFH and then made the decision to force everyone come back to the office 5 times/week. I am sure that makes Amazon the best and safest place!
Kurt Gödel’s Brilliant Madness
No, the PDF standard explicitly allows encryption without the need to set up user password; in this case, the owner password is set. The only change for the user is that the word "Secured" usually appears next to the filename in the reader.
But then it doesn't make sense to have the yearly subscription (and 12 months of contract duration at a time). Then you can just have the monthly subscription.
> this one seems to be a clear case of trademark/copyright infringement

Then Arturia should be taking Behringer to court, right?
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Definitely. Sam Harris' book Waking Up is what turned me on to psychedelics as a mind expanding tool rather than just a party drug, which I had little interest in.

In it, he talks about how his early experiences with psychedelics turned him on to the fact there was something real worth pursuing in meditation and mindfulness beyond the superstitious bullshit. Most of the book is about using meditation as a tool for spirituality without religious baggage or supernatural explanations.

The way he and others talk about it, is that psychedelics effectively force any mind into an objectively different state of consciousness. Even though it doesn't last long and the memory of it fades, just the awareness that radical mind shifts are possible is enough to help people take mindfulness practice seriously.
Dell XPS is seriously overrated. I’m not surprised at the comments. To be fair the latest XPS I have hasn’t been to bad but still the touchpad sucks, I don’t know how much of the other gremlins are due to Dell or if they’re Windows or bugs in my monitor. In any case my experience isn’t great and I much prefer using my MacBook.

If you do choose Dell check the support forums before you buy. Maybe try a Lenovo.
A Cultural Autopsy of the Celebrity Perfume
This is random but universal audio (interfaces + plugins) way overrated?

Follow up question, but once you get to a certain point of converter+preamp quality, is focusing on something that improves workflow what really matters?
That might be the wrong link. That one goes to a Linus Tech Tips video about a Notion product that seems unrelated, though I didn't watch it.
Even The Economist is pushing Critical race theory (CRT) now. What a time to be alive.
if it's not upfront, they can always stop paying. you don't want to sue your users for breach of contract over a $5/month subscription.
Well the Capitol riots were not just any dissent. They were the gathering of a mob of people with crazy conspiracy theories (that very probably would not even agree with each other) as part of mediatic stunt (just not "the media") to give legitimacy to the claim the election had been stolen so the Republican party could suck up more money from its base for "the cause". I have myself much respect for Bernie Sanders and people fighting for more democracy and more equality please, please don't put them in the same bag than people being manipulated into giving time and money for imaginary causes.
Is there a name for this effect? It sounds similar to what women experience when they don't wear makeup for example (makes them come across as less competent).
Maybe https://microship.com/behemoth/
There are so many things one could say about this.

But, from my own experience I have to tell you to do this: Talk to your customers. But not randomly. Talk to them immediately after they have bought their product.

Then go and "interrogate" them. Don't ask directly, but indirectly why they chose this or the other plan. The key is to really understand what the circumstances were when they decided. What made them flip into one or the other direction.

You won't find that knowledge "online".

If you want to know more about the interview style, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blTNLVuRU6k - starts at around 14:30. I would watch the whole thing though.
Ok, say you invest that $10 million and a year later it's grown to $12 million. That's a decent return, but what was the opportunity cost of investing in Microsoft instead of, I don't know, funding 100 people on GoFundMe who are going to die if they can't afford surgery? The US government uses ~$10 million as the value of a human life when they analyze the cost/benefit of various policies. And it's a compounding investment - a dead person contributes nothing to society, but a living one might contribute quite a bit. That's just one example though, you could make an argument for any number of worthwhile uses for that money. Even something like venture capital or political organizing, which aren't exactly selfless philanthropic endeavors.

And again, I'm talking about 10% of what's in the bank. You could donate $10 million, invest $60 million, and still have an absurd amount left to buy a few houses or whatever you want for yourself. All while risking nothing, if you hold onto $10 million or so to secure your future.

My argument is that there's some threshold after which you have enough money to support yourself, and to invest to maintain your way of life, and to do something purposeful with the rest. And I think that threshold is below $100 million. I agree that it takes money to make money, but as you say, after "a few years" of investing, you do something with it. When does that happen? Do you need to hit a billion first?
a git history of Google's code would suit me
I just downloaded the nike app and couldn't find any sessions for rowing, cycling etc. I don't think you can even compare them, their target demographic is too different.
There is a sync issue after this block. https://hash.horse/12244294
I had similar issues to you using ddg until about a year ago when I tried it again. the past year ddg has overall yielded a better experience than google for me, and I have been using it for 99% of my searches. I even forget I'm using ddg and not google, that's how seamless the results and quality are for me now. but when I had previously used ddg it was a nightmare, some time within the last 2 or 3 years ddg did something to serve up better result's
It's a framing from the perspective of other customers who are paying for things, but are now losing out.
Yearly contracts paid monthly give a great income predictability already which mitigates risk. Also customer retention / CLV might be better, because users pay until the end of the 12 months despite stopping using the product earlier.
Maybe check your criminal record. My wife was getting denied from every application. She later found out there was an incorrect conviction on her record and had to get it expunged.

Also, you seem to be listing big name tech companies and startups. Have you tried looking at non-tech companies? Sometimes the medium to small non-tech companies are more forgiving about not having a degree.

I'm not sure where you are located, but maybe look at jobs in other regions. Sometimes you can take a lower paying job in a cheaper region (with less competition) and do well.