skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike it when companies allow you to sign up via mobile, but then dont allow you to cancel via the mobile app.

I had this with Hello Fresh, where I had to log in on web to cancel (which I had never done before) - seemed quite annoying and I decided to never use the service again for that reason alone.
I don't think that's a good-faith characterization of my prior comment. Please read carefully. I'm not suggesting network effects. I'm talking about direct activity. There is boundless information about this available online, but this is a start regarding the Venezuela link:

https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2019/10/18/boliv...

Separately, you can also read about the Cuban antecedents to Che's fatal incursion into Bolivia, and his team's lack of regard for the linguistic differences across regions in that country. There are seven decades worth of Cuban involvement in anti-American activity all over Latin America. I invite you to read about it from time to time when you are bored and curious.

Whether you support one side, the other, or neither, it's obvious that Cuba's "transgressions" are not a single-element list. That's what the parent comment says and it's 100% false.

I find it unreasonable that you suggest the USSR's massive stockpiling of weapons was not due to their own actions and strategy, but somehow the US's fault. How can you be circumspect when you suggest that two can tango but only one does the dancing?
They can be useful right now. All you need is a way to allow them to communicate with modern computers.

The biggest issue is that most of the OSs of the time had no concept of a remote or shared disk, or a network. If it has that, it’s easier to integrate them.
Strings can make a tremendous difference. Just throw on a set of flatwounds if you don't believe me.
From "Skynet Basics"[0],

> Behind the scenes, a Skynet portal is a Sia renter that rents and stores data for its users and can retrieve files from storage being rented by other portals.

I think you're describing one such portal.

[0]https://support.siasky.net/getting-started/skynet-basics
Re: opus

'Opus (audio format) - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Opus_(audio_format)
CELT includes both spectral replication and noise generation, similar to AAC's SBR and PNS'
That’s honestly incredibly far-fetched. I need to have a GPS and a device that is able to do the conversion from lat/long to words. Given that prerequisite there are about a dozen better ways to solve the issue. Both me and the emergency services in the area need to know what these word codes are, or we’re spending time explaining that in an emergency situation. The ability to use it offline is nice but assumes that I prepared for that ahead of time.

Not to mention that a 40000 word word list has a lot more room for misremembering and mishearing than spelling out a sequence of digits. If it had used a word list that was designed to be easily recognized by sound, had no plurals etc, that would have been a different thing.

Also, emergency services are local, but this system wastes bandwidth on being able to describe any location in the world.
Am I the only one annoyed by stories in tweet threads ? I'd rather have posts on a blog somewhere with a tweet linking to it...
Google is mimicking perforce command line. The backend is 100% proprietary.

Microsoft is based on Git, but with a lot of engineering on top of it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/scaling-git-and-some-b...
Both the index and table data are btrees. These are trees - the root node sits in some known location (offset) in the file, referenced by the file header and metadata. As SQLite traverses the tree, it encounters new descendents it would like to visit, presumably identified by their byte offset in the file, which is all needed for this VFS magic to issue a suitable range request.

- SQlite opens the file and reads 4kb worth of header -> range request for byte 0-4096

- headers/metadata refers to index table with root node at 8192kb

- user issues SELECT * from index WHERE name = 'foo'

- SQLite reads root node from the file (range request for 8192kb..)

- Root node indicates left branch covers 'foo'. Left branch node at address 12345kb

- Fetch left branch (range request for 12345kb)

- New node contains an index entry for 'foo', row 55 of data page at 919191kb

- SQLite reads data page (range request for 91919191kb..)

etc etc etc
This is an really awesome idea! I have a plan for a static-ish site (updated daily) that I was going to use sqlite for anyway, but server side. I will definitely look into this approach instead!
Based in SV with ~370 employees on LinkedIn and over 17K followers. this above comment needs to be posted verbatim into one of their most recent posts with a mention that GDPR makes its EU customers liable and an additional link to the FTC for public comments. It would make them scramble I think.

LinkedIn is underrated as a platform to call out brands, it's where many spend a lot of their money on PR / image.
Chase charges a $15 or $35 (dont remember exactly) minimum balance fee or something monthly - seems like the same idea. Banks are kinda hilarious in what they think they can get away with.

So, I'm switching more and more accounts over to DeFi infrastructure over the last year, but getting direct deposit there is still a bit of an issue for employer.

The institutions I do like are smaller Credit Unions.
You seem to know a lot more about his friends then would be expected. How do you know they are poor? I had a high paying job for years but couldn’t have afforded not working for two years without seriously draining retirement savings at the time.
Height[0] is also similar to Linear.

[0] https://height.app/
I agree, it’s their business priorities which result in engineering that leads to bad software. What I’m saying is you can choose to not buy into one of those uber-programmable enterprise platforms and instead (let someone) build fast and user friendly specific software just for your needs. All of the customization and dynamic crap can go out of the window that way, which will allow engineers to make things fast and user friendly again.
Ah yes - sorry, I read that too quickly. The answer to that (at least limited to my experience of pagers in many UK hospitals) is that they don't carry any sensitive data at all.

There are a lot of other issues with them though. There are few companies supplying them so they are actually very expensive. Consequently in our publicly funded health service they are not replaced often and many are in a poor state with batteries held in by tape etc.

The main issues from perspective as a user is the synchronous model of communication that they enforce. Unless something is an emergency, it's an unnecessarily disruptive workflow.

There are usually a limited number of phones on a ward, which are usually very busy lines. Using pagers for routine communication means:

1. Physically move myself to a location with a phone
2. Wait for phone to be free
3. Call a number to send the bleep
4. Wait for a response (bearing in mind the recipient needs to be free, move to a phone, wait for that phone to be free, and call back)
5. Guard the phone from others using it until I receive the call
6. Hope that no one else calls the phone in the meantime

Bearing in mind that everyone is always busy in hospital this is a huge source of frustration and wasted time, hence the move towards secure messaging apps for these scenarios. Unfortunately these are mostly being built as silos rather than interoperable communication networks.

As mentioned above, for actually alerting a group of people to an emergency when you need an immediate response, pagers are still hard to beat.
Amazon annoys the living daylights out of me, but that's because of usability issues, not because of deceptive or intentionally-misleading practices. What are the ones you're thinking of?

If anything, Amazon's incompetence at search screws them out of sales they would otherwise make. Their "dark patterns" are all aimed at their own foot.
If you are a foreigner living in Denmark, it is really hard to get mortgage loans due to unexplainable risks. (e.g. They don't tell you why you are in a risk group. )

Anyway, the maximum amount of deposits is now around 4 months of wage. So, I hardly see the necessity to have a bank account or banking infrastructure.

I wish I could join "We don't need banks anymore" motto. But now, It looks like It is becoming a reality.
> Multiple installed emacs packages do not execute their code simultaneously unless they are using something like run-with-timer to schedule tasks on the event loop.

It's true that few things run in the background constantly. You can check for that easily, with M-x list-timers. On my work laptop, my most feature-packed Emacs instance, I currently have three timers active (and 11 waiting for a trigger). Those three are:

Repeat Function
5.0 auto-revert-buffers
60.0 ac-clear-variables-every-minute
3600.0 url-cookie-write-file

So there's only one frequently updating timer running, that was put there by (I think) lsp-mode.

Of the inactive timers, there are a bunch on a really short trigger - for features like highlighting indentation guides, highlighting parentheses, etc. But these are the ones that wake up when you do just about anything in a relevant buffer - along with various hooks being fired.

Because it's the hooks that seem to be missing in your current understanding.

I just switched to a random buffer, and in it, I have 18 functions in post-command-hook, and 2 functions in post-self-insert-hook. That's 20 functions to execute on pretty much every single key press, and all of them come from optional features, both built-in and from additional packages. Syntax highlighting (font-lock-mode), error checking (flycheck), documentation helpers (eldoc), LSP stuff, snippet expansion, etc.

All these functions are usually fast (plenty of them just reschedule aforementioned inactive timers), but every now and then, one of them gets some heavier workload. And you notice a stutter. Perhaps inserting a character took more milliseconds than you're used to, because it caused font-lock to re-render the entire screen. Perhaps autocompletion triggered some expensive checks. Or perhaps there's just too many badly-written functions firing, and it added up to a noticeable delay.

For me, the three most common cases of annoying little delays were autocompletion (in Elisp, and Common Lisp via SLIME), font-lock and org mode folding. The latter two were an issue when working with large org mode files.

Native compilation improved Elisp performance across the board, and all but eliminated these issues for me. It won't help you if you put a badly written function in a frequently firing hook, but it does push some of the more expensive computations below the threshold of visibility, and makes it less likely that a lot of functions in a hook will add up to a noticeable delay.
Pickups and amps are by far the biggest difference. In an acoustic guitar, sound is produced by the whole body of the guitar resonating. In an electric, sound is produced by the string vibrating in an electromagnetic field above the pickup poles. The ideal guitar string contacts the body at three points along the body (nut, fret, saddle), on ideally as narrow a surface as possible at each of those points.
Yep, Samsung camera will only open Samsung gallery, and will show a "Unable to find application to perform this action" toast if you uninstall it (via adb, because it can't be uninstalled via gui). Also it's the only app you can set to open by double tapping the home button, so you can't configure another camera application with the same ease of use.
You're really selling it short.

Even amongst fairly traditional humbuckers, there is a huge range...compare an Alnico 2 humbucker wound to say 5kohm with a 20k ceramic...
You also don't want to activate an innate response our bodies have when virus attack is detected: cells churn out enzymes that chop up RNA.
The difference is unambiguous and players overwhelmingly chose tubes, all other things being equal (i.e. cost, hassle). Unless you're playing maybe a very clean sound (jazz?) without the most remote hint of warmth or distortion, tubes are it.

It's ridiculous that someone would call out 'tubes' as somehow being a kind of nerdy/fake/poseur guitarist connoisseur melodrama. It's literally the most important point differentiation of amps, to the point that almost all tube amps sound better than almost all solid state (at least in the same class).

While someone might possibly take umbrage that 'tubes are not always better' - there's basically no room for someone to say it's a 'petty concern'.
I have the 8 (I think? whichever one was the last to have the home button) and it’s only slighty bigger than the 12 Mini in size but it’s actually the screen on the newer phones that are too big. There isn’t a way to comfortably hold it and reach all of the real estate one-handed.

I know I can do the stupid scoot the screen down thing but if you’ve ever tried to use that on a regular basis you’d see how worthless and frustrating it is. It’s a waste of time and sometimes it hides part of the screen that I need to see!

Honestly, if Apple would just let me set a top bar as like a clock or something across the whole iOS and shrink the functional display to the size of the iPhone 4 I’d be a happy camper. It would be ugly as anything but I don’t even care because it would, ironically, be far more functional to me if I could just set the top quarter inch of the screen to be completely non-functional.
So far, it appears that most people are either willing to suck up the interest or invest them. There aren't a lot of withdrawals going on. Probably still less safe to sow the cash into a mattress than paying about 600 DKK a year per 100'000 you have above 100'000.
Salesforce do tend to buy a company and then brand that company's products as part of Salesforce. The result is a mess. Want the same data in your marketing cloud than your core? Nope, it's a different database and data model and true syncing of data can be a nightmare. What you're left with is the same as if you'd bought products from 5 different companies and built an integration layer to tie them together. Funnily enough, Salesforce has had to build an data integration platform to help untangle its mess of acquisitions and of course the customer has to pay extra to use it.
Relying on a Torrent Site for Vaccination Advice Is a Terrible Idea
Tell HN: Feeling too old for fiddling with Linux?
I think I know the real reason behind the fatigue:

The system utilities change completely so often compared to Windows.

Take networking in Ubuntu Server for example. In the past 5 years or so:

- networking is now controlled by systemd

- they introduced "predictable interface names" (so instead of wlan0 its wlp2s0)

- you use netplan to configure your interfaces

- wpasupplicant is no longer bundled as a default package (fuck whoever came up with this, how is one supposed to do without it with no wired options?)

While most of the changes are good in isolation, they make for a frustrating experience if you're not a Linux geek that follows them in real time.

All the knowledge I learned in the past is prone to invalidation after the next OS release. It's impossible to master something that's a moving target.
The question I had is answered by this line of code:

xhr.setRequestHeader("Range", "bytes=" + from + "-" + to);

I am a little surprised you can just do that. In https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs/blob/master/src/l...
Hadn't heard of that - that's way better. Cheers!
I want the shock absorber of my $1000 device to be changeable, not built into the phone so that when I go to sell it, it looks like a banged up Nokia brick with shredded rubber bumpers with a faded scratched screen I can barely read anymore.
I noticed my 5 year old dishwasher was a bit dirty inside. Rather than throwing it away and buying a new one, I cleaned it with a cloth and some general kitchen cleaning detergent.

I then cleaned it with the recommended cleaning chemical and cleaning cycle.

It seems as good as new, to me.
What was his (her?) name?
In theory the advantage to consulting or starting a business is the rich set of contacts that can vouch for your awesomeness.

They can also vouch for your not awesomeness.
Saying you get these features today is a lie. They’re all utterly unsafe and clearly nowhere near finished.
It's no surprise that Clubhouse values none of the things presented in the title because it's completely orthogonal to what makes Clubhouse 'valuable'. It's like saying "Elsevier is a billion dollar business despite being unfriendly to readers, researchers, and limiting access to human knowledge". No that's the reason, why in the logic of our economic system they have any price attached to them.

Clubhouse's entire value proposition is artificial scarcity. It's the NFT of social networks. Take something that is abundant and cheap in the world of software (communication, space, room size) etc, and artificially bog it down to create a zero-sum game of status.

It's basically 'un-innovation' for a lack of a better term. Technically there's nothing in Clubhouse that if it doesn't already exist anywhere else cannot be copied in five minutes. All the things clubhouse places limits on already are abundant, which is why their market value is, ironically enough, 0.
Driving in Jerusalem is a nightmare for humans too, the first video was really impressive.

It’s a shame they didn’t add road sign detection to the overlay it’s harder to judge some of the situations especially around right of way since in Israel right of way is for traffic incoming from the right unless there is a sign that tells you to yield so some of the more dodgy situations involved drivers not yielding correctly.

Overall they do seem to be currently quietly leading the pack and most importantly they are delivering an evolutionary progression as far as assistive driving goes.

Also it’s quite interesting that Mobileye seems to be one of the only few if not the only one that is not relying on deep learning to brute force this problem.

Which is think would be the deciding factor here since it reduces the demand on the hardware and results in a subset of more efficient algorithms which in theory can be formally verified and individually tweaked.
Amazon is the best thing that every happened on the web. I know people here hate it, and in the US apparently it has an issue with fake goods, haven't had any think like that happen to me here in Europe.

I can buy just about anything from one shop and have it arrive at my door. The weirdest combos ever. An HDMI cable and cat food? Yes sir that will be on your doorstep next monday. A #2 screw driver and a new bag for my vacum cleaner? A bag pack, a pair of pants and a flash light? Right you go.

I no longer have to go out to small shops and find the item I want, saving me a ton of time. Plus so, so many books.

Maybe it is different in the US where you have wallmart, but here I have to source things from different online shops, which takes time, is annoying an results in higher fees, plus I don't know which shops are any good.

Amazon solves that problem.
Maybe something like that is relevant: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6525/145.
There's also a bit more context here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00880-0.
>porn played a big role here

Beta had porn.

Furthermore, that's not how home video worked. VHS and Beta were sold on their TV recording capabilities, not their home video libraries. Home video was supposed to be handled by disc formats (Laserdisc, CED, VHD, etc); selling movies on $100-ish tapes was prohibitively expensive compared to ~$15 discs.

Eventually this was worked around with video rental shops and falling prices of VHS tape, but a consequence of this is that neither Sony nor JVC were licensing content for distribution on their tapes. Remember, you could record whatever you wanted on the tape; that was the point.
Just for your information: indenting a comment like this renders the indented text as block of code. It might look formatted or more readable on desktop but on mobile it looks broken and requires horizontal scrolling. Maybe there is a different way of structuring the comment that you might like as well?
> “ and would therefore be far better compensated when the danger of being a trucker is taken in to account.”

This strikes me as just making up reasons why examples that disprove the status/pay point aren’t really disproving it.

If you can just make up reasons why your position is right anyway even in cases where it’s not, then it’s basically unfalsifiable.
Or to make money, when you don't have anything real to offer. And in some cases it has clearly reached level of blackmail.
Agreed. This is what I always recommend to those who are looking to learn how to (better) code: find a personal, meaningful project that fills a want or need for you. Not only will it provide you with realistic problems to solve, they will be personally meaningful, helping you stay motivated.

The OP issues may also be related to procrastination, where having accountability to others may be one (among many) solution, e.g., having a pair-programming partner (or a mob), or, what has worked for me, programming live on Twitch.
The real popup in Chrome and Firefox exceeds the website frame, so you can easily distinguish it.
That's true, overall resistance makes a huge difference.
Show HN: Force-feedback controller for racing sims and speculations on next gen
>If you separate the thinking about things from the doing of things, then innovation will suffer.

I found the author's framework incomplete and not useful. For example, he didn't include any counterexamples. E.g. why is Intel with both in-house chip architecture design capability _and_ chip fabrication factories falling behind in innovation to competitors using the outsource model?

- NVIDIA gpu + outsourcer TSMC is ahead of Intel at hardware for machine learning

- Apple M1 chip + outsourcer TSMC beats x86 for laptop performance

- AMD Neoverse chip + outsourcer TSMC bests Intel for many server workloads

But that doesn't mean those companies outsource everything. E.g. Apple doesn't outsource the programming of iOS and macOS to outside consultants at Accenture or Thoughtworks. They do that in house. But Apple programmers don't write their own financial back office software. Instead, they use Germany's SAP ERP enterprise system. Likewise, none of SAP employees design and make smartphones for staff to use; they let Apple and Samsung manufacture the phones.

Being strategic about outsourcing is a natural consequence of recognizing that other entities specializing in a competency can do it better/faster/cheaper. How did NASA "innovate" and send astronauts to the moon? They outsourced the work. E.g. The manufacture of space suits was contracted out to ladies bra manufacturer Playtex. The Apollo rockets were made by a combination of companies. NASA was the ultimate outsourcer.
You are only gonna encounter corruption if u either a) messed up the gitconfig for line endings or b) named the database mydbfile.txt
You can just store the database in text format (e.g. csv) in the git and turn it to SQLite db when building the website.
Lol singular they is literally older than singular you but go off.
Even if this was the case - the insides and surface of the human body have rather different characteristics, with the inside being more sensitive to, well, just about everything than the surface.
The problem with Defi is that you can't actually get loans, despite that being the whole purported point. It doesn't replace a mortgage if you need to put down 125% collateral.
Trello? I think it is owned by atlassian FWIW, it’s good for smaller projects
more like "shelled out 10 grand in the expectation that the car will pay for itself as it outcompetes Uber when he's not using it".