skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My off the wall suggestion would be for Coinbase to acquire them. They certainly have enough firepower to do a stock acquisition.

The Yahoo Finance portal would run as a subsidized loss leader to on-ramp new customers into crypto investing. Setting up the portal to put crypto assets on the same footing as traditional assets would do a lot to appeal to older or more conservative investors who view crypto as "magic Internet money".

Plus a lot of people are interested but have no idea how to acquire crypto assets. People are used to being able to see all their assets on their favorite brokerage's platform. Yahoo could set it up so that if someone looks up a chart for DOGE-USD, that they have a one-click opportunity to buy it off Coinbase's exchange.
I would appreciate pointers to any other low/no-copy db -> browser technologies.

I was thinking it would be cool to use parts of JavaScript db libraries to parse query results passed straight through in (compressed?) db wire protocol format via WebRTC.
Mozilla (the at the time self titled browser they had before Firefox) even had tabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite
If he had listened to experts, Tesla's little driver assist would not be called 'autopilot' and ending in 4 hour long lithium fueled human barbecues.
I think a problem is that programmers have little intuition about about the evaluation time of macros.

It's possible that Zig's approach helps here -- since the metalanguage is just the language, you can take some of your intuition about performance along to compile time. And the macro language is not weirdly restricted, so you can write something you're more used to, with similar idioms.

In the limit this is clear: I'm using several Python code generators C++ in https://www.oilshell.org, and it's easy to reason about the performance of Python. Doing the same in C++ metaprogramming would almost certainly be a lot slower. It would also give me less indication of code bloat; right now I simply count the lines of output to test whether my code generator is "reasonable".

e.g. I generate ~90K lines of code now, which is reasonable, but if I had 1M or 10M lines of code, that wouldn't be. But there's not that much of a sanity check on macros (except binary size).
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Can you tell us about a specific issue that you had to work around?
> those high leverage features that seem almost too easy to do that you can do them anytime... but never get around to because you’re always working on something bigger and more interesting

Oh 100% this was a major revelation in my career going from hobbyist to professional gamedev. As a hobbyist I would think "Yeah sure the units are spinning randomly on corners because I messed up the rotation math, but I can fix that anytime. I should be working on this yet-another-feature".

When correct process is to fix the biggest pain point: and surprise! There you go, the next biggest pain point becomes obvious. Repeat ad intinitum and you'll have polished yourself a commercial-grade game.
All IFRs are estimates. We don’t know the true infection rates in an absolute sense so it has to be estimated by definition. Official death tolls are also all we have to go on, and allegations of incorrectness must be proven or cast aside as conspiracy theories, right? “Obviously cooked” isn’t exactly a convincing argument.

> the sole author has a history of playing down the pandemic

I’m curious why this matters. Do you also note that other people are “playing up” the pandemic? This feels like an ad hominem dismissal of good content rather than a convincing argument - at least for me. The author is a Professor at the Stanford school of medicine and also a professor of statistics. He has also worked extensively on meta research so it’s not surprising that his claims go against others’ claims at times. That doesn’t make him wrong - rather it makes him a specialist in conducting this exact meta study. We don’t have to rely on his authority solely, but to the extent you want to bring up the author, it seems like he is well suited for this study.

> while failing to disclose conflicts of interest

What conflict of interest are you alleging here? Without concrete details and evidence, this feels like an attempt at character assassination. Why not just discuss the underlying content directly and avoid the arguments based on the person?
Could Ada++ be part of the Zoo? xD
I guess by in general a "dynamic programming languages" fan, "only a few seconds to build" already sounds like a lot. Different tradeoffs I guess, but hard to justify when you're used to ms compile time.
Lockdown policy as it played out around the world (clearly it seems some were lucky enough to enact it before mass spread, but after that it seems near useless and medieval) has the effect of pushing all disease burden equally instead of allowing the least threatened to build immunity.

So sadly if you choose to prevent young people from getting infected, you automatically push disease burden to older people that will suffer more.
The traditional pre modern formula in the west was that they were necessarily linked, in a union that was separable only death.
environmental disaster/waste of resources
Same thing with mushrooms. You start to come down and then all you want to do is sleep for days. IMHO, they have almost zero potential for abuse.
My understanding is similar to oaththrowaway, these are all internally handled by the same backend systems.
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Handspring?
Nushell comprehensively addresses this: https://www.nushell.sh

(I don't have an opinion yet. Been meaning to try it for a year now but a shell is a difficult thing to switch)
Woof. Getting thrown to private equity vultures is an ignominious fate for two foundational Internet companies. But they do few useful things any more, so now they’ll be picked clean.
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Ross William Ulbricht needed one of these before the feds busted him in a public library.
PCA is good enough for a lot of things. For example, it is used in genetics to measure relatedness between populations reasonably well. A perfect model doesn't really exist when the data you are able to realistically collect is only a subset of the population anyway, perhaps biased toward how it was collected.
Impossible for now
Thanks for the correction, in either case the number is way way smaller than I would have ever imagined.
Why are semiconductors used in electronics?
I've followed the WIV developments closely since early 2020, and skimmed through the article.

The only things missing are:

- 3 WHO scientists are involved in the coverup, not just Daszak.

- that leaked WHO recordings questioned the CCP very early, but were stonewalled

- that some of the earliest cases were near the WIV subway stations

- that satellite data shows Wuhan hospital parking lots full in Sept-Oct 2019

- that part of the WIV was sealed (no cell phone broadcasts after a certain date)

- the gene sequence released to the world by Chinese scientists was not just the first sequence, but actually unauthorized

- some of the earliest corona patients were actually foreigners at the military games in Wuhan, and Canada has reported some data and timelines on this.

I've been saying the same thing here on HN for over a year, based on the above and the 2020 investigative GoF paper: that WIV is the most likely source, and there's no counter-arguments yet,

To give you an idea of how resistant HN is to actual logic and science, I was downvoted between 100 - 200 points on those posts. Shame on you. Maybe somebody can explain why.
Mobil + Chevron => Moron
Newer version off ga tracking doesn't use that protocol. It uses an undocumented one
Are you maybe describing US practices? Some of these practices has been prohibited for a decade in EU and it was recently broadened to include agricultural and perishable products: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
for `helloworld` projects maybe, yeah, have you worked on a large Rust project? gitbash is not unix, nor a replacement. python, js, are interpreted languages, they will work anywhere their runtime is supported, have you tried setting up ENV variables in Windows? is a journey of clicks into config windows and options, and this is just an example. I would rather be in Unix, than just being able to play Fornite, and having to "filter my outgoing traffic", it seems too much work. I just want something that "works".
I hadn't considered that. Thank you, I'll bounce that off them.
I did extensive research before I spent 8 months traveling around South America in the midst of the Zika outbreak and of course also concerned with Malaria. My conclusion after all my research was that anti-malarial drugs were less effective per dollar/effort cost than insect bite prevention. I ended up writing an article on the topic on my blog at the time: https://tristor.ro/blog/2016/05/01/trip-preparation-update-i...

I ended up treating most of my clothing and equipment with permethrin, using Picardin spray on my skin, hanging permethrin treated mosquito nets over windows and doorways, and as a final line of defense and for comfort I bought a cheap fan in each country I visited and left it behind in the apartment for the next occupant when I left, having it blowing on me directly at night.

Anti-malarial drugs all seem to have severe neurological or psychological side effects, and some can cause permanent damage, so just on the off-chance that anyone sees this that's considering traveling to a malaria-risk region, be aware there are other options.
Because the css is forcing display:table, display:table row, and display:table cell on some divs and a fixed 1024px width. Remove all that and it zooms in/out fine. No idea why it's styled that way.
which is why I said "zone out" was bad phrasing...
A more useful comment would be to illustrate how. I'd like to know as well as I need to reuse queries in SQL occasionally but am not an expert. Currently I believe learning pl/pgsql is the answer, but even it reeks of punch-cards and other sixtiesisms :-). Tough sell when you're used to Python etc.
Less people have died from Autopilot than eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli over a decade. Everyone still eats lettuce.

Stupid people doing stupid things on Autopilot (watching a film [Florida], jumping in the back seat [Texas]) would’ve died doing stupid things eventually. Can’t blame Autopilot for when the monkey tries to defeat the safety system. No system is foolproof.

That doesn’t make Musk any less of a liar (with his successes amplifying the hopium), but let’s not pretend people aren’t culpable for their failings. The nuance is important.
genuinely curious, what experts said you couldn't build electric cars or reusable rockets? are you taking about investors?
There's something a bit more subtle than whether DMT elves or Ayahuasca gods exist agents in the fashion imagined.

It is pretty certain that the do not; there are anecdotal first hand accounts to be found of DMT cosmonauts putting the screws in and never TMK got anything verifiable, e.g, requests for factoring for large numbers, etc. Nothing.

But, the consistencies in how humans report and "feel" about these things, is also interesting, and this is a kind of gray area existence that is more than just word-play. I'd describe it as a domain in which one can experience and prod first-hand one of the higher levels of the "stack" of the human psyche, that is: the order, categories, logic, projected agency, etc., our own perceptual->cognitive processes imposes on the world.

One of the promises that psychedelics realize is the rare opportunity to see something akin to the console/debugger view of these processes, which by design are usually imperceptible to us.

The low levels of the stack (trippy visuals, coarse emotional tides) are popular entertainment.

The high levels of the stack (awe and foundational meaning and divine agency/purpose) are more dangerous maybe to engage for the lolz but there seems to be a lot there we can work with to our betterment which is real, in the sense that he universe we perceive and inhabit is real, whether we analytically know that it is fabricated or not.

Analogy that comes to mind: walking a 2x4 plank placed on the floor, while inhabiting open air 50 stories up with VR googles.

I knew damn well there was drop.

I couldn't step forward, or off, and had to crawl.

What we know to be real, is not always what is causally and experientially real...
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Rails dev. This runs the most recently modified test in your spec/ directory:

bin/rspec $(find spec -type f -exec stat -f '%a %N' {} \; | sort -r | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}')

So if you are working on a spec & save it, running this will execute that spec & only that spec. I have it hooked up to a mapping in neovim, so hitting `<leader>rt` runs the test.

Needs some tweaking, and I'm aware that guard exists. This is simpler. Quick & does the job.
OK, ok, I read the article, it was actually fun and witty and couched in a happy-hour tone with "adult beverages" mentioned both in the introduction and conclusion.

She seems smart and righteous and tougher than she probably looks. I would rather work with her than be one of those guys trying to explain why he isn't pressing charges for assault and/or battery.

If only I could use those tactics when facing up with challenging coworkers, I would have a different set of battle stories.
It's a little device sold by the guy who made the video that makes much of his hard-earned muscle memory for lock picking unnecessary. It doesn't replicate his thousands of hours of training but it goes a long way.

It also wouldn't take an Eli Whitney to turn it into an automated gadget that works as a universal key for the most common locks.

This channel does the great service of convincingly demonstrating how poorly most locks secure against a skilled attacker. And that the skill threshold is rapidly decreasing.
It was an exciting time in other ways, but not for making money.
Show HN: Integrating Git, DVC, and MLflow into One
Hey HN, Creator of DAGsHub here!

I wanted to share something cool that we've been working on. You might've heard about DVC (dvc.org) and MLflow (mlflow.org). They are open-source projects for ML that are widely adopted, each for its own specialty.

DVC is great for versioning your data.
MLflow is used for a bunch of stuff (it's actually multiple tools combined into one) – but mostly for experiment tracking. Since they are open source, setting up storage for DVC and a central tracking server for MLflow can be a pain – requiring you to create cloud accounts, add permissions, and more.

DAGsHub is already integrated with DVC, in the sense that whenever you create a project, it comes with a free, built-in, DVC remote. Now, you also get a free MLflow server, which means you can log experiments directly to DAGsHub and share it with your team or colleagues.

Why I think this is awesome:
- Zero setup – add your MLflow remote server URI and just log experiments
- Access control built-in – if you have a team and some people need access only to view the experiments but not to log new ones, you can easily control that
- Better UI for comparison – one of the complaints MLflow users have had was about the inability to compare runs across experiments in MLflow, with DAGsHub that is easily possible as all runs appear in a single list, which you can then filter to fit only a single experiment.
- Integrating MLflow and DVC – a lot of people are working with both systems and building ad-hoc systems to integrate them, but with this integration, you can create a project that was built for this type of work, integrated with all the tools you need.

Here's a more detailed blog post from the engineer that built this:
https://dagshub.com/blog/launching-dagshub-integration-with-databricks-mlflow/

Or in video form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKxOG6qdjvg&t=16s

I'd love to hear your thoughts about it.
I love this idea. Thanks for sharing!
In both cases, they still use the sales data available to them to create and sell their own products at the expense of third party sellers.

Costco doesn't have any third party sellers. Costco is the only seller.
I’m not sure why it would strange to anyone except a media outlet that people in general are tired of everything being framed as a divisive battle and of Americans as assholes.

That simply isn’t my experience of American people regardless of political persuasion or race or class.

Ted lasso is of course a caricature as are all of the parts in the show., but he represents something real.
Yes, and... you are 'automatically opted in' and you have to disable this if you do not want to opt in via Settings->Apple ID->Find My->Find My iPhone->Find My network (That is pretty darn buried IMHO, but not germaine).

I'm actually quite shocked folks on here do not appreciate that the 'default' is opted-in, rather than not. When you own an Apple iPhone or iPad, you are part of Apple's network, and some of 'your' product is used to be in service of Apple's services. It's not like the requests to send 'user data' back to an app provider 'to help improve the experience' --- it's you Will send data back to Apple because that is the default -- and most people will surely not know the Settings->Apple ID->Find My->Find My iPhone->Find My network seequence.

Does this not seem somewhat fascistic? For the record, I have 2 iPads, and also for the record, I'm an Apple alum -- I have nothing but goodwill for the Company, however, this seems, to me, quite shady. (Downvoters, I'm expressing an opinion. Not polluting HN's polite discourse.)
Why people believe what they experience while tripping is one of the great open questions regarding psychedelics.

It is quite common for psychedelic experiences to feel "more real than real", and often what has been revealed under their influence can feel like The Truth with a big fat capital T.

I suspect that most people who become true believers after such experiences (and there are a lot of them) are just not very critical thinkers, and don't have a habit of questioning themselves, the world, or what they experience, and so are more liable to swallow the revelations they get line, hook, and sinker without critically diving in to them or coming up with alternate explanations for what might have happened.

Then there are the die-hard atheists and materialists/physicalists, who may be err on the other extreme and hand wave everything they experience as "neurochemical noise" or whatnot. There are a bunch of these also, and when I read their dismissive reports I often wonder how strong their experiences were and how many of them they've had.

Sam Harris, a prominent figure in the so-called "new atheist" movement, actually gave a strong dose of a psychedelic mushroom a try, and reported on his experience.[1]

It's a fascinating account, given by a clearly intelligent and famously critical, anti-religious physicalist which I personally expected to be very negative and glibly dismissive, but to his great credit he treated it very respectfully, seriously, and not dismissively at all.

He did not become a true believer after his trip, but it really made me suspect that if he'd continued taking strong doses of psychedelics even he would have.

Such powerful, convincing experiences are how religious movements start, and no small number of them have started from psychedelics. In fact, some have theorized that many (all?) of the world's great religions ultimately had their roots in psychedelic experiences (see, for example, Allegro's "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross"[2]).

I hope one day there'll be some serious research in to what is going on here, beyond simply reporting that mystical experiences are common on psychedelics.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGddvmU0fA

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cr...
These lock picking tools are getting so easy. I expect new types of locks, probably electronic, will be coming out soon in market.