skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used it/had no idea about it until reading this post, but here's my attempt.

You aren't stupid, it's just that the genre of projects (spaced-repetition systems) Orbit is in is pretty niche.

It mentions that it more or less wants to be a more generalized version of Anki. Anki is basically an application that goes, "Hey. Here are some flashcards you haven't seen in a while. Do you still know the answers?" The specific timing of these depends on how many times you've gotten them right in the past, with the aim of getting the information into your long-term memory.

Anki is incredibly useful for memorization. However, because of how limited it is, it's only really gained popularity in the medical student space and the language-learning community. It's not really extensible beyond what you'd expect from flashcards that you can embed video in.

What Orbit seems to claim to do is have a very extensible system for spaced-repetition, so that the underlying principles can be used for a wider array of things. However, it doesn't appear to be aiming for mass uptake; rather, it's mostly a research vessel to gain an understanding of the problem domain.
Fair point about adaptive chunking. You sound like a long-term user!

There is always a trade-off between getting features to users quickly to experiment and incrementally improve, versus doing it always very conservatively.

When we launched adaptive chunking (introduced in 0.11, deprecated in 1.2), we explicitly marked it as beta and default off, to hopefully reflect that. [1]

The approach we are now taking with Timescale Analytics [2] is to have an explicit distinction between experimental features (which will be part of a distinct "experimental" schema in the database, and must be expressly turned on with appropriate warnings) and stable features. Hopefully this can help find a good balance between stability and velocity, but feedback welcome!

[1] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/releases/tag/0.11.0

[2] https://github.com/timescale/timescale-analytics/tree/main/e...
"How to deal with managers who set a hard time-limit on fixing a bug?"

Leave
The usual approach when management is this dim is to give a well couched opinion as to the reality of the outcome and then say sir yes sir or mam yes mam and that you'll give it all you got captain. The bug will take however long it takes to be fixed. Schedules will slip out as necessary and life will somehow magically go on. If you have reason to believe adding more resources of various types will help, then by all means ask for them, but there's usually no dealing with this kind of management dictate and arguing up front will just put you in an even worse situation than not making the deadline. You will be labeled the obstructor, not the realist.
Great job. Weird question. Two of your book sponsors seem to compete. Bugsnag and Linear App. Have you used either of them?
> techbrocracy is better than a more circumspect style for companies like this.

I haven't seen solid evidence that that is the case.

Here's an alternate hypothesis: high-capital investors & wall street types aren't actually that good at determining quality management at all, they grew up in affluent social circles where "professional bro"-esque (be it finance or tech) people were common and respected, and they project those views onto the companies they invest in. Getting investment capital from these people is as much about cultural homogeneity with the "old money" types as it is about having a brilliant idea or a good execution plan.

It's worth remembering that most of this capital is being invested by people who just inherited the wealth from their parents, they're not necessarily genius market participants.

e: And I'm downvoted, why?
The problem is no amount of space will ever placate, they will never reach catharsis until they burn down every transgressor, every windmill they view as a monster, etc. Activists will never sleep, and will take every single inch of space until they've rid the company of its "white supremacy culture."

You have to hold the line somewhere, and anywhere they hold the line, the activist employees will interpret it as the worst possible place.
All of the examples shown in the article were of the "keep calm and ___" variety. With 550K more in the catalog, I imagine there were plenty of wild ones.
How do you test it? I'd like to test without depending on some remote service, which could be unreliable.
yes, thank you, it seems i'm not the only one asking this question there
The biggest joke about this is that subsidies are not what's preventing nuclear power. It's your states DNR, the EPA, NIMBY's, and the market containing very few people to employ for the job. How is getting a subsidy gonna help when the EPA protects wetlands? How is a cheaper reactor for a power company going to help when the DNR says you have to fulfill absurd rules when constructing in an area that ruins wildlife but satisfies the NIMBY's? What about NIMBY's who get to petition construction near them? Nuclear power just isn't gonna happen here and subsidies are just gonna be trickle up kickbacks to CEO's. There is too much government mandated bureaucracy involved that prevents this. Environmentalists and pro nuclear power people typically want their cake and eat it too. Too bad to make for "greener" energy, you have to destroy a significant part of the world to do it meaning lax EPA regulations. But to do that would be an affront for some outrageous impossible to maintain morality system. Sometimes you gotta bend the rules to get good things done.
Would you please stop posting ideological flamewar comments? Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052375 in this thread. We've had to ask you this multiple times in the past, also. That's not cool.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044726.
Nowadays AI can recognize speech and search for data. Someone should implement an AI application to compare political discourses with actual facts and show the inconsistences in realtime. That's a way AI would make the world better.
What about anxiety?
I don’t really agree that it consistent, but maybe you’re right that it just complicated. There are so many different syntaxes for all sorts of features that you can’t really hold it all in your head.

It’s been a year since I last gave Rust a try, in the mean time I’ve been able to pick Go without much effort. Rust just seem like PHP, it’s fast, featurefull but not thought through.
> Plus, there's nowhere to safely store the waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository#Nuc...

There's also no good reason to dispose of waste at the moment, since we don't reprocess our nuclear fuel. Existing waste is a future source of fuel.
In this case, even the author seems to begrudgingly be admitting that this clearly was not a case of racial/ethnic bias. Rather, the company was maturing and professionalizing and the CEO refused to get on board, and even went so far as to start airing out his own dirty laundry to reports. It would seem much of board support reduces down to confidence and trust. Zhu nuked both.
Show HN: We made a proximity-based video chat for events
25 person Zoom calls aren't fun. So me and my friends made a virtual gathering space for people to host online events, meetups, social hours, etc.

Tech:
Frontend uses Svelte / Snowpack, which is great. The game view uses the DOM, which is questionable, but my webgl implementation wasn't so hot either.

Backend is Firebase for general stuff, server written in Golang for the realtime game stuff, and another Golang server for video.

Main techincal lesson learned so far: WebRTC sure is a pain to get right across everyone's devices, browsers, and connections.
I'm sorry this happened and I'm glad your child isn't more severely injured.
Here in Sweden we have a date when nuclear plants will be gone. We got a date for when internal combustion engines will be gone from the roads. We have a plan for when the sum of green exports of energy will exceed that of total consumption of energy.

We do not have a date for when fossil fuels will be removed from the energy grid. No date, no plan, no strategy, nothing. What we do have is three distinct plans in order to address the stability problem from renewables.

1: Continuing subsidize fossil fuel plants to operate in ready mode for when demands exceeds that of renewables. Oil for now, natural gas in the future.

2: Expand the ability to buy fossil fueled energy from nearby countries for which we sell our green energy. One can pretend that the import of dirty energy does not exist if the total amount of green export over a year is higher than the import.

3: Future technology that does not exist yet and tend to change from year to year based on what currently sounds like interesting-but-decades-from-being-invested-in tech. This year it is wind to hydrogen in dedicated ocean windfarms with massive pipelines of hydrogen, burned in retrofitted natural gas power plants. It has the upside that more natural gas power plants (and pipelines for natural gas) can be built in the pretense that at some later date we can use that wind produced hydrogen if it ever get built.

The result is investments and subsidies goes to mix of renewables and fossil fuels, which is a far cry from 100% renewables.
Why is there a requirement that power be generated within 300 miles? NYC already gets plenty of power from further away than that. With HVDC transmission, we can transmit power thousands of miles efficiently. PNW hydro power is used in LA, for example.
>cheap abundant electricity will help accelerate decarbonization of other things

Thinking about them Dogecoins
Show HN: Dogecoin Simulator – A Game About Dogecoin
I have a problem accessing video file shared on google drive with this extension enabled. Disabling it helped.
I think one thing need to be clarified is Tracking Link !== Affiliatized Link. If the extension get rid of all the affiliate info in the link, it can destroy the income of the youtubers who put affiliate links in their content.
It's interesting that some of the comments on this issue are complaining that HOFs are non-Go-like, and that if adopted, they will "take over" for-loops, which would be undesirable.
Why is it frustrating when others point out that the most popular services, which are usually from the USA, also have the same kind of problem of being under the influence of the respective government, but nobody seems to be as worried about it? The criticism almost always comes up whenever a service provided by a Chinese company is mentioned in any context. China has shown no interest that I know of in spying on non-Chinese citizens, so I feel like it's probably less problematic to use a chinese service than an American one if your only worry is that someone is spying on you, specially considering how there's plenty of evidence of the USA spying on the whole bloody planet, including heads of state of allied countries, for f'sake...

>It often feels like the work of bots or government shills

Do you think I'm a bot because I disagree with you? Maybe you are the bot... how can we verify you're not? :D good luck getting to the bottom of that.
> The increase in creativity and mental clarity helps you make more eloquent points and respond well to questions.

Is there any science to back this up? The increase in confidence from alcohol makes me dance better... from my perspective, at least. I've read the "productivity boost" from ADHD drugs is similar. It feels like you're doing more/better but you're really doing the same.
That’s the real problem today - there is no ability to compromise. Everything is a zero sum game :(

Nuclear can replace fossil fuels today. If we finally get other renewables to a place where they can address issues like predictability and reliability, then we look at de-commissioning nuclear.

But preemptively removing a very viable tool from your toolset is just bananas.
Hey HN!

Excited to share this dumb little game I made over the last week. I had the idea Thursday and couldn't shake it so I hacked it out over the last few days. The core loop is heavily inspired by Universal Paperclips https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

Tech stack is React + Typescript with a pile of helper tools such as Zustand, Victory and react-modal. There's a somewhat complete list in the in-game settings window. Happy to go more into detail on any of this if there's interest - the Zustand state machine in particular was quite fun :)

Source code is available on Github https://github.com/TheoBr/dogecoin-simulator/
Also, you need to address birth control with something other than drugs.
Glad to hear you're a fan! You're right, Mito is not designed to cover all of Excel's use cases. Mito focuses on rectangular datasets that fit nicely into a pandas dataframe ... at least for now. So the types of use cases that we're looking for is data cleaning, pivoting, etc. If you're building an LBO, Mito is not the tool for you.

It seems like what your proposing is almost a wrapper around pandas functionality to make the language easier to read for Excel users. I think that's a super interesting approach which we honestly haven't thought that much about. As a rule of thumb for Mito right now, any spreadsheet formula gets generated as a Mito formula (ie: using an IF statement in the Mito spreadsheet generates the code IF(A > B, 1, 0) instead of the Pandas code) and anything else is raw pandas code (ie: pivot tables, merges, add column).

In general, we've been thinking about trying to move more of the code to the raw python approach since we've heard things like "not seeing the raw script makes the code unproductionizable" etc. But I also see your point that beginning Python users might prefer readable code over Python code. If we took that approach, users would still get the reproducibility, auditability, and ability to use a spreadsheet interface on large datasets, they'd just sacrifice any semblance of learning Python. That's great food for thought!
I actually think it's fair for me to step back from "electron charge varies" to "electron charge could possibly vary, or not" as long as you step back from "electron charge doesn't vary" to "electron charge could possibly vary, or not".

This is not a Russell's Teapot situation at all because this revised middleground statement isn't just something arbitrary I decided. Instead it's literally the most specific statement either of us can make in face of currently established facts.

Once again, our everyday model is that electrons are little pinballs of exact charge and size, and that's a useful model. A more detailed model sees them as sizeless points of approximately measured charge that propagate in a probability quantum wave. That's also a useful model. Who knows what an even more detailed model would show?

I prefer to keep my mind open because, as I said, if you stick to convention, you lose track of what was proven and what wasn't, and you get stuck on the wrong path to truth.

In any case what I said about neutrons and protons is actually accepted scientific fact. They're not particles at all. They're a configuration of quarks in constant flux and exchange with the environment. And here we were not long ago, imagining they were persistent little pinballs as well. Go figure I guess.
I would say you have a right to know why a bug needs to be fixed at 'close-of-business'. You just have to try and ask it in an indirect and non confrontational way.

This will better help you determine a practical and pragmatic approach because you will have a better understanding of how serious the issue actually is and it's implications may be simply overstated or exaggerated as most shitty managers are known to do without consideration of the stress and harm it may cause to others.

In any case I would try to push early that we need two plans, one for a solution and one without.

Try and manage expectations as early as possible by making the possibility of no solution viable in their thinking.

If you feel they are unresponsive or unwilling to accommodate a reasoned approach then as others have said maybe better to be fired - does not seem like a healthy environment.
Are there other alternatives to Quora in other languages or geographies?
Acting presidential went out with the Clinton administration- it was widely commented on at the time (see the commentary around him appearing on Arsenio Hall), but the media loved the cachet/ attention too much to let it get beyond the Sunday morning talking head shows.
I think that Apache2 + mod_php (or modules for other runtimes) doesn't measurably impact most web applications, and this setup is a bit simpler, since you only need to run and configure Apache, instead of Nginx + PHP-FPM. If you are working with containers, it means that you only need one container, instead of two (if you go with the idea that container should only do one thing.)

Additionally, if you are behind CDN or just plain Varnish, static assets would only be hit once or twice, and majority of the requests would be processed by PHP anyways, so there is no benefit in putting additional pipe between proxy (Nginx) and PHP interpreter (FPM). Especially with smaller page responses, Apache can easily win, since it doesn't have to communicate with an external process.
I came at a solution doing the following:

Well, I know this:

1 = 1/2 + 1/2

We're trying to get to 5 terms. So let's split 1/2 into two terms.

1 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/4

Hmm, let's do that again - this time splitting 1/4.

1 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/8

Ok, I'm pretty close. Can I split 1/8 into 1/9 and some mystery term?

1 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/9 + 1/N

Well, that's not hard to solve. N = 72.

1 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/9 + 1/72
The only way to make this work is to put the carbon tax into a fund that the US government has no access to, and to empty the fund every year, writing each American a check.
You dig a hole into impermeable bedrock, and put the waste there. Or if you're the Soviets, you just dump it into the Arctic ocean.
You can't prove that, and that's why we still have the discussion.

I'm sure there is an insurance payout at play as well.
Did accounting see the invoice payments getting withdrawn monthly?
Where was it lengthed ?
This is the reality of carbon taxes as implemented in some Western European countries and Canada. A generic tax that applies to a limited set of activities then a sector-by-sector specific plan for most large industries depending on a lot of factors.
My searching has split pretty evenly between Google and Bing. There was a relatively recent change to Google's search functionality that really brings down the usefulness: I can type an exact phrase in double quotes like I have for years, but often it will "correct" it to something else. These corrections involve either changing a term into another word or dropping words from my query altogether. It completely defeats the point of double quotes and often delivers wrong results because of it. When this happens, I switch to Bing and often get the results that I'm looking for.
If a founder as successful Zsu came in extremely drunk one time, yeah, I think extend him some grace. He fucked up - once. That's ok!

Did he kill someone? No. Did he lose a major customer account? No. Did he fire a top employee in a drunken rage? No.

He's under a lot of pressure and fucked up in an embarrassing way once. That doesn't mean he has a substance problem. It means he had a bad day.

If it happens a second time? Yeah, ok, now it's starting to be a track record. Third? Nuke him.

It's ok for people to fuck up sometimes
One big difference is in the US the companies are not required to manipulate content to serve USG interests. TikTok may downrank or censor HongKong videos because the government forces them to - the same does not happen at American companies.

I think the 'assume they have all of your data' is paranoid (particularly for encrypted stuff like whatsapp), but people should probably more careful about this kind of thing than they are anyway. The US has laws and rules around access, you may not agree with them - but they are far and away better than the CCP's approach.

The CCP is running concentration camps for a minority population of their own citizens, invading and taking over neighboring countries (HK with an eye towards Taiwan), and censoring pooh bear from the internet because of a light hearted comparison to Xi. The police call foreign students in the US to threaten them over their internet activity: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgxdv7/chinese-police-are-vi...

The comparisons are not valid.
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Sounds like your team/company needs to establish SLAs. When it comes to troubleshooting the important timelines to commit to are communication timelines. First response with X hours. Updates every Y hours/days depending on severity/priority. You'll also want a clear process for establishing the criteria for diagnosing priority and what escalation paths should be when there are roadblocks.
You can create your own local eth network (i.e: with https://www.trufflesuite.com/ganache)
VBA is very 90s. As in, similar to 90s era java, right up to the built-in IDE.
Does anyone know if the glib answer works? Does the steering column selector stalk go through the ui (and therefore is interceptable by the supposedly compromised interface) or is it directly connected to the 'backend' below?

Calling the critical ui interface the 'infotainment' system for a tesla is slightly misleading.
> anyone with half an idea is allowed to bolt on features.

I know you're talking about feel here, not about process, but to be clear, while we do have a pretty open and fairly democratic process, and while anyone can propose a feature, only the language team members, which is currently five folks, can decide to say "yes" to a proposal. The team may have been plus or minus a few over the years, but it's never been particularly large.

(We generally feel this process works well to balance all these factors; we want everyone's good ideas, but we also have to maintain coherence. An open suggestion process with a closed selection process has worked well in our eyes, but everyone can feel differently, of course.)
I’ll have to give pages a try. I think perhaps I favor the earlier versions of office products because I learned on them, they’re faster, and they weren’t as a service.

I’ll go for latex if something has to be published and certainly use power point a bit but am always on the lookout for new approaches. It’s great that power point can pull/receive graph data.
> The thing is, instantaneous communications do not and can not exist in our universe. In fact, there is no such thing as two things happening "at the same time" if they are in different locations.

I do understand what you're saying, and while I agree that observations differ based on the location of the observers, there's one thing that still baffles me. Quantum entanglement.

Let's say that we replace the wizards in my example with a pair of entangled particles, and in fact, for this thought experiment let's pretend that humans and "observers" don't even exist anymore - there is noone left in the universe to observe what is happening anywhere.

Wouldn't our current understanding state that the wave function would be identical between the particles regardless of where those particles are located in spacetime? In effect, wouldn't the wavefunction be "happening at the same time"? Mind you, I'm not suggesting that the particles are communicating, simply that their waveforms are identical. It's really baffling to me that one particle could be in an area subjected to massive gravitational distortion while the other is not (a completely different world line), and yet they are always in sync. Thoughts?
I've been CTO when the CEO sent these demands. I learned you can't work for CEOs like this -- all negotiations were for naught, and it severely undermined my ability to make any agreements with the team, or for the team.
Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed.

Cue the intellectualization from "investors."
Because China has not done enough damage by COVID19.