skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand this desire to wallow in the belief that anyone who tells you it doesn't have to be like that must be lying or selling something.

Because literally every time we've encountered cake it's a painful and disgusting experience.

It's more like you've been given something that's been called cake, but is actually not cake. Whoever baked it realized that the recipe for cake could never work, so they changed it into something that would, and told you that was "real" cake.
Suppose you are staring a startup. You know and like python so you build your MVP in python. 1k to 10k lines later you hire a few extra engineers to help bring your MVP to a real product. 100k to 1mill lines later you become very very successful and you now have 10s to 100s of engineers coding every day. They're all producing the same number of LOC you were. Maybe more now. Then you take a look at your bills and find that what used to run on a single box on your basement is now costing > 100k/month in compute.

So what do you do? Rewrite everything in C++? Well you can start but you have so much software it's hard to do. Maybe you can save a few percent of compute cycles across all of your code? Reduce the 100k/month to 80k/month.

Obviously this number is fall smaller than it would be in reality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27059194
Sure. We all got these as kids. Twenty years later, I am much happier when I am able to communicate my unhappiness to people who care about me and who are able to get me through the tough times. Secure attachment is a pleasant thing.

But I'm not a safetyist. I much prefer to face the world as it stands. But I have a place of voluntary individuals who provide me support and I am stronger for it.
That strikes me as the actual problem. It's just not a particularly compelling product. I'm amazed they got the buzz they did.
The person who added the data set is the same person that owns the business, so this seems pretty likely.
If only Wyze Watch were supported...
No, I don’t. Even if it were possible to acquire that much land, and it isn’t, the land isn’t suitable for solar.
This is a good thing to consider. I'm setting a reminder for myself in ten years to create a clubhouse clone. If one exists then I'll just snooze another decade.
I mean, it really is all luck that we are born with a giant star providing us energy to sustain life on earth. You’re absolutely right. Lucked out with this beautiful sun!

We talk past each other when we do not specify the domain of the topic under discussion. At the highest abstraction it’s luck. We are lucky to have born as humans and not somewhere at the bottom of the food chain.

It’s impossible to have a productive conversation with these analogies and subjectivity of which abstraction layer we are talking about.

What this thread is about - “Nothing is in our control and everything is luck”. That’s a dull and uninteresting observation IMO. Also really uninspiring take on life and pursuit of excellence.
I never wish ad-supported content to be disappeared or behind paywall
My ability to concentrate, learn, or get shit done has only ever been hindered by an ad to the extent that it's annoying waiting for the ad to finish. I can't imagine most people don't just tune ads out most of the time. Still better than having to pay every website a subscription. It's nice having the option though, for example I personally find YouTube Premium worth the money.
It's a bit more complicated than just a single per-area metric. See (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9150552) for an overview.
Depending on where you live in the US, this actually did happen. I'm one of the people who bought into that crap.
There is also the "green card lottery" for those in countries where fewer immigrants come from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa
Genuine social proof is always the best.

Smart marketers don't try to get you to buy from an ad click. They want to move you one step down the funnel, which is usually getting your email/contact info if it's the type of product that has a longer nurturing process and sales cycle.
Isn't it U2F?
Huh? You'd need to look at billions in profit, not revenue, since insurance does pay out for the cost of care. When you look at that, the margin is actually lower than most industries. It is true that there are a lot of middlemen with hands in the pot but it's not quite that simple.

The biggest driver of healthcare is that Americans just consume a lot of it. We get surgeries, we opt for long, expensive treatments at the end of our lives, we use extremely sophisticated and expensive medical equipment a lot, we pay people to take care of our old people exorbitant sums of money.

Like, in other countries, when your lungs and kidneys start going, you don't go to the hospital for a multiple surgery. When you fall and you can't move around and wipe your own ass, you don't get moved into a facility where people are paid to take care of you, you move in with your family. And, if you don't have those options, you die.

I'm with you that the system is fucked but the underlying reason doesn't _really_ have anything to do with greed in medicine and everything to do with the way that we treat medicine culturally: the duty that children (don't, in this country) have to care for their elders, the attitude we have about prolonging death. That every part of the medical system says: we will never, ever make the decision to let someone pass away, even when "fixing" their problem (of death!) with all the technology and labor we've got turns out to be ludicrously expensive.
I'm not trying to bike shed, but I am genuinely curious about what use cases people who choose mdb over pg are optimizing for.

With hstore and jsonb fields I don't really see any reason to support mdb. Is it scaling / replication that makes it worthwhile?
Disruptive changes to me personally in Big Sur:

1) They changed keyboard shortcut and navigation behavior, I now have to use twice as many keystrokes to navigate Mail than I did before. Some keyboard navigation options are now impossible.

2) Messages was rewritten for Catalyst and is far more unstable. Keyboard navigation is impossible.

3) Notification buttons and behavior. This now requires hovers and the gestures do different things than they did before.

4) Application icon shape and location. Mail has buttons moved around and the icons are different. Functionality is basically the same but muscle memory is reset.

5) Window title bars are bigger and application minimum sizes are larger but fewer options are available, requiring more clicks to get to nested functionality, if it is even available. My 16” screen on Big Sur now shows as much information as my 13” screen on Catalina.

They are small changes but they are still changes. Small enough that the functionality is basically the same but big enough I have to re-learn it, and for no benefit to myself.
I value what you've written, and I agree although my experience was (possibly?) the inverse.

I was a poor white kid in a wealthy white area. While I lived in that area, I only got to briefly attend a private school because of my mothers boyfriend. Everyone knew I was the "poor kid", and my mother, who did her best, was _obsessed_ with the fact that everyone knew we were "imposters" - not wealthy, not married, from a broken home, "gold-digger", etc etc etc. The list of victim-tokens is miles long. It was an illusion - I don't think more than a small handful of adults and certainly no kids ever held my status against me.

When I lived on my own as a teenager, I had no shortage of people explaining why I was a victim due to my life experiences. Obviously, this isn't even close to the the same level of experience as racism, but I completely agree with "they never let on, and frankly I think I'm better off not having dwelt on what was in their deepest thoughts".

Fearing what was in the "deepest thoughts" of others crippled many people in my life. If anything, in my experience, that fear of judgement "in a deep thought" is a _much_ larger hindrance than any actual action that was taken against us. I see echos of this in the politics of people I've met all around the country. And the great irony is that kids who grew up in wealth and surrounded by healthy parents seem oblivious or to not care whatsoever about such judgements from others. Are they ignorant or inoculated?

I'm _extremely_ cautious of even inhabiting the thought that the victim mentality hurts more than the victimization, as obviously that can turn callous incredibly quickly... But it's not a _useless_ thought either.
Google vs. Oracle: The Future of Software and Fair Use [audio]
In the "agile" environments I've seen, devs are expected to be the ultimate generalist. We have to do planning, documentation, testing, qa, ops, and still write the code.
I like passwords.

I feel like a baller remembering my complex ones for important sites and other mechanisms for simpler sites - it might take a few attempts sometimes but it feels good and I can do it anywhere without requiring additional forms of auth
Etherscan ;)

https://etherscan.io/apis

Amazon is sponsoring a new ($50k) challenge on AI Crowd. Sense and avoid airbourne objects in autonomous flight. Relative velocities at which these things fly makes classification and tracking look extremely hard. But data set could be applied to search for UFOs...

https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/airborne-object-tracking-...
To be clear, my comment wasn't meant as a criticism of the person I was replying to, just expanding the discussion of negatives from advertising. I think these ethical decisions are fairly hard to make, and it's hard to blame anyone, unless the career is obviously purely harmful. It's admirable when people even consider these things, considering how many people just take the money and don't think twice about it.
Compared to NEON, SSE, AVX etc, yes.

Compared to RVV? I don't think that follows.

Also there won't be any generally available (for example in a Raspberry Pi or other SBC) implementations of SVE for probably several years yet, while Allwinner has their D1 chip using RVV [1] already in mass production and I've been running test code on it e.g.

http://hoult.org/d1_memcpy.txt
http://hoult.org/d1_strcpy.txt

Sipeed and Pine64 have announced plans to sell Linux SBCs with this chip for as little as $10 or $12 within the next few months.

[1] it's a two year old version 0.7.1 of RVV, not very compatible with the current draft (though that memcpy() works on both), but newer than what is shown in the article.
I think there's a huge divide between people who recognize that TIV exists, and those who only see victim signalling as purely authentic, hence it's manipulative capabilities.

There's an Inuit signer [1] who is adamant that other aboriginals cannot do the 'throat singing'. The thing is - nobody cares that much about the art form, however, the CBC (Canada) and other entities will do some national coverage when they want to do 'Aboriginal Focus' because it's authentic and unique. This made an Inuit throat singer a little bit of a sub-star within the community. Along comes another Aboriginal doing it to steal some of the shine and the original lady went full into cultural appropriation diva mode.

I've never heard of an art form in my life, which almost nobody practices where the practitioners want to stop everyone else from participating because of very narrow and specific blood lineage.

"Throat singing is not a “pan-Indigenous free for all,” says Tanya Tagaq"

This is 'power in victimhood' and using identity to garner social capital and leverage.

The challenge is, there is often some degree of kernel of truth in the matter - i.e. it's not a completely irrational argument to contemplate if people who are not from a certain culture do something very culturally specific, and this is how arguments I think can get populist. Similar to the situation wherein there is some kind of confrontation between a Black and White person, wherein 'racism' may have nothing at all to do with the situation, but since there is the possibility, it's held as though there is de facto racism on the news.

Finally, this is not to suggest there are not real victims. Those who can't see TIV exists will see all cynical reaction to claims of victimhood as straight up fascism or some kind of deep insensitivity when it may or may not be the case.

[1] https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/should-non-inuit-perfo...
But at the same time software got slower and slower to the point that every processor upgrade just feels the same as the previous one. Sure there are some speedups, but I feel software could be way faster than it is today. There is little reason for a command line only linux to be slow in an older machine, and yet it is slugish.
People have completely lost the value of money.

I could not agree more, I've been so heated over the last year looking for any sort of rationale but this greed fueled fake currency explosion is driving me insane. I understand the tech, I don not understand the hype.
I think there is an analog here to the great man theory vs zeitgeist. Maybe this tech was underwhelming and its massive impact was due to fortuitous timing. So you weren’t wrong about the tech just how it would mix with the spirit of the moment.
> Perhaps it relates to using 36-bit words?

Yep, before ASCII was standardized it was common for machines to be built with word-addressable memory and words that were multiples of six bits. Two octal digits easily represent a six-bit byte, just as two hexadecimal digits easily represent an eight-bit byte
I feel like there are other costs beyond attention and privacy, too. Costs of malware and fraud are also common, but for the sake of argument we can just focus on somewhat more "legitimate" / "non-malicious" ads. (Emphasis on the scare quotes.)

There's the aesthetic cost. If I see an ad on or near a nicely designed or produced website or video, it immediately detracts from the visual appeal.

There's the annoyance cost. I'm personally immediately irritated and annoyed when I see or hear an ad. It affects my mood and my impression of whatever I'm trying to look at or listen to. (I despise it when I'm away from my computer and have a podcast on which ends and instantly transitions to some loud peppy ad for a fast food restaurant and I have to interrupt whatever I'm doing to walk over and shut the thing off.)

For some, there's the cost of paying for a product or service that an ad misled them about. They may pay more than they should have or get something which is portrayed a certain way in an ad which doesn't hold up in reality.

There's the psychological and sociological cost. Ads (especially in video or audio form) present a certain clinical and biased world frame. People usually talk and act in unnatural or "perfect" ways. A young person exposed to, say, hundreds of ads per week and thousands of ads per year may eventually start to subconsciously find that frame normal and expected. Even though they know they're ads rather than non-fiction, I think those things can potentially seep in in some cases.

There are the conflicts of interest and the effects caused by suspicion of conflicts of interest. If I see a "sponsored search result" or "sponsored article", I expect that the source will be less likely to show things which might propose a competing narrative or say anything negative about the sponsor. "Okay, I can't trust this source for anything related to [X], now."

As a corollary to the annoyance cost, there's the fakeness/sincerity dissonance cost. If I'm reading an article or listening to a podcast that's presented as, or may very well be, sincere and truthful, it's a little bit jarring for it to be interrupted with some fake, artificial, marketer-crafted bullshit with superlatives about how [X] will change your life and is the best thing ever. A little hard to take the rest seriously at that point.

I feel like I could list at least ten more. From a purely subjective and personal perspective, I don't even mind the egregious privacy implications as much as all these other things. I just fucking hate seeing and hearing ads.
Actors use it extensively to learn accents
from the PDF:

> ACIC observation shows there isno legitimate reason for a law-abiding member of the community to own or use an encrypted communication platform
At the risk of being just an old man yelling at clouds, it is really sad to see what burning man has become since becoming a for profit company in 2013.

The last time I attended was in 2015 and the vibe just wasn't the same anymore.
So Sputnik - V is promoting their vaccine citing the positive reviews in Lancet. What's new here?

Isn't it a standard and common marketing tactic in the pharma industries? Why just the Pharma industries, even the junk food industry of the US or Tobacco industry setup their own think-tanks and finance "scientific" research that attack their critics' claim by publishing papers that contest their criticism.

While the BMJ highlights concerns about the trial data Lancet has, and hints that the "third-world" country regulators may have been swayed by it, I wonder why they ignore the other simpler and obvious explanation - some "third-world" countries trust Russia's competence in biotechnology over their own.

It further boosts the credibility of the Sputnik-V vaccine that Russia is vaccinating its own army and people with it. Of course, that doesn't mean the vaccine is better or safer than the alternatives available, which is a genuine concern that the paper rightly highlights. But in terms of perceptions, that's a huge deal.

It should also be noted that not every regulator has blindly approved the vaccine - third-phase trials of Sputnik-V have now been completed in Russia and are also underway in India, Belarus, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela among other countries. [1]

As an Indian, I have confidence in the efficacy of the vaccine not only because Russia is competent in this area but also because Indian regulators have finally approved Sputnik-V's use in India. And more so because it will be manufactured locally by various vaccine makers in India:

India is the leading production hub for Sputnik V. RDIF has reached agreements with the leading pharmaceutical companies in the country (Gland Pharma, Hetero Biopharma, Panacea Biotec, Stelis Biopharma, Virchow Biotech) aimed at production of more than 850 million doses per year. [2]

(So far, in some of the countries where it is being administered, the criticism against Sputnik-V has mostly been on the quality of the vaccines manufactured. On that aspect, I would feel more confident about Sputnik-V manufactured in India - as one of the largest manufacturers of vaccine in the world, India is quite competent in this area and will have less quality control issues in the Sputnik-V doses manufactured here.

[1]: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-russia-agrees-to-produce-s...

[2]: https://sputnikvaccine.com/newsroom/pressreleases/sputnik-v-...
Thoughts on Ad Blocking
Why do you care what people think of you? Why are you letting the low-grade morons talk you out of what you are interested in? Develop your mind! Forget the past - hardships will make you into a man to be reckoned with. Play the violin. Cheryl is the one.
> The majority of the water is used for agriculture, which supplies the nation and even the world with water-hungry food.

It kind of sounds like it has everything to do with people, unless people aren't eating that agriculture or eating whatever that agriculture eventually feeds.
No better place to learn how to make eggs Benedict than on a plane.
Ethereum full node vs. archive node
Overview: If the Ethereum network is to be seen as a globally distributed computer, then nodes provide computational power and resources to this computer. In this guide, we’ll understand more about Ethereum full nodes and archive nodes then explore the difference between them.
If you want the ability to manipulate a serializable JavaScript object graph without escapes static analysis is still overkill: a simple wrapper that only allows accessing enumerable own properties in the desired object tree works fine and seems a lot easier to get right, without blacklisting a lot of commonly used words in the JS API to avoid escapes.

I’m really struggling to understand how making a sandboxed environment more “engaging” in a way that makes it more similar to Newgrounds-era flash that depends on this kind of thing at all. Newgrounds didn’t let you store data on their servers or anything. I suspect at the end of the day Flash had a good set of capabilities and a great authoring tool for making small games and animations, and there wasn’t anything more to it than that. I don’t remember any (non-malevolent) Newgrounds content that did anything more sophisticated with browser APIs than save stuff on local storage.
Many CA communities make it hard to cut down trees ("conservationism"), and also don't religiously enforce clearance rules that they do have on the books. The combination means that there's a huge pileup of fuel even in suburban neighborhoods.

To those downvoting - this is a town-owned parcel in my neighborhood, just a few miles down the hill from the CZU complex evacuation zone.
https://i.imgur.com/PVUoUVg.jpg
I want a future without passwords, but that future gives me the choice of third parties to host my passwords. I prefer 1Password, some people like iCloud, while others may prefer a Microsoft solution.

Passwords suck and we need a per-site password policy that can act like an API. Kind of like a Robots.txt, to declare, "This site needs 8-20 characters, 1 symbol and the URL's for login, reset and forgot password are these URI's."
Well, this is a bit awkward
I mean I have to eat my hat for sure.

I should have not have just trusted the parent comment and just looked at how it worked. I wrongly assumed it was some account setting like “enable tips” and then it walks you through a PayPal setup and then suddenly millions of people are going to be unwittingly exposing their address to strangers potentially without knowing and with no alternative except to not accept payments. It’s literally just a way to add tip links to your profile which is way more benign.
React Admin (https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin) covers parts of what you describe.

I have however a similar need for a Retool alternative minus the UI (configured via files).
> Quantum behavior seems so counterintuitive

While I still feel just that, this post[1] and its reference to Scott Aaronson's lecture[2] on how QM can be seen as a "inevitable" generalization of probability theory did make quantum mechanics more... comforting? acceptable? Something like that.

[1]: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/probability-theory-and...

[2]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
I'd argue there's a lot more nuances to system racism than the general narrative that is currently being perpettuated. Looking into those nuances would be frowned upon because certain groups differ from other groups for reasons that are not truly understood but would cause us to ask questions we're not comfortable with.

Though anecdotal, I know several adults who have fallen into the "it's because systemic racism that I can't get ahead" trap. One example is a low-achiever socially awkward friend of mine that complains about not being able to find a tech job, yet spends the vast majority of his days playing video games. Instead of recongizing that his skills (social and coding) are subpar and addressing it, he chalks it up to systemic racism, makes an angry post on Facebook and calls it a day.
To be fair, I thought it worked the way you described it too, and was aghast at how anyone could have thought this was a good idea, man or woman.
What are the largest datasets in Splitgraph?
Can I list the datasets sorted by size?

We have the need for large public datasets for testing ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/getting-started/example-data...
Hi Kyle,

This looks amazing! I wouldn't be surprised if this can be useful for e.g. urban economics, to compute measures of how cities and urban areas grew. Like LA eating into the San Fernando Valley, for instance.