skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long been struggling with the idea of "Duckspeak" as addressed by Orwell.

Lately I tell the story that there are two kinds of communication:

Positive Communication -- The most powerful weapon that Homo Sapiens uses against the cold, the dark, hunger, wild animals, disease, and all threats external to us.

Negative Communication -- A weapon that Homo Sapiens uses against Homo Sapiens.
This is entirely correct, it seems you are displaying the kind of humility that would make your ancestors proud!
I guess you trade responsiveness for 'on-demand' data transfers. I would guess that the moment you click the button is too late to resume the loading.

Otoh the low-res thumbnail might be just enough to show as a (big) placeholder to bridge the (short) loading time to bring the image to a resolution that the user won't notice a difference.

(brain off ... can't write coherently ...)
Does that mean for a whole month the entire country/Muslim world does the night shift?
Thanks Any suggestions then? =)
I'm a little naive on this subject, but just wondering what are the use cases for in-memory columnar stores? I was under the impression that columnar stores are good for OLAP use cases involving massive amounts of data. For datasets that fit within memory, are there still benefits in organizing data in a columnar manner and are the performance gains appreciable?
I really want this to work.

As has been pointed out in the comments, it needs to be adopted beyond the browser. And easily.

Anyone hear of FlashPix[0]?

Anyone?

Bueller?

It was a staged-resolution format that was introduced by a consortium in the 1990s.

The biggest problem (of many) was that, in order to read or write the format, you needed to use the Microsoft Structured Storage[1] library, which was a huge pig (at that time. I assume it's better, these days).

The format was basically strangled in the crib. It was actually a fairly interesting idea, at the time, but files could be huge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPix

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_Structured_Storage
> Targeted programs don't generally work; they rely on the idea that whoever is doing the targeting can predict the future better than everyone else, which isn't usually true.

What are you saying? That most government programs aren't working? Please share the data.
Bunny as presented is pretty mind blowing. But I wonder: since we only see a tiny part of her interactions, is this an example of a million monkeys with a million typewriters?
New headline: "Tesla reaches destination without expending any energy!"
I think you missed the point. There is no first batch. It's sourdough all the way down.
Funnily enough, I've read a blog of a psychiatrist, who shared a lot of anecdotes from his practice. And the was a pattern in his communications with his patients. Like "I see that aliens got almost total control over your brain, just like you've said, so I can give you this shiny pill that blocks alien EMI, it can free your brain from alien influences." Or "you should call me instantly, if demons returned and started to torment you again, we can increase a dose of this magic medication, making your poisonous to foul creatures".

From one hand, it seems like a manipulation or a direct lie, but from other hand it seems like a completely coherent explanation, just from completely screwed belief system.

I mean, that accepting beliefs of others is orthogonal to a medication.
It's true locally but you can always move away so it is not a global problem.

The bigger problem is that you have to punish working people with an income tax that funds the UBI. In most cases taxation is basically a punishment for bad behavior. You can optimize taxes the same way you can optimize profits. Tax involving activities cut into profits, so they should be avoided, at least from the perspective of an accountant.

i.e. people don't stop working because they have money, they stop working because they get less money from work
It's not survival of the fittest, its survival of the ones that survive.

An organism can have many maladaptations and as long as it continues to be successful enough that they dont drag it down to complete extinction.
Motivation is a funny thing. For example if someone else benefits more than me from my own work, I may decide I'd rather not do it at all.

After all, just relaxing, smoking weed and playing on my Xbox is a really awesome way to spend my time.
The USPTO checks for prior art. The result is not set in stone but if they don't find prior art then they grant the patent. The patent can then still be challenged in court by other companies.
Yes I wanted something that is simple and integrates perfectly with my graphics stack and editor. Styling is completely separate from the logical UI functionality.
Long variable names make mathematically oriented code unreadable. A short half-liner becomes a multi-line monstrosity. What you need to understand is that in mathematical code, the variables themselves are of secondary importance, while the structure of the expression is primary. With long names, you cannot see what's going on.
Navigating the 8 fallacies of distributed computing
Ask HN: Where to find courses to learn random things(non-tech) in few hours?
I've been exploring new hobbies lately and I want to try out different things and find what interests me.
Why Seeking Out Difficulties Helps Benefit You in Ways an Easy Life Can’t
Regenerative braking is so neat. I drove up a steep windy road to go on a hike with my plugin hybrid. On the way down I tried to let gravity do all of the acceleration and regenerative braking do all of the deceleration. At the bottom of the hill I had racked up +3 miles in total. Another fringe benefit is that brake pads wear out slower and produce less pollution.
Ask HN: Why is writing unit tests so different in every project?
I rarely meet people who know the difference between mockist and classicist testing style and what are the pro and contras.
So I find it hard to discuss testing principles and best practices with new team mates.

Also, I feel that a lot of people follow one style of testing very dogmatic.
This is wrong. It is correct for early stage. Compared with clinical trials, early stage costs nothing.
Short answer: not at all. You're just moving the energy expenditure behind lossy generation.
I can try to provide a perspective.

From what moral authority do positive rights originate? (a right that requires someone to provide you with a good or service)

From what moral authority do negative rights originate? (a right that prevents somebody from interfering with you or harming you)

Over the course of hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, negative rights have been developed successfully in legal systems around the world. We've seen demonstrable evidence that enforcing protections of negative rights results in a happier and more productive population.

Different countries have also, generally more recently, brought forth positive rights by various means- welfare programs, socialism, full communism, or otherwise.

People that tend to care more about negative rights than positive rights tend toward right-libertarianism. Positive rights, in a sense, require those who can provide to forfeit some of their freedom, in order to help those who require it. There is a non-zero risk that a well-meaning welfare or socialist policy fails in its mission despite good intentions. Many of the communist states with the most heartfelt populist movements have seen the deepest failures. So in the right-libertarian mindset, there is a risk of a two-fold (or perhaps threefold) failure:

-It promised to provide (positive rights) prosperity to all, and it didn't

-It had to trample on the negative rights of the wealthy to try to redistribute their wealth

-(more vague)It eroded many individuals' notion of self-determination in the process, and in doing so left them less likely to work towards their own values.

Separately, there's the important notion of what the "staying alive threshold" is. Almost nobody in G7 countries dies of hunger or thirst, and those who do were likely in a crisis not determined by lack of access. Statistically, life expectancy increases with income up to and past $100,000/yr. The spectrum in between is fraught.
I personally wouldn't, but everybody has to decide for themselves.

I at least know a few companies that would avoid hiring people who criticize old employers, afraid they will be next. I mean, most companies have at least some "skeletons in the closet" of bad practices or what not.

Having said that I'm usually brutally honest in job interviews, I see it as my way of screening companies, if they don't want the honest me, then I would probably not fit the company culture anyway. So there might be nothing wrong with having an honest blog in the end, maybe you receive less offers, but the offers match you more.
What about Config Builders?
Lunch isn't just about refuelling, I can eat at my desk and keep working if that was the case. It's about taking a break.

Also, for some of us it's normal to go to a restaurant or to the pub for lunch. It's been years since I've eaten a packed lunch.
You should take a look at the SIR model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...

It's a simplified model for an epidemic, where you have a wave and after some time everyone is dead or recovered, and the virus can't infect more people and disappear.

There are two important graphics. They are together in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem... One if the daily cases (maroon) that looks like a wave, and the other is the cumulative cases (teal) that looks like a step.

Real life is more complicated. If you look at the second graph of South Sudan, they had two waves, one in May-June 2020 and the second one in February-March 2021. Compare this with the daily cases (maroon) of the simplified model.

Now take a look at the first graph of South Sudan that you linked that is the number of cumulative cases. It has two steps. Each step is one of the waves. Compare it with the recovered (teal) cases in the simplified model. The graph in the simplified model is too small. You must imagine that it's extends to the left and right as horizontal lines.

Also, real life is more complicated, because some people has natural immunity or immunity from a previous similar illness, vaccines, lives completely isolated in a forest, a lot of luck, ... and many more reason to skip the epidemic.

The important part, is that after some time the virus can not propagate and die. So the graph of cumulative cases is a horizontal line, then one/two/three/... steps and then an horizontal line. That's why the cumulative graph are very similar.

Also, real life is more complicated, and newborn have no immunity, and vaccines are not 100% effective, So if you look at this graph of the annual cases of measles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine#/media/File:Measle... you can see that there are big waves, and after the first vaccine was introduces, the number of cases decrease a lot. But there are still smaller waver more separated when there are enough newborns with not enough immunity from the vaccine. And after they added a second dose, the waves disappear!

Back to the graphs you linked. In the second graph of Gibraltar, it looks like they had a small wave in April 2020, then two middle waves in October and November 2020 that are very close in time, and then a huge wave in December 2020-January 2021. So in the first graph you can see one small step, then a medium step that is not so sharp, and then a big step.

Oversimplifying, after some time the virus can't spread because there is no enough new people to infect. The people is in the slots: dead, recovered, vaccinated, lucky. You only try to choose how many people get in each slot.
Housing is often a sellers market. If you can find a place where it isn't you get to save money.
Not only this, but the new "Millionaire Tax" proposal didn't help either, where they suggested 30% extra tax for any savings over 100K SEK (10K USD) and then an EXTRA 30% if you invest that money into a company.

Such taxes just begs businesses to stay away from Sweden, I'd say it even discourages investments at all.

Adding to that a collapsing electrical infrastructure with sky-high electricity costs as a result.
How to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking
That seems like it would have to be an unusual hardcoded path in the browser's code. I can't figure out why it would do that.
Could you charge a car while driving it? I guess you can charge a laptop while using it. Why not!
So? A tiny fraction. Of the one billion development cost, how much is early research, done in universities?

You have no idea about this industry. Or for the noob: development costs are tiny compared to costs in clinical trials.

There are some interesting compounds. Dichloroacetate for example. Not patent protected. Feel free to start your own clinical trial tomorrow. :-)
Very cool. This kind of storage is similar to what's typically being used in Entity Component Systems like EnTT [0], which can also be interpreted as in-memory column oriented databases.

Recently I'm starting to like this type of programming over OOP. Each part of your application accesses a global in-memory DB with the full state. But unlike a traditional persistent db it's really fast.

[0] https://github.com/skypjack/entt
The ultimate evolution: move mind to silicon, replicate, replace hardware when needed.

What's up with needing water sugar and air, while creating waste product? Just use electricity.
We have trains in chicago that reach whiskers up to charging lines above them. Same as the trolley systems in San Francisco. What if every major city to city freeway stretch had these in a lane for electric vehicles?
This is a fine start. Many thanks.
Show HN: lapetitejort goes hiking, discovers perpetual motion
I know an elderly person that:

- does not have a mobility scooter

- cannot walk more than like 20 feet

- is able to drive

So if e.g. their hairdresser was suddenly in a pedestrianised place they would not be able to go there anymore. A bus would not help, they would not be able to walk to a bus stop, the bus might not go near enough to the hairdresser. So in their case the bus is less accessible than a car. I'm not saying this is true in general, as some disabled cannot drive but can get the bus.
You will still need the bureaucracy there to be monitoring for abuse. I'd argue it'd be larger since the scale is increased
I’d to the same to anyone trying to short change me.

I guess it really depends on what your local market looks like. In some places the price you list land or real estate for is highest you could possible hope of getting and you go in with realization that you will almost certainly get less. There it is common to start the 'bidding' ~20% under asking.

In other places the price you list is the lowest price you will consider selling for and you'll never seriously consider an offer under that. There you normally start bidding at 0-10% over asking.
Evolution doesn’t efficiently optimize everything. On a mechanical level every person has several mutations but failing to reproduce is a very weak signal to correct them.

Clearly beneficial or harmful mutations have significant pressure, neutral ones don’t.
Or use horses or mules. Would be a sight to behold :)
You said this as a joke, but I found myself (at least for a little while) wondering whether this might be more efficient than having the wind turbine generate electricity and then have that electricity power the charger. But then I remembered that there is the cost of moving the relatively heavy vehicle on the merry-go-round and realized it wouldn't actually work.
My question is: Do people REALLY care about these drivers?

Because I get the feeling that "Yeah that sucks, Amazon should do something about it.." is generally followed by "Where's my package? I ordered it yesterday, where's my f*$#ing package?!"

This IS a government problem, it takes more than a few tweets to make a behemoth like Amazon to play ball and people generally only do what's in their self-interest, again where are the politicians?
If you mean to really REALLY push the quality, audio gets expensive. My video is in service of audio plugins so I have a motivation to do that: the reason my audio is strikingly good on my voice is, it is NOT done with plugins.

It's done with a Roswell Colares (or a Sennheiser lav) a $1500 boutique mic inspired by $10,000 mics, into an API 3124 studio pre, directly into a MOTU 16A interface with no further processing. Room treatment also plays a part: the room has two large openings into other spaces and six large T-Fusor diffusors, painted to match the walls.

A setup like that projects its sound character into the recording so strongly that there's nothing to fix: when the mics and things are high enough quality it's like the intention of the vocal performance comes through more powerfully in the first place, and this responds very well to digitization and compression.
claps This is very, very true.

Engineers like to put on a front of "I am an logical being therefore I don't feel emotion like the lesser emotional beings". But they show all sorts of emotions like anger, frustrations, superiority, anxiety, etc.

Our peers just don't have very developed emotional intelligence, and don't view their emotions for what they are.

It's a big blind spot, and I think it is further blinded by the lack of emphasis on emotional intelligence that boys experience in growing up. There's also this odd societal view that you cannot be both emotional and intelligent/logical.
These kinds of rules are usually put in place because without them, companies treat their employees like slaves.
Hi,

Thanks for that description, I managed to reproduce this and it is our fault not yours. You are using it correctly.

We'll get it fixed ASAP!

EDIT: Fixed now :)
At 1 year: Hang in there, only 39 more years to go until retirement.

At 5 years: Hang in there, only 35 more years to go until retirement.

At 10 years: Hang in there, only 30 more years to go until retirement.

All jokes aside, the best advice I got that covers all the years is, "When they give you your first assignment, bust your ass like you've never busted your ass before. Do it fast and perfect as you can. That will set the stage for the rest of your time there." I got into the habit and do it always. Once you show people you can "get stuff done," they will bring you with them when they move jobs. You'll always have work and you'll never have to talk to a recruiter again.

You should learn how to build systems. Build stuff in your spare time, full applications so you understand what it takes to build them. Ideally you would want to build a product that people use so you understand what it takes to actually build and ship a product. Setup the server that hosts your applications. Setup the DNS records and register a domain name so you know how all that works. Also, pick an industry like healthcare or banking or even tech, that way you're not a programmer you're a "financial industry programmer." Each industry has it's own nuances and regulations it has to deal with. Knowing these things adds value.

Mind the burnout. If you are in the US and get almost no vacation time, mind it carefully. Burnout will make you hate your job and lead to more burnout. It can last months, sometimes years.
Stalingrad was such hell on earth.

Mentioning it to my grandfather would break him and he would just walk away.

He stabbed dead Germans and fellow Russians with his bayonet to make sure they were dead. It's messed up.
Add a few string lights and you have a poor man's Helios
Also see my comment above, but you find this kind of storage commonly in game development [0] where you are optimizing for batch access on specific columns to minimize cache misses. It's usually used as the storage layer for Entity Component Systems. It's also called data-oriented design [1]

[0] http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/01/05/evolve-your-heirachy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
For the glasses glare I found a few things that help:

- Turn down display brightness
- Dark mode everywhere possible
- Block direct sunlight (blinds/curtains or rotate desk)
- Illuminate the rest of your face to reduce the contrast from glasses

If you use a terminal for most things, including notes, one thing that helps a lot is to use a semi-transparent black background and position the terminal window over the meeting display.
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> An organism can have many maladaptations and as long as it continues to be successful enough

... Thus making it the fittest [among the population]?
The formal verification researchers I've worked with love Rust, because its type system nails the basics so they can focus on proving more interesting properties.

Rust and formal verification work really well together. You can formally verify properties in a small section of critical code, then use the type and lifetime systems to expand those properties to the whole codebase. It's not an either/or, it's a both/and.
The issue is: bring this up and you'll be hit with "being gay was considered a mental illness too" s.t. it's considered taboo to approach this viewpoint. Gay conversion therapy might also be brought up. Is not dissimilar to the argument "they all laughed at <famous inventor(s)> too!" to justify any crank idea. Problem with this argument is: where do you draw the line?

The obvious counterpoint is Rachel Dolezal who wasn't able to identify as black, an example that is usually dismissed by suggesting she had ulterior motives (a shocking concept in itself - acting black for the benefits!), but it ignores the crux; if you can identify female, why not black?
And even better just embed some wires in the road and charge everyone at highway speeds. Either ground-level power supply through conductive rails or inductive coils both work with different tradeoffs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_road
I tried tripping on ketamine to cure PTSD
When the supply of goods goes up too, the marginal cost of labour goes down or the percentace of product cost of labour is small.

All of those become more and more true (and are already true for a large class of products) as mechanization and automation increases.
5% inflation a year (which is closer to 20% for people who want to own their own house) is devastating long term.

People in the US can just buy S&P stock in their 401K to defend against it, but most people in the world don't have that privilege.

I agree that volatility of bitcoin is really hard to stomach (I have been through 85% downturns and it sucked, and people have made fun of me many times, I just got used to it). But there are enough people who have so bad pension systems in the world, that they see the huge volatility of bitcoin as a better option than trusting their government.
The official SEC page is formatted better:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1845022/000119312521...
Survival of the survivors is comically tautological. Surely there is still something that survivors have in common that makes them the fittest, or non-survivors have in common that makes them the not-fittest.
Well said. I would also add that if you start somewhere new, don't judge too quickly that everything is garbage there and you could fix it all. There are many layers of reasons/issues on why certain things have been done certain way and even though you may have better solutions, listen/learn first. Don't be a Know it all even if you are that good.
They even have signs that look like people that day watch out for the sidewalk that stand next to the guy that says watch out for the sidewalk. But everyone who wants to work should have a job.