skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, everyone suddenly knowing what the hell is goatse... I think this sounds comparable to how everyone (less) suddenly learned what the hell is Uber.
When did aliens leave the public discourse? Right now there's a bit of a flare up, because that's how modern media works - some story is done, gets clicks, everyone rides the SEO trend for a while until something else crops up.

I don't think there's much more to it than that.
You've got to put on your homo economicus hat and think outside the box of social norms and common decency. The solution is to find something that's the right size to prop the doors open. Then prop the door of each section that you're comparing, so that you can see products and ponder each one. After you pick something out, pay it forward by leaving the doors propped so the next person has an easier time. For full credit, make sure to wear a mask to defeat the facial recognition cameras.
At least those are selling to actual customers. Many big corporate projects seem to be pointless pyramid building for some middle manager’s ego.
Except that moving inventory, and to a lesser extent generating repeat business, is more critical than ancillary ad revenue. If The screens don’t work or the ads aren’t effective, and I don’t open the door to get those high-margin also-bought drinks than they definitely do not achieve the store’s goal.
I've only worked at one startup (not yc); this was my experience too. We did lots of things that felt illogical (mainly related to what was prioritized) that I understood to be based on showing investors what they would want to see. I'm not in a position to judge whether this was s good strategy (it wasn't for us). Personally, I'm not a fan of doing stuff just because it's what I think other people want to see, and if I was going to do that, I'd see no reason in having a startup. But no doubt there are big success stories of higher valuations by focusing on subscription only SaaS over other revenue, for example, and that may be the best way to go.
And again, Telegram __does__ have e2e 1-to-1 secret chats. It's just that the group chats do not. This doesn't stop you from starting a secret chat with each and every person you'd like to chat with e2e.
Thanks. I live the idea of writing into the cells of a spreadsheet for exploration programming (like data science).

I also like the simplicity of that tree notation and feel like it’s a great way to create a Python-like dsl

Thanks for the links
+1 from a 3rd world immigrant.

I’ve been visiting these parts of the internet ever since PG started writing his essays. There is marked shift in the attitudes here, from celebrating success to hating it.

This is of course not limited to SFBA. The phenomenon has been, and continues to be, endlessly analyzed by journalists, culture critics and social scientists. A common theme is that of decadence, that only a society as rich as the US can begin to afford to hate itself.
And I genuinely can't tell if it's because you're offended that I likened your opinions about a lab leak to other conspiratorial nonsense, or because you believe that other nonsense and don't want to be forced to defend it.

Doesn't it strike you as perhaps notable that to people in the more mainstream scientific community, your opinions look like those of a flat earther?
Why does the M10 Bus exist if there are faster trains along the same route?
Thanks for the perspective.

If someone says they are "into the 3rd decade of" something (for example, programming experience), I would generally assume that means 30 years or more.

But what you're saying is that it could mean as little as 11 years, e.g., from 2010 to 2021 (yes, 2010 is still part of the '00 decade¹ and 2021 marks the beginning of the '20s, strange as that was to me).

¹ https://www.farmersalmanac.com/new-decade-2020-or-2021-10090...
I know this is not a popular opinion in general, but the most powerful antidote I know (well, more correctly the ONLY one I know) against self-disdain or similar feelings, is realizing that you are deeply loved by the Creator of heaven and earth himself.

King David summarizes this very succinctly in his own way: "Though my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will receive me."

The whole of Psalm 27 is very encouraging I think: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2027&vers...
This is all a really roundabout, long winded way of demonstrating confirmation bias. The idea that there are aliens among us is obscenely unlikely, with debunked after debunked case. Stacking up a whole bunch of fallacious arguments doesn't add up to a good one, or even an ok one, or even a "maybe".

> For one thing, multiple observations by multiple witnesses and multiple sensor modalities in multiple instances across decades is pretty good evidence.

Like this. No it isn't. It's terrible evidence, it actually isn't evidence at all.
I remember when Wickr first started on iOS, the founder said at the time that she wanted an app her kids could use safely. I never met anyone who used Wickr though. Pretty good job on their part that it went from a niche app to an Amazon acquisition.

Now that it will have a corporate implementation people should remember that corporately administered clients (e.g. Teams) save and record a copy of everything you say and do and AWS Wickr is likely to be no different.

As Signal is mentioned in this comment thread, I don't see the hit on Signal about the phone number piece as being a big downside. The app is about privacy not anonymity and a phone number is a pretty unique UID. I never installed Signal to talk to anonymous strangers, everyone on my list is someone I know because of the phone number UID. True, I don't know everyone's phone number but I'm probably also not talking to them often or ever.

It's very hard to get people to try a different messenger. People are very wedded to the Facebook corporation (FB, Instagram, Whatsapp). It bothers me when I talk about something and then see ads for it shortly after. Obviously not only is it bot-mined for ad purposes, but rather, I don't believe FB ever deletes the data. They are the administrator and likely keep it forever. This is why I personally think Google is better, they mine it with bots, but unlike FB they don't sell data to third parties.

Signal is probably at the current time the last non-corporate messenger that is secure and is easy enough to setup and use (other suggestions like Matrix have a barrier to entry that is too high because it requires both technical knowledge and the ability to find your correspondents). It can't be acquired due to it being a non-profit foundation so it's likely to be around for a long time to come.
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Its just a way people whine about others disagreeing with them when they can't back themselves up.

The statement seems a priori false, since people cant both be disagreeing with you, and also be against people disagreeing.
Ask HN: Do you consider the impacts of climate change when job hunting?
I currently work for a military contractor. Part of what keeps me from looking for other positions is the knowledge that my job is very secure and is likely to be even more so as global conflict increases. My company was wholly unaffected by COVID and if anything, we increased our production. It's likely that as conflicts arise due to the effects of climate change, there will be even more demand for the products we sell.

Does anyone else take into account future job security when you are job hunting? I feel bad for thinking like this.
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Odd how he characterizes the success of Ivermectin as an anecdote that hasn't been studied. There's a better consensus on this drug than there is for climate change. Is he unaware of all the science supporting it?

https://c19ivermectin.com/
I've had to relearn concepts 2-3x and deal with silly mistakes I made, rewriting some programs.

I know a little bit about databases so that gave me a good foundation to work with. If I was 18 and starting from scratch, some of those concepts may have taken longer to learn.

Other than that, pretty awesome. I went in thinking that I would need a few hundred hours of work before I would feel comfortable and I think that was about right. So I just enjoyed it along the way!
There's an angle that the company making these didn't think of. That's exactly the kind of critical use case you miss when you don't do enough testing.
4:52, but I had already given up on the first page once and then had to give it another go. Like others mentioned here, a lot of these are unfortunately common in the wild - the ones that always set me into a rage are placeholder texts that remain in the field as I type and the inability to tab through fields.
You can query it sure, but that doesn't mean the problem will be readily obvious. Again, this stuff can get complex fast, and it's easy to armchair quarterback that away.

So the stack approach essentially doesn't, because it forces a linearization. You'd have to rewind back through and see why what the system did didn't match your expectation. But at least the order is comprehensible vs some of the other approaches.
That’s typically how a job works…
From one of the tweets:

> Turns out that Monster energy drinks are found in the "no content" door.

So how did he find it? Obviously he went down the line of doors opening each one until he found it. If the doors were glass, he could have looked through each door instead of opening each.
I certainly did, it's the top result searching for <book name> pdf.

You can interpret the book as to deeming virtually anybody you think as either meeting or not meeting the criteria similar to a horoscope. The star signs being "Mr. Right" or "Mr. Sensitive" and "Drill Sargent" etc etc.

I could very trivially make the case that the author very clearly meets his own "Mr. Right" stereotype and thus is an abuser. He considers himself an authority on mental illness and substance abuse with no relevant training, sees the world as a huge classroom, he twists others statements to make them sound absurd, he switches to his voice of truth and speaks definitively, he seems to enjoy straightening out people in front of others to the point of remarking on constant conversations where he outwitted various men, and he says bad things about men to other people.

In fact by disagreeing with me you're a little "Mr. Right". I'm also "Mr. Right". None of us can ever be rehabilitated and all of us just need to be escaped from. We're all doing this because we think we can get away with it.
I can't help but wonder that if a non-human post-biology entity has had an extra billion years to develop, they may have solved the distance problem already in ways that we couldn't fathom yet.
The idea of "adjointness" is present like everywhere in math. I wrote up something on it https://github.com/adamnemecek/adjoint.
If you insulate too good, the heat from display won't be able to escape, and you'll need a gap b/w screen and insulation, making the door even thinker. I'm pretty sure, by design, those displays are being cooled with the freezers behind them.
Many have commented here on the computational challenges of enumerating, storing, and searching very large virtual libraries. While molecules can be represented and stored as strings, that's an oversimplification of the problem (from a CS perspective). Scientists often want to search these large libraries in 2D and 3D, which requires computing & storing those coordinates. It can be cost prohibitive just to store the 3D coordinates for massive virtual libraries, even for large pharmaceutical companies. We've done this for 10^10 molecules [0]. If you are reading this and find this type of problem interesting, checkout www.eyesopen.com/careers

[0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00779 "Virtual Screening in the Cloud: How Big Is Big Enough?"
As a fellow immigrant from a poor formerly communist country - Americans have no idea what real overlords feel like. My country gained independence in 1991 after last having it in 800 AD. Strong cultural legacy of being overlorded
Crap… I just hit the “Accept all cookies” button on this site on Chrome iOS. Did my browser just autofill a bunch of fields and submit my info to them?
Poorer societies can hate themselves for being corrupt. I don't think this is a rich game.

I guess it's harder to understand the reasons for rich societies.
> The post is written by an AWS VP of technology. They probably plan to deploy this as an enterprise service…

He is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Actually the artist was prescient - with Clear Channel ownership, there is almost no local radio programming today.

IHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHeartMedia

"the company owns more than 850 full-power AM and FM radio stations in the U.S., making it the country's largest owner of radio stations. "
Ok, now multiply this scenario by thousands. This sounds like a great way to bust your healthcare budget.
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1. Why do you assume that all the data that was made public is all the data there is? It's highly likely the government has additional classified information of much higher fidelity.

2. These phenomena are concentrated around military bases and other areas of "interest". Hardly places where you'd expect non-military flights to frequent.
> The first thought that came to my mind was - I'm not going to be here much longer. And it's not because I quit (I probably should have).

I would say, no! If you voluntarily quit instead of being let go, there can be certain disadvantages, depending on the employment laws and such in your jurisdiction.

Unless you have something lined up, of course; then it is largely moot.
I didn't get anything from the book. What was the best insight you got from the book?
This little chopper is so cool. If you've ever seen a rover's track from the satellite images, you know they don't go far from an Earth perspective even after many years because it's so hazardous. The potential of flying helpers to extend the surveying range beyond what's possible with rover-mounted stuff and satellites is exciting.

For comparison: Curiosity (previous rover, still running) has only gone ~15 miles in nine years. This one flight was ~0.6% of that.
It takes more time because they're not just being rubber stamped.
Google's UX is slightly broken and nobody in the organization cares to fix it. Their date & time pickers are good examples of this.

Flutter provides separate Material date picker [0] and time picker widgets [1], but no date-time picker widget that displays the selected DateTime and lets the user change the date or time. When I asked Flutter team for one 2 years ago, their UX person refused to add it, saying that because it's not in the Material Design Spec [2] [3] that it doesn't belong in the Flutter widget library.

Flutter does implement the excellent iOS DateTime picker [3].

[0] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showDatePicker.html

[1] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showTimePicker.html

[2] https://material.io/components/date-pickers

[3] https://material.io/components/time-pickers

[4] https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino
> This is what killed Usenet,[1] which 40 years ago offered much of the virtues of Reddit in decentralized form. The network's design has several flaws, most importantly no way for any central authority to completely delete posts (admins in moderated groups can only approve posts), since back in the late 1970s Usenet's designers expected that everyone with the werewithal to participate online would meet a minimum standard of behavior. Usenet has always had a spam problem, but as usage of the network declined as the rest of the Internet grew, spam's relative proportion of the overall traffic grew.

Should have been forked into a version with only *.edu allowed.
Correctly using a spinlock: Never when preemption is enabled
We're definitely in agreement that the arm of the state must be reigned in somehow. I'm just saying that most violence done by police is not de jure state violence backed up by any legal order, but rather personal decisions on their part for which they should be held personally accountable.
The functor description is quite good.

If the author is reading this, I might make a suggestion: connect the hash map example to the function example.

Mathematically, a function is typically defined as literally a (potentially infinitely-long) map of unique keys (domain) to values (codomain). In programming, the two are not identical, especially in mutable languages, but the hash map example would be like memoizing function composition for a set of inputs specified as keys in the hash map.
so I take it you don't have a mortgage or a family to support?
I agree that the flagging goes a bit too far. The downvote is entirely justified though. Downvoting for disagreement is explicitly allowed as per the site guidelines. Now myself I try not to overuse that, but if I really believe that I can't follow or agree with the reasoning behind something at all and I find it somehow disturbing, yeah, then there's nothing wrong with downvoting.

> IMO, this distinction is usually illusory, and only taken seriously in the kinds of conversational spaces that aren't worth being part of. "Most reasonable people think it's immoral" can be applied to any number of horrific things over the course of human history.

Your solution to the fallibility of human judgment, especially when it comes to ethics, is to assume that there can be no moral judgement anymore, because one might be wrong. I don't think this is productive. I'm quite sure there are a number of things you would consider deeply immoral that you would be shocked to read here. People are allowed to have a sense of ethics and to use that to guide downvotes. If you disagree, just upvote instead, or discuss why you disagree. But you yourself admitted that most people would find the behaviour in question immoral.

> HN isn't all the way there yet, and I think it's worth pushing back against the tide.

Your mistake is to assume that HN is somehow above basic human nature. But HN is also full of explicit and implicit biases and those can often hide behind a veneer of supposed rationality.

> This doesn't suggest that it's impossible to post something so alien that there's likely little of value to discuss

I found your contribution to the debate to be actually sort of interesting, but more as an answer to a question such as "how can we explain why we find that sort of behaviour to be immoral" and not to the OP's implicit "I fail to see what's immoral here".

Also, it was just in a sense a low-effort comment. I'm sure that poster can perfectly well understand why someone would find the behaviour in question immoral given that that person presumably has spent time around other people, including women who might object to this kind of objectification. So if they still disagree that it is immoral, they could at least try to argue why.

(Also, the sole reason why I'm engaging you, as opposed to OP, here is because I find these sorts of meta-ethics / meta-rationality discussions to be quite interesting and important in a world where "reasonable people" seem to be less and less able to agree on how to ascertain both what is true and what is moral. This is, I think, a discussion worth having, I just happen to disagree with your conclusions.)
I'd suggest looking up the "principle of charity".

Additionally, claiming the self-perceived "undertones" as "the real truth" vs clearly (and reasonably) stated (subsequent) stance/explanation indeed is confrontative, at best. In my opinion and experience.

When X claims they know better what was the intent or tone of Y's message when Y is already there precisely elaborating... X has to be realistic, admit no prior knowledge of Y (nor their idiosyncrasies, nor their style of communication), be aware of the limitations of the medium (no voice tone, no body language), and take things at face value as written (and/or ask for explanation/further details in neutral and a non-confrontational way). Y has to do the same. It really is the only way that maintains functionality of the conversation.

(Also, forseeing a potential conflict: X and Y has nothing to do with bio-sex, it just signifies two unknowns.)

At least, that's the self-defined framework I use, as a probably somewhat autistic/ADHD person (people confuse and frustrate me to no end).
I'd love to do this but I don't know who. The closest is leaving the Molly Rocket channel playing in the background.
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Ideally have all three of those date types as sort options. Definitely one of the first two as default though.

I appreciate the reply
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> If Instagram or Airbnb used native iOS/Android design they'd lose users pretty quickly IMO.

Those are services.. where would people go to replace Instagram? Twitter? Airbnb, what other big service has brand mindshare that people know about for fly-by-night unregulated sleeping accomodations?

I don't think iOS/Android design would cause them to lose or gain users.
It sounds a little out there but I consider it even more likely than just some Senator casually sneaking it into a bill.

Would love to know the full story behind why they break now 50+ years of secrecy.
I feel like "unintentionally escaped from a lab that was studying coronaviruses" is a lot different from the conspiracy theory type talk about being maliciously engineered. It's unfortunate that this distinction seems to get lost a lot.
Not exactly a channel, but a few weeks ago I did a live coding session on how to build an ML platform from scratch (the stuff you need to get ML models to production):

https://youtu.be/s8Jj9gzQ3xA
People argue this building shouldn't have been constructed at all.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cause-miami-condo-colla...

"Another issue at hand for the Surfside community is one shared with all of Miami Beach: The towns are built on a barrier island. Climate scientists and geologists have long warned that these islands cannot be developed responsibly. They are made of a loose mixture of sand and mud and provide a natural protection for the shoreline.

'These are very dynamic features. We didn’t understand that these islands actually migrate until the 1970s,' said Orrin Pilkey, a professor emeritus of geology at Duke University who has long studied sea-level rise and the over-development of the coast. 'As sea level rises, they move back.'"
That’s presuming they actually have more information. If these phenomena really are of a nature that we have no previous experience with then they may be as much in the dark as the rest of us. That situation could be entirely due to the stigma they mention that surrounds reporting such things or if these incidents represent some unknown technology far beyond what we are capable of then it may be next to impossible to gather more information beyond chance radar returns and images without some concentrated effort.
But the could have just made up some national security bs like they do whenever else they dont want to answer. What is different this time.
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Recursive CTEs are almost never what you want. They're the database equivalent of pointer-chasing in code. If you design your schema such that you need a recursive CTE to query it, be prepared for bad performance unless your CTE only ever does a handful of iterations over a handful of rows.

I like paths for representing hierarchy, but closure tables can also be a good idea, depending on what you're modelling and how you query it.
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