skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to the conspiracy, what if Google really does have a bin of pet products laying around and whips them out on social media at just the right time? Right now, as of me posting this comment, this[0] is one of the top posts on HN. Google's PR team probably knows how to game high traffic sites at the right times with artificially inflated scores.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841963
There’s a very funny video about that done with USB sticks. They remove all sticks then randomly put them back while the ZFS volume slowly comes back to life.
Yeah, by the name of it I thought it was going to be some alt version of TSP where you have to go around the world and reach every city on the list while always having sunny days.
> there are all sorts of examples of people who clearly value human life but choose not to have children. Or are all nuns terrible people?

OP was specifically referring to people (including in this thread)
who choose not to have children on moral grounds:

>> several of my friends (millenial like myself) think that bringing children into this world is a bad thing to do- with global warming and other social problems

So it seems fair to assume that they consider the value of the new person to be none or negative overall.
my mental model puts the years 2000 to 2019 basically as a single decade. With Corona and maybe accelerating climate desasters I don't think this will happen for the decade 2020 to 2039. But that's just me.
These are not unique to Europe either. We have these all over Nepal as well. It's still the dominate method for storing hay. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a "modern" haystack!
"None of the problems facing humanity today are technically difficult to solve." - yes, if you're trying to solve them the way a toddler would without considering secondary effects of your solutions.

"Simply declaring a moratorium on fishing in half the world’s oceans would heal them too" isn't going to heal the oceans suddenly. Shipping channels, pollution, and all the downstream effects of the missing calories people get from consuming ocean products would have massive secondary effects.

As I said, I didn't read the post, just this blurb that I quoted.
Nice and interactive, seems like a good place to start.

Although the second question ("Find the director of each movie") does accept "SELECT title as director FROM movies;" as an answer.
> The Chinese ministry of culture accused the game of “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

Amazing. So the CCP literally said their sovereignty and territorial integrity suffers from one video game showing Tibet as separate nation. Do they realise how weak and insecure they look with that?

And based on the rules laid down in the article it sounds like Dark Souls is definitely not a thing in China. No skeletons, no enemies burying out of the ground...
Yes, fully agree, that is however also most likely not on the list of Powerpoint haters.
An older English name for this type of structure is a hayrick. In order to monitor the moisture content of the hay it would be tested by poking an iron rod — the proverbial needle — deep into the rick then pulling it out again, much like an oil dipstick in a car engine.

If you push the needle in too far then you would be unlikely to find it again without taking the whole thing apart.

Hence the English phrase like looking for a needle in a haystack to mean searching for something that is impossible to find. It’s just that in the original phrase the needle is a four foot long iron rod rather than a two inch steel pin.
I’ll take issue with your last point. Many in crypto are evangelical about it, but follow up everything with a “DYOR” as if that absolves whatever their statement was.

Michael Saylor, the most visible corporate Bitcoin warrior, advised people to mortgage their homes and borrow as much as they could to buy Bitcoin at the literal top of the market (to the day).

The number of people in crypto who believe in a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist world are on the order of 0.01% - the millions of retail traders punting Dogecoin around are just trying to get rich and don’t give a damn about the tech or some greater cause. And that’s because that is how crypto is actually marketed to the masses.
Video games could be a real good extension to their business. They have all the technology to deliver content to users, games are just another kind of content. I don't know how this can pan out, but I am excited for Netflix. I hope they have a plan to provide streaming games, and this is just a start.
Key quote:

Anything you do on your own time, with your own equipment, that is not related to your employer’s line of work is yours, even if the contract you signed says otherwise

(from California state law, but it could reasonably be directly in a contract from a reasonable employer)

Joel makes the case that if you work for Google, this is meaningless because what isn't related to Google? They do everything. This makes sense to me, and in Google's defense, they pay the part. But then Joel goes on to make the case that "related" is such a vague term that as an employee you can't safely depend on it, even if you work for a company with a narrower scope (ie nearly any other company).

I don't know, this seems pretty far fetched to me. Say, you work at SoundCloud and your side project is an iOS game. Wrote it on your own device, in your own time, and so on and so forth. That is so obviously not related that I have a very hard time seeing how, with a clause such as this, any potential judge or jury could decide otherwise. Let alone the reputation damage SoundCloud could get trying to lawyer up on this shit. It just makes no sense.

Therefore, I still feel it's a draconian piece of contract and that, unless you apply at a company that truly does everything or pays top dollar, it shouldn't be a reasonable expectation to sign stuff like that.
Possibly this: http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/
I'm of the firm opinion that you can have a very successful career purely as an SQL genie.
Social safety nets necessary for people working full time? Thanks late stage capitalism.
When people say "money printing" they forget that the only way that money enters the economy is through borrowing.

So yes, those loans are the reason prices keep (emphasis on keep) rising. Private loans would probably stop at some "reasonable" ceiling.
Your comment is about as silly as the Soviet Union banning the study of genetics as a "bourgeois pseudoscience", dismissing it as "anti-Marxist".

If that can't convince you, I can't imagine how you imagine your argument work.
Thanks for the follow up! That was my thinking as well.
Yeah, man, fire up the last "Who's Hiring" thread and jump ship. This industry is so friggin hot, it doesn't make any sense to stay in a job you hate

Talking shit about management and rousing the rabble isn't really a great move in any case. They might have legitimate reasons for doing what they're doing, and you're just going to hurt everyone's morale
Some kids might love that but I wonder if it's also the kind of thing that makes many kids resent math and ask why do we have to learn this. Since its just like nerd party trick that reveals nothing about the world and in fact makes the world especially math, seem even more impenetrable.
To quickly identify affected and patched kernel versions see

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
Right wing is not politicized. It reflects an ideological scale. If he had characterized it as Republican, then sure. But calling crypto right wing is pretty fair.
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
I'm American. I live in China. I am pro freedom, individual rights, etc. He/She is right.

There's a huge disconnect between Westerners who have lived in China and speak some Chinese and Westerners who have never been to China and rely on our mainstream media to paint an accurate picture of the goings on in Mainland China and Hong Kong.

For an alternative view, search for Daniel Dumbrill and Nathan Rich on YouTube. They both speak Chinese and have lived here long enough to have a clue.

There was a recent BBC hit piece that targeted westerners who have been attacking the usual anti-China narratives. The BBC article was an obvious hit piece to most who have live in Mainland China.
SQL wizards are a rare bunch. It's not like the golden era of DBAs is going to come back, but as an upside SQL is the lingua franca of data engineering. So, yes.

Disclosure: I write SQL queries just like Tarzan spoke English.
The claim that it is unique to Romania seems to be mistaken, and sensationalized. I wished writers wouldn't do such.
>I think one of the communication challenges in this broad discussion is what is a "finance" person. Several people refer to them as people in Accounting (accountants) when I think they really mean Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A analysts).

Noted and agreed. I'm not well versed in finance lingo beyond what I learned by taking up a business analyst role. The distinction you mention was likely lost on me due to the fact that this division didn't really have an FP&A team and every accountant was given the title of "financial analyst".

Sure, FSS made projections, but those were all terrible. They were worth less to functional managers than the paper they had been printed on. A given year's labor forecast came in the form a single column of multimillion dollar (Ex)cells per cost center. No ability to dig in. Consistently low by ~10%. Did leadership get a bonus by expanding the business book over the course of a year? Who knows?!

FP&A was an afterthought for leadership. I was probably the only full-time FP&A employee (at an office with over 700 employees), yet I did not report to finance--I was under the program management umbrella for some reason. It didn't take long to recognize the potential value-add that our finance area could provide with a single change. Alas.

Appreciate the replies. You probably feel my pain better than I do.
A point to take from the article is that users should focus on actual technical capabilities, not "privacy policies" or similar wishful-thinking gesturing.

Whether you click on the "Accept" or "Refuse" button of a webpage's Javascript-powered cookie banner has 0 technical incidence on whether you can be tracked or not. It's like going into a store and telling the clerk "please don't look at me, and when I leave please forget I ever came here".
Bad tooling, like any other bad software, has limited utility: it cannot be reused or built upon. Sure, your quick script might work for now, but five years later everyone is going to be using the thing another person wrote because nobody wants to touch what you made.
Of course there will be people who try to scam others into it. But how is this different from anything else in life? The world of investment is susceptible to scammers who prey on people's emotions. This is not crypto or capitalism, this just human nature and we've learned to spot it unless we're blinded by something else, and if not, then shit happens, life is not fair.

> The number of people in crypto who believe in a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist world are on the order of 0.01%

Where do you get your numbers?

> And that’s because that is how crypto is actually marketed to the masses.

Again, I don't see anyone "marketing" for it. People should understand what they're working with before selling their houses and "investing it" in bitcoin ffs. If they do that then they're dumb!
two years ago at an apple all hands someone asked craig federighi about this and he more or less said "i know you all hate this {we get a lot of questions about this issue}... but for legal reasons we're not going to change it."
I haven't heard of FreeOffice before, it looks like an interesting product. How do they support devlopment? It is closed source and doesn't appear to have a pricing model.

EDIT: Investigating a bit more there appears to be a paid version called SoftMaker Office, so I guess the free version acts as a funnel.
If you can't manage it every day, a less frequent habit will still have benefits.

I've been doing strength training once a week since the pandemic startet, and it has been great. Obviously I could have made much more progress with more frequent training, but I still look much better naked and more importantly, I feel much better. So many random aches and pains have just disappeared.
In the US, saying right one is synonymous with republican, which is wrong, but again, that's the mainstream view.
Not unless you enjoy being saddened and disturbed.
Some people are absolutely rotten and obsessed with politics.
I haven’t read this yet but I love your take.

Far too often do I see developers doing analytics by slurping an entire table across the network and performing calculations on it in the application. Of course it appears to work in development with tens of kilobytes of records and a local database, but as soon as it’s deployed to production it unleashes chaos.

I consider myself very good at SQL but I do prefer to use ORMs for most things. However there’s no arguing that many of them have done a lot to obscure the incredible power inside a relational database, and perhaps go too far in hiding exactly when data is computed remotely vs. being pulled and operated on locally.
And that is vital. Retweets and quote tweets and replies just fall apart if the parent tweet can be freely edited. Time-limited typo fixing capability is one thing, arbitrary editing is quite another.
What a strange set of opinions, not that I find cryptocurrencies as particularly valuable right now, besides cases like having something reasonable in a country with huge inflation or crappy banking system that makes online payments and bank transfers hard. Crypto misses basic services like ability to revert transaction in case of mistake, charge backs, etc.

But:

"I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents"

Wow. Right. Wing.

"Despite claims of “decentralization”, the cryptocurrency industry is controlled by a powerful cartel of wealthy figures who, with time, have evolved to incorporate many of the same institutions tied to the existing centralized financial system they supposedly set out to replace."

Ok, sounds a bit like conspiracy theory (who are those wealthy figures? Elon Musk was playing with cryptos, yes, but this is Elon Musk, and he does all kind of funky stuff like electric cars or space travel), but yes, at some point cryptos might be somehow institutionalized and it will be done to avoid issues that crypto currencies have. Oddly enough the author lists them in the same twit:

"Lose your savings account password? Your fault.
Fall victim to a scam? Your fault.
Billionaires manipulating markets? They’re geniuses."

So, actually it would not hurt to "incorporate many of the same institutions tied to the existing centralized financial system".

The bad thing that happened to cryptos was that they become an investment instrument, not the mean of payment. They were supposed to be "a better gold" of old times. But right now everything is an investment instrument. The other thing are technical issues that bitcoin has (other cryptos are small players right now), slow transactions, energy consumption and the risk that someone finally manages to gather 51% of digging power and will take over the network.
https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/fertile-chicken-eggs....
The title is a bit FUD, SpaceX already received permission to build the tower from the FAA.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action...

There's the document.
To offer a more pessimistic case this was true for Google, whose Stadia product flopped, and it was true for Amazon, whose video games utterly failed to take off. Currently something like Microsoft gamepass is a far better choice if you want to subscribe and play videogames.

On another note, Netflix has experimented with videogames before using Telltale "choose your own adventure" style games and fitting them into their existing product. They also did a similar thing with Bandersnatch a choose your own adventure from the film side. So I think with the demise of telltale netflix might just be bringing that in house rather than trying to offer a wholesale alternative to existing videogame providers.
You want Google and the like to run ideological tests when hiring?

Seriously?

If their tests selected for a differing ideology from the points you state, would you be happy?
Threads is a successful feature they added and it's not the same as at the beginning.
I find your arguments quite disingenuous to be honest. It’s a complete straw man example you’ve made up that doesn’t support your argument (nonsense about people being so stupid as to misunderstanding technical and genocidal tweets is absurd). If the information is public you can still be confusing no matter how many people you block. How will you know that people are confused by you if they can’t interact with you? You are right though, Twitter are not getting better at product any time soon.
>- it's what your body does to fight things off.

That's immunity.

Auto in auto-immunity is not the "auto" from "automatic" but the ancient Greek "auto-" meaning "self-".

So, auto-immunity is like self-fighting (fighting yourself). You don't want that.
> It's always nice to know why an experiment/project failed.

Every failure we can learn from is one which we can avoid for our self. Hence in the startup ecosystem, 'What not to do' is more valuable than 'What to do' but those who are new to the game flock to those selling the latter because 'they tell what one wants to hear'.

The recent #buildinpublic trend is showing some promise. I started my first buildinpublic project recently, A platform to validate minimum viable product but it failed the meta validation and I've detailed the reasons in the twitter thread[1].

But I've noticed that much of the building in public ecosystem is focused upon nocode, Especially flooded with notion related projects. I haven't used it, But I presume the reason is because majority of the people who are watching the #buildinpublic threads are non-coders and are looking to learn how a project is built.

[1] https://twitter.com/Abishek_Muthian/status/13994004552858542...
> I also don't know anyone else in my circles who thought the claw crane was a game of chance.

Maybe it's cultural/regional? Everyone around me gets explained they're rigged as a kid (I'm late 30s), maybe in your country they prefer to feed the excitement/illusion of kids?

I'm Spanish, and we have a saying that goes "fallar más que una escopeta de feria", roughly translated to "failing (to work properly) even more than a gun from a fair", as said guns are popularly known to be purposely misaligned, or to use pellets of lower caliber than the barrel to make them lose accuracy. So generally very few people, and almost exclusively kids, show any trust towards fair/arcade games with prizes. They may still play for fun or to burn unwanted change, though.

On the other hand, many people around me needed to reach adulthood to start suspecting WWE fights aren't real.
But search and ads are 80%+ of its revenue.
FAA already granted permission to SpaceX to build the tower.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action...
FAA already granted permission to SpaceX to build the tower.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action...

Title is completely misleading.
Clover – The creative workspace with notes, whitboarding, todos, and planner
FAA already granted permission to SpaceX to build the tower several months ago.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action...

Title is completely misleading.
I'm interested to know about his engineering contributions.
Measuring Work from Home Productivity
I’m very guilty of all those sins. Select all, then use array map, reduce and filter in the app code. I could draw a line in my life where I discovered window functions.
If you can add a simple way to do proctored SQL questions for interviewing purposes that might be a good way to monetize this. Though, not everything needs to be monetized but if you wanted to it's an idea.
> it is quite obvious who is doing more harm to more people in more places

To me it's "obviously" Twitter, so I'm quite curious how you came to the conclusion it's Google.
I kinda do this already. I have a "server" machine running zerotier.
Then, anywhere I can take a device, plop zerotier and rdp right in.

Its only limited to "100Mbps" but rdp is native like even at a fraction of that speed.

I have around a dozen people remoting into this server and do 8 hours shifts for the last two years now.

Microsoft now wants to be "server" in this case. Rest is the exact same thing except by doing windows 365 cloud PC, you are now giving ownership of your software, files stuff over to micrsoft who can hold it for ransom or outright ban you for stuff like "user from Iran signed in like github did some time ago" or "this govt wants data of this journalist. Here is your court order. Like india does right now. "

I cannot live with that. Maybe a lot of people might but not me.
I also remember they have a sticker with the chances of winning.
Compilers: Anatomy of a Machine
It's even editorialized to be false given that FAA granted permission to build the tower.

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action...
eh, some morale needs hurting. If I somehow suddenly found myself working for the reichstag, it would be a moral injury to simply find a new employer. Whistleblowing at all levels is important. Whether reasons are legitimate is something of a judgement call in any case.

That doesn't mean you can't leave a nice little desk fire on the way out, though.
I have a Pi3 at my parents home and I rsync over ssh to a 5 TB 2.5" spinning disc attached via USB, I added the disc to fstab. The first sync took over 24 hrs for ~550 GB [0]. We both have 100/100 fiber, but USB is limiting in this case, which is nice because it kept both our connections usable during transfer. Anyway, I had 0 issues. Well, apart from the fact that I initially used vfat as the FS of the target disc so my partner or parents could just pull out the disc and use it (on Windows/Mac) when something would happen to me. But this leads to rsync issues and needs workarounds so I switched it to ext4 and told my loved ones to find a Linux nerd in the event of my demise.

[0] rsync -ahv --progress -e 'ssh -p2222' /data/0/Pictures bu.mydomain.tld:/mnt/data/backups/ --info=progress2 #(assumes cert based auth set up)