skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author was not ignorant. He was also nowhere near close to any sort of enlightment, or else he would not have thought things like that.

This is, however, a moot point. The article is important and a warning to a lot of people. The current state we live creates such a tense situation for most people that these hardcore retreat-size meditation doses can literally act like shocks to both the trained and the untrained.
The speed of light is the exact kinda of constant a programmer would add to a system to solve problems.
Well in one sense you're right, however...if they decided that they wanted to go for orbit without first doing an up-into-space-then-down trip, that wouldn't be a very wise thing to do. Test at each step. It makes perfect sense to do up-into-space-then-right-back-down first, before you try for orbiting the Earth, for many of the same reasons that NASA did it that way.
I used to work in a laboratory that performed sampling, analysis, and outfall structural monitoring all under one roof. I led a new LOB for this lab where results, reports, imagery, etc., could be retrieved online in their state/federal/auditor-provided formats. Essentially, the only task most clients had to comply with their ancient reporting requirements was download, print, and throw these in a filing cabinet. Yes, I know, horribly wasteful, but energy industry and explicit legal text.

I was working one morning, and received an urgent phone call straight for me, not the support personnel or anyone else as usual. Uh oh. It was a client’s environmental compliance manager, and she was whispering on the call and frantically speaking. I asked her, “what’s going on, why are you whispering?” ... “My auditors showed up by surprise and I don’t have any of this year’s reports! Can you guys upload them to my personal Dropbox?” Oh boy. I asked her to hold, let me get the GM to her, and we would take instructions from there.

Literally, this large client had signed a contract, paid for a service that displayed sampling, results, and structural inspections within a GIS solution. All she had to do to comply with audits was once a day/week/month, take a few clicks to export all the reports to one big PDF or ZIP archive. I got curious and checked the audit trail, she’d never even logged into the web app. This was like 6-8 months into the year, and we were her only lab vendor. Had she even been monitoring her sites?
"Students count pigs and play with some numbers"
If we’re looking at bad orgs, they’re probably gonna fuck up their custom orchestration tools to the same extent.

If we’re looking at the median, most orgs will more or less work with k8s manifests, maybe with some abstraction layer on top to make it easier for developers.
> Buddha is effectively treated as a god in Pure Land Buddhism, where he is prayed to for salvation and in hopes of being reborn in what is essentially paradise.

I knew of Buddha being prayed to (mostly for luck) and of prayer for salvation separately, but not both simultaneously, that's interesting. I was personally exposed to prayer rituals for deceased family members, but my understanding is that the prayers aren't directed at Buddha per se, it's more seen as the act of praying itself helping to open a path to everlasting peace or something like that. IMHO, this is several degrees removed from the original teachings though, similar to how there are multiple abrahamic denominations with various degrees of "quirks".

I'm also aware of some historical conflicts branched off of some of these "interpretations", hence why I tend to look for historical common ground between buddhism flavors.
> I think you are seriously underestimating the demand for a truly safe platform for shuttling people and payloads from earth's surface to outer space.

Most likely I am. It seems like the logical progression would be increasingly bigger rockets to actually round-trip regularly to, say, the Moon, or a space station. Elon Musk has always made clear his final goal of colonizing Mars, while Branson and Bezos seem to have less defined goals.
SQLite, iirc, has a limit of 1GB per row, and that might too severely limit the utility of your file system if you don't end up splitting files into multiple fragments (rows in the database).
Reminds me of the short-story "Lena" (discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835)
Close, it was Cairo/NT5 for initial incarnation. Then it kept getting pushed back, finally shipped as a beta, then just didn't ship at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
I don't think this criticism is correct, at least in response to what was said.

Yes, a classical bag containing classical balls doesn't reproduce quantum behavior, because of Bell's theorem. But GP's description isn't classical; it explicitly invokes multiple universes. Once you've done that, quantum behavior is reproducible, because (just as Bell's theorem says) it's no longer possible to ascribe a single hidden state to the ball/bag system, because you can't eliminate the extra universes.
Men and Women Divided on Nuclear Power
I made a little bookmarklet a while back for keeping up with new comments in real-ish time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424560

I mostly use it when I share one of my own blog posts and there are many sprawling replies/conversations that I want to engage with
> or automate 99% of the business and free these poor souls from a mundane existence.

I agree on one hand, but there's a lot of hand waving and hopeful/wishful thinking built into that answer.

It's very easy to say, "Do something else," but if it were that easy, it wouldn't be an issue in the first place. And if 20 million food service workers all get CS degrees, guess which will be the next industry with plummeting wages and few job opportunities?

We have more people on earth than ever before, but we also have more automation and less need for those people than ever before. It seems like at some point society is going to have some hard questions to answer about employment, pay, etc.
One thing to consider is perhaps a bias: could there be some phenomenon that makes these "entitlement" events _appear_ to be more common than they previously have been? Or are they actually more common lately?

To that end, I saw an interesting statistic thrown around: "The Federal Aviation Administration said it had fielded 1,300 complaints of unruly passengers since February, the same number of enforcement actions it took against passengers in the past decade." (Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/travel/faa-unruly-airline...)

That lends statistical credence to what you're saying: customers/people have gotten more entitled and, I'll interject my own phrasing, crazy. A 10x increase in "unruly passengers" is ... just hard to wrap my head around.

Of course, that 10x spike could be primarily attributed to masks and not necessarily an increase in broader entitlement or "freakouts". That's really what we're concerned with, because the mask rules will go away eventually. So what we're all really worried about is, are people getting "crazier" in general? Or is just the mask rules rubbing a lot of the population the wrong way?

That's harder to say. But I thought it important to at least address the bias question. I know myself I figured things couldn't be getting as bad as the internet makes them seem. I thought it may have been the "video camera in everyone's pocket" bias or something. But the stats point towards this possibly being a real shift.

As for why people might be getting out of hand? Well I don't have specific sources for this, but I've seen a few articles and quotes that suggest that isolation can cause permanent psychological damage. I know many people expected lock downs to have negative effects on our psychologies, but I think few are aware of just how damaging it's been. And it likely had a disproportionate effect on people with existing mental illness or mental "fault lines" as I like to call them. Combined with many society's lack of support structures for mental health and, well, it's perhaps no wonder that we're seeing a lot of public "freakouts". And as you've said, customer service workers bare the brunt of that.
I also find this interesting. I'd argue that "a couple" can really only refer to two, but "a few" could be 2/3/4.

I think the issue though, is when you say "a handful is closer to the truth" it sounds like you're correcting gp and telling them how many languages they know/use. Perhaps gp does use exactly 6 languages so saying a half dozen IS accurate?

I personally use a "fair number" of languages on the regular as well.
It wasn't meant to be violent but definitely American. Specifically, the fact that we developed this early in our history and instead of an expanded passenger rail network, while Europe went the other way. It simply is not true that other countries have both the same road systems as we have in the US and functionally-equivalent passenger rail systems. Every country has one or the other. We are the country that first committed to total car-ization (with many unintended, unforeseen, and unfortunate consequences) and we took roads to a whole 'nother level of utilization and commercialization. I don't think that's in doubt. Is it?
I believe you're thinking of WinFS[1] which was destined for Windows "Longhorn"[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista
Thanks! Earnings transcripts sentiment analysis is not currently in our product roadmap. One of the reasons is that such tools are already available on the market. We wanted to explore more underutilized sources of information.
https://archive.vn/eawIS
Ideas guys sound like they are on the "Unconscious incompetence" level of learning. They don't even have a clue how much they don't get the target domain.
From the article:

> Low wages are the most common reason people cite for leaving food service work. But in one recent survey, more than half of hospitality workers who've quit said no amount of pay would get them to return.

> That's because for many, leaving food service had a lot to do also with its high-stress culture: exhausting work, unreliable hours, no benefits and so many rude customers.
One of the major problems with American 'orthodox' are that they embrace only the easy parts of orthodoxy. Often I've heard that 'orthodox dont believe in original sin' and other such nonsense. These beliefs are widespread in westenized, modern orthodox but aren't true of much of orthodox practice in the east. St Gregory Palamas was a wonderful theologian, but we have tried , only in the last century to built a system of thought around him that his works simply dont and cant support. This is obviously due to an awareness of the more codified thought of the western church. Sometimes, I've even heard orthodox claim that the latin fathers are manifest heretics when they have been saints in the east for centuries! One of my American friends almost treats St AUGUSTINE as someone to be dismissed.

The consensus of the fathers includes all of the fathers, if you must cherry pick a subset or an individual to make a point its simply not in the apostolic tradition.
(Project creator here)

The flow configuration is stored in a JSON file. That can pose challenges when it comes to getting meaningful diffs.

That said, we do have the Projects feature that brings version control (backed by git) into the editor. And when you view a diff of a flow, as we know what it is, we present a structured visual diff of the flow contents, rather than the raw JSON diff.

Still an area I'd like to improve.
In precision machine design the failures are typically not statistical (like in fatigue failures) but due to errors of design. E.g. the tool spindle can maintain the desired tolerance when running from a cold start but after several minutes thermal effects cause it to be out of tolerance.
>Also I have never been to a Restaurant where I got a different menu based on my W2

That's OPs point? Tipping allows for a degree of price discrimination since people that can't afford the full cost (menu price + tip) are allowed to pay less.

I'd quibble about the degree of that effect, but it makes sense directionally.
>> people are realizing that there are easier minimum wage jobs than working in a kitchen

A lot of jurisdictions showed them this when they paid almost the the same as their FT take-home pay during Covid. I don't think they've left for something better; I think they're mostly not doing anything.
Oh man, struggling to channel dang here. How to respond constructively. Probably the best thing to do is flag and ignore, but I can't pass this up.

If people are interested in going somewhere, who are you to denigrate their ambitions? What is wrong with dreaming of orbiting the planet? How does that dream fall short? Is it a weak dream for a midwestern child, landlocked a thousand miles in every direction, to want to see the ocean? Is it a weak dream for a city child, blocked by light pollution, to want to see the stars?

What kind of comment is this? What does it even mean to have a "better" dream?
I know that insurance companies are rich targets, but I believe that when it comes to the cost of health care, the rise of hospital monopolies is a very significant factor. If a hospital is effectively a monopoly for an entire region, then they just have a lot of leverage bargaining on prices with insurers.
Yep. It makes big money, but it is literally gambling with people's sanity.
The Northeast, and the Midwest, seem to be poised to do well in a climate change future. Hugely abundant water. No earthquakes. No wildfires. Hurricanes are an occasional problem but it's a fraction of the problem it is on the Gulf Coast. Sure there are cold winters, but seems a small price to pay.
Either it's a concerted effort by some number of people to promote it, or it's that most people didn't see the original news and now find it interesting.
I guess you must be a low-level developer then, because to application developer it would seem that sqlite write speed is actually bound by the file system performance (which it depends on).
Planes are more intrusive. Bigger, brighter, and there are more of them. But they still don't ruin the night sky. At least for me, for naked-eye stargazing, satellites are a non-issue.
"All blame is political"

Reminds me of a story.

The domain name wasn't renewed; and the memo to accounting saying that bill needed to be paid is inconvenient to the smooth running of the operation so we're just going to forget it happened.

Now, in order to fix this, the 10,000 signs we printed need to have stickers put on them with the new domain name. We've got that handled, but as it was your department's fault the stickers come out of your budget and the actual application falls to your staff. On a holiday weekend. Get out and motivate! These ship soon!

The cherry on the shit sundae was that the signs were for outdoor use, UV tolerant ink etc. The stickers wound up not being that grade; the same person in accounting "saved money" by ordering cheaper materials. After a week in the sun the signs said: "See [blank area].org for details"
Those are not separate phases, they take place simultaneously. No one does waterfall development anymore.
But in that example, Columbia made students big promises that it simply couldn’t deliver. It’s more like a deeply dishonest salesman than a hapless waiter who gets your order wrong. From James Stoteraux:

> Many of the students in my class who didn’t turn their degrees into industry success were insanely talented, but Columbia traded on its reputation to sell them big dreams that it could never deliver.

> During my 2nd year I suspected that the school wasn’t providing a launching pad to a career — most of the instructors were struggling to establish a career themselves & many weren’t even much more experienced than their students. A 4th yr student taught our cinematography class.

> The brass ring the program dangled was that your film could be chosen for the annual festival where, in theory, big-time agents would see it and maybe sign you. But it was cutthroat to even be selected for the festival. And tuition didn’t cover the cost to make those films.

…

> I slowly begin to realize this IS the deal. He made it pretty clear if I wanted my degree, I needed to help him sell his tv pilot. Yep, the Chair of Columbia’s prestigious graduate film program tried to shake me down in order to jump-start his own stalled out career.

The full thread is here: https://twitter.com/jstoteraux/status/1413326562821246978?s=....

Students definitely deserve some blame for signing onto these expensive programs without doing any meaningful research. But university admins can be corrupt, too, and it’s likely that they used their reputation as “Columbia” to sell students something they knew was fake.

Anyway, in response to the original point — I don’t think that’s a good example of entitlement since “scam” is a more appropriate word. I think they had stuff like “people being mean to waiters and flight attendants” in mind, which is a different sort of entitlement.
This has been empirically tested on multiple occasions. There is an article on realwordtechnologies discussing this, and the results have been related for newer AMD GPUs as well. I have a little tool for macOS that tests these things out, and the Navi GPU on my MacBook is definitely a tiler (the Gen10 Intel GPU is not).
The EU wants to ban anonymous crypto wallets
Men in SV are reportedly using plastic surgery to get ahead at work
I disagree. Make your point and then let others enjoy the show and share their own opinions.

One of the most obnoxious HNisms is when someone makes a comment and then monopolizes every downstream response to defend their position and ego. If you have a good point, then give others a chance to defend the point for you.

Frankly I wouldn’t mind a feature that only lets you post one comment downstream of your other comment.
If you cant dream beyond what you eat and the distance you can go in each direction its totally fine but dont impose it to other people
>spatially experienced consciousness

I understand it's supposed to be an abstract concept, but this statement still doesn't make sense
Thing is , I respect, like, and read HN for the exceptional comments. The links themselves I might find on Reddit, but I don't read those comments. The value add of HN is the comments and I want to stay Informed of those, especially if I comment to the discussion, or awaiting answer/feedback.
Customers want those things but the companies you are referring to haven’t been around long enough to build all of them. Believe me, it’s on their slide decks.

In 2013 I joined a company named ZenPayroll, which focused entirely on…well, payroll. That company is now called Gusto and does payroll, health insurance, workers comp, HR, etc.

That didn’t come out of no where, but you have to start someplace.
If you're taking about the UK, the obvious starting point would be ending subsidies for buy-to-let.

In a pandemic with vast spending deficits, the government is giving out mortgage holidays, 95% mortgage scheme, stamp duty holiday etc.
To note that Pocket was related to web browsing and offered a convenient bookmarking system. The reason people complain is it being a third-party extension and service (requiring registration even) rather built-in features in the web browser.

That said some functionality has been included in bookmarks such as clicking favorite button saves directly in unsorted, clicking twice opens a menu where tags can be added, and can see all bookmarks through menu. A secondary bookmarks tree can be added with extra features being read status, and simple status change and deletion from menu without requiring right click. Kinda like Chrome did it.
This is another case where something freely available to all (the night sky) is being affected by the externalities of a for-profit business (satellite internet). In that sense, comparing these things directly is a bit "apples and oranges". And it's important to note that the profits of said business will accrue to a small number of US companies, while the costs will be borne (in a small way) by basically every human on earth. Did Musk ask them all if they're ok with the tradeoff? Are they all going to be compensated? Probably not, right?
This doesn't even mention Certificate of Need. In some places in the country, you are not even allowed to establish a new hospital unless you prove existing hospitals are not fulfilling demand. Sometimes, other hospitals are part of the approval process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
I think this was known for a long time. E.g. Git takes forever, compared to the equivalent operations in Linux
Programmer's Experience Curve
When I arrive in space I don't need a car to get around, and even if I did, the pollution wouldn't affect the Earth. :)
The author does not mention stoicism at all.
Oh nice. I usually just click my profile name but this is better.
This is actually a problem with the design of NTFS. Small files are stored in the MFT (Master File Table) which results in heavy lock contention and slowness if you're doing lots of small files which is what most people tend to do these days.

NTFS really does quite well on large files but small Unixy things and source code it is hopeless on. I first learned about this trying to make Subversion fast about a decade ago.

You can tune some of this out with fsutil but it gives marginal gains. It's depressing though when you have a VM on windows that is faster than the native OS filesystem :(
To join the waitlist you have to install their iOS app. They also get you to turn on notifications so they can let you know when it's your turn. They're getting a lot of mileage out of this announcement.
I think the timescale point is an important one. For long timescales (and how long is long has changed over the years), government might be more likely to invest: eg. imagine the project of sending people to Moon: at the time, no private investor in the world could rival what Soviet Union or USA could dedicate to those projects — the price has gone down in a sense (or we've got richer individuals/companies), so you do see private investors in the field today, but there are always projects of the similar scale that might never happen if business returns are too far off.
Nvidia DLSS SDK Now Available for All Developers
Yes, but if you do not opt into overdraft, you will still be charged a “non-sufficient funds” (NSF) fee when the bank declines your transaction. And the NSF fee is usually higher than the overdraft fee.

This doesn't make any sense and is just a money grab on the poor and desperate, because there is absolutely no technical reason why declining a checking or debit card transaction should cost $35+ to process.
I didn't mean to call you one, sorry if it came out that way. Personally, I just tend to see this the same way I see grammar nazis (in the context of language being a malleable construct over time)
> The CA runs the challenge from their own servers and contacts the registrar directly.

No, they contact it via the internet, which is controlled by the national authorities in the countries between the CA and the DNS server (which you are calling the registrar, but isn't always).

It's not a direct connection; there are NSPs in between.
In principle IndexedDB looks like it could be a lot of fun, but when I get closer to it, it seems less so.
The better an idea is, the harder it will be to impress anyone with how good it is. The very, very best ideas are spit on and never developed, to this day.

Unfortunately, the worst ideas are too, so you can't tell anything from that.