skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Role models help tremendously. So far we've had them almost uniquely in the other direction, but the motivation to follow will become overwhelming.

Soon even Americans will choose not to run a/c 24/7 May to September and fly at a whim.

Incidentally, less tech usually reduces pollution and increases health, longevity, stability, and resilience more, though it doesn't make the headlines.
It's worse then that, because the AI is likely to reproduce the kinds of bugs which where overlooked
by the source it learned it from.

At the same time code reviews are hard, much harder
then writing code.

So making it faster to write boiler code at the cost of harder code reviews seems to not be a good trade of for me.
Amazing comment. Thank you. In these age of hype and complexity I really miss common sense.

I agree 100% in your approach. Specially when we have access to VM with 48 dedicated cores and almost 200GB of RAM for less than €500/month.

If you go beyond that, you have really into something.
I wonder if something like https://paulbradley.org/sqlite-test-data/ could be used to generate the test data in sqlite3 directly, and if it would be any faster.

(It would likely be faster for other DB engines, because there is network overhead in the communication between the program and the DB; no such things for sqlite).
Uh, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement

What else would it mean? Separatist movements are not very homogenous.
I want to react to 'the long tail can and should be handled by humans' and I find this thinking counter-productive and dangerous.

Humans are excellent to handle the long-tail when they're already handling the rest. Take driving. We're already seeing cars with large cognitive assistance, taking more and more an active role in 'easy' tasks. Think Tesla's autopilot. You're supposed to be there and 'take over' in case the 'machine' fails to handle the 'long tail' or decides to give you the responsibility of whatever happens next (because you trained it to do so).

Driving is a very complex task, you need training, experience, anticipation and (very important) context. There's no easy way to scramble all the details necessary for a decision in a human brain in the time to take the decision 'correctly'. Similar problem for industrial automation where you call the 'long tail' person once in a while and that person probably doesn't have the expertise of reconstructing the context, after 3 turnover phases in your provider.

I think we're taking this problem the wrong way, and aiming for the lower fruits, and higher and higher, while handwaving the long tail and sending it over the fence to the human. We should be putting the human at the center of this, and extend their capabilities, reduce the repetitiveness, help, not take over.

The paper I like a lot on this is 'automation should be like Iron Man, not like Ultron'.
The US on Friday saw the highest daily increase in cases since May. We don’t need to test for herd immunity; it’s patently obvious we haven’t reached it.
The above is a false statement because if we say A is "true" then the statement becomes "true != true" which is obviously a false statement. In fact if we put anything in the place of A the results are the same.

If, however, you wish to communicate the evaluation of a function such as "now()", then you would express that as two invocations of that function

now() != now()

or

t != t'

or simply

A != B

So simply using 'A' to mean things not exclusively 'A' is unnecessarily ambiguous. This makes it not only useless for communication between people but also makes it useless for forming any meaningful conclusions.

Failure to be completely expressive about a paradigm is not itself a paradigm. Its just faulty reasoning.
What's the difference between this and other todo list apps?
The concept looks similar to that of the various "streaks" apps. The idea of these apps is, that you create a repeating task and check it off regularly. If you do, you keep your streak, if you fail, you lose it and have to start again.

The idea of just repeating tasks - minus streaks - is something I see for the first time here. I personally find the motivation to extend a streak very useful, but maybe the positive reward from ticking off a task is enough. Maybe streaks are too heavyweight, and a more minimalist approach also meets the purpose? I think I might give Spencer's app a try.
I see no advantage to use docker for development, unless for some specific reasons.

But docker (swarm mode in particular) is extremely handy and convenient for deployment.

Once you learn the basics you barely need anything else for deploying solo founder scale projects.

Just dont step accidentally into kubernetes black hole. Unless you want to suffer.
Testing vs. Observability: Which is right for your data quality needs?
> Most companies have really rosy gross margins, but really tight net margins, so a $100K expense will take $2.8 Million in revenue to offset it.

I don’t think you are interpreting things correctly here. This is both counterintuitive and wrong.
Server shortchanged on tip because of vaccination status
> In a few years I expect to have most of an application built by an AI, with me developing the business/core logic by hand.

I can see that too be preferably not with the approach done by GitHub.
I just recently released my first iOS app written in SwiftUI and HackingWithSwift was such a lifesaver. Glad to see others find it as valuable as I did.

Great job on this app. My son has ADHD and struggles mightily with repeating tasks each day. Downloading it on his iPad to see if it helps!
I'm seeing this in my company. The company has been continually combining roles and using the lower pay.

When I started 9 years ago we had systems managers. It's hard to say exactly how much they were making, but reasonably the average was around $170k. Then they sort of combined systems managers and PMs to create team managers that were paid at the PM level. Again, this is hard to pin down the exact average, but it would be about $140k. Now they want chapter leads who code 60% of the time and people lead the other 40% with scrum masters (usually split between 2 or more teams) instead of PMs. The chapter lead is making about the same as a senior dev around $125k. Scrum masters make less than PMs.

I really don't like the combining of roles. I think it doesn't allow people to focus and forces context switching. How can a chapter lead participate in their dev work and meeting while also knowing what devs are doing on several other teams to be able to meaningfully lead them? All while crushing the moral of the existing employees because we can see that our future progression and earning opportunities were cut down from what they once were.
The datasette author offers this tool for conversion: https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sqlite
I don’t disagree with you, but he made the quote in the context of explaining why he was trying to make a game about indirectly creating outcomes, which in the major revision went multi-polar so that countries had their own tensions between themselves independently of the two major powers.
I opened the video, hoping to see examples of this AdWare/NagWare problem, but GeekyRanjit does not show any phone UI during the video :/
The point is people who already paid 10k still can’t use the FSD subscription.

Nevermind, I misunderstood:)
Zeno’s paradox is resolved using the concept of convergence of an infinite series, a concept unknown to the ancient Greeks. It is not a paradox, in other words.
rqlite author here. Happy to answer any questions about it.
That's what we see in our app, and I used to see all the time in others (I was a performance and scaling consultant for years). It's trivial to use jemalloc on heroku, so you may as well, and after that it's mostly preventing too much loading of AR objects.
Oregon Trail was my first FPS. My friends and I always tried to hunt as much as possible.
Right, Tesla could have the same economic effect by requiring a minimum 2 year contract for the monthly FSD with "free" FSD chip upgrade - I suspect that wouldn't make people feel any better about the situation
Your Company’s Post-Pandemic Work Plan, Explained
Easy to say. Of course you do that when you can. What afflicts me is all the cases when the task is subtly different, with different requirements, but still feels like something I've done before.
Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees
>Is there a solution to munchies?

Lookup THCV, it is an analog that decreases your appetite along with a host of other benefits. Like you can consume any type of cannabis and then take a little THCV to counteract the munchies.
Seems like it might be worth taking some lessons from SAT solvers. e.g. backjumping and clause learning.
On my todo list for a while has been to dig down to see if I can find the "black mat".
What companies are discriminating against veterans and why?

Isn't that illegal? I guess they would have to admit it, otherwise it would be hard to prove.
> If you want FSD then you pay for it

As I understand it, these are people who already paid for FSD. The same FSD that Tesla claimed was ready to go except for regulatory hurdles. Tesla should give these people what they paid for, or refund that money (with interest) if they're not actually able to live up to their end of the bargain.
Emilia Rose makes a lot of money writing erotica on Patreon
We don't need testing to figure out of we are at herd immunity. We know we are not, because the virus is spreading still and increasing speed now. It is only really an issue amongst unvaccinated. This population is basically anti-vax, apathetic, or children for whom the government has banned from getting the vaccine, regardless of circumstance.
I enjoyed the game Taipan a lot more, personally. It tought me to buy opium in batavia and sell it in hong kong for huge profits.
You don’t have to share your mesh connection with all 30 units and the equipment you install wouldn’t be able to support 30 units. Mesh also isn’t really available for Mega ultra fast connection speeds but more of a secondary connection.

Having said that, the fun of mesh is having those conversations and getting others to also purchase equipment and install. Also as your neighbors and surrounding buildings add their own installs, the boxes will also wirelessly mesh together which will increase bandwidth and possibly speed.

So maybe you could ask 2 of your neighbors to pitch in, which would get you the connection but also influence others to join in on your neighborhood network.

Right now I bought a Ubiquiti Edge router and balance my connection so that NYC Mesh is a failover. Initially was receiving 40Mpbs download but checked again recently and now am sometimes seeing speeds of 100Mbps because the nodes in my neighborhood grew.
The thing with proxmox is that it's quite open, you could manage ZFS snapshots outside of the proxmox system if you want, I haven't tried this specific with proxmox, I run NixOS with ZFS root and libvirt for managing the guests (vit-manager and virsh).
I've read this book, and I liked the approach a lot.

The flow of each chapter is self-contained and contains at least a couple of lessons learned. There are some low-level concepts (like chapter 3 about exceptions) but also high-level (chapter 8 about data locality).

For my context, chapters: 2,4,5,8, and 11 provided the most value.
Obama failed to defend the Philippines' Scarborough Shoals per our treaty, resulting in an arms race in that region after CCP's 9-dashed line grab.

The CCP politician in charge of the SS operation at that time was ... Xi Jinping.

There are far-reaching impacts from Obama's negligence, possibly leading to WW3.

If anybody has anything good to say about Obama, or anything that he accomplished, I'd like to hear it. So far what I've heard is that he perfected racial division in politics, and was the most paranoid and aggressive President about press leaks in history, despite promoting transparency before the election.
I was happy with my Pixel 4A until I left it in my jacket pocket during heavy rain. The resulting humidity was enough to definitely kill it. I get that it has no IP rating at all so it's entirely my fault but still it's the first time this has ever happened to me in fifteen years of owning a mobile phone. The 4A is just extremely not waterproof.

After that, I'm never buying another cheap Pixel again.
Well of course, but that's only popularity and inertia. There's no technical reason to prefer Windows over Linux as a gaming platform.

Edit: oh, I just rephrased grandparent comment, sorry.
They don’t need to setup a second monthly subscription, since they have bought a lifetime subscription outright already.
> Not sure why tax dollars need to be spent intervening

In Germany, we call - and punish! - things such as this as "unlauterer Wettbewerb" (roughly: Unfair business practices).

The reason why the German government spends tax dollars on cracking down on companies making false or misleading promises to consumers is to protect people from being exploited thousands of dollars or more, and to protect businesses who play by the rules from the beginning and so suffer from less sales.

In short: You need to spend tax dollars to have a sphere of good behavior for the common good.
Pipe dream. You’re looking at 50-100 years to wean the world off of oil.
Yeah I don’t think we’ve tapped thcv yet, often called the sports car of cannabis
Did anybody mention that imported oil is their one and only source of energy. No solar or steady winds for 8 winter months. Fishing fleet, their only source of all-year-round income, runs on oil, of course.
Very true, but if you want to ask a question and only get an answer to your question, that’s StackOverflow, where moderators are there to ensure that questions and answers don’t become conversations. On a less-structured forum like this, the XY Problem is in full-effect:

“How do I X?”

“You seem to actually want to Y, and X actually isn’t a good way to achieve Y.”

Classic example:

“How do I ace a whiteboard coding test?”

StackOverflow: “Be sure to ask questions about requirements. State all your assumptions aloud. &c. &c.”

Hacker News: “Walk out. They’re idiots and you don’t want to work for them.”
From Seth Rogen to Jay-Z: Stars Crowd into the Expanding Weed Market
Why does the Atlantic devote an article to a syndrome with 4000 cases and under 40 deaths over a year, as if it's something the general population should be worried about?
> X is highly likely to happen within Y months

How do you quantify "highly"?

I think that one way or another, most people actually try to evaluate things this way.

If they knew with 100% certainty that some breach would happen, they would probably invest the time and money to fix the situation. Just as if the probability for the breach to happen was known to be 0%, they would be justified in not fixing it.

You frame this as CEOs being pragmatic, and I agree. But then, the other side of the coin is that if you're regularly wrong (there's a high risk of a breach happening — then nothing happens) they'll probably stop listening to you after a few times.
Who are these people you imagine are willing to go in for comprehensive antibody testing but are refusing to take the vaccine.
Agree. I wish they would focus and go deeper on fewer applications. Get email working well, then calendar, etc.
Can you link some sources? I'd like to research this more
Hey Spencer,

thanks for building this. I'll try it out - I identify quite a lot with your description/motivation of why you build this.

I noticed one (small) problem with the website: The newsletter signup button does not work. It looks like you are missing the gatsby-plugin-mailchimp (based on the console error).

Good luck to you!
With Starlink you will be able to have a few real cyberpunk squatters out there. Plenty of solar power too.
Yeah, that ad is way to creepy. It needs a rainbow dildo monkey to bring it up to modern standards.
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Yeah well, if Denmark stopped giving them cash they would unban it the next day.
First thing I did was check the privacy policy and then come here to talk about it.

Saw your other comment regarding the privacy policy needing a lot of rework and that’s it’s all local and I went back to download it.

I was fine trusting that comment.

—

Personally, I would not use this app if it needed an account or server.

I’m sorry. I don’t know you and the privacy policy things are too broad. I’m very conflicted now.

I don’t want all my data to sync some random server on an update because it went web. Will this happen? Will you make it optional? Third party trackers? I can accept crashes of course, but can you confirm that none of the data or what was being input is sent?

The reason I have iCloud is to sync apps so the data is available between all my devices.

Thankfully I don’t need medicines or a care routine, huh for someone that does, the personal data they’d be leaking is huge. If something happened to your servers, this can also liability issues too.

.

I’m sorry to bring this up and I get it’s a lot, but I really liked the idea and think it’d be helpful.

I’m just conflicted now between this, the privacy policy and the comment you made where it’s all local.
When you use libraries or frameworks, you often write the same or very similar lines.
Byte Serving
I didn't mean to say they're lazy. I generally dislike the studios but developers there are brillant, usually.

I was thinking that studios were being cheap. Why invest in a proper server infrastructure if you can make clients install abusive software... Maybe I'm wrong but it always looked to me that way.
>Unsurprisingly the CCDH pdf, the source of this story, doesn't bother getting into what "misinformation" is.

The PDF lists examples of misinformation starting on page 12 for each of the dozen people they identified.
I am not sure I'd subscribe to that theory. I am no friend to google but they have some very sharp people working in security to the extent I wouldn't be suprised if NSA tried to poach them.

NSA getting caught pwning google would be a snowden-esque nightmare for them. Now some backroom deal between NSA and google for SOME data would be more believable, it never hurts to align incentives and have a three letter agency owe you a favor when senator so-and-so starts banging the break up & regulate big tech drum.
Sounds like a machine to evolve salt and toxicity resistant super tilapia.

“The tilapia raised on Mars were taken from the Salton Sea population…”
"In 1998, Professors Raphael Mechoulam and Shimon Ben-Shabat posited that the endocannabinoid system demonstrated an “entourage effect” in which a variety of “inactive” metabolites and closely related molecules markedly increased the activity of the primary endogenous cannabinoids, anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334252/#:~:tex...
what legal conditions would those be?
One of the follow-ups, The Yukon Trail, was a brutal lesson in knowing who you can trust. For example, there's a proverbial shell game, where you discover on your own the game is rigged once you start placing higher bets. Or the partner option who was no skills, but lots of money - inevitably ends up getting you killed.
People who don't want the vaccine and don't want to be harassed for it.
I like the idea of this. I also using organizational tooling to deal with ADHD. The big thing that's missing from this for me is being able to make sub lists. I get it though, there's beauty in the simplicity of what you built.

Here's what I'm doing. Org-mode on desktop, and Organice on my mobile. I have Organice sync to dropbox. On the desktop, I have a few tiny rclone scripts that I can call from emacs to sync to dropbox. It's probably more complex than it needs to be, but it works.
The summon feature doesn't use the FSD tech stack. It's really old by now.
Their model goes beyond creating a community based network. They also encourage a fair amount of self education. The non-technical market is not the market for nyc mesh and probably never will be. If you want an internet connection that is serviced you should pay a service provider.

The goal of nyc mesh is not capitalism or to become a standard ISP.
On iOS, I have a repeating reminder. However, reminder notification in iOS is very non-intrusive and very easy to miss or dismiss.

I have a shortcut that runs everyday at bedtime and looks for any due reminders in a specific list. If it finds any, it will enable a dedicated alarm (alarm with a specific name, time and sound I have setup but disabled by default).

Alarms need more attention and action to dismiss than reminder notification and this has been working well for me so far.

I am trying to use any/all building blocks that come bundled on my phone and try not to install too many apps. Hence, this is just an alternative and not an attempt to downplay or trivialize the app in topic.
I don't understand the difference. Is "zig cc" more smart to find included files than the other compilers?
The thing I hate about emphasizing streaks is that once you've broken one, it's easier to ignore the thing entirely than starting again.
Because he’s not a native English speaker.
Nowadays many contracts are signed with a system like the one you describe. I've signed a couple of leases this way, all in a web browser. This makes it even harder since you can't print it out and cross out anything, then sign and give it back.
Well, unless the old hardware was capable but too power hungry with that workload.
I think this is usable in Latin-based languages. Because Turkish is pretty weird on macOS Catalina + Chrome 92

For instance, "Can" is a Turkish name. So, the pronunciation has nothing to do with the accent in that case.
I know ground lasers can be used to blind satellites, but I've never heard of a successful test or even a back of the envelope calculation that shows one could be destroyed. Do you have a reference?
No that's not correct. These are people that didn't buy FSD, still have the old hardware and now decide to subscribe to FSD monthly. The chip costs are factored in when buying the 10k package. But now in Tesla's worst case, someone subscribes, gets the chip for free and then instantly cancels. An easy solution for Tesla should be a "upgrade your hardware and get x months for free situation" for a higher price or a contract for a specific number of months that you sign up for after the upgrade.
"Is something wrong with me that recently I stopped being excited about tech, products, disruptive ideas, making world better etc.
And just want to make money, as much as possible, don’t care how (as long as it’s legal)."

I sort of feel the same, but would also require that I feel it is moral. I would like to make the world a better place, but I feel like most software doesn't really make an impact, and so I've disconnected this ideal from work. I hate my job and want more financial freedom.
If it's single, in memory table, is there really need to use database? Won't language provided data structures suffice?
I had a BA in business and wanted to get into tech field (no idea what, at the time). Decided to get MS in Information Science. That helped me get an internship which enabled me to add some tech-related experience to my resume which was a jumping off point that launched my tech career. My feeling about getting a MS at this point is that it was gatekeeping. I could have done that job pre-masters and everything I've learned about programming has been on-the-job training or self-directed.