skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question makes sense. It’s a common joke in Scotland. “What’s the fastest town in Scotland? Naaairnnnn… “ (imagine car noises)

The “answer” on the other hand…

Edit: Just did a search and the answer comes from the top result which is a blog with that name. That blog has the joke posted on it. Google could be better here, but I think it's a little unreasonable for Google to understand jokes.
It’s not illegal to post shock videos. It’s protected by the first amendment. The same is true of porn, for the most part (while “you know it when you see it” is a suggested standard for obscenity the concept differs greatly from one observer to another — see what answers you get from Los Angeles and Karachi about what’s manifestly obscene and I bet the answers are different). I still don’t think most people want to go to a site overrun with this kind of content.
The last paragraph is what I actually find most useful:

Finally, I suppose, I’d say that a surprising amount of a good career is about getting lucky and taking advantage of when you’ve gotten lucky. It’s clear to me that many of the best things that have happened to me were only partially in my control, if that.
Eggs bought in the shell, I can see being convinced that these are reasonably likely to be insect-free, but why milk and meat? I can imagine insects in the processing of those.
You say, “one cannot argue performance of a data warehouse” but that’s precisely the issue with a DW. DW requires a lot of work to move data from the way that domains model their data on the service layer to how data is modeled in a central DW. You have to wait for data to become live to even begin running analysis on it. Setting up and worst of all maintaining pipelines is an expensive undertaking in both time and money.

It’s not to say the DW is bad and never the solution. The problem is making it the only solution and not providing domains the flexibility to model data the way they need it. You say it’s more complex to manage but that’s the idea behind data mesh, you don’t manage that part, the team with their domain knowledge and data solution does. They can make it as simple or complex as they want internally but if they follow the standards to play in your data mesh who cares? Not your problem. For example say a domain needs realtime data analytics and use something like Druid to store their data. That’s fine. If they want to play in the data mesh you’ve provided, they just need to follow the rules in their data model, but they don’t need to use a cloud DW to do that.

You can’t argue that avoiding the copying of terabytes of data a day from a domain to a DW is more performant than adhoc analysis (MB to GB) of that data. Why move or copy a dataset when you don’t need to? Why force domains to use any solution that’s not actually solving their domain problem?
Dog chews through power leads and other stuff.

Getting kids to do homework, go to bed on time etc.

Car ownership as a service. I want someone to maintain the car and deal with the bills.
Dzięki szczepionce przeciw Covid-19 dochody Pfizera przebiły prognozy
I don’t find it very persuasive for people to baldly post “that’s different” when my whole idea is that the line between these things is not so bright as we like to imagine.
Do you never use features like groups and pages?
It doesn't take much money at all to drive property markets sky high. All it takes is a tight property market, restricted new supply and a few well capitalised investors.

Say a town has 1,000 houses worth $200k each. The housing stock is worth $200m. If 10 houses sell for $220k, those 10 buyers spent an extra $200k split between them, but the notional value of the housing stock went up by $20m.

There doesn’t actually have to be an extra $20m in the economy if the town. It only takes a few people with money to invest to drive house prices sky high.
After stopping reading /. every day sometime around 2010 or so I've started browsing it again about once a week or so. There's less discussion than there used to be but it's no better or worse than it used to be - there's certainly far, far less of the pointless noise that took after before I left.

Considering the amount of fuckery people engaged on during the site's heyday its moderation system handled things amazingly well. If you read at a threshold of +1 you'd barely see all the garbage posted there.
It seems unreasonable to expect people to never talk about something they care about.
I'm talking about an individual's relationship to society, not a born condition. It's a choice. This particular guy made it his life's mission to act in a parasitic fashion. No one's dehumanizing him, they're lionizing him. He's degraded himself more than any external characterization of him could do justice to. The word fits.
> weirdly long underground fires

That is not so unusual for underground coal fires. They can be all but impossible to put out. It has been a phenomenon basically forever [0]. I assume a lot of the modern ones are linked to mining activity, but they do turn up naturally from time to time.

I would advise people not to build on top of a known coal seam fire.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire
Indeed, I have the feeling that the very few ridiculous vegans that are out there get insane amounts of attention for their stupidity, probably to the chagrin of other vegans. But he, we love the "us against them" narrative, they are all stupid and we are all smart! Vegans vs Omnivores, Democrats vs Republicans, etc. All anime fans are weebs, all republicans are hillbillies, all vegans are unreasonable, all democrats hate all aspects of the free market, all feminists are Karens...
Setting something like this up has been an idea of mine for a while. Glad someone's done it.

Being able to get simple plain-text diffs of documents (preferably through git) that you've agreed to or signed should be the expected standard. Not just for privacy policies online, but for any contractual change in our personal and work lives.

Here's Facebook's Privacy Policy from the Open Terms Archive: https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive-versions/commits....
Flotiq and Zapier
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Zapier automations are based on “trigger-action” workflows (you can check Key Concepts link below to learn more). You select one trigger (event that starts whole process) and then one action (what to do with data collected by trigger).
For example - when someone adds data to Flotiq, a message is sent to a specified channel (e-mail, chat, mobile phone etc.)

Available triggers/actions

Triggers are split into two types:

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The difference between them is that poll triggers are executed by Zapier every 15 minutes (time depends on your Zapier account type).

Poll Triggers:

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2. Content Objects Updates - polls only updated objects of specified type definition

Instant Triggers:

1. New Content Object - executes when you add new data of chosen type definition to Flotiq
2. Updated Content Object - executes when you update one of the objects of chosen type definition
3. Deleted Content Object - executes when you delete one of the objects of chosen type definition

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Zap Template is a predefined workflow. You already have a trigger-action workflow so instead of creating one from a scratch, you only fill out the form with necessary data. For now we have only a template where you can connect Google Assistant and Flotiq - means, you can push data to system with your voice!
>While zero-sum games are rare in economics, this is a (sub-)zero-sum game.

A lot of the positive sum games only reward society collectively if it is cooperative and punishes society if it is competitive.

Pretty much every time there is a balance A = B people in a competitive society will try to increase A without increasing B because that is where they derive their individual benefit. Subsequently someone else will have to decrease their A because B stayed the same and A = B is always true for the entire economy therefore A must stay the same and we get a zero sum game that didn't have to be one. This generally happens when A is considered good and B is considered bad by society.

Here are some examples: income = spending, savings = investments, deposits = debts, produced goods = consumed goods, benefit of externality = cost of externality

Just try to convince people that both A and B are equally important. You'll fail every single time.
Are humans not part of nature? What evidence do we have that nature is ever at any time "in balance?" This is a common trope that is deeply rooted in the western mind. Perhaps it is connected to old ideas like geocentrism.

Here is another way of looking at things: the world is constantly changing. Do I advocate pooping on a crowded beach? No. Is the ocassional defacation of a back country backpacker a problem? No.

It is not like humans are some toxic alien not native to planet earth.
Big battery installations always received lots of international attention, with few objections to this kind of positive exposure. HN alone had dozens of submissions on the topic [0]. Your objection now seems to be more towards the negative exposure. What's your proposal?

This makes the news mainly because of the novelty. Not many "big batteries" out there, and even fewer such fires. So when one happens it's news. The second "lesser" reason is because it could be a sign of things to come. We're far more familiar with the pitfalls of tech we've been developing for a century. With batteries I'm sure we're still discovering operational aspects that were not considered or not given enough attention.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=battery+australia
~10 years WFH here and my approach is similar to yours - my home office has become almost ludicrously well equipped.

My approach is that I think about how much commuting would cost me, and consider that a reasonable amount to invest in my working space at home. As a result, I have a very small, but very functional space that I feel good about sitting in for 8 hours a day. I'm comfortable, I'm calm, and when I need to think, I don't feel stressed by my environment.

Edit: to give some examples - I have very carefully chosen art for the walls that I can stare at and my mind can drift, when I need to solve problems. I had a desk custom made to give me the most amount of space because this is a very small room (~3m x ~2.5m) that regular desks can't make the best use of. I have great audio gear (mic, headphones and speakers), carefully tuned lighting, etc, etc.
In isolation the thousands I've spent on this room seems kind-of ridiculous, but compared to the thousands more I haven't spent on commuting and compared to the satisfaction I get when sitting in here, I think it was absolutely worth it, and I am very grateful that I was privileged enough to be able to make all these choices.
> I don't think there are any speedrunners who can be expected to give a frame-perfect response to an unexpected event.

This is the reason why tool-assisted speedruns are faster than speedruns without a tool. TASBot (a great thing to search for fun videos from Awesome Games Done Quick) certainly can react within a single frame, every time.

Humans generally rely on cues usually called a "setup" do to these.
No publicity is bad publicity. I think this is more bullshit to sell us this movie . The green knight was in the news this week to much, and the studio wanted to fix that .
>Back then [...] an enduser could just install another Operating System on the hardware if they didn't want to be forced to use Internet Explorer

That does not make much sense, coming from Microsoft. Users were never forced to use Internet Explorer on Windows* and could always install other browsers freely. No need to switch OSs.

*The only time Microsoft imposed the use of Internet Explorer, as far as I can remember, was back in Windows XP, when Windows Update came as a web application.
Why don’t you think increasing supply like the Japanese solution would work?
They had planned to shut it down in 2019, but it has been postponed until 50% of listening was done digitally.

I still think the major issue is our cars, the fleet is old because there is an extremely high tax on cars, and it isn't as easy to just upgrade the radios as it used to be - and of course with FM available (and as you said, better in many cases) there is no big incentive to update, although we have more channels available on DAB.
Do they? The article mentions vaccinated people being “symptomatic,” not hospitalized or dead. Officials seem to be shifting to an understanding that vaccines are providing personal protection more than herd immunity, see https://apple.news/AGgVqTlDsSCSsXJ_FgGvh8A for instance.
Why is the acm publishing a feelings paper?
All the languages you listed worked fine to develop complex applications using "tabular data".

I find ... debatable that building yet again one more FB or IG challenger is significantly more important than maintaining or creating new Banking, ERP, Inventory Management solutions and for that stuff "tabular data" doesn't seem to be a bad match, or at the very least, using json or xml documents will not provide much of an improvement (all IMHO, of course...).
I recall an old article about these batteries (https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...) in which testing showed that a failure within the battery itself would be contained by the cooling system, but a failure outside it wouldn't. Since the fire in the pictures on this article doesn't look contained, I wonder whether the cooling system was turned off at that moment (because it was not yet in operation, or because it was turned off after the failure started), or whether the fire started outside the battery modules (for instance, in the wiring).
LaMothe wrote a lot of game dev books.
The beaches in South Australia where I’m from are relatively harmless, freezing, and full of Great White Sharks.
No end user wants to pay all that money for apple products to get a ghettoized experience but they have no ability to perceive what's happening. This is a marketing frankenstein running amok and it wont stop here.
Why do courts have the power to tell me who I must serve in my restaurant?
Even funnier when you realize bash and zsh do different things (by default) there.

foo="ls -las"
$foo
"$foo"

for zsh to split words, `setopt SH_SPLIT_WORDS`.
I was just playing around with an old version of After Dark yesterday and the "Warp" one is the only one out of these that was on it. These mostly seem to be from After Dark 2.0 and later.
Beautiful. The nostalgia hit me very hard with this.

I remember in the original version you had all sorts of options, and could even combine screensavers.

For people who may not remember: screensavers used to be a neccessity as old CRT tubes would 'burn in' an image if they held it static for too long - leaving a shadow of the static image permanently. Screensavers kicked in after a few minutes and displayed something dynamic so as to save your screen from burn in.

In the 90's, having a cool custom screensaver was cool (around the same time that having a custom ringtone on your 3210 was cool), and you'd pay money for software like After Dark.
> And TK4- gets new features too....like tcp/ip

Wow, really? Web interface to MVS when? :)

I guess I'll have to check it out one of these days.
> a very low opinion of a "display guy

> HN (hallowed be its name

> white knighting

You clearly have very high opinions of yourself and your belief system. It is clear you are unwilling to respond with facts when simple questions challenge your claims and react with hostility. I don't think there's any beneficial discussion possible going forward. Best of luck in your endeavours.
I knew some people who did something like that 20 years ago, "living" (having a family) in the south of France and working in Frankfurt. They only did it to give their families the chance to live near their extended families or for the jobs of their partners, nobody did it because it improved their quality of life. It's probably different when you're 25 and single vs when you're 40 with a family, but I don't know anyone who works away from home several days a week and enjoys it, and it's not an uncommon pattern for consulting people around these parts of Europe (apart from the status symbol that this sort of lifestyle is, despite it objectively sucking - weird how people are that way).
The above article isn't very elaborate on that, but the heise one[0] cites the judges:

'Es bedürfe "einer umfassenden Würdigung und Abwägung der wechselseitigen Interessen", insbesondere der "kollidierenden Grundrechte", betonen die Richter: "Auf Seiten der Nutzer die Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit, auf Seiten der Beklagten vor allem die Berufsausübungsfreiheit."'
roughly: 'One needs "a comprehensive judgement and weighing of mutual interest", especially of the "colliding basic rights", as the judges emphasize: "on the users' side freedom of expression, on the side of the defendant [FB] freedom of trade and profession".

This is a high standard that needs quite some text and elaboration to fulfil, not at all doable by form letter.

'Im Sinne des Interessenausgleichs müsste sich Facebook aber verpflichten, den Nutzer "über die Entfernung eines Beitrags zumindest nachträglich und über eine beabsichtigte Sperrung seines Nutzerkontos vorab zu informieren, ihm den Grund dafür mitzuteilen und eine Möglichkeit zur Gegenäußerung einzuräumen, an die sich eine Neubescheidung anschließt".'
roughly: 'However, in the way of balancing interests, Facebook has to pledge to "inform [the user] about removal of a post at least after the fact and about planned blocking of an account before the fact, to name the reason thereof and offer an opportunity to issue an opposing statement, which is followed by a subsequent further decision and information.".'

So they are relatively explicit in how Facebook must do things and that they cannot just file the opposing statement to the recycle bin. Facebook's lawyer called this "completely impractical" (but of course he would...) because of the hundreds of daily cases.

[0] https://www.heise.de/news/BGH-Facebook-muss-geloeschte-Hassr...

Oh, and btw., the court that decided this is the highest regular court in Germany, setting a binding precedent for all other German courts. There are many more cases than just those two, all the others you just don't read about because everyone knows that lower courts' decisions aren't that important and frequently overturned. So even if it was just about 2 posts, this decision is important and will shape all future cases.
I agree with you entirely, but I think this is an if-by-whisky.

That is, you justify a yes or no by defining "programming," or assuming a certain context. Or.. you justify yes or no by defining "hard." There can be a lot of insight in an if-by-whisky, but I think the insight is usually in the justifications than the position.

You're implying (I think) an "is it difficult to become a good programmer?" Totally reasonable interpretation, and I think you're right about the answer. To be useful at a profession is, generally, "hard." It takes time and effort and talent, so yes. The author implies an "will students feel/report that programming courses were hard." His answer is "no," or not compared to other subjects."

In some sense it's the same insight. Programming is not unlike everything else. It's hard to be good.

That said, there is a schoolhouse sense of "hard" vs not that's not evenly applied. Math is considered a "hard" subject. Art, generally, isn't. This isn't universally true, but for the most part, no one stresses about their child or student's level of art proficiency. Ministerial advisors aren't pouring over comparative attainment in art and pedagogical research to try and improve it. That does happen at the specialist end, but not broadly like with STEM.

Educations systems treat most people as prospective non specialists in art, that might benefit from some exposure at a young age. No one gets berated because they're painting below a 7th grade level. Meanwhile, STEM is treated as an essential, employable skill that students are expected to be good at.

So... Should some level of programming be a general skill, like writing or math, that most people need? Or, is it a craft that most people don't need at all. I think that's the question. In one sense, I think yes, because programming is such a part of the world. In a more practical sense, I'd say no, because there's not easy places to apply basic programming skills. Doing something useful with math, like balancing the proverbial checkbook, comes up regularly. It doesn't, for programming.
Systematic data analysis reveals false vessel tracks
Those people who bought HOOD's stock gonna become filthy RICH really soon.

The reason why price didn't sky rocket right away simply because the buyers are smart, but most of the US population is not. Smart get richer, dumb get poorer.. Darwinism in action ;)

HOOD TO THE MOON!
I must live too far South to have heard that one, makes more sense to me now. I guess Google's seen it often enough posed as a question that it has decided it's relevant enough for a wider breadth of Nairn queries.
Didi: Chinese ride-hailing giant denies plans to go private
I like short sentences. I like articles that give you a clue what the gist is, somewhere in the first paragraph. Of course, multiple paras is good; provided the paras themselves are good.

This bloviation is from the second para:

<quote>
Note that I’m not talking about the intrinsic difficulty or inconvenience of the process itself (car registration might entail waiting around for several hours in the DMV office or it might be 30 seconds online with a web page, for example), but the cost imposed by the mere existence of the need to report information or get permission or put things in some particular way just so or align or coordinate with some other thing (and the concomitant need to know that you are supposed to do whatever it is, and the need to know or find out how).
</quote>

That single sentence(!) is simply unkind to the reader.

(Hmm - looks like I don't know how to do a blockquote)
The Microsoft docs for MSSQL are great and I’d honestly just read through them.
A US company has turned a former coal plant into a gas-fired Bitcoin mine
Yeah this is "central example" vs "technical outlier example." Advocating or planning a coup is technically a political view that is being censored, but obviously it's not relevant to almost any political process in the country.
Neither provides option for raw sensor data, so you're bound to the phone's processing.
Banks offer loans which help finance businesses. You have a pretty direct connection to people that actually work in the real economy. They are the ones that are paying the loans back after all. Nobody would be crazy enough to take a loan denominated in Bitcoin. The Bitcoin community is basically dedicated to making it impossible to repay debts. Just think about it, every HODLer that joins the community makes it harder to repay your debt because they will never spend their Bitcoin on things your company produces.

It's funny how low inflation or even deflation (if you consider 2% to be price stability) caused a rush of money into mortgage bonds and subsequently destabilized fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies try to beat fiat currencies on their way to becoming useless as a medium of exchange and subsequently make it useless for financing via debt.