skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did flag it (I notice you didn’t even threaten that user with a ban btw). That does nothing apparently. It’s not “a few” bad posts. This site is overrun with this garbage. That thread has plenty of other comments that should be modded if you’re serious about running a healthy community.

You’re asking me to sit back and not be pissed that a site that is unfortunately influential in my industry acts as a megaphone to racists. I cannot and will not do that.

If racist comments were as rare as you claim I’d have nothing to respond to no? It’s extremely common.
that's the worst thing to say to anyone, why would you do that?
If your average cost overrun is around 100%, then it absolutely is financially risky. And selling years in advance is not just possible but necessary for nuclear plants - people would never agree on such prices 10-20 years from now so the have to be locked in even as the plant is being built.
There's definitely market for a managed clickhouse 1p product. It remains to be seen if the product is substantial enough to challenge the incumbents. The engineering pedigree is ample. So that's already 50% of the way there. With money in the bank, it is all about how they suit it up with their sales and marketing. Interesting times ahead for them.
It's okay! Anyone with 20 or so years' experience with the culture's “humour” will understand that it's clearly a joke. Duh. Stupid 10 year old for believing it.

I found the tone of voice most significant in this kind of situation. When it was “smiley, jokey”, I would get it was a joke – but even mock seriousness or, worse, exasperated parent, was completely credible.
Then simply search for it on https://archive.is/ and find an archived copy here: https://archive.is/dz2Lf
Doesnt the US artifically restrict the number of medical school class sizes based on availibility of residencies ?
Anyone who still parrots the "both sides!" argument after January 6 (scratch that, after the last five years (scratch that, after Nixon and Reagan)) is so deeply and lazily uneducated that you must have intentionally tried to avoid even a single rational thought about the subject over your entire life. Please don't vote.
I agree with the "only have a hammer" problem but that already exists, and in a formal way vis-a-vis specialty boundaries. E.g., if you go see a neurologist, they're likely to see things through a neurology lens regardless of generalist training because of time in specialty and incentives. The legal consequences sort of keep it in check.

I also think to some extent it exists in the other direction as well, in terms of generalists not always recognizing when something needs to be referred to a more specialized setting.

It's largely addressed via training and consequences. And in any event, there's always the issue of "why not broaden training instead of assuming it always narrows?"
I am in the UK. I pay roughly 20c down and get 5c up for excess solar per kWh.

I really want to see an regulatory and technical environment where I can trade my excess with my neighbors at mid.

Sure I could store excess but can't justify the battery cost at present. This type of trading, as I understand, is happening in places like Australia.
The great resignation: Boomers, Gen X stay put while millennials, Gen Z walk
The vast majority of Americans have multiple vaccinations. How many are required for school? Just because people are hesitant about a new vaccine for a year hardly proves a greater point- it is a long-term trend towards truth, not a straight line. Those dark times in history are notably high points in censorship as well.
Does the example of the world's recent adaptations to COVID-19 give you confidence that "we" would make the necessary adjustments to redirect livestock feeds to humans in an emergency?

I doubt that for any famine of the last 200 years, including those that killed tens of millions, the problem has been, "not enough food in the world". The problem has been, "failed institutions don't put the food where it's most needed".

Vaccines are even easier to ship than food. Are they getting to where they're most needed?
Object detection is much more broad in Google Photos and complex queries are in a different league ("dogs in new york city")
I vouched for your comment because you have some good points. You were likely downvoted for your first sentence because it's a (couched) accusation that GP is trolling. Consider omitting that statement next time, it does not add to the discussion. See the HN comment guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"You're delusional. Where did I ever recommend reading Atlas Shrugged? Ayn Rand is nuts."

Interesting that that's one of the recommendations.
The experiment has failed. Apple is NOT keeping up their end of the bargain to justify them being the only app store on iOS. Time to open the platform up and get some more competition. Apple is slow, unresponsive and downright lazy in how they mishandle the app store. Time for some choice. I know I am far less excited about mobile devices - mainly because of the utter mismanagement of the platform. Google is marginally better, but not enough to justify a switch. Both platform holders should be forced to open stuff up at this point.
I mean they just announced it is delayed, didn't they had it enabled in Beta for testing? Could cause more problems if you remove it completely in a rush.
> and certainly not in their off hours

To clarify: I implied that Chromium is run and stewarded in Google employees' off-hours, which is different from the project being developed in Google employees' off-hours.

Of course Google pays people to work on Chromium. But do they pay people to decide what makes it into Chromium?

If so, that's a very bad look for a FOSS project. One of the central points of having a separate standalone community-driven FOSS project in the first place (rather than a corporate "source-available and we accept PRs if you assign us the IP" project), is taking steering of the project away from the corporation that created the code, and placing it instead in the hands of the community. If Google employees serve in their capacity as Google employees as directors for the Chromium Project — and so Google can tell its employee-maintainers to reject a PR from Chromium because it's not good for Chrome — then how could a browser vendor producing a competitor to Chrome based on Chromium, trust the direction of Chromium to do what's best for all Chromium-based projects, rather than just Chrome?

I assume this is not the case; that Google employees not only don't direct the Chromium Project with backroom Google-internal decision-making, but are restricted legally from so doing. Though I can't find anything on the Chromium Project site to support that assumption...
> Get sick in Europe? Best hope overpriced Ibuprofen works or you're gonna do a hell of a lot of waiting.

Live in France, _cannot confirm_.
"It's a nice thought experiment, but in my mind I think the world would be a better place without excel. "

I agree with most everything you said, however, proliferation of programming and automation is a net win in my books, no matter the medium, and good spreadsheet software does this incredibly well. It makes programming in its very basic form accessible to a wide amount of users with a relative gradual and easy to grasp learning curve. Sure you can always improve on it, but I think the world would most definitely not be better off without it.

I do agree that the work is hidden, they can be a nightmare to audit, and I think it would scare a lot of people on this board the amount of business critical functions that are completed by excel and other spreadsheets. However, I like to think this a short term problem, and to the authors point, the industry and the sw needs and will improve, and we should all be trying to eventually close the gap.
Texan here, that's the wholesale rate. Only people on wholesale plans (now banned I believe) would have paid that. I paid 9c per kWh during the whole ordeal while wholesale pegged at $9 per kWh. My price is fixed at 8.9c per kWh for 2 years.
You need access to millions of gallons of water a year to run a huge solar plant like Ivanpah, not to mention there probably aren't a lot of great roads for bringing in materials for heavy construction in the sahara vs the American west where in a days drive you are in the container yards at the Port of Los Angeles, so its not as easy as just plopping solar panels in the middle of the desert all over the world.
> I want HN to help me filter through them.

The comments panel show the actual recommendations. And the books are ranked by number of recommendations. Is this not enough?
ClickHouse wins on licensing--Apache.

The TimeScale licensing approach, the way it is written, perhaps accidentally, has lots of hidden landmines. The TimeScale license slants toward cloud giant defense to the extent that normal use is perilous.

For example, timescale can be used for normal data (postgres) as well, so any rules seem to apply to all your data in the database. The free license only usable available if:

the customer is prohibited, either contractually or technically, from defining, redefining, or modifying the database schema or other structural aspects of database objects, such as through use of the Timescale Data Definition Interfaces, in a Timescale Database utilized by such Value Added Products or Services.

My read is that if you let a customer do anything that adds a custom field, or table, or database, or trigger, or anything that is "structural" (even in the regular relational stuff) anywhere in your database (metrics or not), you are in violation. There doesn't seem to be a distinction about whether this is "direct" control or not, or whether a setting indirectly adds a trigger. I don't want to be in a courtroom debating whether a new metric is a "structural change!"

Now, none of that might be the intent of the license, but you have to go by what it says, not intentions.

The sad part of that is, I, and I'm sure many folks, have no interest in starting a database company, but we can't rally timescale because of legal risk. Looks awesome otherwise, though.
I don't believe anti-vaxxing is a political issue, yes. WHile conservatives are maligned for being anti-vax, in reality, groups like Hispanics and Blacks (not historically conservative or republican in huge amounts) have the highest rates of unvaxxedness.
Also in padding the budgets of the law enforcement agencies!
The key is that step 1 isn't random: it's guided by past experience, and intuition. At the local level it might be random, but from a higher level, the search is guided.

That said, there are incremental papers that tweak some parameters, and then there are others like this one that take a big, risky step back from the rest of the community (I.e using convolutions for computer vision), and make a discovery on the common benchmark.

Speaking my own experience, I think what keeps researchers addicted is the random variable reward we get from seeing our new algorithm's performance on a common benchmark. Even better if the performance near state of the art, but not necessary.
Not sure the reason for the downvotes, you are exactly correct. Banks have specific KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti money laundering) requirements that apply even in the case of a safety deposit box. In fact, the business in this article was specifically targeted by the Feds because he was advertising anonymous storage.

Again, I'm in no way absolving the FBI for what they did in this case, and I think civil asset forfeiture is just official theft in many instances, but just highlighting that there is a mountain of difference between what Politifact was originally responding to with respect to "DHS will seize your bank safety deposit box at will" and what happened with this shady outfit.
Wow. What a helpful piece of advice (I guess he's smarter than the rest of us so it's hard to understand the genius of his strategy). Any mention of the cost of missing out on the content in the book for a few decades?
You are absolutely correct, apologies I just saw it now. It was a remnant that got left over.

I now see the issue this raises and have discovered a solution through a macro!! call.
Related marriage advice: don't joke about divorce.
>There is not even technology that would scale up enough to store a country's power for weeks or at least a few days.

My bet is that the Japanese will build some huge newfangled storage facility. There'll be a big earthquake. The storage will meltdown/burn/whatever somehow. It'll cause a great big semi-permanent problem. Everyone will declare victory and shout 'at least it wasn't nuclear'.
I appreciate all the effort put into LO, or any complicated and sophisticated free (as in libre) project. I despise LO. I use gnumeric when I need a spreadsheet. Or grab my Mac.

I haven't tried running office in wine in over a decade, although I've realized they've achieved great things (by the games they support). I don't game, and all I need the Mac is MS Office, so I never tried again.
oh! It gets worse. The value of goods taken yearly through civil forfeiture is greater than the value of goods reported stolen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
Nice, digging into the article now...

Only 20 GW thermal? In my head nuclear power plants emit roughly 4GW thermal which is converted to 1GW electric energy, so cooling Yellowstone seems well within our technological capabilities... with open cycle water cooling.

To save water, I wonder if you could use another system like air shafts or a closed-cycle water system, similar to how nuclear power plants have primary and secondary coolant loops -- the primary loops being closed and the secondary loops being "mostly closed" or have some other mechanism of discarding heat.
Warning to those with AirTags. Mine are gone from Find My. When attempting to reset one of my working/paired tags before the upgrade, I get a Bluetooth error when trying to set up. So all of my tags are dead right now and will not connect to my phone.

However a friend who had one of my tags for a couple of days gets the notification that my tag was with them and to tap to contact the owner.
> I did flag it. That does nothing apparently.

The comment is flagkilled now. These things take time; there's no way around that.

Literally everyone with strong ideological passions feel that HN is "overrun with garbage" and they all have contradictory definitions of "garbage" - basically whatever they strongly disagree with. This kind of feeling is a mirror of your own passions (I don't mean you personally, but everyone who feels this way, with all their conflicting points of view). It is not a reliable compass for moderating a large international community.
I don't know much about ublock, but I've got a Safari content-blocker set up that pulls from a custom set of easylist files and blocks all requests to those URLs from within safari
The only value they need to add is that you no longer need to run database clusters yourself. I would hope they don’t try to add any special paid features.
you are not really writing cljs... but whatever floats your boat.
> Just like NSA spying is an outgrowth of the war on terror

A lot of the framework and the beginnings of domestic spying really started after the Oklahoma City Bombing. The underpinnings of the Patriot Act were originally passed then.

> war on drugs (which was itself an outgrowth of anti-black racism)

I think this is an oversimplification of the history of the war on drugs. Racism is certainly a facet, but the association of drugs use with counter culture and the anti war movement are just as important. Soaring crime rates in the 70s and 80s are also related to the war on drugs. There were also cultural and political incentives to ratchet it up in the name of :doing something". Average people of every racial and economic background were concerned about drugs in the early 80s. Boiling it down to any one thing really does a disservice to complexity of the issue. Radley Balko's "The Rise of the Warrior Cop"[1] has a lot of good historical information on the topic.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Ameri...
You can host videos on demand or live streams at Mux.com as well.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a community engineer at Mux.)
Decent enough summary from John Oliver here (if you can put up with his daft, sitcom-like humour)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
> You aware that most cows do not live on nice farms when they get to wander around and eat grass?

That's how they live in France.
I'd recommend this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp6gxdGrv5E

The actors are super bad but the educational parts are all you need to know about bikes
I used Pandoc + LaTex for https://deploymentfromscratch.com/ as mentioned in the post, but my brother is now taking the AsciiDoc approach and I think it's looking good. I will think hard next time and most likely give AsciiDoctor a chance.
>Almost every commercial transaction at the retail level allows you to use a method of payment that does not guarantee that the seller will actually receive that money (credit cards).

That's not how credit cards work. At all.

>You order food for pickup, and the great majority of restaurants will let you walk in and pick a bag off an unattended table without any attempt to verify that you did in fact order what you're taking

I have literally never seen this once in my life. Where do you live where the "great majority" of restaurants operate this way?
That's... overly dramatic.
I suspect you started replying before I edited my comment to remove mention of the suspiciousness of his cash pile.

Frankly, neither #2 nor #3 apply to a pile of cash in a safe deposit box (and who loans almost twice the median income to someone?!), and #5 is illegal.

But yes, big pile of cash is definitely a bad excuse for a search and a worse excuse for a seizure.
Multi-billion dollar international team of lawyers vs a bunch of young volunteers!

I’m rooting for the little guys...
It would be super funny if the result of the increased interconnectedness of Scandinavia and Europe, sold as a measure to decrease the risk of extreme events causing power disruption, actually caused power disruption as we've now sold off all our generation capacity.
Interesting idea, but this is mentions of books, not recommendations. It includes comments by someone that's reading the book, has it on their reading list, or read it and thought it was terrible.
Yandex offers managed clickhouse :
https://cloud.yandex.com/en/services/managed-clickhouse
"but the pandemic has also killed hundreds of thousands of people." Apparently it wiped out the flu too.

Take COVID stats with a huge grain of salt - the reporting around them has been (and still is) grossly politicized :p
> This feels like some third world country shit.

It’s very frustrating when people say things like this because until it “feels like some typical US shit” nothing can get better.

Let’s get past all the American Exceptionalism ASAP please.
Investment Banking Is Cheap If You’re Rich
A Critical Part of Human Memory Is Lost When Opting for a Digital Zettelkasten
It's mentioned! I used it to make all kind of previews.
Another contagion from China!
Is there a good breakdown of any changes/improvements to PWAs on iOS 15, like can a PWA app do background audio finally, etc?
Factor in all the externalities that these other forms of energy bring in and nuclear is probably one of the cheapest. If you could put a figure on the economic damage from an entire city of millions breathing in fumes from pollutants every day on their lives, it would probably be astronomical.
Covid has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu
I don't know if I would go that far. University education usually involves a ton of general-education classes for the first two years: English, science, history, math, basic science, etc. High school quality is quite uneven in the US, so these classes are largely necessary, imho.

Also, that's not to mention the many "pre-med" classes that medical schools require for applicants. Are high school kids going to take the organic chemistry, biochem, etc. necessary for med school?
Verse 9:30

The Jews say, "Ezra is the son of Allah "; and the Christians say, "The Messiah is the son of Allah." That is their statement from their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved [before them]. May Allah destroy them; how are they deluded?

Come on dang, ban me for HATE FACTS.
Inspecting coredumps like it's 2021
Screencasting Technical Guide
> As usual though, the radical though is rarely channeled into improving the status quo, revamping it, reconceptualizing & reframing it: radical thought starts over, rebuilds, ignores the current, breaks for something new, fresh, unconstrained.

It is New Relationship Energy for technologies.
Learn Clojure – My first month as a clojurian
Literally overrun with racists then. I would think most people in their right mind would consider racism garbage.
In 2007, Floyd faced charges for aggravated robbery

OK, and? That quote is from Wikipedia and I'm sure that you read on and saw the next few sentences documenting that he served 5 years in prison for that crime, and then worked with rehab mentoring organizations and was never again charged with a violent crime or property crime. He was briefly arrested in 2019 for possession of opiates due to his personal drug addiction.

I think more armed robbers should be in jail to protect innocent victims

But he went to prison, for 5 years. Armed robbery is bad for sure, but how long do you want to keep people in prison? Nobody was shot or otherwise injured. After he was released, there were no similar offenses. Why would you still want to treat him like a violent criminal 13 years later?
My god, I don't like that people can die from hiking or walking or driving to the store. Those sudden, random, freak-accident type deaths really bother me.
Not entirely accurate. Many years ago someone in the DOJ joked about how Bill Gates's billions were a "rounding error" for the US government. The problem isn't that the FBI is afraid of going up against the Sacklers. The problem is that they're afraid of going up against the Sackler's entire class. You know, the people that the political leadership of this country refers to as their "base".
By all means go to current financial markets and ask for huge loans in this low-interest-rate high-inflation market. It isn't even about risk (though risks caused by regulation/government oversight are manifold). It's about return, or the lack thereof.
Did not know about mdBook, will have a look!
It's not a moral judgment, it's an economical judgement.

Mining bitcoins costs lots of economic value (energy, hardware, personnel) and produces virtually none. It's extremely uneconomical in the purest sense of the term.
From what I hear, Pre Med is the USA is a joke. All it really does is prepare you for the MCAT, and even does that poorly. So all undergrad just becomes a waiting room.

I went to high school with a ton of now doctors. My college degree is unrelated to programming, and I have built a career from the bottom up in web dev. I would say I’m fairly far along, have reached a senior IC level, and make good money.

My doctor friends are still not fully through training, and are just beginning to start their adult lives. It’s a disservice that some of my most intelligent friends had to waste 4 years on nothing and delay their professional and personal growth. No wonder less and less US citizens want to pursue medical careers.
with uBlock origin?
(Good) Jokes that punch up are funny, not immoral. It's really hard to make a good joke that punches down; seeing it pulled off makes me really respect (and kinda dislike) a comedian (and I've never seen a non-professional manage it).