skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my good friends spent a couple of years selling grain silos to farmers in the American Midwest. I heard about this some years later when we were living in the same community again and able to get together for coffee once in awhile.

He commented how often the following question opened farmers up to a much deeper conversation that had nothing to do with grain silos. His opening question would often be "How goes the battle?"

Although he did well at selling, he is a person who is genuinely interested in others in a warm caring way. So I am sure it was his manner as well as the specific question. But I love the question as well.

How goes the battle? Immediately acknowledges that life isn't easy, that the things we struggle with are okay to talk about. However, if the person isn't in the mood to go deeper they can just respond with "fine", "alright" or "can't complain" and just move on without going deeper.

But asked in a genuine caring way, "how goes the battle?", invites a deeper more authentic response about struggles.
You know, the "all functions have unique distinct names" idea is pretty interesting!

Honestly, that reminds me of the PHP standard library a bit, which feels oriented towards procedural programming at times. Now, the language and the actual implementation of the functions aside, i found that pattern really pleasant to work with, especially since it let me work more in line with functional programming principles as well - pure functions and no global state (even if passing data around was more difficult).

Now, i won't say that the approach fits every project or domain out there, but at the very least having a clear idea of what your code depends on and what's going on inside of your code base is an idea that i still stand by. Sadly, the only tool that i found that at least tries to make this easier was Sourcetrail, which is essentially dead now: https://www.sourcetrail.com/
Just put a cable hanging from the leaf over a open circuit. when the leaf hangs the cable will descend and the circuit is closed. With a buzzer and a battery is all what you need.
>Worse than that still, imagine one of your affiliates is stupid enough to target inside Russia. You need to keep the Russians happy or all of a sudden trial or extradition become likely outcomes.

I heard (and it might be just people making stuff up) that if you had cyrilic anything in your PC some ransomware would avoid you entirely, now, that's probably false but I am interested in knowing how would they avoid infecting russian computers.
Let people enjoy stuff.
This article is from 2000.
> The authour of the letters purposefully removed the lines from the historical record for modesty's sake

How to know before finding out?
industry. i'll just say it plainly. that's where you can fund more unestablished scientists. the vc world, the smart ones, are now funding moonshot ideas from younger scientists in ways academic science funding methods will never match. if you're a young scientist with crazy ideas, try to hitch up with vc's that run an incubator. the first step, though, is to move to boston.
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> Java is far more a productive language

Since when is productivity a priority for most developers? Seems like 2nd or 3rd fiddle based on HN sentiment these days.
Ah whoops, not sure how I missed that!
Aspidistra performs well in very low amounts of light. Can be left dry for a long time also. Except for the alien's egg shaped flowers is a little boring but is a survivor.

In any case the solution if you tend to over-water can be to stop it... or to keep over-watering. Just find plants that like having their feet soaked. You can't over-water a Zantedeschia if the temperatures remain warm. If you forget it and let it dry it just will go to sleep for a while and will flower better. You can't over-water a Cyperus.
Isn't this the point of libglvnd?
This x 1,000,000.

I have heard that Apple’s environmental concern is all talk until they empower people to get more life out of their devices to reduce electronic waste.

It’s a convincing argument when one notes that their highest priorities for ‘green’ initiatives align with improving their profit margins.
I actually really agree that Terraform is a good analogy - you're frontloading the effort in a way that hopefully will make things easier in the future.

I use Terraform to manage my own personal AWS account. Recently I needed a Windows VM to run some random exe file. I could have created an EC2 instance adhoc through the web console but I did it through terraform instead. It probably took me about 30 minutes longer than it would have otherwise, but now I've got that terraform module ready to go if I ever need a windows instance again in the future. It's got a properly configured security group that only allows access from my VPN, and it outputs the IP and admin password automatically. I'll never have to solve that problem again (well, for a few years if we're being realistic).
> The BLAS/LAPACK ecosystem is a mess. I wish that Intel would just open source MKL and properly support AMD CPUs.

Given that their latest compilers are based on LLVM, that seems like a fair trade between the closed- and open-source worlds.
The article says "cryptocurrency", not bitcoin. There are 10,000+ cryptocurrencies - and both the trading markets and the payment markets are agnostic as to which token they use, as long as traders can make money and payments go through.

Anyone can make their own crypto, and they do - so cryptocurrency as a whole is hyperinflationary.

Bitcoin maximalists say, but bitcoin is first and unique in many ways. Certainly - but not in ways that the trading or payment markets appear to care about. The "banking the unbanked" proposal is much closer to the payments market - nothing about it seems to depend on bitcoin's special characteristics.

I note that you're proposing a bitcoin version of Austrian economics there, with the word "bitcoin" substituted for "gold" - but Austrian economics proponents have long noted this cut'n'paste cryptocurrency problem with the bitcoin proposition.
Looks like MHRD[0] with a GUI.

[0] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/
When I launch a "modern" game, the auto-updater "jumps right in" and plays with my system. Sometimes it loses, like in the reported cases of Steam wiping whole disks. Then, sooner or later, if everything goes well, I might have an opportunity to play the intended game instead of "Storage Space Manager 2021 SSD Edition", "Backup Busters", or more hardcore multiplayer titles like "Server Overload".
Why not just make them from stainless steel like the cybertruck?
Sure, I'd take the shorter flight, everything else being equal. But what premium would you pay for that ability? The article only mentions being better than Concorde at 5x the fuel cost (I assume it means per passenger-km).
i appreciate the vote of confidence! to assuage your concerns, i'm part of the research planning team at a major biopharma. so funding, executing, and analyzing these kinds of experiments is my day job : )
This is true, but there is absolutely a solution here that Apple could implement: verification of users who want genuine replacement parts.

Apple could empower their customers to be good citizens of the earth who want to reduce electronic waste while simultaneously making the lives of thieves difficult.
That's great to hear. We are working on something to simplify accepting crypto, would be great to chat with you about your experience.
How much of that involves just de-criminalising harmful acts so that the broader public bear the cost? For instance, SF declining to prosecute theft under the value of $900.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
Thanks!

Hmm, why aren't graph queries useful for CRUD? I don't get it.

C — create a new node (possibly with some edges).

R — get one or a list of nodes fitting some criteria (including being connected to other nodes).

U — update a given node and possible its edges, and also possible some adjacent nodes.

D — drop the node and its edges.

Which of these is conceptually more difficult with graph DBs?
Socializing isn't something that someone can do as an individual. If the people you want to socialize with communicate using FB then you need to do so as well if you wish to communicate with them.

In addition, socializing is often at least somewhat "competitive". If you are less able to network then you will be at a disadvantage when seeking a job. If you are more difficult to communicate with, then you are likely to be left out of group decisions; even if by accident. If you are advocating a political position, then not having access to the most popular communication platforms is a major handycap.
Tape. SQL databases emerged when data was stored on tape.

join table1, table2 where table1.id = table2.customer_id

type operations would have a tape for table1 in one drive, and a tape for table2 in the other drive. Things like fixed length records emerged to make it possible to fast forward the tape a specific number of inches to the point where the next record would begin, facilitating non-linear access.

Once that model was completely baked into the tooling, it didn't go away when the data moved to HDs then SSDs. The paradigms have outlived the hardware.

It's a bit like the save icon still being a floppy disk.
I feel you might be a little bit too optimistic. Did almost much simpler thing when I was at university. It was much more involved than it looked like. There are so many gotchas you would never anticipate until you get started. The most common scenario would be the diagram looks alright, but when you put all part together, it just does not work.
Even if was recorded at the time it claims to have been, it could still be an actor. The film reel companies were not above such things. It is very hard for me to take this at face value.
The minute we have solved AGI, will we have solved economics as well? I would imagine that if you just pit 100,000 smart agents against each other with a virtual currency you could calculate the ideal government policies to maximise welfare.
It may be that they feel safe because they are about as safe as before COVID existed. When I have examined the data of countries compared to their vaccination rate the substantially lower death rate has been very clear. Israel's quick Pfizer roll out had additional break through cases, but continued spread primarily cost non-vaccinated lives. For the rest of us we have a different flu season now.
Can't read the NYT article, but the headline is a bit of a misstatement. It should be, "nobody can fully control or predict the results of how the market economy works". The source paper gets deeply into the work of Lucas, but misses the foundational nature of the Lucas Critique [1] (and Campbell's law, et cetera) in the effectiveness of economic policymaking. One challenge with setting fixed policy boundaries, particularly those based on fuzzy things like expectations, is that the reporting on the expectations affects the expectations. It's as if when the meteorologist predicts rain, people take some protective actions, that reduce the chances of rain. Thus, predictions of the effects of policy must take into account the predicted reactions to the policy. But if people know that policy is being constructed to already take into account the expected reactions, this will again affect their reactions, so policy needs to be adjusted to take into account these second order reactions, and so on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
This looks to me like a tradeoff we collectively haven’t agreed upon for any other device.

To take the perennial car analogy, car theft is a widespread enough phenomenon, but we haven’t settled on breaking central functionalities each time a repair is done outside network.

To push a bit further, steeply lowering phone price would also critically deter theft, why not go that option if it’s that important ?
Systems that fail without producing an error or warning are worrying and unsettling to me.
Ask HN: How to sell data to Financial Firms?
I've created a microapp where people can fill a survey and in the end the app shows a dashboard about the user's standing against all other people who did the survey. From this, I've generated some data which I think will be useful for financial firms. How do I approach them about selling the data?
TIL archive.org has a lending library. This is a great book.
I love this. I might start using this – if I can summon the courage.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Final Project Arrives Amid Growing Market Interest
I think a good solution would be to allow users to flag a wallet interaction as a scam (akin to a down vote). Then, after enough votes, you could get a warning analogous to what Safari does when you are about to go to a known scam website.

People here forget that the average person (especially as they age) will at some point fall for a scam. Insurance companies are starting to recognize that, because as you approach old age and death, apparently the mind gets more trusting of strangers to reduce mental load.
Tiny violin louthiers are rejoicing thanks to this new market opportunity.
> In El Salvador, there is no need to off-ramp fiat into BTC...

This is a functionally incorrect description of how the system is working there, or doesn't. In practice, the bitcoin systems there are tremendously unreliable, and the populace hates everything about it. I wrote this about how it's going: https://archive.is/mJY30

You could argue that none of what went wrong with it is "bitcoin" per se - but then, the "bitcoin" system that El Salvador actually has doesn't resemble what Nakamoto proposed in any way.
Pizza Hut offered online ordering in 1994.
How is that working out for you? I've heard that soil moisture meters can be wildly inaccurate. Have you found one that's reliable?
Yes, but this was only shown later -- The reconstruction algorithm for cone-beam was published in 1984 by research staff at Ford Motor Company. The Felkamp, Davis, and Kress algorithm was demonstrated as a natural extension of the fan-beam algorithm. -- first pencil beam, then fan-beam, finally cone-beam
>>> using the already created awesome universe of DK from the super NES

Speedrunning those classic SNES titles: DK3, Contra IV, Super Metroid, Castlevania IV, FFIV. Still fun in 2021 ;)

PS1 Crash Bandicoot "making of" really gets into detail the transition to 3D in the 90s:

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
I guess it will take me a bit more time to understand this then
You’re replying to a thread that disproves you.

It's possible for the state and big business to both be your enemy. In a country like the USA where big business owns the government that's often the case.
As others have said, graph databases push foreign keys, joins, referential integrity, and migrations to the application layer. Right now the combinations of databases and software just can’t handle that with nearly the sophistication of Postgres + an open source ORM.

Facebook famously uses a graph database called TAO [1] with an ORM called Ent sitting on top of it. Everything lives on that - internal and external applications. Every dev at FB writing backend code uses it. Can’t talk too much and how these work since they’re internal and proprietary, but looks like we open sourced a Go ORM that’s Ent-inspired that shows the basics [2]. It’s definitely a weird mental model to get used to, but the combination of deep business logic in schema definitions, complex joins, and insane query performance make it super powerful. We’re definitely one of the bigger non-SQL shops, with thousands of developers using this every day as their primary data store.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2013/06/25/core-data/tao-the-powe...

[2] https://entgo.io/docs/getting-started/
Come from a rich, influential family.

Be white.

Be male.

Be ruthless.

Come from an Ivy League institution. If you have trouble being accepted into it, remember that if George bush could get into Yale, every other prick like you have a chance too.

Have no morals.

Despise the working class and fuck them thoroughly every chance you have to show the pricks in Wall Street you are one of them.

Be a sweet talker.
I had to google what "ENCRYPTED DAISY download. For print-disabled users" means.

""Print disabled" books are those that have been specially formatted in the DAISY format for users who can not read regular print books. These titles are only accessible on a specialized device to patrons having a key issued by the Library of Congress."

"The Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) format is a means of creating digital talking books for people who wish to hear--and to navigate--written material presented in an audible format. DAISY helps those with "print disabilities," including blindness, impaired vision, and dyslexia, to read electronic texts that have been converted into its format. The DAISY consortium was formed in 1996 by talking book libraries around the world to lead the transition from analog talking books into digital format."

Imagine; machine readable, content separated from presentation, no mandatory awful UI, no DRM; dreadful. Good thing it's restricted to special Library issued keyholders only. /s
Decriminalizing theft has substantial costs as well: https://abc7news.com/target-hours-san-francisco-walgreens-cl...

For those people laid off, they bear the cost, but they are not the only ones, and the economic costs are nowhere near the real costs.

A friend of mine owns a coffee shop that was robbed -- he had video of the event, but the police couldn't do anything. But he knew the guy who did it -- a local meth-head who hangs around the area, and later he saw him and they got into a fight and he beat the guy up. Point being, when the police refuse to provide basic protection, people start turning to vigilante actions, private security, metal detectors or shopping by appointment only, etc. Or they flee to jurisdictions in which their livelihoods are protected by the police. That not only raises costs, but it changes the society as a whole. There is a reason that no society has survived that tolerated theft, and it has nothing to do with economic calculations.
There isn't a practical scenario where using a device you suspect have been in the hands of an adversary isn't grounds for termination.

Game over.

It is not a relevant argument in this context.
It's a wrap for late artist's Arc de Triomphe installation
It's why I got into this industry.
If powered flights were invented today it would have been banned for noise and safety concerns. Just look at how upset people in SF get about the once a year Fleet Week aerial demonstrations.
The Arc de Triomphe is wrapped in fabric, a vision six decades in the making
Put investments in blind trusts or even index funds that do not allow for granular control by people with powerful positions. That the laws cannot stop all asymetrical knowledge is no reason to not limit the most egregious abuses. High level politicians are paid well. Choosing public service may mean you give up the chance at stratospheric levels of wealth and that is okay.
Tangential question: does anyone have experience using a triplestore database in production? Or is using RDF in any way not related to marking up web pages for SEO?
Debian and Fedora provide serial, OpenMP, and pthreads versions of lilbopenblas. Are you sure OpenBLAS doesn't detect nested OpenMP? I thought it did, though I'd normally use the serial version outside something like R, but if you mix different low-level simple pthreads with high-level OpenMP, you can expect problems. OpenBLAS is fine generally -- competitive with MKL on Intel hardware and infinitely faster on ARM and POWER.
For PyTorch, presumably you want libxsmm (which is responsible for MKL's current small matrix performance).
On AMD hardware, I don't understand why people avoid AMD's support, which is just a version of BLIS and libflame. (BLIS' OpenMP story seems better than OpenBLAS'.)
The linear algebra story on GNU/Linux distributions would be less of a mess without proprietary libraries like MKL. It's fine if you take the Debian approach, in significant experience running heterogeneous HPC systems. Fedora has cocked up policy through not listening to such experience, but you can do the Debian-style thing with the approach of https://loveshack.fedorapeople.org/blas-subversion.html (and see the old R example refuting the MKL story). That's one example of the value of dynamic linking.
Not underfed or overfed.
I think the language the developer writes their queries in is most important. It is very easy and logical to express what you want in SQL. Say we want to show a list of cities with more than a million people. Easy:

SELECT name FROM cities WHERE population>1000000

GraphQL queries on the other hand always look like gibberish to me.
It was the same in Europe and things have changed, it's true, nowadays you have the US officials close to the president quoted with:

> Biden official says protecting US steel a national security issue [1]

on the front page of the Financial Times.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/e1f33362-2c36-4f99-9b11-7dcd82ee7...
>What about the losers?

Pretty much the entire genre of "How To Succeed In Business" is nothing but an illustration of survivorship bias. The common attributes that get identified are almost always either also shared by those who didn't succeed or if not were likely irrelevant to the success.
I'd rather have a ton of Early Access games, where players can take part to the development of the game (by giving valuable feedback to the developers and funding the development), than AAA games that are released incomplete and full of bugs like the CyberPunk fiasco. Or have a third of the content, then the rest as DLC like Paradox or EA does.
The answer is status. Most developers are (despite being comparatively well-paid) quite low-status: people tell them what to do all the time and they are expected to comply. By contrast CEO is pretty much the top of the status pole. It is natural for human beings to crave status so it is natural to dream about being CEO even if most won't particularly enjoy it.
Maybe I'm being nostalgic, but I don't see this type of open discussions in media today, where on the one hand you'll have a reputable, mainstream journalist and on the other you'll have someone who thinks so far out the box that you'll have to invent a new word before classifying them and what they produce, even though they come from different parts of the what-have-you spectrum, is pure intellectual brilliance that's bliss to consume.

I miss that aspect of the past. Maybe I shouldn't but I do.
Here in the US too... probably not half though.
I'll be launching Founders Bookmarks Tomorrow
A growing list of curated and contributed startup ideas and resources viewed in an app
I appreciate people being able to confront a senator unannounced in an open space.

One question, is that boat really a yacht? Looks small to me. May not really be relevant.

Joe Manchin's net worth is at least several million dollars, but it's not enough to classify him as part of the 1%.
You're on the money with this one. Accurate table translations was an important enabling technology - same with slip-rings for full rotation
Meteorology is much easier because the act of working out what the weather will do next, won't have an effect on weather. Not so in economics!

My intuition says there's probably a kind of uncertainty principle or incompleteness theorem at play in economics.
> Make it illegal for providers to send location data anywhere other than the tower hardware.

The entire planet's mobile telephone system would then stop working.

As far back as GSM, your approximate location is continually updated in the HLR/HSS database (and VLR) so the the system knows where to send the MAP SS7 paging message to tell your phone to ring when someone calls you (or where to deliver a SMS).

Its a mobile network - it needs to know where you are.