skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just don’t see why the demand is high enough to create a business around.

I live in a city with more than 10MM residents, so there's enough demand for vodka-focused 15-min delivery businesses. The problem is more of cutthroat competition than demand.
As a recipient, I'd be afraid of the "I paid you last week! Don't you remember?" wage theft scenario, as well.
Compared to the salary the company offered before they switched to a 4 day work week
I’ve been reading articles like this proclaiming the imminent death/irrelevance of the MBA for decades now. Tech audiences seem to receive them well.

Never come across less than positive content about MBAs from anyone who holds one though.
[author of the article] My main concern about using Airflow for the EL parts is that sources and destinations are highly coupled with Airflow transfer operators (e.g. PostgresToBigQueryOperator). The community needs to provide M * N operators to cover all possible transfers. Other open-source projects like Airbyte, decouple sources from destinations, so the community only needs to contribute 2 * (M + N) connectors.

Another concern about using Airflow for the T part is that you need to code the dependencies between models both in your SQL files and your Airflow DAG. Other open-source projects like dbt create a DAG from the model dependencies in the SQL files.

So I advocate for integrating Airflow scheduler with Airbyte and dbt.

Curious to know how other use Airflow for ETL/ELT pipelines?
I'm patiently waiting for it to become available in open-source repositories.

I may need to set up some other way to use it for my builds…
Is it passive aggressive to gift this to all of your colleagues for xmas? Asking for a friend.
> The problem with the G&T program was that it did a better job of selecting for parental affluence (the ability to pay 4-5 figures for test prep for your toddler, and the time to navigate a byzantine system) than for inherent differences in student capabilities.

Spoken so authoritatively that I'm sure you have a source?
Not everything needs to be about profit, but the USPS is self-funded. It doesn't use tax money for its operations so it does need to try to break even at least on the services it provides.
gender is not very predictive of people’s opinion on abortion, it’s a common confusion and i’m not sure where it comes from
I am running a pretty std i3 config.

Just tried Sway, but unfortunate I get the black screen of death it seems :/
>I wonder why nobody's solved this problem by now.

You can extend this thought to poverty in general. Very little would need to change to eliminate it entirely.
Nvidia did forest trail navigation several years ago; I wonder if it's a precursor to this. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-researchers-release...
If you think fraud matters, you don't understand the monetary system.
I appreciate that. Thank you. I hope he starts feeling better. If it ever becomes a better idea (or even a hail mary play), you send him my way, please: https://philosopher.life/#Contact%20h0p3. He can take a look around to decide if he'd be interested.
Because that single customer paid in advance and book those capacity?

That is how it works in literally all other industry supply chain.
This is a dishonest take on my post. I was talking about 64 bit in the context of AMD64. Not 64 bit in general. Alpha is irrelevant in this discussion.
I remember in 2013 learning about the robot Paro. It was this little plush seal robot intended to help the elderly with loneliness. It would respond to touch and interact with you. It was kind of like a super advanced Furby. Findings at the time were that it improved patient wellbeing. It was a really cute little guy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJq5PQZHU-I
Also remember that they are probably going to be setting up a Facebook presence either way (for communicating with and advertising to customers), so the website work is on top of the Facebook effort when talking about level of effort.
The part for me was having to go to sleep early every night so the next day wouldn't be an early morning drag... I hated it even way back in my school days. Quitting a job is liberating, but it's also terrifying if you can't financially sustain a full or comfortable retirement into the future.

Getting a paycheck means surrendering your ability to wake up and live your life based completely on your own internal clock, and it can be a big drain on your mental health and physical well being. There are ways of charging your battery, but it's not always possible without risk and/or sacrifice if you weren't born rich or somehow otherwise financially lucky.

Health is wealth too though... We're usually born with a "glass full of water" that represents our health - mental and physical health. Over time we drink from that glass until it's gone... Once you burn out, you're toast. It's important to always be cognizant of where your water supply is, and to try to stop letting people drink from your glass before it completely runs dry... If you're lucky, you'll turn your water into a nice vintage wine.
Try "Delete until the 3rd closed parenthesis", or "Delete everything within the {} block currently under the cursor".
In Vim it's pretty natural, because commands are compositional. It's like you can "talk" with the editor and tell them exactly what you want, rather than just moving around and inserting/removing/selecting characters.

Granted, it's not easy to learn and perhaps not for everyone. I think it takes a certain kind of... disposition, maybe?, to appreciate it.
Flutter State Management, WidgetView Pattern
To be clear, the problem kordlessagain is referring to is that if you make the effort to make explicit what the X and Y are, the response will rarely include the slightest explicit acknowledgement of any incoherence.

Generally, if a fallacy is found in one's arguments and one values intellectual honesty, the best response is to apologise for the error first and only then attempt to restart the argument. If you don't do this, but try to act as if there was no error, you do avoid loss of face in the eyes of the unthinking that comes from admitting error, but you lose the respect of readers who understood the error and saw the evasion.

It is a sad fact that today most people have little awareness of this risk of losing respect in heated arguments, let alone place high importance to it.
I'm aware of i3's IPC and those tools are not even close to getting back to a normal XMonad workflow. Again, I think the layout models are different enough between the two projects that it would not be possible to build XMonad's auto layouts in i3.
There's no reason Facebook will delete your account as opposed to soft-deleting it, or maybe will "comply" by literally deleting your username & password but keeping the rest of the data. It's Facebook after all.
:%s/. We've known since the 70s/ in my opinion/
Random factoid since we're talking about PowerComputing. Back in the day, you could run MacOS on an IBM RS/6000-43P (I think it was the only RS/6000 with MacOS drivers) and you could run AIX on the Apple Network Server machines (which were the only macs with AIX drivers.)

But since other people in this thread are talking about other Unixes, it's fun to think of what would happen if IBM and Apple continued the AIX / Mac experiments.
To be fair, the about page says who made it https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#about
The about section says:

> Orion is created by [Vladimir Prelovac][0], a tech entrepreneur with a track record of executing ambitious ideas that go beyond conventional wisdom. Orion was created in 2019, is bootstrapped by the founder and is being built by a world-wide passionate team.

> We are also building a privacy-respecting alternative to Google search, currently in private beta.

> If you'd like to know more or get involved, please feel welcome to reach out to vprelovac@kagi.com.

[0]: https://vladimir.prelovac.com/
> So unless you burn cash in a fire or counterfeit money, the only entity that can create and destroy money is the Federal Reserve.

I think this is generally false as a premise depending on your definition of “money”. If your definition of money is equivalent to US dollars then I guess this could be interpreted as correct, but other countries have “money” that isn’t issued by the Federal Reserve (the Federal Reserve being what we refer to as the US banking system)

> The price of AMD stock can go up and down ("value") but the total dollars created or destroyed is always zero. Same is true with BTC.

I don’t understand why you’re comparing the “value” of a stock or bitcoin with the “amount” of dollars. A fair comparison would involve the value of the US dollar, which is subject to change (take a look at the Forex market to see people capitalizing on that every day).

> The miners spend money burning energy which removes "value" from the economy as a whole

“Burning energy” is not removing value, it’s providing value by means of strengthening a proof of work blockchain. Whether that’s worth something to you is irrelevant to it being valuable to others.

> If I give you a ton of coal you can burn that for heat. But that removes the coal permanently from the world. OTOH, if I want to make a cryptocurrency with 10^86 coins and if I do that a billion times over, well, I have a limitless supply of cryptocurrency.

It seems like you’re saying scarcity implies value here. If that is what you’re implying, this arguments starts to take the form of a “straw man”. Bitcoin is not unlimited. Part of Bitcoin’s whole appeal is that there is a limited quantity of it to go around. Grouping Bitcoin with any other random cryptocurrency without that limitation will make any argument related to it a moot point.

> You might say that's exactly what credit card transactions are, (which is not incorrect) but the burn rate of Visa per transaction is much less than BTC.

I will agree that the amount of electricity to process a transaction on the Visa network is a lot lower than the energy required to run the Bitcoin infrastructure, but that energy just happens to be the price needed to pay for a decentralized proof of work blockchain. Even if you subjectively don’t believe Bitcoin is worth the value that’s spent to maintain its infrastructure, other people do and that’s reflected in the current economy.
Does anyone here have SpaceX shares?
I really wish people would stop recommending Elements of Style
> It's like everyone's zipping around in electric cars, and some people still swear by those gear/radio sticks.

Anecdotally, the vim users are the ones "zipping" around their code. I can't remember a single time thinking it was painful watching a vim user when pair-programming. In contrast, it's often quite painful watching someone slowly point and click around their IDE.
I recently learned woolly bears are moth caterpillars. I see them all the time but I can't say I've ever seen the distinctive moth they apparently turn into. I wonder why.
I'd always heard (no evidence atm) that pin pads etc are designed to be uncomfortable to make forgery more difficult (proving that signatures are compared).
Excellent insight. Thanks!
Two answers in one: because Nobel wanted it this way, yet the peace prize is the only one that is not an exception.
People are often unbanked [in the US] because bank accounts are associated with:

- Minimum balance requirement

- Direct deposit requirements

- Fees & penalties

People in poverty without steady incomes don't have the liquidity to open accounts and keep them open without incurring penalties.
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021: The Full List of Winners
At least the IRS won’t be doing surveillance on their transactions of $600 or more. Maybe it’s a better way to do things?
Won't someone take pity on Apple Computer?

In fact the company changed its name to just "Apple" back in 2007. So maybe this doesn't even count.
Congress has a shameful record of completely failing to regulate the check cashing industry. Even when they went after predatory credit card practices during the Obama admin, check cashers were somehow spared. It's reminiscent of how despite massively overwhelming public support, there never seem to be enough votes to reduce prescription drug prices. It would seem some lobbies are just too powerful to be overcome by compassion, sense or even mass public support.

In light of those difficulties, this seems like an excellent back door solution to bury a corrosive industry that preys on the poor.
All said and done I think you tend to learn that opinions are just that - opinions. Often a team doesn't need more opinions, they need to make decisions and come to consensus, so helping them decide on which opinion is best is more important than bringing yet another complicating-but-not-discussion-progressing vote to the table
Nathan Myhrvold was going to make a company of mosquito laser

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/laser-shooting-mosqu...
(1) Research on this has consistently used "Tetris"; who knows if you'd get the same effect from, say, "Xenoblade Chronicles". (e.g. people might not manage the controls, get sufficiently engaged, etc.)

(2) "Experimental Trauma" looks like a problem for the Human Subjects Review Board. I've been thinking about a weight loss plan based on inducing a psychogenic fever but I think it would be too rough on people.
what's strangely funny to me about this. so these trees are grown at the naval surface warfare center - crane. however, there used to be a naval surface warfare center - white oak. where ironically I guess they didn't grow the white oak. (it was closed in the mid 90s and is now the FDA HQ).
Anybody else remember the original Kagi.com? It was an early payment processor for independent software developers.

I sold my first shareware license on Kagi. Probably less than ten people in total bought my screensaver, but it inspired me to switch careers to software.

RIP OG Kagi!
Tesla says it's moving its headquarters to Austin
I mean for a static site sure, but Joey wants to also have a news feed to post events, specials, and new menu items.

Joey also wants to let customers comment on those posts with questions and general excitement, or to reach out directly in a way that isn’t a phone line.

The issue is that Facebook and IG are really really good business and marketing platforms. That and ads is basically their whole reason for existence. And you get a huge audience, organic discovery, and moderation for free.

Every restaurant in my city’s primary social media presence is on IG. Unless you’re a huge chain and have a marketing department that’s basically all they get that isn’t mayyyybe a local mailing, or a sponsored story in a local newspaper or food blog.

Don’t get me wrong, I think you should have your own website for nothing else other than to lend some legitimacy when people Google your name but if you could only have one I would probably skip the website. “The Web” from a business standpoint is just Google’s centralized platform at this point since the thing that matters is audience and discovery.
The 2021 State of Digital Nomads
Every video leads to death. You waste 10 minutes of your limited time. You are 10 minutes closer to death after watching the video.
I don't see any mention of developer tools, but in case anyone working on this is here, that's something that would probably be interesting to the HN crowd. Since the home page has a screenshot of HN, I'm guessing devs are the target market.
So this is charting pageviews not sessions. Did those increase as well? I ask because we saw a net uptick in pageviews but sessions were much lower. The issue turned out to be Facebook code on our pages destroying page load times and we assume leading a rise in refreshes.

Most news sites are littered with beacons so I imagine they had similar issues (times 10).

As a small retailer, we probably ended up losing 15-20% of our sales that day.
> I am saddened, that all the folks frightened by a world more equal immediately resort to imaginary persecution as a first reaction.

What a dumb comment.

More equal according to racial distribution and 0 other things.

Color of your skin over your character/intelligence/work ethic?
I tried, I really did, but it legitimately turned into a literal painful experience for me.
Something I've always wanted to do is create modal editor keybindings designed to have the easiest learning curve possible for someone coming from CUA keybindings but still off the power of what you get with vim down the road. The idea is that in insert mode ctrl-c, ctrl-v, and so on work the say you'd expect and in normal mode you would just type c or v for the same effect.
If there are 10x engineers, it's a right place, right time situation. Very good engineers with the right experience, luck, a good idea, and the relentless desire to execute. Miss any of those things, and you can still be a a multiplier, just probably not 10x.

Even so at my companies the difference between between good engineers and bad is massive (a lot of the difference is talent and motivation). Imagine you had a company full of shitty engineers, a motivated good engineer in the right could deliver 10x the value of some shit engineer
The big thing to notice here: all of the top themes are minimalist. Limited colors, simple layout, just nice spacing and typography.

I've spent a lot of time looking for good, professional-looking minimalist themes and the pickings have been slim, regardless of platform. Too many theme designers load up their designs with unnecessary elements.

Note to designers: less is more.
Yeah, the above posts don't make any sense. Nomads have to eat and sleep, just like everyone else. When I was in Korea I stayed at various Airbnbs owned by local Koreans and got food at local places owned by Koreans. I paid for the metro system (which I used just about every day) and for KTX bullet train tickets. I fail to see negatives here from a financial perspective.

I would gladly get a visa and pay taxes to enroll in the healthcare system... but it's quite difficult. That's another discussion, though.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28791642
I can take Google Contacts off my phone, while I cannot remove Samsung Contacts
I'm an educator and I to teach things like symmetric cryptography. I just used full virtual machines in class to demonstrate ccrypt to encrypt and decrypt files. Would xterm.js be a valid way to implement that kind of exercise to avoid relying on virtual machines? Do you know of any resources that would point me in the right direction for building educational exercises?
I don't understand how a 50% increase in CO2 levels within 100 years is bad science.
I remember when dealing with depression an felt like I didn't have control of my thoughts at times. Doctor told me to "do what you liked to do before it was this way, even if you don't like doing it now".

For me that was video games. So I played final fantasy and other games a great deal and found that the issues I was thinking of often did start to fade over time.

I don't know if it was the fact that the task required my attention so much or a sort of zen experience I could get with the game ... or just time passing, but it felt like it worked.

The only downside I felt was how not "in the world" I was at that time. Not really socializing much and etc in favor of drowning myself in video games.

Ultimately I think it helped me cope, but I also was aware that it was a very alluring sort of way of life to work, school, escape into video games, and nothing else.
what about gundecking the UI watches :-)
Nope, I use Camera, Notes, and Gallery every day and prefer them to the Google ones. Those aren't simple apps.
Linking the twitter thread I originally stumbled across this from: https://twitter.com/jelenawoehr/status/1445993073494749187

And an article that looks like it's covering the same or similar research: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/09/5230114...
It's harder to achieve 10x in a vacuum, but if you make 10 engineers twice as productive, there ya go
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793615
The study studied the intervention against "experimental trauma film" which I think means watching a horrific movie? Not real traumatic experiences.
I think the fact that you feel working with python requires adhering to a specific 12-step programme may go some way to explaining why I've never gotten comfortable with it.
TIL another project started by Fabrice Bellard (well for him it's just a side project for the real project JSLinux).
And even if you can get in touch and they reply, there is getting in touch as a cold outsider and getting in touch as someone you have mutual friends with.
Flash loans have to be paid back in the same block or everything the flash loan funded reverts. And to ensure this happens, it usually is all wrapped up on the same transaction bundle.

But liquidations are only triggered on oracle updates. And those happen at fixed intervals (measured in time or price movement), and can only happen a block at a time, in blocks after the flash loan has been closed.
Forbes is reporting[0] that they are using BitGo. FYI Salvadorians are not required to use chivo at all. The interoperability is the exciting part not chivo.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/09/07/el-...
I agree. My .vimrc, that I've used for the last ten years or so, is six lines long.
27, stopped "working" a couple of years ago. (Some form of lean FI/RE right now: my current hobbies support my lifestyle, and I have sufficient savings). Life is simple, and I'm content, at least for the time-being. I know I could contract whenever I need to: something very flexible has fallen into place which I expect will start in the next couple of weeks.

Today so far: Mostly fundraising for an Olympiad (get in touch!), half an hour of open source work. Cutting weight for the next ~7 weeks, so aiming for 2 hours exercise/day. Weather isn't great, so did a few sets in my home gym, and spent the remainder of my time on Beat Saber (VR).

As for plans for later:

I haven't done enough Open Source today, I should do some testing and get a PR in. Might shelve it for tomorrow.

I'm working on a bilingual textual corpus for my local language with a few friends (colleagues?) (it's an uncommon revived language, and it's a reasonable goal to digitize every known work/manuscript which is out of copyright).

I'm prepping a .djvu of a book to upload to Wikisource for safekeeping. I've got a small backlog of texts that need a bit of proofreading which I'd like to clear. Long-term plans might involve getting the book republished (for fun, rather than for profit).

Afterwards? It's Friday night, probably off to the pub with friends for a pint.

I've chosen flexibility instead of money. I can meet friends whenever they're free. I'm living a purposeful life, and I'm truly content. Financially: it's a lifestyle hit, but that's an acceptable tradeoff for all the above, and I expect the income will continue to increase.
Like most F/OSS, Vim doesn't have a marketing budget and VSCode does.
> customary to chuck an iron ploughshare into the cider fermenting vat; it would completely disappear by the end of fermentation.

I have trouble believing that this was customary. It's absolutely the case that iron will dissolve in a large vat of fermenting apple cider, but the result will be a cider with some very odd and unpleasant colors and flavors. Not something that someone would want to induce intentionally. Most cidermaking books will instruct one to keep the cider from any contact with any iron, copper, or lead as all three will readily dissolve.
I blanch broccoli for two minutes and it turns out just fine. The days of boiling all vegetables until they turn grey are long gone.

And I don't find any need to put butter or other stuff on the broccoli. Usually just a smidge of Tony Chachere and garlic powder.
Also seems like a hacky way to get video to play on my Tesla browser. I could probably couple this with a Raspberry Pi and pipe the audio to Bluetooth for the speakers, then stream the video content from the Pi to a web server that I access through the Tesla browser.