skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Message was that due to globalization, a 20/80 split in the job market was inevitable. So there needs to he work done on placating and nursing unrest by distracting people with movies, sports etc..

This reminds me of the "entertainers" in the Civilization series, where you can convert some workers into professional entertainers who help alleviate discontent that would otherwise throw a city into civil disorder.
I mean, it isn't? If DC voted Republican then they'd be totally in favour of making it a state. It's not a secret that is the reason why DC statehood has no traction in Congress. You can make a case for retrocession, but the other arguments are understood by everyone to be a fig leaf.

The same was true in the past: Alaska and Hawaii were admitted essentially as a two-for-one deal because Alaska was reliably Republican and Hawaii reliably Democrat. If both had been one or the other they might have had to wait a long time. And the arguments would have been facially plausible (but not real) here too: the importance of territorial contiguity, the low population of Alaska, the difficulties of establishing effective transportation links, whatever.

The number of people who are for (small-d) democratic advances regardless of whether they benefit their own party is (in my view depressingly) low.
Was a pretty big deal to stumble across the idea that the machinery that generates insights could be trained back on itself to improve at gaining insights. You may have heard of it under the moniker of insight practice. :p
Places like Washington State have had replanting programs in place since well before I was born. In the US we have more trees now than we did 100 years ago, forestry and forest management as a problem was solved 50+ years ago.

There's the issue of disappearing rainforest in the amazon, but that's largely due to the fact that growing food is a more valuable use of that land than forest, and has nothing to do with the economic value of the wood on the land.
Could you explain what you mean by ops heavy? Just curious. Actually have a production system where Timescale as well as clickhouse are running in parallel. So far clickhouse didn't do any trouble, but it is rarely used right now.
That's really interesting. I would think that growing polarization specifically around education has something to do with the acceleration of conspiracy acceptance on the right that you've described.
I don't think they will, but I do think they should.
As a white Christian male, I’ve often had the thought that Hispanic immigration into the US, being largely practicing Catholics, could very well trigger a turn toward more traditional values in this country.

I’m all for that :)
I also recommend Sentry in a lot of projects. The happy path they have created is fantastic, they've grown it out into performance metrics and it looks like they're gonna compete with Datadog and NewRelic on the APM front soon enough.

They've not sold me on that, but their error tracking and the management around it is good enough. Their search interface and the fingerprinting sucks major ass though: most of the time when you click on a Sentry alert you'll actually find a different error.

The UI is basically only good for reacting to immediate alerts. But when you get one of those, you get a lot of info to work with.
> > Surely you'd take the latter.

> Shit no, because the whole rest of the time I'm not coming up with those handful of new ideas, I'm less-smart.

For lack of a better metric, how many IQ points would you be willing to trade per new idea? It feels likely that environmental factors and luck have a much higher impact on happiness and other outcomes for individuals within whatever defines the "high intelligence" or "slightly gifted range". I'd probably make the "less smart" trade for 1-2 novel/high quality ideas since you're basically guaranteeing one or two high rolls. I doubt a 1-2% bump in intelligence would outweigh the benefits.

I'm making lots of assumptions here around being able to successfully act on new ideas and that intelligence has marginal gains once you're locked into above-average-but-not-top quantiles.
In practice we've seen it actually improve performance, because when fetching a data range for a device fewer actual rows have to be fetched from the disk. You pick certain columns (like device ID) that remain uncompressed and indexed for rapid querying, and then the actual value columns are compressed for a range of time.
Learning to hash: How to design data representation
Really interesting idea. But a word of caution. "Fitness" in terms of survival of ideas might just mean "most viral" which could be very far from most people's cultural aspirations.

There is a relatively low barrier of entry for ideas to spread when compared to genes. Maybe that actually explains a lot of issues we have in society.

I mean what is ultimately the error correction mechanism when it comes down to ideas for societal organization for example? Technology on the other hand to me is area where physics must have some benefit for really testing ideas. But you can still see lots of odd biases and peculiar directions that technology takes if you look closely.
(Things like this are probably better suited to email. Dan’s team is quite responsive.)

My feeling is that Dan’s decision here is conclusive proof that HN’s mod team is unbiased. I was genuinely concerned that this thread wouldn’t be penalized, because it was political flamewar dressed up as intellectual conversation. It was delightful to see HN’s spirit shine through in spite of political divisions.

Curiosity is a fragile thing. The original comment was entirely ineffective at fostering curiosity, and it’s interesting to analyze why. I think framing has a lot to do with it. There was no attempt made at asking questions, for example. Asking questions in earnest is the hallmark of curiosity.

I don’t think that broadcasting personal feelings to a wide audience was necessary to foster curiosity, either. Quite the opposite: it detracts from the discussion. It’s tricky to express feelings in a way that isn’t divisive, and it’s important for HN comments to become more substantive as the topic becomes more heated.

And you’d be hard-pressed to disagree that the topic became heated, I think. It was a lot match in a gas-filled room, and the explosive subthread was an entirely predictable, deterministic outcome.
Awesome! IMHO it was more of a refinement of the concept of deploying each commit; doing it at a PR and push level worked better. Open-sourcing it, and getting Heroku to bake it in was the icing on the cake for us!

Context for everyone else: early 2014 we open-sourced https://github.com/rainforestapp/fourchette, which was an pioneer of Heroku Review Apps (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration-rev...), and generally the concept of doing this on pull requests over just per branch or commit.
Who is to say the developer would charge less? Let's say, for example, a company called ezpay charges $1 per transaction. If an IAP costs $10, the dev makes $7 off the user who buys via Apple, and $9 off the user that buys via ezpay API in the app. They could lower the ezpay price to $8 and still only make $7, but why bother?
Maybe Canva would buy you out.
Can somebody recommend a database suitable for an event sourced application:

* One series of events per user

* Each series grows at about 10 events/minute while the user is active

* Fancy queries are not required, typically a user's event series is consumed in order to update aggregate state for that user

* Either used online, adding events one at a time and needing to immediately update the aggregate state

* Used offline syncing a batch of hours or days at once. When a large time interval, eventually consistent state updates are acceptable

* It must be possible to delete a user's data, regardless how old it is (a nightly batch job deleting multiple users at once is fine, if it helps performance)

* Migrating old data should be possible with reasonable performance and without consuming excessive temporary memory

* Compact storage is important (simple zstd compression should suffice, though columnar compression might be slightly better)

* Being able to use a cheaper object store like S3 for old data would be nice

At a glance timescale community appears to meet most requirements. The userid can be used as `segmentby` key, and the data compressed via columnar compression. But it seems to have limitations with migration (sounds like it requires me to manually decompress and recompress chunks, instead of simply transforming one (chunk, segment) piece at a time) and deletion (I need to delete everything with a specific `segmentby` key).

Alternatively there is the DIY approach, of serializing each entry in a compact format, one file per user, and then once data is old enough compress it (e.g. with zstd) and upload it to S3.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. I agree if you are overfitting lowest loss is not always best, and I did not think about that aspect when I wrote my reply.

I think with everything you describe is one of the main "gripes" I as a more traditional engineer/scientist have with ML. It often seems like a giant black box that I know is generally vastly overfitted and it is often extremely difficult/impossible why we get the solutions that we get, i.e. we don't really get scientific insight. Nevertheless I realise it is an extremely powerful tool.

Hope you can catch up with some sleep today, sleep deprivation effects can only be ignored for so long (especially as you get older as I have noticed).
Notion allows you to export your stuff as Markdown. Couple of scripts later and you're ready to dump it into whatever other thing you want. It's not that bad.
Thinking by writing is a concept that PG talks about in his most recent essay, posted literally today.

It's absolutely a thing, and to shun it is to shun an entire creative process.
How about their relatives and more important the head of their trusts who they can just instruct or pass information to under the table. This is a great first step but I'd encourage looking behind the headline.

Also the last time there was any rule about congress insider trading they just waited until nobody was looking anymore and revoked it.
The canonical response is a goat farm. But personally, I surely would be happier tendering a GPU farm.
Thanks Peter! Loved having your support over these years!
> its people who never met eachother but favor each other based on country of origin

First off, citation needed that discrimination based on national origin is widespread. It's illegal and you should blow the whistle if you have actual knowledge of such acts.

Second, "You're looking to hire X? My husband's friends's cousin is looking for an X role. Can I have her contact you?" => is a very common way of getting job interviews no matter what your nationality. If knowledge about the position is only propagated through personal and professional networks, the applicant pool will reflect that.

> such that certain orgs don't speak english at all

Sounds like bad management. If you believe in the free market, these businesses will fail. But I don't think they're breaking any laws, unless they discriminate against candidates that don't know this language (which is, again illegal, and you should report them).
I really value working with a good technical writer, but you can't always have that. I worked with one of the authors of this book briefly many years ago. This book encapsulates a lot of their experience, for writing developer docs, such as API docs.

Developer docs have a lot of conventions and it's useful to have them written down.

I've been applying the book's advice this week on my hosting platform's docs. For example, there's good advice for an information architecture, and the different content types to have it in it. The book's an easy and relatively quick read.
Sorry for the second reply, but I wanted to elaborate on what I was saying.

I actually think we might agree on a bit more than you might think. I actually am in that social-justice camp that says "intent mostly doesn't matter". I don't have the ability to read minds yet, so I can't possibly really know anyone's intent, so I have to look at the reasonable consequences of their actions and judge from there.

That said, whether or not people are secretly klansmen or good deep down, they still exist, and they're still humans who deserve to have their voices heard at some level. While I don't think we should automatically assume good faith on every person speaking, I also don't think we should immediately discount it either. A lot of voters are just victims of bad publications, and I don't think any of us are fully immune to that. I'm sure there's a million dumb things that I believe; I try and catch them when I spot them, but I would hope that most people would give me the benefit of the doubt in assuming that my beliefs were honest, if dumb.

edit: Added a "don't" because my point was wrong without it.
I think most online logging SaaS services actually use ElasticSearch.
I actually agree with this and liked when you could see the full behaviour of a particular concern within a component, for example, its shouldComponentUpdate() method.

But now, with hooks, you might instead have 3 or 4 useState hooks, each of which could cause a component update. Worse yet, with useEffect hooks, you might run into the interdependent dependency array problem, which would cause a refresh loop.

Now it feels like your components have now become containers for smaller loosely coupled units of code with their own behaviour and life cycles, all of which may result in lower coherency as well.

I actually voiced some of my concerns a while ago in a slightly satirical portion of my blog, called "Everything is Broken": https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/modern-reac...
Sorry, I'll let the general public decide which package manager is more ethical.
Oh, I guess I should be more specific. I want the results from both intertwined.

The top 5 of each, to make a top 10 (deduped).

For dev work I think this would be best.
Something doesn’t have to involve you to trigger a visceral response. I’m viscerally disgusted by many atrocities around the world but it’s not as if I’m at all involved in them.
But don't header files generally get concatenated together due to the way "dumb" textual includes work?
Oh, I definitely agree. My point, and maybe you still wouldn't agree, is that it can be a good technique to use under ideal or adequate circumstances yet also be a sign of functional weakness if it needs to be used too frequently.

Plenty of otherwise good things can be signs of dysfunction. An example could be a workplace where people are free to chill, do what they want, ride scooters, play games, etc., which can be really healthy and good for creativity, but also may be a sign of weak leadership and nothing actually getting done (wasting time and jeopardizing the future of teams). Having process is usually better than no process at all, but process can also waste time and be counterproductive.

In other words, nothing is necessarily to be viewed as good or bad.
I think the extent to which this actually occurs is overstated in discussions of intelligence because it makes people feel better, but maybe I'm just an asshole.
Seems like you mostly have issues with Wayland. What distro are you running?

For me Zoom screen sharing works fine with Wayland, if everything runs Wayland, including the browser. Xwayland apps can't "see" Wayland apps or the desktop.

I assume the Zoom client may be Electron/Xwayland, correct?

The X to Wayland transition is mostly over soon. Probably with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Without opportunity there is no cart, nor horse, nor road to travel on.

Einstein was fortunate to be born into a family that was educated and well off enough to afford him to study. (Same with Oppenheimer and I'd reason most celebrated intellects) Had Einstein been born in the son of former slaves in the US South, he never would have been allowed to study math or physics, he likely wouldn't have been able to escape his situation as a farmer, and some other scientist would have had to figure out relativity. All of that is opportunity.
>Isn't this the original concept of Twitter? Microblogging,

Fyi based on books about Twitter history... Jack Dorsey's original concept of Twitter was inspired by AOL AIM status messages and not blogging.

>Microblogging, where Twitter acts as the index/"spine" of your blog, and external sites act as the meat on the bones?

Arguably, another Twitter founder Ev Williams (who started Bloggr, Medium) was more into "thoughtful texts" and wanted Twitter to support that. However, when Twitter was a big hit at the 2007 Austin SWSX, it was the "silly" status messages that made Twitter viral.
I don't know a whole lot about coffee, but I stand by that good tea can be brewed well using boiling hot water. I run a direct to consumer tea business and much of my family is involved in the farming and production of tea, specifically Wuyi oolongs. Very rarely do I intentionally reduce the temperature more than a few degrees - and that is usually by boiling the water and then waiting a minute before starting.
> people should be able to install anything they want without some unwanted middleman

What “people” are you referring to? The millions of people, like yours truly, who’ve made the conscious decision to pay Apple because of their App Store model.

I’m an engineer, I have a desktop and a laptop I can install whatever I want on. I’m ok with not doing that on my phone. In fact, I don’t want that experience on my phone.

So, I don’t understand when others speak for “people” like me who’ve voiced their opinion via purchase. There’s a long list of moments where I’ve been over-the-moon, downright happy with Apple’s payment and subscription experience. It’s been a breath of fresh air vs. dealing with independent providers where, oh, I have to cancel by calling your customer support center? Oh, no, you need me to send an email instead? With a photo of my ID? Oh, you accidentally continued charging me because the subscription wasn’t canceled? That’s ok, but why did you double the price of the subscription without so much as an email notifying me? Oh, you sent an email titled “Thanks for being a customer” and buried it in the addendum, gotcha. Yeah, I’m ok, I’ll stick with Apple’s payments and subscriptions system on my phone.

Those are all real experiences, by the way, that I’m happy to say I haven’t had with Apple for the past decade.
SchemaHero (https://github.com/schemahero/schemahero) is an operator that was bootstrapped with Kubebuilder, updated to new API versions, and isn't too complex to look at the code.
I like Sentry.
I don’t like boasting about virtuous deeds.

155k is nice, could be more.
You can read it with your ACM/O'Reilly subscription => https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/docs-for-developers/978...
>But retribution is an important social construct

Within friend groups, yes. On the internet I don't think it makes sense, simply because what is acceptable within different groups is so different.
Well, the glue is a renewable resource, old livestock and milk. That's why Borden used mascot Elsie's spouse Elmer as a glue mascot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_glue

https://americacomesalive.com/elmers-glue-the-surprising-sto...
They've put $2 billion into their settlement fund, or $50,000 per claimant. A strong deterrent against similar misbehavior in the future!
This is tangential but has anyone else noticed more and more emails from organizations including links to view the “whole email”- and only there are there links to unsubscribe? Is this some kind of annoying loophole?
People need to be absolutely fearless about looking stupid. Whether or not you look stupid at any given moment is an imponderable, an unanswerable question. The fear of looking stupid is more paranoia and insecurity than anything else. As long as you do your absolute very best to communicate to other people, even when that's difficult or impossible, that's the only thing that matters. If someone else decides you're an idiot you have no control over it, and if you're truly doing your best to communicate then someone else dismissing you as stupid is on them.

What's much more self-destructive than being afraid of looking stupid is feeling like you need to look like you know 100% of what is going on at all times- this inevitably leads to bullshitting and half-truths and weird circuitous conversations where it's unclear who actually knows what. Never try to conceal ignorance. People who matter and people who you actually would want to work with and work for would never judge someone for admitting ignorance or asking questions. People who don't matter, and people no one would want to work with or for are the ones who get on someone's case for asking what they think is a stupid question.
>inherently be disadvantaged

If the only measure of social platform success is $. I'd say the true measure is adoption and the existing players are not on such strong fortifications by that measure.
The existing platforms are begging to be disrupted by non-profit or benefit corps. It's not like you would need FB's salary budget to build a more healthy social platform.
Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design by Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg is a great reference for learning how to ask questions and what questions to ask.

https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Exploring_Requirements.html
Yes, zero issues - as we test like a human would. Rainforest looks at the screen, uses the keyboard and mouse to interact with the software under test. For an SPA, that stack is likely windows, chrome and your SPA inside Chrome.
That ... still makes no sense. "Discounting insurance for revealed [lower] risk class" doesn't work if the insured can easily fake membership in the lower risk class, which is trivial here -- just ask for comprehensive!

What I think you might be confusing this with, is that one piece of the insurance is cheaper if you bundle it with others. That is, liability-only might be $50, but if you if you get liability + collision, it's $80, which breaks down into $40 for liability and $40 for collision. The insurer is taking more liability -- but also more revenue, so no funny business.

The "high-risk poor" can't "cheat" here because they can't afford the extra $30 to begin with, and "being willing/able to spend $30 just to be safe" is an actionable signal of being low risk.

But you still shouldn't have a scenario where you get strictly greater coverage for strictly less money.
Looks quite a bit like spam to me. Zero-Info generic landing page, and just praise in the first few comments. Accounts from 2014 with 4 karma praising it ...?
You've piqued my curiosity - how is this fasting regimen a recipe for gall stones?
Also, the program is bad though.

We know nothing about who chooses the members of the VIP club, there were cases of harassment and incitement to violence that went unchecked, and they purposely hid knowledge of the program for their own oversight board - even though they appointed the board themselves.

That's all quite, quite bad, to say nothing of the base inequality at he heart of it. They tried to hand-wave that away with this absurd line, saying the program was to:

> "create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding"

- dude, that's just saying that their chosen VIPs deserve more understanding, for some reason; in response to serious charges that the 'VIP's were inciting violence and harassing others.
AI means almost intelligent.