skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on your child!

I can see both sides, but one thing to think about is that coming back to software engineering after 5-10 years away would be brutal. It’s also a place it’s famously easy to coast and take it easy for a while.

But if I went through a pregnancy I would need a big rest and enjoy the rewards afterwards :-)
Nice article. Materialized columns in ClickHouse are a bit like indexes in the sense that they give a faster path to the answer by reading less data.

ClickHouse devs are adding a feature called semi-structured data that will optimize stored JSONs to columnar storage and also add convenient query syntax. [0] At that point the trade-off between stored JSON blobs and and materialized columns will become a lot less stark than it is today.

[0] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/17623
It seems to me that Apple does their best to ensure you end up using icloud against your will through a a series of very confusing opt-out prompts and defaults.

Maybe it would be nice to have a tool that would allow you to see exactly what data the client side scanner is “allowed” to “see”?
> the idea of me making a fun mess around project to learn web today literally gives me anxiety, hell even using sqarespace is an unrewarding utilized journey.

I think vanilla javascript isn't too hard, but it is kind of hard to find easy and fun onramps to it.

This reference is what recently inspired me to do some things in vanilla javascript: https://htmldom.dev

github search came up with this which reminds me of retro DHTML sites: https://github.com/Vishal-raj-1/Awesome-JavaScript-Projects

There seem to be a number of interesting things on github, e.g.:

https://github.com/bradtraversy/vanillawebprojects

https://github.com/snipcart/learn-vanilla-js
So long as you are secure in your own systems, you don’t care if they come for the Jews? What about when they come for the gays?

How long until you do care? Will there be anyone left to care when they come for you?
Also not everyone is married at all.
Uber Lyft Airbnb most likely (this generally is shorthand for public unicorns and similar well respected major companies that contribute to open source).
He has been and continues to be wildly successful.

Maybe he sees those meetings, depositions, and what not as part of the price of that success.
Careers that limit your ability to socialize outside of work, due to location (eg military) or hours (eg lawyers, teachers), lead to people marrying within their industry. This shouldn't be a big surprise.
I got some good suggestions when I asked this same question a few years back[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755732
The UX department is your friend.
Finding Meaning in Work
How are mission statements connected to finding meaning in life?
Most of my exploring happens on Youtube these days: mostly DIY videos from people explaining how to do certain things like home improvement, woodworking, etc.
My assumption is that a lot of the interesting sites have moved from text to videos on Youtube.
Don’t wait to get fired, start applying for new jobs now. I took my first contracting gig after getting pushed out by a bad boss, turned out to be a great experience.
If you mean Katie Harbath, it never says she's a Republican - only that she worked for RNC in "senior strategic digital roles", whatever that means. She also worked as "a public policy director" responsible for elections at Facebook. And given what we know about how Facebook management reacted to the elections of 2016 and what measures they took in 2020 to prevent it from happening again, I am not sure how could one really be a Republican and work for Facebook as a policy director in charge of all that. Kinda hard for me to reconcile it.

And, speaking of people who worked for the Republicans once, certain Hillary Rodham was once the head of the Young Republicans Club...
The goal could be to make the population frustrated by showing how their government is dysfunctional and hope that they eventually raise against it or at least don't support it when there is a coup or something.

That's pure speculation, but I can't think of any other useful outcome of doing such attack at this point.
> Soooo. . . you're saying a tiny fraction of the population controls the vast majority of the resource? You mean just like every other major resource on the planet? :)

I understand the need to try to dismiss this problem, specially from those who have a dog in the race, but the dream of having a magical pseudo-currency that solves all problems and unexplainably makes everyone richer and richer just falls out flat if there are actually men behind the curtain manipulating it's value to screw everyone over in order to benefit themselves.
Imo the reason here is that separately this aspect of networking is harder, but in total the others will be a death by a thousand cuts.
I wonder whether the customer really wins, if, eventually, one or two companies control handle all book sales. Global vs local optimum situation.
In Search of Panspermia (2017)
Fedux.org – Build alpine packages in a temporary container
I agree, but I guess it's hard if there's no good options up for election.. or if they promise one thing and do another. Its particularly the case with winner-takes-all democratic systems. I think representational democracies do better at reflecting the desires of voters, otherwise it's just the incumbent pandering to swing voters
Philosophical and moral discussions aside, is there any technical risk to this?
Where are people pretending that bitcoin will fix wealth inequality?
Because "being married" is a smaller superset of "being married to a software developer" than "being alive" is.

It's the same reason there's a higher rate of being married to software developers among people who are married to software developers than there is among the general population.
Before search engines got good, websites had a links page they used to link sites about similar content. I used to play a game with friends to find something first by following a chain of those links. That was exploring the internet and that was what we had to do instead of googling.

I also visit only a few sites nowadays but I jump to dozens of random sites with either Google, DDD or HN.
But they do so by creating a new monopoly where there publishers set the price.
>The issue I take, is that there's actually very very little legitimate news being promoted. Blogs and detailed substack's have way WAY more interesting content than the New York Times on most topics.

So you criticize them based on the idea of "legitimate news," but the standard you use for yourself is "interesting content." These are not the same thing and don't even necessarily overlap. There is also interesting illegitimate news and boring legitmate news, but these related forms of content don't exist in your argument because you're comparing the apples of your insides to the oranges of journalism's outsides.

>because they quite literally have to share the story to keep the narrative(s) the same

This isn't very charitable. What do you think is driving them to "keep the narratives the same?" What is the value of it?
Hide Tenant Switch from an ABP Framework Login Page
Introduction
In this step-by-step guide I will explain how you can hide the tenant switch on the login page of an ABP Framework application. After implementing all the steps below a user should be able to login with email address and password without losing multitenancy.

The sample application has been developed with Blazor as UI framework and SQL Server as database provide
The Facebook Papers
You made the claim. Put up or shut up.
I looked up the following paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326121453_Drake_Lan...

They get around 2000 GJ/year out of the storage, so 555 MWh, so 10.7 MWh/home.

Estimated current price of the system 4 millions USD (excluding one off 3 millions USD R&D costs) so 77000 USD/home.

7.2 USD/kWh of yearly thermal storage.

LFP battery is probably currently below 100 USD/kWh, so for this use the thermal battery is 10x cheaper.
Isn’t it the exact opposite?
> Demand increased and a shortage occurred.

The engineer then sat back and smiled at how their server continues to serve this page just fine despite the HN demand :)
> forced onto FB’s WhatsApp

Just don't install it. I've never used it. People ask why, I answer that I do not accept the spying in their terms of service. Far more people are sympathetic to that line than you might expect.
I would welcome this. The French brick and mortar book stores are great and I love nothing more than spending hours at end walking through their aisles.
They typically look small from the outside but then they are built like mazes, retrofitted into the building they happen to inhabit, branching out left and right, up and down.They specialise in topics, apparently by preference of the owners. Around my corner I have one that focuses on psychology and urban planning for example.

The one thing they're really lacking is a good distribution system. Trying to order a book they don't have in stock, especially foreign ones, can often result in multi week delivery times or even a flat-out "no" which is insane to me since I'm from Germany and there we've had next day delivery to any shop in the country since the mid 90s at least.

So this should help level the playing field and make it worthwhile for the book shops to compete in delivery times, because if I understand this correctly I would NOT have to pay delivery if I go to pick up a book in the store?
Ecto Named Bindings in your queries
I have this problem with crypto in general on here where I can’t trust anyone with pushing arguments centered around pathos or ethos because I can never know if they’re just trying to gin up support for crypto in general so that theirs isn’t the final level of the Ponzi scheme.

To everyone I’ve misjudged who genuinely enjoys the theory being crypto: I’m sorry.
Investors invest to increase wealth. If users stop thinking of any particular version of bitcoin as bitcoin - investors will start pulling out of it.

This is not about money invested but about social consensus over which version of software is the bitcoin.
We need a generic effort to take out old ideas that bother all but a few people.
There seems to be a weird perception that decentralization means that there won't be inequality of power in the system.

That's not what it means.

Decentralization simply means that there is no central power that can make unilateral decisions about the system like a government can with its currency.

This explicit decentralization of power is what people are excited about, because it means any change to the system requires a supermajority of consent and there are no central points of attack that power hungry fascists can target and take over.

Centralization can be incredibly efficient, but also incredibly fragile.

Bitcoin is the anti fragile monetary system.
Yeah since like two years ago. We all know why it's used as such. And no, people don't need to partake in your shared delusion.
Carl Malamud's Aaron Swartz memorial speech is relevant and moving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VllJDnMcTzM
In the thread about Bitcoin and Costa Rica posted a few weeks ago.
I always understood application in HATEOAS to be referring to the browser or whatever type of application sitting on some machine somewhere had been written to consume hypertext, but it sounds like you're considering a service to be the application?
Look into Dask if you are attempting to process an entire data table that's larger than memory.

For your last paragraph, you're conflating the need to share code with the need to build a robust scalable service. Most research code are only needed for the paper and rarely touched again.
Cryptonomicon is a fictionalized telling of how Alan Turing cracked the enigma code and how that led to the future of computing.

The timeline does jump around between world war 2 and "modern" times. There was a large stash of gold, but I don't remember that being particularly important in the grand scheme of the book.

It's one of my favorite books of all time.
Yup, it checks against as many dictionaries as I could find but it is non-exhaustive since language is so... flexible.
> offline editing

I guess, offline is relative? Most games I play consider >300ms ping to be offline, but I should be able to edit a document with >300ms ping. That said, a lot of CRDT research is focused on totally local, peer to peer editing.

> it will not guarantee how "natural" or "reasonable" the output will look

I don’t think your assumptions are correct. CRDT algorithms designed for text structures like those used by Automerge (RGA) or Y.js (YATA) do a good job preserving user intent even for concurrent edits to a text. Users won’t end up with the letters in a sentence interleaved, and it’s actually pretty rare in to encounter concurrent insertions at the same position - those are the most troublesome for both time complexity and intention preservation. Most other kinds of document edits - like edits on a order of paragraph items - are much easier.
The periodicity of the boat on waves is calming in a similar way to rocking on a cradle. Something about the consistency of the motion offers security. I’d guess it serves as an additional equilibrioceptive cue to the sleeping brain that’s sensitive to changes in the environment (e.g. an intruder).
Interesting quotes from the first section of the paper:

"We first document that 90% of transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain is not tied to economically meaningful activities but is the byproduct of the Bitcoin protocol design as well as the preference of many participants for anonymity."

"We show that the Bitcoin mining capacity is highly concentrated and has been
for the last five years. The top 10% of miners control 90% and just 0.1% (about 50
miners) control close to 50% of mining capacity. Furthermore, this concentration of
mining capacity is counter cyclical and varies with the Bitcoin price."

"We show that the balances held at intermediaries have been steadily increasing
since 2014. By the end of 2020 it is equal to 5.5 million bitcoins, roughly one-third of
Bitcoin in circulation. In contrast, individual investors collectively control 8.5 million
bitcoins by the end of 2020. The individual holdings are still highly concentrated:
the top 1000 investors control about 3 million BTC and the top 10,000 investors own
around 5 million bitcoins."

I haven't read the methods yet, but the idea that the authors were able to do this analysis is fascinating.
Google and twitter direct traffic to them and aren't seen as a competitor by most. You can always tell how untrustworthy a news company is when the knives come out against any target who isn't good for their business interests while they lob softball whomever is in power in exchange for access to information they will never even properly cover!
Control is only a problem if the incentives of the person in control are not aligned with ones own incentives.

When you drive on the highway, every single driver in the oncoming traffic is in control of a car that would kill you if they just decide to move their steering wheel into your direction. Luckily, there is little incentive for them to do so. So driving is relatively safe.

When you invest into Bitcoin, there might or might not be people who could devalue it to some degree. Luckily, those are the people with a substantial investment in the same asset you are invested in. So there is no incentive for them to do so.

When you invest in fiat currency, the incentive of the people in power are completely misaligned with the holders of that currency. The people in power gain more power by printing fiat that they then can spend.
> if there are actually men behind the curtain manipulating it's value to screw everyone over in order to benefit themselves

The article does not support the claim that the top investors and miners are engaging in cryptocurrency manipulation with bitcoin.
Yes. Inflation is a tax.
FIOH is a great addition to the lexicon.
Sometimes it is much simpler to solve a problem by passing by reference

Sometimes, but very rarely. I got a long way in Swift before I needed to use inout parameters, or even realised the language had them at all!

The article is specifically talking about teaching beginners; call-by-reference is a risky technique of limited value, and therefore it’s best to delay introducing it. If you introduce it early, students will get into the habit of using it too often, mostly in the wrong places.
Go watch the movie "Ready player one". The book has been given to all facebook employees. They want something like that.
YouTube Video Playback Outage?
I am surprised that closed source is suddenly an issue when it comes to the GIL, but half the world breaking on the python 3 transition was not only intended but actively pushed by various members of the community. Since Linux managed to get rid of the BLK then python should be able to get rid of the GIL.
Agreed, I don't use iCloud or Siri on iOS/MacOS. On iOS, the default way to "save a photo" is to the Camera Roll, which means automatic OCR. On iOS, there's no way to disable Spotlight system wide, you only have the option to disable indexing of content on a per-app basis. That means hundreds of millions of iOS users are, by default, having all of their photos indexed locally with Siri + Spotlight extracting unknown "Learn From" analytics. This needs more coverage by tech publications, as it's far more invasive than client-side hash matching for illegal content.
Does anyone have resources for finding larger meteorites? The rooftop small ones are cool but are there ways to track larger ones?
You couldn’t be more wrong. The market is going exponentially higher for truly senior devs. It is impossible to find and hire these people.
That isn't a safe assumption at all.

A very well known issue with old SMS based OTP, is that they can stop working when the user is overseas.
There wasn't anyone to care when they came for Assange, the gays and the jews were particularly would in condemning him.
I used to think I couldn't read on a Kindle, but it removes all the distractions and feels more like a proper book. Especially coupled with an audio version I find that I can often finish books in 1-3 days where it would have taken me weeks in the past.

That being said I fully appreciate a good physical textbook for cases where there's a lot of diagrams, etc.
You're going to love my Herbalife supplements.
> The collusion is a far lesser problem than getting the story at all

That depends on whether you're the pawn or the billionaire media owner
Quantization Aware Training of Deep Learning Frameworks
I guess I'm a little late to the party, but... author here. AMA. :-)
Isn't science fiction emanating from climatist and globalist circles good enough for y'all?

> Stephenson think there might be a novel there. "Nothing else matters in comparison. It's going to be the issue for 100 years"

It's not going to be an issue because 5 or 10 years from now it will become obvious how useless these efforts are, and everyone will just move on. It's already something many people know, but the cost of fanatical climatist policies hasn't been passed on to socialist-leaning voters. Once the average voter has to set their winter room temperature to 19C or buy less food, we'll see how enthusiastically they'll vote for climatist agenda. Stealing more via taxation won't work because the pie will keep shrinking.

And 100y from now there will be other places to live.
Gravel Gateway: A Prometheus Aggregation Gateway for FaaS Applications
What you describe is the ideal PM. Someone who understands the business and customers and some of the technology. There are two kinds of PMs that are good. The one you describe who understands the business and the former developer who has been with a company many years and has made transition to PM role. However in a lot of companies this is not always the case.
<< If there is no profile picture, that's a red flag.>>

This is completely ridiculous...
Did this guy ever heard about the concept of privacy?

But also, if you do a lot of things suggested in this article, that would be a red flag for me as a candidate.

Like asking to take a screenshot of my face to compare later...
At some point, there simply isn't going to be much choice; I have a job that now requires space for a home office, and at some point, a family will require space, and it can only be delayed so long. Rent goes up year after year without so much as skipping a beat for the pandemic, and so it might, in some ways, be nice to put that into equity — even equity that might crash — rather than just continuing to enrich my local landlords.
> Thing is, though, USD is controlled by an even smaller group

You can't "control" a currency as widely used as the USD. The Fed (and other countries, and large enough institutions) can try to influence it. The chair of the Fed doesn't just wake up one morning and say "you know, I think I'll do X to the value of the USD."

US monetary policy in the very simplest sense is controlled by a small group (governors of the fed) but those people are nominated by the president, appointed by congress. We know who they are, and they do not operate in an isolation chamber. The president can remove them, though not without potential economic and political repercussions. Their actions have to pass muster with a lot of people - for example, investors on the stock market, other countries (ex: China holds a foreign reserve of over a trillion dollars. That is a fairly sizeable lever. But using that lever, again, has repercussions.)

The people who control Bitcoin and do the majority of the mining aren't even known. We have no idea how many of them there really are (as pointed out in the article, one person could have an unlimited number of addresses.) There are effectively no repercussions for their actions other than the value of BTC changing. We have no idea if they are colluding. There's nothing whatsoever anyone can do to influence them from taking action that are not in the best interests of stability, the currency, the people using the currency, etc.

Someone mentioned recently that a couple of years ago, some people coordinated enough between themselves that they were able to force a rollback of the blockchain...
>Disaster number one: You can practically smell the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 massing microscopically. This was back in late July, just after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had said that everyone, vaccinated or no, should go back to wearing masks inside.

Why was all of this nonsense even necessary? As if the article writer just had to wedge in a completely forced narrative about COIVD apocalypse terror for the hell of it. Such worries among a large crowd of mostly young people such paranoia despite nearly complete vaccination? What was the goddam point of such heavy handed vaccine mandates in the first place if even after these vaccines that presumably work well to dramatically reduce the risk of serious illness, people should still scurry back behind all the health measures? At this point it's like going into panic mode over people possibly transmitting the ordinary annual flu to each other if the vaccines reduce the chances of death as much as is clinically claimed.