skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Many of your integrations talk about “syncing” rather than event collection, which to me sounds like what Fivetran is doing. Does that distinction make sense and how are you thinking about that?
Apollo 13 (1995) - there are various scenes showing the engineers working through various technical problems (much like gravity and the martian)

Antitrust (2001) - The technical portion is goofy, but discusses the open source software movement, VCs, working for a major tech company (an evil bill gates character played by tim robbins)

Sneakers (1992) - Personally, one of my favorite movies of all-time. Code breaking, old school hacking (think wargames). I think the best description i've heard of it is an 1970s caper movie. You will never see a better cast in a movie. Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, James Earl Jones, Dan Ackroyd, River Phoenix, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell all play major roles

Mythic Quest (2020) - Apple tv show about creating video games and running a tech company
I don't think it's possible, although it is available on DVD/Blu-Ray, for what that's worth.
That is certainly one way to view it, but it's not the only one. China is all about outcome legitimacy (actually governing well = legitimate, regardless of the selection process) as opposed to process legitimacy (legitimacy is tied to how officials are selected). Many Chinese prefer meritocracy because it makes it harder for bad leaders to get to the top in the first place. Many think it's backwards to oust a bad president after the fact. In China, it takes 30 years of political career to become the president. Of course meritocracy has its problems, as has democracies in which the top leader is directly elected. They both have their own pros and cons. There are examples which are accountable in the Chinese system but not in western democracies, and vice-versa.

> Likewise, when only one party is allowed to run for "elections", those "elections" by definition are a fraud with no meaningful choices.

In China, parties don't run for elections, people do. People from other parties (China has 8) are elected. At present, there are 152000+ members from other parties that hold positions in People's Congresses (China's representation body) as deputies. [1]

Parties don't form adversarial, power-balancing relationships with each other. The existance of other parties are not used to put up a fake display of western-style multiple-party elections. Instead, the system works completely differently, trying to push participants towards unity, even if only outwardly.

> and regional governments acting merely as scapegoats

Given the meritocratic system, in which officials are promoted based on KPIs, this is not a logical thing to do. Scapegoating your own subordinates undermines the system's selection process of a future leader. Even Xi himself started at the village level, working his way up to county, city and province level over a 30-year period.

It is also illogical given that China's governance system is highly decentralized. The central government doesn't make all the policies, a lot are left to local governments. They aren't mere puppets that follow instructions. That wouldn't even be scalable given the country's size.

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China's system is distinct, and different from both actual western systems and from western imagined dystopias or fake democracies.

You can argue that only the western democratic way is acceptable. Fine, that's your opinion. I disagree. I subscribe to Kishore Mahbubani's thought. He's ex-UN Security Council head, ex-Singapore diplomat. He says that the west should accept that not all countries will become carbon copies of the west. He says that the west should accept a world with a diverse range of governance systems.
Nope, Monty Python reference

https://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/FAQ.html#id18
What this article doesn't address is the emotional and psychological factors that contribute to energy or lack thereof. I've found that as I age these become much more significant factors than sleep, eating right, and exercise . . .
speculation.

their balance sheet is painful to look at (479M sales and marketing costs for 592M revenue, ouch)
None of your comments and scenarios make any sense. Chipotle isn't being used by China, and Taco Bell isn't being used to facilitate the drug wars in Mexico.
This just isn't true. I've had the same friend group for a decade. When I was having a hard time and didn't have money, they were there for me and I for them. Now that I have money they're still here, and I for them, even the ones who don't have money.

If this is your lived experience, I'm really, really sorry. But I want you to know it doesn't have to be that way if you can figure out

1. How to identify people with a moral compass seeking connection

2. How to be the kind of person those people want to be friends with

3. How to foster connection over time
The core tenet of web3 s decentralization. Proof-of-work is expensive and slow but is decentralized and permissionless. Proof-of-stake means the richest nodes get permission to add blocks. That makes it permissioned. In PoW you need to control 51% of CPU power to dominate the chain, in PoS, you need to control 51% of tokens which is easier and cheaper (if you get in at ICO stage).
To answer your question, it make it more efficient over PoW, but violates the core principle of web3.
Do you know of a more readable regular language parser than regular expressions? News to me.
I feel the same as you. It is great that there is another variants at the same time, we already have more than 6 FF variants and they are behind with security patches and updates. I recalled that WaterFox and Pale Moon are quite of versions behind Firefox.

Would be nice to have a FF variant that are capable to be equal as Firefox like Chrome, Brave & Vivaldi. For Firefox variant, I couldn't think of variant that could have an equal footing.
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. John Gilmour
Yep, for me it's this. I don't know why others are complaining about the other way around, maybe it's because I thought of Emacs as being different from other editors right from the get go, but I doubt I've ever accidentally entered CUA shortcuts in Emacs. But Emacs shortcuts in normal editors while using school PCs was something I did all the time.
Building a Better Higurashi
What would you say to people like myself who view "life in prison" as essentially the death penalty with 'entropy' chosen as the method of execution? Is the purpose of prison punishment or reform? If the latter, there is no reason for life in prison; what use is reformation to someone who's stuck in prison for their entire life? If the former, then life imprisonment is a terrible punishment from an economic standpoint. Incarcerating an inmate can cost anywhere from $80,000[0] to $200,000 per year. Death row inmates can double that amount. Looking at the situation from a completely cold-blooded perspective, life imprisonment is a worst-of-both-worlds compromise. It maximizes the suffering of the individual prisoner and wastes the maximum amount of the people's money. How many other people's lives could that money save if we weren't subject to identifiable victim bias?

[0]: https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost
[1]: https://www.golocalprov.com/news/maximum-security-prisoners-...
Until UI gets acquired by a megaco, which I suspect is what they're trying to do with their recent reduction of personnel and costs.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of the FAANGs acquires them. They have a fairly popular home line now with Amplifi, and that seems to be their main/only focus, now that almost all of the EdgeOS engineers are reportedly gone.
Emacs is like Earth. You can't claim to "learn it" or "master it," but it's still the best place to live.

Some other editor is more popular now, and in five years, something else will be more popular than that. Meanwhile, Emacs will continue to grow, fascinating new users and developers.

Simply put, (eq 'new 'best) doesn't evaluate to true. Knowing your way around Emacs says something about you as a programmer or computer user. Like you are clearly curious, willing to learn, know some Lisp, read documentation and recognize possibilities and depth when you encounter them. Knowing editor XXXXXX usually says nothing.
I don't get this kind of thinking? How does the why of what he's saying influence the what? Or even worse, disqualify it? If it's factually correct then the reason behind writing it seems quite irrelevant, to me at least.

And you're mentioning it's outdated, which would be natural given that the last commit was over two years ago.
American English does not have this word. It uses it only as parts of other phrases imported from French or Spanish, with Spanish being the more predominant (more people have seen Nacho Libre than partake in vers libre).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/libre
It puts a target on the back of anyone that earns a lot of money but doesn't live in a high security bunker. Sometimes foreign crminals make a quick tour in Sweden, rob a couple of rich people in their homes and then get out of the country in the same day, with no risk of ever being caught. Public records and GPS navigation make this all too easy.

Senior citizens are also targeted by criminals in Sweden, because the age and address of almost all citizens is publicly available. They might be visited by a couple who ask for a glass of water or whatever, and then one of the visitors distract the senior citizen while the other searches the place for jewelry.
if $25 is expensive then I would say you value your time at a very, very cheap rate.
> Wrong. My 2-year old loves videos of trains, both from this perspective and showing the trains themselves. She can last longer than 30 seconds, and is thrilled by them way longer than me (the videos are pretty, but I find trains boring).

My two 8/10y old boys won't. Great, there's two data point now, we can plot a trend!

> The screen itself is addictive.

Is a switched off screen addictive too?

If your answer is along 'of course not, I just said that content can vary, use your brain, fill in the gaps geez', then that was exactly my point to the GP: no, screen are not systematically addictive per-se, the addiction lies in the viewer's behavior when consuming a specific content.
Nice that something like that available for windows. But judging from the first screenshot of both apps - the former is more powerful, as allows querying and sorting json. And features syntax highlighting. But yeah, as you said - it has most of the utilities.
A better analogy is a non fuel injector vehicle that doesn’t need electronics to fix, is old and consistent, that works the same. It’s like x.org, you can rely on it to not change the UI constantly (like gnome breaking something in every version).
To learn Rust, I started building a D&D character-management CLI tool just last week. (Might rename to "terminal roll", eh?)

Cool to see a fully featured one from the DM side!

[0] https://github.com/peterkos/calcdnd
For using pool.ntp.org, this is a better resource:

https://www.ntppool.org/en/use.html

CentOS/RedHat uses the Chrony NTP agent, and has their own rhel domain within pool.ntp.org.

To only use NTP pool servers within your country, modify /etc/chrony.conf like so:

server 0.us.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.us.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.us.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.us.pool.ntp.org iburst

Hopefully, your country code is also defined as a subdomain.
A lot of the coal used in Swedish metal-working (up to relatively late, but I don't actually have dates, here, gut feel is 18050s) was charcoal, rather than mined coal. With quite advanced cooperatives[1] producing the charcoal for the mining/refining cooperatives[1].

[1] Somewhat loose translation of "kolare" and "bergslag", here.
This indeed is true and I truly wish they made Vivaldi open source. However, free and open software is an ideal. Like any ideal, it can be used as a front and abused inna way that defeats its purpose.

In its original form, free and open is noble. But since then, corporations have figured out how to monetise it. So, IMHO, we need to be very careful about anything free and open coming from corporations because their core objectives are very much orthogonal to the core objectives of the original free and open software movement. Those execs aren't the hackers who built the gnu/Linux tools in the early days.
Super interesting. This would make a really good blog post, at least if you have more thoughts/info to share.
The schools are entirely free to just reject the donation.
It's not like we _don't_ find out that people who were executed were not guilty in the first place.
> Fable is a compiler that translates F# source files to JavaScript and Python.

interesting. So if you want to program python in a functional style, you can use Coconut to add functional features to python, or jump all the way to F# and just compile to python. Interesting to see two projects wind up in a similar place (compiling functional code to python) after starting in very different communities.
> Students paying off debt cannot even get the minimum down payment.

This is huge. My wife and I are pretty privileged and own a very modest fixer-upper home on the very edge of a coastal metro area. We somehow managed this only after a decade of paying off ~150k of student loans that our parents encouraged us to take out when we were effectively children.

I have friends who are software engineers who own big houses in the city who skipped a 4 year degree altogether or their parents were able to pay for their education.

The difference between them and me? They were able to pocket that 150k as opposed to giving it to some useless university administrators and various federal lenders.
What does this suggest?
The trouble with noise is that you can't tell the difference between noise and signal. No matter what, noise hurts the compressability of images and audio.

JPEG in particular has the problem that a constant quality setting doesn't get constant quality result. You might look at one photo and decide that quality 40 is good enough for a particular use. Some other image might require quality 55 to be good enough.

Thus you can't automatically compress images with JPEG on a large scale and know you'll be happy with the results. I compressed a million images years ago and regretted it because many of them were overcompressed.

Newer image formats have ways to specify perceptual quality that come much closer to "set and forget"
Pandora's Box by Adam Curtis has some interesting parallels with today's American politics, technology, and the Silicon Valley rationalist movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_Box_(British_TV_se...
He didn't merely call him "ignorant", but "crazy". Both are ad-hominem attacks. What I don't get here is why you're trying to soft-pedal this very obvious fact.

"Crank", "Toxic" "Bully"

Accurate and justified, in light of the aforementioned unprovoked attacks.

He just thinks that because he's a billionaire, he can get away with it.
I’ll read and upvote your take on this rather than OPs, because your story is closer to the reality for most people. No offence to OP but when you’ve no kids, mortgage and household responsibilities, it’s not that hard to do a side hustle.
Don’t forget the opportunity cost of taking on such a project. You could be hiking, exercising, working on relationships, family.
And yet, at least in the US, it's probably the people in the highest echelons of salary whose salaries are most public (in addition to public sector employees).
Because the ride-hailing companies don't know how to treat their employees.
10 Years, 1 Takeaway: It’s All About Community and Trust
It's worth mentioning the common advice here though: do not use company time or equipment to work on a side project, since that may give them a legal claim to ownership of the work if they ever find out.

The specifics will vary greatly depending on your employment agreements and legal jurisdiction, so make your own decisions regarding your own situation (doing it on company time might be the lesser risk compared to not doing it at all), but do be wary.
> I suppose one can have a subset of a cluster participating in Raft, but then the "raft group membership" itself is a consensus problem isn't it?

Yes, this is discussed briefly in the article and more thoroughly in the original Raft paper.

It's possible to do a "membership change" operation, whereby the replicas agree to change the set of nodes in the cluster. It's slightly trickier than achieving consensus on an ordinary state machine operation, because you have to ensure that quorums from both the old and new node lists agree to the change.

With this feature, you can make a "self-healing" cluster. Say you have a pool of 100 physical machines, with 5 of them running Raft nodes. If one node fails, and the failure appears to be transient, you can just wait for it to come back up. Otherwise, you can start a new node, wait for it to come up, and perform a membership change to swap it for the failed one.

This provides availability as long as you don't have a burst of more than N/2 failures faster than the cluster can recover.
I still like the idea that professional tools, while too much work for most, are worth the effort to master, in a professional setting.

Your analogy works too, but it's parallel.
I have worked at a number of jobs where it sometimes required me to use coding. I was not treated like a programmer ever. I was given very old hardware and expected to do my work. The worst computer I had was a Dell machine which had an i3 CPU and 4GB of RAM. Opening VS Code on this machine brought it to it's knees.

I solved this issue by simply using Emacs instead. It uses far less memory, didn't cripple my system, and it is after all my preferred text editing environment for the last few years. I eventually got fed up with Windows bluescreens that I switched to Linux, and then I spent more time fixing other people's older Windows machines than doing my tasks.

Emacs has me sucked in and I don't see myself going anywhere else. Now I'm using Emacs on another old Dell with Linux in another workplace, and it's fantastic to use as always.
If prison is so expensive, stop putting people there for no-victim crimes like smoking some weed. Then the money can go to humanely incarcerating real criminals without giving them the easy way out of death.

And no longer wrongful death penalties
I've had good luck with using my best time/energy for hobby projects and what's left over goes to work. Of course, this assumes that your hobby project is more important to you than whatever might be achieved by putting your best energy/time toward your job, but I also think a lot of people over-index on "whatever might be achieved by putting their best energy/time toward their job".
Sales: Boiler Room, Glengary Glen Ross

Inspiration: Free Solo (watching someone with singular focus that achieves excellence, it's absolutely incredible)

Tech: meh, not sure much does it here. Tons of entertaining stuff, but not sure what else. Sorkin is good I guess: Steve Jobs and The Social Network.
I believe the url lacks some slashes: https://chris.manson.ie/it's-all-gravy/
Most languages I know don't really shine in both paradigms. Python even comes close, but it is shunned in OOP circles because of dynamic typing and loses street-cred in the FP hoods for its syntax.

C# feels clunky in both. F# is good in FP, has good interop with OOP, but why would you?

It definitely seems easier (or is more popular) to start people on imperative programming styles, because it is easier to make analogies. From there it's a quick jump to OOP.
Boeing gets green light for satellite internet constellation
I have a video doorbell for three reasons:

1. Because I want to know when a delivery occurs so I can promptly retrieve the package.

Most of the time delivery staff don't ring/knock or I may not hear in my office, a simple motion detection camera would do this just as well, but a combined device is simply more convenient.

2. To record who enters and leaves my house and when.

Whether it's friends visiting or a home invader, it's important that I have a record of this in case I find myself in a situation where I need this evidence in the future. For better or for worse (and I think for the worse), the mere existence of these devices means lacking this evidence can be incriminating against yourself, so having evidence to support your own case in the future is simply prudent.

3. So I can respond to people without needing to open the door.

There are all sorts of solicitors and others who go around ringing doorbells, and in general I don't want to speak to them at all, but I also find it more expedient to respond. By doing so through the doorbell I don't have to open the door and expose myself to forced entry risk (which unfortunately is commonplace).

The funny thing about insurance is, that there's no insurance that reasonably covers your packages once a confirmed delivery has been made but prior to you retrieving it, and there is also no insurance that covers the results of a home invasion or incorrect (possibly malicious) prosecution, other than possibly replacing non-unique property (after deductible). An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I work with rxjs and its a breeze to work with. My data flow got only complicated after introducing redux-observable.
Yeah, but this is also about "enthusiast" CPUs, which is very much about eye popping top perf numbers, independent of efficiency, etc. We're talking sports cars, not commuter options.
Increasingly less true with the adoption of electric bicycles.
Done that about a dozen times today!
Ask HN: How did you adjust your “side-projects” personality to adult life?
Hi,

I have been a programmer/maker since I was 13. I have always built projects I come up with myself.

I have been in actual enterprise world for the past 7 years, with last 4 years being more intense.

Coincidentally, number of side-projects I built was reduced in these last 4 years.

Only now, I start to realize... that I am on the other side of situation which adults would ask me "How do you find time for all these?"

I buy electronics components or setup boilerplate projects, only to find them half-done...

This is really frustrating. It gives me a foggy mind at work. It makes me less efficient/focused at work.
As I gather, the interesting part is that the hull was built of oak planks sandwiched between pine planks. Total thickness 18 cm. It seems it was self-reinforcing, not built by "cladding" a frame.
Ask HN: Using NFT's to raise capital for a startup?
We are video game and product designers who founded an AI startup with a really solid brand image. Recently we have been developing utility NFT's with the ability to leverage our algorithms in a way that is excluded from our first product (a mobile app). What are your opinions on NFT's as a way to raise capital alongside the traditional VC pipeline, as well as the validity of NFT's as a value producing asset?
Mechanistically, one could hypothesize "of course".

Cellular respiration and its various reactions take in highly oxidative oxygen and turn it into ATP. The more we run this engine, the more work it does.

Active pathways have some probability of breaking, especially those that generate reactive molecular species. Higher probability of eventual disease state. DNA damage, intracellular buildup, etc.

The more you drive a car, the more wear and tear it receives. Over time, all of those explosions in the combustion chamber will do damage. So too, our cellular physiology and molecular biology.
Hangings get botched fairly often. The last execution at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, now a historical site in Boise, took 15 minutes to finish. Not really an improvement over lethal injection in that area.

Beheading works, but requires a lot of specialized equipment and what not. Meanwhile a firing squad doesn't really require any special equipment and training above and beyond what the judicial system already has available.