skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only had a brief exposure to it, but my impression is that it's sort of a message queue optimized for very large data (TB or more). So, for example, there's no way to easily answer questions like "How many requests did server X generate between 1pm and 2pm and how many of them were served by server Y?" because when your data doesn't fit in a single machine, supporting such queries requires a lot of bookkeeping. If you never need them, you don't want to pay for them.

Of course, when have a few megabytes of data and you route it through Kafka, then all you get is an opaque message queue where you can't see which message went from where to where. Good luck debugging any issues. But, hey, you got to use Kafka.
Bad solution. I don't want to create separate postgresql users for each restriction. It should be based on a context variable or something similar, but not on postgresql users.
Pandas dataframes aren't really functional, people mutate in-place all the time by adding columns, dropping NaNs, reindexing, etc.
Working through Dick Smith's Fun Way into Electronics is a fond memory from my childhood. I don't remember if I got all the way through the second volume, but I sure do remember screwing component pins down onto those blue breadboards, and trying to figure out where I'd gone wrong.
In fairness it isn’t a great filter. As someone that had a similar story - I got a very well paying job out of high school based in part on some home grown apps 20ish years ago - the field of people doing small scale stuff was small and any basic CRUD app, let alone embedded hardware hacking made you instantly look like a wizard - since getting started then was much harder - any output was proof of a certain level of skill in acquiring knowledge that was above average even if the overall scope wasn’t huge. In this day of Arduinos/RPi and git pull boilerplate, a small app or hardware project doesn’t prove much of anything. The scale of side project to really differentiate is beyond what most people reasonably have time for if they wish to have a life. I think compensated take home assignments still have some merit though.
Perfect. Will mean the future generations are much more religious.
I know you couldn't find it, but what was even the basic principle? It's hard for me to imagine that dramatically increasing land use, transportation and infrastructure costs could be environmentally beneficial.
I believe the patent is not suggesting that you make a startup but rather that you offer to license your patent to a patent and be flexible with the terms allowing yourself to get more compensation as the startup gets more money.
> We sometimes have the legal grounds to use lethal force in defense of our safety or that of our property (rarely, but apparently in Texas), and we very rarely choose to actually use it.

That's not how it works in most first world places. You can't murder a person to protect property.
Search for "http" under "Call for help" and click that link. It's linked on the second page.
Lots of "real" engineering is based on algebraic manipulation, which has more in common with declarative/functional programming than with imperative/procedural programming.

Not to mention that anything that goes through a spreadsheet relies on functional programming.
What happens? They will get less returns not zero. This is not a company in the traditional sense that they will go bankrupt so they will be fine.From the article, they are spreading the risk over various companies so there are going to be homeruns. They are also focusing on the growth stage not seed so at this point there are some signals on product market fit. Linking it to tech employment, its similar to engineers focusing on growing companies knowing that the chances of payout are high from stock options is high.
Wouldn't people need to know what the idea is to give you advice about where you could sell it? Perhaps your lawyers know a good lead.
> Is it the claims about whether wood-framed buildings are safe enough?

This one, for me. I know nothing about it. Without further information, I wouldn’t want to conclude anything from a biased source (other than noting that the issue exists).
Agreed. I mean, the whole web page thing is literally a metaphor for people shuffling pages on their office desk.
Ask HN: Fiction about Introverts?
I recently read the (rather excellent) Murderbot Diaries series and realized that it isn't just social interactions that tend to assume that people are extroverts, but that most fiction does too.

I recall reading as a kid any number of mystery stories where the protagonist was shut-in for some reason (agoraphobia, for example), and misanthropes abound in anything with a hint of noir, but introverts per-se seem to be rare (which strikes me as odd, since authors are often introverts).

So, any recommendations? I'm personally interested in science fiction and fantasy, but mysteries or (techno)thrillers will do as well. Not really into horror, but don't let that stop you, I'm sure others here will be interested.
I learned electronics from

https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...

pasting the circuit diagram on to a block of wood and screwing down the components...
I could see that if such the rule was "within 100 yards of a forest" or something, but that would only cover a tiny fraction of the city.
Uh, Macsyma was first written for Maclisp.
If the game is controller-compatible, it should work exactly the same. The touchpad is for RTS games and other typically KBM games.
Hope you've learned the lesson to have a disaster recovery plan, and a fallback service provider for the critical part of your business.
As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, NTFS actually does do that. There are a couple tools out there that take advantage of it like Everything Search and WizTree. I don't know why no open source filesystem has done the same thing.
> doesn’t matter if it improves fire safety, since wood frame houses are already safe to live in

This is tautological. Whether they’re safe to live in is the entire debate. (Wood-frame house in a suburb has a different risk profile from one in a dense neighbourhood by brush.)

Safety standards evolve as the environment changes and our tolerance for risk, mediated by technology, decreases.
For earthquake reasons alone this is completely insane, and clearly a blatant attempt at regulatory capture by the concrete association. Just asinine.

For most of LA (apart perhaps from certain canyons and hill areas) the risk of fire is not significantly different from anywhere else. It's a cityscape. Earthquakes however are an omnipresent threat and wood frame buildings in general do far better. For example - many of the concrete buildings built along Wilshire blvd. in the westside may not survive a big quake.
Just look on a map. Yelnya is halfway between Minsk and Moscow, in Smolensk oblast.

It's on the approach to Moscow if you are invading, and where some of the hardest fighting between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht took place, defending the capital.

Not quite exactly "on the border of Ukraine, ready to invade Kiev" (that would be around Belgorod, Briansk, Voronez, Koursk), more like "ready to intervene in case of the kerfuffle betwen Minsk and Warsaw escalates".

This is pure posturing by Ukraine, so people forget they'll freeze for lack of Russian and anybody else's gas this winter.
Japanese Dome House
>You need to make your own estimate for how much the company is worth right now. If the company raised around $10M total, then knowing nothing else, a reasonable guess is that the company is worth about $40M total. That would make the underlying stock of your options worth about $280k, you can subtract the cost to exercise, maybe it ends up being a bit lower like $240k.

If those options are ISOs, then their exercise price is almost certainly going to be equal to the 409A valuation, which means they're worth $0 upfront[1] and gain value as the company grows more valuable. Since you only make money if the company's value goes up, it's almost impossible to accurately assign a value to it.

[1] I use "worth" loosely here. More accurately they have intrinsic value of $0 upfront (maybe a bit more because the company has grown since the last 409A), and some hard-to-determine time value. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(finance)#Basic_decompo...
Yes. Mazda has their head on straight re: UX and smart design. Very very enjoyable cars to drive, as well. Their motto is "zoom-zoom", which they embody well.
Food at least is solved by government subsidies and safety regulation. The market aspects are tacked on at the end to appease the rich who want priority over the poor when getting the best quality food
In many cases good is not the opposite of bad.

Our brain is fantastic evaluation and extrapolation machine. Often I find myself judging something on a 1 dimensional scale, where 'good' is at one end and 'bad' at the other.

More often than not that's a gross over simplification, and not helpful as a mental model. The 2 dimensional model, bad vs not bad and good vs not good is, in many cases, a much better fit. (Of course reality has a lot more dimensions usually - you get the gist).

To make an example, Elon Musk is not a genius or an idiot, he is likely both a genius and an idiot.
I understand the distaste for the stiffness of descriptive names...but I've found that over time trying to explain why a project has a clever name, or what it really does, to be quite arduous.

And usually not too long after I've coined a fun name for a project, I wind up feeling like it's cringy, and start to loathe when other people talk about it.
Highly unlikely that you would gain that much just by upgrading. What kind of an app is anyway?
Anecdotally, the problem is much worse among those that contribute more in taxes than consume in public benefits. This is the real problem. Low-skill high-fertility immigration will not solve it. Child tax credits will not solve it. Welfare programs will not solve it. These problems all exacerbate the problem by growing the population below the net-income line. You may say that these people are more necessary or useful than those above, but that is a different debate.

Net-income-positive Americans are choosing not to be parents because the law is openly hostile to it. Some examples:

Child support: The minimum guideline is 33% of income for a single child, non-deductible. US/CA taxes take ~55%, so that leaves 12%. If you have a great tech salary of $150k, that leaves you with a living budget of $1500/mo. The only way to survive here on that is in your car. (I have done this. Not a career enhancer.) Meanwhile, nobody needs $4000/mo extra to raise a child, unless they are paying somebody else to do it. This is why women have a hard time finding mates. The only men that are willing to take that risk of relationship breakup are those with nothing to lose. It’s horribly dysgenic, and frankly awful for the kids it is trying to protect, because now they end up with a working mother and a deadbeat father, by design. And by the way, this is not a gendered issue. The first I became aware of it was by a woman that was forced to both give up her kids and pay her ex.

Child care: The licensing, certification, and insurance requirements have turned this into a human farming business. When I was growing up, kids just sort of roamed, and then the police started notifying parents that they had to send them to certified daycare, so my mom got the certification until some professional daycare moved in and started calling the inspectors any time we went outside to play in the woods. Now it’s much worse; daycare costs more than most jobs pay, and those with nothing to lose just ignore the law anyway.

The only way it makes legal sense to have children is if both parents are either on welfare, or part of an immigrant community that operates outside of the rules. My recommendation to my children will be to move out of the country immediately after graduation to a place that is more financially and legally family-friendly, then start finding a partner and having children right away. The opportunities for this decline much faster than any goals other than professional athletics.
Benefits of using Flutter and a single codebase for desktop app development
The T14 has DDR4 RAM instead of LPDDR4, in order that it can support DIMMs. Even the soldered portion will still be DDR4. The X1 has LPDDR4.
Yes. Facebook literally calls it the Facebook Pixel for this reason.
+1 for No SendGrid. I tried using their free tier just to try them out and immediately none of my emails were delivering to Gmail. Yes, maybe if I decided to go to the paid tier this would resolve, but if the free tier is that bad, I have questions for the company over why even bother offering that tier. (Gmail was actively rejecting the emails due to low sender reputation.)

It left a bad taste in my mouth. We now use SparkPost.
How do we quantify "discrimination and gatekeeping"? Focusing on hiring makes sense because it's the gate that you need to pass through to join the company. It's by far the most important form of gatekeeping, and the one with the most influence over the representation of the company. It's also where I see the most focus on attempting to "fix" the imbalance, but introducing policies to favor underrepresented groups. I've worked at multiple companies with overt affirmative action programs in favor of women.

Other factors like harassment are important, but again the evidence doesn't seem to suggest it's responsible for gender imbalances. Engineering has one of the lower rates of harassment among professional industries (32%) less than plenty of industries with more balanced gender representation like healthcare (35%) and media (41%) [1]. And this is just among white-collar industries, service industries and blue collar industries are by far even worse [2].

1. https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/media-industry-sexual-hara...

2. https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/21/16685942/sexual-ha...
A Survey of Programming Language Memory Models [pdf]
Grenfell tower was a concrete tower, and it was the synthetic cladding that spread the fire.
I call mine p.gif.

I still use one today, because, in order to maintain the Any Browser promise, I use an XHR request for pre-XHR browsers, which just sets the src of the spacer gif.

If any return values are needed, they're populated into the src attribute with a redirect. :)
Extracting my data from sites like my bank/broker. Currently I'm doing it manually whenever I happen to login. After copying the relevant html, I need to fix the formatting and other transforms before the entry can be added to my sheets.

I'm thinking with this I can get it to instantly select the right fields and prepare the data, put it in my clipboard, then I will be able to just paste in my sheet saving some time.
Yes, but development is the anomalous circumstance. Once you deploy, it's all execution. That should dwarf development time.
I would expect SO usage to follow a distribution like Zipfs — most visits hit a small subset of common Q/A, and there’s a ridiculously long tail of random questions getting a few visits where caching would do next to nothing. I’m fairly positive I’ve seen some post showing this was true for atleast answer-point distributions.

Though I guess it’s possible for a power distribution for page-likely-to-be-hit to still be useless for caching, because I think you could still get that distribution if 99% of hits are on nearly-unique pages; with a long enough tail, you’d still have only relatively few pages worth bothering to cache, but by far most visits are in the tail
I think it really boils down to what works best for you. If you have really bad dyslexia, picking a different font might help when it comes to line tracking. http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/sites/default/files/good_fonts...

One of the hardest things about getting back into reading for me was maintaining my attention. Instant gratification and small dopamine hits from years of youtube and Reddit had burnt my attention span. My solution was to minimize distractions, build a habit, and read something I found interesting. For me, I was recommended the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. I had a slow start. I found book 1 interesting, but felt like I had to force myself to continue for the first ~100 or so pages. It eventually got easier, and I built a ritual.

Listening to music works for me. I now have time set aside before I go to bed, where I use an old iPod and have a cup of tea while reading (with my phone out of reach). This summer I was able to get through “Words of Radiance”, a book from another one of his series, in a week (1000pgs). This took me about 3 years, but I would say it is worth it. The level of satisfaction from finishing a longer story is so much more then the little dopamine hits of a 10 minute YouTube video.

I know the recommendation of “you just have to do it” isn’t that helpful, but it’s the only thing that has really worked for me. The best advice I can give you, is to find the right book for you. I find nonfiction boring, so I avoid it. Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson is a collection of short stories that might be a good intro if you like fiction.
This has been going on for decades in various forms – catalytic converters briefly became the most profitable thing to steal but if you search news archives you’ll find stories about things like copper theft predating lockdown by many years. The broader societal problems have nothing to do with public health measures, especially since in most countries those were accompanied by significant public aid.
I got my start cutting HTML in the late 90s. I worked for a development company that had partnered with various design agencies. The design agencies would produce the mock-ups of the website in Photoshop and throw them across to us at the development agency to turn into websites.

I would get the templates, use the guides tool to mark out where where the slices would be for the tables then get to cutting. You got quite adept at being able to look at a design and figure out where the spacer gifs would go, where repeating background images would go etc. Everything was laid out using nested tables (and I started with Dreamweaver but at some point just stopped using the "split" view that it had and used it only as an IDE).

Once converted to HTML templates it was then plugged into a custom CMS along with any additional programming that might be needed for it. We actually hosted a payment gateway for credit card payments that customers could use. Almost a prototype version of Stripe.

The whole process was very assembly line driven:

PSD Designs > HTML templates > CMS integration > Custom development > Deployment
If your business is not nefarious spamming and deliverability is important to your use case, then I highly recommend the helpful folks at Postmark over all others. Transactional email delivery can be a minefield not for the faint of heart. Seems easy at first….
For sure. Right tools for the job.

Indeed, I'd say that a lot of the software development I do isn't Real Engineering. And that's fine! I have a lot of respect for the people who make 50-story skyscrapers. But a lot of the time what people need is a modest one-story apartment, a redone kitchen, a backyard doghouse. Or a movie set that just looks like an apartment.
You're responsible for what your government does too. If it's squandering money, make it spend better.

It's as competent as the work you put in to make it competent
How is it meaningful?

I can inline C code in Ruby, does that mean Ruby is as fast as C now?

I'd much rather see a comparison of idiomatic code in different languages. When I choose a language to build something in I'm not thinking "How can I write C in this language?"...
Writing is networking for introverts
Can confirm lived on tbe Big Island of Hawaii for three years. Almost all homes are made of wood with the houses literally standing on top of the volcanic rock or cement pilings. With frequent earthquakes (largest when I lived there was 6.8) the houses literally move, shake and flex.

Concrete just cracks and then crumbles.
Maybe we should start looking
at placing the computer away from the gamer.

There seems to be for example optical TB3 cables, maybe something like this could be part of the solution.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/03/26/optical-thunderbolt-3-c...
Get them a Mac and iPhone - tech support is available via Apple stores, via iMessage and you can call. A before folks bring in lock in, limiting discussion to tech savy. Forget about ecosystem lockin etc, you are optimizing for your family not for you.
On the contrary, uncomputable functions are uncomputable relative to a given model of computation. Many functions cannot be computed by finite state machines but can be by stack machines, and many that cannot be computed by FSMs or stack machines can be computed by Turing machines. (The interesting fact here is that Turing machines are equivalent to a large number of other models of computation, and no "fair" model of computation is known which is more powerful than Turing machines or those other equivalent models. ("Fair" means that the model of computation does not do something that a mathematician with pencil and paper could not also do---"unfair" models do exist but they do things like assuming you can do an unbounded amount of work in a finite number of steps.))

The fact that the halting problem (or the nonperiodic tiling problem mentioned by someone else) is undecidable by Turing machines (and all of the other equivalent models of computation) provides an interesting philosophical tri-lemma:

1. There is a "fair" model of computation that is stronger than TMs. No such are known, and the evidence against them is that a bunch of other models turn out to be equivalent than TMs. There's a considerable amount of mathematical fame if you can find one, though.

2. TMs, etc., are the most powerful "fair" model of computation and there is no physically realizable "unfair" model[1,2]. This has some interesting implications for the "superintelligent AI" stuff. This is also the general consensus as far as I know.

3. Something out there is capable of performing "unfair" computations. (The Oracle of Delphi? Something woo-woo?) I think there are information theoretic/thermodynamic reasons for discarding this option, but what do I know?

[1] Note that a finite state machine is actually the most powerful known physically realizable form of computation. Your laptop is actually a FSM---it has a finite amount of memory and if you converted all of the mass in the universe into RAM it would still only have a finite amount of memory. All of the stronger models are mathematical abstractions.

There are computation models that are not obviously similar to computers; using DNA segments in a broth to solve instances of the Traveling Salesman problem, or soap bubbles (https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-soap-film-an-a...). These are also equivalent to FSMs---there is only a finite amount of DNA or soap involved.

[2] The fact that functions exist (like the Halting Problem) that cannot be computed by TMs is not in itself terribly important beyond the implications of that tri-lemma above. Nor does the fact that essentially all functions are uncomputable by TMs (proof sketch: continuous numbers are transcendental with probability 1.0). I mean, the halting problem is a thing, so what? It only becomes important if something in the universe actually computes one of those functions that cannot be computed by TMs---that would rule out #2 and leave everyone scrambling for #1 or #3.