skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my recent foray into modern Django world, most simple projects and MVP start out as server side like the official guide. Then, when people need some extra frontend magic like React and/or SPA, it's pretty easy to insert into Django. You just include the bundled React/Vue app into a js script still included and served by the same Django route/view/template. Of course, it's also common to start transitioning to Django Rest Framework (DRF) as your API points.
> I think it is impossible to understand Consciousness because Consciousness creates the brain and the whole universe.

I think it's much more likely that consciousness is a result of brain activity. For example, if consciousness creates the brain and the whole universe, why don't I have any reliable access to what is going on except partially in my immediate vicinity? Also, how can it create such a wonderfully consistent world out there and I can not reliably drive to store because my mind is preoccupied and the rest of me goes on autopilot.

I think you would require fewer bits to explain it the other way around.
https://www.react-simple-maps.io/
Me too. Don't you love it when you come to a dropdown form and they simply forget DC altogether? That's my fav.
Good idea! I created this page that shows a table with the current results:

https://nate.org/hacker-news-location-poll
McDonald’s positions itself very differently in different countries and the quality of Big Macs varies a lot. In some places McDonald’s is pretty good, and in others it’s really bad. You’re not comparing the same thing.
Yours is a very reasonable question. First of all, merging consciousness is admittedly a bit woo-woo; however, I feel it's worth considering.

According to the literature, when the corpus callosum is severed, it appears that the verbal part of the patient loses conscious access to parts of their body. However, those lost parts continue functioning independently, and are able to communicate non-verbally.

Put another way, it seems plausible that a conscious system is split into two conscious systems. This could imply the corpus callosum is involved in unifying conscious systems.
As a former Rails dev, I've always enjoyed Piotr Solnica's writing. He does a great job of explaining what's wrong with the framework, in particular the flaws that aren't immediately obvious when you're starting out.

But these days the main thing I think of when I hear his name is that his blog used to be on a different domain, and he apparently let the old registration expire because someone else has bought it and now it points to a porn site. And tragically, there are still many other sites online which still link to Solnica's outdated, now-pornographic URLs.

And that's how I ended up accidentally sharing a porn link in a professional setting.
Nothing is free. An extended warranty is an insurance policy, the purchase price for it is the premium. It's pretty much the same for the original warranty. It may be included in the purchase, but it's still just an insurance policy that the manufacturer has rolled into the price of the product.

So when you have strong regulation like a consumer guarantee act, it just means everything you buy is priced higher to account for it.
What made it particularly cool for you? Curious why Audition doesn't fit the bill.
Well it's better than my initial reaction (is author dying?), but not by much. I'm not sure what the right solution is for cyberbullying, but at some point we'll probably have to figure it out.
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They can except... They don't control the SoC! Qualcomm decides if a SoC gets to boot a newer Android or not. And it’s in Qualcomm’s interest to sell more chips, since they get no revenues post sales; only maintenance costs.
I think this is the author's take on that: https://solnic.codes/2022/02/02/rails-is-not-written-in-ruby...

Not sure this is what you're getting at. I agree with the author though, this aspect of Rails bothered me quite a bit. Knowing that working on a Rails project meant I could magically generate ranges from dates because of ActiveSupport was unsettling - it made me wonder what else was non-native behaviour and waiting to trip me.
Ask HN: What's the engineering culture like at Twitch?
I'm looking at engineering positions at Twitch, however I'm aware they were acquired by Amazon, who from my estimations has a particularly grueling work culture.

A question to any engineers working at Twitch (or any other Amazon acquired company), have you noticed any changes, negative (or positive) interference from Amazon? Or more broadly what would you say of the engineering culture compared to other companies?
The Syrian government committed enough war crimes on Syrian civilians to warrant a spot on the SDN list, this is not just a US block either. Its well known so anyone sending money to anything tagged Syria will be blocked. You can donate money to syrian refugee 501c3's because they're US-based nonprofits. Just don't be a nonce and tag it syria, because banks are legally compelled to reject those.
Maybe Google should start a portrait mode monitor business; consumers could get even more ad results on their screen.
I prefer the printed version from parent poster, thanks
I think analogy is useful in an argument for a few reasons:

1. It can reduce the problem space to the factors which the parties see as important.

2. It can uncover differences of opinion as to which factors are deemed important to the problem space. ie: "yeah, but your analogy discounts x!".

Of course, analogies can be used in bad faith as rhetorical tools to win an argument on grounds other than it's merits, and that is the real problem with them.
Are they doing well or just getting by, though?
Ah, I'm glad it doesn't seem to be as big of a problem as I had been reading before.

Also still curious about the general "how do we regulate a global space with national governments" problem.
Sometimes the browser will remove the leading 'javascript'. In that case, type it back in.
But did it? I don’t ever remember T-cells being considered anything close to conspiracy theories, nor their importance being downplayed.
Or like telling folks in California to stop watering their lawns and take shorter showers when there's a water shortage. BUT keeping the focus on personal responsibility rather than industry is the name of the game.
Ah gotcha. Makes sense. The way I typically think of Go const is more akin to a typed macro, rather than a first class value reference where it is expanded in place. Notably, in Go constants cannot contain structs, arrays, so they have much less to do with mutability than in, say, in C++.
I am sure someone, perhaps you, could create an AI (or just a simple hard-coded program) that responds to (dis)incentives that clearly doesn't experience pain or pleasure.

But that isn't the question. The question it possible that a sufficiently complex program could ever be able to have the experiences in the same way that humans have them (AKA "qualia").
Omg, I loved this game. Played for several days until I saw that my journey will probably be quite long and complex. Still want to give it another shot, so thanks for mentioning this gem! I was thrilled when I realized I could travel to other planets
Clearly the incremental platform fees of Apple, Nintendo, Sony, etc.) amortize both capital and operational expenses, and also enable those companies to make tons of money.

The assumption that Apple only has to pay for infrastructure when people are downloading things is incorrect. Data centers still incur ongoing operations and maintenance costs even if they're fully paid for and nobody's downloading anything.
Since the description is pretty light. It seems Canon Rumors is a site dedicated to Canon related news in the same vein as MacRumors.
You can do that with first-party cookies though.

Allow some facebook supplied javascript to set a first party cookie when the user hits website.com/ad-34, and then reference that 1st party cookie the next day when the user returns. Phone home when they buy something. Facebook can now correlate (1) the ping they received to begin with, (2) the user session cookie they initiated on the first visit, and (3) the user session they observed when a purchase was made.

I'm sure things get easier with 3rd party tracking, but fundamentally you can do it without cross-site tracking.
I just checked it and it is 5% on Amz purchases for Prime members and 3% for non-members.

Even things marked as Prime are taking 1-2 weeks for me. (I'm ~1hr from a major city)

I'm probably ditching my Prime sub when it comes up for renewal.
He mentions this because LOC is an objective metric that Amazon uses to analyze performance..
Extracting Product Comparisons from Discussion Boards [pdf]
Very well then: you either don't have SE, or don't recognize your own SE. My guess is the latter.

I don't think SE is exclusive to humans, but only humans talk about it, as far as we know.
What if we have the misconception of thinking we are a physical person in a physical world that has access to a weird mind? What if instead they physical brain is simulating the universe we find ourselves individually in, and we are only simulated, and we infer a physical world.

You can at least scientifically model and test this.
I think we'd have a lot more rationality in politics if we didn't have this "fear" that basically some people just want to see the world change forever.

I'm forced to push harder than I actually want to in order to counteract the contingent of oddball "but 2019 was bad, I had to go outside, never go back pls" people.
Well it's only 3 hours old and it's currently #14 on /best, so there is probably a good chance everyone will see it.
> Strange new world if only the ultra rich are welcome.

Hardly. Most countries treat the rich differently from everyone else, when it comes to immigration/visas, and have basically forever. It's the overwhelming norm. In plenty of desirable countries you can simply buy your way to permanent residency. And I don't just mean the usual tropical tax havens.

For most countries, it's "prove your worth—and it better be damn good—or go away". One way to prove worth is to bring a ton of cash to the table.
Strange how that's completely forbidden to discussed.
> would move no air no matter how much power you dumped into it

Fun pedantic correction, it would move air via the Magnus effect [1], but of course it would be orthogonal to the direction you want it to be moved!

See the Turbosail [2] for a fun application of that effect.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail
Slightly funnier would be "harmful"
If I make an app that Apple doesn't like, I can't put it on my iPhone. I literally cannot put my own apps on my phone. Or install apps from developers outside of the app store. I can do so on my computer, why not my phone. "well just switch to android" isn't a good excuse.
Entirely?

https://www.apple.com/services/
https://www.apple.com/logic-pro/
https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/

Of course, these are not the bread and butter products.

I find it a bit pointless to separate their hardware and software. I know few people who run Windows or Linux on their Apple hardware. For me, Apple is primarily a products company that excels in fusing hardware and software together. They are increasingly expanding into services, too.
"and behind every framework, there's a langauge trying to get out, to protect semantic ideas, then syntax ones, and then support the logical ideas that we have" -- Lambda World 2019 - Language-Oriented Programming with Racket - Matthias Felleisen

https://youtu.be/z8Pz4bJV3Tk?t=180
No, it's not a brag— but they were all pretty influential and continue to cast a long shadow over the tech culture of the region. Particularly Blackberry, since it made a lot of staff very wealthy, who then went on to found, advise, invest-in, and work-for other companies using those skills.

It's not hard to look around Communitech and clearly see a bunch of startups still running essentially on BlackBerry money.
I've had the same experience doing Brazilian Jie Jitsu. Very strange experience indeed.
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Is anyone able to get a little more specific about the kinds of "creators" he's talking about and what they do exactly which drive these abuse problems?

I read the article, but felt like there wasn't quite enough information to understand what a YouTube person does to cause trouble, although I totally believe it. I know a bit about cameras, but nothing about this adjacent "rumours" subindustry.
that seems plausible, but currently very unsupported by evidence. in the past decade, quantum computers have gotten way more powerful, and progress doesn't seem to be stalling out.
Did you find the Part Design workflow? It took a while for Freecad to click for me but it ends up being fairly similar to other CAD programs in terms of workflow.
Yes, that's precisely the point. Save it for the items that really bring value to our lives. The reason we're so dependent on technology to help is because we dug a hole by doing the opposite.

And I'm not equivocating that it's easy. Your heat pump analogy is the perfect example where life-cycle effects should come into play. I think it would be very interesting to see a study of something like comparing a new EV with the impact of maintaining an older ICE car. I suspect a lot of EV purchases are about status veiled in sustainability.

I want energy to be spent on big impact things like healthcare and food and sanitation. But considering ~60-70% of the economy is based on consumerism there's a lot of room to improve
A real world example is that I do programming on a high-end workstation laptop. My coworkers use old budget laptops.

This is not in their control — they’re victims of corporate policy.

Does it influence quality in complex and hard to quantify ways?

Most assuredly…
Incredible how the assholes will even destroy something so obviously good and by going after the guys' wife and kids no less. It is absolutely disgusting.

HN has its share of jerks, I've had someone threaten to come by my house and beat me up (I'm pretty easy to locate) but I figured it's all bluff and easier said than done, and in the camarades.com/ww.com days I got far worse thrown at me so I've learned to live with it. But it shouldn't come to that.

The internet used to be a nice place. There were flamewars and the occasional crappy argument but nobody threatened people with bodily harm. Then the village became a town, and then the town became a big city. And then all the bad stuff that happens in big cities came right along with it, including the jerks, the swatters and the drive by shooters.

There is a Dire Straits song in there somewhere.

Sites like canonrumors.com should be neutral territory, like churches used to be, places where people can read and exchange information without harassing the owners and the moderators. If you have showdead on you can see what a 'nice' place HN is every now and then. As it gets more mainstream here too the interaction will get more coarse.

I've already made up my mind to walk when dang does.
Who are you and what do you want with this data? Google or Facebook?
You can make a web app that works on safari, which runs on iPhones. So your entire point is wrong.

Do you think this site you’re on is originally an iPhone app?
My parents house in California had no electricity for over a week (Christmas through New Year's, and it was sporadic until about Jan 8). I think the state is still doing fine as a tech hub.
This looks more like a proper airship, like the ones from fifties and sixties scifi books.
This looks amazing. Viper was something I’ve always removed from my projects as they’re simple tools usually where configuration files don’t make sense, so I really appreciate you sharing this. Excited to see where it goes!
Buried in the FAQ, but pretty significant:

> An applicant for a long-term visa needs to show proof of health insurance coverage of 2,000,000 ISK as a minimum per person, which is 1) valid in Iceland | Schengen-area 2) valid for the duration of their stay in Iceland. If your insurance is not valid in Iceland, please see our Health Insurance page for a list of providers.
Dunno, I'm not convinced there are fewer interesting websites today, seems they're a lot harder to find though.
I get an octet stream when I visit that URL

edit: not the second time.
But it didn’t have an App Store….

You could always “sideload music”
Which features are missing?
Independent of how they got those numbers: the income levels reflect average (presumably median) worker earnings; not the earnings of minimum wage workers. Which most definitely have not gone up 10x since 1974.

This is a very, very important distinction. Right?
> Aren't they perfectly entitled to it?

Up to a point, no. Common Carrier laws have been around for a long time and had demonstrable benefits. Net neutrality means phone companies can't use their infrastructure however they like. AT&T wanted to just sit on their patent for the transistor but was pushed by the government into to licensing it to Motorola, TI, etc. There's no reason why similar regulations couldn't be applied to mobile app platforms.
> I don’t understand why so many people find it difficult to imagine ancient people understanding something as finite as aerodynamic mathematics

Because they had no calculus.
Oh yeah definitely, I was half-kidding. Quebec and the rest of Canada have a lot of very significant differences. We are probably more divided right now than we've been ever since the last referendum.

An example I love to give is the holiday "Victoria day" in Canada which is called "Patriot's day" in Quebec, celebrating the attempted revolution in Quebec that were brutally put down by the English in 1837-1838.
I've worked at Amazon, I won't work there again, but I have (and likely will again) recommend it on occasion for other people as a hugely valuable learning experience. The reason is that Amazon has a strong bias towards getting stuff done, and because it's Amazon that means getting stuff done at scale. You are extremely unlikely to spend much time there without participating in shipping something that gets used by (or at least affects) millions of people, and you will have to struggle against the tooling and culture and even your coworkers to make it happen. I contrast that with say Microsoft or Google where devs may commonly spend years on stuff that never gets past a research project, all while enjoying the support of excellent tools and a collegial atmosphere.
Ask HN: What is your generation Oregon Trail?
I fondly remember playing Oregon Trail in the computer lab. What has replaced that in modern classrooms? Or if you predate, or didn't have Oregon trail what was your experience? Are there any modern equivalents to your version example open-source clones, etc.
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So like, I guess the thing I don't understand is this: why do people think writing:

some_array.has_my_thing() is better than has_my_thing(some_array). ?

The former, the extension has so many issues, it messes up namespacing, it's unclear where it came from, etc. etc. The latter is just a function. It's not longer, or complex, it's just more straightforward. I really think things where you extend or override built in types is almost always just a bad idea, because the alternative is almost always just as concise and doesn't confuse everyone.
Eh, Linux has broken userspace in the past. Twice for me personally in the last ~10 years, one of which could've resulted in hardware damage if the stars had aligned slightly differently :D I wouldn't count it out.
I guess I'm used to the flat-tops that have some kind of weird plastic coating. Over time (and not that long) they get crap stuck to them that just won't come off, and various scratches and gouges make them impossible to ever get totally clean. [EDIT] Which is to say, yeah, maybe all-glass ones don't have that problem (brittleness issues aside)

And I consider removability a benefit. It's much easier to scrub something at the sink than on the stove itself.
I'd like to recommend Fast N Fitness as a simple enough app for weight lifting.
Interesting. I wasn’t usually using viper but on a recent project it was handy.
I wasn't planning on looking at either M1 :-)
Yup, that's exactly the point. Not sure why that would be a bad thing?
Chrome's new Permissions Request Chip UI. A replacement for permission pop-ups
You have to build the universe first.
> entertaining for both people involved

That would be the case, if it were limited to the two parties (one of which can't be arsed to be physically present).

However in this case, the transaction is then being recorded and turned into fuel for /personal gain/ of one of the parties. Possibly without knowledge, and almost definitely without consent of the other.
Sounds like Iceland should be trying harder, there is a lot of competition for these things now. All of southern europe and even netherlands (nicer/easier place to live) offers incentives for remote workers. Also they should be more inclusive, these programs should be accessible to people from south america or india, not just be a longer tourist visa for people who can afford the shorter one.
When I learned rails the community had a fundraiser to fund the documentation writing (this was v0.7 or so IIRC). Being able to read the docs sounds like a dream come true.
Interesting. I think parts of the US had truck speed limits, but we no longer have them. Same with night-time speed limits.
Probably hangouts.

Despite it's rather ugly/unmodernized interface, it had a lot going for it. Chat with people or text them, all from the same little box. Call anyone, by number or by email. Video conferencing/screensharing worked solidly.
You can very much see deployed satellites with your naked eye. The ISS can even get about as bright as Venus [1]. Other satellites aren't as bright but still visible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
Hmm, I would be interested to see where exactly it is that these Julia advocates have claimed it to be "the fastest language"
What "service" are they providing? Not stopping you from using someone else's payment processor?
Seems like the site is getting the HN Hug of Death. https://archive.fo/QF72b
I think you just betrayed your age :)
thats why I don't use google anymore (well one of the many reasons actually)
I have noticed that fillets in particular are a weak point for FreeCAD.
I’m an ignorant American, you mean what I see on 90 Day Fiancé is not representative of the rest of the world?
The Heisenberg principle only makes it impossible to know the exact size of a single proton in a particular moment in time. But it doesn't say that you can't calculate the average of millions of protons, for example.