skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be careful with this assessment. HN isn't immune to these effects. Especially with the approach towards quality. Maybe that's just me, but I often end up not submitting comments on HN, or reducing them*). This self-censorship has multiple reasons:
First, I often ask myself if the comment adds some value to the discussion; or if it just ends up being one of these fly-over comments that's just the tenth repetition of the same musing/opinion/question/thought.
Second, if I evaluate that some discussion ends up being to polarized or too exhausting (if I make an argument, I should be prepared to defend it and not just run away), I don't hit that reply button as well.

That's not to say that this is inherently evil. Do we need low quality comments? I think no. Should I/others always write ten paragraph comments instead of condensing their thoughts? Doesn't sound like an inherently bad idea, but maybe some things get lost/censored that way. And thanks to a lot of effort put into productive discussion by most people here nice discussion can be had, but to pick some examples: I myself would still be careful joining a discussion about RMS here, or on some areas of politics (e.g. taxing), or on vaccination (let alone something complex as mandated vaccination). Even though I think that some of these should be had (not necessarily on HN).

Yes, FB is worse and, to stick to the current theme, dead-end discussion about vaxing are probably running rampant there and I am happy that I only get some rare glimpses of that when a friend is acting like Don Quijote and posting on it on our Discord; but essentially I think that's a dangerous whataboutism.

*) I was actually considering cutting the comment there, even after writing the rest. But I think some more elaboration doesn't hurt in this case ;-)
Note that, when you live in the world we do, you are exposed nigh permanently to people expressing irrational/bitter thoughts and people expressing thoughts irrationally/bitterly, even if you avoid the platforms of the major offenders. Our brains strongly tend to think relatively, so when we see somebody express those same or adjacent thoughts, but without the irrationality or bitterness, it is almost automatic to interpret it in the same light that we are used to. This can cause the afterimage of "internet shithole" to hover over every public platform we visit, assuming it's not hyper-localized to one's preferred circles. Further, this effect is inherently more dramatic for opinions that are counter to our own, so the image is not just "internet shithole", but "internet shithole of the opposite social/political leaning to me", even if that leaning is actually small, non-existent, or even opposite to our perception.

I.e. when you encounter somebody saying "I think X", if they are merely doing so as an unsubstantive or hostile expression of tribalism nine times out of ten, then you may miss the tenth person who is actually making a reasonable point.

And, on a less broadly applicable note, when public health is a direct consequence, the topic gets even muddier and even more emotional than usual, understandably.
Well all mainstream media networks compete with FB for eyeballs so its natural for them to cover them negatively, its in their best interest to do so.
Maybe we should flip this around and start removing enhancements that never caught on?
Yuck, python is losing its zen and gets uglier and uglier.
I have been using IRC as a means to stay in touch with the people I actually care about since the 90's, and it hasn't let me down yet. Many of my friends are in their 20s, and only a few are developers.
Yes.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/discord-terminates-buyout-t...
Counterintuitive Math: Pay Down Mortgage vs. Investing [pdf]
> There are people with more capital, time, and knowledge than you who will consistently beat you.

I think it's more than that. There are people with more capital etc. who specifically use that to take advantage of people like you. I don't just mean pump-and-dump kinds of stuff either. HFT exists to take advantage of the arbitrage opportunities created by traditional kinds of trading in aggregate (and sometimes to take advantage of other HFT bots) creating a kind of "friction" that is hard for less capitalized traders to overcome. The market is as much of a fight as a race, and it's really hard to win against the heavyweights unless you're one yourself.

> Picking individual investments is mostly a sucker's game.

Definitely true in the short term, for the reasons mentioned above. Still mostly true in the longer term. At least there's a chance that a sufficiently canny investor can pick a basket of stocks that will grow over time, but statistically it's almost certain that you'll fall behind the S&P index. Even the very best fund managers, with all of the resources at their disposal, rarely beat that more than a couple of years in a row.
This is the juicy part of the whole announcement: "the crew of Polaris Dawn will conduct a spacewalk". That's going to be a major feat and important milestone for Starship (and Dragon until then, of course).
Social Security is not a pension plan in the normal sense. It is structured and taxed differently than a pension that a company would provide.
If people had tried to build great things on the protocols we have instead of re-discovering the wheel, we'd still have gopher, FTP and telnet for most things. Technology evolves and that's a good thing.
Design can be good. I think even with good design we need better driver training.

For example, I have no problem with 55 mph roads along farm fields, even with bikes or buggies sharing them. The idea is that drivers should be slowing and waiting patiently to pass. Many drivers don't even know that the law requires a minimum of 4 feet separation when passing a bicycle. Just like many bicyclist either don't know or don't care to stop at stop signs or walk their bike across a crosswalk when using one (at least slow to walking speed).
>...but I don't think they nailed the "Post-Truth" ethos quite as well as 1984 did.

100%. What 1984 really nails is the use of the control of language and history to create a new reality that they have near 100% dominance over.
Ask HN: How to create a simple database program
Hi all, I've been wanting to create a kind of CRM for myself for a while now. I can setup a relational database with (my)sql and I can query it, but I'm looking for a simple frontend to create a program/app/site around that database. Be it python for a console based program or some framework for php css html, it doesn't matter. I just don't want to create all the input boxes and table layouts myself. I guess I just want something to plug&play.. Any suggestions?
I have some questions. I come from an enterprise background. We have similar home grown tools, but you'd also be up against large platform vendors (SNOW, SFDC, Power Platform, etc).

I guess Im wondering where large businesses fit in your target market. Not scrutiny, but I have personal interest in building tools for the enterprise space and wonder how startups approach that market. e.g.,

- Is this SaaS? Could this ever be self-hosted? **Edit - I see you've answered below & that you currently support self-hosted
- Do you intend to support enterprise identity/graph integrations (O365, Google, etc).
Presumably the original first commit was a CL on perforce, and copybara did not yet exist, so they arbitrarily did this when exporting to git.
Most of the changes are not _breaking_. There are new ways to do things but the old still works. You can have both an api controller and a minimal api in the same application. I agree that it is hard to know which version a specific blog post or tutorials works for.
Your point of view is just not mine.

For me Bitcoin has enough reasons to fail (hopefully fast).

If it will not, your future will come true anyway after BTC consumes a lot more resources. After BTC consumes a lot of renewable demand and supply for the downside of us all.

Quick note on GPU: I did say that gaming is beneficial for us. It's a cheap idle process.

Quick note on dribbling down effect: catching those gases needs jobs, new or updated cheaper technology or a gas network. Something which does not circumvent many in-between jobs like Bitcoin does.
Can you watch the game and read the article at the same time?
Do you have a contact method or a github?
>(Davis Square - where 7 streets meet)

This doesn't sound very square to me.

I'm totally amazed at how some cities do not have protected left turn signals. During high traffic times, this means you can litterally never have a gap. Which leads to the situation where once the light turns red, 3-4 cars wanting to turn left run the red light. LA was the worst of the places I've experienced this.
I made it a habit to speak to a friend every day of the week while taking my walk. The rest follows effortlessly - I usually rotate friends and end up with 7 to 10 people in a frequent conversation pool.
One thing is not clear. If person A has 10 items and asks for $10 per item and person B wants only 7 items for $10 per item, what happens? Person A just sells the 7 items and then waits for somebody else to pick the remaining ones? And vice versa what happens if someone wants to buy more stocks than what is offered?
Agree - the platform agnostic thing is only a recent reality - but, the "possibility" was there at the begining, and at the time the future seemed very bright. (The fact that they did not sue Mono into oblivion immediately was a good sign - of course, but then their historical trend of influental buy-outs continued with the eventual aquisition of Xamarin...)
Such an attractive trap.
Ah, I never fully understood how the market maker worked. I intuitively understood that buying/selling at market price gets you an instant trade at a possibly slightly worse price but didn't realise the market maker made money from that.

One thing the article doesn't mention is why people buy and sell stocks. The stock market used to be for companies to raise funds before they turned a profit. Usually for businesses like railways which need huge amounts of capital before they can even begin to operate. Nowadays it's usually companies that are already profitable. Speculation is also a much bigger concern for people than it probably should be. It used to be that just owning a share in a company was good because a company is (hopefully) productive and pays you a dividend. Now people only seem to think about "beating the market" which is a shame, I think.
https://polarisprogram.com/polaris-program-will-undertake-a-...

I can't tell if this is fundraising or straight up bragging. "We raised $240 million for St Jude Children's Hospital" ... by spending how much? They're selling swag but that doesn't appear to have serious commercial or influence potential.
I started with R, but then switched to Python because all pipelines were already written in Python (web-scrapers, some data-processing scripts, REST APIs), so I just learned pandas and it's been fine, although I do think dplyr's syntax is great and I prefer it to pandas'.
I thought this was something everyone learned when they were quite young.
Oh my, that’s just terrible. Really hoping this pep wont make it all the way. 100% unreadable.
I use phone as a wifi hotspot and file server with Termux (sshd, ftpd). Works pretty well.
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This is what makes Stories so powerful on Instagram, WhatsApp, FB, etc
This reminds me of the Cyberdecks people are building on cyberdeck reddit. Most of them have the same screen form factor.
That doesn't make it okay to invade a country and kill 50 k. people.

Above is the reason why they want to get away tbh, Russia can blame it on external factors all they want. But they lost a tremendous amount of support since 2014 (= invading Ukraine)
AWS Virtual Waiting Room – buffer users during peak or bursty traffic
Health economist here.

This is a great piece top to bottom. There is no credible objection I'm aware of to any of the deregulation proposals included herein. The American Medical Association will object, because they don't want the competition because it will have a negative effect on its members' incomes.

If you think health care is too expensive in the US, the changes proposed herein are Job 1. There is no reason why Mexican, Canadian, British, Indian, German, ... doctors should not be allowed to come and practice in the US with more than some cursory verification that they actually attended a medical school where they are from. There is no reason for anyone in the US to be denied a slot at medical school (not a particular medical school, but some medical school in general).

One final note: please don't be fooled into have sympathy for the large debts doctors incur through medical school. This is not the population which is deserving of student debt relief. I'm happy to shorten their education, of course, but doctors are consistently among the very highest paid people in American society. Retiring even a million dollars in debt (much larger than any number in this article) is not that hard on a highly-paid specialists' salary, which can easily average half a million dollars per year.

The author of the piece has proposed to do further pieces on an "Abundance Agenda" for the US. Essentially this looks at ways to increase supply in things which are currently expensive but don't have to be. I haven't read other parts of it but I strongly recommended following him and looking further into the idea.
Led by Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4, who last year was part of Inspiration4 mission.

I'm super confused how this programme works. Does Jared want to fund all these missions? If not, what is the "team's" contribution here?
Many causes have been put forward for this. However, I'm not sure the all safety aspects here have been well understood.

Here in Dublin, Ireland the few weeks immediately after the lockdowns where horrendous for driver behaviour and aggression. It took a while till behaviours were back to the norm. It was almost as if people needed to get reacquainted with it.
It's something I've seen a lot all over the internet in the last few years, but the reason it stops any insightful discussion is that people think that if you disagree with them you must be on the other extreme. After they decided that, there's no way to convince them you're not.
This only leads to people getting more and more extreme with their opinions, kinda like if you're not an extremist nobody will listen to you. I'm mostly talking about politics here but the crypto example you gave applies perfectly too, everyone is either a poorfag seething because they missed the train or an evil capitalist that has a huge farm of computers mining 24/7 that he calls his polution machine to make money.
Well, it is very natural to human behaviour and it can be controlled by making illusion, that majority think that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Kuran#Private_Truths,_Pu...

Another issue is what is going on in US, that for good or worse affects everyone else on this planet. Once the current civil war in US will be over, rest would relax and adapt to new reality.

And another issue with coments is that commenting is not communication - in a way, that it is not talk with other person. Comment to communication is the same communication, that lamp post is for a dog - where he leaves mark by pissing on it. So, this is the sad reality - we are dogs here leaving marks on internet territory. And that is the closest form to "communication". If you want proper communication, get a friend and have a tea or wine and have a proper talk. Here it is simply not possible.
Still, when you have a well-defined input and you can treat data as a flat string (no hierarchy), PCRE is probably the best choice you have - and certainly the fastest one.
Partly joke, partly true... the question that really matters for every AOSP developer out there: how much time did it take to "make clean/make dist"?

I'm still working with Android 11 and compile times are driving me insane. The ritual to compile, pack and flash super.img into the device is absurd.

Do you know if there is any improvement on that side?
Taking average statistics of a population group and applying them to individuals is pretty much the description of discrimination.

And anecdotally, I've met plenty of bonkers female drivers, too. Including two who tried to run my bicycle off the road because they felt that cyclists should not be on the road (in both cases, I was in the cycle lane).
Here is the release trailer for it if you would like to get a vague sense of it in action, since there’s just screenshots on the web page: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia097A0pKNM
> There’s a surprisingly large amount of middle class Americans who will retire millionaires

This seems like a serious bug in the system, doesn't it? Why would old people retire as millionaries while young people struggle working long hours and can barely save anything?
The police won't do anything, unless you get hit. But having a "dashcam" while walking is something I'd recommend. Some cyclists already do it. With that, at least in the worse cases, you'd have great evidence it was the driver's fault. Not having that uncertainty in an otherwise their-word-against-your-word situation should also make it easier to press charges or get insurance to pay.
Thank you for this. That first one in particular is probably exactly what I needed.

I guess the one downside of having lots of documentation (and third party guides/tutorials) is that it may take some time to update when there are significant changes
It's not clear why would anybody try to force a communication when there is no common interest, project, or actually any reason to communicate. It always looks fake and inevitably ends with discomfort. It's worth staying in touch if there is a topic to discuss, or mutual interest. If the whole routine is just for your own mental comfort that you are a "good" socialite, it's worth thinking twice before contacting yet another person out of the blue.

It's better to just go to a bar and meet new people instead of trying to return to the past.
This seems to be less about how a baby saved the day, and more about how an employee exfiltrated data from her employer. As a cybersecurity guy at a large financial institution, I wonder what Pixar’s policy was about the matter then, and what impact it had on the same policy today.
Yes that is true but in medal tables such as this one it would only count as two

https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/a...
This article explains what the stock market pretends to be.

This book explains what the stock market actually is: https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/0393...

It's much less friendly than it seems and only "efficient" for a select few.
On an episode of Darknet Diaries [1] (great podcast by the way), there was someone in a similar situation as you who goes by DAWGYG, who found his stride after incarceration on HackerOne [2]. If I remember correctly, he holds the record for highest single payout. You could give that a try, though income wouldn't be steady you'd effectively be working for yourself and utilizing your skillsets for good.

[1]: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/60/
[2]: https://www.hackerone.com/
$1M in Bleach Sold as ‘Miracle’ Cure, Officials Say
Surely a name with a lot of baggage for a rocket?
Why does every "don't use centralized software owned by someone else" here end up with tons of people plugging their favorite niche project as if the network effect doesn't exist?
Very well written, and funny too.

I wish there was a way to automate some of the lower buckets too. Things like "project consistency" (see his "12 buckets"), for instance, are incredibly important to me personally. IMHO, code should be written so that there is no visible personal style, so that newcomers and new engineers are able to follow what's going on regardless of who wrote it. A human can easily determine if the style of code is the same, or if it's different. It'd be fantastic if a machine could do the same.
You got the same behavior from Uber drivers. They'll park wherever is closest to their fare, regardless of whether it blocks traffic, because if they don't, the fare gives them a 1-star rating.

Cousin was a city cop. If he told them to move, they'd seriously just ignore him. Now ask yourself if you're going to ticket this guy and possibly suspend his livelihood when everyone else is doing it with virtual impunity?

It's a messed up system.
My God that is impressive. You seem like you tried to make it sound easy with your last paragraph. Technically speaking, what were the top three most impactful things you mastered on the journey to where you are?

In terms of employment, have you found it too difficult to make living off of bug bounties? Maybe there's crews that would see you as an asset. Or maybe contract based solo consultation?
Make them watch the Mirror instead. It's a much better introduction to Tarkovsky. (Solaris is much more of Crime and Punishment than Sci-Fi anyway)
> I'm not particularly talented

Stop telling yourself that. You wouldn't be #11 out of 25,000 if you weren't talented.

As long as you're open about your past and convictions, and your legal standing permits employment doing the work you'd do, then there's nothing stopping you from applying.

When you see a job posting then look at what the requirements are. If you fit more than half then you should apply. The things you don't know can be learned on-the-fly. You'll no doubt have interviews that try to find your strong points and weak points. You'll have failures. But that's not a problem: everyone has those.

This is your market: there are tons of companies that are hiring for your skillset and you'll land a job quickly if you're good enough at the core skills that are needed... which I'm sure you are.

Edit:
I would also add that I'm also completely self-taught. The only computer class I've taken was typing... and I got kicked out for cheating because it was boring. I've been employed in software for over 20 years and currently make $160k salary in TX, USA building software for drones. There are a lot of people in the computer industry who are self-taught. Don't let that stop you.
Hmm, take a look at minute 3:40 from this video: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/wonders-ancient-egypt/hiero...

I don't know too much about this, so I definitely could be mistaken, but the professor seems to say this hieroglyphic may be connected with our current letter "B". Also, I think he said something about "house" on another video and I believe it was different.
To be clear, I don't take any position about how to handle "ease of publishing" (I may have used inappropriate terminology, as I was referring to publishing of ideas from individuals). To me, it's an open problem.
1. How many of them technical?

2. How many of them are of a libertarian mindset? Or very politically active/vocal, otherwise?
Underdispersion in the Covid19 case/death numbers may suggest data manipulations
I relate to her quite a bit.
What helped me understand math was realizing, Math was a language that required an lot of effort to read, understand, write.

These days I find doing complex math with programming far far more understandable. I personally think my biggest blocker was the mathematical notation.
Sounds like they will be using SpaceX designed EVA suites, not NASA ones (which wouldn't fit through the hatch I don't think).