skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good commonsense stuff.

> Think hard about the problem for a few weeks before typing any code.

In my case, it's never more than overnight, but maybe it's because I am working on a smaller scope than the author.
Why are people even arguing about space travel vs solving poverty? Just imagine if all of Musk's wealth is seized by the US government, would that solve poverty or homelessness or even make a difference?
Obviously not, Musk's billions are barely a drop in a bucket. The US government printed and spent Trillions during the pandemic, and that barely made some people's life better.

Most of the problems that we're having on Earth, including poverty, homelessness and climate change, are in fact socio-political problems and they can't be solved with any realistic amount of money. The only way to solve them is through either strong socio-political coordination or very advanced technology (AI, nuclear fusion etc.)
> the war on Russia

That’s a funny way to spell “Russia’s war on Ukraine”. :)
Yep -- I love this video. The detail he went into on this is remarkable; it taught me a few things about the limits of pretend sunlight as a photographer, and why some pretences work and others don't.
Project page at https://zlib.net/
There is a picture of the French edition of the algebra one here:

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22497336...
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this!

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Russia's financial meltdown and the global dollar system
I’ve always said that something like this could be a cool idea, but I don’t get why nft/blockchain is necessary.
Speaking about the Ubisoft nft thing (because I understand it the best), Steam marketplace has been doing the same thing very well for years, offering a very similar expirence. Is there something I’m missing?
I drive a 2009 BMW X5 and frankly I never want to change :)
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson was the inventor of Board Shorts (the shorts for surfers... he then went on to invent several other garments - then founded lululemon...

His episode on how I built this is REALLY interesting.
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The first of many Russian bank crashes perhaps and it will only get worse from here.

That is unless Putin withdraws from Ukraine.
I was told by my philosophy professor that Kant was a big walker/hiker. I believe einstein said he got his eureka moments in dreams while napping/sleeping. It may be myth, but Martin Luther apparently got his revelations on the toilet. I don't remember if it was benjamin franklin who credit his contributions to bathing. And I'm sure there have been a few thinkers who praised alcohol. Whatever works I guess.
In "Ilium/Olympos" by Dan Simmons, the post-human society is riddled with quantum magic. Achilles has had his future narrowed down to two possibilities: dying at a specific time after being shot in the heel by an arrow shot by Paris, or dying of old age in bed.
This was every day life as a Cold War Kid. The threat of nuclear annihilation hung over us every day.

Here's the thing - I don't think all-out nuclear war needs to be feared. I recall an exercise the USAF did several years ago where they prepared to launch the entire fleet of land-based missiles. Only 10% of the silos were able to open adequately enough to allow a launch. Of those able to launch, only a fraction would be able to launch due to the age of the launch vehicles. Of those able to launch only a fraction will be able to detonate - again due to aging issues. Of those actually capable of launching, several will be taken out by anti-missile defense systems. Only a fraction of a percentage of the missiles would be able to launch, not be destroyed during transit, and be able to detonate. Yes, things would be horrible for the folks where the bombs actually detonated, but it's not the civilization-ending event as once feared.

Since I'm a Cold War Kid, I hail from the era where nuclear arms were viewed as strategic weapons - they were a threat, a deterrence. They were never seen as an offensive weapon. Now as the decades have passed we don't even see them as much of a deterrence any longer - especially since the country using them will be exiled from the rest of the civilized world for the foreseeable future.

Bottom line? Don't worry about it. If Putin decides to launch then that will be the last you see or hear from the Russian Federation for a long, long time.
There was a video earlier this month on Half As Interesting about this railway: https://youtu.be/oP1Oq3JLNbc

HAI makes interesting, short, sarcastic videos about obscure topics that HNers will probably enjoy.
Do you have smooth scrolling in Emacs? How do you sync your work with your smartphone?
Why isn’t Hawaii using geothermal?
and GPL license
It's not, but trying to keep things simple. Could have been something like cooking a steak in a pan where timing is everything.
All math? Almost all science? Almost all art?
I fail to understand why people like nuclear so much.

Risks aside, renewables are cheaper. So why use an outdated technology like nuclear?

(Now, fission would be a different story. I am all for researching this intensively).
Do you live in a house with your own dedicated charger? How does this apply to someone living in an apartment or other similar situation to not having dedicated chargers?
I'll take a shot, assuming that you are asking how to manage a technology team, not how to understand technology at a wider scale. You need both tech leadership and end-to-end/shallow-deep abilities. But the tech side is a different question entirely. Looks like some other folks have provided answers so I won't go there. (The tech side is a lot to go into in a thread, and would include some kind of conversation figuring out where you are technically. "I'm a SWE" doesn't begin to cover it.)

Without any thought at all:

- One Minute Manager

- Debugging the development process

- The Culture Code

- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

- Difficult Conversations

Take some negotiation and interviewing hands-on courses.
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> Dimming is crap.

Agreed LED dimming is crap, but incandescent is not so bad. Mainly because it dims toward red, simulating the day -> sunset -> fire transition. Apart from flickering, my gripe with LED is that it stays a constant color which looks unnatural even with a 2700K bulb.
There are quite a lot of valid concerns against nuclear power. As you wrote, the current generation was aging and would not have operated much longer anyway. There are valid concerns about nuclear waste (we just don't have a solution, but if that was the only thing, I would also argue, lets solve that problem another day). There are valid concerns about operational safety and due to recent events, even huge concerns about what happens when a nuclear reactor gets hit by a rocket. Lets hope we don't find out in Ukraine.

But the argument which makes the discussion now mostly irrelevant is simply: all available and reasonable designs are vastly expensive and take at least a decade to build, if not two including planning. That makes the question just moot. Not even France, which is all-in on nuclear has an answer to that.

Renewables are comparatively cheap and can be set up quickly. Germany already depends to a large part on renewable electricity. That is the cheap and efficient way forward. On top of that, nuclear power plants don't work well together with renewables, as they can't switch their output level enough.

Gas is the ideal partner for renewables and eventually will also be produced from renewable energy. Just recent events messed up the plan a bit, but not too much. We have to push quicker for renewables and pay a bit more for gas.
As a pathologic over-thinker, I need a Universe merger app, any suggestions? :)
I spent a few years working in a kitchen, and those are the two items I took away myself - before I start cooking I clear out the dish rack, and then I have a sink full of soap and water and most of the chopping is done before I even turn on the stove-top.
On that topic, I can highly recommend a Sci-Fi novella called "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" by Ted Chiang (the movie Arrival is based on one of his other novels). Concerns a device that also splits the universe, but allows a limited amount of information transfer between the two splits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_Is_the_Dizziness_of_Fr...
Then my question is 'what defines "until it has to be"?'.

This could be consciousness - in which case my theory applies again ('which branches do you apply the consciousness to?')
I use accessibility features, they're not enough so that I can sit a proper distance from my laptop and work all day.

My whole issue is that light isn't getting scattered properly inside of my eye, right? Hasn't anyone looked into a display technology that focuses the light I want to see into my eye anyways? I feel like this is the kind of ground breaking research that changes the world, not how to pack 10 different cameras onto the back of an iPhone, guess that's just me.
There’s no shortage of qualified people wanting to become doctors, and yet they only make 2-5x what the average person makes in the US. This is exactly my point. I’m not saying CEO should be a badly paid job, I’m saying beyond a saturation point, you don’t get more/better people if you pay more. I suspect the saturation point is more like 5-10x not the 30x to 300x we’ve seen in the past 40 years
My guess is that its for the same reason phones battery life hasn't really changed much over the years: the current range is enough for most people. 300 ish miles is enough for local driving for a few days without worrying about recharging, and enough that most people will need to take a break when driving long distance more often than the car needs recharging.
Are you suggesting Russian intelligence took down their own sites? It hasn't been used to justify counterattacks, so I don't see what the benefit would be.
The Jones Act has already made Hawaii's economy really difficult, but it might be about to get really worse. Hawaii gets a third or more crude oil from Russia, and with recent sanctions, it's unclear if that will continue. If it doesn't that means Hawaii will need to purchase much more expensive oil from the mainland.

> It is much cheaper for Hawaii to buy oil from Russia than from the U.S., even though the per-barrel cost of oil from Russia is more expensive than from Texas.

> Blame the Jones Act. The 1920 federal maritime law requires all goods shipped between American ports to be on vessels that are U.S. flagged, built and mostly owned and crewed by Americans.

> The result of more than a century of protectionism has been that U.S. ships are more expensive to build and operate, with the additional costs inevitably passed on to consumers. In other words, the added cost of using American ships makes it more expensive for Hawaii to buy oil from Texas than from Russia. [1]

[1] https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2022/02/jones-act-threate...
IMHO, this book is better read after at least reading Goldratt's The Goal. It's a sort of spiritual sequel. His Critical Chain is also worth reading before or after The Phoenix Project as it has a more direct connection.

The Goal, as written, is about manufacturing processes and a lot of people have trouble seeing past that domain when reading it. That is, they fail to generalize, or understand how to generalize, the ideas of Theory of Constraints. Critical Chain takes, essentially, the same Theory of Constraints and applies it to project management, versus production management. The Phoenix Project continues that sort of explicit extension by moving from general project management to IT systems management.
Sentiment Analysis, Part 3– Data annotation
Good morning/afternoon!

I am back with the 3rd blog post of the series about Sentiment Analysis. This one is about Data Annotation, which is a concept that doesn't only apply to Sentiment Analysis but to any projects in which you need annotated data.

If you don't know what is Data Annotation or if you want to know more about it, I suggest you take a look at this blog post: https://medium.com/besedo-engineering/sentiment-analysis-par...

I hope this blog post will be useful to you and, as always, any feedback is welcome
Blogspam: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/25/apple-explores-mac-insi...

They don't even hide it:

> The lengthy patent filing, which was unearthed by Macrumors, ...
Your former colleagues are most likely shocked and very, very worried about their livelihood and gloom future prospects. Be considerate, approach them in the same manner as other people in a serious crisis. Personally, I'd be delighted if a former foreign coworker asked me how I'm doing and small talked a bit. Conversing with other people in a similar situation gets old day by day.
Exactly.

Maybe Minecraft will be gone in 5 years because Microsoft releases a Minecraft 2.

Then it will not have stood the test of time. while the Mona Lisa and canned food is still there.
That's why I created this account to NOT contribute, just like this guy.
> while completely ignoring the immediate threat of radiation, which cannot be reversed for hundreds of thousands of years.

Waiting hundreds of thousands of years is the simplest way to reverse the "threat of radiation". Each radioactive isotope has a half-life; if you wait ten half-lives, the "threat of radiation" is reduced by a thousand times, and the isotopes with very long half-lives aren't that radioactive to start with (roughly simplifying, the shorter the half-life, the more intense the radiation).
Hi,
This is really interesting. I'd like to know more about your experience/setup/toolchain/charts/strategies around it if not confidencial.

Mainly, what do you do of backups? Is it possible to instantly restore any snapshot? What are the database sizes on average etc?

Ever had issues with volumes attaching/detaching? Would be nice if you could blog about your setup/experiences.
AWS Lambda doesn't run a container like one might expect, but it treats the files in the Docker image basically the same as if it's be a regular AWS Lambda runtime rootfs + your application code. So if there are differences in cold start time, reasons for that could be that a docker image is fetched from ECR instead of S3 for regular Lambda packages and that a docker image is likely larger than the usual Lambda package.
Tounge-numbing sensation
~95-99% of humanity across recorded history was ruled by dictators and autocrats of various stripes and colors.

Liberal democracy is the weird historical aberration, I'm not sure that claims made from its perspective are as normative as you think. Given some political trends we're observing, and its poor overall track record in dealing with relatively simple crises (COVID), it's still too early to tell whether or not it can survive in the long term.
... after suspected cyber attack of a supplier would have been non-clickbait. As it is, it fooled me and so I say it's clickbait.
Why Isn't This on NPM?
I’ve noticed several politicians (including the one in the article) using false binary dilemmas as a premise to pander for votes. Even though, like you pointed out, trillions have been printed and yet lives have not improved.

They know they can’t fix it but they pander to the votes
I meant from the civil power program, not weapons development.
> The people I have, on average, spent 5x8hr days working with for the past few years. My comrades. My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer.

Makes you wonder how they'd treat you if you ended up in dire straits.
The following about the sentiment towards nuclear power in Germany:

- Germany is a densely populated country and Germans have always been sensitive towards environmental pollution.
- Nuclear fallout is a reality as every consumer of mushrooms from Bavarian forests knows that are still today contaminated with caesium-137.
- Finding a secure final storage for nuclear waste has failed. The front-runner in Gorleben proved to be unreliable after decades of serving as a temporary storage.
- Most Germans believe that their country would have been obliterated if a nuclear war between East and West had turned hot.
- Most Germans find that nuclear power generation comes with the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

From this vantage point, nuclear is not all that attractive.
I’m not making any assumptions- that’s the whole point. We don’t know if it was random or not. The original headline suggested Toyota was the direct target. If that was so, it would be some evidence that it was retaliation. But, Toyota wasn’t directly targeted, so the headline is misleading.
Great. They don't mention this on the main website but I hadn't spotted it in the blog until now -- thanks for this.
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>Why does HN care so much about BPs image that they must clear it of any potential bribery claims?

You see nothing wrong with uncritically accepting any accusation of corporate wrongdoing? Is the truth not important to you?
I would encourage anyone trying to help to make their own decisions and research their own local laws.

And be aware also that if such a group is accessible to casual outsiders - it is almost certainly being surveilled and infiltrated.
Even though there's no direct heat it will continue to cook.
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> Is a person living in a shared room tenement "living like a prince" because elements of his material existence are similar to medieval castle life...

There is no nuance to the answer. There is no meaningful and sincere way to interpret sharing a room in a tenement as living like a prince.
I'm shocked that noone mentioned Kent Beck and JUnit. JUnit is one of the most widely-used libraries out there.
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

― Tom Clancy and Mark Twain
Yes, but in the winter wind is quite strong. There will be large storage needs, but mostly in the range of days. The electricity networks are connected all over Europe and production and consumption is already handled on an European level. This will extend more and together with the built-up of much capacity mean, that storage needs are not as high as some put them.
absolutely, I second this. These days I'm stuck with endless meetings and not getting anything done. But I made a habit of jogging in the evenings and so much of productive hours in just 45mins or soo..
Valid point, but the lack of empathy among the people I follow is concerning.
The difference is lawyers are paid to find loopholes. And to persuade judges and juries their creative interpretation is valid.

Software lacks the persuasion element. The CPU either runs the code or it doesn't. You fix edge cases by making all possible states explicit, not by arguing with the CPU that it should do something differently to set a precedent.
That's interesting. It's a data workspace platform called Hex. It's really something more like a Jupyter Notebook than a simple webpage.

I wrote some python code that's generating those charts. You're right that's overkill for what it ended up being.

I initially played around with giving the reader the ability to set their onion chopping time and see how it played out. It was getting a little complicated for the point I was trying to make I think.

EDIT: I've added that in now, which helps make it a little more fun I think.
Maybe Hacker News automatically recapitalized the title. It would make sense if it tries to forbid clickbaity titles like "ExampleDB, a POWERFUL NEW DATABASE".
All they had to do is add 2 words ("on supplier") but decided not too probably to make it sound like Toyota, a billion dollar company doesn't have good cyber security.
Would it be ok if I published all post titles that were modified, posts & comments that were deleted/hidden on a third party website? (in other words, would you ban me for looking up that information? because I know that you would make up a great dictator)

https://imgur.com/yggna1A.png
Ukraine Amateur Radio Ban
I was thinking something similar recently. When an army leaves the safety of its homeland to invade another country, it becomes vulnerable to its supply lines being cut off and being stranded in a foreign country with lack of fuel, food/water, and/or ammo.

We’re already seeing scattered anecdotal examples of this happening to the Russian invasion force even without their supply lines being directly attacked. I wonder how difficult it would be for Western powers to assemble a fleet of drones, stick a bunch of Ukrainian flag decals on them, and then attack and disrupt the main Russian supply lines into Ukraine.

It would only take a few days of that before the Russian army runs out of material to fight the war with. Then Ukrainian troops can force a surrender, round them up, treat them appropriately under the Geneva Conventions, and then offer and encourage them to accept political asylum in the West. (Same with Belarus if they invade). Destroy or confiscate the materials.

Then boom, Russia no longer has an army. And without the West ever directly attacking the Russian (or Belorussian) homeland.
You need a taxonomy of what makes problems 'hard' to attack hard problems.

For instance I often find solving problems with CSS 'hard' and that is some combination of the complexity of the environment (the web browser), my own ignorance, and the tendency for the code I'm working on to have been developed based on the "look it up on Google/Stackoverflow" such that I don't have a solid foundation to work on.

Another kind of 'hard' problem that I relish are problems that are hard because of circular dependencies and I find it really rewarding to go over the problem again and again until I've found the irreducible core of circularity, build a minimum-size system that resolves it, and then build the rest of the system as a set of clean layers on top of it, often using techniques such as code generation.
Michelangelo's David :)
I actually switched to a treadmill and took a course in running and minimalist shoes (which I thought were BS before) and changed my running form. Got rid of my shin splints and knee pain. No impact issues... was a weird transition, though. Learning to run like a boxer stands was more difficult than I thought it would be. I can run for about a mile, mile and a half on the concrete, outside before I realize I'm doing damage and have to stop... getting old sucks =) I do have a bike, but somehow it doesn't do the same disassociation for me. Not sure why. I think it has to be something I hate, personally, to get me over the hump and force me out of my own body.
> This is also due to the ecological impact it had on Germany.

What impact did it had on the environment in Germany?
Yeah, but did you ever see this interview in the Vancouver magazine the Tyee about how he named the company lululemon so he could hear japanese women pronounce it 'rururemon'?
Denounce Putin or lose your job: Russian conductor Gergiev given an ultimatum
Literature. Pretty much all of the greatest stories ever told came from the mind of one person.
I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house
Historic sanctions on Russia had roots in emotional appeal from Zelensky