skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> mania is awesome fun ;)

That's what I was hoping for! just kidding. But no, for the most part I think I'm totally fine and I don't think vipassana caused anything new, I've always had intrusive thoughts and trouble focusing, but in general I'm fairly successful and lead a pretty normal life. Who knows what would have happened had I stayed, it's quite possible that things would have been much worse. I know I felt emotionally drained for a few weeks afterwards and almost numb.
ICC prosecutor: Team leaves to investigate war crimes in Ukraine
My company implemented 36hr weeks (done at noon Friday) about 6mo ago and it continues to be super popular/effective. It’s consistently the benefit we discuss/list as a favorite and our company is onboarding more users than ever (important for our growth).

Obviously it’d be ridiculous to say it helped our business grow outright, but it’s clearly not a hindrance and 6mo in there’s been no discussion of ending it. Hell our CEO has discussed canceling Friday entirely.
I also don't have kids and I don't necessarily prefer the office... but from over a decade now of experience working in remote and hybrid jobs, I've found that there is no substitute for shoving everyone in a room and telling them to figure out the problems with processes. Tons of things just never get resolved when working remotely because it's hard to communicate actual pain points to others because they'll only talk to you via instant messages or in brief video/voice chats. And it's hard to convey how much time people are losing to issues in projects. The issues don't pop up on a day to day basis, but they do pop up in long-tail projects and even in continuing development projects. And the worst is figuring out requirements remotely. When you're in person, you can pester people without their ability to filter you out until they get you the requirements. Remotely, well, they can simply just ignore you (and often do in my experience).

Yes, I like working remotely most of the time. But I like living close enough to the office that if needed, I can go slap someone upside the head on a whim.
Absolutely! A reasonably decent example would be a hearts implementation: http://book.adama-platform.com/examples/hearts.html

There is also a very simple tutorial built around chat: http://book.adama-platform.com/tutorial/04-space.html shows a very minimal example.
Six full time developers who wrote 15 microservices that each do one thing well should not be fired. The burden of microservices lies in the underlying infrastructure required to host them. So, assuming we have a competent infrastructure engineer, devops engineer, security engineer, site-reliability engineer, and a handful of other hats being done well... your six developers can write and maintain far more than 15 microservices assuming that each service has a clearly defined single-objective scope.

Because infrastructure complexity <> Software development complexity.
Running amd64 Docker images with Podman on Apple Silicon
There's nothing here about "we're the good guys", and the only naïvety in this thread is believing that Russia's invasion was caused by Ukraine wanting to join NATO... after Russia invaded, took Crimea, and established LNR/DNR puppet states in 2014.

Again, as a Ukrainian, let me tell you: it's never been about NATO. Russia has been suppressing Ukrainian statehood for centuries: betwen the disbanding of Zaporozhska Sich in the 1700's and the conquest of independent Ukraine by the Red Army in 1918, there's plenty of history before NATO even existed.

Read the editorial that Russian-controlled media has published about their victory in Ukraine ahead of schedule [1].

It's about control. It's about Ukrainian statehood being erased. It's about Ukrainians not existing as people, only as "little-o-Russians" - malorossy (they made up a goddamn word for us!). It's about Ukraine being permanently aligned with the Russian state, which, in turn, exists to serve the interests of one deranged person.

We don't want that. Please help us hold the line, because you'll be next if you don't.

Read that article to see the future Russia has in store for us — and for you.

To Russia, Ukraine "is not a country", merely a part of Russia that's behaving in error [2]. Of course, that vision is extensible to cover the entire world. Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic states, Eastern Europe (aka "brothers slavs") — and that's just the beginning.

Read it.

Thank you, and stand with Ukraine.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60562240

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/in-first-interview-since-departure-r...
A lot of people here seem to be assuming that "meditation" has to be "intense Buddhist practices deliberately designed to destroy your sense of self."

Maybe that's the problem? People read about "meditation" and don't realize what they're getting into? I don't get it.
My guess is that they had an inversion layer, tropospheric duct, or other enhancement condition. 43km is a long way on 0.02 watts.
Most Americans are told in school that it was necessary. Several states are trying to remove slavery from history classes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/texas-history-1836-pro... - Texas, Idaho, etc
> They were illegal as mass protest

Do you have a source for this? The only instances of arrests I can find are things like the above (illegal arrests) or people who trespassed on private property and were arrested for that. Meanwhile I can find plenty of stories of perfectly legal thousands-strong protests, which sounds like "mass protest" to me.

> I know the scope is different, but it is also good to keep in mind that bad things don't only happen in Russia.

Yes, but it depends on the purpose of placing that emphasis. "Even in a democracy we must be vigilant" is one thing. "We shouldn't condemn Russia for their human rights abuses because we're no different" is a very different message, and one that is manifestly false.
I disagree with these sort of bans on speech as well, and it has never been because I naively believe that the speech is harmless. It is because I believe that granting the government the authority to pick and choose which speech is harmful is far more dangerous, and prone to abuse. It is because I think it is beneficial for reasonable members of the public to be able to see what garbage the other side is being indoctrinated with. It is because I believe that the portion of the public who is mostly likely to believe the harmful speech will see the censorship as more proof that they should. Most importantly it is because I believe that sheltering people from harmful ideas might protect them in the short term, but won't prepare them to deal with the seductiveness of harmful ideas that sound right when they do slip through.
I had a similar horror story with Stripe recently where several customers got billed via payment methods that were explicitly disallowed on the subscription object. This cost us loads in unnecessary fees.

When I reached out to support, I also felt insulted and like I was begging my cable company to refund the $5 they owed me. They refused to acknowledge that their product is broken or take any blame.

I'm honestly just waiting for a good Stripe alternative to pop up so they can't get away with these product issues and bad customer support policies so easily.
I would love to have this capability for iOS apps.
I love the split / flex model!

See your POV easily though.

A decade ago, maybe a bit more, I consolidated into a backpack. Laptop, often second portable display, various adapters, chargers, clipboard, writing tools, phone, earbuds (I still prefer wired, if nothing more than the crazy good mic mine have), sewing, grooming, first aid...

Seems like a lot, but it isn't, and where I go the pack goes.

I can go from cold, arrive somewhere, and be up and running in a few minutes. Have not maintained a dedicated office for years now.

I do have dedicated work places, and have a few things, cheap things, duplicated for convenience.

These days, I have a home lab, work space, well equipped. Can do most anything I need there. This was not expensive, but I did also get gear over time too. Most of it was opportunistic buys. Total deals.

At work, any gear I need I either use where it is, or it is in my workspace.

The end result is a very mobile way. I am currently out of State for a week, and am pretty much fine, minus some gear, but I am also not needing to handle the associated roles either.

For quiet, I am on cell phone, no desk phone for the last decade. Use a spare room, my car, at home space, whatever.

The big perk is being where I both want and need a very high percentage of time.

Would hate full time at office. Would have to have one to start!
>who is not subject to police authority

How would you police these people? They would be like diplomats, only without a home country to keep them in line.
I'm the co-founder of a international money transfer comparison engine, AMA if you have questions about international money transfers from a consumer perspective.
This is marketing stupidity and has no place on HN.

Embarrassing.

Edit: OP (geox) is, more likely than not, a farm/bot account. Flagging @dang
Ask HN: What are today’s tech sub-cultures?
Ask HN: Should I give up and get a job?
I'm pretty discouraged, I'm 37 and I've tried numerous attempts over the last 20 years to start a software business as a solo founder and none have worked. I've been working part-time to cover the bills while I work on creating the software I hoped to turn into business. My wife and I plan to start a family in the next two years, and I need to start getting serious here for my family's future. The industry is really hot right now, and I can make great money if I just get a full-time job.

I'm building a programmable PostgreSQL proxy in Rust. The idea is to make it easy to consume the replication stream so it can do query caching with automatic invalidation, and so that people can build custom partitioning, caching, or real-time features on top of PostgreSQL. The proxy part is implemented, but there's still a lot of work to add the replication and caching features, and to test and polish everything to production standards - databases are serious business. The project is on github here: https://github.com/riverdb/riverdb

I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it. And then there's the task of marketing/selling it, which is way outside of my skillset.
Should I just give up (grow up?) and get a job? Is it worth pressing on here? I'm not consuming my savings, but neither am I making financial progress, and I'm not getting any younger.
Yeah, but is there any hard data supporting the idea that enlightened people (or people who meditate, or whatever) are more creative or do more interesting things with their time?

My vague understanding was that, given any objective measurement of psychological "success", enlightened people are statistically indistinguishable from un-enlightened people.

If they aren't, it certainly seems non-obvious to me. The world hasn't been taken over by a wave of super-mindful people who use their awareness of their own emotions to make the best decisions about everything.
The UK government hates the BBC, for starters.
Just guessing, but maybe you're in the US so it feels a little bit different to you...? This is what's it's like now in Denmark:

- We literally have 1 hour and 30 minutes of war updates before the half hour evening news every night.

- We've just delivered a huge batch of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine.

- We've basically sanctioned 90% of what is possible to sanction from Russia with more sanctions coming every day, plus private companies getting ahead of themselves to exit Russia the fastest, e.g. Maersk.

- People are volunteering to fight in Ukraine and our government has officially OK'd it.

- We're already taking in refugees coming in buses from the Ukraine.

It sure feels like we're at war here in all but name.
> Isn't the idea of kickstarter …

People will use tools for whatever they can. The idea of Etsy was that it was for just genuinely hand-made stuff but the rules have changed over time so it is full of mass-manufactured stuff too.

> Why would you use kickstarter in place of a preorder system?

Why not, if you can and it works?

This way the money comes in up-front instead of after production

And you have a very good guide for sizing the first production runs (instead of taking a chance on producing too many and having to sell at a discount or store at a cost).

Also, there is the chance that the crowdfunding status will generate free advertising, as is happening here.

And with this high an interest, with proof rather than it being a guess/belief, he can probably negotiate better rates with that publisher for these runs.
> Russia has a point-of-view on Eastern Europe that shouldn't be ignored.

Eastern Europe (and now especially Ukraine) has a point-of-view on Russia that you seem to be ignoring.
I'm not sure China is as motivated about the logical consistency of these positions as much as their strategic impact on China. In their defense, most countries only bother holding consistent positions when it is advantageous for them to do so.

As Mao Zedong put it, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".
Mistborn is a great trilogy, if you read book 1 and decide it's not for you then it's a fine stopping point. Book 3 is another great stopping point, either way you're not getting into a massive commitment like the Wheel of Time series or something. It's easy to read fantasy, characters don't break the fantasy rules laid out in the universe, the story is cohesive and comes to a satisfying conclusion. I was only mildly interested when I picked up the first book but I burned through the trilogy at light speed during quarantine. Highly recommended fun and easy reads.
httptoolkit is open-source.
this one doesn't seem so: no mention of open source on either homepage, nor on this Show HN intro
Europe can cut natural gas imports from Russia significantly within a year
I just wish there was a good enough equivalent of visual studio for C++ on linux, especially for its debugger.

I'm not sure Clion is good enough.

The usual answer I get is "use emacs or vim", but I really don't have the patience to use vim and gdb and configure it. I just don't want a terminal editor.

I like linux, but in all seriousness, visual studio C++ is just one of the things that makes me stay on windows. I don't see any good enough GUI editor to debug some C++ code on linux, with autocompletion and basic IDE features.
Ion Thursters: not just for Tie Fighters anymore
People noticed it, but companies also knew what defense learned: long-term planning efficiency plummets when working remotely. And that goes for whether you're just two different in-office design centers working together, or if the entire team is remote. I'm sure companies are starting to see the decrease in quality and efficiency of project planning and management starting to show now which is why they're looking to return to offices.
Yeah, stop writing novels! Plato was right.
Crop shapes outside of the desert cities: it learned shape and colour palettes separately.

Some shapes that seemed like roads but had small river deltas fanning out.
Honestly, it felt a lot like I was on psychedelics but without the visuals. I tried LSD once and mushrooms twice and there's this loop of thoughts and feelings that bubbles to the surface which felt very familiar during my meditation.

I honestly can't say what it is exactly but I do sometimes have intrusive thoughts which I learned recently is a form of OCD but only comes up in stressful situations, so maybe that was it?
To start, I think credibility on this question is important. I've been on the arms control beat since around 2017 when I first started to really worry about the strategic concerns of mass cyberattack. I befriended Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and Scott LaFoy after finding their podcast. I tipped their Patreon over to $100 a month, drank beers with them personally, and pushed one of the other Canadians that was a student at the time to go into something that required clearance because he seemed to want to build policy from the inside. He did so and worked directly for Nato for a while.

So while my background isn't really nuclear weapons per se, I'm better read on this than most.

This is the first time in my 36 years of life that I think that there is greater than a 0.5% chance that some kinda of nuclear attack happens in the next 30 days. Almost certainly one or two tactical nukes to scare the hell out of Europe, but still. Fog of war is a real thing and there are a lot of well-intentioned hackers really taking the gloves off against Russia right now, so this could escalate further.

I'm not alone on this. Where the world goes after this looks grim. I'm trying to control my anxiety and focus on work but so much suffering is in the balance. Even a 1% chance of nuclear attack is too much.
> Another nail in the coffin of the traditional "publishing industry" too. Expecting to see "edited and produced by" credits in books soon, and to pay attention to the names of those as much as the authors.

I think Scalzi had a good point about this not being a nail in the publishing industry's coffin: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/03/01/very-quick-thoughts-o...
Interesting. I mean raising $18M from this is kind of astonishing, I would expect he probably has barely earned that much over his entire career otherwise.
Ask HN: How do you set up a new TypeScript project for Node.js?
I always find me setting up typescript by hand when creating a new project.

This includes writing a nodemon-startup script in ``package.json``, setting an export for ``dist/index.js``, setting the type to module, tweaking ``tsconfig.json`` to support ES2020 or newer etc.

Is there any sane boiler plate which you use? For next.js, CRA and other web framework stuff countless typescript boilerplates exist, but I have yet to find anything which works for "normal" node.js projects.
As a reference, folks that fly quadcopters, drones and flying wings often will transmit at 1 to 2 watts of power using line of sight. (Yes, at the edge of legal.) .02 watts is an insignificant amount of power for radio transmission.
For that real solution you need to have a manager who approves spending time on removing unused cruft. Otherwise you'll end up smuggling refactoring inside other tasks, which is terrible for quality control.
This site is misleading, tricking you into entering your name on an ad. Also one of the individual country's input fields triggers Chrome's CC popup.
The USSR had global force projection, or close to it, just due to its geography.
Ah! Apologies, I'll edit my post, I meant mass arrest
That's not a point, that's a claim. They say they do, and they did release one piece of software open source. For the one they didn't release, they provided a rationale as to why not. Why do you claim that it's a "meaningless statement"?
I'm sure SpaceX is crying all the way to the bank about this.

Hopefully Blue Origin is able to actually produce an engine soon for some competition in the liquid fueled rocket market.
The repo is over here: https://github.com/alangibson/dontbeevil.rip

You'll be disappointed though as most of the important stuff only lives as BigQuery queries. I will be updating it in the near future though.
Thanks! Does deku work with records that are not byte-aligned? I checked out the examples and docs and all looked byte-aligned.
Is Ukrainian request to cancel Russian Internet a Russian psyop to discredit Ukraine? How do we know the comments in this thread are not psyop in defense of Russia having internet access? Hard to know who to trust anymore.
I’m sure that some teams are like that but it is not universal
Hey. This is really lovely, well done - an amazing, really easy to use, very intuitive tool. With my nerd hat on I definitely want to be able to export - I can't pin anything at all on a hosted service that I have no exit strategy from. I'm sure you'll be around forever - but, you know, there's no way I could build a client site on this or even one for myself without having that available to me.

One thing that would be really nice is to have a "publish to [netlify][github pages][sftp][other]" option...

Also - templating.

But from a UI / ease of use / flexibility point of view - amazing :-)
Confirm from my sources on the ground, the only wild card military-wise is Russian air force but occupant ground forces on their own ngmi.
Approximate locations of the setup & measurement on the OpenStreetMap:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm...
> If he has free time, why doesnt he finish those instead of writing new books??

Something he has spoken of in the past is he if dropped his side projects, like people sometimes ask, his output is likely to go down because these projects help recharge him so he stays motivated for the mainline projects.
> Are you going to be stuck in a place where you have to chase hypergrowth even when it doesn’t make sense for the business

Currently the business is doing well, which is driving growth. Even in a plausible worst-case scenario, given our favorable funding to date (last round was $275 million at $10 billion valuation) I don't see cause for concern.

> What are the 400 other people doing? Sales?

I gave very vague rounded-up numbers to give a sense for maximum scale, please don't read too much into the ratio between the numbers.
It seems silly to expect liquidity in bitcoin to support huge countries, and a bitcoin fork for each major side would be a mess
but there is a question of what neutral credibility a brand new world currency would have
> German rearmament, unified all parts of Ukraine, permanent stationment of US troops in frontier countries, pushed Sweden and Finland to Nato membership, started the real process of energy diversification in Europe, unified EU countries and destroyed Russia economy.

OTOH, for a dictatorship, of a just plain bad economy with no external actor to pin the blame on and a miserable economy with a clear external actor to blame and a grievance narrative, the latter can at times be more politically useful, though its obviously worse for the people: Russia may have lost strategically, but Russia-as-actor is a anthropomorphistic fiction. The harder question is has Putin lost strategically. And while there may be hope for that, I don’t think it is anywhere near as clear.
Creating the new open-source standard to deploy ML models
Hi HN,

We've just released the first open-source version of our model serving tool Inferrd. Our goal is making model deployment a breeze with:

•Maintenance-free environments. Just drag and drop your models, and get an API.

•Your data staying in your cloud. Have full control over where you send your data, and how it's processed.

•No more security compliance process to go through as Inferrd is self-hosted.

•No more pricing indexed on volume, as cloud-based solutions offer.

You can host Inferrd on your own cloud at github.com/inferrd or check out our managed version at Inferrd.com

This is the first version supporting SciKit, TensorFlow and ONNX. We're super eager for feedback to improve it and start serving more framework with more advanced features !
> India also has similar dilemma

This one’s closer to Stockholm syndrome. Russia sells weapons to Pakistan; it’s devolving into a Chinese vassal. India notices this, hence its purchases of e.g. French fighters, but it’s less a dilemma than a bad position.
WTF? Where did I say Jan 6th is the worst that could happen? I just said it is the sort of shit that happens when you let people consume propaganda. Of course that what is happening right now is way worse, as other things in the past have been.
No country can use NATO to claim other territories. Spain belongs to NATO since 1986, and the adhesion explicitly says that Ceuta, Melilla and Canary Islands are out of the pact, should Morocco claim them by force.

Do you really believe NATO will accept Ukraine without having Crimea or the Donbass explicitly excluded?