skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that other countries have the possibility of being more independent, but for us, due to historical reasons is more difficult

El Salvador is linked to the United States in many ways.

Currency is only one, but also 20% of our population lives in the U.S, 24% of our GDP comes from remittances from mainly the U.S., 42% of our imports and 34% of our exports, the second largest city by Salvadoran population is Los Angeles California, most of our airports flights are to the U.S, most of our internet is routed in Miami.

Using other currency than the USD would make every transaction and remmitance a little bit more expensive due to the exchange rate margin.

I'm also aware of the recent inflation in the U.S, which we can't really do much about.

In a longer term though, in the past 20 years, the USD has been a more stable currency than any other Latin American currency except perhaps the neighboring country's Guatemalan Quetzal (GTQ).[1]

We also have lower loan interest rates than neighboring countries, and can apply to longer term mortgages.

[1] There are other exceptions like the Belize Dollar and Panama Balboa which are pegged to USD. Or French Guyana which uses EUR.
Instagram is hard to scape. They don't want people having that data. How about searching old hashtag results by date
>What distros haven't moved to systemd at this point?

The one that has the biggest impact on my life is Alpine, because I run postmarketOS on my phone which is an Alpine derivative. It has OpenRC instead, which doesn't have the ability to auto-restart crashed services (it doesn't do any action when a service crashes, by design), doesn't do socket activation, and doesn't support running as a user instance for a user session.
The blogger here is 100% positive that the black case material was precisely the same cost as the white material? What Apple engineer gave them this information?
Never heard of this product before, did you guys recently launched? What are the differences between you and ScrapingBee?
Exhibit A is showing the difference beween producing value and profit
Thanks for posting! I love the topic - I've written before [1] about how I think spreadsheets are the most popular programming paradigm ever, we just don't talk about it much.

I personally think that the evolution of spreadsheets is less about changing the UI, and instead making it possible for spreadsheet users to easily transition to more powerful programming tools in a natural and easy way. So I've spent the past 2 years building Mito [2].

Mito is a spreadsheet extension to your JupyterLab environment. You can display any Pandas dataframe as a spreadsheet, and edit it in a very similar way to Excel. For each edit you make, it generates the corresponding Python code below for those edits. Practically, you can think about Mito as recording a macro, but instead of generating scummy-crummy VBA code, it generates Python.

We currently have two types of users. 1) Excel users from a huge variety of industries who are somewhere in their journey to learning Python - and Mito helps them write Python scripts quickly and make that transition easier. 2) Python users who prefer using Mito because of it's visual interface. I pretty much only use Mito when I'm trying to pivot or graph data - some things really just are better visually, especially when you get code out that you can edit if you want!

We're open core [3], and also sell a Pro and Enterprise versions of the tool with advanced functionality. We've been steadily growing for the past year or so, as the product has improved (first time founder here!).

Feedback greatly appreciated!

[1] https://naterush.io/blog/Spreadsheets-are-the-Ultimate-Progr...

[2] https://trymito.io

[3] https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo
It sounds like you are looking for Excel's PowerQuery functionality? You should not need to bring the data into Access, or write Macro's to do what you are doing anymore (Macro's were required in older versions of Excel, but not newer ones that have the data modelling capabilities).

This effectively is a data pipeline built within Excel that can either be edited visually or in 'M-Code'.
> We run up against the problem that we're not hosting one application globally, but rather a zillion applications; every node needs to know about every instance of every application.

Have you considered nerd-sniping colmmacc? ;)
Trino: The Open-Source Data Query Engine That Split from Facebook
M1 is a beast.

But Intel 11th and 12th gen laptop processors beat M1 in single-core processing. See chart: https://i.imgur.com/KoNjGq5.png

Here's an article from 3 months ago comparing them: https://www.pcworld.com/article/608419/laptop-brawl-apples-m...

(that intel laptop beat M1 Pro in multi-core too)

(and M1's integrated GPU got destroyed by RTX 3080 laptops in OpenCL but that could be due to architecture/emulation)

I think it's not a fair comparison since M1 runs much more efficiently. Almost different purposes.
> It perpetuates the myth that there's something really special about Silicon Valley engineers

Does this myth still have much traction? If anything, my general regard for engineers in the bay area has steadily declined in the last few years. There are so many really worthless folks who have only figured out how look like they have a clue, but go any deeper and they flail. I know I'm painting with a broad brush, and that's not fair, but most of the great engineers I work with are at various other places around the country, not California.
What are standard tools and shell features? Bash + GNU? Those might be consistently installed on common Linux distros but that doesn't work across *nix systems (Linux, macOS, BSD). That probably won't work against less-common Linux setups like anything embedded (busybox or container images) either
I find general computing skills to be one of the best predictors for overall employee performance.
Modern cars are already hackable - there has been several demonstrations where people connected to the car stereo, and through a chain of exploits could get access to the streering/breaking ICUs, essentially taking the car over.

Yet there has been no report of this exploit used maliciously in the wild.
Thanks! There is definitely a full range, from being a "science project" running things like varnish or Redis from inside PG. The turnkey apps are maybe really easy and useful in certain cases. But you nailed it with some that are really just simple but practical like pganalyze. For us it's a lot of fun because you have practical, but then can do the absolute crazy things because sometimes software engineering should be fun.
Well, what's reasonable? As my hardline progressive friends have pointed out to me, conventional medical practice employs racial triage in all sorts of contexts (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/take-racism-out-o..., although I don't agree with 100% of their analysis), so you're right that this isn't new or unique. But it's a big problem despite being old! If you went to your doctor for a sinus infection, and she held up a little skin color chart to decide whether you're allowed to have antibiotics, nobody would struggle to identify that as unacceptable even if you had unimpeachable studies showing racial disparities in sinus infection rates.
No, you’re definitely right. I’m not sure where the author of this article got the idea that Lebanese citizens are in any way “turning to cryptocurrency”. Most blanket statements about losing faith in banks and whatnot come from a Mark Iskandar, who is a CEO of a cryptocurrency company, the one who set up the bitcoin atms mentioned.

The article briefly mentions power problems, before misleadingly suggesting a solution is to trade bitcoin instead of mining it, because “no machines are involved in the trading process” (false). Later on in the article, the crypto company responsible for the atms says their solution is to rent electricity from other people to mine in exchange for a bit of money, which is heavily downplaying the amount of power needed to make mining profitable.

Unless I’m missing something, this article seems to have a lot of text, but doesn’t actually say much.
The argument is the US system is more accountable, fair, and able to be resisted. Not perfect by any means, but I see a lot of daylight between the two governments.
Adversity and Stoicism is sort of his shtick. If you aren't aware of who he is its understandable how you'd be like "well this isn't what I wanted," and part of where HN/Reddit links can get weird for me. People who frequent a particular site know what they are in for from the title because they have the context of the person. Link sites are just places with a lot of information with some flavor but not to the same degree.
I still have the dream that I can use a Pi as my main desktop and main laptop. I still need more CPU/GPU power and more connections, so the dream is not here yet. It will come some day. My main desktop now is an AMD A8 from 2015, which suits me just fine. My laptop has a Celeron from 2015, which is too weak for me. I would desire to have something like that AMD A8, but smaller, cheaper and lower power consumption. It will get there.
"If things go well, they skip right to the technical interview at real companies (which is also fully anonymous)."

So the most I'll get out of this is to skip the initial screening interview and jump straight to the "real" interview? Or do I even get that?
Having an outage is not the same as forgetting your bank balance, even if you see a scary $0 when you log in during the outage.

But I agree it's definitely a thing that can prevent you accomplishing the thing you want to do with your money, during the outage.

But if we're talking "outage" then bitcoin fees going over $25 is probably also fair to classify as an outage as a currency. And that happens too.
I'm confused. Is this a tablet app? Some sort of JS demo? Just an idea?
"Gotcha. I'm also excited about the modern distributed databases. They're pretty awesome."

Awesome!

"HN comment is not the right place to design a resilient DB setup."

Why not?

In my experience, HN is always the place to talk about building stuff, running stuff, and how to do that better. :)
In these unstable countries you can see people walking away from cash. How much inflation in the US and around the world will people tolerate before diversifying into crypto. Looks like the ball is already rolling.

The market cap for bitcoin is only a trillion, once it's up to around 100 trillion the price will be a lot more stable just like the dollar itself.
Curious why you look to be getting downvoted.

One thing when I looked at the data. Despite the hype / orthodoxy on the left about blacks and hispanics being the ones getting / dying from covid (disproportionate effect). The actual differences were not that large.

"Black people make up a similar share of cases relative to their share of the population (13%), but account for a slightly higher share of deaths compared to their population share (14% vs. 13%). This pattern has been consistent since October 2021."

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-1...

So yes, disproportionate to a degree, but I feel the messaging ran away with this racial disparity angle. This was a fact changing virus, and spread was not even by community. In other words, asian community may have been hit hard early? But now has a pretty low rate?
It's insane to me that we have to rehash everything every time. You graduate, you leetcode, you rehearse for a round of interview, and then you have to that all over again. So boring.
> The woke disease. Which has also taken our world close to WW3 recently.

Reference?
Love me some supabase... probably the most fun platform out there at the moment.
> But I teach students both C++ and Rust, and by far Rust is preferred. It’s never even a contest.

Why is Rust preferred though? Is it "fearless concurrency" (or whatever the old tag line was), a more modern stdlib, or is it Rust's tooling with `cargo` rather the shitty tool-scape of C++'s make/cmake/meson and vcpkg/conan and whatever else.
When Apple's top end headphones cost $600, and plenty of headphones saree in the $300 range, I don't think it's a cost thing. I wish there were headphones that did this, that would be a real game changer.
> You are comparing crypto to a service that a third party provides on top of fiat. It's not a fair comparison as there is nothing stopping third parties providing the same service on top of crypto (and the third party does not necessary need human intervention to function when both parties act in good faith).

You're missing the point: the GGP said "cryptocurrencies solve the issue of trust" but they clearly haven't in any practical sense.

It also a fair comparison, because I don't share the ideological obsessions that motivate cryptocurrency, nor have I made a speculative bet on it where I feel the compulsion to shill for it to save my own skin. As a practical matter, cryptocurrency is stupid and compares poorly to non-cryptocurrency alternatives in nearly all use caseses. It may make sense in some unusual ridiculously contrived use case, but that proves my point.

> Keeping track of balances is a tough problem that did not (and still doesn't) have a good solution for after many decades of operation.

That's not true: it has a sufficiently good solution that nearly the entire economy runs off of it. Meanwhile, the supposed "better" solutions are less scalable and use more electricity than Argentina to perform operations that a typical desktop PC is powerful enough to do.
Cool, you should talk to ModernMech, he’s having trouble with power management. Or indeed any of the folks on this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30644113
Wait, isn’t that the book where the guy stayed there for like 2 years just to log all the crazy stuff that happened so he could write a book? Weren’t people like having sex in the company beds during work hours?
Then the market isn’t a benefactor because it isn’t properly functioning/free (from corruption) as they so often aren’t.

Harsh shores of reality also crash on capitalism.
We regularly have [2015] flags on articles, in that regard this place is probably better than 99% of the internet.

After all, an article is to inform the current audience, and debates should not last forever.
Not quite.

The idea of "basic blocks", key to optimizing compiler, was invented by the team that wrote the Fortran I compiler in Fortran I. See https://ucla-biostat-257-2020spring.github.io/readings/fortr...
> Their tiny Molotov cocktails featuring the Ukrainian flag went just as fast.

Lego has always had a delicate position as really popular but needing to be on the positive, “play well” side of things. This isn’t a Lego Group product but is essentially a fan club addition. Seems more visceral than an Imperial Storm Trooper blaster and yet is of course way less destructive. (Assuming in the play universe that blasters actually exist.)
Belief is a real word with meaning in the secular context as well.

Belief can be informed by evidence or not. It simply means acceptance or confidence that something is true. You can have faith in the available evidence, or faith in the absence of evidence.
Erowid's previous name was hyperreal.org - '96 snapshot:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961226004356/http://hyperreal....

previous to that it was a mailing list from '92:

https://web.archive.org/web/19971224110422/http://hyperreal....

The founder has other items to his credit :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Behlendorf
My big fear with asteroid mining is that if you can move an asteroid to Earth orbit, you can also smash it into any capital city or military base on Earth.

Which means that this capability is a weapon more powerful than even nuclear missiles!

I don't think the world will let this be run on the honor system. So I expect space travel to become extremely tightly controlled once we get close to this tech level.
As Terence McKenna said, "When you get the message, hang up the phone."

It's useful advice, for those who don't want to get burnt out on acid. So many suffer the 'grim meathook reality' as Hunter Thompson wrote. I mean psychedelics do induce spiritual experiences when the set & setting is right, but too many over-indulge and think they're the Messiah / Second Coming after it all, which is dangerous.

Also: the west has no shamanic centers where we can do psychedelics safely, apart from the Native American churches where you can do peyote rituals without getting arrested. Sadly the men in white coats are the closest thing to a shaman you can get in the West, and we sometimes need a sitter/guide especially with high doses, preferably someone who has done it before multiple times, and can calm you down incase you start having very pronounced anxiety.
after buying a system76 oryx pro i dont think i could ever buy another system76 again.. the heat on this thing is intense among the many problems I've had. Sad too because I thought it was going to be my workhorse for years
https://archive.ph/dikTJ
You make some good points. For me, my Chromebook, if still working in a couple of years, will be handed down to my kids to watch YouTube and surf the net. I rarely sell computers once I've used them. While Apple does offer iCloud as a backup, I dislike storing anything locally. This is where Google really shines. If something happens to this Chromebook that's fatal, I take a ball peen hammer to the SSD and screen, chuck it in the trash, buy a new one, and in less than 5 minutes, I am back up and running with almost nothing to configure. This is hard to beat. Since I do most of my work on remote servers, I really don't need more than this, but I understand why others do and can appreciate it. I guess I'm just tired of quite a few people I work around looking at me and my choices with disdain because they're not Apple. I have nothing against Apple HW or SW. It's not my need or want, but I understand why others feel differently.
> It would be a misconception to look at your standard internal combustion car as a fundamentally mechanical device. Today's cars are some of the most complex electronic systems mankind has ever made.

As a car restorer, mechanic and enthusiast, yes. This is also why bringing a car in for service has ballooned in cost over recent years. Oddly, it’s become remarkably _easy_ to chase down a problem in a car because the systems will just tell you exactly what’s wrong. Now it’s just a huge time sink to actually fix the problem because it’s probably buried deep in the gubbins of the car and the parts are very costly.
Yoga: OpenStack IaaS cloud gets its 25th update
> so for many farmers it's cheaper to wait it out and give the soil a rest.

If you play your cards right, and Mother Nature plays nice, this could be the most profitable year of farming seen in a long time. Costs are up, yes, but the income potential is up even more. Why would anyone choose this year, of all years, to "give the soil a rest"?
What's New in Ada 2022
I can't believe erowid is still up. I was obsessed with this site back in 2005, would spend hours reading and learning about all the different drugs. Never was much into drugs beyond marijuana, but then I tried MDMA one night and had an almost spiritual experience on it. It became a personal passion of mine that lasted about 6 months, and in that time frame I tried LSD, mushrooms, a variety of pills, even mescaline. Eventually I had a very bad experience on drugs and decided it was best not to continue the journey, but nothing ever came close to what I had experienced that first time with MDMA.
> Isn't this just a programming problem?

What seems to be described is a UI design problem. Once the UI is designed, it also needs programmed in some form, but that doesn't seem to be the problem, just a not-particularly-interesting task required in the implementation.

Not all problems that require programming are programming problems. (In fact, most are not.)
We're about to find out! The scientific community has done itself a huge disservice in recent years in two ways:

1) Refusing to police non-rigorous fields invoking scientific authority. As the article notes, even rigorous fields are full of results that cannot be reproduced. The situation is even worse in non-rigorous fields. In his famous essay on cargo-cult science, Richard Feynman specifically called out "educational and psychological studies" as "examples of what I would like to call Cargo Cult Science." https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm. Yet today, there is a movement to accord any PhD the respect of the title "doctor," as if an EdD was an authority similar to a PhD in physics. People do this to be polite but it has grave consequences.

The respect people accord "science" is, at the end of the day, built on results. We trust doctors because they delivered concrete results that medicine men could not. In the long run, people will notice that EdD is often wrong, because it's not a rigorous field, and that will tarnish the credibility of everyone with a PhD, because the lay public quite reasonably doesn't understand these distinctions in rigor.

2) Allowing scientific authority to be invoked for political purposes. There is a difference between scientific results, and the value systems of individual scientists. Science can, for example, create a vaccine. It cannot address the political question of whether anyone should get the vaccine--that question relies on cost/benefit analysis that, in turn, depends on individual value systems. Or in another example, science can tell you the probability of spreading a disease in a grocery store versus a church, but cannot tell you whether grocery stores or churches are more important. Moreover, most people intuitively understand this distinction. There are, of course, some people who will ignore scientific facts that are as plain as day. But there are a lot more people who will chafe at feeling like they are being told "I'm smarter than you, so you have to accept my values." That, in the long run, will undermine their trust in scientific results.

And if we, as highly educated people who understand "science" are honest with ourselves, that skepticism may not be unwarranted. We know that biases exist in the system. For example, it is well known that publication bias exists: studies reporting positive results get published, while studies reporting negative results don't get published: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341407/. As science becomes more politicized, it's inevitable that other kinds of publication bias will affect not only the reported results, but even the kinds of questions that are studied.
Reading his about page should give you a clear indication why. Almost the first sentence is "I dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power." I've always been extremely wary of people who pursue power for its own sake, before they're even fully formed humans. A common technique they choose to acquire power is hucking drivel to other people who view the world the same way - commonly writing in those platitudes about overcoming adversity. I've literally never heard of this guy, but just from reading this hn post, I can almost guarantee you he has published a book that can be summed up in about 2 sentences but is inexplicably 125 pages.
This is why I don't believe it when companies say they are desperate to hire.
My gripe with space gray is that there's no cable color that goes well with it.
Thanks for the added detail-- I wasn't aware of details specific to the Ukraine <-> Egypt supply chain, and this demonstrates extremely well the difficulties of shifting supply sources.