skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's possible to find ways to better represent relational data?

Two interesting approaches:

- Ultrorg [1] attempts to represent relational databases in an excel-like format. You can build a query by editing the header of the table, and then edit the results in place.

- Tableau [2][3] is a visualisation construction tool, where users can describe a graph by assigning properties to rows or columns. The result can be a table of visualisations, for example a scatterplot matrix.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGzJ8F9rC1s
[2]: https://www.tableau.com/products/desktop
[3]: it's based on Polaris https://doi.org/10.1109/2945.981851
>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 a compelling feature, and I get it. I'm old school enough that I much prefer having things local. I'm also contrary enough that I don't like how much clout Google has, and paranoid enough that I don't trust Google. But I definitely get the appeal.

Way back in the day, Sun came around to the corporate office where I used to work to demo the Sun Ray. Most of the tech people dismissed it out of hand as a gigantic heap of crap (and as it turned out, they were right, or at least in agreement with the free market), but I understood the appeal.
One version of a stablecoin is. There are lots of other forms (ex: algorithmic stablecoins) that are transparently backed by other assets that you yourself can audit.
2013 Uber CBO shares how they grew from 250-15k employees in 3yrs with $15B
The moral outrage is because of Goodhart's Law.

Over the last 22 years I've interviewed hundreds, hired and directly managed probably close to 100 individuals in widely varying environments, ranging from a 25k employee state university, to startups of various shapes and sizes, to the hottest SV IPO of 2020.

The reason for interview practices to be the way they are is to raise the floor for FAANG, who have high internal complexity and high salaries, leading to a very fat hiring funnel with a high risk of turning into dead weight in "rest and vest" mode once they get inside.

However humans are smart, and interviewers are lazy, so inevitably the people who optimize for this process start beating out more able engineers who don't have the time or inclination to jump through these hoops. In my experience, the proportion of really good software engineers is roughly equivalent across all companies with baseline competent technical leadership. FAANG does have a lot of the outliers on the high end, but they also have a lot of folks who can't tie their own shoes without the support of world-class tooling, infra support, and technical design guidance that those companies surround them with.
I don’t think we will have FSD in 10 years on most roads and in lots of countries, and I also don’t think cars with FSD will be allowed to drive everywhere. I think it will take years of trust after a real FSD comes to market. And only then will infra be changed for it.

My dream is to call a car to a place near my home, get in, and automatically drive me to one or more locations, before returning me home. I’m 45, and I doubt this will happen in my lifetime.
Hi Ennea,
Honest question since this is the first time I hear this issue.
What's the use case the changing that setting in your config?

From my limited understanding whatever beacon does can also be done in the backend it just makes it a little more complicated for developers?
The point about stereotype threat is valid, although it also means that we're unable to get any insight into a major axis of interview performance.

I think what we have here is an attempt to imply, consciously or not, a causal link between interview success and previous/current employment. But without drilling into the other factors underlying their success, we get a lot of noise and not enough signal. Couple that with the continued mythologizing of FAANG greatness, and you get an article that perpetuates two of the more toxic notions in tech: FAANG is the top of a pyramid and talent is concentrated in a handful of companies. Neither are true, and neither are probably your intent, but that's how this reads.
I agree that spreadsheets are still extremely useful, and surprisingly difficult to improve upon. Maybe it's because spreadsheets combine a bunch of the primitives used to build many types of applications - tabular data, persistent data, operations on that data (CRUD, per the article), trivial to inspect the data, and can make various views on the data.

It seems to me that quite a few successful software companies boil down to a spreadsheet with enforced structure to the data and codified operations performed on the data specific to the problem domain. CRMs, accounting systems, project management systems, and ordering & inventory management systems are some examples.

Our product focused on financial projection & reporting (https://www.modeloptic.com/) is another example: Excel-like functionality at the core, and since we've constrained the domain and know how different pieces of data relate to each other, we can automate away a lot of the manual labor that'd be needed in completely free-form Excel.
Some thoughts:

1. Costs are at the margins. Is 1% irrelevant, or cannot be replaced? Replacement depends strongly on local weather and requires that land be substituted for wheat instead of other things.

2. Global production is 778 million, but Russia produces 74 million, Ukraine 28 million and landlocked (by Russia) Kazakstan 11.3 million, or a total of 113, or about 15% of total production [1] . This is the wheat Russia effectively controls. True, not all of that is exported, but I doubt Russia with 2% of the world's population eats 15% of the world's grain. I'd really like to see the source of her export figures (is dollar denominated exports? Total exports? Wheat of a certain type? Etc).

3. Food needs the following inputs:

- Ammonia

- Potash

- Phosphorous

- Diesel

- Propane (in the US to dry the grain in remote farms)

- man power.

All of those input costs are going through the roof, and Russia effectively controls more than half of those inputs:

- Ammonia: The Russians are a top exporter and they export the NH4 EU needs to make more

- Potash: Canada is the top exporter followed by... Belorussia and Russia

- Phosphorous: China, I believe is the top producer

- Diesel: Russia is a top exporter of diesel and also exports the heavy crude needed to make diesel. Diesel is used in everything, it's hard to sub out, has very inelastic demand, and short term supply is inelastic as well (fracked oil is diesel poor).

- Propane (used in the US to dry the grain in remote farms). This is byproduct of NH4 production (i.e. produced by Russia). Also, the price, like oil but unlike CH4, is basically global since it's readily liquified. Therefore, it's a (expensive) substitute good for NH4 which the EUros are scrambling to get. Conclusion - The US produces enough for itself, but Russia is the marginal producer and sets the global price.

- Man power, computer chips (those self driving tractors need chips!), etc. These need money, and the USD is not exactly going through it's finest moment.

Farming is considered a perfect competition, so margins are important. A sharp blow on any one of these would knee caps farmers, but they're facing all their inputs going up. Russia doesn't need to be the majority, or even the top player in any of these to bring large increases in the cost of food to whomever she wants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production...
> My use of MacOS is not likely to make a big difference in the adoption of MacOS, and therefore ascribing all of the massive network effect of usage to me.

It's not all to you. But you are contributing to it, and you shouldn't be excusing yourself on the basis of "look at everyone else doing it".

> I'm pretty sure that I've done way more to make open systems possible on the desktop than you.

This is not a competition to see who is more virtuous or less of a sinner. It is just me arguing that using Apple products is a moral failing.

> you should immediately stop all activity which isn't helping the cause of open-systems-on-desktop to avoid accusations of hypocrisy.

I am not perfect and I am not free of sin. But at least I am willing to call a failing as such. The first step to redemption is to accept your own faults.
These kinds of explanations are so meh to me. Linear algebra is useful once you begin to look for vector spaces you didn't know you had.

Thinking of matrices as spreadsheets is barely abstraction. Seeing the derivative operator represented as a matrix, acting over the polynomial vector space can open your eyes.

Taking the determinant of that matrix shows that d/dx isn't invertible.

Thinking of the fixed point of the transformation yields exp, the eigenfunction of the operator.
It's true that when it's clear that the submitter is the author, we often leave their preferred title in place.

But the submitted title in this case ("Every person should come with a user manual. So I created one for me.") was baity and therefore against the site guidelines, so we reverted it the way we normally do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> - For various socioeconomic reasons that subset happens to correlate very well with race

> - Ergo, we can assume race as a risk factor for those diseases, and thus a risk factor for COVID-19

So race isn't really a risk factor but rather an imperfect proxy for an actual risk factor (lack of access to healthcare). So why not address the genuine risk factor on the questionnaire? It's simple enough to ask the patient questions like:

- Do you have a family doctor?

- When was your last physical, blood work, etc?

- In the last five years, have you skipped or delayed medical treatment due to cost?

> [1] More generally: most complaints of "reverse racism" do not attempt to actually argue against a particular policy choice (e.g. affirmative action, progressive stack, antiracism etc), but make moral arguments about how racially-aware policies are facially immoral in any set of circumstances.

Even boomers stopped using the term "reverse racism" years ago, discrimination based on race is racism, full stop.
Because Apple produces luxury fashion accessories and not computers.
Ukraine nuclear operator: Russian troops leave Chernobyl
The Backlog Peter Principle
This piece of junk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M47_Dragon

was the "necessity" behind the invention of the Javelin. In 1970s and 1980s it was suspected that NATO Dragon gunners would abandon their weapon if war broke out because the Dragon was probably more dangerous to its operators than its targets.

The Wikipedia article says "all that is required of the infantryman is to look through an amplifying optical sight and keep it exactly aligned with the objective." It's asking a lot, however, because the Dragon moves rather slowly and leaves a smoke trail back to the firing position. The people in the tank know they can avoid being hit if they can kill you with their machine gun.

On top of that the warhead was not particularly effective against Russian MBT's at the time.
Yeah I dunno, when I started reading I thought he had found a display that was coincidentally HDMI-compatible with the display HDMI signals.

It's at least misleading.
Do you think that Reuters is part of some conspiracy to print things from Putins PR team and pass them off as statements by Urkairne?
Yep. Amazon gets a cut and they act like it.
Linux used to have the x32 ABI for similar improvements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
Right? There's nothing surprising about getting scammed when you give out the 2FA code.
I've understood that the original idea of the Google interviews and others was to see if the applicant can write code at all, has been awake at second year CS class and can apply the ideas on the fly. The idea would have been that good candidates would be able to pass the test anyway. Of course it doesn't work if people start preparing a test that's supposed to be a proxy for other skills. For what it's worth, I've heard a rumor from Google that their interview system used to be quite OK at predicting employees' career development but competitive programmers consistently perform under the expectations because they've been specializing for events that are just like those interviews.
There's one easy rule that could have avoided all of this - never give out any info on incoming calls. If I get a call or text about fraudulent transactions, I'll keep them on hold while I log into the bank website. If I get a call about a late payment, I'll thank them for the info and ask them to stay on while I pay online. If I get an inbound call with a more complex request, I'll ask them for their employee info and call back the official service number. It annoys the caller sometimes, despite always treating them professionally, but I keep that a hardline rule no matter how real it feels.

I heard this from a security guy and was under the impression it was one of the sacred laws of security. If it's not, it should be - it's a rule of thumb that would stop 90% of social engineering attacks I hear about.
On what laptops does sleep/hibernate work correctly when you close the lid, with Mint?

If anyone knows how to get XUbuntu 18.04 LTS to not shut down with the lid closed and power on, please let me know. I have a subnotebook that sits in a cabinet to run something, and since a recent "upgrade", it won't stay alive. Looking with Google produces at least five articles on this, all contradictory and none of which work. There's a GUI for setting this, it's set appropriately, and that doesn't work. There's a relevant configuration file where the "close lid" option can be set, and that doesn't affect this problem.
or https://crunchybridge.com
I don't know how common that kind of usage is. This was a group of people I hung with back in the 90's.

The dangers of riding a horse are immediately apparent and it's easy to link cause and effect. Additionally the damage from a bad horse ride (unless you hit your head) are more likely to be physical trauma, a broken leg etc.

The (possible) negative effects of a drug on cognition are more subtle and harder to attribute.

Again, I'm not anti drug at all (especially legally speaking).

It's just, what I saw and I feel I should relate it as a bit of a cautionary tale. I am convinced overuse of MDMA has a negative effects on the kind of cognition that allows a person to plan, link cause and effect, think abstractly and that kind of thing. It's not a scientific study, just what I believe from observation.
The configuration I'm talking about isn't visible on the screenshot. You could get the white Macbook as a build to order option with the same specs as the black one for less than the black one.
You know, despite being quite different than what you described, what comes close for me in concept is the Spyder IDE. They have pretty reasonable data visualization tools when you go to inspect variables. I find it really nice work in. It lets me do the real visualization and interplay between variables in code or in my head and just quickly inspect tables/vectors/rasters to sanity check as I work in real time.

What's missing is the ability to then manipulate those tables and have it backfeed into the code, but I think that honestly you could again get close to that with some basic right-click>generate new column> type in python expression > translate to input into interpreter type of workflow.

I also know there are some python based excel type programs.
You are not wrong; the problem is, "different types" are language-specific, whereas HANDLE is a primitive (machine-level) type that is not and thus can be easily used from any language.
I'm so skeptical of these "experts" especially if they write a blog post where they hate their bank.

I've been with Wells for over a decade. They have never called me. Never.

I have had "fraud" alerts hundreds of times. They always happen at certain POS, and it's always a text alert.

Some of the stories I read make me viscerally react with "what in the world are you doing with something as simple as a bank account?"

Also a fundamental default is "no action". If you are even slightly suspicious, do nothing. It isn't somehow so important that you stop thinking and just act or react. Just stop.
>As Terence McKenna said, "When you get the message, hang up the phone."

This is such a great way to put it, I've had this mentality for awhile now. Did it a few times, don't need any more.
This really has nothing to do with the LGB. There's no passport marker for sexuality.
No, and a mouse with macro buttons sounds like a good idea.
> sum of the last 4

It's a chicken/egg problem of not wanting to give information first, but a one-way function (hash) is a fantastic idea. The collision possibilities in this particular function are worrisome, though.
> To answer your second part (what is a reasonable threshold), we have documented recommended hardware requirements and scale limits here:

That's (really) good documentation, but doesn't directly address the Fly.io situation nor my situation: multiple data-centers in multiple jurisdictions around the globe.

> https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/federation-goss...

> To start with, we have a single Consul namespace, and a single global Consul cluster. This seems nuts. You can federate Consul. But every Fly.io data center needs details for every app running on the planet! Federating costs us the global KV store. We can engineer around that, but then we might as well not use Consul at all.

I think a better way to ask my question might be: Is there a threshold below which can we safely run Consul in a single global cluster like Fly.io tried before it got too unwieldy?
1% is a lot... why can't people deal with percentages of large numbers? Its COVID all over again. 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. Thats ten holocausts!

Supply and demand means I won't go hungry, but less valuable people absolutely will. Like the Ukranians during the holodomor...
TIL what the hell was happening when I turned on my TV and the receiver usually switches to the wrong device.

I'm just glad I'm not crazy.
Germany also has 3 months notice starting from the next month you give it or something similar? I work remotely in a german company and i was shocked to hear this. We have new hires from Germany who we were expecting them since xmas-January..
My team is too senior. How am I supposed to be promoted? (2021)
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A lot of those bookstores that are closing are because the owner is retiring and it's not financially capable of standing on its own. The owner often owns the building which lets them run at very low levels of income, which a replacement wouldn't be able to.

If a community wants a bookstore to remain they'll probably need to set it up as a non-profit of some sort.
For the incumbents and newcomers it is impossible to exit without another huge ROI (10x, 100x) since crypto billionaires cannot cash out to billions of US dollars. They need to routinely pump & dump and hope that the music doesn't stop.

Somebody doing taxes this year is going to be on the hook for last year's BTC prices, and by god, they need it at least 100% ROI just to break even after paying taxes in the US.
Why wouldn't Ukraine also plant a fall harvest crop? I thought Northern countries try to plant two crops per year. Countries like Argentina try to plant three.
> Folks want to link his chem experimentation to negative health outcomes to justify their own “drugs are bad mkay”

Drugs, prescription or not, can be very bad when used in excess or ignorance. These people know what they're putting in their bodies, and have the knowledge and means to test or even make them, but the majority of drug users don't.
isn't there a phone # printed on your credit card?
There are some subtleties here, but go.mod files are not lockfiles, including go.mod files don't follow a traditional constraint/lockfile split, which I think is part of the point in that snippet you quoted.

Another way they differ is when installing a top-level tool by default npm does not use the exact version from a library's lockfile to pick the selected version of another library as far I as understand, whereas Go does by default use the exact version required by a library's go.mod file in that scenario.

In other words, go.mod files play a bigger role for libraries than a traditional lockfile does by default for libraries in most other ecosystems.

Here's a good analysis on the contrast between go.mod and the default behavior of more traditional lockfiles (using the npm 'colors' incident as a motivating example):

https://research.swtch.com/npm-colors

That link also includes some comments on 'npm ci' and 'shrinkwrap' that I won't repeat here.

All that said, go.mod files do record precise dependency requirements and provide reproducible builds, so it's possible to draw some analogies between go.mod & lockfiles if you want. I just wouldn't say "go.mod files are lockfiles". ;-)
Scam reports like these really frighten me. If someone of above-average intelligence like the author can nearly be taken for a ride, imagine how easily our friends and family -- who are often far more vulnerable -- can be taken advantage of.

As the people most capable of remediating the vulnerabilities in our telecommunication and banking systems, I think we ought to close ranks and insist that our employers do a better job of protecting the innocent, even if it means breaking a few conveniences.
Well called, Wellington. I lived there for five university years, but home is up north in Leigh.

I grew up barefoot. Went to university in Wellington and in my first year, had to go see the doctor. "I have weird things on my feet."

"They're chilblains! Wear shoes!"

Wellington definitely has a different climate to the north.
> If we hypothetically assume that gender is no longer recorded

Male Americans and green card holders are still required to sign up for Selective Service. Failing to sign up is grounds for denying benefits like federal financial aid and citizenship.

Does putting X on your passport prevent any of this discrimination from happening? If not, it's pretty meaningless.
Kevin Lee: The Briton who plays the bad guy in China's patriotic movies
Appeasing sycophantic maniacal warring leaders doesn't have a great track record, sorry.
I will openly admit that I have limited knowledgeable of the role of the Governor General in Canadian constitution and legal history.

I still think that characterizing the memorandum of understanding as treason is a misunderstanding of both what a MoU is and the contents of this specific MoU.

First, a MoU is a declaration of intent and a commitment to take an action - Not a legislative bill.

This MoU was addressed to both the Senate and the Governor General.

It doesn't specify how the parties will achieve their their commitment. It is up to the parties to determine if there is a lawful way to meet their commitments before making them.

Senators in Canada have the ability to introduce bills, which can be approved via the traditional pathway.

It also doesn't say anything about removal of the PM.

https://canada-unity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Combined...
> What am I missing?

Logistics.

Food scarcity is a problem not of supply but of transport. More wheat in the American heartland doesn't help Egypt if every truck, ship and port is booked out for six months. More rice produced in India doesn't help if half of it rots en route to the city.
Blue Man Blew Up
"What to avoid?" is a wrong question. The right question is "What to prefer?". And it's answered: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-....
We had a black MacBook at work that was reserved solely for demos. Perfect device for that.

Work was a university department, so we would never have bought them for individual employees.

I do think the glossy white MacBook was also a pleasing object, more so really than the aluminium ones.