skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really required but a lot more convenient, even more so if you don't speak the local language.
The issue is that there is an implied difference in implied causation ("difficult because of their personal qualities" vs "difficult because of the college environment", say) and the truth values _with that implication included_ might be quite different.
> "Mentorship basically does not exist for those in the bottom"

I love movies for this and also why I recommended Piper. It's about a baby bird learning to get food, and a crab teaches it.

But you can apply the same pattern everywhere. Movies have something called the Three Act Structure. Act 1: Hero faces a problem, tries to solve it their way, gets deeper in it. Act 2 begins where the hero is now stuck. There's a mentor by now that the hero doesn't acknowledge. The hero will continue to fail on their own and can't see the solution. Then the mentor points it out and all is solved, with Act 3 being the denouement.

In Lion King, Timon & Pumbaa mentor Simba from being scared/guilty to being carefree, and again from carefree to bold. In romance films, it's usually two people changing a part of themselves for the other person. Boy learns to be honest, girl learns to be less judgemental. Conan learns that flesh can be stronger than steel. Sarah Connor learns about humanity from a robot assassin. And so on.

I still like comparing it to dating, in that it just happens. It's awkward to make it formal and long term. Sometimes we have rituals for this, like university and 1-1s. Often you have to start the process long before the ritual, though.
You would not have the mandate to open a coal plant without the consent of those affected.

The logistics of how to reach world-wide consensus, or at least something close to it, is an interesting question I don't have an answer to! Maybe coal plants would be practically impossible under anarchy, due to the consensus difficulties -- which one might argue is as it should be.

How would this be enforced? You wouldn't get any coal miners or other material providers to help you unless you can show your coal plant is truly something humanity at large either wants, or at least does not care about.
But from the very basic metric of not wanting people to have bad things happen to them, when you see promoters of state powers intent on using it to tear down civil rights as fast as possible, strong state power in the current political environment seems like a major regression for many people in the country.

OK sure, some people want more local power. Why? Lower taxes? Or maybe because they don't like Oberfell or Casey.

It's important to look at consequences of changes.
>It literally has no impact if 100% of the mathematics we learn about are all from one race.

Except, if things were truly discovered first by other people, should we not give credit where credit is due? Are you uninspired when you hear of someone who you feel kinship for, for whatever reason, who has done a great thing? If so, know that that is not universal - plenty of people are inspired by that sort of thing. Getting it wrong means robbing that feeling from others on the basis of a lie.

>Mathematics should be objective, either something is true or not.

Agreed. And that means saying who discovered what - timelines like this aren't subjective. Pythagoras did not discover the theorem - it dates back to the Egyptians or Babylonians, and it was written of in a fairly extensive manner in India hundreds of years before Pythagoras as well. Just because their usage did not cross over to West doesn't mean that they were being used just as much or as significantly.

>Who cares who discovered the various concepts?

The goal is to get the objective part correct in giving credit where it is due. This also helps solve a whole host of other issues you might not believe exist, but even from that standpoint, this is the right thing to do if you truly want mathematics to be objective.
The fact that IT needs dozens of these comics is indicative of how unserious it is. Security was always an afterthought in everything it builds but somehow it still manages to get away with it. On the side a whole breed of security people make tons of money as they're needed to keep everything from falling apart.

Great job.
Yeah, the statistics on that are very interesting. Many European countries, but also countries like India, have 70+% of their rail network electrified Even Russia has 51% electrified, but in the US it's only 0.92%, Canada 0.20%, and Mexico 0.12%. No idea why North America is so adverse to electrification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran... claims to include both passenger and non-passenger networks.
> As long as it's not tedious to set a few thousand that sounds great.

How are you setting them? Grab and drag? I can support that.

> SUM, COUNT and IF (if-then)

Perfect, thank you.

Right now I've started a Git repo with a roadmap but I've not uploaded any code yet as I'm still deciding on the architecture:

https://github.com/dotancohen/structuresheet
Needs an "Ask HN:" at the beginning of the title.
> It's a good thing, not a bad thing, that they have a separate line item on their balance sheet for funds held for customers.

That is not what Animats was saying. They were talking about that showing up on a balance sheet at all, not whether it is separate vs combined with something else.
This is why the banker-led accounting is important. So that credits are credited appropriately. Sequestering 1 ton at the cost of half a ton should be accounted as half. As I’m sure it will be as the market rationalizes.
FWIW, I agree that 4-5 year old transgender kids are something that strike most people as absurd. That is, unless they know some transgender people and talk to them about their experiences. I have a couple of close friends who are trans, and know several others (including a good friend of my son's in elementary school). All of them describing knowing their true gender with just as much certainty as you or I know ours from about age 4. Obviously that's just a second-hand anecdote, but it's enough for me to be confident that it is extremely common for trans people to experience strong gender dysphoria from essentially as soon as they become aware of the concept of their own gender.

There is also research that shows suicide rates for transgender people are far higher than the general population—except for those who receive acceptance for their gender identity from childhood, in which case the difference is drastically reduced. And that's not hard for me to believe. Try imagining yourself in that position. You're a young boy, but for some reason you're in a girl's body. You know that's not right, but no one believes you, and instead they pressure you to act the part of someone you're not, and imply (or outright state) that there's something wrong with you for feeling otherwise. That's got to be a tough life. Contrast that with the same initial condition: you're a boy in a girl's body. But instead your parents and other people you trust understand and tell you that's OK and there are lots of other people experiencing the same thing, and if you're confident you want to live as a boy (or vice-versa the whole thing, obviously) then of course you can do that and they'll help. Sounds a hell of a lot better to me.
It's a free feature on GCP. Lots of things on GCP are free, because they're bundled into the overall pricing.
It's just infuriating how they insult us thinking most people will be taken in by it.

As an aside the idea that a war which is taking 1,000s of lives on both sides is somehow "botched" just because it didn't go the way anyone thought.

And people wonder why traditional media is dying.
Hacker News really really likes all things related to personal note-taking. See also, emacs org-mode.

Personally, I find it pretty low quality intellectual content for this site.
Depending on country, they can be taxed multiple times more than investment in infra...
"But we're disruuuuupting..."
The purpose of such exchanges is not to communicate information to the other participant. It is to signal allegiance to one’s own side. This dynamic tends to drive people who already disagree further apart, and those who already agree, closer.
Yet even Russia has 51% of its rail network electrified.
Here's an alternative ending: what if good faith communication was superior to bad faith in a systemic way ?

Clues:

- at a personal level: have you ever tried to put in practice "highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication" ? If you did, you've probably noted that more often than not, it doesn't make you weaker. It increases your value, your status, even your financial success. So maybe this could also be a contagious/unstoppable strategy simply because it has an edge for personal success ?

- as an organization: good faith leadership, good faith communication... seem to overall be a competitive advantage because it goes hand-in-hand with happy & productive people

- as a society: democracy emerged despite a world of tyrants to take over most a the world. Why ? Maybe because it was stronger in a systemic way ? It unlocks collaboration, decentralization, resilience... Moreover, it doesn't sound unreasonable that democracy would be fittest as poverty diminishes. So maybe authoritarianism, not democracy, is in danger of extinction in the end ?

Result: instead of spiraling bad faith, maybe we will have (though slower) spiraling good faith ? Maybe "good faith" will win simply because it's stronger, in a kind of evolutionary sense.

This has implications in everyday life : practicing "highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication" may be the best way to personal success.
And this may also be the best way to incidentally induce a "good faith" society
The "propaganda" is just Russia acting like a rabid animal.
Such a weird argument for something that would obviously be opt-in. Also I doubt said timer would have a worse energy impact than having a browser open with a JS runtime all the time.
I had to check the date :|
This would greatly increase our ability to enjoy our earnings instead of having to save a retirement fund large enough to take us to 90. Sixty is silly, though; my parents do more for me than I do for them and they're 70.
Because everything is crazy expensive currently. We‘re in a bubble. Look at the valuation of WD-40, Bitcoin or Shopify for example. WD-40 had a 500k annual revenue and is valued at 2.6 billion. Their free cash flow is only about 100k, so they would need 26 years to buy all stocks back at the current valuation assuming no growth in earnings.

As another example look at the current PE ratio of the companies in the S&P 500: https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ea.... This shows that prices are unusually high compared to earnings.
It is indeed a good video. The only fault in the analysis, is the assumption that people doing these deals don't realize what they are doing.

And using Tesla (Elon Musk reference) as an example, as Tesla is the prime example of a company that would be bankrupt would it not be for the biggest stock market bubble in history, diminished what was a very good and correct explanation.
It's not replacing restic. In fact using restic to a syncosync box is the solution for safe backups. Any other backup sofware which does supported encrypted backups to sftp/rsync does also work.

The main idea is to have one syncosync box on your place and share it with a box at a friends place. Therefore the backup needs to be encrypted - not the box.
In case of the max disaster you go buy a new laptop and grab the syncosync box of your partner and are ready to run withing hours.

So, technically speaking syncosync are two small computers with huge disks rsyncing their content crosswise. BUT: with comfortable UI to support multiple backup accounts, disaster recovery, bandwidth control, status mail support etc. etc. etc.
I know this is probably the correct take and I appreciate you saying this.

What I’m personally struggling with is not really the social impact of my work per se but rather the fact that jobs that are more important to society as a whole—at least in my opinion—are not paid as much as developers.

And that is something I have a hard time accepting. But you’re right, the best solution is to try compensate this frustration of mine by doing things that are good for society.
Elite overproduction does seem a much more sensible focus here.

If you want to blame the internet, then the obvious path is the "shared story" angle. There was a single mainstream dominant narrative for a while, but it couldn't hold up to the public talking directly to each other all the time, it was too full of holes and too clearly mostly a bunch of bullshit (remember the internet era before these "turning points" was heavy on the 'debunking' stuff).

So the elites are fighting over who gets to attempt to put in place the new official narrative (and many hope to make it a dominant narrative again but that seems far fetched to me).

It seems ... very obvious. I guess the problem is that my story depends on the old narrative being a constructed untrue thing and that's too "unamerican" of me?
... are miniscule but public-facing, thus suffering from the paper straw problem.
You can absolutely have voluntary collectivism where you simply do not do things unless everyone agrees upon them. This works best in small or medium sized groups and probably does not work for large groups, but your post reads like you think collectivism always necessitates violence and that simply isn’t true.
That's possible. Bill.com is licensed as a money transmitter in California.[1]
The funds are supposed to be in a trust account, with Bill.com acting as a fiduciary. It's important to be sure that's actually the case. This really matters if Bill.com goes bankrupt. If the funds are in a trust account, you get them back, reasonably quickly. Otherwise...

But see [2], regarding the "Agent of a payee exception to California money transmitter law". "The question of whether the agent-of-a-payee exemption applies is of considerable importance for any platform involved in facilitating payments ─ including consumer marketplace platforms, billing services, payment facilitators and other payment processors, and business-to-business (B2B) payments platforms." Money transmitters are regulated primarily for consumer protection purposes. Businesses are expected to take measures to protect themselves.

Large customers of Bill.com really need to nail down exactly who owns that money.

[1] https://dfpi.ca.gov/2018/06/05/bill-com/

[2] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/alert-california-finalizes...
It's still losing money[1], which means that it's still cross subsidized by the ads business.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/with-a-22b-run-rate-does-i...
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There is: https://aria-net.org/SitePages/Portal/Bridges.aspx

Matrix.org also has an XMPP implementation (see https://disroot.org/en/services/xmpp), but it was quite unreliable when I tried it.
DI-Star (Starcraft 2 AI, Continuation of AlphaStar)
I've been using macOS professionally for years, but I still find the application/window management system really strange and clumsy. Quite often, closing the last window of an application doesn't entirely quit the application itself. This is particularly annoying when using chrome or firefox, since I'd expect the last tabs I had open to be there when I next open the application, but if I haven't entirely quit the application it just launches a blank new window. I've gotten used to right clicking the icon in the dock and quitting it that way, but it's cumbersome and inconsistent with how it works on other OSes. You also can't quit Finder entirely this way either for some reason.

I'm sure there's some technical explanation that makes sense, but it feels wrong.
You can't run an effective passenger service on tracks dominated by freight.
A tiny bit yeah, but less than others i've tried so far.
all you gotta do is:

> :read !{command}

so ":read !pwd" will paste your current directory into your open buffer.

Another cool thing...you can pipe cli output directly to nvim:

> curl example.com | nvim -

will open a new nvim instance with a buffer containing the nice, pretty printed html of that site!
Qrclip – Transfer the clipboard to your phone instantly through the command line
It's more about what happens in bankruptcy.
Lol, nice catch. I really do wonder about Steve's fate.

I'm prepping for the upcoming ASC event in July, as a scrutineer though. 1 week of solar car racing once a year is just the right amount. :-)
A Beginner’s Guide to Drawing Technical Diagrams (2021)
Murdoch's international scope and relatively ruthless and firm handed narrative control.
Best of 3 show match vs grandmaster player Harstem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvQF-24IpXs
His videos are insane such as Camelot Chronicles https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=138ajKRMzIY

Here's a great interview with him
https://youtu.be/f6t5hZTEdbI
Nice!

Just browsed through it and was surprised at the great explanation of RDBMS' provided.

Excerpt:

21. The main use of a relational database is securely to store large volumes of structured information. The way it does so can be understood as having large numbers (tens, hundreds or even more) of different spreadsheets (which are called tables) and which are linked to one another. Two different tables in a database are linked to one another (in a 'relation') when they both have one or more columns with the same meaning and share values in those columns.

I think this is also a important lesson on how to write simple, direct and succinct documentation; no unnecessary fancy "methodologies/processes" required (i am now a fan of Dr. Worden :-).

Well worth reading in entirety.

PS: Any other overviews of "less sexy" software systems that you can share (eg. Banking, Insurance, Railway Systems etc.)? I am of the opinion that these are the real success stories of the Software Industry. They are battle tested and proven over time.
Absolutely! I would add though that you really need to follow a tutorial/book to make everything make sense in it. I read a book by Rob Collie - but any well reviewed book on DAX should do it. The book “Supercharge Excel - When you learn DAX…” looks like it covers similar information but more up to date.

The analysis pattern is usually importing data and cleaning it in PowerQuery, then building relationships between tables in the data model view, and then analysing it via a ‘PowerPivot’ Table.

PowerPivot then has new functionalities compared to a regular pivot table (eg measures) that allow for automatically calculating columns based on context and some additional capabilities you don’t get in excel.
I'm surprised to see Oura mentioned here as a success. They don't have a single customer currently paying for a subscription (everyone would still be within the six month free trial) and haven't released most of the features included in their subscription offering. It's doubtful that most of their users would pay for the subscription.

The feedback was presumably so bad that their CEO left the company less than two months after the announcement of the new product and subscription model.
Addressing opposing arguments directly is not really a feature of arguing. That kind of good faith debate is more of a special case debate.

It's just not what public debate is. You see rookie politicians do it, but it's generally a mistake.

A huge part of what political debate is, is dominating the frame. The frame. The key facts, alternative or otherwise. The key question being debated.

Once those are established, the conclusion tends to be trivial.
I am learning, reading, listening and speaking English for about 35 years, but it still drives me crazy sometimes. I understood that "home" in this headline is a verb, and "to home in" doesn't means "coming to one's place", but still had too look up the exact meaning of the combination.
The corruption is so endemic in large organizations it becomes a necessary quality to even be a possible participant. This is very up front and visible in US federal government.
I appreciated and upvoted your comment!
I've read his live parties are what he is known for more then his recorded music although in California, I only have the recordings
This is actually something that comes from the European Commission, so expect to see this happen in other countries, too.

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/general/liberalisation_en.h...
> It's just infuriating how they insult us thinking most people will be taken in by it.

Not just thinking. They are being taken in.

Front page of Reddit today was a completely nonsense story from three old women talking about Russian soldiers stole their toilet seats to take home because they could not imagine the magic of flush toilets. Absolute propaganda.
> It's fascinating to me how thoroughly Google has managed to poison the well for their services.

What's fascinating to me is the apparent irrationality, from people who otherwise tend to pride themselves on being rational.

I can understand people saying they'll never deal with Google again because they killed their favorite free product or whatever. That's fair. But the attempt to justify that position as some sort of rational risk calculation, taking the actual facts of the matter into account, is misguided.

In some cases this is due to a lack of info and disinterest in correcting that, but many other cases just seem to be emotion masquerading as a thought process.
It goes far beyond twitter culture. Even in daily conversation there are people who only open out port and close in port. One signal is that whenever you bring up a perspective (either in support/disagreement) this person gonna continue his speech and make the conversation expereince like attending a lecture.
I really appreciate the substantive comment. I disagree, but I don't think it's worth arguing about here. My point really doesn't have anything to do with the merits or demerits of young childhood gender transitions. Fact is, it's a position held by a minority, but the majority is powerless to do anything about it because they are absolutely terrified of the left's political power. They're afraid to even say something about it. Certain political groups are getting close to completely transcending the liberal democratic truce.
I like the Juice Media's Honest Government Ad about carbon credits/offsets:

https://www.thejuicemedia.com/carboncredits/
According to this [1], taxes on gasoline are much higher than 40 cents/litre (50 cents in Spain, 68 cents in France).

If you buy a train ticket in advance, you definitely are in that price scale. I looked up train rides one month in advance [2] and a ride from Madrid to Spain is now 175€ to 210€, right in the range of the train ride.

But hopefully, Europe-wide CO2 taxes will start to price in externalities and remove the finger from the scale in favor of flights.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/gas-taxes-in-europe/
[2] https://www.raileurope.com/en/journey/madrid-paris-14skjpm
Indeed it was what confused me. I'm Sweden our vocabulary is:
Train,
Commuter train,
Subway,
Tram

Then again, our fastest train does 200 kph, so we only have "old shitcans". I reckon this is because we're 12% the population of Germany on 126% the area. It's not worth the investment with high speed rail.

Then again these numbers are a bit exaggerated, you could essentially cut Sweden in into 2 pieces just above Stockholm and you'd end up with one relatively densely populated area and something that would more or less resemble Alaska in population.

What's great about the north is it is our own little Alaska in the sense that we have a metric shitload of iron ore so pure you can put it straight to the furnace, keeps us southerners afloat for sure.
I hope your analysis is correct. On a personal level I have found it to work just as you describe, but on a more systemic higher level I am not yet convinced - I hope - but I am sadly not convinced.