skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I also had nothing to do with picking my ancestors

You are the product of your ancestors. What you're saying is like a tree branch saying "I had nothing to do with picking my tree". A tree branch doesn't exist as an isolated individual from the tree and then get randomly assigned to a tree, it only exists because it was created by the tree.

If the tree hadn't created it, then it wouldn't randomly belong to another tree, it just wouldn't exist at all.
It's interesting how some of them are described as limitations. I can't understand the designer photograph prompt either, and not just because of the "operated" part. The mazes look great to me. And the million apples look like what I'd expect from a photo called "a million apples".

If it learns from humans and produces results like humans would... What's the definition of "limitation" here?
Ask HN: Today is Route66 Day, any way to disable nonsense holidays on Google?
The oil industry is an extreme example. Everyone getting into it should know that. I've lived in North Dakota for most of my life and have seen it a couple of times.
I won't even take on clients if they are using OCI now.

I've had previous clients whos entire account with production servers just get nuked without even so much as a curtsey email and OCI support WILL NOT HELP.
For those of you who like the idea of GNUCash but are looking for an easier tool to use (for us developer folks), check out https://plaintextaccounting.com.
> Or more likely Elon does not spend a inordinate amount of time over analyzing every damn thing he posts for every angle for which people could "take offense" or other such things

That Elon Musk spends no time reflecting on how his words affect other people in the world around him is eminently clear.

> he absolutely can and should, I dont care if you have 1 or 1,000,000,000,000 followers, you should be able to post in the exact same manner

I guess this worldview is summarized: with great power comes no responsibility. Can't say the zeitgeist disagrees with you.
Never happening for me. Never.

I am very optimistic about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat

But Insects are never going to be on the menu. In fact any restaurant that offers insects on the menu will be a restaurant to loses me as a customer. I expect the health inspectors are ensuring there are 0 insects at restaurants.
If we survive long enough to colonize Mars, and then Earth becomes uninhabitable, what fraction of the human population do you think we can transplant to Mars?

That is, "99.99% of the people died, but the race survived, so we're all good" is a worse moral vision than "only caring about the poor people in the Global South".
Do you remember the AIM/MSN wars, where AOL was literally building buffer overflows into their protocols to prevent MSN messenger from interoperating?

There never was a golden age of interoperability on the internet, at least not after HTTP. Maybe there was a lot of cooperation when it was purely academic in the late 70s and 80s. BBS operators often were cooperative. But commercial internet has always and forever been cutthroat.
Interesting that they mention Canada's Bill C11. Forcing CanCon on the entire internet, under threat of onerous fines, is a topic that I would hope to see more discussion of.
I've seen several publications in the last 5 to 7 years which suggest less nutrients in plants grown in higher CO2 containing atmosphere. For both outdoor and indoor. IIRC the useful nutrients are dispersed in more plant mass, which amounts to dilution. Why it is like that, I don't remember anymore.
Attraction is automatic, not a choice.
I don't know what's weirder, the idea of classy black and white emojis somehow being more professional, or the fact that I 100% agree. Seems sort of strange, but apparently color is a major factor in what I consider to be "professional".
Synthetic from carbon captured from the air.
Datings apps change the way the game is played. Meeting people in real life is not like "meeting" someone via pictures and a bio.
Depending on the worker, this is def true for the guys on the rigs. They make a ton, but have to live in what's basically a barracks in some emptiness in Dakotas/Canada/etc.

I obviously think the solution is to pay more, but money has decreasing worth and having a significant other/friends/family near you is something that only feels more important the more money you have in the bank.

It's not a simple problem for sure. Wonder how sites like Drillr (rig gig workers) are doing.
i think this product is an intermediary step. they started developing the tech for outdoor signage first, so the low ppi/res is understandable.
Hardly. Eventually people are going to figure out that being "prettier" matters on online and start the arms race there. "Dress For Success" still matters and too many people still ignore it.

Ironically, online video has made things quite good for me as a greybeard. I invested in a good camera and good lighting early in Covid. I always look better than anybody else in the meeting and it gives me gravitas that I really haven't earned.

The downside is that I can't look like shit on calls or it shows. I generally make a point of exercising and then taking a shower directly before starting meetings for the day.
The author seems like an actual novice on the topic of taking notes. There's a whole world and culture around bullet journal strategies.

Their list seems like all the notebooks they found when searching "notebook" on amazon lol.

responding to your comment specifically because Midori is the best :)
As someone who's worked on similar situations, I don't expect any pat on the back, but see it as my responsibility to make sure it doesn't happen in the first place, and when it does, my responsibility to fix it without complaint.

Some Atlassian customers might have had much more severe (mental health and other) problems than the Atlassian staff, so I think it can be perceived as mildly solipsistic to be praising the staff and (being perceived to) forget about the customers' wellbeing (I know you didn't say anything about forgetting about the customers, but affected customers may perceive it that way).
Rural people tend to be taller on average than city folks. That combined with the sheer numbers difference, you're still better off in the city.
If I was a physicist, I'd be working on a warp drive.
Wow this looks neat!
This should prove quite suitable for rapid web development, where most currently use svg-based alternatives like heroicons etc. I wanted to do a similar project in the past myself but stopped after realizing the enormity of the emoji set; I was also unable to come up with a way to deal with the lack of color in emojis like flags and as such have to tip my hat to their solution of just using country codes. Good work.
As I understand it, this might be true in America, but in Japan, "it's the truth" isn't a defense against libel.
Same feeling here. I have a collection of Lord of The Rings limited edition Moleskin notebooks [1] and they make me feel like I'm writing into some compendium of time.

I find it to be worth it, considering that even premium office supplies aren't that expensive compared to other life expenses.

[1] https://amzn.to/3F1qdaG
That could be said about every CEO, which isn't hands-on working on their own products or research. Celebrity CEOs are famous because they materialize their own world view or at least try and it can be sort of a spectacle. If those attempts fail, it's not like much was lost, but if they succeed then it moves the world forward, and I think that is good to consider.
There are some really affordable Maruman spiral notebooks that I like to use, much better than any office depot stuff, and more practical than Rhodia and other fancy brands. https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Spiral-Note-Basic-Notebooks/...
Twitter Fixes I Hope Elon (Or Friends) Notices the Need For
> black and white emoji

> less color

Am I missing something or is there some overlooked redundancy here? I was really confused reading the title. “What does less color mean in the context of ‘black and white’? Less grayscale, maybe?” I thought.
You're right, it is a big claim, and I should probably walk it back. It's possible that there's such a high demand for driving that the main reason people don't do more of it is, say, the congestion, rather than the cost of fuel. This is definitely true in parts of the USA.

It does depend on the price elasticity of the demand for driving. I found this article [1] which finds that if fuel prices go up by 10%, people drive 1% less in the short term, and over the long term, about 3% less. This of course varies greatly from place to place, among different income levels, etc.

[1] https://www.vtpi.org/elasticities.pdf
Thanks. I checked Sturdi's carriers. It's a little bit over my budget, but looks nice for an in-cabin flight. I see you can bring cats to restroom with a litter box. Now I can imagine better how an in-cabin flight is like. My worries are faded. Thank you so much!
Its not the height, its the strut. Online women cant see you strut so heights the proxy.

My wife's cousin’s 5’6’’ but Ive seen women go up to him and strike a conversation by the way he walks. Ive been in parties where he’s nailed every girl (including sisters and wives) in the room. Me? Nothing much, and Im 6’2’’
Under-staffing, flexibilisation, wage stagnation, dodging benefits, there's no limit to what employers have asked of workers in this age of globalization.

It has turned the relation to no longer be mutually beneficial, instead entirely asymmetrical. And all this while we're still expected to nod and be "loyal". After all, where else might we go? That question has been the basis for the abuse.

But there's a new answer now. We do go. And don't come back. Poetic justice. Make good use of it.
I sent you an email :).
Pretty different. I used to like to induce pressure phosphenes. I found that a hazard of it was that more pressure produced more spectacular light shows, but that direction led to sore eyes.
I consider Rust and Go to be the general “modern alternatives to C”.

Go afaik is more focused on simple applications, while Rust is better for large-scale apps or if you need unique performance, memory management, or security.

However Rust is hard to use/learn and verbose. It’s a steep learning curve so you risk getting burnt out. IMO you need to understand low-level systems programming and some type theory to be good at Rust.

If you want other alternatives, you might also be better off just using Kotlin/Java. It’s not as performant but it’s not terrible (e.g. JavaScript), and the good tooling, runtime checks, and reflection come in handy. .NET in C# is another alternative but i’ve never used it.

Or you could use Swift, which seems to be performant like Rust/Go but still easy to learn/use and similar to Kotlin. The only issues are that afaik Swift support on anything not Apple is hard, you basically need Xcode or AppCode, and there isn’t as big of an ecosystem.

ETA: I personally would choose Go but don’t build something too large-scale, try to simplify as much as possible.
I would accept dating apps having height filters if they would also add weight filters.
I was referring to the HN wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#:~:text=Graham%20s...
Parent doesn’t have a point because they’re rejecting the reality of height discrimination and the language that perpetuates it. Pretending like this isn’t a thing isn’t constructive, and reinforces the original point that this wouldn’t be tolerated with respect to race.
ISS

Some of the most complex machinery ever conceived, built in different countries, launched to the most inhospitable environment, and all those pieces had to work together the first time they touched.
There is a lot of stuff in that page. Which are your favorite two articles?
That's odd; I never had any issues like these. Display ordering is always the same. I have two 27" 4K monitors: one connected directly to MBP's HDMI and the other through a USB-C hub (also HDMI). Connecting both always gives me the correct ordering, and it's instantaneous - it takes longer for the monitors to turn on than for macOS to distribute the windows, so when they're on, everything's in place.

macOS's display handling has been flawless to me.
That's why it's important to lie about height & income (at least until you're looking to settle down with a permanent trusting relationship). If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
My friends and family do. I check in at a place on Swarm and get comments from friends, or if friends are already out in the area but we didn't explicitly coordinate we will find each other if desired. It's also nice to look back and try to remember that one restaurant we went to in that place with the great dish that we now cannot remember and look it up in check in history. It's been a great mechanic for my friends and I.
The Ministry of Truth already exists, and was revealed to the public this week. That this is under the purview of a law enforcement agency is frightening.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Bo...
Not necessarily, if you're implying that cats predate birds efficiently.

Cats are fairly lax, in a manner of speaking, in catching birds. Mice, voles, gophers, and rabbits are easier to catch and more plentiful. We'll see them catch maybe one bird a month.

In contrast, the number of birds in our area is innumerable. We'll get hundreds at our feeders every day, and see dozens of songbirds (Robins, Atarlings, Red Winged Blackbirds, Magpies, Woodpeckers, Pigeons, etc.) while driving into town.

And that's without getting in the raptors (some of whom are a threat to cats).

I imagine humanity's reduction of bird's habitats has a bigger impact than the carnivores we bring with us.
Who is downvoting this? Please share your opinion
By indices, do you mean reverse indices like at the end of textbooks?
At least in zsh, there are also !:1 for the first argument, et cetera with the rest of natural numbers, and something like !:* for all the arguments without the command.

The generic form is !n:m for n-th last command line and m-th argument, with an omitted n being a shortcut for the last line.

Not sure if all of this works the same in bash.
A couple years back I switched from web dev to graphics programming on a game team at a big AAA studio

Really enjoy the work itself, there’s tons of interesting algorithms/optimization involved

I feel I actually use my CS knowledge from university more doing this work

Its also really satisfying to visually see the result of your code in the game

On the other hand I do find it a lot harder of a job since you not only have to understand code but also the math behind the code
I'm waiting for the articles in 20–30 years of women who sue their husbands for concealing their youthful limb-lengthening procedures and then passing on their short genes to their sons. When that happens, I will point and laugh.
I also donate regularly to the Internet Archive. I have benefitted from it immensely both personally and in my work, and I admire and support all of their efforts.

A recent interview with Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder, is here:

https://youtu.be/1pe-J8GER7I
The plot to use incendiary bats[1] was covered on major news channels in the 80s, as it became declassified.

> Eventually the Marine Corps took over the program and conducted tests beginning in December 1943. After 30 demonstrations and $2 million spent, the project was canceled. Most people believe it's because the U.S. realized that all resources should be concentrated on the development of a far more powerful weapon: the atomic bomb.

According to airmen who were involved, they were loading up into bombers the hour it was cancelled. The first nuke was dropped a few days later. Unfortunately, it's probably impossible to retrieve that broadcast with the attestations.

[1]
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/old-w...

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna49610839
As a general rule of thumb, things like this are named to compensate for what they aren't. Look at the PATRIOT Act.
How to prove software correct using proof assistants. It will make you a better developer even if you never use it at work. And it is good fun. Like a puzzle game.
So if I were running the USPS like a business, I wouldn’t go out of my way to service less populated areas.

I’m sure “rural America” would love that. The same for Amtrak.
I agree with this perspective of the world (that senior+ software engineers need to be able to express themselves more fluently to be able to be impactful) but… just as a thought experiment, I wish it didn’t have to be that way. Writing is hard and not much fun (to me). Building systems that do something is hard but its a lot of fun. I just want to spend most of my time doing the latter. I just don’t give a fuck about impact or convincing others to work on my idea. If you are building something cool, show a little bit of it to me, and I like what I see, I would love to be able to drop everything else and work with you to complete it. Or if I think of some automation to reduce toil, I just wanna go tinker without having to think it through too much. If I run into constraints when building it, so be it, its a learning experience, but even failing is fun.

Obviously a rant. I just didn’t become a software engineer to be a good writer. I always wanted to build first and learn the constraints through mucking around rather than giving it so much thought before a single line of code is written.
You could go directly to their "Advanced Search" page, which doesn't have the frivolous stuff: https://www.google.com/advanced_search
You need carriers to launch planes

But are planes the most cost-effective form of throwing high-explosive long distances? Once, they were. They had a much greater range than a battleship's guns and thus obsoleted the battleship.

These days, missiles have double the range of carrier aircraft. So a very inexpensive frigate with long-range missiles is far more cost-effective than a huge expensive Carrier Group. (Most of the Group's ships are there merely to protect and support the carrier. Without the carrier, they are redundant. Sure, a Group looks big and powerful, but cost-effective? No.)
What do bots do with a search engine?

I understand botspam on the content side where they just generate keyword-"rich" pages trying for SEO, but it sounds like they're running searches on your search engine in this case, and I don't understand the purpose of that.
>> most ad placement is profiled and personalized now

wow, really? you mean like on cable, different cable boxes fill the ad time slots with different targeted ads for different people?

(sorry if i'm being dense, i've never had my own cable)
There's also the slightly more complex hairy ball theorem, such that a combed hairy ball will always have 2 cowlicks (or that on earth there will always be two places with exactly the same temperature, or the exactly same wind speed).
Hopefully the author is still here. I skimmed the Twitter thread but couldn’t find the video referenced at the end. Can someone provide a link?
Astro and Mitosis: run the same component in 4 frameworks
I'm assuming that the parent poster is attempting some kind of humor(?) since the essay actually speaks out against those who use the paradox of tolerance in the way they seem to be doing, e.g.

"The appeal of this passage to those seeking philosophical justification for suppressing the political rights of Nazis and white nationalists (who, after all, are practically the definition of intolerance), should be obvious.

But while Popper might at first seem to be providing a clever loophole in the traditional arguments around free speech that would allow only the most dangerous ideas and ideologies to be censored or otherwise suppressed, he has in fact only managed to disguise the problem by shifting the goalposts. Even if we answer the question of “what kind of political speech should be suppressed” with “intolerant speech,” we are still left with the same old problem wherein the arbiters of what kinds of ideologies are considered “intolerant” and worthy of suppression will inevitably be those who operate the levers of state power.

...

The actual merits of any case for one group being more intolerant than another are unfortunately immaterial in the larger context; once the meta-argument is conceded that intolerance justifies suppression, the targets of the oppression will depend more on who is in power than how intolerant their ideology might actually be."
If you are complaining about anything, then yes, that energy is better spent elsewhere.
I recall my local independent PC shop in the mid-90s had a big assortment of shareware on 5.25" floppies, priced per disc. Similar offerings existed in mail-order catalogs. The disc provider made a small margin per disc, presumably, and it created a different distribution network for the shareware copies, in an era pre-ubiquitous Internet.

A few years later, there were shops that specialized in burned or pressed CDs of Linux/BSD distributions back when dialup was the standard and fetching a few gigs of Debian was out of reach.
>the Fletcher Munson curve< : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31215503

Equal-Loudness Contour : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour
I'm sure it happens all the time. I even learned recently while bingewatching that social media is how the Bling Ring burglary teens would figure out when Paris Hilton, etc weren't home.

Also, social media location services have been used to figure out where people were in order to follow them and murder them e.g. Molly McLaren. (Social Media Murders Episode 3, I said I was bingewatching...)
If you have an outdoor cat, plant an oak tree, they support hundreds of species of all sorts of animal which support bird populations.
Doesn't have to be leather - just saying - but also the cheaper notebooks tend to fall apart and I've lost pages this way. One thing about more expensive ones like moleskines is that they are more robust, in my experience. I hardly "splurge" on anything but I realized there is some value to good writing tools.
Thanks for the correction. I often recognize when bashisms are bashisms, but I didn't realize that was.
Apache AGE 1.0 - PostgreSQL extension for graph database
Will "lack of non-nullable types" become the new "lack of generics" now they implemented generics? Guess we'll have to wait and see...
A lower latency design would be for the authorization service to be able to work with either. That way those requests could be done in parallel to reduce latency.
Odd that the wiki (but not the projects section on the homepage) mentions Guix, which seems to be doing a lot in this and the reproducible builds space: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-boots...
A searchable consequence of Lookism is body dysphoria.
IPEDs have never been that popular and it is only a matter of time before men start to artificially enhance their appearance via makeup too.
Tiktok is amplifying those network effects and beauty standard competition pressures to a never before seen level. Mankind should have banned it while it was still time.
Successful Launch of Sarmat ICBM
> Most tabular data currently gets exchanged as: CSV, Tab separated, XML, JSON or Excel. And they are all highly sub-optimal for the job.

> CSV is a mess. One quote in the wrong place and the file is invalid.

That breaks the other formats too, why pick on CSV? I can imagine a format designed to be friendly to syntax errors, but contra Postel's Law I'm not sure it would be an improvement over a strict, fail-fast syntax.

That's CSV/TSV's real shortcoming: about the only generic validation they allow is to make sure the column count is the same for all rows.
Well that's horrible. Sorry, my dude. Weird thing is that tons of actors are that height.
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