skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not doing any work is a valuable service at a company like this. The technical problems driving all the work in the article were self-inflicted; they had infinite VC money, so they hired a zillion engineers, who produced a zillion engineers' worth of work, so they needed a zillion servers to run it on.

Whether or not customers asked for it, or whether the same app design fundamentally could run on a single machine under their desk, doesn't really come into it. And bootstrapped companies (Instagram or Stackoverflow for example) often do manage to run on the single machine under a desk.
Debezium should be fine as you ingest wal logs to kafka.
Most problems derive when you push data both to kafka and postgres and assume that they are going to be the same. They won’t.
US imported even more.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-b...
Show HN: I ported a Rust audio lib to NPM; it's just 2MB but powerful
exactly .... "rules for thee, but none for me". In an already resource constrained place like India, it will take time to switch to renewable resources. Until then the only option is fossil fuels.
Your post is very inspirational. Maybe, you could recommend something to read on deep expertise that is useful and motivational?
Arm Retakes Control of China Operation, Erratic CEO Replaced
Yes, there are many levels of perception (there is also blindsight), this can be studied by looking at what happens in neurological disorders like yours and more severe ones. Read the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife by Oliver Sacks if you find this kind of stuff interesting.
Those taxes pay for societies various needs, schools, roads, defence

You can go live in a society with few taxes if you want, look at moving to the Bahamas for example. Have fun.
What keeps earth from collapsing in on itself? (2010)
Hi HN,
I am developing this audio programming language and library in Rust (https://glicol.org) and I have just made it an NPM package as many people need an easy-to-use yet powerful enough audio library for their web music apps. I believe Glicol.js can offer the top-level audio performance in browsers given its current technology stack while providing the most developer-friendly declarative experience.

Yet there is still some distance to go such as more audio effects and more APIs. I am really keen to listen to your feedback, especially on the use case of this audio library. For example, do you have any music app ideas in your mind? I am happy to discuss it here or on GitHub:

https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol
Can confirm. "Las esposas" also means "the wives", so it really is the same word.
I didn't consider travel by boat but it does seem the most convenient way for the pet, it also seems somewhat economical compared to the rest. thanks! I'll give it serious thought.
Just had a read through the docs, Materialize is all in-memory. PranaDB persists it to disk.
Yes, by the same mechanism burning waste also has a lower impact then letting it sit on a landfill (even excluding using the heat for something usefull like electricity production, or a heat network).
> not all colors are electromagnetic frequencies

What do you mean? (Outside the detail that "hues" are electromagnetic frequencies, while colours are compositions - there I just simplified.) Which colour is not such?
Combining ESP32/ESP32CAM, Portable Router, and Motor Controllers for Cheap IoT
Anyone interested in a PCB that combines esp32cam, portable router, and some motor controllers for IoT control of things such as rovers, drones, etc...?
I see that there isn't much out there on how to do live data/video streaming from cheap esp32cams to a personal public domain, or how to do it with portable routers for true "remote" control without a middle man like Raspberry Pi or PC for port forwarding.
Thinking about making PCBs and providing code to control through Google Form so that anyone can control it over WiFi.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I could be wrong but the experience you're describing sounds like lucid dreaming.
During the summer of 2021 Lytton, BC in Canada hit a slightly higher temperature of 49.6C.
The next day the town burned down.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/literally-hotter-than-t...
Reminds me that I should finish reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
Maybe the ancient civilization will not collapse and we would have smartphones and satellites around year 1000 AD.
Infinite loops are considered undefined behaviour in C++.
"To finish first, you must first finish."
I have created a browser-based beginner programming language. It is also well suited for self-study and it is open source.

https://easylang.online/ide/
It becomes more of a discussion and is less likely to bruise egos. In my experience I've had more success getting things done by building concensus that way, but ymmw.
Fabulous addition. For anyone looking to see what a master harmonica player looks like, highly recommend looking up blues traveller / John Popper.

In particular, there’s a live performance of no woman no cry that has John Popper alongside Ziggy Marley. Mind blowing. Watch it. You won’t regret it.

https://youtu.be/9zk0HFG5mDw
Could someone give their perspective on why a lot of these companies (big tech) develop their own databases? I don’t want to sound dismissive I am generally curious. What sets this db apart from other streaming services? It must cost a lot to develop something like this?

Nonetheless cool product, thanks for sharing and making it open source.
There is a book from the 80ies/early 90ies "POWERS OF TEN: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe" by Philip & Phylis Morrison. That is exactly that.
In argument against your theory - personal experience is not data.
> Another cool thing about LTI systems is that when you chain multiple of them together, the order does not matter. Reverb, delay, EQ, and wah are all LTI.

Delay and reverb may be LTI in your definition, but they very much do matter what order they are in, every time.

Delay before reverb is going to give a more staccato sound, whereas the reverb before delay is probably just going to wash the whole thing out if you’re not careful on your settings.

Great comment otherwise!
I’m curious why the OP didn’t take their manager’s role instead of hiring externally? Maybe a different post explains it?
I used to be sympathetic to this line of argument, but I'm no longer so sure. Organic farming has lower yields, so to feed the same number of people, you'd have to bring more land under cultivation. That would presumably outweigh any environmental advantages you get from using less chemical pest control.

Second, the extra people you employ, aside from the obvious mind-numbing drudgery and hard labour you're ruining their lives with, would have a carbon cost.

Third, I can see that some pest-control chemicals are bad for the environment. However, it seems also clear that the demarcation line between eco and non-eco is not the same as the line between organic, and non-organic. In fact, it seems like there is no relation at all. There are many chemical pesticides that are not environmentally damaging, and many traditional farming techniques are environmentally damaging.
The crossrail train seats are damn hard on the bum. There is a trend with public transport upholstery to go from the spring-bedded seats of olde to a mere veneer of fabric atop some plastic. Why bother with any fabric?

I suspect the new seating is cheaper, lighter and easier to maintain, and they can cram more of them in.
Netflix lost growth when they cut off Russia. Somehow (I have no idea how) they seem to have grown without it.
For those looking for more images like the one at the start of the article, the book linked there has a lot [0]. Also interesting to see the full armor. I was sure at first that those were ceremonial, but apparently they were actually being used.

[0] https://www.academia.edu/38915319/Fighting_Fibres_Kiribati_A...
My life may not be the most important time to other people, but it is the most important time to me. Importance is relative.
Depends what you mean by a good reason I guess. A lot of very capable mathematicians have put time in to the problem and it's proven to be pretty resistant to a solution. I think problems like this often feel a little incongruous because they are so simple to state but so hard to solve.
One of the big problems with studying or talking about autism is assuming that because we have one word for it that autism is just one thing, subject to root cause analysis, and then you have the cause for that one thing. It is very much not like that.
Because I guess outlawing predatory business practices is out of the question
It actually behaves a lot better than non periodic functions in some scenarios.
It seems that period functions enable a network to encode positional information within [-1,1]. This is supported by the fact that positional encoding is needed in transformers to make them work.
There's a certain level of tech schaudenfreude when it comes to Microsoft failing. It's hard to say that Azure has more issues than AWS based on gut feel of recent white hat blog post volume.
I wonder how big impact on environment the war in Ukraine has. I guess a huge one - massive fuel depots are burning as we speak, tanks are rolling with their 10l/1km consumption and definitely no DPF, etc. Perhaps UN should focus on stopping this war instead of compiling key takeaways.
To be fair, they correctly picked out the quote that is actually relevant and also the one that their parent comment had been thinking of.
> your neurons are not in your "brain" 90% of your neurons are not in what you generally denote by brain. They are in your cerebellum.

Excuse the dumb question, but what's in the brain then? Or are you meaning to say that the cerebellum has a much higher density of neurons than the brain?
I have migraine once or twice a year, and the most recent attack indeed interrupted my reading, quite simply did not see the letters through the zigzag. As it gradually covered the focal point of my vision I was trying to "squint" mentally but eventually gave up. There was no followup headache, just a slight vertigo.
Asocial, not anti-social.
There are international conventions and it could be the country you are going to, flying over, or where the plane is registered. Or a mix of all 3.

A better analogy would be if you worked remotely from a boat on the high seas on your own boat.
(another migraineur chiming in here)

It's a common misconception. What you're calling "ocular migraines" are more accurately referred to as "migraines with aura without headache", sometimes called "silent migraines". You can get actual ocular migraines as well, but those affect the eye (or optic nerve), and as such, are limited to the eye. Scintillating scotomas caused by migraine auras are visible with your eyes closed, and look the same in both eyes.
New roads can be submitted by users. Google has a map editor where anyone can make changes and have them officially approved. They could have been submitted by a random Google Map user that was scrolling around and noticed missing roads.
> xp

I always thought the fact that Vim had automatic buffer copying and forced me to use "0p instead of p was really annoying. Looks like there is an actual reason for it after all :)
From the same author: https://dcic-world.org/

One of the best beginner learning resources for getting into programming.
I don't think I am an extrovert and I am incredibly happy being back in the office.
"It's a poor atom blaster that won't point both ways.". There are all sorts of competitive attacks that don't happen because they can go both ways. You also don't see companies having their competitors corporate executives followed by PIs and then sending pictures showing their adultery to the tabloids.

Besides, if you try and fail you effectively strengthen the patent. Better to wait to try to undermine the patents they specifically try to assert against you-- 75% percent of patents lose claims on re-exam, so the patent holder knows they will likely have their scope narrowed which makes them more likely to agree to license or not enforce at all against a wealthy competitor (e.g. one that could afford to go after their patents preemptively). If the patent has already been re-examined the patent holder would have reason to be more aggressive and less compromising.
Do you know if there's a board out there with two hdmi outs? If you want to make anything with two screens, it seems like the RPi4 is the only option.
What’s the best way to get started with Prolog on macOS? Implementations, editors, etc?
RED can use all of your footage... If you consider your footage indistinguishable from "technical, diagnostic, usage and related information".

Which would be a bit of a self own on your cinematography skills. In which case I suspect nobody would want to steal your footage.
There is more to it than just "physics". I find the "Orchestrated objective reduction" hypothesis by Penrose and Hameroff interesting in this regard
What's the big problem with doping anyway? Even now, everyone is doping, it doesn't seem to be causing huge problems.

Wouldn't it be safer for everyone if it was all out in the open?
GP doesn’t have anything to say about the movie, they just said they know people who cancelled their account because of it.

Why are you so defensive about something that wasn’t even sort of attacked?
I disagree. It speaks to a broader belief. Tie that in with the "I'm smarter and work harder" comment, and it paints a bit of a theme about the poster. Moving JIRA tickets, cleaning up boards and doing various other admin are powerful tools to team organization whatever the tool/process used. A smart person and hard-worker shouldn't have any problem picking that up and moving the team forward.

Likewise a savvy "street smart" person that wants to go into the managerial track needs to understand how to convey to the right people that they moved the team forward or they need to get help from a Scrum Master / BA / PM that should be doing that instead. Maybe convincing their report that there is a gap to grow the team, and that their time could better be utilized.

At first you do tech and coding. Then you get to a phase where coordination is key, that includes admin and processes. After that, only then do you get to the "leadership" or "strategy" and other nebulous parts where you have to drive things forward not by doing work yourself but by putting the right people on the right tasks and enabling them.
Ask HN: Viewing company financials, longer than past 4 quarters
I am trying to compare how a number of companies did in the past quarter versus Q1 2020, Q1 2019, etc. I understand this information is publicly available through 10Qs, etc.

However, easy to use tools like Yahoo Finance only show the past 4 or 5 quarters of information, which is mind boggling short to me. What tools can I use to see quarterly financials (easily and in an standarised table) that goes beyond 4 quarters?
No and I'm a bit unclear how you inferred that. I am, however, making the claim that embedded images similar to the blog post are much easier to discover than it is to break encryption. Does that clarify things for you?
I always thought this, but only works if you are alone, or the person you want to protect can run too. Fighting is most useful to defend someone else who can’t run or fight.
Programmatically determining the region of an AWS EC2 instance using the metadata API was very annoying in the past; there was no endpoint for it. Instead, devs used many methods to determine the region[1], primarily by dropping the last letter off of the availability zone, (e.g. `us-east-1a` -> `us-east-1`) which was queriable.

At this point, AWS has updated the API to allow querying for the region as one would expect. See my answer on the afore-footnoted question[2].

[1] The number and variety of answers on the topic is both hilarious and terrifying:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/4249488

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/62664161
If you want a comprehensive answer, you probably would want to do define what "the west" is. I'll go with "Europe and the USA" in my answer.

No. "The West" is the worlds largest economic region. Any company not complying to the conditions of the GPL is toying with being excluded from western markets and that's a huge risk to profits. Mostly companies get away with it because nobody notices. But as soon as a GLP violation is detected, many legal (and extra-legal) paths are open to discourage the culprit.
4. people who realized that _some_ work can be done more effectively face-to-face. (and please note: this is true the other way around as well)

There are obvious examples (care work) and a whole lot of grey in between the extremes.

One of the problems I noticed in this endless discussion is that people really seem to have a hard time imagining that other people might have just very different jobs and that companies typically have a wide range of jobs. More challenging, people tend to have several hats and like some of these hats more than others
Aaaah, now I get it - yeah, it sure would be convenient if they could open the Elizabeth Line in June then...
Yep. And I'd add La Cavatina[1] among others. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0Ta9LzASs
Actually this is not so.

The worms extrude their pharynx, i.e. the anterior part of their digestive tube, through their mouth and catch the prey, and then they pull the prey in their mouth, like some of the alien monsters from various SF movies (which were obviously inspired by such worms).

Catching a prey from behind does not seem to be of much use, because the prey would not be chasing the predator.

For a worm, which normally slides through narrow passages or which burrows in the sand, it is not easy to turn around with the rear end towards what was previously in front.
Which would make Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Japan etc third world.

That’s not how the term is used.
Holy shit, I have gone 35 years without ever learning this fact.
Well, "perfection" (or what most people consider perfection) is relative...
Funding stalled too, cheaper to just use satellites. At the same time I want to hear what happened to Ning Li's antigravity research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning_Li_(physicist)
Unfortunately, this is Android only --- which severely limits it's utility.
Generally speaking, scintillating scotomas don't fill the entire field of vision. They can do, and when they're caused by migraine auras they tend to grow and then shrink again within a 20-60 minute window. I can certainly read when I'm experiencing one. I can continue to work if I really want to, but I find that having a coffee and taking a break is much more comfortable.

Migraine auras suck, but are pretty fascinating. Depending on which part of the brain they affect, different symptoms can manifest. Visual auras à la scintillating scotoma are probably the most common, but slurred speech can happen as well, or reduced sensation in half the body, probably other things as well ..
No need for peroxide, just slightly salty water is better unless visibly contaminated. By using peroxide, scars are often worse, which is thought to be due to killing cells which contribute to wound healing. Furthermore, peroxide doesn’t significantly help prevent infections.
I assume it applies uniquely to the United States, given the high percentage of incarcerated people?
what do you like about it?
I think 10th grade was the right time for me to hear about Maslow and his theories as a matter of history in a high-school psychology class. The hierarchy seemed too simple to survive any of the college level complexity I experienced in subsequent education, though.
> correlated by how "willing" the notes are to resolve to the mode root (the first key of 7 you hit).

I've heard this explanation many times before, and I still don't understand how notes can be "willing" to do anything, or how a note can "resolve" to the root. Can someone ELI5?
The number of legal chess positions has now been estimated with 2 digits of accuracy as ~ 4.8 x 10^44: https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking
For the game of Go, we know all 171 digits of the number: https://tromp.github.io/go/legal.htm
The article doesn't bother to go deeper into this claim, but maybe someone here can explain what "the line will have a solid claim to be the first “fully digital” railway, at least at its scale, in the world" actually means? There are various more or less advanced automatic electronic train control systems around (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System), but is it that important whether the technology is analog or digital?
Aren't all terminal bindings emacs-based, since they inherit from libreadline?
You probably heard about the quirks in the French numerical system. For example, 99 is translated "quatre-vingt-dix-neuf" which is literally "four twenty ten nine".

This is a legacy of the base 20 numerical system used by the Celtics thousands of years ago before the modern Romance language drove it out. The hybridization with our current base 10 system came with the Roman conquest of the Gaul.

Another example of the base 20 in use is the Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital in Paris, where Quinze-Vingts (fifteen twenties) refers to the original capacity of 15*20 = 300 beds available when built in the Middle Ages.
According to the same page, Simon Watson is the father of 800 children.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/18/san-fr...
Well that would be 12kWh (EU) vs. 1.8kWh (India). Multiply by population 447M * 12 kWh = 5364 BkWh vs. 1360M * 1.8 kWh = 2448 BkWh from oil. So yes, EU is spewing twice the co2 from oil. That said, the EU has probably the strongest co2 emissions reduction programs out there atm. The EU for example reduced its co2 emissions by 19% 2019->2020. India’s co2 emissions OTOH grows 4-5% each year. So in that sense they are shooting themselves in the foot. Of course there are multitudes of things to consider (GDP, standard of living etc.) so blamegame is a bit misplaced.

For blame: all this pales in comparison to the US, which consumes over twice the oil per capita (27 kWh/capita) vs. EU https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-oil?tab=table which make 27 kWh * 334M = 9000 BWh from oil alone and is barely reducing their total co2 emmissions. They reduced it by a whopping 1% 2009-2019
On Mac/Linux the windows/Mac key + tab switches applications. Windows/Max key plus the ~/` key switches windows in the same application.

I personally cannot deal with the alt tab style switching between all windows this app to app switch works much better for me and I use it constantly.
It is good enough for the Pope :)
From the list:

> Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.

I'll agree with this one regarding your comment.
We are asymmetrical...

Humans look symmetric on the outside but have stark asymmetries on the inside Thus, we have a spleen on the left but not the right. Our left lung has two lobes, but our right lung has three. Our heart and stomach are shifted left of center, our liver is shifted right of center, and our intestines meander throughout our abdominal cavity with no regard for the midline at all.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/quirks-of-human-ana...
Curiously in Italian "gentile" means normally (outside historical or religious matters) "kind" or "nice" or "friendly", the root/etymology is the same, as people belonging to a same gens (which can be translated to "lineage") has some duties of mutual assistance and tended to favour other members of the same lineage.
Only if they run their heat pumps inside the tunnel.

If they pre-chill and coast through the tunnel they'd extract heat.

Overall it seems like a non problem with many solutions if any are actually needed.