skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. I wasn’t calling the cloud evil, I was showing that working in the cloud poses some difficult questions about how to identify the meaning of the work. It would be easy to defer such a task. (But what would it mean to spend your life working in such a way that the meaning of your work is always up to someone else?)

I was pretty clear in locating the root of evil in thoughtlessness.
Given that non-residential is 80% of usage, it seems like that'd be where we should start looking at recycling water usage.
Most programming jobs aren't much harder than basic literacy. You don't need to be a tesla drivetrain engineer to work on the factory floor, same for programming
It's weird that you find it weird. The meaning seems obvious to me (despite being incredibly inaccurate, western-centric and mildly patronising)

I would say it means "evocative of cultures that are stereotypically thought to be tribal in the colloquial sense of the word"
Here's the RSS for the blog of the aboutfeeds.com maintainer (genmon here on HN—including here in the comments to this submission): <https://interconnected.org/home/feed>

If you wanted an informal list of people making use of this pretty-feed.xsl specifically, it would be possible to solicit that sort of thing through GitHub and see if others come out of the woodwork to identify themselves.
> So one can only assume that either Russia's air defense isn't as good as everyone thought, they aren't using it effectively, or the drone is harder to shoot down as operated than people thought.

All of the above I bet.
Za (james franco) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkP2F7kWn7A

Spelling bee (also james franco) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02S8t0F1inc

Career Day (Adam Driver) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD2xG92-0

What's that name (bill hader) -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rImxuuD_kwM
The MVC frameworks he was talking about all rely on relational databases as far as I am aware. Django certainly does.
When I read the headline, I assumed that this was going to be a negative review from a user.

We got a Nest thermostat for free as part of a SolarCity solar panel installation, and I spent months fighting with it to try and make it do what I told it. The Nest has a motion sensor on it, which is how it determines whether to turn on the energy saving mode - if it senses that you're home it will run at the set temperature, otherwise it will disobey your commands and go to the configured energy saving temperature. There were 2 problems with this, one universal and one application-specific: first, if you live in anything other than a small apartment your thermostat may be in a different room from you. In our 2-story house, the Nest thinks nobody is home unless you're specifically in the living room. The 2 2nd-floor bedrooms, the 1st-floor bedroom, the kitchen, the basement, the dining room, and the 1st-floor office all don't count. In our house specifically the thermostat was installed behind a wall-mounted TV, which only makes things worse - even if you're in the living room, the Nest thinks nobody is home unless you're actively playing with it.

Trying to make the Nest ignore whether you're home and disable the eco mode is an exercise in futility. I found a setting to disable eco mode, but the house was still never the temperature we set it to. When I checked the thermostat I saw the green leaf icon, indicating that the Nest completely ignores the setting that disables eco mode. When I called Nest support, they couldn't figure out what was going on either. The only way I could get it to function semi-reasonably was to manually set the eco mode temperature to the temperature we actually wanted the house at, which means that you have to set the temperature twice to actually set the temperature.

The idea of a thermostat that tries to save power automatically is great, but it falls apart when you rely on a single motion sensor to determine if an entire house is occupied. This bad assumption was a letdown, but the fake setting to disable eco mode turned me off of Nest completely.
I don't think the academy is failing any more than is the historical norm. The collapsing cultural norms are not centuries old, they are a product of the academic boom of the latter half of the twentieth century, where the first world (and certainly America) was more or less peaceful, the population was sharply rising, and access to and demand for higher education was exploding. The academic norms of the 1980s would be unrecognisable to an academic of the 1920s, yet I claim that both academics are part of a longstanding lineage of people working towards a common endeavour.

And the reproducibility crisis is not an example of decline. It's not like social science used to be reproducible then stopped. It's that for the first time in history, we've realised that things are bad, and now we're (slowly) starting to do good science. The reproducibility crisis is an example of improvement!
If you think supporting the government means working directly working with the government then, again, you don't know the game.

Look at the B-2 bomber. Parts were procured via front companies to conceal the project. Do you think that's the only time where that has occurred?

There are many layers to that onion and it is obfuscated for a variety of reasons. The least of which is that I don't think many rock star engineers would be happy if they thought their life's work was being used to fuel the murder machine.
Boredom is a term that is applied to a bucket of actual root causes.

It could be procrastination. It could be dopamine tolerance (and seeking higher levels). It could be lack of perspective (expecting something to be more exciting in the moment than it ought to be). It could be a signifier of tiredness, or in the extreme burnout.

Perhaps try this next time you feel bored:

- Am I physiologically in need of recovery? Water, Food, Rest, Blood flow?

- Am I psychologically in need of the essentials to task ownership? Do i know the why of what I'm trying to do? (Review the why of your goals and task) Am I applying sufficient discipline to that which past me has decided would be best for my future self? (Apply Discipline equals freedom and Atomic Habits) Am I spinning on decision fatigue / paradox of choice ? If so choose something, act and live in the moment, reflect/adjust course later. Meditation can help.

- Am I spiritually in need of something? Again things like understanding your place in a greater story, the why of what you're not doing. Connect with a higher power or an inspirational+aspirational story if need be.
How a Russian Operator Urged Catalonian Leaders to Break With Madrid
I find even here that the “smart” features basically come down to “I can bump the temperature from my couch” and not much more.

Ever since work from home the “away” hasn’t mattered much and the house has so much thermal mass that letting it cool down a bit when we are actually away doesn’t seem to do much at all.
Grow those crops in other parts of the country where there is more water.
For the past ~6 months of so I have been using the Headspace app to practice mindfulness and meditation. I like this app very much. It can give one new perspectives on what is sometimes called ”boredom”. For me Headspace has worked well but YMMV.
Show HN: Pythondocs.xyz – Live search for Python documentation
Hi everyone!

I've been working on a web search interface for Python's documentation as a personal project, and I think it's ready for other people to use...

Please give it a go (and join me in praying to the server gods):

https://pythondocs.xyz/

Here's the tech stack for those interested:

- Parser: Beautiful Soup + Mozilla Bleach

- Database: in-memory SQLite (aiosqlite) + SQLAlchemy

- Web server: FastAPI + Uvicorn + Jinja2

- Front end: Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js

I have ideas for future improvements but hopefully the current version is useful to someone.

Let me know what you think!
Of course there's still cars. They are just not used exclusively or frequently. If I remember the statistics correctly, in cities trips are made 30-45% by bicycle, 25-40% by public transport and the rest is cars.
It reminds me a lot in school of a bully who had oppressed almost the entire class. He started with the most proximal targets, then moved on to others where toward the end of his reign he encountered a kid who I can only assume was non-perceptive to the situation at hand who in response to be harassed at the lunch table for his fruit cup said "no, and please go away, I'm eating" and just like that, this bully whom had never encountered resistance was speechless. This kid's oblivious nature to the social situation broke the bully's brain in a form of pattern-interrupt.

The bully wasn't reformed after that, he remained a bully until we parted ways years later, however the group was wiser for it, and that type of behavior had a very short half life as a result. As I get older, this phenomenon is emblematic or representative of society. Sometimes culture dictates that there are certain things we just won't accept anymore, like spousal assault, smoking in the public indoors, and poor legislation. Resistance is cumulative.
Sadly one of small hobby is to convert my own movies (Blu-Ray) into a digital file for my home server, and the subtitles are all image-based. The app I use (SubtitleEdit) relies on Tesseract for conversion, but it's far from perfect. :(

Sure, I could use someone else's subtitle file from the Internet, but that's not as fun than doing it yourself.
Jesus, what's so good about a thermostat? This fellow is a constant self booster.

We need cooler, game-changing hardware. Not a janky drone (looking at you Snapchat)
There's really just LiveView and a lot of less capable copies. In order to do what Phoenix LiveView can do effectively, a number of specific elements must to exist in your runtime as well as your language. Anybody can send HTML changes over a websocket, but there's so much more than that happening.

It's one of the great show pieces for what the Elixir makes possible.
This doesn’t address the largest consumers of water in the area, as stated above. People consume far less water than business and ag.

IMO, golf courses in the southwest is straight up foolish. Start the ax there.
It's very hard to describe the quality of this flow state or concentration. But I can get completely absorbed in work that I forget to eat or sleep. Food hits different.

This article comes close to describing how I experience "Attention Deconcentration" http://deconcentration-of-attention.com/deconcentration-soft...
Facetious. Everyone knows your feature flags can be determined based on user properties so you can have each user having a custom experience in a single version of the monolith.
Agreed on the "smart" features.

When I moved into my current house we had painters working on one floor. They cranked the newly programmed Nest that was in learning mode to 90 degrees for one night to keep the paint warm while it dried. I, of course, had no idea they had done something that silly, but for weeks afterwards this smart thermostat will crank the heat to 90 and I have to manually turn it down. I'm convinced that it will not be able to unlearn and I'll have to delete the profile and recreate it. I should set it on a schedule as you mention.
Selfishness without projection (especially about selfishness) or demand is fine.
>A senior engineer should spend the least amount of time coding compared to everything else they do during the day. If they don't, do you really need a senior engineer? How much of a 4 hour coding session is something you needed specific expertise in and how much is mindlessly typing the syntax with a big of logic peppered in?

What else are they supposed to be doing? If requirements are fleshed out then all you can do is get started. The bigger the change, the more you'll have to be concerned about architecture and implementation details. I think sitting down and thinking about the problem before you code is necessary for any dev, but I'm here to write the solution at the end of the day.

>If your tasks can all be done truly asynchronously without blocking someone else, they probably aren't very exciting or special.

My company right now is about 15 people, 5 of which are engineering (including myself). When your team is that small, you don't have room for too many specialists. We're all capable individuals that can do the work without waiting for anyone. I'll get a ticket asking for a new web page, a new backend endpoint, DB updates, Et Cetera and it's the expectation that I do this all by myself. If there's something out of my wheelhouse, I can lean on my team but this is the exception and not the rule (and can still be done async). I don't know what special looks like for you but I can list the contributions I've made and the impact it has for our bottom line. In two months I reduced AWS spend by $5k/month, added payment enforcement logic netting us tens of thousands within the first week of its release, and seamlessly added a Huggingface NLP model into our AWS infra (our DevOps guy doesn't even know ML, he just treats the Sagemaker instance like any other resource). That's pretty impressive to me.
Congrats. I'm so jealous. Personally, I found Huggingface's models clunky to work with and for me it was easier to build and train my own. I really didn't like how they tried to make a "unified api" and treat PyTorch, TensorFlow 2, etc as backends. Though I realize that for those who are not adept in ml, or don't have the need for much customization, using Huggingface's models makes a lot of sense. No doubt they'll make themselves rich and their investors even richer.
I used to think that. But if you look closer at the life of current industry-farmed livestock, that is _not_ a life to be enjoyed. Sure, you can get proper happy beef. Say [1]. But then, you're looking at about $35 per pound.

[1]: https://www.coop.ch/en/food/meat-fish/packaged-fresh-meat/be...
The only good SNL skit is World Peace Rap (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce3ST3wRPCI) because it's a parody of a YouTube video from 2006 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Vaz9jW054&t=75s).

There aren't any other good ones. I imagine the audience for SNL is entirely those people who reply to everything with GIFs from The Office.
Money can be a proxy of power, and you're right about all of this, however money alone already isn't the entirety of it. Money managers tend to have far more power than many of the otherwise richest people in our society. Society tried to deal with this in the past by the dismantling of the JP Morgan trust, but since then it seems almost as if Vanguard group and Blackrock have essentially just taken over that same exact role.
Love the patronizing tone! So 90s
If you are doing MVC why wouldn't you use a framework? Lots of well tested code written for you already. Why reinvent the parts of the wheel the are there already?
No, we currently don't run into the issues that Peritext are addressing, simply because we are dealing with plain text. These issues will come up when we start working on WYSIWYG editing, but if we keep plain text as the underlying data format, it should not affect the setup described here.
Why is SMS 2FA abysmal?
This is the best and real explanation of Brexit.
Everything is controlled through active directory. A new user get an account and with security groups access to different systems are provided. Everything is AD joined or uses ADFS.
When a user leaves, their account in Active Directory is disabled.
For many circumstances that makes complete sense. You don't want to become dependent on something that you can't depend on. Better to find a dependable way to work.
I'm reading his book Build right now - it came out last week, so assuming that's why he's appearing all over all the feed). About 2/3rds of the way through currently.

My thoughts:
1. Lots of Steve Jobs talk. There's a whole chapter on the distinction between real assholes, and assholes that just really care about the product quality / customer. The distinction drawn was in motivation - but I wonder if it might just be a winner-writes-the-history situation.
2. Some advice goes heavily against current startup orthodoxy. He rejects fail-fast / figure it out later mentality, and argues for a lengthy product design process (for both atoms and bits!).
3. Lots of good details about how to think about managing people, managing and scaling team, and issues with scaling, etc, taken from his days building Nest.

Both (2) and (3) stand out to me as functions of his specific background. Building a company like Nest is obviously wildly (!) hard, but doing it after building the iPhone is a different game. I don't think his advice about lengthy design processes make a ton of sense for my startup [1], for example.

Generally, I always try and remind myself when I'm reading company-building advice books: this is probably good advice for someone in the same context as Tony Fadell (e.g. someone who is launching a second company after building... the iPhone). For me, it may or may not be relevant.

The good thing about failing fast is that you can use it at a strategy-level, aka fail fast _at_ failing fast, and switch to longer product cycles if you think that might work better. Starting with a long-product cycle doesn't give you much of a chance to try again if your first swing is a miss (which Mito's first attempt was...).

[1] https://trymito.io
As a game with a punchline, it's 1) not worth playing twice and 2) the owner/proctor of the game already knows the punchline.

There's probably some good way to make a bullwhip effect game, maybe with each player playing all stages, but each stage in a different supply chain (and maybe with the retail availability of the product of one supply chain generating the demand on another.)

For games in the same ballpark, Schoko & Co., Container, and Energie Poker are good ones.
Seems it's a good time to step away. Come back in a year with a less crazy market and mind.
Are you suggesting the parent rely on one US-based oligopoly to avoid using another US-based oligopoly?
Google's product here is the hosting and distribution service. If you pay for YT Premium then Google doesn't place any ads in their product. The content of the videos—including any "native" ads inserted by the video creators—isn't up to them.
It's more than a sealed car battery: it's also a transformer, some MOS FETS, a charger, and switcher (basically a tiny version of an Automatic Transfer Switch that a datacenter would have). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj7e3WGUKO8 has a good teardown / explanation of different types of UPSes.
I’m not a lawyer but it looks like the law might apply to chromecast as well:

> as such recommended practice concerns the transmission of
commercial advertisements by a television broadcast station, cable
operator, or other multichannel video programming distributor. [emphasis mine]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ311/html/PLA...

I think it would be worth it to file a complaint. Or if anybody here on HN has done so already, I would be interested in hearing the response.

EDIT: Looking at the code (which I’m woefully under-qualified at) I see this:

> (13) the term “multichannel video programming distributor” means a person such as, but not limited to, a cable operator, a multichannel multipoint distribution service, a direct broadcast satellite service, or a television receive-only satellite program distributor, who makes available for purchase, by subscribers or customers, multiple channels of video programming;

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/522

I don’t see how a chromecasting a youtube playlist (human curated or autogenerated) over GoogleTV, does not apply to this definition.
Mother Theresa: Was she a saint or sinner?
Intersting - I used to feel that way about Times New Roman too, but gradually grown to like it for its compatcness.

I tyically use LateX fonts for formal documents:

https://medium.com/@parttimeben/how-to-make-word-documents-l...

For less formal documents, I tent to use Helvetica/Inter/Calisto MT/Constantia and a bunch of others that I collected over the years.
This kind of thinking is really disappointing to me. It's the same mindset that caused so many people to migrate to GMail in the first place.

When GMail was introduced, google was offering a gigabyte of storage when most providers were offering a 1/10th or less of that. Many people gladly gave up access to the contents of their email in exchange for something that seemed at the time to be technologically impressive.

As of today a few gigabytes of email storage seems fairly trivial. But we still gave up a lot to enjoy that privilege.

Trust me, in 10 years this impressive amount of data will be less impressive to you.
> I can't see any good reason to let any individual claim ownership over more than a billion dollars of assets—even $100M is pushing it.

> Can you?

Yes I can. It’s called freedom. These guys are free to do whatever they want as long as they don’t break any laws.

I value my freedoms a lot. I was born in a non-free country, and I don’t want to go back to living in a non-free country.
> I wonder how feasible it would be to have the federal government get California to relinquish some of its rights to the Colorado River in exchange to help fund desalination plants.

California and the lower basin states already overconsume their allotment of water from the Colorado River, some years by a lot.

Colorado and other upper basin states are tired of it, and are evaluating what legal approach makes the most sense to force a stop to excess water releases into the lower basin.
Sorry but no. Images shown are not a future of anything, just yet another erotic dream of some archistar. The future means an age of cheapness and scarcity, at least in the short term, witch can only means a Sarajevo-style semi-abandoned cities. An a bit more far future will be like modern China: poor concentrated in open-sky prisons named smart-cities, capsule-hotel style, far more dense that the fictional dutch scenario, and some more wealthy living in small areas of individual homes, villas-alike.

Sparse tall buildings and hallway spaces are not likely at all and have no purpose at all. Floating constructions is a tempted and failed way, too much humidity, cracks and fissures, problems of sewage and networks in general (water intakes, TLCs etc) so again might sound nice on paper but a failure otherwise so very unlikely as well.

To architects: when you design something imaging it's usage BEFORE start drawing. We built for some reasons, beauty is one of them, but secondary, an added thing to something with more practical reasons; anything designed first than adapted to some purpose end up in expensive failures.

To my fellow Citizens: please when you dream your future dream it really: where and how do you really want to live? In a Goshiwong/capsule-hotel room in a dense area with some hallway and common areas in general to loitering aimlessly, maybe with a stupid smile drawn on face for the "happy-o-meter" part of the new social score? Or you dream a low density area where you can work and live in homes, with a bit of nature ALL AROUND, leaving tall buildings to specific purposes like hospitals, schools etc? Perhaps considering that single family homes can evolve, being recycled and rebuilt perhaps at generational change, while no tall building can evolve so even if it's well designed now will be a disaster in 40+ years and no one know what to do then?
Thanks for the background! That's helpful, I guess my question is more centered around the potential pitfalls of linking a physical device to a login, because that device contains a plethora of personal data it would seem we are required to expose much more information to sign up for a service, much like logging in with facebook shares additional data with the service in a non transparent manner?
To be clear: I'm not claiming they're analogous, only that they're both consequences of uniform declaration and are historically grouped together when talking about "vexing parses."